cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Moina weberi Richard 1891
Creators: name: Kotov, Alexey A.
name: Ferrari, Frank D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Moinidae
Moina
Moina weberi

description: 18. Moina weberi Richard, 1891
 Moina weberi Richard 1891a, p. 120 –123, Pl. 10: figs 1–3.
 Type locality. "lacs de Singkarah et de Maninjau (Sumatra)" (Richard 1891a), Indonesia.
 Richard's specimens. A few well-preserved females in sample DGF 702, " Lac Singkarah (Sumatra) Pêche pelagique, surface, Max Weber, 3.V.1888 "; many females in poor condition in sample DGF 703 from the same locality.
 Comments. This is a junior synonym of M. micrura Kurz, 1874 according to Goulden (1968) and Smirnov (1976), but specimens reported as M. micrura from different areas may belong to a group of species (see Petrusek et al. 2004).
description: Published as part of Kotov, Alexey A. & Ferrari, Frank D., 2010, The taxonomic research of Jules Richard on Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) and his collection at the National Museum of Natural History, U. S. A., pp. 37-64 in Zootaxa 2551 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2551.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5304719
The absolute continuity of the integrated density of states for magnetic Schrödinger operators with certain unbounded random potentials
Creators: name: Hupfer, Thomas
name: Leschke, Hajo
name: Müller, Peter
name: Warzel, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The object of the present study is the integrated density of states of a quantum particle in multi-dimensional Euclidean space which is characterized by a Schr{ö}dinger operator with magnetic field and a random potential which may be unbounded from above and below. In case that the magnetic field is constant and the random potential is ergodic and admits a so-called one-parameter decomposition, we prove the absolute continuity of the integrated density of states and provide explicit upper bounds on its derivative, the density of states. This local Lipschitz continuity of the integrated density of states is derived by establishing a Wegner estimate for finite-volume Schrödinger operators which holds for rather general magnetic fields and different boundary conditions. Examples of random potentials to which the results apply are certain alloy-type and Gaussian random potentials. Besides we show a diamagnetic inequality for Schrödinger operators with Neumann boundary conditions.
description: This paper will appear in "Communications in Mathematical Physics". It is a revised version of the second part of the first version of math-ph/0010013, which in its second version only contains the (revised) first part
The Security of Self-Differencing Avalanche Photodiodes for Quantum Key Distribution
Creators: name: Koehler-Sidki, Alexander Mark
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Quantum Key Distribution
Avalanche Photodiodes
Quantum Hacking
Implementation Security
Quantum Cryptography
Semiconductor Detectors

description: Quantum key distribution (QKD) allows two users to communicate with information theoretic security by encoding information on single photons. This security is based on the laws of physics and as such can never be broken in theory. However, in practice, components do not always behave according to their theoretical models and these deviations can be exploited by an eavesdropper. In recent years, exposing loopholes in QKD systems, known as quantum hacking, has attracted significant attention. The components most susceptible to being hacked are the single-photon detectors, often avalanche photodiodes (APDs), as they are directly exposed to the optical channel. Whilst measurement-device-independent QKD removes detector vulnerability from the system, secure key rates with this technique can be much lower than point-to-point links. As such, mitigating attacks on QKD systems is a pressing challenge in QKD. In this thesis, the focus is on a special class of detectors, self-differencing APDs (SD-APDs), which have facilitated state-of-the art demonstrations of QKD. The susceptibility of SD-APDs to blinding attacks, the most explored and successful attack to date, was investigated and it was shown that by following best practice for their operation, such an attack would be unsuccessful. We have also proposed and developed a countermeasure such that the onus for appropriate operation could be removed from the user. We have also explored an arguably more dangerous attack, in the form of the after-gate attack. We have shown that delayed detection events, ordinarily considered detrimental in QKD, can provide inherent protection against this attack. Finally, backflashes in GHz-gated APDs were investigated for the first time and it was shown that threat they pose to QKD security is negligible. These results highlight the inherent protection to a number of attacks that self-differencing APDs possess. We stress that the findings presented in this thesis are also applicable to other types of fast-gated InGaAs APDs that don't possess self-differencing circuitry.
description: EPSRC ICASE Award with Toshiba
Typhlodromus wawerus El-Banhawy & Knapp 2011, n. sp.
Creators: name: El-Banhawy, E. M.
name: Knapp, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Typhlodromus
Typhlodromus wawerus

description: Typhlodromus wawerus El-Banhawy & Knapp, n. sp.
(Fig. 109)
 Material examined. Holotype female, Kenya, Mt. Kenya, Mararia forest station, Central Province, altitude 2541 m, July 15, 2004 (El-Banhawy).
 Female: Dorsal shield reticulated, 290 long, 160 wide, with five pairs of pores. Measurements of dorsal setae: j1 16, j3 24, j4 14, j5 16, j618, J2 21, J5 6, z216, z3, z4 25, z5 16, Z4 37, Z5 50, s4 32, s6 37, S2 42, S4 43, r3, R1 22, JV5 40. Seta Z 5 serrated, remaining setae smooth. Peritrematal shield fused anteriorly with dorsal shield, reaching level of j3. Sternal shield, distances between St I-St III 52, St II-St II 60, St IV on platelets. Genital shield 80 wide. Ventri-anal shield striated, triangular, 115 long, 115 wide at level of ZV2, 73 at level of anus, with a pair of round pre-anal pores and four pairs of pre-anal setae (JV1, JV2, JV3, ZV2). A pair of metapodal platelets, two pairs of sigillar sclerites and four pairs of setae surrounding ventri-anal shield. Fixed digit of chelicera with three teeth, movable digit with two teeth. Spermatheca calyx saccular, 14 long, 6 wide at midpoint, atrium small. Macrosetae sharp, Sge IV 21, Sti IV 21, St IV 42. Chaetotaxy: genu II 2, 2 / 0, 2/0, 1, genu III 1, 2 /1, 2/0, 1.
 Remarks. This species is similar to T. atticus Swirski & Ragusa. The shape of the ventri-anal shield, the presence of the pre-anal pores and length of dorsal setae distiguish T. wawerus. The male is unknown.
description: Published as part of El-Banhawy, E. M. & Knapp, M., 2011, Mites of the family Phytoseiidae Berlese from Kenya (Acari: Mesostigmata) 2945, pp. 1-176 in Zootaxa 2945 (1) on page 63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2945.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5282557
Securing Big Data from Eavesdropping Attacks in SCADA/ICS Network Data Streams through Impulsive Statistical Fingerprinting
Creators: name: Chaudhry, Junaid
name: Qidwai, Uvais
name: Miraz, Mahdi H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: While data from Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems is sent upstream, it is both the length of pulses as well as their frequency present an excellent opportunity to incor-porate statistical fingerprinting. This is so, because datagrams in SCADA traffic follow a poison distribution. Although wrapping the SCADA traffic in a protective IPsec stream is an obvious choice, thin clients and unreliable communication channels make is less than ideal to use crypto-graphic solutions for security SCADA traffic. In this paper, we propose a smart alternative of data obfuscation in the form of Impulsive Statistical Fingerprinting (ISF). We provide important insights into our research in healthcare SCADA data security and the use of ISF. We substantiate the conversion of sensor data through the ISF into HL7 format and define policies of a seamless switch to a non HL7-based non-secure HIS to a secure HIS.
Schwinger-Keldysh Propagators from AdS/CFT Correspondence
Creators: name: Herzog, C. P.
name: Son, D. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate how to compute real-time Green's functions for a class of finite temperature field theories from their AdS gravity duals. In particular, we reproduce the two-by-two Schwinger-Keldysh matrix propagator from a gravity calculation. Our methods should work also for computing higher point Lorentzian signature correlators. We elucidate the boundary condition subtleties which hampered previous efforts to build a Lorentzian-signature AdS/CFT correspondence. For two-point correlators, our construction is automatically equivalent to the previously formulated prescription for the retarded propagator.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure, references added; to appear in JHEP
APOE polymorphism in ATTR amyloidosis patients treated with lipid nanoparticle siRNA
Creators: name: Niemietz, Christoph
name: Nadzemova, Oksana
name: Zibert, Andree
name: Schmidt, Hartmut H.-J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: The novel class of compounds represented by lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-encapsulated siRNA formulations has an enormous potential to target disease, notably of the liver. Endocytosis of LNPs is believed to be mediated by APOE, an important serum protein of lipoprotein homeostasis. APOE polymorphisms affect binding to hepatic receptors and have been associated with development of specific disease. Here, the role of APOE was investigated with regard to the efficacy of Patisiran, the first LNP-siRNA recently approved for clinical use in patients having transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR amyloidosis). Patisiran was evaluated in the human hepatoma cell line HepG2 after knockdown of APOE. The APOE genotype was determined in ATTR amyloidosis patients treated with Patisiran. TTR knockdown was monitored in consecutive plasma up to week 12. Downregulation of APOE suppressed efficacy of Patisiran in HepG2 cells. TTR levels were found to be robustly reduced (84.7% ± 1%) following Patisiran treatment in patients plasma. Analysis of APOE polymorphisms in ATTR amyloidosis patients revealed three most frequent genotypes E3/3, E3/4 and E3/2. APOE stratification of patients did not show significant differences of TTR plasma concentrations following treatment. Our results suggest that APOE is an important mediator of TTR silencing by Patisiran, however efficacy is independent of the APOE genotype.
Ueckermannseius kiminini El-Banhawy & Knapp 2011, n. sp.
Creators: name: El-Banhawy, E. M.
name: Knapp, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Ueckermannseius
Ueckermannseius kiminini

description: Ueckermannseius kiminini El-Banhawy & Knapp, n. sp.
(Fig. 45)
 Material examined. Holotype female, Kenya, bushes at Mt. Kenya, altitude 2000 m, July 13, 2004 (El-Banhawy). Paratypes, 1 female Mt. Kenya, Mutubia gate, altitude 3178 m., July 13, 2004; 6 females, Mt. Kenya, Nchoroigoro main forest, altitude 1743 m, July 15, 2004 (El-Banhawy).
 Female: Dorsal shield smooth, 328 long, 210 wide. Measurements of dorsal setae: j1 28, j3 35, j4, j5 12, j6, J2 16, J5 8, z2 28, z4 33, z5 12, Z1 21, Z4 28, Z5 69, s4 58, S2 30, S4, S5 14, r3 25, R1 16, JV5 46. Seta Z 5 serrated, remaining seta smooth. Peritrematal shield fused anteriorly with dorsal shield, reaching level of j1. Sternal shield smooth, with posterior lobe, distances between St I-St III 65, St II-St II 62, St IV on platelets. Genital shield 83 wide. Ventri-anal shield 110 long, 62 wide, with a pair of elliptical pre-anal pores mesad to JV2, and three pairs of pre-anal setae (JV1, JV2, ZV2). Two pairs of metapodal platelets, two pairs of sigillar sclerites, and four pairs of setae surrounding ventri-anal shield. Fixed digit of chelicera with eight teeth, movable digit with two teeth. Spermatheca calyx slender, 40 long gradually flared distally, atrium prominent, 7 long, 3 wide. Macrosetae, sharp distally, Sge II 18, Sge III 21, Sge IV 46, Sti IV 32, St IV 80. Chaetotaxy: genu II 2, 2 / 0, 2/0, 1, genu III 1, 2 /1, 2/0, 1.
 Remarks. The spermatheca of this species and U. aequideus (Blommers) are similar, however the great variations in the lengths of most dorsal setae and macrosetae separate these two species. The male is unknown.
description: Published as part of El-Banhawy, E. M. & Knapp, M., 2011, Mites of the family Phytoseiidae Berlese from Kenya (Acari: Mesostigmata) 2945, pp. 1-176 in Zootaxa 2945 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2945.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5282557
Ueckermannseius mangrovei El-Banhawy & Knapp 2011, n. sp.
Creators: name: El-Banhawy, E. M.
name: Knapp, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Ueckermannseius
Ueckermannseius mangrovei

description: Ueckermannseius mangrovei El-Banhawy &Knapp n. sp.
(Fig. 48)
 Material examined. Holotype female, Kenya, from mangrove, Pate Island, Coast Province, July 20, 2005 (El-Banhawy). Paratypes, 5 females, Lamu Island, Coast Province, July 19, 2005 (El-Banhawy)
 Female: Dorsal shield smooth, 325 long, 240 wide. Measurements of dorsal setae: j1 18, Z5 9, JV5 23, remaining setae very short, 4–7. Peritrematal shield fused anteriorly with dorsal shield, reaching level of j1. Sternal shield faintly sclerotised, distances between St I-St III 58, St II-St II 58, St IV on platelets. Genital shield 80 wide. Ventri-anal shield 105 long, 65 wide, with a pair of elliptical pre-anal pores, postero-lateral to JV2 and three pairs of pre-anal setae (JV1, JV2, ZV2). A pair of metapodal platelets, two pairs of sigillar sclerites and four pairs of setae surrounding ventri-anal shield. Fixed digit of chelicera with 9-10 teeth, movable digit with two teeth. Spermatheca calyx 45 long, anteriorly enlarged, 10 long, with posterior filament branched distally, atrium 9 long, broadly jointed with major duct. Macrosetae, sharp distally, Sge II 18, Sge III 18, Sti III 20, Sge IV 32, Sti IV 28, St IV 55. Chaetotaxy: genu II 2, 2/0, 2/0, 1, genu III 1, 2/1, 2/0, 1.
 Remarks. This species different from related species by the minute dorsal setae, shorter macrosetae, and the number of teeth on the fixed digit. The male is unknown.
description: Published as part of El-Banhawy, E. M. & Knapp, M., 2011, Mites of the family Phytoseiidae Berlese from Kenya (Acari: Mesostigmata) 2945, pp. 1-176 in Zootaxa 2945 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2945.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5282557
Long-Run Growth Dynamics of British Cities and their Role in the Economy
Creators: name: Gardiner, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cities
Productivity
Resilience
Regions
Structure
Evolution
Growth
Recession
Human Capital
Great Britain

description: This thesis examines the economic development and evolution of British cities since the 1970s. Outside of the introduction and conclusion, it is comprised of six papers, most published jointly as journal articles through work on two ESRC-funded projects, How Regions React to Recession: Resilience, Hysteresis and Long Run Impacts (Grant ES/1035811/1) and Structural Transformation, Adaptability and City Economic Evolutions (Grant ES/N006135/1). What binds the papers together, aside from their focus on different aspects of the development of British cities, is a database constructed to undertake the empirical analysis. The cities covered by the research are defined as a set of (high-population) Travel-To-Work-Areas, which are functional labour market areas defined on commuting boundaries and thresholds. What makes the database unique is both its extensive time dimension, and the range of economic indicators that have been developed to underpin the different dimensions of the research, each of which is addressed in the following chapters. Growing Apart - Structural Transformation and the Uneven Development of British Cities summarises how cities have evolved since the 1970s, and the role that sectoral change has had in their growth and decline. Reviving the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ and Spatially Rebalancing the British Economy discusses the role of cities in the ‘north-south divide’ and the emerging policies to address the perceived under-performance of northern cities. The City Dimension of the Productivity Growth Puzzle looks at the national productivity slowdown through a city lens, in particular the role played by structural change. In Search of the Skilled City investigates the role of human capital in cities and how high-skilled labour is linked to different types and geographies of urban development. Finally, The Resilience of Cities to Economic Shocks examines how cities have responded in times of recession, and how this affects their long-run performance, before looking forward to the potential impact of Brexit as the next shock on the horizon.
Multidimensional quasi-exactly solvable potentials with two known eigenstates
Creators: name: Tkachuk, V. M.
name: Fityo, T. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general approach for constructing multidimensional quasi-exactly solvable (QES) potentials with explicitly known eigenfunctions for two energy levels is proposed. Examples of new QES potentials are presented.
description: 12 pages
Parametric symplectic jet interpolation
Creators: name: Andrist, Rafael B.
name: Huang, Gaofeng
name: Kutzschebauch, Frank
name: Schott, Josua
Publisher: name: University of Bern
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02k7v4d05
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2025

description: Abstract We prove a parametric jet interpolation theorem for symplectic holomorphic automorphisms of $$\mathbb {C}^{2n}$$ C 2 n with parameters in a Stein space. Moreover, we provide an example of an unavoidable set for symplectic holomorphic maps.
Moina wierzejskii Richard 1895
Creators: name: Kotov, Alexey A.
name: Ferrari, Frank D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Moinidae
Moina
Moina wierzejskii

description: 19. Moina wierzejskii Richard, 1895
 Moina brachiata (Jurine) in Wierzejski 1893, p. 234 –235, Pl. 5: figs 2–7.
 Moina Wierzejskii Richard 1895e, p. 195 –199, figs 9–13; Goulden 1968, p. 42 –48, figs 17–19; Smirnov 1976, p. 206 – 208, figs 182, 187–188.
 Moina platensis Birabén 1917, p. 264 –266, figs 4–7; Birabén 1918, p. 118 –123, figs 38–44.
 Type locality. "Environs de Port-au Prince" (Richard 1895e), Haiti.
 Richard's specimens. Many females and males from samples DGF 719, “Moulin de Drouillon”; DGF 751, “Mare Coucher Blain. Port au Prince”; DGF 800, “Mare T. Vienp. et Briqueterie. Port au Prince”; DGF 806, “Florian Armond-Rouge. Port au Prince”; DGF 836, “Carrefour. Port-au-Prince”.
 This species is absent from other samples taken in the vicinity of Port-au Prince (DGF 721, 727, 752, 805, 989), although Moina cf. micrura is present in the some of the samples.
 Comments. Valid species, widely distributed in North, Central and South America (Goulden 1968; Smirnov 1976).
description: Published as part of Kotov, Alexey A. & Ferrari, Frank D., 2010, The taxonomic research of Jules Richard on Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) and his collection at the National Museum of Natural History, U. S. A., pp. 37-64 in Zootaxa 2551 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2551.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5304719
Data Transmission based on Exact Inverse Periodic Nonlinear Fourier Transform, Part I: Theory
Creators: name: Goossens, Jan-Willem
name: Hafermann, Hartmut
name: Jaouën, Yves
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT) decomposes waveforms propagating through optical fiber into nonlinear degrees of freedom, which are preserved during transmission. By encoding information on the nonlinear spectrum, a transmission scheme inherently compatible with the nonlinear fiber is obtained. Despite potential advantages, the periodic NFT (PNFT) has been studied less compared to its counterpart based on vanishing boundary conditions, due to the mathematical complexity of the inverse transform. In this paper we extract the theory of the algebrogeometric integration method underlying the inverse PNFT from the literature, and tailor it to the communication problem. We provide a complete algorithm to compute the inverse PNFT. As an application, we employ the algorithm to design a novel modulation scheme called nonlinear frequency amplitude modulation, where four different nonlinear frequencies are modulated independently. Finally we provide two further modulation schemes that may be considered in future research. The algorithm is further applied in Part II of this paper to the design of a PNFT-based communication experiment.
description: Significantly extended, final published version. 22 pages, 8 figures
Period-doubling events in the light curve of R Cygni: evidence for chaotic behaviour
Creators: name: Kiss, L. L.
name: Szatmary, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detailed analysis of the century long visual light curve of the long-period Mira star R Cygni is presented and discussed. The data were collected from the publicly available databases of the AFOEV, the BAAVSS and the VSOLJ. The full light curve consists of 26655 individual points obtained between 1901 and 2001. The light curve and its periodicity were analysed with help of the O-C diagram, Fourier analysis and time-frequency analysis. The results demonstrate the limitations of these linear methods. The next step was to investigate the possible presence of low-dimensional chaos in the light curve. For this, a smoothed and noise-filtered signal was created from the averaged data and with help of time delay embedding, we have tried to reconstruct the attractor of the system. The main result is that R Cygni shows such period-doubling events that can be interpreted as caused by a repetitive bifurcation of the chaotic attractor between a period 2T orbit and chaos. The switch between these two states occurs in a certain compact region of the phase space, where the light curve is characterized by ~1500-days long transients. The Lyapunov spectrum was computed for various embedding parameters confirming the chaotic attractor, although the exponents suffer from quite high uncertainty because of the applied approximation. Finally, the light curve is compared with a simple one zone model generated by a third-order differential equation which exhibits well-expressed period-doubling bifurcation. The strong resemblance is another argument for chaotic behaviour. Further studies should address the problem of global flow reconstruction, including the determination of the accurate Lyapunov exponents and dimension.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in A&A (some figures are of reduced quality)
Love Data Week: 4TU.ResearchData Data & Software repository for Science, Engineering & Design
Creators: name: Wilczyńska, Aleksandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: repository
FAIR
data publishing
data shaing
4TU.ResearchData

description: Slides supporting presentation about the 4TU.ResearchData repository given during the Love Data Week organised by University of Ghent on 11 February 2025.
Do Improvements in Environmental Performance have an Adverse Impact on Employment?
Creators: name: Stark, Camila
name: Khanna, Madhu
name: Bi, Xiang
name: Stark, Camila
name: Khanna, Madhu
name: Bi, Xiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Environmental economics
subject: Employment
subject: Toxic Release Inventory

description: One dominant argument against environmental regulations is that the regulations will increase costs to facilities, causing the facilities to lay-off their workers. However, there are several ways facilities can respond to regulatory and community pressures to increase environmental performance. The facility could reduce its emissions of toxic chemicals by preventing pollution at the beginning of the process, controlling pollution by recycling or treating chemicals, or controlling pollution using end of pipe techniques. Furthermore, these responses can affect employment in different ways, depending on whether abatement activities require more or less labor and their effect on the scale of output. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of facilities’ voluntary reductions in toxic emissions on their level of employment by estimating the level pollution control and employment as a simultaneous decision made by facilities. We compare the different methods facilities use to reduce their emissions and how these methods affect facility-level employment. We apply a 3SLS model to panel data from the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory and a unique facility-level dataset, which includes facility-level characteristic data on over 10,000 establishments across the United States over 15 years, from 1995 to 2011. Our results show that reductions in toxic releases had a statistically significant negative impact on employment. However, if the facility reduces emissions using prevent pollution methods through reducing emissions per unit of sales, then the facility will reduce less employment than if the facility reduced pollution using end of pipe pollution control methods. These effects are similar if the facility is reducing regulated emission as well as non-regulated emissions.
Reservoir Topology in Deep Echo State Networks
Creators: name: Gallicchio, Claudio
name: Micheli, Alessio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Deep Echo State Networks (DeepESNs) recently extended the applicability of Reservoir Computing (RC) methods towards the field of deep learning. In this paper we study the impact of constrained reservoir topologies in the architectural design of deep reservoirs, through numerical experiments on several RC benchmarks. The major outcome of our investigation is to show the remarkable effect, in terms of predictive performance gain, achieved by the synergy between a deep reservoir construction and a structured organization of the recurrent units in each layer. Our results also indicate that a particularly advantageous architectural setting is obtained in correspondence of DeepESNs where reservoir units are structured according to a permutation recurrent matrix.
description: Preprint of the paper published in the proceedings of ICANN 2019
Evaluating the Effects of River and Stream Restorations
Creators: name: Baggio, Michele
name: Towe, Charles
name: Baggio, Michele
name: Towe, Charles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Stream Restoration
subject: Catch Rate
subject: Propensity Score

description: This research is the first analysis of a large and long term study of stream restoration activity for Switzerland. This manuscript focuses on the largest Swiss canton of Graubünden (about twice the size of Rhode Island) which is primarily mountainous and rural in character and is a destination for recreational fishing. It contains 11,000 km of streams and over 600 lakes and ponds. Despite stocking efforts, trout catches in Switzerland have declined by as much as 50% since the 1980s potentially due to deteriorated ecological conditions although no single causative factor was identified. In canton Graubünden we observe a reduction in the number of anglers since 2002 though fishing intensity and catch per trip remain stable over time. We utilize the stream data to first establish the relationship between restoration events and trip-level catch totals by species and size. Our preliminary results suggest that the impact of the restoration on the downstream reaches include an increase in the size of the catch by 0.25 cm, an impact on the probability of a catch of 5% both statistically significant
Impact of Money Supply on Aggregate Price Levels: Evidence from Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Abeygunawardena, P
name: Gunatilake, H.M
name: Abeygunawardena, P
name: Gunatilake, H.M
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Land Economics/Use
Political Economy
Public Economics

description: The effect of a stock of money on agricultural prices has been a crucial issue in recent discussions on the effectiveness of macro-economic policies on the agricultural sector. The agricultural price level is important because it influences the supply and demand of agricultural products. Theoretically it is widely accepted that the money supply is positively related to the price level in the short form and this effect is neutralized in the long-run leaving real variables i.e. output, employment and income unaffected. The short-run impact of an increase in the money supply, theoretically, has two components: (1) increase employment and output, and (2) increase in price levels. Empirical tests for effects of money supply on agricultural prices, however, have yielded mix results. Some researchers have found evidence on the positive effect of the money supply on agricultural prices while others have reported that relative agricultural prices are not affected by changes in the nominal stock of money. Since the issue is inconclusive so far, it is germane to shed more light on the relationship between these two variables under various circumstances. Monthly data on the money supply and aggregate price levels (for all commodities and food items) of the Consumer Price Index from 1970 to 1990 were used for the analysis. The same price data from the Whole Sale Price Index from 1978 to 1990 were also used for the analysis. Narrow money supply and broad money supply were used to fit Vector Auto Regression (VAR) models to examine the dynamic relationship between the money supply and prices in Sri Lanka. Resource reveal that there is no statistically significant causal effect of the money supply and aggregate food prices in both price indices for the given period of time. The Consumer Price Index for all commodities, however, shows a causal relationship to changes in the money supply. The price index of all items in WPI also does not have a significant response to the changes in the stock of money. This raises the question as to how effective would the increase in the money supply be, as a macro-economic stabilization policy in manipulating the agricultural sector in the country.
What's the Matter? Toward a Neo-Aristotelian Ontology of Nature
Creators: name: Simpson, William Michael Richard
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: primitive ontology
quantum entanglement
metaphysics of science
Humeanism
Super-Humeanism
powers ontology
hylomorphism
metaphysical grounding
emergence
Putnam's paradox
Bohmian mechanics
wave function collapse
reductionism
power structuralism
microphysicalism
substance ontology

description: This thesis contributes to the development of a ‘neo-Aristotelian’ ontology of powers that accommodates quantum phenomena. It offers a number of philosophical objections to ‘Super-Humean’ metaphysics, and constructs a sequence of models that aim to improve upon it, using the metaphysical toolbox constructed in Part I. In Part II, I explore how quantum entanglement challenges the ‘classical’ conception of the world as consisting of particles (or fields) with intrinsic physical properties (Chapter 3). I consider the metaphysical model offered by Super-Humeanism, which accommodates entanglement by combining a ‘primitive ontology approach’ to quantum mechanics with ontic structural realism (Chapter 4). According to Super-Humeans, the world is made of matter points constituted by distance relations. I raise three objections to its structuralist conception of matter. I then propose an alternative semi-Humean model, ‘Bohmian power structuralism’, which overcomes these objections through an ontology of ‘power-atoms’ with multi-track causal powers (Chapter 5). But its Humean conception of laws can be challenged. A second model, ‘power monism’, enriches the primitive ontology to include a ‘cosmic power’ that transforms the power-atoms into a cosmic whole, and supports an Aristotelian-essentialist conception of laws (Chapter 6). This model overcomes the difficulties with power structuralism, but is susceptible to Hawthorne’s ‘extrinsicality’ argument, excluding consciousness from the physical world. In Part III, I consider the emergence of thermochemical properties within macroscopic (or mesoscopic) quantum systems. Metaphysical models that incorporate only finite degrees of freedom, like Super-Humeanism, cannot accommodate properties like temperature and chemical entropy, which are represented in physics in the ‘thermodynamic limit’ (Chapter 7). I offer an additional argument against adopting a reductionist approach based on Putnam’s ‘permutation argument’ (Chapter 8). Finally, I outline a third model, ‘power pluralism’, in which the world consists of: a substrate of ‘power-gunk’, and ‘substantial powers’ that elicit substances from the power-gunk (Chapter 9). In this model, quantum-entangled microscopic particles are potential parts of macroscopic (or mesoscopic) substances, which have intrinsic thermochemical properties.
description: Blacker-Loewe Full Doctoral Studentship in Philosophy (Peterhouse)
Ueckermannseius musoli El-Banhawy & Knapp 2011, n. sp.
Creators: name: El-Banhawy, E. M.
name: Knapp, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Ueckermannseius
Ueckermannseius musoli

description: Ueckermannseius musoli El-Banhawy & Knapp n. sp.
(Fig. 49)
 Material examined. Holotype female, Kenya, Taita Hills, Coast Province, altitude 1600 m, July 2, 2006 (El-Banhawy); 1 paratype female, same locality data as holotype.
 Female: Dorsal shield smooth with antero-lateral striations, 340 long, 200 wide, with five pairs of pores. Measurements of dorsal setae: j1, 23, j3 25, j4, j5 13, j6, J2 14, J5 5, z2 16, z4 23, z5 12, Z1 14, Z4 20, Z5 55, s4 35, S2 23, S4, S5 25, r3 16, R1 14, JV5 35. Seta Z 5 serrated, remaining setae smooth. Peritrematal shield fused anteriorly with dorsal shield, reaching level of j1. Sternal shield bilobate posteriorly, distances between St I-St III 58, St II-St II 56, St IV free on integument. Genital shield 74 wide. Ventri-anal shield 95 long, 65 wide, with a pair of elliptical pre-anal pores posterior to JV2 and three pairs of pre-anal setae (JV1, JV2, ZV2). Two pairs of metapodal platelets, two pairs of sigillar sclerites and four pairs of setae surrounding ventri-anal shield. Fixed digit of chelicera with eight teeth, movable digit with three teeth. Spermatheca calyx short, funnel-shaped, 14 long, 7 wide distally, atrium bulbous, 4 long. Macrosetae, Sge II 25, Sge III 23, Sti III 25, Sge IV 35, Sti IV 30, St IV 36. Chaetotaxy: Genu II 2, 2 / 0, 2/0, 1, genu III 1, 2 /1, 2/0, 1.
 Remarks. This species is similar to Ueckermannseius danhomeenis Moraes et al.. The variation in lengths of setae z4, Z4, s4, S2, S4, S5 and macrosetae on leg IV separates these two species. The male is unknown.
description: Published as part of El-Banhawy, E. M. & Knapp, M., 2011, Mites of the family Phytoseiidae Berlese from Kenya (Acari: Mesostigmata) 2945, pp. 1-176 in Zootaxa 2945 (1) on pages 33-34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2945.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5282557
Children and childhood under the Irish Poor Law, c. 1850-1914
Creators: name: Gallaher, Simon
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Children
Childhood
Ireland
Irish Poor Law
Workhouse
Institutional Welfare

description: This thesis examines the provision of poor relief for children under the Irish Poor Law during the post-Famine era, and it argues that prevailing social constructs of childhood had a major influence upon how welfare was provided for the children within the workhouse institutions. The Irish Poor Law, centred on the workhouse, was the first national system of statutory poor relief and it marked a significant change in how poor children and families were provided for in Ireland. Through a statistical analysis of workhouse populations, the thesis explores the how the demography of pauper children changed in the decades following the Great Famine. Poor relief was a key element in the economy of makeshifts of poor families, and the analysis of workhouse admission registers shows that children’s family circumstances largely determined the reasons for which children entered a workhouse. Children also received an education in the workhouse school in the form of schooling in literacy and a gendered programme of industrial training. However, the institutional environment was detrimental to children’s health and this precipitated efforts to remove children from the workhouses into alternative forms of care. This study details how these various aspects of poor relief encountered by children in the workhouses were interlinked and together informed the cultural imagining of the ambiguous concept of a pauper childhood.
Twin jets as a potential distance detector
Creators: name: Qin, Yi-Ping
name: Xie, Guang-Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A preview study of using observational data of proper motions and Doppler shifted velocities of twin-jets to determine the distance of sources inside and outside our galaxy is made. We investigate the feasibility of this method by studying the uncertainty of the distance caused by the uncertainties of the measured quantities. It shows that, when the motion of components of the jet is relativistic, then the uncertainty of the distance is within the same order of the uncertainties of the measured values of proper motions and Doppler shifted velocities. In particular, when assuming the pattern speed equals the flow speed in the jet, for 10% uncertainties of the measured quantities, the uncertainty of the distance caused by them would be well within 13%. With current technique, this method is realizable. For the convenience of choosing sources to observe, some sources as potential targets are also listed in this paper.
description: 11 pages
Appropriate Intercropping Systems for Coconut Small Holders: An Application of Multi-Period Linear Programming Technique in Coconut – Based Farming Systems
Creators: name: Herath, Anura
name: Herath, Anura
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Farm Management
Land Economics/Use
Productivity Analysis

description: Increasing the productivity of coconut-based farming systems is an important development issue. To achieve increased productivity, intercropping of coffee, pepper and cocoa with coconut was recommended. Farmers’ adoption of such intercropping on a sustained basis has been very poor. The paper provides some intercropping plans developed using a multi-period linear programming model of the coconut-based farming systems. Farmers’ objectives, namely profit maximizing and survival, and resource constraints are included. The model maximizes the present value of gross margins of intercropping activities for a 20-year period. Both market interest and farmers’ time preference rates are used as discount rates. Government subsidies for intercropping are included to highlight their implications on the model results. The intercropping plans envisage that coffee, pepper or cocoa be planted in several stages simultaneously with annual and semi-perennial crops such as vegetables, betels, banana and pine apple. This method is markedly different from the recommended coconut intercropping methods. Utilizing the results, recommendations are made on intercropping subsidy policy and research strategies for coconut-based farming systems.
Data Transmission based on Exact Inverse Periodic Nonlinear Fourier Transform, Part II: Waveform Design and Experiment
Creators: name: Goossens, Jan-Willem
name: Hafermann, Hartmut
name: Jaouën, Yves
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The nonlinear Fourier transform has the potential to overcome limits on performance and achievable data rates which arise in modern optical fiber communication systems when nonlinear interference is treated as noise. The periodic nonlinear Fourier transform (PNFT) has been much less investigated compared to its counterpart based on vanishing boundary conditions. In this paper, we design a first experiment based on the PNFT in which information is encoded in the invariant nonlinear main spectrum. To this end, we propose a method to construct a set of periodic waveforms each having the same fixed period, by employing the exact inverse PNFT algorithm developed in Part I. We demonstrate feasibility of the transmission scheme in experiment in good agreement with simulations and obtain a bit-error ratio of $10^{-3}$ over a distance of 2000 km. It is shown that the transmission reach is significantly longer than expected from a naive estimate based on group velocity dispersion and cyclic prefix length, which is explained through a dominating solitonic component in the transmitted waveform. Our constellation design can be generalized to an arbitrary number of nonlinear degrees of freedom.
description: Final accepted version. 10 pages, 7 figures
On dynamical r-matrices obtained from Dirac reduction and their generalizations to affine Lie algebras
Creators: name: Fehér, L.
name: Gábor, A.
name: Pusztai, B. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: According to Etingof and Varchenko, the classical dynamical Yang-Baxter equation is a guarantee for the consistency of the Poisson bracket on certain Poisson-Lie groupoids. Here it is noticed that Dirac reductions of these Poisson manifolds give rise to a mapping from dynamical r-matrices on a pair $Ł\subset \A$ to those on another pair $\K\subset \A$, where $\K\subset Ł\subset \A$ is a chain of Lie algebras for which $Ł$ admits a reductive decomposition as $Ł=\K+\M$. Several known dynamical r-matrices appear naturally in this setting, and its application provides new r-matrices, too. In particular, we exhibit a family of r-matrices for which the dynamical variable lies in the grade zero subalgebra of an extended affine Lie algebra obtained from a twisted loop algebra based on an arbitrary finite dimensional self-dual Lie algebra.
description: 19 pages, LaTeX, added a reference and a footnote and removed some typos
Supplementary materials and Figures from Finding the direction of lowest resilience in multivariate complex systems
Creators: name: Weinans, Els
name: J. Jelle Lever
name: Bathiany, Sebastian
name: Quax, Rick
name: Bascompte, Jordi
name: Nes, Egbert H. Van
name: Scheffer, Marten
name: Leemput, Ingrid A. Van De
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The dynamics of complex systems, such as ecosystems, financial markets and the human brain, emerge from the interactions of numerous components. We often lack the knowledge to build reliable models for the behaviour of such network systems. This makes it difficult to predict potential instabilities. We show that one could use the natural fluctuations in multivariate time series to reveal network regions with particularly slow dynamics. The multidimensional slowness points to the direction of minimal resilience, in the sense that simultaneous perturbations on this set of nodes will take longest to recover. We compare an autocorrelation-based method with a variance-based method for different time-series lengths, data resolution and different noise regimes. We show that the autocorrelation-based method is less robust for short time series or time series with a low resolution but more robust for varying noise levels. This novel approach may help to identify unstable regions of multivariate systems or to distinguish safe from unsafe perturbations.
Ueckermannseius Chant & McMurtry
Creators: name: El-Banhawy, E. M.
name: Knapp, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Ueckermannseius

description: Genus Ueckermannseius Chant & McMurtry
 Ueckermannia Chant & McMurtry, 2005a: 201 (preoccupied).
 Ueckermannseius Chant & McMurtry, 2005b: 337 (replacement name).
 Type species: Amblyseius munsteriensis Van der Merwe, 1965.
 Diagnosis. Dorsal setae short/minute, subequal; seta Z4 shorter than distance between its base and that of Z5 or S4; setae s4: Z1<3.0: 1.0; dorsal shield smooth except for anterolateral striations, or with dorsocentral ornamentation; without a marked indentation laterally (Chant & McMurtry, 2005a).
description: Published as part of El-Banhawy, E. M. & Knapp, M., 2011, Mites of the family Phytoseiidae Berlese from Kenya (Acari: Mesostigmata) 2945, pp. 1-176 in Zootaxa 2945 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2945.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5282557