cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scalable Quantum Algorithms for Noisy Quantum Computers
Creators: name: Gacon, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computing not only holds the potential to solve long-standing problems in quantum physics, but also to offer speed-ups across a broad spectrum of other fields. However, due to the noise and the limited scale of current quantum computers, may prominent quantum algorithms are currently infeasible to run for problem sizes of practical interest. This doctoral thesis develops two main techniques to reduce the quantum computational resource requirements, with the goal of scaling up application sizes on current quantum processors. The first approach is based on stochastic approximations of computationally costly quantities, such as quantum circuit gradients or the quantum geometric tensor (QGT). The second method takes a different perspective on the QGT, leading to a potentially more efficient description of time evolution on current quantum computers. While the main focus of application for our algorithms is the simulation of quantum systems, the developed subroutines can further be utilized in the fields of optimization or machine learning. Our algorithms are benchmarked on a range of representative models, such as Ising or Heisenberg spin models, both in numerical simulations and experiments on the hardware. In combination with error mitigation techniques, the latter is scaled up to 27 qubits; into a regime that variational quantum algorithms are challenging to scale to on noisy quantum computers without our algorithms.
Measuring the Soft X-Ray Quantum Efficiency of a Hybrid CMOS Detector
Creators: name: Colosimo, Joseph M.
name: Falcone, Abraham D.
name: Wages, Mitchell
name: Hull, Samuel V.
name: LaRocca, Daniel M.
name: Burrows, David N.
name: Armstrong, Cole R.
name: McCormick, Gooderham
name: Range, Mitchell
name: Hancock, Fredric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Next-generation X-ray observatories, such as the Lynx X-ray Observatory Mission Concept or other similar concepts in the coming decade, will require detectors with high quantum efficiency (QE) across the soft X-ray band to observe the faint objects that drive their mission science objectives. Hybrid CMOS Detectors (HCDs), a form of active-pixel sensor, are promising candidates for use on these missions because of their fast read-out, low power consumption, and intrinsic radiation hardness. In this work, we present QE measurements of a Teledyne H2RG HCD, performed using a gas-flow proportional counter as a reference detector. We find that this detector achieves high QE across the soft X-ray band, with an effective QE of $94.6 \pm 1.1 \%$ at the Mn K$α$/K$β$ energies (5.90/6.49 keV), $98.3 \pm 1.9 \%$ at the Al K$α$ energy (1.49 keV), $85.6 \pm 2.8 \%$ at the O K$α$ energy (0.52 keV), and $61.3 \pm 1.1 \%$ at the C K$α$ energy (0.28 keV). These values are in good agreement with our model, based on the absorption of detector layers. We find similar results in a more restrictive analysis considering only high-quality events, with only somewhat reduced QE at lower energies.
description: 21 pages, 14 figures. Published in the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. This work is an expansion of arXiv:2110.01531
Amphasia interstitialis
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Amphasia
Amphasia interstitialis

description: Amphasia interstitialis (Say, 1823)
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Kent Co., West Greenwich, 21-VII-1997, 3 ex.; Newport Co., Conanicut Island, Jamestown, 8/ 9-VI-2012, 1 ex.
 Note: Collected under a stone near a man made pond and under bushes between dead leaves.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 205, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Amphasia sericea
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Amphasia
Amphasia sericea

description: Amphasia sericea (Harris, 1828)
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Westerly, Bradford, Grills Preserve, 6/ 7-VI-2008, 1 ex.; Wakefield, Truston Pond Wild Refuge, 1/ 2-VI-2007, 22 ex.; Block Island, 12/ 13-VI-2010, 4 ex.; Narragansett, Canonchet Farm, 7/ 8-VI-2013, 1 ex.; Newport Co., Conanicut Island, Jamestown, 8/ 9- VI-2012, 1 ex.; Providence Co., Scituate, Joslin Farm, 10/ 11-VI-2011, 1 ex.; Kent Co., Warwick, Rocky Point, 13/ 14-VI-2014, 12 ex.
 Note: Found in sandy areas among dense herbs.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 205, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
New evidence for a cosmological distribution of stellar mass primordial black holes
Creators: name: Hawkins, M. R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we show that to explain the observed distribution of amplitudes in a large sample of quasar lightcurves, a significant contribution from microlensing is required. This implies the existence of a cosmologically distributed population of stellar mass compact bodies making up a large fraction of the dark matter. Our analysis is based on the lightcurves of a sample of over 1000 quasars, photometrically monitored over a period of 26 years. The intrinsic variations in quasar luminosity are derived from luminous quasars where the quasar accretion disc is too large to be microlensed by stellar mass bodies, and then synthetic lightcurves for the whole sample are constructed with the same statistical properties. We then run microlensing simulations for each quasar with convergence in compact bodies appropriate to the quasar redshift assuming a $Λ$CDM cosmology. The synthetic lightcurve is then superimposed on the amplification pattern to incorporate the effects of microlensing. The distribution of the resulting amplitudes can then be compared with observation, giving a very close match. This procedure does not involve optimising parameters or fitting to the data, as all inputs such as lens mass and quasar disc size come from independent observations in the literature. The overall conclusion of the paper is that to account for the distribution of quasar lightcurve amplitudes it is necessary to include the microlensing effects of a cosmologically distributed population of stellar mass compact bodies, most plausibly identified as stellar mass primordial black holes.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, published in MNRAS
Stenolophus comma
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Stenolophus
Stenolophus comma

description: Stenolophus comma (Fabricius, 1775)
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Wakefield, Truston Pond Wild Refuge, 1/ 2-VI-2007, 7 ex.; Narragansett, Canonchet Farm, 7/ 8-VI-2013, 1 ex.; Newport Co., Conanicut Island, Jamestown, 8/ 9-VI-2012, 1 ex.; Kent Co., Warwick, Rocky Point, 13/ 14-VI-2014, 1 ex.
 Note: Found in wet gravel, pond shores, and wet bare soil.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 205, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Dynamically controlled double-well optical potential for colloidal particles
Creators: name: Martins, Thalyta Tavares
name: Muniz, Sérgio Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This preliminary study presents a simple modulation scheme to dynamically create time-averaged optical potentials to trap colloidal particles using acousto-optical modulation. The method provides access to control experimentally relevant parameters of a tunable double-well potential. We show experimental data successfully adjusting the trapping distance in the range 20-2000 nm and discuss situations arising when reconstructing time-averaged optical potentials from trapped particle data. This is the first step towards studying colloidal particles in dynamically modulated optical potentials to explore the stochastic thermodynamics of mesoscopic systems and small-scale thermo-mechanical machines.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, SBFoton-IOPC-2021 conference
Stenolophus lineola
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Stenolophus
Stenolophus lineola

description: Stenolophus lineola (Fabricius, 1775)
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Westerly, Bradford, Grills Preserve, 6/ 7-VI-2008, 1 ex., Wakefield, Truston Pond Wild Preserve, 1/ 2-VI-2007, 9 ex.; Block Island, 12/ 13-VI-2010, 1 ex.; Providence Co., Scituate, Joslin Farm, 10/ 11-VI-2011, 1 ex.; Newport Co., Conanicut Island, Jamestown, 8/ 9-VI-2012, 4 ex.; Kent Co., Warwick, Rocky Point, 13/ 14-VI-2014, 2 ex.
 Note: 1 ex. from Truston Pond retained by W.L. Krinsky. Collected in sandy disturbed ground.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 205, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Numerical solution to the time-independent Gross-Pitaevskii equation
Creators: name: Tsednee, Tsogbayar
name: Tsednee, Banzragch
name: Khinayat, Tsookhuu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We solve the time-independent Gross-Pitaevskii equation modeling the Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in an anistropic harmonic potential using a pseudospectral method. Numerically obtained values for an energy and a chemical potential for the condensate with positive and negative scattering length have been compared with those from the literature. The results show that they are in good agreement when an atomic interaction is not too strong.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Stenolophus ochropezus
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Stenolophus
Stenolophus ochropezus

description: Stenolophus ochropezus (Say, 1823)
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Wakefield, Truston Pond Wild Refuge, 1/ 2-VI-2007, 23 ex.; Block Island, 12/ 13-VI-2010, 19 ex.; Narragansett, Canonchet Farm, 7/ 8-VI-2013, 1 ex.; Providence Co., Scituate, Joslin Farm, 10/ 11-VI-2011, 1 ex.; Newport Co., Conanicut Island, Jamestown, 8/ 9-VI-2012, 8 ex.; Kent Co., Warwick, Rocky Point, 13/ 14-VI-2014, 1 ex.
 Note: Collected among moss and bare mud shores of vernal pools and streams.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 205, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
A Noncyclic Analysis of English Word Stress
Creators: name: Sainz, Susana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1988

description: Most theories of stress have accounted for the basic stress patterns of English by a
 combination of stress and destressing rules. As Kiparsky (1979) points out, Liberman and
 Prince's (L&P) (1977) stress rules assign metrical structure in the following four main
 steps: Assign [+/- stress] Assign "feet: Connect remaining nodes Label right branches iff they are branaching (at the relevant level) In the present study, however, we give some arguments in favour of a noncyclic application of English word stress rules within the framework of a level-ordered morphology. We deal exclusively with English derivational processes and argue (i) that level I morphology is the domain of word stress and destressing rules and (ii) that these rules apply in a noncyclic fashion, i.e., all level I affixation is done in one step before the stress and destressing rules apply. .
description: This paper is copyrighted, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) - see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Cumulants of the chiral order parameter at lower RHIC energies
Creators: name: Herold, Christoph
name: Limphirat, Ayut
name: Saikham, Poramin
name: Nahrgang, Marlene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study cumulants of the chiral order parameter as function of beam energy as a possible signal for the presence of a critical end point and first-order phase transition in the QCD phase diagram. We model the expansion of a heavy-ion collision by a fluid dynamic expansion coupled to the explicit propagation of the chiral order parameter sigma via a Langevin equation. We evolve the medium until a parametrized freeze-out condition is met where we calculate event-by-event fluctuations and cumulants of sigma which are expected to follow the trend of net-proton number cumulants. We emphasize the role of a nonequilibrium first-order phase transition: The presence of an unstable phase causes the well-known bending of the trajectories in the space of temperature and baryochemical potential. For these cases at lower beam energies, the system crosses the freeze-out line more than once, allowing us to calculate a range of cumulants for each initial condition which are overall enhanced for the second hit of the freeze-out line. We thus find not only the critical end point but also the phase transition of the underlying model clearly reflected in the cumulants. The impact of volume fluctuations is demonstrated to play a measurable role for fluid dynamical evolutions that last significantly long.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, ICNFP 2021. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2204.00286
Agonoleptus conjunctus
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Agonoleptus
Agonoleptus conjunctus

description: Agonoleptus conjunctus (Say, 1823)
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Westerly, Airport Road, 7-I-1992, 1 ex., 9-VII-2007, 1 ex.
 Note: Collected in an open dry sandy area.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 205, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Bradycellus rupestris
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Bradycellus
Bradycellus rupestris

description: Bradycellus rupestris (Say, 1823)
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Wakefield, Truston Pond Wild Refuge, 1/ 2-VI-2007, 2 ex.
 Note: Collected on dry cultivated soil.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 206, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Clinical progression of ocular injury following arsenical vesicant lewisite exposure
Creators: name: Tewari-Singh, Neera
name: Croutch, Claire R.
name: Tuttle, Richard
name: Goswami, Dinesh G.
name: Kant, Rama
name: Peters, Eric
name: Culley, Tara
name: Ammar, David A.
name: Enzenauer, Robert W.
name: J. Mark Petrash
name: Casillas, Robert P.
name: Agarwal, Rajesh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Ocular injury by lewisite (LEW), a potential chemical warfare and terrorist agent, results in edema of eyelids, inflammation, massive corneal necrosis and blindness. To enable screening of effective therapeutics to treat ocular injury from LEW, useful clinically-relevant endpoints are essential. Hence, we designed an efficient exposure system capable of exposing up to six New-Zealand white rabbits at one time, and assessed LEW vapor-induced progression of clinical ocular lesions mainly in the cornea. The right eye of each rabbit was exposed to LEW (0.2 mg/L) vapor for 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 and 10.0 min and clinical progression of injury was observed for 28 days post-exposure (dose–response study), or exposed to same LEW dose for 2.5 and 7.5 min and clinical progression of injury was observed for up to 56 days post-exposure (time–response study); left eye served as an unexposed control. Increasing LEW exposure caused corneal opacity within 6 h post-exposure, which increased up to 3 days, slightly reduced thereafter till 3 weeks, and again increased thereafter. LEW-induced corneal ulceration peaked at 1 day post-exposure and its increase thereafter was observed in phases. LEW exposure induced neovascularization starting at 7 days which peaked at 22–35 days post-exposure, and remained persistent thereafter. In addition, LEW exposure caused corneal thickness, iris redness, and redness and swelling of the conjunctiva. Together, these findings provide clinical sequelae of ocular injury following LEW exposure and for the first time establish clinically-relevant quantitative endpoints, to enable the further identification of histopathological and molecular events involved in LEW-induced ocular injury.
Acupalpus indistinctus Dejean 1831
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Acupalpus
Acupalpus indistinctus

description: Acupalpus indistinctus Dejean, 1831
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Westerly, Bradford, Grills Preserve, 6/ 7-VI-2008, 1 ex.
 Note: 1 ex. retained by UCONN RI Collection presently held by D.S. Sikes. Found under loose bark near a pond.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 206, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Adiabatic temperature change in ErAl2/metal PIT wires: A practical method for estimating the magnetocaloric response of magnetocaloric composites
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Takafumi D.
name: Takeya, Hiroyuki
name: Terashima, Kensei
name: Iwasaki, Suguru
name: de Castro, Pedro Baptista
name: Numazawa, Takenori
name: Takano, Yoshihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the adiabatic temperature change in ErAl2 magnetocaloric wires fabricated by a powder-in-tube (PIT) process. The adiabatic temperature change of the PIT wires is found to be determined by not only the volume fraction of ErAl2 core but also the magnitude relationship between the specific heat of the ErAl2 core and the metal sheath. We propose a quantitative analysis method for calculating the temperature and core volume fraction dependence of adiabatic temperature change in the PIT wire, whose formula is applicable to also various magnetocaloric composites, useful to estimate the magnetocaloric response prior to fabrication.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
Acupalpus pauperculus Dejean 1829
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Acupalpus
Acupalpus pauperculus

description: Acupalpus pauperculus Dejean, 1829
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Westerly, Bradford, Grills Preserve, 6/ 7-VI-2008, 3 ex.; Providence Co., Scituate, Joslin Farm, 10/ 11-VI-2011, 1 ex.
 Note: Collected between debris near a pond and in dense vegetation.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 206, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Philodes rectangulus
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Philodes
Philodes rectangulus

description: Philodes rectangulus (Chaudoir, 1868)
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Block Island, 12/ 13-VI-2010, 1 ex.
 Note: New to Block Island. Collected in an open space under a rock with wet soil.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 206, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Ab initio insights on photophysics of 9-methylhypoxanthine
Creators: name: Xugeng Guo
name: Huijuan Yuan
name: Qiuling Zhu
name: Beibei An
name: Jinglai Zhang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this work, the low-lying electronic singlet states of 9-methylhypoxanthine (9MHPX) were explored by the complete active space self-consistent-field (CASSCF) and complete active space second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2) calculations, and the conical intersections between the optically bright excited S1 state and ground S0 state were optimised by the two-root state-averaged SA-2-CASSCF approach. These studies indicate that four slightly different kinds of S1/S0 conical intersections are identified computationally for 9MHPX, corresponding to four main internal conversion pathways, respectively, all of which are found to show the comparable timescales according to dynamics simulations. At the CASPT2 level, four bright ππ* transitions of 9MHPX are calculated to locate at 4.47, 5.35, 5.97 and 6.30 eV, respectively, responsible for the available experimental absorption peaks of 9MHPX in the vapour phase (4.41, 5.19, 6.05 and 6.42 eV). Though one relatively weak ππ* transition computed at 5.69 eV is not observed in the vapour phase, it is in accordance with the circular dichroism measurement of another hypoxanthine derivative deoxyinosine 5'-phosphate near 5.51 eV.
Age-related variance in decisions under ambiguity is explained by changes in reasoning, executive functions, and decision-making under risk
Creators: name: Schiebener, Johannes
name: Brand, Matthias
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Previous literature has explained older individuals’ disadvantageous decision-making under ambiguity in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) by reduced emotional warning signals preceding decisions. We argue that age-related reductions in IGT performance may also be explained by reductions in certain cognitive abilities (reasoning, executive functions). In 210 participants (18–86 years), we found that the age-related variance on IGT performance occurred only in the last 60 trials. The effect was mediated by cognitive abilities and their relation with decision-making performance under risk with explicit rules (Game of Dice Task). Thus, reductions in cognitive functions in older age may be associated with both a reduced ability to gain explicit insight into the rules of the ambiguous decision situation and with failure to choose the less risky options consequently after the rules have been understood explicitly. Previous literature may have underestimated the relevance of cognitive functions for age-related decline in decision-making performance under ambiguity.
Harpalus affinis
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Harpalus
Harpalus affinis

description: Harpalus affinis (Schrank, 1781)
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Westerly 12-IV-2010, 1 ex.; Block Island, 12/ 13-VI-2010, 2 ex.
 Note: New to Block Island. Collected in gardens around houses on humus soil.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 206, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Harpalus compar LeConte 1847
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Harpalus
Harpalus compar

description: Harpalus compar LeConte, 1847
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Newport Co., Conanicut Island, Jamestown, 8/ 9-VI-2012, 1 ex.
 Note: Found in dry fields, pastures.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 206, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Harpalus erraticus Say 1823
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Harpalus
Harpalus erraticus

description: Harpalus erraticus Say, 1823
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Kent Co., West Greenwich, 3-IX-1994, 1 ex.
 Note: Collected in sandy areas.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 206, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Harpalus faunus Say 1823
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Harpalus
Harpalus faunus

description: Harpalus faunus Say, 1823
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Westerly 11-VII-1975, 2 ex., 30-VII-1975, 1 ex.
 Note: Collected in open sandy areas.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 206, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Harpalus herbivagus Say 1823
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Harpalus
Harpalus herbivagus

description: Harpalus herbivagus Say, 1823
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Westerly 1-VII-1975, 1 ex., 3-X-1975, 1 ex.; Newport Co., Conanicut Island, Jamestown, 8/ 9-VI-2012, 1 ex.
 Note: Found in gravel pits and open fields.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on pages 206-207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Harpalus pensylvanicus
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Harpalus
Harpalus pensylvanicus

description: Harpalus pensylvanicus (DeGeer, 1774)
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Westerly (inside a factory), 7-I-1992, 2 ex.; Westerly, Airport Road, 9-VII-2007, 1 ex.; Westerly, Bradford, Grills Preserve, 6/ 7-VI-2008, 1 ex.; Providence Co., Scituate, Joslin Farm, 10/ 11-VI-2011, 2 ex.; Kent Co., Warwick, Rocky Point, 13/ 14- VI-2014, 1 ex.
 Note: Collected in almost any kind of habitats.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
A Survey of Video-based Action Quality Assessment
Creators: name: Wang, Shunli
name: Yang, Dingkang
name: Zhai, Peng
name: Yu, Qing
name: Suo, Tao
name: Sun, Zhan
name: Li, Ka
name: Zhang, Lihua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.4.9; I.2.10

description: Human action recognition and analysis have great demand and important application significance in video surveillance, video retrieval, and human-computer interaction. The task of human action quality evaluation requires the intelligent system to automatically and objectively evaluate the action completed by the human. The action quality assessment model can reduce the human and material resources spent in action evaluation and reduce subjectivity. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of existing papers on video-based action quality assessment. Different from human action recognition, the application scenario of action quality assessment is relatively narrow. Most of the existing work focuses on sports and medical care. We first introduce the definition and challenges of human action quality assessment. Then we present the existing datasets and evaluation metrics. In addition, we summarized the methods of sports and medical care according to the model categories and publishing institutions according to the characteristics of the two fields. At the end, combined with recent work, the promising development direction in action quality assessment is discussed.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, conference paper
Clinical progression of ocular injury following arsenical vesicant lewisite exposure
Creators: name: Tewari-Singh, Neera
name: Croutch, Claire R.
name: Tuttle, Richard
name: Goswami, Dinesh G.
name: Kant, Rama
name: Peters, Eric
name: Culley, Tara
name: Ammar, David A.
name: Enzenauer, Robert W.
name: J. Mark Petrash
name: Casillas, Robert P.
name: Agarwal, Rajesh
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Ocular injury by lewisite (LEW), a potential chemical warfare and terrorist agent, results in edema of eyelids, inflammation, massive corneal necrosis and blindness. To enable screening of effective therapeutics to treat ocular injury from LEW, useful clinically-relevant endpoints are essential. Hence, we designed an efficient exposure system capable of exposing up to six New-Zealand white rabbits at one time, and assessed LEW vapor-induced progression of clinical ocular lesions mainly in the cornea. The right eye of each rabbit was exposed to LEW (0.2 mg/L) vapor for 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 and 10.0 min and clinical progression of injury was observed for 28 days post-exposure (dose–response study), or exposed to same LEW dose for 2.5 and 7.5 min and clinical progression of injury was observed for up to 56 days post-exposure (time–response study); left eye served as an unexposed control. Increasing LEW exposure caused corneal opacity within 6 h post-exposure, which increased up to 3 days, slightly reduced thereafter till 3 weeks, and again increased thereafter. LEW-induced corneal ulceration peaked at 1 day post-exposure and its increase thereafter was observed in phases. LEW exposure induced neovascularization starting at 7 days which peaked at 22–35 days post-exposure, and remained persistent thereafter. In addition, LEW exposure caused corneal thickness, iris redness, and redness and swelling of the conjunctiva. Together, these findings provide clinical sequelae of ocular injury following LEW exposure and for the first time establish clinically-relevant quantitative endpoints, to enable the further identification of histopathological and molecular events involved in LEW-induced ocular injury.
Production and Perception of the Voicing Contrast in Indian and American English
Creators: name: Davis, Katherine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1983

description: We measured VOT's of initial stops and tested stop identification in speakers of Indian English (Hind i
 bilinguals) and American English. Our measurements revealed significant inter- and intra-dialectal differences in distribution of VOT' s for the speakers, but only an interdialectal difference in identification patterns. Thus production of VOT can vary considerably within a general dialect group without affecting the uniformity of the group's perception norms.
description: This paper is copyrighted, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) - see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
DTA/14-2013 - Research Activity in Ny-Ålesund 2011-2012
Creators: name: CNR DTA-Dipartimento Terra E Ambiente
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 40101 Atmospheric Aerosols
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Atmospheric Sciences
subject: 40501 Biological Oceanography
subject: Climate Science
subject: Environmental Science
subject: 50206 Environmental Monitoring
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40402 Geodynamics

description: This volume and the scientific contributions herein, testify the variety of the scientific activities carried out by the Italian community and provides opportunity to continue in supporting research projects in the High North.
A 50 bp deletion in the SOD1 promoter lowers enzyme expression but is not associated with ALS in Sweden
Creators: name: Ingre, Caroline
name: Wuolikainen, Anna
name: Marklund, Stefan L.
name: Birve, Anna
name: Rayomand Press
name: Andersen, Peter M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Mutations in the superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene have been linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A 50 base pair (bp) deletion of SOD1 has been suggested to reduce transcription and to be associated with later disease onset in ALS. This study was aimed to reveal if the 50 bp deletion influenced SOD1 enzymatic activity, occurrence and phenotype of the disease in a Swedish ALS/control cohort. Blood samples from 512 Swedish ALS patients and 354 Swedish controls without coding SOD1 mutations were analysed for the 50 bp deletion allele. The enzymatic activity of SOD1 in erythrocytes was analysed and genotype-phenotype correlations were assessed. Results demonstrated that the genotype frequencies of the 50 bp deletion were all found to be in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. No significant differences were found for age of onset, disease duration or site of onset. SOD1 enzymatic activity showed a statistically significant decreasing trend in the control group, in which the allele was associated with a 5% reduction in SOD1 activity. The results suggest that the 50 bp deletion has a moderate reducing effect on SOD1 synthesis. No modulating effects, however, were found on ALS onset, phenotype and survival in the Swedish population.
Harpalus rubripes
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Harpalus
Harpalus rubripes

description: Harpalus rubripes (Duftschmid, 1812)
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Westerly, 20-VIII-1984, 1 ex., Hope Valley, 3-IX-1994, 1 ex.; Providence Co., Scituate, Joslin Farm, 10/ 11-VI-2011, 1 ex.
 Note: Collected in sandy soil with sparse vegetation.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Journal of Family Research, Vol 32 No 1 (2020)
Creators: name: Journal Of Family Research
Publisher: name: Journal of Family Research
Year: 2020

description: Grandparent-grandchild relationships and grandchildren's well-being after parental divorce in Flanders, Belgium. Does lineage matter?...1-24 Single mothers' contact frequency with family and non-family members...25-44 Family involvement in the context of chronic diseases: The role of social support in treatment decision-making for surgical procedures...45-71 The consequence of birth spacing for first- and second-born siblings’ long-term income rank: A restrictive two-child family approach...72-104 Influence of intrafamilial abuse in children's change of values towards their parents...105-122 The consequences of work-family conflict in families on the behavior of the child...123-144 Unemployment and separation: Evidence from five European countries...145-176
Evaluating the effectiveness of botanical sprays in controlling Aphids (Brevicoryne brassicae) on rape (Brassica napus L. )
Creators: name: Eshabel Andra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Botany
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Education
subject: 99901 Agricultural Engineering
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: Rape, Brassica napus (L) is widely grown in Zimbabwe. Rape aphids, Brevicoryne brassicae (Linn) is the most damaging pest on rape. The use of synthetic pesticides poses serious challenges to ecological and financial sustainability. The aqueous pesticidal plant extracts combinations of garlic and chilli were exploratory evaluated for efficacy and optimum dosage rate in controlling aphids on rape at Midlands State University. The experiment was arranged as a Randomised Complete Block design (RCBD) with six treatments i.e. 10g garlic + 10g chilli, 7.5 garlic + 7.5g chilli, 5g garlic + 5 g chilli, 2.5 g garlic + 2.5g chilli, Dimethoate 40% EC (positive control) and plain distilled water (negative control).The treatments were replicated six times. Cloves of garlic and chilli were pounded into a pulp in mortar. The extracts were prepared by mixing crude aqueous plant extracts and boiled distilled water at 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5 and 2% (w/v). Liquid soap was added at 0.1% in the mixture. Dimethoate was diluted at 0.1% (v/v). The extracts were kept for 24 hr at room temperature and sieved through nested sieves with aperture sizes of 710 and 250μm. Sprays were applied weekly once the aphids had naturally established within the crop. A systematic random sampling was used to select plants for aphid counting in each row with k-factor three from the net plot 24 hours post spraying. Aphid population data and yield were recorded. The results showed that botanical sprays significantly (p<0.05) affected aphid population and yield. There was a general decrease in aphid populations and an increase in yield with increase in crude aqueous extracts concentration, 10g garlic + 10g chilli recording the lowest aphid count and the highest yield. The study showed that Garlic and chilli extracts have some pesticidal effects on rape aphids.
Harpalus rufipes
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Harpalus
Harpalus rufipes

description: Harpalus rufipes (DeGeer, 1774)
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Block Island, 12/ 13-VI-2010, 2 ex.; Providence Co., Scituate, Joslin Farm, 10/ 11-VI-2011, 1 ex.
 Note: Collected in open forest, in gardens and abandoned cultivated fields.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Vowel Devoicing and Tone Recoverability in Cheyenne
Creators: name: Milliken, Stuart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Cheyenne has both vowel devoicing and tone. The resolution of the conflict between these two phenomena differs depending upon the position of the vowel in the word. The tone of a non-final devoiced vowel is lost completely (or, in some contexts, is inferable because of a particular tonal restriction on devoicing), whereas the tone of a final devoiced vowel is always recoverable. Leman [1981] claims that the mechanism of recoverability is special sandhi tones on the penult, which result from tonal assimilation rules applying prior to devoicing. In this paper I will present phonetic evidence that Leman's sandhi tones do not exist, and therefore that his analysis cannot correctly characterize the nature of tone recoverability in Cheyenne. An alternative autosegmental analysis will be proposed in terms of tone spreading, and an independently motivated accent will be suggested as an explanation for the difference in behavior between final and non-final tones.
description: This paper is copyrighted, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) - see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Perception of devoiced /sil/ and /syu/ in Japanese: The "segment" reconsidered
Creators: name: Beckman, Mary
name: Shoji, Atsuko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1983

description: We examined devoiced /si/ and /syu/ syllables in Japanese to see if their spectral and perceptual characteristic s conform to traditional accounts of speech production as a motor translation of discrete, static segments. Measurements of the lowest-frequency spectral prominences in the syllabic [J] of these syllables showed a spectral coloring of the fricative by the deleted vowel segment similar to fricative-vowel coarticulation in other languages. Perception tests showed that Japanese listeners can use this spectral coloring as a cue to the identity of the underlying vowel, although identification was substantially less than perfect, varying with the strength of the spectral coloring. These results suggest that a supposedly lower-level motor interaction between the fricative and the vowel can occur before a higher-level process deletes the vowel, contradicting the order implied by traditional accounts.
description: This paper is copyrighted, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) - see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Selenophorus granarius Dejean 1829
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Selenophorus
Selenophorus granarius

description: Selenophorus granarius Dejean, 1829
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Westerly, Airport Road, 6-VII-2007, 1 ex.
 Note: Collected in a side of a sand hill.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Where is Your App Frustrating Users?
Creators: name: Wang, Yawen
name: Wang, Junjie
name: Zhang, Hongyu
name: Ming, Xuran
name: Shi, Lin
name: Wang, Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: User reviews of mobile apps provide a communication channel for developers to perceive user satisfaction. Many app features that users have problems with are usually expressed by key phrases such as "upload pictures", which could be buried in the review texts. The lack of fine-grained view about problematic features could obscure the developers' understanding of where the app is frustrating users, and postpone the improvement of the apps. Existing pattern-based approaches to extract target phrases suffer from low accuracy due to insufficient semantic understanding of the reviews, thus can only summarize the high-level topics/aspects of the reviews. This paper proposes a semantic-aware, fine-grained app review analysis approach (SIRA) to extract, cluster, and visualize the problematic features of apps. The main component of SIRA is a novel BERT+Attr-CRF model for fine-grained problematic feature extraction, which combines textual descriptions and review attributes to better model the semantics of reviews and boost the performance of the traditional BERT-CRF model. SIRA also clusters the extracted phrases based on their semantic relations and presents a visualization of the summaries. Our evaluation on 3,426 reviews from six apps confirms the effectiveness of SIRA in problematic feature extraction and clustering. We further conduct an empirical study with SIRA on 318,534 reviews of 18 popular apps to explore its potential application and examine its usefulness in real-world practice.
Selenophorus hylacis
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Selenophorus
Selenophorus hylacis

description: Selenophorus hylacis (Say, 1823)
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Westerly, 2-VII-1975, 1 ex.; Providence Co., Scituate, Joslin Farm, 10/ 11-VI-2011, 6 ex.
 Note: This species occurs mainly in or near deciduous forest. It is frequent at lights and under bark.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554
Selenophorus opalinus
Creators: name: Ferreira, Raul Nascimento
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Selenophorus
Selenophorus opalinus

description: Selenophorus opalinus (LeConte, 1863)
 Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Wakefield, Truston Pond Wild Refuge, 1/ 2-VI-2007, 2 ex.
 Note: Collected in sandy ground under stones and leaves.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 207, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554