cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Testing a multi-malaria-model ensemble against 30 years of data in the Kenyan highlands
Creators: name: Ruiz Carrascal, Carlos Daniel
name: Brun, Cyrille
name: Connor, Stephen J.
name: Omumbo, Judith
name: Lyon, Bradfield
name: Thomson, Madeleine C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Malaria
Malaria--Epidemiology
Malaria--Mathematical models
Malaria--Environmental aspects

description: Background: Multi-model ensembles could overcome challenges resulting from uncertainties in models’ initial conditions, parameterization and structural imperfections. They could also quantify in a probabilistic way uncertainties in future climatic conditions and their impacts. Methods: A four-malaria-model ensemble was implemented to assess the impact of long-term changes in climatic conditions on Plasmodium falciparum malaria morbidity observed in Kericho, in the highlands of Western Kenya, over the period 1979–2009. Input data included quality controlled temperature and rainfall records gathered at a nearby weather station over the historical periods 1979–2009 and 1980–2009, respectively. Simulations included models’ sensitivities to changes in sets of parameters and analysis of non-linear changes in the mean duration of host’s infectivity to vectors due to increased resistance to anti-malarial drugs. Results: The ensemble explained from 32 to 38% of the variance of the observed P. falciparum malaria incidence. Obtained R2-values were above the results achieved with individual model simulation outputs. Up to 18.6% of the variance of malaria incidence could be attributed to the +0.19 to +0.25°C per decade significant long-term linear trend in near-surface air temperatures. On top of this 18.6%, at least 6% of the variance of malaria incidence could be related to the increased resistance to anti-malarial drugs. Ensemble simulations also suggest that climatic conditions have likely been less favourable to malaria transmission in Kericho in recent years. Conclusions: Long-term changes in climatic conditions and non-linear changes in the mean duration of host’s infectivity are synergistically driving the increasing incidence of P. falciparum malaria in the Kenyan highlands. User-friendly, online-downloadable, open source mathematical tools, such as the one presented here, could improve decision-making processes of local and regional health authorities.
On the number of polynomials of bounded height that satisfy Dumas's criterion
Creators: name: Heyman, Randell
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R09

description: We study integer coefficient polynomials of fixed degree and maximum height $H$, that are irreducible by Dumas's criterion. We call such polynomials Dumas polynomials. We derive upper bounds on the number of Dumas polynomials, as $H$ approaches infinity. We also show that, for a fixed degree, the density of Dumas polynomials in all irreducible integer coefficient polynomials is strictly less than 1.
description: 7 pages
Natural Experiments: Missed Opportunities for Causal Inference in Psychology
Creators: name: Ebert, Tobias
name: Hünermund, Paul
name: Buecker, Susanne
name: Zapko-Willmes, Alexandra
name: Grosz, Michael P.
name: Rohrer, Julia M.
name: Arslan, Ruben C.
name: Müller, Sandrine
name: Ayaita, Adam
name: Rieger, Sven
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Knowledge about causal effects is essential for building useful theories and designing effective interventions. The preferred design for learning about causal effects are randomized experiments (i.e., studies in which the researchers randomly assign units to treatment and control conditions). However, randomized experiments are often unethical or unfeasible. On the other hand, observational studies are usually feasible but lack the random assignment that renders randomized experiments causally informative. Natural experiments can sometimes offer unique opportunities for dealing with this dilemma, allowing causal inference on the basis of events that are not controlled by the researcher but that nevertheless establish random or as-if random assignment to treatment and control conditions. Yet, psychological researchers have rarely exploited natural experiments so far. To remedy this shortage, we describe three main types of studies exploiting natural experiments (standard natural experiments, instrumental variable designs, and regression discontinuity designs) and provide examples from psychology and economics to illustrate how natural experiments can be harnessed. Natural experiments are challenging to find, provide information about only specific causal effects, and involve assumptions that are difficult to validate empirically. Nevertheless, we argue that natural experiments provide valuable causal inference opportunities that have not yet been sufficiently exploited by psychologists.
[Arctic] Greenland ice sheet [in “State of the Climate in 2012”]
Creators: name: Tedesco, Marco
name: Alexander, P.
name: Box, J. E.
name: Cappelen, J.
name: Knudson, N. T.
name: Mote, T.
name: Steffen, K.
name: Van De Wal, R. S. W.
name: Wahr, J.
name: Wouters, B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Hydrology
subject: Meltwater
subject: Geomorphology
subject: Climatic changes
subject: Mineralogy
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Melting at the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet set new records for extent and melt index (i.e., the number of days on which melting occurred multiplied by the area where melting was detected) for the period 1979–2012, according to passive microwave observations (e.g., Tedesco 2007, 2009; Mote and Anderson 1995). Melt extent reached ~97% of the ice sheet surface during a rare, ice-sheet-wide event on 11–12 July (Fig. 5.13a; Nghiem et al. 2012). This was almost four times greater than the average melt extent for 1981–2010. The 2012 standardized melting index (SMI, defined as the melting index minus its average and divided by its standard deviation) was +2.4, almost twice the previous record of about +1.3 set in 2010.
Supplementary Table 1.pdf
Creators: name: Fukuie, Marina
name: Yamabe, Takayuki
name: Kimura, Ryota
name: Zhu, David C.
name: Ohyama-Byun, Keigo
name: Maeda, Seiji
name: Sugawara, Jun
name: Tarumi, Takashi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Exercise physiology

description: Table S1: Results from post-hoc tests comparing the aortic pressure, flow, and impedance modulus between the athlete and sedentary groups at each heart rate harmonic
[Arctic] Greenland [in “State of the Climate in 2008”]
Creators: name: Box, J. E.
name: Bail, L. -S.
name: Benson, R.
name: Bhattacharya, I.
name: Bromwich, D. H.
name: Cappelen, J.
name: Decker, D.
name: DiGirolamo, N.
name: Fettweis, X.
name: Hall, D.
name: Hanna, E.
name: Mote, T.
name: Tedesco, Marco
name: Van De Wal, R.
name: Van Den Broeke, M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth temperature
subject: Meltwater
subject: Geomorphology
subject: Climatic changes
subject: Mineralogy
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: An abnormally cold winter across the southern half of Greenland led to substantially higher west coast sea ice thickness and concentration. Even so, record-setting summer temperatures around Greenland, combined with an intense melt season (particularly across the northern ice sheet), led the 2008 Greenland climate to be marked by continued ice sheet mass deficit and floating ice disintegration.
Understanding Greenland ice sheet hydrology using an integrated multi-scale approach
Creators: name: Rennermalm, A. K.
name: Moustafa, S. E.
name: Mioduszewski, J.
name: Chu, V. W.
name: Forster, R. R.
name: Hagedorn, B.
name: Harper, J. T.
name: Mote, T. L.
name: Robinson, D. A.
name: Shuman, C. A.
name: Smith, L. C.
name: Tedesco, Marco
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Hydrology
subject: Meltwater
subject: Geomorphology
subject: Ice sheets
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Improved understanding of Greenland ice sheet hydrology is critically important for assessing its impact on current and future ice sheet dynamics and global sea level rise. This has motivated the collection and integration of in situ observations, model development, and remote sensing efforts to quantify meltwater production, as well as its phase changes, transport, and export. Particularly urgent is a better understanding of albedo feedbacks leading to enhanced surface melt, potential positive feedbacks between ice sheet hydrology and dynamics, and meltwater retention in firn. These processes are not isolated, but must be understood as part of a continuum of processes within an integrated system. This letter describes a systems approach to the study of Greenland ice sheet hydrology, emphasizing component interconnections and feedbacks, and highlighting research and observational needs.
Atherurus F. Cuvier 1829
Creators: name: Woods, Charles A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Hystricidae
Atherurus

description: Atherurus F. Cuvier, 1829. Diet. Sci. Nat., 59:483. TYPE SPECIES: Hystrix macroura Linnaeus, 1758. COMMENTS: See Van Weers (1977:213).
description: Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 773, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
description: {"references": ["Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.", "van Weers, D. J. 1977. Notes on southeast Asian porcupines (Hystricidae, Rodentia) II. On the taxonomy of the genus Atherurus F. Cuvier. Beaufortia (University of Amsterdam), 26 (336): 205 - 230."]}
Additional file 2 of “Everything the hujur tells is very educative but if I cannot apply those in my own life then there is no meaning”: a mixed-methods process evaluation of a smoke-free homes intervention in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Jackson, Cath
name: Al Azdi, Zunayed
name: Kellar, Ian
name: Mdege, Noreen Dadirai
name: Fairhurst, Caroline
name: Ferdous, Tarana
name: Hewitt, Catherine
name: Huque, Rumana
name: Marshall, Anna-Marie
name: Semple, Sean
name: Sheikh, Aziz
name: Siddiqi, Kamran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. Triangulation matrix for SFH intervention.
Additional file 6 of Age-related changes in DNA methylation in a sample of elderly Brazilians
Creators: name: Welsh, Hayley
name: Batalha, Caio M. P. F.
name: Li, Weili
name: Souza-Pinto, Nadja C.
name: Duarte, Yeda A. O.
name: Naslavsky, Michel S.
name: Parra, Esteban J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: supplementary Figures.
Short-range mechanisms of neutrinoless double beta decay at the LHC
Creators: name: Helo, J. C.
name: Hirsch, M.
name: Päs, H.
name: Kovalenko, S. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lepton number violation (LNV) mediated by short range operators can manifest itself in both neutrinoless double beta decay and in processes with same sign dilepton final states at the LHC. We derive limits from existing LHC data at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV and compare the discovery potential of the forthcoming $\sqrt{s}=14$ TeV phase of the LHC with the sensitivity of current and future neutrinoless double beta decay experiments, assuming the short-range part of the decay amplitude dominates. We focus on the first of two possible topologies triggered by one fermion and two bosons in the intermediate state. In all cases, except for the pure leptoquark mechanism, the LHC will be more sensitive than neutrinoless double beta decay in the future. In addition, we propose to search for a charge asymmetry in the final state leptons and to use different invariant mass peaks as a possibility to discriminate the various possible mechanisms for LNV signals at the LHC.
Incubating Advances in Integrated Photonics with Emerging Sensing and Computational Capabilities
Creators: name: Jain, Sourabh
name: Hlaing, May
name: Fan, Kang Chieh
name: Midkiff, Jason
name: Ning, Shupeng
name: Feng, Chenghao
name: Hsiao, Po Yu
name: Camp, Patrick
name: Chen, Ray
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As photonic technologies continue to grow in multidimensional aspects, integrated photonics holds a unique position and continuously presents enormous possibilities to research communities. Applications span across data centers, environmental monitoring, medical diagnosis, and highly compact communication components, with further possibilities growing endlessly. Here, we provide a review of state of the art integrated photonic sensors operating in near and mid infrared wavelength regions on various material platforms. Among different materials, architectures, and technologies leading the way for on chip sensors, we discuss optical sensing principles commonly applied to biochemical and gas sensing. Our focus is particularly on passive and active optical waveguides, including dispersion engineered metamaterial based structures an essential approach for enhancing the interaction between light and analytes in chip scale sensors. We harness a diverse array of cutting edge sensing technologies, heralding a revolutionary on chip sensing paradigm. Our arsenal includes refractive index based sensing, plasmonic, and spectroscopy, forging an unparalleled foundation for innovation and precision. Furthermore, we include a brief discussion of recent trends and computational concepts incorporating Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML) and deep learning approaches over the past few years to improve the qualitative and quantitative analysis of sensor measurements.
Additional file 7 of Age-related changes in DNA methylation in a sample of elderly Brazilians
Creators: name: Welsh, Hayley
name: Batalha, Caio M. P. F.
name: Li, Weili
name: Souza-Pinto, Nadja C.
name: Duarte, Yeda A. O.
name: Naslavsky, Michel S.
name: Parra, Esteban J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: supplementary Tables.
Atherurus africanus Gray 1842
Creators: name: Woods, Charles A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Hystricidae
Atherurus
Atherurus africanus

description: Atherurus africanus Gray, 1842. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., [ser. 1], 10:261. TYPE LOCALITY: Sierra Leone. DISTRIBUTION: Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, Zaire, Kenya, Uganda, S Sudan. SYNONYMS: armata, burrowsi, centralis, turneri. COMMENTS: Includes centralis and turneri; see Misonne (1974:8).
description: Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 773, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
description: {"references": ["Misonne, X. 1974. Order Rodentia. Part 6. Pp. 1 - 39, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated."]}
FEATURES OF LAPHAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY IN ACUTE KALCULATED CHOLECYSTITIS
Creators: name: Xakimov, O.S.
name: Qurbonov, SH.P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: development of a laparoscopic cholecystectomy method with interpretation of inflammatory changes in the gallbladder in acute destructive cholecystitis.
Trends in Antarctic Peninsula surface melting conditions from observations and regional climate modeling
Creators: name: Barrand, N. E.
name: Vaughan, D. G.
name: Steiner, N.
name: Tedesco, Marco
name: Kuipers Munneke, P.
name: Van Den Broeke, M. R.
name: Hosking, J. S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Meltwater
subject: Climatic geomorphology
subject: Earth temperature
subject: Climatic changes
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geomorphology
subject: Meteorology

description: Multidecadal meteorological station records and microwave backscatter time-series from the SeaWinds scatterometer onboard QuikSCAT (QSCAT) were used to calculate temporal and spatial trends in surface melting conditions on the Antarctic Peninsula (AP). Four of six long-term station records showed strongly positive and statistically significant trends in duration of melting conditions, including a 95% increase in the average annual positive degree day sum (PDD) at Faraday/Vernadsky, since 1948. A validated, threshold-based melt detection method was employed to derive detailed melt season onset, extent, and duration climatologies on the AP from enhanced resolution QSCAT data during 1999–2009. Austral summer melt on the AP was linked to regional- and synoptic-scale atmospheric variability by respectively correlating melt season onset and extent with November near-surface air temperatures and the October–January averaged index of the Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode (SAM). The spatial pattern, magnitude, and interannual variability of AP melt from observations was closely reproduced by simulations of the regional model RACMO2. Local discrepancies between observations and model simulations were likely a result of the QSCAT response to, and RACMO2 treatment of, ponded surface water, and the relatively crude representation of coastal climate in the 27 km RACMO2 grid.
Atherurus macrourus
Creators: name: Woods, Charles A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Hystricidae
Atherurus
Atherurus macrourus

description: Atherurus macrourus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:57. TYPE LOCALITY: "Habitat in Asia", restricted to Malaysia, Malacca by Lyon (1907:584). DISTRIBUTION: E Assam (India), Szechwan, Yunnan, Hupei, and Hainan (China) to Malaya, Sumatra, and adjacent islands, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Burma. SYNONYMS: angustiramus, assamensis, hainanus, pemangilis, retardatus, stevensi, terutaus, tionis, zigomatica.
description: Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 773, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
description: {"references": ["Lyon, M. W., Jr. 1907. Notes on the porcupines of the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. Proceedings of United States National Museum, 32: 575 - 594."]}
Diffuse Gas in Galaxies Sheds New Light on the Origin of Type Ia Supernovae
Creators: name: Johansson, Jonas
name: Woods, Tyrone E.
name: Gilfanov, Marat
name: Sarzi, Marc
name: Chen, Yan-Mei
name: Oh, Kyuseok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the strength of HeII$λ$4686 nebular emission in passively evolving ("retired") galaxies, aiming to constrain their populations of hot accreting white dwarfs (WDs) in the context of the single degenerate (SD) scenario of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). In the SD scenario, as a WD burns hydrogen-rich material accreted from a companion star, it becomes a powerful source of ionizing UV emission. If significant populations of such sources exist in galaxies, strong emission in the recombination lines of HeII should be expected from the interstellar medium. To explore this conjecture, we select from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ~11 500 emission line galaxies with stellar ages >1 Gyr showing no signs of AGN activity and co-add their spectra in bins of stellar population age. For the first time, we detect HeII$λ$4686 nebular emission in retired galaxies and find it to be significantly weaker than that expected in the SD scenario, especially in the youngest age bin (1-4 Gyr) where the SN Ia rate is the highest. Instead, the strength of the observed HeII$λ$4686 nebular emission is consistent with post-asymptotic giant branch stars being the sole ionizing source in all age bins. These results limit populations of accreting WDs with photospheric temperatures ($T_{\rm eff}$) in the range ~(1.5-6)$\cdot 10^5$ K to the level at which they can account for no more than ~5-10% of the observed SN Ia rate. Conversely, should all WD progenitors of SN Ia go through the phase of steady nuclear burning with $T_{\rm eff}$~(1.5-6)$\cdot 10^5$ K, they do not increase their mass by more than ~0.03 $M_\odot$ in this regime.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 19 pages, 18 figures. References added, minor text updates, figures added to Appendix A
Additional file 1 of Bloodstream infections at a tertiary hospital in the Gambia - a one-year retrospective study
Creators: name: Rahden, Paul
name: Barrow, Ebrima
name: Bah, Haddy
name: Bittaye, Sheikh Omar
name: Nygren, David
name: Badjan, Abdoulie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Perspectives of dark matter searches with antideuterons
Creators: name: Vittino, A.
name: Fornengo, N.
name: Maccione, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The search for an excess of antideuterons in the cosmic rays flux has been proposed as a very promising channel for dark matter indirect detection, especially for WIMPs with a low or intermediate mass. With the development of the AMS experiment and the proposal of a future dedicated experiment, i.e. the General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS), there are exciting possibilities for a dark matter detection in the near future. We give an overview on the principal issues related both to the antideuterons production in dark matter annihilation reactions and to their propagation through the interstellar medium and the heliosphere, with a particular focus on the impact of various solar modulation models on the flux at Earth. Lastly, we provide an updated calculation of the reaching capabilities for current and future experiments compatible with the constraints on the dark matter annihilation cross section imposed by the antiproton measurements of PAMELA.
description: Proceedings of the RICAP 2013 Conference, Roma, Italy, May 22-24, 2013; 4 pages, 3 figures
The role of albedo and accumulation in the 2010 melting record in Greenland
Creators: name: Tedesco, Marco
name: Fettweis, X.
name: Van Den Broeke, M. R.
name: Van De Wal, R. S. W.
name: Smeets, C. J. P. P.
name: Van De Berg, W. J.
name: Box, J. E.
name: Serreze, M. C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Hydrology
subject: Meltwater
subject: Geomorphology
subject: Albedo
subject: Runoff
subject: Ice sheets
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Analyses of remote sensing data, surface observations and output from a regional atmosphere model point to new records in 2010 for surface melt and albedo, runoff, the number of days when bare ice is exposed and surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet, especially over its west and southwest regions. Early melt onset in spring, triggered by above-normal near-surface air temperatures, contributed to accelerated snowpack metamorphism and premature bare ice exposure, rapidly reducing the surface albedo. Warm conditions persisted through summer, with the positive albedo feedback mechanism being a major contributor to large negative surface mass balance anomalies. Summer snowfall was below average. This helped to maintain low albedo through the 2010 melting season, which also lasted longer than usual.
Ecology and Human Flourishing: Theological Insights from an Urban Community Garden in Western Canada
Creators: Olabimtan, Kehinde Olumuyiwa
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

This three-part dissertation addresses the perceived indifference of a large segment of the Christian community to the ecological crisis of our time and suggests how they can experience heartfelt love and commitment toward God’s creation. It is premised on the belief of the American poet and farmer Wendell Berry that commitment to God’s creation, especially as represented by the land, is a matter of the heart. To this end, the first part of the dissertation explores the foundations eco-theologians have laid by applying theoretical, exegetical, and scientific data to establish the theological significance of God’s creation. The second part is a series of idiographic studies that used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to study a group of gardeners in Western Canada who reported on the significance of interacting with nature and people in a community garden. Their experiences, which varied according to the needs and challenges that brought them to the garden, indicated three outcomes of reflective gardening: the finding of community, the experience of growth as needed, and the realization of meaning. With no pretensions of universalizing the lived experience of the gardeners, the third part draws from the idiographic studies to gain insights into how community gardening can train the minds of the Christian faithful to love God’s creation through association, concluding with theological reflections on the significance of the ecological environment for our well-being and our Christian vision of the present life.
Controlling self-assembling co-polymer coatings of hydrophilic polysaccharide substrates via co-polymer block length ratio
Creators: name: Scacchi, Alberto
name: Hasheminejad, Kourosh
name: Javan Nikkah, Sousa
name: Sammalkorpi, Maria
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hypothesis: The degree of polymerization of amphiphilic di-block co-polymers, which can be varied with ease in computer simulations, provides a means to control self-assembling di-block co-polymer coatings on hydrophilic substrates. Simulations: We examine self-assembly of linear amphiphilic di-block co-polymers on hydrophilic surface via dissipative particle dynamics simulations. The system models a glucose based polysaccharide surface on which random co-polymers of styrene and n-butyl acrylate, as the hydrophobic block, and starch, as the hydrophilic block, forms a film. Such setups are common in e.g. hygiene, pharmaceutical, and paper product applications. Findings: Variation of the block length ratio (35 monomers in total) reveals that all examined compositions readily coat the substrate. However, strongly asymmetric block co-polymers with short hydrophobic segments are best in wetting the surface, whereas approximately symmetric composition leads to most stable films with highest internal order and well-defined internal stratification. At intermediate asymmetries, isolated hydrophobic domains form. We map the sensitivity and stability of the assembly response for a large variety of interaction parameters. The reported response persists for a wide polymermixing interactions range, providing general means to tune surface coating films and their internal structure, including compartmentalization.
Hystrix Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Woods, Charles A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Hystricidae
Hystrix

description: Hystrix Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:56. TYPE SPECIES: Hystrix cristata Linnaeus, 1758. SYNONYMS: Acanthion; Oedocephalus (see Allen, 1939), Thecurus. COMMENTS: Divided into three subgenera: Acanthion Cuvier, 1823; Hystrix Linnaeus, 1758; and Thecurus Lyon, 1907 (see Van Weers, 1977, 1978, 1979).
description: Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 773, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
description: {"references": ["Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classis, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tenth ed. Vol. 1. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, 824 pp.", "Allen, G. M. 1939. A checklist of African mammals. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 83: 1 - 763.", "Lyon, M. W., Jr. 1907. Notes on the porcupines of the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. Proceedings of United States National Museum, 32: 575 - 594.", "van Weers, D. J. 1977. Notes on southeast Asian porcupines (Hystricidae, Rodentia) II. On the taxonomy of the genus Atherurus F. Cuvier. Beaufortia (University of Amsterdam), 26 (336): 205 - 230.", "van Weers, D. J. 1978. Notes on southeast Asian porcupines (Hystricidae, Rodentia) III. On the taxonomy of the subgenus Thecurus Lyon, 1907. Beaufortia (University of Amsterdam), 28 (344): 17 - 33.", "van Weers, D. J. 1979. Notes on southeast Asian porcupines (Hystricidae, Rodentia) IV. On the taxonomy of the subgenus Acanthion F. Cuvier. Beaufortia, 29 (356): 215 - 272."]}
Potential Distributions of Chinchilla chinchilla in Chile
Creators: name: Deane, Amy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Chinchilla chinchilla, MAXEXT

description: Chinchillas were once thought to be extinct in the wild and are listed as endangered. The current in-situ distribution of wild chinchillas exists in Bolivia and Chile. Short-tailed chinchillas (Chinchilla chinchilla) was rediscovered in Chile in 2001 and Bolivia in 2017 existing in the wild. This study utilizes currently known distributions, elevation and climate to predict the probability of suitable habitat in the program Maxent. The warmest quarter and wettest quarter are the most important environmental factors in this model which was expected as the climate is arid and mediterranean climate zones. This species varies from its co-genera in having adaptations (smaller ears, larger body mass) to colder climates. Based on this model, temperature seems to be an important limiting factor on this species distribution. This map should be used for search expeditions. It must be noted that a similar map at a finer scale for the other chinchilla species predicted a larger possible area than that of its known distribution.
description: This is a working draft.
A reference-beam autocollimator with nanoradian sensitivity from mHz to kHz and dynamic range of 10^7
Creators: name: Arp, T. B.
name: Hagedorn, C. A.
name: Schlamminger, S.
name: Gundlach, J. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe an autocollimating optical angle sensor with a dynamic range of 9 mrad and nrad/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity at frequencies from 5 mHz to 3 kHz. This work improves the standard multi-slit autocollimator design by adding two optical components, a reference mirror and a condensing lens. This autocollimator makes a differential measurement between a reference mirror and a target mirror, suppressing common-mode noise sources. The condensing lens reduces optical aberrations, increases intensity, and improves image quality. To further improve the stability of the device at low frequencies the body of the autocollimator is designed to reduce temperature variations and their effects. A new data processing technique was developed in order to suppress the effects of imperfections in the CCD.
Additional file 3 of “Everything the hujur tells is very educative but if I cannot apply those in my own life then there is no meaning”: a mixed-methods process evaluation of a smoke-free homes intervention in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Jackson, Cath
name: Al Azdi, Zunayed
name: Kellar, Ian
name: Mdege, Noreen Dadirai
name: Fairhurst, Caroline
name: Ferdous, Tarana
name: Hewitt, Catherine
name: Huque, Rumana
name: Marshall, Anna-Marie
name: Semple, Sean
name: Sheikh, Aziz
name: Siddiqi, Kamran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3. Triangulation matrix for IAQ feedback.
The extreme melt across the Greenland ice sheet in 2012
Creators: name: Nghiem, S. V.
name: Hall, D. K.
name: Mote, T. L.
name: Tedesco, Marco
name: Albert, M. R.
name: Keegan, K.
name: Shuman, C. A.
name: Neumann, G.
name: DiGirolamo, N. E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Meltwater
subject: Climatic geomorphology
subject: Earth temperature
subject: Climatic changes
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geomorphology
subject: Meteorology

description: The discovery of the 2012 extreme melt event across almost the entire surface of the Greenland ice sheet is presented. Data from three different satellite sensors – including the Oceansat-2 scatterometer, the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, and the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder – are combined to obtain composite melt maps, representing the most complete melt conditions detectable across the ice sheet. Satellite observations reveal that melt occurred at or near the surface of the Greenland ice sheet across 98.6% of its entire extent on 12 July 2012, including the usually cold polar areas at high altitudes like Summit in the dry snow facies of the ice sheet. This melt event coincided with an anomalous ridge of warm air that became stagnant over Greenland. As seen in melt occurrences from multiple ice core records at Summit reported in the published literature, such a melt event is rare with the last significant one occurring in 1889 and the next previous one around seven centuries earlier in the Medieval Warm Period. Given its rarity, the 2012 extreme melt across Greenland provides an exceptional opportunity for new studies in broad interdisciplinary geophysical research.
Additional file 1 of Epidemiology of urinary tract infections in the Middle East and North Africa, 1990–2021
Creators: name: Amiri, Fatemeh
name: Safiri, Saeid
name: Aletaha, Reza
name: Sullman, Mark J. M.
name: Hassanzadeh, Kamaleddin
name: Kolahi, Ali-Asghar
name: Arshi, Shahnam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Supplementary material 1.
Study of the snow melt–freeze cycle using multi-sensor data and snow modelling
Creators: name: Cagnati, Anselmo
name: Crepaz, Andrea
name: Macelloni, Giovanni
name: Pampaloni, Paolo
name: Ranzi, Roberto
name: Tedesco, Marco
name: Tomirotti, Massimio
name: Valt, Mauro
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Hydrology
subject: Snow
subject: Meltwater
subject: Geomorphology
subject: Hydrologic cycle
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Meteorology

description: The melt cycle of snow is investigated by combining ground-based microwave radiometric measurements with conventional and meteorological data and by using a hydrological snow model. Measurements at 2000 m a.s.l in the basin of the Cordevole river in the eastern Italian Alps confirm the high sensitivity of microwave emission at 19 and 37 GHz to the snow melt–freeze cycle, while the brightness at 6.8 GHz is mostly related to underlying soil. Simulations of snowpack changes performed by means of hydrological and electromagnetic models, driven with meteorological and snow data, provide additional insight into these processes and contribute to the interpretation of the experimental data.
Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters 1852
Creators: name: Woods, Charles A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Hystricidae
Hystrix
Hystrix africaeaustralis

description: Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters, 1852. Reise nach Mossambique, Säugethiere, p.170. TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique, Querimba coast and Tette, about 10°30' to 12°S, 40°30'E, sea level. DISTRIBUTION: Mouth of the Congo River to Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, W and S Tanzania, Mozambique, and South Africa. Sympatric with H. cristata. STATUS: Common. SYNONYMS: capensis, prittwitzi, stegmanni, zuluensis. COMMENTS: Subgenus Hystrix. Revised by Corbet and Jones (1965); see Van Weers (1983).
description: Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 773, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
description: {"references": ["Corbet, G. B., and L. A. Jones. 1965. The specific characters of the crested porcupines, subgenus Hystrix. Proceedings of Zoological Society of London, 144: 285 - 300.", "van Weers, D. J. 1983. Specific distinction in Old World porcupines. Zoologische Garten, Jena, 53: 226 - 232."]}
Additional file 1 of Managing clustering effects and learning effects in the design and analysis of randomised surgical trials: a review of existing guidance
Creators: name: Conroy, Elizabeth J.
name: Blazeby, Jane M.
name: Burnside, Girvan
name: Cook, Jonathan A.
name: Gamble, Carrol
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Material 1. List of eligible guidance documents. Supplementary Material 2. Additional information on documents obtained by the targeted search. Supplementary Table 1. Key criteria coverage across documents summary.
title: Programma, quo ad orationes in laudem civitatis Weissenburgi Noricorum ac de officio eorum, qui, e praesentissimis belli periculis erepti, vicinis illis admodum pressis, pace fruuntur; [1705]
title: ad d. 5. Calend. Maji in Lyceo Weissenburgico publice habendas ... peroraturis expetit rector ; [P. P. Weissenburgi Noricorum Ann. MDCCV. VI. Cal. Maji]
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Döderlein, Johann Alexander
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2019

description: Enth.: [De fossa Carolina]
A-posteriori error estimates for the localized reduced basis multi-scale method
Creators: name: Ohlberger, Mario
name: Schindler, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.1.8
subject: 65N15, 65N22, 65N30, 65N55

description: We present a localized a-posteriori error estimate for the localized reduced basis multi-scale (LRBMS) method [Albrecht, Haasdonk, Kaulmann, Ohlberger (2012): The localized reduced basis multiscale method]. The LRBMS is a combination of numerical multi-scale methods and model reduction using reduced basis methods to efficiently reduce the computational complexity of parametric multi-scale problems with respect to the multi-scale parameter $\varepsilon$ and the online parameter $μ$ simultaneously. We formulate the LRBMS based on a generalization of the SWIPDG discretization presented in [Ern, Stephansen, Vohralik (2010): Guaranteed and robust discontinuous Galerkin a posteriori error estimates for convection-diffusion-reaction problems] on a coarse partition of the domain that allows for any suitable discretization on the fine triangulation inside each coarse grid element. The estimator is based on the idea of a conforming reconstruction of the discrete diffusive flux, that can be computed using local information only. It is offline/online decomposable and can thus be efficiently used in the context of model reduction.
Hystrix brachyura Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Woods, Charles A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Hystricidae
Hystrix
Hystrix brachyura

description: Hystrix brachyura Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:57. TYPE LOCALITY: Malaysia, Malacca. DISTRIBUTION: Nepal, Sikkim and Assam (India), C and S China, Burma, Thailand, Indochina, Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo, Malay Islands of Pinang, Singapore. SYNONYMS: alophus, bengalensis, grotei, hodgsoni, klossi, longicauda, millsi, millleri, papae, subcristata, yunnanensis. COMMENTS: Subgenus Acanthion (Van Weers, 1979:233); also see Lekagul and McNeely (1988:492).
description: Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 773, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
description: {"references": ["van Weers, D. J. 1979. Notes on southeast Asian porcupines (Hystricidae, Rodentia) IV. On the taxonomy of the subgenus Acanthion F. Cuvier. Beaufortia, 29 (356): 215 - 272.", "Lekagul, B., and J. A. McNeely. 1988. Mammals of Thailand. Second ed. Darnsutha Press. Bangkok. 758 pp."]}
Potential Distributions of Chinchilla chinchilla in Chile v2
Creators: name: Deane, Amy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Chinchilla chinchilla, MAXEXT

description: Chinchillas were once thought to be extinct in the wild and are listed as endangered. The current in-situ distribution of wild chinchillas exists in Bolivia and Chile. Short-tailed chinchillas (Chinchilla chinchilla) was rediscovered in Chile in 2001 and Bolivia in 2017 existing in the wild. This study utilizes currently known distributions, elevation and climate to predict the probability of suitable habitat in the program Maxent. The warmest quarter and wettest quarter are the most important environmental factors in this model which was expected as the climate is arid and mediterranean climate zones. This species varies from its co-genera in having adaptations (smaller ears, larger body mass) to colder climates. Based on this model, temperature seems to be an important limiting factor on this species distribution. This map should be used for search expeditions. It must be noted that a similar map at a finer scale for the other chinchilla species predicted a larger possible area than that of its known distribution.
description: This is a working draft.
Designing heavy metal oxide glasses with threshold properties from network rigidity
Creators: name: Chakraborty, Shibalik
name: Boolchand, P.
name: Malki, M.
name: Micoulaut, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here we show that a new class of glasses composed of heavy metal oxides involving transition metals (V$_\text {2}$O$_\text{}$5-TeO$_\text{2}$), can surprisingly be designed from very basic tools using topology and rigidity of their underlying molecular networks. When investigated as a function of composition, such glasses display abrupt changes in network packing and enthalpy of relaxation at Tg, underscoring presence of flexible to rigid elastic phase transitions. We find that these elastic phases are fully consistent with polaronic nature of electronic conductivity at high V$_\text{2}$O$_\text{5}$ content. Such observations have new implications for designing electronic glasses which differ from the traditional amorphous electrolytes having only mobile ions as charge carriers.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Hystrix crassispinis
Creators: name: Woods, Charles A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Hystricidae
Hystrix
Hystrix crassispinis

description: Hystrix crassispinis (Günther, 1877). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1876:736 [1877]. TYPE LOCALITY: Malaysia, Sabah, opposite Labuan Isl. DISTRIBUTION: N Borneo. SYNONYMS: major. COMMENTS: Subgenus Thecurus (Van Weers, 1978:22).
description: Published as part of Charles A. Woods, 1993, Order Rodentia - Suborder Hystricognathi, pp. 771-806 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 773, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353083
description: {"references": ["van Weers, D. J. 1978. Notes on southeast Asian porcupines (Hystricidae, Rodentia) III. On the taxonomy of the subgenus Thecurus Lyon, 1907. Beaufortia (University of Amsterdam), 28 (344): 17 - 33."]}
Snowmelt detection over the Greenland ice sheet from SSM/I brightness temperature daily variations
Creators: name: Tedesco, Marco
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Climatic geomorphology
subject: Meltwater
subject: Runoff
subject: Ice sheets
subject: Hydrology
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Geomorphology
subject: Climatic changes

description: We propose a technique for monitoring snowmelt over the Greenland ice sheet between 1992 and 2005 based on the difference between ascending and descending brightness temperatures (DAV) measured either at 19.35- or 37- GHz by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I). Wet snow is detected when both brightness temperatures and DAV values exceed fixed thresholds. Differently from existing techniques, a multi-frequency approach allows detection of wet snow at different depths and intensities, providing a tool for improving climatological and hydrological applications. Air temperature values either recorded by ground based stations or derived from model are used for calibrating and validating the technique. Results are compared with those obtained using backscattering coefficients recorded by the NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) during an extreme melting event occurring on June 2002. Long-term results show that snowmelt extent has been increasing at a rate of ∼40,000 Km² per year for the past 14 years.
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of pathology resources for cervical cancer detection between 2018 and 2022: a retrospective study at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Western Kenya
Creators: name: Anangwe, Nelson
name: Steimgrimson, Jon
name: Cu-Uvin, Susan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Additional file 2 of Evaluation of pathology resources for cervical cancer detection between 2018 and 2022: a retrospective study at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Western Kenya
Creators: name: Anangwe, Nelson
name: Steimgrimson, Jon
name: Cu-Uvin, Susan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Supplementary Material 2