cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pelleting and extrusion in animal feed manufacturing: a bibliometric study
Creators: name: Francisco, Rodriguez Troconis
name: Perez Gabriela
name: Hector, Rodriguez
name: Henriquez Magaly
name: Samuel, Villanueva Velasquez
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: pelleting
extrusion
extruded
animal
feed
byproducts
bibliometric

description: Pelleting and extrusion in animal feed manufacturing. A bibliometric study For the period 2017-2021 the most relevant indicators were obtained for publications on the topic. These indicators were: leading countries, number of publications per year, most cited journals, journals with largest number of publications. The platform used was Dimensions. From the results obtained it was observed that there was an increasing interest in this area of research over the period 2017-2022, reflected by the positive trend in number of publications over the previous years. The Journal of Animal Science, and Aquaculture were the most relevant journals and USA and Switzerland were the leading countries in the topic.
Computation of multi-leg amplitudes with NJet
Creators: name: Badger, Simon
name: Biedermann, Benedikt
name: Uwer, Peter
name: Yundin, Valery
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In these proceedings we report our progress in the development of the publicly available C++ library NJet for accurate calculations of high-multiplicity one-loop amplitudes. As a phenomenological application we present the first complete next-to-leading order (NLO) calculation of five jet cross section at hadron colliders.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, Contribution to the proceedings of "ACAT 2013" conference, Beijing, China, May 2013
Divergent Functionalization of Styrenes via Radical/Polar Crossover with CO2 and Sodium Sulfinates
Creators: name: Benedetti Vega, Kimberly
name: Campos Delgado, José Antonio
name: Pugnal, Lucas V. B. L.
name: König, Burkhard
name: Correia, José Tiago M.
name: Weber Paixão, Márcio
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: carboxylic acid; sulfone; photocatalysis
subject: 540 Chemie

description: Sulfones and carboxylic acids are prominent motifs widely present in the chemical structure of agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals and many other highly valuable compounds. Herein, we describe a conjunctive strategy for the precise installation of these functionalities onto styrenes using sodium sulfinates and CO2 as coupling partners. The protocol allowed the preparation of carboxy-sulfonylated compounds in good yields and broad functional group tolerance. Additionally, taking advantage of the leaving group ability of the sulfone moiety, a one-pot photocatalytic carboxy-sulfonylation-elimination strategy was developed for the synthesis of α-aryl-acrylates.
O pensamento de Celso Furtado sobre Desenvolvimento Econômico e Capital Externo no Brasil: do Estado interventor-empreendedor ao Estado insurgente-vanguardista
Creators: name: Albertin de Moraes, Isaías
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Economic history
Economic development policy
History of economic thought
Latin and South American history
Socio-economic development

description: O artigo tem como objetivo investigar o pensamento de Celso Furtado sobre desenvolvimento econômico e o papel do Estado frente ao capital externo no Brasil. A pergunta que o artigo procura responder é: como que a influência do capital externo no Brasil modificou as proposições de Furtado em relação as estratégicas do Estado na superação do subdesenvolvimento? A hipótese que a pesquisa levanta é que na primeira fase do pensamento de Furtado o papel do Estado é intervencionista-empreendedor, porém, em outra fase, Furtado ressalta um caráter mais insurgente-vanguardista ao seu Estado desenvolvimentista. O artigo empregou como procedimentos metodológico revisão bibliográfica.
PROOF_AB-20-253R1.pdf
Creators: name: Ramamurthi, Anand
name: Camardo, Andrew
name: Carney, Sarah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs), a prototypic proteolytic cardiovascular disorder, are localized expansions of the aortal wall. Chronically upregulated and overexpressed proteases irreversibly degrade and disrupt the elastic matrix, which provides stretch and recoil properties to the aortal wall. Adult vascular smooth muscle cells are inherently unable to produce sufficient elastin to form new elastic fibers to naturally repair the aortal wall and the AAA continues to grow until fatal rupture. Surgical intervention is reserved for AAAs with a high risk of rupture, but there is currently no treatment for small, still growing AAAs. We have previously developed matrix regenerative PEG-PLGA nanoparticles (NPs) with pro-elastogenic and anti-proteolytic properties that act synergistically with a released therapeutic. However, strategies are required to effectively deliver these NPs to the disease site to avail of these benefits. We have identified cathepsin K, a protease overexpressed in AAA tissue, as a potential substrate for antibody based active targeting. We sought to assess the safety and biocompatibility of NPs with anti-cathepsin K antibodies conjugated to the NP surface (cat K Ab-NPs) and then assess their biodistribution and retention in both the targeted aorta and non-target organs in a rat AAA model. In this work, we show that cat K Ab-NPs can selectively target the aneurysmal aorta in a rat AAA model. However, there is unwanted NP uptake and retention in non-target organs that can be addressed in future work. Still, cathepsin K is a viable target for active delivery of NPs in an AAA model.
title: Exploring the Impact of Universities' Digital Advancement on Students' Perceptions - A Driver of Reputation and WoM Behavior?
Creators: name: Bradt (geb. Colin), Delphine
name: Reichert (geb. Mahr), Sarah
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2017

description: Universities nowadays face an increasing competition for high-potential students. As students rely on opinions of their peers when deciding for a study program, universities benefit from positive word-of-mouth (WoM). A good way to increase positive WoM is to establish a favorable reputation among their current students. Therefore, this study investigates reputational drivers with a focus on the influence of digital offers. It explores students’ perceptions of universities’ digital advancement and how it impacts university reputation and their WoM behavior. First, this paper introduces a measurement for students’ perception of their universities’ digital advancement (PDA). The results of a PLS-SEM model underline the quality of the proposed measurement. Second, this paper highlights the explanatory power of the PDA construct on students’ assessment of university reputation and on their WoM behavior. Particularly, results show that the PDA construct is the third most influential driver for universities’ likeability and students’ related WoM behavior.
Neutron star structure and collective excitations of finite nuclei
Creators: name: Paar, N.
name: Moustakidis, Ch. C.
name: Marketin, T.
name: Vretenar, D.
name: Lalazissis, G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study relationships between properties of collective excitations in finite nuclei and the phase transition density $n_t$ and pressure $P_t$ at the inner edge separating the liquid core and the solid crust of a neutron star. A theoretical framework that includes the thermodynamic method, relativistic nuclear energy density functionals and the quasiparticle random-phase approximation is employed in a self-consistent calculation of $(n_t,P_t)$ and collective excitations in nuclei. The covariance analysis shows that properties of charge-exchange dipole transitions, isovector giant dipole and quadrupole resonances and pygmy dipole transitions are correlated with the core-crust transition density and pressure. A set of relativistic nuclear energy density functionals, characterized by systematic variation of the density dependence of the symmetry energy of nuclear matter, is used to constrain possible values for $(n_t,P_t)$. By comparing the calculated excitation energies of giant resonances, energy weighted pygmy dipole strength, and dipole polarizability with available data, we obtain the weighted average values: $n_t = 0.0955 \pm 0.0007$ fm$^{-3}$ and $P_t = 0.59 \pm 0.05$ MeV fm$^{-3}$.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, paper submitted for publication
Silicon graphene waveguide tunable broadband microwave photonics phase shifter
Creators: name: Capmany, Jose
name: Domenech, David
name: Muñoz, Pascual
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the use of silicon graphene waveguides to implement a tunable broadband microwave photonics phase shifte based on integrated ring cavities. Numerical computation results show the feasibility for broadband operation over 40 GHz bandwidth and full 360 degree radiofrequency phase-shift with a modest voltage excursion of 0.12 volt.
acs.molpharmaceut.2c00769.pdf
Creators: name: Ramamurthi, Anand
name: S, Sajeesh
name: dahal, shataakshi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 329999
subject: Other biomedical and clinical sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) are nanosized vesicles that carry cell specific biomolecular information. Our previous studies showed that adult human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell (BM-MSC)-derived EVs provide anti-proteolytic and pro-regenerative effects in cultures of smooth muscles cells (SMCs) derived from an elastase infused rat abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) model, which is promising towards their use as therapeutic platform for naturally irreversible elastic matrix aberrations in the aortic wall. Since systemically administered EVs poorly home into sites of tissue injury, disease strategies to improve their affinity towards target tissues is of great significance for EV based treatment strategies. Towards this goal, in this work, we developed a post-isolation surface modification strategy to target MSC derived EVs to the AAA wall. The EVs were surface-conjugated with short, synthetic, azide-modified peptide sequence for targeted binding to cathepsin K (Cat K), a cysteine protease that is overexpressed in the AAA wall. Conjugation was performed using a copper-free click chemistry method. We determined that such conjugation improved EV uptake into cultured aneurysmal SMCs in culture and their binding to the wall of matrix injured vessels ex vivo. The pro-regenerative and anti-proteolytic effects of MSC-EVs on cultured rat aneurysmal SMCs were also unaffected following peptide conjugation. From this study, it appears that modification with short synthetic peptide sequences seems to be effective strategy in improving the cell-specific uptake of EVs and may be effective in facilitating AAA targeted therapy.
The Stomata Lab. What the past can tell us about our future - using fossil and modern plants to model atmospheric carbon dioxide
Creators: name: Wesley, Gina
name: Livernoche, Kelly
name: McNamara, Sean
name: Gretes, William
name: Bell, Allison
name: Newtoff, Kiersten
name: Leips, Jeff
name: Barclay, Richard
name: Killen, Heather
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: Students will develop a mathematical model of the relationship between atmospheric CO2 and the number of stomata on a leaf (Stomata Index). They will evaluate the model graphically, statistically, and biologically, and then use it to estimate CO2 levels in the distant past.
Higher Bioavailability and Contamination of Copper in the Eastern Part of Johore Causeway: Will the Pattern Remain the Same Beyond 2020?
Creators: name: Yap, Chee Kong
name: Rosimah Nulit
name: Moslem Sharifinia
name: Peng, Shih Hao Tony
name: Yap, Chee Wah
name: Okamura, Hideo
name: Ismail, Mohamad Saupi
name: Saleem, Muhammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Biotechnology

description: The aim of this paper is to determine and discuss the Concentrations of Copper (Cu) in the different soft tissues of Perna viridis and surface sediments collected from western and eastern parts of Johore Singapore Causeway. In general, it is found that the different tissues of eastern mussel populations were found to have significant (p < 0.05) higher Cu levels than those in the western mussel populations. This indicated higher Cu bioavailability in the eastern part of causeway than that in the western part. The geochemical fractions (except for oxidizable-organic fraction) showed significant (p < 0.05) higher Cu levels in the eastern sediments than those in the western part of the causeway. This indicated higher Cu contamination in the eastern part of causeway than that in the western part. With consistent scientific reports of high metal levels in the eastern part of causeway between 2015-2018, it is predicted that there is a plausible constant source of anthropogenic metal contamination at the eastern part of the causeway beyond 2020 should there is no drastic effective control of the anthropogenic activities.
Characterizing a configuration interaction excited state using natural transition geminals
Creators: name: Coe, J. P.
name: Paterson, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce natural transition geminals as a means to qualitatively understand a transition where double excitations are important. The first two $A_{1}$ singlet states of the CH cation are used as an initial example. We calculate these states with configuration interaction singles (CIS) and state-averaged Monte Carlo configuration interaction (SA-MCCI). For each method we compare the important natural transition geminals with the dominant natural transition orbitals. We then compare SA-MCCI and full configuration interaction (FCI) with regards to the natural transition geminals using the beryllium atom. We compare using the natural transition geminals with analyzing the important configurations in the CI expansion to give the dominant transition for the beryllium atom and the carbon dimer. Finally we calculate the natural transition geminals for two electronic excitations of formamide.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures. Mol. Phys. (2013)
Environmental Perspective on Menstrual Hygiene Management Along with the Movement towards Biodegradability: A Mini-Review
Creators: name: Isita Ghosh
name: Dhaivat Rakholia
name: Keyur Shah
name: Disha Bhatt
name: Mriganka Das
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Environmental Science

description: The topic indicated in this mini-review is an essential factor for the improvement of society through a clean environment movement. Now, this era of microbes forces us to make such kind of development for creating hazard free and healthy life. Girls in rural areas use old cloths, tissue paper, cotton, wool pieces, or a combination of these items to manage menstrual bleeding. Qualitative studies indicate that only those girls who know about several conventional sanitary pads, they prefer to use it. But for many girls, such pads are unavailable or unaffordable. These pads, when flushed, swell up due to saturation with liquid results in sewage blockage, which is a global problem. Sanitary products with the blood of an infected woman/girl may contain hepatitis and HIV viruses where pathogens can live up to 6 months and will retain in soil/water bodies. Incineration is a technique to dispose of menstrual waste. But the burning of pads releases gases that affect health and environment, where the chemical dioxins are toxic and carcinogenic. Considering this drawback, biodegradable sanitary napkins made from natural fibers are a perfect alternative route creating a hazard-free environment. This article focus on the development of different biodegradable sanitary napkins that are made up of the fiber of different plasnts like jute, banana, cotton, water hyacinth bamboo etc. This development provides infection and irritation-free menstruation using bio-active materials of plant origin, which also possess anti-microbial properties. The final implementation of this product will also benefit society by employing rural women empowerment.
The Role of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in shaping perceptions
Creators: name: Leali, Andrea
name: Gaglioti, Nicole
name: Biconne, Rita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: perceptions
narratives
migration
CSO
civil society organisation

description: CSOs provide a number of activities and services aimed at fostering the integration of migrants1 into society and are a main actor in the organisation of events designed to raise awareness about migrants’ situation and struggles. But does their work play a relevant role in shaping images and narratives of Europe which can influence migrants and people who intend to migrate? And if so, to what extent? Should they have more relevance in this field? What emerges from the study conducted is that CSOs already play an active role in this field, but it is limited due to several reasons mostly linked to the fact that a lack of cooperation and exchange of information between civil society organisations, governments and EU institutions exists. In order to overcome these obstacles, and ensure that CSOs’ work is more effective in shaping images and narratives about Europe, it appears necessary to undertake some actions, which include: deepening the cooperation between CSOs and European governments; improve the capacities of CSOs; and increase their involvement in migration policy-making, also at EU level.
Проблеми та перспективи тематичного картографування та ГІС у вітчизняній археології — стендова доповідь на Всеукраїнській науково-практичній конференції
Creators: name: Томашевський, Андрій
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Archaeology

description: Томашевський А.П. Проблеми та перспективи тематичного картографування та ГІС у вітчизняній археології — стендова доповідь на Всеукраїнській науково-практичній конференції “Національне картографування: стан, проблеми та перспективи розвитку”. До 85-річчя заснування Державної картографо-геодезичної служби України. Київ, 12-14 березня 2003 року.
Cryptalaus senecterei Kotru & Chandran & Dubey & Prosvirov 2025, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Kotru, Akash
name: Chandran, Nithya
name: Dubey, Anil Kumar
name: Prosvirov, Alexander S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Cryptalaus
Cryptalaus senecterei

description: Cryptalaus senecterei (Candèze, 1857), comb. nov.
Alaus senecterei Candèze, 1857: 217.
Paracalais senecterei (Candèze) Bouwer, 1992.
Type depository. Type (RBINS).
Type locality. Deccan.
Distribution. India: Exact distribution not known.
Literature. Candèze (1857: 217): original description; Bouwer (1992): combination.
description: Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075
European Union Asylum Policies: Lessons learned from front-line practitioners and asylum seekers
Creators: name: Carrasco-Granger, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: perceptions
narratives
migration
front-line practitioners
asylum policies

description: Findings from the PERCEPTIONS Project revealed shortcomings in the European Union´s asylum policy at the regional and national levels, shedding light on specific challenges in need of being addressed. Namely, the lack of safe migration routes, the inadequate application of the asylum determination process, an excessively restrictive asylum regime, and detrimental conditions endured by asylum seekers during the review of their asylum claim. Interviewed asylum seekers have reported having used irregular migration routes due to lack of better options, exposing them to violence and abuse during their journey, as well as life-threatening physical conditions. Furthermore, the dependence of asylum seekers on irregular migratory routes to reach safety increases their dependence on human smugglers, strengthening networks involved in human trafficking and other criminal activities. Interviewees, including asylum seekers and front-line practitioners, have highlighted how unfavourable conditions faced once in Europe also lead to acute levels of vulnerability. Restrictions on their freedom of movement when in refugee camps, within a given country, and within EU States, as well as restrictions on their right to work, have proven to be detrimental to their physical and mental wellbeing. In addition, the lack of adequate subsidy and support when in need seriously infringe upon asylum seekers’ ability to fulfil key social and economic rights such as education, healthcare, adequate housing, and decent living standards, with several reports of asylum seekers to having become destitute for given periods of time. Lastly, professionals working in the area of asylum have reported to observe repeated instances where European Member States have denied international protection to victims of human trafficking. Asylum claim denials were also reported in cases of victims of other human rights abuses, such as torture, occurring within political conflicts that the EU has failed to recognise. Front-line practitioners have also shared critiques regarding the requirements for international protection contemplated in the Geneva Convention, which were deemed inadequate in guaranteeing human rights. These findings shed light on the urgent need to provide for international safe passageways and take action to review the asylum determination process in EU Member States, the broader international protection regime as well as local and national integration measures to ensure the guarantee of human rights.
Indirect driving of cavity QED system and its induced non-linearity
Creators: name: Turek, Yusuf
name: Yang, L. P.
name: Maimaiti, W.
name: Li, Yong
name: Sun, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The linear driving for a single-mode optical field in a cavity can result from the external driving of classical field even when the coupling between the classical field and the cavity is weak. We revisit this well known effect with a microscopic model where a classical field is applied to a wall of the cavity to excite the atoms in the wall, and re-combination of the low excitations of the wall mediates a linear driving for the single-mode field inside the cavity. With such modeling about the indirect driving through the quantum excitations of the wall, we theoretically predict several non-linear optical effects for the strong coupling cases, such as photon anti-bunching and photon squeezing. In the sense, we propose the most simplified non-linear quantum photonics model.
description: 8pages,7figures
Evaluation of different native Streptomyces spp. for effective management of rhizome rot of turmeric
Creators: name: Nithya, Muthusamy
name: Ponmurugan, Ponnusamy
name: Mythili Gnanamangai, Balasubramanian
name: Philip Robinson, Jayachandran
name: Mathivanan, Narayanasamy
name: Senthilkumar, Jeyaraj
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Year: 2020

description: The efficacy of talc based bioformulations containing various biocontrol agents against rhizome rot disease caused by Pythium aphanidermatum in turmeric plants was evaluated under field condition. Indigenous biocontrol agents such as Streptomyceslydicus, Streptomyces griseus and Streptomyces sannanensis belonging to actinomycetes group, Pseudomonas fluorescens (bacterial) and Trichoderma atroviride (fungal) were selected for the biological control of rhizome rot of turmeric. The results indicated a significantly stronger reduction in disease severity in trial plots treated with Bacillus subtilis based commercial fungicide ‘Companion’ when compared to plants treated with indigenous biocontrol agents. However, it was reverse in trial plots in terms of turmeric rhizome yield potential, yield attributes, physiological components, biochemical constituents and quality characteristics of rhizomes. Among 17 treatments, a dual mixture of S. griseus and T. atroviride achieved the best disease control as well as plant growth improvement when compared to single and triple combinations of biocontrol agents. The present study confirms that exploration of microbial formulations containing Streptomyces spp.as soil inoculant to turmeric plants exhibited some benefits to turmeric plant growth as well as controlling rhizome rot disease, which ultimately enhance the overall quality characteristics of rhizomes. Further, our results suggest that a dual combination of biocontrol agents represent a promising method for effective management of rhizome rot of turmeric.
description: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, Vol. 93 (2020): Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Morphometric and phytochemical characterization and elevation effect on yield of three potato landraces of the Ligurian Apennines (Northern Italy)
Creators: name: Giupponi, Luca
name: Leoni, Valeria
name: Pedrali, Davide
name: Ceciliani, Giulia
name: Bassoli, Angela
name: Borgonovo, Gigliola
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Year: 2020

description: The great adaptability, productivity and importance in human diet conditioned the diffusion of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) in very different areas, leading to the formation of numerous landraces through anthropic or natural selection. Genoa mountainous inland is an historical area for potato cultivation and landraces are preserved by farmers associations as “Consorzio della Quarantina”. The aim of this study was the phytochemical and morphometric characterization of three potato landraces of the consortium (Quarantina Bianca, Quarantina Prugnona and Rubra spes) analysing the bio-agronomical performance at different elevations. The commercial cultivar Kennebec was used as control. For the morphometric analysis, the results of pairwise MANOVA shows that only Quarantina Bianca does not present significant differences with Kennebec in the mean shape. The four potato varieties resulted significantly different for the most of the considered phytochemical aspects (among content in ash, starch, solanine, total flavonoids, total phenols, chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, ferulic acid and radical scavenging activity only starch and solanine content didn’t result statistically different). A remarkable result was a more consistent yield for all the varieties with the increase of elevation in the agronomical trials. We can conclude that Genovese landraces are a good choice to exploit Genovese mountain marginal territories.
description: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, Vol. 93 (2020): Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Image Compressive Sensing Recovery Using Adaptively Learned Sparsifying Basis via L0 Minimization
Creators: name: Zhang, Jian
name: Zhao, Chen
name: Zhao, Debin
name: Gao, Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: From many fewer acquired measurements than suggested by the Nyquist sampling theory, compressive sensing (CS) theory demonstrates that, a signal can be reconstructed with high probability when it exhibits sparsity in some domain. Most of the conventional CS recovery approaches, however, exploited a set of fixed bases (e.g. DCT, wavelet and gradient domain) for the entirety of a signal, which are irrespective of the non-stationarity of natural signals and cannot achieve high enough degree of sparsity, thus resulting in poor CS recovery performance. In this paper, we propose a new framework for image compressive sensing recovery using adaptively learned sparsifying basis via L0 minimization. The intrinsic sparsity of natural images is enforced substantially by sparsely representing overlapped image patches using the adaptively learned sparsifying basis in the form of L0 norm, greatly reducing blocking artifacts and confining the CS solution space. To make our proposed scheme tractable and robust, a split Bregman iteration based technique is developed to solve the non-convex L0 minimization problem efficiently. Experimental results on a wide range of natural images for CS recovery have shown that our proposed algorithm achieves significant performance improvements over many current state-of-the-art schemes and exhibits good convergence property.
description: 31 pages, 4 tables, 12 figures, to be published at Signal Processing, Code available: http://idm.pku.edu.cn/staff/zhangjian/ALSB/
The TAIGA experiment: from cosmic ray to gamma-ray astronomy in the Tunka valley
Creators: name: Budnev, N
name: Astapov, I
name: Bezyazeekov, P
name: Bogdanov, A
name: Boreyko, V
name: Büker, M
name: Brückner, M
name: Chiavassa, A
name: Chvalaev, O
name: Gress, O
name: Gress, T
name: Grishin, O
name: Dyachok, A
name: Epimakhov, S
name: Fedorov, O
name: Gafarov, A
name: Gorbunov, N
name: Grebenyuk, V
name: Grinuk, A
name: Haungs, A
name: Hiller, R
name: Horns, D
name: Huege, T
name: Ivanova, A
name: Kalinin, A
name: Karpov, N
name: Kalmykov, N
name: Kazarina, Y
name: Kirichkov, N
name: Kiryuhin, S
name: Kleifges, M
name: Kokoulin, R
name: Komponiest, K
name: Konstantinov, A
name: Korosteleva, E
name: Kostunin, D
name: Kozhin, V
name: Krömer, O
name: Kunnas, M
name: Kuzmichev, L
name: Lenok, V
name: Lubsandorzhiev, B
name: Lubsandorzhiev, N
name: Mirgazov, R
name: Mirzoyan, R
name: Monkhoev, R
name: Nachtigall, R
name: Pakhorukov, A
name: Panasyuk, M
name: Pankov, L
name: Perevalov, A
name: Petrukhin, A
name: Platonov, V
name: Poleschuk, V
name: Popova, E
name: Porelli, A
name: Prosin, V
name: Ptuskin, V
name: Rubtsov, G
name: Pushnin, A
name: Samoliga, V
name: Satunin, P
name: Schröder, F
name: Semeney, Yu
name: Silaev, A
name: Silaev, A
name: Skurikhin, A
name: Slucka, V
name: Spiering, C
name: Sveshnikova, L
name: Tabolenko, V
name: Tarashansky, B
name: Tkachenko, A
name: Tkachev, L
name: Tluczykont, M
name: Voronin, D
name: Wischnewski, R
name: Zagorodnikov, A
name: Zurbanov, V
name: Yashin, I
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: The physical motivations and advantages of the new gamma-observatory TAIGA (Tunka Advanced Instrument for cosmic ray physics and Gamma Astronomy) is presented. The TAIGA array is a complex, hybrid detector for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy for energies from a few TeV to several PeV as well as for cosmic ray studies from 100 TeV to several EeV. The TAIGA will include the wide angle Cherenkov array TAIGA-HiSCORE with ~5 km2 area, a net of 16 I ACT telescopes (with FOV of about 10x10 degree), muon detectors with a total area of up to 2000-3000 m2 and the radio array Tunka-Rex.
Using remittances to boost household resilience in Senegal and The Gambia
Creators: name: Jinkang, Alagie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: perceptions
narratives
migration
remittances
Gambia

description: Remittances, defined as the portion of wages that migrant workers send home, are faced with several obstacles in the maximisation of their full potential in both Senegal and The Gambia (SeneGambia) as well as in Europe. In SeneGambia, remittance utilisation is hindered by negative economic conditions such as extreme poverty, corruption, inflation, poor infrastructure, technological underdevelopment and family mismanagement. In Europe too, remittances are highly taxed, face administrative hurdles and the irregular and exploitative conditions that most SeneGambian migrants live and work under lower the flow, amount and potential of remittances being sent to millions of households abroad. This brief is based on a case study on the relationship between SeneGambian remittances and the “back way” (irregular migration) to Europe, coupled with insights from the PERCEPTIONS findings with migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa. It outlines evidenced-based and context specific recommendations to boost the potential of remittances and household resilience in order to discourage irregular migration inspired by remittances.
Sugar content and organic acid profiles of local apple cultivars recovered from mountain zones
Creators: name: Castel, Lourdes
name: Pina, Ana
name: Irisarri, Patricia
name: Errea, Pilar
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Year: 2020

description: Ancient apple cultivars grown in local areas have so far been largely unexplored and may attract a large share of consumers oriented towards natural foods evoking ancient flavors. In this work, 34 traditional apple cultivars of the Pyrenees were analyzed in terms of sugar and acidity profile and their relation, as alternative fruits for a growing demand in society regarding quality and nutritional proper-ties. The results show a wide range between cultivars of analyzed variables, especially in terms of acid, pH and soluble solids, with high standard deviation values. The results were higher than in other similar studies of commercial apple cultivars, as well as higher values related to other local accessions. The large differences between cultivars can be attributed to the origin of the plant material, since all cultivars were grown under the same geographical conditions and with the same applied agronomic practices. The associations found in this study provide information about the nutritional content of the analyzed apples and their organoleptic and physicochemical qualities, and could be useful in targeting specific consumer requirements. In conclusion, this study highlights the suitability of these local accessions recovered in the Pyrenees as key genetic resources to be used in future breeding programs, as well as its potential use for different products which would open the door to new varieties and new consumption alternatives.
description: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, Vol. 93 (2020): Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Otherising Iran in American political discourse: case study of a post-JCPOA senate hearing on Iran sanctions
Creators: name: Kadkhodaee, Elham
name: Ghasemi Tari, Zeinab
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 440808
subject: International relations
classificationCode: 470213
subject: Postcolonial studies
classificationCode: 470405
subject: Discourse and pragmatics

description: Using van Dijk’s critical discourse analysis, this paper attempts to analyse the ways in which the Islamic Republic of Iran is constructed as a security threat in US congressional hearings. The article is based on the case of the two-day congressional hearing on post-JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) held by the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, on 24–25 May 2016. The session was presumably held to examine ‘sanctions relief’ provided to Iran; however, the study reveals that through the use of discursive tools such as lexical style and argumentation, Iran is framed and evaluated as a security threat to (1) the US; (2) US allies, specifically Israel; and (3) the international community. This construction reflects the established political and ideological stereotypes and also orientalist clichés which have led to Otherisation and vilification of Iran. Therefore, by representing Iran as an ‘irrational’, ‘radical’ and ‘barbaric’ entity, the US discrimination against Iran through sanctions and other unilateral political decisions is legitimised and justified.
Evaluating the practicability of commercial food-scanners for non-destructive quality assessment of tomato fruit
Creators: name: Goisser, Simon
name: Fernandes, Michael
name: Wittmann, Sabine
name: Ulrichs, Christian
name: Mempel, Heike
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Year: 2020

description: The assessment of tomato fruit quality depends on a variety of extrinsic and intrinsic quality parameters such as color, firmness and sugar content. Conventional measurement methods of these quality parameters are time consuming, require various measurement de-vices, and in case of intrinsic quality, involve destructive measurements. Latest research focused on the non-destructive determination of these parameters by using spectroscopic measurements. The goal of this study was to evaluate the capability of three commercially available portable and miniaturized VIS /NIR spectrometers, so called food-scanners, in predicting various tomato quality attributes in a non-destructive way. Additionally, this study evaluated the software provided by manufacturers for building of prediction models by comparing the results derived from those software tools to state-of-the-art software for multivariate analysis. Evaluation of food-scanner spectra resulted in prediction models of high accuracy (r² > 0.90) for tomato fruit firmness, dry matter, total soluble solids and color values L*, a* and h°. Prediction models computed with manufacturer’s soft-ware showed similar accuracy to those derived from state-of-the-art evaluation software. Results of this study illustrate the great potential of commercial food-scanners for non-destructive quality measurement. Further important features of food-scanners with respect to the application along the fresh produce supply chain are addressed.
description: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, Vol. 93 (2020): Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Compressibility and pressure-induced disorder in superconducting phase-separated Cs0.72Fe1.57Se2
Creators: name: Svitlyk, V.
name: Chernyshov, D.
name: Bosak, A.
name: Pomjakushina, E.
name: Krzton-Maziopa, A.
name: Conder, K.
name: Pomjakushin, V.
name: Dmitriev, V.
name: Garbarino, G.
name: Mezouar, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pressure-dependent diffraction response of the superconducting phase separated Cs0.72Fe1.57Se2 has been studied using synchrotron radiation up to the pressure of 19 GPa. The main and secondary phases of Cs0.72Fe1.57Se2 have been observed in the whole pressure range. The main ordered phase has been found to undergo an order-disorder transition in the Fe-sublattice at least at P = 11 GPa with the corresponding kinetics on the order of hours. Contrary to the analogous temperature induced transition, the secondary phase has not been suppressed suggesting that its stability pressure range is higher than 19 GPa or the corresponding transformation kinetics is slower at room temperature. Together with the previously reported pressure-dependent resistivity and magnetic susceptibility measurements, this work indicates that superconductivity in the AxFe2-ySe2 (A - alkali metals) phases could be related to the Fe-vacancy ordering in the main phase.
title: Kartenwelten
title: die Kartensammlung der Zentralbibliothek Zürich
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Schmid, Jost
name: Germann, Thomas
name: Oehrli, Markus
Publisher: name: Cartographica Helvetica
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: 912 Atlanten, Karten, Grafiken, Pläne
subject: Zentralbibliothek Zürich. Kartensammlung
subject: Bibliotheksbestand
subject: Karte

description: Begleitpublikation zur Ausstellung «Kartenwelten: die Kartensammlung der Zentralbibliothek Zürich» vom 11. November 2010 bis 26. Februar 2011 in der Schatzkammer der Zentralbibliothek Zürich
On degenerate fractional Schrödinger-Kirchhoff-Poisson equations with upper critical nonlinearity and electromagnetic fields
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhongyi
name: Repovš, Dušan D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35A15, 35B99, 35J60, 47G20

description: We investigate the degenerate fractional Schrödinger-Kirchhoff-Poisson equation in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with critical nonlinearity and electromagnetic fields $\varepsilon^{2s} M([u]_{s,A}^2)(-Δ)_{A}^su + V(x)u + ϕu = k(x)|u|^{r-2}u + \left(\mathcal{I}_μ*|u|^{2_s^\sharp}\right)|u|^{2_s^\sharp-2}u$ and $(-Δ)^tϕ= u^2,$ where $\varepsilon > 0$ is a parameter, $3/4
Memorandum of Understanding by NFDI initiatives from the humanities and cultural studies
Creators: name: Brünger-Weilandt, Sabine
name: Bruhn, Kai-Christian
name: Busch, Alexandra W.
name: Hinrichs, Erhard
name: Horstmann, Wolfram
name: Grötschel, Martin
name: Paulmann, Johannes
name: von Rummel, Philipp
name: Schlotheuber, Eva
name: Schmidt, Dörte
name: Schrade, Torsten
name: Simon, Holger
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: NFDI

description: The Memorandum of Understanding by NFDI initiatives from the humanities and cultural studies defines the responsibilities and modes of cooperation between the undersigned partners with the aim to best address the diverse needs of the highly differentiated research landscape in the humanities in matters of research data management.
Internationalising European Open Science Initiatives: A decade of Research Data Alliance
Creators: name: Asmi, Ari
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Science
Collaboration
Research Data
RDA
TRIPLE

description: Research Data Alliance was found to facilitate global collaborate solutions for research data challenges, with ten year time horizon. After a decade, have we fixed everything, or is there still a place for RDA? This talk presents some of the lessons learned from this history, how RDA fits in the ever evolving Open Science environment, and what new we can offer to European and global data experts in the following years.
description: The TRIPLE project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 863420 Disclaimer. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the author and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Commission. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
Phase synchronization between collective rhythms of fully locked oscillator groups
Creators: name: Kawamura, Yoji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the phase synchronization between collective rhythms of fully locked oscillator groups. For weakly interacting groups of two oscillators with global sinusoidal coupling, we analytically derive the collective phase coupling function, which determines the dynamics of the collective phase difference between the groups. We demonstrate that the groups can exhibit anti-phase collective synchronization in spite of microscopic in-phase external coupling and vice versa.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures. Complementary information for arXiv:1007.4382 and arXiv:1007.5161
Creative Writing outputs of exploring human rights experiences in prison
Creators: name: Adams, Nawaal
name: Baxter, Veronica
Publisher: name: University of Cape Town
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 369999
subject: Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified

description: This is a collection of stories and poetry written by participants during the Rewriting, Redefining, Reclaiming Identity MA fieldwork project. The participants were parolees and ex-offenders. The stories were based on the human rights violations they experienced in prison. The stories show violations to human dignity, safety and security, living conditions, and healthcare.
On the long-time asymptotics of quantum dynamical semigroups
Creators: name: Raggio, Guido A.
name: Zangara, Pablo R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider semigroups $\{α_t: \; t\geq 0\}$ of normal, unital, completely positive maps $α_t$ on a von Neumann algebra ${\mathcal M}$. The (predual) semigroup $ν_t (ρ):= ρ\circ α_t$ on normal states $ρ$ of $\mathcal M$ leaves invariant the face ${\mathcal F}_p:= \{ρ: \; ρ(p)=1\}$ supported by the projection $p\in {\mathcal M}$, if and only if $α_t(p)\geq p$ (i.e., $p$ is sub-harmonic). We complete the arguments showing that the sub-harmonic projections form a complete lattice. We then consider $r_o$, the smallest projection which is larger than each support of a minimal invariant face; then $r_o$ is subharmonic. In finite dimensional cases $\sup α_t(r_o)={\bf 1}$ and $r_o$ is also the smallest projection $p$ for which $α_t(p)\to {\bf 1}$. If $\{ν_t: \; t\geq 0\}$ admits a faithful family of normal stationary states then $r_o={\bf 1}$ is useless; if not, it helps to reduce the problem of the asymptotic behaviour of the semigroup for large times.
description: 7 pages; Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Quantum Probability and Related Topics, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 23-28 November 2009
Proceedings 8th International Workshop on Developments in Computational Models
Creators: name: Löwe, Benedikt
name: Winskel, Glynn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The aim of the workshop series Developments in Computational Models (DCM) is to bring together researchers who are currently developing new computational models or new features for traditional computational models, in order to foster their interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. The eighth workshop in the series, DCM 2012, was part of the celebrations of the Turing Centenary and was held as a satellite event of the Turing centenary conference Computability in Europe 2012 (CiE 2012) in Cambridge. It took place at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge on Sunday, 17 June 2013. This electronic proceedings volume includes one of the keynote papers as well as revised versions of papers accepted for presentation by the programme committee.
Plano de Dados Abertos Para o Ministério do Planejamento
Creators: name: Chaves, Miriam.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: PLANO
DADOS ABERTOS
DADOS PARA ABERTURA
MINISTÉRIO DO PLANEJAMENTO
LAI
Calebe

description: O Plano de Dados Abertos (PDA) é o documento orientador para as ações de implementação e promoção de abertura de dados, inclusive geoespacializados, no Ministério do Planejamento Orçamento e Gestão (MP), obedecendo a padrões mínimos de qualidade, de forma a facilitar o entendimento e a reutilização das informações. É ele quem organiza o planejamento referente à implantação e racionalização dos processos de publicação de dados abertos nas organizações públicas. MINISTÉRIO DO PLANEJAMENTO, ORÇAMENTO E GESTÃO Encontra-se original em: https://plano.dados.planejamento.gov.br/public/pdas-antigos/pda-mp-2014-2015.pdf E também publicado em: https://silo.tips/download/ministerio-do-planejamento-oramento-e-gestao-25
description: Esse arquivo está em publicações antigas do Governo.
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Decay characterization of solutions to dissipative equations
Creators: name: Niche, Cesar J.
name: Schonbek, Maria E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We address the study of decay rates of solutions to dissipative equations. The characterization of these rates is given for a wide class of linear systems by the {\em decay character}, which is a number associated to the initial datum that describes the behavior of the datum near the origin in frequency space. We then use the decay character and the Fourier Splitting method to obtain upper and lower bounds for decay of solutions to appropriate dissipative nonlinear equations, both in the incompressible and compressible case.
description: 27 pages