cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Metal oxide heterostructured films with controlled architecture for enhanced photocatalytic properties
Creators: name: Periyannan, Shanmugapriya
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2020

description: Photocatalytic processes possess favourable features that could address the various issues concerning environmental pollution. Among these issues, treatment of polluted water and water splitting for renewable hydrogen production are extensively studied but are still confronted to limitations for achieving high photocatalytic efficiencies that could be suc- cessfully commercialized. Investigations on powder materials have been widely reported for pollutant degradation/water treatment, but difficulties are prevailing in the re-usability of the material. Moreover, there is the need for finding a suitable heterostructured photo- catalyst that could provide better charge kinetics, an ultimate goal in photocatalyst design. Therefore, in this work, we have investigated thin-film based heterostructure photocatalysts, for improving the photocatalytic activity, especially towards pollutant degradation. For this purpose, we have investigated the surface and interfacial properties of semiconductor/semiconductor (p-n type, NiO/ZnO) and metal/semiconductor (metal/n- type, RuO2/ZnO) heterostructures using systematic (step-by-step) interface studies, in order to gain knowledge regarding the influence of ZnO surface cleaning in the interfacial band bending, thereby analyzing the possibilities of their use as photocatalysts. Furthermore, we have explored the electrical, optical and interfacial properties of ZnO nanorods (n-type) with NiO coating (p-type) by varying the NiO deposition parame- ters, to identify an optimized heterostructure. We examined the photocatalytic performance of these films for pollutant (Rhodamine B) degradation. In parallel, we explored the inter- action of water with heterostructured (NiO/ZnO) photocatalysts, to interpret the surface reactions and their influence on interfacial band bending, a strategy for understanding the heterostructured photocatalysts, which was not explored before. Finally, we tested the ZnO nanorod film in an industrial research context for Rho- damine B degradation, to investigate the upscaling perspectives of the materials developed in this project.
tragédie d’espionnage dans le contexte européen du Directoire et du Consulat
Creators: name: Perazzolo, Paola
name: Bret-Vitoz, Renaud
Publisher: name: Publifarum
Year: 2023

description: Résumé en français Le succès sous le Consulat de Blanche et Montcassin ou Les Vénitiens, tragédie du citoyen Arnault signe le renouveau du théâtre de conspiration politique grâce à une nouvelle topique, la « tragédie d’espionnage ». L’originalité d’un sujet sur le contre-espionnage – le mot « espion » apparaît pour la première fois dans la langue tragique grâce à la pièce –, le statut ambigu du héros et la familiarité des enjeux, du cadre civil et même de l’adversaire invitent à définir un nouveau type de tragédie de conjuration, dont le modèle classique en France est fondé depuis Cinna sur les préparatifs d’un meurtre politique puis sa réalisation ou sa mise en déroute. Arnault change d’approche en se plaçant après le complot. Il présente son ouvrage comme une suite dramatique des nombreuses pièces sur la conjuration de Venise afin de révéler les effets funestes sur la société de la suspicion généralisée et de la crainte de l’ennemi de l’intérieur. Le désir de rendre compte d’une actualité internationale et diplomatique dont il est devenu un acteur le conduit à innover et à ouvrir la voie à tout un courant, dans différents genres, traitant d’affrontements politiques secrets plus ou moins funestes jusque dans l’intimité familiale.
description: Publifarum, V. 37 N. 1 (2022): Vie des théâtres et poésie dramatique du Consulat à la Restauration (1799-1823)
Additional file 5 of Efficacy of beetroot juice on reducing blood pressure in hypertensive adults with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (BEET-PKD): study protocol for a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial
Creators: name: Sagar, Priyanka S.
name: Munt, Alexandra
name: Saravanabavan, Sayanthooran
name: Vahedi, Farnoosh Asghar
name: Elhindi, James
name: Nguyen, Beatrice
name: Chau, Katrina
name: Harris, David C.
name: Lee, Vincent
name: Sud, Kamal
name: Wong, Nikki
name: Rangan, Gopala K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5. BEET-PKD Adverse Event Reporting Guide and Example form. Description: Adverse event reporting guide used by Investigators and Blank adverse event reporting form
Theory of Dipole Induced Electromagnetic Transparency
Creators: name: Puthumpally-Joseph, Raiju
name: Atabek, Osman
name: Sukharev, Maxim
name: Charron, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detailed theory describing linear optics of vapors comprised of interacting multi-level quantum emitters is proposed. It is shown both by direct integration of Maxwell-Bloch equations and using a simple analytical model that at large densities narrow transparency windows appear in otherwise completely opaque spectra. The existence of such windows is attributed to overlapping resonances. This effect, first introduced for three-level systems in [R. Puthumpally-Joseph, M. Sukharev, O. Atabek and E. Charron, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 163603 (2014)], is due to strongly enhanced dipole-dipole interactions at high emitters' densities. The presented theory extends this effect to the case of multilevel systems. The theory is applied to the D1 transitions of interacting Rb-85 atoms. It is shown that at high atomic densities, Rb-85 atoms can behave as three-level emitters exhibiting all the properties of dipole induced electromagnetic transparency. Applications including slow light and laser pulse shaping are also proposed.
Momentum-Current Gravitational Multipoles of Hadrons
Creators: name: Ji, Xiangdong
name: Liu, Yizhuang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study multipole expansion of the momentum currents in hadrons, with three series $S^{(J)}$, $\tilde T^{(J)}$, and $T^{(J)}$, in connection with the gravitational fields generated nearby. The momentum currents are related to their energy-momentum form factors, which in principle can be probed through processes like deeply-virtual Compton scattering currently studied at JLab 12 GeV facility and future Electron Ion Collider. We define the leading momentum-current multipoles, tensor monopole $τ$ ($T0$) and scalar quadrupole $\hat σ^{ij}$ ($S2$) moments, relating the former to the so-called $D$-term in the literature. We calculate the momentum current distribution in hydrogen atom and its monopole moment in the basic unit of $τ_0 =\hbar^2/4M$, showing that the sign of $D$-term has little to do with mechanical stability. The momentum current distribution also strongly modifies the static gravitational field inside hadrons.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures
Geometric approach to parabolic induction
Creators: name: Kazhdan, David
name: Varshavsky, Yakov
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this note we construct a "restriction" map from the cocenter of a reductive group G over a local non-archimedean field F to the cocenter of a Levi subgroup. We show that the dual map corresponds to parabolic induction and deduce that parabolic induction preserves stability. We also give a new (purely geometric) proof that the character of normalized parabolic induction does not depend on a parabolic subgroup. In the appendix, we use a similar argument to extend a theorem of Lusztig-Spaltenstein on induced unipotent classes to all infinite fields.
description: 29 pages, a grant acknowledgement is changed
Multi-messenger-Athena Synergy White Paper
Creators: name: Piro, L.
name: Ahlers, M.
name: Coleiro, A.
name: Colpi, M.
name: Wilhelmi, E. de Oña
name: Guainazzi, M.
name: Jonker, P. G.
name: Namara, P. Mc
name: Nichols, D. A.
name: O'Brien, P.
name: Troja, E.
name: Vink, J.
name: Aird, J.
name: Amati, L.
name: Anand, S.
name: Bozzo, E.
name: Carrera, F. J.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Fryer, C.
name: Hall, E.
name: Korobkin, O.
name: Korol, V.
name: Mangiagli, A.
name: Martínez-Núñez, S.
name: Nissanke, S.
name: Osborne, J.
name: Padovani, P.
name: Rossi, E. M.
name: Ryan, G.
name: Sesana, A.
name: Stratta, G.
name: Tanvir, N.
name: van Eerten, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we explore the scientific synergies between Athena and some of the key multi-messenger facilities that should be operative concurrently with Athena. These facilities include LIGO A+, Advanced Virgo+ and future detectors for ground-based observation of gravitational waves (GW), LISA for space-based observations of GW, IceCube and KM3NeT for neutrino observations, and CTA for very high energy observations. These science themes encompass pressing issues in astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental physics such as: the central engine and jet physics in compact binary mergers, accretion processes and jet physics in Super-Massive Binary Black Holes (SMBBHs) and in compact stellar binaries, the equation of state of neutron stars, cosmic accelerators and the origin of Cosmic Rays (CRs), the origin of intermediate and high-Z elements in the Universe, the Cosmic distance scale and tests of General Relativity and the Standard Model. Observational strategies for implementing the identified science topics are also discussed. A significant part of the sources targeted by multi-messenger facilities is of transient nature. We have thus also discussed the synergy of \textsl{Athena} with wide-field high-energy facilities, taking THESEUS as a case study for transient discovery. This discussion covers all the Athena science goals that rely on follow-up observations of high-energy transients identified by external observatories, and includes also topics that are not based on multi-messenger observations, such as the search for missing baryons or the observation of early star populations and metal enrichment at the cosmic dawn with Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs).
description: White paper of the multi-messenger Athena synergy excersise
Gulf fisheries supported resilience in the decade following unparalleled oiling
Creators: name: Swinea, S.H.
name: Fodrie, F.J.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Year: 2021

description: The 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DwH) disaster challenged the integrity of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) large-marine ecosystem at unprecedented scales, prompting concerns of devastating injury for GOM fisheries in the post-spill decade. Following the catastrophe, projected economic losses for regional commercial, recreational, and mariculture sectors for the decade after oiling were US$3.7–8.7 billion overall, owing to the vulnerability of economically prized, primarily nearshore taxa that support fishing communities. State and federal fisheries data during 2000–2017 indicated that GOM fishery sectors appeared to serve as remarkable anchors of resilience following the largest accidental marine oil spill in human history. Evidence of post-disaster impacts on fisheries economies was negligible. Rather, GOM commercial sales during 2010–2017 were US$0.8–1.5 billion above forecasts derived using pre-spill (2000–2009) trajectories, while pre- and post-spill recreational fishery trends did not differ appreciably. No post-spill shifts in target species or effort distribution across states were apparent to explain these findings. Unraveling the mechanisms for this unforeseen stability represents an important avenue for understanding the vulnerability or resilience of human–natural systems to future disturbances. Following DwH, the causes for fishery responses are likely multifaceted and complex (including exogenous economic forces that typically affect fisheries-dependent data), but appear partially explained by the relative ecological stability of coastal fishery assemblages despite widespread oiling, which has been corroborated by multiple fishery-independent surveys across the northern GOM. Additionally, we hypothesize that damage payments to fishermen led to acquisition or retooling of commercial fisheries infrastructure, and subsequent rises in harvest effort. Combined, these social–ecological dynamics likely aided recovery of stressed coastal GOM communities in the years after DwH, although increased fishing pressure in the post-spill era may have consequences for future GOM ecosystem structure, function, and resilience.
Tragédie et politique sous le Consulat et l’Empire : entre référence à l’actualité et problématisation du présent
Creators: name: Nicolosi, Dario Maria
Publisher: name: Publifarum
Year: 2023

description: Dans les analyses de la tragédie du Consulat et de l’Empire, la critique rappelle souvent le rôle qui assume le théâtre dans l’orientation de l’opinion publique : il devient un moyen de célébration propagandiste de la puissance de Napoléon et un instrument privilégié de diffusion des modèles politiques, éthiques, sociaux de la nouvelle France en construction, après la Révolution. Le but de cet article est de nuancer cette interprétation : en raison de ses règles poétiques et des attentes des spectateurs, la tragédie se situe à l’égard de la réalité de manière critique et problématique, sublimant ses conflits idéologiques. Si les tragédies s’inspirent nécessairement à la période exceptionnelle de leurs compositions, cependant elles ne s’y rapportent pas de manière référentielle, mais elles préfèrent au contraire questionner l’actualité et faire émerger ses apories radicales.
description: Publifarum, V. 37 N. 1 (2022): Vie des théâtres et poésie dramatique du Consulat à la Restauration (1799-1823)
Correlation-Enabled Energy Exchange in Quantum Systems without External Driving
Creators: name: Pyhäranta, T.
name: Alipour, S.
name: Rezakhani, A. T.
name: Ala-Nissila, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the role of correlation in mechanisms of energy exchange between an interacting bipartite quantum system and its environment by decomposing the energy of the system to local and correlation-related contributions. When the system Hamiltonian is time-independent, no external work is performed. In this case, energy exchange between the system and its environment occurs only due to the change in the state of the system. We investigate possibility of a special case where the energy exchange with the environment occurs exclusively due to changes in the correlation between the constituent parts of the bipartite system, while their local energies remain constant. We find sufficient conditions for preserving local energies. It is proven that under these conditions and within the Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (GKLS) dynamics this scenario is not possible for all initial states of the bipartite system. Nevertheless, it is still possible to find special initial states for which the local energies remain unchanged during the associated evolution and the whole energy exchange is only due to the change in the correlation energy. We illustrate our results with an example.
description: 5 pages
Consistent and conservative phase-field based lattice Boltzmann method for incompressible two-phase flows
Creators: name: Zhan, Chengjie
name: Chai, Zhenhua
name: Shi, Baochang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we consider a general consistent and conservative phase-field model for the incompressible two-phase flows. In this model, not only the Cahn-Hilliard or Allen-Cahn equation can be adopted, but also the mass and the momentum fluxes in the Navier-Stokes equations are reformulated such that the consistency of reduction, consistency of mass and momentum transport, and the consistency of mass conservation are satisfied. We further develop a lattice Boltzmann (LB) method and show that through the direct Taylor expansion, the present LB method can correctly recover the consistent and conservative phase-field model. Additionally, if the divergence of the extra momentum flux is seen as a force term, the extra force in the present LB method would include another term which has not been considered in the previous LB models. To quantitatively evaluate the incompressibility and the consistency of the mass conservation, two statistical variables are introduced in the study of the deformation of a square droplet, and the results show that the present LB method is more accurate. The layered Poiseuille flow and a droplet spreading on an ideal wall are further investigated, and the numerical results are in good agreement with the analytical solutions. Finally, the problems of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability and dam break with the high Reynolds numbers and/or large density ratios are studied, and it is found that the present consistent and conservative LB method is robust for such complex two-phase flows.
Quantum Cramér-Rao bound for quantum statistical models with parameter-dependent rank
Creators: name: Ye, Yating
name: Lu, Xiao-Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, a widely-used computation expression for quantum Fisher information was shown to be discontinuous at the parameter points where the rank of the parametric density operator changes. The quantum Cramér-Rao bound can be violated on such singular parameter points if one uses this computation expression for quantum Fisher information. We point out that the discontinuity of the computation expression of quantum Fisher information is accompanied with the unboundedness of the symmetric logarithmic derivation operators, based on which the quantum Fisher information is formally defined and the quantum Cramér-Rao bound is originally proved. We argue that the limiting version of quantum Cramér-Rao bound still holds when the parametric density operator changes its rank by closing the potential loophole of involving an unbounded SLD operator in the proof of the bound. Moreover, we analyze a typical example of the quantum statistical models with parameter-dependent rank.
description: 9pages, 2 figures. This is a rewritten version. Accepted by Physical Review A
Additional file 3 of Sex differences in the effects of prematurity and/or low birthweight on neurodevelopmental outcomes: systematic review and meta-analyses
Creators: name: Christians, Julian K.
name: Ahmadzadeh-Seddeighi, Saboura
name: Bilal, Alishba
name: Bogdanovic, Anastasia
name: Ho, Rebecca
name: Leung, Estee V.
name: MacGregor, Megan A.
name: Nadasdy, Nolan M.
name: Principe, Gabriella M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 3: Figure S1. Effect of age as a moderator on the effect of severe prematurity/low birthweight on cognitive function. Squares and circles are estimates for males and females, respectively, and marker size indicates weight. Figure S2. Effect of age as a moderator on the effect of moderate prematurity/low birthweight on cognitive function. Figure S3. Effect of age as a moderator on the effect of severe prematurity/low birthweight on internalizing problems. Figure S4. Effect of age as a moderator on the effect of severe prematurity/low birthweight on externalizing problems. Figure S5. Effect of age as a moderator on the effect of moderate prematurity/low birthweight on externalizing problems. Figure S6. Funnel plot of residuals (observed–fitted values) and standard errors for the effect of severe prematurity/low birthweight on cognitive function. Squares and circles are estimates for males and females, respectively, and marker size indicates weight. Figure S7. Funnel plot for the effect of moderate prematurity/low birthweight on cognitive function. Figure S8. Funnel plot for the effect of severe prematurity/low birthweight on internalizing problems. Figure S9. Funnel plot for the effect of severe prematurity/low birthweight on externalizing problems. Figure S10. Funnel plot for the effect of moderate prematurity/low birthweight on externalizing problems.
Balancing Economics and Health in Setting Environmental Standards
Creators: name: Lave, Lester B
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: No one likes to face the prospect of harm or loss, especially if the situation is not of one's choosing. Carcinogens added to food, noxious air pollutants, and toxic substances' in the environment increase the risk of untoward events. If nothing can be done to lower the risk, because the technology doesn't exist or is too expensive, one can rage at the circumstance, but must bear the loss. But surely the probability of loss should be removed or at least lowered as much as possible when that is technologically feasible and the costs can be borne without bankrupting an industry.
Comique et comédie au début du XIXe siècle (1799-1820)
Creators: name: De Santis, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: Publifarum
Year: 2023

description: Face aux expériences de la décennie révolutionnaire, la période napoléonienne se signale par une « stagnation » dans l’expérimentation dramaturgique, qui va de pair avec une progressive restauration des genres classiques. Exception à cette tendance la « comédie-historique ». Elle représente un cas important de réflexion et expérimentation dramaturgique et une tentative de renouveau du système générique pour créer un théâtre capable d’incarner la nouvelle vision du monde postrévolutionnaire. Sans négliger l’apport des formes plus traditionnelles de comédie qui caractérise par exemple la production des petits-théâtres, je me concentrerai sur l’évolution des genres comiques entre Consulat et Restauration, et, de manière plus générale, sur leur rapport à l’évolution des genres théâtraux.
description: Publifarum, V. 37 N. 1 (2022): Vie des théâtres et poésie dramatique du Consulat à la Restauration (1799-1823)
Peculiar Near-Nucleus Outgassing of Comet 17P/Holmes During Its 2007 Outburst
Creators: name: Qi, Chunhua
name: Hogerheijde, Michiel R.
name: Jewitt, David
name: Gurwell, Mark A.
name: Wilner, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high angular resolution Submillimeter Array observations ofthe outbursting Jupiter family comet 17P/Holmes on 2007 October 26-29, achieving a spatial resolution of 2.5", or ~3000 km at the comet distance. The observations resulted in detections of the rotational lines CO 3-2, HCN 4-3, H$^{13}$CN 4-3, CS 7-6, H$_2$CO 3$_{1,2}$-2$_{1,1}$, H$_2$S 2$_{2,0}$-2$_{1,1}$, and multiple CH$_3$OH lines, along with the associated dust continuum at 221 and 349 GHz. The continuum has a spectral index of 2.7$\pm$0.3, slightly steeper than blackbody emission from large dust particles. From the imaging data, we identify two components in the molecular emission. One component is characterized by a relatively broad line width (~1 km s$^{-1}$ FWHM) exhibiting a symmetric outgassing pattern with respect to the nucleus position. The second component has a narrower line width (<0.5 km s$^{-1}$ FWHM) with the line center red-shifted by 0.1-0.2 km s$^{-1}$ (cometocentric frame), and shows a velocity shift across the nucleus position with the position angle gradually changing from 66 to 30 degrees within the four days of observations. We determine distinctly different CO/HCN ratios for each of the components. For the broad-line component we find CO/HCN <7, while in the narrow-line component, CO/HCN = 40$\pm$5. We hypothesize that the narrow-line component originates from the ice grain halo found in near-nucleus photometry, believed to be created by sublimating recently released ice grains around the nucleus during the outburst. In this interpretation, the high CO/HCN ratio of this component reflects the more pristine volatile composition of nucleus material released in the outburst.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, accepted to ApJ
title: Home is where the art is : creating healing environments
Creators: name: Rasmaidh, Kerri
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2020

description: Residential care facilities are both institutional and domestic; they are homes but also places of work. Why is it that residential care homes for children are so generic and soulless, lacking warmth and love? We examine the nature of the individuals who live within residential homes to find an answer to this conundrum and then the resulting solutions, with some suggestion on how to create a nurturing and healing environment for all; a space that feeds the body, mind and soul of those within.
Additional file 4 of Sex differences in the effects of prematurity and/or low birthweight on neurodevelopmental outcomes: systematic review and meta-analyses
Creators: name: Christians, Julian K.
name: Ahmadzadeh-Seddeighi, Saboura
name: Bilal, Alishba
name: Bogdanovic, Anastasia
name: Ho, Rebecca
name: Leung, Estee V.
name: MacGregor, Megan A.
name: Nadasdy, Nolan M.
name: Principe, Gabriella M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 4. Additional results.
Book Review: Economics of Environmental Policy - A. Myrick Freeman,III, Robert Haveman, and Allen V. Kneese
Creators: name: Lave, Lester B.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Not long ago the economics of the environment consisted of a series of theoretical observations that: a) discharging pollution represented a classic externality, b) we should internalize the effect via taxes or subsidies (effluent charges in the jargon), and 3) as soon as some good engineers get us the production functions, as soon as physicians get us health damage functions. as soon as politicians get us social welfare functions for the aesthetics of a clean environment, etc., we will show them how to equate marginal cost with marginal benefit. The literature has now burgeoned with the proceedings of three major conferences held on the subject and numerous articles and books.
Size Changes within a Southeastern United States Coastal Shark Assemblage: 1975–2018
Creators: name: Fodrie, F.J.
name: Bargione, G.
name: Fegley, S.R.
name: Benavides, M.T.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Year: 2021

description: Harvest may have myriad effects on target species, including a change in population size structure. To assess whether size shifts have occurred among managed coastal species of shark (superorder Selachimorpha), we examined the population size structure of 12 species caught during a nearly five-decade-long fishery-independent survey conducted in Onslow Bay, North Carolina, using standardized longline gear. We evaluated trends in mean fork length (FL), median FL, and index of maximum FL (L90%) for each species separately across time using linear regression models. We also examined trends in size-classes (200-mm bins) and catch per unit effort for each species over time. For 10 of the 12 species (excluding sample-size-constrained Tiger Shark Galeocerdo cuvier and Bull Shark Carcharhinus leucas), size structure metrics indicated decreasing sizes over time, although statistical confidence for these patterns varied across species and metrics. Strongest statistical support for declining sizes was observed for Blacknose Shark Carcharhinus acronotus (mean FL, median FL, L90%), Dusky Shark Carcharhinus obscurus (L90%), Smooth Dogfish Mustelus canis (L90%), and Atlantic Sharpnose Shark Rhizoprionodon terraenovae (L90%). Magnitude of decreases in L90% among these 10 species during the survey ranged from roughly 9% (Silky Shark Carcharhinus falciformis; 83-mm decrease) to 35% (Sandbar Shark Carcharhinus plumbeus; 541-mm decrease). Our findings indicate a potential for fishing pressure to exert directional selection on these coastal shark species, although further research is needed regarding the nature of size-dependent catchability and species-specific vital rates to adequately evaluate these dynamics. Furthermore, in addition to the removal of “great sharks,” decreasing sizes of small coastal sharks, such as Blacknose Shark, Smooth Dogfish, and Atlantic Sharpnose Shark (i.e., “mesopredators”), suggest that harvest may have pervasive effects on species throughout this assemblage.
Additional file 6 of Efficacy of beetroot juice on reducing blood pressure in hypertensive adults with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (BEET-PKD): study protocol for a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial
Creators: name: Sagar, Priyanka S.
name: Munt, Alexandra
name: Saravanabavan, Sayanthooran
name: Vahedi, Farnoosh Asghar
name: Elhindi, James
name: Nguyen, Beatrice
name: Chau, Katrina
name: Harris, David C.
name: Lee, Vincent
name: Sud, Kamal
name: Wong, Nikki
name: Rangan, Gopala K.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 6. Flowchart to guide unblinding in the BEET-PKD study. Description: Flowchart to guide unblinding in the BEET-PKD study (adapted from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom).
title: Crossing the paradigm of 'Including the "Self"' : toward an understanding of comprehensive reflexivity and a systemic epistemology as useful concepts for social care professionals
Creators: name: Reynolds, Niall
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2020

description: Sometimes the most important relationships in a young person's life are those with the social care professionals who are charged with their care. Often these relationships develop and evolve within complex systems with an increasing move toward a culture of monetisation of care which is driven by the structures of advanced capitalism. These broader economic processes present a challenge for social care professionals in how they position themselves within often competing narratives about the delivery of care. In this paper I will discuss the concepts of adopting a systemic epistemology that encourages social care professionals to engage with themselves within the broader frame of what is called comprehensive reflexivity. Ideas will be discussed that focus on making connections between the social constructive paradigms and front line practice. It is often said of systemic psychotherapists that their area of expertise is in being non expert. They often deploy this idea deliberately in order to assess and dilute the power dynamics within relationships and employ collaborative practice techniques as a means of building meaningful relationships. The transferability of these ideas is hugely relevant to social care professionals interested in developing ethical and reflexive practice.
Supplementary Material (Part II) for "Learning-Based Approaches for Reconstructions with Inexact Operators in nanoCT Applications".
Creators: name: Lütjen, Tom
name: Schönfeld, Fabian
name: Oberacker, Alice
name: Leuschner, Johannes
name: Schmidt, Maximilian
name: Wald, Anne
name: Kluth, Tobias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: computed tomography
operator inexactness
nano-CT

description: Supplementary Material (Part II) for the paper Learning-Based Approaches for Reconstructions with Inexact Operators in nanoCT Applications. See Part I for a description of contents.
Book Review: The risk professionals, by Thomas M. Dietz and Robert W. Rycroft
Creators: name: Lave, Lester B
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: In attempting to revitalize the Environmental Protection Agency after the debacle of the early Reagan administration, William Ruckleshaus called for increasing professionalism of environmental management through the use of risk assessment methods. He stressed science over politics and urged professionalism up to the point of political decisions (which must balance values). In an ideal world, these risk assessors would delimit, analyze, and set out the implications of each decision. As faceless scientists, they could be moved among jobs with little effect on the decisions or their implementation. However, as Graham, Green, and Roberts demonstrate in In Search of Safety, the scientific foundation of risk assessment is too weak to eliminate important scientific disagreement. Instead, the scientific basis can only set bounds on the level, and even the nature; of risk to health and limb.
Abiotic Cycles Mediate the Strength of Cross-Boundary Consumption Within Coastal Food Webs
Creators: name: Fodrie, F.J.
name: Miller, M.D.
name: Ziegler, S.L.
name: Smith, C.S.
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2021

description: Understanding the effect of habitat edges on species interactions (e.g. predation) is critical for determining landscape-scale patterns in productivity and the structuring of communities in an ever-changing environment. Both abiotic cycles and habitat structure can mediate faunal movements across habitat edges and determine predators’ ability to access prey across both space and time. To quantify the effects of cyclical abiotic factors and habitat structure on consumer-resource dynamics across habitat boundaries at the land-sea interface, four complementary studies were conducted. Marsh periwinkles Littoraria irrorata were tethered within salt marshes of varying tidal amplitude, at 3 distances from the marsh edge, and assessed for predation after 24 h. Nekton catch rate was assessed with fyke net sampling as a proxy for predator utilization of the marsh platform. Consumption rates were positively correlated with tidal amplitude and proximity to the seaward marsh edge, and there was also a slight positive relationship between tidal amplitude and nekton access to the marsh. Tidal amplitude was positively correlated with Spartina alterniflora shoot density and negatively correlated with shoot height. Therefore, to separate the effects of habitat structure from tidal forcing, independent manipulations of shoot density and shoot height were conducted. We found that the signal of local habitat structure on consumption rates appears to be secondary to the effects of abiotic cycles on consumption. Disentangling the interactions between abiotic cycles and biotic structure of ecosystems across ecological boundaries is key to understanding both the strengths of species interactions and the mediation of cross-boundary energy flow.
Shark detection probability from aerial drone surveys within a temperate estuary
Creators: name: Benavides, M.T.
name: Fodrie, F.J.
name: Johnston, D.W.
Publisher: name: Canadian Science Publishing
Year: 2020

description: Drones are easy to operate over metres-to-kilometre scales, making them potentially useful to monitor species distributions and habitat use in shallow estuaries with widely varying environmental conditions. To investigate the utility of drones for surveying bonnethead sharks (Sphyrna tiburo) across estuarine environmental gradients, we deployed decoys, fashioned to mimic sharks, in the field. Decoys were placed in two flight areas (0.8 km2 each) in shallow (<2 m) water near Beaufort, N.C., on five days during 2015–2016. Survey flights were conducted using a fixed-wing drone (senseFly eBee) equipped with a digital camera. Images were indexed for combinations of six environmental factors across flights. Images representative of all (N = 36) observed environmental combinations were sent to a group of 15 scientists who were asked to identify sharks in each image. Non-parametric rank-sum comparisons and regression tree analysis on resultant detection probabilities highlighted depth as having the largest, statistically reliable influence on detection probabilities, with decreasing detection probabilities at increased depth. Detection probabilities were higher during midday flights, with notable effects of wind speed and cloud presence also apparent. Our study highlights depth as a first-order factor constraining the temperate estuarine habitats over which drones may reliably quantify sharks (i.e., <0.75 m).
Predation patterns across states of landscape fragmentation can shift with seasonal transitions
Creators: name: Fodrie, F.J.
name: Yarnall, A.H.
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2020

description: Nested scales of habitat heterogeneity may independently or synergistically influence faunal interactions. Fragmentation effects (i.e., the breaking apart of landscapes) and edge effects (i.e., ecological differences between edges and interiors of patches, nested within landscapes) are distinct yet related ecological concepts, linked mathematically by the habitat edge-to-area ratio. Our study quantified the separate and interactive effects of fragmentation and edge on predation using temperate seagrass. To assess how predation and generalized consumption were influenced by fragmentation state (i.e., continuous, fragmented), and proximity to edge (i.e., edges, interiors), we used tethering assays with two prey-items: juvenile crabs, Callinectes sapidus, and “squidpops” (dried squid mantle). We also investigated whether faunal densities (a proxy for consumption potential) and temperature (a proxy for a broad suite of seasonal changes) correlated with predation across landscapes. Results showed fragmentation state affected predation (i.e., crab) mortality, yet edge effects did not. Moreover, the directionality of fragmentation effects shifted across a temperature/seasonal gradient. Predation mortality more than doubled in continuous landscapes amidst temperature increases, surpassing initially higher mortality in fragmented landscapes, which did not systematically vary with temperature. This mortality magnitude “flip” matched spatiotemporal trends in faunal densities between continuous and fragmented meadows. Consumption rates of both prey-items increased alongside temperature and neither demonstrated edge effects. However, crabs showed fragmentation effects not seen with squidpops, suggesting differing foraging strategies used by consumers of these prey-items. We conclude that fragmentation and edge effects have dynamic influences on temperate predator–prey interactions, as faunal favorability of habitat heterogeneity can “flip” temporally.
Branching on General Disjunctions
Creators: name: Karamanov, Miroslav
name: Cornuejols, Gerard
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper considers a modification of the branch-and-cut algorithm for
Mixed Integer Linear Programming where branching is performed on general disjunctions
rather than on variables. We select promising branching disjunctions based
on a heuristic measure of disjunction quality. This measure exploits the relation between
branching disjunctions and intersection cuts. In this work, we focus on disjunctions
defining the mixed integer Gomory cuts at an optimal basis of the linear
programming relaxation. The procedure is tested on instances from the literature.
Experiments show that, for a majority of the instances, the enumeration tree obtained
by branching on these general disjunctions has a smaller size than the tree obtained by
branching on variables, even when variable branching is performed using full strong
branching.
Additional file 1 of Response rates in clinical quality registries and databases that collect patient reported outcome measures: a scoping review
Creators: name: Ruseckaite, Rasa
name: Mudunna, Chethana
name: Caruso, Marisa
name: Ahern, Susannah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Provides the search strategy used in EMBASE and MEDLINE.
Choosing a Liquid Fuel Supply Mix
Creators: name: Lave, Lester B.
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The rising prices of gasoline, lines at service stations, and occasional unavailability of gasoline are evidence of short term, and possibly long term problems with petroleum supply. This hearing is performing a useful service in exploring alternative sources of liquid fuel, particularly that for automobiles. Since none of these alternative sources could make an appreciable contribution for some years, it is only the intermediate and long terms that are relevant; I will leave behind, with relief, the morass of short term supply problems.
Additional file 1 of Population norms for the EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L in Romania
Creators: name: Olariu, Elena
name: Caplescu, Raluca
name: Vale, Luke
name: Niculescu-Aron, Ileana Gabriela
name: Oluboyede, Yemi
name: Paveliu, Marian Sorin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Romanian population norms for the EQ-5D-5L dimensions by age groups (weighted sample). Supplementary Table 2. Romanian population norms for the EQ-5D-3L dimensions by age groups (weighted sample). Supplementary Table 3. Romanian population norms for men for the EQ-5D-5L dimensions by age groups (weighted sample). Supplementary Table 4. Romanian population norms for men for the EQ-5D-3L dimensions by age groups (weighted sample). Supplementary Table 5. Romanian population norms for women for the EQ-5D-5L dimensions by age groups (weighted sample). Supplementary Table 6. Romanian population norms for women for the EQ-5D-3L dimensions by age groups (weighted sample). Supplementary Table 7. Percentage of people reporting problems in the EQ-5D-5L and EQ-5D-3L dimensions by place of residence (weighted sample). Supplementary Table 8. Most frequently reported EQ-5D-5L health states and their mean index values and EQ VAS scores. Weighted sample. Supplementary Table 9. Most frequently reported EQ-5D-3L health states and their mean index values and EQ VAS scores. Weighted sample.
Measuring optical transmission matrices by wavefront shaping
Creators: name: Yoon, Jonghee
name: Lee, KyeoReh
name: Park, Jongchan
name: Park, YongKeun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a simple but practical method to measure the optical transmission matrix (TM) of complex media. The optical TM of a complex medium is obtained by modulating the wavefront of a beam impinging on the complex medium and imaging the transmitted full-field speckle intensity patterns. Using the retrieved TM, we demonstrate the generation and linear combination of multiple foci on demand through the complex medium. This method will be used as a versatile tool for coherence control of waves through turbid media.
description: The manuscript has been submitted to Optics Express
Inferring galaxy dark halo properties from visible matter with Machine Learning
Creators: name: von Marttens, Rodrigo
name: Casarini, Luciano
name: Napolitano, Nicola R.
name: Wu, Sirui
name: Amaro, Valeria
name: Li, Rui
name: Tortora, Crescenzo
name: Canabarro, Askery
name: Wang, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Next-generation surveys will provide photometric and spectroscopic data of millions to billions of galaxies with unprecedented precision. This offers a unique chance to improve our understanding of the galaxy evolution and the unresolved nature of dark matter (DM). At galaxy scales, the density distribution of DM is strongly affected by the astrophysical feedback processes, which are difficult to fully account for in classical techniques to derive mass models. In this work, we explore the capability of supervised learning algorithms to predict the DM content of galaxies from luminous observational-like parameters, using the public catalog of the TNG100 simulation. In particular, we use Photometric, Structural and Kinematic parameters to predict the total DM mass, DM half-mass radius, DM mass inside one and two stellar half-mass radii. We adopt the coefficient of determination, $R^2$, as a reference metric to evaluate the accuracy of these predictions. We find that the Photometric features alone are able to predict the total DM mass with fair accuracy, while Structural and Photometric features together are more effective to determine the DM inside the stellar half mass radius, and the DM within twice the stellar half mass radius. However, using all observational quantities together (Photometry, Structural and Kinematics) incredibly improves the overall accuracy for all DM quantities. This first test shows that Machine Learning tools are promising approaches to derive predictions of the DM in real galaxies. The next steps will be to improve observational realism of the training sets, by closely select samples which accurately reproduce the typical observed luminous scaling relations. The trained pipelines will be suitable for real galaxy data collected from the next-generation surveys like Rubin/LSST, Euclid, CSST, 4MOST, DESI, to derive, e.g., the properties of their central DM fractions.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to MNRAS. Comments are welcome