cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Christella sledgei Ranil 2021, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Rajapaksha, Ranil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Polypodiopsida
Polypodiales
Thelypteridaceae
Christella
Christella sledgei

description: 5. Christella sledgei (Fraser-Jenk.) Ranil, comb. nov.
 Basionym: Thelypteris sledgei Fraser-Jenk. (1997:266)
 [Christella papilio (Hope) Holttum var. repens Sledge (1981:37)].
 Type:— SRI LANKA, Nuwara Eliya District, below Hakgala gardens, 1650 m, 26 Feb. 1954, W. A . Sledge 1212, (BM holotype).
Distribution: Sri Lanka (endemic).
 Note:—This species was described by Sledge (1981) as a variety of Christella papilio (Hope) Holttum. It is different from C. papilio due to its long creeping rhizome with well-spaced fronds and tetraploid chromosome number (n=72) (Manton and Sledge, 1954). Later, it was renamed T. sledgei by Fraser-Jenkins (1997). This endangered species is confined to streams banks in forests at higher elevations (1500-2200 m) (Shaffar-Fehre, 2006).
description: Published as part of Rajapaksha, Ranil, 2021, Six new combinations and one new natural hybrid of ferns from Sri Lanka, pp. 183-186 in Phytotaxa 511 (2) on pages 184-185, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.511.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5426642
Additional file 2: of Tobacco smoking and risk of 36 cardiovascular disease subtypes: fatal and non-fatal outcomes in a large prospective Australian study
Creators: name: Banks, Emily
name: Joshy, Grace
name: Korda, Rosemary
name: Stavreski, Bill
name: Soga, Kay
name: Egger, Sam
name: Day, Cathy
name: Clarke, Naomi
name: Lewington, Sarah
name: Lopez, Alan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Computational Biology
subject: Cardiology

description: Table S1. Age-standardised rates of CVD outcomes (fatal and non-fatal combined, and fatal only separately) by sex and smoking status. Table S2. Sensitivity analysis for grouped CVD subtypes, in relation to smoking at baseline, excluding the first year of follow-up. A. Combined fatal and non-fatal outcomes. B. Fatal outcomes only. Table S3. Sensitivity analysis for combined fatal and non-fatal CVD outcomes, re-classifying past smokers who stopped smoking three or fewer years prior to baseline as current smokers. Table S4. Non-fatal outcomes for selected CVD subtypes in relation to smoking status at baseline. Table S5. CVD subtypes (level 3 ICD-10-AM codes) ranked according to the frequency of fatal and non-fatal outcomes. Table S6. Outcomes for specific CVD subtypes (level 3 ICD-10-AM codes) with at least 50 events, in current and past smokers versus never smokers. A. Combined fatal and non-fatal outcomes. B. Fatal outcomes only. Table S7. Smoking-attributable fractions for CVD mortality and hospitalisation for acute coronary syndrome in Australia, using 2004â 2005 smoking prevalence estimates. Table S8. Selected grouped CVD subtypes in relation to smoking status at baseline by sex. A. Combined fatal and non-fatal outcomes. B. Fatal events only. (PDF 647 kb)
Growth of supermassive black holes and metallicity in quasars
Creators: name: Wang, Jian-Min
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The strong correlation between the mass of the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) and the bulge in some galaxies and quasars implies that the formation of the black hole is somehow linked to the bulge. The measurement of metallicity by NV/CIV or NV/HeII in quasars allows to discuss a possible way of formation of the black hole. In this Letter we trace the metallicity along the possible routes in Rees' diagram in order to test the ways by which SMBHs can form. We derive a relation between the metallicity and the mass of the SMBH as $Z\propto M_{BH}$ based on the numerical simulation of the evolution of star clusters. It is in good agreement with the relation determined by the metallicity measured by NV/CIV or NV/HeII in Hamann & Ferland's sample. This lends observational support to the formation of SMBHs via routes R4 or R5, namely, the evolution of dense star clusters.
description: Accepted by A&A Letters, 4 pages in aa.cls, no figures and no tables
Energetics of Gamma Ray Bursts
Creators: name: Jimenez, Raul
name: Band, David
name: Piran, Tsvi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the distribution of total energy emitted by gamma-ray bursts for bursts with fluences and distance information. Our core sample consists of eight bursts with BATSE spectra and spectroscopic redshifts. We extend this sample by adding four bursts with BATSE spectra and host galaxy R magnitudes. From these R magnitudes we calculate a redshift probability distribution; this method requires a model of the host galaxy population. From a sample of ten bursts with both spectroscopic redshifts and host galaxy R magnitudes (some do not have BATSE spectra) we find that the burst rate is proportional to the galaxy luminosity at the epoch of the burst. Assuming that the total energy emitted has a log-normal distribution, we find that the average emitted energy (assumed to be radiated isotropically) is $ = 1.3^{+1.2}_{-1.0} \times 10^{53}$ ergs (for H$_0$ = 65 km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$, $Ω_m=0.3$ and $Ω_Λ=0.7$); the distribution has a logarithmic width of $σ_γ=1.7^{+0.7}_{-0.3}$. The corresponding distribution of X-ray afterglow energy (for seven bursts) has $ = 4.0^{+1.6}_{-1.8} \times 10^{51}$ergs and $σ_X = 1.3^{+0.4}_{-0.3}$. For completeness, we also provide spectral fits for all bursts with BATSE spectra for which there were afterglow searches.
description: Submitted to ApJ
Glacial isostatic uplift of the European Alps
Creators: name: Mey, Juergen
name: Scherler, Dirk
name: Wickert, Andrew D.
name: Egholm, David L.
name: Tesauro, Magdala
name: Schildgen, Taylor F.
name: Strecker, Manfred R.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie

description: Following the last glacial maximum (LGM), the demise of continental ice sheets induced crustal rebound in tectonically stable regions of North America and Scandinavia that is still ongoing. Unlike the ice sheets, the Alpine ice cap developed in an orogen where the measured uplift is potentially attributed to tectonic shortening, lithospheric delamination and unloading due to deglaciation and erosion. Here we show that ∼90% of the geodetically measured rock uplift in the Alps can be explained by the Earth’s viscoelastic response to LGM deglaciation. We modelled rock uplift by reconstructing the Alpine ice cap, while accounting for postglacial erosion, sediment deposition and spatial variations in lithospheric rigidity. Clusters of excessive uplift in the Rhône Valley and in the Eastern Alps delineate regions potentially affected by mantle processes, crustal heterogeneity and active tectonics. Our study shows that even small LGM ice caps can dominate present-day rock uplift in tectonically active regions.
On the selective formation of cubic tetrastack crystals from tetravalent patchy particles
Creators: name: Baran, Łukasz
name: Tarasewicz, Dariusz
name: Kamiński, Daniel M.
name: Patrykiejew, Andrzej
name: Rżysko, Wojciech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Achieving the formation of target open crystalline lattices from colloidal particles is of paramount importance for their potential application in photonics. Examples of such desired structures are the diamond, tetrastack, and pyrochlore lattices. Here, we demonstrate that the self-assembly of tetravalent patchy particles results in the selective formation of cubic tetrastack crystals, both in the bulk and in the systems subjected to external fields exerted by the solid substrate. It is demonstrated that the presence of an external field allows for the formation of well-defined single crystals with a low density of defects. Moreover, depending on the strength of the applied external field, the mechanism of epitaxial growth changes. For weakly attractive external fields, the crystallization occurs in a similar manner as in the bulk, since the fluid does not wet the substrate. Nonetheless, the formed crystal is considerably better ordered than the crystals formed in bulk, since the surface induces the ordering in the first layer. On the other hand, it is demonstrated that the formation of well-ordered cubic tetrastack crystals is considerably enhanced by the increase in external field strength, and the formation of the thick crystalline film occurs via a series of layering transitions.
Micrapion biimpressum BOU C EK 1974
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Schwarz, M.
name: K, Micrapion
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Leucospidae
Micrapion
Micrapion biimpressum

description: Micrapion biimpressum BOU Č EK 1974
 Micrapion biimpressum sp.n.: BOUČEK 1974: 213 (key), 222 (descr., Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Nigeria).
 Micrapion biimpressum BOUČEK 1974: MEDLER 1980: 458 (cat. Nigeria).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Nigeria.
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Central African Republic: 70 km NNE Bangui, 445 m (04°57’N / 18°46’E) 1 24.- 28.11.2010 leg. J. Halada – 35 km S Kasama, 1250 m (10°30’S / 31°12’E) 1 12.12.2009 leg. F. Kantner – 15 km S M Mbaïki, 420 m (03°44’N / 18°E) 1 25.12.2008 leg. J. Halada.
New record for the fauna of Central African Republic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M., Schwarz, M. & K, Micrapion, 2012, Catalogue and faunistics of the family Leucospidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the Ethiopian region exluding Malagasy subregion, pp. 1221-1235 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (2) on page 1228, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5329443
Effect of extended neutrino production region on collective oscillations in supernovae
Creators: name: Hansen, Rasmus S. L.
name: Smirnov, Alexei Yu.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In supernovae neutrinos are emitted from a region with a width $r_{\rm eff}$ of a few kilometers (rather than from a surface of infinitesimal width). We study the effect of integration (averaging) over such an extended emission region on collective oscillations. The averaging leads to additional suppression of the correlation (off-diagonal element of the density matrix) by a factor $ \sim 1/r_{\rm eff} V_e \sim 10^{-10}$, where $V_e$ is the matter potential. This factor enters the initial condition for further collective oscillations and, consequently, leads to a delay of the strong flavour transitions. We justify and quantify this picture using a simple example of collective effects in two intersecting fluxes. We have derived the evolution equation for the density matrix elements integrated over the emission region and solved it both numerically and analytically. For the analytic solution we have used linearized equations. We show that the delay of the development of the instability and the collective oscillations depends on the suppression factor due to the averaging (integration) logarithmically. If the instability develops inside the production region, the integration leads not only to a delay but also to a modification of the exponential grow.
description: 31 pages, 5 figures, a few details and clarifications added. Accepted for publication in JCAP
Typing Requirement Model as Coroutines
Creators: name: Gu, Qiqi
name: Ke, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is a technique that aims to boost productivity in software development and ensure the safety of critical systems. Central to MDE is the refinement of high-level requirement models into executable code. Given that requirement models form the foundation of the entire development process, ensuring their correctness is crucial. RM2PT is a widely used MDE platform that employs the REModel language for requirement modeling. REModel contains contract sections and other sections including a UML sequence diagram. This paper contributes a coroutine-based type system that represents pre- and post-conditions in the contract sections in a requirement model as the receiving and yielding parts of coroutines, respectively. The type system is capable of composing coroutine types, so that users can view functions as a whole system and check their collective behavior. By doing so, our type system ensures that the contracts defined in it are executed as outlined in the accompanied sequence diagram. We assessed our approach using four case studies provided by RM2PT, validating the accuracy of the models.
Meta-learning Pseudo-differential Operators with Deep Neural Networks
Creators: name: Feliu-Faba, Jordi
name: Fan, Yuwei
name: Ying, Lexing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces a meta-learning approach for parameterized pseudo-differential operators with deep neural networks. With the help of the nonstandard wavelet form, the pseudo-differential operators can be approximated in a compressed form with a collection of vectors. The nonlinear map from the parameter to this collection of vectors and the wavelet transform are learned together from a small number of matrix-vector multiplications of the pseudo-differential operator. Numerical results for Green's functions of elliptic partial differential equations and the radiative transfer equations demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed approach.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures
Carbon dimer defect as a source of the 4.1 eV luminescence in hexagonal boron nitride
Creators: name: Mackoit-Sinkeviciene, Mazena
name: Maciaszek, Marek
name: Van de Walle, Chris G.
name: Alkauskas, Audrius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that the carbon dimer defect in hexagonal boron nitride gives rise to the ubiquitous narrow luminescence band with a zero-phonon line of 4.08 eV (usually labeled the 4.1 eV band). Our first-principles calculations are based on hybrid density functionals that provide a reliable description of wide band-gap materials. The calculated zero-phonon line energy of 4.3 eV is close to the experimental value, and the deduced Huang-Rhys factor of ${S \approx 2.0}$, indicating modest electron-phonon coupling, falls within the experimental range. The optical transition occurs between two localized $π$-type defects states, with a very short radiative lifetime of 1.2 nanoseconds, in very good accord with experiments.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
High-energy emissions from neutron star mergers
Creators: name: Kimura, Shigeo S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 2017, LIGO-Virgo collaborations reported detection of the first neutron star merger event, GW170817, which is accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts from radio to gamma rays. Although high-energy neutrinos were not detected from this event, mergers of neutron stars are expected to produce such high-energy particles. Relativistic jets are launched when neutron stars merge. If the jets contain protons, they can emit high-energy neutrinos through photomeson production. In addition, neutron star mergers produce massive and fast ejecta, which can be a source of Galactic high-energy cosmic rays above the knee. We briefly review what we learned from the multi-messenger event, GW170817, and discuss prospects for multi-messenger detections and hadronic cosmic-ray production related to the neutron star mergers.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, 5 tables, conference proceedings of UHECR 2018
title: On Holes: Finding Political Holes in the Urban Fabric
Creators: name: Choueiri, Joanne
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Urban Fabric
subject: Urbicide
subject: architecture

description: Urbicide, as redefined by Coward (2008), is destructive violence aimed at architecture and the urban fabric. While the reasons behind urbicide can be attributed to war, gentrification or militarisation of the city, this research proposes the notion of ‘political holes’ as another form of violence. Within this proposal, the political hole is to be understood as a physical and psychological hole created through a building’s demolition as a result of an intentional, unethical and political decision exercised by specific actors away from wartime. The results affect people’s experience of the city and their understanding of it. By investigating how unethical political holes are created and the reasons behind them, this research contributes to unfolding how political holes alter the understanding of the urban fabric through their experience as physical holes and through their memory. Drawing on Van Gennep (1960) and Turner’s (1969) ‘liminality’, Casati and Varzi’s (1994) definition of the hole and Coward’s framing of urbicide, this contribution proposes to identify and frame ‘unethical political holes’ in the urban fabric by focusing on two case studies: Beirut (Lebanon) and Brisbane (Australia). Through archival research, mapping strategies – namely physical and digital mapping, walking practices and interviews, the ambiguous, material and ephemeral political holes are seen, mapped and given presence in the city. They are then uncovered not as mere empty lots but as traces of a history of urbicide with a particular lifespan: a temporality that manifests through their changing physicality and instances of functionality. Their accumulation, collection, analysis and classification into a final archive result in a new reading of the city that seeks to question the architectural archive processes and the built contents of these archives while unveiling the hidden stigma of spatial violence.
title: The ecology of the mud crab (Scylla serrata): their colonisation of estuaries and role as scavengers in ecosystem processes
Creators: name: Webley, James A. C.
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: mud crab
subject: scylla serrata
subject: colonisation of estuaries
subject: estuaries
subject: mud crab estuary colonisation
subject: scavengers
subject: Indo-West Pacific
subject: Africa
subject: Australia
subject: mangrove habitat
subject: estuary habitat
subject: mud crab megalopae

description: Scylla serrata is a portunid crab which can attain a weight of over 2 kg and a carapace width exceeding 250 mm. It is distributed throughout the Indo-West Pacific extending down the east coast of Africa, and both the east and west coasts of Australia. In Australia it is commonly known as the mud crab because it occurs within muddy, mangrove-lined bays and estuaries. Mud crabs are generalist predators eating most small, slow moving animals which they can catch, but they are also vigorous scavengers. Being scavengers, they are readily caught in baited traps set by commercial and recreational fishers, and are the stock for these popular fisheries. Female crabs spawn offshore and larvae spend a period in the plankton where they develop into postlarvae or megalopae...
Thalictrum changii Y. P. Zeng, Q. Yuan & Q. E. Yang 2021
Creators: name: Zeng, You-Pai
name: Fei, Wen-Qun
name: Yuan, Qiong
name: Yang, Qin-Er
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ranunculales
Ranunculaceae
Thalictrum
Thalictrum changii

description: Key to Thalictrum changii and its closely allied taxa
 1a. Leaflets subcoriaceous; sepals persistent in anthesis; carpels ca. 3 mm long...................................................................... T. changii
1b. Leaflets papery; sepals caducous; carpels 1.5–2 mm long.................................................................................................................2
 2a. Sepals suborbicular; filaments white; styles 1/3 the length of carpels; achenes fusiform................. T. yunnanense var. yunnanense
2b. Sepals elliptic; filaments purplish; style 1/2 the length of carpels; achenes narrowly fusiform........................................................3
 3a. Leaflets indistinctly 3-lobate, with lobes densely more than 5-denticulate; pedicels 0.5–0.8 cm long; persistent styles 1/3 the length of achenes..................................................................................................................................................................... T. scabrifolium
 3b. Leaflets distinctly 3-lobate, with lobes 2–4-crenate; pedicels 1–1.5 cm long; persistent styles nearly 1/2 the length of achenes........................................................................................................................................................ T. yunnanense var. austroyunnanense
description: Published as part of Zeng, You-Pai, Fei, Wen-Qun, Yuan, Qiong & Yang, Qin-Er, 2021, Thalictrum changii (Ranunculaceae), a new species from southern Xizang (Tibet), China, pp. 248-260 in Phytotaxa 511 (3) on page 260, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.511.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5426667
Seismic study of stellar convective cores
Creators: name: Mazumdar, Anwesh
name: Antia, H. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been shown that a discontinuity in the derivatives of the sound speed at the edge of the convective regions inside a star gives rise to a characteristic oscillatory signal in the frequencies of stellar oscillations. This oscillatory signal has been suggested as a means to study the base of the outer convection zone in low mass stars and possibly the outer edge of the convective core in high mass stars. Using stellar models we show that because of a phenomenon similar to aliasing in Fourier transform, it may not be possible to use this signal to detect the convective core. Nevertheless, it may be possible to determine the size of convective cores using the frequency separation ν_{n+1,l}-ν_{n,l}.
description: Accepted for publication in A & A
Beyond Static Calibration: The Impact of User Preference Dynamics on Calibrated Recommendation
Creators: name: Lin, Kun
name: Mansoury, Masoud
name: Eskandanian, Farzad
name: Sabouri, Milad
name: Mobasher, Bamshad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.3.4
subject: 68-06

description: Calibration in recommender systems is an important performance criterion that ensures consistency between the distribution of user preference categories and that of recommendations generated by the system. Standard methods for mitigating miscalibration typically assume that user preference profiles are static, and they measure calibration relative to the full history of user's interactions, including possibly outdated and stale preference categories. We conjecture that this approach can lead to recommendations that, while appearing calibrated, in fact, distort users' true preferences. In this paper, we conduct a preliminary investigation of recommendation calibration at a more granular level, taking into account evolving user preferences. By analyzing differently sized training time windows from the most recent interactions to the oldest, we identify the most relevant segment of user's preferences that optimizes the calibration metric. We perform an exploratory analysis with datasets from different domains with distinctive user-interaction characteristics. We demonstrate how the evolving nature of user preferences affects recommendation calibration, and how this effect is manifested differently depending on the characteristics of the data in a given domain. Datasets, codes, and more detailed experimental results are available at: https://github.com/nicolelin13/DynamicCalibrationUMAP.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures, accepted as LBR paper at UMAP '24 -- ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization 2024
MOESM10 of BRD4 bimodal binding at promoters and drug-induced displacement at Pol II pause sites associates with I-BET sensitivity
Creators: name: P. Khoueiry
name: A. Ward Gahlawat
name: M. Petretich
name: A. Michon
name: D. Simola
name: E. Lam
name: E. Furlong
name: V. Benes
name: M. Dawson
name: R. Prinjha
name: G. Drewes
name: P. Grandi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 10: Figure S4. Genome browser visualization of a locus from each of the 4 clusters defined in MV4;11 in Fig.Â 3c. Genome browser showing the decrease in ChIP signal for all BET proteins when treated with I-BET151. Tracks are as in Fig.Â 2c: the dashed vertical line marks the position of the TSS and the green box marks the surrounding upstream and downstream 1 Kb regions from the TSS. The scale is shown in the lower left corner.
Micrapion congoense STEFFAN 1948
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Schwarz, M.
name: K, Micrapion
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Leucospidae
Micrapion
Micrapion congoense

description: Micrapion congoense STEFFAN 1948
 Micrapion congoense n.sp.: STEFFAN 1948: 84 (key), 85 (descr., Democratic Republic of Congo).
 Micrapion congoense STEFFAN 1948: BOUČEK 1974: 214 (key), 217 (figs 261-263), 224 (tax. as Micrapion congoenese, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Uganda).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Uganda.
M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Uganda: near Mubende 1 19.– 22.11.2001 leg. M. Snižek.
description: Published as part of Madl, M., Schwarz, M. & K, Micrapion, 2012, Catalogue and faunistics of the family Leucospidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the Ethiopian region exluding Malagasy subregion, pp. 1221-1235 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (2) on page 1230, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5329443
Prospect for constraining holographic dark energy with gravitational wave standard sirens from the Einstein Telescope
Creators: name: Zhang, Jing-Fei
name: Dong, Hong-Yan
name: Qi, Jing-Zhao
name: Zhang, Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the holographic dark energy (HDE) model by using the future gravitational wave (GW) standard siren data observed from the Einstein Telescope (ET) in this work. We simulate 1000 GW standard siren data based on a 10-year observation of the ET to make this analysis. We find that all the cosmological parameters in the HDE model can be tremendously improved by including the GW standard siren data in the cosmological fit. The GW data combined with the current cosmic microwave background anisotropies, baryon acoustic oscillations, and type Ia supernovae data will measure the cosmological parameters $Ω_{\rm m}$, $H_0$, and $c$ in the HDE model to be at the accuracies of 1.28%, 0.59%, and 3.69%, respectively. A comparison with the cosmological constant model and the constant-$w$ dark energy model shows that, compared to the standard model, the parameter degeneracies will be broken more thoroughly in a dynamical dark energy model. We find that the GW data alone can provide a fairly good measurement for $H_0$, but for other cosmological parameters the GW data alone can only provide rather weak measurements. However, due to the fact that the parameter degeneracies can be broken by the GW data, the standard sirens can play an essential role in improving the parameter estimation.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Dissecting the luminosity function of the Coma cluster of galaxies using CFHT wide field images
Creators: name: Andreon, S.
name: Cuillandre, J. -C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [Abridged] We determined the luminosity function (LF) of the Coma cluster galaxies selected by luminosity, and the LF bi-variate in central brightness. The Coma cluster and control fields were imaged using the CFH12K (42x28 arcmin) and UH8K (28x28 arcmin) wide-field cameras at the CFHT. Selected HST images were used for testing. Quantities were derived from measurements in at least two colors, which have the following features: (1) Galaxies as faint as three times the luminosity of the brightest globular clusters are in the completeness region of our data. (2) We have a complete census (in the explored region) of low surface brightness galaxies with central surface brightness galaxies almost as low as the faintest so far cataloged ones. (3) The explored area is among the largest ever sampled with CCDs at comparable depth for any cluster of galaxies. (4) The error budget includes all sources of errors known to date. Using HST images we also discovered that blends of globular clusters, not resolved in individual components due to seeing, look like dwarf galaxies when observed from the ground and are numerous and bright. The derived Coma LF is relatively steep (alpha=-1.4) over the 11 magnitudes sampled, but the slope and shape depend on color. A large population of faint low surface brightness galaxies was discovered, representing the largest contributor (in number) to the LF at faint magnitudes. We found a clear progression for a faintening of the LF from high surface brightness galaxies (mu~20 mag/arcsec2) to galaxies of very faint central brightnesses (mu~24.5 mag/arcsec2), and some evidence for a steepening. Compact galaxies, usually classified as stars and therefore not included in the LF, are found to be a minor population in Coma.
description: ApJ, in press
title: The Effects of Acupuncture on Mucosal Immunity in the Upper Respiratory Tract
Creators: name: McDonald, John Leslie
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Allergic rhinitis
subject: Acupuncture
subject: Hypothalamic-pituitary-arenal (HPA) axis
subject: Upper respirarory tract

description: Allergic rhinitis is a common disease in Australia, with an estimated 3.17 million Australians affected. Allergic rhinitis represents a significant burden to the community in quality of life and wellbeing, impaired performance, loss of productivity and health care costs. A review was undertaken firstly of the research literature on the efficacy and effectiveness of acupuncture for allergic rhinitis, then secondly of the research into the mechanisms of acupuncture in allergic rhinitis. A total of 4 systematic reviews, 15 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and other non- randomised studies on acupuncture treatment for allergic rhinitis were reviewed. Acupuncture was reported to significantly reduce signs and symptoms of allergic rhinitis in both children and adults. Evidence of acupuncture efficacy for persistent (perennial) allergic rhinitis was reported to be stronger than for intermittent (seasonal) allergic rhinitis. Multiple physiological pathways appear to mediate the anti-inflammatory effects of acupuncture including the hypothalamic-pituitary-arenal (HPA) axis, sympathetic pathways, descending inhibitory pathways and possibly parasympathetic cholinergic pathways. Studies have also suggested that acupuncture may down-regulate pro- inflammatory neuropeptides and neurotrophins and may shift the Th1/Th2 balance in T helper cells and hence alter allergic status, however the evidence for these actions is inconclusive.
A novel Sillén-structured Bi-based oxybromide: CdBiO2Br ultrathin nanosheets for enhanced photocatalytic activity
Creators: name: Pang, Zhiyuan
name: Wang, Bin
name: Yan, Xingwang
name: Hua, Yingjie
name: Yin, Sheng
name: Li, Huaming
name: Xia, Jiexiang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: According to the typical Sillén-structured BiOBr, a simple solvothermal method was used to successfully synthesise Sillén-structured bimetallic oxyhalide CdBiO2Br with the existence of 1-hexadecyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide ([C16mim]Br), a kind of reactive ionic liquid. The introduction of the metal cadmium, which can form Sillén-structured bimetallic oxyhalide, made the alternating structure of BiOBr originally [Bi2O2]2+ and bilayer Br- modified to that of [CdBiO2]+ and monolayer Br-. So that the distance between layer and layer is greatly shortened, which facilitates the migration and separation of photogenerated carriers and promotes the generation of more reactive oxygen species. After modification, the band positions of CdBiO2Br materials can make more full use of visible light and more favourable utilisation of solar resources. As confirmed by radical trapping analysis and ESR analysis, superoxide radical (·O2−) and hole (h+) acted the major part during photocatalysis. The possible intermediate products that appeared during the degradation progress were analyzed by LC–MS. Moreover, the generation of superoxide ions was quantitatively analyzed by nitroblue tetrazolium chloride (NBT). In this paper, we present an ultra-thin layered material for visible light catalysis, which enlightens a feasible scheme for the research and development of new layered photocatalytic materials.
The Spectrum of Earthshine: A Pale Blue Dot Observed from the Ground
Creators: name: Woolf, N. J.
name: Smith, P. S.
name: Traub, W. A.
name: Jucks, K. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the visible reflection spectrum of the integrated Earth, illuminated as it would be seen as an spatially-unresolved extrasolar planet. The spectrum was derived from observation of lunar earthshine in the range 4800 to 9200 Angstrom at a spectral resolution of about 600. We observe absorption features of ozone, molecular oxygen and water. We see enhanced reflectivity at short wavelengths from Rayleigh scattering, and apparently negligible contributions from aerosol and ocean water scattering. We also see enhanced reflectivity at long wavelengths starting at about 7300 Angstrom, corresponding to the well-known red reflectivity edge of vegetation due to its chlorophyll content; however this signal is not conclusive, due to the breakdown of our simple model at wavelengths beyond 7900 Angstrom.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, accepted by ApJ 20 March 2002
Braids, twists, trace and duality in combinatory algebras
Creators: name: Hasegawa, Masahito
name: Lechenne, Serge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.3.2; D.3.1
subject: 03B40 (Primary) 18M15, 68Q55 (Secondary)

description: We investigate a class of combinatory algebras, called ribbon combinatory algebras, in which we can interpret both the braided untyped linear lambda calculus and framed oriented tangles. Any reflexive object in a ribbon category gives rise to a ribbon combinatory algebra. Conversely, From a ribbon combinatory algebra, we can construct a ribbon category with a reflexive object, from which the combinatory algebra can be recovered. To show this, and also to give the equational characterisation of ribbon combinatory algebras, we make use of the internal PRO construction developed in Hasegawa's recent work. Interestingly, we can characterise ribbon combinatory algebras in two different ways: as balanced combinatory algebras with a trace combinator, and as balanced combinatory algebras with duality.
description: 32 pages. To appear in Proc. 39th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS '24)
Vertical distribution of Galactic disk stars I - Kinematics and metallicity
Creators: name: Soubiran, C.
name: Bienaymé, O.
name: Siebert, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nearly 400 Tycho-2 stars have been observed in a 720 square degree field in the direction of the North Galactic Pole with the high resolution echelle spectrograph ELODIE. Absolute magnitudes, effective temperatures, gravities and metallicities have been estimated, as well as distances and 3D velocities. Most of these stars are clump giants and span typical distances from 200pc to 800pc to the galactic mid-plane. This new sample, free of any kinematical and metallicity bias, is used to investigate the vertical distribution of disk stars. The old thin disk and thick disk populations are deconvolved from the velocity-metallicity distribution of the sample and their parameters are determined. The thick disk is found to have a moderate rotational lag of -51+-5 km/s with respect to the Sun with velocity ellipsoid (sigma_U, sigma_V, sigma_W)=(63+-6, 39+-4, 39+-4) km/s, mean metallicity of [Fe/H]=-0.48+-0.05 and a high local normalization of 15+-7%. Combining this NGP sample with a local sample of giant stars from the Hipparcos catalogue, the orientation of the velocity ellipsoid is investigated as a function of distance to the plane and metallicity. We find no vertex deviation for old stars, consistent with an axisymmetric Galaxy. Paper II is devoted to the dynamical analysis of the sample, puting new constraints on the vertical force perpendicular to the galactic plane and on the total mass density in the galactic plane.
description: 12 pages, accepted in A&A
Additional file 1: of Tobacco smoking and risk of 36 cardiovascular disease subtypes: fatal and non-fatal outcomes in a large prospective Australian study
Creators: name: Banks, Emily
name: Joshy, Grace
name: Korda, Rosemary
name: Stavreski, Bill
name: Soga, Kay
name: Egger, Sam
name: Day, Cathy
name: Clarke, Naomi
name: Lewington, Sarah
name: Lopez, Alan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Brief systematic review of smoking and cardiovascular disease. (PDF 589 kb)
Dionysia (sect. Dionysia) sect. Dionysia
Creators: name: Mehregan, Iraj
name: Younesi, Simin
name: Lidén, Magnus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Primulaceae
Dionysia

description: Key to yellow-flowered species of Dionysia sect. Dionysia
 1. Flowers in a stalked umbel; bracts foliaceous, usually larger than leaves..................................................................... D. caespitosa
- Flowers sessile, single; bracts shorter and narrower than leaves.......................................................................................................2
 2. Early leaves 3–5 times longer than terminal leaves; corolla glabrous; ovules more than 15............................................................... D. bachtiarica
- Leaves not strongly anisophyllous; corolla hairy; ovules 3 to 10......................................................................................................3
3. Leaves entire with prominent eglandular hairs; glands sparse, minute and subsessile, or absent.....................................................4
 - Leaves entire or lobed, with or without eglandular hairs; glands prominent, subsessile to stalked..................................................... the remaining 13 species: D. crista-gallii, D. diapensiifolia sensu lato, D. drabifolia, D. gaubae, D. haussknechtii, D. iranica, D. khuzistanica, D. odora, D. robusta, D. sarvestanica, D. tacamahaca, D. zagrica, D. zetterlundii
 4. Leaves evenly covered with up to 0.2 mm long, straight acute hairs.............................................................................. D. michauxii
- Leaves with 0.4–0.7 mm long coarse curly hairs, forming a marginal fringe....................................................................................5
 5. Leaves less than 4 mm; leaves eglandular.................................................................................................................... D. lamingtonii
 - Leaves up to 10 mm; leaves with small subsessile glands....................................................................................................... D. avia
description: Published as part of Mehregan, Iraj, Younesi, Simin & Lidén, Magnus, 2021, Donysia avia (Primulaceae), a new species from Zagros Mountains, Iran, pp. 296-300 in Phytotaxa 511 (3) on page 300, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.511.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/5426785
Mumford-Shah Loss Functional for Image Segmentation with Deep Learning
Creators: name: Kim, Boah
name: Ye, Jong Chul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent state-of-the-art image segmentation algorithms are mostly based on deep neural networks, thanks to their high performance and fast computation time. However, these methods are usually trained in a supervised manner, which requires large number of high quality ground-truth segmentation masks. On the other hand, classical image segmentation approaches such as level-set methods are formulated in a self-supervised manner by minimizing energy functions such as Mumford-Shah functional, so they are still useful to help generation of segmentation masks without labels. Unfortunately, these algorithms are usually computationally expensive and often have limitation in semantic segmentation. In this paper, we propose a novel loss function based on Mumford-Shah functional that can be used in deep-learning based image segmentation without or with small labeled data. This loss function is based on the observation that the softmax layer of deep neural networks has striking similarity to the characteristic function in the Mumford-Shah functional. We show that the new loss function enables semi-supervised and unsupervised segmentation. In addition, our loss function can be also used as a regularized function to enhance supervised semantic segmentation algorithms. Experimental results on multiple datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
description: Accepted for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Stenus bimaculatus GYLLENHAL 1810
Creators: name: Puthz, V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Stenus
Stenus bimaculatus

description: Stenus (s.str.) bimaculatus GYLLENHAL 1810
 Stenus bimaculatus GYLLENHAL 1810: 466; HERMAN 2001: 2088 ff.
 Stenus variator GISTEL 1857: 23 syn.nov.
 Die kurze Beschreibung dieses Taxons weist eindeutig auf den überall häufigen S. bimaculatus hin, weshalb der Name eingezogen wird.
description: Published as part of Puthz, V., 2008, Stenus LATREILLE und die segenreiche Himmelstochter (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 137-230 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1) on page 148, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5426801
Maternal, umbilical arterial metabolic levels and placental Nrf2/CBR1 expression in pregnancies with and without 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency
Creators: name: Chen, Haiying
name: Zhang, Hongping
name: Xie, Han
name: Zheng, Jiayong
name: Lin, Meimei
name: Chen, Jingjing
name: Tong, Yu
name: Jin, Jiang
name: Xu, Kai
name: Yang, Jie
name: Sun, Congcong
name: Xu, Xiaoming
name: Zheng, Jianqiong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The aim of this case–control study was to document maternal, umbilical arterial metabolic levels and correlations in pregnancies with and without 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] deficiency, while, also investigating the expression of nuclear factor erythroid 2 related factor 2 (Nrf2) and carbonyl reductase 1 (CBR1) in the placenta. One hundred participants, 50 deficient for 25(OH)D and 50 normal, were recruited from among hospitalized single-term pregnant women who had elected for cesarean section. Umbilical arterial and placental samples were collected during cesarean section. Metabolic levels were assessed for the 25(OH)D deficiency and control groups’ maternal, umbilical arterial samples. Nrf2 and CBR1 expression levels were investigated in the placentas of 12 pregnant women with 25(OH)D deficiency and 12 controls. Compared with the control participants, the 25(OH)D deficient women had significantly higher triglyceride (TG) levels (3.80 ± 2.11 vs. 2.93 ± 1.16 mmol/L, 3.64 ± 1.84 vs. 2.81 ± 1.16 mmol/L, p < .01, .001); lower high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels (1.54 ± 0.32 vs. 1.82 ± 0.63 mmol/L, 1.41 ± 0.72 vs. 2.44 ± 1.68 mmol/L, p < .001, .01) in both material blood and the umbilical artery. In addition, Nrf2 and CBR1 expression levels were lower in the maternal 25(OH)D deficient placenta. 25(OH)D deficient pregnant women have higher TG levels and lower HDL-C levels in both material blood and the umbilical artery. TG level is negatively correlated with 25(OH)D in both the maternal serum and infant umbilical artery. 25(OH)D deficiency also lowers placental expression of Nrf2 and CBR1. Supplemental data for this article is available online at here.
Additional file 1 of Correction: Genome-wide association study and trans-ethnic meta-analysis identify novel susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Elashi, Asma A
name: Toor, Salman M
name: Umlai, Umm-Kulthum Ismail
name: Al-Sarraj, Yasser A.
name: Taheri, Shahrad
name: Suhre, Karsten
name: Abou-Samra, Abdul Badi
name: Albagha, Omar M. E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1