cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cooperative Perception for 3D Object Detection in Driving Scenarios using Infrastructure Sensors
Creators: name: Arnold, Eduardo
name: Dianati, Mehrdad
name: de Temple, Robert
name: Fallah, Saber
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: 3D object detection is a common function within the perception system of an autonomous vehicle and outputs a list of 3D bounding boxes around objects of interest. Various 3D object detection methods have relied on fusion of different sensor modalities to overcome limitations of individual sensors. However, occlusion, limited field-of-view and low-point density of the sensor data cannot be reliably and cost-effectively addressed by multi-modal sensing from a single point of view. Alternatively, cooperative perception incorporates information from spatially diverse sensors distributed around the environment as a way to mitigate these limitations. This article proposes two schemes for cooperative 3D object detection using single modality sensors. The early fusion scheme combines point clouds from multiple spatially diverse sensing points of view before detection. In contrast, the late fusion scheme fuses the independently detected bounding boxes from multiple spatially diverse sensors. We evaluate the performance of both schemes, and their hybrid combination, using a synthetic cooperative dataset created in two complex driving scenarios, a T-junction and a roundabout. The evaluation shows that the early fusion approach outperforms late fusion by a significant margin at the cost of higher communication bandwidth. The results demonstrate that cooperative perception can recall more than 95% of the objects as opposed to 30% for single-point sensing in the most challenging scenario. To provide practical insights into the deployment of such system, we report how the number of sensors and their configuration impact the detection performance of the system.
description: 13 pages, 4 tables, 7 figures. Published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
National Opinion Polls National Political Surveys; 19-24 March 1974
19-24 March 1974
Creators: name: NOP Market Research Limited
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1981

description: The NOP National Political Surveys were designed principally to ascertain public opinion on political parties, leaders and government, and to record voting intention. In addition, the majority of the surveys included data of topical interest and of social importance.
Meson resonances from unitarized meson scattering at one loop in Chiral Perturbation Theory
Creators: name: Pelaez, J. R.
name: Nicola, A. Gomez
name: .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show the results for the scattering poles associated to the rho, f0, a0, K*, sigma and kappa resonances in meson-meson scattering. Our amplitudes are obtained from the complete one-loop meson-meson scattering amplitudes from Chiral Perturbation Theory. Once unitarized with the Inverse Amplitude Method, they describe remarkably well the data simultaneously in the low energy and resonance regions up to 1.2 GeV, using low energy parameters compatible with present determinations.
description: To appear in the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on ``Quark confinement and the hadron spectrum'', held in Gargnano, Garda Lake, Italy. 10-14th September 2002. 3 pages
Pacific Giant Clams and their Products: An Overview of Demand and Supply Factors
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Tisdell, Clem
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Giant clam farming
subject: aquaculture
subject: mariculture
subject: supply and demand

description: Due mainly to overharvesting, the world's natural stocks of giant clams have been seriously depleted and most species are now listed as endangered species under CITES (The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species). There is a perceived shortage of clam supplies in the Pacific Islands and in Chinese areas such as Taiwan and Hong Kong. The development of techniques for the aquaculture (mariculture) of giant clams however raises the possibility of a new source of supply. In this paper, the type of clam products that are likely to be in demand are discussed, elements that may influence these demands are identified and factors that are likely to determine supplies are highlighted. It is anticipated that future ACIAR supported research will enable the economic prospects and possible industry pattern of development of Pacific giant clam mariculture to be pinpointed more precisely.
Geometric Origin of Staggered Fermion: Direct Product K-Cycle
Creators: name: Dai, Jian
name: Song, Xing-Chang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Staggered formalism of lattice fermion can be cast into a form of direct product K-cycle in noncommutative geometry. The correspondence between this staggered K-cycle and a canonically defined K-cycle for finitely generated abelian group where lattice appears as a special case is proved.
description: AMS-TeX, 6 pages; no figure or table
Marine Property Rights in Relation to Giant Clam Mariculture in the Kingdom of Tonga
Creators: name: Fairbairn, Teo I. J.
name: Fairbairn, Teo I. J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marine property rights
subject: Kingdom of Tonga
subject: giant clam mariculture
subject: the Ha’apai Group

description: Marine property rights on the coastal waters of the Kingdom of Tonga are fairly uncomplicated. Ownership of Tonga's reefs. and lagoons (as well as its territorial waters as a whole) is vested in the Crown and has been so since the late 19th century. While such an arrangement effectively took away the traditional and customary rights of local groups over these waters, it allows open access to all Tongans for purposes of fishing, both subsistence and commercial. The main exceptions are certain restricted areas set aside as marine parks. Leases over reef sites for giant clam and other forms of mariculture can be negotiated with government. The Fisheries Act of 1987 and the Fisheries Regulations of 1989 provide the basic legislative framework for such leases. Specific terms and conditions relating to leases are negotiated under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Under existing legislation, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has fairly wide regulatory powers to ensure, among other things, that mariculture, and fisheries in general, proceed along sound lines. Tonga appears to possess many favourable features for giant clam mariculture. The country's many constituent and widely scattered islands support extensive reef and lagoon areas; the necessary legislative and tenurial framework is in place; while public awareness on the potential of clams as a major industry seem to be growing (Tonga's 'giant clam circle' project has contributed in this respect). The Ha'apai Group, with its large reef areas and generally favourable social environment, appears to be particularly well­ placed to support a major clam project. For purposes of establishing a commercial clam project, including one with foreign participation, the collaboration of local groups seems to be a vital pre-requisite. The involvement of local villagers can be particularly valuable for the policing of project sites to prevent poaching. Collaboration with other local groups also seems necessary, for example, the Fishermens' Association and local government officials.
Paralastor laetus Perkins 1914
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Paralastor
Paralastor laetus

description: laetus Perkins
Paralastor laetus Perkins 1914a: 571 (key), 585, male—“Freemantle, Australia ” [Fremantle] (London); 1914b: 236 (key), 237 (female; W. A.: Yallingup).— Cardale 1985: 189 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Exploring the Demands for Farmed Giant Clams and their Components: Approaches and Problems
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Tisdell, Clem
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Giant clam farming
subject: supply and demand of giant clams

description: The technical possibility of farming giant clams has been established by the Micronesian Mariculture Demonstration Center (MMDC), by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and other organizations. Enterprises have already been established to farm giant clams commercially. However, the extent of market demand for giant clams and their components has not been established. Clearly the economics of farming will depend both on demand factors and cost considerations. To determine the likely demand for farmed clams is not an easy task. Such markets as have existed in the past have been based on natural stocks. Supply from these has been uneven and has not been sustained due to overharvesting. Pre-existing markets for natural clam stocks and their components are likely to provide at best an imprecise guide to the demand for farmed clams. For example, natural stocks have been insufficient or protected in some areas such as Australia which has meant that a local market for clam meat has not been established. Clam meat for consumption would be an experiential good for Australians and Westerners and, one suspects, many Asians, including Japanese. Markets exist for giant clams as aquarium specimens and for their shells. Surveys have recently been undertaken in Australia to determine the size of the Australian market for these end-uses and the main findings are reported. The market for clams for meat is likely to be difficult to gauge. In many markets the product would, in effect, be a new product, and for example, new product cycles might apply. In the past attempts have been made to use international trade statistics and the market for possible substitutes, e.g. scallops as a guide to the potential market. These approaches all have drawbacks. As for substitutes, it would for example seem that substitutes for clam meat would vary with the age and method of preparation of the clam. Younger clams, say on the half-shell, can be used as entrée items and might, up to a point compete with other entrée items such as oysters. Older clams are usually separated into muscle and mantle components which can be frozen and which lend themselves to retail sale in blister packs. Evidence about likely commercial demand remains fragmentary but available data will be reviewed. Given the data problems and the likelihood that to some extent ‘supply creates its own demand’, standard economic analysis may be of limited value in determining the demand for clam meat. Some observations will also be made on other possible uses of and markets for giant clams and on subsistence demand for clams.
API Beauty is in the eye of the Clients: 2.2 Million Maven Dependencies reveal the Spectrum of Client-API Usages
Creators: name: Harrand, Nicolas
name: Benelallam, Amine
name: Soto-Valero, César
name: Bettega, François
name: Barais, Olivier
name: Baudry, Benoit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hyrum's law states a common observation in the software industry: "With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody". Meanwhile, recent research results seem to contradict this observation when they state that "for most APIs, there is a small number of features that are actually used". We investigate this seeming paradox between the observations in industry and the research literature, with a large scale empirical study of client API relationships in one single ecosystem: Maven Central. We study the 94 most popular libraries in Maven Central, as well as the 829,410 client artifacts that declare a dependency to these libraries and that are available in Maven Central, summing up to 2.2M dependencies. Our analysis indicates the existence of a wide spectrum of API usages, with enough clients, most API types end up being used at least once. Our second key observation is that, for all libraries, there is a small set of API types that are used by the vast majority of its clients. The practical consequences of this study are two-fold: (i) it is possible for API maintainers to find an essential part of their API on which they can focus their efforts; (ii) API developers should limit the public API elements to the set of features for which they are ready to have users.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables, 2 listings
Investigation of Data Augmentation Techniques for Disordered Speech Recognition
Creators: name: Geng, Mengzhe
name: Xie, Xurong
name: Liu, Shansong
name: Yu, Jianwei
name: Hu, Shoukang
name: Liu, Xunying
name: Meng, Helen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Disordered speech recognition is a highly challenging task. The underlying neuro-motor conditions of people with speech disorders, often compounded with co-occurring physical disabilities, lead to the difficulty in collecting large quantities of speech required for system development. This paper investigates a set of data augmentation techniques for disordered speech recognition, including vocal tract length perturbation (VTLP), tempo perturbation and speed perturbation. Both normal and disordered speech were exploited in the augmentation process. Variability among impaired speakers in both the original and augmented data was modeled using learning hidden unit contributions (LHUC) based speaker adaptive training. The final speaker adapted system constructed using the UASpeech corpus and the best augmentation approach based on speed perturbation produced up to 2.92% absolute (9.3% relative) word error rate (WER) reduction over the baseline system without data augmentation, and gave an overall WER of 26.37% on the test set containing 16 dysarthric speakers.
description: Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2020
Report on Possible Demand for Giant Clam Meat by Tongan Descendants in Australia: Inferences from Interviews Conducted in the Brisbane Area
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Wittenberg, Rene
name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Wittenberg, Rene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Giant clam industry
subject: market for giant clam meat in Australia
subject: Pacific Island communities
subject: Tonga

description: The giant clam has been a traditional source of food among Pacific Islanders. Thus migrants and their descendants from these nations living in Australia might still want to maintain giant clam meat as part of their diet. Members of the Tongan community in Brisbane were interviewed in December 1989 and January 1990 in order to find out if this hypothesis holds. Information was collected in order to determine the size of the Tongan community in Australia, what quantities of clam meat they are prepared to buy at, what prices and the type of product they are looking for. Although the Tongan community is relatively small in Australia (about 10,000 – 15,000 persons) it could represent a substantial market because of the quantities of clam meat Tongan families plan to purchase (1 – 4 kg/week per family) even at relatively high prices (AUS$5 – 12/kg). More importantly however, Tongans are prepared to buy the meat of the whole clam and not just the adductor muscle. In the past the adductor muscle has been the focus for meat marketing. But the value of the meat of a whole clam may be greater than for the adductor muscle alone, even though the price of the meat of the whole clam is moderate compared to that of the adductor muscle. Tongans in combination with other Pacific Islander communities (if the latter have similar consumption pattern as appears likely) could turn out to be a very profitable market for giant clam industry in Australia, and may provide scope for imports from the Pacific Islands themselves.
The QCD equation of state at finite T and μ
Creators: name: Csikor, F.
name: Egri, G. I.
name: Fodor, Z.
name: Katz, S. D.
name: Szabo, K. K.
name: Toth, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the pressure (p), the energy density (ε) and the baryon density (n_B) of QCD at finite temperatures (T) and chemical potentials (μ). The recently proposed overlap improving multi-parameter reweighting technique is used to determine observables at nonvanishing chemical potentials. Our results are obtained by studying n_f=2+1 dynamical staggered quarks with semi-realistic masses on N_t=4 lattices.
description: 3 pages, 6 figures, Lattice2002(nonzerot)
Towards predicting COVID-19 infection waves: A random-walk Monte Carlo simulation approach
Creators: name: Mahapatra, D. P.
name: Triambak, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Phenomenological and deterministic models are often used for the estimation of transmission parameters in an epidemic and for the prediction of its growth trajectory. Such analyses are usually based on single peak outbreak dynamics. In light of the present COVID-19 pandemic, there is a pressing need to better understand observed epidemic growth with multiple peak structures, preferably using first-principles methods. Along the lines of our previous work [Physica A 574, 126014 (2021)], here we apply 2D random-walk Monte Carlo calculations to better understand COVID-19 spread through contact interactions. Lockdown scenarios and all other control interventions are imposed through mobility restrictions and a regulation of the infection rate within the stochastically interacting population. The susceptible, infected and recovered populations are tracked over time, with daily infection rates obtained without recourse to the solution of differential equations. The simulations were carried out for population densities corresponding to four countries, India, Serbia, South Africa and USA. In all cases our results capture the observed infection growth rates. More importantly, the simulation model is shown to predict secondary and tertiary waves of infections with reasonable accuracy. This predictive nature of multiple wave structures provides a simple and effective tool that may be useful in planning mitigation strategies during the present pandemic.
description: Accepted for publication in Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
Non-relativistic anyons, exotic Galilean symmetry and noncommutative plane
Creators: name: Horvathy, Peter A.
name: Plyushchay, Mikhail S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the Lukierski et al. model, invariant with respect to the two-fold centrally extended Galilei group, can be decomposed into an infinite number of independent copies (differing in their spin) of the ``exotic'' particle of Duval et al. The difference between the two models is found to be sensitive to electromagnetic coupling. The nature of the noncommutative plane coordinates is discussed in the light of the exotic Galilean symmetry. We prove that the first model, interpreted as describing a non-relativistic anyon, is the non-relativistic limit of a particle with torsion related to relativistic anyons.
description: 10 pages; final version to appear in JHEP
Evaluation of International Trade Statistics on Giant Clams and Related Products and the Market for Giant Clam Meat
Creators: name: Stanton, John
name: Stanton, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: International trade statistics
subject: giant clam mariculture
subject: supply and demand

description: This study examines whether international trade statistics can be used to provide a useful estimate of the extent of trade in, and the potential market for, giant clam meat. It evaluates the contribution of two reports which assessed potential export markets for giant clam meat. It also discusses the value of investigating the potential export market demand for giant clam meat using possible substitutes as a guide. International trade statistics are found to be insufficiently disaggregated to draw any conclusions as to the volume of trade. In addition, even if the commodity could be distinguished, assessment of any country's potential market demand for giant clam meat would require an accompanying in­depth market analysis. The two previous studies of the potential export market demand for giant clam meat used differing methodologies and reached different conclusions. At one extreme, Compass suggested a very large potential export market to many countries based on a diverse range of clam meat uses. At the other extreme, Dawson conducted a market analysis in only four countries which focussed on identifying a narrow range of existing and potential uses. This study examines the use of giant clam adductor muscle as a possible substitute for other seafood products using a characteristics approach and a review of studies of own-price, cross and income demand elasticities for seafoods. Substitution possibilities exist but the review suggests that market expansion, based on securing market share from adjacent commodities in characteristics space, may be difficult. Aggressive pricing to establish a market is likely to be counter-productive.
National Opinion Polls National Political Surveys; 2-7 April 1974
2-7 April 1974
Creators: name: NOP Market Research Limited
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1981

description: The NOP National Political Surveys were designed principally to ascertain public opinion on political parties, leaders and government, and to record voting intention. In addition, the majority of the surveys included data of topical interest and of social importance.
Learning Task-Oriented Grasping from Human Activity Datasets
Creators: name: Kokic, Mia
name: Kragic, Danica
name: Bohg, Jeannette
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose to leverage a real-world, human activity RGB dataset to teach a robot Task-Oriented Grasping (TOG). We develop a model that takes as input an RGB image and outputs a hand pose and configuration as well as an object pose and a shape. We follow the insight that jointly estimating hand and object poses increases accuracy compared to estimating these quantities independently of each other. Given the trained model, we process an RGB dataset to automatically obtain the data to train a TOG model. This model takes as input an object point cloud and outputs a suitable region for task-specific grasping. Our ablation study shows that training an object pose predictor with the hand pose information (and vice versa) is better than training without this information. Furthermore, our results on a real-world dataset show the applicability and competitiveness of our method over state-of-the-art. Experiments with a robot demonstrate that our method can allow a robot to preform TOG on novel objects.
Assessing Species for Mariculture in Developing Countries: A Review of Economic Considerations
Creators: name: Firdausy, Carunia
name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Firdausy, Carunia
name: Tisdell, Clem
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Giant clam mariculture in developing countries
subject: supply and demand of seafood
subject: market requirements for seafoods
subject: Indo-Pacific.

description: The economic importance of mariculture in less developed countries (LDCs) and their development plans are discussed. The basic processes involved in mariculture are outlined and some of the species maricultured in LDCs are considered. Factors which are important in assessing the suitability of a species for mariculture in developing countries are highlighted. These include consumer acceptance, biology, environmental, technological and economic factors. The economic success or otherwise of a species for mariculture depends upon all the factors as well as others.
WZW branes and gerbes
Creators: name: Gawedzki, Krzysztof
name: Reis, Nuno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reconsider the role that bundle gerbes play in the formulation of the WZW model on closed and open surfaces. In particular, we show how an analysis of bundle gerbes on groups covered by SU(N) permits to determine the spectrum of symmetric branes in the boundary version of the WZW model with such groups as the target. We also describe a simple relation between the open string amplitudes in the WZW models based on simply connected groups and in their simple-current orbifolds.
description: latex, 4 figures incorporated
An Analysis of the Cost of Producing Giant Clam (Tridacna Gigas) Seed in Australia
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Lucas, J.S.
name: Thomas, W.R.
name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Lucas, J.S.
name: Thomas, W.R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Giant Clam Mariculture in Australia
subject: seed production costs
subject: supply and demand
subject: giant clam production techniques.

description: The costs of providing giant clam seed in Australia using existing techniques are examined for alternative annual volumes of production. Considerable economies of scale in production are available both in relation to labour costs and non-labour costs (mostly capital costs). In Australia, direct labour costs appear as though they would account for between 40-60 percent of total costs depending on volume and production levels. It is possible that these costs would be lower in some of the less developed countries which could produce clams. The fall in per unit full cost of producing giant clam seed is considerable when annual production is expanded from 100,000 to 500,000 seed clams per year. At 10% rate of interest, full cost for seed clam falls from $1.43-2.01 at a production level of 100,000 to $0.41-0.54 at a production level of 500,000. Operating costs also fall. They decline from $1.01-1.22 to $0.29-0.35. Although lower cost levels may be achieved in the future, and with different techniques in other countries, the cost of clam seed can be expected to be much higher than for oyster spat.
National Opinion Polls National Political Surveys; 23-28 April 1974
23-28 April 1974
Creators: name: NOP Market Research Limited
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1981

description: The NOP National Political Surveys were designed principally to ascertain public opinion on political parties, leaders and government, and to record voting intention. In addition, the majority of the surveys included data of topical interest and of social importance.
Frontinellina frutetorum
Creators: name: Bosmans, Robert
name: Cardoso, Pedro
name: Crespo, Luis Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Linyphiidae
Frontinellina
Frontinellina frutetorum

description: Frontinellina frutetorum (C. L. Koch, 1834)
 Description: van Helsdingen (1970: 70, figs 65–72), Bosmans (2006a: 134, figs 25–28).
 Previous records: Braga: Minho (van Helsdingen 1970); Serra do Gerês, Terras de Bouro (Bacelar 1928). Coimbra: Coimbra (Bertkau 1893). Évora: Reguengos de Monsaraz, Herdade do Esporão (Nobre & Meierrose 2000). Faro: Vila Real de Santo António (van Helsdingen 1970). Porto: Vila Nova de Gaia, Afurada (van Helsdingen 1970); Valongo (Simon 1898). Setúbal: Arrábida NP, Vale da Rasca (Cardoso et al. 2008a). Vila Real: Sabrosa, São Martinho de Anta (Bacelar 1928). Viseu: Mangualde, Fagilde (Bacelar 1927).
 New records: Aveiro: Oliveira de Azeméis (CBM). Braga: Vila Nova de Famalicão, Joane (CBM); Vila Verde (CBM). Bragança: Douro Internacional NP, Freixo de Espada à Cinta, Palão, 2 males, 2.V.2001 (CPC); Mogadouro, Bruçó, 1 male, 3.V.2001 (CPC). Coimbra: Paúl de Arzila NR, 2 males 1 female, 10.IV.2006, 1 male 4.IV.2008, 24 females, 28.V.2008, L. Crespo et al. leg. (CLC). Faro: road Marmelete-Casais, Ribeira de Alfambras, 1 male, on shrubs, 22.V.2007 (CRB); Vila Real de Santo António, Monte Gordo, 1 male, 18.IV.1982 (CJFM). Lisboa: Tapada de Mafra, 1 female, pine forest, 21.VIII.2001 (CGT). Porto: Gondomar, Rio Tinto (CBM); Valongo, S. Pedro da Cova (CBM). Santarém: Paúl do Boquilobo NR, Torres Novas, montado, 3 males 7 females, 19.III–16.IV.2002 (CPC). Setúbal: Arrábida NP, Mata do Vidal (CPC); Sesimbra, Terras do Risco (CPC).
 Distribution: Palearctic.
 Habitat type: On shrubs in different habitat types.
 Phenology: Particularly abundant during March and April.
description: Published as part of Bosmans, Robert, Cardoso, Pedro & Crespo, Luis Carlos, 2010, A review of the linyphiid spiders of Portugal, with the description of six new species (Araneae: Linyphiidae) 2473, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2473 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2473.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10094179
The F/D Ratio and Meson-Baryon Couplings from QCD Sum Rules
Creators: name: Doi, Takumi
name: Kim, Hungchong
name: Kondo, Yoshihiko
name: Oka, Makoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coupling constants of the pseudoscalar mesons to the octet baryons are computed in the QCD sum rule approach. The pi-NN, eta-NN, pi-XiXi, eta-XiXi, pi-SigmaSigma, eta-SigmaSigma as well as pi-Lambda-Sigma couplings are studied. Determining the pertinent Dirac structure in the correlation function, we analyze the couplings in the SU(3) limit. We find the F/D ratio to be \sim 0.6-0.8 that is consistent with the SU(6) value. We also estimate the SU(3) breaking effect using a projected correlation function method.
description: 4 pages, Talk given at XVI International Conference on Particles and Nuclei (PANIC02), Osaka, Japan, Sep.30 - Oct.4, 2002
Marine Property Rights in Fiji: Implications for the Development of Giant Clam Mariculture
Creators: name: Fairbairn, Teo I. J.
name: Fairbairn, Teo I. J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: marine property rights
subject: Fiji
subject: yavusa
subject: mataqali
subject: reef tenure.

description: Marine property rights in Fiji are characterised by state (the Crown) ownership of offshore waters (including seabeds) and Fijian tribal ownership of fishing rights on customary fishing grounds. These fishing grounds are extensive, covering adjacent reefs, lagoons, estuarine and mangrove areas and some outer-reef zones (as well as rivers). Rights to fish on these customary grounds are regulated by tribal groups, as represented by a tribal lineage - the yavusa - or a sub­division of this lineage- the mataqali. The rights of each tribal group over its recognised fishing area apply to the right to carry out subsistence fishing and the power to regulate commercial exploitation of these waters. On biogeographical and ecological grounds, Fiji has the potential to develop giant clam culture as a major productive activity, both subsistence and commercial. However, as practically the entire reef area considered suitable for clam mariculture falls under customary forms of marine tenure, a major requirement is to gain access to these areas. The most critical step in this process is to obtain the consent of the tribal group in which the fishing rights are vested. Regardless of whether a major giant clam project is initiated by a tribal group or by an outside developer, a key ingredient for success is the active support of villagers. This support is critical - to gain access to the reef area in the first instance, and to ensure local co-operation during subsequent stages of project development and operation. There are any possible avenues for fostering meaningful and close co-operation with villagers, including some form of joint venture or partnership arrangement.
Paralastor lateritius
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Paralastor
Paralastor lateritius

description: lateritius (de Saussure)
Alastor lateritius de Saussure 1867: 17, female (in subgenus Alastor division Paralastor)—“ Nova Hollandia ” (? Wien).— Froggatt 1892: 229 (lateritus [!]; cat.).— Dalla Torre 1894: 111 (cat.); 1904: 60 (cat.).
Paralastor lateritius; Perkins 1914a: 566 (“I suspect this of being a slight colour-variety of P. carinatus (Smith) ”).— von Schulthess 1925: 260 (compared to P. carinatus (Smith) and P. tricarinulatus Perkins).— Cardale 1985: 190 (cat.).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Pushing the precision frontier for gravitational waves
Creators: name: Levi, Michèle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Pushing the precision frontier for gravitational waves is one of the most urgent tasks in theoretical physics today, in light of the increasing influx of data from a rapidly growing worldwide network of gravitational-wave detectors.
description: Invited article of top UKRI Rutherford fellow 2020/21; Digital publication https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=22274115-51b8-40dc-894a-903cc3c5990d 6 pages
Simulation of Farm Bargaining Board Policies in the Western Late Potato System
Creators: name: Armbruster, Walter Joseph
name: Armbruster, Walter Joseph
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1971
Subjects: subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The National Agricultural Bargaining Act of 1968 proposed creation of farm bargaining boards at the request of and referendum approval by producers of a given commodity. This proposal provided the legal framework assumed in this analysis of a bargaining board in a commodity system. The objective of bargaining boards as proposed is to provide producers with more effective bargaining power as a means of negotiating more favorable terms of trade. Theoretical sources of bargaining gains under a board were specified in the research, and control of total production and allocation of production into different uses were selected as the most promising sources of bargaining gains. To test the results of implementing a bargaining board in a commodity system, the western late potato system was chosen for analysis. Results of several economic studies dealing only with portions of the potato production-marketing system were examined. Due to their inadequacies, an economic model of the complete potato system was developed and the interrelationships estimated statistically. A simulation model of the economic system was constructed. The simulation model consisted of a production sector composed of five production units and a marketing sector incorporating five alternative uses for potatoes. A Fortran program of the simulation model was used in computer tests of alternative bargaining board policies in the western late potato system. Operational goals for a bargaining board were specified and evaluated on the basis of effects on the average level of variables important to the western late potato industry. Of the policies tested, the acreage increase policy and the gross revenue increase policy gave results most favorable to western late potato producers. The results obtained imply that establishing a bargaining board in the western late potato industry could result in higher gross returns per unit of potatoes produced compared to the results of the system as it currently operates. The gains would come at the cost of restricting resource use in the system. Assuming that the western late potato system is representative of commodity systems possessing characteristics conducive to bargaining board gains, the conclusion is reached that bargaining boards offer a policy tool which can lead to results more desirable for producers than those obtained under the system operating without interference. The types of bargaining board actions and the extent of gains are limited by the supply and demand characteristics of the particular commodity system. The costs of operating a bargaining board need to be researched to allow evaluation of the net effect of establishing a bargaining board. A decision to implement bargaining boards as a policy tool for U. S. agriculture should be based on additional research into some of the noneconomic factors affecting the assumptions upon which this analysis is based.
Genus-2 Holographic Correlator on $AdS_5 \times S^5$ from Localization
Creators: name: Chester, Shai M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the four-point function of the stress tensor multiplet superprimary in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills (SYM) with gauge group $SU(N)$ in the large $N$ and large 't Hooft coupling $λ\equiv g_\text{YM}^2N$ limit, which is holographically dual to the genus expansion of IIB string theory on $AdS_5\times S^5$. In \cite{Binder:2019jwn} it was shown that the integral of this correlator is related to derivatives of the mass deformed $\mathcal{N}=2^*$ sphere free energy, which was computed using supersymmetric localization to leading order in $1/N^2$ for finite $λ$. We generalize this computation to any order in $1/N^2$ for finite $λ$ using topological recursion, and use this any order constraint to fix the $R^4$ correction to the holographic correlator to any order in the genus expansion. We also use it to complete the derivation of the 1-loop supergravity correction, and show that analyticity in spin fails at zero spin in the large $N$ expansion as predicted from the Lorentzian inversion formula. In the flat space limit, the $R^4$ term in the holographic correlator matches that of the IIB S-matrix in 10d, which is a precise check of AdS$_5$/CFT$_4$ for local operators at genus-one. Using the flat space limit and localization we then fix $D^4R^4$ in the holographic correlator to any order in the genus expansion, which is nontrivial at genus-two, i.e. $1/N^6$. This is the first result at two orders beyond the planar limit at strong coupling for a holographic correlator.
description: 26 pages plus appendices, 1 figure, v4 typos corrected
CARBON EMISSION, ENERGY CONSUMPTION_AND_ECONOMIC GROWTH NEXUS: A LITERATURE SURVEY.pdf
Creators: name: Asif, Bushra
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Economics

description: The current study aims to assess the worldwide literature available on the economic growth energy consumption-carbon dioxide emissions nexus. The data from all around the globe has been assessed for this literature survey. The causality relationships studies were categorized within six major categories on the basis of different variables i.e. economic growth and carbon emission (single-country studies); economic growth and carbon emission (multi countries studies); economic growth and energy consumption (single-country studies); economic growth and energy consumption (multi-countries studies); energy consumption and carbon emissions (single-country studies); and energy consumption and carbon emissions (multi-countries studies).
L'EFFET SEUIL DE L'ENDETTEMENT EXTERIEUR SUR LE TAUX DE CHANGE REEL DANS LES PAYS DE LA COMMUNAUTE ECONOMIQUE DES ETATS DE L'AFRIQUE DE L'OUEST (CEDEAO)
Creators: name: Mouhamadou BA
name: Sory DOLO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This study analyzes the effect of external debt on the real exchange rate and determine the point of regime change when the debt settles at a given rate in ECOWAS countries. The quadratic approach estimated using least squares is used. The results reveal that the external debt has a negative and significant effect on the real exchange rate but when it is squared gives positive and significant effect on the real exchange rate. The relationship takes the form of a “U” curve. The minimum threshold found is 20.5%.
Understanding Knowledge Sharing From an Identity-Based Motivational Perspective
Creators: name: Burmeister, Anne
name: Song, Yifan
name: Wang, Mo
name: Hirschi, Andreas
Publisher: name: University of Bern
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02k7v4d05
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: motivation
role theory
knowledge management
positive organizational behavior

description: Research typically adopted a social exchange perspective to suggest that employees share their knowledge with coworkers to reciprocate prior positive treatment to return the favor. We challenge this dominant focus on external motivational sources and adopt an identity-based motivational perspective. Our theorizing is grounded in identity theory and recognizes knowledge-sharing identity centrality as an internal source of motivation for knowledge sharing. We also decipher how employees express their knowledge-sharing identity centrality through self-regulatory mechanisms by incorporating key premises from social cognitive theory. Specifically, we argue that knowledge-sharing identity centrality triggers a self-verification process that facilitates knowledge sharing through knowledge-sharing envisioning and knowledge-sharing self-efficacy. We further argue that the positive effects of knowledge-sharing identity centrality are strengthened by employee self-verification striving. We adopted a multistudy design and conducted two studies to understand why, how, and when employees share knowledge. Specifically, in a within-person field experiment (Study 1), we showed that improving knowledge-sharing identity centrality increased an employee’s daily knowledge sharing via knowledge-sharing envisioning and knowledge-sharing self-efficacy. In a between-person field study with time-lagged data (Study 2), we replicated the within-person findings and further demonstrated self-verification striving as a moderator strengthening the effects of knowledge-sharing identity centrality. Our findings advance research on employee knowledge-sharing motivation, unveiling the internal identity-driven motivation processes. We further provide practitioners with an effective knowledge-sharing intervention.
National Opinion Polls National Political Surveys; 4-9 June 1974
4-9 June 1974
Creators: name: NOP Market Research Limited
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1981

description: The NOP National Political Surveys were designed principally to ascertain public opinion on political parties, leaders and government, and to record voting intention. In addition, the majority of the surveys included data of topical interest and of social importance.
Effect of 2-hydroxy-4-(methylthio) butanoate (HMTBa) supplementation on rumen bacterial populations in dairy cows when exposed to diets with risk for milk fat depression
Creators: name: Dipti Pitta
name: Nagaraju Indugu
name: Vecchiarelli, Bonnie
name: Hennessy, Meagan
name: Harvatine, Kevin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 70202 Animal Growth and Development
subject: FOS: Animal and dairy science

description: Diet-induced milk fat depression (MFD) is a condition marked by a reduction in milk fat yield experimentally achieved by increasing dietary unsaturated fatty acids and fermentable carbohydrates. 2-hydroxy-4-(methylthio) butanoate (HMTBa) is a methionine analog observed to reduce diet-induced MFD in dairy cows. We hypothesize that the reduction in diet-induced MFD by HMTBa is due to changes in the rumen microbiota. To test this, 22 high-producing cannulated Holstein dairy cows were placed into two groups using a randomized block design and assigned to either control or HMTBa supplementation (0.1% of diet DM). All cows were then exposed to three different diets with either a low risk (32% NDF, no added oil; fed d 1 to 7), a moderate risk (29% NDF and 0.75% soybean oil; fed d 8 to 24), or a high risk (29% NDF and 1.5% soybean oil; fed d 25 to 28) for diet-induced MFD. Rumen samples were collected on d 0, 14, 24, and 28, extracted for DNA, PCR-amplified for the V1-V2 region of the 16S rRNA gene, sequenced on an Illumina MiSeq, and subjected to bacterial diversity analysis using the QIIME pipeline. The alpha diversity estimates (species richness and Shannon diversity) were decreased in the control group compared to the HMTBa group. Bacterial community composition also differed between control and HMTBa groups based on both weighted uniFrac (relative abundance of commonly detected bacteria) and unweighted uniFrac (presence/absence) distances. Within the HMTBa group, there were no differences in bacterial community composition between d 0 and d 14, 24, and 28; however, in the control group, d 0 samples were different from d 14, 24, and 28. Certain bacterial genera including Dialister, Megasphaera, Lachnospira, and Sharpea were increased in the control group compared to the HMTBa group. Interestingly, these genera were positively correlated with milk fat trans-10, cis-12 conjugated linoleic acid and trans-10 C18:1, fatty acid isomers associated with biohydrogenation-induced MFD. It can be concluded that diet-induced MFD is accompanied by significant alterations in the rumen bacterial community and that HMTBa supplementation reduces these microbial perturbations
Proca tubes with the flux of the longitudinal chromoelectric field and the energy flux/momentum density
Creators: name: Dzhunushaliev, Vladimir
name: Folomeev, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider non-Abelian SU(3) Proca theory with a Higgs scalar field included. Cylindrically symmetric solutions describing classical tubes either with the flux of a longitudinal electric field or with the energy flux (and hence with nonzero momentum density) are obtained. It is shown that, in quantum Proca theory, there can exist tubes both with the flux of the longitudinal electric field and with the energy flux/momentum density simultaneously. An imaginary particle -- Proca proton~-- in which `quarks' are connected by tubes with nonzero momentum density is considered. It is shown that this results in the appearance of the angular momentum related to the presence of the non-Abelian electric and magnetic fields in the tube, and this angular momentum is a part of the Proca proton spin.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures