cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A new species of Hemidactylus from Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya (Squamata: Gekkonidae)
Creators: name: Sindaco, Roberto
name: Razzetti, Edoardo
name: Ziliani, Ugo
name: Wasonga, Victor
name: Carugati, Caterina
name: Fasola, Mauro
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2006

description: A new species of the genus Hemidactylus is described on the basis of two specimens (an adult male and an adult female) collected in 2005 in rocky and sandy habitat of the semiarid climatic region on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana (Kenya). It is a medium-sized Hemidactylus (SVL from 40 to 50 mm) distinguished from all other species by a unique combination of characters. The back is covered by large, trihedral, strongly keeled tubercles, intermixed with a few small, irregular shaped granules, forming 14 quite regular transverse rows from axilla to groin; nostrils contact the rostral, first supralabial, 1 enlarged internasal and 2-3 postnasals; the dorsal half of the rostral scale is divided longitudinally; there are 6 lamellae under the first toe and 10 under the 4th toe; male with 8 precloacal pores; female without pores. The dorsal colour pattern is very distinctive, consisting of four transverse bands, bordered with dark margins. The types are housed in the Herpetological Collections of the Museo di Storia Naturale of the University of Pavia and in the National Museums of Kenya (Nairobi).
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 2 No 1 (2007)
How Virus Names and Frames Affect Xenophobia, Stigma, and Health Behaviors
Creators: name: Bergsieker, Hilary
name: Cyr, Emily
name: Koyama, Jacklyn
name: Hartwig, Tyler
name: Forrin, Noah
name: Kwok, Sherman Shiu Man
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: COVID-19
subject: framing
subject: health behaviors
subject: stigma
subject: xenophobia

description: Using the current viral pandemic as a case study, an experiment uses four between-subjects conditions to examine the extent to which lay perceptions are impacted by (a) the use of ethnic/geographic (vs. scientific) terms when naming a virus, and the related (b) media focus on the personalized/racialized human (vs. geographic or temporal) spread of the virus.
Organisational culture and age: Does organisational culture impact on self-perceptions of leadership potential?
Creators: name: Steeden, Ben
name: Tresh, Fatima
name: Randsley de Moura, Georgina
name: Leite, Ana
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: age
subject: leadership potential
subject: organisational culture

description: This experimental study explores whether age-biased descriptions of organisational cultures, impact on self-perceptions of leadership potential for older and younger workers
Research compendium for a contribution to ‘Human Occupation and Environmental Change in the Western Maghreb during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the Late Glacial. New Evidence from the Iberomaurusian Site Ifri El Baroud (North-east Morocco)’
Creators: name: Schmid, Clemens
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Archaeology
subject: Iberomaurusian
subject: Morocco
subject: R

description: Please see the README.md file in the github data for further information about this project.
A photoconductor intrinsically has no gain
Creators: name: Dan, Yaping
name: Zhao, Xingyan
name: Chen, Kaixiang
name: Mesli, Abdelmadjid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the past 50 years, the high gain in quantum efficiency of photoconductors is often explained by a widely accepted theory in which the photogain is proportional to the minority carrier lifetime and inversely proportional to the carrier transit time across the photoconductor. It occasionally misleads scientists to believe that a high-speed and high-gain photodetector can be made simply by shortening the device length. The theory is derived on the assumption that the distribution of photogenerated excess carriers is spatially uniform. In this Letter, we find that this assumption is not valid for a photoconductive semiconductor due to the metal-semiconductor boundary at the two metal electrodes inducing carrier confinement. By solving the continuity equation and performing numerical simulations, we conclude that a photoconductor intrinsically has no gain or at least no high gain, no matter how short the transit time and how long the minority lifetime is. The high gain observed in experiments comes from other extrinsic effects such as defects, surface states and surface depletion regions that localize excess minority carriers, leaving a large number of excess majority carriers accumulated in the conduction channel for the photogain. Following the Ohm's Law, a universal equation governing the photogain in a photoconductor is established at the end of this Letter.
description: 4 figures and 13 pages
High Voltage Optical Fibre Sensor for Use in Wire Relay Electrical Protection Systems
Creators: name: Bashour, Rami
Publisher: name: University of Derby
Year: 2016
Subjects: FIbre Optics Application

description: The last few decades have a wide spread use of optical fibre sensors in many applications. Optical fibre sensors have significant benefits over existing conventional sensors such as; high immunity to electromagnetic interference, the ability to transmit signal over long distance at high bandwidth, high resolution, usage in hazardous environments and no need for isolation when working at high voltages. The measurement of high voltages is essential for electrical power systems as it is used as a source of electrical information for Relay Protection Systems (RPS) and load management systems. Electrical Power Systems need to be protected from faults. Faults can range from short circuits, voltage dips, surges, transients etc. The Optical High Voltage sensor developed is based on the principle that the Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) electrostriction displacement changes when a voltage is applied to it. The displacement causes the fibre (FBG) which is bonded to the PZT material to have a resultant change in the wavelength. An optical fibre sensor prototype has been developed and evaluated that measures up to 250 V DC. Simulation using ANSYS software has been used to demonstrate the operational capability of the sensor up to 300kV AC. This sensor overcomes some of the challenges of conventional sensors issues like electromagnetic interference, signal transmission, resolution etc. R BASHOUR 2 A novel optical fibre high voltage based on the Kerr effect has been demonstrated. The The Kerr effect was determined using Optsim (R-Soft) software and Maxwell software was used to model an optical Kerr Cell. Maxwell software is an electromagnetic/electric field software used for simulating, analysing, designing 2D and 3D electromagnetic materials and devices. It uses highly accurate Finite Element techniques to solve time varying, static, frequency domain electric and electromagnetic fields. A Relay Protection System on electrical networks was discussed in detail. Keywords: Fibre Bragg Grating, Fibre Optics Sensors, Piezoelectricity, Kerr effect, Relay Protection Systems.
Potential NRQCD for unequal masses and the $B_c$ spectrum at NNNLO
Creators: name: Peset, Clara
name: Pineda, Antonio
name: Stahlhofen, Maximilian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the $1/m$ and $1/m^2$ spin-independent heavy quarkonium potentials in the unequal mass case with $\mathcal O(α^3)$ and $\mathcal O(α^2)$ accuracy, respectively. We discuss in detail different methods to calculate the potentials, and show the equivalence among them. In particular we obtain, for the first time, the manifestly gauge invariant $1/m$ and $1/m^2$ potentials in terms of Wilson loops with next-to-leading order (NLO) precision. As an application of our results we derive the theoretical expression for the $B_c$ spectrum in the weak-coupling limit through next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO).
description: 64 pages, 5 figures; v2: Minor changes. Some material moved to appendices. Journal version; v3: Typos corrected. New (but equivalent) eq.(E.1)
A review of distribution and conservation status of Zamenis situla (Linnaeus, 1758) (Reptilia: Colubridae) in Bulgaria
Creators: name: Naumov, Borislav
name: Tomović, Ljiljana
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2006

description: The leopard snake is one of the rarest snake species in Bulgaria. It is included in the Red Data Book of Bulgaria as threatened species under high anthropogenic pressure. Its distribution range in Bulgaria includes only three very distant regions in the southern part of the country. Precise literature data about the leopard snake in Bulgaria are scarce. The aim of this paper is to present distribution data as well as to review the conservation status of the leopard snake in Bulgaria.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 2 No 1 (2007)
Decompositions of congruence subgroups of Chevalley groups
Creators: name: Sinchuk, Sergey
name: Smolensky, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G35, 20G40, 19B14

description: We formulate and prove relative versions of several classical decompositions known in the theory of Chevalley groups over commutative rings. As an application we obtain upper estimates for the width of principal congruence subgroups in terms of several families of generators. Some of our results are new even in the absolute case and were previously studied only for groups over finite fields.
Additional file 2 of An exploration of prenatal breastfeeding self-efficacy: a scoping review
Creators: name: McGovern, Liz M.
name: O’Toole, Laura
name: Laws, Rachel A.
name: Skinner, Timothy C.
name: McAuliffe, Fionnuala M.
name: O’Reilly, Sharleen L.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2
Rediscovery of Pelobates fuscus insubricus in the Asti Province, north-western Italy
Creators: name: Mercurio, Vincenzo
name: Li Vigni, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2006

description: The amphibians of the pond complex “Stagni di Belangero” in the Po Plain, Asti Province, have been studied. The species living in the pond are Bufo bufo, Bufo viridis, Hyla intermedia, Pelobates fuscus, Rana dalmatina, Rana synklepton esculenta, Rana cf. kurtmuelleri, Triturus carnifex and Triturus vulgaris. Species composition, migration period of P. fuscus, and biometric data are provided. Relevant importance has been given to P. fuscus, since we reconfirm its presence in one of the ponds 13 years after its first finding in the area. This toad is also one of the most threatened species of amphibians in Europe and needs particular attention in order to be protected adequately.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 2 No 1 (2007)
Self-propelled chimeras
Creators: name: Kruk, Nikita
name: Maistrenko, Yuri
name: Koeppl, Heinz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The synchronization of self-propelled particles (SPPs) is a fascinating instance of emergent behavior in living and man-made systems, such as colonies of bacteria, flocks of birds, robot ensembles, and many others. The recent discovery of chimera states in coupled oscillators opens up new perspectives and indicates that other emergent behaviors may exist for SPPs. Indeed, for a minimal extension of the classical Vicsek model we show the existence of chimera states for SPPs, i.e., one group of particles synchronizes while others wander around chaotically. Compared to chimeras in coupled oscillators where the site position is fixed, SPPs give rise to new distinctive forms of chimeric behavior. We emphasize that the found behavior is directly implied by the structure of the deterministic equation of motion and is not caused by exogenous stochastic excitation. In the scaling limit of infinitely many particles, we show that the chimeric state persists. Our findings provide the starting point for the search or elicitation of chimeric states in real world SPP systems.
Improving Physician Engagement in Interprofessional Collaborative Practice in Rural Emergency Departments
Creators: name: Wilson, Kelly
name: Leeman, Jennifer
name: Havens, Donna
name: Saunders, Barry
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Background & Significance: • Poor communication and collaboration in Emergency Departments (EDs) have been linked to negative outcomes: • Overcrowding; • Long wait times; • Patients leaving without being seen; • Delays; • Clinical errors. • The chaotic, stressful, and busy nature of ED environments makes them particularly susceptible to problems with communication and collaboration. • Improvements to Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP) have been identified as a solution. Problem: Low levels of physician engagement are a barrier to improving IPCP. Purpose: Identify and synthesize challenges, needed resources, and successful strategies used to improve physician participation in IPCP.
The numerical encoding of scale morphology highly improves photographic identification in lizards
Creators: name: Sacchi, Roberto
name: Scali, Stefano
name: Fasola, Mauro
name: Galeotti, Paolo
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2006

description: Photographic identification is a promising marking technique alternative to the toe-clipping, but is time consuming, particularly when a large number of individuals is involved. For this reason several authors had frequently preferred the toe-clipping. In this study we analysed the black spot pattern of ventral scales of wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) and we showed that photographic identification is an effective method for recognizing individuals, and the error of this technique is much less than that of the toe-clipping arising from natural toe loss. Moreover, the numerically encoding of the black spot pattern may radically reduce the time needed to compare the pictures of large samples of individuals, solving one of the more important obstacle against the use of photographic identification.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 2 No 1 (2007)
Effet du mouvement oculaire sur le contrôle postural chez les jeunes adultes en santé
Creators: name: Lafleur, David
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2023
Subjects: Contrôle postural
Vision

description: Des données récentes suggèrent que l'exécution d'une tâche induisant des saccades améliore la stabilité par rapport à la fixation statique. Cependant, elles supposent la linéarité du contrôle postural en interprétant uniquement la zone de déplacement et/ou la vitesse de balancement. A l'inverse, des mesures non linéaires pourraient apporter une meilleure compréhension du contrôle postural. L'objectif est d'examiner l'effet des mouvements oculaires sur différentes mesures linéaires et non linéaires de la stabilité. On a demandé à 21 adultes en bonne santé (24,0±3,3 ans) de se tenir debout sur une plate-forme de force, pieds joints, et de regarder le moniteur situé devant eux. Cinq conditions ont été testées : yeux fermés, regard aléatoire, point statique fixe, saccade et poursuite visuelle. Cinq essais de 60 secondes par condition ont été réalisés. Une ANOVA à mesures répétées a été réalisée pour chaque variable de contrôle postural dans chaque direction : antéro-postérieure (AP) et médio-latérale (ML). L'absence de vision a eu un impact négatif sur le contrôle de la posture, comme en témoigne une augmentation de l'aire et de la variabilité du balancement ainsi qu'une réduction des contributions de la bande « ultra-low ». La saccade a conduit à une plus grande stabilité que le regard aléatoire, comme en témoigne une zone plus petite. Cependant, la poursuite visuelle a entraîné une diminution de la stabilité par rapport au regard aléatoire, comme le montre une zone d’oscillation plus grande, ainsi qu'une augmentation de la variabilité. Il convient de noter que l'énergie contenue dans la bande « very-low », qui indique la contribution du système vestibulaire, était plus élevée dans la poursuite visuelle que dans le point statique fixe.
Diffusion-like recommendation with enhanced similarity of objects
Creators: name: An, Ya-Hui
name: Dong, Qiang
name: Sun, Chong-Jing
name: Nie, Da-Cheng
name: Fu, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In last decades, diversity and accuracy have been regarded as two important measures in evaluating a recommendation model. However, a clear concern is that a model focusing excessively on one measure will put the other one at risk, thus it is not easy to greatly improve diversity and accuracy simultaneously. In this paper, we propose to enhance the Resource-Allocation (RA) similarity in resource transfer equations of diffusion-like models, by giving a tunable exponent to the RA similarity, and traversing the value of the exponent to achieve the optimal recommendation results. In this way, we can increase the recommendation scores (allocated resource) of many unpopular objects. Experiments on three benchmark data sets, MovieLens, Netflix, and RateYourMusic show that the modified models can yield remarkable performance improvement compared with the original ones.
Digitale Lerninfrastrukturen an Hochschulen. Systematisches Review zu den Rahmenbedingungen für das Lehren und Lernen mit Medien an deutschen Hochschulen
Creators: name: Pensel, Sabrina
name: Hofhues, Sandra
Publisher: name: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
Year: 2018

description: Das vorliegende systematische Review nimmt ausgehend vom BMBF-geförderten Verbundforschungsprojekt „You(r) Study“ Forschungsarbeiten (im weitesten Sinne) zu digitalen Lerninfrastrukturen an Hochschulen unter die Lupe. Dazu wird der Forschungsstand zu den Rahmenbedingungen für mediengestütztes Lehren und Lernen an deutschen Hochschulen erarbeitet und durch internationale Sichtweisen ergänzt. Mit Blick auf die Makroebene wird deutlich, dass die organisationalen Besonderheiten von Hochschulen einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf die Implementierung von digitalen Lerninfrastrukturen haben. Zudem werden akteur- und handlungsspezifische Aspekte beleuchtet, um erste Antworten auf die Fragen zu finden, wie digitale Medien von Hochschulakteur*innen genutzt werden und wie digitale Lerninfrastrukturen studentisches Medienhandeln prägen können.
Quantum One-Time Memories from Stateless Hardware
Creators: name: Broadbent, Anne
name: Gharibian, Sevag
name: Zhou, Hong-Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A central tenet of theoretical cryptography is the study of the minimal assumptions required to implement a given cryptographic primitive. One such primitive is the one-time memory (OTM), introduced by Goldwasser, Kalai, and Rothblum [CRYPTO 2008], which is a classical functionality modeled after a non-interactive 1-out-of-2 oblivious transfer, and which is complete for one-time classical and quantum programs. It is known that secure OTMs do not exist in the standard model in both the classical and quantum settings. Here, we show how to use quantum information, together with the assumption of stateless (i.e., reusable) hardware tokens, to build statistically secure OTMs. This is in sharp contrast with the classical case, where stateless hardware tokens alone cannot yield OTMs. In addition, our scheme is technologically simple. We prove security in the quantum universal composability framework, employing semi-definite programming results of Molina, Vidick and Watrous [TQC 2013] and combinatorial techniques of Pastawski et al. [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2012].
description: 22 pages. Superseded by arXiv:1810.05226. The current paper was withdrawn due to an error in the main security proof (Lemma B.2, specifically); thank you to an anonymous referee for catching it. The superseding paper gives different security claims and proof techniques
Amphibian and reptile communities in eleven Sites of Community Importance (SCI): relations between SCI area, heterogeneity and richness
Creators: name: Canova, Luca
name: Marchesi, Manuela
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2007

description: Seven species of amphibians and reptiles were observed in eleven Sites of Community Importance (SCI) of the Lodi Province (NW Italy). Distribution and relative abundance of amphibians appeared more variable than reptiles. Some species of conservation concern as R. latastei were influenced by habitat physiognomy, i.e. the surface of wooded areas are important in predict presence and relative abundance of this species. SCI with wider surfaces and higher habitat heterogeneity included higher number of species. Species richness, here considered as a raw index of biodiversity value and community quality, was significantly related to SCI area and habitat heterogeneity; since this significant positive relation is confirmed both for amphibians and reptiles we suggest that, in planning of natural areas, priority must be retained for biotopes able to host the higher number of species.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 2 No 2 (2007)
Medieneinsatz in der Hochschullehre. Akademische Lehr-Lernkonzepte zwischen Zumutung und Zu-Mutung
Creators: name: Riplinger, Tim
name: Schiefner-Rohs, Mandy
Publisher: name: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
Year: 2018

description: Das vorliegende systematische Review nimmt – ausgehend vom BMBF-geförderten Verbundforschungsprojekt „You(r) Study“ – Forschungsarbeiten zur Rolle digitaler Medien zur Gestaltung von Lehr-Lernarrangements durch Dozierende in den Blick. Ausgehend von konzeptionellen Beiträgen und empirischen Studien werden neben den Lehr-Lernzielen und den Funktionen, die Lehrende digitalen Medien beimessen auch die Rolle von digitalen Medien in verschiedenen Lehrformaten und Disziplinen in den Blick genommen. Aus diesem Vorgehen ergibt sich ein erstes Bild über die Ziele und Perspektiven der Gestaltung von Lehr-Lernarrangements mit und in Medien in der Hochschullehre.
Distribuzione di Coronella girondica (Daudin, 1803) in Romagna (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae)
Creators: name: Pastorelli, Christian
name: Laghi, Paolo
name: Melloni, Luigi
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2007

description: The authors report a brief overview of the present knowledges about the distribution of Coronella girondica in Romagna geographical region, as well as seven unpublished records of occurrence of the species.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 2 No 2 (2007)
Wearable UV detector for real time UV index monitoring
Creators: name: NATASHA, ADNIN TAZRIH
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This thesis presents the successful development of an Ultraviolet (UV) index monitor for determining daily exposure of an individual under Sunlight. The core measurement of the UV index of the device is the calibration of the effect of incident sun rays on the UV nano sensor. The nano sensor is made of ZnO nanoparticles with an average particle size of 15 nm. It has been fabricated in the laboratory by flame spray pyrolysis fabrication technology which is based on the deposition and self-assembly of ultrafine nanoparticles on a water-cooled substrate. The UV nano sensor is fabricated on glass substrate with a dimension of 10 x 6 x 0.75 mm, featuring platinum interdigitated electrode. The device connects through Bluetooth low energy 5.0 communication to mobile application known as “UV Index Monitor”. The calculation of the UV index varies from a range of 1-10, where 1 stand for safe UV radiation and 10 stands for harmful exposure of UV. The mobile application connected to the device display alert messages to end users like, “You are safe”, “UV protection required” etc varying the range of UV in between 1 to 10. The device is designed in wearable watch frame structure. The device measurements are 5 cm in length, 3 cm in width and 2 cm in thickness. The power source of the device is 3.7 V rechargeable battery. The UV index data from the mobile application comes with sharing through emails or other platforms for data storage. These data can be further used for individuals’ medical health records.
Mediennutzung Studierender: Über den Umgang mit Medien in hochschulischen Kontexten. Systematisches Review nationaler und internationaler Studien zur Mediennutzung Studierender
Creators: name: Steffens, Yannic
name: Schmitt, Inga Lotta
name: Aßmann, Sandra
Publisher: name: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)
Year: 2018

description: Das vorliegende systematische Review nimmt – ausgehend vom BMBF-geförderten Verbundforschungsprojekt „You(r) Study“ – Forschungsarbeiten zur Mediennutzung Studierender in den Blick. Dabei sollen zunächst (1) allgemeine Studien zur Mediennutzung Studierender sowie einschlägige internationale Studien vor-gestellt werden. Des Weiteren sollen (2) Medien(Nutzer)typologien vergleichend auf ihre Aussagekraft hinsichtlich des studentischen Medienhandelns analysiert werden. Schließlich sollen zwei als zentral identifizierte Diskurse der Mediennutzung – Mobile Technologien (3) und Soziale Medien (4) – näher betrachtet werden. Aus diesem Vorgehen ergibt sich ein umfassendes Bild über die Mediennutzung Studierender.
Generalized Gibbs ensemble in a nonintegrable system with an extensive number of local symmetries
Creators: name: Hamazaki, Ryusuke
name: Ikeda, Tatsuhiko N.
name: Ueda, Masahito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically study the unitary time evolution of a nonintegrable model of hard-core bosons with an extensive number of local Z2 symmetries. We find that the expectation values of local observables in the stationary state are described better by the generalized Gibbs ensemble (GGE) than by the canonical ensemble. We also find that the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis fails for the entire spectrum, but holds true within each symmetry sector, which justifies the GGE. In contrast, if the model has only one global Z2 symmetry or a size-independent number of local Z2 symmetries, we find that the stationary state is described by the canonical ensemble. Thus, the GGE is necessary to describe the stationary state even in a nonintegrable system if it has an extensive number of local symmetries.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures, the format of the figures changed
What factors influence illness uncertainty in rheumatic conditions and what are the psychosocial outcomes? A narrative review
Creators: name: Kay, Sarah
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Health Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This review will consider the role of illness uncertainty in rheumatic conditions. The review will aim to address 2 questions: • What factors influence illness uncertainty in adults with rheumatic conditions? • What are the psychological and social consequences of uncertainty for those with rheumatic conditions? Synthesising the findings will identify what is known within current literature base and any gaps in the body of research in order to inform future research.
Molecular DNA variation among Triturus vittatus vittatus (Urodela) from different breeding sites at the southern limit of its distribution
Creators: name: Pearlson, Oren
name: Degani, Gad
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2007

description: Molecular DNA variation among Triturus vittatus vittatus (striped newt) from different breeding sites at the southern limit of the species distribution (where environmental conditions are most extreme) was studied by the random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) method that has been found to be appropriate for other Triturus species. Altitudes of the localities ranged between 15-740 m a.s.l. Of the 20 primers employed, OPA-16 was the only one suitable for T. vittatus, revealing a different band pattern for different populations. Genetic similarity was calculated by band sharing, which demonstrated a high similarity among the Israeli populations.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 2 No 2 (2007)
An estimate of local population of Nyctibatrachus aliciae at two habitat gradients of forest in Western Ghats
Creators: name: Bhatta Krishnamurthy, Sannanegunda Venkatarama
name: Manjunatha Reddy, Aall Hanumantha
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2008

description: Alice’s Wrinkled Frog (Nyctibatrachus aliciae) is an endemic anuran amphibian of the Western Ghats. The population estimation of this species in native forest and adjoining secondary forest has revealed distinct differences in size. The population size in native forest (n = 554) was large compared to secondary forest (n = 234). The two forest habitats are characterised by air temperature, humidity, light intensity and canopy cover differences. Manmade activity and habitat variables likely influenced the reduction of population size in secondary forest.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 3 No 1 (2008)
Capital cities at a glance
Creators: name: Dubé, Pierre
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Capitals (Cities)
subject: City planning

description: Summary of one of the seven themes of the 2001 CIP conference in Ottawa - "capital cities".
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5432/Article009.pdf?sequence=3
Phonemic Error Analysis: Edit Distance Instead of Phonemic Error Rate
Creators: name: Haley, Katarina L.
name: Smith, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine convergent validity of edit distance and manual phoneme-level analysis in the quantification of phonemic errors. Background: The proportion of words produced without any errors, is often used as a convenient index of articulatory severity (Haley et al., 2012; Duffy et al., 2017). Phoneme-level analysis is far more precise in its report of the frequency of substitution, omission, and addition errors that a person makes when speaking (Cunningham et al., 2016; Haley et al., 2001; Odell et al., 1990, 1991; Strand et al., 2014). It is, however, time-consuming, in that it requires consistent judgments about error type and manual calculation, making applications limited. In this study, we apply an edit distance metric to compute the similarity automatically. The Levenshtein distance, the simplest of edit distances, quantifies the difference between two strings by summing the fewest number of omissions, additions, and substitutions required to transform one string into another. Previous applications in the area of linguistics have been used to quantify the difference between languages or dialects (Thije & Zeevaert, 2007). Methods: We analyzed two retrospective speech samples. The first sample consisted of 24 speakers with AOS who repeated 27 words with varied length and phonetic complexity on a motor speech evaluation (Duffy, 2013). The second sample consisted of 41 speakers with a WAB-based diagnosis of conduction aphasia who named 15 pictures while completing the short-form Boston Naming Test (Kaplan et al., 2001). For each word, we computed the edit distance and manual phoneme-level analysis. Edit distance was calculated using an online calculator (Holsinger, 2017), and the sum of the edit distance for all attempted words was divided by the total number of phonemes produced. Phonemic error rate calculations were completed by manually counting the frequency of omissions, additions, and substitutions and again dividing this sum by the total number of phonemes produced. Results: Convergent validity for the edit distance was excellent, as demonstrated by a negligible mean difference between the edit distance and phoneme-level analysis and a near perfect correlation between the two analyses. Discussion: Not only is convergent validity high for applications of the edit distance to phonemic analysis in people with aphasia and apraxia of speech; the measure is also more time-efficient and not vulnerable to user error. Because omissions, additions, and substitutions are counted independently, difficult clinical decisions must be made when counting phonemic errors manually. Due to the convenience of automated calculation and potential for inclusion in transcription software, clinical application is highly feasible and would extend to any area for which phonemic analysis is relevant, which includes a variety of speech production disorders in children and adults.
A Discussion on the Transmission Conditions for Saturated Fluid Flow Through Porous Media With Fractal Microstructure
Creators: name: Morales, Fernando A
name: Aristizábal, Luis C
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q35, 37F99, 76S05

description: The present work is aimed to find suitable exchange conditions for saturated fluid flow in a porous medium, when a fractal microstructure is embedded in the porous matrix. Two different deterministic models are introduced and rigorously analyzed. Also, numerical experiments for each of them are presented to verify the theoretically predicted behavior of the phenomenon and some probabilistic versions are explored numerically, to gain further insight on the phenomenon.
description: 19 pages, 14 figures
Egg predators of an endemic Italian salamander, Salamandrina perspicillata (Savi, 1821)
Creators: name: Romano, Antonio
name: Spilinga, Cristiano
name: Montioni, Francesca
name: Fiacchini, David
name: Ragni, Bernardino
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2008

description: We report new aquatic predators feeding on Northern spectacled salamander eggs, Salamandrina perspicillata, an endemic Italian species. Eggs were preyed upon by the leech, Trocheta bykowskii, and the trichopteran larvae of Potamophylax cingulatus and Halesus appenninus.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 3 No 1 (2008)
Additional file 2 of Using mixed methods and partnership to develop a program evaluation toolkit for organizations that provide physical activity programs for persons with disabilities
Creators: name: Lawrason, Sarah V. C.
name: DaSilva, Pinder
name: Michalovic, Emilie
name: Latimer-Cheung, Amy
name: Tomasone, Jennifer R.
name: Sweet, Shane
name: Forneris, Tanya
name: Leo, Jennifer
name: Greenwood, Matthew
name: Giles, Janine
name: Arkell, Jane
name: Patatas, Jackie
name: Boyle, Nick
name: Adams, Nathan
name: Martin Ginis, Kathleen A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Additional file 4 of Combination of arsenic trioxide and apatinib synergistically inhibits small cell lung cancer by down-regulating VEGFR2/mTOR and Akt/c-Myc signaling pathway via GRB10
Creators: name: Yu, Yao
name: Shang, Yu
name: Shi, Si
name: He, Yaowu
name: Shi, Wenchao
name: Wang, Menghan
name: Wang, Qi
name: Xu, Dandan
name: Shi, Ce
name: Chen, Hong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 4
The role of oral nutritional supplements and appetite stimulants on weight status among children diagnosed with a pediatric malignancy: A systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Hawes, Corey
name: Gomes, Allison
name: Henderson, Stephanie
name: Byham-Gray, Laura
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Pediatrics
subject: Oncology
subject: Appetite Stimulants
subject: Oral Nutritional Supplements
subject: Pediatric Oncology

description: This registration includes the protocol and methodology behind the systematic review of oral nutritional supplements and appetite stimulants among children undergoing active anti-cancer therapy and their effects on weight status.
A scoping review of treatments for socio-cognitive disorders following moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury
Creators: name: Emery, Holly
name: Honan, Cynthia
name: Skromanis, Sarah
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Other Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Child Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Socio-cognitive disorders are a common outcome following moderate-to-severe TBI and can significantly undermine individuals’ psychosocial functioning. It is currently unclear what evidence exists in the literature pertaining to the type of treatments used to target socio-cognitive disorders and associated impairments, the nature of these, and the extent of information available. The objective of this scoping review is to identify and present the evidence in relation to treatments that target socio-cognitive disorders following moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in terms of type (i.e., RCTs, case-control), nature (i.e., setting, disorder/impairment targeted, personnel involved), and extent (i.e., number of studies) of studies that have been conducted in this area.
Milnor invariants of string links, trivalent trees, and configuration space integrals
Creators: name: Koytcheff, Robin
name: Volic, Ismar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M27, 57Q45, 81Q30, 57R40

description: We study configuration space integral formulas for Milnor's homotopy link invariants, showing that they are in correspondence with certain linear combinations of trivalent trees. Our proof is essentially a combinatorial analysis of a certain space of trivalent "homotopy link diagrams" which corresponds to all finite type homotopy link invariants via configuration space integrals. An important ingredient is the fact that configuration space integrals take the shuffle product of diagrams to the product of invariants. We ultimately deduce a partial recipe for writing explicit integral formulas for products of Milnor invariants from trivalent forests. We also obtain cohomology classes in spaces of link maps from the same data.
description: Changes from last version: removed odd parity assumption in result on classes in higher-dimensional spaces of link maps; other minor revisions. 23 pages. Accepted for publication in Topology Appl
PREPARING IBLCE EXAM CANDIDATES FOR SUCCESS: Lessons Learned From the First CAAHEP-Accredited Pathway 2 Program
Creators: name: Smetana, Abby
name: Wouk, Kathryn
name: Sullivan, Catherine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: OBJECTIVE #1: Review characteristics of the first accredited Pathway 2 program.OBJECTIVE #2: Describe the workforce trajectories of Pathway 2-trained alumni of a year-long training program for aspiring IBCLCs.OBJECTIVE #3: Discuss how lessons learned from program alumni can be applied to support the development of future Pathway 2 programs.
Josephson Junction through a Disordered Topological Insulator with Helical Magnetization
Creators: name: Zyuzin, Alexander
name: Alidoust, Mohammad
name: Loss, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study supercurrent and proximity vortices in a Josephson junction made of disordered surface states of a three-dimensional topological insulator with a proximity induced in-plane helical magnetization. In a regime where the rotation period of helical magnetization is larger than the junction width, we find supercurrent 0-π crossovers as a function of junction thickness, magnetization strength, and parameters inherent to the helical modulation and surface states. The supercurrent reversals are associated with proximity induced vortices, nucleated along the junction width, where the number of vortices and their locations can be manipulated by means of the superconducting phase difference and the parameters mentioned above.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, (Eilenberger and Usadel Techniques)
On the occurrence of the Italian Aesculapian snake, Zamenis lineatus (Camerano, 1891), in Latium (Central Italy)
Creators: name: Corsetti, Luigi
name: Romano, Antonio
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2008

description: In this note we report the first detailed notice of the presence of the Italian Aesculapian snake, Zamenis lineatus, in Latium region. The localities of Morolo (province of Frosinone) and Latina Scalo (province of Latina) represent respectively the new northern and the new western limits of the species. The first one is 68 km further north compared to the old one (Pannarano, Campania region), whereas the western one is 130 km far from the previous one (Roccarainola, Campania region).
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 3 No 2 (2008)
On the degree-1 Abel map for nodal curves
Creators: name: Sercio, Frederico
name: de Souza, Aldi Nestor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14H50

description: Let $C$ be a nodal curve and $L$ be an invertible sheaf on $C$. Let $α_{L}:C\dashrightarrow J_{C}$ be the degree-$1$ rational Abel map, which takes a smooth point $Q\in C$ to $\left[ m_{Q}\otimes L\right] $ in the Jacobian of $C$. In this work we extend $α_{L}$ to a morphism $\overlineα_{L}:C\rightarrow\overline{J}_{E}^{P}$ taking values on Esteves' compactified Jacobian for any given polarization $E$. The maps $\overlineα_{L}$ are limits of Abel maps of smooth curves of the type $α_{L}$.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures, comments are welcome
Differences in team performance: Gender versus ability
Creators: name: Städter, Silvio
name: Roider, Andreas
name: Dowling, Michael
name: Helm, Roland
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: ability differences, gender effects, team composition, team performance
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: We empirically study the relationship between the gender composition and the performance of teams. In our setting, teams of students are incentivized to develop business plans as part of a compulsory course in a business administration program. At first sight, and in line with earlier empirical literature, the gender composition seems to matter. Our article differs in that we have access to a measure of task-specific individual ability. When controlling for ability, the relation between gender and team performance vanishes, highlighting the importance of controlling for other characteristics in empirical and experimental studies of gender effects. Objective While various studies document a relationship between the gender composition and the performance of teams, we ask whether such findings may depend on a lack of controlling for other dimensions of heterogeneity among team members. Methods In our setting, teams of students are incentivized to develop business plans as part of a compulsory course in a business administration program. Our article differs from the literature in that we have access to a measure of task-specific individual ability. Using ordinary least squares regressions, controlling for year and team size fixed effects, and conducting various robustness checks, we study the association between team performance and team characteristics. Results At first sight, and in line with earlier empirical literature, the gender composition seems to matter for team performance. However, when controlling for the individual abilities of team members, the relation between the gender composition and team performance vanishes. Conclusion Our study highlights the importance of controlling for other characteristics in empirical and experimental studies of gender effects, which in our context leads them to disappear.
Source of ligands and metals during the formation of Iron Oxide Copper and Gold deposits
Creators: name: HAMISI, JONATHAN MURHABAZI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Geology not elsewhere classified
Resource geoscience
Mineralogy and crystallography
Geochemistry not elsewhere classified

description: Metals are used in all modern products and technology essential in supporting our today's life style. Metals are primarily sourced from the Earth in ore deposits. As we transition to green energy, the demand for ‘critical minerals’ (copper, cobalt, lithium etc.) is increasing, this in turn requires the discovery of new ore deposits. Our ability to find new deposits relies on our understanding of natural geological processes. This research aims to advance our knowledge of these processes that are vital to producing critical mineral deposits.
Modelling a species in expansion at local scale: is Hyla meridionalis colonising new areas in Salamanca, Spain?
Creators: name: Sillero, Neftalí
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2009

description: New records of the frog Hyla meridionalis have been reported in the province of Salamanca (Spain). However, it is not clear if those records correspond to an expansion process or to a lack of sampling. Thus, the species range was modelled in order to identify which is its potential distribution, which areas are available for expansion, and which variables drive the distribution. Ten MAXENT iterative models were produced at 1×1 km scale. The suitable areas in Salamanca occurred only in the south-east part of the province. This area corresponds mainly to the Alagón river basin, together with a small part of the Tormes river basin. The presence area was 1040 km2, meanwhile the absence one corresponded to 11309 km2. The models indicated a strong relationship with temperature and precipitation factors. Predictive models cannot confirm or reject the expansion process of the species. Then, H. meridionalis could be in equilibrium (or nearly) with the environment and may not spread further, or in expansion, but the process is almost complete. If the species is not in expansion, new records recently obtained in Salamanca could be the consequence of previous lack of sampling. Also, the expansion speed could be very low to be detected in human time-life.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 4 No 1 (2009)