cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Estimation of variance components, heritability and the ridge penalty in high-dimensional generalized linear models
Creators: name: Veerman, Jurre R.
name: Leday, Gwenaël G. R.
name: van de Wiel, Mark A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For high-dimensional linear regression models, we review and compare several estimators of variances τ2 and σ2 of the random slopes and errors, respectively. These variances relate directly to ridge regression penalty λ and heritability index h2, often used in genetics. Several estimators of these, either based on cross-validation (CV) or maximum marginal likelihood (MML), are also discussed. The comparisons include several cases of the high-dimensional covariate matrix such as multi-collinear covariates and data-derived ones. Moreover, we study robustness against model misspecifications such as sparse instead of dense effects and non-Gaussian errors. An example on weight gain data with genomic covariates confirms the good performance of MML compared to CV. Several extensions are presented. First, to the high-dimensional linear mixed effects model, with REML as an alternative to MML. Second, to the conjugate Bayesian setting, shown to be a good alternative. Third, and most prominently, to generalized linear models for which we derive a computationally efficient MML estimator by re-writing the marginal likelihood as an n-dimensional integral. For Poisson and Binomial ridge regression, we demonstrate the superior accuracy of the resulting MML estimator of λ as compared to CV. Software is provided to enable reproduction of all results.
The Power of Love and Madonna
Creators: name: Donnelly, Ryann
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 190404 Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Analysis of source material for Justify My Love: Sex, Subversion, and Music Video
Lissoclinum reginum Kott 2001
Creators: name: Kott, Patricia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Enterogona
Didemnidae
Lissoclinum
Lissoclinum reginum

description: Lissoclinum reginum Kott, 2001
 Lissoclinum reginum Kott, 2001: 319.
 Distribution. New record: Western Australia (NNW Port Hedland, WAM 1037.88). Previously recorded (see Kott, 2001): Queensland (Capricorn Group, Swain Reefs, Lizard I.), Cocos Keeling.
The new record is the first from Western Australia although it has been recorded previously from the Indian Ocean.
 Description. The newly recorded colony has the usual thin brittle surface test and large horizontal cloacal cavity traversed by the whole length of the zooids, each in its independent sheath of test, leaving the dorsal half of the branchial sac exposed to the common cloacal cavity through the wide sessile atrial aperture. Other aspects of zooids and spicules are as previously described.
description: Published as part of Kott, Patricia, 2004, New and little-known species of Didemnidae (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) from Australia (part I), pp. 731-774 in Journal of Natural History 38 (19) on page 770, DOI: 10.1080/00222930310001647334, http://zenodo.org/record/4653689
Lissoclinum scopulosum Kott 2004, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Kott, Patricia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Enterogona
Didemnidae
Lissoclinum
Lissoclinum scopulosum

description: Lissoclinum scopulosum sp. nov.
(figure 21)
 Distribution. Type locality: Western Australia (NW Long I., Passage Is, coll. L. Marsh and S. Slack-Smith on RV Soela, 10 December 1979, holotype WAM 163.93).
 Description. The colony is a hard, thin, sheet. Purple pigment in irregular particles forms a layer on the surface over the white spicules that crowd the remainder of the test. Pigment and spicules in the surface test are interrupted in a circle around the branchial apertures which are depressed into the colony in the preserved specimen. Common cloacal apertures are large and sessile. Spicules, moderately sized, to 0.05 mm diameter, have 9–11 club-shaped or slightly flattened tongue-shaped, or sometimes obelisk-like (square in section with conical tips) rays.
Zooids are stretched out and do not contract, the ventrum of each zooid adhering to the hard, rigid strip of test that crosses the thoracic common cloacal cavity. Long, rectangular stigmata, 11 in the anterior row of the branchial sac, are exposed directly to the cloacal cavity by a large, sessile atrial aperture. Neither the parietal body wall muscles nor a retractor muscle were detected, and the parietal body wall itself is withdrawn almost to the endostyle on each side.
Abdomina and embryos are embedded in the basal test. Testes are two-lobed. The sturdy larval trunk, 1.1 mm long, has the tail coiled halfway around it. Four rounded lateral ampullae are on each side of the three antero-median adhesive organs. Neither abdominal organs nor blastozooids were detected.
 Remarks. This species, with its very hard, stony sheets, with a surface film of purple pigment, is also distinguished by its unusual spicules (some of which resemble some of the spicules in L. timorense). Although they have different spicules from the present species, numbers of Lissoclinum spp. have their branchial apertures depressed into the colony leaving circular holes in the hard spicule-filled surface of the colony (see L. durabile Kott, 2001 and L. conchylium Kott, 2001).
description: Published as part of Kott, Patricia, 2004, New and little-known species of Didemnidae (Ascidiacea, Tunicata) from Australia (part I), pp. 731-774 in Journal of Natural History 38 (19) on pages 770-771, DOI: 10.1080/00222930310001647334, http://zenodo.org/record/4653689
Matched detectors as definers of force
Creators: name: Madjid, F. Hadi
name: Myers, John M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Although quantum states nicely express interference effects, outcomes of experimental trials show no states directly; they indicate properties of probability distributions for outcomes. We prove categorically that probability distributions leave open a choice of quantum states and operators and particles, resolvable only by a move beyond logic, which, inspired or not, can be characterized as a guess. By recognizing guesswork as inescapable in choosing quantum states and particles, we free up the use of particles as theoretical inventions by which to describe experiments with devices, and thereby replace the postulate of state reductions by a theorem. By using the freedom to invent probe particles in modeling light detection, we develop a quantum model of the balancing of a light-induced force, with application to models and detecting devices by which to better distinguish one source of weak light from another. Finally, we uncover a symmetry between entangled states and entangled detectors, a dramatic example of how the judgment about what light state is generated by a source depends on choosing how to model the detector of that light.
description: 30 pages, 4 figs, LaTeX; new Introduction; new material in Secs. 4 & 5; new Sec. 6; 1 new figure, added references
Distinguishing between Topological and Quasi Majorana Zero Modes with a Dissipative Resonant Level
Creators: name: Zhang, Gu
name: Spånslätt, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Distinguishing between topological Majorana zero modes and quasi Majorana modes -- trivial low energy Andreev bound states -- is an important step towards realizing topological hybrid nanowire devices. We propose that this distinction can be made by connecting a hybrid nanowire to a dissipative resonant level realized by a quantum dot weakly coupled to high resistance leads. We show that the qualitative temperature scaling of the width of the resonant level zero bias conductance peak provides a signature unique to true Majorana zero modes. The degeneracy induced by a true Majorana zero mode is further shown to stabilize this conductance peak against particle-hole asymmetry.
description: Updated version: Two figures and additional references added: 6+5 pages, 3+3 figures
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MARKETING OF MOHAIR IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE PERIOD 1963 TO 1989
Creators: name: Norton, E. H. F.
name: Norton, E. H. F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The objective of the research was to determine the extent to which marketing in general, and the Mohair Scheme in particular, played a part in the re-emergence of South Africa as the world's leading mohair producer. The two major components of the Scheme, the voorskot, or initial payment, and reserve prices were analysed separately. In the first part of the analysis only rainfall and the market price were found to be important determinants of mohair production. Although the voorskot price was found to be an unimportant determinant it may nevertheless have played an important part in making the Scheme as a whole acceptable to producers. In the second part of the analysis it was established that the reserve price had both stabilized the price of mohair and enabled producers to enjoy welfare gains. It was therefore concluded that the Mohair Scheme had played a major part in the re-emergence of South Africa as the world's leading mohair producer. Nevertheless, in view of the massive stock-piling in recent seasons, due to the reserve price being set too high, it was recommended that the Mohair Scheme be discontinued„ or at least that the reserve price should support only the finer mohair lines and be set at a much lower long-run, market clearing level.
Stream Order Comparison of Epilithic Algae in House Creek.docx
Creators: name: Beza, Miguel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 50299 Environmental Science and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Environmental Science
subject: 40310 Sedimentology

description: AbstractAlgae is the foundation of all aquatic and marine life. These organisms can be used to indicate changes in the size, chemical and hydro-morphology of streams. Using the Strahler’s stream order system, 20 streams where sampled to compare algal species and the stream’s characteristics. A total of 92 species were found throughout the 20 streams, with rare species being found in 12 of the streams. Statistical analyses to detect variances among species richness across stream orders were not conducted. However, preliminary observations did show certaintrends between species richness and water flow. A database that populates the algal species richness by stream order will not only facilitate the identification of species but also aid in the extrapolation of species and hydro-morphological models that may assist in the preservation ofany unique species found.
Cosmological Finsler Spacetimes
Creators: name: Hohmann, Manuel
name: Pfeifer, Christian
name: Voicu, Nicoleta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Applying the cosmological principle to Finsler spacetimes, we identify the Lie Algebra of symmetry generators of spatially homogeneous and isotropic Finsler geometries, thus generalising Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker geometry. In particular, we find the most general spatially homogeneous and isotropic Berwald spacetimes, which are Finsler spacetimes that can be regarded as closest to pseudo-Riemannian geometry. They are defined by a Finsler Lagrangian built from a zero-homogeneous function on the tangent bundle, which encodes the velocity dependence of the Finsler Lagrangian in a very specific way. The obtained cosmological Berwald geometries are candidates for the description of the geometry of the universe, when they are obtained as solutions from a Finsler gravity equation.
description: 14 pages, contribution to the Special Issue "Finsler Modification of Classical General Relativity" in the Journal Universe
Completely reducible Lie subalgebras
Creators: name: McNinch, George J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let G be a connected and reductive group over the algebraically closed field K. J-P. Serre has introduced the notion of a G-completely reducible subgroup H of G. In this note, we give a notion of G-complete reducibility -- G-cr for short -- for Lie subalgebras of Lie(G), and we show that if the closed subgroup H < G is G-cr, then Lie(H) is G-cr as well.
description: 7 pages; AMS LaTeX. To appear in *Transformation Groups*
Translationally Invariant Generation of Annular Beams using Thin Films
Creators: name: Sharma, Naresh
name: Kumar, Govind
name: Garg, Vivek
name: Mote, Rakesh G.
name: Vijaya, R.
name: Gupta, Shilpi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thin film optical elements exhibiting translational invariance, and thus robustness to optical misalignment, are crucial for rapid development of compact and integrated optical devices. In this letter, we experimentally demonstrate a beam-shaping element that generates an annular beam by spatially filtering the fundamental Gaussian mode of a laser beam. The element comprises of a one-dimensional photonic crystal cavity fabricated using sputtered thin films. The planar architecture and in-plane symmetry of the element render our beam-shaping technique translationally invariant. The generated annular beam is sensitive to the polarization direction and the wavelength of the incident laser beam. Using this property of the annular beam, we show simultaneous generation of concentric annular beams of different wavelengths. Our experimental observations show an excellent agreement with simulation results performed using finite-difference time-domain method. Such a beam-shaping element has applications in areas ranging from microscopy and medicine to semiconductor lithography and manufacturing in microelectronics industry.
description: 5 double-column pages, 4 figures, 3 supplementary figures
Daily emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: Additional information
Creators: name: Daly, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 179999 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This file contains supplementary materials for a journal submission entitled 'Daily emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic'.
Use of Shear Wall with Opening in Multistoried Building: A Factual Review
Creators: name: Jamle, Sagar
name: Gagan Yadav
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90506 Structural Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: Normally it has been seen that shear walls are used for stiffening the entire structure, to overcome the effects seismic activities. Since the shear wall is made up of reinforced concrete and make the entire building very costly. One of the solutions adopted as per analysis is that there should be opening criteria of shear wall within the limit. This will be a most effective solution of cost reduction of the building along with the seismic resistant structure. In this work, firstly literature survey has performed and it has been seen that most of the researchers done a very good job to make the seismic resistant building. On other hand, none of them have done the opening area effect of the shear wall to make it cost effective. The following work started with the introductory part with types of core type shear wall then types of wall opening. After then review of literature have been performed then at the end of the work, conclusions and outline of the proposed work have made.
Training Activities Schedule
Creators: name: Attila, Uderszky
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Open Innovation Test Bed
OITB
Biomaterials
Nanomaterials
Training activities
Training schedule
key market players
industry associations
clusters
technology providers

description: Deliverable 9.3 provides an update on the proposed training schedule within the INN-PRESSME project. Training activities will be carried out to promote the new knowledge generated during the project and the ecosystem operational scope as well as to create new links with interested audiences.The INN-PRESSME training activities are facilitating informal and formal discussions across the industry and business community by gathering key market players, industry associations, clusters, and services and technology providers.They will focus on a topic of broad interest with presentations by leading experts, that will foster the generation of innovative concepts.The proposed training activities and materials are adapted to the end-users needs and to the test cases, to fit sectors requirements.
NORMALISING COMPETITION IN AGRICULTURAL MARKETING - THE CASE FOR RED MEAT IN SOUTH AFRICA
Normalisering van mededinging in landbou bemarking - die geval van rooivleis in Suid-Afrika.
Creators: name: Lubbe, W. F.
name: Lubbe, W. F.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: During the past fifty years, the controlled marketing system in South Africa created inflexible marketing structures. These structures inhibited growth in the demand for agricultural products, increased the farmers' exposure to risks, limited private enterprise and effectively reduced competition in agricultural marketing. Contrary to the objective of the Marketing Act to reduce marketing risk for the farmer, it actually rendered the trade effective protection. Proponents of controlled agricultural marketing wrongly believed and are still believing that to limit effective competition in agricultural markets by restricting the number of traders and controlling the whole distribution channel, farmers as well as the consumers would gain from such systems. A study of concentration in the marketing structure of red meat showed that the red meat industry is virtually controlled by only three organizations. Excessive horizontal as well as vertical concentration exist and were effectively created, promoted and maintained by the red meat scheme. Oligopolistic and oligopsonistic structures were found throughout the red meat marketing system and market shares of 40 per cent plus, for the largest organizations are not uncommon. Market sharing in the form of joint ventures, supply control and restrictive registration limited competition while exemptions to Class 2 and Class 3 abattoirs strengthened the oligopolistic-oligopsonistic market structures. The lack of competition may affect deregulation of the red meat industry and normalising private enterprise due to the barriers of entry created by the concentrated structure of the marketing system.
Equivalence of Matrix Models for Complex QCD Dirac Spectra
Creators: name: Akemann, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two different matrix models for QCD with a non-vanishing quark chemical potential are shown to be equivalent by mapping the corresponding partition functions. The equivalence holds in the phase with broken chiral symmetry. It is exact in the limit of weak non-Hermiticity, where the chemical potential squared is rescaled with the volume. At strong non-Hermiticity it holds only for small chemical potential. The first model proposed by Stephanov is directly related to QCD and allows to analyze the QCD phase diagram. In the second model suggested by the author all microscopic spectral correlation functions of complex Dirac operators can be calculated in the broken phase. We briefly compare those predictions to complex Dirac eigenvalues from quenched QCD lattice simulations.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures, references added
VERBRUIKERSGERIGTHEID IN LANDBOUBEMARKING
Consumer orientation in agricultural marketing
Creators: name: Myburgh, A. S.
name: Myburgh, A. S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This article emphasises the necessity for agricultural economists to be knowledgeable about consumer behaviour in general, about the Processes of consumer wants satisfaction and about the mechanisms by which factors affect these processes. The relationship between the concepts of quality and consumer wants and preferences is postulated. It is pointed out that in order to obtain vital information for consumer orientated agricultural marketing, one will have to venture outside the traditional domain of the economist. A survey of the other disciplines of the behavioural sciences indicates that psychology, sociology and cultural anthropology furnish this essential basic insight into consumer behaviour.
Stable vector bundles as generators of the Chow ring
Creators: name: Mistretta, Ernesto Carlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we show that the family of stable vector bundles gives a set of generators for the Chow ring, the K-theory and the derived category of any smooth projective variety.
description: last version. last part removed. slightly different from published version on Geom. Dedicata 117 (2006)
Ultrastrong plasmon-phonon coupling via epsilon-near-zero nanocavities
Creators: name: Yoo, Daehan
name: de León-Pérez, Fernando
name: Lee, In-Ho
name: Mohr, Daniel A.
name: Pelton, Matthew
name: Raschke, Markus B.
name: Caldwell, Joshua D.
name: Martín-Moreno, Luis
name: Oh, Sang-Hyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vibrational ultrastrong coupling (USC), where the light-matter coupling strength is comparable to the vibrational frequency of molecules, presents new opportunities to probe the interactions of molecules with zero-point fluctuations, harness cavity-enhanced chemical reactions, and develop novel devices in the mid-infrared regime. Here we use epsilon-near-zero nanocavities filled with a model polar medium (SiO$_2$) to demonstrate USC between phonons and gap plasmons. We present classical and quantum mechanical models to quantitatively describe the observed plasmon-phonon USC phenomena and demonstrate a splitting of up to 50% of the resonant frequency. Our wafer-scale nanocavity platform will enable a broad range of vibrational transitions to be harnessed for USC applications.
description: 45 pages, 12 figures
Oswaldella rigida Pena Cantero, Svoboda and Vervoort 1997
Creators: name: Peña Cantero, A. L.
name: Vervoort, W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Hydrozoa
Leptothecata
Kirchenpaueriidae
Oswaldella
Oswaldella rigida

description: Oswaldella rigida Peña Cantero, Svoboda and Vervoort, 1997
 Oswaldella rigida Peña Cantero et al., 1997: 373–376, figures 10, 15C; Peña Cantero and Vervoort, 1998: 36; Peña Cantero and García Carrascosa, 1999: 214; Peña Cantero and Marques, 1999: 85.
 Schizotricha antarctica: Vanhöffen, 1910: 336, figure 48.
 Remarks. Oswaldella rigida is well characterized by the branched stems, the angle of 70–90 ° formed between the cauline apophyses and the stem, the absence of a node between the cauline apophyses and the hydrocladia, the shape of the hydrotheca, provided with an adcauline elevation, and the presence of two axillary nematophores on the cauline apophyses (cf. table 1).
 Ecology and distribution. Oswaldella rigida is a shelf species, having been found at depths from 80 to 830 m on muddy and rocky bottoms (Peña Cantero et al., 1997).
 Oswaldella rigida appears to have a circum-Antarctic distribution (Peña Cantero et al., 1997). It is known from the Davis Sea (Vanhöffen, 1910) in East Antarctica, and at the east coast of the Weddell Sea (Peña Cantero et al., 1997) in West Antarctica.
description: Published as part of Peña Cantero, A. L. & Vervoort, W., 2004, Species of Oswaldella Stechow, 1919 (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Kirchenpaueriidae) from US Antarctic expeditions, with the description of three new species, pp. 805-861 in Journal of Natural History 38 on page 845
Feasibility of Using the Red List of Materials: A Focus on Avoiding PVC Usage for UBC’s SUB Project
Creators: name: Fung, Matthew
name: Kleiman, Yarin
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Improving Cable Television Service in Rural Areas
Creators: name: McKenna, Francis E.
name: McKenna, Francis E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Political Economy
Public Economics

description: Cable television in rural areas is generally inferior to that in the suburbs, providing less revenue for local governments and poorer services. This article compares the two with an eye to improving rural cable television. It also describes the broad outlines of a new Federal law and advises local officials how to modify their current cable arrangements.
Analysis of Covid-19 Data for Daegu and Gyeongbuk of Korea
Creators: name: Kim, Min Tae
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Data of the Covid-19 infections in two administrative areas of Korea (Daegu and Gyeongbuk) are further analyzed. The results of analysis are compared in terms of the epidemic mortality, determined by the ratio of the cumulative number of deaths to the cumulative sum of recovered and deaths. The mortalities of Daegu and Gyeongbuk is asymptotically approaching the previous estimate of 1.6%. However, the case of Daegu shows significantly lower mortalities than those of Gyeongbuk, which could be attributed to the difference in the availability of healthcare systems.
Work statistics across a quantum phase transition
Creators: name: Fei, Zhaoyu
name: Freitas, Nahuel
name: Cavina, Vasco
name: Quan, H. T.
name: Esposito, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the statistics of the work performed during a quench across a quantum phase transition using the adiabatic perturbation theory. It is shown that all the cumulants of work exhibit universal scaling behavior analogous to the Kibble-Zurek scaling for the average density of defects. Two kinds of transformations are considered: quenches between two gapped phases in which a critical point is traversed, and quenches that end near the critical point. In contrast to the scaling behavior of the density of defects, the scaling behavior of the work cumulants are shown to be qualitatively different for these two kinds of quenches. However, in both cases the corresponding exponents are fully determined by the dimension of the system and the critical exponents of the transition, as in the traditional Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM). Thus, our study deepens our understanding about the nonequilibrium dynamics of a quantum phase transition by revealing the imprint of the KZM on the work statistics.
Taxonomy, ecology and distribution of the mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of the Dutch Leeward Islands, with a key to the adults and fourth instar larvae
Creators: name: Beek, Jordy G. Van Der
name: Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra
name: Hoorn, Berry B. Van Der
name: Boerlijst, Sam P.
name: Busscher, Loes
name: Kok, Maud L.
name: Braks, Marieta A.H.
name: Schaffner, Francis
name: Davelaar, Gerald J.
name: Henry, Maria
name: Hulshof, Koen
name: Leslie, Teresa E.
name: Schrama, Maarten
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60206 Palaeoecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Assessing mosquito biodiversity is important for disease surveillance and ecosystem health assessments. Such studies are particularly needed in regions like the Caribbean, which has experienced a series of recent mosquito borne disease outbreaks but received little attention regarding its invertebrate biodiversity. Here, we report on results from a mosquito survey on the Dutch Leeward Islands (Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten and Saba), carried out in April and October 2018, which is the first integrative survey since those conducted by Van der Kuyp (1947) and Wagenaar Hummelinck (1949). Moreover, we present a novel key for adults and fourth instar larvae of the mosquitoes of the Dutch Leeward Islands. Overall, eleven species were recorded, eight on Sint Maarten, five on Saba and two on Sint Eustatius. Two new potential disease vectors, Culex nigripalpus and Aedes taeniorhynchus, were recorded on Sint Maarten. One previously recorded species, Cx. habilitator, was not retrieved from any of the islands, which is further discussed in the paper. Species indicative of natural forest which previously occurred on all three islands were absent from Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten but still present on Saba. In contrast, species indicative of human inhabitation, Ae. aegypti and Cx. quinquefasciatus, were highly abundant on Sint Maarten and Sint Eustatius and present in low numbers on Saba. Overall, the results of this study emphasize the importance of biodiversity surveys and indicate that frequent mosquito inventories may contribute to a better understanding of mosquito community composition and distribution of potential vector species.
Geometric approach for Identification of Adversarial Examples
Creators: name: Venkatesh, Danush Kumar
name: Steinbach, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Adversarial attack
NeuralNetwork trustworthiness

description: Deep learning methods have found profound success in recent years in solving complex tasks such as in the field of computer vision, speech recognition, and security applications. The robustness of these deep learning models has been found to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. These are perturbed samples, which are imperceptible to the human eye, that lead the model to erroneous output decisions. In this study, we adapt and introduce two geometric metrics, namely density, and coverage, and evaluate their use in detecting adversarial samples in batches. We empirically study the metrics using MNIST and real-world biomedical datasets, from MedMNIST, subjected to two different adversarial attacks. Our experiments show promising results.
Violation of the Nernst heat theorem in the theory of thermal Casimir force between Drude metals
Creators: name: Bezerra, V. B.
name: Klimchitskaya, G. L.
name: Mostepanenko, V. M.
name: Romero, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a rigorous analytical derivation of low-temperature behavior of the Casimir entropy in the framework of the Lifshitz formula combined with the Drude dielectric function. An earlier result that the Casimir entropy at zero temperature is not equal to zero and depends on the parameters of the system is confirmed, i.e. the third law of thermodynamics (the Nernst heat theorem) is violated. We illustrate the resolution of this thermodynamical puzzle in the context of the surface impedance approach by several calculations of the thermal Casimir force and entropy for both real metals and dielectrics. Different representations for the impedances, which are equivalent for real photons, are discussed. Finally, we argue in favor of the Leontovich boundary condition which leads to results for the thermal Casimir force that are consistent with thermodynamics.
description: 24 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A
ANALYZA TECHNICKEJ EFEKTIVNOSTI POL'NOHOSPODARSKYCH PODNIKOV SLOVENSKA
THE ANALYSIS OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF AGRICULTURAL CORPORATE FARMS IN SLOVAKIA
Creators: name: SOJKOVA, Zlata
name: COVACI, Stefan
name: SOJKOVA, Zlata
name: COVACI, Stefan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: stochastic production frontier
subject: panel of data
subject: output - orientated technical efficiency
subject: Cobb - Douglas production function

description: The article presents the results of the stochastic parametric approach of the production frontier estimate. The classical Cobb-Douglas production function is used as the basis of this estimate. The output-oriented measures of technical efficiency are derived on the basis of the production function estimate. The analysis is based on the data obtained from the data sets of the selected bundle of 5,604 agricultural cooperatives for the period of 1994-2000. The cooperatives are classified according to the acreage of agricultural land into six quantitative groups. The total production is considered to be an output and material and energy, services, labour costs and total assets represent the inputs. The achieved results of analysis indicate that the cooperatives operating on the larger scale of acreage reached statistically significant difference in the average level of technical efficiency. The average technical efficiency of the cooperatives with the acreage up to 500 ha is at its lowest value and represents 0.831. On the other hand, the cooperatives with the acreage over 3,000 ha reached the highest level of technical efficiency which is 0.941. The declining variability of technical efficiency amongst the larger cooperatives is evident. The average variability coefficient of technical efficiency of the smallest cooperatives is 14.5 % and in the case of cooperatives with the acreage over 3,000 ha this coefficent is only 3.73 %. The analysis showed that the differences of the average value of technical efficiency and also in the variability of technical efficiency in individual years are not statistically significant. Therefore, it is not possible to discuss certain given tendencies of the efficiency development in the period of time.
Some Persistently Low-Income Counties Make Advances
Creators: name: Hoppe, Robert A.
name: Hoppe, Robert A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1985
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
Labor and Human Capital

description: Some of the poorest counties in the Nation in the 1950s and 1960s improved their incomes in the 1970's. They did that primarily through nonfarm industries, especially services and manufacturing. Mining also provided a large share of the growth in some of the counties with the largest income improvements. Farming helped some counties, but farm income has been too erratic recently to be reliable. Nothing guarantees a county's escape from low income; some of those that escaped earlier in the decade returned to low-income status by 1979.
Stability Enhancement in Wall Belt Supported Dual Structural System using Different Grades of Concrete
Creators: name: Jamle, Sagar
name: Durgesh Kumar Upadhyay
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90506 Structural Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The tall structures are preferred due to less consumption of the land area for living purpose. The earthquake activities in this approach made it more complicated. The I.S. 1893 shows the seismic zones where the shakes are observed. The shear wall belt system so introduced to make the tall structure stiff and the lateral movement of the same will reduced. To demonstrate this, total 10 tall structures are prepared and analyze it by applying the wall belt of different thickness of different grades. After deep comparative analysis, it has been found out that Building case B7 emerges as the best wall belt grade stability case.
FDH ANALYZA AKO METODA BENCHMARKINGU
FDH ANALYSIS AS A BENCHMARKING METHOD
Creators: name: FANDEL, Peter
name: FANDEL, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: technical efficiency measures
subject: FDH
subject: DEA

description: The methodology of free disposal hull (FDH) is presented in this paper as an alternative method of benchmarking based on the concept of the evaluation of technical efficiency measures. It is considered as a non-convex counterpart to data envelopment analysis measures (DEA). The four measures of technical efficiency (TE) are calculated in this paper as benchmark indicators on the basis of dairy farms data sample: constant returns to scale technical efficiency (TE), non-increasing returns to scale TE, variable returns to scale TE, and FDH technical efficiency. The observed analysis shows that frequency of efficient farms increases with the order of TE measures listed above.
Clustering and ensembles inequivalence in the phi-4 and phi-6 mean-field Hamiltonian models
Creators: name: Dauxois, Thierry
name: Lepri, Stefano
name: Ruffo, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a model of globally coupled conservative oscillators. Two different algebraic potentials are considered that display in the canonical ensemble either a second ($ϕ^{4}$) or both a second and a first order phase transition separated by tricritical points ($ϕ^{6}$). The stability of highly clustered states appearing in the low temperature/energy region is studied both analytically and numerically for the $ϕ^{4}$-model. Moreover, long-lived out-of-equilibrium states appear close to the second order phase transition when starting with "water-bag" initial conditions, in analogy with what has been found for the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model. The microcanonical simulations of the $ϕ^{6}$-model show strong hysteretic effects and metastability near the first-order phase transition and a narrow region of negative specific heat.
description: To appear in the proceedings of the workshop "Chaotic Transport and Complexity in classical and quantum dynamics", Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (2003)
FAKTORY DOPYTU PO BIOPOTRAVINACH A POSTOJE SPOTREBITEL'A
FACTORS OF DEMAND FOR BIOFOOD AND CONSUMER'S ATTITUDES
Creators: name: KRETTER, Anton
name: KRETTER, Anton
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: biofood
subject: factors of demand
subject: price
subject: motivation
subject: confidence in biofood
subject: biofood information
subject: consumer
subject: marketing-mix tools

description: Biofood is produced from ecologicaly approved raw materials originating from the alternative agriculture. The demand for biofood on the Slovak market is considerably small but represents one of the trends in food requests/demands. The demand for biofood is determined apart from the generally valid factors also by other factors which are specific for biofood. These are price of biofood, biofood store availability, consumer eating habits, confidence in biofood, motivation to purchase the biofood and biofood information . The efficient activation of these factors in direction to purchase the biofood is influenced by using of the marketing tools of product, price, distribution and first of all communication policy.
An Investigation into the Feasibility of Using the Red List of Materials
Creators: name: Chan, Timothy
name: Zhou, Yutian
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Gravitino Dark Matter in the CMSSM With Improved Constraints from BBN
Creators: name: Cerdeno, David G.
name: Choi, Ki-Young
name: Jedamzik, Karsten
name: Roszkowski, Leszek
name: de Austri, Roberto Ruiz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of the Constrained MSSM we re--examine the gravitino as the lightest superpartner and a candidate for cold dark matter in the Universe. Unlike in other recent studies, we include both a thermal contribution to its relic population from scatterings in the plasma and a non--thermal one from neutralino or stau decays after freeze--out. Relative to a previous analysis [1] we update, extend and considerably improve our treatment of constraints from observed light element abundances on additional energy released during BBN in association with late gravitino production. Assuming the gravitino mass in the GeV to TeV range, and for natural ranges of other supersymmetric parameters, the neutralino region is excluded, while for smaller values of the gravitino mass it becomes allowed again. The gravitino relic abundance is consistent with observational constraints on cold dark matter from BBN and CMB in some well defined domains of the stau region but, in most cases, only due to a dominant contribution of the thermal population. This implies, depending on the gravitino mass, a large enough reheating temperature. If $\mgravitino>1$ GeV then $T_R>10^7$ GeV, if allowed by BBN and other constraints but, for light gravitinos, if $\mgravitino>100$ keV then $T_R>3\times 10^3$ GeV. On the other hand, constraints mostly from BBN imply an upper bound $T_R \lsim {a few}x 10^8\times10^9$ GeV which appears inconsistent with thermal leptogenesis. Finally, most of the preferred stau region corresponds to the physical vacuum being a false vacuum. The scenario can be partially probed at the LHC.
description: Version with Erratum. Numerical bug fixed. An upper bound on the reheating temperature strengthened by about an order of magnitude
STRATEGIA VALORIZACIE TYPICKEHO PRODUKTU NA ZAHRANICNOM TRHU
STRATEGY OF THE TYPICAL PRODUCT ASSESSMENT AT THE FOREIGN MARKET
Creators: name: KAPSDORFEROVA, Zuzana
name: HORSKA, Elena
name: KAPSDORFEROVA, Zuzana
name: HORSKA, Elena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: national specialties
subject: typical product
subject: bryndza - type of sheep cheese
subject: marketing strategy
subject: evaluation
subject: foreign market
subject: foreign customer

description: Globalisation and internationalisation leads to the usage of more effective tools to place the products on international markets. Each country is trying to predominate their national products in foreign markets. One of the products, which have the special position in export are national specialties and typical products, where Bryndza is one of the most important representatives .The European Union attributed the exclusive right of the Slovak Republic to this dairy product. Its unique taste and the production tradition gives Bryndza its specific place in the market and altogether with its quality and extraordinary taste this makes it a special cheese wanted well beyond the Slovak market. The paper outlines the marketing strategy of this typical product for the distinct target market — Italy, with the respect of external environment factors and determines its successful establishment on the market.
Austrochloritis Pilsbry 1891
Creators: name: Shea, Michael
name: Köhler, Frank
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Camaenidae
Austrochloritis

description: Genus Austrochloritis Pilsbry, 1891
 Type species: Helix porteri Cox, 1866, by original designation. For diagnosis and taxonomic details refer to Stanisic et al. (2010) and Shea & KÖhler (2019).
description: Published as part of Shea, Michael & Köhler, Frank, 2020, Eastern Australian Land Snail Species Closely Related to Austrochloritis porteri (Cox, 1868), with Description of a New Species (Mollusca, Eupulmonata, Camaenidae), pp. 63-76 in Records of the Australian Museum 72 (3) on page 66, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1759, http://zenodo.org/record/4654383
Magnetic resonance in an elliptic magnetic field
Creators: name: Ivanchenko, E. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The behaviour of a particle with a spin 1/2 and a dipole magnetic moment in a time-varying magnetic field in the form $(h_0 cn(ωt,k), h_0 sn(ωt,k), H_0 dn(ωt,k))$, where $ω$ is the driving field frequency, $t$ is the time, $h_0$ and $H_0$ are the field amplitudes, $cn$, $sn$, $dn$ are Jacobi elliptic functions, $ k$ is the modulus of the elliptic functions has been considered. The variation parameter $k$ from zero to 1 gives rise to a wide set of functions from trigonometric shapes to exponential pulse shapes modulating the field. The problem was reduced to the solution of general Heun' equation. The exact solution of the wave function was found at resonance for any $ k$. It has been shown that the transition probability in this case does not depend on $k$. The present study may be useful for analysis interference experiments, improving magnetic spectrometers and the field of quantum computing.
description: 11 pages, Latex2e, no figures; submitted to Physica B
Chiral zigzag modes and flatbands in network models of twisted bilayer graphene
Creators: name: De Beule, C.
name: Dominguez, F.
name: Recher, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a phenomenological scattering theory for the triangular network of valley Hall states that arises in twisted bilayer graphene under interlayer bias. Crucially, our network model includes scattering between different valley Hall states within the same valley and spin. We show that in the absence of forward scattering, symmetries reduce the network model to a single parameter that interpolates between a nested Fermi surface and flatbands, which can be understood in terms of one-dimensional chiral zigzag modes and closed triangular orbits, respectively. We demonstrate how unitarity and symmetry constrain the couplings between zigzag modes, which has important implications on the nature of interference oscillations observed in experiments.
description: 5 + 4 pages, 6 + 4 figures