cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Time Evolution of Electron Waves in Graphene Superlattices
Creators: name: Fernandes, David E.
name: Rodrigues, Manuel
name: Falcão, Gabriel
name: Silveirinha, Mário G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The time evolution of electron waves in graphene superlattices is studied using both microscopic and 'effective medium' formalisms. The numerical simulations reveal that in a wide range of physical scenarios it is possible to neglect the granularity of the superlattice and characterize the electron transport using a simple effective Hamiltonian. It is verified that as general rule the continuum approximation is rather accurate when the initial state is less localized than the characteristic spatial period of the superlattice. This property holds even when the microsocopic electric potential has a strong spatial modulation or in presence of interfaces between different superlattices. Detailed examples are given both of the time evolution of initial electronic states and of the propagation of stationary states in the context of wave scattering. The theory also confirms that electrons propagating in tailored graphene superlattices with extreme anisotropy experience virtually no diffraction.
description: preprint, 37 pages, 11 figures
Localization of glucagon and insulin cells and its variation with respect to physiological events in Eutropis carinata
Creators: name: Chandavar, Vidya. R.
name: Naik, Prakash. R.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: The aim of the present investigation was to localize glucagon and insulin immunoreactive (IR) cells of pancreas during annual seasonal cycle of reproduction and to find out whether they had any effect on the regulation of plasma glucose level in the skink Eutropis carinata. Immunolocalized pancreatic cells revealed significantly different mean numbers in different periods of reproduction. The numbers of glucagon-IR and insulin-IR cells were highest in recrudescent period which was corresponded with low plasma glucose level. Unlike other lizards the arrangement of insulin cells in the central core and glucagon cells at the periphery was absent instead glucagon-IR and insulin-IR cells were paracrine in arrangement. Among the two immunoreactive cells glucagon-IR cells were predominant. Morphological differences between two cell types were observed by electron microscopy after staining with uranyl acetate and lead citrate. Plasma glucose showed cyclic change being highest during reproductive period.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 1 (2011)
The Berry connection of the Ginzburg-Landau vortices
Creators: name: Nagy, Ákos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C07, 58D27, 70S15, 83C57

description: We analyze 2-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau vortices at critical coupling, and establish asymptotic formulas for the tangent vectors of the vortex moduli space using theorems of Taubes and Bradlow. We then compute the corresponding Berry curvature and holonomy in the large volume limit.
description: 28 pages, 2 figures, published version
Maximizing Direct Detection with Highly Interactive Particle Relic Dark Matter
Creators: name: Elor, Gilly
name: McGehee, Robert
name: Pierce, Aaron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We estimate the maximum direct detection cross section for sub-GeV dark matter (DM) scattering off nucleons. For DM masses in the range $10 \text{ keV }- 100 \text{ MeV}$, cross sections greater than $10^{-36}$- $10^{-30} \,\text{cm}^2$ seem implausible. We present a DM candidate which realizes this maximum cross section: HighlY interactive ParticlE Relics (HYPERs). After HYPERs freeze-in, a dark sector phase transition decreases the mediator's mass. This increases the HYPER's direct detection cross section without impacting its abundance or measurements of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Cosmic Microwave Background.
description: 5+3 pages, 3 figures. v2: published in PRL with minor revisions
Additional file 3 of Evaluation of the invasiveness of pure ground-glass nodules based on dual-head ResNet technique
Creators: name: Yang, Dengfa
name: Yang, Yang
name: Zhao, MinYi
name: Ji, Hongli
name: Niu, Zhongfeng
name: Hong, Bo
name: Shi, Hengfeng
name: He, Linyang
name: Shao, Meihua
name: Wang, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 3
The Balearic herpetofauna: a species update and a review on the evidence
Creators: name: Pinya, Samuel
name: Carretero, Miguel A.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: Here, we update the current list of amphibian and reptile fauna present in the Balearic Islands, probably the most outstanding case in the Mediterranean and of the most in the world where massive species introduction is in conflict with the survivorship of highly restricted endemic taxa. Resulting of a long term evolution in insularity, endemic herpetofauna was already decimated during the Pleistocene but, after the human colonisation of the archipelago, the introduction of alien species, passive or deliberate, has been provoking new extinctions and range retractions in the native herpetofauna. Such process is not interrupted but has even intensified during the last years. The current species list is composed by five amphibians (one native) and 21 reptiles (2 native). A critical review of the evidence on extinctions and introductions is provided together with the conservation implications. Compared to the last review (Mayol, 1985) six new reptile species are now naturalised or are in process of naturalization, colubrid snakes constituting the most conflicting element due to their predator role.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 1 (2011)
Cybercrime. Lagebild 2014
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Computerkriminalität
subject: 360

description: Cybercrime umfasst die Straftaten, die sich gegen das Internet, weitere Datennetze und informations-technische Systeme oder deren Daten richten. Cybercrime umfasst auch solche Straftaten, die mittels dieser Informationstechnik begangen werden. Das Lagebild Cybercrime stellt im Schwerpunkt die Entwicklung der Cybercrime im engeren Sinne im Land Nordrhein-Westfalen dar. Die Daten basieren auf Ermittlungsverfahren der Polizeibehörden in NRW, die nach einheitlichem Standard erhoben werden.
HiClass: a Python library for local hierarchical classification compatible with scikit-learn
Creators: name: Miranda, Fábio M.
name: Köhnecke, Niklas
name: Renard, Bernhard Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: HiClass is an open-source Python library for local hierarchical classification entirely compatible with scikit-learn. It contains implementations of the most common design patterns for hierarchical machine learning models found in the literature, that is, the local classifiers per node, per parent node and per level. Additionally, the package contains implementations of hierarchical metrics, which are more appropriate for evaluating classification performance on hierarchical data. The documentation includes installation and usage instructions, examples within tutorials and interactive notebooks, and a complete description of the API. HiClass is released under the simplified BSD license, encouraging its use in both academic and commercial environments. Source code and documentation are available at https://github.com/scikit-learn-contrib/hiclass.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, 7 tables
Cybercrime. Lagebild für NRW 2015
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Computerkriminalität
subject: 360

description: Cybercrime umfasst die Straftaten, die sich gegen das Internet, weitere Datennetze und informations-technische Systeme oder deren Daten richten. Cybercrime umfasst auch solche Straftaten, die mittels dieser Informationstechnik begangen werden. Das Lagebild Cybercrime stellt im Schwerpunkt die Entwicklung der Cybercrime im engeren Sinne im Land Nordrhein-Westfalen dar. Die Daten basieren auf Ermittlungsverfahren der Polizeibehörden in NRW, die nach einheitlichem Standard erhoben werden.
SM S1-5 and Supp Figures 1-5 from Evolution of warfare by resource raiding favours polymorphism in belligerence and bravery
Creators: name: Mullon, Charles
name: Lehmann, Laurent
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: From protists to primates, intergroup aggression and warfare over resources have been observed in several taxa whose populations typically consist of groups connected by limited genetic mixing. Here, we model the coevolution between four traits relevant to this setting: (i) investment into common-pool resource production within groups (helping); (ii) proclivity to raid other groups to appropriate their resources (belligerence); and investments into (iii) defense and (iv) offense of group contests (defensive and offensive bravery). We show that when traits coevolve, the population often experiences disruptive selection favouring two morphs: ‘Hawks’, who express high levels of both belligerence and offensive bravery; and ‘Doves’, who express neither. This social polymorphism involves further among-traits associations when the fitness costs of helping and bravery interact. In particular, if helping is antagonistic with both forms of bravery, coevolution leads to the coexistence of individuals that either: (i) do not participate into common-pool resource production but only in its defense and appropriation (Scrounger Hawks); or (ii) only invest into common pool resource production (Producer Doves). Provided groups are not randomly mixed, these findings are robust to several modelling assumptions. This suggests that inter-group aggression is a potent mechanism in favouring within-group social diversity and behavioural syndromes.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Intergroup conflict: origins, dynamics and consequences across taxa’.
Effects of mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) cues on wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) tadpole activity
Creators: name: Buttermore, Katherine F.
name: Litkenhaus, Paige N.
name: Torpey, Danielle C.
name: Smith, Geoffrey R.
name: Rettig, Jessica E.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: We examined the changes in activity of wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) tadpoles exposed to combinations of visual, chemical, and mechanical cues of the invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis). We also examined whether the responses of the tadpoles to the predator cues were influenced by the short-term accumulation of chemical cues in the experimental container. In our experiment, the activity of wood frog (L. sylvaticus) tadpoles was not affected by the presence of various cues from mosquitofish. Our experiment demonstrated that the repeated use of trial water can influence the activity level of tadpoles, regardless of the predator cue treatment used. Tadpoles in the first trial tended to be less active than tadpoles in subsequent trials. This effect does not appear to be mediated by the accumulation of predator cues since there was no significant interaction term. Our results suggest that short-term accumulation of predator chemical cues do not affect the behavior of wood frog tadpoles: however, our results suggest that the repeated use of the same water in consecutive trials may affect tadpole behavior, perhaps through the accumulation of conspecific chemical cues.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 1 (2011)
Cybercrime. Lagebild für NRW 2016
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Computerkriminalität
subject: 360

description: Cybercrime umfasst die Straftaten, die sich gegen das Internet, weitere Datennetze und informations-technische Systeme oder deren Daten richten. Cybercrime umfasst auch solche Straftaten, die mittels dieser Informationstechnik begangen werden. Das Lagebild Cybercrime stellt im Schwerpunkt die Entwicklung der Cybercrime im engeren Sinne im Land Nordrhein-Westfalen dar. Die Daten basieren auf Ermittlungsverfahren der Polizeibehörden in NRW, die nach einheitlichem Standard erhoben werden.
Möglichkeiten zur Verwendung von Betonbrechsanden
Creators: name: Höffgen, Jan P.
name: Dehn, Frank
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2023

description: Betonbrechsande stellen in der derzeitigen Abfallerfassung und -aufbereitung einen wenig beachteten Stoffstrom dar. Dabei besitzen sie erhebliches Potential, um nicht nur feine natürliche Gesteinskörnungen, sondern auch einen Teil des Bindemittels bei der Betonherstellung zu ersetzen. Dieser Beitrag stellt zunächst baupraktisch relevante Betonbrechsandeigenschaften vor, um anschließend die derzeit aktuellen technischen Herausforderungen und normative Randbedingungen für die Wiederverwendung von Betonbrechsanden als feine rezyklierte Gesteinskörung zu beschreiben. Fortgeschrittene Aufbereitungsverfahren lassen jedoch perspektivisch eine bessere Kreislaufführung von Betonbrechsanden erwarten, wenn diese gezielt fraktioniert und einzeln behandelt werden, um sowohl feine Gesteinskörnungen als auch (reaktive) Bindemittel zu erhalten.
Particle production in a hybrid approach for a beam energy scan of Au+Au/Pb+Pb collisions between $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 4.3 GeV and $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 200.0 GeV
Creators: name: Schäfer, Anna
name: Karpenko, Iurii
name: Wu, Xiang-Yu
name: Hammelmann, Jan
name: Elfner, Hannah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Heavy-ion collisions at varying collision energies provide access to different regions of the QCD phase diagram. In particular collisions at intermediate energies are promising candidates to experimentally identify the postulated first order phase transition and critical end point. While heavy-ion collisions at low and high collision energies are theoretically well described by transport approaches and hydrodynamics+transport hybrid approaches, respectively, intermediate energy collisions remain a challenge. In this work, a modular hybrid approach, the SMASH-vHLLE-hybrid coupling 3+1D viscous hydrodynamics (vHLLE) to hadronic transport (SMASH), is introduced. It is validated and subsequently applied in Au+Au/Pb+Pb collisions between $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 4.3 GeV and $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 200.0 GeV to study the rapidity and transverse mass distributions of identified particles as well as excitation functions for $\mathrm{dN}/\mathrm{d}y|_{y = 0}$ and $\langle p_\mathrm{T} \rangle$. A good agreement with experimental measurements is obtained, including the baryon stopping dynamics. The transition from a Gaussian rapidity spectrum of protons at lower energies to the double-hump structure at high energies is reproduced. The centrality and energy dependence of charged particle $v_2$ is also described reasonably well. This work serves as a basis for further studies, e.g. systematic investigations of different equations of state or transport coefficients.
Preliminary results on tail energetics in the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica
Creators: name: Cencetti, Tommaso
name: Poli, Piera
name: Mele, Marcello
name: Zuffi, Marco A.L.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: The amount of lipids, proteins, ashes and water in original versus regenerated tails in Tarentola mauritanica shows differences, especially on the lipid fraction, supporting adaptive function hypotheses during reproduction of regenerated tails in geckos.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 1 (2011)
Finanzermittlungen. Lagebild 2011
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Geldwäsche
subject: 360

description: Das Lagebild Finanzermittlungen enthält wesentliche Aussagen für die Bereiche Geldwäscheermittlungen und Vermögensabschöpfung. Die im Bereich „Verdachtsmeldungen“ dargestellten Ergebnisse basieren auf der Grundlage gemeldeter Geldwäscheverdachtsfälle gemäß § 11 des Geldwäschegesetzes (GwG). In Abgrenzung zur Polizeilichen Kriminalstatistik (PKS), in der nur Straftaten mit hinreichendem Tatverdacht gemäß § 152 Abs. 2 StPO erfasst werden, liegt die Schwelle zur Erstattung einer Verdachtsmeldung unterhalb dieses Anfangsverdachts. Die Verdachtsmeldungen gemäß § 11 GwG erfüllen daher nicht die Erfassungskriterien der PKS. Im vorliegenden Lagebild werden Kernaussagen zur Bearbeitung von Verdachtsmeldungen getroffen, die hauptsächlich an Verpflichtete des Geldwäschegesetzes adressiert sind. Beispielhafte Sachverhaltsdarstellungen, deren Verfahrensursprung in allen Fällen auf Verdachtsmeldungen gemäß § 11 GwG beruhen, sind als Anlage Ziff. 4.3 „Beispielhafte Phänomene / Sachverhaltsdarstellungen“ aufgeführt. Die Darstellung im Bereich „Vermögensabschöpfung“ verfolgt vorrangig das Ziel, steuerungsrelevante Kernaussagen für polizeiliche Entscheidungsträger abzubilden. Die Inhalte stellen ausschließlich die seitens der Finanzermittlungsdienststellen durchgeführten Maßnahmen dar.
Climate change and peripheral populations: predictions for a relict Mediterranean viper
Creators: name: Brito, José C.
name: Fahd, Soumia
name: Martínez-Freiría, Fernando
name: Tarroso, Pedro
name: Larbes, Said
name: Pleguezuelos, Juan M.
name: Santos, Xavier
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: Ecological niche-based models were developed in peripheral populations of Vipera latastei North Africa to: 1) identify environmental factors related to species occurrence; 2) identify present suitable areas; 3) estimate future areas according to forecasted scenarios of climate change; and 4) quantify habitat suitability changes between present and future climatic scenarios. Field observations were combined with environmental factors to derive an ensemble of predictions of species occurrence. The resulting models were projected to the future North African environmental scenarios. Species occurrence was most related to precipitation variation. Present suitable habitats were fragmented and ranged from coastal to mountain habitats, and the overall fragmented range suggests a relict distribution from wider past ranges. Future projections suggest a progressive decrease in suitable areas. The relationship with precipitation supports the current unsuitability of most North Africa for the species and predicts future increased extinction risk. Monitoring of population trends and full protection of mountain forests are key-targets for long-term conservation of African populations of this viper. Predicted trends may give indications about other peripheral populations of Palearctic vertebrates in North Africa which should be assessed in detail.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 1 (2011)
Assessing the status of amphibian breeding sites in Italy: a national survey
Creators: name: Italica, Societas
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: The ecological status of 203 amphibian aquatic breeding sites, selected from the national database of the Societas Herpetologica Italica (SHI), was surveyed in the period 2008-2009 to assess their ecological status. Sites were randomly extracted, after stratification by the three biogeographical regions present in Italy, besides Sardinia and Sicily. The field surveys, conducted by professionals, amateurs and volunteers, showed that since 1979 about 11% of the sites were destroyed or no more suitable for the reproduction of amphibians that bred in the same site in the past. The percentage of destroyed or altered sites was 8%, both in the Mediterranean and Alpine biogeographical regions, and 15% in the Continental one. However, there were no statistical significant differences among the regions, suggesting that the rate of amphibian site loss was similar in different parts of Italy. This nation-wide monitoring project demonstrated that in Italy, during the last thirty years, a relevant proportion of amphibian breeding habitats has been destroyed or altered. The main cause of site alteration were land reclamation and water extraction.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 1 (2011)
Multipoint correlators on the supersymmetric Wilson line defect CFT
Creators: name: Barrat, Julien
name: Liendo, Pedro
name: Peveri, Giulia
name: Plefka, Jan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study multipoint correlators of protected scalars on the Maldacena-Wilson line in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. Working at weak coupling in the planar limit, we derive an explicit recursion relation that captures next-to-leading order correlators with an arbitrary number of insertions of the fundamental scalar field. By pinching fundamental scalars together, we can build composite protected operators with higher values of the R-charge. Our result then encompasses arbitrary $n$-point correlators of protected operators with arbitrary weight. As a demonstration of our method, we give explicit formulae for correlators with up to six points. Using these results we observe that all our correlators are annihilated by a special class of differential operators. We conjecture that these differential operators are non-perturbative constraints and can be considered a multipoint extension of the superconformal Ward identities satisfied by four-point functions.
description: 31 pages, ancillary Mathematica notebook; v4: correction of some integral identities in appendix B
Minimizing Congestion for Balanced Dominators
Creators: name: Mizutani, Yosuke
name: Staker, Annie
name: Sullivan, Blair D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A primary challenge in metagenomics is reconstructing individual microbial genomes from the mixture of short fragments created by sequencing. Recent work leverages the sparsity of the assembly graph to find $r$-dominating sets which enable rapid approximate queries through a dominator-centric graph partition. In this paper, we consider two problems related to reducing uncertainty and improving scalability in this setting. First, we observe that nodes with multiple closest dominators necessitate arbitrary tie-breaking in the existing pipeline. As such, we propose finding $\textit{sparse}$ dominating sets which minimize this effect via a new $\textit{congestion}$ parameter. We prove minimizing congestion is NP-hard, and give an $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{Δ^r})$ approximation algorithm, where $Δ$ is the max degree. To improve scalability, the graph should be partitioned into uniformly sized pieces, subject to placing vertices with a closest dominator. This leads to $\textit{balanced neighborhood partitioning}$: given an $r$-dominating set, find a partition into connected subgraphs with optimal uniformity so that each vertex is co-assigned with some closest dominator. Using variance of piece sizes to measure uniformity, we show this problem is NP-hard iff $r$ is greater than $1$. We design and analyze several algorithms, including a polynomial-time approach which is exact when $r=1$ (and heuristic otherwise). We complement our theoretical results with computational experiments on a corpus of real-world networks showing sparse dominating sets lead to more balanced neighborhood partitionings. Further, on the metagenome $\textsf{HuSB1}$, our approach maintains high query containment and similarity while reducing piece size variance.
Supplemental Figures and Tables from Leaders of war: modelling the evolution of conflict among heterogeneous groups
Creators: name: Sankey, D. W. E.
name: Hunt, K. L.
name: Croft, D. P.
name: Franks, D. W.
name: Green, P. A.
name: Thompson, F. J.
name: Johnstone, R. A.
name: Cant, M. A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour
subject: Computational Biology
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: supplementary figures and tables for Leaders of War: Modelling the evolution of conflict among heterogeneous groups
Staff Perceptions of LibAnswers
Creators: name: Main, Lindsey
name: McGraw, Kathleen A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Introduction: User Services Department at UNC Chapel Hill Health Sciences Library: * Supports Schools of Dentistry, Nursing, Medicine, Pharmacy, Public Health and a teaching hospital * Staffed by 11 librarians, 7 information associates, 3 graduate assistants, 13 students. LibAnswers is a new third-party application: * Provides email and text/SMS presentation and tracking tools * Includes an integrated FAQ knowledgebase * Offers a statistics module to record data from other reference interactions. User Services Department launched LibAnswers July 1, 2010.
Spontaneous anomalous Hall effect arising from an unconventional compensated magnetic phase in a semiconductor
Creators: name: Betancourt, R. D. Gonzalez
name: Zubáč, J.
name: Gonzalez-Hernandez, R. J.
name: Geishendorf, K.
name: Šobáň, Z.
name: Springholz, G.
name: Olejník, K.
name: Šmejkal, L.
name: Sinova, J.
name: Jungwirth, T.
name: Goennenwein, S. T. B.
name: Thomas, A.
name: Reichlová, H.
name: Železný, J.
name: Kriegner, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anomalous Hall effect, commonly observed in metallic magnets, has been established to originate from the time-reversal symmetry breaking by an internal macroscopic magnetization in ferromagnets or by a non-collinear magnetic order. Here we observe a spontaneous anomalous Hall signal in the absence of an external magnetic field in an epitaxial film of MnTe, which is a semiconductor with a collinear antiparallel magnetic ordering of Mn moments and a vanishing net magnetization. The anomalous Hall effect arises from an unconventional phase with strong time-reversal symmetry breaking and alternating spin polarization in real-space crystal structure and momentum-space electronic structure. The anisotropic crystal environment of magnetic Mn atoms due to the non-magnetic Te atoms is essential for establishing the unconventional phase and generating the anomalous Hall effect.
description: 34 pages, 14 figures
Additional file 1 of Power and positionality in the practice of health system responsiveness at sub-national level: insights from the Kenyan coast
Creators: name: Kagwanja, Nancy
name: Molyneux, Sassy
name: Whyle, Eleanor
name: Tsofa, Benjamin
name: Leli, Hassan
name: Gilson, Lucy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Is the European pond turtle Emys orbicularis strictly aquatic? – Habitats where the turtle lives in central Europe
Creators: name: Mitrus, Sławomir
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: Based on ecological characteristics and phylogenetic analysis, it is possible to try to reconstruct the evolution of ecological traits in turtles. However, the European pond turtle is treated by different scientists as aquatic or as semi-aquatic species. The importance of terrestrial behaviour for this species is discussed.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 1 (2010)
Conditional moment methods for polydisperse cavitating flows
Creators: name: Bryngelson, Spencer H.
name: Fox, Rodney O.
name: Colonius, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of cavitation bubbles are important in many flows, but their small sizes and high number densities often preclude direct numerical simulation. We present a computational model that averages their effect on the flow over larger spatiotemporal scales. The model is based on solving a generalized population balance equation (PBE) for nonlinear bubble dynamics and explicitly represents the evolving probability density of bubble radii and radial velocities. Conditional quadrature-based moment methods (QBMMs) are adapted to solve this PBE. A one-way-coupled bubble dynamics problem demonstrates the efficacy of different QBMMs for the evolving bubble statistics. Results show that enforcing hyperbolicity during moment inversion (CHyQMOM) provides comparable model-form accuracy to the traditional conditional method of moments and decreases computational costs by about ten times for a broad range of test cases. The CHyQMOM-based computational model is implemented in MFC, an open-source multi-phase and high-order-accurate flow solver. We assess the effect of the model and its parameters on a two-way coupled bubble screen flow problem.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures, submitted to J. Comp. Phys
Free GIS for herpetologists: free data sources on Internet and comparison analysis of proprietary and free/open source software
Creators: name: Sillero, Neftalí
name: Tarroso, Pedro
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have been used widely in zoology and ecology, particularly in herpetology. The use of spatially explicit analysis has increased during the last decade, with the consequent expansion of GIS application in ecology. During the last years, geo-information technology has been developed within the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) community, resulting in new open source formats and several GIS packages. However, proprietary packages seem still to be the first choice for herpetologists, thus involving non negligible costs for GIS technology adoption. Additional costs arise from environmental data, which are usually expensive, worsening in the case of large study areas. An alternative solution is to use freely available data, despite a possible decrease of resolution. In this review, we aim to show the feasibility of spatial analysis within FOSS GIS packages, rank these packages using the number of available tools and list several data sources freely available on the Internet. We listed several websites providing the most important free data for spatial analysis, i.e. altitude and derived data; past, current and future climatic series data; and satellite derived data. We provide also a list of the most commonly used functions in GIS analysis and their availability in the six software compared in this study (ArcGIS; gvSIG; ILWIS; Quantum GIS; GRASS; and DIVA-GIS). The software gvSIG is the one with more functions (106) followed by Quantum GIS with 94 and GRASS with 84.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 1 (2010)
Additional file 1 of Genetic markers of late radiation toxicity in the era of image-guided radiotherapy: lower toxicity rates reduce the predictive value of γ-H2AX foci decay ratio in patients undergoing pelvic radiotherapy
Creators: name: Nuijens, Anna C.
name: Oei, Arlene L.
name: Koster, Lisa
name: Hoebe, Ron A.
name: Franken, Nicolaas A.P.
name: Rasch, Coen R.N.
name: Stalpers, Lukas J.A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Citizen Science: how to unleash potentials?
Creators: name: Van Geenhuizen, Marina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: citizen science

description: In this presentation, Dr. Marina van Geenhuizen, Professor at the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, discussed what Citizen Science is, how it is perceived by the researchers and citizens, the relationship dynamics between researchers and citizen scientists, as well as other stakeholders. Given the importance of active citizen engagement in Citizen Science projects, Marina focused on who citizen scientists are and challenges associated with the implementation of such multi-stakeholder projects.
Explainable deep learning for insights in El Niño and river flows
Creators: name: Liu, Yumin
name: Duffy, Kate
name: Dy, Jennifer G.
name: Ganguly, Auroop R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a semi-periodic fluctuation in sea surface temperature (SST) over the tropical central and eastern Pacific Ocean that influences interannual variability in regional hydrology across the world through long-range dependence or teleconnections. Recent research has demonstrated the value of Deep Learning (DL) methods for improving ENSO prediction as well as Complex Networks (CN) for understanding teleconnections. However, gaps in predictive understanding of ENSO-driven river flows include the black box nature of DL, the use of simple ENSO indices to describe a complex phenomenon and translating DL-based ENSO predictions to river flow predictions. Here we show that eXplainable DL (XDL) methods, based on saliency maps, can extract interpretable predictive information contained in global SST and discover SST information regions and dependence structures relevant for river flows which, in tandem with climate network constructions, enable improved predictive understanding. Our results reveal additional information content in global SST beyond ENSO indices, develop understanding of how SSTs influence river flows, and generate improved river flow prediction, including uncertainty estimation. Observations, reanalysis data, and earth system model simulations are used to demonstrate the value of the XDL-CN based methods for future interannual and decadal scale climate projections.
First record of Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys kempii (Garman, 1880) (Cheloniidae), from the Italian waters (Mediterranean Sea)
Creators: name: Insacco, Gianni
name: Spadola, Filippo
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: In this work the authors describe the first case of Lepidochelys kempii stranding (Garman, 1880) happened in Italian waters (Sicily, Messina) and considered to be the fifth in the entire Mediterranean Sea. A young individual was recovered with a longline hook in its oesophageal.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 1 (2010)
Experimental deception: Science, performance, and reproducibility
Creators: name: Galang, Adrianne
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Experimental deception has not been seriously examined in terms of its impact on reproducible science. I demonstrate, using data from the Open Science Collaboration’s Reproducibility Project (2015), that experiments involving deception have a higher probability of not replicating and have smaller effect sizes compared to experiments that do not have deception procedures. This trend is possibly due to missing information about the context and performance of agents in the studies in which the original effects were generated, leading to either compromised internal validity, or an incomplete specification and control of variables in replication studies. Of special interest are the mechanisms by which deceptions are implemented and how these present challenges for the efficient transmission of critical information from experimenter to participant. I rehearse possible frameworks that might form the basis of a future research program on experimental deception and make some recommendations as to how such a program might be initiated.
Incomplete albinism in Discoglossus pictus (Otth, 1837)
Creators: name: Spadola, Filippo
name: Insacco, Gianni
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: The authors present an incomplete albinism case in a Discoglossus pictus subject found in Sicily. This is the first note for Italian territory, the second for the species and the third for Discoglossus genus.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 2 (2010)
A Novel Framework to Jointly Compress and Index Remote Sensing Images for Efficient Content-Based Retrieval
Creators: name: Sumbul, Gencer
name: Xiang, Jun
name: Madam, Nimisha Thekke
name: Demir, Begüm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Remote sensing (RS) images are usually stored in compressed format to reduce the storage size of the archives. Thus, existing content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems in RS require decoding images before applying CBIR (which is computationally demanding in the case of large-scale CBIR problems). To address this problem, in this paper, we present a joint framework that simultaneously learns RS image compression and indexing. Thus, it eliminates the need for decoding RS images before applying CBIR. The proposed framework is made up of two modules. The first module compresses RS images based on an auto-encoder architecture. The second module produces hash codes with a high discrimination capability by employing soft pairwise, bit-balancing and classification loss functions. We also introduce a two stage learning strategy with gradient manipulation techniques to obtain image representations that are compatible with both RS image indexing and compression. Experimental results show the efficacy of the proposed framework when compared to widely used approaches in RS. The code of the proposed framework is available at https://git.tu-berlin.de/rsim/RS-JCIF.
description: Accepted at IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2022. Our code is available at https://git.tu-berlin.de/rsim/RS-JCIF
Morphology of peripheral blood cells from various species of Turkish Herpetofauna
Creators: name: Arıkan, Hüseyin
name: Çiçek, Kerim
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: In this study, measurements of morphological and size parameters of peripheral blood cells (erythrocyte, leucocyte, thrombocyte) on blood smear preparation devices stained with Wright’s stain were given for 87 species from Turkish herpetofauna (19 amphibian species including 7 urodeles and 12 anurans as well as 68 reptile species including 4 turtles, 30 lizards and 34 snake. It was determined that erythrocyte and nucleus sizes showed great variations among the species of herpetofauna and even among the preparations of the same species; the largest blood cells (erythrocyte, leucocyte, thrombocyte) were found in urodeles; aquatic and semiaquatic species had larger erythrocytes than terrestrials, and the largest erythrocytes were in turtles among the reptile species examined. Lymphocytes were determined as the predominant cells among the blood leucocytes in blood smears of all the examined species.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 2 (2010)
The Evolving Reference Collection: Examining Turbulent Waters
Creators: name: McKenzie, Diane
name: Hayes, Barrie E.
name: McGraw, Kathleen A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Electronic, Print, or Both?
                    Making Choices When the Budget is Shrinking:
                    Our Process:
                    We started with the Standing Order List and searched for
                    electronic versions. The following checklist evolved as we
                    made title-by-title decisions:
                    *Compare cost of each format (electronic may be free!)
                    *Arrange for trial access before purchasing an electronic
                    product
                    *Consider both user and librarian demand for a particular
                    format
                    *Test ease and speed of use of electronic vs. print
                    *Compare ability to search and to browse for information
                    *Compare currency of the information in each format
                    *Consider labor involved in print loose leaf services
                    *Monitor use of print titles with electronic versions. Stop
                    purchasing those that are seldom used, except for titles
                    with archival value
                    *Evaluate the archival value of print in your collection
Finanzermittlungen in NRW. Lagebild 2013
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Geldwäsche
subject: 360

description: Das vorliegende Lagebild bietet Kerninformationen zum Stand und zur Entwicklung der Finanzermittlungen in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Es wird dabei zwischen den verfahrensunabhängigen Finanzermittlungen und der Vermögenssicherung als Teilbereich der verfahrensintegrierten Finanzermittlungen differenziert.
Additional file 13 of Proteomic profile of extracellular vesicles from plasma and CSF of multiple sclerosis patients reveals disease activity-associated EAAT2
Creators: name: D’Ambrosio, Antonella
name: Zamboni, Silvia
name: Camerini, Serena
name: Casella, Marialuisa
name: Sanchez, Massimo
name: Pietraforte, Donatella
name: Vanacore, Nicola
name: Diociauti, Marco
name: Altieri, Marta
name: Di Piero, Vittorio
name: Francia, Ada
name: Pontecorvo, Simona
name: Puthenparampil, Marco
name: Gallo, Paolo
name: Margutti, Paola
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 13.
First report of freshwater leech Helobdella stagnalis (Rhyncobdellida: Glossiphoniidae) as a parasite of an anuran amphibian
Creators: name: Tiberti, Rocco
name: Gentilli, Augusto
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: The authors describe the first case of parasitism on anuran amphibian, Rana temporaria, by the freshwater leech Helobdella stagnalis, in a mountainous area of northwestern Italy. The presence of skin abrasions and haemorrhages attributable to leech attack discards the hypothesis of a simple phoretic relationship between leech and frog.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 2 (2010)
Finanzermittlungen. Lagebild für NRW 2015
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Geldwäsche
subject: 360

description: Das vorliegende Lagebild bietet Kerninformationen zum Stand und zur Entwicklung der Finanzermittlungen in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Es wird dabei zwischen den verfahrensunabhängigen Finanzermittlungen und der Vermögenssicherung als Teilbereich der verfahrensintegrierten Finanzermittlungen differenziert. Verfahrensunabhängige Finanzermittlungen dienen der Erforschung von verdachtsbegründenden Sachverhalten, die sich zum Beispiel aus Finanztransaktionen oder auffälligem Finanzgebaren ergeben, ohne dass bereits eine Straftat erkennbar zugeordnet werden kann.
Coexistence of Tri-Hexagonal and Star-of-David Pattern in the Charge Density Wave of the Kagome Superconductor AV$_3$Sb$_5$
Creators: name: Hu, Yong
name: Wu, Xianxin
name: Ortiz, Brenden R.
name: Han, Xinloong
name: Plumb, Nicholas C.
name: Wilson, Stephen D.
name: Schnyder, Andreas P.
name: Shi, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently discovered layered kagome metals AV$_3$Sb$_5$(A=K, Rb, Cs) have attracted much attention because of their unique combination of superconductivity, charge density wave (CDW) order, and nontrivial band topology. The CDW order with an in-plane 2x2 reconstruction is found to exhibit exotic properties, such as time-reversal symmetry breaking and rotational symmetry breaking. However, the nature of the CDW, including its dimensionality, structural pattern, and effect on electronic structure, remains elusive despite intense research efforts. Here, using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we unveil for the first time characteristic double-band splittings and band reconstructions, as well as the band gap resulting from band folding, in the CDW phase. Supported by density functional theory calculations, we unambiguously show that the CDW in AV$_3$Sb$_5$ originates from the intrinsic coexistence of Star-of-David and Tri-Hexagonal distortions. The alternating stacking of these two distortions naturally leads to three-dimensional 2x2x2 or 2x2x4 CDW order. Our results provide crucial insights into the nature and distortion pattern of the CDW order, thereby laying down the basis for a substantiated understanding of the exotic properties in the family of AV$_3$Sb$_5$ kagome metals.
Jugendkriminalität und Jugendgefährdung in NRW. Lagebild 2012
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Jugendkriminalität , Jugendgefährdung
subject: 360

description: Das Lagebild dient dazu, jährlich die Ergebnisse polizeilicher Kriminalitätsbekämpfung in diesem Phänomenbereich zu dokumentieren. Auf Basis eines bundesweit abgestimmten Erhebungsverfahrens und einheitlicher Definitionskriterien werden mittels statistischer Daten und exemplarischer Falldarstellung sowohl erkannte Brennpunkte kriminellen Handelns, als auch Schwerpunkte polizeilicher Ermittlungstätigkeit aufgezeigt. Die Klammerwerte im Text beziehen sich, sofern nicht anders angegeben, auf die entsprechenden Vorjahreswerte. Das Lagebild soll polizeiliche und politische Entscheidungsträger unterstützen, das Gefahren- und Schadenspotenzial dieses Phänomenbereiches und dessen Bedeutung für die Kriminalitätslage in Nordrhein-Westfalen einzuschätzen. Gleichzeitig dient es der Information der Öffentlichkeit.
Impact of otter (Lutra lutra) predation on amphibians in temporary ponds in Southern Spain
Creators: name: Cogălniceanu, Dan
name: Márquez, R.
name: Beltrán, J.F.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2010

description: We report the observation of an event of mortality of ribbed newts (Pleurodeles waltl) and Iberian spadefoot toads (Pelobates cultripes) due to predation by a pair of otters (Lutra lutra) in a temporary pond complex in southern Spain. The peculiar predation mode on ribbed newts, with extraction of soft organs through an incision in the upper part of the thorax, may result in an under estimate of the importance of this species in the diet of otters. The high number of dead amphibians killed by two otters in only several hours suggests that the presence of these predators may pose a serious threat to amphibian populations. The risk is especially high in arid areas, with few ponds, synchronous reproductive migration, and high density of animals. We consider that measures promoting the conservation and population and range increase of otters might have a negative impact on amphibians.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 5 No 2 (2010)