cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Measuring Spillover Effects from an Entrepreneurship Programme: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Tanzania
Creators: name: Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal
name: Pires, Armando José Garcia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In this paper, we identify treatment spillovers between microfinance clients in Tanzania using data from a partial population experiment where only a subset of loan group members was offered treatment in the form of business training, a business grant, or both. Our results show large and significant spillover effects from indirect exposure to treatment through group peers. In particular, we find that male microfinance clients with peers receiving both business training and the business grant experience to have significantly higher sales than those not receiving any treatment. Moreover, microfinance clients with positive spillovers make higher investments and borrow more. In addition, the treatment impacts are higher for group members with smaller loans (which is consistent with higher marginal rates of return to capital), and for members in groups with a greater share of women. Our findings illustrate that loan groups may be an important arena for the sharing of entrepreneurial resources, and that standard treatment–control analyses of similar interventions may underestimate impacts in settings with close social interactions.
How do minor mergers promote inside-out growth of ellipticals, transforming the size, density profile and dark matter fraction?
Creators: name: Hilz, Michael
name: Naab, Thorsten
name: Ostriker, Jeremiah P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is observational evidence for inside-out growth of elliptical galaxies since $z \gtrsim 2-3$, which is not driven by in-situ star formation. Many systems at high redshift have small sizes $\sim 1kpc$ and surface brightness profiles with low Sersic indices n. The most likely descendants have, on average, grown by a factor of two in mass and a factor of four in size, indicating $r \propto M^α$ with $α\gtrsim 2$. They also have surface brightness profiles with $n \gtrsim 5$. This evolution can be qualitatively explained on the basis of two assumptions: compact ellipticals predominantly grow by collisionless minor or intermediate 'dry' mergers, and they are embedded in massive dark matter halos. We draw these conclusions from idealized collisionless mergers spheroidal galaxies - with and without dark matter - with mass ratios of 1:1, 1:5, and 1:10. The sizes evolve as $r \propto M^α$ with $α< 2$ for mass-ratios of 1:1. For minor mergers of galaxies embedded in dark matter halos, the sizes grow significantly faster and the profile shapes change more rapidly. Mergers with moderate mass-ratios of 1:5 give $α\sim 2.3$ and a final Sersic index of $n = 9.5$ after doubling the stellar mass. This is accompanied by a significant increase of the dark matter fraction within the stellar half-mass radius, driven by the strong size increase probing larger, dark matter dominated regions. Only a few intermediate mass-ratio mergers of galaxies embedded in massive dark matter halos can result in the observed concurrent inside-out growth and the rapid evolution in profile shapes. Apart from negative stellar metallicity gradients such a 'minor' merger scenario also predicts significantly lower dark matter fractions for $z \sim 2$ compact quiescent galaxies and their rare present day analogues (abbreviated).
description: accepted for publication
Mozart – Buike:  Adagio - violin-piano – from KV 622 (for cl.) – 5:08 - sheetmusic
Creators: name: Buike, Bruno
name: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Publisher: name: Knowledge Commons
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Violin music
subject: Concertos (Violin)

description: Mozart – Buike
Adagio - violin-piano – from KV 622 (for cl.) – 5:08
- piano: Alamiro Giampieri -
- violin: Bruno Antonio Buike -
BBWV 182.1 Partitur – pno./vln.
BBWV 182.2 violin solo
Neuss/Germany: Bruno Buike 2025 - performance-pack - sheetmusic
- compatible with BB 179 Mozart-Buike - violin concerto from KV 622 - orchestra-version
- compatible with BB 180 Mozart-Buike - violin concerto from KV 622 - piano-violin-version
both here in Knowledge Commons
Tylaspis anomala Henderson 1885
Creators: name: Froglia, Carlo
name: Clark, Paul F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Parapaguridae
Tylaspis
Tylaspis anomala

description: Tylaspis anomala Henderson 1885a: 900, fig. 329; 1888: 81, pl. VIII, fig. 5.
 Valid as Tylaspis anomala Henderson, 1885.
description: Published as part of Froglia, Carlo & Clark, Paul F., 2011, The forgotten Narrative of H. M. S. Challenger and the implications for decapod nomenclature, pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 2788 on page 47, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200635
Divide and conquer approach to quantum Hamiltonian simulation
Creators: name: Hadfield, Stuart Andrew
name: Papageorgiou, Anargyros
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Hamiltonian systems
Quantum computers
Quantum theory
Computer science

description: We show a divide and conquer approach for simulating quantum mechanical systems on quantum computers. We can obtain fast simulation algorithms using Hamiltonian structure. Considering a sum of Hamiltonians we split them into groups, simulate each group separately, and combine the partial results. Simulation is customized to take advantage of the properties of each group, and hence yield refined bounds to the overall simulation cost. We illustrate our results using the electronic structure problem of quantum chemistry, where we obtain significantly improved cost estimates under very mild assumptions.
Readout system with on-board demodulation for CMB polarization experiments using coherent polarimeter arrays
Creators: name: Ishidoshiro, Koji
name: Nagai, Makoto
name: Higuchi, Takeo
name: Hasegawa, Masaya
name: Hazumi, Masashi
name: Ikeno, Masahiro
name: Tajima, Osamu
name: Tanaka, Manobu
name: Uchida, Tomohisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: B-modes are special patterns in cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization. The detection of them is a smoking-gun signature of primordial gravitational waves. The generic strategy of the CMB polarization experiments is to employ a large number of polarimeters for improving the statistics. The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT-II (QUIET-II) has been proposed to detect the B-modes using the world's largest coherent polarimeter array (2,000 channels). An unique detection technique using QUIET's polarimeters, which is a modula- tion/demodulation scheme, enables us directly extracting the polarization signal. The extracted signal is free from non- polarized components and intrinsic 1/f noise. We developed a data readout system with on-board demodulation functions for the QUIET-II experiment. We employed a "master" clock strategy. This strategy guarantees phase matching between the modulation by the polarimeters and the demodulation by ADC modules. The single master generates all carrier clocks and distributes them to each module. The developed electronics, clock modules, and the ADC modules fulfill requirements. Tests with a setup similar to that of the real experiment proved that the system works properly. The performance of all system components are validated to be suitable for B-mode measurements.
description: 9 pages, 16 figures, submitted to IEEE TNS
Poverty Trap or Means to Escape Poverty? Empirical Evidence on the Role of Environmental Income in Rural Nepal
Creators: name: Walelign, Solomon Zena
name: Charlery, Lindy Callen
name: Pouliot, Mariève
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Understanding how poverty persists and how this affects environmental reliance has policy implications for poverty reduction and environmental conservation. Employing a panel data-set from rural Nepal, we shed light on this issue, using a combination of parametric and nonparametric models. Results show that, as a population, households will converge at a single equilibrium point in the long-term, hence indicating the absence of a poverty trap. The exact asset level of this single equilibrium point, which indicates the absence of a poverty trap, varies between groups of households (for example, based on location, marital status). Based on the convergence point of the entire study population, two groups of households are identified: one situated above the convergence point and another situated below the point. Total environmental income, that is, all income from forest and non-forest environments, is very important to households below the convergence point. Although total environmental income is not a major contributor to asset accumulation, its non-forest component is a significant and positive contributor. We attribute the importance to their looser restriction to access, than for forest resources. Hence, securing greater access to forests without affecting the conservation priorities will help improve the contribution of forest resources to poverty reduction.
Study on the poroelastic behaviors of the defected articular cartilage
Creators: name: Sun, Yuqin
name: Wang, Ningning
name: Yu, Jianhao
name: Yan, Yang
name: Dong, Hao
name: Wu, Xiaogang
name: Zhang, Meizhen
name: Wang, Yanqin
name: Li, Pengcui
name: Wei, Xiaochun
name: Chen, Weiyi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: This article presented the possible mechanism of arthritis damaged changes in cartilage’s interstitial fluid flowing behavior. Firstly, the analytical solutions for the pore fluid pressure and velocity in the idealized cartilage defect model were obtained, which are employed to validate the finite element (FE) method. Then according to the MRI data, an articular cartilage FE model was developed to study the effects of defect characteristics on its poroelastic behaviors. The results showed the interstitial fluid pressure and velocity in defected articular cartilage is diminished, moreover, this trend is even more severe as the defect radius or thickness increased. As the development of osteoarthritis goes, the fluid velocity is decreased and cause the even serious nutrients loss.
An update on nonequilibrium linear response
Creators: name: Baiesi, Marco
name: Maes, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The unique fluctuation-dissipation theorem for equilibrium stands in contrast with the wide variety of nonequilibrium linear response formulae. Their most traditional approach is "analytic", which, in the absence of detailed balance, introduces the logarithm of the stationary probability density as observable. The theory of dynamical systems offers an alternative with a formula that continues to work when the stationary distribution is not smooth. We show that this method works equally well for stochastic dynamics, and we illustrate it with a numerical example for the perturbation of circadian cycles. A second "probabilistic" approach starts from dynamical ensembles and expands the probability weights on path space. This line suggests new physical questions, as we meet the frenetic contribution to linear response, and the relevance of the change in dynamical activity in the relaxation to a (new) nonequilibrium condition.
description: v2: removed typos, updated refs
Echinoplax moseleyi Miers 1885
Creators: name: Froglia, Carlo
name: Clark, Paul F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Oregoniidae
Echinoplax
Echinoplax moseleyi

description: Echinoplax moseleyi Miers 1885: 589; 1886: 32, pl. IV, fig. 2.
 Remarks. Doflein (1904: 76) assigned Echinoplax moseleyi Miers to Pleistacantha Miers, 1879.
 Valid as Pleistacantha moseleyi (Miers, 1885).
description: Published as part of Froglia, Carlo & Clark, Paul F., 2011, The forgotten Narrative of H. M. S. Challenger and the implications for decapod nomenclature, pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 2788 on page 52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200635
Application-based packet routing in vehicular networks
Creators: name: Kaveh, Shafiee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: A wide range of vehicular applications require packet routing mechanisms and protocols for efficient, reliable and robust delivery of data packets over vehicles, from a single source or from multiple sources to either a specific destination or multiple destinations in a specific region. All vehicular applications, e.g., non-safety applications and safety applications, have their own specific challenges, considerations and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements which are different from those of other vehicular applications. Hence, we believe that the design of packet routing mechanisms and protocols for each vehicular application should be application-specific. In non-safety applications, to access the backhaul network through the infrastructure on the roadside, so-called Road-side Units (RSUs), since many parts of the network may not be directly covered by RSUs, appropriate routing protocols need to be designed and employed. In this thesis, we developed a single-technology routing protocol for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), Connectivity-aware Minimum-delay Geographic Routing (CMGR), which adapts well to continuously changing network status in such networks. As the next step we studied how packet routing mechanisms and protocols should be adapted to heterogeneous environments. In this regard, we developed optimal Vertical Hand-Off (VHO) strategies for vehicular heterogeneous networks when RSUs directly cover all parts of the vehicular network under study. Next, we turned our attention to the case where some parts of the network are not directly covered by any RSU and proposed a Hybrid Multi-Technology Routing (HMTR) protocol to consider different combinations of wireless technologies in intermediate hops when establishing routes from vehicular end-users to RSUs. In safety applications the notification of hazardous situations needs to be sent from the hazard-detecting vehicle to every other vehicle in the neighborhood, so-called data dissemination. Fully ad hoc data dissemination mechanisms have gained more acceptance due to their robustness and avoiding the excessive costs of infrastructure deployment and maintenance. In this regard, one of the main challenges is to overcome the packet delivery failures at intersections in the ad hoc manner. In this regard, we developed a fully ad hoc data dissemination mechanism, Enhanced Intersection-mode Data Dissemination (EIDD), which provides reliable packet delivery at intersections.
MOESM5 of Comparative transcriptomic analysis and endocuticular protein gene expression of alate adults, workers and soldiers of the termite Reticulitermes aculabialis
Creators: name: Rasheed, Humaira
name: Ye, Chenxu
name: Meng, Yufeng
name: Ran, Yuehua
name: Li, Jing
name: Su, Xiaohong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5. Length distribution of Protein-Coding Region prediction from EST scan.
Counterfeiting in African agriculture inputs--challenges & solutions: comprehensive findings
Creators: name: Boef, Walter De
name: Hasson, Orin
name: Pierson, Ben
name: Kim, Daniel
name: Mennel, John
name: Engle, Carl
name: Prabhala, Pradeep
name: Bryce, John
name: Nemo Nemeth
name: Jethani, Alyssa
name: Hoffman, Aliza
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

description: Counterfeiting in African agriculture inputs--challenges & solutions: comprehensive findings
Cyrtomaia suhmi Miers 1885
Creators: name: Froglia, Carlo
name: Clark, Paul F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Inachidae
Cyrtomaia
Cyrtomaia suhmi

description: Cyrtomaia suhmi Miers 1885: 589.
 Cyrtomaia suhmii Miers 1886: 16, pl. III, fig. 2.
 Remarks. Miers (1885) originally used suhmi as the epithet but later emended it to suhmii (Miers 1886). According to Article 33.4 (ICZN 1999) it is an incorrect subsequent spelling, however this later epithet can be retained under Article 33.3.1, (ICZN 1999) for prevailing usage.
 Valid as Cyrtomaia suhmii Miers, 1885.
description: Published as part of Froglia, Carlo & Clark, Paul F., 2011, The forgotten Narrative of H. M. S. Challenger and the implications for decapod nomenclature, pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 2788 on page 52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200635
Compressed Sensing with General Frames via Optimal-dual-based $\ell_1$-analysis
Creators: name: Liu, Yulong
name: Mi, Tiebin
name: Li, Shidong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Compressed sensing with sparse frame representations is seen to have much greater range of practical applications than that with orthonormal bases. In such settings, one approach to recover the signal is known as $\ell_1$-analysis. We expand in this article the performance analysis of this approach by providing a weaker recovery condition than existing results in the literature. Our analysis is also broadly based on general frames and alternative dual frames (as analysis operators). As one application to such a general-dual-based approach and performance analysis, an optimal-dual-based technique is proposed to demonstrate the effectiveness of using alternative dual frames as analysis operators. An iterative algorithm is outlined for solving the optimal-dual-based $\ell_1$-analysis problem. The effectiveness of the proposed method and algorithm is demonstrated through several experiments.
description: 34 pages, 8 figures. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
title: A Class of Stochastic Path-Dependent Models and Controls
Creators: name: Yang, Yang
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Stochastic path-dependent optimal control theory
subject: Stochastic path-dependent volatility models
subject: Swing option pricing
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This thesis explores controlled stochastic path-dependent differential systems and their applications in stock and energy markets. We first focus on a class of path-dependent stochastic optimal control problems within an infinite-dimensional framework. Our primary contribution is proving that the value function serves as the unique viscosity solution to the corresponding infinite-dimensional stochastic path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equation. Then, we investigate the introduction of path-dependent features in stochastic volatility models. The price-storage dynamic is studied in natural gas markets. We propose a novel stochastic path-dependent volatility model that incorporates path-dependence into both price volatility and storage increments. Chapter 1 focuses on the stochastic optimal control problem for infinite-dimensional differential systems that incorporate both path-dependence and measurable randomness. Unlike deterministic path-dependent cases, the value function emerges as a random field over the path space, characterized by a stochastic path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi (SPHJ) equation. We propose a notion of viscosity solution and demonstrate that the value function is the unique viscosity solution to the associated SPHJ equation. Chapter 2 and 3 explores price-storage dynamics in natural gas markets. We introduce a novel stochastic path-dependent volatility model that incorporates path-dependence in both price volatility and storage increments. Model calibrations are performed for both price and storage dynamics. Additionally, we address the pricing problem for discrete-time swing options using the dynamic programming principle and propose a deep learning-based method for numerical approximations. A numerical algorithm is presented, accompanied by a convergence analysis of the deep learning approach. Chapter 4 outlines future research directions in stochastic path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations, stochastic volatility models, mean field games and stochastic path-dependent filtering problems.
MOESM6 of Comparative transcriptomic analysis and endocuticular protein gene expression of alate adults, workers and soldiers of the termite Reticulitermes aculabialis
Creators: name: Rasheed, Humaira
name: Ye, Chenxu
name: Meng, Yufeng
name: Ran, Yuehua
name: Li, Jing
name: Su, Xiaohong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 6. The analysis of RNA-seq data identified 50 CP genes and 20 predicted CP genes in alate adults (ARs), WRs (workers) and SRs (soldiers).
Platymaia
Creators: name: Froglia, Carlo
name: Clark, Paul F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Inachidae
Platymaia

description: Platymaia wyville-thomsoni Miers 1885: 590, fig. 197; 1886: 13, pl. II, fig. 1.
 Valid as Platymaia wyvillethomsoni Miers, 1885.
description: Published as part of Froglia, Carlo & Clark, Paul F., 2011, The forgotten Narrative of H. M. S. Challenger and the implications for decapod nomenclature, pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 2788 on page 52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200635
MOESM7 of Comparative transcriptomic analysis and endocuticular protein gene expression of alate adults, workers and soldiers of the termite Reticulitermes aculabialis
Creators: name: Rasheed, Humaira
name: Ye, Chenxu
name: Meng, Yufeng
name: Ran, Yuehua
name: Li, Jing
name: Su, Xiaohong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 7. The five selected genes and their primers used in qRT-PCR analysis.
title: Rigid Ruthenium PCcarbeneP Complexes for Small Molecule Activation, Hydrogenation, and Dehydrogenation
Creators: name: Donnelly, Laurie Jean
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Organometallic
subject: Catalysis
subject: Small Molecule Activation
subject: Chemistry--Inorganic

description: Small molecule activation is of fundamental importance to the development of catalysts for producing alternative fuels and other value-added products from abundant feedstocks. The capture and subsequent conversion of pollutant molecules like carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide can reduce their atmospheric concentrations and produce fine chemicals. Hydrogen storage and release cycles using nitrogen-ammonia or carbon dioxide-formic acid are being studied for the practical application of hydrogen fuel cells. The Piers group has developed a series of pincer ligands that form metal-carbene complexes. These metal-carbenes have shown to be competent in a wide array of small molecule activations. Previous optimizations show that the planar anthracene-based ligands are especially stable. Additionally, ruthenium catalysts have had a huge role in hydrogenation reactions and are prominently studied as catalysts for hydrogen storage using small molecules like carbon dioxide. This thesis presents the synthesis and application of ruthenium-based PCcarbeneP complexes. The synthesis of dichlorido ruthenium PCcarbeneP complexes from the previously developed proligands was found to be straightforward. These chlorido complexes could activate and split hydrogen which enabled the synthesis of hydrido-chloride PCcarbeneP complexes and later polyhydride PCalkylP complexes. The polyhydride complexes were found to have dynamic behaviour, which was studied in detail, revealing that they effectively act as monohydride complexes with stabilizing hydrogen ligands. The synthesized ruthenium hydride complexes were applied in the carbon dioxide-formic acid hydrogen storage cycle. In this study it was found that the hydrido-chloride complexes were unable to hydrogenate carbon dioxide, where the polyhydride complexes could stoichiometrically hydrogenate carbon dioxide. Catalytic carbon dioxide hydrogenation, however, was limited by off-cycle carbonate forming reactions. The release of hydrogen from formic acid was also explored and the ruthenium PCcarbeneP complexes were found to be highly active and selective on one of the rigid ligands employed, and nearly inactive on the other. On the active ligand the resting state during formic acid decomposition was identified as a ruthenium hydrido-formate PCcarbeneP complex. The inactive ligand was found to promote the desired dehydrogenation reaction along with deleterious reactions, preventing catalytic applications.
title: Neural Representation for 3D Building Reconstruction from Point Clouds
Creators: name: Akwensi, Perpetual Hope
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: LiDAR
subject: 3D Point Clouds
subject: Semantic Segmentation
subject: 3D Mesh Reconstruction
subject: 3D Wireframe Reconstruction
subject: 3D Point Completion
subject: Deep learning
subject: Remote Sensing
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Engineering--Environmental

description: The continuous rise in urban growth has underscored the importance of airborne LiDAR point clouds (APCs) for efficient/cost effective urban planning, management, and development. However, the delineation and modeling of 3D objects -- specifically buildings -- from APCs pose significant challenges due to issues such as façade/roof occlusions, point density variations, sparsity, and noise. This thesis aims to address these challenges and provide neurally-driven solutions for 3D digital twinning of buildings from APCs. To delineate an urban scene into object categories, PReFormer, a memory-efficient point transformer capable of achieving competitive segmentation results with fewer model parameters and less memory is proposed. The PReFormer comprises of an optimized point embedding module, linearized multi-head self-attention layers, and reversible functions, all designed to reduce computation time and space complexities. Additionally, the architectural design of the PReFormer follows a ∇-shape, which improves (object) size-invariant feature extraction and segmentation accuracy. To generate high fidelity 3D building models from delineated APC building instances, APC2Mesh, a framework which integrates 3D building point completion and reconstruction processes, is proposed. The developed point completion network uses dynamic edge convolution and self-attention mechanism operations to extracts both local and global building shape information for complete building point set (BPS) reconstruction. This completion process mitigates the sparsity, occlusion, and point density variability issues usually associated airborne LiDAR BPSs. Leveraging the completed BPSs, a linearized skip-attention-based deformation network capable of handling several building styles and/complexities is presented to generate high fidelity 3D building mesh models. An observation of the mesh models from APC2Mesh shows that mesh models have relatively high disk storage, and are difficult to manipulate given their numerous triangular mesh faces. Thus, Points2Model, a neural-guided method that reconstructs building wireframes from APCs is further proposed. It uses neural implicit learning to up-sample completed BPSs, and a simple yet robust corner-focused hypothesis and selection strategy to detect building corners and their corresponding edge connectivity. Overall, this thesis presents innovative solutions for overcoming the inherent challenges of APCs in 3D building reconstruction, thus contributing significantly to the field of digital twinning of urban buildings.
Search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the decay channel H->ZZ(*)->4l with 4.8 fb-1 of pp collision data at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with ATLAS
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This Letter presents a search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the decay channel H->ZZ(*)->l+l-l'+l'-, where l,l'=e or mu, using proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb^-1. The four-lepton mass distribution is compared with Standard Model background expectations to derive upper limits on the cross section of a Standard Model Higgs boson with a mass between 110 GeV and 600 GeV. The mass ranges 134-156 GeV, 182-233 GeV, 256-265 GeV and 268-415 GeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level. The largest upward deviations from the background-only hypothesis are observed for Higgs boson masses of 125, 244 and 500 GeV with local significances of 2.1, 2.2 and 2.1 standard deviations, respectively. Once the look-elsewhere effect is considered, none of these excesses are significant.
description: 11 pages plus author list (26 pages total), 6 figures, 3 tables, corrected author list, matches published version in Physics Letters B
Sabulina rubella Dillenberger & Kadereit
Creators: name: Desjardins, Émilie
name: Lai, Sandra
name: Payette, Serge
name: Dubé, Martin
name: Sokoloff, Paul C.
name: St-Louis, Annie
name: Poulin, Marie-Pier
name: Legros, Jade
name: Sirois, Luc
name: Vézina, François
name: Tam, Andrew
name: Berteaux, Dominique
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Foraminifera
Globothalamea
Loftusiida
Ataxophragmiidae
Sabulina
Sabulina rubella

description: Sabulina rubella (Wahlenberg) Dillenberger & Kadereit Figure 6D Materials examined. CANADA – Nunavut • Ellesmere Island, CFS Alert; 82°26′22″N, 062°50′39″W; 201 m a.s.l.; 7 Aug. 2019; habitat: barren ground in a slope, with till and rocks as substrates; QFA0635573. Identification. Plants 1.5–3.5 cm high; herbaceous; caespitose. Taproots present. Stems 0.8–2.5 cm long; prostrate, decumbent, or ascending; hairy, with glandular hairs. Leaves cauline; opposite; sessile. Leaf blades 3.0– 5.7 mm long, 0.5–1.0 mm wide; lanceolate or linear; straight or acending; veins 3; green; abaxial and adaxial surfaces both glabrous; margins ciliate, with glandular hairs; apices acute or apiculate. Inflorescence a solitary flower. Pedicels hairy. Sepals 5; 2–3 mm long, 0.5–1.4 mm wide; lanceolate; purple or green, with hyaline margins; surface glabrous or hairy, with glandular hairs; margins glabrous; apices acute. Petals 5; 2–3 mm long, 1.0– 1.5 mm wide; oblanceolate or obovate; unlobed; white. Androecium with 10 stamens and 0.2–0.3 mm long, yellow anthers. Gynoecium with 3 styles and 1 stigma per style. Fruit a capsule; 2.8–3.0 mm long, 1.4– 1.6 mm wide; ovoid or conical; straw-colored; glabrous. Characteristics allowing to distinguish S. rubella from the other Sabulina species present on Ellesmere Island can be found under S. rossii.
description: Published as part of Desjardins, Émilie, Lai, Sandra, Payette, Serge, Dubé, Martin, Sokoloff, Paul C., St-Louis, Annie, Poulin, Marie-Pier, Legros, Jade, Sirois, Luc, Vézina, François, Tam, Andrew & Berteaux, Dominique, 2021, Survey of the vascular plants of Alert (Ellesmere Island, Canada), a polar desert at the northern tip of the Americas, pp. 181-225 in Check List 17 (1) on page 196, DOI: 10.15560/17.1.181
Ergasticus naresi Miers 1885
Creators: name: Froglia, Carlo
name: Clark, Paul F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Inachidae
Ergasticus
Ergasticus naresi

description: Ergasticus naresi Miers 1885: 599.
 Ergasticus naresii Miers 1886: 30, pl. V, fig. 3.
 Remarks. Miers (1885) originally used naresi as the epithet and later emended it to naresii (Miers 1886). According to Article 33.4 (ICZN 1999) naresii is an incorrect subsequent spelling, but as this later spelling has been consistently used since, it can be retained under the rule for prevailing usage (Article 33.3.1, ICZN 1999). Griffin & Tranter (1986: 49) examined the type of E. naresii and assigned it to Pleistacantha as has been suggested by Ihle & Ihle-Landenberg (1931: 162).
 Valid as Pleistacantha naresii (Miers, 1885).
 Paracyclo ϊ  s milne-edwardsi Miers 1885: 590, fig. 198.
 Paracyclo ϊ s milne-edwardsii Miers, 1886: 289, pl. XXIV, fig. 1.
 Remarks. Miers (1885) used the name milne-edwardsi, but later emended it to milne-edwardsii (Miers 1886: 269). According to Article 33.4 (ICZN 1999) it is an incorrect subsequent spelling, but as this later spelling has been consistently used since, it can be retained under the rule for prevailing usage (Article 33.3.1, ICZN 1999). Paracyclois milneedwardsii Miers, 1866, was placed on the Official List of Specific Names (Direction 36) as: “ milneedwardsii, Paracyclois, Miers, 1886, Rep. Voy. ‘Challenger’ (Zool.) 17 (No 2): 289 (specific name of type species of Paracyclois Miers, 1886) (Crustacea, Decapoda)”. This is incorrect because it should be cited as Paracyclois milneedwardsii Miers, 1885. However, following Articles 79.4, 80.9 (ICZN 1999) this incorrect date will stand until the Commission corrects it (Article 80.4).
 Valid as Paracyclois milneedwardsii Miers, 1886.
description: Published as part of Froglia, Carlo & Clark, Paul F., 2011, The forgotten Narrative of H. M. S. Challenger and the implications for decapod nomenclature, pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 2788 on page 52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200635
A Biophysical and Socioeconomic Characterization of the Cereal Production Systems of Northwest Bangladesh
Creators: name: Prabhakaran T. Raghu
name: Sreejith Aravindakshan
name: Rossi, Frederick
name: Vijesh Krishna
name: Elahi Baksh
name: Azahar Ali Miah
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

description: A Biophysical and Socioeconomic Characterization of the Cereal Production Systems of Northwest Bangladesh
Quantum Hall Mach-Zehnder interferometer at fractional filling factors
Creators: name: Deviatov, E. V.
name: Egorov, S. V.
name: Biasiol, G.
name: Sorba, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a Mach-Zehnder quantum Hall interferometer of a novel design to investigate the interference effects at fractional filling factors. Our device brings together the advantages of usual Mach-Zehnder and Fabry-Perot quantum Hall interferometers. It realizes the simplest-for-analysis Mach-Zehnder interference scheme, free from Coulomb blockade effects. By contrast to the standard Mach-Zehnder realization, our device does not contain an etched region inside the interference loop. For the first time for Mach-Zehnder interference scheme, the device demonstrates interference oscillations with $Φ^*=e/e^*Φ_0=Φ_0/ν$ periodicity at fractional filling factor 1/3. This result indicates that we observe clear evidence for fractionally charged quasiparticles from simple Aharonov-Bohm interference.
description: as accepted to EPL
title: Co-Fermentation Strategy for Augmented Carbon Source Availability in Biological Nutrient Removal Systems: Optimization and Performance Evaluation
Creators: name: Hosseini Yazdi, Seyed Mohammad Sadegh
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Carbon source
subject: Biological nutrient removal
subject: External substrate
subject: Wastewater
subject: Engineering--Environmental
subject: Engineering--Civil

description: This research delves into an innovative approach within the field of wastewater treatment, focusing on the co-fermentation of Primary Sludge (PS) with Fermented Sludge (FS), Soft Drink Wastewater (SDWW), and Yeast Wastewater (YWW) to produce volatile fatty acids (VFA). The utilization of waste materials in wastewater treatment, particularly for the synthesis of VFA, represents a significant stride towards sustainable and eco-friendly practices. VFA is crucial intermediates in the biological nutrient removal (BNR) process and play a key role in the anaerobic digestion and biosynthesis of bioplastics and biofuels. The study employs batch fermentation experiments using PS obtained from wastewater treatment facilities, a critical step in the advanced treatment of wastewater. The aim was to investigate the impact of co-substrate addition and different feeding mode on VFA production and composition. Key VFA identified include acetic acid, propionic acid, iso-butyric acid, butyric acid, isovaleric acid, and valeric acid, with acetic acid and iso-butyric acid predominantly yielding the highest. Further, the research explores the optimization of Food-to-Microorganism ratios, temperatures, and mixing conditions. This is in line with the latest advancements in wastewater treatment which emphasize process optimization for enhanced efficiency and sustainability. The findings reveal substantial enhancements in VFA/SCOD ratios under specific operational conditions, indicating a promising avenue for improved biogas production. Microbial community analysis in the study provides deeper insights into the biological aspects of wastewater treatment. Dominant phyla like Bacteroidota, Campilobacterota, Firmicutes, Fusobacteriota, and Proteobacteria were identified, which are instrumental in the biodegradation and nutrient cycling processes in wastewater systems. The study's outcomes hold significant implications for the advancement of wastewater treatment technologies. The addition of biodegradable SDWW and YWW not only improves the fermentation profile but also substantially enhances VFA yields, showcasing the potential of co-fermentation in wastewater treatment. These findings underline the importance of integrating innovative biological processes for effective wastewater management, ultimately contributing to the development of more sustainable, efficient, and eco-friendly treatment strategies.
Finding a cost-effective optical system to identify 2D materials
Creators: name: Bastante, Pablo
name: Pucher, Thomas
name: Castellanos-Gomez, Andres
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: optical microscopy
two-dimensional materials
optical identification
low-cost

description: In this technical note we compare different optical systems (optical microscopes and homebuilt systems based on zoom lenses) to identify two-dimensional materials with the goal to find a cost-effective solution.
title: Medi, Social Human-Robot Interaction in Pediatric Health
Creators: name: Aghel Manesh, Setareh
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Robot Interaction
subject: Human-Computer Interaction
subject: Social Robots
subject: Child Robot Interaction
subject: Interaction Design
subject: Pain Management in Children
subject: HRI
subject: HCI
subject: Pediatric Health Robots
subject: Computer Science

description: This research explores how we can help a person – particularly a child – in a real-world stressful situation, such as a medical procedure, cope with pain and anxiety by using an interactive, empathetic robot as a social companion. To demonstrate this, we designed and implemented behaviours for a humanoid robot called Medi through iterative prototyping, testing, and refining. We then tested Medi’s behaviours in situ during a blood draw procedure at Alberta Children’s Hospital: our goal (and thesis) was to see if Medi could help children overcome the stress and pain associated with the blood test and consequently improve their overall experience. Using a Wizard of Oz methodology, we had Medi engage the child in an affectionate conversation using physical and verbal interactions. Between the iterative design process and the testing at the hospital, we ran just under a hundred study sessions with 97 participants. We gathered and analyzed quantitative and qualitative data by collecting questionnaires and videotaping the sessions, where our results generally show that an empathetic interactive social robot such as Medi does indeed help children cope with pain and anxiety and improve their experience.
Ex Ante Institutional Assessment of the Proposed Agricultural Credit Subsidy Program of MAFC
Creators: name: Mather, David L.
name: Temu, Anna A.
name: Minde, Isaac
name: Ndyetabula, Daniel W.
name: Waized, Betty M.
name: Nyange, David
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

description: Ex Ante Institutional Assessment of the Proposed Agricultural Credit Subsidy Program of MAFC
title: Settlement Behavior of Bioreactor Landfills
Creators: name: Abeysiri Munasinghage, Saranga Adeesha
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Bioreactor
subject: Biocell
subject: Settlement
subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: Engineering--Environmental

description: Settlement prediction of bioreactor landfills is crucial for the many stages of design, construction, operation, maintenance, and reconstruction. Settlement can both increase the capacity of a landfill and extend its lifespan. Accurate settlement prediction is particularly crucial when assessing spatial requirements, organizing the construction order, and building interim and permanent covers. Researchers have conducted numerous studies in recent years to examine the settlement processes in MSW landfills. These investigations have employed various methods such as laboratory testing, in-situ settlement monitoring, and numerical modelling. This dissertation presents an analysis of the settlement behavior of the Calgary Biocell, a waste cell operated as an anaerobic landfill bioreactor for 15 years at the Shephard landfill in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Time-dependent post-closure settlement of the landfill was measured using a geographic information system-based methodology involving the formation of a grid on the landfill surface until the waste cell excavation for resource recovery and space reclamation in 2022. The settlement data reveals that leachate recirculation and landfill gas extraction expedited the waste cell settlement of the Calgary Biocell throughout its operating period. A settlement model proposed by Hettiarachchi et al. (2007, 2009), which considers both gas pressure and moisture distribution in predicting the settlement behavior, was employed in the post-analysis. Most model input parameters were derived from on-site data, and missing values were selected based on relevant literature. The model output yielded results comparable with the time-dependent waste settlement data observed throughout the Biocell operation. The predicted total settlement is approximately 20.71% closely aligning with the actual total settlement of 21.68% over the 15-year operation of an anaerobic landfill bioreactor. Additionally, a comparison is being made between the settlement data received from several bioreactor landfill projects in other countries and the data obtained from the Calgary Biocell. Leachate recirculation was revealed to be a factor in greater settlements.
The Bethe Permanent of a Non-Negative Matrix
Creators: name: Vontobel, Pascal O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It has recently been observed that the permanent of a non-negative square matrix, i.e., of a square matrix containing only non-negative real entries, can very well be approximated by solving a certain Bethe free energy function minimization problem with the help of the sum-product algorithm. We call the resulting approximation of the permanent the Bethe permanent. In this paper we give reasons why this approach to approximating the permanent works well. Namely, we show that the Bethe free energy function is convex and that the sum-product algorithm finds its minimum efficiently. We then discuss the fact that the permanent is lower bounded by the Bethe permanent, and we comment on potential upper bounds on the permanent based on the Bethe permanent. We also present a combinatorial characterization of the Bethe permanent in terms of permanents of so-called lifted versions of the matrix under consideration. Moreover, we comment on possibilities to modify the Bethe permanent so that it approximates the permanent even better, and we conclude the paper with some observations and conjectures about permanent-based pseudo-codewords and permanent-based kernels.
description: Accepted for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Manuscript received July 21, 2011; date of current version October 20, 2012. Changes compared to v1: see v2. Changes compared to v2: changed t to \tau in Section IV in order to distinguish it from iteration number t in Section V. Fixed some typos
Bathyplax typhlus subsp. oculiferus Miers 1885
Creators: name: Froglia, Carlo
name: Clark, Paul F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Goneplacidae
Bathyplax
Bathyplax typhlus
Bathyplax typhlus oculiferus miers 1885: 586

description: Bathyplax typhlus oculiferus Miers 1885: 586; 1886: 230, pl. XX, fig. 3.
 Remarks. Miers (1885: 586) described the taxon as:-
 “... also a very interesting variety (oculiferus) of the West Indian deep-water Bathyplax typhlus, A. M.-E., in which the ocular corneae, although small, are distinctly bilobed. Milne-Edwards’ types, is to be noted, were dredged in deeper water.”
 A more detailed description with a figure of the type dredged off Brazil were published later by Miers (1886: 230, pl. XX, fig. 3). Bathyplax typhlus oculiferus Miers, 1885, is therefore the senior name. Nevertheless, Tavares (1996) collected new material from Brazil, examined the variety of Miers and synonymised it with the nominal species.
 Valid as Bathyplax typhla A. Milne-Edwards, 1880.
description: Published as part of Froglia, Carlo & Clark, Paul F., 2011, The forgotten Narrative of H. M. S. Challenger and the implications for decapod nomenclature, pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 2788 on page 49, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200635