cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Copidognathus brachystomus Viets 1940
Creators: name: Durucan, Furkan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Halacaridae
Copidognathus
Copidognathus brachystomus

description: Copidognathus brachystomus Viets, 1940 (Figs. 2 A–G)
 Material examined Finike, 2 m, Corallina officinalis 10 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂; 2 m, Laurencia obtusa, 5 ♀♀.
 Morphology and notes
 Females 290–320 long, 200–205 wide, that of males 300–310 long, 200–205 wide. In females, AD 75 long, 100 wide; with three porose areolae with rosette pores. Anterior areola on anterior dorsal plate with frontal projection. OC 87 long, 38 wide; with two corneae. OC longer than AD. PD 212 long, 150 wide; with two pairs of costae. Rosetta pores of costae surrounded by 5–7 canaliculi. Setae ds- 1 in anterior edge of paired porose areola on AD. ds-2 on OC. ds-3 to ds-5 on PD. ds-6 on anal cone. Length of AE 87 long, 150 wide. Female GA 150 long, 125 wide, with 3 pairs of pgs. Genital sclerite with a pair of small sgs. Ovipositor extending beyond GO (Figs. 2 A– C). Gnathosoma 88, 73 wide; 1.3 times longer than wide. Dorsal part of gnathosomal base foveated whereas ventrally with small rosette pores. Rostrum triangular, shorter than gnathosomal base, almost reaching level of seta on P-2. Tectum with median small process (Figs. 2 D–E). Leg I 225 long. The chaetotaxy of leg I as follows (from trochanter to tarsus); 1, 2, 6, 4, 4, 6 (Fig. 2 F). Length:height ratio of telofemur I is between 1.7–1.9 (Fig. 2 G). According to Bartsch (2001), C. brachystomus is easily distinguished by having a pair of porose areolae on AD oblong, process of tectum short or almost truncate, hardly extending to base of P-1.
 Distribution Baltic, Black and Mediterranean Sea (Bartsch 2009).
description: Published as part of Durucan, Furkan, 2019, New records of Copidognathus (Acari: Halacaridae) from Antalya, Turkey, pp. 189-210 in Persian Journal of Acarology 8 (3) on page 191, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v8i3.49588, http://zenodo.org/record/4635003
RECOLECCION Y COMERCIALIZACION DEL OREGANO (Lippia spp) EN EL SEMI-DESIERTO MEXICANO, UN CASO DE ESTUDIO: RESERVA ECOLOGICA MUNICIPAL SIERRA Y CAÑON DE JIMULCO, MEXICO
Collection and marketing of oregano (Lippia spp) in the Mexican semi-desert, case study of the Sierra and Canyon Municipal Ecological Reserve of Jimulco, Mexico
Creators: name: Castillo, Ignacio Orona
name:  Areli Jazmín Salvador Almazán
name: Arellano, José De Jesús Espinoza
name: Cirilo Vázquez Vázquez
name: Castillo, Ignacio Orona
name:  Areli Jazmín Salvador Almazán
name: Arellano, José De Jesús Espinoza
name: Cirilo Vázquez Vázquez
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Oregano
subject: harvesting
subject: marketing

description: The oregano plant (Lippia spp) is a wild resource located in arid and semi-arid areas of northern Mexico. Due to its important culinary and medicinal properties it is collected for sale by the population living in those areas which represents to the majority of the collectors more than 50% of their income. The objective of this work was to characterize its collection and commercialization to make proposals that allow to improve the standard of living of the population living in these regions and whose income is scarce and irregular. The work was carried out in a representative area of the Chihuahuan Semi - desert located in the Sierra and Cañón de Jimulco Municipal Ecological Reserve, Torreón municipality, Coahuila, Mexico, applying a field survey to 23 oregano collectors representing more than 30% of the population. The results found allow us to conclude that the marketing structure favors intermediaries and industrialists with very little margin for the collectors. It is necessary that they improve in their organization, participate more in the commercialization, look for the aggregation of value and above all they must manage a certification like organic product which would allow them to improve significantly their income.
description: ISNN-1405-9282
The MSSM fine tuning problem: a way out
Creators: name: Casas, J. A.
name: Espinosa, J. R.
name: Hidalgo, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As is well known, electroweak breaking in the MSSM requires substantial fine-tuning, mainly due to the smallness of the tree-level Higgs quartic coupling, lambda_tree. Hence the fine tuning is efficiently reduced in supersymmetric models with larger lambda_tree, as happens naturally when the breaking of SUSY occurs at a low scale (not far from the TeV). We show, in general and with specific examples, that a dramatic improvement of the fine tuning (so that there is virtually no fine-tuning) is indeed a very common feature of these scenarios for wide ranges of tan(beta) and the Higgs mass (which can be as large as several hundred GeV if desired, but this is not necessary). The supersymmetric flavour problems are also drastically improved due to the absence of RG cross-talk between soft mass parameters.
description: 28 pages, 9 PS figures, LaTeX Published version
The QCD Phase Diagram for Three Degenerate Flavors and Small Baryon Density
Creators: name: de Forcrand, Ph.
name: Philipsen, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for the phase diagram of three flavor QCD for μ_B ~ 500 MeV. Our simulations are performed with imaginary chemical potential μ_I for which the fermion determinant is positive. Physical observables are then fitted by truncated Taylor series and continued to real chemical potential. We map out the location of the critical line T_c(μ_B) with an accuracy up to terms of order (μ_B/T)^6. We also give first results on a determination of the critical endpoint of the transition and its quark mass dependence. Our results for the endpoint differ significantly from those obtained by other methods, and we discuss possible reasons for this.
description: 20 pages, 10 figures. Eqn (20) corrected, increased statistics, more accurate results. Version to appear in Nucl.Phys.B
INDICES DE CONCENTRACION Y ESPECIALIZACION DE LA PRODUCCION AGROPECUARIA EN LOS ESTADOS MEXICANOS PARA LOS AÑOS 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008 Y 2013
Concentration and Specialization Indices of Agricultural Production in the Mexican States, for 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008 and 2013
Creators: name: Rosales, Gregorio Castro
name: Fuentes, Elena
name: Rosales, Gregorio Castro
name: Fuentes, Elena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Concentration
subject: specialization
subject: GDP
subject: agricultural production
subject: economic growth.

description: The concentration and specialization indices of agricultural activity in the states for 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008 and 2013 are estimated. Considering the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), by sector and by Mexican states. The estimation is made in the context of the specification of the Gini coefficient and the specialization indices. The results indicate that the concentration of agricultural activities had increased from the 20 years analyzed in this research. The states that have historically developed activities in the primary sector have tended to increase their participation in this sector. In terms of specialization, thirteen states have a higher than average degree of specialization and half of them have a coefficient greater than 2. On the other hand, in terms of economic growth and specialization, evidence indicates that highly specialized entities have moderate economic growth.
description: ISNN-1405-9282
Long Range Interactions in Quantum Many Body Problem in One-Dimension:Ground State
Creators: name: Ghosh, Saugata
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the ground state properties of a family of $N$-body systems in 1-dimension, trapped in a polynomial potential and having long range 2-body interaction in addition to the inverse square potential studied in the Calogero-Sutherland model (CSM). We show that for such a Hamiltonian, the ground state energy is similar to that of free fermions in a harmonic well with a displacement that depends on the number of particles and depth of the well. We obtain the ground state wave function and using random matrix results, study the particle density and pair correlation function (PCF). We observe that the particles are arranged in bands. Due to the presence of long range interaction, the PCF shows a departure from the CSM.
title: The Role of Testing in Engineering Product Development Processes
Creators: name: Tahera, Khadija
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: Testing components, prototypes and products comprise essential, but time consuming and costly activities throughout the product development process particularly for complex iteratively designed products. The planning of testing is a critical challenge for these complex products for which market pressures demand shorter development times. A literature review identified that testing in the design process is a relatively under researched area. An extended case study in a diesel engine company was therefore conducted to explore how testing is integrated into the product development process and how different types of testing are planned across the stages of product development. The first part of this research study reports the empirical study. A framework resulting from this work is proposed which identifies the entities that characterise how testing should be planned. Motivated by needs of companies and research gaps identified in the literature review, the second part of this study focuses on three key problems for planning of testing in product development process: prioritisation of testing activities, scheduling of testing activities and managing the overlapping of testing and design activities. A method of integrating Quality Function Development (QFD) and Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA) for prioritising testing activities has been proposed, which can improve the current test prioritisation process of the company. A Multiple Domain Matrix (MDM) is created consisting of the components and associated tests of a product arranged in a format that allows the dependency and interrelationships between key parts and tests to be identified. This form of representation together with the proposed prioritisation method will improve the process of organising and scheduling the testing activities. The final study shows how virtual testing can mediate information flows between overlapping physical tests and (re)design and mitigate the risk associated with overlapping process. The study proposes a significant modification to the existing product development process configuration for design and testing. This reconfiguration makes explicit use of virtual testing which is an extension to Computer Aided Engineering. Virtual testing mirrors the testing process through modelling and simulation, as a distinct and significant activity. Virtual testing is used to (a) enhance and (b) replace some physical tests. Finally, this study assesses the costs and risks of overlaps and their amelioration through targeted virtual testing.
Additional file 1 of A peer learning intervention in workplace introduction - managers’ and new graduates’ perspectives
Creators: name: Pålsson, Ylva
name: Engström, Maria
name: Swenne, Christine Leo
name: Mårtensson, Gunilla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
title: The Effect of Digitisation and "Big Data" on Formation Marketing Strategy: A Financial Service Study
Creators: name: Grishikashvili, Ketty
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2015

description: The increased accessibility of digitally sourced data (Big Data) and advanced analytic tools drives many industries to change their practises. Since the amounts of customer data that are gathered online grows rapidly, the use of “Big Data” tools and techniques that are able to handle and analyse a huge amount of data in real time have become invaluable for marketing strategy. The need to understand how to manage and analyse large scale commercial information (Big Data) in an effective and efficient way brings challenges for many companies. Marketers still have to put much effort into defining their digital strategy, in order to select the appropriate software tools and effectively utilise them to achieve their business goals. Much attention has been focused on the opportunities presented from the digital data, however, there is little attention on the real challenges companies are facing to implement and adopt these opportunities.

 The research aims to investigate how the increasing amounts of customer data (Big Data) are being used to better understand and manage customers and explore how customer targeting practices and other strategic decisions are being affected by the availability of digital data in financial services sector.

 In-depth interviews were undertaken with 7 independent financial advisors who were running their businesses under True Potential financial network UK.

 The research found that there is a lack of skills for using technology for both employees and clients. Moreover, the full potential of big data for the marketing purposes is not understood in the financial service sector.

 The digital marketing adoption and effects of Big Data should be subject to further research in the industry. Limitations for this research and suggestions for further research are discussed in the presented dissertation.
A qualitative exploration of the impact of persistent pain
Creators: name: Smith, Jess
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis offers a qualitative exploration of the experience of living with persistent pain. Section One presents a systematic review and thematic synthesis considering the experience of parenting children with persistent pain. A search identified 17 relevant papers which were appraised for quality and analysed to reveal six themes. These related to seeking control in an uncontrollable situation; being let down by experts and becoming their own expert; fearing judgment whilst judging themselves; seeking normality even whilst adapting to a ‘new normal’; focusing on the child versus an awareness of the impact on the wider family; and the conflicting interests in raising a child with persistent pain. The place of these findings within the wider literature is considered, and clinical implications are discussed. In Section Two, an interpretative phenomenological analysis approach was utilised to explore the impact of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) on participants’ identity. Six semi-structured interviews were completed and transcribed verbatim. Analysis yielded four themes: the time taken to re-establish an identity; a sense of alienation from others; shame caused by CPRS; and the importance of control to a sense of self. Findings are discussed in relation to the extant literature, and implications for clinical practice are considered, including therapeutic models which may hold potential for this group. Finally, in Section Three a critical appraisal considered the findings of the two papers, as well as strengths and limitations of the research paper. Elements of reflexivity are explored, as is the impact of COVID-19 upon the thesis. Suggestions for future research are also outlined.
Copidognathus loricifer Andre 1946
Creators: name: Durucan, Furkan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Halacaridae
Copidognathus
Copidognathus loricifer

description: Copidognathus loricifer André, 1946 (Figs. 7 A–E)
 Material examined Yakamoz Beach, 2 m, fine sand, 4 ♀♀, 1 ♂.
 Morphology and notes
 Females 300–337 long, 212 wide, that of a male 310 long, 210 wide. AD with porose areolae and the plate 93 long, 85 wide, anteriorly with 20–22 rosette pores “Y” shaped areolae and two oblong posterior areolae each with about 13–16 rosette pores. OC 63 long, 35 wide with 2 corneae. PD 200 long, 110 wide. Setae ds-1 on AD, ds-2 within striated integument. ds-3 to ds-5 on PD. Female AE 100 long, 148 wide. AE with three pairs of long ventral setae. PE with 1 dorsal and 3 ventral long setae. Epimeral pores 7-8 wide. Female GA 110 long, 75 wide; with 33 pgs (Figs. 7 A– C). Gnathosoma 110 long and 70 wide; 1.5 times longer than wide. Rostrum extending just beyond the level of P-2 (Fig. 7 D). Leg I 240 long. The chaetotaxy of leg I as follows (from trochanter to tarsus); 1, 2, 5, 4, 7, 6 (Fig. 7 E). Copidognathus loricifer and C. magnipalpus belongs to the pulcher group. The group has about 15 named species from all over the world (Bartsch 1984; Chatterjee & De Troch 2000). Copidognathus loricifer is similar to C. magnipalpus. Distinguishing characters of the two species are discussed in C. magnipalpus below.
 Distribution Northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea (Bartsch 2009).
description: Published as part of Durucan, Furkan, 2019, New records of Copidognathus (Acari: Halacaridae) from Antalya, Turkey, pp. 189-210 in Persian Journal of Acarology 8 (3) on pages 197-198, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v8i3.49588, http://zenodo.org/record/4635003
Vibrotactile Feedback for Vertical 2D Space Exploration
Creators: name: Dupont, Lancelot
name: Jouffrais, Christophe
name: Perrault, Simon T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Visually impaired people encounter many challenges in their everyday life, especially when it comes to navigating and representing space. The issue of shopping is addressed mostly on the level of navigation and product detection, but conveying clues about the object position to the user is rarely implemented. This work presents a prototype of vibrotactile wristband using spatiotemporal patterns to help visually impaired users reach an object in the 2D plane in front of them. A pilot study on twelve blindfolded sighted subjects showed that discretizing space in a seven by seven targets matrix and conveying clues with a discrete pattern on the vertical axis and a continuous pattern on the horizontal axis is an intuitive and effective design.
description: 4+1 pages
Memory effect in growing trees
Creators: name: Malarz, K.
name: Kulakowski, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the structure of a growing tree preserves an information on the shape of an initial graph. For the exponential trees, evidence of this kind of memory is provided by means of the iterative equations, derived for the moments of the node-node distance distribution. Numerical calculations confirm the result and allow to extend the conclusion to the Barabasi--Albert scale-free trees. The memory effect almost disappears, if subsequent nodes are connected to the network with more than one link.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
Additional file 1 of Changes in sedentary behavior patterns during the transition from childhood to adolescence and their association with adiposity: a prospective study based on compositional data analysis
Creators: name: Rubín, Lukáš
name: Gába, Aleš
name: Pelclová, Jana
name: Štefelová, Nikola
name: Jakubec, Lukáš
name: Dygrýn, Jan
name: Hron, Karel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
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: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Characteristics of included and excluded participants.
Race matters : Analyzing the relationship between colorectal cancer mortality rates and various factors within respective racial groups
Creators: name: Veach, Emma
name: Xique, Ismael
name: Johnson, Jada
name: Lyle, Jessica
name: Almodovar, Israel
name: Sellers, Kimberly F.
name: Moore, Calandra T.
name: Jackson, Monica
Publisher: name: Frontiers in Public Health
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4206
subject: Public health

description: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third leading cause of mortality due to cancer (with over 50,000 deaths annually), representing 9% of all cancer deaths in the United States (1). In particular, the African-American CRC mortality rate is among the highest reported for any race/ethnic group. Meanwhile, the CRC mortality rate for Hispanics is 15–19% lower than that for non-Hispanic Caucasians (2). While factors such as obesity, age, and socio- economic status are known to associate with CRC mortality, do these and other potential factors correlate with CRC death in the same way across races? This research linked CRC mortality data obtained from the National Cancer Institute with data from the United States Census Bureau, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Solar Radiation Database to examine geographic and racial/ethnic differences, and develop a spatial regression model that adjusted for several factors that may attribute to health disparities among ethnic/racial groups. This analysis showed that sunlight, obesity, and socio-economic status were significant predictors of CRC mortality. The study is signif- icant because it not only verifies known factors associated with the risk of CRC death but, more importantly, demonstrates how these factors vary within different racial groups. Accordingly, education on reducing risk factors for CRC should be directed at specific racial groups above and beyond creating a generalized education plan.
LA CADENA PRODUCTIVA DE BOVINOS PRODUCTORES DE LECHE BAJO EL ENFOQUE COMPETITIVO DEL CLUSTER EN LA REGION DE LOS VALLES CENTRALES DE OAXACA, MEXICO
The Productive Chain Of Milk Producers Cattle Under the Cluster Competitive Approach in the Region of the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico
Creators: name: Vázquez, Velia Sánchez
name: Martínez, Alfredo Ruiz
name: Meléndez, Enrique Duran
name: Cruz, Alicia Silvia Gijón
name: Noyola, María Del Carmen Maciel
name: Vázquez, Velia Sánchez
name: Martínez, Alfredo Ruiz
name: Meléndez, Enrique Duran
name: Cruz, Alicia Silvia Gijón
name: Noyola, María Del Carmen Maciel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Competitiveness
subject: Cattle Milk
subject: cluster

description: Milk production in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, specifically in Etla and Zimatlán, has been threatened by different factors, on the one hand, the introduction of milk and milk formulas from other states, that compete directly on local product prices, for another the sale of finished products (cheese and “quesillo”) sold at extremely low prices, leaving producers and processors at a disadvantaged, however, there are still area with great potential for milk production such as the localities of San Pablo Huixtepec, Santa Cruz Mixtepec and La Ciénega Zimatlán. But their growth has been slowed by intermediarism, lack of training, poor infrastructure for primary production, lack of financing, processing and marketing, which has discouraged producers from organizing the production chain. This is why the purpose of this research carried out in the year 2015 was to present an analysis of the Bovine Milk production chain using the cluster model, the results obtained showed that the level of clustering was low (2.84) as it is affected by economies of specialization and differentiation, while competitiveness was found at a medium level (3.37) mainly affected by performance and costs.
description: ISNN-1405-9282
Additional file 6 of HDACi mediate UNG2 depletion, dysregulated genomic uracil and altered expression of oncoproteins and tumor suppressors in B- and T-cell lines
Creators: name: Iveland, Tobias S.
name: Hagen, Lars
name: Animesh Sharma
name: Sousa, Mirta M. L.
name: Sarno, Antonio
name: Wollen, Kristian Lied
name: Liabakk, Nina Beate
name: Slupphaug, Geir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 6: Table S2. Proteotypic PRM peptides.
A Bayesian time-to-event pharmacokinetic model for phase I dose-escalation trials with multiple schedules
Creators: name: Günhan, Burak Kürsad
name: Weber, Sebastian
name: Friede, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Phase I dose-escalation trials must be guided by a safety model in order to avoid exposing patients to unacceptably high risk of toxicities. Traditionally, these trials are based on one type of schedule. In more recent practice, however, there is often a need to consider more than one schedule, which means that in addition to the dose itself, the schedule needs to be varied in the trial. Hence, the aim is finding an acceptable dose-schedule combination. However, most established methods for dose-escalation trials are designed to escalate the dose only and ad-hoc choices must be made to adapt these to the more complicated setting of finding an acceptable dose-schedule combination. In this paper, we introduce a Bayesian time-to-event model which takes explicitly the dose amount and schedule into account through the use of pharmacokinetic principles. The model uses a time-varying exposure measure to account for the risk of a dose-limiting toxicity over time. The dose-schedule decisions are informed by an escalation with overdose control criterion. The model is formulated using interpretable parameters which facilitates the specification of priors. In a simulation study, we compared the proposed method with an existing method. The simulation study demonstrates that the proposed method yields similar or better results compared to an existing method in terms of recommending acceptable dose-schedule combinations, yet reduces the number of patients enrolled in most of scenarios. The \texttt{R} and \texttt{Stan} code to implement the proposed method is publicly available from Github (\url{https://github.com/gunhanb/TITEPK_code}).
description: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1811.09433
Non-locality and Medium Effects in the Exclusive Photoproduction of Eta Mesons on Nuclei
Creators: name: Hedayati-Poor, M.
name: Bayegan, S.
name: Sherif, H. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A relativistic model for the quasifree exclusive photoproduction of $η$ mesons on nuclei is extended to include both non-local and medium effects. The reaction is assumed to proceed via the dominant contribution of the S$_{11}$(1535) resonance. The complicated integrals resulting from the non-locality are simplified using a modified version of a method given by Cooper and Maxwell. The non-locality effects are found to affect the magnitude of the cross section. Some possibilities reflecting the effects of the medium on the propagation and properties of the intermediate S$_{11}$ resonance are studied. The effects of allowing the S$_{11}$ to interact with the medium via mean field scalar and vector potentials are considered. Both broadening of width and reduction in mass of the resonance lead to a suppression of the calculated cross sections.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures
Promoting education, awareness, participation and effectiveness in composting on campus
Creators: name: Allason, Christa
name: Ramsey, Byron
name: Cheng, Elaine
name: Lau, Michelle
name: Tole, Nicola
name: Zou, Brite
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Acadia and University Apartments of the University of British Columbia (UBC) are home to some 800 families. Each month there is a heavy influx and efflux of families due to the temporary nature of the housing. As a result, it’s difficult to ensure composting awareness and practice remains steady among residents. To increase awareness of composting at UBC, and specifically in the Acadia Family Residences and University Apartments, we designed an informational article about composting, a survey for the residents of Acadia to evaluate their composting awareness and habits, and a children’s activity page. The adult information page, the survey, and the children’s activity page were added to the April edition of Acadia’s monthly newsletter and distributed April 1st, 2007. Upon return of our surveys (April 8th, 2007), it was determined that the majority of the residents were interested in improving composting practices in their residence. We collaborated with Carol Young, the Residence Life Manager at Acadia Family Housing, to provide practical solutions to increase the awareness and incidence of composting at this housing unit. We would recommend that upcoming students continue to strengthen this relationship and work together with Ms. Young to further facilitate composting at Acadia and University Apartments. We believe this is a relatively untapped population that can aid in increasing composting and decreasing waste at the University of British Columbia. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Exact solutions for universal holonomic quantum gates
Creators: name: Karimipour, Vahid
name: Majd, Nayereh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how one can implement any local quantum gate on specific qubits in an array of qubits by carrying adiabatically a Hamiltonian around a closed loop. We find the exact form of the loop and the Hamiltonian for implementing general one and two qubits gates. Our method is analytical and is not based on numerical search in the space of all loops.
description: 10 pages, no figures, Accepted for Publication in Phys. Rev. A
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in people living with HIV
Creators: name: Maurice, James
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2020

description: Introduction: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasingly prevalent worldwide through increasing obesity. It is not known whether HIV infection or its treatments, themselves associated with metabolic side effects such as dyslipidaemia and, historically, lipodystrophy, may potentiate the development and progression of NAFLD and its severe forms with NASH and fibrosis. The aim of this thesis is to explore in detail the clinical, histologic and metabolic phenotype of NAFLD in people living with HIV (PLWH), and the impact of the gut-liver axis in disease pathogenesis. Methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence and risk factors of NAFLD, NASH and fibrosis was performed. An international collaboration of pooled liver histology in HIV mono-infection investigated the clinical features associated with biopsy- confirmed NAFLD and fibrosis. Laboratory assays including bacterial DNA polymerase- chain reaction, ELISA, stool metataxegenomics and immunohistochemistry characterised the impact of the gut microbiome, bacterial translocation and monocyte/macrophage activation on NAFLD and liver fibrosis development. Serum H1-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy explored the metabolic profile of NAFLD in subjects with and without HIV. Results: The clinical phenotyping supported the central role of obesity and insulin resistance in the development of NAFLD and particularly fibrosis in PLWH. HIV- specific factors were not associated with disease progression, and this was supported by the liver histology work. Monocyte/macrophage activation is evident in NAFLD with fibrosis, whereas changes to the microbiome or translocation were not clearly associated with the disease. Metabolic biomarkers were principally related to obesity rather than liver disease stage, although NAFLD in PLWH had a distinct lipid profile compared to NAFLD without HIV. Conclusions: The clinical and pathophysiological mechanisms of NAFLD, NASH and fibrosis in HIV closely resemble that in the general population. Consideration should be given to including this group within the emerging clinical trials for therapeutics in NASH.
Gemomic variation in cline shape across a hybrid zone
Creators: name: Kingston, Sarah E.
name: Jernigan, Robert W.
name: Fagan, William F.
name: Braun, David
name: Braun, Michael J.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Hybrid zones are unique biological interfaces that reveal both population level and species level evolutionary processes. A genome-scale approach to assess gene flow across hybrid zones is vital, and now possible. In Mexican towhees (genus Pipilo), several morphological hybrid gradients exist. We completed a genome survey across one such gradient (9 populations, 140 birds) using mitochondrial DNA, 28 isozyme, and 377 AFLP markers. To assess variation in introgression among loci, cline parameters (i.e., width, center) for the 61 clinally varying loci were estimated and compiled into genomic distributions for tests against three empirical models spanning the range of observed cline shape. No single model accounts for observed variation in cline shape among loci. Numerous backcross individuals near the gradient center confirm a hybrid origin for these populations, contrary to a previous hypothesis based on social mimicry and character displacement. In addition, the observed variation does not bin into well-defined categories of locus types (e.g., neutral vs. highly selected). Our multi-locus analysis reveals cross-genomic variation in selective constraints on gene flow and locus-specific flexibility in the permeability of the interspecies membrane.
Lightweight Lexical Test Prioritization for Immediate Feedback
Creators: name: Mattis, Toni
name: Hirschfeld, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The practice of unit testing enables programmers to obtain automated feedback on whether a currently edited program is consistent with the expectations specified in test cases. Feedback is most valuable when it happens immediately, as defects can be corrected instantly before they become harder to fix. With growing and longer running test suites, however, feedback is obtained less frequently and lags behind program changes. The objective of test prioritization is to rank tests so that defects, if present, are found as early as possible or with the least costs. While there are numerous static approaches that output a ranking of tests solely based on the current version of a program, we focus on change-based test prioritization, which recommends tests that likely fail in response to the most recent program change. The canonical approach relies on coverage data and prioritizes tests that cover the changed region, but obtaining and updating coverage data is costly. More recently, information retrieval techniques that exploit overlapping vocabulary between change and tests have proven to be powerful, yet lightweight. In this work, we demonstrate the capabilities of information retrieval for prioritizing tests in dynamic programming languages using Python as example. We discuss and measure previously understudied variation points, including how contextual information around a program change can be used, and design alternatives to the widespread \emph{TF-IDF} retrieval model tailored to retrieving failing tests. To obtain program changes with associated test failures, we designed a tool that generates a large set of faulty changes from version history along with their test results. Using this data set, we compared existing and new lexical prioritization strategies using four open-source Python projects, showing large improvements over untreated and random test orders and results consistent with related work in statically typed languages. We conclude that lightweight IR-based prioritization strategies are effective tools to predict failing tests in the absence of coverage data or when static analysis is intractable like in dynamic languages. This knowledge can benefit both individual programmers that rely on fast feedback, as well as operators of continuous integration infrastructure, where resources can be freed sooner by detecting defects earlier in the build cycle.
Gemomic variation in cline shape across a hybrid zone
Creators: name: Kingston, Sarah E.
name: Jernigan, Robert W.
name: Fagan, William F.
name: Braun, David
name: Braun, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Ecology and Evolution
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Hybrid zones are unique biological interfaces that reveal both population level and species level evolutionary processes. A genome-scale approach to assess gene flow across hybrid zones is vital, and now possible. In Mexican towhees (genus Pipilo), several morphological hybrid gradients exist. We completed a genome survey across one such gradient (9 populations, 140 birds) using mitochondrial DNA, 28 isozyme, and 377 AFLP markers. To assess variation in introgression among loci, cline parameters (i.e., width, center) for the 61 clinally varying loci were estimated and compiled into genomic distributions for tests against three empirical models spanning the range of observed cline shape. No single model accounts for observed variation in cline shape among loci. Numerous backcross individuals near the gradient center confirm a hybrid origin for these populations, contrary to a previous hypothesis based on social mimicry and character displacement. In addition, the observed variation does not bin into well-defined categories of locus types (e.g., neutral vs. highly selected). Our multi-locus analysis reveals cross-genomic variation in selective constraints on gene flow and locus-specific flexibility in the permeability of the interspecies membrane.
Relationship among Energy, Bioenergy and Agricultural Commodity Prices: Re-Considering Structural Changes
Creators: name: Nemati, Mehdi
name: Nemati, Mehdi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Agricultural commodities, Ethanol, Structural changes, VECM models

description: This study investigates the relationships among the prices of gasoline, ethanol, and agricultural products that include soybeans and corn. By increasing production of ethanol using corn, concerns about emerging new relationship between agricultural products price and energy price increased. The result indicates that, without considering structural breaks, there is no long-run relationship between energy and agricultural products prices. However, after consideration of structural breaks not only, long-run relationship between energy and agricultural products exist, but also this relationship intensified during last decade. Also, energy price can be transmitted to agricultural products prices from the indirect and direct channel.
Additional file 1 of Developmental deficits and staging of dynamics of age associated Alzheimer’s disease neurodegeneration and neuronal loss in subjects with Down syndrome
Creators: name: Wegiel, Jerzy
name: Flory, Michael
name: Kuchna, Izabela
name: Nowicki, Krzysztof
name: Wegiel, Jarek
name: Ma, Shuang Yong
name: Zhong, Nanbert
name: Bobrowicz, Teresa Wierzba
name: de Leon, Mony
name: Lai, Florence
name: Silverman, Wayne P.
name: Wisniewski, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Stereological parameters and procedures applied for examination of DS brains.
Two new Double-lined Spectroscopic Binary White Dwarfs
Creators: name: Kilic, Mukremin
name: Bedard, A.
name: Bergeron, P.
name: Kosakowski, Alekzander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present radial velocity observations of four binary white dwarf candidates identified through their over-luminosity. We identify two new double-lined spectroscopic binary systems, WD 0311-649 and WD 1606+422, and constrain their orbital parameters. WD 0311-649 is a 17.7 h period system with a mass ratio of $1.44 \pm 0.06$ and WD 1606+422 is a 20.1 h period system with a mass ratio of $1.33 \pm 0.03$. An additional object, WD 1447-190, is a 43 h period single-lined white dwarf binary, whereas WD 1418-088 does not show any significant velocity variations over timescales ranging from minutes to decades. We present an overview of the 14 over-luminous white dwarfs that were identified by Bedard et al., and find the fraction of double- and single-lined systems to be both 31%. However, an additional 31% of these over-luminous white dwarfs do not show any significant radial velocity variations. We demonstrate that these must be in long-period binaries that may be resolved by Gaia astrometry. We also discuss the over-abundance of single low-mass white dwarfs identified in the SPY survey, and suggest that some of those systems are also likely long period binary systems of more massive white dwarfs.
description: MNRAS, in press
Lattice simulations of Born-Infeld non-linear QED
Creators: name: Sinclair, D. K.
name: Kogut, J. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Born-Infeld non-linear electrodynamics was introduced to render the self energy of a point particle finite. It has recently been revived as a field theory for branes and strings. We quantize this theory on a Euclidean space-time lattice, using Metropolis Monte-Carlo simulations to measure the properties of the quantum field theory. Luscher-Weisz methods are used to measure the electromagnetic fields from a static point charge. The D field from a point charge appears to be identical to that for the normal Maxwell Lagrangian. The E field is enhanced by quantum fluctuations, and shows short distance screening as it does in the classical theory.
description: 6 pages Latex 3 postscript figures. Talk presented by DKS at Lattice 2005, Dublin
title: Shared Understanding Within Large Information Systems Projects
Creators: name: Short, Lawson
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2016

description: This research responds to calls for practice-based research in the field of project management. Undertaken during the development of a sizable public information systems project, it examines the extent to which the professionals engaged in the project shared a common understanding of important matters such as its goals, structure and clients. The literature review examines the history of project management and its methodologies, the reasons that information systems projects fail, the concept of uncertainty and shared understanding, and risk associated with the development of large scale information systems. The fieldwork was conducted in 2010. The research adopts an interpretive position and the methodology centred on two series of structured interviews held some eight months apart. Analysis of responses found a low level of shared understanding about all matters investigated amongst the professionals developing the IS. The overall conclusion of the research is that no evidence was found that the participants in a programme or project have a common, shared understanding of current endeavours and the future envisaged end state. Therefore any project activity that depends on a single shared understanding such as the definition of deliverables and management of the business case, may be ill-founded. Further research into the topic of shared understanding in the context of IS programmes and projects is recommended.
Moving charges, detectors and mirrors in a quantum field with backreaction
Creators: name: Galley, Chad R.
name: Hu, B.L.
name: Johnson, Philip
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This is a progress report on our current work on moving charges[1, 2], detectors[3], and moving mirrors[4, 5] in a quantum field treated in a fully relativistic way via the Feynman-Vernon influence functional method[6], which preserves maximal quantum coherence of the system with selfconsistent back-reaction from the field.
Sample-size dependence of validation parameters in linear regression models and in QSAR
Creators: name: D. Kovács
name: P. Király
name: G. Tóth
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Genetics
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
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The dependence of statistical validation parameters was investigated on the size of the sample taken in fit of multivariate linear curves. We observed that R2 and related internal parameters were misleading as they overestimated the goodness-of-fit of models at small sample size. Cross-validation metrics showed correct trends. It was possible to scale the leave-one-out and the leave-many-out results close to identical by correcting the degrees of freedom of the models. y and x-randomized validation parameters were calculated and the methods provided close to identical results. We suggest to use the simplest methods in both cases. The external parameters followed correct trends with respect to the sample size, but their sensitivity differed. We plotted the Roy-Ojha metrics in 2D and we coloured them with respect to other external parameters to provide an easy classification of models. The rank correlations were calculated between the performance parameters. Up to a sample size, goodness-of-fit and robustness were distinguishable, but above a certain sample size, the parameters were redundant. The external-internal pairs were weakly correlated. Our data show that all the three aspects of validation are necessary at small sample sizes, but the internal check of robustness is not informative above a given sample size.
Additional file 1 of Preparation of uniformly labelled 13C- and 15N-plants using customised growth chambers
Creators: name: Ćeranić, Asja
name: Doppler, Maria
name: Büschl, Christoph
name: Parich, Alexandra
name: Kangkang Xu
name: Koutnik, Andrea
name: Bürstmayr, Hermann
name: Lemmens, Marc
name: Schuhmacher, Rainer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Calculation of the CO2 consumption.