cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
3.6 and 4.5 Micron Phase Curves and Evidence for Non-Equilibrium Chemistry in the Atmosphere of Extrasolar Planet HD 189733b
Creators: name: Knutson, Heather A.
name: Lewis, Nikole
name: Fortney, Jonathan J.
name: Burrows, Adam
name: Showman, Adam P.
name: Cowan, Nicolas B.
name: Agol, Eric
name: Aigrain, Suzanne
name: Charbonneau, David
name: Deming, Drake
name: Desert, Jean-Michel
name: Henry, Gregory W.
name: Langton, Jonathan
name: Laughlin, Gregory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new, full-orbit observations of the infrared phase variations of the canonical hot Jupiter HD 189733b obtained in the 3.6 and 4.5 micron bands using the Spitzer Space Telescope. When combined with previous phase curve observations at 8.0 and 24 micron, these data allow us to characterize the exoplanet's emission spectrum as a function of planetary longitude. We utilize improved methods for removing the effects of intrapixel sensitivity variations and accounting for the presence of time-correlated noise in our data. We measure a phase curve amplitude of 0.1242% +/- 0.0061% in the 3.6 micron band and 0.0982% +/- 0.0089% in the 4.5 micron band. We find that the times of minimum and maximum flux occur several hours earlier than predicted for an atmosphere in radiative equilibrium, consistent with the eastward advection of gas by an equatorial super-rotating jet. The locations of the flux minima in our new data differ from our previous observations at 8 micron, and we present new evidence indicating that the flux minimum observed in the 8 micron is likely caused by an over-shooting effect in the 8 micron array. We obtain improved estimates for HD 189733b's dayside planet-star flux ratio of 0.1466% +/- 0.0040% at 3.6 micron and 0.1787% +/- 0.0038% at 4.5 micron; these are the most accurate secondary eclipse depths obtained to date for an extrasolar planet. We compare our new dayside and nightside spectra for HD 189733b to the predictions of models from Burrows et al. (2008) and Showman et al. (2009). We find that HD 189733b's 4.5 micron nightside flux is 3.3 sigma smaller than predicted by the Showman et al. models, which assume that the chemistry is in local thermal equilibrium. We conclude that this discrepancy is best-explained by vertical mixing, which should lead to an excess of CO and correspondingly enhanced 4.5 micron absorption in this region. [abridged]
description: 17 pages, 14 figures, ApJ in press
Biomarcadores de estrés transdiagnósticos en salud mental: polimorfismos genéticos en FKBP5 y regulación del eje hipotálamopituitarioadrenal en el trastorno depresivo mayor y en el trastorno obsesivo compulsivo.
Creators: name: Ferrera, Alex
name: Costas, Javier
name: Labad, Javier
name: Salvat-Pujol, Neus
name: Segalàs, Cinto
name: Urretavizcaya, Mikel
name: Reala, Eva
name: De Arriba-Arnau, Aida
name: Alonso, Pino
name: Crespo, José M.
name: Barrachina, Marta
name: Soriano-Masa, Carles
name: Carracedo, Ángel
name: Menchón, José M.
name: Soria, Virginia
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 7 (2018): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
Identifying Core Curricular Content for the Health Advocate Role in Neurology
Creators: name: Abuzinadah, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Education--Higher
subject: advocate
subject: Neurology
subject: Curriculum
subject: CanMEDS

description: Background: Health advocacy is one of the competencies required by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Lack of curriculum and clarity around this competency are obstacles for effectively teaching health advocacy to neurology residents. The purpose of this study was to identify the top five neurological diseases suitable to form the core content of a Health Advocacy curriculum and to develop the detailed curricular content items on health advocacy based on these findings. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study that includes a survey and Delphi procedure in two separate steps. In step one, neurologists and neurology residents were asked to rank 56 neurological diseases on a Likert scale based on how well the neurological disease lends itself to teaching the health advocacy aspects of neurology. In step two, curricular items were developed for the top five neurological diseases based on the mean Likert scale score, using a modified Delphi procedure. Cronbach’s alpha was used to determine the reliability of the survey instrument, and factor analysis was used for construct validity. Results: 46 neurologists and 14 neurology residents were surveyed with total response rate of 88.33%. The top five neurological presentations that neurologists identified, which lend themselves easly to teaching health advocacy are: stroke/transient ischemic attacks, alcoholism, epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis. The reliability of the survey instrument was 0.97. Exploratory factor analysis revealed four factors that can explain the variability in the survey instrument: chronic conditions affecting mobility and cognition, Paroxysmal or transient neurological conditions, conditions requiring cross-disciplinary specialist care, and Chronic conditions affecting cognition with potential improvement. Consensus on the curriculum content items was achieved using modified Delphi procedure. Conclusion: Neurological presentations that suitable for a foundational curriculum for neurology health advocacy were identified. Consensus was achieved on curricular items for the top five neurological presentations that easily fit into a program of teaching health advocacy.
Diet after prostate cancer : gender influences on men’s food perceptions and practices
Creators: name: Mróz, Lawrence William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Although nutrition might play a role in prostate cancer survival, most men make few diet changes following this diagnosis. Evidence that men tend to have poorer diets than women suggests that gender helps shape men’s food practices, and might influence nutrition intervention uptake. Gender theory provides insight into these observations, proposing that masculine ideals prevent men from adopting healthy eating practices. Additionally, because many men rely on women for food provision, gender relations are also significant in men’s diets. This dissertation explores how masculinities and gender relations are implicated in shaping dietary understandings and food practices of men with prostate cancer. The first phase of the study produced an overview and synthesis of research on nutrition, prostate cancer, masculinities and food, and provides an analysis of diet and diet change behaviours for men with prostate cancer. Masculinity and gender relations theory are discussed in the context of men’s food practices, with suggestions for applications to nutrition and prostate cancer research. The second phase was an empirical qualitative study, involving in-depth, individual interviews conducted privately and separately with 14 men with prostate cancer and their cohabiting female partners. Findings are presented in two parts. First, men’s accounts of their diets following prostate cancer and the rationales underpinning diet changes (or lack thereof) are described. The men framed their food perceptions and practices as important, action-oriented and autonomous suggesting that masculine ideals influenced if and how they engaged in diet change. Second, using a gender relations framework to interpret how gender performances shaped men’s diets, couples’ dietary accounts revealed how they tended to limit men’s dietary engagement and maintain hetero-normative food roles. Complex couple power dynamics were apparent, reflecting and reproducing patriarchy through women’s deference to men’s preferences and careful negotiation of support for men’s diet changes. Together, these findings demonstrate that although masculine ideals shape men’s food perceptions and practices, complex couple interactions are also implicated. Nutrition intervention planning for men is complex and findings show that to ensure success, understanding gender relations is essential to illuminate women’s roles in the food practices and nutritional health of men with prostate cancer.
Spinolia unicolor
Creators: name: Paukkunen, Juho
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Soon, Villu
name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ødegaard, Frode
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Spinolia
Spinolia unicolor

description: 32. Spinolia unicolor (Dahlbom, 1831)
Chrysis unicolor Dahlbom 1831: 32. Syntypes ♂♂; Sweden: Scania: Lomma and Käflinge [= Kävlinge] (ZMUL) (examined). Zetterstedt 1840: 434, Dahlbom 1854: 177, Thomson 1870: 105, Mocsáry 1889: 287, Borries 1891: 94, Aurivillius 1911: 11.
Chrysura unicolor: Dahlbom 1845: 6.
Spinolia unicolor: Jansson 1922: 33, Trautmann 1927: 87, Trautmann 1930: 498, Jansson 1934: 287, Balthasar 1954: 140, Móczár 1967: 61, Tumšs & Maršakovs 1970: 91, Erlandsson 1971: 88, Vikberg 1986a: 61, Cederberg 2000: 177, Sörensson & Cederberg 2003, Soon 2004: 46, Cederberg 2005: 290, Allearter.dk 2010, Cederberg et al. 2010: 353, Rosa & Soon 2012, Dyntaxa 2013.
Achrysis unicolor: Bischoff 1925: 306.
Distribution. Denmark, Latvia, Sweden.—Transpalearctic: from West Europe to Mongolia (Linsenmaier 1959).
Remarks. The species has been found from Denmark, Latvia and Sweden. It is very rare and has been classified as critically endangered in Sweden (Cederberg et al. 2010). Recently it was recorded in southern Sweden for the first time in 50 years. Balthasar (1954) and Móczár (1967) reported the species from Finland, but these records are most likely erroneous, as Vikberg (1986a) noted. No Finnish specimens have been found from collections.
description: Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433
Female rural–urban migrants and online marketplaces in emerging economies: Evidence from Thailand and Vietnam
Creators: name: Nguyen, Trung Thanh
name: Do, Manh Hung
Publisher: name: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: endogenous
subject: heterogeneity
subject: impact
subject: instrumental variable
subject: poverty
subject: welfare
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::320 | Politik
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft

description: This research aimed to examine the factors affecting the participation of female rural–urban migrants in online marketplaces, and the welfare gains and their distribution. Our analysis was based on a unique dataset of rural households, villages, and rural–urban migrants in Thailand and Vietnam. Online market participation is classified into three activities: financial transactions, trading, and business. We accounted for the endogeneity issue of online market participation in the assessment of welfare impact by using an instrumental variable approach. Our results show that participation has a positive effect on the consumption of female migrants only when they participate in the complete bundle of online market activities. In addition, we find that the poor benefit insignificantly from online marketplaces. This raises a concern about increasing welfare inequality and suggests the poor should be supported so they are not left behind.
Testing homogeneity with the fossil record of galaxies
Creators: name: Heavens, Alan F.
name: Jimenez, Raul
name: Maartens, Roy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The standard Friedmann model of cosmology is based on the Copernican Principle, i.e. the assumption of a homogeneous background on which structure forms via perturbations. Homogeneity underpins both general relativistic and modified gravity models and is central to the way in which we interpret observations of the CMB and the galaxy distribution. It is therefore important to probe homogeneity via observations. We describe a test based on the fossil record of distant galaxies: if we can reconstruct key intrinsic properties of galaxies as functions of proper time along their worldlines, we can compare such properties at the same proper time for our galaxy and others. We achieve this by computing the lookback time using radial Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, and the time along galaxy world line using stellar physics, allowing us to probe homogeneity, in principle anywhere inside the past light cone. Agreement in the results would be an important consistency test -- although it would not in itself prove homogeneity. Any significant deviation in the results however would signal a breakdown of homogeneity.
description: Accepted for publication in JCAP. Matches published version. Minor changes: ref. added and longer discussion on performing the test observationally. Results unchanged
Gestión, difusión en acceso abierto y preservación de datos de investigación (2016)
Creators: name: Bernal, Isabel
Publisher: name: CSIC - Unidad de Recursos de Información Científica para la Investigación (URICI)
Year: 2016
Subjects: Research data management
Open data
Open data mandates
Data journals
Open data standards
Open data tools
Data management plans
Open data licenses
Gestión de datos de investigación
Datos abiertos
Mandatos de datos abiertos
Revistas de datos
Estándares para datos
Herramientas de datos
Planes de gestión de datos
Licencias de datos abiertos

description: Parte de la segunda edición del curso de formación para la comunidad científica y técnica CSIC impartido en la sede de URICI, Madrid, del 17 al 19 de octubre de 2016 bajo el título de "Gestión, difusión en acceso abierto y preservación de datos de investigación".
description: La segunda parte del curso es: Román-Molina, Juan, Software para el tratamiento, visualización y reutilización de datos, https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/138091.
description: El curso ofrece una panorámica de buenas prácticas, iniciativas, estándares y herramientas para gestionar, difundir en acceso abierto y preservar datos de investigación. Incluye además información sobre servicios de DIGITAL.CSIC para la comunidad institucional.
Modelling Sensitivity of Surface Energy Balance and Melt on an Alpine Glacier: Its Past and Future Under a Changing Climate
Creators: name: Ebrahimi, Samaneh
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: Physical Geography

description: Glacier surface melt is governed by the atmosphere-glacier surface interactions. This study, uses full energy balance (EB) model to investigate the physical mechanisms governing melt energy, in the past and future. First, a new parameterization for estimating the atmospheric emissivity was derived as a function of near surface vapour pressure, relative humidity and sky clearness index. Testing this model’s transferability to a different site showed that it can be easily transferred to other glaciers with similar skill. This is a step forward in expanding the application of a full EB model on glacierized regions. Secondly, this thesis used a point-scale first-order profile model to present new data on Haig Glacier’s EB. Climate sensitivity analysis was run using in situ observations. The perturbation approach was adapted to construct the longterm past EB climate relationship evolution using 36 years of North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) data. Testing the temperature, specific humidity, wind speed, incoming shortwave radiation, and glacier surface albedo perturbation runs showed the Haig’s summer melt energy has the strongest sensitivity to interannual variations in incoming shortwave radiation, albedo, and temperature, respectively. To test more realistic perturbations, meteorological forcing from NARR was used to reconstruct the long-term EB from perturbing the NARR anomalies. Results indicated a ~10% increase in summer melting over the historical period, with increases in most of the energy fluxes on Haig Glacier. In the third and last part of this dissertation, the EB analysis was extended to future scenarios using the CM3 climate model of the U.S. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). Daily meteorological variables from both historical runs and future projections were used to estimate Haig’s EB under four radiative forcing pathways: RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP6.0 and RCP8.6. The interannual, decadal and century-scale variations in the glacier energy budget were assessed. Future projections suggest that net radiation and temperature remain the key controls of melt energy, and all EB terms are expected to increase this century. The model suggests that this will lead to a 75-156% increase in melt rates on the glacier by the end of the century – should Haig Glacier survive this long.
Stochastic methods for temporal augmentation and quality improvement of time series datasets
Creators: name: Tsoukalas, Ioannis
name: Makropoulos, Christos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This document provides a detailed description of the methodologies developed within EIFFEL project aiming to address aspects related with the temporal augmentation and quality improvement of time series datasets (see WP4 and T4.1). More specifically, the proposed approaches consist of a toolkit designed to cope with three, common in time series modelling, challenges/problems, that is: 1) the generation of statistically consistent stochastic realizations, 2) infilling of time series missing values, and 3) Lower-scale extrapolation (i.e., downscaling) of timeseries statistics. Further to the above, the report demonstrates the application of the methods via representative datasets of a variety of variables, which are also of high interest for the project’s pilots (e.g., precipitation, temperature, streamflow, air quality related quantities, etc.).
A IMPORTÂNCIA DA EXCELÊNCIA NO ATENDIMENTO AO CLIENTE
Creators: name: Fernanda Chen
name: Igor Bezerra
name: Gabriela Gomes
name: Victor Juliu
name: Carlos Santanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: fidelidade, melhoria, reputação

description: A importância da excelência no atendimento ao cliente é um aspecto crítico para o sucesso de qualquer empresa. Na era moderna dos negócios, em que a concorrência é intensa e as opções dos consumidores são vastas, proporcionar um atendimento excepcional é uma vantagem competitiva significativa. Primeiramente, um atendimento ao cliente de alta qualidade constrói uma sólida reputação para a empresa. Clientes satisfeitos tendem a compartilhar suas experiências positivas com amigos, familiares e nas redes sociais. Isso cria uma publicidade boca a boca valiosa, que pode atrair novos clientes. Além disso, uma boa reputação fortalece a fidelidade do cliente, fazendo com que eles voltem para mais negócios no futuro. A excelência no atendimento também desempenha um papel crucial na retenção de clientes. Clientes que se sentem valorizados e bem cuidados são mais propensos a continuar comprando na instituição. Além disso, um atendimento de alta qualidade pode ser um diferencial competitivo em um mercado saturado. Quando os produtos ou serviços de várias empresas são semelhantes, a qualidade do atendimento pode ser o fator decisivo para os consumidores. A eficiência nesse atendimento também pode economizar tempo e recursos da empresa. Um atendimento eficaz pode resolver problemas dos clientes de forma rápida, o que reduz o número de reclamações e solicitações de suporte. Isso permite que a equipe da empresa se concentre em tarefas mais estratégicas. Por fim, a excelência no atendimento ao cliente ajuda a identificar áreas de melhoria nos produtos ou serviços da empresa. O feedback é uma fonte valiosa de informações para o aprimoramento contínuo. Empresas que valorizam o feedback dos consumidores têm uma vantagem competitiva ao adaptar-se às necessidades em constante mudança do mercado. Em resumo, a importância da excelência no atendimento ao cliente é multifacetada. Ela não apenas cria uma reputação positiva e aumenta a fidelidade do cliente, mas também contribui para a eficiência operacional e fornece insights valiosos para o crescimento da empresa. Em um mundo empresarial cada vez mais competitivo, investir em um atendimento de alta qualidade é essencial para o sucesso a longo prazo.
La intervención del psicólogo clínico en un Servicio de Interconsulta ante un caso de limitación de esfuerzos terapéuticos.
Creators: name: Royo, A
name: Beneria, A.
name: Navarro, J.A.
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 7 (2018): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
La trascendencia de un falso positivo. A propósito de un caso.
Creators: name: Miquel Cebolla, Salome
name: Salas Martínez, Anna
name: Batlle Batlle, Francesca
name: Duran-Sindreu Terol, Santiago
name: Ribalta Corona, Elisa
name: Pérez De Los Cobos, José
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 7 (2018): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
Violencia de preja hacia las mujeres (VPM) en afectas de trastorno mental grave.
Creators: name: Tasa-Vinyals, Elisabet
name: Gultresa-Moscardo, Carla
name: Roura-Poch, Pere
name: Santos-López, Josep Manel
name: Foguet-Boreu, Quintí
name: Álvarez-Alonso, María José
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 7 (2018): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
An Araki-Lieb-Thirring inequality for geometrically concave and geometrically convex functions
Creators: name: Audenaert, Koenraad M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A60

description: For positive definite matrices $A$ and $B$, the Araki-Lieb-Thirring inequality amounts to an eigenvalue log-submajorisation relation for fractional powers $$λ(A^t B^t) \prec_{w(\log)} λ^t(AB), \quad 0
description: 11 pages; v2: Necessity proof corrected, condition added that dom(f) should contain 0
Pholcus zhangae Zhang & Zhu 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zhang, Feng
name: Zhu, Ming-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Pholcus
Pholcus zhangae

description: Pholcus zhangae sp. nov. (Fig. 63) Types. Male holotype, 4♀ paratypes, CHINA: Sichuan Province, Wenchuan County [31°24’N, 103°36’E], Wolong Natural Reserve, July 19, 2003, leg. J. X. Zhang (MHBU). Diagnosis. Among its close Pholcus relatives (see the remark of P. clavatus), this species is very similar to P. kangding sp. nov. in the shape of the palpal bulb, both with a branched appendix (Figs. 20H and 63I). It can be distinguished from P. kangding sp. nov. by the shape of the procursus (Figs. 63G–I), by the larger teatshaped epigynal apophysis (Fig. 63A), and by the cephalic region with brown slender central marks (Fig. 63C). Etymology. The specific name is a patronym in honor of the collector Junxia Zhang. Description. Male (holotype): total body length 4.7: cephalothorax 1.4 long, 1.5 wide; abdomen 3.3 long, 1.5 wide. Leg I: 38.6 (9.3+0.9+9.6+16.2+2.5), tibia II: 6.9, tibia III: 4.9, tibia IV: 7.2; tibia I L/D: 60. Prosoma shape as in Fig. 63C. Carapace short, broad and almost circular, ochre, with brown butterfly-shaped marks broadly connecting to ocular area. Cephalic region raised, with brown longitudinal mark centrally, ocular area dark yellow. Clypeus 0.50, dark ochre, without marks. Distance AME–AME 0.06. Diameter AME 0.07, ALE 0.15, PME 0.13, PLE 0.14. Chelicerae as in Figs. 63D–E, with pair of black apophyses distally, pair of unsclerotized thumb-shaped apophyses proximolaterally and pair of unsclerotized rounded apophyses proximocentrally. Labium light yellow. Endites gray. Sternum almost slightly yellow, with irregular brown patches as in Fig. 63G. Femora, patellae and tibiae ochre, with dark rings, metatarsi and tarsi light brown. Abdomen cylindrical, pale ochre, dorsum with many small brown patterns as in Fig. 63C. Venter pale brown. Palps as in Figs. 63I–J, bulb with a large uncus, appendix with a hook-shaped tip. Procursus as in Fig. 63H. Palpal tarsal organ capsulate. Female: in general very similar to male. Total length of bodies 4.1–5.0. A specimen measured (Wolong Natural Reserve), total length 4.7: cephalothorax 1.4 long, 1.4 wide; abdomen 3.3 long, 1.4 wide. Tibia I: 7.8. Distance AME–AME 0.05. Diameter AME 0.07, ALE 0.14, PME 0.13, PLE 0.13. Epigynum roughly triangular as in Fig. 63A, with a large funnel-shaped apophysis on the top. Dorsal view as in Fig. 63B, with a rainbow-shaped sclerotized arch anteriorly and a pair of oval pore plates. Distribution. Known from type locality only.
description: Published as part of Zhang, Feng & Zhu, Ming-Sheng, 2009, A review of the genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China, pp. 1-114 in Zootaxa 2037 (1) on page 108, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2235.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5317608
The Effects of Diet, Body Composition and Exercise on The Serum Metabolome in Health and Disease
Creators: name: Palmnäs, Marie
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nutrition
subject: Metabolomics
subject: Obesity
subject: Exercise
subject: Cancer
subject: Metabolic disease

description: The serum metabolite profile reflects a great variety of factors including age, gender, diet, exercise, gut microbial metabolism and the presence of disease. Importantly, changes in the serum metabolome may appear prior to the clinical manifestation of disease, provide insight into underlying biological mechanisms and be predictive of disease progression and/or amelioration. Using an animal model and human participants, the serum metabolome of obesity was studied in relations to diet and physical activity. In brief, obese rats consuming coffee had a favorable body composition, lower liver triglycerides and decreased serum concentrations of branched-chain amino acids, which are thought to cause diabetes when present at higher concentrations, compared to controls. In contrast, aspartame consuming rats showed impairments in glucoregulation. Our findings suggested that this might have been a result of aspartame causing an increase in the proportion of gut bacteria that produce propionate, a metabolite known to stimulate hepatic gluconeogenesis. In human subjects, obesity and metabolic syndrome risk factors were associated with lower concentrations of the sphingolipid precursors serine and glycine. Higher activity energy expenditure and physical activity levels showed the opposite association. Physical activity may thus improve on insulin sensitivity by reducing de novo synthesis of sphingolipids and their subsequent accumulation in insulin-sensitive tissues. Exercise also associated with improvements in body weight, lean mass, physical performance and symptom severity, following cancer treatment in head and neck cancer patients. However, none of these factors correlated with their 2-year survival. Instead, the baseline serum metabolite profile differentiated between survivors and nonsurvivors, despite matching for patient characteristics. Thus, serum metabolites show potential as prognostic biomarkers for head and neck cancer patients. Lastly, we found that combining three metabolomics approaches resulted in the most comprehensive coverage of metabolite classes and the most complete description of the phenotype, for women with ovarian cancer. This Chapter also highlighted the need to address the influence of common risk factors on the serum metabolome. Taken together, the work presented in this thesis has provided further insight into the serum metabolite profile of metabolic disease and cancer in the context of diet and physical activity.
Chieftaincy Conflicts in Ghana: A Case Study of Ga Mashie Chieftaincy Conflict under the Fourth Republic
Creators: name: Boakye, Paul Acheampong
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Education--Social Sciences
subject: Social Structure and Development
subject: Chieftaincy
subject: Conflict
subject: Ghana

description: This thesis explores the factors that account for the Ga Mashie chieftaincy conflict and government’s inability to solve it. This research finds that the imposition of colonial and post-colonial political structures with no roots in pre-colonial political offices has led to conflicting interpretations of who the rightful successor to the Ga Mashie throne is. This has generated disagreements about the customs and traditions of the Ga people with particular reference to succession; and contested versions of ancestral and hereditary rights to political office. In addition, the difficulty in resolving the Ga Mashie conflict stems from the active involvement of successive governments and other political entities for parochial political interest. These results are illustrated through interviews with key personnel with knowledge on chieftaincy in Ghana, and extensive review of the relevant academic literature. This research adds to the limited literature on Ga Mashie chieftaincy conflict and chieftaincy conflicts in southern Ghana.
Detección y atención a la violencia de pareja en el Hospital de Día Madre-Bebé Clínic-BCN
Creators: name: Fernández, Noemí
name: Torres, Anna
name: Roca, Alba
name: Solé, Eva
name: Sureda, Bárbara
name: Roda, Ester
name: Naranjo, Carmen
name: Lambraña, María
name: Vieta, Eduard
name: Garcia-Esteve, Lluïsa
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 7 (2018): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
Characteristics of an Icing-Dammed Proglacial Lake
Creators: name: Blade, Michelle
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Physical Geography
subject: icing
subject: dam
subject: lake
subject: proglacial
subject: spring
subject: Arctic
subject: emerging
subject: polythermal

description: Icing-dammed proglacial lakes form as a result of water-flow pathway restrictions caused by freezing of winter baseflow. With the majority of glaciers in the eastern Canadian High Arctic that previously terminated at sea level now terminating on land (Vaughan et al., 2013), emerging proglacial environments are becoming more common - resulting in the occurrence of novel terrestrial proglacial water flow regimes. This research addressed the knowledge gap of how a glacier, proglacial environment, and hydrological cycle contribute to delayed water-flow, in the form of a proglacial icing-dammed lake, in the terrestrial proglacial environment. The research was conducted at a unique location on Bylot Island, NU, in the eastern Canadian High Arctic, where icing-dammed proglacial lakes have been observed to form multiple years prior. In the proglacial environment, icing development has been studied as proxies to infer winter baseflow from upvalley glacial hydrological networks (Hodgkins et al., 2004; Wainstein, 2011). In addition, icing ablation has been studied as it reallocates a portion of winter streamflow to summer streamflow via icing melt (Reedyk et al., 1995). But icing-dammed lake formation in the proglacial environment remains relatively unexplored due to the uniqueness of their formation. Direct observations, time-lapse photography, lake water level and temperature monitoring, lake bathymetric mapping, and meteorological, electrical conductivity, turbidity, and dye tracing measurements were used to examine the characteristics of an icing-dammed proglacial lake to infer the processes involved for its formation and preservation into the July 2014 summer melt season. Results suggest that the icing-dammed proglacial lake formation is dependent on: the previous year’s icing state at the end of the melt season; the current icing forming a seal with the surrounding topography to restrict water flow and raise local base water level; and the current year’s melt season flow regime not exceptionally exceeding the current icing’s melt thereby allowing water to pool and form a lake.
A Rationale for Long-lived Quarks and Leptons at the LHC: Low Energy Flavour Theory
Creators: name: Eboli, O. J. P.
name: Savoy, C. A.
name: Funchal, R. Zukanovich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the framework of gauged flavour symmetries, new fermions in parity symmetric representations of the standard model are generically needed for the compensation of mixed anomalies. The key point is that their masses are also protected by flavour symmetries and some of them are expected to lie way below the flavour symmetry breaking scale(s), which has to occur many orders of magnitude above the electroweak scale to be compatible with the available data from flavour changing neutral currents and CP violation experiments. We argue that, actually, some of these fermions would plausibly get masses within the LHC range. If they are taken to be heavy quarks and leptons, in (bi)-fundamental representations of the standard model symmetries, their mixings with the light ones are strongly constrained to be very small by electroweak precision data. The alternative chosen here is to exactly forbid such mixings by breaking of flavour symmetries into an exact discrete symmetry, the so-called proton-hexality, primarily suggested to avoid proton decay. As a consequence of the large value needed for the flavour breaking scale, those heavy particles are long-lived and rather appropriate for the current and future searches at the LHC for quasi-stable hadrons and leptons. In fact, the LHC experiments have already started to look for them.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure
Supplementary document for Quantitative multiphoton imaging of cell metabolism, stromal fibers, and keratinization enables label-free discrimination of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma - 6458927.pdf
Creators: name: Xiang, Feng
name: Yu, Jia
name: Jiang, Danling
name: Hu, Weiwang
name: Zhang, Rongli
name: Huang, Chenming
name: Wu, Ting
name: Gao, Yufeng
name: Zheng, Aiping
name: Liu, Tzu-Ming
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Fig. S1, Fig. S2, Table S1
Hyperspherical theory of anisotropic exciton
Creators: name: Muljarov, E. A.
name: Yablonskii, A. L.
name: Tikhodeev, S. G.
name: Bulatov, A. E.
name: Birman, Joseph L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new approach to the theory of anisotropic exciton based on Fock transformation, i.e., on a stereographic projection of the momentum to the unit 4-dimensional (4D) sphere, is developed. Hyperspherical functions are used as a basis of the perturbation theory. The binding energies, wave functions and oscillator strengths of elongated as well as flattened excitons are obtained numerically. It is shown that with an increase of the anisotropy degree the oscillator strengths are markedly redistributed between optically active and formerly inactive states, making the latter optically active. An approximate analytical solution of the anisotropic exciton problem taking into account the angular momentum conserving terms is obtained. This solution gives the binding energies of moderately anisotropic exciton with a good accuracy and provides a useful qualitative description of the energy level evolution.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures
Resources for thesis: Detection of the Crab Nebula with the first TAIGA IACT
Creators: name: Blank Michael
Publisher: name: Universität Hamburg
Year: 2023

description: Contains a copy of the software / scripts written or used for the thesis "Detection of the Crab Nebula with the first TAIGA IACT". Additionally, some higher level data is stored to conserve the ability to produce some of the plots.
Características del perfil psiquiátrico del paciente con trastorno por rumiación.
Creators: name: Rodríguez-Urrutia, A.
name: Sibuet-Ruiz, I.
name: Barba, E.
name: Accarino, A.
name: Malagelada, C.
name: Azpiroz, F.
name: Eiroa-Orosa, F.J.
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 7 (2018): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
Photocatalytic H2O2 Generation Using Au-Ag Bimetallic Alloy Nanoparticles loaded on ZnO
Creators: name: Pang, Xinzhu
name: Skillen, Nathan
name: Bahnemann, Detlef W.
name: Rooney, David W.
name: Robertson, Peter K. J.
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Au-Ag/ZnO
subject: Au/ZnO
subject: hydrogen peroxide
subject: oxygen reduction
subject: photocatalysis
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is an important chemical as it is an environmentally friendly oxidant for organic synthesis and environmental remediation as well as a promising candidate for the liquid fuel. Photocatalytic generation of H2O2 is sustainable, and many efforts have been put into the development of new catalysts to gain high H2O2 yields. In this investigation, Au/ZnO, Ag/ZnO and Au-Ag/ZnO catalysts were prepared by the simultaneous impregnation of HAuCl4 and AgNO3 and they were used to generate H2O2 from a methanol/O2 system. It was demonstrated that Au/ZnO had the best performance at generating H2O2. The presence of Au on ZnO accelerated the generation of H2O2 on ZnO and facilitated H2O2 adsorption onto the catalyst surface, which resulted in the reaction kinetics changing from zero-order to first-order. Ag atoms on Ag/ZnO were unstable and would strip from the surface of ZnO during irradiation, decreasing the yield of H2O2. The stabilization of Ag on Au-Ag/ZnO depended on the ratio of Au and Ag. Au0.1Ag0.2/ZnO was a stable catalyst and it showed that the presence of Ag promoted the formation and decomposition of peroxide, simultaneously.
Additional file 1: of Genome-wide analysis of three histone marks and gene expression in Paulownia fortunei with phytoplasma infection
Creators: name: Yan, Lijun
name: Fan, Guoqiang
name: Li, Xiaoyu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S1. Summary statistics of ChIP-Seq for H3K4me3, H3K36me3 and H3K9ac in Paulownia (DOCX 14 kb)
Cyborg Bodies, Human Minds: Robert Venditti's The Surrogates, Yukito Kishiro's Battle Angel Alita and the Great Myth of Posthumanism
Creators: name: Massey, Samantha
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Literature--American
subject: Literature--Asian
subject: Graphic Novels
subject: Posthumanism
subject: Cyborgs
subject: Transhumanism

description: The topic of humans altered and improved through advanced cyborg technology—technology that amalgamates animal and machine—has long been of interest in science fiction, gaining popularity in most Western countries and Japan. This paper examines two graphic novel series, Robert Venditti’s The Surrogates and Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita, in relation to cyborg humans and the theoretical concept of posthumanism, defined as a state that transcends the limitations of human existence with the help of cutting-edge technologies. The posthuman theory of Donna Haraway suggests that the cyborg has the potential to change humanity for the better, to challenge essentialist dichotomies and harmful identity politics. However, theorists like Katherine Hayles warn about the dangers inherent in technologies that allow humanity to “master” the body—and mortality—completely. This paper critically examines both perspectives and, ultimately, the viability of a utopic posthuman state.
Cosmological Constraints from a Combination of Galaxy Clustering and Lensing -- I. Theoretical Framework
Creators: name: Bosch, Frank van den
name: More, Surhud
name: Cacciato, Marcello
name: Mo, Houjun
name: Yang, Xiaohu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new method that simultaneously solves for cosmology and galaxy bias on non-linear scales. The method uses the halo model to analytically describe the (non-linear) matter distribution, and the conditional luminosity function (CLF) to specify the halo occupation statistics. For a given choice of cosmological parameters, this model can be used to predict the galaxy luminosity function, as well as the two-point correlation functions of galaxies, and the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal, both as function of scale and luminosity. In this paper, the first in a series, we present the detailed, analytical model, which we test against mock galaxy redshift surveys constructed from high-resolution numerical $N$-body simulations. We demonstrate that our model, which includes scale-dependence of the halo bias and a proper treatment of halo exclusion, reproduces the 3-dimensional galaxy-galaxy correlation and the galaxy-matter cross-correlation (which can be projected to predict the observables) with an accuracy better than 10 (in most cases 5) percent. Ignoring either of these effects, as is often done, results in systematic errors that easily exceed 40 percent on scales of $\sim 1 h^{-1}\Mpc$, where the data is typically most accurate. Finally, since the projected correlation functions of galaxies are never obtained by integrating the redshift space correlation function along the line-of-sight out to infinity, simply because the data only cover a finite volume, they are still affected by residual redshift space distortions (RRSDs). Ignoring these, as done in numerous studies in the past, results in systematic errors that easily exceed 20 perent on large scales ($r_\rmp \gta 10 h^{-1}\Mpc$). We show that it is fairly straightforward to correct for these RRSDs, to an accuracy better than $\sim 2$ percent, using a mildly modified version of the linear Kaiser formalism.
Stereochemical and Biosynthetic Rationalisation of the Tropolone Sesquiterpenoids
Creators: name: Li, Lei
name: Cox, Russell J.
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: biosynthesis
subject: meroterpenoid
subject: sesquiterpenoid
subject: stereochemical revision
subject: tropolone
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::570 | Biowissenschaften, Biologie

description: This review summarises the known structures, biological activities, and biosynthetic pathways of the tropolone sesquiterpenoid family of fungal secondary metabolites. Synthesis of this knowledge allows likely structural and stereochemical misassignments to be revised and shows how the compounds can be divided into three main biosynthetic classes based on the stereochemistry of key biosynthetic steps.
¿Sufrir para nada? Sobre un caso de ansiedad por la enfermedad hipocondría (AFH).
Creators: name: Henríquez, L
name: Farré, J.M.
name: Palazón, A.
name: Mallorquí, N.
Publisher: name: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría
Year: 2021

description: Psicosomàtica y Psiquiatría, Núm. 7 (2018): octubre-noviembre-diciembre
Planes de Gestión de Datos en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales
Creators: name: Bernal, Isabel
name: Oficina Técnica De Digital.CSIC
Publisher: name: CSIC - Unidad de Recursos de Información Científica para la Investigación (URICI)
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Planes de gestión de datos
subject: Humanidades
subject: Ciencias Sociales
subject: Data Management Plans
subject: Humanities
subject: FOS: Humanities
subject: Social Sciences
subject: Horizonte2020
subject: Horizon2020
subject: Manadato CSIC
subject: CSIC Open Access Mandate

description: Seminario para la comunidad de investigadores de los institutos del Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC, Madrid, 20 junio, 2019. El seminario fue organizado en colaboración con la Biblioteca TNT y la Unidad de Gestión de Proyectos del CCHS.
Gene Electrotransfer into Mammalian Cells Using Commercial Cell Culture Inserts with Porous Substrate
Creators: name: Vindiš, Tina
name: Blažič, Anja
name: Khayyat, Diaa
name: Potočnik, Tjaša
name: Sachdev, Shaurya
name: Rems, Lea
Publisher: name: Basel : MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: C2C12 cell line
subject: cell culture insert
subject: Chinese hamster ovary cells
subject: gene electrotransfer
subject: H9C2 cell line
subject: localized electroporation
subject: myoblasts
subject: numerical modeling
subject: plasmid
subject: transfection
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::610 | Medizin, Gesundheit

description: Gene electrotransfer is one of the main non-viral methods for intracellular delivery of plasmid DNA, wherein pulsed electric fields are used to transiently permeabilize the cell membrane, allowing enhanced transmembrane transport. By localizing the electric field over small portions of the cell membrane using nanostructured substrates, it is possible to increase considerably the gene electrotransfer efficiency while preserving cell viability. In this study, we expand the frontier of localized electroporation by designing an electrotransfer approach based on commercially available cell culture inserts with polyethylene-terephthalate (PET) porous substrate. We first use multiscale numerical modeling to determine the pulse parameters, substrate pore size, and other factors that are expected to result in successful gene electrotransfer. Based on the numerical results, we design a simple device combining an insert with substrate containing pores with 0.4 µm or 1.0 µm diameter, a multiwell plate, and a pair of wire electrodes. We test the device in three mammalian cell lines and obtain transfection efficiencies similar to those achieved with conventional bulk electroporation, but at better cell viability and with low-voltage pulses that do not require the use of expensive electroporators. Our combined theoretical and experimental analysis calls for further systematic studies that will investigate the influence of substrate pore size and porosity on gene electrotransfer efficiency and cell viability.