cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Biodiversity, Community Dynamics, and Novel Foraging Behaviors of a Rich Native Bee Fauna Across Habitats at Pinnacles National Park, California
Creators: name: Meiners, Joan M.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Wild, native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) provide pollination services valued at nearly $3 billion to U.S. agriculture annually, and are the primary pollinators maintaining plant communities in natural landscapes, an ecosystem service of incalculable worth. Global concern over widespread honeybee declines has spurred research to save that single species, while knowledge of the health and habitat requirements of 20,000 native bee species worldwide lags behind. Understanding dynamics and habitat associations of pristine native bee communities may help inform conservation priorities and restoration goals to ensure the widespread longevity of native bees. We surveyed the bee and plant communities over two flowering seasons and across four distinct habitat types (Alluvial, Live Oak Woodland, Blue Oak Woodland, and Grassland) at Pinnacles National Park, a protected biodiversity hotspot, and a pristine, heterogeneous environment. We collected 52,853 bee specimens over 308 collector days, and increased the species inventory to 479, from the previous 398 recorded as of the late 1990s. This statistic ranks Pinnacles as likely the most densely diverse area for native bees currently known.
Spatially, no relationship between habitat type and bee abundance or richness was observed. Bee species composition in Alluvial habitats, however, was more unique and showed lower dispersal, suggesting this habitat may serve as a nesting refugia for a core community of resident species. Temporally, we evaluated potential resilience of solitary bees to anticipated disruptions in bloom availability via novel, community-wide foraging on honeydew sugars produced by scale insects. We observed 56 native bee species using honeydew sugars during the early season low bloom, and determined that they locate this resource without visual cues. Overall, these findings suggest that native bee communities at Pinnacles National Park may be buffered against temporal resource shifts and may benefit from protection of the Alluvial habitat type. The patterns observed here should be evaluated in other locations to determine their value towards forecasting and managing widespread risks to native bees.
Additional file 4 of LncRNA IMFlnc1 promotes porcine intramuscular adipocyte adipogenesis by sponging miR-199a-5p to up-regulate CAV-1
Creators: name: Wang, Jing
name: Chen, Ming-yue
name: Chen, Jun-feng
name: Ren, Qiao-ling
name: Zhang, Jia-qing
name: Cao, Hai
name: Xing, Bao-song
name: Pan, Chuan-ying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4 : Table S4. The information of the primers used for real-time qPCR.
Elasticity of Polydomain Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Creators: name: Biggins, J. S.
name: Warner, M.
name: Bhattacharya, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We model polydomain liquid-crystal elastomers by extending the neo-classical soft and semi-soft free energies used successfully to describe monodomain samples. We show that there is a significant difference between polydomains cross-linked in homogeneous high symmetry states then cooled to low symmetry polydomain states and those cross-linked directly in the low symmetry polydomain state. For example, elastomers cross-linked in the isotropic state then cooled to a nematic polydomain will, in the ideal limit, be perfectly soft, and with the introduction of non-ideality, will deform at very low stress until they are macroscopically aligned. The director patterns observed in them will be disordered, characteristic of combinations of random deformations, and not disclination patterns. We expect these samples to exhibit elasticity significantly softer than monodomain samples. Polydomains cross-linked in the nematic polydomain state will be mechanically harder and contain characteristic schlieren director patterns. The models we use for polydomain elastomers are spatially heterogeneous, so rather than solving them exactly we elucidate this behavior by bounding the energies using Taylor-like (compatible test strain fields) and Sachs (constant stress) limits extended to non-linear elasticity. Good agreement is found with experiments that reveal the supersoft response of some polydomains. We also analyze smectic polydomain elastomers and propose that polydomain SmC* elastomers cross-linked in the SmA monodomain state are promising candidates for low field electrical actuation.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures
Extreme Value Theory for Hurwitz Complex Continued Fractions
Creators: name: Kirsebom, Maxim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The Hurwitz complex continued fraction is a generalization of the nearest integer continued fraction. In this paper we prove various results concerning extremes of the modulus of Hurwitz complex continued fraction digits. This includes a Poisson law and an extreme value law. The results are based on cusp estimates of the invariant measure about which information is still limited. In the process, we get several results concerning extremes of nearest integer continued fractions as well.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
[M.F.A. submission]
Creators: name: Jones, Patrick
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: I initially started to look at Chinese landscape painting when it was suggested that my paintings looked and felt vaguely similar to traditional Chinese painting. The more I looked and read about these images the more I felt myself drawn to them. Apart from the obviously impressive painterly qualities I was impressed by the self-evident belief in the relevance of their painting not only on a cultural level but as a means to self discovery and enlightenment. These paintings meant something to both artist and viewer and the contemplation and understanding of nature (landscape) were a key to this understanding. For a long time I had been bemoaning the fact that landscape in art today seemed to be dismissed as a 19th century irrelevancy when it most definitely was not to me. Here was a chance to look at a time when the landscape was of utmost importance to the wellbeing of a culture, to understand what it was that made this the case, and to see if what I myself was obtaining from the landscape had any precedent and ultimately, I suppose, any relevance to the late 20th century. Having said this, I myself have serious problems with the vast majority of today's landscape painting which seems not to be about the land but rather an idea of what the land might be or mean. There is no serious involvement with the land itself which is neatly packaged away as 'a construct of the mind'. Chinese art, especially of the Sung period, seemed at least to be acknowledging that something could be learnt from interaction with the land. This is how I felt myself to be relating to the land; I needed physically to be in it in order to experience it. I have decided to concentrate on several works from the Northern and Southern Sung periods. I have limited myself to these six as they seem to me to be representative of the general style of this time. In an essay of this length it seems preferable to concentrate in some depth on the main styles of painting rather than to skim over many of them, while including the transitional paintings, those reviving previous styles and those individualists working in isolation from mainstream culture. I intend to provide a brief background to the Sung period in its historical context while drawing attention to the cultural relevance of landscape painting at this time.
title: A Description of the Planarian Phagocata crenophila, New Species, From Utah
Creators: name: Carpenter, Jerry H.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1968

description: A new species of planaria in the genus Phagocata was found in several springs and spring-fed streams in Logan Canyon, Cache County, Utah. This species was named Phagocata crenophila because it greatly prefers to live in springs and it seems to be adapted behaviorally to this type of habitat. Serial sections and whole mounts were made by standard methods in order to study the anatomical features which are necessary for identification of planarians. The distinguishing features of this species are the following: testes ventral and extending from near the brain to near the posterior end, ejaculatory duct opening ventrally from the penis, penis short and rounded with a prominent finger-like lobe at the tip, two eyes situated far back on the truncated head, and color usually dark gray. Comparisons to similar species are made, and a new key to the species and subspecies of the genus Phagocata is proposed.
Several experiments were performed on cultured lab animals in order to determine their reactions to temperature and to current. Most animals which were kept in a refrigerator at l6°C. survived for a month or more. Several short experiments were performed using an artificial current created in 1000 mL. beakers by an electric magnetic stirrer. These tests indicate a fairly great tolerance of relatively high temperatures (16°C.), but a greater ability of P. crenophila to orient into a current and to resist being swept away by a strong current than Polycelis coronata with which it lives naturally.
The ecology of each spring or stream in which the new species is found is discussed briefly. Observations throughout the year indicate that P. crenophila prefers cold, fast flowing head waters of streams with substrates composed of rocks and moss. P. crenophila may be able to better survive the strong current or the winter dry periods at Ricks Spring than P. coronata, thus resulting in a greater proportion of the former species in this spring. In other springs, populations of P. crenophila appear to be limited, at least partially, by the large populations of P. coronata.
Nyctalus noctula
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Nyctalus
Nyctalus noctula

description: 69. Common Noctule, Nyctalus noctula (Schreber, 1774)
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Subspecies: N. n. lebanoticus Harrison, 1962.
Distribution: Rare; recorded from the coastal and southwestern region (Fig. 76).
Previous records: Safita and Mount Hermon (Benda et al. 2006).
Remarks: The Levantine N. noctula populations (Syria, Lebanon, Palestine) are traditionally considered as a separate subspecies, N. n. lebanoticus, based on coloration traits and biogeographic grounds (see Benda et al. 2006). However, this affiliation still requires confirmation by a molecular genetic analysis.
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on pages 76-78, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Solar activity and the mean global temperature
Creators: name: Erlykin, A. D.
name: Sloan, T.
name: Wolfendale, A. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The variation with time from 1956-2002 of the globally averaged rate of ionization produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere is deduced and shown to have a cyclic component of period roughly twice the 11 year solar cycle period. Long term variations in the global average surface temperature as a function of time since 1956 are found to have a similar cyclic component. The cyclic variations are also observed in the solar irradiance and in the mean daily sun spot number. The cyclic variation in the cosmic ray rate is observed to be delayed by 2-4 years relative to the temperature, the solar irradiance and daily sun spot variations suggesting that the origin of the correlation is more likely to be direct solar activity than cosmic rays. Assuming that the correlation is caused by such solar activity, we deduce that the maximum recent increase in the mean surface temperature of the Earth which can be ascribed to this activity is $\lesssim14%$ of the observed global warming.
description: Accepted for publication in Environmental Research Letters
title: A Comparative Study of Utah's Primary Elections
Creators: name: Daw, Owen B.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1968

description: The advantage of the incumbent in gaining re-nomination and voter participation in primary elections was studied. Six states, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Montana, and Washington were used as examples of different types of primaries during the years compared.
There seemed to be no significant difference in the voter participation between the open and closed primaries. The other factors which influence voting behavior affected voter turnout more than the type of primary did.
The incumbent advantage was slightly greater in the open primary, but not enough to be statistically significant.
The closed primary of 1966 in Utah did affect the amount of voter participation slightly, but probably due more to a lack of understanding of the primary than a protest of it.
Flash photolysis of the oxides of chlorine
Creators: name: Dogra, Sneh Kumar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The production of vibrationally excited oxygen, O*₂, following the isothermal flash photolysis of C10₂, C1₂O and of the C10 free radical has shown to be due to the reactions of oxygen atom with C10₂ and C10 (1, 2). In both reactions, the energy, distribution in the products is markedly non-equilibrated with a large fraction of the energy liberated in the form of vibrational excitation of the oxygen molecule. The highest level of O*₂ produced corresponds to the exothermicity of the reactions. The rate constants for the production of O*₂ in levels v'’ = 6 ➛ v’’ = 13 are approximately equal. The relaxation of 0*₂ by C10₂, C10 and by C1 and 0 atoms has been studied and the exceptional efficiency of the atoms demonstrated. The rate constant for the bimolecular reaction of C10 radicals (10) was measured using C10₂, C1₂/0₂, C1₂0, C1₂0/C1₂ as sources of the radicals. The constancy of the value of 2.7 ± 0.3 x 10⁷ 1 mole⁻¹ sec⁻¹ obtained from all systems contrasts with the literature values of 6.2 x 10⁷ 1 mole⁻¹ sec⁻¹, 4.8 x 10⁷ 1 mole⁻¹ sec⁻¹ and 2.4 x 10⁷ 1 mole⁻¹ sec⁻¹, obtained from the first three systems. The chlorine and bromine photosensitised decomposition of C10₂ and C1₂0 have been studied and the extinction coefficient of C10 and BrO free radicals measured. Mechanisms have been proposed for all systems and all relevant rate constants have been measured. The results are listed below. [formulas omitted]
A Complete Characterization of Statistical Query Learning with Applications to Evolvability
Creators: name: Feldman, Vitaly
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Statistical query (SQ) learning model of Kearns (1993) is a natural restriction of the PAC learning model in which a learning algorithm is allowed to obtain estimates of statistical properties of the examples but cannot see the examples themselves. We describe a new and simple characterization of the query complexity of learning in the SQ learning model. Unlike the previously known bounds on SQ learning our characterization preserves the accuracy and the efficiency of learning. The preservation of accuracy implies that that our characterization gives the first characterization of SQ learning in the agnostic learning framework. The preservation of efficiency is achieved using a new boosting technique and allows us to derive a new approach to the design of evolutionary algorithms in Valiant's (2006) model of evolvability. We use this approach to demonstrate the existence of a large class of monotone evolutionary learning algorithms based on square loss performance estimation. These results differ significantly from the few known evolutionary algorithms and give evidence that evolvability in Valiant's model is a more versatile phenomenon than there had been previous reason to suspect.
description: Simplified Lemma 3.8 and it's applications
title: A Study of the Gradient Drift Instability in the High-Latitude Ionosphere Using the Utah State University Time Dependent Ionospheric Model
Creators: name: Subramanium, Mahesh
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: Research over the years has established that the Gradient Drift Instability process causes small-scale irregularities, mostly along the edges of the high-latitude polar cap patches. Studying these irregularities will help in the development of a global Scale Ionospheric model, which is a central part of a global space weather forecast system. Much theoretical work has been done with varying degrees of complexity to study this instability in the high latitude patches.
In this work we have used the Utah State University Time Dependent Ionospheric Model to model the high-latitude patches, calculate the growth rate of the instability, and perform a macro-scale study of the phenomenon. This is the first time that real ionospheric values have been used to calculate the growth rate and to provide two-dimensional maps identifying Gradient Drift Instability-caused irregularity regions in the polar cap. Our research shows that regions of intense instability occur along the edges of the tongue of ionization and its throat regions with strong rates along the borders of the cusp region.
Star Formation Properties of Isolated Blue Compact Galaxies
Creators: name: Zitrin, Adi
name: Brosch, Noah
name: Bilenko, Benny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report H$α$ observations of a sample of very isolated blue compact galaxies (BCGs) located in the direction of large cosmic voids obtained to understand their stellar population compositions, the present star formation (SF) properties, and their star formation histories (SFHs). Our observations were combined with photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and near-infrared data from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), wherever such data were available. The combined data sets were compared with predictions of evolutionary synthesis models by Bruzual & Charlot (2003a, 2003b). Current star formation rates (SFRs) were determined from the H$α$ measurements, and simplified star formation histories were derived from broad-band and H$α$ photometry and comparisons with the models. We found that the star formation rates range within 0.1--1.0 M$_{\odot}$ yr$^{-1}$, with a median rate of 0.6 M$_{\odot}$ yr$^{-1}$. The observed galaxy colours are better explained by the combination of a continuous SF process with a recent instantaneous SF burst, than by a combination of several instantaneous bursts, as has been suggested previously. We compare our results for the star formation rate of the sample galaxies with that of samples of dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster and find that the BCGs have significantly stronger SFRs. The BCGs follow the correlation between H$α$ emission and starlight found for dwarf galaxies in the Virgo Cluster and for other BCGs.
description: 12 double-column pages, 4 tables, 1 figure, accepted to MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Association between migration status and caesarean section delivery based on a modified Robson classification in China
Creators: name: Liu, Ming
name: Xue, Mengqi
name: Yang, Qing
name: Du, Wenchong
name: Yan, Xiaoling
name: Tan, Jing
name: Duan, Tao
name: Hua, Jing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Cancer

description: Additional file 1.
title: The Art of Devotion: Style, Culture, and Practice in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Kashmir
Creators: name: Cavazos, Nina
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: This thesis critically examined gutkas – illuminated, pocket-sized anthologies of texts, hymns, and prayers that a Hindu would recite in a sacred place in the home, usually near an altar – produced in the Kashmir Valley during the mid-nineteenth century. Previously relegated to the periphery of scholarly discourse due to academic discriminations against “folk” culture, the goal here was to consider these objects and their paintings through the combined lenses of art history, cultural history, and religious studies in order to speak about gutkas in a deeper and more meaningful way. Here, gutkas from Utah State University, the Smithsonian Freer|Sackler Galleries, and the British Library were used as a tool to situate their makers within intricate familial webs of artistic practice, identify patterns of consumption and attitudes of ownership among a South Asian middle class, and reconstruct the objects’ function within Hindu devotional practice.
title: Новая значимость семьи и межпоколенных отношений для России и Китая
Creators: name: Клупт, М. А.
name: Дивисенко, К. С.
name: Елисеева, И. И.
name: Бурмыкина, О. Н.
name: Нечаева, Н. А.
name: Боченина, М. В.
name: Русакова, И. В.
Publisher: name: Реноме
Year: 2018

description: Монография подготовлена по результатам научного исследования, поддержанного РГНФ (грант № 16-23-22-002). Раскрываются причины и условия трансформации семейной структуры населения России и Китая, подчеркивается влияние государства, проводимой социально-демографической политики. Выделяются социокультурные особенности населения Китая, специфическое отношение к сыновьям в Китае, приведшее к дисбалансу полов. Делается вывод о новых обязательствах молодежи в связи со старением населения. Подчеркивается тенденция «неизолированности» нуклеарной семьи от других родственных связей, становления «симмет­ричных» отношений в межпоколенном общении, расширения возможностей поддержки и взаимного влияния, несмотря на усиление миграции. Обсуждается место семьи в жизненных планах молодежи. Проводится сравнительный анализ жилищных условий российских и китайских семей, а также механизмы решения жилищной проблемы. Отмечаются специфические тенденции включения домашних животных в жизнь российских и китайских домохозяйств.
Для социологов, демографов, экономистов, антропологов.
Positive and Negative Emotion Regulation Ability Profiles: Links with Strategies, Goals, and Internalizing Symptoms
Creators: name: Park, Juhyun
name: Naragon-Gainey, Kristin
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Data used in the following publication:

Park, J., & Naragon-Gainey, K. (accepted). Positive and Negative Emotion Regulation Ability Profiles: Links with Strategies, Goals, and Internalizing Symptoms. Clinical Psychological Science.
Thermodynamic properties of the itinerant-boson ferromagnet
Creators: name: Tao, Chengjun
name: Wang, Peilin
name: Qin, Jihong
name: Gu, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermodynamics of a spin-1 Bose gas with ferromagnetic interactions are investigated via the mean-field theory. It is apparently shown in the specific heat curve that the system undergoes two phase transitions, the ferromagnetic transition and the Bose-Einstein condensation, with the Curie point above the condensation temperature. Above the Curie point, the susceptibility fits the Curie-Weiss law perfectly. At a fixed temperature, the reciprocal susceptibility is also in a good linear relationship with the ferromagnetic interaction.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
title: Modulation of the Nutritional Context and Early Experience as New Tools to Increase the Use of Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae ssp. asperum) by Grazing Sheep
Creators: name: Montes, Juan J.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: The success of medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae ssp. asperum) as an invasive exotic grass in the western US is attributed in part to its low palatability. The nutritional context where medusahead grows can be modulated by the use of supplements that increase herbivores’ preference for unpalatable feeds. Additionally, positive experiences early in life (with mother, with supplements) can have long-life influences on preference for unpalatable feeds. To test the influence of the nutritional context on medusahead intake, ewes grazed with their lambs during summer of 2013 on medusahead-infested rangeland with (Treatment) or without (Control) the daily provision of an energy-rich supplement. To test for the effect of experience early in life at grazing medusahead on use of this weed later in life, lambs that grazed with their mothers during 2013 (Experienced) were exposed to medusahead (in pens and during grazing) as yearlings during summer of 2014 along with inexperienced (Control) animals. To better understand the unpalatability of medusahead, the fermentation kinetics of medusahead at different phenological stages and particle sizes was assessed. Ewes grazing with their lambs showed low use of medusahead (5% of the grazing events recorded), even when supplemented. Nevertheless, medusahead use increased across the grazing period and utilization was similar to medusahead abundance in the plant community. Use of medusahead by nursing lambs was correlated with that observed by their mothers and lambs utilized medusahead to the same extent either before or after weaning. Yearlings in pens showed low intake of medusahead and a cyclic pattern of intake across days. However, experienced yearlings displayed a more even intake of medusahead across days and a greater gain-to-feed ratio than Control yearlings. All yearlings showed low to nil use of medusahead during grazing. Medusahead had lower fermentation rates than alfalfa hay and fermentation rates declined with plant maturity. Organic matter digestibility for medusahead declined as particle size of the substrate increased, a relationship that explains the low palatability of the weed. These results provide the foundation for grazing treatments aimed at reducing the abundance of the weed or at preventing its spread in rangelands with different levels of medusahead infestations.
The R-axion and non-Gaussianity
Creators: name: Nakayama, Kazunori
name: Takahashi, Fuminobu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study cosmological implications of an R-axion, a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson associated with spontaneous breaking of an U(1)_R symmetry, focusing on its quantum fluctuations generated during inflation. We show that, in the anomaly mediation, the R-axion decays into a pair of gravitinos, which eventually decay into the visible particles producing the neutralino LSP. As a result, the quantum fluctuations of the R-axion are inherited by the cold dark matter isocurvature density perturbation with potentially large non-Gaussianity. The constraints on the inflation scale and the initial misalignment are derived.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures
Pipistrellus kuhlii
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus kuhlii

description: 70. Kuhl’s Pipistrelle, Pipistrellus kuhlii (Natterer, 1817)
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Subspecies: P. k. lepidus Blyth, 1845.
Distribution: Abundant, occurs in rural and urban habitats across the country, including human settlements (Fig. 77).
Previous records:Al-Mayadin and ar-Raqqa (von Wettstein 1913), Jeiroud (Trouessart & Kollmann 1923), Damascus (Harrison 1964), Qal’at er-Rahba and Qal’at Al-Madiq (Kock & Nader 1983), as-Sabkha (Ebenau 1993), Kasret Muhammed Ali and Katir Magara (Ebenau 1996), er-Rasafah, Katir Magara, es-Salihiyyeh, Kasret Muhammed Ali, el-Ukersheh, and ar-Raqqa, (Shehab et al. 2004), Mari, Tell Sheikh Hamad, and er-Rasafah (Obuch & Krištin 2004), Latakia, Al-Bas’ah, es-Salihiyyeh, Damascus, Qal’at Al-Madiq, Kasret Muhammed Ali, Al-Musairifah, Qasr Ibn Wardan, er-Rasafah, Qal’at Al-Hosson, Qatura, Qantara, Ras Al-Baseet, 12 km southeast of ar-Raqqa, Qal’at Ja’abar, Banias, ar-Rawda near Rabi’ah, Jabla, 10 km north of Jabla, Qal’at Salah ad-Din, Ayyash, Halabiyyeh, Mari, Qal’at er-Rahba, Sbeikhan, Tell Sheikh Hamad, Busra, at-Tawani, Yabroud, Aleppo, Wadi ar Ratgah, Al-Marashdeh, Zalabiyyeh, Tell Shhab, Harasta, Ain Diwar, Najmouk, Bab Al-Hawa, Sweida Dam, Camp Faour, Khad Nes, Kursi, Ya’ar Oden forest, Qal’at Najim, Hamah, Qal’at Sheizar, Al-Hasaka, Khazneh, Qal’at Sukkara, Qattinah, Palmyra, Qal’at Al-Marqab, Safita (Benda et al. 2004c, 2006), Ain Thakar, Qasr Sallum, Deir Dejle, Fekhaykha, Ain Jum’aa, Halabiyyeh, Al-Misrab, es-Salihiyyeh, Serghaya, Qal’at Najim, Musyaf, Heymu, Tell Beydar, Jub Al-Ghar, and er- Rasafah (Shehab et al. 2007), Jabal Abd Al-Aziz (Daoud & Khalil 2009c), and Ash-Sheikh Badr and Sukkarah (Al-Ramadan et al. 2020).
Recent records: Mashqita, Hanadi, Wadi Qandil, Kabajep, Laftaya, Al-Mazzeh (Damascus), Jaramana and Deir ez-Zor (2020–2023).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Coupled ocean/sea-ice modelling in the Southern Ocean
Creators: name: Marsland, SJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The ocean/sea-ice interaction in the Southern Ocean is investigated using the Hamburg Ocean Primitive Equation Model (HOPE). The ocean model is three dimensional and prognostically calculates velocity, temperature, salinity and sea-surface elevation on a multi-level staggered Arakawa E-grid. Coupled to this is a thermodynamic model of sea-ice growth and melt, and a dynamic model with viscous-plastic rheology. Two versions have been formulated: a high-resolution re-entrant channel model of the East Antarctic coastline; and a medium-resolution southern hemisphere model. In the high-resolution model the mean annual oceanic heat flux (OHF) to the sea-ice (8 W m -2 ) is dominated by convection. There is considerable seasonal variability in the OHF, with areal-averaged values approaching 20 W m-2in winter, and falling below 5 W M-2 in summer. There is also considerable spatial variability in the OHF: near the sea-ice edge mean monthly values can be above 100 W m -2; within a coastal polynya, where the maximum annual in situ sea-ice growth is 15 m, values approach 50 W m-2; in the seasonal zone (62-64¬¨‚àûS) an OHF in the range 5-20 W m -2 is common in the winter months; but for most of the year at most other locations the oceanic heat flux lies in the range of 0-5 W m-2 . Sensitivities to the magnitudes of sea-ice salinity and precipitation minus evaporation (P-E) are investigated. The model is found to be very sensitive to processes that affect the sea surface salinity, which determines the vertical stability of the ocean. In turn this controls the rate of convection, and consequently the sea-ice thickness. For the extreme case of zero P-E the model enters into a mode of temperature-driven deep convection, characterised by relatively warm sea surface temperature and a total collapse of the seasonal sea-ice cycle. The medium-resolution version is used to investigate the response of the coupled ocean/sea-ice system to a number of surface fresh water flux (SFWF) climatologies, and to changes in the mean surface air temperature in the southern hemisphere. As with the high-resolution model the seaice is very sensitive to the SFWF. In particular, the occurrence of a large scale polynya in the Weddell Sea is found to depend critically on there being a sufficient SFWF. The mean annual OHF for the Southern Ocean is found to be around 25 W m -2 , also with considerable seasonal and spatial variability. Increasing the SFWF by 10 cm a-1results in a decrease of 10% in the OHF, while increasing the surface air temperature by 2¬¨‚àûC increases the OHF by 10%. The increase in surface air temperature results in a decrease in mean annual sea-ice extent and volume of around 20%, while the increase in SFWF results in an increase in mean annual sea-ice extent of around 5%, and an increase in mean annual sea-ice thickness of around 12%.
Internal dynamics and dynamical friction effects in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy in Fornax
Creators: name: Cowsik, Ramanath
name: Wagoner, Kasey
name: Berti, Emanuele
name: Sircar, Amit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy the globular clusters are distributed widely, without any significant central concentration. Oh et al. pointed out that such a distribution is paradoxical: dynamical friction effects estimated using single-component King models would have forced the globular clusters to spiral down to the center of the galaxy well within a Hubble time. This paper is devoted to a discussion of this paradox. We describe a model in which the stars of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy are embedded in a cloud of dark matter, and each of these components is specified by its own phase space distribution function. This model allows us to fit self-consistently the observed luminosity profile and the spatial variation of the velocity dispersion of the stars. This fitting yields two basic parameters, related to the central density and velocity dispersion, that characterize the phase space distribution of dark matter. The dynamical friction effects calculated on the basis of this self-consistent model are small enough that the observed spatial distribution of the globular clusters poses no difficulty, and the apparent paradox is resolved. Thus we have at hand a model for Fornax that reproduces the main observed features of this dwarf spheroidal galaxy.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures
title: The Effects of Meter Orientation Downstream of a Short Radius Elbow on Electromagnetic Flow Meters
Creators: name: Justensen, Jared C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2016

description: Electromagnetic flowmeters (known as magnetic flow meters) are a widely used type of flowmeter. The accuracy of magnetic flow meters are a function of several factors, not the least of which is the flow condition inside the pipe. It has been shown that disturbances in the velocity profile affects the accuracy of a magnetic flow meter (Luntta, 1998). Accordingly, manufacturers of magnetic flow meters give installation guidelines. These guidelines help prevent the user from installing the meter in a pipe configuration that is likely to cause the meter to produce inaccurate results. Although most manufacturers provide recommendations about the amount of straight pipe that is necessary upstream of the meter, little is said about the orientation of the meter in relation to upstream disturbances.
This study examines the performance of magnetic flow meters when positioned at two different orientations: EIP (electrodes in plane with an upstream 90-degree short radius elbow) and EOP (electrodes out of plane). Four different meters were included in the study in which a baseline straight pipe test was first performed using over fifty diameters of straight pipe upstream of each meter. The straight pipe test was used to determine the baseline accuracy of each of the meters over a velocity range that is typical for the size and function of the meters. Meters were then installed at five different locations downstream from a 90-degree short-radius elbow. At each location the meters were tested in two orientations at five different flow rates.
The intent of the research is to show that the orientation of a magnetic flow meter affects the meter’s ability to produce accurate flow readings when it is installed downstream of a flow disturbance. The results from this research showed a significant shift in measurement accuracy when the meter was in EIP and EOP orientations. All of the meters in the study produced accuracy readings at one point of another that were outside the specified accuracy from the meter manufacturer. Interestingly, the meters that had a larger manufacturer specified accuracy produced smaller shifts in accuracy when comparing the test results under EIP and EOP conditions. The results of the research are given in the section entitled “Results and Discussion” as well as in the Appendix A.
A Precise Distance to IRAS 00420+5530 via H2O Maser Parallax with the VLBA
Creators: name: Moellenbrock, G. A.
name: Claussen, M. J.
name: Goss, W. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used the VLBA to measure the annual parallax of the H2O masers in the star-forming region IRAS 00420+5530. This measurement yields a direct distance estimate of 2.17 +/- 0.05 kpc (<3%), which disagrees substantially with the standard kinematic distance estimate of ~4.6 kpc (according to the rotation curve of Brand and Blitz 1993), as well as most of the broad range of distances (1.7-7.7 kpc) used in various astrophysical analyses in the literature. The 3-dimensional space velocity of IRAS 00420+5530 at this new, more accurate distance implies a substantial non-circular and anomalously slow Galactic orbit, consistent with similar observations of W3(OH) (Xu et al., 2006; Hachisuka et al. 2006), as well as line-of-sight velocity residuals in the rotation curve analysis of Brand and Blitz (1993). The Perseus spiral arm of the Galaxy is thus more than a factor of two closer than previously presumed, and exhibits motions substantially at odds with axisymmetric models of the rotating Galaxy.
description: 33 pages, 12 figures; Accepted by ApJ (to appear March 2009)
Crystal and molecular structures of some cyclic phosphonitriles
Creators: name: Marsh, Wayne Clifford
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Single crystal X-ray diffraction methods have been used to determine the structures of four cyclic phosphonitriles: 1,1,5,5-tetrafluoro-3,3,7,7-tetramethylcyclotetra- phosphonitrile, N(4)P(4)F(4)Me(4) ; 1,1,3,3,5,5-hexafluoro-7,7-dimethyl- cyclotetraphosphonitrile, N(4)P(4)F(4)Me(2); hexaphenoxycyclotriphosphonitrile, [NP(OPh)2](3) and dodeca(dimethylamino)-cyclohexaphosphonitrilechlorocopper (II) dichlorocuprate (I), [formula omitted]. Intensity measurements were made on a Datex automated General Electric diffractometer using a scintillation counter; Cu-K [symbol omitted], radiation being used for the first three structure determinations and Mo-K [symbol omitted] radiation for the fourth. The structure of N(4)P(4)F(4)Me(4) has been determined by Patterson and Fourier methods and refined by full-matrix least-squares. The molecule is situated on a C(2) axis, and the phosphonitrilic ring has the 'saddle' conformation. Different electronegativities of the substituent groups result in two distinct P-N bond lengths, 1.53 and 1.59 Å explicable in terms of π -bonding theories. Patterson, Fourier, and full-matrix least-squares methods have been used to determine the structure of N(4)P(4)F(6)Me(2). This molecule is also situated on a C(2) axis and has the 'saddle' conformation, but tends strongly towards planarity. The most interesting features of the ring are four distinct P-N bond lengths (1.584, 1.470, 1.532, and 1.487 Å), and large valency angles (145°) at nitrogen, which are explicable in terms of π -bonding theories. The structure of [NP(CPh)2]3 was determined from Patterson and Fourier syntheses, and refinement of positional and thermal parameters of the atoms by block-diagonal least-squares. The phosphonitrilic ring is slightly non-planar, with two nitrogen atoms displaced by 0.15 Å in opposite directions from the plane of the other four (3P and 1N) atoms. The conformations of the phenoxy groups are different at the three phosphorus atoms, and there are small deviations among chemically-equivalent angles; these differences are probably a result of intra- and intermolecular steric effects. There are no differences among chemically equivalent bond lengths, the mean distances being P-N 1.575(2), P-O 1.582(2), 0-C 1.406(3) Å. The structure of [formula omitted] was determined by Patterson, Fourier, and full-matrix least-squares methods. The structure is ionic with the cation and anion each situated on a C(2) axis. The cation consists of a Cu(II) bonded to four nitrogens of the phosphonitrilic ring (N-Cu 2.07 Å) and a chlorine (Cℓ-Cu 2.28 Å) in a distorted square pyramid. The Cu(I)Cℓ2¯ anion is linear with a Cu-Cℓ bond length of 2.11 Å. There are two distinct P-N bond lengths in the phosphonitrilic ring, 1.62 and 1.55 Å, explicable by π -bonding theory. The overall shape of the structure is determined primarily by steric effects and the distortion of the phosphonitrilic ring caused by the bonding to copper.
Mass Supply to Galactic Center due to Nested Bars in the Galaxy
Creators: name: Namekata, Daisuke
name: Habe, Asao
name: Matsui, Hidenori
name: Saitoh, Takayuki R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate rapid mass supply process by nested bars in the Galaxy by numerical simulation. We simulate gas flow in the whole galaxy disk with nested bars, which are the outer bar and the inner bar, especially with highly spatial resolution in the galactic central region. We assume two cases of inner bar size which are a smaller one and a larger one than the radius of the 200 pc gas ring which is corresponds to the Central Molecular Zone. From our numerical results, in the large size bar cases, the inner bars with large elongation induce sufficient mass inflow and destroy the 200 pc gas ring. On the other hand, in the small size bar cases, the inner bars with large elongation induce large mass inflow and do not destroy the 200 pc gas ring. This mass inflow is caused by straight shocks excited by the inner bar. In this case, nuclear gas disks of ~ 15 pc radius are formed. The nuclear gas disks are self-gravitationally unstable and we expect formation of compact star clusters under strong tidal force in the nuclear gas disks. We discuss evolution of the nuclear gas disk.
description: 36 pages, 11 figures. Submitted to ApJ
Letter from N. de Lock, Ordering of Whale Try Pots, July 25, 1874
Creators: name: De Lock, N.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1874
Subjects: Edwards Family
Whaling
Whale oil
Correpsondence

description: This letter was written by N. de Lock of London in regards to a request for whaling try pots, dated for July 25, 1874. The recipient of this letter is not mentioned, but is assumed to be someone in or related to the Edwards family. This item is part of the Isaac Edwards Deed Collection, donated by Bess Rattray in December 2020.
New nonlinear coherent states associated to inverse bosonic and $f$-deformed ladder operators
Creators: name: Tavassoly, M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the {\it nonlinear coherent states method}, a formalism for the construction of the coherent states associated to {\it "inverse bosonic operators"} and their dual family has been proposed. Generalizing the approach, the "inverse of $f$-deformed ladder operators" corresponding to the nonlinear coherent states in the context of quantum optics and the associated coherent states have been introduced. Finally, after applying the proposal to a few known physical systems, particular nonclassical features as sub-Poissonian statistics and the squeezing of the quadratures of the radiation field corresponding to the introduced states have been investigated.
description: 19 pages, 10 figures
Pipistrellus pipistrellus
Creators: name: Aidek, Ahmad E.
name: Ibrahim, Amir
name: Amr, Zuhair
name: Hutterer, Rainer
name: Kryštufek, Boris
name: Serra, Gianluca
name: Benda, Petr
name: Shkaky, Yesra
name: Barbanera, Filippo
name: Al-Sheikhly, Omar F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus pipistrellus

description: 71. Common Pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774)
(IUCN Red List: LC)
Subspecies: Monotypic species.
Distribution: Common in mountains and wooded valleys of coastal, western and southwestern regions (Fig. 78).
Previous records: Banias, Maalula, Kasab, Rabi’ah, Ras Al-Baseet, Serghaya and Slenfeh (Benda et al. 2003a, b, 2004a), Damascus, Slenfeh, Banias (Hulva et al. 2004), Jabla, Kasab, Latakia, Qal’at Salah ad-Din, ar-Rawda near Rabi’ah, Ras Al-Baseet, Slenfeh, Bloudan, Maalula, Serghaya, Yabroud, Qal’at Al-Hosson, and Banias (Benda et al. 2006).
Recent record: Drekeish (2020).
description: Published as part of Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, pp. 1-130 in Zootaxa 5580 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14797597
Language and education
Creators: name: McCann, Hugo
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: It will surely be accepted that one of the basic requirements of teaching is communication. One hopes when one starts a course of study for students that some significant level of comounication will be achieved. All of the recent work in knowing and thinking; in the theories of the development of the child, of consideration of curricula, of teaching and learning ' strategies, of modes of evaluation,all of this requires an understanding and investigation of communication. When we consider communication, we must attempt to answer the title - \How transitive is the verb 'to teach?\". The simplest model of communication is a rather mechanistic one though it will be fruitful to use it as an initial area of consideration. Encoder - line or code - decoder (Model A) For communication to take place the line must obviously contact the decoder and he must be able to decode the message. If I use an electric system when I press a button it must close a circuit and cause either a buzzer to sound or a light to flash. The person who hears or sees the event may understand it as a sign or have his curiosity aroused or ignore it altogether because it has no meaning for him that is to say he has no previous experience with which to compare the event and therefore sees it as meaning - hearing. These three short volumes bound together here are the basic text for the Language and Education Course referred to in the submission of Division of Teacher Education. The course was developed in order to acquaint serving teachers with recent and important work in the study of language with special reference to education."