cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Morphological variations of peacock wrasse Symphodus tinca (Linnaeus, 1758) populations along Tunisian coast
Creators: name: SHILI, Amani
name: SOUISSI, Ahmed
name: BAHRI-SFAR, Lilia
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2018

description: Labridae family constitutes an important component of the Atlanto-Mediterranean ichtyofauna . They represent an essential link of the trophic web in coastal environments. Symphodus tinca (Linnaeus, 1758) is one of Labridae species showing a short pelagic phase (9-13 days). In this study we were interested in the morphological variation of seven samples of peacock wrasse collected a long the Tunisian coast in both eastern and western Mediterranean basins in order to highlight the influence of environmental heterogeneity in shaping body-shape variation. For this, two different morphological approaches were used, the truss network system and the Procrustes method. Discriminant analyzes carried out with both methods showed significant discrimination essentially between two groups. The first one encompasses north-eastern samples while the second is formed by south-eastern samples. Differences were also highlighted among south-eastern samples especially between the populations of Kerkennah islands and El Ketfone. These morphological differences seem to be linked to the body height, head and cauda l peduncle length. This divergence in body-shape reflects the heterogeneity of targeted environments but also, it can be the consequence of eventual genetic differences between the two sectors' populations of Symphodus tinca linked to the Siculo-Tunisian Strait that can play the role of a barrier against the gene flow.
Molecular diversity of marine pigmented bacteria in the central Arabian Sea with special reference to antioxidant properties
Creators: name: PAWAR, Ravindra
name: MOHANDASS, Chellandi
name: RAJASABAPATHY, Raju
name: MEENA, Ram Murti
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2018

description: Pigmented bacteria (PIGB) from marine environment a rerecognized to impart protective action a gainst oxidative stress-induced cell damages. Since very little is known about their diversity and antioxidant potential, we attempted to study the molecular diversity of the cultivable PIGB with respect to antioxidant properties. In this study, we isolated 190 pigmented colonies of bacteria (yellow, orange, creamy, pink-red, brown and violet) from central west coast of India (CW CI). The ratio of pigmented and total viable counts of bacteria revealed that the CW CI possess 26.9 to 33.3% of pigmented bacteria (PIGB). Antioxidant evaluation by a DPPH-radica l decolourization assa y was revealed that 44.2 % of pigmented bacteria exhibited antioxidant property. Molecular identification by 16S rRNA gene sequence of the antioxidant potent bacteria showed a wide genetic diversity covering 22 genera affiliated to 4 major phyla , γ- Proteobacteria, α-Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Firmicutes. Members of genera Pseudomonas, Serratia, Psychrobacter, Bacillus, and Vibrio had the highest proportion of antioxidant activity. Sequencing analysis of the PIGB revealed that some strains had < 97% similarity with their nearest type strains in GenBank data base indicating that they may be novel taxa . This work forms first comprehensive report on the phylogenetic structuring of antioxidative PIGB in CW CI.
The allocation of production time in a confectionery factory
Creators: name: Berry, Stuart
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The objective of this study was to provide the management of the firm involved with a means of scheduling production in a unit where several different types of product are produced. For the purposes of planning, these lines are divided into three exclusive groups, the division being according to the shaping machine required during the final stages of manufacture. On any day the planned production must be one line from any two of these groups. [Continues.]
(401105) Hannah E[lizabeth] Thomson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Area Law from Loop Quantum Gravity
Creators: name: Hamma, Alioscia
name: Hung, Ling-Yan
name: Marciano, Antonino
name: Zhang, Mingyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the constraints following from requiring the Area Law in the entanglement entropy in the context of loop quantum gravity. We find a unique solution to the single link wave-function in the large j limit, believed to be appropriate in the semi-classical limit. We then generalize our considerations to multi-link coherent states, and find that the area law is preserved very generically using our single link wave-function as a building block. Finally, we develop the framework that generates families of multi-link states that preserve the area law while avoiding macroscopic entanglement, the space-time analogue of "Schroedinger cat". We note that these states, defined on a given set of graphs, are the ground states of some local Hamiltonian that can be constructed explicitly. This can potentially shed light on the construction of the appropriate Hamiltonian constraints in the LQG framework.
description: 6+5 pages, 2 figures, presentation improved, appendices added, revised version accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Genetic risk factors for BMI and obesity in an ethnically diverse population: Results from the population architecture using genomics and epidemiology (PAGE) study
Creators: name: Kuller, Lewis H.
name: Chen, Christina T.L.
name: Li, Qiong
name: Buyske, Steven
name: Le Marchand, Loic
name: Gross, Myron D.
name: Manson, Joann E.
name: Matise, Tara C.
name: Glenn, Kimberly
name: Fesinmeyer, Megan D.
name: Crawford, Dana C.
name: Prentice, Ross L.
name: Bůžková, Petra
name: Hindorff, Lucia A.
name: Wilkens, Lynne R.
name: Lim, Unhee
name: Fowke, Jay H.
name: Quibrera, P. Miguel
name: Peters, Ulrike
name: Henderson, Brian E.
name: Kolonel, Laurence N.
name: Ritchie, Marylyn D.
name: Carlson, Christopher S.
name: Li, Rongling
name: Cole, Shelley A.
name: Haiman, Christopher A.
name: Franceschini, Nora
name: Fernández-Rhodes, Lindsay
name: North, Kari E.
name: Howard, Barbara V.
name: Monroe, Kristine R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Several genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have demonstrated that common genetic variants contribute to obesity. However, studies of this complex trait have focused on ancestrally European populations, despite the high prevalence of obesity in some minority groups. As part of the ‘Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE)’ Consortium, we investigated the association between thirteen GWAS-identified SNPs and BMI and obesity in 69,775 subjects, including 6,149 American Indians, 15,415 African-Americans, 2,438 East Asians, 7,346 Hispanics, 604 Pacific Islanders, and 37,823 European Americans. For the BMI-increasing allele of each SNP, we calculated beta coefficients using linear regression (for BMI) and risk estimates using logistic regression (for obesity defined as BMI ≥ 30) followed by fixed-effects meta-analysis to combine results across PAGE sites. Analyses stratified by racial/ethnic group assumed an additive genetic model and adjusted for age, sex, and current smoking. We defined “replicating SNPs” (in European Americans) and “generalizing SNPs” (in other racial/ethnic groups) as those associated with an allele frequency-specific increase in BMI. By this definition, we replicated 9/13 SNP associations (5 out of 8 loci) in European Americans. We also generalized 8/13 SNP associations (5/8 loci) in East Asians, 7/13 (5/8 loci) in African Americans, 6/13 (4/8 loci) in Hispanics, 5/8 in Pacific Islanders (5/8 loci), and 5/9 (4/8 loci) in American Indians. Linkage disequilibrium patterns suggest that tagSNPs selected for European Americans may not adequately tag causal variants in other ancestry groups. Accordingly, fine-mapping in large samples is needed to comprehensively explore these loci in diverse populations.
(401104) Isabella Henderson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Quantenvielteilchenphysik und Quantencomputer
Creators: name: Mehlstäubler, Tanja
name: Fürst, Henning A.
name: Ospelkaus, Christian
Publisher: name: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Year: 2020
Subjects: Quantencomputer
Quantenvielteilchenphysik

description: Enthalten in PTB-Mitteilungen. Band 130 (2020), Heft 3. ISSN 0030-834X
First record of Cabirops marsupialis (Caroli, 1953) (Isopoda: Cabiropidae) from Sea of Marmara, Turkey
Creators: name: ARTÜZ, M. Levent
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2018

description: In August 2014, four mature females and two cryptoniscium of Cabirops marsupialis were collected from the marsupium of female Bopyrina ocellata in the Sea of Marmara, Turkey. This is the first record of C. marsupialis, a previously unknown species in Turkish waters.
Sierracapnia Bottorff & Baumann 2015
Creators: name: Bottorff, Richard L.
name: Baumann, Richard W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Capniidae
Sierracapnia

description: Key to male adults of Sierracapnia Key. Male adults of Sierracapnia species are separated by differences in (1) tergum 7 knobs, (2) epiproct proportions and curvatures, (3) epiproct membrane (or eversible crest), and (4) dorsolateral horns. 1 Epiproct linear in both dorsal and lateral view; shallow ventral keel (Figs. 13-15)............ palomar 1’ Epiproct thick in lateral view; deep ventral keel (Figs. 2, 6, 10, 18, 29, 36)....................................... 2 2 Tergum 7 knob narrow (10-15% segment width) (Figs. 3, 8, 37)..............................…....................... 3 2’ Tergum 7 knob wide (30-35% segment width) (Figs. 9, 17, 26) ……………................................... 5 3 Dorsolateral horns appressed to main epiproct body, membrane not visible below horns (lateral view); epiproct apex not raised; epiproct ventral keel less prominent (Fig. 6).......... hornigi 3’ Dorsolateral horns arch above main epiproct body and expose membrane laterally; epiproct apex raised; epiproct ventral keel prominent (Figs. 2, 36) …………………………………......... 4 4 Tergum 7 knob not notched and medium high (20-25% of tergum 7 height) (Figs. 2, 3); epiproct base with ventrolateral flange (Fig. 1); tips of dorsolateral horns extend forward to 70-78% of epiproct length (Fig. 2)............................... barberi 4’ Tergum 7 knob notched and tall (30-35% of tergum 7 height) (Figs. 34, 37); epiproct base lacks ventrolateral flange (Fig. 35); tips of dorsolateral horns extend forward to 85-88% of epiproct length (Fig. 34)........................... yosemite 5 Epiproct dorsal membrane light colored; epiproct apex narrow (dorsal view) (Figs. 9, 10) …………….…….............................................. mono 5’ Epiproct dorsal membrane dark gray or black (Figs. 22, 24); epiproct apex more broadly rounded (Fig. 28) ……………….......................... 6 6 Epiproct depth ≤20% length; epiproct reversely curved (lateral view); dorsolateral horns 14-18% epiproct length (Fig. 18); epiproct width uniform in apical third (Fig. 17) ………...………………………........…....... shepardi 6’ Epiproct depth>20% length; epiproct less reversely curved; dorsolateral horns 24-29% epiproct length (Fig. 29); epiproct width increases in apical third (Figs. 26, 28) …………………….............................. washoe sp. n.
description: Published as part of Bottorff, Richard L. & Baumann, Richard W., 2015, Sierracapnia, A New Genus Of Capniidae (Plecoptera) From Western North America, pp. 104-125 in Illiesia 11 (9) on page 120, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4757677
A new maximum length for the garfish, Belone belone (Linnaeus, 1761) in the coast of Gökçeada Island (Aegean Sea, Turkey)
Creators: name: ACARLI, Deniz
name: KALE, Semih
name: ÇAKIR, Kamil
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2018

description: A specimen of the garfish, Belone belone (Linnaeus, 1761), was caught in the coast of Gökçeada Island, the northern Aegean Sea along the Turkish coasts. Its total length was 93.3 cm and weight was 1120 g. The given size is the maximum observed length value of the species for the Aegean Sea and the other coasts of Turkey. Also, it is the second largest length ever reported in the all seas of the world.
A numerical study of pseudoscalar inflation with an axion-gauge field coupling
Creators: name: Cheng, Shu-Lin
name: Lee, Wolung
name: Ng, Kin-Wang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A numerical study of a pseudoscalar inflation having an axion-photon-like coupling is performed by solving numerically the coupled differential equations of motion for inflaton and photon mode functions from the onset of inflation to the end of reheating. The backreaction due to particle production is also included self-consistently. We find that this particular inflation model realizes the idea of a warm inflation in which a steady thermal bath is established by the particle production. In most cases this thermal bath exceeds the amount of radiation released in the reheating process. In the strong coupling regime, the transition from the inflationary to the radiation-dominated phase does not involve either a preheating or reheating process. In addition, energy density peaks produced near the end of inflation may lead to the formation of primordial black holes.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures
Impact of participant and interventionist race concordance on weight loss outcomes
Creators: name: Batch, Bryan C.
name: Samuel-Hodge, Carmen
name: Ard, Jamy D.
name: Vollmer, William M.
name: Svetkey, Laura P.
name: Funk, Kristine
name: Stevens, Victor J.
name: Hollis, Jack F.
name: Loria, Catherine M.
name: Appel, Lawrence J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: We have previously shown that racial composition of behavioral intervention groups does not affect achieved weight loss. However, it is unclear if the race of the interventionist affects intervention outcomes. The objective of this analysis is to estimate the impact of race concordance between participant and interventionist on weight change in the initial weight loss phase (phase 1) of the Weight Loss Maintenance trial (WLM).
(401103) John William Thomson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Longitudinal trajectories of BMI and cardiovascular disease risk: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
Creators: name: Gordon-Larsen, Penny
name: Attard, Samantha M.
name: Howard, Annie Green
name: Herring, Amy H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: ObjectiveIn adulthood, excess BMI is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD); it is unknown whether risk differs by BMI trajectories from adolescence to adulthood.Design and MethodsThe National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a nationally representative, longitudinal adolescent cohort (mean age: 16.9y) followed into adulthood (mean age: 29.0y) [n=13,643 individuals (40,929 observations)] was examined. Separate logistic regression models for diabetes, hypertension, and inflammation were used to examine odds of risk factors at given adult BMI according to varying BMI trajectories from adolescence to adulthood.ResultsCVD risk factor prevalence at follow-up ranged from 5.5% (diabetes) to 26.4% (hypertension) and 31.3% (inflammation); risk differed across BMI trajectories. For example, relative to men aged 27y (BMI=23 kg/m2 maintained over full study period), odds for diabetes were comparatively higher for men of the same age and BMI≈30 kg/m2 with ≈8 BMI unit gain between 15-20y (OR=2.35; 95% CI, 1.51, 3.66) or in those who maintained BMI≈30 kg/m2 across the study period (OR=2.33; 1.92, 2.83) relative to the same ≈8 BMI unit gain, but between 20-27y (OR=1.44; 1.10, 1.87).ConclusionsSpecific periods and patterns of weight gain in the transition from adolescence to adulthood might be critical for CVD preventive efforts.
Overweight and obese adult humans have a defective cellular immune response to pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus
Creators: name: Noah, Terry L.
name: Hudgens, Michael G.
name: Paich, Heather A.
name: Weir, Samuel S.
name: Handy, Jean
name: Sheridan, Patricia A.
name: Schultz-Cherry, Stacey
name: Karlsson, Erik A.
name: Beck, Melinda A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: ObjectiveObese adults have a greater risk of morbidity and mortality from infection with pandemic H1N1 influenza A virus (pH1N1). The objective of the present study was to elucidate the specific mechanisms by which obesity and overweight impact the cellular immune response to pH1N1.Design and MethodsWe stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells from healthy weight, overweight, and obese individuals ex vivo with live pH1N1 and then measured markers of activation and function using flow cytometry and cytokine secretion using cytometric bead array assays.ResultsOur data indicate that CD4+ and CD8+ T cells from overweight and obese individuals expressed lower levels of CD69, CD28, CD40 ligand, and interleukin-12 receptor, as well as, produced lower levels of interferon-γ and granzyme B, compared to healthy weight individuals, suggesting deficiencies in activation and function. Dendritic cells from the three groups expressed similar levels of major histocompatibility complex-II, CD40, CD80, and CD86, as well as, produced similar levels of interleukin-12.ConclusionsThe defects in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells may contribute to the increased morbidity and mortality from pH1N1 in obese individuals. These data also provide evidence that both overweight and obesity cause impairments in immune function.
(401102) Margaret [Thompson]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Pressuring and restrictive feeding styles influence infant feeding and size among a low-income African-American sample
Creators: name: Adair, Linda S.
name: Bentley, Margaret E.
name: Thompson, Amanda L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The prevalence of overweight among infants and toddlers has increased dramatically in the past three decades, highlighting the importance of identifying factors contributing to early excess weight gain, particularly in high-risk groups. Parental feeding styles, the attitudes and behaviors that characterize parental approaches to maintaining or modifying children’s eating behavior, are an important behavioral component shaping early obesity risk. Using longitudinal data from the Infant Care and Risk of Obesity Study, a cohort study of 217 African-American mother-infant pairs with feeding styles, dietary recalls and anthropometry collected from 3-18 months of infant age, we examined the relationship between feeding styles, infant diet and weight–for-age and sum of skinfolds. Longitudinal mixed models indicated that higher pressuring and indulgent feeding style scores were positively associated with greater infant energy intake, reduced odds of breastfeeding and higher levels of age-inappropriate feeding of liquids and solids while restrictive feeding styles were associated with lower energy intake, higher odds of breastfeeding and reduced odds of inappropriate feeding. Pressuring and restriction were also oppositely related to infant size with pressuring associated with lower infant weight-for-age and restriction with higher weight-for-age and sum of skinfolds. Infant size also predicted maternal feeding styles in subsequent visits indicating that the relationship between size and feeding styles is likely bidirectional. Our results suggest that the degree to which parents are pressuring or restrictive during feeding shapes the early feeding environment and, consequently, may be an important environmental factor in the development of obesity.
Correcting the record on the analysis of IBEX and STEREO data regarding variations in the neutral interstellar wind
Creators: name: Frisch, P. C.
name: Bzowski, M.
name: Drews, C.
name: Leonard, T.
name: Livadiotis, G.
name: McComas, D. J.
name: Moebius, E.
name: Schwadron, N. A.
name: Sokol, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The journey of the Sun through space carries the solar system through a dynamic interstellar environment that is presently characterized by Mach 1 motion between the heliosphere and the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). The interaction between the heliosphere and ISM is an evolving process due to the variable solar wind and to interstellar turbulence. Frisch et al. presented a meta-analysis of the historical data on the interstellar wind flowing through the heliosphere and concluded that temporal changes in the ecliptic longitude of the wind were statistically indicated by the data available in the refereed literature at the time of that writing. Lallement and Bertaux disagree with this result, and suggested, for instance, that a key instrumental response function of IBEX-Lo was incorrect and that the STEREO pickup ion data are unsuitable for diagnosing the flow of interstellar neutrals through the heliosphere. Here we show that temporal variations in the interstellar wind through the heliosphere are consistent with our knowledge of local ISM. The statistical analysis of the historical helium wind data is revisited, and a recent correction of a typographical error in the literature is incorporated into the new fits. With this correction, and including no newer IBEX results, these combined data still indicate that a change in the longitude of the interstellar neutral wind over the past forty years is statistically likely, but that a constant flow longitude is now also statistically possible. It is shown that the IBEX instrumental response function is known, and that the STEREO pickup ion data have been correctly utilized in this analysis.
description: Astrophysical Journal, in press
The efficacy of a daily self-weighing weight loss intervention using smart scales and email
Creators: name: Samuel-Hodge, Carmen
name: Tate, Deborah F.
name: Ennett, Susan
name: Bennett, Gary G.
name: Steinberg, Dori M.
name: Ward, Dianne S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: ObjectiveTo examine the impact of a weight loss intervention that focused on daily self-weighing for self-monitoring as compared to a delayed control group among 91 overweight adults.Design and MethodsThe 6-month intervention included a cellular-connected “smart” scale for daily weighing, web-based weight loss graph, and weekly emails with tailored feedback and lessons. An objective measure of self-weighing frequency was obtained. Weight was measured in clinic at 3 and 6 months. Caloric intake and expenditure, and perceptions of daily self-weighing were also measured.ResultsUsing intent-to-treat analyses, the intervention group lost significantly more weight compared to the control group [Mean (95%CI); 3 months: −4.41%(−5.5, −3.3) vs. −0.37%(−1.5, .76); 6 months: −6.55%(−7.7, −5.4) vs. −0.35%(−1.5, .79); group×time interaction: p<.001] and a greater percentage achieved 5% (42.6% vs. 6.8%; p<.0001) and 10% (27.7% vs. 0%; p<.0001) weight loss. On average, the intervention group self-weighed more days/week (6.1±1.1 vs. 1.1±1.5; p<.0001) and consumed fewer calories/day compared to the control group [Mean (95% CI); 6 months: 1509 (1291,1728) vs. 1856 (1637,2074); group×time interaction: p=.006]. Among intervention participants, daily self-weighing was perceived positively.ConclusionsThese results indicate that an intervention focusing on daily self-weighing can produce clinically significant weight loss.
On the Mediterranean occurrence of Guinean amberjack Seriola carpenteri (Osteichthyes: Carangidae), with first confirmed record from the Tunisian coast
Creators: name: CAPAPÉ, Christian
name: RAFRAFI-NOUIRA, Sihem
name: DIATTA, Youssouph
name: GOLANI, Daniel
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2018

description: The authors report in the present note the first confirmed record of Guinean amberjack, Seriola carpenteri Mather, 1971 in Tunisian waters, based on available specimens, captured in northern Tunisia, off Ras Jebel. The specimens are shortly described including morphometric measurements and meristic counts. Species distribution in the central Mediterranean Sea is commented and discussed. These new collected specimens indicate that a viable population of Seriola carpenteri is probably established in the area.
(401101) David Thompson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Density fluctuations in a quasi-one-dimensional Bose gas as observed in free expansion
Creators: name: Gawryluk, Krzysztof
name: Gajda, Mariusz
name: Brewczyk, Miroslaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study, within a framework of the classical fields approximation, the density correlations of a weakly interacting expanding Bose gas for the whole range of temperatures across the Bose-Einstein condensation threshold. We focus on elongated quasi-one-dimensional systems where there is a huge discrepancy between the existing theory and experimental results (A. Perrin et al., Nature Phys. 8, 195 (2012)). We find that the density correlation function is not reduced for temperatures below the critical one as it is predicted for the ideal gas or for a weakly interacting system within the Bogoliubov approximation. This behavior of the density correlations agrees with the above mentioned experiment with the elongated system. Although the system was much larger then studied here we believe that the behavior of the density correlation function found there is quite generic. Our theoretical studies indicate also large density fluctuations in the trap in the quasicondensate regime where only phase fluctuations were expected. We argue that the enhanced density fluctuations can originate in the presence of interactions in the system, or more precisely in the existence of spontaneous dark solitons in the elongated gas at thermal equilibrium.
description: Submited to PRA
The obesity epidemic and changes in self-report biases in BMI
Creators: name: Hattori, Aiko
name: Sturm, Roland
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: To assess time trends in measurement error of BMI and the sensitivity/specificity of classifying weight status in the United States by analyzing the difference in BMI between self-reported and measured height and weight.
Built Environment Change and Change in BMI and Waist Circumference: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Creators: name: Barrientos-Gutierrez, Tonatiuh
name: Zagorski, Melissa A.
name: Rodriguez, Daniel A.
name: Diez Roux, Ana V.
name: Moore, Kari A.
name: Hirsch, Jana A.
name: Brines, Shannon J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: OBJECTIVE: To examine longitudinal associations of the neighborhood built environment with objectively measured body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) in a geographically and racial/ethnically diverse group of adults.

METHODS: This study used data from 5,506 adult participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, aged 45-84 years in 2000 (baseline). BMI and WC were assessed at baseline and four follow-up visits (median follow-up 9.1 years). Time-varying built environment measures (population density, land-use, destinations, bus access, and street characteristics) were created using Geographic Information Systems. Principal components analysis was used to derive composite scores for three built environment factors. Fixed-effects models, tightly controlling for all time-invariant characteristics, estimated associations between change in the built environment, and change in BMI and WC.

RESULTS: Increases in the intensity of development (higher density of walking destinations and population density, and lower percent residential) were associated with less pronounced increases or decreases over time in BMI and WC. Changes in connected retail centers (higher percent retail, higher street connectivity) and public transportation (distance to bus) were not associated with changes in BMI or WC.

CONCLUSIONS: Longitudinal changes in the built environment, particularly increased density, are associated with decreases in BMI and WC.
Second Mediterranean record of Emperor angelfish, Pomacanthus imperator (Osteichthyes: Pomacanthidae), and first record from the Syrian coast
Creators: name: CAPAPÉ, Christian
name: ALI, Malek
name: ALI, Abdellatif
name: ESMAIL, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2018

description: This second Mediterranean record of Emperor angelfish, Pomacanthus imperator (Bloch, 1787) constitutes also the first record of this non-indigenous species for the Syrian waters. The specimen is succinctly described including morphometric measurements and meristic counts. The species distribution in the eastern Mediterranean Sea is commented and discussed. However, this new capture does not suggest that a viable population of P. imperator is established in the area, further records are needed in order to assess its local occurrence.
(401100) Matilda Preston
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Regge symmetry of 6-j or super 6-jS symbols: a re-analysis with partition properties
Creators: name: Bréhamet, Lionel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It shown that the five Regge transformations act as a spectrometric splitter on any 6-j symbol. Four unknown partitions are brought out: S4(0), S4(1), S(2) and S4(5). They are stable subsets, with well defined parameters depending only on triangles and quadrangles. These findings are easily generalized to super 6-jS symbols, properly labelled by their own parity alpha, beta, gamma. Super Regge symmetry is reduced only for beta where S4(2), S4(5) vanish. In addition, all tools for computing exact values of any 6-jS are provided.
description: 10 pages
Childbearing is not associated with young women’s long-term obesity risk
Creators: name: Robinson, Whitney R.
name: Siega-Riz, Anna M.
name: Cheng, Mariah M.
name: Hoggatt, Katherine J.
name: Stürmer, Til
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Contemporary childbearing is associated with greater gestational weight gain and post-partum weight retention than in previous decades, potentially leading to a more pronounced effect of childbearing on women’s long-term obesity risk. Previous work on the association of childbearing with women’s long-term obesity risk mostly examined births in the 1970s and 1980s and produced mixed results.OBJECTIVEWe estimated the association of childbearing and obesity incidence in a diverse, contemporary sample of 2,731 U.S. women.DESIGN AND METHODSPropensity-score (PS) matching was used for confounding control when estimating the effect of incident parity (1996 to 2001) on 7-year incident obesity (BMI≥30 kg/m2) (2001 to 2008).RESULTSIn the sample, 19.3% of parous women became obese while 16.1% of unmatched nulliparous women did. After PS matching without and with replacement, the differences in obesity incidence were, respectively, 0.0 percentage points (ppts) (95% CI: −4.7 to 4.7) and 0.9 ppts (95% CI: −4.9 to 6.7). Results were similar in analyses of prevalent parity and obesity in 2008 (n=6601) conducted to explore possible selection bias.CONCLUSIONSThese results imply that, in contemporary U.S. parous women in their late 20s and early 30s, childbearing may not increase obesity incidence.
ENERGY BALANCE IN ADOLESCENT GIRLS: THE TRIAL OF ACTIVITY FOR ADOLESCENT GIRLS COHORT
Creators: name: Elder, John P.
name: Cohen, Deborah A.
name: Lytle, Leslie
name: Beckman, Robin
name: Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Pickrel, Julie
name: Rodriguez, Daniel A.
name: Conway, Terry L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: ObjectivesTo study correlates of change in BMI percentile and body fat among adolescent girlsDesign and MethodsA longitudinal prospective study following 265 girls from the Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls (TAAG) cohort measured in 8th grade and during 10 and 11th grade or 11th and 12th grade. Twice during 2009-2011 girls wore an accelerometer and completed a food frequency questionnaire and 7-day diary documenting trips and food eaten away from home and school. Physical activity, BMI, and percent body fat were objectively measured at each time point.ResultsModerate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) declined, but was not independently associated with changes in BMI percentile. Increased vigorous physical activity was associated with reductions in body fat. Diet was associated with both changes in BMI percentile and body fat. Girls who increased the percentage of caloric intake from snacks and desserts reduced their BMI percentile and body fat.ConclusionsSome relationships between energy balance behaviors and BMI and body composition were counter-intuitive. While it is plausible that vigorous activity would result in reductions of body fat, until more accurate methods are devised to measure diet, the precise contribution of dietary composition to health will be difficult to assess.
(401099) John Thomas
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Genome-wide Linkage and Regional Association Study of Obesity-related Phenotypes: The GenSalt study
Creators: name: Rao, Dabeeru C.
name: Liu, De Pei
name: Liu, Angela Y.
name: Gu, Dongfeng
name: Shimmin, Lawrence C.
name: Hixson, James E.
name: He, Jiang
name: Jaquish, Cashell E.
name: Kelly, Tanika N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: ObjectiveTo identify chromosomal regions harboring quantitative trait loci (QTL) for waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI).Design and MethodsWe conducted a genome-wide linkage scan and regional association study WC and BMI among 633 Chinese families.ResultsA significant linkage signal for WC was observed at 22q13.31–22q13.33 in the overall analysis (LOD=3.13). Follow-up association study of 22q13.31–13.33 revealed an association between the TBC1D22A gene marker rs16996195 and WC (false discovery rate (FDR)-Q<0.05). In gender-stratified analysis, suggestive linkage signals were attained for WC at 2p24.3–2q12.2 and 22q13.33 among females (LOD=2.54 and 2.15, respectively). Among males, 6q12–6q13 was suggestively linked to BMI (LOD= 2.03). Single marker association analyses at these regions identified male-specific relationships of 6 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at 2p24.3–2q12.2 (rs100955, rs13020676, rs13014034, rs12990515, rs17024325 and rs2192712) and 5 SNPs at 6q12–6q13 (rs7747318, rs7767301, rs12197115, rs12203049, and rs9454847) with the obesity-related phenotypes (all FDR-Q<0.05). At chromosome 6q12–6q13, markers rs7755450 and rs11758293 predicted BMI in females (both FDR-Q<0.05).ConclusionsWe described genomic regions on chromosomes 2, 6, and 22 which may harbor important obesity-susceptibility loci. Follow-up study of these regions revealed several novel variants associated with obesity related traits. Future work to confirm these promising findings is warranted.
First record of the Yellow-crested rockskipper Istiblennius flaviumbrinus (Rüppell, 1830) (Teleostei: Blenniidae) from the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea
Creators: name: FRICKE, Ronald
name: GOLANI, Daniel
name: APPELBAUM-GOLANI, Brenda
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2018

description: During a survey of fishes of the northern Gulf of Aqaba in 1986, a specimen of Istiblennius flaviumbrinus was discovered, which represents a new record of that species for Israel and the Gulf of Aqaba, and significantly extends the distribution range of this species to the northernmost extension of the Red Sea. The specimen is described in the present paper, and its distribution and potential for Lessepsian invasion into the eastern Mediterranean discussed.
Associations of intergenerational education with metabolic health in USLatinos: Intergenerational Education and Health
Creators: name: Haan, Mary N.
name: Gordon-Larsen, Penny
name: Garcia, Lorena
name: Robinson, Whitney R.
name: Zeki Al Hazzouri, Adina
name: Clayton, Erin
name: Aiello, Allison E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the association of intergenerational education and country of birth with waist circumference, metabolic syndrome, and type-2 diabetes among older adult Latinos in the United States.
Generalized eikonal approximation for strong-field ionization
Creators: name: Vélez, F. Cajiao
name: Krajewska, K.
name: Kamiński, J. Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop the eikonal perturbation theory to describe the strong-field ionization by finite laser pulses. This approach in the first order with respect to the binding potential (the so-called generalized eikonal approximation) avoids a singularity at the potential center. Thus, in contrast to the ordinary eikonal approximation, it allows to treat rescattering phenomena in terms of quantum trajectories. We demonstrate how the first Born approximation and its domain of validity follow from eikonal perturbation theory. Using this approach, we study the coherent diffraction patterns in photoelectron energy spectra and their modifications induced by the interaction of photoelectrons with the atomic potential. Along with these first results, we discuss the prospects of using the generalized eikonal approximation to study strong-field ionization from multi-centered atomic systems and to study other strong-field phenomena.
description: 31 pages, 8 figures
Parent Stars of Extrasolar Planets. XV. Host Star Rotation Revisited with {\it Kepler} Data
Creators: name: Gonzalez, Guillermo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We employed published rotation periods of {\it Kepler} field stars to test whether stars hosting planets tend to rotate more slowly than stars without known planets. Spectroscopic vsini observations of nearby stars with planets have indicated that they tend to have smaller visni values. We employ data for {\it Kepler} Objects of Interest (KOIs) from the first 16 quarters of its original mission; stellar parameters are based on the analysis of the first 17 quarters. We confirm that KOI stars rotate more slowly with much greater confidence than we had previously found for nearby stars with planets. Furthermore, we find that stars with planets of all types rotate more slowly, not just stars with giant planets.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
The group of Hamiltonian automorphisms of a star product
Creators: name: La Fuente-Gravy, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D55, 22E65, 57N20

description: We deform the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms into the group of Hamiltonian automorphisms of a formal star product on a symplectic manifold. We study the geometry of that group and deform the Flux morphism in the framework of deformation quantization.
description: 20 pages
Comparing measures of overall and central obesity in relation to cardiometabolic risk factors among US Hispanic/Latino adults: Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk in Hispanics
Creators: name: Hanna, David B.
name: Llabre, Maria M.
name: Schneiderman, Neil
name: Pirzada, Amber
name: Qi, Qibin
name: Strizich, Garrett
name: Kaplan, Robert C.
name: Avilés-Santa, Larissa M.
name: Giacinto, Rebeca E.
name: Castañeda, Sheila F.
name: Sotres-Alvarez, Daniela
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: US Hispanics/Latinos have high prevalence of obesity and related comorbidities. We compared overall and central obesity measures in associations with cardiometabolic outcomes among US Hispanics/Latinos.
A new record of Aphanius fasciatus (Valenciennes, 1821) on Cyprus; insights for conservation
Creators: name: ENGLEZOU, Christopher
name: GÜCEL, Salih
name: ZOGARIS, Stamatis
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2018

description: A range extension of the Mediterranean Killifish (Aphanius fasciatus) is described along the northern coast of Cyprus at Morphou Bay/Güzelyurt Körfezi. Several individuals of both sexes were caught using a triangular brail folding fishing net on December 9th 2015. Total length ranged from 14.6 to 58.0 mm and weight ranged from 0.1 to 2.4 g. The site where the fishes are found is a coastal salt-marsh wetland with gravel quarry excavation ponds that maintain permanent aquatic refugia even during prolonged droughts. This is the third coastal location on Cyprus where Aphanius is documented. The population is probably isolated from the others since there is very little chance of frequent dispersal among the existing populations due to unsuitable coastal habitat and the degradation of natural coastal wetlands. Since much of the coast of Cyprus has been rapidly developed this area is important for the conservation of Aphanius, as well as for other wetland species, and should be considered for inclusion within a newly planned protected area.
(401098) Martha Alexander
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.