cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
In vivo anxiolytic and in vitro anti-inflammatory activities of water-soluble extract (WSE) of Nigella sativa (L.) seeds
Creators: name: Babar, Z. M.
name: Jaswir, I.
name: Tareq, A. M.
name: Reza, A. S. M Ali
name: Azizi, W. M.
name: Hafidz, M.
name: Ahfter, F.
name: Hasan, M.
name: Farhad, S.
name: Uddin, M. M. Rokib
name: Ichwan, S.JA.
name: Ahmed, Q. U.
name: Taher, M.
name: Mawa, I.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
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: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The WSE is a highly polar, gummy and mucilaginous bioactive content of the Nigella sativa (L.) seeds. This study reports the anxiolytic and anti-inflammatory effects of WSE investigated using Elevated Plus Maze (EPM) and Hole-Board Test (HBT) in adult mice and human RBCs haemolysis inhibition and protein denaturation respectively. The oral WSE treatment (100 & 200 mg/kg b.w/day) for 72 hours has exhibited slightly better anxiolytic effect (p vs. diazepam (1 mg/kg b.w i.p/day; 69.33 s). In HBT, only WSE (200 mg/kg b.w/day) has shown a promising number of mean head pokes (13.27 times/min) vs. diazepam (12.87 times/min). The WSE (62.5-500 µg/mL) exposure has exhibited 40.14‐72.18% protection against lysis of RBCs vs. aspirin (57.04-71.48%) whilst 62.67-67.66% inhibition of protein denaturation vs. diclofenac sodium (43.11-80.64%). The current findings suggested WSE has promising anxiolytic and anti-inflammatory activities.
Characterization of self-polar convex functions
Creators: name: Rotem, Liran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52A41, 26A51, 46B10

description: In a work by Artstein-Avidan and Milman the concept of polarity is generalized from the class of convex bodies to the larger class of convex functions. While the only self-polar convex body is the Euclidean ball, it turns out that there are numerous self-polar convex functions. In this work we give a complete characterization of all rotationally invariant self-polar convex functions on R^n.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 3 of Polyphenols in Ilex latifolia Thunb. inhibit human lung cancer cell line A549 by regulation of the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway
Creators: name: Chen, Jing
name: Du, Yesheng
name: Long, Yanyan
name: Tao, Dan
name: Hu, Mengyu
name: Jiang, Yong
name: Wan, Yue
name: Yang, Dingyi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3. Original strip of β-actin.
The p-adic L-functions of Evil Eisenstein Series
Creators: name: Bellaïche, Joël
name: Dasgupta, Samit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We compute the $p$-adic $L$-functions of evil Eisenstein series, showing that they factor as products of two Kubota--Leopoldt $p$-adic $L$-functions times a logarithmic term. This proves in particular a conjecture of Glenn Stevens.
description: 49 pages
title: Clay mineralogy of late Pleistocene sequences in northwestern Washington and southwestern British Columbia
Creators: name: Hepp, Michael Arthur
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 1972

description:
Pleistocene clay-bearing sediments of parts of northwestern Wash­ington and southwestern British Coliambia were studied in an attempt to determine the clay mineral composition of these units; the origin of these clay minerals; and any correlation between clay mineral composi­tion, sediment type, location, or probable geologic history of the sediments. The Pleistocene stratigraphy of the area is fairly well known, although in some specific locations the stratigraphy has not been determined. Recorded work in the region dates back to Dawson (1887). The units studied range in age from the greater than 50,000 year old Double Bluff Drift to Holocene (Recent) river sediments. The units are composed of silt, clay, peat, gravel, sand, till and glacio- marine drift.
title: Depositional Environment, Provenance, and Tectonic Setting of the Upper Oligocene Sooke Formation, Vancouver Island, B. C.
Creators: name: Bream, Susan Elaine
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 1987

description:
The Upper Oligocene Sooke Formation, the uppermost unit of the Carmanah Group, is exposed along the southeastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where it is part of the Crescent terrane. The Sooke Formation is generally less than 45 meters thick.

Typically, a basal boulder breccia is overlain by interdigitated layers of cross-stratified, often fossiliferous sandstone and conglomerate. Deposition of the Sooke Formation occurred along a steep coast with abundant cliffs, narrow boulder beaches and sandy beaches, and a nearby fluvial source. The conglomerates and breccias were deposited by debris flows, rock falls, and as storm lag deposits. Sandstones were deposited dominantly on the shoreface under both fairweather and storm conditions.

The Sooke Formation sandstones are lithic arenites. The sandstones are texturally immature, and modal grain size is fine sand. Calcite cement is the most common cement, although pyrite, hematite, zeolite, clay, silica, and K-rich cement are also present, indicating a complex diagenetic history. Petrographic studies indicate that the dominant source area for the Sooke Formation was Vancouver Island. Boulders and cobbles were derived locally from the underlying Metchosin Volcanics and Sooke Gabbro, and adjacent Leech River Complex. Sand-sized clasts contain more diverse lithologies derived from several sources on Vancouver Island.

Deposition occurred soon after major movement on the Leech River fault, which is thought to be a suture along which rocks of the Crescent terrane were amalgamated with southern Vancouver Island in an early Tertiary subduction regime. Movement along the Leech River fault prior to deposition of the Sooke Formation caused uplift of the Leech River Complex. The area was tectonically active during deposition. Facies show pulses of shallowing-upwards trends superimposed on a general deepening- upward trend.
title: Paleomagnetism and Detrital Zircon Geochronology of the Skeena Group, British Columbia
Creators: name: Ward-Guthrie, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2008

description:
The mid-Cretaceous Skeena Group of British Columbia is a sedimentary continental margin deposit that overlies the lower Jurassic Hazelton Group of the Stikine Terrane. Nine paleomagnetic sites were collected in 2006 and 2007, demagnetized thermally in 50-15°C steps, and high temperature components fit using principal component analysis. A new Ar40/Ar39 age of 93.9 ± 0.6 Ma for a flow of the Rocky Ridge Formation was also collected.

Three volcanic sites of the Rocky Ridge Volcanics possess coherent magnetizations, but did not prove useful. Five of six sedimentary sites from the Rocher de Boule and Bulkley Canyon Formations appear more likely to retain a primary magnetization. Curie temperature analysis indicates the primary carrier of magnetic remanence is magnetite. Hysteresis and direct field demagnetization data indicate the magnetite is primarily multi-domain in the volcanic sites and possess a mix of single and multi-domain grains in the sedimentary rocks, which may account for the more likely primary remanence from the sedimentary formations

When subjected to a bootstrap fold test, the sedimentary sites have maximum grouping at 40% untilting, but the hypotheses that the magnetization was acquired either before or after tilting cannot be rejected at the 95% confidence level. An inclination-only paleolatitude analysis was used to estimate paleolatitude as different declinations between sites suggest rotation between sites. The resulting paleolatitude for the Skeena Group is ~57°± 21°. This is equivalent to a location ~1150 ± 2000 km south of the expected latitude with respect to North America.

Uranium-lead ages of detrital zircons from a sample of the Rocher de Boule Formation were obtained using laser ablation inductively coupled mass spectrometry. These ages form several Mesozoic peaks indicating that the majority of zircons came from Stikine terrane units and Mesozoic arc volcanism. A Mississippian peak with some Proterozoic aged grains suggests a source from the Yukon-Tanana terrane. No Archean-aged grains were found.
Additional file 1 of Human cortical spheroids with a high diversity of innately developing brain cell types
Creators: name: De Kleijn, Kim M. A.
name: Zuure, Wieteke A.
name: Straasheijm, Kirsten R.
name: Martens, Marijn B.
name: Avramut, M. Cristina
name: Koning, Roman I.
name: Martens, Gerard J. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. The protocol used to culture H9 human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) does not impair their pluripotency. Levels of mRNA expression of stem-cell-specific markers NANOG and OCT4, neural stem cell marker PAX6 and mature neuronal marker NEFL in H9 ESCs (six consecutive passage-numbers, P9-P14) and in day-150 (d150) batch-1 human cortical spheroids (hCSs-1). Error bars represent the standard error of the mean; ANOVA with Bonferroni post hoc comparisons: *** p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01 and * p < 0.05.
Additional file 1 of Salutary effects of moderate but not high intensity aerobic exercise training on the frequency of peripheral T-cells associated with immunosenescence in older women at high risk of breast cancer: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Niemiro, Grace M
name: Coletta, Adriana M
name: Agha, Nadia H.
name: Mylabathula, Preteesh Leo
name: Baker, Forrest L.
name: Brewster, Abenaa M
name: Bevers, Therese B
name: Fuentes-Mattei, Enrique
name: Basen-Engquist, Karen
name: Katsanis, Emmanuel
name: Gilchrist, Susan C
name: Simpson, Richard J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Supplementary Info Fig. 1. No changes in circulating myokines with exercise training or between groups. No changes in the fold changes of (A) IL-7, (B) IL-15, (C) IL-6, or (D) Osteonectin were found between groups or within groups. Of note, there was a trend for a difference between the HIIT and UC groups in changes of IL-7 (p=0.14). Data are presented mean with *p<0.05.
Developing an Integrated Remote Sensing Based Biodiversity Index for Predicting Animal Species Richness
Creators: name: Wu, Jinhui
name: Liang, Shunlin
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2018
Subjects: biodiversity
remote sensing
species richness
metric comparison
metric integration

description: Many remote sensing metrics have been applied in large-scale animal species monitoring and conservation. However, the capabilities of these metrics have not been well compared and assessed. In this study, we investigated the correlation of 21 remote sensing metrics in three categories with the global species richness of three different animal classes using several statistical methods. As a result, we developed a new index by integrating several highly correlated metrics. Of the 21 remote sensing metrics analyzed, evapotranspiration (ET) had the greatest impact on species richness on a global scale (explained variance: 52%). The metrics with a high explained variance on the global scale were mainly in the energy/productivity category. The metrics in the texture category exhibited higher correlation with species richness at regional scales. We found that radiance and temperature had a larger impact on the distribution of bird richness, compared to their impacts on the distributions of both amphibians and mammals. Three machine learning models (i.e., support vector machine, random forests, and neural networks) were evaluated for metric integration, and the random forest model showed the best performance. Our newly developed index exhibited a 0.7 explained variance for the three animal classes’ species richness on a global scale, with an explained variance that was 20% higher than any of the univariate metrics.
Deconstructing Superconductivity
Creators: name: Albrecht, Dylan
name: Carone, Christopher D.
name: Erlich, Joshua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a dimensionally deconstructed model of an s-wave holographic superconductor. The 2+1 dimensional model includes multiple charged Cooper pair fields and neutral exciton fields that have interactions governed by hidden local symmetries. We derive AdS/CFT-like relations for the current and charge density in the model, and we analyze properties of the Cooper pair condensates and the complex conductivity.
description: 24 pages, 10 eps figures. v2: Sign conventions clarified, references added
Benchmark experiments with global climate models applicable to extra-solar gas giant planets in the shallow atmosphere approximation
Creators: name: Bending, V. L.
name: Lewis, S. R.
name: Kolb, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The growing field of exoplanetary atmospheric modelling has seen little work on standardised benchmark tests for its models, limiting understanding of the dependence of results on specific models and conditions. With spatially resolved observations as yet difficult to obtain, such a test is invaluable. Although an intercomparison test for models of tidally locked gas giant planets has previously been suggested and carried out, the data provided were limited in terms of comparability. Here, the shallow PUMA model is subjected to such a test, and detailed statistics produced to facilitate comparison, with both time means and the associated standard deviations displayed, removing the time dependence and providing a measure of the variability. Model runs have been analysed to determine the variability between resolutions, and the effect of resolution on the energy spectra studied. Superrotation is a robust and reproducible feature at all resolutions.
description: 12 pages, 16 figures; submitted to MNRAS
EU Digital Covid Certificate: from a ‘gentle push’ for vaccination to a condition to work? Implications and legacy in the field of employment relationship
Creators: name: Avogaro, Matteo
Publisher: name: Italian Labour Law e-Journal
Year: 2023

description: The contribution examines the main implications, for employment relationships, of French and Italian national versions of the EU Digital Covid Certificate, utilized as wide-range measures to foster vaccination. First, the Author provides an overview of related strategies adopted in the two countries from mid-2021, and limiting access to workplaces. Furthermore, through a comparative legal analysis aimed to discuss if, in the labour context, French and Italian certificates can be framed as statutory prerequisites to carry out a job, as workplace safety measures, or as a hybrid tertium genus, he attempts to let emerge similarities and differences between the two national strategies. Finally, the last part of the contribution focuses on Italy. It examines more in detail the possible legacy of such exceptional measures to contrast the pandemic, emphasizing the risk of a heterogenesis of purposes.
description: Italian Labour Law e-Journal, Vol. 15 No. 2 (2022)
In vivo anxiolytic and in vitro anti-inflammatory activities of water-soluble extract (WSE) of Nigella sativa (L.) seeds
Creators: name: Babar, Z. M.
name: Jaswir, I.
name: Tareq, A. M.
name: Reza, A. S. M Ali
name: Azizi, W. M.
name: Hafidz, M.
name: Ahfter, F.
name: Hasan, M.
name: Farhad, S.
name: Uddin, M. M. Rokib
name: Ichwan, S. Ja.
name: Ahmed, Q. U.
name: Taher, M.
name: Mawa, I.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
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: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The WSE is a highly polar, gummy and mucilaginous bioactive content of the Nigella sativa (L.) seeds. This study reports the anxiolytic and anti-inflammatory effects of WSE investigated using Elevated Plus Maze (EPM) and Hole-Board Test (HBT) in adult mice and human RBCs haemolysis inhibition and protein denaturation respectively. The oral WSE treatment (100 & 200 mg/kg b.w/day) for 72 hours has exhibited slightly better anxiolytic effect (p vs. diazepam (1 mg/kg b.w i.p/day; 69.33 s). In HBT, only WSE (200 mg/kg b.w/day) has shown a promising number of mean head pokes (13.27 times/min) vs. diazepam (12.87 times/min). The WSE (62.5-500 µg/mL) exposure has exhibited 40.14‐72.18% protection against lysis of RBCs vs. aspirin (57.04-71.48%) whilst 62.67-67.66% inhibition of protein denaturation vs. diclofenac sodium (43.11-80.64%). The current findings suggested WSE has promising anxiolytic and anti-inflammatory activities.
Regular and chaotic classical dynamics in the U(5)-SU(3) quantum phase transition of the IBM
Creators: name: Macek, M.
name: Leviatan, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the classical dynamics in a generic first-order quantum phase transition between the U(5) and SU(3) limits of the interacting boson model. The dynamics is chaotic, of Hénon-Heiles type, in the spherical phase and is regular, yet sensitive to local degeneracies, in the deformed phase. Both types of dynamics persist in the coexistence region resulting in a divided phase space.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, Proc. Beauty in Physics: Theory and Experiment, in honor of Francesco Iachello's 70th birthday, May 14-18, 2012, Cocoyoc, Mexico
Additional file 1 of In-silico analysis of heat shock transcription factor (OsHSF) gene family in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Creators: name: Shamshad, Areeqa
name: Rashid, Muhammad
name: Zaman, Qamar uz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 1 of A retrospective analysis of conditional power assumptions in clinical trials with continuous or binary endpoints
Creators: name: Edwards, Julia M.
name: Walters, Stephen J.
name: Julious, Steven A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Statistics
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Flowchart of the data request process for industry data. Supplementary Figure 2. Flowchart of the data request process for publicly funded trials. Supplementary Figure 3. Conditional power curves for trials with continuous outcome data following data transformations such that $$\partial =\frac{1}{3}{\partial}_{plan}$$ ∂ = 1 3 ∂ plan . For each data transformation scenario, four future treatment effect assumptions are used in the conditional power calculation. Supplementary Figure 4. Conditional power curves for trials with binary outcome data following data transformations such that $$\partial =\frac{1}{3}{\partial}_{plan}$$ ∂ = 1 3 ∂ plan . For each data transformation scenario, four future treatment effect assumptions are used in the conditional power calculation.
Work hardening behavior in a steel with multiple TRIP mechanisms
Creators: name: McGrath, M. C.
name: Van Aken, D. C.
name: Medvedeva, N. I.
name: Medvedeva, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) behavior was studied in steel with composition Fe-0.07C-2.85Si-15.3Mn-2.4Al-0.017N that exhibited two TRIP mechanisms. The initial microstructure consisted of both ε- and α-martensites with 27% retained austenite. TRIP behavior in the first 5% strain was predominately austenite transforming to ε-martensite (Stage I), but upon saturation of Stage I, the ε-martensite transformed to α-martensite (Stage II). Alloy segregation also affected the TRIP behavior with alloy rich regions producing TRIP just prior to necking. This behavior was explained by first principle calculations that revealed aluminum significantly affected the stacking fault energy in Fe-Mn-Al-C steels by decreasing the unstable stacking fault energy and promoting easy nucleation of ε-martensite. The addition of aluminum also raised the intrinsic stacking fault energy and caused the ε-martensite to be unstable and transform to α-martensite under further deformation. The two stage TRIP behavior produced a high strain hardening exponent of 1.4 and led to ultimate tensile strength of 1165 MPa and elongation to failure of 35%.
description: submitted to Met. Mater. Trans. A manuscript E-TP-12-953-A
Additional file 2 of Propofol and survival: an updated meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials
Creators: name: Kotani, Yuki
name: Pruna, Alessandro
name: Turi, Stefano
name: Borghi, Giovanni
name: Lee, Todd C.
name: Zangrillo, Alberto
name: Landoni, Giovanni
name: Pasin, Laura
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Complete reference list of included studies.
How far can Tarzan jump?
Creators: name: Shima, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The tree-based rope swing is a popular recreation facility, often installed in outdoor areas, giving pleasure to thrill-seekers. In the setting, one drops down from a high platform, hanging from a rope, then swings at a great speed like "Tarzan", and finally jumps ahead to land on the ground. The question now arises: How far can Tarzan jump by the swing? In this article, I present an introductory analysis of the Tarzan swing mechanics, a big pendulum-like swing with Tarzan himself attached as weight. The analysis enables determination of how farther forward Tarzan can jump using a given swing apparatus. The discussion is based on elementary mechanics and, therefore, expected to provide rich opportunities for investigations using analytic and numerical methods.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
Ethnography and Economy at the Confluence of Empires: Historicizing the Collaborative use of Ethnographic Biopower in Xinjiang
Creators: name: Rybicki-Kler, Liam
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: China
subject: Xinjiang
subject: Ethnography
subject: Biopower

description: Concerns over the treatment of China’s Uyghurs population in Xinjiang sit at the center of furious contemporary debate in both academia and politics. The justifications for this attention are numerous, from Xinjiang’s deep implication in the global economy to evolving discussions of technology’s role in enabling totalitarian regimes. Amidst the feverish attention, however, the current discourse has lost sight of an essential truth: The situation in Xinjiang is not monolithically a problem of the modern PRC. Rather, a careful investigation of the relationship between the practice of ethnography and the Chinese State reveals that the control of Xinjiang’s Muslims has long been a cooperative practice achieved between Empires in Central Asia. This was intended to demonstrate the historical roots of state-sponsored ethnographic work mobilized as a tool of biopower in China since the late Qing empire (1860). In tracing this history, it becomes clear that the State's process of formulating Muslim identity has consistently demonstrated an underlying framework of necessary international and inter-imperial collaboration incentivized by the mutual promise of economic benefit. With this history traced, the paper will then proceed to demonstrate a throughline to the modern origins of Uyghur suppression as a demonstration of the path for future scholarship on international ethnographic biopower.
title: The canary in the community: do surf life saving clubs have a role in community adaptation to climate change?
Creators: name: Saunders, Wendy S. A.
name: Kelly, Scott D.
name: Scheele, Finn R.
name: Coomer, Maureen A.
name: Thomas, Kristie-Lee
Publisher: name: GNS Science
Year: 2020

description: Surf life saving clubs (SLSCs) around New Zealand are at the frontline of the coastal interface. Sea-level rise around New Zealand is in the order of 1.8 mm per year over the last 100 years (up to 2015) (Ministry for the Environment 2017), and, with significant historical investment in the coastal environment, SLSCs have inadvertently become ‘the canary in the community’ for sea-level rise and the associated effects of climate change on the coastal interface. The purpose of this scoping study was to test the hypothesis that SLSCs are the canaries in the community and to instigate wider community adaptation initiatives. This project had three key objectives: 1. To assess the exposure of the 74 SLSCs around New Zealand to coastal inundation. 2. To understand individual SLSCs’ understanding and perceptions of risk, adaptation options, and community response (including a review of district plan provisions for climate change adaptation policies and flexibility. 3. To undertake a case study of three SLSCs to understand their detailed issues and options, including those for the wider community. (auth)
Additional file 2 of In-silico analysis of heat shock transcription factor (OsHSF) gene family in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
Creators: name: Shamshad, Areeqa
name: Rashid, Muhammad
name: Zaman, Qamar uz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2.
title: Geology and Structure of the Western and Southern Margins of Twin Sisters Mountain, North Cascades, Washington
Creators: name: Frasse, Frederic I.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 1981

description:
Detailed mapping of the Goat Mountain dunite and the western and southern margins of the Twin Sisters dunite indicates that the structural setting of these bodies is dominated by high-angle northwest-trending fault zones. The Goat Mountain dunite overlies rocks of the Chilliwack Group and Yellow Aster Complex as a lowangle, west-dipping slab approximately 2500 feet thick. Cretaceous phyllite west of Goat Mountain overlies Chilliwack Group rocks along a similar low-angle west-dipping fault contact. These structures are both truncated by high-angle fault zones.

The timing of faulting is poorly constrained. High-angle faulting is at least post-Eocene through Holocene (?), and may have begun as early as Late Cretaceous. Thrust emplacement of the Cretaceous phyllite over rocks of the Chilliwack Group may or may not have been contemporaneous with dunite emplacement.
Additional file 1 of Propofol and survival: an updated meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials
Creators: name: Kotani, Yuki
name: Pruna, Alessandro
name: Turi, Stefano
name: Borghi, Giovanni
name: Lee, Todd C.
name: Zangrillo, Alberto
name: Landoni, Giovanni
name: Pasin, Laura
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Search strategy, supplemental Tables, and supplemental Figures.
The ATLAS3D Project - XXI. Correlations between gradients of local escape velocity and stellar populations in early-type galaxies
Creators: name: Scott, Nicholas
name: Cappellari, Michele
name: Davies, Roger L.
name: Kleijn, Gijs Verdoes
name: Bois, Maxime
name: Alatalo, Katherine
name: Blitz, Leo
name: Bournaud, Frederic
name: Bureau, Martin
name: Crocker, Alison
name: Davis, Timothy A.
name: de Zeeuw, P. T.
name: Duc, Pierre-Alain
name: Emsellem, Eric
name: Khochfar, Sadegh
name: Krajnovic, Davor
name: Kuntschner, Harald
name: McDermid, Richard M.
name: Morganti, Raffaella
name: Naab, Thorsten
name: Oosterloo, Tom
name: Sarzi, Marc
name: Serra, Paolo
name: Weijmans, Anne-Marie
name: Young, Lisa M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the connection between the local escape velocity, V_esc, and the stellar population properties in the ATLAS3D survey, a complete, volume-limited sample of nearby early-type galaxies. We make use of ugriz photometry to construct Multi-Gaussian Expansion models of the surface brightnesses of our galaxies. We are able to fit the full range of surface brightness profiles found in our sample, and in addition we reproduce the results of state-of-the-art photometry in the literature with residuals of 0.04 mags. We utilise these photometric models and SAURON integral-field spectroscopy, combined with Jeans dynamical modelling, to determine the local V_esc derived from the surface brightness. We find that the local V_esc is tightly correlated with the Mgb and Fe5015 linestrengths and optical colours, and anti-correlated with the Hbeta linestrength. In the case of the Mgb and Colour - V_esc relations we find that the relation within individual galaxies follows the global relation between different galaxies. We intentionally ignored any uncertain contribution due to dark matter since we are seeking an empirical description of stellar population gradients in early-type galaxies that is ideal for quantitative comparison with model predictions. We identify a population of galaxies that occur only at low V_esc that exhibit negative gradients in the Mgb - and Colour -V_esc relations. These galaxies typically have young central stellar populations and contain significant amounts of molecular gas and dust. Combining these results with N-body simulations of binary mergers we use the Mgb-V_esc relation to constrain the possible number of dry mergers experienced by the local early-type galaxy population - a typical massive ETG can have experienced only ~1.5 major mergers before becoming a significant outlier in the Mgb-V_esc relation. [Abridged]
description: 23 pages, 20 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
A Unique Failure Mechanism in the Nexus 6P Lithium-Ion Battery
Creators: name: Saxena, Saurabh
name: Xing, Yinjiao
name: Pecht, Michael
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2018
Subjects: smartphone
lithium-ion
battery
CT scan
failure mechanism
battery drain
reliability

description: Nexus 6P smartphones have been beset by battery drain issues, which have been causing premature shutdown of the phone even when the charge indicator displays a significant remaining runtime. To investigate the premature battery drain issue, two Nexus 6P smartphones (one new and one used) were disassembled and their batteries were evaluated using computerized tomography (CT) scan analysis, electrical performance (capacity, resistance, and impedance) tests, and cycle life capacity fade tests. The “used” smartphone battery delivered only 20% of the rated capacity when tested in a first capacity cycle and then 15% of the rated capacity in a second cycle. The new smartphone battery exceeded the rated capacity when first taken out of the box, but exhibited an accelerated capacity fade under C/2 rate cycling and decreased to 10% of its initial capacity in just 50 cycles. The CT scan results revealed the presence of contaminant materials inside the used battery, raising questions about the quality of the manufacturing process.
On quantization of nondispersive wave packets
Creators: name: Altaisky, M. V.
name: Kaputkina, N. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Canonical commutation relations for the Bateman-Hillion type nondispersive wave packets are constructed
description: LaTeX, 10 pages
title: Dante's Cartography And Other Stories
Creators: name: Quinn, Alyssa M.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2018

description:
This collection of short fiction repurposes myths, fairy tales, classic literature, and other narratives to explore the triumphs and failures of language. Some stories depict moments when language fails to signify, exploring what that means for characters and their attempts to communicate. Others celebrate the potential of language and narrative to combat solipsism and forge interpersonal connections. In doing so, the stories also examine the ways language shapes reality and identity. Overall, the collection emerges from the postmodern tradition, but attempts to temper postmodernism’s ironic stance with sincerity, intimacy, and lyricism.
Shape and dynamics of seepage erosion in a horizontal granular bed
Creators: name: Berhanu, Michael
name: Petroff, Alexander
name: Devauchelle, Olivier
name: Kudrolli, Arshad
name: Rothman, Daniel H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 76S05

description: We investigate erosion patterns observed in a horizontal granular bed resulting from seepage of water motivated by observation of beach rills and channel growth in larger scale landforms. Our experimental apparatus consists of a wide rectangular box filled with glass beads with a narrow opening in one of the side walls from which eroded grains can exit. Quantitative data on the shape of the pattern and erosion dynamics are obtained with a laser-aided topography technique. We show that the spatial distribution of the source of groundwater can significantly impact the shape of observed patterns. An elongated channel is observed to grow upstream when groundwater is injected at a boundary adjacent to a reservoir held at constant height. An amphitheater (semi-circular) shape is observed when uniform rainfall infiltrates the granular bed to maintain a water table. Bifurcations are observed as the channels grow in response to the ground water. We further find that the channels grow by discrete avalanches as the height of the granular bed is increased above the capillary rise, causing the deeper channels to have rougher fronts. The spatio-temporal distribution of avalanches increase with bed height when partial saturation of the bed leads to cohesion between grains. However, the overall shape of the channels is observed to remain unaffected indicating that seepage erosion is robust to perturbation of the erosion front.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 3 of Antimicrobial potential of myricetin-coated zinc oxide nanocomposite against drug-resistant Clostridium perfringens
Creators: name: Gomaa, Nada H.
name: El-Aziz, Norhan K. Abd
name: El-Naenaeey, El-sayed Y.
name: Abdelaziz, Walaa S.
name: Sewid, Alaa H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 3.
Theoretical fit of Cepheid light an radial velocity curves in the Large Magellanic Cloud cluster NGC 1866
Creators: name: Marconi, Marcella
name: Molinaro, Roberto
name: Ripepi, Vincenzo
name: Musella, Ilaria
name: Brocato, Enzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: astronomy and astrophysics

description: We present a theoretical investigation of multifilter (U,B,V, I and K) light and radial velocity curves of five Classical Cepheids in NGC 1866, a young massive cluster of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The best fit models accounting for the luminosity and radial velocity variations of the five selected variables, four pulsating in the fundamental mode and one in the first overtone, provide direct estimates of their intrinsic stellar parameters and individual distances. The resulting stellar properties indicate a slightly brighter Mass Luminosity relation than the canonical one, possibly due to mild overshooting and/or mass loss. As for the inferred distances, the individual values are consistent within the uncertainties. Moreover, their weighted mean value corresponds to a distance modulus of 18.56 + - 0.03 (stat) + - 0.1 (syst) mag, in agreement with several independent results in the literature.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication on MNRAS
A Framework for Understanding Sense of Place in an Urban Design Context
Creators: name: Hu, Ming
name: Chen, Roger
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2018
Subjects: sense of place
physical environment
perceptual quality
placemaking
urban design

description: Creating a sense of place and community is a guiding principle in designing livable and high-quality built environments. This paper presents a framework for understanding the relationship between design and people’s perceptions about a place, within an urban design context. While a large volume of literature on sense of place (SOP) already exists, the proposed framework and its application in the design field present a unique opportunity to add new knowledge to this interdisciplinary topic. This research will investigate the empirical relationship between architecture/urban design and people’s perceptions about a place and their contributions to SOP. Urban designers and architects play important and determining roles in defining the physical qualities and the characteristics of a place. However, it has always been challenging to quantify the relationship between a physical environment and a person’s emotional experience. Three urban sites were analyzed to illustrate this framework, and four physical characteristics and four perceptual qualities were cross-investigated and analyzed. This proposed framework will help architects and urban designers to gain a better understanding of SOP and placemaking techniques, eventually helping to improve urban design quality.
Submillimetric spectroscopic observations of volatiles in comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz)
Creators: name: de Val-Borro, M.
name: Hartogh, P.
name: Jarchow, C.
name: Rengel, M.
name: Villanueva, G. L.
name: Küppers, M.
name: Biver, N.
name: Bockelée-Morvan, D.
name: Crovisier, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim to determine the production rates of several parent and product volatiles and the 12C/13C isotopic carbon ratio in the long-period comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz), which is likely to originate from the Oort Cloud. The line emission from several molecules in the coma was measured with high signal-to-noise ratio in January 2005 at heliocentric distance of 1.2 AU by means of high-resolution spectroscopic observations using the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT). We have obtained production rates of several volatiles (CH3OH, HCN, H13CN, HNC, H2CO, CO and CS) by comparing the observed and simulated line-integrated intensities. Furthermore, multiline observations of the CH3OH (7-6) series allow us to estimate the rotational temperature using the rotation diagram technique. We find that the CH3OH population distribution of the levels sampled by these lines can be described by a rotational temperature of 40 \pm 3 K. Derived mixing ratios relative to hydrogen cyanide are CO/CH3OH/H2CO/CS/HNC/H13CN/HCN = 30.9/24.6/4.8/0.57/0.031/0.013/1 assuming a pointing offset of 8" due to the uncertain ephemeris at the time of the observations and the telescope pointing error. The measured relative molecular abundances in C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) are between low- to typical values of those obtained in Oort Cloud comets, suggesting that it has visited the inner solar system previously and undergone thermal processing. The HNC/HCN abundance ratio of ~3.1% is comparable to that found in other comets, accounting for the dependence on the heliocentric distance, and could possibly be explained by ion-molecule chemical processes in the low-temperature atmosphere. From a tentative H13CN detection, the measured value of 97 \pm 30 for the H12CN/H13CN isotopologue pair is consistent with a telluric value.
description: 14 pages with 11 figures, abridged abstract
title: Sediment Budget of the Middle Reach Skagit River, Washington 1937-2015 Reveals Decadal Variations in Sediment Export and Storage
Creators: name: Rothleutner, Amelia Deuell
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2017

description:
Evaluation of historical meandering since 1937 shows that the active floodplain of the middle reach Skagit River between Rockport and Sedro-Woolley, Washington, has periodically been a significant source of sediment to the lower Skagit River and delta. In response to recent findings that the Sauk-Suiattle on average only supplies approximately 30% of the sediment load observed at Mount Vernon, I examined the geomorphic change and potential sediment production of the middle reach to test whether it is a significant source to the lower river. I tested the hypothesis that the 20-mile (32-km) middle reach has been a net source of sediment to the delta, at least since the mid-2000s that comprehensive sediment load monitoring has been conducted at Mount Vernon. A new tool constructed with ArcGIS model builder that integrates analyses of lateral meander migration from aerial photogrammetry with digital elevation data (e.g. lidar) automates the calculation of sediment volume produced by bank erosion versus stored in bars, islands, and side channels through time. While the results reveal changes in net sediment production through time, they show that for the period 2006 through 2015, recruitment of floodplain sediment from the middle reach to the active channel produced ~27% of the annual sediment mean load measured at Mount Vernon. The sediment source was dominated by lateral incision at rates of 3-8 m/yr in several areas of high-relief (3-15 m) banks characterized by unconsolidated, friable glacial outwash or lahar deposits. Decadal-scale sediment production from the floodplain to the active channel associated with highest meander rates and storage within the reach correlate with periods of frequent moderate floods, whereas periods of net sediment export to the lower river correlate with highest peak flows that presumably erode and flush sediment from the system. These results help quantify recent channel dynamics, rates of change, and sources of sediment that influence sediment transport and recent sediment aggradation patterns downstream, that are in turn important to flood risk and salmon habitat. The results and model also help inform decision makers how these sources of sediment and their impacts may change with projected increases in the magnitude and frequency of floods and sediment production expected with climate change across the Pacific Northwest. The methods and model developed in this study can be readily applied to other systems with historical time-series of mapped floodplain and channel changes to evaluate sediment budgets and impacts to habitats associated with meandering behavior.
Additional file 1 of Antimicrobial potential of myricetin-coated zinc oxide nanocomposite against drug-resistant Clostridium perfringens
Creators: name: Gomaa, Nada H.
name: El-Aziz, Norhan K. Abd
name: El-Naenaeey, El-sayed Y.
name: Abdelaziz, Walaa S.
name: Sewid, Alaa H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1.
The SLcam: A full-field energy dispersive X-ray camera
Creators: name: Bjeoumikhov, A.
name: Buzanich, G.
name: Langhoff, N.
name: Ordavo, I.
name: Radtke, M.
name: Reinholz, U.
name: Riesemeier, H.
name: Scharf, O.
name: Soltau, H.
name: Wedell, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The color X-ray camera (SLcam) is a full-field single photon imager. As stand-alone camera, it is applicable for energy and space-resolved X-ray detection measurements. The exchangeable poly-capillary optics in front of a beryllium entrance window conducts X-ray photons from the probe to distinguished energy dispersive pixels on a pnCCD. The dedicated software enables the acquisition and the online processing of the spectral data for all 69696 pixels, leading to a real-time visualization of the element distribution in a sample. No scanning system is employed. A first elemental composition image of the sample is visible within minutes while statistics is improving in the course of time. Straight poly-capillary optics allows for 1:1 imaging with a space resolution of 50 um and no limited depth of sharpness, ideal to map uneven objects. Using conically shaped optics, a magnification of 6 times was achieved with a space resolution of 10 um. We present a measurement with a laboratory source showing the camera capability to perform fast full-field X-ray Fluorescence (FF-XRF) imaging with an easy, portable and modular setup.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, iWorid 2012 confernce contribution