cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Value Chain Issues and Opportunities in Selected Horticulture Crops in Southern Mindanao, Philippines
Creators: name: Aguinaldo, Roxanne T.
name: Digal, Larry N.
name: Romo, Glory Dee A.
name: Laorden, Nikko L.
name: Sarmiento, Jon Marx P.
name: Balgos, Carol Q.
name: Aguinaldo, Roxanne T.
name: Digal, Larry N.
name: Romo, Glory Dee A.
name: Laorden, Nikko L.
name: Sarmiento, Jon Marx P.
name: Balgos, Carol Q.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Agri-food system
subject: Issues
subject: Mindanao
subject: Opportunities
subject: Value Chain

description: The agri-food system is undergoing changes that create opportunities and challenges for small-scale producers. In the Philippines, food retail and processing sectors modernize and concentrate to respond to increasing market requirements. On the other hand, production sector is fragmenting and many small farmers struggle to access opportunities particularly in high value horticulture markets. This paper focuses on understanding the challenges and opportunities in selected fruit and vegetable value chains. Price spread, net margins and price transmission analyses were used to examine cost structure, distribution of benefits and efficiency of these horticulture markets. Results show that the share of the farm to retail price is declining due to declining real farm price relative to wholesale and retail prices. While nominal output prices and productivity have increased over time, cost of inputs has increased faster thereby decreasing profitability of the farm sector. With increasing cost of fuel, fertilizers and transport costs have increased significantly and compounded further by poor infrastructure facilities. Results also indicate that farm prices are not fully transmitted particularly between farm and wholesale markets compared to between wholesale and retail markets. This indicates poor infrastructure conditions in the rural areas. Price signals are also not fully transmitted from one market to another which implies inefficiencies in the markets which can be caused by poor infrastructure facilities and price distortions created by market power. There are, however, opportunities to enhance profitability through quality grading and clustering. Clearly, interventions to help farmers improve quality, productivity and access to high value markets are needed to increase their income. A value chain approach is important not only to understand issues but also to develop an integrated package of interventions that make use of the resources of the private sector and augment the limited public funds to help the small producers in the chain.
title: Remembering Susan P. Conner: A Comment
Creators: name: Cormack, William S.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023

description: When Tom Sosnowski asked me to act as commentator for this session, I was honoured to accept. Susan Conner was not just a friend. Although our research interests were very different, she was a mentor to me. I first met her in the summer of 1988 at the Archives Nationales in Paris. I was a lonely and nervous graduate student when Susan took me under her wing. She introduced me to other people working in Paris, but she also reassured me that I could do archival research. Happily, we kept in touch and, in the years that followed, she gave me valuable advice on completing my dissertation, on conferences, and on making an academic career. The three papers today demonstrate that Susan Conner was an outstanding scholar. She was also one of the kindest and most generous people I have ever known.
Additional file 3 of Argininosuccinate synthase 1 suppresses tumor progression through activation of PERK/eIF2α/ATF4/CHOP axis in hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Sanghwa Kim
name: Minji Lee
name: Yeonhwa Song
name: Lee, Su-Yeon
name: Inhee Choi
name: I-Seul Park
name: Jiho Kim
name: Kim, Jin-Sun
name: Kim, Kang Mo
name: Seo, Haeng Ran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Changing of IC50 value by overexpression of ASS1 (Unit: μM).
Additional file 4 of Transcriptome of different fruiting stages in the cultivated mushroom Cyclocybe aegerita suggests a complex regulation of fruiting and reveals enzymes putatively involved in fungal oxylipin biosynthesis
Creators: name: Orban, Axel
name: Annsophie Weber
name: Herzog, Robert
name: Hennicke, Florian
name: Rühl, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Terpenoid biosynthesis. Figure S5. Expression of genes involved in the mevalonate pathway and of the sesquiterpene synthases Agr1 to Agr9 in C. aegerita. Figure S6. Transcription levels of the sesquiterpene synthases Agr1, Agr4, Agr8 and Agr9.
Additional file 7 of Transcriptome of different fruiting stages in the cultivated mushroom Cyclocybe aegerita suggests a complex regulation of fruiting and reveals enzymes putatively involved in fungal oxylipin biosynthesis
Creators: name: Orban, Axel
name: Annsophie Weber
name: Herzog, Robert
name: Hennicke, Florian
name: Rühl, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Revealing putative enzymes of the oxylipin pathway in C. aegerita. Figure S12. Phylogenetic analysis of different DOXs. Figure S13. Partial amino acid sequence alignment of different DOXs. Figure S14. Phylogenetic analysis of different CYP74 proteins. Figure S15. Transcription levels of the putative DOX AAE3_13098 and the putative HPL AAE3_09203. Figure S16. Transcription levels of AAE3_04864 (LOX4) and the putative HPL AAE3_05330. Figure S17. Phylogenetic analysis of putative ADHs. Figure S18. Amino acid sequence alignment of ene-reductases. Figure S19. Transcription levels of the putative ADHs AAE3_00054 and AAE3_06559 as well as the putative ene-reductase AAE3_13549.
Ultraviolet sensitivity of rare decays in nonuniversal extra dimensional models
Creators: name: Dey, Paramita
name: Bhattacharyya, Gautam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a nonuniversal five dimensional model in which fermions are localised on a four dimensional brane, while gauge bosons and a scalar doublet can travel in the bulk. As a result of KK number non-conservation at the brane-bulk intersection, the ultraviolet divergence does not cancel out in some physical observables. For example, the $B_d \to l^+l^-$ decay amplitude is linearly divergent, while $B$--$\bar{B}$ mixing amplitude is log divergent. We attempt to identify the exact source of this nonrenormalizability. We compare and contrast our results with those obtained in the universal five dimensional model where all particles travel in the extra dimension.
description: Latex, 11 pages, uses axodraw.sty
Additional file 4 of Argininosuccinate synthase 1 suppresses tumor progression through activation of PERK/eIF2α/ATF4/CHOP axis in hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Sanghwa Kim
name: Minji Lee
name: Yeonhwa Song
name: Lee, Su-Yeon
name: Inhee Choi
name: I-Seul Park
name: Jiho Kim
name: Kim, Jin-Sun
name: Kim, Kang Mo
name: Seo, Haeng Ran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Table S4. List of primary hit compounds.
Changes in Tenancy and Labor Markets and Impact on Livelihoods in Rural Bangladesh: Findings from a Longitudinal Survey 1988-2007
Creators: name: Bayes, Abdul
name: Hossain, Mahabub
name: Bayes, Abdul
name: Hossain, Mahabub
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Panel data
subject: tenancy
subject: labor market
subject: water market
subject: micro-credit
subject: livelihoods

description: This paper outlines the change in rural factor markets, especially of tenancy and labor markets, to assesses the impact of change on livelihoods. This has been done with household level panel data for 1988 to 2008 period. The paper is based on a longitudinal survey of the same households in a nationally representative sample of 62 villages. The changes in markets are assessed by analyzing participation of households in the markets and the changes in the terms and conditions of the transaction. The impact on livelihoods is assessed by generating household level panel data, and relating changes in some livelihood indicators with the household‟s participation in the market. The land market is found insignificant but the tenancy market is vibrant. The percent of farm households renting land increased from 44 percent in 1988 to 58 percent in 2008, and the percent of holding rented increased from 23 to 36 percent. Sharecropping was predominant tenancy arrangement in 1988; it has given way to fixed rent and medium term lease arrangements. The agricultural labor market has been shrinking, and the mode of labor transactions has changed from seasonal to daily wage contracts and then to piecerated contract. The paper observes that movement of agricultural labor into tenant cultivation fell short of enhancing the probability of exit from poverty partly due to the unfavorable terms of trade of agricultural products over the period under review. Occupational mobility of the labor force from farm to non-farm has traditionally been rewarding in enhancing the growth of rural household income in Bangladesh.
Comment on Geometric Interpretation of Ito Calculus on the Lattice
Creators: name: Nakazawa, Naohito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A covariant nature of the Langevin equation in Ito calculus is clarified in applying stochastic quantization method to U(N) and SU(N) lattice gauge theories. The stochastic process is expressed in a manifestly general coordinate covariant form as a collective field theory on the group manifold. A geometric interpretation is given for the Langevin equation and the corresponding Fokker-Planck equation in the sense of Ito.
description: 9 pages
Calibrated_metrics_IDA__Supplementary_material_.pdf
Creators: name: Siblini, Wissam
name: Fréry, Jordan
name: Liyun He-Guelton
name: Oblé, Frédéric
name: Wang, Yi-Qing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Applied Computer Science

description: Supplementary Material for the paper "Master your Metrics with Calibration"
Ephyrina ombango Crosnier & Forest 1973
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Quintal, Bladimir
name: Lira, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Acanthephyridae
Ephyrina
Ephyrina ombango

description: Ephyrina ombango Crosnier & Forest, 1973
Ephyrina ombango Crosnier & Forest, 1973: 68, Figs. 20a, 21a, 22a; Judkins 2014: tab. 5; Alves-Junior et al. 2019: 415, Figs. 15A – C, 16, 40A.
Material examined. None.
Geographic & bathymetric distribution. Western Atlantic Ocean: Gulf of Mexico and Brazil (Ceará Chain, Rocas Atoll and Fernando de Noronha Islands and Pernambuco); Mid Atlantic Ridge; Eastern Atlantic Ocean; Indo-Pacific Oceans; 670 – 4000 m depth (Chace 1986; Pequegnat & Wicksten 2006; Alves-Junior et al. 2019).
Remarks. Records for Venezuela: La Orchila Island (Judkins 2014).
description: Published as part of Rodríguez-Quintal, Bladimir & Lira, Carlos, 2025, A review of deep-sea shrimps (Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata and Caridea) with four new records for Venezuela, pp. 401-436 in Zootaxa 5583 (3) on pages 416-417, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14804535
Phase Structure of Non-Compact QED3 and the Abelian Higgs Model
Creators: name: Appelquist, Thomas
name: Wijewardhana, L. C. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the phase structure of a three-dimensional, non-compact Abelian gauge theory (QED3) as a function of the number $N$ of 4-component massless fermions. There is a critical $N_{c}$ up to which there is dynamical fermion mass generation and an associated global symmetry breaking. We discuss various approaches to the determination of $N_c$, which lead to estimates ranging from $N_c =1$ to $N_c =4$. This theory with N=2 has been employed as an effective continuum theory for the 2D quantum antiferromagnet where the observed Neel ordering corresponds to dynamical fermion mass generation. Thus the value of $N_c$ is of some physical interest. We also consider the phase structure of the model with a finite gauge boson mass (the Abelian Higgs model).
description: 14 pages, corrected the normalization of the fermion condensate in section V, corrected a typo in the references
Additional file 1 of The immune cell landscape of metastatic uveal melanoma correlates with overall survival
Creators: name: Tosi, Anna
name: Cappellesso, Rocco
name: Tos, Angelo Paolo Dei
name: Rossi, Valentina
name: Aliberti, Camillo
name: Pigozzo, Jacopo
name: Fabozzi, Alessio
name: Sbaraglia, Marta
name: Blandamura, Stella
name: Bianco, Paola Del
name: Chiarion-Sileni, Vanna
name: Rosato, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Correlation analyses. Correlation between different immune cell infiltrates in PD (A) and CD (B-E) patients, within the tumor and in the stroma regions. Data are represented in a scatter plot with the best fit shown as solid line. The non-parametric Spearman’s correlation coefficient (r) and p value were calculated for each graph. Supplementary Figure 2. Percentage of UM cells within a radius of 30 μm from CD8 + Granzyme B+ T lymphocytes in PD and CD patients. Floating box extends from 25th to 75th percentiles, line through the box indicates median, and bars extend from the smallest to largest values. Non-parametric Mann-Whitney statistical analysis was performed across the two groups. Supplementary Figure 3. Correlation analyses. Correlation between different immune cell infiltrates in LM within the tumor and in the stroma regions. Data are represented in a scatter plot with the best fit shown as solid line. The non-parametric Spearman’s correlation coefficient (r) and p value were calculated for each graph. Supplementary Figure 4. Percentage of UM cells within a radius of 30 μm from CD8 + Granzyme B+ T lymphocytes in patients alive and dead at the last follow-up time point. Floating box extends from 25th to 75th percentiles, line through the box indicates median, and bars extend from the smallest to largest values. Non-parametric Mann-Whitney statistical analysis was performed across the two groups, and significantly different data is represented by *(p
Multilayer Perceptron and Geometric Albedo Spectra for Quick Parameter Estimations of Exoplanets
Creators: name: Johnsen, Timothy K
name: Marley, Mark S
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Future space telescopes now in the concept and design stage aim to observe reflected light spectra of extrasolar planets. Assessing whether given notional mission and instrument design parameters will provide data suitable for constraining quantities of interest typically requires time consuming retrieval studies in which tens to hundreds of thousands of models are compared to data with a given assumed signal to noise ratio, thereby limiting the rapidity of design iterations. Here we present a novel machine learning approach employing five Multilayer Perceptron's (MLP) trained on model albedo spectra of extrasolar giant planets to estimate a planet's atmospheric metallicity, gravity, effective temperature, and cloud properties given simulated observed spectra. The stand-alone C++ code we have developed can train new MLP's on new training sets, within minutes to hours, depending upon the dimensions of input spectra and desired output. After the MLP is trained, it can classify new input spectra within a second, potentially helping speed observation and mission design planning. Four of the MLP's were tuned to work with various levels of spectral noise. The fifth MLP was developed for cases where the user is uncertain about the noise level. The MLP's were trained using a grid of model spectra that varied in metallicity, gravity, temperature, and cloud properties. We tested the MLP on noisy models and observed spectra of both Jupiter and Saturn. The root mean squared error when applied to noisy models were on the order of the model grid intervals. The results show that a trained MLP is a robust means for reliable in-situ estimations, providing an elegant artificial intelligence that is simple to customize and quick to use.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, 36 references, submitted to publisher and in revision process
Opendataclinica as a platform for the exchange of open data from clinical studies
Creators: name: Araneda, Patricio
name: Nicolai, Heinz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cancer
Biomedical research
Opendata

description: To promote biomedical research through the use of open data, and offer researchers a versatile and secure platform for the storage of all types of data and documents required in clinical and observational studies. Develop a system for integrating patient studies and linking their results to promote both research and health improvement. Presented at Europe Biobank Week, 2020
MulayCap: Multi-layer Human Performance Capture Using A Monocular Video Camera
Creators: name: Su, Zhaoqi
name: Wan, Weilin
name: Yu, Tao
name: Liu, Lingjie
name: Fang, Lu
name: Wang, Wenping
name: Liu, Yebin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce MulayCap, a novel human performance capture method using a monocular video camera without the need for pre-scanning. The method uses "multi-layer" representations for geometry reconstruction and texture rendering, respectively. For geometry reconstruction, we decompose the clothed human into multiple geometry layers, namely a body mesh layer and a garment piece layer. The key technique behind is a Garment-from-Video (GfV) method for optimizing the garment shape and reconstructing the dynamic cloth to fit the input video sequence, based on a cloth simulation model which is effectively solved with gradient descent. For texture rendering, we decompose each input image frame into a shading layer and an albedo layer, and propose a method for fusing a fixed albedo map and solving for detailed garment geometry using the shading layer. Compared with existing single view human performance capture systems, our "multi-layer" approach bypasses the tedious and time consuming scanning step for obtaining a human specific mesh template. Experimental results demonstrate that MulayCap produces realistic rendering of dynamically changing details that has not been achieved in any previous monocular video camera systems. Benefiting from its fully semantic modeling, MulayCap can be applied to various important editing applications, such as cloth editing, re-targeting, relighting, and AR applications.
JEM-X background models
Creators: name: Huovelin, J.
name: Maisala, S.
name: Schultz, J.
name: Westergaard, N. J.
name: Oxborrow, C. A.
name: Kretschmar, P.
name: Lund, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Background and determination of its components for the JEM-X X-ray telescope on INTEGRAL are discussed. A part of the first background observations by JEM-X are analysed and results are compared to predictions. The observations are based on extensive imaging of background near the Crab Nebula on revolution 41 of INTEGRAL. Total observing time used for the analysis was 216502 s, with the average of 25 cps of background for each of the two JEM-X telescopes. JEM-X1 showed slightly higher average background intensity than JEM-X2. The detectors were stable during the long exposures, and weak orbital phase dependence in the background outside radiation belts was observed. The analysis yielded an average of 5 cps for the diffuse background, and 20 cps for the instrument background. The instrument background was found highly dependent on position, both for spectral shape and intensity. Diffuse background was enhanced in the central area of a detector, and it decreased radially towards the edge, with a clear vignetting effect for both JEM-X units. The instrument background was weakest in the central area of a detector and showed a steep increase at the very edges of both JEM-X detectors, with significant difference in spatial signatures between JEM-X units. According to our modelling, instrument background dominates over diffuse background in all positions and for all energies of JEM-X.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, A&A accepted (INTEGRAL special issue)
Exclusion and drop out in school participation in Bangladesh: Insights from repeat household surveys
Creators: name: Hossain, Mahabub
name: Malek, Mohammad Abdul
name: Hossain, Mahabub
name: Malek, Mohammad Abdul
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
subject: School participation
subject: exclusion
subject: drop out
subject: returns from education
subject: Bangladesh

description: Bangladesh has made substantial progress in primary education in recent decades mainly due to the supply side interventions. Using the nationally representative longitudinal survey of rural households in Bangladesh conducted in three waves in 1988, 2000, and 2008, this paper examines the changing pattern of educational participation of children and socio-economic factors in addition to the school factors in order to better address the issue of dropout and exclusion. The findings show that school participation increased and gender parity was achieved over time and still 6-8% children are left out from schooling mainly from household with disable children, ultra-poor households, and those where both parents are illiterate. The study observes lack of demand for schooling among those socio-economically disadvantaged population groups and turn attention for a targeted approach to include the children who continue to be out of schools. Finally, the study suggests for economic incentives for those population groups and quality improvement in the curriculum so that secondary education becomes more useful to high-school dropouts.
Possibility of superconductivity in the repulsive Hubbard model on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice
Creators: name: Kimura, Takashi
name: Kuroki, Kazuhiko
name: Arita, Ryotaro
name: Aoki, Hideo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Possibility of superconductivity from electron repulsion in the Shastry-Sutherland lattice, which has a spin gap at half filling, is explored with the repulsive Hubbard model in the fluctuation-exchange approximation. We find that, while superconductivity is not favored around the half-filling, superconductivity is favored around the quarter-filling. Our results suggest that the Fermi surface nesting is more important than the spin dimerization for superconductivity.
Do Sri Lankan Muslims also need to seek foreign interventions?
Creators: name: Zahrah Imtiaz
name: Rathindra Kuruwita
name: Nushka Nafeel
name: Sreenthaj Irshad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160803 Race and Ethnic Relations
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160606 Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 220405 Religion and Society
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: The article seeks to look at the relationship between the minority Muslim community in Sri Lanka and the country's government in the wake of the Government's decision to forcibly cremate Muslims who died of Covid-19. The article proposes that minorities seeking international intervention to domestic problems is increasingly becoming the norm, as communities lose faith in the Government and its institutions.
Does Microfinancing improve Farm Productivity? Empirical Evidence on Rice farming in San Francisco, Agusan del Sur, Philippines
Creators: name: Manzano, Gianne Francis Alfred E.
name: Ellson, Adela G.
name: Traje, Adonis
name: Romo, Glory Dee A.
name: Sarmiento, Jon Marx P.
name: Manzano, Gianne Francis Alfred E.
name: Ellson, Adela G.
name: Traje, Adonis
name: Romo, Glory Dee A.
name: Sarmiento, Jon Marx P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Transcendental function
subject: Ordinary Least Squares Method
subject: Farm Productivity

description: Poverty remains to be the highest in agricultural areas in the Philippines. To alleviate this problem, capital empowerment through microfinancing was among the government’s program in the rural areas including the municipality of San Francisco, Agusan del Sur. A total of 95 rice farmers with a 10% margin of error were interviewed to draw conclusions on the impact of microfinancing to farm productivity. Econometric modeling was employed. The production data were fitted using five standard production functions namely; (1) neoclassical, (2) neoclassical with interaction, (3) Cobb-Douglas like, (4) Transcendental and the (5) modified transcendental models. Transcendental function best fits the data with Microfinancing significantly improving farm productivity by 39%. Despite this positive impact, only 34% of these farmers were availing from formal institutions and only 18% took advantage during the last cropping. Nonetheless, it is highly recommended to strengthen the microfinance program in the Philippines by offering extension works on the benefit of Microfinancing, offering less stringent application procedure, and ensuring agricultural credits are used on its purpose, thus, improving the plight of the rural farmers.
Hymenodora glacialis
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Quintal, Bladimir
name: Lira, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Acanthephyridae
Hymenodora
Hymenodora glacialis

description: Hymenodora glacialis (Buchholz, 1874)
Pasiphaë glacialis Buchholz, 1874: 279, Fig. 2.
Hymenodora glacialis — Crosnier & Forest 1973: 84, Fig. 25b; Cardoso 2013, 213; Judkins 2014: tab. 5.
Material examined. None.
Geographic & bathymetric distribution. North and south Western Atlantic: From USA (South Carolina) to Argentina; Central Atlantic: Tristan da Cunha; Eastern Atlantic: Canary Islands, Sierra Leone, Walvis Indian Ocean: Arctic Ocean; 750 – 5400 m depth (Crosnier & Forest 1973; Felder et al. 2009; Cardoso 2013).
Remarks. Records for Venezuela: La Tortuga Island (Judkins 2014).
description: Published as part of Rodríguez-Quintal, Bladimir & Lira, Carlos, 2025, A review of deep-sea shrimps (Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata and Caridea) with four new records for Venezuela, pp. 401-436 in Zootaxa 5583 (3) on page 417, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14804535
A unified view of space-time covariance functions through Gelfand pairs
Creators: name: Berg, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 43A25, 43A35, 43A75

description: We give a characterization of positive definite integrable functions on a product of two Gelfand pairs as an integral of positive definite functions on one of the Gelfand pairs with respect to the Plancherel measure on the dual of the other Gelfand pair. In the very special case where the Gelfand pairs are Euclidean groups and the compact subgroups are reduced to the identity, the characterization is a much cited result in spatio-temporal statistics due to Cressie, Huang and Gneiting. When one of the Gelfand pairs is compact the characterization leads to results about expansions in spherical functions with positive definite expansion functions, thereby recovering recent results of the author in collaboration with Peron and Porcu. In the special case when the compact Gelfand pair consists of orthogonal groups, the characterization is important in geostatistics and covers a recent result of Porcu and White.
description: 26 pages. New references. To appear in J. Fourier Anal. Appl
Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) III. Atmospheric structure of the misaligned ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b
Creators: name: Bourrier, V.
name: Ehrenreich, D.
name: Lendl, M.
name: Cretignier, M.
name: Allart, R.
name: Dumusque, X.
name: Cegla, H. M
name: Suarez-Mascareno, A.
name: Wyttenbach, A.
name: Hoeijmakers, H. J.
name: Melo, C.
name: Kuntzer, T.
name: Astudillo-Defru, N.
name: Giles, H.
name: Heng, K.
name: Kitzmann, D.
name: Lavie, B.
name: Lovis, C.
name: Murgas, F.
name: Nascimbeni, V.
name: Pepe, F.
name: Pino, L.
name: Segransan, D.
name: Udry, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultra-hot Jupiters offer interesting prospects for expanding our theories on dynamical evolution and the properties of extremely irradiated atmospheres. In this context, we present the analysis of new optical spectroscopy for the transiting ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b. We first refine the orbital properties of WASP-121b, which is on a nearly polar (obliquity $ψ^{\rm North}$=88.1$\pm$0.25$^{\circ}$ or $ψ^{\rm South}$=91.11$\pm$0.20$^{\circ}$) orbit, and exclude a high differential rotation for its fast-rotating (P$
description: 20 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in A&A on 19 December 2019
On Box-Cox Transformation for Image Normality and Pattern Classification
Creators: name: Cheddad, Abbas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A unique member of the power transformation family is known as the Box-Cox transformation. The latter can be seen as a mathematical operation that leads to finding the optimum lambda (λ) value that maximizes the log-likelihood function to transform a data to a normal distribution and to reduce heteroscedasticity. In data analytics, a normality assumption underlies a variety of statistical test models. This technique, however, is best known in statistical analysis to handle one-dimensional data. Herein, this paper revolves around the utility of such a tool as a pre-processing step to transform two-dimensional data, namely, digital images and to study its effect. Moreover, to reduce time complexity, it suffices to estimate the parameter lambda in real-time for large two-dimensional matrices by merely considering their probability density function as a statistical inference of the underlying data distribution. We compare the effect of this light-weight Box-Cox transformation with well-established state-of-the-art low light image enhancement techniques. We also demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach through several test-bed data sets for generic improvement of visual appearance of images and for ameliorating the performance of a colour pattern classification algorithm as an example application. Results with and without the proposed approach, are compared using the AlexNet (transfer deep learning) pretrained model. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that the Box-Cox transformation is extended to digital images by exploiting histogram transformation.
description: The paper has 4 Tables and 6 Figures
Will recent advances in AI result in a paradigm shift in Astrobiology and SETI?
Creators: name: Gale, Joe
name: Wandel, Amri
name: Hill, Hugh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The steady advances in computer performance and in programming raise the concern that the ability of computers would overtake that of the human brain, an occurrence termed "the Singularity". While comparing the size of the human brain and the advance in computer capacity, the Singularity has been estimated to occur within a few decades although the capacity of conventional computers may reach its limits in the near future. However, in the last few years, there have been rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI). There are already programs that carry out pattern recognition and self-learning which, at least in limited fields such as chess and other games, are superior to the best human players. Furthermore, the quantum computing revolution, which is expected to vastly increase computer capacities, is already on our doorstep. It now seems inevitable that the Singularity will arrive within the foreseeable future. Biological life, on Earth and on extraterrestrial planets and their satellites, may continue as before, but humanity could be 'replaced' by computers. Older and more advanced intelligent life forms, possibly evolved elsewhere in the universe, may have passed their Singularity a long time ago. Post Singularity life would probably be based not on biochemical reactions but on electronics. Their communication may use effects such as quantum entanglement and be undetectable to us. This may explain the Fermi paradox or at least the "Big Silence" problem in SETI.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, accepted by International Journal of Astrobiology (in press)
Perseverative Responding in Nigerian Chronic Alcohol and Marijuana Users
Creators: name: Tochukwu Nweze
name: Eze, Cyprian C.
name: Lange, Florian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Background: Chronic consumption of alcohol and marijuana, especially when initiated at an early age, has been implicated in cognitive alterations in the domain of executive functioning. Despite the robustness of this finding in Western populations, its generalizability to other cultural contexts is largely unknown. In this study, we examined whether the regular use of alcohol or marijuana use relates to impaired executive functioning in male students of a Nigerian university. Methods: Chronic alcohol users (n = 39), chronic marijuana users (n = 35) and drug-abstinent control participants (n = 40) recruited through snow-ball sampling technique completed a computerized version of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (cWCST). As an established measure of executive functioning, the cWCST allows for the simultaneous assessment of three distinct executive processes: set shifting, rule inference, and set maintenance. Results revealed a selective set-shifting deficit in both alcohol and marijuana users. Results: Both groups committed significantly more perseverative errors than the control group, and group differences were significantly stronger on this indicator of set shifting than on indicators of rule inference or set maintenance. Conclusions: Our findings support the generalizability of drug-related deficits in executive functioning and contribute to the characterization of executive dysfunction in non-Western populations. Future longitudinal studies are required to clarify whether executive dysfunction is an antecedent or consequence of alcohol and marijuana use in young Nigerians.
Meningodora miccyla
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Quintal, Bladimir
name: Lira, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Acanthephyridae
Meningodora
Meningodora miccyla

description: Meningodora miccyla (Chace, 1940)
Notostomus miccylus Chace, 1940: 161, Figs. 35–37.
Meningodora miccyla — Chace 1986: 50 (key); Judkins 2014: tab. 5.
Material examined. None.
Geographic & bathymetric distribution. Off South Africa and western and eastern North Atlantic; 914–1828 m depth (Chace 1940, 1986).
Remarks. Records for Venezuela: Margarita and La Orchila Islands (Judkins 2014).
description: Published as part of Rodríguez-Quintal, Bladimir & Lira, Carlos, 2025, A review of deep-sea shrimps (Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata and Caridea) with four new records for Venezuela, pp. 401-436 in Zootaxa 5583 (3) on page 417, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14804535
Must a Hamiltonian be Hermitian?
Creators: name: Bender, Carl M.
name: Brody, Dorje C.
name: Jones, Hugh F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A consistent physical theory of quantum mechanics can be built on a complex Hamiltonian that is not Hermitian but instead satisfies the physical condition of space-time reflection symmetry (PT symmetry). Thus, there are infinitely many new Hamiltonians that one can construct that might explain experimental data. One would think that a quantum theory based on a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian violates unitarity. However, if PT symmetry is not broken, it is possible to use a previously unnoticed physical symmetry of the Hamiltonian to construct an inner product whose associated norm is positive definite. This construction is general and works for any PT-symmetric Hamiltonian. The dynamics is governed by unitary time evolution. This formulation does not conflict with the requirements of conventional quantum mechanics. There are many possible observable and experimental consequences of extending quantum mechanics into the complex domain, both in particle physics and in solid state physics.
description: Revised version to appear in American Journal of Physics
The partition function of the supersymmetric two-dimensional black hole and little string theory
Creators: name: Israel, Dan
name: Kounnas, Costas
name: Pakman, Ari
name: Troost, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the partition function of the supersymmetric two-dimensional Euclidean black hole geometry described by the SL(2,R)/U(1) superconformal field theory. We decompose the result in terms of characters of the N=2 superconformal symmetry. We point out puzzling sectors of states besides finding expected discrete and continuous contributions to the partition function. By adding an N=2 minimal model factor of the correct central charge and projecting on integral N=2 charges we compute the partition function of the background dual to little string theory in a double scaling limit. We show the precise correspondence between this theory and the background for NS5-branes on a circle, due to an exact description of the background as a null gauging of SL(2,R) x SU(2). Finally, we discuss the interplay between GSO projection and target space geometry.
description: JHEP class, 35 pages, no figures; v2: minor changes, typos corrected, published version
Decay estimates for a Klein-Gordon model with time-periodic coefficients
Creators: name: Girardi, Giovanni
name: Wirth, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we consider a Klein-Gordon model with time-dependent periodic coefficients. The aim is to investigate how the presence of the mass term influences energy estimates with respect to the case of vanishing mass, already treated in [18]. The approach is based on a diagonalisation argument for high frequencies and a contradiction argument for bounded frequencies.
Emptiness formation probability at finite temperature for the isotropic Heisenberg chain
Creators: name: Göhmann, F.
name: Klümper, A.
name: Seel, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an integral formula for a special correlation function of the isotropic spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain. The correlation function describes the probability for the occurrence of a string of consecutive up-spins as a function of temperature, magnetic field and length of the string.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, submitted to SCES'04
Cell-Type-Specific Differences in KDEL Receptor Clustering in Mammalian Cells
Creators: name: Bauer, Achim
name: Santen, Ludger
name: Schmitt, Manfred J.
name: Shaebani, M. Reza
name: Becker, Björn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In eukaryotic cells, KDEL receptors (KDELRs) facilitate the retrieval of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) luminal proteins from the Golgi compartment back to the ER. Apart from the well-documented retention function, recent findings reveal that the cellular KDELRs have more complex roles, e.g. in cell signalling, protein secretion, cell adhesion and tumorigenesis. Furthermore, several studies suggest that a sub-population of KDELRs is located at the cell surface, where they could form and internalize KDELR/cargo clusters after K/HDEL-ligand binding. However, so far it has been unclear whether there are cell-type- or species-specific differences in KDELR clustering. By comparing ligand-induced KDELR clustering in different mouse and human cell lines via live cell imaging, we show that macrophage cell lines from both species do not develop any clusters. Using RT-qPCR experiments and numerical analysis, we address the role of KDELR expression as well as endocytosis and exocytosis rates on the receptor clustering at the plasma membrane and discuss how the efficiency of directed transport to preferred docking sites on the membrane influences the exponent of the power-law distribution of the cluster size.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables
Additional file 1 of Neural correlates of treatment effect and prediction of treatment outcome in patients with PTSD and comorbid personality disorder: study design
Creators: name: Aarts, Inga
name: Vriend, Chris
name: Snoek, Aishah
name: Van Den End, Arne
name: Blankers, Matthijs
name: Aartjan T. F. Beekman
name: Dekker, Jack
name: Van Den Heuvel, Odile A.
name: Thomaes, Kathleen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 Table S1. Overview of models used in the Emotional Faces task.
Graviton-Scalar Interaction in the PP-Wave Background
Creators: name: Bobkov, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the graviton two scalar off-shell interaction vertex at tree level in Type IIB superstring theory on the pp-wave background using the light-cone string field theory formalism. We then show that the tree level vertex vanishes when all particles are on-shell and conservation of p_{+} and p_{-} are imposed. We reinforce our claim by calculating the same vertex starting from the corresponding SUGRA action expanded around the pp-wave background in the light-cone gauge.
description: 26 pages, harvmac One reference added. A few comments changed in the introduction. The "cyclic perms." term removed from some equations as unnecessary and equations (2.38) and (3.19) are corrected accordingly
A Pressure Associated with a Weak Solution to the Navier-Stokes Equations with Navier's Boundary Condition
Creators: name: Neustupa, Jiri
name: Necasova, Sarka
name: Kucera, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that if u is a weak solution to the Navier-Stokes initial-boundary value problem with Navier's slip boundary conditions in $Q_T:=Ω\times(0,T)$, where $Ω$ is a domain in $R^3$, then an associated pressure $p$ exists as a distribution with a certain structure. Furthermore, we also show that if $Ω$ is a "smooth" domain in $R^3$ then the pressure is represented by a function in $Q_T$ with a certain rate of integrability. Finally, we study the regularity of the pressure in sub-domains of $Q_T$, where $u$ satisfies Serrin's integrability conditions.
Adsorptive removal of trinitrophenol using nano α-Fe2O3/reduced graphene oxide
Creators: name: Ishani Khurana
name: Shaw, Ajay Kumar
name: , Bharti
name: Jitender M. Khurana
name: Rai, Pramod Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: 2,4,6-Trinitrophenol (TNP), an explosive utilized for artillery munitions, ends up polluting water and soil. This study targets the treatment of TNP contaminated water via adsorption technique. A comparative adsorption study using pristine rGO (reduced graphene oxide), α-Fe2O3/rGO, bare α-Fe2O3 and physical mixture of α-Fe2O3 & rGO has been carried to select the most suitable adsorbent. To understand the mechanism of adsorption of TNP on α-Fe2O3/rGO adsorption isotherms were applied on adsorption data. The adsorption kinetics followed pseudo second order kinetic model. The mechanism of adsorption changed significantly with change in pH. The maximum adsorption capacity was found to be 769.23 mg · g−1. Regeneration studies indicated that the adsorbent can be used up to 3 times without significant decrease in adsorption efficiency. Magnetic nature of adsorbent allowed its easy segregation from the contaminant solution upon application of external magnetic field. To assess the adsorption efficacy of α-Fe2O3/rGO in real water under ambient condition, TNP was spiked in ground water samples collected from adjoining district that had high TDS (Total dissolved solids). The Langmuir adsorption capacity of 164.24 mg · g−1 was attained with substantial decrease in TDS. Thus α-Fe2O3/rGO proves to be an efficient adsorbent for nitrophenols and can be used commercially for waste water treatment.
Lagrangians and Hamiltonians for one-dimensional systems
Creators: name: Gonzalez, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: PACS 45.20.Jj

description: An equation is obtained to find the Lagrangian for a one-dimensional autonomous system. The continuity of the first derivative of its constant of motion is assumed. This equation is solved for a generic nonconservative autonomous system that has certain quasi-relativistic properties. A new method based on a Taylor series expansion is used to obtain the associated Hamiltonian for this system. These results have the usual expression for a conservative system when the dissipation parameter goes to zero. An example of this approach is given.
description: To be published in the International Journal of Theoretical Physics