cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Adding another piece to the southern African Cercopithecus monkey phylogeography puzzle
Creators: name: Linden, Birthe
name: Desiré L Dalton
name: Ralph, Taryn MC
name: Silva, Isabel
name: Kotze, Antoinette
name: Taylor, Peter J
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: The taxonomy and number of Cercopithecus monkey radiation events in southern Africa are still debated. To date, genetic studies have largely been limited to single specimens per taxon and a scattered geographical distribution. A recent study focusing on South African Cercopithecus monkeys showed that populations can be divided into three distinct genetic entities. Our current study aims to add new mtDNA and microsatellite data from a coastal population (Vamizi Island) in Mozambique to compare to existing data from South Africa. Our additional data allowed analysis of the number and timing of radiation events of Cercopithecus monkeys in southern Africa. Here we propose the occurrence of a single, north-south radiation event during the mid-Pleistocene along the Afromontane forest belt and that after the Last Glacial Maximum, samango populations reradiated into (re)established coastal forests on a more local scale. Our population genetic data support this pattern for both Mozambican, as well as South African samango monkey populations. By including mtDNA sequence data from Cercopithecus across Africa, we also discuss the hypothesis that the ‘Kingdon Line’ may explain the divergence of two major species in Africa within the C. mitis/nictitans group: C. albogularis and C. mitis.
A Search for OH Megamasers at z > 0.1. III. The Complete Survey
Creators: name: Darling, Jeremy
name: Giovanelli, Riccardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the final results from the Arecibo Observatory OH megamaser survey. We discuss in detail the properties of the remaining 18 OH megamasers detected in the survey, including 3 redetections. We place upper limits on the OH emission from 85 nondetections and examine the properties of 25 ambiguous cases for which the presence or absence of OH emission could not be determined. The complete survey has discovered 50 new OH megamasers (OHMs) in (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies ([U]LIRGs) which doubles the sample of known OHMs and increases the sample at z>0.1 sevenfold. The Arecibo OH megamaser survey indicates that the OHM fraction in LIRGs is an increasing function of the far-IR luminosity (L_{FIR}) and far-IR color, reaching a fraction of roughly one third in the warmest ULIRGs. Significant relationships between OHMs and their hosts are few, primarily due to a mismatch in size scales of measured properties and an intrinsic scatter in OHM properties roughly equal to the span of the dataset. We investigate relationships between OHMs and their hosts with a variety of statistical tools including survival analysis, partial correlation coefficients, and a principal component analysis. There is no apparent OH megamaser ``fundamental plane.'' We compile data on all previously known OHMs and evaluate the possible mechanisms and relationships responsible for OHM production in merging systems. The OH-FIR relationship is reexamined using the doubled OHM sample and found to be significantly flatter than previously thought: L_{OH} ~ L_{FIR}^{1.2 +/- 0.1}. This near-linear dependence suggests a mixture of saturated and unsaturated masers, either within individual galaxies or across the sample.
description: 28 pages, 14 figures, accepted by AJ. (AASTeX, includes emulateapj5 and onecolfloat5)
Wells and ill-fare: impacts of well failures on cultivators in hard rock areas of Madhya Pradesh
Creators: name: Bassi, Nitin
name: Vijayshankar, P. S.
name: Kumar, M. Dinesh
name: Bassi, Nitin
name: Vijayshankar, P. S.
name: Kumar, M. Dinesh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Production Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Wells
subject: Drilling
subject: Costs
subject: Groundwater depletion
subject: Water table
subject: Groundwater irrigation
subject: Ownership
subject: Economic impact
subject: Social impact
subject: Crop management
subject: Food security
subject: India
subject: Madhya Pradesh
subject: Dewas district
subject: Bagli

description: Over exploitation of groundwater water resources is causing progressive decline in water table in the arid and semi arid parts of India. The socio-economic impacts of these phenomena range from increased cost of well irrigation to reduced returns from irrigated agriculture, to growing inequity in access to groundwater depending on the aquifer conditions and the overall socio-economic conditions of the communities. In hard rock areas, over exploitation is leading to decline in yield and drying up of open wells. This forces farmers to go for either well deepening or drilling new bore wells. But due to the poor success in hitting water through bore well drilling in hard rock areas and the consequent increase in costs of setting up a bore-well based irrigation scheme, small cultivators are the worse affected. This paper focus on the phenomenon of well failure in the hard rock areas of Dewas in Madhya Pradesh. It highlights the causes of well failure and related welfare impacts on the cultivators especially small landowners. The major impacts were found to be on the cropping pattern, extent of well irrigation, crop yields, net returns and food security in the surveyed region. In addition, discussion is centered on power subsidies in the state which have promoted indiscriminate use and further depletion of groundwater from the already low yielding aquifers.
description: In Kumar, M. Dinesh (Ed.). Managing water in the face of growing scarcity, inequity and declining returns: exploring fresh approaches. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Partners Meet, IWMI TATA Water Policy Research Program, ICRISAT, Patancheru, Hyderabad, India, 2-4 April 2008. Vol.1. Hyderabad, India: International Water Management Institute (IWMI), South Asia Sub Regional Office
MOESM11 of Assessing biases in phylodynamic inferences in the presence of super-spreaders
Creators: name: Hidano, Arata
name: M. Gates
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 11. Farm characteristics of super-spreaders identified in 100 simulations. This file provides a detailed explanation on super-spreader farms identified in this study.
Additional file 1 of A new insight into underlying disease mechanism through semi-parametric latent differential network model
Creators: name: He, Yong
name: Ji, Jiadong
name: Xie, Lei
name: Zhang, Xinsheng
name: Xue, Fuzhong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Contains the theoretical guarantee of of the proposed methods and proofs. (PDF 284 kb)
New insights into the taxonomic status, distribution and natural history of De Witte’s Clicking Frog (Kassinula wittei Laurent, 1940)
Creators: name: Conradie, Werner
name: Keates, Chad
name: Lobón-Rovira, Javier
name: Pinto, Pedro Vaz
name: Verburgt, Luke
name: Ninda L Baptista
name: Harvey, James
name: Júlio, Timóteo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Kassinula is a monotypic genus of small frog in the family Hyperoliidae, only represented by Kassinula wittei. This species morphologically resembles both Kassina Girard, 1853 and Afrixalus Laurent, 1944, and its taxonomic status has been debated for decades. It has previously been subsumed within Kassina, and is currently placed as a sister genus to Afrixalus, although it has not been included in any phylogenetic studies until now. This species is poorly represented in museum collections and is only known from fewer than 35 specimens from southern Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjacent Zambia. Newly collected material from central Angola, a range extension of 400–800 km west of previously known localities, allowed us to revisit the taxonomic placement of the genus with the aid of phylogenetic analysis and shed light on its geographic distribution, morphology and natural history. Although our phylogenetic analysis is limited to a single mitochondrial gene (16S), we place Kassinula in the subfamily Hyperoliinae and closely related to Afrixalus, with a high degree of confidence. Further phylogenetic studies are needed before formally synonymising Afrixalus with Kassinula.
Numerically exact treatment of many body self-organization in a cavity
Creators: name: Halati, Catalin-Mihai
name: Sheikhan, Ameneh
name: Ritsch, Helmut
name: Kollath, Corinna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the full quantum evolution of ultracold interacting bosonic atoms on a chain and coupled to an optical cavity. Extending the time-dependent matrix product state techniques and the many-body adiabatic elimination technique to capture the global coupling to the cavity mode and the open nature of the cavity, we examine the long time behavior of the system beyond the mean-field elimination of the cavity field. We investigate the many body steady states and the self-organization transition for a wide range of parameters. We show that in the self-organized phase the steady state consists in a mixture of the mean-field predicted density wave states and excited states with additional defects. In particular, for large dissipation strengths a steady state with a fully mixed atomic sector is obtained crucially different from the predicted mean-field state.
description: This new version of the article focuses on the physical aspects of the dynamics of atoms coupled to a cavity mode. The methods developed to perform this analysis are detailed in arXiv:2004.11807
Low lying S=-1 excited baryons and chiral symmetry
Creators: name: Oset, E.
name: Ramos, A.
name: Bennhold, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The s-wave meson-baryon interaction in the $S = -1$ sector is studied by means of coupled-channels, using the lowest-order chiral Lagrangian and the N/D method to implement unitarity. The loops are regularized using dimensional renormalization. In addition to the previously studied $Λ(1405)$, employing this chiral approach leads to the dynamical generation of two more s-wave hyperon resonances, the $Λ(1670)$ and $Σ(1620)$ states. We make comparisons with experimental data and look for poles in the complex plane obtaining the couplings of the resonances to the different final states. This allows us to identify the $Λ(1405)$ and the $Λ(1670)$ resonances with $\bar{K}N$ and $KΞ$ quasibound states, respectively.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures, revised version to appear in Phys. Lett. B, errata corrected: modulus of coupling contants is modulus squared
Breakdown of adiabatic invariance in spherical tokamaks
Creators: name: Carlsson, Johan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermal ions in spherical tokamaks have two adiabatic invariants: the magnetic moment and the longitudinal invariant. For hot ions, variations in magnetic-field strength over a gyro period can become sufficiently large to cause breakdown of the adiabatic invariance. The magnetic moment is more sensitive to perturbations than the longitudinal invariant and there exists an intermediate regime, super-adiabaticity, where the longitudinal invariant remains adiabatic, but the magnetic moment does not. The motion of super-adiabatic ions remains integrable and confinement is thus preserved. However, above a threshold energy, the longitudinal invariant becomes non-adiabatic too, and confinement is lost as the motion becomes chaotic. We predict beam ions in present-day spherical tokamaks to be super-adiabatic but fusion alphas in proposed burning-plasma spherical tokamaks to be non-adiabatic.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures
How political philosophies can help to discuss and differentiate theories in community ecology
Creators: name: Voigt, Annette
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: history and philosophy of ecology
subject: community ecology
subject: political philosophy
subject: analogy
subject: constitution theory
subject: 100
subject: 300
subject: Geschichte
subject: Philosophie
subject: Ökologie
subject: Politische Philosophie
subject: Analogie
subject: Konstitution

description: Gefördert im Rahmen des Projekts DEAL
Differences in metal compositions and concentrations of sympatric predatory fish and squid from the South Atlantic Ocean
Creators: name: Uren, Ryan C
name: Francois Bothma
name: Van Der Lingen, Carl D
name: Bouwman, Hindrik
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: 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: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Metals occur naturally in the environment and in organisms. Organisms at higher trophic levels may contain metals at elevated concentrations, as a result of accumulation from anthropogenic and natural sources, potentially making them more susceptible to detrimental effects, as well as passing them on to consumers. The concentrations of thirty metals were quantified in hake (Merluccius capensis), kingklip (Genypterus capensis), monkfish (Lophius vomerinus) and chokka (Loligo reynaudii) collected from the South Atlantic Ocean of South Africa in February 2017 and February 2019, using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Metal concentrations and composition in nektobenthic chokka differed significantly from the three demersal fish predators (hake, kingklip, and monkfish). Demersal fish metal concentrations and relative pattern compositions (fingerprints) were similar. Because the samples were collected within an 80 km radius, the differences are likely as a result of a combination of factors, such as diet, habitat (depth), and differences in the physiological regulation of metals between cephalopods and fish, rather than location. Based on South African estimated daily intake, total hazard quotient and European Union limits for mercury, cadmium and lead, these four economically important species from the South Atlantic Ocean are safe for human consumption. Plankton, herbivorous marine species, and larger predators, such as sharks and dolphins, should be studied to obtain further insight into metals as baseline for monitoring possible future pollution and effects from climate change, trophic transfer, toxic effects, and human consumer safety.
Additional file 1 of Genetic investigation of 211 Chinese families expands the mutational and phenotypical spectra of hereditary retinopathy genes through targeted sequencing technology
Creators: name: Bai, Zhouxian
name: Xie, Yanchuan
name: Liu, Lina
name: Shao, Jingzhi
name: Liu, Yuying
name: Kong, Xiangdong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary material of tables and figures.
Identification of Constitutive Parameters Governing the Hyperelastic Response of Rubber by Using Full-field Measurement and the Virtual Fields Method
Creators: name: Tayeb, A
name: Cam, Jean-Benoit Le
name: Grédiac, M.
name: Toussaint, E.
name: Canevet, F.
name: Robin, E.
name: Balandraud, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, the Virtual Fields Method (VFM) is applied to identify constitutive parameters of hyperelastic models from a heterogeneous test. Digital image correlation (DIC) was used to estimate the displacement and strain fields required by the identification procedure. Two different hyperelastic models were considered: the Mooney model and the Ogden model. Applying the VFM to the Mooney model leads to a linear system that involves the hyperelastic parameters thanks to the linearity of the stress with respect to these parameters. In the case of the Ogden model, the stress is a nonlinear function of the hyperelastic parameters and a suitable procedure should be used to determine virtual fields leading to the best identification. This complicates the identification and affects its robustness. This is the reason why the sensitivity-based virtual field approach recently proposed in case of anisotropic plasticity by Marek et al. (2017) [1] has been successfully implemented to be applied in case of hyperelasticity. Results obtained clearly highlight the benefits of such an inverse identification approach in case of non-linear systems.
Monitoring metals in South African harbours between 2008 and 2009, using resident mussels as indicator organisms
Creators: name: V Wepener
name: N Degger
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
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: Ecology
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: More than 65% of the South African coastline is threatened as a result of pollution, a large proportion of which is land derived. To date the majority of published data on metal monitoring has been on limited regions or once-off sampling events. In this paper, we present the first data on metal exposure at sites along the eastern seaboard of South Africa in resident brown mussels (Perna perna) from six harbour sites (Cape Town, Durban, East London, Mossel Bay, Port Elizabeth and Richards Bay Harbours) over a two-year period (2008 and 2009). These data do not represent historical or the current metal exposure levels, but rather an indication of the degree of metal exposure fluctuations over two years at the same site. Metal accumulation of aluminium, arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, lead, selenium, strontium, uranium and zinc was determined by thermo-inductive coupled plasma mass spectrophotometry. The results showed marked fluctuations in metal concentrations between years and identified Cape Town, Mossel Bay and Port Elizabeth Harbours as those sites where mussels had the highest metal levels. Statistically significant variations in metal concentrations were observed between the two sampling periods and the six harbours. Metal concentrations decreased from 2008 to 2009, which was largely attributed to changes in ambient metal concentrations, as a result of variable non-point discharges of metals into the harbours and larger-scale oceanographic changes in upwelling events. The results further emphasise the necessity for annual monitoring of the South African marine environment.
Aculus ligustri
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Han, Xiao
name: Song, Zi-Wei
name: Hong, Xiao-Yue
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Aculus
Aculus ligustri

description: Aculus ligustri (Keifer, 1938)
 Phyllocoptes ligustri Keifer, 1938: 190.
 Vasated ligustri; Keifer, 1952b: 45.
 Aculus ligustri; Keifer, 1959: 5–6.
 Aculus ligustri; Amrine & Stasny, 1994: 122.
 Aculus ligustri; Baker et al., 1996: 190.
 Aculus ligustri; Kuang, 1995b: 118.
 Aculus ligustri; Hong & Zhang, 1996: 60.
 Aculus ligustri; Skoracka et al., 2005: 106.
 New material. 5 females and 1 male (slide number NJAUAcariEri218), from Ligustrum lucidum Ait. (Oleaceae), Louguantai, Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China, 34°03'54' N, 108°19'22' E, elevation 500m, 31 August 2004, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue and Zi-Wei Song.
 Hosts. Ligustrum sp. L., Ligustrum lucidum Ait., Ligustrum ovalifolium L. (Oleaceae).
 Relation to host. Vagrant, leaf curling, rust.
 Distribution. China (Fujian, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shanghai, Sichuan, Zhejiang), Iran, Italy, Japan, Poland, USA.
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng, Han, Xiao, Song, Zi-Wei & Hong, Xiao-Yue, 2012, Eriophyoid mite fauna of Shaanxi Province, China, with descriptions of five new species (Acari: Eriophyoidea) 3292, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 3292 (1) on pages 44-45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3292.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5250127
Adiabatic and Isocurvature Perturbations for Multifield Generalized Einstein Models
Creators: name: Di Marco, Fabrizio
name: Finelli, Fabio
name: Brandenberger, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low energy effective field theories motivated by string theory will likely contain several scalar moduli fields which will be relevant to early Universe cosmology. Some of these fields are expected to couple with non-standard kinetic terms to gravity. In this paper, we study the splitting into adiabatic and isocurvature perturbations for a model with two scalar fields, one of which has a non-standard kinetic term in the Einstein-frame action. Such actions can arise, e.g., in the Pre-Big-Bang and Ekpyrotic scenarios. The presence of a non-standard kinetic term induces a new coupling between adiabatic and isocurvature perturbations which is non-vanishing when the potential for the matter fields is nonzero. This coupling is un-suppressed in the long wavelength limit and thus can lead to an important transfer of power from the entropy to the adiabatic mode on super-Hubble scales. We apply the formalism to the case of a previously found exact solution with an exponential potential and study the resulting mixing of adiabatic and isocurvature fluctuations in this example. We also discuss the possible relevance of the extra coupling in the perturbation equations for the process of generating an adiabatic component of the fluctuations spectrum from isocurvature perturbations without considering a later decay of the isocurvature component.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, one equation corrected, typos fixed, conclusions unchanged
IR2Vec: LLVM IR based Scalable Program Embeddings
Creators: name: VenkataKeerthy, S.
name: Aggarwal, Rohit
name: Jain, Shalini
name: Desarkar, Maunendra Sankar
name: Upadrasta, Ramakrishna
name: Srikant, Y. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We propose IR2Vec, a Concise and Scalable encoding infrastructure to represent programs as a distributed embedding in continuous space. This distributed embedding is obtained by combining representation learning methods with flow information to capture the syntax as well as the semantics of the input programs. As our infrastructure is based on the Intermediate Representation (IR) of the source code, obtained embeddings are both language and machine independent. The entities of the IR are modeled as relationships, and their representations are learned to form a seed embedding vocabulary. Using this infrastructure, we propose two incremental encodings:Symbolic and Flow-Aware. Symbolic encodings are obtained from the seed embedding vocabulary, and Flow-Aware encodings are obtained by augmenting the Symbolic encodings with the flow information. We show the effectiveness of our methodology on two optimization tasks (Heterogeneous device mapping and Thread coarsening). Our way of representing the programs enables us to use non-sequential models resulting in orders of magnitude of faster training time. Both the encodings generated by IR2Vec outperform the existing methods in both the tasks, even while using simple machine learning models. In particular, our results improve or match the state-of-the-art speedup in 11/14 benchmark-suites in the device mapping task across two platforms and 53/68 benchmarks in the Thread coarsening task across four different platforms. When compared to the other methods, our embeddings are more scalable, is non-data-hungry, and has betterOut-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) characteristics.
description: Accepted in ACM TACO
Additional file 5: of Lights, camera, path splitter: a new approach for truly simultaneous dual optical mapping of the heart with a single camera
Creators: name: Jaimes, Rafael
name: McCullough, Damon
name: Siegel, Bryan
name: Swift, Luther
name: Hiebert, James
name: McInerney, Daniel
name: Posnack, Nikki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Lights, Camera, Path Splitter: A New Approach for Truly Simultaneous Dual Optical Mapping of the Heart with a Single Camera. Figure S1. Single dye loading homogeneity. Fractional fluorescence was calculated by dividing each fluorescent image in the series by the average baseline image (ΔF/F0). The resultant fractional fluorescence images show near-black during baseline and bright during peak activity (peak of the action potential or calcium transient). The lookup table was not modified between baseline and peak images. A threshold was performed to show highest area of staining in pseudo-color. (A) RH237 was independently loaded to the heart. (B) Rhod-2 was independently loaded to a different heart to ensure specificity of the dye-loading. Examples of both anterior and posterior orientation are shown. LA = left atrium, LV = left ventricle, RV = right ventricle. Table S1. Major components, specifications, part numbers, and manufacturers for dual mapping system. Table S2. Quantified performance by signal-to-noise ratio measurements with different exposure times and image processing. (DOCX 200 kb)
Analysis of ring laser gyroscopes including laser dynamics
Creators: name: Di Virgilio, Angela D. V.
name: Beverini, Nicolò
name: Carelli, Giorgio
name: Ciampini, Donatella
name: Fuso, Francesco
name: Maccioni, Enrico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inertial sensors stimulate very large interest, not only for their application but also for fundamental physics tests. Ring laser gyros, which measure angular rotation rate, are certainly among the most sensitive inertial sensors, with excellent dynamic range and bandwidth. Large area ring laser gyros are routinely able to measure fractions of prad/s, with high duty cycle and bandwidth, providing fast, direct and local measurement of relevant geodetic and geophysical signals. Improvements of a factor $10-100$ would open the windows for general relativity tests, as the GINGER project, an Earth based experiment aiming at the Lense-Thirring test at $1\%$ level. However, it is well known that the dynamics of the laser induces non-linearities, and those effects are more evident in small scale instruments. Sensitivity and accuracy improvements are always worthwhile, and in general there is demand for high sensitivity environmental study and development of inertial platforms, where small scale transportable instruments should be used. We discuss a novel technique to analyse the data, aiming at studying and removing those non-linearity. The analysis is applied to the two ring laser prototypes GP2 and GINGERINO, and angular rotation rate evaluated with the new and standard methods are compared. The improvement is evident, it shows that the back-scatter problem of the ring laser gyros is negligible with a proper analysis of the data, improving the performances of large scale ring laser gyros, but also indicating that small scale instruments with sensitivity of nrad/s are feasible.
description: 9 pages and 7 figures
Combinatorics of binary words and codimensions of identities in left nilpotent algebras
Creators: name: Zaicev, Mikhail V.
name: Repovš, Dušan D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16R50, 17B30

description: Numerical characteristics of polynomial identities of left nilpotent algebras are examined. Previously, we came up with a construction which, given an infinite binary word, allowed us to build a two-step left nilpotent algebra with specified properties of the codimension sequence. However, the class of the infinite words used was confined to periodic words and Sturm words. Here the previously proposed approach is generalized to a considerably more general case. It is proved that for any algebra constructed given a binary word with subexponential function of combinatorial complexity, there exists a PI-exponent, and its precise value is computed.
description: in Russian
Quasi-integrable systems are slow to thermalize but may be good scramblers
Creators: name: Goldfriend, Tomer
name: Kurchan, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Classical quasi-integrable systems are known to have Lyapunov times much shorter than their ergodicity time -- the most clear example being the Solar System -- but the situation for their quantum counterparts is less well understood. As a first example, we examine the quantum Lyapunov exponent, defined by the evolution of the 4-point out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC), of integrable systems which are weakly perturbed by an external noise, a setting that has proven to be illuminating in the classical case. In analogy to the tangent space in classical systems, we derive a linear superoperator equation which dictates the OTOC dynamics. We find that i) in the semi-classical limit the quantum Lyapunov exponent is given by the classical one: it scales as $ε^{1/3}$, with $ε$ being the variance of the random drive, leading to short Lyapunov times compared to the diffusion time (which is $\sim ε^{-1}$). ii) in the highly quantal regime the Lyapunov instability is suppressed by quantum fluctuations, and iii) for sufficiently small perturbations the $ε^{1/3}$ dependence is also suppressed -- another purely quantum effect which we explain. These essential features of the problem are already present in a rotor that is kicked weakly but randomly. Concerning quantum limits on chaos, we find that quasi-integrable systems are relatively good scramblers in the sense that the ratio between the Lyapunov exponent and $kT/\hbar$ may stay finite at a low temperature $T$.
description: This version includes a replacement and an extension of arXiv:1911.04011
Aspects of Two-Level Systems under External Time Dependent Fields
Creators: name: Bagrov, V. G.
name: Barata, J. C. A.
name: Gitman, D. M.
name: Wreszinski, W. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of two-level systems in time-dependent backgrounds is under consideration. We present some new exact solutions in special backgrounds decaying in time. On the other hand, following ideas of Feynman, Vernon and Hellwarth, we discuss in detail the possibility to reduce the quantum dynamics to a classical Hamiltonian system. This, in particular, opens the possibility to directly apply powerful methods of classical mechanics (e.g. KAM methods) to study the quantum system. Following such an approach, we draw conclusions of relevance for ``quantum chaos'' when the external background is periodic or quasi-periodic in time.
description: To appear in J. Phys. A. Mathematical and General
title: China's soft power and public diplomacy in Australia: Misalignment between projection and reception - A cultural self-confidence perspective
Creators: name: Guo, Dongnu
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: China
subject: Australia
subject: diplomacy
subject: soft power

description: Cultural self-confidence is an important term in Xi Jinping-era political discourse. Cultural self-confidence is a call by Xi Jinping for the Chinese nation to express confidence in its excellent cultural traditions, its revolutionary culture and in the advanced culture of socialism. The Communist Party of China considers public diplomacy as the key carrier of cultural self-confidence narratives. Yet, despite the importance attached to cultural self-confidence messaging, Western liberal democracies such as Australia have not embraced the image of China's rise and its positive messaging in the light that it was intended. This research seeks to explore the place of cultural-self confidence in soft power and public diplomacy today, primarily aiming to identify the factors that shape the misalignment between China's intention to exert "positive influence" and Australian media interpretations of China's rise as "negative influence". Two related conceptual frameworks are applied in this research. China's cultural self-confidence narratives are framed within the communication process of strategic narratives. This includes their formation, projection and reception. Therefore this research investigates (1) how scholarly texts in China have influenced the formation of the concept of Chinese cultural self-confidence and the shaping of narratives to present cultural self-confidence to people outside China, (2) how Chinese state-run English-language media have projected these narratives to foreign audiences through public diplomacy messaging, and (3) how these narratives have been received in the Australian media. Since analysis of the above three issues relate to mechanics of framing narratives, framing theory is used as a secondary conceptual framework to guide the analysis of media narratives about soft power and public diplomacy practices in China and Australia. The methodology of analysis used in this thesis is mainly qualitative in nature, specifically, qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis. This is supplemented by a quantitative analysis of news items. The findings of this analysis indicate that there are four main factors that have led to a misalignment between China's projection and Australia's reception of China's soft power and public diplomacy narratives in the media. These are, firstly, the different content emphasis in narratives in the Chinese and Australian media; secondly, the different nature of the media in China and Australia; and thirdly, the limitations of strategic narratives themselves as a conduit for public diplomacy messaging. In addition, geopolitical context--specifically, the triangulation of China-Australia-US relationships,--is an important issue underlining misalignment in all other three factors.
Off-farm Employment and Income Inequality: the implication for Poverty Reduction Strategy
Creators: name: Tassew, Woldehanna
name: Oskam, Arie
name: Tassew, Woldehanna
name: Oskam, Arie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Production Economics
subject: Poverty
subject: Income diversification
subject: off-farm employment
subject: income inequality
subject: Ethiopia

description: This study in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, using micro data collected from a sample of households asses the contributions of farm and off-farm income sources to the over all income inequality. Some interesting results are obtained. Due to entry barriers, relatively wealthy farm households dominate the most lucrative rural non-farm activities such as masonry, carpentry and petty trade. This has widened the income inequality in rural areas. The main sources of inequality are non-farm activities such as non-farm skilled wage work and non-farm self-employment. Since the present public works program favors the poor, it reduces the income inequality that exists in the rural areas. If off-farm employment become the main source of income inequality in rural areas, its role in the alleviation of poverty will be very limited. Therefore a policy reform is required to manage the redistribution effect of expanding economic activities into off-farm employment. In order to reduce the income inequality effect of diversifying income sources into non-farm activities, the underlying elements that hinder participation of poor households in non-farm activities such as credit constraints and lack of skill, have to be tackled by providing credit and technical training to the poor. Provision of information the public on the labor market could also be helpful to reduce the transaction cost of searching for non-farm jobs. Moreover improving rural infrastructure can reduce spatial income inequality.
NGTS-5b: a highly inflated planet offering insights into the sub-Jovian desert
Creators: name: Eigmüller, Philipp
name: Chaushev, Alexander
name: Gillen, Edward
name: Smith, Alexis
name: Nielsen, Louise D.
name: Turner, Oliver
name: Czismadia, Szilard
name: Smalley, Barry
name: Bayliss, Daniel
name: Belardi, Claudia
name: Bouchy, François
name: Burleigh, Matthew R.
name: Cabrera, Juan
name: Casewell, Sarah L.
name: Chazelas, Bruno
name: Cooke, Benjamin F.
name: Erikson, Anders
name: Gänsicke, Boris T.
name: Günther, Maximilian N.
name: Goad, Michael R.
name: Grange, Andrew
name: Jackman, James A. G.
name: Jenkins, James S.
name: McCormac, James
name: Moyano, Maximiliano
name: Pollacco, Don
name: Poppenhaeger, Katja
name: Queloz, Didier
name: Raynard, Liam
name: Rauer, Heike
name: Udry, Stéphane
name: Walker, Simon. R.
name: Watson, Christopher A.
name: West, Richard G.
name: Wheatley, Peter J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Planetary population analysis gives us insight into formation and evolution processes. For short-period planets, the subJovian desert has been discussed in recent years with regard to the planet population in the mass/period and radius/period parameter space without taking stellar parameters into account. The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) is optimised for detecting planets in this regime, which allows for further analysis of the sub-Jovian desert. Aims: With high-precision photometric surveys (e.g. with NGTS and TESS), which aim to detect short period planets especially around M/K-type host stars, stellar parameters need to be accounted for when empirical data are compared to model predictions. Presenting a newly discovered planet at the boundary of the sub-Jovian desert, we analyse its bulk properties and use it to show the properties of exoplanets that border the sub-Jovian desert. Methods: Using NGTS light curve and spectroscopic follow-up observations, we confirm the planetary nature of planet NGTS-5b and determine its mass. Using exoplanet archives, we set the planet in context with other discoveries. Results: NGTS-5b is a short-period planet with an orbital period of 3.3569866 +- 0.0000026 days. With a mass of 0.229 +- 0.037 MJup and a radius of 1.136 +- 0.023 RJup, it is highly inflated. Its mass places it at the upper boundary of the sub-Jovian desert. Because the host is a K2 dwarf, we need to account for the stellar parameters when NGTS-5b is analysed with regard to planet populations. Conclusions: With red-sensitive surveys (e.g. with NGTS and TESS), we expect many more planets around late-type stars to be detected. An empirical analysis of the sub-Jovian desert should therefore take stellar parameters into account.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Aculus asteri Xue, Song & Hong 2008
Creators: name: Xue, Xiao-Feng
name: Han, Xiao
name: Song, Zi-Wei
name: Hong, Xiao-Yue
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Eriophyidae
Aculus
Aculus asteri

description: Aculus asteri Xue, Song & Hong, 2008
 Aculus asteri Xue, Song & Hong, 2008: 38–41.
 Type material. 6 females and 1 male (slide number NJAUAcariEri375), from Aster tataricus L. f. (Asteraceae), Maoping town, Yang County, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China, 33°31'08' N, 107°40'14' E, elevation 1083m, 11 August 2005, coll. Zi-Wei Song and Xiao-Feng Xue.
 Host. Aster tataricus L. f. (Asteraceae).
 Relation to host. Vagrant.
 Distribution. China (Shaanxi).
description: Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng, Han, Xiao, Song, Zi-Wei & Hong, Xiao-Yue, 2012, Eriophyoid mite fauna of Shaanxi Province, China, with descriptions of five new species (Acari: Eriophyoidea) 3292, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 3292 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3292.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5250127
Tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae) in the pet trade in South Africa
Creators: name: Tinyiko C Shivambu
name: Ndivhuwo Shivambu
name: Lyle, Robin
name: Adriaana Jacobs
name: Kumschick, Sabrina
name: Foord, Stefan H
name: Robertson, Mark P
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Many alien species have been introduced around the world as part of the pet trade, and some have escaped captivity and become invasive. In South Africa, many species of tarantula (Theraphosidae) are kept as pets. It is not known which species are traded, which are most popular, and whether their names are correctly applied. Online traders and physical pet stores were investigated between 2015 and 2016 to determine the extent or size of trade, species composition, most popular species, and their invasion history elsewhere. In total, 36 specimens, three individuals from 12 putative species, were also purchased for DNA barcoding targeting the COI gene region to quantify the accuracy of tarantula identification by traders. In total, 195 tarantula species were advertised for sale, and the most popular species were Brachypelma albopilosum Valerio, 1980 (n = 199), B. vagans Ausserer, 1875 (n = 132), and Grammostola rosea Walckenaer, 1837 (n = 120). The composition of shared species differed between the sources and most of the species were advertised online. Only one of the popular species, B. vagans, has been recorded as being invasive elsewhere. Only 36% of the barcoded specimens matched existing barcodes in online repositories that had the same species name. The three individuals from 12 putative species were not in the same terminal clade as those of conspecifics in the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD) and the NCBI GenBank reference sequences. A large proportion of the known tarantula species are traded in South Africa and must be included in management and risk assessments to avoid potential invasions.
MOESM3 of Analysis of PD-1 related immune transcriptional profile in different cancer types
Creators: name: Shang, Jun
name: Song, Qian
name: Yang, Zuyi
name: Sun, Xiaoyan
name: Xue, Meijuan
name: Chen, Wenjie
name: Yang, Jingcheng
name: Wang, Sihua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Fig. S3. The immune related GO terms analysis of each type of cancer.
MOESM1 of Astragaloside IV attenuates gestational diabetes mellitus via targeting NLRP3 inflammasome in genetic mice
Creators: name: Ruixue Zhang
name: Xuelei Zhang
name: Baoheng Xing
name: Jianyong Zhao
name: Peipei Zhang
name: Dandan Shi
name: Fengzhen Yang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Reproductive parameters in mice administered astragaloside IV.
Adaptive Optics Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Sgr A* Cluster
Creators: name: Gezari, S.
name: Ghez, A. M.
name: Becklin, E. E.
name: Larkin, J.
name: McLean, I. S.
name: Morris, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present K-band $λ/Δλ$ ~ 2600 spectroscopy of five stars (K ~ 14 - 16 mag) within 0.''5 of Sgr A*, the radio source associated with the compact massive object suspected to be a 2.6 x 10$^{6}$ \msun black hole at the center of our Galaxy. High spatial resolution of ~ 0.''09, and good strehl ratios of ~ 0.2 achieved with adaptive optics on the 10-meter Keck telescope make it possible to measure moderate-resolution spectra of these stars individually for the first time. Two stars (S0-17 and S0-18) are identified as late-type stars by the detection of CO bandhead absorption in their spectra. Their absolute K magnitudes and CO bandhead absorption strengths are consistent with early K giants. Three stars (S0-1, S0-2, and S0-16), with r$_{proj}$ $
description: 19 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ