cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Adapting to high temperatures: evidence on the impacts of sustainable agricultural practices in Uganda
Creators: name: Ignaciuk, A.
name: Maggio, G.
name: Mastrorillo, M.
name: Sitko, N.
name: Ignaciuk, A.
name: Maggio, G.
name: Mastrorillo, M.
name: Sitko, N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: climate change mitigation
subject: agricultural practices
subject: impact assessment
subject: best practices
subject: Uganda

description: Rising temperatures due to climate change pose a significant threat to agricultural systems and the livelihoods of farmers across the globe. Identifying farm management strategies that reduce sensitivity to high temperatures is, therefore, critical for moderating the adverse effects of climate change. In this paper, we use spatially granular climate data merged with four waves of household survey data in Uganda to examine empirically the relationships between high temperatures, agricultural production outcomes, and the adoption (including its duration) of three sustainable agricultural practices (organic fertilizer adoption, banana-coffee intercropping and cereal-legume intercropping). We do this using a fixed-effect model, with instrumental variables to address potential endogeneity issues. Our findings indicate that, while exposure to high temperature does reduce farmers’ crop income, the adoption of these practices can offset the negative impact of high temperatures on such income. Indeed, we show that the benefits of adopting these practices on the total value of crop production increases monotonically astemperatures increase from their long-term averages. Moreover, the number of years a farmer adopts a practice is associated with higher total value of crop production, and this relationship holds across the full distribution of observed high temperature deviations. Taken together, the results suggest that organic fertilizer adoption, banana-coffee intercropping and cereal-legume intercropping are effective options to adapt to rising temperatures in Uganda, and these benefits increase with the duration of adoption. Adaptation policies and programmes must therefore be designed in ways that help farmers overcome initial barriers to adoption of these practices, as well as to support farmers to sustain adoption over time. This may require longer term funding horizons for adaptation programmes, and innovative support mechanisms to incentivize sustained adoption.
description: FAO Document Repository: https://doi.org/10.4060/cb3386en
Das verunglükte Schiff, oder, Erzehlung der traurigen Begebenheit, so sich mit einem von Zürich nach Rapperschweil fahrenden Schiff, den 13. Wintermonat 1764 ... ohnweit Stäfa zugetragen, wobey achtzehn Personen ihr Leben im Wasser eingebüsst haben
Creators: name: Ryffel, Hans
Publisher: name: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]
Year: 1765

description: unter beygesezter Melodey in Verse abgefasst und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Hans Jakob Ryffel, auf dem Kilchbühl zu Stäfa
description: Titelvignette
The influence of self-citation corrections on Egghe's g index
Creators: name: Schreiber, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The g index was introduced by Leo Egghe as an improvement of Hirsch's index h for measuring the overall citation record of a set of articles. It better takes into account the highly skewed frequency distribution of citations than the h index. I propose to sharpen this g index by excluding the self-citations. I have worked out nine practical cases in physics and compare the h and g values with and without self-citations. As expected, the g index characterizes the data set better than the h index. The influence of the self-citations appears to be more significant for the g index than for the h index.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Scientometrics
Explicit CP violation in a MSSM with an extra $U(1)'$
Creators: name: Ham, S. W.
name: Yoo, E. J.
name: OH, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study that a minimal supersymmetric standard model with an extra $U(1)'$ gauge symmetry may accommodate the explicit CP violation at the one-loop level through radiative corrections. This model is CP conserving at the tree level and cannot realize the spontaneous CP violation for a wide parameter space at the one-loop level. In explicit CP violation scenario, we calculate the Higgs boson masses and the magnitude of the scalar-pseudoscalar mixings in this model at the one-loop level by taking into account the contributions of top quarks, bottom quarks, exotic quarks, and their superpartners. In particular, we investigate how the exotic quarks and squarks would affect the scalar-pseudoscalar mixings. It is observed that the size of the mixing between the heaviest scalar and pseudoscalar Higgs bosons is changed up to 20 % by a complex phase originated from the exotic quark sector of this model.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures
Crossover from ballistic to diffusive thermal transport in quantum Langevin dynamics study of a harmonic chain connected to self-consistent reservoirs
Creators: name: Roy, Dibyendu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through an exact analysis using quantum Langevin dynamics, we demonstrate the crossover from ballistic to diffusive thermal transport in a harmonic chain with each site connected to Ohmic heat reservoirs. The temperatures of the two heat baths at the boundaries are specified from before whereas the temperatures of the interior heat reservoirs are determined self-consistently by demanding that in the steady state, on average, there is no heat current between any such (self-consistent) reservoir and the harmonic chain. Essence of our study is that the effective mean free path separating the ballistic regime of transport from the diffusive one emerges naturally.
description: 4 pages, 2 figure
Energy spectrum and wave-functions of four-dimensional Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Quantum Mechanics for very high cut-offs
Creators: name: Kotanski, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectrum of Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Quantum Mechanics (SYMQM) in D=4 dimensions for SU(2) gauge group is computed for a maximal number of bosonic quanta $B\le60$ in the two-fermion sector with the angular momentum $j=0$. We analyse the eigenfunctions of discrete and continuous spectra, test the scaling relation for the continuous spectrum and confirm the dispersion relation to high accuracy.
description: 26 pages, 13 figures
Relativistic calculation of L$β\_2$ satellite spectra of W and Au
Creators: name: Marques, J. P.
name: Parente, F.
name: Martins, M. C.
name: Indelicato, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: L$β\_2$ X-ray satellite spectra of tungsten and gold are calculated using the Multi-Configuration Dirac-Fock energies and compared with recent experimental data. New calculations of L$\_1$-L$\_3$M$\_5$ Coster-Kronig transition energies for tungsten are presented, confirming the origin of the L$β\_2$ visible satellites reported by two experimental groups. We found the value 5.09 eV for the average energy of the L$\_1$-L$\_3$M$\_5$ Coster-Kronig transition in tungsten. A detailed calculation of the L$β\_2$ and L$β\_{15}$ satellite spectra was performed for gold.
description: version soumise \`{a} EPJD
Invariants of C$^{1/2}$ in terms of the invariants of C
Creators: name: Norris, Andrew N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The three invariants of C$^{1/2}$ are key to expressing this tensor and its inverse as a polynomial in C. Simple and symmetric expressions are presented connecting the two sets of invariants $I_1, I_2,I_3$ and $i_1, i_2,i_3 $ of C and C$^{1/2}$, respectively. The first result is a bivariate function relating $I_1, I_2$ to $i_1, i_2$. The functional form of $i_1$ is the same as that of $i_2$ when the roles of the C-invariants are reversed. The second result expresses the invariants using a single call to a single function. The two sets of expressions emphasize symmetries in the relations among these four invariants.
description: 8 pages
Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective
Creators: name: Mietchen, Daniel
name: Sarasua, Cristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Wikidata
subject: Linked open data
subject: Scholia
subject: Data science
subject: Climate research
subject: Community curation
subject: FAIR data
subject: SPARQL
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2013
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45340488
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16422
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5227350
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29032648
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125928
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98457439
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13560809
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52139
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18692990

description: This repo hosts a presentation "Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective", which is a contribution to the Workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research" taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online. It is the second part of two complementary presentations - the first part is available via https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272 under the title "Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective". The presentation is provided here in the form of slides and a video based on the slides. The slides have been prepared and presented using Google slides, from which they were exported as .pptx, .odp and .pdf, which explains some slight differences in formatting. The video was recorded based on an earlier version of the slides and served as a backup for the eventuality of technical difficulties with giving the presentation remotely. A version of the video is also available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ntI6hmT-rRc. For background on the history of the presentation, see https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/events/blob/master/data-science-in-climate-and-climate-impact-research.md.
description: This work was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under grant number G-2019-11458.
Supplementary document for Sidelobe-suppressed sub-diffraction-limit quasi-non-diffracting light sheets achieved by super-oscillatory lenses - 6307324.pdf
Creators: name: He, Pei
name: An, Chengxu
name: ji, haiyu
name: Li, Wenli
name: Yuan, Weizheng
name: Yu, Yiting
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement1
Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective
Creators: name: Sarasua, Cristina
name: Mietchen, Daniel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Wikidata
subject: Linked open data
subject: FAIR data
subject: Collaboration
subject: Data science
subject: Climate research
subject: Community curation
subject: SPARQL
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2013
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16422
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5227350
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29032648
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125928
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98457439
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13560809
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52139
subject: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18692990

description: This repo hosts a presentation "Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community Perspective", which is a contribution to the Workshop "Data Science in Climate and Climate Impact Research" taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online. It is the first part of two complementary presentations - the second part is available via https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266 under the title "Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data Perspective". The presentation is provided here in the form of slides in three file formats. The slides have been prepared and presented using Google slides, from which they were exported as .pptx, .odp and .pdf, which explains some slight differences in formatting.
Baryons and the phase diagram for a large number of colors and flavors
Creators: name: Hidaka, Yoshimasa
name: McLerran, Larry D.
name: Pisarski, Robert D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the possible phases of a non-Abelian gauge theory, as a function of temperature and quark chemical potential, when both the number of colors and flavors is very large. Generally, a large number of flavors washes out deconfining phase transitions. We show, however, that the degeneracy of even the lightest baryons is exponentially large. This implies that the baryon number (or fluctuations thereof, at zero chemical potential) is an order parameter in the limit of an infinite number of colors and flavors.
description: ReVTeX, 4 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1 of Genome-wide analysis of epigenetic dynamics across human developmental stages and tissues
Creators: name: Zhang, Xia
name: Gan, Yanglan
name: Zou, Guobing
name: Guan, Jihong
name: Zhou, Shuigeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Figure S1. Performance comparisons for primary tissues among our method DiffEM, IOD and QDMR for each epigenetic mark. (A) The MatchedNum, (B) The AveDS. Figure S2. Performance comparisons for the whole group among our method DiffEM, IOD and QDMR for each epigenetic mark. (A) The MatchedNum, (B) The AveDS. (PDF 405 kb)
On volume reflection of ultrarelativistic particles in single crystals
Creators: name: Maisheev, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The analytical description of the volume reflection of the charged ultrarelativistic particles in bent single crystals is considered. The relation describing the angle of volume reflection as a function of the transversal energy is obtained. The different angle distributions of the scattered protons in the single crystals are found. Results of calculations for 400 GeV protons scattered by the silicon single crystal are presented.
description: Comments: Latex, 9 pages, 9 figs
Additional file 1: of Meta-network: optimized species-species network analysis for microbial communities
Creators: name: Yang, Pengshuo
name: Yu, Shaojun
name: Cheng, Lin
name: Ning, Kang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Threshold selection for FS-Weight and PCA-PMI method. (A) Global network properties for networks constructed by FS-Weight method. (DOCX 354 kb)
Praxis as a sociological concept
Creators: name: Seary, Jesse Keith
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: On the assumption that "praxis" should and could be, but is not yet a meaningful working concept of sociology, the argument is directed to initiating the search for an appropriate meaning of praxis from amongst those meanings existing (implicitly or explicitly) in social/political theories. The question of the meaning(s) of praxis is approached on the basis of the argument that praxis is an all-encompassing concept; i.e., its meaning is inseparable from, and therefore encompassing of, an underlying theoretical structure. The argument implies, therefore, a correct strategy for finding an appropriate praxis for sociology: one which exposes the "constitutive assumptions"—the ontological, epistemological, and axiological components—within which the particular concept is couched. The argument, therefore, challenges the commonly held assumption (in sociology) that praxis is synonymous with Marxist critical/ humanist philosophy. Two normative concepts of praxis-—the alternatives to the scientific Marxist concept which the thesis argues for—are discussed (and "tested" in the substantive context of the social program, newSTART) and are evaluated as being inappropriate concepts to inform a praxis sociology. Arendt's normative concept, however, is deemed adequate as a philosophical concept and does serve as a plausible alternative to praxis as a scientific sociological concept. Habermas's concept of praxis is introduced because it provides a theoretically credible challenge to Arendt's concept and also offers a viable concept for sociology; but because it is (arguably) couched in a "normative theory of efficiency", it is located within a functionalist sociological paradigm, thus undermining the potential of praxis to express its emancipatory content in meaningful social action. The theoretical structure of a Marxist science is taken as the correct starting point for the formation of a praxis sociology because it is the only existing model that can challenge Arendt's philosophical praxis while retaining the potential to express the meaningfulness of praxis. However, because of the determinism inherent in this position, which results in a conflation of teleology with axiology, its potential to express the meaningful content of praxis as human agency is negated. This, however, is only a transient "failure" of Marxist science, and two further theoretical positions are outlined—in the work of Carchedi and Bhaskar—which promise to rectify the shortcomings of the scientific Marxist approach and establish a valid concept of praxis.
Diterpenoid alkaloids from Aconitum brevicalcaratum as autophagy inducers
Creators: name: Jiang, Haiyue
name: Huang, Shuai
name: Gao, Feng
name: Zhen, Yongqi
name: Li, Chunying
name: Zhou, Xianli
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A new C19 diterpenoid alkaloid, brevicanine (1) and six known ones (2–7) were isolated from Aconitum brevicalcaratum (Finet et Gagnep.) Diels. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of extensive spectroscopic analyses. The cytotoxicity of those compounds was investigated against HCT116 human cancer cell line, which showed none of them possessing considerable anti-proliferative activities. To evaluate the autophagy effect of compounds 1–7, Western blot was used to detect the expression of autophagic marker by stimulating human cancer HCT116 cells. The results showed that compound 6 induced protective autophagy in HCT116 cells. Mechanistic insight showed that compound 6 induced protective autophagy through p53 activation, ERK1/2 and p38 MAPK signaling cascade.
Reconceptualizing the theory of local autonomy
Creators: name: Brown, Michael Peter
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Conceptualizations of local autonomy to date are critiqued and an alternative theory is offered. Three ideal types of local autonomy are reconstructed from existing literature: fiscal, political, and legal autonomy. Two specific criticisms are made: that each holds a deficient conceptualization of the local; and that each has a negative and constrained view of power and autonomy. Existing literature oversimplifies states' domination at the expense of local autonomy. A theory of local autonomy, I argue, must begin with the question of how localities can and cannot be autonomous rather than a prevailing focus on what they stand autonomous from. In this way, local autonomy and its absence (heteronomy) become dialectical concepts. I develop these points through a discussion of Massachusetts' inclusionary housing policy. The policy's drafting and its current impact in four suburbs provide the empirical basis for theoretical reconstruction. "Local" is viewed from a place-making perspective: places are seen as meaningful sets of social relations relative to a geographic context. Meaning is produced, reproduced, and contested within those contexts. A place's autonomy is related to the way in which meaningful sets of social relations are made to be "powerful" or "powerless" through a process of reification. Relating "local" to "autonomy" demands a relational and circulatory theory of power rather than prevailing corporeal theories. This reconceptualization is beneficial in theoretically relating power and place because it emphasizes the complexity and dynamics of relations of domination and resistance; because it highlights the relation between place making and truth/knowledge claims; and because it does not heuristically disentangle social processes whose very interaction is theoretically significant.
No time for the future? How to use conversation game methods for more inclusive and empowering research practices in time-pressured worlds
Creators: name: STAVRIANAKIS, KOSTAS
name: A. E. Nielsen, Jacob
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This proposed Skills Development Workshop aims to provide researchers with the skills to implement conversation game methods within a socio-environmental context. This workshop will enable the participants to design conversation games that can be integrated into their research and engagement practices. Furthermore, the workshop will provide the participants with hands-on experiences in how to conduct a conversation game. 

The workshop will highlight how conversation games are an inclusive and empowering way to introduce research participants to complex issues they are not familiar with and gather the participants' perspectives on those issues. Furthermore, we will discuss how the conversation game can be co-created and be part of a bigger portfolio of research and engagement activities. To illustrate this process we draw on our experience of developing and using the PlayDecide conversation game in the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark and Greece in order to explore the societal dimensions of an EU Horizon 2020 pilot project that sought to develop new Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage technologies. We highlight the challenges and potentials of using conversation games to engage communities in projects where climate technologies and the socio-environmental futures they bring are still being explored and contested.  

As the flexibility of the PlayDecide game, means that its application is not limited just within a socio-environmental context, the workshop participants will also have the opportunity to discuss how to deploy it in other research contexts including Public Health and Artificial Intelligence.
Uleiota debilis
Creators: name: Majka, Christopher G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Silvanidae
Uleiota
Uleiota debilis

description: Uleiota debilis (LeConte, 1854) NOVA SCOTIA: Kings Co.: Kentville, 7.VI.1996, D.H. Webster, on white ash, (1, DHWC); Kentville, 9.VI.1997, D.H. Webster, on honey locust, (1, DHWC); Kentville, 22.V.2000, D.H. Webster, woodpile, (1, DHWC); Lunenburg Co.: New Ross, 20.VI.2006, M. Reeves, firewood, (1, NSNR). Uleiota debilis is newly recorded in Atlantic Canada (Fig. 1). Species of Brontini are found primarily under bark where both adults and larvae probably feed on ascomycete and other fungi (Th omas 1993, 2002a). In Nova Scotia recorded from white ash (Fraxinus americana L., Oleaceae), and honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos L., Caesalpiniaceae).
description: Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., 2008, The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlantic Canada, pp. 221-238 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on pages 223-224, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.14, http://zenodo.org/record/576402
description: {"references": ["LeConte JL (1854) Synopsis of the Cucuiides of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 7: 73 - 79."]}
Multipartite unlockable bound entanglement in the stabilizer formalism
Creators: name: Wang, Guoming
name: Ying, Mingsheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find an interesting relationship between multipartite bound entangled states and the stabilizer formalism. We prove that if a set of commuting operators from the generalized Pauli group on $n$ qudits satisfy certain constraints, then the maximally mixed state over the subspace stabilized by them is an unlockable bound entangled state. Moreover, the properties of this state, such as symmetry under permutations of parties, undistillability and unlockability, can be easily explained from the stabilizer formalism without tedious calculation. In particular, the four-qubit Smolin state and its recent generalization to even number of qubits can be viewed as special examples of our results. Finally, we extend our results to arbitrary multipartite systems in which the dimensions of all parties may be different.
description: 7 pages, no figure
title: Laboratory Validation of Sequential Optimization of Adaptive Receivers in Downlink Laser Communications
Creators: name: Carrizo, Carlos E.
name: Belmonte, Aniceto
name: Mata Calvo, Ramon
name: Surof, Janis
Publisher: name: Proceedings of the COAT-2019 Workshop (Communications and Observations through Atmospheric Turbulence: characterization and mitigation). Châtillon, France, 2-3 december 2019
Year: 2019
Subjects: FREE-SPACE OPTICS
ADATIVE OPTICS
ITERATIVE
CONVEX

description: Adaptive atmospheric compensation in laser communication systems can be iteratively addressed minimizing the loop bandwidth requirements. Here we evaluate in the laboratory a speckle-based iterative technique within the framework of a communication scenario. Experimental results show signicant coupling efficiency gain with a reduced number of iterations. Evaluation of the technique with an integrated 80 Gbps QPSK system shows an error probability of 1e-5 for highly turbulent atmospheric channels.
New nonperturbative approach to the Debye mass in hot QCD
Creators: name: Agasian, N. O.
name: Simonov, Yu. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Debye mass m_D is computed nonperturbatively in the deconfined phase of QCD, where chromomagnetic confinement is known to be present. The latter defines m_D to be m_D=c_D\sqrt{σ_s}, where c_D \cong 2.06 and σ_s=σ_s(T) is the spatial string tension. The resulting magnitude of m_D(T) and temperature dependence are in good agreement with lattice calculations. Background perturbation theory expansion for m_D(T) is discussed in comparison to standard perturbative results and recent gauge-invariant definitions.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures; new figures and discussion added; to appear in Phys.Lett.B
Quantitative investigation of the urinary excretion of three specific monoester metabolites of the plasticizer diisononyl adipate (DINA)
Creators: name: Gotthardt, Alexandra
name: Bury, Daniel
name: Kling, Hans-Willi
name: Otter, Rainer
name: Weiss, Tobias
name: Brüning, Thomas
name: Koch, Holger M.
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: diisononyl adipate
DINA
plasticizer
metabolism
oral dose
human biomonitoring

description: Diisononyl adipate (DINA) is a plasticizer used in PVC products as an alternative for restricted phthalate plasticizers. With this study, we provide first data on human DINA metabolism and excretion. We postulated mono(hydroxy-isononyl) adipate (OH-MINA), mono(oxo-isononyl) adipate (oxo-MINA), and mono(carboxy-isooctyl) adipate (cx-MIOA) as specific DINA metabolites based on the known human metabolism of structurally similar adipates and phthalates. Urinary excretion was quantitatively investigated after a single oral dose (113 to 145 µg/kg body weight) to three healthy volunteers using a newly developed online-SPE-LC-MS/MS method with isotope dilution and LOQs between 0.3 – 0.6 µg/L. OH-MINA turned out to be the major of the three metabolites with consistent urinary excretion fractions (FUEs) of 0.020-0.023 % among all volunteers. Oxo-MINA and cx-MIOA were excreted with lower shares (mean: 0.003 % and 0.009 %, respectively). For all three metabolites, urinary concentrations peaked quickly between 1.4 and 2.3 h post dose with maximum concentrations of 23.1 (OH-MINA), 2.87 (oxo-MINA) and 9.83 µg/L (cx-MIOA). Thus, FUEs and urinary concentrations were rather low for these specific metabolites, with the major share of the dose presumably being excreted as non-specific metabolites such as adipic acid. In a pilot population (n=35) of German adults without known DINA exposure, we could not detect any of the three metabolites, contrary to the dosage study, indicating to population exposures lower than 50 µg/kg body weight/day. The new HBM method in conjunction with the new FUEs can be used for objective DINA exposure and risk assessment especially in populations with potentially higher DINA exposures.
description: EXCLI Journal; 20:Doc412; ISSN 1611-2156
Physical conditions in CaFe interstellar clouds
Creators: name: Gnacinski, P.
name: Krogulec, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interstellar clouds that exhibit strong Ca I and Fe I lines were called CaFe clouds. The ionisation equilibrium equations were used to model the column densities of Ca II, Ca I, K I, Na I, Fe I and Ti II in CaFe clouds. The chemical composition of CaFe clouds is that of the Solar System and no depletion of elements onto dust grains is seen. The CaFe clouds have high electron densities n=1 cm^-3 that leads to high column densities of neutral Ca and Fe.
description: Changed content, figure added
Biased Reionisation and Non-Gaussianity in Redshifted 21cm Intensity Maps of the Reionisation Epoch
Creators: name: Wyithe, Stuart
name: Morales, Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spatial dependence in the statistics of redshifted 21cm fluctuations promises to provide the most powerful probe of the reionisation epoch. In this paper we consider the second and third moments of the redshifted 21cm intensity distribution using a simple model that accounts for galaxy bias during the reionisation process. We demonstrate that skewness in redshifted 21cm maps should be substantial throughout the reionisation epoch and on all angular scales, owing to the effects of galaxy bias which leads to early reionisation in over-dense regions of the IGM. The variance (or power-spectrum) of 21cm fluctuations will exhibit a minimum in redshift part way through the reionisation process, when the global ionisation fraction is around 50%. This minimum is generic, and is due to the transition from 21cm intensity being dominated by over-dense too under-dense regions as reionisation progresses. We show that the details of the reionisation history, including the presence of radiative feedback are encoded in the evolution of the auto-correlation and skewness functions with redshift and mean IGM neutral fraction. We discuss the detection of skewness by first generation instruments, and conclude that the Mileura Widefield Array - Low Frequency Demonstrator will have sufficient sensitivity to detect skewness on a range of angular scales at redshifts near the end of reionisation, while a subsequent instrument of 10 times the collecting area could map out the evolution of skewness in detail. The observation of a minimum in variance during the reionisation history, and the detection of skewness would both provide important confirmation of the cosmological origin of redshifted 21cm intensity fluctuations.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Uleiota dubius
Creators: name: Majka, Christopher G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Silvanidae
Uleiota
Uleiota dubius

description: Uleiota dubius (Fabricius, 1801) NOVA SCOTIA: Kings Co.: Kentville, 1.VIII.1998, D.H. Webster, on maple, (2, DHWC); Kentville, VI.2002, C. Sheffield, in house, (1, ACNS); Cambridge Station, 7.V.1977, D.H. Webster, under bark of rotting apple, (1, DHWC). Uleiota dubius is newly recorded in Atlantic Canada (Fig. 1). Species of Brontini are found primarily under bark where both adults and larvae probably feed on ascomycete and other fungi (Th omas 1993, 2002a). Common under bark of hardwoods (Downie and Arnett 1996). In Nova Scotia recorded from maple (Acer sp., Aceraceae), and apple (Pyrus malus L., Rosaceae).
description: Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., 2008, The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlantic Canada, pp. 221-238 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 224, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.14, http://zenodo.org/record/576402
description: {"references": ["Downie NM, Arnett RH, Jr. (1996) Th e Beetles of Northeastern North America, Volumes 1 and 2. Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, 1721 pp."]}
Tailored mixing inside a translating droplet
Creators: name: Chabreyrie, Rodolphe
name: Vainchtein, Dmitri
name: Chandre, Cristel
name: Singh, Pushpendra
name: Aubry, Nadine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tailored mixing inside individual droplets could be useful to ensure that reactions within microscopic discrete fluid volumes, which are used as microreactors in ``digital microfluidic'' applications, take place in a controlled fashion. In this article we consider a translating spherical liquid drop to which we impose a time periodic rigid-body rotation. Such a rotation not only induces mixing via chaotic advection, which operates through the stretching and folding of material lines, but also offers the possibility of tuning the mixing by controlling the location and size of the mixing region. Tuned mixing is achieved by judiciously adjusting the amplitude and frequency of the rotation, which are determined by using a resonance condition and following the evolution of adiabatic invariants. As the size of the mixing region is increased, complete mixing within the drop is obtained.
On the distinguishability of random quantum states
Creators: name: Montanaro, Ashley
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop two analytic lower bounds on the probability of success p of identifying a state picked from a known ensemble of pure states: a bound based on the pairwise inner products of the states, and a bound based on the eigenvalues of their Gram matrix. We use the latter to lower bound the asymptotic distinguishability of ensembles of n random quantum states in d dimensions, where n/d approaches a constant. In particular, for almost all ensembles of n states in n dimensions, p>0.72. An application to distinguishing Boolean functions (the "oracle identification problem") in quantum computation is given.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures; v2 fixes typos and an error in an appendix
Dendrophagus cygnaei Mannerheim 1846
Creators: name: Majka, Christopher G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Silvanidae
Dendrophagus
Dendrophagus cygnaei

description: Dendrophagus cygnaei Mannerheim, 1846 NEW BRUNSWICK: Saint John Co.: Saint John, VI.190?, W. McIntosh, (1, NBM). NOVA SCOTIA: Antigonish Co.: Cape George, 5. VII. 1993, M. LeBlanc, (1, NSNR); Cape Breton Co.: Sydney, 27. IX. 1991, C. Billet, (1, CBU); Colchester Co.: Nuttby Mt., 18. V. 1995, C. Corkum, old deciduous forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, NSMC); Cumberland Co.: East Leicester, 3. VI. 1995, C. Corkum, old deciduous forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, NSMC); Harrington River, 17. V. 1995, 16, VI.1995, C. Corkum, young deciduous forest, flight-intercept trap, (3, NSMC); Moose River, 17. V. 1995, C. Corkum, young deciduous forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, NSMC); Guysborough Co.: George Lake, 14. v- 2. VI. 1997, D. J. Bishop, red spruce forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, NSMC); Malay Lake, 14. V- 2. VI. 1997, 2- 15. VI. 1997, D. J. Bishop, red spruce forest, flight-intercept trap, (2, NSMC); Melopseketch Lake, 2. VI. 1995, C. Corkum, young deciduous forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, NSMC); Halifax Co.: Big Indian Lake, 11. VI. 2003, P. Dollin, red spruce forest, on bracket fungus, (1, NSMC); Inverness Co.: Lake Ainslie, 4. VI. 1994, V. Jessome, (1, CBU); Pictou Co.: Lorne, 1. VI. 1995, C. Corkum, old coniferous forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, NSMC); Queens Co.: Butler Rd. 21. V. 2004, P. Colp, (1, NSNR); Sixth Lake, 19. V. 2003, P. Dollin, old growth hemlock forest, (1, NSMC). Dendrophagus cygnaei is newly recorded in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (Fig. 2). It was recorded from Newfoundland by Bousquet (1991). Species of Brontini are found primarily under bark where both adults and larvae probably feed on ascomycete and other fungi (Th omas 1993, 2002a). In Nova Scotia recorded from a wide variety of coniferous and deciduous forests.
description: Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., 2008, The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlantic Canada, pp. 221-238 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 225, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.14, http://zenodo.org/record/576402
description: {"references": ["Bousquet Y (1991) Family Cucujidae: flat bark beetles. In: Bousquet Y (Ed) Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Agriculture Canada Publication 1861 / E: 219 - 220."]}
A real-time system for multi-transputer systems
Creators: name: Chadha, Sanjay
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Two important problems namely a versatile, efficient communication system and allocation of processors to processes are analysed. An efficient communication system has been developed, in which a central controller, the bus-master, dynamically configures the point-to-point network formed by the links of the transputers. The links are used to form a point-to-point network. An identical kernel resides on each of the nodes. This kernel is responsible for all communications on behalf of the user processes. It makes ConnectLink and ReleaseLink requests to the central controller and when the connections are made it sends the the messages through the connected link to the destination node. If direct connection to the destination node cannot be made then the message is sent to an intermediate node, the message hops through intermediate nodes until it reaches the destination node. The communication system developed provides low latency communication facility, and the system can easily be expanded to include a large number of transputers without increasing interprocess communication overhead by great extent. Another problem, namely the Module Assignment Problem (MAP) is an important issue at the time of development of distributed systems. MAPs are computationally intractable, i.e. the computational requirement grows with power of the number of tasks to be assigned. The load of a distributed system depends on both module execution times, and intermodule communication cost (IMC). If assignment is not done with due consideration, a module assignment can cause computer saturation. Therefore a good assignment should balance the processing load among the processors and generate minimum inter-processor communication (IPC) ( communication between modules not residing on the same processor). Since meeting the deadline constraint is the most important performance measure for RTDPS, meeting the response time is the most important criteria for module assignment. Understanding this we have devised a scheme which assigns processes to processors such that both response time constraints and periodicity constraints are met. If such an assignment is not possible, assignment would fail and an error would be generated. Our assignment algorithm does not take into consideration factors such as load balancing. We believe that the most important factor for RTDPS is meeting the deadline constraints and that's what our algorithm accomplishes.
Cryptamorpha desjardinsi
Creators: name: Majka, Christopher G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Silvanidae
Cryptamorpha
Cryptamorpha desjardinsi

description: Cryptamorpha desjardinsi (Guérin-Méneville, 1844) NOVA SCOTIA: Kings Co.: Kentville, 22. III. 2002, D.H. Webster, in imported bok choy, (1, DHWC). In Nova Scotia Cryptamorpha desjardinsi was intercepted in bok choy, probably imported from the United States. Th ere is no evidence that the species is established. Th is species is native to tropical Asia and is now established in Florida and Alabama in the United States (Th omas 1993, 2002a). It is associated with plant molds and is found in sugarcane sheathes, on palmettos, on bananas, pineapples, and similar plants. Adults and larvae feed on sugarcane smut, Ustilago scitaminea Syd. (Thomas 1993).
description: Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., 2008, The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlantic Canada, pp. 221-238 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 225, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.14, http://zenodo.org/record/576402
description: {"references": ["Thomas MC (1993) Th e Flat Bark Beetles of Florida (Coleoptera: Silvanidae, Passandridae, and Laemophloeidae). Arthropods of Florida and Neighbouring Lands, Volume 15. Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, Gainesville, 101 pp."]}
Nausibius clavicornis
Creators: name: Majka, Christopher G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Silvanidae
Nausibius
Nausibius clavicornis

description: Nausibius clavicornis (Kugelann, 1794) NEW BRUNSWICK: Saint John Co.: Saint John, 9.VII.1902, 8.VII.1903, W. McIntosh, (2, NBM). NOVA SCOTIA: Lunenburg Co.: Chester, 17.VII.1968, B. Wright, (1, NSMC). Nausibius clavicornis is newly recorded in Atlantic Canada. Originally a Neotropical species it is now cosmopolitan. Originally subcorticolous (and also reported from old bees’ nests) in the field, it is now a pest of stored products, particularly raw or yellow-crystal sugar. It has also been reported from rice, dried apples, ginger, and cassia (Thomas 1993).
description: Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., 2008, The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlantic Canada, pp. 221-238 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 226, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.14, http://zenodo.org/record/576402
description: {"references": ["Thomas MC (1993) Th e Flat Bark Beetles of Florida (Coleoptera: Silvanidae, Passandridae, and Laemophloeidae). Arthropods of Florida and Neighbouring Lands, Volume 15. Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, Gainesville, 101 pp."]}
NGC2298: a globular cluster on its way to disruption
Creators: name: De Marchi, Guido
name: Pulone, Luigi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the stellar main sequence (MS) of the globular cluster NGC2298 using deep HST/ACS observations in the F606W and F814W bands covering an area of 3.4' x 3.4' around the cluster centre or about twice the cluster's half-mass radius. The colour-magnitude diagram that we derive in this way reveals a narrow and well defined MS extending down to the 10 sigma detection limit at m_606~26.5, m_814~25, corresponding to stars of ~0.2 Msolar. The luminosity function (LF) obtained with these data, once corrected for the limited effects of photometric incompleteness, reveals a remarkable deficiency of low-mass stars as well as a radial gradient, in that the LF becomes progressively steeper with radius. Using the mass-luminosity relation appropriate for the metallicity of NGC2298, we derive the cluster's global mass function (GMF) by using a multi-mass Michie-King model. Over the range 0.8 - 0.2 Msolar, the number of stars per unit mass decreases following a power-law distribution of the type dN/dm \propto m^(0.5), where, for comparison, typical halo clusters have dN/dm \propto m^(-1.5). If the IMF of NGC2298 was similar to that of other metal poor halo clusters, like e.g. NGC6397, the present GMF that we obtain implies that this object must have lost of order 85% of its original mass, at a rate much higher than that suggested by current models based on the available cluster orbit. The latter may, therefore, need revision.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Relativistic BCS-BEC Crossover at Zero Temperature
Creators: name: He, Lianyi
name: Zhuang, Pengfei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the BCS-BEC crossover at zero temperature in the frame of a relativistic model. The universality of the BCS-BEC crossover for non-relativistic systems breaks down in relativistic case and the crossover can be induced by changing the density. When the effective scattering length is much less than the fermion Compton wavelength, we recover the non-relativistic result if the gas is initially in non-relativistic state. At ultra-strong coupling where the scattering length is of the order of the Compton wavelength, a new BEC state appears. In this state the condensed bosons become nearly massless and anti-fermions are excited. The behavior of the Goldstone mode and the mixing between the amplitude and phase modes are significantly different in different condensed regions.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. V2: typos corrected, a comment on mean field theory added
Oryzaephilus mercator
Creators: name: Majka, Christopher G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Silvanidae
Oryzaephilus
Oryzaephilus mercator

description: Oryzaephilus mercator (Fauvel, 1889) PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.: Charlottetown, 23.IV.1985, L.S. Th ompson, in house, (3, ACPE). Oryzaephilus mercator is newly recorded in Prince Edward Island. It was reported from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and insular Newfoundland by Bousquet (1991). This cosmopolitan species is one of the most common household pests in Canada. Adults and larvae feed primarily on cereal products, particularly oatmeal, bran, shelled sunflower seeds, rolled oats, and brown rice (Bousquet 1990).
description: Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., 2008, The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlantic Canada, pp. 221-238 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 226, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.14, http://zenodo.org/record/576402
description: {"references": ["Bousquet Y (1991) Family Cucujidae: flat bark beetles. In: Bousquet Y (Ed) Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Agriculture Canada Publication 1861 / E: 219 - 220.", "Bousquet Y (1990) Beetles associated with stored products in Canada: an identification guide. Agriculture Canada Publication 1837: 1 - 215"]}