cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Adaptation of Nirtrifiers and Heterotrophs to Low Dissolved Oxygen in an Activated Sludge Biological Nutrient Removal Pilot Plant
Creators: name: Khatiwada, Shashank
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Low dissolved oxygen (DO) operation is one of the innovative technologies in biological nutrient removal (BNR) processes that is being investigated due to the potential to reduce aeration requirements, reduce a treatment plant’s carbon footprint, and to lower costs associated with chemical addition to promote denitrification. These benefits are achieved through development of micro-zones, within aerated basins where simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) can occur. In this study, an activated sludge BNR pilot was run in an anerobic/aerobic (A/O) configuration at a controlled temperature and constant flow to observe microorganism-driven transformations of nitrogen and phosphorus at varying low DO conditions. This operation allowed insight into the influence of low DO conditions on nitrogen and phosphorus transformations and the ability to quantify parameters in kinetic equations used to model the process. The DO concentrations in the aerobic reactors were gradually decreased after reaching a desired steady state concentration (setpoint), and batch tests using respirometry and substrate utilization methods were conducted at each DO setpoint. It was observed that even at a DO concentration of 0.4 mg/L, 100% nitrification and enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) could be achieved, with effluent NH3 concentration of 0.06 ± 0.02 mg-N/L and effluent orthophosphate (OP) concentration of 0.16 ± 0.05 mg-P/L. Therefore, stable nitrification and EBPR were possible under low DO conditions. It was found that ammonia oxidizing bacteria (AOB), nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) and polyphosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) adapted to gradual decrease in DO setpoints. This adaptation was manifested by a concurrent decrease in the oxygen half saturation coefficient (Ko) values, while maximum removal rates remained relatively constant. The heterotrophic biomass also adapted to gradual decrease in DO increasing their oxygen affinity. As a result, no net increase in SND efficiency was observed during the adaptation process and the effluent NO3-N remained constant at 10 mg/L. The oxygen kinetic parameters determined from this research can be further utilized for modeling purposes and can facilitate the design of the transition of high DO full-scale process to low DO.
Impenetrable Mass-Imbalanced Particles in One-Dimensional Harmonic Traps
Creators: name: Dehkharghani, A. S.
name: Volosniev, A. G.
name: Zinner, N. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strongly interacting particles in one dimension subject to external confinement have become a topic of considerable interest due to recent experimental advances and the development of new theoretical methods to attack such systems. In the case of equal mass fermions or bosons with two or more internal degrees of freedom, one can map the problem onto the well-known Heisenberg spin models. However, many interesting physical systems contain mixtures of particles with different masses. Therefore, a generalization of the recent strong-coupling techniques would be highly desirable. This is particularly important since such problems are generally considered non-integrable and thus the hugely successful Bethe ansatz approach cannot be applied. Here we discuss some initial steps towards this goal by investigating small ensembles of one-dimensional harmonically trapped particles where pairwise interactions are either vanishing or infinitely strong with focus on the mass-imbalanced case. We discuss a (semi)-analytical approach to describe systems using hyperspherical coordinates where the interaction is effectively decoupled from the trapping potential. As an illustrative example we analyze mass-imbalanced four-particle two-species mixtures with strong interactions between the two species. For such systems we calculate the energies, densities and pair-correlation functions.
description: 12 pages, 9 figures, 2 appendices, revised version with minor corrections to figures
Open Materials - Critical Fluctuations as an Early-Warning Signal for Sudden Gains and Losses in Patients receiving Psychotherapy for Mood Disorders
Creators: name: Olthof, Merlijn
name: Hasselman, Fred
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Open materials for the study 'Critical Fluctuations as an Early-Warning Signal for Sudden Gains and Losses in Patients receiving Psychotherapy for Mood Disorders'
Inclusive Universities. Evidence from the Erasmus Program
Creators: name: De Benedictis, Luca
name: Leoni, Silvia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Erasmus Program is the main international mobility program in Europe and worldwide. Since its launch in 1987, it has been growing both in terms of participants and budget devoted to its activities. However, despite the possibility to obtain additional funding, the participation of students with special needs to the program remains extremely low. This work quantifies the participation of these students to Erasmus and explores the network of universities involved in their mobility, along the period 2008-2013. In addition, it proposes a novel index to measure the level of inclusiveness of universities welcoming international students with disabilities. Quantifying and analyzing this aspect could be the basis for better designing targeted policies and for widening the participation of students with impairments to international mobility.
description: 23 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 3 of Developmental trends in young children’s device-measured physical activity and sedentary behaviour
Creators: name: Christian, Hayley E.
name: Adams, Emma K.
name: Moore, Hannah L.
name: Nathan, Andrea
name: Murray, Kevin
name: Schipperijn, Jasper
name: Trost, Stewart G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional Table 3. Sensitivity analyses: Marginal mean daily sedentary time and physical activity estimates.
Directions for 3D User Interface Research from Consumer VR Games
Creators: name: Steed, Anthony
name: Takala, Tuukka M.
name: Archer, Daniel
name: Lages, Wallace
name: Lindeman, Robert W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Graphics (cs.GR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the continuing development of affordable immersive virtual reality (VR) systems, there is now a growing market for consumer content. The current form of consumer systems is not dissimilar to the lab-based VR systems of the past 30 years: the primary input mechanism is a head-tracked display and one or two tracked hands with buttons and joysticks on hand-held controllers. Over those 30 years, a very diverse academic literature has emerged that covers design and ergonomics of 3D user interfaces (3DUIs). However, the growing consumer market has engaged a very broad range of creatives that have built a very diverse set of designs. Sometimes these designs adopt findings from the academic literature, but other times they experiment with completely novel or counter-intuitive mechanisms. In this paper and its online adjunct, we report on novel 3DUI design patterns that are interesting from both design and research perspectives: they are highly novel, potentially broadly re-usable and/or suggest interesting avenues for evaluation. The supplemental material, which is a living document, is a crowd-sourced repository of interesting patterns. This paper is a curated snapshot of those patterns that were considered to be the most fruitful for further elaboration.
description: 24 pages, 15 figures
The Social Dilemma of Climate Change modeled by economic games: a systematic review of the literature
Creators: name: Meyka, Robert
name: Bronisch, Anatole
name: Böhm, Robert
name: Richter, Aaron
name: Noggler, Julia
name: Krzemien, Jessika
name: Kapek, Jeremiasz
name: Köhl, Florian
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
subject: Environmental Studies
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Climate Change
subject: Economic Games
subject: Social Dilemma
subject: Systematic Review

description: Climate change constitutes a threat to life as we know it. The United Nations (UN) even called it the defining issue of our time (United Nations, 2021). Moreover, climate change constitutes a social dilemma in which people have to work against their own short-term interests to avoid the potential catastrophe of global temperature rises. To research this phenomenon and how people behave in it, economic games are used. It is expected that this can bring an insight into how potential cooperation to mitigate climate change could look like. However, with a broad scientific community working on this issue, data abundance is given, but no systemization yet. In other disciplines, for example, medicine, systematic reviews are established to be conducted frequently, but it is still rare in the field of non-clinical psychology. Nevertheless, systematic reviews are crucial for getting an overview of the current knowledge and the conducted studies. Therefore, this paper strives to create a systematic review of papers, which investigate the social dilemma of climate change through economic games and with this it tries to provide a potential orientation point for future studies.
A scanning electron microscopic study of the surface morphology of nuptial pads in male amphibians (Genus: Bombina, Pelophylax, Rana)
Creators: name: Kyriakopoulou-Sklavounou, Pasqualina
name: Papaevangelou, Efthymia
name: Kladisios, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: The fine structure of nuptial pad surface of the anuran amphibians Bombina variegata, Pelophylax epeiroticus, Pelophylax ridibundus and Rana dalmatina, was examined by scanning electron microscopy. Nuptial pads are cutaneous secondary sexual characters of males that appear during the breeding season and disappear afterwards following an annual cycle. In males of P. epeiroticus, P. ridibundus and R. dalmatina, nuptial pads were observed on the ventrolateral aspect of the first digit (the thumb) as darkish and remarkably keratinized papillae. In males of B. variegata nuptial pads were almost black and very visible on the thumb, the second and the third digit of the front legs. They also extended on the ventral surface of the forearms. Under scanning electron microscope numerous small papillae were observed rising above pad’s surface. In P. epeiroticus, P. ridibundus and R. dalmatina, these papillae were almost rounded at the base while at the dome shaped top they had many microprocesses organised in groups, thus assuming the shape of a “flower” which differed slightly among these three ranid species. In B. variegata the protuberances were conical with heavily keratinized hooks without microprocesses. Our results show that surface morphology of nuptial pads is unique for each species and could be considered as a species-specific character.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
The Strong Suslin Reciprocity Law
Creators: name: Rudenko, Daniil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove the strong Suslin reciprocity law conjectured by A. Goncharov. The Suslin reciprocity law is a generalization of the Weil reciprocity law to higher Milnor $K-$theory. The Milnor $K-$groups can be identified with the top cohomology groups of the polylogarithmic motivic complexes; Goncharov's conjecture predicts the existence of a contracting homotopy underlying Suslin reciprocity. The main ingredient of the proof is a homotopy invariance theorem for the cohomology of the polylogarithmic motivic complexes in the "next to Milnor" degree. We apply these results to the theory of scissors congruences of hyperbolic polytopes. For every triple of rational functions on a compact projective curve over $\mathbb{C}$ we construct a hyperbolic polytope (defined up to scissors congruence). The hyperbolic volume and the Dehn invariant of this polytope can be computed directly from the triple of rational functions on the curve.
description: 36 pages
Haematology and serum biochemical parameters in free-ranging African side neck turtle (Pelusios sinuatus) in Ibadan, Nigeria
Creators: name: Omonona, A.O.
name: Olukole, S.G.
name: Fushe, F.A.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: The haematology and serum biochemical parameters in free-ranging African side neck turtle (Pelusios sinuatus) in Ibadan, Nigeria was carried out with the view of establishing baseline blood health indices of this species and generating data which could be useful in the comparative physiology of turtles. A total of sixty free ranging turtles comprising juveniles and adults of both sexes were used for the study. The mean values for the RBC, PCV, Hb, MCV, MCH and WBC counts observed in male juvenile were significantly higher (P < 0.05) than those of the females. Nevertheless, in adult turtles, the mean values for the RBC, PCV, Hb, MCV, MCH and WBC counts observed in females were significantly higher (P < 0.05) than those of the males. Similarly, in juvenile turtles, the absolute heterophil, lymphocyte and monocyte counts in females were relatively higher (P < 0.05) than that of male while in adult turtles there were no significant differences (P < 0.05) in these parameters between the males and females. There were no significant difference (P < 0.05) in the values for the total protein, albumin, globulin, creatinine, serum glutamic-oxalacetic transaminase (SGOT), serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (SGPT) and blood urea nitrogen in the males and females of both the juvenile and adult turtles. The outcome of this study presents baseline data on the haematology and serum biochemical parameters in free-ranging African side neck turtle (Pelusios sinuatus) in Ibadan, Nigeria, which could also serve as a template for the comparative physiology of fresh and sea turtles.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 2 (2011)
Food composition of Uludağ frog, Rana macrocnemis Boulenger, 1885 in Uludağ (Bursa, Turkey)
Creators: name: Çiçek, Kerim
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: Feeding habit and food preferences of Uludağ frog, Rana macrocnemis were studied in 2006 and 2007 in Uludağ (Bursa, Turkey). Stomach contents of 165 (87 males, 58 females, 20 juveniles) individuals were analyzed and a total of 2,129 prey items were determined. It was found that the species fed mainly on a variety of invertebrates and especially on insects (96.5%). The most frequently consumed prey items were Coleoptera (62.8%), Diptera (14.4%), and Hymenoptera (9.8%). There was no significant sex- and age-dependent difference in the feeding regime. It appears that the species is feeding less in the breeding period and more in the post-breeding period. It was also evident that there was an increase in the consumption of Coleoptera depending on the elevation.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 1 (2011)
Cutting sets of continuous functions on the unit interval
Creators: name: Balcerzak, Marek
name: Nowakowski, Piotr
name: Popławski, Michał
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 54C30, 54E52, 26A30, 26A24

description: For a function $f\colon [0,1]\to\mathbb R$, we consider the set $E(f)$ of points at which $f$ cuts the real axis. Given $f\colon [0,1]\to\mathbb R$ and a Cantor set $D\subset [0,1]$ with $\{0,1\}\subset D$, we obtain conditions equivalent to the conjunction $f\in C[0,1]$ (or $f\in C^\infty [0,1]$) and $D\subset E(f)$. This generalizes some ideas of Zabeti. We observe that, if $f$ is continuous, then $E(f)$ is a closed nowhere dense subset of $f^{-1}[\{ 0\}]$ where each $x\in \{0,1\}\cap E(f)$ is an accumulation point of $E(f)$. Our main result states that, for a closed nowhere dense set $F\subset [0,1]$ with each $x\in \{0,1\}\cap E(f)$ being an accumulation point of $F$, there exists $f\in C^\infty [0,1]$ such that $F=E(f)$.
Additional file 1 of Formal and informal human milk donation in New Zealand: a mixed-method national survey
Creators: name: Harris, Shalee
name: Bloomfield, Frank H.
name: Muelbert, Mariana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplementary Material 1: Electronic surveys for parents and health professionals containing open- (free text) and closed- (multiple choice) questions
Organisierte Kriminalität. Lagebild Nordrhein-Westfalen 2011
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Organisiertes Verbrechen
subject: 360

description: Das Lagebild Nordrhein-Westfalen „Organisierte Kriminalität“ dokumentiert jährlich die Ergebnisse polizeilicher Kriminalitätsbekämpfung im Phänomenbereich der Organisierten Kriminalität (OK). Auf Basis eines bundesweit abgestimmten Erhebungsverfahrens und einheitlicher Definitionskriterien zeigt es mittels statistischer Datenerfassung und exemplarischer Falldarstellung sowohl erkannte Brennpunkte kriminellen Handelns als auch Schwerpunkte polizeilicher Ermittlungstätigkeit auf. Das Lagebild OK soll polizeiliche und politische Entscheidungsträger unterstützen, das Gefahren- und Schadenspotenzial der OK und dessen Bedeutung für die Kriminalitätslage in Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) einzuschätzen. Gleichzeitig dient es der Information der Öffentlichkeit.
Flat Structure on the Space of Isomonodromic Deformations
Creators: name: Kato, Mitsuo
name: Mano, Toshiyuki
name: Sekiguchi, Jiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34M56, 33E17, 35N10, 32S25

description: Flat structure was introduced by K. Saito and his collaborators at the end of 1970's. Independently the WDVV equation arose from the 2D topological field theory. B. Dubrovin unified these two notions as Frobenius manifold structure. In this paper, we study isomonodromic deformations of an Okubo system, which is a special kind of systems of linear differential equations. We show that the space of independent variables of such isomonodromic deformations can be equipped with a Saito structure (without a metric), which was introduced by C. Sabbah as a generalization of Frobenius manifold. As its consequence, we introduce flat basic invariants of well-generated finite complex reflection groups and give explicit descriptions of Saito structures (without metrics) obtained from algebraic solutions to the sixth Painlevé equation.
Skeletal development and adult osteology of Hypsiboas pulchellus (Anura: Hylidae)
Creators: name: Hoyos, Julio
name: Sánchez-Villagra, Marcelo
name: Carlini, Alfredo
name: Mitgutsch, Christian
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: Osteological and skeletal characters have long been proven to be particularly informative in taxonomic and systematic research. Furthermore, ossification sequences are assumed to be a potential tool to investigate developmental states and developmental modes of fossil and extant skeletal specimens. Herein, we provide a detailed account on adult osteology and skeletogenesis in the Montevideo treefrog, Hypsiboas pulchellus (Anura: Hylidae) based on evaluation of a series of cleared and stained specimens. A consensus sequence of ossification, i.e., the order of appearance of mineralized elements until early metamorphosis could be determined as (parasphenoid, presacral vertebrae I-VII, frontoparietal, exoccipital) – transverse processes of presacral vertebrae I-VIII – sacral vertebra – (humerus, radioulna, ilium, femur, tibiofibula, scapula) – (cleithrum, clavicle, coracoids, metacarpals, tarsals, metatarsals, phalanges, hypochord) – (prootic, angulosplenial, dentary, maxilla, premaxilla, squamosal). Comparing the state of mineralized elements in individual specimens, a number of skeletal elements, including the exoccipital, frontoparietal, parasphenoid and prootic, as well as elements of the shoulder and pelvic girdles, and the phalanges, were found to vary intraspecifically regarding the relative time of their ossification within the ossification sequence.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
Wirtschaftskriminalität in NRW. Lagebild 2012
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Wirtschaftskriminalität
subject: 360

description: Das Lagebild „Wirtschaftskriminalität“ soll polizeilichen Führungskräften und politischen Entscheidungsträgern frühzeitig und prägnant Kerninformationen bereitstellen. Zugleich bietet es interessierten Bürgern und Medienvertretern einen Überblick zur Entwicklung der Wirtschaftskriminalität. Grundlage sind die Daten der Polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik Nordrhein-Westfalen (PKS) und der zentralen Auswertung des „Sondermeldedienstes Wirtschaftskriminalität“ für Nordrhein-Westfalen. Die PKS bildet ausschließlich das Hellfeld ab. Erfasst werden somit nur Straftaten, die der Polizei bekannt und im Berichtsjahr vor Abgabe an die Staatsanwaltschaft statistisch erfasst wurden. Nicht erfasst werden Straftaten, die ausschließlich in die Zuständigkeit des Zolls und der Finanzverwaltung fallen (z.B. Verstöße gegen die Abgabenordnung oder Steuerdelikte). Ferner werden Wirtschaftsdelikte mit Tatort außerhalb von NRW statistisch nicht in diesem Lagebild erfasst, sondern fließen in das Lagebild des Tatortbundeslandes ein.
Pre-registration of hypotheses and anlyses
Creators: name: McMillan, Gail
name: Milyavskaya, Marina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This study aims to examine the relationship between autonomous and controlled motivation and two outcomes: the subjective value of effort and effort preference. In two studies, participants were asked to chose meal options for product testing a fictitious meal kit delivery business (similar to HelloFresh). They were then asked how much they would be willing to pay for three different meal kit packages which varied in level of effort. Subjective value of effort will be operationalised in this research as willingness to pay for the meal kit packages. Thus, the meal kit packages served as three (within-person) effort conditions: high effort, moderate effort, and low effort packages. Effort preference is operationalised as the preferred meal kit package. See table 1 for a more detailed description of the packages.
THE USA PATRIOT ACT AND ITS UNEXPECTED EFFECTS ON AMERICAN MUSLIMS: A STUDY OF ROVING WIRETAPS
Creators: name: Dr. Elizabeth, C. Reynolds
Publisher: name: CARSON JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: USA Patriot Act, American Muslim community, Arab community, Immigration policies, Homeland Security Department

description: This paper investigates the impact of the USA Patriot Act of 2001 and related policies on the American Muslim and Arab communities. It highlights the consequences of these policies, including the arrest and deportation of thousands of individuals without proper due process. The research sheds light on the measures taken by the U.S. government post-9/11 and their implications for the affected communities
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in amphibians from the Po River Delta, Northern Italy
Creators: name: Ficetola, Gentile Francesco
name: Valentini, Alice
name: Miaud, Claude
name: Noferini, Andrea
name: Mazzotti, Stefano
name: Dejean, Tony
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is a pathogen infecting amphibians at the global scale and causing their decline, but knowledge of the distribution of this pathogen is far from complete. We sampled amphibians from three species (Hyla intermedia, Rana dalmatina and Pelophylax synklepton esculentus) to evaluate whether B. dendrobatidis infects amphibians in the Po River Delta Natural Park, Northern Italy. We detected the pathogen in one population of P. sk. esculentus (prevalence: 0.33). These findings expand the known distribution of B. dendrobatidis in Italy and add further concern to the conservation of amphibians in this area.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 2 (2011)
Regularized Limit, analytic continuation and finite-part integration
Creators: name: Galapon, Eric A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 20B40, 40A10, 30E15, 44A15

description: Finite-part integration is a recent method of evaluating a convergent integral in terms of the finite-parts of divergent integrals deliberately induced from the convergent integral itself [E. A. Galapon, Proc. R. Soc., A 473, 20160567 (2017)]. Within the context of finite-part integration of the Stieltjes transform of functions with logarithmic growths at the origin, the relationship is established between the analytic continuation of the Mellin transform and the finite-part of the resulting divergent integral when the Mellin integral is extended beyond its strip of analyticity. It is settled that the analytic continuation and the finite-part integral coincide at the regular points of the analytic continuation. To establish the connection between the two at the isolated singularities of the analytic continuation, the concept of regularized limit is introduced to replace the usual concept of limit due to Cauchy when the later leads to a division by zero. It is then shown that the regularized limit of the analytic continuation at its isolated singularities equals the finite-part integrals at the singularities themselves. The treatment gives the exact evaluation of the Stieltjes transform in terms of finite-part integrals and yields the dominant asymptotic behavior of the transform for arbitrarily small values of the parameter in the presence of arbitrary logarithmic singularities at the origin.
Long term observations on the alimentation of wild Eastern Greek Tortoises Testudo graeca ibera (Reptilia: Testudines: Testudinidae) in Dobrogea, Romania
Creators: name: Iftime, Alexandru
name: Iftime, Oana
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: The wild diet of Testudo graeca ibera in Dobrogea, Romania is investigated by direct observation. A clear predominance (over 95%) of plant matter is noticed, with 25 plant species consumed. Moreover the ingestion of animal matter (carrion) as well as calcareous earth was observed.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
Minimizing maximum lateness in two-stage projects by tropical optimization
Creators: name: Krivulin, Nikolai
name: Sergeev, Serge\uı
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 90C24 (Primary) 15A80, 90C47, 90B50, 90B35 (Secondary)

description: We are considering a two-stage optimal scheduling problem, which involves two similar projects with the same starting times for workers and the same deadlines for tasks. It is required that the starting times for workers and deadlines for tasks should be optimal for the first-stage project and, under this condition, also for the second-stage project. Optimality is measured with respect to the maximal lateness (or maximal delay) of tasks, which has to be minimized. We represent this problem as a problem of tropical pseudoquadratic optimization and show how the existing methods of tropical optimization and tropical linear algebra yield a full and explicit solution for this problem.
description: 29 pages
On the Air: Librarians and Doctors Using the Radio to Communicate with Listeners About Health
Creators: name: Ladd, Robert
name: Silbajoris, Christie
name: Blackwell, Jean
name: Crowell, Karen
name: Handler, Lara J.
name: Renner, Barbara Rochen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Objectives: Librarians partner with producers of a weekly health-oriented radio show hosted by clinicians in the family medicine department. Previously, librarians helped develop the show's interactive website/blog and worked with the show's hosts and producer to improve website usability. Currently, librarians contribute to the show's blog on a weekly basis, supplementing what listeners hear on air with additional high-quality online sources. Methods: Supplementing weekly show topics, librarians provide consumer health links to reputable websites, supplying additional information and health education to readers of the radio show's website/blog. Librarians provide hosts with resources about communicating health information at a literacy level appropriate for the public. Challenges included communicating with everyone involved, changing blog organization as it expands in scope, and scheduling librarian coverage of shows. Results: The library is listed as a sponsor on the show's website and is acknowledged on-air weekly. Hosts mention librarian assistance when directing listeners to the website for more information. Website statistics show the blog has been visited over 10,000 times in the last year and that the library sponsorship link on the website/blog sidebar is among the most frequently visited links from the show's site. This partnership increases the public's access to quality health information on the Internet. Feedback from the show's producer and hosts is favorable and the partnership continues. The show is expanding statewide. Conclusions: This is a unique partnership allowing a health sciences library to collaborate with a radio show to reach the public. The librarians have made valuable contributions in areas including social media, design, knowledge and provision of consumer health resources, and health information literacy.
Indecomposable orthogonal invariants of several matrices over a field of positive characteristic
Creators: name: Lopatin, Artem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16R30, 15B10, 13A50

description: We consider the algebra of invariants of $d$-tuples of $n\times n$ matrices under the action of the orthogonal group by simultaneous conjugation over an infinite field of characteristic $p$ different from two. It is well-known that this algebra is generated by the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of all products of generic and transpose generic $n\times n$ matrices. We establish that in case $0
description: Version 2: some proofs are more detailed; to appear in International Journal of Algebra and Computation
Wirtschaftskriminalität in NRW. Lagebild 2013
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Wirtschaftskriminalität
subject: 360

description: Das Lagebild „Wirtschaftskriminalität“ soll polizeilichen Führungskräften, politischen Entscheidungsträgern sowie interessierten Bürgerinnen und Bürgern und Medienvertretern Kerninformationen zur Entwicklung der Wirtschaftskriminalität bereitstellen. Grundlage sind die Daten der Polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik Nordrhein-Westfalens (PKS) und der zentralen Auswertung des „Sondermeldedienstes Wirtschaftskriminalität“ für Nordrhein-Westfalen. Die PKS bildet ausschließlich das Hellfeld ab. Erfasst werden somit nur Straftaten, die der Polizei bekannt und im Berichtsjahr vor Abgabe an die Staatsanwaltschaft statistisch erfasst wurden. Nicht erfasst werden Straftaten, die ausschließlich in die Zuständigkeit des Zolls oder der Finanzverwaltung fallen (z. B. Verstöße gegen die Abgabenordnung oder Steuerdelikte). Wirtschaftsdelikte mit Tatort außerhalb von NRW fließen nicht in das Lagebild NRW, sondern in das Lagebild des betreffenden Landes ein.
Variance of Facial Trait Space Across Cultures
Creators: name: Xie, Sally
name: Hehman, Eric
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This preregistration is part of the PSA secondary analysis challenge. We investigate how the facial 'trait space' shifts across countries and world regions, using the PSA_001 dataset shared by the Psychological Science Accelerator. The facial trait space refers to the interrelationships between many of the trait impressions that people infer from faces. Here, we examine whether this trait space is more homogeneous (or less differentiated) in some cultures than others.
Eryx jaculus (Reptilia, Boidae) north of Danube: a road-killed specimen from Romania
Creators: name: Covaciu-Marcov, Severus
name: Ferenți, Sára
name: Cicort-Lucaciu, Alfred
name: Sas, István
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: In September 2011 we identified a killed specimen of Eryx jaculus on the road between the towns of Turnu Măgurele and Corabia, in southern Romania. This seems to be the first record of the species north of the Danube. Although surprising, the identification of E. jaculus in the area is interpreted in the light of the presence of other species of herpetofauna in the Danube floodplain with similar ecological requirements, reaching here their northern distribution limit. Survival of the species appears to be favoured by the existence of some protected areas in the region.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
Social Norm Bias: Residual Harms of Fairness-Aware Algorithms
Creators: name: Cheng, Myra
name: De-Arteaga, Maria
name: Mackey, Lester
name: Kalai, Adam Tauman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Many modern machine learning algorithms mitigate bias by enforcing fairness constraints across coarsely-defined groups related to a sensitive attribute like gender or race. However, these algorithms seldom account for within-group heterogeneity and biases that may disproportionately affect some members of a group. In this work, we characterize Social Norm Bias (SNoB), a subtle but consequential type of algorithmic discrimination that may be exhibited by machine learning models, even when these systems achieve group fairness objectives. We study this issue through the lens of gender bias in occupation classification. We quantify SNoB by measuring how an algorithm's predictions are associated with conformity to inferred gender norms. When predicting if an individual belongs to a male-dominated occupation, this framework reveals that "fair" classifiers still favor biographies written in ways that align with inferred masculine norms. We compare SNoB across algorithmic fairness methods and show that it is frequently a residual bias, and post-processing approaches do not mitigate this type of bias at all.
description: Spotlighted at the 2021 ICML Machine Learning for Data Workshop and presented at the 2021 ICML Socially Responsible Machine Learning Workshop
Narrow Phonetic Transcription of Voicing Ambiguity in Stroke Survivors
Creators: name: Jarrett, Jordan
name: McGowan, Morgan
name: Haley, Katarina L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The overall objective of this research is to understand voicing ambiguity in stroke survivors with aphasia and coexisting phonemic paraphasia (APP) or apraxia of speech (AOS). In the present study, the objective was to develop an effective method of training to improve reliability of narrow phonetic transcription of voicing ambiguity.
Deeply Learning Deep Inelastic Scattering Kinematics
Creators: name: Diefenthaler, Markus
name: Farhat, Abdullah
name: Verbytskyi, Andrii
name: Xu, Yuesheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the use of deep learning techniques to reconstruct the kinematics of the neutral current deep inelastic scattering (DIS) process in electron-proton collisions. In particular, we use simulated data from the ZEUS experiment at the HERA accelerator facility, and train deep neural networks to reconstruct the kinematic variables $Q^2$ and $x$. Our approach is based on the information used in the classical construction methods, the measurements of the scattered lepton, and the hadronic final state in the detector, but is enhanced through correlations and patterns revealed with the simulated data sets. We show that, with the appropriate selection of a training set, the neural networks sufficiently surpass all classical reconstruction methods on most of the kinematic range considered. Rapid access to large samples of simulated data and the ability of neural networks to effectively extract information from large data sets, both suggest that deep learning techniques to reconstruct DIS kinematics can serve as a rigorous method to combine and outperform the classical reconstruction methods.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures. v3 journal version
Combining $Q_T$ and small-$x$ resummations
Creators: name: Marzani, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze transverse momentum ($Q_T$) resummation of a colorless final state, e.g. Higgs production in gluon fusion or the production of a lepton pair via the Drell-Yan mechanism, in the limit where the invariant mass of the final state is much less then the center-of-mass energy, i.e. $Q^2\ll s$. We show how the traditional resummation of logarithms of $Q_T/Q$ can be supplemented with the resummation of the leading logarithmic contributions at small $x=Q^2/s$ and we compute the necessary ingredients to perform such joint resummation.
description: Corrected a mistake in Eq.(40)
The Gulf of Manfredonia: a new neritic foraging area for loggerhead sea turtles in the Adriatic Sea
Creators: name: Casale, Paolo
name: Simone, Giovanni
name: Conoscitore, Ciro
name: Conoscitore, Michele
name: Salvemini, Pasquale
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: The Adriatic Sea is an important foraging area for the loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, but neritic habitats for this species along the Italian coast were identified in the northern shallow area only. The Gulf of Manfredonia is a relatively wide shallow area in the south-west Adriatic and its features and preliminary information make it a potential foraging ground for turtles. In order to assess sea turtle occurrence in the area, we monitored seven bottom trawlers based in the port of Manfredonia during the period Oct 2010 – Jul 2011 through a voluntary logbook programme, resulting in a total of 62 turtle captures during 617 fishing days. Since a turtle capture represents a rare event during such sampling, data were analysed by a zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) model. Results indicate that: (i) the Gulf is a neritic foraging ground for loggerhead turtles which occur there with a relatively high density comparable to other Mediterranean foraging grounds, (ii) it is frequented by a wide range of size classes, including small juveniles as well as adults, (iii) the highest occurrence is during the period Jun-Dec, (iv) over 1700 turtle captures occur in the Gulf annually. Preliminary findings about recaptured individuals suggest that part of the turtles are resident in the area. The peculiar features of the Gulf of Manfredonia and the collaboration of the fishing fleet, make it a valuable index site for studying current trends of sea turtle populations at sea as well as other aspects of sea turtle biology and conservation.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
Advertisement call of species of the genus Frostius Cannatella 1986 (Anura: Bufonidae)
Creators: name: Juncá, Flora A.
name: Röhr, David L.
name: Lourenço-De-Moraes, Ricardo
name: Santos, Flávio J.M.
name: Protázio, Airan S.
name: Mercês, Ednei A.
name: Solé, Mirco
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: Frostius pernambucensis and F. erythrophthalmus are cryptic bufonid species recognized mainly by the iris color: yellow in F. permambucensis and red in F. erythrophthalmus. However, field studies showed that the iris color of F. erythrophthalmus could vary between yellow and red. To improve the recognition of these species we described the advertisement call of Frostius pernambucensis and Frostius erythrophthalmus and we tested if call characteristics are influenced by temperature, male size and perch height. We also report on a physical interaction between two males of F. pernambucensis and the associated vocalization, suggesting that F. pernambucensis has not a territorial call or encounter call. Comparing the advertisement calls, the call of F. pernambucensis was lower, shorter and with a smaller number of notes than the call of F. erythrophthalmus. Dominant frequency and fundamental frequency variation of the F. pernambucensis advertisement call were related to the male’s size, while the call emission rate was related to air temperature. However, we could not find relationship among the acoustic characteristic of F. erythrophthalmus and male size or temperature.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 2 (2012)
Extended Successive Convex Approximation for Phase Retrieval with Dictionary Learning
Creators: name: Liu, Tianyi
name: Tillmann, Andreas M.
name: Yang, Yang
name: Eldar, Yonina C.
name: Pesavento, Marius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Phase retrieval aims at reconstructing unknown signals from magnitude measurements of linear mixtures. In this paper, we consider the phase retrieval with dictionary learning problem, which includes an additional prior information that the measured signal admits a sparse representation over an unknown dictionary. The task is to jointly estimate the dictionary and the sparse representation from magnitude-only measurements. To this end, we study two complementary formulations and develop efficient parallel algorithms by extending the successive convex approximation framework using a smooth majorization. The first algorithm is termed compact-SCAphase and is preferable in the case of less diverse mixture models. It employs a compact formulation that avoids the use of auxiliary variables. The proposed algorithm is highly scalable and has reduced parameter tuning cost. The second algorithm, referred to as SCAphase, uses auxiliary variables and is favorable in the case of highly diverse mixture models. It also renders simple incorporation of additional side constraints. The performance of both methods is evaluated when applied to blind sparse channel estimation from subband magnitude measurements in a multi-antenna random access network. Simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed techniques compared to state-of-the-art methods.
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Holographic M5 branes in $AdS_7\times S^4$
Creators: name: Gupta, Varun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study classical M5 brane solutions in the probe limit in the $AdS_7\times S^4$ background geometry that preserve the minimal amount of supersymmetry. These solutions describe the holography of codimension-2 defects in the 6d boundary dual N=(0,2) supersymmetric gauge theories. The general solution is described in terms of holomorphic functions that satisfy a scaling condition. We show the behavior of the world-volume of a special class of BPS solutions near the AdS boundary region can be characterized by general equations, which describe it as intersections of the zeros of holomorphic functions in three complex variables with a 5-sphere.
description: 19 pages; latest version
An Optogenetic Toolkit for Spatial and Temporal Control of the cAMP Dependent Protein Kinase
Creators: name: Whicker, Alex R.
name: Priestman, Melanie A.
name: Lawrence, David
name: Hughes, Robert M.
name: O'Banion, Colin Padraic
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Cellular signaling is highly compartmentalized in both time and space as exemplified by the cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP)/protein kinase A (PKA) pathway. PKA and associated signaling proteins are sequestered to specific subcellular compartments by A-kinase anchoring proteins to generate distinct signaling microenvironments. These signaling nodes provide spatial specificity to PKA so that this otherwise ubiquitous signaling pathway is only activated in the right location and at the right time. Although many tools are available to manipulate cellular signaling on a global scale, it is difficult to control intracellular signaling with any degree of spatiotemporal resolution. Here, we present a set of optogenetic tools to control PKA signaling at the plasma membrane, cytoskeleton, and outer mitochondrial membrane. We used molecular engineering approaches in conjunction with biochemical and cell biology assays such as western blotting and fluorescent microscopy to show that activation of our optogenetic toolset in cells results in compartment specific PKA phosphorylation events upon stimulation with light, and that activity is localized to discrete locations within the cell using a PKA reporter system generated by our group. Abbreviations: Photoactivated adenylate cyclase (PAC, AC), Nucleus (Nu), Plasma Membrane (PM), Outer Mitochondrial Membrane (OMM), Vasodilator Stimulated Phosphoprotein (VASP)
title: Assistant(e)s maternel(le)s d'origine étrangère et politiques de la petite enfance
title: Une comparaison France-Allemagne
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Glaeser, Janina
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Kinder
subject: Kinderbetreuung
subject: Migration
subject: 649 Kindererziehung, häusliche Betreuung
subject: 640 Hauswirtschaft und Familie

description: L’auteure examine les effets des politiques de la petite enfance sur des assistant(e)s maternel(le)s en France et en Allemagne. Elle analyse leurs récits de vie et compare leurs cours d’action tels qu’ils s’inscrivent dans le cadre des politiques en vigueur dans l’un et l’autre pays. Ainsi en vient-elle à considérer que ces politiques sont inséparables d’une éthique du care. Elle conclut qu’en tant que pratique, le care a besoin d’être plus professionnalisé, afin de renforcer le statut (to empower) des étrangers qui le donnent et de garantir ainsi une reproduction responsable dans l’ensemble de la société d’accueil.
description: In this article the author examines what kind of effects care-policies have on migrant child-minders in France and in Germany. She analyzes biographical narratives and compares the migrants’ agency under the prevailing policies. Thereby she considers that care policies are inseparable from an ethic of care. She concludes that care as practice needs to be professionalized in order to empower migrant care-givers and to guarantee responsible reproduction in the receiving society.