cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
E00592: Mosaic in the Rotunda of Thessalonike (south Balkans/Greece), of the 5th/6th c., depicting *Basiliskos (probably the martyr of Komana in Pontus, S00388), with an inscription describing him as a soldier, and indicating April as the month of his festival.
Creators: name: Erizos
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2015
Subjects: History

description: The north panel of the mosaic cycle shows two figures of soldier martyrs, Basiliskos and Priskos (see $E00593). Although depicted together, the two martyrs are not related in hagiography.

Basiliskos is depicted as a young man, clean shaven, with curly brown hair and blue eyes, wearing a white chlamys with blue tablion, over a white tunic with richly decorated blue segmentum. His figure is accompanied by the inscription:

Βασιλί-
σκου στρ(ατιώτου)
μηνὶ Ἀπρι-
λίου

‘(Memory) of Basiliskos, soldier, in the month of April’

Summary and translation: Efthymios Rizos.
Beyond Surfiace Matters: Unsettling Views of a Western American Landscape
Creators: name: E. Smith, Laura
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2022

description: Photographer Glenn Rand’s (b. 1944, USA) Nevada 1979 features a passing car on Interstate 80, an industrial site, and the Humboldt River Valley in Eureka County. This place appears through laconic title to be at once particular to a settler nation, history, and poetic imagination, as well as revelatory of no place at all. Rand’s random western road trip offered him an opportunity to raise awareness of vision through kinesthetic sensation. Among many of his artistic peers, a photograph’s location was an arbitrary departure point for exploring surface matters. This paper redirects the attention on the artist’s formalist concerns to investigate the complex and conflicted narrativesInterstate 80 implicates. It inserts this picture into the longer story of modernist formalism and American landscape photography where travel and aesthetic landscape views are indicative of settler-colonial visuality. Upon its completion in 1986, the interstate was designated as a symbol of American freedom, particularly the freedom of mobility. But to see the highway in this way depends on erasing the colonial encounter and Indigenous presence. The Humboldt River valley pictured in Nevada 1979 is part of the larger Newe (Western Shoshone) territory in the Great Basin region. It is not an arbitrary vista; it crosses through a cultural landscape, a place that embodies Newe values, identities, and memories. Further, Interstate 80 was built on top of an historical path that guided settlers westward to California. It was also aligned with the path of the first transcontinental railroad. The environmental and social impact of settler influx into this region was significant. By extending Rand’s concerns with motion to study of the various pathways, migrations, and roadblocks encoded in that landscape, this paper unsettles this image. It counters historical blindness and artistic disengagement with land that obscured Indigenous presence and authority in the Americas.
RECONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF MIGRANT YOUTH SAFETY: LESSONS FROM PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH ALONG THE THAI MYANMAR BORDER
Creators: name: YoungSmith, Christie
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education
classificationCode: 390410
subject: Multicultural education (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Māori and Pacific Peoples)
classificationCode: 390401
subject: Comparative and cross-cultural education

description: This qualitative, participatory study, guided by decolonial research theory and student-centered teaching methodologies, explores the complex experiences and perceptions of safety among migrant youth in Mae Sot, Thailand. Centered are the voices of twenty displaced youth from Myanmar/Burma, who were participants of a six-month Youth Champions fellowship hosted by an educational nonprofit in Mae Sot from July-December 2024. The study, conducted during the first four weeks of the fellowship, aimed to generate new knowledge on migrant youth safety through participatory research while also fostering youth personal and skill development through teaching and learning. In centering migrant youth perspectives, this research challenges dominant academic narratives and presents a framework for understanding safety that extends beyond traditional conceptualizations of migrant youth safety in international development.

Findings reveal that migrant youth in Myanmar have been deeply affected by the compounded crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, school closures, the military coup, and military conscription laws. Through an intersectional lens, this study underscores both the compounded vulnerabilities and complex strengths of migrant youth, including multiple forms of adaptive resilience. This study also highlights youth-led conceptualizations of safety, including conscious and unconscious safety, critical views of peace and governance as foundations for safety, and a liminal sense of relative safety between Myanmar and Thailand.

This study calls for integrated support systems that address migrant youth needs across multiple dimensions, with a focus on education, critical pedagogy, and systems thinking as essential tools to enhance both conscious and unconscious safety. Additionally, this research advocates for participatory, decolonial methodologies that prioritize youth voices, facilitate power-sharing, and provide opportunities for healing and cultural reclamation during transnational research.
Correlating semiconductor nanoparticle architecture and applicability for the controlled encoding of luminescent polymer microparticles
Creators: name: Scholtz, Lena
name: Eckert, J. Gerrit
name: Graf, Rebecca T.
name: Kunst, Alexandra
name: Wegner, K. David
name: Bigall, Nadja C.
name: Resch-Genger, Ute
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemistry
subject: Materials science
subject: Optics and photonics
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Luminophore stained micro- and nanobeads made from organic polymers like polystyrene (PS) are broadly used in the life and material sciences as luminescent reporters, for bead-based assays, sensor arrays, printable barcodes, security inks, and the calibration of fluorescence microscopes and flow cytometers. Initially mostly prepared with organic dyes, meanwhile luminescent core/shell nanoparticles (NPs) like spherical semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are increasingly employed for bead encoding. This is related to their narrower emission spectra, tuneability of emission color, broad wavelength excitability, and better photostability. However, correlations between particle architecture, morphology, and photoluminescence (PL) of the luminescent nanocrystals used for encoding and the optical properties of the NP-stained beads have been rarely explored. This encouraged us to perform a screening study on the incorporation of different types of luminescent core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals into polymer microparticles (PMPs) by a radical-induced polymerization reaction. Nanocrystals explored include CdSe/CdS QDs of varying CdS shell thickness, a CdSe/ZnS core/shell QD, CdSe/CdS quantum rods (QRs), and CdSe/CdS nanoplatelets (NPLs). Thereby, we focused on the applicability of these NPs for the polymerization synthesis approach used and quantified the preservation of the initial NP luminescence. The spectroscopic characterization of the resulting PMPs revealed the successful staining of the PMPs with luminescent CdSe/CdS QDs and CdSe/CdS NPLs. In contrast, usage of CdSe/CdS QRs and CdSe QDs with a ZnS shell did not yield luminescent PMPs. The results of this study provide new insights into structure–property relationships between NP stained PMPs and the initial luminescent NPs applied for staining and underline the importance of such studies for the performance optimization of NP-stained beads.
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients
Creators: name: Moesch, Simon S.
name: Straka, Tanja M.
name: Jeschke, Jonathan M.
name: Haase, Dagmar
name: Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: human-wildlife interactions
subject: mammals in the city
subject: socio-demographic factors
subject: survey
subject: urban areas
subject: urban wildlife
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: As natural habitats decline and wildlife adapts to increasing anthropogenic disturbance, it is crucial to understand human-wildlife relationships in residential areas. However, relevant studies are limited and mostly focused on single cities. To address this knowledge gap, we investigated people’s preferences for seeing wild mammals in residential areas by conducting and analyzing an online survey distributed across Germany (n = 2997 participants). Our results revealed that preferred species (squirrels, hedgehogs, hares, roe deer) were frequently encountered, whereas unpreferred species were those encountered frequently (rats, martens), as well as those encountered rarely (wild boar, coypus, raccoons). We also found a moderately positive correlation between the number of encounters with mammals and them being preferred by humans. Finally, some socio-demographic variables, particularly gender, garden access, and urbanity, are significantly related to human preferences. Based on our results, we propose tailoring wildlife management in residential areas to promote the positive attributes of preferred wildlife as biodiversity ambassadors, while also addressing ways to mitigate encounters and negative perceptions associated with unpreferred species.
Additional file 1 of Assessment of the alpha 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor as an imaging marker of cardiac repair-associated processes using NS14490
Creators: name: Reid, Victoria J. M.
name: McLoughlin, Wesley K. X.
name: Pandya, Kalyani
name: Stott, Holly
name: Iškauskienė, Monika
name: Šačkus, Algirdas
name: Marti, Judit A.
name: Kurian, Dominic
name: Wishart, Thomas M.
name: Lucatelli, Christophe
name: Peters, Dan
name: Gray, Gillian A.
name: Baker, Andrew H.
name: Newby, David E.
name: Hadoke, Patrick W. F.
name: Tavares, Adriana A. S.
name: MacAskill, Mark G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Fig. S1. Uncropped Western blot examples for all human and rat cell types used in this study. ɑ7nAChR is shown by the band at 57 kDa, and GAPDH is shown by the band at 38 kDa. Red text denotes the ladder positions. Blots were manually cut below the 49 kDa band following transfer and prior to the blocking step. Fig. S2. Total Collagen vs. α7nAChR autoradiography signal at individual time points in sham and MI cohorts. A Comparison of PSR quantification vs. [3H]NS14490 specific binding at day 2, B day 7, C day 14 and D day 28. The correlation graphs consist of global left ventricle, infarct or anterolateral equivalent, infarct border and remote or inferoseptal equivalent regions in 3-6 rats. ns not significant, **= p ≤0.01 and ****p ≤ 0.0001 using Pearson correlation
Mammal Mia: A review on how ecological and human dimension research on urban wild mammals can benefit future biophilic cities
Creators: name: Moesch, Simon S.
name: Wellmann, Thilo
name: Haase, Dagmar
name: Bhardwaj, Manisha
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Urban wildlife
subject: Urban ecology
subject: Wild mammals
subject: Literature review
subject: Future cities
subject: Human dimensions of wildlife
subject: Wildlife ecology
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Future cities have the potential to be biodiverse areas in which humans and wildlife can coexist. However, the success of creating or maintaining wildlife-inclusive future cities can be challenged by management actions that are solely based on ecological research, while overlooking research on human perspectives. Despite the growth of literature on human-wildlife interactions, which complements the breadth of urban ecology research, the overlap between these two research areas is still uncommon. In this study, we reviewed the literature of wild mammals in urban areas to identify patterns and gaps in the literature. We found 848 published journal articles, of which 480 articles focused on wildlife ecology, 269 articles focused on human dimensions and 99 articles had interdisciplinary combinations of both. Ecology-centered publications tended to be about habitat, rather than behavior, diet, health, reproduction and inter-species-relations, and literature on human dimensions was more evenly divided into management, perception, conflict and coexistence. Most ecology studies reported on specific taxonomic families, mainly canids and murids, but in human-dimension studies, “wildlife” was considered more as a general community of species. The most studied interdisciplinary combination of research themes was wildlife habitat and human-wildlife conflicts (n = 22), while only nine studies incorporated perception with ecological research. Even though studies on human dimensions of wildlife in cities are increasing, interdisciplinary research is lacking, which limits the knowledge on how to manage and shape urban areas to achieve coexistence of humans and wild mammals. For future cities to successfully become biophilic and support human-wildlife coexistence, we outlined five key elements for a research agenda: 1) Investigate urban mammal research through an interdisciplinary lens; 2) Explore ecological dynamics beyond habitat selection; 3) Conduct research for coexistence; 4) Disentangle what is “urban wildlife”; 5) Study a diverse array of urban wild mammals.
Comparison of european surveillance and control programs for Salmonella in broiler and Turkey chains
Creators: name: Cota, João B.
name: Langkabel, Nina
name: Barco, Lisa
name: Olsen, Abbey
name: Bonardi, Silvia
name: Vieira-Pinto, Madalena
name: Roasto, Mati
name: Huneau-Salauen, Adeline
name: Sandberg, Marianne
name: Alvseike, Ole
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Poultry
subject: Salmonella
subject: Surveillance
subject: Control
subject: Europe
subject: Zoonosis
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: For the past years, Salmonella has been one of the major foodborne pathogens in Europe, leading to the development of several control efforts to reduce its impact on human health. Poultry meat has been consistently implicated in foodborne cases of salmonellosis. One of the strategies to lessen the burden of salmonellosis in humans was the implementation of national control programs (NCPs) for Salmonella in broilers and turkeys aiming for reductions in these animal populations. In this paper, a description and comparison of the Salmonella surveillance and control programs that are currently implemented for the broiler and turkey chains in different European countries was performed. All the countries studied have set multiple surveillance and control actions for Salmonella at different stages of the broiler and turkey chains, namely the feed, farm and meat levels. Although most of the control programs are aligned with European Union (EU) regulations, some differences were observed, mostly regarding feed controls, farm surveillance schemes, target serovars and the handling of positive flocks. Overall, these differences had a regional pattern, with the Nordic countries having more detailed control programs with a zero-tolerance in meat. The remaining countries generally follow EU legislation, but in some cases, additional specifications were identified by this study. Despite the positive impact of these control programs on the reduction of human cases of salmonellosis, the decreasing tendency has reached a stall. The authors suggest that the NCPs are regularly revised within the framework of risk-based meat assurance systems, and the inclusion of additional target serovars which are simultaneously prevalent in broiler and turkey flocks and relevant in terms of public health within a country or a region. Furthermore, within the revision of NCPs, sampling schemes and strategies need to be consistent, following the risk management approach that has led to very low prevalences of Salmonella in poultry meat in some European countries.
E00593: Mosaic in the Rotunda of Thessalonike (south Balkans/Greece), of the 5th/6th c., depicting *Priskos (soldier and martyr, S00389), with an inscription indicating October as the month of his feast.
Creators: name: Pnowakowski
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2015
Subjects: History

description: The north panel of the mosaic cycle shows two figures of soldier martyrs Basiliskos (see E00592) and Priskos. Although depicted together, the two martyrs are not related in hagiography.

Priskos is depicted as a young man, clean shaven, with light hair and brown eyes, wearing a green-yellow chlamys with blue tablion, over a white tunic with richly decorated blue segmentum. His figure is accompanied by the inscription:

Πρίσκου
στρα(τιώτου)
μηνὶ
Ὀκτωβρί(ου)

‘(Memory) of Priskos, soldier, in the month of October’

Summary and translation: Efthymios Rizos.
Gpu-enabled surface visualization
Creators: name: Kim, Mark
Publisher: name: University of Utah
Year: 2018
Subjects: Applied sciences
GPU
Visualizing surfaces

description: Visualizing surfaces is a fundamental technique in computer science and is frequently used across a wide range of fields such as computer graphics, biology, engineering, and scientific visualization. In many cases, visualizing an interface between boundaries can provide meaningful analysis or simplification of complex data. Some examples include physical simulation for animation, multimaterial mesh extraction in biophysiology, flow on airfoils in aeronautics, and integral surfaces. However, the quest for high-quality visualization, coupled with increasingly complex data, comes with a high computational cost. Therefore, new techniques are needed to solve surface visualization problems within a reasonable amount of time while also providing sophisticated visuals that are meaningful to scientists and engineers. In this dissertation, novel techniques are presented to facilitate surface visualization. First, a particle system for mesh extraction is parallelized on the graphics processing unit (GPU) with a red-black update scheme to achieve an order of magnitude speed-up over a central processing unit (CPU) implementation. Next, extending the red-black technique to multiple materials showed inefficiencies on the GPU. Therefore, we borrow the underlying data structure from the closest point method, the closest point embedding, and the particle system solver is switched to hierarchical octree-based approach on the GPU. Third, to demonstrate that the closest point embedding is a fast, flexible data structure for surface particles, it is adapted to unsteady surface flow visualization at near-interactive speeds. Finally, the closest point embedding is a three-dimensional dense structure that does not scale well. Therefore, we introduce a closest point sparse octree that allows the closest point embedding to scale to higher resolution. Further, we demonstrate unsteady line integral convolution using the closest point method.
An activity-specificity trade-off encoded in human transcription factors
Creators: name: Naderi, Julian
name: Magalhaes, Alexandre P.
name: Kibar, Gözde
name: Stik, Gregoire
name: Zhang, Yaotian
name: Mackowiak, Sebastian D.
name: Wieler, Hannah M.
name: Rossi, Francesca
name: Buschow, Rene
name: Christou-Kent, Marie
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: developmental biology
subject: gene regulation
subject: human transcription factors
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Transcription factors (TFs) control specificity and activity of gene transcription, but whether a relationship between these two features exists is unclear. Here we provide evidence for an evolutionary trade-off between the activity and specificity in human TFs encoded as submaximal dispersion of aromatic residues in their intrinsically disordered protein regions. We identified approximately 500 human TFs that encode short periodic blocks of aromatic residues in their intrinsically disordered regions, resembling imperfect prion-like sequences. Mutation of periodic aromatic residues reduced transcriptional activity, whereas increasing the aromatic dispersion of multiple human TFs enhanced transcriptional activity and reprogramming efficiency, promoted liquid–liquid phase separation in vitro and more promiscuous DNA binding in cells. Together with recent work on enhancer elements, these results suggest an important evolutionary role of suboptimal features in transcriptional control. We propose that rational engineering of amino acid features that alter phase separation may be a strategy to optimize TF-dependent processes, including cellular reprogramming.
E00594: Mosaic in the Rotunda of Thessalonike (south Balkans/Greece), of the 5th/6th c., depicting the soldier and martyr *Eukarpion (probably Eukarpion of Nicomedeia, S00392), with an inscription describing him as a soldier, and indicating December as the month of his festival.
Creators: name: Pnowakowski
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2015
Subjects: History

description: The west panel of the mosaic cycle showes three figures of martyrs, the soldier *Eukarpiōn, the presbyter *Rōmanos (his figure is almost entirely missing, but his inscription has survived, see $E00595), and another soldier whose accompanying inscription is missing and who, therefore, cannot be identified. Although depicted together, these martyrs are probably not related in hagiography.

Eukarpiōn is depicted as a young man, clean shaven, with curly brown hair and brown eyes, wearing a brown-purple chlamys with blue tablion, over a white tunic with blue segmentum and a gold girdle (cingulum). His figure is accompanied by the inscription:

Εὐκαρ-
πίωνος
στρατ(ιώτου)
Μηνὶ Δε-
κεμβρ(ίου)

‘(Memory) Eukarpiōn, soldier, in the month of December’

Summary and translation: Efthymios Rizos.
E00595: Mosaic in the Rotunda of Thessalonike (south Balkans/Greece), of the 5th/6th c., depicting the unidentified martyr *Romanos (perhaps the deacon of Caesarea martyred in Antioch, S00120), with an inscription describing him as a presbyter.
Creators: name: Pnowakowski
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2015
Subjects: History

description: The west panel of the mosaic cycle includes three figures of martyrs, the soldier *Eukarpiōn (E00594), the presbyter Rōmanos (his figure is almost entirely missing, but his inscription has survived), and another soldier whose accompanying inscription is missing and who, therefore, cannot be identified. Although depicted together, these martyrs are probably not related in cult or hagiography.

The figure of Rōmanos is almost entirely missing, except for a part of his right hand, which shows that he was dressed with a purple paenula over a white tunic. His figure is accompanied by the inscription:

Ῥωμα-
νοῦ
πρεσβ(υτέρου)

‘(Memory) of Rōmanos, presbyter’

The lost part of the mosaic probably included a second inscription with the month of Rōmanos’ feast.

Summary and translation: Efthymios Rizos.
Supplemental Material, sj-doc-1-cmx-10.1177_1077559520975499 - What’s Fair in Child Welfare? Parent Knowledge, Attitudes, and Experiences
Creators: name: Kyndra C. Cleveland
name: Quas, Jodi A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law

description: Supplemental Material, sj-doc-1-cmx-10.1177_1077559520975499 for What’s Fair in Child Welfare? Parent Knowledge, Attitudes, and Experiences by Kyndra C. Cleveland and Jodi A. Quas in Child Maltreatment
Additional file 5: of The risk associated with spinal manipulation: an overview of reviews
Creators: name: Nielsen, Sabrina
name: Tarp, Simon
name: Christensen, Robin
name: Bliddal, Henning
name: Klokker, Louise
name: Henriksen, Marius
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Reference lists for the included reviews in the overview. (PDF 177 kb)
Prospecting in-situ resources for future crewed missions to Mars
Creators: name: Gross, Christoph
name: Al-Samir, Muna
name: Bishop, Janice L.
name: Poulet, François
name: Postberg, Frank
name: Schubert, Daniel
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: ISRU
subject: Mars
subject: Hydrated mineral deposit
subject: Life support
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::520 Astronomie::520 Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: The installation of planetary and lunar human outposts might be an important step for future solar system exploration by both public space agencies and private companies. Humans living and working in these artificially created habitats will possibly depend, among other life support approaches, on bio-regenerative life support systems to produce and recycle oxygen and water, and to produce food. A variety of natural resources suitable life support can be readily found on Mars, and to a lesser extent on the Moon. Instead of launching all resources (e.g., water, propellant, food and other materials) from Earth, it could potentially be much more cost effective to send automated machinery to harvest resources from the Martian surface and atmosphere in preparation for the arrival of humans. The exploration of these natural resource deposits, the concentration of the raw materials contained in them, and the feasibility of mining and refinement are open questions that require further consideration. Here we address the concept of harvesting resources in situ by reviewing the potential of several large deposits of hydrated minerals found on the surface of Mars thanks to previous orbital detections. We also present estimates of water volumes potentially retrievable from specific deposits and describe additional uses of the hydrated minerals for example as fertilizer for food production.
Additional new species and new records of the genus Sticta (lichenised Ascomycota, lobarioid Peltigeraceae) from Bolivia
Creators: name: Ossowska, Emilia Anna
name: Moncada, Bibiana
name: Lücking, Robert
name: Flakus, Adam
name: Rodriguez-Flakus, Pamela
name: Olszewska, Sandra
name: Kukwa, Martin
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Diversity
subject: lichens
subject: molecular barcoding
subject: new species
subject: taxonomy
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Four species of the genus Sticta are described as new from Bolivia, based on morphological examination and phylogenetic analysis of the fungal ITS barcoding marker. Additionally, two species are reported as new to Bolivia (their identification confirmed by molecular data) and one previously reported species is confirmed by molecular data for the first time. Detailed morphological and anatomical descriptions are provided for all new species. Two of the new species, S. isidiolobulata Ossowska, B. Moncada, Lücking & Kukwa and S. madidiensis Ossowska, B. Moncada, Lücking & Kukwa belong to clade I, as defined in previous studies. In contrast, S. montepunkuensis Ossowska, B. Moncada, Lücking & Kukwa and S. macrolobata Ossowska, B. Moncada, Lücking & Kukwa, also described here as new to science, belong to clade III. Sticta isidiolobulata has an irregular to suborbicular thallus of medium size, with isidia developing into spathulate lobules, cyanobacterial photobiont and apothecia with entire to weakly-crenate margins. The large irregular thallus of the cyanobacteria-associated S. macrolobata has broad lobes, apothecia with verrucous to tomentose margins and cyphellae with raised margins, whereas S. madidiensis has a medium-sized, palmate to irregular thallus with a stipe, but without vegetative propagules and apothecia. Sticta montepunkuensis has large and irregular thalli with green algae as photobiont, apothecia with crenate to verrucous margins and urceolate cyphellae with a wide pore and a scabrid basal membrane. Two species, S. beauvoisii Delise and S. riparia Merc.-Díaz are reported as new to Bolivia (the latter also as new to South America) and belong to clade III. Sticta tomentosa (Sw.) Ach., species confirmed from Bolivia by molecular data, belongs to clade II. Sticta beauvoisii is characterised by a smooth yellowish-brown upper surface with darker apices and abundant, marginal isidia and a brown lower surface with golden-chocolate brown primary tomentum and sparse, golden-brown rhizines. Sticta riparia has a strongly branched thallus, with undulate lobes and abundant, marginal, palmate, grey to dark brown phyllidia and greyish-brown lower surface with the primary tomentum absent towards the margins. Sticta tomentosa has palmate, bluish thalli with white cilia and abundant, submarginal apothecia and creamy-white lower surface with a sparse, white primary tomentum.
Data and code for, "Global patterns and drivers of fish reproductive potential on coral reefs"
Creators: name: Hadj-Hammou, Jeneen
name: Cinner, Joshua
name: Barneche, Diego
name: Caldwell, Iain
name: Mouillot, David
name: Robinson, James
name: Schiettekatte, Nina
name: Siqueira, Alexandre
name: Taylor, Brett
name: Graham, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Fish fecundity scales hyperallometrically with body mass, meaning larger females produce disproportionately more eggs than smaller ones. We explore this relationship beyond the species-level to estimate the "reproductive potential" of 1,633 coral reef sites distributed globally. We find that, at the site-level, reproductive potential scales hyperallometrically with assemblage biomass, but with a smaller median exponent than at the species-level. Across all families, modelled reproductive potential is greater in fully protected sites versus fished sites. This difference is most pronounced for the important fisheries family, Serranidae. When comparing a scenario where 30% of sites are randomly fully protected to a current protection scenario, we estimate an increase in the reproductive potential of all families, and particularly for Serranidae. Such results point to the possible ecological benefits of the 30x30 global conservation target and showcase management options to promote the sustainability of population replenishment.
Continent-wide genomic analysis of the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)
Creators: name: Talenti, Andrea
name: Wilkinson, Toby
name: Cook, Elizabeth A.
name: Hemmink, Johanneke D.
name: Paxton, Edith
name: Mutinda, Matthew
name: Ngulu, Stephen D.
name: Jayaraman, Siddharth
name: Bishop, Richard P.
name: Obara, Isaiah
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genome
subject: Population genetics
subject: African buffalo
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: The African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a wild bovid with a historical distribution across much of sub-Saharan Africa. Genomic analysis can provide insights into the evolutionary history of the species, and the key selective pressures shaping populations, including assessment of population level differentiation, population fragmentation, and population genetic structure. In this study we generated the highest quality de novo genome assembly (2.65 Gb, scaffold N50 69.17 Mb) of African buffalo to date, and sequenced a further 195 genomes from across the species distribution. Principal component and admixture analyses provided little support for the currently described four subspecies. Estimating Effective Migration Surfaces analysis suggested that geographical barriers have played a significant role in shaping gene flow and the population structure. Estimated effective population sizes indicated a substantial drop occurring in all populations 5-10,000 years ago, coinciding with the increase in human populations. Finally, signatures of selection were enriched for key genes associated with the immune response, suggesting infectious disease exert a substantial selective pressure upon the African buffalo. These findings have important implications for understanding bovid evolution, buffalo conservation and population management.
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-ptd-10.1177_0896860820973120 - Intraperitoneal pressure: Stability over time and validation of Durand’s measurement method
Creators: name: Sobrino-Pérez, Alicia
name: Pérez-Escudero, Alfonso
name: Fernández-Arroyo, Lucila
name: Dorado-García, Ana
name: Martín-Alcón, Berta
name: Gutiérrez-Martín, Carmen
name: Sánchez-Fonseca, Carmen
name: Barrios-Rebollo, Cristina
name: Pérez-Díaz, Vicente
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-ptd-10.1177_0896860820973120 for Intraperitoneal pressure: Stability over time and validation of Durand’s measurement method by Alicia Sobrino-Pérez, Alfonso Pérez-Escudero, Lucila Fernández-Arroyo, Ana Dorado-García, Berta Martín-Alcón, Carmen Gutiérrez-Martín, Carmen Sánchez-Fonseca, Cristina Barrios-Rebollo, Vicente Pérez-Díaz and on behalf of Group PIPDPCyL in Peritoneal Dialysis International
E00596: Mosaic in the Rotunda of Thessalonike (south Balkans/Greece), of the 5th/6th c., depicting a soldier saint, *Leon (S00387), perhaps the soldier martyr *Leontios (martyr of Tripolis, Phoenicia, S00216), with an inscription describing him as a soldier, and indicating June as the month of his festival.
Creators: name: Pnowakowski
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2015
Subjects: History

description: The south east panel of the mosaic circle included three figures of martyrs, one of whom one is missing, since it was destroyed during an earthquake in Byzantine times (probably in the 9th century). The other two figures are the soldier Leōn and the flute-player *Philēmōn (see $E00597). Although depicted together, the two martyrs are not related in hagiography.

Leōn is depicted as a young man with curly light hair, wearing a purple chlamys with blue tablion, over a white tunic with richly decorated blue segmentum and golden girdle (cingulum). His figure is accompanied by the inscription:

Λέοντος
στρατ(ιώτου)
μηνὶ
Ἰουν(ίου)

‘(Memory) of Leōn, soldier, in the month of June’

Summary and translation: Efthymios Rizos.
The 0S-A-U Triadic System: Dual-Synthesis Algebra with ATS Extension
Creators: name: GenAI, LLMs
name: Ivliev, Ihor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 0S-A-U Triad
subject: Axiomatic Systems
subject: Universal Algebra
subject: Abstract Algebra
subject: Non-Standard Algebra
subject: ¬-Duality
subject: Duality Involution
subject: Synthesis Axiom
subject: Modified Associativity
subject: Polar Distributivity
subject: Foundations of Mathematics
subject: Mathematical Logic
subject: Axiomatics
subject: Paradox Resolution
subject: Proof Theory
subject: Philosophy of Mathematics
subject: Mathematical logic, set theory, lattices and universal algebra
subject: Mathematical logic
subject: Pure mathematics
subject: Applied mathematics
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Mathematics
subject: Algebra
subject: Commutative algebra
subject: Operator algebra
subject: Logic

description: This repository contains the full manuscript of the 0S-A-U Triadic System, an algebraic framework structured around the interaction of three core elements: a minimal identity 0S, its dual counterpart A, and a formally distinct product called the Universal (U). The system is defined by eight axiom groups that govern dual operations, involution, a synthesis rule (0S⋅A=U), and a form of polarity-aware distributivity.

Included as an appendix is the Adjusted Triadic System (ATS), a streamlined reformulation of the core ideas. ATS emphasizes structural coherence over a five-element domain and introduces a Non-Distributive Locus (NDL), marking precisely where distributivity fails due to the synthesis mechanism. A finite model has been constructed and checked via computational simulations to test for associativity and internal consistency.

This work combines algebraic design with conceptual symmetry, offering a foundation for studying synthesis-based systems with internal duality, absorptive behavior, and constrained distributivity.
A trait-based root acquisition-defence-decomposition framework in angiosperm tree species
Creators: name: Zheng, Jiajia
name: Freschet, Gregoire T.
name: Tedersoo, Leho
name: Li, Shenggong
name: Yan, Han
name: Jiang, Lei
name: Wang, Huimin
name: Ma, Ning
name: Dai, Xiaoqin
name: Fu, Xiaoli
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Ecosystem ecology
subject: Forest ecology
subject: Plant ecology
subject: Plant evolution
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: To adapt to the complex belowground environment, plants make trade-offs between root resource acquisition and defence ability. This includes forming partnerships with different types of root associating microorganisms, such as arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal fungi. These trade-offs, by mediating root chemistry, exert legacy effects on nutrient release during decomposition, which may, in turn, affect the ability of new roots to re-acquire resources, thereby generating a feedback loop. However, the linkages at the basis of this potential feedback loop remain largely unquantified. Here, we propose a trait-based root ‘acquisition-defence-decomposition’ conceptual framework and test the strength of relevant linkages across 90 angiosperm tree species. We show that, at the plant species level, the root-fungal symbiosis gradient within the root economics space, root chemical defence (condensed tannins), and root decomposition rate are closely linked, providing support to this framework. Beyond the dichotomy between arbuscular mycorrhizal-dominated versus ectomycorrhizal-dominated systems, we suggest a continuous shift in feedback loops, from ‘high arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis-low defence-fast decomposition-inorganic nutrition’ by evolutionarily ancient taxa to ‘high ectomycorrhizal symbiosis-high defence-slow decomposition-organic nutrition’ by more modern taxa. This ‘acquisition-defence-decomposition’ framework provides a foundation for testable hypotheses on multidimensional linkages between species’ belowground strategies and ecosystem nutrient cycling in an evolutionary context.
‘Deal with It. Name It’: the diagnostic moment in film
Creators: name: Jutel, Annemarie
name: Jutel, Thierry
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 360599
subject: Screen and digital media not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 429999
subject: Other health sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 500299
subject: History and philosophy of specific fields not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 500199
subject: Applied ethics not elsewhere classified

description: The moment a serious diagnosis is announced creates an important crisis for a patient, as it shifts their sense of self and of their future potential. This essay discusses the creative representation and use of this diagnostic moment in film narratives. Using Still Alice, A Late Quartet, Wit and Cléo from 5 to 7 as examples, we describe how each of these uses the diagnostic moment in relation to narrative construction and characterisation in recognisable ways. We associate the diagnostic moment with certain narrative and visual devices that are frequently implemented in films as means for character development, and for managing the audience’s empathy. This is the case whether or not the diagnosis is contested or accepted, and whether the diagnostic moment is the frame for the narrative, or a closing device. By analysing its representation in film, we emphasise the cultural significance of diagnosis as a life-transforming event.
sj-pdf-1-ueg-10.1177_2050640620977129 - Supplemental material for Increased risk of second primary tumours in patients with oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma: A nationwide study in a Western population
Creators: name: Ven, Steffi EM Van De
name: Falger, Janne M
name: Verhoeven, Rob HA
name: Jong, Robert J Baatenburg De
name: Spaander, Manon CW
name: Bruno, Marco J
name: Koch, Arjun D
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111299 Oncology and Carcinogenesis not elsewhere classified
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ueg-10.1177_2050640620977129 for Increased risk of second primary tumours in patients with oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma: A nationwide study in a Western population by Steffi EM van de Ven, Janne M Falger, Rob HA Verhoeven, Robert J Baatenburg de Jong, Manon CW Spaander, Marco J Bruno and Arjun D Koch in United European Gastroenterology Journal
Seasonal changes in biodiversity of native and non-native amphipod taxa under diverse environmental contexts
Creators: name: Kazanavičiūtė, Elžbieta
name: Dickey, James W. E.
name: Soto, Ismael
name: Haubrock, Phillip J.
name: Kouba, Antonin
name: Brennan, Reid S.
name: Steffen, Gregor
name: Briski, Elizabeta
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Gammarids
subject: Impacted habitat
subject: Non-native species
subject: Protected habitat
subject: Species abundance
subject: Species richness
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Anthropogenic disturbances are having strong, negative effects on aquatic systems globally, altering ecological communities and potentially creating vacant niches for both native and non-native species (NNS). Globalization and new trade routes have amplified the spread and establishment of NNS by connecting disturbed areas worldwide. In this study, we conducted a comparative assessment of seasonal variations in amphipod communities at three southeastern Baltic Sea locations – two anthropogenically impacted and one protected habitat – to determine if native and NNS diversity differed among these habitats. Our study revealed nine amphipod species - of which two were NNS - across all three habitats. The impacted habitats had significantly higher native species richness and lower NNS abundance. Grandidierella japonica was the only NNS found at the impacted habitas. In the case of the protected habitat, NNS Gammarus tigrinus was dominant for most of the year. In autumn, dominance shifted in favour of the native Gammarus locusta and Microdeutopus cf. gryllotalpa. Grandidierella japonica was not detected there. Although anthropogenically impacted habitats may be under higher invasion risk, other environmental factors, such as salinity and temperature, may be driving the establishment pattern of NNS and the resulting community structures. Furthermore, undisturbed and/or protected habitats may be highly vulnerable to invasions due to more tolerable environmental conditions, robust NNS populations and naïve native species to newcomers. Seasonality is an important aspect of ecological studies and must be taken into account, as omissions could potentially distort our understanding of the dynamics of ecosystems and prevent the detection of NNS.
Heterogeneous singlet fission in a covalently linked pentacene dimer
Creators: name: Kim, Woojae
name: Panjwani, Naitik A.
name: Krishnapriya, K. C.
name: Majumder, Kanad
name: Dasgupta, Jyotishman
name: Bittl, Robert
name: Patil, Satish
name: Musser, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: singlet fission
subject: heterogeneous singlet fission
subject: triplet pair
subject: pentacene dimer
subject: conformational heterogeneity
subject: transient absorption
subject: transient electron paramagnetic resonance
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Molecular dimers are generally regarded as essential tools for probing structure-property relationships in condensed-phase systems, revealing complexities where structural tuning is challenging. Traditionally treated as “static,” with properties defined by their optimized geometry, we argue that dimers are “dynamic,” exhibiting considerable conformational heterogeneity over time, which significantly influences interchromophore coupling strengths. Illustrating this, we explore the singlet fission dynamics of a pentacene dimer linked by phenyl-diketopyrrolopyrrole and acetylene bridges. The unrestricted rotations yield a myriad of rotational conformers, each altering the singlet fission processes, evident through excitation-energy-dependent transient absorption and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. This necessitates considering not only broad distribution of rate constants but also multidimensional potential-energy surfaces with multiple sub-ensembles, leading to “heterogeneous singlet fission.” Consequently, these findings challenge the prevailing static approach to molecular dimer photophysics, suggesting that individual steps in excited-state relaxation pathways cannot be delineated by unique rate constants and yields.
Cenni di diritto d'autore e licenze Creative Commons
Creators: name: ROMEO, Rosa
name: TENCONI, Luca Giuseppe
name: Gruppo di lavoro sull'Open Access UPO
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Diritto d'autore
Licenze Creative Commons
open science
open access

description: Un'introduzione al Diritto d'Autore e alle licenze creative Commons
E00597: Mosaic in the Rotunda of Thessalonike (south Balkans/Greece), of the 5th/6th c., depicting *Philemon (martyr of Antinoopolis, Egypt, S00386), with an inscription describing him as a flute player, and indicating March as the month of his festival.
Creators: name: Pnowakowski
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2015
Subjects: History

description: The south east panel of the mosaic circle included three figures of martyrs, one of whom one is missing, since it was destroyed during an earthquake in Byzantine times (probably in the 9th century). The other two figures are the soldier *Leōn (see E00596) and the flute-player Philēmōn. Although depicted together, the two martyrs are not related in hagiography.

Philēmōn is depicted as a lay civilian in his thirties or forties with curly brown hair and stubble beard, wearing a purple paenula over a dark blue tunic. His figure is accompanied by the inscription:

Φιλή-
μονος
χοραύ-
λου

Μηνὶ
Μαρ-
τ(ίου)

‘(Memory) of Philēmōn, flute player, in the month of March’

Summary and translation: Efthymios Rizos.