cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exploring fertility treatment add-on use, information transparency and costs in the UK: Insights from a patient survey
Creators: name: Perrotta, Manuela
name: Smietana, Marcin
name: Adesina, Melody
name: Wilkinson, Jack
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: This study presents the findings from a UK-based survey exploring fertility treatment add-ons, treatment costs, and information transparency. The online survey, distributed via social media, targeted current and prospective IVF patients, yielding 304 eligible responses. Results indicate an increase in the use of fertility treatment add-ons compared to previous data. Respondents primarily relied on multiple sources for information about these add-ons, with search engines being the most frequently used, followed by fertility clinic websites, the HFEA website, and medical or scientific articles. These sources were also deemed the most reliable. In contrast, social media, online forums, and blogs were less frequently used and rated as less reliable. Respondents reported significant variation in the total cost per cycle of privately funded treatment, ranging from £5,000 to £13,000, with an average of £11,950. Although there was a slight upward trend in costs with rising household income, no strong correlation was observed. Fertility clinic websites were the primary source of cost-related information, with 99% of respondents emphasising the importance of clinics providing accurate and up-to-date information on their websites. The findings also reveal respondents’ views on potential policy actions to improve transparency around information and costs in the fertility sector.
Coordinated time variability of multi-phase ultra-fast outflows in J132216.25+052446.3
Creators: name: Aromal, P.
name: Srianand, R.
name: Petitjean, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a time variability analysis of broad absorption lines (BAL; spread over the velocity range of 5800-29000 km/s) seen in the spectrum of J132216.25+052446.3 (z(em)= 2.04806) at ten different epochs spanning over 19 years. The strongest absorption component (BAL-A; spread over 5800-9900 km/s) is made up of several narrow components having velocity separations close to C IV doublet splitting. The C IV, N V, and Si IV absorption from BAL-A show correlated optical depth variability without significant changes in the velocity structure. A very broad and shallow absorption (BAL-C; spread over the velocity range 15000-29000 km/s) emerged during our monitoring period coinciding with a dimming episode of J1322+0524. All the identified absorption lines show correlated variability with the equivalent widths increasing with decreasing flux. This together with the C IV emission-line variability is consistent with ionization being the main driver of the correlated variability. The observed UV-continuum variations are weaker than what is required by the photo-ionization models. This together with a scatter in the C iv equivalent width at a given continuum flux can be understood if variations of the C IV ionizing photons are much larger than that of the UV continuum, the variations in the ionizing photon and UV fluxes are not correlated and/or the covering factor of the flow varies continuously. We suggest BAL-A is produced by a stable clumpy outflow located beyond the broad emission line region and BAL-C is a newly formed wind component located near the accretion disk and both respond to changes in the ionizing continuum.
description: 15 pages, 16 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Gamma-rays from the circumgalactic medium of M31
Creators: name: Roy, Manami
name: Nath, Biman B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the production of $γ$-rays from cosmic rays (CR) in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of Andromeda (M31) in light of the recent detection of $γ$-rays from an annular region of $\sim 5.5-120$ kpc away from the M31 disc. We consider the CRs accelerated as a result of the star-formation in the M31 disk, which are lifted to the CGM by advection due to outflow and CR diffusion. The advection time scale due to bulk flow of gas triggered by star formation activity in the M31 disc is comparable ($\sim$ Gyr) to the diffusion time scale with diffusion coefficient $\ge10^{29}$ cm$^2$ s$^{-1}$ for the propagation of CR protons with energy $\sim 412$ GeV that are responsible for the highest energy photons observed. We show that a leptonic origin of the $γ$-rays from cosmic ray (CR) electrons has difficulties, as the inverse Compton time scale ($\sim$Myr) is much lower than advection time scale ($\sim$Gyr) to reach $120$ kpc. Invoking CR electrons accelerated by accretion shocks in the CGM at $\sim100-120$ kpc does not help since it would lead to diffuse X-ray features that are not observed. We, therefore, study the production of $γ$-rays via hadronic interaction between CR protons and CGM gas with the help of numerical two-fluid (thermal + CR) hydrodynamical simulation. We find that a combination of these mechanisms, that are related to the star formation processes in M31 in the last $\sim $ Gyr, along with diffusion and hadronic interaction, can explain the observed flux from the CGM of M31.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS on May 19, 2022
Discopeltis Burmeister 1842
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae
Discopeltis

description: Genus Discopeltis Burmeister, 1842
The genus was thoroughly analysed by Holm (1991), who provided an updated diagnosis, a key to the eight valid species, and information on their type specimens and distribution patterns. Later, some species were re-established as valid and a total of sixteen species are now recognized (see updates in Beinhundner 2017b). One species was recorded for Guinea-Bissau (Brivio 1958) and another one is recorded here for the first time.
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., 2022, The rose chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) of Guinea-Bissau: an annotated checklist and new records, pp. 151-195 in Zootaxa 5104 (2) on page 165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6280698
Additional file 2 of Genetic and clinical landscape of Chinese frontotemporal dementia: dominance of TBK1 and OPTN mutations
Creators: name: Nan, Haitian
name: Kim, Yeon-Jeong
name: Chu, Min
name: Li, Dan
name: Li, Jieying
name: Jiang, Deming
name: Wu, Yiming
name: Ohtsuka, Toshihisa
name: Wu, Liyong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2: Supplementary Table 2. Distribution of ApoE-alleles in our FTD cohort and normal Chinese population.
Assessment of Eutectic Solvent-Based Liquid-Liquid Microextraction to Determine Ponceau-4R in Various Beverage Samples
Creators: name: Narouei, Abdolmanan
name: Rahmani, Mashaallah
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: A sensitive, rapid, efficient, inexpensive, and easy-to-use vortex-assisted eutectic solvent microextraction process was extended to quantify Ponceau-4R (PN4R) in beverage samples followed by spectrophotometric detection. Here, a green solvent consisting of tetrabutylammonium bromide: n-octanol at a ratio of 1:3 was tested in the PN4R microextraction process. Also, different parameters affecting PN4R quantification through deep eutectic solvent in the microextraction model, including microliter volumes of extraction solvent, concentration of salt, extraction time, and pH were studied using multivariate procedures. Using this model, the maximum response was achieved with a eutectic solvent volume of 262 μL, extraction time of 5.3 min, pH 6.7, and 0.9% salt with Desirability = 1. The linear range was determined in optimum conditions to be from 15 to 1200 μg L−1. The enrichment factor and limit of detection were achieved to be 50-fold and 4.5 μg L−1, respectively. The limit of quantitation was 15 μg L−1. To monitor PN4R, this model has been used in fruit juice samples with favorable recoveries in the range of 97.8%–101%.
Growth of disc-like pseudo-bulges in SDSS DR7 since z = 0.1
Creators: name: Kumar, Ankit
name: Kataria, Sandeep Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmological simulations predict more classical bulges than their observational counterpart in the local Universe. Here, we quantify evolution of the bulges since $z=0.1$ using photometric parameters of nearly 39,000 unbarred disc galaxies from SDSS DR7 which are well represented by two components. We adopted a combination of the Sérsic index and Kormendy relation to separate classical bulges and disc-like pseudo-bulges. We found that the fraction of pseudo-bulges (classical bulges) smoothly increases (decreases) as the Universe gets older. In the history of the Universe, there comes a point ($z \approx 0.016$) when classical bulges and pseudo-bulges become equal in number. The fraction of pseudo-bulges rises with increasing bulge to disc half-light radius ratio until R$_{\rm e}$/R$_{\rm hlr} \approx 0.6$ suggesting concentrated disc is the most favourable place for pseudo-bulge formation. The mean ellipticity of pseudo-bulges is always greater than that of classical bulges and it decreases with decreasing redshift indicating that the bulges tend to be more axisymmetric with evolution. Also, the massive bulges are progressing towards axisymmetry at steeper rate than the low-mass bulges. There is no tight correlation of bulge Sérsic index evolution with other photometric properties of the galaxy. Using the sample of multi-component fitting of $S^4G$ data and $N-$body galaxy models, we have verified that our results are consistent or even more pronounced with multi-component fitting and high-resolution photometry.
description: 16 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Automated, Rapid, and Quantitative Dispersive Liquid–Liquid Microextraction (DLLME) of Pharmaceuticals with Hydrogen Effervescence and Spectrophotometric Determination
Creators: name: Pathan, Anam
name: Naikwadi, Neha
name: Chitlange, Sohan
name: Wavhale, Ravindra
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A novel technique for effervescent-based dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction is reported. Rapid and continuous effervescence, driven by hydrogen bubbles, was utilized to transfer the analyte from the aqueous to the organic phase. The reactivity of magnesium metal with water was exploited to generate a stream of hydrogen bubbles. In this method, an aqueous sample solution, contained in a microcentrifuge tube, was treated with 1 mg of magnesium and 100 µl of 1-undecanol. Microextraction was initiated by the addition of 100 µl of 1 M sodium bicarbonate to induce a rapid stream of hydrogen bubbles. The microcentrifuge tube was cooled to allow the solidification of 1-undecanol which was carefully separated and analyzed. Factors potentially affecting extraction efficiency were optimized, including the magnesium mass, concentration of sodium bicarbonate, extraction time, pH, open/closed system, sample volume, temperature, and analyte concentrations. These studies revealed the required speed and minimum concentration of sodium bicarbonate, as well as the possibility of efficient microextraction without sodium bicarbonate but in acidic conditions or at elevated temperatures (45–50 °C). The analytical performance was assessed and demonstrated to be promising. In the case of the model drug quercetin, the limit of detection (LOD) was determined to be 0.051 µg/ml, the limit of quantification (LOQ) was 0.154 µg/ml, and the extraction efficiency was 100%. The applicability of this method was also evaluated on samples with variable physicochemical properties, demonstrating an automated, fast, and efficient liquid–liquid microextraction protocol.
Lysophosphatidic acid in carcinogenesis and tumor development
Creators: name: Albrecht, Wiebke
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2018
Subjects: lysophosphatidic acid
tumor development

description: EXCLI Journal; 16:Doc980; ISSN 1611-2156
Implementation of Formal Standard for Interoperability in M&S/System of Systems Integration with DEVS/SOA
Creators: name: Mittal, Saurabh
name: Zeigler, Bernard P.
name: Risco-Martín, José L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is finding increasing application in development and testing of command and control systems comprised of information-intensive component systems. Achieving interoperability is one of the chief System of Systems (SoS) engineering objectives in the development of command and control (C2) capabilities for joint and coalition warfare. In this paper, we apply an SoS perspective on the integration of M&S with such systems. We employ recently developed interoperability concepts based on linguistic categories along with the Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) formalism to implement a standard for interoperability. We will show how the developed standard is implemented in DEVS/SOA net-centric modeling and simulation framework that uses XML-based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). We will discuss the simulator interfaces and the design issues in their implementation in DEVS/SOA. We will illustrate the application of DEVS/SOA in a multi-agent test instrumentation system that is deployable as a SOA.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2407.03686
The interacting pair of galaxies Arp 82: Integral field spectroscopy and numerical simulations
Creators: name: Karera, Prime
name: Drissen, Laurent
name: Martel, Hugo
name: Iglesias-Páramo, Jorge
name: Vilchez, Jose M.
name: Duc, Pierre-Alain
name: Plana, Henri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Spectral data cubes of the interacting pair of galaxies NGC 2535 and NGC 2536 (the Arp 82 system) targeting bright emission lines in the visible band, obtained with the imaging Fourier transform spectrometer (iFTS) SITELLE attached to the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), are presented. Analysis of H$\upalpha$ velocity maps reveals a bar in $\rm NGC\,2536$. In $\rm NGC\,2535$, we find strong non-circular motions outside the ocular ring, in the elliptical arc and tidal tails of $\rm NGC\,2535$ and a misalignment between the kinematic and photometric position angles. We detect 155 HII region complexes in the interacting pair of galaxies and determine oxygen abundances for 66 of them using different calibrators. We find, regardless of the indicator used, that the oxygen abundance distribution in $\rm NGC\,2536$ is shallow whereas, in $\rm NGC\,2535$, it is best fitted by two slopes, the break occurring beyond the ocular ring. The inner slope is comparable to the one observed in isolated normal star-forming galaxies but the outer slope is shallow. We present a numerical simulation of the interaction that reproduces the observed tidal features, kinematics, and metallicity distribution, to investigate the effect of the interaction on the galaxies. The model indicates that the galaxies have undergone a close encounter, strongly prograde for the primary, and are half way in their course to a second close encounter.
description: 25 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in mnras
Discopeltis apicalis
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae
Discopeltis
Discopeltis apicalis

description: Discopeltis apicalis (Gory & Percheron, 1833)
Distribution: ANG, BEN, CAM, ERI, GBI, KEN, SEN, SUD, TAN, ZAM, ZIM.
Distribution in Guinea-Bissau (Administrative Regions): 1) BAF.
Historic records:
— Bafatá (BAF) (Brivio 1958).
Material examined: none.
Remarks. A species with a controversial general known distribution (see Holm 1991; Beinhundner 2017b; Schoolmeesters 2018). Le Gall (2015) lists the species from several localities in Benin. Biological and ecological data are not available for this species but Holm (1991) referred that D. apicalis mimics Lycidae species.
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., 2022, The rose chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) of Guinea-Bissau: an annotated checklist and new records, pp. 151-195 in Zootaxa 5104 (2) on page 165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6280698
title: Tätowierung & irezumi - an expression of resistance
Creators: name: Schadner, Philipp
Year: 2010

description: Innerhalb der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit behandelt der Autor die kulturelle Praktik des Tätowierens im Vergleich der ‘europäischen’ Ausprägungen mit jenen auf den ‘japanischen’ Inseln; der Fokus liegt vor allem auf dem Begriff des Widerstands, welcher in vielfältigen Formen verstanden werden kann und Ausdruck findet. Aufbauend auf die etymologische Ergründung und Definition dieses Phänomens, wobei bereits die Genese der heute in deutscher Standardsprache gebräuchlichen Worte ‘Tätowierung’ bzw. ‘Tattoo’ eine gewisse Form von Widerstand in sich birgt, folgt eine historische Retrospektive der im Vergleich stehenden Regionen ‘Europas’ und ‘Asiens’. Dieser geschichtliche Rückblick setzt bei fünftausend Jahre alten archäologischen Funden ein und zieht sich bis in die nahe Gegenwart; dabei kommt es zu keiner Polarisierung in zwei voneinander ‘getrennten’ Bereichen, sondern es wird basierend auf einer zeitlichen Achse die jeweilige historische Situation mit dem Schwerpunkt der Tätowierung/irezumi in ‘Europa’ jener auf den ‘japanischen’ Inseln gegenübergestellt. Frühste schriftliche Erwähnungen von als tätowiert beschriebenen, so genannten ‘BarbarInnen’ verdeutlichen die negative Konnotation dieser kulturellen Praktik in den im Vergleich stehenden Regionen, welche innerhalb der vorliegenden Arbeit zu einem Exkurs zur Tatauierung bei indigenen Gemeinschaften (Pikten und Ainu) führt und auch die beschriebene historische Genese folgend stark beeinflusst. Die im Weiteren behandelte historische Entwicklung reicht vom Mittelalter in die übergehende Neuzeit, in welcher ein erster ‘Tätowierungsboom’ in ‘Europa’ einsetzte und sich ähnlich dazu auch zahlreiche Individuen in der beginnenden Edo-Epoche auf den ‘japanischen’ Inseln irezumi freiwillig Applizierungen wählten, aber auch als Strafe auferzwungen bekamen. Ausgehend von der ‘europäischen Tätowierungswut’ richtet sich der in der Diplomarbeit folgende Fokus im speziellen auf die ersten (halb)professionellen Tätowierer, ihr Milieu und ihre verwendeten Techniken und Motive, in beiden sich im Vergleich befindlichen Regionen. Auf die weitere Darstellung der historischen Entwicklung vom 20. Jahrhundert bis zur gegenwärtigen Situation, erfolgt eine grobe Zusammenfassung der Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der kulturellen Praktik in ‘Europa’ und den ‘japanischen’ Inseln. Hauptinhalt dieser Diplomarbeit ist, die Vielfältigkeit jenes Phänomens zu betonen (bzw. vorschnellen Schlussfolgerungen entgegenzutreten) und den implizierten Interpretationsdrang vieler Betrachtender hervorzuheben.
Using the bispectrum to probe radio X-ray correlations in GRS 1915+105
Creators: name: Arur, K.
name: Maccarone, T. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of bicoherence analysis on observations of GRS 1915+105 that exhibit quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs). The bicoherence is a higher order statistic that can be used to probe the relation between the phases of a triplet of Fourier frequencies. Despite showing very similar power spectra, the observations exhibit different patterns in their bicoherence, indicating that the QPOs are phase coupled to the noise in different ways. We show that the bicoherence pattern exhibited correlates with the frequency of the QPO, the hardness ratio, as well as the radio properties of the source. In particular, we find that the nature of phase coupling between the QPO and the high and low frequency broadband components is different between radio quiet, radio plateau and radio steep conditions. We also investigate the phase lag behaviour of observations with QPO frequency above 2Hz that show different bicoherence patterns, and find statistically significant differences between them, indicating a change in the underlying physical mechanism. Finally, we present a scenario whereby the cooling of the jet electrons by soft photons from the accretion disc could explain the observed correlations between the bicoherence and radio properties.
description: 13 pages, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 1 of Intrapartum maternal glycaemic control for the prevention of neonatal hypoglycaemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Ulyatt, Caitlyn M.
name: Roberts, Lily F.
name: Crowther, Caroline A.
name: Harding, Jane E.
name: Lin, Luling
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Discopeltis concinna Schaum 1844
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae
Discopeltis
Discopeltis concinna

description: * Discopeltis concinna Schaum, 1844
(Fig. 4a)
Distribution: GAM, GBI, RCI, SEN, TOG.
Distribution in Guinea-Bissau (Administrative Regions): 2) GAB.
Historic records: None.
Material examined: Béli (11º 49´38.60´´ N, 13º 55´34.36´´ W, 76m alt.) (GAB), 3.VII.2009, 1♂, 1♀, DO, A. Serrano leg., ASC.
Remarks. The species was described from Senegambia, but Holm (1991) stated it as a western African subspecies of D. tricolor Burmeister, 1842. Recently was considered as valid by Beinhundner (2017). See also the remarks under P. cordata. Biological and ecological data are not available for this species. It is a new species record for Guinea-Bissau.
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., 2022, The rose chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) of Guinea-Bissau: an annotated checklist and new records, pp. 151-195 in Zootaxa 5104 (2) on page 165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6280698
Dark dots on the photosphere and counting of the sunspots index
Creators: name: Tlatov, Andrey G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On modern satellite observations of the Sun in the continuum with high spatial resolution, as well as on high-quality ground observations, a large number of small dark areas can be observed. These regions have no penumbra, have a contrast of up to 20% and are similar to solar pores. The characteristic area of such structures is $0.3\div5\ μ$hm or $0.5\div5$ Mm. The number of such points in one image can be several hundred. The nature of such formations remains unclear. We have performed the selection of dark regions with a contrast of at least 3% of the level of the quiet Sun on the SDO/HMI observational data in the continuum for 2010-2020. We have studied the properties of "dark points, including the change with the cycle of activity, area distribution and contrast. We also compared such structures with the intensity of the magnetic field. We found that the number of dark dots with an area of less than 5 mhm, in which the magnetic field is not significant and is less than |B|<30 G, is from 60 to 80% of the total number of structures of this size. This means that these objects are not associated with magnetic activity. The existence of such structures can significantly affect the calculations of the sunspot index, since they can be mistaken as pores.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 2 of Intrapartum maternal glycaemic control for the prevention of neonatal hypoglycaemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Ulyatt, Caitlyn M.
name: Roberts, Lily F.
name: Crowther, Caroline A.
name: Harding, Jane E.
name: Lin, Luling
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
High time resolution search for prompt radio emission from the long GRB 210419A with the Murchison Widefield Array
Creators: name: Tian, J.
name: Anderson, G. E.
name: Hancock, P. J.
name: Miller-Jones, J. C. A.
name: Sokolowski, M.
name: Swainston, N. A.
name: Rowlinson, A.
name: Williams, A.
name: Kaplan, D. L.
name: Hurley-Walker, N.
name: Morgan, J.
name: Bhat, N. D. R.
name: Ung, D.
name: Tingay, S.
name: Bannister, K. W.
name: Bell, M. E.
name: Meyers, B. W.
name: Walker, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a low-frequency (170\textendash200\,MHz) search for prompt radio emission associated with the long GRB 210419A using the rapid-response mode of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), triggering observations with the Voltage Capture System (VCS) for the first time. The MWA began observing GRB 210419A within 89\,s of its detection by \textit{Swift}, enabling us to capture any dispersion delayed signal emitted by this GRB for a typical range of redshifts. We conducted a standard single pulse search with a temporal and spectral resolution of $100\,\upmu$s and 10\,kHz over a broad range of dispersion measures from 1 to $5000\,\text{pc}\,\text{cm}^{-3}$, but none were detected. However, fluence upper limits of $77\text{--}224$\,Jy\,ms derived over a pulse width of $0.5\text{--}10$\,ms and a redshift of $0.6
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Ziggy Stardust
Creators: name: Wurm, Manuela
Year: 2010

description: Ziggy Stardust, der androgyne, außerirdische Rockstar, den Bowie im Zuge seines Albums The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972) verkörperte, ist eines der faszinierendsten Musikerimages in der Geschichte der Populärmusik. Während dem Glam-Rock – jenem musikalischen Subgenre, dem das Album zuzuordnen ist – heute kaum noch Bedeutung beigemessen wird, avancierte Ziggy Stardust zu einer wahren Kultfigur. In seiner Rolle als Rockmessias vom Mars, der sexuellen und drogeninduzierten Exzessen nicht abgeneigt war, erlangte David Bowie weltweite Aufmerksamkeit. Er sorgte mit seiner Kunstfigur, die er als eine Erweiterung seiner eigenen Persönlichkeit betrachtete, für Tabubrüche und Kontroversen: Schrilles Make-Up, extravagante Bühnenkostümierung und sexuell zweideutige Posen waren nur einige Elemente seiner übersteigerten Selbstinszenierung. Ziggy Stardust stellte gesellschaftlich vordefinierte Kategorien wie „Mann“ und „Frau“, „homosexuell“ und „heterosexuell“ in Frage und brach mit festgefahrenen Geschlechterrollen. Die Entwicklung der Kunstkreation ist im Kontext der gesellschaftspolitischen Umwälzungen der frühen 1970er Jahre zu sehen. Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich einführend mit den politischen Hintergründen und kulturellen Rahmenbedingungen, die wesentlich für die Entwicklung und Etablierung von Ziggy Stardust waren. In der Konzeption seiner Kunstfigur vereinte Bowie viele verschiedene Kunst- und Kulturströmungen. Ob amerikanische Beat-Literatur, Pop-Art oder Schwulenkultur – Bowie bediente sich einer Vielzahl an Vorbildern und Inspirationsquellen. Ziggy Stardust ist ein hochkomplexes Wesen, das diverse Zitate aufgreift und zahlreiche Erscheinungsformen aufweist. Ganz im Sinne des postmodernen Theorems einer „radikalen Pluralität“ werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit der Facettenreichtum und die Vielgestaltigkeit von Bowies Alter Ego aufgezeigt. Sukzessive wird sich den verschiedenen Körperbildern angenähert, die Ziggy Stardust vereint – dem Androgyn, dem Transvestiten und dem postmodernen Dandy. Mit seiner Kunstfigur ebnete sich David Bowie einen Karriereweg, der ihn in Folge zu einem der größten Popstars des 20. Jahrhunderts machte. Sein Starimage war in seinen Anfängen aber ein künstlich generiertes: Obwohl sein Bekanntheitsgrad und seine Plattenverkäufe noch nicht dafür sprachen, inszenierte er sich – nicht ohne Selbstironie - als Superstar. Er agierte dabei in einem Spannungsfeld aus Kunst und Kommerz und wusste die Mechanismen der Musik- und Medienindustrie für seine Zwecke zu nutzen. Er inszenierte sich als leidendes Genie, als „Antiheld“ und kokettierte mit seinem Status als Ikone der Andersartigkeit. Bei Ziggy Stardust handelt es sich um einen höchst erfolgreichen Versuch mit Hilfe einer Kunstfigur einen Mythos zu weben und den Status eines Unsterblichen zu erlangen. Den verschiedenen Komponenten dieses Musikermythos wird in vorliegender Arbeit auf den Grund gegangen.
Oxythyrea Mulsant 1842
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae
Oxythyrea

description: Genus Oxythyrea Mulsant, 1842
The genus was redefined by Antoine (1997a) taking into account the structure of the male genitalia. This author also lists all African species known from the four subgenera of Oxythyrea. A total of ten species are recognized in the nominal subgenus (Beinhundner 2017b). There are two species registered for Guinea-Bissau (Brivio 1958).
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., 2022, The rose chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) of Guinea-Bissau: an annotated checklist and new records, pp. 151-195 in Zootaxa 5104 (2) on page 165, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6280698
The developmental origins of joint attention in infancy
Creators: name: Salter, Gideon
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Joint attention
subject: Communication
subject: Infancy
subject: Longitudinal research
subject: BF323.J63S2
subject: Interpersonal communication in infants
subject: Joint attention
subject: Infants--Development

description: Despite widespread recognition of the importance of joint attention, there are still disagreements regarding its definition and development. There are questions over when and how joint attention emerges, what exactly makes it joint, and its relation to communication. These developmental and definitional questions are closely linked, and thus to understand joint attention we must understand the very beginnings of its development and its relation to communication. This thesis aimed to further our understanding of joint attention by investigating infants’ development in the key period leading up to 9 months. The thesis reports a comprehensive longitudinal study of infants aged 6 to 10 months (with additional data collected remotely at 11 and 12 months), using experimental, observational, interview and questionnaire methods. First, it investigated the very beginnings of infants’ capacity to initiate joint attention, finding that this ability emerges for some infants by 6 months. Next, it examined the very beginnings of infants’ gestural communication, identifying developmental processes that precede the emergence of some of infants’ earliest conventional communicative gestures. It also examined a range of other social (e.g. imitation), cognitive (e.g. means-ends understanding) and motor skills (e.g. self-locomotion) in order to identify relations between key social and non-social abilities emerging in this period. These abilities typically emerged gradually, starting before 9 months, with limited relations found amongst them. Finally, the study examined the relations between maternal and researcher assessments of communication and motor skills, identifying ways to increase consistency between these assessments. Overall, the thesis shines new light on the very beginnings of joint attention and communication in infancy. It demonstrates that infants’ capacity to engage in joint attention emerges for some infants by 6 months of age, and highlights the importance of investigating the processes that lead to the emergence of joint attention and communicative abilities.
Modelling of complex adaptive systems
Creators: name: Galwas, P.A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: We present an approach to modelling complex adaptive systems (CASs) that arises from combining three different principles: classifying epistemic cuts and their perspectives; representing statics and dynamics, while acknowledging the need for support of plural representations.

We complement this work by introducing an approach toward the new discipline of ‘Emergent System Engineering’ (ESE), by extending traditional systems engineering (SE) with a set of principles that apply to CASs. 

We demonstrate the utility of these approaches by considering a wide range of example scenarios from across the physical world, the theory of mind, and natural languages and computing.

We conclude that modelling approach can unify the representation of a wide range of complex adaptive system scenarios.
The luminosity of cluster galaxies in the Cluster-EAGLE simulations
Creators: name: Negri, Andrea
name: Vecchia, Claudio Dalla
name: Aguerri, J. Alfonso L.
name: Bahé, Yannick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We computed the luminosity of simulated galaxies of the C-EAGLE project, a suite of 30 high-resolution zoom-in simulations of galaxy clusters based on the EAGLE simulation. The AB magnitudes are derived for different spectral bands, from ultraviolet to infrared, using the simple stellar population modeling based on the E-MILES stellar spectra library. We take into account obscuration due to dust in star forming regions and diffuse interstellar medium. The $g-r$ colour-stellar mass diagram, at z=0.1, presents a defined red sequence, reaching $g-r \simeq 0.8$, 0.05 dex redder than EAGLE at high masses, and a well populated blue cloud, when field galaxies are included. The clusters' inner regions are dominated by red-sequence galaxies at all masses, although a non-negligible amount of blue galaxies are still present. We adopt Bayesian inference to compute the clusters LFs, testing for statistical significance of both single and double Schechter functions. The multicolour LFs at z=0 show a knee luminosity that peaks in the infrared and increases with the cluster's mass. The faint-end is weakly dependent on colour and mass and shows an upturn in the optical, bounded between -1.25 and -1.39, just moderately steeper than the field. The simulations reproduce, within the observational errors, the spectroscopic LFs of the Hercules and Abell 85 clusters, including their faint end upturn. C-EAGLE LFs are in broad agreement with observed LFs taken from SDSS and XXL surveys, up to z=0.67, showing a rather flat faint end when the observational constrains are taken into account.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, 7 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Additional file 3 of Intrapartum maternal glycaemic control for the prevention of neonatal hypoglycaemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Ulyatt, Caitlyn M.
name: Roberts, Lily F.
name: Crowther, Caroline A.
name: Harding, Jane E.
name: Lin, Luling
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 3
Oxythyrea (Oxythyrea) petit
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae
Oxythyrea
Oxythyrea petit

description: Oxythyrea (Oxythyrea) petit (Gory & Percheron, 1833)
Distribution: GAM, GBI, GHA, RCI, SEN.
Distribution in Guinea-Bissau (Administrative Regions): 1) BAF.
Historic records:
— Bafatá (BAF) (Brivio 1958).
Material examined: none.
Remarks. A typical West African species. Biological and ecological data are not available for this species, but some data were provided by Holm & Marais (1992) for the close related species Oxythyrea marginalis (Swartz, 1817) and Oxythyrea testaceogutttata (Blanchard, 1850).
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., 2022, The rose chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) of Guinea-Bissau: an annotated checklist and new records, pp. 151-195 in Zootaxa 5104 (2) on page 166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6280698
Likely optical counterpart of the cool middle-aged pulsar J1957+5033
Creators: name: Zyuzin, D. A.
name: Zharikov, S. V.
name: Karpova, A. V.
name: Kirichenko, A. Yu.
name: Shibanov, Yu. A.
name: Geier, S.
name: Potekhin, A. Yu.
name: Suleimanov, V. F.
name: Cabrera-Lavers, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The 840 kyr old pulsar PSR J1957+5033, detected so far only in $γ$- and X-rays, is a nearby and rather cool neutron star with a temperature of 0.2--0.3 MK, a distance of $\la$1 kpc, and a small colour reddening excess $E(B-V) \approx 0.03$. These properties make it an ideal candidate to detect in the optical to get additional constraints on its parameters. We thus performed the first deep optical observations of the pulsar with the 10.4-meter Gran Telescopio Canarias in the $g'$ band and found its possible counterpart with $g'=27.63\pm 0.26$. The counterpart candidate position is consistent with the X-ray coordinates of the pulsar within the 0.5 arcsec accuracy. Assuming that this is the real counterpart, we analysed the pulsar X-ray spectrum together with the derived optical flux density. As a result, we found that the thermal emission from the bulk surface of the cooling neutron star can significantly contribute to its optical flux. Our multi-wavelength spectral analysis favours the pulsar nature of the detected optical source, since it provides physically adequate parameters of the pulsar emission. We show that the optical data can provide new constraints on the pulsar temperature and distance.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, published in MNRAS
Galaxy Pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey XV: Properties of Ionised Outflows
Creators: name: Matzko, William
name: Satyapal, Shobita
name: Ellison, Sara L.
name: Sexton, Remington O.
name: Secrest, Nathan J.
name: Canalizo, Gabriela
name: Blecha, Laura
name: Patton, David R.
name: Scudder, Jillian M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Powerful outflows are thought to play a critical role in galaxy evolution and black hole growth. We present the first large-scale systematic study of ionised outflows in paired galaxies and post-mergers compared to a robust control sample of isolated galaxies. We isolate the impact of the merger environment to determine if outflow properties depend on merger stage. Our sample contains $\sim$4,000 paired galaxies and $\sim$250 post-mergers in the local universe ($0.02 \leq z \leq 0.2$) from the SDSS DR 7 matched in stellar mass, redshift, local density of galaxies, and [OIII] $λ$5007 luminosity to a control sample of isolated galaxies. By fitting the [OIII] $λ$5007 line, we find ionised outflows in $\sim$15 per cent of our entire sample. Outflows are much rarer in star-forming galaxies compared to AGN, and outflow incidence and velocity increase with [OIII] $λ$5007 luminosity. Outflow incidence is significantly elevated in the optical+mid-infrared selected AGN compared to purely optical AGN; over 60 per cent show outflows at the highest luminosities ($L_{\mathrm{[OIII] \lambda5007}}$ $\gtrsim$ 10$^{42}$ erg s$^{-1}$), suggesting mid-infrared AGN selection favours galaxies with powerful outflows, at least for higher [OIII] $λ$5007 luminosities. However, we find no statistically significant difference in outflow incidence, velocity, and luminosity in mergers compared to isolated galaxies, and there is no dependence on merger stage. Therefore, while interactions are predicted to drive gas inflows and subsequently trigger nuclear star formation and accretion activity, when the power source of the outflow is controlled for, the merging environment has no further impact on the large-scale ionised outflows as traced by [OIII] $\lambda5007$.
description: 18 pages, 15 figures, to be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Additional file 4 of Intrapartum maternal glycaemic control for the prevention of neonatal hypoglycaemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Ulyatt, Caitlyn M.
name: Roberts, Lily F.
name: Crowther, Caroline A.
name: Harding, Jane E.
name: Lin, Luling
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 4
Oxythyrea (Stichothyrea) guttifera
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae
Oxythyrea
Oxythyrea guttifera

description: Oxythyrea (Stichothyrea) guttifera (Afzelius, 1817)
(Figs. 4b, c)
Distribution: GAM, GBI, GHA, RCI, SEN.
Distribution in Guinea-Bissau (Administrative Regions): 1) BAF; 2) GAB.
Historic records:
— Bafatá (BAF) (Brivio 1958 sub Sticothyrea guttifera Afz.).
Material examined: Béli (11º 49´38.60´´ N, 13º 55´34.36´´ W, 76m alt.) (GAB), 4-5.VII.2009, 3♂, 1♀, DO, A. Serrano leg., ASC.
Remarks. A typical West African species. Mudge et al. (2012) provided biodiversity information (abundance, habitat preference) of this species for GHA. See also the remarks under P. cordata. Biological data are not available for this species. It is a new species record for GAB Administrative Region of Guinea-Bissau.
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., 2022, The rose chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) of Guinea-Bissau: an annotated checklist and new records, pp. 151-195 in Zootaxa 5104 (2) on page 166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6280698
Aspilus Westwood 1848
Creators: name: Serrano, Artur R. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cetoniidae
Aspilus

description: Genus Aspilus Westwood, 1848
The genus was re-established by Rojkoff (2013). Provisionally, a total of sixteen species are recognized within Aspilus (e.g. Marais & Holm 1992; Schoolmeesters 2019), one of them recorded for Guinea-Bissau (Brivio 1958).
description: Published as part of Serrano, Artur R. M., 2022, The rose chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) of Guinea-Bissau: an annotated checklist and new records, pp. 151-195 in Zootaxa 5104 (2) on page 166, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6280698
Star formation characteristics of CNN-identified post-mergers in the Ultraviolet Near Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS)
Creators: name: Bickley, Robert W.
name: Ellison, Sara L.
name: Patton, David R.
name: Bottrell, Connor
name: Gwyn, Stephen
name: Hudson, Michael J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The importance of the post-merger epoch in galaxy evolution has been well-documented, but post-mergers are notoriously difficult to identify. While the features induced by mergers can sometimes be distinctive, they are frequently missed by visual inspection. In addition, visual classification efforts are highly inefficient because of the inherent rarity of post-mergers (~1% in the low-redshift Universe), and non-parametric statistical merger selection methods do not account for the diversity of post-mergers or the environments in which they appear. To address these issues, we deploy a convolutional neural network (CNN) which has been trained and evaluated on realistic mock observations of simulated galaxies from the IllustrisTNG simulations, to galaxy images from the Canada France Imaging Survey (CFIS), which is part of the Ultraviolet Near Infrared Optical Northern Survey (UNIONS). We present the characteristics of the galaxies with the highest CNN-predicted post-merger certainties, as well as a visually confirmed subset of 699 post-mergers. We find that post-mergers with high CNN merger probabilities (p(x)>0.8) have an average star formation rate that is 0.1 dex higher than a mass- and redshift-matched control sample. The SFR enhancement is even greater in the visually confirmed post-merger sample, a factor of two higher than the control sample.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, visually confirmed post-merger catalog available via MNRAS