cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gender Participation in Forestry and Agro-Forestry Practices in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Isiorhovoja, R. A.
name: Isiorhovoja, R. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Gender
subject: Forestry
subject: Agroforestry
subject: Delta State

description: This study examined the level of gender participation in forestry practices in Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria. Specifically, the study examined the gender distribution of operators among various economic activities in forestry practices and gender differences in income. Data were collected on the marital status, age, educational qualification, number of years of experience in forestry/agroforestry practices, income and challenges encountered from 91 respondents drawn by simple random sampling technique. The data were collected by using copies of a structured questionnaire and were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings, among others, were that: though there was significant difference in gender distribution by occupation within the subsector, there was no significant gender disparity in gender involvement in terms of number; there was no significant gender difference in the educational qualifications of the operators. Furthermore, that a sizeable proportion of single again women depend on forest resources for their livelihood; that a good proportion of the female in the subsector had no alternative opportunity, finally that there was no significant gender difference in income. We conclude that the forestry economy has high potential for the pursuit of gender equality and for poverty alleviation and recommend that policies and programmes directed towards poverty alleviation in the subsector should, however, be gender sensitive.
FermiQCD: A tool kit for parallel lattice QCD applications
Creators: name: Di Pierro, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here the most recent version of FermiQCD, a collection of C++ classes, functions and parallel algorithms for lattice QCD, based on Matrix Distributed Processing. FermiQCD allows fast development of parallel lattice applications and includes some SSE2 optimizations for clusters of Pentium 4 PCs.
description: 3 pages. Lattice 2001 proceedings. Web page: http://latticeqcd.fnal.gov/software/fermiqcd/
Mycetophila pictula Meigen 1830
Creators: name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Mycetophila
Mycetophila pictula

description: 78. Mycetophila pictula Meigen, 1830 *
 Material examined. S3 4–18.IV.06 1 ♀.
 Chorotype. Type 1 [1.01 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. Holarctic.
 Italian distribution. Northern mainland (Dahl et al. 1995) and Sardinia.
description: Published as part of Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species * in Zootaxa 2318
Evidence for an outer disk in the Prototype `Compact Elliptical' Galaxy M32
Creators: name: Graham, Alister W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: M32 is the prototype for the relatively rare class of galaxies referred to as `compact ellipticals'. It has been suggested that M32 may be a tidally disturbed r^(1/4) elliptical galaxy, or the remnant bulge of a disk-stripped early-type spiral galaxy. This paper reveals that the surface brightness profile, the velocity dispersion measurements, and the estimated supermassive black hole mass in M32 are inconsistent with the galaxy having, and probably ever having had, an r^(1/4) light profile. Instead, the radial surface brightness distribution of M32 resembles an almost perfect (bulge + exponential disk) profile, which is accompanied by a marked increase in the ellipticity profile and an associated change in the position angle profile where the `disk' starts to dominate. Compelling evidence that this bulge/disk interpretation is accurate comes from the best-fitting r^(1/n) bulge model which has a Sersic index n=1.5, in agreement with the recently discovered relation between a bulge's Sersic index and the mass of its supermassive black hole. An index n>4 would also be inconsistent with the stellar velocity dispersion of M32. The bulge-to-disk size ratio r_e /h equals 0.20, and the logarithm of the bulge-to-disk luminosity ratio log(B/D) equals 0.22, typical of lenticular galaxies. The effective radius of the bulge is 27" (~100 pc), while the scale-length of the disk is less well determined: due to possible tidal- stripping of the outer profile beyond 220-250", the scale-length may be as large as 1.3 kpc. M32 is a relatively face-on, nucleated, dwarf galaxy with a low surface brightness disk and a high surface brightness bulge. This finding brings into question the existence of the compact elliptical class of galaxies.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Spodochlamys marahuaca Jameson & Ratcliffe 2011
Creators: name: Bento, Matheus
name: Grossi, Paschoal Coelho
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Rutelidae
Spodochlamys
Spodochlamys marahuaca

description: For the inclusion of the Spodochlamys marahuaca female, the femalekeyof Jameson and Ratcliffe (2011) ismodifiedas follows: 5. Ventral faceof clypeus longer at middle thanat sides …....11 5’. Ventral face of clypeus with apical and basal margins subparallel............................................................................6 6. Outer metatarsalclaw widely split............  S. cupreola Bates 6’. Outermetatarsalclawnarrowlysplit……….............………7 7. Elytra with waxybloom.............……….  S. iheringi Ohaus 7’. Elytra without waxy bloom …....…...............................8 8. Pronotalapicalbeadlackingatmiddle...………...…….........9 8’. Pronotal apical bead complete, at least at middle and laterally.......................…….............................................10 9. Dorsalcolorlight castaneous; head, pronotum, andscutellum withweak greenish reflections …... … S. flavofemorata Ohaus 9’. Dorsal color black matte, opaque, without greenish reflections……................  S. marahuaca Jameson & Ratcliffe 10. Mentum on apical third strongly declivous.............................................................  S. letiranti Jameson & Ratcliffe 10’. Mentum on apical third not noticeably declivous, instead withtriangulardepression on disc..…............  S. soulai Curoe 11. Elytra with waxy bloom...…......  S. caesarea Burmeister 11’. Elytra without waxy bloom.........................................................................................  S. neitai Jameson & Ratcliffe
description: Published as part of Bento, Matheus & Grossi, Paschoal Coelho, 2019, Description of the female of Spodochlamys marahuaca Jameson & Ratcliffe, 2011 (Melolonthidae, Rutelinae, Anatistini) and additional records for the Brazilian species of the genus, pp. 193-196 in Acta Amazonica 49 on page 195, DOI: 10.1590/1809-4392201803571, http://zenodo.org/record/3557673
description: {"references": ["Jameson, M. L.; Ratcliffe, B. C. 2011. The Neotropical scarab beetle tribe Anatistini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum, 26: 1 - 100."]}
MOESM1 of NHEJ pathway is involved in post-integrational DNA repair due to Ku70 binding to HIV-1 integrase
Creators: name: Knyazhanskaya, Ekaterina
name: Anisenko, Andrey
name: Shadrina, Olga
name: Kalinina, Anastasia
name: Zatsepin, Timofei
name: Zalevsky, Arthur
name: Mazurov, Dmitriy
name: Gottikh, Marina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Additional materials and methods, Supplementary tables S1–S4 and Supplementary figures S1–S8.
title: Intégration de l'image comme outil didactique interdisciplinaire au service de l'éducation en vue du développement durable par les enseignants du secondaire II :
title: Etude de cas au Gymnase de Renens
titleType: Subtitle
title: Intégration de l'image comme outil didactique interdisciplinaire au service de l'éducation en vue du développement durable par les enseignants du secondaire II :
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kull, Cyril
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Education en vue du développement durable
subject: Secondaire II
subject: Image
subject: Outil didactique
subject: Interdisciplinarité
subject: Gymnase de Renens

description: Dans un contexte où le paradigme du développement durable dans sa version faible montre ses limites, notamment au niveau de sa mise en oeuvre, ce travail de mémoire s’intéresse à l’intégration de l’éducation en vue du développement durable par les enseignants du secondaire II. De plus, ce travail s’interroge également sur la place de l’image comme outil didactique interdisciplinaire au service de l’EDD. L’aspect collaboratif entre les enseignants est également étudié dans la mesure où par définition, la mise en place de l’EDD d’un point de vue structurel nécessite une approche interdisciplinaire. Ce travail se base sur une revue de la littérature concernant l’EDD, l’interdisciplinarité et l’image comme outil didactique. De plus, une étude de cas au Gymnase de Renens permet de vérifier, de nuancer ou de réfuter les hypothèses établies en lien avec la question de recherche. Lors de la récolte des données, 46 enseignants ont praticité au sondage quantitatif mis en place afin d’étudier plus en détail les caractéristiques de la mise en oeuvre de l’EDD par les différents enseignants du Gymnase de Renens. Dans la dernière partie de ce travail, il s’agit de développer une pensée réflexive quant aux différents obstacles de mise en oeuvre efficace de l’EDD au niveau du secondaire II. Cet exercice doit permettre d’encourager la pensée critique afin d’intégrer de manière plus efficiente l’EDD dans le système scolaire, notamment au niveau du secondaire II qui se caractérise par une politique tout au plus incitative mais non contraignante.
Effects of Agricultural Input Assistance on Households Affected by HIV/AIDS: A Case of Chirumanzu Communal Area
Creators: name: Mutambara, Jackqeline
name: Mwakiwa, Emmanuel
name: Mumaniki, Charity
name: Mutambara, Jackqeline
name: Mwakiwa, Emmanuel
name: Mumaniki, Charity
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Development aid
subject: HIV/AIDS
subject: Agricultural inputs
subject: NGO
subject: Welfare
subject: Zimbabwe

description: This study was designed to ascertain the effect of humanitarian and developmental aid programmes on vulnerable households affected by HIV/AIDS. The study looked at the effect of NGOs-donated maize seed and fertilizer packs to the HIV/AIDS affected households using wards in Chirumhanzu district of Midlands province in Zimbabwe as a case study. This was done by comparing the land-use and output of maize, household income, farming assets and number of the main livestock types for the affected households before and after they received agricultural input assistance. The results from this study showed that agricultural inputs were a limiting factor to the households that are affected by HIV/AIDS. Provision of input packs enabled the households to increase cropping land by incorporating land that was not longer being utilize. In the process they managed to increase their agricultural maize production which resulted in increase in their welfare. Following the findings of this study, it is recommended that government and donors should support the vulnerable households through the provision of agricultural inputs which is a better way of achieving poverty alleviation in the medium to long term for the vulnerable households. However, for this to be achieved effectively, the support to the households affected by HIV/AIDS should be holistic including other forms of support like medical, palliative and other socio-economic support.
Heavy quark production via leptoquarks at a neutrino factory
Creators: name: Goyal, Ashok
name: Mehta, Poonam
name: Dutta, Sukanta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proposed neutrino factory (NF) based on a muon storage ring (MSR) is an ideal place to look for heavy quark production via neutral current (NC) and charged current (CC) interactions. In this article, we address the issue of contribution coming from mediating leptoquarks (LQ) in $ν_μ(\barν_e)-{\rm N}$ interactions leading to the production of $b(\bar b)$ at a MSR and investigate the region where LQ interactions are significant in the near-site experiments.
description: 12 pages latex, 10 ps figures, uses axocolour.sty, Slightly revised version to appear in PRD
MOESM1 of Does stigmatization moderate the association between intention and implementation of learned prevention-strategies at work after a depressive episode? â a cross-sectional pilot study
Creators: name: Gaum, Petra
name: Brey, Franziska
name: Kraus, Thomas
name: Lang, Jessica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Mean differences in the stigmatization variables in participants without and with depression (t-test).
Leia padana Chandler 2004
Creators: name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Leia
Leia padana

description: 34. Leia padana Chandler, 2004b
 Literature records. Sardinia (Chandler 2008).
 Material examined. S3 17–31.X.06 1 ♂.
 Chorotype. Type 6 [3.02 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. Mediterranean, presently known only from Italy.
 Italian distribution. Northern mainland (Chandler 2004b, 2008) and Sardinia.
 Notes. This species was recently described from Bosco della Fontana (Lombardy, Mantua province) and has since been examined from another site in Venetia (Belluno province, Northern mainland Italy) (Chandler 2008), but has not yet been recorded elsewhere so the finding of a single male from Sardinia is of interest.
description: Published as part of Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species * in Zootaxa 2318
Secondary Education in BBC Broadcast 1944–1965: drawing out networks of conversation and visions of reform
Creators: name: Hoare, Lottie
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: BBC
secondary education
broadcast media
1944 Education Act
radio history
documentary film

description: This study examines the representation of Local Education Authority (LEA) secondary schooling in England and Wales as it was portrayed in non-fiction British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programmes in the twenty-one years that followed the 1944 Education Act. The primary sources drawn on for this study include the surviving microfilmed radio scripts, dating from 1944–1965 and held at the BBC Written Archives (BBC WAC). The correspondence files from contributors to programmes also provide a key source from BBC WAC. The majority of the programmes considered are radio broadcast, however some documentary films on the topic of secondary education, made by the BBC and transmitted on television, are also analysed. Where audio-visual copies have survived, the programmes were viewed at the BFI Viewing Services. The study draws on 235 BBC programmes in total, made in the years 1944–1965. The details of these broadcasts can be seen in the three Appendices accompanying this study. The study also employs the use of drawing to present key ideas. This study explores how broadcasts are formed as cultural products. The research questions address: what was the content of these programmes? Who collaborated to create and edit these programmes and how were the programmes devised to inform the public about the provision of secondary education? What was the role of the All Souls Group (ASG) in this collaboration? The public included a domestic audience in England and Wales and an overseas audience for whom distinct broadcasts were usually created. A further element of the research is a scrutiny of the BBC as an organization that positions itself as neutral. The considered programmes enabled a group of eloquent educationalists to use their rehearsed and edited ‘conversation’ on a public stage. As the study unfolds it becomes apparent that the members of the informal education discussion group, the ASG, were lobbying to encourage the topic of secondary education to resurface sufficiently often on air. The study concludes with recognition that the reinforcing of loyalties between overlapping networks, such as the BBC and the ASG, should no longer be approached with reticence in academic research.
description: AHRC full-funding 2013–2016
Additional file 1 of Abemaciclib plus fulvestrant in hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative advanced breast cancer in premenopausal women: subgroup analysis from the MONARCH 2 trial
Creators: name: Neven, Patrick
name: Rugo, Hope S.
name: Tolaney, Sara M.
name: Iwata, Hiroji
name: Toi, Masakazu
name: Goetz, Matthew P.
name: Kaufman, Peter A.
name: Lu, Yi
name: Haddad, Nadine
name: Hurt, Karla C.
name: Sledge, George W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Serious adverse events in the premenopausal population of the MONARCH 2 trial.
Mycetophila formosa Lundstrom 1911
Creators: name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Mycetophila
Mycetophila formosa

description: 73. Mycetophila formosa Lundström, 1911
 Literature records. Sardinia (Chandler 2004a).
 Material examined. C85 10.XI.06 1 ♂. V1 10.VI.1972 1 ♂.
 Chorotype. Type 2 [1.02 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. Palaearctic.
 Italian distribution. South Tyrol (Kurina 2008) and Sardinia.
 Notes. Chandler (2004a) recorded this species from Sardinia based on the specimen from V1 cited above.
description: Published as part of Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species * in Zootaxa 2318
DoFun 3.0: Functional equations in Mathematica
Creators: name: Huber, Markus Q.
name: Cyrol, Anton K.
name: Pawlowski, Jan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present version 3.0 of the Mathematica package DoFun for the derivation of functional equations. In this version, the derivation of equations for correlation functions of composite operators was added. In the update, the general workflow was slightly modified taking into account experience with the previous version. In addition, various tools were included to improve the usage experience and the code was partially restructured for easier maintenance.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures; code at https://github.com/markusqh/DoFun; v2: added quick start guide, clarified compatibility with Mathematica versions, agrees with published version
MPEC 2024-C132 : 2017 DE157
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2017 DE157

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Carbon stock evaluation in upland forests: A case study in Santipheap commune, Siem Pang district, Virachey National Park, Stung Treng province
Creators: name: Sarun, Horn
name: Meta, Horn
name: Somaly, Srun
name: Linan, Horn
name: Pang, Touch
name: Chanra, Rin
name: Roth, Kong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 300702
subject: Forest biodiversity
classificationCode: 300703
subject: Forest ecosystems

description: Forests play a crucial role in mitigating climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide (a major greenhouse gas) from the atmosphere, utilizing it for growth and producing renewable resources. A significant amount of carbon is stored in trees, but when they are cut down and decompose, some of the carbon is released back into the atmosphere. Deforestation not only contributes to CO2 emissions but also reduces the potential for carbon sequestration. Given the ongoing decline in forest areas, the Cambodian government has enacted forest laws to ensure sustainable forest management and strengthen protection for natural forests. The General Department of Nature Protection and Conservation Administration (Ministry of Environment), Forestry Administration, and Fisheries Administration (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries) are responsible for implementing the REDD+ program, with support from relevant institutions and development partners. Cambodia has achieved several significant milestones, including the establishment of a national REDD+ institutional framework, a national REDD+ strategy, a forest reference level, a national forest monitoring system, and a REDD+ security information system. This study assessed the carbon stock across different forest types in Cambodia, showing that the average total density of evergreen, semi-evergreen, and deciduous forests is influenced by the richness of seedlings and species. Specifically, evergreen forests have an average total carbon stock of 161.05 tons of carbon/ha, with 1.46 tons of deadwood carbon/ha. Semi-evergreen forests have 72.62 tons of carbon/ha and 8.85 tons of deadwood carbon/ha, while deciduous forests have 57.34 tons of carbon/ha and 3.73 tons of deadwood carbon/ha.
Autolesão não suicida em adolescentes: evidências para prevenção e assistência
Creators: name: Quintiliano, Guilherme Luís Nascimento
name: Freitas, Patrícia Scotini
name: Felipe, Adriana Olimpia Barbosa
name: Da Silva Moreira, Denis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 111712 Health Promotion
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111005 Mental Health Nursing
subject: 111717 Primary Health Care

description: This study is an integrative review that aims to analyze the scientific evidence available in the literature on non-suicidal self-harm in adolescents. For the present study, we will use the integrative review method conducted with the following steps: elaboration of the research question, sampling or search in the literature of primary studies, data extraction, evaluation of primary studies, analysis and synthesis of results and review presentation (GALVÃO; MENDES; SILVEIRA, 2010). The search for the selection of articles will be carried out in the databases LILACS, PubMed, SCOPUS, CINAHL and Web of Science. The discussion will be carried out in a descriptive manner and the results obtained in summary tables as well. contribute to their decision-making in the face of the best evidence about non-suicidal self-harm in the health of adolescents and its repercussions, in addition to enabling the expansion of knowledge and contributing to the daily lives of adolescents and the practice of education and health professionals in the area of ​​adolescence.
Observation of Scarred Modes in Asymmetrically Deformed Microcylinder Lasers
Creators: name: Lee, Sang-Bum
name: Lee, Jai-Hyung
name: Chang, Joon-Sung
name: Moon, Hee-Jong
name: Kim, Sang Wook
name: An, Kyungwon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report observation of lasing in the scarred modes in an asymmetrically deformed microcavity made of liquid jet. The observed scarred modes correspond to morphology-dependent resonance of radial mode order 3 with their Q values in the range of 10^6. Emission directionality is also observed, corresponding to a hexagonal unstable periodic orbit.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures
Theory of nonequilibrium free energy transduction by molecular machines
Creators: name: Brown, Aidan I
name: Sivak, David A
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Biomolecular machines are protein complexes that convert between different forms of free energy. They are utilized in nature to accomplish many cellular tasks. As isothermal nonequilibrium stochastic objects at low Reynolds number, they face a distinct set of challenges compared to more familiar human-engineered macroscopic machines. Here we review central questions in their performance as free energy transducers, outline theoretical and modeling approaches to understand these questions, identify both physical limits on their operational characteristics and design principles for improving performance, and discuss emerging areas of research.
description: 90 pages, 17 figures. Accepted version, with figure attribution and copyright statements corrected. This article is in press in Chemical Reviews, available online at https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00254
Mycetophila sordida van der Wulp 1874
Creators: name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Mycetophilidae
Mycetophila
Mycetophila sordida

description: 80. Mycetophila sordida van der Wulp, 1874
 Literature records. Sardinia (Chandler 2004a).
 Material examined. U4 22.XI.05 2 ♂♂. V1 10.VI.1972 1 ♂.
 Chorotype. Type 1 [1.01 of Vigna Taglianti et al. (1999)]. Holarctic.
 Italian distribution. Sardinia only.
 Notes. Chandler (2004a) recorded this species from Sardinia based on the specimen from V1 cited above.
description: Published as part of Chandler, Peter J., 2009, The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six new species * in Zootaxa 2318
CSSs in a sample of B2 radio sources of intermediate strength
Creators: name: Saikia, D. J.
name: Thomasson, P.
name: Spencer, R. E.
name: Mantovani, F.
name: Salter, C. J.
name: Jeyakumar, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present radio observations of 19 candidate compact steep-spectrum (CSS) objects selected from a well-defined, complete sample of 52 B2 radio sources of intermediate strength. These observations were made with the VLA A-array at 4.835 GHz. The radio structures of the entire sample are summarised and the brightness asymmetries within the compact sources are compared with those of the more extended ones, as well as with those in the 3CRR sample and the CSSs from the B3-VLA sample. About 25 per cent of the CSS sources exhibit large brightness asymmetries, with a flux density ratio for the opposing lobes of $>$5, possibly due to interaction of the jets with infalling material. The corresponding percentage for the larger-sized objects is only about 5 per cent. We also investigate possible dependence of the flux density asymmetry of the lobes on redshift, since this might be affected by more interactions and mergers in the past. No such dependence is found. A few individual objects of interest are discussed in the paper.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables; accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Static Potential to O(α^2) in Lattice Perturbation Theory
Creators: name: Boyle, Peter
name: Bali, Gunnar S
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a calculation of Wilson loops, and the static inter-quark potential to $O(α^2)$ in lattice perturbation theory. This is carried out with the Wilson, Symanzik-Weisz, and Iwasaki gauge actions and the Wilson, Sheikholeslami-Wohlert, and Kogut-Susskind dynamical fermion action for small Wilson loops, and with the Wilson gauge action and each of the dynamical quark actions in the case of the static potential.
description: Lattice2001(improvement) 3 pages, 3 figures
Y(4626) as a molecular state from interaction ${D}^*_s\bar{D}_{s1}(2536)-{D}_s\bar{D}_{s1}(2536)$
Creators: name: He, Jun
name: Liu, Yi
name: Zhu, Jun-Tao
name: Chen, Dian-Yong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, a new structure $Y(4626)$ was reported by the Belle Colloboration in the process $e^+e^-\to D_s^+D_{s1}(2536)^-$. In this work, we propose an assignment of the $Y(4626)$ as a ${D}^*_s\bar{D}_{s1}(2536)$ molecular state, which decays into the $D_s^+D_{s1}(2536)^-$ channel through a coupling between ${D}^*_s\bar{D}_{s1}(2536)$ and ${D}_s\bar{D}_{s1}(2536)$ channels. With the help of the heavy quark symmetry, the potential of the interaction ${D}^*_s\bar{D}_{s1}(2536)-{D}_s\bar{D}_{s1}(2536)$ is constructed within the one-boson-exchange model, and inserted into the quasipotential Bethe-Salpeter equation. The pole of obtained scattering amplitude is searched for in the complex plane, which corresponds to a molecular state from the interaction ${D}^*_s\bar{D}_{s1}(2536)-{D}_s\bar{D}_{s1}(2536)$. The results suggest that a pole is produced near the ${D}^*_s\bar{D}_{s1}(2536)$ threshold, which exhibits as a peak in the invariant mass spectrum of the ${D}_s\bar{D}_{s1}(2536)$ channel at about 4626 MeV. It obviously favors the $Y(4265)$ as a ${D}^*_s\bar{D}_{s1}(2536)$ molecular state. In the same model, other molecular states from the interaction ${D}^*_s\bar{D}_{s1}(2536)-{D}_s\bar{D}_{s1}(2536)$ are also predicted, which can be checked in future experiments.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures
Anxiety and Urban Life in late Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1880-1914
Creators: name: Woods, Hannah Rose
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Modern British History
Cultural History
Urban History
History of Emotions
History of the Senses
Victorian Britain
Edwardian Britain
Edwardian
Victorian
London History
London
Cities
Anxiety

description: The thesis investigates anxieties about urban life in late Victorian and Edwardian culture, and examines emotional responses to urbanisation, industrialisation and modernity at this high point of urban growth and rural-urban migration: one that marked Britain’s decisive breakthrough to a largely and permanently urbanised society. During the period, earlier nineteenth-century tropes of the ‘shock’ of the city, and anxieties surrounding rapid early urbanisation and industrialisation, began to recede. But from the 1880s onwards, as life in industrial cities came to be regarded as the norm, new anxieties came to the fore: concerns that related to the very pervasiveness and inescapability of urban life. I argue that the historically unprecedented growth in the size of cities placed enormous strain upon conceptions of the individual in modern society: the impulse to conceive of mass urban society in the abstract was in constant tension with a new, modernistic awareness of the essential humanity of each individual. The research utilises insights from the recent ‘emotional turn’ within the humanities, which is more sensitive to psychological factors in cultural practices and social processes; and brings this historiographical turn to bear on attitudes towards the city. An emotional approach enables both a deeper and subtler exploration of high cultural responses, and the extension of the range of sources and actors beyond ‘ideas’ and ‘intellectuals’. The thesis integrates a wide range of sources: literature, art, the writings of urban planners and social commentators, medical writings, working-class autobiographical writing, and oral history transcripts. Such an approach reveals the common emotional impulses and shared structures of feeling behind a diverse range of responses to the urban environment, and provides a deeper understanding of contemporary emotional life. It thus illuminates the ways in which individuals, societies and culture react to the complexities of modernity, and provides insights into the relationship between social transformation and emotional experience.
description: AHRC Doctoral Award
Intrinsic tunneling spectra of Bi_2(Sr_{2-x}La_x)CuO_6
Creators: name: Yurgens, A.
name: Winkler, D.
name: Claeson, T.
name: Ono, S.
name: Ando, Yoichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have measured intrinsic-tunneling spectra of a single CuO-layer La-doped Bi_2Sr_{2-x}La_xCuO_{6+δ} (Bi2201-La_x). Despite a difference of a factor of three in the optimal superconducting critical temperatures for Bi2201-La_{0.4} and Bi2212 (32 and 95 K, respectively) and different spectral energy scales, we find that the pseudogap vanishes at a similar characteristic temperature T*\approx 230-300K for both compounds. We find also that in Bi2201-La_x, PG humps are seen as sharp peaks and, in fact, even dominate the intrinsic spectra.
description: Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Production Risk, Technology and Market Access in Different Organisational Forms: Evidence from Tatarstan and Oryol
Creators: name: Gataulina, Ekaterina
name: Hockmann, Heinrich
name: Strokov, Anton
name: Gataulina, Ekaterina
name: Hockmann, Heinrich
name: Strokov, Anton
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: risk production function
subject: Russia
subject: agroholdings

description: This paper examines price and technology differentials between agroholdings and independent farms in two Russian regions: Oryol and Tatarstan. Both organisational forms receive on average the same product prices which indicates that they have the same market access. Moreover, their technologies are also very similar, as estimated by a risk production frontier. However, differences in the factor input between organi-sational form lead to differences in the shadow prices of the inputs, resulting from the better access of agroholdings to the input markets. The results suggest that production risk, conditions on the product market and inefficiency significantly affect agricultural production. Thus, to improve the conditions, agricultural policy is required to tackle all the issues in parallel using a mix of appropriate policy measures.
Episodic and affective memory distortions in dysphoria: Bayesian testing of diverging theories [Registered Report Stage 1 Protocol]
Creators: name: S.B. Duken
name: Keessen, Liza
name: Hoijtink, Herbert
name: Kindt, Merel
name: V.A. Van Ast
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170101 Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology)
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Clinical Psychology

description: ABSTRACT: People suffering from dysphoria retrieve autobiographical memories distorted in content and affect, which is thought to contribute to the aetiology and maintenance of depression. However, key memory difficulties in dysphoria remain elusive because predominant theories disagree how memories of different valence are altered, and because studies into affective distortions are scarce and mostly employed subjective self-report. Here, we will assess the psychophysiological expression of affect and retrieved episodic detail while dysphoric and non-dysphoric individuals relive positive, negative, and neutral memories. Using Bayesian statistics, we will quantify evidence for competing predictions of overgeneral memory and negativity bias theories regarding dysphoric distortions in expressed affect and retrieved detail. Furthermore, we test the critical assumption of these theories and emerging memory therapeutics that episodic detail correlates with affect-increases and investigate whether this relationship is altered in dysphoria. By providing insights into memory distortions, our results may contribute to the development of memory therapeutics.
ITEMS: Stage 1 Registered Report Protocol, Stage 1 Registered Report Supplementary Information.
Blessing or Evil? Contract Farming, Smallholder Poultry Production and Household Welfare in Kenya
Creators: name: Wainaina, Priscilla W.
name: Okello, Julius J.
name: Nzuma, Jonathan M.
name: Wainaina, Priscilla W.
name: Okello, Julius J.
name: Nzuma, Jonathan M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: International Development
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: contract farming
subject: poultry production
subject: smallholder farmers
subject: impact
subject: propensity score matching
subject: Kenya

description: There is lack of consensus in the literature on the impact of contract farming on the welfare of smallholder farmers. Some authors argue that contact farming improves access to markets hence income, while others view contract farming as an avenue by which large corporations exploit smallholder farmers. It is hence seen as a blessing to some but a necessary evil to others. This study examines the factors influencing participation in poultry contract farming in Kenya. It then uses propensity score matching technique to assess the impact of contract poultry production. The study finds, among others, that farmer-specific factors, transaction costs and financial asset endowment affect participation in contract farming. It also finds that contracted farmers earned more net income per bird than their counterparts. It concludes that participation in contract farming practice improves the welfare smallholder poultry farmers in Kenya. The study discusses the policy implications of the findings.
The ‘Five Million Hectare Reforestation Program’ in Vietnam: An Analysis of its Implementation and Transaction Costs - A Case Study in Hoa Binh Province
Creators: name: Huong, Tran Thi Thu
name: Zeller, Manfred
name: Hoanh, Chu Thai
name: Huong, Tran Thi Thu
name: Zeller, Manfred
name: Hoanh, Chu Thai
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: reforestation
subject: forest management
subject: contract implementation
subject: transaction costs
subject: cost benefit analysis

description: This research study uses a qualitative approach to examine the implementation of the ‘Five Million Hectare Reforestation Program’ (the 5MHRP) in Vietnam, and to explore the underlying reasons for local people’s participation in the program. The study also uses a transactional model to examine the private transaction costs borne by farmers when carrying out forest management activities under the program. The study reveals that: (i) the implementation of the program was generally characterized by a top-down process, (ii) the principal contribution to household benefits derived from forest management activities was the collection and sale of non-timber forest products, not the subsidy provided by the government, (iii) the main challenges faced during implementation of the program were the low and fixed subsidies provided, the improper types of trees being planted, poor access to the forest, and a lack of awareness among local people towards the benefits to be derived from participation in the forest management program, and that (iv) under the program’s community contracts, attending meetings (52%) and self-monitoring activities (35%) constituted the largest proportion of total time spent on forest management, while under the individual contracts, self-monitoring activities (98%) were the main component. Participating in the planting and protection of forests under the program brought greater benefits to households than when involved in forest protection activities alone. The main implications of this study are that an increase of payments under both types of contract, and especially the community contract, as well as the provision of higher quality seedlings and fertilizers, need to be taken into consideration in future initiatives. In addition, local communities and authorities should be further empowered, and their contribution should be taken into consideration in future programs.
Neutron valence structure from nuclear deep inelastic scattering
Creators: name: Segarra, E. P.
name: Schmidt, A.
name: Kutz, T.
name: Higinbotham, D. W.
name: Piasetzky, E.
name: Strikman, M.
name: Weinstein, L. B.
name: Hen, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mechanisms of spin-flavor SU(6) symmetry breaking in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) are studied via an extraction of the free neutron structure function from a global analysis of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data on the proton and on nuclei from $A = 2$ (deuterium) to 208 (lead). Modification of the structure function of nucleons bound in atomic nuclei (known as the EMC effect) are consistently accounted for within the framework of a universal modification of nucleons in short-range correlated (SRC) pairs. Our extracted neutron-to-proton structure function ratio $F_2^n/F_2^p$ becomes constant for $x_B \ge 0.6$, equalling $0.47 \pm 0.04$ as $x_B \rightarrow 1$, in agreement with theoretical predictions of perturbative QCD and the Dyson Schwinger equation, and in disagreement with predictions of the Scalar Diquark dominance model. We also predict $F_2^{^3\mathrm{He}}/F_2^{^3\mathrm{H}}$, recently measured, yet unpublished, by the MARATHON collaboration, the nuclear correction function that is needed to extract $F_2^n/F_2^p$ from $F_2^{^3\mathrm{He}}/F_2^{^3\mathrm{H}}$, and the theoretical uncertainty associated with this extraction.
description: Published in PRL. 6 pages, 4 figures and on-line supplementary materials
How spatial variation influences landowner willingness to provide ecosystem services
Creators: name: Broch, Stine Wamberg
name: Strange, Niels
name: Wilson, Kerrie A.
name: Broch, Stine Wamberg
name: Strange, Niels
name: Wilson, Kerrie A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Landowners
subject: preference modeling
subject: choice experiments
subject: biodiversity
subject: groundwater
subject: recreation.

description: Within conservation literature increasing attention is on conservation opportunity valuing actual implementation. Previously focus has been on conservation priority among areas with the highest biological value or lowest cost. However, when nature management has to take place on private land through voluntary agreement it becomes important to know landowner preferences for such agreements. This study combines data from a choice experiment on landowner preferences with spatial data on the need for biodiversity conservation, groundwater protection and recreation. The aim is to discuss if spatial variation influences landowner preferences and the possibility of including preferences when prioritizing Preliminary results show a negative impact of increasing population density on willingness to provide recreation.
Biochemical and Structural Studies of Amyloid Proteins
Creators: name: Wirthensohn, David Christopher
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Alzhheimer
AD
Amyloid
Amyloid Beta
Single Molecule
Fluoresence Microscopy
Protein Structure
High Resolution Microsocpy
Super Resolution Microscopy
CSF

description: Amyloidogenic neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) are an important health issue. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms of the disease-related protein aggregates, that are present in humans, are only understood partially. I have used and developed biophysical methods to study the structural and biological properties of individual aggregates of Amyloid β peptide and α-Synuclein, proteins whose aggregation is associated with the development of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease respectively. I expanded the single aggregate visualisation through enhancement (SAVE) technique, which is a method based on the fluorescent dye Thioflavin T (ThT) that reversibly bind to the aggregates and whose fluorescence increases upon binding. I firstly explored the use of other dyes for these experiments and found that a ThT dimer has higher affinity to α-Synuclein aggregates in vitro. I then applied the SAVE method to the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) of a cohort of AD patients and control CSF and observed no clear difference in aggregate number. However, these experiments provided insights into how antibodies bind the aggregates in human CSF. I could show, that despite altering the Ca2+ influx into both cells and vesicles, the antibody did not measurably affect the aggregate structure. To study the size specific effects of the Amyloid β 42 (Aβ42) peptide in more detail, I used and optimised gradient ultracentrifugation combined with single aggregate imaging to study the structural properties of the isolated aggregates. This aggregation kinetic independent method allowed me to compare the properties of fluorescently labelled and unlabelled Aβ42 and characterize the size dependent properties of aggregates in a single experiment. Since I could measure the relative concentration of different size aggregates it was also possible to compare the properties of single aggregates of different sizes. I then used biological assays to examine the ability of aggregates to permeabilise membranes resulting in the entry of calcium ions, and their ability to induce TNFα production in microglia cells. Both processes are thought to play key roles in the development of AD. I found that small soluble oligomers are most potent at inducing Ca2+ influx, whereas longer protofilaments are the most potent inducers of TNFα production. My results suggest that the mechanism by which aggregates damage cells changes as aggregation proceeds, as longer aggregates with different structures are formed. Protofilaments with a diameter of 1 nm or less have a structure that could make them particularly potent at causing the signalling of toll-like receptors, providing a molecular basis for their ability to induce TNFα production.
description: EPSRC