cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Water quality management for domestic rainwater harvesting systems in Fiji
Creators: name: Kohlitz, Jeremy
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Health risks from drinking rainwater are relatively small in the developing world context, but action is needed to ensure water safety. This research seeks to develop guidance for sustainable water quality management by considering the Water Safety Plan and Self Supply approaches using households in Fiji as a case study. A literature review, cross sectional case studies of selected households using semi-structured interviews and sanitary inspections, and key informant interviews were carried out. An absence of contamination barriers before storage, poor gutters, and openings on storage tanks were the most prominent risks observed. Rainwater harvesters require on-going support, but government resource limitations are an obstacle to this in Fiji. A lack of perceived susceptibility to infection and ignorance of causes of faecal-oral diseases are possible barriers to sustainable management while prevention of physical contamination is the main driver. Key areas recommended for improving the sustainability of domestic rainwater harvesting quality management are:    Provision of prioritised risk management instructions Tackling identified barriers and utilising identified drivers of management practices Methodical plans for on Introduction going support    Strengthened engagement of the private sector Strengthened links between major stakeholders Knowledge management
Institutional management of surface water in England and Wales
Creators: name: Frost, Sian
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Drainage has been managed in England and Wales for centuries, but only in the past 20 years has the focus moved away from land drainage and engineered flood defence, to a more holistic catchment management. This shift reflects more general concerns with urban flooding, environmental sustainability, and climate change trends. Flooding events mean that water is increasingly treated as a responsibility as well as an asset, and recent legislation attempts to build a hierarchy within the relevant institutions, to manage surface water and flood risk. This document examines historical influences in the light of recent statutory changes, and analyses current roles and responsibilities for surface water. A visual approach is used on a case study area, to track rainfall on its path to the sea. The interaction of differing liabilities and powers is illustrated and analysed according to ownership, responsibility and water type. The conclusions highlight a lack of holistic management, noting discrepancies between ownership and responsibility, between types of responsibility, and between flood risk and drainage. There are specific issues in urban areas, including frequent handovers between drainage bodies, weakening of planning control, and domination by the Environment Agency. Key recommendations include effective catchment management by tightening planning regulations, and enhancing stakeholder participation, state involvement and strong environmental leadership. Finally, fragmented water legislation needs integrating in order to promote proactive management of this vital commodity, accepting it as both an asset and liability.
Andrena (Poecilandrena) labiata subsp. regina Friese 1921
Creators: name: Boustani, Mira
name: Rasmont, Pierre
name: Dathe, Holger H.
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
name: Kasparek, Max
name: Michez, Denis
name: Müller, Andreas
name: Pauly, Alain
name: Risch, Stefan
name: Straka, Jakub
name: Terzo, Michael
name: Achter, Xavier Van
name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Nemer, Nabil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena labiata
Andrena (poecilandrena) labiata fabricius, 1781 ssp. regina friese, 1921

description: Andrena (Poecilandrena) labiata Fabricius, 1781 ssp. regina Friese, 1921
Distribution: PALAEARCTIC, subspecies regina is found in the EAST MEDITERRANEAN.
Material examined. N. Lebanon: Arz Tannourine, 1♀; Hadath El Jebbeh, 1♀; Bcharre, 2♀, 2♂.
description: Published as part of Boustani, Mira, Rasmont, Pierre, Dathe, Holger H., Ghisbain, Guillaume, Kasparek, Max, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Pauly, Alain, Risch, Stefan, Straka, Jakub, Terzo, Michael, Achter, Xavier Van, Wood, Thomas J. & Nemer, Nabil, 2021, The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-146 in Zootaxa 4976 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4976.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4819018
The sound of the udu
Creators: name: Vieira, Leonardo Pereira
name: Aguiar, Carlos Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The udu is a traditional Nigerian percussion instrument that can be thought of as a Helmholtz resonator with two apertures. We use a simple two-particle mechanical analogue to study the behaviour of such a resonator and find that the model describes quite well the main features of udu acoustics.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Prospects for multi-messenger detection of binary neutron star mergers in the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
Creators: name: Patricelli, Barbara
name: Bernardini, Maria Grazia
name: Mapelli, Michela
name: D'Avanzo, Paolo
name: Santoliquido, Filippo
name: Cella, Giancarlo
name: Razzano, Massimiliano
name: Cuoco, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The joint detection of GW170817 and GRB 170817A opened the era of multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves (GWs) and provided the first direct probe that at least some binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts (S-GRBs). In the next years, we expect to have more multi-messenger detections of BNS mergers, thanks to the increasing sensitivity of GW detectors. Here, we present a comprehensive study on the prospects for joint GW and electromagnetic observations of merging BNSs in the fourth LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA observing run with \emph{Fermi}, \emph{Swift}, INTEGRAL and SVOM. This work combines accurate population synthesis models with simulations of the expected GW signals and the associated S-GRBs, considering different assumptions about the GRB jet structure. We show that the expected rate of joint GW and electromagnetic detections could be up to $\sim$ 6 yr$^{-1}$ when \emph{Fermi}/GBM is considered. Future joint observations will help us to better constrain the association between BNS mergers and S-GRBs, as well as the geometry of the GRB jets.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication on MNRAS. We have corrected a typo in Eq. 8; all the results are unchanged
The sustainability of CLTS in WaterAid’s program in Timor-Leste
Creators: name: P.H. Dwan
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90509 Water Resources Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) was introduced into Timor-Leste by WaterAid in 2007 and implemented by local NGO partners. As in many other countries it was found to have been successful in triggering motivation to end open defecation, however it was not known how sustainable these changes had been. This research used a sample of 22 households in 5 villages which had had CLTS interventions between 2 and 5 years ago with a view to assessing its sustainability and the possible influencing factors. The study found widely varying levels of sustainability but an overall estimated slippage rate back to open defecation of approximately 30%. A number of possible influencing factors were identified but the quality of CLTS processes and the durability of latrines were believed to be the most important. A key issue discussed was how durable latrine options could be made available to remote rural communities.
Nonlocal thermoelectric resistance in vortical viscous transport
Creators: name: Li, Songci
name: Levchenko, Alex
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pursuit for clearly identifiable signatures of viscous electron flow in the solid state systems has been a paramount task in the search of the hydrodynamic electron transport behavior. In this work, we investigate theoretically the nonlocal electric and thermal resistances for the generic non-Galilean-invariant electron liquids in the multiterminal Hall-bar devices in the hydrodynamic regime. The role of the device inhomogeneity is carefully addressed in the model of the disorder potential with the long-range correlation radius. We obtain analytic expressions for the thermoelectric resistances that are applicable in the full crossover regime from charge neutrality to high electron density. We show that the vortical component of the electron flow manifests in the thermal transport mode close to the charge neutrality where vorticity is already suppressed by the intrinsic conductivity in the electric current. This behavior can be tested by the high-resolution thermal imaging probes.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Terahertz Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning Computed Tomography
Creators: name: Hung, Yi-Chun
name: Chao, Ta-Hsuan
name: Yu, Pojen
name: Yang, Shang-Hua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Terahertz computed tomography (THz CT) has drawn significant attention because of its unique capability to bring multi-dimensional object information from invisible to visible. However, current physics-model-based THz CT modalities present low data use efficiency on time-resolved THz signals and low model fusion extensibility, limiting their application fields' practical use. In this paper, we propose a supervised THz deep learning computed tomography (THz DL-CT) framework based on time-domain information. THz DL-CT restores superior THz tomographic images of 3D objects by extracting features from spatio-temporal THz signals without any prior material information. Compared with conventional and machine learning based methods, THz DL-CT delivers at least 50.2%, and 52.6% superior in root mean square error (RMSE) and structural similarity index (SSIM), respectively. Additionally, we have experimentally demonstrated that the pretrained THz DL-CT model can generalize to reconstruct multi-material systems with no prerequisite information. THz CT through the DL data fusion approach provides a new pathway for non-invasive functional imaging in object investigation.
Annex C Information Sheet 1.12 Roguing And Pruning
Creators: name: European Food Safety Authority Plant Health Panel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Pest control
subject: Pest management
subject: Quarantine
subject: Effectiveness
subject: http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C587

description: Annex C Information sheet 1.12

Roguing and pruning

This information sheet is part of Annex C (Standardised checklist of risk reduction options) supporting document to the draft Guidance of the EFSA Plant Health Panel on quantitative pest risk assessment under public consultation (http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/consultations/call/180212-0)

Roguing is defined as the removal of infested plants and/or uninfested host plants in a delimited area, whereas pruning is defined as the removal of infested plant parts only without affecting the viability of the plant.
description: contact email: ALPHA@efsa.europa.eu
Andrena (Taeniandrena) leucopsis Warncke 1975
Creators: name: Boustani, Mira
name: Rasmont, Pierre
name: Dathe, Holger H.
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
name: Kasparek, Max
name: Michez, Denis
name: Müller, Andreas
name: Pauly, Alain
name: Risch, Stefan
name: Straka, Jakub
name: Terzo, Michael
name: Achter, Xavier Van
name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Nemer, Nabil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena leucopsis

description: Andrena (Taeniandrena) leucopsis Warncke, 1975 *
Distribution: WEST PALEARCTIC.
Material examined. Arz Tannourine: Gate area, 1754 m, 7.VI.2019, 1♂, leg. Boustani M., Mouawad G., coll. MBOU.
Notes. Grace (2010) reported this species from Lebanon without locality details.
This male specimen was reported as A. ovatula agg by Wood et al. (2020a). However, barcoding (TJW & C. Praz, unpublished data) confirmed that it belongs to A. leucopsis. The females reported as A. ovatula agg barcode differently and do not correspond to any known European taxon. It is not currently possible to confidently place a name on this material because of the confused taxonomy of the group, and so it should remain in aggregate for now. The presence of A. leucopsis in Lebanon suggests the Warncke records from the Anti-Lebanon in southern Syria (Gusenleitner & Schwarz 2002) are likely to be correct.
description: Published as part of Boustani, Mira, Rasmont, Pierre, Dathe, Holger H., Ghisbain, Guillaume, Kasparek, Max, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Pauly, Alain, Risch, Stefan, Straka, Jakub, Terzo, Michael, Achter, Xavier Van, Wood, Thomas J. & Nemer, Nabil, 2021, The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-146 in Zootaxa 4976 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4976.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4819018
Integration of silicon-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds with an optical nanofiber
Creators: name: Yalla, Ramachandrarao
name: Kojima, Y.
name: Fukumoto, Y.
name: Suzuki, H.
name: Ariyada, O.
name: Shafi, K. Muhammed
name: Nayak, Kali P.
name: Hakuta, Kohzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally demonstrate the integration of silicon-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds (SiV-NDs) with an optical nanofiber (ONF). We grow SiV-NDs on seed NDs dispersed on a quartz substrate using a microwave plasma-assisted chemical vapor deposition method. First, we search and characterize SiV-NDs on a quartz substrate using an inverted confocal microscope and an atomic force microscope (AFM). Subsequently, we pick up SiV-NDs from the quartz substrate and deposit them on the surface of a free-standing ONF using the AFM tip. The fluorescence emission spectrum, photon count rate, and intensity correlations for SiV-NDs are systematically measured.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Andrena (Melandrena) limata Smith 1853
Creators: name: Boustani, Mira
name: Rasmont, Pierre
name: Dathe, Holger H.
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
name: Kasparek, Max
name: Michez, Denis
name: Müller, Andreas
name: Pauly, Alain
name: Risch, Stefan
name: Straka, Jakub
name: Terzo, Michael
name: Achter, Xavier Van
name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Nemer, Nabil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena limata

description: Andrena (Melandrena) limata Smith, 1853
Distribution: PALAEARCTIC.
Material examined. Bekaa: AUB Farm, 3♀; Mount Lebanon: Falougha, 1♂, between 2.IV.1963 and 17.VII.1975.
description: Published as part of Boustani, Mira, Rasmont, Pierre, Dathe, Holger H., Ghisbain, Guillaume, Kasparek, Max, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Pauly, Alain, Risch, Stefan, Straka, Jakub, Terzo, Michael, Achter, Xavier Van, Wood, Thomas J. & Nemer, Nabil, 2021, The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-146 in Zootaxa 4976 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4976.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4819018
A Novel Enhanced Convolution Neural Network with Extreme Learning Machine: Facial Emotional Recognition in Psychology Practices
Creators: name: Banskota, Nitesh
name: Alsadoon, Abeer
name: Prasad, P. W. C.
name: Dawoud, Ahmed
name: Rashid, Tarik A.
name: Alsadoon, Omar Hisham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Facial emotional recognition is one of the essential tools used by recognition psychology to diagnose patients. Face and facial emotional recognition are areas where machine learning is excelling. Facial Emotion Recognition in an unconstrained environment is an open challenge for digital image processing due to different environments, such as lighting conditions, pose variation, yaw motion, and occlusions. Deep learning approaches have shown significant improvements in image recognition. However, accuracy and time still need improvements. This research aims to improve facial emotion recognition accuracy during the training session and reduce processing time using a modified Convolution Neural Network Enhanced with Extreme Learning Machine (CNNEELM). The system entails (CNNEELM) improving the accuracy in image registration during the training session. Furthermore, the system recognizes six facial emotions happy, sad, disgust, fear, surprise, and neutral with the proposed CNNEELM model. The study shows that the overall facial emotion recognition accuracy is improved by 2% than the state of art solutions with a modified Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) technique. With the Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) classifier, the processing time is brought down to 65ms from 113ms, which can smoothly classify each frame from a video clip at 20fps. With the pre-trained InceptionV3 model, the proposed CNNEELM model is trained with JAFFE, CK+, and FER2013 expression datasets. The simulation results show significant improvements in accuracy and processing time, making the model suitable for the video analysis process. Besides, the study solves the issue of the large processing time required to process the facial images.
description: 19 pages
Excitonic effects on high-harmonic generation in Mott insulators
Creators: name: Udono, Mina
name: Sugimoto, Koudai
name: Kaneko, Tatsuya
name: Ohta, Yukinori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To study excitonic effects on high-harmonic generation (HHG) in Mott insulators, we investigate pumped nonequilibrium dynamics in the one-dimensional extended Hubbard model. By employing time-dependent calculations based on the exact diagonalization and infinite time-evolving block decimation methods, we find the strong enhancement of the HHG intensity around the exciton energy. The subcycle analysis in the sub-Mott-gap regime shows that the intensity region of the time-resolved spectrum around the exciton energy splits into two levels and oscillates following the driving electric field. This excitonic dynamics is qualitatively different from the dynamics of free doublon and holon but favorably contributes to HHG in the Mott insulator.
Development of digital sideband separating down-conversion for Yuan-Tseh Lee Array
Creators: name: Li, Chao-Te
name: Kubo, Derek
name: Cheng, Jen-Chieh
name: Kuroda, John
name: Srinivasan, Ranjani
name: Ho, Solomon
name: Guzzino, Kim
name: Chen, Ming-Tang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This report presents a down-conversion method involving digital sideband separation for the Yuan Tseh Lee Array to double the processing bandwidth. The receiver consists of a MMIC HEMT LNA frontend operating at a wavelength of 3 mm, and sub-harmonic mixers that output signals at intermediate frequencies of 2 - 18 GHz. The sideband separation scheme involves an analog 90 degree hybrid followed by two mixers that provide down conversion of the IF signal to a pair of in phase (I) and quadrature (Q) signals in baseband. The I and Q baseband signals are digitized using 5 Giga sample per second analog to digital converters. A second hybrid is digitally implemented using field programmable gate arrays to produce two sidebands, each with a bandwidth of 1.6 GHz. The 2 x 1.6 GHz band can be tuned to cover any 3.2 GHz window within the aforementioned IF range of the array. Sideband rejection ratios (SRRs) above 20 dB can be obtained across the 3.2 GHz bandwidth by equalizing the power and delay between the I and Q baseband signals. Furthermore, SRRs above 30 dB can be achieved when calibration is applied.
description: 8 pages, 12 figures
Lesen macht Spass! Leseförderung auf der Prozess- und Subjektebene an der Oberstufe
Creators: name: Pantò Wissler, Felicia
Publisher: name: Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich
Year: 2024
Subjects: Leseflüssigkeit
Lesebezogenes Selbstkonzept
Lautlese-Tandems
Lesekompetenz
Mehrebenenmodell des Lesens
Interventionen auf der Prozess- und Subjektebene des Lesens

description: Die deutschsprachige Lesedidaktik fokussierte sich lange Zeit beim Erwerb der basalen Lesefertigkeiten auf der Wort- und Satzebene auf die Primarschule. Mehrere internationale und deutschsprachige Studien, insbesondere die PISA-Studie, haben aber aufgezeigt, dass viele Jugendliche am Ende der Sekundarstufe 1 über mangelhafte Leseflüssigkeitskompetenzen verfügen. Weiter ist bekannt, dass Lernende mit eingeschränkter Leseflüssigkeit häufig ein negatives lesebezogenes Selbstkonzept haben. Im Rahmen meiner Masterarbeit wollte ich die hierarchieniedrigen Fertigkeiten der Lesekompetenz meiner Schüler:innen, einer 3. Sekundarklasse Niveau C im Zürcher Oberland, auf der Prozessebene fördern und gleichzeitig auf der Subjektebene das lesebezogene Selbstkonzept positiv beeinflussen. Um dieses Ziel auf der Prozessebene zu erreichen, haben meine Lernenden von den Herbstferien 2022 bis zu den Weihnachtsferien 2022 mit dem von Rosebrock und ihrem Forschungsteam entwickelten Lautlese-Verfahren des «Lautlese-Tandems» trainiert (vgl. Nix 2011). Anhand von sechs Lautlese-Protokollen konnte ich eine Steigerung der Leseflüssigkeit fast aller Lernenden feststellen, insbesondere in der Kategorie des Leseausdrucks. Auf der Subjektebene habe ich zwei Interventionen im Unterricht durchgeführt: Nach den Sommerferien 2022 hat die Klasse mit dem «Mitleseverfahren» («reading while listening») den Jugendroman «Und du kommst auch drin vor» (2017) von Alina Bronsky gehört und gelesen. Dies war immer ein Highlight des Deutschunterrichts. Ab Januar 2023, nach Beendigung des Lautlese-Tandem-Trainings, haben die Schüler:innen das Vorlesen von Geschichten und Anekdoten von Nasreddin Hodscha geübt und sich dabei mit ihrem Smartphone aufgenommen, was von einem grossen Erfolg gekrönt war. Denn die Lernenden lasen seine Geschichten eifrig und mit Freude und unterhielten sich angeregt darüber. Dank dieser Lektüre konnte das lesebezogene Selbstkonzept positiv beeinflusst werden.

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description: +repphzhbib2024MA
Towards Fast Theta-join: A Prefiltering and Amalgamated Partitioning Approach
Creators: name: Wu, Jiashu
name: Wang, Yang
name: Fan, Xiaopeng
name: Ye, Kejiang
name: Xu, Chengzhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As one of the most useful online processing techniques, the theta-join operation has been utilized by many applications to fully excavate the relationships between data streams in various scenarios. As such, constant research efforts have been put to optimize its performance in the distributed environment, which is typically characterized by reducing the number of Cartesian products as much as possible. In this article, we design and implement a novel fast theta-join algorithm, called Prefap, by developing two distinct techniques - prefiltering and amalgamated partitioning-based on the state-of-the-art FastThetaJoin algorithm to optimize the efficiency of the theta-join operation. Firstly, we develop a prefiltering strategy before data streams are partitioned to reduce the amount of data to be involved and benefit a more fine-grained partitioning. Secondly, to avoid the data streams being partitioned in a coarse-grained isolated manner and improve the quality of the partition-level filtering, we introduce an amalgamated partitioning mechanism that can amalgamate the partitioning boundaries of two data streams to assist a fine-grained partitioning. With the integration of these two techniques into the existing FastThetaJoin algorithm, we design and implement a new framework to achieve a decreased number of Cartesian products and a higher theta-join efficiency. By comparing with existing algorithms, FastThetaJoin in particular, we evaluate the performance of Prefap on both synthetic and real data streams from two-way to multiway theta-join to demonstrate its superiority.
description: Accepted by Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
Andrena (Micrandrena) lindbergella Pittioni 1950
Creators: name: Boustani, Mira
name: Rasmont, Pierre
name: Dathe, Holger H.
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
name: Kasparek, Max
name: Michez, Denis
name: Müller, Andreas
name: Pauly, Alain
name: Risch, Stefan
name: Straka, Jakub
name: Terzo, Michael
name: Achter, Xavier Van
name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Nemer, Nabil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena lindbergella

description: Andrena (Micrandrena) lindbergella Pittioni, 1950
Distribution: EAST MEDITERRANEAN.
Material examined. N. Lebanon: Arz Bcharre, 1♂; Bcharre, 2♀, 3♂; Jord Tannourine, 1♂, between 8.VI.2017 and 20.V.2019.
description: Published as part of Boustani, Mira, Rasmont, Pierre, Dathe, Holger H., Ghisbain, Guillaume, Kasparek, Max, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Pauly, Alain, Risch, Stefan, Straka, Jakub, Terzo, Michael, Achter, Xavier Van, Wood, Thomas J. & Nemer, Nabil, 2021, The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-146 in Zootaxa 4976 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4976.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4819018
LOCUS 2.0: Robust and Computationally Efficient Lidar Odometry for Real-Time Underground 3D Mapping
Creators: name: Reinke, Andrzej
name: Palieri, Matteo
name: Morrell, Benjamin
name: Chang, Yun
name: Ebadi, Kamak
name: Carlone, Luca
name: Agha-mohammadi, Ali-akbar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Lidar odometry has attracted considerable attention as a robust localization method for autonomous robots operating in complex GNSS-denied environments. However, achieving reliable and efficient performance on heterogeneous platforms in large-scale environments remains an open challenge due to the limitations of onboard computation and memory resources needed for autonomous operation. In this work, we present LOCUS 2.0, a robust and computationally-efficient \lidar odometry system for real-time underground 3D mapping. LOCUS 2.0 includes a novel normals-based \morrell{Generalized Iterative Closest Point (GICP)} formulation that reduces the computation time of point cloud alignment, an adaptive voxel grid filter that maintains the desired computation load regardless of the environment's geometry, and a sliding-window map approach that bounds the memory consumption. The proposed approach is shown to be suitable to be deployed on heterogeneous robotic platforms involved in large-scale explorations under severe computation and memory constraints. We demonstrate LOCUS 2.0, a key element of the CoSTAR team's entry in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, across various underground scenarios. We release LOCUS 2.0 as an open-source library and also release a \lidar-based odometry dataset in challenging and large-scale underground environments. The dataset features legged and wheeled platforms in multiple environments including fog, dust, darkness, and geometrically degenerate surroundings with a total of $11~h$ of operations and $16~km$ of distance traveled.
Coexistence of Quasi-two-dimensional Superconductivity and Tunable Kondo Lattice in a van der Waals Superconductor
Creators: name: Shen, Shiwei
name: Qin, Tian
name: Gao, Jingjing
name: Wen, Chenhaoping
name: Wang, Jinghui
name: Wang, Wei
name: Li, Jun
name: Luo, Xuan
name: Lu, Wenjian
name: Sun, Yuping
name: Yan, Shichao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Realization of Kondo lattice in superconducting van der Waals materials not only provides a unique opportunity for tuning the Kondo lattice behavior by electrical gating or intercalation, but also is helpful for further understanding the heavy fermion superconductivity. Here we report a low-temperature and vector-magnetic-field scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy study on a superconducting compound (4Hb-TaS2) with alternate stacking of 1T-TaS2 and 1H-TaS2 layers. We observe the quasi-two-dimensional superconductivity in the 1H-TaS2 layer with anisotropic response to the in-plane and out-of-plane magnetic fields. In the 1T-TaS2 layer, we detect the Kondo resonance peak that results from the Kondo screening of the unpaired electrons in the Star-of-David clusters. We also find the intensity of the Kondo resonance peak is sensitive to its relative position with the Fermi level, and it can be significantly enhanced when it's further shifted towards the Fermi level by evaporating Pb atoms onto the 1T-TaS2 surface. Our results are not only important for fully understanding the electronic properties of 4Hb-TaS2, but also pave the way for creating tunable Kondo lattice in the superconducting van der Waals materials.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures + Supplementary Materials
Susceptibility testing of veterinary pathogenic bacteria as a first step in setting new epidemiological cut-off values (ECOFFs)
Creators: name: Veldman, Kees
name: Jannice Schau Slettemeås
name: Grobbel, Mirjam
name: Börjesson, Stefan
name: Dors, Arkadiusz
name: Franco, Alessia
name: Haenni, Marisa
name: Turner, Olivia
name: Broens, Els
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: missing ECOFFs
MIC
veterinary pathogens
suseptibility testing

description: OHEJP Project: IMPART. WP3 - Development of missing epidemiological cut-off values (ECOFFs).
description: This project was co funded by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality.
Characterisation of the eclipsing post-common-envelope binary TIC 60040774
Creators: name: Priyatikanto, R.
name: Knigge, C.
name: Scaringi, S.
name: Brink, J.
name: Buckley, D. A. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Binaries with a white dwarf primary and a main sequence secondary can be used to test our understanding of both single and binary star evolution. A small fraction of such systems experienced a common-envelope phase from which they emerged with a relatively short orbital period. Here, we present the characterisation of an eclipsing post-common-envelope binary of this kind, TIC 60040774, based on the light curve provided by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), multi-band photometry collated from the virtual observatory, and spectroscopic data obtained the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). With an orbital period of $0.404807\pm0.000149$ days, this system consists of a young white dwarf paired with an M6.5 dwarf companion. We estimate the masses of the primary and secondary to be $0.598\pm0.029$ M$_{\odot}$ and $0.107\pm0.020$ M$_{\odot}$, while the effective temperatures are $14050\pm360$ K and $2759\pm50$ K, respectively. The eclipse ingress and egress profile is shallower than expected from a simple geometric model such that more precise high-cadence photometry is required to understand the nature of this system. Given the similarity of TIC 60040774 to systems like GK Vir and NN Ser, it will be worth tracking its eclipse times to check for the presence of one or more circumbinary planets.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scalar is Not Enough: Vectorization-based Unbiased Learning to Rank
Creators: name: Chen, Mouxiang
name: Liu, Chenghao
name: Liu, Zemin
name: Sun, Jianling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Unbiased learning to rank (ULTR) aims to train an unbiased ranking model from biased user click logs. Most of the current ULTR methods are based on the examination hypothesis (EH), which assumes that the click probability can be factorized into two scalar functions, one related to ranking features and the other related to bias factors. Unfortunately, the interactions among features, bias factors and clicks are complicated in practice, and usually cannot be factorized in this independent way. Fitting click data with EH could lead to model misspecification and bring the approximation error. In this paper, we propose a vector-based EH and formulate the click probability as a dot product of two vector functions. This solution is complete due to its universality in fitting arbitrary click functions. Based on it, we propose a novel model named Vectorization to adaptively learn the relevance embeddings and sort documents by projecting embeddings onto a base vector. Extensive experiments show that our method significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art ULTR methods on complex real clicks as well as simple simulated clicks.
description: Accepted by KDD 2022
Andrena (Micrandrena) magunta Warncke 1965
Creators: name: Boustani, Mira
name: Rasmont, Pierre
name: Dathe, Holger H.
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
name: Kasparek, Max
name: Michez, Denis
name: Müller, Andreas
name: Pauly, Alain
name: Risch, Stefan
name: Straka, Jakub
name: Terzo, Michael
name: Achter, Xavier Van
name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Nemer, Nabil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena magunta

description: Andrena (Micrandrena) magunta Warncke, 1965
Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC.
Material examined. Bekaa: Quaraoun, 1♀; Mount Lebanon: Jamhour, 1♀; N. Lebanon, Tannourine El Tahta, 1♀, 3♂, between 2.IV.1973 and 11.V.2017.
description: Published as part of Boustani, Mira, Rasmont, Pierre, Dathe, Holger H., Ghisbain, Guillaume, Kasparek, Max, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Pauly, Alain, Risch, Stefan, Straka, Jakub, Terzo, Michael, Achter, Xavier Van, Wood, Thomas J. & Nemer, Nabil, 2021, The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-146 in Zootaxa 4976 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4976.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4819018
MIX-RS: A Multi-indexing System based on HDFS for Remote Sensing Data Storage
Creators: name: Wu, Jiashu
name: Xiong, Jingpan
name: Dai, Hao
name: Wang, Yang
name: Xu, Chengzhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A large volume of remote sensing (RS) data has been generated with the deployment of satellite technologies. The data facilitates research in ecological monitoring, land management and desertification, etc. The characteristics of RS data (e.g., enormous volume, large single-file size and demanding requirement of fault tolerance) make the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) an ideal choice for RS data storage as it is efficient, scalable and equipped with a data replication mechanism for failure resilience. To use RS data, one of the most important techniques is geospatial indexing. However, the large data volume makes it time-consuming to efficiently construct and leverage. Considering that most modern geospatial data centres are equipped with HDFS-based big data processing infrastructures, deploying multiple geospatial indices becomes natural to optimise the efficacy. Moreover, because of the reliability introduced by high-quality hardware and the infrequently modified property of the RS data, the use of multi-indexing will not cause large overhead. Therefore, we design a framework called Multi-IndeXing-RS (MIX-RS) that unifies the multi-indexing mechanism on top of the HDFS with data replication enabled for both fault tolerance and geospatial indexing efficiency. Given the fault tolerance provided by the HDFS, RS data is structurally stored inside for faster geospatial indexing. Additionally, multi-indexing enhances efficiency. The proposed technique naturally sits on top of the HDFS to form a holistic framework without incurring severe overhead or sophisticated system implementation efforts. The MIX-RS framework is implemented and evaluated using real remote sensing data provided by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, demonstrating excellent geospatial indexing performance.
description: Accepted by Tsinghua Science and Technology
title: Fighting "Don't Know, Don't Care": The FCDA's Public Education Quest
Creators: name: Mihalovich, Rachel M.
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04zjtrb98
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2001

description: The Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) was created in December 1950 to prepare the civilian population of the United States to survive and recover from a nuclear attack by the Soviet Union and its allies. Contemporary civil defense theory dictated that this goal should be met by educating the American public in order to avoid a negative psychological reaction that would prevent survival and recovery. In order to evaluate the success of the FCDA's civil defense program, this study will investigate the composition of the FCDA and its public education program.

This study utilized several types of sources in evaluating the educational efforts of the FCDA. The FCDA's Annual Reports provided detailed information about how its public education program was structured. Several secondary sources, especially Guy Oakes's The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture, demonstrated the psychological reasoning behind civil defense theory. Finally, newspaper and magazine articles and public polling data showed how the public reacted to the FCDA' s public education program.

These sources revealed that the FCDA began a massive public education program that lasted throughout the organization's lifetime. Through its booklets, manuals, pamphlets, television and radio programs, film strips, press releases, affiliation with national organizations and special programs, the FCDA communicated information to the civilian population about the dangers of nuclear weapons and methods of self-protection. Polling data revealed that the number of people who knew about nuclear weapons and self-protection significantly increased throughout the early years of the FCDA.

Though the FCDA was unable to ensure that the civilian population would be able to survive and recover from an attack, it did organize and implement a successful civil defense public education program. Thus it accomplished the goal of educating the civilian population stipulated in early civil defense theory.
Antarctic Survey Telescope 3-3: Overview, System Performance and Preliminary Observations at Yaoan, Yunnan
Creators: name: Sun, Tianrui
name: Li, Xiaoyan
name: Hu, Lei
name: Meng, Kelai
name: Han, Zijian
name: Hu, Maokai
name: Li, Zhengyang
name: Wen, Haikun
name: Du, Fujia
name: Yang, Shihai
name: Gu, Bozhong
name: Yuan, Xiangyan
name: Li, Yun
name: Wang, Huihui
name: Liu, Lei
name: Zhu, Zhenxi
name: Huang, Xuehai
name: Lei, Chengming
name: Wang, Lifan
name: Wu, Xuefeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The third Antarctic Survey Telescope array instrument at Dome A in Antarctica, the AST3-3 telescope, has been in commissioning from March 2021. We deployed AST3-3 at the Yaoan astronomical station in Yunnan Province for an automatic time-domain survey and follow-up observations with an optimised observation and protection system. The telescope system of AST3-3 is similar to that of AST3-1 and AST3-2, except that it is equipped with a 14K~$ \times$~10K QHY411 CMOS camera. AST3-3 has a field of view of $1.65^\circ \times 1.23^\circ$ and is currently using the $g$ band filter. During commissioning at Yaoan, AST3-3 aims to conduct an extragalactic transient survey, coupled with prompt follow-ups of opportunity targets. In this paper, we present the architecture of the AST3-3 automatic observation system. We demonstrate the data processing of observations by representatives SN 2022eyw and GRB 210420B.
description: 20 pages, 15 figures
Andrena (Truncandrena) medeninensis subsp. usura Warncke 1967
Creators: name: Boustani, Mira
name: Rasmont, Pierre
name: Dathe, Holger H.
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
name: Kasparek, Max
name: Michez, Denis
name: Müller, Andreas
name: Pauly, Alain
name: Risch, Stefan
name: Straka, Jakub
name: Terzo, Michael
name: Achter, Xavier Van
name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Nemer, Nabil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena medeninensis
Andrena (truncandrena) medeninensis pérez, 1895 ssp. usura warncke, 1967

description: Andrena (Truncandrena) medeninensis Pérez, 1895 ssp. usura Warncke, 1967
Distribution: WEST PALAEARCTIC, subspecies usura is found in the EAST MEDITERRANEAN.
Material examined. Mount Lebanon: Shouf Biosphere Reserve, 1♂; Mazraat Al Daher, 1♀; N. Lebanon: Arz Tannourine, 3♀, between 11.V.2019 and 19.VII.2019.
description: Published as part of Boustani, Mira, Rasmont, Pierre, Dathe, Holger H., Ghisbain, Guillaume, Kasparek, Max, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Pauly, Alain, Risch, Stefan, Straka, Jakub, Terzo, Michael, Achter, Xavier Van, Wood, Thomas J. & Nemer, Nabil, 2021, The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-146 in Zootaxa 4976 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4976.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4819018
π0–hadron correlations in 200GeV Au+Au collisions
Creators: name: Wong, Cheuk-Ping
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: RHIC
PHENIX
au+au
correlations
jet
π0

description: The study of jet modifications helps to understand the properties of the QGP. In this research, jets are studied using π0-
 hadron azimuth correlations which use high momentum neutral pions as triggers to indicate the presence of a jet.
Spherical and planar ball bearings -- nonholonomic systems with invariant measures
Creators: name: Dragovic, Vladimir
name: Gajic, Borislav
name: Jovanovic, Bozidar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37J60, 37J35, 70E40, 70F25

description: We first construct nonholonomic systems of $n$ homogeneous balls $\mathbf B_1,\dots,\mathbf B_n$ with centers $O_1,...,O_n$ and with the same radius $r$ that are rolling without slipping around a fixed sphere $\mathbf S_0$ with center $O$ and radius $R$. In addition, it is assumed that a dynamically nonsymmetric sphere $\mathbf S$ of radius $R+2r$ and the center that coincides with the center $O$ of the fixed sphere $\mathbf S_0$ rolls without slipping over the moving balls $\mathbf B_1,\dots,\mathbf B_n$. We prove that these systems possess an invariant measure. As the second task, we consider the limit, when the radius $R$ tends to infinity. We obtain a corresponding planar problem consisting of $n$ homogeneous balls $\mathbf B_1,\dots,\mathbf B_n$ with centers $O_1,...,O_n$ and the same radius $r$ that are rolling without slipping over a fixed plane $Σ_0$, and a moving plane $Σ$ that moves without slipping over the homogeneous balls. We prove that this system possesses an invariant measure and that it is integrable in quadratures according to the Euler-Jacobi theorem.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures
Power-law dynamics in the spin-liquid kagome lattices SrCr8Ga4O19 and ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2
Creators: name: de Reotier, P. Dalmas
name: Yaouanc, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the polarization function P^{exp}_Z(t) measured by the muon-spin relaxation (muSR) technique for the SrCr8Ga4O19 and ZnCu3(OH)6Cl2 spin-liquid systems. We show the functional form of P^{exp}_Z(t) to imply that, in the temperature range of order 0.1 K, the spectral-weight function F(ω) of the magnetic correlations scales with 1/|ω|^{1 -x} (0 < x < 1) in the energy range of one microelectronvolt, i.e. \hbar ω~ 1 μeV. We derive the parameters involved in F(ω) from fits to available experimental data. Inelastic neutron scattering data probing F(ω) in the millielectronvolt energy range are consistent with a more conventional behavior. These differences could be due to a variety of spin-dynamics mechanisms, i.e. intrinsic to the kagome layer or related to the magnetic defects that have been evidenced in these compounds, acting at different energies. New muSR measurements are proposed and theoretical developments are suggested to pinpoint the mechanisms at play.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Phrase translation using a bilingual dictionary and n-gram data: A case study from Vietnamese to English
Creators: name: Lam, Khang Nhut
name: Tarouti, Feras Al
name: Kalita, Jugal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Past approaches to translate a phrase in a language L1 to a language L2 using a dictionary-based approach require grammar rules to restructure initial translations. This paper introduces a novel method without using any grammar rules to translate a given phrase in L1, which does not exist in the dictionary, to L2. We require at least one L1-L2 bilingual dictionary and n-gram data in L2. The average manual evaluation score of our translations is 4.29/5.00, which implies very high quality.
description: 5 pages
Andrena (Melittoides) melittoides Friese 1899
Creators: name: Boustani, Mira
name: Rasmont, Pierre
name: Dathe, Holger H.
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
name: Kasparek, Max
name: Michez, Denis
name: Müller, Andreas
name: Pauly, Alain
name: Risch, Stefan
name: Straka, Jakub
name: Terzo, Michael
name: Achter, Xavier Van
name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Nemer, Nabil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena melittoides

description: Andrena (Melittoides) melittoides Friese, 1899
Distribution: EAST MEDITERRANEAN.
Literature. Friese (1899): under “ Syria ”, the location is not clear and could be in current Lebanese territory. Material examined. Mount Lebanon: Wadi Chahrour, 1♂, 22.V.2009.
description: Published as part of Boustani, Mira, Rasmont, Pierre, Dathe, Holger H., Ghisbain, Guillaume, Kasparek, Max, Michez, Denis, Müller, Andreas, Pauly, Alain, Risch, Stefan, Straka, Jakub, Terzo, Michael, Achter, Xavier Van, Wood, Thomas J. & Nemer, Nabil, 2021, The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-146 in Zootaxa 4976 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4976.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4819018