cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Estimation of Regularization Parameters in Multiple-Image Deblurring
Creators: name: Vio, R.
name: Ma, P.
name: Zhong, W.
name: Nagy, J.
name: Tenorio, L.
name: Wamsteker, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the estimation of the regularization parameter for the simultaneous deblurring of multiple noisy images via Tikhonov regularization. We approach the problem in three ways. We first reduce the problem to a single-image deblurring for which the regularization parameter can be estimated through a classic generalized cross-validation (GCV) method. A modification of this function is used for correcting the undersmoothing typical of the original technique. With a second method, we minimize an average least-squares fit to the images and define a new GCV function. In the last approach, we use the classical $GCV$ on a single higher-dimensional image obtained by concatanating all the images into a single vector. With a reliable estimator of the regularization parameter, one can fully exploit the excellent computational characteristics typical of direct deblurring methods, which, especially for large images, makes them competitive with the more flexible but much slower iterative algorithms. The performance of the techniques is analyzed through numerical experiments. We find that under the independent homoscedastic and Gaussian assumptions made on the noise, the three approaches provide almost identical results with the first single image providing the practical advantage that no new software is required and the same image can be used with other deblurring algorithms.
description: To appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Water use and salinity in the Murray-Darling Basin: a state contingent model
Creators: name: Adamson, David
name: Mallawaarachchi, Thilak
name: Quiggin, John
name: Adamson, David
name: Mallawaarachchi, Thilak
name: Quiggin, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: irrigation
subject: salinity
subject: uncertainty
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: The supply of water for irrigation is subject to climatic and policy uncertainty. The object of the present paper is to show how the linear and non-linear programming models commonly used in modelling problems such as those arising in the Murray–Darling Basin may be adapted to incorporate a state-contingent representation of uncertainty. Estimates showing the potential value of improved water use are also derived.
title: The Status of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and Implications for the Teaching of English in Japan
Creators: name: D’Angelo, James F.
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2020

description: This article begins with background information on English language attitudes and education in the Japanese context, from both an historical and a present-day perspective. It then considers the value of ELF-informed views for the Japanese context: both from educational and business/professional perspectives. From the educational aspect, existing efforts to promote ELF-informed programs are investigated, with analysis of their success and future prospects for growth. Areas of continued resistance to ELF and other pluralistic paradigms in Japan are also explored. From a professional standpoint, the article will outline the actual need for ELF among Japanese working people, and the extent to which ELF comes into play in actual interactions, both in Japan and overseas. I will conclude with a consideration of challenges which remain to be faced for ELF in Japan.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 19 (2020): An Interdisciplinary Approach to English as a Lingua Franca
Velocity Dispersions of Brightest Cluster Galaxies and Their Host Clusters
Creators: name: Sohn, Jubee
name: Geller, Margaret J.
name: Diaferio, Antonaldo
name: Rines, Kenneth J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore connections between brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) and their host clusters. We first construct a HeCS-omnibus cluster sample including 227 galaxy clusters within $0.02 < z < 0.30$; the total number of spectroscopic members from MMT/Hectospec and SDSS observations is 52325. Taking advantage of the large spectroscopic sample, we compute physical properties of the clusters including the dynamical mass and cluster velocity dispersion ($σ_{cl}$). We also measure the central stellar velocity dispersion of the BCGs ($σ_{*,BCGs}$) to examine the relation between BCG velocity dispersion and cluster velocity dispersion for the first time. The observed relation between BCG velocity dispersion and the cluster velocity dispersion is remarkably tight. Interestingly, the $σ_{*, BCG} / σ_{cl}$ ratio decreases as a function of $σ_{cl}$ unlike the prediction from the numerical simulation of Dolag et al. (2010). The trend in $σ_{*, BCG} / σ_{cl}$ suggests that the BCG formation is more efficient in lower mass halos.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables, submitted to ApJ, comments are welcome
Thermodynamics of the N=2* flow
Creators: name: Buchel, Alex
name: Liu, James T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the thermodynamics of the N=2*, SU(N) gauge theory at large 't Hooft coupling. The tool we use is the non-extremal deformation of the supergravity solution of Pilch and Warner (PW) [hep-th/0004063], dual to N=4, SU(N) gauge theory softly broken to N=2. We construct the exact non-extremal solution in five-dimensional gauged supergravity and further uplift it to ten dimensions. Turning to the thermodynamics, we analytically compute the leading correction in m/T to the free energy of the non-extremal D3 branes due to the PW mass deformation, and find that it is positive. We also demonstrate that the mass deformation of the non-extremal D3 brane geometry induces a temperature dependent gaugino condensate. We find that the standard procedure of extracting the N=2* gauge theory thermodynamic quantities from the dual supergravity leads to a violation of the first law of thermodynamics. We speculate on a possible resolution of this paradox.
description: 40 pages, Latex, 3 figures
Liquid Xenon detector R&D for $0\nu2β$ search (KamXP)
Creators: name: Ueshima, Kota
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The R&D for a new type of liquid xenon (LXe) detector is ongoing to search for the neutrinoless double-beta decay ($0\nu2β$). As a result of the KamLAND-Zen experiment, it is very important to realize the all active region detector for the energy deposition of the radiation. Newly developed additional BG reduction techniques will improve the sensitivity of $0\nu2β$ search in the future. Our detector concept is LXe stored in a new type of plastic scintillator vessel. The wavelength of LXe scintillation light is shifted to visible light from 175nm (VUV) on the inner surface of the vessel. Therefore, the LXe scintillation light can be detected by photon sensors which are far away from the $0\nu2β$ target nuclei. The pulse shape difference between LXe and plastic scintillator is used for the additional BG reduction. In the future, $^{8}$B solar neutrino events will be one of the dominant BGs in $0\nu2β$ search. To reduce the $^{8}$B solar neutrino BG, the directional information of the Cherenkov light might be useful. The status of LXe detector R&D to improve the sensitivity of $0\nu2β$ search is reported.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2019), September 9-13, 2019, Toyama, Japan
Frieze patterns with coefficients
Creators: name: Cuntz, Michael
name: Holm, Thorsten
name: Jorgensen, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05E15, 05E99, 13F60, 51M20

description: Frieze patterns, as introduced by Coxeter in the 1970's, are closely related to cluster algebras without coefficients. A suitable generalization of frieze patterns, linked to cluster algebras with coefficients, has only briefly appeared in an unpublished manuscript by Propp. In this paper we study these frieze patterns with coefficients systematically and prove various fundamental results, generalizing classic results for frieze patterns. As a consequence we see how frieze patterns with coefficients can be obtained from classic frieze patterns by cutting out subpolygons from the triangulated polygons associated to classic Conway-Coxeter frieze patterns. We address the question of which frieze patterns with coefficients can be obtained in this way and solve this problem completely for triangles. Finally, we prove a finiteness result for frieze patterns with coefficients by showing that for a given boundary sequence there are only finitely many (non-zero) frieze patterns with coefficients with entries in a discrete subset of the complex numbers.
description: 22 pages
MOESM3 of An NIRS-based assay of chemical composition and biomass digestibility for rapid selection of Jerusalem artichoke clones
Creators: name: Li, Meng
name: He, Siyang
name: Wang, Jun
name: Liu, Zuxin
name: Xie, Guang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 3. The procedure code of grey relational grade analysis.
title: PLURELF: A project implementing plurilingualism and English as a Lingua Franca in English language teaching at university
Creators: name: Llurda, Enric
name: Cots, Josep M.
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2020

description: This paper presents a study on the implementation of a Business English university course aimed at promoting plurilingualism and English as a Lingua Franca (PLURELF). The course is inspired by research on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and the works on language diversity and plurilingual uses, such as those published by Creese, and Blackledge (2010; 2014), May (2013), and Pennycook, and Otsuji (2015), and by the literature claiming the need to incorporate a plurilingual or translanguaging perspective in education (e.g. Cenoz and Gorter 2013; 2015; García 2009; García and Li 2014; Kramsch 2012; Levine 2011). The PLURELF project relies on the hypothesis that the adoption of a plurilingual approach in English language teaching produces more positive results with regard to language development, intercultural awareness, and learners’ attitudes than traditional monolingual approaches, thus challenging the idea, deeply rooted in the theory and practice of ELT, that a monolingual native-based perspective is needed in order to effectively teach the language. This paper looks at the goals and methodology of the project and provides some of its key results.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 19 (2020): An Interdisciplinary Approach to English as a Lingua Franca
Oncideres guttulata Thomson 1868
Creators: name: Nearns, Eugenio H.
name: Tavakilian, Gérard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oncideres
Oncideres guttulata

description: Oncideres guttulata Thomson, 1868a: 84 (Fig. 90a, b)
Lectotype, male
 Type locality. Uruguay, Montevideo
 Remarks. This species was described from a series of syntype specimens. This specimen is herein designated as the lectotype in order to stabilize the taxonomy and facilitate further identifications of this species.
description: Published as part of Nearns, Eugenio H. & Tavakilian, Gérard L., 2015, Onciderini Thomson, 1860 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) types of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), with a brief history of the Coleoptera collection, pp. 1-47 in Insecta Mundi 2015 (459) on page 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5183066
The Metagovernance of Markets: The Politics of Water Management in Australia
Creators: name: Bell, Stephen
name: Quiggin, John
name: Bell, Stephen
name: Quiggin, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Political Economy
subject: National Water Initiative
subject: water governance
subject: Australia
subject: drought

description: Australia is the world's driest continent and the intensity of conflict over water and water management has been increasing , especially in rural areas. By focussing on the recent federalist compact, National Wa ter Initiative (NWI), we explore the use of market and property rights instruments in water governance in Australia . The question we explore is does the use of such market-based governance instruments imply a reduced role for the state, as new instruments displace previous top down or regulatory modes of governance? It is true that progress has been made in establishing a new property rights and market regime for water and that the operation of such markets has improved the technical efficiency of water usage. However, this paper challenges the view that the new market-based system of governance can be self-managing and thus obviate the need for substantial government involvement. In other words, we argue that the market regime requires substantial 'metagovernance'
Additional file of Genetic diversity and striatal gene networks: focus on the heterogeneous stock-collaborative cross (HS-CC) mouse
Creators: name: Iancu, Ovidiu D
name: Darakjian, Priscila
name: Walter, Nicole AR
name: Malmanger, Barry
name: Denesa Oberbeck
name: Belknap, John
name: McWeeney, Shannon
name: Hitzemann, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file of Genetic diversity and striatal gene networks: focus on the heterogeneous stock-collaborative cross (HS-CC) mouse
MOESM2 of Plasma volume expansion across healthy pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
Creators: name: Aguree, Sixtus
name: Gernand, Alison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 2. Plasma volume expansion for individual studies.
MOESM1 of Plasma volume expansion across healthy pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
Creators: name: Aguree, Sixtus
name: Gernand, Alison
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Quality score for each study by area of threat to validity and overall.
On the existence of a new family of Diophantine equations for $\bf Ω$
Creators: name: Ord, Toby
name: Kieu, Tien D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how to determine the $k$-th bit of Chaitin's algorithmically random real number $Ω$ by solving $k$ instances of the halting problem. From this we then reduce the problem of determining the $k$-th bit of $Ω$ to determining whether a certain Diophantine equation with two parameters, $k$ and $N$, has solutions for an odd or an even number of values of $N$. We also demonstrate two further examples of $Ω$ in number theory: an exponential Diophantine equation with a parameter $k$ which has an odd number of solutions iff the $k$-th bit of $Ω$ is 1, and a polynomial of positive integer variables and a parameter $k$ that takes on an odd number of positive values iff the $k$-th bit of $Ω$ is 1.
UWB-ED: Distance Enlargement Attack Detection in Ultra-Wideband
Creators: name: Singh, Mridula
name: Leu, Patrick
name: Abdou, AbdelRahman
name: Capkun, Srdjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mobile autonomous systems, robots, and cyber-physical systems rely on accurate positioning information. To conduct distance-measurement, two devices exchange signals and, knowing these signals propagate at the speed of light, the time of arrival is used for distance estimations. Existing distance-measurement techniques are incapable of protecting against adversarial distance enlargement---a highly devastating tactic in which the adversary reissues a delayed version of the signals transmitted between devices, after distorting the authentic signal to prevent the receiver from identifying it. The adversary need not break crypto, nor compromise any upper-layer security protocols for mounting this attack. No known solution currently exists to protect against distance enlargement. We present \textit{Ultra-Wideband Enlargement Detection} (UWB-ED), a new modulation technique to detect distance enlargement attacks, and securely verify distances between two mutually trusted devices. We analyze UWB-ED under an adversary that injects signals to block/modify authentic signals. We show how UWB-ED is a good candidate for 802.15.4z Low Rate Pulse and the 5G standard.
Span, chainability and the continua H* and I_u
Creators: name: Hart, K. P.
name: van der Steeg, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 54F15, Secondary: 03C98, 54B20, 54H12, 54D80

description: We show that the continua I_u and H* are non-chainable and have span nonzero. Under CH this can be strengthened to surjective symmetric span nonzero. We discuss the logical consequences of this.
description: 2004-03-11: corrected some typos, some parts rewritten
A Secure Dual-MCU Architecture for Robust Communication of IIoT Devices
Creators: name: Niedermaier, Matthias
name: Merli, Dominik
name: Sigl, Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has already become a part of our everyday life be it water supply, smart grid, or production, IIoT is everywhere. For example, factory operators want to know the current state of the production line. These new demands for data acquisition in modern plants require industrial components to be able to communicate. Nowadays, network communication in Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) is often implemented via an IP-based protocol. This intercommunication also brings a larger attack surface for hackers. If an IIoT device is influenced by attackers, the physical process could be affected. For example, a high network load could cause a high Central Processing Unit (CPU) load and influence the reaction time on the physical control side. In this paper, we introduce a dual Microcontroller Unit (MCU) setup to ensure a resilient controlling for IIoT devices like Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). We introduce a possible solution for the demand of secure architectures in the IIoT. Moreover, we provide a Proof of Concept (PoC) implementation with a benchmark and a comparison with a standard PLC.
Oncideres heterocera Thomson 1868
Creators: name: Nearns, Eugenio H.
name: Tavakilian, Gérard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oncideres
Oncideres heterocera

description: Oncideres heterocera Thomson, 1868a: 78 (Fig. 91a, b)
Lectotype, male
 Type locality. French Guiana, Cayenne
 Current name. Oncideres ulcerosa (Germar, 1824)
 Remarks. This species was described from a series of syntype specimens. This specimen is herein designated as the lectotype in order to stabilize the taxonomy and facilitate further identifications of this species. The type locality is believed to be erroneous as this species is known from southern Brazil and there are no modern records from French Guiana.
description: Published as part of Nearns, Eugenio H. & Tavakilian, Gérard L., 2015, Onciderini Thomson, 1860 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) types of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), with a brief history of the Coleoptera collection, pp. 1-47 in Insecta Mundi 2015 (459) on page 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5183066
Exact Relations for Twist-3 Gluon Distribution and Fragmentation Functions from Operator Identities
Creators: name: Koike, Yuji
name: Yabe, Kenta
name: Yoshida, Shinsuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a systematic study on the twist-3 gluon distribution and fragmentation functions which appear in the collinear twist-3 factorization for hard inclusive processes. Three types of twist-3 distribution and fragmentation functions, i.e., intrinsic, kinematical and dynamical ones, which are necessary to describe all kinds of twist-3 cross sections, are related to each other by the operator identities based on the QCD equation of motion and the Lorentz invariance properties of the correlation functions. We derive the exact relations for all twist-3 gluonic distribution and fragmentation functions for a spin-1/2 hadron. Those relations allow one to express intrinsic and kinematical twist-3 gluon functions in terms of the twist-2 and dynamical twist-3 functions, which provides a basis for the renormalization of intrinsic and kinematical twist-3 functions. In addition, those model independent relations are crucial to guarantee gauge invariance and frame independence properties of the twist-3 cross sections.
description: 27 pages
Additional file 1 of Genetic diversity and striatal gene networks: focus on the heterogeneous stock-collaborative cross (HS-CC) mouse
Creators: name: Iancu, Ovidiu D
name: Darakjian, Priscila
name: Walter, Nicole AR
name: Malmanger, Barry
name: Denesa Oberbeck
name: Belknap, John
name: McWeeney, Shannon
name: Hitzemann, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: This file contains additional figures detailing the data processing steps, including outlier sample removal and strip level normalization. (DOC 142 KB)
title: ELF feito no Brasil: expanding theoretical notions, reframing educational policies
Creators: name: Duboc, Ana Paula
name: Siqueira, Sávio
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2020

description: ELF studies have long established itself as a solid field of inquiry much as a response to the pioneering work of scholars such as Jenkins (2000; 2007; 2009; 2015) and Seidlhofer (2001; 2005; 2011). Its ripple effect in the last decades is made present mainly among European scholars who have highly contributed to the consolidation of the area. By embracing the decolonial notion of epistemic pluralism (Sousa Santos, 2007; 2018), this paper wishes to turn knowledge production on ELF of the global South visible. In doing so, we present a brief state-of-the-art on recent ELF research in Brazil, followed by an analysis on how such theoretical framework echoes in the recently launched Brazilian National Common Core Curriculum (BNCC) (Brasil 2017). As a country deeply forged under colonialism, coloniality traces are still strongly present in Brazil. By departing from decolonial studies (Castro Gómez 2007; Quijano 2007; Mignolo 2000; 2007; 2009a; 2009b; Walsh 2018), the expression ELF feito no Brasil (Duboc 2019) attempts to stress the expanding notion of ELF by contemporary Brazilian scholars who have put greater emphasis on the critical and political nature of English. Along with the increase in ELF studies in Brazil comes the need to analyze the place of ELF within the aforementioned BNCC, in particular, the very epistemological conflict that emerges from a standardized, top-down curriculum framed by a more fluid notion of language (Duboc 2019). In line with Bakhtinian thought, which acknowledges the dialogical and heteroglot nature of language, this paper advocates in favor of such epistemological conflicts, be them within the ELF research field or in ELF-based educational policies.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 19 (2020): An Interdisciplinary Approach to English as a Lingua Franca
Choosing the best forage species for a dairy farm: The whole-farm approach
Creators: name: Neal, Mark
name: Neal, James
name: Fulkerson, Bill
name: Neal, Mark
name: Neal, James
name: Fulkerson, Bill
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Dairy
subject: Forage
subject: Whole-farm
subject: Linear programming

description: Although a handful of forage species such as perennial ryegrass are predominant, there are a wide range of forage species that can be grown in sub tropical and temperate regions in Australia as dairy pastures. These species have differing seasonal yields, nutrient quality and water use efficiency characteristics, as demonstrated in a large study evaluating 30 species University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. Some species can be grazed, while others require mechanical harvesting that incurs a further cost. Previous comparisons of species that relied on yields of dry matter per unit of some input (typically land or water) cannot simultaneously take into account the season in which forage is produced, or other factors related to the costs of production and delivery to the cows. To effectively compare the profitability of individual species, or combinations of species, requires the use of a whole-farm model. Linear programming was used to find the most profitable mix of forage species for an irrigated dairy farm in an irrigation region of New South Wales, Australia. It was concluded that a typical farmer facing the prevailing milk and purchased feed prices with average milk production per cow would find a mix of species including large proportions of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) and prairie grass (Bromus willdenowii) was most profitable. The result was robust to changes in seasonal milk pricing and moving from year round to seasonal calving patterns.
Fabrication of porous anodic alumina (PAA) templates with straight pores and with hierarchical structures through exponential voltage decrease technique
Creators: name: Sacco, Leandro
name: Florea, Ileana
name: Cojocaru, Costel Sorin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The oxide barrier layer at the bottom of the pores has been successfully thinned by applying an exponential voltage decrease process followed by a wet chemical etching. The impact of the potential drop on the porous anodic alumina (PAA) structure has been deeply investigated, as well as the electrolyte temperature, the number of potential steps and the exponential decay rate. The results presented herein evidence that straight pores can be obtained and simultaneously remove the dielectric layer in spite of applying the exponential voltage decay during the PAA synthesis, through a smart adjustment between the anodization conditions and exponential voltage decay parameters. Additionally, the PAA structure can be tuned to fabricate hierarchically nanoporous templates with secondary pores ranging from 2 up to 10 branches. The presented simple procedure aims to become a standard step for the fabrication of the next generation PAA templates based devices.
Oncideres heterocera var. vicina Thomson 1868
Creators: name: Nearns, Eugenio H.
name: Tavakilian, Gérard L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Oncideres
Oncideres heterocera
Oncideres heterocera var. vicina thomson, 1868a: 79

description: Oncideres heterocera var. vicina Thomson, 1868a: 79 (Fig. 92a, b)
Holotype, female
 Type locality. Brazil
 Current name. Oncideres vicina Thomson, 1868
description: Published as part of Nearns, Eugenio H. & Tavakilian, Gérard L., 2015, Onciderini Thomson, 1860 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) types of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), with a brief history of the Coleoptera collection, pp. 1-47 in Insecta Mundi 2015 (459) on page 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5183066
Deviations from normal distributions in artificial and real time series: a false positive prescription
Creators: name: Morris, Paul J.
name: Chakraborty, Nachiketa
name: Cotter, Garret
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time series analysis allows for the determination of the Power Spectral Density (PSD) and Probability Density Function (PDF) for astrophysical sources. The former of these illustrates the distribution of power at various timescales, typically taking a power-law form, while the latter characterises the distribution of the underlying stochastic physical processes, with Gaussian and lognormal functional forms both physically motivated. In this paper, we use artificial time series generated using the prescription of Timmer & Koenig to investigate connections between the PDF and PSD. PDFs calculated for these artificial light curves are less likely to be well described by a Gaussian functional form for steep (= 0.82, for the calculated PDF to prefer a Gaussian functional form over a lognormal. We present possible choices of prior and evaluate the probability that PKS2155-304 has a lognormally distributed PDF for each.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: A critical review of ‘English’ in China’s English education: how far can Chinese teachers embrace ELF?
Creators: name: Wang, Ying
name: Wang, Yang-Yu
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2020

description: While ELF research offers implications for English pedagogy in non-native English contexts, research needs to be done to understand the feasibility of ELF-oriented classroom practices in specific local contexts to concretise a proposal for ELF pedagogy. We consider classroom teaching in the educational context where language policy interacts with language perceptions and practices, seeking to understand the extent to which Chinese teachers can embrace ELF. With a focus on teacher agency, the study explores language policy, classroom practice and teacher perspectives on English as a subject matter of English education. The findings point to the discussion of the interaction between teacher agency and policy constraints. The article ends with the suggestion that the approach to English in China's education policy should be reconsidered and that the debates on ELF in relation to Chinese speakers are necessary for possible changes in education policy.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 19 (2020): An Interdisciplinary Approach to English as a Lingua Franca
Conservation policies, environmental valuation and the optimal size of jurisdictions
Creators: name: Concu, Giovanni B
name: Concu, Giovanni B
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: federal regulation
subject: decentralised policies
subject: benefits spillovers
subject: environmental valuation
subject: choice modelling
subject: distance

description: The size of a jurisdiction is crucial in determining the efficiency, equity or efficacy of environmental regulations. However, jurisdictions are usually taken to coincide with political boundaries even if environmental externalities may transcend them. This paper illustrates the design and implementation of a Choice Modelling experiment to determine the spatial distribution of environmental benefits of Kings Park (Western Australia). The objective is to understand if federal, state or local resources are the appropriate form of funding a conservation policy. Results indicate that there are interstate spillovers of benefits, hence justifying federal contributions to Kings Park. They also show that some benefits are homogeneously spread within Western Australia, and this is an indication that state funding is also appropriate. Other benefits are distance-dependent; some level of local/council funding is warranted.
Theta-vacuum: Phase Transitions and/or Symmetry Breaking at $θ= π$
Creators: name: Azcoiti, V.
name: Galante, A.
name: Laliena, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assuming that a quantum field theory with a $θ$-vacuum term in the action shows non-trivial $θ$-dependence and provided that some reasonable properties of the probability distribution function of the order parameter hold, we argue that the theory either breaks spontaneously CP at $θ= π$ or shows a singular behavior at some critical $θ_c$ between 0 and $π$. This result, which applies to any model with a pure imaginary contribution to the euclidean action consisting in a quantized charge coupled to a phase, as QCD, is illustrated with two simple examples; one of them intimately related to Witten's result on SU(N) in the large $N$ limit.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, 2 references added, final version to appear in Progr. Theor. Phys
Native Grassland Conversion: the Roles of Risk Intervention and Switching Costs
Creators: name: Miao, Ruiqing
name: Hennessy, David A.
name: FENG, HONGLI
name: Miao, Ruiqing
name: Hennessy, David A.
name: FENG, HONGLI
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: conservation tillage
subject: crop insurance policy
subject: irreversibility
subject: native grassland
subject: sodbusting.

description: We develop a real option model of the irreversible native grassland conversion decision. Upon plowing, native grassland can be followed by either a permanent cropping system or a system in which land is put under cropping (respectively, grazing) whenever crop prices are high (respectively, low). Switching costs are incurred upon alternating between cropping and grazing. The effects of risk intervention in the form of crop insurance subsidies are studied, as are the effects of cropping innovations that reduce switching costs. We calibrate the model by using cropping return data for South Central North Dakota over 1989-2012. Simulations show that a risk intervention that offsets 20% of a cropping return shortfall increases the sod-busting cost threshold, below which native sod will be busted, by 41% (or $43.7/acre). Omitting cropping return risk across time underestimates this sod-busting cost threshold by 23% (or $24.35/acre) and hence underestimates the native sod conversion caused by crop production.
Adipose FoxO1 ablation tunes down Tgfβ1 signaling in adipocyte transdifferentiation.
Creators: name: Shi, Limin
name: Tao, Zhipeng
name: Zheng, Louise
name: Yang, Jinying
name: Hu, Xinran
name: Scott, Karen
name: de Kloet, Annette
name: Krause, Eric
name: Collins, James
name: Cheng, Zhiyong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 321004
subject: Nutritional science

description: (A) adO1KO mice exhibited downregulation of genes involved in Tgfβ1 signaling pathway in gonadal adipose tissue. (B–C) The effects of FoxO1 deletion on the key proteins Tgfbr2 and Smad3 in Tgfβ1 signaling pathway in gonadal adipose tissue, analyzed by Western blotting (B) and densitometry (C), n = 6. (D–G) The effects of Tgfβ1 and FoxO1 inhibition on iron import (TfR1) and export (ferroportin, Fpn) proteins, and beige marker Ucp1 protein in C3H/10T1/2 adipocytes, evaluated by Western blotting (D) and densitometry (E–G), n = 3. (H–J) The effects of Tgfβ1 and FoxO1 inhibition on cellular respiration control ratio (panel H), mitochondrial spare respiration capacity (panel I), and fatty acid oxidation activities (panel J) in C3H/10T1/2 adipocytes, analyzed by high resolution respiratory, n = 4. (K) Representative images (200x magnification) of C3H/10T1/2 adipocytes without treatment, treated with Tgfβ1, and co-treated with Tgfβ1 and FoxO1 inhibitor AS. (L) The effects of Tgfβ1 and FoxO1 inhibition on the size and population of lipid droplets in C3H/10T1/2 adipocytes, n = 4. *, p < 0.05; **, p < 0.01; ***, p < 0.001; n.s., not significant.
The Shadow Value of Legal Status--A Hedonic Analysis of the Earnings of U.S. Farm Workers
Creators: name: Wang, Sun Ling
name: Carroll, Daniel
name: Nehring, Richard
name: McGath, Christopher
name: Wang, Sun Ling
name: Carroll, Daniel
name: Nehring, Richard
name: McGath, Christopher
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Farm worker
subject: U.S. agriculture
subject: undocumented labor
subject: legal status
subject: hedonic analysis

description: The purpose of this study is to estimate the shadow price of the legal status of farm workers. A hedonic function in terms of farm work experience, gender, education level, language skill, and legal status is estimated with control variables for employer type, farm work type, as well as other geographical and time variables. The data is drawn from the National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS). The preliminary results show that while legal status did contribute significantly to the wage differences it is not the major factor. After taking account of the composition shift in demographic characteristics, the quality adjusted labor prices still doubled in the past two decades.
Choice modelling and laboratory experiments for non-market valuation: A framework
Creators: name: Concu, Giovanni B
name: Concu, Giovanni B
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: incentive-compatible
subject: stated preferences
subject: pivot process
subject: WTP/WTA disparity

description: The willingness to pay (WTP)/willingness to accept (WTA) disparity raises serious questions about preference elicitation techniques based on the Hicksian model of decision-making. In this paper we investigate the possibility of incorporating the strategies suggested by Plott and Zeiler (2005) in a Pivot Process mechanism and in a Choice Modelling experiment to eliminate the WTP/WTA disparity. The goal is to improve the reliability of the benefit estimates by comparing and contrasting these two methodologies. No methodological and analytical obstacles prevent the use the Pivot Process to calibrate the Choice Modelling estimates. By combining the two methods, a calibration procedure can be usefully developed to validate good hypothetical surveys and correct bad ones.
Scandinavian bed and rise times in the Age of Enlightenment and in the 21st century show similarity, helped by Daylight Saving Time
Creators: name: Martín-Olalla, José María
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A Letter to the Editor published in the Journal of Sleep Research
description: 3pages, 1figure, 740 words, RevTeX RMP format, longbibliography
Scaling and Universality in Continuous Length Combinatorial Optimization
Creators: name: Aldous, David
name: Percus, Allon G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider combinatorial optimization problems defined over random ensembles, and study how solution cost increases when the optimal solution undergoes a small perturbation delta. For the minimum spanning tree, the increase in cost scales as delta^2; for the mean-field and Euclidean minimum matching and traveling salesman problems in dimension d>=2, the increase scales as delta^3; this is observed in Monte Carlo simulations in d=2,3,4 and in theoretical analysis of a mean-field model. We speculate that the scaling exponent could serve to classify combinatorial optimization problems into a small number of distinct categories, similar to universality classes in statistical physics.
description: 5 pages; 3 figures
title: Building Rapport in BELF Communication: Solidarity Strategies in Business Emails
Creators: name: Caleffi, Paola-Maria
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2020

description: In the globalized market, business professionals use emails to communicate with customers, suppliers, and even colleagues who may be based in any part of the world, employing English as a business lingua franca (BELF). Despite the goal-oriented nature of business communication, rapport is “an essential element in the building and maintenance of strong work relations” (Pullin 2010, 456), and the achievement of business goals may be “dependent to some extent on the establishment of relations” (Pullin 2010, 458). However, nurturing interpersonal relationships may be difficult in intercultural business interactions (Spencer-Oatey and Xing 2003),especially in the case of business emailing, whose main aim is the rapid fulfillment of the task at hand. Based on a corpus of business email exchanges amongst BELF users of different L1s, this paper proposes a classification of ‘solidarity strategies’ (Köster 2006)aimed at building and nurturing rapport in email communication despite the pressure of getting the job done. It is argued that being less concerned with issues of accuracy in the target language, BELF email writers seem to pay more attention to the pragmatic needs of business communication, including that of building trust and common ground.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 19 (2020): An Interdisciplinary Approach to English as a Lingua Franca
title: Achieving mutual understanding in the global workplace: a questionnaire-based survey of BELF users’ perceptions and practices
Creators: name: Franceschi, Valeria
Publisher: name: Status Quaestionis
Year: 2020

description: Maintaining mutual understanding is one of the pillars of ELF communication, and even more so in the business context, where high-stakes interactions often take place. In order to achieve their communicative goals in and outside the professional context, ELF users engage in proactive, cooperative behavior to ensure that comprehension is achieved, employing a range of strategies to prevent or solve instances of miscommunication. This study aims at contributing to the investigation of workplace interactions by exploring BELF users’ perceptions and practices through a questionnaire-based survey including close-ended and Likert-scale questions. The survey, aimed at non-native speakers who use English as a Lingua Franca for professional purposes, focuses on both oral and digital interaction, analyzing these contexts separately due to their inherently different nature. Respondents, recruited through network sampling, were asked to identify what they perceive to be the essential aspects of successful communication and those that on the contrary may lead to mis- or non-understanding. The survey also aims at shedding light on which Communication Strategies users employ when faced with potential challenges, and at comparing preferences of use in different oral and digital media of communication.
description: Status Quaestionis, N. 19 (2020): An Interdisciplinary Approach to English as a Lingua Franca
title: Migrating a scientific application from MPI to Coarrays
Creators: name: Ashby, J V
name: Reid, JK
Publisher: name: STFC
Year: 2008
Subjects: Fortran
Engineering
PGAS languages
Coarrays

description: MPI is a de facto standard for portable parallel programming using a message passing paradigm. Interest is growing in other paradigms, in particular Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages such as Coarray Fortran, UPC and Titanium. Most Computational Science and Engineering codes are written in Fortran, and the 2008 Fortran standard will include coarrays, a Cray initiated PGAS extension of the language. We report on the experience of taking a moderately large CFD program and migrating it to a Cray X1E using coarrays rather than MPI. The MPI and coarray versions are compared, both for ease of programming and legibility, and for performance. We find that coarrays are a useful and expressive addition to Fortran, and that their use does not impact on performance. We discuss various ways in which the use of coarrays can be optimized in a program.
Value and Development Countermeasures for Modern Agriculture in Suzhou
Creators: name: Jin, Weidong
name: Jin, Weidong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: China’s economic developed areas (CEDAs)
subject: Modern agriculture
subject: Multi-functionality of agriculture
subject: Externality
subject: Ecosystem value
subject: Development countermeasures

description: With advance of urbanization and industrialization, modern agricultural development in China’s economic developed areas (CEDAs) is greatly restricted by traditional concept. To speed up the development of modern agriculture in CEDAs, this paper takes Suzhou City as an example from theories supporting modern agricultural development. It demonstrates agriculture in CEDAs plays an important role in adjusting supply of agricultural and sideline products, reserving rural labor employment, protecting ecological environment, increasing farmers’ income, and passing on agricultural culture. It contends that CEDAs should take reserving basic farmland as prerequisite; take adequate supply of primary agricultural products, protection of living environment, maintenance of agricultural landscape, and inheritance of farming culture as objectives; establish perfect modern agricultural system through firmly setting up modern agricultural value concept; increase local public finance input; increase agricultural functional value from technical and management levels, to realize increase of farmers’ income, promote sustainable development of agriculture, promote integrated urban and rural development, as well as harmonious development of human and nature.
MOESM5 of Variation in plastid genomes in the gynodioecious species Silene vulgaris
Creators: name: Krüger, Manuela
name: Oushadee Abeyawardana
name: Juříček, Miloslav
name: Krüger, Claudia
name: Štorchová, Helena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S4. The comparison of editing rates estimated by the GSNAP and the ChloroSeq pipeline. Mean values (±SD) calculated from six individuals are plotted, a 95% confidence band for the observed data is given in gray within plot