cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Analyzing climate change and surface-subsurface interactions using the Postojna Planina Cave System (Slovenia) as a model system
Creators: name: Pipan, Tanja
name: Petric, Metka
name: Sebela, Stanka
name: Culver, David C.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Worldwide, there are at least 12 ILTER sites with an emphasis on karst, landforms arising from the combination of high rock solubility and well-developed solutional channel porosity underground, but the study of cave ecosystems has been largely neglected. Only two ILTER sites, both in Slovenia, are primarily caves. Caves are under-represented for several reasons, but especially because of the overall difficulty of access and the lack of a clear research agenda for cave ecosystem studies. We review several aspects of long-term studies in Postojna Planina Cave System (PPCS), proposing our approach as a model for ILTER research in caves. In PPCS, analysis of short-term temperature data shows a muted daily cycle and seasonality, and analysis of long-term temperature data shows an increase, largely the result of climate change. Changes in drip rate of epikarst aquifers above the cave are correlated with rainfall but with lags and complications resulting from differences in longer term rainfall patterns. Analysis of discharge rates indicates a rapid response to precipitation not only in the Pivka River at its sinking, but also at Unica Spring, where discharge is augmented from other parts of the aquifer, including epikarst. Quantitative analysis of the obligate epikarst-dwelling copepod community shows that, unlike most cave communities, complete sampling of the fauna is possible. Finally, organic carbon levels in PPCS indicate likely carbon limitation in the system. These five factors (temperature, drip rate, river discharge, epikarst copepod fauna, and organic carbon) are the appropriate variables for capturing the essential long-term trends in cave ecosystems and their causes.
A COMPARISON OF SIMULATION AND ANALYTICAL METHODS: A CASE STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF DECOUPLING ON THE U.S. RICE INDUSTRY
Creators: name: Willett, Lois Schertz
name: Watanabe, Satoko
name: Willett, Lois Schertz
name: Watanabe, Satoko
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1991
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The specification of a dynamic national rice industry model is presented. Model coefficients using two stage least squares and model validation statistics are presented. Short run and long run elasticities are compared with other studies. Simulation and analytical methods, for testing convergence and evaluating long run values, are compared. Differences, and their implications, with regard to the effects of decoupling policies are analyzed.
Energy & buildings : sustainable strategies for Ponderosa Hub
Creators: name: Roy-Jauvin, Raphael
name: Haar, Yael
name: Kholeif, Hadi
name: Pisarek, Natalia
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Spin quantum tunneling via entangled states in a dimer of exchange coupled single-molecule magnets
Creators: name: Tiron, R.
name: Wernsdorfer, W.
name: Foguet-Albiol, D.
name: Aliaga-Alcalde, N.
name: Christou, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new family of supramolecular, antiferromagnetically exchange-coupled dimers of single-molecule magnets (SMMs) has recently been reported [W. Wernsdorfer, N. Aliaga-Alcalde, D.N. Hendrickson, and G. Christou, Nature 416, 406 (2002)]. Each SMM acts as a bias on its neighbor, shifting the quantum tunneling resonances of the individual SMMs. Hysteresis loop measurements on a single crystal of SMM-dimers have now established quantum tunneling of the magnetization via entangled states of the dimer. This shows that the dimer really does behave as a quantum-mechanically coupled dimer. The transitions are well separated, suggesting long coherence times compared to the time scale of the energy splitting. This result is of great importance if such systems are to be used for quantum computing. It also allows the measurement of the longitudinal and transverse superexchange coupling constants.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Supersymmetric null-surfaces
Creators: name: Mikhailov, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single trace operators with the large R-charge in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory correspond to the null-surfaces in $AdS_5\times S^5$. We argue that the moduli space of the null-surfaces is the space of contours in the super-Grassmanian parametrizing the complex $(2|2)$-dimensional subspaces of the complex $(4|4)$-dimensional space. The odd coordinates on this super-Grassmanian correspond to the fermionic degrees of freedom of the superstring.
description: v4: added a reference to the earlier work; corrected the formula for the stabilizer of the BMN vacuum; added the discussion of the complex structure of the odd coordinates in Section 3.2
Periodic Integral Transforms and C*-algebras
Creators: name: Walters, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L80, 46L40, 44A15, 44A05

description: We construct canonical integral transforms, analogous to the Fourier transform, that have periods six and three. The existence of such transforms is shown to arise naturally from the expectation that the Schwartz space on the real line, viewed as the Heisenberg module of Rieffel and Connes over the rotation C*-algebra, should extend to a module action over the crossed product of the latter by the canonical automorphisms of orders three and six (which does in fact happen and is shown here).
description: 6 pages
Communication modes in collaboration : An empirical assessment of metaphors, visualization, and narratives in multidisciplinary design student teams
Creators: name: Graff, Daniel
name: Clark, Mark
Publisher: name: International Journal of Technology and Design Education
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Universities increasingly incorporate multidisciplinary design projects into their curriculum to better prepare their students for the labor market. In these projects, student team members of various disciplinary backgrounds develop new product or service concepts for organizational partners. This structure enables students to learn not only from the interaction with the content and lecturer, but also from communication with other team members. Little is known, however, about the relative effectiveness of specific communication modes on improving student learning outcomes in these interactions. This study examines the effect of three important communication modes—metaphors, visualizations, and narratives—on reported learning from other members. A total of 64 students working on two large multidisciplinary design student teams participated in this study. Survey results indicate that perceived learning increases through awareness and use of metaphorical communication, beyond previously supported effects for narratives and visualization. We conclude with implications for the way information is represented and structured within multidisciplinary design student teams, and future research directions.
Women's parties : A new party family
Creators: name: Cowell-Meyers, Kimberly
name: Evans, Elizabeth
name: Shin, Ki-Young
Publisher: name: Politics & Gender
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Women's parties have a unique and important role to play in the representation of women and women's issues and interests. They are neither a new nor a rare phenomenon and have emerged in a variety of contexts across time and space. And yet we know relatively little about them. This article argues that women's parties matter and that the study of women's parties matters. We contend that women's parties constitute a discrete party family; while there is a diverse range of women's parties, they can be viewed as a coherent group with similar origins, ideology, and naming patterns. This article offers the first research framework for the comparative study of women's parties. Building our knowledge of women's parties, we argue, is important for those interested in gender and politics, particularly those concerned with the representation of women's issues and interests.
A study of the Mg II 2796.34 A emission line in late--type normal, and RS CVn stars
Creators: name: Cardini, D.
name: Cassatella, A.
name: Badiali, M.
name: Altamore, A.
name: Fernandez-Figueroa, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out an analysis of the Mg II 2796.34 A emission line in RS CVn stars and make a comparison with the normal stars studied in a previous paper (Paper I). The sample of RS CVn stars consists of 34 objects with known HIPPARCOS parallaxes and observed at high resolution with IUE. We confirm that RS CVn stars tend to possess wider Mg II lines than normal stars having the same absolute visual magnitude. However, we could not find any correlation between the logarithmic line width log Wo and the absolute visual magnitude Mv (the Wilson--Bappu relationship) for these active stars, contrary to the case of normal stars addressed in Paper I. On the contrary, we find that a strong correlation exists in the (Mv, log L) plane (L is the absolute flux in the line). In this plane, normal and RS CVn stars are distributed along two nearly parallel straight lines with RS CVn stars being systematically brighter by about 1 dex. Such a diagram provides an interesting tool to discriminate active from normal stars. We finally analyse the distribution of RS CVn and of normal stars in the (log L, log Wo) plane, and find a strong linear correlation for normal stars, which can be used for distance determinations.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, latex, to be published in A&A
Analyzing climate change and surface-subsurface interactions using the Postojna Planina Cave System (Slovenia) as a model system
Creators: name: Pipan, Tanja
name: Petric, Metka
name: Sebela, Stanka
name: Culver, David C.
Publisher: name: Regional Environmental Change
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences
classificationCode: 4101
subject: Climate change impacts and adaptation

description: Worldwide, there are at least 12 ILTER sites with an emphasis on karst, landforms arising from the combination of high rock solubility and well-developed solutional channel porosity underground, but the study of cave ecosystems has been largely neglected. Only two ILTER sites, both in Slovenia, are primarily caves. Caves are under-represented for several reasons, but especially because of the overall difficulty of access and the lack of a clear research agenda for cave ecosystem studies. We review several aspects of long-term studies in Postojna Planina Cave System (PPCS), proposing our approach as a model for ILTER research in caves. In PPCS, analysis of short-term temperature data shows a muted daily cycle and seasonality, and analysis of long-term temperature data shows an increase, largely the result of climate change. Changes in drip rate of epikarst aquifers above the cave are correlated with rainfall but with lags and complications resulting from differences in longer term rainfall patterns. Analysis of discharge rates indicates a rapid response to precipitation not only in the Pivka River at its sinking, but also at Unica Spring, where discharge is augmented from other parts of the aquifer, including epikarst. Quantitative analysis of the obligate epikarst-dwelling copepod community shows that, unlike most cave communities, complete sampling of the fauna is possible. Finally, organic carbon levels in PPCS indicate likely carbon limitation in the system. These five factors (temperature, drip rate, river discharge, epikarst copepod fauna, and organic carbon) are the appropriate variables for capturing the essential long-term trends in cave ecosystems and their causes.
Pituitary T1 signal intensity at magnetic resonance imaging is reduced in obese subjects: results from the CHIASM study. Supplementary Material
Creators: name: Puliani, Giulia
name: Sbardella, Emilia
name: Cozzolino, Alessia
name: Sada, Valentina
name: Tozzi, Rossella
name: Andreoli, Chiara
name: Fiorelli, Marco
name: Di Biasi, Claudio
name: Corallino, Diletta
name: Balla, Andrea
name: Paganini, Alessandro M.
name: Venneri, Mary Anna
name: Lenzi, Andrea
name: Lubrano, Carla
name: M. Isidori, Andrea
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary materials from: Pituitary T1 signal intensity at magnetic resonance imaging is reduced in obese subjects: results from the CHIASM study.
Interplanetary drivers of the magnetospheric disturbances: A brief review of incorrect approaches
Creators: name: Yermolaev, Yuri
name: Lodkina, Irina
name: Dremukhina, Lidia
name: Yermolaev, Michael
name: Khokhlachev, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most promising areas of research in solar-terrestrial physics is the comparison of the responses of the magnetosphere-ionosphere-atmosphere system to various interplanetary disturbances (the so-called <>). Numerous studies show that different types of drivers cause a different reaction of the system for identical IMF variations. At the same time, the number of incorrect approaches in this direction of research has increased. These errors can be attributed to 4 large classes. (1) The first class includes works whose authors uncritically reacted to previously published works with incorrect driver identification and use incorrect results in their work. (2) Some authors used the wrong criteria and incorrectly determined the types of drivers. (3) Very often, authors associate the disturbance of the magnetosphere-ionosphere-atmosphere system caused by a complex driver (by a sequence of single drivers) with one of the drivers, ignoring the complex nature. For example, magnetic storm are often caused by compression region Sheath in front of the interplanetary CME (ICME), but the authors consider this events as so-called <> storm, not <> storm. (4) Finally, there is a <> of magnetospheric disturbances: some authors simply do not consider the compression region Sheath before ICME if there is no interplanetary shock (IS) before Sheath, although this type of driver, <>, generates about 10% of moderate and strong magnetic storms.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, VarSITI-2019 conference
From renormalization group flows to cosmology
Creators: name: Platania, Alessia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: According to the asymptotic-safety conjecture, the gravitational renormalization group flow features an ultraviolet-attractive fixed point that makes the theory renormalizable and ultraviolet complete. The existence of this fixed point entails an antiscreening of the gravitational interaction at short distances. In this paper we review the state-of-the-art of phenomenology of Asymptotically Safe Gravity, focusing on the implications of the gravitational antiscreening in cosmology.
description: 33 pages, 4 figures. Review for the special issue "Coarse Graining in Quantum Gravity: Bridging the Gap between Microscopic Models and Spacetime-Physics", Frontiers in Physics
Layer-dependence of dielectric response and water-enhanced ambient degradation of highly-anisotropic black As
Creators: name: Yun, Hwanhui
name: Ghosh, Supriya
name: Golani, Prafful
name: Koester, Steven J.
name: Mkhoyan, K. Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Black arsenic (BAs) is a van der Waals layered material with a puckered honeycomb structure and has received increased interest due to its anisotropic properties and promising performance in devices. Here, crystalline structure, thickness-dependent dielectric responses, and ambient stability of BAs nanosheets are investigated using STEM imaging and spectroscopy. Atomic-resolution HAADF-STEM images directly visualize the three-dimensional structure and evaluate the degree of anisotropy. STEM-EELS is used to measure the dielectric response of BAs as a function of the number of layers. Finally, BAs degradation under different ambient environments is studied highlighting high sensitivity to moisture in the air.
description: 26 pages, 5 figures
Phygomelitta triangularis Clarke 2014
Creators: name: Clarke, Robin O. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Phygomelitta
Phygomelitta triangularis

description: Phygomelitta triangularis (Fuchs, 1961)
 comb. nov.
 Figs. 8 A-8C, 12
 Epimelitta triangularis Fuchs, 1961: 6.
 Epimelitta triangularis; Monné, 2005: 463 (cat.).
 Specimens analysed: BRAZIL, Santa Catarina: Nova Teutonia, 1 male, 06.XII.1960, F. Tippmann, Wien col., Tippmann collection # 213112 (USNM); ditto, 1 female, X.1935, B. Pohl col. (MZUSP).
 Specimens examined: BRAZIL, Santa Catarina: Mafra, 1 male and 1 female, Tippmann col ‘57 # 213112 (USNM); Nova Teutonia, 1 male, XI.1940, B. Pohl col. (RCSZ); ditto, 1 male and 1 female, 06.XII.1960, F. Tippmann, Wien col., Tippmann collection # 213112 (USNM). Paraná: (?), P. Grossa, on flowers of “ Guavirobeiria ” (spell?), 1 female, IX.1946 (MZUSP).
 Colour: opaque and dull; dorsad black, basal third of elytra with blackish triangle, basal margin and apical half pale chestnut, translucent panels brassy; underside and legs black and pale chestnut (metatarsus pale chestnut); mouthparts chestnut and testaceous; antennae chestnut.
description: Published as part of Clarke, Robin O. S., 2014, Bolivian Rhinotragini VIII: new genera and species related to Pseudophygopoda Tavakilian & Peñaherrera-Leiva, 2007 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), pp. 341-362 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) (São Paulo) 54 (24) on pages 361-362, DOI: 10.1590/0031-1049.2014.54.24, http://zenodo.org/record/4674675
Differential effects of dietary MSG on hippocampal dependent memory are mediated by diet
Creators: name: Holton, Kathleen
name: Hargrave, Sara L.
name: Davidson, Terry
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Introduction: Free glutamate is a common dietary flavor enhancer and is also an important excitatory neurotransmitter in the body. A good number of food additives which contain glutamate are found in the Western Diet, and this diet has also been linked to increased risk of cognitive dysfunction. Objective: To examine the effects of dietary glutamate on hippocampal and non-hippocampal memory performance, and whether consuming a diet high in fat/sugar could influence any observed associations. Methods: Sixty-four adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were trained concurrently on two different discrimination problems: (1) Pavlovian serial feature negative (sFN) discrimination, in which a brief tone stimulus was reinforced with sucrose pellets when it was presented alone (T+ trials) and non-reinforced on trials when it was preceded by the presentation of a brief light (LT− trials); and (2) a simple discrimination (SD) problem in which a white noise (WN+) cue was reinforced with sucrose pellets and a clicker (C-) stimulus was not reinforced. Previous research has shown that sFN, but not SD performance, depends on the functional integrity of the hippocampus. After solving both problems, the rats were assigned to one of four ad libitum-fed diet groups, matched on weight and discrimination performance: (1) high fat, high sugar western-style diet (WD), (2) standard laboratory rodent chow diet (chow), (3) WD + monosodium glutamate (MSG), or (4) chow + MSG. Results: After 14 weeks, rats fed WD had higher adiposity than rats fed chow. Consistent with previous findings, rats fed WD exhibited impaired performance on the sFN problem, but not on the SD, relative to rats fed chow. Adding MSG to WD abolished this impairment, whereas rats fed chow + MSG had impaired sFN performance compared to rats fed chow alone. No differences in performance on the SD task were observed. Conclusion: This study demonstrates differing effects of dietary glutamate on hippocampal dependent memory function, with MSG impairing hippocampal function in animals receiving chow, while improving hippocampal function in animals receiving a Western-type diet, high in fat and sugar. More research will be needed to explore the cause of these differential effects.
Photon surfaces as pure tension shells: Uniqueness of thin shell wormholes
Creators: name: Koga, Yasutaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thin shell wormholes are constructed by joining two asymptotically flat spacetimes along their inner boundaries. The junction conditions imposed on the spacetimes specify the equation of state of the matter called thin shell distributed along the joined boundaries. Barcelo and Visser (2000) reported that spherically symmetric thin shell wormholes have their shells, namely the wormhole throats, on the photon spheres if the wormholes are $Z_2$-symmetric across the throats and the shells are of pure tension. In this paper, first, we consider general joined spacetimes (JSTs) and show that any $Z_2$-symmetric pure-tensional JST (Z2PTJST) of $Λ$-vacuum has its shell on a photon surface, a generalized object of photon spheres, without assuming any other symmetries. The class of Z2PTJSTs also includes, for example, brane world models with the shells being the branes we live in. Second, we investigate the shell stability of Z2PTJSTs by analyzing the stability of the corresponding photon surfaces. Finally, applying the uniqueness theorem of photon spheres by Cederbaum (2015), we establish the uniqueness theorem of static wormholes of Z2PTJST.
description: 22 pages, 3 figures
Standard Model CP violation in Polarised b->d l^+ l^-
Creators: name: Babu, K. S.
name: Balaji, K. R. S.
name: Schienbein, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the standard model, we study CP violating rate asymmetries in the decay b->d l^+ l^- when one of the leptons is polarised. We find an asymmetry of (5 -- 15)% in the polarised decay spectrum which is comparable to known results for the unpolarised case. In the kinematic region separating the rho-omega and $c \bar c$ resonances, which is also theoretically cleanest, the polarised contribution to the asymmetry is larger than the unpolarised results. In order to observe a 3 sigma signal for direct CP violation in the polarised spectrum, assuming 100% efficiency, about 10^10 $B \bar B$ pairs are required at a B factory. Our results indicate an asymmetric contribution from the individual polarisation states to the unpolarised CP asymmetry. Taking advantage of this, one can attribute any new physics to be most sensitive to a specific polarisation state.
description: 23 pages, one reference added
An Empirical Study on the Genetically Modified Food Risk Perceived by the College Students with Different Majors
Creators: name: GONG Ping
name: GUO Can
name: GONG Ping
name: GUO Can
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Knowledge background, genetically modified food, Heuristic system, Analytical system, Perceived risk

description: The debate about the safety of genetically modified foods has never stopped, and different consumers have different judgments. On the basis of literature research, this paper designs the corresponding questionnaire for empirical analysis. With the college students as the object of study, this paper explores the differences in perceived genetically modified food risk by the college students with different majors, as well as the differences in the information processing mode adopted by the college students with different majors, and the differences in the perceived risk after adopting different information processing mode. The results show that there are significant differences in the perceived genetically modified food risk among the college students with different majors, the economics students have the highest average perceived risk; there are also significant differences in the information processing mode adopted by the college students with different majors, and the perceived risk is different when using the heuristic information processing mode.
Study on Quality and Safety Trust Early Warning of Dairy Products Based on Statistical Process Control
Creators: name: FAN Xiao
name: FAN Xiao
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Statistical process control, Dairy products, Quality and safety trust, Early warning

description: In order to solve the problems such as lack of dynamic evaluation system in evaluation of quality and safety trust of dairy products, and weak awareness of prevention, it is necessary to introduce the statistical process control into the quality and safety trust evaluation system of dairy products, and establish quality and safety trust early warning model for dairy products, so as to determine the control limit of control chart and carry out early warning according to eight criteria. According to the empirical results indicate, the statistical process control is helpful for finding the hidden process risks and providing the necessary basis for enterprises taking positive measures to raise the confidence of consumers.
description: Study on Quality and Safety Trust Early Warning of Dairy Products Based on Statistical Process Control
Differential effects of dietary MSG on hippocampal dependent memory are mediated by diet
Creators: name: Holton, Kathleen
name: Hargrave, Sara L.
name: Davidson, Terry
Publisher: name: Frontiers in Neuroscience
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3209
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Introduction: Free glutamate is a common dietary flavor enhancer and is also an important excitatory neurotransmitter in the body. A good number of food additives which contain glutamate are found in the Western Diet, and this diet has also been linked to increased risk of cognitive dysfunction. Objective: To examine the effects of dietary glutamate on hippocampal and non-hippocampal memory performance, and whether consuming a diet high in fat/sugar could influence any observed associations. Methods: Sixty-four adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were trained concurrently on two different discrimination problems: (1) Pavlovian serial feature negative (sFN) discrimination, in which a brief tone stimulus was reinforced with sucrose pellets when it was presented alone (T+ trials) and non-reinforced on trials when it was preceded by the presentation of a brief light (LT− trials); and (2) a simple discrimination (SD) problem in which a white noise (WN+) cue was reinforced with sucrose pellets and a clicker (C-) stimulus was not reinforced. Previous research has shown that sFN, but not SD performance, depends on the functional integrity of the hippocampus. After solving both problems, the rats were assigned to one of four ad libitum-fed diet groups, matched on weight and discrimination performance: (1) high fat, high sugar western-style diet (WD), (2) standard laboratory rodent chow diet (chow), (3) WD + monosodium glutamate (MSG), or (4) chow + MSG. Results: After 14 weeks, rats fed WD had higher adiposity than rats fed chow. Consistent with previous findings, rats fed WD exhibited impaired performance on the sFN problem, but not on the SD, relative to rats fed chow. Adding MSG to WD abolished this impairment, whereas rats fed chow + MSG had impaired sFN performance compared to rats fed chow alone. No differences in performance on the SD task were observed. Conclusion: This study demonstrates differing effects of dietary glutamate on hippocampal dependent memory function, with MSG impairing hippocampal function in animals receiving chow, while improving hippocampal function in animals receiving a Western-type diet, high in fat and sugar. More research will be needed to explore the cause of these differential effects.
A Study on the Fish Diversity of Sanhuanpao Wetland in Heilongjiang Province
Creators: name: WANG Xinxin
name: CHAI Fangying
name: YU Hongxian
name: WANG Xinxin
name: CHAI Fangying
name: YU Hongxian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Sanhuanpao Wetland, Fish, Diversity

description: The current situation of fish in Sanhuanpao Wetland was investigated for the first time in this paper. In May (Spring), July (summer), September (autumn) 2016, it was sampled three times for investigation, and based on the investigation data about the fish caught by net 45 times in 9 sampling points, the species composition of fish community in the water was analyzed. The results showed that a total of 12 fish species were caught in this investigation, belonging to 4 orders, 6 families and 12 genera. There were 5 fish species for Cyprinidae, accounting for 41.7% of total species, followed by Cobitidae with 3 species, accounting for 25% of total species; Siluridae, Esocidae, Eleotridae and Channidae each had 1 species, accounting for 8.3% of total species. The fish with index of relative importance (IRI) greater than 1000 is the dominant species, and it was calculated that the dominant species were Carassius auratus gibelio, Rhynchocypris percnurus, Misgurnus mohoity, Cobitis taenia Linnaeus, and Perccottus glenii. In this paper, based on the number of individuals, by calculating Margalcf abundance index (D), Shannon-Wiener diversity index (H') and Pielou evenness index (J') for the fish in the water, the current situation of fish resources in Sanhuanpao Wetland was analyzed and the corresponding protection recommendations were put forward.
Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment
Creators: name: Cao, Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment is proposed to measure sin^2(2θ_{13}) to better than 0.01 at 90% C.L. in a three-year run. The experimental site, detector design, and background estimation are presented.
description: 2 pages, To appear in Proceedings of NuFact05
Practice and Thinking on the Construction of Agricultural Science and Education Cooperative Personnel Cultivation Base
Creators: name: SONG Ximei
name: CHEN Jiaying
name: SANG Xuelian
name: MA Xiaowei
name: SONG Ximei
name: CHEN Jiaying
name: SANG Xuelian
name: MA Xiaowei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Cooperation of agriculture, science and education, Personnel cultivation, Base construction, Practice

description: Agricultural science and education cooperative personnel cultivation base is a new personnel cultivation platform built by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Education relying on the national modern agricultural industry technology system, to strengthen the close connection between agricultural education and modern agricultural industry. The first batch of agricultural science and education cooperative personnel cultivation bases have been operating for 5 years. Taking Zhanjiang Litchi-Longan Agricultural Science and Education Cooperative Personnel Cultivation Base as an example, it introduced the achievements in the base construction from the perspective of construction cooperators, and discussed measures for improving the base operation.
Density of states determined from Monte Carlo simulations
Creators: name: Hove, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe method for calculating the density of states by combining several canonical monte carlo runs. We discuss how critical properties reveal themselves in $g(ε)$ and demonstrate this by applying the method several different phase transitions. We also demonstrate how this can used to calculate the conformal charge, where the dominating numerical method has traditionally been transfer matrix.
description: Major revision of paper, several references added throughout. Current version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
Overview of Relation between Mineral Nutrient Elements and Growth and Development of Fruit Trees
Creators: name: HUANG Liping
name: ZHANG Qianru
name: ZHANG Zheng
name: YIN Rong
name: ZHANG Jing
name: YANG Ping
name: HUANG Liping
name: ZHANG Qianru
name: ZHANG Zheng
name: YIN Rong
name: ZHANG Jing
name: YANG Ping
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Fruit trees, Mineral nutrition, Growth and development

description: Mineral nutrition is the material basis for growth and development, yield and quality of fruit trees. It exerts a great effect on the growth and development, fruit quality, yield, and resistance of fruit trees. On the basis of reading a large number of references both at home and abroad, this paper elaborated the relationship between mineral nutrient elements and growth and fruit yield and quality of fruit trees, so as to make proper fertilizer mixing, balance the fertilizer application, promote growth and development of fruit trees, and increase the yield of fruit trees and improve the fruit quality.
description: Overview of Relation between Mineral Nutrient Elements and Growth and Development of Fruit Trees
Additional file 4 of Lung function and microbiota diversity in cystic fibrosis
Creators: name: Cuthbertson, Leah
name: Walker, Alan W.
name: Oliver, Anna E.
name: Rogers, Geraint B.
name: Rivett, Damian W.
name: Hampton, Thomas H.
name: Ashare, Alix
name: J. Stuart Elborn
name: Soyza, Anthony De
name: Carroll, Mary P.
name: Hoffman, Lucas R.
name: Lanyon, Clare
name: Moskowitz, Samuel M.
name: O’Toole, George A.
name: Parkhill, Julian
name: Planet, Paul J.
name: Teneback, Charlotte C.
name: Tunney, Michael M.
name: Zuckerman, Jonathan B.
name: Bruce, Kenneth D.
name: Gast, Christopher J. Van Der
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S1. Measures of Hedges’ d effect size based on comparisons of (A) diversity and (B) dominance in the microbiota, core taxa, and satellite taxa, when stratified into lung disease categories. Columns represent the effect size and error bars represent the standard error of effect size. Standard error bars that cross zero indicate no significant effect on diversity or dominance between lung disease categories. In each instance, within (A) positive effect sizes represent higher diversity in the second of the two lung disease categories being compared. Within (B) negative effect sizes represent lower dominance in the 2nd of the two lung disease categories being compared. Measures of diversity and dominance when stratified by lung disease category are presented in Fig. 3a and b, respectively.
Evaluation of Plant Landscape in Residential Areas Based on AHP and TOPSIS
Creators: name: SU Xunfan
name: SU Xunfan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), Tibet, Landscape evaluation of green space, Residential area

description: Taking 6 residential areas in Nyingchi of Tibet as research objects, from aesthetic effect, ecological function and leisure service, this paper established the evaluation indicator system for plant landscape in residential areas using AHP, and calculated the weight of indicators using the judgment matrix. Besides, it calculated the ideal solution and closeness degree of matrix using TOPSIS, and established the evaluation method and preference method for plant landscape in residential areas. The results show that the indicators of seasonal variation, environmental benefit and per capita green space mattered most in the landscape evaluation of residential areas. The richness of flowering plant is weak in the landscape evaluation. From the comprehensive evaluation of residential areas, Nyingchi Garden District and Xingfu District have excellent plant landscape, Jialong Garden District and Shangcheng Garden District have general plant landscape, and Sun City District and Niyang Garden District have poor plant landscape.
description: Evaluation of Plant Landscape in Residential Areas Based on AHP and TOPSIS
Extragalactic Sources of TeV Gamma Rays: A Summary
Creators: name: Horan, D.
name: Weekes, T. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The development of techniques whereby gamma rays of energy 100 GeV and above can be studied from the ground, using indirect, but sensitive, techniques has opened up a new area of high energy photon astronomy. The most exciting result that has come from these is the detection of highly variable fluxes of TeV gamma rays from the relativistic jets in nearby AGN. The recent detection of signals from a starburst galaxy and from a radio galaxy opens the possibility that the extragalactic emission of TeV gamma rays is a ubiquitous phenomenon. Here we attempt to summarize the properties of the sources detected so far.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, New Astronomy Reviews; Summary Talk at the "2nd VERITAS Symposium on TeV Astrohysics of Extragalactic Sources", April 24-26, 2003
Bibliometric Analysis on Pennisetum Sinese Roxb. in China during 2006-2016
Creators: name: GUO Wenwen
name: ZHUO Mecao
name: SHI Yulong
name: QU Xingle
name: LI Zhaoqing
name: FANG Jiangping
name: GUO Wenwen
name: ZHUO Mecao
name: SHI Yulong
name: QU Xingle
name: LI Zhaoqing
name: FANG Jiangping
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Bibliometric analysis, Pennisetum Sinese Roxb., China

description: The development prospect of Pennisetum Sinese Roxb. is receiving much concern of domestic researchers. In this paper, literature of Pennisetum Sinese Roxb. was taken as basis, and bibliometric analysis method was used to make statistics of distribution of years, research institutions, authors, and research fields. The results showed that research fields of Pennisetum Sinese Roxb. in China were mainly ecological restoration, accounting for 13.27% of the total literature; the research took on dynamic and diversified cooperation trend. In recent 5 years, the number of papers significantly increased, accounting for 93.04% of the total literature. The distribution of authors and regions were relatively concentrated, but the overall level of research is low.
description: Bibliometric Analysis on Pennisetum Sinese Roxb. in China during 2006-2016
The SkyMapper-Gaia RVS view of the Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage -- an investigation of the metallicity and mass of the Milky Way's last major merger
Creators: name: Feuillet, Diane K
name: Feltzing, Sofia
name: Sahlholdt, Christian
name: Casagrande, Luca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We characterize the Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage kinematic structure recently discovered in the Galactic halo using photometric metallicities from the SkyMapper survey, and kinematics from Gaia radial velocities measurements. By examining the metallicity distribution functions (MDFs) of stars binned in kinematic/action spaces, we find that the $\sqrt{J_R}$ vs $L_z$ space allows for the cleanest selection of Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage stars with minimal contamination from disc or halo stars formed in situ or in other past mergers. Stars with $30 \leq \sqrt{J_R} \leq 50$ (kpc km s$^{-1})^{1/2}$ and $-500 \leq L_z \leq 500$ kpc km s$^{-1}$ have a narrow MDF centered at [Fe/H] $= -1.17$ dex with a dispersion of 0.34 dex. This [Fe/H] estimate is more metal-rich than literature estimates by $0.1-0.3$ dex. Based on the MDFs, we find that selection of Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage stars in other kinematic/action spaces without additional population information leads to contaminated samples. The clean Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage sample selected according to our criteria is slightly retrograde and lies along the blue sequence of the high $V_T$ halo CMD dual sequence. Using a galaxy mass-metallicity relation derived from cosmological simulations and assuming a mean stellar age of 10 Gyr we estimate the mass of the Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage progenitor satellite to be $10^{8.85-9.85}$ M$_{\odot}$, which is consistent with literature estimates based on disc dynamic and simulations. Additional information on detailed abundances and ages would be needed for a more sophisticated selection of purely Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage stars.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures + 3 appendices, 4 figures, accepted to MNRAS
Additional file 5 of Lung function and microbiota diversity in cystic fibrosis
Creators: name: Cuthbertson, Leah
name: Walker, Alan W.
name: Oliver, Anna E.
name: Rogers, Geraint B.
name: Rivett, Damian W.
name: Hampton, Thomas H.
name: Ashare, Alix
name: J. Stuart Elborn
name: Soyza, Anthony De
name: Carroll, Mary P.
name: Hoffman, Lucas R.
name: Lanyon, Clare
name: Moskowitz, Samuel M.
name: O’Toole, George A.
name: Parkhill, Julian
name: Planet, Paul J.
name: Teneback, Charlotte C.
name: Tunney, Michael M.
name: Zuckerman, Jonathan B.
name: Bruce, Kenneth D.
name: Gast, Christopher J. Van Der
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5: Table S4. PERMANOVA summary statistics from testing for significant differences in microbiota composition between lung function categories. Given in each instance are mean Bray-Curtis similarity within and between categories (± standard deviation of the mean), F-statistic, and significance (P). Asterisks denote significant differences in composition following one-way PERMANOVA tests with Bonferroni correction.
Role of Charm Factory in Extracting CKM-Phase Information via B --> DK
Creators: name: Atwood, David
name: Soni, Amarjit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the impact of data that can be obtained from a Charm Factory on the determination of the CKM parameter gamma from decays of the form B -> D0 K where the D0 decays to specific inclusive and exclusive final states. In particular, for each exclusive final state $f$, the charm factory can determine the strong phase difference between D0-> f and D0-bar -> f by exploiting correlations in psi(3770)-> D0 D0-bar. This provides crucial input to the determination of gamma via the interference of B+- -> K+- D0 -> f with B+- -> K+- D0-bar -> f. We discuss how the method may be generalized to inclusive final states and illustrate with a toy model how such methods may offer one of the best means to determine gamma with 10^8-10^9 B-mesons.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures, Version 2: Fixed typos; add reference; Version 3: fixed latex glitch
ONDERNEMERSKAP EN BEMARKINGSTRATEGIEe VIR VLEISBEESPRODUSENTE IN DIE VRYSTAATSTREEK
Entrepreneurship and marketing strategies for beef producers in the Free State region.
Creators: name: Booyens, F. C.
name: Greonewald, J. A.
name: Booyens, F. C.
name: Greonewald, J. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In this investigation, production and market related factors which affect profitability and risk of beef production systems on Cenchrus ciliaris pastures were evaluated by using stochastic simulation. The results indicate that beef producers can influence their income considerably by adequately considering the following in their production and marketing strategies: Cyclical and seasonal beef price fluctuations, price differentials among markets and certain animal characteristics (age, grade and mass). In addition opportunity costs, interest and risk of market access materially affect both profitability and risk of a beef production system. Beef producers should adapt their production and marketing strategies to economic realities in order to achieve optimum results.
Additional file 3 of Lung function and microbiota diversity in cystic fibrosis
Creators: name: Cuthbertson, Leah
name: Walker, Alan W.
name: Oliver, Anna E.
name: Rogers, Geraint B.
name: Rivett, Damian W.
name: Hampton, Thomas H.
name: Ashare, Alix
name: J. Stuart Elborn
name: Soyza, Anthony De
name: Carroll, Mary P.
name: Hoffman, Lucas R.
name: Lanyon, Clare
name: Moskowitz, Samuel M.
name: O’Toole, George A.
name: Parkhill, Julian
name: Planet, Paul J.
name: Teneback, Charlotte C.
name: Tunney, Michael M.
name: Zuckerman, Jonathan B.
name: Bruce, Kenneth D.
name: Gast, Christopher J. Van Der
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S3. Kruskal-Wallis summary statistics for testing for significant differences in diversity between lung function categories. Given for each test is the mean Berger-Parker index of dominance, standard deviation of the mean, H-statistic, and significance (P), and mean of ranks values. Asterisks denote significant differences in diversity following Kruskal-Wallis with post-hoc Dunn test.