cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Thermochemical models of oceanic upper mantle
Creators: name: Grose, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The thermal state of the oceanic upper mantle is reassessed by developing new progressively more sophisticated models of the thermal evolution of oceanic lithosphere. Model Properties are constrained by experimental mineral physics data for the thermal properties of the mantle, statistical analyses of the major geophysical observables (topography and surface heat flow), and sensitivity analyses of physical parameters. Predictions of geothermal structure, plate thickness, subsidence rates, and net sea floor heat flow are discussed. Sensitivity analyses demonstrate that physically simple plate cooling models cannot fit geophysical observations unless thermal expansivity is substantially lower than experimental estimates for forsterite. More physically complete models resolve improved fits to geophysical observations with less artificial adjustments in physical properties. The inclusion of an insulating oceanic crust is found to significantly impact the cooling behavior of oceanic lithosphere. To estimate the total amount of heat vented to the oceans by ventilated hydrothermal circulation, we integrate the deficit between modeled and measured heat ow over young sea floor. A model with insulating oceanic crust predicts a loss of about 6.6 TW and the fraction of heat extracted on ridge axes is about 50% of the total. Lastly, the thermal structure of oceanic lithosphere is linked to the chemistry of Ocean Island Basalts (OIB) via the 'LID effect'. We developed a two-dimensional numerical model of multi-phase coarsening, dffusive trace element partitioning, and near-fractional melting. The model is applied to the generation of melts in the OIB source, and results are compared to observed correlations in La/Sm and Sm/Yb with sea floor age. Using the model we explain Rare-Earth element (REE) systematics in Global OIB, constrain the LAB temperature to be approximately 1225⁰ C, suggest that experimental partition coeffcients may be a few tens of percent away from appropriate effective values in OIB melting, suggest that the mean grain radius in the OIB source is on the order of 2.5-5 mm, demonstrate that the OIB source is in a state of extreme disequilibrium, show that the REE composition of the bulk OIB source is both heavily enriched and similar to the MORB source, and we show that the potential temperature of the OIB sourceis likely < 1400⁰C.
Kinematics of a young low-mass star forming core: Understanding the evolutionary state of the First Core Candidate L1451-mm
Creators: name: Maureira, Maria Jose
name: Arce, Hector
name: Dunham, Michael M.
name: Pineda, Jaime E.
name: Fernandez-Lopez, Manuel
name: Chen, Xuepeng
name: Mardones, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use 3mm multi-line and continuum CARMA observations towards the first hydrostatic core (FHSC) candidate L1451-mm to characterize the envelope kinematics at 1000 AU scales and investigate its evolutionary state. We detect evidence of infall and rotation in the N2H+(1-0), NH2D(1(1,1)-1(0,1)) and HCN(1-0) molecular lines. We compare the position velocity diagram of the NH2D line with a simple kinematic model and find that it is consistent with an envelope that is both infalling and rotating while conserving angular momentum around a central mass of about 0.06 Msun. The N2H+(1-0) LTE mass of the envelope along with the inferred infall velocity leads to a mass infall rate of approximately 6e-6 Msun/yr, implying a young age of 10,000 years for this FHSC candidate. Assuming that the accretion onto the central object is the same as the infall rate we obtain that the minimum source size is 1.5-5 AU consistent with the size expected for a first core. We do not see any evidence of outflow motions or signs of outflow-envelope interaction at scales > 2000 AU. This is consistent with previous observations that revealed a very compact outflow (<500 AU). We conclude that L1451-mm is indeed at a very early stage of evolution, either a first core or an extremely young Class 0 protostar. Our results provide strong evidence that L1451-mm is the best candidate for being a bonafide first core.
description: 16 pages, 11 figures
Correlates of distribution and nesting success in a Welsh upland Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata population
Creators: name: Johnstone, Ian
name: Elliot, Dave
name: Mellenchip, Chris
name: Peach, Will J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Capsule: Habitat structure and composition explained spatial variation in breeding distribution and nesting success in a declining upland Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata population in North Wales. Aims: To identify environmental correlates of Curlew breeding distribution, nesting success and change in distribution. Methods: Thirty random 1 km squares stratified by historical population trend were surveyed for Curlew density and nesting success, and habitat- and predation-related variables in a landscape containing agriculturally improved farmland, and moorland that was partly protected and subject to grazing reductions for nature conservation. Analyses tested for associations between Curlew measures and environmental variables. Results: Curlew breeding density declined by 29% between 1994 and 2008, and was highest in squares comprising a mixture of moorland and agriculturally improved farmland, and in squares with lower vegetation density and higher cover of Nardus stricta (characteristic of rough grazing). Nesting success was positively associated with cover of Trichophorum germanicum (characteristic of mire). Vegetation density was lower than average in squares with the highest Curlew densities, while in the protected area vegetation density was higher than average. Conclusion: Habitat and vegetation variables influenced Curlew distribution and nesting success in North Wales, largely in line with previous results but with no evidence for predator-related influences. Habitat condition for Curlew in the protected area could probably be increased through targeted increases in grazing alongside the protection of priority habitats.
Trends in dextromethorphan cough and cold products: 2000–2015 National Poison Data System intentional abuse exposure calls
Creators: name: Karami, Sara
name: Major, Jacqueline M.
name: Calderon, Silvia
name: McAninch, Jana K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Context: Recent restrictions in access to and availability of dextromethorphan (DXM) cough and cold medications may correlate with changes in abuse exposures. Objective: To extend and update existing knowledge about DXM abuse, we describe recent trends and patterns of calls to poison control centers involving DXM abuse, by demographics, geography, common brands, and medical outcomes. Methods: We utilized data from the National Poison Data System (NPDS) maintained by the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), which captures data on calls to U.S. poison centers on a near real-time basis. We analyzed demographic, geographic, brand and medical outcome data for single-substance DXM cough and cold product intentional abuse exposure calls in multiple age groups reported to NPDS from 2000 to 2015. Results: The annual rate of single-substance DXM intentional abuse calls tripled from 2000 to 2006 and subsequently plateaued from 2006 to 2015. The highest abuse call rate was observed among adolescents 14–17 years old, where the mean annual number of calls was 1761 per year, corresponding to an annual rate of 103.6 calls per million population. From 2006 to 2015, the rate for single-substance DXM abuse calls among adolescents 14–17 years decreased by 56.3%, from 143.8 to 80.9 calls per million population. Conclusion: DXM intentional abuse exposure call rates have declined among adolescents 14–17 years, since their peak in 2006. The observed decline in DXM abuse call rates corresponds to a period of growing public health efforts to curtail the abuse of over-the-counter (OTC) DXM containing products, particularly among adolescents. Further evaluation of state-level sales and abuse trends among adolescents would be valuable to better understand how restricted availability of OTC DXM cough and cold products and other efforts may affect abuse rates.
Fast time-domain measurements on telecom single photons
Creators: name: Allgaier, Markus
name: Vigh, Gesche
name: Ansari, Vahid
name: Eigner, Christof
name: Quiring, Viktor
name: Ricken, Raimund
name: Brecht, Benjamin
name: Silberhorn, Christine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Direct measurements on the temporal envelope of quantum light are a challenging task and not many examples are known since most classical pulse characterisation methods do not work on the single photon level. Knowledge of both spectrum and timing can however give insights on properties that cannot be determined by the spectrum alone. While temporal measurements on single photons on timescales of tens of picoseconds are possible with superconducting photon detectors and picosecond measurements have been performed using streak cameras, there are no commercial single photon sensitive devices with femtosecond resolution available. While time-domain sampling using sum-frequency generation has been already exploited for such measurement, inefficient conversion has necessitated long integration times to build the temporal profile. We demonstrate a highly efficient waveguided sum-frequency generation process in Lithium Niobate to measure the temporal envelope of single photons with femtosecond resolution with short enough acquisition time to provide a live-view of the measurement. We demonstrate the measurement technique and combine it with spectral measurements using a dispersive fiber time-of-flight spectrometer to determine upper and lower bounds for the spectral purity of heralded single photons. The approach complements the joint spectral intensity measurements as a measure on the purity can be given without knowledge of the spectral phase.
Comparing MapReduce and Pipeline Implementations for Counting Triangles
Creators: name: Pasarella, Edelmira
name: Vidal, Maria-Esther
name: Zoltan, Cristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.1.3; F.1.2

description: A common method to define a parallel solution for a computational problem consists in finding a way to use the Divide and Conquer paradigm in order to have processors acting on its own data and scheduled in a parallel fashion. MapReduce is a programming model that follows this paradigm, and allows for the definition of efficient solutions by both decomposing a problem into steps on subsets of the input data and combining the results of each step to produce final results. Albeit used for the implementation of a wide variety of computational problems, MapReduce performance can be negatively affected whenever the replication factor grows or the size of the input is larger than the resources available at each processor. In this paper we show an alternative approach to implement the Divide and Conquer paradigm, named dynamic pipeline. The main features of dynamic pipelines are illustrated on a parallel implementation of the well-known problem of counting triangles in a graph. This problem is especially interesting either when the input graph does not fit in memory or is dynamically generated. To evaluate the properties of pipeline, a dynamic pipeline of processes and an ad-hoc version of MapReduce are implemented in the language Go, exploiting its ability to deal with channels and spawned processes. An empirical evaluation is conducted on graphs of different topologies, sizes, and densities. Observed results suggest that dynamic pipelines allows for an efficient implementation of the problem of counting triangles in a graph, particularly, in dense and large graphs, drastically reducing the execution time with respect to the MapReduce implementation.
description: In Proceedings PROLE 2016, arXiv:1701.03069
Baohuoside-I suppresses cell proliferation and migration by up-regulating miR-144 in melanoma
Creators: name: Peng, Ya-Guang
name: Zhang, Li
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Context: Baohuoside-I was reported to induce apoptosis in non-small-cell lung cancer and inhibit the growth of multiple myeloma cells. The antitumour potential of baohuoside-I has not been demonstrated in melanoma yet. Objective: To investigate the potential antitumour activity of baohuoside-I against melanoma and elucidate its underlying molecular mechanism. Materials and methods: Cell viability was evaluated by MTT assay. The malignant invasion capacity was measured with trans-well assay. The relative expression change of microRNAs was profiled with microarray. TargetScan was utilized for prediction of target gene of miR-144. Regulatory effect of miR-144 on SMAD1 was determined by dual luciferase reporter assay. Endogenous SMAD1 protein in response to ectopic expression of miR-144 was determined by immunoblotting. Xenograft mice were employed to evaluate antitumour potential of baohuoside-I (25 mg/kg by tail intravenous injection every two days) in vivo. Results: Baohuoside-I significantly inhibited proliferation (45 ± 4% reduction in M14 and 35 ± 3% reduction in MV3 at 24 h) and migration (70 ± 4% reduction in M14 and 72 ± 3% reduction in MV3) in melanoma cells. Mechanistically, baohuoside-I up-regulated miR-144 expression levels (3 ± 0.2-fold). Silence of miR-144 reversed the inhibition of baohuoside-I in melanoma. We have identified that SMAD1 was the novel target of miR-144. Moreover, baohuoside-I suppressed melanoma in vivo (52 ± 8% reduction in xenograft tumour size at day 20). Conclusions: Our data suggested significant antitumour potential of baohuoside-I against melanoma both in vitro and in vivo, which warrants further laboratory investigation and clinical trial.
Anticipated synchronization in neuronal circuits unveiled by a phase-resetting curve analysis
Creators: name: Matias, Fernanda S.
name: Carelli, Pedro V.
name: Mirasso, Claudio R.
name: Copelli, Mauro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Anticipated synchronization (AS) is a counter intuitive behavior that has been observed in several systems. When AS establishes in a sender-receiver configuration, the latter can predict the future dynamics of the former for certain parameter values. In particular, in neuroscience AS was proposed to explain the apparent discrepancy between information flow and time lag in the cortical activity recorded in monkeys. Despite its success, a clear understanding on the mechanisms yielding AS in neuronal circuits is still missing. Here we use the well-known phase-resetting-curve (PRC) approach to study the prototypical sender-receiver-interneuron neuronal motif. Our aim is to better understand how the transitions between delayed to anticipated synchronization and anticipated synchronization to phase-drift regimes occur. We construct a map based on the PRC method to predict the phase-locking regimes and their stability. We find that a PRC function of two variables, accounting simultaneously for the inputs from sender and interneuron into the receiver, is essential to reproduce the numerical results obtained using a Hodgkin-Huxley model for the neurons. On the contrary, the typical approximation that considers a sum of two independent single-variable PRCs fails for intermediate to high values of the inhibitory connectivity between interneuron. In particular, it looses the delayed-synchronization to anticipated-synchronization transition.
Additional file 5 of Deletion of Abi3/Gngt2 influences age-progressive amyloid β and tau pathologies in distinctive ways
Creators: name: Ibanez, Kristen R.
name: McFarland, Karen N.
name: Phillips, Jennifer
name: Allen, Mariet
name: Lessard, Christian B.
name: Zobel, Lillian
name: De La Cruz, Elsa Gonzalez
name: Shah, Shivani
name: Vo, Quan
name: Wang, Xue
name: Quicksall, Zachary
name: Ryu, Daniel
name: Funk, Cory
name: Ertekin-Taner, Nilüfer
name: Prokop, Stefan
name: Golde, Todd E.
name: Chakrabarty, Paramita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 5: Fig. S2. Genomic organization at the Abi3 locus of Mus musculus. a. RNAseq based confirmation of Abi3, Gngt2 and APP levels from three Abi3 genotypes in APP transgenic (APP, Tg) mice or nontransgenic (APP, nTg) mice. Abi3, WT: Abi3+/+; Abi3, het: Abi3+/−; Abi3, hom: Abi3−/−. x axis denotes the genotypes and y axis denotes FPKM values of the corresponding RNA indicated on top of the graph. N=4 mice/genotype. b. The Abi3 knockout mice (Abi3tm1.1(KOMP)Vlcg) was generated by cre-mediated excision of the parental Abi3tm1(KOMP)Vlcg allele resulting in the removal of the neomycin selection cassette, leaving behind the inserted lacZ reporter sequence. The sequence that was excised out on chromosome 11 was located between 95842143 and 95832627 (indicated by black bar). This fragment encompasses the Abi3 coding region and 5’ region of a Gngt2 isoform.
Baohuoside-I suppresses cell proliferation and migration by up-regulating miR-144 in melanoma
Creators: name: Peng, Ya-Guang
name: Zhang, Li
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Context: Baohuoside-I was reported to induce apoptosis in non-small-cell lung cancer and inhibit the growth of multiple myeloma cells. The antitumour potential of baohuoside-I has not been demonstrated in melanoma yet. Objective: To investigate the potential antitumour activity of baohuoside-I against melanoma and elucidate its underlying molecular mechanism. Materials and methods: Cell viability was evaluated by MTT assay. The malignant invasion capacity was measured with trans-well assay. The relative expression change of microRNAs was profiled with microarray. TargetScan was utilized for prediction of target gene of miR-144. Regulatory effect of miR-144 on SMAD1 was determined by dual luciferase reporter assay. Endogenous SMAD1 protein in response to ectopic expression of miR-144 was determined by immunoblotting. Xenograft mice were employed to evaluate antitumour potential of baohuoside-I (25 mg/kg by tail intravenous injection every two days) in vivo. Results: Baohuoside-I significantly inhibited proliferation (45 ± 4% reduction in M14 and 35 ± 3% reduction in MV3 at 24 h) and migration (70 ± 4% reduction in M14 and 72 ± 3% reduction in MV3) in melanoma cells. Mechanistically, baohuoside-I up-regulated miR-144 expression levels (3 ± 0.2-fold). Silence of miR-144 reversed the inhibition of baohuoside-I in melanoma. We have identified that SMAD1 was the novel target of miR-144. Moreover, baohuoside-I suppressed melanoma in vivo (52 ± 8% reduction in xenograft tumour size at day 20). Conclusions: Our data suggested significant antitumour potential of baohuoside-I against melanoma both in vitro and in vivo, which warrants further laboratory investigation and clinical trial.
On completely prime submodules
Creators: name: Ssevviiri, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16S90, 16D60, 16D99

description: The formal study of completely prime modules was initiated by N. J. Groenewald and the current author in the paper; Completely prime submodules, {\it Int. Elect. J. Algebra}, {\bf 13}, (2013), 1--14. In this paper, the study of completely prime modules is continued. Firstly, the advantage completely prime modules have over prime modules is highlited and different situations that lead to completely prime modules given. Later, emphasis is put on fully completely prime modules, (i.e., modules whose all submodules are completely prime). For a fully completely prime left $R$-module $M$, if $a, b\in R$ and $m\in M$, then $abm=bam$, $am=a^km$ for all positive integers $k$, and either $am=abm$ or $bm=abm$. In the last section, two different torsion theories induced by the completely prime radical are given.
description: 15 pages
SOROLL.IA2: Project poster
Creators: name: ITI, Instiuto Tecnológico de Informática
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: SOROLLIA2
2023
active learning

description: This document represents a poster for the project, which is part of the project's dissemination activities.

 
description: SOROLL.IA2 Project funded by the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), within the public grant program adressed to Technological Institutes of the Valencian Community for the development of non-economic R&D projects carried out in cooperation with companies during 2023 with 137.090,55 €. File number: IMDEEA/2023/91
Differences in utility elicitation methods in cardiovascular disease: a systematic review
Creators: name: Betts, Marissa Blieden
name: Shravanthi R. Gandra
name: Lung-I Cheng
name: Szatkowski, Anna
name: Toth, Peter P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Aims: Utility values inform estimates of the cost-effectiveness of treatment for cardiovascular disease (CVD), but values can vary depending on the method used. The aim of this systematic literature review (SLR) was to explore how methods of elicitation impact utility values for CVD. Materials and methods: This review identified English-language articles in Embase, MEDLINE, and the gray literature published between September 1992 and August 2015 using keywords for “utilities” and “stroke”, “heart failure”, “myocardial infarction”, or “angina”. Variability in utility values based on the method of elicitation, tariff, or type of respondent was then reported. Results: This review screened 4,341 citations; 290 of these articles qualified for inclusion in the SLR because they reported utility values for one or more of the cardiovascular conditions of interest listed above. Of these 290, the 41 articles that provided head-to-head comparisons of utility methods for CVD were reviewed. In this sub-set, it was found that methodological differences contributed to variation in utility values. Direct methods often yielded higher scores than did indirect methods. Within direct methods, there were no clear trends in head-to-head studies (standard gamble [SG] vs time trade-off); but general population respondents often provided lower scores than did patients with the disease when evaluating the same health states with SG methods. When comparing indirect methods, the EQ-5D typically yielded higher values than the SF-6D, but also showed more sensitivity to differences in health states. Conclusions: When selecting CVD utility values for an economic model, consideration of the utility elicitation method is important, as this review demonstrates that methodology of choice impacts utility values in CVD.
Experience-dependent plasticity in brain structure and olfactory learning capacities in honey bees (Apis mellifera): Amélie Cabirol.
Creators: name: Cabirol, Amélie
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Learning capacities, and the structure of the brain centres supporting them, vary greatly between individuals, partly due to different life experiences. In honey bees, experience - dependent plasticity has been reported in multisensory brain centres involved in learning and memory: the mushroom bodies (MBs). T he consequences of such plasticity on learning performances are still unknown. The aim of my thesis was to examine the relationships between experience, learning capacities and MB organization in honey bees. The age - related division of labour in honey bees gave me the opportunity to study experience - dependent plasticity both in young bees working inside the hive, and in older bees foraging outdoors. I first observed that bees exposed to a sensory - impoverished environment for the first days of adulthood had a higher number of synaptic boutons in the MBs, and a reduced performance in a MB - dependent learning task ; reversal learning. This suggests the occurrence of experience - dependent synaptic pruning in the natural environment, which improves learning capacities. I observed similar effects of environmental enrichment when the bees start ed foraging . Foraging onset was accompanied by a decrease in the number of synaptic boutons in the MBs, as well as b y an improvement in reversal learning performance. Prolonged foraging activity, however, had the opposite effects, especially when a stress applied to the colony induced bees to forage earlier. Therefore , I highlighted a negative relationship between the n umber of synaptic boutons in the MBs and performance in reversal learning. I then confirmed the negative impact of foraging activity on learning capacities using a different MB - dependent task; positive patterning . I revealed the involvement of the cholinergic signalling pathway in this experience - dependent cognitive decline. This thesis presents the first integrated analyses of experience - dependent plasticity in both brain structure and cognitive capacities in honey bees. It help s to understand the mechanisms linking synaptic connectivity to learning performances, and will encourage further studies on the role of environmental stressors in the reported cognitive decline in foragers.
The multiple effects of borders on metropolitan functions in Europe
Creators: name: Sohn, Christophe
name: Licheron, Julien
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This paper examines the effects of borders on the performance of metropolitan areas in Europe. An innovative multidimensional conceptualization of border effects into four factors (separation, contact, differentiation and affirmation) is elaborated on and empirically tested. Estimation results confirm the ambivalent effects of the differentiation factor: economic differentials display positive effects, while cultural differences have negative effects on metropolitan performance. For the other factors, the estimations are of the expected sign, but their signal is weak and calls for further research. Ultimately, this exploratory analysis represents a promising attempt to disentangle the intrinsic dimensions of borders and consider their ambivalent effects.
Towards a Semantics-Aware Code Transformation Toolchain for Heterogeneous Systems
Creators: name: Tamarit, Salvador
name: Mariño, Julio
name: Vigueras, Guillermo
name: Carro, Manuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: C.1.3; D.3.4; I.2.2

description: Obtaining good performance when programming heterogeneous computing platforms poses significant challenges. We present a program transformation environment, implemented in Haskell, where architecture-agnostic scientific C code with semantic annotations is transformed into functionally equivalent code better suited for a given platform. The transformation steps are represented as rules that can be fired when certain syntactic and semantic conditions are fulfilled. These rules are not hard-wired into the rewriting engine: they are written in a C-like language and are automatically processed and incorporated into the rewriting engine. That makes it possible for end-users to add their own rules or to provide sets of rules that are adapted to certain specific domains or purposes.
description: In Proceedings PROLE 2016, arXiv:1701.03069. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1603.03011
Identification of a novel mutation in ADRBK1 in a kindred with an autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia
Creators: name: Siu, Ronald C. H.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: A novel mutation in the gene ARDBK1 (OMIM 109365) was identified in a kindred with autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (ADCA). An Australian family was found to have a unique phenotype of ADCA characterized by a slowly progressive cerebellar ataxia and dysarthria without oculomotor abnormalities. Ten family members (five symptomatic, four asymptomatic and one obligate carrier) participated. All subjects underwent clinical examination, MRI scanning of the brain and exome sequencing. Cerebellar atrophy without brainstem involvement was identified on MRI in both symptomatic and some asymptomatic subjects. DNA was extracted, sequenced and aligned with reference genetic information. A mutation in ADRBK1 was identified in nine subjects: all of the symptomatic and some of the asymptomatic subjects. The mutation in ADRBK1 is predicted to produce an amino acid change from Isoleucine (ATT) to Methionine (ATG) at position 140. This novel mutation in ADRBK1 requires further study to prove biological relevance in ADCA.
New statistical analysis on diatom proxy data for the estimation of past Southern Ocean properties
Creators: name: Ferry, Alexander John
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The annual sea-ice cycle of formation and retreat influences atmospheric and oceanic processes on a global scale. An understanding of the paleo environmental occurrence of sea ice is therefore necessary when studying past and future climatic change. Currently, diatom abundances provide the most robust proxy for Southern Ocean paleo sea-ice cover and extent. Therefore, this thesis evaluated the performance of four statistical models on a southern hemisphere diatom relative abundance and winter sea-ice concentration (wSIC) training dataset. A Generalised Additive Model (GAM) provided the most robust estimates of wSIC when compared with the Modern Analog Technique, the Imbrie and Kipp transfer function, and Weighted Averaging Partial Least Squares. The GAM derived wSIC estimates were comparable with previously published paleo sea-ice data. The application of GAM was then focused on estimating a new wSIC record throughout the southwest Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum, the ensuing deglaciation, and the Holocene. A diatom proxy for February sea-surface temperature and the sea-surface height signature of the Polar Front’s southern branch were developed to complement the paleo wSIC estimates. The GAM derived estimates provided the first indication that wSIC increased during the Antarctic Cold Reversal and early Holocene. Paleo wSIC and February sea-surface temperature data suggested that the Last Glacial Maximum lasted for ~11 kyr BP throughout the southwest Pacific, similar to the well documented extended Last Glacial Maximum of New Zealand. Notably, the Last Glacial Maximum was distinguished by two cold phases separated by a period of climatic amelioration, known as Antarctic Isotopic Maxima 2. The proposed diatom proxy for the sea-surface height signature of the Polar Front’s southern branch indicated a northern migration of this Polar Front jet, prior to the expansion of wSIC, during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Antarctic Cold Reversal. A northern migration of the Polar Front’s southern jet, and resulting expansion of wSIC, resulted from a northern migration of the westerly winds and the subsequent northern migration of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
Table S2 from Specialized specialists and the narrow niche fallacy: a tale of scale-feeding fishes
Creators: name: Kolmann, Matthew A.
name: Huie, Jonathan M.
name: Evans, Kory
name: Summers, Adam P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: List of museum specimens used in this study
An Introduction to Liquid Haskell
Creators: name: Peña, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.3.1

description: This paper is a tutorial introducing the underlying technology and the use of the tool Liquid Haskell, a type-checker for the functional language Haskell that can help programmers to verify non-trivial properties of their programs with a low effort. The first sections introduce the technology of Liquid Types by explaining its principles and summarizing how its type inference algorithm manages to prove properties. The remaining sections present a selection of Haskell examples and show the kind of properties that can be proved with the system.
description: In Proceedings PROLE 2016, arXiv:1701.03069
Table S1 from Specialized specialists and the narrow niche fallacy: a tale of scale-feeding fishes
Creators: name: Kolmann, Matthew A.
name: Huie, Jonathan M.
name: Evans, Kory
name: Summers, Adam P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Summary of PCA loadings for fish feeding traits
Ultra-low power FFT processor design for IoT devices
Creators: name: Homainejad, Reza
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: In a world where sensor data can be collected through smart grid and sensor backup applications, reducing power consumption has become one of the most important factors for data transmission. FFT processing is capable of low power, high throughput sensor data collecting. The IEEE 802.11ah standard is designed with the physical layer (PHY) and the medium access control (MAC). This paper discusses developing an FFT processor for this new standard. A simulation of the FFT processor is created in MATLAB, along with a VHDL component that handles the FFT architecture. These two are then tested for competency and validity, before then testing each other for evaluation and results.
Abiotic and biotic factors influencing the invasion of Carcinus maenas in southern New South Wales, Australia
Creators: name: Garside, Clifford J.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Non-indigenous species are among the greatest threats to global biodiversity and collectively cause significant economic damage. The European shore crab Carcinus maenas is a global marine pest that has been present in Australia for over 100 years, but has been little studied in this part of the world. This thesis aimed to enhance our knowledge of the distribution and abundance of C. maenas in New South Wales (NSW) and the role that the unique abiotic and biotic features of the Intermittently Open and Closed Lakes and Lagoons (ICOLLs) that dominate the NSW coastline play in the invasion. ICOLLs can spend periods of days to years disconnected from the ocean by a sand bar, and display high spatio-temporal variability in their abiotic and biotic conditions. Trapping surveys across 14 estuaries (including ICOLLs) and spanning 8 dates found that in NSW the abundance of C. maenas is low and displays considerable spatial variation at the scales of estuaries and habitat. The detection of crabs in estuaries was positively correlated with the proportion of time estuarine entrances were open. Within estuaries, abundances were greater in mangroves than in saltmarsh, seagrass, oyster or bare sediments and were negatively correlated with the abundance of several native predators. Hence the opening and closing of estuarine entrances influenced C. maenas invasion by determining opportunities for recruitment, and possibly by determining the predator and habitat assemblages within these. Recruitment and cohort analyses indicated that C. maenas larvae primarily settle in the late Austral winter to spring, retaining the reproductive phenology of the northern hemisphere. Overall, this study suggests that although C. maenas has been present in Australia for over a century its abundance, and hence impact, remains low along the NSW coast due to a combination of abiotic and biotic factors.
‘Voice’ without voice: a case study of three Australian childcare centres
Creators: name: Gautam, Amrita
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: There is an abundance of research available on employee voice. However, much of this research focuses on large organizations and there is little research on voice in small and medium sized businesses (SMEs). This study, therefore, explores what employee voice looks like in SMEs, and how different factors affect voice and its outcomes in SMEs. The study utilized semi-structured interviews in three childcare centres – one large and two small – in Sydney, Australia. The research found that context – organizational as well as industrial – affects the definition, perception and effectiveness of voice. It also highlighted that factors such as social support, emotional attachment, scope and breadth of voice, and trust among peers and managers/supervisors were crucial in shaping the definition and perception of voice in SMEs. These factors in turn affected outcomes of voice such as relationship between managers/supervisors and employees, employees‟ intention to quit, forms of voice utilized, employee participation in decision making and effective embeddedness of voice. The study found that the unitary stance of employees and managers/supervisors in SMEs regarding the definition and perception of voice challenges the practice of voice as indicated by the literature. The evidence suggests that exploring the role of context and factors affecting voice in different contexts is important in order to bridge the gap in voice literature.
Making an impact on Parliament: advice for the agricultural community
Creators: name: Rose, David
name: Rose, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agriculture Bill
subject: Evidence-based policy
subject: Evidence-informed policy
subject: Parliament
subject: Science communication
subject: Science-policy

description: The UK Parliament performs an important role in shaping policies and legislation, including those related to agriculture. Parliamentarians (MPs and Peers) and the staff supporting them often want to use evidence to inform the passage of legislation and the scrutiny of government policy since it decreases the chances of making a bad decision. This viewpoint explores how communities of science and practice working in the agricultural sphere can engage with Parliament to ensure that evidence informs decision-making. It makes five recommendations: (1) know how to engage with parliamentary processes, (2) communicate relevant evidence in a clear and concise fashion, (3) ensure that evidence is credible, (4) work with trusted knowledge brokers, and (5) persevere over a long timescale.
Ordonnance du conseil souverain, qui, sans préjudice à l'exemtion de la jurisdiction épiscopale, prétendue par le Chapitre de Tournai, lui ordonne de déférer aux ordres de l'Evêque, quand il sera mandé pardevant lui
Creators: name: Plouvain, Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph (1754-1832)
name: Six, Philippe-Josse-Auguste-Joseph (1732-1793)
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: Justice royale
Organisation judiciaire
institution ecclésiastique

description: Source: http://nordnum.univ-lille.fr/ark:/72505/a0115224001360im5Ol/from/a011522400136ypxWl2
description: Coverage: Parlement de Flandre
description: created: 19/06/2018
description: created: 07/02/1673
Impact of organizational culture on sustainability endeavours: the real story of sustainability
Creators: name: Pennington, Lenore K.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Increasingly, organizations are expected to improve their ecological and environmental performance, and to contribute to local and global communities. Researchers have suggested organizations progress though different stages of commitment to sustainability, ranging from opposing sustainability, to fully embracing sustainability. Further, some advocate that organizations intending to adopt more environmentally and socially sustainable strategies and practices, should examine and transform their underlying values and beliefs, and cultivate a consistent, clearly articulated and shared organizational culture. However, little empirical work has been undertaken to understand the specific characteristics of such a culture, or its contribution to organizations’ commitment to embed sustainability. The dimensions of corporate cultures which researchers have purported to be important for embedding sustainability were delineated and tested in a rich mixed methods case study of a major Australian owned multinational organization. Two surveys were developed to measure the organization's commitment to sustainability and the presence of these cultural dimensions. In-depth senior executive interviews and a thematic document review completed the picture. Using IBM SPSS AMOS 21, a series of confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) assessed the factorial structures of survey scales, and the fit of the data to the model. Multigroup analysis determined the impact of subcultures. The qualitative interview and document data was coded and themed. Overall, the key findings were firstly, there are two distinct cultural aspects : general cultural dimensions, comprised of those which may exist in organizations regardless of whether they are progressing towards sustainability; and more specific susttainability cultural dimensions. Secondly, each of these had a strong positive association with organizational commitment to sustainability. Thirdly, of the 18 tested individual cultural dimensions, seven made a positive contribution to organizational commitment to sustainability. Finally, the study determined an organization's subcultures may make a very small difference to the relationships between organizational culture and organizational commitment to sustainability.
Climate policy and financial system stability: evidence from Chinese fund markets
Creators: name: Wang, Hu
name: Li, Shouwei
name: Ma, Yuyin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: Medicine
Pharmacology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: The impacts of climate policies on the global financial system have aroused wide attention all over the world. Fund markets are an important part of the financial system and play a crucial role in the stability of the financial system. In this paper, the impacts of climate policies on fund markets are evaluated from direct and indirect risk contagion channels using the data of Chinese ordinary stock funds and partial stock hybrid funds during 2007–2020. Risk contagion indicates that a fund's selling of stocks causes the stock price to fall, causing asset losses to other funds holding the same stocks. We construct a risk contagion model based on common asset holdings of funds. The analysis of direct risk exposure of funds to climate policy in China shows that five climate-policy-relevant sectors account for more than half of the total value of shareholdings. The climate risk stress-test indicates that ignoring the indirect risk contagion channel significantly underestimates the adverse effects of and climate policies on fund markets. More stringent, short-term climate targets and earlier implementation of climate policies helps to mitigate otherwise drastic changes required in energy markets in China to achieve a 2°C long-term target, and reduces the adverse effects of climate policies on the fund market. Furthermore, the impact of climate policies on different investment funds shows significant differences, leading to winners and losers. The losers are funds that adopt a high-carbon investment strategy, while winners are funds adopting a green investment strategy. Indirect risk contagion significantly increases the adverse effects of climate policies on investment fund markets.Early implementation of climate policy and more stringent short-term targets reduce the adverse effects of climate policies on the fund market.Investment funds can become winners by adopting green investment strategies with the introduction of climate policy. Indirect risk contagion significantly increases the adverse effects of climate policies on investment fund markets. Early implementation of climate policy and more stringent short-term targets reduce the adverse effects of climate policies on the fund market. Investment funds can become winners by adopting green investment strategies with the introduction of climate policy.