cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Using deformable particles for single particle measurements of velocity gradient tensors
Creators: name: Hejazi, Bardia
name: Krellenstein, Michael
name: Voth, Greg A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the deformation of particles made of several slender arms in a two-dimensional (2D) linear shear and a three-dimensional (3D) turbulent flow. We show how these measurements of arm deformations along with the rotation rate of the particle allow us to extract the velocity gradient tensor of the flow. The particles used in the experiments have three symmetric arms in a plane (triads) and are fabricated using 3D printing of a flexible polymeric material. Deformation measurements of a particle free to rotate about a fixed axis in a 2D simple shear flow are used to validate our model relating particle deformations to the fluid strain. We then examine deformable particles in a 3D turbulent flow created by a jet array in a vertical water tunnel. Particle orientations and deformations are measured with high precision using four high speed cameras and have an uncertainty on the order of $10^{-4}$ radians. Measured deformations in 3D turbulence are small and only slightly larger than our orientation measurement uncertainty. Simulation results for triads in turbulence show deformations similar to the experimental observations. Deformable particles offer a promising method for measuring the full local velocity gradient tensor from measurements of a single particle where traditionally a high concentration of tracer particles would be required.
Nucleosynthesis of s-elements in zero-metal AGB stars
Creators: name: Goriely, Stephane
name: Siess, Lionel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contrary to previous expectations, recent evolutionary models of zero-metallicity stars show that the development of mixing episodes at the beginning of the AGB phase allows low- and intermediate-mass stars to experience thermal pulses. If these stars, like their metal-rich counterparts, also experience partial mixing of protons from the H-rich envelope into the C-rich layers at the time of the third dredge-up, an extensive neutron capture nucleosynthesis leads to the production of s-process nuclei up to Pb and Bi. Nucleosynthesis calculations based on stellar AGB models are performed assuming a parameterized H-abundance profile below the convective envelope at the time of the third dredge-up. Despite the absence of Fe-group elements, the large neutron flux resulting from the 13C(alpha,n)16O reaction leads to an efficient production of s-process elements starting from the neutron captures on the C-Ne isotopes. Provided partial mixing of protons takes place, it is shown that population III AGB stars should be enriched in s-process elementsand overall in Pb and Bi.
description: 4 pages, 3 Postscript figures, uses aa.sty. Accepted for publication in A&A Letters
Unphysical properties in a class of interacting dark energy models
Creators: name: von Marttens, R.
name: Borges, H. A.
name: Carneiro, S.
name: Alcaniz, J. S.
name: Zimdahl, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Models with non-gravitational interactions between the dark matter and dark energy components are an alternative to the standard cosmological scenario. These models are characterized by an interaction term, and a frequently used parameterization is $Q = 3ξH ρ_{x}$, where $H$ is the Hubble parameter and $ρ_{x}$ is the dark energy density. Although current observations support such a model for negative values of the interaction parameter $ξ$, we show here that this interval of values of $ξ$ leads the model to predict a violation of the Weak Energy Condition (WEC) for the dark matter density, regardless of the value of the equation-of-state parameter of the dark energy component. This violation is accompanied by unphysical instabilities of matter perturbations.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in the EPJC
On the usefulness of existing Solar-wind models for pulsar timing corrections
Creators: name: Tiburzi, C.
name: Verbiest, J. P. W.
name: Shaifullah, G. M.
name: Janssen, G. H.
name: Anderson, J. M.
name: Horneffer, A.
name: Kuensemoeller, J.
name: Oslowski, S.
name: Donner, J. Y.
name: Kramer, M.
name: Kumari, A.
name: Porayko, N. K.
name: Zucca, P.
name: Ciardi, B.
name: Dettmar, R. -J.
name: Griessmeier, J. -M.
name: Hoeft, M.
name: Serylak, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dispersive delays due to the Solar wind introduce excess noise in high-precision pulsar timing experiments, and must be removed in order to achieve the accuracy needed to detect, e.g., low-frequency gravitational waves. In current pulsar timing experiments, this delay is usually removed by approximating the electron density distribution in the Solar wind either as spherically symmetric, or with a two-phase model that describes the contributions from both high- and low-speed phases of the Solar wind. However, no dataset has previously been available to test the performance and limitations of these models over extended timescales and with sufficient sensitivity. Here we present the results of such a test with an optimal dataset of observations of pulsar J0034-0534, taken with the German stations of LOFAR. We conclude that the spherical approximation performs systematically better than the two-phase model at almost all angular distances, with a residual root-mean-square (rms) given by the two-phase model being up to 28% larger than the result obtained with the spherical approximation. Nevertheless, the spherical approximation remains insufficiently accurate in modelling the Solar-wind delay (especially within 20 degrees of angular distance from the Sun), as it leaves timing residuals with rms values that reach the equivalent of 0.3 microseconds at 1400 MHz. This is because a spherical model ignores the large daily variations in electron density observed in the Solar wind. In the short term, broadband observations or simultaneous observations at low frequencies are the most promising way forward to correct for Solar-wind induced delay variations.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 17 pages, 13 figures
Middle Spotted Woodpecker territory owners distinguish between stranger and familiar floaters based on their vocal characteristics
Creators: name: E. Węgrzyn
name: K. Leniowski
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Acoustic communication is an important part of behaviour in many bird taxa. In most woodpecker species drumming functions in mate attraction and territory defence. However, woodpeckers also produce calls, which function has been less studied to date. Unlike other woodpeckers, the Middle Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocoptes medius, which is the subject of our study, drums very rarely. Instead, it uses a number of calls, which functions have not been tested to date. We aimed our study at the identification of different calls and assessing their function, both by observation of spontaneous interactions between individuals and playback experiments. We distinguished three calls of different spectral characteristics and functions. Call-1 was mostly uttered by individuals sitting on the branch or a trunk. It was an initial response of territorial pairs to any disturbance within a territory. It signals general anxiety and/or arousal of territorial individuals. Call-2 was mostly uttered by the individuals during flight and it accompanied territorial conflicts and trials to remove the intruder from the territory. It warns the intruder about a territory owner’s readiness to a direct fight. Call-3, characteristic for floaters, was a persistent vocalisation without any obvious stimulus. Acoustic analyses of call-3 revealed that it was individually distinctive and the experimental approach confirmed that woodpeckers were able to distinguish between calling floaters. Thus, Call-3 functions as a vocal signature of unpaired individuals.
QSF
Creators: name: Fasano, Paolo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: QSF is a new theoretical framework proposing that the wavelengths of quantum particles are dynamically modulated by spacetime curvature. This idea introduces a geometric-quantum coupling via a scalar field λ, affecting particle masses, wavefunctions, and fundamental constants.Without adding new particles or forces, QSF offers natural explanations for major open problems like dark matter, dark energy, the Hubble tension, and anomalies in particle physics. It also avoids singularities and provides a promising path toward a unified quantum gravity theory.
Herichthys carpintis
Creators: name: Hui, Tan Heok
name: Peng, Kelvin Lim Kok
name: Huan, Liew Jia
name: Wei, Low Bi
name: Hing, Rayson Lim Bock
name: Beng, Jeffrey Kwik Teik
name: Yeo, Darren C. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Cichlidae
Herichthys
Herichthys carpintis

description: Herichthys carpintis (Jordan & Snyder)
(Fig. 90, CA[SPC])
 References. Jaafar et al., 2012; Liew et al., 2012.
 Distribution. Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (Jaafar et al., 2012; Liew et al., 2012).
description: Published as part of Hui, Tan Heok, Peng, Kelvin Lim Kok, Huan, Liew Jia, Wei, Low Bi, Hing, Rayson Lim Bock, Beng, Jeffrey Kwik Teik & Yeo, Darren C. J., 2020, The non-native freshwater fishes of Singapore: an annotated compilation, pp. 150-195 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68 on page 177, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0016, http://zenodo.org/record/5343987
Additional file 7 of Multimodal-based machine learning strategy for accurate and non-invasive prediction of intramedullary glioma grade and mutation status of molecular markers: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Ma, Chao
name: Wang, Liyang
name: Song, Dengpan
name: Gao, Chuntian
name: Jing, Linkai
name: Lu, Yang
name: Liu, Dongkang
name: Man, Weitao
name: Yang, Kaiyuan
name: Meng, Zhe
name: Zhang, Huifang
name: Xue, Ping
name: Zhang, Yupeng
name: Guo, Fuyou
name: Wang, Guihuai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 7. Feature selection with LASSO in the P53 task.Feature selection in the SAG group. Twenty-one features with non-zero coefficients were selected using the minimum criteria.LASSO coefficient profiles of the features in the SAG group. Each colored line represents the coefficient of each feature.Feature selection in the TRA group. Twenty-four features with non-zero coefficients were selected using the minimum criteria.LASSO coefficient profiles of the features in the TRA group.Feature selection in the SAG+TRA group. Fifty-seven features with non-zero coefficients were selected using the minimum criteria.LASSO coefficient profiles of the features in the SAG+TRA group. LASSO, least absolute shrinkage and selection operator; P53, tumor protein p53; SAG, sagittal; TRA, transverse.
O.ÓTEWLIEVTIŃ «TEŃIZDIŃ JINI» POVESTINDE OBRAZ JASAW SHEBERLIGI HÁM IDEYALÍQ ÓZGESHELIKLERI
Creators: name: Uzakbergenova, Azada
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Maqalada qaraqalpaq ádebiyatınıń kórnekli wákili, jazıwshı O.Ótewliev povestinde obraz jasawdaǵı ózine tán ózgeshelikleri ashıp berilgen. Sonday-aq, avtordıń povestiniń ideyalıq ózgesheligi, shıǵarma dóretiwdegi sheberligi ashıp kórsetilgen.
A review of the aphid genus Macrosiphoniella del Guercio, 1911 (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the USA with description of a new species
Creators: name: A. S. Jensen
name: S. Barjadze
name: M. Kanturski
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Here we present a review of the 18 species of the Macrosiphini genus Macrosiphoniella (Hemiptera: Aphididae) known to occur in the United States of America, representing two subgenera, Macrosiphoniella and Phalangomyzus Börner, 1939. We report key features for all species including colour in life and pigmentation on slides of apterous and alate viviparous females of all 18 species. Distributional data, host plants, and biological notes of the reviewed species are presented. Apterous, alate and oviparous females of a new native USA species, Macrosiphoniella sunshine sp. nov., associated with Eriophyllum lanatum (Asteraceae) are described from specimens collected in California, Oregon, and Washington. Keys to apterous and alate viviparous females of the Macrosiphoniella in the USA are also provided. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A15D7190-8E74-4AC6-84B2-6B8AE9A4454C http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:3C3FA8B4-9EA5-4F09-ABF0-31EDC3826E13
Argis californiensis
Creators: name: Wicksten, Mary K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Crangonidae
Argis
Argis californiensis

description: Argis californiensis (Rathbun, 1902)
(Fig. 27A)
 Nectocrangon californiensis Rathbun 1902a: 24; 1904:140, figs. 80, 81. — Schmitt 1921: 102. — Zarenkov 1965: 1764.
 Argis californiensis. — Wicksten 1976: 57; 1977a: 964, fig.1; 1980c: 363;: 313. — Word & Charwat 1976: 71.
 Diagnosis. True rostrum absent, but rostral tooth adjacent to frontal margin. Carapace with 2 dorsal teeth posterior to rostral tooth, branchiostegal, pterygostomian teeth, hepatic tooth on each side. Eye small, partly concealed by hood formed by fusion of rostral, postorbital, antennal teeth. Antennular peduncle shorter than scaphocerite, stylocerite short. Scaphocerite with lateral tooth only slightly exceeding blade. Third maxilliped with distal segment flattened, with exopod. Pereopod 1 with dactylus closing obliquely against propodus. Pereopod 2 slender, chelate. Pereopod 3 slender with acute dactylus. Pereopods 4, 5 stout, dactyls flattened. Abdominal somites 1, 2 not carinated, somites 3, 4 feebly carinated, somite 5 strongly carinated, somite 6 with 2 carinae each ending in sharp tooth. Abdominal pleura 1–4 rounded, fifth pleuron pointed. Telson overreaching uropods, with 3 pairs dorsolateral spines, acute apex. Female with more inflated carapace and more elevated eye tubercle than male. Total length to 62 mm.
 Color in life. Not reported.
 Habitat and depth. Sand, rocks and shell, 20–259 m.
 Range. Off Santa Rosa I., California to off Punta Banda, Baja California. Type locality off Santa Catalina I., California.
 Remarks. Like other species of Argis, A. californiensis probably is a burrower that uses its flattened appendages to dig into the sand. These appendages are not "natatorial", as described by Schmitt (1921). The eyes remain above the surface of the sand, as is the case in many crangonids.
 Although most records of this species come from the islands off southern California, A. californiensis also has been collected off Port Hueneme and San Diego. Its distribution may be governed by the availability of the coarse shelly sand in which it lives. A record of the species (as Nectocrangon californiensis) southwest of the Columbia River, Oregon (McCauley1972) probably is due to a misidentification of another species of Argis.
description: Published as part of Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3371 on page 108
Nonradial pulsation of the $δ$ Scuti star UV Trianguli
Creators: name: Zhou, Ai-Ying
name: Liu, Zong-Li
name: Rodríguez, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a three-year photometric study of the $δ$ Scuti star UV Trianguli. Our data sets consist of 9378 differential measurements in Johnson V together with a few data collected into the Strömgren {\em uvby$β$} system. UV Tri is at least a biperiodic variable. The two best-fitting frequencies, $f_1$=9.3298 d$^{-1}$ and $f_2$=10.8513 d$^{-1}$, are still not the complete set of pulsation frequencies representing the star's light variations. A suspected third frequency might present in the star. Several ``anomalous cycles'' are observed in the light curves. They seem real, but are aperiodic. We derive the colour indices and physical parameters for the variable and conclude that it is a Population I $δ$ Sct star with normal metal abundance ([Me/H]=0.0$\pm$n0.1 dex) evolving on its main sequence stage at an early evolutionary phase before the turn-off point. Finally, we compare the observed oscillation frequencies with theoretical models. The two pulsation modes of UV Tri are likely nonradial to be gravity modes.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
The stuffed crocodile of “Castel Nuovo” in Naples (Italy): new insights from ancient DNA and radiocarbon
Creators: name: T. Fioravanti
name: E. Casafredda
name: A. Splendiani
name: V. Caputo Barucchi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In the present study, a stuffed crocodile displayed for centuries at the “Castel Nuovo” (New Castle) in Naples was radiocarbon dated and examined using ancient DNA analysis. The specimen was classified as Crocodylus niloticus based on its large body size and the mitochondrial DNA haplotype obtained, already described for a living population in Lake Nasser (Egypt). Radiocarbon analysis indicated an age of 585 ± 40 14C year BP, which coincides with the end of the Middle Ages. These results are commented in the light of Medieval religious symbolism and ancient legends which link the crocodile to the history of Naples during the mid-fifteenth century. The data obtained seem to confirm the explanation found in an old guidebook to Naples, according to which the stuffed crocodile was offered by a soldier returning from Egypt as an ex-voto to the image of the “Madonna del Parto” in the chapel of the castle. In addition, the radiocarbon dating shows that the individual analysed could be the oldest taxidermied vertebrate in Europe.
Heros severus Heckel 1840
Creators: name: Hui, Tan Heok
name: Peng, Kelvin Lim Kok
name: Huan, Liew Jia
name: Wei, Low Bi
name: Hing, Rayson Lim Bock
name: Beng, Jeffrey Kwik Teik
name: Yeo, Darren C. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Cichlidae
Heros
Heros severus

description: Heros severus Heckel
(Fig. 91, SA[SPC])
 References. Ng HH & Tan HH, 2010.
 Distribution. Bedok Reservoir (Ng HH & Tan HH, 2010).
 Remarks. Not established as this is regarded as a discarded aquarium fish.
description: Published as part of Hui, Tan Heok, Peng, Kelvin Lim Kok, Huan, Liew Jia, Wei, Low Bi, Hing, Rayson Lim Bock, Beng, Jeffrey Kwik Teik & Yeo, Darren C. J., 2020, The non-native freshwater fishes of Singapore: an annotated compilation, pp. 150-195 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68 on page 177, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0016, http://zenodo.org/record/5343987
Xanthotryxus Aldrich 1930
Creators: name: Liu, Shixin
name: Ji, Honghu
name: Li, Wenliang
name: Yao, Gang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Polleniidae
Xanthotryxus

description: GenusXanthotryxusAldrich, 1930
Xanthotryxus Aldrich, 1930: 3. Type species: Xanthotryxus mongol Aldrich, 1930 (original designation).
Diagnosis.
Adults of this genus can be recognized by the combination of the following characters: bulk size, body length 9–13 mm, body totally black; eyes bare; parafacial bare or with hairs, facial carina broadly flat or slightly round, not angular; antennae black, arista plumose, vibrissa far from epistoma; scutum, scutellum and tergite with crinkly golden hairs; propleura and basisternum bare, suprasquamal ridge bare, postalar declivity with tomentum; basal tubercle of R 4 + 5 with small black setae, subcostal sclerite with a tuft of setae and yellow villi; legs black; abdomen with golden tomentum, cerci slender, acrophallus well developed and hypophallus not well developed (Fan 1997).
Distribution.
Palaearctic, Oriental.
description: Published as part of Liu, Shixin, Ji, Honghu, Li, Wenliang & Yao, Gang, 2025, Three new species of Polleniidae (Diptera) from China, pp. 99-114 in ZooKeys 1228 on pages 99-114, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1228.129419
Transition Towards a Green Economy in Europe: Innovation and Knowledge Integration in the Renewable Energy Sector
Creators: name: Conti, Chiara
name: Mancusi, Maria Luisa
name: Francesca, Sanna-Randaccio
name: Roberta, Sestini
name: Elena, Verdolini
name: Conti, Chiara
name: Mancusi, Maria Luisa
name: Francesca, Sanna-Randaccio
name: Roberta, Sestini
name: Elena, Verdolini
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Knowledge Spillovers
subject: Renewable Energy Technologies
subject: Fossil Energy Technologies
subject: EU Innovation

description: A major concern regarding innovation in clean technologies in the EU is that the fragmentation of its innovation system may hinder knowledge flows and, consequently, spillovers across member countries. A low intensity of knowledge flows across EU states can negatively impact their technological base, suppressing opportunities for further innovations and hindering the movement towards the technological frontier. This paper evaluates the fragmentation of the EU innovation system in the field of renewable energy sources (RES) by examining the intensity and direction of knowledge spillovers over the years 1985-2010. We modify the original double exponential knowledge diffusion model to provide information on the degree of integration of EU countries’ innovation efforts and to assess how citation patterns changed over time. We show that EU RES inventors have increasingly built “on the shoulders of the other EU giants”, intensifying their citations to other member countries and decreasing those to domestic inventors. Furthermore, the EU strengthened its position as source of RES knowledge for the US. Finally, we show that this pattern is peculiar to RES, with other traditional (i.e. fossil-based) energy technologies behaving in a completely different way.
Kites (Milvus spp.) wintering on Crete
Creators: name: C. T. Panter
name: S. Xirouchakis
name: Š. Danko
name: H. Matušík
name: P. Podzemný
name: S. Ovčiariková
name: I. Literák
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The winter months are an important part of the year for raptors as survival throughout this period is critical for the succeeding year’s population recruitment. We reveal novel insights into the wintering of kites (Milvus spp.) on the Mediterranean island of Crete, Greece. We use a combination of 1) direct field observations, 2) online photograph searches and 3) analysis of satellite telemetry data from a tagged hybrid Red Kite × Black Kite (Milvus milvus × M. migrans migrans). The number of observations of wintering kites has increased since 1998. The wintering of numerous Black Kites with morphological features of both subspecies (M. migrans migrans and M. migrans lineatus) and a hybrid Red Kite × Black Kite is a new phenomenon on Crete.
Learning to Adapt for Stereo
Creators: name: Tonioni, Alessio
name: Rahnama, Oscar
name: Joy, Thomas
name: Di Stefano, Luigi
name: Ajanthan, Thalaiyasingam
name: Torr, Philip H. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Real world applications of stereo depth estimation require models that are robust to dynamic variations in the environment. Even though deep learning based stereo methods are successful, they often fail to generalize to unseen variations in the environment, making them less suitable for practical applications such as autonomous driving. In this work, we introduce a "learning-to-adapt" framework that enables deep stereo methods to continuously adapt to new target domains in an unsupervised manner. Specifically, our approach incorporates the adaptation procedure into the learning objective to obtain a base set of parameters that are better suited for unsupervised online adaptation. To further improve the quality of the adaptation, we learn a confidence measure that effectively masks the errors introduced during the unsupervised adaptation. We evaluate our method on synthetic and real-world stereo datasets and our experiments evidence that learning-to-adapt is, indeed beneficial for online adaptation on vastly different domains.
description: Accepted at CVPR2019. Code available at https://github.com/CVLAB-Unibo/Learning2AdaptForStereo
Heterotilapia buttikoferi
Creators: name: Hui, Tan Heok
name: Peng, Kelvin Lim Kok
name: Huan, Liew Jia
name: Wei, Low Bi
name: Hing, Rayson Lim Bock
name: Beng, Jeffrey Kwik Teik
name: Yeo, Darren C. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Cichlidae
Heterotilapia
Heterotilapia buttikoferi

description: Heterotilapia buttikoferi (Hubrecht)
(Fig. 92, AF[SPC])
 References. Baker & Lim, 2008, 2012 (as Tilapia buttikoferi); Ng HH & Tan HH, 2010 (as Tilapia buttikoferi); Tan HTW et al., 2010 (as Tilapia buttikoferi); Kwik et al., 2013 (as Tilapia buttikoferi); Tan, 2013d, 2014a (as Tilapia buttikoferi); Tan, 2016c.
 Distribution. Bedok Reservoir (Ng HH & Tan HH, 2010); Jurong Lake (Ng HH & Tan HH, 2010); Upper Peirce Reservoir (Ng HH & Tan HH, 2010); Lower Peirce Reservoir (Ng HH & Tan HH, 2010); Upper Seletar Reservoir (Ng HH & Tan HH, 2010); Lower Seletar Reservoir (Ng HH & Tan HH, 2010); Pandan Reservoir (Ng HH & Tan HH, 2010); Pangsua pond (Kwik et al., 2013); Yishun pond (Kwik et al., 2013); Central Catchment Nature Reserve — Sime forest (Tan, 2013d); West Coast Park marsh pond (Tan, 2014a); Bishan Park (Tan, 2016c); Jurong Lake (Tan HH, pers. obs., 2018); Marina Reservoir (unpublished data); Pandan Reservoir (unpublished data); Serangoon Reservoir (unpublished data).
 Remarks. This is a popular fish in the ornamental fish trade. Its introduction into Singapore is probably through pet fishes that are released into the water bodies.
description: Published as part of Hui, Tan Heok, Peng, Kelvin Lim Kok, Huan, Liew Jia, Wei, Low Bi, Hing, Rayson Lim Bock, Beng, Jeffrey Kwik Teik & Yeo, Darren C. J., 2020, The non-native freshwater fishes of Singapore: an annotated compilation, pp. 150-195 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68 on page 178, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0016, http://zenodo.org/record/5343987
Quantifying Triadic Closure in Multi-Edge Social Networks
Creators: name: Brandenberger, Laurence
name: Casiraghi, Giona
name: Nanumyan, Vahan
name: Schweitzer, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multi-edge networks capture repeated interactions between individuals. In social networks, such edges often form closed triangles, or triads. Standard approaches to measure this triadic closure, however, fail for multi-edge networks, because they do not consider that triads can be formed by edges of different multiplicity. We propose a novel measure of triadic closure for multi-edge networks of social interactions based on a shared partner statistic. We demonstrate that our operalization is able to detect meaningful closure in synthetic and empirical multi-edge networks, where common approaches fail. This is a cornerstone in driving inferential network analyses from the analysis of binary networks towards the analyses of multi-edge and weighted networks, which offer a more realistic representation of social interactions and relations.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures, 6 tables
Junior Farmer Field Schools, Agricultural Knowledge and Spillover Effects: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda
Creators: name: Bonan, Jacopo
name: Pagani, Laura
name: Bonan, Jacopo
name: Pagani, Laura
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Junior Farmer Field Schools
subject: Agricultural Extension
subject: Intergenerational Learning Spillover
subject: Uganda

description: We analyse the impact of a junior farmer field school project in Northern Uganda on students’ agricultural knowledge and practices. We also test for the presence of intergenerational learning spillover within households. We use differences-in-differences estimators with ex-ante matching. We find that the program had positive effects on students’ agricultural knowledge and adoption of good practices and that it produced some spillover effects in terms of improvements of household agricultural knowledge and food security. Overall, our results point to the importance of adapting the basic principles of farmer field schools to children.
Defining and Adopting an End User Computing Policy: A Case Study
Creators: name: Turner, Roger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: End User Computing carries significant risks if not well controlled. This paper is a case study of the introduction of an updated End User Computing policy at the Wesleyan Assurance Society. The paper outlines the plan and identifies various challenges. The paper explains how these challenges were overcome. We wrote an End User Computing Risk Assessment Application which calculates a risk rating band based on the Complexity, Materiality and Control (or lack of it) pertaining to any given application and the basis of assessment is given in this paper. The policy uses a risk based approach for assessing and mitigating against the highest risks first and obtaining the quickest benefit.
description: 25 Pages, 12 Colour Figures. 1 Table. First presented at the EuSpRIG 2018 Conference at Imperial College, London. Revised and updated following a further presentation at the EuSpRIG 2019 Conference also at Imperial College, London
Supplementary Information from Optic flow cues help explain altitude control over sea in freely flying gulls
Creators: name: Serres, Julien R.
name: Evans, Thomas J.
name: Åkesson, Susanne
name: Duriez, Olivier
name: Shamoun-Baranes, Judy
name: Ruffier, Franck
name: Hedenström, Anders
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: For studies of how birds control their altitude, seabirds are of particular interest because they forage offshore where the visual environment can be simply modelled by a flat world textured by waves then generating only ventral visual cues. This study suggests that optic flow, i.e. the rate at which the sea moves across the eye’s retina, can explain gull’s altitude control over seas. In particular, a new flight model that includes both energy and optical invariants help explain the gulls’ trajectories during offshore takeoff and cruising flight. A linear mixed model applied to 352 flights from 16 individual lesser black backed gulls (Larus fuscus) revealed a statistically significant optic flow set-point of ca 25° s−1. Thereafter, an optic flow-based flight model was applied to 18 offshore takeoff flights from nine individual gulls. By introducing an upper limit in climb rate on the elevation dynamics, coupled with an optic flow set-point, the predicted altitude gives an optimized fit factor value of 63% on average (30–83% in range) with respect to the GPS data. We conclude that the optic flow regulation principle helps gulls to adjust their altitude over sea without having to directly measure their current altitude.
Economic Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation: Evidence from the Colombian Coffee Market
Creators: name: Bastianin, Andrea
name: Lanza, Alessandro
name: Manera, Matteo
name: Bastianin, Andrea
name: Lanza, Alessandro
name: Manera, Matteo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Coffee
subject: Colombia
subject: El Niño
subject: ENSO
subject: La Niña
subject: Structural VAR

description: We develop a structural econometric model to study the impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on Colombian coffee production, exports and price. Our empirical specification is consistent with an economic model of the coffee market that, in the short-run, is characterized by a downward-sloping demand curve and by a vertical supply curve. This allows the study of the effects of unpredictable innovations to ENSO on the Colombian coffee price, while controlling for shocks arising from both the supply and the demand-side of the market. We show that El Niño events (i.e. positive shocks to ENSO) might be beneficial for production and exports and tend to decrease the price of coffee. On the contrary, La Niña conditions (i.e. negative shocks to ENSO) depress coffee production and exports and increase price. However, the overall impact of ENSO shocks is small. In the short-run, ENSO shocks explain 2% of the fluctuations of coffee production and 0.2% of the variability of the price of coffee. In the long-run, these percentages rise to 8% and 6%, respectively. Both in the short-run and in the long-run, demand-side shocks are more relevant than supply-side shocks in explaining the dynamics of the price of coffee.
Ordering phenomena and transport properties of Bi1/2Sr1/2MnO3 single crystals
Creators: name: Hejtmanek, J.
name: Knizek, K.
name: Jirak, Z.
name: Hervieu, M.
name: Martin, C.
name: Nevriva, M.
name: Beran, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of the electrical and thermal conductivities, thermopower and paramagnetic susceptibility have been performed on single crystal samples of Bi1/2Sr1/2MnO3 and complemented with the X-ray powder diffraction data. A pronounced hysteretic behavior, observed below the cubic-to- orthorhombic transition at Tcrit = 535 K, is related to the onset of long-range charge order at TCO = 450 K and its further evolution down to about 330 K. The diffraction data suggest that the charge ordered state is formed by Zener pairs, represented by Mn4+ dimers linked by one extra eg electron, and is possibly stabilized by cooperative Bi,Sr displacements. An extremely low thermal conductivity is observed down to the lowest temperatures, without any recovery at the anti- ferromagnetic ordering temperature TN = 150 K. Such be- havior points to a presence of strong scatterers of phonons. Their possible origin can be linked to "optical-like" oscilla- tions which are associated with fluctuating charges within the Zener pairs.
description: LATeX file, 4 EPS figures, zipped in 1 file BiSr50.zip
Argis levior
Creators: name: Wicksten, Mary K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Crangonidae
Argis
Argis levior

description: Argis levior (Rathbun, 1902)
(Fig. 27B)
 Nectocrangon levior Rathbun, 1902a: 892; 1904: 143, figs. 86, 87. — Zarenkov 1965: 1764.
 Argis levior. — Kozloff 1974: 164. — Wicksten 1976: 56, fig. 1.— Butler 1980: 89.
 Diagnosis. Rostral tooth short. Carapace with 3 dorsal teeth posterior to rostral tooth, branchiostegal, pterygostomian teeth, hepatic tooth on each side. Eye small, partly concealed by hood. Antennular peduncle not as long as scaphocerite. Lateral tooth of scaphocerite slightly exceeding blade. Distal segment of third maxilliped flattened, with exopod. Pereopod 1 subchelate, dactylus closing obliquely against propodus. Pereopod 2 slender, chelate. Pereopod 3 slender, dactylus slender, acute. Pereopods 4, 5 stout, dactyls flattened. Abdominal somites 1–4 without carinae, somite 5 weakly carinate, somite 6 with 2 dorsal carinae; pleura rounded except for weak posterolateral point on fourth pleuron. Telson about as long as uropods, with 3 pairs dorsolateral spines, acute apex. Female total length 47 mm, male not reported.
 Color in life. Not reported.
 Habitat and depth. Sand, boulders and shell, 18–77 m.
 Range. Aleutian Is. to Shelter Cove, Humboldt County, California. Type locality Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound.
description: Published as part of Wicksten, Mary K., 2012, Decapod Crustacea of the Californian and Oregonian Zoogeographic Provinces 3371, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3371 on page 108
Can Hypothetical Time Discounting Rates Predict Actual Behaviour: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Creators: name: Bonan, Jacopo
name: LeMay-Boucher, Philippe
name: Scott, Douglas
name: Bonan, Jacopo
name: LeMay-Boucher, Philippe
name: Scott, Douglas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Time Preferences
subject: Randomized Experiment
subject: Senegal

description: This paper estimates time preference parameters using commonly-applied methodologies, with the aim of investigating the link between these measures and actual economic behaviour. An experiment was conducted in the city of Thies, in Senegal, using the unique reference numbers of banknotes as a means of determining an individual’s willingness to save money. The findings of this experiment provide an innovative comparison between real choices, and choices made in the presence of hypothetical rewards. Our research indicates that individuals display a far greater degree of patience, when the possibility of genuine financial gain is made available to them. Our results show that hypothetical time preferences parameters are poor predictors of actual behaviour, prompting questions over the validity of commonly used measurements.
Decarbonization Pathways in Southeast Asia: New Results for Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam
Creators: name: Bosello, Francesco
name: Orecchia, Carlo
name: Raitzer, David A.
name: Bosello, Francesco
name: Orecchia, Carlo
name: Raitzer, David A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Climate Change Mitigation
subject: Asian Economies
subject: Computable General Equilibrium Models

description: Southeast Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions of the world to the impacts of climate change. At the same time, the region is also following a trajectory that could make it a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the future. Understanding the economic implications of policy options for low carbon growth is essential to formulate instruments that achieve the greatest emissions reductions at lowest cost. This study focuses on five developing countries of Southeast Asia that collectively account for 90% of regional emissions in recent years—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. The analyses are based on the CGE economy-energy-environment model ICES under an array of scenarios reflecting business as usual, fragmented climate policies, an approximately 2.4°C post 2020 global climate stabilization target, termed 650 parts per million (ppm) carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent (eq), and an approximately 2°C global target (termed 500 ppm CO2 eq). Averted deforestation through reducing emissions from forest degradation and deforestation (REDD) is included in some scenarios. The study shows that global and coordinated action is found to be critical to the cost effectiveness of emissions stabilization policies. A 650ppm stabilization scenario (below 3°C in 2100) has a similar cost to the region to current fragmented targets, but achieves much higher levels of emissions reductions. However, only some of the countries have short-term emissions targets that are consistent with a stabilization scenario at 650ppm: these are Indonesia, Philippines and Viet Nam. None of the countries’ mid-term targets are coherent with more ambitious stabilization scenario at 500ppm.
Two-parameter differential calculus on the h-superplane
Creators: name: Celik, Salih
name: Celik, Sultan A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 17B37; 81R60

description: We introduce a noncommutative differential calculus on the two-parameter $h$-superplane via a contraction of the (p,q)-superplane. We manifestly show that the differential calculus is covariant under $GL_{h_1,h_2}(1| 1)$ transformations. We also give a two-parameter deformation of the (1+1)-dimensional phase space algebra.
description: 14 pages
Prospects for a securities Market in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Yishak, Mengesha
name: Yishak, Mengesha
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Trade
subject: Market
subject: Financial structure
subject: Ethiopia

description: This paper highlights the need for a securities market, the supply and demand prospects for it as well as some of the challenge of the market. It shows that the financial structure of the country jis dominated by commercial banks whose major function is mobilizing short-term liabilities and largely making short-term loans. The banks activities in financing long-term loans are limited. On the other hand, a look at the demand prospects for a securities market suggests that there is sufficient ground to start such a market. The ongoing privatization process as well as the existing and newly-formed share companies will be potential supply sources of the market. Government securities may be another source when and if it resorts to indirect monetary policy instruments. Demand for stocks may come from portfolio adjustment of individuals, institutional savers, growth of the overall economy, the extent to which a stable economic, political and regulatory environment is maintained, as well as the capacity to generate professional analysts and managers.
Mayaheros urophthalmus
Creators: name: Hui, Tan Heok
name: Peng, Kelvin Lim Kok
name: Huan, Liew Jia
name: Wei, Low Bi
name: Hing, Rayson Lim Bock
name: Beng, Jeffrey Kwik Teik
name: Yeo, Darren C. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Cichlidae
Mayaheros
Mayaheros urophthalmus

description: Mayaheros urophthalmus (Günther)
(Fig. 93, CA[SPC])
 References. National Parks Board, 2003 (as Nandopsis festae or Cichlasoma urophthalmus); Nico et al., 2007 (as “ Cichlasoma ” urophthalmus); Baker & Lim, 2008, 2012 (as Cichlasoma urophthalmum); Ng HH & Tan HH, 2010 (as Cichlasoma urophthalmum); Tan HTW et al., 2010 (as Cichlasoma urophthalmus); Yeo & Lim, 2010 (as Cichlasoma urophthalmum); Jaafar et al., 2012 (as Cichlasoma urophthalmum); Kwik et al., 2013 (as Cichlasoma urophthalmus); Ng HH & Tan HH, 2013 (as Cichlasoma urophthalmum); Tan, 2013a (as Cichlasoma urophthalmum); Yeo, 2013 (as Cichlasoma urophthalmum); Tan, 2014a, 2014f (as Cichlasoma urophthalmum); Ng et al., 2015 (as Cichlasoma urophthalmum); Tan, 2016c; Tan & Koh, 2016 (as Cichalsoma uropthalmum); Theng et al., 2016 (as Cichlasoma urophthalmus); Tan et al., 2017b.
 Distribution. Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (National Parks Board, 2003; Tan, 2013a; Theng et al., 2016); Punggol River (now dammed as Punggol Reservoir; Nico et al., 2007); Bedok Reservoir (Ng HH & Tan HH, 2010); Sarimbun Reservoir (Ng HH & Tan HH, 2010); Upper Peirce Reservoir (Ng HH & Tan HH, 2010); Singapore Botanic Gardens (Yeo & Lim, 2010); Punggol Reservoir (Ng PX & Tan, 2013; Theng et al., 2016); Serangoon Reservoir (Ng PX & Tan, 2013; Theng et al., 2016); Bishan Park (Yeo, 2013; Tan, 2016c); West Coast Park marsh pond (Tan, 2014a); Pandan canal (Tan 2014f); Yishun Pond (Kwik et al., 2013; Tan, 2014f); Jurong Lake (Tan, 2014f); Marina South (Tan & Koh, 2016); Singapore Quarry (Tan et al., 2017b); Bishan Park (unpublished data).
 Remarks. This species has adapted to brackish water and can be sighted in the waterways at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (Tan, 2013a).
description: Published as part of Hui, Tan Heok, Peng, Kelvin Lim Kok, Huan, Liew Jia, Wei, Low Bi, Hing, Rayson Lim Bock, Beng, Jeffrey Kwik Teik & Yeo, Darren C. J., 2020, The non-native freshwater fishes of Singapore: an annotated compilation, pp. 150-195 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68 on page 178, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0016, http://zenodo.org/record/5343987
Additional file 10 of Multimodal-based machine learning strategy for accurate and non-invasive prediction of intramedullary glioma grade and mutation status of molecular markers: a retrospective study
Creators: name: Ma, Chao
name: Wang, Liyang
name: Song, Dengpan
name: Gao, Chuntian
name: Jing, Linkai
name: Lu, Yang
name: Liu, Dongkang
name: Man, Weitao
name: Yang, Kaiyuan
name: Meng, Zhe
name: Zhang, Huifang
name: Xue, Ping
name: Zhang, Yupeng
name: Guo, Fuyou
name: Wang, Guihuai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 10. Detailed test results in the external test cohort. Acc: accuracy, Sens: sensitivity, Spec: specificity.