cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development and implementation of a decommissioning and closure plan at the Premier Gold Project
Creators: name: Mchaina, David Mhina
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This paper describes the development and implementation of a decommissioning and closure plan at the Premier Gold Project. The Property is located approximately 18 km north of Stewart, British Columbia, Canada and 2.4 km northeast of the BC/Alaska border. The site has been used for gold and silver mining since the turn of last century and Boliden Limited has owned and operated the site since 1988. Mining operations ceased in 1996 and the mine is proceeding through a closure phase. The main objective of the decommissioning and closure plan is to minimize the impact of tailings, contaminated water discharges, waste rock dumps and other aspects of the site on the receiving environment. The main aspects of the closure plan include decommissioning and closure of the Tailings Storage Facility (TSF), demolition of buildings, disturbed areas re-vegetation and environmental performance monitoring. The closure plan for the TSF calls for a partial wet closure and consists of tailings relocation, grouting of decants pipes and under-drain pipes through the dam, grouting of drainage pipe left through the dam, surface water management, construction of a filter berm at the toe of the tailings dam, construction of a closure spillway, overflow channel construction, diversion channel upgrade and construction of field trials for engineered covers. Decommissioning and closure of waste rock dumps included re-sloping and re-vegetation. The paper discusses the challenges and opportunities experienced through the implementation of the closure plan together with potential avenues to generate funds to cover post closure liabilities. Finally, the paper gives a summary of the lessons learned.
Tachypompilus pallidus
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Tachypompilus
Tachypompilus pallidus

description: Tachypompilus pallidus (Banks)
 BRAZIL: Goiás State, Sierra dos Pireneus; 9 February 2020; L. Vitorino. Host: Phoneutria ? eickstedtae Bertani, subadult female. The wasp grasped the immobilized armed spider near the base of its right pedipalp with her mandibles and dragged it backwards across the ground and debris, dorsal side upward (Vitorino 2020).
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia & Pitts, James P., 2022, Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (928) on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6533498
Non-apoptotic Caspase-8 Signaling Mediates Retinal Angiogenesis
Creators: Johnson, Kendra Vincia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cytology
subject: Molecular biology
subject: Retina--Diseases
subject: Retina--Blood-vessels
subject: Neovascularization
subject: Retinal degeneration--Animal models

description: The retina is one of the most metabolically active tissues in the body and the high energetic demand is met by a well-organized vascular network. Aberrant vasculature is a prominent feature of many vision-threatening diseases, and although angiogenic pathways have been extensively studied the limited efficacy of therapies currently available for the treatment of these diseases suggests that there is more to be elucidated. The caspase family of proteases is best known for their roles in programmed cell death and inflammation, however members of this family have been found to have essential functions independent of cell death. Caspase-8, in particular, has been previously shown to be essential for embryonic vascular development, however, a requirement for caspase-8 in postnatal vascular development has not been established and it is unclear how caspase-8 exerts its function. In this study, we investigate the cell specific roles of caspase-8 in the development of the retinal vasculature using the postnatal mouse retina as our model and identified endothelial caspase-8 as a mediator of canonical Wnt signaling. Inducible endothelial cell-specific caspase-8 knockout (Casp8 iECKO) resulted in a delay in early angiogenesis and barrier establishment, and an increase in inflammation and premature vascular remodeling compared to littermate controls. Assessment of Lef1, a downstream effector of the Wnt pathway, confirmed that this phenotype was a result of inhibited Wnt signaling. We additionally show that caspase-8 mediates this pathway through degradation of its substrate HDAC7. HDAC7 has been shown previously to bind to β-catenin blocking its nuclear translocation. Caspase-8 mediated HDAC7 degradation restores β-catenin translocation and downstream Wnt signaling. We also explore the function of caspase-8 in myeloid cells – microglia and macrophages – during angiogenesis. We used an inducible myeloid-specific caspase-8 knockout (Casp8 imGKO) mouse and found that loss of caspase-8 in these cells did not affect angiogenesis. However, Casp8 imGKO resulted in a reduction in microglia number and a change in their morphology specifying a role for caspase-8 in mediating cell survival and activation in microglia. Altogether we show that caspase-8 exerts cell specific functions during retinal angiogenesis that are independent of cell death. We elucidate a novel role of caspase-8 in mediating Wnt/β-catenin signaling, and implicate caspase-8 as a potential therapeutic target in pathological angiogenesis.
Stability of Ferromagnetism in Hubbard models with degenerate single-particle ground states
Creators: name: Mielke, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A Hubbard model with a N_d-fold degenerate single-particle ground state has ferromagnetic ground states if the number of electrons is less or equal to N_d. It is shown rigorously that the local stability of ferromagnetism in such a model implies global stability: The model has only ferromagnetic ground states, if there are no single spin-flip ground states. If the number of electrons is equal to N_d, it is well known that the ferromagnetic ground state is unique if and only if the single-particle density matrix is irreducible. We present a simplified proof for this result.
description: accepted for publication in J. Phys. A
Mimicking a turbulent signal: sequential multiaffine processes
Creators: name: Biferale, L.
name: Boffetta, G.
name: Celani, A.
name: Crisanti, A.
name: Vulpiani, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An efficient method for the construction of a multiaffine process, with prescribed scaling exponents, is presented. At variance with the previous proposals, this method is sequential and therefore it is the natural candidate in numerical computations involving synthetic turbulence. The application to the realization of a realistic turbulent-like signal is discussed in detail. The method represents a first step towards the realization of a realistic spatio-temporal turbulent field.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures (included), RevTeX 3.1
Additional file 1 of Cross-talk between transcriptome, phytohormone and HD-ZIP gene family analysis illuminates the molecular mechanism underlying fruitlet abscission in sweet cherry (Prunus avium L)
Creators: name: Qiu, Zhilang
name: Wen, Zhuang
name: Hou, Qiandong
name: Qiao, Guang
name: Yang, Kun
name: Hong, Yi
name: Wen, Xiaopeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. The germination rate and deformity rate of sweet cherry pollen.
"Noble in body and judicious in mind like Homer": Enacting Richard II
Creators: name: Goy-Blanquet, Dominique
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2019

description: Richard II aimed to be an absolute king, and took pains to impress future generations with his royal image, yet the acting tradition has steadily moved away from the historical character, endowing him with a poetic talent that stripped him of other powers,
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 3 No 2 (2017)
Tachypompilus unicolor subsp. cerinus Evans 1966
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Tachypompilus
Tachypompilus unicolor
Tachypompilus unicolor cerinus evans

description: Tachypompilus unicolor cerinus Evans
 COLOMBIA: Choco Department, Playa El Almejal; 12 June 2020; E. Zaupa. Host: Cupiennius getazi Simon (Trechaleidae), adult or subadult female. Three videos show the wasp dragging the immobilized banana spider backwards on the ground. The wasp maintained the spider dorsal side upward while grasping its left pedipalp with her mandibles. Suddenly, a squareback marsh crab [Armases ? angustum (Smith)] (Sesarmidae) emerged from a ground hole and, using its claw, grasped the spider from the wasp. The wasp made several attempts to retake the spider from the crab to no avail. The crab simply brushed the wasp away with its walking leg. The crab disappeared into a crevice on the ground holding the spider with its claw and the wasp flew away (Zaupa 2020).
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia & Pitts, James P., 2022, Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (928) on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6533498
SquiDBase: a centralized community resource of microbial paired squiggle-sequence data
Creators: name: Cuypers, Wim L
name: Gauglitz, Julia M
name: Ceylan, Halil
name: Turcksin, Eline
name: De Vrij, Nick
name: De Block, Tessa
name: Vercauteren, Koen
name: Ariën, Kevin K
name: Selhorst, Philippe
name: Bittremieux, Wout
name: Laukens, Kris
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2024

description: Fast, flexible, and unbiased systems are crucial for advancing microbial monitoring and management. Nanopore sequencing has shown significant potential in this area. Most researchers currently analyze base-called data. However, storing and sharing raw nanopore data, also known as ‘squiggles’, offers inherent benefits. Maintaining a repository of squiggle data enables updated base-calling as new algorithms are developed, optimization of species-specific base-calling algorithms, and presents a unique resource for benchmarking data processing and analysis approaches.

We have designed SquiDBase, a structured datalake that contains squiggle vectors and their associated metadata. Our data preprocessing pipeline, powered by NextFlow, eliminates human genetic information from the uploaded samples. We will showcase the current status of the database, including the user interface. The latter enables the upload of raw POD5 files as well as structured metadata to promote reusability, and the ability to download data and query within the database. The initial scope of SquiDBase focuses on microbiological data from a variety of sources, including pathogens detected in human blood, such as Plasmodium, but also cultured viral isolates (SARS-CoV-2 variants, Dengue virus, Monkeypox virus, etc.) which we sequenced using the R10.4.1 chemistry. These represent important datasets for community benchmarking. We invite the research community to contribute data to this publicly available resource. Collaborations are welcome to help expand this community tool.
Story-recipe
Creators: name: Della Ventura, Serena
name: Fabbri, Elisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Story-recipe

Autrice: Serena Della Ventura, Università degli studi di Firenze

Autrice: Elisa Fabbri, Università degli studi di Firenze

Il file "Story-recipe" è uno strumento da utilizzare per poter progettare insieme al vostro gruppo di amici, di colleghi o di ricerca. Buon divertimento!
An Analysis of the Representations of the Mapping Class Group of a Multi-Geon Three-Manifold
Creators: name: Sorkin, Rafael D.
name: Surya, Sumati
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that the inequivalent unitary irreducible representations (UIR's) of the mapping class group $G$ of a 3-manifold give rise to ``theta sectors'' in theories of quantum gravity with fixed spatial topology. In this paper, we study several families of UIR's of $G$ and attempt to understand the physical implications of the resulting quantum sectors. The mapping class group of a three-manifold which is the connected sum of $\R^3$ with a finite number of identical irreducible primes is a semi-direct product group. Following Mackey's theory of induced representations, we provide an analysis of the structure of the general finite dimensional UIR of such a group. In the picture of quantized primes as particles (topological geons), this general group-theoretic analysis enables one to draw several interesting qualitative conclusions about the geons' behavior in different quantum sectors, without requiring an explicit knowledge of the UIR's corresponding to the individual primes.
description: 52 pages, harvmac, 2 postscript figures, epsf required. Added an appendix proving the semi-direct product structure of the MCG, corrected an error in the characterization of the slide subgroup, reworded extensively. All our analysis and conclusions remain as before
Non-compact geometric flows: long time existence and type II singularities
Creators: Choi, Beomjun
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Geometry, Differential
subject: Singularities (Mathematics)

description: In this work, we study how solutions of certain non-compact geometric flows of fast-diffusion type interact with their asymptotic geometries at infinity.   In the first part, we show the long time existence theorem to the inverse mean curvature flow for complete convex non-compact initial hypersurfaces. The existence and behavior of a solution is tied with the evolution of its tangent cone at infinity.  In particular, the maximal time of existence can be written in terms of the area ratio between the initial tangent cone at infinity and the flat hyperplane. In the second part, we study the formation of type II singularity for non-compact Yamabe flow. Assuming the initial metric is conformally flat and asymptotic to a cylinder, we show the higher order asymptotics of the metric determines the curvature blow-up rates at the tip in its first singular time.  We also show the singularities of such solutions are modeled on rotationally symmetric steady gradient solitons.
Estimating the Cost of Water and the Economic Value of Water in the Farmlands Covered by Man-Made Ponds: A Case Study of the Alborz Project Area in Iran
Creators: name: Zolpirani, Mojtaba Nabizadeh
name: Amirnejad, Hamid
name: Shahnazari, Ali
name: Zolpirani, Mojtaba Nabizadeh
name: Amirnejad, Hamid
name: Shahnazari, Ali
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Farm Management
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: agricultural sector, cost of water
subject: economic value of water
subject: man-made pond
subject: Alborz project

description: Water pricing is considered as one of the most important management tools of water resources, which can result in optimized allocation in the agricultural sector. In this regard, this study estimated the cost of water and the value of water in the farmlands covered by the selected manmade ponds (MMPs) within the Alborz project area in Mazandaran Province using the engineering economics methods and production function calculation. The required data were collected via a survey conducted in 2013-2014 growing season. Sample size was estimated to be 198 people. After studying various production functions, transcendental production function was chosen as the best functional form. Next, the economic value of water for rice in the basin covered by the selected MMPs was calculated to be 19,065 IRR per m3 using an estimation of the production function. In addition, the cost of water per m3 in the selected MMPs was obtained as to be 868 IRR at the interest rate of 22% and 394 IRR at the interest rate of 12%. Comparing the cost of water with the economic value of water demonstrated that the economic value of water is higher than the cost of water in the selected MMPs, and that both of them had great difference with the price paid by farmers. The implication is that the existing gap between the real price and the price paid by farmers should be filled by the economical pricing of water.
Tree Structures: A Variational Approach to Shannon--Wiener Information
Creators: name: Hammer, Hanno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: General Topology (math.GN)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Entanglement measures based on a logarithmic functional form naturally emerge in any attempt to quantify the degree of entanglement in the state of a multipartite quantum system. These measures can be regarded as generalizations of the classical Shannon-Wiener information of a probability distribution into the quantum regime. In the present work we introduce a previously unknown approach to the Shannon-Wiener information which provides an intuitive interpretation for its functional form as well as putting all entanglement measures with a similar structure into a new context: By formalizing the process of information gaining in a set-theoretical language we arrive at a mathematical structure which we call ''tree structures'' over a given set. On each tree structure, a tree function can be defined, reflecting the degree of splitting and branching in the given tree. We show in detail that the minimization of the tree function on, possibly constrained, sets of tree structures renders the functional form of the Shannon-Wiener information. This finding demonstrates that entropy-like information measures may themselves be understood as the result of a minimization process on a more general underlying mathematical structure, thus providing an entirely new interpretational framework to entropy-like measures of information and entanglement. We suggest three natural axioms for defining tree structures, which turn out to be related to the axioms describing neighbourhood topologies on a topological space. The same minimization that renders the functional form of the Shannon-Wiener information from the tree function then assigns a preferred topology to the underlying set, hinting at a deep relation between entropy-like measures and neighbourhood topologies.
description: Many typos corrected, points clarified, new sections and theorems added. This version to appear as invited contribution to the volume "Progress in Quantum Physics Research, Vol. II", ed. Frank Columbus, published by NOVA Science Publishers
On the Stability and Transition of Time Periodic Pipe Flow
Creators: name: JONATHAN RICHARD ALAN NEBAUER
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 10302 Numerical Solution of Differential and Integral Equations
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 91501 Computational Fluid Dynamics
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: This computational study investigates the transition to turbulence of fluid in a pipe that is subjected to a sinusoidal oscillation. The problem is solved by separating the flow into a laminar base-flow and a linear infinitesimal perturbation. The energy of the perturbation is followed through time-stepper methods, with growth leading towards turbulence, and decay leading to a laminar state. The analysis demonstrates an exponential increase in transient growth of the perturbation as the flow control parameters are varied, a case normally only associated with separated shear flows. The driving mechanism is isolated to a new linear process involving the coordination of two known inviscid instabilities linked to the structure of the laminar base-flow.
3-Sasakian Geometry, Nilpotent Orbits, and Exceptional Quotients
Creators: name: Boyer, Charles P.
name: Galicki, Krzysztof
name: Piccinni, Paolo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using 3-Sasakian reduction techniques we obtain infinite families of new 3-Sasakian manifolds $\scriptstyle{{\cal M}(p_1,p_2,p_3)}$ and $\scriptstyle{{\cal M}(p_1,p_2,p_3,p_4)}$ in dimension 11 and 15 respectively. The metric cone on $\scriptstyle{{\cal M}(p_1,p_2,p_3)}$ is a generalization of the Kronheimer hyperkähler metric on the regular maximal nilpotent orbit of $\scriptstyle{{\Got s}{\Got l}(3,\bbc)}$ whereas the cone on $\scriptstyle{{\cal M}(p_1,p_2,p_3,p_4)}$ generalizes the hyperkähler metric on the 16-dimensional orbit of $\scriptstyle{{\Got s}{\Got o}(6,\bbc)}$. These are first examples of 3-Sasakian metrics which are neither homogeneous nor toric. In addition we consider some further $\scriptstyle{U(1)}$-reductions of $\scriptstyle{{\cal M}(p_1,p_2,p_3)}$. These yield examples of non-toric 3-Sasakian orbifold metrics in dimensions 7. As a result we obtain explicit families $\scriptstyle{{\cal O}(Θ)}$ of compact self-dual positive scalar curvature Einstein metrics with orbifold singularities and with only one Killing vector field.
description: 22 pages
Tachypompilus vulpes
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Tachypompilus
Tachypompilus vulpes

description: Tachypompilus vulpes (Dalla Torre) (det. M. Buck)
 BRAZIL: Mato Grosso State, Novo Mundo, Cristalino Jungle Lodge; 8 December 2020, 1718; S. Dantas. Host: Nolavia sp. (Sparassidae), adult female [det. C. A. Rheims, Instituto Butantan, Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, São Paulo, Brasil]. The spider wasp and huntsman spider were both photographed in a dorsal side upward position on a shellacked piece of plywood. The wasp’s wings are raised at a ~45° angle upward and outward above the dorsum (Dantas 2020b).
 BRAZIL: Pará State, Santarém, Bosque Santa Lucia; 30 July 2014, 8 December 2017; S. W. Alexander. Host: Sadala sp. (Sparassidae), adult or subadult female [det. C. A. Rheims 2020 pers. comm.]. Three photographs taken at different times and during different years show two wasps (1) grasping an immobilized huntsman spider by its left pedipalp, dorsal side upward, with the mandibles and, with it in tow, walking backwards; (2) grasping the paralyzed huntsman spider with the mandibles by the tibia of its third leg; and (3) standing next to different huntsman spiders after stinging and immobilizing them. Both wasps’ wings are raised at a ~45° angle upward and outward above the dorsum (Alexander 2014, 2017).
 BRAZIL: State of São Paulo, Guapiaçu; 26 November 2018; E. Matos. Host: Caayguara sp. (Sparassidae) [det. C. A. Rheims 2020 pers. comm.], adult or subadult female. The wasp pulled the paralyzed huntsman spider up a vertical wall, dorsal side upward, grasping its right chelicera with her mandibles (Matos 2018).
 BRAZIL: Sáo Paulo State, Ubatuba; 6 January 2021, 1401; M. Mariquitto. Host: Polybetes ? rabidus (Keyserling), adult female. The spider is 1.04 X the wasp in body length. The wasp stood on a wooden plank with wings raised at a ~45° angle upward and outward above the dorsum, facing the photographer, while the immobilized huntsman spider laid nearby on the plank, dorsal side upward, with legs spread outward (Mariquitto 2021).
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia & Pitts, James P., 2022, Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (928) on page 17, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6533498
Pedagogical concept for target groups in teacher training and vocational education
Creators: name: Burgsteiner, Harald
name: Spieler, Bernadette
name: Baksh, Farnaz
name: Lanz, Julia
name: Kruusamäe, Karl
name: Kinnula, Marianne
name: Kandlhofer, Martin
name: Kieber, Melanie
name: Tomeschek, Sandra
name: Schaberreiter, Thomas
name: Majbrit Knudsen, Trine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: EU pending approval

This deliverable provides a comprehensive analysis of the latest approaches to didactical concepts, learning strategies and curricular implementations to efficiently address the development of competences in the field of computational thinking (CT), entrepreneurship education (EE) and green skills (GS), the three core competence pillars of the ComeThinkAgain project. Constructionism has emerged as a pivotal learning approach for integrating CT, EE and GS into interdisciplinary education. By emphasizing active learning, hands-on experimentation, and collaborative strategies, constructionist methods effectively foster skill development across these domains, addressing both theoretical understanding and practical application needs.

The curricular implementation of CT, EE and GS is still challenging. The findings emerging from this deliverable show that there is no uniform approach in countries across Europe and the implementation differs according to countries as well as competence area. Most popularly, these competences are either integrated in other subjects e.g., mathematics for CT, economics for EE and natural sciences for GS, or incorporated as cross-curricular topics or as stand-alone subjects. Moreover from September to December 2024 we conducted nine co-creation workshops with nearly 100 participants from academia, industry and government. The workshops aimed to give important insights concerning CT, EE and GS competences, training methods, assessment and curricula implementation. The findings of these workshops represent a crucial component of this deliverable. The workshops emphasized the important role of interactive and practice-oriented learning approaches. Methods such as design thinking, project-based learning and simulation games emerged as powerful tools for fostering in-depth learning and competence application. Additionally, the workshop served to revise the original competence list derived from D2.1 and competences which are not yet or only partly covered by our original list but emerged from the co-creation workshops as relevant were identified. Our analysis in this document will serves as a linking point for Task 2.4., the development of the learning modules within the CTA-CETS.
Dynamic transition in deposition with a poisoning species
Creators: name: Reis, F. D. A. Aarão
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In deposition with a poisoning species, we show that the transition to a blocked or pinned phase may be viewed as an absorbing transition in the directed percolation (DP) class. We consider a ballistic-like deposition model with an active and an inactive species that represents its basic features and exhibits a transition from a growing phase to a blocked or pinned phase, with the deposition rate as the order parameter. In the growing phase, the interface width shows a crossover from the critical W ~ t behavior to Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) scaling, which involves DP and KPZ exponents in the saturation regime. In the pinned phase, the maximum heights and widths scale as H_s ~ W_s ~ (p-p_c)^{nu_//}. The robustness of the DP class suggests investigations in real systems.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. E
Non-autonomous regulation of bone mass accrual and the role of T-cell protein tyrosine phosphatase in the bone regulation of insulin sensitivity
Creators: Zee, Tiffany
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Molecular biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: The skeleton is a highly dynamic organ that undergoes constant remodeling to renew itself and maintain bone mass. It is subject to regulation from both hormones produced in peripheral tissues and neuronal control by the nervous system. Recent studies have shown that the skeleton is also an endocrine organ, releasing the hormone osteocalcin that increases insulin secretion and sensitivity in the pancreas and testosterone production in the Leydig cells of the testis. In my thesis study, I explore both the cell-nonautonomous regulation of osteoblast differentiation and the bone regulation of energy metabolism using cell-specific gene inactivation in the mouse. Early B-cell factor 1 (Ebf1) is a transcription factor whose inactivation in all cells results in high bone mass because of an increase in bone formation. To test if Ebf1 regulates bone formation cell-autonomously, I analyzed pattern of expression and its function in osteoblasts. I show here that in vivo deletion of  in osteoblast progenitors does not affect osteoblast differentiation or bone formation accrual post-natally, indicating that the phenotype described in Ebf1 mice is not osteoblast-autonomous. Insulin signaling in osteoblasts contributes to whole body glucose homeostasis in the mouse and in humans by increasing the activity of osteocalcin. The osteoblast insulin signaling cascade is negatively regulated by ESP, a tyrosine phosphatase dephosphorylating the insulin receptor.  is one of many tyrosine phosphatases expressed in osteoblasts, and this observation suggests that other protein tyrosine phosphatases may contribute to the attenuation of insulin receptor phosphorylation in this cell type. In this study, we sought to identify additional PTP(s) that like ESP, would function in the osteoblast to regulate insulin signaling and thus affect activity of the insulin-sensitizing hormone osteocalcin. For that purpose, we used as criteria, expression in osteoblasts, regulation by isoproterenol, and ability to trap the insulin receptor in a substrate-trapping assay. Here we show that the T-cell protein tyrosine phosphatase (TC-PTP) regulates insulin receptor phosphorylation in the osteoblast, thus compromising bone resorption and bioactivity of osteocalcin. Accordingly, osteoblast-specific deletion of TC-PTP (Ptpn2) promotes insulin sensitivity in an osteocalcin-dependent manner. This study increases the number of genes involved in the bone regulation of glucose homeostasis.
Ammosphex michiganensis
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Ammosphex
Ammosphex michiganensis

description: Ammosphex michiganensis (Dreisbach) (det. M. Buck)
 CANADA: Alberta Province, NE of Devon; 15 May 2021, 1734 MDT; M. Buck. Host: Xysticus emertoni Keyserling (Thomisidae), adult female [det. J. Pinzon, Natural Resources Canada–Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB]. Wasp and spider are deposited in the Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB (Buck 2021).
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia & Pitts, James P., 2022, Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (928) on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6533498
The Excavation of an Early Romano-British Site and Pleistocene Landforms at Newhaven
Creators: name: Bell, Martin
Publisher: name: Archaeology Data Service
Year: 2021

description: Sussex Archaeological Collections, 114, 218-305
description: Rescue excavations carried out on three adjoining sites in the town centre of Newhaven are described. Natural was a Clay-with-Flints surface, upon which Pleistocene landforms had developed. These included ice wedge polygons, unsorted stone stripes and cryoturbations. Many such features had a fill of loess, which contained flint flaked as evidence of Palaeolithic occupation. The Romano-British settlement was bounded by a ditch. Parts of five wooden and stone buildings have been excavated. First occupied in the second half of the first century, the whole site was systematically levelled in the Antonine period. Demolition horizons contained painted wall plaster, opus signinum, box flue tiles, window glass and abundant building stone. A small early villa evidently stood nearby and the structures examined are presumably its outbuildings. Pottery and artifacts are an interesting combination of local ultimate Iron Age and Roman types. Ploughmarks were found outside the ditch and the floral and faunal remains suggest a mixed farming strategy. The Medieval and Post-Medieval archaeology and history of the site are discussed.
Additional file 2: of Third national biobank for population-based seroprevalence studies in the Netherlands, including the Caribbean Netherlands
Creators: name: Verberk, Janneke
name: Regnerus Vos
name: Mollema, Liesbeth
name: Vliet, Jeffrey
name: Weert, Joanna
name: Melker, Hester
name: Klis, Fiona
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Table S2. Supplementary information regarding response of the PIENTER-3 study, stratified by study sample. (DOCX 23â kb)
Additional file 2 of Post-translational regulation of autophagy is involved in intra-microbiome suppression of fungal pathogens
Creators: name: Wang, Jing
name: Xu, Chaoyun
name: Sun, Qiming
name: Xu, Jinrong
name: Chai, Yunrong
name: Berg, Gabriele
name: Cernava, Tomislav
name: Ma, Zhonghua
name: Chen, Yun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Antagonistic activity of Streptomyces strains isolated in this study. Table S2. ATG gene expression identified by RNA-Seq analysis under nitrogen starvation in Fusarium graminearum. Table S3. List of identified Gcn5-interacting proteins associated with autophagy. Table S4. Putative histone deacetyltransferases (HDACs) in F. graminearum. Table S5. PCR primers used in this study.
Application note: TDbasedUFE and TDbasedUFEadv: bioconductor packages to perform tensor decomposition based unsupervised feature extraction
Creators: name: Y-H. Taguchi
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2024

description: We have developed the method called ``Tensor decomposition (TD)  based unsupervised feature extraction (FE)''.
 It can perform unsupervised feature selection in the situation of ``\emph{large p small n}'' problem.
 Two bioconductor packages by which one can easily perform TD based unsupervised FE were released as Bioconductor packages.
A general approach to the localization of unstable periodic orbits in chaotic dynamical systems
Creators: name: Schmelcher, P.
name: Diakonos, F. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method to detect the unstable periodic orbits of a multidimensional chaotic dynamical system. Our approach allows us to locate in an efficient way the unstable cycles of, in principle, arbitrary length with a high accuracy. Based on a universal set of linear transformations the originally unstable periodic orbits are transformed into stable ones and can consequently be detected and analyzed easily. This method is applicable to dynamical systems of any dimension and requires no preknowledges with respect to the solutions of the original chaotic system. As an example of application of our method we investigate the Ikeda attractor in some detail.
description: submitted to Physical Review E
Optimal Vehicle Dynamics and Powertrain Control for Connected and Automated Vehicles
Creators: name: Zhao, Liuhui
name: Mahbub, A M Ishtiaque
name: Malikopoulos, Andreas A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The implementation of connected and automated vehicle technologies enables opportunities for a novel computational framework for real-time control actions aimed at optimizing energy consumption and associated benefits. In this paper, we present a two-level control architecture for a connected and automated plug-in hybrid electric vehicle to optimize simultaneously its speed profile and powertrain efficiency. We evaluate the proposed architecture through simulation in a network of vehicles.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, conference
The Extant Rhesus and Its Two Supplementary Prologues: A Question of Affinity
Creators: name: Manousakis, Nikos
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2019

description: In this paper I will discuss the two supplementary iambic prologues to the pseudo-Euripidean Rhesus, both preserved in the so-called second Hypothesis or hypothesis (b) to the drama – our only source concerning the authenticity question tied to this play in antiquity. The extant remnants of these prologues are a single line allegedly derived from the writings of the fourth century BCE scholar Dicaearchus of Messana, and eleven verses from an opening soliloquy by Hera, addressed to Athena. This prologue, engaging Zeus’ wife and daughter, was considered in antiquity to be interpolated by actors. My main focus in this study will be on the various ways in which these sources can be associated with the extant drama. As far as the first prologue is concerned, I will attempt to show in some detail that its specific content does not necessarily constitute evidence for the existence of a genuine Euripidean Rhesus, as has been suggested. On the other hand, I will tentatively argue that its emergence in ancient scholarship can plausibly be linked to the origin of the authenticity issue. As regards the second iambic prologue to the disputed play, I will discuss its form and content, its Iliadic and extra-Iliadic framework, in an attempt to demonstrate, as thoroughly as possible, how dramatically suitable it can be for the extant composition.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 3 No 2 (2017)
Additional file 3 of Interpretable recurrent neural network models for dynamic prediction of the extubation failure risk in patients with invasive mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit
Creators: name: Zeng, Zhixuan
name: Tang, Xianming
name: Liu, Yang
name: He, Zhengkun
name: Gong, Xun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 3: SupplementTable 1. Keywords of the oxygen delivery device and ventilator mode for different ventilation statuses.
Priochilus gloriosum
Creators: name: Kurczewski, Frank E.
name: West, Rick C.
name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Priochilus
Priochilus gloriosum

description: Priochilus gloriosum (Cresson)
COLOMBIA: Santander Department, Cimitarra; 22 February 2021, 3:27 PM; V. Moncada. Host: Unidentified species (Sparassidae), subadult female. The wasp stood beside and examined the immobilized huntsman spider with her mouthparts and antennae as it laid on the ground, dorsal side upward. She then grasped the spider’s right chelicera with her mandibles and, holding it ventral side upward, dragged it backwards across the ground (Moncada 2021).
description: Published as part of Kurczewski, Frank E., West, Rick C., Waichert, Cecilia & Pitts, James P., 2022, Additional new and unusual host records for Western Hemisphere spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae), pp. 1-32 in Insecta Mundi 2022 (928) on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6533498
Ornstein-Uhlenbeck-Cauchy Process
Creators: name: Garbaczewski, Piotr
name: Olkiewicz, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We combine earlier investigations of linear systems with Lévy fluctuations [Physica {\bf 113A}, 203, (1982)] with recent discussions of Lévy flights in external force fields [Phys.Rev. {\bf E 59},2736, (1999)]. We give a complete construction of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck-Cauchy process as a fully computable model of an anomalous transport and a paradigm example of Doob's stable noise-supported Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Despite the nonexistence of all moments, we determine local characteristics (forward drift) of the process, generators of forward and backward dynamics, relevant (pseudodifferential) evolution equations. Finally we prove that this random dynamics is not only mixing (hence ergodic) but also exact. The induced nonstationary spatial process is proved to be Markovian and quite apart from its inherent discontinuity defines an associated velocity process in a probabilistic sense.
description: Latex file
Non-contrast Magnetic Resonance Angiography for Evaluation of Peripheral Arterial Disease
Creators: Atanasova, Iliyana
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Diagnostic imaging
Biomedical engineering

description: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the USA with an estimated prevalence of up to 20% in those over 75 years. Vascular disease and kidney impairment frequently coexist; prevalence of moderate to severe renal dysfunction in PAD patients is estimated at 27-36%. Knowledge of location, severity, and extent of PAD is imperative for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. However, all established imaging modalities that are routinely used for treatment planning are contra-indicated in kidney disease patients. Contrast-enhanced x-ray and CT angiography are unsafe due to exposure to nephrotoxic contrast material and ionizing radiation. Recently, the FDA has also warned against the use of gadolinium-enhanced MRA (Gd-MRA) due to evidence that gadolinium could trigger a life-threatening condition known as nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) in patients with moderate to severe kidney dysfunction. There is a clinical need to develop vascular imaging techniques that are safe in patients with coexisting PAD and renal insufficiency. The focus of this thesis was the development of a non-contrast alternative to Gd-MRA for imaging of peripheral vessels from renal to pedal arteries with MRI. A new imaging sequence for non-contrast visualization of the abdominal and pelvic arteries was designed, implemented, and validated in a small cohort of PAD patients against Gd-MRA. In addition, an existing fast spin-echo based technique for unenhanced imaging of the lower extremities was optimized for improved performance in a clinical setting.
Iphigenia Taurica and the Narrative Artificiality of Euripides’ Prologues
Creators: name: Duranti, Marco
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2019

description: Taking Iphigenia Taurica as a case in point, this article will investigate the narrative artificiality of Euripides’ prologues. By creating prologic pieces which defied the dramatic festivals’ conventions, the Greek playwright distanced his tragedies from that kind of theatrical rituality, transforming them into a vessel for newly established and independent principles and values. Hence Euripides’ prologues set and defined the pre-conditions of his dramas, which may be perceived as a new intellectual construction. This article will explore the relationship between the prologue and the rest of the play, epilogue included and will, therefore, consider the play as a tripartite integrated structure which tests the possibility of conciliating myth, and its divine protagonists, with men’s new intellectual and ethical values.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 3 No 2 (2017)
Site remediation of acid damaged soils using sprayed biosolids and lime : a case study of the area near the Trail lead zinc smelter in Trail BC
Creators: name: Mattes, Al
name: Pommer, Matt
name: Duncan, William F. A. (William Frederick Alexander)
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Research was completed on the use of two types of recycled waste products from the pulp and paper industry – composted biosolids and waste lime product – for use as a slurried sprayable soil amendment protocol. The material is first mixed as a slurry then seeds are added and the material sprayed using a commercial hydro seeder. Results from four treatments are reported providing details of seed germination, biomass produced and changes in soil pH profile. A separate study examined the use of this application on steep sandy slopes and initial results from this are reported as well.
Plauti “somnium narratur”: Dreams in Plautus’ Comedy
Creators: name: Kella, Vasiliki
Publisher: name: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies
Year: 2019

description: This article examines the five dream episodes found in Plautus’ Miles Gloriosus, Rudens, Mercator, Curculio, and Mostellaria. Plautus’ dreams are the only source for analysing the way dream episodes were performed in Hellenistic dramas. The main argument is that dreams are a scholar’s manual for reading Plautus’ composition method. These narratives play with the idea of illusion and give the playwright the chance to move further than the text and the stage and to innovate by composing metaplays. The examination begins with the text and its intentional resemblance to Greek tragic pieces. It then focuses on the dreams’ key-function within the five comedies, in order to demonstrate that dreams were the most important metatheatrical device that Plautus had at his disposal.
description: Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, Vol 3 No 2 (2017)
Additional file 2: of Efficacy of a midwife-coordinated, individualized, and specialized maternity care intervention (ChroPreg) in addition to standard care in pregnant women with chronic disease: protocol for a parallel randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Wolff, Mie De
name: Johansen, Marianne
name: ErsbĂ¸Ll, Anne
name: RosthĂ¸J, Susanne
name: Brunsgaard, Anne
name: Midtgaard, Julie
name: Tabor, Ann
name: Hegaard, Hanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: SPIRIT checklist. (DOC 122 kb)