cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Investigating work processes to manage noise exposure for crew members on-board fishing vessels
Creators: name: Ersum, Muhammad Sabah Ud Din
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2023

description: Occupational noise exposure is a major health hazard on fishing vessels and can cause noise-induced hearing loss in crew members. Previous studies have suggested different solutions to mitigate noise exposure, such as the use of hearing protections in accordance with relevant standards, the increase of insulation of on board spaces, and the insulation and structural decoupling of acoustic sources. The current study identifies human factors that cause high-level noise during whelk and crab fishing operations. The daily noise exposure levels of the workers are highly impacted by job tasks characterized by hazardous noise levels. In this work, the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) is used to model the fishing operations. Connecting the FRAM model to the noise contribution of each task can help to find the job tasks that could lead to high noise exposure. The methodology presented in this study uses the FRAM and the task-based noise measurement method to (a) examine the feasibility of administrative controls to mitigate noise exposure of fish harvesters during fishing operations, and (b) identify human factors responsible for high noise levels on board fishing vessels. Work pattern modifications are suggested that can be helpful to reduce impact noise during whelk and crab fishing.
MPEC 2023-G12 : 2023 FY13
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FY13

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Niobium Silicon alloys for Kinetic Inductance Detectors
Creators: name: Calvo, M.
name: D'Addabbo, A.
name: Monfardini, A.
name: Benoit, A.
name: Boudou, N.
name: Bourrion, O.
name: Catalano, A.
name: Dumoulin, L.
name: Goupy, J.
name: Sueur, H. Le
name: Marnieros, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are studying the properties of Niobium Silicon amorphous alloys as a candidate material for the fabrication of highly sensitive Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID), optimized for very low optical loads. As in the case of other composite materials, the NbSi properties can be changed by varying the relative amounts of its components. Using a NbSi film with T_c around 1 K we have been able to obtain the first NbSi resonators, observe an optical response and acquire a spectrum in the band 50 to 300 GHz. The data taken show that this material has very high kinetic inductance and normal state surface resistivity. These properties are ideal for the development of KID. More measurements are planned to further characterize the NbSi alloy and fully investigate its potential.
description: Accepted for publication on Journal of Low Temperature Physics. Proceedings of the LTD15 conference (Caltech 2013)
OS CUIDADOS DO ENFERMEIRO NA SAÚDE DO IDOSO
Creators: name: Morais, Marilene Souza
Publisher: name: Vistacien
Year: 2023

description: O artigo aborda a importância dos cuidados do enfermeiro na saúde do idoso, enfatizando o papel do enfermeiro na promoção da saúde, na avaliação da saúde do idoso, nos cuidados específicos para prevenção de quedas, incontinência urinária, cuidados com a pele e alimentação, além da importância da comunicação efetiva com o idoso e sua família. O texto também aborda a prevenção e cuidados com a síndrome de imobilidade no idoso, bem como a prevenção e manejo de doenças crônicas no idoso, ressaltando a importância da abordagem interdisciplinar e a atuação do enfermeiro como parte da equipe de cuidados paliativos. O objetivo do artigo é destacar a relevância da atuação do enfermeiro na saúde do idoso e na promoção do envelhecimento saudável. No geral, o artigo destaca a importância da atuação do enfermeiro na promoção da saúde do idoso, destacando a necessidade de cuidados específicos para prevenir e tratar as doenças crônicas que afetam essa população. Além disso, é enfatizado a importância da prevenção e cuidados com a síndrome de imobilidade no idoso e a necessidade de uma abordagem interdisciplinar para cuidados paliativos. A comunicação efetiva com o idoso e sua família também é destacada como fundamental para o sucesso do tratamento. O enfermeiro é visto como um profissional essencial na equipe de cuidados para o idoso, capaz de fornecer cuidados preventivos, curativos e paliativos, sempre com uma abordagem humanizada.
Determinants of Capital structure of Airline industries- The case of major airlines of Sub Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Amen Sewunet
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: This research is intended to identify the internal and external determinant factors of capital structure of major sub-Saharan African airlines. Maintaining the optimum level of leverage ratio is essential to increase firms value. The study used secondary data of three major airline’s financial reports from the year 2002-2015 and data of macro-economic factors from web site of World Bank. A panel data of three major sub Saharan African airlines was analyzed using fixed effect regression model.The study has employed a quantitative research approach and explanatory type of research design to see the causal relationship between the independent variables (liquidity, profitability, firm size, tangibility, inflation, currency exchange rate, gross domestic product, and risk) and dependent variable leverage.Statistical tool of Eviews 8 was used to see the relationship betweenregressors and regressand variable. The result of fixed effect model of regression analysis shows that tangibility, inflation and risk are statistically significant and have positive relationship with leverage. Profitability and size are also significant factor but have negative relationship with leverage. Other variables (liquidity, GDP and currency exchange rate are found to be statistically insignificant factor to leverage. The positive sign of tangibility and inflation supports trade of theory and the negative sign of profitability and size supports pecking order theory. The study suggests that, focusing on both internal and external factors of the airline industryespecially on internal factors of profitability, tangibility and size is essential on maintaining the capital structure of these major airlines of sub Saharan Africa.
General model of phospholipid bilayers in fluid phase within the single chain mean field theory
Creators: name: Guo, Yachong
name: Pogodin, Sergey
name: Baulin, Vladimir A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coarse-grained model for saturated (DCPC, DLPC, DMPC, DPPC, DSPC) and unsaturated (POPC, DOPC) phospholipids is introduced within the Single Chain Mean Field theory. A single set of parameters adjusted for DMPC bilayers gives an adequate description of equilibrium and mechanical properties of a range of saturated lipid molecules that differ only in length of their hydrophobic tails and unsaturated (POPC, DOPC) phospholipids which have double bonds in the tails. A double bond is modeled with a fixed angle of 120 degrees, while the rest of the parameters are kept the same as saturated lipids. The thickness of the bilayer and its hydrophobic core, the compressibility and the equilibrium area per lipid correspond to experimentally measured values for each lipid, changing linearly with the length of the tail. The model for unsaturated phospholipids also fetches main thermodynamical properties of the bilayers. This model is used for an accurate estimation of the free energies of the compressed or stretched bilayers in stacks or multilayers and gives reasonable estimates for free energies. The proposed model may further be used for studies of mixtures of lipids, small molecule inclusions, interactions of bilayers with embedded proteins.
PEOPLE-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TRANSFORMATION IN EMPOWERING MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN SOUTH SULAWESI (MAKASSAR CITY CASE STUDY)
Creators: name: MIAH SAID
name: ACHMAD ANZHARI
name: ASKARI HASANUDDIN
name: ARNAS HASANUDDIN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Development, Economy, Welfare, Society.

description: Abstract

Makassar City is an attractive city and has potential for developing goods and services trading businesses. Empowerment of SMEs and the tourism sector in the city of Makassar has a significant effect on improving the economy both individually and as a whole. This research aims to determine the role of small and medium enterprises in people's economic development. In this study, researchers focus on the variables of labor absorption, business capital and the level of business profits obtained by SMEs, which are independent variables that influence community welfare. The results of this research using the SPSS approach have provided static test results where the three variables have a positive and significant influence on community welfare (Y), including; labor absorption (X1) with a coefficient value b1 = 2.019, then next is the business capital variable (X2) with a coefficient b2 = 2.546. And the third is the operating profit variable (X3) b3 of =3.024. Meanwhile, in the partial test (F), the labor absorption variable (For partial tests and simultaneous tests with the SPSS system, there is an influence of these three variables on community welfare with the assumption that the other variables are constant.
Minimising MCMC variance via diffusion limits, with an application to simulated tempering
Creators: name: Roberts, Gareth O.
name: Rosenthal, Jeffrey S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We derive new results comparing the asymptotic variance of diffusions by writing them as appropriate limits of discrete-time birth-death chains which themselves satisfy Peskun orderings. We then apply our results to simulated tempering algorithms to establish which choice of inverse temperatures minimises the asymptotic variance of all functionals and thus leads to the most efficient MCMC algorithm.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AAP918 the Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
title: Zwischen Anleitung und Eigenkreation: Überlegungen zur Ästhetik selbstgemachter Dinge im schulischen Kontext
Creators: name: Huber Nievergelt, Verena
Publisher: name: Transcript
Year: 2017

description: The chapter examines three different publications for craft teachers (the magazines Werkspuren (“traces of crafting”) and manuell (“manual”) and the web-based Do-it-Aufgaben (“Do-it-Tasks”). The first and the third ones combine textile and technical crafts, the second one is mainly focused on textile crafts. The Chapter was written shortly before new books with teaching and learning materials came out in Switzerland, it was too early still to take these into consideration. By executing a document analysis focusing on the respective take of each publication on the esthetics of objects for educational tasks, considerable differences could be detected. Whereas the magazine manuell was found to be promoting an esthetics that is oriented mainly on perfect execution of craft skills as seen in bought objects, the magazine "Werkspuren" fostered an interest in the esthetics of the process as well as the product. The web-based "Do-it-Aufgaben" put its main emphasis on mainly functionally oriented tinkering and puzzling while developing objects. Furthermore, it could be shown that esthetic aspects were mainly assigned to textile crafts.
title: Behavioural responses of Callosobruchus maculatus to volatiles organic compounds found in the headspace of dried green pea seeds
Creators: name: Moualeu, Agnes Ndomo Epse.
name: Ulrichs, Christian
name: Adler, Cornel
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2018

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv, Nr. 463, Vol.1 (2018): Proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection (IWCSPP) in Berlin, Germany, October 7-11, 2018
title: Stored product insects at a rice mill: Temporal and spatial patterns and implications for pest management
Creators: name: Lazzari, Sonia
name: Lazzari, Flavio
name: Lazzari, Fernanda
name: Arthur, Frank H.
name: Campbell, James F.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2018

description: Monitoring is fundamental to integrated pest management programs since it provides feedback on effectiveness of prevention programs and helps with targeting interventions as needed and evaluating their effectiveness. Rice mills are spatially complex facilities that have a combination of rough rice storage bins, buildings where rice is milled and processed, and warehouses and bulk storage bins where finished product is held before shipment. Each of these structures can have its own suite of insect species, different levels of risk, as well as different suites of management tools available. At a large rice mill in Brazil, stored product insect activity was monitored using food bait traps placed around rough rice receiving areas and storage bins; inside building containing white rice mill, rice flour mill, and packaging; and inside building for processing parboiled rice. The facility was monitored from 2010 to 2018 with 100 traps. Major pest species recovered at the facility included Sitophilus oryzae, Sitophilus zeamais, Rhyzopertha dominica, Tribolium castaneum, Cryptolestes ferrugineus, Ahasverus advena, Oryzaephilus surinamensis, Typhaea stercorea, Anthicus floralis, and Nitidulidae species. Temporal and spatial patterns in abundance were evaluated for each of the major species and for major functional groups (primary feeders, secondary feeders, and fungal feeders). Monitoring data generated was used to guide pest management programs and also provided the information needed to develop management thresholds.
description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv, Nr. 463, Vol.1 (2018): Proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection (IWCSPP) in Berlin, Germany, October 7-11, 2018
Abelian-Higgs model from Cho-Faddeev-Niemi decomposition
Creators: name: Mohamadnejad, Ahmad
name: Deldar, Sedigheh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Applying Cho-Faddeev-Niemi decomposition for SU(2) Yang-Mills field, we obtain the Abelian-Higgs Lagrangian by some approximation. Abelian-Higgs Lagrangian with a spontaneous symmetry breaking potential has vortex solutions known as Nielsen-Olesen solutions. We conclude that vortices as well as magnetic monopoles can exist in Cho-Faddeev-Niemi decomposition of SU(2) Yang-Mills field.
description: 10 pages, To be published in MPLA
Robust bound states in the continuum in Kerr microcavity embedded in photonic crystal waveguide
Creators: name: Bulgakov, Evgeny N.
name: Sadreev, Almas F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a two-dimensional photonic crystal design with a microcavity of four defect dielectric rods with eigenfrequencies residing in the propagating band of directional waveguide. In the linear case for tuning of material parameters of defect rods the nonrobust bound state in the continuum (BSC) might occur. The BSC is a result of full destructive interference of resonant monopole and quadrupole modes with the same parity. % to trap light interior of the microcavity. A robust BSC arises in a self-adaptive way without necessity to tune the parameters of the microcavity with the Kerr effect. Lack of the superposition principle in nonlinear systems gives rise to coupling of the BSC with injecting light. That forms a peculiar shape of isolated transmittance resonance around BSC frequency. We show if injecting light is switched off the BSC storages light that opens a way for light accumulation.
Quantum corrections to nonlinear ion acoustic wave with Landau damping
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Abhik
name: Bose, Anirban
name: Janaki, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum corrections to nonlinear ion acoustic wave with Landau damping have been computed using Wigner equation approach. The dynamical equation governing the time development of nonlinear ion acoustic wave with semiclassical quantum corrections is shown to have the form of higher KdV equation which has higher order nonlinear terms coming from quantum corrections, with the usual classical and quantum corrected Landau damping integral terms. The conservation of total number of ions is shown from the evolution equation. The decay rate of KdV solitary wave amplitude due to presence of Landau damping terms has been calculated assuming the Landau damping parameter $α_1 = \sqrt{{m_e}/{m_i}}$ to be of the same order of the quantum parameter $Q = {\hbar^2}/({24 m^2 c^2_{s} L^2})$. The amplitude is shown to decay very slowly with time as determined by the quantum factor $ Q$.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure
Das Text+ Blog als Teil der Wissenschaftskommunikation von Text+
Creators: name: Wienert, Annika
name: Steckel, Alexander
name: Trippel, Thorsten
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: NFDI
Text+
Textplus
Text+ Plenary 22
Wissenschaftskommunikation
Blog
hypothesis.org

description: Presentation at the plenary meeting of the NFDI consortium Text+ on September 12, 2022 in Mannheim, Germany.
description: Text+ receives a funding grant from the DFG under the grant agreement number 460033370. Text+ is contributing to the NFDI, the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).
Statistical Analysis of High-Flow Traffic States
Creators: name: Knorr, Florian
name: Zaksek, Thomas
name: Brügmann, Johannes
name: Schreckenberg, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The relation between the fundamental observables of traffic flow (i.e., vehicle density, flow rate, and average velocity) is of great importance for the study of traffic phenomena. Probably the most common source of such data are inductive loop detectors, which count the number of passing vehicles and measure their speed. We will present an analysis of detector data collected by more than 3000 loop detectors during the past three years on the motorway network of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Besides presenting some general aspects of traffic flow, our analysis focuses on the characteristics of so-called high-flow states, i.e. traffic states where the flow rate exceeds 50 vehicles per minute and lane (3000 veh/h/lane). We investigate the duration, frequency and other statistics of such states, the viability of the data and we study the conditions under which they occur. The factors that influence the existence of high-flow states in traffic are, for instance, the fraction of slow vehicles (namely trucks), the motorway's general topology (e.g. number of lanes), the hour of the day and day of the week. This information is directly accessible from the detector data.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, presented at "Traffic and Granular Flow 2013" conference
supplementary information from Seasonal ecosystem linkages contribute to the maintenance of migratory polymorphism in a salmonid population
Creators: name: Tanaka, Tatsuya
name: Ueda, Rui
name: Sato, Takuya
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: supplementary figures, statistical tables and supplementary results
This research is intended to identify the internal and external determinant factors of capital structure of major sub-Saharan African airlines. Maintaining the optimum level of leverage ratio is essential to increase firms value. The study used secondary data of three major airline's financial reports from the year 2002-2015 and data of macro-economic factors from web site of World Bank. A panel data of three major sub Saharan African airlines was analyzed using fixed effect regression model.The study has employed a quantitative research approach and explanatory type of research design to see the causal relationship between the independent variables (liquidity, profitability, firm size, tangibility, inflation, currency exchange rate, gross domestic product, and risk) and dependent variable leverage.Statistical tool of Eviews 8 was used to see the relationship betweenregressors and regressand variable. The result of fixed effect model of regression analysis shows that tangibility, inflation and risk are statistically significant and have positive relationship with leverage. Profitability and size are also significant factor but have negative relationship with leverage. Other variables (liquidity, GDP and currency exchange rate are found to be statistically insignificant factor to leverage. The positive sign of tangibility and inflation supports trade of theory and the negative sign of profitability and size supports pecking order theory. The study suggests that, focusing on both internal and external factors of the airline industryespecially on internal factors of profitability, tangibility and size is essential on maintaining the capital structure of these major airlines of sub Saharan Africa.
Creators: name: Kedir Yassin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: For the past decades, data traffic demand considerably increased in volume and quality due to the advent of capable end-user devices and innovative data services. To accommodate the highly increasing data traffic volume and customer demand for service with better quality, an automatic switched optical network (ASON) with different routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) algorithms and resilience mechanisms are used. Previously different researchers evaluated performance of different resilience mechanisms and RWA algorithms separately by considering an ideal highly connected network with ideal uniform traffic demand/connection request. This issue can force telecom operators including Ethio-telecom to implement their backbone network based on vendor recommendation
title: From stored-product psocids to the other pests: the developments, problems and prospects on research and application of molecular identification
Creators: name: Li, Zhihong
name: Stejskal, Vaclav
name: Opit, George
name: Cao, Yang
name: Throne, James E.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2018

description: Psocids, beetles, moths and mites are regarded as the common kinds of stored-product pests in the world. The rapid and correct identification of stored-product pests is significant for quarantine, monitoring and control purposes. Molecular methods and techniques have been studied and applied for stored-product pest identification. Based on collection and analysis of literature in the last decade, this paper reviews the developments, questions and prospects for molecular identification of stored-product pests. As a representative model, the molecular methods and techniques for species identification of stored-product psocid pests were developed and applied systematically based on international collaboration involving China, Czech Republic, the United States and other countries. More than 10 studies on stored-product psocids related to RFLP, DNA barcoding, PCR, real-time PCR and gene chip have been published during this decade. Subsequently, DNA barcoding, PCR and real-time PCR techniques for the identification of common species of Tribolium and Cryptolestes pests of stored products have been reported by the same international team. Recently, a web system called Grain Pests DNA Barcode Identification System (GPDBIS) has been established in China using SOL SERVER and C#. Like a marathon that requires persistence, we should do our best to continue to promote research and application of molecular identification of stored-product pests with more international collaboration.
description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv, Nr. 463, Vol.1 (2018): Proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection (IWCSPP) in Berlin, Germany, October 7-11, 2018
Particle production in relativistic $pp$($\overline{p}$) and $AA$ collisions at RHIC and LHC energies with Tsallis statistics using the two-cylindrical multisource thermal model
Creators: name: Li, Bao-Chun
name: Wang, Ya-Zhou
name: Liu, Fu-Hu
name: Wen, Xin-Jian
name: Dong, You-Er
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An improved Tsallis statistics is implemented in a multisource thermal model to describe systematically pseudorapidity spectra of charged particles produced in relativistic nucleon-nucleon ($pp$ or $p\overline{p}$) collisions at various collision energies and in relativistic nucleus-nucleus ($AA$) collisions at different energies with different centralities. The results with Tsallis statistics using the two-cylindrical multisource thermal model are in good agreement with the experimental data measured at RHIC and LHC energies. It is found that the rapidity shifts of longitudinal sources increase linearly with collision energies and centralities in the framework. According to the laws, we also give a prediction of the pseudorapidity distributions in $pp$($\overline{p}$) collisions at higher energies.
description: 22 pages, 18 figures
Ileocecal intussusception. A case report
Creators: name: Griselda Luna Quizihuitl M.D.
name: Miguel Eduardo Marin Canto M.D.
name: Gadi Jaciel Gonzalez Zavala M.D.
name: Omar Armando Caceres Von Roehrich M.D.
name: Dariana Martinez Marabotto M.D.
name: Jorge Eduardo Barragan Morales M.D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Background
Intestinal intussusception is defined as the penetration of an intestinal segment into an adjacent segment. In adults, intussusception is an exceptional phenomenon, but with great clinical importance since a high percentage is associated with the presence of a malignant tumor. An 82-year-old male with a chronic-degenerative history of ischemic heart disease secondary to acute myocardial infarction. He went to the emergency department with a clinical picture of 10 days of evolution of pain starting in the epigastrium that is accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Tomography is performed where an intraluminal soft tissue density mass with probable tumor is observed.
 
Keywords: Intussusception, intestinal, adult.
Are X-ray Emitting Coronae around Super Massive Black Holes Outflowing?
Creators: name: Liu, Teng
name: Wang, Jun-Xian
name: Yang, Huan
name: Zhu, Fei-Fan
name: Zhou, You-Yuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hard X-ray emission in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is believed to be produced via inverse Compton scattering by hot and compact coronae near the super massive black hole. However the origin and physical properties of the coronae, including geometry, kinematics and dynamics, yet remain poorly known. In this work, taking [OIV] 25.89um emission line as an isotropic indicator of AGN's intrinsic luminosity, we compare the intrinsic corona X-ray emission between Seyfert 1 and Compton-thin Seyfert 2 galaxies, which are viewed at different inclinations according to the unification scheme. We compile a sample of 130 Compton-thin Seyfert galaxies with both [OIV] 25.89um line luminosities measured with Spitzer-IRS and X-ray spectra observed by XMM-Newton, Chandra, Suzaku or Swift. Known radio-loud sources are excluded. We fit the X-ray spectra to obtain the absorption-corrected 2-10 keV continuum luminosities. We find that Seyfert 1 galaxies are intrinsically brighter in intrinsic 2-10 keV emission by a factor of 2.8+0.5-0.4 (2.2+0.9-0.3 in Swift-BAT 14-195 keV emission), comparing with Compton-thin Seyfert 2 galaxies. The Seyfert 1 and Compton-thin Seyfert 2 galaxies follow a statistically identical correlation between the absorption-corrected 2-10 keV luminosity and the 14-195 keV luminosity, indicating that our absorption correction to the 2-10 keV flux is sufficient. The difference in X-ray emission between the two populations is thus unlikely due to X-ray absorption, and instead implies an intrinsic anisotropy in the corona X-ray emission. This striking anisotropy of X-ray emission can be explained by a bipolar outflowing corona with a bulk velocity of ~0.3-0.5c. This would provide a natural link between the so-called coronae and weak jets in these systems. Other consequences of outflowing coronae are also discussed.
description: ApJ accepted, 15 pages, 7 figures
A Short Note on Zero-error Computation for Algebraic Numbers by IPSLQ
Creators: name: Feng, Yong
name: Chen, Jingwei
name: Wu, Wenyuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The PSLQ algorithm is one of the most popular algorithm for finding nontrivial integer relations for several real numbers. In the present work, we present an incremental version of PSLQ. For some applications needing to call PSLQ many times, such as finding the minimal polynomial of an algebraic number without knowing the degree, the incremental PSLQ algorithm is more efficient than PSLQ, both theoretically and practically.
description: 4 pages
Replication package of "Onboarding New Developers in Variant-rich Systems: Voices from the Trenches" paper
Creators: name: Irastorza, Arantza
name: Azanza, Maider
name: Medeiros, Raul
name: Díaz, Oscar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Onboarding
Variability
Variant-rich Systems

description: This replication package comprises a comprehensive collection of materials that enables other researchers to replicate the study's findings. It includes several essential files, such as an introduction letter, an interview guide, informed consent forms, a disagreement diary, additional questions, and the corresponding emails for collecting the additional questions.
Tunneling of slow quantum packets through the high Coulomb barrier
Creators: name: Dodonov, A. V.
name: Dodonov, V. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the tunneling of slow quantum packets through a high Coulomb barrier. We show that the transmission coefficient can be quite different from the standard expression obtained in the plane wave (WKB) approximation (and larger by many orders of magnitude), even if the momentum dispersion is much smaller than the mean value of the momentum.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physics Letters A
Bromide Addition to Test for Vertical Percolation and Plant Uptake
Creators: name: Hamilton, S.K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: bromide tracer
lysimeter
soil percolation
plant uptake

description: In 2019 we conducted a bromide tracer addition at the KBS LTER site to determine whether water infiltrating at the surface percolated vertically downward through the root zone. We wanted to verify whether suction lysimeters could be deployed beneath small subplots in our future LTER rainout shelter experiments. This experiment has also been called the “lysimeter spacing test.” Subsequently, we sampled grass that grew after the addition to see whether plants take up added bromide from the soil solution.
Determination of $c_\mathrm A$ in three-flavour lattice QCD with Wilson fermions and tree-level improved gauge action
Creators: name: Bulava, John
name: Della Morte, Michele
name: Heitger, Jochen
name: Wittemeier, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on an ongoing non-perturbative determination of the improvement coefficient of the axial current, $c_\mathrm A$, with three flavours of dynamical $\mathrm O(a)$ improved Wilson quarks and tree-level Symanzik improved gauge action. Our computations are based on simulations with the openQCD code. The improvement condition for a range of couplings is formulated with Schrödinger functional boundary conditions and imposed along a line of constant physics in parameter space. Our analysis involves correlation functions with boundary wave functions such that a large sensitivity to $c_\mathrm A$ can be reached by exploiting the PCAC relation with two different pseudoscalar states.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, presented at the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2013), 29 July - 3 August 2013, Mainz, Germany
title: Enhancing surveillance for exotic stored pests in the Australian grains industry using a partnership approach with industry and government.
Creators: name: Bellati, Judy
name: Taylor-Hukins, Rachel
name: McIntyre, Kym
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2018

description: Verifying freedom from exotic pests such as Khapra beetle (Trogoderma granarium) & Karnal Bunt (Tilletia indica) is critical to supporting & maintaining access for Australian grain producers to international markets. Despite Australia’s geographical isolation & strong quarantine systems, increasing levels of travel & trade continues to place pressure on our biosecurity systems, emphasising the need for improving our regional efforts in prevention, preparedness & surveillance to mitigate risks. The Australian Grains Farm Biosecurity Program (GFBP) is a national initiative to assist in the development & implementation of improved biosecurity practice, playing a vital role in the education of exotic pests & the role of surveillance by industry. The GFBP has undertaken a targeted surveillance program for stored product pests, with Khapra beetle as the main focus. A range of sites based on potential risk groups & pathways (e.g. farming enterprises, seed distributors & agricultural stores) were targeted, with different approaches used across the three grain growing regions of Australia depending on State activities & pre-existing collaborators. All regions used a combination of pheromone traps & other sampling methods appropriate for host materials & environment. The surveillance is aimed at strengthening evidence of absence, building industry knowledge & participation in grain storage surveillance & promoting improved management practices around storage. These regionally specific engagement methods & surveillance efforts are discussed. Australia remains free of Khapra beetle.
description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv, Nr. 463, Vol.1 (2018): Proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection (IWCSPP) in Berlin, Germany, October 7-11, 2018
Commensurate-incommensurate solid transition in the $^4$He monolayer on $γ$-graphyne
Creators: name: Ahn, Jeonghwan
name: Lee, Hoonkyung
name: Kwon, Yongkyung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Path-integral Monte Carlo calculations have been performed to study the $^4$He adsorption on $γ$-graphyne, a planar network of benzene rings connected by acetylene bonds. Assuming the $^4$He-substrate interaction described by a pairwise sum of empirical $^4$He-carbon interatomic potentials, we find that unlike $α$-graphyne, a single sheet of $γ$-graphyne is not permeable to $^4$He atoms in spite of its large surface area. One-dimensional density distributions computed as a function of the distance from the graphyne surface reveal a layer-by-layer growth of $^4$He atoms. A partially-filled $^4$He monolayer is found to exhibit different commensurate solid structures depending on the helium coverage; it shows a C$_{2/3}$ commensurate structure at an areal density of 0.0491Å$^{-2}$, a C$_{3/3}$ structure at 0.0736Å$^{-2}$, and a C$_{4/3}$ structure at 0.0982Å$^{-2}$. While the promotion to the second layer starts beyond the C$_{4/3}$ helium coverage, the first $^4$He layer is found to form an incommensurate triangular solid when compressed with the development of the second layer.
title: Toward the control of veterinary viruses of food production animals
Creators: name: Bentley, Eleanor
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2024

description: Global food poverty is of major concern with an estimated 783 million people going to bed hungry every night (World Food Programme, 2023). To meet increasing food demands we need to reduce food wastage and improve efficiency of food production by optimising existing production systems. Meat provides a highly digestible source of nutrients, but production of this valuable food source is hampered by losses through infectious disease. This work covers research into scientific approaches to reduce the impact of infectious disease in the veterinary field through diagnostics, vaccination and expanding research options to develop understanding of disease. We describe a universal sequencing assay to be used as a diagnostic test for pathogens with identical clinical presentation, a mucosal vaccine for prevention of avian influenza, validate a small animal model to research neglected pathogen Ovine Herpesvirus-2 (OvHV-2) and undergo a subsequent vaccination trial to assess the protective effect of an MVA based vaccine in the OvHV-2 model.
Magnetic detectability of a finite size paramagnet/superconductor cylindrical cloak
Creators: name: Yampolskii, S. V.
name: Genenko, Y. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cloaking of static magnetic fields by a finite thickness type-II superconductor tube surrounded by a coaxial paramagnet shell is studied. On the basis of exact solutions to the London and Maxwell equations, it is shown that perfect cloaking is realizable for arbitrary geometrical parameters including the thin film case for both constituents. In contrast to previous approximate studies assuming perfect diamagnetism of the superconductor constituent, it is proven that cloaking provides simultaneously full undetectability, that is the magnetic moment of the structure completely vanishes as well as all high-order multipole moments as soon as the uniform field outside remains unaffected.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Applied Physics Letters
Souscription à l'assurance maladie à Kinshasa :  Cas des ménages de la commune de Gombe
Creators: name: MUAYILA KABIBU Henry
name: NKASHAMA MUKENGE Jean-Claude
name: TENDELE MOBONDA Clautilde
name: MVITA BAYUNDULA Dieuvic
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: La présente étude a eu comme objectif d'analyser les facteurs associés à la souscription au produit d'assurance maladie dans la ville de Kinshasa, et plus précisément par les ménages de la commune de la Gombe. Pour atteindre cet objectif, le modèle de régression logistique a été utilisé sur un échantillon de 284 individus. Les résultats révèlent que le niveau de revenu, le niveau perçu de la prime, la confiance accordée aux compagnies d'assurance, la connaissance de l'assurance maladie, la religion, le niveau d'instruction, l'appartenance à une mutuelle de santé ainsi que le statut matrimonial sont les facteurs associés à la souscription au produit d'assurance par les ménages de la commune de la Gombe.
Relativistic few-body physics
Creators: name: Polyzou, Wayne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I discuss different formulations of the relativistic few-body problem with an emphasis on how they are related. I first discuss the implications of some of the differences with non-relativistic quantum mechanics. Then I point out that the principle of special relativity in quantum mechanics implies that the quantum theory has a Poincaré symmetry, which is realized by a unitary representation of the Poincaré group. This representation can always be decomposed into direct integrals of irreducible representations and the different formulations differ only in how these irreducible representations are realized. I discuss how these representations appear in different formulations of relativistic quantum mechanics and discuss some applications in each of these frameworks.
description: 10 pages, proceedings of the 22nd European few-body conference
Effects of van der Waals interactions and quasiparticle corrections on the electronic and transport properties of Bi2Te3
Creators: name: Cheng, L.
name: Liu, H. J.
name: Zhang, J.
name: Wei, J.
name: Liang, J. H.
name: Shi, J.
name: Tang, X. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a theoretical study of the structural, electronic and transport properties of bulk Bi2Te3 within density functional theory taking into account the van der Waals interactions (vdW) and the quasiparticle self-energy corrections. It is found that the optB86b-vdW functional can well reproduce the experimental lattice constants and interlayer distances for Bi2Te3. Based on the fully optimized structure, the band structure of Bi2Te3 is obtained from first-principles calculations with the GW approximation and the Wannier function interpolation method. The global band extrema are found to be off the high-symmetry lines, and the real energy band calculated is in good agreement with that measured experimentally. In combination with the Boltzmann theory, the GW calculations also give accurate prediction of the transport properties, and the calculated thermoelectric coefficients of Bi2Te3 almost coincide with the experimental data.
ASSESSMENT OF FLEET MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF PHARMACUETICALS FUND AND SUPPLY AGENCY OF ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: KIBATU SEIFU MARE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016

description: Transportation is at the center of logistics as it represents the physical movement of materials between points in a supply chain. The pressure to deliver faster and cheaper has made vehicle utilization an important aspect of fleet management. Better vehicle utilization lowers operating cost through better planning. Transport planning requires software support with the use of transportation management systems. The aim is to determine routes that will provide the highest overall utilization of vehicle capacity, with as many customers served and the largest amount of goods delivered, at the same time as the delivery times are minimized. Efficient logistics are fundamental to effective Pharmaceuticals fund and supply agency operations. Pharmaceuticals fund and supply agency needs to professionalize its logistics capacity both in the field and at headquarters if it is to ensure that the organization is running as close to its optimal edge as possible.The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of fleet management of Pharmaceuticals fund and supply agency. The study has incorporated both primary and secondary source of data. The primary data was collected using questionnaire. Secondary data was collected from journal articles, internet website, annual report and magazines. Out of 65 total populations 50 valid responses were collected. Descriptive data analysis method through the use of Statistical packages for social science (SPSS) version 16.0 software was used to analyze the data.For the quantitative analyses, the statistical analyses include descriptive statistics & for the qualitative analyses narrative type of analyses was used.The results indicate thatpharmaceuticals fund and supply agency and its branches should be considering the importance of routine servicing, allocation or routing, fuel monitoring, fuel sourcing, fleet administration & costing, dispatching, vehicle inspection and maintenance Training in decision making process.
Reweighted l1-norm Penalized LMS for Sparse Channel Estimation and Its Analysis
Creators: name: Taheri, Omid
name: Vorobyov, Sergiy A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A new reweighted l1-norm penalized least mean square (LMS) algorithm for sparse channel estimation is proposed and studied in this paper. Since standard LMS algorithm does not take into account the sparsity information about the channel impulse response (CIR), sparsity-aware modifications of the LMS algorithm aim at outperforming the standard LMS by introducing a penalty term to the standard LMS cost function which forces the solution to be sparse. Our reweighted l1-norm penalized LMS algorithm introduces in addition a reweighting of the CIR coefficient estimates to promote a sparse solution even more and approximate l0-pseudo-norm closer. We provide in depth quantitative analysis of the reweighted l1-norm penalized LMS algorithm. An expression for the excess mean square error (MSE) of the algorithm is also derived which suggests that under the right conditions, the reweighted l1-norm penalized LMS algorithm outperforms the standard LMS, which is expected. However, our quantitative analysis also answers the question of what is the maximum sparsity level in the channel for which the reweighted l1-norm penalized LMS algorithm is better than the standard LMS. Simulation results showing the better performance of the reweighted l1-norm penalized LMS algorithm compared to other existing LMS-type algorithms are given.
description: 28 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, Submitted to Signal Processing on June 2013
Formation of a Flare-Productive Active Region: Observation and Numerical Simulation of NOAA AR 11158
Creators: name: Toriumi, S.
name: Iida, Y.
name: Kusano, K.
name: Bamba, Y.
name: Imada, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comparison of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) analysis of NOAA Active Region (AR) 11158 and numerical simulations of flux-tube emergence, aiming to investigate the formation process of this flare-productive AR. First, we use SDO/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) magnetograms to investigate the photospheric evolution and Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) data to analyze the relevant coronal structures. Key features of this quadrupolar region are a long sheared polarity inversion line (PIL) in the central delta-sunspots and a coronal arcade above the PIL. We find that these features are responsible for the production of intense flares, including an X2.2-class event. Based on the observations, we then propose two possible models for the creation of AR 11158 and conduct flux-emergence simulations of the two cases to reproduce this AR. Case 1 is the emergence of a single flux tube, which is split into two in the convection zone and emerges at two locations, while Case 2 is the emergence of two isolated but neighboring tubes. We find that, in Case 1, a sheared PIL and a coronal arcade are created in the middle of the region, which agrees with the AR 11158 observation. However, Case 2 never builds a clear PIL, which deviates from the observation. Therefore, we conclude that the flare-productive AR 11158 is, between the two cases, more likely to be created from a single split emerging flux than from two independent flux bundles.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures, published in Solar Physics, see http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11207-014-0502-1