cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Off-diagonal generalization of the mixed state geometric phase
Creators: name: Filipp, Stefan
name: Sjöqvist, Erik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concept of off-diagonal geometric phases for mixed quantal states in unitary evolution is developed. We show that these phases arise from three basic ideas: (1) fulfillment of quantum parallel transport of a complete basis, (2) a concept of mixed state orthogonality adapted to unitary evolution, and (3) a normalization condition. We provide a method for computing the off-diagonal mixed state phases to any order for unitarities that divide the parallel transported basis of Hilbert space into two parts: one part where each basis vector undergoes cyclic evolution and one part where all basis vectors are permuted among each other. We also demonstrate a purification based experimental procedure for the two lowest order mixed state phases and consider a physical scenario for a full characterization of the qubit mixed state geometric phases in terms of polarization-entangled photon pairs. An alternative second order off-diagonal mixed state geometric phase, which can be tested in single-particle experiments, is proposed.
description: Minor corrections, journal reference added
Molecular analysis of combined mTOR/HDAC inhibition in multiple myeloma
Creators: name: Gamache, Ben
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The molecular pathogenesis of many cancer types, including multiple myeloma (MM), involves alterations in the PI3K/AKT/mTOR (mTOR) and cyclin/CDK/Rb (CDK/Rb) pathways, often through activation of the mTOR pathway and epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressors in the CDK/Rb pathway. Previous studies have identified HDAC and mTOR inhibitors as effective in combating these molecular alterations in the CDK/mTOR pathways, respectively. Evaluating molecular synergy of combinations is challenging, yet identification of cooperatively responding, biologically-relevant targets is potentially useful for defining patient subsets for which the combination would be active. Previous work took an integrated, systems-level approach to distill the core synergistic consequence of combining MS-275 (Class I HDACi) with rapamycin (mTORi). Transcriptional co-expression analysis of multiple myeloma (MM) cells treated individually and in combination was used to define the contribution of each drug to an overall response network. Five highly connected transcriptional modules were identified, of which one distinct module of 126 genes was cooperatively affected by both drugs. Of the cooperatively affected genes, 37 were found to be differentially expressed in MM and predictive of survival (p<0.01). The pharmacodynamic response of the signature to the drug combination was examined by Western Blot and NanoString in a large number of MM cell lines before and after treatment. Ingenuity transcription factor enrichment testing identified MYC as one of the regulators of the synergistic transcriptional response. Inducible MYC cell lines have shown diminished protein, but not mRNA, expression in response to the drug combination. Likewise, MYC is required for combination sensitivity and for the synergistic response of the gene signature to combined mTOR/HDAC inhibition. This analysis identified an alternative route to MYC inhibition and a systems-level approach for defining the molecular underpinnings of drug combinations which can be applied to many disease states.
Laoennea Pall-Gergely 2020, new genus
Creators: name: Páll-Gergely, Barna
name: Reischütz, Alexander
name: Maassen, Wim J. M.
name: Grego, Jozef
name: Hunyadi, András
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Diapheridae
Laoennea

description: Genus Laoennea Páll-Gergely, new genus
 Type species. Laoennea carychioides Páll-Gergely, A. Reischütz & Maassen, new species.
 Diagnosis. As in the type species.
 Differential diagnosis. Laoennea, new genus, differs from Sinoennea by the conspicuously narrowed last whorl and relatively inflated penultimate whorl, the absence of a swelling behind the peristome (= the columellar lamella is not situated deep, as in Sinoennea), the nearly continuous, long parietal lamella, and the presence of a single palatal (lablar) denticle instead of the usual two in Sinoennea.
 Etymology. The name Laoennea is the combination of the country, where the type species was found (Laos) and Ennea H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855 (generic name that used to be widely used for high-spired Streptaxidae).
description: Published as part of Páll-Gergely, Barna, Reischütz, Alexander, Maassen, Wim J. M., Grego, Jozef & Hunyadi, András, 2020, New taxa of Diapheridae Panha & Naggs in Sutcharit et al., 2010 from Laos and Thailand (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Stylommatophora), pp. 1-13 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68 on page 2, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0001, http://zenodo.org/record/4577165
Probability Theory in Statistical Physics, Percolation, and Other Random Topics: The Work of C. Newman
Creators: name: Camia, Federico
name: Stein, Daniel L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the introduction to this volume, we discuss some of the highlights of the research career of Chuck Newman. This introduction is divided into two main sections, the first covering Chuck's work in statistical mechanics and the second his work in percolation theory, continuum scaling limits, and related topics.
description: 38 pages (including many references), introduction to Festschrift in honor of C.M. Newman
title: Lettre de Robert Gallo à Peter Piot
Creators: name: Gallo, Robert C. (1937-....)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020

description: Lettre numérisée.
description: Source: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/ms/Calames-20193111235510310
Isolation and characterization of a novel flavanone glycoside from an endemic plant Haplanthodes neilgherryensis
Creators: name: Singh, Ruchi
name: Dhiman, Mini
name: Saklani, Arvind
name: Selvaraj, C. Immanuel
name: Kate, Abhijeet S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The chemical characterization study of an endemic plant, Haplanthodes neilgherryensisis (Wight) R.B. Majumdar from Western Ghats of India, resulted in to the isolation of a new flavanone glycoside, 5-hydroxy-7-methoxy-8-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-2S-flavanone (1), along with 3 known flavonoids, 7-O-methyl dihydrowogonin (2), 7-O-methyl wogonin (3), andrographidine C (4). The structure of 1 was elucidated by using 1 D and 2 D NMR and HRMS experimental data, while for the known compounds, 1H NMR and mass spectrometry data were compared with the reported literature. Compound 1 was tested in vitro to check the improvement in uptake of glucose by the L6 rat skeletal muscle tissues and the observed EC50 value was 5.8 µM, while rosiglitazone showed EC50 of 2.7 µM.
title: Asymmetric synthesis involving silicon
Creators: name: Xu, Youli
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1996

description: Several different types of optically active, synthetically useful, silylated diols (17 pairs) have been prepared by asymmetric dihydroxylation of the corresponding allyl and vinylsilanes using Sharpless catalysts. Chiral analysis of these silyl diols was carried out by 1H NMR methods in the presence of Eu(hfc)3. Enantiomeric purity of some of these silyl diols is greater than 90% e.e.

Synthetically more useful, optically active trimethylsilylepoxides, trimethylsilyl amino alcohols and aziridines have been isolated by a multi-stage chirality transfer from their precursor diol involving no racemization. The main routes for these chirality transfers were via silylated cyclic sulphite or sulphate intermediates and via silylated cyclic ortho esters and halohydrin derivatives. The reactions of these silylated species can be very regioselective, such as the ring opening of epoxysilanes by azide ion, leading exclusively to a single regioisomer. Similarly, the deoxygenation of vicinal silyl diols has been observed without loss of the silyl group.

Chiral analysis of trimethylsilyl amino alcohols and aziridines (with enantiomeric excesses of up to 95%) have been carried out by 13C NMR methods in the presence of Eu(hfc)3.

Asymmetric epoxidation of allyl and vinylsilanes without polar groups have been investigated using manganese (III) salen complexes as a catalyst. A number of axial ligands of the salen complexes has been studied and some of these axial ligands were very effective to influence the reactivity of the catalyst, cis / trans ratio of the silyl epoxides and enantioselectivity of the epoxidation. Several different types of allyl and vinylsilanes have been epoxidized enantiomerically using this catalytic method. Enantiomeric excesses of epoxides were determined by Chiradex G-PN column. Some of these silyl epoxides had e. e. of greater than 95%.
Chola in a Choke Hold: Gender, Globalization, and Authenticity in Bolivian Lucha Libre
Creators: name: Haynes, Nell
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation explores how globalization has impacted the practice of professional wrestling in La Paz, Bolivia. Specifically, I look at the "cholitas luchadoras"--female wrestlers who dress in traditional chola attire while performing, and their male colleagues who wear spandex costumes similar to those of exhibition wrestlers around the world. Given the exoticization of indigenous women and the fact that they are often positioned as symbols of the nation, it is not surprising that the cholitas luchadoras have become popular among both Bolivians and foreign tourists. In referencing the social capital of the indigenous woman, the luchadoras advance their own social standings, develop international mobility, increase potential for economic gain, and thus access certain forms of cosmopolitanism. However, male luchadores sometimes accuse the cholitas luchadoras of using clown-like gimmicks that contribute to an international reputation of Bolivian lucha libre as subpar. Within this context, notions of authenticity emerge as important sites of conflict and gendered tensions between legitimacy of sport and economic gains arise. Thus, this dissertation explores the tensions between the local and global, tradition and modernity, and authenticity and illegitimacy as experienced and produced by luchadores in Bolivia.
Chola in a Choke Hold: Gender, Globalization, and Authenticity in Bolivian Lucha Libre
Creators: name: Haynes, Nell
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 4405
subject: Gender studies

description: This dissertation explores how globalization has impacted the practice of professional wrestling in La Paz, Bolivia. Specifically, I look at the "cholitas luchadoras"--female wrestlers who dress in traditional chola attire while performing, and their male colleagues who wear spandex costumes similar to those of exhibition wrestlers around the world. Given the exoticization of indigenous women and the fact that they are often positioned as symbols of the nation, it is not surprising that the cholitas luchadoras have become popular among both Bolivians and foreign tourists. In referencing the social capital of the indigenous woman, the luchadoras advance their own social standings, develop international mobility, increase potential for economic gain, and thus access certain forms of cosmopolitanism. However, male luchadores sometimes accuse the cholitas luchadoras of using clown-like gimmicks that contribute to an international reputation of Bolivian lucha libre as subpar. Within this context, notions of authenticity emerge as important sites of conflict and gendered tensions between legitimacy of sport and economic gains arise. Thus, this dissertation explores the tensions between the local and global, tradition and modernity, and authenticity and illegitimacy as experienced and produced by luchadores in Bolivia.
title: A qualitative study investigating the potential for collaborative relationships between clinical psychologists and self-help groups in the field of mental health, and comparing clinical psychologists' views about self-help groups with self-help group members' views about the professional care system
Creators: name: Whiting, Susan
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1996

description: This study explores the potential for collaborative relationships between clinical psychologists and self-help group members in the field of mental health, comparing the views of each group in relation to the other and their preferred relationships. The participant group comprised: (a) 16 clinical psychologists working in adult mental health services, twelve with previous contact with self-help groups and four without any previous contact and (b) fourteen self-help group members from various self-help groups for adults experiencing personal or emotional difficulties. Face to face interviews were conducted using semi-structured interview schedules. These were designed for each group to understand in-depth their views in relation to the other and about entering into collaborative relationships. Grounded theory and thematic analysis were used to analyse the interviews. Both groups perceived benefits from a collaboration but envisaged problematic relationships. Tension emerged as a major issue and was expressed in various ways. Three major dimensions of tension were similarity versus difference, power versus equality and resources versus deprivation. Managing the resulting tensions poses threats for both groups in collaborative relationships, particularly to their identity. Findings suggest that both groups need to find ways of managing their genuine differences without introducing threats into the relationship or preventing the full potential of collaborative relationships from being realised. The study's findings are critically evaluated and directions for future research in the field are discussed. Implications for clinical practice are addressed.
ISSUES IN FOOD ASSISTANCE - THE STANDARD DEDUCTION IN THE FOOD STAMP BENEFIT FORMULA
Creators: name: Wilde, Parke E.
name: Wilde, Parke E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Public Economics
subject: Food Stamp Program
subject: FSP
subject: Welfare Reform
subject: program participation
subject: food assistance and nutrition programs

description: This issue brief explains the role of the standard deduction in the food stamp benefit formula and analyzes options for changing the level of the standard deduction.
Neither Land Nor Water: Martin Johnson Heade, Frederic Edwin Church and American Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century
Creators: name: Holmstead, Elizabeth T.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3601
subject: Art history, theory and criticism

description: Martin Johnson Heade and Frederic Edwin Church had a close personal relationship, shared a studio for more than a decade, and maintained a correspondence that lasted nearly forty years. Church was better known and certainly more successful commercially than Heade, but despite their close proximity and Heade's personal and professional admiration for Church, Heade should not be seen as an imitator of Church. Heade's paintings are a departure from Church's work in both form and content. In particular, a study of Heade's many marsh paintings reveals that, while Heade used some of Church's compositional elements, Heade's preparation, working method, purpose, and message to his audience are quite different from those of Church. Heade's marsh paintings make their own unique contribution to the history of American art.
Strong Emission Line HII Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Catalog of DR1 Objects with Oxygen Abundances from Te easurements
Creators: name: Kniazev, Alexei Y.
name: Pustilnik, Simon A.
name: Grebel, Eva K.
name: Lee, Henry
name: Pramskij, Alexander G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first edition of the {S}DSS {H}II-galaxies with {O}xygen abundances {C}atalog (SHOC), which is a listing of strong emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Oxygen abundances have been obtained with the classic Te-method. We describe the method exploiting the SDSS database to construct this sample. The selection procedures are described and discussed in detail, as well as some problems encountered in the process of deriving reliable emission line parameters. The method was applied to the SDSS Data Release 1 (DR1). We present 612 SDSS emission-line galaxies (624 separate SDSS targets in total), for which the oxygen abundances 12+log(O/H) have r.m.s. uncertainties <0.20 dex. The subsample of 263 ELGs have an uncertainty <0.10 dex, while 459 ELGs have an uncertainty <0.15 dex. The catalog includes the main parameters of all selected ELGs, the intensities and equivalent widths of hydrogen and oxygen emission lines, as well as oxygen abundances with their uncertainties. The information on the presence of Wolf-Rayet blue and/or red bumps in 109 galaxies is also included. With the use of combined g,r,i SDSS images we performed visual morphological classification of all SHOC galaxies. 461 galaxies (~75%) are classified as confident or probable blue compact galaxies (BCG/BCG?), 78 as irregular ones, 20 as low surface brightness galaxies (LSBG), 10 as obviously interacting and 43 as spiral galaxies. In creating the catalog, 30 narrow line AGN and 69 LINERs were also identified; these are also presented apart of the main catalog. We outline briefly the content of the catalog, and the prospects of its use for statistical studies of the star formation and chemical evolution issues. Some of these studies will be presented in the forthcoming paper (abridged).
description: 64 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication and scheduled for the ApJS August 2004, v153 issue. Some figures were bitmapped to reduce the size
Über interglaziale und interstadiale Bildungen von Loopstedt am Haddebyer Noor bei Schleswig
Creators: name: Kolumbe, Erich
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1955

description: Eine Nachuntersuchung des lange bekannten Eem-Interglaziais von Loopstedt führte zur Entdeckung eines Weichsel-Interstadials.
description: research
Das Jungholozän im Reichenhaller Becken
Creators: name: Brunnacker, Karl
name: Freundlich, Jürgen
name: Menke, Manfred
name: Schmeidl, Hans
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1976

description: Für das jüngere Holozän des Reichenhaller Beckens und der Saalach wird eine Gliederung entwickelt, die sich sowohl hinsichtlich der Generaltendenzen als auch der zwischengeschobenen Aktivierungsphasen in das Bild der allgemeinen Flußentwicklung Mitteleuropas einfügt: 1. Froschhamer Terrasse (spätglaziale Rückzugsterrasse) 2. Saalach-Mäander auf der Froschhamer Terrasse 3. Tiefe Saalach-Einschneidung = entsprechend der Aktivierungsphase „Pulling Stufe" rd. 4300 a BP 4. Feinsedimente mit Torf im Becken (bronzezeitlich) 5. Spätbronzezeitlicher Schwemmkegel = rd. 3000 Jahre vor heute sowie Lokalschotter randlicher Schwemmfächer (anthropogen ausgelöst, z. T. etwas älter) 6. Bereichsweise minerogene Feinsedimente mit Torf im Becken 7. Saalach-Schwemmkegel, randlich am Becken Auelehm = Aktivierungsphase „Lerchenfeld-Stufe" (ab 2. Jh. n. Chr.) 8. Ehemaliger Saalach-See sowie mittelalterliche bis neuzeitliche Saalach-Schotter im Auebereich. Damit ist es im Becken nicht möglich, im Unterschied zu seinen Randhöhen, eine prähistorische Besiedlung zu fassen. Die Sole-Quellen sind auf den bronzezeitlichen Talboden eingestellt. Die spätere Auffüllung des Beckens hatte auf das Niveau dieser Austritte, etwa über einen Rückstau, keinen Einfluß.
description: research
The Alcock Paczynski test with 21cm intensity field
Creators: name: Endo, Takao
name: Tashiro, Hiroyuki
name: Nishizawa, Atsushi J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Feasibility of the Alcock Paczynski (AP) test by stacking voids in the 21cm line intensity field is presented. We analyze the Illstris-TNG simulation to obtain the 21cm signal map. We then randomly distribute particles depending on the 21cm intensity field to find voids by using publicly available code, VIDE. As in the galaxy clustering, the shape of the stacked void in the 21cm field is squashed along the line of sight due to the peculiar velocities in redshift-space, although it becomes spherical in real-space. The redshift-space distortion for the stacked void weakly depends on redshift and we show that the dependency can be well described by the linear prediction, with the amplitude of the offset being free parameters. We find that the AP test using the stacked voids in a 21cm intensity map is feasible and the parameter estimation on $Ω_{\rm m}$ and $w$ is unbiased.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures
title: Strain measurement using neutron diffraction
Creators: name: Wang, Duan Qiang (David)
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1996

description: This thesis contains a study of improvement and application of strain measurement technique using neutron diffraction. A dedicated neutron strain scanner - ENGIN, funded by Ee. has been developed at ISIS. It has two radial collimators, allowing for the first time, measurements taken simultaneously at two orthogonal directions; uses Pawley refinement permitting both whole pattern and individual peak profile analysis and its positioner allow's specimens weighing 250 kg to be placed with an accuracy of 100 µm. Strain measurement using neutron diffraction has been investigated under two extreme circumstances: very shallow (within 1 mm near surface) and very deep in materials (hundred of mm). Near-surface measurement requires both the accurate determination of the effective measurement position associated with precise location of specimen, calculation of centroid and correction for an anomalous near-surface effect. The strain measurements on a shot-peened surface in titanium alloy were carried out using the methodology mentioned above. The result is comparable to that obtained from X-ray diffraction. The latter was exploited by studying the effect of wavelength-dependent attenuation in materials. Experiments and theoretical analysis on aluminium and iron show that the effect is small for a strain scanner using radial collimator and time-of-flight technique. However, the reduction of the diffraction peak intensity, as a function of the amount of material in the beam path, reveals that great care should be taken when measuring texture as a function of depth in materials. The neutron diffraction technique was applied to several sets of engineering strain measurements. Firstly, 3-D residual stresses surrounding a cold expanded hole in a high strength aluminium alloy plate were measured. The result agrees well with that from modified Sachs' method after taking the effect of gauge volume averaging into account. Second, measurements of strain distributions in a Q-joint under zero and 30 kN load have been carried out, which provides a confirmation of the excellence of the joint design as the fastener system has completely shielded the fastener hole from deleterious tensile strains under operational loading. Finally, calibration strain measurement for an energy dispersive neutron transmission spectrometer was performed for the first time and it is found that the transmission spectrometer is feasible for strain and phase transformation measurement.
Neither Land Nor Water: Martin Johnson Heade, Frederic Edwin Church and American Landscape Painting in the Nineteenth Century
Creators: name: Holmstead, Elizabeth T.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Martin Johnson Heade and Frederic Edwin Church had a close personal relationship, shared a studio for more than a decade, and maintained a correspondence that lasted nearly forty years. Church was better known and certainly more successful commercially than Heade, but despite their close proximity and Heade's personal and professional admiration for Church, Heade should not be seen as an imitator of Church. Heade's paintings are a departure from Church's work in both form and content. In particular, a study of Heade's many marsh paintings reveals that, while Heade used some of Church's compositional elements, Heade's preparation, working method, purpose, and message to his audience are quite different from those of Church. Heade's marsh paintings make their own unique contribution to the history of American art.
Cosmological perturbations in the Palatini formulation of modified gravity
Creators: name: Koivisto, Tomi
name: Kurki-Suonio, Hannu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmology in extended theories of gravity is considered assuming the Palatini variational principle, for which the metric and connection are independent variables. The field equations are derived to linear order in perturbations about the homogeneous and isotropic but possibly spatially curved background. The results are presented in a unified form applicable to a broad class of gravity theories allowing arbitrary scalar-tensor couplings and nonlinear dependence on the Ricci scalar in the gravitational action. The gauge-ready formalism exploited here makes it possible to obtain the equations immediately in any of the commonly used gauges. Of the three type of perturbations, the main attention is on the scalar modes responsible for the cosmic large-scale structure. Evolution equations are derived for perturbations in a late universe filled with cold dark matter and accelerated by curvature corrections. Such corrections are found to induce effective pressure gradients which are problematical in the formation of large-scale structure. This is demonstrated by analytic solutions in a particular case. A physical equivalence between scalar-tensor theories in metric and in Palatini formalisms is pointed out.
description: 14 pages; the published version (+ an appendix). Corrected typos in eqs. 30,33 and B6
Die Stratigraphie der weichselzeitlichen Ablagerungen der Niederlande und Belgiens
Creators: name: Zagwijn, Waldo
name: Paepe, Roland
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 1968

description: Es wird der lithostratigraphische Aufbau der niederländischen und belgischen weichselzeitlichen Schichten behandelt und korreliert. Die in den Niederlanden im Flugdecksand gewonnene Klimastratigraphie auf biostratigraphischer Grundlage konnte dadurch auf das Übergangs- und Lößgebiet Belgiens übertragen werden. Es ergeben sich dadurch Verknüpfungen mit dem mitteleuropäischen Lößgebiet.
description: research
Metaphire Sims & Easton 1972
Creators: name: Nguyen, Tung T.
name: Nguyen, Nam Q.
name: Lam, Dang H.
name: Nguyen, Anh D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Haplotaxida
Megascolecidae
Metaphire

description: Metaphire Sims & Easton, 1972
 Metaphire Sims & Easton, 1972: 215.
 Type species. Rhodopis javanica Kinberg, 1867, by monotypy.
 Distribution. The genus is widely distributed in the Oriental region, from Japan through to the Indo-Australian archipelago (Sims & Easton, 1972: 215).
 Remarks. According to Sims & Easton (1972), the genus Metaphire is distinguished from Amynthas Kinberg, 1867, mainly by the presence of copulatory pouches, from Pheretima Kinberg, 1867, by the absence of micronephridia on the spermathecal ducts, and from Pithemera Sims & Easton, 1972, by the presence of intestinal caeca at or near xxvii.
 Morphologically, Metaphire and Amynthas are clearly separated by the presence or absence of copulatory pouches. However, recent molecular studies show the polyphyletic relationship between Metaphire and Amynthas (Zhao et al., 2015; Jeratthitikul et al., 2017). Thus, more data is needed for better understanding of the relationship between these two genera.
description: Published as part of Nguyen, Tung T., Nguyen, Nam Q., Lam, Dang H. & Nguyen, Anh D., 2020, Six new species of the genus Metaphire Sims & Easton, 1972 (Annelida: Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from southeastern Vietnam, pp. 220-236 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68 on page 221, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0019, http://zenodo.org/record/4577217
AGE AND STRAIN DIFFERENCES IN MORPHINE-INDUCED TASTE AVERSIONS: A BEHAVIORAL AND NEUROCHEMICAL ASSESSMENT
Creators: name: Hurwitz, Zachary E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Drugs of abuse have both rewarding and aversive effects with the relative balance of these two effects determining their subsequent use and abuse. Understanding this balance and the various factors that might impact it may provide insight into drug use and abuse. In this context, the inbred LEW and F344 rat strains have been shown to differ in their sensitivity to the aversive effects of a host of drugs of abuse, including morphine. Although strain-dependent differences in morphine-induced aversions have been well characterized, these effects have been limited to adults and it is not known whether such effects are evident in adolescents and are developmentally stable or if such differences are manifested only in adulthood as a function of some developmental history. To address these possibilities, adolescent F344 and LEW rats were given access to a novel saccharin solution and subcutaneously injected with various doses of morphine (0, 3.2, 10 and 18 mg/kg). This procedure was repeated for four conditioning cycles following which all subjects were given access to water and saccharin in a two-bottle test of the aversion. To determine if morphine brain levels differed between the two strains and if any differences were related to strain differences in aversion learning, subjects were given an injection of the dose of morphine administered during conditioning and brain morphine levels were assessed with high-performance liquid-chromatography. Both adolescent and adult F344 subjects exhibited robust morphine-induced taste aversions at all doses tested, while the LEW subjects were relatively insensitive to the aversive properties of morphine, suggesting that the differential sensitivity to the aversive effects of morphine between the strains is highly heritable and developmentally stable. In addition, adolescents (averaged across strain) displayed weaker aversions that adults. Both adolescent and adult subjects displayed dose-dependent differences in brain morphine levels with the levels significantly lower in LEW adolescents relative to the F344 counterparts. None of these levels was associated with the reported differences in aversion learning. The basis for the strain differences in morphine-induced aversions was discussed in relation to possible peripheral and central mechanisms mediating and modulating the aversive effects of morphine.
Supplementary document for Single-step beam intensity and profile optimization using a 256×256 micromirror array and reinforcement learning - 7241419.pdf
Creators: name: Xie, Yunhui
name: Praeger, Matthew
name: Grant-Jacob, James
name: Mills, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
The social travel patterns of youth and young adults
Creators: name: Thomas, Reena Anne Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Young people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-nine represent one-third of transit riders in Canada and over half of transit riders in the Greater Vancouver Regional District. They socialize in different places, and at different times of day, from children or adults. Because they are often left out of transportation studies involving children or adults, researchers know little about the way in which young people travel. Twenty-one youth and young adults from Vancouver and Surrey participated in this exploratory study to determine the ways in which transportation affected their social travel patterns. Social network mapping and focus groups with youth aged 17-21 and young adults aged 22-25 revealed the constraints that young people face when they travel for social purposes. Young people tend to socialize in the evening and at night, when transit frequency and reliability are low. Extensive planning and organization of trips means that young people socialize in a few small social activity corridors, face long travel distances to the residential areas of the region, and rarely travel spontaneously. Their ability to use other alternative transportation modes, such as cycling and walking, is limited by long travel distances and consistently rainy weather for six months of the year. Young people also make extreme adjustments to their social lives, schedules and personal safety in order to take transit in the evening and at night. Although affordability is a significant barrier to car ownership, young people in the GVRD are also increasingly aware of urban planning and environmental issues, making them reluctant to rely on cars. Many choose transit as their preferred mode of transportation, and would like to continue to use transit in the future. This study contributed to an understanding of the social travel patterns of youth and young adults, and revealed the significance of this demographic in planning transit services. However, because of the small sample size, future research might include quantitative surveys of youth and young adults in the GVRD to clarify and reinforce their social travel patterns.
Thermal aspects of interacting quantum gases in Lorentz-violating scenarios
Creators: name: Filho, A. A. Araújo
name: Reis, J. A. A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we study the interaction of quantum gases in Lorentz-violating scenarios considering both boson and fermion sectors. In the latter case, we investigate the consequences of a system governed by scalar, vector, pseudovector and tensor operators. Besides, we examine the implications of $\left( \hat{k}_{a}\right) ^{κ}$ and $\left( \hat{k}_{c}\right) ^{κξ}$ operators for the boson case as well. For doing so, we regard the grand canonical ensemble seeking the so-called partition function, which suffices to provide analytically the calculations of interest, i.e., mean particle number, entropy, mean total energy and pressure. Furthermore, in low temperature regime, such quantities converge until reaching a similar behavior being in contrast with what is shown in high temperature regime, which brings out the differentiation of their effects. In addition, particle number, entropy and energy exhibit an extensive characteristic even in the presence of Lorentz violation. Finally, for peseudovector and tensor operators, we notice a remarkable feature due to the breaking process of spin degeneracy: the system turns out to have greater energy and particle number for the spin-down particles in comparison with spin-up ones.
description: 36 pages, 4 figures and 8 tables
Social Capital, Poverty and its Alleviation in a Chinese Border Region: A Case Study in the Kirghiz Prefecture, Xinjiang
Creators: name: Hong, Liu
name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Fei, Wang
name: Hong, Liu
name: Tisdell, Clem
name: Fei, Wang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Australian Aborigines
subject: border poverty
subject: China
subject: Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture
subject: poverty alleviation
subject: social capital
subject: social networks
subject: trust
subject: Xinjiang

description: Border poverty is a special type of poverty that urgently needs to be reduced in order to construct a well-off society in China by 2020. China’s current policies for targeting poverty alleviation in its border areas pay greatest attention to the availability of physical and human capital and ignore the role which social capital might play in poverty alleviation. Making use of survey results obtained in July, 2016 from a sample of households dominated by Kirghizs in the Kirghiz Prefecture of Xinjiang, the attributes associated with being poor are identified. Logistic regression is employed to determine the probable effects of increased social capital on border poverty. The results indicate that increasing social capital at the household level could have a significant positive effect on poverty alleviation, while increased collective social capital probably does not. In addition, it is found that the amounts of livestock and village pasture land possessed by households and their use of formal financial capital are positively associated with the absence of poverty of households, whereas greater human capital (education) and amounts of informal financial capital do not display this association. Policy implications of the analyis are outlined and assesed.
Subaqueous conglomerates above pre-LGM basal till: Another element of the ‘classic’ interglacial mountain-flank succession (Hötting Breccia Auct.) north of Innsbruck, Austria
Creators: name: Sanders, Diethard
name: Pernreiter, Sabine
Publisher: name: Geozon Science Media
Year: 2016

description: The “Hötting Breccia” near Innsbruck is a classic interglacial mountain-flank succession mainly comprising lithified alluvial fans and scree slopes. Directly NW of Innsbruck, a pre-LGM (Riss?) basal till >20 m in thickness overlies a plucked rock surface that records eastward ice flow. The till is dominated by clasts of carbonate rocks from the Northern Calcareous Alps; index clasts of the LGM ice stream are absent. The basal till is overlain by a package of conglomerate nearly 1 km in preserved lateral extent that dip at 20–30° South and show the same clast spectrum as the underlying till. The conglomerate – hitherto assigned to the Hötting Breccia – accumulated from fan deltas and/or scree slopes shed into a standing water body; it is overlain by younger, unlithified LGM to Holocene deposits. We suggest the following scenario: During decay of the ice stream that formed the basal till, the conglomerate package was deposited by paraglacial reworking of till into a lake or ice-marginal lake. The alluvial fans of the Hötting Breccia accumulated independently from the conglomerate package, and from a distinct alluvial-fan system. The age relation of the till/conglomerate package to the main part of the Hötting Breccia is unclear. Our results demonstrate that the rocks hitherto summarized as Hötting Breccia represent a compound of lithosomes of different origins and ages.
description: research
AGE AND STRAIN DIFFERENCES IN MORPHINE-INDUCED TASTE AVERSIONS: A BEHAVIORAL AND NEUROCHEMICAL ASSESSMENT
Creators: name: Hurwitz, Zachary E.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Drugs of abuse have both rewarding and aversive effects with the relative balance of these two effects determining their subsequent use and abuse. Understanding this balance and the various factors that might impact it may provide insight into drug use and abuse. In this context, the inbred LEW and F344 rat strains have been shown to differ in their sensitivity to the aversive effects of a host of drugs of abuse, including morphine. Although strain-dependent differences in morphine-induced aversions have been well characterized, these effects have been limited to adults and it is not known whether such effects are evident in adolescents and are developmentally stable or if such differences are manifested only in adulthood as a function of some developmental history. To address these possibilities, adolescent F344 and LEW rats were given access to a novel saccharin solution and subcutaneously injected with various doses of morphine (0, 3.2, 10 and 18 mg/kg). This procedure was repeated for four conditioning cycles following which all subjects were given access to water and saccharin in a two-bottle test of the aversion. To determine if morphine brain levels differed between the two strains and if any differences were related to strain differences in aversion learning, subjects were given an injection of the dose of morphine administered during conditioning and brain morphine levels were assessed with high-performance liquid-chromatography. Both adolescent and adult F344 subjects exhibited robust morphine-induced taste aversions at all doses tested, while the LEW subjects were relatively insensitive to the aversive properties of morphine, suggesting that the differential sensitivity to the aversive effects of morphine between the strains is highly heritable and developmentally stable. In addition, adolescents (averaged across strain) displayed weaker aversions that adults. Both adolescent and adult subjects displayed dose-dependent differences in brain morphine levels with the levels significantly lower in LEW adolescents relative to the F344 counterparts. None of these levels was associated with the reported differences in aversion learning. The basis for the strain differences in morphine-induced aversions was discussed in relation to possible peripheral and central mechanisms mediating and modulating the aversive effects of morphine.
Magnetic Structures and Spin States of NdBaCo2O5
Creators: name: Soda, Minoru
name: Yasui, Yukio
name: Ito, Masafumi
name: Iikubo, Satoshi
name: Sato, Masatoshi
name: Kakurai, Kazuhisa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutron diffraction studies have been carried out on a single crystal of oxygen-deficient perovskite NdBaCo2O5 in the temperature range of 7-370 K. There have been observed, with decreasing temperature T, two magnetic transitions accompanied with structural changes, to the antiferromagnetic phase at ~360 K and to the charge ordered antiferromagnetic one at ~250 K. We have studied the magnetic structures at 300 K and 7 K. At these temperatures the Co-moments have the so-called G-type antiferromagnetic structure, and Co ions are considered to be in the high spin state over the whole temperature range below TN 360 K irrespective of whether the charge ordering is present or not.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. submitted, corrected typos
title: Cognitive aspects of chronic fatigue syndrome
Creators: name: Dendy, Catherine Mary
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 1997

description: Recent interest in cognitive behavioural therapy techniques for treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) has highlighted the contribution of psychological approaches to alleviating the debilitating symptoms of this illness. In previous research sufferers from CFS have been compared with depressed patients and patients with neuromuscular disease, as they share similar symptoms, but not diagnosis. This study attempts to compare four groups including a normal working group. A new measures was developed and piloted, designed to measure interpretations of symptoms in CFS. In addition standard instruments were used to focus on the measurement of high personal standards, perfectionism, emotional control and conscientiousness and levels of autonomy. Results showed the CFS group were similar to the normal working group on all standard scales and scored low on autonomous personality traits. Reasons for this result, and the clinical implications for treating such a heterogeneous patient group are discussed. Measures on the symptom interpretation scale show CFS patients are less likely to give an emotional explanation for their symptoms than the other participant groups. This has implications for communication between physician and patient, and the treatment of CFS with a psychological model.
Provenance of the Bosnian Flysch
Creators: name: Mikes, Tamás
name: Christ, Dominik
name: Petri, Rüdiger
name: Dunkl, István
name: Frei, Dirk
name: Báldi-Beke, Mária
name: Reitner, Joachim
name: Wemmer, Klaus
name: Hrvatović, Hazim
name: Eynatten, Hilmar
Publisher: name: SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
Year: 2008

description: Sandwiched between the Adriatic Carbonate Platform and the Dinaride Ophiolite Zone, the Bosnian Flysch forms a c. 3000 m thick, intensely folded stack of Upper Jurassic to Cretaceous mixed carbonate and siliciclastic sediments in the Dinarides. New petrographic, heavy mineral, zircon U/Pb and fission-track data as well as biostratigraphic evidence allow us to reconstruct the palaeogeology of the source areas of the Bosnian Flysch basin in late Mesozoic times. Middle Jurassic intraoceanic subduction of the Neotethys was shortly followed by exhumation of the overriding oceanic plate. Trench sedimentation was controlled by a dual sediment supply from the sub-ophiolitic high-grade metamorphic soles and from the distal continental margin of the Adriatic plate. Following obduction onto Adria, from the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition onwards a vast clastic wedge (Vranduk Formation) was developed in front of the leading edge, fed by continental basement units of Adria that experienced Early Cretaceous synsedimentary cooling, by the overlying ophiolitic thrust sheets and by redeposited elements of coeval Urgonian facies reefs grown on the thrust wedge complex. Following mid-Cretaceous deformation and thermal overprint of the Vranduk Formation, the depozone migrated further towards SW and received increasing amounts of redeposited carbonate detritus released from the Adriatic Carbonate Platform margin (Ugar Formation). Subordinate siliciclastic source components indicate changing source rocks on the upper plate, with ophiolites becoming subordinate. The zone of the continental basement previously affected by the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous thermal imprint has been removed; instead, the basement mostly supplied detritus with a wide range of pre-Jurassic cooling ages. However, a c. 80 Ma, largely synsedimentary cooling event is also recorded by the Ugar Formation, that contrasts the predominantly Early Cretaceous cooling of the Adriatic basement and suggests, at least locally, a fast exhumation.
Supergiant halos as an integral record of natural pionic radioactivity
Creators: name: Ion, D. B.
name: Ion-Mihai, Reveica
name: Ion, M. L.
name: Sandru, Adriana I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper an unified interpretation of the supergiant halos (SGH), discovered by Grady, Walker and Laemmlein, is discussed. So, it is proved that SGH`s can be considered as integral records of the nuclear pionic radioactivity.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures