cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Modeling Belief in Dynamic Systems, Part I: Foundations
Creators: name: Friedman, Nir
name: Halpern, Joseph Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.4; F.2.1

description: Belief change is a fundamental problem in AI: Agents constantly have to update their beliefs to accommodate new observations. In recent years, there has been much work on axiomatic characterizations of belief change. We claim that a better understanding of belief change can be gained from examining appropriate semantic models. In this paper we propose a general framework in which to model belief change. We begin by defining belief in terms of knowledge and plausibility: an agent believes p if he knows that p is more plausible than its negation. We then consider some properties defining the interaction between knowledge and plausibility, and show how these properties affect the properties of belief. In particular, we show that by assuming two of the most natural properties, belief becomes a KD45 operator. Finally, we add time to the picture. This gives us a framework in which we can talk about knowledge, plausibility (and hence belief), and time, which extends the framework of Halpern and Fagin for modeling knowledge in multi-agent systems. We then examine the problem of ``minimal change''. This notion can be captured by using prior plausibilities, an analogue to prior probabilities, which can be updated by ``conditioning''. We show by example that conditioning on a plausibility measure can capture many scenarios of interest. In a companion paper, we show how the two best-studied scenarios of belief change, belief revisionand belief update, fit into our framework.
Priocera gracilis SCHENKLING 1906
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Priocera
Priocera gracilis

description: Priocera gracilis SCHENKLING, 1906 (Figs 48, 92, 135)
 Priocera gracilis SCHENKLING, 1906: 257.
 Priocera variesignata PIC, 1950: 9. syn.nov.
HOLOTYPE: Gender not known. Jatahy, GOYAS (Brazil, Jatai, Goias) (SDEI). CORPORAAL 1950: 99.
 A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d (Fig. 92): In addition to the holotype, I examined 12 specimens from: Bolivia; Departamento de Santa Cruz, 4-6 km SSE Buena Vista, Flora & Fauna Hotel, 23-31-X-2002, Wappes & Morris; idem, 5-8-V-2004, Wappes & Cline; 3.7 km SSE Buena Vista, Hotel Flora & Fauna, 5-15-XI-2001, blacklight trap, M. C. Thomas. Peru: Provincia San Martin, Tarapoto,?-?-1885, M. de Mathan. Brazil: Estado do Mato Grosso, Corumba, no other information available; Mato Grosso, no other information available; Estado do Bahia, Chapada, no other information available; Estado do Amazonas, Fonte Boa, no other information available. Specimens are deposited in ACMT, FMNH, FSCA, MNHN, SDEI, USNM, and WOPC.
D i a g n o s i s: Cranium black; antennae flavotestaceous; prothorax bicolored, venter testaceous, pronotal arch and pronotum proper black, pronotal collar testaceous; pterothoracic venter and abdomen testaceous; legs, femora mostly testaceous, infuscated, tibiae black, tarsi testaceous; elytral tricolored, mostly testaceous, each elytron with 3 yellow spots, one at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one in front of middle near epipleural margin, one behind middle near sutural margin, middle spots outlined in light brown, diagonal light brown line near elytral apex.
R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 5.0 mm; width 1.5 mm. Form: As in Fig. 135. Head: Frons about as long as antennal pedicel; EW/FW 28/7. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, disc with 2 tumescenses (PW /PL 55/85); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend just behind elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex narrowly rounded (EL /EW 220/40); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Phallobasic lobes triangular; aedeagus as in Fig. 48.
V a r i a t i o n: The width of the frons is sex dimorphic with males having a narrower frons.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during May, October, and November, 2 at 430 m.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on pages 1178-1179, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854
Momentum Representation of Coulomb Wave Functions and Level Shifts in Bottomonium due to Charm Effects
Creators: name: Wang, Hai-bin
name: Yao, York-Peng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since effective potentials derived from Feynman diagrams are naturally given in momentum space, we formulate the non-relativistic Coulomb problem entirely in momentum representation. We give momentum wave functions for all quantum numbers in one-dimensional integrals, even though they can be evaluated. Angular momentum decomposed Green's functions are then compactly represented. We apply this formalism to investigate the next to next leading order charm effects on 1S bottomonium level shift. Our one insertion results are given completely in analytic form and numerically agree with previous results. Our two insertion results are also in agreement. The net effect of finite charm mass is to decrease the bottom mass by 33 MeV, as determined through the measured 1S energy.
description: We oversight a term in eq.(106). After adding this term, our result agree with that in ref.[6]
Tighter constraints of multiqubit entanglement for negativity
Creators: name: Yang, Long-Mei
name: Chen, Bin
name: Fei, Shao-Ming
name: Wang, Zhi-Xi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a characterization of multiqubit entanglement monogamy and polygamy constraints in terms of negativity. Using the square of convex-roof extended negativity (SCREN) and the Hamming weight of the binary vector related to the distribution of subsystems proposed in Kim (Phys Rev A 97: 012334, 2018), we provide a new class of monogamy inequalities of multiqubit entanglement based on the $α$th power of SCREN for $α\geq1$ and polygamy inequalities for $0\leqα\leq1$ in terms of squared convex-roof extended negativity of assistance (SCRENoA). For the case $α<0$, we give the corresponding polygamy and monogamy relations for SCREN and SCRENoA, respectively. We also show that these new inequalities give rise to tighter constraints than the existing ones.
description: 11 pages
Priocera hadrosa Opitz 2021, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Priocera
Priocera hadrosa

description: Priocera hadrosa OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 49, 92, 136)
HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Balsapamba, Prov. Bolivar (Ecuador), M. de Mathan, III. IV.1894 (MNHN).
 D i a g n o s i s: Cranium mostly testaceous, epicranium infuscated; antennae flavotestaceous; prothorax bicolored, venter testaceous, pronotum testaceous, with black angular markings at sides; pterothorax black; elytra tricolorous, mostly castaneous, with admixture of brown markings, one rectangulate brown patch at elytral middle 1/3 rd and contiguous with sutural margin, each elytron with 3 yellow markings, one punctiform at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one short, transverse in front of middle near epipleural margin, one short oblique, behind middle near sutural margin.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 1.4 mm. Form: As in Fig. 136. Head: Cranium finely punctate, frons narrow, about as wide as the length of antennal pedicel (EW /FW 35/7). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses (PW /PL 70/100); elytral disc with basal tumescenses, middle of disc depressed, disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend beyond basal 1/2, but do not reach elytral apex, latter narrowly rounded (EL /EW 260/45); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Abdominal ventrite V deeply widely emarginate distally; phallobasic loop about as long as remainder of phallobase; aedeagus as in Fig. 49.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The holotype was collected from Ecuador during April.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (Fig. 92): This species is known from Ecuador.
 E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, hadrosa is a Greek name that stems from "hodros" (= well developed); with reference to the well-developed phallobasic loop.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1179, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854
Jet emission in NGC1052 at radio, optical, and X-ray frequencies
Creators: name: Kadler, M.
name: Kerp, J.
name: Ros, E.
name: Falcke, H.
name: Pogge, R. W.
name: Zensus, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a combined radio, optical, and X-ray study of the nearby LINER galaxy NGC 1052. Data from a short (2.3 ksec) {\it CHANDRA} observation of NGC 1052 reveal the presence of various jet-related X-ray emitting regions, a bright compact core and unresolved knots in the jet structure as well as an extended emitting region inside the galaxy well aligned with the radio synchrotron jet-emission. The spectrum of the extended X-ray emission can best be fitted with a thermal model with $kT = (0.4-0.5)$ keV, while the compact core exhibits a very flat spectrum, best approximated by an absorbed power-law with $N_{\rm H} = (0.6-0.8) \times 10^{22} {\rm cm^{-2}}$. We compare the radio structure to an optical ``structure map'' from a {\it Hubble Space Telescope} ({\it HST}) observation and find a good positional correlation between the radio jet and the optical emission cone. Bright, compact knots in the jet structure are visible in all three frequency bands whose spectrum is inconsistent with synchrotron emission.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures (figure 2 in color), image resolution degraded wrt journal version, needs aa.cls. Accepted for publication in A&A
Double moiré with a twist: super-moiré in encapsulated graphene
Creators: name: Anđelković, M.
name: Milovanović, S. P.
name: Covaci, L.
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A periodic spatial modulation, as created by a moiré pattern, has been extensively studied with the view to engineer and tune the properties of graphene. Graphene encapsulated by hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) when slightly misaligned with the top and bottom hBN layers experiences two interfering moiré patterns, resulting in a so-called super-moiré (SM). This leads to a lattice and electronic spectrum reconstruction. A geometrical construction of the non-relaxed SM patterns allows us to indicate qualitatively the induced changes in the electronic properties and to locate the SM features in the density of states and in the conductivity. To emphasize the effect of lattice relaxation, we report band gaps at all Dirac-like points in the hole doped part of the reconstructed spectrum, which are expected to be enhanced when including interaction effects. Our result is able to distinguish effects due to lattice relaxation and due to the interfering SM and provides a clear picture on the origin of recently experimentally observed effects in such trilayer heterostuctures.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures, uses iopart.class, Supplementary information
Generalized algebra within a nonextensive statistics
Creators: name: Nivanen, L.
name: Mehaute, A. Le
name: Wang, Q. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By considering generalized logarithm and exponential functions used in nonextensive statistics, the four usual algebraic operators : addition, subtraction, product and division, are generalized. The properties of the generalized operators are investigated. Some standard properties are preserved, e.g., associativity, commutativity and existence of neutral elements. On the contrary, the distributivity law and the opposite element is no more universal within the generalized algebra.
description: 11 pages, no figure, TeX. Reports on Mathematical Physics (2003), in press
Changes in the EU Beef Market
Creators: name: Bąk-Filipek, Ewa
name: Bąk-Filipek, Ewa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: livestock and beef
subject: conditions
subject: changes
subject: beef market
subject: European Union

description: The article below discusses and compares changes in the beef market, occurring in the EU, to the global market. Global beef market is going through endless changes, although direction and rate of these changes vary depending on which region the analysis applies to. In recent years Polish beef market has been slowly becoming marginalized on the internal market, mainly because of the decreasing importance of beef consumption in the balance of meat consumption. The poultry market is becoming more and more important, both on the supply and demand sides. The study also draws attention to the fact that agricultural markets, the meat market in particular, are susceptible to the cyclical fluctuations on international markets. Because of that the EU policy, as well as the policy of a given country, play a big part to the individual agricultural markets.
description: DOI: 10.22630/PRS.2018.18.4.101
Odynerus shestakovae
Creators: name: Schmid, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Odynerus
Odynerus shestakovae

description: Odynerus shestakovae (KOSTYLEV, 1934)
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Kerman prov., 7♀♀, 06.v.2019 Bardsir 20 km NE 30.0287 N 56.7294 E, 2153 m.
D i s t r i b u t i o n i n I r a n: New for the fauna of Iran. Described from Central Asia (VECHT & FISCHER 1972).
description: Published as part of Schmid, Christian, 2021, New records of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) from Iran with descriptions of three species, pp. 1105-1121 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038766
Modeling Belief in Dynamic Systems, Part II: Revisions and Update
Creators: name: Friedman, Nir
name: Halpern, Joseph Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.4; F.2.1

description: The study of belief change has been an active area in philosophy and AI. In recent years two special cases of belief change, belief revision and belief update, have been studied in detail. In a companion paper, we introduce a new framework to model belief change. This framework combines temporal and epistemic modalities with a notion of plausibility, allowing us to examine the change of beliefs over time. In this paper, we show how belief revision and belief update can be captured in our framework. This allows us to compare the assumptions made by each method, and to better understand the principles underlying them. In particular, it shows that Katsuno and Mendelzon's notion of belief update depends on several strong assumptions that may limit its applicability in artificial intelligence. Finally, our analysis allow us to identify a notion of minimal change that underlies a broad range of belief change operations including revision and update.
Produkcja mleka ekologicznego w Polsce. Koncentracja czy rozproszenie?
Organic Milk Production in Poland. Concentration or Dispersion?
Creators: name: Bednarz, Jacek
name: Zuba-Ciszewska, Maria
name: Bednarz, Jacek
name: Zuba-Ciszewska, Maria
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: production
subject: organic milk
subject: regions
subject: concentration
subject: Herfindahl-Hirschman Index
subject: zero unitarization method
subject: produkcja
subject: mleko ekologiczne
subject: regiony
subject: koncentracja
subject: Indeks Herfindahla-Hirschmana
subject: metoda unitaryzacji zerowanej

description: Regions specialized in the organic milk production in Poland represent a small share in the total production of this raw material within the country. Measurement of concentration is one of the key issues in research on the economic structures of market phenomena. The aim of the work was to examine the degree of concentration of the organic milk market in the context of the total milk market, as well as an attempt to answer the question about the possibility of indicating regions specializing in the production of organic milk. The study was carried out using the classical Herfindahl-Hirschman index. A modified version of the formula of the zero unitarization method was also used. The obtained results indicate a moderate degree of concentration of the organic milk market. At the same time, using the modified zero unitarization method, it is possible to clearly identify regions in which the production of organic milk has more economic significance. / Synopsis. W produkcji ekologicznego mleka w Polsce specjalizują się regiony o niewielkim udziale w produkcji tego surowca ogółem w kraju. Pomiar koncentracji stanowi jedno z kluczowych zagadnień w badaniach nad ekonomicznymi strukturami zjawisk rynkowych. Celem pracy było zbadanie stopnia koncentracji rynku mleka ekologicznego na tle rynku mleka ogółem, a także próba odpowiedzi na pytanie o możliwość wskazania regionów specjalizujących się w produkcji mleka ekologicznego. Badanie przeprowadzono przy pomocy klasycznego indeksu Herfindahla-Hirschmana oraz zmodyfikowanej wersji formuły metody unitaryzacji zerowanej. Uzyskane wyniki wskazują na umiarkowany stopień koncentracji rynku mleka ekologicznego. Jednocześnie, przy wykorzystaniu metody z zakresu porządkowania liniowego, możliwa jest jednoznaczna identyfikacja regionów, w których produkcja mleka ekologicznego ma większe znaczenie ekonomiczne.
description: DOI: 10.22630/PRS.2018.18.4.102
Enhancing Instruction at a Distance: Digital Tools for SHASS Teaching. Afternoon "Tasting Sessions" for Orientation Week.
Creators: name: Digital Humanities Lab
name: MIT Libraries
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Digital Humanities, Annotation, Annotation Studio, Panopto, Padlet, Google Maps, Web mapping, AntConc, Voyant, Corpus Analysis, Notability, Explain Everything

description: Enhancing Instruction at a Distance: Digital Tools for SHASS Teaching; Afternoon "Tasting Sessions" for Orientation Week Monday, 8/24 (3:30-4:00 PM): “Annotation Tools” Hypothesis (Alexander Forte, Ancient and Medieval Studies) Annotation Studio (Wyn Kelley, Literature) Tuesday, 8/25 (3:30-4:00 PM): “Extending Canvas: Whiteboard Tools and Other Integrations” Notability and Explain Everything (Mary Fuller, Literature) Panopto (Meghan Perdue, SHASS) Thursday, 8/27 (4:30-5:00 PM): “Mapping and Timelines” Google Maps (Elizabeth Wood, History) Padlet (Maria Khotimsky, Global Languages) Friday, 8/28 (3:30-4:00 PM): “Textual Corpus Analysis” Voyant and AntConc (Mary Erica Zimmer, Concourse and DH Lab)
Andrena tarsata Nylander 1848
Creators: name: Gérard, Maxence
name: Fiordaliso, William
name: Ferrais, Louise
name: Fournier, Chloé
name: Hairault, Malo
name: Lheureux, Lise
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena tarsata

description: Andrena tarsata Nylander, 1848
Conservation status
EN
Distribution
This species is found across most of Europe, and as far east as China (Tomozei 2014). In Belgium, it could be observed in most of the Ardenne before 1950. Since then, observations have been extremely scarce (Pauly 2024). This species is likely threatened by habitat destruction and degradation, although its specific requirements are not fully understood. Efforts should be made to identify and protect aggregations in potential habitats such as sandy heathlands and moors. These focal habitats could also be extended or restored where possible.
Notes
This species has been reported in meadows, heathlands, and moors situated on sandy soils, where nests are likely to form aggregations, although few observations have been documented (Else 2005, Westrich 2018). Nests are preferentially located on sloped, south-facing surfaces (Else 2005), similar to the quarry where we collected the sole specimen of this species. While Westrich 2018 notes that females collect pollen exclusively from Potentilla flowers, data from England suggest that the species might visit a wider range of species (Else 2005). Adults are typically observed from June to September (Peeters 2012).
Diagnosis
Another small (<9 mm), dark Andrena not belonging to the Micrandrena subgenus (Fig. 5). Females can be identified thanks to their orange hind tibiae and tarsi which is unique in Belgium for such a small species. Males have a pale clypeus, a short head and dark hairs along the inner eye margin. Their third antennal flagellomere is longer than the subsequent two (Wood 2023).
description: Published as part of Gérard, Maxence, Fiordaliso, William, Ferrais, Louise, Fournier, Chloé, Hairault, Malo, Lheureux, Lise, Rosa, Paolo & Ghisbain, Guillaume, 2025, Wild bee diversity of the National Park of the Semois Valley (Belgium), pp. e 144223 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e144223, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e144223
Additional file 1 of Content validity and methodological considerations in ecological momentary assessment studies on physical activity and sedentary behaviour: a systematic review
Creators: name: Degroote, L.
name: A. DeSmet
name: I. De Bourdeaudhuij
name: D. Van Dyck
name: G. Crombez
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table with coded information from the included studies.
Monitoring dusty sources in the vicinity of Sgr A*
Creators: name: Peißker, F.
name: Hosseini, S. E.
name: Zajacek, M.
name: Eckart, A.
name: Saalfeld, R.
name: Valencia-S., M.
name: Parsa, M.
name: Karas, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We trace several dusty infrared sources on their orbit around the supermassive black hole (SMBH) SgrA* in the center of our galaxy. We give an overview of known and unknown sources in the direct vicinity of our SMBH in a radius of around 0.04pc. For that, we are using NACO (K- and L'-band) and SINFONI (H+K-band) data (VLT, Chile/Paranal) between 2002 and 2018. Our spectroscopic analysis reveals a Doppler-shifted line emission of Br_gamma and HeI. Additionally, we report the detection of [FeIII] lines that are found exclusively in the investigated dusty sources west of SgrA*. We speculate, that the known [FeIII] emission in the GC is partially generated due to the line emission of the Dusty sources investigated in this work. However, we extend our analysis of the GC by taking the bright Br_gamma-bar close (< 120 mas) to SgrA* into account. The finding of this feature is in line with a reported SgrA* X-ray bubble that consists of an open side towards G359.945-0.044 (North-West-West direction). The location of the open side of this X-ray bubble coincides with the emission of the bright Br_gamma-bar detected in our SINFONI data-cubes.
description: 34 pages, 19 figures
Exceptional Collections and del Pezzo Gauge Theories
Creators: name: Herzog, Christopher P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stacks of D3-branes placed at the tip of a cone over a del Pezzo surface provide a way of geometrically engineering a small but rich class of gauge/gravity dualities. We develop tools for understanding the resulting quiver gauge theories using exceptional collections. We prove two important results for a general quiver gauge theory: 1) we show the ordering of the nodes can be determined up to cyclic permutation and 2) we derive a simple formula for the ranks of the gauge groups (at the conformal point) in terms of the numbers of bifundamentals. We also provide a detailed analysis of four node quivers, examining when precisely mutations of the exceptional collection are related to Seiberg duality.
description: 26 pages, 1 figure; v2 footnote 2 amended; v3 ref added
Priocera gibberis Opitz 2021, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Priocera
Priocera gibberis

description: Priocera gibberis OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 47, 89, 134)
 HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: BRÉSIL, ET DE SAO PAULO, VAL DU RIO PARDO, E. Gounelle, 12-98 (MNHN). PARATYPE: One specimen. Brazil: Estado do Minas Gerais,?-?-1885, E. Gounelle (WOPC, 1).
D i a g n o s i s: Forebody black, except posterior pronotal angles testaceous; antenna testaceous, pterothorax, legs, and abdomen castaneous; elytra tricolorous, mostly black, diagonal testaceous line projecting posteriorly from humeral angle, apex testaceous, each elytral disc with 3 yellow spots, one diagonal at middle of elytral base, one premedial, near epipleural margin, and one small transverse marking behind middle approaching sutural margin, elytral tumescence castaneous.
 D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 1.4 mm. Form: As in Fig. 134. Head: Frons broader than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 30/13. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, pronotum with 2 tumescenses and small central depression (PW /PL 70/100); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, swollen in basal 1/4 th, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded (EL /EW 260/40); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Male abdominal ventrite V broadly emarginate in posterior margin; pygidium narrowly emarginate; aedeagus as in Fig. 47; phallobasic arch as long as remainder of phallobase.
V a r i a t i o n: The castaneous making on the elytral tumescence is more pronounced in the specimen from Minas Gerais.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: The holotype was collected during December.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (Fig. 89): This species is known from Brazil.
 E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, gibberis, is a Latin adjective that stems from gibber (= swollen). I refer to the swollen condition of the basal 1/4 th of the elytral disc.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1178, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854
Lattice Gauge Fixing as Quenching and the Violation of Spectral Positivity
Creators: name: Aubin, C.
name: Ogilvie, Michael C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lattice Landau gauge and other related lattice gauge fixing schemes are known to violate spectral positivity. The most direct sign of the violation is the rise of the effective mass as a function of distance. The origin of this phenomenon lies in the quenched character of the auxiliary field $g$ used to implement lattice gauge fixing, and is similar to quenched QCD in this respect. This is best studied using the PJLZ formalism, leading to a class of covariant gauges similar to the one-parameter class of covariant gauges commonly used in continuum gauge theories. Soluble models are used to illustrate the origin of the violation of spectral positivity. The phase diagram of the lattice theory, as a function of the gauge coupling $β$ and the gauge-fixing parameter $α$, is similar to that of the unquenched theory, a Higgs model of a type first studied by Fradkin and Shenker. The gluon propagator is interpreted as yielding bound states in the confined phase, and a mixture of fundamental particles in the Higgs phase, but lattice simulation shows the two phases are connected. Gauge field propagators from the simulation of an SU(2) lattice gauge theory on a $20^4$ lattice are well described by a quenched mass-mixing model. The mass of the lightest state, which we interpret as the gluon mass, appears to be independent of $α$ for sufficiently large $α$.
description: 28 pages, 14 figures, RevTeX 4
Anthophora plumipes
Creators: name: Gérard, Maxence
name: Fiordaliso, William
name: Ferrais, Louise
name: Fournier, Chloé
name: Hairault, Malo
name: Lheureux, Lise
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Ghisbain, Guillaume
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Anthophora
Anthophora plumipes

description: Anthophora plumipes (Pallas, 1772)
Conservation status
LC
description: Published as part of Gérard, Maxence, Fiordaliso, William, Ferrais, Louise, Fournier, Chloé, Hairault, Malo, Lheureux, Lise, Rosa, Paolo & Ghisbain, Guillaume, 2025, Wild bee diversity of the National Park of the Semois Valley (Belgium), pp. e 144223 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e144223, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e144223
Understanding Mechanical Properties and Failure Mechanism of Germanium-Silicon Alloy at Nanoscale
Creators: name: Rahman, Md. Habibur
name: Chowdhury, Emdadul Haque
name: Islam, Md Mahbubul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate the mechanical properties of cubic zinc blende (ZB) Si0.5Ge0.5 alloy nanowire (NW). Tersoff potential is employed to elucidate the effect of nanowire size, crystal orientations, and temperature on the material properties. We found that the reduction in the cross-sectional area results in lower ultimate tensile strength and Youngs modulus of this alloy which can be attributed to the increased surface to volume ratio. The [111] oriented Si0.5Ge0.5 NW exhibits the highest fracture strength compared to other crystal orientations but [110] orientation possesses the highest fracture toughness. The effect of temperature depicts an inverse relationship with the ultimate tensile strength and Youngs modulus. The increased temperature facilitates the failure of the material, thus degrades the materials strength. Our study reveals that the vacancy defects introduced via removal of either Si or Ge atoms exhibit similar behavior, and with the increase in vacancy concentration, both ultimate tensile strength and Youngs modulus reduces linearly. We further illustrate the failure characteristics of Si0.5Ge0.5 NW at two extremely low and high temperatures. The intrinsic failure characteristics of Si0.5Ge0.5 alloy is found to be insensitive to the temperature. Interestingly, at both temperatures, with the increasing strain, the cross-section of Si0.5Ge0.5 eventually resembles a neck as typically observed in ductile materials, although the NW failure is brittle in nature. Overall, this work offers a new perspective on understanding material properties and failure characteristics of ZB Si0.5Ge0.5 NW that will be a guide for designing Si-Ge based nanodevices.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2004.08023
Spadek cen ropy naftowej w gospodarce światowej – główne przyczyny i konsekwencje. Analiza na przykładzie okresu 2014/2015
The plunge of Oil Prices in the Global Economy – Main Determinants and Implications. Analysis on the Basis of the Period of 2014-2015
Creators: name: Bogołębska, Joanna
name: Bogołębska, Joanna
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: oil shocks
subject: adjustment policy
subject: external balance
subject: szoki naftowe
subject: polityka dostosowawcza
subject: równowaga zewnętrzna

description: The aim of the article is to investigate the main determinants and implications of the fall of oil prices during the period of 2014/2015. The episodes of oil prices’ plunge are not presented in the literature, both theoretical and empirical one, as much as the episodes of price increases. The episodes of plunge are not as common in the economy as episodes of increases, and the negative consequences of the former are supposed not to be as severe as these of the latter. On the basis of the experiences of the last oil price plunge one can see the negative consequences can tackle both exporters and importers. The article is based mainly on two broad reports, of IMF and World Bank, and a set of publications. It discusses the problems of adjustment policy, especially fiscal and exchange rate policies, and structural reforms taken by exporting countries in the process of management of external and fiscal imbalances. / Synopsis. Celem artykułu jest analiza determinant i konsekwencji spadku cen ropy naftowej w okresie 2014/2015. Epizody te są słabiej opisane w literaturze przedmiotu, w porównaniu do okresów wzrostu, zarówno na gruncie badań teoretycznych, jak i empirycznych. Wynika to z mniejszej częstotliwości występowania okresów spadku cen, jak i oczekiwanych w mniejszym stopniu negatywnych konsekwencji. Doświadczenia lat 2014/2015 wykazują, że także okres spadku cen surowca ma negatywne konsekwencje, przede wszystkim dla eksporterów, ale także dla importerów oraz gospodarki globalnej. W artykule wykorzystano zasadniczo dwa obszerne raporty międzynarodowych instytucji: Banku Światowego i Międzynarodowego Funduszu Walutowego oraz dokonano przeglądu literatury światowej. Zwrócono uwagę na dylematy krajów eksporterów z wyborem odpowiedniej polityki dostosowawczej, w tym rolę polityki fiskalnej i kursowej, oraz reformy strukturalne w zarządzaniu powstałą nierównowagą zewnętrzną i fiskalną tej grupy krajów.
description: DOI: 10.22630/PRS.2018.18.4.104
The Evolution of Diffuse Radio Sources in Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Kuo, Ping-Hung
name: Hwang, Chorng-Yuan
name: Ip, Wing-Huen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the evolution and number distribution of radio halos in galaxy clusters. Without re-acceleration or regeneration, the relativistic electrons responsible for the diffuse radio emission will lose their energy via inverse-Compton and synchrotron losses in a rather short time, and radio halos will have lifetimes $\sim$ 0.1 Gyr. Radio halos could last for $\sim$ Gyr if a significant level of re-acceleration is involved. The lifetimes of radio halos would be comparable with the cosmological time if the radio-emitting electrons are mainly the secondary electrons generated by pion decay following proton-proton collisions between cosmic-ray protons and the thermal intra-cluster medium within the galaxy clusters. Adopting both observational and theoretical constraints for the formation of radio halos, we calculate the formation rates and the comoving number density of radio halos in the hierarchical clustering scheme. Comparing with observations, we find that the lifetimes of radio halos are $\sim$ Gyr. Our results indicate that a significant level of re-acceleration is necessary for the observed radio halos and the secondary electrons may not be a dominant origin for radio halos.
description: 22 pages, 6 figures, ApJ, in press (v2:Corrected typos.)
Smart Contracts as a New Technology in the Digital Economy
Creators: name: Glazkova, Irina
name: Kozioł-Kaczorek, Dorota
name: Shmatko, Sergey
name: Glazkova, Irina
name: Kozioł-Kaczorek, Dorota
name: Shmatko, Sergey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: smart contract
subject: cryptocurrency
subject: blockchain

description: Digital technologies have a number of advantages that contribute to the development of the economy and make it more transparent. Some of the main features of modern digital technologies are speeding up business processes, reducing costs, eliminating the possibility of fraud, ensuring the transparency of the system and the ability to check and analyze the system. Regardless of whether a commercial or government organization uses the technology, in any case, there is a wide range of possibilities of its application. One of these technologies is blockchain. A blockchain is a distributed database in which storage devices are not connected to a shared server. This database stores an ever-growing list of ordered records called blocks. Each block contains a timestamp and a link to the previous block. The article defines a smart contract, describes the main areas of its application and provides processes similar to smart contracts, but working outside the blockchain. We also consider some of the risks that arise when working with smart contracts.
description: DOI: 10.22630/PRS.2018.18.4.105
Priocera marajoara Opitz 2021, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Priocera
Priocera marajoara

description: Priocera marajoara OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 58, 92, 146)
HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Amazonas, Bates (Brazil) (BMNH).
D i a g n o s i s: Cranium black; prothorax bicolorous, venter castaneous, pronotum mostly black, lower sides and posterior angles castaneous; legs bicolorous, femora mostly testaceous, black along dorsal margin, tibiae black, tarsi testaceous; elytra bicolorous, basal 1/2 mostly black, testaceous line extends backwards from humeral angle, apical 1/2 yellow except with faintly indicated light brown diagonal line before elytral apex, each elytral disc with 2 yellow markings, one oblong at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one triangular positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 146. Head: Frons narrower than length of antennal pedicel (EW /FW 45/5). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure (PW /PL 70/120); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend a short distance beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded (EL /EW 270/60); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Pygidial distal margin rounded; aedeagus as in Fig. 58.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (Fig. 92): This species is known from Brazil.
 E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, morajoara, is a patronymic that honors the Amazonian Morajoara pre-Columbian culture, which once flourished on Morajó Island at the mouth of the Amazon River, in Brazil.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the Western Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on pages 1185-1186, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854
Additional file 4 of Assessment of developmental neurotoxicity induced by chemical mixtures using an adverse outcome pathway concept
Creators: name: Pistollato, Francesca
name: Gyves, Emilio Mendoza De
name: Carpi, Donatella
name: Bopp, Stephanie K.
name: Nunes, Carolina
name: Worth, Andrew
name: Bal-Price, Anna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 4: Figure S10. Single chemical curves. Each panel represents the modeled response of single chemicals (i.e., A, BPA; B, CPF; C, Lead; D, Methyl-Hg; E, PCB138, and F, VA) for all the selected DNT endpoints. To calculate the single chemical dose response effects for all the selected DNT endpoints the following concentrations were tested: BPA (8.5, 12.7, 19.1, 28.7, 43.0, 60.2 μM), CPF (18.5, 21.2, 24.4, 28.1, 32.3, 37.1 μM), Lead (0.001, 0.007, 0.037, 0.18, 0.91, 1.27, 1.46, 1.68, 1.93, 2.22, 2.67 μM), Methyl-Hg (0.03, 0.05, 0.09, 0.16, 0.29, 0.33 μM), PCB138 (0.01, 0.06, 0.25, 1.05, 4.39, 9.41 μM), and VA (0.5, 2.1, 8.4, 33.6, 134.4, 537 μM). The effect was estimated according to seven different mathematical models (i.e., Hill, Power, Linear, Polynomial 2, Exponential 2, Exponential 3, Exponential 4, and Exponential 5) by using the BMDExpress.2 open access software (https://github.com/auerbachs/BMDExpress-2/wiki). The best-fitting curve across the range of concentration tested is represented in the figure as percentage of response compared to the solvent control (0.1% DMSO). Table S3. BMDs synaptogenesis. The table lists the best fitting model selected for the analysis of synaptogenesis performed by BMDExpress, according to the lowest Akaike information criterion and higher fit P value. The value of the calculated BMD5 for each chemical is also reported, including the respective BMDL and BMDU. Table S4. BMDs % neurons and neurite outgrowth. The table lists the best fitting models selected for the analysis of neuronal cell (β-III-tubulin+) percentage and neurite outgrowth-related parameters performed by BMDExpress, according to the lowest Akaike information criterion and higher fit P value. The value of the calculated BMD5 for each chemical is also reported, including the respective BMDL and BMDU. Table S5. BMDs BNDF levels. The table lists the best fitting models selected for the analysis of BDNF levels performed by BMDExpress, according to the lowest Akaike information criterion and higher fit P value. The value of the calculated BMD5 for each chemical is also reported, including the respective BMDL and BMDU.
UBC AMS Microbrewery : Food and Beverage Innovation Center (FBIC) : Opportunities for Waste and Emissions Reductions
Creators: name: Wasti, Ali
name: Sinno, Hassan
name: Kartal, Haluk Kaan
name: Ali, Sarmad
name: Baroud, Tamer
name: Abednego, Vito
name: Kosegi, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2022

description: Brewing is a very energy and water-intensive process. The team has been tasked to design a microbrewery on the UBC campus with the collaboration of the UBC AMS. This report focuses on the design of a sustainable microbrewery that uses efficient methods for waste management. The reactants needed for the brewery process are yeast, hops, malt/barley grains, and water. The microbrewery is divided into two sides: the hot and cold sides. The hot side contains the mash/lauter tun and hops boiler. The mash/lauter tun is used to mash grains to convert starch to sugar and then separate wort from the undissolved spent grains. The hops boiler is used to extract flavor from hops. The cold side encompasses the fermentation tank and the bright tank. The market analysis conducted on the brewing business shows that their consumption can be almost cut in half by recycling the water and energy streams. In addition, two control loops will be implemented for this process, with simple control strategies being used due to the process being a small-scale batch process. Both of these will be temperature control loops applied on the fermentation tank (R-100) for optimum yeast metabolism and the bright tank (V-103) to keep the beer at a cool temperature before packaging. Pressure relief valves are also installed on the tanks to release any build-up pressure occurring; no further equipment protection measures are required as this is a small-scale production that will not have hazardous levels of carbon dioxide or achieve high pressures. The final design's environmental and economic analyses have been conducted, and analysis has been described in the report below. It was found that for an initial investment of $1.3M, gross revenue of approximately $350k can be expected. 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.”
Additional file 2 of A benchmark of algorithms for the analysis of pooled CRISPR screens
Creators: name: Bodapati, Sunil
name: Daley, Timothy P.
name: Xueqiu Lin
name: Zou, James
name: Qi, Lei S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2 Review history.
Double-Barred Galaxies: I. A Catalog of Barred Galaxies with Stellar Secondary Bars and Inner Disks
Creators: name: Erwin, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I present a catalog of 67 barred galaxies which contain distinct, elliptical stellar structures inside their bars. Fifty of these are double-barred galaxies: a small-scale, "inner" or "secondary" bar is embedded within a large-scale, "outer" or "primary" bar. I provide homogenized measurements of the sizes, ellipticities, and orientations of both inner and outer bars, along with with global parameters for the galaxies. The other 17 are classified as "inner-disk" galaxies, where a large-scale bar harbors an inner elliptical structure which is aligned with the galaxy's outer disk. Four of the double-barred galaxies also possess inner disks, located in between the inner and outer bars. While the inner-disk classification is ad-hoc -- and undoubtedly includes some inner bars with chance alignments (five such probable cases are identified) -- there is good evidence that inner disks form a statistically distinct population, and that at least some are indeed disks rather than bars. In addition, I list 36 galaxies which may be double-barred, but for which current observations are ambiguous or incomplete, and another 23 galaxies which have been previously suggested as potentially being double-barred, but which are probably *not*. False double-bar identifications are usually due to features such as nuclear rings and spirals being misclassified as bars; I provide some illustrated examples of how this can happen.
description: LaTeX, 25 pages, 6 EPS figures. Typos fixed and title slightly altered; accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics. Version with full-resolution figures available at http://www.iac.es/galeria/erwin/research/