cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Assessing the Accuracy of Benefits Transfers: Evidence from a Multi-State Contigent Valuation Study of Groundwater Quality
Creators: name: VandenBerg, Timothy P.
name: Poe, Gregory L.
name: Powell, John R.
name: VandenBerg, Timothy P.
name: Poe, Gregory L.
name: Powell, John R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Using a multi-site valuation study of groundwater quality, this paper compares the accuracy of alternative methods of transferring values from study sites to policy sites. Transferring benefit functions is more accurate than transfers of average contingent values. Relative accuracy is highly dependent on how study sites are grouped.
Magnetic stability of massive star forming clumps in RCW 106
Creators: name: Tamaoki, Shohei
name: Sugitani, Koji
name: Nguyen-Luong, Quang
name: Nakamura, Fumitaka
name: Kusune, Takayoshi
name: Watanabe, Makoto
name: Nishiyama, Shogo
name: Tamura, Motohide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The RCW 106 molecular cloud complex is an active massive star-forming region where a ministarburst is taking place. We examined its magnetic structure by near-IR polarimetric observations with the imaging polarimeter SIRPOL on the IRSF 1.4 m telescope. The global magnetic field is nearly parallel to the direction of the Galactic plane and the cloud elongation. We derived the magnetic field strength of $\sim100$-$1600~μ$G for 71 clumps with the Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi method. We also evaluated the magnetic stability of these clumps and found massive star-forming clumps tend to be magnetically unstable and gravitationally unstable. Therefore, we propose a new criterion to search for massive star-forming clumps. These details suggest that the process enhancing the clump density without an increase of the magnetic flux is essential for the formation of massive stars and the necessity for accreting mass along the magnetic field lines.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, accepted to ApJL
Harmonic generation by atoms in circularly polarized two-color laser fields with coplanar polarizations and commensurate frequencies
Creators: name: Ceccherini, F.
name: Bauer, D.
name: Cornolti, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generation of harmonics by atoms or ions in a two-color, coplanar field configuration with commensurate frequencies is investigated through both, an analytical calculation based on the Lewenstein model and the numerical ab initio solution of the time-dependent Schroedinger equation of a two-dimensional model ion. Through the analytical model, selection rules for the harmonic orders in this field configuration, a generalized cut-off for the harmonic spectra, and an integral expression for the harmonic dipole strength is provided. The numerical results are employed to test the predictions of the analytical model. The scaling of the cut-off as a function of both, one of the laser intensities and frequency ratio $η$, as well as entire spectra for different $η$ and laser intensities are presented and analyzed. The theoretical cut-off is found to be an upper limit for the numerical results. Other discrepancies between analytical model and numerical results are clarified by taking into account the probabilities of the absorption processes involved.
description: 8 figures
Rhysida longicornis Pocock 1891
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Edgecombe, Gregory D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Scolopendridae
Rhysida
Rhysida longicornis

description: 12. Rhysida longicornis Pocock, 1891
 Material examined. Sokotra Isl.: Kischen, 20 th September 1956, Oxford University, leg. unknown, 3 exx., BMNH?; Sokotra Isl.: Kischen, August 1956, Oxfrod University, leg. unknown, 9 exx., BMNH?; Sokotra Isl.: Kischen, September 1917, leg. unknown, 15 exx., BMNH?; Sokotra Isl.: Kischen, various dates, becoming more abundant as rains increase, 2.080 ft, No. 13, leg. unknown, 22 exx., BMNH?. (Fig. 22).
 Type locality. Sokotra Isl. (Minelli et al. 2006).
 General distribution. Northeast Tropical Africa: Sokotra Isl. (YE) (Minelli et al. 2006).
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail & Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2013, Scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) in the Natural History Museum (London): A review of the hitherto unidentified species collected in Africa, with remarks on taxonomy and distribution, and a new species of Otostigmus (Parotostigmus), pp. 169-198 in Zootaxa 3734 (2) on page 181, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5275595
Rhysida paucidens Pocock 1897
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Edgecombe, Gregory D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Scolopendridae
Rhysida
Rhysida paucidens

description: 14. Rhysida paucidens Pocock, 1897
(Figs 23–26)
 Material examined. Ethiopia (Abyssinia): Abyssinia, 1926, leg. J. Omer-Cooper, 1 ex., BMNH 1953.2.14.514; Ethiopia (Abyssinia): Adda Snores of Hora Harsadi, 3/12/1926, leg. J. Omer-Cooper, 1 ex., BMNH 1953.2.14.515; Sudan: Erkowit, c. 50 m S.E. of Sinkat, December 1960, leg. J.L. Cloudsley-Thompson, 1 ex., BMNH?. (Fig. 22).
 Type locality. Ethiopia (Loga in the Arusha Galla country) (Minelli et al. 2006).
 General distribution. Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea (ER), Ethiopia (ET), Sudan (SD); Asia Temperate: Arabian Peninsula, Oman (OM); Asia Tropical: India (IN) "Vorderindien, Pondichery " (Attems 1930; Lewis and Gallegher 1993; Minelli et al. 2006).
 Remarks. Specimens studied here fit fully within the variation encompassed by previous descriptions (following the synonymy by Lewis and Gallagher 1993). The Ethiopian specimens have 19 antennal articles, three of which are glabrous (Fig. 23), 5+5 forcipular teeth (Fig. 24), continuous paramedian sutures from TT 5–20, paramedian sutures confined to a short anterior extent on the sternites, the diagnostic three prefemoral spines (1VL, 1VM, 1 DM) confined to the proximal half of the prefemur (Fig. 25), the coxopleural process with two apical spines but no dorsal or lateral spines (Fig. 26), two tarsal spurs on legs 1–18, and one tibial spur on legs 1–4.
 Lewis and Gallagher (1993) followed Attems (1930) in treating R. paucidens as a subspecies of R. lithobioides (Newport, 1845), resulting in a geographically widespread species distributed from China through India and East Africa to the Arabian Peninsula. They noted, however, that the nominate subspecies (from East Asia) was “quite distinct from the others” (1993: 59), and we regard the cited differences in the number of legs bearing two tarsal spurs and prefemoral spine numbers and distributions, as sufficient to defend separate species status. Accordingly we returned R. lithobioides paucidens to the species level (as in Kraepelin 1903).
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail & Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2013, Scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) in the Natural History Museum (London): A review of the hitherto unidentified species collected in Africa, with remarks on taxonomy and distribution, and a new species of Otostigmus (Parotostigmus), pp. 169-198 in Zootaxa 3734 (2) on page 183, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5275595
Affine quermassintegrals of random polytopes
Creators: name: Chasapis, Giorgos
name: Skarmogiannis, Nikos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 52A23, 46B06, 52A40, 60D05

description: A question related to some conjectures of Lutwak about the affine quermassintegrals of a convex body $K$ in ${\mathbb R}^n$ asks whether for every convex body $K$ in ${\mathbb R}^n$ and all $1\leqslant k\leqslant n$ $$Φ_{[k]}(K):={\rm vol}_n(K)^{-\frac{1}{n}}\left (\int_{G_{n,k}}{\rm vol}_k(P_F(K))^{-n}\,dν_{n,k}(F)\right )^{-\frac{1}{kn}}\leqslant c\sqrt{n/k},$$ where $c>0$ is an absolute constant. We provide an affirmative answer for some broad classes of random polytopes. We also discuss upper bounds for $Φ_{[k]}(K)$ when $K=B_1^n$, the unit ball of $\ell_1^n$, and explain how this special instance has implications for the case of a general unconditional convex body $K$.
description: accepted for publication in the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Empria tridens
Creators: name: Liston, A. D.
name: Knight, G. T.
name: Heibo, E.
name: Bland, K. P.
name: Barstad, Trond Elling
name: Blank, S. M.
name: Boeve, J. - L.
name: Fiedler, K.
name: Grearson, K. J.
name: Halstead, A.
name: Jacobs, H. - J.
name: Jansen, E.
name: Lonnve, O.
name: Prous, M.
name: Robinson, J.
name: Taeger, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Tenthredinidae
Empria
Empria tridens

description: Empria tridens (KONOW, 1896)
Baddoch, 1 ♀, 04.vi.2010, leg. Blank, Liston & Taeger, det. M. Prous.
 The Kindrogan individual (SDEI-GISHym14894), with peculiar morphology of the head (Fig. 7; strongly inflated towards the rear, with small eyes), was mentioned by Prous et al. (2011). Other characters, including the morphology of the saw (http://www.morphbank.net/?id=588539), are not distinguishable from E. tridens (Konow, 1896). According to molecular data, the specimen is not remarkable (see Prous et al. (2011, particularly Fig. 18). Mitochondrial DNA of the specimen is very similar to a group of sequences comprising mainly E. tridens and E. basalis (see Fig. 20 in Prous et al., 2011).
 This individual is at present most conveniently considered to be a developmental [teratological] abnormality. However, a female E. tridens with a head very similar to the Kindrogan specimen has also been collected by Knight in Cumbria. The existence of two such specimens indicates a need to try to exclude other possible causes of the abnormality. Alternative causes are for example pathological (e.g. infection of the pharyngeal glands by a nematode). The habit of mature larvae of Empria species (and many other Allantinae) of boring into substrates such as rotten wood, rich in nematode species that are known to infect the postpharyngeal glands of ants (Wheeler 1928), might expose them (or the prepupal and pupal stages) to such infection (by anology with infection of ants, perhaps in the salivary glands of sawflies?). So it may be worth noting that pupation of Empria species is in a cell in the substrate, lacking any clearly identifiable cocoon and thereby increasing the vulnerability of prepupae and / or pupae to nematode infection.
description: Published as part of Liston, A. D., Knight, G. T., Heibo, E., Bland, K. P., Barstad, Trond Elling, Blank, S. M., Boeve, J. - L., Fiedler, K., Grearson, K. J., Halstead, A., Jacobs, H. - J., Jansen, E., Lonnve, O., Prous, M., Robinson, J. & Taeger, A., 2012, On Scottish sawflies, with results of the 14 International Sawfly Workshop, in the southern Highlands, 2010 (Hymenoptera, Symphyta), pp. 1-68 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 on page 37
title: Dr. Heidi Janz on making co-operatives accessible for people with disabilities
Creators: name: Janz, Heidi
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cooperative societies

description: Building equitable, accessible and affordable campuses through Co-operatives. Webinars discussing co-operatives, what they are and how they could make for more equitable and accessible campus communities. Co-op webinar 2. This video is part of the second webinar in the webinar series on "COVID-19 Response: Building Higher Learning Resilience in the Face of Epidemics: Co-operatives and Campuses". Webinar occurred on March 17th, 2021.
title: Tristan Laing talks about the lively housing co-ops of Canada
Creators: name: Laing, Tristan
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cooperative societies

description: Building equitable, accessible and affordable campuses through Co-operatives. Webinars discussing co-operatives, what they are and how they could make for more equitable and accessible campus communities. Co-op webinar 2. This video is part of the second webinar in the webinar series on "COVID-19 Response: Building Higher Learning Resilience in the Face of Epidemics: Co-operatives and Campuses." Webinar occurred on March 17th, 2021.
Otostigmus (Parotostigmus) productus Karsch 1888
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Edgecombe, Gregory D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Scolopendridae
Otostigmus
Otostigmus productus

description: 10. Otostigmus (Parotostigmus) productus Karsch, 1888
(Figs 18–21)
 Type material: Lectotype ZMB 926, male (designated here), S. Thomé (São Tomé), Gulf of Guinea [Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Principe], leg. R. Greef. Paralectotype male and female, from same locality and collection.
 Material examined. Gulf of Guinea: São Tome Isl., West Africa, 8/11/1932, in rotten wood, Percy Sladen Memorial and Godman Exploration, leg. W.H. T. Tams, 3 exx., BMNH 1933.8.30.240-242; Gulf of Guinea: São Tome Isl., West Africa, 4/11/1932, in rotten wood, Percy Sladen Memorial and Godman Exploration, leg. W.H. T. Tams, 1 ex., BMNH 1933.8.30.243; Gulf of Guinea: Zampalma, Såo Tomé Isl., 13/9/1949, leg. I.L.J. Galbraith, 9 exx., BMNH 1950.3.7.127-136. (Fig. 8).
 Type locality. São Tomé. The identification of Rolas as the type locality in Chilobase (Minelli et al. 2006) refers to a syntype (ZMB 927) that is here identified as O. (P.) coltellus rather than O. (P.) productus. Karsch (1884: 55) referred to the Rolas specimen as a “monströses Exemplar” and it was labeled “ O. inermis monstrositas”.
 General distribution. West-Central Tropical Africa: Gulf of Guinea (São Tomé Isl.) (ST).
 Remarks. The syntypes of Otostigma productum Karsch, 1888 include two species, one corresponding to the descriptions of the species by subsequent workers in possessing 4+4 teeth on the tooth plates (Kraepelin, 1903; Attems, 1930), and the other being the species described as Otostigmus (Parotostigmus) coltellus n. sp. A lectotype is selected herein, choosing a mature specimen that corresponds to the description of the species in the influential monographs of Kraepelin and Attems, to stablise the name according to the concept of the species employed since 1903.
In agreement with previous descriptions (compiled by Attems 1930), all based on the type material from São Tomé, the specimens from the same island studied here have 17 antennal articles, four of which are glabrous (Fig. 18), tooth plates with 4+4 teeth (Fig. 19), and two apical spines on the coxopleural process (Fig. 20). Ultimate legs lack prefemoral spines (Fig. 21). Legs 1–19 have been described as bearing one tarsal spur (Kraepelin 1903; Attems 1930), but in the NHM material legs 1 and 2 or 1–3 may bear two spurs, the remainder to leg 19 consistently bearing one.
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail & Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2013, Scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) in the Natural History Museum (London): A review of the hitherto unidentified species collected in Africa, with remarks on taxonomy and distribution, and a new species of Otostigmus (Parotostigmus), pp. 169-198 in Zootaxa 3734 (2) on pages 179-181, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5275595
Introducing Fabric Materiality in architectural fibre composites
Creators: name: Blonder, Arielle
name: Latteur, Pierre
name: Yasha J. Grobman
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Art

description: Textiles and architecture have long been associated; second and third skins have provided shelter and protection, since early days of men. The presence of textiles in the world of architecture spans across multiple layers, far beyond the mere usage of the fabric itself as architectural structure. The term of ‘Fabric Materiality’ is suggested to represent the unique qualities of textiles, their associated techniques and tools, assets and design paradigms; it is suggested as a design approach, to be integrated in field of architecture. The research presented in this paper explores the integration of Fabric Materiality in the field of architectural fibre-composites; it suggests an alternative design and fabrication approach in architectural FRP (fibre reinforced polymers), based on textile qualities. The main constituent of the composite material is fibres, mostly applied under the form of fabrics. All standard composite forming processes apply the fabric material over a rigid mould, to obtain its final shape; no traces are left to the textile material qualities. This research suggest the integration of Fabric Materiality in the design and fabrication of architectural FRP. Enhancing its inherent capacity for self-organisation and resilient quality, Fabric Materiality suggest the release from the necessity for moulds. In architecture, this opens wider possibilities for free architectural expression: from complex free-form morphology to surface articulation and a high degree of variation. The paper will start by introducing the concept of Fabric Materiality. It will then demonstrate its integration in architectural FRP through a material system of surface elements (panels), based on pleating manipulation. It will review its qualities of as a new porous matter-structure, of structural capacities.
FORECAST-CLSTM: A New Convolutional LSTM Network for Cloudage Nowcasting
Creators: name: Tan, Chao
name: Feng, Xin
name: Long, Jianwu
name: Geng, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the highly demand of large-scale and real-time weather service for public, a refinement of short-time cloudage prediction has become an essential part of the weather forecast productions. To provide a weather-service-compliant cloudage nowcasting, in this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical Convolutional Long-Short-Term Memory network based deep learning model, which we term as FORECAST-CLSTM, with a new Forecaster loss function to predict the future satellite cloud images. The model is designed to fuse multi-scale features in the hierarchical network structure to predict the pixel value and the morphological movement of the cloudage simultaneously. We also collect about 40K infrared satellite nephograms and create a large-scale Satellite Cloudage Map Dataset(SCMD). The proposed FORECAST-CLSTM model is shown to achieve better prediction performance compared with the state-of-the-art ConvLSTM model and the proposed Forecaster Loss Function is also demonstrated to retain the uncertainty of the real atmosphere condition better than conventional loss function.
title: Kalith Nanayakkara introduces the concept of student co-ops in Canada
Creators: name: Nanayakkara, Kalith
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cooperative societies

description: Building equitable, accessible and affordable campuses through Co-operatives. Webinars discussing co-operatives, what they are and how they could make for more equitable and accessible campus communities. Co-op webinar 1. This video is part of the first webinar in the webinar series on "COVID-19 Response: Building Higher Learning Resilience in the Face of Epidemics". Webinar occurred on February 24th, 2021.
Microdiprion pallipes
Creators: name: Liston, A. D.
name: Knight, G. T.
name: Heibo, E.
name: Bland, K. P.
name: Barstad, Trond Elling
name: Blank, S. M.
name: Boeve, J. - L.
name: Fiedler, K.
name: Grearson, K. J.
name: Halstead, A.
name: Jacobs, H. - J.
name: Jansen, E.
name: Lonnve, O.
name: Prous, M.
name: Robinson, J.
name: Taeger, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Diprionidae
Microdiprion
Microdiprion pallipes

description: Microdiprion pallipes (FALLÉN, 1808)
Beinn Eighe NNR, NH0064, Wester Ross, native pinewood, 1 ♀, 11.v.-13.vi.1988, Malaise trap, leg. I. MacGowan (RSME).
 Both the above individuals (see also Table 1) are extremely pale. The lateral parts of the abdominal terga and most of the sterna are bright yellow. In the field, the Claybokie specimen was initially mistaken because of its pale colouration for Monoctenus juniperi (Linnaeus, 1758). However, the female of M. juniperi has at most a band of orange-brown along the lateral margins of the terga.
 Benson (1959) referred Scottish populations of M. pallipes to ssp. pallipes, found also from northern Fennoscandia south to around Berlin in Germany (Forsslund 1960). The nominate subspecies was considered to be replaced by M. pallipes ssp. politum (Klug, 1812), adults of which are much darker, in Alpine and pre-Alpine Europe. Mallach (1973) discussed some of the problems attached to the distinction of these putative subspecies. The description by Enslin (1917) of variability in colouration in Lophyrus (M.) pallipes still seems very fitting.
description: Published as part of Liston, A. D., Knight, G. T., Heibo, E., Bland, K. P., Barstad, Trond Elling, Blank, S. M., Boeve, J. - L., Fiedler, K., Grearson, K. J., Halstead, A., Jacobs, H. - J., Jansen, E., Lonnve, O., Prous, M., Robinson, J. & Taeger, A., 2012, On Scottish sawflies, with results of the 14 International Sawfly Workshop, in the southern Highlands, 2010 (Hymenoptera, Symphyta), pp. 1-68 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 on page 40
title: Mitchell Prost from AMS, UBC on the potential student co-op housing on campus
Creators: name: Prost, Mitchell
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cooperative societies

description: Building equitable, accessible and affordable campuses through Co-operatives. Webinars discussing co-operatives, what they are and how they could make for more equitable and accessible campus communities. Co-op webinar 1. This video is part of the first webinar in the webinar series on "COVID-19 Response: Building Higher Learning Resilience in the Face of Epidemics". Webinar occurred on February 24th, 2021.
Wall Curtain. On The Idea of the Soft within the Digital and Fabrication Realms
Creators: name: Thomsen, Mette Ramsgaard
name: Pišteková, Danica
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Art

description: Wall Curtain creates a spatial curtain to be inhabited by the body. Like a cocoon, it invites inhabitation of a threshold space between inside and outside, where light seeps through its translucent layers. Like a room in a room, Wall Curtain creates soft proximities, dressing the space as an internal membrane and creating a new programme within the existing architectural frame. Wall curtain examines the concept of a soft architecture. The project operates within the concept of the soft in both physical and digital worlds, that meet each other on different semantic, analytical or technological levels. Computation is here seen as a material address, transferring techniques from physical crafts to digital design environments through developing concepts of digital sewing and digital stitch. The crucial part of the research contains prototype making in textile materials, where the deviation between the computational prediction and the fabricated model provides valuable feedback and a new layer of performance. As a result, the new interior, soft enclosure is created. Architecture is filled with soft proximities which build a different space and invites us to visit and experience its inner cavities, providing depth to accommodate multiple bodies, which imprint their traces and co-shape its performance.
title: Dr. Cilla Ross, Principal of Cooperative College, talks about the history of co-ops
Creators: name: Ross, Cilla
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cooperative societies

description: Building equitable, accessible and affordable campuses through Co-operatives. Webinars discussing co-operatives, what they are and how they could make for more equitable and accessible campus communities. Co-op webinar 1. This video is part of the first webinar in the webinar series on "COVID-19 Response: Building Higher Learning Resilience in the Face of Epidemics". Webinar occurred on February 24th, 2021.
Very high-energy constraints on the Infrared Extragalactic Background Light
Creators: name: Franceschini, A.
name: Foffano, L.
name: Prandini, E.
name: Tavecchio, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Measurements of the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) are a fundamental source of information on the collective emission of cosmic sources. Aims. At infrared wavelengths, however, these measurements are precluded by the overwhelming dominance from Interplanetary Dust emission and the Galactic infrared foreground. Only at $λ> 300 \ μ$m, where the foregrounds are minimal, has the Infrared EBL (IR EBL) been inferred from analysis of the COBE maps. The present paper aims to assess the possibility of evaluating the IR EBL from a few $μ$m up to the peak of the emission at >100 $μ$m using an indirect method that avoids the foreground problem. Methods. To this purpose we exploit the effect of pair-production from gamma-gamma interaction by considering the highest energy photons emitted by extragalactic sources and their interaction with the IR EBL photons. We simulate observations of a variety of low redshift emitters with the forthcoming Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope (IACT) arrays (CTA in particular) and water Cherenkov observatories (LHAASO, HAWC, SWGO) to assess their suitability to constrain the EBL at such long wavelengths. Results. We find that, even under the most extremely favorable conditions of huge emission flares, extremely high-energy emitting blazars are not very useful for our purpose because they are much too distant (>100 Mpc the nearest ones, MKN 501 and MKN 421). Observations of more local Very High Energy (VHE) emitting AGNs, like low-redshift radio galaxies (M87, IC 310, Centaurus A), are better suited and will potentially allow us to constrain the EBL up to $λ\simeq 100\ μ$m.
Evading the CKM Hierarchy: Intrinsic Charm in B Decays
Creators: name: Brodsky, S. J.
name: Gardner, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the presence of intrinsic charm in the hadrons' light-cone wave functions, even at a few percent level, provides new, competitive decay mechanisms for B decays which are nominally CKM-suppressed. For example, the weak decays of the B-meson to two-body exclusive states consisting of strange plus light hadrons, such as B\toπK, are expected to be dominated by penguin contributions since the tree-level b\to s u\bar u decay is CKM suppressed. However, higher Fock states in the B wave function containing charm quark pairs can mediate the decay via a CKM-favored b\to s c\bar c tree-level transition. Such intrinsic charm contributions can be phenomenologically significant. Since they mimic the amplitude structure of ``charming'' penguin contributions, charming penguins need not be penguins at all.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures, published version. References added, minor changes
Overcharging higher curvature black holes
Creators: name: Ghosh, Rajes
name: Fairoos, C.
name: Sarkar, Sudipta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the problem of overcharging extremal and near-extremal black hole solutions of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity in any dimension, generalizing the result in general relativity. We show that as in the case of general relativity, it is not possible to create a naked singularity by overcharging an extremal black hole in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity using a charged test particle. Our result suggests that the validity of the cosmic censorship hypothesis transcends beyond general relativity to well motivated higher curvature gravity.
description: 5 pages, no figure
title: Dr. Michelle Stack talks about the impact of co-ops
Creators: name: Stack, Michelle
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cooperative societies

description: Building equitable, accessible and affordable campuses through Co-operatives. Webinars discussing co-operatives, what they are and how they could make for more equitable and accessible campus communities. Co-op webinar 1. This video is part of the first webinar in the webinar series on "COVID-19 Response: Building Higher Learning Resilience in the Face of Epidemics". Webinar occurred on February 24th, 2021.
Nematus frenalis * Thomson 1888
Creators: name: Liston, A. D.
name: Knight, G. T.
name: Heibo, E.
name: Bland, K. P.
name: Barstad, Trond Elling
name: Blank, S. M.
name: Boeve, J. - L.
name: Fiedler, K.
name: Grearson, K. J.
name: Halstead, A.
name: Jacobs, H. - J.
name: Jansen, E.
name: Lonnve, O.
name: Prous, M.
name: Robinson, J.
name: Taeger, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Tenthredinidae
Nematus
Nematus frenalis

description: Nematus frenalis THOMSON, 1888
Ben Vraikie (1150ft), near Moulin, 1 ♂, 8.vi.2010, leg. Halstead.
There are only two previous British records (Benson 1958, Speyside; Liston 1981b, Lanarkshire).
description: Published as part of Liston, A. D., Knight, G. T., Heibo, E., Bland, K. P., Barstad, Trond Elling, Blank, S. M., Boeve, J. - L., Fiedler, K., Grearson, K. J., Halstead, A., Jacobs, H. - J., Jansen, E., Lonnve, O., Prous, M., Robinson, J. & Taeger, A., 2012, On Scottish sawflies, with results of the 14 International Sawfly Workshop, in the southern Highlands, 2010 (Hymenoptera, Symphyta), pp. 1-68 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 on page 40
Cormocephalus anceps
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Edgecombe, Gregory D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Scolopendridae
Cormocephalus
Cormocephalus anceps

description: 18. Cormocephalus anceps (Porat, 1871)
 Material examined. South Africa: Bare Town, leg. P.I. Felater, 2 exx., BMNH 01.3.10.26; South Africa: Simons Town, 15/5/1894, leg. Capt. H.W. Whyte, 1 ex., BMNH 1919.12.4.3; South Africa: Somerset East, leg. Leppan, 1 ex., BMNH 03.6.25.192; Swaziland: Umbuluzi, found in dung, 3/9/1965, leg. R. C.H. Sweeny, 1 ex., BMNH?. (Fig. 30).
 Type locality. South Africa (Kapland) (Porat 1871).
 General distribution. Southern Africa: South Africa (ZA), Swaziland (SZ) (new region record) (Lawrence 1955; Schileyko and Stagl 2004).
 Remarks. Cormocephalus anceps was recognised as a species until it was transferred to C. westwoodi as a subspecies by Schileyko and Stagl (2004). Molecular phylogenetic studies Vahtera et al. (2013) indicate that C. anceps is not most closely related to other putative subspecies of C. westwoodi, i.e., C. westwoodi westwoodi (Newport, 1844) and C. w. elegans Kraepelin, 1903. Rather than recognizing a polyphyletic species, we return C. w. anceps to species rank.
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail & Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2013, Scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) in the Natural History Museum (London): A review of the hitherto unidentified species collected in Africa, with remarks on taxonomy and distribution, and a new species of Otostigmus (Parotostigmus), pp. 169-198 in Zootaxa 3734 (2) on page 185, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5275595
Conservative Quantum Computing
Creators: name: Ozawa, Masanao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conservation laws limit the accuracy of physical implementations of elementary quantum logic gates. If the computational basis is represented by a component of spin and physical implementations obey the angular momentum conservation law, any physically realizable unitary operators with size less than n qubits cannot implement the controlled-NOT gate within the error probability 1/(4n^2), where the size is defined as the total number of the computational qubits and the ancilla qubits. An analogous limit for bosonic ancillae is also obtained to show that the lower bound of the error probability is inversely proportional to the average number of photons. Any set of universal gates inevitably obeys a related limitation with error probability O(1/n^2)$. To circumvent the above or related limitations yielded by conservation laws, it is recommended that the computational basis should be chosen as the one commuting with the additively conserved quantities.
description: 5 pages, RevTex. Corrected to include a new statement that for bosonic ancillae the lower bound of the error probability is inversely proportional to the average number of photons, kindly suggested by Julio Gea-Banacloche
Is There an Increase of Anastomotic Leaks with NSAID Use in Colorectal Surgery?
Creators: name: Gilmore, Cindy
Publisher: name: The Journal of Canada’s Physician Assistants
Year: 2020

description: ABSTRACT Purpose: The purpose of this article is to review the current guidelines for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) following colorectal surgery with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) use and its association with anastomotic leaks. Method: A Medline literature search was conducted with search terms colorectal surgery, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and anastomotic leaks. Seventeen relevant articles served as the basis for this clinical review. This group was further refined to analyze selective vs non-selective NSAIDs to assess the overall risk of anastomotic leaks. Results: The use of NSAIDs postoperatively was associated with an overall increased risk of anastomotic leaks. This risk varied with the type of NSAID taken for pain control: selective vs non-selective. Non-selective NSAIDs had an increased risk while selective NSAIDs appeared safe. Conclusion: NSAIDs are an important aspect of the ERAS guidelines to improve patient outcomes after surgery. They provide an alternative option for pain control for opioid medications and their known side effects. Recent literature varies in the risk profiles and safety of different classes of NSAIDs. Postoperative use of NSAIDs, particularly diclofenac, is associated with increased risk for anastomotic leak following colorectal surgery. Keywords: Colorectal surgery, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, anastomotic leaks.
description: The Journal of Canada’s Physician Assistants, Vol. 1 No. 4 (2020): The Journal of Canada's Physician Assistants
Purely perturbative Boltzmann equation for hot non-Abelian gauge theories
Creators: name: Hatta, Yoshitaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the perturbation theory, trasnport phenomena in hot non-Abelian gauge theories like QCD are often plagued with infrared singularities or nonperturbative effects. We show, in the context of the Kadanoff & Baym formalism, that there are certain nonequilibrium processes which are free from such difficulties. For these processes, due to an interplay between the macroscopic and microscopic physics, characteristic time scale (the mesoscale) naturally enters as an infrared cutoff and purely perturbative description by the Boltzmann equation is valid.
description: 4 pages, revtex, to appear in Physical Review D
Implications of the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment for Supersymmetry
Creators: name: Byrne, Mark
name: Kolda, Christopher
name: Lennon, Jason E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We re-examine the bounds on supersymmetric particle masses in light of the E821 data on the muon anomalous magnetic moment. We confirm, extend and supersede previous bounds. In particular we find (at one sigma) no lower limit on tan(beta) or upper limit on the chargino mass implied by the data at present, but at least 4 sparticles must be lighter than 700 to 820 GeV and at least one sparticle must be lighter than 345 to 440 GeV. However, the E821 central value bounds tan(beta) > 4.7 and the lighter chargino mass by 690 GeV. For tan(beta) < 10, the data indicates a high probability for direct discovery of SUSY at Run II or III of the Tevatron.
description: 20 pages LaTeX, 14 figures; references added
Properties, mode of insecticidal action, environmental exposure pathways, and uses of the insecticide sulfoxaflor; sulfoxaflor environmental science review part I
Creators: name: Solomon, K.R.
name: Purdy, J.R.
name: Kramer, V.J.
name: Giesy, J.P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Sulfoxaflor (SFX, CAS# 946578-00-3) is marketed by Corteva Agrisciences Inc. as Isoclast®. SFX is a Group 4C, nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist and is a systemic insecticide that is most active against sucking insects. This paper critically reviews and characterizes the physical and chemical properties of SFX to facilitate development of conceptual models that identify environmental compartments with the greatest potential concentrations and organisms most likely to be exposed. These conceptual models were assessed in a Weight of Evidence (WoE) framework to identify scenarios and organisms at greatest risk. The solubility of SFX in water is approximately 550 mg L− 1 and the POW of 0.8, so it will not bioconcentrate or undergo trophic transfer. It has the potential to move in soils, but this is unlikely because of the short half-life (hours to 2–5 days) in agricultural soils where bacteria mediate dissipation. Some of the transformation products of SFX have longer half-lives (months) in soil and are more mobile but are less toxic and not a concern for adverse effects. SFX does not undergo significant photolysis or hydrolysis in water, but this does not lead to a risk in aquatic systems because it is not approved for over-water use and the label recommends buffer zones to protect sensitive aquatic areas. Overall, use of SFX under good agricultural practices is unlikely to result in biologically relevant exposures in non-target species or areas in the environment.
Additional file 1: of Overexpression of SrDXS1 and SrKAH enhances steviol glycosides content in transgenic Stevia plants
Creators: name: Zheng, Junshi
name: Zhuang, Yan
name: Mao, Hui-Zhu
name: Jang, In-Cheol
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1. Representative phenotypes of callus on callus induction media. a Calli induced on media containing 1 mg/L BA and 1 mg/L NAA after 6 weeks. b Calli and shoot regenerated on media containing 1 mg/L BA and 1 mg/L IAA after 6 weeks. c Leaf explants placed for 1 month on media with 1 mg/L BA and 1 mg/L IAA either under 16 h L/8 h D photoperiod (upper panel) or under continuous darkness (lower panel). Scale bar = 1 cm. (PDF 214 kb)
Nematus leionotus
Creators: name: Liston, A. D.
name: Knight, G. T.
name: Heibo, E.
name: Bland, K. P.
name: Barstad, Trond Elling
name: Blank, S. M.
name: Boeve, J. - L.
name: Fiedler, K.
name: Grearson, K. J.
name: Halstead, A.
name: Jacobs, H. - J.
name: Jansen, E.
name: Lonnve, O.
name: Prous, M.
name: Robinson, J.
name: Taeger, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Tenthredinidae
Nematus
Nematus leionotus

description: Nematus leionotus (BENSON, 1933)
Shieldaig, Wester Ross, NG 8252, native pinewood, 1 ♀, v.1991, Malaise trap, I. MacGowan (RSME).
Only one previous published record in Scotland (Liston 1980a; E. Lothian).
description: Published as part of Liston, A. D., Knight, G. T., Heibo, E., Bland, K. P., Barstad, Trond Elling, Blank, S. M., Boeve, J. - L., Fiedler, K., Grearson, K. J., Halstead, A., Jacobs, H. - J., Jansen, E., Lonnve, O., Prous, M., Robinson, J. & Taeger, A., 2012, On Scottish sawflies, with results of the 14 International Sawfly Workshop, in the southern Highlands, 2010 (Hymenoptera, Symphyta), pp. 1-68 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62 on page 41
Cormocephalus nitidus subsp. nitidus nitidus Porat 1871
Creators: name: Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
name: Edgecombe, Gregory D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Scolopendridae
Cormocephalus
Cormocephalus nitidus
Cormocephalus nitidus nitidus porat, 1871

description: 21. Cormocephalus nitidus nitidus Porat, 1871
 Cormocephalus ambiguus Meinert, 1886 (for further synonyms see Minelli et al. 2006).
 Material examined. South Africa: Somerset East, leg. Leppan, 1 ex., BMNH 03.6.25.193. (Fig. 35).
 Type locality. South Africa (Eastern Cape, ' Caffraria') (Minelli et al. 2006).
 General distribution. East Tropical Africa: Tanzania (TZ); South Tropical Africa: Mozambique (MZ); Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar (MG); Southern Africa: South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal) (ZA) (Schileyko and Stagl 2004; Minelli et al. 2006).
description: Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail & Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2013, Scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) in the Natural History Museum (London): A review of the hitherto unidentified species collected in Africa, with remarks on taxonomy and distribution, and a new species of Otostigmus (Parotostigmus), pp. 169-198 in Zootaxa 3734 (2) on page 187, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/5275595
Professional, Practical and Political Opportunities: Optimizing the Role of Ontario Physician Assistants in Family Medicine
Creators: name: Burrows PHD, MSC
name: Abelson PHD, MSC
name: Miller PHD, MSC
name: Levine, MD MSC FRCPC FACP FISPE, Mitchell
name: Vanstone, PHD
Publisher: name: The Journal of Canada’s Physician Assistants
Year: 2020

description: Objective: To identify that facilitators and barriers that influence Physician Assistant (PA) role optimization and success in family practice settings. Setting: Rural and urban family practice settings in Ontario that had employed a PA for a minimum of two consecutive years. Participants: Six family medicine clinics in Ontario represented by seven family medicine Physician Assistants, eight Family Physicians (seven supervising physicians, one physician/administrator), and one clinic manager. Method: To identify the factors that influence role success and barriers which prevent PA role optimization, we conducted an exploratory single case study with embedded subunits of analysis. Data consisted of semi-structured interviews with 15 participants and analysis of documents (medical directives, job announcements, and communications). Main findings: Barriers and facilitators to PA integration and role success can be categorized into professional, practice-based, and political factors. Professional factors that facilitate role optimization include the professional relationship between the PA and physician, level of comfort with autonomy, trust, rapport and PA competencies. Practice factors that optimize the role include appropriate administrative support/organization, investment in PA training and patient satisfaction. Barriers include employer knowledge of medical-legal risks, communication around the PA role and accessibility of funding. Political factors that limit role optimization and success include billing practices, absence of consistent funding models and lack of regulatory oversight. Conclusion: Most of the barriers identified relate to enduring policy legacies, which continue to limit the sustainability and stability of PAs in Ontario. Successful Family Physician-PA teams have created individualized solutions to these barriers, and describe their partnership as increasing patient access to care, improving work-life balance, expanding comprehensiveness of services, and advancing team-based collaborative care.
description: The Journal of Canada’s Physician Assistants, Vol. 1 No. 4 (2020): The Journal of Canada's Physician Assistants
Manganese-mediated acetylation of alcohols, phenols, thiols, and amines utilizing acetic anhydride
Creators: name: Isha Jain
name: Ramandeep Sharma
name: Payal Malik
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Manganese(II) chloride-catalyzed acetylation of alcohols, phenols thiols and amines with acetic anhydride is reported. This method is environment-friendly and economically viable as it involves inexpensive, relatively benign catalyst, mild reaction condition, and simple workup. Acetylation is performed under the solvent-free condition at ambient temperature and acetylated products obtained in good to excellent yields. Primary, secondary heterocyclic amines, and phenols with various functional groups are smoothly acetylated in good yields. This method exhibits exquisite chemoselectivity, the amino group is preferentially acetylated in the presence of a hydroxyl/thiol group.
Bulk Majorons at Colliders
Creators: name: Carone, Christopher D.
name: Conroy, Justin M.
name: Kwee, Herry J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lepton number violation may arise via the spontaneous breakdown of a global symmetry. In extra dimensions, spontaneous lepton number violation in the bulk implies the existence of a Goldstone boson, the majoron J^(0), as well as an accompanying tower of Kaluza-Klein (KK) excitations, J^(n). Even if the zero-mode majoron is very weakly interacting, so that detection in low-energy processes is difficult, the sum over the tower of KK modes may partially compensate in processes of relevance at high-energy colliders. Here we consider the inclusive differential and total cross sections for e^- e^- --> W^- W^- J, where J represents a sum over KK modes. We show that allowed parameter choices exist for which this process may be accessible to a TeV-scale electron collider.
description: 11 pages LaTeX, 3 eps figures (references added)