cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Estimating the Recreational Value of Marine Protected Area in Northern Philippines in Support to Coastal Management and Rural Transformation
Creators: name: Ballad, Emma Legaspi
name: Shinbo, Teruyuki
name: Morooka, Woshinori
name: Morales, Milagros
name: Ballad, Emma Legaspi
name: Shinbo, Teruyuki
name: Morooka, Woshinori
name: Morales, Milagros
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: contingent behavior
subject: coastal resource management
subject: marine protected area
subject: northern Philippines
subject: travel cost method

description: Aside from its biodiversity conservation and fishery sustainability purposes, Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) opened tourism and recreational opportunities which brought economic benefits of the stakeholders. To contribute to the recreational value information for policy implications towards sustainable management and rural transformation, this study calculated the welfare estimates of local visitors in Palaui Island Protected Landscape and Seascape (PIPLS) located in northern Philippines. The travel cost method (TCM) was used to evaluate the economic use values of the PIPLS on its present condition using actual expenses data of the tourists and the contingent behavior (CB) was used to estimate the change in welfare associated with the improved conditions upon payment of an additional access fee for the cost of community-based patrolling and monitoring. Data for the study were collected on-site over the 3-month period from April 1 to June 30, 2016 gathering a total of 618 completed questionnaires which were used in the analysis. Results confirmed that tourists take lesser recreational trips as cost of travel increases. Visitors who enjoyed activities with marine resources (e.g. swimming, snorkelling, island hopping), more educated and affluent tend to visit more. The consumer surplus per tourist, which indicates welfare estimates, is ₱1,401.15 (US$30.12) at its present condition and ₱10,080.65 (US$216.69) for its improved state. The result demonstrates that the tourists have a high value for the opportunity to visit the PIPLS especially in its enriched settings. The research showed high monetary values attached to the recreational services in the area and provide justification for its conservation and development of sustainable recreational activities for the economic benefit of the local residents.
Cold neutron scattering study on diffuse and phonon excitations in the relaxor PbMg(1/3)Nb(2/3)O3
Creators: name: Hiraka, H.
name: Lee, S. -H.
name: Gehring, P. M.
name: Xu, Guangyong
name: Shirane, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cold neutron scattering experiments have been performed to explore the energy, temperature, and wave-vector dependence of the diffuse scattering and the transverse acoustic (TA) phonons in the relaxor PbMg(1/3)Nb(2/3)O3. We have observed a weak, but definitive, diffuse scattering cross section above the Burns temperature T_d ~ 600 K. This cross section, which is most likely caused by chemical short-range order, persists down to 100 K, and coexists with the much stronger diffuse scattering that is attributed to the polar nanoregions. A systematic study of the TA phonon around (1, 1, 0) has also been carried out. The phonon is well defined for small wave vectors q, but broadens markedly around q = (0.1, -0.1, 0).
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables
Evaluation of the antineoplastic activity of Antarctic yeast Sporobolomyces salmonicolor grown at different culture conditions
Creators: name: Rusinova-Videva Snezhana
name: Hristova Dilyana
name: Zaharieva Maya
name: Nachkova Stefka
name: Kambourova Margarita
name: Najdenski Hristo
name: Konstantinov Spiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sporobolomyces salmonicolor extracts, bioreactor, in vitro antiproliferative effect, apoptosis

description: Nowadays, deaths from neoplasms are at the top of the World Health Organization list. The interest of scientists is focused on the search for natural substrates perspective for the targeted anticancer chemotherapy. Antarctic yeasts represent an unexplored object regarding their antineoplastic potential. The studies in the present work demonstrated the capacity of Sporobolomyces salmonicolor AL36 for cell growth in different cultivation processes. During the transfer of small-scale flasks cultivation to the bioreactor system, optimal biomass quantities of approximately 6.0 g/L were recorded. A comparative examination of the metabolic profiles of the two extracts tested reveals differences in the synthesized molecules corresponding to different cytotoxicity (antineoplastic activity) in vitro on malignant cell lines. The median inhibitory concentration (IC50) of each extract determined by the MTT test was used as a parameter for evaluating the antiproliferative effects. Most sensitive to the in vitro effect of the extract of Sp. salmonicolor AL36 cultivated in flasks was the cell line SKW-3 (T cell leukemia, derivative of KE-37) - IC50 = 35.3 µg/ml, while the bioreactor biomass extract was most cytotoxic for RPMI-8226 (multiple myeloma) cells - IC50 = 28.27µg/ml. The proteome analysis of treated and untreated malignant cells showed that both yeast extracts have a strong potential to inhibit anti-apoptotic proteins which reveals a mode of action related to induction of apoptosis and proliferation inhibition.
Assessing the Competitive Advantage of Public Policy Support for Supply Chain Resilience Case of Local Governance in Chiba
Creators: name: YAMAJI, Eiji
name: YAMAJI, Eiji
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: public policy support
subject: 6th industry
subject: direct shop
subject: resilience

description: Japanese farmers and fishermen produce and sell their products, receiving 9.4 trillion Japanese yen. At the same time Japan imports raw products of 1.2 trillion JPY and processed food of 5.3 trillion JPY. Then the products move to eat out sectors, processing sectors and consumers in fresh condition through market. Through the process, the value of agricultural products increased and consumers pay 73.5 trillion JPY. It means the value is added at five times. So, the farmers have right to sell at higher price and receive more. Then, the concept of the 6th industry was invented in around 1980. The definition of 6th is the combination of production process (1st industry ) with 2nd and/or 3rd industry. There are 60 thousands businesses relating to 6th industry in Japan. Within the business, food processing and direct shop share much. Direct shops are operated by a farmer, farmer’s group, farmer’s company, municipality, cooperative, producers’ group and others. And direct shops sell vegetables, fruits, processed food et al. The 6th industry is supported and enhanced by central and local government. In Chiba prefecture, the movement of eating local food is strongly enhanced. Local food can be purchased at large-sized store, however, local direct shop is more suitabe. Direct shop K is located at urban fringe in Chiba prefecture. The location of urban fringe has advantage and disadvantage. Starting from 2004, this direct shop becomes very popular in the region, selling 1 billion JPY (roughly 9 million USD) per year. However, it needs to conquer two crises. One is the effect of the fallen radioactive materials from Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. The farming area of Kashiwa city suffered from radioactive materials. Although the volume fallen is not so much, and the products were mostly safe, however, consumers believed every product is dangerous to health and left from this shop. The manager introduced measuring instrument and showed the real status of the food, then consumers gradually came back. Another crisis was the residual agricultural chemicals. One member farmer from 120 member farmers used pesticide, which was listed as refrain from. The manager closed the shop and surveyed all member farmers’ growing conditions. Checking the safety conditions, the shop opened again, it takes some months to recover the reliance upon the shop. Although the manager’s contribution is large for the resilience of this direct shop, Japanese agricultural policy supported indirectly and directly.
Conformal Field Theory Couplings for Intersecting D-branes on Orientifolds
Creators: name: Cvetic, Mirjam
name: Papadimitriou, Ioannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a conformal field theory calculation of four-point and three-point correlation functions for the bosonic twist fields arising at the intersections of D-branes wrapping (supersymmetric) homology cycles of Type II orientifold compactifications. Both the quantum contribution from local excitations at the intersections and the world-sheet disk instanton corrections are computed. As a consequence we obtain the complete expression for the Yukawa couplings of chiral fermions with the Higgs fields. The four-point correlation functions in turn lead to the determination of the four-point couplings in the effective theory, and may be of phenomenological interest.
description: 5 figures, 29 pages, equations 3 and 77 corrected, note added
Object Pose Estimation by Camera Arm Control Based on the Next Viewpoint Estimation
Creators: name: Mizuno, Tomoki
name: Yabashi, Kazuya
name: Tasaki, Tsuyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We have developed a new method to estimate a Next Viewpoint (NV) which is effective for pose estimation of simple-shaped products for product display robots in retail stores. Pose estimation methods using Neural Networks (NN) based on an RGBD camera are highly accurate, but their accuracy significantly decreases when the camera acquires few texture and shape features at a current view point. However, it is difficult for previous mathematical model-based methods to estimate effective NV which is because the simple shaped objects have few shape features. Therefore, we focus on the relationship between the pose estimation and NV estimation. When the pose estimation is more accurate, the NV estimation is more accurate. Therefore, we develop a new pose estimation NN that estimates NV simultaneously. Experimental results showed that our NV estimation realized a pose estimation success rate 77.3\%, which was 7.4pt higher than the mathematical model-based NV calculation did. Moreover, we verified that the robot using our method displayed 84.2\% of products.
A dispersion excess from pulsar wind nebulae and supernova remnants: Implications for pulsars and FRBs
Creators: name: Straal, Samayra M.
name: Connor, Liam
name: van Leeuwen, Joeri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Young pulsars and the pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) or supernova remnants (SNRs) that surround them are some of the most dynamic and high-powered environments in our Universe. With the rise of more sensitive observations, the number of pulsar-SNR and PWN associations (hereafter, SNR/PWN) has increased, yet we do not understand to which extent this environment influences the pulsars' impulsive radio signals. We studied the dispersive contribution of SNRs and PWNe on Galactic pulsars, and considered their relevance to fast radio bursts (FRBs) such as FRB 121102. We investigated the dispersion measure (DM) contribution of SNRs and PWNe by comparing the measured DMs of Galactic pulsars in a SNR/PWN to the DM expected only from the intervening interstellar electrons, using the NE2001 model. We find that a two-$σ$ DM contribution of SNRs and PWNe to the pulsar signal exists, amounting to $21.1 \pm 10.6$ pc cm$^{-3}$. The control sample of pulsars unassociated with a SNR/PWN shows no excess. We model the SNR and PWN electron densities for each young pulsar in our sample and show that these indeed predict an excess of this magnitude. By extrapolating to the kind of fast-spinning, high magnetic field, young pulsars that may power FRBs, we show their SNR and PWN are capable of significantly contributing to the observed DM.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
Information bounds for Cox regression models with missing data
Creators: name: Nan, Bin
name: Emond, Mary J.
name: Wellner, Jon A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62E17 (Primary) 65D20 (Secondary)

description: We derive information bounds for the regression parameters in Cox models when data are missing at random. These calculations are of interest for understanding the behavior of efficient estimation in case-cohort designs, a type of two-phase design often used in cohort studies. The derivations make use of key lemmas appearing in Robins, Rotnitzky and Zhao [J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 89 (1994) 846-866] and Robins, Hsieh and Newey [J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 57 (1995) 409-424], but in a form suited for our purposes here. We begin by summarizing the results of Robins, Rotnitzky and Zhao in a form that leads directly to the projection method which will be of use for our model of interest. We then proceed to derive new information bounds for the regression parameters of the Cox model with data Missing At Random (MAR). In the final section we exemplify our calculations with several models of interest in cohort studies, including an i.i.d. version of the classical case-cohort design of Prentice [Biometrika 73 (1986) 1-11]
Additional file 7 of Antiviral treatment perspective against Borna disease virus 1 infection in major depression: a double-blind placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Dietrich, Detlef
name: Bode, Liv
name: Spannhuth, Carsten
name: Hecker, Hartmut
name: Ludwig, Hanns
name: Emrich, Hinderk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 7: Figure S4. In vitro inhibition of replication comparing human and laboratory strains.
Methodologies and Perspectives in Research on Labour Relations in Global Agricultural Production Networks: A Review
Creators: name: Evans Appiah Kissi
name: Herzig, Christian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The integration of Global South actors into the global agricultural economy has attracted research on labour effects. This is because Global South actors are often integrated at the level of production of raw materials with little power and less capture of gain. To better understand the conceptual perspectives and methodologies underpinning existing empirical studies and provide evidence for the labour-related practice, this paper conducts a systematic review of the methodologies and perspectives applied in the Global Agricultural Production Networks literature. Based on an analysis of 87 articles published in English-speaking journals, we show that the assessment of labour regulatory frameworks’ impact on labour issues is more focused on private than public or social forms of governance and on vertical than horizontal frameworks. Wageworkers working on smallholder farms and agro-industries and women have received little consideration, in particular, if compared with wageworkers on plantations, as has the topic of occupational health and safety as a specific key labour issue. Overall, the existing body of empirical research can be characterised as being largely qualitative in nature, underexploiting the potential quantitative or mixed methods research designs. Our review generates methodological ideas and conceptual perspectives for future studies to consider.
Identification and exopolysaccharide synthesis by Antarctic yeasts
Creators: name: Rusinova-Videva Snezhana
name: Kambourova Margarita
name: Krasteva Vasilena
name: Adamov Aleksander
name: Ognyanov Manol
name: Georgiev Yordan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Antarctic yeasts, identification, exopolysaccharides
Sporobolomyces salmonicolor extracts, bioreactor, in vitro antiproliferative effect, apoptosis

description: Antarctic is among the most scarcely investigated extreme niches in relation to microorganisms living there and synthesis of unusual molecules for adaptation to extremely low temperatures, lack of water availability and precipitation, numerous freeze–thaw cycles, strong wind levels and high sublimation, evaporation and ultraviolet radiation. Several yeast genera such as Cryptococcus, Mrakia, Candida, Rhodotorula, Leucosporidium, Debaryomyces have been described as part of the biodiversity of the continent. The aim of the present research was to studying yeast variety in the Livingston Island, Antarctica, and yeast potential to synthesize extracellular polysaccharides. Thanks to the cooperation of the Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition, three different strains were isolated and identified. Based on a genetic analysis of ITS1-5.8S-ITS4 regions of rRNA they were related to two genera – Cystobasidium and Vishniacozima. One of the strains belonged to the species Cystobasidium ongulense and two to Vishniacozima victoriae. The morphological differences of the two species included the color of the colonies - red and cream, respectively, while both species were glossy and with a smooth edge. Cystobasidium ongulense cells were larger and elongated. The differences between the species also included the different number of assimilated carbon sources. The ITS domains of the rRNA gene were amplified using the universal primers ITS1 and ITS4. The process of extracellular polymer biosynthesis was performed at a cultivation temperature of 21°C±1°C. The cell growth over 5.5gL-1 and exopolysaccharide production from 1.6 to 3.6gL-1 were registered at 120th h of the fermentation process. Based on sampling of soil, moss or penguin feathers in Bulgarian base, the Livingston Island, new results for yeast diversity were accumulated and they can contribute to the fundamental worldwide knowledge on the biodiversity of the Antarctic continent. Unusual origin of exopolysaccharides synthesized by the isolates and their valuable preliminary characterized properties suggest a possibility for their biotechnological exploration.
An Empirical Assessment of Onion value Chain in India for Domestic and Export Market
Creators: name: Shah, Deepak
name: Shah, Deepak
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Onion
subject: Value
subject: Chain
subject: India

description: There are generally wide fluctuations in monthly prices of onion, which lead to seasonality and which cause a perpetual concern to producers. Fluctuations in annual prices, which are generally cyclical in nature, also affect the export performance. These facts make it necessary to understand nature of these fluctuations and the present study is an attempt in this direction. The study assesses the relationship of prices of onion at the farm level as well as at wholesale, retail and export level with a view to understand price mechanism involved in the marketing of onion. It and also addresses problems faced by stakeholders in the marketing of their onion. The study showed highly profitable nature of onion crop cultivation since cultivation of kharif onion generated 68-91 percent per quintal net returns over per quintal variable cost. Rabi onion generated 60-81 percent per quintal net returns over per quintal variable cost. The study showed that the producer’s share in consumer’s rupee for onion varied from 49 percent to 52 percent in domestic market for various varieties, and this share in export channel varied from 30 percent to 35 percent. Further, the study revealed that onion prices remained at lower ebb during harvesting/peak period and high during lean period. One of the major factors responsible for lower share of producer in retail and export prices was the higher cumulative marketing margins cornered by various market functionaries. The situation is unlikely to be altered unless various regulative measures are brought in place to check practices of these functionaries involved in the marketing of high value crops. One of the major recommendations of this study is in favour of announcement of MSP for rabi onion, which has shelf life of 4-5 months. The government support for rabi onion will not only protect farmers but also consumers.
Cold Dust in Kepler's Supernova Remnant
Creators: name: Morgan, H. L.
name: Dunne, L.
name: Eales, S.
name: Ivison, R.
name: Edmunds, M. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The timescales to replenish dust from the cool, dense winds of Asymptotic Giant Branch stars are believed to be greater than the timescales for dust destruction. In high redshift galaxies, this problem is further compounded as the stars take longer than the age of the Universe to evolve into the dust production stages. To explain these discrepancies, dust formation in supernovae (SNe) is required to be an important process but until very recently dust in supernova remnants has only been detected in very small quantities. We present the first submillimeter observations of cold dust in Kepler's supernova remnant (SNR) using SCUBA. A two component dust temperature model is required to fit the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) with $T_{warm} \sim 102$K and $T_{cold} \sim 17$K. The total mass of dust implied for Kepler is $\sim 1M_{\odot}$ - 1000 times greater than previous estimates. Thus SNe, or their progenitors may be important dust formation sites.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, accepted to ApJL, corrected proofs
Crotalaria multiflora var. kurisumalayana Krishnaraj & Mohanan, comb. et stat. nov.
Creators: name: Krishnaraj, Moothedathu Venugopalan Nair
name: Mohanan, Narayanan Nair
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Crotalaria
Crotalaria multiflora
Crotalaria multiflora var. kurisumalayana (sibichen & nampy) krishnaraj & mohanan

description: Crotalaria multiflora var. kurisumalayana (Sibichen & Nampy) Krishnaraj & Mohanan, comb. et stat. nov.
 BASIONYM:— Crotalaria kurisumalayana Sibichen & Nampy (2007: 106).
 Type:— INDIA. Kerala: Kottayam district, Vagamon hills, Kurisumala, ± 900 msl, 1. November 2002, Sibichen & Nampy 732 (Holotype CAL; Isotypes CALI, SJC! Figure 2.).
 Distribution, habitat and phenology: — Crotalaria multiflora var. kurisumalayana is endemic to Kerala part of Southern Western Ghats but not included in any recent floristic analysis related to endemism (Nayar et al. 2008; Sudhakar Reddy et al. 2007). This species grows in soil pockets in exposed rocks and also in sand wall cuttings in hilly areas. The major threat noticed was habitat loss by fragmentation of hilly areas in Idukki and Kottayam district of Kerala. Flowering and fruiting from September - May.
 Specimens examined:—(For C. multiflora var. multiflora)— INDIA. Kerala: Idukki district, Vallakadavu, 850m, 12 November 1975, K . Vivekanandan 46648 (MH); Idukki district, Way to Mangala Devi Temple, 1075m, 10 October 1976, K . Vivekanandan 48652 (MH); Kottayam district, Peermedu, 1100m, 21 September 1964, K . Vivekanandan 20315 (MH); Kottayam district, Kuttikkanum to Peermedu, 1100m, 21 January 1965, K . Vivekanandan 22911 (MH); Palakkdu district, Below Ayyappan Kovil area, 900m, 26 October 1976, E . Vajravelu 48689 (MH).
 (For C.multiflora var. kurisumalayana)— INDIA. Kerala: Idukki district, Mangaladevi, 1250 m, 24 August 1985, M. C . Lukose 1234 (RHK); Idukki district, Elaveezhapoonchira 780m, 26 December 2002, Sibichen M . Thomas 759 (CALI); Idukki district, Munnar, 1800m, 26 December 2001, Sibichen M . Thomas 671 (CAL); Kottayam district, Vagamon hills, Kurisumala, 900m, 1 November 2002, Sibichen & Nampy 732 (CALI); Kottayam, Panchalimedu, 26 January 2009, M. V . Krishnaraj 61896 (TBGT).
description: Published as part of Krishnaraj, Moothedathu Venugopalan Nair & Mohanan, Narayanan Nair, 2012, A new Combination in Crotalaria multiflora (Arn.) Benth. (Fabaceae), pp. 58-62 in Phytotaxa 44 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.44.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5059095
Effects of a Generalized Uncertainty Principle on the MIT Bag Model Equation of State
Creators: name: Netz-Marzola, Marcelo
name: Vasconcellos, César Augusto Zen
name: Hadjimichef, Dimiter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) is motivated by the premise that spacetime fluctuations near the Planck scale impose a lower bound on the achievable resolution of distances, leading to a minimum length. Inspired by a semiclassical method that integrates the GUP into the partition function by deforming its phase space, we induce a modification on the thermodynamic quantities of the MIT bag model that we propose serves as an effective semiclassical description of deconfined quark matter in a space with minimal length. We investigate the consequences of this deformation on the zero-temperature limit, revealing a saturation limit for the energy density, pressure and baryon number density and an overall decrease of the thermodynamic quantities which suggests an enhanced stability against gravitational collapse. These findings extend existing research on GUP-deformed Fermi gases. Ultimately, our description introduces effects of quantum gravity in the equations of state for compact stars in a mathematically simple manner, suggesting potential for extension to more complex systems.
Additional file 1 of Measuring resilience prospectively as the speed of affect recovery in daily life: a complex systems perspective on mental health
Creators: name: Kuranova, Anna
name: Booij, Sanne
name: Menne-Lothmann, Claudia
name: Decoster, Jeroen
name: Winkel, Ruud Van
name: Delespaul, Philippe
name: Hert, Marc De
name: Derom, Catherine
name: Thiery, Evert
name: Rutten, Bart
name: Jacobs, Nele
name: Os, Jim Van
name: Wigman, Johanna
name: Wichers, Marieke
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Description of limited multiverse analysis.
The internal states of active inclusions and the dynamics of an active membrane
Creators: name: Chen, Hsuan-Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A theoretical model of a two-component fluid membrane containing lipids and two-state active inclusions is presented. Under strong inclusion activities the membrane can be unstable due to pump-driven undulation or aggregation of high curvature excited inclusions. Depending on the structural details of the inclusions, the active conformation change of the inclusions can also induce finite size domains on the membrane. At long wavelengths a stable membrane has a height fluctuation spectrum similar to previous studies which neglected the inclusion internal states. For a tensionless membrane, $ \sim T_{eff} q_{\perp}^{-4}$, where $T_{eff}$ is an effective temperature which depends on the details of inclusion activities.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Hot Gas Flows on Parsec Scale in the Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nucleus NGC 3115
Creators: name: Yao, Zhiyuan
name: Gan, Zhaoming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NGC 3115 is known as the low-luminosity active galactic nucleus which hosts the nearest ($z\sim0.002$) billion solar mass supermassive black hole ($\sim1.5\times10^9~M_\odot$). Its Bondi radius $r_\mathrm{B}$ ($\sim3\farcs6$) can be readily resolved with Chandra, which offers us an excellent opportunity to investigate the accretion flow onto a supermassive black hole. In this paper, we perform two-dimensional hydrodynamical numerical simulations, tailored for NGC 3115, on the mass flow across the Bondi radius. Our best fittings for the density and temperature agree well with the observations of the hot interstellar medium in the centre of NGC 3115. We find that the flow properties are solely determined by the local galaxy properties in the galaxy centre: (1) stellar winds (including supernova ejecta) supply the mass and energy sources for the accreting gas; (2) similar to the one-dimensional calculations, a stagnation radius $r_\mathrm{st}\sim0.1~r_\mathrm{B}$ is also found in the two-dimensional simulations, which divides the mass flow into an inflow-outflow structure; (3) the radiatively inefficient accretion flow theory applies well inside the stagnation radius, where the gravity is dominated by the supermassive black hole and the gas is supported by rotation; (4) beyond the stagnation radius, the stellar gravity dominates the spherical-like fluid dynamics and causes the transition from a steep density profile outside to a flat density profile inside the Bondi radius.
description: 13 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication by MNRAS
Ejective and preventative: the IllustrisTNG black hole feedback and its effects on the thermodynamics of the gas within and around galaxies
Creators: name: Zinger, Elad
name: Pillepich, Annalisa
name: Nelson, Dylan
name: Weinberger, Rainer
name: Pakmor, Rüdiger
name: Springel, Volker
name: Hernquist, Lars
name: Marinacci, Federico
name: Vogelsberger, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) which reside at the centres of galaxies can inject vast amounts of energy into the surrounding gas and are thought to be a viable mechanism to quench star-formation in massive galaxies. Here we study the $10^{9\textrm{--}12.5}\,\mathrm{M_\odot}$ stellar mass central galaxy population of the IllustrisTNG simulation, specifically the TNG100 and TNG300 volumes at \zeq{0}, and show how the three components -- SMBH, galaxy, and circumgalactic medium (CGM) -- are interconnected in their evolution. We find that gas entropy is a sensitive diagnostic of feedback injection. In particular, we demonstrate how the onset of the low-accretion BH feedback mode, realised in the IllustrisTNG model as a kinetic, BH-driven wind, leads not only to star-formation quenching at stellar masses $\gtrsim10^{10.5}\mathrm{M_\odot}$ but also to a change in thermodynamic properties of the (\emph{non}-star-forming) gas, both within the galaxy and beyond. The IllustrisTNG kinetic feedback from SMBHs increases the average gas entropy, within the galaxy and in the CGM, lengthening typical gas cooling times from $10\textrm{--}100\,\mathrm{Myr}$ to $1\textrm{--}10\,\mathrm{Gyr}$, effectively ceasing ongoing star-formation and inhibiting radiative cooling and future gas accretion. In practice, the same AGN feedback channel is simultaneously `ejective' and `preventative' and leaves an imprint on the temperature, density, entropy, and cooling times also in the outer reaches of the gas halo, up to distances of several hundred kiloparsecs. In the IllustrisTNG model, a long-lasting quenching state can occur for a heterogeneous CGM, whereby the hot and dilute CGM gas of quiescent galaxies contains regions of low-entropy gas with short cooling times.
description: Accepted to MNRAS. Comments welcome
Detecting the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy with a Supernova at IceCube
Creators: name: Dighe, A. S.
name: Keil, M. T.
name: Raffelt, G. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IceCube, a future km^3 antarctic ice Cherenkov neutrino telescope, is highly sensitive to a galactic supernova (SN) neutrino burst. The Cherenkov light corresponding to the total energy deposited by the SN neutrinos in the ice can be measured relative to background fluctuations with a statistical precision much better than 1%. If the SN is viewed through the Earth, the matter effect on neutrino oscillations can change the signal by more than 5%, depending on the flavor-dependent source spectra and the neutrino mixing parameters. Therefore, IceCube together with another high-statistics experiment like Hyper-Kamiokande can detect the Earth effect, an observation that would identify specific neutrino mixing scenarios that are difficult to pin down with long-baseline experiments. In particular, the normal mass hierarchy can be clearly detected if the third mixing angle is not too small, sin^2 theta_13 < 10^-3. The small flavor-dependent differences of the SN neutrino fluxes and spectra that are found in state-of-the-art simulations suffice for this purpose. Although the absolute calibration uncertainty at IceCube may exceed 5%, the Earth effect would typically vary by a large amount over the duration of the SN signal, obviating the need for a precise calibration. Therefore, IceCube with its unique geographic location and expected longevity can play a decisive role as a "co-detector" to measure SN neutrino oscillations. It is also a powerful stand-alone SN detector that can verify the delayed-explosion scenario.
description: 19 pages, 6 Figs, final version accepted by JCAP, some references added
Maculonomia (Maculonomia) rufocaudata
Creators: name: Tran, Ngat Thi
name: Phuong, Lien Thi
name: Anh, Phuong Nguyen
name: Nguyen, Anh Duc
name: Engel, Michael S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Maculonomia
Maculonomia rufocaudata

description: Maculonomia (Maculonomia) rufocaudata (Wu, 1988)
(Figs 6; 7)
Nomia (Maculonomia) rufocaudata Wu, 1988: 546.
Maculonomia rufocaudata – Pauly 2009: 163.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Vietnam • 1 ♀; Lao Cai, Bat Xat, Y Ty, way to the red waterfall; 21°23’03.4”N, 105°42’42.6”E; alt. 1586 m; 9.V.2019; Nguyen L.T.P., Nguyen C.Q. leg.; IEBR • 1 ♀; same data; AMNH • 1 ♀; Son La, Bac Yen, Hang Dong, Hang Dong C village, Ta Xua special-use forest; 21°19’48”N, 104°32’21”E; alt. 1256 m; 24.VIII.2023; Tran D.D. leg.; IEBR.
REMARKS
Note that the apical enamel bands of the Vietnamese specimens are distinctly orange rather than the yellow of the Tibetan population.Despite this color variation, the specimens agree in all other respects with the species as characterized from Tibet.
description: Published as part of Tran, Ngat Thi, Phuong, Lien Thi, Anh, Phuong Nguyen, Nguyen, Anh Duc & Engel, Michael S., 2025, New species and records of the nomiine bee genus Maculonomia Wu, 1982 from Vietnam (Hymenoptera, Halictidae), pp. 51-73 in Zoosystema 47 (4) on pages 59-61, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a4, http://zenodo.org/record/14831210
Minimum-Strain Symmetrization of Bravais Lattices
Creators: name: Larsen, Peter M.
name: Pang, Edward L.
name: Parrilo, Pablo A.
name: Jacobsen, Karsten W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Bravais lattices are the most fundamental building blocks of crystallography. They are classified into groups according to their translational, rotational, and inversion symmetries. In computational analysis of Bravais lattices, fulfilment of symmetry conditions is usually determined by analysis of the metric tensor, using either a numerical tolerance to produce a binary (i.e. yes or no) classification, or a distance function which quantifies the deviation from an ideal lattice type. The metric tensor, though, is not scale-invariant, which complicates the choice of threshold and the interpretation of the distance function. Here, we quantify the distance of a lattice from a target Bravais class using strain. For an arbitrary lattice, we find the minimum-strain transformation needed to fulfil the symmetry conditions of a desired Bravais lattice type; the norm of the strain tensor is used to quantify the degree of symmetry breaking. The resulting distance is invariant to scale and rotation, and is a physically intuitive quantity. By symmetrizing to all Bravais classes, each lattice can be placed in a 14 dimensional space, which we use to create a map of the space of Bravais lattices and the transformation paths between them. A software implementation is available online under a permissive license.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures
Finite sample properties of multiple imputation estimators
Creators: name: Kim, Jae Kwang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62D05 (Primary) 62J99 (Secondary)

description: Finite sample properties of multiple imputation estimators under the linear regression model are studied. The exact bias of the multiple imputation variance estimator is presented. A method of reducing the bias is presented and simulation is used to make comparisons. We also show that the suggested method can be used for a general class of linear estimators.
Fairness and the support of redistributive environmental policies
Creators: name: Andor, Mark A.
name: Lange, Andreas
name: Sommer, Stephan
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: fairness
subject: discrete choice experiment
subject: behavioral economics
subject: political acceptance
subject: exemptions renewable energy
subject: environmental policy
subject: distributional effects
subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: Exemptions from costly policy measures are frequently applied to alleviate financial burdens to specific market participants. Using a stated-choice experiment with around 6,000 German household heads, we test how exemptions for lowincome households and energy-intensive companies influence the political acceptability of additional cost for the promotion of renewable energies. We find that the support for the policy is substantially higher when low-income households are exempt rather than the industry. Introducing exemptions for low-income households on top of existing exemptions for the industry increases the acceptability of the policy. We show that the support for exemptions as one example of distributional policy design is associated with individual behavioral measures like inequality aversion and fairness perceptions.
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;30/2021
International Development Buzzwords: Understanding Their Use Among Donors, NGOs, and Academics
Creators: name: Schnable, Allison
name: DeMattee, Anthony
name: Robinson, Rachel Sullivan
name: Brass, Jennifer N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Scholars and practitioners of international development often note the use of ‘development buzzwords’: terms that represent hot topics in the field. Buzzwords characterise a development issue and imply elements of possible solutions. This article analyses the prevalence of these words in development discourse, asking who among donors, major nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), or academics adopts buzzwords earliest and uses them the most. We also analyse how these actors use buzzwords–whether buzzwords represent new ideas or essentially repackage old concepts. The article compares the prevalence of buzzwords among three bodies of text published since 1990: social science journal articles on NGOs; World Bank annual reports; and the annual reports of BRAC, Save the Children, and World Vision. Using topic modelling and keyword searches, we trace how the terms ‘reproductive health,’ ‘gender,’ ‘participatory development,’ and ‘accountability’ ebbed and flowed over these literatures. We find suggestive evidence against ‘donor-driven development’: buzzwords appear first in academic literature and the annual reports of NGOs, followed by the World Bank. We also find evidence that international conferences and emergent health crises influence buzzword use. We conclude that buzzwords’ function and fates vary, with some losing priority, others losing substance, and yet others persisting as multivalent concepts.
Lasting Impact of Early Life Interventions: Evidence from India’s Integrated Child Development Services
Creators: name: Gaurav Dhamija
name: Sen, Gitanjali
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: Computational Biology

description: In the year 1975, the Indian government initiated the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), the largest national programme in the world targeting long-term nutrition and holistic development of children, to be implemented through the Anganwadi Centres (AWC). Combining differences across villages in the year of AWC construction with birth-year of children, we capture the variation in ‘exposure’ to the programme, to estimate the impact of the ICDS exposure through access to AWCs on later life health outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that a 10–13 year old cohort fully exposed to the scheme during first three years of life has higher height (by 2.3 cm) and weight (by 1 kg) as compared to the same cohort, not exposed to the services in initial three years. The Z score of height-for-age (ZHFA) and Z score of weight-for-age ZWFA, although not statistically significant, seem to increase as well. The average impacts seem to be as high as 0.74 cm and 0.33 kg for an extra year of exposure, for measures of height and weight, respectively. Our findings are robust to changing age cohorts and several specifications. The effects seem to be larger among girls and in poor households.
Hysterionica Willdenow 1807
Creators: name: Schneider, Angelo Alberto
name: Boldrini, Ilsi Iob
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Asteraceae
Hysterionica

description: Key to the species of Hysterionica from Brazil (terminology following Matzenbacher & Sobral 1996)   1. Leaf margin entire ................................................................................................................................. H. nidorelloides
- Leaf margin incised, leaves pinnatilobed or pinnatisect.............................................................................................. 2
 2. Leaf margin irregularly incised to lobed (except at the basal part of the leaves), limb of radiate corollas 2.3–2.7 mm long .................................................................................................................................................. H. matzenbacherii
- Leaves pinnatilobed or pinnatisect, limb of radiate corollas 4–11.5 mm long............................................................. 3
 3. Leaves pinnatilobed, limb of radiate corollas 4–5 mm long .................................................................... H. pinnatiloba
 - Leaves pinnatisect, limb of radiate corollas 8–11.5 mm long...................................................................................... 4 4. Leaves 15–30 mm long, limb of radiate corollas 10.5–11.5mm long ....................................................... H. nebularis
 - Leaves 30–35 mm long, limb of radiate corollas 8–8.5 mm long.......................................................... H. pinnatisecta
description: Published as part of Schneider, Angelo Alberto & Boldrini, Ilsi Iob, 2012, Hysterionica matzenbacherii, a new species of Astereae (Asteraceae) from Brazil, pp. 50-54 in Phytotaxa 49 (1) on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.49.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/5060717
Relation between perceived injustice and distress in cancer: meaning making and acceptance of cancer as mediators
Creators: name: Secinti, Ekin
Publisher: name: IUPUI University Library
Year: 2022
Subjects: cancer
distress
perceived injustice
meaning making
acceptance

description: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
description: Many advanced cancer patients struggle with distress including depressive symptoms, anxiety, anger about cancer, and anger toward God. Cancer patients may perceive their illness as an injustice (i.e., appraise their illness as unfair, severe, and irreparable or blame others for their illness), and this may be a risk factor for distress. To date, illness-related perceptions of injustice have not been examined in cancer patients. Based on prior research and theory (i.e., Just World Theory, Park’s Meaning Making Model, and Loneliness Theory), there are multiple ways to conceptualize the relationship between perceived injustice related to the cancer experience and distress. The purpose of this project was to compare two theory-based conceptualizations of the relationships between perceived injustice and distress symptoms in advanced lung and prostate cancer patients. Aims were to (1) examine the direct effects of perceived injustice on distress symptoms; (2) examine the indirect effects of perceived injustice on distress symptoms through meaning making and acceptance of cancer (my conceptual model), examine the indirect effects of perceived injustice on psychological outcomes (i.e., distress symptoms and acceptance of cancer) through meaning making (Park’s Meaning Making Model), and compare the two models; (3) examine loneliness as a potential moderator of the mediations based on my conceptual model; and (4) explore whether the associations based on my conceptual model differed between advanced lung and prostate cancer patients. Cross-sectional data from advanced lung (n = 102) and prostate (n = 99) cancer patients were examined. Seven models were tested using path analyses. Results partially supported my conceptual model; perceived injustice was directly and indirectly associated with distress symptoms through acceptance of cancer but not through meaning making. Findings did not support Park’s Meaning Making Model, as meaning making did not help account for the associations between perceived injustice and psychological outcomes. Path analyses also indicated that loneliness was not a significant moderator of the mediations based on my conceptual model. Furthermore, associations based on my conceptual model did not differ between advanced lung and prostate cancer patients. Given mixed support for my conceptual model, supplemental path analyses were conducted that included loneliness as an exploratory mediator of associations between perceived injustice and distress symptoms. Findings suggested that perceived injustice was indirectly associated with distress symptoms through loneliness and acceptance of cancer. Findings support testing acceptance-based interventions to address distress related to perceived injustice in advanced cancer patients.