cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Patterns of seagrass macrobenthic biodiversity in the warm-temperate Knysna estuarine bay, Western Cape: a review
Creators: name: Barnes, R. S. K.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Article
Biodiversity
Conservation
Intertidal
Knysna
Macrobenthos
Seagrass

description: Abstract: Knysna estuarine bay in South Africa's Garden Route National Park is that country's most significant estuarine system for biodiversity and conservation value. One outstanding feature is support of 40% of South Africa's—and maybe 20% of the world's—remaining vulnerable and decreasing dwarf-eelgrass, Zostera capensis, whose associated benthic macrofauna has been studied since 2009. For these invertebrates, Knysna comprises several significantly different compartments: sandy mouth; well-flushed marine embayment; poorly flushed central sea-water 'lagoon'; and two disjunct but faunistically similar peripheral regions–marine backwater channels, and low-salinity upper estuary. Although macrofauna ranges from dilute brackish to fully marine, its abundance, local patchiness, and over considerable stretches, species density remains remarkably constant; further, one-third of species occur throughout. Intertidally, all but peripheral compartments are low density and infaunally dominated, while some peripheral areas, and much of the subtidal, are higher density and epifaunally dominated. Overall, seagrass macrobenthos appears maintained below carrying capacity (e.g., by abundant juvenile fish) and of random species composition within a site. Two further characteristics are notable: Unusually, seagrass supports fewer animals than adjacent unvegetated areas, probably because of lack of bioturbatory disturbance in them, and the vegetation cover may ameliorate ambient habitat conditions. Unfortunately, continual heavy and effectively unpreventable exploitation for bait occurs, and chlorophyte blooms have developed because of high nutrient input. Knysna presents a microcosm of problems facing biodiverse and high-value habitats set within areas of high unemployment where subsistence fishing provides the main source of protein and seagrass provides the only source of bait.
MOESM2 of ETV2/ER71 regulates the generation of FLK1+ cells from mouse embryonic stem cells through miR-126-MAPK signaling
Creators: name: Kim, Ju
name: Lee, Dong
name: Kim, Joo
name: Choi, Hong
name: Bhakti Dwivedi
name: Manali Rupji
name: Kowalski, Jeanne
name: Green, Stefan
name: Heesang Song
name: Park, Won
name: Chang, Ji
name: Kim, Tae
name: Changwon Park
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Gene Ontology (GO) categories for genes targeted by significant differentially expressed miRNA’s. Table S2. KEGG categories for genes targeted by significant differentially expressed miRNA’s. Table S3. Primer sequences.
Benchmarking air-conditioning energy performance of residential rooms based on regression and clustering techniques
Creators: name: Zhou, Yuren
name: Lork, Clement
name: Li, Wen-Tai
name: Yuen, Chau
name: Keow, Yeong Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Air conditioning (AC) accounts for a critical portion of the global energy consumption. To improve its energy performance, it is important to fairly benchmark its energy performance and provide the evaluation feedback to users. However, this task has not been well tackled in the residential sector. In this paper, we propose a data-driven approach to fairly benchmark the AC energy performance of residential rooms. First, regression model is built for each benchmarked room so that its power consumption can be predicted given different weather conditions and AC settings. Then, all the rooms are clustered based on their areas and usual AC temperature set points. Lastly, within each cluster, rooms are benchmarked based on their predicted power consumption under uniform weather conditions and AC settings. A real-world case study was conducted with data collected from 44 residential rooms. Results show that the constructed regression models have an average prediction accuracy of 85.1% in cross-validation tests, and support vector regression with Gaussian kernel is the overall most suitable model structure for building the regression model. In the clustering step, 44 rooms are successfully clustered into seven clusters. By comparing the benchmarking scores generated by the proposed approach with two sets of scores computed from historical power consumption data, we demonstrate that the proposed approach is able to eliminate the influences of room areas, weather conditions, and AC settings on the benchmarking results. Therefore, the proposed benchmarking approach is valid and fair. As a by-product, the approach is also shown to be useful to investigate how room areas, weather conditions, and AC settings affect the AC power consumption of rooms in real life.
description: 38 pages (single column), 7 figures, 6 tables. This manuscript is accepted for publication in Applied Energy 253 (2019): 113548. Please refer to the published version at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626191931222X
MOESM1 of ETV2/ER71 regulates the generation of FLK1+ cells from mouse embryonic stem cells through miR-126-MAPK signaling
Creators: name: Kim, Ju
name: Lee, Dong
name: Kim, Joo
name: Choi, Hong
name: Bhakti Dwivedi
name: Manali Rupji
name: Kowalski, Jeanne
name: Green, Stefan
name: Heesang Song
name: Park, Won
name: Chang, Ji
name: Kim, Tae
name: Changwon Park
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental materials and methods
Summing over spacetime dimensions in quantum gravity
Creators: name: Curiel, Erik
name: Finster, Felix
name: Isidro, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum-gravity corrections (in the form of a minimal length) to the Feynman propagator for a free scalar particle in $\mathbb{R}^D$ are shown to be the result of summing over all dimensions $D'\geq D$ of $\mathbb{R}^{D'}$, each summand taken in the absence of quantum gravity.
description: 9 pages; new section added; refs. updated
Additional file 5: of Effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on the immune microenvironment in non–small cell lung carcinomas as determined by multiplex immunofluorescence and image analysis approaches
Creators: name: Parra, Edwin
name: Villalobos, Pamela
name: Behrens, Carmen
name: Jiang, Mei
name: Pataer, Apar
name: Swisher, Stephen
name: William, William
name: Zhang, Jiexin
name: Lee, Jack
name: Cascone, Tina
name: Heymach, John
name: Forget, Marie-Andrée
name: Haymaker, Cara
name: Bernatchez, Chantale
name: Kalhor, Neda
name: Weissferdt, Annikka
name: Moran, Cesar
name: Zhang, Jianjun
name: Vaporciyan, Ara
name: Gibbons, Don
name: Sepesi, Boris
name: Wistuba, Ignacio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Table S1. Median densities of tumor-associated immune cells in NSCLCs of patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) or did not receive NCT (non-NCT), by tumor compartment (N = 112) (DOCX 21 kb)
DUNE potential for sub-GeV dark matter in proton beam dump mode
Creators: name: Naaz, Sabeeha
name: Singh, Jyotsna
name: Singh, R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: DUNE with its cutting edge technology is designed to study the neutrino science and proton decay physics. This facility can be further exploited for the study of the ground breaking discoveries i.e. origin of matter, unification of forces, dark matter detection etc. In this work we have explored the DUNE potential for capturing the sub-GeV dark matter in viable dark matter parameter space. The scenario of sub-GeV dark matter range requires a light mediator that couples the hidden sector with the standard model. The choice of the mediator will decide the different channels by which dark matter candidates can be produced. Here three channels $π^{0}/η$-decay, proton bremsstrahlung and parton-level production modes are considered for the production of dark matter with a 120 GeV proton beam facility placed at Fermi lab. To overcome the neutrino background we have used beam dump mode for the production of pure dark matter beam. To explore the new region of parameter space of dark matter at DUNE the elastic scattering of dark matter beam with electrons and nucleons are studied. In terms of DUNE potential for capturing dark matter signatures the dark matter yield results at DUNE (in our work) shows a significant improvement over existing dark matter probes i.e. BaBar, E137, LSND, MiniBooNE, T2K etc.
description: 18, 7
Dynamic Mean-Field Glass Model with Reversible Mode Coupling and Trivial Hamiltonian
Creators: name: Kawasaki, Kyozi
name: Kim, Bongsoo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Often the current mode coupling theory (MCT) of glass transitions is compared with mean field theories. We explore this possible correspondence. After showing a simple-minded derivation of MCT with some difficulties we give a concise account of our toy model developed to gain more insight into MCT. We then reduce this toy model by adiabatically eliminating rapidly varying velocity-like variables to obtain a Fokker-Planck equation for the slowly varying density-like variables where diffusion matrix can be singular. This gives a room for nonergodic stationary solutions of the above equation.
description: 9 pages, contribution to the Proceedings of the Merida Satellite Meeting to STATPHYS21 (Merida, Mexico, July 9-14, 2001). To appear in J. Phys. Condens. Matter
Atyphella olivieri Lea Elytra 1915
Creators: name: Ballantyne, Lesley A.
name: Lambkin, Christine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Atyphella
Atyphella olivieri

description: Atyphella olivieri Lea, 1915
(Figs 128, 129)
 Atyphella olivieri Lea, 1915:494; 1921a:197; 1921c:7. Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:177 (comb. rev.). Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000:48, 2001:364, 2006:30.
 Atyphella Olivieri Lea. Olivier 1910b:47; 1911:172.
 Luciola (Luciola) oliveris (Lea). McDermott, 1964:16. Unnecessary Nom. Nov.
 Luciola (Luciola) olivierius (Lea). McDermott, 1966:110. Unnecessary name change or probable misspelling for L. oliveris McDermott 1964.
 Lectotype. Male. AUSTRALIA: Cairns, designated by Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000 (QM).
 Diagnosis. Known from its conspicuous dorsal colouration; pronotum very pale cream with median dark mark; elytra dark brown with broad cream lateral, sutural and apical borders. Female macropterous coloured as for male. Ballantyne and Lambkin (2000:50) described larvae taken in the vicinity of flying males.
description: Published as part of Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lambkin, Christine, 2009, Systematics of Indo-Pacific fireflies with a redefinition of Australasian Atyphella Olliff, Madagascan Photuroluciola Pic, and description of seven new genera from the Luciolinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), pp. 1-188 in Zootaxa 1997 on page 50
Power law enhancement of neutrino mixing angles in extra dimensions
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Gautam
name: Goswami, Srubabati
name: Raychaudhuri, Amitava
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the renormalization of the $llHH$-type Majorana neutrino mass operator in a scenario where there is a compactified extra dimension and the fields involved correspond to only the standard model particles and their Kaluza-Klein excitations. We observe that in a two flavour scenario, where one of the neutrinos is necessarily $ν_τ$, it is indeed possible to generate a large mixing at $\sim$ 100 GeV starting from a very small mixing near the ultra-violet cutoff $\sim$ 30 TeV. {\em En passant}, we also derive the Higgs mass upper and lower limits from perturbative unitarity and stability of the potential, respectively.
description: Latex, 6 pages, one pslatex figure; v2: clarifying remarks added, minor typos corrected, references updated, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Diagonalizability of Constraint Propagation Matrices
Creators: name: Yoneda, Gen
name: Shinkai, Hisa-aki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In order to obtain stable and accurate general relativistic simulations, re-formulations of the Einstein equations are necessary. In a series of our works, we have proposed using eigenvalue analysis of constraint propagation equations for evaluating violation behavior of constraints. In this article, we classify asymptotical behaviors of constraint-violation into three types (asymptotically constrained, asymptotically bounded, and diverge), and give their necessary and sufficient conditions. We find that degeneracy of eigenvalues sometimes leads constraint evolution to diverge (even if its real-part is not positive), and conclude that it is quite useful to check the diagonalizability of constraint propagation matrices. The discussion is general and can be applied to any numerical treatments of constrained dynamics.
description: 4 pages, RevTeX, one figure, added one paragraph in concluding remarks. The version to appear in Class. Quant. Grav. (Lett)
Atyphella scintillans Olliff 1890
Creators: name: Ballantyne, Lesley A.
name: Lambkin, Christine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Atyphella
Atyphella scintillans

description: Atyphella scintillans Olliff, 1890
(Figs 129, 132)
 Atyphella scintillans Olliff, 1890:650. Lea, 1909:111; 1921a:198 (female). Ballantyne in Calder, 1998:177 (comb. rev.). Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000: 51, 2001: 364, 2006: 30.
 Luciola decora Olivier, 1902:77; 1907:51; 1910b:47. Lea, 1909:111 (synonymy).
 Luciola (Atyphella) scintillans (Olliff). McDermott, 1964:44.
 Luciola (Luciola) scintillans (Olliff). McDermott, 1966:112.
 Lectotype. Male. AUSTRALIA: Ash Island, Upper Hunter River designated by Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000 (AMS).
 Diagnosis. Male with yellow pronotum with median dark markings; dark brown elytra with 4 interstitial lines; head can be retracted into prothoracic cavity; antennae 9 segmented. Female brachelytral, elytra meet in mid-line, hind wings vestigial. Ballantyne and Lambkin, 2000: 51 characterised the distinctively coloured larva.
description: Published as part of Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lambkin, Christine, 2009, Systematics of Indo-Pacific fireflies with a redefinition of Australasian Atyphella Olliff, Madagascan Photuroluciola Pic, and description of seven new genera from the Luciolinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), pp. 1-188 in Zootaxa 1997 on page 52
Agricultural and Rural Entrepreneurship: Concepts for Modeling Development
Creators: name: Sancho, Federico
name: Sancho, Federico
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Community/Rural/Urban Development
International Development

description: The world of business has become an extremely dynamic environment in which the only constant is change. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the situation is obliging the actors to enhance their strategies and visions for correcting the long-standing weaknesses of the productive sectors. The concept of entrepreneurship, meaning the individual or collective capacity to develop sustainable enterprises, is an important focus of research that is making it possible to undertake concrete actions in aid of the productive sectors. This article looks at the ideas involved in entrepeneurship and the important function that the latter is playing in the overall development of our hemisphere. It also considers ways of promoting enterprise development as part of the strategies for agrifood chains and rural territories.
Quantum work statistics close to equilibrium
Creators: name: Scandi, Matteo
name: Miller, Harry J. D.
name: Anders, Janet
name: Perarnau-Llobet, Marti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the statistics of work, dissipation, and entropy production of a quantum quasi-isothermal process, where the system remains close to the thermal equilibrium along the transformation. We derive a general analytic expression for the work distribution and the cumulant generating function. All work cumulants split into a classical (non-coherent) and quantum (coherent) term, implying that close to equilibrium there are two independent channels of dissipation at all levels of the statistics. For non-coherent or commuting protocols, only the first two cumulants survive, leading to a Gaussian distribution with its first two moments related through the classical fluctuation-dissipation relation. On the other hand, quantum coherence leads to positive skewness and excess kurtosis in the distribution, and we demonstrate that these non-Gaussian effects are a manifestation of asymmetry in relation to the resource theory of thermodynamics. Furthermore, we also show that the non-coherent and coherent contributions satisfy independently the Evans-Searles fluctuation theorem, which sets strong bounds on the statistics, with negative values of the dissipation being exponentially suppressed. Our findings are illustrated in a driven two-level system and an Ising chain, where quantum signatures of the work distribution in the macroscopic limit are discussed.
MOESM2 of Reconstructive trends and complications following parotidectomy: incidence and predictors in 11,057 cases
Creators: name: Bovenzi, Cory
name: Ciolek, Peter
name: Crippen, Meghan
name: Curry, Joseph
name: Krein, Howard
name: Heffelfinger, Ryan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Multivariable Logistic Regression, Overall Complications (DOCX 29 kb)
Dominant Contributions to Lateral Distribution Functions in Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Air Showers
Creators: name: Drescher, Hans-Joachim
name: Farrar, Glennys R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In hadron induced air showers of highest energies (E> 1e18 eV), the lateral distribution functions of electrons and muons are a superposition of many separate electromagnetic sub-showers, initiated by meson decay at different altitudes and energies. The lateral distribution function is the primary tool for reconstructing the energy of the primary in a UHE cosmic ray shower, so understanding it in detail is a prerequisite for having confidence in the energy determination. We analyze in this paper the dominant contributions to the ground level lateral distribution functions, as a function of the altitude and energy at which the sub-showers are initiated. Far from the core, the dominant contribution to the density of electrons comes from sub-showers initiated at low altitudes and low energies (E<100 GeV). The dominant sub-showers are initiated at large radial distance from the core and at a large angle with respect to the main shower axis. This demonstrates the need for careful treatment of low energy hadron physics modeling even for ultrahigh energy primaries.
description: 19 pages, 21 figures
Atyphella similis Ballantyne (Partim 2000
Creators: name: Ballantyne, Lesley A.
name: Lambkin, Christine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Atyphella
Atyphella similis

description: Atyphella similis Ballantyne, 2000
 Atyphella similis Ballantyne, in Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000:53, 2001:364, 2006:30.
 Holotype. Male. AUSTRALIA: Lamington National Park (QMT62936).
 Diagnosis. Similar to both A. lychnus and A. atra, distinguished by a combination of male, female and larval characters (Ballantyne & Lambkin, 2000: 54).
description: Published as part of Ballantyne, Lesley A. & Lambkin, Christine, 2009, Systematics of Indo-Pacific fireflies with a redefinition of Australasian Atyphella Olliff, Madagascan Photuroluciola Pic, and description of seven new genera from the Luciolinae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), pp. 1-188 in Zootaxa 1997 on page 53
On a Hopf operad containing the Poisson operad
Creators: name: Chapoton, Frederic
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 18D50, 16W30

description: A new Hopf operad Ram is introduced, which contains both the well-known Poisson operad and the Bessel operad introduced previously by the author. Besides, a structure of cooperad R is introduced on a collection of algebras given by generators and relations which have some similarity with the Arnold relations for the cohomology of the type A hyperplane arrangement. A map from the operad Ram to the dual operad of R is defined which we conjecture to be a isomorphism.
description: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol3/agt-3-44.abs.html
A Genetic Analysis of Cichlid Scale Morphology
Creators: name: Kawasaki, Kenta C
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: Epidermal appendages are found on every vertebrate this world has to offer. In fish, these are commonly represented by scales. While we have a solid grasp of how scales develop, little is known about the underlying genetic mechanisms behind these phenotypic changes. Using two species of African cichlids (Labeotropheus fuelleborni and Tropheops “red cheek”) with varying scale phenotypes, we sought to examine their F2 hybrid offspring and statistically link the responsible genetic elements to their respective parental phenotypes through Quantitative Loci Trait (QTL) analysis.
Scales were removed from six different locations across the midline of each individual. Then, numerous traits on each scale were measured, and these values were used in the QTL analysis. 42 significant QTL were identified, with multiple QTL intervals possessing promising candidate genes. These genes include: fgfr1b, efna5a, TGIF1, eIF6, and col1a1a. Previous studies have implicated these particular genes and gene families to play important roles in scale and placode development. However, they represent the minority of QTL intervals discovered, providing direction for future research towards the other QTL intervals represented by this study.
Cancellation mechanism for the electron electric dipole moment connected with the baryon asymmetry of the Universe
Creators: name: Fuyuto, Kaori
name: Hou, Wei-Shu
name: Senaha, Eibun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We elucidate a cancellation mechanism for the electric dipole moment of the electron in the general two Higgs doublet model. The impressive improvement by the ACME Collaboration in 2018 suggests the presence of a new electron Yukawa coupling that brings in exquisite cancellations among dangerous diagrams, broadening the solution space for electroweak baryogenesis driven by an extra top Yukawa coupling. The cancellation mechanism calls for the new Yukawa couplings to have hierarchical structures that echo the observed pattern of the Standard Model Yukawa couplings.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures; v2: some clarifications and references added, version accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in PRD
Thermodynamic geometry of a black hole surrounded by perfect fluid in Rastall theory
Creators: name: Soroushfar, Saheb
name: Saffari, Reza
name: Upadhyay, Sudhaker
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study thermodynamics and thermodynamic geometry of a black hole surrounded by the perfect fluid in Rastall theory. In particular, we calculate the physical quantity like mass, temperature and heat capacity of the system for two different cases. From the resulting heat capacity, we emphasize stability of the system. Following Weinhold, Ruppiner, Quevedo and HPEM formalism, thermodynamic geometry of this black hole in Rastall gravity is also analyzed. We find that the singular points of the curvature scalar of Ruppeiner and HPEM metrics entirely coincides with zero points of the heat capacity. But there is another divergence of HPEM metric which coincides with the singular points of heat capacity, so we can extract more information of HPEM metric compared with Ruppeiner metric. However, we are unable to find any physical data about the system from the Weinhold and Quevedo formalism.
description: 18 pages; 19 captioned figures, Published in General Relativity and Gravitation
Distribution of Enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens Spores in U.S. Retail Spices
Creators: name: Lee, Chi-An
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: 246 samples of bulk and packaged spices from retail stores in the western, southeastern, southern, midwestern, and northeastern areas of the U.S. were examined for the presence of Clostridium -perfringens. Isolates were checked for the presence of the lecithinase gene (cpa) and enterotoxin genes (cpe) by PCR. Enterotoxin formation during sporulation was investigated using the Oxoid Toxin Detection Kit. Forty-three confirmed isolates (from 17% of total samples) were cpa-positive. Of those, 27 were cpe-positive. Together, levels of C. perfringens spores ranged from 3.6-2400/gm. The amount of enterotoxin in cell extracts ranged from 2-16 ng/ml. Some of the SEM images of isolated spore (# 78) and one plasmid-borne ent control (FD-153) showed an organized surface structure termed “candy-wrapper”. This extracellular structure remained after treatment with 0.1 % SDS for 1 hr, suggesting it was not composed of membrane debris from the mother cell. The D values of spores ranged from 1.19- 3.31 min. The addition of lysozyme in the plating medium elevated the recovery rate of heat-treated spores. The growth rate of a cocktail of spores from spices (# 31, # 32, # 45) between 4 to 5 hr after inoculation was determined with a doubling time of 6.82 min in hamburger. A cocktail of spores of plasmid-borne ent control showed an optimum growth rate between 5 to 8 hr after inoculation with doubling time of 15.98 min. However; spice isolate cocktail, plasmid-borne ent control cocktail (FD-5603 and FD-153), and a chromosome-borne ent control (NTCT 8239) were unable to germinate and outgrowth at 20oC. Inoculation in laboratory medium FTG indicated the same result as hamburger at 20oC. The ability of C. perfringens spores in spices to potentially survive cooking procedures can be followed by germination and growth of vegetative cells during improper cooling to levels associated with foodborne illness caused by this organism. Our results suggest that retail spices are potential vehicles of transmission of enterotoxin-positive C. perfringens.
Dynamic renormalization group study of a generalized continuum model of crystalline surfaces
Creators: name: Cuerno, Rodolfo
name: Moro, Esteban
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the Nozieres-Gallet dynamic renormalization group (RG) scheme to a continuum equilibrium model of a d-dimensional surface relaxing by linear surface tension and linear surface diffusion, and which is subject to a lattice potential favoring discrete values of the height variable. The model thus interpolates between the overdamped sine-Gordon model and a related continuum model of crystalline tensionless surfaces. The RG flow predicts the existence of an equilibrium roughening transition only for d = 2 dimensional surfaces, between a flat low-temperature phase and a rough high-temperature phase in the Edwards-Wilkinson (EW) universality class. The surface is always in the flat phase for any other substrate dimensions d > 2. For any value of d, the linear surface diffusion mechanism is an irrelevant perturbation of the linear surface tension mechanism, but may induce long crossovers within which the scaling properties of the linear molecular-beam epitaxy equation are observed, thus increasing the value of the sine-Gordon roughening temperature. This phenomenon originates in the non-linear lattice potential, and is seen to occur even in the absence of a bare surface tension term. An important consequence of this is that a crystalline tensionless surface is asymptotically described at high temperatures by the EW universality class.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review E
MOESM1 of Reconstructive trends and complications following parotidectomy: incidence and predictors in 11,057 cases
Creators: name: Bovenzi, Cory
name: Ciolek, Peter
name: Crippen, Meghan
name: Curry, Joseph
name: Krein, Howard
name: Heffelfinger, Ryan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Descriptive Variables Derived from Billing Codes (DOCX 16 kb)
Relativistic bound-state calculations in Light Front Dynamics
Creators: name: van Iersel, M.
name: Bakker, B. L. G.
name: Pijlman, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculated bound states in the quantum field theoretical approach. Using the Wick-Cutkosky model and an extended version of this model (in which a particle with finite mass is exchanged) we have calculated the bound states in the scalar case.
description: 3 pages, proceedings of the Light Cone Meeting Trento 2001, to be published in Nucl. Phys. B - Proceedings Supplements
Protecting Controllers against Denial-of-Service Attacks in Software-Defined Networks
Creators: name: Li, Jingrui
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Connection setup in software-defined networks (SDN) requires considerable amounts of processing, communication, and memory resources. Attackers can target SDN controllers defense mechanism based on a proof-of-work protocol. This thesis proposes a new protocol to protect controllers against such attacks, shows implementation of the system and analyze the its performance. The key characteristics of this protocol, namely its one-way operation, its requirement for freshness in proofs of work, its adjustable difficulty, its ability to work withmultiple network providers, and its use of existing TCP/IP header fields, ensure that this approach can be used in practice.
INFRASTRUCTURE-FREE SECURE PAIRING OF MOBILE DEVICES
Creators: name: Liu, Chunqiu
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: Mobile devices have advanced tremendously during the last ten years and have changed our daily life in various ways. Secure pairing of mobile devices has become a significant issue considering the huge quantity of active mobile device connections and mobile traffic. However, current commonly used file sharing mobile applications rely on servers completely that are always targeted by attackers. In this thesis work, an innovative mechanism is proposed to generate symmetric keys on both mobile devices independently from a shared movement in arbitrary pattern, which means no server needs to be involved and no data exchange needed. A secret wireless-communication channel can then be established with a particular network strategy.
MOESM1 of Improving the efficiency of soybean breeding with high-throughput canopy phenotyping
Creators: name: Moreira, Fabiana
name: Hearst, Anthony
name: Cherkauer, Keith
name: Rainey, Katy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Adjusted mean and standard deviation for yield (Kg/ha) and R8 (days to maturity) by selection criteria for preliminary yield trials (PYT) early and late in 2016 and 2017. Figure S1. Box plot of adjusted R8 (days to maturity) distribution for lines selected by each selection categories (Yield, ACC and Yield|ACC) for preliminary yield trials (PYT) early and late in 2016 and 2017. Diamond indicates mean for each selection categories. The line crossing the box plots are representing the median for each class. No significative (ns); p > 0.05; *p ≤ 0.05; **p ≤ 0.01; ***p ≤ 0.001; ****p ≤ 0.0001. Figure S2. Distribution of average canopy coverage of the checks by days after planting for progeny rows 2015 and 2016.
Predominant Musical Instrument Classification based on Spectral Features
Creators: name: Racharla, Karthikeya
name: Kumar, Vineet
name: Jayant, Chaudhari Bhushan
name: Khairkar, Ankit
name: Harish, Paturu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work aims to examine one of the cornerstone problems of Musical Instrument Retrieval (MIR), in particular, instrument classification. IRMAS (Instrument recognition in Musical Audio Signals) data set is chosen for this purpose. The data includes musical clips recorded from various sources in the last century, thus having a wide variety of audio quality. We have presented a very concise summary of past work in this domain. Having implemented various supervised learning algorithms for this classification task, SVM classifier has outperformed the other state-of-the-art models with an accuracy of 79%. We also implemented Unsupervised techniques out of which Hierarchical Clustering has performed well.
description: Appeared in Proceedings of SPIN 2020
Radiative falloff in the background of rotating black hole
Creators: name: Burko, Lior M.
name: Khanna, Gaurav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study numerically the late-time tails of linearized fields with any spin $s$ in the background of a spinning black hole. Our code is based on the ingoing Kerr coordinates, which allow us to penetrate through the event horizon. The late time tails are dominated by the mode with the least multipole moment $\ell$ which is consistent with the equatorial symmetry of the initial data and is equal to or greater than the least radiative mode with $s$ and the azimuthal number $m$.
description: 5 pages, 4 Encapsulated PostScript figures; Accepted to Phys. Rev. D (Rapid Communication)
Additional file 8: of Effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on the immune microenvironment in non–small cell lung carcinomas as determined by multiplex immunofluorescence and image analysis approaches
Creators: name: Parra, Edwin
name: Villalobos, Pamela
name: Behrens, Carmen
name: Jiang, Mei
name: Pataer, Apar
name: Swisher, Stephen
name: William, William
name: Zhang, Jiexin
name: Lee, Jack
name: Cascone, Tina
name: Heymach, John
name: Forget, Marie-Andrée
name: Haymaker, Cara
name: Bernatchez, Chantale
name: Kalhor, Neda
name: Weissferdt, Annikka
name: Moran, Cesar
name: Zhang, Jianjun
name: Vaporciyan, Ara
name: Gibbons, Don
name: Sepesi, Boris
name: Wistuba, Ignacio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Table S3. Multivariate survival analysis (Cox regression model) of effects on survival of (A) tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs; CD68+) and (B) helper T cells (CD3 + CD4+) controlled by tumor stage in NSCLCs from patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy (N = 51). (DOCX 18 kb)
MOESM8 of Wild-type Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase is misfolded in cerebrospinal fluid of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Creators: name: Tokuda, Eiichi
name: Yo-Ichi Takei
name: Ohara, Shinji
name: Fujiwara, Noriko
name: Hozumi, Isao
name: Furukawa, Yoshiaki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 8: Figure S7. Effects of metal salts addition on the viability of differentiated NSC-34 cells. Differentiated NSC-34 cells were first prepared by the method described in the text, and either CuSO4 or ZnSO4 in the indicated concentration was then added. After incubation for 48â€‰h, the viability of the NSC-34 cells was assayed with Cell Counting Kit-8 (Dojindo) and represented as the relative viability to the one in the absence of the metal salt addition. The data were represented as the averaged cell viability relative to that of the negative control in which neither CuSO4 nor ZnSO4 was added. Three independent experiments were performed to estimate error bars (standard deviation).
Enhancing the mechanical properties of natural jute yarn suitable for structural applications
Creators: name: Ashadujjaman, Md.
name: Saifullah, Abu
name: Shah, Darshill U
name: Zhang, Minglonghai
name: Akonda, Mahmudul
name: Karim, Nazmul
name: Sarker, Forkan
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Paper
Energy and environment materials
natural fibres
glycine
surface treatments
tensile properties

description: Abstract: Manufacturing natural-based high-performance composites are becoming of greater interest to the composite manufacturers and to their end-users due to their bio-degradability, low cost and availability. Yarn based textile architecture is commonly used in manufacturing these composites due to their excellent formability. However, for using natural based yarn as a reinforcing architecture in high load-bearing structural composite applications, a significant improvement in mechanical performance is required. Particularly, jute fibre yarn suffers from poor mechanical properties due to the presence of a fibrillar network, polysaccharides and other impurities in the fibre. For achieving this, we use aqueous glycine treatment (10%, W/V) on alkali(0.5 %, W/V) and untreated jute yarns for the first time. The glycine treatment on alkali-treated jute yarns (ATG) shows a huge improvement in tensile strength and strain values by almost ∼105% and ∼50 % respectively compared to untreated jute yarns (UT) because of the strong interactions and bonds developed between glycine, alkali and jute yarns. It is believed that the newly developed glycine treated jute yarns will be helpful to promote jute yarns in composite industries where load-bearing is the primary requirement and replace their synthetic counterparts.
The Role of the Novel Lupus Antigen, Acheron, in Moderating Life and Death Decisions
Creators: name: Sheel, Ankur
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

description: Programmed cell death (PCD) is a major regulatory mechanism employed during development and homeostasis. The term PCD was coined to describe the death of the intersegmental muscles (ISMs) of moths at the end of metamorphosis. The timing of ISM death in the Tobacco Hawkmoth, Manduca sexta, is regulated by a fall in the titer of the steroid molting hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) late on day 17of pupal-adult development. This triggers the release of the peptide hormone, Eclosion Hormone (EH), which mediates its effects via the secondary messenger cGMP. It has been previously demonstrated that ISM death requires de novo gene expression. One induced gene in the ISMs encodes the novel protein Acheron. However, Acheron’s role in PCD is unknown.
Acheron is a novel member of the Lupus-Antigen family of RNA binding proteins. In humans, Acheron is expressed in many tissues including the myoepithelial cells in mammary ducts. Analysis of the mammary gland revealed that Acheron mRNA levels were elevated in some basal-like breast cancers in women. Ectopic expression of Acheron in human MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells results in dramatic elevations in proliferation, angiogenesis and metastasis. Moreover, Acheron expressing MDA-MB-231 cells in mouse xenographs resulted in tumors that were five times larger than control cell tumors. These data suggests that Acheron enhances the growth of some human breast cancers.
This thesis describes two primary studies. The first tested the hypothesis that Acheron functions as a survival protein for cells in vitro. MDA-MB-231 cells engineered to express Acheron were challenged with various death-inducing treatments, which act via different signaling pathways, to determine if Acheron expression confers survival. Acheron protects cells from apoptosis induced by nutrient withdrawal, proteosome inhibition, heat stress, mitochondrial toxins, inhibiting cellular respiration, DNA damage, and oxidative stress. The second study tested the hypothesis that Acheron is phosphorylated by a cGMP-dependent kinase in the ISMs when the cells initiate death following adult eclosion. Using a non-radioactive in-vitro kinase assay I observed that Acheron is phosphorylated via a cGMP-dependent kinase, presumed via kinase binding motif predictions to be Protein Kinase G. Furthermore I show that phosphorylation is coupled to Acheron degradation.
Robust magnetotransport in disordered ferromagnetic kagome layers with quantum anomalous Hall effect
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Koji
name: Takagaki, Masaki
name: Nomura, Kentaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetotransport properties of disordered ferromagnetic kagome layers are investigated numerically. We show that a large domain-wall magnetoresistance or negative magnetoresistance can be realized in kagome layered materials (e.g. Fe$_3$Sn$_2$, Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$, and Mn$_3$Sn), which show the quantum anomalous Hall effect. The kagome layers show a strong magnetic anisotropy and a large magnetoresistance depending on their magnetic texture. These domain-wall magnetoresistances are expected to be robust against disorder and observed irrespective of the domain-wall thickness, in contrast to conventional domain-wall magnetoresistance in ferromagnetic metals.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, published version
The Phonological System of A Xin'an Idiolect
Creators: name: Lu, Shuiying
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2016

description: My idiolect, a Xin’an idiolect, belongs to the Wuxi dialect, which is the northern Wu dialect. It carries most of the characteristics of the Wuxi dialect, such as the tripartite division of the manner of articulation of initial stop consonants. However, with the special geographic position, on the bounty of Wuxi dialect from the northwest area to southeast area and connected with Suzhou city, my idiolect shows its unique features, such as the condition of the retroflex. This study analyzes the phonological system of the idiolect and discusses the features. Since the dialect of the suburban area of the Wuxi is rare, it was only documented in the local chronicles; therefore the study is a good supplemental material to the Wuxi dialect.
Moreover, using the idiolect is like to use the phonological material with the specific area and social identity. It is well known that the variation of the language is related to the area, to the speaker’s social identity and to the situation, therefore the specific idiolect definitely will benefit researchers to analyze the dialect. Furthermore, idiolect is also a good sample to study the language diversity among the different social classes, which need to get more attention from scholars.
With the influence of the Mandarin and the surrounding dialects, some phonological features of my idiolect are in the variation, such as the sharp and rounded sounds. In the thesis, the theory of the language contact is applied to explain my idiolect.
Variation of Fundamental Couplings and Nuclear Forces
Creators: name: Beane, Silas R.
name: Savage, Martin J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dependence of the nuclear force on standard model parameters plays an important role in bounding time and space variations of fundamental couplings over cosmological time scales. We discuss the quark-mass dependence of deuteron and di-neutron binding in a systematic chiral expansion. The leading quark-mass dependence of the nuclear force arises from one-pion exchange and from local quark-mass dependent four-nucleon operators with coefficients that are presently unknown. By varying these coefficients while leaving nuclear observables at the physical values of the quark masses invariant, we find scenarios where two-nucleon physics depends both weakly and strongly on the quark masses. While the determination of these coefficients is an exciting future opportunity for lattice QCD, we conclude that, at present, bounds on time and space variations of fundamental parameters from the two-nucleon sector are much weaker than previously claimed. This brings into question the reliability of coupling-constant bounds derived from more complex nuclei and nuclear processes.
description: 16 pages LaTeX, 4 eps figs, 12 ps figs