cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Black hole state degeneracy in Loop Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Agullo, Ivan
name: Diaz-Polo, Jacobo
name: Fernandez-Borja, Enrique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The combinatorial problem of counting the black hole quantum states within the Isolated Horizon framework in Loop Quantum Gravity is analyzed. A qualitative understanding of the origin of the band structure shown by the degeneracy spectrum, which is responsible for the black hole entropy quantization, is reached. Even when motivated by simple considerations, this picture allows to obtain analytical expressions for the most relevant quantities associated to this effect.
description: 22 pages, 7 figures
Utilization patterns of end-of-life services by injection drug users who have died with HIV/AIDS
Creators: name: Janzen, Randall George
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Rationale: The changing demographics of HV/AIDS have implications for the future use of health care resources. Objective: To determine the location of death (hospital, community hospice, home) of HIV-infected injection drug users (IDU's) and type of care (intensive, acute, palliative) at time of death; and to examine demographic, behavioral, and other variables in order to identify factors associated with receiving palliative care. Methods: IDU's who died with HIV/AIDS in Vancouver between 1991 and 1996 were identified through seven sources, including hospital data bases and direct services workers. Data collection consisted of a retrospective review of client records from Vancouver hospitals, community hospices, community organizations, and the Drug Treatment Program of BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. Results: There were 121 deaths documented that indicated that the individual was HTV positive and an IDU (92 were male, 24 were female, and 5 were transgendered). Median age at death was 35 years. Fifty-three percent were Aboriginal, and 61 percent lived in unstable housing. Sixty-one percent died in an acute care hospital setting, 27 percent died in a palliative care unit or in a community hospice, 11 percent died at home, and one percent on the street. Eleven of the thirteen home deaths were attributed to drug overdoses. AIDS was the most common cause of death (66%), followed by drug overdose (9%). Excluding deaths due to drug overdose, suicide or unknown causes, 71% of the IDU's died while receiving some form of palliative treatment. However, the median length of palliative treatment was only two days. Having an AIDS diagnosis was positively associated with receiving palliative care for more than two days, and with dying in a hospice or palliative care unit. Other variables, such as stable housing, being male and a period of longer than 36 months between HIV diagnosis and death were also positively associated with one of the three sets of criteria used for palliative care in this study. Multivariate analysis revealed that an AIDS diagnosis was independently associated with receipt of palliative care. Conclusions: Analysis suggests that IDU's are receiving palliative treatment, but for the majority, it is only for a very short period of time, and often when already bedridden or unconscious. Results should assist in planning future end-of-life services in light of changing demographics of HIV/AIDS in Vancouver, and in light of the moral and ethical imperative to provide compassionate care at the end of life.
Planning a Reference Constellation for Radiometric Cross-Calibration of Commercial Earth Observing Sensors
Creators: name: Nag, Sreeja
name: Dabney, Philip
name: Ravindra, Vinay
name: Anderson, Cody
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Earth Observation planning community has access to tools that can propagate orbits and compute coverage of Earth observing imagers with customizable shapes and orientation, model the expected Earth Reflectance at various bands, epochs and directions, generate simplified instrument performance metrics for imagers and radars, and schedule single and multiple spacecraft payload operations. We are working toward integrating existing tools to design a planner that allows commercial small spacecraft to assess the opportunities for cross-calibration of their sensors against current satellite to be calibrated, specifications of the reference instruments, sensor stability, allowable latency between calibration measurements, differences in viewing and solar geometry between calibration measurements, etc. The planner would output cross-calibration opportunities for every reference target pair as a function of flexible user-defined parameters. We use a preliminary version of this planner to inform the design of a constellation of transfer radiometers that can serve as stable, radiometric references for commercial sensors to cross-calibrate with. We propose such a constellation for either vicarious cross-calibration using pre-selected sites, or top of the atmosphere (TOA) cross-calibration globally. Results from the calibration planner applied to a subset of informed architecture designs show that a 4 sat constellation provides multiple calibration opportunities within half a day planning horizon, for Cubesat sensors deployed into a typical rideshare orbits. While such opportunities are available for cross calibration image pairs within 5 deg of solar or view directions, and with-in an hour (for TOA) and less than a day (vicariously), the planner allows us to identify many more by relaxing user-defined restrictions.
La incorporación de la idea de los derechos bioculturales en el ordenamiento constitucional colombiano en el marco de la migración de ideas constitucionales
Creators: name: Durán Montealegre, Valentina
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Colombia - Derecho constitucional
subject: Derechos culturales - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Derecho público - Estudios de caso
subject: Migración de ideas constitucionales
subject: Derechos bioculturales
subject: Declaratoria de ecosistemas
subject: Sujetos de derechos
subject: Animales como posibles sujetos de derechos

description: En el marco de la migración de ideas constitucionales, la Corte Constitucional colombiana incorporó vía jurisprudencial la idea de los derechos bioculturales del derecho neozelandés, en el ordenamiento constitucional colombiano. En el caso del ordenamiento jurídico neozelandés, se reconoció al territorio de Te Urewera como sujeto de derechos a través de un acto con fuerza de ley, situación que sirvió de referente para que, en la sentencia T-622 de 2016 la Corte Constitucional reconociera al río Atrato como sujeto de derechos. El reconocimiento del río Atrato como sujeto de derechos trajo consigo la concesión de un catálogo de derechos tales como protección, conservación, mantenimiento y restauración. El reconocimiento del río Atrato también conllevó a la declaratoria de otros ecosistemas como sujetos de derechos tales como, la Amazonía, ríos Coello, Combeima, Cocora, río Cauca, río Pance, páramo de Pisba, entre otros, tanto por vía jurisprudencial, decreto e incluso proyectos de ley. Aunada a la declaratoria de ecosistemas como sujetos de derechos, las exigencias de la sociedad actual, podrían ampliar la categorización de sujetos de derechos no solo a ecosistema sino también a animales, quienes han llegado a ser considerados jurisprudencialmente con el estatus de miembros de familia multi-especie.
description: Within the context of the migration of constitutional ideas, the Colombian Constitutional Court incorporated the concept of biocultural rights from New Zealand law into the Colombian constitutional framework through jurisprudence. In the New Zealand legal system, the territory of Te Urewera was recognized as a rights-bearing entity through legislation, setting a precedent for the Colombian Constitutional Court to recognize the Atrato River as a rights-bearing entity in Sentence T-622 of 2016. This recognition endowed the Atrato River with a range of rights including protection, conservation, maintenance, and restoration. Moreover, it led to the declaration of other ecosystems as rights-bearing entities, such as the Amazon, Coello River, Combeima River, Cocora River, Cauca River, Pance River, Pisba Moorland, among others, through jurisprudence, decrees, and legislative projects. In addition to recognizing ecosystems as rights-bearing entities, contemporary societal demands may further extend the categorization of rights-bearing entities not only to ecosystems but also to animals, which have been judicially granted the status of multi-species family members
Oxypoda (Thliboptera) gladiatoria ASSING 2006
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oxypoda
Oxypoda gladiatoria

description: Oxypoda (Thliboptera) gladiatoria ASSING 2006
Material examined: Turkey: 3 exs., Antalya, N Bademli geçidi, 37°19'N, 31°44'E, 1400 m, mixed cypress and fir forest, litter sifted, 17.II.2011, leg. Schülke (cSch, cAss).
Comment: The known distribution of this species is confined to southwestern Anatolia (Mu la, Antalya) and Cyprus (ASSING 2006a).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2012, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Oxypoda species of the West Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), pp. 365-399 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (1) on page 375, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5327440
The capability of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder to detect prompt radio bursts from neutron star mergers
Creators: name: Wang, Ziteng
name: Murphy, Tara
name: Kaplan, David L.
name: Bannister, Keith W.
name: Dobie, Dougal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss observational strategies to detect prompt bursts associated with gravitational wave events using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). Many theoretical models of binary neutron stars mergers predict that bright, prompt radio emission would accompany the merger. The detection of such prompt emission would greatly improve our knowledge of the physical conditions, environment, and location of the merger. However, searches for prompt emission are complicated by the relatively poor localisation for gravitational wave events, with the 90\% credible region reaching hundreds or even thousands of square degrees. Operating in fly's eye mode, the ASKAP field of view can reach $\sim$1000 deg$^2$ at $\sim 888\,{\rm MHz}$. This potentially allows observers to cover most of the 90\% credible region quickly enough to detect prompt emission. We use skymaps for GW170817 and GW190814 from LIGO/Virgo's third observing run to simulate the probability of detecting prompt emission for gravitational wave events in the upcoming fourth observing run. With only alerts released after merger we find it difficult to slew the telescope sufficiently quickly as to capture any prompt emission. However, with the addition of alerts released \textit{before} merger by negative-latency pipelines we find that it should be possible to search for nearby, bright prompt FRB-like emission from gravitational wave events. Nonetheless, the rates are low: we would expect to observe $\sim$0.012 events during the fourth observing run, assuming that the prompt emission is emitted microseconds around the merger
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
A Long, Hard Look at the Low-Hard State in Accreting Black Holes
Creators: name: Miller, J. M.
name: Homan, J.
name: Steeghs, D.
name: Rupen, M.
name: Hunstead, R. W.
name: Wijnands, R.
name: Charles, P. A.
name: Fabian, A. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first results of coordinated multi-wavelength observations of the Galactic black hole GX 339-4 in a canonical low-hard state, obtained during its 2004 outburst. XMM-Newton observed the source for 2 revolutions, or approximately 280 ksec; RXTE monitored the source throughout this long stare. The resulting data offer the best view yet obtained of the inner accretion flow geometry in the low-hard state, which is thought to be analogous to the geometry in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei. The XMM-Newton spectra clearly reveal the presence of a cool accretion disk component, and a relativistic Fe K emission line. The results of fits made to both components strongly suggest that a standard thin disk remains at or near to the innermost stable circular orbit, at least in bright phases of the low-hard state. These findings indicate that potential links between the inner disk radius and the onset of a steady compact jet, and the paradigm of a radially-recessed disk in the low-hard state, do not hold universally. The results of our observations can best be explained if a standard thin accretion disk fuels a corona which is closely related to, or consistent with, the base of a compact jet. In a brief examination of archival data, we show that Cygnus X-1 supports this picture of the low/hard state. We discuss our results within the context of disk-jet connections and prevailing models for accretion onto black holes.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures (6 in color), ApJ, in press
Copy of letter from J. E. [John Edgar] McAllister to the Manager of the Canadian Branch of Commerce
Creators: name: McAllister, John Edgar
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: A copy of a letter from J. E. McAllister to the Canadian Bank of Commerce, dated June 14, 1915, regarding the authority of James Goldie to sign for Bellevue; originally enclosed within a letter to James Goldie, on June 14, 1915.
Control of coherence resonance in multiplex neural networks
Creators: name: Masoliver, M.
name: Masoller, C.
name: Zakharova, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the dynamics of two neuronal populations weakly and mutually coupled in a multiplexed ring configuration. We simulate the neuronal activity with the stochastic FitzHugh-Nagumo (FHN) model. The two neuronal populations perceive different levels of noise: one population exhibits spiking activity induced by supra-threshold noise (layer 1), while the other population is silent in the absence of inter-layer coupling because its own level of noise is sub-threshold (layer 2). We find that, for appropriate levels of noise in layer 1, weak inter-layer coupling can induce coherence resonance (CR), anti-coherence resonance (ACR) and inverse stochastic resonance (ISR) in layer 2. We also find that a small number of randomly distributed inter-layer links are sufficient to induce these phenomena in layer 2. Our results hold for small and large neuronal populations.
Oxypoda (Deropoda) amicta ERICHSON 1839
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oxypoda
Oxypoda amicta

description: Oxypoda (Deropoda) amicta ERICHSON 1839
Material examined: Spain: 1 ex., Andalucía, Tarifa env., 25.III.1974, leg. Fülscher & Meybohm (MHNG).
Comment: Oxypoda amicta was recently reported from Spain for the first time (ASSING 2010a).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2012, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Oxypoda species of the West Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), pp. 365-399 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (1) on page 377, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5327440
Analysis of grain orientation and defects in Sb2Se3 solar cells fabricated by close-spaced sublimation
Creators: name: Krautmann, R.
name: Spalatu, N.
name: Gunder, R.
name: Abou-Ras, Daniel
name: Unold, T.
name: Schorr, Susan
name: Krunks, M.
name: Acik, I. Oja
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Antimony selenide
subject: Close-spaced sublimation
subject: Grain orientation
subject: Pole figures
subject: Deep defects
subject: Admittance spectroscopy
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: The performance of a superstrate TiO2/Sb2Se3 solar cell, fabricated by close-spaced sublimation technique (CSS), was improved after the deployment of a seed layer. The seed layer caused columnar Sb2Se3 film growth with texture coefficient analysis (TC) showing increased presence of crystal planes, which are inclined towards the [001] crystal direction. Given the highly anisotropic properties of Sb2Se3, preferential growth of (Sb4Se6)n ribbons along the [001] direction is best suited for effective charge collection. Hence, grain orientation of Sb2Se3 films was studied more closely via measurement of pole figures by XRD and orientation distribution maps by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). Although the measurements did not reveal strong preferred orientation, it was observed that the columnar Sb2Se3 growth enhanced texture along the [001] direction. Temperature-dependent admittance spectroscopy (TAS) and capacitance–voltage (CV) profiling were performed on the seed-assisted TiO2/Sb2Se3 solar cell to evaluate carrier density and deep defects in the Sb2Se3 absorber. TAS study revealed a deep defect with activation energy of 0.39 eV. CV profiles indicated that the density of defects could be as high as 1017 cm−3, which needs to be addressed by post-deposition treatments.
title: Are We Reversing the Trend in Waste Generation: Panel Data Analyses of Municipal Waste Generation in Regard to the Socio-Economic Factors in European Countries
Creators: name: Korica, Predrag
name: Cirman, Andreja
name: Žgajnar Gotvajn, Andreja
Publisher: name: FELU - Faculty of Economics University of Ljubljana
Year: 2021

description: Economic and Business Review
Probabilistic Character Motion Synthesis using a Hierarchical Deep Latent Variable Model
Creators: name: Ghorbani, Saeed
name: Wloka, Calden
name: Etemad, Ali
name: Brubaker, Marcus A.
name: Troje, Nikolaus F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a probabilistic framework to generate character animations based on weak control signals, such that the synthesized motions are realistic while retaining the stochastic nature of human movement. The proposed architecture, which is designed as a hierarchical recurrent model, maps each sub-sequence of motions into a stochastic latent code using a variational autoencoder extended over the temporal domain. We also propose an objective function which respects the impact of each joint on the pose and compares the joint angles based on angular distance. We use two novel quantitative protocols and human qualitative assessment to demonstrate the ability of our model to generate convincing and diverse periodic and non-periodic motion sequences without the need for strong control signals.
GMRT Radio Halo Survey in galaxy clusters at z = 0.2 -- 0.4 I.The REFLEX sub--sample
Creators: name: Venturi, T.
name: Giacintucci, S.
name: Brunetti, G.
name: Cassano, R.
name: Bardelli, S.
name: Dallacasa, D.
name: Setti, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. We present the first results of an ongoing project devoted to the search of giant radio halos in galaxy clusters located in the redshift range z=0.2--0.4. One of the main goals of our study is to measure the fraction of massive galaxy clusters in this redshift interval hosting a radio halo, and to constrain the expectations of the particle re--acceleration model for the origin of non--thermal radio emission in galaxy clusters. Methods. We selected 27 REFLEX clusters and here we present Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) observations at 610 MHz for 11 of them. The sensitivity (1$σ$) in our images is in the range 35--100~$μ$Jy beam$^{-1}$ for all clusters. Results. We found three new radio halos, doubling the number of halos known in the selected sample. In particular, giant radio halos were found in A 209 and RXCJ 2003.5--2323, and one halo (of smaller size) was found in RXCJ 1314.4--2515. Candidate extended emission on smaller scale was found around the central galaxy in A 3444 which deserves further investigation. Furthermore, a radio relic was found in A 521, and two relics were found in RXCJ 1314.5--2515. The remaining six clusters observed do not host extended emission of any kind.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures & appendix. Accepted by A&A
On Tunnelling In Two-Throat Warped Reheating
Creators: name: Langfelder, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the energy transfer necessary for the warped reheating scenario in a two-throat geometry. We study KK mode wavefunctions of the full two-throat system in the Randall--Sundrum (RS) approximation and find an interesting subtlety in the calculation of the KK mode tunnelling rate. While wavepacket tunnelling is suppressed unless the Standard Model throat is very long, wavefunctions of modes localized in different throats have a non-zero overlap and energy can be transferred between the throats by interactions between such KK modes. The corresponding decay rates are calculated and found to be faster than the tunnelling rates found in previously published works. However, it turns out that the imaginary parts of the mode frequencies, induced by the decay, slow the decay rates themselves down. The self-consistent decay rate turns out to be given by the plane wave tunnelling rate considered previously in the literature. We then discuss mechanisms that may enhance the energy transfer between the throats over the RS rates. In particular, we study models in which the warp factor changes in the UV region less abruptly than in the RS model, and find that it is easy to build phenomenological models in which the plane wave tunnelling rate, and hence the KK mode interaction rates, are enhanced compared to the standard RS setup.
description: 27 pages + appendices, 5 figures, latex. v2: Discussion of decay in Section 4 changed: the most dangerous graviton amplitudes are zero, the results are now more positive for the warped reheating scenario; typos fixed, discussion cleaned up. v3:corrections in Section 5 (decay rates slowed down), mild changes of overall conclusions
Oxypoda (Deropoda) andalusiaca ASSING 2003
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oxypoda
Oxypoda andalusiaca

description: Oxypoda (Deropoda) andalusiaca ASSING 2003
Material examined: Spain: 1 ex., Andalucía, Sierra de Ronda, Mte. Jarastepar, 26.III.1974 (MNHG). Morocco: 1, Moyen Atlas, Azrou, Forêt de Cedres, 10.III.1980, leg. Meybohm & Fülscher (MHNG).
Comment: This species had become known only from Andalucía. The specimen from the Moyen Atlas is tentatively attributed to this species; it would represent the first record from Morocco. However, since it is a female, the presence of O. andalusiaca in Morocco requires confirmation.
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2012, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Oxypoda species of the West Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), pp. 365-399 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (1) on page 377, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5327440
Reforma de la Constitución Política de 1991 para materializar el Acto Legislativo 01 de del 2017 : análisis desde el punto de vista constitucional
Creators: name: Ortega Rengifo, Daniel Felipe
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Derecho constitucional - Aspectos jurídicos
subject: Tratados - Estudios de caso
subject: Acuerdos de paz - Aspectos constitucionales
subject: Reforma Constitucional
subject: Acto Legislativo 01 de 2017
subject: Proceso de Paz
subject: Constitución Política

description: Este documento presenta un análisis desde el punto de vista constitucional acerca de la reforma de la Constitución Política de 1991 y la materialización del Acto Legislativo 01 de 2017. El estudio es descriptivo y se desarrolló a partir de la revisión documental de los Actos Legislativos que se emitieron para concertar el proceso de negociación entre el Gobierno Nacional y las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP). Los puntos acordados en el proceso de negociación no siempre se socializaron, lo que incidió en la refrendación a través del Plebiscito celebrado en el que obtuvo una mayoría en favor del No. Pese a esta situación, se buscó la refrendación a través del Congreso de la República que llevó a la expedición de los Actos Legislativos que modificaron la Constitución Política del país. La revisión por parte de la Corte Constitucional de los Actos determinó que éstos no iban en contravía de la carta magna; sin embargo, la refrendación por vía del legislativo se caracteriza por obedecer más a una democracia representativa que a una participativa, aspecto que se debe analizar para futuros procesos de paz.
description: This document presents an analysis from a constitutional perspective of the reform of the Political Constitution of 1991 and the materialization of Legislative Act 01 of 2017. The study is descriptive and was developed based on a documentary review of the Legislative Acts issued to agree on the negotiation process between the National Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army (FARC-EP). The points agreed upon in the negotiation process were not always socialized, which affected the endorsement through the Plebiscite held in which a majority voted in favor of "No." Despite this situation, endorsement was sought through the Congress of the Republic, which led to the issuance of the Legislative Acts that modified the Political Constitution of the country. The review by the Constitutional Court of the Acts determined that they did not disrupt the Constitution; however, endorsement through the legislative branch is characterized by being more responsive to a representative democracy than to a participatory one, an aspect that should be analyzed for future peace processes.
DistB-Condo: Distributed Blockchain-based IoT-SDN Model for Smart Condominium
Creators: name: Rahman, Anichur
name: Islam, Md. Jahidul
name: Rahman, Ziaur
name: Reza, Md. Mahfuz
name: Anwar, Adnan
name: Mahmud, M. A. Parvez
name: Nasir, Mostofa Kamal
name: Noor, Rafidah Md
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.1.1

description: Condominium network refers to intra-organization networks, where smart buildings or apartments are connected and share resources over the network. Secured communication platform or channel has been highlighted as a key requirement for a reliable condominium which can be ensured by the utilization of the advanced techniques and platforms like Software-Defined Network (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Blockchain (BC). These technologies provide a robust, and secured platform to meet all kinds of challenges, such as safety, confidentiality, flexibility, efficiency, and availability. This work suggests a distributed, scalable IoT-SDN with Blockchain-based NFV framework for a smart condominium (DistB-Condo) that can act as an efficient secured platform for a small community. Moreover, the Blockchain-based IoT-SDN with NFV framework provides the combined benefits of leading technologies. It also presents an optimized Cluster Head Selection (CHS) algorithm for selecting a Cluster Head (CH) among the clusters that efficiently saves energy. Besides, a decentralized and secured Blockchain approach has been introduced that allows more prominent security and privacy to the desired condominium network. Our proposed approach has also the ability to detect attacks in an IoT environment. Eventually, this article evaluates the performance of the proposed architecture using different parameters (e.g., throughput, packet arrival rate, and response time). The proposed approach outperforms the existing OF-Based SDN. DistB-Condo has better throughput on average, and the bandwidth (Mbps) much higher than the OF-Based SDN approach in the presence of attacks. Also, the proposed model has an average response time of 5% less than the core model.
description: 17 Pages, 12 Tables, 17 Figures
Consistance d'un estimateur de minimum de variance étendue
Creators: name: Rynkiewicz, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a generalization of the criterion minimized by the K-means algorithm, where a neighborhood structure is used in the calculus of the variance. Such tool is used, for example with Kohonen maps, to measure the quality of the quantification preserving the neighborhood relationships. If we assume that the parameter vector is in a compact Euclidean space and all it components are separated by a minimal distance, we show the strong consistency of the set of parameters almost realizing the minimum of the empirical extended variance.
Systematic analysis of different degrees of haemolysis on miRNA levels in serum and serum-derived extracellular vesicles from dogs
Creators: name: Aguilera-Rojas, Matias Ignacio
name: Sharbati, Soroush
name: Stein, Torsten
name: Andrade, Mario Candela
name: Kohn, Barbara
name: Einspanier, Ralf
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biomarker
subject: Dogs
subject: Extracellular vesicles
subject: Haemolysis
subject: miRNA
subject: Serum
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Background Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) are described as promising non-invasive biomarkers for diagnostics and therapeutics. Human studies have shown that haemolysis occurring during blood collection or due to improper sample processing/storage significantly alters the miRNA content in plasma and serum. Nevertheless, no similar research has been performed in dogs so far. We therefore investigated the effects of different degrees of haemolysis on the levels of selected miRNAs in serum and serum-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) from dogs, by inducing a controlled in vitro haemolysis experiment. Results The abundance of miR-16, miR-92a, miR-191, miR-451 and miR-486 was significantly sensitive to haemolysis in serum and serum-derived EVs, while other selected miRNAs were not influenced by haemolysis. Furthermore, we found that the abundance of some canine miRNAs differs from data reported in the human system. Conclusions Our results describe for the first time the impact of haemolysis on circulating miRNAs not only in whole serum, but also in serum-derived EVs from dogs. Hence, we provide novel data for further analyses in the discovery of canine circulating biomarkers. Our findings suggest that haemolysis should be carefully assessed to assure accuracy when investigating circulating miRNA in serum or plasma-based tests.
A frequentist framework of inductive reasoning
Creators: name: Bickel, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Reacting against the limitation of statistics to decision procedures, R. A. Fisher proposed for inductive reasoning the use of the fiducial distribution, a parameter-space distribution of epistemological probability transferred directly from limiting relative frequencies rather than computed according to the Bayes update rule. The proposal is developed as follows using the confidence measure of a scalar parameter of interest. (With the restriction to one-dimensional parameter space, a confidence measure is essentially a fiducial probability distribution free of complications involving ancillary statistics.) A betting game establishes a sense in which confidence measures are the only reliable inferential probability distributions. The equality between the probabilities encoded in a confidence measure and the coverage rates of the corresponding confidence intervals ensures that the measure's rule for assigning confidence levels to hypotheses is uniquely minimax in the game. Although a confidence measure can be computed without any prior distribution, previous knowledge can be incorporated into confidence-based reasoning. To adjust a p-value or confidence interval for prior information, the confidence measure from the observed data can be combined with one or more independent confidence measures representing previous agent opinion. (The former confidence measure may correspond to a posterior distribution with frequentist matching of coverage probabilities.) The representation of subjective knowledge in terms of confidence measures rather than prior probability distributions preserves approximate frequentist validity.
description: major revision
Oxypoda (Deropoda) depressipennis
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oxypoda
Oxypoda depressipennis

description: Oxypoda (Deropoda) depressipennis (AUBÉ 1862)
Material examined: France: Provence: 2 exs., Alpes-Maritimes, St. Barnabe, with ants, 20.IV.1956 (MHNG, cAss); 1 ex., same locality, 5.IV.1952 (MHNG); 1 ex., same locality, 17.IV.1946 (MHNG); 1 ex. [teneral], same locality, 20.V.1946 (MHNG); 1 ex., same locality, under stone, 30.IV.1948 (MHNG); 1 ex., same locality, 28.IV.1938 (MHNG); 1 ex., Provence, Luberon mts., leg. Fagniez (MNHNP); 2 exs., Provence, Luberon mts., 1.VI., leg. Fagniez (MNHNP); 4 exs., Var, Les Maures, III., leg. Fagniez (MNHNP); 1 ex., Le Beausset, under stone, 11.I.1924, leg. Planat (MHNG); 1 ex., Le Beausset, 21.I.1924, leg. Planat (MHNG).
Italy: 1 ex., Abruzzo, Pietracamela [42°31'N, 13°33'E], 29.VII.1898, leg. Fiori (FMNH); 1 ex., Abruzzo, Gran Sasso, VII.1898, leg. Fiori (FMNH); 1 ex., Lazio, Camerata Nuova, 1909, leg. Krüger (FMNH).
Comment: The distribution of O. depressipennis is confined to southeastern France and Italy (BERNHAUER 1902, SMETANA 2004).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2012, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Oxypoda species of the West Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), pp. 365-399 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (1) on page 377, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5327440
Three puzzles in cosmology
Creators: name: Mathur, Samir D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmology presents us with several puzzles that are related to the fundamental structure of quantum theory. We discuss three such puzzles, linking them to effects that arise in black hole physics. We speculate that puzzles in cosmology may be resolved by the vecro structure of the vacuum that resolves the information paradox and the `bags of gold' problem for black holes.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures, Contribution to special IJMPD volume celebrating 15 years of the review by Copeland, Sami and Tsujikawa
Oxypoda (Deropoda) magnicollis FAUVEL 1878
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oxypoda
Oxypoda magnicollis

description: Oxypoda (Deropoda) magnicollis FAUVEL 1878
(Figs 12-15)
Material examined: Algeria: 1 ex., Biskra, 24.I.1929, leg. Schatzmayr (FMNH); 2 exs., Biskra, El Kantara, 12.II.1929, leg. Schatzmayr (FMNH).
Comment: According to SMETANA, O. magnicollis has been reported from Greece, Spain, the Czech Republic, and North Africa (Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco). The records from regions other than North Africa, however, have not been confirmed and should be considered highly doubtful.
This micropterous species is characterized by the combination of large eyes (in this respect similar to O. arabs FAUVEL 1904 and O. schatzmayri BERNHAUER 1936), the conspicuously large pronotum (distinctly broader and longer than the elytra), moderately pronounced lateral folds of the elytra, and absence of a palisade fringe at the posterior margin of the abdominal tergite VII, as well as by the morphology of the aedeagus (Figs 12-15). The crista apicalis is larger than in many other species of the subgenus. As in many other species of the subgenus, the ventral process is apically bifid in ventral view.
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2012, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Oxypoda species of the West Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), pp. 365-399 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (1) on page 379, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5327440
title: Governing data in modernity/coloniality: astronomy data in the Atacama Desert and the struggle for collective autonomy
Creators: name: Lehuedé, Sebastián
Publisher: name: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Year: 2021

description: In recent years, different actors in Chile have portrayed the vast volumes of astronomy data produced by international observatories in the Atacama Desert as a unique opportunity for scientific and economic development. Research, policy and corporate initiatives have been put into place to leverage this situation. In this thesis I examine the governance of this data by developing a framework based on collective autonomy. Unlike the paradigms of openness and sovereignty, collective autonomy speaks to long-standing concerns related to social justice in Latin America that took shape in parallel with European colonialism. This framework builds upon decolonial thinking and mobilised groups in the region, situating the analysis in the context of a capitalist modern/colonial world system. Collective autonomy also draws on post-Marxism, foregrounding dissenting voices and examining the changing positionalities of the parties involved. In analytical terms, I approach interviews, field notes and policy documents from a discursive-material perspective sensitive to the role of both meaning and matter. The empirical chapters explore three different spheres. First, I look at the implementation of dataintensive research and examine how the articulation of a new positionality by local actors favours an obedient stance in knowledge generation. After that, I turn to the economy and trace emerging meanings of development, extractivism and the state as actors make sense of what is going on with astronomy data. Finally, I connect the expansion of data infrastructure in Chile with the long-standing threat to Indigenous worlds cultivating balanced modes of existence in the territory. As this thesis shows, collective autonomy introduces previously ignored concerns and changes the actors, scales and aims at stake in the governance of data. Furthermore, this framework aims to depart from the precepts of capitalist modernity and, instead, supports decoloniality and the flourishing of multiple worlds.
Keck Infrared Observations of GRO J0422+32 in Quiescence
Creators: name: Reynolds, Mark T.
name: Callanan, Paul J.
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Keck K-band photometry and low-resolution H & K-band spectroscopy of the X-ray nova GRO J0422+32 obtained while the system was in the quiescent state. No clear ellipsoidal modulation is present in the light curve, which is instead dominated by a strong flickering component. In the K-band we observe strong Br_gamma emission, with an equivalent width of 38 +/- 5 Angstroms. From this we conclude that the accretion disc is the most likely source of the observed photometric contamination, and that previous infrared-based attempts to constrain the mass of the putative black hole in this system are prone to considerable uncertainty. We finally proceed to show how it is possible to place meaningful constraints on some of the binary parameters of this system, even in the presence of a relatively high level of contamination from the disc.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures & 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Oxypoda (Deropoda) schatzmayri BERRNHAUER 1936
Creators: name: Assing, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Oxypoda
Oxypoda schatzmayri

description: Oxypoda (Deropoda) schatzmayri BERNHAUER 1936
(Figs 16-19)
Oxypoda schatzmayri BERNHAUER 1936: 56.
Type material examined: Lectotype, present designation [dissected prior to present study]: " Tripoli Afr., 7.3.26, Schatzmayr / Schatzmayri Brh. Typus, Parlo Koch don / Schatzmayri Bernh. Typus, Baptopoda / Chicago NHMus M.Bernhauer Collection / Lectotypus Oxypoda schatzmayri Bernhauer, desig. V. Assing 2011 " (FMNH). Paralectotype: " Tripoli Afr., 7.3.26, Schatzmayr / Schatzmayri Bernh. Cotypus, Baptopoda / Chicago NHMus M.Bernhauer Collection" (FMNH).
Comment: The original description is based on an unspecified number of syntypes from "Tripolis, 7. März 1926" (BERNHAUER 1936). Two syntypes, a male and a female were located in the Bernhauer collection at the FMNH; the male is designated as the lectotype.
SMETANA (2004) suggests that the species was described from Greece, but the labels attached to the type specimens leave no doubt that the type locality is Tripolis in Libya.
In many respects, O. schatzmayri is similar to O. magnicollis (eye size, coloration, reduced hind wings and palisade fringe at the posterior margin of the abdominal tergite VII, shape of aedeagus, with large crista apicalis and apically bifid ventral process). It is distinguished from that species particularly by more slender habitus, slightly less dense punctation and less matt appearance of the forebody, slighly shorter and more depressed elytra, as well as by the shape of the aedeagus (Fig 16-19).
description: Published as part of Assing, V., 2012, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Oxypoda species of the West Palaearctic region (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), pp. 365-399 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (1) on page 379, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5327440
Estimation consistante de l'architecture des perceptrons multicouches
Creators: name: Rynkiewicz, Joseph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider regression models involving multilayer perceptrons (MLP) with one hidden layer and a Gaussian noise. The estimation of the parameters of the MLP can be done by maximizing the likelihood of the model. In this framework, it is difficult to determine the true number of hidden units because the information matrix of Fisher is not invertible if this number is overestimated. However, if the parameters of the MLP are in a compact set, we prove that the minimization of a suitable information criteria leads to consistent estimation of the true number of hidden units.
Metopus setosus Kahl 1927
Creators: name: Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto
name: Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso
name: Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Heterotrichea
Heterotrichida
Metopidae
Metopus
Metopus setosus

description: Metopus setosus Kahl, 1927
Distribution. VENEZUELA: South margin of the Henri Pittier National Park, Biological Station Rancho Grande (Foissner 2016).
description: Published as part of Durán-Ramírez, Carlos Alberto, Dias, Roberto Júnio Pedroso & Estrada, Rosaura Mayén-, 2020, Checklist of ciliates (Alveolata: Ciliophora) that inhabit in bromeliads from the Neotropical Region, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 4895 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4321437
Evidence of co-exposure with Brucella spp, Coxiella burnetii, and Rift Valley fever virus among various species of wildlife in Kenya
Creators: name: Gakuya, Francis
name: Akoko, James M.
name: Wambua, Lillian
name: Nyamota, Richard
name: Ronoh, Bernard
name: Lekolool, Isaac
name: Mwatondo, Athman
name: Muturi, Mathew
name: Ouma, Collins
name: Nthiwa, Daniel
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Wildlife
subject: Brucella
subject: Animal pathogens
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Background Co-infection, especially with pathogens of dissimilar genetic makeup, may result in a more devastating impact on the host. Investigations on co-infection with neglected zoonotic pathogens in wildlife are necessary to inform appropriate prevention and control strategies to reduce disease burden in wildlife and the potential transmission of these pathogens between wildlife, livestock and humans. This study assessed co-exposure of various Kenyan wildflife species with Brucella spp, Coxiella burnetii and Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV). Methodology A total of 363 sera from 16 different wildlife species, most of them (92.6%) herbivores, were analysed by Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for IgG antibodies against Brucella spp, C. burnetii and RVFV. Further, 280 of these were tested by PCR to identify Brucella species. Results Of the 16 wildlife species tested, 15 (93.8%) were seropositive for at least one of the pathogens. Mean seropositivities were 18.9% (95% CI: 15.0–23.3) for RVFV, 13.7% (95% CI: 10.3–17.7) for Brucella spp and 9.1% (95% CI: 6.3–12.5) for C. burnetii. Buffaloes (n = 269) had higher seropositivity for Brucella spp. (17.1%, 95% CI: 13.0–21.7%) and RVFV (23.4%, 95% CI: 18.6–28.6%), while giraffes (n = 36) had the highest seropositivity for C. burnetii (44.4%, 95% CI: 27.9–61.9%). Importantly, 23 of the 93 (24.7%) animals positive for at least one pathogen were co-exposed, with 25.4% (18/71) of the positive buffaloes positive for brucellosis and RVFV. On molecular analysis, Brucella DNA was detected in 46 (19.5%, CI: 14.9–24.7) samples, with 4 (8.6%, 95% CI: 2.2–15.8) being identified as B. melitensis. The Fisher’s Exact test indicated that seropositivity varied significantly within the different animal families, with Brucella (p = 0.013), C. burnetii (p = <0.001) and RVFV (p = 0.007). Location was also significantly associated (p = <0.001) with Brucella spp. and C. burnetii seropositivities. Conclusion Of ~20% of Kenyan wildlife that are seropositive for Brucella spp, C. burnetii and RVFV, almost 25% indicate co-infections with the three pathogens, particularly with Brucella spp and RVFV.