cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Design flood estimation in flood hazard studies: a three-decade systematic review of practices in Canada
Creators: name: Vidrio-Sahagún, Cuauhtémoc Tonatiuh
name: Ruschkowski, Jake
name: He, Jianxun
name: Pietroniro, Alain
name: Hairabedian, Melissa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Design floods for flood hazard studies are often estimated through flood frequency analysis (FFA). However, many decisions involved may lead to inconsistencies. There is also a demand to incorporate climate change into FFA, but guidelines are lacking. Although these challenges are acknowledged, limited literature documents how they manifest in practice. We systematically reviewed design flood estimation practices in Canada based on 75 technical reports from 1990 to 2023 across six provinces (with 65% from Alberta due to availability). We found substantial variations in data pre-processing, assumption validation (distribution homogeneity and stationarity, and regional homogeneity), FFA methods (e.g. candidate distributions, parameter estimation, distribution selection, uncertainty quantification), software, and post-processing. While recent reports have increasingly disclosed key methodological details, several decisions remain subjective. Floods are typically assumed to be stationary and homogeneous, overlooking human-induced impacts and multiple flood-generating mechanisms. Nonstationary and mixture FFA remain seldom applied. Climate change considerations are often limited to commentary sections, and climate-adjusted design floods are only mandatory in some jurisdictions (e.g. British Columbia). Open software is commonly used for FFA, but its limitations have increased reliance on proprietary software. Thus, there is a need for improved consistency, realism, and research-to-practice translation in FFA practices.
A Case on Problems in Quality and Reasons in Rice -Under the Scheme of UPDS in Tamil Nadu
Creators: name: Mahendran, A.
name: Mahendran, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Universal PDS
subject: Rice processing methods
subject: Poor Quality
subject: Rice consumption
subject: Smuggled

description: The annual subsidy for the Universal PDS in Tamil Nadu was around 5,000crore, and adding that there was a strong administrative monitoring, vigilance and grievance redresses mechanism operating in the state in respect of UPDS. But the quality of rice distributed through the universal pubic distribution system under the free of cost as on 01 June 2011 scheme was of poor quality and unfit for consumption by the public in the state. Also the price of essential commodities such as Pulses, groceries such as cooking oil and chili powder and vegetables had gone up. As the rice bags were stored by the TNCSC in open granaries, they were exposed to the elements. According to public assessment, the quality of PDS rice was not satisfactory, but it was fair quality rice, as per the Food Corporation of India‟s standard. But this case focuses on why rice is poor quality and processing paddy to rice methods, value added rice, and some other issues in Universal PDS in the state.
MOESM1 of Evidence-based care in high- and low-risk groups following whiplash injury: a multi-centre inception cohort study
Creators: name: Griffin, Alexandra
name: Jagnoor Jagnoor
name: Mohit Arora
name: Cameron, Ian
name: Kifley, Annette
name: Sterling, Michele
name: Kenardy, Justin
name: Rebbeck, Trudy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire tool used to assess provision of evidence-based care.
Hypocacculus (Nessus) ferreri Yelamos 1992
Creators: name: Penati, Fabio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Histeridae
Hypocacculus
Hypocacculus ferreri

description: 65. Hypocacculus (Nessus) ferreri Yélamos
 Literature data. Sassari prov.: Lago di Baratz [= Lago Balata (sic!)], 12.VII.1973, LB, 1 ex (Vienna & Ratti 1999).
 Unpublished records. Oristano prov.: Oristano, sd, UL, 1 ♂ (CUL).
 Chorotype. 3.02 WME (W-Mediterranean) (see also Yélamos 2002, not Mazur 2004).
 Italian distribution. Sardinia.
 Ecology. Psammophilous species occurring in the same habitats as the other Nessus species.
 Notes. In Penati and Vienna (2005, 2006a) the specimen from Oristano (CUL) is ascribed to Hypocacculus (Nessus) rubripes and its label data are erroneously given as “Assemini, 1940, coll. Museo Genova” (see “Data collection”). Because it is a male, the dissection of the aedeagus allowed me to identify it as H. ferreri . This is the second record for this species from the island, and a confirmation of what stated in the notes under H. ascendens.
description: Published as part of Penati, Fabio, 2009, An updated catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia, with faunistic, zoogeographical, ecological and conservation remarks *, pp. 197-280 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 248
Thermodynamics with 3 and 2+1 Flavors of Improved Staggered Quarks
Creators: name: Bernard, C.
name: Burch, T.
name: Datta, S.
name: DeGrand, T. A.
name: DeTar, C. E.
name: Gottlieb, Steven
name: Heller, U. M.
name: Orginos, K.
name: Sugar, R. L.
name: Toussaint, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present preliminary results from exploring the phase diagram of finite temperature QCD with three degenerate flavors and with two light flavors and the mass of the third held approximately at the strange quark mass. We use an order $α_s^2 a^2, a^4$ Symanzik improved gauge action and an order $α_s a^2, a^4$ improved staggered quark action. The improved staggered action leads to a dispersion relation with diminished lattice artifacts, and hence better thermodynamic properties. It decreases the flavor symmetry breaking of staggered quarks substantially, and we estimate that at the transition temperature for an $N_t=8$ to $N_t=10$ lattice {\em all} pions will be lighter than the lightest kaon. Preliminary results on lattices with $N_t=4$, 6 and 8 are presented.
description: 3 pages, 6 figures, contribution to Lattice2001(hightemp) August 19--24, 2001, Berlin, Germany
Forecasts on the speed of gravitational waves at high $z$
Creators: name: Bonilla, Alexander
name: D'Agostino, Rocco
name: Nunes, Rafael C.
name: de Araujo, José C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The observation of GW170817 binary neutron star (BNS) merger event has imposed strong bounds on the speed of gravitational waves (GWs) locally, inferring that the speed of GWs propagation is equal to the speed of light. Current GW detectors in operation will not be able to observe BNS merger to long cosmological distance, where possible cosmological corrections on the cosmic expansion history are expected to play an important role, specially for investigating possible deviations from general relativity. Future GW detectors designer projects will be able to detect many coalescences of BNS at high $z$, such as the third generation of the ground GW detector called Einstein Telescope (ET) and the space-based detector deci-hertz interferometer gravitational wave observatory (DECIGO). In this paper, we relax the condition $c_T/c = 1$ to investigate modified GW propagation where the speed of GWs propagation is not necessarily equal to the speed of light. Also, we consider the possibility for the running of the Planck mass corrections on modified GW propagation. We parametrize both corrections in terms of an effective GW luminosity distance and we perform a forecast analysis using standard siren events from BNS mergers, within the sensitivity predicted for the ET and DECIGO. We find at high $z$ very strong forecast bounds on the running of the Planck mass, namely $\mathcal{O}(10^{-1})$ and $\mathcal{O}(10^{-2})$ from ET and DECIGO, respectively. Possible anomalies on GW propagation are bound to $|c_T/c - 1| \leq 10^{-2} \,\,\, (10^{-2})$ from ET (DECIGO), respectively. We finally discuss the consequences of our results on modified gravity phenomenology.
description: 22 pages, 15 figures
Effect of optimal uncoupling in enhancing synchronization stability in coupled chaotic systems
Creators: name: Sivaganesh, G.
name: Sharmila, B. D.
name: Arulgnanam, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 34C15

description: In this paper, we report a novel approach for studying the effect of optimal uncoupling on the stability of synchronization in coupled chaotic systems. The clipping of phase space of the driven system having an orientation along the coordinate axes revealing the nature of coupling of the state variables of coupled systems is identified in certain coupled third-order chaotic systems. The stability of synchronization is studied through the {\emph{Master Stability Function}} (MSF). The optimal directions of implementing the clipping width to achieve stable synchronization is observed by studying the effectiveness of clipping fraction and the sufficient range of orientation to identify the optimal directions is reported. The functional work steps for identifying the optimal directions are presented and the synchronization of the response system with the drive within the clipped region of phase space for different orientations of clipping width are studied. The stability of synchronization for different orientations of clipping widths and the two-parameter bifurcation diagram indicating the negative valued MSF regions obtained for the optimal direction of clipping width are presented. The application of the method of optimal uncoupling in identifying the direction of implication of clipping width is discussed and the range of orientation over which the clipping width has to be varied is generalized.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures
Statistical mechanics of DNA-nanotube adsorption
Creators: name: Tonoyan, Shushanik
name: Khechoyan, Davit
name: Mamasakhlisov, Yevgeni
name: Badasyan, Artem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Attraction between the polycyclic aromatic surface elements of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and the aromatic nucleotides of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) leads to reversible adsorption (physisorption) between the two, a phenomenon related to hybridization. We propose a Hamiltonian formulation for the zipper model that accounts for the DNA-CNT interactions and allows for the processing of experimental data, which has awaited an available theory for a decade.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Farming Mothers’ Perceptions on Exclusive Breastfeeding in Ori-Ade Area, Osun State
Creators: name: Ashimolowo, Olubunmi R.
name: Aromolaran, Adetayo K.
name: Akinmoyede, Omolola G.
name: Ashimolowo, Olubunmi R.
name: Aromolaran, Adetayo K.
name: Akinmoyede, Omolola G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Exclusive Breastfeeding
subject: Farming mothers
subject: Methods of Breast feeding
subject: Perception

description: The study focused on the perception of rural farming mothers on exclusive breastfeeding in Ori-Ade local government area of Osun state. A purposive sampling technique was used to select 120 rural farming mothers. Data was collected through the use of interview guide. Data was analyzed using both descriptive statistical tools (frequency distribution and percentage) and inferential statistical tools (Chi-square and Pearson product moment correlation).The study revealed that most (77.5%) of the respondents were married, average household size was 8 persons and (45.0%) had secondary education. All (100 percent) of the respondents were aware that babies should be breastfed exclusively for at least six months while 61.70 percent practised the method. Most (90%) of the respondents indicated that sensitization could be used to encourage farming mothers to adopt exclusive breastfeeding method and 86.70% sourced their information on exclusive breastfeeding from the hospital. The chi-square result shows that there was significant relationship between farming mothers’ marital status, education and their perception of exclusive breastfeeding practises (χ2 = 0.038, 0.039 at p < 0.05).Conclusively, farming mothers in the study were aware of exclusive breastfeeding but were not totally practising it. Most of them were not well informed about exclusive breastfeeding. It is therefore recommended that rural farming mothers should be enlighten to enrich their knowledge of exclusive breast feeding.
Anomalous Spectral Statistics of the Asymmetric Rotor Model
Creators: name: Manfredi, V. R.
name: Salasnich, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the spectral statistics of the asymmetric rotor model (triaxial rigid rotator). The asymmetric top is classically integrable and, according to the Berry-Tabor theory, its spectral statistics should be Poissonian. Surprisingly, our numerical results show that the nearest neighbor spacing distribution $P(s)$ and the spectral rigidity $Δ_3(L)$ do not follow Poisson statistics.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, presented to the 7th International Spring Seminar on Nuclear Physics, Maiori, May 27-31 (2001), to be published in the proceedings, Ed. A. Covello (World Scientific, 2002)
Hadamard Renormalization of a 2-Dimensional Dirac Field
Creators: name: Lewis, Adam G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hadamard renormalization procedure is applied to a free, massive Dirac field $ψ$ on a 2 dimensional Lorentzian spacetime. This yields the state-independent divergent terms in the Hadamard bispinor $G^{(1)}(x, x') = \frac{1}{2} \left\langle \left[ \barψ(x'), ψ(x) \right] \right\rangle$ as $x$ and $x'$ are brought together along the unique geodesic connecting them. Subtracting these divergent terms within the limit assigns $G^{(1)}(x, x')$, and thus any operator expressed in terms of it, a finite value at the coincident point $x' = x$. In this limit, one obtains a quadratic operator instead of a bispinor. The procedure is thus used to assign finite values to various quadratic operators, including the stress-energy tensor. Results are presented covariantly, in a conformally-flat coordinate chart at purely spatial separations, and in the Minkowski metric. These terms can be directly subtracted from combinations of $G^{(1)}(x, x')$ - themselves obtained, for example, from a numerical simulation - to obtain finite expectation values defined in the continuum.
description: 8 pages. A few corrections made, and a new operator is now renormalized
Additional file 1 of Extracellular vesicles in low volume uterine lavage and serum: novel and promising biomarker for endometritis in Arabian mares
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Sally
name: Hedia, Mohamed
name: Taqi, Mohamed O.
name: Derbala, Mohamed K.
name: Mahmoud, Karima Gh. M.
name: Ahmed, Youssef
name: Sosa, A. S.
name: Saber, Yasser H. A.
name: Hasanain, M. H.
name: Nawito, M. F.
name: Seidel, George E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1 : Supplementary Figure 1. The typical EVs surface marker CD63 was measured using ExoELISA‐Ultra CD63 kit. Supplementary Figure 2. The typical EVs surface marker CD81 was measured using ExoELISA-Ultra CD81 kit. Supplementary Figure 3. Schematic representation of the protocol used for Evs isolation from LVL in Arabian mares (control& endometritis).
Long Term Variability of Cyg X-1 I. X-ray spectral-temporal correlations in the hard state
Creators: name: Pottschmidt, K.
name: Wilms, J.
name: Nowak, M. A.
name: Pooley, G. G.
name: Gleissner, T.
name: Heindl, W. A.
name: Smith, D. M.
name: Remillard, R.
name: Staubert, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the long term evolution of the timing properties of the black hole candidate Cygnus X-1 in the 0.002-128 Hz frequency range as monitored from 1998 to 2001 with the RXTE. The hard state power spectral density (PSD) is well modeled as the sum of four Lorentzians, which describe distinct broad noise components. Before 1998 July, Cyg X-1 was in a "quiet" hard state characterized primarily by the first three of these broad Lorentzians. Around 1998 May, this behavior changed: the total fractional rms amplitude decreased, the peak frequencies of the Lorentzians increased, the average time lag slightly increased, and the X-ray spectrum softened. The change in the timing parameters is mainly due to a strong decrease in the amplitude of the third Lorentzian. Since then, an unusually large number of X-ray flares have been observed. During these "failed state transitions", the X-ray power spectrum changes to that of the intermediate state. Modeling this PSD with the four Lorentzians, we find that the first Lorentzian component is suppressed relative to the second and third Lorentzian. Also the frequency-dependent time lags increase significantly. We confirm the interpretation as failed state transitions with observations from the 2001 Jan. and 2001 Oct. soft states. Such behavior suggests that some or all of the Lorentzian components are associated with the accretion disk corona. We discuss the physical interpretation of our results.
description: 21 pages, 16 figures, the sections on failed state transitions have been restructured for clarity, a section on thin Lorentzians has been added, and the definition of Q has been adapted to general use
MOESM1 of Low-flow assessment of current ECMO/ECCO2R rotary blood pumps and the potential effect on hemocompatibility
Creators: name: Gross-Hardt, Sascha
name: Hesselmann, Felix
name: Arens, Jutta
name: Steinseifer, Ulrich
name: Vercaemst, Leen
name: Windisch, Wolfram
name: Brodie, Daniel
name: Karagiannidis, Christian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1. A: Platelet count trend over 13 days including n = 32 non-septic patients. B: Thrombosis formation indicated by arrows in the middle of the pump head.
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) and the developing world: with particular emphasis on the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Creators: name: Cameron, Cheryl T.
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) and the developing world: with particular emphasis on the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Effects of Liquid Organic Fertilizer on Time of Tasselling, Time of Silking and Grain Yield of Maize (Zea mays)
Creators: name: Enujeke, E.C.
name: Ojeifo, I.M.
name: Nnaji, G.U.
name: Enujeke, E.C.
name: Ojeifo, I.M.
name: Nnaji, G.U.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Liquid organic fertilizer
subject: Maize
subject: Tasselling
subject: Silking
subject: Grain yield
subject: Nigeria

description: A study was carried out in the Teaching and Research Farm of Delta State University, Asaba Campus from August to December in 2005 and repeated between March and July, 2006 to evaluate the response of maize (Zea mays) to liquid organic fertilizer. The study was conducted using a split plot fitted into randomized complete block design. Liquid organic fertilizer was diluted at the rate of 60 ml of the product to 15 litres of water and applied to maize foliage, topsoil, foliage and topsoil at the rates of 5l/ha, 10l/ha, 151/ha, l8l/ha, 201/ha and 251/ha. The result obtained indicated a positive influence of liquid organic fertilizer on time of tasselling, time of silking and grain yield of maize. Liquid organic fertilizer significantly reduced the times of tasselling and silking, and increased grain yield of maize. Based on this study, it is recommended that 151/ha of liquid organic fertilizer which produced 5.6tha’ in 2005 and 6.1tha’ of dry grain yield 2006 be applied on the topsoil of maize plant with a view to maximally exploit the great economic potentials of the crop.
Interstellar Asteroid Rotation with the Mechanical Torque Produced by Interstellar Medium
Creators: name: Zhou, Wen Han
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first interstellar object 'Oumuamua is discovered in 2017. When 'Oumuamua travels in interstellar space, it keeps colliding with interstellar medium (ISM). Given a sufficiently long interaction time, its rotation state may change significantly because of the angular momentum transfer with interstellar medium. Using generated Gaussian random spheres with the dimension ratios 6:1:1 and 5:5:1, this paper explores the ISM torque curve and proposes that ISM collision may account for 'Oumuamua's tumbling with the simple constant-torque analytical method. The statistic results show that the asymptotic obliquities distribute mostly at 0 and 180 degree and most cases spin down at the asymptotic obliquity, indicating the ISM collision effect is similar to the YORP effect with zero heat conductivity assumed. Given a long time of deceleration of the spin rate, an initial major-axis rotation may evolve into tumbling motion under ISM torque. Using a constant-torque analytical model, the timescales of evolving into tumbling for the sample of 200 shapes are found to range from several Gyrs to ens of Gyrs, highly dependent on the chosen shape. The mean value is about 8.5 Gyrs for prolate shapes and 7.3 Gyrs for oblate shapes. Rotation of asteroids in the Oort cloud might be also dominated by the ISM collision effect since the YORP effect is quite weak at such a long distance from the Sun. Although this paper assumes an ideal mirror reflection and a constant relative velocity of 'Oumuamua, the results still show the importance of the ISM collision effect.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted by ApJ. Comments are welcome! Email: u3006384@connect.hku.hk
MOESM10 of GREM1 is associated with metastasis and predicts poor prognosis in ER-negative breast cancer patients
Creators: name: Neckmann, Ulrike
name: Wolowczyk, Camilla
name: Hall, Martina
name: Almaas, Eivind
name: Ren, Jiang
name: Zhao, Sen
name: Johannessen, Bjarne
name: Skotheim, Rolf
name: BjĂ¸RkĂ¸Y, Geir
name: Dijke, Peter
name: Holien, Toril
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10:Â Figure S3. Signaling pathways maintaining stemness are activated in 66cl4. Using CHiP-X enrichment analysis (ChEA) of the 1,270 genes significantly upregulated in both 66cl4 cells and 66cl4 tumors, we found activation of several signaling pathways that are essential for stem cell maintenance.
Food Security Index and Socio-Economic Effects of Climate Change on Rural Farming Households in Delta State, Nigeria
Creators: name: Emaziye, P.O.
name: Emaziye, P.O.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Food security
subject: Socio-economic effects
subject: Nigeria

description: The study examined the food security status and the socio-economic effects of climate change on rural farming households in Delta State, Nigeria. The main objective of the study was to determine the food security status of the rural farming households in the state while the specific objective was to determine the socio-economic effects of climate change on rural farming households in the state. Multistage sampling procedure was used in the random selection of local government, communities and rural households for the research study. The data for the study were obtained with the aids of structured questionnaire survey randomly administered to rural farming households in the state. Food security index was used to determine the level of food insecurity (food security status) among the rural households in communities that have been affected by flood and or other climate hazardswhile descriptive statistics was used to summarize the socio-economic effects and their food security status of the rural farming households in the state. Most respondents (65.10%) were married with low annual income of N54,702 ($353) which is less than the poverty line of less than $1 (one dollar) a day. Most rural farming households witnessed loss of investment on farm lands, lives and income respectively in the state. The study also reveals that rural farming households suffered ill health, such as malaria, water borne diseases and skin infections that were on the increase in the state. The study also revealed that majority of respondents was moderately food insecure. The study also recommends that Government planning agencies and policy makers should put into consideration these food insecurity situations in their planning and policy implementation to prevent future chronic food insecurity situation in the state.
Xenonychus tridens
Creators: name: Penati, Fabio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Histeridae
Xenonychus
Xenonychus tridens

description: 74. Xenonychus tridens (Jacquelin du Val)
 Literature data. “Sardinia” (Bertolini 1904; Porta 1926; Luigioni 1929; Barajon 1966; Audisio et al. 1995; Yélamos & Lackner 2004). Cagliari prov.: Cagliari, loc. Poetto (Vienna 1980); idem, 18.IV.1974, CM, 1 ex (CPV); idem, 17.V.1979, at the base of psammophilous plants, CM, 1 ex (CCMe). Domus de Maria, stagno s’Acqua Dulci, 8.IV.1987, under stranded stone in rear part of beach, CM, 1 ex (CCMe). Giorgino, VI.1899, UL, 1 ex (CAD); idem, Bagni Giorgino (Vienna 1980); idem, 1.X.1973, at the base of psammophilous plants, CM 2 ex (CCMe, CPV). Muravera, stagno di Colostrai, beach, 20.X.1977 (MSNM). Sassari prov.: Alghero, VII.1973, LB, 1 ex (Vienna & Ratti 1999).
 Unpublished records. Cagliari prov.: Isola di Sant’Antioco, loc. Is Pruinis, beach, 2.VIII.1998, on cow dung, CM, 1 ex (CCMe). Torre Salinas, 28.X.1977, HP, 1 ex (MSNG).
 Chorotype. 5.04 SAS (Saharo-Sindian).
 Italian distribution. Tuscany, Latium, Campania, Sicily and Sardinia.
 Ecology. Psammo-halobiotic species, found on coastal dunes at the base of halophilous plants.
description: Published as part of Penati, Fabio, 2009, An updated catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia, with faunistic, zoogeographical, ecological and conservation remarks *, pp. 197-280 in Zootaxa 2318 on pages 253-254
Encoding and Decoding of Pain Relief in the Human Brain
Creators: name: Zhang, Suyi
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: pain
computational neuroscience
learning
fMRI
brain-machine interface
uncertainty
associability
pregenual anterior cingulate cortex
pgACC
reinforcement learning

description: The studies in this thesis explored how pain and its relief are represented in the human brain. Pain and relief are important survival signals that motivate escape from danger and search for safety, however, they are often evaluated by subjective descriptions only. Studying how humans learn and adapt to pain and relief allows objective investigation of the information processing and neural circuitry underlying these internal experiences. My research set out to use computational learning models to provide mechanistic explanations for the behavioural and functional neuroimaging data collected in pain/relief learning experiments with independent groups of healthy human participants. With a Pavlovian acute pain conditioning task in Experiment 1, I found that 'associability' (a form of uncertainty signal) had a crucial role in controlling the learning rates of different conditioned responses, and can be used to anatomically dissociate underlying neural systems. Experiment 2 focused on relief learning of terminating a tonic pain stimulus, in which the priority for relief-seeking is in conflict with the general suppression of cognition and attention. I showed that associability during active learning not only controls the relief learning rate, but also correlates with endogenously modulated (reduced) ongoing pain. This finding was confirmed in Experiment 3 using an independent active relief learning paradigm in a complex dynamic environment. Critically, both experiments showed that associability was correlated with responses in the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex (pgACC), a brain region previously implicated in aspects of endogenous pain control related to attention and controllability. This provided a potential computational account of an information-sensitive endogenous analgesic mechanism. In Experiment 4, I explored the implications of endogenous controllability for technology-based pain therapeutics. I designed an adaptive closed-loop system that learned to control pain stimulation using decoded real-time pain representations from the brain. Subjects were shown to actively enhance the discriminability of pain only in the pgACC, and uncertainty during learning again correlated with endogenously modulated pain and were associated with pgACC responses. Together, these studies (i) show the importance of uncertainty in controlling learning during both acute and tonic pain, (ii) describe how uncertainty also flexibly modulates pain to maximise the impact of learning, (iii) illustrate a central role for the pgACC in this process, and (iv) reveal the implications for future technology-based therapeutic systems.
description: Financial support was generously provided by the WD Armstrong Fund and the Cambridge Trust.
Phase I analysis of hidden operating status for wind turbine
Creators: name: Shi, Yuchen
name: Chen, Nan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data-driven methods based on Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) become a recent trend for wind turbine condition monitoring. However, SCADA data are known to be of low quality due to low sampling frequency and complex turbine working dynamics. In this work, we focus on the phase I analysis of SCADA data to better understand turbines' operating status. As one of the most important characterization, the power curve is used as a benchmark to represent normal performance. A powerful distribution-free control chart is applied after the power generation is adjusted by an accurate power curve model, which explicitly takes into account the known factors that can affect turbines' performance. Informative out-of-control segments have been revealed in real field case studies. This phase I analysis can help improve wind turbine's monitoring, reliability, and maintenance for a smarter wind energy system.
MOESM1 of GREM1 is associated with metastasis and predicts poor prognosis in ER-negative breast cancer patients
Creators: name: Neckmann, Ulrike
name: Wolowczyk, Camilla
name: Hall, Martina
name: Almaas, Eivind
name: Ren, Jiang
name: Zhao, Sen
name: Johannessen, Bjarne
name: Skotheim, Rolf
name: Bjørkøy, Geir
name: Dijke, Peter
name: Holien, Toril
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary methods: Transcriptome analysis, Quantitative PCR, Immunoblotting, Conditioned medium, ELISA, Cell proliferation assay, Soft-agar assay, Flow cytometry, and In vitro extravasation assay using xCELLigence Real-Time Cell Analysis (RTCA) Systems.
Additional file 3 of Using machine learning to detect the differential usage of novel gene isoforms
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiaopu
name: Hassan, Musa A.
name: Prendergast, James G. D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. Figures S1 to S5 and Tables S1 to S2.
Rhizobacteria Selection to Enhance Spore Germination and Hyphal Length of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Vitro
Creators: name: Cecep, Hidayat
name: Arief, Dedeh H.
name: Nurbaity, Ane
name: Sauman, Jajang
name: Cecep, Hidayat
name: Arief, Dedeh H.
name: Nurbaity, Ane
name: Sauman, Jajang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: AMF
subject: Glomus sp
subject: Hyphal length
subject: MHB
subject: Spore germination

description: In natural condition, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) are surrounded by bacteria that help fungi symbiosis. The research aimed to get rhizobacteria that can act as Mycorrhiza Helper Bacteria (MHB) had been held at Soil Biology and Biotechnology Laboratory Faculty of Agriculture Unpad from February to March 2012. The experimental design used was completely randomized design with 11 treatments (bo= without rhizobacteria, b1= Pseudomonas diminuta, b2 = Bacillus alvei, b3 = B. mycoides, b4 = P. malei, b5= P. diminuta + B. alvei, b6 = P. diminuta + B. mycoides, b7 = P. diminuta + P. malei, b8 = B. alvei + B. mycoides, b9 = B. alvei + P. malei, b10= B. mycoides + P. malei) with 3 replications. Parameters evaluated were spore germination percentage and hyphal length of Glomus sp at 7, 14, 21, and 28 day after planting. The result showed that P. diminuta enhanced spore germination percentage and hyphal length of Glomus spas much as 224 % and 330%respectively than control. So, P. diminuta can be used as MHB.
The Impact of EU Fundamental Rights on the Employment Relationship
Creators: name: O'Connor, Niall
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: EU Charter
Employment Rights
Freedom of Contract

description: The purpose of this thesis is to assess the impact of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (the Charter) on the employment relationship. The Charter has long been praised for its inclusion of socio-economic rights alongside traditional civil and political rights. It might have been thought, therefore, that the Charter would be a particularly potent tool in the employment context, characterised as it is, by the continuous interaction between economic and social rights. However, to draw an analogy from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, although ‘all rights are equal, some rights are more equal than others’. Not only does the Charter distinguish between ‘rights’ and ‘principles’, but the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) seems actively to prioritise the Charter’s economic freedoms over the social rights. This thesis focuses on the consequences of this variable geometry for the regulation of the employment relationship. In particular, it examines the widening gap between contractual autonomy/business freedom as a fundamental right found in article 16 of the Charter and the employment rights contained in the Solidarity Title. Of particular concern from an employee’s perspective is the decision of the CJEU in the case of Alemo-Herron and its progeny. In a series of highly deregulatory judgments, the CJEU has found that the employee-protective aim of the relevant legislation was incompatible with the employer’s freedom to conduct a business. At the same time, the CJEU has been reluctant to invoke the Charter’s employment rights to give an employee-friendly reading to legislation. The effect of this divergence for the employment relationship is explored in two ways. On a micro level, the thesis looks to the very practical or ‘day to day’ influence of fundamental rights at various stages in the life cycle of the employment contract. It addresses the relationship between individually agreed employment terms and fundamental rights sources. The macro level considers the broader question of the effect of fundamental rights on the EU’s (or the State’s) ability to regulate the employment relationship more generally. It is demonstrated that there may be a systemic problem with fundamental economic freedoms being prioritised over social rights, namely the employment provisions of the Charter.
Hister bissexstriatus Fabricius 1801
Creators: name: Penati, Fabio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Hister
Hister bissexstriatus

description: Hister bissexstriatus Fabricius
 Literature data. “All of Italy ” (Bertolini 1904; Porta 1926). “ Sardinia ” (Luigioni 1929; Barajon 1966; Vienna 1980; Audisio et al. 1995; Yélamos & Lackner 2004; Penati & Vienna 2005, 2006a). Cagliari prov.: Villaputzu, “presso Gibbas, sotto le pietre” [“near Gibbas, under stones”], [26.IV.1882, ACo], 1 ex (Costa 1883).
 Notes. Apart from the record published by Costa (1883), this species is known from Sardinia only based on very generic literature citations (see above) and no Sardinian specimen was found in the examined collections. Therefore, it is highly probable that all records from Bertolini (1904) onwards are based on Costa’s (1883) one, which I consider at least doubtful, also considering the lack of data for Hister bissexstriatus from neighbouring Corsica (Yélamos & Lackner 2004). Having not examined the specimen collected by Achille Costa, which I presume is still found in his collection at the “Museo Zoologico” of the University of Naples (Poggi & Conci 1996), I consider the presence of this species on the island as doubtful, as already stated by Penati and Vienna (2002).
description: Published as part of Penati, Fabio, 2009, An updated catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia, with faunistic, zoogeographical, ecological and conservation remarks *, pp. 197-280 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 258
The Biology of the Red and Green Morphs of the Tobacco Aphid, Myzus Persicae Nicotianae (Blackman) on Flue-Cured Tobacco
Creators: name: Masukwedza, Rhoda
name: Mazarura, Upenyu
name: Chinwada, Peter
name: Dimbi, Susan
name: Masukwedza, Rhoda
name: Mazarura, Upenyu
name: Chinwada, Peter
name: Dimbi, Susan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Aphid
subject: Red morph
subject: Green morph
subject: Flue-cured tobacco

description: The tobacco aphid, Myzus persicae nicotianae is an economically important pest of tobacco. Damage is through direct injury by sucking sap of infested plants as well as reduction of the quality of the leaf by leaving honey-dew which encourages the subsequent growth of sooty-mould. In addition to this, aphids also transmit economically important virus diseases such as the bushy-top virus, the alfalfa mosaic virus and the potato virus-Y. Before 2002, the main colour form of the tobacco aphid in Zimbabwe was green. However, during the 2003/2004 tobacco season, concerns were raised where red forms of the tobacco aphid were observed to be more prevalent than the green form. During the 2004/2005 tobacco season, green forms of the tobacco aphid could only be found with difficulty. In intensive research spanning three years, the days to adulthood, days to 1st nymph, nymphs/day, longevity, fecundity and survival of the red morph were compared to that of the green aphid. Across all years, days to adulthood were the same for the two forms. The red morph produced more nymphs/day than the green morph. Longevity was similar but fecundity was 1½ to 2 times higher for the red morph than the green aphid. The red morph survived longer than the green aphid. These parameters combined to give the red morph of the tobacco aphid a greater reproductive potential and rate of population increase over the green morph thereby partly explaining the sudden increase in this pest in the recent past.
Managing flows for sockeye salmon emergence using the Fish Water Management Tool
Creators: name: Ng, Elizabeth
name: Alex, Karilyn
name: Hyatt, Kim
name: Machin, Dawn
name: Gardner, Ethan
name: Murauskas, Joshua
name: Stockwell, Margot
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: The Fish Water Management Tool (FWMT) is a water management decision support tool designed in part to protect sq̓awsitkʷ|Okanagan River sockeye salmon (sćwin|Oncorhynchus nerka). The FWMT includes a sockeye salmon sub-model to predict emergence timing, a life history stage where sockeye salmon are particularly vulnerable to high (scour) or low (desiccation) flows. Field observations of fry emergence timing were used to evaluate the accuracy of the FWMT sub-model, as well as flow data, spawner data and acoustic trawl data to evaluate the effectiveness of the FWMT. The FWMT predicted the date of peak emergence within an average of 12.6 days and improved compliance with flow targets by reducing desiccation and scour flows during incubation and fry migration life stages. Overall, the FWMT provides a flexible framework that allows water managers to evaluate and react to sq̓awsitkʷ|Okanagan River sockeye salmon responses to environmental conditions, rather than being constrained to a rigid calendar. These efforts have increased compliance with key flow targets, resulting in improved fry recruitment and a rare success story for fishery recovery.
MOESM10 of GREM1 is associated with metastasis and predicts poor prognosis in ER-negative breast cancer patients
Creators: name: Neckmann, Ulrike
name: Wolowczyk, Camilla
name: Hall, Martina
name: Almaas, Eivind
name: Ren, Jiang
name: Zhao, Sen
name: Johannessen, Bjarne
name: Skotheim, Rolf
name: Bjørkøy, Geir
name: Dijke, Peter Ten
name: Holien, Toril
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10: Figure S3. Signaling pathways maintaining stemness are activated in 66cl4. Using CHiP-X enrichment analysis (ChEA) of the 1,270 genes significantly upregulated in both 66cl4 cells and 66cl4 tumors, we found activation of several signaling pathways that are essential for stem cell maintenance.
Explaining participation of private forest owners in
Creators: name: Górriz, E.
name: Mäntymaa, E.
name: Petucco, C.
name: Schubert, F.
name: Vedel, S. E.
name: Mantau, Udo
name: Prokofieva, I.
name: Górriz, E.
name: Mäntymaa, E.
name: Petucco, C.
name: Schubert, F.
name: Vedel, S. E.
name: Mantau, Udo
name: Prokofieva, I.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: policy instrument
subject: active forest management
subject: cooperation
subject: instrument design

description: Taking part in the implementation of a voluntary policy instrument for land use management implies motivational requirements of the targeted landowner. Increasing knowledge on the potential economic, managerial and attitudinal factors helps design incentives in accordance and facilitates an effective performance. We analyzed surveys and interviews addressed to private forest owners, at country or regional level in five European countries. Participation rates for different schemes aimed at enhancing the provision of ecosystem services were contrasted with a range of landowners’ socio-economic, forest management variables, as well as with the instrument design characteristics. Results show larger participation trends in mechanisms that promote a forest ecosystem service while simultaneously augments benefits enjoyed by the landowner. Being involved in some type of forestry association increases the likelihood of engaging in the policy mechanism, especially for small and medium size landowners. Correlation patterns were found for variables representing active forest management and activity-enhancing instruments. We argue that these factors explain an alignment of the landowner either with the instrument objectives or the land management measures they promote. It demonstrates that the design of mechanisms bolstering synergies between current landowners’ practices and expectations to those demanded by externals have more likelihood of success than those implying drastic management changes. On the other hand, this pre-existing alignment may challenge the efficiency of the policy intervention if most of the expected added value would require targeting not aligned landowners.