cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Consumer Responses to Multiple and Superfluous Labels in the Case of Eggs
Creators: name: Heng, Yan
name: Peterson, Hikaru Hanawa
name: Li, Xianghong
name: Heng, Yan
name: Peterson, Hikaru Hanawa
name: Li, Xianghong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: choice experiment
subject: credence attributes
subject: eggs
subject: labeling
subject: number of labels
subject: superfluous label

description: Food labels convey various information about credence attributes. An increasing number of labels and the existence of superfluous labels lead to questions on how consumers value different number of co-presented labels. Average respondents to our national survey about eggs were willing to pay a premium for all considered attribute labels, but their valuations depended on how many other labels were presented simultaneously. For example, certified organic label lost value as it was presented with more labels. On average, respondents also valued labels that conveyed no additional information, even after being presented with their superfluity.
WWP2 regulates pathological cardiac fibrosis by modulating SMAD2 signaling
Creators: name: Chen, Huimei
name: Moreno-Moral, Aida
name: Pesce, Francesco
name: Devapragash, Nithya
name: Mancini, Massimiliano
name: Heng, Ee Ling
name: Rotival, Maxime
name: Srivastava, Prashant K.
name: Harmston, Nathan
name: Shkura, Kirill
name: Rackham, Owen J. L.
name: Yu, Wei-Ping
name: Sun, Xi-Ming
name: Tee, Nicole Gui Zhen
name: Tan, Elisabeth Li Sa
name: Barton, Paul J. R.
name: Felkin, Leanne E.
name: Lara-Pezzi, Enrique
name: Angelini, Gianni
name: Beltrami, Cristina
name: Pravenec, Michal
name: Schafer, Sebastian
name: Bottolo, Leonardo
name: Hubner, Norbert
name: Emanueli, Costanza
name: Cook, Stuart A.
name: Petretto, Enrico
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
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/692/4019/592/75/74
/38/39
/13/51
/13/89
/42/44
/14/32
/14/35
/45/43
/64/60
/82/80
article

description: Abstract: Cardiac fibrosis is a final common pathology in inherited and acquired heart diseases that causes cardiac electrical and pump failure. Here, we use systems genetics to identify a pro-fibrotic gene network in the diseased heart and show that this network is regulated by the E3 ubiquitin ligase WWP2, specifically by the WWP2-N terminal isoform. Importantly, the WWP2-regulated pro-fibrotic gene network is conserved across different cardiac diseases characterized by fibrosis: human and murine dilated cardiomyopathy and repaired tetralogy of Fallot. Transgenic mice lacking the N-terminal region of the WWP2 protein show improved cardiac function and reduced myocardial fibrosis in response to pressure overload or myocardial infarction. In primary cardiac fibroblasts, WWP2 positively regulates the expression of pro-fibrotic markers and extracellular matrix genes. TGFβ1 stimulation promotes nuclear translocation of the WWP2 isoforms containing the N-terminal region and their interaction with SMAD2. WWP2 mediates the TGFβ1-induced nucleocytoplasmic shuttling and transcriptional activity of SMAD2.
Dynamical renormalization group approach to the collective behaviour of swarms
Creators: name: Cavagna, Andrea
name: Di Carlo, Luca
name: Giardina, Irene
name: Grandinetti, Luca
name: Grigera, Tomas S.
name: Pisegna, Giulia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study the critical behaviour of a model with non-dissipative couplings aimed at describing the collective behaviour of natural swarms, using the dynamical renormalization group. At one loop, we find a crossover between a conservative yet unstable fixed point, characterized by a dynamical critical exponent $z=d/2$, and a dissipative stable fixed point with $z=2$, a result we confirm through numerical simulations. The crossover is regulated by a conservation length scale that is larger the smaller the effective friction, so that in finite-size biological systems with low dissipation, dynamics is ruled by the conservative fixed point. In three dimensions this mechanism gives $z=3/2$, a value significantly closer to the experimental result $z\approx 1$ than the value $z\approx 2$ found in fully dissipative models, either at or off equilibrium. This result indicates that non-dissipative dynamical couplings are necessary to develop a theory of natural swarms fully consistent with experiments
description: 5 pages, 2 figure
Additional file 3 of Influence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae natural infection on the respiratory microbiome diversity of finishing pigs
Creators: name: Sonalio, Karina
name: Almeida, Henrique M. S.
name: Mechler-Dreibi, Marina L.
name: Storino, Gabriel Y.
name: Haesebrouck, Freddy
name: Maes, Dominiek
name: de Oliveira, Luís Guilherme
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3. Detailed information on the individual samples tested by multiplex-qPCR. Individual qPCR results of BALF and NT samples tested against M. hyopneumoniae, M. hyorhinis, and M. flocculare.
An Analysis of the Influence of Chinese Agriculture on National Economy and the Macroeconomic Effects
Creators: name: GE, Ming
name: ZHAO, Suping
name: GE, Ming
name: ZHAO, Suping
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural industries
subject: National economy
subject: Macroeconomic effects
subject: Input-output analysis

description: As a basic industry, agriculture has a far-reaching impact on national economy. Based on input-output tables of China in 2005 and 2010, this paper gives a deep insight into the relationship between agriculture and national economy and its macroeconomic effects by the methods of input-output analysis, industrial correlation and macroeconomic effect analysis. The results show that the agricultural development is highly dependent on the national economy, but makes low contribution; agriculture contributes to promoting employment and improving the structure of national income distribution; despite the government's tax incentive, the agricultural equipments are updated slowly, and the corporate profits are at low level; agricultural export effect is far below the average industry level, but the import effect increases over the years, and final products are often used for domestic consumption. Finally, we set forth recommendations for improving the development of agriculture and national economy.
ON OPTIMALITY OF THE INDEX OF SUM, PRODUCT, MAXIMUM, AND MINIMUM OF FINITE BAIRE INDEX FUNCTIONS
Creators: name: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 10199 Pure Mathematics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Chaatit, Mascioni, and Rosenthal de ned nite Baire index for a bounded real-valued function f on a separable metric space, denoted by i(f), and proved that for any bounded functions f and g of nite Baire index, i(h) i(f) + i(g), where h is any of the functions f + g, fg, f ˅g, f ^ g. In this paper, we prove that the result is optimal in the following sense : for each n; k < ω, there exist functions f; g such that i(f) = n, i(g) = k, and i(h) = i(f) + i(g).
ZFP57 regulation of transposable elements and gene expression within and beyond imprinted domains
Creators: name: Shi, Hui
name: Strogantsev, Ruslan
name: Takahashi, Nozomi
name: Kazachenka, Anastasiya
name: Lorincz, Matthew C.
name: Hemberger, Myriam
name: Ferguson-Smith, Anne C.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Research
DNA methylation
KZFPs
ZFP57
Transposable elements
Embryonic stem cells

description: Abstract: Background: KRAB zinc finger proteins (KZFPs) represent one of the largest families of DNA-binding proteins in vertebrate genomes and appear to have evolved to silence transposable elements (TEs) including endogenous retroviruses through sequence-specific targeting of repressive chromatin states. ZFP57 is required to maintain the post-fertilization DNA methylation memory of parental origin at genomic imprints. Here we conduct RNA-seq and ChIP-seq analyses in normal and ZFP57 mutant mouse ES cells to understand the relative importance of ZFP57 at imprints, unique and repetitive regions of the genome. Results: Over 80% of ZFP57 targets are TEs, however, ZFP57 is not essential for their repression. The remaining targets lie within unique imprinted and non-imprinted sequences. Though the loss of ZFP57 influences imprinted genes as expected, the majority of unique gene targets lose H3K9me3 with little effect on DNA methylation and very few exhibit alterations in expression. Comparison of ZFP57 mutants with DNA methyltransferase-deleted ES cells (TKO) identifies a remarkably similar pattern of H3K9me3 loss across the genome. These data define regions where H3K9me3 is secondary to DNA methylation and we propose that ZFP57 is the principal if not sole methylation-sensitive KZFP in mouse ES cells. Finally, we examine dynamics of DNA and H3K9 methylation during pre-implantation development and show that sites bound by ZFP57 in ES cells maintain DNA methylation and H3K9me3 at imprints and at non-imprinted regions on the maternally inherited chromosome throughout preimplantation development. Conclusion: Our analyses suggest the evolution of a rare DNA methylation-sensitive KZFP that is not essential for repeat silencing, but whose primary function is to maintain DNA methylation and repressive histone marks at germline-derived imprinting control regions.
Sustainable and environmentally friendly reinforced soil slopes and walls constructed with draining geogrids: recent UK experience
Creators: name: N Brusa
name: Naughton, Patrick
name: M Scotto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 120404 Engineering Systems Design
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 120402 Engineering Design Knowledge

description: Research has shown that geotechnical engineers and the construction industry in general like to think of themselves as working to benefit the environment and providing for future generations in tandem, if not always in harmony, with nature. However, engineers still prefer to work with high quality and expensive imported granular fill, rather than seriously consider using recycled spoil generated as part of the construction activity. Engineers can design reinforced soil structures using marginal poorly drained fills without the need to import granular fill, which has both cost and environmental implications. Marginal fills typically have high silt and/or clay contents which, when loaded, have the potential to generate excess pore water pressures in the structural backfill. Poor drainage in the structural fill reduces the available strength of the fill, thus reducing the bond between the fill and the geogrid reinforcement. Therefore, to use marginal fill efficiently, adequate drainage must be provided in the reinforced soil structure. By using a novel geocomposite that combines reinforcement and draining into a geogrid sustainable and environmentally friendly slopes and walls can be designed and constructed. During 2015, 2016 and 2017 an innovative design methodology and approach for the construction of reinforced slopes and walls, up to 15m in height, with low-permeability fills was successfully constructed in the UK. The design and construction experience gained in the UK is presented to confirm the effectiveness of the system and given engineers confidence in the use of marginal fills in reinforced soil systems.
Incêndios causados por baterias de íons de lítio na aviação: riscos, desafios e medidas de mitigação
Creators: name: Froner, Carlos Eduardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: aviation
lithium-ion batteries
in-flight fire
thermal runaway
risk mitigation

description: Este documento corresponde à versão 2.0 do estudo técnico intitulado “Incêndios Causados por Baterias de Íons de Lítio na Aviação: Riscos, Desafios e Medidas de Mitigação”. Esta versão atualizada incorpora revisões de formatação, ajustes visuais e pequenas correções destinadas a aprimorar a clareza e a apresentação do documento. O conteúdo técnico, as informações científicas, o conhecimento operacional e a estrutura do estudo permanecem inalterados, preservando o propósito original da obra.

 

This document corresponds to version 2.0 of the technical study entitled “Lithium-Ion Battery Fires in Aviation: Operational Risks, Challenges, and Mitigation Strategies”. This updated version incorporates formatting revisions, visual adjustments, and minor corrections intended to enhance the document’s clarity and presentation. The technical content, scientific information, operational knowledge, and overall structure of the study remain unchanged, preserving the original purpose and scope of the work.
In situ characterization of linear-optical networks in randomized boson sampling
Creators: name: Rahimi-Keshari, Saleh
name: Baghbanzadeh, Sima
name: Caves, Carlton M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a method for efficient, in situ characterization of linear-optical networks (LONs) in randomized boson-sampling (RBS) experiments. We formulate RBS as a distributed task between two parties, Alice and Bob, who share two-mode squeezed-vacuum states. In this protocol, Alice performs local measurements on her modes, either photon counting or heterodyne. Bob implements and applies to his modes the LON requested by Alice; at the output of the LON, Bob performs photon counting, the results of which he sends to Alice via classical channels. In the ideal situation, when Alice does photon counting, she obtains from Bob samples from the probability distribution of the RBS problem, a task that is believed to be classically hard to simulate. When Alice performs heterodyne measurements, she converts the experiment to a problem that is classically efficiently simulable, but more importantly, enables her to characterize a lossy LON on the fly, without Bob's knowing and without changing anything at Bob's end (this is what we mean by in situ). We introduce and calculate the fidelity between the joint states shared by Alice and Bob after the ideal and lossy LONs as a measure of distance between the two LONs. Using this measure, we obtain an upper bound on the total variation distance between the ideal probability distribution for the RBS problem and the probability distribution achieved by a lossy LON. Our method displays the power of the entanglement of the two-mode squeezed-vacuum states: the entanglement allows Alice to choose for each run of the experiment between RBS and a simple characterization protocol based on first-order coherence between complex amplitudes.
description: 32 pages: 16.5 pages of text with 2 figures, two appendices in 14 pages; 1.5 pages of references
Additional file 2 of Influence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae natural infection on the respiratory microbiome diversity of finishing pigs
Creators: name: Sonalio, Karina
name: Almeida, Henrique M. S.
name: Mechler-Dreibi, Marina L.
name: Storino, Gabriel Y.
name: Haesebrouck, Freddy
name: Maes, Dominiek
name: de Oliveira, Luís Guilherme
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2. Parameters for qPCR assays based on the gene fragments of M. hyopneumoniae (p102), M. hyorhinis (p37), and M. flocculare (fruA). qPCR assays’ information for all plate runs, including efficiency (E), r2, slope, and Y-intercept for the three pathogens tested: M. hyopneumoniae (FAM), M. hyorhinis (Texas Red), and M. flocculare (Cy5).
Antidiabetic effect of combination of fractionated-extracts of Andrographis paniculata and Centella asiatica: In vitro study
Creators: name: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of combination of Andrographis paniculata herb fraction (AHF) and Centella asiatica herb fraction (CHF) on PPARγ and GLUT4 mRNA expressions
in 3T3-L1 adipocyte, and its effect on insulin-stimulated glucose uptake.3T3-L1 adipocyte cells were used to investigate gene expression of PPARγ and GLUT4 proteins by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction method. The adipocyte cells were differentiated by using insulin, dexamethasone and 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine from 3T3-L1 cells. Pioglitazone, AHF, CHF and the combination of both herbs were evaluated on glucose uptake activity, PPARγ and GLUT4 mRNA expressions in 3T3-L1 adipocyte. The results showed that combination of AHF at 30 μg/mL and CHF at 10 μg/mL could enhance insulin-stimulated glucose uptake. The combination also increased PPARγ and GLUT4 mRNA expressions significantly in comparison to those of negative control (DMSO). These effects were equal in comparison to those of pioglitazone (0.02 μM) and its single extracts.
Meteorus alborossicus Lobodenko 2000
Creators: name: Stigenberg, Julia
name: Ronquist, Fredrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Meteorus
Meteorus alborossicus

description: Meteorus alborossicus Lobodenko
Fig. 57, 84
 Meteorus alborossicus Lobodenko, 2000. Holotype ♀, Russia: ‘Byelorussia, Beresina Nat. Res., Postrezhie, 1vii– 1.viii.1996 ’ (Lobodenko) (ZIN. St. Petersburg)—examined.
 Diagnosis: Meteorus alborossicus is close to M. vexator but the fore wing venation easily distinguishes them: while M. alborossicus has the fore wing vein 1–SR+M incomplete, it is complete in M.vexator. M. alborossicus is actually the only species of Meteorus in Europe with an incomplete 1–SR+M vein.
 Studied material: ~ 20 specimens.
 Description: Size about 3–4mm. Antennal articles 29. Ocelli small, OOL=2–2.5. Eyes protuberant, large and converging. Malar space narrow, 0.4 times basal width of mandibles. Face as wide as high and punctuate, clypeus also punctate. Clypeus protruding and variable in width, sometimes as wide as face. Mandibles only slightly twisted. Precoxal sulcus wide. Propodeum with transverse carinae. Petiolar tergum rugose centrally, striate laterally. Ovipositor long and slender, more than 2.5 times petiolar tergum. Fore and middle coxa light coloured (whitish), hind coxa dark and rugose. Fore wing vein 1–SR+M not complete. Claws slender but with a slight widening at base.
 Distribution: Western Palearctic. Country records: Belarus; Sweden; United Kingdom.
 Biology: We found a single specimen within the SMTP; it was caught on a sandy railway in August. Three specimens were reared in an ongoing study on saproxylic insects on wet stumps at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Ols in prep.)
description: Published as part of Stigenberg, Julia & Ronquist, Fredrik, 2011, Revision of the Western Palearctic Meteorini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with a molecular characterization of hidden Fennoscandian species diversity 3084, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3084 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3084.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5244448
Incêndios causados por baterias de íons de lítio na aviação: riscos, desafios e medidas de mitigação
Creators: name: Froner, Carlos Eduardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: aviation
lithium-ion batteries
in-flight fire
thermal runaway
risk mitigation

description: Este estudo técnico examina os riscos associados a incêndios causados por baterias de íons de lítio durante operações de voo na aviação comercial. Com base em dados operacionais, relatórios de investigação e bibliografia técnica, o artigo aborda a complexidade do fenômeno da fuga térmica, os desafios na contenção de incêndios em cabine e compartimentos de carga, e as limitações das medidas atualmente adotadas. Também discute a necessidade de atualização de procedimentos e reforço no treinamento das tripulações, propondo ações mitigadoras alinhadas à segurança operacional.
An Empirical Study on Strategic Network, Relational Capability and Operating Performance of Agricultural Enterprises
Creators: name: YIN, Meihua
name: WU, Jianhui
name: YIN, Meihua
name: WU, Jianhui
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Market futurity
subject: Trusting relationship
subject: Business networks
subject: Relational capability
subject: Operating performance

description: By establishing the theoretical model of "strategic network cooperation—relational capability—operating performance" and structural equation, we conduct a sampling survey on 208 agricultural enterprises, and use Spss21.0 and Amos21.0 for empirical analysis of influence of three factors in strategic network cooperation (market futurity, trusting relationship and business networks) on market relational capability and operating performance of agricultural enterprises. The results show that the establishment of trusting relationship and business networks in strategic networks has a positive impact on the operating performance of agricultural enterprises, and relational capability plays a fully mediating role while relational capability has not mediating effect on market futurity. This study provides a meaningful reference for the follow-up studies on relational capability and operating performance of agricultural enterprises, to further enhance the operating performance of agricultural enterprises and effectively improve farmers' income.
Interplay of Structural Disorder and Short Binding Elements in the Cellular Chaperone Function of Plant Dehydrin ERD14
Creators: name: Murvai, Nikoletta
name: Kalmar, Lajos
name: Agoston, Bianka Szalaine
name: Szabo, Beata
name: Tantos, Agnes
name: Csikos, Gyorgy
name: Micsonai, András
name: Kardos, József
name: Vertommen, Didier
name: Nguyen, Phuong N.
name: Hristozova, Nevena
name: Lang, Andras
name: Kovacs, Denes
name: Buday, Laszlo
name: Han, Kyou-Hoon
name: Perczel, Andras
name: Tompa, Peter
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: intrinsic structural disorder
chaperone
in-cell NMR
pre-structured motif
client protein
cell protection

description: Details of the functional mechanisms of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) in living cells is an area not frequently investigated. Here, we dissect the molecular mechanism of action of an IDP in cells by detailed structural analyses based on an in-cell nuclear magnetic resonance experiment. We show that the ID stress protein (IDSP) A. thaliana Early Response to Dehydration (ERD14) is capable of protecting E. coli cells under heat stress. The overexpression of ERD14 increases the viability of E. coli cells from 38.9% to 73.9% following heat stress (50 °C × 15 min). We also provide evidence that the protection is mainly achieved by protecting the proteome of the cells. In-cell NMR experiments performed in E. coli cells show that the protective activity is associated with a largely disordered structural state with conserved, short sequence motifs (K- and H-segments), which transiently sample helical conformations in vitro and engage in partner binding in vivo. Other regions of the protein, such as its S segment and its regions linking and flanking the binding motifs, remain unbound and disordered in the cell. Our data suggest that the cellular function of ERD14 is compatible with its residual structural disorder in vivo.
Design of reinforced slopes and walls with low-permeability fills using draining geogrids
Creators: name: JP Giroud
name: Naughton, Patrick
name: P Rimoldi
name: M Scotto
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 120402 Engineering Design Knowledge
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 120404 Engineering Systems Design
subject: 120403 Engineering Design Methods

description: A combined reinforcement and drainage geogrid (herein referred to as “draining geogrid”) has been developed for the construction of steep slopes and walls with low-permeability fills. With such fills, drainage is necessary to minimize pore pressure buildup. The draining geogrids provide drainage thanks to channels in their longitudinal strips. The design of reinforced slopes and walls using draining geogrids consists in: estimating the magnitude and time for dissipation of excess pore water pressures in the reinforced fill; evaluating the stability of the reinforced fill; and evaluating if the hydraulic transmissivity of the draining geogrids is sufficient to ensure rapid dissipation of excess pore water pressure. Draining geogrids have been used for a decade. However, a significant increase in the number of applications of draining geogrids is expected due to the increased scarcity of draining fill and the increasing use of local soils for environmental purposes. An updated design method for reinforced slopes and walls using draining geogrids is presented.
Nächtlicher Schmetterlingsfang
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Julius
Publisher: name: - NO PUBLISHER DEFINED -
Year: 1859

description: Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg : zugl. Jahrbuch d. Staatlichen Museums für Naturkunde in Stuttgart
description: Bd. 15-16, 1859-1860
Positive Personas: Integrating Well-being Determinants into Personas
Creators: name: Nurhas, Irawan
name: Geisler, Stefan
name: Pawlowski, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.5.2

description: System design for well-being needs an appropriate tool to help designers to determine relevant requirements that can help human well-being to flourish. Personas come as a simple yet powerful tool in the early development stage of the user interface design. Considering well-being determinants in the early design process provide benefits for both the user and the development team. Therefore, in this short paper, we performed a literature study to provide a conceptual model of well-being in personas and propose positive design interventions in the personas creation process.
description: 4 pages, conference MuC 2017, Regensburg
Is affine invariance well defined on SPD matrices? A principled continuum of metrics
Creators: name: Thanwerdas, Yann
name: Pennec, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have been widely used in medical data analysis and a number of different Riemannian met-rics were proposed to compute with them. However, there are very few methodological principles guiding the choice of one particular metric for a given application. Invariance under the action of the affine transformations was suggested as a principle. Another concept is based on symmetries. However, the affine-invariant metric and the recently proposed polar-affine metric are both invariant and symmetric. Comparing these two cousin metrics leads us to introduce much wider families: power-affine and deformed-affine metrics. Within this continuum, we investigate other principles to restrict the family size.
An Analysis of Pig Production Efficiency and Regional Differences in China Based on Malmquist-DEA Model and Inter-provincial Panel Data
Creators: name: ZHANG, Yuanyuan
name: SUN, Shimin
name: ZHANG, Yuanyuan
name: SUN, Shimin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Pig production
subject: Production efficiency
subject: Main pig producing provinces

description: Pig production efficiency and its regional differences in China have strategic importance to the transformation of pig production mode and optimization of pig production layout in China. In this paper, Malmquist-DEA model is adopted to analyze the statistical data; TFP and its decomposition indicators of different pig breeding scale among the top ten pig producing provinces are calculated; both horizontal and longitudinal comparisons are made. Results show that among different pig breeding scales, free-range breeding scale is dominant in Hunan, small breeding scale is dominant in Sichuan, medium breeding scale is dominant in Sichuan and Hunan, and large breeding scale is dominant in Sichuan, Shandong and Jiangsu; among the provinces, pig production efficiency varies with breeding scale, and small-scale pig breeding in Sichuan, Guangdong and Hebei, free-range and medium-scale pig breeding in Hunan, medium-scale pig breeding in Henan and Yunnan, large-scale pig breeding in the rest of the provinces, have significant efficiency advantage.
N=1* vacua, Fuzzy Spheres and Integrable Systems
Creators: name: Dorey, Nick
name: Sinkovics, Annamaria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the exact eigenvalues of the adjoint scalar fields in the massive vacua of N=1* SUSY Yang-Mills with gauge group SU(N). This provides a field theory prediction for the distribution of D3 brane charge in the AdS dual. We verify the proposal of Polchinski and Strassler that the D3-brane's lie on a fuzzy sphere in the supergravity limit and determine the corrections to this distribution due to worldsheet and quantum effects. The calculation also provides several new results concerning the equilibrium configurations of the N-body Calogero-Moser Hamiltonian.
description: 20 pages
Seeing red? Colour biases of foraging birds are context dependent
Creators: name: Teichmann, Marianne
name: Thorogood, Rose
name: Hämäläinen, Liisa
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Original Paper
Avoidance learning
Colour preference
Food choice
Great tits
Blue tits
Warning colouration

description: Funder: Suomen Kulttuurirahasto; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003125
description: Funder: Emil Aaltosen Säätiö; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004756
description: Funder: Helsingin Yliopisto; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100007797
description: Abstract: Colours are commonly used as visual cues when measuring animals’ cognitive abilities. However, animals can have innate biases towards certain colours that depend on ecological and evolutionary contexts, therefore potentially influencing their performance in experiments. For example, when foraging, the colour red can advertise profitable fruits or act as a warning signal about chemically defended prey, and an individual’s propensity to take food of that colour may depend on experience, age or physical condition. Here, we investigate how these contexts influence blue tits’ (Cyanistes caeruleus) and great tits’ (Parus major) responses to red-coloured almond flakes. We found that juvenile birds preferred red both when it was presented simultaneously with green, and when it was presented with three alternative colours (orange, purple, green). Adult birds, however, only preferred red after a positive experience with the colour, or when it was presented with the three alternative colours. We then tested whether colour influenced avoidance learning about food unpalatability. Despite the prediction that red is a more salient warning signal than green, we found only weak evidence that birds discriminated red unpalatable almonds from a green palatable alternative more quickly than when the colours were reversed. Our results suggest that biases towards red food may depend on birds’ age and previous experience, and this might influence their performance in experiments that use red stimuli. Considering the ecological relevance of colours is, therefore, important when designing experiments that involve colour cues.
Additional file 3: of Mapping and identification of CsUp, a gene encoding an Auxilin-like protein, as a putative candidate gene for the upward-pedicel mutation (up) in cucumber
Creators: name: Sun, Jingxian
name: Xiao, Tingting
name: Nie, Jingtao
name: Chen, Yue
name: Lv, Duo
name: Pan, Ming
name: Gao, Qifan
name: Guo, Chunli
name: Zhang, Leyu
name: He, Huan-Le
name: Lian, Hongli
name: Pan, Junsong
name: Cai, Run
name: Wang, Gang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S3. Pedicel orientation of B1 and CGN19839 indicating that both inbred lines have the upward-pedicel phenotype (PDF 271 kb)
Production Efficiency Change and Convergence Analysis of Japonica Rice in China
Creators: name: LIU, Dejuan
name: LIU, Dejuan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Japonica rice
subject: Malmquist index
subject: Production efficiency
subject: Convergence

description: Using DEA-Malmquist index method, we perform an empirical analysis of Japonica rice production input-output panel data in 12 China's major Japonica rice producing areas during 2001-2012, calculate the total factor input-output efficiency of China's major Japonica rice producing areas, and analyze TFP change and convergence of Japonica rice. It is found that from 2001 to 2012, the average growth rate of total factor productivity (TFP) was -2.3% and the technological progress was -2.2%, and the decline of technical progress was the main cause of the decrease of TFP. Moreover, significant differences exist between the TFP of these provinces, and the TFP of Heilongjiang and Jiangsu is higher than that of other provinces. Further convergence test indicates that TFP of the main producing areas shows σ convergence trend.
Additional file 5: of Mapping and identification of CsUp, a gene encoding an Auxilin-like protein, as a putative candidate gene for the upward-pedicel mutation (up) in cucumber
Creators: name: Sun, Jingxian
name: Xiao, Tingting
name: Nie, Jingtao
name: Chen, Yue
name: Lv, Duo
name: Pan, Ming
name: Gao, Qifan
name: Guo, Chunli
name: Zhang, Leyu
name: He, Huan-Le
name: Lian, Hongli
name: Pan, Junsong
name: Cai, Run
name: Wang, Gang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: Figure S5. Alignment of predicted protein sequences between WT and CGN19839. The amino acid highlighted in red is the acid alternation (Ile47 in WT to Val47 in CGN19839) caused by the SNP in the first exon of Csa1G535800. The amino acids highlighted in yellow are abnormal in CGN19839 and the amino acids highlighted in blue are missing in CGN19839. The DnaJ domain at the C-terminal is underlined (PDF 81 kb)
Meteorus breviantennatus Tobias 1986
Creators: name: Stigenberg, Julia
name: Ronquist, Fredrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Meteorus
Meteorus breviantennatus

description: Meteorus breviantennatus Tobias
Fig. 87
 Meteorus breviantennatus Tobias, 1986:345. Holotype ♀, Russia: (ZIN. St. Petersburg)—examined.
 Diagnosis: Meteorus breviantennatus is similar to M. cis but the clypeus of M. breviantennatus is almost as wide as the face while the clypeus of M. cis is narrower. Also the malar space (shorter than mandibular base on M. breviantennatus, as wide as mandibular base on M. cis) and the face (slightly transverse in M. breviantennatus, round in M. cis) should separate these species.
 Studied material: 11 specimens.
 Description: Size about 3mm. Antennae 20–22 articles, the basal articles lighter in colour. Head slightly transverse. Ocelli small, OOL=3–3.5. Eyes small, slightly protuberant, convergent. Malar space shorter than basal breadth of mandible. Face about 1.3 times as broad as high, punctate, not strongly protuberant. Clypeus almost as wide as face, protruding, in some specimen with a notch similar to M. cis. Tentorial pits distinct. Mandibles short and moderately twisted. Precoxal sulcus rather wide. Propodeum with carinae, otherwise reticulate. Dorsal pits of the petiolar tergum small, dorsal surface rugose with longitudinal striae laterally. Ovipositor about twice the length of petiolar tergum. Legs slender; hind coxa punctuate with small punctures. Tarsal claws long and slender. Colour dark brown; clypeus, mandibles and usually third abdominal tergum of lighter colour than the rest of body; coxa and legs brownish-yellow.
 Distribution: Western and Eastern Palearctic. Country records: Austria; China; France; Germany; Ireland; Japan; Korea; Netherlands; Russia; Sweden; United Kingdom.
 Biology: According to Tobias (1986) it is a parasitoid of Ips acuminatus (Gyllenhal, 1827) and Tomicus minor (Hartig, 1834) (Coleoptera).
description: Published as part of Stigenberg, Julia & Ronquist, Fredrik, 2011, Revision of the Western Palearctic Meteorini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with a molecular characterization of hidden Fennoscandian species diversity 3084, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3084 (1) on pages 47-48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3084.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5244448
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures in China: Efficiency and Challenge: A Case Study of Swine Industry
Creators: name: DONG, Yinguo
name: LU, Yehong
name: DONG, Yinguo
name: LU, Yehong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: SPS measures
subject: SPS notification
subject: Control system
subject: Control standards

description: The Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures are technical regulations, standards, and requirements closely related to food safety, plant and animal health, and environmental safety, aiming to prevent disease, pests, pathogens and other alien risk from entering China. Pork is favorite meat for Chinese consumers; its safety directly concerns the safety of whole food supply chain with rapid increasing of port import. This paper analyzed SPS management system of swine and pork import, and evaluated SPS efficiency of swine industry in China from SPS notification number, swine health situation, and pork import standard. The study found that as for SPS notification number and chemical residue control standard, China’s SPS protection level is relatively high, while the control level of swine diseases is still low. In China, SPS management system has the problem of involving multiple authorities and poor coordination among them, leading to some standards lacking scientific basis and low enforcement.
title: Parametric life cycle analysis for the optimization of building construction regarding its grey CO2 emissions and operational energy demand
Creators: name: Takser, Irina
name: Reitberger, Roland
name: Lang, Werner
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2024
Subjects: LCA
parametric simulation
building energy simulation
life cycle

description: To achieve climate protection targets, energy and CO2 emissions should become driving forces in the building design process. However, quantifying operational energy and gray CO2 emissions over the entire life cycle of a building is complex and data intensive. The classic design methodology is unsuitable for a holistic view of sustainability aspects. The parametric design methodology makes it possible to take many parameters into account and to compare a large number of design variants. This paper shows the workflow of a parametric building simulation. The workflow consists of a combination of life cycle analysis and dynamic building energy simulation. The life cycle analysis quantifies the gray emissions from the production, maintenance, and disposal of a building. The dynamic building energy simulation determines the operational energy demand of the building, from which the CO2 emissions during operation can be derived. The simulation is modeled and carried out using the tools Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, Bombyx, Honeybee and Colibri. The workflow is applied to an existing reinforced concrete building in Germany. The combination of building components (exterior walls, ceilings, roof, and façade) in different construction methods (reinforced concrete construction, massive timber construction, and timber frame construction) results in 48 design variants. The results of the simulation show optimization potentials for some timber construction variants compared to the existing reinforced concrete construction regarding CO2 emissions over the entire life cycle of the building. With the developed workflow, different design solutions can be compared and CO2 emissions can be reduced over the entire life cycle of a building.
Additional file 4 of Influence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae natural infection on the respiratory microbiome diversity of finishing pigs
Creators: name: Sonalio, Karina
name: Almeida, Henrique M. S.
name: Mechler-Dreibi, Marina L.
name: Storino, Gabriel Y.
name: Haesebrouck, Freddy
name: Maes, Dominiek
name: de Oliveira, Luís Guilherme
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4. Detailed information on the taxonomic analysis with relative frequencies of each bacterial genera from pooled nasal tubinate (NT) and bronchoalveolar fluid (BALF) samples. Taxonomic analyses of pooled BALF and NT samples of M. hyopneumoniae-infected and non-infected pigs. The following results consider a taxonomic level 7 (species).
Crack channelling mechanisms in brittle coating systems under moisture or temperature gradients
Creators: name: Bosco, E.
name: Suiker, A. S. J.
name: Fleck, N. A.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Original Paper
Coating-substrate systems
Crack channelling
Plane-strain delamination
Hygral-thermal loading
Historical paintings

description: Abstract: Crack channelling is predicted in a brittle coating-substrate system that is subjected to a moisture or temperature gradient in the thickness direction. Competing failure scenarios are identified, and are distinguished by the degree to which the coating-substrate interface delaminates, and whether this delamination is finite or unlimited in nature. Failure mechanism maps are constructed, and illustrate the sensitivity of the active crack channelling mechanism and associated channelling stress to the ratio of coating toughness to interfacial toughness, to the mismatch in elastic modulus and to the mismatch in coefficient of hygral or thermal expansion. The effect of the ratio of coating to substrate thickness upon the failure mechanism and channelling stress is also explored. Closed-form expressions for the steady-state delamination stress are derived, and are used to determine the transition value of moisture state that leads to unlimited delamination. Although the results are applicable to coating-substrate systems in a wide range of applications, the study focusses on the prediction of cracking in historical paintings due to indoor climate fluctuations, with the objective of helping museums developing strategies for the preservation of art objects. For this specific application, crack channelling with delamination needs to be avoided under all circumstances, as it may induce flaking of paint material. In historical paintings, the substrate thickness is typically more than ten times larger than the thickness of the paint layer; for such a system, the failure maps constructed from the numerical simulations indicate that paint delamination is absent if the delamination toughness is larger than approximately half of the mode I toughness of the paint layer. Further, the transition between crack channelling with and without delamination appears to be relatively insensitive to the mismatch in the elastic modulus of the substrate and paint layer. The failure maps developed in this work may provide a useful tool for museum conservators to identify the allowable indoor humidity and temperature fluctuations for which crack channelling with delamination is prevented in historical paintings.
Renormalization group crossover in the critical dynamics of field theories with mode coupling terms
Creators: name: Cavagna, Andrea
name: Di Carlo, Luca
name: Giardina, Irene
name: Grandinetti, Luca
name: Grigera, Tomas S.
name: Pisegna, Giulia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Motivated by the collective behaviour of biological swarms, we study the critical dynamics of field theories with coupling between order parameter and conjugate momentum in the presence of dissipation. By performing a dynamical renormalization group calculation at one loop, we show that the violation of momentum conservation generates a crossover between a conservative yet IR-unstable fixed point, characterized by a dynamic critical exponent $z=d/2$, and a dissipative IR-stable fixed point with $z=2$. Interestingly, the two fixed points have different upper critical dimensions. The interplay between these two fixed points gives rise to a crossover in the critical dynamics of the system, characterized by a crossover exponent $κ=4/d$. Such crossover is regulated by a conservation length scale, $\mathcal R_0$, which is larger the smaller the dissipation: beyond $\mathcal R_0$ the dissipative fixed point dominates, while at shorter distances dynamics is ruled by the conservative fixed point and critical exponent, a behaviour which is all the more relevant in finite-size systems with weak dissipation. We run numerical simulations in three dimensions and find a crossover between the exponents $z=3/2$ and $z=2$ in the critical slowing down of the system, confirming the renormalization group results. From the biophysical point of view, our calculation indicates that in finite-size biological groups mode-coupling terms in the equation of motion can significantly change the dynamical critical exponents even in the presence of dissipation, a step towards reconciling theory with experiments in natural swarms. Moreover, our result provides the scale within which fully conservative Bose-Einstein condensation is a good approximation in systems with weak symmetry-breaking terms violating number conservation, as quantum magnets or photon gases.
description: 33 pages, 7 figures
Entomobrya albocincta Rondani 1861
Creators: name: Jordana, Rafael
name: Greenslade, Penelope
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Entomobryidae
Entomobrya
Entomobrya albocincta

description: Entomobrya albocincta (Templeton, 1835) Rondani, 1861
(Figs 1B, 4B)
Locality. Female, Australia, TAS, Lake Esperance, xi.1937, - 43.2281°S, 146.7692°E, 982m asl, D. Martin leg., Womersley det. as E. albocerulea v. martini, [SAMA].
Remarks. This exotic species appears to be rare in Australia and may have been extirpated, at least locally, as it has not been found since 1937. The species has been recently redescribed in detail by Jordana (2012).
description: Published as part of Jordana, Rafael & Greenslade, Penelope, 2020, Biogeographical and ecological insights from Australasian faunas: the megadiverse collembolan genus, Entomobrya (Entomobryidae), pp. 1-104 in Zootaxa 4770 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4770.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3797958