cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Large-parameter asymptotic expansions for the Legendre and allied functions
Creators: name: Nemes, Gergő
name: Daalhuis, Adri B. Olde
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 41A60, 33C05, 33C45

description: Surprisingly, apart from some special cases, simple asymptotic expansions for the associated Legendre functions $P_ν^μ(z)$ and $Q_ν^μ(z)$ for large degree $ν$ or large order $μ$ are not available in the literature. The main purpose of the present paper is to fill this gap by deriving simple (inverse) factorial expansions for these functions and provide sharp and realistic bounds on their error terms. Analogous results for the Ferrers functions and the closely related Gegenbauer function are also included. In the cases that $ν$ is an integer or $2μ$ is an odd integer, many of these new expansions terminate and provide finite representations in terms of simple functions. Most of these representations appear to be new. It is well known that the hypergeometric series can be regarded as a large-$c$ asymptotic expansion for the hypergeometric function $F(a,b;c;z)$. We also derive computable bounds for the remainder term of this expansion. To our best knowledge, no such estimates have been given in the literature prior to this paper.
description: 32 pages, 6 figures, revised version, accepted for publication in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis. The exposition was improved based on the referee's comments
Remarks on a conjecture of Gromov and Lawson
Creators: name: Dwyer, William
name: Schick, Thomas
name: Stolz, Stephan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C21

description: Gromov and Lawson conjectured that a closed spin manifold M of dimension n with fundamental group pi admits a metric with positive scalar curvature if and only if an associated element in KO_n(B pi) vanishes. In this note we present counter examples to the `if' part of this conjecture for groups pi which are torsion free and whose classifying space is a manifold with negative curvature (in the Alexandrov sense).
description: LaTeX2e, 14 pagers
Bracon (Glabrobracon) tschitsherini KOKOUJEV 1904
Creators: name: Beyarslan, A.
name: Aydogdu, M.
name: Ö. Ç
name: T, Ceratobracon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Bracon
Bracon tschitsherini

description: Bracon (Glabrobracon) tschitsherini KOKOUJEV 1904
 M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d 7, 1; 16, 2; 28, 1; 32, 2; 71, 2; 73, 1; 77, 9.
D i s t r i b u t i o n i n t h e W o r l d: Palaearctic: Azerbaijan, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Krygyzistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
C h o r o t y p e: Centralasiatic-European.
description: Published as part of Beyarslan, A., Aydogdu, M., Ö. Ç & T, Ceratobracon, 2008, The Subfamily Braconinae in Northern Turkey, with new records of Bracon species for the Western Palaearctic (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1341-1361 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1354, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5430696
title: Elucidation of the cell surface lipooligosaccharide structure of Moraxella bovoculi and its influence on the growth and biological activity of the microorganism
Creators: name: Dawood, Wisam Al-Ako
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Elucidation
subject: Cell surface
subject: Lipooligosaccharide structure
subject: Moraxella bovoculi
subject: Microorganism

description: Moraxella bovoculi is a Gram-negative microorganism that has shown potential to aide in the pathogenesis of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK) or 'pink-eye' in cattle. An ocular disease, IBK has shown to cause a significant economic loss to the cattle and dairy industry with reported losses of AUD 21 million annually to the beef industry in Australia.1 Infected animals show symptoms of keratitis, conjunctivitis, corneal ulceration and in severe cases, IBK can lead to permanent blindness.2 Currently, the only known cause for IBK is the Gram-negative bacterium Moraxella bovis. However, M. bovoculi is a recently isolated bacterium from calves which could also play a role in the pathogenesis of IBK with reports suggesting it may play a role in host colonisation.2-4 Currently, no investigations on the lipooligosaccharide (LOS) structure of M. bovoculi have been completed which is a major virulence factor found in Gram-negative bacteria.3,5,6 This following study aimed to further understand the biological role of LOS in M. bovoculi as well as compare it to the previously studied Moraxella species, M. bovis and M. catarrhalis. The first aim investigated the growth profile and biological activity of Moraxella bovoculi. The second aim investigated the extraction and purification of the LOS of M. bovoculi leading to the eventual analysis of the oligosaccharide structure using NMR spectroscopy. [...]
Prionocerus wittmeri Geiser 2010
Creators: name: Hájek, Jiří
name: Švihla, Vladimír
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Prionoceridae
Prionocerus
Prionocerus wittmeri

description: Prionocerus wittmeri Geiser, 2010
 Prionocerus wittmeri Geiser, 2010: 39, Figs. 7, 14, 21, 29–30, 42.
Two paratypes are deposited in NMPC (general collection):
PARATYPE (J): ‘Java, 12.-18.4./ 1996, Baburan [Baluran NP, mistyped] /S. Jákl leg. [p] // PARATYPE J / Prionocerus / wittmeri Geiser / des. M. Geiser 2007 [p, red label]’.
PARATYPE (♀): ‘Java, 12.-18.4. / 1996, Baburan [Baluran NP, mistyped] / S. Jákl leg. [p] // PARATYPE ♀ / Prionocerus / wittmeri Geiser / des. M. Geiser 2007 [p, red label]’.
 Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Hájek, Jiří & Švihla, Vladimír, 2012, Catalogue of the type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 603-654 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (2) on page 608, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332821
The Proper Treatment of Optimality in Computational Phonology
Creators: name: Karttunen, Lauri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper presents a novel formalization of optimality theory. Unlike previous treatments of optimality in computational linguistics, starting with Ellison (1994), the new approach does not require any explicit marking and counting of constraint violations. It is based on the notion of "lenient composition," defined as the combination of ordinary composition and priority union. If an underlying form has outputs that can meet a given constraint, lenient composition enforces the constraint; if none of the output candidates meet the constraint, lenient composition allows all of them. For the sake of greater efficiency, we may "leniently compose" the GEN relation and all the constraints into a single finite-state transducer that maps each underlying form directly into its optimal surface realizations, and vice versa, without ever producing any failing candidates. Seen from this perspective, optimality theory is surprisingly similar to the two older strains of finite-state phonology: classical rewrite systems and two-level models. In particular, the ranking of optimality constraints corresponds to the ordering of rewrite rules.
description: 12 pages. Postscript
Lagrangian transport in an idealised meandering oceanic jet
Creators: name: Park, Josephine
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Ocean general circulation models (OGCMs) frequently operate at a grid scale larger than the size of oceanic eddies, therefore eddying effects must be parameterised. One such example is that of eddy-induced Lagrangian transport. The current method of parameterising eddy-induced transport assumes isotropic and dffusive behaviour. However several studies employing numerical models (Kamenkovich et al. 2015, 2009, Berloff et al. 2002), or using satellite altimetry derived velocity fields or by taking real float data (Rypina et al. 2012) have demonstrated Lagrangian behaviour contradicting these assumptions. We proceed by running a numerical model simulating two differing meandering oceanic jets. Two novel spatial interpolation methods motivated by the non-divergence property of the numerical model will be tested and incorporated into a Lagrangian transport model. Eddying Lagrangian statistics for the two jet regimes will be compared and will verify that a new non-diffusive, anisotropic parameterisation method will need to be considered. A new flow based dispersion measure with the aim of capturing sharper diffusivity estimates at the jet core will be motivated and introduced. We then run three Stochastic Markov models with the aim of reproducing the observed Lagrangian statistics and outline the applicability of some further Stochastic models. In the fi nal chapter, we decompose the ow into Empirical Orthogonal Functions and establish that eddy-induced meridional transport is largely influenced by small-scale flow variability that cannot be realistically be captured kinematically. The eddy-induced zonal transport however can be explained by a Stokes' drift.
Bracon (Glabrobracon) planinotus TOBIAS 1957
Creators: name: Beyarslan, A.
name: Aydogdu, M.
name: Ö. Ç
name: T, Ceratobracon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Bracon
Bracon planinotus

description: Bracon (Glabrobracon) planinotus TOBIAS 1957
 M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d 4, 1.
D i s t r i b u t i o n i n t h e W o r l d: Palaearctic: Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine.
C h o r o t y p e:Asiatic-European.
description: Published as part of Beyarslan, A., Aydogdu, M., Ö. Ç & T, Ceratobracon, 2008, The Subfamily Braconinae in Northern Turkey, with new records of Bracon species for the Western Palaearctic (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1341-1361 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1353, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5430696
Subtypes of masked hypertension and target organ damage in untreated outpatients
Creators: name: Zhang, Dong-Yan
name: Cheng, Yi-Bang
name: Guo, Qian-Hui
name: Wang, Ying
name: Sheng, Chang-Sheng
name: Huang, Qi-Fang
name: An, De-Wei
name: Li, Ming-Xuan
name: Huang, Jian-Feng
name: Xu, Ting-Yan
name: Wang, Ji-Guang
name: Li, Yan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Purpose: Masked hypertension (MHT) is characterised as an office normotension in the presence of out-of-office hypertension, and can be further categorised as isolated daytime (dMHT), night-time (nMHT) or day-night MHT (dnMHT) according to the time when hypertension is present. MHT is associated with adverse cardiovascular outcome. However, no previous studies contrasted these MHT subtypes in their associations with target organ damage (TOD). Materials and methods: Consecutive untreated patients referred for ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring to our Hypertension Clinic were recruited. Office and ambulatory BPs were measured using the Omron 7051 and SpaceLabs 90217 monitors, respectively. The BP thresholds of daytime and night-time hypertension were of ≥135/85 mmHg and ≥120/70 mmHg, respectively. We performed various TOD measurements, including carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV), carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT), left ventricular mass index (LVMI) and E/E’, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR). Results: The 1808 participants (mean age, 51 years; women, 52%) included 672 (37.2%) MHT subjects, among whom 123 (18.3%) had dMHT, 78 (11.6%) nMHT, and 471 (70.1%) dnMHT. In all participants as well as patients with office normotension (n = 1222), ambulatory daytime and night-time BPs were similarly associated with all TOD measurements (p ≥ 0.20) after multivariate adjustment. Compared to normotensive subjects (p < 0.05), patients with dMHT had faster cfPWV (7.81 vs. 7.58 m/s) and thicker cIMT (637.6 vs. 610.4 µm), patients with nMHT had thicker cIMT (641.8 vs. 610.4 µm) and increased UACR (0.79 vs. 0.59 mg/mmol), and patients with dnMHT had all worse TOD measures mentioned-above plus elevated eGFR (120.7 vs. 116.8 ml/min/1.73m2). Conclusion: MHT was associated with TOD irrespective of subtype, although TOD varied slightly across these subtypes. The study highlights the importance of controlling both daytime and night-time BP in hypertensive patients.
Generic rules and non-constituent coordination
Creators: name: Gonzalo, Julio
name: Solias, Teresa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a metagrammatical formalism, {\em generic rules}, to give a default interpretation to grammar rules. Our formalism introduces a process of {\em dynamic binding} interfacing the level of pure grammatical knowledge representation and the parsing level. We present an approach to non-constituent coordination within categorial grammars, and reformulate it as a generic rule. This reformulation is context-free parsable and reduces drastically the search space associated to the parsing task for such phenomena.
description: latex2e, 12 pages, uses tree-dvips.sty. Appeared in IWPT'95
Revisiting comparison between entanglement measures for two-qubit pure states
Creators: name: Singh, Ashutosh
name: Ahamed, Ijaz
name: Home, Dipankar
name: Sinha, Urbasi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given a non-maximally entangled state, an operationally significant question is to quantitatively assess as to what extent the state is away from the maximally entangled state, which is of importance in evaluating the efficacy of the state for its various uses as a resource. It is this question which is examined in this paper for two-qubit pure entangled states in terms of different entanglement measures like Negativity (N), Logarithmic Negativity (LN), and Entanglement of Formation (EOF). Although these entanglement measures are defined differently, to what extent they differ in quantitatively addressing the earlier mentioned question has remained uninvestigated. Theoretical estimate in this paper shows that an appropriately defined parameter characterizing the fractional deviation of any given entangled state from the maximally entangled state in terms of N is quite different from that computed in terms of EOF with their values differing up to ~ 15 % for states further away from the maximally entangled state. Similarly, the values of such fractional deviation parameters estimated using the entanglement measures LN and EOF, respectively, also strikingly differ among themselves with the maximum value of this difference being around 23 %. This analysis is complemented by illustration of these differences in terms of empirical results obtained from a suitably planned experimental study. Thus, such appreciable amount of quantitative non-equivalence between the entanglement measures in addressing the experimentally relevant question considered in the present paper highlights the requirement of an appropriate quantifier for such intent. We indicate directions of study that can be explored towards finding such a quantifier.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
MOESM2 of Metabolomics analysis of herb-partitioned moxibustion treatment on rats with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome
Creators: name: Lin, Xianwei
name: Liu, Xia
name: Xu, Jingjing
name: Cheng, Kian-Kai
name: Cao, Jianan
name: Liu, Tao
name: Liu, Qiong
name: Zhong, Huan
name: Shen, Guiping
name: Dong, Jiyang
name: Chang, Xiaorong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2. NMR spectra of fecal extracts and serum.
MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES FOR ANALYZING AND PREDICTING CASH FLOW TRENDS IN DYNAMIC BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS
Creators: name: Jerryson Ameworgbe Gidisu*, Mbonigaba Celestin**, Moses Kwabena Lumor*, Divine Koku Kekesi*, Margaret Tetteh* &  Frank Yaw Takyi-Appiah*
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This study explores the application of mathematical techniques for analyzing and predicting cash flow trends in dynamic business environments. The research aims to identify the most effective forecasting methods, assess their predictive accuracy, and propose strategies for integrating these techniques into corporate financial management. A mixed-methods approach was employed, analyzing financial data from 50 businesses (2020-2024) using time series analysis, regression models, and Monte Carlo simulations. Results indicate that ARIMA time series analysis provided an optimal predictive fit with R2=0.94, while regression models demonstrated a strong correlation between business expenses and cash flow (R2=0.91). Monte Carlo simulations estimated a mean cash flow of $180M (σ = $15M) with an 87% probability of remaining within the $165M-$195M range. The overall correlation coefficient between effective cash flow management and business sustainability was 0.91 (p<0.001), confirming that firms leveraging advanced forecasting models exhibit greater financial stability. The study recommends enhanced data collection practices, integration of multiple forecasting techniques, investment in AI-driven financial tools, dynamic financial planning, and transparent financial reporting to optimize cash flow management in unpredictable business environments.
Selective Sampling of Effective Example Sentence Sets for Word Sense Disambiguation
Creators: name: Fujii, Atsushi
name: Inui, Kentaro
name: Tokunaga, Takenobu
name: Tanaka, Hozumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes an efficient example selection method for example-based word sense disambiguation systems. To construct a practical size database, a considerable overhead for manual sense disambiguation is required. Our method is characterized by the reliance on the notion of the training utility: the degree to which each example is informative for future example selection when used for the training of the system. The system progressively collects examples by selecting those with greatest utility. The paper reports the effectivity of our method through experiments on about one thousand sentences. Compared to experiments with random example selection, our method reduced the overhead without the degeneration of the performance of the system.
description: 14 pages, uses epsbox.sty
Additional file 6: of Sewage effluent from an Indian hospital harbors novel carbapenemases and integron-borne antibiotic resistance genes
Creators: name: Nachiket Marathe
name: Berglund, Fanny
name: Razavi, Mohammad
name: Pal, Chandan
name: DrĂśge, Johannes
name: Sharvari Samant
name: Kristiansson, Erik
name: D. Larsson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S6. The MIC values in micrograms per milliliter for E. coli strains containing synthesized putative novel antibiotic resistance genes, against respective antibiotics. (DOCX 13 kb)
EMG wrist-hand motion recognition system for real-time Embedded platform
Creators: name: Raurale, Sumit
name: McAllister, John
name: del Rincon, Jesus Martinez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Electromyography (EMG) signal analysis is a popular method for controlling prosthetic and gesture control equipment. For portable systems, such as prosthetic limbs, real-time low-power operation on embedded processors is critical, but to date, there has been no record of how existing EMG analysis approaches support such deployments. This paper presents a novel approach to time-domain classification of multi-channel EMG signals harnessed from randomly-placed sensors according to the wrist-hand movements which caused their occurrence. It shows how, by employing a very small set of time-domain features, Kernel Fisher discriminant feature projection and Radial Bias Function neural network classifiers, nine wrist-hand movements can be detected with accuracy exceeding 99% - surpassing the state-of-the-art on record. It also shows how, when deployed on ARM Cortex-A53, the processing time is not only sufficient to enable real-time processing but is also a factor 50 shorter than the leading time-frequency techniques on record.
description: 5 pages, to appear in upcoming IEEE ICASSP 2019 (Paper: 1810, Session: DISPS-P2: Algorithm and Architecture Optimization, Topic: Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems / Low-power signal processing techniques and architectures)
Supplementary Methods. Ultracentrifugation versus kit exosome isolation: nanoLC–MS and other tools reveal similar performance biomarkers, but also contaminations
Creators: name: Future Science Group, Figshare
name: Skottvoll, Frøydis Sved
name: Berg, Henriette Engen
name: Bjørseth, Kamilla
name: Lund, Kaja
name: Roos, Norbert
name: Bekhradnia, Sara
name: Thiede, Bernd
name: Sandberg, Cecilie
name: Vik-Mo, Einar Osland
name: Roberg-Larsen, Hanne
name: Nyström, Bo
name: Lundanes, Elsa
name: Wilson, Steven Ray
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019

description: Supplementary Methods
Treatment of Epsilon-Moves in Subset Construction
Creators: name: van Noord, Gertjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The paper discusses the problem of determinising finite-state automata containing large numbers of epsilon-moves. Experiments with finite-state approximations of natural language grammars often give rise to very large automata with a very large number of epsilon-moves. The paper identifies three subset construction algorithms which treat epsilon-moves. A number of experiments has been performed which indicate that the algorithms differ considerably in practice. Furthermore, the experiments suggest that the average number of epsilon-moves per state can be used to predict which algorithm is likely to perform best for a given input automaton.
Anthodromius inexpectatus Majer 1990
Creators: name: Hájek, Jiří
name: Švihla, Vladimír
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melyridae
Anthodromius
Anthodromius inexpectatus

description: Anthodromius inexpectatus Majer, 1990
 Anthodromius inexpectatus Majer, 1990d: 180, Figs. 65–68.
The holotype is deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HOLOTYPE (J): ‘Loc. no. 246 / Exp. Nat. Mus./ Praha [p] // Holo- / typus [p, red label, black margin] // Anthodromius J / inexpectatus sp.n. [hw] / K. Majer det. [p] 1984 [hw] / HOLOTYPUS [p]’.
 Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Hájek, Jiří & Švihla, Vladimír, 2012, Catalogue of the type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 603-654 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (2) on page 608, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332821
Rational semimodules over the max-plus semiring and geometric approach of discrete event systems
Creators: name: Gaubert, Stephane
name: Katz, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 93B27 (Primary) 06F05 (Secondary)

description: We introduce rational semimodules over semirings whose addition is idempotent, like the max-plus semiring, in order to extend the geometric approach of linear control to discrete event systems. We say that a subsemimodule of the free semimodule S^n over a semiring S is rational if it has a generating family that is a rational subset of S^n, S^n being thought of as a monoid under the entrywise product. We show that for various semirings of max-plus type whose elements are integers, rational semimodules are stable under the natural algebraic operations (union, product, direct and inverse image, intersection, projection, etc). We show that the reachable and observable spaces of max-plus linear dynamical systems are rational, and give various examples.
description: 24 pages, 9 postscript figures; example in section 4.3 expanded
Bracon (Lucobracon) crassungula THOMSON 1892
Creators: name: Beyarslan, A.
name: Aydogdu, M.
name: Ö. Ç
name: T, Ceratobracon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Bracon
Bracon crassungula

description: Bracon (Lucobracon) crassungula THOMSON 1892
 M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d 71, 1.
D i s t r i b u t i o n i n t h e W o r l d: Palaearctic: Austria, Hungary, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey.
C h o r o t y p e: Turano-European.
description: Published as part of Beyarslan, A., Aydogdu, M., Ö. Ç & T, Ceratobracon, 2008, The Subfamily Braconinae in Northern Turkey, with new records of Bracon species for the Western Palaearctic (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1341-1361 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1355, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5430696
Improving Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 as a model organism
Creators: name: Pope, Matthew Allan
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Cyanobacteria are photoautotrophic prokaryotes capable of converting sunlight into chemical energy via oxygenic photosynthesis. Fast growth rates, ease of maintenance and swift mutant generation have resulted in certain cyanobacterial species becoming model organisms for photosynthesis researchers and biotechnologists. One species has garnered attention, being heralded as a “green E. coli”: Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 is a freshwater, unicellular and naturally transformable cyanobacterium with a fully sequenced and annotated genome. In recent years, Synechocystis mutants have demonstrated their efficacy as cellular-factories by yielding chemical commodities from sunlight and atmospheric carbon. However, certain traits of Synechocystis hinder those who wish to genetically and metabolically engineer this organism. Firstly, Synechocystis is polyploid, possessing multiple copies of its genome per cell. The time required to generate mutants is far greater than for its heterotrophic counterpart, Escherichia coli. Mutations introduced into the genome via heterologous DNA molecules must first present themselves in all genome copies before mutant phenotypes are revealed. Secondly, the list of characterised genetic parts known to function in Synechocystis is limited in comparison to those available for E. coli. Here I investigate the environmental and biochemical factors that influence polyploidy in Synechocystis. I demonstrate that a simple 10-fold reduction of phosphate in the conventional growth medium, BG-11, yields significantly fewer genome copy numbers per cell. From this I developed a novel natural transformation protocol that reduces the time required to obtain fully segregated mutants in Synechocystis. Furthermore, I show that DnaA, a conserved prokaryotic DNA replication initiator protein, is not essential for DNA replication in Synechocystis but does play an important physiological role in regulating polyploidy and DNA replication. Furthermore, I characterised the importance of DnaN, the β-subunit of the DNA polymerase III holoenzyme. Finally, I developed a novel far-red light inducible gene expression system in Synechocystis by identifying a DNA element that regulates far-red light photosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis thermalis PCC 7203. I constructed a novel strain of Synechocystis that regulates YFP gene-expression in response to far-red wavelengths of light.
title: Investigating Nearshore Morphodynamics Response to Extreme Storms and Storm Groups
Creators: name: Oo, Ye Htet
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: wave assimilation
subject: joint probability
subject: storm group
subject: beach erosion

description: Combating coastal erosion is becoming increasingly challenging due to population growth near beaches, and the dynamic nature of nearshore morphological processes. Along a zeta-shaped coastline, such as Gold Coast in Australia, the degree of exposure of the beaches to waves varies alongshore depending on the incident wave direction. Since waves are one of the main drivers of sediment transport along the coast, changing wave direction can disturb the modal sediment transport. This phenomenon can cause localised erosion, and it is therefore important to quantify the impact at different locations along the coast. By doing so, effective coastal protection strategies can be developed to ensure the resilience of coastal communities. Recent studies have reported changes in wave climate (e.g., frequency and intensity of storms, shifts in wave direction) in response to climate change, making coasts more vulnerable to unusual waves. In addition to the waves, water levels play an important role in beach erosion, and the non-astronomical component of water levels (i.e., surge) presents a correlation with wave height during extreme storm events. Moreover, storm groups, where beach recovery is near zero between successive storms, may further increase erosion along the coast. Therefore, an investigation of the impact of waves, surge, and storm groups is important for effective coastal management. In this context, this study aimed to understand the beach response to extreme storms and storm groups on a zeta-shaped open coastline. This was achieved through analysis of (i) storm wave fields using different boundary forcing to study the wave transformations from offshore to nearshore, (ii) extreme joint probability of significant wave height and water level, and (iii) the response of different antecedent beach profiles induced by a storm group and its order. A numerical modelling approach was used, incorporating a spectral wave model and a morphological model for wave and beach erosion predictions, respectively. In addition, a technique using an artificial neural network (ANN) to perform spatial wave assimilation was used to improve wave hindcasting. [...]
Modelling protein aggregation lubrication in prosthetic joints
Creators: name: Nissim, Lee
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Protein aggregation lubrication is the term given to the experimentally observed accumulation of protein matter at the inlet region of protein-rich, fluid-lubricated contacts. This lubrication mechanism causes larger than predicted fluid film thickness when compared to classical elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication theory and also exhibits the behaviour of decreasing film thickness with increasing sliding speed between the contact surfaces, again in contrast to theory. In the last decade, experiments have been carried out to capture the transient development of inlet aggregates in pin-on-flat tribometers. Understanding the lubrication mechanisms present in such lubricated contacts is vital for the continued development of prosthetic joint implant design and success. In this study, a computational protein aggregation lubrication model has been created by using classical elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication theory coupled with a protein-dependent constitutive equation for fluid viscosity. The transport of protein matter in the thin film lubricated contact has been subject to an advection-diffusion model using geometry-based attenuation of flow rates, resulting in protein concentration aggregation at the inlet of the contact zone. The model parameters have been calibrated and the resulting transient protein aggregation lubrication simulation agrees well with previous experimentally observed transient film thickness behaviour when a cobalt–chromium–molybdenum alloy femoral head implant is tested in a pin-on-flat tribometer using diluted bovine calf serum as a synovial fluid analogue. The model developed in this study requires the calibration of two separate parameters that relate to the shape of an approximate protein particle size distribution and to the nature of the exponential dependency of viscosity on protein concentration. Prior knowledge of the particle size distribution and rheological testing of experimental fluid would allow for these parameters to be fixed without calibration, however a parameter search method has been proposed for situations where these values are unknown. The calibration overhead is significant even at the current level of model complexity and further refinement of computational efficiency is needed before it can be viably applied to a wide range of test cases. Modelling prosthesis lubrication in this way provides a simple method to incorporate the effect of protein aggregation into simulations that can be used to provide greater insight into the conditions in the contact zone of joint prostheses including pressure, film height, and protein concentration which can in turn be used to derive friction coefficients and aid the study of surface wear.
Implementing FAIR Workflows D4.2 Communication Plan
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaoli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Workflow
Neuroscience
Consciousness
DataCite
Persistent Identifiers
PID
DOI
FAIR

description: The Implementing FAIR Workflows Project aims to leverage the existing persistent identifier infrastructure and research information management systems to build a proof of concept research workflow for neuroscience research that’s FAIR by inception. The project will provide an example to enable and encourage the wider neuroscience community to adopt FAIR practices. The goal of the communication effort within the project is to generate lasting engagement during and beyond the project lifetime, bring the researcher community on board with the adoption of FAIR compliant workflows, and provide reliable resources for service providers to implement relevant functionalities to support the adoption after the completion of the project. This deliverable describes in detail the communications strategy, plan, tools, and success metrics to be used to achieve the goals of the project.
description: This project was made possible through the support of a grant from Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc.
Similarity between Words Computed by Spreading Activation on an English Dictionary
Creators: name: Kozima, Hideki
name: Furugori, Teiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes a method for measuring semantic similarity between words as a new tool for text analysis. The similarity is measured on a semantic network constructed systematically from a subset of the English dictionary, LDOCE (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English). Spreading activation on the network can directly compute the similarity between any two words in the Longman Defining Vocabulary, and indirectly the similarity of all the other words in LDOCE. The similarity represents the strength of lexical cohesion or semantic relation, and also provides valuable information about similarity and coherence of texts.
description: 8 pages, uufiles (paper.tex, eacl93.sty, named.bst)
Investigation of risk factors of chronic airflow obstruction and their public health impact in the BOLD study using Bayesian methods
Creators: name: Patel, Jaymini Hasmukh
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Motivated by methodological issues encountered in the analysis of the Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) study, I used a Bayesian approach to answer two important questions on the impact of multiple risk factors on chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) in different regions of the world. First, I developed a model to improve the precision of the estimates of two measures of population impact of a risk factor on disease burden: Population Attributable Fraction (PAF) and Population Attributable Risk (PAR). These measures need to be estimated locally, as they depend on both relative risk (RR) and distribution of the risk factor in a given population, which is challenging in BOLD sites with limited data. I developed a Bayesian hierarchical model that borrows information on mean and variance of the RR across sites, leading to more precise estimates of site-specific RRs and therefore of local PAFs/PARs. I used this method to investigate the local impact of several risk factors on CAO burden. Finally, I implemented it in a user-friendly tool soon freely available online for others to use, including researchers with no expertise in Bayesian methods. Secondly, I collaborated with colleagues to develop a Bayesian method to impute data that are systematically missing in some datasets when combining information across multiple datasets. I applied this method to estimate the association of poverty with CAO using data from all the 41 BOLD sites, through imputation of data on poverty in 20 sites that had not collected this information. We implemented this method in a user-friendly online tool, BIMAM. This thesis contributes to the field of respiratory epidemiology by demonstrating the different role played by modifiable risk factors for CAO in different parts of the world, and by contributing to the methodological improvement of the analysis of multi-centre international studies like BOLD.
Anthodromius laticollis Majer 1990
Creators: name: Hájek, Jiří
name: Švihla, Vladimír
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Melyridae
Anthodromius
Anthodromius laticollis

description: Anthodromius laticollis Majer, 1990
 Anthodromius laticollis Majer, 1990d: 179, Figs. 59–64.
The holotype and one paratype (the allotype) are deposited in NMPC (general collection):
HOLOTYPE (J): ‘S Iran, Sírakht [sic! = Sísakht] / Dena, 2500-3000 m / 13-14. 6. 1973 [p] // Loc. no. 241 / Exp. Nat. Mus. / Praha [p] // Holo- / typus [p, red label, black margin] // Anthodromius J / inexpectatus sp.n. [hw] / K. Majer det. [p] 1984 [hw] / HOLOTYPUS [p]’.
ALLOTYPE (♀): ‘S Iran, Sísakht / Dena, 2500-3000 m / 13-14. 6 1973 [p] // Loc. no. 241 / Exp. Nat. Mus. / Praha [p] // Allo- [hw] / typus [p, red label, black margin] // Anthodromius ♀ / inexpectatus sp.n. [hw] / K. Majer det. [p] 1984 [hw] / ALLOTYPUS [p]’.
 Current status. Valid species.
description: Published as part of Hájek, Jiří & Švihla, Vladimír, 2012, Catalogue of the type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 603-654 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (2) on page 609, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5332821
Bracon (Habrobracon) flavosignatus TOBIAS 1957
Creators: name: Beyarslan, A.
name: Aydogdu, M.
name: Ö. Ç
name: T, Ceratobracon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Bracon
Bracon flavosignatus

description: Bracon (Habrobracon) flavosignatus TOBIAS 1957
 M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d 21, 1.
D i s t r i b u t i o n i n t h e W o r l d: Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Turkmenistan.
C h o r o t y p e: Turano-European.
description: Published as part of Beyarslan, A., Aydogdu, M., Ö. Ç & T, Ceratobracon, 2008, The Subfamily Braconinae in Northern Turkey, with new records of Bracon species for the Western Palaearctic (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1341-1361 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1354, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5430696
Packing Planes in Four Dimensions and Other Mysteries
Creators: name: Sloane, N. J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 51E15, 52C17 (51E23, 65Y25)

description: How should you choose a good set of (say) 48 planes in four dimensions? More generally, how do you find packings in Grassmannian spaces? In this article I give a brief introduction to the work that I have been doing on this problem in collaboration with A. R. Calderbank, J. H. Conway, R. H. Hardin, E. M. Rains and P. W. Shor. We have found many nice examples of specific packings (70 4-spaces in 8-space, for instance), several general constructions, and an embedding theorem which shows that a packing in Grassmannian space G(m,n) is a subset of a sphere in R^D, where D = (m+2)(m-1)/2, and leads to a proof that many of our packings are optimal. There are a number of interesting unsolved problems.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures
title: Climate Control on Natural Headland Bypassing
Creators: name: Da Silva, Ana Paula
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: natural headland bypassing
subject: coastal management
subject: regional wave climate

description: This thesis aims to characterize the headland bypassing mechanism in a natural environment and investigate its variability relating it to the potential weather types and climate indices that influence the regional wave climate. The research is focused on Fingal Head (New South Wales, Australia), due to its natural cycles and relevance for regional coastal management. The analysis consists of three main stages: (1) describing the morphological variability updrift and downdrift of the headland, in different timescales through short-term topo-bathymetric surveys from 2018 to 2020 and long-term remote-sensing of shoreline and sandbar position from 1987 to 2020; (2) identifying the distinct atmospheric patterns and climate indices over the last decades associated with the main controlling factors of the sand bypassing in the study area and, (3) simulating headland bypassing events through numerical modelling in order to understand how the specific sea-state generated by the atmospheric systems leads to the triggering of a bypassing pulse. Results revealed that headland bypassing around Fingal Head is governed by two distinct processes controlled by the wave conditions and sediment availability. The sandbar-driven bypassing requires storm waves reaching the study area from southeast in order to trigger the sandbar-trough system formation around the headland while the sediment leaking process develops from similar wave direction approaching the coast but under lower wave heights. Strong low-pressure systems (e.g., Tropical Cyclones and East Coast Lows) positioned in the midlatitudes of the Coral-Tasman Sea basin were observed to generate the ideal sea-states for triggering a bypassing pulse around Fingal Head. The pulses triggered by this weather types have occurred at least 19 times in 33 years, which suggests 1 to 2 years cycles between bypassing events. The variability of the relevant weather types did not show a relationship with climate drivers; however, over a longer timescale (three to six years), cycles of accretion and erosion on the beaches adjacent to the headland have been observed to respond to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Hence, while the storm systems are responsible for triggering the pulse, it is the sediment availability that is the controlling factor of long-term cycles of bypassing. This understanding of the timescales of the headland bypassing process and its multiple driving forces is crucial to forecast future sediment budget variations and inform coastal management actions.
A Reverse Shock in GRB 181201A
Creators: name: Laskar, Tanmoy
name: van Eerten, Hendrik
name: Schady, Patricia
name: Mundell, C. G.
name: Alexander, Kate D.
name: Duran, Rodolfo Barniol
name: Berger, Edo
name: Bolmer, J.
name: Chornock, Ryan
name: Coppejans, Deanne L.
name: Fong, Wen-fai
name: Gomboc, Andreja
name: Jordana-Mitjans, Nuria
name: Kobayashi, Shiho
name: Margutti, Raffaella
name: Menten, Karl M.
name: Sari, Re'em
name: Yamazaki, Ryo
name: Lipunov, V. M.
name: Gorbovskoy, E.
name: Kornilov, V. G.
name: Tyurina, N.
name: Zimnukhov, D.
name: Podesta, R.
name: Levato, H.
name: Buckley, D. A. H.
name: Tlatov, A.
name: Rebolo, R.
name: Serra-Ricart, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present comprehensive multiwavelength radio to X-ray observations of GRB 181201A spanning from $\approx150$ s to $\approx163$ days after the burst, comprising the first joint ALMA-VLA-GMRT observations of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow. The radio and mm-band data reveal a distinct signature at $\approx3.9$ days, which we interpret as reverse shock (RS) emission. Our observations present the first time that a single radio-frequency spectral energy distribution can be decomposed directly into RS and forward shock (FS) components. We perform detailed modeling of the full multiwavelength data set, using Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling to construct the joint posterior density function of the underlying physical parameters describing the RS and FS synchrotron emission. We uncover and account for all degeneracies in the model parameters. The joint RS-FS modeling reveals a weakly magnetized ($σ\approx3\times10^{-3}$), mildly relativistic RS, from which we derive an initial bulk Lorentz factor of $Γ_0\approx103$ for the GRB jet. Our results support the hypothesis that low-density environments are conducive to the observability of RS emission. We compare our observations to other events with strong RS detections, and find a likely observational bias selecting for longer lasting, non-relativistic reverse shocks. We present and begin to address new challenges in modeling posed by the present generation of comprehensive, multi-frequency data sets.
description: Accepted version
Bracon (Habrobracon) viktorovi TOBIAS 1961
Creators: name: Beyarslan, A.
name: Aydogdu, M.
name: Ö. Ç
name: T, Ceratobracon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Bracon
Bracon viktorovi

description: Bracon (Habrobracon) viktorovi TOBIAS 1961
 M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d 38, 1; 44, 1.
D i s t r i b u t i o n i n t h e W o r l d: Palaearctic: Cyprus, former Czechoslavakia, Greece, Hungary, Korea, Russia.
C h o r o t y p e:Asiatic-European.
description: Published as part of Beyarslan, A., Aydogdu, M., Ö. Ç & T, Ceratobracon, 2008, The Subfamily Braconinae in Northern Turkey, with new records of Bracon species for the Western Palaearctic (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), pp. 1341-1361 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2) on page 1355, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5430696
Additional file 10: of Arctic charr brain transcriptome strongly affected by summer seasonal growth but only subtly by feed deprivation
Creators: name: Striberny, Anja
name: JĂ¸Rgensen, Even
name: Klopp, Christophe
name: Magnanou, Elodie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S8. Biological processes enriched by down-regulated contigs comparing feed deprived versus fed charr at end of experiment. Terms sorted by the number of contributing contigs. (DOCX 21 kb)