cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
DNA barcodes for Great Salt Lake brine flies establish a baseline for monitoring changes in biodiversity
Creators: name: Haney, Sabrina
name: Bedolla, Oscar
name: Clark, Jonathan B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Great Salt Lake (GSL) is the center of a valuable wetland ecosystem in the Great Basin of North America. The lake is an important site for millions of migratory birds that feed on two principle invertebrates, brine shrimp and brine flies (Diptera: Ephydridae). In spite of their ecological and economic importance, there are no published genetic studies of either resident GSL invertebrates. The family Ephydridae (shore flies and brine flies) is one of the largest in the order Diptera, with nearly 2000 described species. Members of this family are prominent in a variety of aquatic environments and are of particular interest because of their adaptation to a number of marginal habitats. These include hot springs, oil ponds, highly saline lakes, and inland alkaline pools and marshes. This report provides cytochrome c oxidase (COI) DNA barcodes for five species of GSL shore flies, distributed among five genera and three subfamilies. The phylogenetic content of these DNA sequences is explored by comparing a molecular phylogeny to those based on morphological features. Over the past decade, urbanization and inflow diversion have reduced the surface area of GSL by nearly 50%, with unknown consequences for the ecosystem. This study establishes a genetic framework for assessing changes in GSL invertebrate diversity that will be important in monitoring the effects of anthropogenic and climate pressures on this important natural resource.
The complete mitogenome sequence and organization of Parachaeturichthys polynema (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae)
Creators: name: Zhang, Hanye
name: Cheng, Qiqun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome of Parachaeturichthys polynema was reported. The mitochondrial genome was 16,620bp in length including 13 protein-coding genes, 23 tRNAs, 2 rRNAs, and a control region. The overall contents of A, T, G, and C were 28.56%, 26.34%, 16.22%, and 28.89%, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis of 18 species in the family Gobiidae showed that P. polynema was clustered into the subfamily Gobiinae. This information will contribute to future phylogenetic studies of P. polynema and Gobiidae.
Spinning up black holes with super-critical accretion flows
Creators: name: Sadowski, Aleksander
name: Bursa, Michal
name: Abramowicz, Marek
name: Kluzniak, Wlodek
name: Lasota, Jean-Pierre
name: Moderski, Rafal
name: Safarzadeh, Mohammadtaher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the process of spinning up black holes by accretion from slim disks in a wide range of accretion rates. We show that for super-Eddington accretion rates and low values of the viscosity parameter alpha (\lesssim 0.01) the limiting value of the dimensionless spin parameter a_* can reach values higher than a_*=0.9978 inferred by Thorne (1974) in his seminal study. For \mdot=10\mdot_{Edd} and alpha=0.01 spin equilibrium is reached at a_*=0.9994. We show that the equilibrium spin value depends strongly on the assumed value of alpha. We also prove that for high accretion rates the impact of captured radiation on spin evolution is negligible.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics
Photometric identification of blue horizontal branch stars
Creators: name: Smith, Kester W.
name: Bailer-Jones, Coryn A. L.
name: Klement, Rainer J.
name: Xue, Xiang-Xiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the performance of some common machine learning techniques in identifying BHB stars from photometric data. To train the machine learning algorithms, we use previously published spectroscopic identifications of BHB stars from SDSS data. We investigate the performance of three different techniques, namely k nearest neighbour classification, kernel density estimation and a support vector machine (SVM). We discuss the performance of the methods in terms of both completeness and contamination. We discuss the prospect of trading off these values, achieving lower contamination at the expense of lower completeness, by adjusting probability thresholds for the classification. We also discuss the role of prior probabilities in the classification performance, and we assess via simulations the reliability of the dataset used for training. Overall it seems that no-prior gives the best completeness, but adopting a prior lowers the contamination. We find that the SVM generally delivers the lowest contamination for a given level of completeness, and so is our method of choice. Finally, we classify a large sample of SDSS DR7 photometry using the SVM trained on the spectroscopic sample. We identify 27,074 probable BHB stars out of a sample of 294,652 stars. We derive photometric parallaxes and demonstrate that our results are reasonable by comparing to known distances for a selection of globular clusters. We attach our classifications, including probabilities, as an electronic table, so that they can be used either directly as a BHB star catalogue, or as priors to a spectroscopic or other classification method. We also provide our final models so that they can be directly applied to new data.
description: To appear in A&A. 19 pages, 22 figures. Tables 7, A3 and A4 available electronically online
Determining factors of air passenger's choice of transfer airports in the Southeast Asia - North America market
Creators: name: Choi, Jong Hae
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: This study investigates the factors affecting air passengers’ choice of transfer airport in the market between Southeast Asia (SE Asia) and North America (NA). It estimates demand parameters and sheds lights on the business strategies for an airport operator including identifying effective routes to better compete for transfer passengers and allocate resources. More specifically, a discrete choice model is applied to estimate air travelers’ utility from choosing transfer airports in this market. Our data consists of 78 routes which represent the SE Asia - NA market. We estimate demand parameters by standard instrument-variables techniques to control for the endogeneity of airfare, while treating airport characteristics including minimum connection time (MCT), service, size, and detour degree as exogenous. Main empirical findings are: (1) Transfer passengers’ airport choice is determined by an airport’s characteristics including MCT and service quality, apart from those traditional factors such as airfares and travel time. (2) Based on estimated utility function parameters, we provide a quantitative evaluation of the transfer passengers’ willingness-to-pay for several transfer airport’s characteristics. (3) With our estimation results, a case study is conducted for Seoul Incheon International Airport. We identify the candidate route that has the greatest potential to increase the transfer passengers through the airport. This research contributes to a better understanding of air travelers’ choice of transfer airport in the SE Asia – NA market by utilizing aggregated market-level data. We identify the crucial factors that determine transfer passengers’ airport choice and estimate passengers’ willingness to-pay for airport services and characteristics. The findings of this research provide valuable insights for an airport operator to allocate resources effectively so as to attract airlines and increase transfer passengers.
Population analyses based on ionic partition of overlap distribution
Creators: name: Wang, Yiming
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: In this thesis, we bring up several new schemes of partitioning the atomic partial charges for the purpose of reducing the dependency on the basis sets and the inaccuracy from previous methods we did in our group. We analyze all the methods including Mulliken, evaluate them by comparing with Natu- ral Population Analysis (NPA) with several different groups of systems which we divide according to their polarity. We find that when applied to more polarized systems such as compounds containing Fluorine, our Population Analyses Based on Ionic Partition of Overlap Distributions (IPOD) series perform better and produce charges closer to those of NPA method. Within the same system, IPOD series work better for atoms with more polarized bond than for atoms with non-polarized ones. On top of all the analyses for separate groups, we plot the correlation between charges produced by different methods with charges generated by NPA method. From the graph and the slope value we conclude that IPOD2d is the method which gives the most reliable result compared to NPA among all the methods. Also, in order to figure out the best basis set which can represent the result of IPOD2d, we plot the correlation graph between charges produced by IPOD2d and NPA methods for several basis sets. We find that 6-31G basis set is the most representative basis set. Using the 6-31G to calculate charges for certain systems renders us lots of advantages in terms of computational efficiency while still providing a reasonable result.
Mass spectrometry imaging reveals the spatial distribution of essential lipids in Daphnia magna – potential implications for trophic ecology
Creators: name: Pilecky, Matthias
name: Fink, Patrick
name: Kämmer, Samuel K.
name: Schott, Matthias
name: Zehl, Martin
name: Kainz, Martin J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
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
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Lipids and fatty acids are key dietary components for the nutrition of organisms at all trophic levels. They are required to build cellular structures, such as cell membranes, serve as energy storage and are taking part in signal transduction cascades. For decades, ecological research investigated how dietary fatty acid availability contributes to the fitness of individuals and their populations. The omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) found particular interest, as its dietary availability determines the fitness of many aquatic consumers. Due to the small body size of zooplankton, only bulk tissue fatty acid analysis was so far performed and thus the tissue-specific importance of EPA for zooplankton remained elusive. Here we used matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization – mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) to reveal the tissue-specific distribution of functional phospholipids in the herbivorous zooplankton Daphnia magna. We demonstrate several lipid species for heart, eggs, gut, gonads, somatic and neurological tissues of D. magna, including the compound eye, as well as the optical and cerebral ganglion. The compound eye revealed a large diversity in EPA-containing lipid species, which were also found in other neurological tissues and the eggs. Such knowledge of tissue-specific fatty acid requirements is essential to investigate how selective allocation of dietary fatty acids within this key grazer on a functional and molecular level affects processes from the individual to food web scales. This methodological advancement will allow investigations on how invertebrates’ physiology and behaviour adjust to changing environmental conditions and potentially affect food web structures including the trophic transfer of dietary fatty acids.
Supplementary table 1 .docx
Creators: name: Sharma, Anima
name: Memon, Saba
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Supplementary to Genotype-Phenotype Correlation in Asian Indian Children and Adolescents with Primary Hyperparathyroidism 
Finite index subgroups of mapping class groups
Creators: name: Paris, Luis
name: Berrick, Jon A
name: Gebhardt, Volker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $g\geq3$ and $n\geq0$, and let ${\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ be the mapping class group of a surface of genus $g$ with $n$ boundary components. We prove that ${\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ contains a unique subgroup of index $2^{g-1}(2^{g}-1)$ up to conjugation, a unique subgroup of index $2^{g-1}(2^{g}+1)$ up to conjugation, and the other proper subgroups of ${\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ are of index greater than $2^{g-1}(2^{g}+1)$. In particular, the minimum index for a proper subgroup of ${\mathcal{M}}_{g,n}$ is $2^{g-1}(2^{g}-1)$.
Pressure independence of granular flow through an aperture
Creators: name: Aguirre, Maria Alejandra
name: Grande, Juan G.
name: Calvo, Adriana
name: Pugnaloni, Luis A.
name: Géminard, Jean-Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally demonstrate that the flow rate of granular material through an aperture is controlled by the exit velocity imposed to the particles and not by the pressure at the base, contrary to what is often assumed in previous works. This result is achieved by studying the discharge process of a dense packing of monosized disks through an orifice. The flow is driven by a conveyor belt. This two-dimensional horizontal setup allows to uncouple pressure and velocity and, therefore, to independently control the velocity at which the disks escape the horizontal silo and the pressure in the vicinity of the aperture. The flow rate is found to be directly proportional to the belt velocity, independent of the amount of disks in the container and, thus, independent of the pressure in the outlet region. In addition, this specific experimental configuration makes it possible to get information on the system dynamics from a single image of the disks that rest on the conveyor belt after the discharge.
Social inclusion through applied drama: Important topics for implementation of applied drama techniques with vulnerable groups
Creators: name: CEPORA-Centar Za Pozitivan Razvoj Dece I Omladine
name: Open Circle Association
name: Pirineus Creaticus
name: Uniamoci Onlus
name: Association Practicum
name: Youth 4 Society
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: social inclusion, applied drama, vulnerable groups

description: The publication is the result of an Erasmus K2 Capacity Building in the field of Youth 2017 project "Social Inclusion Through Applied Drama". The project has been funded with support from the European Commission and the creation of the publication is co-funded by the Ministry of Culture and Information of Republic of Serbia.
Does a low solar cycle minimum hint at a weak upcoming cycle?
Creators: name: Du, Z. L.
name: Wang, H. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The maximum amplitude (Rm) of a solar cycle, in the term of mean sunspot numbers, is well-known to be positively correlated with the preceding minimum (Rmin). So far as the long term trend is concerned, a low level of Rmin tends to be followed by a weak Rm, and vice versa. In this paper, we found that the evidence is insufficient to infer a very weak Cycle 24 from the very low Rmin in the preceding cycle. This is concluded by analyzing the correlation in the temporal variations of parameters for two successive cycles.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures. Accepted by RAA
The Not-So-Dead of Winter: Underwater Light Climate and Primary Productivity Under Snow and Ice Cover in Inland Lakes
Creators: name: Bramburger, Andrew J.
name: Ozersky, Ted
name: Silsbe, Greg M.
name: Crawford, Christopher J.
name: Olmanson, Leif G.
name: Shchapov, Kirill
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: As global surface temperatures continue to rise as a result of anthropogenic climate change, effects in temperate lakes are likely to be more pronounced than in other ecosystems. Decreases in snow and ice cover extent and duration, as well as extended periods of summer stratification have been observed in temperate lake systems throughout the Anthropocene. However, the effects of changing snow and ice cover upon lacustrine communities remain largely uninvestigated. Here, we examined underwater light climate and associated primary productivity patterns under snow-covered and clear lake ice in 6 inland lakes in Minnesota, USA, spanning gradients of water column optical properties (blue, green, brown) associated with trophic status and organic material content. In all lakes, snow cover influenced not only the intensity, but also the spectral signature of light penetrating into the water column. Specifically, the wavelength of maximum penetration was shifted towards longer wavelengths under snow cover in green (eutrophic) lakes, while it was shifted towards shorter wavelengths in blue and brown lakes. Volumetric primary productivity was often higher than anticipated (e.g. ∼1200 mg · m-3 · d-1; L. Minnetonka, snow-covered ice). Carbon assimilation rates were lower under snow-covered ice throughout the water column in all lake types, except immediately under cleared ice in eutrophic lakes, where it is likely that phytoplankton were photo-inhibited due to penetration of intense, short-wavelength light. These findings suggest that changing patterns of snow and ice cover under ongoing climate change scenarios can affect patterns of phytoplankton primary productivity in sensitive aquatic ecosystems.
Coronal Temperature Diagnostic Capability of the Hinode/X-Ray Telescope Based on Self-Consistent Calibration
Creators: name: Narukage, Noriyuki
name: Sakao, Taro
name: Kano, Ryouhei
name: Hara, Hirohisa
name: Shimojo, Masumi
name: Bando, Takamasa
name: Urayama, Fumitaka
name: DeLuca, Edward
name: Golub, Leon
name: Weber, Mark
name: Grigis, Paolo
name: Cirtain, Jonathan
name: Tsuneta, Saku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The X-Ray Telescope (XRT) onboard the Hinode satellite is an X-ray imager that observes the solar corona with unprecedentedly high angular resolution (consistent with its 1" pixel size). XRT has nine X-ray analysis filters with different temperature responses. One of the most significant scientific features of this telescope is its capability of diagnosing coronal temperatures from less than 1 MK to more than 10 MK, which has never been accomplished before. To make full use of this capability, accurate calibration of the coronal temperature response of XRT is indispensable and is presented in this article. The effect of on-orbit contamination is also taken into account in the calibration. On the basis of our calibration results, we review the coronal-temperature-diagnostic capability of XRT.
The complete chloroplast genome of Striga asiatica (L.) Kuntze 1891 (Orobanchaceae), a hemiparasitic weed from Guangxi China
Creators: name: Qin, Liu
name: Lu, Enke
name: Chen, Kexin
name: Bao, Rizhen
name: Liang, Lina
name: Hu, Xiaohu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Striga asiatica (L.) Kuntze 1891 is a hemiparasitic plant native to Asia and Africa. It is invasive and causes yield losses in crops such as corn, rice and sorghum. Lack of chloroplast genomic data has limited research into its obligate parasitic lifestyle. In this study, the complete chloroplast genome of Striga asiatica was sequenced and characterized. It is a quadripartite structure with a total length of 191,085 bp and a GC content of 37.86%. It has a large single copy region (LSC) of 51,406 bp, a small single copy region (SSC) of 273 bp, and two copies of the reverse repeat sequence (IRA and IRB) of 69,703 bp. A total of 122 protein-coding genes, 8 rRNA genes, and 44 tRNA genes were annotated in the chloroplast genome. There were a lot of ndh gene deletions and pseudogenizations in this chloroplast genome. For example, ndhA, D, E, H, I, and K were all pseudogenes because they were missing the 5′ end start codon. ndhB, C, and J had shorter gene lengths than their homologs, and ndhF and ndhG were missing genes. The phylogenetic tree reveals that all Striga species form a clade, and a bootstrap value of 100 indicates that S. asiatica is closely related to Striga hermonthica and Striga sepera. The comprehensive chloroplast genomic resource of S. asiatica would assist researchers in comprehending hemiparasitic mechanisms, molecular markers, and evolutionary patterns of the genus Striga.
グリーンランドにおける気候変動の影響と産業の発達
Creators: Hayashi, Naotaka
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2013

An article published in a museum catalogue for a special exhibition on Greenland, "Greenland: An Arctic Island of Eskimo, Hunters on Icy Waters" (Pp. 53-59), edited by the Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples. Abashiri, Japan (in Japanese).
The weight of a falling chain, revisited
Creators: name: Hamm, Eugenio
name: Géminard, Jean-Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A vertically hanging chain is released from rest and falls due to gravity on a scale pan. We discuss the various experimental and theoretical aspects of this classic problem. Careful time-resolved force measurements allow us to determine the differences between the idealized and its implementation in the laboratory problem. We observe that, in spite of the upward force exerted by the pan on the chain, the free end at the top falls faster than a freely falling body. Because a real chain exhibits a finite minimum radius of curvature, the contact at the bottom results in a tensional force which pulls the falling part downward.
A Survey of RFID Authentication Protocols Based on Hash-Chain Method
Creators: name: Syamsuddin, Irfan
name: Dillon, Tharam
name: Chang, Elizabeth
name: Han, Song
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Security and privacy are the inherent problems in RFID communications. There are several protocols have been proposed to overcome those problems. Hash chain is commonly employed by the protocols to improve security and privacy for RFID authentication. Although the protocols able to provide specific solution for RFID security and privacy problems, they fail to provide integrated solution. This article is a survey to closely observe those protocols in terms of its focus and limitations.
description: Third ICCIT 2008 International Conference on Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology
title: Resource-efficient welding processes through numerical simulation and optimization
Creators: name: Tröger, Jendrik-Alexander
name: Hartmann, Stefan
name: Treutler, Kai
name: Potschka, Andreas
name: Wesling, Volker
Publisher: name: MyCoRe Community
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Wire arc additive manufacturing
subject: Process simulation
subject: Finite elements
subject: Gradient-free optimization
subject: 620

description: Wire arc additive manufacturing is a promising manufacturing process due to its ability to achieve high deposition rates and multi-material systems. However, to prevent the structure from overheating and to avoid geometric distortions, specific cooling times are required during the process. Currently, these cooling times are chosen based on experience of the welding operator or after time- and resource-consuming experiments. In contrast, we present a novel approach using numerical simulations and optimization for process parameter optimization. While the numerical simulations already offer resource savings compared to experiments, it turns out that the optimized process parameters can save about 50% of the process time compared to manually selected parameters.
Sensitive Chemical Compass Assisted by Quantum Criticality
Creators: name: Cai, C. Y.
name: Ai, Qing
name: Quan, H. T.
name: Sun, C. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radical-pair-based chemical reaction could be used by birds for the navigation via the geomagnetic direction. An inherent physical mechanism is that the quantum coherent transition from a singlet state to triplet states of the radical pair could response to the weak magnetic field and be sensitive to the direction of such a field and then results in different photopigments in the avian eyes to be sensed. Here, we propose a quantum bionic setup for the ultra-sensitive probe of a weak magnetic field based on the quantum phase transition of the environments of the two electrons in the radical pair. We prove that the yield of the chemical products via the recombination from the singlet state is determined by the Loschmidt echo of the environments with interacting nuclear spins. Thus quantum criticality of environments could enhance the sensitivity of the detection of the weak magnetic field.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Verbs, Bones, and Brains: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Nature
Creators: name: Fuentes, Agustín
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: The last few decades have seen an unprecedented surge of empirical and philosophical research into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, the origins of the mind/brain, and human culture. This research and its popular interpretations have sparked heated debates about the nature of human beings and how knowledge about humans from the sciences and humanities should be properly understood. The goal of _Verbs, Bones, and Brains: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Nature_ is to engage these themes and present current debates, discussions, and discourse for a range of readers. The contributors bring the discussion to life with key experts outlining major concepts paired with cross-disciplinary commentaries in order to create a novel approach to thinking about, and with, human natures. The intent of the contributors to this volume is not to enter into or adjudicate complex philosophical issues of an epistemological or metaphysical nature. Instead, their common concern is to set aside the rigid distinctions between biology and culture that have made such discussions problematic. First, informing their approach is an acknowledgment of the widespread disagreement about such basic metaphysical and epistemological questions as the existence of God, the nature of scientific knowledge, and the existence of essences, among other topics. Second, they try to identify and explicate the assumptions that enter into their conceptualizations of human nature. Throughout, they emphasize the importance of seeking a convergence in our views on human nature, despite metaphysical disagreements. They caution that if convergence eludes us and a common ground cannot be found, this is itself a relevant result: it would reveal to us how deeply our questions about ourselves are connected to our basic metaphysical assumptions. Instead, their focus is on how the interdisciplinary and possibly transdisciplinary conversation can be enhanced in order to identify and develop a common ground on what constitutes human nature.
The x-ray corona and jet of cygnus x-1
Creators: name: Malzac, Julien
name: Belmont, Renaud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evidence is presented indicating that in the hard state of Cygnus X-1, the coronal mag- netic field might be below equipartition with radiation (suggesting that the corona is not powered by magnetic field dissipation) and that the ion temperature in the corona is significantly lower than what predicted by ADAF like models. It is also shown that the current estimates of the jet power set interesting contraints on the jet velocity (which is at least mildly relativistic), the accretion efficiency (which is large in both spectral states), and the nature of the X-ray emitting region (which is unlikely to be the jet).
description: 8 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Journal of Modern Physics D, Proceedings of HEPRO II conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 26-30, 2009
On the design of high-performance mm-wave CMOS VCOs
Creators: name: Haghi Kashani, Milad
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: The increasing demand for higher data rates in wireless communication such as IEEE 802.15.3c wireless personal area networks (WPANs), wireless local area networks (WLANs), and next generation wireless systems, have made the development of radio-frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave (mm-wave) frequency integrated circuits (ICs) that operate in few tens of gigahertz more popular. In the context of high data rate wireless systems, the 5th generation (5G) of wireless systems is expanding its operation frequency to millimeter wave (mm-wave) bands where more signal bandwidth are available. To implement such circuits, the preferred technology is CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) since compared to other technologies, it offers lower supply voltage, lower cost, higher levels of integration, and potentially lower power. Many CMOS solutions for RF and mm-wave applications have been proposed over the past few years and thanks to continuous reductions in feature size of CMOS devices into deep-submicron range, many efficient and high performance state-of-the-art RF and mm-wave receivers have been reported. However, efficient system integration at mm-wave frequencies in CMOS is still a challenging task. Voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) are indispensable in the operations of fully integrated transceiver architectures. In many cases, quadrature local oscillator (LO) signals are required for frequency conversion. Major challenges in particular in portable applications include the generation of such quadrature phase outputs with low power consumption. This also applies to emerging mm-wave applications, where one would like to achieve a wide tuning range while maintaining low-power consumption and low phase noise. In this work, we investigate several design techniques for achieving a high performance wireless receiver building block with a specific focus on LC-based VCOs. Based on the measurement results, one of the VCOs achieves an average PN of −111.9 dBc/Hz at 10 MHz offset over the entire frequency tuning range, and a TR of ~18%, from 50.1 to 59.8 GHz, resulting in a figure of merit incorporating the tuning range (FOMT) of –184 dBc/Hz. The VCO core consumes 6.2 mW from a 1-V supply and excluding the pads occupies a compact silicon area of 0.06 mm2.
Disentangle a pedestrian trajectory analysis tool - How to convert a spaghetti C/C++ tool to a Python library
Creators: name: Schrödter, Tobias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: One of the most crucial parts of pedestrian dynamics research is the analysis of trajectory data. The development of the most used tool in the community started over a decade ago in our institute. In this period, the code base grew steadily, but without focusing on future maintenance. Henceforth, the tool got more challenging to use, from installation to analyzing data. Therefore, we decided on a complete rebuild of the software to make it easier to develop and, more importantly, to use and contribute to, even for inexperienced developers (as most scientists are).
 This talk shows how we converted a spaghetti C/C++ tool to a Python library. Not only focusing on good software engineering practices but also taking user feedback into account.
Using consumer wearables for clinical decision making
Creators: name: Charlton, Peter H
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Physiological measurement devices are widely integrated into clinical practice, ranging from blood pressure measurement in primary care, to continuous oxygen saturation monitoring in intensive care. Consumer wearables such as smartwatches potentially provide opportunity to monitor health and detect diseases unobtrusively outside of the clinical setting, in daily life. However, much work is required to establish pathways to use consumer wearables for clinical decision making. In this talk, Peter Charlton will present an introduction to consumer wearables, focusing on the capabilities provided by photoplethysmography and electrocardiography sensors. He will then summarise potential clinical applications, highlighting contributions from his research towards making these applications a reality. Finally, he will share some areas for consideration to ensure consumer wearables can be used robustly for clinical decision making.
Density models for streamer discharges: beyond cylindrical symmetry and homogeneous media
Creators: name: Luque, Alejandro
name: Ebert, Ute
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Streamer electrical discharges are often investigated with computer simulations of density models (also called drift-diffusion-reaction models). We review these models, detailing their physical foundations, their range of validity and the most relevant numerical algorithms employed in solving them. We focus particularly on schemes of adaptative refinement, used to resolve the multiple length scales in a streamer discharge without a high computational cost. We then report recent results from these models, emphasizing developments that go beyond cylindrically symmetrical streamers propagating in homogeneous media.
description: 31 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to Journal of Computational Physics
Inclusion? exclusion! : citizenship, migration policies and anti-migrant campaigns in Beijing
Creators: name: Zheng, Biao
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: When migration is substantially increasing in the contemporary world, states build complex systems to manage the movement of migrants, and these institutional borders significantly influence migrants’ attainment of citizenship. Besides institutional arrangements, the broader political context also shapes the management of citizenship. However, in existing literature, studies on migration and citizenship focus mostly on the international level and pay less attention to the local citizenship and domestic migration. This thesis studies how the policies changes of the migration system and political campaigns directly targeting migrants both shape the constitution of local citizenship and the experience of migrants through examining the case of Beijing, China. Using data from interviews, government documents and media articles, this thesis investigates both Beijing’s reform of the hukou system into a point-based system and its political campaigns against migrants, which began in the form of “urban beautification” and then developed into the direct eviction of migrants. This thesis finds that while Beijing’s point system renders better chances for migrants to gain local citizenship in Beijing, the greater acceptance produced by policy changes has been undermined by the anti-migrant campaigns which increasingly problematize migrants. This study not only exhibits the fragility of migration institutions, but also reveals how the political context, specifically the authoritarian system, produces and exacerbates the exclusion of migrants. This study adds a non-nation-state case to the existing literature on migration studies, also reveals the importance of studying the politics of migration.
Teachers- Gender and Self Concept as Predictors of Environmental Education Curriculum Implementation in Cross River State Schools, Nigeria .pdf
Creators: name: Onnoghen, Usang  Nkanu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: The research work verified the existence or otherwise of gender difference and self-concept difference as predictors of the effective implementation of Environmental Education Curriculum in Schools of Cross River State...
Дневники венгерских государственных собраний XVII В. И их авторы
Creators: name: Гусарова Татьяна Павловна
Publisher: name: Proslogion: Проблемы социальной истории и культуры средних веков и раннего Нового времени
Year: 2017
Subjects: ДНЕВНИК КАК ИСТОЧНИК
ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЕ СОБРАНИЕ
ВЕНГЕРСКОЕ КОРОЛЕВСТВО
ИСТОРИЯ СОБИРАНИЯ
DIARY AS A SOURCE
STATE ASSEMBLY
KINGDOM OF HUNGARY IN THE 17TH CENTURY
HISTORY OF COLLECTION

description: Статья посвящена изучению дневников венгерских государственных собраний в XVII в. особой группы источников по политической истории Венгерского королевства, представляющих широкие возможности для исследователя. Историки уже давно привлекают дневники к своим исследованиям, но до сих пор в основном от случая к случаю. Практика ведения дневников государственных собраний по-настоящему начала складываться в Венгерском королевстве в XVII в. Из этих дневников можно получить сведения о наиболее важных и интересных событиях, происходивших на этих сословных форумах, о составе политической элиты, об отношениях, складывающихся в тот или иной момент между центральной властью, династией Габсбургов, с одной стороны, и венгерскими сословиями с другой. Помимо информации о работе государственных собраний дневники содержат богатую информацию о повседневной жизни двора, участников и гостей съездов, принимающего их города, а также о расходах и трудностях, связанных с проведением этого важного для страны мероприятия. Особую значимость этим документам придает то обстоятельство, что ведение дневников еще не было поставлено на официальные рельсы. Составителями дневников были сами участники государственных собраний, более того их самые активные участники, в первую очередь депутаты от дворянских комитатов, реже представители от городов. Дневники прекрасно представляют личности их авторов, хотя по текстам редко можно реконструировать жизненный путь этих людей или хотя бы какие-то важные вехи в их политической и общественной карьере, в работе государственных институтов. В статье автор выявляет особенности данной группы источников, отражение в них исторических реалий, судьбы их авторов и, наконец, историю поисков и обнаружения дневников историками и архивистами.
Moscas, vectores de enfermedades
Creators: name: Solis Valladares, Victor Hugo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420605
subject: Preventative health care
classificationCode: 420603
subject: Health promotion

description: Cuántas veces hemos escuchado a alguien que nos ha advertido que la presencia de moscas están relacionadas con problemas de salud.El presente estudio tiene como objetivo demostrar la presencia de microorganismos patógenos o de origen fecal presentes en las patas de la mosca común.
Sons and daughters sent abroad: successes and failures of foreign princes at the French court in the sixteenth century
Creators: name: Spangler Jonathan
Publisher: name: Proslogion: Проблемы социальной истории и культуры средних веков и раннего Нового времени
Year: 2017
Subjects: FOREIGN PRINCES
DIPLOMACY
SOVEREIGNTY
DYNASTICISM
FRANCE
LORRAINE
SAVOY
CLEVES
MANTUA
ПРИНЦЫ
КНЯЗЬЯ
ДИПЛОМАТИЯ
СУВЕРЕННОСТЬ
ДИНАСТИЦИЗМ
ФРАНЦИЯ
ЛОТАРИНГИЯ
САВОЙЯ
КЛЕВЕС
МАНТУЯ

description: In the era of centralisation of the great powers in Europe, dynasties ruling smaller states on the margins between France, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire developed strategies for survival. One of these was to establish a presence at the courts of these larger states, by sending members of the ruling dynasty itself. This article looks in particular at the court of France, where such princely emissaries established lineages known to historians as the «foreign princes», the princes etrangers. The French monarchy desired the presence of these princes as well, for various political and ceremonial reasons. The successes and failures of the foreign princes sent to the French court can be measured at the individual level and the wider dynastic level, and are examined by scrutinising activities of secular princes (male and female) as well as prelates. The results are varied, and depended on a variety of ever-shifting factors, notably the establishment of kinship ties with the royal dynasty, a solid independent financial base, and individual character. By the end of the period, some smaller states had survived; others had not.
High density limit of the stationary one dimensional Schrödinger-Poisson system
Creators: name: Hajj, Raymond El
name: Abdallah, Naoufel Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The stationary one dimensional Schrödinger-Poisson system on a bounded interval is considered in the limit of a small Debye length (or small temperature). Electrons are supposed to be in a mixed state with the Boltzmann statistics. Using various reformulations of the system as convex minimization problems, we show that only the first energy level is asymptotically occupied. The electrostatic potential is shown to converge towards a boundary layer potential with a profile computed by means of a half space Schrödinger-Poisson system.
IPSA DOMINA AGNES. ON THE HISTORICAL BASIS OF THE MYTH OF INêS DE CASTRO
Creators: name: Valdaliso-Casanova Covadonga
Publisher: name: Proslogion: Проблемы социальной истории и культуры средних веков и раннего Нового времени
Year: 2017
Subjects: PORTUGAL
14TH CENTURY
INêS DE CASTRO
PEDRO OF PORTUGAL
MYTH
LEGEND
HISTORY
LITERATURE
MEDIEVAL CHRONICLES
ПОРТУГАЛИЯ
XIV ВЕК
ИНЕС ДЕ КАСТРО
ПЕДРО ПОРТУГАЛИИ
МИФ
ЛЕГЕНДА
ИСТОРИЯ
ЛИТЕРАТУРА
СРЕДНЕВЕКОВЫЕ ХРОНИКИ

description: Although the myth or legend of Inês de Castro is based on historical facts, it has for centuries been a story where fiction and reality were blended. The life of the main character, Inês the Castro, is not documented. The narratives about her death, and the monumental tomb to where her mortal remains were transferred, are the main sources for researchers. There are also various testimonies about her marriage to Pedro, as well as about her sons and daughter. In parallel, still in the Middle Ages several narratives related to her were written, some of them in historiographical texts. This paper aims to singularize and analyze the historical elements of Inês’ story. In doing so, it studies the sources that created the basis for the legend, thus revealing its origins. The story itself is observed as an object of study characterized by the intersections of different contexts, disciplines, narratives, and by the projections of diverse perspectives, objectives, periods.
Nucleon Form Factors - A Jefferson Lab Perspective
Creators: name: Arrington, John
name: de Jager, Kees
name: Perdrisat, Charles F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The charge and magnetization distributions of the proton and neutron are encoded in their elastic electromagnetic form factors, which can be measured in elastic electron--nucleon scattering. By measuring the form factors, we probe the spatial distribution of the proton charge and magnetization, providing the most direct connection to the spatial distribution of quarks inside the proton. For decades, the form factors were probed through measurements of unpolarized elastic electron scattering, but by the 1980s, progress slowed dramatically due to the intrinsic limitations of the unpolarized measurements. Early measurements at several laboratories demonstrated the feasibility and power of measurements using polarization degrees of freedom to probe the spatial structure of the nucleon. A program of polarization measurements at Jefferson Lab led to a renaissance in the field of study, and significant new insight into the structure of matter.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures; Chapter in the book "A decade of Physics at Jefferson Lab", to be published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Predicting Lending Risk with Machine Learning Models
Publisher: name: Online Ethics Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: Information Sciences
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Ethics and Society
Privacy and Surveillance
Teaching Ethics
Case Study Method
Pedagogical Approaches

description: This scenario asks students to provide recommendations on the use of algorithms and machine learning models to make lending decisions at a bank in Germany. Contextually, past decisions based on these techniques have questionable results.
Dual host-pathogen small RNA sequencing during wheat stem rust infection
Creators: name: Mueth, Nicholas
name: Hulbert, Scot
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310805
subject: Plant pathology
classificationCode: 310204
subject: Genomics and transcriptomics

description: This repository was set up as part of a submission to the journal BMC Research Notes doi:10.1186/s13104-023-06426-8. This is a high throughput small RNA sequencing dataset from bread wheat plants (Triticum aestivum) interacting with the wheat stem rust fungus (Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici). Here you will find sequencing reads and the results of quality control analyses performed to ensure sample and data integrity. See the included document "Methods.pdf" for details on the experimental conditions.You are free to use these data with proper attribution, namely by citing the BMC Research Notes paper.Reads can be accessed at the NCBI Sequence Read Archive using the following identifiers:BioProject: PRJNA960906Reads: Uninfected Rep 1: SRR24282678; Uninfected Rep 2: SRR24282677; Uninfected Rep 3: SRR24282676; Infected Rep 1: SRR24282675; Infected Rep 2: SRR24282674; Infected Rep 3: SRR24282673