cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Malicious Package Detection using Metadata Information
Creators: name: Halder, S.
name: Bewong, M.
name: Mahboubi, A.
name: Jiang, Y.
name: Islam, R.
name: Islam, Z.
name: Ip, R.
name: Ahmed, E.
name: Ramachandran, G.
name: Babar, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Protecting software supply chains from malicious packages is paramount in the evolving landscape of software development. Attacks on the software supply chain involve attackers injecting harmful software into commonly used packages or libraries in a software repository. For instance, JavaScript uses Node Package Manager (NPM), and Python uses Python Package Index (PyPi) as their respective package repositories. In the past, NPM has had vulnerabilities such as the event-stream incident, where a malicious package was introduced into a popular NPM package, potentially impacting a wide range of projects. As the integration of third-party packages becomes increasingly ubiquitous in modern software development, accelerating the creation and deployment of applications, the need for a robust detection mechanism has become critical. On the other hand, due to the sheer volume of new packages being released daily, the task of identifying malicious packages presents a significant challenge. To address this issue, in this paper, we introduce a metadata-based malicious package detection model, MeMPtec. This model extracts a set of features from package metadata information. These extracted features are classified as either easy-to-manipulate (ETM) or difficult-to-manipulate (DTM) features based on monotonicity and restricted control properties. By utilising these metadata features, not only do we improve the effectiveness of detecting malicious packages, but also we demonstrate its resistance to adversarial attacks in comparison with existing state-of-the-art. Our experiments indicate a significant reduction in both false positives (up to 97.56%) and false negatives (up to 91.86%).
Bounded and Almost Periodic Solvability of Nonautonomous Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems
Creators: name: Kmit, Irina
name: Recke, Lutz
name: Tkachenko, Viktor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The paper concerns boundary value problems for general nonautonomous first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems in a strip. We construct small global classical solutions, assuming that the right hand sides are small. In the case that all data of the quasilinear problem are almost periodic, we prove that the bounded solution is also almost periodic. For the nonhomogeneous version of a linearized problem, we provide stable dissipativity conditions ensuring a unique bounded continuous solution for any smooth right-hand sides. In the autonomous case, this solution is two times continuously differentiable. In the nonautonomous case, the continuous solution is differentiable under additional dissipativity conditions, which are essential. A crucial ingredient of our approach is a perturbation theorem for general linear hyperbolic systems. One of the technical complications we overcome is the "loss of smoothness" property of hyperbolic PDEs.
description: Final version, to appear in Journal of Evolution Equations
Does the Current Sugar Market Structure Benefit Consumers and Sugarcane Growers?
Creators: name: Chisanga, Brian
name: Meyer, Ferdinand H.
name: Winter-Nelson, Alex
name: Sitko, Nicholas J.
name: Chisanga, Brian
name: Meyer, Ferdinand H.
name: Winter-Nelson, Alex
name: Sitko, Nicholas J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Sugercane

description: Over the years, the sugar sector has experienced tremendous growth which has been driven by increased Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). According to the United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO 2013), raw sugar production rose from 135,000 tons in 1990 to 430,500 tons by 2012, while exports grew from less than a thousand tons to 273,000 tons over the same period FAO 2013). While increased investments have generated growth, they have also tended to create market structures in which a single multinational is dominant. This concentration raises concerns about the functioning of these increasingly important markets and the efficiency and equity implications.
Producing Bose condensates using optical lattices
Creators: name: Olshanii, Maxim
name: Weiss, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We relate the entropies of ensembles of atoms in optical lattices to atoms in simple traps. We then determine which ensembles of lattice-bound atoms will adiabatically transform into a Bose condensate. This shows a feasible approach to Bose condensation without evaporative cooling.
description: RevTeX, 5 pages, 5 eps-figures
GeV Emission from TeV Blazars and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields
Creators: name: Dai, Z. G.
name: Zhang, B.
name: Gou, L. J.
name: Meszaros, P.
name: Waxman, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects such as Mrk 501 are strong TeV emitters. However, a significant fraction of the TeV gamma rays emitted are likely to be absorbed in interactions with the diffuse IR background, yielding electron-positron pairs. Hence, the observed TeV spectrum must be steeper than the intrinsic one. Using the recently derived intrinsic $γ$-ray spectrum of Mrk 501 during its 1997 high state, we study the inverse-Compton scattering of cosmic microwave photons by the resulting electron-positron pairs, which implies the existence of a hitherto undiscovered GeV emission. The typical duration of the GeV emission is determined by the flaring activity time and the energy-dependent magnetic deflection time. We numerically calculate the scattered photon spectrum for different intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) strengths, and find a spectral turnover and flare duration at GeV energies which are dependent on the field strength. We also estimate the scattered photon flux in the quiescent state of Mrk 501. The GeV flux levels predicted are consistent with existing EGRET upper limits, and should be detectable above the synchrotron -- self Compton (SSC) component with the {\em Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope} ({\em GLAST}) for IGMFs $\lesssim 10^{-16}$ G, as expected in voids. Such detections would provide constraints on the strength of weak IGMFs.
description: ApJL in press, expanded version with one extra figure
Gallium-Boron-Phosphide (GaBP$_2$): A New III-V Semiconductor for photovoltaics
Creators: name: Kumar, Upendra
name: Nayak, Sanjay
name: Chakrabarty, Soubhik
name: Bhattacharjee, Satadeep
name: Lee, Seung-Cheol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using machine learning (ML) approach, we unearthed a new III-V semiconducting material having an optimal bandgap for high efficient photovoltaics with the chemical composition of Gallium-Boron-Phosphide(GaBP$_2$, space group: Pna2$_1$). ML predictions are further validated by state of the art ab-initio density functional theory (DFT) simulations. The stoichiometric Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof (HSE) bandgap of GaBP$_2$ is noted to 1.65 eV, a close ideal value (1.4-1.5 eV) to reach the theoretical Queisser-Shockley limit. The calculated electron mobility is similar to that of silicon. Unlike perovskites, the newly discovered material is thermally, dynamically and mechanically stable. Above all the chemical composition of GaBP$_2$ are non-toxic and relatively earth-abundant, making it a new generation of PV material. Using ML, we show that with a minimal set of features the bandgap of III-III-V and II-IV-V semiconductor can be predicted up to an RMSE of less than 0.4 eV. We presented a set of scaling laws, which can be used to estimate the bandgap of new III-III-V and II-IV-V semiconductor, with three different crystal phases, within an RMSE of approx. 0.5 eV.
Competencies and training of radiographers and technologists for PET/MR imaging - a study from the UK MR-PET network
Creators: name: Mada, Marius Ovidiu
name: Hindmarch, Paula
name: Stirling, James
name: Davies, James
name: Brian, David
name: Barnes, Anna
name: Hammers, Alexander
name: Gulliver, Nick
name: Herholz, Karl
name: O’Brien, John
name: Taylor, John-Paul
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Original Article
Technical Aspects of Hybrid Imaging
PET/MRI
Training
Competencies
Radiographers
Nuclear medicine technologists
Hybrid imaging practitioner

description: Abstract: Background: After the success of PET/CT as a clinical diagnostic tool, the introduction of PET/MRI is a natural development aimed at further improving combined diagnostic imaging and reduced ionising radiation dose for half-body imaging. As with PET and CT, the combination of PET and MRI presents a series of issues that need to be addressed regarding workforce training and education. At present, there is a lack of agreement over the competencies, training requirements and educational pathways needed for PET/MRI operation. In the UK, following the establishment of the MR-PET imaging network, a task force was created to investigate the status of the workforce training, identify gaps and make recommendations regarding staff training. To do this, we ran a national survey on the status of the workforce training and the local practices across the UK’s seven PET/MRI sites, reviewed the literature, and convened a panel of experts, to assess all the evidence and make recommendations regarding PET/MRI competencies and training of nuclear medicine technologists and radiographers. Results: There is limited literature available specifically on competencies and training for technologists and radiographers. The recommendations on the topic needed revisiting and adapting to the UK MR-PET network. The online survey confirmed the need for developing PET/MRI competencies and training pathways. Local organisational structures and practices were shared across the seven sites, based on models derived from experience outside the UK. The panel of experts agreed on the need for PET/MRI competencies and training strategies. Professional organisations started collaborative discussions with partners from both Nuclear Medicine and Radiography to set training priorities. Multidisciplinary collaboration and partnership were suggested as a key to a successful implementation of competencies and training. Conclusions: The report identified the need for establishing competencies for the PET/MRI workforce, particularly for technologists and radiographers. It also helped defining these competencies as well as identifying the demand for bespoke training and the development of local and national courses to be implemented to fulfil this new training need.
Hole-doped, High-Temperature Superconductors Li_{x}BC, Na_{x}BC and C_{x} : A Coherent-Potential-Based Prediction
Creators: name: Singh, Prabhakar P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using density-functional-based methods, we show that the hole-doped Li_{x}BC and Na_{x}BC in P6_{3}/mmc crystal structure and C_{x} in graphite structure are capable of showing superconductivity, possibly with a T_{c} much higher than that of MgB_{2}. We use full-potential methods to obtain the optimized lattice constants a and c, coherent-potential approximation to describe the effects of disorder, Gaspari-Gyorffy formalism to obtain the electron-phonon coupling constant $λ$, and Allen-Dynes equation to calculate T_{c} as a function of hole concentration in these alloys.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
The T-domain and extreme matter phases inside spherically symmetric black holes
Creators: name: DeBenedictis, A.
name: Aruliah, D.
name: Das, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Black hole interiors (the $T$-domain) are studied here in great detail. Both the {\em general} and particular $T$-domain solutions are presented including non-singular ones. Infinitely many local $T$-domain solutions may be modeled with this scheme. The duality between the $T$ and $R$ domains is presented. It is demonstrated how generally well behaved $R$-domain solutions will give rise to exotic phases of matter when collapsed inside the event horizon. However, as seen by an external observer, the field is simply that of the Schwarzschild vacuum with well behaved mass term and no evidence of this behaviour may be observed. A singularity theorem is also presented which is independent of energy conditions.
description: 24 pages, 1 figure. References added, some minor additions when discussing general solution. Accepted for publication in General Relativity and Gravitation
Allocypria Rome 1962
Creators: name: Karanovic, Ivana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Candonidae
Allocypria

description: Key to species of the genus Allocypria Rome, 1962.
1 Postero-ventral margin of carapace pointed................................................................. 2
- Postero-ventral margin of the carapace rounded.............................................................. 3
 2 In lateral view posterior margin evenly rounded......................................... A. mucronata Rome, 1962
 - In lateral view posterior margin bulging.............................................. A. claviformis (Sars, 1010)
 3 Claws on the endites of Mxl smooth................................................... A. aberrans Rome, 1962
 - Claws on the endites of Mxl strongly serrated............................................ A. navicula Rome, 1962
description: Published as part of Karanovic, Ivana, 2011, On the recent Cyclocypridinae (Podocopida, Candonidae) with description of two new genera and one new species 2820, pp. 1-61 in Zootaxa 2820 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2820.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5288957
Generating high quality ultra-relativistic electron beams using an evolving electron beam driver
Creators: name: Dalichaouch, Thamine
name: Xu, Xinlu
name: Li, Fei
name: Tableman, Adam
name: Tsung, Frank
name: An, Weiming
name: Mori, Warren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new method of controllable injection to generate high quality electron bunches in the nonlinear blowout regime driven by electron beams is proposed and demonstrated using particle-in-cell simulations. Injection is facilitated by decreasing the wake phase velocity through varying the spot size of the drive beam and can be tuned through the Courant-Snyder (CS) parameters. Two regimes are examined. In the first, the spot size is focused according to the vacuum CS beta function, while in the second, it is focused by the plasma ion column. The effects of the driver intensity and vacuum CS parameters on the wake velocity and injected beam parameters are examined via theory and simulations. For plasma densities of $\sim 10^{19} ~\text{cm}^{-3}$, particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations demonstrate that peak normalized brightnesses $\gtrsim 10^{20}~\text{A}/\text{m}^2/\text{rad}^2$ can be obtained with projected energy spreads of $\lesssim 1\%$ within the middle section of the injected beam, and with normalized slice emittances as low as $\sim 10 ~\text{nm}$.
description: 5 pages 4 figures
Simple models of small world networks with directed links
Creators: name: Ramezanpour, A.
name: Karimipour, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of directed short and long range connections in a simple model of small world network. Our model is such that we can determine many quantities of interest by an exact analytical method. We calculate the function $V(T)$, defined as the number of sites affected up to time $T$ when a naive spreading process starts in the network. As opposed to shortcuts, the presence of un-favorable bonds has a negative effect on this quantity. Hence the spreading process may not be able to affect all the network. We define and calculate a quantity named the average size of accessible world in our model. The interplay of shortcuts, and un-favorable bonds on the small world properties is studied.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures, published version
Point OutWords: protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial of a motor skills intervention to promote communicative development in non-verbal children with autism
Creators: name: McKinney, Ailbhe
name: Hotson, Kathryn L.
name: Rybicki, Alicia
name: Weisblatt, Emma J. L.
name: Días, Claudia
name: Foster, Juliet
name: Villar, Sofía S.
name: Murphy, Suzanne
name: Belmonte, Matthew K.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Study Protocol
Autism spectrum disorder
Minimally verbal
Non-verbal
Motor
Language
Communication
iPad
Feasibility
Randomised controlled trial

description: Abstract: Background: Point OutWords is a caregiver-delivered, iPad-assisted intervention for non-verbal or minimally verbal children with autism. It aims to develop prerequisite skills for communication such as manual and oral motor skills, sequencing, and symbolic representation. This feasibility trial aims to determine the viability of evaluating the clinical efficacy of Point OutWords. Methodology: We aim to recruit 46 non-verbal or minimally verbal children with autism and their families, approximately 23 per arm. Children in the intervention group will use Point OutWords for half an hour, five times a week, for 8 weeks. Children in the control group will have equal caregiver-led contact time with the iPad using a selection of control apps (e.g. sensory apps, drawing apps). Communication, motor, and daily living skills are assessed at baseline and post-intervention. Parents will keep diaries during the intervention period and will take part in focus groups when the intervention is completed. Discussion: Point OutWords was developed in collaboration with children with autism and their caregivers, to provide an intervention for a subgroup of autism that has been historically underserved. As autism is a heterogeneous condition, it is unlikely that one style of intervention will address all aspects of its symptomatology; the motor skills approach of Point OutWords can complement other therapies that address core autistic symptoms of social cognition and communication more directly. The current feasibility trial can inform the selection of outcome measures and design for future full-scale randomised controlled trials of Point OutWords and of other early interventions in autism. Trial registration: ISRCTN, ISRCTN12808402. Prospectively registered on 12 March 2019.
Service Quality and Its Impact on the Farmer Productivity in the Other Export Crop Sector: A Case Study of Ukuwela Agrarian Service Division
Creators: name: Abeyrathne, A.H.M.S.W.B.
name: Kodithuwakku, Sarath S.
name: Abeyrathne, A.H.M.S.W.B.
name: Kodithuwakku, Sarath S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management
Productivity Analysis

description: he Other Export Crops sector of Sri Lanka has been growing over the past few years. The objective of this study was to identify and analyze the interfaces of the supply chain of services provided to the other export crop industry in order to find out the effects of service quality on farmer productivity. The study was conducted in the Ukuwela Agrarian Service Division. Service quality was measured based on the Serve-qual model. Data was collected through both primary and secondary sources. Primary data was collected through in-depth interviews, structured questionnaires and stakeholder analysis of both service providers and recipients. Interfaces of the supply chain were defined based on the gap between the actual and anticipated service quality levels and experienced service quality level. Nine interfaces were defined. As far as the overall service quality is concerned, five interfaces were moderately satisfactory, two were average and another two problematic. None of the interfaces were highly satisfactory. However a positive relationship was not found between the service quality gap and the farmer productivity, whereas experienced level of service was positively related with farmer productivity.
Domain-specific Word2vec-based trained models - Chem300, Phys300, MatSci200, MatSci300, and Mixed300
Creators: name: Radakovic, Jana
name: Batalovic, Katarina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 510403
subject: Condensed matter modelling and density functional theory
classificationCode: 510499
subject: Condensed matter physics not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 460208
subject: Natural language processing
classificationCode: 460502
subject: Data mining and knowledge discovery
classificationCode: 461199
subject: Machine learning not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 510406
subject: Structural properties of condensed matter
classificationCode: 340309
subject: Theory and design of materials
classificationCode: 340307
subject: Structure and dynamics of materials
classificationCode: 340305
subject: Physical properties of materials
classificationCode: 340404
subject: Cheminformatics and quantitative structure-activity relationships

description: The repository contains materials science, chemistry, and physics-specialized unsupervised trained models. Word embeddings are generated by means of the Word2vec, a natural language processing technique comprised of language model architectures for fast and efficient learning of distributed representations of words. Continuous Skip-gram model architecture with a negative sampling strategy, as implemented in the Gensim library, is employed for model training. The word embeddings consisting of 200 and 300 vectorial components for materials science and 300 vectorial components for chemistry, physics, and mixed domain are here provided.
MOESM4 of Reduced levels of two modifiers of epigenetic gene silencing, Dnmt3a and Trim28, cause increased phenotypic noise
Creators: name: Whitelaw, Nadia
name: Suyinn Chong
name: Morgan, Daniel
name: Nestor, Colm
name: Bruxner, Timothy
name: Ashe, Alyson
name: Lambley, Eleanore
name: Meehan, Richard
name: Whitelaw, Emma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biochemistry
Molecular Biology
Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 4: Figure S2. No correlation between body weight and open field activity. The body weights of 10 Trim28+/+ mice and 14 Trim28MommeD9/+ mice were plotted against their activity in an open field test (Squares). (PDF 5 KB)
Bifurcations of an elastic disc coated with an elastic inextensible rod
Creators: name: Gaibotti, Matteo
name: Mogilevskaya, Sonia G.
name: Piccolroaz, Andrea
name: Bigoni, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An analytical solution is derived for the bifurcations of an elastic disc that is constrained on the boundary with an isoperimetric Cosserat coating. The latter is treated as an elastic circular rod, either perfectly or partially bonded (with a slip interface in the latter case) and is subjected to three different types of uniformly distributed radial loads (including hydrostatic pressure). The proposed solution technique employs complex potentials to treat the disc's interior and incremental Lagrangian equations to describe the prestressed elastic rod modelling the coating. The bifurcations of the disc occur with modes characterized by different circumferential wavenumbers, ranging between ovalization and high-order waviness, as a function of the ratio between the elastic stiffness of the disc and the bending stiffness of its coating. The presented results find applications in various fields, such as coated fibres, mechanical rollers, and the growth and morphogenesis of plants and fruits.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures
MOESM6 of Reduced levels of two modifiers of epigenetic gene silencing, Dnmt3a and Trim28, cause increased phenotypic noise
Creators: name: Whitelaw, Nadia
name: Suyinn Chong
name: Morgan, Daniel
name: Nestor, Colm
name: Bruxner, Timothy
name: Ashe, Alyson
name: Lambley, Eleanore
name: Meehan, Richard
name: Whitelaw, Emma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Authorsâ original file for figure 2
Food Demand Patterns in Tanzania: A Censored Regression Analysis of Microdata
Creators: name: Weliwita, Ananda
name: Nyange, David
name: Tsujii, Hiroshi
name: Weliwita, Ananda
name: Nyange, David
name: Tsujii, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Food Security and Poverty
Productivity Analysis
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This paper estimates price and food expenditure elasticities of demand for twelve food groups in Tanzania by applying the linearized Almost Ideal Demand system to the latest household survey data. In estimation, particular attention is paid to the presence of zero expenditure and the effects of demographic characteristics on food demand patterns. The results indicate that maize, rice, other cereals, pulses, sugar, edible oils, fish, starch, fruits and vegetables, meat, and other foods are price inelastic while milk and dairy products have unitary elasticity of demand. Most of the food groups are income elastic. The results also reveal that household income and family size have significant effects on food demand patterns. Main policy implications of the results include inter alia (a) income oriented policies will have a greater effect on promoting food consumption than price related policies, (2) a significant price decline associated with increased production of maize and rice will benefit a majority of households since the two commodities have high budget shares and low own-price elasticities of demand, and (3) meat was found to be inelastic with respect to the expenditure on food.
MOESM7 of Reduced levels of two modifiers of epigenetic gene silencing, Dnmt3a and Trim28, cause increased phenotypic noise
Creators: name: Whitelaw, Nadia
name: Suyinn Chong
name: Morgan, Daniel
name: Nestor, Colm
name: Bruxner, Timothy
name: Ashe, Alyson
name: Lambley, Eleanore
name: Meehan, Richard
name: Whitelaw, Emma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Authorsâ original file for figure 3
Impact of Nutritional Labeling on Consumer Buying Behavior
Creators: name: Prathiraja, P.H.K.
name: Ariyawardana, A.
name: Prathiraja, P.H.K.
name: Ariyawardana, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Nutritional label plays an important role in providing the relevant nutrition information to consumers. Inclusion of a nutritional label on food items may be an important packaging decision for the Sri Lankan food processors. Hence, a study was conducted with a view of identifying the market for nutritional labeling and the factors that influence the consumer willingness-to-pay for nutritional labeling. Data were collected from a random sample of 90 consumers selected from three supermarkets - Dhanasiri, Cargill’s Food City and Royal Garden Mall - located in Kandy. Market for nutritional labeling were identified by exploring data and a logit method of analysis was performed to identify the factors that influence the willingness-to-pay for nutritional information on food items. A significantly greater proportion of individuals in the age category 36 to 50 years, individuals with tertiary education, individuals with special dietary status and households with less than four members were willing to pay more for the nutritional labels. Logit analysis showed that gender, level of education and special dietary status have a significant positive effect and the household size has a significant negative effect on the willingness to pay for nutrition information. Accordingly, it could be stated that incorporation of a nutritional panel in the package would enhance the demand for food products and it would be an appropriate strategic task for the local food processors.
Efficient Quantum State Tomography for Quantum Information Processing using a two-dimensional Fourier Transform Technique
Creators: name: Das, Ranabir
name: Mahesh, T. S.
name: Kumar, Anil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new method of quantum state tomography for quantum information processing is described. The method based on two-dimensional Fourier transform technique involves detection of all the off-diagonal elements of the density matrix in a two-dimensional experiment. All the diagonal elements are detected in another one-dimensional experiment. The method is efficient and applicable to a wide range of spin systems. The proposed method is explained using a 2 qubit system and demonstrated by tomographing arbitrary complex density matrices of 2 and 4 qubit systems using simulations.
description: 11 pages and 2 figures
The Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz on Maximum k-Vertex Cover
Creators: name: Cook, Jeremy
name: Eidenbenz, Stephan
name: Bärtschi, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz is a generalization of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) designed for finding approximate solutions to combinatorial optimization problems with hard constraints. In this paper, we study Maximum $k$-Vertex Cover under this ansatz due to its modest complexity, while still being more complex than the well studied problems of Max-Cut and Max E3-LIN2. Our approach includes (i) a performance comparison between easy-to-prepare classical states and Dicke states as starting states, (ii) a performance comparison between two $XY$-Hamiltonian mixing operators: the ring mixer and the complete graph mixer, (iii) an analysis of the distribution of solutions via Monte Carlo sampling, and (iv) the exploration of efficient angle selection strategies. Our results are: (i) Dicke states improve performance compared to easy-to-prepare classical states, (ii) an upper bound on the simulation of the complete graph mixer, (iii) the complete graph mixer improves performance relative to the ring mixer, (iv) numerical results indicating the standard deviation of the distribution of solutions decreases exponentially in $p$ (the number of rounds in the algorithm), requiring an exponential number of random samples to find a better solution in the next round, and (v) a correlation of angle parameters which exhibit high quality solutions that behave similarly to a discretized version of the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm.
MOESM5 of Reduced levels of two modifiers of epigenetic gene silencing, Dnmt3a and Trim28, cause increased phenotypic noise
Creators: name: Whitelaw, Nadia
name: Suyinn Chong
name: Morgan, Daniel
name: Nestor, Colm
name: Bruxner, Timothy
name: Ashe, Alyson
name: Lambley, Eleanore
name: Meehan, Richard
name: Whitelaw, Emma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Authorsâ original file for figure 1
ERO R1 in CL0939+4713 field - Evidence for an S0-like galaxy at z \sim 1.5
Creators: name: Iye, Masanori
name: Shimasaku, Kazuhiro
name: Miyazaki, Satoshi
name: Imanishi, Masatoshi
name: Kashikawa, Nobunari
name: Kodama, Tadayuki
name: Chiba, Masashi
name: Saito, Yoshihiko
name: Goto, Miwa
name: Iwamuro, Fumihide
name: Kobayashi, Naoto
name: Okamura, Sadanori
name: Simpson, Chris
name: Terada, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present further observations of the extremely red object ERO J094258+4659.2, identified by \citet{iye00} as ERO R1 in their deep images of the cluster A851. We estimate its redshift independently by eight-band photometric redshift determination and cross-correlation of a new H-band spectrum with the optical spectra of local E/S0 galaxies, and conclude that it lies at $z \sim 1.5$. Although its colors are consistent both with an elliptical galaxy and an S0 galaxy at that redshift, its elongated shape and exponential luminosity profile suggest the presence of an evolved stellar disk component. We rule out the possibility that these properties are strongly influenced by gravitational lensing by the foreground cluster, and therefore conclude that this object is more likely to be an S0-like galaxy, rather than a lensed elliptical. The H-band spectrum does not show strong H$α$ emission and the star formation rate therefore appears to be very modest. The presence of such a galaxy with an apparently relaxed disk of stars at this high redshift provides a new and strong constraint on theoretical models which aim to explain the formation and evolution of galaxies.
description: 23 pages, 9 figures, Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal
Effectiveness of Globalization: A Case Study of Fiji
Creators: name: Gounder, Rukmani
name: Gounder, Rukmani
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: Productivity Analysis
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This paper examines the effectiveness of globalization in the case of Fiji. The paper employs simulation methodology and the dynamic multiplier analysis, using a two-sector model, to evaluate the effects of capital flows on economic growth. First, the short run (impact multiplier) and the long run multipliers are calculated for seven endogenous variables with respect to nine exogenous variables. Second, the counterfactual simulation analysis tests how the interactions under alternative assumptions between foreign direct investment (FDI) and aid flows determine the effectiveness of globalization. The results show that aid increases government investment while FDI increases private investment. Also FDI has a larger impact on savings and imports; however exports do not change with either of the exogenous variables. Overall, under the alternative assumptions, as military coups caused political and economic instability economic growth does not differ from ‘no policy change’ from an increase in FDI or foreign aid flow.
Keysercypria Karanovic 2011, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Karanovic, Ivana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Candonidae
Keysercypria

description: Key to species of the genus Keysercypria gen. nov.
1 Tubercles on RV barely visible or absent................................................................... 2
- Tubercules clearly visible............................................................................... 4
 2 Posterior seta on UR exceeding distal margin.............................................. K. obtusa (Klie, 1940)
- Posterior seta on UR shorter............................................................................. 3
 3 LV with postero-ventral margin strongly curved (looking like elevated)............... K. circinata (Würdig & Pinto, 1993)
 - LV with flat postero-ventral margin.................................................... K. pellucida (Sars, 1901)
4 Posterior seta on the UR reaching half way to the distal margin of the ramus....................................... 5
- Posterior seta on the UR reaching or exceeding distal margin of the ramus......................................... 6
 5 Anterior claw on UR distally prominently curved, almost loop-like........................... K. deformis (Klie, 1940)
 - Anterior claw on UR distally not so prominently curved................................ K. xanabanica (Furtos, 1936)
 6 Lobe “a” on the hemipenis completely reduced................................... K. sanctaeannae (Margalef, 1961)
- Lobe “a” on the hemipenis not reduced.................................................................... 7
 7 Dorsal margin of right prehensile palp with a little horn-shaped process........................ K. longiseta (Klie, 1930)
 - Dorsal margin of right prehensile palp with clear “angular” appearance.......................... K. affinis (Klie, 1933)
description: Published as part of Karanovic, Ivana, 2011, On the recent Cyclocypridinae (Podocopida, Candonidae) with description of two new genera and one new species 2820, pp. 1-61 in Zootaxa 2820 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2820.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5288957
Supplying China’s Growing Appetite for Poultry
Creators: name: Xie, Chaoping
name: Marchant, Mary A.
name: Xie, Chaoping
name: Marchant, Mary A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: China
subject: poultry
subject: exports
subject: food safety
subject: trade barriers

description: Exports provide a valuable source of income for the U.S. poultry sector, where the U.S. is the world’s second largest broiler meat exporter. Russia, a top market for U.S. broilers, recently declared a one year ban on U.S. agricultural products. To fill this void, China, the United States’ leading agricultural trading partner, could be considered as an expanding market for the U.S. poultry industry. In this paper, we explore the potential for U.S. poultry export opportunities by examining China’s demand, supply, food safety and trade barriers which affect poultry trade between the two countries. Results indicate that although China may not experience rapid growth in U.S. poultry exports in the short run as it meets Chinese consumers’ demand, but that market opportunities exist in the long run as China confronts its supply constraints.
description: The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. www.ifama.org
Bose-Einstein Condensation on inhomogeneous complex networks
Creators: name: Burioni, R.
name: Cassi, D.
name: Rasetti, M.
name: Sodano, P.
name: Vezzani, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermodynamic properties of non interacting bosons on a complex network can be strongly affected by topological inhomogeneities. The latter give rise to anomalies in the density of states that can induce Bose-Einstein condensation in low dimensional systems also in absence of external confining potentials. The anomalies consist in energy regions composed of an infinite number of states with vanishing weight in the thermodynamic limit. We present a rigorous result providing the general conditions for the occurrence of Bose-Einstein condensation on complex networks in presence of anomalous spectral regions in the density of states. We present results on spectral properties for a wide class of graphs where the theorem applies. We study in detail an explicit geometrical realization, the comb lattice, which embodies all the relevant features of this effect and which can be experimentally implemented as an array of Josephson Junctions.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures
Can we live in a self-tuning universe?
Creators: name: Carroll, Sean M.
name: Mersini, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The self-tuning brane scenario is an attempt to solve the cosmological constant problem in the context of extra dimensions. Rather than making the vacuum energy small, this approach proceeds by removing the gravitational effect of vacuum energy on the expansion of the universe. Such behavior is only possible through changing the Friedmann equation of conventional cosmology, and we discuss difficulties in obtaining cosmological evolution compatible with observation in this context. Specific models considered include a bulk scalar field coupling to the brane via a conformal transformation of the brane metric, and via a rescaling of the brane volume element.
Effects of Rising Feed and Labor Costs on China’s Chicken Price
Creators: name: Gale, Fred
name: Arnade, Carlos
name: Gale, Fred
name: Arnade, Carlos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: poultry
subject: chicken
subject: feed
subject: price
subject: import
subject: export
subject: production costs

description: China’s poultry production and consumption are growing rapidly, but rising input costs could slow its development. Increases in corn and soybean prices and wages are partially transmitted to rising retail chicken prices in China. Corn and soybean meal appear to be substitutes, and corn prices have a stronger impact on chicken prices than does the price of soybean meal. Modest technical change impacts partly offset the effect of rising input prices. Rising grain prices and wages, reinforced by Chinese currency appreciation, are eroding the international competitiveness of the Chinese poultry industry
description: The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review is published quarterly by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. www.ifama.org
Anderson localization induced by complex potential
Creators: name: Wang, R.
name: Zhang, K. L.
name: Song, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Uncorrelated disorder potential in one-dimensional lattice definitely induces Anderson localization, while quasiperiodic potential can lead to both localized and extended phases, depending on the potential strength. We investigate the Anderson localization in one-dimensional lattice with nonHermitian complex disorder and quasiperiodic potential. We present a non-Hermitian SSH chain to demonstrate that a nonzero imaginary disorder on-site potential can induce the standard Anderson localization. We also show that the non-Hermitian Aubry-Andre (AA) model exhibits a transition in parameter space, which separates the localization and delocalization phases and is determined by the self-duality of the model. It indicates that a pure imaginary quasiperiodic potential takes the same role as a real quasiperiodic potential in the transition point between localization and delocalization. Remarkably, a system with complex quasiperiodic potential exhibits interference-like pattern on the transition points.
Dynamics of Saturn's Polar Regions
Creators: name: Antuñano, A.
name: del Río-Gaztelurrutia, T.
name: Sánchez-Lavega, A.
name: Hueso, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze data retrieved by the Imaging Science System onboard the Cassini spacecraft to study the horizontal velocity and vorticity fields of Saturn's Polar Regions (latitudes 60-90$^\circ$N in June-December 2013 and 60-90$^\circ$S in October 2006 and July-December 2008), including the Northern region where the hexagonal wave is prominent. With the aid of an automated two dimensional correlation algorithm we determine two-dimensional maps of zonal and meridional winds, and deduce vorticity maps. We extract zonal averages of zonal winds, providing wind profiles that reach latitudes as high 89.5$^\circ$ in the south and 89.9$^\circ$ in the north. Wind measurements cover the intense polar cyclonic vortices that reach similar peak velocities of 150 ms-1 at 88.5$^\circ$. The hexagonal wave lies in the core of an intense eastward jet at planetocentric latitude 75.8$^\circ$N with motions that become non-zonal at the hexagonal feature. In the south hemisphere the peak of the eastward jet is located at planetocentric latitude 70.4$^\circ$S. A large anticyclone (the South Polar Spot, SPS), similar to the North Polar Spot (NPS) observed at the Voyager times (1980-81), has been observed in images from April 2008 to January 2009 in the South Polar Region at latitude -66.1$^\circ$ close to the eastward jet. The SPS does not apparently excite a wave on the jet. We analyze the stability of the zonal jets, finding potential instabilities at the flanks of the eastward jets around 70$^\circ$ and we measure the eddy wind components, suggesting momentum transfer from eddy motion to the westward jets closer to the poles.
LET-365: Regional Civil Engineer Letter to VAFB re Historic Preservation Tasks and Documents for Peacekeeper Rail Garrison (Your Ltr, 21 Apr 88)
Creators: name: Walsh, Peter
Publisher: name: Environmental Planning Division, Department of the Air Force, Regional Civil Engineer - Ballistic Missile Support (AFESC)
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Santa Barbara (County)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/3486/santa-barbara-county
subject: Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/85584/vandenberg-space-force-base-vsfb
subject: California (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/1484/california-state-territory

description: This document is a letter from Environmental Management at Vandenberg Air Force Base to the Regional Civil Engineer regarding the historic preservation tasks and documents related to the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Facilities project. The letter confirms that AFRCE-BMS and its environmental consultant will prepare the nomination package for the archaeological district at San Antonio Terrace. The letter states that the nomination package will include results of testing and data recovery and will not be completed until early 1989. The remainder of the documents provides comments associated with Attachment 4 of a previously referenced document.