cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hypnogyra sinica Bordoni, 2013, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Bordoni, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Hypnogyra
Hypnogyra sinica

description: Hypnogyra sinica nov.sp.
M a t e r i a l s t u d i e d: Holotype: Jiangsu, Huaian city, Liannshui coun., Gaogou town, X. Z. Yuan 30.VI.2009 (SNUC); paratypes: same data, 1, 3 (SNUC), 2, 1 (cB).
 D e s c r i p t i o n: Length of body about 6 mm; from anterior margin of head to posterior margin of elytra: 3,4 mm. Head and pronotum black (in some paratypes pronotum reddish brown), elytra reddish brown, partially infuscate; abdomen reddish brown dark; antennae and legs brown. Body entirely without micro-sculpture, shiny. Forebody as in Fig. 74, a litte longer than that of H. henanica nov.sp. Head with sparse, well visible punctures, apart a wide median strip. Pronotum with dorsal series of 8-9 deep, well visible punctures and lateral series of 6-7 irregular punctures. Elytra with fine puncturation, arranged in 6-7 series. Abdomen with dense, not particularly fine puncturation on the sides.
 Posterior margin of the 6° visible abdominal tergite similar to that of H. henanica, with a series of dense, short and rounded protrusions. Posterior margin of the 6° visible abdominal sternite prolongated in a lobe (Fig. 75). Tergite and sternite of the male genital segment as in Figs 76-77. Aedeagus (Fig. 78) a little longer than that of H. henanica (fig.), 1,18 mm long, evidently swollen, with longer, asymmetrical parameres; inner sac similar to that of H. henanica, but wider, covered by different scales (Fig. 79).
 E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet refers to the Latin sinicus- a- um (chinese).
G e o g r a p h i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: The species is known only from the type locality, in Jiangsu.
 Note This species differs from H. henanica by size (longer forebody), shape of forebody (in particular head and pronotum), colouration (darker), puncturation and aedeagus. In Sichuan (Shaanxi) is present another species: H. sichuanica BORDONI 2003b.
 In the past (BORDONI 2003f) I had ascribed to H. tubulus (SHARP 1889) some specimens from Korea., that in fact belong to H. hofmanni (BERNHAUER 1928), species cited from Hebei and Heilongjiang (SMETANA 2004).
description: Published as part of Bordoni, A., 2013, New data on the Xantholinini from China. 24. New genus, new species and new records of the Shanghai Normal University collection (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) 244 ° contribution to the knowledge of the Staphylinidae, pp. 1745-1797 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2) on page 1760, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10273196
The Languages of German-Australian Industry
Creators: name: Clyne, Michael (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1976

description: THE LANGUAGES OF GERMAN-AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY. 117 0. Introduction 117 1. Data - The Firms 117 2. Transference 119 3. Language Use 120 3.1. Distant Communication 120 3.2. Higher Strata 120 3.3. Factories 122 4. Forms of Address 125 5. Hierarchical Language Use 125 6. Ex-Guest Workers 125 6.1. English and German Pidgins 126 7. Summary of Language Use 127Notes 129Bibliography 130
Optimized perturbation theory for charged scalar fields at finite temperature and in an external magnetic field
Creators: name: Duarte, D. C.
name: Farias, R. L. S.
name: Ramos, Rudnei O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Symmetry restoration in a theory of a self-interacting charged scalar field at finite temperature and in the presence of an external magnetic field is examined. The effective potential is evaluated nonperturbatively in the context of the optimized perturbation theory method. It is explicitly shown that in all ranges of the magnetic field, from weak to large fields, the phase transition is second order and that the critical temperature increases with the magnetic field. In addition, we present an efficient way to deal with the sum over the Landau levels, which is of interest especially in the case of working with weak magnetic fields.
description: 18 pages, 7 eps figures. References added and some small improvements to the text
“There is no space for being German”: Portraits of willing and reluctant Heritage Language Learners of German.
Creators: name: Dressler, Roswita
Publisher: name: Brill
Year: 2010
Subjects: Sociolinguistics
Languages and linguistics

description: Some heritage language learners (HLLs) are comfortable identifying themselves as such, while others are decidedly reluctant to adopt this term (Piño & Piño, 2000). HLLs in this paper are defined as those students having a parent or grandparent who speaks German or those who have spent a significant part of their childhood in a German-speaking country (as suggested in Beaudrie & Ducar, 2005, p. 13). This paper highlights case studies of six HLLs of German at the post-secondary level who are participants in a motivation study (Dressler, 2008). Three students are ‘willing’ HLLs. The additional three case studies are of students that I will call ‘reluctant’ HLLs of German, and this paper explores the reasons behind their reluctance and the components of self-identification, which include language identity (Block, 2007; Pierce, 1995); language expertise; affiliation and inheritance (Leung, Harris, & Rampton, 1997); cultural artifacts (Bartlett, 2007) and positioning (Block, 2007).
Screening properties and phase transitions in unconventional plasmas for Ising-type quantum Hall states
Creators: name: Herland, Egil
name: Babaev, Egor
name: Bonderson, Parsa
name: Gurarie, Victor
name: Nayak, Chetan
name: Sudbø, Asle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Utilizing large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations, we investigate an unconventional two-component classical plasma in two dimensions which controls the behavior of the norms and overlaps of the quantum-mechanical wavefunctions of Ising-type quantum Hall states. The plasma differs fundamentally from that which is associated with the two-dimensional XY model and Abelian fractional quantum Hall states. We find that this unconventional plasma undergoes a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition from an insulator to a metal. The parameter values corresponding to Ising-type quantum Hall states lie on the metallic side of this transition. This result verifies the required properties of the unconventional plasma used to demonstrate that Ising-type quantum Hall states possess quasiparticles with non-Abelian braiding statistics.
description: 16 pages, 14 figures. Submitted to Physical Review B
Gamma-Ray-Burst Host Galaxy Surveys at Redshift z>4: Probes of Star Formation Rate and Cosmic Reionization
Creators: name: Trenti, Michele
name: Perna, Rosalba
name: Levesque, Emily M.
name: Shull, J. Michael
name: Stocke, John T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measuring the star formation rate (SFR) at high redshift is crucial for understanding cosmic reionization and galaxy formation. Two common complementary approaches are Lyman-Break-Galaxy (LBG) surveys for large samples and Gamma-Ray-Burst (GRB) observations for sensitivity to SFR in small galaxies. The z>4 GRB-inferred SFR is higher than the LBG rate, but this difference is difficult to understand, as both methods rely on several modeling assumptions. Using a physically motivated galaxy luminosity function model, with star formation in dark-matter halos with virial temperature Tvir>2e4 K (M_DM>2e8 M_sun), we show that GRB and LBG-derived SFRs are consistent if GRBs extend to faint galaxies (M_ABL_lim,z) of GRB hosts with L>L_lim. This fraction quantifies the missing star formation fraction in LBG surveys, constraining the mass-suppression scale for galaxy formation, with weak dependence on modeling assumptions. Because f_det(L>L_lim,z) corresponds to the ratio of star formation rates derived from LBG and GRB surveys, if these estimators are unbiased, measuring f_det(L>L_lim,z) also constrains the redshift evolution of the GRB production rate per unit mass of star formation. Our analysis predicts significant success for GRB host detections at z~5 with f_det(L>L_lim,z)~0.4, but rarer detections at z>6. By analyzing the upper limits on host-galaxy luminosities of six z>5 GRBs from literature data, we infer that galaxies with M_AB>-15 were present at z>5 at 95% confidence, demonstrating the key role played by very faint galaxies during reionization.
description: Minor revision: ApJL accepted [7 pages, 4 figures]
Female athletes’ decisions to use hormonal contraceptives: a scoping review protocol.
Creators: name: Suarez Moreno, Paula
name: Van Den Berg, Carla
name: Hayden, K. Alix
name: Doyle-Baker, Patricia K.
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2024
Subjects: Hormonal contraceptives
athletes
prevalence
menstrual cycle

description: Scoping review protocol for scoping review investigating female athletes' decisions to use hormonal contraceptives
description: Female athletes from a variety of sports indicate a perceived impact of the menstrual cycle (MC) on their performance (Brown et al., 2021; Ekenros et al., 2022; Findlay et al., 2020). Female athletes often choose to use hormonal contraceptives (HC’s) and although their reasons vary, the most consistent one is related to the impact of the MC on performance and training. For example, in a study by Martin et al., (2018) a third of 145 combined oral contraceptive athlete users perceived that cycle manipulation to avoid menstruation can be considered a positive outcome of oral contraceptive use. Therefore, the objective of this scoping review is to investigate the extent of evidence associated with the reasons behind female athletes’ decision to use or discontinue use of hormonal contraceptives. The inclusion criteria included a) female (sex assigned at birth), b) athletes actively participating in competition, of which the majority are competing at least a regional level (Swann et al., 2015), c) sample is mostly age 18 years or older, d) discusses knowledge, reasons, perceptions, attitudes, beliefs of the athletes as related to their decisions regarding HC use and e) discusses history of hormonal contraceptive use either current or previous as an athlete. The JBI guidelines for scoping reviews found in the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis (2020) will be followed and this review will be reported in accordance with the PRISMA –SCr extension (Peters et al., 2020; Tricco et al., 2018).
Galaxy Zoo: dust lane early-type galaxies are tracers of recent, gas-rich minor mergers
Creators: name: Shabala, Stanislav S.
name: Ting, Yuan-Sen
name: Kaviraj, Sugata
name: Lintott, Chris
name: Crockett, R. Mark
name: Silk, Joseph
name: Sarzi, Marc
name: Schawinski, Kevin
name: Bamford, Steven P.
name: Edmondson, Edd
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the second of two papers concerning the origin and evolution of local early-type galaxies exhibiting dust features. We use optical and radio data to examine the nature of active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity in these objects, and compare these with a carefully constructed control sample. We find that dust lane early-type galaxies are much more likely to host emission-line AGN than the control sample galaxies. Moreover, there is a strong correlation between radio and emission-line AGN activity in dust lane early-types, but not the control sample. Dust lane early-type galaxies show the same distribution of AGN properties in rich and poor environments, suggesting a similar triggering mechanism. By contrast, this is not the case for early-types with no dust features. These findings strongly suggest that dust lane early-type galaxies are starburst systems formed in gas-rich mergers. Further evidence in support of this scenario is provided by enhanced star formation and black hole accretion rates in these objects. Dust lane early-types therefore represent an evolutionary stage between starbursting and quiescent galaxies. In these objects, the AGN has already been triggered but has not as yet completely destroyed the gas reservoir required for star formation.
description: 11 pages, 18 figures, 4 tables, MNRAS (Accepted for publication- 2012 January 19)
Communicative Networks of Japanese Women in Melbourne
Creators: name: Bolitho, M. (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1976

description: COMMUNICATIVE NETWORKS OF JAPANESE WOMEN IN MELBOURNE. 103 1. Introduction 103 1.1. Method 103 1.2. Categorization of Contact 104 2. Personnel 104 2.1. Australian 104 2.1.1. Neighbours 105 2.1.2. Parents of Children's Friends 106 2.1.3. Husband Contacts 106 2.1.4. Japanese-linked Australian Contacts 107 2.1.5. English Teachers 107 2.1.6. Activity-related Contacts 107 2.1.7. Other 107 2.2. Japanese 108 2.2.1. Husband Contacts 108 2.2.2. Contacts through Japanese Friends 108 2.2.3. Previous Contacts 108 2.2.4. Japanese Community Organisations 108 2.2.5. Other 108 3. Types of Networks 109 3.1. Japanese-dependent Network 109 3.2. Australia-directed Asymmetrical Network 109 3.3. Japanese-Australian Network 109 4. Conclusion 110Notes 113Bibliography 114
title: Partnerships Create Success for the Devil’s Garden Wild Horses
Creators: name: Snell, Laura K
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Many wild horse (Equus ferus caballus) populations that inhabit designated federal land in the United States currently exceed management objectives. Overabundant wild horse populations can adversely impact the ecosystem, native wildlife, and other land uses. Unfortunately, there is not a universal solution, as each impacted area may differ ecologically, economically, socially, and politically. Wild horse management is not just a 1-time project but a long-term program where buy-in is needed from the federal and state agencies, local governments, and private partners. Local county governments and private partners can have important insights and significant influence on the development and success of local wild horse management strategies. The combined involvement of local government and stakeholders can have a wide range of benefits including increasing capacity for management, developing new management and placement techniques, and creating authentic program branding and outreach for better placement success. Partners can often complete projects in tighter time frames, find employees, and experience less government red tape in implementation. Buy-in from the local community can also decrease the amount of negative feedback during management implementation and create a support network to counteract the negative aspects of management. Located in the northeast corner of the state of California, USA, Modoc County recognized early on the need for local government participation in conversations and decisions surrounding wild horses and their management on the Devil’s Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory (WHT). The county implemented a coordinated planning and government-to-government communication process starting in 2011 to engage the Modoc National Forest, which manages the WHT, in meaningful solution-based dialogue. This paper offers examples of unique collaborative opportunities and solutions that have been successfully used in Modoc County to develop and implement a wild horse management plan. In the years since it was adopted, this plan has halted population growth and started to return the population to the appropriate management level on the Devil’s Garden Plateau.
Characterization of the Anderson metal-insulator transition for non ergodic operators and application
Creators: name: Rojas-Molina, Constanza
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82B44, 81Q10, 60H25, 47B80

description: We study the Anderson metal-insulator transition for non ergodic random Schrödinger operators in both annealed and quenched regimes, based on a dynamical approach of localization, improving known results for ergodic operators into this more general setting. In the procedure, we reformulate the Bootstrap Multiscale Analysis of Germinet and Klein to fit the non ergodic setting. We obtain uniform Wegner Estimates needed to perform this adapted Multiscale Analysis in the case of Delone-Anderson type potentials, that is, Anderson potentials modeling aperiodic solids, where the impurities lie on a Delone set rather than a lattice, yielding a break of ergodicity. As an application we study the Landau operator with a Delone-Anderson potential and show the existence of a mobility edge between regions of dynamical localization and dynamical delocalization.
description: 36 pages, 1 figure. Changes in v2: corrected typos, Theorem 5.1 slightly modified
Towards a sustainable and high-performance geopolymer binder system through nanotechnology and waste reuse
Creators: name: TANG, ZHAO QING
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 401899
subject: Nanotechnology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 401106
subject: Waste management, reduction, reuse and recycling
classificationCode: 400599
subject: Civil engineering not elsewhere classified

description: The global market increasingly favours sustainable and strong cement composites, particularly geopolymer binders, which significantly reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and utilize industrial by-products, aligning with 'green' and 'sustainable' concepts. Despite environmental benefits and satisfactory performances, geopolymer faces challenges like brittleness and low tensile strength. Nanotechnology, particularly GO, holds promise for enhancing geopolymer properties, but GO dispersion in alkaline media needs improvement. Seeking alternative clay resources to replace popular precursors is essential for cheaper, sustainable, and easily available raw ingredients, lowering production costs. This PhD study successfully addressed geopolymer challenges, striving for a stronger, more durable, and sustainable binder.
Predicting the Movement of Occluded Objects Using Motion Models and Statistical Tracking
Creators: name: Grond, Marco Marten
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Occluded Trajectory Modelling
subject: Occlusion Handling
subject: Object Tracking
subject: Movement Prediction
subject: Multi-Camera Tracking
subject: Computer Science

description: Long-term occlusions pose a significant challenge to tracking systems, resulting in broken tracks which obfuscate results and lead to ambiguity when analysing a scene. My proposed solution to this problem, which I call the Occluded Trajectory Modelling (OTM) system, predicts the movement of occluded objects with a statistically-learned model of their movements while occluded, allowing for seamless tracking across occlusions. The model detailing the movement of occluded objects is extracted from unannotated data using Network Tomography and an objective function which extracts object occlusion times. I create a hybrid system, consisting of the OTM working in conjunction with an adapted Multiple Hypothesis Tracker, that is able to seamlessly transition between tracking visible objects and predicting their movement while they are occluded. This is done in real time without the need for visual features. I test my system on two datasets: the first consisting of drone footage with multiple environmental occlusions, and the second containing scenes with multiple non-overlapping cameras. The experimental results obtained from both of these datasets show that my system outperforms existing visual tracking systems in terms of correctly re-identifying objects after occlusion, without suffering a performance trade-off.
Indirect Coulomb Energy for Two-Dimensional Atoms
Creators: name: Benguria, Rafael D.
name: Tušek, Matěj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this manuscript we provide a family of lower bounds on the indirect Coulomb energy for atomic and molecular systems in two dimensions in terms of a functional of the single particle density with gradient correction terms.
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1106.5772
Supplementary Materials of Batista et al 2023 paper on Cortex Journal: ePrime Code for Face Name Encoding fMRI task
Creators: name: Batista, Alana Xavier
name: Miotto, Eliane Correa
name: Bazán, Paulo
name: Simon, Sharon Sanz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: e-Prime codes for the pre-training Face Name fMRI task, the fMRI Face Name Encoding Task, and Face Name Recognition fMRI task used on the study "Perilesional and contralesional brain activations related to associative encoding of unfamiliar face-names pairs in adults with left chronic stroke with or without ischemic infarct on left inferior frontal gyrus." 
Additional file 1 of Endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) to change quality of life for adults with recurrent rhinosinusitis: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Kaski, Heidi M.
name: Alakärppä, Antti
name: Lantto, Ulla
name: Laajala, Aleksi
name: Tokola, Paulus
name: Penna, Tomi
name: Ohtonen, Pasi
name: Alho, Olli-Pekka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Medical History. The baseline questionnaire which the study participants fill manually.
Low carbon ultrafine grained dual phase steels
Creators: name: Sangem, Vishnu Charan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Ultrafine grained (UFG) (i.e. grain size of the order 1 µm) dual phase (DP) steels have been investigated using a thermo-mechanical process designed to obtain fine ferrite-carbide aggregates prior to intercritical annealing. The effects of carbon content, alloying additions, initial starting structures and processing parameters like heating and cooling rate on the mechanical properties have been quantified. Experimental work was conducted on two plain low carbon steels (0.06 and 0.12 wt pct C) and two low carbon (0.06 wt pct) micro-alloyed steels, one with Mo (0.15 wt pct) and the other with Nb (0.06 wt pct) addition, respectively. Fine ferrite-carbide aggregates were obtained only for the plain carbon steels and not for the micro-alloyed steels; hence no further studies are carried out for the micro-alloyed steels. A Gleeble 3500 thermomechanical simulator is used for the intercritical annealing operation to obtain UFG DP steels. The tensile test results showed that a critical carbon (about 0.1 wt pct) content may be necessary for obtaining a good balance of strength and ductility. The lower carbon steels showed better true strain to fracture behavior, but fall behind in terms of strength and ductility compared to the higher carbon steel. Higher heating rates are necessary for achieving fine microstructures as well as better mechanical properties, whereas lower heating rates helped in obtaining good strength-elongation (engineering tensile strength × uniform elongation) balance. For the sake of comparison martensite starting structures are also used to obtain UFG DP steels. There is no effect of heating rate on the strength values, but higher heating rates resulted in better elongation as well as fracture strain values. Overall, the UFG DP steels fabricated by using martensite starting structures showed better strength-elongation balance, moreover the number of processing steps are considerably reduced.
Learning in Hierarchical Social Networks
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhenliang
name: Chong, Edwin K. P.
name: Pezeshki, Ali
name: Moran, William
name: Howard, Stephen D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We study a social network consisting of agents organized as a hierarchical M-ary rooted tree, common in enterprise and military organizational structures. The goal is to aggregate information to solve a binary hypothesis testing problem. Each agent at a leaf of the tree, and only such an agent, makes a direct measurement of the underlying true hypothesis. The leaf agent then makes a decision and sends it to its supervising agent, at the next level of the tree. Each supervising agent aggregates the decisions from the M members of its group, produces a summary message, and sends it to its supervisor at the next level, and so on. Ultimately, the agent at the root of the tree makes an overall decision. We derive upper and lower bounds for the Type I and II error probabilities associated with this decision with respect to the number of leaf agents, which in turn characterize the converge rates of the Type I, Type II, and total error probabilities. We also provide a message-passing scheme involving non-binary message alphabets and characterize the exponent of the error probability with respect to the message alphabet size.
Definition of 'Written Artefact'
Creators: name: Bausi, Alessandro
name: Bondarev, Dmitry
name: Bregler, Nadine
name: Chiarini, Sara
name: Ciotti, Giovanni
name: Droese, Janine
name: Dal Sasso, Eliana
name: Friedrich, Michael
name: Helman-Ważny, Agnieszka
name: Kohs, Michael
name: Mascia, Leah
name: Osthof, Ann Lauren
name: Ratzke, Malena
name: Škrabal, Ondřej
name: Sövegjártó, Szilvia
name: Staack, Thies
name: Wimmer, Hanna
Publisher: name: Universität Hamburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: CSMC
Occasional Paper
Theory and Terminology
TNT
Written Artefact
Cluster of Excellence
Understanding Written Artefacts
UWA
Manuscript Studies

description: Occasional Paper No. 8 The definition of written artefact, its context and its limits  The suggested definition is the result of exchanges, reflections, and discussions in the TNT working group which took place during the regular meetings in the years 2021–2022. The short paper that accompanies the definition has no pretension to a systematic coverage of the topic: it has an empirical character, reflects the development of the discourse on and around the definition of written artefact, and does not pursue any ultimate limit. It only aims to provide an agreed basis for further reflection at a still intermediate stage of the research. The working definition suggested by TNT is the following: A written artefact is any artificial or natural object with visual signs applied by humans. CSMC's Occasional Papers The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures regularly hosts meetings to discuss the theory, terminology and other issues in manuscriptology. Several of its members – philologists, historians, art historians, linguists and others – collectively engage in contributing to the systematic and historical study of manuscript cultures. The documents are individual contributions and drafts reflecting some of the provisional results of the Centre’s activities.
description: The research for this paper was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany ́s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.
Scattering higher spins off D-branes
Creators: name: Bianchi, Massimo
name: Teresi, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study scattering amplitudes of higher spin closed-string states off D-branes. For states in the `first Regge trajectory' we find remarkable simplifications both at tree level and at one loop. We discuss the high energy behavior in the Regge limit and comment on the validity of the eikonal approximation in this regime.
description: Revised version: 22 pages, no figures, misprints corrected, references added
Dimension (in)equalities and Hölder continuous curves in fractal percolation
Creators: name: Broman, Erik
name: Camia, Federico
name: Joosten, Matthijs
name: Meester, Ronald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K35 (Primary) 28A80, 37F35, 54C05 (Secondary)

description: We relate various concepts of fractal dimension of the limiting set C in fractal percolation to the dimensions of the set consisting of connected components larger than one point and its complement in C (the "dust"). In two dimensions, we also show that the set consisting of connected components larger than one point is a.s. the union of non-trivial Hölder continuous curves, all with the same exponent. Finally, we give a short proof of the fact that in two dimensions, any curve in the limiting set must have Hausdorff dimension strictly larger than 1.
description: 22 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of Theoretical Probability
Insight into ER quality control mechanisms : novel characterization of the E3 ubiquitin ligase gp78/autocrine motility factor receptor and the Gs subunit in the ER
Creators: name: Fairbank, Maria
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This manuscript looks at ER Quality Control (ERQC) mechanisms and in particular, focuses on two cellular pathways: (1) the ER-associated degradation (ERAD) pathway and (2) the ER stress response. ERQC represents a complex assembly of pathways that are vital in maintaining proper cellular function and homeostasis, by helping the cell adapt to ER stress, prevent chronic imbalance in the ER and avoid many protein conformational diseases. Here, we investigate (1) a regulatory role for palmitoylation of the E3 ubiquitin ligase gp78/AMFR in the ERAD pathway; (2) the implication of G proteins in gp78/AMFR functions; and (3) the involvement of ER-localized Gαs in both substrate polyubiquitylation and ER stress. The dynamic posttranslational modification, palmitoylation, is important for receptor stability and intracellular trafficking. Using metabolic radiolabeling and Acyl-Biotinyl Exchange Chemistry, in chapter 2, we show that the E3 ubiquitin ligase gp78/AMFR is palmitoylated within the catalytic RING finger motif, a domain that is responsible for its ubiquitin ligase activity. We also discuss the modulatory implication of gp78/AMFR palmitoylation, showing that palmitoylation disrupts the RING finger motif, regulates its ER distribution and enhances its turnover. Whether palmitoylation of E3 ubiquitin ligases is gp78/AMFR-specific or a general mechanism to control the activity of RING finger ubiquitin ligases remains to be determined. Next, we look at the Gα subunit, a known component of the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signal transduction pathway. In chapter 3, using immunoprecipitation and immunocytochemistry experiments, we report that the E3 ubiquitin ligase gp78/AMFR interacts with and recruits several G proteins to the ER, namely Gαi1 and Gαs. Thus, we reintroduce the possibility that gp78/AMFR is a novel ER-localized GPCR. The Gαs subunit is further discussed in chapter 4 where we characterize in detail its ER localization and its association with ERAD components, as well as we show a novel intracellular function, demonstrating the ability of Gαs to induce substrate polyubiquitylation and protect against ER stress. Together, these findings mark the beginning in understanding the physiological significance of (1) E3 ubiquitin ligase palmitoylation; (2) G protein binding to gp78/AMFR; (3) Gαs-mediated substrate polyubiquitylation and protection against ER stress, in ERQC mechanisms.
Measurement of the parity-violating asymmetry in inclusive electroproduction of $π^-$ near the $Δ^0$ resonance
Creators: name: G0 Collaboration
name: Androić, D.
name: Armstrong, D. S.
name: Arvieux, J.
name: Bailey, S. L.
name: Beck, D. H.
name: Beise, E. J.
name: Benesch, J.
name: Benmokhtar, F.
name: Bimbot, L.
name: Birchall, J.
name: Bosted, P.
name: Breuer, H.
name: Capuano, C. L.
name: Chao, Y. -C.
name: Coppens, A.
name: Davis, C. A.
name: Ellis, C.
name: Flores, G.
name: Franklin, G.
name: Furget, C.
name: Gaskell, D.
name: Gericke, M. T. W.
name: Grames, J.
name: Guillard, G.
name: Hansknecht, J.
name: Horn, T.
name: Jones, M. K.
name: King, P. M.
name: Korsch, W.
name: Kox, S.
name: Lee, L.
name: Liu, J.
name: Lung, A.
name: Mammei, J.
name: Martin, J. W.
name: McKeown, R. D.
name: Micherdzinska, A.
name: Mihovilovic, M.
name: Mkrtchyan, H.
name: Muether, M.
name: Page, S. A.
name: Papavassiliou, V.
name: Pate, S. F.
name: Phillips, S. K.
name: Pillot, P.
name: Pitt, M. L.
name: Poelker, M.
name: Quinn, B.
name: Ramsay, W. D.
name: Real, J. -S.
name: Roche, J.
name: Roos, P.
name: Schaub, J.
name: Seva, T.
name: Simicevic, N.
name: Smith, G. R.
name: Spayde, D. T.
name: Stutzman, M.
name: Suleiman, R.
name: Tadevosyan, V.
name: van Oers, W. T. H.
name: Versteegen, M.
name: Voutier, E.
name: Vulcan, W.
name: Wells, S. P.
name: Williamson, S. E.
name: Wood, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The parity-violating (PV) asymmetry of inclusive $π^-$ production in electron scattering from a liquid deuterium target was measured at backward angles. The measurement was conducted as a part of the G0 experiment, at a beam energy of 360 MeV. The physics process dominating pion production for these kinematics is quasi-free photoproduction off the neutron via the $Δ^0$ resonance. In the context of heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory (HB$χ$PT), this asymmetry is related to a low energy constant $d_Δ^-$ that characterizes the parity-violating $γ$N$Δ$ coupling. Zhu et al. calculated $d_Δ^-$ in a model benchmarked by the large asymmetries seen in hyperon weak radiative decays, and predicted potentially large asymmetries for this process, ranging from $A_γ^-=-5.2$ to $+5.2$ ppm. The measurement performed in this work leads to $A_γ^-=-0.36\pm 1.06\pm 0.37\pm 0.03$ ppm (where sources of statistical, systematic and theoretical uncertainties are included), which would disfavor enchancements considered by Zhu et al. proportional to $V_{ud}/V_{us}$. The measurement is part of a program of inelastic scattering measurements that were conducted by the G0 experiment, seeking to determine the $N-Δ$ axial transition form-factors using PV electron scattering.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
An observable for vacancy characterization and diffusion in crystals
Creators: name: Geslin, Pierre-Antoine
name: Ciccotti, Giovanni
name: Vanden-Eijnden, Eric
name: Meloni, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To locate the position and characterize the dynamics of a vacancy in a crystal, we propose to represent it by the ground state density of a quantum probe quasi-particle for the Hamiltonian associated to the potential energy field generated by the atoms in the sample. In this description, the h^2/2mu coefficient of the kinetic energy term is a tunable parameter controlling the density localization in the regions of relevant minima of the potential energy field. Based on this description, we derive a set of collective variables that we use in rare event simulations to identify some of the vacancy diffusion paths in a 2D crystal. Our simulations reveal, in addition to the simple and expected nearest neighbor hopping path, a collective migration mechanism of the vacancy. This mechanism involves several lattice sites and produces a long range migration of the vacancy. Finally, we also observed a vacancy induced crystal reorientation process.
Production Forecasting in Unconventional Reservoirs: A Workflow for Data-Driven Analysis
Creators: name: Rahmanifard, Hamid
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optimization
subject: Machine Learning
subject: Unconventional Reservoirs
subject: Differential Evolution Algorithm
subject: Data Analytics
subject: Gas Production Forecast
subject: Deep Learning
subject: Time Series
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Energy
subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Geotechnology

description: The oil and gas industry has experienced a significant transformation in recent years, with the use of advanced data analytics and machine learning (ML) techniques. These innovations have opened new opportunities in reservoir engineering, allowing engineers to make data-driven decisions and optimize well completion parameters. The accuracy of forecasts in predicting hydrocarbon production from unconventional reservoirs has become very important, as it directly affects energy security, economic growth, and sustainable resource management. This thesis presents a novel and comprehensive automated multistep workflow that includes data collection, data preparation, feature selection, hyperparameter tuning, ML algorithm selection, and well completion parameter optimization. In the workflow, we also propose novel methods for outlier detection, feature selection, and a modified optimization algorithm. To verify the accuracy of the workflow, we applied it to various synthetic and field databases and considered different objective functions, such as oil and gas cumulative production and monthly/daily production rates. The proposed integrated workflow enhanced the accuracy and reliability of production forecasting, as well as the assessment and improvement of well performance in unconventional formations. It also helped us determine how geology, reservoir characteristics, and completion designs influence production, and how to adjust them to achieve better outcomes. Moreover, we used the workflow to find the best completion design and estimate the production loss due to sub-optimal completion practices for the wells in the unconventional plays. These results of the research offer valuable insights for the stakeholders in the energy sector who operate in unconventional resources to make informed decisions about well completions, field development, resource extraction, and operational costs.
Phase diagram of superfluid 3He in "nematically ordered" aerogel
Creators: name: Askhadullin, R. Sh.
name: Dmitriev, V. V.
name: Krasnikhin, D. A.
name: Martynov, P. N.
name: Osipov, A. A.
name: Senin, A. A.
name: Yudin, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results of experiments with liquid 3He immersed in a new type of aerogel are described. This aerogel consists of Al2O3 strands which are nearly parallel to each other, so we call it as a "nematically ordered" aerogel. At all used pressures a superfluid transition was observed and a superfluid phase diagram was measured. Possible structures of the observed superfluid phases are discussed.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to Pis'ma v ZhETF (JETP Letters)
Additional file 2 of Endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) to change quality of life for adults with recurrent rhinosinusitis: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Kaski, Heidi M.
name: Alakärppä, Antti
name: Lantto, Ulla
name: Laajala, Aleksi
name: Tokola, Paulus
name: Penna, Tomi
name: Ohtonen, Pasi
name: Alho, Olli-Pekka
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Study Logbook. The translated version of the logbook given to participants to be filled manually during the follow-up.
MOESM2 of SINE Retrotransposon variation drives Ecotypic disparity in natural populations of Coilia nasus
Creators: name: Liu, Dong
name: Yang, Jinquan
name: Tang, Wenqiao
name: Zhang, Xing
name: Royster, Clay
name: Zhang, Ming
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. The consensus sequence of SINE family from genome of C. nasus.
Viscous Fingering Instability of Complex Fluids in a Radial Hele-Shaw Cell
Creators: name: Lee, Young Hoon
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: viscous fingering
subject: elastic instability interfacial instability
subject: Hele-Shaw
subject: poly(ethylene oxide) solution
subject: elastic fluids
subject: foam displacement
subject: foam flow
subject: air injection
subject: three phase displacement
subject: mineral oil
subject: instability
subject: stability analysis
subject: oil sands
subject: steam-assisted gravity drainage
subject: multiphase flow
subject: Engineering--Chemical

description: When a less-viscous fluid displaces another fluid of higher viscosity in a porous medium, instability can develop at the interface between the two fluids. The instability manifests itself in the form of finger-like patterns of the displacing fluid propagating through the displaced one. In this work, viscous fingering instabilities involving complex fluids in a radial Hele-Shaw is investigated. Many fluids in our lives such as shaving foams, glues, flour-water dough, mayonnaise, and paints are complex fluids which exhibit multiple non-Newtonian properties simultaneously such as shear-thinning or shear-thickening, yield stress, and viscoelastic effects. First, the effects of normal stress differences of dilute low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) solutions on viscous fingering instability are studied. Second, we investigate the instabilities associated with air invading foam in Hele-Shaw cell. Third, we examine the effects of water in viscous fingering instabilities of air displacing mineral oil. Fourth, the instability at the interface between two parallel flows of immiscible liquids through a uniform planar pore is studied by using linear stability analysis. We pose important questions: How does normal stresses affect immiscible radial viscous fingering? How does fingering occur into foam? Is it similar to that of a single-phase liquid? The experimental observations reveal nonmonotonic and opposing effects are evident depending on the molecular weight of the PEO and the stage of the radial viscous fingering evolution. We have identified three different flow regimes in the immiscible radial displacement flows of air invading foam in Hele-Shaw cell. The presence of a small volume of water leads to significantly different fingering patterns than that when no water is present. The outcomes are significant because the results demonstrate new behaviors for displacement flow of complex fluids.
Low-temperature magnetization in geometrically frustrated Tb2Ti2O7
Creators: name: Lhotel, E.
name: Paulsen, C.
name: de Réotier, P. Dalmas
name: Yaouanc, A.
name: Marin, C.
name: Vanishri, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nature of the low temperature ground state of the pyrochlore compound Tb2Ti2O7 remains a puzzling issue. Dynamic fluctuations and short-range correlations persist down to 50 mK, as evidenced by microscopic probes. In parallel, magnetization measurements show irreversibilities and glassy behavior below 200 mK. We have performed magnetization and AC susceptibility measurements on four single crystals down to 57 mK. We did not observe a clear plateau in the magnetization as a function of field along the [111] direction, as suggested by the quantum spin ice model. In addition to a freezing around 200 mK, slow dynamics are observed in the AC susceptibility up to 4 K. The overall frequency dependence cannot be described by a canonical spin-glass behavior.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures + Supp. Mat (3 pages, 5 figures)
The Cost of Cystic Fibrosis Care in Canada: A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Desai, Leena
name: Bomersback, Taryn
name: Galante, Gary
name: Bjornson, Candice
name: Hirota, Simon
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2024

description: Inclusion Criteria: All peer-reviewed quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods studies conducted in Canada for patients with confirmed Cystic Fibrosis will be included. Study date range will be from 2013-2023. All studies must include reference to either the direct, indirect or intangible cost of cystic fibrosis care and management. Exclusion Criteria: Any studies conducted outside of Canada or not involving patients with cystic fibrosis, or outside the above date range will be excluded.
description: Background: Cystic fibrosis (CF) contributes a significant economic burden on individuals, health systems and society. This economic impact is highly relevant in a single-payer, publicly funded health system such as Canada. CFTR modulator therapy has been shown in large clinical trials to reduce the burden of disease in the pediatric population. Currently 17% of patients at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, AB do not qualify for any CFTR modulator therapy, presumably resulting in an incremental cost to the system. Precision medicine tools such as organoid models may offer an opportunity for n-of-1 trials for individual patients who are currently not approved for therapy. Rationale: In order to better understand the health and economic impact of cystic fibrosis in Canada, we wish to identify direct, indirect and intangible costs of cystic fibrosis care in Alberta and Canada, and highlight the higher rate of heterogeneity amongst our southern Alberta CF population which predisposes to higher cost of care due to lack of approval to currently available therapies. Aim and Objective: This protocol describes the purpose of a scoping review which is to identify the most accurate estimation of the cost of cystic fibrosis care in Canada, and gather comprehensive data on how the costs of CF care (including direct, indirect and intangible costs) are defined and measured in Canada. Methodology: The protocol is developed using the JBI (Joanna Briggs Institute) guidance for scoping reviews and based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) Checklist, both of which will also guide its reporting. We will search PUBMED and OVID/MEDLINE for peer-reviewed English-language publications and grey literature search of relevant databases (ProQuest Dissertation and Theses, Canadian Health Research Collection) and organizational websites (Health Canada, Government of Canada, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Canda, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health (CADTH)).