cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Evidence for a Basket Weaving and Woven-Fiber Technology in the Paleolithic Era
Creators: name: Doble, Rick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 200204 Cultural Theory
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 210102 Archaeological Science
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: 210199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified
subject: 210105 Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
subject: 160199 Anthropology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160101 Anthropology of Development
subject: 160104 Social and Cultural Anthropology
subject: 160808 Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology

description: While it is difficult to find physical evidence for basket weaving and woven-fiber artifacts in the Middle and Lower Paleolithic era, there is ample evidence from other sources that point to the likelihood of such a technology. The paper lists the evidence and the argument in favor of that conclusion.
Remake/remodel: academic libraries and the provision of information services over extended computer networks, with special reference to Bradford University
Creators: name: Norfolk, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Remake/remodel: academic libraries and the provision of information services over extended computer networks, with special reference to Bradford University
Farmer’s willingness to pay for Tenure Security
Creators: name: Tekie, Alemu
name: Tekie, Alemu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Tenure Security
subject: Labor

description: An important aspect of property rights in agrarian societies is the entitlements in land. While there are numerous theoretic formulations showing the impact of secured tenure, there has not been sufficient success in the empirical sphere. This paper tries to obtain ex-ante valuation for improved tenure system of farmers in Ethiopia. The paper also tries to identify factors that trigger the choice for a positive WTP( Willingness to pay) and those that affect the amount that farmers would pay for such a change. The results in this paper seem to reinforce the compelling reasons, discussed in the tenure literature, required for having a secured institutional setup for the farmers in Ethiopia. On the basis of this, consequent policy prescription is for the system to move towards a more secured system by banning all efforts of redistribution and allowing the farmers to decide on allocating the resource as they wish to their siblings.
Learning macroscopic parameters in nonlinear multiscale simulations using nonlocal multicontinua upscaling techniques
Creators: name: Vasilyeva, Maria
name: Leung, Wing T.
name: Chung, Eric T.
name: Efendiev, Yalchin
name: Wheeler, Mary
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this work, we present a novel nonlocal nonlinear coarse grid approximation using a machine learning algorithm. We consider unsaturated and two-phase flow problems in heterogeneous and fractured porous media, where mathematical models are formulated as general multicontinuum models. We construct a fine grid approximation using the finite volume method and embedded discrete fracture model. Macroscopic models for these complex nonlinear systems require nonlocal multicontinua approaches, which are developed in earlier works. These rigorous techniques require complex local computations, which involve solving local problems in oversampled regions subject to constraints. The solutions of these local problems can be replaced by solving original problem on a coarse (oversampled) region for many input parameters (boundary and source terms) and computing effective properties derived by nonlinear nonlocal multicontinua approaches. The effective properties depend on many variables (oversampled region and the number of continua), thus their calculations require some type of machine learning techniques. In this paper, our contribution is two fold. First, we present macroscopic models and discuss how to effectively compute macroscopic parameters using deep learning algorithms. The proposed method can be regarded as local machine learning and complements our earlier approaches on global machine learning. We consider a coarse grid approximation using two upscaling techniques with single phase upscaled transmissibilities and nonlocal nonlinear upscaled transmissibilities using a machine learning algorithm. We present results for two model problems in heterogeneous and fractured porous media and show that the presented method is highly accurate and provides fast coarse grid calculations.
Aloconota coulsoni
Creators: name: Frisch, Johannes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Aloconota
Aloconota coulsoni

description: Aloconota coulsoni (LAST, 1952)
(Staphylinidae, Abb. 6a) wurde von den Britischen Inseln beschrieben und auch in Dänemark, Schweden, Deutschland und der Schweiz nachgewiesen (SCHÜLKE & SMETANA 2015: 687). Ein Fund auf der griechischen Insel Korfu (ASSING et al. 2018: 49) deutet auf eine weite Verbreitung dieser seltenen Art hin. In Deutschland ist A. coulsoni vorwiegend aus dem Norden (Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Schleswig-Holstein) bekannt, doch liegen auch Funde aus dem Rheinland, dem westlichen Thüringen und Baden-Württemberg vor (vgl. BLEICH et al. 2023). Aloconota coulsoni unterscheidet sich von der nahe verwandten, weiter verbreiteten A. longicollis (MULSANT & REY, 1852) (Abb. 6b) unter anderem durch geringere Körpergrösse, kleinere Augen und kürzere Fühlerglieder. Ich siebte ein ♀ der hygrophilen Art am 29.4.2023 ausserhalb des Naturschutzgebiets aus der feuchten Bodenstreu eines Quellzuflusses des Haimbachs am Fuss des dem Haimberg südöstlich vorgelagerten Vogelsbergs bei 50°32‘27‘‘N, 9°37‘12‘‘E (Abb. 1). Die Determination dieses hessischen Erstfundes wurde durch Vergleich mit den Typen der A. coulsoni in der Käfersammlung des Natural History Museum London abgesichert.
In der bundesweiten Roten Liste ist A. coulsoni als sehr selten eingestuft, wegen der unzureichenden Kenntnis ihrer Verbreitung und Biologie jedoch keiner Gefährdungskategorie zugeordnet (vgl. SCHMIDL et al. 2021: 38).
description: Published as part of Frisch, Johannes, 2023, Die Käferfauna des NSG Haimberg bei Mittelrode und angrenzender Flächen (Insecta: Coleoptera) Addenda et Corrigenda 3 Fünf Erstmeldungen für die Hessenfauna und Wiederentdeckung der in Hessen verschollenen Lebia cyanocephala (LINNAEUS, 1758), pp. 37-44 in Beiträge zur Naturkunde in Osthessen 60 on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15237981
Paleoproterozoic khondalites in Brazil: a case study of metamorphism and anatexis in khondalites from Itapecerica supracrustal succession of the southern São Francisco Craton
Creators: name: Miranda, Daniel Andrade
name: De Oliveira Chaves, Alexandre
name: Dussin, Ivo Antônio
name: Porcher, Carla Cristine
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: In Brazil, Paleoproterozoic khondalites were recognized in Ceará, Bahia, Goiás, Tocantins, and Minas Gerais. The Itapecerica supracrustal succession in the Southern São Francisco Craton (Minas Gerais) contains sillimanite-cordierite-garnet-biotite gneiss (khondalite) with an anatectic record. The high-grade khondalite preserve representative mineral assemblages of peak and orogen collapse after post-peak decompressional stage. Based on petrographic observations and P–T pseudosections of bulk rock compositions, a clockwise pressure-temperature-time (P–T-t) path was inferred. The metamorphic peak assemblage is liquid + plagioclase ± K-feldspar + garnet + biotite + ilmenite + sillimanite + quartz at 715–772ºC and 5.5–7.5 kbar. In addition, the precursor sediments had mixed pelitic-wacke compositions resulting from erosion of different sources. Sediment deposition would have occurred at active continental marginal setting. Surrounding the khondalite occurs a peraluminous metagranite named here as Água Rasa, formed in syn- to post-collisional setting, whose εNd(t) (−0.5 to −2.7) and 87Sr/86Sr(t) (1.04 to 1.08) and the data set indicate that the precursor magma of the Água Rasa metagranite originated from anatexis of the khondalitic rocks (crustal source) and associated amphibolites (mantle source) during the crustal thickening followed by tectonic exhumation at peak metamorphism and at decompressional stage during the orogenic collapse. The khondalite yielded ages from monazite U-Th-PbT dating of 2090 ± 26 Ma and 1937 ± 32 Ma, while the Água Rasa metagranite yielded ages of 2077 ± 24 Ma and 1941 ± 23 from monazite and 1934 ± 74 Ma from zircon U-Pb. The ages of >2.0 Ga are related to the metamorphic peak, while the younger ones (~1940 Ma) are related to the orogen collapse after post-peak decompressional stage. Similarities between the khondalite rocks of this study and of the North China Craton suggest that the São Francisco-Congo Craton was near the North China Craton in the supercontinent Columbia for the 2.1–1.9 Ga period.
Perturbations of a rotating black hole in DHOST theories
Creators: name: Charmousis, Christos
name: Crisostomi, Marco
name: Langlois, David
name: Noui, Karim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study linear perturbations of a rotating black hole solution that has been recently discovered in degenerate higher-order scalar-tensor (DHOST) theories. We find a parametrization which permits the explicit resolution of the scalar perturbation while the tensor perturbation is obtained as a Teukolsky equation supplemented by an effective source term. The effective source term is related to the black hole hair and can be computed exactly for any value of the black hole spin. We discuss how the perturbations of the geometry and thus the emitted gravitational waves could be modified in comparison with general relativity.
description: 6 pages
Blob Ejection from Advection-dominated Accretion Flow II: the Multiwavelength Properties of Light Curves
Creators: name: Wang, Jian-Min
name: Kusunose, Masaaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been argued that blobs ejected from advection-dominated accretion flow through the accretion-ejection instability undergo expansion due to their high internal energy density. The expanding blobs interact with their surroundings and form strong shock, which accelerates a group of electrons to be relativistic. Then flares are formed. This model has advances in two aspects: shock acceleration and self-consistent injection. We derive an analytical formula of the injection function of relativistic electrons based on the Sedov's law. We calculate the time-dependent spectrum of relativistic electrons in such an expanding blob. The light-travel effect, the evolution of the electron spectrum due to energy loss, and the escape of relativistic electrons from the radiating region are considered, as well as the expansion (at sub-relativistic speed) of the coasting blob. A large number of light curves spanning wide spaces of parameters have been given in this paper. Regarding the symmetry, relative amplitude, duration of a flare, and the time lag between peak fluxes, we find four basic kinds of light curves for the non-expanding blob, and seven basic kinds of light curves for the expanding blob. We also calculate the evolution of the photon spectrum from both non-expanding and expanding blobs. Different shapes in the phase of decreasing luminosity are then obtained for different parameter values. The photon index, $α_{\rm ph}$, keeps constant for non-expanding blobs when luminosity decreases, whereas $α_{\rm ph}$ continues to decrease after the luminosity reaches its maximum for expanding blobs. It is expected that we can extract the information of ejected blobs from the observed light curves based on the present model.
description: 23 pages in emulatapj.sty, accepted by the Astrophysical Journal
Additional file 1 of Transcriptome analysis reveals the mechanism of chronic heat stress on meat quality of broilers
Creators: name: Liu, Zhen
name: Liu, Yingsen
name: Xing, Tong
name: Li, Jiaolong
name: Zhang, Lin
name: Jiang, Yun
name: Gao, Feng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. List of some differentially expressed genes related to meat quality.
Limit order market analysis and modelling: on an universal cause for over-diffusive prices
Creators: name: Challet, Damien
name: Stinchcombe, Robin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Trading and Market Microstructure (q-fin.TR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We briefly review data analysis of the Island order book, part of NASDAQ, which suggests a framework to which all limit order markets should comply. Using a simple exclusion particle model, we argue that short-time price over-diffusion in limit order markets is due to the non-equilibrium of order placement, cancellation and execution rates, which is an inherent feature of real limit order markets.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of Econophysics Bali Conference 2002
Geochemistry of fluids discharged from mud volcanoes in SE Caspian Sea (Gorgan Plain, Iran)
Creators: name: Babadi, Mahin Farhadian
name: Mehrabi, Behzad
name: Tassi, Franco
name: Cabassi, Jacopo
name: Pecchioni, Elena
name: Shakeri, Ata
name: Vaselli, Orlando
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: A geochemical study was carried out on gas, water and mud samples from four mud volcanoes in Gorgan Plain, SE Caspian Sea (Iran) in order to investigate fluid primary sources and secondary processes controlling fluid chemistry. The chemical composition of light alkanes and the isotopic feature of methane indicated an origin related to a thermogenic source. Gases discharged from Neftlijeh evidenced anaerobic biodegradation processes with addition of secondary microbial methane. Chemical composition of discharged waters revealed two main groups i) brine-type Na+–Cl− waters from Gharenyaregh and Neftlijeh mud volcanoes, which were marked by relatively high Na+/Cl−, B/Cl− and Li/Cl− ratios and low Ca2+/Cl−, Mg2+/Cl− and K+/Cl− ratios, ii) waters from Sofikam and Inche, characterized by relatively low Na+/Cl−, B/Cl− and Li/Cl− ratios and relatively high Ca2+/Cl−, Mg2+/Cl− and K+/Cl− ratios. The chemical and isotopic characteristics of the discharged waters suggest that evaporated Caspian seawater trapped in sediments is likely representing a reliable water source. The maximum formation depth at Gharenyaregh and Neftlijeh mud volcanoes were estimated at about 6 km depth whereas the generation depth of the rest was significantly shallower. Thus, the observed compositional differences can be related to the different depths of the fluid source feeding them.
Neottiglossa leporina
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Neottiglossa
Neottiglossa leporina

description: Neottiglossa leporina (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1830)
 Material examined. TEHRAN: Asara, 1 specimen, 13.vii.2002; Shahrestenak, 1 specimen, 10.-12.vii.1995. GOLESTAN: near Maraveh, 1 specimen, 21.vii.2005. KHORASAN: Golestan Park 150 km W of Bojnurd, 1 specimen, 14.vii.1994.
 Comments. In meadows and steppes. On Poaceae. Euro-Siberian.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454
The Physics of Cluster Mergers
Creators: name: Sarazin, Craig L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Clusters of galaxies generally form by the gravitational merger of smaller clusters and groups. Major cluster mergers are the most energetic events in the Universe since the Big Bang. Some of the basic physical properties of mergers will be discussed, with an emphasis on simple analytic arguments rather than numerical simulations. Semi-analytic estimates of merger rates are reviewed, and a simple treatment of the kinematics of binary mergers is given. Mergers drive shocks into the intracluster medium, and these shocks heat the gas and should also accelerate nonthermal relativistic particles. X-ray observations of shocks can be used to determine the geometry and kinematics of the merger. Many clusters contain cooling flow cores; the hydrodynamical interactions of these cores with the hotter, less dense gas during mergers are discussed. As a result of particle acceleration in shocks, clusters of galaxies should contain very large populations of relativistic electrons and ions. Electrons with Lorentz factors gamma~300 (energies E = gamma m_e c^2 ~ 150 MeV) are expected to be particularly common. Observations and models for the radio, extreme ultraviolet, hard X-ray, and gamma-ray emission from nonthermal particles accelerated in these mergers are described.
description: 38 pages with 9 embedded Postscript figures. To appear in Merging Processes in Clusters of Galaxies, edited by L. Feretti, I. M. Gioia, and G. Giovannini (Dordrecht: Kluwer), in press (2001)
On the $μ$-invariants of abelian varieties over function fields of positive characteristic
Creators: name: Lai, King-Fai
name: Longhi, Ignazio
name: Suzuki, Takashi
name: Tan, Ki-Seng
name: Trihan, Fabien
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11R23, 11G10, 11S40, 14J27

description: Let $A$ be an abelian variety over a global function field $K$ of characteristic $p$. We study the $μ$-invariant appearing in the Iwasawa theory of $A$ over the unramified $\mathbb{Z}_p$-extension of $K$. Ulmer suggests that this invariant is equal to what he calls the dimension of the Tate-Shafarevich group of $A$ and that it is indeed the dimension of some canonically defined group scheme. Our first result is to verify his suggestions. He also gives a formula for the dimension of the Tate-Shafarevich group (which is now the $μ$-invariant) in terms of other quantities including the Faltings height of $A$ and Frobenius slopes of the numerator of the Hasse-Weil $L$-function of $A / K$ assuming the conjectural Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer formula. Our next result is to prove this $μ$-invariant formula unconditionally for Jacobians and for semistable abelian varieties. Finally, we show that the "$μ=0$" locus of the moduli of isomorphism classes of minimal elliptic surfaces endowed with a section and with fixed large enough Euler characteristic is a dense open subset.
description: Accepted for publication in Algebra & Number Theory. No changes in the text from v3. 47 pages
Data from: Genes for cooperation are not more likely to be carried by plasmids
Creators: name: Dewar, Anna
name: Belcher, Laurence
name: Scott, Thomas
name: West, Stuart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Horizontal gene transfer
Social evolution
Comparative genomics
phylogenetic comparative methods

description: Cooperation is prevalent across bacteria, but risks being exploited by non-cooperative cheats. Horizontal gene transfer, particularly via plasmids, has been suggested as a mechanism to stabilize cooperation. A key prediction of this hypothesis is that genes that are more likely to be transferred, such as those on plasmids, should be more likely to code for cooperative traits. Testing this prediction requires identifying all genes for cooperation in bacterial genomes. However, previous studies used a method that likely misses some of these genes for cooperation. To solve this, we used a new genomics tool, SOCfinder, which uses three distinct modules to identify all kinds of genes for cooperation. We compared where these genes were located across 4648 genomes from 146 bacterial species. In contrast to the prediction of the hypothesis, we found no evidence that plasmid genes are more likely to code for cooperative traits. Instead, we found the opposite - that genes for cooperation were more likely to be carried on chromosomes. Overall, the vast majority of genes for cooperation are not located on plasmids, suggesting that the more general mechanism of kin selection is sufficient to explain the prevalence of cooperation across bacteria.
description: Funding provided by: European Research CouncilCrossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/0472cxd90Award Number:
description: We included species in our analysis if they had at least 10 complete genomes in the RefSeq database, and that at least 10 of those genomes had at least one plasmid sequence in their assembly. For all species meeting the criteria, we then downloaded all genomes available in RefSeq up to a maximum of 100. For the species which had more than 100 genomes available, we randomly selected 100 genomes for further analysis. We then downloaded the RefSeq genomes using the NCBI Datasets conda package (version 15.5.0) (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets). Overall, our dataset included a total of 4648 genomes across 146 bacterial species. 

We ran SOCfinder (version 1.0.1) (https://github.com/lauriebelch/SOCfinder) with default parameters on all our genomes. We then matched the list of genes for cooperation found by SOCfinder to each genome's chromosome(s) or plasmid(s). We did this for the consensus list which combines results of all three modules, and also for each of the modules separately. This was so we could compare whether considering different kinds of genes for cooperation influenced our results.

For each genome we calculated the proportion of genes coding for cooperative traits on both their chromosome(s) and their plasmid(s). We then analysed whether these proportions were significantly different.
The ROSAT-ESO Flux-Limited X-Ray (REFLEX) Galaxy Cluster Survey VI: Constraints on the cosmic matter density from the KL power spectrum
Creators: name: Schuecker, Peter
name: Guzzo, Luigi
name: Collins, Chris A.
name: Boehringer, Hans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Karhunen-Loéve (KL) eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the sample correlation matrix are used to analyse the spatial fluctuations of the REFLEX clusters of galaxies. The method avoids the disturbing effects of correlated power spectral densities which affects all previous cluster measurements on Gpc scales. Comprehensive tests use a large set of independent REFLEX-like mock cluster samples extracted from the Hubble Volume Simulation. It is found that unbiased measurements on Gpc scales are possible with the REFLEX data. The distribution of the KL eigenvalues are consistent with a Gaussian random field on the 93.4% confidence level. Assuming spatially flat cold dark matter models, the marginalization of the likelihood contours over different sample volumes, fiducial cosmologies, mass/X-ray luminosity relations and baryon densities, yields the 95.4% confidence interval for the matter density of $0.03
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Pion and kaon condensation at zero temperature in three-flavor $χ$PT at nonzero isospin and strange chemical potentials at next-to-leading order
Creators: name: Adhikari, Prabal
name: Andersen, Jens O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider three-flavor chiral perturbation theory ($χ$PT) at zero temperature and nonzero isospin ($μ_{I}$) and strange ($μ_{S}$) chemical potentials. The effective potential is calculated to next-to-leading order (NLO) in the $π^{\pm}$-condensed phase, the $K^{\pm}$-condensed phase, and the $K^0/\bar{K}^0$-condensed phase. It is shown that the transitions from the vacuum phase to these phases are second order and take place when, $|μ_I|=m_π$, $|{1\over2}μ_I+μ_S|=m_K$, and $|-{1\over2}μ_I+μ_S|=m_K$, respectively at tree level and remains unchanged at NLO. The transition between the two condensed phases is first order. The effective potential in the pion-condensed phase is independent of $μ_S$ and in the kaon-condensed phases, it only depends on the combinations $\pm{1\over2}μ_I+μ_S$ and not separately on $μ_I$ and $μ_S$. We calculate the pressure, isospin density and the equation of state in the pion-condensed phase and compare our results with recent $(2+1)$-flavor lattice QCD data. We find that the three-flavor $χ$PT results are in good agreement with lattice QCD for $μ_I<200$ MeV, however for larger values $χ$PT produces values for observables that are consistently above lattice results. For $μ_I>200$ MeV, the two-flavor results are in better agreement with lattice data. Finally, we consider the observables in the limit of very heavy $s$-quarks, where they reduce to their two-flavor counterparts with renormalized couplings. The disagreement between the predictions of two and three flavor $χ$PT can largely be explained by the differences in the experimental values of the low-energy constants.
description: 36 pages (including cover page) and 6 figures. Corrected minor typos in previous versions (including the published version)
Ecology of Mesamphiagrion laterale (Odonata: Coenagrionidae): abundance, reproduction and interactions with co-occurring species
Creators: name: Palacino-Rodríguez, Fredy
name: Altamiranda-Saavedra, Mariano
name: Palacino, Diego Andrés
name: Penagos, Andrea Carolina
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The behavior of Mesamphiagrion laterale (Selys, 1876) is described based upon 2430 hours of observation. A total of 2820 individuals were observed for 270 days from 2014 to 2015 using mark-recapture. Probabilities of resight, highest reproductive activity, time-perch and time of perch-temperature were statistically analyzed. Mesamphiagrion laterale is not a territorial species, the individuals perch on grass, trees, garbage, ground, and rocks, they feed on hemipterans, mosquitoes, spiders and other damselflies, and are prey to spiders and birds. Conspecific siege and interspecific interactions by perch were observed. No courtship was observed. During tandem, which lasted for 3–90 min, the ventral side of the male’s abdominal segment 2 was in contact with the female’s abdominal segments 8–10 until a wheel was formed. We observed three tandem pair combinations: sexually mature males and females, immature males with mature females, and immature males and females. While copulation lasted from 7 to 20 min, oviposition lasted from 12 to 15 min. Irrespective of male presence, oviposition occurred in submerged or emerged areas of Eichornia crassipes. We recorded the highest reproductive activity between 12:00 and 12:35 (Colombia Time-COT, UTC-5). Above 20°C, a larger perching area close to the water allows more reproductive events. However, a more extensive canopy cover impedes achieving optimal reproductive temperatures. Species interactions within this community may be explained by temporal and spatial niche partitioning.
Sequence analysis with Stata
Creators: name: Brzinsky-Fay, Christian
name: Kohler, Ulrich
name: Luniak, Magdalena
name: Brzinsky-Fay, Christian
name: Kohler, Ulrich
name: Luniak, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: sqclusterdat
subject: sqclustermat
subject: sqdes
subject: sqindexplot
subject: sqom
subject: sqparcoord
subject: sqset
subject: sqstatlist
subject: sqstatsum
subject: sqstattab1
subject: sqstattab2
subject: sqstattabsum
subject: sqtab
subject: sequence analysis
subject: optimal matching
subject: cluster analysis
subject: panel data
subject: longitudinal data
subject: explorative data analysis
subject: sequence index plot

description: We describe a general strategy to analyze sequence data and introduce SQ-Ados, a bundle of Stata programs implementing the proposed strategy. The programs include several tools for describing and visualizing sequences as well as a Mata library to perform optimal matching using the Needleman–Wunsch algorithm. With these programs Stata becomes the first statistical package to offer a complete set of tools for sequence analysis.
Antheminia lunulata
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Antheminia
Antheminia lunulata

description: Antheminia lunulata (Goeze, 1778)
 Material examined. GILAN: Sang Rud, 1 specimen, 4.viii.1998. ARDABIL: 5-20 km W of Khalkhal, 2 specimens, 8.- 9.viii.2002; Khalkhal – Kivi, 3 specimens, 4.viii.1996. SEMNAN: Rowyan, 1 specimen, 3.-4.vii. 2003; near Shahrud, 2 specimens, 3.-4.vii.2004. ZANJAN: Mamalan – Abbar, 2 specimens, 20.-21.vii.2002. GOLESTAN: Alagol, 2 specimens, 12.-13.vii.2003. KHORASAN: Lake Bazangan 50 km W of Sarakhs, 1 specimen, 30.vi.1994; Nodeh 20-40 km ESE of Bojnurd, 1 specimen, 11.vii.1994.
 Comments. In gardens and hilly steppes e.g. on Asteraceae. Euro-Siberian.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454
Impacts of Policy Changes on Discounts for Insects in Farm-Stored Wheat
Creators: name: Schurle, Bryan W.
name: Duncan, Steven S.
name: Reed, Carl
name: Worman, Fred
name: Pedersen, John
name: Schurle, Bryan W.
name: Duncan, Steven S.
name: Reed, Carl
name: Worman, Fred
name: Pedersen, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: New grading standards became effective in 1988 to encourage improved grain quality. This paper reports the results of two surveys designed to identify changes in discounting policies and a comparison of discount data collected in 1986 to data collected in 1991. Evidence indicates increases in discounts and improved management practices.
title: Exploring opportunistic salpingectomy as a preventive strategy for ovarian cancer: uptake in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Creators: name: Zadabedini Masouleh, Tahereh (Tara)
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Ovarian cancer (OC), the fifth deadliest cancer for women, had an estimated 3,100 cases in Canada in 2023, with a 66% mortality rate and approximately 1,950 projected deaths. High-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC), comprising 75% of OC cases, presents challenges in screening and early detection. Advances in understanding the origins of HGSC led to the identification of serous tubal intraepithelial carcinomas (STICs) in the fallopian tubes, introducing opportunistic salpingectomy (OS) as a preventative measure. The feasibility, safety, cost-effectiveness, and efficacy of OS have been investigated in multiple studies. A narrative review was conducted to address all these elements by assessing the effect of OS on surgical and post-surgical complications and on ovarian reserve. Overall, the addition of OS to hysterectomy or instead of tubal ligation appears to be safe and feasible. Available retrospective studies demonstrated that OS reduces the risk of OC in the general population by 35% to 65%. Due to the novelty of this approach, our understanding of the uptake of OS is limited in different clinical settings. The second manuscript presented in this thesis is a quantitative retrospective study that assessed the uptake of OS in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) between 2010 and 2019. All patients who underwent any or any combination of hysterectomy, salpingectomy, oophorectomy, or tubal ligation were included in the analysis. The number of cases with gynecological cancers following the surgery was also reported for each group. Over the study period, the uptake of OS at the time of hysterectomy and as an alternative to tubal ligation increased by 10.3-fold and 28.1- fold, respectively. However, despite this upward trend, there is still room to enhance its adoption in NL, Canada.
An Economic Analysis of Soil Erosion Control and Low-Input Agriculture
Creators: name: Diebel, Penelope L.
name: Taylor, Daniel B.
name: Batie, Sandra S.
name: Heatwole, Conrad D.
name: Diebel, Penelope L.
name: Taylor, Daniel B.
name: Batie, Sandra S.
name: Heatwole, Conrad D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: The Chesapeake Bay is a major water resource whose quality has been threatened by soil erosion and agrichemical contamination. The control of agricultural pollution of the Bay is one of the focal points of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay agreement formed by four states in the Bay's watershed (Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia). Among the suggested solutions is the promotion of low-input agricultural practices. However, some low-input practices also include frequent cultivations of the soil for non-chemical weed control practices, which may induce erosion. This analysis uses a case study approach to determine agricultural practice selection and potential erosion under different soil erosion constraints. A multi-period mathematical programming model was used to determine the preferred agricultural practices for a fanner maximizing net returns in Richmond County, Virginia. Richmond County is adjacent to the Rappahanock River and above the Columbia aquifer, major sources of fresh water for the Chesapeake Bay. A range of agricultural practices was available, including conventional and organic practices. Soil erosion and the level of chemical and nitrogen losses through sedimentation and leaching are discussed in this article. Soil erosion constraints were introduced that reduced erosion by 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 percent from current levels. These constraints were met without idled cropland, besides that enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program or Virginia's mandatory Buffer Strip Program. The results of this study illustrate that soil conservation policies and low-input practices produce few environmental tradeoffs between erosion control and the reduction of agrichemical pollution.
First Results from the COLA Project- the Radio-FIR Correlation and Compact Radio Cores in Southern COLA Galaxies
Creators: name: Corbett, E. A.
name: Norris, R. P.
name: Heisler, C. A.
name: Dopita, M. A.
name: Appleton, P.
name: Struck, C.
name: Murphy, T.
name: Marston, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first results from the COLA (Compact Objects in Low-power AGN) project which aims to determine the relationship between one facet of AGN activity, the compact radio core, with star formation in the circumnuclear region of the host galaxy. This will be accomplished by the comparison of the multi-wavelength properties of a sample of AGN with compact radio cores to those of a sample of AGN without compact cores and a matched sample of galaxies without AGN. In this paper we discuss the selection criteria for our galaxy samples and present the initial radio observations of the 107 Southern galaxies in our sample. Low-resolution ATCA observations at 4.8, 2.5 and 1.4 GHz and high resolution, single baseline snapshots at 2.3 GHz with the Australian LBA are presented. We find that for the majority of the galaxies in our sample, the radio luminosity is correlated with the FIR luminosity. Compact radio cores are detected in 9 galaxies. The majority (8/9) of these galaxies exhibit a significant radio excess and 50% (7/14) of the galaxies which lie above the radio-FIR correlation by more than 1 sigma have compact radio cores. The emission from the cores is too weak to account for this radio excess and there is no evidence that the radio luminosity of the compact cores is correlated with the FIR galaxy luminosity. The galaxies with compact cores tend to be classified optically as AGN, with two thirds (6/9) exhibiting Seyfert-like optical emission line ratios, and the remaining galaxies classified either as composite objects (2/9) or starburst (1/9). (Abridged)
description: 25 pages, including 6 figures and 4 tables, in Latex (uses emulateapj5.sty). Accepted for publication in ApJ
Brachynema cinctum
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Erythropalaceae
Brachynema
Brachynema cinctum

description: Brachynema cinctum (Fabricius, 1775)
 Material examined. KHORASAN: Deh Shor 25 km N of Tabas, 1 specimen, 17.iv.1994; Tabas, 1 specimen, 16.- 17.iv.1994.
 Comments. On halophytes in saline steppes. Holomediterranean, extending to the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Pakistan.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454
Eugenia pyriformis Cambess: a species of the Myrtaceae family with bioactive essential oil
Creators: name: Durazzini, Ana M. S.
name: Machado, Carlos H. M.
name: Fernandes, Cassia C.
name: Willrich, Guilherme B.
name: Antônio E. M. Crotti
name: Candido, Ana C. B. B.
name: Lizandra G. Magalhães
name: Iara S. Squarisi
name: Ribeiro, Arthur B.
name: Tavares, Denise C.
name: Martins, Carlos H. G.
name: Mayker L. D. Miranda
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hematology

description: Eugenia species have been appreciated for their edible fruits and medicinal properties. This paper aims to investigate the chemical composition and in vitro antileishmanial, antifungal and antiproliferative activities of essential oil from aerial parts of Eugenia pyriformis (EP-EO). The oil showed strong antileishmanial activity against promastigote forms of Leishmania amazonensis (IC50 = 2.16 µg/mL). It also exhibited high antifungal activity against Malassezia furfur (MIC = 30 µg/mL), which was determined by the broth microdilution method. Its antiproliferative activity was evaluated against the following cells: GM07429A (normal cell), MCF-7 (human breast adenocarcinoma), HeLa (human cervical adenocarcinoma) and M059J (human glioblastoma). Its major constituents, which were determined by GC-FID and GC-MS, were limonene (14.8%), nerolidol (11.0%), α-cadinol (10.3%), caryophyllene oxide (9.9%) and β-pinene (7.1%). These results showed, for the first time, the effectiveness of EP-EO as a natural product which has promising biological activities, a fact that enables its ethnopharmacological use.
Brachynema signatum Jakovlev 1879
Creators: name: Linnavuori, Rauno E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Santalales
Erythropalaceae
Brachynema
Brachynema signatum

description: Brachynema signatum Jakovlev, 1879
 Material examined. GOLESTAN: Farsian, 1 specimen, 16.vii.2003; 25 km W of Gonbad-e-Qavus, 3 specimens, 22.- 23.vii.2005; Gonbad, Bakhsh-e-Haft, 2 specimens, 14.-15.vii.2003.
 Comments. On halophytes in saline steppes. Middle-Asian, known from Russia (Dagestan), Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and China.
description: Published as part of Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2008, Studies on the Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of Gilan and the adjacent provinces in northern Iran, pp. 1-21 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342454
Symmetry dictated grain boundary state in a two-dimensional topological insulator
Creators: name: Kim, Hyo Won
name: Kang, Seoung-Hun
name: Kim, Hyun-Jung
name: Chae, Kisung
name: Cho, Suyeon
name: Ko, Wonhee
name: Kang, Se Hwang
name: Yang, Heejun
name: Kim, Sung Wng
name: Park, Seongjun
name: Hwang, Sung Woo
name: Kwon, Young-Kyun
name: Son, Young-Woo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Structural imperfections such as grain boundaries (GBs) and dislocations are ubiquitous in solids and have been of central importance in understanding nature of polycrystals. In addition to their classical roles, advent of topological insulators (TIs) offers a chance to realize distinct topological states bound to them. Although dislocation inside three-dimensional TIs is one of the prime candidates to look for, its direct detection and characterization are challenging. Instead, in two-dimensional (2D) TIs, their creations and measurements are easier and, moreover, topological states at the GBs or dislocations intimately connect to their lattice symmetry. However, such roles of crystalline symmetries of GBs in 2D TIs have not been clearly measured yet. Here, we present the first direct evidence of a symmetry enforced Dirac type metallic state along a GB in 1T'-MoTe$_2$, a prototypical 2D TI. Using scanning tunneling microscope, we show a metallic state along a grain boundary with non-symmorphic lattice symmetry and its absence along the other boundary with symmorphic one. Our large scale atomistic simulations demonstrate hourglass like nodal-line semimetallic in-gap states for the former while the gap-opening for the latter, explaining our observation very well. The protected metallic state tightly linked to its crystal symmetry demonstrated here can be used to create stable metallic nanowire inside an insulator.
An Economic Analysis of the IFMPO
Creators: name: Williams, Jeffery R.
name: Diebel, Penelope L.
name: Williams, Jeffery R.
name: Diebel, Penelope L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1992
Subjects: Farm Management

description: The Integrated Farm Management Program Option (IFMPO) of the 1990 farm bill is designed to increase crop management flexibility and promote the use of resource-conserving crops. Economic analysis of this program indicates that, although the current format provides flexibility, it provides little economic incentive to adopt resource-conserving crop rotations.
Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Routing Cryptocurrency over Payment Channel Networks
Creators: name: Tang, Weizhao
name: Wang, Weina
name: Fanti, Giulia
name: Oh, Sewoong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Payment channel networks (PCNs) are viewed as one of the most promising scalability solutions for cryptocurrencies today. Roughly, PCNs are networks where each node represents a user and each directed, weighted edge represents funds escrowed on a blockchain; these funds can be transacted only between the endpoints of the edge. Users efficiently transmit funds from node A to B by relaying them over a path connecting A to B, as long as each edge in the path contains enough balance (escrowed funds) to support the transaction. Whenever a transaction succeeds, the edge weights are updated accordingly. However, in deployed PCNs, channel balances (i.e., edge weights) are not revealed to users for privacy reasons; users know only the initial weights at time 0. Hence, when routing transactions, users first guess a path, then check if it supports the transaction. This guess-and-check process dramatically reduces the success rate of transactions. At the other extreme, knowing full channel balances can give substantial improvements in success rate at the expense of privacy. In this work, we study whether a network can reveal noisy channel balances to trade off privacy for utility. We show fundamental limits on such a tradeoff, and propose noise mechanisms that achieve the fundamental limit for a general class of graph topologies. Our results suggest that in practice, PCNs should operate either in the low-privacy or low-utility regime; it is not possible to get large gains in utility by giving up a little privacy, or large gains in privacy by sacrificing a little utility.
description: This revision corrects an error in Thm. 3.2, which previously under-estimated the converse bound by a factor of 2/n
Subalgebras of $\gc_N$ and Jacobi polynomials
Creators: name: De Sole, Alberto
name: Kac, Victor G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We classify the subalgebras of the general Lie conformal algebra $\gc_N$ that act irreducibly on $\C[\partial]^N$ and that are normalized by the $\operatorname{sl}_2$--part of a Virasoro element. The problem turns out to be closely related to classical Jacobi polynomials $P_n^{(-σ,σ)}$, $σ\in\C$. The connection goes both ways -- we use in our classification some classical properties of Jacobi polynomials, and we derive from the theory of conformal algebras some apparently new properties of Jacobi polynomials.
description: 35 pages, LaTex