cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Estimating New Zealand temperature and aridity since the last glacial maximum from biomass burning markers
Creators: name: Weisel, Lauren Meredith
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Aridity is an important component of climate change. Wildfires linked to dry conditions can drastically alter the biomass of a landscape. Diagnostic molecules created in these fires during the incomplete combustion of plants can be used to estimate past biomass burning events. Biomass burning markers (BBM) were isolated from three sites from the South Island of New Zealand, and quantified using GCMS analysis. A record of fire occurrence based on these BBM revealed a pattern of increased aridity in the past. The central South Island was characterized by persistent dryness in the glaciation, increased wetter periods marked the Younger Dryas and Antarctic Cold Reversal, followed by drier cycles with fewer periods of wetness into the early Holocene, and persistent wetting toward the late Holocene. The southern end of the South Island showed consistent wetness from the mid Holocene to the modern. Dryness changing in longer vs. shorter and wetter vs. drier is a pattern seen from the glaciation through the early Holocene. Pollen-based temperature reconstructions in the study sites do not agree with reconstructions from elsewhere in New Zealand. These new results documenting burning in the glaciation and through the early deglaciation are a plausible explanation for bias in these temperature reconstructions due to local aridity in the study areas of the South Island. Changes in this local aridity were likely due to the Southern Westerly Winds, which shifted north during the glaciation, then overall shifted southward toward the Holocene.
MOESM1 of Algorithms for matching partially labelled sequence graphs
Creators: name: Taylor, William
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. CCSE plots of randomised controls. The results of the topology (tree) based method shown in purple as in the main text (eg: Fig. 3a). Fully shuffled matches are plotted in blue and matches shuffled only within a family are plotted in green. The latter preserve the identity of singleton families and doubletons with 50% chance, etc. Note that 1pkm, which included a split domain and has many singletons still scores well and that for 3ctz, the purple lines run higher than expected because of the longer predicted links between domains 1 and 3 (see Fig. 8).
Additional file 1: S.01. of Rationale and design of ASPIRE-ICU: a prospective cohort study on the incidence and predictors of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia in the ICU
Creators: name: Paling, Fleur
name: Troeman, Darren
name: Wolkewitz, Martin
name: Rubana Kalyani
name: DaniĂŤl Prins
name: Weber, Susanne
name: Lammens, Christine
name: Timbermont, Leen
name: Goossens, Herman
name: Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar
name: Frangiscos Sifakis
name: Bonten, Marc
name: Kluytmans, Jan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Complete list of objectives and endpoints. Table S 02. Schedule of procedures. S.03. Complete definition of study endpoints. (DOCX 29 kb)
First mapping of encounters between users and providers of climate services.
Creators: name: Krauß, Werner
name: Martinez, Grit
name: Kinniburgh, Fiona
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In this report, we argue from a decidedly social science and humanities perspective. In the first part, we provide a critical assessment of provider – user interactions in climate service literature. In the second part, we discuss the encounters between providers and users in the context of climate policy. Drawing examples from a great variety of climateservice literature and case studies, we discuss in the following the role of narratives of change, ofdifferent systems of knowledge and the need to decolonize climate services. In the appendix, we provideelements of three case studies to explore the possibilities of standardization and policy support in thecourse of Climateurope2.
Additional file 1: of Extra-cellular expansion in the normal, non-infarcted myocardium is associated with worsening of regional myocardial function after acute myocardial infarction
Creators: name: Garg, Pankaj
name: Broadbent, David
name: Swoboda, Peter
name: Foley, James
name: Fent, Graham
name: Tarique Musa
name: Ripley, David
name: Erhayiem, Bara
name: Dobson, Laura
name: McDiarmid, Adam
name: Haaf, Philip
name: Ananth Kidambi
name: Crandon, Saul
name: Chew, Pei
name: R. Van Der Geest
name: Greenwood, John
name: Plein, Sven
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: Detailed methods. Comprehensive additional information on the basic CMR image analysis, T1-maps quality assurance checks, pulse sequence parameters and imaging protocol. (PDF 76Â kb)
Additional file 1: S.01. of Rationale and design of ASPIRE-ICU: a prospective cohort study on the incidence and predictors of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia in the ICU
Creators: name: Paling, Fleur
name: Troeman, Darren
name: Wolkewitz, Martin
name: Rubana Kalyani
name: DaniĂŤl Prins
name: Weber, Susanne
name: Lammens, Christine
name: Timbermont, Leen
name: Goossens, Herman
name: Surbhi Malhotra-Kumar
name: Frangiscos Sifakis
name: Bonten, Marc
name: Kluytmans, Jan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Complete list of objectives and endpoints. Table S 02. Schedule of procedures. S.03. Complete definition of study endpoints. (DOCX 29 kb)
Gaultheria leucocarpa Blume 1826
Creators: name: Fritsch, Peter W.
name: Armstrong, Kate E.
name: Aung, Mu Mu
name: Fujikawa, Kazumi
name: Lu, Lu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Gaultheria
Gaultheria leucocarpa

description: 13. Gaultheria leucocarpa Blume (1826: 856).
≡ Brossaea leucocarpa (Blume) Kuntze (1891: 388).
Type:— INDONESIA. Java: C.L. Blume s.n. (lectotype, designated by Sleumer 1957, L 0007112!*).
= Gaultheria laxiflora Diels (1900: 515).
= Pieris fortunati H. Léveillé (1907: 369).
= Pieris vaccinium H. Léveillé (1911: 448).
= Embelia vaniotii H. Léveillé (1914 –1915: 285).
= Gaultheria crenulata Kurz (1873: 195).
= Vaccinium yunnanense Franchet (1895: 368). ≡ Gaultheria yunnanensis (Franch.) Rehder (1934: 282).
description: Published as part of Fritsch, Peter W., Armstrong, Kate E., Aung, Mu Mu, Fujikawa, Kazumi & Lu, Lu, 2023, Gaultheria (Ericaceae) of Myanmar: an updated species list for the country, a new species, and a new species combination, pp. 37-61 in Phytotaxa 595 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.595.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7889451
Low temperature formation of aluminum-carbonated calcium silicate interpenetrating phase composites
Creators: name: Whalen, Terence Edward
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: A novel, low temperature (<90˚C) process for the formation of an interpenetrating phase composite (IPC) of aluminum and carbonated calcium silicate (CaSiO3) was developed. The key enabling process steps were Infiltration and subsequent hydrothermal liquid phase densification of CaSiO3 in the pores of an aluminum foam.  CaSiO3 suspension flow was enhanced by pH adjustment and addition of a sodium polyacrylate dispersant, allowing for high solids content (58 vol%) suspensions to be used.  The CaSiO3 infiltrated into the aluminum foam achieved 65% relative density, comparable to control CaSiO3 samples.  Carbonation of the CaSiO3 was conducted within a pressure steamer at 90˚C and 20psig CO2.  Extent of carbonation of the infiltrated CaSiO3 was determined from mass gain, x-ray diffraction, and thermal gravimetric analysis and averaged about 50%, comparable to control CaSiO3 samples.  The final bulk density of the IPC was 2.2 g/cm3.   Compression strength of the IPC exceeded that of the aluminum foam and carbonated CaSiO3, greater than 110 MPa.  Stress was resisted after initial failure for large strains by the IPC.  These properties place the formed composite in a unique area of infiltrated Al IPC property space.  No evidence for chemical interaction between the infiltrated CaSiO3 and Al foam was found.  Rather, adhesion between the component-materials was determined to be limited to mechanical interlock between CaSiO3 particulate and surface features of the Al foam.  Surface modification of the Al foam via zeolite coating, anodizing and HCl etching was conducted to change the surface morphology of the Al.  Zeolite coatings produced 50 μm thick coatings with pores ranging from 0.01-10 μm.  Anodic oxide coatings produced shallow dimpling and cracking on the Al foam surface.  HCl etching created muli-scale pitting with features ranging from 0.01-100 μm.  IPCs were formed with the surface modified Al foams and tested in compression.  Failure analysis of the Al-carbonated CaSiO3 interface showed that increasing Al surface roughness led to separation between the bulk carbonated CaSiO3 and the entrapped carbonated CaSiO3 particles.  This change in interface microstructure and failure behavior did not induce significant changes in compressive strength.
Possession and power
Creators: name: Wolkoff, Adam Jacob
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: As urbanization, emancipation, and the expansion of capitalized farming transformed the American landscape between 1800 and 1920, tenancy rates spiked in crowded cities, Southern cotton and tobacco fields, and Midwestern corn and wheat farms. Tenancy was neither the inevitable outcome of market forces, nor a hegemonic order imposed by a powerful few. Rather, its structures emerged from above and below. It emerged from thousands of small and large decisions made by politicians, judges, and attorneys, who expanded the role of law as a tool for growing the economy and widening opportunity for white men, while confining the rights of “racialized others” and women to participate equally in political, social, and economic life. It also emerged from the demands of white men of small property, who hoped tenancy could provide a path toward upward mobility, civic equality, and control over their households, and from complicated political negotiations between landed and commercial interests. And, it emerged from the legal and extralegal maneuvers of the dispossessed—freedpeople, single women, immigrants—who depended on tenancies as a way to secure a measure of independence. By comparing how landlord-tenant relations adapted to and shaped the political economy and hierarchies of race, gender, and class in the North, South, and Midwest, this project has recovered tenancy’s elusive place amid this process of legal transformation.
Additional file 2: of Changing times? Gender roles and relationships in maternal, newborn and child health in Malawi
Creators: name: Manda-Taylor, Lucinda
name: Mwale, Daniel
name: Phiri, Tamara
name: Walsh, Aisling
name: Matthews, Anne
name: Brugha, Ruairi
name: Mwapasa, Victor
name: Byrne, Elaine
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Appendix 2. In-depth interview guide. (DOCX 106Â kb)
Additional file 1: of Role of bispectral index monitoring and burst suppression in prognostication following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Eveson, Leanne
name: Vizcaychipi, Marcela
name: Shashank Patil
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: PRISMA-P (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis Protocols) 2015 checklist: recommended items to address in a systematic review protocol. (PDF 145Â kb)
Thylactus filipinus Vives 2013
Creators: name: Barševskis, Arvīds
name: Barševska, Zeltīte
name: Vanaga, Anarina
name: Borodina, Olga
name: Roze, Liāna
name: Pilace, Sanda
name: Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Thylactus
Thylactus filipinus

description: 82. Thylactus filipinus Vives, 2013
Philippines: Mindanao isl., Davao del Sur, Mt. Talomo (Fig. 12), 26.04.2019 (1, A.Barševskis leg.).
description: Published as part of Barševskis, Arvīds, Barševska, Zeltīte, Vanaga, Anarina, Borodina, Olga, Roze, Liāna, Pilace, Sanda & Mantilla, Leslae Kay Cataytay, 2021, To the knowledge of long-horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the Oriental Region (with new synonymy). Part 4, pp. 229-247 in Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 21 (2) on page 246, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10905476
Additional file 1: of Prevalence of TECTA mutation in patients with mid-frequency sensorineural hearing loss
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Nobuko
name: Mutai, Hideki
name: Namba, Kazunori
name: Morita, Noriko
name: Masuda, Shin
name: Nishi, Yasuyuki
name: Nakano, Atsuko
name: Masuda, Sawako
name: Fujioka, Masato
name: Kimitaka Kaga
name: Ogawa, Kaoru
name: Matsunaga, Tatsuo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Methods of screening for GJB2 mutations and mitochondrial m.1555A > G and m.3243A > G mutations. Methods of screening for GJB2 mutation and mitochondrial m.1555A > G and m.3243A > G mutations used in this study. (DOCX 15 kb)
Integration of scheduling and control under uncertainties
Creators: name: Wu, Xian
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The objective of the thesis consists of: (1) analyzing potential uncertainties of the simultaneous integration model of scheduling and control of an isothermal multiproduct continuous flow stirred tank reactor (CSTR), (2) implementing scenario based method to minimize the influence brought by the incorporation of the uncertainties, (3) investigating other promising methods of uncertainty treatments and value the corresponding feasibility. In order to fulfill those goals, this work includes: (1) conducting sensitivity analysis on potential parameters of the integration model, and summarizing the effects brought by the incorporation of uncertainties, (2) applying scenario based method to the integration model to minimize the affect caused by the introduction of the uncertainties, and evaluating the results, (3) comparing the advantages and disadvantages of other promising uncertainty treatments and predicting the possible developing direction.
Higher order multivariate inference using approximation methods
Creators: name: Wu, Yaoshi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The bivariate con dence region of two parameters of interest conditioning  on one nuisance parameter is evaluated to the error of Op(1/n) using  Laplace's approximation. A joint matching prior in the Bayesian  framework is developed using Laplace's approximation to establish a  mathematical equivalence such that the posterior quartiles coincide with  the con dence region de ned as in a frequency approach. Quadratic  saddlepoint approximation is developed to evaluate bivariate conditional  and unconditional tail probability to the error of Op( 1/n) using saddlepoint  approximation. The quadratic saddlepoint approximation is extended to  three dimension to evaluate trivariate unconditional tail probability.
Gaultheria (sect. Brossaea) (ser. Gymnobotrys) D. J. Middleton 1993
Creators: name: Fritsch, Peter W.
name: Armstrong, Kate E.
name: Aung, Mu Mu
name: Fujikawa, Kazumi
name: Lu, Lu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Gaultheria

description: Classification — Gaultheria sect. Brossaea ser. Gymnobotrys (Airy Shaw 1941: 308) D.J. Middleton (1993: 325).
Phylogenetic placement —Gymnobotrys clade.
Literature — Kress et al. 2003 (as Gaultheria laxiflora, G. yunnanensis), Fang & Stevens 2005, Fritsch et al. 2008.
Myanmar specimens — Kachin: [Myitkina District, Chipwi Township,] Hpimaw Hill, 7,000–8,000 ft, 23 September 1919, R.J. Farrer 1324 (E E00887326!); [Myitkyina District, Chipwi Township,] Kang-fang, N Burma, 6,000 ft, 4 January 1939, F. Kingdon-Ward 188 (A!, BM BM000834413!, NY 02651438!); [Myitkyina District, Tsawlaw Township,] ridge of Naung-chaung-Nmai Divide, 8,000 ft, 28 February 1914, F. Kingdon-Ward 1840 (E E00197164!).
Notes — Kress et al. (2003) did not list Gaultheria leucocarpa but instead listed the synonyms G. laxiflora and G. yunnanensis, each as distinct species.A critical reassessment of the infraspecific taxonomy of G. leucocarpa appears to be warranted. No attempt has been made here to distinguish or identify the varieties or forms. Specimens from outside of Myanmar can have rounded to subcuneate leaf blade bases.
Sleumer (1957) restricts the type material of Gaultheria leucocarpa to specimens with glabrous inflorescences. Sleumer’s annotation of Blume s.n., Java, K K000780333!* states that the specimen is possibly part of the type collection because it has glabrous inflorescences. Sleumer’s annotation of Blume s.n. G-DC G00342279!* states that it is probably part of the type collection and the label “ Gaultheria leucocarpa Java Herb. Dr Bl” appears to be in Blume’s handwriting (Burdet 1972), but only the right-hand branchlet has glabrous inflorescences. Although the specimen NY 00010870 does not indicate the collector, it can be considered a possible isolectotype by the presence of Blume’s handwriting on the label. The specimen NY 00010869!*, Java, with glabrous inflorescences, also does not indicate collector but “ Thibaudia ” on the label may be in Blume’s handwriting and it is thus another possible isolectotype; an annotation by T. Zanoni indicates status as a probable type.
description: Published as part of Fritsch, Peter W., Armstrong, Kate E., Aung, Mu Mu, Fujikawa, Kazumi & Lu, Lu, 2023, Gaultheria (Ericaceae) of Myanmar: an updated species list for the country, a new species, and a new species combination, pp. 37-61 in Phytotaxa 595 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.595.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7889451
Design of lipid-based delivery systems for improving lymphatic transport and bioavailability of delta-tocopherol and nobiletin
Creators: name: Xia, Chunxin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: Lymphatic drug transport can confer bioavailability advantage by avoiding the first-pass metabolism normally observed in the portal vein hepatic route. It was reported that long chain lipid-based delivery systems can stimulate the formation of chylomicron and thus promote the lymphatic transport of drugs. In this study, a novel delta-tocopherol (δ-T) loaded Solid Lipid Nanoparticle (SLN) system was developed to investigate its effect on promoting the lymphatic transport of δ-T. The δ-T SLN was prepared with hot melt emulsification method by using glyceryl behenate (compritol®888) as the lipid phase and lecithin (PC75) as the emulsifier. Formula configuration, processing condition and loading capacity were carefully optimized. Physicochemical properties (particle size, surface charge, morphology) were also characterized. Moreover, excellent stability of the developed δ-T SLN in the gastrointestinal environment was observed by using an in vitro digestion model. Further investigations of the SLN in stimulating δ-T lymphatic transport were performed on mice without cannulation. Compared with the control group (δ-T corn oil dispersion), much lower δ-T levels in both blood and liver indicated reduced portal vein and hepatic transport of δ-T in the form of SLN. On the other hand, significantly higher concentrations of δ-T were observed in thymus, a major lymphatic tissue, indicating improved lymphatic transport of δ-T with the SLN delivery system. Finally, the far less excreted δ-T level in feces further confirmed improved lymphatic transport and overall bioavailability of δ-T by using SLN system.  Nobiletin (NOB), one of most abundant polymethoxyflavones (PMFs) found in Citrus genus, has a low solubility in both water and oil at ambient temperatures. Thus it tends to form crystals when the loading exceeds its saturation level in the carrier system. This character greatly impaired its bioavailability and application. To overcome these problems, an O/W nanoemulsion was developed for NOB delivery with the presence of cremophor EL (a polyethoxylated excipient). The developed formulation can achieve a high NOB loading (0.5 wt%) with significantly reduced crystallinity and excellent physical stability. NOB’s bioaccessibility and permeation rate across the enterocytes were demonstrated to be significantly improved by the in vitro digestion model and Caco-2 cell monolayer, respectively. It is thus predictable that NOB’s bioavailability can be improved with our developed nanoemulsion formulation.
Tensile behavior and mechanical anisotropy of branched cerebral vasculature within gray matter
Creators: name: Xing, Mengdi
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: With increasing effort to prevent, diagnose, and treat traumatic brain injury (TBI), a large amount of research has been dedicated to the investigation of axon-containing white matter for the study of TBI onset and progression, as well as the elastographic techniques used for diagnoses. However, the mechanical response of gray matter with embedded vasculature has not been thoroughly studied. The cerebral vessels play a vital role not only in the mechanical stiffening of the structure of the brain but also in supplying it with the oxygen and nutrients. By incorporating a multiscale approach to the finite element (FE) models, it is possible to determine the transfer of loads from macroscale to microscale and study the progression of traumatic injury in the brain. In the present thesis, an FE representative volume element (RVE) model of the gray matter is developed that incorporates a branching tree structure composed of arteries. Both the gray matter and the vasculature are represented with hyperelastic material models aiming at capturing the complex response of the biological materials under large strains. The RVE model of the composite material results in anisotropy stemming from not only the different material properties, but also attributed to the complex microstructure. Tensile stretches are applied to illustrate the stiffening effect of the vasculature as well as to determine the anisotropic material properties. The response of the whole volume is monitored under various external loadings. In this thesis, a general Fung-type constitutive model is adopted, which is one of the most widely used types of anisotropic material to describe the response behavior of the composites. By implementing a scriptable geometry generation routine, different vasculature geometries are investigated to elucidate the effect of the vascular geometry on the response of the gray matter RVE. By integrating an accurate geometry of the underlying vasculature, and the micromechanical response of the composite material consisting of the gray matter and the vasculature, the study of potential mechanisms of injury and the development of a micro architecture based RVE used in TBI multiscale simulations becomes feasible.
Ion beam analysis of novel materials and devices involving silicon carbide and bismuth selenide
Creators: name: Xu, Can
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The properties of single crystals, thin films and their surfaces and interfaces have a critical impact on the electrical performance of devices. Analysis of the crystallinity of single crystals, the composition of thin films, surface and interface defects greatly assist the improvement of devices. Ion beams is a unique probe that provides quantitative measures of those properties. In this dissertation, ion beam techniques including Medium Energy Ion Scattering (MEIS), Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometry (RBS), Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA) and Helium Ion Microscopy (HIM) are used to analyze silicon carbide and bismuth selenide based structures.  The 4H polytype of silicon carbide (SiC) is a promising candidate for high temperature and high power metal-oxide-semiconductor device applications due to its wide bandgap. In such applications high quality surfaces and interfaces are critical. Aspects of surface quality can be determined by backscattering spectrometry with ion channeling, where the channeling energy loss spectrum depicts the surface peaks of the crystal. We find that the SiC surface peaks are in good agreement with theoretical predictions, when including correlations of the thermal vibrations of the atoms.  Hydrogen passivation of interface defects by annealing in H2 is a well-established process in silicon technology. Unfortunately this process is not effective in silicon carbide based structures. Another way of inducing hydrogen at the interface is through water vapor exposure. Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA) is used to measure the deuterium content in the SiC/SiO2 system induced by heavy water (D2O) anneal. Deuterium uptake in Si/SiO2, SiC(0001)/SiO2, SiC(000-1)/SiO2 and SiC(11-20)/SiO2 are being compared and the amount of deuterium at the interface is correlated with the electrical properties.   The structure and chemical compatibility of In2Se3 (a band insulator) and Bi2Se3 (a 3D topological insulator) suggests possible promising applications of In2 Se3/Bi2Se3 devices. Indiffusion of indium into Bi2Se3 will affect the transport properties. We have grown In2Se3/Bi2Se3 thin films on sapphire by Molecular Beam Epitaxy at different temperatures and correlated the indium diffusion with growth temperature and mobility.
Gaultheria minuta Merrill 1941
Creators: name: Fritsch, Peter W.
name: Armstrong, Kate E.
name: Aung, Mu Mu
name: Fujikawa, Kazumi
name: Lu, Lu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Gaultheria
Gaultheria minuta

description: 14. Gaultheria minuta Merrill (1941: 152).
Type:— MYANMAR. Kachin: [Putao District, Nawngmun Township, Hkakaborazi National Park,] Adung Valley, 12,500 ft, 28°20’N, 97°45’E, 25 June 1931, F. Kingdon-Ward 9701 (holotype A 00014989!, photograph of A in K, isotype BM BM000996565!*).
= Gaultheria sinensis J.Anthony in Anonymous (1933: 19) var. layaensis S.J.Rae & D.G.Long in Long (1988 publ. 1989: 334).
description: Published as part of Fritsch, Peter W., Armstrong, Kate E., Aung, Mu Mu, Fujikawa, Kazumi & Lu, Lu, 2023, Gaultheria (Ericaceae) of Myanmar: an updated species list for the country, a new species, and a new species combination, pp. 37-61 in Phytotaxa 595 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.595.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7889451
Quantitative observations of a deep-sea hydrothermal plume using an acoustic imaging sonar
Creators: name: Xu, Guangyu
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The Cabled Observatory Vent Imaging Sonar (COVIS) is used to quantitatively monitor the  hydrothermal discharge from the Grotto mound, a venting sulfide structure on the Endeavour  Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Since its deployment in September 2010, COVIS  has recorded a multi-year long, near-continuous acoustic backscatter dataset. Further analysis  of this dataset sheds light on the backscattering mechanisms within the buoyant plumes  above Grotto and yields quantitative information on the influences of oceanic, atmospheric,  and geological processes on the dynamics and heat source of the plumes.    An investigation of the acoustic scattering mechanisms within the buoyant plumes issuing from Grotto suggests the dominant scattering mechanism within the plumes is the temperature fluctuations caused by the turbulent mixing of the buoyant plumes with the ambient seawater. In comparison, the backscatter from plume particles is negligible at lower levels of the plume but can potentially be signi cant at higher levels. Furthermore, this  finding demonstrates the potential of inverting the acoustic backsatter to estimate the temperature fluctuations within the plumes.    Processing the backscatter dataset recorded by COVIS yields time-series measurements of the vertical flow rate, volume transport, expansion rate of the largest buoyant plume above Grotto. Further analysis of those time-series measurements suggests the rate at which the ambient seawater is entrained into the plume increases with the magnitude of the ambient ocean currents---the current-driven entrainment. Furthermore, the oscillations in the ambient ocean currents that are driven by tidal and atmospheric forcing are introduced into the flow  field within the plume through the current-driven entrainment.    An inverse method has been developed to estimate the source heat transport driving the largest plume above Grotto from its volume transport estimates. The result suggests the heat transport driving the plume was steady over the 41-month period between October 2011 and February 2015. Comparing the current and historical heat transport measurements with contemporaneous seismic data suggests the evolution of the heat transport since 1988 correlates with the rate of local seismicity with a short episode of increased heat transport following pronounced seismic events and reduced steady heat transport during time periods of quiescent seismicity.
Impossibility theorems and the universal algebraic toolkit
Creators: name: Xu, Yixin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: In this dissertation, we elucidate a close connection   between the theory of Evaluation Aggregation,    and a subfield of universal algebra, that was recently applied  to investigate constraint satisfaction problems.   Our connection yields a full classification  of non-binary evaluations into possibility and impossibility domains  both under the idempotent and the supportive conditions.  Prior to the current result E. Dokow and R. Holzman nearly classified  non-binary evaluations in the supportive case, by combinatorial means.  The algebraic approach gives us new insights to   the easier binary case as well, which had been  fully classified by the above authors. We give a classification   theorem for the majoritarian aggregator and show how Sen's  well known theorem follows from it.   Our algebraic view lets us put forth a suggestion about a   strengthening of the non-dictatorship criterion,  that helps us avoid "outliers'' like the affine subspace.   Finally, we give upper bounds on the complexity   of deciding if a domain is impossible or not (to our best knowledge no   finite time bounds were given earlier).
Valid inequalities for mixed-integer linear programming problems
Creators: name: Yamangil, Emre
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: In this work we focus on various cutting-plane methods for Mixed-integer Linear Programming (MILP) problems. It is well-known that MILP is a fundamental hard problem and many famous combinatorial optimization problems can be modeled using MILP formulations. It is also well-known that MILP formulations are very useful in many real life applications.    Our first, rather theoretical, contribution is a new family of superadditive valid inequalities that are obtained from value functions of special surrogate optimization problems. Superadditive functions hold particular interest in MILP as they are fundamental in building integer programming duality, and all ``deepest valid inequalities'' are known to arise from superadditive functions. We propose a new family of superadditive functions that generate inequalities that are at least as strong as Chvatal-Gomory (CG-) inequalities. A special subfamily provides a new characterization of CG-cuts.  Value functions of optimization problems are known to be super additive. We look at special surrogate optimization problems, and measure their complexity in terms of the number of integer variables in them. It turns out that the lowest possible nontrivial complexity class here includes all CG-cuts, and provides some stronger ones, as well.    Our next contribution is a practically efficient, polynomial time method to produce ``deepest'' cuts form multiple simplex rows for the so called corner polyhedra.  These inequalities have been receiving considerable attention lately. We provide a polynomial time column-generation algorithm to obtain such inequalities, based on an arbitrary (fixed) number of rows of the simplex tableau. We provide numerical evidence that these inequalities improve the CPLEX integrality gap at the root node on a well-known set of MILP instances, MIPLIB.    In the last chapter, we consider a particular MILP instance, Optimal Resilient Distribution Grid Design Problem (ORDGDP). This is a problem of critical importance to infrastructure security and recently attracted a lot of attention from various government agencies (e.g. Presidential Policy Directive of Critical Infrastructure Security 2013). We formulate this problem as a MILP and propose various efficient solution methods blending together well-known decomposition ideas to overcome the numerical intractability encountered using commercial MILP software such as CPLEX.
HF Quarkonium physics in PHENIX
Creators: name: Liu, Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: aum24
phenix
heavy flavor
charmonium
J/Ψ
dilepton
dielectron
dimuon
mid-rapidity
forward-rapidity
backward-rapidity
p+p
p+au
open charm
elliptic
flow
hadron
p+al
nuclear
modification
raa
multiplicity
pythia
star
alice
cgc

description: Talk presented at the Heavy Flavor workshop of the RHIC/AGS Annual Users' Meeting 2024
Analyzing and modeling groups
Creators: name: Yan, Jinyun
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: A group is a collection of humans. Members within a group often share certain characteristics, interests and preferences, along with their individual differences. Such collections of members lead to interesting collective behavior. In this work, we analyze and model the behavior of groups when part of three real-world applications: group recommendation, personalized search and reference group identification.    Group recommendation is a variation of the classical problem of recommending items, but where the client is a group rather than an individual. We are interested in the setting where individuals, part of the same group or not, interact regularly with the recommender system. There are two challenges in group recommendation in this setting: 1) historical information about member and group is often missing; 2) members' presence when they ask for a recommendation may be different at different times. We formulate this problem as a group multi-armed bandit problem and design policies for two types of group feedback.  We develop a demo system to collect member and group feedback on recommendations to group events and observe the existence of member influence when the group wants to reach consensus.      Personalized search results rely heavily on individuals' search and click history. However, a large portion of queries submitted by users each day is new. It is hard to improve search relevance on these queries. We analyzed queries and clicks at group level and observed that individuals' click preferences align well with groups' preferences. With this in mind, we propose cohort models that model each user through groups of users who are similar in one or more dimensions, and facilitate personalized search through cohort's search intent and click preference. Experiments show that cohort models can achieve significant improvement on search relevance, particularly when personal historical data is insufficient.    A good way to assess a person is to look at her reference group. A person is considered to be equal or near equal to people in her reference group. We study the problem of finding a group of comparable people for any given researcher, so that we can better represent and understand the researcher in query. To do so, we build researchers' research trajectory with year, publication and venue. Then, we use a trajectory matching algorithm to determine how similar they are and identify relevant candidates. Our algorithm can be easily modified to find more senior researchers whose early stage of their career is comparable to a given junior researcher. We also provide a map-reduce version of our matching algorithm to make it scale well with data.
Gaultheria (sect. Chiogenopsis) (ser. Trichophyllae) Airy Shaw 1941
Creators: name: Fritsch, Peter W.
name: Armstrong, Kate E.
name: Aung, Mu Mu
name: Fujikawa, Kazumi
name: Lu, Lu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Gaultheria

description: Classification — Gaultheria sect. Chiogenopsis ser. Trichophyllae.
Phylogenetic placement — Trichophyllae clade.
Literature — Kress et al. 2003, Fritsch & Lu 2020.
Myanmar specimen — The type.
description: Published as part of Fritsch, Peter W., Armstrong, Kate E., Aung, Mu Mu, Fujikawa, Kazumi & Lu, Lu, 2023, Gaultheria (Ericaceae) of Myanmar: an updated species list for the country, a new species, and a new species combination, pp. 37-61 in Phytotaxa 595 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.595.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7889451
Additional file 1: of Role of bispectral index monitoring and burst suppression in prognostication following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Eveson, Leanne
name: Vizcaychipi, Marcela
name: Shashank Patil
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: PRISMA-P (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis Protocols) 2015 checklist: recommended items to address in a systematic review protocol. (PDF 145Â kb)
Trichomyia andina Bejarano, Perez-Doria & Sierra
Creators: name: Araújo, Maíra Xavier
name: Bravo, Freddy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Psychodidae
Trichomyia
Trichomyia andina

description: Trichomyia andina Bejarano, Pérez-Doria & Sierra
Trichomyia andina Bejarano, Pérez-Doria & Sierra, 2010: 76 –77, figs. 1–7.
Comments. Males of T. andina are recognized by the pigmentation of the gonostylus, that extending from the base to the medial portion; the gonocoxite has an apical small lobe with thick bristles. The aedeagus and projections in the aedeagal complex are covered by a membranous sac. The type specimens were not examined; however, the description and figures of Bejarano et al. (2010) allowed for the identification of the specimen from Brazil.
Material examined. Brazil, Rondônia, Caucalândia, 200 km SSE of Porto Velho, 25.V–6. VI.1998, 1 ♂, L.W. Quate leg. (MZFS).
Distribution. Colômbia; Brazil—Rondônia (new record).
description: Published as part of Araújo, Maíra Xavier & Bravo, Freddy, 2016, Description of fourty four new species, taxonomic notes and identification key to Neotropical Trichomyia Haliday in Curtis (Diptera: Psychodidae, Trichomyiinae), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 4130 (1) on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4130.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262717
High-gravity spreading of liquid coatings on wetting flexible substrates
Creators: name: Yang, Chen
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: This work describes a mechanical approach with high gravity for manipulating the capillary length and spreading of liquid coatings on flexible substrates. Experimental verification in the literature has focused on cases under standard gravity on earth, and to the author’s knowledge, this work is the first to explore its relevance to spreading puddles under high gravity. By using centrifugation with a high-density liquid base underneath a coated substrate, it is possible to apply acceleration normal to a substrate to increase the rate of spreading without producing wasted material inherent to conventional spin coating with acceleration tangent to a wetted substrate. Due to the nature of centrifugation, this method works primarily on flexible substrates, which bend with a curvature that conforms to a contour of uniformly distributed centrifugal acceleration. With high gravity of 600 g applied, the capillary length reduces by a factor of 24.5. Then, the spreading shifts from a surface tension-driven regime or early transitional regime to a faster spreading regime, which is dominated by gravitational forces. Experimental results show that high gravitational acceleration will enhance the rate of spreading such that a puddle, which would require 12 hours under standard gravity on earth to go from an 8-μl droplet to a film with thickness of 40 microns, would require less than 1 minute under 600 g. Overall, this work suggests that previously derived expressions for gravity-driven spreading of puddles under earth’s standard gravity extend to predicting the behavior of puddles spreading on flexible substrates exposed to more than 100 g’s of acceleration.
Additional file 1: of Prevalence of TECTA mutation in patients with mid-frequency sensorineural hearing loss
Creators: name: Yamamoto, Nobuko
name: Mutai, Hideki
name: Namba, Kazunori
name: Morita, Noriko
name: Masuda, Shin
name: Nishi, Yasuyuki
name: Nakano, Atsuko
name: Masuda, Sawako
name: Fujioka, Masato
name: Kimitaka Kaga
name: Ogawa, Kaoru
name: Matsunaga, Tatsuo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Methods of screening for GJB2 mutations and mitochondrial m.1555A > G and m.3243A > G mutations. Methods of screening for GJB2 mutation and mitochondrial m.1555A > G and m.3243A > G mutations used in this study. (DOCX 15 kb)
Data-driven modeling of taxi trip demand and supply in New York City
Creators: name: Yang, Ci
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: The taxicab is an important transportation service in New York City (NYC). This dissertation addresses three primary questions related to taxi demand and supply in NYC using innovative data including: a large amount of taxi Global Positioning System (GPS) data that the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) has collected over a two-year period, detailed transit schedule information, and neighborhood characteristics. The three questions are: Is there variability and imbalance between taxi demand and supply across different times of day and different locations in NYC? What factors determine the distribution of demand for taxicab services in NYC by time and by location? How can the imbalance between taxicab demand and supply be identified and quantified in order to guide policies to improve transportation access in NYC?  iii  The hypothesis is that the variability and imbalance between taxi demand and supply at different times of day and locations exists. Neighborhood characteristics are factors that are expected to be related to the distribution of taxi trips.  In the supply analysis, the taxi supply is quantified, an analysis of taxi use every day identifies factors related to the variability of taxi supply over time, and a customer search model was developed to identify areas where drivers of vacant taxis tend to go and to quantify how efficiently drivers of vacant taxis search for their next customer. The model indicates that the NYC taxicabs could be redistributed more efficiently as a system if the taxi drivers are assigned to specific passenger pickups.  In trip generation modeling, six important explanatory variables are identified that influence taxi trips: population, education, supply, income, Transit Access Time (TAT), and employment. More complex models involving count regression and accounting for spatial autocorrelation are then developed to understand the imbalance between taxi demand and supply by controlling for the above-mentioned factors. The errors of the trip generation model provide insights of when and where there is insufficient taxi supply or surplus taxi supply relative to taxi demand.  A case study is introduced to compare the total cost for two modes of transportation (transit and taxi) between NYC Penn Station and three New York area airports (JFK, LGA and EWR). Transit is found to be more cost-effective than taxi for most times of the day.
A hydraulic, jellyfish-based soft robot
Creators: name: Yang, Ke
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2015

description: This thesis describes the design, fabrication, and characterization of a soft robotic jellyfish.  Living jellyfish are some of the most efficient swimmers in the ocean and exhibit unique capabilities for manipulating fluid flows for efficient propulsion.  The fabricated soft vehicles in this work emulate some of the characteristics of living jellyfish and their propulsive mechanisms have the potential to influence the future design of efficient underwater vehicles. With respect to fabrication, the author uses silicones of varied hardness to mimic the flexibility and shape of biological jellyfish.  Characterization and testing of the biomimetic vehicles facilitate comparisons to living jellyfish and provide physical insights into the dependence of efficiency on timed gaits and formed vortices.  Based on calculated costs of transport, a slow gait results in the highest locomotive efficiency.  These results suggest that further optimization of the designed vehicles and gait will yield future propulsion systems with even higher efficiency.
Additional file 1: of Surgical referral coordination from a first-level hospital: a prospective case study from rural Nepal
Creators: name: Fleming, Matthew
name: King, Caroline
name: Sindhya Rajeev
name: Ashma Baruwal
name: Schwarz, Dan
name: Schwarz, Ryan
name: Nirajan Khadka
name: Pande, Sami
name: Sumesh Khanal
name: Bibhav Acharya
name: Adia Benton
name: Rogers, Selwyn
name: Panizales, Maria
name: Gyorki, David
name: McGee, Heather
name: Shaye, David
name: Maru, Duncan
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Key Informant Interview Guide. (DOCX 13Â kb)