cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2 of Associations of (pre)diabetes with right ventricular and atrial structure and function: the Maastricht Study
Creators: name: Linssen, Pauline B. C.
name: Veugen, Marja G. J.
name: Henry, Ronald M. A.
name: Kallen, Carla J. H. Van Der
name: Kroon, Abraham A.
name: Schram, Miranda T.
name: Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca
name: Stehouwer, Coen D. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Supplemental tables.
On Calabi-Yau supermanifolds
Creators: name: Rocek, Martin
name: Wadhwa, Neal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that a Kahler supermetric on a supermanifold with one complex fermionic dimension admits a super Ricci-flat supermetric if and only if the bosonic metric has vanishing scalar curvature. As a corollary, it follows that Yau's theorem does not hold for supermanifolds.
description: 4 pages
AGRICULTURAL POLICIES IN INDONESIA: PRODUCER SUPPORT ESTIMATES 1985-2003
Creators: name: Thomas, Marcelle
name: Orden, David
name: Thomas, Marcelle
name: Orden, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: As in many other developing countries, the concerns about food security in Indonesia during the 1980s and early 1990s resulted in policies aimed at achieving self-sufficiency in food crops. The Government of Indonesia (GOI) combined price interventions and economic incentives to encourage agricultural production, especially of the staple crops. From 1985 to 1998, Indonesia started a series of domestic and trade reforms emanating from a combination of unilateral undertakings, the country’s commitments to the WTO, and the government’s agreement with the IMF following the 1997/98 financial crisis. This study computes nominal protection rates and producer support estimates (NPR and PSE) for Indonesia for the period 1985-2003 for six agricultural commodities, rice, maize, sugar, soybeans, crude palm oil, and natural rubber (representing more than two-thirds of Indonesian agricultural output) in an attempt to quantify the net effects of these policies. The NPRs and PSEs computed for Indonesia show that in spite of the reforms, the GOI has protected its agriculture over the past twenty years, although not uniformly across commodities. Although the reforms went a long way in reducing trade and domestic regulations on agricultural products, the study results demonstrate a return to protection for some commodities in recent years. The results presented in this study must be interpreted with the usual caution associated with the estimation of support indicators in general and the PSEs in particular due to the assumptions and judgments made when computing their various components. In the study, the choice of transportation costs and marketing margins may have underestimated the value of these activities, inflating or deflating (depending on the cost) the value of support accruing to producers. The choice of markets to compare international and domestic prices, in spite of the attention given to the differences in processing and accounting for marketing costs, may raise the issue of whom is actually benefiting from the support, the farmer, the miller, or the trader. The process of “scaling-up” the PSE values to all of agriculture without examining the policies affecting the noncovered commodities underscore the necessity for a more comprehensive study, which would include other agricultural sectors, for example the livestock sector. Nevertheless, a reasonable assessment of support for agriculture in Indonesia over the period 1985-2003 emerges from the analysis presented.
Topological magnon bands in a room temperature Kagome magnet
Creators: name: Zhang, H.
name: Feng, X.
name: Heitmann, T.
name: Kolesnikov, A. I.
name: Stone, M. B.
name: Lu, Y. -M.
name: Ke, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological magnon is a vibrant research field gaining more and more attention in the past few years. Among many theoretical proposals and limited experimental studies, ferromagnetic Kagome lattice emerges as one of the most elucidating systems. Here we report neutron scattering studies of YMn6Sn6, a metallic system consisting of ferromagnetic Kagome planes. This system undergoes a commensurate-to-incommensurate antiferromagnetic phase transition upon cooling with the incommensurability along the out-of-plane direction. We observe magnon band gap opening at the symmetry-protected K points and ascribe this feature to the antisymmetric Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions. Our observation supports the existence of topological Dirac magnons in both the commensurate collinear and incommensurate coplanar magnetic orders, which is further corroborated by symmetry analysis. This finding places YMn6Sn6 as a promising candidate for room-temperature magnon spintronics applications.
Pulsar Wind Nebulae and the X-Ray Emission of Non-Accreting Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Cheng, K. S.
name: Taam, Ronald E.
name: Wang, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The general properties of the non-thermal non-pulsed X-ray emission of rotation powered pulsars are investigated in the context of a pulsar wind nebula model. An examination of the observed X-ray emission from a sample of 23 pulsars from ASCA in the energy range between 2-10 keV reveals that the relation of X-ray luminosity, $L_x$, to the pulsar spin down power, $\dot{E}$, is steeper for the non-pulsed component than for the pulsed component. Specifically, $L_{x}^{npul} \propto \dot{E}^{1.4 \pm 0.1}$ for the non-pulsed component, whereas $L_{x}^{pul} \propto \dot{E}^{1.2 \pm 0.08}$ for the pulsed component. The former relation is consistent with emission from a pulsar wind nebula model in which $L_{x}^{npul} \propto \dot{E}^{p/2}$ where $p$ is the power law index of the electron energy distribution. The relation for the pulsed component, on the other hand, is consistent with a magnetospheric emission model.
description: 27 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 10 of Age-associated genes in human mammary gland drive human breast cancer progression
Creators: name: Gu, Xiang
name: Bingzhi Wang
name: Haiyan Zhu
name: Zhou, You
name: Horning, Aaron M.
name: Huang, Tim H-M
name: Yidong Chen
name: Houghton, Peter
name: Lai, Zhao
name: Michalek, Joel E.
name: Sun, Lu-Zhe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 10: Supplementary Figure 10. ALX4 KD by siRNA promoted migration of BT-474 cells. (A) Relative gene expression level of ALX4 measured by RT-qPCR in control siRNA or ALX4 siRNA transfected cells. (B) Cell migration was increased upon ALX4 knockdown. Data are presented as the mean ± sem from three measurements. Two-sample t tests were used to analyze the data. **: P
Additional file 1 of Physiotherapy using a free-standing robotic exoskeleton for patients with spinal cord injury: a feasibility study
Creators: name: Postol, Nicola
name: Spratt, Neil J.
name: Bivard, Andrew
name: Marquez, Jodie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Appendix S1. Survey.
The Digital Divide in Canada and the Role of LEO Satellites in Bridging the Gap
Creators: name: Ahmmed, Tuheen
name: Alidadi, Afsoon
name: Zhang, Zichao
name: Chaudhry, Aizaz U.
name: Yanikomeroglu, Halim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Overcoming the digital divide in rural and remote areas has always been a big challenge for Canada with its huge geographical area. In 2016, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission announced broadband Internet as a basic service available for all Canadians. However, approximately one million Canadians still do not have access to broadband services as of 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has made the situation more challenging, as social, economic, and educational activities have increasingly been transferred online. The condition is more unfavorable for Indigenous communities. A key challenge in deploying rural and remote broadband Internet is to plan and implement high-capacity backbones, which are now available only in denser urban areas. For any Internet provider, it is almost impossible to make a viable business proposal in these areas. For example, the vast land of the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavuts diverse geographical features present obstacles for broadband infrastructure. In this paper, we investigate the digital divide in Canada with a focus on rural and remote areas. In so doing, we highlight two potential solutions using low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations to deliver broadband Internet in rural and remote areas to address the access inequality and the digital divide. The first solution involves integrating LEO constellations as a backbone for the existing 4G/5G telecommunications network. This solution uses satellites in a LEO constellation to provide a backhaul network connecting the 4G/5G access network to its core network. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project already specifies how to integrate LEO satellite networks into the 4G/5G network, and the Canadian satellite operator Telesat has already showcased this solution with one terrestrial operator, TIM Brasil, in their 4G network.
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Magazine, Total 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Micro-Demand Systems Analysis of Non-Alcoholic Beverages in the United States: An Application of Econometric Techniques Dealing With Censoring
Creators: name: Alviola, Pedro A.
name: Capps, Oral
name: Wu, Ximing
name: Alviola, Pedro A.
name: Capps, Oral
name: Wu, Ximing
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Censored demand systems
subject: AIDS
subject: QUAIDS
subject: Two-Step Methods
subject: Generalized Maximum Entropy
subject: Amemiya-Tobin Framework
subject: Non-Alcoholic Beverages

description: A censored Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) and a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) were estimated in modeling non-alcoholic beverages. Five estimation techniques were used, including the conventional Iterated Seemingly Unrelated Regression (ITSUR), two-stage methods such as the Heien and Wessells (1990) and the Shonkwiler and Yen (1999) approaches, the generalized maximum entropy method and the Amemiya-Tobin framework of Dong, Gould and Kaiser (2004). Our results based on various specifications and estimation techniques are quantitatively similar and indicate that price elasticity estimates have a greater variability in more highly censored non-alcoholic beverage items such as tea, coffee and bottled water as opposed to less censored non-alcoholic beverage items such as carbonated softdrinks, milk and fruit juices.
PaSh: Light-touch Data-Parallel Shell Processing
Creators: name: Vasilakis, Nikos
name: Kallas, Konstantinos
name: Mamouras, Konstantinos
name: Benetopoulos, Achilleas
name: Cvetković, Lazar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents {\scshape PaSh}, a system for parallelizing POSIX shell scripts. Given a script, {\scshape PaSh} converts it to a dataflow graph, performs a series of semantics-preserving program transformations that expose parallelism, and then converts the dataflow graph back into a script -- one that adds POSIX constructs to explicitly guide parallelism coupled with {\scshape PaSh}-provided {\scshape Unix}-aware runtime primitives for addressing performance- and correctness-related issues. A lightweight annotation language allows command developers to express key parallelizability properties about their commands. An accompanying parallelizability study of POSIX and GNU commands -- two large and commonly used groups -- guides the annotation language and optimized aggregator library that {\scshape PaSh} uses. Finally, {\scshape PaSh}'s {\scshape PaSh}'s extensive evaluation over 44 unmodified {\scshape Unix} scripts shows significant speedups ($0.89$--$61.1\times$, avg: $6.7\times$) stemming from the combination of its program transformations and runtime primitives.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures
The 2005/06 South Dakota Grain Marketing Patterns Study: A Grain Elevator Survey Report
Creators: name: Qasmi, Bashir A.
name: Hamda, Yonas
name: Fausti, Scott W.
name: Qasmi, Bashir A.
name: Hamda, Yonas
name: Fausti, Scott W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: South Dakota
subject: corn
subject: soybeans
subject: spring wheat
subject: winter wheat
subject: grain elevators
subject: market share
subject: methods of purchase
subject: methods of sale
subject: transportation modes

description: This study reports the results of a survey of grain elevators in South Dakota completed in 2007 and focuses on the marketing patterns for spring wheat, winter wheat, oats, barley, corn, soybeans and sunflower seeds for the marketing year 2005/06. During the year, elevators’ market share in South Dakota was 54%, 83%, 91% and 83% for corn, soybeans, spring wheat, and winter wheat, respectively. Contrary to reports for Iowa and Indiana, the increase in ethanol production in the state did not have an adverse impact on elevators’ market share for corn in South Dakota. In terms of volume, cash purchase, delayed pricing, cash forward contracts, and hedge to arrive contracts, collectively, accounted for more than 95% of each of the grain and oilseed purchased by the responding elevators during the year. The three most commonly used methods for grain sales were cash sales, cash forward contracts and basis contracts, collectively, accounting for more than 95% of each of the grain and oilseeds volume handled by the responding elevators during the year. Shipments to out-of-state locations accounted for 38% of the corn and 79% of soybean shipped by all Elevators in South Dakota. Both rail and trucks are important modes of transportation for shipping South Dakota grains.
A possible 3:2 orbital epicyclic resonance in QPOs frequencies of Sgr A*
Creators: name: Török, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recent measurement of double peak QPOs frequencies in Sgr A* is consistent with the 3:2 ratio. The same ratio is firmly established by previous observations in all double peak kHz QPOs in microquasars and theoretically explained by orbital epicyclic resonances excited in nearly Keplerian accretion flow in black hole's strong gravity. If confirmed, the 3:2 ratio of double peak QPOs in Sgr A$^*$ will be of a fundamental importance for the black hole accretion theory, by providing another clear argument that the accretion disk oscillations are indeed governed by non-linear, strong-gravity physics.
description: 5 pages, 3 tables and 4 figures (2x2); submitted to A&A
Additional file 1 of Associations of (pre)diabetes with right ventricular and atrial structure and function: the Maastricht Study
Creators: name: Linssen, Pauline B. C.
name: Veugen, Marja G. J.
name: Henry, Ronald M. A.
name: Kallen, Carla J. H. Van Der
name: Kroon, Abraham A.
name: Schram, Miranda T.
name: Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca
name: Stehouwer, Coen D. A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental methods.
Thermodynamic formalism for the Lorentz gas with open boundaries in $d$ dimensions
Creators: name: van Beijeren, Henk
name: Muelken, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Lorentz gas may be defined as a system of fixed dispersing scatterers, with a single light particle moving among these and making specular collisions on encounters with the scatterers. For a dilute Lorentz gas with open boundaries in $d$ dimensions we relate the thermodynamic formalism to a random flight problem. Using this representation we analytically calculate the central quantity within this formalism, the topological pressure, as a function of system size and a temperature-like parameter $\ba$. The topological pressure is given as the sum of the topological pressure for the closed system and a diffusion term with a $\ba$-dependent diffusion coefficient. From the topological pressure we obtain the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy on the repeller, the topological entropy, and the partial information dimension.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Statistical procedures for development of real-time statistical process control (SPC) in lumber manufacturing
Creators: name: Staudhammer, Christina
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: High raw material costs and reduced allowable forest harvest levels have created challenges for the Canadian lumber industry. Sawlogs typically comprise 75% of all the costs in a sawmill and insufficient log availability is a widespread problem. Thus, maximum product value and yield from every log processed is an urgent priority. Effective statistical process control (SPC) procedures can greatly enhance product value and yield, ensuring accuracy and minimum waste. However, present procedures are manual in nature. The time and effort required means that only small data samples are collected at infrequent intervals, seriously limiting quality control effectiveness. Attempts to implement automated SPC with non-contact laser range sensors (LRS) have thus far had only limited success. Such systems have given frequent false alarms, prompting tolerances to be set excessively wide. Thus, real problems are often missed for extended periods. The objective of this research was to establish a system for collecting and processing real-time LRS size control data for automated lumber manufacturing. An SPC system was developed that incorporated multi-sensor data filtering procedures, a model with complex structure, and new control charting procedures. The LRS data were first filtered for measurement errors using techniques from image processing. Non-sawing defects were then removed from the data using a sheet-of-light profiling system and defect recognition algorithm. Defect-free filtered data were modeled in a multi-stage process, which explicitly considered multiple sources of variation and a complex correlative structure. New SPC charts were developed that went beyond traditional size control methods, simultaneously monitoring multiple surfaces and specifically targeting common sawing defects. Nineteen candidate control charts were evaluated. For some sawing defects (e.g., machine positioning errors and wedge), traditional X-bar and range charts are suggested. These charts were explicitly developed to take into account the components of variance in the model. For other sawing defects (e.g., taper, snipe, flare, and snake), control charts are suggested that are non-traditional. The charts that target these defects were based on the decomposition of LRS measurements into trend, waviness, and roughness. Applying these methods will lead to process improvements in sawmills, so that machines producing defective material can be identified, allowing prompt repairs to be made.
Stability of wave packet dynamics under perturbations
Creators: name: Bolte, Jens
name: Schwaibold, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a novel method to investigate the stability of wave packet dynamics under perturbations of the Hamiltonian. Our approach relies on semiclassical approximations, but is non-perturbative. Two separate contributions to the quantum fidelity are identified: one factor derives from the dispersion of the wave packets, whereas the other factor is determined by the separation of a trajectory of the perturbed classical system away from a corresponding unperturbed trajectory. We furthermore estimate both contributions in terms of classical Lyapunov exponents and find a decay of fidelity that is, generically, at least exponential, but may also be doubly exponential. The latter case is shown to be realised for inverted harmonic oscillators.
Additional file 1 of Clinical significance and biological mechanisms of glutathione S-transferase mu gene family in colon adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Guo, Erna
name: Haotang Wei
name: Xiwen Liao
name: Liuyu Wu
name: Xiaoyun Zeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. GO functional enrichment analysis by BiNGO of GSTM family.
Evaluating SQuAD-based Question Answering for the Open Research Knowledge Graph Completion
Creators: name: Hrou, Moussab
Publisher: name: Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Question Answering
subject: Link Prediction
subject: Open Research Knowledge Graph
subject: Prompt-based Learning
subject: Knowledge Graph Completion
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::000 | Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 | Informatik

description: Every year, approximately around 2.5 million new scientific papers are published. With the rapidly growing publication trends, it is increasingly difficult to manually sort through and keep track of the relevant research – a problem that is only more acute in a multidisciplinary setting. The Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) is a next-generation scholarly communication platform that aims to address this issue by making knowledge about scholarly contributions machine-actionable, thus enabling completely new ways of human-machine assistance in comprehending re- search progress. As such, the ORKG is powered by a diverse spectrum of NLP services to assist the expert users in structuring scholarly contributions and searching for the most rele- vant contributions. For a prospective recommendation service, this thesis examines the task of automated ORKG completion as an object extraction task from a given paper Abstract for a query ORKG predicate. As a main contribution of this thesis, automated ORKG completion is formulated as an extractive Question Answering (QA) machine learning objective under an open world assumption. Specifically, the task attempted in this work is fixed-prompt Language Model (LM) tuning (LMT) for few-shot ORKG object prediction formulated as the well-known SQuAD extrac- tive QA objective. Three variants of BERT-based transfomer LMs are evaluated. To support the novel LMT task, this thesis introduces a scholarly QA dataset akin in characteristics to the SQuAD QA dataset generated semi-automatically from the ORKG knowledge base. As a result, the BERT model variants when tested in vanilla setting versus after LMT, show a positive, significant performance uplift for auto-mated ORKG completion as an object completion task. This thesis offers a strong empirical basis for future research aiming at a production-ready automated ORKG completion model.
Discovering Lexical Similarity Through Articulatory Feature-based Phonetic Edit Distance
Creators: name: Ahmed, Tafseer
name: Nizami, Muhammad Suffian
name: Khan, Muhammad Yaseen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Lexical Similarity (LS) between two languages uncovers many interesting linguistic insights such as genetic relationship, mutual intelligibility, and the usage of one's vocabulary into other. There are various methods through which LS is evaluated. In the same regard, this paper presents a method of Phonetic Edit Distance (PED) that uses a soft comparison of letters using the articulatory features associated with them. The system converts the words into the corresponding International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), followed by the conversion of IPA into its set of articulatory features. Later, the lists of the set of articulatory features are compared using the proposed method. As an example, PED gives edit distance of German word vater and Persian word pidar as 0.82; and similarly, Hebrew word shalom and Arabic word salaam as 0.93, whereas for a juxtapose comparison, their IPA based edit distances are 4 and 2 respectively. Experiments are performed with six languages (Arabic, Hindi, Marathi, Persian, Sanskrit, and Urdu). In this regard, we extracted part of speech wise word-lists from the Universal Dependency corpora and evaluated the LS for every pair of language. Thus, with the proposed approach, we find the genetic affinity, similarity, and borrowing/loan-words despite having script differences and sound variation phenomena among these languages.
Waste Generation and Landfill Diversion Dynamics: Decentralised Management and Spatial Effects
Creators: name: Mazzanti, Massimiliano
name: Montini, Anna
name: Nicolli, Francesco
name: Mazzanti, Massimiliano
name: Montini, Anna
name: Nicolli, Francesco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Waste Generation
subject: Waste Management
subject: Landfill Diversion
subject: Decentralised Waste Policies
subject: Landfill Tax
subject: Separated Collection
subject: Spatial Effects
subject: Convergence

description: This paper provides analyses of municipal waste generation and landfill diversion dynamics based on an 8-year panel dataset for Italy covering 103 provinces. Although absolute declining for waste generation is a long way off, there are some first signals of increasing relative delinking and robust average landfill diversion. Spatial effects seem to be negligible, probably due to the strong decentralisation of waste management and policies: local, economic, policy and structural factors contribute to explaining the waste dynamics. Though North-South waste performances are showing some signals of convergence, greater efforts towards convergence of waste performances in a decentralised policy scenario are needed.
Power Cyber-Physical System Risk Area Prediction Using Dependent Markov Chain and Improved Grey Wolf Optimization
Creators: name: Qu, Zhaoyang
name: Xie, Qianhui
name: Liu, Yuqing
name: Li, Yang
name: Wang, Lei
name: Xu, Pengcheng
name: Zhou, Yuguang
name: Sun, Jian
name: Xue, Kai
name: Cui, Mingshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Existing power cyber-physical system (CPS) risk prediction results are inaccurate as they fail to reflect the actual physical characteristics of the components and the specific operational status. A new method based on dependent Markov chain for power CPS risk area prediction is proposed in this paper. The load and constraints of the non-uniform power CPS coupling network are first characterized, and can be utilized as a node state judgment standard. Considering the component node isomerism and interdependence between the coupled networks, a power CPS risk regional prediction model based on dependent Markov chain is then constructed. A cross-adaptive gray wolf optimization algorithm improved by adaptive position adjustment strategy and cross-optimal solution strategy is subsequently developed to optimize the prediction model. Simulation results using the IEEE 39-BA 110 test system verify the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method.
description: Accepted by IEEE Access
Study of particle-fluid flow systems using two-fluid model
Creators: name: TANG, YECHEN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 90403 Chemical Engineering Design
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: This thesis work is to numerically study the multiphase flow systems in Hydrocyclone and Pneumatic conveying processes, based on two-fluid model. The results shown that 1) the newly designed Hydrocyclone is capable to significantly improve the separation performance and also reduce the energy consumption; 2) the harmful solid flow fluctuation in Pneumatic Conveying process can be significantly reduced by several solutions proposed in this work. The outcome of this work will make great contribution in coal and ironmaking industries, where Hydrocyclone and Pneumatic conveying systems are heavily involved.
Calculation of resonances in the Coulomb three-body system with two disintegration channels in the adiabatic hyperspherical approach
Creators: name: Abramov, D. I.
name: Gusev, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The method of calculation of the resonance characteristics is developed for the metastable states of the Coulomb three-body (CTB) system with two disintegration channels. The energy dependence of K-matrix in the resonance region is calculated with the use of the stabilization method. Resonance position and partial widths are obtained by fitting the numerically calculated K(E)-matrix with the help of the generalized Breit-Wigner formula.
description: Latex, 11 pages with 5 figures and 2 tables
Improved Measurement of CP Asymmetries in B0 -> (ccbar)K0(*) Decays
Creators: name: Aubert, B.
name: Collaboration, BABAR
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results on time-dependent CP asymmetries in neutral B decays to several CP eigenstates. The measurements use a data sample of about 227 million Upsilon(4S) -> BBbar decays collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at SLAC. The amplitude of the CP asymmetry, sin2Beta in the Standard Model, is derived from decay-time distributions from events in which one neutral B meson is fully reconstructed in a final state containing a charmonium meson and the other $B$ meson is determined to be either a B0 or B0bar from its decay products. We measure sin2Beta = 0.722 +/- 0.040 (stat.) +/- 0.23 (syst.) in agreement with the Standard Model expectation.
description: 7 pages, 2 postscript figues, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
A Participatory Approach to Assess the Effectiveness of Responses to Cope with Flood Risk
Creators: name: Ceccato, Lucia
name: Giannini, Valentina
name: Giupponi, Carlo
name: Ceccato, Lucia
name: Giannini, Valentina
name: Giupponi, Carlo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Participatory Process
subject: Climate Change
subject: Flood Risk
subject: Decision Support System
subject: Multi Criteria Analysis
subject: MCA
subject: Eliciting Responses
subject: Evaluating Responses
subject: Integrated Water Resources Management
subject: IWRM
subject: Mulino Decision Support System
subject: mDSS

description: This work illustrates the preliminary findings of a participatory research process aimed at identifying responses for sustainable water management in a climate change perspective, in two river basins in Europe and Asia. The paper describes the methodology implemented through local workshops, aimed at eliciting and evaluating possible responses to flood risk. Participatory workshops allowed for the identification of four categories of possible responses and a set of nine evaluation criteria, three for each of the three pillars of sustainable development. The main outcome of such activities consists in the ranking of broad response categories instrumental to the objective of the Brahmatwinn research project, i.e. the identification of Integrated Water Resource Management Strategies (IWRMS) based upon the issues and preferences elicited from local experts. The mDSS tool was used to facilitate transparent and robust management of the information collected through Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and communication of the outputs.
Robust Baggage Detection and Classification Based on Local Tri-directional Pattern
Creators: name: Shahbano
name: Abdullah, Muhammad
name: Inayat, Kashif
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent decades, the automatic video surveillance system has gained significant importance in computer vision community. The crucial objective of surveillance is monitoring and security in public places. In the traditional Local Binary Pattern, the feature description is somehow inaccurate, and the feature size is large enough. Therefore, to overcome these shortcomings, our research proposed a detection algorithm for a human with or without carrying baggage. The Local tri-directional pattern descriptor is exhibited to extract features of different human body parts including head, trunk, and limbs. Then with the help of support vector machine, extracted features are trained and evaluated. Experimental results on INRIA and MSMT17 V1 datasets show that LtriDP outperforms several state-of-the-art feature descriptors and validate its effectiveness.
The Crisis of Greek Cooperatives in the Context of the Globalization Process
Creators: name: Papadopoulos, Apostolos G.
name: Patronis, Vassilis
name: Papadopoulos, Apostolos G.
name: Patronis, Vassilis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: This paper deals with the so-called crisis of the agricultural cooperative organizations (ACOs) with particular reference to the increasing tendencies underlying the domination of the globalization processes in the Greek agricultural sector. The agricultural cooperative movement may be periodized at least into three main periods: 1) the inter-war period, 2) the post-war period until the 1970s and 3) the post-1981 period. The latter period has meant considerable transformation of the ACOs and of their prospects. The paper focuses on this latter period, when it seems that new conditions shape the future of Greek ACOs. First there is a short account of the cooperative movement both in the inter-war, and in the first post-war period. Second, the modern crisis of the cooperative organizations is discussed in detail. Third, the changing nature of ACOs is pointed out, while some arguments are in order to describe the possible responses of ACOs to the globalization process. Finally, the concluding part includes a brief discussion of the prospects of ACOs within the new environment.
Outflows and shocks in compact radio sources
Creators: name: Holt, J.
name: Tadhunter, C. N.
name: Morganti, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report some key results from the optical emission line study of a complete sample of compact radio sources. We find strong evidence for jet-driven outflows in the circum-nuclear emission line gas namely: 1) highly broadened and blueshifted emission line components (up to 2000 km/s), 2) shock ionised gas (broader, shifted components), 3) consistency in the scales of the emission line gas and the radio source and 4) trends between the maximum outflow velocity and radio source size (and orientation). Full details can be found in Holt (2005).
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Astronomische Nachrichten (proceedings of the Granada workshop on High Redshift Radio Galaxies)
Regional asymmetries in farm size
Creators: name: Huettel, Silke
name: Margarian, Anne
name: Von Schlippenbach, Vanessa
name: Huettel, Silke
name: Margarian, Anne
name: Von Schlippenbach, Vanessa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: asymmetries
subject: land market
subject: capacity allocation
subject: Vickrey auction

description: This paper explores how the initial farm size structure affects the exit decision of farms inducing free land capacities, and the allocation of the newly available land resources to the remaining farms in a particular region. We model an agricultural market where large and small firms first decide whether to leave the market or not; in case of continuing in production the farms compete for getting access to additional land resources in a Vickrey auction. We find that larger farms allocate more additional quantity than small farms; the latter are more likely to leave the market. An empirical illustration gives further support and reveals the relation between farm size structure, farm exits and growth of the large.
KutralNet: A Portable Deep Learning Model for Fire Recognition
Creators: name: Ayala, Angel
name: Fernandes, Bruno
name: Cruz, Francisco
name: Macêdo, David
name: Oliveira, Adriano L. I.
name: Zanchettin, Cleber
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Most of the automatic fire alarm systems detect the fire presence through sensors like thermal, smoke, or flame. One of the new approaches to the problem is the use of images to perform the detection. The image approach is promising since it does not need specific sensors and can be easily embedded in different devices. However, besides the high performance, the computational cost of the used deep learning methods is a challenge to their deployment in portable devices. In this work, we propose a new deep learning architecture that requires fewer floating-point operations (flops) for fire recognition. Additionally, we propose a portable approach for fire recognition and the use of modern techniques such as inverted residual block, convolutions like depth-wise, and octave, to reduce the model's computational cost. The experiments show that our model keeps high accuracy while substantially reducing the number of parameters and flops. One of our models presents 71\% fewer parameters than FireNet, while still presenting competitive accuracy and AUROC performance. The proposed methods are evaluated on FireNet and FiSmo datasets. The obtained results are promising for the implementation of the model in a mobile device, considering the reduced number of flops and parameters acquired.
description: Accepted in the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2020
Dynamic transition and Shapiro-step melting in a frustrated Josephson-junction array
Creators: name: Lim, J. S.
name: Choi, M. Y.
name: Choi, J.
name: Kim, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a two-dimensional fully frustrated Josephson-junction array driven by combined direct and alternating currents. Interplay between the mode locking phenomenon, manifested by giant Shapiro steps in the current-voltage characteristics, and the dynamic phase transition is investigated at finite temperatures. Melting of Shapiro steps due to thermal fluctuations is shown to be accompanied by the dynamic phase transition, the universality class of which is also discussed.
From Productivism to Flexible Specialization? Experiences from a Restructuring Process in the Norwegian Dairy Industry
Creators: name: Almas, Reidar
name: Kvam, Gunn Turid
name: Straete, Egil Petter
name: Almas, Reidar
name: Kvam, Gunn Turid
name: Straete, Egil Petter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: In this paper we will ask how "local action" coordinated with "central action" from within the cooperative organization of "TINE Norwegian Dairies" may soften the structural changes that are taking place in the Norwegian dairy sector. We will look at what strategies the local and central actors are choosing. Here we want to show some of the socio-economic effects of global trends down to the local level. We would like to show the links between the global and the local trends, and at the same time show what types of opportunities and coping strategies are available to those who make their living from milk production. Is it possible in this situation for a formerly volume-oriented dairy cooperative to focus instead on value and value added?
Reciprocity and Rural Development in the Action of Two Farmer Cooperatives
Creators: name: Osti, Giorgio
name: Osti, Giorgio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Rural development has raised attention after the crisis of classical theories of social change and after the European Union has shown great concern for rural spaces in lieu of agricultural firms. These new trends, often summarized as "endogenous and sustainable development", are based mostly on reciprocity as a peculiar, though seldom clarified, way of interaction. A self-sustained development requires the local people's ability to cooperate, to trust each other. In this article the concept of reciprocity is analyzed. The theoretical material is then applied to two farmer cooperatives operating in the Po Delta, Italy, one on the Venetian bank, and the other in the Emilia-Romagna bank, with the aim of verifying whether rural development is an aim of these local actors. Reciprocity results as a foundation principle of cooperation and as a useful tool to understand the strategies of the two cooperatives. The so-called "territorial strategy" (oriented towards the local community) is not carried out as the two cooperatives are committed almost totally to a commercial strategy.
Effect of Plant Growth Regulators on Fruit Quality of Fig (Ficus carica L.)
Creators: name: Panchai, Werapat
name: Boonplod, Nopporn
name: Naphrom, Daruni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 70601 Horticultural Crop Growth and Development
subject: FOS: Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

description: A study on the effect of plant growth regulators on fruit quality of fig cv. Black genoa was conducted at Pomology greenhouse, Maejo University, Chiang Mai province from December 2019 to May 2020. The experimental design was a completely randomized design (CRD) with 3 replications 4 treatments as 1) control (tap water) 2) 1- (2-chloropyridin-4-yl) -3-phenylurea (CPPU) 20 mg/L 3) Brassinosteroids (Brs) 1 mg/L and 4) 3,5,6-TPA Maxim® (3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridinyloxyacetic acid) 30 mg/L. All treatments were single sprayed on the fruit at 7 weeks after fruit set. After fruit harvest, fruit attributes were measured and analyzed. The results showed that the fruit sprayed with 1 mg/L Brs had the highest fruit weight as 68.13 g, the widest fruit 52.38 mm, the longest fruit 56.10 mm compared with the control. Furthermore, it was highest in TSS 17.12 ºBrix, anthocyanin content 19.46 mg/100gFW and phenolic compound content 936.26 µg GAE/g FW compared to others. In addition, the fruit sprayed with 30 mg/L 3,5,6-TPA was highest in fruit firmness as 85.77 kg/cm2, while TSS/TA was lowest as 123.83. All treatments had no effect on TA, pH, and Total vitamin C.
Infinite reduction of couplings in non-renormalizable quantum field theory
Creators: name: Anselmi, Damiano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I study the problem of renormalizing a non-renormalizable theory with a reduced, eventually finite, set of independent couplings. The idea is to look for special relations that express the coefficients of the irrelevant terms as unique functions of a reduced set of independent couplings lambda, such that the divergences are removed by means of field redefinitions plus renormalization constants for the lambda's. I consider non-renormalizable theories whose renormalizable subsector R is interacting and does not contain relevant parameters. The "infinite" reduction is determined by i) perturbative meromorphy around the free-field limit of R, or ii) analyticity around the interacting fixed point of R. In general, prescriptions i) and ii) mutually exclude each other. When the reduction is formulated using i), the number of independent couplings remains finite or slowly grows together with the order of the expansion. The growth is slow in the sense that a reasonably small set of parameters is sufficient to make predictions up to very high orders. Instead, in case ii) the number of couplings generically remains finite. The infinite reduction is a tool to classify the irrelevant interactions and address the problem of their physical selection.
description: 40 pages; v2: more explanatory comments; appeared in JHEP
Adaptive optimization methods to improve the performance of chop saw systems
Creators: name: Ye, Lin
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Optimizing chop saw is one of the primary methods for adding value to rough lumber (boards) and it is common to many breakout lines for plants processing solid wood. Because of the variety of boards to be chopped in real time and the diversity of parts (products) required on a cutting list, there are numerous ways of cutting the boards. The purpose of this thesis was to advance the optimization algorithms that can be used in real-time to generate optimal cutting patterns, aiming to minimize the overall cost of the chop saw operation. Adaptive methods were used in the models to acquire the knowledge on the quality of boards and the inventory level for each part in real-time. The first part of the project developed a real time goal-seeking model for chop saw optimization systems that can be implemented as an on-line control system. Two prioritizing strategies were used in the model by applying an adaptive method that can link the part value with the production level for each part during the production process. A simulation study was conducted to compare the performance of the goal-seeking model with a published model. The result shows that by selecting a proper prioritization strategy, the goal-seeking model can achieve a lower level of overproduction, higher part yield and lower overall cost. The study also found that the goal-seeking model balances the production rates for each part on the cutting list over the production run. The second part of the project developed a combined linear programming and dynamic programming model that used adaptive optimization methods. This model considers the part size and quantity in the cutting list and the grade of boards being processed and the production level for each part chopped in real-time. The simulation study shows that, different from goal-seeking model that requires selecting a proper prioritization strategy for a given cutting list, the combined model has a steadier control to overproduction and good performance against different cutting lists. However, the result is sensitive to the overproduction penalty assigned to the model.