cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Improving fungicide-based management of Cercospora leaf spot in table beet in New York, USA
Creators: name: Pethybridge, Sarah J.
name: Sharma, Sandeep
name: ZACHARIAH R. Hansen
name: Vaghefi, Niloofar
name: Hanson, Linda E.
name: Kikkert, Julie R.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Cercospora leaf spot (CLS), caused by Cercospora beticola Sacc., is the dominant foliar disease affecting the profitability of table beet production in New York, USA. The disease is controlled primarily with fungicides, but sustainability is critically threatened by strobilurin resistance within the C. beticola population and a limited suite of alternatives. This study evaluated the temporal dynamics of strobilurin resistance within the C. beticola population over three years, and quantified sensitivity to selected demethylation inhibitors (DMIs; propiconazole and difenoconazole) and succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors (SDHIs; fluopyram, penthiopyrad, boscalid and benzovindiflupyr). Resistance to azoxystrobin (EC50 > 0.2 µg mL−1) was prevalent and detected in all fields sampled in 2015 and 2016, and six of 10 fields in 2017. Within fields, the incidence of azoxystrobin-resistant isolates ranged between 4.8% and 70%. No significant differences were detected in the frequency of azoxystrobin-resistant isolates within populations from fields with conventional and organic practices in 2016 and 2017. Reduced sensitivity to propiconazole and difenoconazole was detected in less than 1% of isolates. The EC50 values for the SDHIs were higher than the maximum concentrations (≥ 20 µg mL−1) evaluated. Two small-plot replicated field trials were also conducted over two years to evaluate alternatives to the commercial standards, propiconazole and azoxystrobin. Two applications of benzovindiflupyr + difenoconazole and pydiflumetofen + difenoconazole significantly reduced CLS severity and epidemic progress compared with plots that received propiconazole and non-treated controls.
On the Sensitivity of a Regression Coefficient to Monotonic Transformations
Creators: name: Yitzhaki, Shlomo
name: Yitzhaki, Shlomo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1989
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: This note presents a procedure which enables the user to check whether a monotonic transformation can change the sign of a regression coefficient. One possible use of this procedure is to examine the robustness of key regression coefficients.
High energy QCD Lipatov's effective action in Euclidean space
Creators: name: Bondarenko, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The continuation of high energy QCD Lipatov's effective action to Euclidean space is performed. The resulting Euclidean QCD RFT action is considered separately in Euclidean "light-cone" coordinates and axial gauge suitable for the numerical and analytical calculations correspondingly. The further application of the obtained results is also discussed.
Zero Modes and the Atiyah-Singer Index in Noncommutative Instantons
Creators: name: Kim, Keun-Young
name: Lee, Bum-Hoon
name: Yang, Hyun Seok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the bosonic and fermionic zero modes in noncommutative instanton backgrounds based on the ADHM construction. In k instanton background in U(N) gauge theory, we show how to explicitly construct 4Nk (2Nk) bosonic (fermionic) zero modes in the adjoint representation and 2k (k) bosonic (fermionic) zero modes in the fundamental representation from the ADHM construction. The number of fermionic zero modes is also shown to be exactly equal to the Atiyah-Singer index of the Dirac operator in the noncommutative instanton background. We point out that (super)conformal zero modes in non-BPS instantons are affected by the noncommutativity. The role of Lorentz symmetry breaking by the noncommutativity is also briefly discussed to figure out the structure of U(1) instantons.
description: v3: 24 pages, Latex, corrected typos, references added, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Using Lagrangian descriptors to uncover invariant structures in Chesnavich's Isokinetic Model with application to roaming
Creators: name: Krajnak, Vladimir
name: Ezra, Gregory S.
name: Wiggins, Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complementary to existing applications of Lagrangian descriptors as an exploratory method, we use Lagrangian descriptors to find invariant manifolds in a system where some invariant structures have already been identified. In this case we use the parametrisation of a periodic orbit to construct a Lagrangian descriptor that will be locally minimised on its invariant manifolds. The procedure is applicable (but not limited) to systems with highly unstable periodic orbits, such as the isokinetic Chesnavich CH4+ model subject to a Hamiltonian isokinetic theromostat. Aside from its low computational requirements, the method enables us to study the invariant structures responsible for roaming in the isokinetic Chesnavich CH4+ model.
Minimal Mixing of Quarks and Leptons in the SU(3) Theory of Flavour
Creators: name: Chkareuli, J. L.
name: Froggatt, C. D.
name: Nielsen, H. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that flavour mixing, both in the quark and lepton sector, follows the minimal mixing pattern, according to which the whole of this mixing is basically determined by the physical mass generation for the first family of fermions. So, in the chiral symmetry limit when the masses of the lightest ($u$ and $d$) quarks vanish, all the quark mixing angles vanish. This minimal pattern is shown to fit extremely well the already established CKM matrix elements and to give fairly distinctive predictions for the as yet poorly known ones. Remarkably, together with generically small quark mixing, it also leads to large neutrino mixing, provided that neutrino masses appear through the ordinary ``see-saw'' mechanism. It is natural to think that this minimal flavour mixing pattern presupposes some underlying family symmetry, treating families of quarks and leptons in a special way. Indeed, we have found a local chiral $SU(3)_{F}$ family symmetry model which leads, through its dominant symmetry breaking vacuum configuration, to a natural realization of the proposed minimal mechanism. It can also naturally generate the quark and lepton mass hierarchies. Furthermore spontaneous CP violation is possible, leading to a maximal CP violating phase $δ=\fracπ{2}$, in the framework of the MSSM extended by a high-scale $SU(3)_{F}$ chiral family symmetry.
description: 52 pages, LaTex, no figures; some typos corrected; journal version
Poly (ADP-Ribose) Polymerase Inhibitors: Talazoparib in Ovarian Cancer and Beyond
Creators: name: Boussios, Stergios
name: Abson, Charlotte
name: Moschetta, Michele
name: Rassy, Elie
name: Karathanasi, Afroditi
name: Bhat, Tahir
name: Ghumman, Faisal
name: Sheriff, Matin
name: Pavlidis, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Review Article

description: Abstract: Genetic complexity and DNA damage repair defects are common in different cancer types and can induce tumor-specific vulnerabilities. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors exploit defects in the DNA repair pathway through synthetic lethality and have emerged as promising anticancer therapies, especially in tumors harboring deleterious germline or somatic breast cancer susceptibility gene (BRCA) mutations. However, the utility of PARP inhibitors could be expanded beyond germline BRCA1/2 mutated cancers by causing DNA damage with cytotoxic agents in the presence of a DNA repair inhibitor. US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved PARP inhibitors include olaparib, rucaparib, and niraparib, while veliparib is in the late stage of clinical development. Talazoparib inhibits PARP catalytic activity, trapping PARP1/2 on damaged DNA, and it has been approved by the US FDA for the treatment of metastatic germline BRCA1/2 mutated breast cancers in October 2018. The talazoparib side effect profile more closely resembles traditional chemotherapeutics rather than other clinically approved PARP inhibitors. In this review, we discuss the scientific evidence that has emerged from both experimental and clinical studies in the development of talazoparib. Future directions will include optimizing combination therapy with chemotherapy, immunotherapies and targeted therapies, and in developing and validating biomarkers for patient selection and stratification, particularly in malignancies with ‘BRCAness’.
Rhigopsidius Heller 1906
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Rhigopsidius

description: Rhigopsidius Heller, 1906
 Rhigopsidius Heller, 1906: 7 (type species: R. tucumanus Heller, 1906, by indication, monotypy) (in Rhythirrininae); Kuschel, 1955: 272 (transferred to Leptopiinae); Kuschel, 1986: 112 (transferred to Rhythirrhinini); Morrone and Loiácono, 1992: 130 (revision); Louw, 1998: 24 (transferred to Rhythirrhinini: Gronopina); Oberprieler, 2010: 17 (transferred to Listroderini).
 Rhygopsidius; Louw, 1998: 24 (lapsus).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Dark Matter that Interacts with Baryons: Experimental Limits on the Interaction Cross-section for 27 Atomic Nuclei, and Resultant Constraints on the Particle Properties
Creators: name: Neufeld, David A.
name: Brach-Neufeld, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To constrain the properties of dark matter (DM) that interacts with nucleons, we have conducted an experimental search for any anomalous heating of ordinary baryonic matter at 77 K. Our tabletop experiment is motivated by the possibility (discussed in a previous paper) that DM particles with masses in the $\sim 1 - 2 m_{\rm p}$ range could be captured by and concentrated within the Earth. For suitable parameters, this phenomenon could lead to a substantial density $\sim 10^{14}\,\rm cm^{-3}$ of thermalized (300 K) DM particles at Earth's surface that would heat cooler baryonic matter. Our experiment involves precise differential measurements of the evaporation rate of liquid nitrogen in a storage dewar within which various materials are immersed. The results revealed no statistically-significant detections of heating in the 27 elements with molar fractions $> 10^{-5}$ in Earth's crust. For material with the average composition of Earth's crust, our measurements imply a $3 σ$ upper limit of $1.32 \times 10^{-27}\, n_{\rm 14}^{-1} (m_{\rm DM}/2\,m_{\rm p})^{-1/2}\,\rm cm^2$ on the mean cross-section for scattering with thermal HIDM at 300 K, where $10^{14}\,n_{14} \, \rm cm^{-3}$ is the particle density at Earth's surface. In combination with a lower limit on the scattering cross-section, obtained from a consideration of the heat flow through the Earth's crust (Neufeld, Farrar & McKee 2018), our experiment places an upper limit of $1.6 \times 10^{13}\,\rm cm^{-3}$ on the density of DM at the Earth's surface. This in turn, significantly constrains the properties for any DM candidate that interacts with baryons.
description: 23 pages, including 4 figures and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
A possible way to relate the "covariantization" and the negative dimensional integration methods in the light cone gauge
Creators: name: Suzuki, Alfredo T.
name: Bentín, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we present a possible way to relate the method of covariantizing the gauge dependent pole and the negative dimensional integration method for computing Feynman integrals pertinent to the light-cone gauge fields. Both techniques are applicable to the algebraic light-cone gauge and dispense with prescriptions to treat the characteristic poles.
description: 9 pages
Modular synthesis of (borylmethyl)silanes through C1 difunctionalization
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Rajdip
name: Elek, Gábor Zoltán
name: Mendoza, Abraham
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Silane, diazocompound, borylation, (borylmethyl)silane, redox-active ester

description: The attached content is supporting information for Modular synthesis of (borylmethyl)silanes through C1 difunctionalization.
Book Review on "Something Deeply Hidden - Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll
Creators: name: Antão, Manuel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Quantum Mechanics

description: “When a spin is measured, the wave function branches via decoherence [according to the MWI], a single world splits into two and there are now two people where used to be just one. It makes no sense to ask which one is ‘really me.’ Likewise, before the branching happens, it makes no sense to wonder which branch ‘I’ will end up in. Both of them have every right to think of themselves as ‘me.’ [...] The world duplicates, and everything within the world goes along with it.”

In “Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime” by Sean Carroll

“Many-Worlds is the most falsifiable theory ever invented.”

In “Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime” by Sean Carroll

Let me get this out of the way first. Let me put forth the main 4 “interpretations”:
Vide link above with the review.
Teaching Cultural Awareness to ESL Students
Creators: name: Manasar Alharethi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 200204 Cultural Theory
subject: FOS: Other humanities

description: POSTER PRESENT AT SWEJMC
E1 transitions between states with n = 1 to 6 in helium-like carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, silicon, and argon
Creators: name: Johnson, W. R.
name: Savukov, I. M.
name: Safronova, U. I.
name: Dalgarno, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Wavelengths and transition rates are given for E1 transitions between singlet S, P, D, and F states, between triplet S, P, and D states, and between triplet P and singlet S states in ions of astrophysical interest: helium-like carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, silicon, and argon. All possible E1 transitions between states with J < 4 and n < 7 are considered. Energy levels and wave functions used in calculations of the transition rates are obtained from relativistic configuration-interaction calculations that include both Coulomb and Breit interactions.
description: submitted to Astrophysical Journal
On boundary RG-flows in coset conformal field theories
Creators: name: Fredenhagen, S.
name: Schomerus, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new rule for boundary renormalization group flows in fixed-point free coset models. Our proposal generalizes the 'absorption of boundary spin'-principle formulated by Affleck and Ludwig to a large class of perturbations in boundary conformal field theories. We illustrate the rule in the case of unitary minimal models.
description: 3 pages, uses RevTeX4
New Trends in the Zee Model
Creators: name: Koide, Yoshio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent trends in the Zee model are reviewed. Especially, the importance of a serious constraint in the Zee model, sin^2 2θ_{solar} =1.0, is pointed out.
description: 3 pages, Latex, Plenary talk given at NuFact'01 (held in Tukuba, Japan, 24-30 May 2001), to appear in the Proceedings
Rhigopsidius piercei Heller 1906
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Rhigopsidius
Rhigopsidius piercei

description: Rhigopsidius piercei Heller, 1906
 Rhigopsidius tucumanus Sasscer and Pierce, 1913: 143 (misidentification, non Heller, 1906).
 Rhigopsidius piercei Heller, 1936: 285 (replacement name for R. tucumanus Sasscer and Pierce, 1913) (type locality: Argentina: Jujuy, Huacalera; type material: N: MLP); Emden, 1952: 744 (= R. tucumanus); Kuschel, 1989: 30 (reinstated as a distinct species).
 Immature stages. Larva (Loiácono and Morrone, 1991; Marvaldi, 1998) and pupa (Loiácono and Morrone, 1991).
 Host plants. Solanum tuberosum L. (Solanaceae) (Morrone and Loiácono, 1992).
 Distribution. Bolivia, Peru, and northwestern and southern Argentina (Morrone and Loiácono, 1992; Posadas, 1998).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Cramér type moderate deviations for stationary sequences of bounded random variables
Creators: name: Fan, Xiequan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60F10, 60F05, 60G10, 60G42

description: We derive Cramér type moderate deviations for stationary sequences of bounded random variables. Our results imply the moderate deviation principles and a Berry-Esseen bound. Applications to quantile coupling inequalities, functions of $ϕ$-mixing sequences, and contracting Markov chains are discussed.
description: 19 pages
Flux-branes and the Dielectric Effect in String Theory
Creators: name: Costa, Miguel S.
name: Herdeiro, Carlos A. R.
name: Cornalba, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the generalization to String and M-theory of the Melvin solution. These are flux p-branes which have (p+1)-dimensional Poincare invariance and are associated to an electric (p+1)-form field strength along their worldvolume. When a stack of Dp-branes is placed along the worldvolume of a flux (p+3)-brane it will expand to a spherical D(p+2)-brane due to the dielectric effect. This provides a new setup to consider the gauge theory/gravity duality. Compactifying M-theory on a circle we find the exact gravity solution of the type IIA theory describing the dielectric expansion of N D4-branes into a spherical bound state of D4-D6-branes, due to the presence of a flux 7-brane. In the decoupling limit, the deformation of the dual field theory associated with the presence of the flux brane is irrelevant in the UV. We calculate the gravitational radius and energy of the dielectric brane which give, respectively, a prediction for the VEV of scalars and vacuum energy of the dual field theory. Consideration of a spherical D6-brane probe with n units of D4-brane charge in the dielectric brane geometry suggests that the dual theory arises as the Scherk-Schwarz reduction of the M5-branes (2,0) conformal field theory. The probe potential has one minimum placed at the locus of the bulk dielectric brane and another associated to an inner dielectric brane shell.
description: v2 Major Additions: dielectric radius in gravity solution matches exactly stable and unstable points of Myers probe potential, as well as the upper bound on D-brane charge. New section probing dielectric brane that clarifies dual field theory discussion and is consistent with Scherk-Schwarz reduction of (2,0) M5-brane theory. References added. 43 pages, 4 figures
Optimization of zoospore production and inoculum concentration of Aphanomyces euteiches for resistance screening of pea and lentil
Creators: name: Nimllash T. Sivachandra Kumar
name: Cox, Laura
name: Armstrong-Cho, Cheryl
name: Banniza, Sabine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: is an important root pathogen of several legume and forage crops worldwide. Disease management is challenging due to resilient oospores that can persist in the soil for long periods of time. Several research groups are working towards incorporating disease resistance into crop cultivars involving large-scale disease resistance screening and, for some crops, the use of molecular markers associated with quantitative trait loci for resistance. The refinement of laboratory protocols for efficient pathogen isolation, reliable and simple zoospore production, and a repeatable indoor screening assay are important tools needed to further research in this area. The standardization of these protocols among research groups would provide an efficient platform for research collaboration. The effect of different media and sporulation induction methods on zoospore production was assessed. The most effective and repeatable method of A. euteiches zoospore production involved culturing and incubation for 4 days on autoclaved wheat leaf segments placed on corn meal-yeast extract-phosphate buffer agar. Colonized wheat leaves were transferred into 100 mL of distilled water in 250 mL flasks and incubated at 100 rpm for 18 h at 24ºC to induce zoospore production. Five zoospore concentrations ranging from 100 to 10 000 zoospores mL−1 were evaluated using susceptible and partially resistant pea and lentil genotypes to optimize zoospore concentration for germplasm screening. The best differentiation of levels of resistance among lentil and pea genotypes was achieved with 1000 zoospores mL−1.
Nucleosynthesis in advective disc and outflow: possible explanation for overabundances in winds from X-ray binaries
Creators: name: Datta, Sudeb Ranjan
name: Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiple spectroscopic lines of different elements observed in winds from X-ray binaries (XRBs), based on one zone model, indicate super-solar abundance of elements, e.g. Mg, Si, S, Ar, Ca, Cr, Mn, Co. The one zone model considers similar hydrodynamics of underlying winds. In order to find a possible origin of these overabundances, we explore nucleosynthesis in advective, geometrically thick, sub-Keplerian, accretion disc in XRBs and active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and further in outflows launched from the disc. Based on flow hydrodynamics and solving nuclear network code therein by semi-implicit Euler method, we obtain abundance evolution of the elements. Although the density is very low, due to very high temperature of advective disc than Keplerian Shakura-Sunyaev disc (SSD), it is quite evident that significant nucleosynthesis occurs in the former. As the temperature at the base of the outflow is constrained by the temperature of disc, nucleosynthesis also occurs in the outflow contingent upon its launching temperature. Till now, the outer region of XRB and AGN discs is understood to be colder SSD and inner region to be advective disc, together forming a disc-wind system. Hence, newly evolved abundances after processing through outflow can change the abundances of different elements present in the environment of the whole disc-wind system. We find 2-6 times overabundant Mg, Si, Ar, Cr with respect to the respective solar abundances, which is consistent observationally. Thus for most XRBs, when only iron lines are present, inclusion of these evolved abundances is expected to change the observational analysis drastically.
description: 12 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Yield responses in spring wheat and barley cultivars, varying in stripe rust resistance in central Alberta
Creators: name: Kumar, Krishan
name: KRISHAN KUMAR
name: Kequan Xi
name: KEQUAN XI
name: Turkington, Thomas K.
name: THOMAS K. TURKINGTON
name: Aljarrah, Mazen
name: MAZEN ALJARRAH
name: Capettini, Flavio
name: FLAVIO CAPETTINI
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Yield losses in wheat and barley cultivars varying in stripe rust reactions were determined under natural infection conditions in fungicide treated and untreated plots at Lacombe and Olds, central Alberta, from 2012 to 2014. Stripe rust caused by Puccinia striiformis was the major disease observed during the 3-year test. Moderate stripe rust severity caused significant yield losses of over 20% in a highly susceptible wheat, ‘AC Crystal’, while no severe yield losses occurred for resistant and moderately resistant cultivars/lines. However, a moderate level of stripe rust and the leaf spot complex caused reductions in thousand kernel weight (TKW) ranging from 5.4% to 13.5% for all wheat and barley cultivars/lines tested except for ‘Lillian’ wheat and ‘Seebe’ barley. When stripe rust developed early in the growing season resulting in severe disease, there were significant yield losses ranging from 17.6% to 91% for five wheat and two barley genotypes. Severe TKW and test weight losses also occurred for susceptible wheat and barley. The magnitude of yield losses in resistant and intermediate cultivars was smaller than in susceptible cultivars in the same tests. The present study demonstrated that one foliar-applied fungicide application was generally capable of protecting susceptible wheat and barley cultivars from stripe rust, while the use of resistant and intermediate cultivars was necessary for yield protection when moderate levels of disease occurred. Fungicide application was needed to reduce yield losses for resistant and moderately resistant cultivars when leaf spot diseases were prevalent and an early onset of stripe rust was observed, which can lead to severe stripe rust development even in resistant varieties.
title: Creation of macroscopic superposition states from arrays of Bose–Einstein condensates
Creators: name: Dunningham, J. A.
name: Burnett, K.
name: Roth, R.
name: Phillips, W. D.
Publisher: name: IOP Publishing
Year: 2024

description: We consider how macroscopic quantum superpositions may be created from arrays of Bose–Einstein condensates. We study a system of three condensates in Fock states, all with the same number of atoms and show that this has the form of a highly entangled superposition of different quasi-momenta. We then show how, by partially releasing these condensates and detecting an interference pattern where they overlap, it is possible to create a macroscopic superposition of different relative phases for the remaining portions of the condensates. We discuss methods for confirming these superpositions.
Steriphus alpinus
Creators: name: Morrone, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Steriphus
Steriphus alpinus

description: Steriphus alpinus (Lea, 1928)
 Desiantha alpina Lea, 1928: 379 (type locality: Australia: New South Wales, Mount Kosciusko; type material: S: BMNH).
 Steriphus alpinus; Zimmerman, 1994: 697.
 Distribution. Australia (Zimmerman, 1994).
description: Published as part of Morrone, Juan J., 2011, Annotated checklist of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cyclominae) 3119, pp. 1-68 in Zootaxa 3119 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3119.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5246257
Recognising Skin Cancer in Primary Care
Creators: name: Jones, Owain T.
name: Ranmuthu, Charindu K. I.
name: Hall, Per N.
name: Funston, Garth
name: Walter, Fiona M.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Practical Approach
Practical Approaches to Cancer Care
Basal cell carcinoma
Early diagnosis
Melanoma
Primary care
Skin cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma

description: Abstract: Skin cancer, including melanoma, basal cell carcinoma and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, has one of the highest global incidences of any form of cancer. In 2016 more than 16,000 people were diagnosed with melanoma in the UK. Over the last decade the incidence of melanoma has increased by 50% in the UK, and about one in ten melanomas are diagnosed at a late stage. Among the keratinocyte carcinomas (previously known as non-melanoma skin cancers), basal cell carcinoma is the most common cancer amongst Caucasian populations. The main risk factor for all skin cancer is exposure to ultraviolet radiation—more than 80% are considered preventable. Primary care clinicians have a vital role to play in detecting and managing patients with skin lesions suspected to be skin cancer, as timely diagnosis and treatment can improve patient outcomes, particularly for melanoma. However, detecting skin cancer can be challenging, as common non-malignant skin lesions such as seborrhoeic keratoses share features with less common skin cancers. Given that more than 80% of skin cancers are attributed to ultraviolet (UV) exposure, primary care clinicians can also play an important role in skin cancer prevention. This article is one of a series discussing cancer prevention and detection in primary care. Here we focus on the most common types of skin cancer: melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma. We describe the main risk factors and prevention advice. We summarise key guidance on the symptoms and signs of skin cancers and their management, including their initial assessment and referral. In addition, we review emerging technologies and diagnostic aids which may become available for use in primary care in the near future, to aid the triage of suspicious skin lesions.
A computational framework for two-dimensional random walks with restarts
Creators: name: Bini, Dario A.
name: Massei, Stefano
name: Meini, Beatrice
name: Robol, Leonardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The treatment of two-dimensional random walks in the quarter plane leads to Markov processes which involve semi-infinite matrices having Toeplitz or block Toeplitz structure plus a low-rank correction. Finding the steady state probability distribution of the process requires to perform operations involving these structured matrices. We propose an extension of the framework of [5] which allows to deal with more general situations such as processes involving restart events. This is motivated by the need for modeling processes that can incur in unexpected failures like computer system reboots. Algebraically, this gives rise to corrections with infinite support that cannot be treated using the tools currently available in the literature. We present a theoretical analysis of an enriched Banach algebra that, combined with appropriate algorithms, enables the numerical treatment of these problems. The results are applied to the solution of bidimensional Quasi-Birth-Death processes with infinitely many phases which model random walks in the quarter plane, relying on the matrix analytic approach. This methodology reduces the problem to solving a quadratic matrix equation with coefficients of infinite size. We provide conditions on the transition probabilities which ensure that the solution of interest of the matrix equation belongs to the enriched algebra. The reliability of our approach is confirmed by extensive numerical experimentation on some case studies.
Improving the Timely Detection of Bladder and Kidney Cancer in Primary Care
Creators: name: Zhou, Yin
name: Funston, Garth
name: Lyratzopoulos, Georgios
name: Walter, Fiona M.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Practical Approach
Practical Approaches to Cancer Care
Bladder cancer
Early diagnosis
Kidney cancer
Primary care
Urological cancer

description: Abstract: Bladder and kidney cancer are the 10th and 7th most common cancers in the United Kingdom (UK). They present with symptoms that are typically investigated via the same diagnostic pathway. However, diagnosing these cancers can be challenging, especially for kidney cancer, as many of the symptoms are non-specific and occur commonly in patients without cancer. Furthermore, the recognition and evaluation of these symptoms may differ because of the lack of supporting high-quality evidence to inform management, a problem also reflected in currently ambiguous guidelines. The majority of these two cancers are diagnosed following a referral from a general practitioner. In this article, we summarise current UK and United States (US) guidelines for investigating common symptoms of bladder and kidney cancer—visible haematuria, non-visible haematuria and urinary tract infections. Our article aims to support clinicians in recognising and investigating patients with symptoms of possible bladder and kidney cancer in a timely fashion. We discuss challenges during the diagnostic process and possible future interventions for improvement.
Radiomics approach to quantify shape irregularity from crowd-based qualitative assessment of intracranial aneurysms
Creators: name: Juchler, Norman
name: Schilling, Sabine
name: Glüge, Stefan
name: Bijlenga, Philippe
name: Rüfenacht, Daniel
name: Kurtcuoglu, Vartan
name: Hirsch, Sven
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: The morphological assessment of anatomical structures is clinically relevant, but often falls short of quantitative or standardised criteria. Whilst human observers are able to assess morphological characteristics qualitatively, the development of robust shape features remains challenging. In this study, we employ psychometric and radiomic methods to develop quantitative models of the perceived irregularity of intracranial aneurysms (IAs). First, we collect morphological characteristics (e.g. irregularity, asymmetry) in imaging-derived data and aggregated the data using rank-based analysis. Second, we compute regression models relating quantitative shape features to the aggregated qualitative ratings (ordinal or binary). We apply our method for quantifying perceived shape irregularity to a dataset of 134 IAs using a pool of 179 different shape indices. Ratings given by 39 participants show good agreement with the aggregated ratings (Spearman rank correlation ρSp=0.84). The best-performing regression model based on quantitative shape features predicts the perceived irregularity with R2:0.84±0.05.
Deviation inequalities for separately Lipschitz functionals of composition of random functions
Creators: name: Dedecker, Jérôme
name: Doukhan, Paul
name: Fan, Xiequan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60G42, 60J05, 60E15

description: We consider a class of non-homogeneous Markov chains, that contains many natural examples. Next, using martingale methods, we establish some deviation and moment inequalities for separately Lipschitz functions of such a chain, under moment conditions on some dominating random variables.
description: 18 pages
Rotation and Activity in Mid-M to L Dwarfs
Creators: name: Mohanty, Subhanjoy
name: Basri, Gibor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze rotation velocities and chromospheric (H-alpha) activity, derived from multi-year, high-resolution spectra, in 56 mid-M to L dwarfs. Rotational velocities are found to increase from mid-M to L. This is consistent with a lengthening of spin-down timescale with later type, though in the L types the trend may also be a function of stellar age. From M5 to M8.5, a saturation-type rotation-activity relation is seen, similar to that in earlier types. However, the saturation velocity in our case is much higher, at about 12 km/s. A sharp drop in activity is observed at about M9, with later types showing little or no H-alpha emission, in spite of rapid rotation. This may be due to the very high resistivities in the predominantly neutral atmospheres of these cool objects.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures, to be published in proceedings of 'Cool Stars and the Sun 12'
Supercurrent and Local Coupling in the Wess-Zumino Model
Creators: name: Kraus, Elisabeth
name: Rupp, Christian
name: Sibold, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Wess-Zumino model with the coupling extended to a chiral superfield. In order to incorporate the renormalization effects a further external real field has to be introduced. It is then possible to derive a Callan-Symanzik equation and to prove renormalizability. By constructing the supercurrent in this context the whole machinery for describing the superconformal symmetries becomes available. The presence of the external fields allows also to define multiple insertions of all relevant composite operators. Interesting relations to the curved superspace treatment show up.
description: 16 pages
Teaching Cultural Awareness to ESL Students
Creators: name: Manasar Alharethi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 200204 Cultural Theory
subject: FOS: Other humanities

description: POSTER PRESENT AT SWEJMC
title: Histories of the transcendental in art : Romanticism, Zen and Mark Tobey
Creators: name: McDonald, Roger
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: This thesis deals with notions of the transcendental and art by investigating the two traditions of Romanticism and Zen respectively, in relation to the life and work of the American painter Mark Tobey. Responding in part to my reading of Robert Rosenblum's Modern Painting the northern Romantic Tradition (1975), the thesis begins by attempting to imagine the possibilities for discourse about ait and the transcendental by looking at Neoplatonic and Mahayana Buddhist ideas in relation to ideas of the transcendental. A hermeneutical methodology is suggested as a framework by which art may be seen in terms of a transcendental language. A central assumption of the thesis is that different histories or positions of the transcendental and alt are identifiable. By analysing European Romantic responses to ideas of the transcendental and presenting them alongside Zen positions such differences may be revealed and 'official' histories challenged. For instance, Romantic languages about oneness and 'purity' are radically challenged by the Nagaijunan notion of sunyaza and its insistence upon a thorough deconstruction of Being.Mark Tobey is introduced as a painter whose Zen interests from the early nineteen-thirties disturbs his place within an orthodox reading of American and European modernist art.. Tobey's relationship to Abstract Expressionist painters is explored and a close analysis of his journey to China and Japan in 1934 is undertaken within a broad historical context. Questions of Tobey's interests in Zen during a period when Japan was moving towards radical nationalism, and his search for an 'authentic' Japan are investigated. Tobey'sappropriations of Zen 'calligraphy' through his 'white writing' technique is also explored in relation to his 'overtly Oriental' works from 1956-7 and their potential to be read in terms ofZen notions such as sun vata. The thesis suggests an 'alternative-Japonisme' context for Tobey's Zen interests, placing him at a distance from orthodox histories of Japonisme, and nearer to the late nineteenth century appropriations of Buddha images by Odilon Redon and paul Ranson. Tobey's affinities with Piet Mondrian are then analysed, and their sharedNeoplatonic ideas are revealed.The different possible histories of the transcendental in art are hopefully investigated by this thesis, opening up alternative positions which can rupture 'standard' Occidentalhistories of art and their privileging of Western philosophical and mystical discourses.
The Identity String Field and the Tachyon Vacuum
Creators: name: Ellwood, Ian
name: Feng, Bo
name: He, Yang-Hui
name: Moeller, Nicolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the triviality of the entire cohomology of the new BRST operator Q around the tachyon vacuum is equivalent to the Q-exactness of the identity I of the star-algebra. We use level truncation to show that as the level is increased, the identity becomes more accurately Q-exact. We carry our computations up to level nine, where an accuracy of 3% is attained. Our work supports, under a new light, Sen's conjecture concerning the absence of open string degrees of freedom around the tachyon vacuum. As a by-product, a new and simple expression for I in terms of Virasoro operators is found.
description: 25 pages, 1 figure, references added
Concept mapping: An aid to teaching and learning: AMEE Guide No. 157
Creators: name: Torre, Dario
name: German, Deborah
name: Daley, Barbara
name: Taylor, David
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Concept maps are graphic representations that learners draw to depict their understanding of the meaning of a set of concepts. Concept maps can be a useful learning strategy in medical education. The purpose of this guide is to provide an understanding of the theoretical basis and instructional use of concept mapping in health professions education. The guide describes the key elements of a concept map and underscores the critical components of the implementation process, from the introduction of the activity to the use of different mapping techniques, based on purpose and context. This guide also examines the learning opportunities offered by collaborative concept mapping, including co-construction of knowledge, and provides suggestions for the use of concept mapping as an assessment for learning. Implications for the use of concept mapping as a tool for remediation are mentioned. Finally, the guide describes some of the challenges related to the implementation of this strategy.
MEMÓRIAS DE PROFESSORES: Narrativas &estratégias do fazer docente
Creators: name: Martínez Sánchez, Alina de las Mercedes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: EDITORIALReconhecendo o valor do professor para o debate sobre conhecimento crítico, educação e sociedade, no Brasil e no mundo, especificamente nesse número a Revista Humanidades e Tecnologia abordará “MEMÓRIAS DE PROFESSORES: Narrativas &estratégias do fazer docente”. O objetivo da revista foi registrar marcas do vivido, sentindo e experimentado pelos professores como sinais que servem para deflagrarem fagulhas da memória. O vivido sugere ter passado pela experiência, ter sido submetido a ela ou expor-se, ter consentido o evento em si, ter mergulhado no oceano do conhecido e do novo, do excepcional, do inesperado. Alude criar e recriar significados para esses momentos. O sentido remete ao sensível, àquilo que pode ser percebido pelos órgãos dos sentidos, àquilo que impacta, carrega as marcas da experiência e permite o conhecimento que fica armazenado na memória.
Identifying the quark content of the isoscalar scalar mesons f_0(980), f_0(1370), and f_0(1500) from weak and electromagnetic processes
Creators: name: Kleefeld, Frieder
name: van Beveren, Eef
name: Rupp, George
name: Scadron, Michael D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The assignments of the isoscalar scalar mesons f0(980), f0(1370), and f0(1500) in terms of their qqbar substructure is still a matter of heated dispute. Here we employ the weak and electromagnetic decays D(s)(+) to f0+pi(+) and f0 two-photon decays, respectively, to identify the f0(980) and f0(1500) as mostly ssbar, and the f0(1370) as dominantly nonstrange, in agreement with previous work. The two-photon decays can be satisfactorily described with quark as well as with meson loops, though the latter ones provide a less model-dependent and more quantitative description.
description: v1, 15 pages, plain LaTeX, 1 eps figure. v2, 18 pages, plain LaTeX (figure included). More discussion, especially on the f0(1370) and its empirical two-photon width