cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Water mass changes in the North and South Pacific Oceans between the 1960s and 1985-94
Creators: name: Wong, APS
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Comparisons have been made along five modern hydrographic sections against historical hydro graphic data to investigate water mass changes in the North and South Pacific oceans. The five modern hydrographic sections were sampled in the decade 1985-94, while the historical data were mostly from the late 1960s. Below the seasonal mixed layer, statistically significant temporal differences in temperature and salinity have been detected in the water masses that occur in the top 2000 dbar of the water column. These differences in water mass properties are assumed to result from sea surface changes at the formation regions. Of all the water mass changes, the most spatially coherent ones come from the shallow salinity maxima of North Pacific Subtropical Water (NPSTW) and South Pacific Subtropical Water (SPSTW), and the intermediate salinity minima of North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW) and Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW). The two shallow salinity maxima, NPSTW and SPSTW, have shown signs of salinity increase, while the two intermediate salinity minima, NPIW and AAIW, have become fresher and, except along l 7¬¨‚àûS, have become warmer. Since NPSTW and SPSTW originate under the high evaporative cells of the subtropical North and South Pacific, and NPIW and AAIW acquire their properties near the polar gyres, these changes in the ocean interior imply an increase in net evaporation over the mid-latitudes, and an increase in net precipitation over the high-latitudes in both hemispheres. Together these results imply a strengthening of the hydrological cycle over the North and South Pacific oceans. Outputs from a coupled climate model show that under increasing atmospheric C02 , the model ocean responds with a warming of the water column in the top 300 dbar. Superimposed on this background warming trend is a decrease in salinity in the two intermediate salinity minima of the Pacific (NPIW and AAIW), and corresponds to near-surface freshening where their respective isopycnals outcrop. Hence the freshening signature that has been detected in NPIW and AAIW from observational data is qualitatively consistent with this climate model's response to increasing C02 ‚Äö However, natural variability cannot be discarded as a possible cause for the observed changes. The steric sea level change for the area in the Pacific between 60¬¨‚àûN and 31.5¬¨‚àûS over the roughly 20-year study period is estimated to be a rise of 0.85 mm/yr. This is larger than that estimated by numerical models, and so demonstrates the usefulness of observational studies such as this in testing the effectiveness of numerical models in simulating the natural variability of the climate system.
The total synthesis of veratrum alkaloids
Creators: name: Fortes, Carlos Camiza
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The condensation of a C-nor-D-homo steroidal portion with the lithium derivative of various substituted pyridines is outlined as a general method for the synthesis of Veratrun alkaloids. The application of this approach to the synthesis of verticine (138), a representative of the a-cevanine bases is described. Hecogenin acetate (180) was converted in excellent yield to 33-acetoxy-13a-acetoxymethyl~18-nor-5a,12a-spirostan (240). Performic acid degradation of the spiroketal side chain in 240 gave 38-acetoxy-13et-acetox.ymethyl-18-nor-12a-pregnajervan-20-one (260). This ketone was coupled with 2-lithio-5-methyl pyridine to give after acetylation 33,18-diacetoxy-20-hydroxy-20,23,24,25,26-N-hexadehydro-5a,136(H),17a(H)-vcratraiiine (277). The coupling product vras reduced with PtC^ in acetic acid to 33,18-diacetoxy-5ct,133(H),17a(H)-veratranine (287). The final conversion to the hexacyclic a-cevane skeleton (90) was attempted by heating 287 at 130° for 72 hours in triglyme. The above results open the possibility of the synthesis of several hypotensive Veratrum alkaloids and the access to several compounds not easily obtained from the natural products by degradation reactions. While some of the naturally occurring alkaloids are known to exhibit hypotensive activity, it is not known whether alterations in stereochemistry and structure will cause enhancement or loss of such activity.
Evolution of the cosmic ray anisotropy above 10^{14} eV
Creators: name: Aglietta, M.
name: Alekseenko, V. V.
name: Alessandro, B.
name: Antonioli, P.
name: Arneodo, F.
name: Bergamasco, L.
name: Bertaina, M.
name: Bonino, R.
name: Castellina, A.
name: Chiavassa, A.
name: Piazzoli, B. D'Ettorre
name: Di Sciascio, G.
name: Fulgione, W.
name: Galeotti, P.
name: Ghia, P. L.
name: Iacovacci, M.
name: Mannocchi, G.
name: Morello, C.
name: Navarra, G.
name: Saavedra, O.
name: Stamerra, A.
name: Trinchero, G. C.
name: Valchierotti, S.
name: Vallania, P.
name: Vernetto, S.
name: Vigorito, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The amplitude and phase of the cosmic ray anisotropy are well established experimentally between 10^{11} eV and 10^{14} eV. The study of their evolution into the energy region 10^{14}-10^{16} eV can provide a significant tool for the understanding of the steepening ("knee") of the primary spectrum. In this letter we extend the EAS-TOP measurement performed at E_0 around 10^{14} eV, to higher energies by using the full data set (8 years of data taking). Results derived at about 10^{14} and 4x10^{14} eV are compared and discussed. Hints of increasing amplitude and change of phase above 10^{14} eV are reported. The significance of the observation for the understanding of cosmic ray propagation is discussed.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication on ApJ Letters
A Big Data Research Roadmap for Next Generation Policy Making
Creators: name: Mureddu Francesco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The aim of the Big Policy Canvas Roadmap for Future Research Directions in Data-Driven Policy Making is to put forward the different research and innovation directions that should be followed in order to reach the anticipated vision for making the public sector a key player in tackling societal challenges through new data-driven policy-making approaches. The roadmapping exercise builds on previous projects such as SONNETS, CROSSOVER, CROSSROAD, eGovRTD2020 and PHS2020, which adopted a policy oriented approach including a foresight element by combining roadmapping with scenario building techniques. The roadmap defines five main research clusters related to the use of Big Data in policy making. Four of them are built on the Big Data cycle and value chain, while the fifth one is transversal at each phase of the cycle. For each cluster, a series of research challenges and applications are provided.
Labor arqueológica en la región costera de Tabasco, Sureste de México.
Creators: name: Pichardo, Daniela
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2016

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Additional file 1 of Multi-omics data integration reveals link between epigenetic modifications and gene expression in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris) in response to cold
Creators: name: Gutschker, Sindy
name: Corral, José María
name: Schmiedl, Alfred
name: Ludewig, Frank
name: Koch, Wolfgang
name: Fiedler-Wiechers, Karin
name: Czarnecki, Olaf
name: Harms, Karsten
name: Keller, Isabel
name: Martins Rodrigues, Cristina
name: Pommerrenig, Benjamin
name: Neuhaus, H. Ekkehard
name: Zierer, Wolfgang
name: Sonnewald, Uwe
name: Müdsam, Christina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure S1. Addition to Fig. 2: Methylation levels in the genome and in gene components under control conditions or after exposure to cold. Supplementary Figure S2. Addition to Fig. 2: Methylation levels of transposable and repetitive elements under control conditions or after exposure to cold. Supplementary Figure S3. Addition to Fig. 3: Overlaps of differential methylation with transposable elements. Supplementary Figure S4. Sequence composition in the neighborhood of fully methylated, non-methylated or differentially methylated cytosines. Supplementary Figure S5. Addition to Fig. 4: Methylation profiles along genes grouped by their expression level.
Mental hygiene, now and tomorrow
Creators: name: Stimpson, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Oregon
Year: 1932
Subjects: Mental Health

description: Mental hygiene has become a byword, a common term in the phraseology of today, but few people have a true conception of the meaning of the term. To most of us it is a catchall phrase which we carelessly and frequently use, along with other scientific terms, as a means of showing off our rapid strides in scientific education and attainments. here's another means of providing. The school child, the businessman and woman, the professional man, the wealthy and the poor alike use these two words, “mental hygiene,” but each maintains his own individual connotations, the one differing considerably from the other.
Discussing the relationship between media and archaeology
Creators: name: Diacarco
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2016

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Additional file 1 of The lncRNA DANCR promotes development of atherosclerosis by regulating the miR-214-5p/COX20 signaling pathway
Creators: name: Zhang, Ruolan
name: Hao, Yuming
name: Zhang, Jinrong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Lipid profiles in mice. Serum lipid profile of C57BL/6J mice was measured. Six mice in each group. Each experiment was repeated three independent times. *p
title: An Approach to Iris Murdoch’s Good
Creators: name: Cooper, Samuel
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2024

description: This thesis presents an interpretation and defence of Iris Murdoch’s Platonism, and especially her conception of the Form of the Good as a fundamental and transcendent source of value. I approach Murdoch’s thinking about the Good through both her engagement with Christian theology and her reading of Plato, attempting to show that Murdoch’s thinking is grounded in both of these traditions. I try to show how Murdoch, through her revival of Plato, recovers some of the concepts and insights of Christianity.
Heavy Flavour Production in pp and Heavy Ion Collisions in QCD Up to LHC Energies
Creators: name: Merino, C.
name: Pajares, C.
name: Ryzhinskiy, M. M.
name: Shabelski, Yu. M.
name: Shuvaev, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Charm production in pp collisions is considered in the framework of perturbative QCD. The values of two parameters, the charm quark mass $m_c$ and the QCD scale mu^2, are determined from the comparison of the theoretical calculations with experimental data. The RHIC data on charm and beauty production are compared with the k_T-factorization approach predictions and with standard NLO QCD. The calculated results underestimate the STAR Collaboration data. The role of possible nuclear effects is discussed. The predictions for LHC energies are also given.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures, and 3 tables
Human resource management and its contextual environment in a changing economy : current and future trends in Indonesia
Creators: name: Sutiyono, WS
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Indonesia is the world's fourth largest democratic entity and fifth most populous country. The country holds an important geo-strategic position both in the Asia-Pacific region and globally, even given its current economic problems. The management of enterprises in Indonesia is central to the growth of the economy and the contribution of the human resource management (HRM) function is crucial in the development of enterprises in Indonesia. Standing in contrast to the growing literature on HRM in other countries in the AsiaPacific, little research has been conducted on the way in which the human resources function in Indonesian enterprises is managed. This thesis is an attempt to ameliorate the dearth of research on Indonesian employee management by critically examining the current practices and trends of HRM in Indonesia. The thesis first examines the historical dimension of the social, political and economic contextual environment within which HRM has been developing. Then, parallel to this, an exploration of the evolution of HRM has been outlined. The design of this research is exploratory in nature using inductive processes. The empirical investigation was conducted by cross-analysing quantitative and qualitative data from multiple case studies. The survey data was obtained from a questionnaire of 247 respondents from enterprises. The case studies focused on a state owned enterprise and a private industrial conglomerate. Data was collected through interviews and direct observation for a number of months. Use of the data triangulation method enabled the qualitative data to add depth and detail to complement the broad patterns of the quantitative survey data. This research focused on the investigation of HR. activities such as recruitment, training and development, performance management and compensation within the wider function of HRM. The findings of this thesis provide evidence of the adoption of some contemporary features of HRM as practised in advanced Western countries. However, these features exist within the dominant approach of the more traditional personnel practices prevalent in Indonesian enterprises. Thus, it indicates that HRM in Indonesia is currently in a stage of transition. An examination of future trends indicated that while progress in HRM is largely contingent on its contextual environment, it is likely that the human resources function itself is a critical factor that shapes the future configurations of HRM in Indonesia. In light of the findings in this research, a range of implications are discussed which are pertinent to national government policy development, including policy for the educational system, further reform for state-owned enterprises, HRM issues in regional economic cooperation, as well as implications for management education, and future practice of HRM in Indonesia. The thesis concludes with some suggestions for future research.
Heisenberg Idempotents on Unipotent Groups
Creators: name: Deshpande, Tanmay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20G05

description: Let G be an algebraic group over an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic such that its neutral connected component is a unipotent group. We consider a certain class of closed idempotents in the braided monoidal category (under convolution of complexes) D_G(G) known as Heisenberg idempotents. For such an idempotent e, we will prove certain results about the Hecke subcategory eD_G(G) conjectured by V. Drinfeld. In particular, we will see that it is the bounded derived category of a modular category.
description: 20 pages, added some definitions
Podcasting Archaeology or Why to Communicate Archaeology via the Internet.
Creators: name: Head, Serra
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2016

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
title: The Ute Indians and the Public School System: A Historical Analysis, 1900-1985
Creators: name: Gruenwald, Kim M
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1989

description: This thesis is a historical case study of the Ute Indians of eastern Utah. The purpose of this thesis is to examine how federal Indian education policy is implemented at the local level. Ute children attend school in the Uintah and Duchesne county school districts.
The thesis traces Ute experiences in public schools during crucial transitions in federal policy. From 1900 to 1930, the federal government sought to enroll Indians in public schools in order to teach them white ways. Indian enrollment increased in the 1940s and 1950s when federal funding made the attendance of Ute children lucrative to the school districts. After the reservation boarding school closed in 1952, nearly all of the Ute children attended public schools and faced a school system that was hostile to their culture.
A key transition occurred in the 1970s when federal policy shifted to one of self-determination. The Indian Education Act of 1972 made mandatory the direct participation by Indian parents in the implementation of federally funded programs. Many parents failed to grasp the new opportunity. The Ute Tribal Education Division became heavily involved in running Ute history and language classes in the public schools under Title IV of the Indian Education Act of 1972 and under Title VII of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Despite the existence of a policy that advocated self determination, Utes were not really allowed to determine how federal money was spent. The 1972 Indian Education Act established an advisory role for parents rather than an administrative one. Local school districts still controlled the purse strings. Programs run under this act were not integrated into the core curriculum of local schools.
Federal Indian education policy changed from decade to decade but local attitudes remained essentially the same, blunting each policy's effectiveness. When the federal government desired assimilation, local residents and Indians fought that goal. When the federal government switched to a policy of self-determination, misunderstanding and outright hostility kept it from fulfillment at the local level. In addition to problems associated with local attitudes, federal legislation also proved unworkable because it gave Indians no real power to make the school districts listen to them.
Plain language summary for the manuscript: Once-weekly prophylaxis regimen of nonacog alfa in patients with hemophilia B: an analysis of timing of bleeding event onset
Creators: name: BJ, Tortella
name: ME, Carr
name: P, Rendo
name: Korth-Bradley, Joan
name: LM, Smith
name: Kavakli, Kaan
Publisher: name: Pfizer
Year: 2021
Subjects: Epidemiology not elsewhere classified
Haematology
Health care administration
Primary health care

description: This is a plain language summary (PLS) of an article published in a peer reviewed scientific journal. This PLS is not peer-reviewed. The publisher of the original manuscript was not involved in the preparation of this PLS and has neither reviewed nor approved its content.
All of the Factory Chimneys are Gone. What s in your Neighbourhood?
Creators: name: Mindykowski, Adam
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2016

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Military nursing
Creators: name: Smith, Marion G.
Publisher: name: University of Oregon
Year: 1939
Subjects: Military Nursing

description: This paper is an attempt to show the gradual rise of military nursing throughout history and present times. The Army Nurse Corps. being my first thought when glancing at the phrase military nursing I shall enlarge more thoroughly on the Army and include only the present-day status of the other country's defense, the Navy. By writing this paper I also hope to accomplish the gathering of material on the rise of military nursing through the ages in a brief but adequate form.
title: A Method for Knowledge Engineering in Clinical Decision Making
Creators: name: Giere, Sheila S.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1989

description: The purpose of this study was to validate the problem behavior evaluation section of an expert system computer program, Class.BO. Class.BO was developed to assist special education personnel in determining whether students qualify for special education services as behaviorally disordered/severely emotionally disturbed students.
The subjects were six Utah who regularly individuals from the state of 1) work with behaviorally disordered/severely emotionally disturbed students and 2) participate in multidisciplinary assessment teams. Three of the subjects were special educators, and three were school psychologists.
Specifically, this study investigated the impact of five behavioral factors on the subjects' ratings of the seriousness of problem behaviors. The five behavioral factors were 1) the severity or nature of the problem behavior, 2) the frequency with which the problem behavior occurs, 3) the duration over which the problem behavior has been occurring, 4) the generality of the problem behavior or the number of school environments the behavior occurs in , and 5) the percentage of the student's peers who engage in the same behavior. For each behavioral factor, three levels of that factor were determined: high, moderate, and low. Problem behavior descriptions were developed by the researcher, each of which presented the five behavioral factors at a predetermined combination of levels. Of 65 problem behavior descriptions, 3 3 described externalized problem behaviors and 32 described internalized problem behaviors. Subjects were asked to rate the seriousness of each problem behavior description on an 11 point scale, where l=mild and ll=severe.
The results showed high levels of agreement among subjects on ratings of seriousness of problem behaviors. There was also high agreement between the subjects' ratings and ratings generated by the Class.BO expert system. Thus, Class. BD was validated. Further, the subjects gave highly similar ratings to descriptions of externalized and internalized problem behaviors.
The results also indicated that the severity of the problem behaviors had the most impact on subjects' ratings. Subjects discriminated three levels of severity but only two levels of frequency, duration, generality, and percentage of peers.
Finally, the results provided support for the use of analysis of variance as a viable method of knowledge engineering, i.e., extracting information about how experts make decisions. Its superiority over traditional interview methods is discussed.
Wick Rotation in the Light-Front
Creators: name: de Melo, J. P. B. C.
name: Gambim, E.
name: Frederico, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the electroweak properties of pseudo-scalar mesons in the light and heavy-light sectors. In particular, we address the electromagnetic form factors and decay constants of the pion, kaon and D mesons. The structure of composite systems are given by the Bethe-Salpeter (BS) amplitude of a meson formed by a confined pair of constituent quark and antiquark, which in our work is written in terms of Pauli-Villars regulators. The analytical structure contains single poles in the complex momentum space. The BS amplitude takes into account poles due to the regulator parameters, while the quark-antiquark cut is avoided, implying in confined quarks with the property that the sum of the constituents masses can be larger than the mass of the meson. The one-loop expressions of the electroweak transition amplitudes are conveniently written in terms of light-front momentum. Technically, we introduce a Wick-rotation of he minus component of the momentum (k-minus) in the one-loop amplitudes allowing to avoid the cuts in the complex plane of this momentum variable without crossing them. This is particularly useful as we can study the electroweak properties with several models of the BS amplitude with different powers of Pauli-Villars regulators. The possibility to change the power of the BS amplitude is interesting in order to test the asymptotic behavior of the electromagnetic form factors searching for a suitable form that incorporates the expected QCD decaying power-law form. The results are compared with others models in the literature and with the experimental data.
The cluster gas mass fraction as a cosmological probe: a revised study
Creators: name: Ettori, S.
name: Morandi, A.
name: Tozzi, P.
name: Balestra, I.
name: Borgani, S.
name: Rosati, P.
name: Lovisari, L.
name: Terenziani, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abriged) We present the analysis of the baryonic content of 52 X-ray luminous galaxy clusters observed with Chandra in the redshift range 0.3-1.273. We use the deprojected X-ray surface brightness profiles and the measured values of the gas temperature to recover the gas and total mass profiles. By assuming that galaxy clusters are representative of the cosmic baryon budget, the distribution of the cluster baryon fraction in the hottest (T> 4 keV) systems as a function of redshift is used to constrain the cosmological parameters. We discuss how our constraints are affected by several systematics, namely the isothermality, the assumed baryon fraction in stars, the depletion parameter and the sample selection. By using only the cluster baryon fraction as a proxy for the cosmological parameters, we obtain that Omega is very well constrained at the value of 0.35 with a relative statistical uncertainty of 11% (1 sigma level; w=-1) and a further systematic error of about (-6,+7)%. On the other hand, constraints on Lambda (without the prior of flat geometry) and w (using the prior of flat geometry) are definitely weaker due to the presence of larger statistical and systematic uncertainties (of the order of 40 per cent on Lambda and larger than 50 per cent on w). If the WMAP 5-year best-fit results are assumed to fix the cosmological parameters, we limit the contributions expected from non-thermal pressure support and ICM clumpiness to be lower than about 10 per cent, leaving also room to accommodate baryons not accounted for either in the X-ray emitting plasma or in stars of the order of 18 per cent of the total cluster baryon budget.
description: A&A in press. Accepted on March 28, 2009. Revised to match version in print
Ecological risk assessment in a Tasmanian agricultural catchment
Creators: name: Walker, R
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: In the Huon Valley, southern Tasmania, Australia, large volumes of pesticides are applied to the region's apple orchards. The broad objective of this study was to determine whether regional aquatic ecosystems are being adversely impacted by the use of orchard pesticides. The subcatchment of Mountain River was chosen as the study area, and a regional risk assessment was completed to gain an understanding of the environmental issues in the region. A Tier 1 risk assessment identified the insecticide, chlorpyrifos, as being of particular concern to aquatic ecosystems. The risk hypothesis for research on chlorpyrifos was that spray drift from chlorpyrifos applications in orchard located on river flats was resulting in aquatic ecosystems being exposed to potentially harmful concentrations of pesticide. Chlorpyrifos exposures in Mountain River were characterised using data from seasonal sampling and sampling at the time of spray application. Seasonal results showed intermittent, low-level detections of chlorpyrifos in Mountain River. Sampling at the time of spraying provided unique field data describing the magnitude and duration of pulse exposures at a site directly exposed to spray drift. The concentrations measured compared well with the spray drift model, AgDRIFT‚Äövë¬¢. Chlorpyrifos effects in Mountain River were characterised using multiple lines of evidence. Probabilistic risk assessments using cumulative frequency distributions of exposure and effects data, and @Risk¬¨vÜ software simulations of probability distributions functions fitted with BestFit¬¨vÜ software showed that aquatic species were not adversely impacted by the exposures measured. Field studies validated the outcomes of the probabilistic risk assessment for fish species. In situ investigations on the blood chemistry and acetykholinesterase activity of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykzss) were used to assess acute effects. A maximum aquatic concentration of 0.163˜í¬¿g/L was measured soon after the commencement of spraying, but no significant changes in blood chemistry parameters or cholinesterase activity were detected. Body burdens and histology of native fish caught from localities surrounded by orchards confirmed exposure to pesticides but it was difficult to assess the severity of chronic effects, given the multiple stressors to which fish in agricultural areas are exposed.
Archaeologist as a war historian - writing a history
Creators: name: Kauhanen, Riku
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2016

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Additional file 3 of Multi-omics data integration reveals link between epigenetic modifications and gene expression in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris) in response to cold
Creators: name: Gutschker, Sindy
name: Corral, José María
name: Schmiedl, Alfred
name: Ludewig, Frank
name: Koch, Wolfgang
name: Fiedler-Wiechers, Karin
name: Czarnecki, Olaf
name: Harms, Karsten
name: Keller, Isabel
name: Martins Rodrigues, Cristina
name: Pommerrenig, Benjamin
name: Neuhaus, H. Ekkehard
name: Zierer, Wolfgang
name: Sonnewald, Uwe
name: Müdsam, Christina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. Tools and Implementation.
From hidden symmetry to extra dimensions: a five dimensional formulation of the Degenerate BESS model
Creators: name: Coradeschi, Francesco
name: De Curtis, Stefania
name: Dominici, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the continuum limit of a moose model corresponding to a generalization to N sites of the Degenerate BESS model. The five dimensional formulation emerging in this limit is a realization of a RS1 type model with SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R in the bulk, broken by boundary conditions and a vacuum expectation value on the infrared brane. A low energy effective Lagrangian is derived by means of the holographic technique and corresponding bounds on the model parameters are obtained.
description: Latex file, 40 pages and 5 figures
Ted Levermore: A Day in the Finds Department
Creators: name: Oxford Archaeology
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2016

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Archaeology Along the Housatonic Rail Line in Connecticut
Creators: name: Ranslow, Mandy
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2016

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
What does a Science Advisor do all day?
Creators: name: Warman, Sylvia
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2016

description: This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.
The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.
The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 and, since then, the project had thousands of archaeologists take part in the event, from those working in the field through to specialists working in laboratories and behind computers. The last Day of Archaeology was on Friday 28th July 2017.
Mineral and trace element nutrition in salmonids
Creators: name: Ward, DA
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Minerals and trace elements are essential constituents in any diet. Our understanding of the requirements of minerals and trace elements in salmonids is limited, and based on information gained through the use of purified feeds. There exists a need to define standardised methods for determining the apparent digestibility coefficients (ADC) of minerals (calcium, iron, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, sulphur and magnesium) and trace elements (aluminium, boron, cadmium, cobalt, copper, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, vanadium and zinc), the relation between ADC and mineral retention and the effects alternative dietary protein sources, particularly those derived from plants, have on mineral and trace element ADC in salmonids. The primary objective of this research is to improve our understanding of how to best observe the nutritive value of essential minerals and trace elements and their interactions in salmonid diets. Part 1 dealt with the methodology of determining the ADC of minerals and trace elements by comparing external digestibility markers (chromium oxide and yttrium oxide) and an internal marker (acid insoluble ash) and measured the effect of faecal collection timing on ADC. High recovery marker rates and low variation in digestibility values indicated that including yttrium oxide at 0.1% effectively determined ADC for all minerals and most trace elements. Significant differences in mineral and trace element ADC were observed under the various sampling protocols, and an 18 hour collection period provided the most reliable ADC. Part 2 sought to determine the strength of relationships between digestibility and retention of minerals and trace elements and establish data for expected tissue concentrations and mineral status of salmon. There was a complex range of diet and time effects that varied between tissues. The statistical power of determining the effect of mineral supplementation varied by element, and reflected ADC. There were no differences in growth performance between feed composed of various levels of mineral supplementation so the results provide baseline data on mineral status in relation to requirements and uptake. Part 3 dealt with the effect of plant ingredients on ADC, mineral retention, intake and growth, and compared methods of measuring maximum voluntary intake. Mineral and trace element ADC for plant ingredients differed between and amongst species. Lupin‚ÄövÑvÆbased feeds provided growth similar to that provided by a fish meal based feed, but displayed significantly different ADC and maximum voluntary intake. The concentration of particular minerals and trace elements in plant ingredients was reflected in ADC, carcass concentrations, but not in calculated retention values.
Photostatistics Reconstruction via Loop Detector Signatures
Creators: name: Webb, J. G.
name: Huntington, E. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photon-number resolving detectors are a fundamental building-block of optical quantum information processing protocols. A loop detector, combined with appropriate statistical processing, can be used to convert a binary on/off photon counter into a photon-number-resolving detector. Here we describe the idea of a signature of photon-counts, which may be used to more robustly reconstruct the photon number distribution of a quantum state. The methodology is applied experimentally in a 9-port loop detector operating at a telecommunications wavelength and compared directly to the approach whereby only the number of photon-counts is used to reconstruct the input distribution. The signature approach is shown to be more robust against calibration errors, exhibit reduced statistical uncertainty, and reduced reliance on a-priori assumptions about the input state.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures
Additional file 1 of Uniparental disomy is a chromosomic disorder in the first place
Creators: name: Liehr, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Detailed list of all in this study included UPD cases including chromosomal origin, parental origin of UPD, and chromosomal constitution.
title: In Vitro Identification of the Effect of Serotonin on Lymphocyte DNA Synthesis and Natural Killer Cell Activity
Creators: name: Kane, Kim Kartchener
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1989

description: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of the neurotransmitter, serotonin (SE), on the immune function of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of normal, healthy subjects. This was done as a preliminary investigation to studies on the association of SE with immune changes in autistic subjects.
The PBMC isolated from normal male subjects were treated with various concentrations of SE for 48 hrs. Their incubation in SE at a concentration of 10-3 M induced about a 35% decrease in DNA synthesis. However, incubation of the cells in lower concentrations (10-4 to 10-10) of SE produced no significant effect. The ability of natural killer (NK) cells to lyse K562 target cells was also examined after incubation with SE for 48 hrs. The NK activity was almost completely eliminated following incubation in 10-3M of SE, but the activity was not significantly decreased by exposure to lower concentrations of SE. The viability of PBMC was not altered following incubation with SE under identical conditions as those utilized in the NK assay.
Preliminary analysis using a fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS) of monoclonal antibodies directed against Tll (total T cell), T4 (helper T cell), T8 (suppressor and cytotoxic T cells), B-cell and NK cell markers indicated that the suppressive effect exerted by SE could be attributed to a decrease in the density of these markers or receptors on the cell surface. These findings provide additional evidence for a possible link between neurotransmitters, specifically SE, and immune function.