cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Two remarks on generalized entropy power inequalities
Creators: name: Madiman, Mokshay
name: Nayar, Piotr
name: Tkocz, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 94A17

description: This note contributes to the understanding of generalized entropy power inequalities. Our main goal is to construct a counter-example regarding monotonicity and entropy comparison of weighted sums of independent identically distributed log-concave random variables. We also present a complex analogue of a recent dependent entropy power inequality of Hao and Jog, and give a very simple proof.
description: arXiv:1811.00345 is split into 2 papers, with this being one
Requirement artefacts: finding the missing link, framework to support requirement traceability for software developers
Creators: name: Foziah Gazzawe
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software systems have essential software requirements in order to function and to provide value to users. Traceability is used by software developers to identify requirements and, in order to enhance this process, artefacts of the development process need to be linked to requirements. One problem related to working with artefacts is the potential ambiguity of information, resulting in inconsistency. This research aimed, therefore, to develop an understanding of requirement artefacts by defining them and identifying the conceptual links related to them, the stakeholders involved, the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and associated risks. This was done through the development of a conceptual framework to show the different types of relationships that exist throughout the SDLC. The data collection in this research involved two phases. First, a review of the literature was undertaken to identify gaps and case study interviews were conducted before the tool proposed in the research was implemented. The second phase of data collection took place after development of the tool and involved a focus group, observation and interviews to validate and evaluate the tool. As the research involved both quantitative and qualitative methods, a pragmatic approach was chosen.The framework of this research provides calculations of possible risk if any of the requirement artefacts were to be absent. Ontology models were also generated and the different scenarios show the different types of relationship. The concepts were then evaluated through the creation of a standalone tool developed to improve traceability for software developers. The testing was carried out with a company called Meshilogic, as it is a small-to-medium-sized enterprise with a frequent need to redesign its projects due to traceability issues. The evaluation was conducted on the basis of an interactive focus group. The feedback received during the research validated the importance of the tool and the concepts provided in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.This research makes theoretical and practical contributions. The theoretical contribution is the definition of the links and types of relationships between requirement artefacts. The practical contribution is the implementation of an ontology that includes different concepts related to requirement artefacts, such as stakeholders and risk. The framework was developed to help software project developers understand what artefacts are and how they link to each other, thus facilitating better traceability. It is also intended to help developers solve issues and decrease risk impact if any requirement artefacts are missing or there are misunderstandings regarding their use.
MOESM1 of RIPK1 suppresses apoptosis mediated by TNF and caspase-3 in intervertebral discs
Creators: name: Qiu, Xubin
name: Zhuang, Ming
name: Lu, Ziwen
name: Liu, Zhiwei
name: Cheng, Dong
name: Zhu, Chenlei
name: Liu, Jinbo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primer sequences for qRT-PCR experiments.
MOESM2 of RIPK1 suppresses apoptosis mediated by TNF and caspase-3 in intervertebral discs
Creators: name: Qiu, Xubin
name: Zhuang, Ming
name: Lu, Ziwen
name: Liu, Zhiwei
name: Cheng, Dong
name: Zhu, Chenlei
name: Liu, Jinbo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Sequences of shRIPK1s.
Counterfactual Statements and Weak Measurements: an Experimental Proposal
Creators: name: Molmer, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A recent analysis [quant-ph/0104062] suggests that weak measurements can be used to give observational meaning to counterfactual reasoning in quantum physics. A weak measurement is predicted to assign a negative unit population to a specific state in an interferometric Gedankenexperiment proposed by Hardy. We propose an experimental implementation with trapped ions of the Gedankenexperiment and of the weak measurement. In our standard quantum mechanical analysis of the proposal no states have negative population, but we identify the registration of a negative population by particles being displaced on average in the direction opposite to a force acting upon them.
Sharp transitions in rotating turbulent convection: Lagrangian acceleration statistics reveal a second critical Rossby number
Creators: name: Alards, Kim M. J.
name: Kunnen, Rudie P. J.
name: Stevens, Richard J. A. M.
name: Lohse, Detlef
name: Toschi., Federico
name: Clercx, Herman J. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In RB convection for fluids with Prandtl number $Pr\gtrsim 1$, rotation beyond a critical (small) rotation rate is known to cause a sudden enhancement of heat transfer which can be explained by a change in the character of the BL dynamics near the top and bottom plates of the convection cell. Namely, with increasing rotation rate, the BL signature suddenly changes from Prandtl--Blasius type to Ekman type. The transition from a constant heat transfer to an almost linearly increasing heat transfer with increasing rotation rate is known to be sharp and the critical Rossby number $Ro_{c}$ occurs typically in the range $2.3\lesssim Ro_{c}\lesssim 2.9$ (for Rayleigh number $Ra=1.3\times 10^9$, $Pr=6.7$, and a convection cell with aspect ratio $Γ=\frac{D}{H}=1$, with $D$ the diameter and $H$ the height of the cell). The explanation of the sharp transition in the heat transfer points to the change in the dominant flow structure. At $1/Ro\lesssim 1/Ro_c$ (slow rotation), the well-known LSC is found: a single domain-filling convection roll made up of many individual thermal plumes. At $1/Ro\gtrsim 1/Ro_c$ (rapid rotation), the LSC vanishes and is replaced with a collection of swirling plumes that align with the rotation axis. In this paper, by numerically studying Lagrangian acceleration statistics, related to the small-scale properties of the flow structures, we reveal that this transition between these different dominant flow structures happens at a second critical Rossby number, $Ro_{c_2}\approx 2.25$ (different from $Ro_{c_1}\approx 2.7$ for the sharp transition in the Nusselt number $Nu$; both values for the parameter settings of our present numerical study). When statistical data of Lagrangian tracers near the top plate are collected, it is found that the root-mean-square (rms) values and the kurtosis of the horizontal acceleration of these tracers show a sudden increase at $Ro_{c_2}$.
description: 16 pages, 9 Figures
Antigenotoxic and antimutagenic effects of Myrciaria dubia juice in mice submitted to ethanol 28-day treatment
Creators: name: Silva, Francisco Carlos Da
name: Picada, Jaqueline Nascimento
name: Romão, Natalia Faria
name: Sobral, Fabiana De Oliveira Solla
name: Lemos, Daniela
name: Schons, Sandro De Vargas
name: Taciane Letícia De Mello
name: Waldiene Melo Silva
name: Oliveira, Rafaela Da Silva
name: Lucas, Cláudia Perboni
name: Pereira, Patrícia
name: Vitor Clasen Chaves
name: Reginatto, Flavio Henrique
name: Ferraz, Alexandre De Barros Falcão
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Myrciaria dubia is a native plant from the Amazon region which produces red-purplish fruit rich in antioxidant compounds such as ascorbic acid, carotenoids, and phenolic. M. dubia fruit is used to prepare juices considered to possess high nutritional content providing health benefits. The aim of this study was to examine the ability of M. dubia juice to protect DNA against genomic instability induced by sub-acute ethanol consumption attributed to oxidative stress. Mice were treated for 28 days with juice at 25% and 50% diluted in distilled water or with the diluted combination juice plus ethanol (5 g/kg). The genotoxic/antigenotoxic and mutagenic/antimutagenic effects were assessed using comet assay in blood, liver, and kidney and micronucleus (MN) test with bone marrow. In addition, the mutagenicity was also evaluated using Salmonella/microsome assay. Phytochemical compounds were determined using HPLC/PDA/MS/MS. The juice did not induce genotoxic effects in blood, kidney, and liver cells at both doses. In combination with ethanol, the juice reduced the alcohol-mediated DNA damage in all tissues analyzed. Further, the juice did not produce mutagenic effects and decreased mutagenicity induced by ethanol in the bone marrow. The anthocyanins were major compounds detected by HPLC/PDA/MS/MS, which modulated genotoxic and mutagenic effects initiated by ethanol and at least in part appeared responsible for the observed antigenotoxic and antimutagenic effects of M. dubia juice.
Ultraviolet Signatures of the Multiphase Intracluster and Circumgalactic Media in the RomulusC Simulation
Creators: name: Butsky, Iryna S.
name: Burchett, Joseph N.
name: Nagai, Daisuke
name: Tremmel, Michael
name: Quinn, Thomas R.
name: Werk, Jessica K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quasar absorption-line studies in the ultraviolet (UV) can uniquely probe the nature of the multiphase cool-warm (10^4 < T < 10^6 K) gas in and around galaxy clusters, promising to provide unprecedented insights into 1) interactions between the circumgalactic medium (CGM) associated with infalling galaxies and the hot (T > 10^6 K) X-ray emitting intracluster medium (ICM), 2) the stripping of metal-rich gas from the CGM, and 3) a multiphase structure of the ICM with a wide range of temperatures and metallicities. In this work, we present results from a high-resolution simulation of a ~10^14 solar mass galaxy cluster to study the physical properties and observable signatures of this cool-warm gas in galaxy clusters. We show that the ICM becomes increasingly multiphased at large radii, with the cool-warm gas becoming dominant in cluster outskirts. The diffuse cool-warm gas also exhibits a wider range of metallicity than the hot X-ray emitting gas. We make predictions for the covering fractions of key absorption-line tracers, both in the ICM and in the CGM of cluster galaxies, typically observed with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We further extract synthetic spectra to demonstrate the feasibility of detecting and characterizing the thermal, kinematic, and chemical composition of the cool-warm gas using H I, O VI, and C IV lines, and we predict an enhanced population of broad Ly-alpha absorbers tracing the warm gas. Lastly, we discuss future prospects of probing the multiphase structure of the ICM beyond HST.
description: 15 pages, 12 figures
Evolution of strangeness in equilibrating and expanding quark-gluon plasma
Creators: name: Pal, Dipali
name: Sen, Abhijit
name: Mustafa, Munshi G.
name: Srivastava, Dinesh K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the strangeness production from equilibrating and transversely expanding quark gluon plasma which may be created in the wake of relativistic heavy ion collisions. We consider boost invariant longitudinal and cylindrically symmetric transverse expansion of a gluon dominated partonic plasma, which is in local thermal equilibrium. Initial conditions obtained from the self screened parton cascade model are used. We empirically find that the final extent of the partonic equilibration rises almost linearly with the square of the initial energy density. This along with the corresponding variation with the number of participants may help us distinguish between various models of parton production.
description: RevTex, 10 pages including 6 figures comprising 11 postscript files, text modified considerably with an added figure (Fig. 6) and this version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. C
Cryptopecten nux
Creators: name: Raines, Bret
name: Huber, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Pectinida
Pectinidae
Cryptopecten
Cryptopecten nux

description: Cryptopecten nux (Reeve 1853)
Figures 16 H–I
 Pecten coruscans Reeve, 1853: sp. 143, pl. 32, fig. 143, non Hinds, 1845.
 Pecten nux Reeve, 1853: errata page.
 Cryptopecten nux (Reeve 1853) — Raines & Poppe, 2006: p. 312, pl. 276; Raines, 2007: p. 82; Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2008: p. 109; Tröndlé & Boutet, 2009: p. 6; Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2010: p. 350; Huber, 2010: p. 203, fig. 11.
 Material examined. Over a dozen single valves, including juveniles from EI (BK), plus specimens from Australia (MHU), Marquesas Islands (MHU), Okinawa (BK) and the Philippines (MHU).
 Diagnosis. Shell small, solid, globose and inequilateral; RV more convex than LV. Both valves with 16–19 ribs equally pronounced; LV sometimes ornamented with short squamae. Auricles very unequal. Coloration moderately variable from white to creamy background, with irregular reddish-brown or purplish markings.
 Remarks. Cryptopecten nux was first recorded from Easter Island by Raines (2007). Its identification can sometimes be difficult and subadult specimens are often misidentified as C. bernardi (Philippi, 1851). However, the distribution of C. bernardi is restricted to the French Polynesian region, see Dijkstra (1991).
 Habitat. Commonly found at many locations around EI, in sand, from 30–80 m.
 Distribution. Cryptopecten nux has been widely reported throughout the Indo-Pacific to include southern and eastern Africa, the Red Sea, Oman, Seychelles, Andaman Islands, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, New Caledonia, northern and eastern Australia, Solomon Islands, Loyalty Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Marquesas Islands, Austral Islands, Lord Howe Island, and Easter Island. However, it is not known from the Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand or the Kermadec Islands— E4.
description: Published as part of Raines, Bret & Huber, Markus, 2012, 3217, pp. 1-106 in Zootaxa 3217 on page 35
Tortula muralis subsp. obtusifolia Culm.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Tortula
Tortula muralis
Tortula muralis subsp. obtusifolia (schwägr.) culm.

description: Tortula muralis subsp. obtusifolia (Schwägr.) Culm.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Tiaret. Jelenc (1955a): Boghni; Djurdjura. Jelenc (1955b): sine loco. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 104, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Long-Term X-Ray Variabilities of the Seyfert Galaxy MCG-2-58-22 : Secular Flux Decrease and Flares
Creators: name: Choi, Chul-Sung
name: Dotani, Tadayasu
name: Chang, Heon-Young
name: Yi, Insu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the long-term X-ray light curve (2$-$10 keV) of the luminous Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-2-58-22 by compiling data, from various X-ray satellites, which together cover more than 20 years. We have found two distinct types of time variations in the light curve. One is a gradual and secular decrease of the X-ray flux, and the other is the episodic increase of X-ray flux (or flare) by a factor of 2$-$4 compared with the level expected from the secular variation. We detected 3 such flares in total; a representative duration for the flares is $\sim $2 years, with intervening quiescent intervals lasting $\sim 6-8$ years. We discuss a few possible origins for these variabilities. Though a standard disk instability theory may explain the displayed time variability in the X-ray light curve, the subsequent accretions of stellar debris, from a tidal disruption event caused by a supermassive black hole in MCG-2-58-22, cannot be ruled out as an alternative explanation.
description: 11 pages, 1 eps figure, accepted for publication in Journal of the Korean Astronomical Society(JKAS)
Learning Latent Dynamics for Partially-Observed Chaotic Systems
Creators: name: Ouala, Said
name: Nguyen, Duong
name: Drumetz, Lucas
name: Chapron, Bertrand
name: Pascual, Ananda
name: Collard, Fabrice
name: Gaultier, Lucile
name: Fablet, Ronan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper addresses the data-driven identification of latent dynamical representations of partially-observed systems, i.e., dynamical systems for which some components are never observed, with an emphasis on forecasting applications, including long-term asymptotic patterns. Whereas state-of-the-art data-driven approaches rely on delay embeddings and linear decompositions of the underlying operators, we introduce a framework based on the data-driven identification of an augmented state-space model using a neural-network-based representation. For a given training dataset, it amounts to jointly learn an ODE (Ordinary Differential Equation) representation in the latent space and reconstructing latent states. Through numerical experiments, we demonstrate the relevance of the proposed framework w.r.t. state-of-the-art approaches in terms of short-term forecasting performance and long-term behaviour. We further discuss how the proposed framework relates to Koopman operator theory and Takens' embedding theorem.
Career Blog as a Distance Guidance Tool by Libraries: A Case Study of Asmita College Library
Creators: name: Rakshikar, Nidhi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: The right career advice can help a person to choose a career to suit individual personality as well as his aspirations. College libraries can contribute much towards providing career information services. Web 2.0 is the best medium to interact with youth and to know their changing expectations from academic libraries. The present case study of Asmita college library highlights the role played by the library in career guidance activities through the use of a blog to provide innovative career information services.
Laevichlamys squamosa
Creators: name: Raines, Bret
name: Huber, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Pectinida
Pectinidae
Laevichlamys
Laevichlamys squamosa

description: Laevichlamys squamosa (Gmelin, 1791)
Figures 16 J–K
 Ostrea squamosa Gmelin, 1791: p. 3319.
 Laevichlamys squamosa (Gmelin, 1791) — Raines, 2002: p. 33, fig. 38; Raines & Poppe, 2006: p. 208, pls. 151–152; Tröndlé & Boutet, 2009: p. 6; Huber, 2010: p. 208.
 Material examined. Several single valves from EI (BK), plus specimens from Australia (BK), Fiji (BK), Marquesas Islands (MHU), Okinawa (BK) and the Philippines (MHU).
 Diagnosis. Shell small, thin and flattish; RV only slightly convex, with as much as 20 low, narrow ribs and finely scaled; LV flattened with 12–15 low, narrow ribs which are coarsely scaled. Scales are often partly worn away. Auricles unequal. Color extremely variable from brownish black, white, purple, red, orange, yellow with white zigzag pattern or speckles.
 Remarks. Since the first report of this species from EI by Raines (2002), only two other valves have been collected. Although adults will typically reach 40–50 mm in height, the largest found at EI has only been 25 mm.
 Habitat. Occasionally found at many locations around EI, in sand, from 30–80 m.
 Distribution. Laevichlamys squamosa is found throughout the Indo-Pacific region to include eastern Africa, Japan, Philippines, Australia, Marquesas Islands, Society Islands and Easter Island. However, it is not known from the Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand and the Kermadec Islands— E4.
description: Published as part of Raines, Bret & Huber, Markus, 2012, 3217, pp. 1-106 in Zootaxa 3217 on page 36
Comparing the Structure, Size, and Performance of Local and Mainstream Food Supply Chains
Creators: name: King, Robert P.
name: Hand, Michael S.
name: DiGiacomo, Gigi
name: Clancy, Kate
name: Gomez, Miguel I.
name: Hardesty, Shermain D.
name: Lev, Larry
name: McLaughlin, Edward W.
name: King, Robert P.
name: Hand, Michael S.
name: DiGiacomo, Gigi
name: Clancy, Kate
name: Gomez, Miguel I.
name: Hardesty, Shermain D.
name: Lev, Larry
name: McLaughlin, Edward W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Local foods
subject: case studies
subject: direct marketing
subject: intermediated supply chains
subject: farm-to-retail
subject: farm-to-school
subject: farmers markets
subject: food miles

description: A series of coordinated case studies compares the structure, size, and performance of local food supply chains with those of mainstream supply chains. Interviews and site visits with farms and businesses, supplemented with secondary data, describe how food moves from farms to consumers in 15 food supply chains. Key comparisons between supply chains include the degree of product differentiation, diversification of marketing outlets, and information conveyed to consumers about product origin. The cases highlight differences in prices and the distribution of revenues among supply chain participants, local retention of wages and proprietor income, transportation fuel use, and social capital creation.
Tortula revolvens G. Roth 1904
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Tortula
Tortula revolvens

description: Tortula revolvens (Schimp.) G.Roth
RECORDS. — Corbière (1905), Jelenc (1955a): Environs de Constantine, djebel Chettabah. Jelenc (1951): Tell oranais, forêt de Moulay Ismael, 110- 120 m. Jelenc (1955a): Alger; Ben Chicao; Blida; Médéa. Collenot et al. (1960): Tassili N’Aijer, Afaïtalèsse. Ros & Guerra (1987a): El Kantara. Ros et al. (1990): Oued Rhiou. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 104, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Coordination Issues in Thailand's Broiler Value Chain
Creators: name: Voeun, Soma
name: Griffith, Garry
name: Voeun, Soma
name: Griffith, Garry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Poultry production (predominately broilers) is the most important livestock industry in Thailand. It is the major source of meat and generates substantial employment and income. There are a number of different production systems ranging from modern integrated commercial systems to smallholder production systems. However, the Thai poultry value chain, in general, suffers from several major issues or constraints affecting value chain coordination. These problems include reduced availability and rising prices of feedgrains, poor infrastructure, and food safety issues. For feedgrains, more research into more productive crops and alternative crops is likely to help. Regarding social and physical infrastructure, the government could usefully play a greater role in building more road networks, setting up power grids and securing water sources. Finally, food safety concerns can be resolved by upgrading the value chain to closed production systems, focussing on biosecurity measures and compartmentalization.
Using Continuous Improvement and Innovation Principles for Strategic Planning in a Government Department
Creators: name: Griffith, G.R.
name: Mullen, J.D.
name: Griffith, G.R.
name: Mullen, J.D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Continuous improvement and innovation
subject: process
subject: strategy
subject: planning
subject: action

description: Continuous Improvement and Innovation (CI&I) is both a management process and a management strategy. In this paper we describe how CI&I principles have been used in a strategic planning context by the research economists’ group in the NSW Department of Primary Industries. We provide some background on the development of CI&I as a management concept and describe the steps involved in implementing the CI&I process in this context. We conclude with some observations about the usefulness of this approach for planning in a government department.
Fresh inflation with increasing cosmological parameter
Creators: name: Bellini, Mauricio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I study a fresh inflationary model with an increasing F-cosmological parameter. The model provides sufficiently e-folds to solve the flatness/horizon problem and the density fluctuations agree with experimental values. The temperature increases during fresh inflation and reach its maximum value when inflation ends. I find that entropy perturbations always remain below $10^{-4}$ during fresh inflation and become negligible when fresh inflation ends. Hence, the adiabatic fluctuations dominate the primordial spectrum at the end of fresh inflation.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures (accepted in Phys. Rev. D)
Reliability and Safety Modeling of a Digital Feed Water Control System
Creators: name: Khairullah, Shawkat S.
name: Mostfa, Ahmed A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Much digital instrumentation and control systems embedded in the critical medical healthcare equipment aerospace devices and nuclear industry have obvious consequence of different failure modes. These failures can affect the behavior of the overall safety critical digital system and its ability to deliver its dependability attributes if any defected area that could be a hardware component or software code embedded inside the digital system is not detected and repaired appropriately. The safety and reliability analysis of safety critical systems can be accomplished with Markov modeling techniques which could express the dynamic and regenerative behavior of the digital control system. Certain states in the system represent system failure while others represent fault free behavior or correct operation in the presence of faults. This paper presents the development of a safety and reliability modeling of a digital feedwater control system using Markov based chain models. All the Markov states and the transitions between these states were assumed and calculated from the control logic for the digital control system. Finally based on the simulation results of modeling the digital feedwater control system the system does meet its reliability requirement with the probability of being in fully operational states is 0.99 over a 6 months time.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, conference
Tortula schimperi M. J. Cano, O. Werner & J. Guerra
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Tortula
Tortula schimperi

description: Tortula schimperi M.J.Cano, O.Werner & J.Guerra
RECORDS. — Bizot (1973): Djebel Belezma à 15 km à l’ouest de Batna. Very rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 104, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Additional file 14: of Identification of cucumber circular RNAs responsive to salt stress
Creators: name: Zhu, Yong-Xing
name: Jia, Jian-Hua
name: Yang, Lei
name: Xia, Yu-Chen
name: Zhang, Hui-Li
name: Jia, Jin-Bu
name: Zhou, Ran
name: Nie, Pei-Yao
name: Yin, Jun-Liang
name: Ma, Dong-Fang
name: Liu, Le-Cheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S2. Chromosome length versus circRNA number. (DOCX 81 kb)
Pascahinnites pasca
Creators: name: Raines, Bret
name: Huber, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Pectinida
Pectinidae
Pascahinnites
Pascahinnites pasca

description: Pascahinnites pasca (Dall, 1908)
Figures 17 A–H
 Pecten (Chalmys) [sic] pasca Dall, 1908: p. 401.
 Chlamys pasca (Dall, 1908) — Rehder, 1980: p. 109, pl. 13, figs. 3–6.
 Pascahinnites pasca (Dall, 1908) — Dijkstra & Raines, 1999: p. 200, figs. 1–2; Raines & Poppe, 2006: p. 222, pl. 170, figs 1–4; Tröndlé & Boutet, 2009: p. 6; Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2010: p. 339, figs. 3 L–M.
 Material examined. Over one hundred articulated specimens and single valves (3.2 to 19.6 mm) (BK).
 Diagnosis. Chlamydoid shell, small (up to 20 mm in height), slightly equivalve and equilateral; umbonal angle ca. 90–95 o. Left valve with 12–14 prominent primary radial ribs, and numerous intercalated secondary ribs toward the ventral margin. Shagreen microsculpture throughout except on crest of ribs, where fine spines may be present. Radial ribs of RV bi- or tripartite, and weaker and less angulated than those of the LV. Auricles unequal in size (anterior larger than posterior), with small prickly radial riblets, more prominent on anterior auricle. In juveniles and subadults, byssal notch moderately deep, with active well developed ctenolium consisting of 4–6 teeth. Valves of mature specimens distort after 9–11 mm, due to changes in preferred habitat. Color variable, whitish, creamy, yellowish or rose-pink with spots and/or streaks; RV paler than LV.
 Remarks. Adults up to about 10 mm are either free swimming or byssally attached. Once mature they appear to prefer colder water and live cemented to hard substratum. This change in habitat tends to strongly distort the valves in order to accommodate the surface of the selected substrate.
 Habitat. Commonly found at many locations around EI and SyG, from 10–150 m. Free swimming or byssally attached as juveniles in shallow water (10–30 m), while adults are cemented to substratum below 50 m.
 Distribution. Pascahinnites pasca was previously thought to be endemic to EI and SyG, but it has been recently recorded from the Austral Islands as well, Dijkstra and Maestrati (2010) — E4.
description: Published as part of Raines, Bret & Huber, Markus, 2012, 3217, pp. 1-106 in Zootaxa 3217 on pages 36-37
Tortula solmsii Limpr.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Tortula
Tortula solmsii

description: Tortula solmsii (Schimp.) Limpr.
RECORDS. — Jelenc (1955a): Alger. Very rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 104, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Arbitrary Diffraction Engineering with Multilayered Multielement Metagratings
Creators: name: Rabinovich, Oshri
name: Epstein, Ariel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically formulate and experimentally demonstrate an analytical formalism for the design of printed circuit board (PCB) metagratings (MGs) exercising individual control over the amplitude and phase of numerous diffracted modes, in both reflection and transmission. Lately, these periodic arrangements of subwavelength polarizable particles (meta-atoms) were shown to deflect an incoming plane wave to prescribed angles with very high efficiencies, despite their sparsity with respect to conventional metasurfaces. Nonetheless, most reported MGs were designed based on full-wave optimization of the meta-atoms, with the scarce analytical schemes leading directly to realizable devices were restricted to single-layer reflecting structures, controlling only the partition of power. In this paper, we present an analytical model for plane-wave interaction with a general multilayered multielement MG, composed of an arbitrary number of meta-atoms distributed across an arbitrary number of layers in a given stratified media configuration. For a desired (forward and backward) diffraction pattern, we formulate suitable constraints, identify the required number of degrees of freedom, and correspondingly set them to yield a detailed MG configuration implementing the prescribed functionality; no full-wave optimization is involved. To verify and demonstrate the versatility of this systematic approach, fabrication-ready multilayer PCB MGs for perfect anomalous refraction and non-local focusing are synthesized, fabricated, and experimentally characterized, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, indicating very good correspondence with theoretical predictions. This appealing semianalytical methodology is expected to accelerate the development of MGs and extend the relevant range of applications, yielding practical MG designs on demand for arbitrary beam manipulation.
description: 16 pages, 16 figures
Direct observation of hole carrier density profiles and their light induced manipulation at the surface of Ge
Creators: name: Prokscha, T.
name: Chow, K. H.
name: Salman, Z.
name: Stilp, E.
name: Suter, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that, by using low-energy positive muon ($μ^+$) spin spectroscopy as a local probe technique, the profiles of free charge carriers can be directly determined in the accumulation/depletion surface regions of p- or n-type Ge wafers. The detection of free holes is accomplished by measuring the effect of the interaction of the free carriers with the $μ^+$ probe spin on the observable muon spin polarization. By tuning the energy of the low-energy $μ^+$ between 1 keV and 20 keV the near-surface region between 10 nm and 160 nm is probed. We find hole carrier depletion and electron accumulation in all samples with doping concentrations up to the $10^{17}$ cm$^{-3}$ range, which is opposite to the properties of cleaved Ge surfaces. By illumination with light the hole carrier density in the depletion zone can be manipulated in a controlled way. Depending on the used light wavelength $λ$ this change can be persistent ($λ= 405, 457$ nm) or non-persistent ($λ= 635$ nm) at temperatures $< 270$ K. This difference is attributed to the different kinetic energies of the photo-electrons. Photo-electrons generated by red light do not have sufficient energy to overcome a potential barrier at the surface to be trapped in empty surface acceptor states. Compared to standard macroscopic transport measurements our contact-less local probe technique offers the possibility of measuring carrier depth profiles and manipulation directly. Our approach may provide important microscopic information on a nanometer scale in semiconductor device studies.
A review on nickel(II) adsorption in single and binary component systems and future path
Creators: name: Md. Aminul Islam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Chemistry
subject: 39901 Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry)
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30603 Colloid and Surface Chemistry

description: Water polluted with heavy-metal ion has been a major problem in recent years. Among various metal ions, nickel (II) is a priority pollutant commonly found in industrial wastewater. As a highly toxic element at an elevated concentration, Ni(II) can pose a serious threat to our ecological environment as well as human being. Ni(II) adsorption from wastewater is a must for environmental management and sustainability. Remediation of Ni(II) contaminated water is possible through adsorption onto various innovative adsorbents from the aquatic environment. The current review looks at the present status of the research done so far Ni(II) adsorption using various adsorbents from wastewater. Ni(II) adsorption kinetics, edges, isotherm, thermodynamic parameters, and Ni(II) adsorption mechanism have also been talked over. Efforts have also been made to steer out of the advantages and disadvantages of adsorbents and the future research need in Ni(II) adsorption by adsorbents. Agricultural based substrates and nanosized metal oxides have been found a hopeful alternative for Ni(II) adsorption from wastewater. The Ni(II) primarily adsorbed onto a homogeneous substrate forming a monolayer. Ni (II) generally formed outer-sphere complexes at low pH values while it formed inner-sphere complexes at higher pH. More than one species is being sorbed, or more than one type of surface site is involved in Ni(II) adsorption process or both. However, significant research is needed to understand Ni(II)-surface interaction mechanism at the solid-water interface. This review can fill the lacuna of researchers who would like to do more research in this related area in depth.
Offshell effects in electromagnetic reactions on the deuteron
Creators: name: Schwamb, Michael
name: Arenhoevel, Hartmuth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Offshell contributions to the electromagnetic nuclear current are evaluated within a nonrelativistic approach by incorporation one-pion loop contributions in time-ordered perturbation theory. By construction, the correct experimental onshell properties of the nucleon current are ensured so that only the genuine offshell effects appear as model dependent. For a qualitative assessment of such offshell effects, this model is applied to photodisintegration of the deuteron for photon energies up to 500 MeV. While at low energies offshell contributions are small, above 300 MeV they lead to sizeable effects in observables up to about 30 percent pointing to the necessity of incorporating such effects if one aims at theoretical predictions of high precision.
description: 22 pages revtex including 17 figures
Tortula subulata Hedw.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Tortula
Tortula subulata

description: Tortula subulata Hedw.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882): Sommet de l’Atlas; Sud d’Oran. Bescherelle (1882), Lapie (1909): Djurjura. Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Alger; Bordj-Boghni; Djebel Édough. Trabut (1887a), Jelenc (1955a): D’Oran à Mécheria, Tell. Corbière (1889), Jelenc (1955a): Atlas de Blida, près de la glacière Laval, 1200 m. Corbière (1904), Jelenc (1955a): Kabylie, Fort National, Michelet, 1000-1200 m. Corbière (1905), Jelenc (1955a): Environs de Constantine, djebel Ouach. Jelenc (1949, 1967): Monts de Tlemcen, Forêt de Tessera Mramet, 1350 m; Monts de Tlemcen, Forêt de Zariffet, 1100 m. Jelenc (1953): Aurès, flanc nord-ouest du Ras Keltoun, 2200 m; Babor, flanc nord du Babor, 1700 m. Jelenc (1953, 1967): Atlas de Blida, Cèdraies du ravin Bleu à Chrèa; Aurès, flanc sud du Chélia, 1700 m. Jelenc (1955a): Hauts-plateaux oranais; Kabylie du Djurdjura, col de Tirourda, 1700 m; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Dra Inguel; Monts de Ksour, djebel Aïssa; Monts de Tlemcen, Terni; Tiaret, 1000-1100 m. Jelenc (1956, 1967): Massif du Zaccar. Jelenc (1967): Aurès, Ras Kaltoun, 2200 m; Aurès, Ras-el-Ma; Massif du Babor, Le Babor, 1300 m; Massif du Bou Zegza, gorges de Keddara, 400 m Jelenc (1967), Ahayoun et al. (2007): Aumale. Mazari & Boulaacheb (2023): Setif, Megriss Mountain. Common.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 104, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Dynamical Casimir effect without boundary conditions
Creators: name: Saito, Hiroki
name: Hyuga, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The moving-mirror problem is microscopically formulated without invoking the external boundary conditions. The moving mirrors are described by the quantized matter field interacting with the photon field, forming dynamical cavity polaritons: photons in the cavity are dressed by electrons in the moving mirrors. The effective Hamiltonian for the polariton is derived, and corrections to the results based on the external boundary conditions are discussed.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
New approach to Dynamical Monte Carlo Methods: application to an Epidemic Model
Creators: name: Aiello, O. E.
name: da Silva, Marco A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new approach to Dynamical Monte Carlo Methods is introduced to simulate markovian processes. We apply this approach to formulate and study an epidemic Generalized SIRS model. The results are in excellent agreement with the forth order Runge-Kutta Method in a region of deterministic solution. We also demonstrate that purely local interactions reproduce a poissonian-like process at mesoscopic level. The simulations for this case are checked self-consistently using a stochastic version of the Euler Method.
description: Written with Scientific WorkPlace 3.51 in REVTex4 format, 11 pages with 2 figures in postscript format
Opportunities and constraints of using the innovative adsorbents for the removal of cobalt(II) from wastewater: A review
Creators: name: Md. Aminul Islam
name: Angove, Michael J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Chemistry
subject: 39901 Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry)
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 30603 Colloid and Surface Chemistry

description: The presence of cobalt(II) in wastewater is an emergent concern because of its toxicity at elevated concentration. Co(II) is a non-biodegradable, carcinogenic and mutagenic pollutant released from natural, industrial and manmade sources. In recent years, the control of water that has been polluted with Co(II) has been an emergent issue. The release of Co(II) into waterways is undesirable because ingestion of high levels of Co(II) may cause severe health issues including cancer. The current review discusses the different adsorbents such as carbonaceous and activated carbon materials, nanosized metal oxides, low-cost natural materials, clay minerals and nanocomposites employed by researchers to treat Co(II)-polluted water. The systems used have been assessed in terms of overall Co(II) sorption capacity. Special emphasis has been given to the environmental conditions such as contact time, solution pH, initial Co(II) concentration, temperature, and mineral dosage. Moreover, empirical and surface complexation modeling (SCM) of the sorption systems is summarized. Natural materials, agricultural waste materials, and bio sorbents exhibited outstanding Co(II) sorption performance. The current investigation provides an overview of the state of the Co(II) removal studies performed by using various adsorbents.
A Gamma-Ray Burst Bibliography, 1973-2001
Creators: name: Hurley, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On the average, 1.5 new publications on cosmic gamma-ray bursts enter the literature every day. The total number now exceeds 5300. I describe here a relatively complete bibliography which is on the web, and which can be made available electronically in various formats.
description: To appear in the proceedings of the conference on Gamma-Ray Burst and Afterglow Astronomy 2001: A Workshop Celebrating the First Year of the HETE Mission, to be published by AIP