cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Estimating Knots and Their Association in Parallel Bilinear Spline Growth Curve Models in the Framework of Individual Measurement Occasions
Creators: name: Liu, Jin
name: Perera, Robert A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Latent growth curve models with spline functions are flexible and accessible statistical tools for investigating nonlinear change patterns that exhibit distinct phases of development in manifested variables. Among such models, the bilinear spline growth model (BLSGM) is the most straightforward and intuitive but useful. An existing study has demonstrated that the BLSGM allows the knot (or change-point), at which two linear segments join together, to be an additional growth factor other than the intercept and slopes so that researchers can estimate the knot and its variability in the framework of individual measurement occasions. However, developmental processes usually unfold in a joint development where two or more outcomes and their change patterns are correlated over time. As an extension of the existing BLSGM with an unknown knot, this study considers a parallel BLSGM (PBLSGM) for investigating multiple nonlinear growth processes and estimating the knot with its variability of each process as well as the knot-knot association in the framework of individual measurement occasions. We present the proposed model by simulation studies and a real-world data analysis. Our simulation studies demonstrate that the proposed PBLSGM generally estimate the parameters of interest unbiasedly, precisely and exhibit appropriate confidence interval coverage. An empirical example using longitudinal reading scores, mathematics scores, and science scores shows that the model can estimate the knot with its variance for each growth curve and the covariance between two knots. We also provide the corresponding code for the proposed model.
description: \textcircled{c}2020, American Psychological Association. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the final, authoritative version of the article. Please do not copy or cite without authors' permission. The final article will be available, upon publication, via its DOI: 10.1037/met0000309
Psychidarbela blancoi Yakovlev & Hulsbosch 2023, sp. n.
Creators: name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
name: Hulsbosch, Ramon
name: Zolotuhin, Vadim V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Psychidarbela
Psychidarbela blancoi

description: Psychidarbela blancoi Yakovlev & Hulsbosch, sp. n.
https://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: F0C6867C-DD2A-465E-A2CE-8429E7CCB5D9
Figs 5‒6, 15, 17
 Material examined. Holotype, female, Philippinen, Mindanao, Prov. Simangani, Cotabato, Mt. Busa, near Kainba [sic! – Kaimba, 5°25'8" N / 125°25'36" E], 700 m, vi.1998, leg. Bal (MWM, Genitalpräparat Heterocera MWM: 26647). Paratype, 1 female, Philipinen, Negros, Prov. Negros Occidental, Mt. Kanlaon, 600‒800 m, W route via Mambucal, January 1998, primary forest, ex coll. Dr. Ronald Brechlin (MWM, Genitalpräparat Heterocera MWM: 9517).
 Description. Female. Length of fore wing 15‒18 mm. Antenna short (about 1/4 of fore wing in length), bipectinate, setae 3 times longer than antenna stem in diameter. Thorax and abdomen densely covered with brown scales. Fore wing brown, pattern poorly expressed: series of hardly noticeable dark-brown spots postdiscally, poorly expressed thin wavy dark-brown lines submarginally, fringe brown. Hind wing brown, without pattern, fringe brown.
Female genitalia. Papillae anales lobe-like, wide; apophyses posteriores short, tapered; apophyses anteriores thin, short, one third longer than apophyses posteriores; ostium slit-like; ductus bursae long, wide; ductus seminalis narrow, passing from ductus bursae in basal third; bursa bag-like without signa.
Male unknown.
 Diagnosis. The new species is distinguished from the known species of the genus by the dark spots on the fore wing postdiscally and in the poorly expressed wavy pattern on the fore wing submarginally.
 Etymology. Francisco Manuel Blanco (1778‒1845) was a Spanish friar and botanist. Towards the end of his life, he became the delegate of his order in Manila, traveling throughout the archipelago. He is the author of one of the first comprehensive flora of the Philippines, Flora de Filipinas. Según el sistema de Linneo (Flora of the Philippines according to the system of Linnaeus).
 Distribution. Philippines (Mindanao and Negros Islands).
description: Published as part of Yakovlev, Roman V., Hulsbosch, Ramon & Zolotuhin, Vadim V., 2023, Revision of the family Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera) of the Oriental Region. XI. Genus Psychidarbela Roepke, 1938, pp. 51-59 in Ecologica Montenegrina 65 on pages 56-57, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.65.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13246484
Imaging mitochondrial calcium dynamics in the central nervous system
Creators: name: Serrat, Roman
name: Oliveira-Pinto, Alexandre
name: Marsicano, Giovanni
name: Pouvreau, Sandrine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Mitochondrial calcium handling is a particularly active research area in the neuroscience field, as it plays key roles in the regulation of several functions of the central nervous system, such as synaptic transmission and plasticity, astrocyte calcium signaling, neuronal activity{\ldots} In the last few decades, a panel of techniques have been developed to measure mitochondrial calcium dynamics, relying mostly on photonic microscopy, and including synthetic sensors, hybrid sensors and genetically encoded calcium sensors. The goal of this review is to endow the reader with a deep knowledge of the historical and latest tools to monitor mitochondrial calcium events in the brain, as well as a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art in brain mitochondrial calcium signaling. We will discuss the main calcium probes used in the field, their mitochondrial targeting strategies, their key properties and major drawbacks. In addition, we will detail the main roles of mitochondrial calcium handling in neuronal tissues through an extended report of the recent studies using mitochondrial targeted calcium sensors in neuronal and astroglial cells, in vitro and in vivo.
Neurals Networks for Projecting Named Entities from English to Ewondo
Creators: name: Mbouopda, Michael Franklin
name: Yonta, Paulin Melatagia
name: Lombo, Guy Stephane B. Fedim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Named entity recognition is an important task in natural language processing. It is very well studied for rich language, but still under explored for low-resource languages. The main reason is that the existing techniques required a lot of annotated data to reach good performance. Recently, a new distributional representation of words has been proposed to project named entities from a rich language to a low-resource one. This representation has been coupled to a neural network in order to project named entities from English to Ewondo, a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon. Although the proposed method reached appreciable results, the size of the used neural network was too large compared to the size of the dataset. Furthermore the impact of the model parameters has not been studied. In this paper, we show experimentally that the same results can be obtained using a smaller neural network. We also emphasize the parameters that are highly correlated to the network performance. This work is a step forward to build a reliable and robust network architecture for named entity projection in low resource languages.
Characteristics of children admitted to hospital with acute SARS-CoV-2 infection in Canada in 2020
Creators: name: Drouin, Olivier
name: Moore Hepburn, Charlotte
name: Farrar, Daniel S.
name: Baerg, Krista
name: Chan, Kevin
name: Cyr, Claude
name: Donner, Elizabeth J.
name: Embree, Joanne E.
name: Farrell, Catherine
name: Forgie, Sarah
name: Giroux, Ryan
name: Kang, Kristopher T.
name: King, Melanie
name: Laffin, Melanie
name: Luu, Thuy Mai
name: Orkin, Julia
name: Papenburg, Jesse
name: Pound, Catherine M.
name: Price, Victoria E.
name: Purewal, Rupeena
name: Sadarangani, Manish
name: Salvadori, Marina I.
name: Top, Karina A.
name: Viel-Thériault, Isabelle
name: Kakkar, Fatima
name: Morris, Shaun K.
Publisher: name: Canadian Medical Association
Year: 2021

description: Background: Risk factors for severe outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infection are not well established in children. We sought to describe pediatric hospital admissions associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in Canada and identify risk factors for more severe disease. Methods: We conducted a national prospective study using the infrastructure of the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program (CPSP). Cases involving children who were admitted to hospital with microbiologically confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection were reported from Apr. 8 to Dec. 31 2020, through weekly online questionnaires distributed to the CPSP network of more than 2800 pediatricians. We categorized hospital admissions as related to COVID-19, incidental, or for social or infection control reasons and determined risk factors for disease severity in hospital. Results: Among 264 hospital admissions involving children with SARS-CoV-2 infection during the 9-month study period, 150 (56.8%) admissions were related to COVID-19 and 100 (37.9%) were incidental infections (admissions for other reasons and found to be positive for SARS-CoV-2 on screening). Infants (37.3%) and adolescents (29.6%) represented most cases. Among hospital admissions related to COVID-19, 52 (34.7%) had critical disease, 42 (28.0%) of whom required any form of respiratory or hemodynamic support, and 59 (39.3%) had at least 1 underlying comorbidity. Children with obesity, chronic neurologic conditions or chronic lung disease other than asthma were more likely to have severe or critical COVID-19. Interpretation: Among children who were admitted to hospital with SARSCoV-2 infection in Canada during the early COVID-19 pandemic period, incidental SARS-CoV-2 infection was common. In children admitted with acute COVID-19, obesity and neurologic and respiratory comorbidities were associated with more severe disease.
title: The Pernicious Influence of Citizenship Rights on Workers' Rights in the EU: The Case of Student Finance
Creators: name: Turmo, Araceli
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: free movement of workers
subject: frontier workers
subject: Union citizenship
subject: discrimination
subject: student finance
subject: social advantages

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(3), 1115-1138
description: I. Introduction. - II. The perplexing extension of "sufficient links" tests to frontier workers' social advantages. - II.1. A questionable but minor initial development. - II.2. A problematic extension to student finance. - II.3. A clear break with established case law and secondary law. - III. A contentious "investor's approach" to social advantages. - III.1. Questionable legitimacy. - III.2. Questionable workability. - IV. A problematic case law caused by the absence of ambitious legislative reforms. - IV.1. The uncertain development of a specific status for frontier workers. - IV.2. A consequence of Member States' adaptation to Union citizen rights. - IV.3. The need for legislative reform.
description: A series of rulings by the Court of Justice, dating back to 2007, have seamlessly introduced an inequality between frontier workers and migrant workers within the EU, especially in terms of access to social advantages. This series of precedents culminated in December 2016, in two rulings in which the Court of Justice accepted the validity of Luxembourgish rules relying on tests based on the duration of work in that Member State in order to determine who, among frontier workers, could benefit from portable funding to help their children to pursue higher education abroad. The lack of justification for this development of the case law concerning frontier workers is made all the more surprising by the fact that it is clearly contra legem. Both previous case law and secondary law have always held that frontier workers are workers exercising their freedom of movement under Art. 45 TFEU, who should benefit from equal treatment. The potential scope of this new restriction to frontier workers' rights under freedom of movement remains to be determined. This Article argues that these rulings are not only contra legem but also that they are based on highly questionable lines of reasoning, and that the explanation for this development can be found in the influence of Member States' gradual adaptation to rules granting equal treatment to certain economically inactive citizens, as well as in insufficient legislative intervention at EU level.
Nature of Andreev bound states in Josephson junctions of triple-point semimetals
Creators: name: Mandal, Ipsita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study superconductor-barrier-superconductor (S-B-S) Josephson junctions constructed out of two-dimensional and three-dimensional triple-point semimetals, which feature a threefold degeneracy at a single nodal point. We assume a weak and homogeneous s-wave pairing in each superconducting region, and a potential difference is applied across a piece of normal-state semimetal to create the barrier region. We compute the wavefunctions of the Andreev bound states (ABSs), considering the thin-barrier limit. The appropriate boundary conditions at the S-B and B-S junctions allow us to compute the discrete energy eigenvalues $\pm |\varepsilon| $ of the ABSs. We get two distinct solutions for $|\varepsilon| $. This result differs from that in graphene and Weyl semimetals, where one obtains only one solution for $|\varepsilon| $. The multifold nature of the triple-point fermions is responsible for this difference. We also illustrate the behaviour of the Josephson current flowing across the S-B-S junction.
description: journal version to appear in Modern Physics Letters B; follow-up paper of arxiv:2312.16164
SCuLE Response for the EMRIP Report on repatriation of ceremonial objects and human remains under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Creators: name: Pavis, Mathilde
name: Wallace, Andrea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: copyright
intellectual property
public domain
human rights
UNDRIP

description: Submitted on 15 April 2020, this submission to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples calls attention to the importance of intellectual property and related rights (IPR) to the repatriation of ceremonial objects and human remains, and to the implementation of articles 11, 12, and 13 of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It outlines key aspects of IPR for states, cultural heritage institutions and Indigenous peoples to consider in the context of repatriation and proposes a strategy around IPR repatriation.
Fair Augmentation for Graph Collaborative Filtering
Creators: name: Boratto, Ludovico
name: Fabbri, Francesco
name: Fenu, Gianni
name: Marras, Mirko
name: Medda, Giacomo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent developments in recommendation have harnessed the collaborative power of graph neural networks (GNNs) in learning users' preferences from user-item networks. Despite emerging regulations addressing fairness of automated systems, unfairness issues in graph collaborative filtering remain underexplored, especially from the consumer's perspective. Despite numerous contributions on consumer unfairness, only a few of these works have delved into GNNs. A notable gap exists in the formalization of the latest mitigation algorithms, as well as in their effectiveness and reliability on cutting-edge models. This paper serves as a solid response to recent research highlighting unfairness issues in graph collaborative filtering by reproducing one of the latest mitigation methods. The reproduced technique adjusts the system fairness level by learning a fair graph augmentation. Under an experimental setup based on 11 GNNs, 5 non-GNN models, and 5 real-world networks across diverse domains, our investigation reveals that fair graph augmentation is consistently effective on high-utility models and large datasets. Experiments on the transferability of the fair augmented graph open new issues for future recommendation studies. Source code: https://github.com/jackmedda/FA4GCF.
Fermionic Chern insulator from twisted light with linear polarization
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Utso
name: Chaudhary, Swati
name: Grass, Tobias
name: Johnson, Allan S.
name: Wall, Simon
name: Lewenstein, Maciej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The breaking of time-reversal symmetry is a crucial ingredient to topological bands. It can occur intrisically in materials with magnetic order, or be induced by external fields, such as magnetic fields in quantum Hall systems, or circularly polarized light fields in Floquet Chern insulators. Apart from polarization, photons can carry another degree of freedom, orbital angular momentum, through which time-reversal symmetry can be broken. In this Letter, we pose the question whether this property allows for inducing topological bands via a linearly polarized but twisted light beam. To this end, we study a graphene-like model of electrons on a honeycomb lattice interacting with a twisted light field. To identify topological behavior of the electrons, we calculate their local markers of Chern number, and monitor the presence of in-gap edge states. Our results are shown to be fully analogous to the behavior found in paradigmatic models for static and driven Chern insulators, and realizing the state is experimentally straightforward. With this, our work establishes a new mechanism for generating Fermionic topological phases of matter that can harness the central phase singularity of an optical vortex beam.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Chaos and magic in the dissipative quantum kicked top
Creators: name: Passarelli, Gianluca
name: Lucignano, Procolo
name: Rossini, Davide
name: Russomanno, Angelo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider an infinite-range interacting quantum spin-1/2 model, undergoing periodic kicking and dissipatively coupled with an environment. In the thermodynamic limit, it is described by classical mean-field equations that can show regular and chaotic regimes. At finite size, we describe the system dynamics using stochastic quantum trajectories. We find that the asymptotic nonstabilizerness (alias the magic, a measure of quantum complexity), averaged over trajectories, mirrors to some extent the classical chaotic behavior, while the entanglement entropy has no relation with chaos in the thermodynamic limit.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures, final version, accepted in Quantum; fixed a typo in Eq. (11)
Asymptotics of the persistence exponent of integrated fractional Brownian motion and fractionally integrated Brownian motion
Creators: name: Aurzada, Frank
name: Kilian, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G15, 60G22

description: We consider the persistence probability for the integrated fractional Brownian motion and the fractionally integrated Brownian motion with parameter $H,$ respectively. For the integrated fractional Brownian motion, we discuss a conjecture of Molchan and Khokhlov and determine the asymptotic behavior of the persistence exponent as $H\to 0$ and $H\to 1,$ which is in accordance with the conjecture. For the fractionally integrated Brownian motion, also called Riemann-Liouville process, we find the asymptotic behavior of the persistence exponent as $H\to 0$.
description: Minor corrections
Extending Mixture of Experts Model to Investigate Heterogeneity of Trajectories: When, Where and How to Add Which Covariates
Creators: name: Liu, Jin
name: Perera, Robert A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Researchers are usually interested in examining the impact of covariates when separating heterogeneous samples into latent classes that are more homogeneous. The majority of theoretical and empirical studies with such aims have focused on identifying covariates as predictors of class membership in the structural equation modeling framework. In other words, the covariates only indirectly affect the sample heterogeneity. However, the covariates' influence on between-individual differences can also be direct. This article presents a mixture model that investigates covariates to explain within-cluster and between-cluster heterogeneity simultaneously, known as a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model. This study aims to extend the MoE framework to investigate heterogeneity in nonlinear trajectories: to identify latent classes, covariates as predictors to clusters, and covariates that explain within-cluster differences in change patterns over time. Our simulation studies demonstrate that the proposed model generally estimates the parameters unbiasedly, precisely and exhibits appropriate empirical coverage for a nominal 95% confidence interval. This study also proposes implementing structural equation model forests to shrink the covariate space of the proposed mixture model. We illustrate how to select covariates and construct the proposed model with longitudinal mathematics achievement data. Additionally, we demonstrate that the proposed mixture model can be further extended in the structural equation modeling framework by allowing the covariates that have direct effects to be time-varying.
description: \textcircled{c}2021, American Psychological Association. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the final, authoritative version of the article. Please do not copy or cite without authors' permission. The final article will be available, upon publication, via its DOI: 10.1037/met0000436
Simplified Game of Life: Algorithms and Complexity
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus
name: Jecker, Ismaël
name: Svoboda, Jakub
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Game of Life is a simple and elegant model to study dynamical system over networks. The model consists of a graph where every vertex has one of two types, namely, dead or alive. A configuration is a mapping of the vertices to the types. An update rule describes how the type of a vertex is updated given the types of its neighbors. In every round, all vertices are updated synchronously, which leads to a configuration update. While in general, Game of Life allows a broad range of update rules, we focus on two simple families of update rules, namely, underpopulation and overpopulation, that model several interesting dynamics studied in the literature. In both settings, a dead vertex requires at least a desired number of live neighbors to become alive. For underpopulation (resp., overpopulation), a live vertex requires at least (resp. at most) a desired number of live neighbors to remain alive. We study the basic computation problems, e.g., configuration reachability, for these two families of rules. For underpopulation rules, we show that these problems can be solved in polynomial time, whereas for overpopulation rules they are PSPACE-complete.
description: Published at MFCS 2020
Alternative processing routes for magnetite ores
Creators: name: Purohit, Suneeti
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Steel is the most commonly used and recyclable material available on earth. However, for every tonne of steel made, nearly twice the amount of carbon dioxide is produced. This thesis is contributed towards reducing the carbon footprints from the steel making industry through the development of two novel processing routes of iron ores, which is the basic ingredient of making steel. First proposed process is an alternative cleaner route of magnetite ore agglomeration. The other process involves using concentrated solar heat to substitute nearly 50 per cent of fossil fuels responsible for process heat generation during ironmaking.
Correlation of structure and stellar properties of galaxies in Stripe 82
Creators: name: Sachdeva, Sonali
name: Ho, Luis C.
name: Li, Yang A.
name: Shankar, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Establishing a correlation (or lack thereof) between the bimodal colour distribution of galaxies and their structural parameters is crucial to understand the origin of bimodality. To achieve that, we have performed 2D mass-based structural decomposition (bulge+disc) of all disc galaxies (total$=$1263) in the Herschel imaging area of the Stripe 82 region using $K_s$ band images from the VICS82 survey. The scaling relations thus derived are found to reflect the internal kinematics and are employed in combination to select an indubitable set of classical and pseudo bulge hosting disc galaxies. The rest of the galaxies ($<20\%$) are marked as discs with "ambiguous" bulges. Pseudo and classical bulge disc galaxies exhibit clear bimodality in terms of all stellar parameters ($M_*$, sSFR, $r-K_s$). All pseudo bulge disc galaxies are blue and star-forming and all classical bulge disc galaxies are red and quiescent with less than $5\%$ digressions. Ambiguous bulge disc galaxies are intermittent to pseudo and classical bulge disc galaxies in the distribution of all structural and stellar parameters. $Δ$$\langleμ_{eb}\rangle$ - based on the placement of bulges on the Kormendy relation - is found to be the most efficient single structural indicator of both bulge type and stellar activity. The placement of ambiguous bulge disc galaxies on scaling relations and fundamental plane, in addition to their peculiar stellar properties suggest that they are dominantly a part of the green valley.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 16 pages, 10 figures
On explicit $L^2$-convergence rate estimate for piecewise deterministic Markov processes in MCMC algorithms
Creators: name: Lu, Jianfeng
name: Wang, Lihan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We establish $L^2$-exponential convergence rate for three popular piecewise deterministic Markov processes for sampling: the randomized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo method, the zigzag process, and the bouncy particle sampler. Our analysis is based on a variational framework for hypocoercivity, which combines a Poincaré-type inequality in time-augmented state space and a standard $L^2$ energy estimate. Our analysis provides explicit convergence rate estimates, which are more quantitative than existing results.
description: Under minor revision
Psychidarbela pellucida Yakovlev & Hulsbosch & Zolotuhin 2023, comb. n.
Creators: name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
name: Hulsbosch, Ramon
name: Zolotuhin, Vadim V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Psychidarbela
Psychidarbela pellucida

description: Psychidarbela pellucida (Nonaka, 2021) comb. n.
Figs 7‒9, 12, 16‒17
 Laonagoda pellucida Nonaka, 2021: 61−62.
Figs 7‒9
Type material (Holotype, male) in UMTU, examined.
Type locality: Laos, Luan Prabang, Phou Khoun, Ban Kalo [19.50724°, 102.59606°].
 Material examined. 1 female, West of Vang Vieng, 300 m, Vientiane Prov., Laos, 21.x.2011, leg. Kenichiro Nakao, No. 1110210030 (RYB, slide RYB 2017-10); 1 female, N-Thailand, Prov. Chiang Mai, Umg. Doi Kham, N 18º45.547´, 98º55.042´, 8‒10.x.2001, leg. S. Loeffler (RYB, slide RYB 2017-9).
 Description. Female. Length of fore wing 15‒16 mm. Antenna short (about 1/4 of fore wing length), bipectinate, setae 3 times longer than antenna stem in diameter. Thorax and abdomen densely covered with brown scales. Fore wing brown, with poorly expressed pattern of dark-brown strokes throughout all wing area except for basal portion, light-brown portion basally, more expressed at cubital area, fringe brown. Hind wing light-brown, with poorly expressed pattern of dark-brown strokes on all wing, fringe brown.
Female genitalia. Papillae anales lobe-like, wide; apophyses posteriores short, tapered; apophyses anteriores thin, short, almost equal to apophyses posteriores in length; ostium slit-like; ductus bursae long, wide; ductus seminalis narrow, passing from ductus bursae in medium third; bursa bag-like without signa.
 Distribution. Laos, Thailand.
description: Published as part of Yakovlev, Roman V., Hulsbosch, Ramon & Zolotuhin, Vadim V., 2023, Revision of the family Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera) of the Oriental Region. XI. Genus Psychidarbela Roepke, 1938, pp. 51-59 in Ecologica Montenegrina 65 on page 57, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.65.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13246484
Minimum $2$-vertex strongly biconnected spanning directed subgraph problem
Creators: name: Jaberi, Raed
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A directed graph $G=(V,E)$ is strongly biconnected if $G$ is strongly connected and its underlying graph is biconnected. A strongly biconnected directed graph $G=(V,E)$ is called $2$-vertex-strongly biconnected if $|V|\geq 3$ and the induced subgraph on $V\setminus\left\lbrace w\right\rbrace $ is strongly biconnected for every vertex $w\in V$. In this paper we study the following problem. Given a $2$-vertex-strongly biconnected directed graph $G=(V,E)$, compute an edge subset $E^{2sb} \subseteq E$ of minimum size such that the subgraph $(V,E^{2sb})$ is $2$-vertex-strongly biconnected.
On the Maximum Entropy of a Sum of Independent Discrete Random Variables
Creators: name: Kovačević, Mladen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 94A17 (Primary) 60C05, 60G50 (Secondary)

description: Let $ X_1, \ldots, X_n $ be independent random variables taking values in the alphabet $ \{0, 1, \ldots, r\} $, and $ S_n = \sum_{i = 1}^n X_i $. The Shepp--Olkin theorem states that, in the binary case ($ r = 1 $), the Shannon entropy of $ S_n $ is maximized when all the $ X_i $'s are uniformly distributed, i.e., Bernoulli(1/2). In an attempt to generalize this theorem to arbitrary finite alphabets, we obtain a lower bound on the maximum entropy of $ S_n $ and prove that it is tight in several special cases. In addition to these special cases, an argument is presented supporting the conjecture that the bound represents the optimal value for all $ n, r $, i.e., that $ H(S_n) $ is maximized when $ X_1, \ldots, X_{n-1} $ are uniformly distributed over $ \{0, r\} $, while the probability mass function of $ X_n $ is a mixture (with explicitly defined non-zero weights) of the uniform distributions over $ \{0, r\} $ and $ \{1, \ldots, r-1\} $.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
title: EU Citizenship as a Means of Empowerment for Fundamental Rights During the Financial Crisis
Creators: name: Kalaitzaki, Katerina
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: EU citizenship
subject: financial crisis
subject: substance of the rights doctrine
subject: constructivism
subject: Ruiz Zambrano
subject: fundamental rights

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(3), 1139-1158
description: I. Introduction. - II. Setting the scene: legal characteristics of the "triangular" fundamental rights protection system. - III. The modern protection of fundamental rights. - IV. The Court's "substance of the rights" doctrine. - V. The way forward: taking the "substance of the rights" doctrine a step further. - V.1. Delimiting the proposal in accordance with Art. 2 TEU. - V.2. Another use of rights. - V.3. The paradigm of effective judicial protection. - VI. Concluding remarks.
description: The financial crisis has revealed gaps in the protection of EU citizens against unjust deprivations of their rights, including the right to effective judicial protection, due to the difficulty in challenging the consequences of the conditionality imposed. This Article suggests that the deficient protection derives from the limited scope of application of fundamental rights under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (Charter) and its unstable judicial interpretation, along with the fact that EU citizenship rights have not developed sufficiently. I will, however, argue that there is a duty to protect citizens within a constitutionalised Union, against any deprivations of their rights contrary to the values of the Union itself. This Article aims to fill these gaps, by developing the connection between EU fundamental and EU citizenship rights, using the judicially developed "substance of the rights" doctrine. Various attempts have been made to achieve this end, yet some loose ends remain which are largely addressed in this Article through the establishment of a new jurisdictional test, which combines a dynamic reading of Art. 20 TFEU and the "substance of the rights" doctrine, and Art. 2 TEU and fundamental rights as general principles of EU law.
Two problems in graph Ramsey theory
Creators: name: Tran, Tuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05D10

description: We study two problems in graph Ramsey theory. In the early 1970's, Erdős and O'Neil considered a generalization of Ramsey numbers. Given integers $n,k,s$ and $t$ with $n \ge k \ge s,t \ge 2$, they asked for the least integer $N=f_k(n,s,t)$ such that in any red-blue coloring of the $k$-subsets of $\{1, 2,\ldots, N\}$, there is a set of size $n$ such that either each of its $s$-subsets is contained in some red $k$-subset, or each of its $t$-subsets is contained in some blue $k$-subset. Erdős and O'Neil found an exact formula for $f_k(n,s,t)$ when $k\ge s+t-1$. In the arguably more interesting case where $k=s+t-2$, they showed $2^{-\binom{k}{2}}n
description: 10 pages
title: The European Citizens' Initiative in Light of the European Debt Crisis: A Gateway Between International Law and the EU Legal System
Creators: name: Iannì, Antonio
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: sovereign insolvency
subject: ESM
subject: Pringle
subject: Anagnostakis
subject: ECI
subject: state of necessity

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(3), 1159-1178
description: I. Sovereign default: the same old story. - II. The European debt crisis: a first timid step towards a possible solution. - III. The European Citizens' Initiatives: an introductory overview. - IV. The Anagnostakis case. - V. Final remarks.
description: This Article first briefly examines the attempt made by both Member States and EU institutions to administer financial assistance to countries experiencing economic difficulties. The analysis will consider the legal and other experience of the "state rescue funds": notably the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The Article especially analyses the Pringle judgment (Court of Justice, judgment of 27 November 2012, case C-370/12) offering an essential conceptual toolbox, useful to develop a better understanding of the Court of Justice's current interpretation of the "no bail-out clause" (Art. 125 TFEU), and more generally an overview of the Court's doctrine on sovereign insolvency. Following this line of research, the second part focuses on the judgment of the General Court of the European Union in the case Anagnostakis v. Commission (judgment of 30 September 2015, case T-450/12). Mr Alexios Anagnostakis − a Greek citizen − proposed the initiative "One million signatures for a Europe of solidarity" to the European Commission. The initiative sought "to establish in EU fundamental law the principle of the "state of necessity"; when the financial and the political existence of a State is in danger because of the serving of the abhorrent debt the refusal of its payment is necessary and justifiable". In September 2012 the European Commission, pursuant to Art. 4, para. 2, let. b), of Regulation 211/2011, refused to register the proposal, based on a lack of competence. Mr Anagnostakis then brought an action of annulment before the General Court. Considering the Anagnostakis case, the Article finally suggests a new role for the EU judges, strictly connected to the right of initiative and the sovereign default issue.
Hydrodynamics can Determine the Optimal Route for Microswimmer Navigation
Creators: name: Daddi-Moussa-Ider, Abdallah
name: Löwen, Hartmut
name: Liebchen, Benno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contrasting the well explored problem on how to steer a macroscopic agent like an airplane or a moon lander to optimally reach a target, "optimal microswimming", i.e. the quest for the optimal navigation strategy for microswimmers, remains unsolved. Here, we systematically explore this problem and show that the characteristic flow field of microswimmers crucially influences the required navigation strategy to reach a target fastest. The resulting optimal trajectories can have remarkable and non-intuitive shapes, which qualitatively differ from those of dry active particles or motile macroagents. Our results provide generic insights into the role of hydrodynamics and fluctuations on optimal navigation at the microscale and suggest that microorganisms might have survival advantages when strategically controlling their distance to remote walls. In particular, when fluctuations are present, choosing the optimal strategy, which appropriately respects hydrdynamics, can halve the time to reach the target compared to cases microswimmers head straight towards it.
Confronting Dual Models of the Strong Interaction
Creators: name: Ridkokasha, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studies of the mathematical properties of Regge-pole and dual amplitudes are important both for their applications in high energy phenomenology and in their generalizations to strings, superstrings, branes, and other theoretical developments. In the present paper, we investigate the similarities and differences between two classes of dual amplitudes: one with Mandelstam analyticity (DAMA) and another one with logarithmic trajectories (Dual-log). By using quantum (q-) deformations, new features of Dual-log amplitude are unveiled, in particular those concerning its asymptotic behavior and the spectrum of resonances. The two classes of dual amplitudes are compared in various kinematic regions: at fixed transferred momenta asymptotic, fixed angle asymptotic, and in the resonance region.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Updated version after peer-review: corrected typos, better explanations, extended introduction and conclusions, new figures with poles location, new table with main results, new appendix for fixed angle asymptotic of DAMA
title: The 'Dano Evolution': Assessing Legal Integration and Access to Social Benefits for EU Citizens
Creators: name: Carter, Daniel
name: Moritz, Jesse
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: EU citizenship
subject: legal residence
subject: social assistance
subject: integration
subject: Dano
subject: Directive 2004/38

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(3), 1179-1208
description: I. Introduction. - II. A five-step evolution: integration, lawful residence and social benefits. - II.1. Step 1: the early cases. - II.2. Step 2: the reign of vague legal formulas. - II.3. Step 3: the Förster judgment as a turning point. - II.4. Step 4: Ziółkowski Szeja and the (new) dominance of Directive 2004/38. - II.5. Step 5: Dano, Alimanovic and beyond: the inevitable and logical next step? - II.6. The relationship between primary and secondary law. - II.7. Evolution, not revolution. - III. Beyond step no. 5 - the consequences of the Court's case law. - III.1. The marginalization of the precariat and the Janus-faced approach of the Court. - III.2. Automatic findings of illegality and the demise of individual proportionality assessments. - III.3. The ever increasing scope of "social assistance" under Directive 2004/38. - IV. Conclusion.
description: Much attention has been given to recent decisions in the field of EU citizenship, such as Dano and Alimanovic (Court of Justice: judgment of 11 November 2014, case C-333/13, Elisabeta Dano and Florin Dano v. Jobcenter Leipzig; judgment of 15 September 2015, case C-67/14, Jobcenter Berlin Neukölln v. Nazifa Alimanovic and Others). It is often claimed that the Court of Justice has undermined the value of Union citizenship in order to quell the rising tide against immigration and the free movement of persons within the EU. This Article will depart from this commonly held view, by claiming that rather than being a revolutionary act, the Court's decision in Dano is merely the logical evolution of the case law on Union citizenship after the adoption of Directive 2004/38. The Court treats Directive 2004/38 as a closed system and will only accept residence fulfilling the conditions mentioned in the Directive as legal residence. The consequences of this evolution are Janus-faced: whilst some Union citizens lose out from the current approach, a strict reliance is beneficial to other categories of Union citizens. An exclusive focus on the Directive can be problematic due to the lack of individualised proportionality assessments, as well as an increasing range of social benefits that can be subjected to residence tests. However, the Court is merely accepting the political choices made by the EU legislature, and thus any criticism of the legal situation of EU citizens under Directive 2004/38 may be better placed against the EU legislature, rather than the judiciary.
Evippa amitaii Armiach Steinpress, Alderweireldt, Cohen, Chipman & Gavish-Regev 2021
Creators: name: Al-Khazali, Azhar Mohammed
name: Al-Abbad, Murtatha Ym
name: Fomichev, Alexander A.
name: Kachel, Hamid Saeid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Lycosidae
Evippa
Evippa amitaii

description: Evippa amitaii Armiach Steinpress, Alderweireldt, Cohen, Chipman & Gavish-Regev, 2021
Figures: 9–10.
 Evippa amitaii Armiach Steinpress et al., 2021: 104, figs 4A, 5A, 6A, 7A, 8A, 9, 10A, 11A, 12A–D, 13A, C (♂ ♀).
description: Published as part of Al-Khazali, Azhar Mohammed, Al-Abbad, Murtatha Ym, Fomichev, Alexander A. & Kachel, Hamid Saeid, 2023, New data on the wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) of Iraq, pp. 101-116 in Ecologica Montenegrina 67 on page 107, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.67.12, http://zenodo.org/record/13246514
title: Distinguishing Between Use and Abuse of EU Free Movement Law: Evaluating Use of the 'Europe-route' for Family Reunification to Overcome Reverse Discrimination
Creators: name: Kroeze, Hester
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: family reunification
subject: reverse discrimination
subject: abuse of law
subject: Europe-route
subject: EU citizenship
subject: division of competences

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(3), 1209-1243
description: I. Introduction. - II. Reverse discrimination: colliding constitutional principles in EU law. - III. Abuse of EU law: definition and background. - IV. Abuse in the context of family reunification rights. - V. The case-law of the Court of Justice on family reunification law abuse. - VI. The Commission Communication with guidelines for the implementation of Directive 2004/38. - VII. The follow-up. - VIII. Abuse v. non-applicability of EU law. - IX. Concluding remarks.
description: Equality is a fundamental principle of EU law but protection of the Member States' competence to regulate their own nationals' legal position, anchored in the division of competences, may cause inequality among citizens. Reverse discrimination occurs when EU citizens who reside in their own Member State and are in a purely internal situation are subject to the law of this Member State, while EU citizens who fall within the scope of EU law through the use of free movement rights benefit from more lenient EU rules. Both equality among EU Member States and the division of competences are important principles of EU constitutionalism. Proposed remedies should, therefore, fit within the constitutional system of the EU. In its case-law, the Court makes EU citizenship rights more accessible and empowers EU citizens to change the legal regime that applies to them by moving across a border. This case-law opens up a possibility to circumvent national immigration law. This Article inquires whether the use of EU law for this purpose should be considered to be abuse of law. In addition, it discusses the role of the European Convention on Human Rights in the protection of families, when EU law does not apply. The first part of the Article discusses the constitutional background in which reverse discrimination and family reunification are situated. The second part studies the concept of abuse of law in the context of EU citizenship and the question when family reunification on the basis of EU law can be classified as such, as well as the implications thereof.
title: The Right to Participate in the European Elections and the Vertical Division of Competences in the European Union
Creators: name: Platon, Sébastien
Publisher: name: European Papers (www.europeanpapers.eu)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: right to participate in the European elections
subject: Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
subject: federalism
subject: EU citizens' rights
subject: scope of EU law
subject: vertical distribution of powers

description: European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2018 3(3), 1245-1264
description: I. Introduction. - II. An enforceable right to participate in European elections. - III. The broad scope of application of the right to participate in European elections vis-à-vis Member States. - III.1. A right applicable to Member States. - III.2. A right applicable in purely internal situations. - IV. The right to participate in European elections, a potential disruptor of the distribution of powers between the European Union and Member States. - IV.1. A new citizenship right? - IV.2. A potential minimum EU standard for national election law. - V. Conclusion.
description: Although EU Law provides that Member States have to organise European elections at universal direct suffrage, there is no explicit provision in EU law granting Union citizens the right to vote and to stand as a candidate for these elections. This right was discovered only recently by the CJEU. It has a broad scope of application vis-à-vis Member States, since it is applicable to national electoral legislation, including in purely internal situations. All this combined has the potential of blurring the distribution of powers between the European Union and the Member States in the field of election law.