cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Prediction of hierarchical time series using structured regularization and its application to artificial neural networks
Creators: name: Shiratori, Tomokaze
name: Kobayashi, Ken
name: Takano, Yuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper discusses the prediction of hierarchical time series, where each upper-level time series is calculated by summing appropriate lower-level time series. Forecasts for such hierarchical time series should be coherent, meaning that the forecast for an upper-level time series equals the sum of forecasts for corresponding lower-level time series. Previous methods for making coherent forecasts consist of two phases: first computing base (incoherent) forecasts and then reconciling those forecasts based on their inherent hierarchical structure. With the aim of improving time series predictions, we propose a structured regularization method for completing both phases simultaneously. The proposed method is based on a prediction model for bottom-level time series and uses a structured regularization term to incorporate upper-level forecasts into the prediction model. We also develop a backpropagation algorithm specialized for application of our method to artificial neural networks for time series prediction. Experimental results using synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of our method in terms of prediction accuracy and computational efficiency.
Supplemental material and figures for Angels in disguise: Sympatric hybridization in the marine angelfishes is widespread and occurs between deeply divergent lineages
Creators: name: Tea, Yi-Kai
name: Hobbs, Jean-Paul A.
name: Vitelli, Federico
name: DiBattista, Joseph D.
name: Ho, Simon Y. W.
name: Lo, Nathan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Hybridization events are not uncommon in marine environments where physical barriers are attenuated. Studies of coral reef taxa have suggested that hybridization predominantly occurs between parapatric species distributed along biogeographic suture zones. By contrast, little is known about the extent of sympatric hybridization on coral reefs, despite the large amount of biogeographic overlap shared by many coral reef species. Here, we investigate if the propensity for hybridization along suture zones represents a general phenomenon among coral reef fishes, by focusing on the marine angelfishes (family Pomacanthidae). Although hybridization has been reported for this family, it has not been thoroughly surveyed, with more recent hybridization studies focusing instead on closely related species from a population genetics perspective. We provide a comprehensive survey of hybridization among the Pomacanthidae, characterize the upper limits of genetic divergences between hybridizing species and investigate the occurrence of sympatric hybridization within this group. We report the occurrence of hybridization involving 42 species (48% of the family) from all but one genus of the Pomacanthidae. Our results indicate that the marine angelfishes are among the groups of coral reef fishes with the highest incidences of hybridization, not only between sympatric species, but also between deeply divergent lineages.
Bright X-ray Transients in M31: 2004 July XMM-Newton Observations
Creators: name: Trudolyubov, Sergey
name: Priedhorsky, William
name: Cordova, France
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of X-ray observations of four bright transients sources detected in the July 2004 XMM-Newton observations of the central bulge of M31. Two X-ray sources, XMMU J004315.5+412440 and XMMU J004144.7+411110, were discovered for the first time. Two other sources, CXOM31 J004309.9+412332 and CXOM31 J004241.8+411635, were previously detected by Chandra. The properties of the sources suggest their identification with accreting binary systems in M31. The X-ray spectra and variability of two sources, XMMU J004144.7+411110 and CXOM31 J004241.8+411635, are similar to that of the Galactic black hole transients, making them a good black hole candidates. The X-ray source XMMU J004315.5+412440 demonstrates a dramatic decline of the X-ray flux on a time scale of three days, and a remarkable flaring behavior on a short time scales. The X-ray data on XMMU J004315.5+412440 and CXOM31 J004309.9+412332 suggest that they can be either black hole or neutron star systems. Combining the results of 2000-2004 XMM observations of M31, we estimate a total rate of the bright transient outbursts in the central region of M31 to be 6-12 per year, in agreement with previous studies.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, uses emulateapj style. Submitted to ApJ
Simulation of Brain Resection for Cavity Segmentation Using Self-Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning
Creators: name: Pérez-García, Fernando
name: Rodionov, Roman
name: Alim-Marvasti, Ali
name: Sparks, Rachel
name: Duncan, John S.
name: Ourselin, Sébastien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Resective surgery may be curative for drug-resistant focal epilepsy, but only 40% to 70% of patients achieve seizure freedom after surgery. Retrospective quantitative analysis could elucidate patterns in resected structures and patient outcomes to improve resective surgery. However, the resection cavity must first be segmented on the postoperative MR image. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the state-of-the-art image segmentation technique, but require large amounts of annotated data for training. Annotation of medical images is a time-consuming process requiring highly-trained raters, and often suffering from high inter-rater variability. Self-supervised learning can be used to generate training instances from unlabeled data. We developed an algorithm to simulate resections on preoperative MR images. We curated a new dataset, EPISURG, comprising 431 postoperative and 269 preoperative MR images from 431 patients who underwent resective surgery. In addition to EPISURG, we used three public datasets comprising 1813 preoperative MR images for training. We trained a 3D CNN on artificially resected images created on the fly during training, using images from 1) EPISURG, 2) public datasets and 3) both. To evaluate trained models, we calculate Dice score (DSC) between model segmentations and 200 manual annotations performed by three human raters. The model trained on data with manual annotations obtained a median (interquartile range) DSC of 65.3 (30.6). The DSC of our best-performing model, trained with no manual annotations, is 81.7 (14.2). For comparison, inter-rater agreement between human annotators was 84.0 (9.9). We demonstrate a training method for CNNs using simulated resection cavities that can accurately segment real resection cavities, without manual annotations.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, accepted at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2020
Ochterus costaricensis D. A. Polhemus & J. T. Polhemus 2016
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Carapezza, Attilio
name: Jindra, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Ochteridae
Ochterus
Ochterus costaricensis

description: Ochterus costaricensis   D. A. Polhemus & J. T. Polhemus, 2016
 Ochterus costaricensis D.A. Polhemus & J.T. Polhemus, 2016:17, 36 –39
(key to species, description, illustrations). HOLOTYPE:, Costa Rica:
‘ Puntarenas, roadside waterfall 15 mi. N of Palmar Norte [8°58‘14“N,
83°18‘15“W, elev. 70 m]’ (JTPC + USNM).
  Distribution. Neotropical Region:  Central America: Costa Rica (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); El Salvador (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016); Panama (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016).
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 23-64 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3879659
HOUSEHOLD WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR DROPOFF RECYCLING
Creators: name: Tiller, Kelly
name: Jakus, Paul M.
name: Park, William M.
name: Tiller, Kelly
name: Jakus, Paul M.
name: Park, William M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: Increased landfilling costs and state-mandated reductions in municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal have combined to increase interest in recycling as an MSW management option. Most benefit-cost analyses, however, focus solely on urban curbside recycling programs and/or fail to include the benefits which accrue to households from the opportunity to recycle. This study focuses on the economic feasibility of dropoff recycling in rural areas, presenting estimates of household willingness to pay (WTP) for dropoff recycling in a rural/suburban area of Tennessee. Using contingent valuation, the most conservative mean household WTP is near $4.00 per household per month.
Les Chaldéens et les Malabares au XIX siècle
Creators: name: Ḥabbī, Yūsuf
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 64 (1980): Oriens christianus, Band 64
Supplemental material and figures for Angels in disguise: Sympatric hybridization in the marine angelfishes is widespread and occurs between deeply divergent lineages
Creators: name: Tea, Yi-Kai
name: Hobbs, Jean-Paul A.
name: Vitelli, Federico
name: DiBattista, Joseph D.
name: Ho, Simon Y. W.
name: Lo, Nathan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Hybridization events are not uncommon in marine environments where physical barriers are attenuated. Studies of hybridization events among coral reef taxa have suggested that hybridization predominantly occurs between parapatric species distributed along biogeographic suture zones. By contrast, little is known about the extent of sympatric hybridization on coral reefs, despite the large amount of biogeographic overlap shared by many coral reef species. Here, we investigate if the propensity for hybridization along suture zones represents a general phenomenon among coral reef fishes, by focusing on the marine angelfishes (family Pomacanthidae). Although hybridization has been reported for this family, it has not been thoroughly surveyed, with more recent hybridization studies focusing instead on closely related species from a population genetics perspective. We provide a comprehensive survey of hybridization among the Pomacanthidae, characterize the upper limits of genetic divergences between hybridizing species and investigate the occurrence of sympatric hybridization within this group. We report the occurrence of hybridization involving 42 species (48% of the family) from all but one genus of the Pomacanthidae. Our results indicate that the marine angelfishes are among the groups of coral reef fishes with the highest incidences of hybridization, not only between sympatric species, but also between deeply divergent lineages.
ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF CRITICAL HABITAT FOR THE MEXICAN SPOTTED OWL: A SCOPE TEST USING A MULTIPLE-BOUNDED CONTINGENT VALUATION SURVEY
Creators: name: Loomis, John B.
name: Ekstrand, Earl
name: Loomis, John B.
name: Ekstrand, Earl
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: A split-sample design is used to test for a difference between mean willingness to pay (WTP) for protecting the Mexican spotted owl versus protecting 62 threatened/endangered species which includes the Mexican spotted owl. The multiple bounded contingent valuation method is used in a mail survey of U.S. residents. The mean WTP amounts are statistically different at the 0.1 confidence level indicating the multiple-bounded mail survey passes the scope test. The range of estimated benefits of preserving the 4.6 million acres of critical habitat for the Mexican spotted owl substantially outweighs the costs of the recovery effort.
GreenComputing.doc
Creators: name: Anagha Kamat
name: Lanke, Uday
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90201 Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels)
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: 90202 Automotive Engineering Materials
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: 91506 Nuclear Engineering (incl. Fuel Enrichment and Waste Processing and Storage)
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: Nuclear Engineering
subject: 90405 Non-automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels)
subject: 90608 Renewable Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Solar Cells)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 91499 Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy not elsewhere classified

description: As fuel is a non renewable resource it is important to conserve it.The research data deals with number of ways to conserve fuel in different sectors.
A verification from Hydrodynamics of a twisting slender swimmer
Creators: name: Iosilevskii, Gil
name: Rashkovsky, Alexander
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 91504 Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Verification of the main results by the vortex lattice method
Bone mass in pre- and peri-pubertal Canadian children : subtitle effects of a high impact exercise intervention, maturity, and ethnicity
Creators: name: MacKelvie, Kerry Jane
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: INTRODUCTION: Osteoporosis has, in part, been attributed to physical inactivity. The direct health care costs of osteoporosis in Canada exceed 650 million dollars annually. Targeted physical activity may be an effective and feasible primary prevention strategy to lessen the burden of this debilitating disease. AIM: The primary aim was to determine the effects of a randomized, controlled, school-based, bone-loading exercise intervention on bone mineral accrual. METHODS AND RESULTS: Subjects: Children were a mixed ethnic group of 383 initially 9-11 year old boys and girls. Ethnic comparisons at baseline: For prepubertal girls (n=56), general physical activity, calcium intake, and total body (TB) and femoral neck (FN) bone mineral content (BMC) (adjusted for body size) were significantly (p<0.05) lower in Asians than Caucasians. For early pubertal girls (n=75), loaded physical activity and sport nights, calcium intake, TB, proximal femur (PF) and FN BMC and areal bone mineral density (aBMD) (adjusted for body size) were significantly lower (-10%) in Asians than Caucasians. 7-month change (girls): Fourteen schools were randomized to intervention (n=7) or control (n=7). I evaluated the effect of a 10-minute, 3x/week, exercise program on bone accrual at the TB, LS, PF, FN and trochanter (TR) in girls. Early pubertal (n=43), but not prepubertal (n=44) intervention girls gained significantly more (+~2%) adjusted BMC, aBMD, and vBMD (FN only) at the FN and LS than same-maturity controls (pre: n=26, early: n=63). 7-month change (boys): Prepubertal Asian and Caucasian boys in the exercise schools (n=61) gained significantly more adjusted TB BMC and PF aBMD (+1-2%) than prepubertal controls (n=60) over 7 months. Accrual was similar between ethnicities. 20-month change (girls): I investigated the continued bone health benefits from exercise over 20 months in girls. Intervention girls (N=32) gained significantly more adjusted FN and LS BMC (+4-5%) than controls (N = 43). CONCLUSIONS: Risk factors for osteoporosis were more prevalent in early pubertal Asian girls compared with Caucasians. A targeted, inexpensive and feasible school-based exercise program, implemented over 7 or 20 months, offered an effective strategy to enhance bone mineral accrual during growth. The skeletal response to loaded physical activity was sex-, site- and maturity-specific.
An extension from Hydrodynamics of a twisting slender swimmer
Creators: name: Iosilevskii, Gil
name: Rashkovsky, Alexander
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 91504 Fluidisation and Fluid Mechanics
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 10299 Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The case of three deformation waves
Appendices from Modelling cytoskeletal transport by clusters of non-processive molecular motors with limited binding sites
Creators: name: Naruemon Rueangkham
name: Estabrook, Ian D.
name: Hawkins, Rhoda J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biophysics

description: A. Processive Motors Gillespie algorithm B. Non-processive Motors Gillespie algorithm C. Sequence Preservation D. Stall force for large numbers of motors E. Single motor approximation
Supplementary Material from Augmenting disease maps: a Bayesian meta-analysis approach
Creators: name: Jahan, Farzana
name: Duncan, Earl W.
name: Cramb, Susanna M.
name: Baade, Peter D.
name: Mengersen, Kerrie L.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Analysis of spatial patterns of disease is a significant field of research. However, access to unit-level disease data can be difficult for privacy and other reasons. As a consequence, estimates of interest are often published at the small area level as disease maps. This motivates the development of methods for analysis of these ecological estimates directly. Such analyses can widen the scope of research by drawing more insights from published disease maps or atlases. The present study proposes a hierarchical Bayesian meta-analysis model that analyses the point and interval estimates from an online atlas. The proposed model is illustrated by modelling the published cancer incidence estimates available as part of the online Australian Cancer Atlas (ACA). The proposed model aims to reveal patterns of cancer incidence for the 20 cancers included in ACA in major cities, regional and remote areas. The model results are validated using the observed areal data created from unit-level data on cancer incidence in each of 2148 small areas. It is found that the meta-analysis models can generate similar patterns of cancer incidence based on urban/rural status of small areas compared with those already known or revealed by the analysis of observed data. The proposed approach can be generalized to other online disease maps and atlases.
Ochterus dufourii
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Carapezza, Attilio
name: Jindra, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Ochteridae
Ochterus
Ochterus dufourii

description: Ochterus dufourii (Montrouzier, 1864)
 Pelogonus Dufourii Montrouzier, 1864: 241 (original description). LECTOTYPE (designated by BAEHR 1990b: 456):, New Caledonia: ‘N. Calédonie, Kanala’ (ISNB).
 Pelogonus Dufourii: STÅL (1876): 137 (catalogue).
 Pelogonus Dufouri (incorrect subsequent spelling): SCHOUTEDEN (1907): 117 (types).
 Ochterus dufourii: JACZEWSKI (1934):609 –610 (repeating original description, differential diagnosis); KORMILEV (1971): 442 –443 (repeating original description); BAEHR (1990b): 451, 453–454, 456–459, 461 (key to species, redescription, illustrations, lectotype designation); DAMGAARD & ZETTEL (2014): 237 (checklist).
  Distribution. Australian Region:  New Caledonia (MON- TROUZIER 1864, BAEHR 1990b).
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 23-64 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3879659
ACTUAL VERSUS STATED WILLINGNESS TO PAY: A COMMENT
Creators: name: Cohen, Daniel R.
name: Zilberman, David
name: Cohen, Daniel R.
name: Zilberman, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Offering evidence from the California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS) and centering around Kenkel and Norris conclusions regarding "Agricultural Producers' Willingness to Pay for Real-Time Mesoscale Weather Information," this article questions the use of growers' hypothetical willingness-to-pay responses as the sole basis for deciding whether to invest in Mesonet, a statewide network of weather station. Survey respondents' lack of familiarity with a new technology and strategic behavior lead to underestimates of actual willingness to pay. Moreover, weather information has numerous agricultural and nonagricultural uses, and only sampling growers overlooks gains to other potential users. Low hypothetical willingness-to-pay responses of a subsection of the potential adopters should necessarily discourage investment. Rather, a substantial willingness to pay may signal a need for further market research.
THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE ON A COMPETITIVE INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Perrin, Richard K.
name: Perrin, Richard K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: This study analytically evaluates the impact of technological change on output and input markets in a competitive industry of identical firms. Firm-level technology and technological change are represented parametrically as local approximations to unknown functional forms. The comparative statics analysis solved for changes in equilibrium market prices and quantities as functions of parameters that characterized technological change. The technology-induced shift-weighted induced change input prices. The model provides a consistent and systematic framework for evaluating the impact of technological change, either ex ante or ex post.
TESTING MARKET EQUILIBRIUM: IS COINTEGRATION INFORMATIVE?
Creators: name: McNew, Kevin
name: Fackler, Paul L.
name: McNew, Kevin
name: Fackler, Paul L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: Cointegration methods are increasingly used to test for market efficiency and integration. The economic rationale for these tests, however, is generally unclear. Using a simple spatial equilibrium model to simulate equilibrium price behavior, it is shown that prices in a well-integrated, efficient market need not be cointegrated. Furthermore, the number of cointegrating relationships among prices is not a good indicator of the degree to which a market is integrated.
CONGRESSIONAL VOTING ON FARM PAYMENT LIMITATIONS: POLITICAL PRESSURE OF IDEOLOGICAL CONVICTION?
Creators: name: Brooks, Jonathan
name: Brooks, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Political Economy

description: The determinants of House and Senate votes on congressional amendments to limit payments to farmers are investigated. One concern is that campaign contributions may influence politicians' votes. Lobbying activity, as attempts to distinguish ideological motivations from passive constituency pressures suffer from theoretical and empirical shortcomings. So-called ideologically based decisions may reflect the ideology of the congressman's constituents rather than independent action on the basis of exogenous beliefs, while this ideology may itself be determined by politicoeconomic factors. A simultaneous relationship between money and votes is found in the House, but not in the Senate.
Ochterus eurythorax Baehr 1989
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Carapezza, Attilio
name: Jindra, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Ochteridae
Ochterus
Ochterus eurythorax

description: Ochterus eurythorax Baehr, 1989
 Ochterus marginatus (misidentification): HALE (1925): 14 –15 (distribution, partim) (see JACZEWSKI 1934: 607, as O. australicus).
 Ochterus australicus (misidentification): JACZEWSKI (1934): 607 –610 (partim, few syntypes from Australia) (see BAEHR 1990: 452).
 Ochterus australicus (misidentification): KORMILEV (1971): 434: Fig. 12, 439–440,442:Fig.22 (redescription) (see BAEHR 1989: 115, 1990:452).
 Ochterus eurythorax Baehr, 1989: 114, 116–118 (key to species, description, illustrations). HOLOTYPE:, Australia: Queensland: ʻDunwich, Stradbroke Isl., S. E. Qld’ (QMBA).
 Ochterus eurythorax: BAEHR (1990b): 452 –454, 456, 459, 461–462, 464 (key to species, redescription, illustrations); CASSIS & GROSS (1995): 261 (catalogue); ANDERSEN & WEIR (2004): 267 –268, 335 (key to species, illustration, checklist).
  Distribution. Australian Region:  Australia: Australian Capital Territory (BAEHR 1990 b, ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004), New South Wales (JACZEWSKI 1934, as O. australicus; BAEHR 1990b; ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004), Queensland (JACZEWSKI 1934, as O. australicus; BAEHR 1989, 1990b; ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004), South Australia (BAEHR 1989, ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004), Tasmania (BAEHR 1989, 1990b; ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004), Victoria (BAEHR 1989, 1990b; ANDERSEN & WEIR 2004). Note. Records from Papua New Guinea (BAEHR 1989) refer presumably to another species (see BAEHR 1990b).
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 23-64 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3879659
GLOBALISATION, TRANSITION AND RESTRUCTURING: EVIDENCE FROM THE POLISH DAIRY SECTOR
Creators: name: Dries, Liesbeth
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Dries, Liesbeth
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Industrial Organization
Production Economics

description: In the early 1990s the Polish economy was opened up to global forces, increasing competitive pressure, raising standards, and inducing an inflow of foreign products and investment. This paper studies the impact on the dairy sector in Poland. We combine statistical data with evidence from interviews with company managers and household survey results to identify the impact of these forces, both on processing companies and on their suppliers. Our analysis shows that the globalisation process, through a complex interaction of public and private incentives, has contributed to important increases in company investment and product quality, and in enhanced access to credit and technology for local suppliers. The associated restructuring process caused a shift towards somewhat larger suppliers and significant cuts in employment. However, the increase in size is modest and the vast majority of suppliers are still relatively small family farms.
Philoxenus and the Old Syriac version of Evagrius' "Centuries"
Creators: name: Watt, John W.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 64 (1980): Oriens christianus, Band 64
Counterfactual Explanations for Predictive Business Process Monitoring
Creators: name: Huang, Tsung-Hao
name: Metzger, Andreas
name: Pohl, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Predictive business process monitoring increasingly leverages sophisticated prediction models. Although sophisticated models achieve consistently higher prediction accuracy than simple models, one major drawback is their lack of interpretability, which limits their adoption in practice. We thus see growing interest in explainable predictive business process monitoring, which aims to increase the interpretability of prediction models. Existing solutions focus on giving factual explanations.While factual explanations can be helpful, humans typically do not ask why a particular prediction was made, but rather why it was made instead of another prediction, i.e., humans are interested in counterfactual explanations. While research in explainable AI produced several promising techniques to generate counterfactual explanations, directly applying them to predictive process monitoring may deliver unrealistic explanations, because they ignore the underlying process constraints. We propose LORELEY, a counterfactual explanation technique for predictive process monitoring, which extends LORE, a recent explainable AI technique. We impose control flow constraints to the explanation generation process to ensure realistic counterfactual explanations. Moreover, we extend LORE to enable explaining multi-class classification models. Experimental results using a real, public dataset indicate that LORELEY can approximate the prediction models with an average fidelity of 97.69\% and generate realistic counterfactual explanations.
O'ZBEKISTON RESPUBLIKASINING TURIZM SALOHIYATNI OSHIRISHDA JOYLASHTIRUV VOSITALARINING ROLI
Creators: name: Xudayberdiyeva, Nargiza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu maqolada turizm tarmog‘ining jahon iqtisodiyotida tutgan o‘rni, O‘zbekiston Respublikasining turizm salohiyati xususan, turistlarni joylashtirish bo‘yicha imkoniyatlari tahlil qilingan. Shuningdek, mamlakatga tashrif buyuruvchi sayyohlar ichida turkiy davlatlarning ulushi yuqoriligi alohida ta’kidlangan.
MUSIQA TO'GARAKLARIDA O'QUVCHILARNING CHOLG'U IJROCHILIGI KO'NIKMALARINI TAKOMILLASHTIRISH METODIKASI
Creators: name: Sаttаrov, Аlisher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur ilmiy maqolada umumta’lim maktablari hamda ixtisoslashtirilgan musiqa maktablarida faoliyat yuritayotgan musiqa to‘garaklarining mazmuni, maqsadi va vazifalari yoritiladi. Asarda o‘quvchilarning cholg‘u ijrochiligi ko‘nikmalarini shakllantirish va rivojlantirishga qaratilgan zamonaviy pedagogik yondashuvlar, innovatsion metodlar, individual va guruhiy mashg‘ulotlarning samaradorligi tahlil qilinadi. Muallif musiqa to‘garaklarida o‘quvchilarning texnik mahoratini oshirish, musiqiy tafakkurini rivojlantirish hamda sahnada erkin chiqish qilish ko‘nikmalarini takomillashtirishga xizmat qiluvchi metodik vositalar va amaliy tavsiyalarni ilgari suradi. Tadqiqot natijalari asosida musiqa to‘garaklari faoliyatining sifatini oshirish bo‘yicha taklif va tavsiyalar ishlab chiqiladi.
FOOD CRISES AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE MEDIA
Creators: name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Francken, Nathalie
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Francken, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: The objective of our paper is to contribute to this understanding by presenting a conceptual model of the information supply and comparing it with empirical observations on media reporting on two recent food safety crises. Our paper starts with an analysis of the organization and incentives of the media industry, looking at both supply and demand factors, and discusses a set of general hypothesis on the characteristics of information provided by the media industry. This section relies heavily upon a formal model of the information market developed in Swinnen and McCluskey (2002). The second part of the paper is empirical. We compare the hypotheses with media reporting on two recent food safety crises in Western Europe: the 1999 dioxin crisis which originated in Belgium, and the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease which originated in the UK.
Photoinduced dynamics of excitonic order and Rabi oscillation in the two-orbital Hubbard model
Creators: name: Tanaka, Yasuhiro
name: Yonemitsu, Kenji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the condition for the photoinduced enhancement of an excitonic order in a two-orbital Hubbard model, which has been theoretically proposed in our previous work [Phys. Rev. B 97, 115105 (2018)], and analyze it from the viewpoint of the Rabi oscillation. Within the mean-field approximation, we simulate real-time dynamics of an excitonic insulator with a direct gap, where the pair condensation in the initial state is of BEC nature and the photoexcitation is introduced by electric dipole transitions. We first discuss that in the atomic limit our model is reduced to a two-level system that undergoes the Rabi oscillation, so that for single cycle pulses physical quantities after the photoirradiation are essentially determined by the ratio of the Rabi frequency to the pump-light frequency. Then, it is shown that this picture holds even in the case of nonzero transfer integrals where each one-particle state exhibits the Rabi oscillation leading to the enhancement of the excitonic order. We demonstrate that effects of electron-phonon interactions do not alter the results qualitatively. We also examine many-body dynamics by the exact diagonalization method on small clusters, which strongly suggests that our mechanism for the enhancement of the exctionic order survives even when quantum fluctuations are taken into account.
description: 21 pages, 37 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. B
TRENDS IN AGRICULTURAL PRICE AND TRADE POLICY INSTRUMENTS SINCE 1990 IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Creators: name: Hartell, Jason G.
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Hartell, Jason G.
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
International Relations/Trade

description: A survey of agricultural price and trade policy instruments of Central European countries since the beginning of economic transition indicates several similar patterns of instrument choice among the transition economies. We find that the common pattern of agricultural policy choices in Central European countries mirrors many important features of the Western European experience. In addition, we also find that free trade associations and international agreements have and will increasingly limit the set of agricultural price and trade policy instruments available to governments.
AGRICULTURAL CREDIT PROBLEMS AND POLICIES DURING THE TRANSITION TO A MARKET ECONOMY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Creators: name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Gow, Hamish R.
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Gow, Hamish R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance

description: This paper assesses the problems of financing Central and Eastern European agriculture during the present transitionary period and what the role of government is in this process. Initially the paper looks at why credit markets work imperfectly, even in well developed market economies, focusing on the problems related to asymmetric information, adverse selection, moral hazard, credit rationing, the choice of optimal debt instrument and why initial wealth matters. It shows why these and related problems may cause transaction costs to high enough so that credit rationing and high interest rates are rational and efficient responses by lenders to the imperfect information problems of the agricultural sector. Then a series of specific, transition-related issues are discussed which have worsened these problems within the Central and Eastern European agricultural sector. This leads to a discussion of the potential roles for governments in solving these issues, specifically the use of credit subsidies, loan guarantees and specialised agricultural lending institutions. Finally, the paper reviews the actual government intervention which have occurred within the Central and Eastern European countries.
Point Containment Queries on Ray Tracing Cores for AMR Flow Visualization
Creators: name: Zellmann, Stefan
name: Seifried, Daniel
name: Morrical, Nate
name: Wald, Ingo
name: Usher, Will
name: Law-Smith, Jamie A. P.
name: Walch-Gassner, Stefanie
name: Hinkenjann, André
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern GPUs come with dedicated hardware to perform ray/triangle intersections and bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) traversal. While the primary use case for this hardware is photorealistic 3D computer graphics, with careful algorithm design scientists can also use this special-purpose hardware to accelerate general-purpose computations such as point containment queries. This article explains the principles behind these techniques and their application to vector field visualization of large simulation data using particle tracing.
Charge Radii of the Proton and Valence Quarks in the Quasipotential Model
Creators: name: Ilichova, T. P.
name: Shulga, S. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mean square radius of the proton charge distribution was studied in the framework of the relativistic quasipotential quark model in assumption of the SU(6)-symmetry. It was shown that the proton charge radius is represented as function f(m/γ)/M^2 for point quarks (m is a quark mass, γis the scale of the coupling energy, M is the nucleon mass, f is undimentional function, which does not depended on M). It was shown, that in the ultra relativistic region the mean square radius of the bound system can have negative value. To describe simultaneously nucleon magnetic moments and proton radius in the oscillator model it is need to suppose that quark has the negative mean square radius = -1.875/m^2.
description: 7 pages, 1 figures, Submitted to "Izvestiya VUZov. Fizika" (Russian Physics Journal)
ON POLICY INDUCED TRANSFERS DURING ECONOMIC TRANSITION: THE CASE OF THE WHEAT-FLOUR-BREAD CHAIN IN BULGARIA
Creators: name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Industrial Organization

description: Recent analysis of policy-induced income changes along the agro-food chain in Bulgaria uses an extension of the PSE/CSE methodology. It shows that measures taken by the government with the intention of supporting consumers have led to a substantial negative impact on producers, without having a positive impact on consumers; that throughout the period 1990-1993 farmers have been net losers and retailers have been net gainers from agro-food policies; and that by the end of the period, both farmers and consumers were losing heavily to the benefit of processors and, overwhelmingly, retailers. The paper presents hypotheses to explain some of these counterintuitive results, using a more detailed study of the wheat-flour-bread chain. The first conclusion is that transitional excess profits and product quality improvements may explain part of the calculated transfers to retailers, but that this explanation is insufficient. A second conclusion is that the large net transfers to "retailers" are mostly rents collected by flour wholesale trading enterprises. A third conclusion is that "transition business practices", including monopolistic and collusive behavior in the agro-food chain, induce rents which are not included in the calculated transfers. Also, critical assumptions on conversion factors and exchange rates affect the results. While our analysis suggests that effective consumer taxation has been overestimated by the calculations, we support general conclusions on the inefficiency of the Bulgarian policies.
Die Datenlandschaft der deutschen Energiewirtschaft
Creators: name: Seim, Stephan
name: Verwiebe, Paul
name: Blech, Katharina
name: Gerwin, Christoph
name: Müller-Kirchenbauer, Joachim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Energiesystemanalyse
Modellierung
Datenplattform
Inputdaten
Energieträger
Open Data
Datenlücken
Zeitliche Auflösung
Räumliche Auflösung

description: In dieser Untersuchung wird eine systematische Übersicht von Informationen über die deutsche Energiewirtschaft und deren Verfügbarkeit vorgelegt, um den Datenzugang zu erleichtern, Datenlücken zu identifizieren und die Diskussion um die Notwendigkeit hochqualitativer Daten in der Energiesystemanalyse weiter voranzubringen. Im Besonderen werden für die Energieträger Strom, Gas und Wärme 22 relevante Datenplattformen und 279 Datenquellen identifiziert und bezüglich ihrer Eigenschaften beschrieben. Auf Basis bestehender Datenlücken sowie einer durchgeführten Expertenumfrage können Aussagen über besondere Datenbedarfe innerhalb der Energiesystemanalyse abgeleitet werden. Die Untersuchung schließt mit einer Diskussion um Nutzungshindernisse und formuliert Handlungsempfehlungen in Richtung politischer Entscheidungsträger.
description: Neben der Analyse der bestehenden Datenplattformen und der Auswertung der Umfrage im Artikel, ist die Excel-basierte Zusammenstellung und detaillierte Beschreibung von 279 Datenquellen zentrales Ergebnis dieser Untersuchung. Nähere Informationen sind zu finden unter: https://www.er.tu-berlin.de/menue/veroeffentlichungen/ Diese Untersuchung wurde im Rahmen des Verbundprojekts "DemandRegio" erstellt, welches durch das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi) gefördert wird (Förderkennzeichen: 03ET4040C).
THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAND RENTAL MARKETS IN BULGARIA AND FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Creators: name: Noev, Nivelin
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Vranken, Liesbet
name: Noev, Nivelin
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Vranken, Liesbet
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: The paper describes completely the current status of the land rental markets in Bulgaria and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. It presents survey evidences and analyses the problems related to the transfer of land, land registration, land ownership and co-ownership, transaction costs, land contracts, land abandonment. It also gives a detailed picture on the different groups of participants in the land rental markets in the both countries.
Pure Pattern Calculus à la de Bruijn
Creators: name: Martín, Alexis
name: Ríos, Alejandro
name: Viso, Andrés
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It is well-known in the field of programming languages that dealing with variable names and binders may lead to conflicts such as undesired captures when implementing interpreters or compilers. This situation has been overcome by resorting to de Bruijn indices for calculi where binders capture only one variable name, like the $λ$-calculus. The advantage of this approach relies on the fact that so-called $α$-equivalence becomes syntactical equality when working with indices. In recent years pattern calculi have gained considerable attention given their expressiveness. They turn out to be notoriously convenient to study the foundations of modern functional programming languages modeling features like pattern matching, path polymorphism, pattern polymorphism, etc. However, the literature falls short when it comes to dealing with $α$-conversion and binders capturing simultaneously several variable names. Such is the case of the Pure Pattern Calculus (PPC): a natural extension of $λ$-calculus that allows to abstract virtually any term. This paper extends de Bruijn's ideas to properly overcome the multi-binding problem by introducing a novel presentation of PPC with bidimensional indices, in an effort to implement a prototype for a typed functional programming language based on PPC that captures path polymorphism.
THE IMPACT OF AID ON ECONOMIC GROWTH IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY
Creators: name: Cungu, Azeta
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
name: Cungu, Azeta
name: Swinnen, Johan F.M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: International Development

description: This paper assesses econometrically the contribution of aid to output growth in a panel of twenty transition countries over nine years (1989-1997). The study finds a positive and statistically significant relationship between foreign aid and growth. A second result is that the positive effect of aid seems to be stronger when associated with economic liberalisation. The above findings are important, particularly in light of recent scepticism on the role of aid on developing country economic growth and the recent declining trend in aid commitments from industrialized countries.
Off-diagonal mass generation for Yang-Mills theories in the maximal Abelian gauge
Creators: name: Dudal, D.
name: Gracey, J. A.
name: Lemes, V. E. R.
name: Sarandy, M. S.
name: Sobreiro, R. F.
name: Sorella, S. P.
name: Verschelde, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a dynamical mass generation mechanism for the off-diagonal gluons and ghosts in SU(N) Yang-Mills theories, quantized in the maximal Abelian gauge. Such a mass can be seen as evidence for the Abelian dominance in that gauge. It originates from the condensation of a mixed gluon-ghost operator of mass dimension two, which lowers the vacuum energy. We construct an effective potential for this operator by a combined use of the local composite operators technique with algebraic renormalization and we discuss the gauge parameter independence of the results. We also show that it is possible to connect the vacuum energy, due to the mass dimension two condensate discussed here, with the non-trivial vacuum energy originating from the condensate , which has attracted much attention in the Landau gauge.
description: 15 pages. Revtex. 1 .eps figure. Talk given by D.Dudal at XXV Encontro Nacional de Fisica de Particulas e Campos, Caxambu, Minas Gerais, Brasil, 24-28 Aug 2004. To appear in Brazilian Journal of Physics
Ochterus explanatus D. A. Polhemus & J. T. Polhemus 2016
Creators: name: Kment, Petr
name: Carapezza, Attilio
name: Jindra, Zdeněk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Ochteridae
Ochterus
Ochterus explanatus

description: Ochterus explanatus   D. A. Polhemus & J. T. Polhemus, 2016
 Ochterus explanatus D.A.Polhemus & J.T. Polhemus, 2016: 11, 16, 39 –41
 (key to species,description, illustrations). HOLOTYPE: ♀, Mexico:Duran-
go:‘ Durango [incorrectly indicated as Sonora], 7 mi. W of Los Bancos
[vic. 23°38‘54“N, 105°47‘56“W, elev. ~ 2320 m]’ (JTPC + USNM).
  Distribution. Neotropical Region:  Central America: Mexico: Durango (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), Oaxaca (POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016).
description: Published as part of Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 23-64 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.003, http://zenodo.org/record/3879659