cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Entropy production of active Brownian particles going from liquid to hexatic and solid phases
Creators: name: Semeraro, Massimiliano
name: Negro, Giuseppe
name: Suma, Antonio
name: Corberi, Federico
name: Gonnella, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Due to its inherent intertwinement with irreversibility, entropy production is a prime observable to monitor in systems of active particles. In this numerical study, entropy production in the liquid, hexatic and solid phases of a two-dimensional system of active Brownian particles is examined at both average and fluctuation level. The trends of averages as functions of density show no singularity and marked changes in their derivatives at the hexatic-solid transition. Distributions show instead peculiar tail structures interpreted by looking at microscopic configurations. Particles in regions of low local order generate tail values according to different dynamical mechanisms: they move towards empty regions or bounce back and forth into close neighbours. The tail structures are reproduced by a simple single-particle model including an intermittent harmonic potential.
QUALITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN ENUGU STATE
Creators: name: Awoke, Chigozirim Florence
name: Prof N.M., Ile, Ph.D
name: Prof T, O., Enudu, Ph.D
Publisher: name: SADI journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Customer retention
training
Quality
Management, Performance

description: The study evaluated the relationship between quality management practices and organizational performance of deposit money banks in Enugu state. The specific objectives are to: examine the relationship between Customer retention and increase in Employee engagement of deposit money banks in Enugu state and evaluate the relationship between training and development and increase in Branch Network of deposit money bank in Enugu state. The study used the survey approach and simple random sampling. The primary source of data was the administration of the questionnaire. The population of the study was one thousand and forty-three (1043) which consists of selected staff of the Deposit money banks. The sample size of two hundred and eighty-one (281) was determined using Cochrian (1963) sampling technique at a 5 percent margin of error.   Two hundred and sixty-two (262) staff returned the questionnaire accurately filled. Data were analyzed by mean score and standard deviation. The hypotheses were analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient (r). The findings indicated there was significant positive relationship between Customer retention and increase in Employee engagement of deposit money banks in Enugu state, ( r=.581 <.867, p<.05) and there was significant positive relationship between training and development and increase in Branch Network of deposit money bank in Enugu state, ( r= .708 <.828, p<.05). The study concluded that Customer retention, training and development had significant positive relationship with the increase in Employee engagement and increase in Branch Network of deposit money banks. The study recommended among others that Deposit money banks should implement career development policies to enhance Customer retention towards delivery of quality service to customers
NETS AND SEAWEED: EXAMINING LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION IN KWALE COUNTY, KENYA
Creators: name: Dr. Benson, Omondi Okinyi
name: Dr. Phanuel, Owiti
Publisher: name: kEITH jOURNAL
Year: 2025
Subjects: Coastal fishing communities, Livelihood diversification, Fisheries sustainability, Resource governance, Economic resilience

description: The coastal marine fishing communities of Kenya have historically relied on fishing as their primary source of income, supporting livelihoods for generations. However, recent declines in fish catches have raised concerns, attributed to various factors including mangrove degradation and destructive fishing practices. This study explores the importance of diversifying livelihoods within these fishing communities to enhance resilience and economic security. Household diversification, characterized by the pursuit of new income sources while maintaining existing ones, is considered vital for household economic stability. This diversification concept is particularly relevant in the context of natural resource governance and has implications for fisheries management and policy. Understanding how households engage in multiple occupations can inform decisions related to resource utilization and the sustainability of declining fisheries. This research sheds light on the role of livelihood diversification in the face of evolving challenges in coastal fishing communities
title: Full randomness from arbitrarily deterministic events
Creators: name: Gallego, Rodrigo
name: Masanes, Lluis
name: Torre, Gonzalo De La
name: Dhara, Chirag
name: Aolita, Leandro
name: Acín, Antonio
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2013
Subjects: classificationCode: 530
subject: Physik

description: Do completely unpredictable events exist? Classical physics excludes fundamental randomness. Although quantum theory makes probabilistic predictions, this does not imply that nature is random, as randomness should be certified without relying on the complete structure of the theory being used. Bell tests approach the question from this perspective. However, they require prior perfect randomness, falling into a circular reasoning. A Bell test that generates perfect random bits from bits possessing high—but less than perfect—randomness has recently been obtained. Yet, the main question remained open: does any initial randomness suffice to certify perfect randomness? Here we show that this is indeed the case. We provide a Bell test that uses arbitrarily imperfect random bits to produce bits that are, under the non-signalling principle assumption, perfectly random. This provides the first protocol attaining full randomness amplification. Our results have strong implications onto the debate of whether there exist events that are fully random.
title: Molecular Characterization of Chimeric Staphylococcus aureus Strains from Waterfowl
Creators: name: Monecke, Stefan
name: Braun, Sascha D.
name: Collatz, Maximilian
name: Diezel, Celia
name: Müller, Elke
name: Reinicke, Martin
name: Cabal Rosel, Adriana
name: Feßler, Andrea T.
name: Hanke, Dennis
name: Loncaric, Igor
name: Schwarz, Stefan
name: Cortez De Jäckel, Sonia
name: Ruppitsch, Werner
name: Gavier-Widén, Dolores
name: Hotzel, Helmut
name: Ehricht, Ralf
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Staphylococcus aureus
subject: clonal complex 133
subject: clonal complex 522
classificationCode: 616
subject: Krankheiten

description: Staphylococcus aureus is a versatile pathogen that does not only occur in humans but also in various wild and domestic animals, including several avian species. When characterizing S. aureus isolates from waterfowl, isolates were identified as atypical CC133 by DNA microarray analysis. They differed from previously sequenced CC133 strains in the presence of the collagen adhesin gene cna; some also showed a different capsule type and a deviant spa type. Thus, they were subjected to whole-genome sequencing. This revealed multiple insertions of large regions of DNA from other S. aureus lineages into a CC133-derived backbone genome. Three distinct strains were identified based on the size and extent of these inserts. One strain comprised two small inserts of foreign DNA up- and downstream of oriC; one of about 7000 nt or 0.25% originated from CC692 and the other, at ca. 38,000 nt or 1.3% slightly larger one was of CC522 provenance. The second strain carried a larger CC692 insert (nearly 257,000 nt or 10% of the strain’s genome), and its CC522-derived insert was also larger, at about 53,500 nt or 2% of the genome). The third strain carried an identical CC692-derived region (in which the same mutations were observed as in the second strain), but it had a considerably larger CC522-like insertion of about 167,000 nt or 5.9% of the genome. Both isolates of the first, and two out of four isolates of the second strain also harbored a hemolysin-beta-integrating prophage carrying “bird-specific” virulence factors, ornithine cyclodeaminase D0K6J8 and a putative protease D0K6J9. Furthermore, isolates had two different variants of SCC elements that lacked mecA/mecC genes. These findings highlight the role of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of S. aureus facilitated by SCC elements, by phages, and by a yet undescribed mechanism for large-scale exchange of core genomic DNA.
Landsdækkende Undersøgelse af Patientoplevelser
Creators: Center for Patientinddragelse
Region Hovedstaden
Region Midtjylland
Region Sjælland
Region Nordjylland
Region Syddanmark
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2024

description: LUP gennemføres på vegne af de fem regioner i
Danmark. Formålet med LUP er, at:
• understøtte arbejdet med kvalitetsudvikling i
klinikken med viden om den patientoplevede
kvalitet, der opgøres så ofte og tidstro, at det
kan anvendes i det løbende forbedringsarbejde.
• identificere og sammenligne forskelle og
udvikling over tid i den patientoplevede kvalitet
nationalt og på tværs af regioner og hospitaler i
en årlig rapport.
Apenesia auricula Lanes & Azevedo, 2004, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Lanes, G. O.
name: Azevedo, C. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Apenesia
Apenesia auricula

description: Apenesia auricula sp. nov. (Figs. 5–7)
Description.—Male. Body length 4 mm; LFW 2.8 mm. Color: head and mesonotum black, except the pronotum dark castaneous, metanotum rufous castaneous, mandible and antenna castaneous, palpi, tegula and legs castaneous, wings hyaline, veins castaneous.
Head (Fig. 5): mandible with one apical tooth large, the others forming a cutting edge (Fig. 6). Clypeus with angulate median lobe, median carina weak. First four antennal segment in a ratio of 28:9:14:13, segment III 2.8 X as long as broad, segment XI 2.7 X as long asbroad. Eyes glabrous. Frons polished, with few punctures conspicuous and sparse. WH 1.0 X LH; WF 0.61 X WH; WF 1.23 X HE; OOL 1.4 X WOT; posterior ocellus distant from the crest of vertex 1.5 X DAO; frontal angle of ocellar triangle acute. Head nearly quadrate, but convergent behind; vertex slightly convex, corners broadly rounded. VOL 0.68 X HE.
Mesosoma (Fig. 5): thorax polished. Pronotal disc with anterior carina, and shallow posterior transverse depression. Notauli strongly defined, very thin anteriorly. Parapsidal furrows very weak and absent in the anterior third. Propodeal disc 1.15 X as wide as long, polished except the basal triangle, with median carina incomplete posteriorly, discal carinae only anteriorly defined; declivity with surface strigulate.
Metasoma: polished and petiolate. Genitalia (Fig. 7): paramere with apex wide, with an irregularly margined concavity, inner corners rounded and folded downwards, whole ventral surface concave; volsella with the ventral ramus of digitus with dilated base, apex narrow; aedeagus with two pairs of apical lobes, the lateral pair wide and with sharpened apex, the median pair slender and barely shorter than the lateral one.
Material examined.— HOLOTYPE: male, BRAZIL, Amazonas, Manaus, Reserve Campina, 08–19.VI.1992, Stick trap, Vidal col. (INPA). PARATYPES: BRAZIL, Amazonas, Manaus, 1 male, Reserve 1208, 04.II.1986, Malaise trap, B. Klein col. (INPA); 2 males, Reserve Campina, Km 60. 09.III–16.IV.1990, Malaise trap, B. Klein col. (INPA); 1 male, Reserve Campina, 08–19.VI.1992, Stick trap, Vidal col. (INPA).
Remark.—The genitalia of this species is very similar to those of A. paraensis (Kieffer, 1910), A. quadrata Evans, 1963 and A. laticeps Evans, 1963, but the lateral pair of apical lobes of the aedeagus is different in being dome­shaped.
Etymology.—The name refers to the ear­shaped outer side of the aedeagus.
description: Published as part of Lanes, G. O. & Azevedo, C. O., 2004, New species and notes on Apenesia (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from the Brazilian Amazon, pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 679 on pages 4-5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158458
title: Grand Challenges (and Great Opportunities) in Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis Research
Creators: name: Hodgson, David M.
name: Bernhardt, Anne
name: Clare, Michael A.
name: Silva, Anne-Christine Da
name: Fosdick, Julie C.
name: Mauz, Barbara
name: Midtkandal, Ivar
name: Owen, Amanda
name: Romans, Brian W.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: sedimentology
subject: stratigraphy
subject: diagenesis
subject: society
subject: life
subject: carbon
subject: source-to-sink
classificationCode: 551
subject: Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie

description: The 7.6 billion people living on our planet face a number of pressing issues that include climate change, food and energy security, natural resource management, human health, clean water management, sustainable use of the oceans, building resilient infrastructure, and responsible production and consumption (UNSDGs, 2015). Many of these issues involve a better understanding of ancient, modern, and future process interactions at and below the Earth's surface. Particulate transport processes and fluxes are the key physical measures, and sedimentary successions form the critical archives, which permit investigations into the response of the planet's interconnected systems to climate change, and the triggers, magnitudes, and frequency of natural hazards. Advances in quantification and forecasting of particulate and pollutant transport across the land, the continental shelf, and in the deep-ocean are urgently required to improve societal resilience to these planetary changes and hazards. Given the lack of long-term (>100s of years) instrumental records and uncertainties in future Earth system behavior, analysis of both recent and ancient sedimentary archives is required to tackle these challenges. A number of questions arise when faced with attempting such reconstructions from depositional sequences. For instance, can we confidently attribute processes to the resultant sedimentary deposits? How can we establish a precise chronology for past events? How did past events respond to environmental controls? How complete are sedimentary sequences? What post-depositional processes may complicate their interpretation? [...]
title: BMPR2 acts as a gatekeeper to protect endothelial cells from increased TGFβ responses and altered cell mechanics
Creators: name: Hiepen, Christian
name: Jatzlau, Jerome
name: Hildebrandt, Susanne
name: Kampfrath, Branka
name: Goktas, Melis
name: Murgai, Arunima
name: Cuéllar Camacho, José Luis
name: Haag, Rainer
name: Ruppert, Clemens
name: Sengle, Gerhard
name: Cavalcanti-Adam, Elisabetta Ada
name: Blank, Kerstin G.
name: Knaus, Petra
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: BMPR2
subject: endothelial cells
subject: TGFβ
classificationCode: 547
subject: Organische Chemie

description: Balanced transforming growth factor-beta (TGFβ)/bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-signaling is essential for tissue formation and homeostasis. While gain in TGFβ signaling is often found in diseases, the underlying cellular mechanisms remain poorly defined. Here we show that the receptor BMP type 2 (BMPR2) serves as a central gatekeeper of this balance, highlighted by its deregulation in diseases such as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). We show that BMPR2 deficiency in endothelial cells (ECs) does not abolish pan-BMP-SMAD1/5 responses but instead favors the formation of mixed-heteromeric receptor complexes comprising BMPR1/TGFβR1/TGFβR2 that enable enhanced cellular responses toward TGFβ. These include canonical TGFβ-SMAD2/3 and lateral TGFβ-SMAD1/5 signaling as well as formation of mixed SMAD complexes. Moreover, BMPR2-deficient cells express genes indicative of altered biophysical properties, including up-regulation of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins such as fibrillin-1 (FBN1) and of integrins. As such, we identified accumulation of ectopic FBN1 fibers remodeled with fibronectin (FN) in junctions of BMPR2-deficient ECs. Ectopic FBN1 deposits were also found in proximity to contractile intimal cells in pulmonary artery lesions of BMPR2-deficient heritable PAH (HPAH) patients. In BMPR2-deficient cells, we show that ectopic FBN1 is accompanied by active β1-integrin highly abundant in integrin-linked kinase (ILK) mechano-complexes at cell junctions. Increased integrin-dependent adhesion, spreading, and actomyosin-dependent contractility facilitates the retrieval of active TGFβ from its latent fibrillin-bound depots. We propose that loss of BMPR2 favors endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT) allowing cells of myo-fibroblastic character to create a vicious feed-forward process leading to hyperactivated TGFβ signaling. In summary, our findings highlight a crucial role for BMPR2 as a gatekeeper of endothelial homeostasis protecting cells from increased TGFβ responses and integrin-mediated mechano-transduction.
Apenesia quadrata Evans 1963
Creators: name: Lanes, G. O.
name: Azevedo, C. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Apenesia
Apenesia quadrata

description: Apenesia quadrata Evans, 1963
This species was already known from Brazil (Minas Gerais), but now is recorded for the first time from Amazonas.
Material examined.— BRAZIL, Amazonas, Manaus, 1 male, Reserve 1208, 07.VI.1985, Malaise trap, B. Klein col. (INPA); Campus Universitário, 2 males, 23.XII.1978, Malaise trap, B. Klein col. (INPA); 1 male, 21–26.V.1982, Malaise trap, J. A. Rafael col. (INPA).
description: Published as part of Lanes, G. O. & Azevedo, C. O., 2004, New species and notes on Apenesia (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from the Brazilian Amazon, pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 679 on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158458
Boveria subcylindrica var. concharum Issel 1903
Creators: name: Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura
name: Dávila, Sthefane
name: Dias, Roberto Junio Pedroso
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Oligohymenophorea
Scuticociliatida
Boveriidae
Boveria
Boveria subcylindrica
Boveria subcylindrica var. concharum issel, 1903

description: Boveria subcylindrica var. concharum Issel, 1903
Hosts and countries: Anomia ephippium, Monaco; France. Arca noae, Adriatic Sea. Cardites antiquatus (cited as Cardita sulcata), Italy. Chamelea gallina (cited as Venus gallina), Italy. Donax variegatus (cited as Donax politus), Italy. Gastrana fragilis (cited as Capsa fragilis), Italy. Loripes orbiculatus (cited as Loripes lacteus), Italy; France. Macomangulus tenuis (cited as Tellina exigua), Italy. Peronaea planata (cited as Tellina planata), Italy. Pharaonella astula (cited as Tellina nitida), Italy. Pinna nobilis, Italy. Pododesmus patelliformis (cited as Monia patelliformis), Baltic Sea. Ruditapes decussatus (cited as Tapes decussata), Italy.
References: Issel (1903); Raabe (1970a).
description: Published as part of Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura, Dávila, Sthefane & Dias, Roberto Junio Pedroso, 2024, Ciliate symbionts of bivalves with notes on their worldwide geographic distribution, pp. 451-481 in Zootaxa 5448 (4) on page 467, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11232169
Tværorganisatorisk indsats mod stress
Creators: Det Nationale Forskningscenter for Arbejdsmiljø
Sofie Jaspers
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2024

description: Formålet med projektet var at undersøge, hvordan organisationerne gennemfører sådan en tværorganisatorisk intervention mod stress og
hvilke effekter det fører til.
Apenesia truncaticeps Kieffer 1910
Creators: name: Lanes, G. O.
name: Azevedo, C. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Apenesia
Apenesia truncaticeps

description: Apenesia truncaticeps (Kieffer, 1910)
This species was known from Bolivia and Peru. Now it is recorded for the first time from Brazil (Amazonas and Rondônia). In this series, apex of the median lobe of the clypeus can be narrowly truncate and the apex of the lateral lobe of the aedeagus angled inward.
Material examined.— BRAZIL, Amazonas, Manaus, 3 males, Reserve Ducke, 06– 17.VII.1992, Stick trap 10 and 20 m, J. Vidal & J. Vidal col. (INPA); 2 male, Reserve Ducke, 26.XI.1981, J. A. Rafael col. (INPA); 4 males, Reserve 1208, 30.X.1985 – 12.XI.1986, Malaise trap, B. Klein col. (INPA); 1 male, Rio Purus, 21–26. VIII. 1983, CDC trap, S. Campbell col. (INPA); Rondônia: 1 male, Ouro Preto do Oeste, Linha 62, Km 16, Rio Paraíso, 08.XI.1984, F. F. Ramos col. (MPEG).
description: Published as part of Lanes, G. O. & Azevedo, C. O., 2004, New species and notes on Apenesia (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from the Brazilian Amazon, pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 679 on page 5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158458
title: Socio-eco-evolutionary dynamics in cities
Creators: name: Des Roches, Simone
name: Brans, Kristien I.
name: Lambert, Max R.
name: Rivkin, L. Ruth.
name: Savage, Amy Marie
name: Schell, Christopher J.
name: Correa, Cristian
name: Meester, Luc De
name: Diamond, Sarah E.
name: Grimm, Nancy B.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: adaptation
subject: anthropogenic
subject: coupled human-natural systems
subject: eco-evo
subject: socio-ecological systems
subject: urbanization
classificationCode: 570
subject: Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Cities are uniquely complex systems regulated by interactions and feedbacks between nature and human society. Characteristics of human society-including culture, economics, technology and politics-underlie social patterns and activity, creating a heterogeneous environment that can influence and be influenced by both ecological and evolutionary processes. Increasing research on urban ecology and evolutionary biology has coincided with growing interest in eco-evolutionary dynamics, which encompasses the interactions and reciprocal feedbacks between evolution and ecology. Research on both urban evolutionary biology and eco-evolutionary dynamics frequently focuses on contemporary evolution of species that have potentially substantial ecological-and even social-significance. Still, little work fully integrates urban evolutionary biology and eco-evolutionary dynamics, and rarely do researchers in either of these fields fully consider the role of human social patterns and processes. Because cities are fundamentally regulated by human activities, are inherently interconnected and are frequently undergoing social and economic transformation, they represent an opportunity for ecologists and evolutionary biologists to study urban "socio-eco-evolutionary dynamics." Through this new framework, we encourage researchers of urban ecology and evolution to fully integrate human social drivers and feedbacks to increase understanding and conservation of ecosystems, their functions and their contributions to people within and outside cities.
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. The impact of rotation and magnetic fields on the radial velocity jitter in cool stars
Creators: name: Ruh, H. L.
name: Zechmeister, M.
name: Reiners, A.
name: Nagel, E.
name: Shan, Y.
name: Cifuentes, C.
name: Jeffers, S. V.
name: Tal-Or, L.
name: Béjar, V. J. S.
name: Amado, P. J.
name: Caballero, J. A.
name: Quirrenbach, A.
name: Ribas, I.
name: Aceituno, J.
name: Hatzes, A. P.
name: Henning, Th.
name: Kaminski, A.
name: Montes, D.
name: Morales, J. C.
name: Schöfer, P.
name: Schweitzer, A.
name: Varas, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radial velocity (RV) jitter represents an intrinsic limitation on the precision of Doppler searches for exoplanets that can originate from both instrumental and astrophysical sources. We aim to determine the RV jitter floor in M dwarfs and investigate the stellar properties that lead to RV jitter induced by stellar activity. We determined the RV jitter in 239 M dwarfs from the CARMENES survey that are predominantly of mid to late spectral type and solar metallicity. We also investigated the correlation between stellar rotation and magnetic fields with RV jitter. The median jitter in the CARMENES sample is 3.1 m/s, and it is 2.3 m/s for stars with an upper limit of 2 km/s on their projected rotation velocities. We provide a relation between the stellar equatorial rotation velocity and RV jitter in M dwarfs based on a subsample of 129 well-characterized CARMENES stars. RV jitter induced by stellar rotation dominates for stars with equatorial rotation velocities greater than 1 km/s. A jitter floor of 2 m/s dominates in stars with equatorial rotation velocities below 1 km/s. This jitter floor likely contains contributions from stellar jitter, instrumental jitter, and undetected companions. We study the impact of the average magnetic field and the distributions of magnetic filling factors on the RV jitter. We find a series of stars with excess RV jitter and distinctive distributions of magnetic filling factors. These stars are characterized by a dominant magnetic field component between 2-4 kG. An RV jitter floor can be distinguished from RV jitter induced by activity and rotation based on the stellar equatorial rotation velocity. RV jitter induced by activity and rotation primarily depends on the equatorial rotation velocity. This RV jitter is also related to the distribution of magnetic filling factors, and this emphasizes the role of the magnetic field in the generation of RV jitter.
Allophrys
Creators: name: Khalaim, Andrey I.
name: Broad, Gavin R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Allophrys

description: Allophrys specimens not assigned to species
In addition to the species described here, we have seen an additional 800+ specimens that do not belong to any of these species but we cannot assign them to species yet. There are too few discrete morphological differences in the available specimens to be able to confidently say how many additional species are present. We have seen many specimens belonging to A. divaricata Horstmann but also many similar specimens with minor to significant morphological and colour variation which do not entirely correspond to A. divaricata (see Horstmann 2010, for a diagnosis of A. divaricata). Another species group comprises specimens with the flagellum with an apical or subapical pale band. This is very variable material that probably includes some barely distinguishable species. These two species groups contain about equivalent numbers of specimens. DNA barcoding would undoubtedly help.
description: Published as part of Khalaim, Andrey I. & Broad, Gavin R., 2012, Tersilochinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Costa Rica, part 1. Genera Allophrys Förster, Barycnemis Förster and Meggoleus To w ne s, pp. 36-52 in Zootaxa 3185 on page 46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.279989
Caryophylliina
Creators: name: Altuna, Álvaro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia

description: Suborder Caryophylliina Vaughan & Wells, 1943
description: Published as part of Altuna, Álvaro, 2013, Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from ECOMARG 2003, 2008 and 2009 expeditions to bathyal waters off north and northwest Spain (northeast Atlantic), pp. 101-128 in Zootaxa 3641 (2) on page 105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/217798
title: Performance of one-dimensional hydrodynamic lake models during short-term extreme weather events
Creators: name: Mesman, J. P.
name: Ayala, Ana I.
name: Adrian, Rita
name: De Eyto, Elvira
name: Frassl, M. A.
name: Goyette, S.
name: Kasparian, J.
name: Perroud, M.
name: Stelzer, Julio Alberto Alegre
name: Pierson, D. C.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Storm
subject: Heatwave
subject: Model validation
subject: Simstrat
subject: GOTM
subject: General lake model
classificationCode: 550
subject: Geowissenschaften

description: Numerical lake models are useful tools to study hydrodynamics in lakes, and are increasingly applied to extreme weather events. However, little is known about the accuracy of such models during these short-term events. We used high-frequency data from three lakes to test the performance of three one-dimensional (1D) hydrodynamic models (Simstrat, GOTM, GLM) during storms and heatwaves. Models reproduced the overall direction and magnitude of changes during the extreme events, with accurate timing and little bias. Changes in volume-averaged and surface temperatures and Schmidt stability were simulated more accurately than changes in bottom temperature, maximum buoyancy frequency, or mixed layer depth. However, in most cases the model error was higher (30-100%) during extreme events compared to reference periods. As a consequence, while 1D lake models can be used to study effects of extreme weather events, the increased uncertainty in the simulations should be taken into account when interpreting results.
title: Mechanical, Electrical, and Thermal Properties of Carbon Nanotube Buckypapers/Epoxy Nanocomposites Produced by Oxidized and Epoxidized Nanotubes
Creators: name: Trakakis, George
name: Tomara, Georgia
name: Datsyuk, Vitaly
name: Sygellou, Labrini
name: Bakolas, Asterios
name: Tasis, Dimitrios
name: Parthenios, John
name: Krontiras, Christoforos
name: Georga, Stavroula
name: Galiotis, Costas
name: Papagelis, Kostas
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: buckypaper
subject: nanocomposites
subject: mechanical properties
subject: electrical properties
subject: thermal properties
classificationCode: 530
subject: Physik

description: High volume fraction carbon nanotube (CNT) composites (7.5–16% vol.) were fabricated by the impregnation of CNT buckypapers into epoxy resin. To enhance the interfacial reaction with the epoxy resin, the CNTs were modified by two different treatments, namely, an epoxidation treatment and a chemical oxidation. The chemical treatment was found to result in CNT length severance and to affect the porosity of the buckypapers, having an important impact on the physico-mechanical properties of the nanocomposites. Overall, the mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties of the impregnated buckypapers were found to be superior of the neat epoxy resin, offering an attractive combination of mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties for multifunctional composites.
Apenesia paraensis Kieffer 1910
Creators: name: Lanes, G. O.
name: Azevedo, C. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Apenesia
Apenesia paraensis

description: Apenesia paraensis (Kieffer, 1910)
This species has already been recorded from Brazil (Pará, Acre) and Venezuela (Evans, 1963). Now it is recorded for the first time from Maranhão.
Material examined.— BRAZIL, Pará, 1 male, Primavera, Quaitipura, Fazenda Feitoria, 22–23.XI.1992, Malaise trap 4 m, J. Dias col. (MPEG); 3 males, Primavera, Boa Vista, I. Arapiranga or Quaitipuru, Fazenda Feitoria, 22–30.XI.1992, Malaise trap 6 m or Malaise trap, J. Dias col. (MPEG); 1 male, Tucuruí, Rio Tocantins, V.1986– 15.VII.1987, Interception trap, N. Degallier col. (MPEG); 1 male, Belém, Utinga, 24.VI.1977, L. Heck col. (MPEG); Maranhão, 2 males, São Luiz, Vila Maranhão, 29.IX.1992, Mˆricke trap, D. Rintena col. (INPA).
description: Published as part of Lanes, G. O. & Azevedo, C. O., 2004, New species and notes on Apenesia (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from the Brazilian Amazon, pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 679 on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158458
Caryophylliidae Gray 1846
Creators: name: Altuna, Álvaro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Caryophylliidae

description: Family Caryophylliidae Gray, 1846
description: Published as part of Altuna, Álvaro, 2013, Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from ECOMARG 2003, 2008 and 2009 expeditions to bathyal waters off north and northwest Spain (northeast Atlantic), pp. 101-128 in Zootaxa 3641 (2) on page 105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/217798
title: Genetic diversity of vector-borne pathogens in spotted and brown hyenas from Namibia and Tanzania relates to ecological conditions rather than host taxonomy
Creators: name: Krücken, Jürgen
name: Czirják, Gábor Á.
name: Ramünke, Sabrina
name: Serocki, Maria
name: Heinrich, Sonja K.
name: Melzheimer, Jörg
name: Costa, M. Carolina
name: Hofer, Heribert
name: Aschenborn, Ortwin
name: Samson-Himmelstjerna, Georg Von
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Wildlife parasites
subject: Vector-borne diseases
subject: Tick-borne diseases
subject: Carnivores
subject: Hyenas
subject: Pathogen ecology
classificationCode: 630
subject: Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Background Improved knowledge on vector-borne pathogens in wildlife will help determine their effect on host species at the population and individual level and whether these are affected by anthropogenic factors such as global climate change and landscape changes. Here, samples from brown hyenas (Parahyaena brunnea) from Namibia (BHNA) and spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) from Namibia (SHNA) and Tanzania (SHTZ) were screened for vector-borne pathogens to assess the frequency and genetic diversity of pathogens and the effect of ecological conditions and host taxonomy on this diversity. Methods Tissue samples from BHNA (n = 17), SHNA (n = 19) and SHTZ (n = 25) were analysed by PCRs targeting Anaplasmataceae, Rickettsia spp., piroplasms, specifically Babesia lengau-like piroplasms, Hepatozoidae and filarioids. After sequencing, maximum-likelihood phylogenetic analyses were conducted. Results The relative frequency of Anaplasmataceae was significantly higher in BHNA (82.4%) and SHNA (100.0%) than in SHTZ (32.0%). Only Anaplasma phagocytophilum/platys-like and Anaplasma bovis-like sequences were detected. Rickettsia raoultii was found in one BHNA and three SHTZ. This is the first report of R. raoultii from sub-Saharan Africa. Babesia lengau-like piroplasms were found in 70.6% of BHNA, 88.9% of SHNA and 32.0% of SHTZ, showing higher sequence diversity than B. lengau from South African cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus). In one SHTZ, a Babesia vogeli-like sequence was identified. Hepatozoon felis-like parasites were identified in 64.7% of BHNA, 36.8% of SHNA and 44.0% of SHTZ. Phylogenetic analysis placed the sequences outside the major H. felis cluster originating from wild and domestic felids. Filarioids were detected in 47.1% of BHNA, 47.4% of SHNA and 36.0% of SHTZ. Phylogenetic analysis revealed high genetic diversity and suggested the presence of several undescribed species. Co-infections were frequently detected in SHNA and BHNA (BHNA median 3 pathogens, range 1–4; SHNA median 3 pathogens, range 2–4) and significantly rarer in SHTZ (median 1, range 0–4, 9 individuals uninfected). Conclusions The frequencies of all pathogens groups were high, and except for Rickettsia, multiple species and genotypes were identified for each pathogen group. Ecological conditions explained pathogen identity and diversity better than host taxonomy.
Apenesia crenulata Kieffer 1910
Creators: name: Lanes, G. O.
name: Azevedo, C. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Apenesia
Apenesia crenulata

description: Apenesia crenulata (Kieffer, 1910)
This species was known from Brazil (Pará, Espírito Santo and Santa Catarina) and Argentina. Now it is recorded for the first time from Amazonas.
Material examined.— BRAZIL, Amazonas, 1 male, Manaus, Reserve 1208, 25.VI.1985, Malaise trap, B. Klein col. (INPA); Pará, 1 male, Oriximiná, Alcoa Mineração, Rio Trombetas, V.1986, CDC trap, Rafael, Binda & Vidal col, (INPA).
description: Published as part of Lanes, G. O. & Azevedo, C. O., 2004, New species and notes on Apenesia (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from the Brazilian Amazon, pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 679 on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.158458
Gravidscreeningsregisteret - fostervandsprøver
Creators: Statens Serum Institut
Publisher: name: Rigsarkivet
Year: 2024

description: Gravidscreeningsregisteret på Statens Serum Institut var en del af det samlede tilbud i Danmarks sundhedsvæsen om prænatal diagnostik.
Gravidscreeningsregisteret indeholder prøver fra 1980-1999.
Indførelse af fosterdiagnostik i Danmark var gradvis startende fra 1970. Fosterdiagnostikken blev udbygget i 1978-1980, herunder med finansiering fra staten.
Formålet med prænatal diagnostik i Danmark var fra 1980 at forbygge fødsel af børn med livsvarigt handicap, der vil have behov for gentagne hospitaliseringer eller livslangt ophold på institution.
På baggrund af udviklingen i screenings- og undersøgelsesteknikker ændredes formålet med sundhedsvæsenets samlede tilbud om prænatal genetisk information, rådgivning og undersøgelse i 1994. Formålet var herefter at sikre, at gravide kvinder med forøget risiko for at få et barn, der havde eller ville udvikle en alvorlig genetisk sygdom eller handicap, fik tilbudt ydelser, som kunne give kvinden/parret et kvalificeret handlegrundlag i den konkrete situation.
A dynamical study of Hilda asteroids in the Circular and Elliptic RTBP
Creators: name: Jorba, Àngel
name: Nicolás, Begoña
name: Rodríguez, Óscar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Hilda group is a set of asteroids whose mean motion is in a 3:2 orbital resonance with Jupiter. In this paper we use the planar Circular Restricted Three-Body Problem (CRTBP) as a dynamical model and we show that there exists a family of stable periodic orbits that are surrounded by islands of quasi-periodic motions. We have computed the frequencies of these quasi-periodic motions and we have shown how the Hilda family fits inside these islands. We have compared these results with the ones obtained using the Elliptic Restricted Three-Body Problem and they are similar, showing the suitability of the CRTBP model. It turns out that, to decide if a given asteroid belongs to the Hilda class, it is much better to look at its frequencies in the planar CRTBP rather than to use two-body orbital elements as it is commonly done today.
Boveria teredinidi Nelson 1923
Creators: name: Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura
name: Dávila, Sthefane
name: Dias, Roberto Junio Pedroso
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Chromista
Ciliophora
Oligohymenophorea
Scuticociliatida
Boveriidae
Boveria
Boveria teredinidi

description: Boveria teredinidi Nelson, 1923
Hosts and countries: Bankia gouldi, USA. Bankia sp., USA. Donax lubricus, India. Mactra luzonica, India. Martesia striata, India. Nausitora hedleyi (cited as Nausitoria hedleyi), India. Teredo furcifera, India. Teredo navalis, Russia; USA.
References: Raabe (1970a); Santhakumari (1973 1976 1985); Santhakumari & Nair (1973 1975 1982); Hillman (1979); Richards et al. (1979); Jamadar & Choudhury (1988); Nandi et al. (1993).
description: Published as part of Mayén-Estrada, Rosaura, Dávila, Sthefane & Dias, Roberto Junio Pedroso, 2024, Ciliate symbionts of bivalves with notes on their worldwide geographic distribution, pp. 451-481 in Zootaxa 5448 (4) on page 467, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11232169
title: Accounting for temporal change in multiple biodiversity patterns improves the inference of metacommunity processes
Creators: name: Guzman, Laura Melissa
name: Thompson, Patrick L.
name: Viana, Duarte S.
name: Vanschoenwinkel, Bram
name: Horváth, Zsófia
name: Ptacnik, Robert
name: Jeliazkov, Alienor
name: Gascón, Stéphanie
name: Lemmens, Pieter
name: Meester, Luc De
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: metacommunity ecology
subject: random forests
subject: simulation study
subject: spatiotemporal dynamics
subject: summary statistics
subject: variation partitioning
classificationCode: 570
subject: Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: In metacommunity ecology, a major focus has been on combining observational and analytical approaches to identify the role of critical assembly processes, such as dispersal limitation and environmental filtering, but this work has largely ignored temporal community dynamics. Here, we develop a “virtual ecologist” approach to evaluate assembly processes by simulating metacommunities varying in three main processes: density-independent responses to abiotic conditions, density-dependent biotic interactions, and dispersal. We then calculate a number of commonly used summary statistics of community structure in space and time and use random forests to evaluate their utility for inferring the strength of these three processes. We find that (i) both spatial and temporal data are necessary to disentangle metacommunity processes based on the summary statistics we test, and including statistics that are measured through time increases the explanatory power of random forests by up to 59% compared to cases where only spatial variation is considered; (ii) the three studied processes can be distinguished with different descriptors; and (iii) each summary statistic is differently sensitive to temporal and spatial sampling effort. Including repeated observations of metacommunities over time was essential for inferring the metacommunity processes, particularly dispersal. Some of the most useful statistics include the coefficient of variation of species abundances through time and metrics that incorporate variation in the relative abundances (evenness) of species. We conclude that a combination of methods and summary statistics is probably necessary to understand the processes that underlie metacommunity assembly through space and time, but we recognize that these results will be modified when other processes or summary statistics are used.
Meggoleus Townes 1971
Creators: name: Khalaim, Andrey I.
name: Broad, Gavin R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Meggoleus

description: Meggoleus Townes, 1971
Type species: Meggoleus spirator Townes, 1971.
The genus is immediately recognized by the huge propodeal spiracles (Fig. 19, 20), a character almost unique in ichneumonids (similar spiracles are otherwise only found in a few south-east Asian species of Plectiscus Gravenhorst (Orthocentrinae) and Syzeuctus Förster (Banchinae); Broad pers. obs.). It seems to be most closely related to Allophrys as both genera are structurally rather similar and possess a strongly reclivous vein cu 1& cu-a of the hind wing (subvertical to moderately reclivous in other tersilochines).
Meggoleus is a small tropical genus with one widely distributed Neotropical species, extending from Guatemala to Southern Brazil, and one species in Equatorial Africa (Khalaim 2007). The former species, M. spirator, is found in Costa Rica. Hosts are unknown.
description: Published as part of Khalaim, Andrey I. & Broad, Gavin R., 2012, Tersilochinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Costa Rica, part 1. Genera Allophrys Förster, Barycnemis Förster and Meggoleus To w ne s, pp. 36-52 in Zootaxa 3185 on page 48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.279989
Fluctuation Theorems for Heat exchanges between passive and active baths
Creators: name: Semeraro, Massimiliano
name: Suma, Antonio
name: Negro, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In addition to providing general constraints on probability distributions, fluctuation theorems allow to infer essential information on the role played by temperature in heat exchange phenomena. In this numerical study, we measure the temperature of an out of equilibrium active bath using a fluctuation theorem that relates the fluctuations of the heat exchanged between two baths to their temperatures. Our setup consists of a single particle moving between two wells of a quartic potential accommodating two different baths. The heat exchanged between the two baths is monitored according to two definitions: as the kinetic energy carried by the particle whenever it jumps from one well to the other and as the work performed by the particle on one of the two baths when immersed in it. First, we consider two equilibrium baths at two different temperatures and verify that a fluctuation theorem featuring the baths temperatures holds for both heat definitions. Then, we introduce an additional Gaussian coloured noise in one of the baths, so as to make it effectively an active (out-of-equilibrium) bath. We find that a fluctuation theorem is still satisfied with both heat definitions. Interestingly, in this case the temperature obtained through the fluctuation theorem for the active bath corresponds to the kinetic temperature when considering the first heat definition, while it is larger with the second one. We interpret these results by looking at the particle jump phenomenology.
description: 29 pages, 7 figures
Work fluctuations for a confined Brownian particle: the role of initial conditions
Creators: name: Carollo, Giovanni Battista
name: Semeraro, Massimiliano
name: Gonnella, Giuseppe
name: Zamparo, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the large fluctuations of the work injected by the random force into a Brownian particle under the action of a confining harmonic potential. In particular, we compute analytically the rate function for generic uncorrelated initial conditions, showing that, depending on the initial spread, it can exhibit no, one, or two singularities associated to the onset of linear tails. A dependence on the potential strength is observed for large initial spreads (entailing two singularities), which is lost for stationary initial conditions (giving one singularity) and concentrated initial values (no singularity). We discuss the mechanism responsible for the singularities of the rate function, identifying it as a big jump in the initial values. Analytical results are corroborated by numerical simulations.
description: 19 pages, 3 figures
title: Nanomechanical spectroscopy of 2D materials
Creators: name: Kirchhof, Jan Niklas
name: Yu, Yuefeng
name: Antheaume, Gabriel
name: Gordeev, Georgy
name: Yagodkin, Denis
name: Elliott, Peter
name: Araújo, Daniel B. De
name: Sharma, Sangeeta
name: Reich, Stephanie
name: Bolotin, Kirill
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Nanomechanical resonators
subject: NEMS
subject: Spectroscopy
subject: 2D materials
subject: Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)
subject: Silicon nitride
classificationCode: 539
subject: Moderne Physik

description: We introduce a nanomechanical platform for fast and sensitive measurements of the spectrally resolved optical dielectric function of 2D materials. At the heart of our approach is a suspended 2D material integrated into a high Q silicon nitride nanomechanical resonator illuminated by a wavelength-tunable laser source. From the heating-related frequency shift of the resonator as well as its optical reflection measured as a function of photon energy, we obtain the real and imaginary parts of the dielectric function. Our measurements are unaffected by substrate-related screening and do not require any assumptions on the underling optical constants. This fast (τrise ∼ 135 ns), sensitive (noise-equivalent power = 90⁣pW√Hz), and broadband (1.2–3.1 eV, extendable to UV–THz) method provides an attractive alternative to spectroscopic or ellipsometric characterization techniques.