cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Darevskia steineri Ahmadzadeh et al. 2013
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lacertidae
Darevskia
Darevskia steineri

description: Darevskia steineri (Eiselt, 1995)
 Lacerta steineri Eiselt, 1995: 63.
COMMON NAME. — Steiner’s Lizard.
HOLOTYPE. — NMW 33715.
TYPE LOCALITY. — GoleLoweh near Minou-dasht, Golestan Province.
 DISTRIBUTION. — Only known from a few localities in the East Hyrcanian forest in Golestan Province (Ahmadzadeh et al. 2013).
 HABITAT. — Found in the vicinity of Loveh Waterfall among dense forest, around the timbers and on the ground (Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. 2013; Rastegar-Pouyani et al. 2013).
IUCN. — Data deficient.
 REFERENCES. — Eiselt (1995); Anderson (1999); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2013); Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013); Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013).
REMARK
 Based on Hosseinian Yousefkhani et al. (2013) this species is negatively affected by human activities, so more protection is needed for this species. Rastegar-Pouyani et al. (2013) stated that the coordinates given by Eiselt (1995) (33°11’N, 35°21’E) for this species are obviously incorrect since this is significantly far from the type locality given by him. They provided the coordinates of collecting locality (37°20’53”N, 55°40’28”E) for their collected material, being far from the Eiselt locality. Darevskia steineri, D. schaekeli Ahmedzadah, Flecks, Carretero, Mozaffari, Böhme, Harris, Freitas & Röd-der, 2013, D. defilippii (Camerano, 1877) and D. kopetdaghica Ahmedzadah, Flecks, Carretero, Mozaffari, Böhme, Harris, Freitas & Rödder, 2013, form the D. defilippii -complex (Ahmadzadeh et al. 2013).
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 518, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
Book review: 'Environmental change, climate and health: issues and research methods', by Pim Martens and Anthony J. McMichael
Creators: name: Dunn, Louise
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Louise Dunn reviews the book 'Environmental change, climate and health: issues and research methods', by Pim Martens and Anthony J. McMichael, published by Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2002.
Geospatial Clean Cooking Access Modelling - Using OnStove  (A Case Study of Ghana)
Creators: name: Akuaku, David Kabutey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: OnStove is a geospatial tool that evaluates the net benefits of various stoves compared to a defined baseline. The net benefits of all stoves are then compared to each other. The net benefit is the total benefits minus the total costs. The benefits comprise reduced mortality, reduced morbidity, lower emissions, and time saved, and the costs are capital cost, fuel cost, operation, and maintenance costs. The OnStove is modelled in two scenarios(social and private).
Composing security-aware software
Creators: name: Han, J.
name: Khan, K.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This article addresses a key issue in security: how to inspire trust by disclosing security properties of software components to others in a component-based software development environment. The authors introduce a component security characterization framework in this endeavor that characterizes security properties by exposing software security profiles to others. The active interface lets software engineers know up front the impact of security properties of a composition's candidate components.
Eremias andersoni Darevsky & Szczerbak 1978
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lacertidae
Eremias
Eremias andersoni

description: Eremias andersoni Darevsky & Szczerbak, 1978
 Eremias andersoni Darevsky & Szczerbak, 1978: 13.
COMMON NAME. — Anderson’s Racerunner.
HOLOTYPE. — MMTT 1671.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Dashte-Kavir Desert, 45 km East of Namak Lake (34°30’N, 52°40’E).
 DISTRIBUTION. — Dashte-Kavir Desert in Semnan, Qom and Esfahan Provinces (Safaei-Mahroo et al. 2015).
HABITAT. — Isolated areas of semi-stable sands in stony desert. Largely found in the low areas between dunes among grasses and low shrubs (Anderson 1999).
IUCN. — Least concern.
 REFERENCES. — Darevsky & Shcherbak (1978); Anderson (1999); Safaei-Mahroo et al. (2015).
REMARK
 This species is known only from the holotype and two paratypes. According to morphological evalutions, it shows affinity to Eremias fasciata Blanford, 1874, but its subgeneric position remains unclear (Darevsky & Shcherbak 1978; Anderson 1999).
 Eremias isfahanica Rastegar-Pouyani, Hosseinian, Rafiee,
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on pages 518-519, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
title: Roberta Iannone, Romina Gurashi, Ilaria Iannuzzi, Giovanni de Ghantuz Cubbe, Melissa Sessa (2019).Smart Society. A Sociological Perspective on Smart Living
Creators: name: Termine, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Università di Pisa
Year: 2021

description: The Lab's Quarterly, XXII(4), 193-199
An Exploratory Assessment of a Smartphone Application for Public Participation in Forest Fuels Measurement in the Wildland-Urban Interface
Creators: name: Ferster, Colin J.
name: Coops, Nicholas C.
name: Harshaw, Howard W.
name: Kozak, Robert A.
name: Meitner, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Wildfire management in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) protects property and life from wildland fire. One approach that has potential to provide information about the amount and location of fuels to forest managers and, at the same time, increase public knowledge and engagement in reducing wildfire threats is public participation in scientific research (PPSR)—also known as citizen science—where members of the public participate in the research process. In this exploratory study, residents of a wildfire-affected community tested a smartphone application to collect data about forest fuels and answered questions about wildfire, their community, and experiences using the application. In this paper, the application is introduced, the volunteers’ motivations, attitudes, and behaviors are considered, and the potential of using a PPSR approach for wildfire management discussed. Although there are practical challenges to applying PPSR approaches to wildfire hazard management, the participants in this study demonstrated the potential of PPSR to increase awareness and understanding of actions that can reduce the threat of wildfire. Wildfire managers may consider utilizing PPSR approaches to engage the community in wildfire preparedness.
‘You Just Struggle on Your Own’: Exploring Older People and Their Caregivers' Perspectives About Falls Prevention Education in Hospitals
Creators: name: Hill, Anne‐Marie
name: Vaz, Sharmila
name: Francis‐Coad, Jacqueline
name: Flicker, Leon
name: Morris, Meg
name: Weselman, Tammy
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 420301
subject: Aged health care
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 4205
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences

description: Background: Providing older patients with an opportunity to participate in individualised falls preventive education, has been shown to reduce hospital falls. However, few studies have explored older peoples' perspectives of hospital falls prevention education. This study aimed to explore older people and their caregivers' knowledge and awareness about hospital falls prevention, including their reflections on the education they received when hospitalised. Methods: A qualitative, exploratory study with focus groups and semistructured interviews was conducted. Participants were a purposively selected sample of community-dwelling older people (65+ years) admitted to a hospital in the past 5 years and caregivers of older people. Data were thematically analysed using deductive and inductive approaches, and a capability–opportunity–motivation–behaviour model was applied to understand key determinants of implementing falls education for hospitalised older people. Results: Participants' [n = 46 (older people n = 37, age range 60–89 years), caregivers n = 9] feedback identified five themes: distress and disempowerment if the participant did have a hospital fall or nearly fell, anxiety and uncertainty about what behaviour was required while in hospital, insufficient and inconsistent falls prevention education, inadequate communication and underlying attitudes of ageism. Applying a behaviour change model suggested that older people and their caregivers did not develop falls prevention knowledge, awareness or motivation to engage in falls prevention behaviour. Older people were also provided with limited opportunities to engage in falls preventive behaviour while in hospital. Conclusion: Older people in our study received sporadic education about falls prevention during their hospital admissions which did not raise their awareness and knowledge about the risk of falls or their capability to engage in safe falls preventive behaviour. Conflicting messages may result in older people feeling confused and anxious about staying safe in hospital.
Eremias kavirensis Mozaffari & Parham 2007
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lacertidae
Eremias
Eremias kavirensis

description: Eremias kavirensis Mozaffari & Parham, 2007
 Eremias kavirensis Mozaffari & Parham, 2007: 569.
COMMON NAME. — Kavir Desert Lacerta.
HOLOTYPE. — MMTT / AHI 1008, CAS 238636.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Maranjab sand dunes, 34°17’51”N, 51°50’57”E, Esfahan Province.
DISTRIBUTION. — Only currently known from the type locality and believed to be a restricted-range species.
IUCN. — Least concern.
REFERENCE. — Mozaffari & Parham (2007).
 HABITAT. — This species is believed to be endemic to the Maranjab sand dune habitat. Animals are found in the sand dunes, and are not present in surrounding gravelly areas. The dune weed Stipagrostis pennata De Winter, 1963 dominates the vegetation at the type locality. E. kavirensis is presumably an egg-laying species.
REMARK
 This species can be differentiated from Eremias grammica (Lichtenstein, 1883) by having enlarged tibial scales and from E. acutirostris (Boulenger, 1887) by having scales of the flank larger than those of the back as well as having two rows of enlarged tibial scales instead of one.
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 519, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
Asymmetrical correlation test for constructing super Bayesian influence networks for financial intermarket influence analysis
Creators: name: Pan, Heping
name: Soukhoroukova, Nadejda
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents a computational procedure for asymmetrical correlation test as the first step for constructing super Bayesian influence networks with an application in financial intermarket influence analysis. We start with a data set of multivariate time series without any prior knowledge about possible influences in the problem domain. With the belief on the existence of influence patterns, asymmetrical correlation test is developed to detect all possible asymmetries among all the pairs of random variables. We then use paired t-test to check the statistical significance for each detected asymmetric correlation. Furthermore, we check the possible existence of ever-changing cycles in nonlinear dynamical systems such as financial markets. This procedure results in a dynamic directed acyclic graph of the random variables, which provides a graphical basis for a super Bayesian influence network. Note that asymmetrical correlation test can quickly become complicated when the scale space of time and the expanding set of conditioning variables for each asymmetrical correlation are introduced. On the other hand, symmetrical or undirected correlations should not be ignored completely, as they may bear additional information for augmenting super Bayesian influence networks to general super influence networks.
Eremias lalezharica Moravec 1994
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lacertidae
Eremias
Eremias lalezharica

description: Eremias lalezharica Moravec, 1994
 Eremias lalezharica Moravec, 1994: 61.
COMMON NAME. — Lalehzar Racerunner.
HOLOTYPE. — NMP6 V 34555 /3.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Lalezhar, Kerman Province.
 DISTRIBUTION. — In addition to the localities of the holotype and paratypes, Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2013) found a new locality for Eremias lalezharica on the road from Jiroft to Darb-e Behesht, in the Babgorgi region, 100 km to the South East of the terra typica along the Lalehzar Mountains, with coordinates 29°05’N, 57°32’E, and an elevation of 2890 m.
 HABITAT. — E. lalezharica has been recorded from a mountain plateau with degraded steppe habitat, rural gardens and fields and wet meadows. Specimens were collected in open fields of soil and stones washed down the slopes of Mount Lalehzar. Animals were observed along the banks of an irrigation ditch and in the vicinity of irrigated gardens (Moravec 1994; Anderson 1999).
IUCN. — Least concern.
REFERENCES. — Moravec (1994); Anderson (1999); Hosseinian Yousefkhani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2013).
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 519, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
Communist Chinese Monographs in the USDA Library
Creators: name: Kuo, Leslie T. C.
name: Schroeder, Peter B.
name: Kuo, Leslie T. C.
name: Schroeder, Peter B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1961
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Excerpts: The U.S.D.A. Library has long recognized its need for improved handling of Oriental agricultural publications. There has been an urgent and special necessity for bibliographic assistance, since the languages from this area of the world are read by so few people in the United States. The preparation of comprehensive agricultural bibliographies for the Asian publications in agriculture is a first step in acquainting U.S. agriculturalists with current research in the Orient. The present list includes monographic publications from Communist China which have been received in this Library. Translations from other languages into the Chinese have not been included except those that have been expanded with Chinese interpretations. Special attention should be called to the 20 reprints of old Chinese books containing information on agricultural experimentation and practices covering the past centuries. The Chinese Communists have stressed the importance of the old traditional agricultural practices and have established an institute devoted to the study of these practices. The bibliography provides a view of the variety of publications prepared in agricultural and related fields, including materials for all educational levels, ranging from pamphlets for farmers, workers and children to highly technical publications for research worker.
Eremias montana Rastegar-Pouyani & Rastegar-Pouyani 2001
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lacertidae
Eremias
Eremias montana

description: Eremias montana Rastegar-Pouyani & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2001
 Eremias montana Rastegar-Pouyani & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2001: 108.
COMMON NAME. — Mountain Racerunner.
HOLOTYPE. — Field number P198.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Upland regions of the Zagros Mountains, 60 km North East of city of Kermanshah (34°52’N, 47°5’E), Kermanshah Province.
 DISTRIBUTION. — In addition to the localities of the holotype and paratypes, E. montana has been found in South regions of Hamedan Province, about 21 km South West of Hamedan city (c. 34°33’N, 48°25’E) at 2800 m a.s.l. and in the highlands of Badr and Parishan (2466 m a.s.l.) in South of Qorveh, Kurdistan Province, Western Iran (35°04’N, 47°47’E) (Rastegar-Pouyani & Rastegar-Pouyani 2005; Bahmani et al. 2011).
 HABITAT. — This species is associated with upland and mountainous steppes, with luxurious vegetation. The animals forage among shrubs and hide in holes when disturbed. In the Alvand Mountains, this species has been recorded from stony hills and mountainous steppes. Vegetation at the type locality is mainly Astragalus, Euphorbia, Gondelium as well as other species of the families Graminaceae and Compositeae. The area is snowcovered during the winter, with a relatively short mild summer period. Animals may be found foraging among the shrubs, and take refuge in these shrubs when alarmed (Rastegar-Pouyani & Rastegar-Pouyani 2005).
IUCN. — Least concern.
 REFERENCES. — Rastegar-Pouyani & Rastegar-Pouyani (2001, 2005); Bahmani et al. (2011).
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 519, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
Mineralogical Study of a Biologically-Based Treatment System That Removes Arsenic, Zinc and Copper from Landfill Leachate
Creators: name: Khoshnoodi, Maryam
name: Dipple, Gregory
name: Baldwin, Susan A.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Mineralogical characterization by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and a high throughput automated quantitative evaluation of minerals by scanning electron microscopy (QEMSCAN) was conducted on samples from a sulphate-reducing biochemical reactor (BCR) treating high concentrations of metals (As, Zn, Cu) in smelter waste landfill seepage. The samples were also subjected to energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis of specific particles. The bulk analysis results revealed that the samples consisted mainly of silicate and carbonate minerals. More detailed phase analysis indicated four different classes: zinc-arsenic sulphosalts/sulphates, zinc-arsenic oxides, zinc phosphates and zinc-lead sulphosalts/sulphates. This suggests that sulphates and sulphides are the predominant types of Zn and As minerals formed in the BCR. Sphalerite (ZnS) was a common mineral observed in many of the samples. In addition, X-ray point analysis showed evidence of As and Zn coating around feldspar and amphibole particles. The presence of arsenic-zinc-iron, with or without cadmium particles, indicated arsenopyrite minerals. Copper-iron-sulphide particles suggested chalcopyrite (CuFeS₂) and tennantite (Cu,Fe)₁₂As₄S₁₃. Microbial communities found in each sample were correlated with metal content to describe taxonomic groups associated with high-metal samples. The research results highlight mineral grains that were present or formed at the site that might be the predominant forms of immobilized arsenic, zinc and copper.
Eremias papenfussi Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Parham 2011
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lacertidae
Eremias
Eremias papenfussi

description: Eremias papenfussi Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Parham, 2011
 Eremias papenfussi Mozaffari, Ahmadzadeh & Parham, 2011: 57.
COMMON NAME. — Papenfuss’s Racerunner.
HOLOTYPE. — ZFMK 91701.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Sooleghan Mountains (35°47’44.9”N, 51°14’20.2”E), Tehran Province in the Alborz Mountain Range.
DISTRIBUTION. — In addition to the localities of the holotype and paratypes, other specimens were collected from the Vard Avard region in Tehran Province (35°47’56.48”N, 51°7’34.40”E).
 HABITAT. — Part of the Alborz Mountains consists of mild rocky slopes. The dominant vegetation is Amygdalus, Astragalus and annual grasses.
IUCN. — Not evaluated.
 REFERENCE. — Mozaffari et al. (2011a).
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 520, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
Long-term timing of millisecond pulsars and gravitational wave detection
Creators: name: Verbiest, Joris Paul Wim
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This thesis presents the results from a long-term timing campaign on 20 millisecond pulsars (MSPs). The stability of these pulsars is analysed in order to allow assessment of gravitational wave (GW) detection efforts through pulsar timing. In addition, we present a new method of limiting the amplitude of a stochastic background of GWs and derive a strong limit from applying this method to our data. GWs are a prediction of general relativity (GR) that has thus far only been confirmed indirectly. While a direct detection could give important evidence of GW properties and provide insight into the processes that are predicted to generate these waves, a detection that contradicts GR might herald a breakthrough in gravitational theory and fundamental science. Two types of projects are currently being undertaken to make the first direct detection of GWs. One of these uses ground-based interferometers to detect the GW-induced space-time curvature, the other uses pulsar timing. This thesis is concerned with the latter: the Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs). The high stability of some MSPs, along with ever increasing levels of timing precision, has been predicted to enable detection of GWeffects on the Earth. Specifically, it has been shown that if the timing precision on 20 MSPs can be maintained at levels of !100 ns during five years to a decade, a correlated effect owing to GWs from predicted cosmic origins, can be detected. However, no timing at a precision of 100 ns has been maintained for more than a few years - and only on a few pulsars. After combining archival data and employing state-of-the-art calibration methods, we achieved 200 ns timing precision over 10 years on PSR J0437−4715 - which is a record at such time scales. This high stability in itself provides several interesting measurements, for example of the variation of Newton's gravitational constant and of the pulsar mass. We also present long-term timing results on 19 other pulsars that constitute the Parkes PTA. Our results show that most pulsars in our sample are stable and dominated by receiver noise. The potential for sub-100 ns timing is demonstrated on two of our brightest sources. These timing results are used to estimate timescales for GW detection of potential PTAs worldwide and to limit the amplitude of GWs in the data. Our limit of A < 1.0×10−14 for a background with ! = −2/3 is slightly more stringent than the best limit published yet.
Magnesium sulphate for fetal neuroprotection: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Creators: name: Bickford, Celeste D.
name: Magee, Laura A.
name: Mitton, Craig, 1972-
name: Kruse, Marie
name: Synnes, Anne
name: Sawchuck, Diane
name: Basso, Melanie
name: Senikas, Vyta M.
name: Von Dadelszen, Peter
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: The aim of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of administering magnesium sulphate to patients in whom preterm birth at < 32+0 weeks gestation is either imminent or threatened for the purpose of fetal neuroprotection. Methods Multiple decision tree models and probabilistic sensitivity analyses were used to compare the administration of magnesium sulphate with the alternative of no treatment. Two separate cost perspectives were utilized in this series of analyses: a health system and a societal perspective. In addition, two separate measures of effectiveness were utilized: cases of cerebral palsy (CP) averted and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). Results From a health system and a societal perspective, respectively, a savings of $2,242 and $112,602 is obtained for each QALY gained and a savings of $30,942 and $1,554,198 is obtained for each case of CP averted when magnesium sulphate is administered to patients in whom preterm birth is imminent. From a health system perspective and a societal perspective, respectively, a cost of $2,083 is incurred and a savings of $108,277 is obtained for each QALY gained and a cost of $28,755 is incurred and a savings of $1,494,500 is obtained for each case of CP averted when magnesium sulphate is administered to patients in whom preterm birth is threatened. Conclusions Administration of magnesium sulphate to patients in whom preterm birth is imminent is a dominant (i.e. cost-effective) strategy, no matter what cost perspective or measure of effectiveness is used. Administration of magnesium sulphate to patients in whom preterm birth is threatened is a dominant strategy from a societal perspective and is very likely to be cost-effective from a health system perspective.
Iranolacerta zagrosica
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lacertidae
Iranolacerta
Iranolacerta zagrosica

description: Iranolacerta zagrosica (Rastegar-Pouyani & Nilson 1998)
 Lacerta zagrosica Rastegar-Pouyani & Nilson, 1998: 268.
COMMON NAME. — Zagros Mountain Lacerta.
HOLOTYPE. — GNHM Re. ex. 5149.
TYPE LOCALITY. — 3 km North West of FereydunShahr, at the main Zagros Range, Esfahan Province (32°58’N, 50°04’E).
DISTRIBUTION. — Lorestan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari and Esfahan Provinces.
 HABITAT. — Found on or under rock fissure and in rocky and vertical slopes (Rastegar-Pouyani & Nilson 1998; Nilson et al. 2003).
IUCN. — Least concern.
 REFERENCES. — Rastegar-Pouyani & Nilson (1998); Nilson et al. (2003).
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 520, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 27 Patient with a New Mutational Locus: A Case Report-Supplementary File
Creators: name: Rong, Zhang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Supplementary files of the manuscript Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 27 Patient with a New Mutational Locus: A Case Report, which contains 3 videos: Sup. 1 physical examination-1, Sup. 2 physical examination-2, Sup. 3 ataxia score.
Data Governance Plan for Operación Solar
Creators: name: Campaña Rodríguez, Karen Sthefany
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This presentation is the resulting product of the final reports developed for the Geospatial Energy Modelling course at the ICTP Summer School 2024. The presentation contains an application of the Data Governance methodology, data management, database schema and other tools in a local pilot project previously formulated in Panama.
Simulated regional dust cycle in the Carpathian Basin and the Adriatic Sea region during the Last Glacial Maximum
Creators: name: Ludwig, Patrick
name: Gavrilov, Milivoj B.
name: Markovic, Slobodan B.
name: Ujvari, Gabor
name: Lehmkuhl, Frank
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2021

description: Abstracts & presentations / EGU General Assembly 2021 EGU General Assembly 2021, vEGU21, online, 19 Apr 2021 - 30 Apr 2021; Göttingen : Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH EGU21-5227, 1 Seite (2021). doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-5227
description: Published by Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH, Göttingen
Does virtual prototyping kill the potential for disruptive innovation?
Creators: name: Thomond, Pete
name: Jacobs, Joanne
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A critical element of a corporate entrepreneur's opportunity evaluation process will involve the attempt to understand customer requirements in order to calculate commercial demand. Traditional opportunity evaluation processes are less effective in the face of potentially disruptive innovations, as customers lack understanding and are unable to articulate their needs. Physical prototyping emerged as a method to test novel concepts in both familiar and unfamiliar markets; today, virtual prototyping is fast growing into this role in favour of the slower and more expensive production of physical models. Yet, anecdotal evidence suggests that virtual prototyping systems compromise the evaluation of opportunities with disruptive potential. We address the need for empirical analysis with an experimental design in which we evaluate customer reactions to a potentially disruptive innovation in the mobile telecommunications sector. Our findings contribute evidence to suggest virtual prototypes are significantly less effective than physical prototypes at eliciting a deep customer understanding of potentially disruptive innovations. This work has repercussions for theory and for corporate entrepreneurs tasked with driving the disruptive potential of their firms.
A home for body and soul: Substance using women in recovery
Creators: name: Kruk, Edward
name: Sandberg, Kathryn
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: We report on an in-depth qualitative study of 28 active and former substance addicted women of low or marginal income on the core components of a harm reduction-based addiction recovery program. These women volunteered to be interviewed about their perceptions of their therapeutic needs in their transition from substance addiction to recovery. Method: Data were gathered about women’s experiences and essential needs in addiction recovery, what helped and what hindered their past efforts in recovery, and their views of what would constitute an effective woman-centred recovery program. The research was based upon the experience and knowledge of the women in interaction with their communities and with recovery programs. The study was informed by harm reduction practice principles that emphasize the importance of individual experience in knowledge construction, reduction of harm, low threshold access, and the development of a hierarchy of needs in regard to addiction recovery. Results: Three core needs were identified by study participants: normalization and structure, biopsychosocial-spiritual safety, and social connection. What hindered recovery efforts as identified by participants was an inner urban location, prescriptive recovery, invidious treatment, lack of safety, distress-derived distraction, problem-focused treatment, coercive elements of mutual support groups, and social marginalization. What helped included connection in counselling and therapy, multidisciplinary service provision, spirituality focus, opportunities for learning and work, and a safe and flexible structure. Core components of an effective recovery program identified by women themselves stand in contrast to the views of service providers and policymakers, particularly in regard to the need for a rural location for residential programs, low threshold access, multidisciplinary service provision of conventional and complementary modalities and therapies for integrated healing, long-term multi-phase recovery, and variety and choice of programming. Conclusion: A key barrier to the addiction recovery of women is the present framework of addiction treatment, as well as current drug laws, policies and service delivery systems. The expectation of women is that harm reduction-based recovery services will facilitate safe, supportive transitioning from the point of the decision to access services, through independent living with community integration.
Timon princeps
Creators: name: Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah
name: Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
name: Fathinia, Behzad
name: Bahmani, Zahed
name: Hamidi, Kordiyeh
name: Gholamifard, Ali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Lacertidae
Timon
Timon princeps

description: Timon princeps (Blanford, 1874)
 Lacerta princeps Blanford, 1874b: 31.
COMMON NAME. — Zagrosian Lizard.
HOLOTYPE. — ZSI 3351.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Neyriz, about 60 km East of Shiraz, Fars Province.
 DISTRIBUTION. — “From South of Kermanshah Province through a belt between the West of Zagros hillsides and the Mesopotamian Plain to Fars Province ” (Smid et al. 2014).
 HABITAT. — Dry hills with xerothermic vegetation (Smid et al. 2014).
IUCN. — Least concern.
 REFERENCES. — Blanford (1874b); Ahmadzadeh et al. (2012); Smid et al. (2014).
REMARK
 This is a sister clade to T. kurdistanicus (Suchow, 1936) with a divergence time occurred between them about 4-5 my ago (Ahmadzadeh et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 520, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795
The discovery of coherent rules
Creators: name: Sim, Alex Tze Hiang
name: Zutshi, Samar
name: Indrawan, Maria
name: Srinivasan, Bala
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Typically, before association rules are mined, a user needs to determine a support threshold in order to obtain only the frequent item sets. Having users to determine a support threshold attracts a number of issues. We propose an association rule mining framework that does not require a pre-set support threshold. The framework is developed based on implication of propositional logic. The experiments show that our approach is able to identify meaningful association rules within an acceptable execution time.
Development and evaluation of an immuno-MALDI (iMALDI) assay for angiotensin I and the diagnosis of secondary hypertension
Creators: name: Camenzind, Alexander G.
name: Van Der Gugten, Jessica G.
name: Popp, Robert
name: Holmes, Daniel T.
name: Borchers, Christoph H.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Plasma renin activity (PRA) is an essential analytical tool for screening and diagnosis of secondary forms of hypertension. Typically, PRA is measured by competitive radioimmunoassay, but there are significant drawbacks to this technique including non-specificity, long analysis times, narrow calibration range, and the requirement for radionucleotides. In this paper, we report a method for plasma renin activity determination by immuno-MALDI mass spectrometry detection. This method overcomes the issues of non-specificity and long analytical times present with RIA, and does not require the use of radionucleotides. As an initial methodological evaluation, plasma renin activity results obtained by radioimmunoassay, LC/ESI-MS/MS, and immuno-MALDI on 64 samples from an outpatient primary aldosteronism screening program have been compared. A strong correlation was found between immuno-MALDI and radioimmunoassay (R2 = 0.9412, 62/64 within the 95% CI of the Bland-Altman plot), and iMALDI and LC/ESI-MS/MS (R2 = 0.9471, 62/64 within the 95% CI of the Bland-Altman plot). Technical replicates showed a 4.8% CV, while inter- and intra-day replicates showed CVs of 17.3% and 17.2% respectively. We have developed an assay capable of measuring PRA without the use of radionucleotides. This immuno-MALDI approach affords the specificity of MS while avoiding the long analytical run times and technical problems associated with HPLC. With the use of robotic sample preparation to optimize precision, this assay should be adaptable to clinical environments.
Chinese Agricultural Publications from the Republic of China Since 1947
Creators: name: Logan, William J. C.
name: Logan, William J. C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1964
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Excerpt from the Preface: The National Agricultural Library has collected Chinese publications for a century and maintains one of the largest collections of Chinese books and periodicals in the agricultural-biological fields. The present bibliography contains only Chinese publications from the Republic of China since 1947. It does not include Chinese publications issued in the Mainland under the National Government, nor the Communist Chinese publications issued since 1949. This bibliography contains two major parts: serial publications and monographs. The bibliography also Includes a list of publishers (in English translation and Chinese), an index to titles of monographs (in Wade-Giles romanization and original English translation), and an author index.
description: The present bibliography was compiled by William J. C. Logan under the direction of Leslie T. C. Kuo. Calligraphy was done by Peter B. Schroeder, who also assisted in checking the materials used.
Holon Memory Fields and Lifelong Learning: A Coherence-Based Framework for Continual AI
Creators: name: Borsinger, L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Holon Theory, Lifelong Learning, Continual Learning, Coherence Field, Catastrophic Forgetting, Adaptive AI, Entropy, Interpretability, Online Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Memory Fields

description: This white paper presents a novel solution to the lifelong learning problem using the Holon Coherence Field Framework—a unified model originally developed as a scientific and mathematical architecture for physical unification, now extended to the domain of continual machine learning. Holon evolved into a generalized AI cognitive architecture, grounded in coherence dynamics, entropy-regulated phase transitions, and interpretable memory structure.

 

The framework addresses catastrophic forgetting through entropy-weighted coherence fields and adaptive memory shell logic. Evaluated across six lifelong learning benchmarks—including Split MNIST, Rotated MNIST, OpenLORIS, CORe50, and synthetic drift streams—Holon demonstrated consistent gains exceeding +44% over naive baselines, while maintaining real-time interpretability.

 

All simulations, evaluations, and visual diagnostics were performed in OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 environment. The results suggest Holon offers a powerful, transparent, and scientifically grounded approach to adaptive learning across sequential and non-stationary environments.
Supplementary Information TGSI_A_2068384.docx
Creators: name: Cai, Jihong
name: Chen, Yimin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90905 Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering

description: Supplementary Information of "A novel unsupervised deep learning method for the generalization of urban form"
Reaching out to the Other? 'Bora' and the wind of forgiveness
Creators: name: Manzin, Gregoria
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: At the end of WWII, the former Italian areas of Istria and Dalmatia were handed over to the then Yugoslavia. After the 1947 Paris peace treaty, approximately 350,000 ethnic Italians left these regions. The massive wave of migration which followed in the years after the treaty has been later referred to as the Istro-Dalmatian exodus. The exodus led to the creation of an aftermath society: the one of the Istrian Italians. But such a community suffered as a result of a further internal division, having been split into the andati (gone), the 350,000 who left after the Paris treaty; and the rimasti (stayed), the few who decided to stay in their hometowns. Through the analysis of Bora, an epistolary novel co-authored by two women belonging to the two communities, this paper examines various aspects of the question of identity presented by this case of border shift. Anna Maria Mori and Nelida Milani challenge the barriers separating the two parties which for decades rejected each other, moved by a mutual sense of betrayal. These letters are the effort at reaching out to the Other, dismantling the high wall erected between the ones who left Istria and Dalmatia and the ones who stayed behind. However, in this arduous process of re-union of the subject, the two writers acknowledge the existence of another, common to both parties, Other: the Other who took their home country away. Mori and Milani face here a long neglected, and until then, still open question. Despite the different processes of becoming undergone by the two writers, Mori and Milani prove that co-existence is achievable through forgiveness. In doing so, they also implicitly open the path towards a wider form of reconciliation: the one still needed among all the inhabitants of a very troubled little piece of land.
The comparative recall of Google Scholar versus PubMed in identical searches for biomedical systematic reviews: a review of searches used in systematic reviews
Creators: name: Bramer, Wichor M
name: Giustini, Dean
name: Kramer, Bianca M
name: Anderson, PF
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: The usefulness of Google Scholar (GS) as a bibliographic database for biomedical systematic review (SR) searching is a subject of current interest and debate in research circles. Recent research has suggested GS might even be used alone in SR searching. This assertion is challenged here by testing whether GS can locate all studies included in 21 previously published SRs. Second, it examines the recall of GS, taking into account the maximum number of items that can be viewed, and tests whether more complete searches created by an information specialist will improve recall compared to the searches used in the 21 published SRs. Methods: The authors identified 21 biomedical SRs that had used GS and PubMed as information sources and reported their use of identical, reproducible search strategies in both databases. These search strategies were rerun in GS and PubMed, and analyzed as to their coverage and recall. Efforts were made to improve searches that underperformed in each database. Results: GS’ overall coverage was higher than PubMed (98% versus 91%) and overall recall is higher in GS: 80% of the references included in the 21 SRs were returned by the original searches in GS versus 68% in PubMed. Only 72% of the included references could be used as they were listed among the first 1,000 hits (the maximum number shown). Practical precision (the number of included references retrieved in the first 1,000, divided by 1,000) was on average 1.9%, which is only slightly lower than in other published SRs. Improving searches with the lowest recall resulted in an increase in recall from 48% to 66% in GS and, in PubMed, from 60% to 85%. Conclusions: Although its coverage and precision are acceptable, GS, because of its incomplete recall, should not be used as a single source in SR searching. A specialized, curated medical database such as PubMed provides experienced searchers with tools and functionality that help improve recall, and numerous options in order to optimize precision. Searches for SRs should be performed by experienced searchers creating searches that maximize recall for as many databases as deemed necessary by the search expert.
NUTS, NARS, and Speech
Creators: name: van der Sluis, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To investigate whether "Intelligence is the capacity of an information-processing system to adapt to its environment while operating with insufficient knowledge and resources", we look at utilising the non axiomatic reasoning system (NARS) for speech recognition. This article presents NUTS: raNdom dimensionality redUction non axiomaTic reasoning few Shot learner for perception. NUTS consists of naive dimensionality reduction, some pre-processing, and then non axiomatic reasoning (NARS). With only 2 training examples NUTS performs similarly to the Whisper Tiny model for discrete word identification.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures