cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect of Inter-Site Repulsions on Magnetic Susceptibility of One-Dimensional Electron Systems at Quarter-Filling
Creators: name: Fuseya, Yuki
name: Tsuchiizu, Masahisa
name: Suzumura, Yoshikazu
name: Bourbonnais, Claude
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibility, χ(T), is investigated for one-dimensional interacting electron systems at quarter-filling within the Kadanoff-Wilson renormalization-group method. The forward scattering on the same branch (the g_4-process) is examined together with the backward (g_1) and forward (g_2) scattering amplitudes on opposite branches. In connection with lattice models, we show that χ(T) is strongly enhanced by the nearest-neighbor interaction, an enhancement that surpasses one of the next-nearest-neighbor interaction. A connection between our predictions for χ(T) and experimental results for χ(T) in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors is presented.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, vol. 74, No. 12
แนวทางการออกแบบปรับปรุงสภาพแวดล้อมทางกายภาพ และสิ่งอําานวยความสะดวกเพื่อคนทั้งมวล กรณีศึกษา พื้นที่ส่วนราชการเขตเทศบาลตําาบลปลายพระยา จังหวัดกระบี่
Creators: name: จิตติมา เชาว์แก้ว
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2022
Subjects: การออกแบบเพื่อคนทั้งมวล
ชุมชนต้นแบบ
หน่วยงานราชการท้องถิ่น
กระบี่
ผู้พิการ

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 19, 1, 65-82
CAP Direct Payments and Distributional Conflicts Over Rented Land within Corporate Farms in the New Member States
Creators: name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Davidova, Sophia
name: Latruffe, Laure
name: Davidova, Sophia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: CAP direct payments
subject: corporate farms
subject: distributional conflicts
subject: game theory
subject: landowners

description: This paper aims to investigate whether distributional issues within corporate farms in the New Member States will be exacerbated by the introduction of the CAP direct payments. The paper focuses on the specific impact of the payments on the land rented to the corporate farms by private landowners. If the latter are not satisfied with the level of rent they receive, they have the option to end their rental contract and withdraw their land from the farm. Before the accession to the EU the landowners did not have strong incentives to withdraw, as the other available opportunities were not associated with higher returns on land ownership. However, this situation might change as the landowners can now cash the direct payments themselves, providing they keep their land in good agricultural and environmental condition. Propositions generated by a simple game, representing the negotiations between a corporate farm manager and an individual landowner about the level of the rent, suggests that the CAP direct payments might induce more rent renegotiations but that overall withdrawals will be infrequent. The results from a survey of landowners in corporate farms in Slovakia and in the Czech Republic seemed to corroborate these a priori expectations. The investigation of the determinants of landowners' intended behaviour showed that what seems to be important in the decision-making is the relationship between landowners and managers. Landowners who have frequent contacts and close relations with the farm are less likely to withdraw.
Molecular Hydrogen in Orion as Observed by the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer
Creators: name: France, K.
name: McCandliss, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Diffuse far-ultraviolet stellar emission scattered by dust grains has been observed in a region near the Orion Nebula. In addition to the scattered stellar continuum, emission and absorption features produced by molecular hydrogen have been identified. In this Letter, we present an analysis of this absorption and fluorescent emission from molecular hydrogen in Orion. We model the spectra obtained with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer using optical depth templates and a fluorescent emission code. These results are surprising because previous studies have found little ultraviolet absorption from H_2 in this region, and the emission is coming from a seemingly empty part of the nebula. We find that the emission fills in the observed absorption lines where the two overlap. These data support the claim that fluorescent excitation by ultraviolet photons is the primary mechanism producing the near-infrared emission spectrum observed in the outer regions of the Orion Nebula.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, uses emulate apj. ApJL - accepted
Efficiency of Selected Risk Management Instruments - An Empirical Analysis of Risk Reduction in Kazakhstani Crop Production
Creators: name: Heidelbach, Olaf
name: Heidelbach, Olaf
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Risk
subject: risk management
subject: insurance
subject: agriculture
subject: Kazakhstan

description: Recent academic discussion regarding crop insurance in developing and transition countries has focused on weather index insurance. But empirical analyses of such schemes based on farm level data cannot be found in the literature, though this insurance type shows clear advantages compared to multiple-peril crop insurance and revenue insurance. Recent empirical applications of risk and stochastic programming models focus on the optimisation of production planning, while literature on the effects of crop insurance on the farm level mainly focuses on the empirical investigation of reductions in farm income variance. The novelty of this paper is that it integrates regionally-adapted insurance products and expert-evaluated technology choices into a programming model that analyses activities with regard to their utility-efficiency. Thus, the objective of this paper is to analyse the effects of different risk management instruments on the certainty equivalent of case study farms in three different regions. Specifically, the applied Expected Utility Model analyses on-farm risk management instruments and crop insurance products with regard to their capability of stabilising farm income. Results indicate that only a combination of on-farm and financial risk management measures increases income and efficiently reduces risk. Weather-based insurance, in combination with intensive technology, stabilises income most efficiently in a specialised grain region in Northern Kazakhstan whereas farm-yield insurance combined with an extensive technology is the preferred risk management option in East Kazakhstan, where diversification with oilproducing crops is possible.
Seeliger, Hans Reinhard: Archäologie der Spätantiken Bischofsstize I
Creators: name: Rist, Josef
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 94 (2010): Oriens christianus, Band 94
Supplement: Structure-based Hamiltonian model for IsiA uncovers a highly robust pigment protein complex
Creators: name: Schoffman, Hanan
name: Brown, William M.
name: Paltiel, Yossi
name: Keren, Nir
name: Gauger, Erik M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 60104 Cell Metabolism
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: The iron stress-induced protein A (IsiA) is a source of interest and debate in biological research. The IsiA super-complex, binding over 200 chlorophylls, assembles in multimeric rings around photosystem I (PSI). Recently, the IsiA-PSI structure from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 was resolved to 3.48 Å. Based on this structure, we created a model simulating a single excitation event in an IsiA monomer. This model enabled us to calculate the fluorescence and the localization of the excitation in the IsiA structure. To further examine this system, noise was introduced to the model in two forms—thermal and positional. Introducing noise highlights the functional differences in the system between cryogenic temperatures and biologically relevant temperatures. Our results show that the energetics of the IsiA pigment-protein complex are very robust at room temperature. Nevertheless, shifts in the position of specific chlorophylls lead to large changes in their optical and fluorescence properties. Based on these results, we discuss the implication of highly robust structures, with potential for serving different roles in a context-dependent manner, on our understanding of the function and evolution of photosynthetic processes.
UUV's Hierarchical DE-based Motion Planning in a Semi Dynamic Underwater Wireless Sensor Network
Creators: name: MahmoudZadeh, S.
name: Powers, D. M. W
name: Atyabi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper describes a reflexive multilayered mission planner with a mounted energy efficient local path planner for Unmanned Underwater Vehicle's (UUV) navigation throughout the complex subsea volume in a time-variant semi-dynamic operation network. The UUV routing protocol in Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UNSW) is generalized with a homogeneous Dynamic Knapsack-Traveler Salesman Problem emerging with an adaptive path planning mechanism to address UUV's long-duration missions on dynamically changing subsea volume. The framework includes a base layer of global path planning, an inner layer of local path planning and an environmental sub-layer. Such a multilayer integrated structure facilitates the framework to adopt any algorithm with real-time performance. The evolutionary technique known as Differential Evolution algorithm is employed by both base and inner layers to examine the performance of the framework in efficient mission timing and its resilience against the environmental disturbances. Relying on reactive nature of the framework and fast computational performance of the DE algorithm, the simulations show promising results and this new framework guarantees a safe and efficient deployment in a turbulent uncertain marine environment passing through a proper sequence of stations considering various constraint in a complex environment.
การศึกษาอัตลักษณ์ถิ่นที่ในสิ่งแวดล้อมสรรค์สร้าง
Creators: name: มาริสา หิรัญตียะกุล
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2022
Subjects: อัตลักษณ์ถิ่นที่
ความรู้สึกสํานึกในถิ่นที่ปรากฏการณ์นิยม
ปฏิฐานนิยม

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 19, 1, 99-114
Interlinked Transactions in Cash Cropping Economies: The Determinants of Farmer Participation and Performance in the Zambezi River Valley of Mozambique
Creators: name: Benfica, Rui M.S.
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Boughton, Duncan
name: Benfica, Rui M.S.
name: Tschirley, David L.
name: Boughton, Duncan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Contract farming
subject: selection bias
subject: treatment effects
subject: threshold effects
subject: household income.

description: This paper investigates the determinants of participation and performance of tobacco contract farmers, and the effects of participation on overall crop and household incomes in the Zambezi Valley of Mozambique. We test the existence of threshold effects in land holdings and educational attainment to identify the types of farmers that benefit. Several results stand out. First, participation in the schemes is driven by factor endowments, asset ownership and alternative income opportunities, and very little by demographic factors. Second, we find no returns to education in tobacco; this result is consistent with previous research in Mozambique but surprising in an agronomically demanding crop like tobacco. Third, there appear to be economies of scale in tobacco production, perhaps through more efficient use of hired labor. If true, tobacco could drive greater economic differentiation through the growth of "emergent" or commercial smallholder households - something that has been conspicuously lacking in Mozambique to date. Fourth, farmers without wage income are more likely to grow tobacco; since other research shows that wage labor has driven most income growth in Mozambique over the past six years, tobacco could be inequality reducing. Tobacco growers also hire much more labor than non-growers, contributing to second-round inequality reducing effects. Further analysis, preferably in a general equilibrium framework, is needed to understand how the simultaneous forces of economic differentiation and spreading of economic benefits will affect income distribution. Potential adverse environmental impacts also deserve far more attention than they have received to date.
Analysis and Geometric Optimization of Single Electron Transistors for Read-Out in Solid-State Quantum Computing
Creators: name: Conrad, Vincent I.
name: Greentree, Andrew D.
name: Jamieson, David N.
name: Hollenberg, Lloyd C. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The single electron transistor (SET) offers unparalled opportunities as a nano-scale electrometer, capable of measuring sub-electron charge variations. SETs have been proposed for read-out schema in solid-state quantum computing where quantum information processing outcomes depend on the location of a single electron on nearby quantum dots. In this paper we investigate various geometries of a SET in order to maximize the device's sensitivity to charge transfer between quantum dots. Through the use of finite element modeling we model the materials and geometries of an Al/Al2O3 SET measuring the state of quantum dots in the Si substrate beneath. The investigation is motivated by the quest to build a scalable quantum computer, though the methodology used is primarily that of circuit theory. As such we provide useful techniques for any electronic device operating at the classical/quantum interface.
description: 13 pages, 17 figures
Weak antilocalization in partially relaxed 200-nm HgTe films
Creators: name: Savchenko, M. L.
name: Kozlov, D. A.
name: Kvon, Z. D.
name: Mikhailov, N. N.
name: Dvoretsky, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anomalous magnetoresistance caused by the weak antilocalization (WAL) effects in 200-nm HgTe films is experimentally studied. The film is a high quality 3D topological insulator with much stronger spatial separation of surface states than in previously studied thinner HgTe structures. However, in contrast to that films, the system under study is characterized by a reduced partial strain resulting in an almost zero bulk energy gap. It has been shown that at all positions of the Fermi level the system exhibits a WAL conductivity correction superimposed on classical parabolic magnetoresistance. Since high mobility of carriers, the analysis of the obtained results was performed using a ballistic WAL theory. The maximum of the WAL conductivity correction amplitude was found at a Fermi level position near the bulk energy gap indicating to full decoupling of the surface carriers in these conditions. The WAL amplitude monotonously decreases when the density of either bulk electrons or holes increases that results from the increasing coupling between surface and bulk carriers.
แนวทางการออกแบบเฟอร์นิเจอร์สวนสาธารณะระดับหมู่บ้านในกรุงเทพมหานครที่ส่งเสริมคุณภาพชีวิตที่ดีและกิจกรรมสร้างสรรค์ของคนเมือง: กรณีศึกษาสวนอารีย์สัมพันธ์
Creators: name: นภมณี ทรัพย์สุนทรกุล
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2022
Subjects: แนวทางการออกแบบเฟอร์นิเจอร์
เฟอร์นิเจอร์สวนสาธารณะ
สวนสาธารณะระดับหมู่บ้านหรือสวนละแวกบ้าน
คุณภาพชีวิต
กิจกรรมสร้างสรรค์
คนเมือง

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 19, 1, 115-138
Development in World Trade 1998 - 2000
Creators: name: Crinius, Wolfgang
name: Weinert, Gunter
name: Crinius, Wolfgang
name: Weinert, Gunter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1999
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This paper was produced by and for the Working Group on Foreign Trade of the AIECE, the Association of European Conjuncture Institutes (in French: Association d'Instituts Européens de Conjoncture Économique), founded in 1957. The Association now groups 40 members, representing 20 countries and four international organizations (EU, OECD, IMF and ECE). This report processed the results of the Working Group on Foreign Trade meeting of end March 1999. It is based on the contributions by many institutes. Thus the analysis is not necessarily fully in line with the reporting institute's one.
Guide for Including a Generalist Repository in an NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan
Creators: name: Carson, Matthew
name: Curtin, Lisa
name: Goldman, Julie
name: Gonzales, Sara
name: Steltenpohl, Crystal N.
name: Sweet, Sarah
name: Van Gulick, Ana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI)
Data Management and Sharing

description: This resource has been prepared by the seven generalist repositories (Dataverse, Dryad, Figshare, OSF, Mendeley Data, Vivli, and Zenodo) participating in the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) to address components of NIH Data Management and Sharing Plans (DMS Plans) that may include sharing data and other materials in generalist repositories. This guide should be used in combination with other resources on data management and sharing best practices more broadly, and the guidance here may also be generally applicable to data sharing in other non-GREI repositories.

Generalist repositories like the GREI repositories are trusted repositories that meet the NIH Desirable Characteristics for Data Repositories and offer maximum flexibility as they accept data, and, in some cases, other research outputs, regardless of discipline or format.

While discipline-specific repositories should be used whenever available and may even be required by specific NIH Programs or for specific data types, generalist repositories (and similarly flexible institutional repositories) offer a trusted repository option to share research data and may even be used in combination with other repositories.

This document addresses five of the six elements of an NIH DMS Plan. We have not included guidance on Element 6: Oversight of Data Management and Sharing because it is entirely specific to your institution.

We have provided the DMS Plan guide as both an ineractive PDF and as an OpenDocument (.odt) text file to facilitate reuse. 

We invite users to give feedback on this resource via the GREI GitHub discussion board.
เกณฑ์ประเมินและให้ฉลากแบบบ้านประหยัดพลังงานและเป็นมิตรกับสิ่งแวดล้อมโดยอิงการจําลองพลังงานและการประเมินวัฏจักรชีวิต
Creators: name: ชนิกานต์ ยิ้มประยูร
Publisher: name: Thammasat University
Year: 2022
Subjects: เกณฑ์ประเมินอาคารเขียว
อาคารพักอาศัยยั่งยืน
บ้านประหยัดพลังงาน
การประเมินวัฏจักรชีวิตอาคาร

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 19, 1, 179-200
Equilibrium free energies from fast-switching trajectories with large time steps
Creators: name: Lechner, Wolfgang
name: Oberhofer, Harald
name: Dellago, Christoph
name: Geissler, Phillip L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Jarzynski's identity for the free energy difference between two equilibrium states can be viewed as a special case of a more general procedure based on phase space mappings. Solving a system's equation of motion by approximate means generates a mapping that is perfectly valid for this purpose, regardless of how closely the solution mimics true time evolution. We exploit this fact, using crudely dynamical trajectories to compute free energy differences that are in principle exact. Numerical simulations show that Newton's equation can be discretized to low order over very large time steps (limited only by the computer's ability to represent resulting values of dynamical variables) without sacrificing thermodynamic accuracy. For computing the reversible work required to move a particle through a dense liquid, these calculations are more efficient than conventional fast switching simulations by more than an order of magnitude. We also explore consequences of the phase space mapping perspective for systems at equilibrium, deriving an exact expression for the statistics of energy fluctuations in simulated conservative systems.
Gas Flaring Reduction in the Indonesian Oil and Gas Sector - Technical and Economic Potential of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Projects
Creators: name: Indriani, Gustya
name: Indriani, Gustya
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Indonesia currently ranks as the world's 17th oil and 6th gas producer, but its production levels are slowly declining. In Indonesia, the oil companies may extract, process and market associated gas jointly with the State Oil and Gas Board. In addition, they are allowed to use associated gas in operations, as well as re-inject or flare gas that cannot be marketed. However, associated gas is still considered as a by-product of oil, which can disturb the oil flow. Due to the lack of markets, institutions and regulations, the associated gas is often simply flared instead of being used. Flaring currently amounts to about 5% of gas production and generates 10 million t CO2. On the company level, gas flaring data show that 80% of total GHG emission from flaring was released by ten companies. By using the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to reduce gas flaring, the economic use of gas will be maximised. Other options are gas re-injection, gas to pipeline, improvement of flare efficiency, Natural Gas Liquids recovery, GTL and fuel switch. Large scale projects in gas flaring reduction are more feasible, especially for remote oil fields. But some cases show that small scale projects in small fields with local market opportunity are feasible as well.
Optical metrics and birefringence of anisotropic media
Creators: name: Balakin, Alexander B.
name: Zimdahl, Winfried
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The material tensor of linear response in electrodynamics is constructed out of products of two symmetric second rank tensor fields which in the approximation of geometrical optics and for uniaxial symmetry reduce to "optical" metrics, describing the phenomenon of birefringence. This representation is interpreted in the context of an underlying internal geometrical structure according to which the symmetric tensor fields are vectorial elements of an associated two-dimensional space.
description: 24 pages, accepted for publication in GRG
Absentee and Economic Impact of Low-Level Fine Particulate Matter and Ozone Exposure in K-12 Students
Creators: name: Mendoza, Daniel L.
name: Pirozzi, Cheryl S.
name: Crosman, Erik T.
name: Liou, Theodore G.
name: Zhang, Yue
name: Cleeves, Jessica J.
name: Bannister, Stephen C.
name: Anderegg, William R. L.
name: Paine, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: High air pollution levels are associated with school absences. However, low level pollution impact on individual school absences are under-studied. We modelled PM2.5 and ozone concentrations at 36 schools from July 2015 to June 2018 using data from a dense, research grade regulatory sensor network. We determined exposures and daily absences at each school. We used generalized estimating equations model to retrospectively estimate rate ratios for association between outdoor pollutant concentrations and school absences. We estimated lost school revenue, productivity, and family economic burden. PM2.5 and ozone concentrations and absence rates vary across the School District. Pollution exposure were associated with as high a rate ratio of 1.02 absences per ug/m$^3$ and 1.01 per ppb increase for PM2.5 and ozone, respectively. Significantly, even PM2.5 and ozone exposure below regulatory standards (<12.1 ug/m$^3$ and <55 ppb) was associated with positive rate ratios of absences: 1.04 per ug/m$^3$ and 1.01 per ppb increase, respectively. Granular local measurements enabled demonstration of air pollution impacts that varied between schools undetectable with averaged pollution levels. Reducing pollution by 50% would save $452,000 per year districtwide. Pollution reduction benefits would be greatest in schools located in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas. Exposures to air pollution, even at low levels, are associated with increased school absences. Heterogeneity in exposure, disproportionately affecting socioeconomically disadvantaged schools, points to the need for fine resolution exposure estimation. The economic cost of absences associated with air pollution is substantial even excluding indirect costs such as hospital visits and medication. These findings may help inform decisions about recess during severe pollution events and regulatory considerations for localized pollution sources.
description: 31 pages, 11 figures, 2 tables
More geckos, fewer gaps: diversity and distribution of Hemidactylus geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in Jordan
Creators: name: Pola, Lukáš
name: Velenská, Doubravka
name: Prondzynska, Kseniia Marianna
name: Hejduk, Vojtěch
name: Zíka, Aleš
name: Winkelhöfer, Tomáš
name: Abu Baker, Mohammad A.
name: Amr, Zuhair S.
name: Šmíd, Jiří
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Until relatively recently, the gecko species Hemidactylus turcicus was believed to be the only member of the genus to occur in Jordan. Later taxonomic treatments confirmed the presence of another two species in the country – H. dawudazraqi and H. mindiae. It has been more than 10 years now since the last study on species of the genus Hemidactylus in Jordan was published and the distribution limits of the different species remain unknown. To shed light on the geographic and genetic boundaries between the species and different populations we collected material from across Jordan and sequenced each sample for two mitochondrial genes to provide identification by means of DNA barcoding. The results of phylogenetic analyses of species that occur in Jordan and neighbouring countries allowed us to assess the level of inter- and intraspecific genetic diversity of Hemidactylus in the region. Based on our results we confirm the presence of two species that were previously not known from the country – H. granosus and H. lavadeserticus. We also found another genetic lineage to be present in Jordan, implying that there may be yet another undescribed species of Hemidactylus present in Jordan. The results of this study will help to clarify the distribution of Hemidactylus species in Jordan and enable better delineation of the boundaries between the individual species.
Spacematch: Using environmental preferences to match occupants to suitable activity-based workspaces
Creators: name: Sood, Tapeesh
name: Janssen, Patrick
name: Miller, Clayton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The activity-based workspace (ABW) paradigm is becoming more popular in commercial office spaces. In this strategy, occupants are given a choice of spaces to do their work and personal activities on a day-to-day basis. This paper shows the implementation and testing of the Spacematch platform that was designed to improve the allocation and management of ABW. An experiment was implemented to test the ability to characterize the preferences of occupants to match them with suitable environmentally-comfortable and spatially-efficient flexible workspaces. This approach connects occupants with a catalog of available work desks using a web-based mobile application and enables them to provide real-time environmental feedback. In this work, we tested the ability for this feedback data to be merged with indoor environmental values from Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensors to optimize space and energy use by grouping occupants with similar preferences. This paper outlines a case study implementation of this platform on two office buildings. This deployment collected 1,182 responses from 25 field-based research participants over a 30-day study. From this initial data set, the results show that the ABW occupants can be segmented into specific types of users based on their accumulated preference data, and matching preferences can be derived to build a recommendation platform.
Supplementary Material from Transient receptor potential channels: current perspectives on evolution, structure, function and nomenclature
Creators: name: Himmel, Nathaniel J.
name: Cox, Daniel N.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60301 Animal Systematics and Taxonomy
subject: 60310 Plant Systematics and Taxonomy

description: Figures S1-S9, Table S1, legends, and supporting references
On effective Witt decomposition and Cartan-Dieudonne theorem
Creators: name: Fukshansky, Lenny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11E12, 15A63; 11G50

description: Let $K$ be a number field, and let $F$ be a symmetric bilinear form in $2N$ variables over $K$. Let $Z$ be a subspace of $K^N$. A classical theorem of Witt states that the bilinear space $(Z,F)$ can be decomposed into an orthogonal sum of hyperbolic planes, singular, and anisotropic components. We prove the existence of such a decomposition of small height, where all bounds on height are explicit in terms of heights of $F$ and $Z$. We also prove a special version of Siegel's Lemma for a bilinear space, which provides a small-height orthogonal decomposition into one-dimensional subspaces. Finally, we prove an effective version of Cartan-Dieudonn{é} theorem. Namely, we show that every isometry $σ$ of a regular bilinear space $(Z,F)$ can be represented as a product of reflections of small heights with an explicit bound on heights in terms of heights of $F$, $Z$, and $σ$.
description: 16 pages, revised and corrected version, to appear in Canadian Journal of Mathematics
The nuclear region of NGC 613 -- II. Kinematics and stellar archaeology
Creators: name: da Silva, Patrícia
name: Menezes, R. B.
name: Steiner, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we continue the study of the central region of NGC 613 by da Silva et al. (2020), by analysing the stellar and gas kinematics and the stellar archaeology in optical and near-infrared data cubes. The high spatial resolution of the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) data cube allowed the detection, using spectral synthesis methods, of an inner circumnuclear ring, with a radius of $\sim$ 1 arcsec, composed of $\sim$ 10$^9$-yr stellar populations. Such a ring is located between the nucleus and the circumnuclear ring composed by H II regions detected in previous works. Besides that, there is a stellar rotation around the nucleus and the rings follow the same direction of rotation with different velocities. The intensity-weighted average stellar velocity dispersion at the centre is 92 $\pm$ 3 km s$^{-1}$. Three distinct gas outflow components were detected. The direction of the outflow observed with the H $α$ emission line is compatible with the direction of the previously observed radio jet. The direction of one of the outflows detected in the [O III]$λ$5007 emission coincides with the axis of the ionization cone. There is no difference regarding the stellar populations and the stellar kinematics along the double stellar emission, probably separated by a dust lane as mentioned in Paper I, confirming that they are part of the same structure.
description: 17 pages, 17 figures
Spectral shape analysis of ultraviolet luminescence in \textit{n}-type ZnO:Ga
Creators: name: Makino, T.
name: Segawa, Y.
name: Yoshida, S.
name: Tsukazaki, A.
name: Ohtomo, A.
name: Kawasaki, M.
name: Koinuma, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thin films of laser molecular-beam epitaxy grown \textit{n}-type Ga-doped ZnO were investigated with respect to their optical properties. Intense room-temperature photoluminescence (PL) in the near-band edge (NBE) region was observed. Moreover, its broadening of PL band was significantly larger than predicted by theoretical results modeled in terms of potential fluctuations caused by the random distribution of donor impurities. In addition, the lineshape was rather asymmetrical. To explain these features of the NBE bands, a vibronic model was developed accounting for contributions from a series of phonon replicas.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, to appear in the Nov. 1st issue of J. Appl. Phys. (Scheduled Issue)
Information Requirements of Collision-Based Micromanipulation
Creators: name: Nilles, Alexandra Q.
name: Pervan, Ana
name: Berrueta, Thomas A.
name: Murphey, Todd D.
name: LaValle, Steven M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a task-centered formal analysis of the relative power of several robot designs, inspired by the unique properties and constraints of micro-scale robotic systems. Our task of interest is object manipulation because it is a fundamental prerequisite for more complex applications such as micro-scale assembly or cell manipulation. Motivated by the difficulty in observing and controlling agents at the micro-scale, we focus on the design of boundary interactions: the robot's motion strategy when it collides with objects or the environment boundary, otherwise known as a bounce rule. We present minimal conditions on the sensing, memory, and actuation requirements of periodic ``bouncing'' robot trajectories that move an object in a desired direction through the incidental forces arising from robot-object collisions. Using an information space framework and a hierarchical controller, we compare several robot designs, emphasizing the information requirements of goal completion under different initial conditions, as well as what is required to recognize irreparable task failure. Finally, we present a physically-motivated model of boundary interactions, and analyze the robustness and dynamical properties of resulting trajectories.
Equitable Distribution of CDM Projects Among Developing Countries
Creators: name: Silayan, Alan
name: Silayan, Alan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy

description: The Clean Development Mechanism as a global flexible mechanism of the Kyoto protocol has a sound basis in theory which has led to its inclusion in the international climate regime. Current trends of the CDM show a clustering of projects towards a few larger developing countries. Contrary to the inclusion of more developing nations in the climate change process, present participation requirements of the CDM have unfortunately prevented 67% of developing nations from engaging in CDM projects. Distinct conditions among developing countries have led to different implementation circumstances. This, in turn, has triggered differences in the capacity to implement CDM projects. Moreover, project investors, in pursuit of an optimum investment portfolio, have had a tendency to support the same cluster of countries. Revisiting the fundamentals of the UNFCCC, criteria can be formulated and applied to all developing countries to identify nations that should be given project priorities in the CDM. Enforcing redistribution of CDM projects among developing nations need not take a complete re-thinking of the CDM concept. An equitable distribution of CDM projects is possible within the current structure of the CDM framework.
Supporting tables and figures from Polygenic basis for adaptive morphological variation in a threatened Aotearoa | New Zealand bird, the hihi (Notiomystis cincta)
Creators: name: Duntsch, Laura
name: Tomotani, Barbara M.
name: Villemereuil, Pierre De
name: Brekke, Patricia
name: Lee, Kate D.
name: Ewen, John G.
name: Santure, Anna W.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Genomic marker overview, PCA, MCMCglmm and BayesR output, AxG, GWAS data, GCTA output
Das Evangelium von Labedschina und eine hebräische Sitte
Creators: name: Papuašvili, Nugzar
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 94 (2010): Oriens christianus, Band 94
Molecular phylogenetic position of a rare and enigmatic meiofaunal flatworm from the Pacific Ocean: Retronectes hyacinthe sp. nov. (Platyhelminthes: Catenulida)
Creators: name: Van Steenkiste, Niels W. L.
name: Closs, Alana
name: Froese, Tyrel
name: Leander, Brian S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Catenulids comprise the earliest diverging major lineage of flatworms. Although the majority of catenulid species live in fresh water, a small number of taxa have been documented from marine interstitial environments and most of these belong to the genera Retronectes and Paracatenula within the family Retronectidae. Representatives of Retronectes are extremely uncommon and almost only found in detritus-rich sand, with the last formal description of a species of Retronectes dating back to 1977. Little is known about the biology of the seven known species in this genus despite the fact that a unique combination of characters makes them relatively straightforward to recognize. Moreover, previous molecular phylogenetic analyses have so far been unable to include any representatives of Retronectes, so the phylogenetic position of these rarely encountered marine catenulids remains unclear. Here we describe a new species of Retronectes, namely R. hyacinthe sp. nov., from subtidal seagrass meadows in British Columbia (Canada) and present an updated phylogeny inferred from 18S and 28S rDNA sequences, including data from the new species of Retronectes and a selection of other catenulids. Our molecular phylogenetic trees suggest that Retronectidae sensu Sterrer & Rieger, 1974 is not monophyletic, implying that the current taxonomic classification of the Catenulida and the importance of certain morphological characters on which this classification is based are in need of revision. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A38635FB-7A8A-4C11-B513-BDBF9EA780CB
Expression and characterization of retinal disease linked ABCR mutants
Creators: name: Safarpour, Azien
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The retinal A B C transporter, ABCR, is a 220 kDa glycoprotein localized in the outer segments of the photoreceptor cells. As a member of the A B C superfamily, A B C R is organized into two tandem halves each containing a transmembrane domain and a nucleotide binding domain. Studies have suggested that A B C R may either act as an alltrans- retinal extruder or a retinylidene-phosphatidylethanolamine flippase. Eighty-nine mutations in ABCR gene have been identified and associated with a number of retinal degenerative diseases including Stargardt's disease. In this study the effects of Stargardt's disease causing mutations (D846H, T1526M, R2038W, R2077W and R2106C) on the structure and function of A B C R were investigated. As a first step toward this goal, the five mutant constructs were expressed in the mammalian COS cell expression system. When the expression levels of the proteins were compared, it was found that the R2038W and R2077W mutants were expressed at 57-59% of the wild type while R2106C and T1526M expressed at 71% and 81% of the wild type protein, respectively. The expression level of the D846H mutant varied between 31-68% of the wild type, depending on the transfection method used. The recombinant proteins were purified from CHAPS solubilized COS cell by immunoaffinity chromatography. Immunofluorescence microscopy of the transfected COS cells revealed that the expressed wild type A B C R was localized in the vesicles, whereas almost 100% of both D846H and T1526M, 77% of R2038W, 80% of R2077W and 34% of R2106C showed an endoplasmic reticulum/Golgi labeling pattern. Calnexin interaction studies showed that all of the mutants examined co-purified with calnexin to a greater extent than the wild type ABCR. The ATPase activity of purified proteins reconstituted in liposomes rich in phosphatidylethanolamine was measured. In the presence of 50 uM all-frvms-retinal, the basal activity of the wild type A B C R was increased by 1.6 fold; however, no stimulation was seen in T1526M and R2038W variants. The ATPase activities of both D846H and R2077W were impaired, whereas the R2106C mutant showed a retinal-stimulated activity similar to the wild type. The azido-ATP labeling study showed that the wild type, T1526M and R2106C bound ATP, whereas the D846H and R2077W did not.
An extensive spectroscopic time series of three Wolf-Rayet stars -- II. A search for wind asymmetries in the dust-forming WC7 binary WR137
Creators: name: St-Louis, N.
name: Piaulet, C.
name: Richardson, N. D.
name: Shenar, T.
name: Moffat, A. F. J.
name: Eversberg, T.
name: Hill, G. M.
name: Gauza, B.
name: Knapen, J. H.
name: Kubat, J.
name: Kubatova, B.
name: Sablowski, D. P.
name: Simon-Diaz, S.
name: Bolduan, F.
name: Dias, F. M.
name: Dubreuil, P.
name: Fuchs, D.
name: Garrel, T.
name: Grutzeck, G.
name: Hunger, T.
name: Kusters, D.
name: Langenbrink, M.
name: Leadbeater, R.
name: Li, D.
name: Lopez, A.
name: Mauclaire, B.
name: Moldenhawer, T.
name: Potter, M.
name: Santos, E. M. dos
name: Schanne, L.
name: Schmidt, J.
name: Sieske, H.
name: Strachan, J.
name: Stinner, E.
name: Stinner, P.
name: Stober, B.
name: Strandbaek, K.
name: Syder, T.
name: Verilhac, D.
name: Waldschlager, U.
name: Weiss, D.
name: Wendt, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a four-month, spectroscopic campaign of the Wolf-Rayet dust-making binary, WR137. We detect only small-amplitude, random variability in the CIII5696 emission line and its integrated quantities (radial velocity, equivalent width, skewness, kurtosis) that can be explained by stochastic clumps in the wind of the WC star. We find no evidence of large-scale, periodic variations often associated with Corotating Interaction Regions that could have explained the observed intrinsic continuum polarization of this star. Our moderately high-resolution and high signal-to-noise average Keck spectrum shows narrow double-peak emission profiles in the Halpha, Hbeta, Hgamma, HeII6678 and HeII5876 lines. These peaks have a stable blue-to-red intensity ratio with a mean of 0.997 and a root-mean-square of 0.004, commensurate with the noise level; no variability is found during the entire observing period. We suggest that these profiles arise in a decretion disk around the O9 companion, which is thus an O9e star. The characteristics of the profiles are compatible with those of other Be/Oe stars. The presence of this disk can explain the constant component of the continuum polarization of this system, for which the angle is perpendicular to the plane of the orbit, implying that the rotation axis of the O9e star is aligned with that of the orbit. It remains to be explained why the disk is so stable within the strong ultraviolet radiation field of the O star. We present a binary evolutionary scenario that is compatible with the current stellar and system parameters.
description: 12 pages, 5 Figures
Realization of a simple higher dimensional noncommutative torus as a transformation group C*-algebra
Creators: name: Itzá-Ortiz, Benjamín
name: Phillips, N. Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L55 (Primary) 46L35, 54H20 (Secondary)

description: Let $θ$ be a nondegenerate skew symmetric real $d$ by $d$ matrix, and let $A_θ$ be the corresponding simple higher dimensional noncommutative torus. Suppose that $d$ is odd, or that $d$ is greater or equal to 4 and the entries of $θ$ are not contained in a quadratic extension of $\mathbb{Q}$. Then $A_θ$ is isomorphic to the transformation group C*-algebra obtained from a minimal homeomorphism of a compact connected one dimensional space locally homeomorphic to the product of the interval and the Cantor set. The proof uses classification theory of C*-algebras.
description: 11 pages
Das Kloster Surb Dawitʻ bei Tercan
Creators: name: Bruchhaus, Gundolf
Publisher: name: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients
Year: 2024

description: Oriens christianus : Hefte für die Kunde des christlichen Orients, Bd. 94 (2010): Oriens christianus, Band 94
Supplementary methods, tables, and figures from Rhesus macaques as a tractable physiological model of human ageing
Creators: name: Chiou, Kenneth L.
name: Montague, Michael J.
name: Goldman, Elisabeth A.
name: Watowich, Marina M.
name: Sams, Sierra N.
name: Song, Jeff
name: Horvath, Julie E.
name: Sterner, Kirstin N.
name: Ruiz-Lambides, Angelina V.
name: Melween I. Martínez
name: Higham, James P.
name: Brent, Lauren J. N.
name: Platt, Michael L.
name: Snyder-Mackler, Noah
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Contains supplementary methods, supplementary tables S1-S2, and supplementary figures S1-S3