cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
No Country for Old Men: Aging Dictators and Economic Growth
Creators: name: Jong-A-Pin, Richard
name: Mierau, Jochen O.
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2011

description: This paper develops a model of the relationship between the age of a dictator and economic growth. In the model a dictator must spread the resources of the economy over his reign but faces mortality and political risk. The model shows that if the time horizon of the dictator decreases, either due to an increase of mortality risk or political risk, the economic growth rate decreases. The model predictions are supported by empirical evidence based on a three-way fixed effects model including country, year and dictator fixed effects for a sample of dictators from 116 countries. These results are robust to sample selection, the tenure of dictators, the definition of dictatorship, and a broad set of economic growth determinants.
Recent Low x and Diffractive Collider Data
Creators: name: Newman, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Selected recent data from collider experiments pertaining to the understanding of QCD at low Bjorken-x are reviewed. The status of QCD and Regge factorisation in hard diffractive interactions is discussed in terms of data from HERA and the Tevatron. The possibility of anomalous behaviour in the $γγ$ total cross section is confronted with the most recent measurements from LEP. Data from all three colliders that are sensitive to possible BFKL effects are presented and different interpretations are discussed.
description: 9 pages, introductory talk from the 1999 Durham Phenomenology Workshop on Collider Physics
Additional file 3: of Droplet digital PCR for the quantification of Alu methylation status in hematological malignancies
Creators: name: Orsini, Paola
name: Impera, Luciana
name: Parciante, Elisa
name: Cumbo, Cosimo
name: Crescenzio Minervini
name: Minervini, Angela
name: Zagaria, Antonella
name: Anelli, Luisa
name: Coccaro, Nicoletta
name: Casieri, Paola
name: Tota, Giuseppina
name: Brunetti, Claudia
name: Ricco, Alessandra
name: Carluccio, Paola
name: Specchia, Giorgina
name: Albano, Francesco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S3. Molecular characteristics of the CMML patients retrospectively analyzed in this study. (DOCX 12 kb)
ALES: Overview and Upgrades
Creators: name: Skemer, Andrew J.
name: Hinz, Philip
name: Stone, Jordan
name: Skrutskie, Michael
name: Woodward, Charles E.
name: Leisenring, Jarron
name: Briesemeister, Zackery
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Arizona Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy (ALES) is the world's first AO-fed thermal infrared integral field spectrograph, mounted inside the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI) on the LBT. An initial mode of ALES allows 3-4 micron spectra at R~20 with 0.026'' spaxels over a 1''x1'' field-of-view. We are in the process of upgrading ALES with additional wavelength ranges, spectral resolutions, and plate scales allowing a broad suite of science that takes advantage of ALES's unique ability to work at wavelengths >2 microns, and at the diffraction limit of the LBT's full 23.8 meter aperture.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Optimal Forecasts in the Presence of Structural Breaks
Creators: name: Pesaran, M. Hashem
name: Pick, Andreas
name: Pranovich, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2011

description: This paper considers the problem of forecasting under continuous and discrete structural breaks and proposes weighting observations to obtain optimal forecasts in the MSFE sense. We derive optimal weights for continuous and discrete break processes. Under continuous breaks, our approach recovers exponential smoothing weights. Under discrete breaks, we provide analytical expressions for the weights in models with a single regressor and asympotically for larger models. It is shown that in these cases the value of the optimal weight is the same across observations within a given regime and differs only across regimes. In practice, where information on structural breaks is uncertain a forecasting procedure based on robust weights is proposed. Monte Carlo experiments and an empirical application to the predictive power of the yield curve analyze the performance of our approach relative to other forecasting methods.
A Convex Optimization Approach to Dynamic Programming in Continuous State and Action Spaces
Creators: name: Yang, Insoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: In this paper, a convex optimization-based method is proposed for numerically solving dynamic programs in continuous state and action spaces. The key idea is to approximate the output of the Bellman operator at a particular state by the optimal value of a convex program. The approximate Bellman operator has a computational advantage because it involves a convex optimization problem in the case of control-affine systems and convex costs. Using this feature, we propose a simple dynamic programming algorithm to evaluate the approximate value function at pre-specified grid points by solving convex optimization problems in each iteration. We show that the proposed method approximates the optimal value function with a uniform convergence property in the case of convex optimal value functions. We also propose an interpolation-free design method for a control policy, of which performance converges uniformly to the optimum as the grid resolution becomes finer. When a nonlinear control-affine system is considered, the convex optimization approach provides an approximate policy with a provable suboptimality bound. For general cases, the proposed convex formulation of dynamic programming operators can be modified as a nonconvex bi-level program, in which the inner problem is a linear program, without losing uniform convergence properties.
N=(4,4) 2D Supersymmetric Gauge Theory and Brane Configuration
Creators: name: Alishahiha, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct type II A brane configuration of N=(4,4) supersymmetric two dimensional gauge theory with gauge group U(1) and N_f hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. By lifting to M-theory (strong coupling), we can see the origin of the R-symmetry enhancement of the Coulomb branch. One can also find two theories which become equivalent at strong coupling.
description: LaTex file, 7 pages, the typos are corrected
The expression of matrix metalloproteinase 2, 9 and 11 in Ethiopian breast cancer patients
Creators: name: Belachew, Esmael Besufikad
name: Desta, Adey Feleke
name: Deneke, Dinikisira Bekele
name: Gebremariam, Tewodros Yalew
name: Tefera, Dessalegn Abeje
name: Atire, Fikadu Alemu
name: Alemayehu, Dawit Hailu
name: Seyoum, Tamirayehu
name: Bauer, Marcus
name: Girma, Selfu
name: Sewasew, Dareskedar Tsehay
name: Kantelhardt, Eva Johanna
name: Tesfaye Sisay Tessema
name: Howe, Rawleigh
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Introduction: Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play a pathophysiological role in cancer initiation and progression. Numerous studies have examined an association between MMP-2, MMP-9, and MMP-11 expression and clinicopathological characteristics of breast cancer (BC); however, no research has been done on the MMP expression levels in BC cases from Ethiopia. Materials and methods: A total of 58 formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded breast tissue samples encompassing 16 benign breast tumors and 42 BC were collected. The RNA was extracted and quantitative reverse-transcription PCR was performed. GraphPad Prism version 8.0.0 was used for statistical analysis. Results The MMP-11 expression levels were significantly higher in breast cancer cases than in benign breast tumors (P = 0.012). Additionally, BC cases with positive lymph nodes and ER-positive receptors had higher MMP-11, MMP-9, and MMP-2 expression than cases with negative lymph nodes and ER-negative, respectively. The MMP-11 and MMP-9 expressions were higher in grade III and luminal A-like tumors than in grade I-II and other subtypes, respectively. Conclusion: The MMP-11 expression was higher in BC than in benign breast tumors. Additionally, MMP-11, MMP-9, and MMP-2 were higher in BC with positive lymph nodes and estrogen receptors. Our findings suggest an important impact of MMPs in BC pathophysiology, particularly MMP-11.
POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN AFRICA
Creators: name: Ferree, Karen
name: Singh, Smita
name: Bates, Robert
name: Ferree, Karen
name: Singh, Smita
name: Bates, Robert
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: International Development
Political Economy

description: The paper focuses on economic and political change in 46 African countries, 1975-1991. Findings include: 1. That while growth rates in Africa have been low, there has been substantial cross-national variation as well as variation over time. 2. That political reforms in Africa can be decomposed into patterns of incremental but steady change, most of which takes place at the lower levels of political accountability, and discontinuous and abrupt political changes, most of which take place at higher levels. 3. That nature of political institutions in Africa appears to bear a systematic relationship with the rate of economic growth. a. Overall, nations which rank one level higher in their level of political accountability appear to possess a 0.6 percentage point higher average rate of growth. In a continent of 2.0 percent or less growth rates, 0.6 percent represents a large number. b. Differences at low levels of the political scale (see below) appear to be positively associated with' subsequent rates of economic growth to a higher degree than do differences at higher levels. 4. That the results must be treated as highly preliminary and suggestive only of the fact that further work on political economy of growth in Africa should be undertaken.
Rissdetektion mittels akustischer Emission an höchstfesten Stahldrähten
Creators: name: Lorenz, Mathias
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 500 Natural sciences
subject: 600 Technology (Applied sciences)
subject: 620 Engineering & allied operations

description: Diese Dissertation untersucht eine innovative Methode zur Rissdetektion und analysiert deren Unterschiede im akustischen Signal, um neue Ansätze zur Bewertung und Überwachung von Rissen zu entwickeln. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Übertragung der Methode in industrielle Prozesse sowie deren Validierung. Abschließend werden die zugrunde liegenden Schädigungsmechanismen eingehend betrachtet, um ein umfassendes Verständnis für die Entstehung und Entwicklung von Rissen zu schaffen.
Association of the Arabidopsis oleoyl Δ12-desaturase FAD2 with pre-cis-Golgi stacks at endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi-exit sites
Creators: name: Launhardt, Larissa
name: Uhlenberg, Johanna
name: Stellmach, Hagen
name: Schomburg, Marie
name: Hause, Bettina
name: Heilmann, Ingo
name: Heilmann, Mareike
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 572

description: The unsaturation of phospholipids inﬂuences the function of membranes. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the oleoyl D12-desaturase FAD2 converts oleic (18:1D9 ) to linoleic acid (18:2D9,12 ) and inﬂuences phospholipid unsatura- tion in different cellular membranes. Despite its importance, the precise localization of Arabidopsis FAD2 has not been unambiguously described. As FAD2 is thought to modify phospholipid-associated fatty acids at the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), from where unsaturates are distributed to other cellular sites, we hypothesized that FAD2 locates to ER subdomains enabling trafﬁcking of lipid intermediates through the secretory pathway. Fluorescent FAD2 fusions used to test this hypothesis were ﬁrst assessed for functional- ity by heterologous expression in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), and in planta by Arabidopsis fad2 mutant rescue upon ectopic expression from an intrinsic FAD2 promoter fragment. Light sheet ﬂuorescence, laser scanning confocal or spinning disc microscopy of roots, leaves, or mesophyll protoplasts showed the functional ﬂuorescence-tagged FAD2 variants in ﬂattened donut-shaped structures of ~0.5–1 lm diameter, in a pattern not resembling mere ER association. High-resolution imaging of coexpressed organellar markers showed ﬂuorescence-tagged FAD2 in a ring-shaped pattern surrounding ER-proximal Golgi parti- cles, colocalizing with pre-cis-Golgi markers. This localization required the unusual C-terminal retention sig- nal of FAD2, and deletion or substitutions in this protein region resulted in relaxed distribution and diffuse association with the ER. The distinct association of FAD2 with pre-cis-Golgi stacks in Arabidopsis root and leaf tissue is consistent with a contribution of FAD2 to membrane lipid homeostasis through the secretory pathway, as veriﬁed by an increased plasma membrane liquid phase order in the fad2 mutant.
The Role of Behavioural Economics in Energy and Climate Policy
Creators: name: Pollitt, Michael G.
name: Shaorshadze, Irina
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2011
Subjects: behavioural economics
energy economics
energy demand
energy efficiency
private provision of public goods

description: This article explores how behavioural economics can be applied to energy and climate policy. We present an overview of main concepts of behavioural economics and discuss how they differ from the assumptions of neoclassical economics. Next, we discuss how behavioural economics applies to three areas of energy policy: (1) consumption and habits, (2) investment in energy efficiency, and (3) provision of public goods and support for pro-environmental behaviour. We conclude that behavioural economics seems unlikely to provide the magic bullet to reduce energy consumption by the magnitude required by the International Energy Agency's “450” climate policy scenario. However it offers new suggestions as to where to start looking for potentially sustainable changes in energy consumption. We believe that the most useful role within climate policy is in addressing issues of public perception of the affordability of climate policy and in facilitating the creation of a more responsive energy demand, better capable of responding to weather-induced changes in renewable electricity supply.
Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) edessae Ebmer 1974
Creators: name: Risch, Stephan
name: Roberts, Stuart P. M.
name: Smit, Jan
name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Michez, Denis
name: Reverté, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum edessae

description: Lasioglossum (Sphecodogastra) edessae Ebmer, 1974
 Distribution. Cyprus (Nicosia) (Ebmer 1995). Outside Europe known from Turkey.
description: Published as part of Risch, Stephan, Roberts, Stuart P. M., Smit, Jan, Wood, Thomas J., Michez, Denis & Reverté, Sara, 2023, The new annotated checklist of the wild bees of Europe (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), pp. 1-147 in Zootaxa 5327 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5327.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8244373
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Beaune et du Beaunois (XVe siècle), Cart. 174 (11 H 79), 56 pages, f. 0046
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2015
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Beaune et du Beaunois (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 174 (11 H 79), 56 pages, f. 0046, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de Cîteaux pour les possessions de Beaune et du Beaunois (XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 174 (11 H 79), 56 pages, f. 0046, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Gridbot: An autonomous robot controlled by a Spiking Neural Network mimicking the brain's navigational system
Creators: name: Tang, Guangzhi
name: Michmizos, Konstantinos P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: It is true that the "best" neural network is not necessarily the one with the most "brain-like" behavior. Understanding biological intelligence, however, is a fundamental goal for several distinct disciplines. Translating our understanding of intelligence to machines is a fundamental problem in robotics. Propelled by new advancements in Neuroscience, we developed a spiking neural network (SNN) that draws from mounting experimental evidence that a number of individual neurons is associated with spatial navigation. By following the brain's structure, our model assumes no initial all-to-all connectivity, which could inhibit its translation to a neuromorphic hardware, and learns an uncharted territory by mapping its identified components into a limited number of neural representations, through spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP). In our ongoing effort to employ a bioinspired SNN-controlled robot to real-world spatial mapping applications, we demonstrate here how an SNN may robustly control an autonomous robot in mapping and exploring an unknown environment, while compensating for its own intrinsic hardware imperfections, such as partial or total loss of visual input.
description: 8 pages, 3 Figures, International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS 2018)
Knowledge is power: A theory of information, income and welfare spending
Creators: name: Lind, Jo Thori
name: Rohner, Dominic
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2011
Subjects: Redistribution
Welfare Spending
Information
Income
Voting
Political Economics

description: No voters cast their votes based on perfect information, but better educated and richer voters are on average better informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, and cause parties to choose political platforms that are better aligned with the preferences of rich voters. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters than for less informed voters, as predicted by the model. Further, in a panel of US states we find that when there is a strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also in line with our theory.
The O(N) Model at Finite Temperature: Renormalization of the Gap Equations in Hartree and Large-N Approximation
Creators: name: Lenaghan, J. T.
name: Rischke, D. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temperature dependence of the sigma meson and pion masses is studied in the framework of the O(N) model. The Cornwall-Jackiw-Tomboulis formalism is applied to derive gap equations for the masses in the Hartree and large-N approximations. Renormalization of the gap equations is carried out within the cut-off and counter-term renormalization schemes. A consistent renormalization of the gap equations within the cut-off scheme is found to be possible only in the large-N approximation and for a finite value of the cut-off. On the other hand, the counter-term scheme allows for a consistent renormalization of both the large-N and Hartree approximations. In these approximations, the meson masses at a given nonzero temperature depend in general on the choice of the cut-off or renormalization scale. As an application, we also discuss the in-medium on-shell decay widths for sigma mesons and pions at rest.
description: 21 pages, 6 figures, typos corrected and refs. added, accepted in Journal of Physics G
Hunting for Contact Interactions at HERA with polarized lepton and proton beams
Creators: name: Virey, J. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the discovery and analysis potentials of the HERA collider, with and without polarized beams, in search for electron-quark contact interactions in the neutral current channel. We find that the sensitivity to contact interactions when both beams are polarized is similar to the unpolarized case, and is better than in the case where one has only lepton polarization. We emphasize that the measurement of spin asymmetries in such a polarized context could give some crucial informations on the chiral structure of these postulated new interactions. The experimental conditions are carefully taken into account.
description: Latex file, 34 pages and 7 ps fig. included in tex file with psfig.sty
Targeted knockout of a conserved plant mitochondrial gene by genome editing
Creators: name: Forner, Joachim
name: Kleinschmidt, Dennis
name: Meyer, Etienne H.
name: Gremmels, Jürgen
name: Morbitzer, Robert
name: Lahaye, Thomas
name: Schöttler, Mark Aurel
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 580

description: Fusion proteins derived from transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) have emerged as genome editing tools for mitochondria. TALE nucleases (TALENs) have been applied to delete chimaeric reading frames and duplicated (redundant) genes but produced complex genomic rearrangements due to the absence of non-homologous end-joining. Here we report the targeted deletion of a conserved mitochondrial gene, nad9, encoding a subunit of respiratory complex I. By generating a large number of TALEN-mediated mitochondrial deletion lines, we isolated, in addition to mutants with rearranged genomes, homochondriomic mutants harbouring clean nad9 deletions. Characterization of the knockout plants revealed impaired complex I biogenesis, male sterility and defects in leaf and flower development. We show that these defects can be restored by expressing a functional Nad9 protein from the nuclear genome, thus creating a synthetic cytoplasmic male sterility system. Our data (1) demonstrate the feasibility of using genome editing to study mitochondrial gene functions by reverse genetics, (2) highlight the role of complex I in plant development and (3) provide proof-of-concept for the construction of synthetic cytoplasmic male sterility systems for hybrid breeding by genome editing.
The Planetary Systems Imager: 2-5 Micron Channel
Creators: name: Skemer, Andrew J.
name: Stelter, Deno
name: Mawet, Dimitri
name: Fitzgerald, Michael
name: Mazin, Benjamin
name: Guyon, Olivier
name: Marois, Christian
name: Briesemeister, Zackery
name: Brandt, Timothy
name: Chilcote, Jeffrey
name: Delorme, Jacques-Robert
name: Jovanovic, Nemanja
name: Lu, Jessica
name: Millar-Blanchaer, Maxwell
name: Wallace, James
name: Vasisht, Gautam
name: Roberts, Lewis C.
name: Wang, Ji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize the red channel (2-5 micron) of the Planetary Systems Imager (PSI), a proposed second-generation instrument for the TMT. Cold exoplanets emit the majority of their light in the thermal infrared, which means these exoplanets can be detected at a more modest contrast than at other wavelengths. PSI-Red will be able to detect and characterize a wide variety of exoplanets, including radial-velocity planets on wide orbits, accreting protoplanets in nearby star-forming regions, and reflected-light planets around the nearest stars. PSI-Red will feature an imager, a low-resolution lenslet integral field spectrograph, a medium-resolution lenslet+slicer integral field spectrograph, and a fiber-fed high-resolution spectrograph.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Habitat-based biodiversity responses to macroclimate and edaphic factors in European fen ecosystems
Creators: name: Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja
name: Aunina, Liene
name: Carbognani, Michele
name: Dítě, Daniel
name: Fernández-Pascual, Eduardo
name: Garbolino, Emmanuel
name: Hájek, Ondřej
name: Hajkova, Petra
name: Ivchenko, Tatiana G.
name: Jandt, Ute
name: Jansen, Florian
name: Kolari, Tiina H. M.
name: Pawlikowski, Paweł
name: Pérez-Haase, Aaron
name: Peterka, Tomáš
name: Petraglia, Alessandro
name: Plesková, Zuzana
name: Tahvanainen, Teemu
name: Tomaselli, Marcello
name: Hájek, Michal
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 570

description: Understanding large-scale drivers of biodiversity in palustrine wetlands is challenging due to the combined effects of macroclimate and local edaphic conditions. In boreal and temperate fen ecosystems, the influence of macroclimate on biodiversity is modulated by hydrological settings across habitats, making it difficult to assess their vulnerability to climate change. Here, we investigate the influence of macroclimate and edaphic factors on three Essential Biodiversity Variables across eight ecologically defined habitats that align with ecosystem classifications and red lists. We used 27,555 vegetation plot samples from European fens to assess the influence of macroclimate and groundwater pH predictors on the geographic distribution of each habitat type. Additionally, we modeled the relative influence of macroclimate, water pH, and water table depth on community species richness and composition, focusing on 309 plant specialists. Our models reveal strong effects of mean annual temperature, diurnal thermal range, and summer temperature on biodiversity variables, with contrasting differences among habitats. While macroclimatic factors primarily shape geographic distributions and species richness, edaphic factors emerge as the primary drivers of composition for vascular plants and bryophytes. Annual precipitation exhibits non-linear effects on fen biodiversity, with varying impact across habitats with different hydrological characteristics, suggesting a minimum requirement of 600 mm of annual precipitation for the occurrence of fen ecosystems. Our results anticipate potential impacts of climate warming on European fens, with predictable changes among habitat types and geographic regions. Moreover, we provide evidence that the drivers of biodiversity in boreal and temperate fens are closely tied to the ecological characteristics of each habitat type and the dispersal abilities of bryophytes and vascular plants. Given that the influence of macroclimate and edaphic factors on fen ecosystems is habitat specific, climate change research and conservation actions should consider ecological differentiation within functional IUCN ecosystems at continental and regional scales.
(0,2) Target Space Duality, CICYs and Reflexive Sheaves
Creators: name: Blumenhagen, Ralph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that the recently proposed target space duality for (0,2) models is not limited to models admitting a Landau-Ginzburg description. By studying some generic examples it is established for the broader class of vector bundles over complete intersections in toric varieties. Instead of sharing a common Landau-Ginzburg locus, a pair of dual models agrees in more general non-geometric phases. The mathematical tools for treating reflexive sheaves are provided, as well.
description: 20 pages, TeX, harvmac
Lasioglossum (Lasioglossum) fallax
Creators: name: Risch, Stephan
name: Roberts, Stuart P. M.
name: Smit, Jan
name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Michez, Denis
name: Reverté, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum fallax

description: Lasioglossum (Lasioglossum) fallax (Morawitz, 1874)
 Distribution. Crimea (Proshchalykin & Astafurova 2012); European part of Russia: Rostov Prov. (Pesenko 1972), Volgograd Prov. (Bļthgen 1925), Bashkir Rep. (Ebmer 1998). Outside Europe known from Georgia, Turkey, Iran and Turkmenistan.
description: Published as part of Risch, Stephan, Roberts, Stuart P. M., Smit, Jan, Wood, Thomas J., Michez, Denis & Reverté, Sara, 2023, The new annotated checklist of the wild bees of Europe (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), pp. 1-147 in Zootaxa 5327 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5327.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8244373
Real and Virtual Compton Scattering at Low Energies
Creators: name: Scherer, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: These lectures give a pedagogical introduction to real and virtual Compton scattering at low energies. We will first discuss real Compton scattering off a point particle as well as a composite system in the framework of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. The concept of electromagnetic polarizabilities is introduced. We then address a description of the Compton-scattering tensor within quantum field theory with particular emphasis on the derivation of low-energy theorems. The importance of a consistent treatment of hadron structure in the use of electromagnetic vertices is stressed. Finally, the reader is introduced to the notion of generalized polarizabilities in the rapidly expanding field of virtual Compton scattering.
description: 41 pages, RevTex file, 5 postscript figures, invited lectures at the 11th Indian-Summer School on Intermediate Energy Physics ``Mesons and Light Nuclei,'' Prague, Czech Republic, September 7 - 11, 1998, to appear in Czech J. Phys
Additional file 3: of A comparison of outcome measures used to report clubfoot treatment with the Ponseti method: results from a cohort in Harare, Zimbabwe
Creators: name: Smythe, Tracey
name: Maxman Gova
name: Rumbidzai Muzarurwi
name: Foster, Allen
name: Lavy, Christopher
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Summary of outcomes: Bangla score. Individual category calculations for the Bangla score. (DOCX 23 kb)
Enhanced Transmission Due to Disorder
Creators: name: Freilikher, V. D.
name: Maradudin, A. A.
name: McGurn, A. R.
name: Liansky, B. A.
name: Yurkevich, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The transmissivity of a one-dimensional random system that is periodic on average is studied. It is shown that the transmission coefficient for frequencies corresponding to a gap in the band structure of the average periodic system increases with increasing disorder while the disorder is weak enough. This property is shown to be universal, independent of the type of fluctuations causing the randomness. In the case of strong disorder the transmission coefficient for frequencies in allowed bands is found to be a non monotonic function of the strength of the disorder. An explanation for the latter behavior is provided.
description: 9 pages, RevTeX 3.0, 4 Postscript figures
Civil War and Human Development: Impacts of Finance and Financial Infrastructure
Creators: name: Baddeley, Michelle
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2011

description: In this paper interactions between finance, development and armed conflict are explored to demonstrate that financial factors are crucial in sustaining conflict-underdevelopment feedback loops. Military expenditure drains resources, financial instability leads to conflict (and vice versa), war retards the development of financial institutions/infrastructure, and interactions between finance and conflict are exacerbated by distributional struggles. Some of these feedback effects are captured within a two-stage model of war, finance and development and this is used as the basis for an empirical analysis. Econometrically, the model is estimated using panel estimation and two stage Probit least squares (2SPLS) binary dependent variable estimation techniques to control for simultaneity and heterogeneity. The results suggest that financial constraints and financial instability increase the chances of civil war directly and, via negative impacts on development, indirectly too.
Chiral And Parity Anomalies At Finite Temperature And Density
Creators: name: Sissakian, A. N.
name: Shevchenko, O. Yu.
name: Solganik, S. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two closely related topological phenomena are studied at finite density and temperature. These are chiral anomaly and Chern-Simons term. By using different methods it is shown that $μ^2 = m^2$ is the crucial point for Chern-Simons at zero temperature. So when $μ^2 < m^2$ $μ$--influence disappears and we get the usual Chern-Simons term. On the other hand when $μ^2 > m^2$ the Chern-Simons term vanishes because of non-zero density of background fermions. It is occurs that the chiral anomaly doesn't depend on density and temperature. The connection between parity anomalous Chern-Simons and chiral anomaly is generalized on finite density. These results hold in any dimension as in abelian, so as in nonabelian cases.
Oil Prices, External Income, and Growth: Lessons from Jordan
Creators: name: Mohaddes, Kamiar
name: Raissi, Mehdi
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2011

description: This paper extends the long-run growth model of Esfahani et al. (2009) to a labour exporting country that receives large inflows of external income - the sum of remittances, FDI and general government transfers - from major oil exporting economies. The theoretical model predicts real oil prices to be one of the main long-run drivers of real output. Using quarterly data between 1979 and 2009 on core macroeconomic variables for Jordan and a number of key foreign variables, we identify two long-run relationships: an output equation as predicted by theory and an equation linking foreign and domestic inflation rates. It is shown that real output in the long run is shaped by (i) oil prices through their impact on external income and in turn on capital accumulation, and (ii) technological transfers through foreign output. The empirical analysis of the paper confirms the hypothesis that a large share of Jordan's output volatility can be associated with fluctuations in net income received from abroad. External factors, however, cannot be relied upon to provide similar growth stimuli in the future, and therefore it will be important to diversify the sources of growth in order to achieve a high and sustained level of income.
Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) pallidum
Creators: name: Risch, Stephan
name: Roberts, Stuart P. M.
name: Smit, Jan
name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Michez, Denis
name: Reverté, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum pallidum

description: Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) pallidum (Radoszkowski, 1888)
 Distribution. European part of Russia (Volgograd Prov.) (Proshchalykin et al. 2017). Outside Europe known from Turkmenistan and Afghanistan.
description: Published as part of Risch, Stephan, Roberts, Stuart P. M., Smit, Jan, Wood, Thomas J., Michez, Denis & Reverté, Sara, 2023, The new annotated checklist of the wild bees of Europe (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), pp. 1-147 in Zootaxa 5327 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5327.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8244373
Human breast tissue microbiota reveals unique microbial signatures that correlate with prognostic features in adult Ethiopian women with breast cancer
Creators: name: Desalegn, Zelalem
name: Smith, Alana
name: Yohannes, Meron
name: Cao, Xueyuan
name: Anberber, Endale
name: Bekuretsion, Yonas
name: Assefa, Mathewos
name: Bauer, Marcus
name: Vetter, Martina
name: Kantelhardt, Eva Johanna
name: Abbäbä, Tamrat
name: Starlard-Davenport, Athena
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: Breast cancer (BC) is the leading cause of cancer mortality among women in Ethiopia. Overall, women of African ancestry have the highest death toll due to BC compared to other racial/ethnic groups. The cause of the disparity in mortality is unclear. Recently, studies conducted in the United States and other high-income countries highlighted the role of microbial dysbiosis in BC initiation, tumor growth, and treatment outcome. However, the extent to which inter-individual differences in the makeup of microbiota are associated with clinical and histopathological outcomes in Ethiopian women has not been studied. The goal of our study was to profile the microbiome in breast tumor and normal adjacent to tumor (NAT) tissues of the same donor and to identify associations between microbial composition and abundance and clinicopathological factors in Ethiopian women with BC. We identified 14 microbiota genera in breast tumor tissues that were distinct from NAT tissues, of which Sphingobium, Anaerococcus, Corynebacterium, Delftia, and Enhydrobacter were most significantly decreased in breast tumors compared to NAT tissues. Several microbial genera significantly differed by clinicopathological factors in Ethiopian women with BC. Specifically, the genus Burkholderia more strongly correlated with aggressive triple negative (TNBC) and basal-like breast tumors. The genera Alkanindiges, Anoxybacillus, Leifsonia, and Exiguobacterium most strongly correlated with HER2-E tumors. Luminal A and luminal B tumors also correlated with Anoxybacillus but not as strongly as HER2−E tumors. A relatively higher abundance of the genus Citrobacter most significantly correlated with advanced-stage breast tumors compared to early-stage tumors. This is the first study to report an association between breast microbial dysbiosis and clinicopathological factors in Ethiopian women.
Information Effects in Valuation of Electricity and Water Service Attributes Using Contingent Valuation
Creators: name: Akcura, Elcin
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2011
Subjects: Contingent Valuation Method
Willingness to Pay
Zero Inflated Ordered Probit Model

description: Consumers constantly make decisions on the goods and services they purchase, in most cases with incomplete information. Many products that are available in stores, in catalogues, or over the internet are not presented with a full list of attributes or technical specifications. Lack of information is most apparent in non-market goods such as utility service attributes. This paper examines information effects on consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for a number of electricity and water attributes using two contingent valuation surveys administered in the UK. The attributes considered include WTP for a carbon cleaner electricity fuel mixture as well as increasing security of supply. The results indicate that the quantity and complexity of information can potentially lead individuals to ignore the information presented. The relevance of the attribute to the respondent is found to be a significant motivator in the processing of the information presented. The survey data also reveal a number of socio-economic, attitudinal and behavioural factors that affect WTP for the attributes considered.
On the contribution of the P and D partial-wave states to the binding energy of the triton in the Bethe-Salpeter-Faddeev approach
Creators: name: Bondarenko, S. G.
name: Burov, V. V.
name: Yurev, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The influence of the partial-wave states with nonzero orbital moment of the nucleon pair on the binding energy of the triton in the relativistic case is considered. The relativistic generalization of the Faddeev equation in the Bethe-Salpeter formalism is applied. Two-nucleon t matrix is obtained from the Bethe-Salpeter equation with separable kernel of nucleon-nucleon interaction of the rank one. The kernel form factors are the relativistic type of the Yamaguchi functions. The following two-nucleon partial-wave states are considered: $^1S_0$, $^3S_1$, $^3D_1$, $^3P_0$, $^1P_1$, $^3P_1$. The system of the integral equations are solved by using the iteration method. The binding energy of the triton and three-nucleon amplitudes are found. The contribution of the P and D states to the binding energy of triton is given.
Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults
Creators: name: Pesaran, M. Hashem
name: Xu, TengTeng
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2011

description: This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle dynamics, where firms rely on banks and households for capital financing. Firms are identical ex ante but differ ex post due to different realizations of firm specific technology shocks, possibly leading to default by some firms. The paper advances a new modelling approach for the analysis of financial intermediation and firm defaults that takes account of the financial implications of such defaults for both households and banks. Results from a calibrated version of the model highlights the role of financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined as a rise in the loan to deposit ratio, increases output, consumption, hours and productivity, and reduces the spread between loan and deposit rates. The effects of the credit shock tend to be highly persistent even without price rigidities and habit persistence in consumption behaviour.
Energy, the Environment and Behaviour Change: A survey of insights from behavioural economics
Creators: name: Baddeley, Michelle
Publisher: name: Faculty of Economics
Year: 2011

description: Evidence of climate change is largely undisputed but moderating the impacts not only of climate change but also of resource depletion is a complex, multi-faceted problem. Technical solutions will have a large role to play but engineering behaviour change within households and firms is essential to harnessing the potential for energy efficient consumption, production and investment. To inform debates about behavior change, this paper explores some insights from behavioural economics including analyses of bounded rationality, cognitive bias / heuristics, temporal discounting, social influences, well-being and emotions.
Lasioglossum (Dialictus) pseudoleptocephalum
Creators: name: Risch, Stephan
name: Roberts, Stuart P. M.
name: Smit, Jan
name: Wood, Thomas J.
name: Michez, Denis
name: Reverté, Sara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Lasioglossum
Lasioglossum pseudoleptocephalum

description: Lasioglossum (Dialictus) pseudoleptocephalum (Bl̡thgen, 1923)
 Distribution. Spain and Portugal (Ebmer 1976; Pauly & Ortiz-Sánchez 2017; Baldock et al. 2018). Outside Europe known from Morocco.
description: Published as part of Risch, Stephan, Roberts, Stuart P. M., Smit, Jan, Wood, Thomas J., Michez, Denis & Reverté, Sara, 2023, The new annotated checklist of the wild bees of Europe (Hymenoptera: Anthophila), pp. 1-147 in Zootaxa 5327 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5327.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8244373
Quasar main sequence in the UV plane
Creators: name: Śniegowska, Marzena
name: Kozłowski, Szymon
name: Czerny, Bożena
name: Panda, Swayamtrupta
name: Hryniewicz, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Active galaxies form a clear pattern in the optical plane showing the correlation between the Full Width Half Maximum (FWHM) of the H$β$ line and the ratio of the Equivalent Width (EW) of the optical FeII emission and the EW(H$β$). This pattern is frequently refereed to as the quasar main sequence. In this paper we study the UV plane showing FWHM of the MgII line against the ratio of EW of UV FeII emission to EW(MgII). We show that the UV plane trends are different, with the underlying strong correlation between FWHM(MgII) and EW(MgII). This correlation is entirely driven by the choice of the continuum used to measure EW(MgII). If we correct for the strong curvature in the UV continuum related to the character of emission expected from accretion disk, the behavior of the FWHM vs. EW for MgII becomes similar to the behaviour of H$β$. Such a similarity is expected since both lines belong to the Low Ionization group of emission lines and come from a similar region. Such a similarity and weak coupling between FWHM and EW of the corresponding line is then also consistent with the Broad Line Region model based on the presence of dust in the accretion disk atmosphere.
description: 15 pages, 11 figures
Multidimensional responses of grassland stability to eutrophication
Creators: name: Chen, Qingqing
name: Wang, Shaopeng
name: Borer, Elizabeth T.
name: Bakker, Jonathan D.
name: Seabloom, Eric W.
name: Harpole, Stan
name: Eisenhauer, Nico
name: Lekberg, Ylva
name: Buckley, Yvonne M.
name: Catford, Jane A.
name: Roscher, Christiane
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 580

description: Eutrophication usually impacts grassland biodiversity, community composition, and biomass production, but its impact on the stability of these community aspects is unclear. One challenge is that stability has many facets that can be tightly correlated (low dimensionality) or highly disparate (high dimensionality). Using standardized experiments in 55 grassland sites from a globally distributed experiment (NutNet), we quantify the effects of nutrient addition on five facets of stability (temporal invariability, resistance during dry and wet growing seasons, recovery after dry and wet growing seasons), measured on three community aspects (aboveground biomass, community composition, and species richness). Nutrient addition reduces the temporal invariability and resistance of species richness and community composition during dry and wet growing seasons, but does not affect those of biomass. Different stability measures are largely uncorrelated under both ambient and eutrophic conditions, indicating consistently high dimensionality. Harnessing the dimensionality of ecological stability provides insights for predicting grassland responses to global environmental change.