cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Treaty of Amiens (1423): towards a reconsideration
Creators: name: Lobanov Aleksandr
Publisher: name: Proslogion: Проблемы социальной истории и культуры средних веков и раннего Нового времени
Year: 2016
Subjects: ИСТОРИЯ ФРАНЦИИ
XV В
СТОЛЕТНЯЯ ВОЙНА
ЛАНКАСТЕРСКАЯ ФРАНЦИЯ
БУРГУНДИЯ
ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ СОЮЗЫ
АМЬЕНСКИЙ ДОГОВОР 1423 Г
ДОГОВОР В ТРУА 1420 Г
HISTORY OF FRANCE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
HUNDRED YEARS WAR
LANCASTRIAN FRANCE
BURGUNDY
ALLIANCES
TREATY OF AMIENS (1423)
TREATY OF TROYES (1420)

description: The article analyses one of the episodes of the Hundred Years War, the Treaty of Amiens an alliance made by the duke of Bedford, English regent of France, with the dukes of Burgundy and Brittany in an attempt to consolidate his position in the struggle against Charles VII. The treaty is often considered of little value due to a combination of factors: 1) its ‘personal’ rather than «inter-state» character; 2) subsequent defection of Brittany to the Dauphinist cause; 3) supposedly insignificant obligations of mutual military assistance. A closer look at the context in which the Treaty was concluded and implemented may reveal a different picture. The Treaty put a line under the crisis of succession triggered by the deaths in 1422 of Henry V and Charles VI: Bedford was acknowledged as regent of France for Henry VI, and took upon himself the obligations Henry V had had towards the duke of Burgundy by their agreement of December 1419. This may suggest that the Lancastrian regime in France had a dual nature based on the Treaty of Troyes (1420) with Charles VI as well as on «personal» treaties with the duke of Burgundy (and in 1423 of Brittany). The military component of the Treaty is found non-negligible if compared with the contemporary practice based on the documentary evidence. Finally, in spite of Breton defection it may be shown that in Anglo-Burgundian relations the Treaty remained observed up to the early 1430s.
32358: Easter in lockdown
Creators: name: Project, Lockdown2020 and Beyond
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 479999
subject: Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified

description: I found it disconcerting, at first, how my sense of time seemed to warp under lockdown.

Despite the worrying headlines, being together with my whole family at home made it feel oddly like Christmas. Squaring this psychologically with my preparations for finals was difficult. None of the usual rituals that would have marked the passing of Trinity Term - and the end of my degree - were possible to recreate in any real way. It was hard enough keeping track of the days of the week.

Walking daily in the area around my home did turn into a kind of routine, though. I also found myself appreciating more than before the subtle changes in the countryside as we moved into summer.
Mining the Yarrowee: Environmental Change on the Ballarat Goldfield
Creators: name: Lawrence, Susan
name: Davies, Peter
name: Hil, Gregory
name: Rutherfurd, I
name: Grove, James
name: Turnbull, Jodi
name: Macklin, Mark
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 3103
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies
classificationCode: 3709
subject: Physical geography and environmental geoscience

description: Ballarat’s mining history is celebrated, but less known is the environmental damage to local waterways. Ballarat’s goldmines were amongst the richest in Australia, and they all sent their waste into the Yarrowee River. An interdisciplinary approach that integrates documentary evidence with insights from archaeology and geomorphology reveals the effects of mine waste on the river during the nineteenth century and how those effects continue to be felt. Deposits of mine tailings remain on the floodplains from Ballarat East downstream to Inverleigh and the junction with the Barwon River. Historical perspectives provide crucial context for understanding lasting changes to the Yarrowee and its catchment and how the effects of goldmining continue to have lasting impacts on heritage, ecosystems, and river health.
Black hole accretion and star formation as drivers of gas excitation and chemistry in Mrk231
Creators: name: Van der Werf, P. P.
name: Isaak, K. G.
name: Meijerink, R.
name: Spaans, M.
name: Rykala, A.
name: Fulton, T.
name: Loenen, A. F.
name: Walter, F.
name: Weiss, A.
name: Armus, L.
name: Fischer, J.
name: Israel, F. P.
name: Harris, A. I.
name: Veilleux, S.
name: Henkel, C.
name: Savini, G.
name: Lord, S.
name: Smith, H. A.
name: Gonzalez-Alfonso, E.
name: Naylor, D.
name: Aalto, S.
name: Charmandaris, V.
name: Dasyra, K. M.
name: Evans, A.
name: Gao, Y.
name: Greve, T. R.
name: Guesten, R.
name: Kramer, C.
name: Martin-Pintado, J.
name: Mazzarella, J.
name: Papadopoulos, P. P.
name: Sanders, D. B.
name: Spinoglio, L.
name: Stacey, G.
name: Vlahakis, C.
name: Wiedner, M. C.
name: Xilouris, E. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a full high resolution SPIRE FTS spectrum of the nearby ultraluminous infrared galaxy Mrk231. In total 25 lines are detected, including CO J=5-4 through J=13-12, 7 rotational lines of H2O, 3 of OH+ and one line each of H2O+, CH+, and HF. We find that the excitation of the CO rotational levels up to J=8 can be accounted for by UV radiation from star formation. However, the approximately flat luminosity distribution of the CO lines over the rotational ladder above J=8 requires the presence of a separate source of excitation for the highest CO lines. We explore X-ray heating by the accreting supermassive black hole in Mrk231 as a source of excitation for these lines, and find that it can reproduce the observed luminosities. We also consider a model with dense gas in a strong UV radiation field to produce the highest CO lines, but find that this model strongly overpredicts the hot dust mass in Mrk231. Our favoured model consists of a star forming disk of radius 560 pc, containing clumps of dense gas exposed to strong UV radiation, dominating the emission of CO lines up to J=8. X-rays from the accreting supermassive black hole in Mrk231 dominate the excitation and chemistry of the inner disk out to a radius of 160 pc, consistent with the X-ray power of the AGN in Mrk231. The extraordinary luminosity of the OH+ and H2O+ lines reveals the signature of X-ray driven excitation and chemistry in this region.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Special Issue on Herschel first results
Concentration Inequalities and Confidence Bands for Needlet Density Estimators on Compact Homogeneous Manifolds
Creators: name: Kerkyacharian, Gerard
name: Nickl, Richard
name: Picard, Dominique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62G07, 60E15, 42C40

description: Let $X_1,...,X_n$ be a random sample from some unknown probability density $f$ defined on a compact homogeneous manifold $\mathbf M$ of dimension $d \ge 1$. Consider a 'needlet frame' $\{ϕ_{j η}\}$ describing a localised projection onto the space of eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator on $\mathbf M$ with corresponding eigenvalues less than $2^{2j}$, as constructed in \cite{GP10}. We prove non-asymptotic concentration inequalities for the uniform deviations of the linear needlet density estimator $f_n(j)$ obtained from an empirical estimate of the needlet projection $\sum_ηϕ_{j η} \int f ϕ_{j η}$ of $f$. We apply these results to construct risk-adaptive estimators and nonasymptotic confidence bands for the unknown density $f$. The confidence bands are adaptive over classes of differentiable and H\"{older}-continuous functions on $\mathbf M$ that attain their Hölder exponents.
description: Probability Theory and Related Fields, to appear
32366: Corona Cultural Festival
Creators: name: Project, Lockdown2020 and Beyond
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 479999
subject: Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified

description: This time in lockdown has been an odd mixture for me; I've been shielding since March so have had to explore the world in different ways! I had a full Oxford term studying Music, but have also needed to exert some creativity in order to replace my normal musical activities! This left me to start the Corona Cultural Festival which allowed everyone involved to share and enjoy culture in a new way. The week is split up into Musical Monday (when our radio show happens) Good News Day Tuesday, Workout Wednesday, Talking Thursday, Foody Friday, Skillshare Saturday, and Sunday Crafternoon.
The subjective inequality scale : a new way to measure economic inequality
Creators: name: Schmalor, Anita
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: Economic inequality has become a major topic for the public and policy makers alike. Objective, aggregate indices of inequality have been associated with many social and health ills. But a less investigated question is whether perceptions of inequality are associated with different social and health problems. To this end, we developed the Subjective Inequality Scale (SIS), a measure of perceived inequality and judgments of the (un)fairness of inequality. In Study 1, we reduced an initial pool of 92 items to 19. In Study 2, we further reduced the items and conducted an exploratory factor analysis on the final eight-item scale. We also explored the extent to which the SIS correlates with related measures, and how participants of different demographic backgrounds differ in perceptions of inequality and judgments of fairness of inequality. Finally, in Study 3 a confirmatory factor analysis showed that the 2-factor solution has good psychometric properties including model fit and reliability. We further showed that the SIS is correlated with different mental health and social issues (viz. subjective wellbeing, status anxiety, trust, depression, anxiety, and stress, hope of success, fear of failure, perspective taking, empathy, hubristic pride, authentic pride, and social dominance orientation). Some of these associations with health and social variables were moderated by subjective socioeconomic status. These findings suggest that the SIS is a useful tool in understanding the psychological correlates of perceived inequality and potential demographic moderators. It can further help researchers identify potential consequences of perceived inequality.
Elliptic Tori in p-adic Orthogonal Groups
Creators: name: Chinner, Trinity
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2021
Subjects: Torus
p-adic
Elliptic
Local field
Special orthogonal group
Non-archimedean

description: In this thesis, we classify up to conjugacy the maximal elliptic toral subgroups of all special orthogonal groups SO(V), where (q,V) is a 4-dimensional quadratic space over a non-archimedean local field of odd residual characteristic. Our parameterization blends the abstract theory of Morris with a generalization of the practical work performed by Kim and Yu for Sp(4). Moreover, we compute an explicit Witt basis for each such torus, thereby enabling its concrete realization as a set of matrices embedded into the group. This work can be used explicitly to construct supercuspidal representations of SO(V).
Teachers- Characteristics, Related factors and Environmental .Education Curriculum Implementation in Secondary School in Cross River, Nigeria-pdf
Creators: name: Onnoghen, Usang  Nkanu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160499 Human Geography not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: The study assessed the influence of teacher' s characteristics and other related factors in the implementation of Environmental Education Curriculum in Secondary schools in Cross River State...
Spin-Wave Spectrum in `Single-Domain' Magnetic Ground State of Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet CuFeO2
Creators: name: Nakajima, Taro
name: Mitsuda, Setsuo
name: Haku, Tendai
name: Shibata, Kohei
name: Yoshitomi, Keisuke
name: Noda, Yukio
name: Aso, Naofumi
name: Uwatoko, Yoshiya
name: Terada, Noriki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By means of neutron scattering measurements, we have investigated spin-wave excitation in a collinear four-sublattice (4SL) magnetic ground state of a triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuFeO2, which has been of recent interest as a strongly frustrated magnet, a spin-lattice coupled system and a multiferroic. To avoid mixing of spin-wave spectrum from magnetic domains having three different orientations reflecting trigonal symmetry of the crystal structure, we have applied uniaxial pressure on [1-10] direction of a single crystal CuFeO2. By elastic neutron scattering measurements, we have found that only 10 MPa of the uniaxial pressure results in almost 'single domain' state in the 4SL phase. We have thus performed inelastic neutron scattering measurements using the single domain sample, and have identified two distinct spin- wave branches. The dispersion relation of the upper spin-wave branch cannot be explained by the previous theoretical model [R. S. Fishman: J. Appl. Phys. 103 (2008) 07B109]. This implies the importance of the lattice degree of freedom in the spin-wave excitation in this system, because the previous calculation neglected the effect of the spin-driven lattice distortion in the 4SL phase. We have also discussed relationship between the present results and the recently discovered "electromagnon" excitation.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
Editorial note to "Large number coincidences and the anthropic principle in cosmology"
Creators: name: Ellis, George F. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This is an editorial note to accompany reprinting as a Golden Oldie in the Journal of General Relativity and Gravitation of the famous paper by Brandon Carter on the anthropic principle in cosmology \cite{Car74}. This paper was presented at IAU Symposium No. 63, entitled Confrontation of cosmological theories with observational data, in 1973.
description: This is an editorial comment to accompany reprinting of a classic paper in the Journal of General Relativity and Gravitation. 13 pages, no figures
Utilizing Facial Recognition on a University Campus
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: The scenario enlists students as taskforce members making informed decisions on the safe return to university operations in a post-pandemic world. The taskforce are asked to provide a recommendation on a proposed facial recognition system.
Ca2+-activated sphingomyelin scrambling and turnover mediate ESCRT-independent lysosomal repair
Creators: name: Niekamp, Patrick
name: Felix, Scharte
name: Tolulope, Sokoya
name: Vittadello, Laura
name: Kim, Yeongho
name: Deng, Yongqiang
name: Südhoff, Elisabeth
name: Hilderink, Angelika
name: Imlau, Mirco
name: Clarke, Christopher J.
name: Hensel, Michael
name: Burd, Christopher G.
name: Holthuis, Joost C. M.
Publisher: name: Universität Osnabrück
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Calcium signalling
subject: Lysosomes
subject: Sphingolipids
subject: 570 - Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: Lysosomes are vital organelles vulnerable to injuries from diverse materials. Failure to repair or sequester damaged lysosomes poses a threat to cell viability. Here we report that cells exploit a sphingomyelin-based lysosomal repair pathway that operates independently of ESCRT to reverse potentially lethal membrane damage. Various conditions perturbing organelle integrity trigger a rapid calcium-activated scrambling and cytosolic exposure of sphingomyelin. Subsequent metabolic conversion of sphingomyelin by neutral sphingomyelinases on the cytosolic surface of injured lysosomes promotes their repair, also when ESCRT function is compromised. Conversely, blocking turnover of cytosolic sphingomyelin renders cells more sensitive to lysosome-damaging drugs. Our data indicate that calcium-activated scramblases, sphingomyelin, and neutral sphingomyelinases are core components of a previously unrecognized membrane restoration pathway by which cells preserve the functional integrity of lysosomes.
Insights on the origin and evolution of the Martian valley networks from erosion models : reconciling climate modeling and geomorphological observations.
Creators: name: Grau Galofre, Anna
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2018

description: The surface of Mars is incised with hundreds of ancient valley networks, the physical record of flowing liquid water during the early stages of Mars evolution (3.5-3.8 Byr ago). Their remarkable similarity to terrestrial rivers has historically motivated their interpretation in terms of rainfall and surface runoff, indicating that Mars’ climate was significantly warmer than present day. Protracted surface liquid water stability is, however, hard to reconcile with results from state of the art Global Climate Models, which predict that under a fainter young Sun and a thicker primitive atmosphere, the Martian southern hemisphere would be largely under ice cover. Distinguishing whether early Mars harbored surface water or was covered by an extensive cryosphere is key to understanding the nature of any habitable environments. The goal of this dissertation is to reconcile the climate and geomorphological characterizations of early Mars by establishing quantitative constraints on the origin of the Martian valley networks. In Chapter 2, I develop a methodology to quantitatively characterize valley networks in terms of their predominant erosional mechanism, including fluvial, glacial, sapping, and subglacial regimes. Chapter 3 uses constraints from a detailed field characterization of subglacial channels to establish their reliable identification from remote sensing data. In Chapter 4, I present the main results: the identification of subglacial channels among the Martian valley networks. These results support climate model predictions and are consistent with morphological observations. Chapter 5 builds on Chapter 4 to further understand the dynamics of landscape evolution on early Mars. In particular, I demonstrate that only a small fraction of valley networks are in a steady-state, and that erosion rates were likely very low on early Mars. I conclude (1) that subglacial erosion is widespread on the Martian Highlands and best explains the puzzling characteristics of valley networks, (2) that fluvial erosion was short-lived and only concentrated in narrow topographic corridors, and (3) that glacial and sapping erosion were rare on early Mars. In marked contrast to the popular view that Mars was "warm and wet'', my results show that early Mars had a climate akin to Antarctica: extensive ice sheets with localized melting.
Statistics of the General Circulation from Cumulant Expansions
Creators: name: Marston, J. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Large-scale atmospheric flows may not be so nonlinear as to preclude their statistical description by systematic expansions in cumulants. I extend previous work by examining a two-layer baroclinic model of the general circulation. The fixed point of the cumulant expansion describes the statistically steady state of the out-of-equilibrium model. Equal-time statistics so obtained agree well with those accumulated by direct numerical simulation.
description: 1 page paper with 4 figures that accompanies one of the winning entries in the APS gallery of nonlinear images competition
Follow the labour process: Constructing explanations and making a difference through multi-sited ethnographic methods
Creators: name: Warren, Andrew
name: Gibson, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of Wollongong
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 3801
subject: Applied economics
classificationCode: 3304
subject: Urban and regional planning
classificationCode: 4406
subject: Human geography

description: This Exchanges commentary adds to recent dialogue in economic geography on how methodological approaches, explanatory goals and political standpoints intersect. Drawing lessons from collaborative projects that have sought to understand the concrete, place-based experiences of labouring in industries amidst capitalist and environmentally induced restructuring, we describe and advocate for a multi-sited ethnographic approach that we call ‘following the labour process’. We highlight three recurring challenges for researchers adopting such an approach to building explanations that purposefully centre labour: (1) developing and maintaining different relationships, (2) making sense of difference and (3) making a difference. Multi-sited following illuminates moral and political aspects of commodity relations, prompting reflection on the ethics of research engagement and knowledge production. While requiring engagement in/across different, interconnected sites, multi-sited ethnographic following can help yield rich empirical insights capable of deepening scholarly explanations, engaging diverse audiences and articulating normative viewpoints.
Survival probability and first-passage-time statistics of a Wiener process driven by an exponential time-dependent drift
Creators: name: Urdapilleta, Eugenio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The survival probability and the first-passage-time statistics are important quantities in different fields. The Wiener process is the simplest stochastic processwith continuous variables, and important results can be explicitly found from it. The presence of a constant drift does not modify its simplicity; however, when the process has a time-dependent component the analysis becomes difficult. In this work we analyze the statistical properties of the Wiener process with an absorbing boundary, under the effect of an exponential time-dependent drift. Based on the backward Fokker-Planck formalism we set the time-inhomogeneous equation and conditions that rule the diffusion of the corresponding survival probability.We propose as the solution an expansion series in terms of the intensity of the exponential drift, resulting in a set of recurrence equations. We explicitly solve the expansion up to second order and comment on higher-order solutions. The first-passage-time density function arises naturally from the survival probability and preserves the proposed expansion. Explicit results, related properties, and limit behaviors are analyzed and extensively compared to numerical simulations.
description: 13 pages (12 pages in the journal version), 5 figures, published in Phys. Rev. E, http://pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v83/i2/e021102
Effects of thermal stability on microcrustacean assemblages in spring fens
Creators: name: Výravský, David
name: Hřívová, Dana Klímová
name: Bojková, Jindřiška
name: Horsák, Michal
name: Zhai, Marie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Springs are considered relatively stable aquatic environments and possible thermal refugia for cold-adapted taxa under climate change. However, permanent and pristine spring fens in the Western Carpathians show between-site variation in thermal stability with significant effects on macroinvertebrate assemblages. In this study, we investigated the impact of the thermal stability on microcrustaceans (Harpacticoida, Ostracoda). We disentangled various parameters of thermal stability, such as mean summer and winter temperatures, annual amplitude, and daily fluctuations, and related it to mesoclimate, vegetation cover, and water table. We found that the relative abundance of cold-stenothermal species decreased significantly with increasing mean water temperature in summer, which had a significant effect on species composition. Surprisingly, ostracods were completely indifferent to thermal stability despite including cold-stenotherms and crenobionts, suggesting that these species might have broader thermal tolerance. In contrast, harpacticoids significantly responded to both summer and winter mean temperatures, showing upper and lower limits of thermal tolerance. While vegetation cover significantly suppressed daily fluctuations in summer, no effect of daily fluctuations on microcrustaceans was found. The effect of water table was also significant but independent of thermal stability. We assume that the less thermally stable sites will not support the occurrence of cold-stenothermic harpacticoids as air temperature rises. However, an increase in winter temperatures may results in higher overall abundance of harpacticoids. We discuss that the spring fens are probably most threatened by the combination of drought and increasing temperature.
Отчет Рено де Сент-Бева о расходах по командировке в Лион (февраль-март 1313 г. ) (предисловие, оригинал, перевод)
Creators: name: Шишкин Владимир Владимирович
name: Воронова Тамара Павловна
Publisher: name: Proslogion: Проблемы социальной истории и культуры средних веков и раннего Нового времени
Year: 2016
Subjects: РЕНО ДЕ СЕНТ-БЕВ
ПЕРГАМЕННАЯ ГРАМОТА
АНГЕРРАН ДЕ МАРИНЬИ
ЛИОН
ФИЛИПП IV КРАСИВЫЙ

description: Статья и публикация представляет финансовый отчет королевского рыцаря Рено де Сент-Бева о проделанном путешествии в Лион, с подробным маршрутом следования отряда Сент-Бева и осуществленных расходах. Во вступительной статье автором публикации делается предположение о сути этого путешествия и возможной судьбе документа в последующее время. В приложении приводится оригинальный текст документа и русский перевод, с надлежащими комментариями.
On the asymptotics of visible elements and homogeneous equations in surface groups
Creators: name: Antolín, Yago
name: Ciobanu, Laura
name: Viles, Noèlia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $F$ be a group whose abelianization is $\Z^k$, $k\geq 2.$ An element of $F$ is called visible if its image in the abelianization is visible, that is, the greatest common divisor of its coordinates is 1. In this paper we compute three types of densities, annular, even and odd spherical, of visible elements in surface groups. We then use our results to show that the probability of a homogeneous equation in a surface group to have solutions is neither 0 nor 1, as the lengths of the right- and left-hand side of the equation go to infinity.
Limnology and diatom ecology of shallow lakes in a rapidly thawing discontinuous permafrost peatland
Creators: name: Coleman, Kristen A.
name: Hoskin, Grace N.
name: Chasmer, Laura
name: Thienpont, Joshua R.
name: Quinton, William L.
name: Korosi, Jennifer B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Lakes in discontinuous permafrost peatlands are on the front lines of climate change, sensitive to even modest increases in air temperature. The aim of this study was to provide the first limnological characterization of shallow (∼1–2 m depth) lakes in the Scotty Creek basin (Northwest Territories, Canada), a field site of circumpolar significance due to the existence of long-term ecohydrological monitoring going back decades. We use this previous work as a foundation to advance our process-based understanding of the potential drivers of lake ecosystem change. Our results showed that dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and lake color were not correlated, a pattern that seems to be an important driver of diatom (siliceous single-celled algae) assemblages in these lakes. Diatoms in the study lakes tended to fall into 1 of 2 assemblage clusters. One cluster, composed of small benthic Fragilariaceae and small Navicula species (sensu lato), was found associated with higher lake color; the second cluster, composed of Encyonopsis and large Navicula species, was found associated with high DOC, lower color, and the presence of a benthic moss mat. From this finding, we suggest that DOC quality is a primary control on lake ecology in this region for its role in controlling light penetration to the lake bottom. Our hypothesis that the prevalence of nearshore fens and collapse scar wetlands would be important drivers of DOC was not supported in the 9 study lakes with available data to map shoreline features.
Mutation of an L-type calcium channel gene leads to a novel primary cellular immunodeficiency in mice and humans
Creators: name: Fenninger, Franz
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2020

description: Human primary immunodeficiencies are inherited diseases that can provide valuable insight into our immune system. Calcium (Ca²⁺) is a vital secondary messenger in T cells that regulates a vast array of important events including maturation, homeostasis, activation, and apoptosis. The proper orchestration of Ca²⁺ signalling is essential to prevent immune related diseases. Upon antigen binding to the T cell receptor, extracellular Ca²⁺ enters the cell through CRAC, TRP and CaV channels. Here we describe a mutation in the L-type Ca²⁺ channel CaV1.4 leading to a novel immunological disorder. Three CaV1.4-deficient siblings presented with X-linked incomplete congenital stationary night blindness as well as recurrent infections, autoimmunity and pro-inflammatory cytokine production. The subjects uniformly exhibited a T cell memory phenotype and T cell exhaustion as well as chronic activation of their B cells. Moreover, their T cells but not B cells exhibited a reduced Ca²⁺ flux, compared to healthy control donors. This is the first example where the mutation of any CaV channel causes a primary immunodeficiency in humans and establishes their physiological importance in the immune system. In parallel, we detected a remarkably similar phenotype in a CaV1.4-deficient mouse model. In a separate set of experiments, a commercially available C57BL/6 mouse strain harbouring an undescribed mutation in Dock2, was introduced into our breeding stock resulting in some mice with a double deficiency of DOCK2 and CaV1.4. This provided the opportunity to assess the compound phenotype. We found that the double-deficient mouse model exhibited severe splenic cytopenia as well as chronic B cell activation but impaired BCR-induced activation / Ca²⁺ mobilization.
Coalescence delay mediated by the gas layer during the impact of hot droplets
Creators: name: Xu, Zhigang
name: Qi, Haicheng
name: Wang, Tianyou
name: Che, Zhizhao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coalescence may not occur immediately when droplets impact a liquid film. Despite the prevalence of the high-temperature condition during the impact process in many applications, the effect of droplet temperature on droplet coalescence is rarely considered. In this study, we experimentally investigate the droplet coalescence during the impact of hot droplets on a liquid film by using color interferometry, high-speed imaging, and infrared imaging. We find that the coalescence of the hot droplet with the liquid film can be delayed which is mediated by the intervening gas layer between the droplet and the film. Compared with droplets at room temperature, the residence time of hot droplets can increase by more than two orders of magnitude. We find that the thickness of the gas layer increases with the droplet temperature, explaining that the thermal delay of coalescence is due to the thicker gas layer. During the hot droplet impact, the temperature gradient at the bottom of the droplet induces Maranogni flow, which can delay the drainage of the intervening gas layer. The results also show that as the Weber number increases, the residence time of the droplet decreases because of the thinner thickness of the gas layer.
Defining quality in a divided sector: A review of policy and practice in early childhood settings in New Zealand from 2008 to 2018
Creators: name: Cherrington, Susan
Publisher: name: Open Access Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 130102 Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This review examines major changes in the early childhood sector during the National-led government from 2008 to 2017, with discussion of the possible future under the new Labour-led government. The changing pattern of provision and access to quality early childhood services for families is critiqued, along with changes in funding models, qualifications, and professional development. The revision of Te Whāriki is examined, together with tensions between the revised curriculum and the early childhood centre regulations. Specific issues such as regulatory changes around group size and licences and choices for families are explored. This review concludes with an examination of the potential of the new strategic plan, highlighting the tensions within the terms of reference and consideration of directions for research that may help inform the vision for policy and practice laid out in the strategic plan.
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: 2023
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 take 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) is of particular interest because its dietary availability determines the fitness of many aquatic consumers. Because of the small body size of zooplankton, only bulk tissue fatty acid analysis was previously performed, and thus the tissue-specific importance of EPA for zooplankton remained elusive. 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, egg, gut, gonad, 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 lipid species containing EPA, which were also found in other neurological tissues and eggs. Such knowledge of tissue-specific fatty acid requirements is essential to investigate how selective allocation of dietary fatty acids within this key grazer affects processes on a functional and molecular level from the individual to food web scales. This methodological advancement will facilitate investigations on how invertebrate physiology and behaviour adjust to changing environmental conditions and potentially affect food web structures, including the trophic transfer of dietary fatty acids.
MycoKey Project -18 Months Technical Report
Creators: name: Cito, Nunzia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: MycoKey is playing a huge role in the context of solutions to tackle biological contamination of maize, wheat and barley, food and feed chain, by applying an integrated approach to reduce the risks associated to toxigenic fungi and related mycotoxins, specifically aflatoxins, deoxynivalenol, zearalenone, ochratoxin A, fumonisins. The goal is to generate innovative and integrated solutions to support stakeholders in effective and sustainable mycotoxin management along food and feed chains. A brief summary of progress and results is described in the following pages per each WP. The scientific Work Packages (WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5, WP6) are described for each task. The table of milestones (MS) and deliverables (D) per WP indicates the progress status of each item (%) and its signal, according to this description: GREEN: everything goes well, milestones and deliverables are reached and completed, punctual and complete reporting, no administrative and/or financial problems, good interaction among partners ORANGE: everything goes well enough but milestones and deliverables are partially reached, or incomplete/delayed reporting, some administrative and/or financial problems, medium interaction among beneficiaries and WPs and level of communication. In general, the overall feedback is not so completely negative: the WP development is good but presents some criticisms to be managed and solved in short time, in order to avoid negative effects on the overall results of the project. No serious risks affecting the activity. RED : the activity development meets criticism of high level, that could have negative impact towards objectives and milestones. The criticism could regard missing cooperation of an important Beneficiary, great difficulties in some WP tasks, serious financial problems, missing reporting or serious remarks by European Commission and External Advisory Board. The overall feedback is negative: the WP development presents hard criticism to be shortly managed and solved, with concentrate and punctual efforts and without negative effects on the overall results of the WP. A summary of results is available in the section 1.3, table 1.3.2 - Impact for practices: results, Technology Readness Levels (TRL), target and potential application
Instruction of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, Sep. 26, 1964 :and Sacram Liturgiam, Motu proprio, Pope Paul VI, Jan. 25, 1964.
Creators: name: Catholic Church. Congregatio Sacrorum Rituum.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description:
 Title on cover : Instruction for the proper implementation of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy. Sep. 26, 1964.
Limnology and diatom ecology of shallow lakes in a rapidly thawing discontinuous permafrost peatland
Creators: name: Coleman, Kristen A
name: Hoskin, Grace N.
name: Chasmer, Laura
name: Thienpont, Joshua R.
name: Quinton, William L.
name: Korosi, Jennifer B.
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Lakes in discontinuous permafrost peatlands are on the front lines of climate change, sensitive to even modest increases in air temperature. The aim of this study was to provide the first limnological characterization of shallow (∼1-2 m depth) lakes in the Scotty Creek basin (Northwest Territories, Canada), a field site of circumpolar significance due to the existence of long-term ecohydrological monitoring going back decades. We use this as a foundation from which to advance our process-based understanding of the potential drivers of lake ecosystem change. Our results showed that dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and lake color were not correlated, a pattern that appears to be an important driver of diatom (siliceous single-celled algae) assemblages in these lakes. Diatoms in the study lakes tended to fall into one of two assemblage clusters. One cluster, comprised of small benthic Fragilariaceae and small Navicula species (sensu lato), was found associated with higher lake color. The second cluster, comprised of Encyonopsis and large Navicula species, was found associated with high DOC, lower color, and the presence of a benthic moss mat. From this, we suggest that DOC quality is a primary control on lake ecology in this region for its role in controlling light penetration to the lake bottom. We hypothesized that the prevalence of nearshore fens and collapse scar wetlands would be important drivers of DOC, but this was not supported in the 9 study lakes for which we had available data to map shoreline features.
Artificial Kagome Arrays of Nanomagnets: A Frozen Dipolar Spin Ice
Creators: name: Rougemaille, N.
name: Montaigne, F.
name: Canals, B.
name: Duluard, A.
name: Lacour, D.
name: Hehn, M.
name: Belkhou, R.
name: Fruchart, O.
name: Moussaoui, S. El
name: Bendounan, A.
name: Maccherozzi, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic frustration effects in artificial kagome arrays of nanomagnets are investigated using x-ray photoemission electron microscopy and Monte Carlo simulations. Spin configurations of demagnetized networks reveal unambiguous signatures of long range, dipolar interaction between the nanomagnets. As soon as the system enters the spin ice manifold, the kagome dipolar spin ice model captures the observed physics, while the short range kagome spin ice model fails.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Deterministic entanglement of photons in two superconducting microwave resonators
Creators: name: Wang, H.
name: Mariantoni, Matteo
name: Bialczak, Radoslaw C.
name: Lenander, M.
name: Lucero, Erik
name: Neeley, M.
name: O'Connell, A.
name: Sank, D.
name: Weides, M.
name: Wenner, J.
name: Yamamoto, T.
name: Yin, Y.
name: Zhao, J.
name: Martinis, John M.
name: Cleland, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum entanglement, one of the defining features of quantum mechanics, has been demonstrated in a variety of nonlinear spin-like systems. Quantum entanglement in linear systems has proven significantly more challenging, as the intrinsic energy level degeneracy associated with linearity makes quantum control more difficult. Here we demonstrate the quantum entanglement of photon states in two independent linear microwave resonators, creating N-photon NOON states as a benchmark demonstration. We use a superconducting quantum circuit that includes Josephson qubits to control and measure the two resonators, and we completely characterize the entangled states with bipartite Wigner tomography. These results demonstrate a significant advance in the quantum control of linear resonators in superconducting circuits.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures, and 3 tables including supplementary material
Trapping-detrapping fluctuations in organic space-charge layers
Creators: name: Carbone, Anna
name: Pennetta, Cecilia
name: Reggiani, Lino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A trapping-detrapping model is proposed for explaining the current fluctuation behavior in organic semiconductors (polyacenes) operating under current-injection conditions. The fraction of ionized traps obtained from the current-voltage characteristics, is related to the relative current noise spectral density at the trap-filling transition. The agreement between theory and experiments validates the model and provides an estimate of the concentration and energy level of deep traps.
Coulomb energy of axially deformed nucleus
Creators: name: Wang, Ning
name: Yu, Xuexin
name: Liu, Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We previously proposed a formula for calculating the Coulomb energy of spherical nucleus with Wood-Saxon charge distribution. In this work, the analytical formula is extended for description of the Coulomb energy of nucleus with beta2 deformation.
description: 2 figures
Disk Galaxy Scaling Relations in the SFI++: Intrinsic Scatter and Applications
Creators: name: Saintonge, Amelie
name: Spekkens, Kristine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the scaling relations between the luminosities, sizes, and rotation velocities of disk galaxies in the SFI++, with a focus on the size-luminosity (RL) and size-rotation velocity (RV) relations. Using isophotal radii instead of disk scale-lengths as a size indicator, we find relations that are significantly tighter than previously reported: the correlation coefficients of the template RL and RV relations are r=0.97 and r=0.85, which rival that of the more widely studied LV (Tully-Fisher) relation. The scatter in the SFI++ RL relation is 2.5-4 times smaller than previously reported for various samples, which we attribute to the reliability of isophotal radii relative to disk scale-lengths. After carefully accounting for all measurement errors, our scaling relation error budgets are consistent with a constant intrinsic scatter in the LV and RV relations for velocity widths logW>2.4, with evidence for increasing intrinsic scatter below this threshold. The scatter in the RL relation is consistent with constant intrinsic scatter that is biased by incompleteness at the low-luminosity end. Possible applications of the unprecedentedly tight SFI++ RV and RL relations are investigated. Just like the Tully-Fisher relation, the RV relation can be used as a distance indicator: we derive distances to galaxies with primary Cepheid distances that are accurate to 25%, and reverse the problem to measure a Hubble constant H_0=72+/-7 km/s/Mpc. Combining the small intrinsic scatter of our RL relation (0.034+/-0.001 log(kpc/h)) with a simple model for disk galaxy formation, we find an upper limit on the range of disk spin parameters that is a factor of ~7 smaller than that of the halo spin parameters predicted by cosmological simulations. This likely implies that the halos hosting Sc galaxies have a much narrower distribution of spin parameters than previously thought.
description: 20 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ