cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Attribution of long-term changes in peak river flows in Great Britain
Creators: name: Brady, Aoibheann
name: Faraway, Julian
name: Prosdocimi, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: We investigate the evidence for changes in the magnitude of peak river flows in Great Britain. We focus on a set of 117 near-natural “benchmark” catchments to detect trends not driven by land use and other human impacts, and aim to attribute trends in peak river flows to some climate indices such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the East Atlantic (EA) index. We propose modelling all stations together in a Bayesian multilevel framework to be better able to detect any signal that is present in the data by pooling information across several stations. This approach leads to the detection of a clear countrywide time trend. Additionally, in a univariate approach, both the EA and NAO indices appear to have a considerable association with peak river flows. When a multivariate approach is taken to unmask the collinearity between climate indices and time, the association between NAO and peak flows disappears, while the association with EA remains clear. This demonstrates the usefulness of a multivariate and multilevel approach when it comes to accurately attributing trends in peak river flows.
Long-Range Entangled-Plaquette States for Critical and Frustrated Quantum Systems on a Lattice
Creators: name: Thibaut, Jérôme
name: Roscilde, Tommaso
name: Mezzacapo, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore a variational Ansatz for lattice quantum systems -- named long-range entangled-plaquette state -- in which pairs of clusters of adjacent lattice sites are correlated at any distance. The explicit scale-free structure of correlations built in this wave function makes it fit to reproduce critical states with long-range entanglement. The use of complex weights in the Ansatz allows for an efficient optimization of non positive definite states in a fully variational fashion, namely without any additional bias (arising \emph{e.g.} from pre-imposed sign structures) beyond that imposed by the parametrization of the state coefficients. These two features render the Ansatz particularly appropriate for the study of quantum phase transitions in frustrated systems. Moreover, the Ansatz can be systematically improved by increasing the long range plaquette size, as well as by the inclusion of even larger adjacent-site plaquettes. We validate our Ansatz in the case of the XX and Heisenberg chain, and further apply it to the case of a simple, yet paradigmatic model of frustration, namely the $J_1-J_2$ antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain. For this model we provide clear evidence that our trial wave function faithfully describes both the short-range physics (particularly in terms of ground state energy) and the long-range one expressed by the Luttinger exponent, and the central charge of the related conformal field theory, which govern the decay of correlations and the scaling of the entanglement entropy, respectively. Finally we successfully reproduce the incommensurate correlations developing in the system at strong frustration, as a result of the flexible representation of sign (phase) structures via complex weights.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures
Potential and current distribution in strongly anisotropic Bi(2)Sr(2) CaCu(2)O(8) single crystals at current breakdown
Creators: name: Pethes, I.
name: Pomar, A.
name: Sas, B.
name: Kriza, G.
name: Vad, K.
name: Pallinger, A.
name: Portier, F.
name: Williams, F. I. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experiments on potential differences in the low-temperature vortex solid phase of monocrystalline platelets of superconducting Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8) (BSCCO) subjected to currents driven either through an "ab" surface or from one such surface to another show evidence of a resistive/nonresistive front moving progressively out from the current contacts as the current increases. The depth of the resistive region has been measured by a novel in-depth voltage probe contact. The position of the front associated with an injection point appears to depend only on the current magnitude and not on its withdrawal point. It is argued that enhanced nonresistive superconducting anisotropy limits current penetration to less than the London length and results in a flat rectangular resistive region with simultaneous "ab" and "c" current breakdown which moves progressively out from the injection point with increasing current. Measurements in "ab" or "c" configurations are seen to give the same information, involving both ab-plane and c-axis conduction properties.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures, typo error corrected, last section was refined
Anteon kivuanum
Creators: name: C. O
name: Madl, M.
name: Olmi, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Dryinidae
Anteon
Anteon kivuanum

description: Anteon kivuanum (BENOIT 1951) first record
D i s t r i b u t i o n and new records: Madagascar: Prov. Fianarantsoa: Ambalagoavy, Ranomafana National Park.
Known from the Ethiopian Region.
description: Published as part of C. O, Madl, M. & Olmi, M., 2010, A Catalogue of the Bethylidae, Chrysididae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Sclerogibbidae and Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Malagasy Subregion, pp. 845-918 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2) on page 878, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5335096
Simple Near-Optimal Scheduling for the M/G/1
Creators: name: Scully, Ziv
name: Harchol-Balter, Mor
name: Scheller-Wolf, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of preemptively scheduling jobs to minimize mean response time of an M/G/1 queue. When we know each job's size, the shortest remaining processing time (SRPT) policy is optimal. Unfortunately, in many settings we do not have access to each job's size. Instead, we know only the job size distribution. In this setting the Gittins policy is known to minimize mean response time, but its complex priority structure can be computationally intractable. A much simpler alternative to Gittins is the shortest expected remaining processing time (SERPT) policy. While SERPT is a natural extension of SRPT to unknown job sizes, it is unknown whether or not SERPT is close to optimal for mean response time. We present a new variant of SERPT called monotonic SERPT (M-SERPT) which is as simple as SERPT but has provably near-optimal mean response time at all loads for any job size distribution. Specifically, we prove the mean response time ratio between M-SERPT and Gittins is at most 3 for load $ρ\leq 8/9$ and at most 5 for any load. This makes M-SERPT the only non-Gittins scheduling policy known to have a constant-factor approximation ratio for mean response time.
description: POMACS, 2020 (SIGMETRICS 2020 issue)
title: The Effect on Portfolio Performance of Diversification into Socially Responsible Investments: Evidence from an Australian context
Creators: name: Wong, Victor (Siew Howe)
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Socially responsible investments
subject: Ethical investments
subject: United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing
subject: ESG-issues investments
subject: Investment portfolio

description: Socially responsible investment (SRI) has grown significantly in the last ten years. Many international organizations have become increasingly involved in the movement towards SRI. The move towards SRI investing is being driven by institutions such as the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing whose membership of financial institutions, including asset owners and institutional investors, holds assets totalling US$13 trillion. This growth was promoted further by the 2006 launch of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), with an agreement by leading pension funds, asset managers and consultants to develop new strategies to embed environmental, social and governance issues (ESG-issues). The tremendous growth has caught the attention of investors and fund managers that are seeking alternative assets and markets to improve their portfolio performance. There are claims, based on recent evidence, that SRI can provide investors’ portfolios with better returns. The thesis aims to investigate this claim. The thesis examines the effect of diversifying into SRI in terms of risks and returns from the perspective of an Australian investor, on the performance of a portfolio consisting of stocks and bonds. In examining this aim, the thesis first identifies and evaluates the performance of the optimal SRI portfolio which consists of Australian and international SRI assets. Subsequently, the thesis constructs an optimal portfolio consisting of stocks, bonds and SRI based on the identified SRI portfolio, whose performance is then examined. In pursuit of the objective, the thesis conducts three interconnected studies. Firstly, an analysis of the inter-linkages between the Australian and other SRI markets worldwide. Secondly, an examination of the impact of international diversification on the performance of SRI portfolios based on an Australian perspective. Thirdly, an investigation of the impact of diversification into SRI assets on the performance of a portfolio of stocks and bonds.
Semisimple Frobenius (super)manifolds and quantum cohomology of $P^r$
Creators: name: Manin, Yu. I.
name: Merkulov, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce and study a superversion of Dubrovin's notion of semisimple Frobenius manifolds. We establish a correspondence between semisimple Frobenius (super)manifolds and special solutions to the (supersymmetric) Schlesinger equations. Finally, we calculate the Schlesinger initial conditions for solutions describing quantum cohomology of projective spaces.
description: AMSTeX, 56 pages
LikeStarter: a Smart-contract based Social DAO for Crowdfunding
Creators: name: Zichichi, Mirko
name: Contu, Michele
name: Ferretti, Stefano
name: D'Angelo, Gabriele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Crowdfunding has become a popular form of collective funding, in which small donations or investments, made by groups of people, support the development of new projects in exchange of free products or different types of recognition. Social network sites, on the other hand, promote user cooperation and currently are at the basis of any individuals cyber-interactions. In this paper, we present LikeStarter, a blockchain-based decentralized platform that combines social interactions with crowdfunding mechanisms, allowing any user to raise funds while becoming popular in the social network. Being built over the Ethereum blockchain, LikeStarter is structured as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), that fosters crowdfunding without the intervention of any central authority, and recognizes the active role of donors, enabling them to support artists or projects, while making profits.
description: Proceedings of the 2st Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems (CryBlock'19). Paris, France, 29 April, 2019
Proclitus attentus FORSTER 1871
Creators: name: Kolarov, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Proclitus
Proclitus attentus

description: Proclitus attentus FÖRSTER 1871
 Proclitus attentus FÖRSTER 1871. Verh. naturh. Ver. Preuss. Rheinl. 28: 115.
 Proclitus attentus: KOLAROV & GLAVENDEKIC 1992: 290, Montenegro, August.
D i s t r i b u t i o n:Europe.
description: Published as part of Kolarov, J., 2008, A Catalogue of the [former] Yugoslavian Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Insecta), pp. 1585-1739 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1686, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5431642
title: Women in wind band conducting: perspectives from Australian educational contexts
Creators: name: Howley, Rachel
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: women conductors
subject: wind band conducting
subject: school conducting
subject: accessibility

description: Despite a growing volume of research into the issues faced by women conductors, there are still very few women conducting at the tertiary and professional levels in Australia. Recent research relating to women and conducting has highlighted the masculine stereotypes associated with the conducting role and the impact that they have had on women aspiring to conduct at the highest levels. It is in changing these stereotypes that the challenge lays. Current research, however, has focused primarily on the experiences of professional level orchestral conductors and has not yet delved into the experiences of women in other areas. This dissertation explores how these other areas of the conducting profession, including wind band conducting and the school context, might help to redefine the conducting role so that it is more accessible to women. The aim of this dissertation is to give voice to the many women that conduct daily in school instrumental music programs across Australia. Through these discussions, the responsibilities of conductors at primary school, secondary school, tertiary and professional levels will be considered with regard to gender, including an in-depth discussion of the specific areas of teaching ability and the musical knowledge, skills and training of the conductor. This investigation will open the discussion of the role of the conductor and create a broader and richer understanding of the discipline, encompassing all of its fields. Furthermore, it is hoped that this more inclusive approach will validate the experiences of women currently working in the conducting profession and encourage future generations of women to pursue this career.
AGN Feedback in Cool-Core Galaxy Clusters
Creators: Li, Yuan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Astrophysics
Astronomy
Active galactic nuclei
Stars--Open clusters

description: Solving the cooling flow problem in cool-core galaxy clusters is critical to under- standing the largest structures in the universe. In addition, cool-core systems are the only places where we have observed direct evidence of AGN feedback, and thus provide the unique opportunity to test models of AGN feedback and various other physical processes.
      In this thesis we study the influence of momentum-driven AGN feedback on cool-core clusters using high-resolution adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) simulations. We find that run-away cooling first happens only in the central 50 pc region while no local instability develops outside the very center of the cluster. The gas is accreted onto the super-massive black hole (SMBH) which powers AGN jets at an increasing rate as the entropy continues to decrease in the core. The ICM first cools into clumps along the propagation direction of the AGN jets due to the non-linear perturbation. As the jet power increases, gas condensation occurs isotropically, forming spatially extended (up to a few tens kpc) structures that resemble the observed Hα filaments in Perseus and many other cool-core cluster. Jet heating elevates the gas entropy and cooling time, halting clump formation. The cold gas that is not accreted onto the SMBH settles into a rotating disk. In the last few Gyr, the ICM cools onto the disk directly while the innermost region of the disk continues to accrete onto the SMBH, powering the AGN jets to achieve a thermal balance.
      The mass cooling rate averaged over 7 Gyr is &sim 30 solarmass/yr, an order of magnitude lower than the classic cooling flow value (which we obtain in runs without the AGN). Owing to its self-regulating mechanism, AGN feedback can successfully balance cooling with a wide range of model parameters. Besides suppressing cooling, our model produces cold structures in early stages (up to &sim 2 Gyr) that are in good agreement with the observations. However, the long-lived massive cold disk is unrealistic, suggesting that additional physical processes are still needed. Our recent investigation shows that star formation may play an important role.
Holophris kalliopsis ZIMMERMANN, Omalus 1961
Creators: name: C. O
name: Madl, M.
name: Olmi, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Holophris
Holophris kalliopsis

description: Holophris kalliopsis ZIMMERMANN 1961
 Holophris kalliopsis n.sp.: ZIMMERMANN 1961: 300 (descr., Madagascar), 301 (fig. 2), 319 (cat.).
 Holophris kalliopsis ZIMMERMANN 1961: KIMSEY & BOHART 1990: 225 (cat.).
 Omalus kalliopsis (ZIMMERMANN 1961): KIMSEY & BOHART 1990: 248 (cat.).
 Holophris kalliopsis ZIMMERMANN 1961: MADL 2008: 90 (cat., Madagascar).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Toamasina: Ivondro.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of C. O, Madl, M. & Olmi, M., 2010, A Catalogue of the Bethylidae, Chrysididae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Sclerogibbidae and Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Malagasy Subregion, pp. 845-918 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2) on page 869, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5335096
Looking at Radicalization and Its Place in the Conventional Political Sphere from a Mobilization Perspective
Creators: name: Uluşahin, Yasemin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Blog Post titled "Looking at Radicalization and Its Place in the Conventional Political Sphere from a Mobilization Perspective" at Istanbul Bilgi University PRIME Youth Website. https://bpy.bilgi.edu.tr/en/blog/looking-radicalization-and-its-place-conventional/
ATLAS Levels Up: Early Searches for Diboson Resonances in Semi-Hadronic Decay Channels at √ s = 13 TeV Center of Mass Energy
Creators: Alkire, Steven Patrick
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Particles (Nuclear physics)
Hadrons--Decay
Bosons

description: Searches are made for narrow diboson resonances, ZZ and ZW, in the final states llqq and ννqq at ATLAS, with (13.2±0.4) fb−1data collected from pp-collisions with center of mass energy √ s=13 TeV during 2015 and 2016, the first two years of Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider. The hadronic decay products of the vector boson, V → qq, are reconstructed as jets in the electromagnetic and hadronic calorimeters. When the vector boson is sufficiently boosted the decay products are reconstructed as a single anti-kt R = 1.0 jet. Otherwise two anti-kt R = 0.4 jets are matched to identify the vector boson. The Z boson in its leptonic decay is identified by either reconstructing two electrons in the calorimeters, or opposite sign muons in the muon spectrometer. Limits on the production cross section for 3 benchmark signals, a heavy scalar, a spin-1 heavy vector triplet, and a spin-2 graviton are set in the mass range 300 GeV to 5000 GeV.
E. coli Nissle 1917 Affects Salmonella Adhesion to Porcine Intestinal Epithelial Cells
Creators: name: Schierack, Peter
name: Kleta, Sylvia
name: Tedin, Karsten
name: Tachu Babila, Julius
name: Oswald, Sibylle
name: Ölschläger, Tobias A.
name: Hiemann, Rico
name: Pätzold, Susanne
name: Wieler, Lothar H.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::636 Viehwirtschaft

description: Background: The probiotic Escherichia coli strain Nissle 1917 (EcN) has been shown to interfere in a human in vitro model with the invasion of several bacterial pathogens into epithelial cells, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are not known. Methodology/Principal Findings: In this study, we investigated the inhibitory effects of EcN on Salmonella Typhimurium invasion of porcine intestinal epithelial cells, focusing on EcN effects on the various stages of Salmonella infection including intracellular and extracellular Salmonella growth rates, virulence gene regulation, and adhesion. We show that EcN affects the initial Salmonella invasion steps by modulating Salmonella virulence gene regulation and Salmonella SiiE-mediated adhesion, but not extra- and intracellular Salmonella growth. However, the inhibitory activity of EcN against Salmonella invasion always correlated with EcN adhesion capacities. EcN mutants defective in the expression of F1C fimbriae and flagellae were less adherent and less inhibitory toward Salmonella invasion. Another E. coli strain expressing F1C fimbriae was also adherent to IPEC-J2 cells, and was similarly inhibitory against Salmonella invasion like EcN. Conclusions: We propose that EcN affects Salmonella adhesion through secretory components. This mechanism appears to be common to many E. coli strains, with strong adherence being a prerequisite for an effective reduction of SiiE- mediated Salmonella adhesion.
Development of Pervious Concrete Paving Blocks with Construction and Demolition Ceramic Tile Waste
Creators: name: G.N. Paranavithana
name: G. Mayuran
name: K. Nithusha
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 91202 Composite and Hybrid Materials
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: 90503 Construction Materials
subject: 90799 Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: This Abstract was submitted to the 9th International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment for the Special Session on Waste in Construction
Meta-Learning for Phonemic Annotation of Corpora
Creators: name: Hoste, Veronique
name: Daelemans, Walter
name: Sang, Erik Tjong Kim
name: Gillis, Steven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7

description: We apply rule induction, classifier combination and meta-learning (stacked classifiers) to the problem of bootstrapping high accuracy automatic annotation of corpora with pronunciation information. The task we address in this paper consists of generating phonemic representations reflecting the Flemish and Dutch pronunciations of a word on the basis of its orthographic representation (which in turn is based on the actual speech recordings). We compare several possible approaches to achieve the text-to-pronunciation mapping task: memory-based learning, transformation-based learning, rule induction, maximum entropy modeling, combination of classifiers in stacked learning, and stacking of meta-learners. We are interested both in optimal accuracy and in obtaining insight into the linguistic regularities involved. As far as accuracy is concerned, an already high accuracy level (93% for Celex and 86% for Fonilex at word level) for single classifiers is boosted significantly with additional error reductions of 31% and 38% respectively using combination of classifiers, and a further 5% using combination of meta-learners, bringing overall word level accuracy to 96% for the Dutch variant and 92% for the Flemish variant. We also show that the application of machine learning methods indeed leads to increased insight into the linguistic regularities determining the variation between the two pronunciation variants studied.
description: 8 pages
Origin of the Bauschinger Effect in Amorphous Solids
Creators: name: Patinet, Sylvain
name: Barbot, Armand
name: Lerbinger, Matthias
name: Vandembroucq, Damien
name: Lemaître, Anaël
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the structural origin of the Bauschinger effect by accessing numerically the local plastic thresholds in the steady state flow of a two-dimensional model glass under athermal quasistatic deformation. More specifically, we compute the local residual strength, $Δτ^{c}$, for arbitrary loading orientations and find that plastic deformation generically induces material polarization, i.e., a forward-backward asymmetry in the $Δτ^{c}$ distribution. In steady plastic flow, local packings are on average closer to forward (rather than backward) instabilities, due to the stress-induced bias of barriers. However, presumably due to mechanical noise, a significant fraction of zones lie close to reverse (backward) yielding, as the distribution of $Δτ^{c}$ for reverse shearing extends quasilinearly down to zero local residual strength. By constructing an elementary model of the early plastic response, we then show that unloading causes reverse plasticity of a growing amplitude, i.e., reverse softening, while it shifts away forward-yielding barriers. This result in an inversion of polarization in the low-$Δτ^{c}$ region and, consequently, in the Bauschinger effect. This scenario is quite generic, which explains the pervasiveness of the effect.
Orthopelma mediator
Creators: name: Kolarov, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Orthopelma
Orthopelma mediator

description: Orthopelma mediator (THUNBERG 1824)
 Ichneumon mediator THUNBERG 1824. Mem. Acad. Sc. St. Petersbourg 8: 269.
 Orthopelma luteolator: SCHLETTERER 1894: 17, May.
 Orthopelma mediator: FULMEK 1968: 719.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Europe, Turkey and North America.
description: Published as part of Kolarov, J., 2008, A Catalogue of the [former] Yugoslavian Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Insecta), pp. 1585-1739 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1686, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5431642
D1.2 Open Science framework, terminology and instruments
Creators: name: Palts, Kristel
name: Kindler, Kolja
name: Borras, Elena Campillo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Be open
Transport
transport research
Open science
Open access
Project

description: This deliverable maps the current situation of Open Science and transport research. As a result, it also defines a unified terminology in order to enable common understanding. By means of a survey, the knowledge of stakeholders from different transport modes is evaluated, analyzing their experience and needs for Open Science, and corresponding challenges in agreement with the literature are identified. This information will be used to assess which are the main topics to be considered within the structure of the framework, which should create an optimal research environment, overcoming the challenges.
description: {"references": ["Palts, Kindler et al. (2019). D1.2 Open Science framework, terminology and instruments"]}
Anteon tanzanianum OLMI 2003
Creators: name: C. O
name: Madl, M.
name: Olmi, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Dryinidae
Anteon
Anteon tanzanianum

description: Anteon tanzanianum OLMI 2003 first record
D i s t r i b u t i o n and new records: Madagascar: Prov. Toamasina: Andasibe National Park – Prov. Fianarantsoa: Ranomafana National Park.
Known from the Ethiopian Region.
description: Published as part of C. O, Madl, M. & Olmi, M., 2010, A Catalogue of the Bethylidae, Chrysididae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Sclerogibbidae and Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Malagasy Subregion, pp. 845-918 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2) on page 879, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5335096
title: The Cyborg Astrobiologist
title: Image Compression for Geological Mapping and Novelty Detection
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: McGuire, Patrick Charles
name: Bonnici, A.
name: Bruner, K. R.
name: Gross, Christoph
name: Ormö, Jens
name: Smosna, R. A.
name: Walter, Sebastian
name: Wendt, Lorenz
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::520 Astronomie

description: We describe an image-comparison technique of Heidemann and Ritter [4,5] that uses image compression, and is capable of: (i) detecting novel textures in a series of images, as well as of: (ii) alerting the user to the similarity of a new image to a previously-observed texture. This image-comparison technique has been implemented and tested using our Astrobiology Phone-cam system, which employs Bluetooth communication to send images to a local laptop server in the field for the image-compression analysis. We tested the system in a field site displaying a heterogeneous suite of sandstones, limestones, mudstones and coalbeds. Some of the rocks are partly covered with lichen. The imagematching procedure of this system performed very well with data obtained through our field test, grouping all images of yellow lichens together and grouping all images of a coal bed together, and giving a 91% accuracy for similarity detection. Such similarity detection could be employed to make maps of different geological units. The novelty-detection performance of our system was also rather good (a 64% accuracy). Such novelty detection may become valuable in searching for new geological units, which could be of astrobiological interest. By providing more advanced capabilities for similarity detection and novelty detection, this image-compression technique could be useful in giving more scientific autonomy to robotic planetary rovers, and in assisting human astronauts in their geological exploration.
A global view of the inner accretion and ejection flow around super massive black holes: radiation driven accretion disk winds in a physical context
Creators: name: Giustini, Margherita
name: Proga, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the physics and geometry of accretion and ejection around super massive black holes (SMBHs) is important to understand the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and therefore of the large scale structures of the Universe. We aim at providing a simple, coherent, and global view of the sub-parsec accretion and ejection flow in AGN with varying Eddington ratio, $\dot{m}$, and black hole mass, $M_{BH}$. We made use of theoretical insights, results of numerical simulations, as well as UV and X-ray observations to review the inner regions of AGN by including different accretion and ejection modes, with special emphasis on the role of radiation in driving powerful accretion disk winds from the inner regions around the central SMBH. We propose five $\dot{m}$ regimes where the physics of the inner accretion and ejection flow around SMBHs is expected to change, and that correspond observationally to quiescent and inactive galaxies; low luminosity AGN (LLAGN); Seyferts and mini-broad absorption line quasars (mini-BAL QSOs); narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) and broad absorption line quasars (BAL QSOs); and super-Eddington sources. We include in this scenario radiation-driven disk winds, which are strong in the high $\dot{m}$, large $M_{BH}$ regime, and possibly present but likely weak in the moderate $\dot{m}$, small $M_{BH}$ regime. A great diversity of the accretion/ejection flows in AGN can be explained to a good degree by varying just two fundamental properties: the Eddington ratio $\dot{m}$ and the black hole mass $M_{BH}$, and by the inclusion of accretion disk winds that can naturally be launched by the radiation emitted from luminous accretion disks.
description: Matches the published version after language editing; some references added
Addressing Sustainability Risks of Bioenergy—Policy Strategies and Corporate Initiatives Energy and Power Engineering
Creators: name: Krug, Michael
name: Rabczuk, Grażyna
name: Cenian, Adam
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biomass
subject: Bioenergy
subject: Sustainability
subject: Policy
subject: Business Strategies
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::333 Boden- und Energiewirtschaft

description: This paper focuses on the sustainable use of solid and gaseous biomass for electricity, heating and cooling. It provides updated findings of policy analyses and corporate strategy analyses performed in the frame of BIOENERGY PROMOTION, one of the flagship projects under the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. In particular, the paper highlights policies and measures which have been adopted by the EU and EU Member States to address environmental and social sustainability risks of bioenergy. Taking into account the conclusions of BIOENERGY PROMOTION, the paper identifies promising policy developments, but also shortcomings. On the Member State level, the paper refers to the examples of Germany and Poland. It illustrates how problematic policy priorities and policy malfunctioning in two sub-sectors (biogas from energy crops in Germany, biomass co-firing in Poland) led to undesirable environmental and social developments and how policies have been re-adjusted to mitigate sustainability risks. The paper also portrays a number of voluntary corporate sustainability initiatives which emerged due to the lack of a binding European sustainability framework for solid and gaseous biomass. The authors conclude that without a binding sustainability framework at EU level there is a risk of having a patchwork of potentially diverging sustainability regimes and initiatives across Europe causing market intransparency and insecurity for investors.
Measurement-induced nonlocality in arbitrary dimensions in terms of the inverse approximate joint diagonalization
Creators: name: Zhang, Li-qiang
name: Ma, Ting-ting
name: Yu, Chang-shui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we focus on the measurement induced nonlocality and present a redefinition in terms of the skew information subject to a broken observable. It is shown that the obtained quantity possesses an obvious operational meaning, can tackle the noncontractivity of the measurement induced nonlocality and has analytic expressions for many quantum states. Most importantly, an inverse approximate joint diagonalization algorithm, due to its simplicity, high efficiency, stability, and state independence, is presented to provide almost analytic expressions for any quantum state, which can also shed light on other aspects in physics.
Anteon xericum OLMI & van HARTEN 2006
Creators: name: C. O
name: Madl, M.
name: Olmi, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Dryinidae
Anteon
Anteon xericum

description: Anteon xericum OLMI & van HARTEN 2006 first record
D i s t r i b u t i o n and new records: Madagascar: Prov. Fianarantsoa: Ranomafana National Park.
Known from the Ethiopian and Palaearctic Region (Yemen).
description: Published as part of C. O, Madl, M. & Olmi, M., 2010, A Catalogue of the Bethylidae, Chrysididae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Sclerogibbidae and Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Malagasy Subregion, pp. 845-918 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2) on page 880, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5335096
title: Essays on the Convenience Yield of Base Metals
Creators: name: Omura, Akihiro
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Convenience yield
subject: Commodities
subject: Investment strategies
subject: Commodity inventory

description: The purpose of this thesis is to explore important determinants of the implied value inherited in a readily available durable commodity. Under the notion of convenience yield, such a value represents all the benefits that can be enjoyed by the owner of a physical asset. To disentangle the dynamic behaviour of this implied value embedded in the price of physical assets, various measures of scarceness of commodities are identified in this thesis and three interrelated studies are conducted to examine the lead-lag relationships between these measures and the convenience yield. In particular, I examine (1)how current geographical scarcity, represented by a regional supply/demand condition,affects the future convenience yield, (2) whether relative scarcity of a commodity contains valuable predictive information on its convenience yield, and (3) how the perceived level of a convenience yield is related to the second moment of futures price. Taking together, the results of these studies mostly support the presence of statistically significant relationships between the convenience yield and these measures, which can be used for constructing effective inventory and investment strategies.
Clistopyga incitator
Creators: name: Kolarov, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Clistopyga
Clistopyga incitator

description: Clistopyga incitator (FABRICIUS 1793)
 Ichneumon incitator FABRICIUS 1793. Entom. Syst. 2: 172.
 Clistopyga incitator var.: SEYRIG 1927: 236, Macedonia, 800-1200 m.
 Clistopyga incitator: GLAVENDEKIC & KOLAROV 1994: 5, Serbia, ex Rhyacionia buoliana SCHIFF.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Algeria, Madeira Islands, Europe, Israel, China-Shanxi and Kenia.
description: Published as part of Kolarov, J., 2008, A Catalogue of the [former] Yugoslavian Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Insecta), pp. 1585-1739 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1687, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5431642
Topology optimization on two-dimensional manifolds
Creators: name: Deng, Yongbo
name: Liu, Zhenyu
name: Korvink, Jan G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper implements topology optimization on two-dimensional manifolds. In this paper, the material interpolation is implemented on a material parameter in the partial differential equation used to describe a physical field, when this physical field is defined on a two-dimensional manifold; the material density is used to formulate a mixed boundary condition of the physical field and implement the penalization between two different types of boundary conditions, when this physical field is defined on a three-dimensional domain with its boundary conditions defined on the two-dimensional manifold corresponding a surface or an interface of this three-dimensional domain. Based on the homeomorphic property of two-dimensional manifolds, typical two-dimensional manifolds, e.g., sphere, torus, Möbius strip and Klein bottle, are included in the numerical tests, which are provided for the problems on fluidic mechanics, heat transfer and electromagnetics.
On regularity of the logarithmic forward map of electrical impedance tomography
Creators: name: Garde, Henrik
name: Hyvönen, Nuutti
name: Kuutela, Topi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J15, 46T20, 47A60, 35R30

description: This work considers properties of the logarithm of the Neumann-to-Dirichlet boundary map for the conductivity equation in a Lipschitz domain. It is shown that the mapping from the (logarithm of) the conductivity, i.e. the (logarithm of) the coefficient in the divergence term of the studied elliptic partial differential equation, to the logarithm of the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map is continuously Fréchet differentiable between natural topologies. Moreover, for any essentially bounded perturbation of the conductivity, the Fréchet derivative defines a bounded linear operator on the space of square integrable functions living on the domain boundary, although the logarithm of the Neumann-to-Dirichlet map itself is unbounded in that topology. In particular, it follows from the fundamental theorem of calculus that the difference between the logarithms of any two Neumann-to-Dirichlet maps is always bounded on the space of square integrable functions. All aforementioned results also hold if the Neumann-to-Dirichlet boundary map is replaced by its inverse, i.e. the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map.
description: 20 pages
Dolichomitus agnoscendus
Creators: name: Kolarov, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Dolichomitus
Dolichomitus agnoscendus

description: Dolichomitus agnoscendus (ROMAN 1939)
 Ephialtes agnoscendus ROMAN 1939. Ent. Tidskr. 60: 189.
 Dolichomitus agnoscendus: Aubert 1969: 50, Croatia.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Western Europe, Bulgaria, Belarus and Azerbaijan.
description: Published as part of Kolarov, J., 2008, A Catalogue of the [former] Yugoslavian Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Insecta), pp. 1585-1739 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1687, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5431642
Book Review: After the Gig
Creators: name: MacQuarie, Julius-Cezar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160801 Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160808 Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology
subject: 130205 Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. Economics, Business and Management)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: Short: A review of the 2020 book by Juliet Schor, published by University of California Press.
Long title: After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back, by Juliet B. Schor (2020). Oakland: University of California Press.
Reporter Assay for Endo/Lysosomal Escape of Toxin-Based Therapeutics
Creators: name: Gilabert-Oriol, Roger
name: Thakur, Mayank
name: Mallinckrodt, Benedicta Von
name: Bhargava, Cheenu
name: Wiesner, Burkhard
name: Eichhorst, Jenny
name: Melzig, Matthias F.
name: Fuchs, Hendrik
name: Weng, Alexander
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: endosomal escape
subject: reporter assay
subject: protein therapeutics
subject: ribosome inactivating proteins
subject: horseradish peroxidase
subject: Alexa Fluor 488
subject: ricin A-chain
subject: saporin
subject: triterpenoidal saponins
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::615 Pharmakologie, Therapeutik

description: Protein-based therapeutics with cytosolic targets are capable of exhibiting their therapeutic effect once they have escaped from the endosomes or lysosomes. In this study, the reporters—horseradish peroxidase (HRP), Alexa Fluor 488 (Alexa) and ricin A-chain (RTA)—were investigated for their capacity to monitor the endo/lysosomal escape of the ribosome-inactivating protein, saporin. The conjugates—saporin-HRP, Alexasaporin and saporin-KQ-RTA—were constructed, and the endo/lysosomal escape of these conjugates alone (lack of endo/lysosomal release) or in combination with certain structurally-specific triterpenoidal saponins (efficient endo/lysosomal escape) was characterized. HRP failed in reporting the endo/lysosomal escape of saporin. Contrastingly, Alexa Fluor 488 successfully allowed the report of the process at a toxin concentration of 1000 nM. In addition, single endo/lysosome analysis facilitated the determination of the amount of Alexasaporin released from each vesicle. RTA was also successful in reporting the endo/lysosomal escape of the enzymatically inactive mutant, saporin-KQ, but in this case, the sensitivity of the method reached a toxin concentration of 10 nM. In conclusion, the simultaneous usage of Alexa Fluor 488 and RTA as reporters may provide the possibility of monitoring the endo/lysosomal escape of protein-based therapeutics in the concentration range of 10–1000 nM. View Full-Text
Resistance of multilayers with long length scale interfacial roughness
Creators: name: Alicea, Jason
name: Hershfield, Selman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The resistance of multilayers with interface roughness on a length scale which is large compared to the atomic spacing is computed in several cases via the Boltzmann equation. This type of roughness is common in magnetic multilayers. When the electronic mean free paths are small compared to the layer thicknesses, the current flow is non-uniform, and the resistance decreases in the Current-Perpendicular-to-Plane (CPP) configuration and increases in the Current-In-Plane (CIP) configuration. For mean free paths much longer than the layer thicknesses, the current flow is uniform, and the resistance increases in both the CPP and CIP configurations due to enhanced surface scattering. In both the CPP and CIP geometries, the giant magnetoresistance can be either enhanced or reduced by the presence of long length scale interface roughness depending on the parameters. Finally, the changes in the CPP and CIP resistivities due to increasing interface roughness are estimated using experimentally determined parameters.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures
Home range size decreases with increasing site fidelity in high-density subpopulations of brown trout
Creators: name: Ondřej Slavík
name: Horký, Pavel
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The home range (HR) of wild animals increases with individual body size and is smaller in high density populations in productive areas. If sufficient resources are available, animals often display sedentary behavior. The return and reuse of an environment by individuals is frequently termed “site fidelity”. Smaller HR size and high site fidelity have been reported especially in mammals. In the present study, we explored this relationship in adults of subpopulations of the brown trout Salmo trutta, which typically exhibits HRs. The HR size of conspecifics from subpopulations characterized by density and subpopulation site fidelity was determined by radio-telemetry during a 7-year study. We found smaller HR sizes in subpopulations with higher site fidelity. Moreover, HR size was found to increase with body mass and decrease with subpopulation density across seasons. The results showed that the HR size of wild brown trout varies with subpopulation density and site fidelity.
Abodes of Śiva: Monuments and Memory in Medieval and Early Modern South Indian Purāṇas
Creators: Ramesh, Jay
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: South Asians
Hindu shrines
Collective memory and literature
Tamil poetry
Sacred space

description: In this dissertation, I investigate a popular type of narrative literature called in Tamil talapurāṇam (literally “place-lore”), which describes the legends associated with Hindu shrines as well as the manner in which rituals at the temple must be conducted. Though such texts were popular throughout South Asia as written in Sanskrit, it was in the hands of early modern poets writing in Tamil that they became a genre of elite literature. These poets transformed prosaic Sanskrit texts into elaborate works of court poetry. Through an analysis of the poetics of these texts, the stories that they narrate, and the historical circumstances surrounding their popularity, I argue that the Tamil talapurāṇams mark a conscious and sustained effort to unite a community of devotees around a set of shrines that existed in South India by appealing to and simultaneously producing the collective memory of a distant past. Drawing upon the work of Maurice Halbwachs and Jan Assmann, among others, I further argue that such a notion of collective memory is essential to our understanding of the manner in which sacred space is experienced more broadly.