cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Brachinus (Brachynidius) modestus Schmidt-Gobel 1846
Creators: name: Akhil, S. V.
name: Divya, M.
name: Sabu, K. Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Brachinus
Brachinus modestus

description: Brachinus (Brachynidius) modestus Schmidt-Göbel, 1846
Fig. 2f
 Brachinus modestus Schmidt-Göbel, 1846: 73; Chaudoir, 1876: 69; Bates, 1892: 396; Andrewes, 1923: 42; 1930a: 50; Saha, 1992: 51; Hrdlička, 2017: 477.
 Type locality. India: Bengal: Kolkata.
 Type depository. NMPC.
 Specimen examined (n=1). Type labelled: “Bengal”.
 Description. Length 5.2 mm. Head, pronotum, legs, sutural line, antennal segments, palpi, scutellum and region around scutellum reddish brown; eyes grey; elytra brownish black.
Head stout, broad, wider than long, punctated, pubescent; vertex smooth, glabrous, frons, region around eyes and neck punctated, pubescent; eyes protruding; frontal foveae deep; antennal segments stout, short, not reaching the middle of the elytra, segment 3 shorter than segment 1.
Pronotum slightly broader than long, punctated, densely pubescent; disc with apical margin straight, lateral region of apical margin not projecting forward, basal margin slightly sinuated outward; disc laterally with anterior three-fourths convex, posterior fourth divergent, hind angle obtuse, blunt, projecting laterally; median groove deep reaching both apical and basal margin; lateral bead narrow, dark brown.
Elytra subparallel, punctated, densely pubescent, with golden brown setae; base narrow, rounded, humerus erased; apex without a re-entrant angle; scutellum very small, pointed; striations weak, rounded, intervals narrow, setae covering both striations and intervals; sutural colour extending till middle of elytra, widest near base where it extends between 1st and 3rd striae, narrowing gradually towards apex.
 Distribution. INDIA: Bengal: Kolkata. MYANMAR: Tharrawaddy. Prome. Toungoo. Rangoon. Moulmein. VIETNAM: Cochinchina. CHINA: Fujiyan (Hrdlička, 2017).
 Remarks. Comparison of the type specimens of B. modestus Schmidt-Göbel, 1846, B. peltastes Andrewes, 1931 and B. suturellus Chaudoir, 1876 shows that there is no significant variation between the three species other than the colour (elytra black in B. suturellus, pitch black in B. peltastes and brownish black in B. modestus) and size (5.2 mm in B. modestus, 6.0 mm in B. peltastes and 8.5 mm in B. suturellus). We have not synonymised Brachinus suturellus and B. peltastes with B. modestus as we are not certain how far the colour of the types have faded.
description: Published as part of Akhil, S. V., Divya, M. & Sabu, K. Thomas, 2020, Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India, pp. 576-600 in Zootaxa 4816 (4) on page 586, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/3954685
Does Ecotourism Contribute to Sea Turtle Conservation? Is the Flagship Status of Turtles Advantageous?
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Wilson, Clevo
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Wilson, Clevo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Marine turtles conservation
subject: wildlife tourism
subject: Mon Repos beach
subject: ecotourism

description: There is little doubt that marine turtles are a flagship species for wildlife tourism. In some cases, this has turned out to be liability for sea turtle conservation, but in other cases, where for example turtle-based ecotourism has been developed, it has made a positive contribution to turtle conservation. Examples of both cases are given. Particular attention is given to the development of turtle-based ecotourism at Mon Repos Beach near Bundaberg, Australia. This development is set in its historical context and its contribution to conservation is discussed. Headstart projects for sea turtles in Sri Lanka are a tourist attraction. While they are promoted as having positive conservation consequences and a survey indicates that visitors are on the whole convinced of this, their effects on turtle conservation is uncertain. The farming of sea turtles provides a basis for tourism and can contribute to turtle conservation in ways outlined. It is argued that insufficient attention has been given to legends, culture and history associated with sea turtles in the promotion of turtle-based tourism. This is supported by Australian evidence. Insufficient use has been made of the connections of indigenous Australians with sea turtles in turtle-based tourism. Beneficial scope exist for developing connections between man and turtles further than at present in promoting turtle-based tourism. This could add further to the role of turtle-based tourism in promoting turtle conservation.
High-resolution anion photoelectron spectroscopy of cryogenically cooled 4-atom silicon carbides
Creators: name: Babin, Mark C.
name: DeWitt, Martin
name: Weichman, Marissa L.
name: Jessalyn A. DeVine
name: Neumark, Daniel M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: High-resolution anion photoelectron spectra of cryogenically cooled Si3C−, Si2C2−, and SiC3− obtained using slow photoelectron velocity-map imaging (cryo-SEVI) are presented, providing insight into the geometries, energetics, and vibronic structure of the anionic and the neutral clusters. These spectra yield accurate vibrational frequencies for the neutral clusters. They also yield refined adiabatic detachment energies (ADEs) for the ground states of Si3C− and Si2C2− of 1.5374(6) eV and 1.9019(4) eV, respectively, while the ADE of a low-lying isomer of SiC3− is found to be 1.9050(7) eV. The cryo-SEVI spectra show that the ground state of Si2C2− is a distorted trapezoid, and represent the first confirmation of the distorted trapezoid structure of Si2C2, the only low-lying isomer of this cluster with a permanent dipole moment. Additional transitions are observed from two low-lying anion isomers: a linear structure and a rhombus. The spectrum of SiC3−, in combination with electronic structure calculations, suggests that the true ground state of SiC3 is a ring structure with a transannular C–C bond, addressing a longstanding controversy surrounding this cluster. All three spectra exhibit Franck-Condon forbidden transitions; these are attributed to Herzberg-Teller coupling in Si3C and SiC3 and autodetachment from an excited electronic state of Si2C2−.
Influences of Knowledge of Wildlife Species on Patterns of Willingness to pay for their Conservation
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Australia
subject: contingent valuation
subject: environmental education
subject: environmental valuation
subject: knowledge
subject: wildlife conservation.

description: Examines the influence of respondents’ knowledge of wildlife species on their willingness to pay for conservation of the individual species. It does so by using data generated by surveys of 204 individuals who participated in a structured experiment in which their knowledge of a selected set of wildlife species was increased. The species selected were Australian ones, mostly but not entirely, tropical ones. The species were divided into three taxa for the experiment; reptiles, mammals and birds. Each set of species in the taxa included some species expected to be poorly known initially and some anticipated to be well known. Respondents rated their knowledge of each species on a Likert scale, and changes in their average allocation of funds for the conservation of each species were examined as their knowledge increased. Some general relationships are observed.
Multiple Transits during a Single Conjunction: Identifying Transiting Circumbinary Planetary Candidates from TESS
Creators: name: Kostov, Veselin B.
name: Welsh, William F.
name: Haghighipour, Nader
name: Agol, Eric
name: Fabrycky, Daniel C.
name: Quarles, Billy
name: Li, Gongjie
name: Mills, Sean M.
name: Doyle, Laurance R.
name: Mazeh, Tsevi
name: Orosz, Jerome A.
name: Martin, David
name: Powell, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of a study on identifying circumbinary planet candidates that produce multiple transits during one conjunction with eclipsing binary systems. The occurrence of these transits enables us to estimate the candidates' orbital periods, which is crucial as the periods of the currently known transiting circumbinary planets are significantly longer than the typical observational baseline of TESS. Combined with the derived radii, it also provides valuable information needed for follow-up observations and subsequent confirmation of a large number of circumbinary planet candidates from TESS. Motivated by the discovery of the 1108-day circumbinary planet Kepler-1647, we show the application of this technique to four of Kepler's circumbinary planets that produce such transits. Our results indicate that in systems where the circumbinary planet is on a low-eccentricity orbit, the estimated planetary orbital period is within <10-20% of the true value. This estimate is derived from photometric observations spanning less than 5% of the planet's period, demonstrating the strong capability of the technique. Capitalizing on the current and future eclipsing binaries monitored by NASA's TESS mission, we estimate that hundreds of circumbinary planets candidates producing multiple transits during one conjunction will be detected in the TESS data. Such a large sample will enable statistical understanding of the population of planets orbiting binary stars and shed new light on their formation and evolution.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, AJ accepted
Wormhole and C-field
Creators: name: Rahaman, F.
name: Bhui, B. C.
name: Ghosh, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that a C-field, generated by a certain source equation leads to interesting changes in the cosmological solutions of Einstein's equations. In this article we present and analyze a simple Lorentzian vacuum wormhole in the presence of C-field.
description: 5 pages
Electronic supplementary Tables and Figures from Sperm velocity in a promiscuous bird across experimental media of different viscosities
Creators: name: Schmoll, Tim
name: Rudolfsen, Geir
name: Schielzeth, Holger
name: Kleven, Oddmund
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Electronic supplementary Tables and Figures
Household Resources Allocation, Gender, and Economic Performance: Empirical Evidence from Senegal, West Africa
Creators: name: Ndoye Niane, Aifa Fatimata
name: Ndoye Niane, Aifa Fatimata
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Household Resources Allocation
subject: Gender
subject: Economic Performance
subject: Horticulture
subject: Senegal

description: This paper has examined Pareto efficiency of household resources allocation and the appropriateness to use gender-specific models rather than unitary model while investigating economic performance of men and women managers of separate plots within horticultural households in Senegal, West Africa. This paper contributes to the gender and economics literature providing empirical evidence of intrahousehold resources allocation in a specific social, economic and cultural context in which polygamy occurs and where husband and wives manage separately their plots. The findings confirm the suitability of gender-specific models to shed light on the gender differential of performance. As the subject matter is efficiency, as well in econometric as in economic point of views, the findings provide evidence that there is gain in efficiency using gender-specific models rather than unitary model to illuminate the gender difference. From the findings can be concluded that Pareto optimum corresponding to the situation of allocative efficiency, is far from to be achieved by horticultural households. Some Pareto improvements can be made between men and women’s plots. The gender-specific models showed that women are less technically efficient than men. This suggested some policy implications more gender sensitive to improve men and women ability to manage more efficiently their productive resources.
Analysing the charged scalar boson contribution to the charged-current $B$ meson anomalies
Creators: name: Cardozo, Jonathan
name: Muñoz, J. H.
name: Quintero, Nestor
name: Rojas, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental measurements collected by the BABAR, Belle, and LHCb experiments on different observables associated with the semileptonic transition $b \to c τ\barν_τ$, indicate the existence of disagreement respect with the Standard Model predictions. We analyse the charged scalar boson contributions to these charged-current $B$ meson anomalies within the framework of two Higgs doublet model with the most general Yukawa couplings to quarks and leptons from the third generation, involving left-handed and right-handed (sterile) neutrinos. We perform a phenomenological study of the Yukawa couplings parameter space that accommodates these anomalies. We consider the most recent data from HFLAV world-average and Belle combination, and the upper limits ${\rm BR}(B_c^- \to τ^- \barν_τ) < 30\%$ and $10\%$. In addition, we include in our study the prospect measurements on $R(D^{(\ast)})$ that the Belle II experiment could achieve and explore, for the first time, the future implications for the corresponding charged scalar Yukawa couplings. This analysis updates the existing literature and includes new important observables. Our results show that current experimental $b\rightarrow c τ\barν_τ$ data and Belle II projection favor the interpretation of a charged scalar boson interacting with right-handed neutrinos. Furthermore, as a side analysis regarding the charged scalar boson interpretation, we revisit the relation between $R(D^\ast)$ and ${\rm BR}(B_c^- \to τ^- \barν_τ)$ by investigating whether the claim that pseudoscalar new physics interpretations of $R(D^{\ast})$ are implausible due to the $B_c$ lifetime is still valid, to the light of the recent data and Belle II prospects on $R(D^{\ast})$. Lastly, we reexamine addressing the $R(D^{(\ast)})$ anomalies in the context of the 2HDM of Type II.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures (14 plots), 7 Tables. V3: typos corrected, discussion improved
Propagation of Partially Coherent Photons in an Ultra-Intense Radiation Gas
Creators: name: Marklund, Mattias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The scattering of photons off photons at the one-loop level is investigated. We give a short review of the weak field limit, as given by the first order term in the series expansion of the Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian. The dispersion relation for a photon in a radiation gas is presented. Based on this, a wave kinetic equation and a set of fluid equations is formulated. These equations describe the interaction between a partially coherent electromagnetic pulse and an intense radiation gas. The implications of the results are discussed.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure, revtex4
Brachinus (Metabrachinus) sexmaculatus Dejean 1825
Creators: name: Akhil, S. V.
name: Divya, M.
name: Sabu, K. Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Brachinus
Brachinus sexmaculatus

description: Brachinus (Metabrachinus) sexmaculatus Dejean, 1825
Fig. 1d
 Brachinus sexmaculatus Dejean, 1825: 312; Chaudoir, 1876: 63; Andrewes, 1930a: 52; Saha et al., 1992: 52; Hrdlička, 2003: 216; 2017: 478
 Type locality. India: India oriental, coll. Dejean.
 Type depository. MNHN.
 Specimens examined (n=2). Syntype labelled “‘Indes orient’, ‘6-maculatus’, coll. Dejean ”; 1 ex., (1 female), labelled “ India: Tamil Nadu: Rajapalayam, ‘ Light’, 15.X.2017, coll. & det. S. V. Akhil ”.
 Description. Length 9.0–11.0 mm. Head, pronotum, antennal segments and scutellum reddish brown; legs and spots on elytra reddish yellow; margin around eyes and elytra black.
Head short, punctated, pubescent, neck glabrous; antennae short, stout, not reaching the middle of the elytra; eyes prominent.
Pronotum elongated, longer than broad, glabrous, shiny, faint wrinkles in middle of the disc, highly wrinkled in basal and apical portion of disc; lateral sides of disc convex with anterior two-thirds highly convex, posterior third divergent; apical margin convex with lateral portion of apical margin projecting forwards, basal margin sinuous, hind angles acute, pointed; median groove deep, reaching the anterior and posterior margins.
Elytra subparallel, long, narrow, humerus obliterate, rounded; apex rounded without re-entrant angle; scutellum pointed; striation clear, visible, broad, intervals weak, smooth, shallow; three reddish yellow spots over each elytron, first and third longitudinal, along the corners of base and apex respectively, second rounded, just below the middle of elytra, not reaching either the suture or the lateral margin, a reddish yellow line running from the first spot to the apex forming a apical yellow band; elytral sutures not closed apically.
 Distribution. INDIA: Bengal: Kolkata; Himachal Pradesh; Sikkim; Arunachal Pradesh; Uttar Pradesh; Tamil Nadu: Rajapalayam. SRI LANKA. MYANMAR: Tharrawaddy. BHUTAN (Hrdlička 2003, 2017). PAKISTAN (Hrdlička 2003, 2017).
description: Published as part of Akhil, S. V., Divya, M. & Sabu, K. Thomas, 2020, Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India, pp. 576-600 in Zootaxa 4816 (4) on page 589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/3954685
On Evaluating the Quality of Rule-Based Classification Systems
Creators: name: Dehouche, Nassim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Two indicators are classically used to evaluate the quality of rule-based classification systems: predictive accuracy, i.e. the system's ability to successfully reproduce learning data and coverage, i.e. the proportion of possible cases for which the logical rules constituting the system apply. In this work, we claim that these two indicators may be insufficient, and additional measures of quality may need to be developed. We theoretically show that classification systems presenting "good" predictive accuracy and coverage can, nonetheless, be trivially improved and illustrate this proposition with examples.
description: ICIC Express Letters Volume 11, Number 10, October 2017
Characterisation of the first electronically excited state of protonated acetylene C2H3 + by coincident imaging photoelectron spectroscopy
Creators: name: Garcia, Gustavo A.
name: Jean-Christophe Loison
name: Holzmeier, Fabian
name: Gans, Bérenger
name: Alcaraz, Christian
name: Nahon, Laurent
name: Xiangkun Wu
name: Xiaoguo Zhou
name: Andras Bodi
name: Hemberger, Patrick
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of the threshold photoelectron spectroscopy of the vinyl radical encompassing the first triplet excited state of the vinyl cation. The radicals were produced in a flow-tube reactor by hydrogen abstraction of C2H4 and CH4 using fluorine atoms generated in a microwave discharge. Vinyl was ionised with synchrotron vacuum ultraviolet radiation. A double imaging coincidence setup was used to record the threshold photoelectron spectrum. The experimental and simulated spectra show a marked adiabatic transition to the a~+ 3A′′ state with a short vibrational progression dominated by the C = C stretching mode. The adiabatic ionisation energy to this state is measured precisely at 10.747 ± 0.008 eV. In combination with the adiabatic ionisation energy to the X~+ 1A1 state from the Active Thermochemical Tables (ATcT), we find a singlet–triplet gap of 2.27 ± 0.01 eV (219 ± 1 kJ mol−1). Calculated ionisation energies and Franck–Condon factors for the singlet A~+ 1A′′ excited state are also given.
Estimation of Agricultural Total Factor Productivity in China: A Panel Cointegration Approach
Creators: name: Wang, Jintian
name: Gao, Feng
name: Wang, Xuezhen
name: Wang, Jintian
name: Gao, Feng
name: Wang, Xuezhen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Total Factor Productivity
subject: Panel Unit Root
subject: Panel Cointegration
subject: DOLS
subject: FMOLS

description: This paper uses panel cointegration approach to estimate the agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) from 30 regions from 1978 to 2004 in China. The results of panel unit root find that all inputs and output variables are nonstationary series. Pedroni (1999) panel cointegration tests present the evidence supporting the existence of the long run cointegration relationship. This paper finds the estimator of FMOLS is better than OLS and DOLS. Agricultural total factor productivity is estimated based on Kao and Chiang (2000) panel coefficients estimation.
description: Using a panel cointegration approach to estimate the agricultural total factor productivity in China
Technical Appendix 2 from Explicit characterization of human population connectivity reveals long run persistence of interregional dengue shocks
Creators: name: Tao, Lim Jue
name: Borame Sue Lee Dickens
name: Yinan, Mao
name: Kwak, Chae Woon
name: Ng Lee Ching
name: Cook, Alex R.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Dengue is hyper-endemic in Singapore and Malaysia, and daily movement rates between the two countries are consistently high, allowing inference on the role of local transmission and imported dengue cases. This paper describes a custom built sparse space—time autoregressive (SSTAR) model to infer and forecast contemporaneous and future dengue transmission patterns in Singapore and 16 administrative regions within Malaysia, taking into account connectivity and geographical adjacency between regions as well as climatic factors. A modification to forecast impulse responses is developed for the case of the SSTAR and is used to simulate changes in dengue transmission in neighbouring regions following a disturbance. The results indicate that there are long-term responses of the neighbouring regions to shocks in a region. By computation of variable inclusion probabilities, we found that each region’s own past counts were important to describe contemporaneous case counts. In 15 out of 16 regions, other regions case counts were important to describe contemporaneous case counts even after controlling for past local dengue transmissions and exogenous factors. Leave-one-region out analysis using SSTAR showed that dengue transmission counts could be reconstructed for 13 of 16 regions counts using external dengue transmissions compared to a climate only approach. Lastly, one to four week ahead forecasts from the SSTAR were more accurate than baseline univariate autoregressions.
Brachinus sordidus Andrewes 1933
Creators: name: Akhil, S. V.
name: Divya, M.
name: Sabu, K. Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Brachinus
Brachinus sordidus

description: Brachinus sordidus Andrewes, 1933
Fig. 2i
 Brachinus sordidus Andrewes, 1933: 7; Hrdlička, 2003: 216; 2017: 478.
 Type locality. India: Tamil Nadu: Uduparani, coll. N.C. Chatterjee.
 Type depository. BMNH.
 Specimen examined (n=1). Syntype labelled: “Uduparani, North Salem?, coll. N C. Chatterjee, 28.I.1930, ‘ India. Dehra Dun Coll. B. M.1932-26’. det. H. E. Andrewes”.
 Description. Length: 10.0 mm. Head, pronotum, first four segments of antennae and legs reddish yellow; scutellum dark reddish yellow; eyes and elytra black.
Head stout, broad, wider than long, shiny, sparsely punctated, surface slightly rough, frontal foveae moderately deep; eyes protruding; antennae long, reaching middle of elytra, antennal segment 3 shorter than segment 1 and 2 combined.
Pronotum broad, wider than long, surface rough, densely punctated, pubescent; disc with apical margin inwardly sinuate, lateral portion not projecting forward, basal margin straight; disc laterally with anterior three-fourths convex, posterior fourth divergent, hind angles blunt, obtuse, not projecting laterally; median groove shallow, medially brown, not reaching the apical and basal margin; lateral bead narrow, dark brown.
Elytra convex, densely punctated, pubescent, with short yellow setae; base narrowed, humerus rounded; apex with slight but distinct re-entrant angle, having a membranous border; scutellum small, pointed; striations very weak, broad, rounded, intervals narrow.
 Distribution. INDIA: Salem, Uduparani?; Uttarakhand: Dehra Dun.
 Remarks. Andrewes (1933) remarked that both the specimens considered as types have the locality of Uttarakhand: Dehra Dun, and that the Madras province label was a typographical error. Hence, distribution data provided on the labels of the type species are misleading and the locality of the species is Uttarakhand in the foothills of the Himalayas and not the southern Indian locality (Tamil Nadu, Salem, Uduparani).
description: Published as part of Akhil, S. V., Divya, M. & Sabu, K. Thomas, 2020, Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India, pp. 576-600 in Zootaxa 4816 (4) on page 592, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/3954685
200 mm Sensor Development Using Bonded Wafers
Creators: name: Alyari, M.
name: Bradford, R.
name: Campanella, M.
name: Camporeale, P.
name: Demina, R.
name: Everts, J.
name: Gecse, Z.
name: Halenza, R.
name: Heintz, U.
name: Holland, S.
name: Hong, S.
name: Korjenevski, S.
name: Lampis, A.
name: Lipton, R.
name: Patti, R.
name: Segal, J.
name: Shin, K. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sensors fabricated from high resistivity, float zone, silicon material have been the basis of vertex detectors and trackers for the last 30 years. The areas of these devices have increased from a few square cm to $\> 200\ m^2$ for the existing CMS tracker. High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), CMS and ATLAS tracker upgrades will each require more than $200\ m^2$ of silicon and the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) will require more than $600\ m^2$. The cost and complexity of assembly of these devices is related to the area of each module, which in turn is set by the size of the silicon sensors. In addition to large area, the devices must be radiation hard, which requires the use of sensors thinned to 200 microns or less. The combination of wafer thinning and large wafer diameter is a significant technical challenge, and is the subject of this work. We describe work on development of thin sensors on $200 mm$ wafers using wafer bonding technology. Results of development runs with float zone, Silicon-on-Insulator and Silicon-Silicon bonded wafer technologies are reported.
description: 11 pages
Technical Appendix 1 from Explicit characterization of human population connectivity reveals long run persistence of interregional dengue shocks
Creators: name: Tao, Lim Jue
name: Borame Sue Lee Dickens
name: Yinan, Mao
name: Kwak, Chae Woon
name: Ng Lee Ching
name: Cook, Alex R.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Dengue is hyper-endemic in Singapore and Malaysia, and daily movement rates between the two countries are consistently high, allowing inference on the role of local transmission and imported dengue cases. This paper describes a custom built sparse space—time autoregressive (SSTAR) model to infer and forecast contemporaneous and future dengue transmission patterns in Singapore and 16 administrative regions within Malaysia, taking into account connectivity and geographical adjacency between regions as well as climatic factors. A modification to forecast impulse responses is developed for the case of the SSTAR and is used to simulate changes in dengue transmission in neighbouring regions following a disturbance. The results indicate that there are long-term responses of the neighbouring regions to shocks in a region. By computation of variable inclusion probabilities, we found that each region’s own past counts were important to describe contemporaneous case counts. In 15 out of 16 regions, other regions case counts were important to describe contemporaneous case counts even after controlling for past local dengue transmissions and exogenous factors. Leave-one-region out analysis using SSTAR showed that dengue transmission counts could be reconstructed for 13 of 16 regions counts using external dengue transmissions compared to a climate only approach. Lastly, one to four week ahead forecasts from the SSTAR were more accurate than baseline univariate autoregressions.
Rydberg spectra of singlet metastable states of O2
Creators: name: C. M. Western
name: J.-P. Booth
name: A. Chatterjee
name: N. De Oliveira
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Updated analyses of several singlet Rydberg states of O2 via spectra involving excitation from the metastable a1Δg and b1Σg+ states are presented. The high-quality FT-VUV spectra available from the DESIRS beamline at the SOLEIL synchrotron gives significantly improved spectra compared to previous work. The Rydberg states analysed include 3pπ1Σu+ v = 0–4, 3pσ1Πu v = 0–2, 3pπ1Δu v = 0–2, 4pπ1Σu+ v = 0–1, 4pσ1Πu v = 0 and 4pπ1Δu v = 0. This is complemented by high-quality ab initio calculations on the 1Σu+ and 1Δu Rydberg states to determine the transition moments providing the first quantitative cross-sections for Rydberg – b1Σg+ transitions. These are validated against the experimental data. The results suggest the most promising candidate for determining b1Σg+ number density is likely to be the 1–0 band of the 4pπ1Σu+−b1Σg+ transition at 131.3 nm.
Exactly solvable single-trace four point correlators in $χ$CFT$_4$
Creators: name: Derkachov, Sergey
name: Olivucci, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study a wide class of planar single-trace four point correlators in the chiral conformal field theory ($χ$CFT$_4$) arising as a double scaling limit of the $γ$-deformed $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory. In the planar (t'Hooft) limit, each of such correlators is described by a single Feynman integral having the bulk topology of a square lattice "fishnet" and/or of an honeycomb lattice of Yukawa vertices. The computation of this class of Feynmann integrals at any loop is achieved by means of an exactly-solvable spin chain magnet with $SO(1,5)$ symmetry. In this paper we explain in detail the solution of the magnet model as presented in our recent letter and we obtain a general formula for the representation of the Feynman integrals over the spectrum of the separated variables of the magnet, for any number of scalar and fermionic fields in the corresponding correlator. For the particular choice of scalar fields only, our formula reproduces the conjecture of B. Basso and L. Dixon for the fishnet integrals.
description: 80 pages, 52 figures. v2: references added
Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in the Postpartum Period: A Rare Case Scenario
Creators: name: Sachin Patil
name: Kotli Nagaraj
name: Susheel
name: Rahul
name: Hemanth Reddy Nukala
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS) is a rare, reversible condition characterized by segmental narrowing of cerebral arteries, often presenting with thunderclap headaches and various neurological deficits. This case report describes a 29-year-old multigravida who presented in the postpartum period with sudden onset of severe headache, seizures, and right-sided hemiplegia. Imaging revealed subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), infarctions in watershed areas, and segmental vasoconstriction of cerebral arteries on MRA. The patient was managed with antiepileptics, antihypertensives, and supportive care, resulting in full recovery within one month. This case underscores the importance of considering RCVS in postpartum patients with neurological symptoms to ensure prompt diagnosis and management. Similar cases in the literature emphasize the variable presentation and the need for high clinical suspicion to prevent misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment.
The Economic Value of Education in Agricultural Production: A Switching Regression Analysis of Selected East Asian Countries
Creators: name: Huang, Fung-Mey
name: Luh, Yir-Hueih
name: Huang, Fung-Mey
name: Luh, Yir-Hueih
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: East Asian agricultural growth
subject: Education
subject: Switching regression

description: The emphasis of education as a driving force for the growth of agricultural productivity can be dated back to the early 1960s. However, most empirical work failed to take into account of the fact that production technology changes with time and consequently obscure the true contribution of education in agricultural production. This study presents a more efficient version to testing the hypothesis that education plays a key role in agricultural development using a switching regression model. Because farmers’ ability to deal with disequilibria is allowed to change with education in the present setting, a concrete evidence of the key role of education is provided in the empirical analysis of eight East Asian countries. The results suggest that there exists a threshold for the effects of education on agricultural productivity change. For the group of countries where education constitutes a major determinant of productivity growth in both the technical progress and stagnation regimes, we found the effect of education varies from country to country and from regime to regime. Moreover, our results also suggest technological improvement can defer the starting point of the descending stage whereas advance the time for taking off.
Über die Person und die Datierung des Malers Emmanuel des Codex Barberinus Graecus 527
Creators: name: Beēs, Nikos A.
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 12 Nr. 1 (1915): Oriens christianus, Band 12, Heft 1
Lagrangian mechanics without ordinary differential equations
Creators: name: Patrick, G. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A variational proof is provided of the existence and uniqueness of evolutions of regular Lagrangian systems.
Appendix- Using STPA for Distributed Development of Safe AD: An Interview Study
Creators: name: ali nouri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The file is providing interview study details done in ASSERTED project in "On STPA for Distributed Development of Safe Autonomous Driving: An Interview Study".

The publication is accessible at the following link: On STPA for Distributed Development of Safe Autonomous Driving: An Interview Study
Aging, computation, and the evolution of neural regeneration processes. Supplementary Material.
Creators: name: Ollé-Vila, Aina
name: Seoane, Luís F.
name: Solé, Ricard
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Metazoans gather information from their environments and respond in predictable ways. These computational tasks are achieved with neural networks of varying complexity. Their performance must be reliable over an individual’s lifetime while dealing with the shorter lifespan of cells and connection failure—thus rendering ageing a relevant feature. How do computations degrade over an organism’s lifespan? How reliable can they remain throughout? We tackle these questions with a multiobjective optimization approach. We demand that digital organisms equipped with neural networks solve a computational task reliably over an extended lifespan. Neural connections are costly (as an associated metabolism in living beings). They also degrade over time, but can be regenerated at some expense. We investigate the simultaneous minimization of both these costs and the computational error. Pareto optimal trade-offs emerge with designs displaying a broad range of solutions: from small networks with high regeneration rate, to large, redundant circuits that regenerate slowly. The organism’s lifespan and the external damage act as evolutionary pressures. They improve the exploration of the space of solutions and impose tighter optimality constraints. Large damage rates can also constrain the space of possibilities, forcing the commitment of organisms to unique strategies for neural systems maintenance.
Brachinus (Brachynidius) suturellus Chaudoir 1876
Creators: name: Akhil, S. V.
name: Divya, M.
name: Sabu, K. Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Brachinus
Brachinus suturellus

description: Brachinus (Brachynidius) suturellus Chaudoir, 1876
Fig. 3b
 Brachinus suturellus Chaudoir, 1876: 69; Bates, 1892: 394; Vuillet, 1912: 17; Andrewes, 1930a: 52; Hrdlička, 2003: 216; 2017: 478.
 Type locality. India: North India, coll. Dr. Bacon and Captain Boys.
 Type depository. MNHN.
 Specimen examined (n=1). Syntype labelled “North India, coll. Dr. Bacon and Captain Boys”.
 Description. Length 8.5 mm. Head, pronotum, elytral sutural line, scutellum, region around scutellum, femur, first two antennal segments dark reddish yellow; tibia and tarsi pale reddish yellow; antennal segments 3–11 dark reddish brown; eyes grey; elytra brownish black.
Head stout, wider than long, vertex smooth, shiny, glabrous; frons, region around eyes and neck punctated, pubescent; eyes protruding; antennae stout, segments wide, short, not reaching the middle of the elytra; segment 2 very short, segment 3 shorter than segment 1.
Pronotum shiny, punctated, densely pubescent; disc with apical margin outwardly sinuate, without lateral portion of apical margin projecting forward, basal margin slightly outwardly sinuate; disc laterally with anterior half convex, posterior half slightly divergent, hind angles pointed, at right angles, not projecting laterally; median groove shallow, not reaching the apical and basal margin; anterior transverse foveae moderately deep; lateral bead broad, dark brown.
Elytra subparallel, shiny, punctated, pubescent, with short golden brown setae; base narrowed, humerus present, rounded; apex without re-entrant angle; scutellum small, wider, blunt; striations weak, keel shaped, intervals broad, carinate; sutural line extending from region around scutellum to apex, gradually narrowing from base to apex, broadest at base; having narrow reddish yellow apical band.
 Distribution. INDIA: Uttarakhand: Almora; Uttar Pradesh: Lucknow; Himachal Pradesh: Narpur (Kangra); Bengal: Bowali; Jharkhand: Barway; Madhya Pradesh: Dr. Ambedkar Nagar (Mhow); Karnataka: Belgavi, Bengaluru. MYANMAR: Tharawaddy, Rangoon. VIETNAM: Cochinchina.
description: Published as part of Akhil, S. V., Divya, M. & Sabu, K. Thomas, 2020, Bombardier beetles of genus Brachinus Weber, 1801 (Carabidae: Brachininae Brachinini) from India, pp. 576-600 in Zootaxa 4816 (4) on page 593, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/3954685
Adaptive and interactive methods for gathering user preferences in educational games
Creators: name: Gauthier, James
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Web-based learning environments often use games and simulations to enrich the learning process. Understanding the response of learners to these non-text-based environments is usually accomplished through laboratory testing or field surveys. One common method of gathering user feedback is the "click-to-submit" web-form questionnaire. However, these questionnaires are plagued by low response rates and inconsistent results. Research into survey design reveals many potential problems in the construction and administration of questionnaires — problems that are exacerbated by the nature of communication over the web. With its interactive NFBkids website, the National Film Board of Canada uses web-form questionnaires to gather user feedback. Unfortunately, the web-based questionnaires at NFBkids fail to obtain useful feedback from those who visit the website. Moreover, the managers of NFBkids feel the website fails to create a sense of "community" among the site's users — one of the design goals of NFBkids. By applying existing research into cognitive theory and psycholinguistics to the design of interactive methods of gathering user feedback, this paper investigates an alternative methodology for the collection of user preferences. In addition to the familiar "clickable" web-form, the research described in this paper explores interactive tools that complement web-forms as a method for gathering feedback from users. Real-time, peer-to-peer assessment techniques are introduced as a way to collect valuable user feedback and to foster a sense of peer presence among a community of web users.
Isotopically resolved neutron total cross sections at intermediate energies
Creators: name: Pruitt, C. D.
name: Charity, R. J.
name: Sobotka, L. G.
name: Elson, J. M.
name: Hoff, D. E. M.
name: Brown, K. W.
name: Atkinson, M. C.
name: Dickhoff, W. H.
name: Lee, H. Y.
name: Devlin, M.
name: Fotiades, N.
name: Mosby, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The neutron total cross sections $σ_{tot}$ of $^{16,18}$O, $^{58,64}$Ni, $^{103}$Rh, and $^{112,124}$Sn have been measured at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) from low to intermediate energies (3 $\leq E_{lab} \leq$ 450 MeV) by leveraging waveform-digitizer technology. The $σ_{tot}$ relative differences between isotopes are presented, revealing additional information about the isovector components needed for an accurate optical-model description away from stability. Digitizer-enabled $σ_{tot}$-measurement techniques are discussed and a series of uncertainty-quantified dispersive optical model (DOM) analyses using these new data is presented, validating the use of the DOM for modeling light systems ($^{16,18}$O) and systems with open neutron shells ($^{58,64}$Ni and $^{112,124}$Sn). The valence-nucleon spectroscopic factors extracted for each isotope reaffirm the usefulness of high-energy proton reaction cross sections for characterizing depletion from the mean-field expectation.
description: 28 pages, 20 figures
Prospective Structural Analysis: An application to Rural Development Strategies
Creators: name: Albala, Ambrosio M.
name: Lozano, Martin J.M.
name: Perez Hernandez, Pedro Pablo
name: Albala, Ambrosio M.
name: Lozano, Martin J.M.
name: Perez Hernandez, Pedro Pablo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Rural Development
subject: Strategic Analyses
subject: Prospective Structural Analyses

description: The Council Regulation (EC) 1698/2005 approved on 20th September 2005 was the starting point of the fourth programme of Rural Development Aid for the period 2007- 2013. This communitarian programme affects Andalusia, an European region situated in the south of Spain. The authors of this paper have helped in the elaboration of the rural strategy for this region. We would like especially to point out the use of the Prospective Structural Analysis (PSA) methodology as a competent method to analyse the complexity of elements, variables and present interactions in rural zones as well as to understand variables in the present and future situation. Results obtained with the application of the PSA method to a region show the strength of this methodology in order to help the process of reflection about influencing economic and social agents in the analysed area. These results were compared with Rural Development Plan proposed for 2007-2013 period.