cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Post-stishovite transition in hydrous aluminous SiO2
Creators: name: Umemoto, Koichiro
name: Kawamura, Katsuyuki
name: Hirose, Kei
name: Wentzcovitch, Renata M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Lakshtanov et al. (2007) showed that incorporation of aluminum and some water into SiO2 significantly reduces the post-stishovite transition pressure in SiO2. This discovery suggested that the ferroelastic post-stishovite transition in subducted MORB crust could be the source of reflectors/scatterers with low shear velocities observed in the mid to upper lower mantle. A few years later, a similar effect was observed in anhydrous Al-bearing silica. In this paper, we show using first principles static calculations and molecular dynamics using inter-atomic potentials that hydrogen bonds and hydrogen mobility play a crucial role in lowering the post-stishovite transition pressure. A cooperative redistribution of hydrogen atoms is the main mechanism responsible for the transition pressure reduction in hydrous aluminous stishovite. The effect is enhanced by increasing hydrogen concentration. This perspective suggests a potential relationship between the depth of seismic scatterers and the water content in stishovite.
Asterina mallotii P. D. Natekar, A. P. Patil, C. R. Patil, M. R. Bhise & S. V. Kambhar, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Natekar, Pratik D.
name: Patil, Anjali P.
name: Patil, Chandrahas R.
name: Bhise, Mahendra R.
name: Kambhar, Sidanand V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Asterinales
Asterinaceae
Asterina
Asterina mallotii

description: Asterina mallotii P.D. Natekar, A.P. Patil, C.R. Patil, M.R. Bhise & S.V. Kambhar sp. nov. (Fig. 2)
MycoBank number: MB 849597
Etymology:—Based on the name of the host genus.
Holotype:—AMH-10590
Colonies amphiphyllous, sub-dense up to 1 mm in diameter, confluent. Hyphae sub-straight to flexuous, branching alternate at acute to wide angles, loosely to closely reticulate cells, 18–27 × 2–3 µm. Appressoria mostly alternate, 2% unilateral, one-celled, sub-antrorse, variously angular, free, 4–7 × 4–5 µm. Thyriothecia scattered orbicular, up to 110 µm in diameter, stellately dehiscing at the center, margin crenate to fimbriate, fringed hyphae very small; asci globose, octosporous, up to 28 µm in diameter; ascospores, conglobate, brown, oblong, uniseptate, constricted at the septum, wall echinulate, 17–21 × 8–9.5 µm. Pycnothyria scattered, orbicular, same as thyriothecia, up to 105 µm in diameter, stellately dehiscing and widely opened at the centre; conidia numerous, cinnamon brown, pyriform, 15–21 × 9.5–12 µm.
Distribution:— India (Maharashtra).
 Material examined:— INDIA. Maharashtra: Hativale, Ratnagiri, on leaves of Mallotus philippensis (Lam.) Müell. Arg. (Euphorbiaceae), 16°60’90” N, 73°54’52” E, 41 m, 12 January 2022, Pratik Dilip Natekar- 5333, AMH-10590 (holotype).
 Notes:— Hosagoudar (2012) described Asterina malloticola Hosag., Kamar. & G. Rajkumar on Mallotus philippensis (Lam.) Müll. Arg. and A. mallotigena Hosag. & Sabeena on Mallotus sp. from Kerala (Table 2). In terms of morphology, the current collection differs from these species. As a result, based on host specificity, the current collection is described as a novel species.
description: Published as part of Natekar, Pratik D., Patil, Anjali P., Patil, Chandrahas R., Bhise, Mahendra R. & Kambhar, Sidanand V., 2024, New teleomorphic and anamorphic taxa of Asterinaceous black mildew from Western coast of India, pp. 73-83 in Phytotaxa 642 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.642.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13214177
title: Radiation and other weather factors
Creators: name: Ashton, H. E.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: solar radiation
subject: rayonnement solaire
subject: weathering
subject: action des intempéries
subject: organic materials
subject: matériau organique
subject: polymeric materials
subject: matériau polymérique

description: This Digest discusses how radiation affects organic building materials when its action is associated with the action of other elements of weather. Because the severity of damage is increased with the combined attack, preventive action must be taken to reduce degradation to an acceptable level. This includes production of polymers unaffected by UV or incorporation of compounds that reflect or absorb UV. Although these steps are normally in the hands of the material producer, building designers should be aware of their importance and of the limitations they may place on performance.
Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis as a tool to estimate absolute abundances from compositional 16S rRNA bacterial metabarcoding data
Creators: name: Lewe, Natascha
name: Hermans, S
name: Lear, G
name: Kelly, LT
name: Thomson-Laing, G
name: Weisbrod, B
name: Wood, SA
name: Keyzers, Robert
name: Deslippe, Julie
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 110899
subject: Medical Microbiology not elsewhere classified

description: Microbial biodiversity monitoring through the analysis of DNA extracted from environmental samples is increasingly popular because it is perceived as being rapid, cost-effective, and flexible concerning the sample types studied. DNA can be extracted from diverse media before high-throughput sequencing of the prokaryotic 16S rRNA gene is used to characterize the taxonomic diversity and composition of the sample (known as metabarcoding). While sources of bias in metabarcoding methodologies are widely acknowledged, previous studies have focused mainly on the effects of these biases within a single substrate type, and relatively little is known of how these vary across substrates. We investigated the effect of substrate type (water, microbial mats, lake sediments, stream sediments, soil and a mock microbial community) on the relative performance of DNA metabarcoding in parallel with phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis. Quantitative estimates of the biomass of different taxonomic groups in samples were made through the analysis of PLFAs, and these were compared to the relative abundances of microbial taxa estimated from metabarcoding. Furthermore, we used the PLFA-based quantitative estimates of the biomass to adjust relative abundances of microbial groups determined by metabarcoding to provide insight into how the biomass of microbial taxa from PLFA analysis can improve understanding of microbial communities from environmental DNA samples. We used two sets of PLFA biomarkers that differed in their number of PLFAs to evaluate how PLFA biomarker selection influences biomass estimates. Metabarcoding and PLFA analysis provided significantly different views of bacterial composition, and these differences varied among substrates. We observed the most notable differences for the Gram-negative bacteria, which were overrepresented by metabarcoding in comparison to PLFA analysis. In contrast, the relative biomass and relative sequence abundances aligned reasonably well for Cyanobacteria across the tested freshwater substrates. Adjusting relative abundances of microbial taxa estimated by metabarcoding with PLFA-based quantification estimates of the microbial biomass led to significant changes in the microbial community compositions in all substrates. We recommend including independent estimates of the biomass of microbial groups to increase comparability among metabarcoding libraries from environmental samples, especially when comparing communities associated with different substrates.
Performance Evaluation of Video Streaming Applications with Target Wake Time in Wi-Fi 6
Creators: name: Rajendran, Govind
name: Roy, Rishabh
name: Hathi, Preyas
name: Akhtar, Nadeem
name: Agnihotri, Samar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Target Wake Time (TWT) feature, introduced in Wi-Fi 6, was primarily meant as an advanced power save mechanism. However, it has some interesting applications in scheduling and resource allocation. TWT-based resource allocation can be used to improve the user experience for certain applications, e.g., VoIP, IoT, video streaming, etc. In this work, we analyze the packet arrival pattern for streaming traffic and develop a synthetic video streaming traffic generator that mimics real-world streaming traffic. We propose a two-stage approach where we calculate the TWT duty cycle in the first step. In the subsequent step, we determine the Multiplication Factor(MF), which jointly dictates the required TWT schedule for the synthetic traffic model. Initial testing shows that key QoS metrics can be met for sustained performance of synthetic traffic upon enabling TWT, even in the presence of peak background congestion in the network.
description: This paper was part of 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India, 2023
Planned preventive maintenance in the preservation of historic heritage sites as a first form of valorisation
Creators: name: Gasparoli, Paolo
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: This research develops various reflections on the role and repercussions of planned preventive maintenance activities in historic heritage sites as an opportunity for their valorisation. The first step is to define the terminology, underscoring reciprocal relationships and the need to organise structured activities and applications that outline contents, procedures and processes for interventions, with innovative strategies that promote the preservation and valorisation of cultural heritage sites. In this sense, this paper proposes the experimental results of work projects conducted on significant cases.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 3 (2012): Increasing the value of public building assets
Does It Spin? On the Adoption and Use of QUIC's Spin Bit
Creators: name: Kunze, Ike
name: Sander, Constantin
name: Wehrle, Klaus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Encrypted QUIC traffic complicates network management as traditional transport layer semantics can no longer be used for RTT or packet loss measurements. Addressing this challenge, QUIC includes an optional, carefully designed mechanism: the spin bit. While its capabilities have already been studied in test settings, its real-world usefulness and adoption are unknown. In this paper, we thus investigate the spin bit's deployment and utility on the web. Analyzing our long-term measurements of more than 200M domains, we find that the spin bit is enabled on ~10% of those with QUIC support and for ~50% / 60% of the underlying IPv4 / IPv6 hosts. The support is mainly driven by medium-sized cloud providers while most hyperscalers do not implement it. Assessing the utility of spin bit RTT measurements, the theoretical issue of reordering does not significantly manifest in our study and the spin bit provides accurate estimates for around 30.5% of connections using the mechanism, but drastically overestimates the RTT for another 51.7%. Overall, we conclude that the spin bit, even though an optional feature, indeed sees use in the wild and is able to provide reasonable RTT estimates for a solid share of QUIC connections, but requires solutions for making its measurements more robust.
Thermal conductivity of hot pionic medium due to pion self-energy for $πσ$ and $πρ$ loops
Creators: name: Ghosh, Sabyasachi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermal conductivity of pionic medium has been evaluated with the help of its standard expression from the relaxation time approximation, where inverse of pion relaxation time or pion thermal width has been obtained from the imaginary part of pion self-energy. In the real-time formalism of thermal field theory, the finite temperature calculations of pion self-energy for $πσ$ and $πρ$ loops have been done. The numerical value of our thermal conductivity increases with temperature very softly, though at particular temperature, our estimation has to consider a large band of phenomenological uncertainty.
description: Published in International Journal of Modern Physics E
Beyond Restoration. Valorization of the Public. Monumental Heritage Asset The Istituto degli Innocenti and the MUDI Project
Creators: name: Terpolilli, Carlo
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: While protection of our collective monumental heritage is a value and an objective we pass along to future generations, at the same time it must be conceived of a commitment to making these assets available to citizens of the present time. This means applying the disciplines of preservation and restoration and at the same time going beyond with a cultural approach that interprets the monumental asset as a fabbrica; that is, as a place of ongoing design activity: a workshop for a work in progress. This approach necessitates programs for valorization and productive investments that operate in full respect of the assets themselves while employing the innovative tools available for ensuring that the asset as a whole produces income. This is the framework for the MUDI project in Florence.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 3 (2012): Increasing the value of public building assets
Stout: Cloudy's Atomic and Molecular Database
Creators: name: Lykins, M. L.
name: Ferland, G. J.
name: Kisielius, R.
name: Chatzikos, M.
name: Porter, R. L.
name: van Hoof, P. A. M.
name: Williams, R. J. R.
name: Keenan, F. P.
name: Stancil, P. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a new atomic and molecular database we developed for use in the spectral synthesis code Cloudy. The design of Stout is driven by the data needs of Cloudy, which simulates molecular, atomic, and ionized gas with kinetic temperatures 2.8 K < T < 1e10 K and densities spanning the low to high-density limits. The radiation field between photon energies $10^{-8}$ Ry and 100 MeV is considered, along with all atoms and ions of the lightest 30 elements, and ~100 molecules. For ease of maintenance, the data are stored in a format as close as possible to the original data sources. Few data sources include the full range of data we need. We describe how we fill in the gaps in the data or extrapolate rates beyond their tabulated range. We tabulate data sources both for the atomic spectroscopic parameters and for collision data for the next release of Cloudy. This is not intended as a review of the current status of atomic data, but rather a description of the features of the database which we will build upon.
description: ApJ in press
Expression of cytokeratins 17 and 5 identifies a group of breast carcinomas with poor clinical outcome
Creators: name: Perou, Charles
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002

description: While several prognostic factors have been identified in breast carcinoma, the clinical outcome remains hard to predict for individual patients. Better predictive markers are needed to help guide difficult treatment decisions. In a previous study of 78 breast carcinoma specimens, we noted an association between poor clinical outcome and the expression of cytokeratin 17 and/or cytokeratin 5 mRNAs. Here we describe the results of immunohistochemistry studies using monoclonal antibodies against these markers to analyze more than 600 paraffin-embedded breast tumors in tissue microarrays. We found that expression of cytokeratin 17 and/or cytokeratin 5/6 in tumor cells was associated with a poor clinical outcome. Moreover, multivariate analysis showed that in node-negative breast carcinoma, expression of these cytokeratins was a prognostic factor independent of tumor size and tumor grade.
Patriotism and Ideology Pre-Registration
Creators: name: Reyna, Christine
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Patriotism; ideology; extremism

description: This research examines the idea that patriotism often manifests in protective and/or progressive ways. We predict that those high in Protective Patriotism will: be more prevention focused; Prioritize security, safety, and protection; Preserve the status quo, symbols and traditions; Support military, strong borders, police, protectionist economic and foreign policies; Feel more threatened by foreigners and social change; See protest and criticism as anti-American. Conversely, those who high in Progressive Patriotism will: Be promotion focused; Prioritize promoting, progressing and spreading American values and ideals; Strive to improve the status quo, innovate our country; Support civil rights, equality, justice, and democracy; Will use constitutional rights to fight for ideals (e.g., via protest). We also predict that protective and progressive patriotism are orthogonal and can both exist to different degrees. People can be high in both protective and progressive patriotism (balanced); low in both protective and progressive patriotism (undifferentiated); high in protective and low in progressive (protective); or high in progressive but low in protective (progressive).
Temporal-varying failures of nodes in networks
Creators: name: Knight, Georgie
name: Cristadoro, Giampaolo
name: Altmann, Eduardo G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider networks in which random walkers are removed because of the failure of specific nodes. We interpret the rate of loss as a measure of the importance of nodes, a notion we denote as failure-centrality. We show that the degree of the node is not sufficient to determine this measure and that, in a first approximation, the shortest loops through the node have to be taken into account. We propose approximations of the failure-centrality which are valid for temporal-varying failures and we dwell on the possibility of externally changing the relative importance of nodes in a given network, by exploiting the interference between the loops of a node and the cycles of the temporal pattern of failures. In the limit of long failure cycles we show analytically that the escape in a node is larger than the one estimated from a stochastic failure with the same failure probability. We test our general formalism in two real-world networks (air-transportation and e-mail users) and show how communities lead to deviations from predictions for failures in hubs.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Study of multiple ring ELVES with the Mini-EUSO telescope on-board the International Space Station
Creators: name: Romoli, Giulia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mini-EUSO (Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a telescope observing the Earth in the ultraviolet band (290-430 nm) from the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station since 2019. The telescope is capable of observing UV emissions of cosmic, atmospheric, and terrestrial origin on different time scales. Among the atmospheric phenomena that can be studied, ELVES (Emission of Light and Very low-frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic pulse Sources) have been photographed by Mini-EUSO with a time resolution of 2.5 us. ELVES are rapidly expanding rings of optical and ultraviolet emissions, 75-95 km in height, resulting from the de-excitation of molecular nitrogen and oxygen in the lower ionosphere following a lightning-associated ElectroMagnetic wave Pulse (EMP). A detailed study of their characteristics, such as radius, speed, and energy, is required for the understanding of these phenomena. In this work, results from the observation of about 30 ELVES with Mini-EUSO will be presented. Using dedicated algorithms, their electro-optical dynamics and morphological characteristics have been thoroughly investigated.
Analyzing Measurement Invariance for Studying the Gender Gap in Educational Testing: A Mixed Studies Systematic Review.
Creators: name: Navarro-González, M. Carmen
name: Padilla, José
name: Benítez, Isabel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: DIF
subject: differential item functioning
subject: educational testing projects
subject: measurement equivalence
subject: measurement invariace
subject: mixed-methods
subject: mixed studies
subject: systematic review
subject: validity

description: Project aimed to describe how measurement invariance (methods, techniques, and results) has been addressed, quantitatively (DIF analyses) and qualitatively (qualitative methods for obtaining possible explanations of DIF), when studying the gender gap in both cognitive and non-cognitive domains of national and international educational testing projects involving middle and high school students.
Uncertainty of short-term Wind Power Forecasts -- A methodology for on-line Assessment
Creators: name: Kariniotakis, Georges
name: Pinson, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The paper introduces a new methodology for assessing on-line the prediction risk of short-term wind power forecasts. The first part of this methodology consists in computing confidence intervals with a confidence level defined by the end-user. The resampling approach is used for this purpose since it permits to avoid a restrictive hypothesis on the distribution of the errors. It has been however appropriately adapted for the wind power prediction problem taking into account the dependency of the errors on the level of predicted power through appropriately defined fuzzy sets. The second part of the proposed methodology introduces two indices, named as MRI and PRI, that quantify the meteorological risk by measuring the spread of multi-scenario Numerical Weather Predictions and wind power predictions respectively. The multi-scenario forecasts considered here are based on the 'poor man's' ensembles approach. The two indices are used either to fine-tune the confidence intervals or to give signals to the operator on the prediction risk, i.e. the probabilities for the occurrence of high prediction errors depending on the weather stability. A relation between these indices and the level of prediction error is shown. Evaluation results over a three-year period on the case of a wind farm in Denmark and over a one-year period on the case of several farms in Ireland are given. The proposed methodology has an operational nature and can be applied to all kinds of wind power forecasting models
Strategies for the regeneration of Social Housing. The «Diga» case, Genoa
Creators: name: Franco, Giovanna
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: The future redevelopment of the densely populated social housing complex, better known as «Diga di Begato», in Genoa, may constitute an important occasion for the wider process of enhancing the urban inland region. Recently, the Council of Genoa has promoted a study into the complex and the urban, territorial and social aspects that characterise it. The Author has been involved in the constructive and maintenance aspects of this complex. Observation of the relationship between technicians and administrators around the work table and during the concluding meeting has led to a better understanding of the situation that will be useful for the development of a shared strategy. This has been developed as a result of the many individual problems that have been identified but also in relation to present values.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 3 (2012): Increasing the value of public building assets
title: Le comportement des joints
Creators: name: Garden, G. K.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Walls
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0380
subject: Murs
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0380
subject: joints (junctions)
subject: joint (liaison)
subject: failure (deficiency)
subject: insuccès
subject: case studies
subject: etude de cas

description: L'analyse du comportement de divers joints en place montre clairement la valeur des principes de tracé des joints présentés dans de nombreux Digestes antérieurs. Les maîtres d' oeuvre peuvent étendre leur expérience en examinant eux-mêmes les joints en place et acquérir ainsi de l'assurance dans leurs capacités d'application de ces principes à de nouveaux ouvrages.
Unmasking Government Competence: Study 4, Negativity Bias
Creators: name: Matthews, Scott
name: Hart, Austin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: American Politics
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: We study how participants respond to a stream of information regarding the performance of a hypothetical factory worker. Our design incorporates an experimental manipulation designed to vary the valence of worker performance.
Asterostomella wrightiae P. D. Natekar, A. P. Patil, C. R. Patil, M. R. Bhise & S. V. Kambhar, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Natekar, Pratik D.
name: Patil, Anjali P.
name: Patil, Chandrahas R.
name: Bhise, Mahendra R.
name: Kambhar, Sidanand V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Asterinales
Asterinaceae
Asterostomella
Asterostomella wrightiae

description: Asterostomella wrightiae P.D. Natekar, A.P. Patil, C.R. Patil, M.R. Bhise & S.V. Kambhar sp. nov. (Fig. 3) MycoBank number: MB 849602
Etymology:—Based on the name of the host genus.
Holotype:—AMH-10585
Colonies amphiphyllous, sub-dense, up to 8 mm in diameter, confluent. Hyphae flexuous to crooked, branching opposite to alternate, irregular at acute to wide angles, loosely reticulate, cells 12–27 × 2.5–4 µm.Appressoria alternate, unilateral, one to two celled, sessile to stalked, 8–11.5 × 5.5–10 µm; stalk cells (when two celled) cylindrical 2.5–4 × 2–4 µm; head cells variously lobed, 5.5–7.5 × 5.5–10 µm. Pycnothyria grouped, orbicular, up to 90 µm in diameter, stellately dehiscing at centre, margin fringed with hyphae; conidia brown, numerous, ellipsoidal, unicellular, tapered to broadly rounded at apex, wall smooth, 9.5–17 × 7.5–10.5 µm.
 Material examined:— INDIA. Maharashtra: Tivare, Ratnagiri, on living leaves of Wrightia arborea (Dennst.) Mabb. (Apocynaceae), 16°74’25.8” N, 73°61’24” E, 172 m, 23 December 2021, Pratik Dilip Natekar- 5331, AMH-10585 (holotype).
Distribution:— India (Maharashtra).
 Notes:—According to Hosagoudar (2012) and online sources (MycoBank data services), the genus Asterostomella has not been reported on any host in the family Apocynaceae. As a result of host specificity, the current collection on Wrightia arborea is classified as a new species.
description: Published as part of Natekar, Pratik D., Patil, Anjali P., Patil, Chandrahas R., Bhise, Mahendra R. & Kambhar, Sidanand V., 2024, New teleomorphic and anamorphic taxa of Asterinaceous black mildew from Western coast of India, pp. 73-83 in Phytotaxa 642 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.642.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13214177
Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations
Creators: name: Li, Yun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: With the advent of dense maps of human genetic variation, it is now possible to detect positive natural selection across the human genome. Here we report an analysis of over 3 million polymorphisms from the International HapMap Project Phase 2 (HapMap2). We used ‘long-range haplotype’ methods, which were developed to identify alleles segregating in a population that have undergone recent selection, and we also developed new methods that are based on cross-population comparisons to discover alleles that have swept to near-fixation within a population. The analysis reveals more than 300 strong candidate regions. Focusing on the strongest 22 regions, we develop a heuristic for scrutinizing these regions to identify candidate targets of selection. In a complementary analysis, we identify 26 non-synonymous, coding, single nucleotide polymorphisms showing regional evidence of positive selection. Examination of these candidates highlights three cases in which two genes in a common biological process have apparently undergone positive selection in the same population: LARGE and DMD, both related to infection by the Lassa virus3, in West Africa; SLC24A5 and SLC45A2, both involved in skin pigmentation in Europe; and EDAR and EDA2R, both involved in development of hair follicles, in Asia.
Physical and Electrochemical Area Determination of Electrodeposited Ni, Co, and NiCo Thin Films
Creators: name: Gira, Matthew J.
name: Tkacz, Kevin P.
name: Hampton, Jennifer R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The surface area of electrodeposited thin films of Ni, Co, and NiCo was evaluated using electrochemical double-layer capacitance, electrochemical area measurements using the [Ru(NH$_3$)$_6$]$^{3+}$/[Ru(NH$_3$)$_6$]$^{2+}$ redox couple, and topographic atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging. These three methods were compared to each other for each composition separately and for the entire set of samples regardless of composition. Double-layer capacitance measurements were found to be positively correlated to the roughness factors determined by AFM topography. Electrochemical area measurements were found to be less correlated with measured roughness factors as well as applicable only to two of the three compositions studied. The results indicate that in situ double-layer capacitance measurements are a practical, versatile technique for estimating the accessible surface area of a metal sample.
description: Accepted for publication in Nano Convergence, 6 figures
Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Voxels Based Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Driving in Highway Traffic Flow
Creators: name: Jian, Zhiqiang
name: Zhang, Songyi
name: Sun, Lingfeng
name: Zhan, Wei
name: Tomizuka, Masayoshi
name: Zheng, Nanning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Trajectory planning is crucial for the safe driving of autonomous vehicles in highway traffic flow. Currently, some advanced trajectory planning methods utilize spatio-temporal voxels to construct feasible regions and then convert trajectory planning into optimization problem solving based on the feasible regions. However, these feasible region construction methods cannot adapt to the changes in dynamic environments, making them difficult to apply in complex traffic flow. In this paper, we propose a trajectory planning method based on adaptive spatio-temporal voxels which improves the construction of feasible regions and trajectory optimization while maintaining the quadratic programming form. The method can adjust feasible regions and trajectory planning according to real-time traffic flow and environmental changes, realizing vehicles to drive safely in complex traffic flow. The proposed method has been tested in both open-loop and closed-loop environments, and the test results show that our method outperforms the current planning methods.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Small steps to emerge from the tunnel
Creators: name: Vianello, Dionisio
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: Based on the experience and activities of the National Centre for Town Planning Studies of the National Council of Engineers (CNI), and AUDIS, the Disused Urban Areas Association, the author proposes some suggestions to emerge – with small steps – from the tunnel of the crisis. First of all, do what is necessary. Simplify the planning regulations and procedures. Measures to take in the short term and at no cost: town planning reform, taking up the Lupi-Mantini proposals previously discussed and shared in the last legislation by Commission VIII of the Chamber on the Territory and Environment; a new law on the landholding system, the proposal developed by CNA (National Confederation of Artisans and Small and Medium Enterprises), CNI, ANCE (Italian National Association of Construction Companies) and Tecnoborsa. Secondly, do what is useful: quality and innovation in urban redevelopment projects. The AUDIS Charter on urban regeneration; the Quality Protocol for Roma Capitale. Thirdly, something extra: targeted projects for start-ups. Social Housing. The city to be scrapped. The renewal of residential assets. The divestment of state-owned properties. The reuse of obsolete industrial buildings.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 3 (2012): Increasing the value of public building assets
Ion Density Deviations in Semipermeable Ionic Microcapsules
Creators: name: Tang, Qiyun
name: Denton, Alan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By implementing the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann theory in a cell model, we theoretically investigate the influence of polyelectrolye gel permeability on ion densities and pH deviations inside the cavities of ionic microcapsules. Our calculations show that variations in permeability of a charged capsule shell cause a redistribution of ion densities within the capsule, which ultimately affects the pH deviation and Donnan potential induced by the electric field of the shell. We find that semipermeable capsules can induce larger pH deviations inside their cavities that can permeable capsules. Furthermore, with increasing capsule charge, the influence of permeability on pH deviations progressively increases. Our theory, while providing a self-consistent method for modeling the influence of permeability on fundamental properties of ionic microgels, makes predictions of practical significance for the design of microcapsules loaded with fluorescent dyes, which can serve as biosensors for diagnostic purposes.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
title: Irradiation effects on organic materials
Creators: name: Ashton, H. E.
Publisher: name: National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: solar radiation
subject: rayonnement solaire
subject: organic materials
subject: matériau organique
subject: polymeric materials
subject: matériau polymérique
subject: weathering
subject: action des intempéries

description: What is radiation; which part of it is involved in durability problems; how does it affect the organic materials used in and on buildings? Ultraviolet light between 350 and 300 nm is shown to be the most damaging radiation. It acts by changing the chemical structure of the polymers used in organic building materials, consequently affecting their physical properties. Fortunately, the intensity of destructive UV is a small part of the total solar radiation and is reduced as the angle of the sun decreases and by clouds and smoke. Unfortunately, enough UV is received on the surfaces of buildings to cause degradation of materials, particularly when it acts in conjunction with oxygen, water, heat or a combination of these elements.
Pathways to ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 health outcomes in the United Kingdom: a systematic map protocol
Creators: name: Irizar, Patricia
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health
subject: Race and Ethnicity
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: COVID-19
subject: ethnic inequalities
subject: ethnicity
subject: health inequalities
subject: protocol
subject: review
subject: systematic map
subject: United Kingdom

description: Systematic Map Protocol
Metric Dimension Parameterized by Max Leaf Number
Creators: name: Eppstein, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.2.2

description: The metric dimension of a graph is the size of the smallest set of vertices whose distances distinguish all pairs of vertices in the graph. We show that this graph invariant may be calculated by an algorithm whose running time is linear in the input graph size, added to a function of the largest possible number of leaves in a spanning tree of the graph.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures; to appear in J. Graph Algorithms & Applications
On the valorisation of public real estate properties: the valuation of programs and projects (feasibility study)
Creators: name: Bambagioni, Giampiero
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: Building construction and improvement and development require a holistic approach that allows an overall valuation of the investment, also as regards its town-planning/technical/economic aspects. The valuation can be done ex ante through feasibility studies (which are expressly provided for in the cases referred to in the Regulation for Implementation and Enforcement of the code of Public Contracts (D.P.R. 207/2010); to this end it is necessary to reconcile the “project constraints” that take shape in four macro-areas: Resources (and Economic Sustainability), Cost Engineering, Time Frames, Performance/Quality. Demonstrating the economic sustainability of a building project by combining principles and definite rules consistent with international best practices – even more so in the current international economic-financial situation – constitutes the essential prerequisite for raising resources, sometimes even among international institutional investors, that make it possible to develop all stages of the building process with continuity. An intelligent promotion and development of the immense national public real estate heritage will also promote the country’s economic-social development.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 3 (2012): Increasing the value of public building assets
Asterostomella salaciae P. D. Natekar, A. P. Patil, C. R. Patil, M. R. Bhise & S. V. Kambhar, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Natekar, Pratik D.
name: Patil, Anjali P.
name: Patil, Chandrahas R.
name: Bhise, Mahendra R.
name: Kambhar, Sidanand V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Asterinales
Asterinaceae
Asterostomella
Asterostomella salaciae

description: Asterostomella salaciae P.D. Natekar, A.P. Patil, C.R. Patil, M.R. Bhise & S.V. Kambhar sp. nov. (Fig. 4)
MycoBank number: MB 849499
Etymology:—Name after refers the host genus.
Holotype:—AMH-10528
Colonies epiphyllous, thin crustose, up to 4 mm in diameter, confluent. Hyphae flexuous, branching, opposite to irregular at acute to wide angles, loosely reticulate, cells 12.5–30.5 × 2–3.5 µm. Appressoria few, two celled, alternate, sometimes unilateral, lobed, globose, 7.5–15 × 5–8 µm; stalk cells cuneate to cylindrical, 2–2.5 × 1.8–4 µm; head cells, 4.5–9.5 × 5–8 µm, straight to variously curved, angular, sub-lobate. Pycnothyria grouped to scattered, up to 135 µm in diameter, stellately dehiscing at center, margin fringed with hyphae; conidia oval to pyriform, brown, 11–21 × 9.5–11.5 µm.
 Material examined:— INDIA. Maharashtra: Kadugaon, Ratnagiri, on leaves of Salacia chinensis L. (Celastraceae), 16°93’70” N, 73°50’75” E, 105 m, 17 December 2022, Pratik Dilip Natekar- 5184, AMH-10528 (holotype).
Distribution:— India (Maharashtra).
 Notes:—Twenty-four species of Asterostomella have been described from 19 angiosperm families (Hosagoudar 2012), but none has been found on any host from the Celastraceae. As a result, based on host specificity, the current collection on Salacia chinensis is treated as a new species.
 Asterostomula coccineae P.D. Natekar, A.P. Patil, C.R. Patil, M.R. Bhise & S.V. Kambhar sp. nov. (Fig. 5) MycoBank number: MB 849505
Etymology:—Name refers to the host species.
Holotype:—AMH-10529
Colonies epiphyllous, sub-dense, up to 2 mm in diameter, confluent. Hyphae flexuous to crooked, branching irregular at acute to wide angles, loosely to closely reticulate, cells 11–21 × 3–4 µm. Appressoria absent. Pycnothyria grouped or scattered, orbicular, up to 90 µm in diameter, stellately dehiscing at center; conidia oblong to ovate, brown, 13–15 × 5.5–7.5 µm.
 Material examined:— INDIA. Maharashtra: Pali, Ratnagiri, on leaves of Ixora coccinea L. (Rubiaceae), 16°97’42” N, 73°49’32” E, 129 m, 18 December 2022, Pratik Dilip Natekar-5190, AMH-10529 (holotype).
Distribution:— India (Maharashtra).
 Notes:—Only one species, Asterostomula pavettae Hosag. & Sabeena, has been recorded on Pavetta sp. in Kerala (Hosagoudar 2012). As a result of host specificity, the current collection is classified as a new species.
description: Published as part of Natekar, Pratik D., Patil, Anjali P., Patil, Chandrahas R., Bhise, Mahendra R. & Kambhar, Sidanand V., 2024, New teleomorphic and anamorphic taxa of Asterinaceous black mildew from Western coast of India, pp. 73-83 in Phytotaxa 642 (1) on pages 78-82, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.642.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13214177
Probing the Low Surface Brightness Dwarf Galaxy Population of the Virgo Cluster
Creators: name: Davies, J. I.
name: Davies, L. J. M.
name: Keenan, O. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used public data from the Next Generation Virgo Survey (NGVS) to investigate the dwarf galaxy population of the Virgo cluster beyond what has previously been discovered. We initially mask and smooth the data, and then use the object detection algorithm Sextractor to make our initial dwarf galaxy selection. All candidates are then visually inspected to remove artefacts and duplicates. We derive Sextractor parameters to best select low surface brightness galaxies using g band central surface brightness values of 22.5 to 26.0 mag sq arc sec and exponential scale lengths of 3.0 - 10.0 arc sec to identify 443 cluster dwarf galaxies - 303 of which are new detections. These new detections have a surface density that decreases with radius from the cluster centre. We also apply our selection algorithm to 'background', non-cluster, fields and find zero detections. In combination, this leads us to believe that we have isolated a cluster dwarf galaxy population. The range of objects we are able to detect is limited because smaller scale sized galaxies are confused with the background, while larger galaxies are split into numerous smaller objects by the detection algorithm. Using data from previous surveys combined with our data, we find a faint end slope to the luminosity function of -1.35+/-0.03, which does not significantly differ to what has previously been found for the Virgo cluster, but is a little steeper than the slope for field galaxies. There is no evidence for a faint end slope steep enough to correspond with galaxy formation models, unless those models invoke either strong feedback processes or use warm dark matter.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Attitudes of Egyptian dental students and dentists toward evidence-based cariology and restorative dentistry
Creators: name: Elkady, Dina
name: Khater, Ahmad
name: Hamza, Nouran
name: Schwendicke, Falk
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Dentistry
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Dental caries
subject: Dental practice
subject: Evidence-based dentistry
subject: Restorative Dentistry

description: (Study Protocol)
Temporary Residences: a becoming project
Creators: name: Ingaramo, Luisa
Publisher: name: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment
Year: 2012

description: Among the experimental actions fostered so far by the Compagnia di San Paolo through its Housing Program, committed in handling the complex and fragmented housing discomfort issue, the Temporary Dwellings initiative represents a unique and innovative experience, as it actually offers the chance to activate a proper managerial direction around and about the real estate development processes. In particular, the Temporary Dwellings action is marked by two key aspects: a structured co-planning vision and projects selected through a requests for proposal system. The process in the whole aims on the one hand at reaching an high transparent level of decision making , while, on the other hand, at developing a continuous and mutual monitoring and matching activity between the Housing Program and the group of cross-curricular experts teamed up in the project: technicians, designers, managers, psychologists, contractors, and the other local stakeholders.
description: TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, TECHNE 3 (2012): Increasing the value of public building assets
ACC/AHA guidelines for the evaluation and management of chronic heart failure in the adult: Executive summary. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Revise the 1995 Guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Heart Failure)
Creators: name: Smith, Sidney C., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: "Heart failure (HF) is a major public health problem in the United States. Nearly 5 million patients in this country have HF, and nearly 500,000 patients are diagnosed with HF for the first time each year. The disorder is the underlying reason for 12 to 15 million office visits and 6.5 million hospital days each year (1). During the last 10 years, the annual number of hospitalizations has increased from approximately 550,000 to nearly 900,000 for HF as a primary diagnosis and from 1.7 to 2.6 million for HF as a primary or secondary diagnosis (2). Nearly 300,000 patients die of HF as a primary or contributory cause each year, and the number of deaths has increased steadily despite advances in treatment. HF is primarily a disease of the elderly (3). Approximately 6% to 10% of people older than 65 years have HF (4), and approximately 80% of patients hospitalized with HF are more than 65 years old (2). HF is the most common Medicare diagnosis-related group, and more Medicare dollars are spent for the diagnosis and treatment of HF than for any other diagnosis (5). The total inpatient and outpatient costs for HF in 1991 were approximately $38.1 billion, which was approximately 5.4% of the healthcare budget that year (1). In the United States, approximately $500 million annually is spent on drugs for the treatment of HF. The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) first published guidelines for the evaluation and management of HF in 1995 (6). Since that time, a great deal of progress has been made in the development of both pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches to treatment for this common, costly, disabling, and generally fatal disorder. For this reason, the 2 organizations believed that the time was right to reassess and update these guidelines, fully recognizing that the optimal therapy of HF remains a work in progress and that future guidelines will supersede these."