cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Beyond chord vocabularies: Exploiting pitch-relationships in a chord estimation metric
Creators: name: Devaney, Johanna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Chord estimation metrics treat chord labels as independent of one another. This fails to represent the pitch relationships between the chords in a meaningful way, resulting in evaluations that must make compromises with complex chord vocabularies and that often require time-consuming qualitative analyses to determine details about how a chord estimation algorithm performs. This paper presents an accuracy metric for chord estimation that compares the pitch content of the estimated chords against the ground truth that captures both the correct notes that are estimated and additional notes that are inserted into the estimate. This is not a stand-alone evaluation protocol but rather a metric that can be integrated as a weighting into existing evaluation approaches.
description: Extended abstract, 3 pages, 2 tables
Dasyhelea paulistana Forattini and Rabello
Creators: name: Torreias, S. R. S.
name: Ferreira-Keppler, R. L.
name: Ronderos, M. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ceratopogonidae
Dasyhelea
Dasyhelea paulistana

description: Dasyhelea paulistana Forattini and Rabello
 Dasyhelea paulistana Forattini and Rabello, 1957: 245 (pupa and female; Brazil); Borkent and Spinelli, 2007: 61 (in Neotropical catalogue); Borkent, 2012: 68 (online catalogue).    Distribution
Brazil (Amazonas, São Paulo).   Material examined
 Brazil, Amazonas, Iranduba, Ilha da Marchantaria, Lago Grande, S. auriculata, 17 May 2011, Torreias and Ferreira-Keppler, 2 males and 2 females (reared in laboratory, with pupal exuvia), 2 pupas (males, preserved in ethanol 70%).    Comments
 A cosmopolitan genus with approximately 440 known species, which biology reveals to be highly adapted to many aquatic and semi-aquatic environments (Waugh and Wirth 1976): from phytotelmata to puddles, pits, bryophytes, ponds and artificial environments (Ronderos et al. 2003). In the present study, D. paulistana was collected in S. auriculata corroborating Borkent and Craig (2001), who mention the presence of Dasyhelea mining leaves of Salvinia in Costa Rica. This is a new record of the species from the Amazonas State.
description: Published as part of Torreias, S. R. S., Ferreira-Keppler, R. L. & Ronderos, M. M., 2013, Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae: Diptera) present in aquatic macrophytes from wetlands of Marchantaria Island, Iranduba, Central Amazonia, Brazil, pp. 109-122 in Journal of Natural History 48 (1 - 2) on page 113, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.791934, http://zenodo.org/record/5198735
An Overview of Trends and Developments in the Thai Dairy Industry
Creators: name: Murphy, Thomas
name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Murphy, Thomas
name: Tisdell, Clem
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Thailand
subject: livestock industry
subject: dairy farming

description: The remarkable growth of the dairy industry has been one of the more significant developments in the Thai livestock industry in recent years. Milk has never been an important product in traditional Thai society. Prior to the 1960s imports satisfied the small urban demand that existed for milk products in Thailand. However, over the last two decades, strong government support and increased growth in the economy, population and tourism has stimulated domestic demand for dairy products in Thailand. Commercial production of dairy products increased more than 500% between 1982-1992 and continues to be driven by high demand. While demand is strong, the ability of the Thai dairy industry to supply the growing levels of domestic demand for dairy products has been constrained by several factors. Improvements in the management, marketing, breeding and disease control practices of Thai dairy producers are necessary if the national objective of milk self-sufficiency is to be achieved.
Analytical modelling of period spacings across the HR diagram
Creators: name: Cunha, M. S.
name: Avelino, P. P.
name: Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.
name: Stello, D.
name: Vrard, M.
name: Jiang, C.
name: Mosser, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The characterisation of stellar cores may be accomplished through the modelling of asteroseismic data from stars exhibiting either gravity-mode or mixed-mode pulsations, potentially shedding light on the physical processes responsible for the production, mixing, and segregation of chemical elements. In this work we validate against model data an analytical expression for the period spacing that will facilitate the inference of the properties of stellar cores, including the detection and characterisation of buoyancy glitches (strong chemical gradients). This asymptotically-based analytical expression is tested both in models with and without buoyancy glitches. It does not assume that glitches are small and, consequently, predicts non-sinusoidal glitch-induced period-spacing variations, as often seen in model and real data. We show that the glitch position and width inferred from the fitting of the analytical expression to model data consisting of pure gravity modes are in close agreement (typically better than 7$\%$ relative difference) with the properties measured directly from the stellar models. In the case of fitting mixed-mode model data, the same expression is shown to reproduce well the numerical results, when the glitch properties are known a priori. In addition, the fits performed to mixed-mode model data reveal a frequency dependence of the coupling coefficient, $q$, for a moderate-luminosity red-giant-branch model star. Finally, we find that fitting the analytical expression to the mixed-mode period spacings may provide a way to infer the frequencies of the pure acoustic dipole modes that would exist if no coupling took place between acoustic and gravity waves.
description: Submitted to MNRAS
Additional file 1 of How do pregnant women’s perceptions of obstetric forceps change according to their demographic background: a cross sectional study
Creators: name: Hitt, Jasmine M.
name: Martin, Angela S.
name: Dietrich, Jordan E.
name: Ahmed, Natasha
name: Lee, Gene T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Maternal Attitudes About Forceps Survey, survey form filled out by the study participants.
Cost Benefit Analysis with Applications to Animal Health Programmes: Basics of CBA
Creators: name: Harrison, Steve
name: Harrison, Steve
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Cost benefit analysis
subject: animal health issues
subject: Thailand

description: This discussion paper is one of a series of six papers which brings together both cost-benefit analysis methodology and the problems and issues in evaluation of regional and national animal health programs. Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is a powerful economic technique for evaluating public sector investments, evaluating proposed research projects and programs, estimating the economic impact of new regulations, predicting the economic impacts of resource exploitation and conservation programs, and a variety of other applications. Applying CBA to animal health issues is a challenging task which, with a few notable exceptions, economists have avoided. Economic approaches to the study of animal health have many similarities with economics of public health. Livestock industries are vital in many developing countries for their food, fibre and other products, export revenue earnings and provision of draft and transport. In addition to their private costs, livestock diseases and pests have important externality costs to communities and nations. Eradication of particular diseases can allow access to high-priced foreign markets. Effects of improved animal health can be subtle and may take a number of years to be fully realised. They present particular measurement difficulties. Studies of the economic desirability of animal health programs have frequently overlooked important cost and benefits items, for example, the benefits which accrue to consumers from lower prices and better quality meat products. Like it or not, cost considerations will continue to play a part in determining what animal health initiatives can be funded. Also, it is usually necessary to present a thorough economic evaluation to decision-makers when seeking funding. This paper examines the economic logic underlying such an analysis, and makes suggestions on how it can be carried out.
Reduction formulae for Karlsson-Minton type hypergeometric functions
Creators: name: Rosengren, Hjalmar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33D15, 33D67

description: We prove a master theorem for hypergeometric functions of Karlsson-Minton type, stating that a very general multilateral U(n) Karlsson-Minton type hypergeometric series may be reduced to a finite sum. This identity contains the Karlsson-Minton summation formula and many of its known generalizations as special cases, and it also implies several "Bailey-type" identities for U(n) hypergeometric series, including multivariable 10-W-9 transformations of Milne and Newcomb and of Kajihara. Even in the one-variable case our identity is new, and even in this case its proof depends on the theory of multivariable hypergeometric series.
description: 21 pages; substantial additions compared to previous version
Cost-Benefit Analysis with Applications to Animal Health Programmes: Complexities of CBA
Creators: name: Harrison, Steve
name: Harrison, Steve
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Cost-benefit analysis
subject: Animal health programs

description: Cost-benefits analysis is a powerful method of evaluating the economic merits of public sector investments. Demands by treasury departments for justification of budgets of government agencies, and new developments in measurement of non-market costs and benefits, ensure wide use. The availability of powerful computer spreadsheets with built-in financial functions has greatly facilitated the application of CBA. At the same time, the computational ease with the technique can be applied has frequently led to a rather mechanistic approach being adopted. No two projects will have exactly the same characteristics, and it is unlikely that a standardised approach to CBA can ever be relied upon. Blind use of the technique can lead to results which do not truly represent the investment situation, and to misinformation rather than good information. CBA is often inadvertently and sometimes deliberately misused. The practitioner needs to be aware of a number of complexities which often arise and to comprehend the best ways of dealing with them. To some extent, successful application of CBA is an art rather than a science, and there is no substitute for experience in carrying out real-world applications. However, there are a number of technical issues and complexities of which potential users should be aware. This discussion paper examines some of the major decisions which must be faced when carrying out CBA, then some further complexities which often arise. As well, common misuses of the technique will be considered.
Robust, Extensible, and Fast: Teamed Classifiers for Vehicle Tracking and Vehicle Re-ID in Multi-Camera Networks
Creators: name: Suprem, Abhijit
name: Lima, Rodrigo Alves
name: Padilha, Bruno
name: Ferreira, Joao Eduardo
name: Pu, Calton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As camera networks have become more ubiquitous over the past decade, the research interest in video management has shifted to analytics on multi-camera networks. This includes performing tasks such as object detection, attribute identification, and vehicle/person tracking across different cameras without overlap. Current frameworks for management are designed for multi-camera networks in a closed dataset environment where there is limited variability in cameras and characteristics of the surveillance environment are well known. Furthermore, current frameworks are designed for offline analytics with guidance from human operators for forensic applications. This paper presents a teamed classifier framework for video analytics in heterogeneous many-camera networks with adversarial conditions such as multi-scale, multi-resolution cameras capturing the environment with varying occlusion, blur, and orientations. We describe an implementation for vehicle tracking and vehicle re-identification (re-id), where we implement a zero-shot learning (ZSL) system that performs automated tracking of all vehicles all the time. Our evaluations on VeRi-776 and Cars196 show the teamed classifier framework is robust to adversarial conditions, extensible to changing video characteristics such as new vehicle types/brands and new cameras, and offers real-time performance compared to current offline video analytics approaches.
Cost-Benefit Analysis with Applications to Animal Health Programmes: Spreadsheet Implementation of Discounted Cash Flow and Risk Analysis
Creators: name: Harrison, Steve
name: Harrison, Steve
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Cost-benefit analysis
subject: animal health
subject: discounted cash flow

description: Cost-benefit analysis on an animal health program involves considerable data collection and analysis. The analysis step involves expressing data in the form of cash flows, and then performing discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis. The output of DCF analysis consists of one of more of the various economic performance criteria - such as net present value, internal rate of return and benefit-to-cost ratios - which assist decision makers in judging whether to proceed with a project. This discussion paper examines the ‘hands-on’ side of cost-benefit analysis, viz. using a computer to carry out the analysis. Here, cash flow data are entered into electronic spreadsheet, and the various spreadsheet financial functions and presentation features are utilized to summarise estimated project performance.
Accessibility of the Regional Information Based on the Regional Information Structure Framework
Creators: name: Jarolímek, J.
name: Ulman, M.
name: Jarolímek, J.
name: Ulman, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Information accessibility
subject: region
subject: rural areas
subject: framework
subject: Regional Information Structure
subject: Regional Information Relation
subject: Digital Agenda 2020
subject: support of business
subject: quality of life

description: The paper addresses the issue of effective implementation of the information and communication technologies in rural areas with the special focus on the accessibility of regional information and big collections of data related to the location. Presented results comes from long term research at the Department of Information Technologies FEM CULS in Prague in the areas of regional informatics and digital divide, and are compliant with strategic goals of Digital Agenda for Europe: A Europe 2020 Initiative. Description and definition of the general framework of the accessibility of regional information – Regional Information Structure (RIS) and Regional Information Relation (RIR) is introduced in the paper.
Additional file 1 of Weak faults at megathrust plate boundary respond to tidal stress
Creators: name: Tonegawa, Takashi
name: Kimura, Toshinori
name: Shiraishi, Kazuya
name: Yabe, Suguru
name: Fukao, Yoshio
name: Araki, Eiichiro
name: Kinoshita, Masataka
name: Sanada Yoshinori
name: Miura, Seiichi
name: Nakamura, Yasuyuki
name: Kodaira, Shuichi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geophysics

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Parameters for Chikyu on November 20, 2018. a Temporal variation of depth of the drill-bit from the sea surface. The water depth is around 2,000 m. b Temporal variation of RPM (rotation per minute). c Schematic for the geometry of two sensors, drill-bit, and the stationary zones. Figure S2. Transverse-deconvolved waveforms (TDWs) at each OBS. (a–e) Same as Figures 4b and CC in 4d, but for a OBS01, b OBS02, c OBS04, d OBS05, and e OBS06. Figure S3. Location of the center position of Chikyu and the stability of the TDWs. a Dots indicate the center position of Chikyu, which are the same as those in Fig. 2c. Red circle represents the radius of 1 m from the central location of dots. Regions are divided into eight regions; A: 1 quadrant inside 1 m, B: 2 quadrant inside 1 m, C: 3 quadrant inside 1 m, D: 4 quadrant inside 1 m, E: 1 quadrant outside 1 m, F: 2 quadrant outside 1 m, G: 3 quadrant outside 1 m, H: 4 quadrant outside 1 m. b Histogram for the Chikyu positions in the four-quadrant. The position was measured at each minute, and the number of 1-min segment during 1–57 Julian days in 2019 was counted. c (top) Waveforms at OBS03 in which the TDWs are stacked during 1–57 Julian days when the Chikyu is located in the region (black) A, (red) B, (blue) C, and (light-blue) D. (bottom) Same as the top panel, but for the region (black) E, (red) F, (blue) G, and (light-blue) H. Figure S4. Envelope functions at high and low tide. a Same as Fig. 6a, with uncertainties in pink and gray lines for the other OBSs. Arrows indicate large amplitudes at high tide at lag times between 5.5 and 7.5 s. b Same as Fig. 6b, but for OBS06.
The kinetic equation for the quark Wigner function in strong gluon field
Creators: name: Prozorkevich, A. V.
name: Smolyansky, S. A.
name: Ilyin, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Vlasov type quantum kinetic equation for deconfined quarks in strong quasi-classical gluon field is derived in the covariant single-time formalism. The equations system for the Wigner function components is obtained as a result of spinor and color decomposition. The field-free and vacuum solutions of the kinetic equation are found, and the conservation laws are derived. The flux-tube configuration of gluon field is discussed in detail.
description: 16 pages, v2: added reference and minor corrections
Media Credibility, Misinformation, and Communication Patterns during
Creators: name: Arandas, Mohammed Fadel
name: Loh, Yoke Ling
name: Loh, Yu Chiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200104 Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 190301 Journalism Studies

description: During Movement Control Order (MCO) of COVID-19, many information has been disseminated through both traditional and social media. Some of that information was credible and came from reliable sources while other information was fake and included misinformation, disinformation, and infodemic. The people needed credible information rather than fake one in this critical time. This study aimed to explore the credibility of media, information sources, the main issues, and preferred communication patterns and method of works perceived by Malaysians during MCO. A total of 300 questionnaires were distributed, and 210 were returned. The results of this study showed that the majority of respondents 69% relied on new media as their main source of information compared to 30.9% who relied on traditional media. However, a total of 64.8% of respondents considered traditional media as more credible and accurate compared to 35.2% for new media. Additionally, the main concerns and issues followed by respondents on media were health, economic, social, education and others. Finally, a total of 55.7% preferred face to face communication compared to 44.3% who preferred online communication. A total of 51% of respondents preferred to work from the workplace or office compared to 49% who preferred to work from home. Television played a significant role during the pandemic period due to its high credibility as perceived by Malaysians. The main intriguing implication of this study is considering the traditional media as more credible than social media by the Malaysians although the social media was their main source of information.
Bi-level Volt/VAR Optimization in Distribution Networks with Smart PV Inverters
Creators: name: Long, Yao
name: Kirschen, Daniel S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Optimal Volt/VAR control (VVC) in distribution networks relies on an effective coordination between the conventional utility-owned mechanical devices and the smart residential photovoltaic (PV) inverters. Typically, a central controller carries out a periodic optimization and sends setpoints to the local controller of each device. However, instead of tracking centrally dispatched setpoints, smart PV inverters can cooperate on a much faster timescale to reach optimality within a PV inverter group. To accommodate such PV inverter groups in the VVC architecture, this paper proposes a bi-level optimization framework. The upper-level determines the setpoints of the mechanical devices to minimize the network active power losses, while the lower-level represents the coordinated actions that the inverters take for their own objectives. The interactions between these two levels are captured in the bi-level optimization, which is solved using the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions. This framework fully exploits the capabilities of the different types of voltage regulation devices and enables them to cooperatively optimize their goals. Case studies on typical distribution networks with field-recorded data demonstrate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed approach.
Which Factors Explain the Rising Ethnic Heterogeneity in Italy? An Empirical Analysis at Province Level
Creators: name: Cattaneo, Cristina
name: Cattaneo, Cristina
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Immigration
subject: Ethnic Diversity
subject: Productivity

description: The paper investigates the determinants of ethnic heterogeneity of the Italian provinces. Among other factors, the paper tests empirically whether gradual improvements in distant communication boost the generation of ethnically heterogeneous provinces. Consequently to easier communication, movers increasingly rely on an enlarged community for identity transmission, rather than on localized peer effects of the ethnic enclaves. The empirical estimation provides support to this hypothesis. Improvements in internet communications are found to increase the ethnic diversity of the Italian provinces.
A comprehensive study of NGC 2345, a young open cluster with a low metallicity
Creators: name: Alonso-Santiago, J.
name: Negueruela, I.
name: Marco, A.
name: Tabernero, H. M.
name: González-Fernández, C.
name: Castro, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NGC 2345 is a young open cluster hosting seven blue and red supergiants, low metallicity and a high fraction of Be stars which makes it a privileged laboratory to study stellar evolution. We aim to improve the determination of the cluster parameters and study the Be phenomenon. Our objective is also to characterise its seven evolved stars by deriving their atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances. We performed a complete analysis combining for the first time $ubvy$ photometry with spectroscopy as well as $Gaia$ Data Release 2. We obtained spectra with classification purposes for 76 stars and high-resolution spectroscopy for an in-depth analysis of the blue and red evolved stars. We identify a new red supergiant and 145 B-type likely members within a radius of 18.7$\pm$1.2 arcmin, which implies an initial mass, $M_{\textrm{cl}}\approx$5200 M$_{\odot}$. We find a distance of 2.5$\pm$0.2 kpc for NGC 2345, placing it at $R_{\textrm{GC}}$=10.2$\pm$0.2 kpc. Isochrone fitting supports an age of 56$\pm$13 Ma, implying masses around 6.5 M$_{\odot}$ for the supergiants. A high fraction of Be stars ($\approx$10$\%$) is found. From the spectral analysis we estimate for the cluster an average $v_{\textrm{rad}}$=$+58.6\pm0.5$ kms$^{-1}$ and a low metallicity, [Fe/H]=$-$0.28$\pm$0.07. We also have determined chemical abundances for Li, O, Na, Mg, Si, Ca, Ti, Ni, Rb, Y, and Ba for the evolved stars. The chemical composition of the cluster is consistent with that of the Galactic thin disc. One of the K supergiants, S50, is a Li-rich star, presenting an A(Li)$\approx$2.1. An overabundance of Ba is found, supporting the enhanced $s$-process. NGC 2345 has a low metallicity for its Galactocentric distance, comparable to typical LMC stars. It is massive enough to serve as a testbed for theoretical evolutionary models for massive intermediate-mass stars.
description: 26 pages, 19 figures and 16 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
Additional file 1 of Could existing infrastructure for using patient‐reported outcomes as quality measures also be used for individual care in patients with colorectal cancer?
Creators: name: Breidenbach, Clara
name: Kowalski, Christoph
name: Wesselmann, Simone
name: Sibert, Nora Tabea
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. Interview Guide
School-FERST Survey 2019
Creators: name: DSouza, Erica
name: Vandevijvere, Stefanie
name: Swinburn, Boyd
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: Description: This survey was developed as part of the School Food Environment Review and Support Tool (School-FERST), a monitoring and feedback system developed as part of a doctoral thesis investigation by Erica D’Souza: e.dsouza@auckland.ac.nz Some of the literature used to inform this survey are: 1. Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Y.U. Child Care Nutrition and Physical Activity Assessment Survey. 2008; Available from: http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/resources/upload/docs/what/communities/ChildCareDirectorSurvey.pdf.2. Watts. C, W.A., 2007 School and ECE Services Food and Nutrition Environment Survey. 2008: Unpublished.3. Turner, L., Chaloupka, Frank J. Food and Fitness School Health Policies and Practices Questionnaire. Part 1. 2010 [cited 2013 9 December]; Available from: http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/mfe/instruments/Turner_Food_Fitness_School_Health_Quest.pdf.4. Ministry of Health, Food and beverage classification system for years 1-13. 2007.5. Bauer, K.W., et al., Energy Content of U.S. Fast-Food Restaurant Offerings: 14-Year Trends. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2012. 43(5): p. 490-497.6. Carter, M.A. and B. Swinburn, Measuring the 'obesogenic' food environment in New Zealand primary schools. Health Promot Int, 2004. 19(1): p. 15-20.7. Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals & University of Minnesota, D.o.E. Food Policies and Practices in Minnesota High Schools A Survey of Secondary School Principals. 2001; Available from: http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/mfe/instruments/neumark-sztainer-food-policies-questionnaire-instrument.8. Ward D, H.D., Haverly K, Marks J, Benjamin S, Ball S, Trost S. Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care. 2008; Available from: http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/mfe/instruments/benjamin-nap-sacc-nutrition-and-physical-activity.
Key Factors Affecting the Profitability of Farms in the Czech Republic
Creators: name: Lososova, J.
name: Zdenek, R.
name: Lososova, J.
name: Zdenek, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Profit/loss
subject: profitability
subject: labour productivity
subject: subsidies
subject: LFA

description: The paper deals with assessment of the economic situation of Czech farms and its development in a long time- line. The analysis is based on our own database of farms in a sample of farms classified by LFA, production type and size. An increase of production is mainly caused by an increase in crop production revenues, animal and non-agricultural production revenues are decreasing. An increase of labour productivity is an important tendency in the period influenced mainly by decreasing the number of workers. Due to the high dependency of profit or loss in agriculture on environmental conditions, the development of indicators is characterized by significant fluctuations. The dependence of profit on subsidies is greatest in the mountain LFA. Enterprises focused on crop production are the least dependent on subsidies, but their profit is the most affected by other external economic conditions, particularly by climatic conditions and price developments.
Evaluation of the ultimate performances of a Ca+ single-ion frequency standard
Creators: name: Champenois, Caroline
name: Houssin, Marie
name: Lisowski, Caroline
name: Knoop, Martina
name: Hagel, Gaetan
name: Vedel, Michel
name: Vedel, Fernande
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically evaluate the expected performances of an optical frequency standard at 729 nm based on a single calcium ion. The frequency stability is studied through the Allan deviation and its dependence on the excitation method (single Rabi pulse or two Ramsey pulses schemes) and the laser linewidth are discussed. The minimum Allan deviation that can be expected is estimated to $σ_y(τ) \approx 2.5\times 10^{-15}/\sqrtτ$ with $τ$ the integration time. The frequency shifts induced by the environmental conditions are evaluated to minimize the uncertainty of the proposed standard by chosing the most suited environment for the ion. If using the odd isotope $^{43}$Ca$^{+}$ and a vessel cooled to 77 K, the expected relative shift is $-2 \times 10^{-16}$ with an uncertainty of $\pm 4\times10^{-16}$, mainly due to the quadrupole shift induced by the unknown static electric field gradient .
description: soumis le 27/07/04 a Physics Letters A
Interview Schedule with School Staff to identify the key modes of feedback from monitoring initiatives
Creators: name: DSouza, Erica
name: Swinburn, Boyd
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: This interview schedule was developed as part of a PhD doctoral thesis by Erica D’Souza: e.dsouza@auckland.ac.nz
Genericity of zero Lyapunov exponents
Creators: name: Bochi, Jairo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37D25; 37C20

description: We show that, for any compact surface, there is a residual (dense $G_δ$) set of $C^1$ area preserving diffeomorphisms which either are Anosov or have zero Lyapunov exponents a.e. This result was announced by R. Mane, but no proof was available. We also show that for any fixed ergodic dynamical system over a compact space, there is a residual set of continuous $SL(2,R)$-cocycles which either are uniformly hyperbolic or have zero exponents a.e.
description: 28 pages, 1 figure. This is a revised, more readable, version of the preprint distributed in 2000
School-FERST Survey 2016
Creators: name: DSouza, Erica
name: Vandevijvere, Stefanie
name: Swinburn, Boyd
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 119999 Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other medical sciences

description: This survey was developed as part of the School Food Environment Review and Support Tool (School-FERST), a monitoring and feedback system developed as part of a doctoral thesis investigation by Erica D’Souza: e.dsouza@auckland.ac.nz Some of the literature used to inform this survey are: 1. Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Y.U. Child Care Nutrition and Physical Activity Assessment Survey. 2008; Available from: http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/resources/upload/docs/what/communities/ChildCareDirectorSurvey.pdf.2. Watts. C, W.A., 2007 School and ECE Services Food and Nutrition Environment Survey. 2008: Unpublished.3. Turner, L., Chaloupka, Frank J. Food and Fitness School Health Policies and Practices Questionnaire. Part 1. 2010 [cited 2013 9 December]; Available from: http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/mfe/instruments/Turner_Food_Fitness_School_Health_Quest.pdf.4. Ministry of Health, Food and beverage classification system for years 1-13. 2007.5. Bauer, K.W., et al., Energy Content of U.S. Fast-Food Restaurant Offerings: 14-Year Trends. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2012. 43(5): p. 490-497.6. Carter, M.A. and B. Swinburn, Measuring the 'obesogenic' food environment in New Zealand primary schools. Health Promot Int, 2004. 19(1): p. 15-20.7. Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals & University of Minnesota, D.o.E. Food Policies and Practices in Minnesota High Schools A Survey of Secondary School Principals. 2001; Available from: http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/mfe/instruments/neumark-sztainer-food-policies-questionnaire-instrument.8. Ward D, H.D., Haverly K, Marks J, Benjamin S, Ball S, Trost S. Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care. 2008; Available from: http://appliedresearch.cancer.gov/mfe/instruments/benjamin-nap-sacc-nutrition-and-physical-activity.
Antisite disorder and phase segregation in Mn$_{2}$NiSn
Creators: name: Malik, S. V.
name: Dias, E. T.
name: Nigam, A. K.
name: Priolkar, K. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A systematic study of crystal structure, local structure, magnetic and transport properties in quenched and temper annealed Ni$_{2-x}$Mn$_{1+x}$Sn alloys indicate the formation of Mn$_3$Sn type structural defects caused by an antisite disorder between Mn and Sn occupying the Y and Z sublattices of X$_2$YZ Heusler structure. The antisite disorder is caused by the substitution of Ni by Mn at the X sites. On temper annealing, these defects segregate and phase separate into $L2_1$ Heusler and $D0_{19}$ Mn$_3$Sn type phases.
Mutual Orbital Inclinations Between Cold Jupiters and Inner Super-Earths
Creators: name: Masuda, Kento
name: Winn, Joshua N.
name: Kawahara, Hajime
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Previous analyses of Doppler and Kepler data have found that Sun-like stars hosting "cold Jupiters" (giant planets with $a\gtrsim 1\,\mathrm{AU}$) almost always host "inner super-Earths" (1-$4\,R_\oplus$, $a\lesssim1\,\mathrm{AU}$). Here, we attempt to determine the degree of alignment between the orbital planes of the cold Jupiters and the inner super-Earths. The key observational input is the fraction of Kepler stars with transiting super-Earths that also have transiting cold Jupiters. This fraction depends on both the probability for cold Jupiters to occur in such systems, and on the mutual orbital inclinations. Since the probability of occurrence has already been measured in Doppler surveys, we can use the data to constrain the dispersion of the mutual inclination distribution. We find $σ=11.8^{+12.7}_{-5.5}\,\mathrm{deg}$ (68% confidence) and $σ>3.5\,\mathrm{deg}$ (95% confidence), where $σ$ is the scale parameter of the Rayleigh distribution. This suggests that planetary orbits in systems with cold Jupiters tend to be coplanar - although not quite as coplanar as those in the Solar System, which have a mean inclination from the invariable plane of $1.8\,\mathrm{deg}$. We also find evidence that cold Jupiters have lower mutual inclinations relative to inner systems with higher transit multiplicity. This suggests a link between the dynamical excitation in the inner and outer systems. For example, perturbations from misaligned cold Jupiters may dynamically heat or destabilize systems of inner super-Earths.
description: accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal, 22 pages, 4 figures
Environmental Research Joint Ventures and Time-Consistent Emission Tax
Creators: name: Ouchida, Yasunori
name: Goto, Daisaku
name: Ouchida, Yasunori
name: Goto, Daisaku
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Environmental Research Joint Venture
subject: Environmental R&D
subject: Time-consistent Emission Tax
subject: Competition Policy
subject: Cournot Duopoly

description: This paper presents an examination of the socially efficient formation of environmental R&D in Cournot duopoly in a setting where a regulator has no precommitment ability for an emission tax. The results reveal that if the environmental damage is slight, alternatively, given severe environmental damage and large inefficiency in environmental R&D costs, then environmental research joint venture (ERJV) cartelization is socially efficient. However, if environmental damage is severe, and if a firm’s R&D costs are limited, then, in stark contrast to results of previous studies, environmental R&D competition is socially more efficient than the other three scenarios (i.e., environmental R&D cartelization, ERJV competition, and ERJV cartelization), although R&D competition is the case of “NO information sharing and NO R&D coordination.”
Spatial Data Monitoring and Mobile Applications – Comparison of Methods for Parsing JSON in Android Operating System
Creators: name: Masner, J.
name: Vaněk, J.
name: Stočes, M.
name: Masner, J.
name: Vaněk, J.
name: Stočes, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Android
subject: JSON
subject: data serialization
subject: InputStream
subject: XML
subject: Protocol Buffers
subject: Java
subject: spatial data
subject: Game Online

description: The paper generally addresses the issue of processing the JSON format for mobile devices on the Android operating system platform. Implementation has been tested and demonstrated using the processing of an extensive collection of spatial data generated from game movement monitoring (the Game Online application). The potential for use not only in the sphere of agriculture, rural development and environmental protection is in general practically unlimited, and with the growing number and availability of mobile devices the discussed issue gains further relevance. The ways of obtaining current data for the operation of the application are essential for the development of applications intended for mobile devices. As direct access to databases is not possible, it is necessary to transfer preselected data between the client and server using a suitable transfer format. This is catered for by data serialization, where one of the applied forms is the JSON format. Specifically, the paper compares methods of its parsing, i.e. transfer to objects, or, where applicable, collections, which may be utilised in the applications for further processing. The decisive factor here is namely the time which represents, in particular, the duration of the transfer proper.
Paryphoconus aemulus Macfie 1940
Creators: name: Torreias, S. R. S.
name: Ferreira-Keppler, R. L.
name: Ronderos, M. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Ceratopogonidae
Paryphoconus
Paryphoconus aemulus

description: Paryphoconus aemulus Macfie
 Paryphoconus aemulus Macfie, 1940: 180 (female; Guyana); Borkent and Spinelli, 2007: 97 (in Neotropical catalogue), Borkent, 2012: 167 (online catalogue).    Distribution
Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso), Guyana, Peru.   Material examined
 Brazil, Amazonas, Iranduba, Ilha da Marchantaria, Lago Camaleão, S. auriculata, 27 July 2010, Marino, Díaz and Torreias, 1 male (reared in laboratory, with pupal exuvia).    Comments
 The genus Paryphoconus is exclusively Neotropical (Borkent and Spinelli 2007). Their pupae are very poorly known, and the larvae are unknown. The genus is presently known by 41 species with 22 records throughout the Amazon region, of which 17 occur in the Brazilian Amazon, from Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará and Rondônia States (Borkent and Spinelli 2007; Mauad and Spinelli 2011). Recently, Ronderos et al. (2007a) recorded the occurrence of Paryphoconus oliveirai Lane within the Manaus city limits, the pupae of which were collected in polluted urban streams.
description: Published as part of Torreias, S. R. S., Ferreira-Keppler, R. L. & Ronderos, M. M., 2013, Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae: Diptera) present in aquatic macrophytes from wetlands of Marchantaria Island, Iranduba, Central Amazonia, Brazil, pp. 109-122 in Journal of Natural History 48 (1 - 2) on pages 116-117, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2013.791934, http://zenodo.org/record/5198735
Electronic structure of Au-Sn compounds grown on Au(111)
Creators: name: Sadhukhan, Pampa
name: Barman, Sajal
name: Roy, Tufan
name: Singh, Vipin Kumar
name: Sarkar, Shuvam
name: Chakrabarti, Aparna
name: Barman, Sudipta Roy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electronic structure of Au-Sn intermetallic layers of different compositions grown on Au(111) to the thickness of several nanometers has been studied in this work. The layer, interface and the substrate related components in the Au 4$f$ and Sn 4$d$ core-level spectra obtained using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) vary with deposition parameters to reveal the details of the Au-Sn formation. While AuSn is grown by deposition at room temperature, Au rich compounds form as a result of heat treatment through inter diffusion of Au and Sn. Deposition at high temperature forms more Au rich compositions compared to post annealing at the same temperature due to the kinetic energy of the impinging Sn atoms in the former case. Post annealing, on the other hand, stabilizes the bulk phases such as AuSn and Au$_5$Sn and exhibits an activated behavior for transition from the former to the latter with increasing temperature. The XPS valence band spectra of AuSn and Au$_{5}$Sn layers show good agreement with the density functional theory calculation, indicating that these have the bulk structure reported in literature. However, the influence of anti-site defects is observed in Au$_5$Sn. Low energy electron diffraction study reveals that although the AuSn layer is ordered, its top surface is disordered at room temperature. Surface order is obtained by annealing or deposition at elevated temperatures and dispersing bands are observed by angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Both electron-like and hole-like bands are evident for the ($\sqrt{3}$$\times$$\sqrt{3}$)R30$^{\circ}$ phase, while a nearly free electron-like parabolic surface state is observed for the p(3$\times$3)R15$^{\circ}$ phase.
description: Phys. Rev. B (in press); 38 pages, 14 figures and 1 table in main text and 3 figures and 5 tables in supplementary material
Dynamical resolution scale in transverse momentum distributions at the LHC
Creators: name: Hautmann, F.
name: Keersmaekers, L.
name: Lelek, A.
name: van Kampen, A. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The QCD evolution of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) distribution functions has recently been formulated in a parton branching (PB) formalism. In this approach, soft-gluon coherence effects are taken into account by introducing the soft-gluon resolution scale and exploiting the relation between transverse-momentum recoils and branching scales. In this work we investigate the implications of dynamical, i.e., branching scale dependent, resolution scales. We present both analytical studies and numerical solution of PB evolution equations in the presence of dynamical resolution scales. We use this to compare PB results with other approaches in the literature, and to analyze predictions for transverse momentum distributions in $Z$-boson production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
description: 16 pages, 7 figures
Formal symplectic groupoid
Creators: name: Cattaneo, Alberto S.
name: Dherin, Benoit
name: Felder, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The multiplicative structure of the trivial symplectic groupoid over $\mathbb R^d$ associated to the zero Poisson structure can be expressed in terms of a generating function. We address the problem of deforming such a generating function in the direction of a non-trivial Poisson structure so that the multiplication remains associative. We prove that such a deformation is unique under some reasonable conditions and we give the explicit formula for it. This formula turns out to be the semi-classical approximation of Kontsevich's deformation formula. For the case of a linear Poisson structure, the deformed generating function reduces exactly to the CBH formula of the associated Lie algebra. The methods used to prove existence are interesting in their own right as they come from an at first sight unrelated domain of mathematics: the Runge--Kutta theory of the numeric integration of ODE's.
description: 28 pages, 4 figures
Vertex diagrams for the QED form factors at the 2-loop level
Creators: name: Bonciani, R.
name: Mastrolia, P.
name: Remiddi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out a systematic investigation of all the 2-loop integrals occurring in the electron vertex in QED in the continuous $D$-dimensional regularization scheme, for on-shell electrons, momentum transfer $t=-Q^2$ and finite squared electron mass $m_e^2=a$. We identify all the Master Integrals (MI's) of the problem and write the differential equations in $Q^2$ which they satisfy. The equations are expanded in powers of $ε= (4-D)/2$ and solved by the Euler's method of the variation of the constants. As a result, we obtain the coefficients of the Laurent expansion in $ε$ of the MI's up to zeroth order expressed in close analytic form in terms of Harmonic Polylogarithms.
description: A few misprints have been corrected. The results are now available at http://pheno.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~bhabha, as FORM input files