cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Producers' Net Costs Influence Offers to USDA's Conservation Reserve Program
Creators: name: Pratt, Bryan
name: Wallander, Steven
name: Pratt, Bryan
name: Wallander, Steven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022

description: To enroll in USDA's Conservation Reserve Program through its General Signup, cropland owners and producers offer to establish a specific cover practice on their fields in a return for a rental rate at or below a maximum set by USDA's Farm Service Agency. Every offer receives its own score using a ranking tool called the Environmental Benefits Index (EBI) that reflects differences in environmental characteristics, conservation cover quality, and cost. FSA ranks offers by EBI and accepts only those offers with an EBI greater than a threshold selected by the USDA. Cover practices with higher EBI points typically cost more to establish, creating a tradeoff between conservation benefits and cost for program participants and for USDA. Overall, producers are less likely to offer acreage in a cover practice as that practice becomes more expensive.
Climbing the cosmic ladder with stellar twins
Creators: name: Jofre, P.
name: Maedler, T.
name: Gilmore, G.
name: Casey, A.
name: Soubiran, C.
name: Worley, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Distances to stars are key to revealing a three-dimensional view of the Milky Way, yet their determination is a major challenge in astronomy. Whilst the brightest nearby stars benefit from direct parallax measurements, fainter stars are subject of indirect determinations with uncertainties exceeding 30%. We present an alternative approach to measuring distances using spectroscopically-identified twin stars. Given a star with known parallax, the distance to its twin is assumed to be directly related to the difference in their apparent magnitudes. We found 175 twin pairs from the ESO public HARPS archives and report excellent agreement with Hipparcos parallaxes within 7.5%. Most importantly, the accuracy of our results does not degrade with increasing stellar distance. With the ongoing collection of high-resolution stellar spectra, our method is well-suited to complement Gaia.
description: published online on MNRAS
The Role of Small Extracellular Vesicles in Retinoblastoma Development and Progression
Creators: name: Attem, Jyothi
name: Vemuganti, Geeta K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer

description: A growing body of research on extracellular vesicles (EVs) in cancer has revealed their novel and crucial activities in the progression of tumors while also paving the way for potential therapeutic interventions. It is now known that EVs are natural delivery vehicles for particular payloads of source cells, enabling them to influence diverse functions of cells both in healthy and malignant cells. In this review, we comprehensively summarize mechanistic insights into sEV roles in RB, the most frequent intraocular malignancy that affects the retina of young children. We also explore the therapeutic potential of sEVs as an emerging area as biomarkers and vehicles for targeted therapy. Additionally, we address the potential challenges and limitations of translating sEVs-based technologies into clinical practice.
Differential Cellular and Subcellular Localization of AMPA Receptor-Binding Protein and Glutamate Receptor-Interacting Protein
Creators: name: Wyszynski, Michael
name: Burette, Alain
name: Ziff, Edward B.
name: Khatri, Latika
name: Sheng, Morgan
name: Weinberg, Richard J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: Excitatory synaptic currents in the mammalian brain are typically mediated by the neurotransmitter glutamate, acting at AMPA receptors. We used immunocytochemistry to investigate the distribution of AMPA receptor-binding protein (ABP) in the cerebral neocortex. ABP was most prominent in pyramidal neurons, although it was also present (at lower levels) in interneurons. ABP and its putative binding partners, the GluR2/3 subunits of the AMPA receptor, exhibited prominent cellular colocalization. Under appropriate processing conditions, colocalization could also be documented in puncta, many of which could be recognized as dendritic spines. However, a sizable minority of GluR2/3-positive puncta were immunonegative for ABP. Because glutamate receptor-interacting protein (GRIP) may also anchor GluR2, we studied the relative distribution of ABP and GRIP. There was extensive colocalization of these two antigens at the cellular level, although GRIP, unlike ABP, was strongest in nonpyramidal neurons. Different parts of a single dendrite could stain selectively for ABP or GRIP. To further characterize this heterogeneity, we investigated punctate staining of neuropil using synaptophysin and the membrane tracer DiA to identify probable synapses. Some puncta were comparably positive for both ABP and GRIP, but the majority were strongly positive for one antigen and only weakly positive or immunonegative for the other. This heterogeneity could be seen even within adjacent spines of a single dendrite. These data suggest that ABP may act as a scaffold for AMPA receptors either in concert with or independently from GRIP.
Figure S1 from A new mechanistic model of weather-dependent Septoria tritici blotch disease risk.
Creators: name: Chaloner, Thomas M.
name: Fones, Helen N.
name: Varun Varma
name: Bebber, Daniel P.
name: Gurr, Sarah J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: We present a new mechanistic model for predicting Septoria tritici blotch (STB) disease, parameterized with experimentally derived data for temperature- and wetness-dependent germination, growth and death of the causal agent, Zymoseptoria tritici. The output of this model (A) was compared with observed disease data for UK wheat over the period 2002–2016. In addition, we compared the output of a second model (B), in which experimentally derived parameters were replaced by a modified version of a published Z. tritici thermal performance equation, with the same observed disease data. Neither model predicted observed annual disease, but model A was able to differentiate UK regions with differing average disease risks over the entire period. The greatest limitations of both models are: broad spatial resolution of the climate data, and lack of host parameters. Model B is further limited by its lack of explicitly defined pathogen death, leading to a cumulative overestimation of disease over the course of the growing season. Comparison of models A and B demonstrates the importance of accounting for the temperature-dependency of pathogen processes important in the initiation and progression of disease. However, effective modelling of STB will probably require similar experimentally derived parameters for host and environmental factors, completing the disease triangle.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Detection, forecasting and control of infectious disease epidemics: modelling outbreaks in humans, animals and plants Part 1’.
Bjerkandera adusta P. Karst., Meddn Soc. Fauna
Creators: name: Yang, Lu Wang Xin
name: Zhao, Changlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Polyporales
Meruliaceae
Bjerkandera
Bjerkandera adusta

description: 7. Bjerkandera adusta (Willd.) P. Karst.,
 Meddn Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 5: 38 (1879). White rot in a mixed coniferous broad-leaved forest. Ailaoshan Scenic Spot, Xinping County, Yuxi, Yunnan Province, China, on a trunk or a stump of angiosperm, on the fallen branch of Pinus, 21 August 2017, CLZhao 2761; white rot in a broad-leaved forest. Ailaoshan National Nature Reserve, Puer, Yunnan Province, China, on a trunk of angiosperm, 4 October 2017, CLZhao 3799, CLZhao 3891, CLZhao 3935; Jinshan Primitive Forest Park, Zhenyuan County, Puer, Yunnan Province, China, on a trunk of angiosperm, 12 January 2018, CLZhao 4925; on a stump of angiosperm, 14 January 2018, CLZhao 5453, CLZhao 5455, CLZhao 5458, CLZhao 5471; Jinshan Primeval Forest, Puer, Yunnan Province, China, on a trunk of angiosperm, 2 January 2019, CLZhao 9207.
description: Published as part of Yang, Lu Wang Xin & Zhao, Changlin, 2024, The wood-decaying fungal diversity unveiled by morphology and phylogeny in Ailaoshan Mountain, Yunnan, China, pp. 1-30 in Phytotaxa 661 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.661.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13218270
Functional Analysis of Capsaicin Receptor (Vanilloid Receptor Subtype 1) Multimerization and Agonist Responsiveness Using a Dominant Negative Mutation
Creators: name: Blumberg, Peter M.
name: Kuzhikandathil, Eldo V.
name: Szabo, Tamas
name: Wang, Haibin
name: Oxford, Gerry S.
name: Morozova, Natasha
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: The recently cloned vanilloid receptor subtype 1 (VR1) is a ligand-gated channel that is activated by capsaicin, protons, and heat. We have attempted to develop a dominant negative isoform by targeting several mutations of VR1 at highly conserved amino acids or at residues of potential functional importance and expressing the mutants in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Mutation of three highly conserved amino acid residues in the putative sixth transmembrane domain disrupts activation of the VR1 receptor by both capsaicin and resiniferatoxin. The vanilloid binding site in this mutant is intact, although the affinity for [
Figure S2 from A new mechanistic model of weather-dependent Septoria tritici blotch disease risk
Creators: name: Chaloner, Thomas M.
name: Fones, Helen N.
name: Varun Varma
name: Bebber, Daniel P.
name: Gurr, Sarah J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: We present a new mechanistic model for predicting Septoria tritici blotch (STB) disease, parametrized with experimentally derived data for temperature- and wetness-dependent germination, growth and death of the causal agent, Zymoseptoria tritici. The output of this model (A) was compared to observed disease data for UK wheat over the period 2002–2016. In addition, we compared the output of a second model (B), in which experimentally derived parameters were replaced by a modified version of a published Z. tritici thermal performance equation, to the same observed disease data. Neither model predicted observed annual disease, but model A was able to differentiate UK regions with differing average disease risks over the entire period. The greatest limitations of both models are: broad spatial resolution of the climate data, and lack of host parameters. Model B is further limited by its lack of explicitly defined pathogen death, leading to a cumulative overestimation of disease over the course of the growing season. Comparison of models A and B demonstrates the importance of accounting for the temperature-dependency of pathogen processes important in the initiation and progression of disease. However, effective modelling of STB will probably require similar experimentally derived parameters for host and environmental factors, completing the disease triangle.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Detection, forecasting and control of infectious disease epidemics: modelling outbreaks in humans, animals and plants Part 1’.
Dynamical correlation functions for products of random matrices
Creators: name: Strahov, Eugene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce and study a family of random processes with a discrete time related to products of random matrices. Such processes are formed by singular values of random matrix products, and the number of factors in a random matrix product plays a role of a discrete time. We consider in detail the case when the (squared) singular values of the initial random matrix form a polynomial ensemble, and the initial random matrix is multiplied by standard complex Gaussian matrices. In this case we show that the random process is a discrete-time determinantal point process. For three special cases (the case when the initial random matrix is a standard complex Gaussian matrix, the case when it is a truncated unitary matrix, or the case when it is a standard complex Gaussian matrix with a source) we compute the dynamical correlations functions explicitly, and find the hard edge scaling limits of the correlation kernels. The proofs rely on the Eynard-Mehta theorem, and on contour integral representations for the correlation kernels suitable for an asymptotic analysis.
description: 27 pages, typos corrected, references added
(1349) Mary Ann [Morley]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Implementation of a palliative care screening tool in the surgical trauma ICU
Creators: name: Delgrosso, Sarah
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: Purpose of Project: Trauma creates a unique barrier to establishing patient goals of care, with gaps in recognizing the risk for unmet palliative care needs. The American College of Surgeons (ACS) released palliative care practice guidelines that includes screening for needs within 24 hours of hospital admission and establishing goals of care conversations within 72 hours. This project aimed to improve the frequency in documented goals of care conversations by identifying those patients at risk through the implementation of the palliative care screening tool on all trauma patients admitted to the Surgical-Trauma ICU (STICU). Methodology: This quality improvement project used a retrospective and prospective chart review, with a pre/post design to measure if the implementation of the screening tool would encourage earlier goals of care discussions in the trauma population. Clinical staff was also anonymously surveyed on evaluation of the screening tool after implementation.Results: A sample of 91 (N = 91) patient records were reviewed with preintervention patients (Group A; n = 41) compared to post intervention patients (Group B; n = 50). There were no significant differences in demographics on admission, ICU length of stay, and days on mechanical ventilation between the two groups. No statistical significance was found between the number of goals of care conversations held between the two groups. However, the data suggests a clinically significant increase in the number of goals of care conversations held on those admitted with a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) less than 8 in the post intervention group compared to pre intervention. Responses of the clinical staff survey suggest an overall positive evaluation of the screening tool.Implications: Screening of trauma patients on admission identifies those at risk for having unmet palliative care needs throughout hospitalization. Further implementation and use of this intervention has potential to increase the frequency of family meetings to address goals of care conversations, increase communication amongst the healthcare team, and decrease burdensome ICU days. The development of a practice guideline in the clinical setting for the standardized use of a screening tool to identify palliative care needs is needed to reinforce practice.
Two symmetry breaking mechanisms for the development of orientation selectivity in a neural system
Creators: name: Cho, Myoung Won
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Other Statistics (stat.OT)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Orientation selectivity is a remarkable feature of the neurons located in the primary visual cortex. Provided that the visual neurons acquire orientation selectivity through activity-dependent Hebbian learning, the development process could be understood as a kind of symmetry breaking phenomenon in the view of physics. The key mechanisms of the development process are examined here in a neural system. Found is that there are at least two different mechanisms which lead to the development of orientation selectivity through breaking the radial symmetry in receptive fields. The first, a simultaneous symmetry breaking mechanism, bases on the competition between neighboring neurons, and the second, a spontaneous one, bases on the nonlinearity in interactions. It turns out that only the second mechanism leads to the formation of a columnar pattern which characteristics accord with those observed in an animal experiment.
GABA A Receptor α1 Subunit Deletion Prevents Developmental Changes of Inhibitory Synaptic Currents in Cerebellar Neurons
Creators: name: Ferguson, Carolyn
name: Homanics, Gregg E.
name: Vicini, Stefano
name: Prybylowski, Kate
name: Morrow, A. Leslie
name: Kralic, Jason
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: Developmental changes in miniature IPSC (mIPSC) kinetics have been demonstrated previously in cerebellar neurons in rodents. We report that these kinetic changes in mice are determined primarily by developmental changes in GABA
Figure S1 from A new mechanistic model of weather-dependent Septoria tritici blotch disease risk
Creators: name: Chaloner, Thomas M.
name: Fones, Helen N.
name: Varun Varma
name: Bebber, Daniel P.
name: Gurr, Sarah J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: We present a new mechanistic model for predicting Septoria tritici blotch (STB) disease, parametrized with experimentally derived data for temperature- and wetness-dependent germination, growth and death of the causal agent, Zymoseptoria tritici. The output of this model (A) was compared to observed disease data for UK wheat over the period 2002–2016. In addition, we compared the output of a second model (B), in which experimentally derived parameters were replaced by a modified version of a published Z. tritici thermal performance equation, to the same observed disease data. Neither model predicted observed annual disease, but model A was able to differentiate UK regions with differing average disease risks over the entire period. The greatest limitations of both models are: broad spatial resolution of the climate data, and lack of host parameters. Model B is further limited by its lack of explicitly defined pathogen death, leading to a cumulative overestimation of disease over the course of the growing season. Comparison of models A and B demonstrates the importance of accounting for the temperature-dependency of pathogen processes important in the initiation and progression of disease. However, effective modelling of STB will probably require similar experimentally derived parameters for host and environmental factors, completing the disease triangle.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Detection, forecasting and control of infectious disease epidemics: modelling outbreaks in humans, animals and plants Part 1’.
Maria ‘Niobe barocca’: deduzione formale e riemersione engrammatica. Appunti di lettura di Mnemosyne Atlas, Tavola 76
Creators: name: Seminario Mnemosyne
Publisher: name: La Rivista di Engramma
Year: 2018
Subjects: Plate 76
Mnemosyne Atlas
Niobe
Pathosformel
Aby Warburg
Mother

description: Plate 76 is the last montage of the Atlas that presents images of works of art, more or less known: in the following panels, beginning with Plate 77, the focus shifts on the re-emergence of engrams in contemporary documents, and also in advertising.
A drawing taken from the statue of a daughter of Niobe – proposed as compositional focus of the montage – lends its Pathosformel to the figure of her mother, be it Niobe or Mirra: from being the child fleeing from divine murderers, she also becomes the model for the prototype of the mother anxious for her children. Plate 76 illustrates how, in the process of deduction from ancient models, the Pathosformeln of flight and panic, the formula is finally used as a model for the Mother par excellence: Mary anxious for Jesus. In fact, in the notes by Warburg and collaborators on Plate 76, we read “Mutter als Niobe”: Mary as a reincarnation of Niobe – a ‘baroque Niobe’. For this reason, in Plate 76 we find the archaeological drawing of the Niobid/Niobe, a pagan antecedent and counter-figure of the Virgin.
(1351) Peter Hindle
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Brunneoporus malicola Audet, Mushrooms
Creators: name: Yang, Lu Wang Xin
name: Zhao, Changlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Polyporales
Fomitopsidaceae
Brunneoporus
Brunneoporus malicola

description: 8. Brunneoporus malicola (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Audet, Mushrooms
nomenclatural novelties 2: 1 (2017). Brown rot in a broad-leaved forest. Ailaoshan, Taizhong Town, Jingdong County, Puer, Yunnan Province, China, on a fallen trunk of angiosperm, 4 October 2017, CLZhao 3832.
description: Published as part of Yang, Lu Wang Xin & Zhao, Changlin, 2024, The wood-decaying fungal diversity unveiled by morphology and phylogeny in Ailaoshan Mountain, Yunnan, China, pp. 1-30 in Phytotaxa 661 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.661.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13218270
Gravitational particle production in bouncing cosmologies
Creators: name: Haro, Jaume
name: Elizalde, Emilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is argued that the Universe reheating in bouncing cosmologies could be explained via gravitational particle production, as due to a sudden phase transition in the contracting regime. To this end, it is shown that gravitational production of massive particles conformally coupled with gravity in a matter-ekpyrotic bouncing Universe, where the sudden phase transition occurs in the contracting regime, yields a reheating temperature which is in good agreement with cosmological observations.
description: Version accepted in JCAP
Radiation from charged particles on eccentric orbits in a dipolar magnetic field around a Schwarzschild black hole
Creators: name: Papadopoulos, Demetrios B.
name: Contopoulos, Ioannis
name: Kokkotas, Kostas D.
name: Stergioulas, Nikolaos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain an approximate solution for the motion of a charged particle around a Schwarzschild black hole immersed in a weak dipolar magnetic field. We focus on eccentric bound orbits in the equatorial plane of the Schwarzschild black hole and derive an analytic expression for the spectral distribution of the electromagnetic emission from a charged particle on such an orbit. Two sets of harmonic contributions appear, with specific frequency spacing. The expression can be written in compact form, if it is truncated up to the lowest order harmonic contributions.
description: 13 pages, Journal of Mathematical Physics
A contraceptive counseling protocol: improving prescribing and counseling services at an academic community partnership
Creators: name: Reyes, Raquel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: Purpose of Project: Increase contraceptive counseling services and contraceptive methods prescribed at a health center located in Newark, NJ, by developing and implementing a contraceptive counseling protocol.Methodology: A quality improvement project that consisted of a retrospective and prospective chart review. The participants completed an educational module prior to the implementation of the protocol. The outcomes measured were all the diagnosis codes related to contraception management and all contraceptive methods prescribed during eligible visits through the electronic medical record. The study included all visits of women of reproductive ages 15 to 44 who met the criteria.Results: Once all descriptive analyses were completed, a cross-comparison was made between the retrospective chart review and the prospective chart review using Chi-Square tests. Although there was an increase seen in almost all four comparisons, especially in contraceptive methods documentation found on file, the cross-comparison did not yield statistical significance. Although, there was clinical significance.Implications for Practice: This project developed because there was a need for a change in practice. This project increased providers’ adherence to recommended guidelines on contraceptive counseling and management, which, in turn, enhanced the safety of care provided to the women in the community. Therefore, implementing this protocol assisted healthcare providers in developing individualized plans of care in counseling for women.
(1352) Mary Morley
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Supplementary Materials & Methods from A new mechanistic model of weather-dependent Septoria tritici blotch disease risk
Creators: name: Chaloner, Thomas M.
name: Fones, Helen N.
name: Varun Varma
name: Bebber, Daniel P.
name: Gurr, Sarah J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: We present a new mechanistic model for predicting Septoria tritici blotch (STB) disease, parametrized with experimentally derived data for temperature- and wetness-dependent germination, growth and death of the causal agent, Zymoseptoria tritici. The output of this model (A) was compared to observed disease data for UK wheat over the period 2002–2016. In addition, we compared the output of a second model (B), in which experimentally derived parameters were replaced by a modified version of a published Z. tritici thermal performance equation, to the same observed disease data. Neither model predicted observed annual disease, but model A was able to differentiate UK regions with differing average disease risks over the entire period. The greatest limitations of both models are: broad spatial resolution of the climate data, and lack of host parameters. Model B is further limited by its lack of explicitly defined pathogen death, leading to a cumulative overestimation of disease over the course of the growing season. Comparison of models A and B demonstrates the importance of accounting for the temperature-dependency of pathogen processes important in the initiation and progression of disease. However, effective modelling of STB will probably require similar experimentally derived parameters for host and environmental factors, completing the disease triangle.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Detection, forecasting and control of infectious disease epidemics: modelling outbreaks in humans, animals and plants Part 1’.
Non-Abelian string breaking phenomena with Matrix Product States
Creators: name: Kühn, Stefan
name: Zohar, Erez
name: Cirac, J. Ignacio
name: Bañuls, Mari Carmen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using matrix product states, we explore numerically the phenomenology of string breaking in a non-Abelian lattice gauge theory, namely 1+1 dimensional SU(2). The technique allows us to study the static potential between external heavy charges, as traditionally explored by Monte Carlo simulations, but also to simulate the real-time dynamics of both static and dynamical fermions, as the latter are fully included in the formalism. We propose a number of observables that are sensitive to the presence or breaking of the flux string, and use them to detect and characterize the phenomenon in each of these setups.
description: 20+5 pages, 14 figures, version 2 contains more numerical results, version 3: published version
Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Administration in Postnatal Life Results in Motor Unit Enlargement and Continuous Synaptic Remodeling at the Neuromuscular Junction
Creators: name: Feng, Guoping
name: Keller-Peck, Cynthia R.
name: Yan, Qiao
name: Sanes, Joshua R.
name: Snider, William D.
name: Lichtman, Jeff W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: Overexpression of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) in embryonic muscle fibers causes dramatic hyperinnervation of neuromuscular junctions. However, it is not known whether GDNF induces the extra innervation by regulation of axonal branching and/or synaptic maintenance. To address this issue, high levels of circulating GDNF were established by administering subcutaneous injections starting either at birth or later and continuing for up to 40 d. Treatment with exogenous GDNF beginning in the first week, but not later, increased the number of axons converging at neuromuscular junctions. The effect of GDNF on the branching pattern of individual motor axons was determined by reconstructing labeled axonal arbors from transgenic mice expressing yellow fluorescent protein in subsets of motor neurons. Whereas, at postnatal day 8 (P8) individual axons in control animals branched to sporadically innervate junctions within circumscribed regions of the muscle, motor units from GDNF injected animals had significantly more axonal branches and exhibited a high degree of localized arborization such that adjacent muscle fibers were often innervated by the same axon. Administration beginning at P0 and continuing through P40 prolonged multiple innervation of most fibers throughout the period of injection. Between P30 and P40 there was no net change in multiple innervation, although there was evidence of retraction bulbs, suggesting that axon extension and retraction were in equilibrium. We conclude that GDNF has a developmentally regulated effect on presynaptic branching and that sustained administration of GDNF induces a state of continuous synaptic remodeling.
The impact of spin temperature fluctuations on the 21-cm moments
Creators: name: Watkinson, Catherine A.
name: Pritchard, Jonathan R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper considers the impact of Lyman-alpha coupling and X-ray heating on the 21-cm brightness-temperature one-point statistics (as predicted by semi-numerical simulations). The X-ray production efficiency is varied over four orders of magnitude and the hardness of the X-ray spectrum is varied from that predicted for high-mass X-ray binaries, to the softer spectrum expected from the hot inter-stellar medium. We find peaks in the redshift evolution of both the variance and skewness associated with the efficiency of X-ray production. The amplitude of the variance is also sensitive to the hardness of the X-ray SED. We find that the relative timing of the coupling and heating phases can be inferred from the redshift extent of a plateau that connects a peak in the variance's evolution associated with Lyman-alpha coupling to the heating peak. Importantly, we find that late X-ray heating would seriously hamper our ability to constrain reionization with the variance. Late X-ray heating also qualitatively alters the evolution of the skewness, providing a clean way to constrain such models. If foregrounds can be removed, we find that LOFAR, MWA and PAPER could constrain reionization and late X-ray heating models with the variance. We find that HERA and SKA (phase 1) will be able to constrain both reionization and heating by measuring the variance using foreground-avoidance techniques. If foregrounds can be removed they will also be able to constrain the nature of Lyman-alpha coupling.
description: 16 pages, 13 figure, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Framing Nostalgia: How Digital Folklore Evokes the Past to Construct the Present
Creators: name: Nutting, Imogen
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: The internet is a tricky and intangible place. On the one hand, it connects us with a world of knowledge and information. On the other, it allows anonymous sources to edit and post a truth that may be the furthest thing from reality. Digital folklore texts – those stories adopted by online communities for adaptation and dissemination – exploit this enigmatic aspect of online communication. Many of these stories take advantage of their audience’s wistfulness for a time that has passed and may be lost in the recesses of memory. The narrative framing of digital folklore incorporates nostalgic aesthetics to curate an unsettling but plausible representation of the past. This thesis uses Kris Straub’s short horror story ‘Candle Cove’ (2009) and its surrounding paratext to dissect how digital authors represent the past to immerse their audiences in a curated reality. Digital folklore stories focus on real or fictional pieces of lost media – texts that have left no complete copy and exist only in their paratext or audiences’ memories – and have been dissected by audiences keen to uncover or alter the truth. This thesis includes an analysis of the reception and fan contributions to the texts, such as the comment sections and online discussions. I suggest that, despite their different mediums, plots and creators, digital folklore texts demonstrate shared characteristics that highlight the potential of digital folklore to curate a past that both perverts the nostalgia of audiences and is credible enough to be immersive.
Byssomerulius corium Parmasto
Creators: name: Yang, Lu Wang Xin
name: Zhao, Changlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Polyporales
Phanerochaetaceae
Byssomerulius
Byssomerulius corium

description: 9. Byssomerulius corium (Pers.) Parmasto,
Eesti NSV Tead. Akad. Toim., Biol. seer 16(4): 383 (1967). White rot in a broad-leaved forest. Ailaoshan National Nature Reserve, Taizhong Town, Jingdong County, Puer, Yunnan Province, China, on a fallen trunk of angiosperm, 4 October 2017, CLZhao 3999.
description: Published as part of Yang, Lu Wang Xin & Zhao, Changlin, 2024, The wood-decaying fungal diversity unveiled by morphology and phylogeny in Ailaoshan Mountain, Yunnan, China, pp. 1-30 in Phytotaxa 661 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.661.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13218270
Figure S11 from A new mechanistic model of weather-dependent Septoria tritici blotch disease risk.
Creators: name: Chaloner, Thomas M.
name: Fones, Helen N.
name: Varun Varma
name: Bebber, Daniel P.
name: Gurr, Sarah J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: We present a new mechanistic model for predicting Septoria tritici blotch (STB) disease, parameterized with experimentally derived data for temperature- and wetness-dependent germination, growth and death of the causal agent, Zymoseptoria tritici. The output of this model (A) was compared with observed disease data for UK wheat over the period 2002–2016. In addition, we compared the output of a second model (B), in which experimentally derived parameters were replaced by a modified version of a published Z. tritici thermal performance equation, with the same observed disease data. Neither model predicted observed annual disease, but model A was able to differentiate UK regions with differing average disease risks over the entire period. The greatest limitations of both models are: broad spatial resolution of the climate data, and lack of host parameters. Model B is further limited by its lack of explicitly defined pathogen death, leading to a cumulative overestimation of disease over the course of the growing season. Comparison of models A and B demonstrates the importance of accounting for the temperature-dependency of pathogen processes important in the initiation and progression of disease. However, effective modelling of STB will probably require similar experimentally derived parameters for host and environmental factors, completing the disease triangle.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Detection, forecasting and control of infectious disease epidemics: modelling outbreaks in humans, animals and plants Part 1’.
Prioritizing emerging persistent and mobile substances in groundwater and drinking water through hazard and risk assessment for substitution and remediation
Creators: name: Arp, Hans Peter H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: PMT vPvM mobility PFAS

description: There are several substances in use with a specific combination of properties that cause them to pose an inherent hazard to remote aquatic environments, groundwater and drinking water resources. These are substances that are very persistent in the environment and very mobile in the aquatic environment (vPvM); or, substances that are persistent in the environment, mobile in the aquatic environment and toxic (PMT). Recently, two substances have been declared "Substances of Very High Concern" in Europe based on the arguement that they are PMT/vPvM. These substances were the per- and polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) substances GenX and PFBS. As part of the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainatibilty published in 2020, PMT and vPvM is posed as a new chemical hazard class for consideration in key EU chemical legislations. The results we will present demonstrate the need for the development of the PMT/vPvM criteria for substances registered under CLP. It will also present how prioritization methods are needed to enhance substitution towards suafer alternatives, and direct remediation methods.
Correlation kernels for sums and products of random matrices
Creators: name: Claeys, Tom
name: Kuijlaars, Arno B. J.
name: Wang, Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 15B52, 60B20, 42C05

description: Let $X$ be a random matrix whose squared singular value density is a polynomial ensemble. We derive double contour integral formulas for the correlation kernels of the squared singular values of $GX$ and $TX$, where $G$ is a complex Ginibre matrix and $T$ is a truncated unitary matrix. We also consider the product of $X$ and several complex Ginibre/truncated unitary matrices. As an application, we derive the precise condition for the squared singular values of the product of several truncated unitary matrices to follow a polynomial ensemble. We also consider the sum $H + M$ where $H$ is a GUE matrix and $M$ is a random matrix whose eigenvalue density is a polynomial ensemble. We show that the eigenvalues of $H + M$ follow a polynomial ensemble whose correlation kernel can be expressed as a double contour integral. As an application, we point out a connection to the two-matrix model.
description: 33 pages, some changes suggested by the referee is made and some references are added
(1353) George Whitaker Outhwaite
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Cabalodontia albofibrillosa Westphalen
Creators: name: Yang, Lu Wang Xin
name: Zhao, Changlin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Polyporales
Meruliaceae
Cabalodontia
Cabalodontia albofibrillosa

description: 10. Cabalodontia albofibrillosa (Hjortstam & Ryvarden) Westphalen,
in Westphalen, Motato-Vásquez, Tomšovský & Gugliotta, Mycologia: 10.1080/00275514.2021.1894536, 5 (2021). White rot in a broad-leaved forest. Ailaoshan National Nature Reserve, Puer, Yunnan Province, China, on a trunk of angiosperm, 25 August 2018, CLZhao 8722.
description: Published as part of Yang, Lu Wang Xin & Zhao, Changlin, 2024, The wood-decaying fungal diversity unveiled by morphology and phylogeny in Ailaoshan Mountain, Yunnan, China, pp. 1-30 in Phytotaxa 661 (1) on page 12, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.661.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13218270
Many-body effects and ultraviolet renormalization in three-dimensional Dirac materials
Creators: name: Throckmorton, Robert E.
name: Hofmann, Johannes
name: Barnes, Edwin
name: Sarma, S. Das
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a theory for electron-electron interaction-induced many-body effects in three dimensional (3D) Weyl or Dirac semimetals, including interaction corrections to the polarizability, electron self-energy, and vertex function, up to second order in the effective fine structure constant of the Dirac material. These results are used to derive the higher-order ultraviolet renormalization of the Fermi velocity, effective coupling, and quasiparticle residue, revealing that the corrections to the renormalization group (RG) flows of both the velocity and coupling counteract the leading-order tendencies of velocity enhancement and coupling suppression at low energies. This in turn leads to the emergence of a critical coupling above which the interaction strength grows with decreasing energy scale. In addition, we identify a range of coupling strengths below the critical point in which the Fermi velocity varies non-monotonically as the low-energy, non-interacting fixed point is approached. Furthermore, we find that while the higher-order correction to the flow of the coupling is generally small compared to the leading order, the corresponding correction to the velocity flow carries an additional factor of the Dirac cone flavor number (the multiplicity of electron species, e.g. ground-state valley degeneracy arising from the band structure) relative to the leading-order result. Thus, for materials with a larger multiplicity, the regime of velocity non-monotonicity is reached for modest values of the coupling strength.
description: 35+epsilon pages, 21 figures. Published in Phys. Rev. B; this is the published version. Slight change of title made by editors in the published version. Corrected and clarified the definition of N. Revised some figures to maintain a consistent style
Figure S11 from A new mechanistic model of weather-dependent Septoria tritici blotch disease risk
Creators: name: Chaloner, Thomas M.
name: Fones, Helen N.
name: Varun Varma
name: Bebber, Daniel P.
name: Gurr, Sarah J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: We present a new mechanistic model for predicting Septoria tritici blotch (STB) disease, parametrized with experimentally derived data for temperature- and wetness-dependent germination, growth and death of the causal agent, Zymoseptoria tritici. The output of this model (A) was compared to observed disease data for UK wheat over the period 2002–2016. In addition, we compared the output of a second model (B), in which experimentally derived parameters were replaced by a modified version of a published Z. tritici thermal performance equation, to the same observed disease data. Neither model predicted observed annual disease, but model A was able to differentiate UK regions with differing average disease risks over the entire period. The greatest limitations of both models are: broad spatial resolution of the climate data, and lack of host parameters. Model B is further limited by its lack of explicitly defined pathogen death, leading to a cumulative overestimation of disease over the course of the growing season. Comparison of models A and B demonstrates the importance of accounting for the temperature-dependency of pathogen processes important in the initiation and progression of disease. However, effective modelling of STB will probably require similar experimentally derived parameters for host and environmental factors, completing the disease triangle.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Detection, forecasting and control of infectious disease epidemics: modelling outbreaks in humans, animals and plants Part 1’.
Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Overexpression Attenuates Cerebellar Apoptosis by Altering the Expression of Bcl Family Proteins in a Developmentally Specific Manner
Creators: name: Chrysis, Dionisios
name: Calikoglu, Ali Suha
name: Ye, Ping
name: D'Ercole, A. Joseph
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: In studies of transgenic (Tg) mice that overexpress insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) exclusively in the CNS, we demonstrated a dramatic increase in cerebellar granule cell number that appeared to be attributable predominantly to enhanced survival. IGF-I anti-apoptotic actions are well established in cultured neurons, but comparable studies