cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Identification of chemosensory receptor genes in Manduca sexta and knockdown by RNA interference
Creators: name: Izquierdo, Denisse
name: Sanghavi, Sweta
name: Afroz, Anika
name: Aslam, Aanam
name: Barbaro, Marissa
name: Blutstein, Rebekah
name: Borovka, Margarita
name: Desire, Brianna
name: Elikhis, Ayala
name: Fan, Qing
name: Hoffman, Katherine
name: Huang, Amy
name: Keefe, Dominique
name: Lopatin, Sarah
name: Miller, Samara
name: Patel, Priyata
name: Rizzini, Danielle
name: Robinson, Alyssa
name: Rokins, Karimah
name: Turlik, Aneta
name: Mansfield, Jennifer Helen
name: Islam, Fahmida
name: Howlett, Natalie
name: Dauber, Katherine L.
name: Shukla, Aditi
name: Morton, Brian
name: Glendinning, John I.
name: Brent, Elyssa
name: Gleason, Caroline
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Entomology

description: Insects detect environmental chemicals via a large and rapidly evolving family of chemosensory receptor proteins. Although our understanding of the molecular genetic basis for Drosophila chemoreception has increased enormously in the last decade, similar understanding in other insects remains limited. The tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, has long been an important model for insect chemosensation, particularly from ecological, behavioral, and physiological standpoints. It is also a major agricultural pest on solanaceous crops. However, little sequence information and lack of genetic tools has prevented molecular genetic analysis in this species. The ability to connect molecular genetic mechanisms, including potential lineage-specific changes in chemosensory genes, to ecologically relevant behaviors and specializations in M. sexta would be greatly beneficial. Here, we sequenced transcriptomes from adult and larval chemosensory tissues and identified chemosensory genes based on sequence homology. We also used dsRNA feeding as a method to induce RNA interference in larval chemosensory tissues. We report identification of new chemosensory receptor genes including 17 novel odorant receptors and one novel gustatory receptor. Further, we demonstrate that systemic RNA interference can be used in larval olfactory neurons to reduce expression of chemosensory receptor transcripts. Together, our results further the development of M. sexta as a model for functional analysis of insect chemosensation.
title: LISPWAL : Lithospheric structure of the Namibian Continental passive margin at the intersection with the Walvis Ridge from amphibious seismic investigations ; November 2010 - January 2011 Namibia
Creators: name: Ryberg, T.
name: Haberland, C.
name: Weber, Michael
name: Jokat, Wilfried
name: Behrmann, Jan
name: Gassner, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
Year: 2014

description: Scientific Technical Report - Data ; 14/12
description: GIPP Experiment- and Data Archive
The connection between professional magazines and the research literature
Creators: name: Dobre, Silvia
name: Herbert, Rachel
name: Hicks, Diana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This preliminary exploration of the characteristics of the trade press lays the groundwork for our future analysis of patterns of impact of scholarly literature on professional literature. We have established that a substantial number of trade serials are indexed in Scopus, and so their references are accessible for analysis. We have argued that the trade press is not a homogeneous category and have identified meaningful dimensions on which titles differ. Finally, we have established that the trade press, even consumer magazines, does reference academic literature. The rich dataset that we have built promises to reveal important information about research that reaches application in professional work. We also intend to speak with the recipients of trade serials on their interaction with this knowledge to better understand this pathway and to validate these results.
A Scientific Data Center Perspective on Publishing Data
Creators: name: Downs, Robert R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Information science
Computer science

description: Answers to questions about publishing scientific data are offered and include, a description of the organization and role, a definition of publishing data, and descriptions of the scientific data center role, how data are published at the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), challenges with publishing data, and minimum requirements for publishing data.
Earth Science Informatics Community Requirements for Improving Sustainable Science Software Practices: User Perspectives and Implications for Organizational Action
Creators: name: Downs, Robert R.
name: Lenhardt, W. Christopher
name: Robinson, Erin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Information science
Computer science

description: Science software is integral to the scientific process and must be developed and managed in a sustainable manner to ensure future access to scientific data and related resources. Organizations that are part of the scientific enterprise, as well as members of the scientific community who work within these entities, can contribute to the sustainability of science software and to practices that improve scientific community capabilities for science software sustainability. As science becomes increasingly digital and therefore, dependent on software, improving community practices for sustainable science software will contribute to the sustainability of science. Members of the Earth science informatics community, including scientific data producers and distributers, end-user scientists, system and application developers, and data center managers, use science software regularly and face the challenges and the opportunities that science software presents for the sustainability of science. To gain insight on practices needed for the sustainability of science software from the science software experiences of the Earth science informatics community, an interdisciplinary group of 300 community members were asked to engage in simultaneous roundtable discussions and report on their answers to questions about the requirements for improving scientific software sustainability. This paper will present an analysis of the issues reported and the conclusions offered by the participants. These results provide perspectives for science software sustainability practices and have implications for actions that organizations and their leadership can initiate to improve the sustainability of science software.
Increasing Institutional Capacity to Respond to Performance Funding: What States Can Do
Creators: name: Community College Research Center
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Community college students--Education
Community colleges

description: Based on CCRC research on institutional responses to state performance funding policies, this brief reviews how states developing performance funding systems can support public colleges and universities so that these institutions have the capacity to identify and analyze barriers to student completion, and develop and implement meaningful solutions.
A Case for Travel: Unpacking Teachers’ Perceptions of the Transformative Effects of their Intercultural Experiences
Creators: name: Mullan, Joy M. A.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study explored teachers’ perceptions of long-term personal and professional transformations brought about by teaching overseas. Existing research suggests that educational sojourns have many benefits. To date, however, most studies in the field have involved students and pre-service teachers, often with a specific focus such as language development. The research involved six teachers, working in the English education system, who had travelled to teach overseas earlier in their careers. Their perceptions of the transformative effects of these experiences were explored through the lenses of intercultural learning and transformative learning theory. The methods which were used prioritised participant voice, including stimulated recall interviews and tasks informed by literature from the field. The narrative analysis of the data drew on domains identified through the lenses, categorising the findings into transformations which could be seen as affective, cognitive and behavioural. The findings showed that all the participants identified transformations which had benefited them. Although the participants’ sojourns were very varied, they were all seen to have brought about positive and long- term effects, both personally and professionally. These were unique to each individual, but there were also commonalities. Practical changes included becoming more adaptable and developing a more sustainable lifestyle. Participants’ knowledge, understanding and awareness developed, in relation to themselves, other people, their professional role and the wider world. The ways in which their experience had benefited their learners were also identified. The findings of the research suggest that more opportunities for sojourns should be made available to teachers, along with widening awareness of the advantages, so that practitioners, and their learners, are able to benefit.
Using LNS8801, a GPER agonist, to treat GRM1+ melanoma in a transgenic mouse model
Creators: name: Marinaro, Christina N.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: Melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer. The American Cancer Society estimated that over 100,000 new cases will be diagnosed and there will be over 7,000 deaths from the disease in 2020. There are several signaling pathways critical for the onset and progression of this deadly disease. The sex hormone, estrogen, has been shown to act directly on melanocytes through G-protein coupled estrogen receptors (GPER). This interaction results in increased pigmentation and differentiation in melanocytes to establish a protective effect against cellular transformation. The activation and subsequent signaling cascades associated with GPER are unique to melanocytes and do not overlap with the classical estrogen pathways. Linnaeus Therapeutics Inc. has identified and isolated a unique isomer, LNS8801 as the active component of the GPER agonist G-1. Previous studies with LNS8801 in melanoma allograft mouse models showed a reduction in tumor progression and a lasting protective activity upon secondary challenge of the same tumor cells. Our lab was the first to show that ectopic expression of a normal neuronal receptor, metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 (mGluR1/GRM1) in melanocytes is sufficient to transform cells in vitro and induce tumors in vivo. We established two transgenic mouse models, TG-3 and TGS, with aberrant GRM1 expression that develop metastatic melanoma spontaneously with 100% penetrance. In this project we propose to use the unique TGS mouse model and treat the animals with LNS8801 over 32 weeks to see the consequences of activated GPER. Furthermore, to emulate exposure to the natural carcinogen, UV radiation, most people endure every day, we will expose mice to UV throughout the study. Possible alterations in disease progression will be monitored by a small animal imaging system (IVIS). Several key protein markers shown earlier to be involved in GPER signaling will be evaluated by Western blots in excised tumor tissue samples. Finally, cytokine analysis will also be performed to examine possible changes in levels of cytokines, two specific ones, interlukin-10 (IL-10) and interferon gamma (IFN-γ), shown in previous investigations.
Infant feeding practices at routine PMTCT sites, South Africa: results of a prospective observational study amongst HIV exposed and unexposed infants - birth to 9 months
Creators: name: Kuhn, Louise
name: Chopra, Mickey
name: Colvin, Mark
name: Sanders, David
name: Jackson, Debra J.
name: Goga, Ameena E.
name: Doherty, Tanya
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Epidemiology

description: We sought to investigate infant feeding practices amongst HIV-positive and -negative mothers (0-9 months postpartum) and describe the association between infant feeding practices and HIV-free survival. Infant feeding data from a prospective observational cohort study conducted at three (of 18) purposively-selected routine South African PMTCT sites, 2002-2003, were analysed. Infant feeding data (previous 4 days) were gathered during home visits at 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 36 weeks postpartum. Four feeding groups were of interest, namely exclusive breastfeeding, mixed breastfeeding, exclusive formula feeding and mixed formula feeding. Cox proportional hazards models were fitted to investigate associations between feeding practices (0-12 weeks) and infant HIV-free survival. Six hundred and sixty five HIV-positive and 218 HIV-negative women were recruited antenatally and followed-up until 36 weeks postpartum. Amongst mothers who breastfed between 3 weeks and 6 months postpartum, significantly more HIV-positive mothers practiced exclusive breastfeeding compared with HIV-negative: at 3 weeks 130 (42%) versus 33 (17%) (p < 0.01); this dropped to 17 (11%) versus 1 (0.7%) by four months postpartum. Amongst mothers practicing mixed breastfeeding between 3 weeks and 6 months postpartum, significantly more HIV-negative mothers used commercially available breast milk substitutes (p < 0.02) and use of these peaked between 9 and 12 weeks. The probability of postnatal HIV or death was lowest amongst infants living in the best resourced site who avoided breastfeeding, and highest amongst infants living in the rural site who stopped breastfeeding early (mean and standard deviations: 10.7% ± 3% versus 46% ± 11%). Although feeding practices were poor amongst HIV-positive and -negative mothers, HIV-positive mothers undertake safer infant feeding practices, possibly due to counseling provided through the routine PMTCT programme. The data on differences in infant outcome by feeding practice and site validate the WHO 2009 recommendations that site differences should guide feeding practices amongst HIV-positive mothers. Strong interventions are needed to promote exclusive breastfeeding (to 6 months) with continued breastfeeding thereafter amongst HIV-negative motherswho are still the majority of mothers even in high HIV prevalence setting like South Africa.
Predicting the likelihood of resubmission (T1) after first failure at T0: A model for broadening the role of peer review for ECRs
Creators: name: Derrick, Gemma E.
name: Zimmermann, Alessandra
name: Greaves, Helen
name: Klavans, Richard
name: Best, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The results showed that 50% of unsuccessful applicants at T0 reapplied at T1, with 35% of these achieving success with this reapplication. This provides an opportunity for future research focusing on this analytical space to understand the function of peer review and the effect that an applicant’s experience with peer review, may play in their likelihood of pursuing a research career within academic and/or resubmitting a future funding application. This provides an opportunity to expand the understanding of peer review as it is currently conceptualised away from solely a selection tool, to one that can more holistically mobilise peer reviewer reports to act as feedback towards improving submissions and increasing the potential for success at T1 (participation/development). This re-imagining of peer review would also work to support applicants to persist in their academic careers and/or develop their research agenda even in the event of an unsuccessful outcome. Considering that within the current peer review decision-making processes that the majority of applicants are unsuccessful, extending the function of peer review to include stronger developmental and participation elements could have wide ranging benefits to how research culture supports researcher generally, as well as at the early stages of their careers.
Seismic constraints on rotation of Sun-like star and mass of exoplanet
Creators: name: Gizon, Laurent
name: Ballot, Jérome
name: Michel, Eric
name: Stahn, Thorsten
name: Vauclair, Gérard
name: Bruntt, Hans
name: Quirion, Pierre-Olivier
name: Benomar, Othman
name: Vauclair, Sylvie
name: Appourchaux, Thierry
name: Auvergne, Michel
name: Baglin, Annie
name: Barban, Caroline
name: Baudin, Fréderic
name: Bazot, Michaël
name: Campante, Tiago
name: Catala, Claude
name: Chaplin, William
name: Creevey, Orlagh
name: Deheuvels, Sébastien
name: Dolez, Noël
name: Elsworth, Yvonne
name: García, Rafael
name: Gaulme, Patrick
name: Mathis, Stéphane
name: Mathur, Savita
name: Mosser, Benoît
name: Régulo, Clara
name: Roxburgh, Ian
name: Salabert, David
name: Samadi, Réza
name: Sato, Kumiko
name: Verner, Graham
name: Hanasoge, Shravan
name: Sreenivasan, Katepalli R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rotation is thought to drive cyclic magnetic activity in the Sun and Sun-like stars. Stellar dynamos, however, are poorly understood owing to the scarcity of observations of rotation and magnetic fields in stars. Here, inferences are drawn on the internal rotation of a distant Sun-like star by studying its global modes of oscillation. We report asteroseismic constraints imposed on the rotation rate and the inclination of the spin axis of the Sun-like star HD 52265, a principal target observed by the CoRoT satellite that is known to host a planetary companion. These seismic inferences are remarkably consistent with an independent spectroscopic observation (rotational line broadening) and with the observed rotation period of star spots. Furthermore, asteroseismology constrains the mass of exoplanet HD 52265b. Under the standard assumption that the stellar spin axis and the axis of the planetary orbit coincide, the minimum spectroscopic mass of the planet can be converted into a true mass of 1.85 (+0.52,-0.42) M_Jupiter, which implies that it is a planet, not a brown dwarf.
description: Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables). Available at http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1303291110
Order Management The user and provider perspective
Creators: name: Testi, Debora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Presentation on the different access that providers can give when onboarding a service in the EOSC MarketPlace. For the different cases how the users can request the service and how the request will be managed in the back office is described. At the end some statistics on the orders received so far from the EOSC Marletplace are reported.
Water and Sanitation Needs Assessment for Blantyre City, Malawi
Creators: name: Maoulidi, Moumie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Regional planning

description: Malawi is a country endowed with a large network of surface water bodies, including Lake Malawi (28,750 km2), Lake Malombe (303 km2), Lake Chilwa (683 km2) and numerous rivers. Yet, the Blantyre Water Board (BWB) has been struggling to provide regular water supply to the residents of the country’s commercial capital, Blantyre, mainly because rapid population growth is outstripping supply. The city of Blantyre relies on two extraction and treatment plants for water supply, Walker’s Ferry and Mudi Dam, but these two plants were designed to produce water for a much smaller population than the estimated 2012 population of 783,296 people. Sanitation is particularly problematic in low-income areas where pit latrine and septic tank emptying services have until recently been irregular. The introduction of some promising new pumping technologies is alleviating this situation.
Energy spectra of KASCADE-Grande based on shower size measurements and different hadronic interaction models
Creators: name: Kang, D.
name: Apel, W. D.
name: Arteaga-Velazquez, J. C.
name: Bekk, K.
name: Bertaina, M.
name: Bluemer, J.
name: Bozdog, H.
name: Brancus, I. M.
name: Cantoni, E.
name: Chiavassa, A.
name: Cossavella, F.
name: Curcio, C.
name: Daumiller, K.
name: de Souza, V.
name: Di Pierro, F.
name: Doll, P.
name: Engel, R.
name: Engler, J.
name: Fuchs, B.
name: Fuhrmann, D.
name: Gils, H. J.
name: Glasstetter, R.
name: Grupen, C.
name: Haungs, A.
name: Heck, D.
name: Hoerandel, J. R.
name: Huber, D.
name: Huege, T.
name: Kampert, K. -H.
name: Klages, H. O.
name: Link, K.
name: Luczak, P.
name: Ludwig, M.
name: Mathes, H. J.
name: Mayer, H. J.
name: Melissas, M.
name: Milke, J.
name: Mitrica, B.
name: Morello, C.
name: Oehlschlaeger, J.
name: Ostapchenko, S.
name: Palmieri, N.
name: Petcu, M.
name: Pierog, T.
name: Rebel, H.
name: Roth, M.
name: Schieler, H.
name: Schoo, S.
name: Schroeder, F. G.
name: Sima, O.
name: Toma, G.
name: Trinchero, G. C.
name: Ulrich, H.
name: Weindl, A.
name: Wochele, D.
name: Wochele, J.
name: Collaboration, J. Zabierowski - KASCADE-Grande
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: KASCADE-Grande is dedicated for investigations of cosmic-ray air showers in the primary energy range from 10 PeV to 1 EeV. The multi-detector system allows us to reconstruct charged particles, electron and muon numbers for individual air showers with high accuracies. Based on the shower size ($N_{ch}$) spectra of the charged particle component, the all-particle energy spectrum of cosmic rays is reconstructed, where attenuation effects in the atmosphere are corrected by applying the constant intensity cut method. The energy calibration is performed by using CORSIKA simulations with high-energy interaction models QGSJET-II-2, QGSJET-II-4, EPOS 1.99 and SIBYLL 2.1, where FLUKA has been used as low-energy interaction model for all cases. In the different hadronic models, different abundances for shower particles are predicted. Such model differences in the observables will be compared and discussed in this contribution. Furthermore, by using data with increasing statistics, the updated energy spectra by means of different interaction models will be presented.
description: 4 pages, paper presented at the International Cosmic Ray Conference, Rio De Janeiro, 2013, paper ID 0521
Mental health disparities between Roma and non-Roma children in Romania and Bulgaria
Creators: name: Lee, Eric J.
name: Keyes, Katherine M.
name: Bitfoi, Adina
name: Mihova, Zlatka
name: Pez, Ondine
name: Yoon, Elisha
name: Masfety, Viviane
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The Roma population, one of the largest minority groups in Europe, experience discrimination and stigma associated with marginalized social position. Few studies have examined mental illnesses in the Roma, and none have examined the Roma children. The present study estimates mental health and behavioral disorders among Roma children in comparison to non-Roma children in educational institutions. Data were drawn from the School Children Mental Health Study in Europe (SCHME) study in Romania (Roma children identified by parent report, N = 70; non-Roma, N = 925) and Bulgaria (Roma children identified by exclusively-Roma schools, N = 65; non-Roma, N = 1312). The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire was given to the parents and teachers to measure child mental health; children reported on their mental health through the Dominique Interactive. Control covariates included child sex and age, and parental characteristics when parent reports were available. Based on the child’s own report, Roma children had a higher odds of any internalizing disorder (OR = 2.99, 95% C.I. 2.07–4.30), phobias (OR = 4.84, 95% C.I. 3.19–7.35), separation anxiety disorder (OR = 2.54, 95% C.I. 1.72–3.76), generalized anxiety disorder (OR = 2.95, 95% C.I. 1.75–4.96), and major depressive disorder (OR = 3.86, 95% C.I. 2.31–6.37). Further Roma children had a higher odds of any externalizing disorder (OR = 2.84, 95% C.I. 1.78–4.54), oppositional defiant disorder (OR = 3.35, 95% C.I. 1.93–5.82), ADHD (OR = 2.37, 95% C.I. 1.26–4.46), and conduct disorder (OR = 3.63, 95% C.I. 2.04–6.46). Based on the report of teachers, Roma children had higher odds of emotional problems (OR = 2.03, 95% C.I. 1.20-3.44), peer-relational problems (OR = 2.76, 95% C.I. 1.73-4.41) and prosocial behavior (OR = 2.75, 95% C.I. 1.75-4.33). Roma children experience a higher burden of mental health problems compared with their non-Roma counterparts. Attention to child health and mental health among the Roma is urgently needed, as these children experience a constellation of health problems associated with poverty as well as experiences of stigma and discrimination.
title: Seismogenesis at Hikurangi Integrated Research Experiment (SHIRE) Report of RV Tangaroa cruise TAN1710, 23 Oct-20 Nov 2017
Creators: name: Barker, Dan H.N.
name: van Avendonk, Harm J.A.
name: Fujie, G.
Publisher: name: GNS Science
Year: 2019

description: In October and November 2017, The R/V Tangaroa was engaged in a large onshore-offshore seismic experiment on the Hikurangi margin of North Island, New Zealand, with a team of scientists from New Zealand, the United States, and Japan. This data acquisition campaign was part of the SHIRE project (“Seismogenesis at Hikurangi Integrated Research Experiment”). The goals of this Earth science project were: 1) to obtain constraints on the deep structure of the Hikurangi margin, with an emphasis on Raukumara peninsula in the north, and 2) to record seismicity over several months. During the marine seismic experiment, we used the acoustic source and streamer of the US academic research vessel R/V Marcus Langseth (cruise MGL1708) to gather marine seismic reflection and refraction data. Another group of scientists deployed seismographs on the Raukumara peninsula to record the acoustic source of the Langseth, as well as local earthquakes. The R/V Tangaroa took part in the SHIRE project to deploy and recover a fleet of 100 short-period ocean-bottom seismometers (OBSs) from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). Cruise TAN1710 of the New Zealand vessel R/V Tangaroa started with mobilization on October 23, 2017, in Wellington. The objective of TAN1710 was to deploy and recover OBSs at 114 sites along four major lines. SHIRE Line 1 is oriented NW–SE between the Bay of Plenty and the northern Hikurangi Trough. Land seismometers on the Raukumara peninsula section of this transect recorded the Langseth source as well. SHIRE Line 2 is a margin-crossing transect on the southern Hikurangi margin, while Line 3 and Line 4 are two margin-parallel lines on the continental shelf and on the Hikurangi Plateau, respectively. The science team on board the R/V Tangaroa first dropped 93 instruments on the four transects by October 29. After the R/V Marcus Langseth started surveying these geophysical transects on November 1, 21 of the instruments from Line1 and Line 3 were repositioned on SHIRE Line 4. The last OBS was recovered on November 15. Thanks to the dedicated work of all science teams, especially the JAMSTEC group and the officers and crew of the R/V Tangaroa, all OBS instruments were retrieved with excellent data. The R/V Tangaroa returned to Wellington on November 19, and equipment was demobilized on November 20. TAN1710 was the first of three voyages undertaking OBS operations in cooperation with seismic work by RV Marcus G Langseth and was also referred to as ORCSS1 (Ocean bottom seismograph deployment and ReCovery in support of Seismic Surveys). Two other RV Tangaroa voyages undertook OBS deployment (TAN1712) and recovery (TAN1803) activities in conjunction with the NZ3D seismic survey offshore Gisborne (ORCSS2 and ORCSS3, respectively). (auth)
On the He burning phases of the Carina dSph
Creators: name: Fabrizio, M.
name: Pietrinferni, A.
name: Bono, G.
name: Stetson, P. B.
name: Walker, A. R.
name: Buonanno, R.
name: Cassisi, S.
name: Ferraro, I.
name: Iannicola, G.
name: Monelli, M.
name: Nonino, M.
name: Pulone, L.
name: Thevénin, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed a detailed comparison between predicted He burning phases and multiband photometry of the Carina dwarf spheroidal galaxy. We found a good agreement with the predictions computed assuming an α-enhanced chemical mixture, indicating a mean metallicity [Fe/H] ~ -1.8 with a raw observed peak-to-peak spread in iron abundance of 0.4\pm0.2 dex.
description: Proceeding of the conference: EWASS 2012 - Stellar Populations: 55 years after the Vatican conference
Identifying gender stereotyping using text analysis
Creators: name: Van den Besselar, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: The analysis presented in this paper suggest that text analysis is a promising and relevant line of research for science studies. With the indicators for gender stereotyping deployed in this paper, we were able to identify different levels of gender stereotyping in panels which do moderately strong correlate with the levels of gender bias in the outcomes of the decision-making process. In the mediation analysis we found that language use in the review reports - and consequently gender stereotyping – explains a large part of the effect of gender on the panel scores. Language use indicates the (implicit) opinions of panel members and reviewers about what the position of women in science should be, and this translates into the gender differences in the scores male and female applicants receive and in the final outcome of the selection process. If this is correct, the process of selecting panel members may need to become much more sensitive to levels of gender stereotyping. Additionally, we addressed gender differences self-presentation: are there differences between men and women in language use in the grant proposals. This seems somewhat the case, and also here we found that part of the gender differences in the panel scores may be due to these differences in language use. One should be aware that we here only looked at some language differences between men and women, and that other aspects of gendered language use need to be included to derive a reliable picture. Further research will test possible improvements of the stereotyping variables, and also include other linguistic characteristics of the texts. Due to size restrictions, we cannot discuss this more in detail in this short paper. Another extension of the paper would be the use of more extended models, which may combine the text analysis of grant applications and of review reports with other aspects of the evaluation process, such as the composition of the decision-making panels and committees, and the specific procedures in which the (evaluative) texts play a role.
What will blue compact dwarf galaxies evolve into?
Creators: name: Meyer, Hagen T.
name: Lisker, Thorsten
name: Janz, Joachim
name: Papaderos, Polychronis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present and analyse the photometric properties of a nearly complete sample of blue compact dwarf (BCD) and irregular galaxies in the Virgo cluster from multi-band SDSS images. Our study intends to shed light on the ongoing debate of whether a structural evolution from present-day star-forming dwarf galaxies in a cluster environment into ordinary early-type dwarf galaxies is possible based on the structural properties. For this purpose, we decompose the surface brightness profiles of the BCDs into the luminosity contribution of the starburst component and that of their underlying low surface brightness (LSB) host. The latter dominates the stellar mass of the BCD. We find that the LSB-components of the Virgo BCDs are structurally compatible with the more compact half of the Virgo early-type dwarfs, except for a few extreme BCDs. Thus, after termination of starburst activity, the BCDs will presumably fade into galaxies that are structurally similar to ordinary early-type dwarfs. In contrast, the irregulars are more diffuse than the BCDs and are structurally similar to the more diffuse half of the Virgo early-type dwarfs. Therefore, the present-day Virgo irregulars are not simply non-starbursting BCDs. If starbursts in cluster BCDs are transient phenomena with a duration of ~100 Myr or less, during which the galaxies could not travel more than ~100 kpc, then a substantial number of non-starbursting counterparts of these systems must populate the same spatial volume, namely the Virgo cluster outskirts. The majority of them would have to be early-type dwarfs, based on the abundance of different galaxy types with similar colours and structural parameters to the LSB-components of the BCDs. However, most Virgo BCDs have redder LSB-host colours and a less prominent starburst than typical field BCDs, preventing a robust conclusion on possible oscillations between BCDs and early-type dwarfs.
description: Accepted to A&A. 22 pages, incl. 15 figures
Self-consistent description of single-particle levels of magic nuclei
Creators: name: Gnezdilov, N. V.
name: Borzov, I. N.
name: Saperstein, E. E.
name: Tolokonnikov, S. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single-particle levels of seven magic nuclei are calculated within the Energy Density Functional (EDF) method by Fayans et al. Three versions of the EDF are used, the initial Fayans functional DF3 and its two variations, DF3-a and DF3-b, with different values of spin-orbit parameters. Comparison is made with predictions of the Skyrme-Hartree-Fock method with the HFB-17 functional. For the DF3-a functional, phonon coupling (PC) corrections to single-particle energies are found self-consistently with an approximate account for the tadpole diagram. Account for the PC corrections improves agreement with the data for heavy nuclei, e.g. for 208 Pb. On the other hand, for lighter nuclei, e.g. 40,48 Ca, PC corrections make the agreement a little worse. As estimations show, the main reason is that the approximation we use for the tadpole term is less accurate for the light nuclei.
description: 14 pages, 16 figures, 15 tables
The mental health and psychosocial problems of survivors of torture and genocide in Kurdistan, Northern Iraq: A brief qualitative study
Creators: name: Bolton, Paul
name: Michalopoulos, Lynn T. M.
name: Ahmed, Ahmed Mohammed Amin
name: Murray, Laura K.
name: Bass, Judith
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Mental health
Epidemiology

description: Background: From 1986-9, the Kurdish population of Iraqi Kurdistan was subjected to an intense campaign of military action, and genocide by the central Iraq government. This campaign, referred to as the Anfal, included systematic attacks consisting of aerial bombings, mass deportation, imprisonment, torture, and chemical warfare. It has been estimated that around 200,000 Kurdish people disappeared. Purpose: To gain a better understanding of current priority mental health and psychosocial problems among Kurdish survivors of the Anfal, and to inform the subsequent design of culturally appropriate and relevant assessment instruments and services to address these problems. The study examined 1) the nature and cause of current problems of survivors of torture and/or civilian attacks and their families, 2) what survivors do to address these problems, and 3) what they felt should be done. Methods: We used a grounded theory approach. Free list interviews with a convenience sample (n=42) explored the current problems of Kurdish persons affected by torture. Subsequent key informant interviews (n=21) gathered more detailed information on the priority mental health problem areas identified in the free list interviews. Results: Major mental health problem areas emerging from the free list interviews (and explored in the key informant interviews) included 1) problems directly related to the torture, 2) problems related to the current situation, and 3) problems related to the perception and treatment by others in the community. Problems were similar, but not identical, to Western concepts of depression, anxiety, PTSD and related trauma, and traumatic grief. Conclusion: Iraqi Kurdish torture survivors in Iraq have many mental health and psychosocial problems found among torture survivors elsewhere. The findings suggest that the problems are a result of the trauma experienced as well as current stressors. Development of mental health assessment tools and interventions should therefore address both previous trauma and current stressors.
Hadronic decays of the spin-singlet heavy quarkomium under the principle of maximum conformality
Creators: name: Zhang, Qiong-Lian
name: Wu, Xing-Gang
name: Zheng, Xu-Chang
name: Wang, Sheng-Quan
name: Fu, Hai-Bing
name: Fang, Zhen-Yun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The principle of maximum conformality (PMC) provides a way to eliminate the conventional renormalization scale ambiguity in a systematic way. By applying the PMC scale setting, all non-conformal terms in perturbative series are summed into the running coupling, and one obtains a unique, scale-fixed prediction at any finite order. In the paper, we make a detailed PMC analysis for the spin-singlet heavy quarkoniums decay (into light hadrons) at the next-to-leading order. After applying the PMC scale setting, the decay widths for all those cases are almost independent of the initial renormalization scales. The PMC scales for $η_c$ and $h_c$ decays are below $1$ GeV, in order to achieve a confidential pQCD estimation, we adopt several low-energy running coupling models to do the estimation. By taking the MPT model, we obtain: $Γ(η_{c} \to LH)=25.09^{+5.52}_{-4.28}$ MeV, $Γ(η_{b} \to LH)=14.34^{+0.92}_{-0.84}$ MeV, $Γ(h_{c} \to LH)=0.54^{+0.06}_{-0.04}$ MeV and $Γ(h_{b} \to LH)=39.89^{+0.28}_{-0.46}$ KeV, where the errors are calculated by taking $m_{c}\in[1.40\rm GeV,1.60\rm GeV]$ and $m_{b}\in[4.50\rm GeV,4.70\rm GeV]$. These decay widths agree with the principle of minimum sensitivity estimations, in which the decay widths of $η_{c,b}$ are also consistent with the measured ones.
description: 5 pages, 1 figures. Typos corrected, to be published in Chin.Phys.Lett
Factors influencing the academic career – an event history analysis
Creators: name: Mom, Charlie
name: van den Besselaar, Peter
name: Möller, Torger
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: In this paper we used an event history analysis to investigate whether grants do have an effect on appointments as full professor, and whether there are gender differences in career success. After controlling for several variables (academic performance, faculty, academic age, cum laude), we found that grants and gender do have an effect, and the odds ratios suggest a considerable effect of gender. The Pseudo-R2 of the analysis is 0.1234. The robustness check suggests that most of the findings are not much influenced by the random censoring (the participants leaving the system), but this does not apply to the gender variable: much more women leave the system than men, and therefore the level of gender bias is most likely underestimated. The Pseudo-R2 of the analysis of the robustness check is 0.1895. The findings do suggest that grants are rather influential for academic careers in the Dutch context – even more for women than for men, which means that grant selection should be very valid in order to have fair career chances. Above that, and after controlling for grants and for other performance dimensions, appointments to full professor still show considerable gender bias, at least for the cohorts between 2000 and 2005 – the younger generations of today’s professors. In a next version we will add a few other explanatory variables, like the ERC grants and add the predictive margins for the logistic regression, in order to analyze the effects of gender on the outcomes more in detail.
Römischer Gutshof in Dietikon
Creators: name: Ebnöther, Christa
Publisher: name: Druckerei Markus Hummel & Co.
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: 930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie
subject: 949 Geschichte anderer Teile Europas
subject: Dietikon
subject: Römerzeit
subject: Gut
subject: Funde

description: Mit einer Jahreschronik für Dietikon von November 1991 bis Oktober 1992.
description: Inhalt: Naturräumliche Voraussetzungen ; Die Besiedlung Dietikons in vor- und frühgeschichtlicher Zeit aufgrund der archäologischen Quellen - ein Überblick ; Die römische Zeit: Historischer Hintergrund ; Der römische Gutshof in Dietikon ; Das wirtschaftliche Leben auf dem Gutshof ; Bestattungssitten und Kult.
Mapping and monitoring regional inequalities in Brazil with the ST&I Geography Indicators of the ST&I Observatory
Creators: name: de Matos Macedo, Mariano
name: Badaró de Carvalho, Adriana
name: Alves de Oliveira Lopes, Ivone
name: Rodrigues Martins, João Vitor
name: Figueiredo Pimenta, Matheus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: These are examples of analyzes that can be performed using information and graphs available on the OCTI Platform. The comparison and possible exercises from the visualizations presented, either by the Radar Graphic or by other graphic solutions present on the Indicators page in the OCTI web environment, can provide evidence for the elaboration of public and private initiatives aimed at mitigating the inequalities in ST&I present in the Regions and units of the Brazilian Federation. This Platform will be systematically updated, enabling managers in the federal governments and in the Federation units to take the indicators as references to monitor policies and guide decision-making. More than new data and information, it is an invitation for joint reflection on important themes and challenges for the management and promotion of ST&I in the country, with which, based on the development of monitoring methodologies and systematic analyses, OCTI seeks to contribute.
An anisotropic distribution of spin vectors in asteroid families
Creators: name: Hanuš, J.
name: Brož, M.
name: Ďurech, J.
name: Warner, B. D.
name: Brinsfield, J.
name: Durkee, R.
name: Higgins, D.
name: Koff, R. A.
name: Oey, J.
name: Pilcher, F.
name: Stephens, R.
name: Strabla, L. P.
name: Ulisse, Q.
name: Girelli, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Current amount of ~500 asteroid models derived from the disk-integrated photometry by the lightcurve inversion method allows us to study not only the spin-vector properties of the whole population of MBAs, but also of several individual collisional families. We create a data set of 152 asteroids that were identified by the HCM method as members of ten collisional families, among them are 31 newly derived unique models and 24 new models with well-constrained pole-ecliptic latitudes of the spin axes. The remaining models are adopted from the DAMIT database or the literature. We revise the preliminary family membership identification by the HCM method according to several additional criteria - taxonomic type, color, albedo, maximum Yarkovsky semi-major axis drift and the consistency with the size-frequency distribution of each family, and consequently we remove interlopers. We then present the spin-vector distributions for eight asteroidal families. We use a combined orbital- and spin-evolution model to explain the observed spin-vector properties of objects among collisional families. In general, we observe for studied families similar trends in the (a_p, β) space: (i) larger asteroids are situated in the proximity of the center of the family; (ii) asteroids with β>0° are usually found to the right from the family center; (iii) on the other hand, asteroids with β<0° to the left from the center; (iv) majority of asteroids have large pole-ecliptic latitudes (|β|\gtrsim 30°); and finally (v) some families have a statistically significant excess of asteroids with β>0° or β<0°. Our numerical simulation of the long-term evolution of a collisional family is capable of reproducing well the observed spin-vector properties. Using this simulation, we also independently constrain the age of families Flora (1.0\pm0.5 Gyr) and Koronis (2.5-4 Gyr).
description: Accepted for publication in A&A (September 16, 2013)
Funding Programmes for Internationally Mobile Postdocs: Perceived Impacts on Individuals, Institutions and Society. – An exploratory study
Creators: name: Daniel, Hans-Dieter
name: Bobokova, Jana
name: Mutz, Rüdiger
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This study explored the range of potential impacts of funded long-term research stays perceived by internationally mobile postdocs and their hosts at various levels as broadly as possible, and by using multiple methods. However, if the question was to what extent the perceived impacts were achieved and caused by the funding programme, other methods would need to be applied. One could use, for example, quasi-experiments (e.g. within-group designs) and modern data technology (e.g. propensity score matching) to establish a causal relationship between funding and observed impacts. The presented study outlines a few questions, answers to which can facilitate a future programme design, implementation and subsequent evaluation. At what levels would the funding organisation like to pursue objectives within a funding programme? Should the focus be just on the individual level, arguing, that the individual funding is what is provided? Or, should the focus remain on the individual level but spill-over effects (to the working group, host institution and society) should be considered as well? Or, does the funding organisation want to pursue goals at the individual, working group, institutional and societal level (research system and other aspects of societal life)? Are there overarching objectives that are not specific to a programme or initiative, but to which they contribute together? After the above-mentioned questions have been answered, the suggestion for the funding organisation would be to design or modify programming documents describing the pursued objectives in a narrative way and develop an intervention logic for each funding programme, such as those presented in our research report. For each level, where results would be expected (from the individual to society), the report suggests disentangling the logical chain of changes into outputs, outcomes, programme-specific impacts and overarching impacts. As far as indicators are concerned, ideally, their target values would be set and they would have a reference to baseline values. Additional questions that our study would like to outline, are related to internationalisation@home, socio-economic and socio-political impacts and gender parity: Could research stays of international mobile postdocs coming to a host country for a research stay be used more strongly in future for the internationalisation of universities@home? Should socio-economic and socio-political impacts be explicit goals of funding in the future? Is there a need for a more proactive search for highly qualified women among applicants, reviewers and hosts?
Meet an Intelligent Chauvinist
Creators: name: Hammond, Tamara
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Gender identity
Sex role

description: There is a list of highly intelligent men who are chauvinists. From Buddha to Schopenhauer to Fraud to Thoreau to Einstein – any time, any era, any vanguard.
My first choice is Albert Einstein, the man called a genius and the smartest man on the planet.