cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Report: Governing Land Investments: Do Governments Have Legal Support Gaps?
Creators: name: Szoke-Burke, Sam
name: Cordes, Kaitlin Y.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Investments--Law and legislation
Investments, Foreign--Government policy
Land use
Negotiation
Investments, Foreign

description: The terms governing land investments can shape whether host countries and local communities benefit from investment projects. Yet host governments in low- and middle-income countries often lack sufficient legal and technical capacity to prepare for, negotiate, implement, and monitor investments, and can confront barriers in accessing necessary expertise. This report focuses on the “legal support gaps” encountered by low- and middle-income countries in the context of investments for agricultural and forestry projects that are regulated by investor-state contracts. It offers good practices—for host governments, donors, legal support providers, and investors—that can increase government access to, and use of, legal support and improve the capacity of lawyers to help governments achieve responsible land investments.
Quantum Criticality for Extended Nodes on a Bethe Lattice in the Large Connectivity Limit
Creators: name: Murray, James M.
name: Del Maestro, Adrian
name: Tesanovic, Zlatko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical description of anisotropic systems, such as layered superconductors and coupled spin chains, is often a challenge due to the different natures of interactions along different directions. As a model of such a system, we present an analytical study of d-dimensional "nodes" arranged as the vertices of a Bethe lattice, where each node has nonzero spatial dimension and is described by an O(N) quantum rotor model, and there is hopping between neighboring nodes. In the limit of large connectivity on the Bethe lattice, the hopping can be treated by constructing a self-consistent effective action for a single node. This procedure is akin to dynamical mean field theory, but generalized so that spatial as well as quantum fluctuations are taken into account on each node. The quantum phase transition is studied using this effective action for both infinite and finite N. The importance of the Perron-Frobenius uniform mode on the Bethe lattice is discussed, and its elimination via an "infinite range hopping" term shifts the transition, leading to nontrivial critical behavior. We calculate critical exponents and find that the internode hopping reduces the upper and lower critical dimensions each by one, indicating that--at least for the purposes of quantum criticality--the large number of internode couplings is similar to adding a single extra dimension to the theory describing a single node.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. Published version
Cosmic Super-Strings and Kaluza-Klein Modes
Creators: name: Dufaux, Jean-Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmic super-strings interact generically with a tower of relatively light and/or strongly coupled Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes associated with the geometry of the internal space. In this paper, we study the production of spin-2 KK particles by cusps on loops of cosmic F- and D-strings. We consider cosmic super-strings localized either at the bottom of a warped throat or in a flat internal space with large volume. The total energy emitted by cusps in KK modes is comparable in both cases, although the number of produced KK modes may differ significantly. We then show that KK emission is constrained by the photo-dissociation of light elements and by observations of the diffuse gamma ray background. We show that this rules out regions of the parameter space of cosmic super-strings that are complementary to the regions that can be probed by current and upcoming gravitational wave experiments. KK modes are also expected to play an important role in the friction-dominated epoch of cosmic super-string evolution.
description: 35pp, 5 figs, v2: minor modifications and Refs. added, matches published version
The National Reference Collections of Medieval and Later Pottery
Creators: name: Barker, D
name: Nenk, B
name: Redknap, Mark
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 13, 9-11
description: The purpose of this note is to remind those involved in the study of medieval and post-medieval pottery of the existence of the National Reference Collections.
Proton Stability and Dark Matter in a Realistic String MSSM
Creators: name: Maxin, James A.
name: Mayes, Van E.
name: Nanopoulos, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the existence of an extra nonanomalous U(1) gauge symmetry in a three-generation Pati-Salam model constructed with intersecting D6-branes in Type IIA string theory on a T^6/(Z_2 \times Z_2) orientifold. This extra U(1) forbids all dimension-4, 5, and 6 operators which mediate proton decay in the MSSM. Moreover, this results in the effective promotion of baryon and lepton number to local gauge symmetries, which can potentially result in leptophobic and leptophilic $Z'$ bosons observable at the LHC. Furthermore, it is not necessary to invoke R-parity to forbid the dimension-4 operators which allow rapid proton decay. However, R-parity may arise naturally from a spontaneously broken U(1)_{B-L}. Assuming the presence of R-parity, we then study the direct detection cross-sections for neutralino dark matter, including the latest constraints from the XENON100 experiment. We find that these limits are now within required range necessary to begin testing the model.
description: Expanded discussion of Z' boson phenomenology. Accepted for publication to Physical Review D. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1103.6035
Decoupled Control Structure of a Modular Solid State Transformer
Creators: name: Menger, Nikolas
name: Merz, Tobias
name: Zieglmaier, Georg
name: Schwendemann, Rüdiger
name: Hiller, Marc
Publisher: name: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Year: 2023

description: This paper proposes a new control strategy for a three phase modular Cascaded-H-Bridge based Solid-State Transformer operating with a wide output voltage range. The control scheme incorporates AC grid side control, output voltage control and distributed cell voltage balancing. The balancing is assisted by feed forward of the oscillating phase powers. The cascaded structure enables highly dynamic and decoupled control of the DC output and AC grid side while limiting the cell voltage deviation. Measurements on a five-level laboratory prototype validate the control concept.
The Survey of Medieval Ceramics from South-East Wales
Creators: name: Papazian, Cliona
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 14, 23-40
description: This paper forms the first part of a survey to assess the current state of medieval and post-medieval ceramic research in Wales. The data available for Glamorgan and Gwent is described and tabulated by period, site and fabric type, and there is an extensive bibliography for the sites in these counties.
MONITORIZAREA, PE BAZA IMAGINILOR  SATELITARE, A TRANSFORMĂRILOR ÎN ETAJUL  FORESTIER DIN BAZINUL   RÂULUI TÂRGULUI, JUDEȚUL ARGEȘ
Creators: name: Florescu, Ana-Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Monitorizarea schimbărilor din etajul forestier reprezintă un aspect esențial în evaluarea impactului factorilor naturali și antropici asupra ecosistemelor montane. Studiile anterioare asupra dinamicii vegetației forestiere din Carpații Meridionali au evidențiat influența exploatărilor forestiere, a retrocedărilor de terenuri și a schimbărilor climatice asupra compoziției pădurilor, însă analiza detaliată a bazinului Râului Târgului a fost limitată. Această cercetare își propune să identifice transformările produse în acest areal în ultimele trei decenii, având în vedere atât procesele de defrișare și doborâturi de vânt, cât și regenerarea naturală. Metodologia utilizată include analiza imaginilor satelitare Landsat din 1993, 2009 și 2023, aplicarea clasificării supervizate și tehnici GIS pentru detectarea schimbărilor. Rezultatele arată o reducere semnificativă a pădurilor de conifere între 1993 și 2009, urmată de o regenerare parțială a pădurilor de foioase și mixte până în 2023. Schimbările sunt influențate atât de fenomene climatice extreme, cât și de intervențiile antropice, în special exploatările forestiere și modificările regimului proprietății terenurilor. Studiul subliniază necesitatea implementării unor măsuri de gestionare durabilă a resurselor forestiere, având implicații directe pentru conservarea biodiversității și prevenirea degradării ecosistemelor din zonă.
title: How do we include biodiversity in fisheries management: analysis for the real world
Creators: name: Farnsworth, Keith D
name: Reid, David
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session Q
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Economic valuation is the only quantitative justification for public decisions on conservation, but its poor foundations are starkly exposed when we try to value marine biodiversity. Substitutability and individual preference ranking, fundamental assumptions of welfare economics, are invalid for marine biodiversity. We cannot substitute for lost biodiversity; it is not a commodity, but a scientific measure of the complexity of a biological system and individual citizens cannot have an informed opinion about its worth. Most economists have settled for valuing the services that biodiversity hypothetically provides to humanity, but relationships between biodiversity and ecological services remain largely obscure. A scientific approach defines biodiversity in terms of functional information, evaluated instrumentally through changes in expected biological fitness over networks of organisms. Such an objective (non-anthropocentric) approach is left irrelevant by the ‘cultural’ gap between science and public decision making. The remaining alternative is to dramatically simplify: confronting society with a discrete choice between an ecologically healthy and productive sea or one that is barren. Economists may best set mutually exclusive policy choices, such as fishery subsidies or conservation spending, for both objective, e.g. accountancy, and subjective (hypothetical market) methods. Ecological modelling of exploited marine systems should provide realistic scenarios for these choices. Discrete economic choices could be considered an important part of EAFM, which includes the design of economic instruments for implementing the choices made. We propose that biodiversity issues are best incorporated into fisheries management by posing simple, discrete options of future scenarios in an economic context.
Two essays in empirical asset pricing
Creators: name: Ruf, Thomas
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: In the first essay, I empirically investigate the effect of financial frictions and exogenous demand pressure on both prices and returns of options. Historically, observed option returns have been a challenge for no-arbitrage asset pricing models, most notably in the case of out-of-the-money equity index puts. I propose that liquidation risk, defined as the possibility of forced selling of speculative positions following a liquidity shock, is a major driver of the relative price of out-of-the-money put vs. call options (option-implied skewness) in commodity futures options markets and gives rise to a skewness risk premium in option returns. Establishing speculative net long positions in options (OSP) as a key proxy for liquidation risk, I find that the skewness risk premium rises (falls), but realized skewness remains unchanged, when OSP is more positive (negative). I also provide direct evidence of the price effects during such liquidation events. Trading strategies designed to theoretically exploit the skewness premium yield up to 2.5 percent per month and load significantly on risk factors related to the ease of funding for financial intermediaries. In the second essay, I investigate the pricing dynamics of a class of option-like structured products, bank-issued warrants, using a large, high-frequency data set. I provide evidence that issuers extract rents from investors due to 2 key features of these markets: Each issuer is the sole liquidity provider in the secondary market for her products, and short-selling is not possible. As a consequence, I find that warrants are more overpriced the harder they are to value, and the fewer substitutes are available. Second, issuers are able to anticipate demand in the short term and preemptively adjust prices for warrants upwards (downwards) on days when investors are net buyers (sellers). Third, issuers decrease the amount of overpricing over the lifetime of most warrants, lowering returns for investors further. Lastly, while I find a negative relationship between issuer credit risk and overpricing, the effect is generally too small, is absent prior to the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and does not conform to models of vulnerable options.
BLOKCHEYN TEXNOLOGIYALARI ORQALI QAYTA TIKLANADIGAN ENERGIYA SAVDOSINI AVTOMATLASHTIRISH
Creators: name: Qodirov, Farrux
name: Turayeva, Sabrina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Bugungi kunda qayta tiklanadigan energiya manbalarining global energetika tizimidagi ulushi ortib bormoqda. Quyosh, shamol va boshqa manbalardan energiya ishlab chiqarish kengaygani sari, energiya taqsimoti va savdosi jarayonlarini avtomatlashtirish va shaffof qilish zaruriyati ham oshmoqda. Ushbu masalada blokcheyn texnologiyalari samarali yechim sifatida maydonga chiqmoqda. Ushbu maqolada blokcheyn asosida qayta tiklanadigan energiya savdosini avtomatlashtirishning afzalliklari, amaliy qo'llanmalari va istiqbollari yoritiladi.
The non-equilibrium steady state of sparse systems with nontrivial topology
Creators: name: Hurowitz, Daniel
name: Rahav, Saar
name: Cohen, Doron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the steady state of a multiply-connected system that is driven out of equilibrium by a sparse perturbation. The prototype example is an $N$-site ring coupled to a thermal bath, driven by a stationary source that induces transitions with log-wide distributed rates. An induced current arises, which is controlled by the strength of the driving, and an associated topological term appears in the expression for the energy absorption rate. Due to the sparsity, the crossover from linear response to saturation is mediated by an intermediate regime, where the current is exponentially small in $\sqrt{N}$, which is related to the work of Sinai on "random walk in a random environment".
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Endophilin A2 regulates B-cell endocytosis and is required for germinal center and humoral responses.
Creators: name: Malinova, Dessislava
name: Wasim, Laabiah
name: Newman, Rebecca
name: Martínez-Riaño, Ana
name: Engels, Niklas
name: Tolar, Pavel
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Imaging
subject: Structural Biology & Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Infectious Disease
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Antigen-specific B-cell responses require endosomal trafficking to regulate antigen uptake and presentation to helper T cells, and to control expression and signaling of immune receptors. However, the molecular composition of B-cell endosomal trafficking pathways and their specific roles in B-cell responses have not been systematically investigated. Here, we report high-throughput identification of genes regulating B-cell receptor (BCR)-mediated antigen internalization using genome-wide functional screens. We show that antigen internalization depends both on constitutive, clathrin-mediated endocytosis and on antigen-induced, clathrin-independent endocytosis mediated by endophilin A2. Although endophilin A2-mediated endocytosis is dispensable for antigen presentation, it is selectively required for metabolic support of B-cell proliferation, in part through regulation of iron uptake. Consequently, endophilin A2-deficient mice show defects in GC B-cell responses and production of high-affinity IgG. The requirement for endophilin A2 highlights a unique importance of clathrin-independent intracellular trafficking in GC B-cell clonal expansion and antibody responses.
title: Weighing natural variability and anthropogenic impacts: a case study of demersal fish and epibenthic communities in the Belgian Part of the North Sea
Creators: name: De Backer, Annelies
name: Vandendriessche, Sofie
name: Wittoeck, Jan
name: Hostens, Kris
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session Q
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Anthropogenic activities such as sand extraction, fisheries, shipping, the construction of pipelines or windmill farms, dredging and dumping of dredged material, have been shown to result in varying effects on the marine ecosystem (Köller et al. 2006, Wilhelmsson et al. 2006, Barrio Froján et al. 2008, La Porta et al. 2009, Ware et al. 2009). Numerous monitoring programs have been set up to evaluate the extent and nature of these effects. However, the effects of anthropogenic activities on the benthic life are often difficult to detect against a background of small and large scale natural variability resulting from differences in environmental variables, especially in the highly dynamic sandbank-dominated habitats in the Belgian Part of the North Sea (BPNS).
A Full Computation-relevant Topological Dynamics Classification of Elementary Cellular Automata
Creators: name: Schuele, Martin
name: Stoop, Ruedi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cellular automata are both computational and dynamical systems. We give a complete classification of the dynamic behaviour of elementary cellular automata (ECA) in terms of fundamental dynamic system notions such as sensitivity and chaoticity. The "complex" ECA emerge to be sensitive, but not chaotic and not eventually weakly periodic. Based on this classification, we conjecture that elementary cellular automata capable of carrying out complex computations, such as needed for Turing-universality, are at the "edge of chaos".
Electron density distribution and solar plasma correction of radio signals using MGS, MEX and VEX spacecraft navigation data and its application to planetary ephemerides
Creators: name: Verma, A. K.
name: Fienga, A.
name: Laskar, J.
name: Issautier, K.
name: Manche, H.
name: Gastineau, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), Mars Express (MEX), and Venus Express (VEX) experienced several superior solar conjunctions. These conjunctions cause severe degradations of radio signals when the line of sight between the Earth and the spacecraft passes near to the solar corona region. The primary objective of this work is to deduce a solar corona model from the spacecraft navigation data acquired at the time of solar conjunctions and to estimate its average electron density. The corrected or improved data are then used to fit the dynamical modeling of the planet motions, called planetary ephemerides. We analyzed the radio science raw data of the MGS spacecraft using the orbit determination software GINS. The range bias, obtained from GINS and provided by ESA for MEX and VEX, are then used to derive the electron density profile. These profiles are obtained for different intervals of solar distances: from 12Rs to 215Rs for MGS, 6Rs to 152Rs for MEX, and form 12Rs to 154Rs for VEX. They are acquired for each spacecraft individually, for ingress and egress phases separately and both phases together, for different types of solar winds (fast, slow), and for solar activity phases (minimum, maximum). We compared our results with the previous estimations that were based on in situ measurements, and on solar type III radio and radio science studies made at different phases of solar activity and at different solar wind states. Our results are consistent with estimations obtained by these different methods. Moreover, fitting the planetary ephemerides including complementary data that were corrected for the solar corona perturbations, noticeably improves the extrapolation capability of the planetary ephemerides and the estimation of the asteroids masses.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Scottish Medieval Pottery: A Review
Creators: name: Cheer, Peter
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 14, 19-22
description: The aim of this paper is to present a review of the current state of knowledge of medieval pottery in Scotland, and to highlight the problems facing those who wish to undertake detailed research into this material. These include the lack of known kiln sites; the bias towards urban or high status sites on the east coast, to the detriment of rural sites inland or sites on the west coast of Scotland; the shortage of published material; the inconsistent methods of reporting, and the lack of funds with which to carry out analytical research. These problems are illustrated by a review of two local wares: East Coast White Gritty ware, and East Coast Red ware; mention is also made of imported wares from England and the Continent. The concluding section offers some recommendations for areas of future research.
Closing Remarks
Creators: name: Lopez, Elise
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Minority women
subject: Law--Study and teaching
subject: Women lawyers

description: Thank you all for coming. If you didn’t catch my name at the beginning, I’m Elise Lopez, the 2016–2017 President of Empowering Women of Color (EWOC). I just want to make a few closing remarks. First of all, I want to give a huge thanks to our panelists. They were phenomenal. I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did. Thank you very much. I always find our conference to be a reenergizing experience. It’s the pinnacle event of EWOC, and we put a lot of work into it every year. I know as law students and people in the professional world, it’s a lot to take time out of your day to come to a conference, but it’s always so worth it. I’m always so happy that I came and this year the attendance is really encouraging. So, thank you all for that.
Harmonic moments of the gluon density distribution in AA collisions
Creators: name: Nara, Yasushi
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: By using Monte-Carlo implementations of $k_T$-factorization formula with running-coupling BK unintegrated gluon distributions for nucleus-nucleus collisions, we compute higher order harmonic moments of the initial density distribution for both RHIC(Au+Au@200GeV) and LHC(Pb+Pb@2.76TeV) collisions. We study their sensitivity to the size of the valence parton distribution in the nucleon.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, references added, figure 2 is replaced by the results of central collisions
Ceramic Production in Dorset and the Surrounding Region
Creators: name: S Spoerry, Paul
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 14, 3-18
description: This paper describes the results of analyses by atomic absorption spectrophotometry of sandy and coarse utilitarian wares from a number of sites in Dorset and the surrounding area. Together with documentary and topographical evidence, these suggest that the sandy wares were probably produced at a number of small sites in west Dorset and south Somerset, although the only known kiln is at Hermitage. The coarse wares were apparently produced on a larger scale at fewer centres in east Dorset and south Wiltshire, notably at Laverstock and in the area of Poole.
The Spin Alignments in Galaxy Pairs as a Test of Bouncing Coupled Dark Energy
Creators: name: Lee, Jounghun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of coupled dark energy (cDE) on the spin alignments in isolated pairs of galactic halos, using the publicly available data from the hydrodynamical cDE simulations (H-CoDECs) which were run for various cDE models such as EXP001, EXP002, EXP003 (with exponential potential and constant coupling), EXP008e3 (with exponential potential and exponential coupling) and SUGRA003 (with supergravity potential and negative constant coupling) as well as for a standard LCDM cosmology (with the WMAP7 parameters). Measuring the cosines of the angles between the spin axes in isolated pairs of galactic halos for each model and determining its probability density distribution, we show that for the SUGRA003 model with bouncing cDE the null hypothesis of no spin alignment in pairs of galactic halos is rejected at 99.999% confidence level. In contrast, the LCDM cosmology yields no significant signal of spin alignment and the other four cDE models also exhibit only weak signals of spin-alignments. The strength of the spin alignment signal is found to be almost independent of the total halo mass and separation distance in galaxy pairs. Showing also that no signal is detected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR 7, we conclude that the spin alignments in galaxy pairs is in principle a unique test of bouncing cDE models.
description: accepted for publication in ApJ, 10 figures, 1 table, discussion extended
title: Practical issues affecting the utility of field survey data for biodiversity monitoring
Creators: name: Borges, M.F.
name: Brind'Amour, A.
name: Cardador, F.
name: Chaves, C.
name: Ellis, J.R.
name: Gaudêncio, M.J.
name: Guerra, M.
name: Lambers, R. Hille Ris
name: Narberhaus, I.
name: Rumohr, H.
name: Sapp, M.
name: Schratzberger, M.
name: Velasco, F.
name: Wlodarska-Kowalczuk, M.
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session Q
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.There is growing emphasis on monitoring biodiversity in European waters not least due to the EC’s recent Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) listing biodiversity as one descriptor of ‘Good Environmental Status’ (GES). Member States already have various monitoring surveys in place, in particular groundfish and other fisheries surveys, which may provide a cost-effective way of assessing some elements of biodiversity. The MSFD recognises the “need to ensure, as far as possible, compatibility with existing programmes”. Although existing field surveys are a potential source of quantitative data for examining spatial and temporal biodiversity patterns, it must be acknowledged that such surveys were often not originally designed to monitor ‘biodiversity’, and long-term surveys may have had changes in survey design at some point, and/or subtle changes in survey protocols over time. Field surveys for infauna and plankton typically collect and preserve samples at sea, and subsequent laboratory work includes the use of reference collections, quality assurance and longer-term sample storage. Surveys with towed gears can collect large amounts of complex biological material which is typically processed at sea, and so different forms of quality assurance are required. The taxonomic knowledge, experience and enthusiasm of sea-going staff can also influence the biodiversity information collected (e.g. time spent sorting complex catches, species identification). Hence, matrices of species-station data can contain ‘artefacts’ that need to be understood and addressed before deriving biodiversity metrics, and may even necessitate some degree of data filtering. This paper uses field data from selected surveys to illustrate how various factors can affect ‘biodiversity information’
title: Macro-ecological patterns in fish biodiversity and survey abundance
Creators: name: Gislason, Henrik
name: MacKenzie, Brian R.
name: Cardador, Fátima
name: Chaves, Corina
name: Dolgov, Andrey
name: Dulčić, Jakov
name: Fock, Heino
name: Hiddink, Jan Geert
name: Hofstede, Remment ter
name: Isajlović, Igor
name: Jonasson, Jónas Páll
name: Jørgensen, Ole
name: Kristinsson, Kristján
name: Marteinsdottir, Gudrun
name: Matić-Skoko, Sanja
name: Peharda, Melita
name: Reinert, Jakup
name: Solmundsson, Jón
name: Stefansdottir, Lilja
name: Sünksen, Kaj
name: Velasco, Francisco
name: Vrgoč, Nedo
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session Q
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Previous work has identified maximum body size as an important functional life-history trait for marine fish species influencing their growth, natural mortality, recruitment, and resilience to exploitation. We use data from a large number of scientific bottom trawl surveys from West Greenland to the Adriatic Sea to compare the distribution of species richness and average number of individuals caught per hour of trawling across different fish communities. Although highly variable the data reveal several overall patterns. Going from north to south the total species richness and the total number of individuals caught per hour of trawling increase, while the average log maximum length of the individuals shows a consistent decrease. In contrast the average log maximum length of the species recorded remains stable throughout the area. The mesh size in the codend and the total number of hauls are significant covariates. We briefly discuss to what extent these patterns reflect differences in fish community structure with latitude or are generated by differences in levels of exploitation
Electrically Tunable Band Gap in Silicene
Creators: name: Drummond, N. D.
name: Zolyomi, V.
name: Fal'ko, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report calculations of the electronic structure of silicene and the stability of its weakly buckled honeycomb lattice in an external electric field oriented perpendicular to the monolayer of Si atoms. We find that the electric field produces a tunable band gap in the Dirac-type electronic spectrum, the gap being suppressed by a factor of about eight by the high polarizability of the system. At low electric fields, the interplay between this tunable band gap, which is specific to electrons on a honeycomb lattice, and the Kane-Mele spin-orbit coupling induces a transition from a topological to a band insulator, whereas at much higher electric fields silicene becomes a semimetal.
Open Call Applicant Handbook
Creators: name: Loukea, Matina
name: Spiliotis, Aristotelis
name: Ferraioli, Barbara
name: Provvedi, Silvia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This deliverable provides all the support material that the project makes available for the applicants and participants of the Open Call of TrialsNet.
The WP7, titled "Open Call and Support to Third Parties", is responsible for the management of the calls and to provide support to third parties in line with the project objectives and structure. In the context of WP7, the Task 7.1 (T7.1) "Open Call scope, documentation and evaluation process definition", is responsible for the preparation of material for the applicants in terms of a "Handbook for Applicants" which is this document.
This "Handbook for Applicants" contains the text of the Open Call including the complete legal and administrative part, such as the methods with which the selection will be conducted, the opening conditions and transparency, the decision-making procedures for selecting proposals, eligibility, and exclusion conditions. In addition, support material for the applicant is also provided, including the technical description of the infrastructures and the use cases that will be implemented by the project, as well as a description of the KPIs and KVIs framework that will be validated through trials' activities.
A Class of Non-Flemish Highly Decorated Ceramics Found in the Bruges Area
Creators: name: Hillewaert, Bieke
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 14, 41-46
description: This paper comprises a general introduction to the most common imported wares found in the area of Bruges, and a discussion of a particular class of highly decorated pottery thought to come from 'northern3 France, possibly Picardy. The latter includes a note on some of the problems which have arisen during the study of this ware (notably the definition of the area, the lack of published material, and the poor understanding of production centres). The distribution, date and possible origin of this imported ware are considered, together with its effect on the local market and pottery industry.
All, Some or None: Synchronous or Asynchronous: Creating a climate to meet your students’ needs – #SWDE2018
Creators: name: Cox, Trish
name: Schwartz, Rachel
name: Marquart, Matthea S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Web-based instruction
Social work education
Telecommunication in education

description: As Online MSW programs emerge, there are a variety of methods in the online teaching world that direct programs in how they approach the synchronous vs asynchronous conversation. It is important to consider selecting a format that is the right fit for the school, faculty and the desired student population. The panel will present case studies from three online programs (sharing experiences from asynchronous, synchronous and a blended asynchronous-synchronous program), explore the pros and cons of these options, and discuss the debates that their programs explored to come to their decision in their models they chose for their three Online MSW Programs. This interactive panel will include opportunities for participants to ask questions and share their own challenges and solutions.
Red-Painted Wasters from Urbar, Near Koblenz (Rheinland-Pfalz)
Creators: name: Redknap, Mark
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2023

description: Medieval Ceramics: Journal of the Medieval Ceramics Research Group, 14, 47-54
description: Wasters from Urbar (Kreis Koblenz-Land) in the middle Rhineland illustrate the production of red-painted ware in the Pingsdorf tradition near Koblenz.
Online Student Wellness: Technology-Enhanced Activities, Programs, and Services That Enhance Wellbeing - Social Work Distance Education Conference
Creators: name: Marquart, Matthea S.
name: Nair, Murali Dharan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Web-based instruction
Social work education
Telecommunication in education
Well-being

description: Online students may be at risk of feeling a loss of community or a loss of support around holistic wellness, but there are options for online programs to address this by offering technology-enhanced activities, programs, and services. Members of the field of online social work education have already developed innovative wellness initiatives for their students. This interactive session will give educators and administrators the opportunity to discuss examples of these practices, as well as experience brief wellness activities that can be done online.
Development of a Portable Manual Centrifuge for Medical Research Institutes Using an Emergency Flashlight as a Base
Creators: name: Ravalo, Tayshaun Gabriel
name: Nicholas Pichon, Julian
name: Hans Perez, Patrick
name: Raymund Pe Benito, Isaiah
name: Toleos, Lorenz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 400399
subject: Biomedical engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 401799
subject: Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 510502
subject: Medical physics
classificationCode: 420699
subject: Public health not elsewhere classified

description: This research presents the development of The Dynamofuge, a low-cost, hand-powered centrifuge designed for medical research institutes and rural healthcare settings. By repurposing an emergency flashlight with a 1:9 gear ratio, the prototype achieves centrifugation speeds up to 1035 RPM, enabling the separation of substances like blood, flour-water, and soil-water mixtures. The study combines engineering design, experimental testing, and community feedback to validate the feasibility and portability of the device. The project addresses the need for affordable diagnostic equipment in resource-limited areas, contributing to the fields of biomedical engineering, public health, and mechanical design innovation.
Discovery of genetic variants of the kinases that activate tenofovir among individuals in the United States, Thailand, and South Africa: HPTN067
Creators: name: Figueroa, Dominique B.
name: Tillotson, Joseph
name: Li, Maoji
name: Piwowar-Manning, Estelle
name: Hendrix, Craig W.
name: Holtz, Timothy H.
name: Bokoch, Kevin
name: Bekker, Linda-Gail
name: Van Griensven, Frits
name: Mannheimer, Sharon B.
name: Hughes, James P.
name: Grant, Robert M.
name: Bumpus, Namandje N.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Phosphorylation
Antiviral agents
Human genetics--Variation
Biometry
Medicine

description: Tenofovir (TFV), a nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor, requires two phosphorylation steps to form a competitive inhibitor of HIV reverse transcriptase. Adenylate kinase 2 (AK2) has been previously demonstrated to phosphorylate tenofovir to tenofovir-monophosphate, while creatine kinase, muscle (CKM), pyruvate kinase, muscle (PKM) and pyruvate kinase, liver and red blood cell (PKLR) each have been found to phosphorylate tenofovir-monophosphate to the pharmacologically active tenofovir-diphosphate. In the present study, genomic DNA isolated from dried blood spots collected from 505 participants from Bangkok, Thailand; Cape Town, South Africa; and New York City, USA were examined for variants in AK2, CKM, PKM, and PKLR using next-generation sequencing. The bioinformatics tools SIFT and PolyPhen predicted that 19 of the 505 individuals (3.7% frequency) carried variants in at least one kinase that would result in a decrease or loss of enzymatic activity. To functionally test these predictions, AK2 and AK2 variants were expressed in and purified from E. coli, followed by investigation of their activities towards tenofovir. Interestingly, we found that purified AK2 had the ability to phosphorylate tenofovir-monophosphate to tenofovir-diphosphate in addition to phosphorylating tenofovir to tenofovir-monophosphate. Further, four of the six AK2 variants predicted to result in a loss or decrease of enzyme function exhibited a ≥30% decrease in activity towards tenofovir in our in vitro assays. Of note, an AK2 K28R variant resulted in a 72% and 81% decrease in the formation of tenofovir-monophosphate and tenofovir-diphosphate, respectively. These data suggest that there are naturally occurring genetic variants that could potentially impact TFV activation.
Making Canadian culture visible: acculturation as a co-construction of culture
Creators: name: Colling, Lisa Michelle
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This dissertation research explored the acculturation phenomenon while considering the reciprocal, interminable, polycontextual, multivoiced and multiscripted nature of this complex process, and the impact that residence in a culture contact zone has upon this culture change process. In exploring the visual and written texts captured by persons living within the culture contact zone of the Vancouver Lower Mainland through a collaborative visual ethnographic approach, the process of acculturation was explored as a co-construction of culture as participants’ collaboratively defined Canadian culture. The Vancouver Lower Mainland’s cultural plurality provided a promising culture contact zone in which to examine the complexities of an acculturation process for all acculturating members, both newcomers to the culture contact zone and old-timers of the culture contact zone (Lave & Wenger, 1991; Rudmin, 2003), and to interrogate the complexities that these intensified intercultural contacts present. While critiquing the fourfold approach of assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization, this dissertation drew on a sociocultural theoretical framework in conceptualizing culture contact zones as third space, and the acculturation process as a co-construction of culture within this third space. Third spaces can be disharmonious and hybrid spaces and it is proposed, in this third space, that cultural practices are contested, created and shared — co-constructed by its members. Participants’ captured images, artist statements and interview texts were analyzed (1) thematically; in identifying, analyzing and reporting patterns observed within the data pertaining to participant conceptualizations of Canadian culture and, (2) interpretatively; where data were further analyzed employing Bakhtinian text mapping (Tobin, 2000), a strategy developed to glean a text’s potential deeper and/or multiple meanings in exploring the polycontextuality, multivocality and multiscriptedness inherent in a co-constructed acculturation process. Findings suggested that for the participants in this study, both newcomers and old-timers, the culture contact zone of the Vancouver Lower Mainland presented itself as third space as its diverse cultural members were confronted with alternating and competing cultural discourses and positionings within the intercultural contact situations that they were presented with; situations that created new cultural tensions that must be negotiated and managed at some level. Implications to Canada’s multiculturalism policy are discussed.
CKM physics at e+e- colliders
Creators: name: Nishida, Shohei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: BaBar and Belle, B factory experiments at e+ e- collider, accumulated more than 1 /ab of data at Y(4S) resonance in total. Though several years passed after the data aquisition, these two experiments are still producing many physics results. I will make an overview of the recent results related to CKM physics. Belle II experiment, the upgrade of Belle, has started the operation in 2018, and physics run will start in 2019. I will also present the status of Belle II experiment.
More on QCD Ghost Dark Energy
Creators: name: Cai, Rong-Gen
name: Tuo, Zhong-Liang
name: Wu, Ya-Bo
name: Zhao, Yue-Yue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The difference between vacuum energy of quantum fields in Minkowski space and in Friedmann-Robterson-Walker universe might be related to the observed dark energy. The vacuum energy of the Veneziano ghost field introduced to solve the $U(1)_A$ problem in QCD is of the form, $ H+ {\cal O}(H^2)$. Based on this, we study the dynamical evolution of a phenomenological dark energy model whose energy density is of the form $αH+βH^2$. In this model, the universe approaches to a de Sitter phase at late times. We fit the model with current observational data including SnIa, BAO, CMB, BBN, Hubble parameter and growth rate of matter perturbation. It shows that the universe begins to accelerate at redshift $z\sim 0.75$ and this model is consistent with current data. In particular, this model fits the data of growth factor well as the $ΛCDM$ model.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
title: Identification of sensitive benthic habitats in the Eastern English Channel based on functional traits and the Kostylev approach
Creators: name: Foveau, Aurélie
name: Vaz, Sandrine
name: Kostylev, Vladimir E.
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session Q
Year: 2024
Subjects: Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Mesoscale information on offshore benthic species and assemblages is often lacking and the use of fish assessment research surveys enables the observation of the macro-epifauna and megafauna over large geographic areas. The species sampled by trawling represent mainly the sessile part of the macro-invertebrate fauna which is the part of benthos most susceptible to be adversely affected by certain fishing activities. Therefore, these species may serve as accurate indicators of benthic habitat sensitivity to bottom trawling. The aim of the present study was to determine the distribution of the main epibenthic habitats and their sensitivity to fishing effort in the Eastern English Channel and southern North Sea. The Kostylev habitat template mapping approach was adapted to predict the sensitivity of benthic habitats. Moreover, a functional approach (study of the species biological traits) was applied to complete and validate this habitat sensitivity modelling. This kind of information may be very relevant to plan future human activities in the area and to mitigate potential impacts of fishery active trawling. It may also be useful to better understand the factors affecting the distribution of fish.
STREAMS Supplementary Materials
Creators: name: Kelliher, Julia
name: Eloe-Fadrosh, Emiley
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The Standards for Technical Reporting in Environmental and host-Associated Microbiome Studies (STREAMS) guidelines are based on the STORMS reporting checklist. The STREAMS guidelines provide a standardized checklist to assist environmental, non-human host, and synthetic microbiome researchers with writing and reviewing manuscripts and data management plans. https://streamsmicrobiome.org 

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