cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Organic chemistry and mineral interactions in the solar system
Creators: name: Goodyear, Michael David
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: The objective of this project was to develop methods to detect meteoritic organic compounds in situ, and to detelmine whether any associations exist between specific classes of compound and co-located minerals, thus indicating a possible common origin. Carbonaceous chondrites, (which comprise a small proportion of meteorites), contain a few per cent of organic material, heterogeneously distributed within their structure, the major part being macromolecular ("insoluble organic material", lOM). Model compounds were covalently bonded to "molecular tags", atoms or groups not normally present in meteorites, enabling easier detection against background signals when using analytical methods suitable for use in situ, such as Raman spectroscopy or SEM. Also, extra functionality was introduced to model compounds by ozone treatment, allowing a greater density of tags to be attached. Following development work with terrestrial models, meteorite samples were exposed to ozone, but oxalic acid was formed instead of the expected oxygenated IOM derivative. To determine if this result was due to an effect of the minerals present, whole rock samples and demineralised IOM were analysed, both before and after exposure to ozone. Isolated IOM behaved differently from that still in situ. Fresh samples ofIOM were isolated (using two literature methods), and their reactions and properties compared. The evidence obtained indicated that the structure of IOM had been modified on isolation, and that the modifications caused by the two methods were different. This shows that any data generated from isolated IOM does not necessarily directly relate to organic material still present within a meteorite. Using the data obtained in this study, and that previously reported, two-component models for the structure of lOM, and scenarios for its formation, were discussed.
Quantum Chaos in Topologically Massive Gravity
Creators: name: Liu, Yan
name: Raju, Avinash
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quantum chaos of rotating BTZ black holes in Topologically Massive gravity (TMG). We discuss the relationship between chaos parameters including Lyapunov exponents and butterfly velocities from shock wave calculations of out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) and from pole-skipping analysis. We find a partial match between pole-skipping and the OTOC results in the high temperature regime. We also find that the velocity bound puts a chaos constraint on the gravitational Chern-Simons coupling.
description: 33 pages, 1 figure; v2: section 4.1 corrected, version to appear in JHEP
Extragalactic Integral Field Spectroscopy on the Gemini Telescopes
Creators: name: Bunker, Andrew
name: Smith, Joanna
name: Parry, Ian
name: Sharp, Rob
name: Dean, Andrew
name: Gilmore, Gerry
name: Bower, Richard
name: Swinbank, Mark
name: Davies, Roger
name: Metcalf, R. Ben
name: de Grijs, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have been undertaking a programme on the Gemini 8-m telescopes to demonstrate the power of integral field spectroscopy, using the optical GMOS spectrograph, and the new CIRPASS instrument in the near-infrared. Here we present some preliminary results from 3D spectroscopy of extra-galactic objects, mapping the emission lines in a 3CR radio galaxy and in a gravitationally lensed arc, exploring dark matter sub-structure through observations of an Einstein Cross gravitational lens, and the star formation time-scales of young massive clusters in the starburst galaxy NGC 1140.
description: From proceedings of Euro3D Spectroscopy annual RTN network meeting (ed. J. Walsh). 4 pages, accepted for publication in Astron. Nachr
The future of the Italian iron and steel industry
Creators: name: SINIGAGLIA, O.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italy, iron and steel industry, international competition, ERP
subject: L61, L70

description: The article argues in favour of an iron and steel industry operating in Italy at international competitive rates, and shows the basic difficulties, both technical and economic, confronting this industry in the post-war period. The author suggests a rational solution of these problems within the framework of the reconstruction plan envisaged by E.R.P. JEL: L61, L70
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 4 (1948)
How galaxies populate haloes in very low-density environments? An analysis of the Halo Occupation Distribution in cosmic voids
Creators: name: Alfaro, Ignacio. G.
name: Rodriguez, Facundo
name: Ruiz, Andrés N.
name: Lambas, Diego Garcia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evidence shows properties of dark matter haloes may vary with large-scale environment. By studying the halo occupation distribution in cosmic voids it is possible to obtain useful information that can shed light on the subject. The history of the formation of the haloes and galaxies residing in these regions is likely to differ from the global behaviour given their extreme environment. We use two public access simulated galaxy catalogues constructed with different methods: a semi-analytical model and a hydrodynamic simulation. In both, we identify cosmic voids and we measure the halo occupation distribution inside these regions for different absolute magnitude thresholds. We compare these determinations with the overall results and we study the dependence of different characteristics of the voids. Also, we analyze the stellar content and the formation time of the haloes inside voids and confront the general halo population results. Inside the voids, we find a significantly different halo occupation distribution with respect to the general results. This is present in all absolute magnitude ranges explored. We obtain no signs of variation related to void characteristics indicating that the effects depend only on the density of the large-scale environment. Additionally, we find that the stellar mass content also differs within voids, which host haloes with less massive central galaxies (10%) as well as satellites with significantly lower stellar mass content (30%). Finally, we find a slight difference between the formation times of the haloes which are younger in voids than the average population. These characteristics indicate that haloes populating voids have had a different formation history, inducing significant changes on the halo occupation distribution.
description: 11 pages and 12 figures. Submitted to A&A. Comments are welcome
Drift causes anomalous exponents in growth processes
Creators: name: Pruessner, Gunnar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of a drift term in the presence of fixed boundaries is studied for the one-dimensional Edwards-Wilkinson equation, to reveal a general mechanism that causes a change of exponents for a very broad class of growth processes. This mechanism represents a relevant perturbation and therefore is important for the interpretation of experimental and numerical results. In effect, the mechanism leads to the roughness exponent assuming the same value as the growth exponent. In the case of the Edwards-Wilkinson equation this implies exponents deviating from those expected by dimensional analysis.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure, REVTeX; accepted for publication in PRL; added note and references
Additional file 2 of Discussing parenthood with gay men diagnosed with HIV: a qualitative study of patient and healthcare practitioner perspectives
Creators: name: Pralat, Robert
name: Anderson, Jane
name: Burns, Fiona
name: Yarrow, Elizabeth
name: Barber, Tristan J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 2.
Six months of Italian economic policy
Creators: name: FEDERICI, L.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Einaudi, anti-inflationary policy, Italy, price level, inflation, lira
subject: E31, E65

description: The anti-inflationary policy introduced by Einaudi at a time of acute monetary crisis in Italy had results in the autumn of 1947 that were scarcely hoped for: the arrest of the rising price level and the beginning of a reverse movement. This experiment which has attracted much attention, also in other countries, is studied in the present article. The form taken by the Einaudi policy, its objectives and its repercussions, are here discussed in the setting of the particular, distorted conditions that inflation had produced on the Italian economy. Criticisms levelled at this policy by the interest affected are refuted by the author, who regards the directions thus given to Italian economic policy as the only rational and possible one for anyone wishing to undertake the difficult task of saving the lira, in the given circumstances. JEL: E31, E65
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 4 (1948)
Fopius rufotestaceus, n.sp.
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Fopius
Fopius rufotestaceus

description: Fopius rufotestaceus (GRANGER 1949)
 Biosteres rufotestaceus n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 394 (key), 395 (fig. (410 (not 10)), 396 (descr. ♀, Madagascar).
 Opius (Biosteres) rufotestaceus (GRANGER 1949): FISCHER 1963c: 723 (key), 737 (tax., descr. ♀, Madagascar), 738 (fig. 62).
 Biosteres rufotestaceus GRANGER 1949: FISCHER 1971c: 30 (tax., cat.).
 Biosteres rufotestaceus GRANGER 1949: PAPP 1985: 213 (cat.).
 Biosteres (Chilotrichia) rufotestaceus GRANGER 1949: FISCHER 1987: 577 (key), 629 (tax., descr. ♂ ♀, fig. 523, Madagascar).
 Fopius rufotestaceus (GRANGER 1949): WHARTON 1997: 18 (tax.), 33 (tax.).
 Fopius rufotestaceus (GRANGER 1949): WHARTON 1999: 49 (Madagascar), 50 (tab. 1: tax.), 54. April
 Biosteres rufotestaceus GRANGER 1949: FISCHER 1999: 314 (key).
 Fopius rufotestaceus (GRANGER 1949): FISCHER & MADL 2008: 1471 (cat.), 1489 (tab. 1: distr.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Antananarivo: Tsinjoarivo – Prov. Toamasina: Andasibe (Perinet), Andekaleka (Rogez).
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 158, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Determinants of small-scale mango farmers' market channel choices in Kenya: An application of the two-step Cragg's estimation procedure
Creators: name: Muthini, Davis Nguthi
name: Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo
name: Otieno, David Jakinda
name: Muthini, Davis Nguthi
name: Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo
name: Otieno, David Jakinda
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Small-scale farmers
subject: Mango market channels
subject: Kenya

description: Davis, Nguthi Muthini, Adhiambo Nyikal Rose, and Jakinda Otieno David. 2017. “Determinants of Small-Scale Mango Farmers Market Channel Choices in Kenya: An Application of the Two-Step Craggs Estimation Procedure.” Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics 9 (5): 111–20. doi:10.5897/JDAE2016.0773.
Note about the " Survey of current inflationary and deflationary tendencies" prepared by the United Nations department of economic affairs
Creators: name: PIETRANERA, G.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: United Nations, report, Italy, inflation, unemployment
subject: E24, E31, F53

description: The article critically examines a recent publication of the United Nations’ Department of Economic Affairs. The author considers some of the statistical material concerning inflation in Italy and discusses the unusual coincidence of this inflation with widespread unemployment, which the Survey regards as a particular and exceptional case. JEL: E24, E31, F53
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 4 (1948)
Opius WESMAEL 1835
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Opius

description: Genus Opius WESMAEL 1835 (including Utetes FOERSTER 1862 sensu FISCHER)
Description: WESMAEL 1835:
 Typus generis: Opius pallipes WESMAEL 1835.
Distribution: All zoogeographical regions.
Valid species: 23.
 Concerning generic placement of some Opius species see remark under genus Utetes.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 158, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
title: The bacterial ecology and function from a sub-surface critical zone
Creators: name: Summers, Stephen
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: The rock-soil interface (critical zone) is where a variety of important earth system processes occur, such as the sequestration of CO2 and pedogenesis from rock weathering. This zone is an important sub-surface region of microbial activity in extreme environments because bedrock hydrolyses providing nutrients and cations (Le. Ca2 Mg2., Na) otherwise unavailable to flora and fauna. Yet, the diversity and role of microorganisms in weathering at the critical zone is not well understood. This thesis examines microbial communities in vegetated and unvegetated critical zones near Skorradalur Lake, Iceland. A suite of analyses were carried out to determine the environmental conditions, diversity, function and trophic survival strategy employed by bacteria at the sub-surface critical zone. Molecular analysis of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene indicates that the presence of plants at the soil surface influences the bacterial diversity and composition. Cultivation of microorganisms produced several bacterial isolates; most of which were capable of mineral phosphate solubilisation. However, isolate growth rates and copper tolerance show most isolates inhabit areas of sub-optimal growth potential. Environmental factors such as temperature and pH may influence bacterial divers ity, although the presence of organics may override these other influences. The trophic conditions at sites without higher plants may have a role in bacterial weathering as the availability of organics has resulted in a diverse heterotrophic community capable of utilizing bacterial necromass as a carbon source rather than plant derived carbon. This work has shown for the first time the bacterial diversity of the sub-surface critical zone in this region. Moreover, this bacterial diversity is influenced by plants and the potentially associated organics. Areas devoid of plants harboured a diverse heterotrophic bacterial community that employ weathering as a genera list function. Experiments show that bacteria increase the rate of phosphate weathering, although it may be a generalist function rather than specific to any individual taxon.
Additional file 1 of Physiotherapists’ experiences of osteoarthritis guidelines in primary health care – an interview study
Creators: name: Åkesson, Karin Sturesdotter
name: Sundén, Anne
name: Hansson, Eva Ekvall
name: Stigmar, Kjerstin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 2 of Physiotherapists’ experiences of osteoarthritis guidelines in primary health care – an interview study
Creators: name: Åkesson, Karin Sturesdotter
name: Sundén, Anne
name: Hansson, Eva Ekvall
name: Stigmar, Kjerstin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
The content and use of estimates of the national income
Creators: name: GINI, C.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: National income estimation, abnormal conditions, hypotheses
subject: E01

description: The article argues that national income is a notion that has arisen and has developed in relation to normal situations; it entails hypotheses that no longer hold good under abnormal conditions, hypotheses that, even under normal conditions, only justify comparisons limited in time and still more limited in space. In particular, under normal conditions, the estimates of the national dividend and of net national production, may be considered as practically coinciding, while under abnormal conditions they may vary substantially. In the course of the discussion, the author offers a consistent solution for the more important among the many questions that the estimation of income raises, and on the other hand throws light on the disturbing influence that the imperfection, to some extent inevitable, of these estimates exercise on international comparison and on those instituted between different periods of time, generally exaggerating the territorial and historical differences that really exist. JEL: E01
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 5 (1948)
A critical examination of the Italian tax system
Creators: name: COSCIANI, C.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italian tax system, objective taxation, personal taxation, production, weight, indirect regressive taxes
subject: H20, H21

description: The article gives a brief outline of the Italian tax system now in force and illustrates and discusses its fundamental deficiencies. According to the author, the tax system is based essentially on objective taxes, rather than on personal taxes and therefore not only does it cut into production more markedly, thus helping to raise costs, it does not allow for taking into account marginal cases of tax-payers who, though receiving the same income as others, have a lower tax-paying capacity. A second drawback consists in the insufficient progressive character of the taxes due both to the notable weight of indirect regressive taxes, and to the scanty weight of progressive personal taxation. A third defect consists in an irrational qualitative discrimination of incomes and to defective systems of assessment. JEL: H20, H21
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 5 (1948)
Non-Local Musical Statistics as Guides for Audio-to-Score Piano Transcription
Creators: name: Shibata, Kentaro
name: Nakamura, Eita
name: Yoshii, Kazuyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We present an automatic piano transcription system that converts polyphonic audio recordings into musical scores. This has been a long-standing problem of music information processing, and recent studies have made remarkable progress in the two main component techniques: multipitch detection and rhythm quantization. Given this situation, we study a method integrating deep-neural-network-based multipitch detection and statistical-model-based rhythm quantization. In the first part, we conducted systematic evaluations and found that while the present method achieved high transcription accuracies at the note level, some global characteristics of music, such as tempo scale, metre (time signature), and bar line positions, were often incorrectly estimated. In the second part, we formulated non-local statistics of pitch and rhythmic contents that are derived from musical knowledge and studied their effects in inferring those global characteristics. We found that these statistics are markedly effective for improving the transcription results and that their optimal combination includes statistics obtained from separated hand parts. The integrated method had an overall transcription error rate of 7.1% and a downbeat F-measure of 85.6% on a dataset of popular piano music, and the generated transcriptions can be partially used for music performance and assisting human transcribers, thus demonstrating the potential for practical applications.
description: 16 pages, 7 figures, typos corrected
title: A discourse dynamics investigation of metonymy in talk
Creators: name: Biernacka, Ewa
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: In marked contrast to metonymy research based on invented examples and intuitive judgments, this thesis presents a picture of metonymy in discourse derived from empirical analysis of authentic language. Using the discourse dynamics framework (Cameron 2010b), metonymy is investigated in a 17,889 word focus group discussion about the risk of terrorism. To aid and enrich the analysis of metonymic expressions identified in the focus group data, they are tracked in the Oxford English Corpus (OEC) and the Nexis UK database (Nexis®UK 2008). The research design applied in the thesis enables a multi-faceted appreciation of the phenomenon of metonymy in language.

 Responding to an important methodological issue and a gap in the field, the thesis develops and applies a metonymy identification procedure. and offers the first quantitative results to date for metonymy density in language. Findings illuminate the new metonymy category SPECIFIC DATE FOR EVENT HAPPENING ON THAT DATE, instances of interplay of metonymy and metaphor, and cases of what are termed cultural metonymies. The thesis also argues, however, that a vital part of the picture of metonymy is missed if the investigation does not pursue cases which are beyond the procedure. While many metonymies can be identified in discourse by following the procedure, the major advantage of the discourse dynamic framework is it can uncover varying forms of metonymy. Metonymy is found in speakers' use of pronouns in a process labelled metonymic shifting of pronominal reference (MSPR) and it is involved in metonymic processing of scenarios and metonymic processing of stories stretching over longer fragments of talk. Complexity of metonymic language leads the research to an analytic level which has the potential of revealing more about the core of metonymy and its complex nature.
Pambolus seyrigi, n.sp.
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Pambolus
Pambolus seyrigi

description: Pambolus seyrigi (GRANGER 1949)
 Phaenodus seyrigi n.sp.: GRANGER 1949: 155 (descr. ♀, Madagascar), 156 (fig. 171).
 Pambolus seyrigi (GRANGER 1949): HEDQVIST 1963: 61 (tax., cat.).
 Pambolus seyrigi (GRANGER 1949): SHENEFELT 1975: 1162 (cat.).
 Pambolus (Phaenodus) seyrigi (GRANGER 1949): PAPP 1996: 44 (key), 45 (tax.), 55 (cat.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n Madagascar: Prov. Toamasina: Andasibe (Perinet), Andekaleka (Rogez), Ivondro – Prov. Toliara: Bekily.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 180, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
Spin Dynamics for the Lebwohl-Lasher Model
Creators: name: Allen, Michael P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A spin dynamics algorithm, combining checkerboard updating and a rotation algorithm based on the local second-rank ordering field, is developed for the Lebwohl-Lasher model of liquid crystals. The method is shown to conserve energy well and to generate simulation averages which are consistent with those obtained by Monte Carlo simulation. However, care must be taken to avoid the undesirable effects of director rotation, and a method for doing this is proposed.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, RevTex4
title: The role of UBZ1 in PCNA-dependent DNA damage response
Creators: name: Colombin, Martina
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: Organisms frequently must deal with several sources of damage that can alter the cell's genomic material. DNA damage can be caused by exogenous agents, like radiation and toxins or by endogenous factors, like Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), produced during normal oxygen metabolism. in order to guarantee cell survival and the transmission of the correct genetic information to their offspring, organisms have evolved responses to counteract the effects of DNA damage, which include for example, repair pathways and DNA damage tolerance pathways. In this thesis, I have focused on the poorly characterized DBZ-containing protein, called Ubzl _ Ubzl contains an Ubiquitin Binding Zinc finger (UBZ) domain, which is only found in other proteins involved in DNA repair, such as polymerase 11 and K, Rad18 and WHIP. Moreover, Ubzl has a PCNA Interacting Peptide (PIP), which is important for its interaction with the Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen (PCNA). Besides these two domains, a third domain known as the SprT domain, which is of unknown function, is also been found in Ubzl. Currently no other eukaryotic SprT domain containing protein has been characterized. The Werner Helicase Interacting Protein (WHIP), which also has a UBZ domain, is subjected to a UBZ domain-dependent covalent ubiquitination, known as coupled ubiquitination; thus, at the beginning of my work, I performed Denaturing Tandem Affinity Purifications (DTAP), in order to verify if Ubzl is also subjected to this post-translational modification. I found that Ubzl does undergo coupled ubiquitination, and this occurs at four sites of ubiquitination. Furthermore, I demonstrated that Ubzl interacts with PCNA and that mutating the UBZ domain does not disrupt binding to PCNA. However this mutant does not bind to modified PCNA. Additionally, to verify the role of the third uncharacterized SprT domain of Ubzl , I constructed the SprT domain mutant of Ubzl, and I found that it lost the ability to interact with modified or unmodified PCNA. To further characterize the Ubzl/PCNA interaction, I generated three constructs expressing PCNA either alone or fused to a mono or tetra- ubiquitin moieties. I found that UBZ domain of Ubz I protects the ubiquitin bound to K 164 of PCNA from being de-ubiquitinated by the SprT domain. In fact, I showed that SprT domain acts as a metalloprotease, removing the ubiquitins bound to the PCNA. Moreover, the SpIt domain mediates the Ubz l autocleavage, which strengthens the hypothesis that it might have a metalioprotease activity.
Aspects and problems of the Italian stock market
Creators: name: MANCINI, G.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Italian stock market, foreign investments, regulation, monetary adjustment, taxes, dividends, legislation
subject: G10, F21, F32

description: In the first quarter of 1948 the Italian Government issued measures of notable interest for the stock-market, regulating foreign investments, the revaluation of the capital of companies for monetary adjustment, the alleviation of certain taxes on dividends. These new measures are an important - if not conclusive - link in the work of revising the restrictions and fiscal burdens that had been accumulating in Italy during the period of war economy on investments in share-securities. The present article offers an exhaustive survey of the complicated vicissitudes of this legislation in the last ten years, of the corresponding reaction of the Italian stock-market, and of their interplay and calls attention to the characteristic features of the present situation which, after the exceptional ups and downs of the quotations in 1947, is still in a phase of expectation and uncertainty. JEL: G10, F21, F32
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 5 (1948)
Theory of "charge" measured by the shot noise experiments in the fractional quantum Hall states
Creators: name: Yoshioka, Daijiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Shot noise at filling factor $ν=2/5$ is investigated theoretically. It is argued that the "charge" $e^*$ measured by the noise at zero temperature is not the quasiparticle charge but simply the filling factor times the electron charge $e$, namely $e^*=2e/5$. At higher temperature quasiparticles with charge $e^*=\pm e/5$ begin to contribute to the backscattering, and the shot noise gives charge $e^*=e/5$. This theory explains recent experiment by Chung et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{91} (2003) 216804.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
title: Learning French pronunciation outside the classroom: a sound pedagogical experience?
Creators: name: Bosmans, Daniel
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: New technologies have revolutionised the way people learn. In language learning, using a web-conferencing system is a relatively new development, and acquiring pronunciation skills in a virtual environment even more so. The central question of this exploratory study is whether learning pronunciation outside the classroom is a pedagogically sound experience. The focus is on learners: their emotions, with a particular emphasis on Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA), and the strategies they use to learn pronunciation on their own and with others in a new on line environment. Macdonald et al. (1994) contended that second language (L2) pronunciation needed more research and over the years, more studies have explored the effectiveness of pronunciation teaching (see Munro and Derwing, 2011; for a review of L2 pronunciation teaching). The present study also looks at L2 pronunciation but investigates the learning of it in a non-conventional setting. The mixed-method research approach in this study, grounded in a post-positivist paradigm, involved two quantitative instruments: a questionnaire and a recorded reading activity of a text; and two qualitative instruments: think-aloud verbal protocols (TAPs) and semistructured interviews. Participants who were involved in every stage of the study were then the object of case studies as these 'can penetrate situations in ways that are not always susceptible to numerical analysis' (Cohen et al., 2003, pI81). The four different sources of data provided multiple perspectives on students' emotions and strategies when working on pronunciation in a vutual learning environment (VLE) or on their own, and these perspectives deepen our understanding of how distance learners can acquire good pronunciation skills outside the classroom.
Additional file 1 of New insights into the evolution of SPX gene family from algae to legumes; a focus on soybean
Creators: name: Nezamivand-Chegini, Mahnaz
name: Ebrahimie, Esmaeil
name: Tahmasebi, Ahmad
name: Moghadam, Ali
name: Eshghi, Saeid
name: Mohammadi-Dehchesmeh, Manijeh
name: Kopriva, Stanislav
name: Niazi, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1.
title: Philanthropy and secularisation : the funding of Anglican religious voluntary organisations in London 1856-1914
Creators: name: Flew, Sarah Emma Jayne
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: This thesis is an examination of five Anglican home-missionary organisations which operated in the Diocese of London in the latter half of the nineteenth century. These five organisations were all entirely dependant upon the financial support of the Anglican laity to provide their revenue. The main thrust of the thesis is an analysis of the finances of these home-missionary organisations. The initial four questions that this thesis examines are: how did the organisations raise money; who did they solicit support from; to what extent were the societies successful in soliciting financial support to carry out their aims; and did the funding revenue streams remain stable through the period? This is with the main purpose of evaluating the Anglican community's support of these organisations during the period of study, in terms of who gave financial support and how this changed. Drawing on the wealth of material contained in the annual reports of the organisations chosen for this study, this thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of the subscriptions and donations and in doing so identifies an important shift in the gender-base of the laity's support at the end of the period. In seeking to explain the loss of the male funder in the late nineteenth century, the thesis engages with the key wider themes of philanthropy and secularisation. The assumption of this thesis is that modern religious bodies have to function as economic agents, that they need steady sources of income, and have to have mechanisms to raise sufficient funds on an annual basis. It argues that the decline in financial support from the Anglican laity within the period was not a result of failing fundraising techniques of the organisations themselves. Instead, it was a symptom of a wider malaise. The thesis explores the ethos of giving in the latter half of the nineteenth century and argues that an important factor in the decline of giving was the waning of the teaching of the doctrine of Christian stewardship after its mid-century renaissance. It argues that the new generation of Christians born in the latter half of the nineteenth century did not have the same ethos of giving that their parents had held. In doing so, it concludes that this shift was a significant change in the 'consequential dimension' of religion, which is how people behave as a consequence of their faith.
Additional file 2 of New insights into the evolution of SPX gene family from algae to legumes; a focus on soybean
Creators: name: Nezamivand-Chegini, Mahnaz
name: Ebrahimie, Esmaeil
name: Tahmasebi, Ahmad
name: Moghadam, Ali
name: Eshghi, Saeid
name: Mohammadi-Dehchesmeh, Manijeh
name: Kopriva, Stanislav
name: Niazi, Ali
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2.
Mo Thio and Oxo-Thio Molecular Complexes Film as Self-Healing Catalyst for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution on 2D Materials
Creators: name: Barbosa, Juliana Barros
name: Taberna, Pierre Louis
name: Bourdon, Valerie
name: Gerber, Iann C.
name: Poteau, Romuald
name: Balocchi, Andrea
name: Marie, Xavier
name: Esvan, Jerome
name: Puech, Pascal
name: Barnabé, Antoine
name: Vieira, Lucianna Da Gama Fernandes
name: Moraru, Ionut-Tudor
name: Chane-Ching, Jean Yves
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 2D semiconducting nanosheets of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides are attractive materials for solar energy conversion because of their unique absorption properties. Here, we propose Mo thio- and oxo-thio-complexes anchored on 2D p-WSe2 nanosheets for efficient water splitting under visible light irradiation with photocurrent density up to 2.0 mA cm-2 at -0.2 V/NHE. Besides developing high electro-catalytic activity, the Mo complexe films were shown to display ability to heal surface defects. We propose that the observed healing of surface defects arises from the strong adsorption on point defects of the 2D WSe2 substrate of Mo complexes such as (MoS4)2-, (MoOS3)2-, (Mo2S6O2)2- as shown from DFT calculations. In addition to display catalytic and healing effects, the thio-, oxo-thio Mo complexes films were shown to enhance charge carrier separation and migration for the hydrogen evolution reaction, thus representing an example of multicomponent passivation layer exhibiting multiple properties.
The participation of foreign capital in Italian joint-stock companies at the outbreak of the second world war
Creators: name: RIENZI, E.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Foreign investment, Italy, statistical enquiry
subject: G10, F21

description: The article, on the strength of the results of a recent statistical enquiry, summarises the more significant data relating to the amount and distribution by countries of foreign investments in the several branches of Italian economy. JEL: G10, F21
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 5 (1948)
Conditional Production of Superpositions of Coherent States with Inefficient Photon Detection
Creators: name: Lund, A. P.
name: Jeong, H.
name: Ralph, T. C.
name: Kim, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that a linear superposition of two macroscopically distinguishable optical coherent states can be generated using a single photon source and simple all-optical operations. Weak squeezing on a single photon, beam mixing with an auxiliary coherent state, and photon detecting with imperfect threshold detectors are enough to generate a coherent state superposition in a free propagating optical field with a large coherent amplitude ($α>2$) and high fidelity ($F>0.99$). In contrast to all previous schemes to generate such a state, our scheme does not need photon number resolving measurements nor Kerr-type nonlinear interactions. Furthermore, it is robust to detection inefficiency and exhibits some resilience to photon production inefficiency.
description: Some important new results added, to appear in Phys.Rev.A (Rapid Communication)
Topological phases in the Fermi-Hofstadter-Hubbard model on hybrid-space ladders
Creators: name: Stenzel, Leo
name: Hayward, Andrew L. C.
name: Schollwöck, Ulrich
name: Heidrich-Meisner, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent experiments with ultracold atoms, both two-dimensional (2d) Chern insulators and one-dimensional (1d) topological charge pumps have been realized. Without interactions, both systems can be described by the same Hamiltonian, when some variables are being reinterpreted. In this paper, we study the relation of both models when Hubbard interactions are added, using the density-matrix renormalization-group algorithm. To this end, we express the fermionic Hofstadter model in a hybrid-space representation, and define a family of interactions, which connects 1d Hubbard charge pumps to 2d Hubbard Chern insulators. We study a three-band model at particle density $ρ=2/3$, where the topological quantization of the 1d charge pump changes from Chern number $C=2$ to $C=-1$ as the interaction strength increases. We find that the $C=-1$ phase is robust when varying the interaction terms on narrow-width cylinders. However, this phase does not extend to the limit of the 2d Hofstadter-Hubbard model, which remains in the $C=2$ phase. We discuss the existence of both topological phases for the largest cylinder circumferences that we can access numerically. We note the appearance of a ferromagnetic ground state between the strongly interacting 1d and 2d models. For this ferromagnetic state, one can understand the $C=-1$ phase from a bandstructure argument. Our method for measuring the Hall conductivity could similarly be realized in experiments: We compute the current response to a weak, linear potential, which is applied adiabatically. The Hall conductivity converges to integer-quantized values for large system sizes, corresponding to the system's Chern number.
description: Added plotted data in json format
Innovación y personalización en las estrategias comerciales de empresas B2C
Creators: name: Ortiz, Francisco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 350705
subject: Innovation management

description: El artículo "Innovación y personalización en las estrategias comerciales de empresas B2C" explora cómo las empresas de tipo B2C (Business to Consumer) han adoptado la personalización como una estrategia clave para innovar en sus procesos comerciales y mejorar su competitividad. La personalización de productos y servicios se presenta como un enfoque que permite a las empresas diferenciarse en un mercado cada vez más saturado, proporcionando experiencias de compra únicas y adaptadas a las necesidades individuales de los consumidores.A través del análisis de casos exitosos, el artículo muestra cómo las tecnologías emergentes, como la inteligencia artificial y el análisis de big data, facilitan la creación de estrategias personalizadas que mejoran la relación con el cliente y aumentan la fidelización.Además, se destaca que la innovación en la personalización no solo mejora la satisfacción del cliente, sino que también impulsa las ventas y fortalece la lealtad hacia la marca. Se concluye que las empresas B2C que logran integrar la personalización de manera efectiva en sus estrategias comerciales pueden obtener una ventaja competitiva significativa, favoreciendo tanto la adquisición como la retención de clientes.
Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron)
Creators: name: Madl, M.
name: Achterberg, C. Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Aleiodes

description: Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) certum (VAN ACHTERBERG 1991)
 Hemigyroneuron certum spec.nov.: VAN ACHTERBERG 1991: 34 (descr. ♂ ♀, Madagascar), 81 (figs 168-170).
 Hemigyroneuron certum VAN ACHTERBERG 1991: CHEN & HE 1997: 71 (key).
 Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) certum (VAN ACHTERBERG 1991): AREEKUL- BUTCHER & QUICKE 2011: 1411 (key), 1424 (tax. Madagascar), 1425 (figs 9A-F), 1471 (figs 37A-F: tax.), 1476 (app. 2: tax.).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: Prov. Antananarivo: Anjozorobe – Prov. Toamasina: Andasibe (Perinet), Sandrangato.
Endemic.
description: Published as part of Madl, M. & Achterberg, C. Van, 2014, A catalogue of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of the Malagasy subregion, pp. 5-220 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (1) on page 182, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4507364
title: HR practices, commitment, job performance and early retirement among older employees with an on average low occupational status
Creators: name: Hennekam, Sophie
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2014

description: This study examined the influence of the perception of the quality of HR practices on job performance, commitment and a preference for early retirement among older employees, with an average low occupational status in the creative industry in the Netherlands, This study has adopted a mixed-methods approach, using both surveys and semi-structured interviews. Using the principles underlying social exchange theory, it was expected that perceived quality of HR practices would have a positive relationship with job performance and affective organizational commitment and a negative relationship with a preference for early retirement. Perceived quality of certain HR practices seemed to have a positive relationship with job performance and affective organizational commitment. However, in contradiction with the social exchange theory, perceived quality of HR practices was found to be unrelated to a preference for early retirement. An explanation of this lmexpected finding arose from the qualitative study: older employees perceive the provision of HR practices for older employees as a stamp that they now belong to this devalued social group, which can be explained by the social identity theory. It was found that for older employees with an average low occupational status personal factors like finances and health strongly influenced the retirement decision. On the organizational level, flexibility, communication and a mentality change towards older employees seemed important in this decision. The qualitative study could explain the unexpected findings of the quantitative study, showing the contribution of a mixed-methods, approach. Theoretically, this raises the question whether social exchange theory applies to older employees with an average low occupational status and shows that the social identity theory better explains the relationship between perceived quality of HR practices and a preference for early retirement.
Evaluation of a computer-assisted technique for distal locking of femoral intramedullary nails
Creators: name: Beadon, Katherine E.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The objective of this work was to design the devices and methods necessary for a computer-assisted distal locking technique for intramedullary nailing of the femur using an electromagnetic tracking system. The long-term goal of this work is to increase the efficiency and decrease the radiation exposure to the surgical team during the intramedullary nailing procedure. The accuracy of the electromagnetic system was determined to be acceptable for our application, even in the presence of the titanium implant. A distal locking tool was designed that locks into the distal locking holes from within the intramedullary nail with high repeatability. The stresses predicted from a finite element analysis of the removal process predict maximum stresses of l/500t h of the yield stress of the material. The use of this tool produces wear particles too few in number and too small in size to induce osteolysis in a patient. We conclude that the distal locking device is very likely to be successful in a surgical setting. A clinical trial was designed in order to test this hypothesis. The clinical trial has been delayed due to the establishment of new requirements at our hospital governing the introduction of custom-made research devices into a surgical setting. As a result, we have developed a set of guidelines for future researchers to facilitate completing all the required testing to obtain approval to perform a clinical trial. We are currently in the final stages of satisfying these requirements and anticipate that our clinical trial will begin in early fall.
Apparent and real causes of American prosperity
Creators: name: GINI, C.
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Theory of saving, consumption, Europe, US, Ford, wealth, immigrants, economic prosperity
subject: E21

description: The article compares the theory of saving, traditional in Europe, with the anti-saving theory formulated by Ford, which advocates spending all earning, thus stimulating production, raising the standard of living, and giving confidence in the future. The author shows that the two theories correspond to the different economic conditions prevailing in Europe and the United States. The Americans are not wealthy and optimistic because they spend all they earn: rather they spend all they earn and are optimistic because they are wealthy. The fundamental cause for the dazzling economic prosperity of the United States is to be found instead in the free contribution of wealth represented by the masses of emigrants, in the great majority Europeans, thanks to whom America has been saved the expense of bringing up a large part of her population. JEL: E21
description: PSL Quarterly Review, V. 1, N. 6 (1948)