cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
FORAMINIFERAL DISTRIBUTION AND SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF OXFORDIAN SUCCESSIONS IN THE WESSEX/ANGLO-PARIS BASIN
Creators: name: OXFORD, MELISSA JANE
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2004

description: The use of micropalaeontology within a sequence stratigraphic context is rapidly emerging as a valuable tool for the recognition of ancient cycles and sequences. This study shows how micropalaeontology can be used to develop insights into sequence stratigraphic interpretations. A micropalaeontology study of two Upper Jurassic, Oxfordian successions from the South . Dorset Coast, U.K. and the Normandy Coast, France provide the basis for this study. A near continuous succession of the Oxfordian from South Dorset and Normandy were obtained, and foraminifera extracted. Examination of the fauna revealed representatives from 23 families, comprising 36 genera and 126 species. All species were identified and the taxonomy of each studied and described. The abundance and distribution patterns of the foraminifera were used to identify sequence stratigraphic horizons (such as Maximum Flooding Surfaces) and the correlation between the two successions was carried out. Detailed research and examination of the >63µm size fraction lead to the discovery of Oxfordian planktic foraminifera from samples in South Dorset. These are the first known occurrences of planktic foraminifera from the Oxfordian of England and are coeval with previously reported occurrences of planktic taxa in the Oxfordian of Normandy and Seine Maritime (France). This study demonstrates how detailed micropalaeontological data can be combined with sequence stratigraphy to reveal a more accurate picture of the controls on basin fill than can be provided by sedimentology alone. It has demonstrated the importance of the preservation upon the fossil assemblages recovered and how this can influence the establishment of biozones.
Protoaricia Czerniavsky 1881
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Orbiniidae
Protoaricia

description: Genus Protoaricia Czerniavsky, 1881
Protoaricia oerstedi (Claparède, 1864)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Gherardi et al. 1993; Požar-Domac 1982, 1983, 1986, 1994; Fraschetti et al. 2002; Castelli et al. 2008.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Differential Stress, Strain Rate, and Temperatures of Mylonitization in the Ruby Mountains, Nevada: Implications for the Rate and Duration of Uplift
Creators: name: Hacker, B. R.
name: Yin, A.
name: Christie, J. M.
name: Snoke, Art
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 1990
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Knowledge of the magnitude of the differential stress during the formation of mylonitic rocks provides constraints on mechanical and thermal models for the exhumation of the metamorphosed foot walls of major low-angle detachment faults. We have analyzed the differential flow stress during the mylonitization of quartzose rocks in the Ruby Mountains, Nevada, using grain-size piezometers and kinetic laws for grain growth. Quartzites from mylonitic shear zones in Lamoille Canyon and Secret Creek gorge have grain sizes of 91–151 μm and 42–64 μm, respectively. The peak temperature during mylonitization was 630°±50°C, and analysis of grain-growth kinetics indicates that mylonitization continued during cooling to temperatures ≤450°C. Quartz grain-size piezometers suggest that the mylonitization occurred under differential stresses (σ1-σ3) of 38–64 MPa, or maximum shear stresses of 19–32 MPa. Extrapolation of quartzite flow laws indicates that the mylonitization occurred at strain rates between 10−10 and 10−13 s−1; arguments presented in the paper suggest that the likely range of strain rates is 10−11 to 10−12 s−1. These strain rates are compatible with displacement rates of the order of 23 mm yr−1 along a 1.5-km-thick simple shear zone. Such a shear zone dipping 15° would produce an uplift rate of 5.8 km m.y.−1 and a horizontal extension rate of 22 km m.y.−1. This uplift rate indicates that midcrustal mylonitic rocks could have been lifted up along a 1.5-km-thick simple shear zone dipping 15° in 2.6 m.y.
A Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy of the Campanian and Maastrichtian Chalks of the United Kingdom.
Creators: name: Swiecicki, Anthony
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1980

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/2012 on 15.03.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: The foraminiferal fauna from twenty-seven sections of Campanian and Maastrichtian chalk from both the onshore and offshore United Kingdom have been studied. In total, 160 species and subspecies belonging to 54 genera have been recorded and a complete revision of their systematics, with full synonomies and descriptions, has been given. The detailed stratigraphic distribution of these species has been studied, and 65 species and subspecies of prime stratigraphic importance have been recognised and employed in the definition of a tripartite biozonal scheme based on planktonic foraminifera, Bolivinoides lineages and faunal assemblages respectively. This biozonal scheme has been accurately related to local rock units as well as to current macrofossil zonations. Correlation of all sections studied has been achieved by use of the proposed biozonal scheme. Broad similarities have been noted between the British foraminiferal faunas of the Upper Cretaceous and those of wide areas of northern Europe, clearly placing Britain within the Transitional biogeoprovince. Palaeoecological study has indicated that marine conditions with normal salinities prevailed throughout the Campanian and Maastrichtian. Palaeotemperatures appear to have gradually declined throughout this time, with a short-lived warm phase in the latest Maastrichtian. Depths of deposition of the chalk are interpreted as having been between 150 - 250m., though greater depths probably prevailed in the North Sea basins. A transgressive phase is indicated for the Upper Campanian and a regressive phase for the Maastrichtian.
Empathic Grounding: Explorations using Multimodal Interaction and Large Language Models with Conversational Agents
Creators: name: Arjmand, Mehdi
name: Nouraei, Farnaz
name: Steenstra, Ian
name: Bickmore, Timothy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We introduce the concept of "empathic grounding" in conversational agents as an extension of Clark's conceptualization of grounding in conversation in which the grounding criterion includes listener empathy for the speaker's affective state. Empathic grounding is generally required whenever the speaker's emotions are foregrounded and can make the grounding process more efficient and reliable by communicating both propositional and affective understanding. Both speaker expressions of affect and listener empathic grounding can be multimodal, including facial expressions and other nonverbal displays. Thus, models of empathic grounding for embodied agents should be multimodal to facilitate natural and efficient communication. We describe a multimodal model that takes as input user speech and facial expression to generate multimodal grounding moves for a listening agent using a large language model. We also describe a testbed to evaluate approaches to empathic grounding, in which a humanoid robot interviews a user about a past episode of pain and then has the user rate their perception of the robot's empathy. We compare our proposed model to one that only generates non-affective grounding cues in a between-subjects experiment. Findings demonstrate that empathic grounding increases user perceptions of empathy, understanding, emotional intelligence, and trust. Our work highlights the role of emotion awareness and multimodality in generating appropriate grounding moves for conversational agents.
A Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy of the Lower Senonian
Creators: name: Bailey, Haydon William
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1978

description: Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/1779 on 06.20.2017 by CS (TIS)
description: The necessity for a micropalaeontological examination of the lower Senonian chalk of southern England was established during the site investigation of the Thames Barrier, which Is founded on chalk of the Micraster zones. There has been a large amount of detailed stratigraphic and micropalaeontological research carried out on the Late Cretaceous deposits of Europe, and this provides a historical framework onto which the present research is placed. Samples from three of the Thames Barrier boreholes were studied initially to provide an Indication of the microfauna and it's stratigraphic setting. This was followed by the collection and examination of a further seven sections from the Micraster zones of Rowe (1900-1 ~08). The localities selected give a geographical coverage of most of southern England. Single samples from three other localities have also been included. The microfauna observed shows a trend of Increasing diversity from the base of the Coniacian through into the Santonian. One hundred and twenty seven taxa have been described, the majority for the first time from the Engl ish succession, and this includes twenty taxa which have no previous recorded descriptions. The trend of increasing faunal diversity noted, makes the establishment of a zonation possible, based on the appearances and extinctions of twenty-five benthonic foraminiferal taxa. This zonation, when applied to all the sections studied, allows a correlation across the whole of southern England. • XVI .. XVII Lower Senonian foraminiferal faunas reported from the rest of Europe have been compared with those recorded in this country. Not only does this present a large amount of stratigraphic data, but It also gives an indication of the palaeogeographic setting of the region during the Late Cretaceous.
Resilience and Regime Change in a Southern Rocky Mountain Ecosystem During the Past 17000 Years
Creators: name: Minckley, Thomas A.
name: Shriver, Robert K.
name: Shuman, Bryan N.
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 2012
Subjects: Climate-vegetation relationships
Ecosystem resilience
Effective moisture
Fire frequency
Palynological analysis
Rocky Mountains
USA

description: Paleoecological records indicate that subalpine forests in western North America have been resilient in response to multiple influences, including severe droughts, insect outbreaks, and widely varying fire regimes, over many millennia. One hypothesis for explaining this ecosystem resilience centers on the disruption of forest dynamics by frequent disturbance and climatic variability, and the resulting development of non-steady-state regimes dominated by early-successional conifers with broad climatic tolerances, such as lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm. ex Wats.). To evaluate this hypothesis, we independently reconstructed the vegetation, fire, and effective-moisture histories of a small, forested watershed at 2890 m elevation in southeastern Wyoming, USA, using sedimentary pollen and charcoal counts in conjunction with sedimentary lake-level indicators. The data indicate that prominent vegetation shifts (from sagebrush steppe to spruce-fir parkland at ca. 10.7 ka and spruce-fir parkland to pine-dominated forest at ca. 8.5 ka [ka stands for thousands of years before the present, defined as AD 1950]) coincided with changes in effective moisture. However, after lodgepole pine forests established at ca. 8.5 ka, similar hydroclimatic changes did not produce detectable vegetation responses. Fire history data show that other aspects of the ecosystem were responsive to changes in effective moisture at centennial timescales with prolonged fire-free episodes coinciding with periods of low effective moisture ca. 7.2-5.6 and 3.7-1.6 ka. Throughout our record, the ratio of ecosystem perturbation time (i.e., fire frequency and changes in effective moisture) to recovery time (assuming 200-600-year successional processes) falls within estimates of the ratio for non-steady state ecosystems. Frequent perturbations, therefore, may have prevented this ecosystem from reaching compositional equilibrium with the varied climatic conditions over the past 8.5 ka. Equilibrium states could have included more abundant spruce (Picea spp.) and fir (Abies spp.) than presently observed based on brief increases in pollen abundances of these taxa during prolonged dry, fire-free intervals. Our results show that, although current climate changes favor widespread disturbance in Rocky Mountain forests, the composition of these ecosystems could be highly resilient and recover through successional dynamics over the next few decades to centuries.
Deep Harmonic Finesse: Signal Separation in Wearable Systems with Limited Data
Creators: name: Saffarpour, Mahya
name: Vali, Kourosh
name: Qian, Weitai
name: Kasap, Begum
name: Hedriana, Herman L.
name: Ghiasi, Soheil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We present a method, referred to as Deep Harmonic Finesse (DHF), for separation of non-stationary quasi-periodic signals when limited data is available. The problem frequently arises in wearable systems in which, a combination of quasi-periodic physiological phenomena give rise to the sensed signal, and excessive data collection is prohibitive. Our approach utilizes prior knowledge of time-frequency patterns in the signals to mask and in-paint spectrograms. This is achieved through an application-inspired deep harmonic neural network coupled with an integrated pattern alignment component. The network's structure embeds the implicit harmonic priors within the time-frequency domain, while the pattern-alignment method transforms the sensed signal, ensuring a strong alignment with the network. The effectiveness of the algorithm is demonstrated in the context of non-invasive fetal monitoring using both synthesized and in vivo data. When applied to the synthesized data, our method exhibits significant improvements in signal-to-distortion ratio (26% on average) and mean squared error (80% on average), compared to the best competing method. When applied to in vivo data captured in pregnant animal studies, our method improves the correlation error between estimated fetal blood oxygen saturation and the ground truth by 80.5% compared to the state of the art.
description: Presented at the 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC '24)
Questa Hartman 1966
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Orbiniidae
Questa

description: Genus Questa Hartman, 1966
? Questa caudicirra Hartman, 1966
DISTRIBUTION: SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Fraschetti et al. 2002.
REMARKS: Genus Questa was previously considered part of the former family Questidae Hartman, 1966, which was shown by phylogenetic and cladistic analyses to be a lineage within the family Orbiniidae Hartman, 1942 (Rousset et al. 2007, Giere et al. 2008). The type locality of Q. caudicirra is Southern California (Hartman 1966). Giere & Erséus (1998) reported its distribution from the west coast of North America (California, British Columbia) and Gulf of Mexico (west coast of Florida) while considering the record from Canary Islands, in the East Atlantic Ocean (Delgado & Núñez 1994) as doubtful. The only record of the species in the Adriatic sea is by Fraschetti et al. (2002), in the southern basin. Since the previous records of Q. caudicirra in the Tyrrhenian Sea (Italy) by Somaschini & Gravina (1993) were determined to belong to a new species, Q. mediterranea Giere & Erséus, 1998, the record of Q. caudicirra in the SA should be considered as doubtful, as it may represent Q. mediterranea.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Phase jumps in Josephson junctions with time-dependent spin-orbit coupling
Creators: name: Monroe, David
name: Shen, Chenghao
name: Tringali, Dario
name: Alidoust, Mohammad
name: Zhou, Tong
name: Žutić, Igor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Planar Josephson junctions (JJs), based on common superconductors and III-V semiconductors, are sought for Majorana states and fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, with gate-tunable spin-orbit coupling (SOC), we show that the range of potential applications of such JJs becomes much broader. The time-dependent SOC offers unexplored mechanisms for switching JJs, accompanied by the $2π$-phase jumps and the voltage pulses corresponding to the single-flux-quantum transitions, key to high-speed and low-power superconducting electronics. In a constant applied magnetic field, with Rashba and Dresselhaus SOC, anharmonic current-phase relations, calculated microscopically in these JJs, yield a nonreciprocal transport and superconducting diode effect. Together with the time-dependent SOC, this allows us to identify a switching mechanism at no applied current bias which supports fractional-flux-quantum superconducting circuits and neuromorphic computing.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, Invited to APL Special Topic Issue: "Josephson Junctions and Related Proximity Effects: From Basic Science to Emerging Applications in Advanced Technologies", accepted version
Serving the Needs of Performing Arts Students: A Case Study
Creators: name: Mayer, Jennifer
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: Library and Information Science

description: The intent of this case study was to gain insight into the information needs and research behaviors of upper-division performing arts students, and how to best address those needs. This article presents findings from focus group interviews of thirty music, dance, and theater majors at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. The data revealed several themes, including that performing arts students have unmet multimedia, primary, and interdisciplinary research needs and that they struggle with the discovery layer and the catalog. The findings have implications for how library instruction and research services should evolve to serve this population.
Magnetic properties of nanocrystalline Fe3O4 films
Creators: name: Tang, Jinke
name: Wang, Kai-Ying
name: Zhou, Weilie
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 2001
Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics

description: Nanocrystalline magnetite Fe3O4 films of about 180 nm thick have been deposited on Si(100) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. Zero-field-cooled magnetization shows clearly the Verwey transition near 120 K by an abrupt change, which is absent from the field-cooled magnetization. This is correlated to its hysteresis curves where the loops remain open until a high field of 2 T. The magnetization does not saturate in field 2 orders of magnitude higher than its coercive field. Such behaviors may result from the existence of antiphase domains. Antiphase boundaries inside the grains are clearly observed with transmission electron microscopy. Negative magnetoresistance of about 12% has been observed near 120 K in a field of 9 T.
Scolaricia Eisig 1914
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Orbiniidae
Scolaricia

description: Genus Scolaricia Eisig, 1914
Scolaricia typica Eisig, 1914
DISTRIBUTION: NA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; NEW RECORDS: BM11.
REMARKS: The distributions of Scolaricia typica and of Scoloplos armiger (O.F. Müller, 1776) are uncertain, as the identification of these two species can be easily confused (A. Castelli, pers. comm.).
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
The impact of incorrect dissociation energies on inferred photospheric abundances
Creators: name: Aquilina, Sarah E
name: Casey, Andrew R
name: Wheeler, Adam J
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectral synthesis codes are essential for inferring stellar parameters and detailed chemical abundances. These codes require many physical inputs to predict an emergent spectrum. Developers adopt the best measurements of those inputs at the time they release their code, but those measurements usually improve over time faster than the software is updated. In general, the impact of using incorrect or uncertain dissociation energies are largely unknown. Here we evaluate how incorrect dissociation energies impact abundances measured from C2, CN, CH, TiO, and MgO features. For each molecule we synthesised optical spectra of FGKM-type main-sequence and giant stars using the literature dissociation energy, and an incorrect (perturbed) dissociation energy. We find that the uncertainties in the dissociation energies adopted by spectral synthesis codes for CN, CH, TiO, and MgO lead to negligible differences in flux or abundances. C2 is the only diatomic molecule where the uncertainty of the inputted dissociation energy translates to a significant difference in flux, and carbon abundance differences of up to 0.2 dex. For Solar-like stars, the impact on carbon abundance is up to 0.09 dex. These large abundance differences demonstrate the importance of updating the inputs adopted by spectral synthesis codes, as well as a consensus on appropriate values between different codes.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
THE CHANNEL TUNNEL RAIL LINK: OPPORTUNITIES AND PROBLEMS FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Creators: name: Smith, David Matthew
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1992

description: The regional economic impact of the Channel Tunnel has engendered much public and private sector interest. Previous studies examining the regional implications of the Tunnel have argued that related development pressures will be largely confined to South East England, further widening the "North-South" divide. Economic Potential Analysis was earlier employed by Clark el. al. (1969) and Keeble et. al. (1982a) to model the geographical impact of the Tunnel on the relative accessibility of the UK regions. The conclusions drawn from these studies support the proposition that the South East would gain at the expense of the more peripheral regions. However, the important implications of a rail-only Tunnel have yet to be modelled. The results of the present study show that opportunities created by the Tunnel could be spread more evenly than had previously been predicted. However, following a review of the legislative and policy environment of the Tunnel and related infrastructure, it is argued that as a result of British Government inaction the more peripheral UK regions are likely to be unable to maximise any potential benefits created. Nonetheless, the overall regional economic impact of the Tunnel will depend ultimately on the reactions of the business community (Pieda 1989a&b). The findings of a questionnaire survey carried out for this thesis reveal a considerable degree of similarity in perceptions and anticipated usage of the Tunnel for companies in the South East and South West, including the "Far South West". If this similarity is apparent after the Tunnel opens, the regional economic structure of the UK might only be marginally affected.
Universal mechanism of shear thinning in supercooled liquids
Creators: name: Mizuno, Hideyuki
name: Ikeda, Atsushi
name: Kawasaki, Takeshi
name: Miyazaki, Kunimasa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Soft glassy materials experience a significant reduction in viscosity $η$ when subjected to shear flow, known as shear thinning. This phenomenon is characterized by a power-law scaling of $η$ with the shear rate $\dotγ$, $η\propto \dotγ^{-ν}$, where the exponent $ν$ is typically around $0.7$ to $0.8$ across different materials. Two decades ago, the mode coupling theory (MCT) suggested that shear thinning occurs due to the advection. However, it predicts too large $ν= 1$ (> $0.7$ to $0.8$) and overestimates the onset shear rate by orders of magnitude. Recently, it was claimed that a minute distortion of the particle configuration is responsible for shear thinning. Here we extend the MCT to include the distortion, and find that both advection and distortion contribute to shear thinning, but the latter is dominant. Our formulation works quantitatively for several different glass formers. We explain why shear thinning is universal for many glassy materials.
description: 14pages, 12figures, 1table
Influence of Running and Walking on Hormonal Regulators of Appetite in Women
Creators: name: Larson-Meyer, D. Enette
name: Palm, Sonnie
name: Bansal, Aasthaa
name: Austin, Kathleen J.
name: Hart, Ann Marie
name: Alexander, Brenda M.
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 2012
Subjects: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Nine female runners and ten walkers completed a 60 min moderate-intensity (70% VO2max) run or walk, or 60 min rest in counterbalanced order. Plasma concentrations of the orexogenic peptide ghrelin, anorexogenic peptides peptide YY (PYY), glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), and appetite ratings were measured at 30 min interval for 120 min, followed by a free-choice meal. Both orexogenic and anorexogenic peptides were elevated after running, but no changes were observed after walking. Relative energy intake (adjusted for cost of exercise/rest) was negative in the meal following running (-194 ± 206 kcal) versus walking (41 ± 196 kcal) (P = 0.015), although both were suppressed (P < 0.05) compared to rest (299 ± 308 and 284 ± 121 kcal, resp.). The average rate of change in PYY and GLP-1 over time predicted appetite in runners, but only the change in GLP-1 predicted hunger (P = 0.05) in walkers. Results provide evidence that exercise-induced alterations in appetite are likely driven by complex changes in appetite-regulating hormones rather than change in a single gut peptide.
KALATHIRA THOSHAM
Creators: name: C. Ramamoorthi* & Dr. G. Subramanian**
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: There are two types of Kalatra Dosha. One is to be unmarried and the other is to be affected by being married. In this astrologically, when looking at the horoscope of an individual, experience shows that the 7th sin is affected by the influence of Rahu - Ketu.
Scoloplos Blainville 1828
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Orbiniidae
Scoloplos

description: Genus Scoloplos Blainville, 1828
Scoloplos armiger (O.F. Müller, 1776)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Laubier 1962; Kiseleva 1964; Katzmann 1973a, 1973f; Cognetti-Varriale & Zunarelli- Vandini 1978; Katzmann 1983; Požar-Domac 1983; Ambrogi et al. 1987; Aleffi et al. 1988; Parisi et al. 1985; Županović & Jardas 1989; Požar-Domac 1994; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008.
NEW RECORDS: BM13, BM16, BM17, BM28, BM52, BM99, BM101. REMARKS: See Remarks under Scolaricia typica.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Skill and the Value of Life
Creators: name: Shogren, Jason F.
name: Stamland, T.
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 2002
Subjects: Economics

description: The value of statistical life (VSL) can be inferred through real-world wage–fatality risk trade-offs made across different occupations. This paper shows that the VSL based on the wage-risk trade-off tends to be biased upward if it does not account for the diversity of workers’ unobservable skill to cope privately with job risk. This upward bias arises because the highest required wage differential among the workers is divided by their average risk across the population.
Recent Advances in Seabed Liquefaction and Its Implications for Marine Structures
Creators: name: B. Mutlu Sumer
Publisher: name: Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society
Year: 2014
Subjects: Liquefaction
Waves
Marine structures
Seabed

description: The Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the SEAGS & AGSSEA, 45, 4, pp 1-14
Cyclopterus Linnaeus, 1758, gen. nov.
Creators: name: Linnaeus, Carolus
Publisher: name: Laurentius Salvius
Year: 1758
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Cyclopteridae
Cyclopterus

description: Cyclopterus [gen. nov.]
Caput obtusum. Maxillae denticulatae.
Membr. branch. radiis IV.
Corpus squamis osseis distantibus angulatum. Pinnae ventrales connatae in rotatam.
description: Published as part of Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758, Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Stockholm :Laurentius Salvius on page 260, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542, http://zenodo.org/record/3922206
Domain Decomposition Operator Splittings for the Solution of Parabolic Equations
Creators: name: Mathew, T. P.
name: Polyakov, Peter
name: Russo, G.
name: Wang, J.
Publisher: name: University of Wyoming. Libraries
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: domain decomposition
subject: alternating direction implicit method
subject: fractional step method
subject: operator splitting
subject: parabolic equation
subject: partition of unity
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study domain decomposition counterparts of the classical alternating direction implicit (ADI) and fractional step (FS) methods for solving the large linear systems arising from the implicit time stepping of parabolic equations. In the classical ADI and FS methods for parabolic equations, the elliptic operator is split along coordinate axes; they yield tridiagonal linear systems whenever a uniform grid is used and when mixed derivative terms are not present in the differential equation. Unlike coordinate-axes-based splittings, we employ domain decomposition splittings based on a partition of unity. Such splittings are applicable to problems on nonuniform meshes and even when mixed derivative terms are present in the differential equation and they require the solution of one problem on each subdomain per time step, without iteration. However, the truncation error in our proposed method deteriorates with smaller overlap amongst the subdomains unless a smaller time step is chosen. Estimates are presented for the asymptotic truncation error, along with computational results comparing the standard Crank-Nicolson method with the proposed method.
Sequential Manipulation Against Rank Aggregation: Theory and Algorithm
Creators: name: Ma, Ke
name: Xu, Qianqian
name: Zeng, Jinshan
name: Liu, Wei
name: Cao, Xiaochun
name: Sun, Yingfei
name: Huang, Qingming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Rank aggregation with pairwise comparisons is widely encountered in sociology, politics, economics, psychology, sports, etc . Given the enormous social impact and the consequent incentives, the potential adversary has a strong motivation to manipulate the ranking list. However, the ideal attack opportunity and the excessive adversarial capability cause the existing methods to be impractical. To fully explore the potential risks, we leverage an online attack on the vulnerable data collection process. Since it is independent of rank aggregation and lacks effective protection mechanisms, we disrupt the data collection process by fabricating pairwise comparisons without knowledge of the future data or the true distribution. From the game-theoretic perspective, the confrontation scenario between the online manipulator and the ranker who takes control of the original data source is formulated as a distributionally robust game that deals with the uncertainty of knowledge. Then we demonstrate that the equilibrium in the above game is potentially favorable to the adversary by analyzing the vulnerability of the sampling algorithms such as Bernoulli and reservoir methods. According to the above theoretical analysis, different sequential manipulation policies are proposed under a Bayesian decision framework and a large class of parametric pairwise comparison models. For attackers with complete knowledge, we establish the asymptotic optimality of the proposed policies. To increase the success rate of the sequential manipulation with incomplete knowledge, a distributionally robust estimator, which replaces the maximum likelihood estimation in a saddle point problem, provides a conservative data generation solution. Finally, the corroborating empirical evidence shows that the proposed method manipulates the results of rank aggregation methods in a sequential manner.
description: Accepted by IEEE TPAMI URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10564181
Galathowenia Kirkegaard 1959
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Oweniidae
Galathowenia

description: Genus Galathowenia Kirkegaard, 1959
Galathowenia oculata (Zachs, 1923)
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Laubier 1962; Katzmann 1973f; Amoureux 1976; Bellan 1976; Zavodnik et al. 1981; Amoureux 1983a; Orel et al. 1987; Aleffi et al. 1988; Požar-Domac 1994; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Crema et al. 2001; Cantone & Di Pietro 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Simonini et al. 2004; Solis-Weiss et al. 2004, 2007; Casellato et al. 2007; Casellato & Stefanon 2008; Castelli et al. 2008; Mikac et al. 2011; Musco et al. 2011.
NEW RECORDS: BM11, BM12, BM13, BM14, BM15, BM16, BM17, BM18, BM19, BM20, BM21,BM22, BM26, BM27, BM28, BM34, BM38, BM39, BM41, BM42, BM43, BM44, BM45, BM46, BM47, BM48, BM49, BM50, BM51, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM62, BM65, BM66, BM67, BM73, BM86, BM91, BM92, BM98, BM99, BM101. OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Myriochele oculata Zachs, 1922; Myriochele heeri Malmgren, 1867
REMARKS: Martín (1989) considers that the previous findings of Myriochele heeri Malmgren, 1867 in the Mediterranean Sea should be attributed to Galathowenia oculata with the exception of the Tyrrhenian Sea, where both species were reported by Cognetti-Variale (1979). However this last report of M. heeri should also be considered as dubious (Aguirrezabalaga et al. 2000). Blake (2000) emphasizes the differences in the morphology of the pygidial lobes of G. oculata between the Iberian specimens and the specimens from the Arctic (type locality of the species), boreal, and deeper waters examined by Nilsen & Holthe (1985), and considers that the records of G. oculata from the Mediterranean and Iberian shallow waters belong probably to a different species. The majority of previous reports from the Adriatic Sea were also attributed to M. heeri. On stations studied by the author specimens belonging to both genera, Galathowenia and Myriochele, were found, and more detailed analyses are in progress to unveil which species are present in the region. For the moment all the previous findings of M. heeri in the Adriatic are here attributed to G. oculata.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on page 71, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Cosmogenic dating of fluvial terraces in the Sorbas Basin, SE Spain
Creators: name: Ilott, Samantha
Publisher: name: Plymouth University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Fluvial Terraces
Sorbas Basin
River Capture
Landslides
Cosmogenic Dating

description: Long term fluvial incision spanning the Late Cenozoic is recorded in many fluvial systems around the world by terrace landform sequences. The incision manifests itself as inset sequences of river terraces which form terrace staircases. The timing of the onset of incision and the rate incision then proceeds at is poorly constrained due to the difficulties in dating river terraces. This study applies the technique of cosmogenic exposure dating to a fluvial staircase, for the first time, in the Sorbas Basin, SE Spain. Cosmogenic exposure dating allows the timing of abandonment of the fluvial terraces to be calculated therefore recording periods of incision. Cosmogenic exposure dating and the profile method offer a viable way to date Early and Middle Pleistocene terrace deposits. Combined exposure and burial age’s approaches using paired isotopes allow for insights into terrace aggradation and fluvial incision timing. The fluvial deposits in the Sorbas Basin record 1.0 Ma of incision by the Río Aguas. The timing of aggradation and incision in the Sorbas basin has been linked to both tectonics and climate cycles. Terrace aggradation took place in glacial and interglacial periods. The abandonment of terrace surfaces occurred both at warming transitions and in interglacial periods. New uplift rates calculated for the Pleistocene fluvial system suggest that tectonic activity in the Sorbas Basin has been episodic. The south margin and centre of the Sorbas Basin has uplifted at a faster rate than the northern margin impacting on the rates of incision taking place in the fluvial systems. Overall tectonic uplift has increased the fluvial system sensitivity to climatic variations.
Study of Anisotropic Compact Stars in $f(\mathcal{R},\mathcal{T},\mathcal{R}_{χξ}\mathcal{T}^{χξ})$ Gravity
Creators: name: Sharif, M.
name: Naseer, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper aims to examine the composition of various spherically symmetric star models which are coupled with anisotropic configuration in $f(\mathcal{R},\mathcal{T},\mathcal{Q})$ gravity, where $\mathcal{Q}=\mathcal{R}_{χξ}\mathcal{T}^{χξ}$. We discuss the physical features of compact objects by employing bag model equation of state and construct the modified field equations in terms of Krori-Barua ansatz involving unknowns ($A,B,C$). The observational data of 4U 1820-30,~Vela X-I,~SAX J 1808.4-3658,~RXJ 1856-37 and Her X-I is used to calculate these unknowns and bag constant $\mathfrak{B_c}$. Further, we observe the behavior of energy density, radial and tangential pressure as well as anisotropy through graphical interpretation for a viable model $\mathcal{R}+\varrho\mathcal{Q}$ of this gravity. For a particular value of the coupling constant $\varrho$, we study the behavior of mass, compactness, redshift and the energy bounds. The stability of the considered stars is also checked by using two criteria. We conclude that our developed structure in this gravity is in well-agreement with all the physical requirements.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures
Owenia Delle Chiaje 1844
Creators: name: Mikac, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Polychaeta
Sabellida
Oweniidae
Owenia

description: Genus Owenia Delle Chiaje, 1844
Owenia fusiformis Delle Chiaje, 1844
DISTRIBUTION: NA, CA, SA.
LITERATURE RECORDS: Graeffe 1905; Vatova 1931b; Fauvel 1934; Vatova 1934, 1935; Fauvel 1938, 1940; Vatova 1940a, 1942, 1943, 1949a, 1949b; Meštrov 1957; Laubier 1962; Vatova 1963; Gamulin-Brida 1967; Scaccini 1967; Gamulin-Brida et al. 1968; Bellan 1969; Banse 1970; Zavodnik 1971; Marcuzzi 1972; Katzmann 1972, 1973a, 1973f; Avčin et al. 1974; Gamulin-Brida 1974; Giordani-Soika & Perin 1974; Matjašić & Štirn 1975; Amoureux 1976; Bellan 1976; Cognetti-Varriale & Zunarelli-Vandini 1978; Vaccarella et al. 1981; Vrišer et al. 1981; Zavodnik et al. 1981; Orel et al. 1982; Ambrogi et al. 1983; Amoureux 1983a, 1983c; Avčin & Vrišer 1983; Bedulli et al. 1983; Katzmann 1983; Del Piero et al. 1984; Zavodnik et al. 1985; Gillet 1986; Ambrogi et al. 1987; Orel et al. 1987; Zavodnik & Vidaković 1987; Aleffi et al. 1988; Parisi et al. 1990; Ambrogi et al. 1990, 1994; Zahtila 1995, 1997; Požar-Domac 1994; Ambrogi et al. 1995; Mancinelli et al. 1998; Pranovi et al. 1998; Mizzan 2000; Zavodnik & Kovačić 2000; Ambrogi et al. 2001; Crema et al. 2001; Daelli & Occhipinti-Ambrogi 2001; Piscitelli et al. 2001; Sfriso et al. 2001; Ceschia et al. 2002; Maggiore 2002; Occhipinti-Ambrogi et al. 2002; Aleffi et al. 2003; Simonini et al. 2004; Solis-Weiss et al. 2004; Occhipinti-Ambrogi et al. 2005; Simonini et al. 2005a; Boscolo et al. 2006; Solis-Weiss et al. 2007; Bertasi et al. 2007; Colosio et al. 2007; Simonini et al. 2007; Castelli et al. 2008; La Porta et al. 2011; Mikac et al. 2011; Musco et al. 2011.
NEW RECORDS: BM12, BM14, BM15, BM16, BM17, BM18, BM19, BM20, BM21, BM22, BM28, BM41, BM42, BM43, BM44, BM45, BM46, BM47, BM48, BM49, BM50, BM51, BM52, BM53, BM54, BM65, BM68, BM69, BM72, BM73, BM74, BM86, BM91, BM92, BM98, BM99, BM101.
OTHER REPORTED NAMES: Owenia brachycera Marion, 1876.
description: Published as part of Mikac, Barbara, 2015, A sea of worms: polychaete checklist of the Adriatic Sea, pp. 1-172 in Zootaxa 3943 (1) on pages 71-72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3943.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244663
Going back-to-the-land in the Anthropocene: a more-than-human journey into anarchist geography
Creators: name: Molfese, Carlotta
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: back-to-the-land farms
subject: more-than-human geography
subject: anarchist geography
subject: prefiguration
subject: infrastructures
subject: PhD

description: This thesis is a theoretical and empirical journey into the more-than-human worlds of countercultural back-to-the-land farmers: radical environmentalists who migrate to rural places and take up farming as a way of living. It investigates their everyday life and relations to the land as a key dimension of their political radicalism and it interrogates the transformative potential of a back-to-the-land way of living. It does so by examining their lived experience of (post)migration and by paying attention to their affective experiences, encounters and everyday doings with the land and the non-human beings, objects and forces that are enrolled and shape their everyday life. The thesis is based upon a situated, yet empirically rich, (auto)ethnographic account of the researcher’s own back-to-the-land journey from the UK to southern Italy and her experience and practice as a back-to-the-land farmer. On a conceptual level, the thesis brings together more-than-human and anarchist geography to conceptualise the becomings and doings of back-to-the-land farmers in relational and more-than-human terms. More specifically, it draws upon the “more-than-human turn” in geographical theory to move beyond the human-centric frameworks of a (re)emerging anarchist geography. The thesis develops a distinctive theoretical trajectory that rethinks the subjects and transformative potentiality of anarchist prefigurative politics by foregrounding and attending to the agency of place, non-human beings and infrastructures. This thesis offers a thick ethnographic account of the affective experiences and contextual dimensions of back-to-the-land migration and everyday living, and it generates novel insights into the back-to-the-land movement. More specifically, it problematises the instrumental rationality that is often associated with radical subjects like back-to-the-land farmers, and it reveals the importance of intimate and radical connections and affective (dis)attachments in their becoming. Moreover, it rethinks the back-to-the-land movement from a lifestyle to a form-of-life, a whole way of living based on values, knowledge, skills and practices of ecological care, (self-)sufficiency and animal autonomy, and it draws attention to two generous infrastructures that it generates.
EulerianLagrangian Modeling of Current-Induced Coastal Sand Dune Migration
Creators: name: R. Sun, J. Wang
Publisher: name: Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society
Year: 2014
Subjects: Sediment transport
Fluidparticle interaction
Computational fluid dynamics
Sand dune migration

description: The Geotechnical Engineering Journal of the SEAGS & AGSSEA, 45, 4, pp 15-28
A STUDY OF THE ROLE OF CYTOKINES IN ACUTE PANCREATITIS IN MAN
Creators: name: Smithies, Alison Marie
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 2001

description: Introduction: Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory disease with a diverse aetiology and variable clinical course. The IL-l gene cluster has been implicated in this disease. Aims: The aims of the study were to investigate polymorphisms of the genes encoded within the IL-l gene cluster in patients with acute pancreatitis and normal controls and to determine the relationship between the polymorphisms and protein levels. Methods: Genotype and allele frequencies were determined in controls (n=217) and patients with acute pancreatitis (n=137) using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) followed by digestion with restriction endonucleases where applicable. Protein levels were determined using in vitro stimulation of PBMCs followed by Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA). Patients were categorised according to severity, organ failure scores and aetiology. Results: Allele l of the VNTR86 polymorphism in the IL-l RN gene was significantly increased in the severe group of patients compared to controls (81.9% vs 63.0%, x2=9.38, p=0.002, Pc=0.004) and in the idiopathic group compared to controls (82.4% vs 63.0%, x2=9.33, p=0.002, Pc=0.004). The polymorphisms within the genes and between the genes were strongly linked. Significantly more of the Mspl-VLP-VNTR86-Sspl 2-3-2-2 haplotype was observed in the control (15.7% vs 0.1%, x2 =2528.11, p<0.000000l, Pc<0.0000001) and patient (14.0% VS 0.1%, x2 =4368.10, p<0.000000l, Pc<0.0000004) populations than expected. Significantly more of the Pstl-Aval-Alul-Taql 2-2-2-1 haplotype was observed in controls (27.7% vs 9.7%, x2 =31.39, p<0.000000l, Pc<0.0000005) and patients (12.5% vs 2.0%, x2=53.69, p<0.000000l, Pc=0.0000007) than expected. Preferential combinations of the genotypes existed within controls and patients. The median IL-lα and IL-lβ protein levels from unstimulated PBMCs were significantly increased in patients compared to controls: median values (interquartile range). In the IL-lα study, significant differences were found at 24 hours: 193.5 (127.5-363.5) pg/ml vs 1.0 (0.0-3.0) pg/ml, p=0.005, 48 hours: 256.5 (171.5-417.0) pg/ml vs 6.5 (2.0-16.0) pg/ml, p=0.006 and at 72 hours: 210.5 (138-427) pg/ml vs 0.5 (0-7) pg/ml, p=0.005. In the IL-l β study, significant differences were found at 24 hours: 663 (507-782) pg/ml vs 12 (5-53) pg/ml, p=0.004, 48 hours: 620 (570-1080) pg/ml vs 14.5 (11-36) pg/ml, p=0.004 and at 72 hours: 545.5 (442-771) pg/ml vs 12.5 (2-43) pg/ml, p=0.006. Conclusion: Polymorphisms of the IL-l gene cluster are associated with susceptibility to and/or severity of the acute pancreatitis. Polymorphisms within the IL-l gene cluster are in linkage disequilibrium. Unstimulated PBMCs from patients with acute pancreatitis secrete significantly more IL-la and IL-IP protein levels compared to those from controls. The (AC)n, Alu I and VNTR86 polymorphisms do not correspond to differences in functional protein levels.