cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
DEVELOPMENT OF LABORATORY AND FIELD PERFORMANCE TESTS FOR CHIP SEAL
Creators: name: Umutoniwase, Angelique
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2022

description: Chip seal, also known as bituminous surface treatment (BST) or seal coat, is frequently used as a preventive or reactive maintenance technique for roads. Chip seal often consists of a layer of asphalt binder or emulsion sprayed on the existing pavement followed by a one-stone thick layer of aggregate, followed by compaction, and sweeping. Raveling and bleeding are the two of major distresses that affect the performance of chip seal. Studies have shown that these distresses are related to the embedment depth. Embedment depth is the depth that rock is lodged into a binder and is a key parameter that significantly affects the performance of the chip seal. Currently, embedment depth is evaluated by pulling out the rock from the binder (often by a plier) and visually estimating the percentage of embedment. However, this method is subjective and does not provide accurate and reliable results. In this study, a methodology is developed to estimate the embedment depth or percent embedment of chips based on the unembedded height measured from sand patching or laser texture scanner. In addition, novel methods were developed to quantify the raveling and bleeding performance of chip seal, based on Cantabro test and Hamburg Wheel Tracking tests, respectively. These two methods were then used to evaluate factors that could affect the performance of chip seal, such as emulsion application rate, chip application rate, choke application rate, chip/choke moisture condition, aggregate gradation, emulsion type, etc. The mean profile depth (MPD) and percent embedment in the field are measured with the laser scanner and are used to correlate with the chip seal performance, in terms of raveling and bleeding. The shoulder MPD value of chip seal after sweeping and fog seal should be at a minimum of 0.15" to prevent raveling or bleeding from happening. When the MPD in wheel path drops below 0.05", either raveling or bleeding has occurred. Moreover, long-term performance of chip seal was retrieved from Washington pavement management system (WSPMS). It was found that chip seal greatly reduced the cracking and slowed down the cracking growth when compared to hot mix asphalt overlay. However, no improvement of rutting or international roughness index (IRI) by the chip seal was found.
Additional file 2 of The association between cumulative exposure to PM2.5 and DNA methylation measured using methyl-capture sequencing among COPD patients
Creators: name: Ji, Hyun Woo
name: Kang, Jieun
name: Kim, Hwan-Cheol
name: Jung, Junghee
name: Lee, Seon-Jin
name: Jung, Ji Ye
name: Lee, Sei Won
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
(103768) Sally Martin
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Applying Lacanian Psychoanalysis in the Provision of Career Counselling in the Context of Workplace Bullying
Creators: name: Phillips, Patrick
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Developmental and Educational Psychology

description: The purpose of this article is to explore the provision of career counselling in the context of workplace bullying via a Lacanian lens. An in-depth analysis was conducted with a single participant working within the pharmaceutical industry who was a victim of workplace bullying for a circa two-year period by a line manager. Through the application of Lacanian theory, I attempted to understand how the participant made sense of her experience of workplace bullying. By assisting the participant in contemplating herself as separate from her identity construction, I hoped she would gain a sense of psychological separation from the traumatic experience of bullying. Finally, I attempted to create this awareness through the facilitation of Lacan’s concept of “full speech” so as to create the conditions whereby the participant arrived at this sense of identity separation through ownership of the narrative.
SUN'IY INTELLEKTNING MUAMMOLARI VA IJTIMOIY TA'SIRI
Creators: name: Abdiraimova, Zulxumor
name: Saydazimov, Suyunbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Maqolada o‘tgan yillardagi sun’iy intellektga oid yangiliklar va yaratilgan yangi avlod chatbotlar haqida gaplashamiz. Boshqa maqolalardan farqli o‘laroq bu yerda sun’iy intellektlarning hozirgi holati, ijtimoiy hayotimizda ular qanday qo‘llanayotgani haqida so‘z boradi.
(103765) Hilda Jones
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Theoretical study of terahertz generation from atoms and aligned molecules driven by two-color laser fields
Creators: name: Chen, Wenbo
name: Huang, Yindong
name: Meng, Chao
name: Liu, Jinlei
name: Zhou, Zhaoyan
name: Zhang, Dongwen
name: Yuan, Jianmin
name: Zhao, Zengxiu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the generation of terahertz radiation from atoms and molecules driven by an ultrashort fundamental laser and its second harmonic field by solving time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE). The comparisons between one-, two-, and three- dimensional TDSE numerical simulations show that initial ionized wave-packet and its subsequent acceleration in the laser field and rescattering with long-range Coulomb potential play key roles. We also present the dependence of the optimum phase delay and yield of terahertz radiation on the laser intensity, wavelength, duration, and the ratio of two-color laser components. Terahertz wave generation from model hydrogen molecules are further investigated by comparing with high harmonic emission. It is found that the terahertz yield is following the alignment dependence of ionization rate, while the optimal two-color phase delays varies by a small amount when the alignment angle changes from 0 to 90 degrees, which reflects alignment dependence of attosecond electron dynamics. Finally we show that terahertz emission might be used to clarify the origin of interference in high harmonic generation from aligned molecules by coincidently measuring the angle-resolved THz yields.
(103766) Stuart Kennet Symond
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Additional file 1 of Strengthening facility-based integrated emergency care services for time sensitive emergencies at all levels of healthcare in India: An implementation research study protocol
Creators: name: Sinha, Tej Prakash
name: Bhoi, Sanjeev
name: Sharma, Dolly
name: Chauhan, Sushmita
name: Magan, Radhika
name: Sahu, Ankit Kumar
name: Bhargava, Stuti
name: Nayar, Patanjali Dev
name: Kannan, Venkatnarayan
name: Lodha, Rakesh
name: Kacchawa, Garima
name: Arora, Narendra Kumar
name: Jini, Moji
name: Sinha, Pramod Kumar
name: Verma, Satyajeet
name: Goyal, Pawan
name: Viswanathan, K. V.
name: Padu, Kemba
name: Boro, Pallavi
name: Kumar, Yogesh
name: Gupta, Pratibha
name: Damodaran, Srikanth
name: Jubair, Nasar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Homological codes and abelian anyons
Creators: name: Vrana, Péter
name: Farkas, Máté
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a generalization of Kitaev's abelian toric code model defined on CW complexes. In this model qudits are attached to $n$ dimensional cells and the interaction is given by generalized star and plaquette operators. These are defined in terms of coboundary and boundary maps in the locally finite cellular cochain complex and the cellular chain complex. We find that the set of frustration free ground states and the types of charges carried by certain localized excitations depend only on the proper homotopy type of the CW complex. As an application we show that the homological product of a CSS code with the infinite toric code has excitations with abelian anyonic statistics.
description: 50 pages, 11 figures; v2: Minor corrections. Lots of them
Supplemental Information from Realizing ‘integral control’ in living cells: how to overcome leaky integration due to dilution?
Creators: name: Yili Qian
name: Vecchio, Domitilla Del
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60113 Synthetic Biology

description: Supplemental information that contains additional technical details and simulation data.
(103769) Sally James
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Expression of SOX2 and NANOG During Differentiation Between Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs) and Lung Progenitor Cells (LPCs)
Creators: name: Guang Ken Lin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) offer much potential in the field of medical science with its ability to differentiate into almost any type of cells in the human body. With this unique characteristic, hESCs hold enormous promise in treating injuries and diseases such as Parkinson's, cystic fibrosis, spinal cord injuries, etc. However, the underlying mechanisms that govern the hESCs to differentiate from hESCs to LPCs still remain unclear. To address these challenges, the transcription factors (TFs), predominately NANOG and SOX2 gene, that enables stem cells to be in its pluripotent state will be fluorescently tagged to track their gene expression as hESCs differentiate to LPCs. I will test the hypothesis that the hESCs will experience an initial loss of NANOG expression followed by SOX2, since that is commonly witnessed during differentiation along the endodermal lineage. The results from this project concluded that NANOG did indeed decrease in gene expression initially followed by SOX2, after both of the TFs were successfully tagged with a fluorescent protein. As such, this can be a useful tool for researchers to understand how hESCs differentiate into LPCs that can later be transition into clinical settings to serve as stem cell therapies.
Supporting Materials - Tables S1 and S2 from Aquaporin–graphene interface: relevance to point-of-care device for renal cell carcinoma and desalination.
Creators: name: Jakowiecki, Jakub
name: Sztyler, Agnieszka
name: Slawomir Filipek
name: Pingzuo Li
name: Raman, Karthik
name: Natarajan Barathiraja
name: Seeram Ramakrishna
name: Jairam R. Eswara
name: Altaee, Ali
name: Sharif, Adel O.
name: Pulickel M. Ajayan
name: Venkatesan Renugopalakrishnan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: The aquaporin superfamily of hydrophobic integral membrane proteins constitutes water channels essential to the movement of water across the cell membrane, maintaining homeostatic equilibrium. During the passage of water between the extracellular and intracellular sides of the cell, aquaporins act as ultra-sensitive filters. Owing to their hydrophobic nature, aquaporins self-assemble in phospholipids. If a proper choice of lipids is made then the aquaporin biomimetic membrane can be used in the design of an artificial kidney. In combination with graphene, the aquaporin biomimetic membrane finds practical application in desalination and water recycling using mostly Escherichia coli AqpZ. Recently, human aquaporin 1 has emerged as an important biomarker in renal cell carcinoma. At present, the ultra-sensitive sensing of renal cell carcinoma is cumbersome. Hence, we discuss the use of epitopes from monoclonal antibodies as a probe for a point-of-care device for sensing renal cell carcinoma. This device works by immobilizing the antibody on the surface of a single-layer graphene, that is, as a microfluidic device for sensing renal cell carcinoma.
(103764) Arthyr Probyn Jones
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Supplementary text, figures and Additional material from Diversity-dependent evolutionary rates in early Palaeozoic zooplankton.
Creators: name: Foote, Michael
name: Cooper, Roger A.
name: Crampton, James S.
name: Sadler, Peter M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The extent to which biological diversity affects rates of diversification is central to understanding macroevolutionary dynamics, yet no consensus has emerged on the importance of diversity-dependence of evolutionary rates. Here, we analyse the species-level fossil record of early Palaeozoic graptoloids, documented with high temporal resolution, to test directly whether rates of diversification were influenced by levels of standing diversity within this major clade of marine zooplankton. To circumvent the statistical regression-to-the-mean artefact, whereby higher- and lower-than-average values of diversity tend to be followed by negative and positive diversification rates, we construct a non-parametric, empirically scaled, diversity-independent null model by randomizing the observed diversification rates with respect to time. Comparing observed correlations between diversity and diversification rate to those expected from this diversity-independent model, we find evidence for negative diversity-dependence, accounting for up to 12% of the variance in diversification rate, with maximal correlation at a temporal lag of approximately 1 Myr. Diversity-dependence persists throughout the Ordovician and Silurian, despite a major increase in the strength and frequency of extinction and speciation pulses in the Silurian. By contrast to some previous work, we find that diversity-dependence affects rates of speciation and extinction nearly equally on average, although subtle differences emerge when we compare the Ordovician and Silurian.
Additional file 3 of Genomic approach to determine sources of neonatal Staphylococcus aureus infection from carriage in the Gambia
Creators: name: Bojang, Abdoulie
name: Chung, Matthew
name: Camara, Bully
name: Jagne, Isatou
name: Guérillot, Romain
name: Ndure, Ebrahim
name: Howden, Benjamin P
name: Roca, Anna
name: Ghedin, Elodie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 3
Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass in $pp$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ and 8 TeV with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments
Creators: name: ATLAS
name: Collaborations, CMS
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A measurement of the Higgs boson mass is presented based on the combined data samples of the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the CERN LHC in the $H \rightarrow γγ$ and $H \rightarrow ZZ\rightarrow 4\ell$ decay channels. The results are obtained from a simultaneous fit to the reconstructed invariant mass peaks in the two channels and for the two experiments. The measured masses from the individual channels and the two experiments are found to be consistent among themselves. The combined measured mass of the Higgs boson is $m_{H} = 125.09\pm0.21\,\mathrm{(stat.)}\pm0.11\,\mathrm{(syst.)}~\mathrm{GeV}$.
description: Submitted to Physical Review Letters. Figures and auxiliary material are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HIGG-2014-14 and https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMSPublic/Hig14042PaperTwiki
Running workflows on the cloud with WDL and Cromwell
Creators: name: Van Der Auwera, Geraldine A
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: genomics
bioinformatics
workflows
reproducible
portable
scalable
computational biology

description: This slide-based presentation provides a brief introduction to the topic of bioinformatics workflows with a particular emphasis on execution in the cloud. It additionally introduces the Workflow Definition Language (WDL) and Cromwell execution engine, outlining the basic syntax and key features of this highly portable open-source workflow system, which can be deployed as a standalone or used as a service as part of the Terra.bio data sharing and analysis platform. Finally, the presentation references three published scientific use cases that exemplify how WDL, Cromwell and Terra can be used to power scalable and reproducible research in the biomedical community. This presentation was put together for a webinar hosted by Bioinformática UFMG as part of a bioinformatics seminar series for Brazilian PhD programs. A recording of the webinar is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AMJ-LlWRtE&t=774s
description: A correction was made to slide 15: Cromwell's call caching feature is not specific to its 'server' mode, though its use is most often associated with server mode.
Identifying biomarkers for the most common form of liver cancer
Creators: name: LaPlant, Nicholas
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: In this project, human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tumor tissue samples and corresponding adjacent non-tumor tissue samples were analyzed for the presence of two proteins. These two proteins were chosen for investigation since they showed the greatest potential for being accurate biomarkers for HCC based on (1) computer-aided analysis of a publicly available protein database and (2) based on additional evidence from a previous publication implicating these proteins in biochemical pathways that are disrupted in HCC.
A Conversation with Lady Hale about Feminism, Law and Citizenship
Creators: name: Hunter, Rosemary
name: Rackley, Erika
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2023

description: This is the video and transcript of a conversation between Erika Rackley and Rosemary Hunter and Lady Hale, which formed one of the plenary sessions at the conference on ‘Feminism, Law and Citizenship’ held in Paris in July 2022. The conference was organised by Rosemary Auchmuty and Alexandrine Guyard-Nedelec.
description: feminists@law, Vol 11 No 2 (2022)
A possible role for stochastic radiation events in the systematic disparity between molecular and fossil dates
Creators: name: Melott, Adrian L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Major discrepancies have been noted for some time between fossil ages and molecular divergence dates for a variety of taxa. Recently, systematic trends within avian clades have been uncovered. The trends show that the disparity is much larger for mitochondrial DNA than for nuclear DNA, also that it is larger for crown fossil dates than stem fossil dates. It has been argued that this pattern is largely inconsistent with incompleteness of the fossil record as the principal driver of the disparity. A case is presented that given the expected mutations from a fluctuating background of astrophysical radiation from such sources as supernovae, the rate of molecular clocks is variable and should increase back to a few Ma, before returning to the long-term average rate. This is a possible explanation for the disparity. One test of this hypothesis is to look for an acceleration of molecular clocks 2 to 2.5 Ma due to one or more moderately nearby supernovae known to have happened at that time. Another is to look for reduced disparity in benthic organisms of the deep ocean. In addition, due to the importance of highly penetrating muon irradiation, the disparity should be magnified for megafauna.
description: Published in Astrobiology. 30 day Link to online version http://bit.ly/2k6U8Dv VALID UNTIL Feb 20, 2017
Marginalisations and Redefinitions of Kinship in Contemporary Cuba
Creators: name: Härkönen, Heidi
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2023

description: This article examines the marginalisations and redefinitions taking place in kinship relations and the resources that persons in a precarious social position draw on to cope with exclusions in the context of large-scale social, legal, political, and economic change. In situations of global and local transformation, people may become marginalised in their social relations for various reasons, but in the margins, they can also find resources to alleviate or redefine such experiences. Such processes are complexly shaped by intersectional differences and inequalities of gender, sexuality, race, and age. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in Cuba, a country that is currently undergoing extensive structural changes, this article focuses on the marginalisations of kinship through the ethnographic story of an elderly woman and her kin encountering unexpected exclusions in their relationships. As Cuba transforms from a socialist, egalitarian society into a new social order increasingly guided by the privileges of money, social relations are redefined in terms of shifts in understandings of marginality. In the margins, we find new arrangements of both discrimination and support, but the political potential of such processes is ambiguous and culturally and historically contingent.
description: feminists@law, Vol 11 No 2 (2022)
Additional file 5 of Genomic approach to determine sources of neonatal Staphylococcus aureus infection from carriage in the Gambia
Creators: name: Bojang, Abdoulie
name: Chung, Matthew
name: Camara, Bully
name: Jagne, Isatou
name: Guérillot, Romain
name: Ndure, Ebrahim
name: Howden, Benjamin P
name: Roca, Anna
name: Ghedin, Elodie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 5
supplementary information methods - results from Male spiders control offspring sex ratio through greater production of female-determining sperm.
Creators: name: Vanthournout, Bram
name: Busck, Mette Marie
name: Bechsgaard, Jesper
name: Hendrickx, Frederik
name: Schramm, Andreas
name: Bilde, Trine
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Sex allocation theory predicts that when sons and daughters have different reproductive values, parents should adjust offspring sex ratio towards the sex with the higher fitness return. Haplo-diploid species directly control offspring sex ratio, but species with chromosomal sex determination (CSD) were presumed to be constrained by Mendelian segregation. There is now increasing evidence that CSD species can adjust sex ratio strategically, but the underlying mechanism is not well understood. One hypothesis states that adaptive control is more likely to evolve in the heterogametic sex through a bias in gamete production. We investigated this hypothesis in males as the heterogametic sex in two social spider species that consistently show adaptive female-biased sex ratio and in one subsocial species that is characterized by equal sex ratio. We quantified the production of male (0) and female (X) determining sperm cells using flow cytometry, and show that males of social species produce significantly more X-carrying sperm than 0-sperm, on average 70%. This is consistent with the production of more daughters. Males of the subsocial species produced a significantly lower bias of 54% X-carrying sperm. We also investigated whether inter-genomic conflict between hosts and their endosymbionts may explain female bias. Next generation sequencing showed that five common genera of bacterial endosymbionts known to affect sex ratio are largely absent, ruling out that endosymbiont bacteria bias sex ratio in social spiders. Our study provides evidence for paternal control over sex allocation through biased gamete production as a mechanism by which the heterogametic sex in CSD species adaptively adjust offspring sex ratio.
Expanding Understanding of Emergent Literacy: Empirical Support for a New Framework.
Creators: name: Erickson, Karen
name: Hatton, Deborah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Emergent literacy in young children with visual impairments is examined using a conceptual framework proposed by Se´ne´chal, LeFevre, Smith-Chant, and Colton (2001). The utility of this framework for young children with visual impairments is illustrated using data from a field study of preschool classes for children with visual impairments.
“Thank God, I have a Separate Dwelling”: Restructuring Kinship through Grandmaternal Sidelining in the Heterosexual Families of Russian Natural-Parenting Mothers
Creators: name: Avdeeva, Anna
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2023

description: The way mothers parent, and if and why they choose to do something, is significantly regulated by diverse discursive formations and social institutions, such as the state, medicine, law, rooted attitudes, and societal norms. What lies behind these regulations is the idea of a specific relatedness between mother and child – kinship. In this article, I analyse how natural parenting influences kinship and relatedness in the families of Russian mothers who practise it. Based on my original study, and inspired by Marilyn Strathern’s ideas, I show how natural parenting challenges the conventional Russian form of mothering, which is characterised as extended and socially integrated, and results in a certain nuclearisation of the families of self-identifying ‘natural mothers’. The nuclearisation implies the re-definition of the role of elder kinsfolk as secondary to the child, and pushes them to the margins of the Russian natural mothers’ children’s kinship systems. It is brought about by mothers who distance their own parents and who seek, in this way, to disrupt the flow of what they see as ‘old’ and ‘out-dated’, even harmful knowledge on childcare. However, this requires various significant resources from the mothers performing natural parenting.
description: feminists@law, Vol 11 No 2 (2022)
Additional file 4 of Genomic approach to determine sources of neonatal Staphylococcus aureus infection from carriage in the Gambia
Creators: name: Bojang, Abdoulie
name: Chung, Matthew
name: Camara, Bully
name: Jagne, Isatou
name: Guérillot, Romain
name: Ndure, Ebrahim
name: Howden, Benjamin P
name: Roca, Anna
name: Ghedin, Elodie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 4
(Re)Defining Legal Parenthood and Kinship: The Limits of Legal Change in the Finnish Child Custody Act of 2019
Creators: name: Moring, Anna
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2023

description: This article examines how Finland took a role as an international predecessor in separating the parent’s right of access from custody, biology and legal parenthood. It addresses the (re)defining of the legal reference fields of kinship, family and parenthood in the process of rewriting the Act on Child Custody and Right of Access in Finland. Through an examination of the discourses of the legislative process, it shows how the Finnish legislation has moved from an emphasis on biological origins towards a more flexible and individualised conception of kinship. The analysis focuses on how the Child Custody Act works to recognise various marginalised positions, while leaving others unattended. Through a close examination of the changes to the Act, the article highlights the simultaneous processes of de-marginalisation of certain structures of kinship, and the marginalisation of others. The article concludes by predicting the direction of future developments in legislation concerning kinship, family and parenthood, based on prevalent trends of legal development, and the limits of what can presently be recognised by the law, and why.
description: feminists@law, Vol 11 No 2 (2022)
Babushkas between Lesbian-Headed Families and the Russian State: Making an Intelligible Model of Extended Mothering
Creators: name: Zhabenko, Alisa
Publisher: name: feminists@law
Year: 2023

description: This article focuses on a significant kinship character, babushka, the grandmother, in Russian lesbian-headed families. Based on an original empirical multi-method study, the research analyses the building of relationships with grandmothers in lesbian families in contemporary Russia. As the core element of Russian kinship – marriage – is missing from this kinship scene, blood relations between the biological mother, the maternal grandmother, and the child seem to become a central, although a highly complex element, in building supportive relationships in lesbian-headed families. Grandmothers from the non-biological mother’s side remain less visible in everyday negotiations and decision-making than biological grandmothers. The argument here states that blood relatedness becomes meaningful in situations where the grandmother’s role in lesbian-headed families is recognised and challenged in the officially anti-lesbian state context. Extended support mutually provided by grandmothers and their lesbian daughters creates an intelligible model of female-maintained family in current Russia, even when the legal landscape (i.e., the enforcement of the ‘anti-gay’ legislation in 2013) is not in the favour of such families. Consequently, babushkas become a “shield” between the state and the lesbian families as they provide a socially and culturally legit “traditional family” surface, required for survival in the state which promotes women’s reproduction as a core value in the society.
description: feminists@law, Vol 11 No 2 (2022)
Twistor Geometry of Null Foliations in Complex Euclidean Space
Creators: name: Taghavi-Chabert, Arman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give a detailed account of the geometric correspondence between a smooth complex projective quadric hypersurface $\mathcal{Q}^n$ of dimension $n \geq 3$, and its twistor space $\mathbb{PT}$, defined to be the space of all linear subspaces of maximal dimension of $\mathcal{Q}^n$. Viewing complex Euclidean space $\mathbb{CE}^n$ as a dense open subset of $\mathcal{Q}^n$, we show how local foliations tangent to certain integrable holomorphic totally null distributions of maximal rank on $\mathbb{CE}^n$ can be constructed in terms of complex submanifolds of $\mathbb{PT}$. The construction is illustrated by means of two examples, one involving conformal Killing spinors, the other, conformal Killing-Yano $2$-forms. We focus on the odd-dimensional case, and we treat the even-dimensional case only tangentially for comparison.
(103762) James Holland
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(103763) Williams Roderick
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A new era of sub-millimeter GRB afterglow follow-ups with the Greenland Telescope
Creators: name: Urata, Yuji
name: Huang, Kuiyun
name: Asada, Keiichi
name: Hirashita, Hiroyuki
name: Inoue, Makoto
name: Ho, Paul T. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A planned rapid submillimeter (submm) Gamma Ray Burst (GRBs) follow-up observations conducted using the Greenland Telescope (GLT) is presented. The GLT is a 12-m submm telescope to be located at the top of the Greenland ice sheet, where the high-altitude and dry weather porvides excellent conditions for observations at submm wavelengths. With its combination of wavelength window and rapid responding system, the GLT will explore new insights on GRBs. Summarizing the current achievements of submm GRB follow-ups, we identify the following three scientific goals regarding GRBs: (1) systematic detection of bright submm emissions originating from reverse shock (RS) in the early afterglow phase, (2) characterization of forward shock and RS emissions by capturing their peak flux and frequencies and performing continuous monitoring, and (3) detections of GRBs as a result of the explosion of first-generation stars result of GRBs at a high redshift through systematic rapid follow ups. The light curves and spectra calculated by available theoretical models clearly show that the GLT could play a crucial role in these studies.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures (emulateapj), accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy GRB special issue
Supplementary text, figures and Additional material from Diversity-dependent evolutionary rates in Early Paleozoic zooplankton
Creators: name: Foote, Michael
name: Cooper, Roger A.
name: Crampton, James S.
name: Sadler, Peter M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: The extent to which biological diversity affects rates of diversification is central to understanding macroevolutionary dynamics, yet no consensus has emerged on the importance of diversity-dependence of evolutionary rates. Here, we analyse the species-level fossil record of Early Paleozoic graptoloids, documented with high temporal resolution, to test directly whether rates of diversification were influenced by levels of standing diversity within this major clade of marine zooplankton. To circumvent the statistical regression-to-the-mean artefact, whereby higher- and lower-than-average values of diversity tend to be followed by negative and positive diversification rates, we construct a non-parametric, empirically scaled, diversity-independent null model by randomizing the observed diversification rates with respect to time. Comparing observed correlations between diversity and diversification rate to those expected from this diversity-independent model, we find evidence for negative diversity-dependence, accounting for up to 12% of the variance in diversification rate, with maximal correlation at a temporal lag of approximately 1 Myr. Diversity-dependence persists throughout the Ordovician and Silurian, despite a major increase in the strength and frequency of extinction and speciation pulses in the Silurian. By contrast to some previous work, we find that diversity-dependence affects rates of speciation and extinction nearly equally on average, although subtle differences emerge when we compare the Ordovician and Silurian.
Additional file 1 of Genomic approach to determine sources of neonatal Staphylococcus aureus infection from carriage in the Gambia
Creators: name: Bojang, Abdoulie
name: Chung, Matthew
name: Camara, Bully
name: Jagne, Isatou
name: Guérillot, Romain
name: Ndure, Ebrahim
name: Howden, Benjamin P
name: Roca, Anna
name: Ghedin, Elodie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Fuel vehicle improvement using high voltage gain in DC-DC boost converter
Creators: name: T, Jarin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Electrical circuits and systems

description: Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) are becoming increasingly popular among manufacturers as carbon dioxide emissions and fuel economy rules have become more stringent. Fuel-cell vehicles often have lower output voltages than those required by the DC bus; therefore, the output voltage decreases rapidly as the output current increases. In this critical circumstance, it is essential to have a DC-DC converter for FCEVs with a high switching frequency and voltage gain. Furthermore, DC-DC booster converters are used in FCEV systems to achieve a high voltage gain. Over a 40 V input range, MATLAB tests the modified converter for gains of approximately five times the input voltage gain. Furthermore, when the fuel cell was operational, a converter efficiency of approximately 90% was measured.
Challenges and Opportunities in Operating a plant-associated bacteria collection
Creators: name: Portier, Perrine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biological ressource center, management, challenges

description: Biological Resource Centre holding plant-pathogenic resources are strategic for plant health. By preserving the pathogens diversity, they are invaluable tools to understand the dissemination of pathogens over time and their epidemiology. They also can help understand the emergences. However, the management of such resource centres is not without challenges. These challenges can be very different in their nature, being organizational, legal, scientific or financial. From the example of CIRM-CFBP, the French Collection for Plant-associated Bacteria, https://cirm-cfbp.fr, we’ll explore different types of challenges and the solutions we found to overcome them. Interestingly, the challenges to obtain the ISO9001 certification and the update of the collection to make compliant to regulations were very effective to improve the reputation and visibility of the collection. Along with scientific challenges, i.e. the production of DNA barcode for all the 7000 resources available at CIRM-CFBP, this permitted to significantly improve the value of the resources. And in the end, the mode added-value we can bring to the scientific community, the easiest it is to prove the collections’ usefulness and to secure funding. Finally, the challenges got transformed into new competences and expertise for the collection, reshaping our activities and permitting us to provide a better service to the scientific community.
(103759) Robert Jones
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Additional file 2 of Genomic approach to determine sources of neonatal Staphylococcus aureus infection from carriage in the Gambia
Creators: name: Bojang, Abdoulie
name: Chung, Matthew
name: Camara, Bully
name: Jagne, Isatou
name: Guérillot, Romain
name: Ndure, Ebrahim
name: Howden, Benjamin P
name: Roca, Anna
name: Ghedin, Elodie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Supplementary Material 2
Temperature shifts model diagnostic plots from Climate warming changes synchrony of plants and pollinators
Creators: name: Freimuth, Jonas
name: Bossdorf, Oliver
name: Scheepens, J. F.
name: Willems, Franziska M.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Diagnostic plots for the model estimating species' shifts with temperature.
Supporting Materials - Tables S1 and S2 from Aquaporin graphene interface: relevance to point-of-care device for renal cell carcinoma and desalination
Creators: name: Jakowiecki, Jakub
name: Sztyler, Agnieszka
name: Slawomir Filipek
name: Pingzuo Li
name: Raman, Karthik
name: Natarajan Barathiraja
name: Seeram Ramakrishna
name: Jairam R. Eswara
name: Altaee, Ali
name: Sharif, Adel O.
name: Pulickel M. Ajayan
name: Venkatesan Renugopalakrishnan
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Aquaporins superfamily of hydrophobic integral membrane proteins constitutes water channels essential to the movement of water across the cell membrane maintaining homeostatic equilibrium. During the passage of water between the extracellular and intracellular sides of the cell, aquaporins act as ultra-sensitive filters. Owing to their hydrophobic nature, aquaporins self-assemble in phospholipids and if a proper choice of lipids is made then the aquaporin biomimetic membrane can be used in the design of artificial kidney. In combination with graphene, aquaporin biomimetic membrane finds practical application in desalination and water recycling using mostly Escherichia coli AqpZ. Recently, human aquaporin 1 has emerged as an important biomarker in renal cell carcinoma. At present, the ultra-sensitive sensing of renal cell carcinoma is cumbersome and hence we are discussing usage of epitopes from monoclonal antibody as a probe for point-of-care device for sensing renal cell carcinoma by immobilizing the antibody on the surface of a single-layer graphene as a microfluidic device for sensing renal cell carcinoma which is pursued in our laboratories.