cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analysis of Cassava Product (Garri) Marketing in Ekiti Local Government Area, Kwara State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Amos, Olasore Abiodun
name: Imam, Rauf Saliu
name: Idowu, Alao Bashir
name: Mubarak, Abdulraheem Ayinla
name: Amos, Olasore Abiodun
name: Imam, Rauf Saliu
name: Idowu, Alao Bashir
name: Mubarak, Abdulraheem Ayinla
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Analysis
subject: cassava
subject: product
subject: marketing
subject: Nigeria

description: This study is on analysis of cassava product (garri) marketing in Ekiti Local Government Area, KwaraState, Nigeria. Data for the study were obtained from 150 respondents from the target group using a two-stage sampling procedure and analyzed using descriptive statistics, Gini Coefficient and Lorenz Curve. Gini Coefficient for all cassava product traders was estimated to be 0.624 or 62.4%. The estimated Gini Coefficient show high degree of inequality in the sales/income distribution. The Lorenz Curve plotted further revealed sales/income inequality among the traders. A wide gap between line of inequality and the plotted Lorenz Curve showed that there is a high inequality in the distribution of income among traders.
Particle Correlations at RHIC - Scrutiny of a Puzzle
Creators: name: Soff, Sven
name: Bass, Steffen A.
name: Hardtke, David H.
name: Panitkin, Sergey Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present calculations of two-pion and two-kaon correlation functions in relativistic heavy ion collisions from a relativistic transport model that includes explicitly a first-order phase transition from a thermalized quark-gluon plasma to a hadron gas. We compare the obtained correlation radii with recent data from RHIC. The predicted R_side radii agree with data while the R_out and R_long radii are overestimated. We also address the impact of in-medium modifications, for example, a broadening of the rho-meson, on the correlation radii. In particular, the longitudinal correlation radius R_long is reduced, improving the comparison to data.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Semi-Lagrangian implicit Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook collision model for the finite-volume discrete Boltzmann method
Creators: name: Chen, Leitao
name: Succi, Sauro
name: Cai, Xiaofeng
name: Schaefer, Laura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new implicit BGK collision model using a semi-Lagrangian approach is proposed in this paper. Unlike existing models, in which the implicit BGK collision is resolved either by a temporal extrapolation or by a variable transformation, the new model removes the implicitness by tracing the particle distribution functions (PDFs) back in time along their characteristic paths during the collision process. An interpolation scheme is needed to evaluate the PDFs at the traced-back locations. By using the first-order interpolation, the resulting model allows for the straightforward replacement of ${f_α}^{eq,n+1}$ by ${f_α}^{eq,n}$ no matter where it appears. After comparing the new model with the existing models under different numerical conditions (e.g. different flux schemes and time marching schemes) and using the new model to successfully modify the variable transformation technique, three conclusions can be drawn. First, the new model can improve the accuracy by almost an order of magnitude. Second, it can slightly reduce the computational cost. Therefore, the new scheme improves accuracy without extra cost. Finally, the new model can significantly improve the $Δt/τ$ limit compared to the temporal interpolation model while having the same $Δt/τ$ limit as the variable transformation approach. The new scheme with a second-order interpolation is also developed and tested; however, that technique displays no advantage over the simple first-order interpolation approach. Both numerical and theoretical analyses are also provided to explain why the new implicit scheme with simple first-order interpolation can outperform the same scheme with second-order interpolation, as well as the existing temporal extrapolation and variable transformation schemes.
Strategy Formulation of Empowering Farmers Capability at Integrated Farming of Beef Cattle and Paddy Base on Zero Waste: Analytical Hierarchy Process Approach
Creators: name: Abdullah, Agustina
name: Ali, Hikmah M.
name: Syamsu, Jasmal A.
name: Abdullah, Agustina
name: Ali, Hikmah M.
name: Syamsu, Jasmal A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Spatial mapping
subject: sustainable and competitive tourism
subject: lake conservation
subject: north Sulawesi

description: The study aims to formulate a strategy for strengthening the farmers in the adoption of technology for the development of integrated beef cattle with paddy. Research was conducted in Pinrang South Sulawesi province for seven months. Primary Data obtained by using questionnaires, interviews and focus group discussion. In this study also was involved expert respondents. Flow implementation strategy formulation is done using analytical hierarchy process (AHP) techniques. The results showed that to increased optimally capacity of paddy straw processing technologies dairy farmers as feed technology for implementation strategies required waste treatment at the level of the farmers (weighting 0,558). Increased capacity of the farmersin cow waste processing technology as fertilizer can be achieved by applying a strategy of increased knowledge and skills of extension officers in sewage treatment technology (weighting 0,443). In order to increase achievement farmers cow waste processing technology as biogas and development material/methods extension technology based on the needs of ranchers was required a strategy in providing of facilities and infrastructure supporting the application of the technology of sewage treatment (weighted 0.590 and 0,517).
MOESM1 of Direct conversion of human fibroblast to hepatocytes using a single inducible polycistronic vector
Creators: name: Ballester, Maria
name: Bolonio, Miguel
name: Santamaria, Ramon
name: JosĂŠ Castell
name: Ribes-Koninckx, Carmen
name: Bort, Roque
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Cell sorting strategy using BDFACSAriaIIIâ ˘ cell sorter. Figure S2. Validation of the polycistroniclentiviral vector in HDF.
A possible Universal Origin of Hadronic Cosmic Rays from Ultrarelativistic Ejecta of Bipolar Supernovae
Creators: name: Plaga, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the ``cannonball model'' for gamma-ray bursts of Dar and De Rujula it is proposed that masses of baryonic plasma (``cannonballs''), ejected in bipolar supernova explosions in our Galaxy are the sources of hadronic Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) at all energies. The propagation of the cannonballs in the Galactic disk and halo is studied. Two mechanisms for the acceleration of the observed CRs are proposed. The first is based on ultrarelativistic shocks in the interstellar medium and could accelerate the bulk of CRs up to the ``knee'' energy of 4 x 10(15) eV. The second operates with second-order Fermi acceleration within the cannonball. If the total initial energy of the ejected plasmoids in a SN explosion is 10(53) ergs or higher this second mechanism may explain the CR spectrum above the knee up to the highest observed energies. It is shown that together with plausible assumptions about CR propagation in the Galactic confinement volume the observed spectral indices of the CR spectrum can be theoretically understood to first order. The model allows a natural understanding of various basic CR observations like the absence of the Greisen-Zatsepin cutoff, the anisotropy of arrival directions as function of energy and the small Galactocentric gradient of the CR density.
description: various corrections, see http://rplaga.tripod.com/CosmicRay/na7_317/referees.html for controversial disussions about this paper
Aroga velocella
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Aroga
Aroga velocella

description: Aroga velocella (Zeller, 1839)
Burannoe 06.VIII.2005, 18.VIII.2006; Miass 25.V.1998; Moskovo 26.V.1998. A total of 5 exx.
 Distribution. Widely distributed through Europe. Outside Europe known from Turkey, the Caucasus and Siberia (Transbaikalia).
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655
Setting nonperturbative uncertainties on finite-temperature properties of neutron matter
Creators: name: Carbone, Arianna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an error band on neutron matter properties at finite temperature (finite-T) which comprehends uncertainties on the nuclear interaction, the many-body method convergence, and the thermodynamical consistency of the approach. This study provides nonperturbative predictions for finite-T neutron matter employing chiral interactions which are selected on the basis of their performance in both finite nuclei and infinite matter at zero temperature. Since proper theoretical uncertainties at finite-T are still generally lacking, the band provided here represents a first step towards setting first-principles constraints on thermal aspects of the nuclear matter equation of state.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures; article reorganized in sections, added paragraphs and references
The Impacts of Authorised Dictatorial Discourse on Heritage Management - Case study: South Korea's Military Dictatorship Era 1961 - 1988
Creators: name: Zoh, Minjae
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Heritage and Dictatorship
Political heritage
AHD
ADD

description: This thesis investigates some of the impacts a ‘dictatorship’ can have on the management and uses of heritage sites. More specifically, it endeavours to examine how a dictator’s interests in certain heritage sites and particular territories can affect how heritage becomes preserved and promoted in both the medium and long-terms. The relationship between heritage and dictatorship has, arguably, been relatively under-studied compared to research on the nation-state. In recognising the importance of understanding how different political systems (in this case exemplified by dictatorial regimes) can have various and particular outcomes on heritage, this study will develop the concept of ‘Authorised Dictatorial Discourse’ (ADD) as an original contribution to the field of Heritage Studies. It stems from Laurajane Smith’s (2006) seminal works on Authorised Heritage Discourse and her argument about how authorities in the form of decision-making bodies have medium and long term impacts on the preservation and promotion of heritage sites and that this happens detached from the wider public. I argue that her concept is based on democratic political systems. To develop the concept of ADD, South Korea’s Military Dictatorship Era (1961-1988) will be used as the central case study. The two dictators (Park Chung Hee and Chun Doo Hwan) orchestrated strictly controlled and very particular heritage and territory polices. Their authoritarian decisions debatably had profound impacts, making their cases very suitable for further analysis. To provide more detailed insights, this dissertation will analyse six heritage sites in terms of how they were targeted by the two dictators as tools of narrative constructions. These case studies will be used as an analytical lens to: 1) cast light on how and the extent to which the politics of heritage and the politics of territory were interlinked and influenced the management and uses of heritage, 2) reflect on the common pattern of heritage and territorial management during dictatorships, and 3) argue how the current AHD (Smith 2006) need to be problematised in terms of its remit.
The Effect of Merger Boosts on the Luminosity, Temperature, and Inferred Mass Functions of Clusters of Galaxies
Creators: name: Randall, Scott W.
name: Sarazin, Craig L.
name: Ricker, Paul M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the standard Cold Dark Matter model of structure formation, massive clusters form via the merger of smaller clusters. N-body/hydrodynamical simulations of merging galaxy clusters have shown that mergers can temporarily boost the X-ray luminosity and temperature of the merged cluster above the equilibrium values for the merged system. The cumulative effect of these "merger boosts" will affect the observed X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) and temperature functions (TFs) of clusters. Merger boosts may bias the values of sigma_8 and Omega_0 inferred from cluster XLFs and TFs if virial equilibrium is assumed. We use a semi-analytic technique to estimate the effect of merger boosts on the X-ray luminosity and temperature functions. The boosts from individual mergers are derived from N-body/hydrodynamical simulations of mergers. The statistics of the merger histories of clusters are determined from extended Press-Schechter (PS) merger trees. We find that merger boosts can increase the apparent number of hot, luminous clusters. For example, in a Universe with Omega_0 = 0.3 and Omega_Lambda = 0.7 at a redshift of z=1, the number of clusters with temperatures T > 10 keV is increased by a factor of 9.5, and the number of clusters with luminosities L_X > 5x10^44 h^-2 erg/s is increased by a factor of 8.9. We have used our merger-boosted TFs and XLFs to derive the cosmological structure parameters sigma_8 and Omega_0 by fitting Press-Schechter equilibrium relations to local (z=0) and distant (either z=0.5 or z=1) cluster samples. Merger boosts cause sigma_8 to be overestimated by about 20%. The matter density parameter Omega_0 may be underestimated by about 20%, although this result is less clear.
description: accepted for publucation in ApJ. 40 pages, 10 figures
Neural Voice Puppetry: Audio-driven Facial Reenactment
Creators: name: Thies, Justus
name: Elgharib, Mohamed
name: Tewari, Ayush
name: Theobalt, Christian
name: Nießner, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present Neural Voice Puppetry, a novel approach for audio-driven facial video synthesis. Given an audio sequence of a source person or digital assistant, we generate a photo-realistic output video of a target person that is in sync with the audio of the source input. This audio-driven facial reenactment is driven by a deep neural network that employs a latent 3D face model space. Through the underlying 3D representation, the model inherently learns temporal stability while we leverage neural rendering to generate photo-realistic output frames. Our approach generalizes across different people, allowing us to synthesize videos of a target actor with the voice of any unknown source actor or even synthetic voices that can be generated utilizing standard text-to-speech approaches. Neural Voice Puppetry has a variety of use-cases, including audio-driven video avatars, video dubbing, and text-driven video synthesis of a talking head. We demonstrate the capabilities of our method in a series of audio- and text-based puppetry examples, including comparisons to state-of-the-art techniques and a user study.
description: Video: https://youtu.be/s74_yQiJMXA Project/Demo/Code: https://justusthies.github.io/posts/neural-voice-puppetry/
How far can we push deconvolution? A SCUBA-2 test case
Creators: name: Serjeant, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: How far can we use multi-wavelength cross-identifications to deconvolve far-infrared images? In this short research note I explore a test case of CLEAN deconvolutions of simulated confused 850 micron SCUBA-2 data, and explore the possible scientific applications of combining this data with ostensibly deeper TolTEC Large Scale Structure (LSS) survey 1.1mm-2mm data. I show that the SCUBA-2 can be reconstructed to the 1.1mm LMT resolution and achieve an 850 micron deconvolved sensitivity of 0.7 mJy RMS, an improvement of at least ~1:5x over naive point source filtered images. The TolTEC/SCUBA-2 combination can constrain cold (<10K) observed-frame colour temperatures, where TolTEC alone cannot.
description: RNAAS volume 3, 133. One figure. Added DOI and enabled hyperlinks to match published version
The Chemical Composition and Age of the Metal-Poor Halo Star BD +17^\circ 3248
Creators: name: Cowan, John J.
name: Sneden, Christopher
name: Burles, Scott
name: Ivans, Inese I.
name: Beers, Timothy C.
name: Truran, James W.
name: Lawler, James E.
name: Primas, Francesca
name: Fuller, George M.
name: Pfeiffer, Bernd
name: Kratz, Karl-Ludwig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have combined new high-resolution spectra obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and ground-based facilities to make a comprehensive new abundance analysis of the metal-poor, halo star BD +17^\circ 3248. We have detected the third r-process peak elements osmium, platinum, and (for the first time in a metal-poor star) gold, elements whose abundances can only be reliably determined using HST. Our observations illustrate a pattern seen in other similar halo stars with the abundances of the heavier neutron-capture elements, including the third r-process peak elements, consistent with a scaled solar system r-process distribution. The abundances of the lighter neutron-capture elements, including germanium and silver, fall below that same scaled solar r-process curve, a result similar to that seen in the ultra-metal-poor star CS 22892--052. A single site with two regimes or sets of conditions, or perhaps two different sites for the lighter and heavier neutron-capture elements, might explain the abundance pattern seen in this star. In addition we have derived a reliable abundance for the radioactive element thorium. We tentatively identify U II at 3859 A in the spectrum of BD +17^\circ 3248, which makes this the second detection of uranium in a very metal-poor halo star. Our combined observations cover the widest range in proton number (from germanium to uranium) thus far of neutron-capture elements in metal-poor Galactic halo stars. Employing the thorium and uranium abundances in comparison with each other and with several stable elements, we determine an average cosmochronological age for BD +17^\circ 3248 of 13.8 +/- 4 Gyr, consistent with that found for other similar metal-poor halo stars.
description: 58 pages, 4 tables, 11 figures; To appear in ApJ Typo corrected
Djaalinj Waakinj (listening talking): Rationale, cultural governance, methods, population characteristics – an urban Aboriginal birth cohort study of otitis media
Creators: name: Swift, Valerie May
name: Doyle, June Elisabeth
name: Richmond, Holly Jane
name: Morrison, Natasha Rose
name: Weeks, Sharon Anne
name: Richmond, Peter Craig
name: Brennan-Jones, Christopher Gerard
name: Lehmann, Deborah
name: Djaalinj Waakinj Team
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The majority of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter referred to as “Aboriginal”) people live in urban centres. Otitis media (OM) occurs at a younger age, prevalence is higher and hearing loss and other serious complications are more common in Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal children. Despite this, data on the burden of OM and hearing loss in urban Aboriginal children are limited. This project was initiated following a request from urban Aboriginal people who felt the focus on more remote communities often meant urban communities were forgotten. This paper describes the development of an urban Aboriginal birth cohort study of OM that is culturally secure, outlines the process of community consultation and establishment of an Aboriginal Community Advisory Group to provide cultural governance, and presents preliminary results. Djaalinj Waakinj is an ongoing study being conducted in Perth, Western Australia, on Noongar Boodja (country). Aboriginal researchers visit people’s homes to collect sociodemographic and environmental data at enrolment of babies aged <3 months; otoscopy and tympanometry are conducted by an Aboriginal research assistant or a nurse at ages 2–4, 6–8 and 12–18 months, and full audiological assessment conducted at 9–12 months. To date, 125 participants have been enrolled; 39% of 71 children aged 2–4 months and 52% of 44 children aged 6–8 months had evidence of OM. To our knowledge, this is the first prospective cohort study aiming to determine the prevalence and risk factors associated with OM in Aboriginal infants residing in an urban area.
On non-Adiabatic Holonomoic Quantum Computer
Creators: name: Margolin, A. E.
name: Strazhev, V. I.
name: Tregubovich, A. Ya.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-adiabatic non-Abelian geometric phase of spin-3/2 system in the rotating magnetic field is considered. Explicit expression for the corresponding effective non-Abelian gauge potential is obtained. This formula can be used for construction of quantum gates in quantum computations.
description: 6 pages
Willing, but Unable: Determinants of Participation Rates for TrainingWorkshops in Central Vietnam
Creators: name: Gockel, Ryan P.
name: Cullen, Alison C.
name: Gockel, Ryan P.
name: Cullen, Alison C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Vietnam
subject: job training programs
subject: behavioural decision-making
subject: risk
subject: rural livelihoods

description: This article examines the determinants affecting individuals’ previous participation in training workshops in rural Vietnam. This is the firststudy to examine training program participation ratesin a rural Asian context. According to a survey conducted in Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam in 2008, more than 90 per cent of individuals expressed an interest in participating in a job-training program, yet only 41 per cent participated the previous year. This disconnect presents a serious challenge to increasing job training participation rates. We find that gender, age, location, and also behavioral constraints such as an individual’s risk attitude and willingness to compete are significant predictors of previous participation. Our results also indicate that those who could benefit most from job-training programs participate at lower rates. Governments and NGOs need to rethink development models taking these behavioural constraints into account. By designing interventions aimed at mitigating these constraints, participation rates for rural individuals will likely improve, offering a chance to improve livelihoods.
MOESM1 of Job satisfaction of public and private primary care physicians in Malaysia: analysis of findings from QUALICO-PC
Creators: name: N. Ab Rahman
name: M. Husin
name: K. Dahian
name: K. Mohamad Noh
name: R. Atun
name: S. Sivasampu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. QUALICO-PC questionnaire for doctors.
Dynamical approach to Zipf's law
Creators: name: De Marzo, Giordano
name: Gabrielli, Andrea
name: Zaccaria, Andrea
name: Pietronero, Luciano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The rank-size plots of a large number of different physical and socio-economic systems are usually said to follow Zipf's law, but a unique framework for the comprehension of this ubiquitous scaling law is still lacking. Here we show that a dynamical approach is crucial: during their evolution, some systems are attracted towards Zipf's law, while others presents Zipf's law only temporarily and, therefore, spuriously. A truly Zipfian dynamics is characterized by a dynamical constraint, or coherence, among the parameters of the generating PDF, and the number of elements in the system. A clear-cut example of such coherence is natural language. Our framework allows us to derive some quantitative results that go well beyond the usual Zipf's law: i) earthquakes can evolve only incoherently and thus show Zipf's law spuriously; this allows an assessment of the largest possible magnitude of an earthquake occurring in a geographical region. ii) We prove that Zipfian dynamics are not additive, explaining analytically why US cities evolve coherently, while world cities do not. iii) Our concept of coherence can be used for model selection, for example, the Yule-Simon process can describe the dynamics of world countries' GDP. iv) World cities present spurious Zipf's law and we use this property for estimating the maximal population of an urban agglomeration.
Interpolation by complete minimal surfaces whose Gauss map misses two points
Creators: name: Castro-Infantes, Ildefonso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A10, 53C42, 32E30, 30F15

description: Let $M$ be an open Riemann surface and let $Λ\subset M$ be a closed discrete subset. In this paper, we prove the existence of complete conformal minimal immersions $M\to\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 3$, with prescribed values on $Λ$ and whose generalized Gauss map $M\to\mathbb{CP}^{n-1}$, $n\ge 3$, avoids $n$ hyperplanes of $\mathbb{CP}^{n-1}$ located in general position. In case $n=3$, we obtain complete nonflat conformal minimal immersions whose Gauss map $M\to\mathbb{S}^2$ omits two (antipodal) values of the sphere. This result is deduced as a consequence of an interpolation theorem for conformal minimal immersions $M\to\mathbb{R}^n$ into the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 3$, with $n-2$ prescribed components.
description: J. Geom. Anal., in press
The superconducting gap of \QTR{em}{in situ} $MgB_{2}$ thin films by microwave surface impedance measurements
Creators: name: Hakim, N.
name: Kusko, C.
name: Sridhar, S.
name: Soukiassian, A.
name: Zeng, X. H.
name: Xi, X. X.
name: .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Precision measurements of the microwave surface resistance $R_{s}$ of in situ $MgB_{2}$ films directly reveal an exponential behavior of $R_{s}$ at low temperature indicating a fully-gapped order parameter. The entire temperature dependence of $R_{s}$ is well described by a Mattis-Bardeen formalism but with a small gap ratio of $Δ(0)/kT_{c}=0.72$, corresponding to $Δ(0)=1.9meV$.
Identification of Fungus Flora Associated with Lagenaria Siceraria (Molina) Standl in Côte d’Ivoire
Creators: name: Marie-Hélène, Koffi Ahébé
name: Hortense, Atta Diallo
name: Arsène, Zoro Bi Irié
name: Marie-Hélène, Koffi Ahébé
name: Hortense, Atta Diallo
name: Arsène, Zoro Bi Irié
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Côte d’ivoire
subject: climatic factors
subject: fungal genera
subject: lagenaria siceraria
subject: symptom

description: Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl is a cucurbit which seeds are consumed by people in rural and urban Africa. This plant is subjected to a strong parasitic and diseases pressure that reduces seeds production. Efficient fight against plant parasite, particularly fungus is a prerequisite for an improved productivity. This study was undertaken in five localities (Alepe, Bondoukou, Bongouanou, Divo and Korhogo) belonging to three agroecological areas of Côte d’Ivoire. The aim was to identify fungal genera infecting L. siceraria in order to design an efficient control measure. Leaf samples with necrosis and discoloration symptoms were collected throughout the localities and subsequently, fungus were isolated and identified in laboratory. From a total of 750 samples collected, 7 types of symptoms were distinguished. Fungal genera found in all of the localities were Aspergillus, Botryosphaeria, Cochliobolus, Colletotrichum, Fusarium, Lasiodiplodia and Phoma. Only Pestalotiopsis was specific to the locality of Divo. An ANOVA test performed on the data showed a significant difference between fungal genera in terms of isolation frequency. Principal components analysis revealed that fungus distribution in each locality was correlated with climatic factors.
Aroga flavicomella
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Aroga
Aroga flavicomella

description: Aroga flavicomella (Zeller, 1839)
Bajmak 17. VI.1998; Guberlja 25–26.VI.2003, 20.V.2004; Kidriasovo 16. VI.1999; Kuvandyk 04. VII.2003; Miass 13.VI.1996, 26–27.VI.1997, 25.V.1998, 21.V.2005; Moskovo 22–23.VI.1996, 26.V.1998; Sakmara river 20–21. VI.1996; Verbljushka 30.V.1998, 10–12.VI.1998, 14.VII.1998, 13.V.1999, 23–24.V.2004, 30.V– 01.VI.2004. Locally abundant.
 Distribution. C and S Europe to the Ural Mountains. Outside Europe in Turkey, Kazakhstan, S Siberia, Mongolia and China.
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655
Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70
Creators: name: Balasubramanian, Aditya
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: India
economic history
postcolonial

description: This thesis is a history of economic ideas about the rise and fall of India’s Swatantra Party between 1940 and 1970. Reframing the history of economic thought around politicians and publicists from landed and mercantile communities in southern and western parts of the country, it presents an alternative history of the political Right in India. Chapter One provides an overview of the macroeconomic changes unleashed by wartime state expansion and decolonisation. It identifies how India’s socialist planning strategy resulted in the formation of new economic interests and challenges by the Second Five-Year Plan Period (1956-61) that drove the emergence of the Swatantra Party. Chapter Two provides an alternative intellectual genealogy of the Right through a careful study of the ideas, networks, and genres of communication adopted by a small Indian libertarian movement in Bombay. It demonstrates how demands for ‘free economy’ and ‘English as the lingua franca of India’ emerged from a web of connected thinkers operating periodicals and associations in urban India. Chapter Three shows how the ageing Tamil statesman C. Rajagopalachari took up this demand and brought it to the centre of his project of theorising a conservative opposition party for India. He cast ‘free economy’ as a negative vision of freedom from the ‘permit-and-licence raj,’ an oligarchic coalition of big business, bureaucrats, and the dominant Congress Party. Chapter Four by contrast reconstructs the multiple positive visions of ‘free economy’ put forth by three key leaders of the Swatantra Party. It shows how the scales of community, region, and world informed the alternative political economies they conceived. Chapter Five shows how these ideas of ‘free economy’ were reworked and to construct a politics for the ‘middle class.’ This final chapter unpacks both strategies of communication and reception to understand the extent and limitations of ‘free economy’ in practice. The wider aim of this dissertation is to revise the history of the Right in India and broaden the understanding of the Nehruvian era.
Djaalinj Waakinj (listening talking): Rationale, cultural governance, methods, population characteristics – an urban Aboriginal birth cohort study of otitis media
Creators: name: Swift, Valerie May
name: Doyle, June Elisabeth
name: Richmond, Holly Jane
name: Morrison, Natasha Rose
name: Weeks, Sharon Anne
name: Richmond, Peter Craig
name: Brennan-Jones, Christopher Gerard
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The majority of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter referred to as “Aboriginal”) people live in urban centres. Otitis media (OM) occurs at a younger age, prevalence is higher and hearing loss and other serious complications are more common in Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal children. Despite this, data on the burden of OM and hearing loss in urban Aboriginal children are limited. This project was initiated following a request from urban Aboriginal people who felt the focus on more remote communities often meant urban communities were forgotten. This paper describes the development of an urban Aboriginal birth cohort study of OM that is culturally secure, outlines the process of community consultation and establishment of an Aboriginal Community Advisory Group to provide cultural governance, and presents preliminary results. Djaalinj Waakinj is an ongoing study being conducted in Perth, Western Australia, on Noongar Boodja (country). Aboriginal researchers visit people’s homes to collect sociodemographic and environmental data at enrolment of babies aged <3 months; otoscopy and tympanometry are conducted by an Aboriginal research assistant or a nurse at ages 2–4, 6–8 and 12–18 months, and full audiological assessment conducted at 9–12 months. To date, 125 participants have been enrolled; 39% of 71 children aged 2–4 months and 52% of 44 children aged 6–8 months had evidence of OM. To our knowledge, this is the first prospective cohort study aiming to determine the prevalence and risk factors associated with OM in Aboriginal infants residing in an urban area.
Recoil momentum spectrum in directional dark matter detectors
Creators: name: Gondolo, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Directional dark matter detectors will be able to record the recoil momentum spectrum of nuclei hit by dark matter WIMPs. We show that the recoil momentum spectrum is the Radon transform of the WIMP velocity distribution. This allows us to obtain analytic expressions for the recoil spectra of a variety of velocity distributions. We comment on the possibility of inverting the recoil momentum spectrum and obtaining the three-dimensional WIMP velocity distribution from data.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures, revtex4 (replaced with accepted version, typos corrected)
Theoretical insight and experimental elucidation of desferrioxamine B from Bacillus sp. AS7 as a green corrosion inhibitor
Creators: name: S. Pérez-Miranda
name: L.S. Zamudio-Rivera
name: R. Cisneros-Dévora
name: R. George-Téllez
name: F.J. Fernández
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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: Ecology

description: A theoretical and experimental systematic study was performed to determine the structural characteristics and functionality that siderophores must have to be used as ecological corrosion inhibitors. Analyses demonstrated that the hydroxamate functional group is the best siderophore that could be used as a corrosion inhibitor of neutral or acidic environments because it would form a smart protective film as good or better than imidazoline. Bacillus sp. AS7, isolated from an extreme halo-alkaline terrestrial ecosystem soil sample is producer of desferrioxamine B, a siderophore based on trihydroxamate groups. This siderophore was purified and characterised, its efficiency as a corrosion inhibitor was determined through gravimetric techniques. The obtained siderophore works as an ecological corrosion inhibitor at a minimal concentration of 75 ppm. We demonstrated that the siderophore desferrioxamine B controls efficiently corrosion problems occurring in acid environments characteristic of the oil industry.
Aroga aristotelis
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Aroga
Aroga aristotelis

description: Aroga aristotelis (Millière, 1876)
Ajat river 03–04.VII.1997, 25.VII.1998; Bishtiryak 13. VII.1998; Chalk Hills 17. VII.1998; Verbljushka 14– 15.VII.1998, 27.VII.2000. A total of 12 exx.
 Distribution. S Europe from Spain to S Ural. Outside Europe in Turkey, Middle East, Mongolia and C Asia.
 Remarks. This species is new to Russia.
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655
Adversary-resilient Distributed and Decentralized Statistical Inference and Machine Learning: An Overview of Recent Advances Under the Byzantine Threat Model
Creators: name: Yang, Zhixiong
name: Gang, Arpita
name: Bajwa, Waheed U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: While the last few decades have witnessed a huge body of work devoted to inference and learning in distributed and decentralized setups, much of this work assumes a non-adversarial setting in which individual nodes---apart from occasional statistical failures---operate as intended within the algorithmic framework. In recent years, however, cybersecurity threats from malicious non-state actors and rogue entities have forced practitioners and researchers to rethink the robustness of distributed and decentralized algorithms against adversarial attacks. As a result, we now have a plethora of algorithmic approaches that guarantee robustness of distributed and/or decentralized inference and learning under different adversarial threat models. Driven in part by the world's growing appetite for data-driven decision making, however, securing of distributed/decentralized frameworks for inference and learning against adversarial threats remains a rapidly evolving research area. In this article, we provide an overview of some of the most recent developments in this area under the threat model of Byzantine attacks.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables; Published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, May 2020 (Special Issue on "Machine Learning From Distributed, Streaming Data")
Minimal Time Generation of Density Matrices for a Two-Level Quantum System Driven by Coherent and Incoherent Controls
Creators: name: Morzhin, Oleg V.
name: Pechen, Alexander N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The article considers a two-level open quantum system whose dynamics is driven by a combination of coherent and incoherent controls. Coherent control enters into the Hamiltonian part of the dynamics whereas incoherent control enters into the dissipative part. The goal is to find controls which move the system from an initial density matrix to a given target density matrix as fast as possible. To achieve this goal, we reformulate the optimal control problem in terms of controlled evolution in the Bloch ball and then apply Pontryagin maximum principle and gradient projection method to numerically find minimal time and optimal coherent and incoherent controls. General method is provided and several examples of initial and target states are explicitly considered.
description: Internat. J. Theoret. Phys. (2019)
The sources of the X-ray background
Creators: name: Hasinger, Guenther
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deep X-ray surveys have shown that the cosmic X-ray background (XRB) is largely due to the accretion onto supermassive black holes, integrated over cosmic time. The ROSAT, Chandra and XMM-Newton satellites have resolved more than 80% of the 0.1-10 keV X-ray background into discrete sources. Optical spectroscopic identifications are about 90% and 60% complete for the deepest ROSAT and Chandra/ XMM-Newton surveys, respectively, and show that the sources producing the bulk of the X-ray background are a mixture of obscured (type-2) and unobscured (type-1) AGNs, as predicted by the XRB population synthesis models, following the unified AGN scenarios. The characteristic hard spectrum of the XRB can be explained if most of the AGN are heavily absorbed, and in particular a class of highly luminous type-2 AGN, so called QSO-2s exist. The deep Chandra and XMM-Newton surveys have recently detected several examples of QSO-2s. The space density of the X-ray selected AGN, as determined from ROSAT surveys does not seem to decline as rapidly as that of optically selected QSO, however, the statistics of the high-redshift samples is still rather poor. The new Chandra and XMM-Newton surveys at significantly fainter fluxes are starting to provide additional constraints here, but the preliminary observed redshift distribution peaks at much lower redshifts (z=0.5-0.7) than the predictions based on the ROSAT luminosity function.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, Proc. Symposium "New Visions of the X-ray Universe in the XMM-Newton and Chandra Era", 26-30. November 2001, ESTEC, The Netherlands
A systemic analysis of the factors that affect handpump-borehole yield and water quality in rural sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Liddle, Elisabeth Sarah
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Handpump failure
Systems thinking
Sub-Saharan Africa

description: While access to improved water sources has steadily increased across sub-Saharan Africa in recent years, a number of the water sources installed have been found to be dry/low-yielding, unsafe for human consumption, and marred by water colour, taste, and odour problems. A number of factors could be causing these yield and water quality problems. Understanding the interrelated nature of these factors and their inherent complexity is essential if these yield and water quality problems are to be avoided in the future. Focusing on rural handpump-boreholes (HPBs), this research uses systems thinking and the systems-based analytical tools, Bayesian Network (BN) and Causal Loop Diagram (CLD) analysis, to systemically assesses the reasons for these yield and water quality failures. To begin, BN analysis is used to quantitatively identify the on-site factors that most greatly reduce the probability of HPB yield and water quality failure (for example, rock type and handpump and borehole materials). Data from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda are in the BN. Key findings from the BN analysis highlight the importance of borehole and cylinder depth, rock type, handpump parts, and borehole design when considering HPB yield and water quality. CLDs are then used to identify the underlying factors and drivers that affect the state of the BN’s on-site factors. Specific focus is placed on the implementation work (the siting and drilling/installation work) when assessing the underlying factors and drivers. The CLDs highlight the importance of having balancing loops within the system (for example, those of monitoring and evaluation) and appropriate systemic goals (for example, focusing on the quality of the implementation work, rather than the number of new water sources when constructing new water sources), given the self-correcting power these aspects possess. As an extension of the CLDs, a case study analysis of the Ugandan HPB implementation process is presented, in which the state of the key factors and drivers emerging from the CLD analysis are assessed and evaluated for the Ugandan context. A series of intervention points, based on the findings from the CLD analysis are recommended for Uganda. The key assumption underlying this research is that HPB failure is the result of the interplay between a wide array of factors, deriving, for example, from the geology, proximity to pollutants, drilling/installation contract price and payment terms, among others. By analysing how these various factors interact, this research increases our understanding of the interconnected nature of the factors that lead to HPB yield and water quality failure and highlights several intervention points for alleviating these failures in the future.
Filatima spurcella
Creators: name: Junnilainen, Jari
name: Karsholt, Ole
name: Nupponen, Kari
name: Kaitila, Jari-Pekka
name: Nupponen, Timo
name: Olschwang, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Gelechiidae
Filatima
Filatima spurcella

description: Filatima spurcella (Duponchel, 1843)
Guberlja 25.VI.2003, 26.VI.2003; Kidriasovo 28–29. V.1998; Sakmara river 20–21. VI.1996; Verbljushka 30. V –02. VI.1998. A total of 8 exx.
 Distribution. C and S Europe to S Ural. Outside Europe known from Turkey.
description: Published as part of Junnilainen, Jari, Karsholt, Ole, Nupponen, Kari, Kaitila, Jari-Pekka, Nupponen, Timo & Olschwang, Vladimir, 2010, The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) 2367, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 2367 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2367.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10093655