cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Romantic Partner Selection and Socialization During Early Adolescence
Creators: name: Simon, Valerie A.
name: Aikins, Julie Wargo
name: Prinstein, Mitchell J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: This prospective study examined romantic partner selection and socialization among a sample of 78 young adolescents (6th–8th graders). Independent assessments of adolescent and romantic partner adjustment were collected before and after relationships initiated via peer nomination and self-report. Prior to their relationship, adolescents and partners were significantly alike on popularity, physical attraction, and depressive symptoms. Controlling for initial similarity, partners' popularity, depressive symptoms, relational aggression and relational victimization significantly predicted changes in adolescents' functioning in these areas over time. However, the magnitude and direction of change varied according to adolescents' and partners' pre-relationship functioning. In general, adolescents who dated high-functioning partners changed more than those who dated low-functioning partners, and partner characteristics predicted greater change among low versus high-functioning adolescents. Results were consistent even when controlling for best friend characteristics. The current findings are among the first to demonstrate unique contributions of romantic partner characteristics to adolescents' psychosocial functioning.
Skeletal variation within the darwinii group of Liolaemus (Iguania: Liolaemidae): new characters, identification of polymorphisms and new synapomorphies for subclades
Creators: name: Díaz Fernández, Linda
name: Quinteros, Andrés S.
name: Lobo, Fernando
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2017

description: A total of 55 skeletal characters (continuous and discrete) were analyzed for species of the L. darwinii group: L. albiceps, L. chacoensis, L. grosseorum, L. irregularis, L. koslowskyi, L. ornatus, L. quilmes, plus L. inacayali (L. telsen group) and L. scapularis (L. wiegmannii group). We report polymorphic intraspecific variation that was not previously taken into account and we describe 21 new characters that provide original information across the group. We detected several morphological synapomorphies for the darwinii group and subclades. Meckel’s cartilage enclosed by dentary outgrowth on lingual side of lower jaw (synapomorphy of the subgenus Liolaemus sensu stricto, and of the patagonicus group of Phymaturus) occurs also within the L. darwinii group. The morphology of maxillary teeth with three conspicuous cusps can be a potential synapomorphy of the Eulaemus subgenus. As we show in the present study, the morphology of maxillary teeth can have an adaptive value. Characters that were studied in other groups of lizards were informative for Liolaemus.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 12 No 1 (2017)
Additional file 1 of Effect of health education on knowledge and attitude of menopause among middle-age teachers
Creators: name: Gebretatyos, Helen
name: Ghirmai, Lidia
name: Soliana Amanuel
name: Ghidey Gebreyohannes
name: Zemenfes Tsighe
name: Eyasu H. Tesfamariam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1 : Supplemental Table S1. table of effectiveness of educational intervention on knowledge across background characteristics. Supplemental Table S2. table of effectiveness of educational intervention on attitude across background characteristics.
Nematodes infecting Anotosaura vanzolinia (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Caatinga, northeastern Brazil
Creators: name: Oliveira, Bruno Halluan S.
name: Teixeira, Adonias A. Martins
name: Queiroz, Romilda Narciza M.
name: Araujo-Filho, João A.
name: Teles, Diêgo A.
name: Brito, Samuel V.
name: Mesquita, Daniel O.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2017

description: The present study investigated the composition of helminth parasites of the completely unknown lizard Anotosaura vanzolinia (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) and evaluated the effects of sex, host size, and seasonality on endoparasite abundance in two areas of Caatinga, northeast Brazil. We collected 110 lizards between May 2013 to June 2014 and found 173 nematodes (overall prevalence: 16.3%), with 49 nematodes infecting seven adult males (prevalence: 25%), 84 nematodes infecting six adult females (Prevalence: 23%), and 40 nematodes infecting five juveniles (prevalence: 8.9%), where one nematode was in the lungs and 172 were in the gastrointestinal tracts. We identified all nematodes as Oswaldocruzia brasiliensis, representing a new record for the host and for Gymnophthalmidade, showing overall intensity of infection ± SD of 9.6 ± 5.2. Furthermore, abundance of endoparasites was related to the rainy season and sex, but not to host body size (SVL).
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 12 No 1 (2017)
A NEW HASPIN ROLE AT THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN MITOSIS AND CELLULAR POLARIZATION
Creators: name: PANIGADA, DAVIDE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: Haspin is an atypical protein kinase; in several organisms it phosphorylates histone H3 on Thr3 and is involved in chromosome segregation. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, H3Thr3 phosphorylation has never been observed and the function of haspin is unknown. We report that deletion of both ALK1 and ALK2, encoding the haspin paralogs, causes the mislocalization of polarisome components. Following a transient mitotic arrest, this leads to an overly polarized actin distribution within the bud, where the mitotic spindle is consequently pulled. Here, spindle elongates generating anucleated mothers and binucleated daughters. Reducing the intensity of the bud-directed pulling forces partially restores proper cell division, suggesting that haspin controls the localization of polarity cues to preserve the coordination between polarization and the cell cycle, and to tolerate transient mitotic arrests. The evolutionary conservation of haspin and of the polarization pathways suggest that this function of haspin may be likely shared with other eukaryotic cells. We thus investigated a possible conservation of this control mechanism in mammalian cells, where indeed we found that haspin governs the orientation of the mitotic spindle thanks to its contribution to actin organization
Early-life exposure to antibiotics and subsequent development of atopic dermatitis
Creators: name: Cantarutti, Anna
name: Amidei, Claudio Barbiellini
name: Bonaugurio, Andrea Stella
name: Rescigno, Paola
name: Canova, Cristina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Antibiotic exposure may be associated with atopic dermatitis (AD). We assessed the risk of developing AD among children early exposed to antibiotics. From the Italian Pedianet database, children aged 0-14 years between 2004-2017 were enrolled from birth up to at least one year. Cox proportional-hazards models were fitted to estimate Hazard Ratios (HR) and 95% Confidence Intervals (CI) for the association between antibiotic exposure during the first year of life with incident AD. Exposure was also considered as a time-varying variable.  73,816 children were included in the final cohort, of which 34,202 had at least one antibiotic prescription. Incident AD was present in 8% of unexposed and exposed children. Early antibiotic exposure was not associated with any excess risk of AD compared to unexposed children (HR: 1.02, 95% CI: 0.97-1.07), and no dose-response effect was observed. In the time-varying analysis, antibiotic exposure was significantly associated with AD onset (1.12, 1.07-1.17). However, when taking into account the time-lag between exposure and outcome, risks progressively decreased, suggesting possible protopathic bias. These results are not suggestive of any significant association between exposure to antibiotics and subsequent AD onset and support the possible presence of protopathic bias.
Where is my place? Quick chorus structure assembly in the European tree frog
Creators: name: Berec, Michal
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2017

description: Lek mating systems are characteristic of anurans that use oviposition sites that cannot be easily monopolized by individual males. The dynamics of the chorus structure in leks is not well known. Here, we examine the relationship between the movement activity of individual males during the breeding season and their size. According to our observations, the site fidelity of males is not completely random, with the larger males moving significantly shorter distances than smaller males. However, this difference applies only to the distance between the first and second captures. Whether higher site fidelity contributes to higher mating success needs further investigation.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 12 No 1 (2017)
title: Vessels here, Vessels there, Vessels Everywhere – Radiological Evaluation and Classification of Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations
Creators: name: Sharma, Shaurya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Education
subject: Arteriovenous malformations

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: The objective of this poster is to discuss the imaging modalities used to evaluate brain arteriovenous malformations; and to classify and depict the imaging findings of brain arteriovenous malformations, as well as their...
Neutron Stars in Rastall Gravity
Creators: name: Oliveira, A. M.
name: Velten, H. E. S.
name: Fabris, J. C.
name: Casarini, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate static and spherically symmetric solutions for the Rastall modification of gravity to describe Neutron Stars (NS). The key feature of the Rastall gravity is the non-conservation of the energy-momentum tensor proportionally to the space-time curvature. Using realistic equations of state for the NS interior we place a conservative bound on the non-GR behaviour of the Rastall theory which should be $\lesssim 1\%$ level. This work presents the more stringent constraints on the deviations of GR caused by the Rastall proposal.
description: Pages: 6; Figures: 4
(401402) Valentine Dick
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Social Ecology of Adolescent Alcohol Misuse
Creators: name: Luz, Heathe
name: Faris, Robert
name: Reyes, McNaughton
name: Ennett, Susan T.
name: Durant, Robert
name: Cai, Li
name: Foshee, Vangie A.
name: Hipp, John
name: Bauman, Karl E.
name: Hussong, Andrea
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: A conceptual framework based on social ecology, social learning, and social control theories guided identification of social contexts, contextual attributes, and joint effects that contribute to development of adolescent alcohol misuse. Modeling of alcohol use, suggested by social learning theory, and indicators of the social bond, suggested by social control theory, were examined in the family, peer, school, and neighborhood contexts. Interactions between alcohol modeling and social bond indicators were tested within and between contexts. Data were from a longitudinal study of 6,544 students, 1,663 of their parents, and the U.S. Census. All contexts were uniquely implicated in development of alcohol misuse from ages 11 through 17 years and most alcohol modeling effects were contingent on attributes of social bonds.
A Longitudinal Examination of Racial Identity and Racial Discrimination Among African American Adolescents
Creators: name: Seaton, Eleanor K.
name: Sellers, Robert M.
name: Yip, Tiffany
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: This study tested the longitudinal association between perceptions of racial discrimination and racial identity among a sample of 219 African American adolescents, aged 14 to 18. Structural equation modeling was used to test relations between perceptions of racial discrimination and racial identity dimensions, namely racial centrality, private regard, and public regard at three time points. The results indicated that perceived racial discrimination at Time 1 was negatively linked to public regard at Time 2. Nested analyses using age were conducted and perceptions of racial discrimination at Time 2 were negatively linked to private regard at Time 3 among older adolescents. The findings imply that perceived racial discrimination is linked to negative views that the broader society has of African Americans.
Marking techniques in the Marbled Newt (Triturus marmoratus): PIT-Tag and tracking device implant protocols
Creators: name: Le Chevalier, Hugo
name: Calvez, Olivier
name: Martinez-Silvestre, Albert
name: Picard, Damien
name: Guérin, Sandra
name: Isselin-Nondedeu, Francis
name: Ribéron, Alexandre
name: Trochet, Audrey
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2017

description: Individual marking has become essential for studying population dynamics and ecological requirements. However, marking small-bodied species such as amphibians is becoming a challenge in the last decades. Amphibian surveys may require to mark manually individuals, using toe clipping, polymers and pigments, or passive integrated transponders (PIT-tags). Even if ethics committees have recently recommend avoiding toe clipping in amphibians, the use of PIT-tags led to controversial results because low tag retention reported in some studies. Here, we describe a protocol of potentially life-long PIT-tag marking in a protected species, the marbled newt Triturus marmoratus. In addition, we also detailed a second procedure of surgery for the implantation of transmitters needed in radio-tracking surveys. During both procedures, we found that the newt phase (either aquatic or terrestrial) strongly affected the anesthesia duration. Indeed, newts in aquatic phase were more quickly anesthetized than newts under terrestrial phase. We then recommend to pay attention of this physiological particularity when performing this kind of procedure. Improving our knowledge on ecological requirements and population dynamics of this species is crucial for management and conservation plans, and could be extended to other large newts.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 12 No 1 (2017)
Correlates and Consequences of Spanking and Verbal Punishment for Low-Income White, African American, and Mexican American Toddlers
Creators: name: Fine, Mark A.
name: Ayoub, Catherine
name: Malone, Patrick S.
name: Ispa, Jean M.
name: Bai, Yu
name: Brady-Smith, Christy
name: Berlin, Lisa J.
name: Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: This study examined the prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of spanking and verbal punishment in 2,573 low-income White, African American, and Mexican American toddlers at ages 1, 2, and 3. Both spanking and verbal punishment varied by maternal race/ethnicity. Child fussiness at age 1 predicted spanking and verbal punishment at all three ages. Cross-lagged path analyses indicated that spanking (but not verbal punishment) at age 1 predicted child aggressive behavior problems at age 2 and lower Bayley mental development scores at age 3. Neither child aggressive behavior problems nor Bayley scores predicted later spanking or verbal punishment. In some instances, maternal race/ethnicity and/or emotional responsiveness moderated the effects of spanking and verbal punishment on child outcomes.
title: Acute renal cortical necrosis. Review of radiological findings
Creators: name: Valero Macià, Andrea
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Kidney
subject: CT
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Acute

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Review of the typical radiological findings of acute renal cortical...
The Development of Gendered Interests and Personality Qualities from Middle Childhood through Adolescence: A Bio-Social Analysis
Creators: name: Booth, Alan
name: McHale, Susan M.
name: Kim, Ji Yeon
name: Crouter, Ann C.
name: Dotterer, Aryn M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: This study charted the development of gendered personality qualities and activity interests from age 7 to age 19 in 364 first- and second-born siblings from 185 White, middle/working class families; assessed links between time in gendered social contexts (with mother, father, female peers and male peers) and gender development; and tested whether changes in testosterone moderated links between time use and gender development. Multi-level models documented that patterns of change varied across dimensions of gender and by sex and birth order and that time in gendered social contexts was generally linked to development of more stereotypical qualities. Associations between time with mother and expressivity and time with father and instrumentality were stronger for youth with slower increases in testosterone.
A Theory of Local Learning, the Learning Channel, and the Optimality of Backpropagation
Creators: name: Baldi, Pierre
name: Sadowski, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In a physical neural system, where storage and processing are intimately intertwined, the rules for adjusting the synaptic weights can only depend on variables that are available locally, such as the activity of the pre- and post-synaptic neurons, resulting in local learning rules. A systematic framework for studying the space of local learning rules is obtained by first specifying the nature of the local variables, and then the functional form that ties them together into each learning rule. Such a framework enables also the systematic discovery of new learning rules and exploration of relationships between learning rules and group symmetries. We study polynomial local learning rules stratified by their degree and analyze their behavior and capabilities in both linear and non-linear units and networks. Stacking local learning rules in deep feedforward networks leads to deep local learning. While deep local learning can learn interesting representations, it cannot learn complex input-output functions, even when targets are available for the top layer. Learning complex input-output functions requires local deep learning where target information is communicated to the deep layers through a backward learning channel. The nature of the communicated information about the targets and the structure of the learning channel partition the space of learning algorithms. We estimate the learning channel capacity associated with several algorithms and show that backpropagation outperforms them by simultaneously maximizing the information rate and minimizing the computational cost, even in recurrent networks. The theory clarifies the concept of Hebbian learning, establishes the power and limitations of local learning rules, introduces the learning channel which enables a formal analysis of the optimality of backpropagation, and explains the sparsity of the space of learning rules discovered so far.
Additional file 1 of Identification of fungi in Tunisian olive orchards: characterization and biological control potential
Creators: name: Gharsallah, Houda
name: Ksentini, Ines
name: Sourour Naayma
name: Karama Hadj Taieb
name: Abdelhedi, Nour
name: Schuster, Christina
name: Triki, Mohamed Ali
name: Mohieddine Ksantini
name: Leclerque, Andreas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Taous is an experimental orchard of the Olive Tree Institute, with an area of 126 ha. It contains olive, almond and pistachio fields. Olive cultivations include several varieties. In this study, insects were sampled from the variety Chemlali grown under artificial irrigation. The plantation density is 69 plants per hectare, with a spacing of 12x12m. Regular monitoring of the major olive pests is performed and organophosphate contact insecticides are applied if required. Torba is a private olive orchard with an area of 50 ha. Insects and soil were sampled from the olive cv. Chemlali cultivated under rain-fed conditions. The density of plantation is 17 plants per hectare, with spacing of 24x24m. Regular monitoring of the major olive pests is performed and mass trapping is conducted if required. The Images depicted in Figure are our own.
title: Top ten neurological emergencies a primer for Radiology Residents: What is relevant to be mentioned.
Creators: name: Sosa, Angela
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: CNS
subject: Emergency
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Complications
subject: Acute
subject: Haemorrhage

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Recognize the importance of identifying CNS emergencies as sources of morbidity and mortality throughout the world. Identify the radiological signs of non-traumatic brain disorders that help us with a timely and accurate diagnosis. Identify the...
Good vibrations: a novel method for sexing turtles
Creators: name: McKnight, Donald
name: Howell, Hunter
name: Hollender, Ethan
name: Ligon, Day
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2017

description: The ability to accurately determine the sex of individuals is important for research and conservation efforts. While most species of turtle exhibit secondary sexual dimorphisms that can be used to reliably infer sex, there are some species that are very difficult to sex, and even within many dimorphic species, it is not uncommon to encounter individuals that appear to exhibit both male and female secondary sex characteristics. Therefore, we tested the novel method of using a vibrator to sex turtles by stimulating male turtles to evert their penises. We tested this method on males of four species (three families) with known sexual dimorphisms: spiny softshell turtles (Apalone spinifera; n = 14), western chicken turtles (Deirochelys reticularia miaria; n = 17), Mississippi mud turtles (Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis; n = 10), and common musk turtles (Sternotherus odoratus; n = 9). The method accurately sexed 100% of A. spinifera, 64.7% of D. r. miaria, 80.0% of K. s. hippocrepis, and 55.6% of S. odoratus. Despite the low success rates in some species, there are situations in which this method will be useful for researchers working with species that are difficult to sex using external morphological characteristics.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 12 No 1 (2017)
Transforming Plain LaMnO3 Perovskite into a Powerful Ozonation Catalyst: Elucidating the Mechanisms of Simultaneous A and B Sites Modulation for Enhanced Toluene Degradation
Creators: name: Giannakis, Stefanos
name: wang, da
name: ma, jun
name: song, shuang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401102
subject: Environmentally sustainable engineering

description: ABSTRACT Herein, we propose preferential dissolution paired with Cu-doping as an effective method for synergistically modulating the A- and B-sites of LaMnO3 perovskite. Through Cu-doping into the B-sites of LaMnO3, specifically modifying the B-sites, the double perovskite La2CuMnO6 was created. Subsequently, partial La from the A-sites of La2CuMnO6 was etched using HNO3, forming novel La2CuMnO6/MnO2 (LCMO/MnO2) catalysts. The optimized catalyst, featuring an ideal Mn:Cu ratio of 4.5:1 (LCMO/MnO2-4.5), exhibited exceptional catalytic ozonation performance. It achieved approximately 90% toluene degradation with 56% selectivity toward CO2, even under ambient temperature (35 °C) and a relatively humid environment (45%). Modulation of A-sites induced the elongation of Mn–O bonds and decrease in the coordination number of Mn–O (from 6 to 4.3) in LCMO/MnO2-4.5, resulting in the creation of abundant multivalent Mn and oxygen vacancies. Doping Cu into B-sites led to the preferential chemisorption of toluene on multivalent Cu (Cu(I)/Cu(II)), consistent with theoretical predictions. Effective electronic supplementary interactions enabled the cycling of multiple oxidation states of Mn for ozone decomposition, facilitating the production of reactive oxygen species and the regeneration of oxygen vacancies. This study establishes high-performance perovskites for the synergistic regulation of O3 and toluene, contributing to cleaner and safer industrial activities.
title: Comparison of the computed tomography findings in COVID-19 and H1N1 viral pneumonia
Creators: name: Affes, Meriem
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Pulmonary vessels
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Dilation
subject: Localisation
subject: Dilatation
subject: Embolism / Thrombosis
subject: Infection

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: To look for CT features that could help distinguish between severe SARS-cov2 pneumonia and H1N1...
A pattern-based tool for long-term, large-sample capture-mark-recapture studies of fire salamanders Salamandra species (Amphibia: Urodela: Salamandridae)
Creators: name: Speybroeck, Jeroen
name: Steenhoudt, Koen
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2017

description: Solid population studies depend on reliable capture-mark-recapture (CMR) methodology. The available methods for such studies on amphibians are often invasive, unsuitable for long-term studies, time-consuming and/or expensive. We present a new software tool, connected to a MS Access database, ManderMatcher, for CMR study of fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra and related species) by means of a robust matching algorithm using 44 pattern characteristics. Metadata related to standardised counts (e.g. weather and lunar variables) as well as a myriad of individual sighting variables can be entered and saved as well. Application of the presented method to a database of 9,397 sighting records gathered over a period of eight years, as well as a random sample validation, demonstrate the accuracy of the applied matching algorithm. Differences with other methods are discussed. The program is made freely available for download and widespread application is encouraged, especially given the contemporary context of a fungal disease threatening survival of fire salamander populations.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 12 No 1 (2017)
Sex does not affect tail autotomy in lacertid lizards
Creators: name: Pafilis, Panayiotis
name: Sagonas, Kostas
name: Kapsalas, Grigoris
name: Foufopoulos, Johannes
name: Valakos, Efstratios D.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2017

description: Caudal autotomy is one of the most effective and widespread defensive mechanisms among lizards. When predators grasp the tail, lizards are able to shed it from the point of the attack and further. Numerous factors have been reported to affect tail-shedding performance such as temperature, age, predation pressure, intraspecific competition etc. Interestingly, the impact of sex on tail loss remains greatly understudied. Here, we analyzed tail autotomy performance, simulated in the lab, in 12 species of lacertid lizards belonging to five genera (Algyroides, Anatololacerta, Hellenolacerta, Ophisops, Podarcis). Our aim was to investigate whether sex affects caudal autotomy and/or the duration of post-autotomic tail movement. We failed to detect any effect of sex on tail loss in the species examined. Also, we did not find any sexual impact on the duration of tail movement after autotomy, with a single exception. Our findings suggest that autotomy serves as a defensive tactic equally in both sexes and is used in the same extent.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 12 No 1 (2017)
Randall-Sundrum brane universe as a ground state for Chern-Simons gravity
Creators: name: Cordonier-Tello, Fabrizio
name: Izaurieta, Fernando
name: Mella, Patricio
name: Rodríguez, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In stark contrast with the three-dimensional case, higher-dimensional Chern-Simons theories can have non-topological, propagating degrees of freedom. Finding those vacua that allow for the propagation of linear perturbations, however, proves to be surprisingly challenging. The simplest solutions are somehow "hyper-stable," preventing the construction of realistic, four-dimensional physical models. Here, we show that a Randall-Sundrum brane universe can be regarded as a vacuum solution of Chern-Simons gravity in five-dimensional spacetime, with non vanishing torsion along the dimension perpendicular to the brane. Linearized perturbations around this solution not only exist, but behave as standard gravitational waves on a four-dimensional Minkowski background. In the non-perturbative regime, the solution leads to a four-dimensional "cosmological function" $Λ\left( x \right)$ which depends on the Euler density of the brane. Interestingly, the fact that the solution admits nontrivial linear perturbations seems to be related to an often neglected property of the Randall-Sundrum spacetime: that it is a group manifold, or, more precisely, two identical group manifolds glued together along the brane. The gravitational theory is then built around this fact, adding the Lorentz generators and one scalar generator needed to close the algebra. In this way, a conjecture emerges: a spacetime that is also a group manifold can be regarded as the ground state of a Chern-Simons theory for an appropriate Lie algebra.
description: v1: 10 pages, 1 figure. v2: 11 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Additional file 2 of Identification of fungi in Tunisian olive orchards: characterization and biological control potential
Creators: name: Gharsallah, Houda
name: Ksentini, Ines
name: Sourour Naayma
name: Karama Hadj Taieb
name: Abdelhedi, Nour
name: Schuster, Christina
name: Triki, Mohamed Ali
name: Mohieddine Ksantini
name: Leclerque, Andreas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Supplementary Figure 2. Sunburst chart showing the total relative abundance of fungal species and their corresponding family detected in two olives orchards in Tunisia.
(401398) George Thomas Inch
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Early Educational Intervention, Early Cumulative Risk, and the Early Home Environment as Predictors of Young Adult Outcomes Within a High-Risk Sample
Creators: name: Sparling, Joseph J.
name: Burchinal, Margaret
name: Kainz, Kirsten
name: Ramey, Craig T.
name: Pungello, Elizabeth P.
name: Wasik, Barbara H.
name: Campbell, Frances A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The extent to which early educational intervention, early cumulative risk, and the early home environment were associated with young adult outcomes was investigated in a sample of 139 young adults (age 21) from high-risk families enrolled in randomized trials of early intervention. Positive effects of treatment were found for education attainment, attending college, and skilled employment; negative effects of risk were found for education attainment, graduating high school, being employed and avoiding teen parenthood. The home mediated the effects of risk for graduating high school, but not being employed or teen parenthood. Evidence for moderated mediation was found for educational attainment; the home mediated the association between risk and educational attainment for the control group, but not the treated group.
Σύγκριση των λογικών MSO, LTL, FO και LDL
Creators: name: Κολοκυθοπούλου, Αικατερίνη Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2023
Subjects: Μοναδιαία Λογική Δεύτερης Τάξης
Γραμμική Χρονική Λογική
Γραμμική Δυναμική Λογική
Monadic Second Order
Linear Temporal Logic
Linear Dynamic Logic

description: Στόχος της εργασίας είναι η παρουσίαση και τελικά η σύγκριση τεσσάρων λογικών: Μοναδιαία Λογική Δεύτερης Τάξης MSO, Λογική Πρώτης Τάξης FO, Γραμμική Χρονική Λογική LTL και Γραμμική Δυναμική Λογική LDL. Στα πρώτα τέσσερα κεφάλαια ορίζεται και παρουσιάζεται ξεχωριστά η κάθε λογική. Συγκεκριμένα, δίνονται το συντακτικό, η σημασιολογία τους, τα διάφορα χαρακτηριστικά τους - μέσα κι από την διαδικασία της μεταξύ τους σύγκρισης. Επιπλέον διερευνάται η δυνατότητα κατασκευής του αντίστοιχου κάθε φορά αυτομάτου , πεπερασμένου ή άπειρου, που αναγνωρίζει την γλώσσα των λογικών τύπων, καθώς αυτό είναι και το πιο σημαντικό κομμάτι για την εκτέλεση προγραμμάτων και την πραγματοποίηση του ελέγχου μοντέλων λογισμικού και υλικού. Στο τελευταίο κεφάλαιο, παραθέτονται τα τελικά συμπεράσματα της σύγκρισής τους σχετικά με το ποια είναι πιο αποδοτική σε κάθε κομμάτι, δηλαδή σε πολυπλοκότητα, σε απόδοση ιδιοτήτων στο χρόνο, σε εκφραστικότητα, σε μετάφραση σε αυτόματα, αλλά και ποιες είναι ισοδύναμες, ποια είναι πιο ισχυρή και ποια ασθενέστερη.
description: The central objective of the thesis is the presentation and, ultimately, the comparison of the four logics: Monadic Second Order MSO, First Order FO, Linear Temporal Logic LTL, and Linear Dynamic Logic LDL. Each logic is defined and presented separately in the first four chapters. In particular, their syntax, semantics, and their various characteristics are given - through the process of comparison. In addition, the ability to construct the corresponding finite or infinite automaton, which recognizes the language of the logic formulas, is explored, as this is the most important part of executing programs and conducting the model checking of software and hardware programs. In the last chapter, the final conclusions of their comparison are listed regarding which is more efficient in each part, i.e. complexity, representation and verification of time properties, expressiveness, translation to automata, but also which are equivalent, more powerful and weaker.
Family Socioeconomic Status and Consistent Environmental Stimulation in Early Childhood
Creators: name: Wirth, R. J.
name: Pianta, Robert C.
name: Leventhal, Tama
name: Pierce, Kim M.
name: Crosnoe, Robert
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The transition into school occurs at the intersection of multiple environmental settings. This study applied growth curve modeling to a sample of 1,364 American children, followed from birth through age 6, who had been categorized by their exposure to cognitive stimulation at home and in preschool child care and 1st-grade classrooms. Of special interest was the unique and combined contribution to early learning of these 3 settings. Net of socioeconomic selection into different settings, children had higher math achievement when they were consistently stimulated in all 3, and they had higher reading achievement when consistently stimulated at home and in child care. The observed benefits of consistent environmental stimulation tended to be more pronounced for low-income children.
A possible mutualistic interaction between vertebrates: frogs use water buffaloes as a foraging place
Creators: name: Zduniak, Piotr
name: Erciyas-Yavuz, Kiraz
name: Tryjanowski, Piotr
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2017

description: Mutualisms shape biodiversity by influencing the ecology and the evolution of populations and communities. For example, among many others, birds commonly forage in association with large mammals, including livestock, but so far no similar relationship has been described for amphibians. In this note we describe the association between the Marsh Frog (Pelophylax ridibundus) and the Anatolian Water Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in Turkey and provide possible explanations for the existence of direct relations between these representatives of two vertebrate classes. We hope that our note stimulates future research on this subject.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 12 No 1 (2017)
Interracial and Intraracial Contact, School-Level Diversity, and Change in Racial Identity Status Among African American Adolescents
Creators: name: Seaton, Eleanor K.
name: Yip, Tiffany
name: Sellers, Robert M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Among 224 African American adolescents (mean age = 14), the associations between interracial and intraracial contact and school-level diversity on changes in racial identity over a 3-year period were examined. Youths were determined to be diffused, foreclosed, moratorium, or achieved, and change or stability in identity status was examined. Contact with Black students, Black friends, and White friends predicted change in identity status. Furthermore, in racially diverse schools, having more Black friends was associated with identity stability. Students reporting low contact with Black students in racially diverse schools were more likely to report identity change if they had few Black friends. In students reporting high contact with Blacks in predominantly White schools, their identity was less likely to change for students with fewer White friends.
Novel superconducting phenomena in quasi-one-dimensional Bechgaard salts
Creators: name: Jerome, Denis
name: Yonezawa, Shingo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is the saturation of the transition temperature Tc in the range of 24 K for known materials in the late sixties which triggered the search for additional materials offering new coupling mechanisms leading in turn to higher Tc's. As a result of this stimulation, superconductivity in organic matter was discovered in tetramethyl-tetraselenafulvalene-hexafluorophosphate, (TMTSF)2PF6, in 1979, in the laboratory founded at Orsay by Professor Friedel and his colleagues in 1962. Although this conductor is a prototype example for low-dimensional physics, we mostly focus in this article on the superconducting phase of the ambient-pressure superconductor (TMTSF)2ClO4, in which the superconducting phase has been studied most intensively among the TMTSF salts. We shall present a series of experimental results supporting nodal d-wave symmetry for the superconducting gap in these prototypical quasi-one-dimensional conductors.
description: Review article with 35 pages and 19 figures. Title, text, figures, and references are modified. To be published in Compte Rendu de Physique. Comments are welcome
title: Importance of clinical information on the objectivity of CT findings
Creators: name: Schön, Felix
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Oncology
subject: CT
subject: Audit and standards
subject: Observer performance
subject: Staging
subject: Cancer
subject: Image verification
subject: Quality assurance

description: Purpose Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Purpose: Radiological reporting is often, but possibly erroneously, considered to be definitive [1]. Correct radiological reports with error-free diagnoses are important in order to derive and initiate correct therapeutic measures for the affected patient...
The Head Bone's Connected to the Neck Bone: When do Toddlers Represent Their Own Body Topography?
Creators: name: Ramani, Geetha
name: Brownell, Celia A.
name: Svetlova, Margarita
name: Nichols, Sara R.
name: Zerwas, Stephanie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Developments in very young children's topographic representations of their own bodies were examined. Sixty one 20- and 30-month old children were administered tasks that indexed the ability to locate specific body parts on oneself and knowledge of how one's body parts are spatially organized, as well as body-size knowledge and self-awareness. Age differences in performance emerged for every task. Body-part localization and body spatial configuration knowledge were associated; however, body topography knowledge was not associated with body-size knowledge. Both were related to traditional measures of self-awareness, mediated by their common associations with age. It is concluded that children possess an explicit, if rudimentary, topographic representation of their own body's shape, structure, and size by 30 months of age.
title: "Musculoskeletal manifestations in metabolic and endocrine disorders. Pathophysiology and diagnostic approach" Preferred Presenta
Creators: name: Morales-Cifuentes, Laura Cristina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Congenital
subject: Demineralisation-Bone
subject: Metabolic disorders

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: Know the pathophysiology of bone metabolism. Describe the semiology findings in conventional radiography (X-ray) according to the pathophysiology of bone metabolism. Define an adequate diagnostic approach in patients with metabolic and endocrine...
Additional file 1 of “The architecture of the state was transformed in favour of the interests of companies”: corporate political activity of the food industry in Colombia
Creators: name: Mialon, Melissa
name: Charry, Diego Alejandro Gaitan
name: Cediel, Gustavo
name: Crosbie, Eric
name: Scagliusi, Fernanda Baeza
name: Tamayo, Eliana María Pérez
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Conceptual framework for categorising the corporate political activity of the food industry.
title: CT predictors of hematoma expansion: Yes we can decode it
Creators: name: JAY, ABBU
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: CT
subject: Education
subject: Haemorrhage

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information and conflict of interest References
description: Learning objectives: To enumerate the non-contrast computed tomography (NCCT) features of hematoma expansion in spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH). To pictorially define each NCCT sign of hematoma...
Magnetocaloric Effect of Gadolinium at Adiabatic and Quasi-Isothermal Conditions in High Magnetic Fields
Creators: name: Kamantsev, Alexander P.
name: Koledov, Victor V.
name: Mashirov, Alexey V.
name: Dilmieva, Elvina T.
name: Shavrov, Vladimir G.
name: Cwik, Jacek
name: Tereshina, Irina S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High cooling power of magnetocaloric refrigeration can be achieved only at large amounts of heat, which can be transferred in one cycle from cold end to hot end at quasi-isothermal conditions. The simple experimental method for direct measurement of the transferred heat from material with magnetocaloric effect (MCE) to massive nonmagnetic block at quasi-isothermal conditions was proposed. The vacuum calorimeter was designed for the simultaneous measurements of MCE both at adiabatic conditions (deltaT) and quasi-isothermal conditions (deltaQ) in the magnetic fields of Bitter coil magnet. This calorimeter was tested on samples of pure polycrystalline Gd with direct MCE. The maximal obtained values were deltaT = 17.7 K and deltaQ = 5900 J/kg at initial temperature 20 0C in magnetic field 140 kOe.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 2 of “The architecture of the state was transformed in favour of the interests of companies”: corporate political activity of the food industry in Colombia
Creators: name: Mialon, Melissa
name: Charry, Diego Alejandro Gaitan
name: Cediel, Gustavo
name: Crosbie, Eric
name: Scagliusi, Fernanda Baeza
name: Tamayo, Eliana María Pérez
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist.