cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Involvement of the Sigma-1 Receptor in Methamphetamine-Mediated Changes to Astrocyte Structure and Function
Creators: name: Neogi, Richik
Publisher: name: University of Kentucky Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: FOS: Medical and health sciences

description: Methamphetamine is a highly addictive psychostimulant drug. There are currently no FDA-approved pharmacological treatments for methamphetamine addiction. Pharmacologically, (+)-methamphetamine is a dopamine releasing agent and dopamine transporter substrate that redistributes dopamine from intracellular vesicles via the vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2) and reverses the direction of dopamine transport in the dopamine transporter. Methamphetamine, cocaine, and other drugs of abuse are also sigma-1 receptor ligands, and previous studies have demonstrated the role of the sigma-1 receptor in modulating the behavioral and cellular effects of these drugs. However, almost all these studies were conducted in cell culture systems or with emphasis on the neuronal effects of sigma-1 receptor binding.

In the literature, the sigma-1 receptor localizes robustly within neurons throughout the brain. However, there are conflicting results regarding localization in astrocytes. Here, immunohistochemical experiments were conducted on rat brain tissue containing either the nucleus accumbens or the prelimbic cortex, two brain regions critical in mediating drugseeking behavior, in order to confirm expression of the sigma-1 receptor in astrocytes. It was determined that the sigma-1 receptor is ubiquitously expressed among neurons and modestly expressed among glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)-positive astrocytes. There were no noted statistically significant differences between the proportion of cell types expressing the sigma-1 receptor in the prelimbic cortex and the nucleus accumbens. Next, the effect of methamphetamine and the role of the sigma-1 receptor on astrocytic morphology and sigma-1 receptor distribution were probed by incubating slices of striatal tissue in methamphetamine solution with or without the sigma-1 receptor antagonist BD1063 and the sigma-1 receptor agonist PRE-084. Only the methamphetamine-treated slice exhibited a significantly different amount of stellations than the other slices. The sigma-1 receptor antagonist BD-1063 and PRE-084 abolished the redistribution of sigma-1 receptor to the processes of the astrocytes induced by methamphetamine. Thus, the data confirms that astrocytes in both the prelimbic cortex and nucleus accumbens express the sigma-1 receptor. Moreover, methamphetamine induces statistically significant redistribution of the sigma-1 receptor that is abolished by BD-1063 and PRE-084.
description: © 2020 Richik Neogi
Morita Duality and Large-N Limits
Creators: name: Alvarez-Gaume, L.
name: Barbon, J. L. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study some dynamical aspects of gauge theories on noncommutative tori. We show that Morita duality, combined with the hypothesis of analyticity as a function of the noncommutativity parameter Theta, gives information about singular large-N limits of ordinary U(N) gauge theories, where the large-rank limit is correlated with the shrinking of a two-torus to zero size. We study some non-perturbative tests of the smoothness hypothesis with respect to Theta in theories with and without supersymmetry. In the supersymmetric case this is done by adapting Witten's index to the present situation, and in the nonsupersymmetric case by studying the dependence of energy levels on the instanton angle. We find that regularizations which restore supersymmetry at high energies seem to preserve Theta-smoothness whereas nonsupersymmetric asymptotically free theories seem to violate it. As a final application we use Morita duality to study a recent proposal of Susskind to use a noncommutative Chern-Simons gauge theory as an effective description of the Fractional Hall Effect. In particular we obtain an elegant derivation of Wen's topological order.
description: 41 pages, Harvmac. Some corrections to section 6.3. Comments added on Hall Effect
Novel cholesterol-based liquid crystalline dimers: the α-cyanostilbene group served as a photofluorophore and mesogenic moiety
Creators: name: Zhiming Fang
name: Kaishun Zou
name: Changcheng Wu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
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

description: Cyanostilbene units are vigorous candidates for chromophores and mesogens. Therefore, a series of dimer liquid crystals based on cyanostilbene and cholesterol were synthesised and characterised. The structure conforms to the molecular design and its physicochemical properties are stable. With the growth of the inner spacer flexible carbon chain, the mesomorphic properties are greatly different: not only the odd–even effect of the clearing points (/clearing enthalpies) is caused but also the samples exhibit increasingly complex enantiotropic mesophases, including SmC*, SmA and N* phases. Corresponding textures of these phases were observed, such as polygonal textures, focal-conic textures with dechiralisation lines and oily streaks textures, etc., and phase structures were further verified using variable-temperature XRD. Through the combined use of UV and fluorescence emission spectrometers, it was found that the increase of water content caused the enhancement of fluorescence intensities and the redshift of UV absorptions, which confirmed the fascinating aggregation-induced emission enhancement (AIEE) effect of the ChM-CN molecules.
Orthotrichum tenellum Brid.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Orthotrichales
Orthotrichaceae
Orthotrichum
Orthotrichum tenellum

description: Orthotrichum tenellum Bruch ex Brid.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Alger; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Tizi Ouzou; La Calle; Oued-el-Aneb, près Sidi-el-Akhdar; Philippeville. Gandoger (1883): sine loco. Corbière (1904), Jelenc (1955a): Médéa. Corbière (1905): Constantine; Environs de Constantine, Le Hamma; Environs de Constantine, Sidi M’Cid. Corbière (1905), Jelenc (1955a): Environs de Constantine, djebel Ouach. Jelenc (1951, 1967): Monts de Tlemcen, forêt de Tessera Mramet, 1400 m. Jelenc (1955a): Édough; Khodjaberry; La Réghaia; Tlemcen, 1000 m. Frequent.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 89, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Targeted Data Collection Efforts for the 2012 ARMS III
Creators: name: Mitchell, Melissa
name: Ott, Kathy
name: McCarthy, Jaki
name: Mitchell, Melissa
name: Ott, Kathy
name: McCarthy, Jaki
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Nonresponse propensity scores
subject: impact scores
subject: data mining
subject: targeted data collection
subject: ARMS
subject: calibration target

description: Low response rates for the Agricultural Resource Management Survey Phase III (ARMS III) are a growing concern. Beginning in 2011 and enhanced in 2012, data mining techniques were used to proactively identify operations that are likely to be nonrespondents to ARMS III. Once identified, a measure of the impact on the calibration targets of each likely nonrespondent was calculated. Likely nonrespondents were then divided into a treatment and control group to evaluate data collection methods. Likely nonrespondents in the treatment group were targeted with more intense data collection strategies in an effort to increase response rates. These strategies were evaluated to determine whether they could increase response to the survey but because these strategies were not uniformly applied, definitive conclusions about their effectiveness cannot be drawn.
Homogenization of biomechanical models of plant tissues with randomly distributed cells
Creators: name: Piatnitski, Andrey
name: Ptashnyk, Mariya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper homogenization of a mathematical model for biomechanics of a plant tissue with randomly distributed cells is considered. Mechanical properties of a plant tissue are modelled by a strongly coupled system of reaction-diffusion-convection equations for chemical processes in plant cells and cell walls, the equations of poroelasticity for elastic deformations of plant cell walls and middle lamella, and the Stokes equations for fluid flow inside the cells. The nonlinear coupling between the mechanics and chemistry is given by the dependence of elastic properties of plant tissue on densities of chemical substances as well as by the dependence of chemical reactions on mechanical stresses present in a tissue. Using techniques of stochastic homogenization we derive rigorously macroscopic model for plant tissue biomechanics with random distribution of cells. Strong stochastic two-scale convergence is shown to pass to the limit in the non-linear reaction terms. Appropriate meaning of the boundary terms is introduced to define the macroscopic equations with flux boundary conditions and transmission conditions on the microscopic scale.
A uniqueness theorem for entanglement measures
Creators: name: Rudolph, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain a mathematically simple characterization of all functionals coinciding with the von Neumann reduced entropy on pure states based on the Khinchin-Faddeev axiomatization of Shannon entropy and give a physical interpretation of the axioms in terms of entanglement.
description: 8 pages, LaTeX, to appear in J. Math. Phys
Are Recoil Polarization Measurements of $G_E^p/G_M^p$ Consistent With Rosenbluth Separation Data?
Creators: name: Arrington, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent recoil polarization measurements in Hall A at Jefferson Lab show that the ratio of the electric to magnetic form factors for the proton decreases significantly with increasing Q^2. This contradicts previous Rosenbluth measurements which indicate approximate scaling of the form factors. The cross section measurements were reanalyzed to try and understand the source of this discrepancy. We find that the various Rosenbluth measurements are consistent with each other when normalization uncertainties are taken into account and that the discrepancy cannot simply be the result of errors in one or two data sets. If there is a problem in the Rosenbluth data, it must be a systematic, epsilon-dependent uncertainty affecting several experiments.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Structure of Baryons, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, USA, Mar 2002
Additional file 1 of Web-based design and analysis tools for CRISPR base editing
Creators: name: Hwang, Gue-Ho
name: Park, Jeongbin
name: Lim, Kayeong
name: Kim, Sunghyun
name: Yu, Jihyeon
name: Yu, Eunchong
name: Kim, Sang-Tae
name: Eils, Roland
name: Kim, Jin-Soo
name: Bae, Sangsu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified

description: Figure S1. The internal programs used in this study for implementation of BE-Designer and BE-Analyzer. Figure S2. The workflow for classifying query sequences in BE-Analyzer. (DOCX 338 kb)
Coherent State Measures and the Extended Dobinski relations
Creators: name: Penson, Karol A.
name: Solomon, Allan I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Conventional Bell and Stirling numbers arise naturally in the normal ordering of simple monomials in boson operators. By extending this process we obtain generalizations of these combinatorial numbers, defined as coherent state matrix elements of arbitrary monomials, as well as the associated Dobinski relations. These Bell-type numbers may be considered as power moments and give rise to positive measures which allow the explicit construction of new classes of coherent states.
description: PDF. 10 Pages. Proceedings of the Seventh International School of Theoretical Physics "Symmetry and Structural Properties of Condensed Matter " (SSPCM 2002), Myczkowce, Poland,11-18 Sept. 2002 Editors: T.Lulek and A.Wal (in press)
Campylosteira heissi Pericart 1981
Creators: name: Montemayor, I.
name: Linnavuori, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Campylosteira
Campylosteira heissi

description: Campylosteira heissi Péricart, 1981
 Distribution in Iran. Bushehr (Linnavuori 2011), East Azarbaijan (Ghahari et al. 2010b), Fars (Linnavuori 2011), Hormozgan (Linnavuori 2004), Khorasan (Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1999), Khuzestan (Linnavuori 2011).
 General distribution. Eremian, known from Spain, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq (Péricart & Golub 1996).
description: Published as part of Montemayor, I. & Linnavuori, E., 2012, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 22-39 in Zootaxa 3207 on page 25
Targeted Data Collection Efforts for the 2013 ARMS III
Creators: name: Mitchell, Melissa
name: Ott, Kathy
name: Ridolfo, Heather
name: McCarthy, Jaki
name: Mitchell, Melissa
name: Ott, Kathy
name: Ridolfo, Heather
name: McCarthy, Jaki
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Nonresponse propensity scores
subject: impact scores
subject: data mining
subject: targeted data collection
subject: ARMS
subject: calibration target

description: In 2013, the Research and Development Division of the National Agricultural Statistics Service conducted a study to determine if targeted data collection for likely nonrespondents could positively impact response rates for the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) Phase III. The methodology for the study was the same as a study done in 2012, but was implemented with only four participating regions, encompassing 12 states. This smaller sample was used in 2013 due to the unforeseen complications with carrying out the 2012 study across the United States. Likely nonrespondents were flagged using classification trees and their relative importance to the calibration target was taken into consideration with the use of impact scores. Flagged records were then assigned to targeted data collection methods including the use of enumerator incentives and having state or regional office staff make in person contacts to attempt to increase response rates for those records. Given our small sample size, this is an exploratory study.
Hyperbolic hybrid waves and optical topological transitions in few-layer anisotropic metasurfaces
Creators: name: Kotov, O. V.
name: Lozovik, Yu. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A comprehensive analysis of hybrid TM-TE polarized surface electromagnetic waves supported by different few-layer anisotropic metasurfaces is presented. A generalized 4$\times$4 T-matrix formalism for arbitrary anisotropic 2D layers is developed, from which the general relations for the surface waves dispersions and scattering coefficients are deduced. Using this formalism and the effective conductivity approach, the dispersions and iso-frequency contours (IFCs) topology of the surface waves in various hybrid uniaxial metasurfaces are studied. The existence of hyperbolic plasmon-exciton polaritons in plasmon-exciton hybrids and hyperbolic acoustic waves with strong confinement in both out-of-plane and in-plane directions in uniaxial plasmonic bilayers are predicted. In plasmonic uniaxial metasurfaces on metal films, the elliptic and hyperbolic backward surface waves with negative group velocity are predicted and additional topological transitions in both elliptic and hyperbolic IFCs of the hybrid surface waves are revealed. Ultrathin twisted uniaxial plasmonic bilayers are proposed as systems with the IFCs topological transitions highly sensitive to the layers twist. The developed formalism may become a useful tool in the calculation of multifunctional few-layer metasurfaces or van der Waals heterostructures based on 2D materials with in-plane anisotropy, where the TM-TE polarization mixing must be considered. The predicted effects may open new horizons in the development and applications of planar optical technologies.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures
The multiperiodicity of the $γ$ Doradus stars HD 224945 and HD 224638 as detected from a multisite campaign
Creators: name: Poretti, E.
name: Koen, C.
name: Bossi, M.
name: Rodriguez, E.
name: Martin, S.
name: Krisciunas, K.
name: Akan, M. C.
name: Crowe, R.
name: Wilcox, M.
name: Ibanoglu, C.
name: Evren, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss new photometric data collected on the gamma Dor variables HD 224945 and HD 224638. Multiperiodicity was detected in both stars, thanks to the clear spectral window of a multisite campaign that involved five observatories. HD 224945 shows the shortest period among the gamma Dor stars, i.e., 0.3330 d. The pulsation behaviour is very different: HD 224945 displays a set of frequencies spread over an interval much wider than that of HD 224638. We clearly found evidence for amplitude variations in the excited modes by comparing data from different years. HD 224945 and HD 224638 are among the best examples of $γ$ Dor stars that show multimode pulsations, which make them very interesting from an asteroseismological point of view.
description: 8 pages (in A&A style), 3 eps figures. Accepted for A&A Main Journal
sddfa
Creators: name: Duck Daffy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Uncategorized
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 79901 Agricultural Hydrology (Drainage, Flooding, Irrigation, Quality, etc.)
subject: FOS: Other agricultural sciences

description: Supplemental Data
Fenton pre-oxidation of natural organic matter in drinking water treatment through the application of iron nails
Creators: name: Naiara De O. Dos Santos
name: Luiz A. Teixeira
name: Qizhi Zhou
name: Burke, Grace
name: Campos, Luiza C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: This study investigated for the first time the efficiency of an advanced oxidation process (AOP) zero valent iron/hydrogen peroxide (ZVI/H2O2) employing iron nails for the removal of Natural Organic Matter (NOM) from natural water of Regent’s Park lake, London, UK. The low cost of nails and their easy separation from the water after the treatment make this AOP attractive for water utilities in low- and middle-income countries. The process was investigated as a pre-oxidation step for drinking water treatment. Results showed that UV254 removal in the natural water was lower than that of simulated water containing commercial humic acid (HA), indicating a matrix effect. Statistical analysis confirmed the maximum removal of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in natural water depends on the initial pH (best at 4.5) and H2O2 dosage (best at 100% excess of stoichiometric dosage). DOC and UV254 removals under this operational condition were 51% and 89%, respectively. Molecular weight (MW) and specific UV absorbance (SUVA254) were significantly reduced to 74% and 78%, respectively. Formation of chloroform THM in natural water sample after the ZVI/H2O2 process (initial pH 4.5) was below the limit for drinking water, and 48% less than the THM formation in the same water not subjected to pre-oxidation. Characterization of oxidation products on the iron-nail-ZVI surface after the ZVI/H2O2 treatment by SEM, XRD, and XPS identified the formation of magnetite and lepidocrocite. Results suggest that the investigated ZVI/H2O2 process to be a promising technology for removing NOM and reducing THM formation during drinking water treatment.
Examining Nonresponse Occurring in the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s 2009 Agricultural Resource Management Survey Phase III
Creators: name: Tran, HoaiNam N.
name: Gerling, Michael W.
name: Mitchell, Melissa
name: Hopper, Rich
name: O'Connor, Terry
name: Tran, HoaiNam N.
name: Gerling, Michael W.
name: Mitchell, Melissa
name: Hopper, Rich
name: O'Connor, Terry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Surveys
subject: Data Collection
subject: Nonresponse
subject: Inaccessibles
subject: Refusals

description: The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) surveys agricultural operations to provide timely, accurate, and useful statistics on the United States and Puerto Rico agriculture. The Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) program is composed of three phases. Phase I is the screening phase. Phase II focuses on chemical use and production practices on the targeted commodities. Phase III is the most complex and detailed sample survey data collections and pertains to the financial condition of the farm, including income, expenses, assets, and debt. Operator characteristics are also collected. This information is then compiled to obtain an overview of the financial well-being of the agricultural sector. ARMS Phase III (ARMS III) is the only phase with response rates lower than 80 percent and so is the focus of this study. The 2009 ARMS III sample was comprised of agricultural operations, across 48 states (excluding Alaska and Hawaii). Data collection was a mixture of mail, web, and personal field enumeration. For those operations failing to complete a questionnaire, personal enumeration was attempted. Upon a nonresponse occurrence, field enumerators were instructed to review a supplemental handout listing various nonresponse reasons and record the reason on the questionnaire that best fit the situation using a particular coding process. The results showed that the top three reasons for operations being coded as refusals are “Would not take time/too busy”, “Information too personal/intrusive, confidentiality concerns”, and “Respondent refuses on all surveys, and refused on this one”. The top three reasons for operations being coded as inaccessible are “Tried several times; could not reach anyone for an appointment.”, “The operator is away on vacation or business.”, and “No operation or respondent, as listed on the label, could be found. No structure exists.”
Additional file 1 of M2-like macrophages transplantation protects against the doxorubicin-induced heart failure via mitochondrial transfer
Creators: name: Liu, Yihai
name: Wu, Mingyue
name: Zhong, Chongxia
name: Xu, Biao
name: Kang, Lina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1.
Carbon Tax Incidence and Household Energy Demand in the U.S.
Creators: name: Zhang, Jun
name: Zhang, Jun
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Public Economics
subject: Tax distortion
subject: general equilibrium
subject: energy demand
subject: excess burden

description: This paper develops a model based on the general equilibrium framework to evaluate Household’s excess burden of carbon tax levied on energy goods (electricity and natural gas). The model accounts for tax distortion on labor market and cross-price effects between energy goods. With data from the U.S. Residential Energy Consumption Survey, own price and cross-price elasticities of energy goods are estimated. Substitution effects are found between electricity and natural gas, and omitting such effects will overestimate the excess burden of carbon tax. The results indicate that carbon tax performs differently on affecting excess burden of low, middle and high income households. With a low pre-set labor tax rate, higher income households have lower excess burden comparing to lower income households, but with a high pre-set labor tax rate, the effect is reverse.
Orthotrichum urnigerum Myrin 1833
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Orthotrichales
Orthotrichaceae
Orthotrichum
Orthotrichum urnigerum

description: Orthotrichum urnigerum Myrin
RECORDS. — Jelenc (1955a): Atlas de Blida; Duperré; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Tala Ghizan; Ouarsenis, djebel Doui. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 89, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Catoplatus crassipes
Creators: name: Montemayor, I.
name: Linnavuori, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Catoplatus
Catoplatus crassipes

description: Catoplatus crassipes (Fieber, 1861)
 Distribution in Iran. Mazandaran, Tehran (Péricart 1983).
 General distribution. Ponto-East-Mediterranean (Balkan Peninsula, Ukraine, South European Territory of Russia, Transcaucasia, Asian Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Syria, Iraq, and Iran (Péricart & Golub 1996).
description: Published as part of Montemayor, I. & Linnavuori, E., 2012, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 22-39 in Zootaxa 3207 on page 25
Biological and phytochemical studies on Capparis decidua (Forssk) Edgew from Cholistan desert
Creators: name: Anjum, Shazia
name: Asif, Muhammad
name: Zia, Kashaf
name: Jahan, Bakhat
name: Ashraf, Muhammad
name: Hussain, Shafqat
name: Hayat, Muhammad Qasim
name: Shah, Muhammad Raza
name: Tahir, Muhammad Nawaz
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: The present work deals with the biological and phytochemical studies on Capparis decidua (Forssk) Edgew from Cholistan desert of Pakistan. Aerial and floral parts of C. decidua were collected and dried under shade. Powdered materials of each part of C. decidua were extracted with methanol separately, followed by phytochemical studies. Hexane fraction of aerial parts of the C. decidua obtained after solvent-solvent extraction was purified through repeated column chromatography by increasing order of polarity. Four compounds were purified and identified as simiarenol (1), lupeol (2), taraxerol (3) and β-sitosterol (4). Simiarenol and lupeol were isolated for the first time from genus Capparis. The structures of these compounds were established by comparing the spectroscopic data (1H NMR, 13C NMR, IR, UV & Mass spectrometry) reported in literature. The structure of 1 was further confirmed by XRD analysis. Anti-bacterial activities of crude methanolic extracts were determined against 13 bacterial strains (MIC 250-1000 μg/mL). α-Glucosidase and urease inhibitory activities of pure compounds were also determined. Compounds 1, 2 and 4 showed α-glucosidase inhibition with IC50 at 96.12 ± 0.12, 65.28 ± 0.13 and 128.14 ± 0.17 μM, respectively.
Catoplatus minor Stusak 1975
Creators: name: Montemayor, I.
name: Linnavuori, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Catoplatus
Catoplatus minor

description: Catoplatus minor Štusák, 1975
 Distribution in Iran. Fars (Péricart 1983).
 General distribution. Ponto-Mediterranean (Bulgaria, Macedonia, Asian Turkey, Iraq and Iran) (Péricart & Golub 1996).
description: Published as part of Montemayor, I. & Linnavuori, E., 2012, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 22-39 in Zootaxa 3207 on page 26
Modeling Endogenous Change in Water Allocation Mechanisms: A Non-Cooperative Bargaining Approach
Creators: name: Tyagi, Ashish
name: Shortle, James S.
name: Tyagi, Ashish
name: Shortle, James S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Water Economics
subject: Institutions
subject: Non-cooperative bargaining theory

description: Water allocation in river basins across the world has been historically determined through various institutional arrangements, which are generally hierarchical in nature. But institutions are generally not explicitly recognized in the literature on resources and environmental economics as they do not yield easily to modeling in the conventional framework. This paper proposes a model to assess the potential of efficiency gains possible from institutional change under hierarchical water institutions. We hypothesize two types of institutional change from status-quo; efficient water markets yielding Pareto optimal outcomes, and more interestingly, regional and intra-sectoral water trading under imperfect markets. Using Banks and Duggan (2006) model of collective decision making to model non-cooperative bargaining, we present here the general framework. The innovative model also allows for incorporating the impact of climate change, population growth, economic growth and technological change on future supply and demand, which help study the benefits of plausible institutional changes in otherwise relatively stagnant water allocation institutions. Application of the proposed hierarchical model to Upper Rio Grande basin calculates the efficiency gains possible from non-cooperative bargaining and compares it with the outcome under cooperation. The analysis can guide policy making by highlighting the gains that institutional reforms can achieve.
Liquid crystalline hydrazones revisited: dipolar interactions vs hydrogen bonding affecting mesomorphic properties
Creators: name: Knelles, Jakob
name: Wanner, Chris
name: Schulz, Finn
name: Freund, Marcel
name: Kolmangadi, Mohamed A.
name: Baro, Angelika
name: Huber, Patrick
name: Schönhals, Andreas
name: Laschat, Sabine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In order to understand the role of dipolar interactions vs. H-bonding, a series of hydrazones were synthesised from 4-alkoxy-, 3,4-dialkoxy- or 3,4,5-trialkoxybenzaldehydes and phenyl, bromo- or nitrophenylhydrazine, respectively. Their mesomorphic properties were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarising optical microscopy (POM), X-ray diffraction (WAXS, SAXS) and compared with known members. Only those hydrazones derived from 3,4,5-trisalkoxybenzaldehyde and either meta, meta-dinitro- or ortho, para-dinitrophenylhydrazine displayed hexagonal columnar mesophases. All other derivatives were non-mesomorphic, even when H-bonds were present. Dipole moments of the various nitro-substituted hydrazones were experimentally determined by dielectric measurements and supported by theoretical DFT calculations, which indicated that the mesophase formation is mostly governed by strong dipole moment and further enforced by intramolecular H-bonding.
Rethinking Demand for A Varied Diet: The Role of Convenience Foods in Diversity Indices
Creators: name: Leschewski, Andrea
name: Weatherspoon, Dave
name: Leschewski, Andrea
name: Weatherspoon, Dave
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: food diversity
subject: food variety
subject: demand
subject: convenience food

description: The objective of this study is to develop a group based food diversity index that classifies convenience foods based on the basic food items they contain. This group based food diversity index is then applied to examine the relationship between the demand for food diversity, food expenditures and household characteristics. Further, findings using the new group based food diversity measure are compared to those obtained using a product code based food diversity index. Results are forthcoming.
Strong plasmon-molecule coupling at the nanoscale revealed by first-principles modeling
Creators: name: Rossi, Tuomas P.
name: Shegai, Timur
name: Erhart, Paul
name: Antosiewicz, Tomasz J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strong light-matter interactions in both the single-emitter and collective strong coupling regimes attract significant attention due to emerging quantum and nonlinear optics applications, as well as opportunities for modifying material-related properties. Further exploration of these phenomena requires an appropriate theoretical methodology, which is demanding since polaritons are at the intersection between quantum optics, solid state physics and quantum chemistry. Fortunately, however, nanoscale polaritons can be realized in small plasmon-molecule systems, which in principle allows treating them using ab initio methods, although this has not been demonstrated to date. Here, we show that time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) calculations can access the physics of nanoscale plasmon-molecule hybrids and predict vacuum Rabi splitting in a system comprising a few-hundred-atom aluminum nanoparticle interacting with one or several benzene molecules. We show that the cavity quantum electrodynamics approach holds down to resonators on the order of a few cubic nanometers, yielding a single-molecule coupling strength exceeding 200 meV due to a massive vacuum field value of 4.5 V/nm. In a broader perspective, our approach enables parameter-free in-depth studies of polaritonic systems, including ground state, chemical and thermodynamic modifications of the molecules in the strong-coupling regime, which may find important use in emerging applications such as cavity enhanced catalysis.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Contract Farming in China: Perspectives of Smallholders in Vegetable Production
Creators: name: Li, Xiaokang
name: Guo, Hongdong
name: Li, Lin
name: Li, Xiaokang
name: Guo, Hongdong
name: Li, Lin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: contract farming
subject: vegetable production
subject: transaction cost
subject: China

description: Contract farming in development countries has become popular, and this is the same for vegetable production in China. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of production attributes of different vegetables on farmers’ decision of contract farming participation, as well as examine the impact of marketing contracts on net returns. The results revealed that the harvest and marketing times, perishability, certification of the vegetables, and price fluctuation have significantly positive effect on vegetable farmers’ contract farming participation, respectively. A PSM method is employed to estimate the impact of contract farming on net returns of vegetable production, and find out the effect is insignificant.
The evolution of argumentation mining: From models to social media and emerging tools
Creators: name: Lytos, Anastasios
name: Lagkas, Thomas
name: Sarigiannidis, Panagiotis
name: Bontcheva, Kalina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Argumentation mining is a rising subject in the computational linguistics domain focusing on extracting structured arguments from natural text, often from unstructured or noisy text. The initial approaches on modeling arguments was aiming to identify a flawless argument on specific fields (Law, Scientific Papers) serving specific needs (completeness, effectiveness). With the emerge of Web 2.0 and the explosion in the use of social media both the diffusion of the data and the argument structure have changed. In this survey article, we bridge the gap between theoretical approaches of argumentation mining and pragmatic schemes that satisfy the needs of social media generated data, recognizing the need for adapting more flexible and expandable schemes, capable to adjust to the argumentation conditions that exist in social media. We review, compare, and classify existing approaches, techniques and tools, identifying the positive outcome of combining tasks and features, and eventually propose a conceptual architecture framework. The proposed theoretical framework is an argumentation mining scheme able to identify the distinct sub-tasks and capture the needs of social media text, revealing the need for adopting more flexible and extensible frameworks.
description: Journal of Information Processing & Management, Elsevier - Accepted Version
Optimized deployment of anchors based on GDOP minimization for ultra-wideband positioning
Creators: name: Wang, Chuanyang
name: Ning, Yipeng
name: Wang, Jian
name: Zhang, Longping
name: Wan, Jun
name: He, Qimin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: GDOP minimization criterion is applied to optimize positioning configuration. In this study, two kinds of GDOPs are introduced, the first kind of GDOP does not consider the clock error, the second kind considers. Cone configuration with lowest GDOP is discussed and extended for Ultra-wideband positioning. For three-dimensional scenarios, the configuration sets with lowest GDOP can be obtained based on the first kind of GDOP. Furthermore, the constraint statistics are considered to optimize global GDOP distribution in the positioning regions. We can believe that the cone configuration with constraints is effective to optimize the deployment of anchors.
Subspace clustering without knowing the number of clusters: A parameter free approach
Creators: name: Menon, Vishnu
name: M, Gokularam
name: Kalyani, Sheetal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Subspace clustering, the task of clustering high dimensional data when the data points come from a union of subspaces is one of the fundamental tasks in unsupervised machine learning. Most of the existing algorithms for this task require prior knowledge of the number of clusters along with few additional parameters which need to be set or tuned apriori according to the type of data to be clustered. In this work, a parameter free method for subspace clustering is proposed, where the data points are clustered on the basis of the difference in statistical distribution of the angles subtended by the data points within a subspace and those by points belonging to different subspaces. Given an initial fine clustering, the proposed algorithm merges the clusters until a final clustering is obtained. This, unlike many existing methods, does not require the number of clusters apriori. Also, the proposed algorithm does not involve the use of an unknown parameter or tuning for one. %through cross validation. A parameter free method for producing a fine initial clustering is also discussed, making the whole process of subspace clustering parameter free. The comparison of proposed algorithm's performance with that of the existing state-of-the-art techniques in synthetic and real data sets, shows the significance of the proposed method.
Oxyrrhynchium hians Loeske
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Hypnales
Brachytheciaceae
Oxyrrhynchium
Oxyrrhynchium hians

description: Oxyrrhynchium hians (Hedw.) Loeske
RECORDS. — Jelenc (1949, 1955a, 1967): Monts de Tlemcen, Mazer. Jelenc (1953, 1967): Kabylie du Djurdjura, massif de l’Aizer, 1900 m. Jelenc (1954b, 1967): Monts de Saida, cascades de Tifrit; Sahel d’Alger, colline du Hamma. Jelenc (1955a): Alger, La Bouzaréa; Atlas de Blida; Constantine, oued bou Merzoug; Édough; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Tizi Ouzou. Jelenc (1956): Fontaine du Musée des Beaux-Art. Jelenc (1956, 1967): Sahel d’Alger, dans le ravin du Frais-Valllon. Boukhatem et al. (2017): El-Kala National Park, Tonga lake watershed. Frequent.
COMMENT
Oxyrrhynchium hians var. vulgare (Boulay) Podp. was reported in Algeria by Corbière (1904) (sub Eurhynchium praelongum var. vulgare (Boulay) Limpr.) from Bône, djebel Édough, but Ros et al. (2013) mentioned its presence only in Tunisia. Its identity remains unchecked at present.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 89, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
D=2+1 N=2 Yang-Mills Theory From Wrapped Branes
Creators: name: Gomis, Jaume
name: Russo, Jorge G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find a new solution of Type IIB supergravity which represents a collection of D5 branes wrapped on the topologically non-trivial S^3 of the deformed conifold geometry T^*S^3. The Type IIB solution is obtained by lifting a new solution of D=7 SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R gauged supergravity to ten dimensions in which SU(2)_D gauge fields in the diagonal subgroup are turned on. The supergravity solution describes a slice of the Coulomb branch in the large N limit of N=2 SYM in three dimensions.
description: 19 pages, 1figure, harvmac; expanded analysis of D=4 N=2 system in the appendix, references added
Towards automated age estimation of young individuals : a new computer-based approach using 3D knee MRI
Creators: name: Mauer, Matthias auf der
Publisher: name: Shaker Verlag
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: automated age estimation
subject: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
subject: knee
subject: machine learning
subject: convolutional neural network (CNN)
subject: segmentation
classificationCode: 570
subject: Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird die Fragestellung der Altersbestimmung bei Lebenden auf Basis von Knie-MRT-Bildsequenzen untersucht. Anhand eines großen Datenkollektivs von jungen männliche Probanden, wird ein neuer KI-basierter Ansatz entwickelt, um Knochenstrukturen automatisch im Bild zu erkennen und darauf basierend das chronologische Alter zu erlernen. Mit einem mittleren absoluten Fehler (MAE) von 0,69 ± 0,47 Jahren für die Vorhersage des Alters und einer Genauigkeit von 90,9% bei der Frage nach der Volljährigkeit, belegen die Ergebnisse das Potential dieses Ansatzes.
description: The purpose of this work is to investigate the age estimation of living individuals on the basis of MRI sequences of the knee. Using a large data collective of young male subjects, a new AI-based approach is developed to automatically detect bone structures in the image and to learn the chronological age based on this information. With a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.69 ± 0.47 years for the prediction of the age and an accuracy of 90.9% for the majority classification on the 18-year-limit, the results demonstrate the potential of this approach.
Long-distance quantum communication with atomic ensembles and linear optics
Creators: name: Duan, Lu-Ming
name: Lukin, Mikhail
name: Cirac, Ignacio
name: Zoller, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum communication holds a promise for absolutely secure transmission of secret messages and faithful transfer of unknown quantum states. Photonic channels appear to be very attractive for physical implementation of quantum communication. However, due to losses and decoherence in the channel, the communication fidelity decreases exponentially with the channel length. We describe a scheme that allows to implement robust quantum communication over long lossy channels. The scheme involves laser manipulation of atomic ensembles, beam splitters, and single-photon detectors with moderate efficiencies, and therefore well fits the status of the current experimental technology. We show that the communication efficiency scale polynomially with the channel length thereby facilitating scalability to very long distances.
description: 2 tex files (Main text + Supplement), 4 figures