cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Ecological Resilience Theory : Application and Testing in Seagrass Ecosystems
Creators: name: Maxwell, Paul Stuart
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Resilience theory
subject: Seagrass ecosystems

description: In response to growing global impact on ecosystems, we design programs for conservation and restoration to maintain and enhance biodiversity, productivity and ecosystem resilience. To ensure the greatest return for these programs, there is an implicit requirement for identifying and understanding the complex non-linear relationships that can exist between impact gradients, ecosystem structure and the processes that mediate the two. Ecological resilience theory has developed as one of the fundamental explanations of this complexity. The application of ecological resilience theory in a local management context, however, is often hampered by a disparity between the theory and what is practical to test empirically. This thesis used seagrass ecosystems in Moreton Bay, Queensland as a model system for the development and testing of a practical framework to examine the potential for incorporating measures of feedback loops into the empirical assessment of resilience. I focussed on the behaviour of feedback processes in relation to changing levels of impact with a view to developing a generic, testable hypothesis that could be used to assess ecological resilience more broadly. A Bayesian network was used to synthesis the known relationships between impact and seagrass response to identify three key feedback processes that stabilise seagrass ecosystems in Moreton Bay......
Linear and optimal nonlinear control of one-dimensional maps
Creators: name: McGuire, Justin
name: Batchelor, Murray T.
name: Davies, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of linear and optimal nonlinear control in the simple case of one-dimensional unimodal maps. We show that linear feedback relates unimodal maps to invertible ``Henon-like'' maps. This observation should be useful in relating the considerable bodies of knowledge which exist for the two types of systems. In the case of the optimal nonlinear feedback scheme of de Sousa Vieira and Lichtenberg we investigate the relationship between controlled and uncontrolled maps, particularly the preservation of the period doubling route to chaos.
description: 7 pages, Latex, no figures
Trends in women’s height and the effect of early childbearing on height retardation: An analysis of the height of Bangladeshi women born between 1974 and 1998
Creators: name: Shafiq, Sabit Saad
name: Haider, M Moinuddin
name: Rahman, Md Mahabubur
name: Dewan, Md Nayem
name: Kamal, Nahid
name: Khan, Shusmita
name: Alam, Nurul
name: Sarkar, Sadman Sowmik
Publisher: name: International Society of Global Health
Year: 2023

description:
Background: Depending on race, ethnicity, and region, genetic variants determine human height by 65% to 80%, while the remaining variance of 20% to 35% is influenced by nutrition and other individual or environmental exposures in the early years of life. An improvement in nutrition and health in the early years in a population underprivileged in health and nutrition will likely increase the group's average height. Due to outstanding improvements in these areas in recent decades, we hypothesised that the average height of Bangladeshi women has increased. Moreover, because pregnancy at an early age affects women's health and nutrition, we hypothesised that women who began childbearing early would experience growth retardation compared to women who had pregnancies at a later age. Methods: We used data from five national surveys conducted between 2004 and 2018 that collected height data from ever-married women aged 15-49 years. We analysed the height of women aged 20-29 years (born between 1974 and 1998) and examined the mean height by birth years, age at first birth (AFB), economic status, religion and region. We conducted multiple linear regression models, controlling for the differential effects of the socio-demographic characteristics on women's height over time and by AFB. Results: The average height of women born between 1974 and 1998 significantly increased by 0.03 cm annually, with fluctuations between 150.3 and 151.6 cm. We also found an association between age at childbearing and height in adulthood - women who began childbearing before age 17 were approximately one centimetre shorter in adulthood than those who began childbearing at a later age. Conclusions: We found evidence of an increasing trend in women's height in Bangladesh and an inhibiting effect of early teenage childbearing on attaining the potential growth of women. The findings call for further studies to investigate early childbearing and its consequences on women's and their children's growth in diverse settings, considering socio-cultural customs influencing early marriage and childbearing.
title: A Study of the Impact of Culture on International Business Format Franchising: The Case of Taiwan
Creators: name: Chen, Hui-Heng
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Franchising, Taiwan
subject: Franchisors, Taiwan
subject: Franchisors, Japanese
subject: Franchisors, American

description: The focus of this research thesis is to examine the impact of culture on international franchising strategies adopted by American and Japanese international franchisors when entering Taiwan. Franchising has, over many decades, been demonstrated as a highly successfully means of engaging in commercial business operations. Franchising is a market related business method that is based on contractual arrangements that delineate responsibilities, decision rights and resources of the franchisor and franchisee. There are two recognised franchise systems comprising of the product/trade-name system and the business format franchise systems. In contrast to the product/trade-name system, the business format franchise system provides a complete and proven system of business operations and establishes an ongoing support relationship between franchisor and franchisees. In this thesis, the focus will be upon the business format franchise system. Franchising has expanded rapidly in domestic markets and also in the international marketplace. Franchisors have developed consumer confidence in their products/services and brand names through store design, recognisable arrangement of merchandise and high levels of service, which are consistent across franchise outlets. Franchisors provide customers with a range of quality-controlled options both in service industries and the consumer goods market.
Emotional Work: A Psychological View
Creators: name: Strazdins, Lyndall
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2000
Subjects: psychology
emotional work
social support provision
emotional contagion
work stress
domestic work
Integrative Emotional Work Inventory
IEW

description: At work and in the family, people do emotional work to meet other people's emotional needs, improve their wellbeing, and maintain social harmony. Emotional work is unique and skilled work - it involves handling emotions and social relationships and its product is the change of feeling in others. ¶ The thesis extends the work of Erickson and Wharton (1993, 1997) and England (1992, England & Farkas, 1986) by adding a psychological perspective. Emotional work is defined in terms of behaviours. Three dimensions, companionship, help and regulation, distinguish whether positive or negative emotions in other people are the target of emotional work. Companionship builds positive emotions, whereas help and regulation repairs and regulates negative emotions. ¶ Two studies, the Public Service Study (n=448) and the Health Care Study (n=261), sample different work and family role contexts (spouse, parent, kinkeeper and friendship, manager, workmate and service roles). The Integrative Emotional Work (IEW) Inventory was developed to assess emotional work in these roles. ¶ ...
title: Local Halting Criteria for Stochastic Diffusion Search Using Nature-inspired Quorum Sensing
Creators: name: Martin, Andrew Owen
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2020

description: Stochastic Diffusion Search (SDS) is a Swarm Intelligence algorithm in which a population of homogeneous agents locate a globally optimal solution in a search space through repeated iteration of partial evaluation and communication of hypotheses. In this work a variant of SDS, Quorum Sensing SDS (QSSDS), is developed in which agents employ only local knowledge to determine whether the swarm has successfully converged on a solution of sufficient quality, and should therefore halt. It is demonstrated that this criterion performs at least as well as SDS in locating the optimal solution in the search space, and that the parameters of Quorum Sensing SDS may be tuned to optimise behaviour towards a fast decision or a high quality solution. Additionally it is shown that Quorum Sensing SDS can be used as a model of distributed decision making and hence makes testable predictions about the capacities and abilities of swarms in nature.
Local calibrations for minimizers of the Mumford-Shah functional with rectilinear discontinuity sets
Creators: name: Maso, Gianni Dal
name: Mora, Maria Giovanna
name: Morini, Massimiliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using a calibration method, we prove that, if $w$ is a function which satisfies all Euler conditions for the Mumford-Shah functional on a two-dimensional open set $Ω$, and the discontinuity set of $w$ is a segment connecting two boundary points, then for every point $(x_0, y_0)$ of $Ω$ there exists a neighbourhood $U$ of $(x_0, y_0)$ such that $w$ is a minimizer of the Mumford-Shah functional on $U$ with respect to its own boundary values on $\partial U$.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures
Levels and trends in mortality and causes of death among women of reproductive age in Bangladesh: Findings from three national surveys
Creators: name: Arifeen, Shams El
name: Sathi, Shahnaj Sultana
name: Jamil, Kanta
name: Siddique, Abu Bakkar
name: Chakraborty, Nitai
name: Mahmud, Kaiser
name: Rahman, Ahmed Ehsanur
name: Streatfield, Peter K
name: Nahar, Quamrun
name: Alam, Anadil
Publisher: name: International Society of Global Health
Year: 2023

description:
Background: Information on the mortality rate and proportional cause-specific mortality is essential for identifying diseases of public health importance, design programmes, and formulating policies, but such data on women of reproductive age in Bangladesh is limited. Methods: We analysed secondary data from the 2001, 2010, and 2016 rounds of the nationally representative Bangladesh Maternal Mortality and Health Care Survey (BMMS) to estimate mortality rates and causes of death among women aged 15-49 years. We collected information on causes of death three years prior to each survey using a country-adapted version of the World Health Organization (WHO) verbal autopsy (VA) questionnaire. Trained physicians independently reviewed the VA questionnaire and assigned a cause of death using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes. The analysis included mortality rates and proportional mortality showing overall and age-specific causes of death. Results: The overall mortality rates for women aged 15-49 years decreased over time, from 190 per 100 000 years of observation in the 2001 BMMS, to 121 per 100 000 in the 2010 BMMS, to 116 per 100 000 in the 2016 BMMS. Age-specific mortality showed a similar downward pattern. The three diseases contributing the most to mortality were maternal causes (13-20%), circulatory system diseases (15-23%), and malignancy (14-24%). The relative position of these three diseases changed between the three surveys. From the 2001 BMMS to the 2010 BMMS and subsequently to the 2016 BMMS, the number of deaths from non-communicable diseases (e.g. cardiovascular diseases and malignancies) increased from 29% to 38% to 48%. Maternal causes led to the highest proportion of deaths among 20-34-year-olds in all three surveys (25-32%), while suicide was the number one cause of death for teenagers (19-22%). Circulatory system diseases and malignancy were the two leading causes of death for older women aged 35-49 years (40%-67%). Conclusions: There was a gradual shift in the causes of death from communicable to non-communicable diseases among women of reproductive age in Bangladesh. Suicide as the primary cause of death among teenage girls demands urgent attention for prevention.
Oceanic Games: Centralization Risks and Incentives in Blockchain Mining
Creators: name: Leonardos, Nikos
name: Leonardos, Stefanos
name: Piliouras, Georgios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 91A80, 97R99

description: To participate in the distributed consensus of permissionless blockchains, prospective nodes -- or miners -- provide proof of designated, costly resources. However, in contrast to the intended decentralization, current data on blockchain mining unveils increased concentration of these resources in a few major entities, typically mining pools. To study strategic considerations in this setting, we employ the concept of Oceanic Games, Milnor and Shapley (1978). Oceanic Games have been used to analyze decision making in corporate settings with small numbers of dominant players (shareholders) and large numbers of individually insignificant players, the ocean. Unlike standard equilibrium models, they focus on measuring the value (or power) per entity and per unit of resource} in a given distribution of resources. These values are viewed as strategic components in coalition formations, mergers and resource acquisitions. Considering such issues relevant to blockchain governance and long-term sustainability, we adapt oceanic games to blockchain mining and illustrate the defined concepts via examples. The application of existing results reveals incentives for individual miners to merge in order to increase the value of their resources. This offers an alternative perspective to the observed centralization and concentration of mining power. Beyond numerical simulations, we use the model to identify issues relevant to the design of future cryptocurrencies and formulate prospective research questions.
description: [Best Paper Award] at the International Conference on Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy (MARBLE 2019)
Who is to blame? Youth crime and attribution of responsibility in urban Mexico
Creators: name: Lavore, Elisa
name: Kibriya, Shahriar
name: Laterzo, Isabel
name: Bronsoler, Vivian
name: García-Ponce, Omar
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2023

description:
Crime and violence threaten people's safety and overall well-being around the globe. Youths represent a large fraction of the victims and perpetrators of violent crime. Understanding how youths make judgments about criminal acts and attribute blame has important implications, as these patterns are associated with perceptions of the acceptability of criminal behavior. Drawing on standard theories of blame attribution, we investigate the causal attributions of responsibility for criminal behavior among youths in urban Mexico, distinguishing between internal blame (attributed to the perpetrator) and external blame (attributed to the government and society). Using a novel, face-to-face survey experiment with nearly 3000 Mexicans aged 16–29 and seven focus groups, we examine how the perpetrator's socioeconomic background, role within a gang, victim type, and crime severity influence assessments of blame attribution. Our results provide compelling evidence that the socioeconomic status of the perpetrator and the type of gang involvement significantly influence assessments of internal and external blame. We also find that blame allocation differs based on respondents' characteristics and community environment. These findings shed light on how youths rationalize criminal behavior and have clear implications for policy-relevant research concerning crime and violence among youths.
Influence of Hormonal Contraceptive Use and HIV on Cervicovaginal Cytokines and Microbiota in Malawi
Creators: name: Tegha, Gerald
name: Gajer, Pawel
name: Kourtis, Athena P.
name: Hosseinipour, Mina C.
name: Ravel, Jacques
name: Nelson, Julie A. E.
name: Tang, Jennifer H.
name: Haddad, Lisa B.
name: De Paris, Kristina
name: Chinula, Lameck
name: Hobbs, Marcia M.
name: Msika, Albans
name: Davis, Nicole L.
Publisher: name: American Society for Microbiology
Year: 2023

description:
Important questions remain on how hormonal contraceptives alter the local immune environment and the microbiota in the female genital tract and how such effects may impact susceptibility to HIV infection. We leveraged samples from a previously conducted clinical trial of Malawian women with (n = 73) and without (n = 24) HIV infection randomized to depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) or the levonogestrel implant in equal numbers within each group and determined the effects of these hormonal contraceptives (HCs) on the vaginal immune milieu and the composition of the vaginal microbiota. Longitudinal data for soluble immune mediators, measured by multiplex bead arrays and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs), and vaginal microbiota, assessed by 16S rRNA gene amplicon, were collected prior to and over a period of 180 days post-HC initiation. DMPA and levonogestrel had only minimal effects on the vaginal immune milieu and microbiota. In women with HIV, with the caveat of a small sample size, there was an association between the median log10 change in the interleukin-12 (IL-12)/IL-10 ratio in vaginal fluid at day 180 post-HC compared to baseline when these women were classified as having a community state type (CST) IV vaginal microbiota and were randomized to DMPA. Long-lasting alterations in soluble immune markers or shifts in microbiota composition were not observed. Furthermore, women with HIV did not exhibit increased viral shedding in the genital tract after HC initiation. Consistent with the results of the ECHO (Evidence for Contraceptive Options and HIV Outcomes) trial, our data imply that the progestin-based HC DMPA and levonorgestrel are associated with minimal risk for women with HIV. (This study has been registered at ClinicalTrials.gov under registration no. NCT02103660). IMPORTANCE The results of the Evidence for Contraceptive Options and HIV Outcomes (ECHO) trial, the first large randomized controlled clinical trial comparing the HIV acquisition risk of women receiving DMPA, the levonorgestrel (LNG) implant, or the copper intrauterine device (IUD), did not reveal an increased risk of HIV acquisition for women on any of these three contraceptives. Our study results confirm that the two different progestin-based hormonal contraceptives DMPA and levonogestrel will not increase the risk for HIV infection. Furthermore, DMPA and levonogestrel have only minimal effects on the immune milieu and the microbiota in the vaginal tract, attesting to the safety of these hormonal contraceptives.
Lentilactobacillus otakiensis Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lentilactobacillus
Lentilactobacillus otakiensis

description: DESCRIPTION OF LENTILACTOBACILLUS OTAKIENSIS COMB. NOV.
 Lentilactobacillus otakiensis (o.ta.ki.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. otakiensis from Otaki, the village in Japan, from where the type strain was isolated).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus otakiensis Watanabe et al. 2009, 758 VP
 Physiological characteristics and origin are similar to L. kisonensis [333]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.35 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 42.4.
Isolated from sunki, a fermented turnip product and from kefir.
 The type strain is YIT 11163 T = DSM 19908 T = JCM 15040 T = NRIC 0742 T.
Genome sequence accession number: AZED00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: AB366386.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2845, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
An other place: the Australian War Memorial in a Freirean framework
Creators: name: Styles, Catherine Anne
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2001
Subjects: Freirean praxis
museum practice
exhibits
public education
adult education
cultural studies
Australian War Memorial

description: My thesis is that museum exhibitions developed according to Freirean praxis would constitute a better learning opportunity for visitors, facilitate the process of evaluation, and enact the favoured museum principles of dialogic communication and community-building. ¶ This project constitutes a cross-fertilisation of adult education, cultural studies and museum practice. In the last few decades, museum professional practice has become increasingly well informed by cultural critique. Many museum institutions have been moved to commit to building communities, but the question of how to do so via exhibition spaces is yet to be squarely addressed by the museum field. In this thesis I produce a detailed evaluation of a museum's informal learning program; and demonstrate the potential value of adult education theory and practice for enacting museums' commitment to dialogic communication and community-building. ¶ To investigate the value of adult education praxis for museums, I consider the Australian War Memorial's signifying practice - the site and its exhibitions - as a program for informal learning. ...
title: Corispermum leptopterum (Asch.) Iljin
Creators: name: :None
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Digitale Pflanzenbilder: Sammlung Dietmar Brandes
subject: 580

description: Pflanzensammlung Dietmar Brandes: Digitale Pflanzenbilder
A study on radial basis function and quasi-Monte Carlo methods
Creators: name: Chen, W.
name: He, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: G1.2, G1.8

description: The radial basis function (RBF) and quasi Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are two very promising schemes to handle high-dimension problems with complex and moving boundary geometry due to the fact that they are independent of dimensionality and inherently meshless. The two strategies are seemingly irrelevant and are so far developed independently. The former is largely used to solve partial differential equations (PDE), neural network, geometry generation, scattered data processing with mathematical justifications of interpolation theory [1], while the latter is often employed to evaluate high-dimension integration with the Monte Carlo method (MCM) background [2]. The purpose of this communication is to try to establish their intrinsic relationship on the grounds of numerical integral. The kernel function of integral equation is found the key to construct efficient RBFs. Some significant results on RBF construction, error bound and node placement are also presented. It is stressed that the RBF is here established on integral analysis rather than on the sophisticated interpolation and native space analysis.
Inverse Modelling of Trace Gas Exchange at Canopy and Regional Scales
Creators: name: Styles, Julie Maree
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2002
Subjects: carbon dioxide flux
carbowater use efficiency
thermal stability
atmospheric boundary layer budget
regional flux
multiple constraints
data assimilation

description: This thesis deals with the estimation of plant-atmosphere trace gas exchange and isotopic discrimination from atmospheric concentration measurements. Two space scales were investigated: canopy and regional. The canopy-scale study combined a Lagrangian model of turbulent dispersal with ecophysiological principles to infer vertical profiles of fluxes of CO2, H2O and heat as well as carbon and oxygen isotope discrimination during CO2 assimilation, from concentration measurements within a forest. The regional-scale model used a convective boundary layer budget approach to infer average regional isotopic discrimination and fluxes of CO2 and sensible and latent heat from the evolution during the day of boundary layer height and mean concentrations of CO2 and H2O, temperature and carbon and oxygen isotope composition of CO2. ...
Sub-Weibull distributions: generalizing sub-Gaussian and sub-Exponential properties to heavier-tailed distributions
Creators: name: Vladimirova, Mariia
name: Girard, Stephane
name: Nguyen, Hien
name: Arbel, Julyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We propose the notion of sub-Weibull distributions, which are characterised by tails lighter than (or equally light as) the right tail of a Weibull distribution. This novel class generalises the sub-Gaussian and sub-Exponential families to potentially heavier-tailed distributions. Sub-Weibull distributions are parameterized by a positive tail index $θ$ and reduce to sub-Gaussian distributions for $θ=1/2$ and to sub-Exponential distributions for $θ=1$. A characterisation of the sub-Weibull property based on moments and on the moment generating function is provided and properties of the class are studied. An estimation procedure for the tail parameter is proposed and is applied to an example stemming from Bayesian deep learning.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
PatchNet: A Tool for Deep Patch Classification
Creators: name: Hoang, Thong
name: Lawall, Julia
name: Oentaryo, Richard J.
name: Tian, Yuan
name: Lo, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work proposes PatchNet, an automated tool based on hierarchical deep learning for classifying patches by extracting features from commit messages and code changes. PatchNet contains a deep hierarchical structure that mirrors the hierarchical and sequential structure of a code change, differentiating it from the existing deep learning models on source code. PatchNet provides several options allowing users to select parameters for the training process. The tool has been validated in the context of automatic identification of stable-relevant patches in the Linux kernel and is potentially applicable to automate other software engineering tasks that can be formulated as patch classification problems. A video demonstrating PatchNet is available at https://goo.gl/CZjG6X. The PatchNet implementation is available at https://github.com/hvdthong/PatchNetTool.
Lentilactobacillus parafarraginis Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lentilactobacillus
Lentilactobacillus parafarraginis

description: DESCRIPTION OF LENTILACTOBACILLUS PARAFARRAGINIS COMB. NOV.
 Lentilactobacillus parafarraginis (Gr. pref. para beside; L. gen. n. farraginis a species epithet; N.L. gen. n. parafarraginis beside L. farraginis, referring to the close relationship with this organism).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus parafarraginis Endo and Okada 2007, 711 VP
 Physiological characteristics are similar to L. farraginis but growth is observed only between 20 and 37 °C [329]. The genome size of the type strain is 3.08 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 45.2.
Isolated from a compost of distilled shochu residue, silage, fermented vegetables, and kefir grains.
 The type strain is NRIC 0676 T = DSM 18390 T = JCM 14109 T = NRIC 0677 T.
Genome sequence accession number: AZFZ00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: AB262734.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2846, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Lentilactobacillus parakefiri Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lentilactobacillus
Lentilactobacillus parakefiri

description: DESCRIPTION OF LENTILACTOBACILLUS PARAKEFIRI COMB. NOV.
 Lentilactobacillus parakefiri (pa.ra.ke'fir.i. Gr. pref. para beside; N.L. gen. n. kefiri a species epithet; N.L. masc. adj. parakefiri beside L. kefiri, referring to the close relationship with this organism).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus parakefiri Takizawa et al. 1994, 438 VP. The classification of L. parakefiri as separate species was disputed as the first published genome sequence of the type strain was virtually identical to L. kefiri [14, 16] but re-sequencing of the type strain supported classification of L. parakefiri as separate species [336]
Growth is observed at 15 but not at 45 °C [101]. The genome size of the type strain is 4.91 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 42.6.
Isolated from kefir grains.
 The type strain is GCL 1731 T = ATCC 51648 T = CCUG 39468 T = CIP 104242 T = DSM 10551 T = LMG 15133 T.
Genome sequence accession number: AZEN00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: AY026750.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2846, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Characterisation of the flexural behaviour of Aluminium Foam Sandwich Structures
Creators: name: Styles, Millicent
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Aluminium foam
Sandwich structure
Finite element modelling
flexural loading
strain distribution

description: Aluminium foam has a range of properties that are desirable in many applications. These properties include good stiffness and strength to weight ratios, impact energy absorption, sound damping, thermal insulation and non combustibility. Many of these characteristics are particularly attractive for core materials within sandwich structures. The combination of aluminium foam cores with thermoplastic composite skins is easily manufactured and has good potential as a multifunctional sandwich structure useful in a range of applications. This thesis has investigated the flexural behaviour of such structures using a combination of experimental and modelling techniques. The development of these structures towards commercial use requires a thorough understanding of the deformation and strain mechanisms of the structure, and this will, in turn, allow predictions of their structural behaviour in a variety of loading conditions. ¶ ...
A physicist's guide to explicit summation formulas involving zeros of Bessel functions and related spectral sums
Creators: name: Grebenkov, Denis S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize the mathematical basis and practical hints for the explicit analytical computation of spectral sums that involve the eigenvalues of the Laplace operator in simple domains. Such spectral sums appear as spectral expansions of heat kernels, survival probabilities, first-passage time densities, and reaction rates in many diffusion-oriented applications. As the eigenvalues are determined by zeros of an appropriate linear combination of a Bessel function and its derivative, there are powerful analytical tools for computing such spectral sums. We discuss three main strategies: representations of meromorphic functions as sums of partial fractions, Fourier-Bessel and Dini series, and direct evaluation of the Laplace-transformed heat kernels. The major emphasis is put on a pedagogic introduction, the practical aspects of these strategies, their advantages and limitations. The review summarizes many summation formulas for spectral sums that are dispersed in the literature.
title: Re-Imagining Counter-Discourse: Socio-Spatial Transgressions in Poswar Lebanese Literary Productions
Creators: name: Aridi, Farah
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2023

description: This study is concerned with the analysis of experiences of space, including the production of space and the making of place as represented in four postwar Lebanese novels. The aim is to read these processes, as undertaken by the protagonists in cities of violence and conflict, with a focus on their everyday, socio-spatial practices. These are read as transgressive as they are exercised in spite of an established power order by ordinary, marginalised individuals. These experiences are exercised within two specific contexts: The Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) and the Palestinian nakba (1948), both of which are considered as continuous events. This ongoing status of both contexts confines the protagonists of the novels within the bounds of controlled socio-spatial experiences and unremitting marginalisation and oppression. While in Lebanon this was exacerbated through the amnesiac discourse adopted by the postwar state and perpetuated by its neoliberal practices, in Palestine, it was manifest in the continuous oppression and cultural, geographical, and historical erasure of a whole people. The result is an aborted memory and a non-existent reconciliation with a traumatic event. Both the nakba and the civil war necessitated a new form of writing. By focusing on analysing these practices, as attempted on the level of the everyday, this study aims to expose the potentiality of resisting monolithic representations of experiences of war. It argues that the four novels’ experimental form and content contribute to engaging in alternative discourses about the war by highlighting multiplicities that the official historical narrative often leaves out. These novels are able to do so by relying on literary techniques, such as polyvocality, multiplicity of narratives, non-linearity, a focus on the everyday, the manipulation of the boundaries between history and fiction, and a resistance to closure.
Focusing and splitting of particle streams in microflows via viscosity gradients
Creators: name: Laumann, Matthias
name: Zimmermann, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Microflows are intensively used for investigating and controlling the dynamics of particles, including soft particles such as biological cells and capsules. A classic result is the tank-treading motion of elliptically deformed soft particles in linear shear flows, which do not migrate across straight stream lines in the bulk. However, soft particles migrate across straight streamlines in Poiseuille flows. In this work we describe a new mechanism of cross-streamline migration of soft particles. If the viscosity varies perpendicular to the stream lines then particles migrate across stream lines towards regions of a lower viscosity, even in linear shear flows. An interplay with the repulsive particle-boundary interaction causes then focusing of particles in linear shear flows with the attractor stream line closer to the wall in the low viscosity region. Viscosity variations perpendicular to the stream lines in Poiseuille flows leads either to a shift of the particle attractor or even to a splitting of particle attractors, which may give rise to interesting applications for particle separation. The location of attracting streamlines depend on the particle properties, like their size and elasticity. The cross-stream migration induced by viscosity variations is explained by analytical considerations, Stokesian dynamics simulations with a generalized Oseen tensor and Lattice-Boltzmann simulations.
Different intermittency for longitudinal and transversal turbulent fluctuations
Creators: name: Grossmann, Siegfried
name: Lohse, Detlef
name: Reeh, Achim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scaling exponents of the longitudinal and transversal velocity structure functions in numerical Navier-Stokes turbulence simulations with Taylor-Reynolds numbers up to $\rel = 110$ are determined by the extended self similarity method. We find significant differences in the degree of intermittency: For the sixth moments the scaling corrections to the classical Kolmogorov expectations are $δξ_6^L= -0.21 \pm 0.01$ and $\dx_6^T= -0.43 \pm 0.01$, respectively, independent of $\rel$. Also the generalized extended self similarity exponents $ρ_{p,q} = \dx_p/\dx_q$ differ significantly for the longitudinal and transversal structure functions. Within the She-Leveque model this means that longitudinal and transversal fluctuations obey different types of hierarchies of the moments. Moreover, the She-Leveque model hierarchy parameters $β^L $ and $β^T$ show small but significant dependences on the order of the moment.
description: 20 pages, 10 eps-figures, to appear in Physics of Fluids, December 1997
Making Our Freedom : Feminism and ethics from Beauvoir to Foucault
Creators: name: Sybylla, Roe
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1996
Subjects: Michel Foucault
feminism
ethics
freedom
anti-humanism
Spinoza
monism
power
subordination
humanist existentialism
Simone de Beauvoir
Jean-Paul Sartre
dualism
transcendence
woman
women

description: This thesis examines the possibilities for feminism that arise from the work of Michel Foucault, which I explicate by comparison it with humanist existentialism. I begin with The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir's application of existentialism to women. I expose the problems that arise in Beauvoir's project. Woman's body is an obstacle to her transcendence, and further, she must abandon her feminine desires and values, and accommodate herself to masculine patterns if she is to overcome her immanence and subordination. To understand why such problems recur in The Second Sex, I turn to Sartre's Being and Nothingness. After examining the conceptions underlying his thought, I conclude that his philosophy is unable to encompass difference, and is therefore antithetical to the feminist project. ¶ Foucault's philosophy offers solutions to these problems by eliminating consciousness as universal subject of action, and by making subjectivity a product of time, through showing how subjects are formed though the changing effects of power upon bodies. His thought encompasses difference at a fundamental level, through understanding human beings as particular 'events' in time. I argue that Foucault's philosophy does not depend fundamentally, as does Sartre's, upon woman as Other. ¶ Foucault shows how our particular historical form of rationality, created within power relations, sets limits on what we can think, be and do. He shows how thought can overcome some of these limits, allowing us to become authors of our own actions. Misunderstandings are common, particularly of his conception of power and its relation to subjectivity. Many commentators demand changes that reinstate the concepts he fundamentally rejects. Others do not see the unity of his philosophy. I show its importance to women's emancipation and to a feminist ethics. ¶ Finally, I compare Foucault's thought with feminism of difference. With the help of Heidegger, I argue that Foucault offers a superior but complementary way to know who we are, through understanding the history of our making. I show how the masculine and the feminine can be reconciled through a reconceptualisation of the relation of sex to time. All told, Foucault is a philosopher of freedom and for him the practice of freedom is an ethics
Higgs-boson production in the full theory at NNLO+PS
Creators: name: Niggetiedt, Marco
name: Wiesemann, Marius
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the production of a Standard-Model (SM) Higgs boson in gluon fusion in hadronic collisions and compute the QCD corrections up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and match them to parton showers (NNLO+PS). The complete dependence on the top-quark mass is taken into account without making any approximations to the top quark loops mediating the coupling between the gluons and the Higgs boson. To this end, we have included the $gg\to H$ amplitudes up to three loops and the $pp\to H$+jet amplitudes up to two loops in the full SM theory. This is the first fully differential calculation of the top-quark mass effects up to NNLO in QCD, and we study their impact on relevant observables for the LHC.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables
Lentilactobacillus raoultii Zheng & Wittouck & Salvetti & Franz & Harris & Mattarelli & O'Toole & Pot & Vandamme & Walter & Watanabe & Wuyts & Felis & Gänzle & Lebeer 2020, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lentilactobacillus
Lentilactobacillus raoultii

description: DESCRIPTION OF LENTILACTOBACILLUS RAOULTII SP. NOV.
 Lentilactobacillus raoultii (ra.oul’ti.i. N.L. gen. n. raoultii of Raoult, named after the microbiologist Didier Raoult).
 The species was effectively but not validly published as Lactobacillus raoultii Nicaise et al. 2019 [337]. Growth is observed between 25–45°C and between pH 5 and 7.5; the genome size of the type strain is 3.07 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 41.4.
Isolated from the vagina of a healthy women.
 The type strain is Strain Marseille P 4006 T = CSUR P4006 T = LMG 31598 T = CCUG 71848 T.
Genome sequence accession number: OVSN00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: LT854294.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2846, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Growing Toward the Sun: How the Good-Food Movement Catapulted a Small New York City Third-Sector Organization into Rapid Growth, Success, and Many Challenges
Creators: Hutchinson, Carole
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Food consumption--Social aspects
Food supply--Social aspects
Ethnology

description: This dissertation is an ethnographic study of a New York City-based third-sector organization focused on what it calls "food justice." This study concentrates on how this organization, that I call Food Rights, has built a broad multi-sector network made up of a varied set of constituents and collaborators aiming to develop and promote an alternative food system for New York City (NYC). This network model has allowed Food Rights to leverage capacity in order to reach thousands of New Yorkers who participate in many different aspects of the local food system (LFS) that correspond to its programming. These include Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), urban agriculture, emergency food, policy and advocacy efforts, and community food education. This dissertation explores the ways that Food Rights navigates the contested space of civil society and the third-sector realm through its LFS efforts--a geography where Food Rights constituents feel they have a say in how local food is grown, distributed, purchased, and prepared. It also considers the complex challenges presented by the burgeoning LFS movement in NYC. This study reveals weak contact points in Food Rights network design as well as organizational strengths that could assist it and other LFS-focused NGOs in addressing the many challenges associated with the social changes that have lead to the spatial, ideological, and material shifts that are transforming the NYC landscape into "a new ontology of food."