cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Social-ecological feedbacks drive tipping points in farming system diversification
Creators: name: Chapman, Melissa
name: Wiltshire, Serge
name: Baur, Patrick
name: Bowles, Timothy
name: Carlisle, Liz
name: Castillo, Federico
name: Esquivel, Kenzo
name: Gennet, Sasha
name: Iles, Alastair
name: Karp, Daniel
name: Kremen, Claire
name: Liebert, Jeffrey
name: Olimpi, Elissa M.
name: Ory, Joanna
name: Ryan, Matthew
name: Sciligo, Amber
name: Thompson, Jennifer
name: Waterhouse, Hannah
name: Boettiger, Carl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The emergence and impact of tipping points have garnered significant interest in both the social and natural sciences. Despite widespread recognition of the importance of feedbacks between human and natural systems, it is often assumed that the observed nonlinear dynamics in these coupled systems rests within either underlying human or natural processes, rather than the rates at which they interact. Using adoption of agricultural diversification practices as a case study, we show how two stable management paradigms (one dominated by conventional, homogeneous practices, the other by diversified practices) can emerge purely from temporal feedbacks between human decisions and ecological responses. We explore how this temporal mechanism of tipping points provides insight into designing more effective interventions that promote farmers transitions towards sustainable agriculture. Moreover, our flexible modeling framework could be applied to other cases to provide insight into numerous questions in social-ecological systems research and environmental policy.
description: One Earth (2022)
Vorlage einer Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzung
Creators: name: Jürs, Patrick
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzung
DSFA
Hamburg Open Science

description: Diese Vorlage einer Datenschutz-Folgenabschätzung (DSFA) wurde aus den im Rahmen des Programms Hamburg Open Science (HOS), Teilprojekt Forschungsdatenmanagement, angefertigten DSFAs erstellt. Grundlage waren die Vorarbeiten des Universitätsklinikums Hamburg-Eppendorf, welche im Rahmen des Wissenstransfers zwischen den Hamburger Hochschulen zunächst HOS-intern und nun öffentlich zur Nachnutzung bereitgestellt wurden.
Generalized modified principal components analysis of Russian universities competitiveness
Creators: name: Vashchenko, Pavel
name: Verenikin, Alexei
name: Verenikina, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: General Economics (econ.GN)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The article is devoted to the competitiveness analysis of Russian institutions of higher education in international and local markets. The methodology of research is based on generalized modified principal component analysis. Principal components analysis has proven its efficiency in business performance assessment. We apply a modification of this methodology to construction of an aggregate index of university performance. The whole set of principal components with weighting coefficients equal to the proportions of the corresponding explained variance are utilized as an aggregate measure of various aspects of higher education. This methodology allows to reveal the factors which exert positive or negative influence on university competitiveness. We construct a kind of objective ranking of universities in order to estimate the current situation and prospects of higher education in Russia. It is applicable for evaluation of public policy in higher education, which, by inertia, aims to promote competition rather than cooperation among universities.
description: 10 pages
Lithosiccia major Volynkin 2023, comb. n.
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Lithosiccia
Lithosiccia major

description: Lithosiccia major (Kiriakoff, 1958), comb. n.
(Figs 7, 24)
 Manoba major Kiriakoff, 1958, Ruwenzori Expedition 1952, 1 (2): 7, figs 13, 61 (Type locality: [Uganda] “ Ruwenzori, Mahoma River, 6700 ft ”).
 Type material examined. Holotype (Figs 7, 24): male, “ Uganda: | Ruwenzori Range. | Mahoma River. | 6,700ft. 13–16.viii.1952. | D.S. Fletcher. ” / “Ruwenzori Exped. | B.M.1952-566.” / “ S. G. Kiriakoff det.. 1954 | Manoba | major sp. n. ” / red ring “Type” label / “Neg. No, | 14081” / QR-code label with unique number: NHMUK 010917757 ” / “Slide | NHMUK010315165 ” (NHMUK).
 Note. The species was assigned to the genus Palaeosiccia by Kühne (2007) without an explanation, probably due to the external similarity. Later, the species was assigned to the externally dissimilar Stictane Hampson, 1900 by László et al. (2022). However, its male genitalia structure clearly matches that of Lithosiccia.
 Diagnosis. The forewing length is 10.0 mm in the male holotype. Lithosiccia major is the largest known species in the genus, which is most externally reminiscent of L. juvenis but differs in the markedly longer rami of the male antenna, the broader forewing with a more elongate apex and a larger discal marking. Since the species is known only from the single holotype specimen, which is worn, the more detailed comparison of its forewing pattern with L. juvenis is currently impossible. In the male genital capsule, L. major is similar to L. takanoi but has a longer uncus, a markedly shorter, narrower and almost straight cucullus (it is downcurved in the congener), a thinner setae of the sacculus, and a proximally broader distal saccular process. The phallus of L. major is somewhat broader than in L. takanoi (in proportion to the tegumen-vinculum complex size). The vesica of the holotype could not be fully everted therefore the detailed comparison of its shape with L. takanoi is currently impossible. However, compared to L. takanoi, the vesica of L. major bears a markedly shorter, thinner and almost straight medial cornutus (it is slightly curved in the congener), and a plate-like, rugose proximal cornutus dorsally.
The female is unknown.
 Molecular data. Currently unavailable for this species.
 Distribution. The species is currently known only from its type locality in western Uganda (Kiriakoff 1958).
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., 2023, Lithosiccia, a new genus with four new species from mainland Africa (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 24-39 in Ecologica Montenegrina 65 on pages 28-31, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.65.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13246318
Speaker Reinforcement Using Target Source Extraction for Robust Automatic Speech Recognition
Creators: name: Zorila, Catalin
name: Doddipatla, Rama
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 68T10

description: Improving the accuracy of single-channel automatic speech recognition (ASR) in noisy conditions is challenging. Strong speech enhancement front-ends are available, however, they typically require that the ASR model is retrained to cope with the processing artifacts. In this paper we explore a speaker reinforcement strategy for improving recognition performance without retraining the acoustic model (AM). This is achieved by remixing the enhanced signal with the unprocessed input to alleviate the processing artifacts. We evaluate the proposed approach using a DNN speaker extraction based speech denoiser trained with a perceptually motivated loss function. Results show that (without AM retraining) our method yields about 23% and 25% relative accuracy gains compared with the unprocessed for the monoaural simulated and real CHiME-4 evaluation sets, respectively, and outperforms a state-of-the-art reference method.
description: Accepted for ICASSP 2022
Biological nitrogen removal from stormwater in bioretention cells: a critical review
Creators: name: Biswal, Basanta Kumar
name: Vijayaraghavan, Kuppusamy
name: Adam, Max Gerrit
name: Tsen-Tieng, Daryl Lee
name: Davis, Allen P.
name: Balasubramanian, Rajasekhar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Excess nitrogen in stormwater degrades surface water quality via eutrophication and related processes. Bioretention has been recognized as a highly effective low-impact development (LID) technology for the management of high runoff volumes and reduction of nitrogen (N) pollutants through various mechanisms. This paper provides a comprehensive and critical review of recent developments on the biological N removal processes occurring in bioretention systems. The key plant- and microbe-mediated N transformation processes include assimilation (N uptake by plants and microbes), nitrification, denitrification, and anammox (anaerobic ammonia oxidation), but denitrification is the major pathway of permanent N removal. Overall, both laboratory- and field-scale bioretention systems have demonstrated promising N removal performance (TN: >70%). The phyla Bacteroidetes and Proteobacteria are the most abundant microbial communities found to be enriched in biofilter media. Furthermore, the denitrifying communities contain several functional genes (e.g., nirK/nirS, and nosZ), and their concentrations increase near the surface of media depth. The N removal effectiveness of bioretention systems is largely impacted by the hydraulics and environmental factors. When a bioretention system operates at: low hydraulic/N loading rate, containing a saturation zone, vegetated with native plants, having deeper and multilayer biofilter media with warm climate temperature and wet storm events periods, the N removal efficiency can be high. This review highlights shortcomings and current knowledge gaps in the area of total nitrogen removal using bioretention systems, as well as identifies future research directions on this topic.
Recent trends in nanomaterial-based signal amplification in electrochemical aptasensors
Creators: name: Kurup, Chitra Padmakumari
name: Mohd-Naim, Noor Faizah
name: Ahmed, Minhaz Uddin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: Ultrasensitive biosensors have become a necessity in the world of scientific research, and several signal enhancement strategies have been employed to attain exceptionally low detection limits. Nanotechnology turns out to be a strong contender for signal amplification, as they can be employed as platform modifiers, catalysts, carriers or labels. Here, we have described the most recent advancements in the utilization of nanomaterials as signal amplification components in aptamer-based electrochemical biosensors. We have briefly reviewed the methods that utilized nanomaterials, namely gold and carbon, as well as nanocomposites such as: graphene, carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, and metal-organic frameworks.
Paradigm shift in xylose isomerase usage: a novel scenario with distinct applications
Creators: name: Miyamoto, Renan Yuji
name: de Melo, Ricardo Rodrigues
name: de Mesquita Sampaio, Isabelle Lobo
name: de Sousa, Amanda Silva
name: Morais, Edvaldo Rodrigo
name: Sargo, Cintia Regina
name: Zanphorlin, Leticia Maria
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Isomerases are enzymes that induce physical changes in a molecule without affecting the original molecular formula. Among this class of enzymes, xylose isomerases (XIs) are the most studied to date, partly due to their extensive application in industrial processes to produce high-fructose corn sirups. In recent years, the need for sustainable initiatives has triggered efforts to improve the biobased economy through the use of renewable raw materials. In this context, D-xylose usage is crucial as it is the second-most abundant sugar in nature. The application of XIs in biotransforming xylose, enabling downstream metabolism in several microorganisms, is a smart strategy for ensuring a low-carbon footprint and producing several value-added biochemicals with broad industrial applications such as in the food, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and polymer industries. Considering recent advancements that have expanded the range of applications of XIs, this review provides a comprehensive and concise overview of XIs, from their primary sources to the biochemical and structural features that influence their mechanisms of action. This comprehensive review may help address the challenges involved in XI applications in different industries and facilitate the exploitation of xylose bioprocesses.
Global Preventive Feedback of Powerful Radio Jets on Galaxy Formation
Creators: name: Cen, Renyue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Firmly anchored on observational data, giant radio lobes from massive galaxies hosting supermassive black holes can exert a major negative feedback effect, by endowing the intergalactic gas with significant magnetic pressure hence retarding or preventing gas accretion onto less massive halos in the vicinity. Since massive galaxies that are largely responsible for producing the giant radio lobes, this effect is expected to be stronger in more overdense large-scale environments, such as proto-clusters, than in underdense regions, such as voids. We show that by redshift $z=2$ halos with masses up to $(10^{11-12}, 10^{12-13})\msun$ are significantly hindered from accreting gas due to this effect for radio bubble volume filling fraction of $(1.0, 0.2)$, respectively. Since the vast majority of the stars in the universe at $z<2-3$ form precisely in those halos, this negative feedback process is likely one major culprit for causing the global downturn in star formation in the universe since. It also provides a natural explanation for the rather sudden flattening of the slope of the galaxy rest-frame UV luminosity function around $z\sim 2$. A cross-correlation between proto-clusters and Faraday rotation measures may test the predicted magnetic field. Inclusion of this external feedback process in the next generation of cosmological simulations may be imperative.
description: 7 pages, published on Aug 19, 2024 in PNAS
Lithosiccia mikra Volynkin, 2023, sp. n.
Creators: name: Volynkin, Anton V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Lithosiccia
Lithosiccia mikra

description: Lithosiccia mikra sp. n.
https://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 3A32AF2F-AACB-4B3F-BF00-E866586AC59C
(Figs 8, 25)
 Type material. Holotype (Figs 8, 25): male, “ Uganda: | Ruwenzori Range. | Semliki Forest. | 2,850ft. 22.viii.–3.ix.1952. | D.S. Fletcher. ” / “Ruwenzori Exped. | B.M.1952-566.” / “ S. G. Kiriakoff det.. 1954 | Comacla | juvenis Holl. ” / “27” / QR-code label with unique number” NHMUK 010918145 ” / “Slide | NHMUK010315786 ” (NHMUK).
 Diagnosis. The forewing length is 5.0 mm in the male holotype. Lithosiccia mikra is the smallest known species in the genus. It is externally vaguely reminiscent of L. juvenis but distinguished by the smaller size, the more rounded forewing apex, the dark brown forewing ground colour (it is pale brown in the congener), the indistinct forewing markings (except the relatively large discal marking), and the dark brown hindwing ground colour, which is pale greyish-brown in L. juvenis. The male genital capsule of the new species is most similar to L. takanoi but differs in the longer uncus, the shorter, narrower, distally tapered and less downcurved cucullus (it is subapically dilated in the congener), the markedly shorter and thinner setae of the sacculus, and the shorter, narrower and apically tapered distal saccular process, which is apically rounded in L. takanoi. The phallus of L. mikra is broader than in L. takanoi. In the vesica structure, the new species differs from its congeners in the lack of the rugose stripe, the longer distal cornutus, which is more protruding from the vesica surface, and the longer and utricular distal diverticulum which is conical in other species in the genus.
The female is unknown.
 Molecular data. Currently unavailable for this species.
 Distribution. The new species is currently known only from its type locality in western Uganda.
 Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the Greek ‘μικρό’ meaning ‘small’ and refers to the relatively small size of the new species. The name is a noun in the nominative singular in apposition.
description: Published as part of Volynkin, Anton V., 2023, Lithosiccia, a new genus with four new species from mainland Africa (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 24-39 in Ecologica Montenegrina 65 on page 31, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.65.4, http://zenodo.org/record/13246318
Paraneoplastic sensorimotor neuropathy and ventral cauda equina nerve root enhancement as initial presentation of small cell lung carcinoma: a case study
Creators: name: Alsaeed, Meshari
name: Lim, Chloe A. R.
name: Plecash, Alyson
name: Chen, Tychicus
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes (PNS) are rare, however, are important to recognize as oftentimes they precede the detection of an occult malignancy. Our case highlights a rare circumstance of paraneoplastic radiculoneuropathy and the importance of recognizing PNS in antibody negative disease, as is the case in up to 16% of sensory neuronopathies, and the process of excluding other etiologies. Case presentation We discuss a 51-year-old man who presented with asymmetric subacute sensorimotor deficits in the lower limbs. Initial clinical examination showed weakness throughout the right lower limb and normal strength on the left with objective numbness in a mixed dermatomal and stocking-glove distribution. Electrophysiology was consistent with axonal sensorimotor neuropathy. Cerebrospinal fluid showed pleocytosis and elevated protein. Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment was given with some improvement in pain symptoms but no measurable motor improvement. Following clinical and electrophysiologic deterioration the patient was transferred to a tertiary centre. Magnetic resonance imaging of the spine showed smooth enhancement of the ventral caudal nerve roots. Chest computed tomography revealed left lower vascular scarring. Further positron emission tomography scan imaging identified fluorodeoxyglucose avid right lung lymphadenopathy. Bronchoscopy-guided biopsy revealed small cell lung carcinoma. Onconeural and antiganglioside antibodies were negative. The patient was then transferred to a medical oncology ward where he underwent chemoradiotherapy and subsequently experienced improvement in his motor function, supporting that his neurological condition was indeed secondary to a paraneoplastic process. Conclusions Onconeural negative paraneoplastic radiculoneuropathy can precede diagnosis of small cell lung carcinoma. If considered early and adequately investigated, it can allow earlier diagnosis and treatment of underlying malignancy, improving overall and neurological prognosis.
Quantizations of conical symplectic resolutions I: local and global structure
Creators: name: Braden, Tom
name: Proudfoot, Nicholas
name: Webster, Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16S38, 14A22, 53D55, 16W70

description: We re-examine some topics in representation theory of Lie algebras and Springer theory in a more general context, viewing the universal enveloping algebra as an example of the section ring of a quantization of a conical symplectic resolution. While some modification from this classical context is necessary, many familiar features survive. These include a version of the Beilinson-Bernstein localization theorem, a theory of Harish-Chandra bimodules and their relationship to convolution operators on cohomology, and a discrete group action on the derived category of representations, generalizing the braid group action on category O via twisting functors. Our primary goal is to apply these results to other quantized symplectic resolutions, including quiver varieties and hypertoric varieties. This provides a new context for known results about Lie algebras, Cherednik algebras, finite W-algebras, and hypertoric enveloping algebras, while also pointing to the study of new algebras arising from more general resolutions.
description: v6: correcting a couple of small errors. See https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/sites/ca.scholar/files/b2webste/files/qcsr-corrigendum.pdf for more details
Empowering Children to Learn: An Exploratory Study Using a Philosophical Listening Tool (the Little Box of Big Questions 2)
Creators: name: Thorne, L.
name: Gersch, Irvine
Publisher: name: School of Psychology, University of East London
Year: 2016

description: A key function of educational psychologists is to promote empowering and cultivating learning environments that prepare children and young people for the twenty-first century. This study explores how children may be empowered to learn through the clarification of their daily lived experiences. Learning experiences are examined from the perspective of the children themselves, with a particular emphasis on metaphysical concepts. A listening tool was used to gather data: in-depth stories, experiences, motivations and beliefs about individual learning. Thematic analysis was applied to interviews, further promoting the ‘voice of the child’ and illuminating how children think about their own learning. Autonomy, experience and purpose are examined in the context of how children learn. This research aims to contribute towards the growing body of knowledge about how children learn. The findings may help to inform the work of educational psychologists and enhance the educational experiences of children and young people.
A weak space-time formulation for the linear stochastic heat equation
Creators: name: Larsson, Stig
name: Molteni, Matteo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H15, 35R60

description: We apply the well-known Banach-Necas-Babuska inf-sup theory in a stochastic setting to introduce a weak space-time formulation of the linear stochastic heat equation with additive noise. We give sufficient conditions on the the data and on the covariance operator associated to the driving Wiener process, in order to have existence and uniqueness of the solution. We show the relation of the obtained solution to the so-called mild solution and to the variational solution of the same problem. The spatial regularity of the solution is also discussed. Finally, an extension to the case of linear multiplicative noise is presented.
description: 19 pages
Quantizations of conical symplectic resolutions II: category $\mathcal O$ and symplectic duality
Creators: name: Braden, Tom
name: Licata, Anthony
name: Proudfoot, Nicholas
name: Webster, Ben
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We define and study category $\mathcal O$ for a symplectic resolution, generalizing the classical BGG category $\mathcal O$, which is associated with the Springer resolution. This includes the development of intrinsic properties parallelling the BGG case, such as a highest weight structure and analogues of twisting and shuffling functors, along with an extensive discussion of individual examples. We observe that category $\mathcal O$ is often Koszul, and its Koszul dual is often equivalent to category $\mathcal O$ for a different symplectic resolution. This leads us to define the notion of a symplectic duality between symplectic resolutions, which is a collection of isomorphisms between representation theoretic and geometric structures, including a Koszul duality between the two categories. This duality has various cohomological consequences, including (conjecturally) an identification of two geometric realizations, due to Nakajima and Ginzburg/Mirković-Vilonen, of weight spaces of simple representations of simply-laced simple algebraic groups. An appendix by Ivan Losev establishes a key step in the proof that $\mathcal O$ is highest weight.
description: 118 pages. v5: correcting a couple of small errors. See https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/sites/ca.scholar/files/b2webste/files/qcsr-corrigendum.pdf for more details
Excluding subdivisions of bounded degree graphs
Creators: name: Liu, Chun-Hung
name: Thomas, Robin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $H$ be a fixed graph. What can be said about graphs $G$ that have no subgraph isomorphic to a subdivision of $H$? Grohe and Marx proved that such graphs $G$ satisfy a certain structure theorem that is not satisfied by graphs that contain a subdivision of a (larger) graph $H_1$. Dvořák found a clever strengthening---his structure is not satisfied by graphs that contain a subdivision of a graph $H_2$, where $H_2$ has "similar embedding properties" as $H$. Building upon Dvořák's theorem, we prove that said graphs $G$ satisfy a similar structure theorem. Our structure is not satisfied by graphs that contain a subdivision of a graph $H_3$ that has similar embedding properties as $H$ and has the same maximum degree as $H$. This will be important in a forthcoming application to well-quasi-ordering.
Spontaneously broken gauge symmetry in a Bose gas with constant particle number
Creators: name: Schelle, Alexej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The interplay between spontaneously broken gauge symmetries and Bose-Einstein condensation has long been controversially discussed in science, since the equation of motions are invariant under phase transformations. Within the present model it is illustrated that spontaneous symmetry breaking appears as a non-local process in position space, but within disjoint subspaces of the underlying Hilbert space. Numerical simulations show that it is the symmetry of the relative phase distribution between condensate and non-condensate quantum fields which is spontaneously broken when passing the critical temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation. Since the total number of gas particles remains constant over time, the global U(1)-gauge symmetry of the system is preserved.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, final version
Random-Cluster Dynamics in $\mathbb{Z}^2$
Creators: name: Blanca, Antonio
name: Sinclair, Alistair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The random-cluster model has been widely studied as a unifying framework for random graphs, spin systems and electrical networks, but its dynamics have so far largely resisted analysis. In this paper we analyze the Glauber dynamics of the random-cluster model in the canonical case where the underlying graph is an $n \times n$ box in the Cartesian lattice $\mathbb{Z}^2$. Our main result is a $O(n^2\log n)$ upper bound for the mixing time at all values of the model parameter $p$ except the critical point $p=p_c(q)$, and for all values of the second model parameter $q\ge 1$. We also provide a matching lower bound proving that our result is tight. Our analysis takes as its starting point the recent breakthrough by Beffara and Duminil-Copin on the location of the random-cluster phase transition in $\mathbb{Z}^2$. It is reminiscent of similar results for spin systems such as the Ising and Potts models, but requires the reworking of several standard tools in the context of the random-cluster model, which is not a spin system in the usual sense.
description: Revised final journal version. A minor mistake was also fixed in the proof of Theorem 5.2; thanks to Shirshendu Ganguly and Reza Gheissari for pointing it out and to Reza Gheissari for suggesting a fix
Biologically relevant transfer learning improves transcription factor binding prediction
Creators: name: Novakovsky, Gherman
name: Saraswat, Manu
name: Fornés, Oriol
name: Mostafavi, Sara
name: Wasserman, Wyeth W.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background Deep learning has proven to be a powerful technique for transcription factor (TF) binding prediction but requires large training datasets. Transfer learning can reduce the amount of data required for deep learning, while improving overall model performance, compared to training a separate model for each new task. Results We assess a transfer learning strategy for TF binding prediction consisting of a pre-training step, wherein we train a multi-task model with multiple TFs, and a fine-tuning step, wherein we initialize single-task models for individual TFs with the weights learned by the multi-task model, after which the single-task models are trained at a lower learning rate. We corroborate that transfer learning improves model performance, especially if in the pre-training step the multi-task model is trained with biologically relevant TFs. We show the effectiveness of transfer learning for TFs with ~ 500 ChIP-seq peak regions. Using model interpretation techniques, we demonstrate that the features learned in the pre-training step are refined in the fine-tuning step to resemble the binding motif of the target TF (i.e., the recipient of transfer learning in the fine-tuning step). Moreover, pre-training with biologically relevant TFs allows single-task models in the fine-tuning step to learn useful features other than the motif of the target TF. Conclusions Our results confirm that transfer learning is a powerful technique for TF binding prediction.
Can Self-Advocacy Skills Support Young People to Participate in Person-Centred Planning? an Example From Research Involving Young People With Dyslexia
Creators: name: Kelly, Samuel
Publisher: name: School of Psychology, University of East London
Year: 2016

description: Changes to national legislation in England have resulted in a cultural shift towards ensuring children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities are held at the centre of assessment and planning. The promotion of person-centred approaches within the Code of Practice is a welcome addition to many within the educational community. However, little consideration has been given to how professionals can ensure children and young people are maximally involved within this process. This is of significant concern when considered in the context of research which shows children with additional needs often lack the necessary skills to participate meaningfully in the planning of their educational provision. This article draws upon research in which young people with dyslexia were interviewed about the planning for and outcomes of their transition to secondary school. The implications of this research indicated that self-advocacy skills can be an important element in enabling young people to more competently contribute to transition planning. A range of self-advocacy skills are considered in the context of enabling young people to participate in person-centred planning. Practical ideas are outlined which are aimed at professionals wanting to help young people to develop self-advocacy skills, which could empower them to take a more active role in contributing to planning their support and educational provision.
Rethinking Statutory Advice: A Working Party’s Solution
Creators: name: Crane, Julia
Publisher: name: School of Psychology, University of East London
Year: 2016

description: This article describes the response of an Educational Psychology Service (EPS) to a marked increase in requests from their Local Authority (LA) for statutory advice reports. A working party was developed to consider how educational psychologists (EPs) might write statutory reports for the LA in a time-efficient manner, without compromising the quality of the advice given. The working party met during the 2015–16 academic year, in which the psychological advice format was streamlined, piloted and eventually launched. The article concludes with some reflections on the wider issues that arose from discussions within the working party and, in particular, the impact of increased statutory demands on other aspects of EP practice.
Feature Learning from Spectrograms for Assessment of Personality Traits
Creators: name: Carbonneau, Marc-André
name: Granger, Eric
name: Attabi, Yazid
name: Gagnon, Ghyslain
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Several methods have recently been proposed to analyze speech and automatically infer the personality of the speaker. These methods often rely on prosodic and other hand crafted speech processing features extracted with off-the-shelf toolboxes. To achieve high accuracy, numerous features are typically extracted using complex and highly parameterized algorithms. In this paper, a new method based on feature learning and spectrogram analysis is proposed to simplify the feature extraction process while maintaining a high level of accuracy. The proposed method learns a dictionary of discriminant features from patches extracted in the spectrogram representations of training speech segments. Each speech segment is then encoded using the dictionary, and the resulting feature set is used to perform classification of personality traits. Experiments indicate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art results with a significant reduction in complexity when compared to the most recent reference methods. The number of features, and difficulties linked to the feature extraction process are greatly reduced as only one type of descriptors is used, for which the 6 parameters can be tuned automatically. In contrast, the simplest reference method uses 4 types of descriptors to which 6 functionals are applied, resulting in over 20 parameters to be tuned.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures
Aphis (Aphis) parietariae Theobald 1923
Creators: name: Zanfelici, Luiz Fernando Gonçalves
name: Murányi, Dávid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphididae
Aphis
Aphis parietariae

description: Aphis (Aphis) parietariae Theobald, 1923
(Figs 1–7)
 Material: Hungary, Budapest, District I, Gellért hill, park pathway in rocky forest, Parietaria officinalis L., 140 m a.s.l., N 47.48930° E 19.04596°, leg. A. & D. Murányi, 26.xi.2017, oviparous apterous females, larvae, eggs; Hungary, Budapest, District XIX, Endresz György street, garden, Parietaria officinalis L., 120 m a.s.l., N 47.44512° E 19.15150°, leg. J. Kontschán, 1.vi.2018, viviparous apterous females, larvae; Hungary, Pest county, Visegrádi Mts, Pilisszentlászló, oak forest, Parietaria officinalis L., 335 m a.s.l., N 47.74961° E 18.99458°, leg. A. & D. Murányi, 24.ix.2022, viviparous apterous females, larvae, alate larva, mummies of apterae; Hungary, Fejér county, Vértes Mts, Csákvár, Haraszt-hegy, deciduous forest, Parietaria officinalis L., 225 m a.s.l., N 47.38918° E 18.43812°, leg. J. Kontschán, D. Murányi, 30.v.2018, viviparous apterous females.
 Diagnosis. Medium-sized, dark green Aphis with hints of light grey wax, dorsal abdomen without distinct dark markings, antennal tubercles undeveloped; siphunculi black, length 1.2–1.3 × cauda; cauda with 8–10 hairs; R IV+V 1.4–1.5 × HT II; antennal PT/BASE 4.2; antennal segment III with longest hairs 0.4–0.6 of its width.
 Distribution and ecology. Widespread West Palaearctic species, in Central Europe it was known from Romania and Slovakia. Holocyclic and monoecious on Parietaria species, it presents dense colonies on stems, under the leaves and on inflorescences; ovipara and fundatrix unknown; presents apterous males. In Hungary, there was no aphid record from pellitory-of-the-wall. All other aphids known from pellitories are polyphagous (Blackman & Eastop 2023). The Hungarian specimens of A. parietariae were collected from pellitory-of-the-wall growing in different habitats, ranging from natural forests to civil gardens (where it was a weed). The colonies were attended by ants, but mummies in the Pilisszentlászló population indicate Aphidiinae parasitoids. The colonies occupied stems and inflorescences, rarely leaves. No alates were found, but one alate larva in September. The Gellért hill population was collected in late November, and the pellitories were with many eggs attached to the stem and inflorescences, however, the apterous specimens collected are probably not true oviparae since tibiae are not swollen, and the abdomen is not extended. Dransfield & Brightwell (2023) reported apterae collected in January that as well seem to be vivipara instead of ovipara, suggesting anholocyclic development besides their usual holocycle.
description: Published as part of Zanfelici, Luiz Fernando Gonçalves & Murányi, Dávid, 2023, Four new species of aphids (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aphididae) for the Hungarian fauna, pp. 96-104 in Ecologica Montenegrina 63 on page 97, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.63.9, http://zenodo.org/record/13246339
The Psychological Impact of Austerity: A Briefing Paper
Creators: name: Mcgrath, Laura
name: Griffin, V.
name: Mundy, E.
name: Curno, T.
name: Weerasinghe, D.
name: Zlotowitz, S.
Publisher: name: School of Psychology, University of East London
Year: 2016

description: Executive Summary Psychologists are often in a position to see the effects that social and economic changes have on people. We also occupy a relatively powerful position as professionals and therefore have an ethical responsibility to speak out about these effects. Key conclusions Austerity policies have damaging psychological costs. Mental health problems are being created in the present, and further problems are being stored for the future. We have identified five ‘Austerity Ailments’. These are specific ways in which austerity policies impact on mental health: 1. Humiliation and shame 2. Fear and distrust 3. Instability and insecurity 4. Isolation and loneliness 5. Being trapped and powerless These experiences have been shown to increase mental health problems. Prolonged humiliation following a severe loss trebles the chance of being diagnosed with clinical depression. Job insecurity is as damaging for mental health as unemployment. Feeling trapped over the long term nearly trebles the chances of being diagnosed with anxiety and depression. Low levels of trust increase the chance of being diagnosed with depression by nearly 50 per cent. These five ‘ailments’ are indicators of problems in society, of poisonous public policy, weakness of social cohesion and inequalities in power and wealth. We also know what kind of society promotes good health. Key markers are that societies are equal, participatory and cohesive. Some important indicators of a psychologically healthy society are: 1. Agency 2.Security 3. Connection 4. Meaning 5. Trust Mental health is not just an individual issue. To create resilience and promote wellbeing, we need to look at the entirety of the social and economic conditions in which people live. Recommendations Social policy should work towards a more equitable and participatory society, to facilitate individual wellbeing, resilient places and strong communities. It is crucial that policy makers and service developers consider the psychological impacts of current and future policies. Creating the conditions for wellbeing and resilience directly helps to prevent distress in the short and long term, both saving resources and reducing suffering.
Stochastic theory of nonlinear electrical circuits in thermal equilibrium
Creators: name: Osborne, Andrew
name: Lucas, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the theory of dissipative mechanics in RLC circuits, allowing for circuit elements to have nonlinear constitutive relations, and for the circuit to have arbitrary topology. We systematically generalize the dissipationless Hamiltonian mechanics of an LC circuit to account for resistors and incorporate the physical postulate that the resulting RLC circuit thermalizes with its environment at a constant positive temperature. Our theory explains stochastic fluctuations, or Johnson noise, which are mandated by the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. Assuming Gaussian Markovian noise, we obtain exact expressions for multiplicative Johnson noise through nonlinear resistors in circuits with convenient (parasitic) capacitors and/or inductors. With linear resistors, our formalism is describable using a Kubo-Martin-Schwinger-invariant Lagrangian formalism for dissipative thermal systems. Generalizing our technique to quantum circuits could lead to an alternative way to study decoherence in nonlinear superconducting circuits without the Caldeira-Leggett formalism.
description: 30 pages, 6 figures
The Pyramid of Participation: The Representation of the Child’s Voice in Psychological Advice
Creators: name: Fox, Mark
Publisher: name: School of Psychology, University of East London
Year: 2016

description: The three key principles which underpin the Code of Practice have been highlighted by a number of authors in this edition. We must have regard to: the views, wishes and feelings of the child or young person and their parents; the importance of the child or young person and their parents participating as fully as possible in decisions and being provided with the information and support necessary to enable participation in those decisions; the need to support the child or young person and to help them achieve the best possible educational and other outcomes, preparing them effectively for adulthood. SEND Code of Practice 2014, p. 8.) These principles clearly lay out the EPs’ responsibilities in terms of listening to the child and ensuring that they have a voice as regards their SENs. These principles not only apply to EPs but to all those who are involved in the construction of the Education Health and Care Plans. The importance of involving children and young people in the assessment process has been advocated by EPs for many years (Gersch 1996). More recently, EPs have written about the importance of Person Centred planning (Sutcliffe & Birney 2014). Buck (2015) has highlighted the opportunity for EPs to reconstruct psychological reports with the new Code, though his particular focus is not on the representation of the child’s views. The purpose of this paper is to present a model which would allow EPs to develop their practice in ensuring the child’s voice is represented in their EHC Plans. The origins of this article came from reading and analysing 21 Psychological Advices written by trainee EPs (TEPs) on their final year- three placement. These reports came from sixteen different services in London and the South East of England. All these reports had been anonymised before analysis and had been part of the audit of TEPs’ placement portfolios. Analysis of these reports and reflections on the other articles in this journal were the basis for conceptualising a pyramid of representation. This pyramid was also stimulated by Hart’s (1992) Ladder of Participation (see Vingerhoets and Wagner in this issue). Hart’s ladder helps professionals think how they can move upwards, to ensure that professionals move beyond seeing service users’ involvement as tokenism and into actual participation. However, movement in this pyramid is conceptualised as downwards, to where there is a wider base and a solid foundation for understanding the child and young person.
Amphorophora (Amphorophora) ampullata Buckton 1876
Creators: name: Zanfelici, Luiz Fernando Gonçalves
name: Murányi, Dávid
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphididae
Amphorophora
Amphorophora ampullata

description: Amphorophora (Amphorophora) ampullata Buckton, 1876
(Figs 8–9)
 Material: Hungary, Vas county, Kőszeg Mts, Kőszeg, beech dominated forest at Hét Spring, Dryopteris filix-mas (L.), 455 m a.s.l., N 47.38729° E 16.50026°, leg. T. Kovács, D. Murányi, T. Szederjesi, 13.vi.2018, viviparous alate female; Kőszeg, beech forest on Mt. Hármas-határ, Dryopteris filix-mas (L.), 775 m a.s.l., N 47.35650° E 16.45608°, leg. T. Kovács, D. Murányi, T. Szederjesi, 14.vi.2018, viviparous alate female; Győr-Moson-Sopron county, Soproni Mts, Sopron, forest brook above Szalamandra Lake, Dryopteris filix-mas (L.), 345 m a.s.l., N 47.6648° E 16.5446°, leg. A. Ambrus, T. Kovács, R. R. Mo, A. Murányi, D. Murányi, 28.v.2021, viviparous alate female.
 Diagnosis. Alate, pale Amphorophora with femora scabrous on less than distal half; swollen portion of siphunculi about twice wider than dark proximal portion beneath flange, length 2.2 × cauda; R IV+V 1.2 × HT II and 0.4 × antennal VI BASE, antennal PT/BASE 3.4; secondary rhinaria on antennal segments: III 59, IV 16, V 17.
 Distribution and ecology. Widespread Holarctic species, it was known from most Central European countries. Holocyclic and monoecious on ferns but known from several species of fern genera. In Hungary, the only fern-feeding aphid hitherto reported is Idiopterus nephrelepidis Davis, 1909, collected on exotic ferns in greenhouses (Ripka 2008). The Hungarian specimens of A. ampullata were collected in wet deciduous forests dominated by beech, beaten from the male fern, Dryopteris filix-mas (L.) Schott. We found it only in the Alpine foothills (Kőszeg and Sopron Mts), despite collecting efforts in similar habitats in different Hungarian ranges. Taxonomic characters of North Macedonian specimens were recently illustrated (Murányi 2018b), so herein we illustrate only the habitus and habitat.
description: Published as part of Zanfelici, Luiz Fernando Gonçalves & Murányi, Dávid, 2023, Four new species of aphids (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aphididae) for the Hungarian fauna, pp. 96-104 in Ecologica Montenegrina 63 on page 98, DOI: 10.37828/em.2023.63.9, http://zenodo.org/record/13246339