cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Advancing Incomplete Algorithms for Maximum Weight Cliques
Creators: name: Fan, Yi
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computing Maximum Weight Cliques
subject: Algorithms
subject: Clustering aggregation
subject: Graph matching
subject: Image co-localization

description: Computing MaximumWeight Cliques (MWC) has many applications in data mining and computer vision including solving graphical models. Among various heuristic methods for MWC, local search is an e ective approach. The local search approach tries to improve the candidate clique by adding, dropping or swapping vertices. It is able to return good solutions in reasonable time periods. In this thesis, we use local search to solve the MWC problem on crafted instances, and then apply the algorithms to solve real-world problems. When we are solving real-world problems, we have to rst model them as an MWC problem and then call an MWC solver. In this modeling process, some domain-speci c knowledge can be much useful in excluding unreasonable solutions or reducing the search space. A considerable proportion of such knowledge can be expressed as a list of mutual exclusion (mutex) constraints, where each mutex constraint indicates that a particular vertex-pair cannot exist in any solution. If we use local search methods, such constraints can reduce the search space and exclude solutions which are unreasonable in real-world. Local search often su ers from the cycling problem, i.e., the search may spend too much time visiting a small area, thus various tabu strategies like con guration checking have been proposed in the literature to deal with this problem. These strategies help improve the intensive search in a promising area. Nevertheless, they may still spend too much time there, so restart is needed to enhance extensive search. Yet current restart strategies are not powerful enough in that they do not restart at a good time point. In this thesis, we propose a cycle estimation-based restart strategy to deal with this problem. It might be the rst time for us to address this fundamental problem of local search. Roughly we use a hash table to detect whether a local optimum is revisited. If so, the search will restart. Also for solving large sparse graphs, we propose e cient data structures as well. Actually when we are solving large graphs, it is a great challenge to maintain the set of neighboring solutions, so we exploit e cient data structures so that our solver can perform steps much faster than previous local search solvers. Empirical studies show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in several application scenarios, which includes clustering aggregation, graph matching and image co-localization. Moreover, our method is parameter-free, so it can easily be used in various application scenarios.
Kink-like Configurations of Interacting Scalar, Electromagnetic, and Gravitational Fields
Creators: name: Kulyabov, D. S.
name: Rybakov, Yu. P.
name: Shikin, G. N.
name: Yuschenko, L. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have obtained exact kink-like static plane-symmetric solutions to the self-consistent system of electromagnetic, scalar, and gravitational field equations. It was shown that under certain choice of the interaction Lagrangian the solutions are regular and have localized energy. The linearized instability of corresponding solutions was established both for the case of flat space-time and that of interaction with the proper gravitational field.
Target Flow-Pressure Operating Range for Designing a Failing Fontan Cavopulmonary Support Device
Creators: name: Farahmand, Masoud
name: Kavarana, Minoo N.
name: Trusty, Phillip M.
name: Kung, Ethan O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Fontan operation as the current standard of care for the palliation of single ventricle defects results in significant late complications. Using a mechanical circulatory device for the right circulation to serve the function of the missing subpulmonary ventricle could potentially stabilize the failing Fontan circulation. This study aims to elucidate the hydraulic operating regions that should be targeted for designing cavopulmonary blood pumps. By integrating numerical analysis and available clinical information, the interaction of the cavopulmonary support via the IVC and full assist configurations with a wide range of simulated adult failing scenarios was investigated; with IVC and full assist corresponding to the inferior venous return or the entire venous return, respectively, being routed through the device. We identified the desired hydraulic operating regions for a cavopulmonary assist device by clustering all head pressures and corresponding pump flows that result in hemodynamic improvement for each simulated failing Fontan physiology. Results show that IVC support can produce beneficial hemodynamics in only a small fraction of failing Fontan scenarios. Cavopulmonary assist device could increase cardiac index by 35% and decrease the inferior vena cava pressure by 45% depending on the patient's pre-support hemodynamic state and surgical configuration of the cavopulmonary assist device (IVC or full support). The desired flow-pressure operating regions we identified can serve as the performance criteria for designing cavopulmonary assist devices as well as evaluating off-label use of commercially available left-side blood pumps for failing Fontan cavopulmonary support.
Climate change impact on the hydrological budget of a large Mediterranean island
Creators: name: S. D. Nerantzaki
name: D. Efstathiou
name: G. V. Giannakis
name: M. Kritsotakis
name: M. G. Grillakis
name: A. G. Koutroulis
name: I. K. Tsanis
name: N. P. Nikolaidis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Crete is a Mediterranean, karst-dominated island, characterized by long drought periods. The Karst-SWAT model, combined with 11 climate change scenarios, was run to assess climate change impacts on the island under two set-ups, both using the auto-irrigation function of the model: (1) with water drawn from the shallow or deep aquifer, and (2) with irrigated water derived from an unlimited outside source. The first set-up provided insight into the fluctuation of future irrigation needs, and when compared to the second set-up, enabled quantification of the future water deficit. The Water Exploitation Index was used to describe the spatial variability of future water stress on Crete. A decrease in both surface and karstic spring flows is foreseen, especially after 2060 (24.2 and 16.5%, respectively). Simulated irrigation water demand and water deficit show continuous increase throughout the projection period (2020–2098).
title: Engaging Maqasid al-Shari`a: Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani's Theory of the Higher Objectives of Islamic Law
Creators: name: Wiramihardja, Rian
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: maqasid al-sharia
subject: islamic law
subject: legal theory
subject: Islam

description: This dissertation aims to shed light on a twentieth century jurist Taqī al-Dīn al-Nabhani (1911 – 1977) and his understanding of the higher objectives of the Islamic law (maqāṣid al-sharī’a). Although al-Nabhānī was an accomplished jurist and scholar who published numerous works in disciplines ranging from theology, jurisprudence to epistemology and political theory, he is most known for founding Hizb al-Tahrīr, an Islamic Political Party that aims to reestablish the caliphate. This study focusses on an aspect of al-Nabhānī’s intellectual engagement which has not been explored by anyone to date, namely his thinking on maqāṣid al-sharī`a. Apart from his political activity, another area which al-Nabhānī extensively engaged with was in Islamic legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh), encapsulated in the third volume of his magnum opus ‘The Islamic Personality’ (al-Shakhṣiyya al-Islāmiyya). In it, he dedicated a chapter to maqāṣid al-sharī’a. The theory of maqāṣid al-sharī’a proposes that the sharī’a itself has higher objectives and purposes which are identified through the process of induction (istiqrā). Al-Nabhānī’s theory offers both a criticism and reformulation of scholarship on maqāṣid al-sharī’a. Having engaged with previous scholarship on the subject, al-Nabhānī asserts that whilst the objective (maqṣad) and wisdom (ḥikma) for a ruling can be observed through the texts (nuṣūṣ), it should not be mistaken as the reason (sabab) for which the ruling was formed, nor the ratio legis (‘illa). Al-Nabhānī’s approach to maqāṣid al-sharī’a is nuanced. Whilst he limits its operative value in qiyās, he expands the scope of the necessary maqāṣid (maqāṣid al-ḍarūriyya) adding another three to the conventional five, namely; the preservation of the state (ḥifẓ al-dawla), the preservation of security (ḥifẓ al-amān) and the preservation of human dignity (ḥifẓ al-Karāma al-insāniyya). From this perspective, al-Nabhānī’s theory emerges as a valuable contribution to current scholarship on maqāṣid al-sharī’a.
A statistical method to detect non-stationarities of gamma-ray burst jets
Creators: name: Budai, Andor
name: Raffai, Peter
name: Borgulya, Balint
name: Dawes, Brian Albert
name: Szeifert, Gabor
name: Varga, Vince
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to detect possible non-stationarities of gamma-ray burst jets. Assuming that the dominant source of variability in the prompt gamma light curve is the non-stationarity of the jet, we show that there should be a connection between the variability measure and the characteristic angle of the jet derived from the jet break time of the afterglow. We carried out Monte Carlo simulations of long gamma-ray burst observations assuming three radial luminosity density profiles for jets and randomizing all burst parameters, and created samples of gamma light curves by simulating jets undergoing Brownian motions with linear restoring forces. We were able to demonstrate that the connection between the variability and the characteristic angle is an anti-correlation in case of uniform and power-law jet profiles, and a correlation in case of a Gaussian profile. We have found that as low as $50$ $(144)$ gamma-ray burst observations with jet angle measurements can be sufficient for a $3σ (5σ) $ detection of the connection. The number of observations required for the detection depends on the underlying jet beam profile, ranging from 50 (144) to 237 (659) for the four specific profile models we tested.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures, published in MNRAS
Myocious orientalis Wahl & Sime 2002, SP. N.
Creators: name: Sime, Karen R.
name: Wahl, David B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Myocious
Myocious orientalis

description: MYOCIOUS ORIENTALIS WAHL & SIME, SP. N.
 Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from other members of the Callajoppa genus-group by the characters given above in the generic description of Myocious.
 Female. Unknown.
 Male. Structure. As in generic description. Colour. Head yellow, the following fuscous: median 0.3 of supra-antennal area; vertex; gena adjacent to occipital carina and mandibular base. Antenna with scape and pedicel dorsally fuscous; flagellum with ventral surface brown, dorsal surface dark brown. Overall colour of mesosoma fuscous, the following yellow: propleuron; flange, dorsal margin, and ventral posterior corner of pronotum; following areas of mesopleuron: anterior margin, subalar ridge, posterior 0.5 of epicnemium, triangular area comprising ventral 0.2 of mesepisternum and extending for 0.5¥ its length; mesopleural venter; two lines extending from notauli to their convergence at mesoscutal apex; median 0.5 of scutellum; anterior margin and central convexity of metanotum; following areas of propodeum: carinae, most of second lateral area, and apical margin. Head and mesosoma with often with reddish yellow region between fuscous and yellow areas. Hind leg overall brownish red; dorsal surface and apical 0.5 of ventral surface of coxa, apical 0.3 of ventral surface of femur, apical 0.1 of tibia, and tarsus except for basal 0.2 of basitarsus, dark brown to fuscous; anterior surfaces of trochanter and trochantellus, basal 0.2 of basitarsus, brownish yellow. Metasoma overall brownish red; basal 0.7 of petiolar dorsum dark brown; T2-5 with pattern of basal fuscous and apical yellow on brownish red ground, fuscous comprising basal 0.5 of T2 and progressively reduced to basal 0.2 on T5. Wings light yellow except for light brown of apical 0.2 of fore wing and apical 0.1 of hind wing. Length. 18.7–20.7 mm (18.7 mm); fore wing 14.5–15.6 mm (14.5 mm).
 Type material. Holotype ♂, INDIA: Uttar Pradesh, Barkot, 4000 ft., 21.v.1967, ‘no. 281’ (Ram) [AEIC]. Condition of holotype: intact except left antenna broken beyond flagellomere 25, tarsomeres 4–5 of right fore leg missing, tarsomeres 2–5 of left hind leg missing, and tarsomere 5 of right hind leg missing. Paratype ♂, INDIA: Uttar Pradesh, Kashi, Ranajeet, 21.v.1967, ‘no. 280’ (Gupta) [AEIC].
 Etymology. From the Latin orientalis, of the east, in reference to the specimens’ place of origin.
description: Published as part of Sime, Karen R. & Wahl, David B., 2002, The cladistics and biology of the Callajoppa genus-group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), pp. 1-56 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00006.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5433957
Pepsijoppa Heinrich 1936
Creators: name: Sime, Karen R.
name: Wahl, David B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Pepsijoppa

description: PEPSIJOPPA HEINRICH, 1936
 Pepsijoppa Heinrich, 1936: 199. Type-species: Trogus gryps Morley. Original designation.
 Species and distribution. There is one species, Pepsijoppa gryps, from sub-Saharan Africa.
 Autapomorphies. Anterior margin of propodeum forming normal groove with metapostnotum (#25–0); areola large and well-defined by constituent carina (#27–0), triangular in shape; propodeum with median longitudinal carinae anteriad anterior transverse carina present (#32–0); propodeum in lateral view with distinguishable dorsal and postero-dorsal faces which meet at an angle (37–0). Alternate combination: #s 25–0, 27–0, and 37–0.
 Comments. Heinrich (1967) discussed the defining characters of Trogini, emphasizing propodeal structure and areolet shape (see above, Classificatory History). Pepsijoppa was ‘rather problematic’ (Heinrich 1967: 238) as it was ‘closest in general appearance’ to the Callajoppina, lacked the characteristic evenly convex propodeal outline and reduced areola (which thus seemed to ‘indicate some relationship to the Protichneumonini’), but yet had cell 1 + 2Rs in the usual callajoppine configuration. Heinrich thought the genus was ‘best placed in the Trogini, without attributing it to one of the two named subtribes. It may perhaps represent an ancient form.’ The analysis, however, shows it to be placed well within the traditional Callajoppina. The species is highly derived and characterized by a suite of reversals.
 Biology. Unknown.
description: Published as part of Sime, Karen R. & Wahl, David B., 2002, The cladistics and biology of the Callajoppa genus-group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), pp. 1-56 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134 (1) on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00006.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5433957
Quadratic minima and modular forms II
Creators: name: Brent, Barry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F11 (Primary) 11E45 (Secondary)

description: We give upper bounds on the size of the gap between a non-zero constant term and the next non-zero Fourier coefficient of an entire level two modular form. We give upper bounds for the minimum positive integer represented by a level two even positive-definite quadratic form. These bounds extend partial results in part I.
description: 7 pages. AMS-TeX. Part I is math.NT/9801072.
Is river-course change associated with the crustal movement ?
Creators: name: Jiang, Jingheng
name: Xiao, Genru
name: Wu, Weicheng
name: Ke, Xinxin
name: He, Yecheng
name: Song, Yifei
name: Zhou, Xiaoting
name: Zhang, Ming
name: Liu, Yixuan
name: Fu, Xiao
name: Li, Jie
name: Peng, Shanling
name: Qin, Yaozu
name: Zhou, Cuimin
name: Li, Yuan
name: Li, Wenjing
name: Tu, Qihong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper presents an integrated study on the effects of human activity, climate change and crustal movement on the changes of the middle reaches of the Tarim River in China. Remote sensing images and rainfall data from 38 stations from 1970 to 2021 were used for the research. The precise point positioning (PPP) approach was applied to ascertain the crustal movement of the study area using 256 Global Positioning System (GPS) station data of the recent 20 years. The results show that in the past 50 years the studied reaches of the river has moved north at maximum 2940 m or 57.9 m on average, and human activity may have played a dominant role in this change though extreme events of climate may have also taken a part in it. However, before the Anthropocene, its northeast migration is likely associated with crustal movement as the basin bottom inclines to northeast.
HighlightsRemote sensing reveals a northeast movement of the Tarim River in China256 GPS station data illustrate a northeast movement and inclination of the Tarim BasinRiver migration is related to human activity, climate change and crustal movementCombination of remote sensing with GPS will be a promising approach for river change analysis Remote sensing reveals a northeast movement of the Tarim River in China 256 GPS station data illustrate a northeast movement and inclination of the Tarim Basin River migration is related to human activity, climate change and crustal movement Combination of remote sensing with GPS will be a promising approach for river change analysis
Spillovers of U.S. Unconventional Monetary Policy to Emerging Markets: The Role of Capital Flows
Creators: name: Anaya, Pablo
name: Hachula, Michael
name: Offermanns, Christian
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Unconventional monetary policy
subject: International capital flows
subject: Global financial cycle
subject: Global VAR
subject: Trilemma vs. dilemma
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft

description: A growing literature stresses the importance of the “global financial cycle”, a common global movement in asset prices and credit conditions, for emerging market economies (EMEs). It is argued that one of the key drivers of this global cycle is monetary policy in the U.S., which is transmitted through international capital flows. In this paper, we add to this discussion and investigate empirically whether U.S. unconventional monetary policy (UMP) between 2008 and 2014 is related to financial conditions in EMEs, and, whether it is transmitted through portfolio flows. We find that a U.S. UMP shock significantly increases portfolio flows from the U.S. to EMEs for almost two quarters. The rise in inflows is accompanied by a persistent increase in several real and financial variables in EMEs. Moreover, we find that, on average, EMEs reacted with an easing of their own monetary policy stance in response to an expansionary U.S. shock.
Rheology and Pinching Dynamics of Associative Polysaccharide Solutions
Creators: name: Narváez, Carina DV Martínez
name: Dinic, Jelena
name: Lu, Xinyu
name: Wang, Chao
name: Rock, Reza
name: Sun, Hao
name: Sharma, Vivek
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2021

description: Associative polysaccharides, decorated by multiple but short, side-chain hydrophobic stickers (typically 6–20 carbon long) that associate in solution, are used as thickeners for an extensive range of aqueous-based formulations. Characterizing and elucidating the influence of stickers on the response to extensional flows that spontaneously arise in pinching necks formed during spraying, jetting, or coating fluids have remained longstanding experimental and analytical challenges due to relatively low viscosity and elasticity of industrially relevant systems. In this contribution, we contrast the shear rheology as well as extensional rheology and pinching dynamics of hydrophobically modified hydroxyethyl cellulose (hmHEC, Mw = 300 kg/mol) as a sticky polymer with the bare chain of a higher molecular weight (hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC), Mw = 720 kg/mol) using the recently developed dripping-onto-substrate (DoS) rheometry protocols. We show that sticker associations enhance zero shear viscosity and relaxation time (elasticity), and both quantities display stronger concentration-dependent variation for sticky polymers. Striking differences are observed in neck shapes, radius evolution profiles, and extensional viscosity plotted as a function of strain as well as strain rate. We present a comprehensive analysis of changes in pinching dynamics, concentration-dependent variation in steady, terminal viscosity as well as filament lifespan as a function of the sticky polymer concentration and describe the influence of multiple stickers on the macromolecular strain, relaxation, and dynamics of associative polysaccharides.
Analysis of Returns and Practices of Florida Fresh Citrus Sales Organizations
Creators: name: Hulse, Fred E.
name: Hulse, Fred E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1959
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the report: Changes in production, demand for fruit, buying practices and sales methods are creating problems for shippers who must formulate a sales program designed to serve their individual needs. An analysis of the sales of various organizations, with emphasis upon sales effectiveness as measured in terms of net returns to shippers at the packed box level, will give shippers information that will be useful in building such a program. This study determined two things: (1) the nature of sales policies and pricing practices of Florida fresh citrus sales organizations, and (2) the relationship between net returns to shippers and various factors which affect the sale of fruit. Interviews with sales personnel of 18 fresh citrus sales organizations and the sales records of 38 packinghouses selling through these organizations provided data for this study.
Xanthosomnium froesei Wahl & Sime 2002, SP. N.
Creators: name: Sime, Karen R.
name: Wahl, David B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Xanthosomnium
Xanthosomnium froesei

description: XANTHOSOMNIUM FROESEI WAHL & SIME, SP. N.
 Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from other members of the Callajoppa genus-group by the characters given above in the generic description of Xanthosomnium, and by the uniformly brownish red colouration and light brown wings.
 Female. Structure. As in generic description. Colour. Uniformly brownish-red except for dark brown of flagellomeres 14–42, and fuscous gastrocoelus. Wings uniformly light brown. Length. 20.2 mm; fore wing 15.6 mm.
 Male. Unknown.
 Type material. Holotype ♀, COSTA RICA: Guanacaste, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Cacao, Cerro Pedregal, 1000 m, ex Cautethia spuria (host larva collected 2.ix.1998, wasp emerged from host pupa 17.x.1998), ‘98-SRNP-3514’ (Pereira) [AEIC]. Condition of holotype: intact except right antenna broken beyond flagellomere 12 (flagellomeres 13–37 mounted on point below specimen).
 Etymology. Named after Edgar Froese, the founder and continuity behind Tangerine Dream.
description: Published as part of Sime, Karen R. & Wahl, David B., 2002, The cladistics and biology of the Callajoppa genus-group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), pp. 1-56 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134 (1) on pages 37-38, DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00006.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5433957
Search with home returns provides advantage under high uncertainty
Creators: name: Pal, Arnab
name: Kuśmierz, Łukasz
name: Reuveni, Shlomi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many search processes are conducted in the vicinity of a favored location, i.e., a home, which is visited repeatedly. Foraging animals return to their dens and nests to rest, scouts return to their bases to resupply, and drones return to their docking stations to recharge or refuel. Yet, despite its prevalence, very little is known about search with home returns as its analysis is much more challenging than that of unconstrained, free-range, search. Here, we develop a theoretical framework for search with home returns. This makes no assumptions on the underlying search process and is furthermore suited to treat generic return and home-stay strategies. We show that the solution to the home-return problem can then be given in terms of the solution to the corresponding free-range problem---which not only reduces overall complexity but also gives rise to a simple, and universal, phase-diagram for search. The latter reveals that search with home returns outperforms free-range search in conditions of high uncertainty. Thus, when living gets rough, a home will not only provide warmth and shelter but also allow one to locate food and other resources quickly and more efficiently than in its absence.
title: Long-Term Temporal Trends of Nosema spp. Infection Prevalence in Northeast Germany
title: Continuous Spread of Nosema ceranae, an Emerging Pathogen of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera), but No General Replacement of Nosema apis
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Gisder, Sebastian
name: Schueler, Vivian
name: Horchler, Lennart L.
name: Groth, Detlef
name: Genersch, Elke
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: honey bee
subject: Apis mellifera
subject: Nosema spp.
subject: epidemiology
subject: replacement
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft

description: The Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is widely used as commercial pollinator in worldwide agriculture and, therefore, plays an important role in global food security. Among the parasites and pathogens threatening health and survival of honey bees are two species of microsporidia, Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae. Nosema ceranae is considered an emerging pathogen of the Western honey bee. Reports on the spread of N. ceranae suggested that this presumably highly virulent species is replacing its more benign congener N. apis in the global A. mellifera population. We here present a 12 year longitudinal cohort study on the prevalence of N. apis and N. ceranae in Northeast Germany. Between 2005 and 2016, a cohort of about 230 honey bee colonies originating from 23 apiaries was sampled twice a year (spring and autumn) resulting in a total of 5,600 bee samples which were subjected to microscopic and molecular analysis for determining the presence of infections with N. apis or/and N. ceranae. Throughout the entire study period, both N. apis- and N. ceranae-infections could be diagnosed within the cohort. Logistic regression analysis of the prevalence data demonstrated a significant increase of N. ceranae-infections over the last 12 years, both in autumn (reflecting the development during the summer) and in spring (reflecting the development over winter) samples. Cell culture experiments confirmed that N. ceranae has a higher proliferative potential than N. apis at 27° and 33°C potentially explaining the increase in N. ceranae prevalence during summer. In autumn, characterized by generally low infection prevalence, this increase was accompanied by a significant decrease in N. apis-infection prevalence. In contrast, in spring, the season with a higher prevalence of infection, no significant decrease of N. apis infections despite a significant increase in N. ceranae infections could be observed. Therefore, our data do not support a general advantage of N. ceranae over N. apis and an overall replacement of N. apis by N. ceranae in the studied honey bee population.
Yeppoona Gauld (Gauld 1984
Creators: name: Sime, Karen R.
name: Wahl, David B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Yeppoona

description: YEPPOONA GAULD, 1984
 Yeppoona Gauld, 1984: 220. Type-species: Yeppoona grandis Gauld. Original designation.
 Autapomorphies. Cell 1 + 2Rs of fore wing anteriorly truncate (#39–0); postpetiole of T1 without distinct median field (#47–1).
 Species and distribution. There is one described species, and five undescribed species [AEIC], all found in northeastern Australia and New Guinea.
 Comments. The female specimen used by Gauld (1984) for his generic description could not be located and so all the specimens at hand were male. Consequently, the amblypygous hypopygium could not be entered into the data matrix.
 Biology. Unknown.
description: Published as part of Sime, Karen R. & Wahl, David B., 2002, The cladistics and biology of the Callajoppa genus-group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), pp. 1-56 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134 (1) on page 38, DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00006.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5433957
title: The gender gap in intergenerational mobility
title: Evidence of educational persistence in Brazil
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Leone, Tharcisio
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Intergenerational Mobility
subject: Educational Persistence
subject: Gender gap
subject: Brazil
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft::337 Weltwirtschaft

description: This paper employs mobility matrices, univariate regressions and multivariate econometric techniques based on the recently published nationally representative household survey (PNAD-2014) from Brazil to investigate the relevance of the gendered patterns in the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment between parents and their descendants. The empirical evidence from these three different approaches is absolutely unanimous: In Brazil there is a significant variation in degree of mobility across genders, with a higher mobility level for daughters than for sons. The reason for this gender gap in mobility lies in the chances of attaining the educational levels: regardless of the educational background of the parents, females have a lower chance of remaining without school certificate and a greater probability to achieve a tertiary education. The results of this paper point out also that the educational attainment of children is strongly associated with the education of their most educated parent, regardless of their gender and this correlation is higher for female than for male. Concerning the evolution of the persistence in education over time, the findings indicate for both sexes a significant increase in intergeneration mobility over the last decades. However this positive evolution is much more modest when the relative deviation in education across generations is excluded from the investigation. Finally, this study has demonstrated that parental occupation levels and individual characteristics (race, locality of residence and year of birth) also have a statistically significant effect on the prospects for mobility.
Axisymmetric versus Non-axisymmetric Vortices in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates
Creators: name: Mizushima, T.
name: Machida, K.
name: Kita, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The structure and stability of various vortices in F=1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensates are investigated by solving the extended Gross-Pitaevskii equation under rotation. We perform an extensive search for stable vortices, considering both axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric vortices and covering a wide range of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions. The topological defect called Mermin-Ho (Anderson-Toulouse) vortex is shown to be stable for ferromagnetic case. The phase diagram is established in a plane of external rotation Omega vs total magnetization M by comparing the free energies of possible vortices. It is shown that there are qualitative differences between axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric vortices which are manifested in the Omega- and M-dependences.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
title: Exercising opportunities to prevent chronic disease: The CAPO Kids trial
Creators: name: Nogueira, Rossana Candiota
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Muscles
subject: Physical education for children
subject: Physical fitness for children
subject: CapoKids

description: Physical activity is considered to be an effective strategy to improve children’s health and reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases; osteoporosis and obesity being two examples with particularly high morbidity and increased mortality. An exercise program to improve both bone and reduce fat would be ideal. Problematically, bone is known to respond primarily to brief bouts of high-impact activity, while the traditional exercise recommendation to reduce fat is longer duration, low to moderate intensity aerobic activity. The overall aim of the current work was to develop a novel exercise program for pre and peripubertal children to improve bone and minimise the accumulation of fat. The thesis describes four studies, presented as two published manuscripts, one in press and another under review. In the first study, we conducted a comprehensive systematic review, to determine the effects of previous bone-targeted exercise interventions on bone, muscle and fat in school-age children. Meta-analyses were conducted to quantify the findings of the sixteen studies included in the review. We concluded that improvements in fat have previously been observed as secondary benefits of bone-targeted in-school exercise programs.
First biscyanovinyl diphenylfluorenone-based hexacatenars: synthesis, liquid crystal and photophysical properties
Creators: name: Liu, Xiaotong
name: Zuo, Rongzhou
name: Li, Nana
name: Pang, Yida
name: Jiang, Zonglin
name: Xiao, Yulong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: In this paper, a series of hexacatenars, where the central fluorenone is connected two α-cyanostilbene which is substituted with 3,4,5-trialkoxybenzyl, was synthesized by Pd-catalyzed Suzuki coupling and Knoevenagel reaction as key steps. The LC characteristics, photophysical and electrochemical behaviors were evaluated by using POM, DSC, TGA, XRD, DFT calculations, UV-vis spectroscopy, photoluminescence measurements and CV. A rare mesophase sequence from Colhex/p6mm to Colrec/p2mm was observed and the mesophase width increased upon terminal chain elongation. The photophysical behaviors in different solutions and aggregated states indicated that these compounds exhibited solvatochromism, fluorescence quantum yields and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) behaviors. The electrochemical behaviors in thin film indicated these compounds show low band gap. DFT calculations of the investigated hexacatenars were accomplished to determine the structural, electronic and intermolecular interaction properties.
Constitutive modelling of mechanically induced martensitic transformations: Prediction of transformation surfaces
Creators: name: de Bortoli, Daniel
name: Adziman, Fauzan
name: Neto, Eduardo Alberto de Souza
name: Pires, Francisco Manuel Andrade
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Purpose: The purpose of this work is to apply a recently proposed constitutive model for mechanically induced martensitic transformations to the prediction of transformation loci. Additionally, this study aims to elucidate if a stress-assisted criterion can account for transformations in the so-called strain-induced regime. Design/methodology/approach: The model is derived by generalising the stress-based criterion of Patel and Cohen (1953), relying on lattice information obtained using the Phenomenological Theory of Martensite Crystallography. Transformation multipliers (cf. plastic multipliers) are introduced, from which the martensite volume fraction evolution ensues. The associated transformation functions provide a variant selection mechanism. Austenite plasticity follows a classical single crystal formulation, to account for transformations in the strain-induced regime. The resulting model is incorporated into a fully-implicit RVE-based computational homogenisation finite element code. Findings: Results show good agreement with experimental data for a meta-stable austenitic stainless steel. In particular, the transformation locus is well reproduced, even in a material with considerable slip plasticity at the martensite onset, corroborating the hypothesis that an energy-based criterion can account for transformations in both stress-assisted and strain-induced regimes. Originality/value: A recently developed constitutive model for mechanically induced martensitic transformations is further assessed and validated. Its formulation is fundamentally based on a physical metallurgical mechanism and derived in a thermodynamically consistent way, inheriting a consistent mechanical dissipation. This model draws on a reduced number of phenomenological elements and is a step towards the fully predictive modelling of materials that exhibit such phenomena.
description: 31 pages, 11 figures
Does stringent environmental regulation reduce the overinvestment of high polluting firms? – Quasi-natural experiment evidence from China’s new “environmental protection law”
Creators: name: Yang, Jingyi
name: Bu, Caiqi
name: Shi, Daqian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This article studies the impact of stringent environmental regulation on the investment behavior of firms. Using panel data for Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2018, we take the implementation of the new environmental protection law (NEPL) in 2015 as a quasi-natural experiment and identify its impact on reducing overinvestment of high polluting firms. Further, for the potential mechanism, we find that the reduction in agency costs and the decrease in the financing caused by NEPL can help to alleviate overinvestment problems. Considering the heterogeneity of firms, NEPL has a greater effect on state-owned firms and large-scale firms, which have serious overinvestment problems. Our empirical evidence strongly supports that NEPL can realize a win-win situation for the environment and the economy.
Climate change impact on the hydrological budget of a large Mediterranean island
Creators: name: S.D. Nerantzaki
name: D. Efstathiou
name: G.V. Giannakis
name: M. Kritsotakis
name: M.G. Grillakis
name: A.G. Koutroulis
name: I.K. Tsanis
name: N.P. Nikolaidis
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Crete is a Mediterranean, karst-dominated island, characterized by long drought periods. The Karst-SWAT model, combined with 11 climate change scenarios, was run to assess climate change impacts on the island under two set-ups, both using the auto-irrigation function of the model: (1) with water drawn from the shallow or deep aquifer, and (2) with irrigated water derived from an unlimited outside source. The first set-up provided insight into the fluctuation of future irrigation needs, and when compared to the second set-up, enabled quantification of the future water deficit. The Water Exploitation Index was used to describe the spatial variability of future water stress on Crete. A decrease in both surface and karstic spring flows is foreseen, especially after 2060 (24.2 and 16.5%, respectively). Simulated irrigation water demand and water deficit show continuous increase throughout the projection period (2020–2098).
Quantum Group Generators in Conformal Field Theory
Creators: name: Schnittger, Jens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: These are notes of a seminar given at the 30th International Symposium on the Theory of Elementary Particles, Berlin-Buckow, August 1996. The material is derived from collaborations with E. Cremmer and J.-L. Gervais, and C. Klimcik, and is partially new. Within the general framework of Poisson-Lie symmetry, we discuss two approaches to the problem of constructing moment maps, or q-deformed Noether charges, that generate the quantum group symmetry which appears in many conformal field theories. Concretely, we consider the case of $U_q(sl(2))$ and the operator algebra that describes Liouville theory and other models built from integer powers of screenings in the Coulomb gas picture.
description: 21 pages, LaTeX
Additional file 1: of Modeling gene-environment interactions in longitudinal family studies: a comparison of methods and their application to the association between the IGF pathway and childhood obesity
Creators: name: Wang, Cheng
name: Roy-Gagnon, Marie-HĂŠlĂ¨ne
name: Lefebvre, Jean-FranĂ§ois
name: Burkett, Kelly
name: Dubois, Lise
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Information and Results. Appendix S1 contains additional information on 1) Constructing kinship matrix when fitting linear mixed model; 2) Data quality control filtering process overview; 3) Deriving the daily sleep time data and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine guideline; 4) Minor allelic frequencies of IGF-1 and IGFALS SNPs. Appendix S2 contains 1) Results for the linear mixed model and twin model with co-dominant genetic effect coding; 2) Behaviour of the PBI Test during simulation analysis. Appendix S3 contains trajectories of average BMI at each follow-up time point. (DOCX 1030 kb)
Neofacydes Heinrich 1960
Creators: name: Sime, Karen R.
name: Wahl, David B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Neofacydes

description: NEOFACYDES HEINRICH, 1960
 Neofacydes Heinrich, 1960: 107. Type-species: Neofacydes sinensis Heinrich. Original designation.
 Autapomorphies. Juncture of hypostomal and occipital carinae separated from mandibular base by about 0.5¥ basal mandibular width; cell 1 + 2Rs of fore wing anteriorly pointed (#39–1); apex of female metasom a with T7-8 barely projecting beyond apex of T6 (#56–1).
 Species and distribution. After the removal of flavibasalis Uchida to Queequeg, there are eight described species (Yu & Horstmann, 1997) and at least four undescribed species [AEIC]. They are distributed from north-eastern India to New Guinea, and as far north as Japan.
 Biology. Host information is available only for the holotype, which emerged from Oxyambulyx sericeipennis Butler (Sphingidae) reared on Myricaceae in southern China (Mell & Heinrich, 1931). We consider this report reliable and have treated Neofacydes as a genus of sphingid parasitoids. This account indicates that the host was attacked as a larva, but more exact information on stage attacked is not available as the host was collected shortly before pupation. Although Neofacydes species are oxypygous, which suggests that they should oviposit into pupae (Hinz, 1983; but see Biology above), O. sericeipennis pupates in a tunnel in the ground (Mell, 1922) and is unlikely to be accessible to a pupal parasitoid.
description: Published as part of Sime, Karen R. & Wahl, David B., 2002, The cladistics and biology of the Callajoppa genus-group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), pp. 1-56 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00006.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5433957
Giant radio galaxies in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey-I
Creators: name: Dabhade, P.
name: Rottgering, H. J. A.
name: Bagchi, J.
name: Shimwell, T. W.
name: Hardcastle, M. J.
name: Sankhyayan, S.
name: Morganti, R.
name: Jamrozy, M.
name: Shulevski, A.
name: Duncan, K. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Giant radio galaxies (GRGs) are a subclass of radio galaxies which have grown to megaparsec scales. GRGs are much rarer than normal sized radio galaxies (< 0.7 Mpc) and the reason for their gigantic sizes is still debated. Here, we report the biggest sample of GRGs identified to date. These objects were found in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) first data release images, which cover a 424 square degrees region. Of the 239 GRGs found, 225 are new discoveries. The GRGs in our sample have sizes ranging from 0.7 to 3.5 Mpc and have redshifts (z) between 0.1 and 2.3. Seven GRGs have sizes above 2 Mpc and one has a size of ~ 3.5 Mpc. The sample contains 40 GRGs hosted by spectroscopically confirmed quasars. Here, we present the search techniques employed and the resulting catalogue of the newly discovered large sample of GRGs along with their radio properties. We, here also show for the first time that the spectral index of GRGs is similar to that of normal sized radio galaxies, indicating that most of the GRG population is not dead or is not like remnant type radio galaxy. We find 20/239 GRGs in our sample are located at the centres of clusters and present our analysis on their cluster environment and radio morphology.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics