cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quantum transport through mesoscopic disordered interfaces, junctions, and multilayers
Creators: name: Nikolic, Branislav K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The study explores perpendicular transport through macroscopically inhomogeneous three-dimensional disordered conductors using mesoscopic methods (real-space Green function technique in a two-probe measuring geometry). The nanoscale samples (containing $\sim1000$ atoms) are modeled by a tight-binding Hamiltonian on a simple cubic lattice where disorder is introduced in the on-site potential energy. I compute the transport properties of: disordered metallic junctions formed by concatenating two homogenous samples with different kinds of microscopic disorder, a single strongly disordered interface, and multilayers composed of such interfaces and homogeneous layers characterized by different strength of the same type of microscopic disorder. This allows us to: contrast resistor model (semiclassical) approach with fully quantum description of dirty mesoscopic multilayers; study the transmission properties of dirty interfaces (where Schep-Bauer distribution of transmission eigenvalues is confirmed for single interface, as well as for the stack of such interfaces that is thinner than the localization length); and elucidate the effect of coupling to ideal leads (``measuring apparatus'') on the conductance of both bulk conductors and dirty interfaces When multilayer contains a ballistic layer in between two interfaces, its disorder-averaged conductance oscillates as a function of Fermi energy. I also address some fundamental issues in quantum transport theory--the relationship between Kubo formula in exact state representation and ``mesoscopic Kubo formula'' (which gives the zero-temperature conductance of a finite-size sample attached to two semi-infinite ideal leads) is thoroughly reexamined by comparing their answers for both the junctions and homogeneous samples.
description: 18 pages, 17 embedded EPS figures
Using crowdsourced data to map bicycling behaviour
Creators: name: Brum-Bastos, Vanessa
name: Ferster, Colin
name: Trisalyn Nelson
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Growing interest in data for bicycling planning has many jurisdictions aiming to develop a sampling strategy for measuring bicycle counts. However, it can be difficult to determine where bicycling counters should be placed to generate a representative sample of bicycling, and bicycle counts tend to only occur on heavily used bicycle routes. Our goal, is to utilize crowdsourced data on bike ridership, from Strava Metro, and continuous signal processing data mining techniques to map regions of bicycling behaviour in San Francisco – CA, US. Bicycling behaviour regions can be used to stratify bicycle count sampling. Our results indicate it is possible to differentiate bicycling behaviour from Strava and we mapped routes categorized into six unique ridership behaviours including commute to work, commute to school, leisure, 8 am peak , 11 am peak and least utilised. We recommend sampling ridership from each of the categories when developing count programs.
Symmetries and reductions on the noncommutative Kadomtsev-Petviashvili and Gelfand-Dickey hierarchies
Creators: name: Li, Chuanzhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we construct the additional flows of the noncommutative Kadomtsev-Petviashvili(KP) hierarchy and the additional symmetry flows constitute an infinite dimensional Lie algebra $W_{1+\infty}$. In addition, the generating function of the additional symmetries can also be proved to have a nice form in terms of wave functions and this generating symmetry is used to construct the noncommutative KP hierarchy with self-consistent sources and the constrained noncommutative KP hierarchy. The above results will be further generalized to the noncommutative Gelfand-Dickey hierarchies which contains many interesting noncommutative integrable systems such as the noncommutative KdV hierarchy and noncommutative Boussinesq hierarchy. Meanwhile, we construct two new noncommutative systems including odd noncommutative C type Gelfand-Dickey and even noncommutative C type Gelfand-Dickey hierarchies. Also using the symmetry, we can construct a new noncommutative Gelfand-Dickey hierarchy with self-consistent sources. Basing on the natural differential Lax operator of the noncommutative Gelfand-Dickey hierarchy, the string equations of the noncommutative Gelfand-Dickey hierarchy are also derived.
description: 12 Pages
Analysis of an Ad-hoc Platoon Formation and Dissolution Strategy on a Multi-lane Highway. GeoComputation 2019
Creators: name: Maiti, Santa
name: STEPHAN WINTER
name: LARS KULIK
name: Sarkar, Sudeshna
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Vehicle platooning has become popular in the recent Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) research. The literature typically assumes a planned formation and dissolution of platoons, mostly at source and destination. In contrast, this research considers platoons that can be formed on the fly. We investigate a greedy type of platoon formation with no particular order of destinations of the platoon members. This greedy formation allows a quick formation of the platoon but imposes an overhead of platoon rebuild cost when platoon members leave. The question arises whether this greedy formation and dissolution of platoons can preserve the original fuel benefit of platooning. To investigate this question, this research implements such a strategy and provides a generic guideline for fuel-efficient ad-hoc platooning.
Pseudocosmetura curva Shi & Bian 2012, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Shi, Fu-Ming
name: Bian, Xun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Pseudocosmetura
Pseudocosmetura curva

description: 2. Pseudocosmetura curva sp. nov.
(Fig. 2, Map 1)
 Type material. Holotype: ♂, Zhangjiajie, Hunan, 13 August, 2004, coll. Jian-Feng Wang and Ji-Liang Wang.
 Male. Body small, stout. Head short, fastigium frontis slightly inclined. Fastigium verticis conical, apex obtusely rounded, furrowed in midline. Eyes globular, protruding forwards. Apical segment of maxillary palpi slightly longer than subapical one, apex faintly swollen.
Pronotum moderately projecting backwards, reaching posterior margin of fourth abdominal tergite; anterior margin straight, posterior margin obtusely rounded, anterior and median transverse sulci indistinct, posterior transverse sulcus distinct, metazona slightly raised, posterior margin of paranota faintly broadened; humeral sinus absent.
Tegmina short, reaching posterior margin of pronotum, apices slightly truncate; hind wings absent.
Procoxa with a spine, all femora without spines on ventral margin, protibiae with 4 spines on inner and outer sides of ventral margin separately, and a pair of ventral apical spurs; tibial tympana open on both sides. Mesotibiae with 3 spines on inner side and 4 spines on outer side of ventral margin, and a pair of ventral apical spurs. Apices of postfemora with knees obtuse, posttibiae with 22–25 spines on both sides of dorsal margin separately, and a pair of dorsal apical spurs and a pair of ventral apical spurs.
Tenth abdominal tergite short, posterior margin shallowly concavus. Epiproct broad and short, posterior margin rounded. Cerci with basal half stout, apical half thin, curved upwards, tip with a short tooth. Genitalia sclerotized, short, basal area broad, apical area narrow. Subgenital plate with basal area broad, centre shallow concave; apical area narrow, posterior margin with a triangular notch. Styli short, conical, apices subacute on apices of lateral margins.
Body light yellow. Disc of pronotum light yellow, paranota dark brown, dorsal margin with a longitudinal yellow stripe on basal half. Outer margins of postfemora with two lines of parallel brown stripes. Apices of spines and spurs of posttibiae brown; claws with apices brown. Lateral margin of abdomen dark brown.
 Female. Unknown.
 Measurements (mm). Body: ♂ 8.3; pronotum: ♂ 5.5; postfemora: ♂ 9.3.
 Distribution. China (Hunan).
 Discussion. The new species is similar to Pseudocosmetura anjiensis (Shi & Zheng, 1998), but it differs from the latter: male cerci with basal area stout, apical area obviously thin, cylindrical, curved upwards; posterior margin of subgenital plate with a triangular notch.
 Etymology. The name of the new species is derived from Latin ‘ curv ’, showing that male cercus is obviously curved upwards.
description: Published as part of Shi, Fu-Ming & Bian, Xun, 2012, A revision of the genus Pseudocosmetura (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae, pp. 76-82 in Zootaxa 3545 on pages 79-80
Ixodonerium annamense Pitard
Creators: name: Middleton, David J.
name: Regalado Jr, Jacinto C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Ixodonerium
Ixodonerium annamense

description: Ixodonerium annamense Pitard in Lecomte
Fl. Gén. Indo-Chine 3: 1228 (1933).
LECTOTYPE. — Poilane 1411 (HM), Vietnam, Thua Thiên-Huê, Ben Tu, designated by L´y, Feddes Repert. 97: 669 (1986).
description: Published as part of Middleton, David J. & Regalado Jr, Jacinto C., 2005, Nomenclatural notes on species of Apocynaceae described from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, pp. 291-308 in Adansonia (3) (3) 27 (2) on page 297, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5186636
ЗНАЧЕНИЕ ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ СРЕДСТВ ВЫРАЖЕНИЯ МИМИКИ В РУССКОЙ ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЕ
Creators: name: Иброхимова, Мохинурхон
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В рамках данной статьи мы рассмотрим, как использование средств выражения мимики в русской художественной литературе оказывает влияние на создание образов, передачу эмоций и динамику повествования.
From generalisation to segmentation: Douglas-Peucker-Ramer and movement data
Creators: name: Miller, Aubrey
name: Moore, Antoni
name: Leonard, Greg
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: With an explosion in the sensorisation of moving objects (people, cars, wildlife) that has come from the ease of use and acquisition of low-cost GNSS receivers, the volume of tracking data presents challenges for efficient data processing. For example, in analysis and modelling, tracks often need to be segmented based on particular characteristics (e.g., moving vs. stationary). Here we adapt a commonly used polyline generalisation algorithm (Douglas-Peucker-Ramer) to segment tracking data into uphill and downhill portions of the track based on vertex coordinates in terms of their elevation and distance between neighbouring vertices along a track (relative to start of the track). This adaptation supports robust segmentation even for tracks in complex terrain in order to best capture real-world conditions. We present our adapted algorithm and a case study with volunteered backcountry skier tracking data to demonstrate the performance of the algorithm. We conclude with thoughts on future development of tracking data segmentation algorithms.
MARKETING MARGINS AND MARKET POWER IN THE AUSTRALIAN DAIRY PROCESSING AND RETAILING SECTORS
Creators: name: O'Donnell, Christopher J.
name: O'Donnell, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We use a New Empirical Industrial Organisation (NEIO) approach to estimate industry marketing margins for several Australian dairy products. Our model allows for differences in input- and outputmarket conjectural elasticities under the assumption of a fixed proportions production technology. Other assumptions on the production technology include the use of a single agricultural input to produce multiple outputs, and substitutability between agricultural and non-agricultural inputs. Two alternative methods are used to decompose the price of manufacturing milk into the prices of components used to produce different manufacturing milk products. We estimate margins equations for carton milk, wholemilk powder (WMP), butter, cheese and skim-milk powder (SMP) using state-level data. Nonlinear least squares is used to impose a number of inequality constraints implied by economic theory. The results suggest that, in price-deregulated markets, only three market intermediaries possess market power: carton milk retailers possess market power in output markets; carton milk processors possess market power in both input and output markets; and butter processors possess market power in input markets.
Ploiaria Scopoli 1786
Creators: name: Rédei, Dávid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Ploiaria

description: Genus Ploiaria Scopoli, 1786
 Ploiaria Scopoli, 1786: 60. Type species by monotypy: Ploiaria domestica Scopoli, 1786.
For the numerous synonyms of the genus see Wygodzinsky (1966: 158), Maldonado Capriles (1990: 108), Putshkov & Putshkov (1996: 158) and Cassis & Gross (1995: 292).
description: Published as part of Rédei, Dávid, 2008, A New Species Of Ploiaria (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) From Peninsular Malaysia, pp. 11-15 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5354423
Quasiorders on topological categories
Creators: name: Trnkova, Vera
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54B30, 54H10

description: We prove that, for every cardinal number $α\geq {\mathfrak c}$, there exists a metrizable space $X$ with $|X|=α$ such that for every pair of quasiorders $\leq_1$, $\leq_2$ on a set $Q$ with $|Q| \leq α$ satisfying the implication $$q \leq_1 q' \implies q \leq_2 q'$$ there exists a system $\{X(q) : q\in Q\}$ of non-homeomorphic clopen subsets of $X$ with the following properties: (1) $q \leq_1 q'$ if and only if $X(q)$ is homeomorphic to a clopen subset of $X(q')$, (2) $q \leq_2 q'$ implies that $X(q)$ is homeomorphic to a closed subset of $X(q')$ and (3) $\neg (q \leq_2 q')$ implies that there is no one-to-one continuous map of $X(q)$ into $X(q')$.
description: 10 pages
Ant Colony Optimization-based Spatial Scan Statistic for Detecting Statistically Significant Spatial Communities in Vehicle Movements. GeoComputation 2019
Creators: name: Sancheng Zhu
name: Qiliang Liu
name: Zhihui Wu
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: In the era of big data, discovery of spatial communities in vehicle movements plays a key role in understanding the urban structures and functions. While a number of community detection methods can be used to detect spatial communities in vehicle movements, these methods are usually designed without considering the network-constraint of vehicles and testing the significance of spatial communities. On that account, this study develops an ant colony optimization-based spatial scan statistic to detect statistically significant spatial communities in vehicle movements on urban road network. Road segments are used as basic units to represent the moving paths of vehicles. The spatial scan statistic is generalized to weighted spatially embedded graph to provide quantitative assessment for spatial communities, and the generalized spatial scan statistic and ant colony optimization are combined to detect arbitrarily shaped spatial communities. A Monte Carlo simulation method is developed to estimate the statistical significance of each detected spatial community. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated by using both simulated and taxi GPS trajectory data sets.
Deduction, Ordering, and Operations in Quantum Logic
Creators: name: Megill, Norman D.
name: Pavicic, Mladen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that in quantum logic of closed subspaces of Hilbert space one cannot substitute quantum operations for classical (standard Hilbert space) ones and treat them as primitive operations. We consider two possible ways of such a substitution and arrive at operation algebras that are not lattices what proves the claim. We devise algorithms and programs which write down any two-variable expression in an orthomodular lattice by means of classical and quantum operations in an identical form. Our results show that lattice structure and classical operations uniquely determine quantum logic underlying Hilbert space. As a consequence of our result, recent proposals for a deduction theorem with quantum operations in an orthomodular lattice as well as a substitution of quantum operations for the usual standard Hilbert space ones in quantum logic prove to be misleading. Quantum computer quantum logic is also discussed.
description: 19 pages; Web page: http://m3k.grad.hr/pavicic
Distinct Superconducting Gap on Two Bilayer-Split Fermi Surface Sheets in $Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+δ}$ Superconductor
Creators: name: Ai, Ping
name: Gao, Qiang
name: Liu, Jing
name: Zhang, Yuxiao
name: Li, Cong
name: Huang, Jiangwei
name: Song, Chunyao
name: Yan, Hongtao
name: Zhao, Lin
name: Liu, Guodong
name: Gu, Genda
name: Zhang, Fengfeng
name: Yang, Feng
name: Peng, Qinjun
name: Zu, Zuyan
name: Zhou, X. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High resolution laser-based angle-resolved photoemission measurements were carried out on an overdoped $Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+δ}$ superconductor with a Tc of 75 K. Two Fermi surface sheets caused by bilayer splitting are clearly identified with rather different doping levels: the bonding sheet corresponds to a doping level of 0.14 which is slightly underdoped while the antibonding sheet has a doping of 0.27 that is heavily overdoped, giving an overall doping level of 0.20 for the sample. Different superconducting gap sizes on the two Fermi surface sheets are revealed for the first time. The superconducting gap on the antibonding Fermi surface sheet follows a standard d-wave form while it deviates from the standard d-wave form for the bonding Fermi surface sheet. The maximum gap difference between the two Fermi surface sheets near the antinodal region is $\sim$2 meV. These observations provide important information for studying the relationship between the Fermi surface topology and superconductivity, and the layer-dependent superconductivity in high temperature cuprate superconductors.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
Kopsia cochinchinensis Pitard
Creators: name: Middleton, David J.
name: Regalado Jr, Jacinto C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Kopsia
Kopsia cochinchinensis

description: Kopsia cochinchinensis Pitard
See Kopsia pitardii Merr.
description: Published as part of Middleton, David J. & Regalado Jr, Jacinto C., 2005, Nomenclatural notes on species of Apocynaceae described from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, pp. 291-308 in Adansonia (3) (3) 27 (2) on page 297, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5186636
Towards Intervention and Counterfactual modelling in spatial agents: A simulation of constrained movement at the Observational level. GeoComputation 2019
Creators: name: Rahimi, Saeed
name: Moore, Antoni
name: Whigham, Peter
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Increased availability of spatiotemporal data has allowed movement studies to shift their objectives from descriptive models to explanations of the underlying “causes” of movement. This paper presents a model, consisting of three conceptual levels of space-time representation for framing movement analysis: ‘association’, ‘intervention’ and ‘counterfactual’. These are presented within a conceptual cube accommodating both absolute and relative measurements in space and/or time, relationships between observations and methods of enquiry. To ground these concepts, an agent-based football simulation model is presented as a demonstration of the observation level and the properties of the system related to the conceptual cube. This team sport domain was chosen as it represents constrained space and time as well as simplified spatiotemporal object behaviour that serves to effectively reflect on aspects of the conceptual model. Future theoretical developments in computational movement analysis are proposed in light of the model and the associated development of machine learning methods for simulation and analysis addressing the intervention and counterfactual levels of the conceptual cube.
Ploiaria Scopoli 1786
Creators: name: Rédei, Dávid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Ploiaria

description: Key to the Oriental species of Ploiaria having a spiniferous process on fore trochanter
1. Pronotum not or only slightly longer than head. Ventral projection of fore trochanter short, sometimes inconspicuous, wart-like, bearing a long apical spine. Body length less than 8 mm......................................................................................... 2
– Pronotum much longer than head. Ventral projection of fore trochanter much longer than wide at base, bearing a relatively short apical spine. Body length more than 10 mm............. 3
 2. Mid and hind femora with light apical annulus. Posterior process of pygophore bifid. Only macropterous morph known (tropicopolitan, occurs in the Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions).......................................................................................... P. macrophthalma (Dohrn, 1860)
 – Mid and hind femora uniformly brownish, without light apical annulus. Posterior process of pygophore simple, spine-like. Only macropterous morph known (Oriental and Pacific Regions).......................................................... P. insolida (White, 1877)
 3. Head distinctly granulate. Fore femur with two large dark spots on posterior surface. Only apterous morph known (India; Pakistan)............................................... P. anak Distant, 1909
 – Head not granulate. Fore femur with four irregular brown annuli and several small, rounded dark brown spots. Only macropterous morph known (Malay Peninsula).............................................................................................. P. vandoesburgi, new species
description: Published as part of Rédei, Dávid, 2008, A New Species Of Ploiaria (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) From Peninsular Malaysia, pp. 11-15 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5354423
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Municipal Stormwater Permits (IDS028061 and IDS028258), Lewiston, Idaho
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2021

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2020-02609
Compactifications of topological groups
Creators: name: Uspenskij, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22A05 (Primary) 22A15, 22F05, 54D35, 54H15, 57S05 (Secondary)

description: Every topological group $G$ has some natural compactifications which can be a useful tool of studying $G$. We discuss the following constructions: (1) the greatest ambit $S(G)$ is the compactification corresponding to the algebra of all right uniformly continuous bounded functions on $G$; (2) the Roelcke compactification $R(G)$ corresponds to the algebra of functions which are both left and right uniformly continuous; (3) the weakly almost periodic compactification $W(G)$ is the envelopping compact semitopological semigroup of $G$ (`semitopological' means that the multiplication is separately continuous). The universal minimal compact $G$-space $X=M_G$ is characterized by the following properties: (1) $X$ has no proper closed $G$-invariant subsets; (2) for every compact $G$-space $Y$ there exists a $G$-map $X\to Y$. A group $G$ is extremely amenable, or has the fixed point on compacta property, if $M_G$ is a singleton. We discuss some results and questions by V. Pestov and E. Glasner on extremely amenable groups. The Roelcke compactifications were used by M. Megrelishvili to prove that $W(G)$ can be a singleton. They can be used to prove that certain groups are minimal. A topological group is minimal if it does not admit a strictly coarser Hausdorff group topology.
description: 17 pages
Erythrodiplax bromeliicola Westfall. La 2000
Creators: name: Trapero-Quintana, Adrian
name: Novelo-Gutiérrez, Rodolfo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Libellulidae
Erythrodiplax
Erythrodiplax bromeliicola

description: Larva of Erythrodiplax bromeliicola Westfall, 2000
Figs. 1–9
description: Published as part of Trapero-Quintana, Adrian & Novelo-Gutiérrez, Rodolfo, 2012, Description of the final stadium larva of Erythrodiplax bromeliicola Westfall 2000 (Odonata: Libellulidae) with notes on variation in adults from Cuba, pp. 59-66 in Zootaxa 3545 on page 60
Analysis of an Ad-hoc Platoon Formation and Dissolution Strategy on a Multi-lane Highway
Creators: name: Maiti, Santa
name: STEPHAN WINTER
name: LARS KULIK
name: Sarkar, Sudeshna
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Vehicle platooning has become popular in the recent Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) research. The literature typically assumes a planned formation and dissolution of platoons, mostly at source and destination. In contrast, this research considers platoons that can be formed on the fly. We investigate a greedy type of platoon formation with no particular order of destinations of the platoon members. This greedy formation allows a quick formation of the platoon but imposes an overhead of platoon rebuild cost when platoon members leave. The question arises whether this greedy formation and dissolution of platoons can preserve the original fuel benefit of platooning. To investigate this question, this research implements such a strategy and provides a generic guideline for fuel-efficient ad-hoc platooning.
Heterogeneous Multi-task Metric Learning across Multiple Domains
Creators: name: Luo, Yong
name: Wen, Yonggang
name: Tao, Dacheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Distance metric learning (DML) plays a crucial role in diverse machine learning algorithms and applications. When the labeled information in target domain is limited, transfer metric learning (TML) helps to learn the metric by leveraging the sufficient information from other related domains. Multi-task metric learning (MTML), which can be regarded as a special case of TML, performs transfer across all related domains. Current TML tools usually assume that the same feature representation is exploited for different domains. However, in real-world applications, data may be drawn from heterogeneous domains. Heterogeneous transfer learning approaches can be adopted to remedy this drawback by deriving a metric from the learned transformation across different domains. But they are often limited in that only two domains can be handled. To appropriately handle multiple domains, we develop a novel heterogeneous multi-task metric learning (HMTML) framework. In HMTML, the metrics of all different domains are learned together. The transformations derived from the metrics are utilized to induce a common subspace, and the high-order covariance among the predictive structures of these domains is maximized in this subspace. There do exist a few heterogeneous transfer learning approaches that deal with multiple domains, but the high-order statistics (correlation information), which can only be exploited by simultaneously examining all domains, is ignored in these approaches. Compared with them, the proposed HMTML can effectively explore such high-order information, thus obtaining more reliable feature transformations and metrics. Effectiveness of our method is validated by the extensive and intensive experiments on text categorization, scene classification, and social image annotation.
Comparing the costs of pedestrian wayfinding heuristics across different urban network morphologies
Creators: name: Debjit Bhowmick
name: STEPHAN WINTER
name: MARK STEVENSON
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: During wayfinding, pedestrians do not always choose the shortest available route. Instead, route choices are guided by several well-known wayfinding strategies or heuristics. These heuristics minimize cognitive effort and usually lead to satisfactory route choices. The length of the route obtained from applying a wayfinding heuristic is dependent on the spatial arrangement or morphology of the urban pedestrian network. This study evaluates the cost of four popular wayfinding heuristics across nine different urban network morphologies. It observes that the cost of these wayfinding heuristics vary significantly and individually differently with morphology, supporting the assumption that people choose heuristics by environment.
Proceedings of the ISAC Workshop, Lake Louise, Alberta , February 17, 18 and 21, 1994
Creators: name: D’Auria, J. M.
Publisher: name: TRIUMF
Year: 2015

description: The overall objective of the workshop was to allow prospective users of the proposed ISAC (Isotope Separator and Accelerator) Exotic Beams Facility, proposed for installation at TRIUMF, to discuss the scientific opportunities with accelerated radioactive beams, to ensure that the specifications which are being used to design the facility are appropriate to perform forefront research, to allow scientists with experience using such facilities to share their knowledge, and to provide an open forum to discuss in detail the types of experimental facilities needed at ISAC.
Towards Intervention and Counterfactual modelling in spatial agents: A simulation of constrained movement at the Observational level
Creators: name: Rahimi, Saeed
name: Moore, Antoni
name: Whigham, Peter
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Increased availability of spatiotemporal data has allowed movement studies to shift their objectives from descriptive models to explanations of the underlying “causes” of movement. This paper presents a model, consisting of three conceptual levels of space-time representation for framing movement analysis: ‘association’, ‘intervention’ and ‘counterfactual’. These are presented within a conceptual cube accommodating both absolute and relative measurements in space and/or time, relationships between observations and methods of enquiry. To ground these concepts, an agent-based football simulation model is presented as a demonstration of the observation level and the properties of the system related to the conceptual cube. This team sport domain was chosen as it represents constrained space and time as well as simplified spatiotemporal object behaviour that serves to effectively reflect on aspects of the conceptual model. Future theoretical developments in computational movement analysis are proposed in light of the model and the associated development of machine learning methods for simulation and analysis addressing the intervention and counterfactual levels of the conceptual cube.
What do we know of consumers’ preferences and food choices in the islands of the South Pacific
Creators: name: Owen, Kate M.
name: Owen, Kate M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Governments in developing countries have tended to focus on the production end of their food systems. However, there is increasing recognition of the need to understand the nature of post-harvest marketing and consumers' behaviour in order to develop effective policies for food marketing initiatives and nutrition security. This paper presents an examination of the available research into consumer preferences in the South Pacific region and the contexts in which the research was conducted. Of particular interest is the methods employed to obtain consumer preferences . Consideration is given to the benefits of this type of research in the Pacific and to the issues which might arise in identifying a conceptual framework and methodology.
The Retrieval of Forestry Biomass based on Backscattering Models
Creators: name: Mendoza, Marcelo Fernando Condori
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90903 Geospatial Information Systems
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: Aerospace Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Nowadays, the increasing demand for energy does not contribute to the protection of natural resources, and forest resources are decreasing worldwide. In addition, forests play an important role in ecosystems, by intercepting and absorbing solar radiation in order to convert it to heat. Estimates of forest biomass were originally developed through the allometric growth equation, but there are other factors in heterogeneous forests that affect forest biomass estimates, such as the distribution of trees and human intervention in the forest environment. In this way, biomass estimation is not easy in terms of accuracy and landscape diversity. The forest biomass inversion algorithm proposed in this study is derived from linear mathematical equations, which are mainly derived from the database training established by the vegetation radar remote sensing model. In this paper, two different models are used to simulate the backscattering coefficients of forest vegetation. The first is the radar coherent scatter model (CORSM), which takes into account the location of the tree scatterers. The second is the radar incoherent model (MIMICS), which considers the influence of the statistical distribution of forest vegetation parameters on the radar backscatter coefficient. The radar backscattering coefficients σHH, σHV and σVV of forest vegetation are obtained by model simulation. Although the σHV value is small, it usually reflects the body scattering information of the forest vegetation scatterer. Therefore, when establishing the forest biomass inversion equation, not only the co-polarized backscattering information but also the cross-polarized scattering information is considered as it has an impact on the inversion model results. Finally, the Sentinel 1 and Alos Palsar image data of the C and L bands were input into the inversion model to extract the forest biomass. The estimated results show that as the forest biomass increases, the backscattering coefficient of the co-polarized radar increases. On the other hand, the relationship between biomass and cross-polarized backscatter is negatively correlated. Good inversion results have been obtained in moderately dense canopy forests, e.g. forests with biomass in the range of 112 and 177 (Ton/Ha). Relevant work has laid a solid foundation for further research on forest biomass estimation.
Minyclupeoides Roberts 2008, new genus
Creators: name: Roberts, Tyson R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Clupeiformes
Clupeidae
Minyclupeoides

description: Minyclupeoides, new genus
  Type species. – Minyclupeoides dentibranchialus , new species.
  Diagnosis. – Minyclupeoides  has the anal fin entire, with no gap separating the last two rays from the preceding ones. In this and some other respects it agrees with the Southeast Asian pellonulin genus Clupeoides. It differs from Clupeoides in having the body entirely or almost entirely scaleless and numerous (instead of few) teeth on the maxillary bone. Other characters, some of them possibly diagnostic, include a single pored humeral scale on the body near the posterodorsal attachment of the opercle; pectoral and pelvic fin axillary scales absent; and a flattened or ventrally slightly concave sheath-like structure, not a modified procurrent ray or a modified scale, at beginning of upper and lower procurrent caudal fin rays. The latter structure, provisionally identified as a caudal scute, is longer and wider but thinner than the first procurrent caudal fin ray and lies superficially to it. Gill rakers denticulate, with numerous tiny conical teeth similar to those on the jaws (as in some other pellonulins).
 Etymology. – The genus name Minyclupeoides is from the Greek “minys”, small, and Clupeoides, generic name of larger and fully-scaled riverine clupeids also inhabiting the Mekong Basin.
 Remarks. – Recognition of a new genus primarily because of a single loss character is in some instances strongly contraindicated. Species in nearly all fish groups that become adapted to permanent life in caves almost invariably lose the eyes. It serves no useful purpose to recognize every species of cavefish as representing a distinct genus just because it has lost its eyes. Loss of the scales covering the body is relatively or extremely rare in most groups of teleosts that are normally fully scaled. It is sometimes associated with reduction in body size but by no means always. Total or near total loss of scales is relatively rare in clupeoid fishes. In Pellonulinae it is otherwise known only in the diminutive West African Thrattidion noctivagus Roberts, 1972. Minyclupeoides differs from Thrattidion in many ways, including retention of a single scale in the humeral area. Thrattidion has retained a row or two of scales associated with the ventral scutes (for details see Whitehead, 1985: 163– 164) and has a complex termination of the lateral line with numerous short canals and pores but no scales instead of the single short canal and pore on one scale present in Minyclupeoides. Loss of all body scales except for a humeral scale present in Minyclupeoides is otherwise unknown among clupeoids.
description: Published as part of Roberts, Tyson R., 2008, Minyclupeoides Dentibranchialus, A New Genus And Species Of River Herring From The Lower Mekong Basin Of Cambodia (Teleostei: Clupeidae: Pellonulinae), pp. 125-127 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (1) on pages 125-126, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5354449
Convolutive Blind Source Separation on Surface EMG Signals for Respiratory Diagnostics and Medical Ventilation Control
Creators: name: Buchner, Herbert
name: Petersen, Eike
name: Eger, Marcus
name: Rostalski, Philipp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The electromyogram (EMG) is an important tool for assessing the activity of a muscle and thus also a valuable measure for the diagnosis and control of respiratory support. In this article we propose convolutive blind source separation (BSS) as an effective tool to pre-process surface electromyogram (sEMG) data of the human respiratory muscles. Specifically, the problem of discriminating between inspiratory, expiratory and cardiac muscle activity is addressed, which currently poses a major obstacle for the clinical use of sEMG for adaptive ventilation control. It is shown that using the investigated broadband algorithm, a clear separation of these components can be achieved. The algorithm is based on a generic framework for BSS that utilizes multiple statistical signal characteristics. Apart from a four-channel FIR structure, there are no further restrictive assumptions on the demixing system.
Kopsia harmandiana Pitard
Creators: name: Middleton, David J.
name: Regalado Jr, Jacinto C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Gentianales
Apocynaceae
Kopsia
Kopsia harmandiana

description: Kopsia harmandiana Pierre ex Pitard in Lecomte
Fl. Gén. Indo-Chine 3: 1132 (1933).
LECTOTYPE. — Harmand in Pierre 5246 (P), between the Mekong and Huê, designated by Sévenet et al., J. Ethnopharm. 41: 156 (1994).
description: Published as part of Middleton, David J. & Regalado Jr, Jacinto C., 2005, Nomenclatural notes on species of Apocynaceae described from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, pp. 291-308 in Adansonia (3) (3) 27 (2) on page 297, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5186636
A Surface Radio Array for the Enhancement of IceTop and its Science Prospects
Creators: name: V., Aswathi Balagopal
name: Haungs, Andreas
name: Huber, Thomas
name: Huege, Tim
name: Kleifges, Matthias
name: Renschler, Max
name: Schieler, Harald
name: Schröder, Frank G.
name: Weindl, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radio detection of air showers in the current era has progressed immensely to effectively extract the properties of these air showers. Primary cosmic rays with energies of hundreds of PeV have been successfully measured with the method of radio detection. There are also attempts to observe high-energy neutrinos with this technique. Current radio experiments measuring cosmic-ray air showers mostly operate in the frequency range of 30-80 MHz. An optimization of the frequency band of operation can be done for maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio that can be achieved by an array of radio antennas at the South Pole, operated along with IceTop. Such an array can improve the reconstruction of air showers performed with IceTop. The prospect of using such an optimized radio array for measuring gamma rays of PeV energies from the Galactic Center is discussed.
description: To be published in the proceedings of the ARENA2018 conference
Stigmatomma pallipes
Creators: name: Guénard, Benoit
name: Mccaffrey, Katherine A.
name: Lucky, Andrea
name: Dunn, Rob R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Stigmatomma
Stigmatomma pallipes

description: Stigmatomma pallipes (Haldeman, 1844)
 Distribution in North Carolina: All regions. Counties: AS, AV, BA, BL, CK, CS, CU, DD, DV, FR, GU, HA, JH, RA, RB, ST, WR, WY (material examined) and AA, BN, CA, CB, CR, CT, DU, HE, HW, IR, JA, MA, ME, MO, OR, RW, TR, UN, WK and YY (in literature).
 Distribution in surrounding states: GA (Ipser et al. 2004), SC (Davies 2009), TN (Dennis 1938, Cole 1940) and VA (Kjar 2009).
  Stigmatomma trigonignathum Brown, 1949  (rarely collected species)
 Distribution in North Carolina: Piedmont Plateau. Counties: CB and WK (material examined).
 Distribution in surrounding states: Unknown for surrounding states
description: Published as part of Guénard, Benoit, Mccaffrey, Katherine A., Lucky, Andrea & Dunn, Rob R., 2012, Ants of North Carolina: an updated list (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 3552 on page 10
Propuesta para la adquisición automática de hechos utilizando inferencia para la construcción de una grafo de conocimiento
Creators: name: Ramos-Flores, Orlando
name: Pinto, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 80107 Natural Language Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: En este trabajo se presenta una propuesta para la adquisición y representación de conocimiento de forma automática sobre un dominio específico, utilizando inferencia para la generación de nuevos hechos. También se describen las principales técnicas para la adquisición y representación de conocimiento. Trabajos relacionados, así como la metodología propuesta para la realización de este trabajo.
BowNet: Dilated Convolution Neural Network for Ultrasound Tongue Contour Extraction
Creators: name: Mozaffari, M. Hamed
name: Lee, Won-Sook
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ultrasound imaging is safe, relatively affordable, and capable of real-time performance. One application of this technology is to visualize and to characterize human tongue shape and motion during a real-time speech to study healthy or impaired speech production. Due to the noisy nature of ultrasound images with low-contrast characteristic, it might require expertise for non-expert users to recognize organ shape such as tongue surface (dorsum). To alleviate this difficulty for quantitative analysis of tongue shape and motion, tongue surface can be extracted, tracked, and visualized instead of the whole tongue region. Delineating the tongue surface from each frame is a cumbersome, subjective, and error-prone task. Furthermore, the rapidity and complexity of tongue gestures have made it a challenging task, and manual segmentation is not a feasible solution for real-time applications. Employing the power of state-of-the-art deep neural network models and training techniques, it is feasible to implement new fully-automatic, accurate, and robust segmentation methods with the capability of real-time performance, applicable for tracking of the tongue contours during the speech. This paper presents two novel deep neural network models named BowNet and wBowNet benefits from the ability of global prediction of decoding-encoding models, with integrated multi-scale contextual information, and capability of full-resolution (local) extraction of dilated convolutions. Experimental results using several ultrasound tongue image datasets revealed that the combination of both localization and globalization searching could improve prediction result significantly. Assessment of BowNet models using both qualitatively and quantitatively studies showed them outstanding achievements in terms of accuracy and robustness in comparison with similar techniques.
description: 23 pages, 15 figures, 10 tables