cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Constrained Systems and Analytical Mechanics in Spases with Torsion
Creators: name: Shabanov, Sergei V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A system with anholonomic constraints where the trajectories of physical degrees of freedom are autoparallels on a manifold equipped with a general Cartan connection is discussed. A variational principle for the autoparallel trajectories is derived from the d'Alambert-Lagrange principle for anholonomic constrained systems. A geometrical (coordinate-independent) formulation of the variational principle is given. Its relation to Sedov's anholonomic variational principle for dissipative systems and to Poincaré's variational principle in anholonomic reference frames is established. A modification of Noether's theorem due to the torsion force is studied. A non-local action whose extrema contain the autoparallels is proposed. The action can be made local by adding auxiliary degrees of freedom coupled to the original variables in a special way.
description: Plain LaTeX, 16 pages, no figures
title: Spectroscopy and Structure of Intermolecular Clusters and Rotational State-To-State Differential Cross-Sections for the HCI-X Collison System
Creators: name: Springfield, James L
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Intermolecular clusters
subject: HCI-X collision system
subject: one colour-resonant two-photon ionisation
subject: rotational state-resolved differential cross sections

description: One Colour-Resonant Two-Photon Ionisation, coupled with a supersonic expansion was used to study the rotationally cold excited electronic states of the water clusters of ortho-, meta- and para-difluorobenzene. Ground state rotational constants obtained through ab-initio calculations allowed rotational band contour simulations of these species to be performed, elucidating structural and spectroscopic features such as rotational band types, directions of transition dipole moments and excited state geometries. Confidence in the calculated ground state geometries, obtained through successful simulation of the rotational band contours, provided strength to the credibility of the vibrational frequencies acquired via these calculations. Analysis of ground state dispersed fluorescence spectroscopy utilising these ab-initio (geometry + frequency) optimisation calculations, allowed assignment of the ground state vibrational modes of each species. Furthermore, comparison of the assigned ground state modes with the excited state spectroscopy, affirmed assignment of the low frequency Van der Waals modes along with the higher frequency aromatic ring modes of these cluster species. A novel technique that produces pseudo-selective excitation of ground state aromatic-rare gas cluster ions was used to assign the vibrational transitions of the D3[less than]D0 electronic excitation spectrum of para-Difluorobenzene+-Argonn=1,2. This technique works on the principle of providing varying degrees of excess energy to the ground state of the cluster ion, as well as altering the Franck-Condon factors for excitation to the D3 electronic state. Measurement of the redshifts for each pDFB-R (where R= Ar1, Ar2, Kr1, Kr2) cluster, revealed that the addition of a second rare-gas adatom doubled the redshift, and that Krypton ad-atoms produced a stronger redshift than argon as expected. It was also noted that the addition of a positive charge to the complex increased the redshift of the complexes, in accordance with our expectations. Rotational state-resolved differential cross sections (DCS's) for rotationally inelastic collisions of HCl with Ne, Ar, and Kr at ~545, ~538, and ~526 cm-1 of collision energy, respectively, were measured using velocity-mapped ion imaging. For each rotational state, the observed DCS's were found to be qualitatively similar. As collider mass was increased, the differential cross section became increasingly forward scattered. Calculations suggest that much of this difference is due to kinematic effects, but that the potential energy surface should be slightly more anisotropic for heavier colliders.
Entrenchment Relations: A Uniform Approach to Nonmonotonicity
Creators: name: Georgatos, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.4.1;I.2.3

description: We show that Gabbay's nonmonotonic consequence relations can be reduced to a new family of relations, called entrenchment relations. Entrenchment relations provide a direct generalization of epistemic entrenchment and expectation ordering introduced by Gardenfors and Makinson for the study of belief revision and expectation inference, respectively.
description: 22 pages, a paper in preliminary form that appeared later in conference proceedings
S1_text.pdf
Creators: name: Stadt, Melissa M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 490102
subject: Biological mathematics

description: Supplementary materials for "A modeling analysis of whole-body potassium regulation on a high potassium diet: Proximal tubule and tubuloglomerular feedback effects" by Melissa M. Stadt and Anita T. Layton
Enhanced Gauge Symmetry in Type II String Theory
Creators: name: Katz, Sheldon
name: Morrison, David R.
name: Plesser, M. Ronen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show how enhanced gauge symmetry in type II string theory compactified on a Calabi--Yau threefold arises from singularities in the geometry of the target space. When the target space of the type IIA string acquires a genus $g$ curve $C$ of $A_{N-1}$ singularities, we find that an $SU(N)$ gauge theory with $g$ adjoint hypermultiplets appears at the singularity. The new massless states correspond to solitons wrapped about the collapsing cycles, and their dynamics is described by a twisted supersymmetric gauge theory on $C\times \R^4$. We reproduce this result from an analysis of the $S$-dual $D$-manifold. We check that the predictions made by this model about the nature of the Higgs branch, the monodromy of period integrals, and the asymptotics of the one-loop topological amplitude are in agreement with geometrical computations. In one of our examples we find that the singularity occurs at strong coupling in the heterotic dual proposed by Kachru and Vafa.
description: 43 pages using harvmac's `big' option. (Minor correction concerning magnetically charged states.)
Mesochorus giberius
Creators: name: Kolarov, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Mesochorus
Mesochorus giberius

description: Mesochorus giberius (THUNBERG 1824)
 Ichneumon giberius THUNBERG 1824. Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg 8: 261.
 Mesochorus thoracicus: STROBL 1904: 105, Croatia; SZEPLIGETI 1914: 428, Serbia, May-July.
D i s t r i b u t i o n Palearcticregion.
description: Published as part of Kolarov, J., 2008, A Catalogue of the [former] Yugoslavian Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Insecta), pp. 1585-1739 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1677, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5431642
Prototype-based classifiers in the presence of concept drift: A modelling framework
Creators: name: Biehl, Michael
name: Abadi, Fthi
name: Göpfert, Christina
name: Hammer, Barbara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a modelling framework for the investigation of prototype-based classifiers in non-stationary environments. Specifically, we study Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ) systems trained from a stream of high-dimensional, clustered data.We consider standard winner-takes-all updates known as LVQ1. Statistical properties of the input data change on the time scale defined by the training process. We apply analytical methods borrowed from statistical physics which have been used earlier for the exact description of learning in stationary environments. The suggested framework facilitates the computation of learning curves in the presence of virtual and real concept drift. Here we focus on timedependent class bias in the training data. First results demonstrate that, while basic LVQ algorithms are suitable for the training in non-stationary environments, weight decay as an explicit mechanism of forgetting does not improve the performance under the considered drift processes.
description: Accepted contribution to WSOM+ 2019, Barcelona/Spain, June 2019 13th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization, Clustering and Data Visualization 11 pages
Chrysidea BISCHOFF 1913
Creators: name: C. O
name: Madl, M.
name: Olmi, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Chrysidea

description: Genus Chrysidea BISCHOFF 1913
Description: BISCHOFF 1913: 34.
 Typus generis: Chrysis pumila KLUG 1845.
 Synonym: Chrysaspis de SAUSSURE 1887.
Description: de SAUSSURE 1887: 25.
 Typus generis: Chrysaspis grandidieri de SAUSSURE 1887.
Distribution: Ethiopian, Oriental and Palaearctic Region.
Valid species: 13.
description: Published as part of C. O, Madl, M. & Olmi, M., 2010, A Catalogue of the Bethylidae, Chrysididae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Sclerogibbidae and Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Malagasy Subregion, pp. 845-918 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2) on page 857, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5335096
On Relativistic Corrections to Microlensing Effects: Applications to the Galactic Black Hole
Creators: name: Petters, A. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The standard treatment of gravitational lensing by a point mass lens M is based on a weak-field deflection angle a = 2/x, where x = (r c^2)/(2 G M) with r the distance of closest approach to the mass of a lensed light ray. It was shown that for a point mass lens, the total magnification and image centroid shift of a point source remain unchanged by relativistic corrections of second order in 1/x. This paper considers these issues analytically taking into account the relativistic images, under three standard lensing configuration assumptions, for a Schwarzschild black hole lens with background point and extended sources having arbitrary surface brightness profiles. We apply our results to the Galactic black hole for lensing scenarios where our assumptions hold. We show that a single factor characterizes the full relativistic correction to the weak-field image centroid and magnification. As the lens-source distance increases, the relativistic correction factor strictly decreases. In particular, we find that for point and extended sources about 10 pc behind the black hole (which is a distance significantly outside the tidal disruption radius of a sun-like source), the relativistic correction factor is miniscule, of order 10^{-14}. Therefore, for standard lensing configurations, any detectable relativistic corrections to microlensing by the Galactic black hole will most likely have to come from sources significantly closer to the black hole.
description: To appear in MNRAS, 8 pages, 4 figures
Supplementary document for Holographic super multi-view Maxwellian near eye display with eyebox expansion - 5799672.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Xu
name: Pang, Yujian
name: Chen, Tao
name: Tu, Kefeng
name: Feng, Qibin
name: Lv, Guoqiang
name: Wang, Zi
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Contributions to Open Education
Creators: name: Barba, Lorena A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 130103 Higher Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This document supplements my faculty statement on Teaching & Learning. In it, I list my contributions to open education, through published open educational resources, essays and blog posts, talks, and interviews or media coverage. I have a decade-long commitment to open education, a consistent practice and reflection, motivated by the idea of using computing as a pedagogical tool and inspired by the open-source movement.
Spatial Deep Networks for Outdoor Scene Classification
Creators: name: Dong, Cong
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Deep Learning
Scene Classification
Spatial Deep Networks

description: Scene classification has become an increasingly popular topic in computer vision. The techniques for scene classification can be widely used in many other aspects, such as detection, action recognition, and content-based image retrieval. Recently, the stationary property of images has been leveraged in conjunction with convolutional networks to perform classification tasks. In the existing approach, one random patch is extracted from each training image to learn filters for convolutional processes. However, feature learning only from one random patch per image is not robust because patches selected from di↵erent areas of an image may contain distinct scene objects which make the features of these patches have di↵erent descriptive power. In this dissertation, focusing on deep learning techniques, we propose a multi-scale network that utilizes multiple random patches and di↵erent patch dimensions to learn feature representations for images in order to improve the existing approach. Despite the much better performance the multi-scale network can achieve than the existing approach, lacking of local features and the spatial layout is one of the core limitations of both methods. Therefore, we propose a novel Spatial Deep Network (SDN) to further enhance the existing approach by exploiting the spatial layout of the image and constraining the random patch extraction to be performed in di↵erent areas of the image so as to e↵ectively restrict the patches to hold the necessary characteristics of di↵erent image areas. In this way, SDN yields compact but discriminative features that incorporate both global descriptors and the local spatial information for images. Experiment results show that SDN considerably exceeds the existing approach and multi-scale networks and achieves competitive performance with some widely used classification techniques on the OT dataset (developed by Oliva and Torralba). In order to evaluate the robustness of the proposed SDN, we also apply it to the content-based image retrieval on the Holidays dataset, where our features attain much better retrieval performance but have much lower feature dimensions compared to other state-of-the-art feature descriptors.
Supersymmetric techniques applied to the Jacobi equation
Creators: name: Rosu, H. C.
name: Guzmán, J. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The simple supersymmetric approach recently used by Dutt, Gangopadhyaya, and Sukhatme [Am. J. Phys. 65 400 (1997)] for spherical harmonics is generalized to Jacobi equation, including also the intermediate Gegenbauer case
description: 6 pages, LaTex
title: In The Bora Ring: Yugambeh Language and Song Project - An Investigation into the Effects of Participation in the ‘Yugambeh Youth Choir’, an Aboriginal Language Choir for Urban Indigenous Children
Creators: name: Kruger, Candace
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Indigenous language, Aboriginal Australians
subject: Yugambeh Language and Song Project
subject: Choirs, Aboriginal Australians
subject: The National Indigenous Languages Survey Report of 2005
subject: Endangered indigenous languages, Aboriginal Australians
subject: Yugambeh Youth Choir

description: Knowledge of Indigenous language and identity for Australian Indigenous children is vital. Despite this there has been little research into the effects that living culture practice affords Australian Indigenous children through learning heritage language. Yarrabil (to sing) is one way in which Indigenous youth can participate in learning Indigenous language. Through a series of surveys, wula bora (focus group) sessions, interviews and reflections, the jarjum (children) of the Yugambeh language region assisted to discover how the process of participation in an urban Aboriginal children’s language choir can play an integral part in youth leadership, language acquisition, well-being (self-efficacy), and Identity and Aboriginality. The research also demonstrates how a language choir can safe-guard language and culture whilst building socio-cultural capital within an Indigenous community. The National Indigenous Languages Survey Report of 2005 listed the Aboriginal language Yugambeh of the Gold Coast, Logan and Scenic Rim regions of South-East Queensland, Australia as endangered. This thesis investigates an alternate way to girrebba (wake up) a sleeping language and engage youth in the process of learning their heritage language. The ‘Yugambeh Language and Song project’ provides academic knowledge in a relatively unstudied field, supports living culture practice and provides a model to assist other Indigenous communities to sing their language alive.
Paradise for nothing? : a critique of modal fictionalism
Creators: name: Brock, Stuart
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1995

description: Modal fictionalism is the thesis that possible worlds and possible individuals are fictitious entities of some kind or other and that the fictions about such entities are useful in so far as they are an aid to the analysis of our modal idioms. This essay should be seen as an attempt to defend a particular variety of modal fictionalism, a defense that falls into two main parts. The first-comprising chapters two and three-examines the different varieties of modal fictionalism put forward by Armstrong (1989) and Rosen (1990) and defends a modified version of the thesis. I conclude that there are problems associated with both theses. I then defend a modified version of Rosen's thesis that overcomes the qualms raised in the previous chapter. The second part-comprising chapters four and five-contrasts modal fictionalism with modal realism. I conclude that both the fictionalist and the realist face certain irresolvable problems. It is my contention, though, that the problems associated with the realist's thesis are far more worrying than those associated with the fictionalist' s thesis. I have also included a discussion of a paper by Harold Noonan (1994) in an appendix to this thesis. Noonan provides an alternative solution to some of the problems I raise in Chapter 2.
Relevance as Deduction: A Logical View of Information Retrieval
Creators: name: Amati, Gianni
name: Georgatos, Konstantinos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.3;H.3.0;H.3.3

description: The problem of Information Retrieval is, given a set of documents D and a query q, providing an algorithm for retrieving all documents in D relevant to q. However, retrieval should depend and be updated whenever the user is able to provide as an input a preferred set of relevant documents; this process is known as em relevance feedback. Recent work in IR has been paying great attention to models which employ a logical approach; the advantage being that one can have a simple computable characterization of retrieval on the basis of a pure logical analysis of retrieval. Most of the logical models make use of probabilities or similar belief functions in order to introduce the inductive component whereby uncertainty is treated. Their general paradigm is the following: em find the nature of conditional $d\imp q$ and then define a probability on the top of it. We just reverse this point of view; first use the numerical information, frequencies or probabilities, then define your own logical consequence. More generally, we claim that retrieval is a form of deduction. We introduce a simple but powerful logical framework of relevance feedback, derived from the well founded area of nonmonotonic logic. This description can help us evaluate, describe and compare from a theoretical point of view previous approaches based on conditionals or probabilities.
description: 6 pages, Abstract
Measurement and modelling of head-related transfer function for spatial audio synthesis
Creators: name: Zhang, Wen
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2010
Subjects: head-related transfer function (HRTF)
continuous model
spatial dimensionality
sampling scheme

description: There has been a growing interest in spatial sound generation arising from the development of new communications and media technologies. Binaural spatial sound systems are capable of encoding and rendering sound sources accurately in three dimensional space using only two recording/playback channels. This is based on the concept of the Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF), which is a set of acoustic filters from the sound source to a listener's eardrums and contains all the listening cues used by the hearing mechanism for decoding spatial information encoded in binaural signals. The HRTF is usually obtained from acoustic measurements on different persons. In the case of discrete data and sets of measurements corresponding to different human subjects, it is desirable to have a continuous functional representation of the HRTF for efficiently rendering moving sounds in the virtual spatial audio systems; further this representation should be well-suited for customization to an individual listener. In this thesis, modal analysis is applied to examine the HRTF data structure, that is to employ the wave equation solutions to expand the HRTF with separable basis functions. This leads to a general representation of the HRTF into separated spatial and spectral components, where the spatial basis functions modes account for the HRTF spatial variations and the remaining HRTF spectral components provide a new means to examine the human body scattering behavior. The general model is further developed into the HRTF continuous functional representations. We use the normalized spatial modes to link near-field and far-field HRTFs directly, which provides a way to obtain the HRTFs at different ranges from measurements conducted at only a single range. The spatially invariant HRTF spectral components are represented continuously using an orthogonal series. Both spatial and spectral basis functions are well known functions, thus the developed analytical model can be used to easily examine the HRTF data feature-individualization. An important finding of this thesis is that the HRTF decomposition with the spatial basis functions can be well approximated by a finite number, which is defined as the HRTF spatial dimensionality. The dimensionality determines the least number of the HRTF measurements in space. We perform high resolution HRTF measurements on a KEMAR mannequin in a semi-anechoic acoustic chamber. Both signal processing aspects to extract HRTFs from the raw measurements and a practical high resolution spatial sampling scheme have been given in this thesis.
Mesochorus nuncupator
Creators: name: Kolarov, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Mesochorus
Mesochorus nuncupator

description: Mesochorus nuncupator (PANZER 1800)
 Ichneumon nuncupator PANZER 1800. Faunae Insectorum Germanicae, Heft 73.
 Mesochorus vittator: THOMPSON 1957: 474, ex Hormius moniliatus NEES and Microgaster globata L.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Holarctic region, Mexico and Costa Rica.
description: Published as part of Kolarov, J., 2008, A Catalogue of the [former] Yugoslavian Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Insecta), pp. 1585-1739 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1677, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5431642
Late-time correlators in semiclassical particle-black hole scattering
Creators: name: Fabbri, A.
name: Navarro, D. J.
name: Navarro-Salas, J.
name: Olmo, G. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the quantum corrected geometry and radiation in the scattering of extremal black holes by low-energy neutral matter. We point out the fact that the correlators of local observables inside the horizon are the same as those of the vacuum. Outside the horizon the correlators at late times are much bigger than those of the (thermal) case obtained neglecting the backreaction. This suggests that the corrected Hawking radiation could be compatible with unitarity.
description: 4 pages, 3 ps figures; revised version
Drafting of a Table Guidance on OFF LABEL USE for the ICH – Data Driven Drug Development and Marketing Authorization
Creators: name: Edoh, Thierry
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: 111503 Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Applied Computer Science
subject: Theoretical Computer Science

description: Health care professionals are in need of drug information to assure safety of
treatment, but legislative hurdles may hinder access to information while at
the same time broad dissemination of off- label information is considered a
risk of circumventing marketing authorization.
Quaternary dating studies using ESR signals, with emphasis on shell, coral, tooth enamel and quartz
Creators: name: Yoshida, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1996

description: In this study, the electron spin resonance (ESR) method is examined as a suitable dating tool to estimate the age of Quaternary materials. Although ESR dating has contributed substantially to earth science and archaeological studies, a standard procedure has not yet been developed for mollusc shell. Also, there has not been any practical application of ESR to the dating of sediments using solar-reset quartz. In this study, recently published and newly developed ESR methods are tested and compared with independent age controls (e.g. obtained by 14C, U-series, thermoluminescence and optically stimulated luminescence) for mollusc shell, coral and quartz. Annealing experiments on Q-band spectra suggest that the g=2.0006 signal in aragonite shell contains thermally unstable components but these appear to be removed by annealing at 150°C for 14-15 hours. For both aragonite and calcite-containing shells, DE­ values based on the ESR signals at g=2.0006 (X-band, 200 mW, aragonite shells), g=2.0006 (Q-band, aragonite shells), g=2.0006 (X-band, calcite-containing shells) and g=2.0014 (X-band, aragonite shells) appear to be comparable after annealing at 150°C for 14-15 hours. In contrast, the g=2.0007 signals observed in the X-band (microwave power of 5 mW and 200 mW) and Q-band in coral samples appear to yield comparable DE­ values both before and after annealing; these signals thus may not include thermally unstable components. For the coral samples examined, the ESR ages based on the annealed g=2.0058 signal and the g=2.0007 signal (before and after annealing) are in agreement with the independent age controls; both signals appear to be suitable for dating. However, the ESR ages based on the annealed g=2.0058 signal in aragonite and calcite-containing shells are often much greater than those based on the g=2.0006 and g=2.0014 signals. At this stage, it has not been determined which, if any, signal yields the most reliable estimate of age. Three new light-sensitive ESR signals in quartz have been discovered in this study. These signals are observed at g=l.9870, 1.9842 and 1.9162 at liquid nitrogen temperature (77K) with an X-band spectrometer. Sunlight bleaching experiments using an orange filter (> 510 nm wavelength transmission) suggest that the bleaching behaviour of these signals is comparable to the bleaching response of the 375°C TL signal, but is unlike that of the 325°C TL and OSL signal. The ESR ages based on these signals are in close accord with independent age estimates obtained by 14C, TL and OSL. The Do values (the characteristic saturation doses) based on the light-sensitive ESR signals are much greater than those indicated by OSL. This implies that these signals have potential application to the dating of quartz sediments deposited as long ago as 1-2 Ma (given an environmental dose rate of 0.5-1 Gy ka-1 typical of many Australian sandy deposits), a time period beyond the range of 14C, U-series, TL and OSL dating.
Senesega attiei KIMSEY 2005
Creators: name: C. O
name: Madl, M.
name: Olmi, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Senesega
Senesega attiei

description: Senesega attiei KIMSEY 2005
 Senesega attiei n.sp.: KIMSEY 2005: 58 (typ. gen., fig. 1: map), 59 (figs 2-5), 60 (descr., biol., Réunion).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Réunion: Réunion.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of C. O, Madl, M. & Olmi, M., 2010, A Catalogue of the Bethylidae, Chrysididae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Sclerogibbidae and Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Malagasy Subregion, pp. 845-918 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2) on page 856, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5335096
A [K]ink in the Armor: How the Intersection of Gender and Racial Prototypicality Affect Perceptions of Black Women Aspiring to be Managers
Creators: Merriweather, Tarani Joy
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Social psychology
subject: Organizational behavior
subject: Women, Black
subject: Hairdressing of Blacks
subject: Management
subject: Human skin color--Psychological aspects

description: Intersectional analyses have made clear that Black women as a group fare far worse in employment outcomes than their race and gender counterparts. However, there is little research that examines differences among Black women. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how Black women are perceived intra-intersectionally, or within the intersection of race and gender. Black women are not monolithic and it is important to illuminate how they are perceived differently from one another. This dissertation explores the effects of differences in skin tone and hair texture among Black women seeking a management position. It was hypothesized that Black women with lighter skin and/or straight hair would be characterized more positively than Black women with darker skin and/or kinky hair; this hypothesis was not supported. However, for negative characteristics, the hypothesis that Black women with darker skin would be characterized more negatively than Black women with lighter skin was confirmed. Further, it was found that hair texture significantly interacts with skin tone such that darker-skinned Black women with kinky hair were characterized more negatively than light-skinned women with kinky hair. There were no significant differences found between the skin tone and hair texture of Black women on salary offers, but there was a marginally significant skin tone effect for perceptions of success in that lighter-skinned Black women are perceived to be more successful than darker-skinned Black women. This study sheds light on the need to look at the intersection of both skin tone and hair texture in order to fully understand how negative stereotypes apply to Black women.
Association of the inflammatory potential of diet and lower urinary tract symptoms among men in the United States
Creators: name: Liao, Xinyang
name: Bian, Haiyang
name: Zheng, Xiaonan
name: Ai, Jianzhong
name: Yang, Lu
name: Liu, Liangren
name: Qiu, Shi
name: Wei, Qiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Inflammation is crucial in the pathogenesis of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in men. Diet modulates inflammation. Therefore, diet could be a modifiable factor in male LUTS prevention and treatment. We aimed to investigate the association between dietary inflammatory potential and male LUTS. We used two cycles of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) with self-report LUTS data. We calculated the dietary inflammatory index (DII) based on a 24 h diet recall and evaluated male LUTS. Clinical LUTS was defined as two or more coexisting symptoms. We used univariate and multivariate logistic regression models, the smooth curve fitting to analyze the relationship between clinical LUTS and the DII score. Subgroup analyses were conducted. We observed a positive non-linear relationship between clinical LUTS and DII. We found that when DII was higher than the inflection point 2.39, a 1-unit increase in DII was associated with 26.1% higher adjusted odds of clinical LUTS. Subgroup analyses showed that the DII score was only positively correlated with clinical LUTS risk in non-drinkers, smokers, and non-obese people (DII >2.39). Inflammation might be the key mechanism bridging dietary consumption to male LUTS. Excessive pro-inflammatory food intake (DII >2.39) warrants special vigilance, especially for non-drinkers, smokers, and non-obese men.
A crystal base for the genetic code
Creators: name: Frappat, L.
name: Sciarrino, A.
name: Sorba, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The quantum enveloping algebra U_q(sl(2) \oplus sl(2)) in the limit q \to 0 is proposed as a symmetry algebra for the genetic code. In this approach the triplets of nucleotids or codons in the DNA chain are classified in crystal bases, tensor product of U_{q \to 0}(sl(2) \oplus sl(2)) representations. Such a construction might be compared to the baryon classification from quark building blocks in elementary particles physics, one of the main differences standing in the property of a crystal base to provide a natural order in the state constituents, this order being crucial in the codon. Then an operator ensuring the correspondence codon/amino-acid can be constructed out of the above algebra. It will be called the reading operator, and be such that two codons relative to the same (resp. different) amino-acid(s) acquire the same (resp. different) eigenvalue(s).
description: LaTeX-2e document, package amsfonts, 11 pages
CoLight: Learning Network-level Cooperation for Traffic Signal Control
Creators: name: Wei, Hua
name: Xu, Nan
name: Zhang, Huichu
name: Zheng, Guanjie
name: Zang, Xinshi
name: Chen, Chacha
name: Zhang, Weinan
name: Zhu, Yanmin
name: Xu, Kai
name: Li, Zhenhui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68Txx

description: Cooperation among the traffic signals enables vehicles to move through intersections more quickly. Conventional transportation approaches implement cooperation by pre-calculating the offsets between two intersections. Such pre-calculated offsets are not suitable for dynamic traffic environments. To enable cooperation of traffic signals, in this paper, we propose a model, CoLight, which uses graph attentional networks to facilitate communication. Specifically, for a target intersection in a network, CoLight can not only incorporate the temporal and spatial influences of neighboring intersections to the target intersection, but also build up index-free modeling of neighboring intersections. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to use graph attentional networks in the setting of reinforcement learning for traffic signal control and to conduct experiments on the large-scale road network with hundreds of traffic signals. In experiments, we demonstrate that by learning the communication, the proposed model can achieve superior performance against the state-of-the-art methods.
description: 10 pages. Proceedings of the 28th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. ACM, 2018
A World Without Poverty: Negotiating the Global Development Agenda
Creators: Seyedsayamdost, Elham
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: International relations
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Economic history

description: This dissertation examines the political processes that gave rise to the antipoverty norm; the moral principle that abject poverty is dehumanizing and must be eradicated. I trace the origins of this norm to a critical juncture in the 1990s when the end of the Cold War ushered in a euphoric moment while, at the same time, crises loomed large on the international stage, where governance structures of an earlier era seemed like ancient relics no longer capable of managing problems of a new world order. As the World Bank and IMF were attacked for their conditionality programs, the UN was overwhelmed with competing peacekeeping missions. Declining foreign aid and increasing conflicts relegated development to a lower rung of importance. As official development assistance fell, donor countries found themselves debating the future of development assistance and their role within it. While international organizations created after World War II reflected on their relevancy in a changing world, they found in poverty a strategic response to their varying crises of relevancy. Consequently, towards the end of the twentieth century, diverse international organizations with diverging mandates, including IMF, WB, UN and OECD, converged on the central goal of poverty reduction.
      The constitution of the antipoverty norm--manifested in the Millennium Development Goals--was in turn essential to its consolidation. The multidimensional definition of poverty within a human development framework offered a holistic approach to poverty reduction that fit the mandates of participating development organizations. As such, poverty reduction created an arena for consensus without threatening state interests or organizational agendas while at the same time accommodating donors' domestic priorities. Four distinct features of the MDGs--ontological freezing, target setting, standardization, and quantification--induced these goals to dominate the international development agenda within a short time period. By making poverty a problem internal to the state and setting standardized, time-bound, and quantifiable targets to monitor progress on countries' poverty reduction priorities, the MDGs became part of development discourse and practice. Aid recipients used the MDGs to show their use of funds to reduce poverty in their countries, while donors used the MDGs as performance tools to demonstrate the effectiveness of aid to their citizens. This iterative process of data collection, analysis, and performance evaluation helped solidify the use of the MDGs while constructing the antipoverty norm as the ultimate goal of global development. In that process, instead of seriously critiquing and reforming extant global governance structures, the convergence on poverty reduction resulted in a reinvention of development orthodoxy and maintenance of status quo.
Heteropsephenoides Jeng and Jach 2003
Creators: name: Shepard, William D.
name: Sites, Robert W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Psephenidae
Heteropsephenoides

description: Heteropsephenoides Jeng and Jäch, 2003
 Discussion. Heteropsephenoides was described by Jeng and Jäch (2003). The genus is monotypic. Heteropsephenoides horaki Jeng and Jäch is known from Mae Hong Son, Thailand (Jeng and Yang 1994) and was collected at lights. Larvae of this genus have not been described.
description: Published as part of Shepard, William D. & Sites, Robert W., 2019, Larval Psephenidae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea) of Thailand: Annotated List and Illustrated Key to Genera, pp. 259-282 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 73 (2) on page 273, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-73.2.259, http://zenodo.org/record/5454617
title: Einleitung. Inhaltsübersicht zum Dossier „Restitution und Postkolonialismus“
Creators: name: Genske, Sophie
Publisher: name: ZZF - Centre for Contemporary History: Zeitgeschichte online
Year: 2021

description: Ursprünglich anlässlich der Eröffnung des Humboldt-Forums geplant, fiel die Konzeption dieses Themenschwerpunkts in ein Jahr, das, bereits während es noch stattfand, zum einschneidenden Epochenjahr, ja zur historischen Zäsur erklärt wurde. Geprägt von der Lebens- und Arbeitswirklichkeit, den öffentlichen und akademischen Debatten dieses Ausnahmejahres, dehnte sich auch dieses Dossier aus, und sollte nicht länger allein (zeitgeschichtliche Perspektiven auf) postkoloniale Restitution in Deutschland thematisieren, sondern die Besonderheiten und Schwerpunkte seines Entstehungsjahres spiegeln, das postkoloniale Fragen immer wieder und auf mannigfaltige Weise in den Vordergrund spielte. An dieser Stelle möchte ich den unter erschwerten Bedingungen arbeitenden Autor:innen, deren Texte ich im Folgenden einzeln vorstellen werde, herzlich danken.
Electron cooling with graphene-insulator-superconductor tunnel junctions and applications to fast bolometry
Creators: name: Vischi, Francesco
name: Carrega, Matteo
name: Braggio, Alessandro
name: Paolucci, Federico
name: Bianco, Federica
name: Roddaro, Stefano
name: Giazotto, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electronic cooling in hybrid normal metal-insulator-superconductor junctions is a promising technology for the manipulation of thermal loads in solid state nanosystems. One of the main bottlenecks for efficient electronic cooling is the electron-phonon coupling, as it represents a thermal leakage channel to the phonon bath. Graphene is a two-dimensional material that exhibits a weaker electron-phonon coupling compared to standard metals. For this reason, we study the electron cooling in graphene-based systems consisting of a graphene sheet contacted by two insulator/superconductor junctions. We show that, by properly biasing the graphene, its electronic temperature can reach base values lower than those achieved in similar systems based on metallic ultra-thin films. Moreover, the lower electron-phonon coupling is mirrored in a lower heat power pumped into the superconducting leads, thus avoiding their overheating and preserving the cooling mechanisms. Finally, we analyze the possible application of cooled graphene as a bolometric radiation sensor. We study its main figures of merit, i.e. responsivity, noise equivalent power and response time. In particular, we show that the built-in electron refrigeration allows reaching a responsivity of the order of 50 nA/pW and a noise equivalent power of order of $\rm 10^{-18}\, W\, Hz^{-1/2}$ while the response speed is about 10 ns, corresponding to a thermal bandwidth in the order of 20MHz.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures
Mesochorus palus SCHWENKE 1999
Creators: name: Kolarov, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Mesochorus
Mesochorus palus

description: Mesochorus palus SCHWENKE 1999
 Mesochorus palus SCHWENKE 1999. Spixiana, suppl. 26: 38, Serbia.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Serbia.
description: Published as part of Kolarov, J., 2008, A Catalogue of the [former] Yugoslavian Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Insecta), pp. 1585-1739 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1677, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5431642
Sclerodermus hova de SAUSSURE 1892, n.sp.
Creators: name: C. O
name: Madl, M.
name: Olmi, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Sclerodermus
Sclerodermus hova

description: Sclerodermus hova de SAUSSURE 1892
 Scleroderma hova n.sp.: de SAUSSURE 1892: pl. 25 (figs 19, 19b, 19e, 19i, 19l-n, 19u (), Madagascar).
 Scleroderma hova de SAUSSURE 1892: SCHULZ 1906: 103 (tax.).
 Pristocera hova (de SAUSSURE 1892): SCHULZ 1912: 77 (tax.), 78 (tax., descr., Madagascar). Sclerodermus hova de SAUSSURE 1892: KIEFFER 1914: 266 (tax., Madagascar).
 Sclerodermus hova de SAUSSURE, 1890: GORDH 1990: 161 (cat.).
 Sclerodermus hova de SAUSSURE 1892: LANES & AZEVEDO 2008: 82 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Antananarivo: Imerina.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of C. O, Madl, M. & Olmi, M., 2010, A Catalogue of the Bethylidae, Chrysididae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Sclerogibbidae and Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Malagasy Subregion, pp. 845-918 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2) on pages 850-851, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5335096
Disturbing Implications of a Cosmological Constant
Creators: name: Dyson, Lisa
name: Kleban, Matthew
name: Susskind, Leonard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider the implications of a cosmological constant for the evolution of the universe, under a set of assumptions motivated by the holographic and horizon complementarity principles. We discuss the ``causal patch" description of spacetime required by this framework, and present some simple examples of cosmologies described this way. We argue that these assumptions inevitably lead to very deep paradoxes, which seem to require major revisions of our usual assumptions.
description: 26 pages, 7 figures v2: references added v3: reference added
Ross-Hellauer (2023). Strategic priorities for reproducibility reform
Creators: name: Ross-Hellauer, Tony
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2023

description: This is a repost of the following article:
Ross-Hellauer T (2023) Strategic priorities for reproducibility reform. PLOS Biology 21(1): e3001943. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001943
Relaxing The Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equation To Construct Inner And Outer Bounds On Reachable Sets
Creators: name: Jones, Morgan
name: Peet, Matthew M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the problem of overbounding and underbounding both the backward and forward reachable set for a given polynomial vector field, nonlinear in both state and input, with a given semialgebriac set of initial conditions and with inputs constrained pointwise to lie in a semialgebraic set. Specifically, we represent the forward reachable set using the value function which gives the optimal cost to go of an optimal control problems and if smooth satisfies the Hamilton-Jacobi- Bellman PDE. We then show that there exist polynomial upper and lower bounds to this value function and furthermore, these polynomial sub-value and super-value functions provide provable upper and lower bounds to the forward reachable set. Finally, by minimizing the distance between these sub-value and super-value functions in the L1-norm, we are able to construct inner and outer bounds for the reachable set and show numerically on several examples that for relatively small degree, the Hausdorff distance between these bounds is negligible.