cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Cellular velocity, electrical persistence and sensing in developed and vegetative cells during electrotaxis
Creators: name: Guido, Isabella
name: Diehl, Douglas
name: Olszok, Nora Aleida
name: Bodenschatz, Eberhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Cells have the ability to detect electric fields and respond to them with directed migratory movement. Investigations identified genes and proteins that play important roles in defining the migration efficiency. Nevertheless, the sensing and transduction mechanisms underlying directed cell migration are still under discussion. We use Dictyostelium discoideum cells as model system for studying eukaryotic cell migration in DC electric fields. We have defined the temporal electric persistence to characterize the memory that cells have in a varying electric field. In addition to imposing a directional bias, we observed that the electric field influences the cellular kinematics by accelerating the movement of cells along their paths. Moreover, the study of vegetative and briefly starved cells provided insight into the electrical sensing of cells. We found evidence that conditioned medium of starved cells was able to trigger the electrical sensing of vegetative cells that would otherwise not orient themselves in the electric field. This observation may be explained by the presence of the conditioned medium factor (CMF), a protein secreted by the cells, when they begin to starve. The results of this study give new insights into understanding the mechanism that triggers the electrical sensing and transduces the external stimulus into directed cell migration. Finally, the observed increased mobility of cells over time in an electric field could offer a novel perspective towards wound healing assays.
Commutation relations for SLE
Creators: name: Dubedat, Julien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G17; 60G52; 60K35

description: Schramm-Loewner Evolutions (SLEs) describe a one-parameter family of growth processes in the plane that have particular conformal invariance properties. For instance, SLE can define simple random curves in a simply connected domain. In this paper we are interested in questions pertaining to the definition of several SLEs in a domain (i.e. several random curves). In particular, one derives infinitesimal commutation conditions, discuss some elementary solutions, study integrability conditions following from commutation and show how to lift these infinitesimal relations to global relations in simple cases. The situation in multiply-connected domains is also discussed.
description: v3: several corrections and additional material. 42 pages
FOTOSINTEZNING KUNLIK VA MAVSUMIY JADALLIGI
Creators: name: Atamuratov, Bekmurat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Fotosintez' foto va sintez — yuksak oʻsimliklar, suvoʻtlar va ayrim fotosintezlovchi bakteriyalarda xlorofill va boshqa fotosintetik pigmentlar oʻzlashtiradigan yorugʻlik energiyasi hisobiga oddiy birikmalardan murakkab moddalar hosil boʻlishi. Fotosintez tabiatda sodir boʻladigan eng, muhim biologik jarayonlardan biri. Fotosintezda quyosh energiyasi organik birikmalardagi kimyoviy energiyaga aylanadi. Fotosintezda hosil boʻlgan organik birikmalar barcha tirik organizmlar uchun asosiy hayot manbai hisoblanadi. Fotosintezda barcha tirik organizmlarning nafas olishi uchun zarur boʻlgan kislorod atmosferaga ajralib chikadi. Fotosintez haqidagi dastlabki maʼlumotlar ingliz botanigi va kimyogari S. Geyls (1727), rus olimi M.V.Lomonosov (1753) ishlarida keltiriladi. Ammo Fotosintezni tajribalar orqali oʻrganish ingliz kimyogari J.Pristli (1771), golland tabiatshunosi J.Senebye (1782), shveysariyalik olim T. Sossyur (1804) va boshqalarning ishlari bilan boshlandi. Nemis fiziologi Yu.Saks (1863) barglardagi xloroplastlarda kraxmal sintezlanishini koʻrsatadi.
Why Do Migrants Remit?: An Analysis for the Dominican Sierra
Creators: name: De La Briere, Benedicte
name: De Janvry, Alain
name: Lambert, Sylvie
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
name: De La Briere, Benedicte
name: De Janvry, Alain
name: Lambert, Sylvie
name: Sadoulet, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Migrant Remittances
subject: Developing Countries
subject: Gender Issues
subject: Investments
subject: Social aspects
subject: Family
subject: Economic aspects
subject: Gender
subject: Household resource allocation

description: Two contrasting hypotheses about what motivates Dominican migrants to send remittances to their rural parents in the Sierra are tested: (1) an investment in potential bequests and (2) an insurance contract between parents and migrant children. Remittances from young migrants, males, and migrants who want to return to the Sierra follow a pattern consistent with investment. In contrast, female migrants with no intention of returning to the Sierra play the role of insurers. The gender composition of the migrant siblings affects this remittance task-sharing, since women with no remitting brothers show interest in inheritance, while men with no sisters offer insurance.
Encoding multiple quantum coherences in non-commuting bases
Creators: name: Ramanathan, Chandrasekhar
name: Cho, Hyungjoon
name: Cappellaro, Paola
name: Boutis, Gregory S.
name: Cory, David G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiple quantum coherences are typically characterised by their coherence number and the number of spins that make up the state, though only the coherence number is normally measured. We present a simple set of measurements that extend our knowledge of the multiple quantum state by recording the coherences in both the $x$ basis and the usual $z$ basis. The coherences in the two bases are related by a similarity transformation. We characterize the growth of the multiple quantum coherences via measurements in the two bases, and show that the rate varies with the coefficient of the driving term in the Hamiltonian. Such measurements in non-commuting bases provides additional information over the 1D method about the state of the spin system. In particular the measurement of coherences in a basis other than the usual $z$ basis allows us to study the dynamics of the spin system under Hamiltonians, such as the secular dipolar Hamiltonian, that conserve $z$ basis coherence number.
Predicted and empirical radii of RR Lyrae stars
Creators: name: Marconi, M.
name: Nordgren, T.
name: Bono, G.
name: Schnider, G.
name: Caputo, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new theoretical Period-Radius-Metallicity (PRZ) relations for RR Lyrae stars. Current predictions are based on a large set of nonlinear, convective models that cover a broad range of chemical abundances and input parameters. We also provide new and homogeneous estimates of angular diameters for a sample of field RR Lyrae stars using a recent calibration of the Barnes-Evans surface brightness relation. Predicted and empirical radii are, within the errors, in reasonable agreement, but in the short-period range the latter present a larger scatter. As a working hypothesis we suggest that this discrepancy might be due to the occurrence either of nonlinear features such as bumps or a steep rising branch. New distance determination for RR Lyr itself is in very good agreement with HST trigonometric parallax and with pulsation parallax.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures, accepted on ApJ Letters
The GAPVU Cash Transfer Program in Mozambique: An Assessment
Creators: name: Datt, Gaurav
name: Payongayong, Ellen M.
name: Garrett, James L.
name: Ruel, Marie T.
name: Datt, Gaurav
name: Payongayong, Ellen M.
name: Garrett, James L.
name: Ruel, Marie T.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Safety nets
subject: Poverty Alleviation
subject: Urban Poor
subject: Welfare recipients
subject: Evaluation
subject: Urban Programming
subject: Conditional Cash Transfer Program

description: The GAPVU cash transfer program is an important safety net for urban Mozambique. The coverage of the program is impressive within the urban sector, reaching about 16 percent of all urban households. Although the mean transfer amount is just over a dollar per capita per month, it still represents about 13 percent of the beneficiaries' per capita consumption. Despite limited enforcement of means testing, nearly two-thirds of the beneficiary population are deemed to be absolutely poor by a modest poverty line. Net of GAPVU transfers, the proportion in poverty would have been above 70 percent. Limited evidence on nutritional and other nonconsumption indicators is suggestive of the GAPVU beneficiary households being more deprived than urban households in general. GAPVU transfer benefits are progressive among the beneficiary households, and are not confined to those near the poverty line.
Additional file 1 of Pediatric outpatient utilization by differing Medicaid payment models in the United States
Creators: name: Canares, Therese L.
name: Friedman, Ari
name: Rodean, Jonathan
name: Burns, Rebecca R.
name: Berkowitz, Deena
name: Hall, Matt
name: Alpern, Elizabeth
name: Montalbano, Amanda
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1 Prevalence of non-complex medical condition organ systems and 4 most common non-complex medical conditions, by insurance type. a The presence and number of non-complex medical conditions and their organ systems were identified using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Chronic Condition Indicator, a publicly available diagnosis-based classification system that identifies International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes as chronic or not chronic, as well as the affected organ system [23].
Spintronics and ferromagnetism in wide-band-gap semiconductors
Creators: name: Dietl, Tomasz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent progress in understanding and controlling spintronic properties of (Ga,Mn)As and related compounds is contrasted to diverging experimental and theoretical results concerning the origin of high temperature ferromagnetism discovered in an ample class of magnetically doped wide-band-gap semiconductors.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures 85 references; Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Physics of Semiconductors, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, July 2004, ed. J. Mendez (AIP Proceedings)
Characterization of high-quality MgB2(0001) epitaxial films on Mg(0001)
Creators: name: Petaccia, Luca
name: Cepek, Cinzia
name: Lizzit, Silvano
name: Larciprete, Rosanna
name: Macovez, Roberto
name: Sancrotti, Massimo
name: Goldoni, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-grade MgB2(0001) films were grown on Mg(0001) by means of ultra-high-vacuum molecular beam epitaxy. Low energy electron diffraction and x-ray diffraction data indicate that thick films are formed by epitaxially oriented grains with MgB2 bulk structure. The quality of the films allowed angle-resolved photoemission and polarization dependent x-ray absorption measurements. For the first time, we report the band mapping along the Gamma-A direction and the estimation of the electron-phonon coupling constant l ~ 0.55 for the surface state electrons.
description: 15 text pages, 6 figures Submitted for publication
Market and Welfare Impacts of COOL on the U.S.-Mexican Tomato Trade
Creators: name: Johnecheck, Wendy A.
name: Wilde, Parke E.
name: Caswell, Julie A.
name: Johnecheck, Wendy A.
name: Wilde, Parke E.
name: Caswell, Julie A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: country-of-origin labeling
subject: food labeling
subject: trade-related food regulations
subject: welfare effects

description: A two-country, comparative static partial equilibrium model is used to simulate the ex ante market and welfare outcomes of U.S. country-of-origin labeling for the U.S.-Mexico fresh tomato trade. In all scenarios where consumers show a relative preference for U.S. tomatoes, Mexican tomato exports decline and U.S. production increases. Mexican trade losses using low- to mid-range consumer preference assumptions are 14% to 32% of the value of Mexican tomato exports to the United States and 1% to 3% of the total value of agricultural produce exports, partially negating the market access gains of NAFTA. Consumer effects are small and sometimes negative. Producer impact is the big effect, with transfer from Mexican to U.S. tomato producers.
THE TIMEDOMES IN-KIND PROJECT: A STATUS UPDATE
Creators: name: Paolillo, Maurizio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: I present the status of the Timedomes project, proposed as an in-kind contribution to the LSST collaboration. The program is targeting 4 sq.deg. of four of the LSST DDFs in two bands with 8 or more epochs each semester, in order to cover the time span from now until the beginning of LSST operations. These data, complemented by all archival VST observations dating back to 2011, will allow to build a legacy dataset of images and light curves to extend the DDF monitoring effort up to 20 years, to study the AGN power spectrum, identify AGNs by means of variability and test the unified model predictions.
Pairing in spin chains and spinless fermions with next-nearest neighbour interactions
Creators: name: Gotta, Lorenzo
name: Mazza, Leonardo
name: Simon, Pascal
name: Roux, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the phase diagrams of a one-dimensional lattice model of fermions and of a spin chain with interactions extending up to next-nearest neighbour range. In particular, we investigate the appearance of regions with dominant pairing physics in the presence of nearest-neighbour and next-nearest-neighbour interactions. Our analysis is based on analytical calculations in the classical limit, bosonization techniques and large-scale density-matrix renormalization group numerical simulations. The phase diagram, which is investigated in all relevant filling regimes, displays a remarkably rich collection of phases, including Luttinger liquids, phase separation, charge-density waves, bond-order phases, and exotic cluster Luttinger liquids with paired particles. In relation with recent studies, we show several emergent transition lines with a central charge $c = 3/2$ between the Luttinger-liquid and the cluster Luttinger liquid phases. These results could be experimentally investigated using highly-tunable quantum simulators.
description: 15 pages, 18 figures
On Mean Absolute Error for Deep Neural Network Based Vector-to-Vector Regression
Creators: name: Qi, Jun
name: Du, Jun
name: Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco
name: Ma, Xiaoli
name: Lee, Chin-Hui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we exploit the properties of mean absolute error (MAE) as a loss function for the deep neural network (DNN) based vector-to-vector regression. The goal of this work is two-fold: (i) presenting performance bounds of MAE, and (ii) demonstrating new properties of MAE that make it more appropriate than mean squared error (MSE) as a loss function for DNN based vector-to-vector regression. First, we show that a generalized upper-bound for DNN-based vector- to-vector regression can be ensured by leveraging the known Lipschitz continuity property of MAE. Next, we derive a new generalized upper bound in the presence of additive noise. Finally, in contrast to conventional MSE commonly adopted to approximate Gaussian errors for regression, we show that MAE can be interpreted as an error modeled by Laplacian distribution. Speech enhancement experiments are conducted to corroborate our proposed theorems and validate the performance advantages of MAE over MSE for DNN based regression.
Economic Feasibility of a Woody Biomass- Based Ethanol Plant in Central Appalachia
Creators: name: Wu, Jinzhuo
name: Sperow, Mark
name: Wang, Jingxin
name: Wu, Jinzhuo
name: Sperow, Mark
name: Wang, Jingxin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: biofuels
subject: economic analysis
subject: ethanol
subject: optimization
subject: woody biomass

description: A mixed-integer programming model is developed to assess the economic feasibility of siting a woody biomass-based ethanol facility in the central Appalachian hardwood region. The model maximizes the net present value (NPV) of a facility over its economic life. Model inputs include biomass availability, biomass handling system type, plant investment and capacity, transportation logistics, feedstock and product pricing, project financing, and taxes. Four alternative woody biomass handling systems, which include all processes from stand to plant, are considered. Eleven possible plant locations were identified based on site selection requirements. Results showed that the optimal plant location was in Buckhannon, West Virginia. The NPV of the plant with a demand of 2,000 dry tons of woody biomass per day varied from $68.11 million to $84.51 million among the systems over a 20-year plant life. Internal rate of return (IRR) of the facility averaged 18.67% for the base case scenario. Average ethanol production costs were approximately $2.02 to $2.08 per gallon. Production costs were most impacted by biomass availability, mill residue purchase price, plant investment and capacity, ethanol yield, and financing. Findings suggest that a woody biomass-based ethanol facility in central Appalachia could be economically feasible under certain operational scenarios.
Additional file 1 of Costs of illness in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): a cross-sectional survey in Germany
Creators: name: Schönfelder, Erik
name: Osmanovic, Alma
name: Müschen, Lars Hendrik
name: Petri, Susanne
name: Schreiber-Katz, Olivia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Further details on the utilisation of medical resources.
A Network of Neutral Current Spherical TPC's for Dedicated Supernova Detection
Creators: name: Giomataris, Y.
name: Vergados, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coherent contribution of all neutrons in neutrino nucleus scattering due to the neutral current offers a realistic prospect of detecting supernova neutrinos. As a matter of fact. for a typical supernova at 10 kpc, about 1000 events are expected usinga spherical gaseous detector of radius 4 m andemploying Xe gas at a pressure of 10 Atm. We propose a world wide network of several such simple, stable and low cost supernova detectors with a running time of a few centuries.
description: 17 LaTex pages, 9 PostScript figures
Type II Cepheids in the Rubin-LSST era
Creators: name: Sicignano, Teresa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Type II Cepheids are useful distance indicators and stellar tracers for old populations. For instance, they have been used to find the distances of the Magellanic Clouds and to measure their tridimensional geometry.  Rubin LSST will allow us to detect and characterize Type II Cepheids in the Local Group galaxies and beyond. It is important to know in advance to which distance and after how many years the survey cadence will permit us to correctly determine the period and the main features of the Type II Cepheids light curves. To this aim, we have built ad hoc templates of all the subclasses of Type II Cepheids (BLHer, WVir, pWVir and RVTau) in the gri bands adopting a large sample of such objects observed by the Zwicky Transient Facility in our galaxy. These templates have been resampled using the last Rubin LSST simulation (baseline\_v3.0\_10yrs) to evaluate the period, amplitude and mean magnitude recovery in various positions in the sky and distances (distant galaxies). These data will allow us to verify up to which distances we can still classify correctly Type II Cepheids compared with classical Cepheids for which the templates in the Rubin LSST bands are already available within our group.
Quantile Regression Estimates of Confidence Intervals for WASDE Price Forecasts
Creators: name: Isengildina-Massa, Olga
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
name: Isengildina-Massa, Olga
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Good, Darrel L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: commodity
subject: evaluating forecasts
subject: government forecasting
subject: judgmental forecasting
subject: prediction intervals
subject: price forecasting

description: This study uses quantile regressions to estimate historical forecast error distributions for WASDE forecasts of corn, soybean, and wheat prices, and then compute confidence limits for the forecasts based on the empirical distributions. Quantile regressions with fit errors expressed as a function of forecast lead time are consistent with theoretical forecast variance expressions while avoiding assumptions of normality and optimality. Based on out-of-sample accuracy tests over 1995/96–2006/07, quantile regression methods produced intervals consistent with the target confidence level. Overall, this study demonstrates that empirical approaches may be used to construct accurate confidence intervals for WASDE corn, soybean, and wheat price forecasts.
Unlocking new Studies of Dwarf Galaxies via Fusing Rubin Observatory Optical and VISTA Near Infrared Data
Creators: name: Saremi, Elham
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Realising the full potential of LSST’s comprehensive observational initiatives relies on adeptly accessing the rich reservoir of multiwavelength data nestled within the survey fields of Rubin Observatory. Near-infrared filters, as the ideal complement to LSST’s optical bands, harbour vast promise in revealing insights into ageing stellar populations in the outskirts of galaxies.The largest near-infrared survey telescope, VISTA, extensively covers the southern hemisphere with various depth surveys, including VHS, VIKING, SHARKS, VIDEO, VEILS, KEDFS, and more. VISTA data effectively bridges the gap between IR datasets like Euclid (YJH bands) and Spitzer/WISE (> 3.6μm), providing essential K-band coverage for comprehensive studies. Galaxy detections in the K-band offer valuable glimpses into the early Universe, unveiling faint galaxies at z > 2 with evolved stellar populations or significant dust extinction.We have engineered a workflow leveraging LSST science pipelines to seamlessly merge VISTA images with LSST-Cam imaging, enabling joint photometry. This integration promises unprecedented insights into cosmic evolution and galaxy formation. In preparation for the LSST survey, we combined data from Hyper SuprimeCam and VISTA, producing pixel-matched images and multi-band catalogues. Moreover, we conducted initial science verification tests as well as testing data distribution systems through the Rubin UK Data Access Centre.In this presentation, we delve into prototype datasets, examining photometric redshift computation and spectral energy distribution model fitting. Additionally, we outline plans for early science utilizing combined Rubin and VISTA data, showcasing examples with a specific emphasis on identifying dwarf galaxies through our forced photometry catalogue.
Therates dembickyi Sawada and Wiesner 2002
Creators: name: Wiesner, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cincidelidae
Therates
Therates dembickyi

description: 18. Therates dembickyi Sawada and Wiesner
(Fig. 132)
Therates dembickyi Sawada and Wiesner 2002: 81 - 83, f. 5 - 9.
Therates dembickyi. Sawada and Wiesner 2006b: 452.
Type depository. Holotype male and paratype female in JWGC.
Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “ LAOS-C, 19.-31.v.2001, Kham Mouan prov., 18°07’N 104°29’E, BAN KHOUN NGEUN, ~ 200 m, L. Dembický leg.” [printed, yellow]; “HOLOTYPE Therates dembickyi SAWADA and WIESNER, 2002 ” [printed, red]. Paratype female! Type labels: “ LAOS-C, 19.-31.v.2001, Kham Mouan prov., 18°07'N 104°29’E, BAN KHOUN NGEUN, ~ 200 m, L. Dembický leg.” [printed, yellow]; “PARATYPE Therates dembickyi SAWADA and WIESNER, 2002 ” [printed, red].
Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of elytra with the combination of horizontal central dot and brownish apex, and males with the antennae reaching posteriorly behind the elytral shoulders.
Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 6.8 mm- 7.1 mm (mean=7.0 mm, n=2). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in female, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 137, female Fig. 138) as wide as long, yellowish, lateral margins dark brown, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally to elytral shoulders in female, somewhat longer in the male, scape with a single apical bristle, antennomeres 2 to 5 glabrous, antennomeres 6 to 11 finely and evenly pubescent; scape yellowish above, black on underside, all the other antennal segments blackish. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth, with a transverse furrow in the posterior part of the orbital plates. Thorax: Pronotum shining greenish black, as long as wide, barely more constricted in front than at back, transverse furrows strong, middle line and lateral lines nearly obsolete, middle line with several transverse short branches. Elytra: Shining black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate in front, shallower in apical half (Fig. 133). Apex with angular lateral corner and tiny sutural tooth, somewhat recurved between. Maculation composed of a brownish humeral lunule, brownish yellow basal dot, and yellow horizontal central dot (Figs. 134, 135). Apex is somewhat transparent brownish or yellow behind the apical humps. Ventral aspect: Venter black. Legs yellowish, tibiae and tarsal joints darkened a little at apex. Aedeagus: (Fig. 136) straight, produced into tip distally, total length 1.8 mm.
Distribution. Laos (Khamouan).
Remarks. Sawada and Wiesner (2006b: 452) mentioned dembickyi from Bolikhamxai. In fact these specimens are not conspecific and described as Th. sigridgeissleri herein.
description: Published as part of Wiesner, Jürgen, 2013, The chennelli group of the Genus Therates Latreille (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) 114. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelidae, pp. 1-86 in Insecta Mundi 2013 (315) on pages 23-24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5176988
Additional file 2 of Costs of illness in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS): a cross-sectional survey in Germany
Creators: name: Schönfelder, Erik
name: Osmanovic, Alma
name: Müschen, Lars Hendrik
name: Petri, Susanne
name: Schreiber-Katz, Olivia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Detailed description of cost estimation methodology.
Stated Choice Experiments with Complex Ecosystem Changes: The Effect of Information Formats on Estimated Variances and Choice Parameters
Creators: name: Hoehn, John P.
name: Lupi, Frank
name: Kaplowitz, Michael D.
name: Hoehn, John P.
name: Lupi, Frank
name: Kaplowitz, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: choice experiments
subject: heuristics
subject: stated preference
subject: valuation
subject: web surveys
subject: wetland mitigation

description: Stated choice experiments about ecosystem changes involve complex information. This study examines whether the format in which ecosystem information is presented to respondents affects stated choice outcomes. Our analysis develops a utility-maximizing model to describe respondent behavior. The model shows how alternative questionnaire formats alter respondents’ use of filtering heuristics and result in differences in preference estimates. Empirical results from a large-scale stated choice experiment confirm that different format presentations of the same information lead to different preference parameter estimates and error variances. A tabular format results in choice parameter estimates with statistically smaller variances than parameters estimated from data obtained with a text-based format. A text-based format also appears to induce greater use of decision heuristics than does a tabular format.
Additional file 1 of Pharmacological treatment of increased vascular risk and cognitive performance in middle-aged and old persons: six-year observational longitudinal study
Creators: name: Eersel, Marlise E. A. Van
name: Visser, Sipke T.
name: Joosten, Hanneke
name: Gansevoort, Ron T.
name: Slaets, Joris P. J.
name: Izaks, Gerbrand J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. The independent variables that were included in logistic regression model to calculate the estimated propensity score for treatment of vascular risk factors.
Searching for Young Stellar Objects through SEDs by Machine Learning
Creators: name: Chiu, Yi-Lung
name: Ho, Chi-Ting
name: Wang, Daw-Wei
name: Lai, Shih-Ping
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate measurements of statistical properties, such as the star formation rate and the lifetime of young stellar objects (YSOs) in different stages, is essential for constraining star formation theories. However, it is a difficult task to separate galaxies and YSOs based on spectral energy distributions (SEDs) alone, because they contain both thermal emission from stars and dust around them and no reliable theories can be applied to distinguish them. Here we compare different machine learning algorithms and develop the Spectrum Classifier of Astronomical Objects (SCAO), based on Fully Connected Neural Network (FCN), to classify regular stars, galaxies, and YSOs. Superior to previous classifiers, SCAO is solely trained by high quality data labeled in Molecular Cores to Planet-forming Disks (c2d) catalog without a priori theoretical knowledge, and provides excellent results with high precision (>96%) and recall (>98%) for YSOs when only eight bands are included. We systematically investigate the effects of observation errors and distance effects, and show that high accuracy performance is still maintained even when using fluxes of only three bands (IRAC 3, IRAC 4, and MIPS 1) in the long wavelengths regime, because the silicate absorption feature is automatically detected by SCAO. Finally, we apply SCAO to Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Products (SEIP), the most complete catalog of Spitzer observations, and found 129219 YSO candidates. The website from SCAO is available at http://scao.astr.nthu.edu.tw.
description: 15 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to Astronomy and Computing on 19 February 2021, Accepted 26 April 2021, Available online 28 April 2021
Different Approaches to the Einstein Energy Associated with the de Sitter C-Space-time
Creators: name: Salti, Mustafa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper has been removed by arXiv administrators because it plagiarizes gr-qc/0404108, gr-qc/0306101, hep-th/0301046, and gr-qc/0303034.
description: This submission has been withdrawn by arXiv administrators due to inappropriate text reuse from external sources
Az élelmiszerek fogyasztói árai és a kiskereskedelmi árverseny
Creators: name: Tunyogine Nechay, Veronika
name: Tunyogine Nechay, Veronika
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Financial Economics
subject: élelmiszer fogyasztói árak
subject: fogyasztói árindex
subject: árverseny
subject: árváltoztatási jellemzők gyakorisága és árszintje
subject: első árrés
subject: hátsó kondíciók
subject: retail food prices
subject: consumer price index
subject: price competition
subject: frequency of price change parameters and price level
subject: first margin
subject: underlying terms

description: Az élelmiszerek fogyasztói árindexe évek óta az inflációt meghaladó ütemben nő, az élelmiszer-kiskereskedelmi egységek éleződő versenye ellenére. A verseny erősségét az élelmiszer-kiskereskedelem kiegyenlített versenystruktúrája eredményezi, amit az első hat piaci szereplő relatív piaci arányának állandósága jelez. A verseny leggyakoribb eszköze az ár, az alacsonyabb ár alkalmazása akciókkal és árcsökkentéssel történhet. Az átlagos fogyasztói ár tendenciáját a különböző árváltoztatási jellemzők (akció, árcsökkentés, árnövekedés és nem változik az ár) gyakoriságainak és árszintjeinek vizsgálata is alátámasztja. Az árnövekedések aránya az árváltoztatási jellemzőkön belül a választott bolttípusokban meghaladja az árversenyre utaló akciók és árcsökkentések együttes előfordulási gyakoriságát, továbbá az átlagos fogyasztói árszintekben sem jelentős az eltérés a választott bolttípusok között. A fogyasztói árak növekedésének okát, a makrogazdasági hatásokon kívül, az élelmiszerláncban megfigyelhető erőviszonyokkal és érvényben lévő piaci mechanizmusokkal (hátsó kondíciók, beszerzési ár alatti értékesítési tilalom) lehet összefüggésbe hozni. ------------------------------------------------------- The consumer price index of foodstuffs has been increasing at a rate higher than inflation for years despite the growing competition between food retail units. The strength of competition is characterised by a balanced make-up of the food retail operations, as indicated by the absence of changes to the relative market share held by the six largest market players. Price is the most frequently used tool in this competition. Lower prices can be introduced as special prices or lowered prices. The trends in average retail price is confirmed by an analysis of the frequency of the various price changing operations (special prices, lowering of prices, increasing of prices and leaving prices unchanged), as well as that of price levels. In the types of retail units selected for the paper, price increases occur more frequently than special prices and price reductions – the signs of price competition – combined. The types of unit do not significantly differ in terms of their average retail price levels either. Apart from macroeconomic influences, the rising of retail prices may be associated with the distribution of power along the food chain, as well as the prevailing market mechanisms (underlying terms, prohibition to sell below purchase price).
Therates kraatzi Horn 1900
Creators: name: Wiesner, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cincidelidae
Therates
Therates kraatzi

description: 19. Therates kraatzi Horn
(Fig. 139)
Therates kraatzi Horn 1900: 195, 196.
Therates kraatzi. Horn 1910: 194; Horn 1926: 113; Mandl 1972: 110, f. 4d, e; Wiesner 1988: 17, 18, f. 20, 70, 238, 302, 303, 399; Naviaux 1991: 230, f. 33, 34 (= major Probst and Wiesner, 1994); Wiesner 1992: 90; Probst and Wiesner 1994b: 101.
Type depository. Holotype male in SDEI.
Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “ Penang ” [handwritten]; “Holotypus” [printed, red]; “ Kraatzi mihi ” [handwritten, light yellow, with black borders].
Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of elytra with roundish central dot, humeral lunule which is strongly extended onto disk, and the yellow tibiae.
Re-description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 6.7 mm- 8.4 mm, (mean=7.6, n=7). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in females, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 146, female Fig. 145) as wide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae lanceolate, extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in male, somewhat shorter in the females, scape with a single apical bristle, antennomeres 2 to 5 glabrous, antennomeres 6 to 11 finely and evenly pubescent; scape yellowish above, black on underside, all the other antennal segments dark. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth, with a transverse furrow in the posterior part of the orbital plates. Thorax: Pronotum shining greenish black, as long as wide, constricted in front and at back, transverse furrows strong, middle line and lateral lines nearly obsolete, middle line with several transverse short branches. Elytra: Shining brownish black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate in front, shallower in the apical half (Fig. 140). Apex with angular (in males) or roundish (in females) lateral corner and a sutural tooth, slightly recurved between. Maculation composed of a long yellow humeral lunule which is extended on the disk towards the centrel dot, yellow basal dot connected with the lunule at base, roundish central dot, and light yellow apex which reaches the apical humps; occasionally shorter in females (Figs. 141-143). Ventral aspect: Venter black. Legs yellowish, hind femora, tibiae and tarsomeres darker distally. Aedeagus: (Fig. 144) curved, with pin shaped and produced tip, total length 1.9 mm.
Distribution. Thailand (Nan, Tak, Nakhon Si Thammarat), Malaysia (Penang).
Localities. THAILAND, Nan, Ban Huay Kon env., 27.v.-10.vi.2002 (OSCC), Tak, Umphang District, Song Bae Stream, Thung Yai Wildlife Sanctuary, 18-27.iv. 1988, 300m, evergreen rain forest (BMNH), Nakhon Si Thammarat, Khao ram, Taisui, 21.iii.1922 (SDEI).
description: Published as part of Wiesner, Jürgen, 2013, The chennelli group of the Genus Therates Latreille (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) 114. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelidae, pp. 1-86 in Insecta Mundi 2013 (315) on page 24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5176988
Alternative institutional arrangements for contract farming in poultry production in Bangladesh and their impacts on equity
Creators: name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Rahman, M.H.
name: Talukder, Rezaul Karim
name: Raha, S.K.
name: Jabbar, Mohammad A.
name: Rahman, M.H.
name: Talukder, Rezaul Karim
name: Raha, S.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: Also available in the ILRI Repository on Livestock Research at http://hdl.handle.net/10568/217
Improved Approximation Factor for Adaptive Influence Maximization via Simple Greedy Strategies
Creators: name: D'Angelo, Gianlorenzo
name: Poddar, Debashmita
name: Vinci, Cosimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the adaptive influence maximization problem, we are given a social network and a budget $k$, and we iteratively select $k$ nodes, called seeds, in order to maximize the expected number of nodes that are reached by an influence cascade that they generate according to a stochastic model for influence diffusion. Differently from the non-adaptive influence maximization problem, where all the seeds must be selected beforehand, here nodes are selected sequentially one by one, and the decision on the $i$th seed is based on the observed cascade produced by the first $i-1$ seeds. We focus on the myopic feedback model, in which we can only observe which neighbors of previously selected seeds have been influenced and on the independent cascade model, where each edge is associated with an independent probability of diffusing influence. Previous works showed that the adaptivity gap is at most $4$, which implies that the non-adaptive greedy algorithm guarantees an approximation factor of $\frac{1}{4}\left(1-\frac{1}{e}\right)$ for the adaptive problem. In this paper, we improve the bounds on both the adaptivity gap and on the approximation factor. We directly analyze the approximation factor of the non-adaptive greedy algorithm, without passing through the adaptivity gap, and show that it is at least $\frac{1}{2}\left(1-\frac{1}{e}\right)$. Therefore, the adaptivity gap is at most $\frac{2e}{e-1}\approx 3.164$. To prove these bounds, we introduce a new approach to relate the greedy non-adaptive algorithm to the adaptive optimum. The new approach does not rely on multi-linear extensions or random walks on optimal decision trees, which are commonly used techniques in the field. We believe that it is of independent interest and may be used to analyze other adaptive optimization problems.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2006.15374
Two and three loop alpha' corrections to T-duality: Kasner and Schwarzschild
Creators: name: Exirifard, Ghasem
name: O'Loughlin, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two and three loop alpha' corrections are calculated for Kasner and Schwarzschild metrics, and their T-duals, in the bosonic string theory. These metrics are used to obtain the two and three loop alpha' corrections to T-duality. It is noted in particular that the inclusion of alpha' corrections and the requirement of consistency with the alpha'-corrected T-duality for the Kasner and Schwarzschild metrics enables one to fix uniquely the covariant form of the T-duality rules at three loops. As a generalization of the T-dual of the Schwarzschild geometry a class of massless geometries is presented.
description: 33 pages latex, 1 figure, references added
Therates pearsoni Wiesner 2013, new species
Creators: name: Wiesner, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cincidelidae
Therates
Therates pearsoni

description: 21. Therates pearsoni new species
(Fig. 153)
Type depository. Holotype male in NHMB, paratypes in JWCG and NHMB.
Type status. Holotype male! Type labels: “ VIETNAM-N, Quang binh prov., 1 km N of Cha Lo, 400 m, Vietnam-Laos border area, 17°41’22"N 105°45’45"E, L. Dembický leg., 11.-24.iv.2010 " [printed, white]; “HOLOTYPE Therates pearsoni n. sp., ded. J. Wiesner 2013” [printed, red]. Paratypes! Type labels: “VIETNAM-N, Quang binh prov., 1 km N of Cha Lo, 400 m, Vietnam-Laos border area, 17°41’22"N 105°45’45"E, L. Dembický leg., 11.-24.iv.2010 " [printed, white]; “ PARATYPE Therates pearsoni n. sp., ded. J. Wiesner 2013” [printed, red].
Diagnosis. Distinguished by the combination of elytra with broad basal dot and male with two enlarged distal antennomeres.
Etymology. This new species is dedicated to David L. Pearson in deep gratitude for his continuous help.
Description. Size: Total length (without labrum) 8.2 mm- 9.2 mm, (mean= 8.6 mm, n=6). Head: Shining greenish black. Mandibles yellowish, brownish distally in female, teeth brownish marginally. Labrum (male Fig. 159, female Fig. 160) as wide as long, yellowish, with six apical teeth and one lateral tooth. Labial and maxillary palpi yellowish. Antennae extending posteriorally behind elytral shoulders in female, somewhat longer in the male, scape with a single apical bristle, antennomeres 2 to 5 glabrous, antennomeres 6 to 11 finely and evenly pubescent; scape yellowish above, black on underside, the other antennal segments brownish, distal two segments blackish, enlarged in the males. Clypeus glabrous. Frons smooth, with a transverse furrow and some striae in the posterior part of the orbital plates. Thorax: Pronotum shining greenish black, as long as wide, barely more constricted in front than at back, transverse furrows strong, middle line and lateral lines nearly obsolete, middle line with several transverse short branches. Elytra: Shining black, with basal and apical humps, distinctly punctate in front, nearly absent in apical half (Fig. 154). Apex with angular lateral and sutural tooth, recurved between, transparent brownish, yellowish towards the apex, suture yellowish. Maculation yellow, composed of a humeral lunule, a basal dot and a central dot, which is acutely angled inwards toward the suture (Figs. 141-143). Ventral aspect: Venter black. Legs brownish, tibiae and tarsal joints darkened slightly at apex. Aedeagus: (Fig. 158) curved, with bent and knobbed tip distally, total length 2.1 mm.
Distribution. Vietnam (Quang binh).
description: Published as part of Wiesner, Jürgen, 2013, The chennelli group of the Genus Therates Latreille (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) 114. Contribution towards the knowledge of Cicindelidae, pp. 1-86 in Insecta Mundi 2013 (315) on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5176988
Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-sensitive Analysis of Household-level Impacts
Creators: name: D'Souza, Anna
name: Jolliffe, Dean
name: D'Souza, Anna
name: Jolliffe, Dean
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Afghanistan
subject: food prices
subject: wheat
subject: food security
subject: nutrition
subject: poverty
subject: quantile regression
subject: influence functions

description: We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine the marginal effects of price increases at different locations on the distributions of several measures of food security. UQR estimates reveals that the negative marginal effect of a price increase on food consumption is two and a half times larger for households that can afford to cut the value of food consumption (75th quantile) relative to those households at the bottom (25th quantile) of the food-consumption distribution. Similarly, households that can afford to cut caloric intake do so in a meaningful way, but those at the bottom of the calorie distribution (25th quantile) make very small changes in intake as a result of the price increases. Households at the bottom of the distribution of dietary diversity make the largest adjustments in the quality of their diets, since such households often live at subsistence levels and cannot make large cuts in caloric intake without suffering serious health consequences. These results indicate that when faced with staple-food price increases, food-insecure households sacrifice quality (diversity) in order to protect calories. The large differences in behavioral responses of households that lie at the top and bottom of these distributions suggest that policy analyses that rely solely on OLS techniques, which estimate the mean marginal effects, may be misleading.
description: Replaced with revised version of paper 07/29/11.