cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Comprehensive Academic Integrity: Academic Ethics in a Postplagiarism Age
Creators: name: Eaton, Sarah Elaine
Publisher: name: Werklund School of Education
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: postplagiarism
subject: plagiarism
subject: academic integrity
subject: artificial intelligence
subject: neurotechnology
subject: BCI
subject: brain computer interface
subject: ethics
subject: education
subject: higher education
subject: student conduct
subject: history
subject: future
subject: futurism
subject: academic misconduct
subject: academic dishonesty
subject: cheating

description: Abstract If you think academic integrity is only about student conduct, you may be living in the past. In this opening keynote, Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton, provides insights from the latest research around the world that shows how academic and research integrity include, and extend student conduct. She’ll bring insights from the Handbook of Academic Integrity (2nd ed.), which shows how our understandings of academic integrity in school provides a foundation for ethical decision making beyond the classroom. Dr. Eaton also talk about how artificial intelligence is challenging historical notions of plagiarism and sets the stage for important conversations that will happen throughout the conference. Keywords: postplagiarism, academic integrity, plagiarism, artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, brain computer interface (BCI), ethics, education, higher education, student conduct, futurism, future, history. 35 Figures; 36 References 2025 Addendum This keynote address marked the first time I presented on the concept of postplagiarism. It was also the first time I began speaking about the ethical impact of neurotechnology and brain computer interfaced (BCIs) in education. This talk is based on my 2023 editorial for the International Journal for Educational Integrity, published the same month. The slides, transcript, and notes are publicly available as an open access resource, under a Creative Commons By-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives license.
Thryssa hamiltonii
Creators: name: Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz
name: Lavoué, Sébastien
name: Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani
name: Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah
name: A. Rahim, Masazurah
name: Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Clupeiformes
Engraulidae
Thryssa
Thryssa hamiltonii

description: Thryssa hamiltonii (Gray, 1835) Material examined. MALAYSIA • 2, 145– 166 mm TL; Kedah State, Kuala Kedah, Kuala Muda Whispering Market; 05.578°N, 100.341°E; 6 Dec. 2018; Danial H. Zainal Abidin, Norli F.M.A.H. Alshari leg.; USMFC (82) 00041. • 2, 97– 168 mm TL; Kedah State, Merbok, Pompang Sungai Merbok; 05.664°N, 100.381°E; 6 Dec. 2018; Danial H. Zainal Abidin, Norli F.M.A.H. Alshari leg.; USMFC (82) 00043. Identification. A relatively large species of anchovy (maximum TL about 250 mm); body elongated, compressed and keeled from isthmus to anus; large mouth, its corner behind the eye; anal fin long with 3 unbranched and 35–37 branched fin rays; less gill rakers 12–14 (on first gill arch); maxilla moderately long, reaching to edge of gill cover; prepelvic scutes 16–19; post-pelvic scutes 8–9; body silvery with a conspicuous black blotch behind upper part of gill opening; no silver longitudinal stripe; pigment lines along dorsum (Whitehead et al. 1988). Thryssa hamiltonii can be easily distinguished from other species of Thryssa occurring in Merbok river estuary by its moderately long maxilla reaching to edge of gill cover. Thryssa hamiltonii is a predominantly coastal marine species occasionally caught in brackish ecosystems of this region; it is an economically important species. Otherwise, widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific region (Whitehead et al. 1988).
description: Published as part of Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz, Lavoué, Sébastien, Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani, Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah, A. Rahim, Masazurah & Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna, 2021, Ichthyofauna of Sungai Merbok Mangrove Forest Reserve, northwest Peninsular Malaysia, and its adjacent marine waters, pp. 601-631 in Check List 17 (2) on page 615, DOI: 10.15560/17.2.601
description: {"references": ["Whitehead PJP, Nelson GJ, Wongratana T (1988) FAO species catalogue vol 7. Clupeoid fishes of the world (suborder Clupeoidei). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the herrings, sardines, pilchards, sprats, shads, anchovies and wolf-herrings. Pt. 2 - Engraulididae. FAO Fisheries Synopsis 125 (7): 305 - 579."]}
title: Pre-stabilization strategies for systems-wide in situ crosslinking mass spectrometry
Creators: name: Michael, Andrew Roy
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Mass Spectrometry
subject: Crosslinking Mass Spectrometry
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Biochemistry

description: Understanding the associations proteins form within a network of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) provides insight into the functions that drive cellular processes. These networks have largely been sampled and studied using various high-throughput screening techniques providing network maps. However, these investigative approaches only generate indirect interaction data that are prone to false positives. Crosslinking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) has the potential to map the interactome with high resolution and coverage. Current in situ XL-MS methods are limited by the low permeability of crosslinking reagents necessitating long incubation times to accrue appreciable signal. Consequently, sampling of the interactome is sparse and the long incubation times can distort the structural proteome resulting in questionable validity of the identified PPIs. This thesis aims to address these concerns through development of novel in situ XL-MS procedures that incorporate pre-stabilization into the workflow to facilitate cellular ultrastructure preservation and improve sampling of the spatiotemporal proteome. Pre-stabilization of cells was explored through chemical and temperature-based fixation strategies using either formaldehyde or freeze-substitution, respectively. Both methods facilitated PPI sampling at or above conventional in situ XL-MS workflows and provided opportunities to further maximize crosslinking yields while maintaining a preserved cellular ultrastructure. Pre-stabilizing cells with formaldehyde further created an opportunity to explore a novel crosslinking approach where the crosslinking reaction was split into two sequential and orthogonal coupling events. This approach followed a stepwise process of installing crosslink precursors across the proteome at saturated levels with crosslink formation done through click-chemistry, resulting in over 5X higher yield of PPIs over conventional in situ XL-MS.
Saddle-splay elasticity and field induced soliton in nematics
Creators: name: Manyuhina, O. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The symmetry breaking Freedericksz transitions, when a uniformly aligned nematic state is replaced by a homogeneously or periodically distorted state, have been extensively studied before. Here we analyse the influence of the saddle-splay elasticity on the non-linear ground state of nematic liquid crystal in presence of magnetic field above the Freedericksz threshold. We identify the bifurcation point when the kink-soliton is linearly unstable with respect to the perturbations of the wave vector in the direction perpendicular to the initial plane of soliton. This instability occurs only if the ratio of saddle-splay elastic constant to elastic modulus of nematics in one-constant approximation is above the critical value |K_{24}/K|>0.707.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures; v2 + fig 4 and minor corrections accepted for publication in J Phys: Condens Matter
Ternary Plots for Neutrino Mixing Visualization
Creators: name: Zachos, Cosmas K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The visualization advantages of ternary plots are illustrated for the PMNS neutrino mixing matrix. Unitarity constraints are incorporated automatically, in part, since barycentric plots of this type allow three variables with a fixed sum to be plotted as mere points inside an equilateral triangle on a plane.
description: plain LaTeX2e, 6 p Talk 5/17/2012 NGANLHEP
Gravity and Mirror Gravity in Plebanski Formulation
Creators: name: Bennett, D. L.
name: Laperashvili, L. V.
name: Nielsen, H. B.
name: Tureanu, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present several theories of four-dimensional gravity in the Plebanski formulation, in which the tetrads and the connections are the independent dynamical variables. We consider the relation between different versions of gravitational theories: Einstenian, dual, 'mirror' gravities and gravity with torsion. According to Plebanski's assumption, our world, in which we live, is described by the self-dual left-handed gravity. We propose that if the Mirror World exists in Nature, then the 'mirror gravity' is the right-handed anti-self-dual gravity with broken mirror parity. Considering a special version of the Riemann--Cartan space-time, which has torsion as additional geometric property, we have shown that in the Plebanski formulation the ordinary and dual sectors of gravity, as well as the gravity with torsion, are equivalent. In this context, we have also developed a 'pure connection gravity' -- a diffeomorphism-invariant gauge theory of gravity. We have calculated the partition function and the effective Lagrangian of this four-dimensional gravity and have investigated the limit of this theory at small distances.
description: 14 pages; statements made more accurate, change of metric
Biofortification, Crop Adoption, and Health Information: Impact Pathways in Mozambique and Uganda
Creators: name: Brauw, Alan De
name: Eozenou, Patrick
name: Gilligan, Daniel
name: Hotz, Christine
name: Kumar, Neha
name: J. V. Meenakshi
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

description: Biofortification, Crop Adoption, and Health Information: Impact Pathways in Mozambique and Uganda
Solidarity forever, Canadians never : SAWP workers in Canada
Creators: name: Russo, Robert Marc
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This doctoral thesis focuses on collective bargaining and temporary migrant workers within Canada participating in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). The intent is to analyze the range and efficacy of legal responses to the problems encountered by this community within Canada, focusing on the unionization of SAWP participants. The dissertation addresses the fundamentally legal relationship between unionization and SAWP workers in Canada. It takes an approach that considers both historical and legal considerations leading to the use of SAWP workers in Canada, and the eventual attempts at unionization. Recent legal developments in several Canadian provinces involving SAWP workers and efforts collective bargaining are analyzed. There is a comparison with similar efforts to unionize migrant workers in the United States, and of efforts to address violations of collective bargaining rights through international complaints as well as within the broader framework of international law. The conclusion reached is that within the current framework of provincial labour legislation and the current structure of the SAWP, collective bargaining alone represents an inadequate response to violations of SAWP workers’ workplace rights in Canada.
Modulation instability in nonlinear metamaterials induced by cubic-quintic nonlinearities and higher order dispersive effects
Creators: name: Saha, Manirupa
name: Sarma, Amarendra K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated modulation instability in metamaterials (MM) with both cubic and quintic nonlinearities, based on a model appropriate for pulse propagation in MMs with cubic-quintic nonlinearities and higher order dispersive effects. We have included loss into account in our analysis and found that loss distorts the sidebands of the MI gain spectrum. We find that the combined effect of cubic-quintic nonlinearity increases the MI gain. The role of higher order nonlinear dispersive effects on MI has been also discussed.
description: Optics Communications 2012
Certum atque Confessum: Lorenzo Valla on the Forensics of Certainty
Creators: name: McNamara, Charles Joseph
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Rhetoric
Logic
Certainty

description: At the center of Valla’s refashioning of dialectic as a rhetorical practice is a novel understanding of certainty taken from Quintilian’s handbook, an understanding of certainty rooted in what is agreed upon rather than what is objectively true. By separating certum from verum and by presenting dialectic as the practice of drawing out confessions rather than proving logical truths in his Dialecticae Disputationes, Valla recasts philosophical argumentation as a forensic project of crafting consensus-based certainties. In several other works, too, including his Elegantiae and marginal commentary on Quintilian’s Institutio itself, Valla consistently uses a set of vocabulary to link certainty with consensus, particularly the understanding of consensus at the heart of the ancient inventional strategy of status theory.
Additional file 3 of Water extract from processed Polygonum multiflorum modulate gut microbiota and glucose metabolism on insulin resistant rats
Creators: name: Gu, Wen
name: Yang, Min
name: Bi, Qian
name: Zeng, Lin-Xi
name: Wang, Xi
name: Dong, Jin-Cai
name: Li, Feng-Jiao
name: Yang, Xing-Xin
name: Li, Jing-Ping
name: Yu, Jie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. the uncropped microscopy images of liver specimens.
title: Asset Tokenization: An Exploration Through the Lens of Extant Theory
Creators: name: Sumar, Aly-Khaan
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Blockchain
subject: Asset Tokenization
subject: Transaction Cost Economics
subject: Bounded Reliability
subject: Distributed Ledger
subject: web3
subject: Banking
subject: Financial Services
subject: Tokenization
subject: Decentralized Finance
subject: Education--Finance
subject: Education--Technology
subject: Banking
subject: Economics--Commerce-Business

description: Blockchain and its related uses as a foundation for a new internet—and, by extension, a new financial system—have garnered much attention in current media and extant literature. This dissertation will explore tokenization, an application of blockchain technology, which aims to create a digital version of an asset on a blockchain, one that can be owned digitally on a digital asset network. The extolled benefits of tokenization are examined through the lens of transaction cost theory (TCT), comprised of transaction cost economics (TCE), transaction cost internalization (TCI) and bounded reliability (BRel) Initial implementations of tokenized asset offerings reflect a technology in a nascent form, but on a trajectory of growth. The evolution of the internet exemplifies how this might unfold, from a medium where users passively consumed written or visual content (web 1.0) to a platform that users participate in and interact with (web 2.0), to an anticipated next stage (web 3.0) that incorporates digital asset networks and becomes a source of data for both people and machines. Ideally, this will democratize the internet, including decentralized, democratized ownership of blockchain native applications. The tokenization of both current real-world assets and digitally native assets is intended to increase access, reduce transactional friction, and enable improved price discovery for assets to ultimately foster a more inclusive financial system. The current immaturity of blockchain technology limits the capacity of tokenization to reduce asset specificity, bounded rationality, and bounded reliability, resulting in little improvement in the efficiency of transactions versus existing alternatives. The findings of this doctoral research bring to the forefront two key expectations related to adopting blockchain-based tokenization. First, the current digital asset ecosystem is an innovation incubator for the traditional financial system (TradFi). As the ecosystem matures, it will be strategically adopted in a piecemeal fashion, bolstering the efficiencies in the current financial system rather than disrupting the current financial system intermediaries. Second, it will be necessary to reduce asset specificity, bounded rationality challenges from intermediaries, and bounded reliability challenges from implementing the blockchain-based technology for successful adoption.
Weak and semiweak values in non-ideal spin measurements: an exact treatment beyond the asymptotic regime
Creators: name: Pan, A. K.
name: Matzkin, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider weak measurements (WM) of a spin observable in quantum mechanics beyond the usual asymptotic regime. This is done by obtaining the exact time-dependent wave functions of the measuring apparatus for general non-ideal measurements. Ideal strong measurements and the usual WM regime are obtained as the two extreme limiting cases of our exact treatment. We show that in the intermediate regime non-ideal measurements lead to "semiweak" eccentric values that differ from the usual weak values. We further show that even in the WM regime the exact treatment leads to a meter behavior that can be markedly distinct from the one predicted by the usual WM formalism. We give several illustrations and discuss an application to the distinction of different realizations of the same density matrix.
description: v3: Several typos corrected
title: Biochemical Characterization of the Arabidopsis Chloroplast Localized Phosphatase Shewanella-Like Protein Phosphatase 1
Creators: name: Johnson, Jayde Jarin
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Phosphorylation
subject: Chloroplast
subject: Arabidopsis
subject: Redox
subject: Biochemistry

description: Shewanella-like protein phosphatase 1 (SLP1) is a newly discovered member of the phosphoprotein phosphatase class of protein phosphatases. In Arabidopsis, SLP1 was previously confirmed to be chloroplast localized. Mass spectrometry based phosphoproteomics analysis of different Arabidopsis lines identified 126 high confidence SLP1 substrates, all of which were predicted/known chloroplast proteins. Identification of 126 substrates suggests SLP1 is a major regulator of chloroplast metabolism. Analysis of the substrates indicated SLP1 preferentially dephosphorylates serine or threonine near acidic residues. Similarly, a chloroplast localized protein kinase, casein kinase 2α4 (CK2), prefers acidic substrate motifs. Interestingly, many of CK2’s substrates are also SLP1 substrates, suggesting SLP1 and CK2 act antagonistically to balance chloroplast phosphostatus. CK2 has been studied for decades, with SLP1 studies beginning only recently. Herein I build on previous biochemical characterizations of SLP1 using phosphorylated peptides in enzyme assays. I use reagents to simulate diurnal fluctuations of redox, pH, and metabolite/protein concentrations in the stroma in vitro and found that SLP1 is activated by chloroplast thioredoxin m. I use structural prediction tools to connect changes in SLP1 activity to structural features such as a predicted disulfide bond. Predictions also suggest which residues may be responsible for preferential dephosphorylation at acidic motifs. The structural predictions guided SLP1 bioinformatics as novel regions of SLP1 were predicted and confirmed through sequence analysis of SLP1 homologues. Then, I explore the SLP1 substrate Calvin Cycle Protein of 12 kDa (CP12), as an example for how SLP1 phosphorylation may play a role in the regulating the Calvin Cycle. I reconstituted the inhibition complex of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, phosphoribulokinase, with wild-type and mutant CP12s in vitro. Using size exclusion chromatography, I observed that the complex formed using phosphomimetic CP12T116D elutes differently from wild-type. Lastly, I generate a proximity labelling construct to explore SLP1 protein-protein interactions. I demonstrate that SLP1 substrates can be labelled with biotin when transiently expressed in tobacco plants. The work here builds on previous studies, identifying areas of chloroplast biology where redox regulation and reversible protein phosphorylation intersect.
Additional file 4 of Water extract from processed Polygonum multiflorum modulate gut microbiota and glucose metabolism on insulin resistant rats
Creators: name: Gu, Wen
name: Yang, Min
name: Bi, Qian
name: Zeng, Lin-Xi
name: Wang, Xi
name: Dong, Jin-Cai
name: Li, Feng-Jiao
name: Yang, Xing-Xin
name: Li, Jing-Ping
name: Yu, Jie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Figure.S4. the uncropped blot images of the protein expression of GPR43, p-AMPK and GAPDH in liver and muscle. In the same experiment, the efficacy of other drugs was also tested, which will not explaine in this paper, so there are redundant bands in some images. The red box indicates the final cropping range.
Neurobiology, not artifacts: Challenges and guidelines for imaging the high risk infant
Creators: name: Denisova, Kristina
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Neurobiology
Infants--Development
Autism spectrum disorders
Head--Movements
Brain--Magnetic resonance imaging
Developmental neurobiology

description: The search for the brain-basis of atypical development in human infants is challenging because the process of imaging and the generation of the MR signal itself relies on assumptions that reflect biophysical properties of the brain tissue. These assumptions are not inviolate, have been questioned by recent empirical evidence from high risk infant-sibling studies, and to date remain largely underexamined at the between-group level. In particular, I consider recent work showing that infants at High vs. Low familial risk (HR vs. LR, respectively) for developing Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have atypical patterns of head movements during an MR scan that are functionally important—they are linked to future learning trajectories in toddlerhood. Addressing head movement issues in neuroimaging analyses in infant research as well as understanding the causes of these movements from a developmental perspective requires acknowledging the complexity of this endeavor. For example, head movement
signatures in infants can interact with experimental task conditions (such as listening to language compared to sleeping), autism risk, and age. How can new knowledge about newborns' individual, subject-specific behavioral differences which may impact MR signal acquisition and statistical inference ignite critical thinking for the field of infant brain imaging across the spectrum of typical and atypical development? Early behavioral differences between HR and LR infant cohorts that are often examples of “artifactual” confounds in MR work provide insight into nascent neurobiological differences, including biophysical tissue properties and hemodynamic response variability, in these and related populations at risk for atypical development. Are these neurobiological drivers of atypical development? This work identifies important knowledge gaps and suggests guidelines at the leading edge of baby imaging science to transform our understanding of atypical brain development in humans. The precise study of the neurobiological underpinnings of atypical development in humans calls for approaches
including quantitative MRI (qMRI) pulse sequences, multi-modal imaging (including DTI, MRS, as well as MEG), and infant-specific HRF shapes when modeling BOLD signal.
Thryssa kammalensis
Creators: name: Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz
name: Lavoué, Sébastien
name: Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani
name: Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah
name: A. Rahim, Masazurah
name: Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Clupeiformes
Engraulidae
Thryssa
Thryssa kammalensis

description: Thryssa kammalensis (Bleeker, 1849) Material examined. MALAYSIA • 5, 79– 96 mm TL; Kedah State, Kuala Kedah, Kuala Muda Whispering Market; 05.578°N, 100.341°E; 6 Dec. 2018; Danial H. Zainal Abidin, Norli F.M.A.H. Alshari leg.; USMFC (82) 00040. • 5, 87– 102 mm TL; Kedah State, Kuala Kedah, Kuala Muda Whispering Market; 05.578°N, 100.341°E; 6 Dec. 2018; Danial H. Zainal Abidin, Norli F.M.A.H. Alshari leg.; USMFC (82) 00042. • 1, 85 mm TL; Kedah State, Merbok, Pompang Sungai Merbok; 05.664°N, 100.381°E; 6 Dec. 2018; Danial H. Zainal Abidin, Norli F.M.A.H. Alshari leg.; USMFC (82) 00046. • 5, 86– 103 mm TL; Kedah State, Kuala Kedah, Kuala Muda Whispering Market; 05.578°N, 100.341°E; 5 Dec. 2018; Danial H. Zainal Abidin, Norli F.M.A.H. Alshari leg.; USMFC (82) 00048. Identification. A small species of Thryssa (maximum TL about 100 mm); body elongated, compressed and keeled from isthmus to anus; large mouth, its corner behind the eye; anal fin long with three unbranched and 30– 33 branched fin rays; only 26–32 gill rakers on first gill arch; maxilla short, its posterior tip reaching just to gill opening; prepelvic scutes 15 or 16; post-pelvic scutes 8 or 9; body mostly silvery with a diagnostic blackish “saddle” on nape (Whitehead et al. 1988); no silver longitudinal stripe; no pigment line on dorsum (Whitehead et al. 1988). Thryssa kammalensis can be easily distinguished from other species of Thryssa occurring in the Merbok river estuary by its very short maxilla reaching only to gill opening. Thryssa kammalensis is a coastal marine species commonly caught in brackish ecosystems of this region. Otherwise, distributed in the central part of the Indo-West Pacific region (Whitehead et al. 1988).
description: Published as part of Zainal Abidin, Danial Hariz, Lavoué, Sébastien, Mohd Abu Hassan Alshari, Norli Fauzani, Mohd. Nor, Siti Azizah, A. Rahim, Masazurah & Mohammed Akib, Noor Adelyna, 2021, Ichthyofauna of Sungai Merbok Mangrove Forest Reserve, northwest Peninsular Malaysia, and its adjacent marine waters, pp. 601-631 in Check List 17 (2) on page 615, DOI: 10.15560/17.2.601
description: {"references": ["Whitehead PJP, Nelson GJ, Wongratana T (1988) FAO species catalogue vol 7. Clupeoid fishes of the world (suborder Clupeoidei). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the herrings, sardines, pilchards, sprats, shads, anchovies and wolf-herrings. Pt. 2 - Engraulididae. FAO Fisheries Synopsis 125 (7): 305 - 579."]}
A Realistic Treatment of Geomagnetic Cherenkov Radiation from Cosmic Ray Air Showers
Creators: name: Werner, Klaus
name: De Vries, Krijn D.
name: Scholten, Olaf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a macroscopic calculation of coherent electro-magnetic radiation from air showers initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays, based on currents obtained from three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations of air showers in a realistic geo-magnetic field. We discuss the importance of a correct treatment of the index of refraction in air, given by the law of Gladstone and Dale, which affects the pulses enormously for certain configurations, compared to a simplified treatment using a constant index. We predict in particular a geomagnetic Cherenkov radiation, which provides strong signals at high frequencies (GHz), for certain geometries together with "normal radiation" from the shower maximum, leading to a double peak structure in the frequency spectrum. We also provide some information about the numerical procedures referred to as EVA 1.0.
description: 15 pages, 26 figures
Three-body $D\bar{D}π$ dynamics for the X(3872)
Creators: name: Baru, V.
name: Hanhart, C.
name: Filin, A. A.
name: Kalashnikova, Yu. S.
name: Kudryavtsev, A. E.
name: Nefediev, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the role played by the three-body $D\bar{D}π$ dynamics on the near-threshold resonance X(3872) charmonium state, which is assumed to be formed by nonperturbative $D\bar D^*$ dynamics. It is demonstrated that, as compared to the naive static-pions approximation, the imaginary parts that originate from the inclusion of dynamical pions reduce substantially the width from the $D\bar{D}π$ intermediate state. In particular, for a resonance peaked at 0.5 MeV below the $D^0\bar D^{*0}$ threshold, this contribution to the width is reduced by about a factor of 2, and the effect of the pion dynamics on the width grows as long as the resonance is shifted towards the $D^0\bar{D^0}π^0$ threshold. Although the physical width of the $X$ is dominated by inelastic channels, our finding should still be of importance for the $X$ line shapes in the $D\bar{D}π$ channel below $D{\bar D}^*$ threshold. For example, in the scattering length approximation, the imaginary part of the scattering length includes effects of all the pion dynamics and does not only stem from the $D^*$ width. Meanwhile, we find that another important quantity for the $X$ phenomenology, the residue at the $X$ pole, is weakly sensitive to dynamical pions. In particular, we find that the binding energy dependence of this quantity from the full calculation is close to that found from a model with pointlike $D\bar D^*$ interactions only, consistent with earlier claims. Coupled-channel effects (inclusion of the charged $D\bar{D}^*$ channel) turn out to have a moderate impact on the results.
description: 34 pages, 6 figures, version to appear in Phys.Rev.D
Earnings Management and Internal Control in Bank-dominated Corporate Governance: Evidence from Japan
Creators: name: Sakawa, Hideaki
name: Watanabel, Naoki
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Corporate governance
Earnings management
Auditing
Business
Economics

description: We examine the relationship between internal governance and earnings management in Japanese listed firms. Post the recent accounting frauds in large companies such as Olympus Corp. and Toshiba Corp., Japanese internal governance systems have also been widely criticized. Different from the US and UK, Japan is known as bank-dominated corporate governance system. We predict that the bank-client relationship is expected to mitigate opportunistic earnings management by mitigating the degree of information asymmetry, which is a main cause of agency problems arising from debt contracts. Our results show that bank-appointed audit board members mitigate managerial earnings management. Furthermore, neither outside directors nor audit committees (ACs) are helpful to decrease opportunistic managerial earnings management. Our findings imply that a lender monitoring system, through audit board members, could contribute by substituting the monitoring role of outside directors and ACs.
Concurrence in Disordered Systems
Creators: name: Hide, Jenny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum systems exist at finite temperatures and are likely to be disordered to some level. Since applications of quantum information often rely on entanglement, we require methods which allow entanglement measures to be calculated in the presence of disorder at non-zero temperatures. We demonstrate how the disorder averaged concurrence can be calculated using thermal many-body perturbation theory. Our technique can also be applied to other entanglement measures. To illustrate, we find the disorder averaged concurrence of an XX spin chain. We find that concurrence can be increased by disorder in some parameter regimes.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
title: Preconditioning and weaning beef cattle: impacts on health and behaviour of beef calves and cows and the stakeholders’ perspectives
Creators: name: Mijar, Sanjaya
Publisher: name: Veterinary Medicine
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Preconditioning
subject: Mixing
subject: Cortisol
subject: Behaviour
subject: Qualitative study
subject: Weaning
subject: Veterinary Science
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Animal Physiology
subject: Psychology--Behavioral
subject: Education--Health

description: While preconditioning benefits calf health and performance, its adoption remains challenging due to uncertainties surrounding commingling preconditioned (PC) and auction-derived (AD) calves, as well as various social, financial, and market barriers in the beef industry. Furthermore, limited understanding of weaning stress on beef cows complicates preconditioning efforts aimed at minimizing stress and promoting animal welfare. Chapter 2 determined the impacts of commingling PC and AD calves in the feedlot in varying proportions, revealing that PC calves, regardless of commingling, showed reduced bovine respiratory disease (BRD)-related morbidity and lower treatment rates than AD calves. Chapter 3 investigated calves’ behavioural and physiological responses to stress related to feedlot transitioning, finding that PC calves showed better adaptation to the feedlot environment with increased eating and rumination, though hair cortisol levels did not differentiate stress responses. Chapter 4 explored beef industry stakeholders’ perspectives on preconditioning, identifying key motivators and barriers to its implementation. Five overarching themes were identified: Ranchers’ satisfaction and accountability and Thriving calves as motivations; and Lack of incentives, The quest for preconditioning proof, and Supply shortfall as barriers. Chapter 5 assessed weaning stress in three different weaning methods by measuring physiological and behavioural responses in beef cows, finding that nose-flap (NF) weaned cows exhibited fewer vocalizations, and less walking and pacing compared to abruptly or fenceline (FL) weaned cows. Fenceline weaned cows also had increased fecal glucocorticoid metabolites concentrations post-weaning compared to NF and abruptly weaned cows. Overall, this thesis highlights the health and feeding performance advantages of preconditioning calves outperforming AD calves, irrespective of commingling. This thesis also identifies underlying motivations and barriers to preconditioning adoption, and offers recommendations for strengthening preconditioning verification, fostering trust, and providing financial incentives to encourage broader adoption of preconditioning practices. Additionally, this thesis suggests the need for cow-calf operators to recognize that cows experience weaning stress differently than calves and to select less stressful weaning method aligning with specific ranch goals and production targets. Future research should emphasize extensive commingling protocols, weaning stress impacts on calves in utero and after birth, and a broader survey on preconditioning adoption in Canada.
Main Bank Relationship and Accounting Conservatism: Evidence from Japan
Creators: name: Sakawa, Hideaki
name: Watanabel, Naoki
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Corporate governance
Accounting
Banks and banking
Business
Conservatism

description: In a market-oriented economy like the U.S., the process of monitoring through lending mitigates lenders’ demand for accounting conservatism. Japanese corporate governance is characterized as a bank-dominated or relationship-oriented system. Under bank-dominated systems, main banks are expected to be effective monitors. In our model, main banks play the role of reducing the lenders’ demand for accounting conservatism by reducing information asymmetry. We find that main banks can reduce the demand for accounting conservatism. Our findings help understand accounting conservatism vis-à-vis agency problems. We provide empirical evidence to contribute to literature on banking, specifically to fields such as relationship banking.
Thermal Bottomonium Suppression at RHIC and LHC
Creators: name: Strickland, Michael
name: Bazow, Dennis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider the suppression of bottomonium states in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. We compute the suppression as a function of centrality, rapidity, and transverse momentum for the states Upsilon(1s), Upsilon(2s), Upsilon(3s), chi_b1, and chi_b2. Using this information, we then compute the inclusive Upsilon(1s) suppression as a function of centrality, rapidity, and transverse momentum including feed down effects. Calculations are performed for both RHIC sqrt(s_NN)=200 GeV Au-Au collisions and LHC sqrt(s_NN)=2.76 TeV Pb-Pb collisions. From the comparison of our theoretical results with data available from the STAR and CMS Collaborations we are able to constrain the shear viscosity to entropy ratio to be in the range 0.08 < eta/S < 0.24. Our results are consistent with the creation of a high temperature quark-gluon plasma at both RHIC and LHC collision energies.
description: 38 pages, 15 figures; v4 - Published version
title: Natural Gas to Hydrogen and Other Products at Low to Zero Emissions
Creators: name: Ferrer, Francisco Daniel Alana
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: greenhouse gas emissions
subject: Hydrogen production
subject: Renewable energy
subject: Sustainable future
subject: Natural gas
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Energy

description: In light of pressing environmental challenges, such as global warming driven by greenhouse gas emissions, hydrogen has emerged as a vital component in maximizing renewable energy use and facilitating the transition to a sustainable future. Currently, the majority of hydrogen production relies heavily on fossil fuels, particularly natural gas. While significant advancements have been made in alternative hydrogen generation technologies, steam methane reforming (SMR) remains the most established and widely implemented method. However, its high energy demands and CO2 emissions have prompted research into low-temperature hydrogen production technologies. This study focuses on low-temperature steam reforming (LTSR) and dry reforming (DRM) processes, operating between 500 and 600 °C, utilizing innovative Ni-Ce formulation catalysts (CAT-1 and CAT-2). Catalyst CAT-1 demonstrated exceptional performance in the LTSR of a natural gas model, achieving complete conversion of ethane and propane while maintaining near-equilibrium levels of methane under various operational conditions. This approach eliminated the need for water-gas shift and pre-reforming stages, simplifying system complexity and reducing construction costs. While the catalyst showed remarkable efficacy in hydrogen production, challenges related to sulfur compound deactivation were noted, leading to the recommendation of a guard reactor. Furthermore, catalyst CAT-2 exhibited outstanding stability during DRM, achieving near-equilibrium conversion rates and effectively suppressing carbon deposition through elevated CO2/CH4 ratios. Long-term tests confirmed no signs of catalyst degradation, enabling direct feeding of natural gas into the dry reforming reactor and thereby minimizing pre-treatment requirements and capital expenditures. Ultimately, the integration of LTSR and DRM processes represents a promising solution for significantly reducing carbon emissions while producing hydrogen and syngas more efficiently than conventional methods, with estimated CAPEX savings of approximately 36% for standalone LTSR units compared to traditional steam methane reforming units.
How Different Consumer Groups with Distinct Basic Human Values Gather, Seek and Process Information on Meat Topics: The Case of the German Animal Welfare Initiative
Creators: name: Hirsch, Darya Hirsch
name: Meyer, Christian H.
name: Massen, Cristina
name: Terlau, Wiltrud
Publisher: name: International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Year: 2019
Subjects: Schwartz's portrait value questionnaire (PVQ); Values; Information needs; Factor and Cluster analyses; Consumer; Attitudes; Communication

description: In January 2015, German retail and industry jointly started a sector-wide initiative (“Initiative Tierwohl” - ITW) to improve animal welfare standards. The principle of the ITW is communicated mostly via the websites of ITW and its participating companies. However, uncertainty remained whether or not these websites provide the necessary information consumers need on the ITW products. Based on Schwartz's basic human values, different types of consumers were identified by a cluster analysis (ward-method, k-means). The results showed that depending on expressed meta‐values (Self-Transcendence/Openness to Change Self-Enhancement or Conservation), respondents had different specific information sources and needs. Online sources were rarely mentioned, the majority of consumers referred to brochures, flyers and interpersonal contacts.
description: International Journal on Food System Dynamics, Vol 10, No 1 (2019)
Effect of far ultraviolet light emitted from an optical diffuser on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in vitro
Creators: name: Welch, David
name: Buonanno, Manuela
name: Shuryak, Igor
name: Randers-Pehrson, Gerhard
name: Spotnitz, Henry
name: Brenner, David Jonathan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Disinfection and disinfectants
Far ultraviolet radiation
Staphylococcus aureus
Lasers
Medical instruments and apparatus--Sterilization

description: Drug-resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are a target for new antimicrobial technologies. Far-UVC technology is an emerging disinfection method that directly kills microorganisms using light. In contrast with conventional UV sterilization, far-UVC light has antimicrobial capabilities without apparent harm to mammalian cells. This study examines the application of 224 nm far-UVC light delivered from a laser using an optical diffuser towards the goal of protecting against bacterial invasion around skin penetrating devices. Delivery of far-UVC using a laser and optical fibers enables exposure to unique geometries that would otherwise be shielded when using a lamp. Testing of the bactericidal potential of diffusing the far-UVC laser output over a large area was tested and yielded qualitative area killing results. The killing of MRSA using this method was also examined using an in vitro survival assay. Results followed a classic log-linear disinfection model with a rate constant of k = 0.51 cm2/mJ, which corresponds to an inactivation cross section of D90 = 4.5 mJ/cm2. This study establishes far-UVC delivered from a laser through an optical diffuser as a viable solution for disinfection of susceptible regions such as around catheters, drivelines, or other skin penetrating medical devices.
Additional file 7 of Physiological, metabolomic, and transcriptomic reveal metabolic pathway alterations in Gymnocypris przewalskii due to cold exposure
Creators: name: Liu, Sijia
name: Tian, Fei
name: Qi, Delin
name: Qi, Hongfang
name: Wang, Yang
name: Xu, Shixiao
name: Zhao, Kai
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7.
Flavor Mediation Delivers Natural SUSY
Creators: name: Craig, Nathaniel
name: McCullough, Matthew
name: Thaler, Jesse
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If supersymmetry (SUSY) solves the hierarchy problem, then naturalness considerations coupled with recent LHC bounds require non-trivial superpartner flavor structures. Such "Natural SUSY" models exhibit a large mass hierarchy between scalars of the third and first two generations as well as degeneracy (or alignment) among the first two generations. In this work, we show how this specific beyond the standard model (SM) flavor structure can be tied directly to SM flavor via "Flavor Mediation". The SM contains an anomaly-free SU(3) flavor symmetry, broken only by Yukawa couplings. By gauging this flavor symmetry in addition to SM gauge symmetries, we can mediate SUSY breaking via (Higgsed) gauge mediation. This automatically delivers a natural SUSY spectrum. Third-generation scalar masses are suppressed due to the dominant breaking of the flavor gauge symmetry in the top direction. More subtly, the first-two-generation scalars remain highly degenerate due to a custodial U(2) symmetry, where the SU(2) factor arises because SU(3) is rank two. This custodial symmetry is broken only at order (m_c/m_t)^2. SUSY gauge coupling unification predictions are preserved, since no new charged matter is introduced, the SM gauge structure is unaltered, and the flavor symmetry treats all matter multiplets equally. Moreover, the uniqueness of the anomaly-free SU(3) flavor group makes possible a number of concrete predictions for the superpartner spectrum.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. v2 references added, minor changes to flavor constraints and a little discussion added
Cryopreservation of Human Adipose Tissues and Adipose-Derived Stem Cells with DMSO and/or Trehalose: A Systematic Review.
Creators: name: Crowley, Conor A
name: Smith, William P W
name: Seah, K T Matthew
name: Lim, Soo-Keat
name: Khan, Wasim S
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Trehalose
Ageing
Cryopreservation
Adipose-derived Stem Cells
Lipoaspirate
Autologous Fat Grafting

description: Adipose tissue senescence is implicated as a major player in obesity- and ageing-related disorders. There is a growing body of research studying relevant mechanisms in age-related diseases, as well as the use of adipose-derived stem cells in regenerative medicine. The cell banking of tissue by utilising cryopreservation would allow for much greater flexibility of use. Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is the most commonly used cryopreservative agent but is toxic to cells. Trehalose is a sugar synthesised by lower organisms to withstand extreme cold and drought that has been trialled as a cryopreservative agent. To examine the efficacy of trehalose in the cryopreservation of human adipose tissue, we conducted a systematic review of studies that used trehalose for the cryopreservation of human adipose tissues and adipose-derived stem cells. Thirteen articles, including fourteen studies, were included in the final review. All seven studies that examined DMSO and trehalose showed that they could be combined effectively to cryopreserve adipocytes. Although studies that compared nonpermeable trehalose with DMSO found trehalose to be inferior, studies that devised methods to deliver nonpermeable trehalose into the cell found it comparable to DMSO. Trehalose is only comparable to DMSO when methods are devised to introduce it into the cell. There is some evidence to support using trehalose instead of using no cryopreservative agent.