cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Quasar Spectral Slope Variability in the Optical Band
Creators: name: Trevese, D.
name: Vagnetti, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed a new analysis of B and R light curves of a sample of PG quasars. We confirm the variability-redshift correlation and its explanation in terms of spectral variability, coupled with the increase of rest-frame observing frequency for quasars at high redshift. The analysis of the instantaneous spectral slope for the whole quasar samples indicates both an inter-QSO and intra-QSO variability-luminosity correlation. Numerical simulations show that the latter correlation cannot be entirely due to the addition of the host galaxy emission to a nuclear spectrum of variable luminosity but constant shape, implying a spectral variability of the nuclear component. Changes of accretion rate are also insufficient to explain the amount of spectral variation, while hot spots possibly caused by local disk instabilities can explain the observations.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Ap.J., January 2002
Streaming Longitudinal Study; Teachers, 1967
Teachers, 1967
Creators: name: National Foundation For Educational Research
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1976

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of streaming and non-streaming on the personality, and social and intellectual development of junior school pupils. The data are held under nine separate study numbers; one for each of the eight surveys and one for the merged file. The study covers a four-year period. In the first year, 1964 (Surveys SN:008 and SN:009), a cross-sectional study of 84 schools, 42 matched pairs of streamed and non-streamed schools, was made. In the succeeding three years, this number was reduced as schools dropped out due to changes in organisation or to reductions in numbers of pupils or staff. In the end, only schools that had completed the full research programme were considered in the longitudinal study, that is, data from 72 schools or 36 matched pairs. The longitudinal study was concerned, therefore, with those children who were in their first year in 1964 and who remained in the school throughout the whole of the junior course - 5521 pupils in all. The data are of two main types, those concerned with pupils and those concerned with teachers. SN:261 is a merged file of datasets for pupils (SN:007, SN:008, SN:010, SN:012).
Zone methods and the fermion sign problem
Creators: name: Lee, Dean
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review a recently proposed approach to the problem of alternating signs for fermionic many body Monte Carlo simulations in finite temperature simulations. We derive an estimate for fermion wandering lengths and introduce the notion of permutation zones, special regions of the lattice where identical fermions may interchange and outside of which they may not. Using successively larger permutation zones, one can extrapolate to obtain thermodynamic observables in regimes where direct simulation is impossible.
description: 3 pages, 1 figure, Lattice2002(algor)
Australodynerus pusilloides subsp. nigriventris Giordani Soika 1993
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Australodynerus
Australodynerus pusilloides
Pusilloides nigriventris giordani soika

description: pusilloides nigriventris Giordani Soika
Australodynerus pusilloides nigriventris Giordani Soika 1993b: 139, female—“ W. Australia: 3 Km W Mt. Ragged, 33°27’S 123°29’E ” (Perth); also from “2 Km WNW Woolbernup Hill, 34°01’S 119°/41’E.”— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 92 (list).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Sharp bounds on the smallest eigenvalue of finite element equations with arbitrary meshes without regularity assumptions
Creators: name: Kamenski, Lennard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65N30, 65N50, 65N22, 65F15

description: A proof for the lower bound is provided for the smallest eigenvalue of finite element equations with arbitrary conforming simplicial meshes. The bound has a similar form as the one by Graham and McLean [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 44 (2006), pp. 1487--1513] but doesn't require any mesh regularity assumptions, neither global nor local. In particular, it is valid for highly adaptive, anisotropic, or non-regular meshes without any restrictions. In three and more dimensions, the bound depends only on the number of degrees of freedom $N$ and the Hölder mean $M_{1-d/2} (\lvert \tildeω \rvert / \lvert ω_i \lvert)$ taken to the power $1-2/d$, $\lvert \tildeω \rvert$ and $\lvert ω_i \rvert$ denoting the average mesh patch volume and the volume of the patch corresponding to the $i^{\text{th}}$ mesh node, respectively. In two dimensions, the bound depends on the number of degrees of freedom $N$ and the logarithmic term $(1 + \lvert \ln (N \lvert ω_{\min} \rvert) \rvert)$, $\lvert ω_{\min} \rvert$ denoting the volume of the smallest patch. Provided numerical examples demonstrate that the bound is more accurate and less dependent on the mesh non-uniformity than the previously available bounds.
description: Small corrections and improvements
L'INDIVIDUATION OU LA COMMUNICATION TRANSDUCTIVE DE L'ÊTRE
Creators: name: Kassi Magloire GNAMIEN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Le caractère anthropocentrique de la communication renforcé ces dernières décennies par le développement des TIC, présente la communication comme une activité sectaire qui laisse apparaitre une rupture entre les différents modes d’existé. Dans ce contexte, cet article, s’inscrivant  dans la dynamique de la civilisation universelle fertilisée de nos jours par les préfixes  « inter- » et « trans- ». Il invite à la dialectique de la pensée sur la communication afin de percevoir dans la manifestation du mode d’existé au monde de tout être, une activité inter et transductive nécessaire à l’équilibre vital.
Streaming Longitudinal Study; Pupils, 1967
Pupils, 1967
Creators: name: National Foundation For Educational Research
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1976

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of streaming and non-streaming on the personality, and social and intellectual development of junior school pupils. The data are held under nine separate study numbers; one for each of the eight surveys and one for the merged file. The study covers a four-year period. In the first year, 1964 (Surveys SN:008 and SN:009), a cross-sectional study of 84 schools, 42 matched pairs of streamed and non-streamed schools, was made. In the succeeding three years, this number was reduced as schools dropped out due to changes in organisation or to reductions in numbers of pupils or staff. In the end, only schools that had completed the full research programme were considered in the longitudinal study, that is, data from 72 schools or 36 matched pairs. The longitudinal study was concerned, therefore, with those children who were in their first year in 1964 and who remained in the school throughout the whole of the junior course - 5521 pupils in all. The data are of two main types, those concerned with pupils and those concerned with teachers. SN:261 is a merged file of datasets for pupils (SN:007, SN:008, SN:010, SN:012).
Australodynerus pusilloides subsp. pusilloides Giordani Soika 1962
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Australodynerus
Australodynerus pusilloides
Pusilloides pusilloides giordani soika

description: pusilloides pusilloides Giordani Soika
Australodynerus pusilloides Giordani Soika 1962 [1961]: 115 (key), 119, fig. 11, female, male—“ W. Australia: Yanchep, 32 mls N. of Perth” (London); 1977: 118 (W. A.: Dongarra, “Maya, 2 mls S,” Merredin, Midland).— Cardale 1985: 168 (cat.).— Borsato & Ratti 1999: 91 (list).
Australodynerus pusilloides pusilloides; Giordani Soika 1977: 122 (key); 1993b: 138 (W. A.: “East Mt. Barren, 33°55’S 121°22’’E,” “13–15 Km W Lake King,” “8 Km NE Tamala, 26°42’S 113°43’E,” “Tutanning Res., 18–25-Km E Pingelly,” “NE Foot Whogurup Range, Fitzerald Riv. Nat. Park”).— Borsato 1996: 222 (key); 2003: 543 (W. A.: “North Tarin Rock Reserve (32.59S.— 118.14E),” “Melaleuca Park, 11 km NE Wanneroo,” “9 k.m WSW of Eneabba (29.49S.— 115.16E),” “ 25 km NNW of Gin Gin,” “ 13 km S of Wanndo (26.49S.— 114.37E),” “0,5 k.m E of Forrestdale Lake 25 km SSE of Perth,” “ 5.5—6.5 km SW of McDermid Rock (32.01S.— 120.44E),” “Sandpalin Wongan Hill,” Point Heron Area).
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
Reducing the Visibility of High Latency Transitions in a Virtual World
Creators: name: Andrason, Sindri
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Systems
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Online virtual worlds have gradually gained prominence in the age of the internet. While most of them exist as video games, some have aims of being a tool for general use; often using the term "metaverse" to describe themselves. Some of these worlds distribute their load across multiple servers, allowing users to transition between servers seamlessly. These severs, however, are typically local to each other, so latency between them is not an issue. This thesis makes the case for a seamless virtual world with servers spread across the globe, opening the door for, or even incentivizing cultural exchange. Three strategies, each building on the last, are proposed for reducing the the visibility of non-trivial latency between servers. While virtual worlds on multiple servers have existed for many years, there appears to be little to no public research on the subject of this thesis: inter-server latency. For this purpose, a virtual world was implemented; servers to run it and clients to interact with it. A delayer to artificially create latency between devices completed the core components needed for the research to proceed. The most advanced synchronization strategy implemented, dubbed Weighted Overlap, is designed to significantly reduce visible artifacts of high latency inter-server transfer. The results show that Weighted Overlap makes transitions appear significantly smoother to clients than both a baseline implementation and the two less advanced implemented strategies. This research demonstrates that, at least with some trade-offs, latency in the demanding context of seamless virtual worlds is not impossible to overcome
The Patentability of Non-physical Investions: Lessons from the United States
Creators: name: McEniery, Ben
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: Patent systems around the world are being pressed to protect new and exciting subject matter in order to keep pace with the rapid technological advancement of our age. This rapid development and pressure to expand the bounds of what has traditionally been recognised as patentable subject matter has created uncertainty regarding what it is that the patent system is actually supposed to protect. Among other things, the patent system has had to contend with uncertainty surrounding claims to horticultural and agricultural methods, artifi cial living micro-organisms, methods of treating the human body, computer software and business methods. The contentious issue of the moment is one at whose heart lies the important distinction between what is a mere abstract idea and what is properly an invention deserving of the monopoly protection afforded by a patent. That question is whether purely non-physical inventions, being methods that do not involve a physical effect or cause a physical transformation of matter, constitute patentable subject matter. This paper goes some way to addressing these uncertainties by considering how the Australian approach to the question can be informed by developments arising in the United States and canvassing some of the possible lessons we in Australia might learn from the approaches taken thus far in the United States.
CAUTHE-2021-Conference-proceedings.pdf
Creators: name: Mears, Stephen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 150402 Hospitality Management
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Conversation Analysis (CA) examines spoken discourse through the use of a variety of tools. Some of these include: adjacency pairs, turn taking, conversational opening and closings and others. Its strength is with analysing recordings of spoken data (Paltridge, 2012). However, as an approach to the analysis of spoken discourse, CA’s detail becomes ‘less-accentuated’ in the absence of implicature. This working paper, will briefly address the relevance of implicature–particularly the maxim of relation, and how other discourse considerations (channels) contribute to furthering the ‘informal’ representation of spoken words with meaning. The methodology and discourse considerations advocated in this working paper, contribute to research quality and acquisition of knowledge in meaning-making–being explored in a mixed methods study currently undertaken by the author . As such, this working paper provides evidence towards validating this phenomenon of meaning-making. In providing insight to this argument, a CA analysis was undertaken with three postgraduate hospitality students. To acknowledge the sample size (n), a sample methodology using ‘quality of information power’ was used to gain insight into CA discourse and other discourse considerations as identified above. All three participants were aware of the study’s intent, signed disclosure statements and remained anonymous in the reporting of this study. It should be noted, that attributes relating to inequality, power, social and cultural differences, whilst relevant, are beyond the scope of this working paper (Wooffitt, 2005). The findings of the study, through analysis of turn taking between participants, suggested a representation of meaning given to implicature (maxim of relation) and communication through adjacency of pairs. Whilst these are of interest, and further the capability of CA as a discourse tool, it is the ‘opportunity’ to incorporate other analysis tools that gives meaning to an ‘informal conversation’.
The Normalized Matching Property in Random and Pseudorandom Bipartite Graphs
Creators: name: Balachandran, Niranjan
name: Kush, Deepanshu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 05C80 (Primary) 05C70, 06A07, 60C05 (Secondary)

description: A simple generalization of the Hall's condition in bipartite graphs, the Normalized Matching Property (NMP) in a graph $G(X,Y,E)$ with vertex partition $(X,Y)$ states that for any subset $S\subseteq X$, we have $\frac{|N(S)|}{|Y|}\ge\frac{|S|}{|X|}$. In this paper, we show the following results about having the Normalized Matching Property in random and pseudorandom graphs. 1. We establish $p=\frac{\log n}{k}$ as a sharp threshold for having NMP in $\mathbb{G}(k,n,p)$, which is the graph with $|X|=k,|Y|=n$ (assuming $k\le n\leq \exp(o(k))$), and in which each pair $(x,y)\in X\times Y$ is an edge independently with probability $p$. This generalizes a classic result of Erdős-Rényi on the $\frac{\log n}{n}$ threshold for having a perfect matching in $\mathbb{G}(n,n,p)$. 2. We also show that a pseudorandom bipartite graph - upon deletion of a vanishingly small fraction of vertices - admits NMP, provided it is not too sparse. More precisely, a bipartite graph $G(X,Y)$, with $k=|X|\le |Y|=n$, is said to be Thomason pseudorandom (following A. Thomason (Discrete Math., 1989)) with parameters $(p,\varepsilon)$ if each $x\in X$ has degree at least $pn$ and each pair of distinct $x, x'\in X$ has at most $(1+\varepsilon)p^2n$ common neighbors. We show that for any large enough $(p,\varepsilon)$-Thomason pseudorandom graph $G(X,Y)$, there are "tiny" subsets $\mathrm{Del}_X\subset X, \ \mathrm{Del}_Y\subset Y$ such that the subgraph $G(X\setminus \mathrm{Del}_X,Y\setminus \mathrm{Del}_Y)$ has NMP, provided $p \gg\tfrac{1}{k}$. En route, we prove an "almost" vertex decomposition theorem: Every such Thomason pseudorandom graph admits - excluding a negligible portion of its vertex set - a partition of its vertex set into graphs that we call Euclidean trees. These are trees that have NMP, and which arise organically through the Euclidean GCD algorithm.
description: 28 pages, 3 figures; Changes from v1 to v2: improved exposition and clarity of proofs, added references. Change from v2 to v3: added one new reference for Euclidean trees
Kernelized Multiview Subspace Analysis by Self-weighted Learning
Creators: name: Wang, Huibing
name: Wang, Yang
name: Zhang, Zhao
name: Fu, Xianping
name: Li, Zhuo
name: Xu, Mingliang
name: Wang, Meng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the popularity of multimedia technology, information is always represented or transmitted from multiple views. Most of the existing algorithms are graph-based ones to learn the complex structures within multiview data but overlooked the information within data representations. Furthermore, many existing works treat multiple views discriminatively by introducing some hyperparameters, which is undesirable in practice. To this end, abundant multiview based methods have been proposed for dimension reduction. However, there are still no research to leverage the existing work into a unified framework. To address this issue, in this paper, we propose a general framework for multiview data dimension reduction, named Kernelized Multiview Subspace Analysis (KMSA). It directly handles the multi-view feature representation in the kernel space, which provides a feasible channel for direct manipulations on multiview data with different dimensions. Meanwhile, compared with those graph-based methods, KMSA can fully exploit information from multiview data with nothing to lose. Furthermore, since different views have different influences on KMSA, we propose a self-weighted strategy to treat different views discriminatively according to their contributions. A co-regularized term is proposed to promote the mutual learning from multi-views. KMSA combines self-weighted learning with the co-regularized term to learn appropriate weights for all views. We also discuss the influence of the parameters in KMSA regarding the weights of multi-views. We evaluate our proposed framework on 6 multiview datasets for classification and image retrieval. The experimental results validate the advantages of our proposed method.
description: Appearing at IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Endogenous Technical Change and Groundwater Management: Revisiting the Gisser-Sanchez Paradox
Creators: name: Kim, C.S.
name: Fuglie, Keith O.
name: Wallander, Steve
name: Wechsler, Seth
name: Kim, C.S.
name: Fuglie, Keith O.
name: Wallander, Steve
name: Wechsler, Seth
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Gisser−Sanchez
subject: consumptive water use
subject: application rate
subject: induced irrigation technology
subject: optimal government subsidy rate

description: Traditional models of groundwater economics, as well as many current iterations of those models, assume that optimal aquifer depletion occurs with a fixed irrigation technology. As noted by Koundouri (2004), this assumption is one of several that contributes to the Gisser-Sanchez Effect (GSE), one of the most controversial theoretical/empirical results in groundwater management literature since it appeared in a seminal paper in 1980. The GSE states that economic benefits from managing the groundwater use for irrigation would be insignificant when the storage capacity of groundwater stock is relatively large and the demand for groundwater is highly inelastic. In this paper, we show that the elasticity of the groundwater demand curve decreases over time as increasing extraction costs drive movement to more efficient irrigation technologies. In addition, this shifting of the demand curve is even greater when incorporating a model of induced technical change through endogenous R&D expenditures. Using this model, we show that the GSE does not exist when the assumption of a fixed irrigation technology is relaxed.
Latuspina Monzen 1954
Creators: name: Melika, George
name: Pujade-Villar, Juli
name: Abe, Yoshihisa
name: Tang, Chang-Ti
name: Nicholls, James
name: Wachi, Nakatada
name: Ide, Tatsuya
name: Yang, Man-Miao
name: Pénzes, Zsolt
name: Csóka, György
name: Stone, Graham N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Cynipidae
Latuspina

description: Latuspina Monzen, 1954, new status
Figs 106–114, 115–120, 121–126.
 Type species: Neuroterus (Latuspina) stirps Monzen, 1954. Designated herein by monotypy.
 The original description does agree with a Neuroterus character set, except that the projecting part of the ventral spine of the hypopygium is not normally pointed at the apex, but “dilated like a spatula” (Monzen 1954). The difference in the ventral spine of the hypopygium is a characteristic rather of generic level than of subgeneric one. Thus, Latuspina is elevated to a genus rank and consequently, the placement of Latuspina into Neuroterus is incorrect.
 Diagnosis. The striking feature of Latuspina females is the prominent part of the ventral spine of the hypopygium with two subapical lateral lumps, spine tri-forked, each of lumps with 5-8 long setae extending far beyond apex. No other Cynipini possess with such a shape of the ventral spine of hypopygium. In the male antenna, the pedicel is as long as scape, both strongly flattened and broad, at least twice broader than the width of flagellomeres, while in all other male Cynipini, that lack entirely or possess an incomplete transscutal articulation, the pedicel is always shorter than scape, both less flattened and broad, and less than twice broader than flagellomeres. On the basis of these unique characters, we establish a new genus, Latuspina Monzen.
 The original description of Latuspina stirps (Monzen 1954) is very brief and insufficient for all taxonomic purposes and thus we provide a complete redescription below.
description: Published as part of Melika, George, Pujade-Villar, Juli, Abe, Yoshihisa, Tang, Chang-Ti, Nicholls, James, Wachi, Nakatada, Ide, Tatsuya, Yang, Man-Miao, Pénzes, Zsolt, Csóka, György & Stone, Graham N., 2010, 2470, pp. 1-79 in Zootaxa 2470 on page 18
Education, Labor Quality and U.S. Agricultural Growth
Creators: name: Wang, Sun Ling
name: Somwaru, Agapi
name: Ball, Eldon
name: Wang, Sun Ling
name: Somwaru, Agapi
name: Ball, Eldon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Tὄrnqvist index
subject: educational attainment
subject: labor quality
subject: labor productivity
subject: U.S. agriculture

description: This study employs a Tὄrnqvist index approach to construct quality-adjusted labor index for the U.S. farm sector using the volume (hours worked) of 192 demographic components and their corresponding cost shares. We decompose labor input change into quality change and quantity change. The results show that between 1948 and 2011 the decline of total hours worked resulted in -0.58 percentage points of output growth per year while increasing labor quality contributed to 0.08 percentage points of annual output growth. We further decompose labor quality change into a change in the educational attainment of the labor force and a change due to other factors. Our results show that the education component contributed to most of the labor quality changes during the study period. However, the contribution of educational attainment is greater in earlier years than in later years.
Can stellar winds account for temperature fluctuations in H II regions? The case of NGC 2363
Creators: name: Luridiana, V.
name: Cervino, M.
name: Binette, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the rate of kinetic energy injected by stellar winds into the extragalactic H II region NGC 2363 to the luminosity needed to feed the observed temperature fluctuations. The kinetic luminosity associated to the winds is estimated by means of two different evolutionary synthesis codes, one of which takes into account the statistical fluctuations expected in the Initial Mass Function. We find that, even in the most favorable conditions considered by our model, such luminosity is much smaller than the luminosity needed to account for the observed temperature fluctuations. The assumptions underlying our study are emphasized as possible sources of uncertainty affecting our results.
description: 7 pages, 1 figure; accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics. 1 erratum found and corrected on p. 4
R&D EXPENDITURES AND MARKET VALUE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY FIRMS
Creators: name: Chojnacki, Piotr
name: Kijek, Tomasz
name: Chojnacki, Piotr
name: Kijek, Tomasz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: R&D
subject: biotechnology
subject: market value
subject: innovation

description: The aim of this paper is to conduct an analysis of R&D investments and their impact on a biotechnology firm’s value. The sample consists of the top 52 R&D investors from the European biotechnology sector. The data were obtained from “EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard”. The multiple linear regression was applied to find the answer to the research question. The main findings of the study reveal that there is a positive relationship between the firm’s investment in R&D and the market value.
Static Potential and Local Color Fields in Unquenched Three-Dimensional Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Trottier, Howard D.
name: Wong, Kit Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: String breaking by dynamical quarks in (2+1)-d lattice QCD is demonstrated in this project, by measuring the static potential and the local color-electric field strength between a heavy quark and antiquark pair at large separations. Simulations are done for unquenched SU(2) color with two flavors of staggered quarks. An improved gluon action is used which allows simulations to be done on coarse lattices, providing an extremely efficient means to access the quark separations and propagation times at which string breaking occurs. The static quark potential is extracted using only Wilson loop operators and hence no valence quarks are present in the trial states. Results give unambiguous evidence for string breaking as the static quark potential completely saturates at twice the heavy-light meson mass at large separations. It is also shown that the local color-electric field strength between the quark pair tends toward vacuum values at large separations. Implications of these results for unquenched simulations of QCD in 4-d are drawn.
description: 3 pages, contribution to Lattice 2002 proceedings (Confinement)
Australodynerus pusillus
Creators: name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Brown, Graham R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Australodynerus
Australodynerus pusillus

description: pusillus (de Saussure)
Odynerus Pusillus de Saussure 1855: 287, female (in subgenus Odynerus division Epsilon)—“La Nouvelle-Hollande ” (type depository unknown).— Smith 1857: 64 (cat.).— Froggatt 1892: 231 (cat.).— Dalla Torre 1894: 91 (cat.); 1904: 52 (cat.).— Giordani Soika 1962 [1961]: 118 (holotype examined).
Odynerus macilentus de Saussure 1867: 16, pl. I fig. 10, female (in subgenus Leionotus division Stenodynerus)— “ Australia, Sydney” (Wien).— Froggatt 1892: 231 (cat.).— Dalla Torre 1894: 76; 1904: 48 (in subgenus Lionotus; cat.).— Giordani Soika 1941: 251 (in subgenus Rhynchium; male; “N. S. Wales”); 1962 [1961]: 116 (syn. of pusillus); 1973a: 29 (“Allotipo”).
Australodynerus pusillus; Giordani Soika 1962 [1961]: 115 (key), 116, fig. 10 (syn.: O. macilentus de Saussure; “N. Holl. Dainel”; var. from Adelaide); 1977: 118 (Vic.: Kewell), 122 (key).— Cardale 1985: 168 (cat.).— Borsato 1996: 219 (W. A.: “Melaleuca Park, 11 Km NE Wanneroo,” Point Heron Area, “13 Km. S. of Wannoo,” “Sandplain Womgan Hills”), 222 (key),
description: Published as part of Carpenter, James M. & Brown, Graham R., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian Eumeninae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 4919 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4919.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4473370
HTTP Cookies: Standards, Privacy, and Politics
Creators: name: Kristol, David M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.2.2; K.2

description: How did we get from a world where cookies were something you ate and where "non-techies" were unaware of "Netscape cookies" to a world where cookies are a hot-button privacy issue for many computer users? This paper will describe how HTTP "cookies" work, and how Netscape's original specification evolved into an IETF Proposed Standard. I will also offer a personal perspective on how what began as a straightforward technical specification turned into a political flashpoint when it tried to address non-technical issues such as privacy.
Patch-Based Image Similarity for Intraoperative 2D/3D Pelvis Registration During Periacetabular Osteotomy
Creators: name: Grupp, Robert
name: Armand, Mehran
name: Taylor, Russell
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Periacetabular osteotomy is a challenging surgical procedure for treating developmental hip dysplasia, providing greater coverage of the femoral head via relocation of a patient's acetabulum. Since fluoroscopic imaging is frequently used in the surgical workflow, computer-assisted X-Ray navigation of osteotomes and the relocated acetabular fragment should be feasible. We use intensity-based 2D/3D registration to estimate the pelvis pose with respect to fluoroscopic images, recover relative poses of multiple views, and triangulate landmarks which may be used for navigation. Existing similarity metrics are unable to consistently account for the inherent mismatch between the preoperative intact pelvis, and the intraoperative reality of a fractured pelvis. To mitigate the effect of this mismatch, we continuously estimate the relevance of each pixel to solving the registration and use these values as weightings in a patch-based similarity metric. Limiting computation to randomly selected subsets of patches results in faster runtimes than existing patch-based methods. A simulation study was conducted with random fragment shapes, relocations, and fluoroscopic views, and the proposed method achieved a 1.7 mm mean triangulation error over all landmarks, compared to mean errors of 3 mm and 2.8 mm for the non-patched and image-intensity-variance-weighted patch similarity metrics, respectively.
description: Presented at MICCAI CLIP Workshop 2018
Explaining Cropping Choices under Extreme Uncertainty: Evidence from Conflict Prone North Kivu, DR Congo
Creators: name: Fatema, Naureen
name: Kibriya, Shahriar
name: Fatema, Naureen
name: Kibriya, Shahriar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
International Development
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Much of the literature on developing countries has investigated ways in which farming households choose different cropping systems to hedge against uncertainty caused by weather and production shocks (e.g. Dercon, 1996 and Morduch, 1990). Very few studies have extended the analysis to examine the effects of uncertainty arising from violence or prevailing socioeconomic challenges. In this study we test whether cropping decisions of small stakeholder farmers living in the conflict prone agrarian province of North Kivu are rational and can be explained by the level of exposure to conflict, social empowerment and access to markets and information. We further investigate if contracts or guaranty from buyers through market access can partially act as a buffer against the uncertainty brought upon by conflict. We find that increased exposure to social conflict increases cultivation of conflict-resistant crops and crop diversification; low access to markets and information as well as the lack of contracts reduces cultivation of conflict-resistant crops and crop diversification; we find mixed results for social empowerment.
Bilinear summation formulas from quantum algebra representations
Creators: name: Groenevelt, Wolter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33D45, 33D80, 20G42

description: The tensor product of a positive and a negative discrete series representation of the quantum algebra U_q(su(1,1)) decomposes as a direct integral over the principal unitary series representations. Discrete terms can appear, and these terms are a finite number of discrete series representations, or one complementary series representation. From the interpretation as overlap coefficients of little q-Jacobi functions and Al-Salam and Chihara polynomials in base q and base q^{-1}, two closely related bilinear summation formulas for the Al-Salam and Chihara polynomials are derived. The formulas involve Askey-Wilson polynomials, continuous dual q-Hahn polynomials and little q-Jacobi functions. The realization of the discrete series as q-difference operators on the spaces of holomorphic and anti-holomorphic functions, leads to a bilinear generating function for a certain type of 2-phi-1 -series, which can be considered as a special case of the dual transmutation kernel for little q-Jacobi functions.
description: 27 pages, 1 figure
Additional file 12 of Targeting SERT promotes tryptophan metabolism: mechanisms and implications in colon cancer treatment
Creators: name: Di Ye,
name: Huanji Xu
name: Hongwei Xia
name: Chenliang Zhang
name: Qiulin Tang
name: Bi, Feng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 12: Table S1. Primer sequence.
Optical & NIR photometry of the interacting Dwarf Galaxies II Zw 70/II Zw 71
Creators: name: Papaderos, P.
name: Noeske, K. G.
name: Cairos, L. M.
name: Vilchez, J. M.
name: Fricke, K. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtained deep optical and NIR images of the pair of blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies II Zw 70 and II Zw 71 in order to study the effects of interaction on the structural properties of their stellar low-surface-brightness (LSB) component. We find that within their Holmberg radius the interacting BCDs under study do not differ significantly in terms of the central surface brightness and exponential scale length of their LSB hosts from typical iE/nE systems. In the faint outskirts (26.2 < mu_B [mag arcsec^-2^] < 28.5) of both systems, however, the present data reveal conspicuous morphological distortions, most notably an extended feature protruding as far as ~9 kpc from the starburst region of II Zw 70 in the direction of II Zw 71. The relatively blue colors of this stellar extension, together with its apparent spatial coincidence with the massive HI streamer connecting the dwarf galaxies, are consistent with the hypothesis that it originates from recent star formation within the gaseous halo of II Zw 70, rather than from stellar matter torn out of the LSB host of the BCD during the interaction.The results presented here support the view that important signatures of the dynamical response and secular evolution of the stellar LSB component in interacting dwarf galaxies can be found in their very faint outskirts.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures; also available at http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~webgk/dgeproc/dge283.ps.gz
Streaming Longitudinal Study; Pupils, 1964
Pupils, 1964
Creators: name: National Foundation For Educational Research
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1976

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of streaming and non-streaming on the personality, and social and intellectual development of junior school pupils. The data are held under nine separate study numbers; one for each of the eight surveys and one for the merged file. The study covers a four-year period. In the first year, 1964 (Surveys SN:008 and SN:009), a cross-sectional study of 84 schools, 42 matched pairs of streamed and non-streamed schools, was made. In the succeeding three years, this number was reduced as schools dropped out due to changes in organisation or to reductions in numbers of pupils or staff. In the end, only schools that had completed the full research programme were considered in the longitudinal study, that is, data from 72 schools or 36 matched pairs. The longitudinal study was concerned, therefore, with those children who were in their first year in 1964 and who remained in the school throughout the whole of the junior course - 5521 pupils in all. The data are of two main types, those concerned with pupils and those concerned with teachers. SN:261 is a merged file of datasets for pupils (SN:007, SN:008, SN:010, SN:012).
Market for Giant Clams as Aquarium Specimens: Report on a Survey of Retailers of Supplies for Saltwater Aquariums, Southeast Queensland, Australia
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Wittenberg, Rene
name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Wittenberg, Rene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Aquarium
subject: giant clams
subject: Australia

description: Retailers in Southeast Queensland of supplies for saltwater aquariums were surveyed in August 1989 with a view to obtaining some indication of the likely demand in this region (and more broadly in Australia for giant clams as aquarium specimens. Information was gathered on the size of the market, the possible demand in Australia for giant clams from clam farms for the aquarium trade, prices, attitudes of aquarium retailers to clam farms and about economic prospects for supplies from clam farms, as well as other factors such as the desirability or otherwise of allowing imports of live clams for the aquarium trade. It emerged that the Australian market for giant clams is likely to be small. Possibly it could absorb about 5,000 clams per year but it seems that these will need to be sold to retailers at a price of $10 each or less (possibly $6 each or less) if a market of this size is to obtain. The market is so small that to supply it would be a sideline for a clam farm and indeed one farm could more than supply the whole market. At a turnout of say 1 00,000 clams per year by a farm, it would only require 5 per cent of its production to satisfy the whole Australian market for clams as aquarium specimens.
Who Is Entitled to Parental Responsibility? Biology, Caregiving, Intention and the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth): A Jurisprudential Feminist Analysis
Creators: name: Zanghellini, Aleardo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: After explaining why considerations about parental entitlements must be factored into any legal regime purporting to allocate parental responsibility, the paper examines three possible grounds for the allocation of parental responsibility: biological connection between an adult and a child, relationship of caregiving between an adult and a child, and an adult’s intention to parent a particular child. The article argues that while biology is a morally irrelevant ground for distributing parental responsibility, caregiving and intentionality are not, and that they usefully inform us on the circumstances under which certain adults are morally entitled to parental responsibility over particular children. The article then goes on to evaluate whether or not the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) sets up a morally defensible regime of parental responsibility allocation. It does so by assessing the extent to which the Act supports biology, caregiving and intentionality as grounds for identifying who has parental responsibility over children. It concludes that the Act falls well short of implementing a morally sound parental responsibility regime. The analysis is jurisprudential in nature and largely informed by feminist literature.
Topological susceptibility with the improved Asqtad action
Creators: name: MILC Collaboration
name: Bernard, C.
name: Burch, T.
name: DeGrand, T. A.
name: DeTar, C. E.
name: Gottlieb, Steven
name: Gregory, E.
name: Hasenfratz, A.
name: Heller, U. M.
name: Hetrick, J.
name: Osborn, J.
name: Sugar, R. L.
name: Toussaint, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As a test of the chiral properties of the improved Asqtad (staggered fermion) action, we have been measuring the topological susceptibility as a function of quark masses for 2 + 1 dynamical flavors. We report preliminary results, which show reasonable agreement with leading order chiral perturbation theory for lattice spacing less than 0.1 fm. The total topological charge, however, shows strong persistence over Monte Carlo time.
description: Lattice2002(algor)
Aquaculture as a use of the Coastal Zone: Environmental and Economic Aspects, Giant Clam Farming as a Development
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Tisdell, Clem
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Coastal Zone Management
subject: Giant clam farming
subject: CITES

description: There is increasing competition for the use of the coastal zone as economic development proceeds. This has resulted in the recent release of a Green Paper by the Queensland Premier's Department on coastal zone management. Economic development and conservation appear rarely, if ever, to be completely compatible, and the use of the coastal area for the development of aquaculture can have some adverse environmental effects. In Australia, aquaculture is relatively underdeveloped and the McKinnon Report sees scope for its expansion. A recent report prepared for the United Nations is also optimistic about the prospects of expanding supplies of fishery products by means of aquaculture. But environmental constraints on and production sustainability problems for mariculture are largely ignored in such reports. Giant Clam farming is a new mariculture possibility and has been developed as a response to dwindling wild stocks of giant clams. Most species of giant clams are now listed in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). While giant clam farming has a number of desirable environmental features and self-sustaining properties compared to other forms of mariculture, it is not without some adverse environmental consequences. But in certain situations the economic benefit from farming giant clams can be expected to outweigh adverse environmental consequences. It pointed out that the environmental impact of mariculture of giant clams varies with the techniques adopted for their cultivation.
Deformations of noncompact Calabi--Yau manifolds, families and diamonds
Creators: name: Gasparim, E.
name: Rubilar, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32G05

description: We introduce a new notion of deformation of complex structure, which we use as an adaptation of Kodaira's theory of deformations, but that is better suited to the study of noncompact manifolds. We present several families of deformations illustrating this new approach. Our examples include toric Calabi--Yau threefolds, cotangent bundles of flag manifolds, and semisimple adjoint orbits, and we describe their Hodge theoretical invariants, depicting Hodge diamonds and KKP diamonds.
description: Written for a Proceedings of the workshops Geometry at the Frontier 2016-2018
Gewahrseinsmeditationsvorlage
Creators: name: Janew, Claus
Publisher: name: Knowledge Commons
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Consciousness in art
subject: Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
subject: Metaphysics

description: Von Null bis Unendlich und vom freien Willen bis zu Allem und vice versa. Die metaphysische "Weltformel".
Contagion Risk and Network Design
Creators: name: Cerdeiro, Diego
name: Dziubinski, Marcin
name: Goyal, Sanjeev
name: Cerdeiro, Diego
name: Dziubinski, Marcin
name: Goyal, Sanjeev
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Cybersecurity
subject: Epidemics
subject: Security choice
subject: Externalities

description: Individuals derive benefits from their connections, but these may, at the same time, transmit external threats. Individuals therefore invest in security to protect themselves. However, the incentives to invest in security depend on their network exposures. We study the problem of designing a network that provides the right individual incentives. Motivated by cybersecurity, we first study the situation where the threat to the network comes from an intelligent adversary. We show that, by choosing the right topology, the designer can bound the welfare costs of decentralized protection. Both over-investment as well as under-investment can occur depending on the costs of security. At low costs, over-protection is important: this is addressed by disconnecting the network into two unequal components and sacrificing some nodes. At high costs, under-protection becomes salient: it is addressed by disconnecting the network into equal components. Motivated by epidemiology, we then turn to the study of random attacks. The over-protection problem is no longer present, whereas under-protection problems is mitigated in a diametrically opposite way: namely, by creating dense networks that expose the individuals to the risk of contagion.