cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
On the rebound: estimating direct rebound eﬀects for Australian households
Creators: name: Peters, Bianca
name: McWhinnie, Stephanie F.
name: Peters, Bianca
name: McWhinnie, Stephanie F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Australian households
subject: energy
subject: own-price elasticity
subject: rebound eﬀect

description: Reducing dependence on fossil fuels by decreasing energy consumption is a common environmental policy. One mechanism used to achieve this is to encourage increased energy eﬃciency. However, improving eﬃciency may have an opposing eﬀect and cause an increase in energy consumption if the intensity of use changes. This phenomenon is known as the rebound eﬀect. We estimate direct rebound eﬀects for energy use in Australia based on both aggregate residential energy use data and on household energy expenditure data. Our approach implements a new methodology developed by Hunt and Ryan (2014, Catching on the rebound: Why price elasticities are generally inappropriate measures of rebound eﬀects. Surrey Energy Economics Discussion Paper Series SEEDS 148; 2015, Energy Economics 50, 273) that explicitly relates energy service use with energy source demand and directly incorporates measures of eﬃciency changes. The results indicate that the rebound eﬀect is relatively high for energy use by Australian households. Due to the unique nature of our household data set, we can examine the inﬂuence of demographic and housing characteristics. We ﬁnd that low-income households and households with vulnerable members have the largest rebound eﬀects. The relatively large rebound eﬀects found here suggest that consumers gain from eﬃciency by improved energy services, and thus, policy targeting energy eﬃciency is not likely to be successful at reducing energy consumption.
Realising sets of integers as mapping degree sets
Creators: name: Neofytidis, Christoforos
name: Wang, Shicheng
name: Wang, Zhongzi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Given two closed oriented manifolds $M,N$ of the same dimension, we denote the set of degrees of maps from $M$ to $N$ by $D(M,N)$. The set $D(M,N)$ always contains zero. We show the following (non-)realisability results:
 (i) There exists an infinite subset $A$ of $\mathbb Z$ containing $0$ which cannot be realised as $D(M,N)$, for any closed oriented $n$-manifolds $M,N$.
 (ii) Every finite arithmetic progression of integers containing $0$ can be realised as $D(M,N)$, for some closed oriented $3$-manifolds $M,N$.
 (iii) Together with $0$, every finite geometric progression of positive integers starting from $1$ can be realised as $D(M,N)$, for some closed oriented manifolds $M,N$.
description: 17 pages; v2: final version, to appear in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
Survey to determine the efficacy and safety of guideline-based pharmacological therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients not previously receiving maintenance treatment
Creators: name: Shinyu Izumi
name: Setoguchi, Yasuhiro
name: Nakamura, Hidenori
name: Hanada, Shigeo
name: Marumo, Kazuyoshi
name: Kurosaki, Atsuko
name: Akata, Shouichi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Medicine

description: Objective: To investigate the potential beneficial effects of guideline-based pharmacological therapy on pulmonary function and quality of life (QOL) in Japanese chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients without prior treatment.Research design and methods: Multicenter survey, open-label study of 49 Japanese COPD patients aged ≥ 40 years; outpatients with >10 pack years of smoking history; ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1)/forced vital capacity (FVC) < 70%; predicted FEV1 < 80%; treated with bronchodilators and/or inhaled corticosteroids as maintenance therapy until week 48.Main outcome measures: The primary endpoint was change in pulmonary function (trough FEV1, trough FVC); secondary endpoints were QOL and physical activity at 48 weeks after initiation of therapy.Results: Airway reversibility was confirmed in untreated patients. Significant changes over time were not observed for FEV1 and FVC, indicating lung function at initiation of treatment was maintained during the observation period. COPD assessment test scores showed statistical and clinical improvements. Cough, sputum, breathlessness, and shortness of breath were significantly improved.Conclusions: Lung function and QOL of untreated Japanese COPD patients improved and improvements were maintained by performing a therapeutic intervention that conformed to published guidelines.
Algebraic connectivity: local and global maximizer graphs
Creators: name: Shahbaz, Karim
name: Belur, Madhu N.
name: Ganesh, Ajay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 05C50, 05C12, 15A42

description: Algebraic connectivity is one way to quantify graph connectivity, which in turn gauges robustness as a network. In this paper, we consider the problem of maximising algebraic connectivity both local and globally over all simple, undirected, unweighted graphs with a given number of vertices and edges. We pursue this optimization by equivalently minimizing the largest eigenvalue of the Laplacian of the 'complement graph'. We establish that the union of complete subgraphs are largest eigenvalue "local" minimizer graphs. Further, under sufficient conditions satisfied by the edge/vertex counts we prove that this union of complete components graphs are, in fact, Laplacian largest eigenvalue "global" maximizers; these results generalize the ones in the literature that are for just two components. These sufficient conditions can be viewed as quantifying situations where the component sizes are either 'quite homogeneous' or some of them are relatively 'negligibly small', and thus generalize known results of homogeneity of components. We finally relate this optimization with the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and circulant graphs/matrices.
description: 21 pages, 8 figures
Structure and variation of the Anseriformes mitochondrial DNA control region
Creators: name: Zuhao Huang
name: Dianhua Ke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The control region is the major non-coding segment of animal mitochondrial DNA. To infer the structure and variation of Anseriformes mitochondrial DNA control region, the control region sequences of 52 species were analyzed. The length of the control region sequences ranged from 968 bp (Chenonetta jubata) to 1335 bp (Anseranas semipalmata) and can be separated into three domains. There is a deletion of 100–130 bp in Anatinae, compared to other groups of Anserinae. The average genetic distances among the species within the genera varied from 4.14% (Anser) to 10.58% (Cygnus). The average genetic distances showed insignificantly negative correlation with ts/tv. Domain I is the most variable among the three domains among all the genera. Five conserved sequence boxes in the domain II of Anseriformes sequences were identified. The alignment of the Anseriformes five boxes sequences showed considerable sequence variation. CSB-1, -2 and 3 were not found in the Anseriformes. Maximum-likelihood method was used to construct a phylogenetic tree, which grouped all of the genera into four divergent clades. Anseranas + Chauna and Dendrocygna were identified as early offshoots of the Anatidae. All the remaining taxa fell into two clades that correspond to the two subfamilies Anserinae and Anatiane.
Study of the inter-species interactions in an ultracold dipolar mixture
Creators: name: Politi, C.
name: Trautmann, A.
name: Ilzhöfer, P.
name: Durastante, G.
name: Mark, M. J.
name: Modugno, M.
name: Ferlaino, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally and theoretically investigate the influence of the dipole-dipole interactions (DDIs) on the total inter-species interaction in an erbium-dysprosium mixture. By rotating the dipole orientation we are able to tune the effect of the long-range and anisotropic DDI, and therefore the in-trap clouds displacement. We present a theoretical description for our binary system based on an extended Gross-Pitaevskii (eGP) theory, including the single-species beyond mean-field terms, and we predict a lower and an upper bound for the inter-species scattering length $a_{12}$. Our work is a first step towards the investigation of the experimentally unexplored dipolar miscibility-immiscibility phase diagram and the realization of quantum droplets and supersolid states with heteronuclear dipolar mixtures.
description: 10 pages, 6+2 figures
Schizocypris altidorsalis Bianco & Banarescu 1982
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Schizocypris
Schizocypris altidorsalis

description: 147. Schizocypris altidorsalis Bianco & Bănărescu, 1982
Common name. Gorgak
Taxonomy. Original description: Schizocypris altidorsalis Bianco & Bănărescu, 1982: 93, fig. 1D [Nahr-Taheri, near Zabol, about 31°02'N, 61°30'E, Sistan, Iran; holotype: IZA 8169].
Revisions. Coad & Keyzer-de Ville (2005: 36).
Illustrations. Bianco & Bănărescu (1982: fig. 1D).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Sistan.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 702-Helmand–Sistan.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Anjak, Gorgak.—Listed in previous checklists by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).— Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: LC.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
A BEME systematic review of UK undergraduate medical education in the general practice setting: BEME Guide No. 32
Creators: name: Malpass, Alice
name: Thomas, James
name: Bower, Peter
name: Murray, Elizabeth
name: Iliffe, Steve
name: Heneghan, Carl
name: Park, Sophie
name: Khan, Nada F.
name: Hampshire, Mandy
name: Knox, Richard
name: Anagnostelis, Betsy
name: Newman, Mark
name: Rosenthal, Joe
name: Band, Amanda
name: Georgieva, Zoya
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Science Policy
Biological Sciences
Biotechnology
Cell Biology
Medicine

description: Background: General practice is increasingly used as a learning environment in undergraduate medical education in the UK.Aim: The aim of this project was to identify, summarise and synthesise research about undergraduate medical education in general practice in the UK.Methods: We systematically identified studies of undergraduate medical education within a general practice setting in the UK from 1990 onwards. All papers were summarised in a descriptive report and categorised into two in-depth syntheses: a quantitative and a qualitative in-depth review.Results: 169 papers were identified, representing research from 26 UK medical schools. The in-depth review of quantitative papers (n = 7) showed that medical students learned clinical skills as well or better in general practice settings. Students receive more teaching, and clerk and examine more patients in the general practice setting than in hospital. Patient satisfaction and enablement are similar whether a student is present or not in a consultation, however, patients experience lower relational empathy. Two main thematic groups emerged from the qualitative in-depth review (n = 10): the interpersonal interactions within the teaching consultation and the socio-cultural spaces of learning which shape these interactions. The GP has a role as a broker of the interactions between patients and students. General practice is a socio-cultural and developmental learning space for students, who need to negotiate the competing cultures between hospital and general practice. Lastly, patients are transient members of the learning community, and their role requires careful facilitation.Conclusions: General practice is as good, if not better, than hospital delivery of teaching of clinical skills. Our meta-ethnography has produced rich understandings of the complex relationships shaping possibilities for student and patient active participation in learning.
IDA and Hankel operators on Fock spaces
Creators: name: Hu, Zhangjian
name: Virtanen, Jani A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 47B35, 32A25, 32A37, 81S10

description: We introduce a new space IDA of locally integrable functions whose integral distance to holomorphic functions is finite, and use it to completely characterize boundedness and compactness of Hankel operators on weighted Fock spaces. As an application, for bounded symbols, we show that the Hankel operator $H_f$ is compact if and only if $H_{\bar f}$ is compact, which complements the classical compactness result of Berger and Coburn. Motivated by recent work of Bauer, Coburn, and Hagger, we also apply our results to the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization.
Truck Crop Production Practices Erie County, New York: Labor, Power, and Materials, by Operation
Creators: name: Gavett, Earle E.
name: Gavett, Earle E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Labor and Human Capital
Production Economics

description: Excerpts from the report: In 1963 U.S. production of truck crops for fresh market and processing occupied 3.3 million acres of cropland. These crops used slightly more than 1 percent of the total cropland. The farm value of truck crops harvested for sale exceeded $1. 2 billion, or an average of $361 per acre harvested. This is the last of a group of 12 publications containing information on labor requirements, production practices, and costs involved in the production of truck crops for fresh market and processing. Information in this report was obtained from 198 producers in Erie County, N.Y.
description: Covers the following truck crops for fresh market: Snap Beans, Cabbage, Cantaloups, Cauliflower, Sweet Corn, Squash, Tomatoes, Strawberries (New Beds), and Strawberries. Covers the following truck crops for processing: Snap Beans, Green Peas, Tomatoes, and Strawberries.
Development of a Novel Electrostatic Precipitator System Using a Wet-Porous Electrode Array
Creators: name: WooJin Kim
name: Heekyung An
name: Dongmok Lee
name: Woojong Lee
name: Jung, Jae Hee
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Medicine
subject: Engineering
subject: Biophysics

description: We introduce a novel electrostatic precipitator using a wet-porous electrode (WPE) array, for application to various work processes (e.g., molding and extrusion), to improve the removal performance of ultrafine particles and water-soluble gaseous pollutants generated during manufacturing. The WPE array electrostatic precipitator (WPE-ESP) consists of an ionization component for particle charging and a collection component equipped with the WPE array to maintain a high humidity environment. The performance of the WPE-ESP was evaluated in terms of the removal efficiency of airborne particles and water-soluble gases under ESP operating conditions in which the ionization charge current, the applied electric field strength of the collection component, and the relative humidity (RH) were varied. The collection efficiency of the WPE-ESP was enhanced by increasing the RH, due to water adsorption on the particle surface and the enhanced electric field strength near the collecting plate. The maximum total collection efficiency of the ESP system was ∼99.2% for a 73% RH collection environment, which was approximately 3.3% higher than that of conventional dry type ESP (C-ESP). The proposed system also removed sulfur dioxide (SO2), a representative source (90.7%) of undesirable emissions during manufacturing processes, and mitigated ozone (O3, <10 ppb), a by-product of the corona discharge in the ESP, regardless of the field strength. The proposed WPE-ESP included a simple mounting system; additionally, the system generated a more uniform water film than that of wet-ESPs. Thus, the WPE-ESP shows great potential for application to workplaces and machining devices that require the simultaneous removal of ultrafine particles and water-soluble gaseous pollutants.
Neoseiulini Chant & McMurtry
Creators: name: ZahidiK, Abdelaziz
name: Akchour, Abdellah
name: K, Serge Kreiter
name: TixierK, Marie-Stéphane
name: MsandaK, Fouad
name: MousadikK, Abdelhamid El
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae

description: Tribe Neoseiulini Chant & McMurtry  Neoseiulini Chant & McMurtry 2003 a: 6.
description: Published as part of ZahidiK, Abdelaziz, Akchour, Abdellah, K, Serge Kreiter, TixierK, Marie-Stéphane, MsandaK, Fouad & MousadikK, Abdelhamid El, 2023, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Central West Morocco: new records and key to females of all recorded Moroccan species, pp. 691-724 in Acarologia 63 (3) on page 694, DOI: 10.24349/v5of-5oe1, http://zenodo.org/record/10786247
Dimensional crossover in the superfluid-supersolid quantum phase transition
Creators: name: Biagioni, G.
name: Antolini, N.
name: Alaña, A.
name: Modugno, M.
name: Fioretti, A.
name: Gabbanini, C.
name: Tanzi, L.
name: Modugno, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We assess experimentally and theoretically the character of the superfluid-supersolid quantum phase transition recently discovered in trapped dipolar quantum gases. We find that one-row supersolids can have already two types of phase transitions, discontinuous and continuous, that are reminiscent of the first- and second-order transitions predicted in the thermodynamic limit in 2D and 1D, respectively. The smooth crossover between the two regimes is peculiar to supersolids and can be controlled via the transverse confinement and the atom number. We justify our observations on the general ground of the Landau theory of phase transitions. The quasi-adiabatic crossing of a continuous phase transition opens new directions of investigation for supersolids.
description: 15 pages, 15 figures
High-Temperature Anomalous Metal States in Iron-Based Interface Superconductors
Creators: name: Li, Yanan
name: Liu, Haiwen
name: Ji, Haoran
name: Ji, Chengcheng
name: Qi, Shichao
name: Jiao, Xiaotong
name: Dong, Wenfeng
name: Sun, Yi
name: Zhang, Wenhao
name: Cui, Zihan
name: Pan, Minghu
name: Samarth, Nitin
name: Wang, Lili
name: Xie, X. C.
name: Xue, Qi-Kun
name: Liu, Yi
name: Wang, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nature of the anomalous metal state has been a major puzzle in condensed matter physics for more than three decades. Here, we report systematic investigation and modulation of the anomalous metal states in high-temperature interface superconductor FeSe films on SrTiO3 substrate. Remarkably, under zero magnetic field, the anomalous metal state persists up to 20 K in pristine FeSe films, an exceptionally high temperature standing out from previous observations. In stark contrast, for the FeSe films with nano-hole arrays, the characteristic temperature of the anomalous metal state is considerably reduced. We demonstrate that the observed anomalous metal states originate from the quantum tunneling of vortices adjusted by the Ohmic dissipation. Our work offers a perspective for understanding the origin and modulation of the anomalous metal states in two-dimensional bosonic systems.
title: Implementation and evaluation of the co-created Midwifery Student Peer Debriefing Tool: A Hybrid Type 1 study
Creators: name: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6920-6013
Publisher: name: https://ror.org/02stey378
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02stey378
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The aim of this project is to explore the effectiveness and the implementability of the Midwifery Student Peer Debriefing Tool (Buchanan et al., 2024), in the intended implementation settings and to evaluate the implementation process. We intend to use Hybrid Type 1 methodology (described by Landes et al., 2020) for this project. The predominant focus will be on testing the clinical intervention’s effectiveness, but exploration of implementation related factors will also be conducted. We will employ a simple evaluation survey to determine effectiveness, and we will also complete a process evaluation to capture participants’ implementation experience, their suggestions for the intervention’s adaption for use in real world midwifery practice, and/or what else they feel is required to prepare /support the people and place implementing the Tool.
Neoseiulus Hughes
Creators: name: ZahidiK, Abdelaziz
name: Akchour, Abdellah
name: K, Serge Kreiter
name: TixierK, Marie-Stéphane
name: MsandaK, Fouad
name: MousadikK, Abdelhamid El
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Neoseiulus

description: Genus Neoseiulus Hughes
 Neoseiulus Hughes 1948: 141.
description: Published as part of ZahidiK, Abdelaziz, Akchour, Abdellah, K, Serge Kreiter, TixierK, Marie-Stéphane, MsandaK, Fouad & MousadikK, Abdelhamid El, 2023, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Central West Morocco: new records and key to females of all recorded Moroccan species, pp. 691-724 in Acarologia 63 (3) on page 694, DOI: 10.24349/v5of-5oe1, http://zenodo.org/record/10786247
Hearing threshold distribution and effect of screening in a population-based German sample
Creators: name: Gablenz, Petra Von
name: Holube, Inga
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Objective: To establish the status of hearing in adults in Germany and the effects of screening for noise, tinnitus, ear diseases, and general health on the distribution of hearing threshold levels (HTL) Design: A cross-sectional epidemiological study conducted between 2010 and 2012 in two middle-sized cities. Study sample: A total of 1903 adults aged 18 to 97 years from a randomized sample drawn from the local registration offices and stratified for age and gender. Results: Dispersion and distribution of HTL data observed in the population-based sample are well in line with international results. However, median HTL tend to be better than in most recent international studies. Screening for “otological normality” improves the median HTL overall by 3 dB in males and 1 dB in females. This effect is strongly age-dependent in males and far less pronounced in females. While by and large HTL medians of females in the screened sample meet the values expected by ISO 7029:2000, HTL medians of males in middle and higher age cohorts are better than expected, especially in the frequencies above 2 kHz. Conclusions: This study supports international findings that in males, the age-related decrease in hearing sensitivity at high frequencies is smaller than described by ISO 7029:2000.
Achieving environmental ﬂows where buyback is constrained
Creators: name: Adamson, David
name: Loch, Adam
name: Adamson, David
name: Loch, Adam
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: environmental water
subject: optimisation
subject: water buyback

description: Theory suggests that the development of common property increases national welfare, and consistent with this thinking Australia’s Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) Plan uses a common property approach to recover environmental water rights in the national interest. Two water recovery instruments are used: purchasing water rights (buyback) from farmers, and saving water by subsidising irrigator adoption of technically eﬃcient technology. A moratorium on buyback has focused environmental recovery on subsidised technically eﬃcient technology adoption. Economists argue that national welfare is maximised via buyback and highlight the limitations of eﬃciency savings to recover suﬃcient environmental water. A risk is that water recovery targets may be reduced in future, limiting welfare gains from water reform. This article evaluates possible welfare trade-oﬀs surrounding environmental water recovery outcomes where arbitrary limits on buyback are imposed. Results suggest that, on average, strategies which attempt to obtain >1500 gigalitres (GL) of water from on-farm eﬃciency investments will only provide suﬃcient resources to meet environmen-tal objectives in very wet states of nature. We conclude that reliance on technically eﬃcient irrigation infrastructure is less economically eﬃcient relative to water buyback. Importantly, the transformation of MDB irrigation will signiﬁcantly constrain irrigators’ future capacity to adapt to climate change.
The Irish experience of Symphysiotomy: 40 years onwards
Creators: name: S. R. Shaarani
name: W. Van Eeden
name: J. M. O’Byrne
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The art of symphysiotomy for delivery in the instance of cephalopelvic disproportion has been a dying art since the advent of caesarean section but in Ireland this surgical procedure was not abolished until 1992. This practice is still present in the developing world and in some circumstances used in developed countries. This study offers some insights on the 40-year follow-up of patients who had undergone symphysiotomy.
Long-range entanglement from measuring symmetry-protected topological phases
Creators: name: Tantivasadakarn, Nathanan
name: Thorngren, Ryan
name: Vishwanath, Ashvin
name: Verresen, Ruben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fundamental distinction between many-body quantum states are those with short- and long-range entanglement (SRE and LRE). The latter cannot be created by finite-depth circuits, underscoring the nonlocal nature of Schrödinger cat states, topological order, and quantum criticality. Remarkably, examples are known where LRE is obtained by performing single-site measurements on SRE, such as the toric code from measuring a sublattice of a 2D cluster state. However, a systematic understanding of when and how measurements of SRE give rise to LRE is still lacking. Here, we establish that LRE appears upon performing measurements on symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases -- of which the cluster state is one example. For instance, we show how to implement the Kramers-Wannier transformation by adding a cluster SPT to an input state followed by measurement. This transformation naturally relates states with SRE and LRE. An application is the realization of double-semion order when the input state is the $\mathbb Z_2$ Levin-Gu SPT. Similarly, the addition of fermionic SPTs and measurement leads to an implementation of the Jordan-Wigner transformation of a general state. More generally, we argue that a large class of SPT phases protected by $G \times H$ symmetry gives rise to anomalous LRE upon measuring $G$-charges, and we prove that this persists for generic points in the SPT phase under certain conditions. Our work introduces a new practical tool for using SPT phases as resources for creating LRE, and uncovers the classification result that all states related by sequentially gauging Abelian groups or by Jordan-Wigner transformation are in the same equivalence class, once we augment finite-depth circuits with single-site measurements. In particular, any topological or fracton order with a solvable finite gauge group can be obtained from a product state in this way.
description: 15+9 pages. v3: Published version. Added details of 2+1D bosonization using measurements and proof of LRE beyond the SPT fixed point under certain conditions
CBI-time-changed Lévy processes for multi-currency modeling
Creators: name: Fontana, Claudio
name: Gnoatto, Alessandro
name: Szulda, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We develop a stochastic volatility framework for modeling multiple currencies based on CBI-time-changed Lévy processes. The proposed framework captures the typical risk characteristics of FX markets and is coherent with the symmetries of FX rates. Moreover, due to the self-exciting behavior of CBI processes, the volatilities of FX rates exhibit self-exciting dynamics. By relying on the theory of affine processes, we show that our approach is analytically tractable and that the model structure is invariant under a suitable class of risk-neutral measures. A semi-closed pricing formula for currency options is obtained by Fourier methods. We propose two calibration methods, also by relying on deep-learning techniques, and show that a simple specification of the model can achieve a good fit to market data on a currency triangle.
The Irish experience of Symphysiotomy: 40 years onwards
Creators: name: S. R. Shaarani
name: W. Van Eeden
name: J. M. O’Byrne
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The art of symphysiotomy for delivery in the instance of cephalopelvic disproportion has been a dying art since the advent of caesarean section but in Ireland this surgical procedure was not abolished until 1992. This practice is still present in the developing world and in some circumstances used in developed countries. This study offers some insights on the 40-year follow-up of patients who had undergone symphysiotomy.
Neoseiulus alpinus
Creators: name: ZahidiK, Abdelaziz
name: Akchour, Abdellah
name: K, Serge Kreiter
name: TixierK, Marie-Stéphane
name: MsandaK, Fouad
name: MousadikK, Abdelhamid El
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Neoseiulus
Neoseiulus alpinus

description: Neoseiulus alpinus (Schweizer)
 Amblyseius obtusus var. alpinus Schweizer 1922: 41.
 Amblyseius alpinus Schweizer 1949: 79.
 Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) alpinus, Chant 1959: 105.
 Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) alpinus, Westerboer & Bernhard 1963: 651.
 Typhlodromips alpinus, Moraes et al. 1986: 136.
 Amblyseius (Neoseiulus) alpinus, Karg 1993: 189.
 Neoseiulus alpinus, Evans 1987: 1461 ; Moraes et al. 2004a: 100 ; Chant & McMurtry 2003: 37, 2007: 25.
 Neoseiulus polonicus (Willmann 1949): 117 (Synonymy according to Evans 1987).
 Neoseiulus aurescens (Athias-Henriot 1961): 441 (Synonymy according to Evans 1987). Neoseiulus polyporus Wainstein 1962: 143 (Synonymy according to Evans 1987).
 World distribution — Algeria, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Chile, Cuba, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hawaii, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Morocco, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, and USA (Arizona, California, and Washington).
 Previous records from Morocco — This species has been reported for the first time by Tixier et al. (2016), one specimen was collected on Echium vulgare L. (Boraginaceae) in Larache Beach.
 Specimens examined — 2 ♀♀ on Solanum nigrum L. (Solanaceae) in July 25, 2018 at Taoufiqui 1 domain; 1 ♀ and 2 ♀♀ on the same previous host plant respectively in September 2017 and 2018.
 Remarks — Measurements and description of the adult females agree with those provided by Athias-Henriot (1961) and Chant and McMurtry (2003 a). This species is considered a synonym of Neoseiulus aurescens (Athias-Henriot) in Chant and McMurtry (2003 a). It is essentially recorded from Europe and it is observed rarely in crops, sometimes in vineyards and apple orchards (Kreiter et al. 2000 ; Tixier et al. 2013).
description: Published as part of ZahidiK, Abdelaziz, Akchour, Abdellah, K, Serge Kreiter, TixierK, Marie-Stéphane, MsandaK, Fouad & MousadikK, Abdelhamid El, 2023, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Central West Morocco: new records and key to females of all recorded Moroccan species, pp. 691-724 in Acarologia 63 (3) on page 694, DOI: 10.24349/v5of-5oe1, http://zenodo.org/record/10786247
Comparison of different counting chambers using a computer-assisted semen analyzer
Creators: name: Peng, Nanni
name: Xiangli Zou
name: Lingwei Li
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
subject: Biophysics

description: A routine computer-assisted sperm analysis is an important diagnostic test in the andrology laboratory. To evaluate the accuracy and precision of the different types of counting chambers for human semen analysis in combination with a computer-assisted semen analyzer (CASA), a quality-control study that compared human sperm analysis results obtained using different counting chambers (Makler chamber, disposable 8-cell GoldCyto chamber, disposable 4-cell Leja chamber, a plain glass slide, and a tissue culture dish cover with a 24 × 24 mm2 coverslip) in conjunction with the CASA systems was performed. Significantly higher counts of sperm concentration were obtained from the reusable Makler chamber than from the other counting chambers. Sperm motility from drop loaded counting chambers was significantly higher than that of capillary-loaded chambers. A plain glass slide and a tissue culture dish cover used with a coverslip showed rather better performance in semen assessment. Disposable chambers are suitable for routine semen analysis with CASA in a diagnostic andrology setting. With the proper workflow and quality control, a plain glass slide and the tissue culture dish cover are acceptable alternatives for routine counting chambers with CASA as necessary. The type of counting chamber should be specified in test reports.
Extent and divergence of heteroplasmy of the DNA barcoding region in Anapodisma miramae (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
Creators: name: Kang, Ah Rang
name: Kim, Min Jee
name: Park, In Ah
name: Kim, Kee Young
name: Iksoo Kim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: A partial sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene is widely used as a molecular marker for species identification in animals, also termed a DNA barcode. However, the presence of more than one sequence type in a single individual, also known as heteroplasmy, is one of the shortcomings of barcode identification. In this study, we examined the extent and divergence of COI heteroplasmy, including nuclear-encoded mitochondrial pseudogenes (NUMTs), at the genomic-DNA level from 13 insect species including orthopteran Anapodisma miramae, and a long fragment of mitochondrial DNA and cDNA from A. miramae as templates. When multiple numbers of clones originated from genomic DNA were sequenced, heteroplasmy was prevalent in all species and NUMTs were observed in five species. Long fragment DNA (∼13.5 kb) also is a source of heteroplasmic amplification, but the divergent haplotypes and NUMTs obtained from genomic DNA were not detected in A. miramae. On the other hand, cDNA was relatively heteroplasmy-free. Consistently, one dominant haplotype was always obtained from the genomic DNA-origin clones in all species and also from the long fragment- and cDNA-origin clones in the two tested individuals of A. miramae. Furthermore, the dominant haplotype was identical in sequence, regardless of the DNA source in A. miramae. Thus, one possible solution to avoid the barcoding problem in relationship to heteroplasmy could be the acquisition of multiple numbers of barcoding sequences to determine a dominant haplotype that can be assigned as barcoding sequence for a given species.
Goodness-of-fit test for count distributions with finite second moment
Creators: name: Di Noia, Antonio
name: Barabesi, Lucio
name: Marcheselli, Marzia
name: Pisani, Caterina
name: Pratelli, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A goodness-of-fit test for one-parameter count distributions with finite second moment is proposed. The test statistic is derived from the $L^1$ distance of a function of the probability generating function of the model under the null hypothesis and that of the random variable actually generating data, when the latter belongs to a suitable wide class of alternatives. The test statistic has a rather simple form and it is asymptotically normally distributed under the null hypothesis, allowing a straightforward implementation of the test. Moreover, the test is consistent for alternative distributions belonging to the class, but also for all the alternative distributions whose probability of zero is different from that under the null hypothesis. Thus, the use of the test is proposed and investigated also for alternatives not in the class. The finite-sample properties of the test are assessed by means of an extensive simulation study.
A family of consistent normally distributed tests for Poissonity
Creators: name: Di Noia, Antonio
name: Marcheselli, Marzia
name: Pisani, Caterina
name: Pratelli, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A family of consistent tests, derived from a characterization of the probability generating function, is proposed for assessing Poissonity against a wide class of count distributions, which includes some of the most frequently adopted alternatives to the Poisson distribution. Actually, the family of test statistics is based on the difference between the plug-in estimator of the Poisson cumulative distribution function and the empirical cumulative distribution function. The test statistics have an intuitive and simple form and are asymptotically normally distributed, allowing a straightforward implementation of the test. The finite sample properties of the test are investigated by means of an extensive simulation study. The test shows satisfactory behaviour compared to other tests with known limit distribution.
Regional diversification and intra-regional wage inequality in the Netherlands
Creators: name: Cortinovis, N.
name: Zhang, D.
name: Boschma, R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: The literature has shown that related diversification in more complex industries enhances economic growth in regions but also inter-regional inequality. However, it has drawn little attention to the relationship between industrial dynamics (i.e., the rise and fall of industries) and intra-regional wage inequality. This explorative study examines the relationship between industry dynamics and wage inequality in NUTS-3 regions in the Netherlands in the period 2010–2019. Our study shows that related diversification in less complex industries tends to reduce wage inequality within a region. This implies it remains a policy challenge to combine smart and inclusive growth in regions. Our study also showed that there is no significant relationship between the exit of industries and regional inequality, with one exception: unrelated low-complex exits tend to increase intra-regional wage inequality. Overall, these findings suggest that related diversification in less complex industries tends to bring benefits in terms of inclusive growth, while unrelated exits in less complex industries tend to do the opposite.
Schizopygopsis stolickai Steindachner 1866
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Schizopygopsis
Schizopygopsis stolickai

description: 148. Schizopygopsis stolickai Steindachner, 1866
Common name. False osman
Taxonomy. Original description: Schizopygopsis stolickai Steindachner, 1866: 786, pl. 16 [Hanle (eastern province Ladak [Ladakh]) in a stream near Hanle monastery, elevation 15,200 feet, Kashmir, India; syntypes: NMW 9255-56 (1, 1), 51472-73 (9, 2)].
Revisions. Berg (1949: 729) as Schizopygopsis stoliczkai.
Illustrations. Steindachner (1866: pl. 16); Berg (1949: 730, figs. 489-490) as Schizopygopsis stoliczkai.
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Sistan.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 702-Helmand–Sistan.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Kapur-e barfi.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: None.
Conservation. —IUCN: LC.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
An old padded jacket (一件旧棉袄) [Poster 04 of 04]
Creators: name: Zhang Yihao 张亦浩
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: Education

description: Illustrated kindergarten instruction (for use in elementary school). Produced by Number 1 kindergarten on Yuyuan Road, Shanghai. Price: 24 fen for the set of 4
Revealing spatio-temporal interaction patterns behind complex cities
Creators: name: Liu, Chenxin
name: Yang, Yu
name: Chen, Bingsheng
name: Cui, Tianyu
name: Shang, Fan
name: Fan, Jingfang
name: Li, Ruiqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cities are typical dynamic complex systems that connect people and facilitate interactions. Revealing universal collective patterns behind spatio-temporal interactions between residents is crucial for various urban studies, of which we are still lacking a comprehensive understanding. Massive cellphone data enable us to construct interaction networks based on spatio-temporal co-occurrence of individuals. The rank-size distributions of hourly dynamic population of locations are stable, although people are almost constantly moving in cities and hotspots that attract people are changing over time in a day. A larger city is of a stronger heterogeneity as indicated by a larger scaling exponent. After aggregating spatio-temporal interaction networks over consecutive time windows, we reveal a switching behavior of cities between two states. During the "active" state, the whole city is concentrated in fewer larger communities; while in the "sleeping" state, people are scattered in more smaller communities. Above discoveries are universal over diversified cities across continents. In addition, a city sleeps less, when its population grows larger. And spatio-temporal interaction segregation can be well approximated by residential segregation in smaller cities, but not in larger ones. We propose a temporal-population-weighted-opportunity model by integrating time-dependent departure probability to make dynamic predictions on human mobility, which can reasonably well explain observed patterns of spatio-temporal interactions in cities.
Out-of-Time Ordered Correlators in Kicked Coupled Tops: Information Scrambling in Mixed Phase Space and the Role of Conserved Quantities
Creators: name: Varikuti, Naga Dileep
name: Madhok, Vaibhav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study operator growth in a bipartite kicked coupled tops (KCT) system using out-of-time ordered correlators (OTOCs), which quantify ``information scrambling" due to chaotic dynamics and serve as a quantum analog of classical Lyapunov exponents. In the KCT system, chaos arises from the hyper-fine coupling between the spins. Due to a conservation law, the system's dynamics decompose into distinct invariant subspaces. Focusing initially on the largest subspace, we numerically verify that the OTOC growth rate aligns well with the classical Lyapunov exponent for fully chaotic dynamics. While previous studies have largely focused on scrambling in fully chaotic dynamics, works on mixed-phase space scrambling are sparse. We explore scrambling behavior in both mixed-phase space and globally chaotic dynamics. In the mixed phase space, we use Percival's conjecture to partition the eigenstates of the Floquet map into ``regular" and ``chaotic." Using these states as the initial states, we examine how their mean phase space locations affect the growth and saturation of the OTOCs. Beyond the largest subspace, we study the OTOCs across the entire system, including all other smaller subspaces. For certain initial operators, we analytically derive the OTOC saturation using random matrix theory (RMT). When the initial operators are chosen randomly from the unitarily invariant random matrix ensembles, the averaged OTOC relates to the linear entanglement entropy of the Floquet operator, as found in earlier works. For the diagonal Gaussian initial operators, we provide a simple expression for the OTOC.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures, 1 table. Close to the accepted version in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science