cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
c,b quark masses and f_D_(s), f_B_(s) decay constants from pseudoscalar sum rules in full QCD to order alpha_s^2
Creators: name: Narison, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pseudoscalar sum rules of the heavy-light quark systems are used for extracting simultaneously the c,b quark masses and the decay constants f_D_(s),f_B_(s) of the D_(s),B_(s) mesons. To order alpha_s^2, one obtains the running quark masses: m_c(m_c)=(1.10 \pm 0.04) GeV, m_b(m_b)=(4.05\pm 0.06) GeV, the perturbative pole masses: M_c=(1.46\pm 0.04) GeV, M_b=(4.69\pm 0.06) GeV, and the decay constants: f_D=(205\pm 20) MeV, f_B=(203\pm 23) MeV and f_D_s=(235\pm 24) MeV, f_B_s=(236\pm 30) MeV, in the normalization where f_π= 130.56 MeV. The fitted values of the pole and running masses satisfy quite well their three-loop perturbative relation. The value f_D = f_B confirms earlier findings from the sum rule that the 1/M_P^1/2 heavy quark symmetry scaling law is affected by large 1/M_P corrections.
description: 9 pages in Latex file including 1 table and 2 Eps figures
Tripling energy storage density through order-disorder transition induced polar nanoregions in PbZrO3 thin films by ion implantation
Creators: name: Luo, Yongjian
name: Wang, Changan
name: Chen, Chao
name: Gao, Yuan
name: Sun, Fei
name: Li, Caiwen
name: Yin, Xiaozhe
name: Luo, Chunlai
name: Kentsch, Ulrich
name: Cai, Xiangbin
name: Bai, Mei
name: Fan, Zhen
name: Qin, Minghui
name: Zeng, Min
name: Dai, Jiyan
name: Zhou, Guofu
name: Lu, Xubing
name: Lou, Xiaojie
name: Zhou, Shengqiang
name: Gao, Xingsen
name: Chen, Deyang
name: Liu, Jun-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dielectric capacitors are widely used in pulsed power electronic devices due to their ultrahigh power densities and extremely fast charge/discharge speed. To achieve enhanced energy storage density, both maximum polarization (Pmax) and breakdown strength (Eb) need to be improved simultaneously. However, these two key parameters are inversely correlated. In this study, order-disorder transition induced polar nanoregions (PNRs) have been achieved in PbZrO3 thin films by making use of the low-energy ion implantation, enabling us overcome the trade-off between high polarizability and breakdown strength, which leads to the tripling of the energy storage density from 20.5 J/cm3 to 62.3 J/cm3 as well as the great enhancement of breakdown strength. This approach could be extended to other dielectric oxides to improve the energy storage performance, providing a new pathway for tailoring the oxide functionalities.
Additional file 4 of Dual effects of targeting S100A11 on suppressing cellular metastatic properties and sensitizing drug response in gastric cancer
Creators: name: Cui, Yuxin
name: Li, Liting
name: Li, Zhilei
name: Yin, Jie
name: Lane, Jane
name: Ji, Jiafu
name: Jiang, Wen G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S1. Sequences of primer pairs for RT-PCR.
The two-body potential of Vainshtein screened theories
Creators: name: Kuntz, Adrien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Adding a light scalar degree of freedom to General Relativity often induces a fifth force whose magnitude is strongly constrained by laboratory experiments and solar system tests. The Vainshtein screening mechanism ensures that the effects of this supplementary force are suppressed in dense environments. However, the field solution of theories exhibiting Vainshtein screening is only known in spherically symmetric situations. In this article we examine in different configurations the two-body potential energy of pointlike particles in a specific $P(X)$ theory with Vainshtein screening. We use ideas borrowed from the Effective One-Body approach of Buonanno and Damour in order to restrict the form of the solution. Our results indicate that, even if Vainshtein screening is also fully active in the equal-mass case, the nonlinear dependance of the two-body energy on the mass ratio implies a violation of the Equivalence Principle. We compute the contribution of this effect to the Moon orbit for generic theories equipped with Vainshtein screening.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures
Policy Impact Analysis on Investments and Disinvestments under Competition: A Real Options Approach
Creators: name: Feil, Jan-Henning
name: Musshoff, Oliver
name: Feil, Jan-Henning
name: Musshoff, Oliver
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Political Economy
subject: real options
subject: competition
subject: policy impact analysis
subject: genetic algoritms

description: In consequence of changes in general conditions, a higher level of investments and disinvestments in agriculture can be expected. To date, however, there are no policy impact analyses on both investments and disinvestments in competitive agricultural markets in a dynamic-stochastic context. This paper aims to develop a conceptual real options market model, which allows the impact assessment of different political schemes on investment and disinvestment thresholds and the sectoral welfare. Exemplarily, the effects of price floors, investment subsidies and production ceilings are analysed. The results show that the consideration of limited reversibility, that is disinvestments, is of relevance as it can impact the assessment of specific policies.
Energy Level Statistics of the U(5) and O(6) Symmetries in the Interacting Boson Model
Creators: name: Shu, Jing
name: Ran, Ying
name: Ji, Tao
name: Liu, Yu-Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the energy level statistics of the states in U(5) and O(6) dynamical symmetries of the interacting boson model and the high spin states with backbending in U(5) symmetry. In the calculations, the degeneracy resulting from the additional quantum number is eliminated manually. The calculated results indicate that the finite boson number $N$ effect is prominent. When $N$ has a value close to a realistic one, increasing the interaction strength of subgroup O(5) makes the statistics vary from Poisson-type to GOE-type and further recover to Poisson-type. However, in the case of $N \to \infty$, they all tend to be Poisson-type. The fluctuation property of the energy levels with backbending in high spin states in U(5) symmetry involves a signal of shape phase transition between spherical vibration and axial rotation.
description: 38 pages, 13 figures
Signatures of Obliquity in Thermal Phase Curves of Hot Jupiters
Creators: name: Adams, Arthur D.
name: Millholland, Sarah
name: Laughlin, Gregory P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent work suggests that many short-period extrasolar planets may have spin obliquities that are significantly tilted with respect to their orbital planes. These large obliquities are a natural outcome of ``secular spin-orbit resonance'', a configuration in which the planetary spin precession frequency matches the frequency of orbit nodal regression, or a Fourier component thereof. While exoplanet spin obliquities have not yet been measured directly, they may be detectable indirectly through their signatures in various observations, such as photometric measurements across the full phase of a planet's orbit. In this work, we employ a thermal radiative model to explore how large polar tilts affect full-phase light curves, and we discuss the range of unique signatures that are expected to result. We show that the well-studied short-period planets HD 149026 b, WASP-12 b, and CoRoT-2 b all exhibit phase curve features that may arise from being in high-obliquity states. We also constrain the parameters and assess the detectability of hypothetical perturbing planets that could maintain the planets in these states. Among the three planets considered, CoRoT-2 b has the tightest constraints on its proposed obliquity ($45.8^{\circ} \pm 1.4^{\circ}$) and axial orientation. For HD 149026 b, we find no significant evidence for a non-zero obliquity, and the phase curve of WASP-12 b is too complicated by strong tidal distortions for a conclusive assessment.
description: 21 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in AJ
Additional file 2: of DNA-PKcs modulates progenitor cell proliferation and fibroblast senescence in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Creators: name: Habiel, David
name: Hohmann, Miriam
name: Espindola, Milena
name: Coelho, Ana
name: Jones, Isabelle
name: Jones, Heather
name: Carnibella, Richard
name: Pinar, Isaac
name: Werdiger, Freda
name: Hogaboam, Cory
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Figure S2. Inhibition of DNA-PKcs ameliorated lung fibroblast invasive wound healing. Lung fibroblasts were then plated into 96 well plates, scratched using a WoundMaker™ and then layered with 4 mg/ml Matrigel containing vehicle or 500 nM Nu7441. Lung fibroblast invasive wound healing was monitored using an Incucyte Zoom live cell imager. Depicted is a kinetic read-out of wound closure (relative to the initial wound) over 150 h of three normal (A-C) and two IPF (D-E) lung fibroblasts treated in triplicate. (PDF 239 kb)
Exciting space-time surface plasmon polaritons by irradiating a nanoslit structure
Creators: name: Ichiji, Naoki
name: Yessenov, Murat
name: Schepler, Kenneth L.
name: Abouraddy, Ayman F.
name: Kubo, Atsushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Space-time (ST) wave packets are propagation-invariant pulsed optical beams that travel freely in dielectrics at a tunable group velocity without diffraction or dispersion. Because ST wave packets maintain these characteristics even when only one transverse dimension is considered, they can realize surface-bound waves (e.g., surface plasmon polaritons at a metal-dielectric interface, which we call ST-SPPs) that have the same unique characteristics of their freely propagating counterparts. However, because the spatio-temporal spectral structure of ST-SPPs is key to their propagation invariance on the metal surface, their excitation methodology must be considered carefully. We show here using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations that an appropriately synthesized ST wave packet in free space can be couples to a ST-SPP via a single nano-scale slit inscribed in the metal surface. Our calculations confirm that this excitation methodology yields surface-bound ST-SPPs that are locarized in all dimensions (and can thus be considered as plasmonic 'bullets'), which travel rigidly at the metal-dielectric interface without diffraction or dispersion at a tunable group velocity.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Costarina chonta Platnick & Berniker & Víquez 2014, new species
Creators: name: Platnick, Norman I.
name: Berniker, Lily
name: Víquez, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Costarina
Costarina chonta

description: Costarina chonta, new species (Figures 337–347)
TYPE: Male holotype sifted from moss and litter in a bog at an elevation of 2500 m at La Chonta, km 54 on the Inter-American Highway, 9°43′N, 83°56′W, Cartago, Costa Rica (Mar. 26–27, 1999; J. Miller), deposited in USNM (PBI_OON 27839).
 DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of C. poas (cf. figs. 111–121), but the heavily sclerotized portion of the distal embolar prong is shorter and more rounded (figs. 337–342); the female here associated resembles that of C. plena (cf. figs. 1–11) but has a small, triangular genital atrium (figs. 346, 347).
 MALE (PBI_OON 27839, figs. 337–342): Total length 2.44. Endite ventral process ventrally arched; dorsal process with sharply pointed tip. Femur I r1-1-0. Embolus proximal prong almost obsolete; distal prong with wide translucent flange which is much larger than more heavily sclerotized, retrolateral portion of prong (N = 2).
 FEMALE (PBI_OON 29829, figs. 343–347): Total length 2.17. Spination typical. Genital atrium relatively small, almost completely filled with protuberant sclerotization (N = 1).
DISTRIBUTION: Cartago.
description: Published as part of Platnick, Norman I., Berniker, Lily & Víquez, Carlos, 2014, The Goblin Spider Genus Costarina (Araneae, Oonopidae), Part 2: the Costa Rican fauna, pp. 1-76 in American Museum Novitates 2014 (3794) on pages 66-67, DOI: 10.1206/3794.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5365505
Structure and agency in the private rental market : the making and remaking of Victoria's Residential Tenancies Act
Creators: name: Faulbaum, Susan
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Victoria. Residential Tenancies Act 1980
subject: Agency (Law)
subject: Rental housing Law and legislation Australia Victoria
subject: Landlord and tenant Australia Victoria

description: This thesis explores the dynamics of social change through an examination of the making and remaking of Victoria's Residential Tenancies Act. The conditions leading up to the creation of the Tenancies Act are examined, as are the changes which the Act has produced. The findings of this thesis suggest that, despite the hopes of social reformers, the Tenancies Act has not produced a redistribution of power between landlords and tenants. It is argues, however, that this is not the fault of the Act itself, nor of its administrators, but rather of wider structural changes in the housing market which have served to negate many of the gains made by the Tenancies Act. Indeed, it is argued that, despite appearances, the Act has produced a number of important changes to the structure of, and agents participating in the rental housing market. As a result, Victoria's rental market is now quite different compared to how it was prior to the Act's introduction.
MTMD: Multi-Scale Temporal Memory Learning and Efficient Debiasing Framework for Stock Trend Forecasting
Creators: name: Wang, Mingjie
name: Tian, Juanxi
name: Zhang, Mingze
name: Guo, Jianxiong
name: Jia, Weijia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The endeavor of stock trend forecasting is principally focused on predicting the future trajectory of the stock market, utilizing either manual or technical methodologies to optimize profitability. Recent advancements in machine learning technologies have showcased their efficacy in discerning authentic profit signals within the realm of stock trend forecasting, predominantly employing temporal data derived from historical stock price patterns. Nevertheless, the inherently volatile and dynamic characteristics of the stock market render the learning and capture of multi-scale temporal dependencies and stable trading opportunities a formidable challenge. This predicament is primarily attributed to the difficulty in distinguishing real profit signal patterns amidst a plethora of mixed, noisy data. In response to these complexities, we propose a Multi-Scale Temporal Memory Learning and Efficient Debiasing (MTMD) model. This innovative approach encompasses the creation of a learnable embedding coupled with external attention, serving as a memory module through self-similarity. It aims to mitigate noise interference and bolster temporal consistency within the model. The MTMD model adeptly amalgamates comprehensive local data at each timestamp while concurrently focusing on salient historical patterns on a global scale. Furthermore, the incorporation of a graph network, tailored to assimilate global and local information, facilitates the adaptive fusion of heterogeneous multi-scale data. Rigorous ablation studies and experimental evaluations affirm that the MTMD model surpasses contemporary state-of-the-art methodologies by a substantial margin in benchmark datasets. The source code can be found at https://github.com/MingjieWang0606/MDMT-Public.
Mass Transfer Mechanism in Real Crystals by Pulsed Laser Irradiation
Creators: name: Pogorelov, A. E.
name: Ryaboshapka, K. P.
name: Zhuravlyov, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamic processes in the surface layers of metals subjected activity of a pulsing laser irradiation, which destroyed not the crystalline structure in details surveyed. The procedure of calculation of a dislocation density generated in bulk of metal during the relaxation processes and at repeated pulse laser action is presented. The results of evaluations coincide with high accuracy with transmission electron microscopy dates. The dislocation-interstitial mechanism of laser-stimulated mass-transfer in real crystals is presented on the basis of the ideas of the interaction of structure defects in dynamically deforming medium. The good compliance of theoretical and experimental results approves a defining role of the presented mechanism of mass transfer at pulse laser action on metals. The possible implementation this dislocation-interstitial mechanism of mass transfer in metals to other cases of pulsing influences is justified
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, Latex
Energy and Momentum of Oscillating Neutrinos
Creators: name: Giunti, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that Lorentz invariance implies that in general flavor neutrinos in oscillation experiments are superpositions of massive neutrinos with different energies and different momenta. It is also shown that for each process in which neutrinos are produced there is either a Lorentz frame in which all massive neutrinos have the same energy or a Lorentz frame in which all massive neutrinos have the same momentum. In the case of neutrinos produced in two-body decay processes, there is a Lorentz frame in which all massive neutrinos have the same energy.
description: 6 pages, no figures
Public greenspace and life satisfaction in urban Australia
Creators: name: Ambrey, Christopher L.
name: Fleming, Christopher M.
name: Ambrey, Christopher L.
name: Fleming, Christopher M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Happiness
subject: Household
subject: Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA)
subject: Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
subject: Greenspace
subject: Life Satisfaction
subject: Non-market Valuation.

description: This paper examines the influence of public greenspace on the life satisfaction of residents of Australia’s capital cities. A positive relationship is found between the percentage of public greenspace in a resident’s local area and their self-reported life satisfaction. On average, it is found that a resident has an implicit willingness-to-pay of $1,168 in annual household income for a one per cent (143m2) increase in public greenspace. The relationship between public greenspace and life satisfaction however, is non-linear. Additional results suggest that the value of greenspace increases with population density and that lone parents, the less educated and those living in high rise dwellings benefit to a greater extent from the provision of public greenspace than the general population. In all, life satisfaction data supports existing evidence that public greenspace is welfare enhancing for urban residents and adequate allowance should be made for its provision when planning urban areas.
Additional file 1: of DNA-PKcs modulates progenitor cell proliferation and fibroblast senescence in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Creators: name: Habiel, David
name: Hohmann, Miriam
name: Espindola, Milena
name: Coelho, Ana
name: Jones, Isabelle
name: Jones, Heather
name: Carnibella, Richard
name: Pinar, Isaac
name: Werdiger, Freda
name: Hogaboam, Cory
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Figure S1. Inhibition of DNA-PKcs kinase activity does not modulate CpG-mediated IL1ß secretion by IPF lung fibroblasts. Lung fibroblasts were stimulated with 10 μM CpG or 20 ng/ml TGF-ß1 and/or treated with 500 nM Nu7441 for 24 h. (A-B) Shown is the average concentration of IL1ß secreted from two senescent IPF lung fibroblasts lines after stimulation and/or Nu7441 treatment in triplicate. (PDF 42 kb)
Price Insurance, Moral Hazard and Agri-environmental Policy
Creators: name: Fraser, Rob W.
name: Fraser, Rob W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Environmental Economics and Policy
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Motivated by recent EC proposals to “strengthen risk management tools” in the CAP in relation to farmers’ increased exposure to market price risk, this paper draws attention to a potential negative consequence of such a change in the CAP – an associated increase in cheating behaviour by farmers in the context of environmental stewardship. A theoretical framework for this policy problem is developed and used not just to illustrate the problem, but also to propose a solution – specifically to combine the introduction of CAP-supported policy changes which reduce farmers’ exposure to market-based risk with changes in environmental stewardship policies which increase the riskiness of cheating and thereby discourage such behaviour.
Leioproctus (Leioproctus) boroniae
Creators: name: Maynard, Glynn Vivian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Leioproctus
Leioproctus boroniae

description: Leioproctus (Leioproctus) boroniae (Cockerell, 1921)
 Paracolletes boroniae * Cockerell 1921: 92, 97; 1934: 22.
 Leioproctus (Leioproctus) boroniae (Cockerell). Michener 1965: 50.
 Type
 Paracolletes boroniae — Queensland: holotype ♀, Birkdale, Brisbane, 5.ix.1916, H. Hacker off Boronia ledifolia blossom (QM).
 Collection months: September.
 Floral visitations: Rutaceae: Boronia ledifolia.
 Female. Length ca 11 mm; green metallic metasoma. Head —Ocelloccipital distance strongly depressed; frontal line depressed on upper fifth; anterior flagellum pale; interspaces on clypeus very narrow, smooth; malar space a little longer than half width of base of mandible. Mesosoma —Scutal and scutellar interspaces smooth to granular; propodeal triangle without transverse carina; first recurrent vein of forewing enters second submarginal cell basal to middle. Scopa black dorsally, pale ventrally; posterior area with hairs with 2 closely opposed rows of branches; inner hind tibial spur with 8 teeth. Metasoma —Pygidial plate obscured. Male.— Unknown.
 Notes. This species is known only from the female holotype. The malar space is longer than in other species in this group. It is very similar to L. plumosus and the 2 species key out together. Until more specimens, including males, are available, differentiation of the species will be difficult.
description: Published as part of Maynard, Glynn Vivian, 2013, Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa, pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 3715 (1) on page 34, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3715.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6507387
Self-gravitational Force Calculation of High-Order Accuracy for Infinitesimally Thin Gaseous Disks
Creators: name: Wang, Hsiang-Hsu
name: Shiue, Ming-Cheng
name: Wu, Rui-Zhu
name: Yen, Chien-Chang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Self-gravitational force calculation for infinitesimally thin disks is important for studies on the evolution of galactic and protoplanetary disks. Although high-order methods have been developed for hydrodynamic and magneto-hydrodynamic equations, high-order improvement is desirable for solving self-gravitational forces for thin disks. In this work, we present a new numerical algorithm that is of linear complexity and of high-order accuracy. This approach is fast since the force calculation is associated with a convolution form, and the fast calculation can be achieved using Fast Fourier Transform. The nice properties, such as the finite supports and smoothness, of B-splines are exploited to stably interpolate a surface density and achieve a high-order accuracy in forces. Moreover, if the mass distribution of interest is exclusively confined within a calculation domain, the method does not require artificial boundary values to be specified before the force calculation. To validate the proposed algorithm, a series of numerical tests, ranging from 1st- to 3rd-order implementations, are performed and the results are compared with analytic expressions derived for 3rd- and 4th-order generalized Maclaurin disks. We conclude that the improvement on the numerical accuracy is significant with the order of the method, with only little increase of the complexity of the method.
description: 18 pages, 9 tables, 2 figures, accepted for publication in ApJS
Device and method for harvesting energy
Creators: name: Chimamkpam, Emmanuel F.C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: acoustics
electromagnetism
antennas & radio wave propagation
Vibrations
mechanical vibrations
renewable energy
wave energy
energy
energy harvesting
electricity
wireless electricity
superconductivity
design
product design
wast heat recovery
piezoelectric energy harvesting
piezoelectric transducers
magnetism and magnetic materials
multiple configurations
device arrays
induction coil
supercurrent
magnetomechanical
broadband energy harvesting
natural frequency

description: A miniature energy harvesting device for producing electricity from acoustical energy, stray electromagnetic energy, noise and from energy of different anatomical motions. The device comprises a housing, a mechanical spring engaged with the housing between a static and dynamic state and a first magnet engaged with the mechanical spring. The device further comprises a conductive grid freely moveable within a cavity of the housing. The device further comprises a composite structure comprising a fixed magnet and a piezoelectric material. The composite structure is engaged with the grid and in communication with the first magnet. The first magnet and the fixed magnet apply a force upon the piezoelectric material when the mechanical spring is in the static state to produce a base voltage. Excitation of the mechanical spring causes the piezoelectric material to generate an alternating voltage output having a peak voltage greater than the base voltage.
description: US Patent 9350274
Water users associations and agricultural water use efficiency in northern China
Creators: name: Zhang, Lei
name: Heerink, Nico
name: Dries, Liesbeth
name: Qu, Futian
name: Zhang, Lei
name: Heerink, Nico
name: Dries, Liesbeth
name: Qu, Futian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Water scarcity
subject: joint action
subject: agricultural production
subject: farm income
subject: China

description: Traditional irrigation water management systems in China are increasingly replaced by user-based, participatory management through water users associations (WUAs) with the purpose to promote more efficient water use and higher farm incomes. Existing research shows that significant differences exist in the institutional setup of WUAs in China, and that WUAs have not been universally successful in saving water and improving farm incomes. This paper aims to examine the underlying causes of differences in WUA performance by analysing the impact of WUA characteristics on the efficiency of agricultural water use. Explanatory variables in our analysis are largely based on Agrawal’s user-based resource governance framework. Applying a random intercept regression model to data collected among 21 WUAs and 315 households in Minle county in northern China, we find that group characteristics, particularly group size and number of water users groups, and the existing pressure on available water resources are important factors in water use efficiency. We further find that WUA characteristics that positively affect water savings in crop production tend to increase the costs of inputs used in crop production, and thereby reduce or even fully offset the potential positive impact of water savings on farm incomes in our research area.
fastMI: a fast and consistent copula-based estimator of mutual information
Creators: name: Purkayastha, Soumik
name: Song, Peter X. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62H12

description: As a fundamental concept in information theory, mutual information ($MI$) has been commonly applied to quantify association between random vectors. Most existing nonparametric estimators of $MI$ have unstable statistical performance since they involve parameter tuning. We develop a consistent and powerful estimator, called fastMI, that does not incur any parameter tuning. Based on a copula formulation, fastMI estimates $MI$ by leveraging Fast Fourier transform-based estimation of the underlying density. Extensive simulation studies reveal that fastMI outperforms state-of-the-art estimators with improved estimation accuracy and reduced run time for large data sets. fastMI provides a powerful test for independence that exhibits satisfactory type I error control. Anticipating that it will be a powerful tool in estimating mutual information in a broad range of data, we develop an R package fastMI for broader dissemination.
description: 5 tables, 5 figures
Trade and Economic Implications of Low Level Presence and Asynchronous Authorizations of Agricultural Biotechnology Varieties: A Case Study in China
Creators: name: Huang, Jikun
name: Yang, Jun
name: Yang, WenQian
name: Huang, Jikun
name: Yang, Jun
name: Yang, WenQian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Agricultural biotechnology varieties
subject: Low level presence
subject: Asynchronous authorizations
subject: China

description: China has a biosafety regulatory framework in place for both domestic GM crop commercialization and imports. China imported about four times as many soybeans as it produced domestically in 2010 and is also expected to become a major importer of maize in the near future. Both China’s soybean and maize imports are dominated by GM varieties, with most soybean imported from the US, Brazil and Argentina and maize imported mainly from the US. China’s import approval process takes on average 2-3 years, and can only commence when a submitter for import approval has already received full regulatory approval in their country of origin, resulting in significant asynchronicity (for maize, for example, only 11 out of some 29 GM events authorized in the US had been approved in China by late 2010). The China paper indicates that trade disruptions due to China’s zero threshold approach to LLP could result in a slight increase in domestic maize price and large rise in soybean price, with knock-on effects on the livestock sector and overall social welfare, and also have repercussions in the export markets. The paper also points out that although China has commercialized several GM crops and has a significant number in the research and regulatory pipeline, it has so far not opted to seek approval of its GM crop events in any foreign country. This could lead to trade disruptions affecting Chinese rice exports, although these exports are declining, but also growing exports of processed rice products.
Additional file 1: of Lasmiditan for acute treatment of migraine in patients with cardiovascular risk factors: post-hoc analysis of pooled results from 2 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trials
Creators: name: Shapiro, Robert
name: Hochstetler, Helen
name: Dennehy, Ellen
name: Rashna Khanna
name: Doty, Erin
name: Berg, Paul
name: Amaal Starling
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Supplemental materials. Table S1. Summary of events excluded from likely adverse events and the associated Standardized MedDRA Queries/Preferred Terms. Table S2. Summary and analysis of potential cardiovascular adverse events within Standardized MedDRA Queries/Preferred Terms. Table S3. Summary and analysis of likely cardiovascular adverse events within Standardized MedDRA Queries/Preferred Terms. Table S4. Summary of likely cardiovascular adverse events within Standardized MedDRA Queries/Preferred Terms in patients with and without aura. Table S5. Summary of likely cardiovascular treatment-emergent adverse events within Standardized MedDRA Queries/Preferred Terms in patients with and without aura. (DOCX 39 kb)
Does the evolution of complex life depend on the stellar spectral energy distribution?
Creators: name: Haqq-Misra, Jacob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper presents the proportional evolutionary time hypothesis, which posits that the mean time required for the evolution of complex life is a function of stellar mass. The "biological available window" is defined as the region of a stellar spectrum between 200 to 1200 nm that generates free energy for life. Over the $\sim$4 Gyr history of Earth, the total energy incident at the top of the atmosphere and within the biological available window is $\sim$10$^{34}$ J. The hypothesis assumes that the rate of evolution from the origin of life to complex life is proportional to this total energy, which would suggest that planets orbiting other stars should not show signs of complex life if the total energy incident on the planet is below this energy threshold. The proportional evolutionary time hypothesis predicts that late K- and M-dwarf stars (M < 0.7 M$_{\odot}$) are too young to host any complex life at the present age of the universe. F-, G-, and early K-dwarf stars (M > 0.7 M$_{\odot}$) represent the best targets for the next generation of space telescopes to search for spectroscopic biosignatures indicative of complex life.
description: Accepted for publication in Astrobiology
Costarina barbilla Platnick & Berniker & Víquez 2014, new species
Creators: name: Platnick, Norman I.
name: Berniker, Lily
name: Víquez, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Oonopidae
Costarina
Costarina barbilla

description: Costarina barbilla, new species (Figures 308–314)
TYPE: Male holotype taken at the Estación Biológica Barbilla in the Parque Nacional Barbilla, Cartago, Costa Rica (Mar. 10, 2001; C. Víquez), deposited in INBIO (PBI_OON 29763).
DIAGNOSIS: Males can easily be recognized by the long, narrow, almost parallel embolar prongs (figs. 309–314).
 MALE (PBI_OON 29763, figs. 308–314): Total length 2.13. Endite ventral process basally widened; dorsal process distally narrowed. Femur II p0-0-1, r0-1-0; tibia I v4-4-2. Embolus proximal and distal prongs both long, narrow (N = 2).
FEMALE: Unknown.
DISTRIBUTION: Cartago.
description: Published as part of Platnick, Norman I., Berniker, Lily & Víquez, Carlos, 2014, The Goblin Spider Genus Costarina (Araneae, Oonopidae), Part 2: the Costa Rican fauna, pp. 1-76 in American Museum Novitates 2014 (3794) on page 67, DOI: 10.1206/3794.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5365505
Non-Gaussian macroscopic entanglement of motion in a hybrid electromechanical device
Creators: name: Es'haqi-Sani, Najmeh
name: Nezhad, Mehdi Khazaei
name: Abdi, Mehdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a scheme for entangling the motion of two massive objects in a hybrid electromechanical architecture. The entanglement is generated due to the interaction of two mechanical oscillators with a mediating superconducting qubit. We show that the generated macroscopic entangled states are non-Gaussian and its lifetime is limited by coherence time of the qubit. The entanglement is attainable in a wide range of parameters with appropriate control of the qubit. We confirm performance of our scheme by numerically solving the quantum optical master equation including sources of noise. The effect of imperfections, such as asymmetries in the coupling rates as well as mechanical thermal noise are studied and shown how they affect the amount and lifetime of the entangled state. Due to the nonlinear nature of the qubit, the initial Gaussian state of mechanical resonators evolves into a quasi-stationary non-Gaussian state, which is essential for universal quantum information processing in continuous variable systems. This work, therefore, provides the first step towards a universal continuous variable quantum network.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Hybrid Rings of Fixed 8T Superconducting Magnets and Iron Magnets Rapidly Cycling between -2T and +2T for a Muon Collider
Creators: name: Summers, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two 2200m radius hybrid rings of fixed superconducting magnets and iron magnets ramping at 200 Hz and 330 Hz are used to accelerate muons. Muons are given 25 GeV of RF energy per orbit. Acceleration is from 250 GeV/c to 2400 GeV/c and requires a total of 86 orbits in both rings; 82% of the muons survive. The total power consumption of the iron dipoles is 4 megawatts. Stranded copper conductors and thin Metglas laminations are used to reduce power losses.
description: Proc., New Directions for HEP, APS, Snowmass (25 June - 12 July 1996) 238-241, (4 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX)
EmBench: Quantifying Performance Variations of Deep Neural Networks across Modern Commodity Devices
Creators: name: Almeida, Mario
name: Laskaridis, Stefanos
name: Leontiadis, Ilias
name: Venieris, Stylianos I.
name: Lane, Nicholas D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In recent years, advances in deep learning have resulted in unprecedented leaps in diverse tasks spanning from speech and object recognition to context awareness and health monitoring. As a result, an increasing number of AI-enabled applications are being developed targeting ubiquitous and mobile devices. While deep neural networks (DNNs) are getting bigger and more complex, they also impose a heavy computational and energy burden on the host devices, which has led to the integration of various specialized processors in commodity devices. Given the broad range of competing DNN architectures and the heterogeneity of the target hardware, there is an emerging need to understand the compatibility between DNN-platform pairs and the expected performance benefits on each platform. This work attempts to demystify this landscape by systematically evaluating a collection of state-of-the-art DNNs on a wide variety of commodity devices. In this respect, we identify potential bottlenecks in each architecture and provide important guidelines that can assist the community in the co-design of more efficient DNNs and accelerators.
description: Accepted at MobiSys 2019: 3rd International Workshop on Embedded and Mobile Deep Learning (EMDL), 2019
Effect of tensor couplings in a relativistic Hartree approach for finite nuclei
Creators: name: Mao, Guangjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relativistic Hartree approach describing the bound states of both nucleons and anti-nucleons in finite nuclei has been extended to include tensor couplings for the $ω$- and $ρ$-meson. After readjusting the parameters of the model to the properties of spherical nuclei, the effect of tensor-coupling terms rises the spin-orbit force by a factor of 2, while a large effective nucleon mass $m^{*}/M_{N} \approx 0.8$ sustains. The overall nucleon spectra of shell-model states are improved evidently. The predicted anti-nucleon spectra in the vacuum are deepened about 20 -- 30 MeV.
description: 31 pages, 4 postscript figures included
Leioproctus (Leioproctus) irroratus
Creators: name: Maynard, Glynn Vivian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Colletidae
Leioproctus
Leioproctus irroratus

description: Leioproctus (Leioproctus) irroratus (Smith, 1853)
 Lamprocolletes irroratus *Smith 1853: 12.
 Dasycolletes humerosus *Smith 1879: 11. syn.n.
 Paracolletes humerosus (Smith). Cockerell 1905a: 348; 1926: 661; 1934: 28.
 Paracolletes irroratus (Smith). Cockerell 1925: 496; 1926: 661; 1934: 28.
 Leioproctus (Leioproctus) humerosus (Smith). Michener 1965: 51.
 Leioproctus (Leioproctus) irroratus (Smith). Michener 1965: 51.
 Types
 Lamprocolletes irroratus — holotype ♀ (Ox). [no data on specimen, but description states— Victoria: Port Philip].
 Dasycolletes humerosus — Victoria: holotype ♀, Melbourne (BMNH 17 a.521).
 Additional material examined: 41♀, 20♂
 Queensland: Herberton Ra. St. For., 8 miles (12.8 k) Atherton; 4 miles (7 k) W Paluma, 3000 ft; Wallaville; The Pinnacles, Mt Walsh NP; Bunya Mtn NP; Brisbane; Springbrook; Stanthorpe. New South Wales: Bald Rock NP; Nadgee Beach Reserve, S Newtons Beach; White Swamp. Victoria: Mackeys Mt Buffalo; Emerald; Lilydale; Healesville; Warburton; Woori Yallock; Croydon; Ferntree Gully.
 Collection months: January, February, March, April, September, October, November, December.
 Floral visitations: Myrtaceae: Eucalyptus; Proteaceae: Lomatia, Macadamia.
 Female— Length about 9 mm; integument black with dense, yellow humeral hair patches. Head— Frons with fine but distinct longitudinal ridges; facial fovea vaguely indicated by lack of striations; paraocular area with sparse punctures; F4–11 length about equal to width; malar space short, polished; gena about as wide as eye when head viewed laterally; hair sparse, brown, branched, medium length. Mesosoma — Yellow hair of scutum very dense, short, densely branched; elsewhere on dorsal scutum hair black mostly short with a few long hairs; laterally except for spiracle cover lobe hair long, fine and very sparse; tegulae opaque black. Wings with membrane darkened. Legs with hind tibial scopa entirely black on the outside, pale inside; femoral scopa black ventrally; inner hind tibial spur with 5 coarse teeth. Metasoma— Slender, strongly constricted towards the base of T1. Male— As for female except as follows: Length ca 8 mm. Head— Hair moderately dense, white; inner eye margin almost straight; distal flagellar segments longer than wide. Mesosoma — Legs long and slender, almost bare of hair; anterior fore basitarsus and tibia dark yellow. Metasoma— For S7–8 and genitalia see figs 33–35.
description: Published as part of Maynard, Glynn Vivian, 2013, Revision of Goniocolletes and seven Australian subgenera of Leioproctus (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae), and description of new taxa, pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 3715 (1) on page 40, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3715.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6507387
Imaging the stochastic microstructure and dynamic development of correlations in perpendicular artificial spin ice
Creators: name: Kempinger, Susan
name: Fraleigh, Robert D.
name: Lammert, Paul
name: Zhang, Sheng
name: Crespi, Vincent H.
name: Schiffer, Peter
name: Samarth, Nitin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use spatially resolved magneto-optical Kerr microscopy to track the complete microstates of arrays of perpendicular anisotropy nanomagnets during magnetization hysteresis cycles. These measurements allow us to disentangle the intertwined effects of nearest neighbor interaction, disorder, and stochasticity on magnetization switching. We find that the nearest neighbor correlations depend on both interaction strength and disorder. We also find that although the global characteristics of the hysteretic switching are repeatable, the exact microstate sampled is stochastic with the behavior of individual islands varying between nonminally identical runs.
Effects of Water Priority Policy on Farmers' Decision on Acreage Allocation in Northwest China
Creators: name: Zhang, Lei
name: Herzfeld, Thomas
name: Zhang, Lei
name: Herzfeld, Thomas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Farm Management
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Production Economics
subject: Water scarcity
subject: priority allocation
subject: cropping decision
subject: China

description: This article analyses the impact of a water allocation priority policy for a specific crop on farmers’ acreage allocation to different crops. To accomplish this, a system of crop acreage demands conditional on output yields, prices of variable inputs and levels of quasi-fixed inputs is estimated. The analysis based on a two-year farm household panel data from an arid region in northwest China. The results show that the water policy change results in a lower elasticity of land demand not only for Atlantic potatoes (i.e. the preferential crop), but also for the other crops. Acreage allocation to grains differs from other crops due to their use within the farm household. Moreover, the estimated elasticities of quasi-fixed inputs reveal that whereas the area of cash crops and Atlantic potatoes increases with increased use of own labour before the policy change, it does so only for cash crops after the policy change. With respect to own and exchanged labour Atlantic potatoes behave like grains and regular potatoes after the policy change.