cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
ALIGNED D1.2 Description of scientific methods (Task 1.2 Framework for foreground life cycle inventory of bio-based sectors - Constraints to biomass availability)
Creators: name: Pizzol, Massimo
name: Ghose, Agneta
name: Nørgaard Bollesen, Karen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: life cycle assessment
life cycle inventory
consequential LCA
biomass constraints
biomass market
industrial ecology
biobased

description: Methods for foreground life cycle inventory

Method for addressing competition for biomass

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·         Method for modelling constraints to biomass availability

The document presents a method to model constraints to biomass availability under different situations. First it provides a theoretical introduction to how the problem is approached from a consequential perspective. Furthermore, specific recommendations are provided for modelling supply of biomass in line with this theory and indications for which types of data to use with respect to the methodological choices are provided.

·         Screening and comparison of data sources to calculate market mix

The document presents a screening of potentially useful literature and data sources as basis for modelling a market mix of unconstrained suppliers of biomass feedstocks, as well as a comparison of the data from three selected sources, that showed poor agreement. Based on the screening of the literature and on the analysis, the FAOSTAT data is recommended for calculating a market mix of unconstrained suppliers for use in the LCAs of the ALIGNED project.

·         Comparison data sources (.xlsx file)

Spreadsheet with data and calculations on which the above-mentioned screening and comparison of data sources to calculate market mix is based.

·         Modelling a market mix from FAOSTAT data

This tutorial serves as a tool for users seeking to model a market mix for selected biomass products, starting from the Forestry Production and Trade data from FAOSTAT. By utilizing the tutorial, the user can generate overviews of annual production quantity of biomass for different countries.

·         Coding for implementation of calculations for marginal mix (.xlsx, .py, .pynb .html and .R files)

Models and code to implement the calculations described in the guideline to calculate a marginal mix starting from FAOSTAT data. Coding is provided in both Excel, R, and Python for different users.

·         Datasets used for market mix calculation analyses (.csv files)

Raw data from FAOSTAT to be used in the example market mix calculation analyses.
An energy method for rough partial differential equations
Creators: name: Hocquet, Antoine
name: Hofmanová, Martina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H05, 60H15, 35A15, 35D30

description: We present a well-posedness and stability result for a class of nondegenerate linear parabolic equations driven by rough paths. More precisely, we introduce a notion of weak solution that satisfies an intrinsic formulation of the equation in a suitable Sobolev space of negative order. Weak solutions are then shown to satisfy the corresponding energy estimates which are deduced directly from the equation. Existence is obtained by showing compactness of a suitable sequence of approximate solutions whereas uniqueness relies on a doubling of variables argument and a careful analysis of the passage to the diagonal. Our result is optimal in the sense that the assumptions on the deterministic part of the equation as well as the initial condition are the same as in the classical PDEs theory.
Les facteurs clés de la transformation numérique de l'environnement socio-économique des universités : Cas du Maroc
Creators: name: BENHAMMOU, Yassine
name: ERRACHIDI, Adil
name: EL FAKIR, Elarbi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Transformation numérique ; Environnement socio-économique ; Universités ; Facteurs clés ; Maroc.

description: Cette étude approfondie sur la transformation numérique des universités au Maroc s'inscrit dans un contexte où les avancées technologiques redéfinissent le paysage éducatif mondial. La problématique centrale de cette recherche vise à identifier les éléments clés nécessaires pour une transition réussie vers un environnement éducatif numérique au Maroc. À travers l'analyse approfondie de sept études, synthétisées dans un tableau, plusieurs facteurs émergent comme cruciaux. En premier lieu, l'infrastructure technologique et la connectivité sont identifiées comme des prérequis indispensables. Ensuite, la nécessité d'élaborer une stratégie numérique cohérente, de mettre en place une formation continue des enseignants et d'assurer l'accessibilité et l'inclusion se dégage comme des impératifs pour une transition réussie. La cybersécurité, en tant que garante de la protection des données, et le financement adéquat pour soutenir ces changements, sont également soulignés comme des facteurs clés.
Impurity band conduction in group-IV ferromagnetic semiconductor Ge1-xFex with nanoscale fluctuations in Fe concentration
Creators: name: Ban, Yoshisuke
name: Wakabayashi, Yuki K.
name: Nakane, Ryosho
name: Tanaka, Masaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the carrier transport and magnetic properties of group-IV-based ferromagnetic semiconductor Ge1-xFex thin films (Fe concentration x = 2.3 - 14 %) with and without boron (B) doping, by measuring their transport characteristics; the temperature dependence of resistivity, hole concentration, mobility, and the relation between the anomalous Hall conductivity versus conductivity. At relatively low x (= 2.3 %), the transport in the undoped Ge1-xFex film is dominated by hole hopping between Fe-rich hopping sites in the Fe impurity band, whereas that in the B-doped Ge1-xFex film is dominated by the holes in the valence band in the degenerated Fe-poor regions. As x increases (x = 2.3 - 14 %), the transport in the both undoped and B-doped Ge1-xFex films is dominated by hole hopping between the Fe-rich hopping sites of the impurity band. The magnetic properties of the Ge1-xFex films are studied by various methods including magnetic circular dichroism, magnetization and anomalous Hall resistance, and are not influenced by B-doping. We show band profile models of both undoped and B-doped Ge1-xFex films, which can explain the transport and the magnetic properties of the Ge1-xFex films.
description: 32 pages, 14 figures
Group sequential designs for negative binomial outcomes
Creators: name: Mütze, Tobias
name: Glimm, Ekkehard
name: Schmidli, Heinz
name: Friede, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Count data and recurrent events in clinical trials, such as the number of lesions in magnetic resonance imaging in multiple sclerosis, the number of relapses in multiple sclerosis, the number of hospitalizations in heart failure, and the number of exacerbations in asthma or in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are often modeled by negative binomial distributions. In this manuscript we study planning and analyzing clinical trials with group sequential designs for negative binomial outcomes. We propose a group sequential testing procedure for negative binomial outcomes based on Wald statistics using maximum likelihood estimators. The asymptotic distribution of the proposed group sequential tests statistics are derived. The finite sample size properties of the proposed group sequential test for negative binomial outcomes and the methods for planning the respective clinical trials are assessed in a simulation study. The simulation scenarios are motivated by clinical trials in chronic heart failure and relapsing multiple sclerosis, which cover a wide range of practically relevant settings. Our research assures that the asymptotic normal theory of group sequential designs can be applied to negative binomial outcomes when the hypotheses are tested using Wald statistics and maximum likelihood estimators. We also propose two methods, one based on Student's t-distribution and one based on resampling, to improve type I error rate control in small samples. The statistical methods studied in this manuscript are implemented in the R package \textit{gscounts}, which is available for download on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).
Realismo e lirismo em Terra sonâmbula, de Mia Couto, e Chuva braba, de Manuel Lopes
Creators: name: Mapera, Martins José Chelene
Publisher: name: Forma Breve
Year: 2014

description: Sem resumo disponível.
description: Forma Breve, n.º 11 (2014): Microficção
A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD TO RAISE A BROOD: TREE SPECIES DIVERSITY DECREASES PERIODICAL CICADA OVIPOSITION AND TREE RESPONSE
Creators: name: Jayd, Kristin
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Entomology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Fashion
subject: diversity
subject: flagging
subject: forest
subject: Magicicada
subject: oviposition
subject: Periodical cicada

description: Natural systems contain diverse assemblages of plants, providing a matrix of potential hosts that herbivores must navigate. Insect-plant host choice patterns are crucial to understanding both herbivore outbreaks and the consequences of outbreaks for plant hosts. Here, I follow the 2021 Brood X periodical cicada mass emergence event in the BiodiversiTREE forest diversity experiment at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, MD, to uncover whether tree diversity influences cicada oviposition preferences or tree responses to oviposition (flagging), for 15 tree species grown in plots of single species or 12-species mixtures. While cicadas demonstrate clear tree species preferences, the diversity of the surrounding tree neighborhood plays at least as important a role in determining oviposition preference and tree flagging responses. Cicadas were threefold more likely to oviposit in trees grown in single species vs. mixed species plots. While overall, I find a concomitant decrease in tree flagging in diverse plots. I also document that species flag at different rates in response to the same oviposition scar density. Even when accounting for differential oviposition rates, surrounding tree diversity remains an essential additional predictor of tree flagging responses with trees in diverse plots less likely to flag at the same density of scars, suggesting a differential capacity of trees to tolerate damage when growing in single species plots. This study creates a richer understanding of the importance of tree context, specifically surrounding tree diversity, in shaping the ecological ramifications of a mass insect emergence event.
A. Campos Matos (2014). Eça de Queiroz. Uma Biografia. Campinas: Editora Unicamp; Cotia-SP: Ateliê Editorial
Creators: name: Gonçalves, Adelto
Publisher: name: Forma Breve
Year: 2014

description: Sem resumo disponível.
description: Forma Breve, n.º 11 (2014): Microficção
Person perception from changing emotional expressions: primacy, recency, or averaging effect?
Creators: name: Fang, Xia
name: Kleef, Gerben A. Van
name: Disa A. Sauter
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Dynamic changes in emotional expressions are a valuable source of information in social interactions. As the expressive behaviour of a person changes, the inferences drawn from the behaviour may also change. Here, we test the possibility that dynamic changes in emotional expressions affect person perception in terms of stable trait attributions. Across three experiments, we examined perceivers’ inferences about others’ personality traits from changing emotional expressions. Expressions changed from one emotion (“start emotion”) to another emotion (“end emotion”), allowing us to disentangle potential primacy, recency, and averaging effects. Drawing on three influential models of person perception, we examined perceptions of dominance and affiliation (Experiment 1a), competence and warmth (Experiment 1b), and dominance and trustworthiness (Experiment 2). A strong recency effect was consistently found across all trait judgments, that is, the end emotion of dynamic expressions had a strong impact on trait ratings. Evidence for a primacy effect was also observed (i.e. the information of start emotions was integrated), but less pronounced, and only for trait ratings relating to affiliation, warmth, and trustworthiness. Taken together, these findings suggest that, when making trait judgements about others, observers weigh the most recently displayed emotion in dynamic expressions more heavily than the preceding emotion.
title: Ein strategischer erdbebenresilienter Wiederaufbau unter Verwendung von GIS basiertes weighted Overlay.
title: Das Fallbeispiel Antakya, Hatay, Türkei nach dem Erdbeben im Februar 2023.
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Derin, Enes
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 710

description: Earthquakes are a natural phenomenon that can cause severe destruction within urban areas. In particular, cascading effects resulting from the earthquake, such as liquefaction, fires, landslides and tsunamis, can increase the resulting damage. In addition, current experience shows that strict building regulations, such as specifications on statics and the design of the building structure, and strategic planning by the city, are the best way so far to minimise damage from earthquakes. On 06.February 2023, Turkey was hit by two strong earthquakes. The earthquakes caused enormous destruction, killing many people. In particular, the city of Antakya, within the southeastern province of Hatay, was hit very hard by the two earthquakes. The magnitude of the earthquakes within the hit provinces varies according to the local topographical, geomorphological and hydrological conditions. As a basis for this work, the local conditions in the study area of Antakya are to be investigated and evaluated so that the areas with high or very high risk can be identified. The identification of the risk areas will result in a map that can be used as a basis for establishing new planning measures. These planning measures result from the literature research, whereby three best practice examples were taken into focus. The three case studies from Haiti, Chile and Japan have designed different measures for earthquake-resilient urban planning. In addition, supplementary measures are to be taken from other concepts and scientific work in order to be able to identify further suitable measures. The identified measures are to be integrated into the basic map. The result should be a strategic master plan, which should combine different measures at the urban level.
Study 2 — true self & mental disorders
Creators: name: Nettle, Daniel
name: Guley, Olha
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: DSM
subject: causation
subject: essence
subject: mental disorders
subject: true self

description: In the present study, we seek to uncover to what extent participants perceive each of the presented mental disorders (ADHD, autism, OCD, depression, anorexia, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) as a part of the true self. We are also interested in the relationship between the perception of mental disorders as a part of the true self and perceived causes, onset age, disorder duration, severity and possibility of recovery from symptoms for selected mental disorders.
The comprehensive review of essential role of microalgae in organic pollutants mechanisms of phycoremediation
Creators: name: Angga Puja Asiandu
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biorefinery
Organic pollutants
Phycoremediation
Pollution
Waste

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 29, 2, 01 (11 pages)
Measurement of complete and continuous Wigner functions for discrete atomic systems
Creators: name: Tian, Yali
name: Wang, Zhihui
name: Zhang, Pengfei
name: Li, Gang
name: Li, Jie
name: Zhang, Tiancai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure complete and continuous Wigner functions of a two-level cesium atom in both a nearly pure state and highly mixed states. We apply the method [T. Tilma et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 180401 (2016)] of strictly constructing continuous Wigner functions for qubit or spin systems. We find that the Wigner function of all pure states of a qubit has negative regions and the negativity completely vanishes when the purity of an arbitrary mixed state is less than $\frac{2}{3}$. We experimentally demonstrate these findings using a single cesium atom confined in an optical dipole trap, which undergoes a nearly pure dephasing process. Our method can be applied straightforwardly to multi-atom systems for measuring the Wigner function of their collective spin state.
description: It is shown that the negativity of this newly defined Wigner function (for arbitrary spin systems) is closely related to the purity of the state, but the interpretation of its physical meaning deserves further studies (not as apparent as in the CV case). Accepted by PRA
Seed quality and seed health of field pea cultivars as influenced by storage containers
Creators: name: Zaman, Farhana
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2024
Subjects: Moisture content
Electrical conductivity
Vigor index
Seed borne pathogen
Field pea

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 29, 2, 02 (10 pages)
Two-level capacitated facility location problem under disruption and fortification
Creators: name: Aua-Aree Boonperm
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2024
Subjects: Disruption
Fortification
Integer nonlinear programming
Linearization technique
Two-level capacitated facility location problem

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 29, 2, 03 (10 pages)
Data
Creators: name: Freeman, Alexandra L.J.
name: Kerr, John R.
name: Dr. Sander Van Der Linden
name: Recchia, Gabriel
name: Schneider, Claudia R.
name: Dryhurst, Sarah
name: Van Der Bles, Anne Marthe
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19
coronavirus
public response
risk communication
risk perception

description: Data from UK and US 19th March 2020
A separation technique for solving the two-dimensional skiving and cutting stock problem
Creators: name: Aua-Aree Boonperm
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2024
Subjects: Heuristic
Integer programming problem
Separation technique
Skiving and cutting stock problem

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 29, 2, 04 (10 pages)
Agricultural crop zoning with mixed integer programming for aromatic coconut in Ratchaburi Province
Creators: name: Chayanee Kongsubchat
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2024
Subjects: Agricultural zoning
Agri-map
Gurobi
Mixed integer programming

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 29, 2, 05 (8 pages)
N501Y mutation in SARS-CoV-2 spike RBD protein enhances its binding to ACE2 receptor
Creators: name: Thanyada Rungrotmongkol
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2024
Subjects: SARS-CoV-2
S protein RBD–ACE2 binding
N501Y mutation
MD simulation
Residue interaction network analysis

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 29, 2, 06 (10 pages)
Understanding liquid-jet atomization cascades via vortex dynamics
Creators: name: Zandian, Arash
name: Sirignano, William A.
name: Hussain, Fazle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Temporal instabilities of a planar liquid jet are studied using direct numerical simulation (DNS) of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with level-set (LS) and volume-of-fluid (VoF) surface tracking methods. $λ_2$ contours are used to relate the vortex dynamics to the surface dynamics at different stages of the jet breakup, namely, lobe formation, lobe perforation, ligament formation, stretching, and tearing. Three distinct breakup mechanisms are identified in the primary breakup, which are well categorized on the parameter space of gas Weber number ($We_g$) versus liquid Reynolds number ($Re_l$). These mechanisms are analyzed here from a vortex dynamics perspective. Vortex dynamics explains the hairpin formation, and the interaction between the hairpins and the Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) roller explains the perforation of the lobes, which is attributed to the streamwise overlapping of two oppositely-oriented hairpin vortices on top and bottom of the lobe. The formation of corrugations on the lobe front edge at high $Re_l$ is also related to the location and structure of the hairpins with respect to the KH vortex. The lobe perforation and corrugation formation are inhibited at low $Re_l$ and low $We_g$ due to the high surface tension and viscous forces, which damp the small scale corrugations and resist hole formation. Streamwise vorticity generation - resulting in three-dimensional instabilities - is mainly caused by vortex stretching and baroclinic torque at high and low density ratios, respectively. Generation of streamwise vortices and their interaction with spanwise vortices produce the liquid structures seen at various flow conditions. Understanding the liquid sheet breakup and the related vortex dynamics are crucial for controlling the droplet size distribution in primary atomization.
description: Submitted for publication in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 56 pages; 52 figures
A MeerKAT view of pulsars in globular clusters: exotic systems, magnetic fields and non-luminous masses
Creators: name: Abbate, Federico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The presence of a large population of exotic pulsars within globular clusters (GCs) presents a unique opportunity to study the properties of the pulsars and of the GCs themselves. The high concentration of these pulsars and the beamforming capabilities of the backends at MeerKAT allow us to observe all the pulsars in a GC simultaneously. Thanks to this, multiple scientific avenues in different fields can be explored at once.

Within the large survey project MeerTIME, an important number of hours have been devoted to these objects with significant results. The results cover a wide range of topics like the determination of orbital parameters for exotic binary systems, the study of giant pulse emitting pulsars, the first study of multiple consecutive eclipses, the detection of a magnetic field within the gas of a GC and the modeling of the non-luminous mass content in the cores of GCs.
On the Trace Operator for Functions of Bounded $\mathbb{A}$-Variation
Creators: name: Breit, Dominic
name: Diening, Lars
name: Gmeineder, Franz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26D10, 06D05

description: In this paper, we consider the space $\mathrm{BV}^{\mathbb A}(Ω)$ of functions of bounded $\mathbb A$-variation. For a given first order linear homogeneous differential operator with constant coefficients $\mathbb A$, this is the space of $L^1$--functions $u:Ω\rightarrow\mathbb R^N$ such that the distributional differential expression $\mathbb A u$ is a finite (vectorial) Radon measure. We show that for Lipschitz domains $Ω\subset\mathbb R^{n}$, $\mathrm{BV}^{\mathbb A}(Ω)$-functions have an $L^1(\partialΩ)$-trace if and only if $\mathbb A$ is $\mathbb C$-elliptic (or, equivalently, if the kernel of $\mathbb A$ is finite dimensional). The existence of an $L^1(\partialΩ)$-trace was previously only known for the special cases that $\mathbb A u$ coincides either with the full or the symmetric gradient of the function $u$ (and hence covered the special cases $\mathrm{BV}$ or $\mathrm{BD}$). As a main novelty, we do not use the fundamental theorem of calculus to construct the trace operator (an approach which is only available in the $\mathrm{BV}$- and $\mathrm{BD}$-setting) but rather compare projections onto the nullspace as we approach the boundary. As a sample application, we study the Dirichlet problem for quasiconvex variational functionals with linear growth depending on $\mathbb A u$.
Scalar scattering from charged black holes on the brane
Creators: name: de Oliveira, Ednilton S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The differential scattering cross section of the massless scalar field localized on the 3-brane of charged static black holes in the ADD model is analyzed. While results valid in the entire range of scattering angle can be obtained only via a numerical approach, analytical results can be obtained via the geodesic and glory approximations. The comparisons between numerical and analytical results lead to excellent agreements. The increase of the charge intensity has the consequence of increasing the width of the interference fringes in the scattering cross section. Its influence on the intensity of the scattered flux, however, depends on the dimensionality of the spacetime. Analyzes for the special cases of uncharged and extremely charged black holes are included.
An improved quantum algorithm for ridge regression
Creators: name: Yu, Chao-Hua
name: Gao, Fei
name: Wen, Qiao-Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ridge regression (RR) is an important machine learning technique which introduces a regularization hyperparameter $α$ to ordinary multiple linear regression for analyzing data suffering from multicollinearity. In this paper, we present a quantum algorithm for RR, where the technique of parallel Hamiltonian simulation to simulate a number of Hermitian matrices in parallel is proposed and used to develop a quantum version of $K$-fold cross-validation approach, which can efficiently estimate the predictive performance of RR. Our algorithm consists of two phases: (1) using quantum $K$-fold cross-validation to efficiently determine a good $α$ with which RR can achieve good predictive performance, and then (2) generating a quantum state encoding the optimal fitting parameters of RR with such $α$, which can be further utilized to predict new data. Since indefinite dense Hamiltonian simulation has been adopted as a key subroutine, our algorithm can efficiently handle non-sparse data matrices. It is shown that our algorithm can achieve exponential speedup over the classical counterpart for (low-rank) data matrices with low condition numbers. But when the condition numbers of data matrices is large to be amenable to full or approximately full ranks of data matrices, only polynomial speedup can be achieved.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Effective Sequential Classifier Training for SVM-based Multitemporal Remote Sensing Image Classification
Creators: name: Guo, Yiqing
name: Jia, Xiuping
name: Paull, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The explosive availability of remote sensing images has challenged supervised classification algorithms such as Support Vector Machines (SVM), as training samples tend to be highly limited due to the expensive and laborious task of ground truthing. The temporal correlation and spectral similarity between multitemporal images have opened up an opportunity to alleviate this problem. In this study, a SVM-based Sequential Classifier Training (SCT-SVM) approach is proposed for multitemporal remote sensing image classification. The approach leverages the classifiers of previous images to reduce the required number of training samples for the classifier training of an incoming image. For each incoming image, a rough classifier is firstly predicted based on the temporal trend of a set of previous classifiers. The predicted classifier is then fine-tuned into a more accurate position with current training samples. This approach can be applied progressively to sequential image data, with only a small number of training samples being required from each image. Experiments were conducted with Sentinel-2A multitemporal data over an agricultural area in Australia. Results showed that the proposed SCT-SVM achieved better classification accuracies compared with two state-of-the-art model transfer algorithms. When training data are insufficient, the overall classification accuracy of the incoming image was improved from 76.18% to 94.02% with the proposed SCT-SVM, compared with those obtained without the assistance from previous images. These results demonstrate that the leverage of a priori information from previous images can provide advantageous assistance for later images in multitemporal image classification.
Recovery of gold from mining solutions using Au(III)-imprinted polymeric resins with pyridine, ethylenediamine and aminothiophosphate functionalities
Creators: name: Ahamed, Mohammed Elbushra Hassan
name: Bafubiandi, Antoine Flauribert Mulaba
name: Marjanovic, Ljiljana
name: Mbianda, Xavier Yangkou
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: New Au(III)-ion-imprinted polymers (Au(III)-IIPs) with pyridine (4-VP), ethylenediamine (EDA) or aminothiophosphate (ADT) functionalities were prepared and employed in recovering Au(III) ions from aqueous media. These polymers demonstrated good adsorption capability for Au(III) ions owing to their faster kinetics adsorption, higher capacity and good recyclability. The Au(III) ions kinetic data fitted well to pseudo-second-order rate equation. The equilibrium data were best described by the Langmuir isotherm, with the maximum adsorption capacity of 418.41, 393.70 and 189.75 mg g–1 for IIPs with 4-VP, EDA and ADT, respectively. The IIPs displayed excellent recognition towards Au(III) in its binary systems with Pb(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Mn(II) and Fe(III), Pt(IV) and Pd(II). The suitability of the developed IIPs for selective recovery of Au(III) in real leach liquor samples and acid mine drainage spiked with standards was successfully demonstrated.
Detecting microbial communities and pathogens in gastrointestinal tracts of commercial broilers in Thailand using high-throughput sequencing technology with different bioinformatic pipelines
Creators: name: Kanthida Kusonmano
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2024
Subjects: Chicken gut microbiome
Mothur
QIIME2
Salmonella detection
Commercial broilers

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 29, 2, 08 (10 pages)
Corrosion inhibition properties and pKa calculations of some common corrosion inhibitors: Quantum chemical simulations
Creators: name: Khetubol, Adis
name: Turner, Stephen John
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2024
Subjects: Corrosion inhibitor
DFT
pKa
SMD
Wet gas pipeline

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 29, 2, 09 (10 pages)
New substituted aminopyrimidine derivatives as BACE1 inhibitors: in silico design, synthesis and biological assays
Creators: name: Gutiérrez, Lucas J.
name: Parravicini, Oscar
name: Emilse Sánchez
name: Ricaurte Rodríguez
name: Cobo, Justo
name: Enriz, Ricardo D.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We report in this work new substituted aminopyrimidine derivatives acting as inhibitors of the catalytic site of BACE1. These compounds were obtained from a molecular modeling study. The theoretical and experimental study reported here was carried out in several steps: docking analysis, Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations, Quantum Theory Atom in Molecules (QTAIM) calculations, synthesis and bioassays and has allowed us to propose some compounds of this series as new inhibitors of the catalytic site of BACE1. The QTAIM study has allowed us to obtain an excellent correlation between the electronic densities and the experimental data of IC50. Also, using combined techniques (MD simulations and QTAIM calculations) enabled us to describe in detail the molecular interactions that stabilize the different L-R complexes. In addition, our results allowed us to determine what portion of these compounds should be changed in order to increase their affinity with the BACE1. Another interesting result is that a sort of synergism was observed when the effects of these new catalytic site inhibitors were combined with Ac-Tyr5-Pro6-Tyr7-Asp8-Ile9-Pro10-Leu11-NH2, which we have recently reported as a modulator of BACE1 acting on its exosite.
Physicochemical, lactic acid bacteria survivability and sensory properties of salad dressing with yogurt containing bacterial cellulose from sweet fermented broken black glutinous rice (Khao-Mak)
Creators: name: Pianpan Supakot
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2024
Subjects: Bacterial cellulose
Broken black glutinous rice
Khao-Mak
Salad dressing
Sweet fermented rice
Yogurt

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 29, 2, 11 (9 pages)
Revealing of hidden quantum steerability using local filtering operations
Creators: name: Pramanik, Tanumoy
name: Cho, Young-Wook
name: Han, Sang-Wook
name: Lee, Sang-Yun
name: Kim, Yong-Su
name: Moon, Sung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlocal quantum correlation is at the heart of bizarre nature of quantum physics. While there are various classes of nonlocal quantum correlation, steerability of a quantum state by local measurements provides unique operational features. Here, we theoretically and experimentally investigate the hidden quantum steerability. In particular, we find that there are initially unsteerable states which can reveal the steerability by using local filters on individual quantum systems. It is remarkable that a certain set of local filters are more effective on revealing steerability than Bell nonlocality whereas there exists another set of filters that is more effective on revealing Bell nonlocality than steerability. Finally, we present a counter-intuitive result that mixed states originating from non-maximally pure entangled states can have hidden steerability while the mixed state from a maximally pure entangled state fails to show steerability.
description: The manuscript has been updated to the published version
Fusion of multimode near-infrared detections using multiblock data analysis for prediction of mixed sugar content
Creators: name: Kittiwachana, Sila
Publisher: name: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2024
Subjects: Chemometrics
Multiblock data analysis
Near-infrared spectrometer
Non-destructive detection
Sugar content

description: Asia-Pacific Journal of Science and Technology, 29, 2, 12 (11 pages)
Synthesis and Investigation of Carbon-Based Nanocomposites for Supercapacitors
Creators: name: LI WAN
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90499 Chemical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical engineering

description: Carbon-based nanocomposites were synthesized for high-performance supercapacitors. The coalition between each of the constituent in the nanocomposites and the performance was investigated. Continuous efforts have been put to improve the supercapacitor assembly techniques from conventional supercapacitor to all-solid-state supercapacitor and to binder-free supercapacitor.
Relationship between Rubisco activase and Rubisco contents in transgenic rice plants with overproduced or decreased Rubisco content
Creators: name: Suganami, Mao
name: Suzuki, Yuji
name: Sato, Tomonori
name: Amane Makino
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
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: Plant Biology

description: Overproduction of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco; E.C. 4.1.1.39) in rice did not necessarily improve photosynthesis. The reason for this was that a partial deactivation of Rubisco occurred in RBCS-overexpressed rice plants. Since a negative correlation between the amounts of Rubisco activase (RCA) and Rubisco has been reported for plants with overproduced or decreased RCA, the possibility that RCA content declines in RBCS-overexpressed rice plants was considered. The relationship between RCA and Rubisco contents was examined in RBCS-overexpressed and RBCS-antisense rice plants. Whereas the ratio of RCA to Rubisco contents in RBCS-antisense plants increased three- to fourfold as compared with that of the wild-type levels, this ratio decreased 60–70% of the wild-type levels in RBCS-overexpressed rice plants. Thus, an apparent trade-off between the amounts of RCA and Rubisco was observed in RBCS-transgenic rice plants. However, the amounts of several Calvin–Benson cycle enzymes changed in a similar manner to that of RCA in both types of RBCS-transgenic rice plants. When the relationships between the amounts of these enzymes, including RCA, and those of total leaf-N minus Rubisco-N and trichloroacetic acid (TCA)-soluble N were examined, there were no differences between them irrespective of genotypes. These results indicate that the negative correlation between the amounts of RCA and Rubisco in RBCS-transgenic rice plants is the result of a change in N allocation to Rubisco in transgenic rice plants rather than a trade-off. Such a negative correlation was also found for other Calvin–Benson cycle enzymes. In addition, since the amounts of these Calvin–Benson cycle enzymes and RCA were highly correlated with their mRNA levels irrespective of genotype, it is suggested that changes in the amounts of these proteins are regulated at their transcript levels by a change in N allocation to Rubisco.
Atom Simulations N01 - N96 Plus
Creators: name: Morefield, Richard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Atomic Physics

description: This is a standard PDF output file containing atom simulations for atoms 1 through 96 with my Periodic Atom Crystal Table (PACT) at the end. The simulations were created using my program (Interactive Atom Crystal Excel Program) which requires Microsoft Excel to process. THIS PAPER MAY BE USED TO ACCESS ALL OF MY RESEARCH PAPERS AND SIMULATION PROGRAMS BY CLICKING ON THE Atom Crystal Theory KEYWORD.
Constraining cosmology with the velocity function of low-mass galaxies
Creators: name: Schneider, Aurel
name: Trujillo-Gomez, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The number density of field galaxies per rotation velocity, referred to as the velocity function, is an intriguing statistical measure probing the smallest scales of structure formation. In this paper we point out that the velocity function is sensitive to small shifts in key cosmological parameters such as the amplitude of primordial perturbations ($σ_8$) or the total matter density ($Ω_{\rm m}$). Using current data and applying conservative assumptions about baryonic effects, we show that the observed velocity function of the Local Volume favours cosmologies in tension with the measurements from Planck but in agreement with the latest findings from weak lensing surveys. While the current systematics regarding the relation between observed and true rotation velocities are potentially important, upcoming data from HI surveys as well as new insights from hydrodynamical simulations will dramatically improve the situation in the near future.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, MNRAS published
Doubling the pulsar population in the Small Magellanic Cloud with MeerKAT
Creators: name: Carli, Emma
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The Large Survey Project TRAPUM (TRAnsients and PUlsars with MeerKAT) has surveyed the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) to search for very rare extragalactic pulsars. Using powerful backends to exploit MeerKAT’s groundbreaking sensitivity and implement innovative observing and processing techniques, the survey has doubled the population of pulsars in the SMC and increased the total extragalactic population by 25%. 

The discoveries include a young, fast pulsar association in the Pulsar Wind Nebula of one of our targeted sources, the Supernova Remnant DEM S5. Moreover, we discovered another young energetic pulsar and its Pulsar Wind Nebula. Since only a handful of these exotic pulsar environments are known outside our galaxy, this discovery provides a unique opportunity to better understand them. These pulsars have both already exhibited one of the largest known Vela-like "glitches'' -- extreme starquake events. We have observed a third glitch in another, somewhat older discovery, meaning that nearly half of our pulsar discoveries are young and glitching. 

Our discoveries can reveal valuable information on neutron star formation, gravitational wave sources and Fast Radio Bursts, by allowing us to examine the effects of another galaxy's properties onto a neutron star population.
A characterization of affinely regular polygons
Creators: name: Langi, Zsolt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52B15, 52B11

description: In 1970, Coxeter gave a short and elegant geometric proof showing that if $p_1, p_2, \ldots, p_n$ are vertices of an $n$-gon $P$ in cyclic order, then $P$ is affinely regular if, and only if there is some $λ\geq 0$ such that $p_{j+2}-p_{j-1} = λ(p_{j+1}-p_j)$ for $j=1,2,\ldots, n$. The aim of this paper is to examine the properties of polygons whose vertices $p_1,p_2,\ldots,p_n \in \mathbb{C}$ satisfy the property that $p_{j+m_1}-p_{j+m_2} = w (p_{j+k}-p_j)$ for some $w \in \mathbb{C}$ and $m_1,m_2,k \in \mathbb{Z}$. In particular, we show that in `most' cases this implies that the polygon is affinely regular, but in some special cases there are polygons which satisfy this property but are not affinely regular. The proofs are based on the use of linear algebraic and number theoretic tools. In addition, we apply our method to characterize polytopes with certain symmetry groups.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure
USA Today/Ipsos Survey of Health Care Workers February 2022
Creators: name: USA Today
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2022

description: Type of healthcare work performed (1); primary work setting (1); direct contact with patients (1); coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak (7); support or oppose possible federal government response to pandemic (4); job satisfaction and related feelings (7); statements on healthcare field and pandemic response (6); experiences or feelings as a reaction to coronavirus related stress over past 2 months (4); public health mandates (2); employer response to pandemic (5); personal treatment of coronavirus infected patients (7); coronavirus vaccine (1); tested positive for coronavirus (1); main source of news (1); 2020 presidential election (1).
Optimal Control of Partially Observable Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes
Creators: name: Bäuerle, Nicole
name: Lange, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we consider a control problem for a Partially Observable Piecewise Deterministic Markov Process of the following type: After the jump of the process the controller receives a noisy signal about the state and the aim is to control the process continuously in time in such a way that the expected discounted cost of the system is minimized. We solve this optimization problem by reducing it to a discrete-time Markov Decision Process. This includes the derivation of a filter for the unobservable state. Imposing sufficient continuity and compactness assumptions we are able to prove the existence of optimal policies and show that the value function satisfies a fixed point equation. A generic application is given to illustrate the results.
Centrality and get-richer mechanisms in interregional knowledge networks
Creators: name: Mitze, Timo
name: Strotebeck, Falk
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: This study analyzes the determinants of a region’s centrality position in research collaboration networks and their variation over time. Focusing on the German biotechnology industry, we use data on collaboration activities among NUTS-3 regions in 2005 and 2009 to construct centrality measures and relate them to sector-region-specific and overall regional attributes in an explorative regression approach. The results indicate that fit-get-richer mechanisms proxied by regional endowments and policy factors such as biotech research and development funding categories and human capital matter for network formation. We find that these correlations differ across centrality measures and that empirical evidence for a richer-get-richer mechanism is limited.