cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Producing translationally cold, ground-state CO molecules
Creators: name: Blokland, Janneke H.
name: Riedel, Jens
name: Putzke, Stephan
name: Sartakov, Boris G.
name: Groenenboom, Gerrit C.
name: Meijer, Gerard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Carbon monoxide molecules in their electronic, vibrational, and rotational ground state are highly attractive for trapping experiments. The optical or ac electric traps that can be envisioned for these molecules will be very shallow, however, with depths in the sub-milliKelvin range. Here we outline that the required samples of translationally cold CO (X$^1Σ^+$, $v"$=0, $N"$=0) molecules can be produced after Stark deceleration of a beam of laser-prepared metastable CO (a$^3Π_1$) molecules followed by optical transfer of the metastable species to the ground state \emph{via} perturbed levels in the A$^1Π$ state. The optical transfer scheme is experimentally demonstrated and the radiative lifetimes and the electric dipole moments of the intermediate levels are determined.
Pseudonicsara (Pseudonicsara) wum Ingrisch 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Ingrisch, Sigfrid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Pseudonicsara
Pseudonicsara wum

description: Pseudonicsara (P.) wum sp. n. Figs. 449, 496, map 1. Holotype (female): Papua New Guinea: New Guinea (NE), Upper Jimmi Valley, Wum [5° 34' S, 144° 35' E], 840 m, 17.VII.1955, J.L. Gressitt, depository: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (BPBM). Paratype: 1 female, same locality as holotype, 16.VII.1955 (BPBM). Diagnosis. P. wum is similar to P. abbreviata and P. lehm. It differs by the female subgenital plate, which is at very base sloping but not grooved; the resulting lobes are triangular with the apex upcurved (Figs. 449, 496). Differences to other species are outlined in the key. Description. Fastigium verticis in front of eyes 1.3 mm, from base 1.6 mm; dorsal eye length 1.8 mm; greatest diameter of eye 1.9 mm; index fastigium verticis from base: eye length 0.9. Face rugose but shining. Tegmen surpassing apices of hind femora; gradually narrowed behind basal widening. Femora with the following number of spines on ventral margins: fore femur 8 external, 6–7 internal; mid femur 6–7 external, 3 internal near base; hind femur 10–11 external, 4–7 minute internal near base. Male unknown. Female. Tenth abdominal tergite furrowed in midline. Subgenital plate consisting of two triangular lobes, roundly excised in between to almost base. Coloration. Yellowish brown. Face with black band between eyes including all of scapus or only its ventral side; with another black band along clypeo-frontal suture extended on genae. Tegmen with dark cells and light veinlets. Measurements (2 females): body 28–35; pronotum 8.3; tegmen 31–33; hind femur 20.5; ovipositor 19– 20 mm. Etymology. Named after the type locality; noun in apposition.
description: Published as part of Ingrisch, Sigfrid, 2009, Revision of the genus Pseudonicsara Karny, 1912 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae: Agraeciini) 2185, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 2185 on pages 48-49
Phagosomal Redox Sensitive Cysteine Cathepsins Modify MHC-II Mediated Adaptive Immune Responses During EAE in Mice
Creators: name: Allan, Euan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: NOX2
subject: Cysteine Cathepsin
subject: EAE

description: This dissertation characterizes redox-sensitive cysteine cathepsins during MHC-II- restricted MOG antigen processing, and MOG- induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). The phagosomal redox environment can modify the activity of multiple cysteine cathepsins and these proteases can, in turn, perturb antigen processing and presentation, particularly of MOG. Initially, we explored the effects of NADPH oxidase 2 (NOX2) on patterns of antigen processing in antigen presenting cells (APCs). We discovered that NOX2 influences the pattern, and abundance, of model- peptide antigens that are produced during the phagosomal processing of these proteins in a cell-, and antigen- specific manner. Specifically, the immunodominant peptide of MOG (MOG35-55 in C57/Bl6 mice) is likely destroyed by excessive cathepsin S and L activity in NOX2-deficeint macrophages. Mice deficient in NOX2 exhibit protection from EAE, which is likely due to inefficient MOG- antigen processing and presentation. Secondly, we characterized EAE and MOG antigen presentation in cathepsin B-, S-, and L- deficient mice. These redox-sensitive cysteine cathepsins are redundant for the processing and presentation of MOG antigens and EAE, but mice simultaneously deficient in cathepsin B and S are protected from EAE, and have a MHC-II processing deficiency. Cumulatively, these findings indicate that MOG antigen presentation can be modulated by both excessive (by eliminating NOX2-induced cathepsin inhibition) or limited cysteine cathepsin activity in the phagosome of APCs. Lastly, we investigated the role of cathepsin Z during MOG processing, presentation, and EAE. Like the other cysteine cathepsins, cathepsin Z is redundant for MOG processing and presentation; but mice deficient in cathepsin Z are protected from EAE, and exhibit unexpected Th17 and IL-1β deficiencies during EAE. Further exploration revealed that CD4+ T cells deficient in cathepsin Z have a reduced propensity for Th17 polarization when in the presence of cathepsin Z deficient- APCs. Correlatively, we found a novel IL-1β/18 production deficiency in cathepsin Z deficient- APCs. Collectively, the work presented in this dissertation provides novel evidence that phagosomal redox-sensitive cysteine cathepsins have intricate roles in antigen processing and autoimmunity, with particular relevance to MHC-II-restricted adaptive immune responses during MOG- induced EAE.
Symmetries of CR sub-Laplacian
Creators: name: Vlasáková, Zuzana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.0
subject: 53c15, 53c30

description: We define a CR structure on a distinguished hyperplane in $\mathbb{C}^{n+1}$ and the CR sub-Laplacian on this CR manifold. We also define symmetries of the CR sub-Laplacian in general and for this special case construct all of them using the ambient construction. Then we investigate the algebra structure of the symmetry algebra of the sub-Laplacian. For this purpose we derive the decomposition of $S^{k}_{0}\mathfrak{sl}(V)$ under the action of $SL(V)$.
The first IRAM/PdBI polarimetric millimeter survey of active galactic nuclei. II. Activity and properties of individual sources
Creators: name: Trippe, S.
name: Neri, R.
name: Krips, M.
name: Castro-Carrizo, A.
name: Bremer, M.
name: Pietu, V.
name: Winters, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the linear polarization of six active galactic nuclei - 0415+379 (3C~111), 0507+179, 0528+134 (OG+134), 0954+658, 1418+546 (OQ+530), and 1637+574 (OS+562). Our targets were monitored from 2007 to 2011 in the observatory-frame frequency range 80-253 GHz, corresponding to a rest-frame frequency range 88-705 GHz. We find average degrees of polarization m_L ~ 2-7%; this indicates that the polarization signals are effectively averaged out by the emitter geometries. We see indication for fairly strong shocks and/or complex, variable emission region geometries in our sources, with compression factors <0.9 and/or changes in viewing angles by >10 deg. An analysis of correlations between source fluxes and polarization parameter points out special cases: the presence of (at least) two distinct emission regions with different levels of polarization (for 0415+379) as well as emission from a single, predominant component (for 0507+179 and 1418+546). Regarding the evolution of flux and polarization, we find good agreement between observations and the signal predicted by "oblique shock in jet" scenarios in one source (1418+546). We attempt to derive rotation measures for all sources, leading to actual measurements for two AGN and upper limits for three sources. We derive values of RM = -39,000 +/- 1,000 (stat) +/- 13,000 (sys) rad/m^2 and RM = 420,000 +/- 10,000 (stat) +/- 110,000 (sys) rad/m^2 for 1418+546 and 1637+574, respectively; these are the highest values reported to date for AGN. These values indicate magnetic field strengths of the order ~0.0001 G. For 0415+379, 0507+179, and 0954+658 we derive upper limits |RM| < 17,000 rad/m^2. From the relation |RM| ~ nu^a we find a = 1.9 +/- 0.3 for 1418+546, in good agreement with a = 2 as expected for a spherical or conical outflow.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables. Accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics. Minor language editing, one missing reference (Macquart et al. 2006) added
System Catalogue design for a Privacy Preserving Relational Database Management System
Creators: name: Singh, Sharmila
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Privacy
subject: RDBMS
subject: Database
subject: Design
subject: relational

description: The thesis presents a privacy system catalogue design for a relational database management system (RDBMS). The design includes the predicates of a privacy taxonomy [BAB+09] such as purpose (p), visibility (v), granularity (g) and retention (r). The aim here is to propose a normalized and implementable design for an RDBMS. The main contributions include a study of privacy predicates representation, the basic design of system tables, query processing, an analysis of the design and a partial implementation. Since additional privacy features affect query processing, an algorithm for the SELECT process is described, implemented and analyzed. An alternate design has been suggested as well to fully consider other design possibilities. Lastly, an example application is provided to help understand the proposed design. Design, analysis and implementation of the proposed design, and the query process along with the example system have allowed us to conclude that the design is normalized and implementable.
Comparisons of EmrE Purification Methods
Creators: name: Chew, Raymond
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Protein purification, fluorescence, EmrE, SMR, quaternary cationic compounds, ligand binding

description: Due to the difficulties of membrane protein expression, isolation, and solubilisation, purification yields are typically lower than most soluble proteins. A common tactic to increase yield is the use of affinity tags for co-purification of the attached protein. EmrE, a small bacterial multidrug efflux protein was examined to characterize changes in structure and function due to a His6 affinity tag. Fluorescence spectroscopy revealed the presence of a relatively hydrophobic fold in tagged EmrE as well as slower solvent dynamics within the folded protein. In regards to functionality, the untagged EmrE displayed higher ligand binding affinities to ethidium and methyl viologen in vitro and also higher transport activity in vivo.
Staking a Claim: The Evolution of Canada's Arctic Maritime Sovereignty, 1880-1990
Creators: name: Lajeunesse, Adam
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Canadian Studies
subject: History
subject: Canadian
subject: Military
subject: Arctic, Canada, Sovereignty

description: In April 1988, Canada and the United States of America were locked in a series of high level negotiations surrounding the question of Arctic maritime sovereignty. During one of the meetings between Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan in which the question was discussed, the Prime Minister produced a globe, pointed to the Arctic and said simply, “Ron that’s ours. We own it lock, stock, and icebergs.” The legal and political status of the Arctic waters has always been a complex and uncertain question; yet, at the same time, it has always enjoyed a remarkable simplicity for most Canadians and their government. While no Canadian government of the past century would question the country’s absolute right to sovereignty in the High North, few have looked beyond that political certainty to examine the basis of that right. What exactly is Canadian sovereignty, what does it consist of, how is it justified and what has the country done to secure it? This dissertation is primarily an examination of those crucial questions. It covers the legal, political, military and economic factors which affected (or prevented) the formation of policy and the international framework in which these took place. It charts the evolution of that policy, from the late nineteenth century through to the final declaration of straight baselines in 1985, and studies the factors which guided and influenced Canadian decision makers. It is a history of Canada's quest to win international – and particularly American – recognition for its Arctic sovereignty while demonstrating how both countries still managed to work together in the region towards their mutual goals.
Ultra-low threshold polariton lasing in photonic crystal cavities
Creators: name: Azzini, Stefano
name: Gerace, Dario
name: Galli, Matteo
name: Sagnes, Isabelle
name: Braive, Rémy
name: Lemaître, Aristide
name: Bloch, Jacqueline
name: Bajoni, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The authors show clear experimental evidence of lasing of exciton polaritons confined in L3 photonic crystal cavities. The samples are based on an InP membrane in air containing five InAsP quantum wells. Polariton lasing is observed with thresholds as low as 120 nW, below the Mott transition, while conventional photon lasing is observed for a pumping power one to three orders of magnitude higher.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Race and Class and Policy Support Framing Survey Experiment: Study 2
Creators: name: English, Micah
name: Kalla, Joshua
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Registration and PAP for Study 2. See PAP for Study 2.pdf and the attached .do files.
Large Coercivity in Nanostructured Rare-earth-free MnxGa Films
Creators: name: Nummy, T. J.
name: Bennett, S. P.
name: Cardinal, T.
name: Heiman, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetic hysteresis of MnxGa films exhibit remarkably large coercive fields as high as 2.5 T when fabricated with nanoscale particles of a suitable size and orientation. This coercivity is an order of magnitude larger than in well-ordered epitaxial film counterparts and bulk materials. The enhanced coercivity is attributed to the combination of large magnetocrystalline anisotropy and ~ 50 nm size nanoparticles. The large coercivity is also replicated in the electrical properties through the anomalous Hall effect. The magnitude of the coercivity approaches that found in rare-earth magnets, making them attractive for rare-earth-free magnet applications.
The Stanley conjecture on monomial almost complete intersection ideals
Creators: name: Cimpoeas, Mircea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13C15 (Primary) 13F20, 13F55, 13P10 (Secondary)

description: Let $I$ be a monomial almost complete intersection ideal of a polynomial algebra $S$ over a field. Then Stanley's Conjecture holds for $S/I$ and $I$.
description: 4 pages. This paper was accepted to be publish in Bull. Math. Soc. Sc. Math. Roumanie
Likelihood Analysis of Gaussian Copula Distributions for Mixed Data via a Parameter-Expanded Monte Carlo EM (PX-MCEM) Algorithm
Creators: name: Ren, Mingchen
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Gaussian Copula distribution
subject: Parameter-Expanded
subject: Mixed data

description: Mixed discrete and continuous data arise in a variety of settings. In this thesis, we adopt so-called Gaussian copula distributions (GCDs) as a general model for binary and continuous variables. The attractive feature of GCDs is their use of Gaussian copulas to separately model dependencies between variables, thereby preserving the variables' distinct marginal properties. We employ an efficient approach to maximum likelihood estimation for the model via a parameter-expanded Monte Carlo EM (MCEM) algorithm. By doing so, we not only avoid the direct evaluation of the likelihood function, which involves computing multivariate normal probabilities, but also improve the computational efficiency of the algorithm. Another advantage of the PX-MCEM algorithm is that it has an analytically tractable M-step, and hence does not require numerical optimization techniques. Based on simulations and an application to a breast cancer dataset, we show that the estimates are reasonably unbiased and their sampling variabilities can be accurately estimated by their bootstrapped standard errors.
Spectrum of quarks in QCD2
Creators: name: Sazdjian, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of the gauge invariant two-point quark Green's function are studied in the large-Nc limit of two-dimensional QCD. The analysis is done by means of an exact integrodifferential equation. The Green's function is found infrared finite, with singularities in the momentum squared variable represented by an infinite number of threshold type branch points with a power -3/2, starting at positive mass squared values, with cuts lying on the positive real axis. The expression of the Green's function is analytically determined.
description: 3 pages. Talk given at the XXIst International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, Grenoble, France, 21-27 July 2011
Novel Multiple Flame Photometric Detection Methods for Gas Chromatography
Creators: name: Clark, Adrian
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: Chemistry--Analytical

description: This thesis describes the advancement of a multiple flame photometric detector (mFPD) for gas chromatography (GC). The mFPD modes characterized in this study show great improvements (e.g. up to 20 fold better sensitivity) over its initial prototype, demonstrating similar (and enhanced) performance attributes (e.g. up to 100 fold better quenching resistance) relative to other GC detectors for the selective determination of sulfur and phosphorus compounds. Through monitoring HSO* emission in the device, a linear sulfur response was found that demonstrated a detection limit of 5.8 × 10−11 gS/s, a selectivity of S/C of 3.5 × 103, and fast GC response dynamics. Notably, however, this mode provided enhanced response uniformity and reproducibility (e.g. 1.7% average RSD values and 90% of compounds ± 0.1 of unity response), as well as significant resistance toward interference from hydrocarbon quenching (e.g. signal observed down to 50 ng of analyte). Next, emission spectra of the mFPD were acquired and examined for the first time. It was found that the mFPD produces sulfur emission as S2*, but HSO* can also be isolated in the red spectral region. Further, phosphorus emission in the mFPD was found to stem from HPO*, while carbon emission was attributed to CH* and C2*. Results indicate that a relative reduction of C2 radical and an increase of oxidized carbon in the mFPD could play a central role in the quenching-resistant behavior of this device. Finally, a new mFPD design was introduced based upon interconnecting fluidic channels within a planar stainless steel (SS) plate. Relative to the initial mFPD prototype, the SS mFPD provided a 50% reduction in background emission levels, easier operation, and better signal collection properties. As a result, sulfur response in the device yielded a detection limit of 9 × 10−12 gS/s while also providing large resistance to hydrocarbon response quenching. Furthermore, this SS mFPD design uniquely allows analyte emission monitoring in multiple worker flames for the first time. In all, the new mFPD that has been characterized in this study can serve as a useful alternative method of detection for sulfur and phosphorus applications by providing more versatile monitoring options.
Entropy of polyhedral billiard
Creators: name: Bédaride, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the billiard map in a convex polyhedron of $\mathbb{R}^3$, and we prove that it is of zero topological entropy.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures
The Late Pleistocene Extinction in North America: An Investigation of Horse and Bison Fossil Material and Its Implication for Nutritional Extinction Models
Creators: name: Barrón-Ortiz, Christian
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Anatomy
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Zoology
subject: Paleoecology
subject: Paleontology
subject: Paleozoology
subject: Pleistocene extinction
subject: Equus
subject: Bison
subject: Morphometrics
subject: Ancient DNA
subject: Paleoecology
subject: Microwear
subject: Mesowear
subject: Enamel hypoplasia
subject: North America

description: Approximately 50,000 – 11,000 years ago many species around the world became extinct or were extirpated at a continental scale. The causes of the late Pleistocene extinctions have been extensively debated and are poorly understood. This dissertation focuses on testing two nutritional extinction models (coevolutionary disequilibrium and mosaic-nutrient models) through the study of dental wear and enamel hypoplasia of equid and bison specimens from the Western Interior of North America. In order to undertake this task it was first necessary to determine the number of equid species that inhabited this region during the late Pleistocene. Notable findings of this research include the identification of four equid taxa based on molecular and morphometric analyses of the cheek teeth. Two non-caballine species and two caballine subspecies were identified which, pending further study of North American Pleistocene Equus, are referred as: Equus cedralensis, E. conversidens (which corresponds to the New World stilt-legged group of previous molecular analyses), E. ferus scotti, and E. ferus lambei. The separation into caballine and non-caballine equids was revealed in both the Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial ancient DNA and the geometric morphometric analyses of the upper and lower premolars. Investigation of the dental wear (microwear and mesowear) of the equid and bison samples studied yielded results which are consistent with predictions established for the coevolutionary disequilibrium extinction model, but not for the mosaic-nutrient model. These ungulate species show statistically different dental wear patterns, suggesting dietary resource partitioning, prior to the postglacial, but not during this time interval in accordance to predictions of the coevolutionary disequilibrium model. In addition to changes in diet, these ungulates, specifically the equid species, show increased levels of enamel hypoplasia during the postglacial indicating higher levels of systemic stress, a result which is consistent with the models tested as well as other climate-based extinction models that have been proposed. The extent to which the increase in systemic stress was detrimental to equid populations remains to be further investigated, but it is suggestive that environmental changes might have played an important role in the extinction of equids and perhaps other Pleistocene ungulates.
title: Современные подходы к оценке персонала в процессе отбора
title: Modern Approaches to Assessment of Personnel in Process of Selection
Creators: name: Гункин, Михаил Николаевич
name: Сергеева, Ирина Владимировна
Publisher: name: Издательский центр СурГУ
Year: 2019

description: В статье рассмотрен вопрос о проведении отбора персонала и обоснована важность данного этапа при закрытии вакантной должности, сформирована авторская интерпретация понятия «отбор персонала». Показано, что в процедуре отбора персонала должны быть задействованы не только HR-специалисты, но и ключевые менеджеры, непосредственно участвующие в формировании стратегии деятельности организации. В статье приведены современные тенденции в области отбора персонала, указано на смещение тенденций в сферу отбора по личным качествам претендента, нежели его базовым характеристикам.
description: The article discusses the issue of personnel selection and the importance of this process during hiring. The author's interpretation of the concept of “personnel selection” is formed. It is shown that the selection process should involve not only HR specialists but also managers directly involved in the formation of the organization’s activity strategy. The article presents current trends in the field of personnel selection, in particular, a shift from a selection according to the basic characteristics of the applicant to his/her personal qualities.
UAV-Based Digital Imaging System for the Derivation of 3D Point Cloud for Landslide Hazard Analysis
Creators: name: Al-Rawabdeh, Abdulla
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Remote Sensing
subject: Environmental Sciences
subject: Engineering--Environmental
subject: Geotechnology
subject: landslides scarps
subject: geomorphology
subject: slope
subject: Surface roughness
subject: Semi-Global dense matching (SGM)
subject: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
subject: landslide dynamics
subject: bundle block adjustment with self-calibration.

description: Emergency disaster response and analysis of landslides depend on accurate, rapid detection and extraction of a landslide area. Terrestrial laser scanning systems (TLS) are highly accurate and provide quick 3D point cloud data with high resolution, but suffer from occlusions, truncation, and orientation bias. This dissertation proposes an augmentation of TLS and an image-based point cloud generated from a semi-global matching (SGM) algorithm on an UAV platform outfitted with a low-cost action camera to overcome these limitations. The experimental results provided high quality measurements for the geotechnical discontinuity plane orientation parameters, increased safety, saved cost and time, and provided more accurate results compared to manual field measurements, TLS data only, and SGM data only. This dissertation developed a comprehensive system using UAVs and SGM techniques to accurately identify and extract landslide scarps within centimeter-scale accuracy through three automated approaches. These approaches accurately detected and extracted landslide scarps based on the ratio of the normalized Eigenvalues derived using principal component analysis, surface roughness index, and slope measurements from the 3D image-based point cloud. Experimental results using the fully automated 3D point-based analysis algorithms confirmed that these approaches can effectively distinguish landslide scarps. The developed algorithms are a flexible and effective tool for monitoring landslide scarps and are acceptable for landslide mapping purposes. A robust image-based registration method also was developed for the simultaneous evaluation and temporal monitoring of landslide dynamics from different epochs. This method includes the camera’s IOPs and EOPs of the involved images from all the available observation epochs via a bundle block adjustment with self-calibration. A SGM technique was implemented to generate 3D point clouds for each epoch using the images captured for each epoch separately. The accuracy of the co-registered surfaces was estimated by comparing the non-active patches within the monitored area of interest. Since non-active sub-areas are stationary, the computed normal distances theoretically should be close to zero. The quality control of the registration results showed an average normal distance of approximately 3.7 cm, which is within the noise level of the reconstructed surfaces. Overall, the registration approach proposed in this dissertation is low level.
Deliverable D4.3 Simulations Interoperable
Creators: name: Fortmann-Grote, Carsten
name: Andreev, Alexander
name: Jan-Philipp Burchert
name: Bussmann, Michael
name: Briggs, Richard
name: Garten, Marco
name: Huebl, Axel
name: Kluge, Thomas
name: Pascarelli, Sakura
name: Sharma, Ashutosh
name: Yakubov, Sergey
name: Mancuso, Adrian P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: simex, eucall, SIMEX, EUCALL, simulations, start--to-end

description: Deliverable D4.3 of work package 4 (SIMEX) in EUCALL
Impact of network structure and cellular response on spike time correlations
Creators: name: Trousdale, James
name: Hu, Yu
name: Shea-Brown, Eric
name: Josić, Krešimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Novel experimental techniques reveal the simultaneous activity of larger and larger numbers of neurons. As a result there is increasing interest in the structure of cooperative -- or correlated -- activity in neural populations, and in the possible impact of such correlations on the neural code. A fundamental theoretical challenge is to understand how the architecture of network connectivity along with the dynamical properties of single cells shape the magnitude and timescale of correlations. We provide a general approach to this problem by extending prior techniques based on linear response theory. We consider networks of general integrate-and-fire cells with arbitrary architecture, and provide explicit expressions for the approximate cross-correlation between constituent cells. These correlations depend strongly on the operating point (input mean and variance) of the neurons, even when connectivity is fixed. Moreover, the approximations admit an expansion in powers of the matrices that describe the network architecture. This expansion can be readily interpreted in terms of paths between different cells. We apply our results to large excitatory-inhibitory networks, and demonstrate first how precise balance --- or lack thereof --- between the strengths and timescales of excitatory and inhibitory synapses is reflected in the overall correlation structure of the network. We then derive explicit expressions for the average correlation structure in randomly connected networks. These expressions help to identify the important factors that shape coordinated neural activity in such networks.
Minyocerus angustus Dana 1852
Creators: name: Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De
name: Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia
name: Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Porcellanidae
Minyocerus
Minyocerus angustus

description: Minyocerus angustus (Dana, 1852)
Material examined (N=1). 1f, 14/IX/2003, St. 0 6 (MZUESC #664).
Distribution. Western Atlantic – Central America, Venezuela, Surinam, and Brazil (from Pará to Santa Catarina) (Melo 1999).
Ecological notes. In shallow waters, on sandy bottoms and associated with the starfish Luidia senegalensis (Melo 1999).
Previous records in Bahia. Veloso & Melo (1993), Almeida et al. (2007).
Remarks. M. angustus was included in the Brazilian Red List of threatened species as “vulnerable”, perhaps because its host, the starfish L. senegalensis, also figures in this list (Amaral 2005).
description: Published as part of Almeida, Alexandre Oliveira De, Guerrazzi, Maria Cec Lia & Coelho, Petr Ȏ Nio Alves, 2007, Stomatopod and decapod crustaceans from Camamu Bay, state of Bahia, Brazil, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 1553 on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178168
Pseudonicsara (Cercana) dodinga Ingrisch 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Ingrisch, Sigfrid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Pseudonicsara
Pseudonicsara dodinga

description: Pseudonicsara (Cercana) dodinga sp. n. Figs. 464, 508, 528, map 4. Holotype (female): Indonesia, Moluccas: Halmahera, Dodinga [0° 51' N, 127° 41' E], sea level, 2–4.XI.1951, depository: Collectio Fer Willemse, Eygelshoven, Netherlands (CW), later to be deposited in Naturalis, Leiden (RMNH). Diagnosis. The new species is characterised by the shape of the female subgenital plate, which has a median carina over the whole length, auricular subbasal lateral grooves opening apico-lateral, and the apex short rectangularly excised (Figs. 464, 508, 528). Differences to other species are outlined in the key. Description. Fastigium verticis in front of eyes 0.8 mm, from base 1.3 mm; dorsal eye length 1.5 mm; greatest diameter of eye 1.6 mm; index fastigium verticis from base: eye length 0.8. Face rugose. Tegmen surpassing hind knees; costal field widened in basal two thirds, narrow in apical third. Prosternal spines short. Mesosternal lobes rounded. Anterior and mid femur compressed and moderately widened. Femora with the following number of spines on ventral margins: fore femur 8 external, 6 internal; mid femur 6 external, 2 internal near base; hind femur 10 external, 3–5 internal. Male unknown. Female. Tenth abdominal tergite furrowed in midline. Subgenital plate with a strong and high median carina, surface rather membranous except in apical and lateral areas; with a rounded pre-apical groove on both sides; apex ending in two rounded lobes, triangularly excised in between; at each side with a large twisted auricle ascending dorsad (Figs. 464, 508, 528). Coloration. Rather uniformly medium brown (discoloured?); legs yellowish brown. Face of general colour; mandibles black. Tegmen with yellowish brown veins and medium brown cells. Measurements of female: body 26; pronotum 7.1; tegmen 22; hind femur 14.5; ovipositor 13.5 mm. Etymology. Named after the type locality; noun in apposition.
description: Published as part of Ingrisch, Sigfrid, 2009, Revision of the genus Pseudonicsara Karny, 1912 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Conocephalinae: Agraeciini) 2185, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 2185 on pages 52-53
The Physiological and Developmental Effects of Oil Sands Tailings Pond Naphthenic Acids on Plants and Investigation into their Detoxification Using the Model Species Arabidopsis thaliana
Creators: name: Olsen, Steven Christian
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Plant Physiology
subject: Toxicology
subject: Plant Physiology
subject: Phytoremediation
subject: Naphthenic Acid
subject: Acid Extractable Organic
subject: Oil Sands Process-Affected Water
subject: Toxicology
subject: Arabidopsis thaliana
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Beta-oxidation

description: Oil sands process-affected water contains a vast array of organic and inorganic compounds that include a broad group of toxic organic acids called naphthenic acids (NAs). Many types of NAs are difficult to degrade through industrial or biological methods, and they have the potential to contaminate nearby water systems. This thesis was aimed at studying the physiological and developmental effects of NAs on plants and investigating the potential of NA degradation in plants by increasing flux through the β-oxidation pathway. A number of root phenotypes were identified in NA treated Arabidopsis seedlings demonstrating the effects of NA treatment on root architecture. Genes involved in β-oxidation were overexpressed in Arabidopsis in an attempt to increase the degradation of NAs through this pathway. This research enhances our understanding of NAs effects on plant growth and development, and provides further insight into the use of plants as NA biosensors and remediating agents.
Infection of the Gut by HIV-1: The Pathogenic Role of the Nef Protein
Creators: name: Grant, Tannika
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Virology
subject: HIV-1
subject: Nef
subject: Gut
subject: In Vitro
subject: Caco-2
subject: Co-culture
subject: Epithelial cells
subject: Trans-epithelial electrical resistance
subject: Real-time PCR
subject: Cloning
subject: Fluorescence microscopy
subject: Jurkat
subject: U937
subject: Barrier integrity
subject: Cell death
subject: Caspases
subject: Tight junctions

description: Human Immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) targets several cells in the immune system and induces their progressive decline and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). HIV produces viral proteins including Nef; an important multifunctional protein and viral pathogenic determinant. The gastrointestinal tract and impairment of its epithelial barrier has been implicated in HIV pathogenesis, thus an investigation of the contribution of HIV-1 Nef on intestinal barrier dysfunction was performed. An in vitro model system was established and then used to analyse the pathogenic role of Nef. Trans-epithelial electrical resistance, Real time (RT)-PCR and fluorescence microscopy methods were used. It was found that Nef expression in colonic Caco-2 cells, Jurkat and U937 cells; reduced expression of the Caspases, increased viability of cells, while decreasing expression of the tight junction proteins. Thus HIV-1 Nef protein may contribute to HIV pathogenesis by disrupting barrier integrity and cell death of colonic epithelial cells and monolayers.
Didemnidae
Creators: name: Sanamyan, Karen
name: Sanamyan, Nadya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Ascidiacea
Enterogona
Didemnidae

description: Didemnidae spp.   The collected material contains four species of didemnid ascidians, tentatively identified as Polysyncraton crassum Redikorzev, 1913, P. asperum Romanov, 1989, Didemnum caudiculatum Romanov, 1989 and D. trispirale Romanov, 1989. They will be described in a separate publication.
description: Published as part of Sanamyan, Karen & Sanamyan, Nadya, 2017, Shallow-water Ascidians from Matua Island (central Kuril Islands, NW Pacific), pp. 301-321 in Zootaxa 4232 (3) on page 320, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/293689
The complex Goldberg-Sachs theorem in higher dimensions
Creators: name: Taghavi-Chabert, Arman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the geometric properties of holomorphic distributions of totally null $m$-planes on a $(2m+ε)$-dimensional complex Riemannian manifold $(\mathcal{M}, \bm{g})$, where $ε\in {0,1}$ and $m \geq 2$. In particular, given such a distribution $\mathcal{N}$, say, we obtain algebraic conditions on the Weyl tensor and the Cotton-York tensor which guarrantee the integrability of $\mathcal{N}$, and in odd dimensions, of its orthogonal complement. These results generalise the Petrov classification of the (anti-)self-dual part of the complex Weyl tensor, and the complex Goldberg-Sachs theorem from four to higher dimensions. Higher-dimensional analogues of the Petrov type D condition are defined, and we show that these lead to the integrability of up to $2^m$ holomorphic distributions of totally null $m$-planes. Finally, we adapt these findings to the category of real smooth pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, commenting notably on the applications to Hermitian geometry and Robinson (or optical) geometry.
description: Section 2 partly rewritten: issue regarding self-duality clarified. Section 5.2 clarified. Some remarks added. Lemma 3.7 (previously 3.7) corrected. A few mathematical and notational inaccuracies corrected, and typos and sign mistakes fixed throughout. Some references added
Effects of a Maternal Pre-pregnancy Dietary and Pharmacological Intervention on Maternal Fecundity and Offspring Health in Sprague-Dawley Rats
Creators: name: Dennison, Carol
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Animal Physiology
subject: Human Development
subject: Nutrition
subject: Fetal Programming
subject: Obesity

description: The objective of this study was to determine if a combined oligofructose and sitagliptin pre-pregnancy intervention could mitigate the decreased fecundity, poor pregnancy outcomes and negative offspring health outcomes associated with maternal obesity. Obese female Sprague-Dawley rats were randomized to 1 of 6 groups: 1) AIN-93 (Control-Treated Obese); 2) OFS (Fibre-Treated Obese); 3) Sitagliptin (Drug-Treated Obese); 4) OFS+Sitagliptin (Combination-Treated Obese); 5) Caloric restriction (Weight-Matched to group 4), 6) High fat & sucrose (Obese Untreated). A lean reference group was also included. Pups consumed a HFS diet for 6 weeks in adulthood. Reduced blood glucose was seen in sitagliptin offspring and increased short-chain fatty acid receptor expression and Bifidobacteria seen in offspring of the combination treated dams. Despite these changes, the pre-pregnancy treatments investigated in this study did not lead to meaningful improvements in maternal fecundity, pregnancy outcomes or offspring health.
A Framework for Prefetching Relevant Web Pages using Predictive Prefetching Engine (PPE)
Creators: name: Jyoti
name: Sharma, A. K.
name: Goel, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a framework for increasing the relevancy of the web pages retrieved by the search engine. The approach introduces a Predictive Prefetching Engine (PPE) which makes use of various data mining algorithms on the log maintained by the search engine. The underlying premise of the approach is that in the case of cluster accesses, the next pages requested by users of the Web server are typically based on the current and previous pages requested. Based on same, rules are drawn which then lead the path for prefetching the desired pages. To carry out the desired task of prefetching the more relevant pages, agents have been introduced.
description: 9 pages
Theory of Sorption Hysteresis in Nanoporous Solids: I. Snap-Through Instabilities
Creators: name: Bazant, Zdenek P.
name: Bazant, Martin Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The sorption-desorption hysteresis observed in many nanoporous solids, at vapor pressures low enough for the the liquid (capillary) phase of the adsorbate to be absent, has long been vaguely attributed to changes in the nanopore structure, but no mathematically consistent explanation has been presented. The present work takes an analytical approach to account for discrete molecular forces in the nanopore fluid and proposes two related mechanisms that can explain the hysteresis at low vapor pressure without assuming any change in the nanopore structure. The first mechanism, presented in Part I, consists of a series of snap-through instabilities during the filling or emptying of non-uniform nanopores or nanoscale asperities. The instabilities are caused by non-uniqueness in the misfit disjoining pressures engendered by a difference between the nanopore width and an integer multiple of the thickness of a monomolecular adsorption layer. The second mechanism, presented in Part II, consists of molecular coalescence within a partially filled surface, nanopore or nanopore network. This general thermodynamic instability is driven by attractive intermolecular forces within the adsorbate and forms the basis to develop a unified theory of both mechanisms. The ultimate goals of the theory are to predict the fluid transport in nanoporous solids from microscopic first principles, and to determine the pore size distribution and internal surface area from sorption tests.
description: Infrastructure Science (Northwestern University)
All My Relations: A Process-Indigenous Study In Comparative Ontology
Creators: name: Daniels, Christopher Paul
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Religion
subject: Religion--Philosophy of
subject: Comparative
subject: Whitehead
subject: Indigenous
subject: Process
subject: Cobb

description: Over the past few decades, issues associated with how to understand the diversity of religions and the religious ‘other’ have been at the forefront of Religious Studies. There have been numerous critiques of both the ‘New Comparative Theology,’ which advocates practical engagement in dialogue and/or textual comparison between traditions, and ‘Theologies of Religions,’ which is a more theoretical approach to how the diversity of religions are, or should be, understood. These critiques have centred around accusations of imperialistic hegemony, the use and reification of categories, and whether the variety of religions can, or should, be understood in a manner that acknowledges rough equality in epistemic and soteriological value. This thesis argues that the particular theological perspective and methodology of John Cobb Jr., based on the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, manages to avoid most, if not all, such critiques by advocating a form of complementary, transformationist, pluralism. Cobb understands the diversity of religious perspectives as potentially complementary rather than contradictory, and argues for mutual transformation of the traditions involved, based on the understanding that each has something to be learned from the other. The process approach and perspective presupposed by Cobb is not only uniquely suited to address the issues of religious diversity but also promotes equal openness to the religious ‘other.’ To illustrate this, I undertake a comparative experiment between a Whiteheadian metaphysic and Indigenous ontology to show that a process based, relational metaphysic is better capable of interpreting and accommodating Indigenous ontology/epistemology than the traditional Western, materialistic/mechanistic view. The experiment reveals how universal relationality and interconnectedness in process terms are exemplified through various Indigenous concepts, language structures, cultural and religious practices, and epistemology. I contend that process thought not only provides a better understanding of religious pluralism but also meets the challenge posed by Indigenous scholars who call for a Western perspective that reconciles the contemporary worldview of science with the relational ontology of Indigenous cultures and facilitates a recognition of Indigenous peoples as equal partners in inter-religious and inter-cultural encounters and dialogue.
New features of quantum discord uncovered by q-entropies
Creators: name: Majtey, A. P.
name: Plastino, A. R.
name: Plastino, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The notion of quantum discord introduced by Ollivier and Zurek [Phys. Rev. Lett 88, 017901 (2001)] (see also Henderson and Vedral [J. Phys. A 34, 6899 (2001)]) has attracted increasing attention, in recent years, as an entropic quantifier of non-classical features pertaining to the correlations exhibited by bipartite quantum systems. Here we generalize the notion so as to encompass power-law q-entropies (that reduce to the standard Shannon entropy in the limit $q \to 1$) and study the concomitant consequences. The ensuing, new discord-like measures we advance describe aspects of non-classicality that are different from those associated with the standard quantum discord. A particular manifestation of this difference concerns a feature related to order. Let $D_1$ stand for the standard, Shannon-based discord measure and $D_q$ for the $q \ne 1$ one. If two quantum states $A$, $B$ are such that $D_1(A) > D_1(B)$, this order-relation does not remain invariant under a change from $D_1$ to $D_q$.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures