cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Eine kombinierte Behandlung mit Everolimus und Sulforaphan vermindert das Metastasierungsverhalten von Blasen-Tumorzellen in vitro
Creators: name: Maxeiner, S.
name: Justin, S.
name: Rutz, J.
name: Roos, F.
name: Chun, F.
name: Jüngel, E.
name: Blaheta, R.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Während der Behandlung von Blasen-Tumorzellen mit dem mTOR-Inhibitor Everolimus (Eve) kann eine Resistenzinduktion beobachtet werden. Dadurch ist der Behandlungserfolg deutlich verschlechtert und zeitlich limitiert. Auf Grund dieser Problematik, ist eine genaue Analyse der Resistenzmechanismen[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 60. Jahrestagung der Südwestdeutschen Gesellschaft für Urologie e.V.
title: Evaluierung und Validierung von Referenzgenen aus FFPE Gewebe zur Genexpressionsanalyse im Urothelkarzinom der Harnblase
Creators: name: Nitschke, K.
name: Jurgowski, D.
name: Eckstein, M.
name: Wirtz, R.
name: Hartmann, A.
name: Erben, P.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung: Referenzgene (housekeeping genes) sind durch eine stabile Expression gekennzeichnet und sind zur Normalisierung von Genexpressionsanalysen mittels qRT-PCR essentiell. Bisher fehlen im Urothelkarzinom der Harnblase (BCa) für archivierte Formalin-fixierte Paraffin-eingebettete (FFPE)[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 60. Jahrestagung der Südwestdeutschen Gesellschaft für Urologie e.V.
title: Interaktion von vier bei genomweiten Assoziationsstudien identifizierten Risikovarianten und das Risiko an Harnblasenkrebs zu erkranken
Creators: name: Ovsiannikov, D.
name: Ovsiannikov, D.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Interaktionen der in genomweiten Assoziationsstudien (GWAS) identifizierten genetischen Varianten für Harnblasenkrebs sind bisher wenig untersucht, ebenso wie die Frage der unterschiedlichen Relevanz der Risikovarianten und ihrer Kombinationen bei Rauchern und Nichtrauchern. Wir untersuchten[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 60. Jahrestagung der Südwestdeutschen Gesellschaft für Urologie e.V.
Revisiting the flavor changing neutral current Higgs decays $H\to q_i q_j$ in the Standard Model
Creators: name: Benitez-Guzmán, L. G.
name: García-Jiménez, I.
name: López-Osorio, M. A.
name: Martínez-Pascual, E.
name: Toscano, J. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An exact calculation of the Higgs boson decays $H\to q_i q_j$ mediated by flavor changing neutral currents is presented in the context of the Standard Model. Using up-to-date experimental data, branching ratios of the order of $10^{-7}$, $10^{-8}$, $10^{-8}$, and $10^{-15}$ are found for the $\bar{b}s+\bar{s}b$, $\bar{b}d+\bar{d}b$, $\bar{s}d+\bar{d}s$, and $\bar{c}u+\bar{u}c$ decay modes, respectively.
description: Revised version accepted in J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys
Thermal ecology of Podarcis siculus (Rafinesque-Schmalz, 1810) in Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)
Creators: name: Ortega, Zaida
name: Mencía, Abraham
name: Pérez-Mellado, Valentín
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2016

description: We studied the thermal ecology of an introduced population of the Italian wall lizard, Podarcis siculus, in Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). We measured field body temperatures of adult lizards, as well as air and substrate temperatures at their capture places, during spring and summer. We assessed the relations between body and air temperatures, and between body and substrate temperatures, for both seasons. We studied the preferred temperature range of P. siculus in a laboratory thermal gradient. In addition, we recorded the operative temperatures of the habitat of the Italian wall lizard during summer. Then, we calculated the three indexes of behavioural thermoregulation for summer: thermal quality of the habitat, accuracy of thermoregulation, and effectiveness of thermoregulation. As expected, our results show that Italian wall lizards achieved significantly higher body temperatures during summer than during spring. Body temperatures were not significantly related to air temperatures in spring, but the correlation was significant in summer. In addition, body temperatures were not significantly related to substrate temperatures for any season. The preferred temperature range of the species was similar for males and females: 28.40-31.57 °C. Introduced Italian wall lizards of Menorca are effective thermoregulators, with an effectiveness of 0.82 during summer.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 11 No 2 (2016)
22 May 1791: Maitland, Penelope (1731-1805) to West, Charlotte (1769-1860)
Creators: name: Orchard, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430201
subject: Archival, repository and related studies

description: A manuscript letter from the Bodleian Special Collections which has been transcribed, edited, and annotated by students participating in the Bodleian Student Editions workshop series, organised by Mike Webb, curator of Early Modern Manuscripts, and Miranda Lewis, Digital Editor of Early Modern Letters Online.
Predator-prey interactions between a recent invader, the Chinese sleeper (Perccottus glenii) and the European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis): a case study from Lithuania
Creators: name: Rakauskas, Vytautas
name: Masiulytė, Rūta
name: Pikūnienė, Alma
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2016

description: The European pond turtle, Emys orbicularis, is a critically endangered species in most European countries. Habitat degradation and fragmentation are considered the main reasons for the decline of E. orbicularis. However, the spread of invasive species may also contribute to the disappearance of E. orbicularis populations. We examined the range overlap and predator-prey interactions between the invasive Chinese sleeper, Perccottus glenii, and E. orbicularis through controlled experiments and in field studies. Field surveys showed that both species occupied similar habitats. Predator-prey experiments suggested that newly hatched turtles are resistant to P. glenii predation. Conversely, adults of E. orbicularis consumed juvenile P. glenii even when other food sources were available. Overall, these findings suggested that E. orbicularis is not among the potential prey organisms in the diet of the invasive P. glenii, and that this fish does not directly contribute to the decline of E. orbicularis in Europe.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 11 No 2 (2016)
title: Interleukin-1 bedingte Endothelzellaktivierung als Invasionsfaktor beim Urothelkarzinom der Harnblase
Creators: name: Cremer, C.
name: Bolenz, C.
name: Guenes, C.
name: John, A.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Fragestellung und Ziel: Das Urothelkarzinom der Harnblase zeigt trotz radikaler Chirurgie in einem klinisch lokalisierten Stadium (pT1-T3, pN0) eine 5-Jahres-Überlebensrate von nur 50-60%. Die meisten Patienten versterben an den Folgen einer bereits frühzeitig einsetzenden okkulten[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 60. Jahrestagung der Südwestdeutschen Gesellschaft für Urologie e.V.
title: Ungewöhnliche Differenzialdiagnose einer inkarzerierten Parastomalhernie
Creators: name: Steinemann, S.
name: Dück, O.
name: Franzaring, L.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Notfallmäßige Vorstellung einer septischen 93-jährigen Patientin mit Makrohämaturie und auffällig schmerzhafter Rötung an der vorbekannten Parastomalenhernie. Laborchemische Infektkonstellation mit 13/nl Leukozyten und 184 mg/l CRP bei Harntransportstörung[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 60. Jahrestagung der Südwestdeutschen Gesellschaft für Urologie e.V.
Structure and interaction potentials in solid-supported lipid membranes studied by X-ray reflectivity at varied osmotic pressure
Creators: name: Mennicke, Ulrike
name: Constantin, Doru
name: Salditt, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Highly oriented solid-supported lipid membranes in stacks of controlled number $N \simeq 16$ (oligo-membranes) have been prepared by spin-coating using the uncharged lipid model system 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC). The samples have been immersed in aqueous polymer solutions for control of osmotic pressure and have been studied by X-ray reflectivity. The bilayer structure and fluctuations have been determined by modelling the data over the full q-range. Thermal fluctuations are described using the continuous smectic Hamiltonian with the appropriate boundary conditions at the substrate and at the free surface of the stack. The resulting fluctuation amplitudes and the pressure-distance relation are discussed in view of the inter-bilayer potential.
Growth, longevity and age at maturity in the European whip snakes, Hierophis viridiflavus and H. carbonarius
Creators: name: Fornasiero, Sara
name: Bonnet, Xavier
name: Dendi, Federica
name: Zuffi, Marco
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2016

description: Age and size at maturity are major life history traits, because they influence lifetime fecundity. They represent the outcome from complex interactions among environmental pressures (abiotic and biotic) and individual characteristics. They are also difficult to measure in natural populations and thus they are rarely appraised, especially in reptiles due to the elusive nature of juveniles. Using skeletochronology to circumvent these difficulties, this study aims to compare age structures, longevity, age-size relationships, growth curves, age and size at maturation and potential reproductive lifespan in three populations of the European whip snake (two Hierophis viridiflavus, one H. carbonarius). We measured the body size and counted the skeletal growth marks on 132 specimens, accidentally killed or from museum collections (72 from NW France [Chizé]; 28 from Tuscan Archipelago [Montecristo], Italy; 32 from S Italy [Calimera]). General patterns of age at maturity and longevity were consistent with previous studies based on recapture investigations. Strong differences among populations suggest local adaptation to contrasted environmental conditions. These results suggest that skeletochronology is a useful technique that can be applied opportunistically in snakes (e.g. using road-kills) in order to collect otherwise unavailable data that are essential to address fundamental questions regarding longevity, life-history traits and to perform population viability analyses.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 11 No 2 (2016)
title: Fallbericht: Die emphysematöse Pyelonephritis, eine seltene lebensbedrohliche Erkrankung
Creators: name: Linges, M.
name: Elsner, S.
name: Kleinschmidt, K.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Die emphysematöse Pyelonephritis ist eine seltene Erkrankung mit einer hohen Mortalität von 8,7-40%. Der häufigste prädisponierende Faktor ist ein unzureichend eingestellter Diabetes mellitus. Die häufigsten ursächlichen Erreger sind E. coli und Klebsiella,[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 60. Jahrestagung der Südwestdeutschen Gesellschaft für Urologie e.V.
Domestic food waste, gap in times of crisis
Creators: name: Fanelli, Rosa Maria
name: Di Florio, Antonia
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2016

description: The purpose of this paper is to identify the main causes of food waste in the phase of domestic consumption, possible solutions and areas of interest, as well as to highlight the measures that consumers have already taken or to be put in place to counter models of unsustainable consumption. The survey involved a representative sample of 500 individuals. Data analysis was conducted in three steps: an analysis of simple correspondences, a cluster analysis and causal maps. Results show that only 26% of the participants recognized the need to give more attention to the problem of food waste. Particularly sensitive segments were younger, the better educated. Another interesting finding is that in times of economic crisis, afflicting Italy now for 8 years, attitudes, buying behavior and consumption of households have become more virtuous. Overall, the analysis confirmed the behavior of the participants, especially from Molise, still little careful. However, many respondents would be willing to accept advice on how to keep food and how to use the leftovers in the kitchen.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 71 No 2 (2016)
title: Case Report SPK-Fehllage
Creators: name: Elkmann, F.
name: Blasl-Kling, F.
name: Humke, U.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Einleitung: Darstellung einer SPK-Fehllage in Zusammenhang mit einer Wundheilungsstörung nach Nierentransplantation. Material und Methode: Aufarbeitung der Aktenlage im Sinne einer Mortalitäts- und Morbiditäts-Konferenz. Ergebnisse: Wir berichten über einen 48-jährigen[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 60. Jahrestagung der Südwestdeutschen Gesellschaft für Urologie e.V.
Ethiopia Field Epidemiology Training Program (EFELP)
Creators: name: Mukemil Hussen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Introduction: Suspected measles outbreak was notified from Afar region to national public health emergency management/PHEM/ in 10th November 2018. We investigated the outbreaks occurred in hard to reach Woredas of Afar region, to identify the contributing factors for measles outbreak. Methods: 1:2 unmatched case control study design was conducted with 60 cases and 120 controls. We collected 5 blood samples from each woreda patients for Lab confirmation. Data entry and analysis was performed using EPI-Info version 7.2 and SPSS Version 20. Results: a total of 66 cases and two deaths were reported from 2 two neighboring woredas affected by a measles outbreak in Afar region. All samples (10/10) became reactive for Measles IgM at national Laboratory. The cumulative attack rate of 6/10,000 population and case fatality ratio of 3.03% was recorded. High AR (29.2/10000population) was reported from age 1-4 years and 62 (93.9%) cases were unvaccinated for measles vaccine. The mean age for cases was 6.6(SD +/- 6.1) years while for controls were 5.2(+/- 6.3) years old. Being vaccinated (OR=0.51; CI: 0.002-0.12), Absence of measles cases in the family (OR=0.081; CI: 0.039-0.169) and mothers literacy (OR=0.32; CI: 0.012-0.85) was associated with protecting from measles.
Ethical and sustainable consumption in the Italian coffee market: a choice experiment to analyse consumers’ willingness to pay
Creators: name: Gallenti, Gianluigi
name: Troiano, Stefania
name: Cosmina, Marta
name: Marangon, Francesco
Publisher: name: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics
Year: 2016

description: Consumers increasingly consider ethical and sustainable attributes of products in their purchasing decisions, in particular with reference to food consumption. Among agri-food products, coffee is a pioneering food for sustainability and ethical certification, such as organic and Fair Trade, whose success depends significantly on consumers’ willingness to pay a premium price for these attributes. This study uses a choice experiment (CE) to investigate the attitudes towards organic and Fair Trade coffee among Italian consumers. The results show considerable heterogeneity among respondents, the majority of whom tend to be more interested in organic coffee than Fair Trade coffee, even if a large group of them are willing to pay a premium price to consume Fair Trade coffee.
description: Italian Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol 71 No 2 (2016)
03 December 1788: Maitland, Penelope (1731-1805) to West, Charlotte (1769-1860)
Creators: name: Orchard, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430201
subject: Archival, repository and related studies

description: A manuscript letter from the Bodleian Special Collections which has been transcribed, edited, and annotated by students participating in the Bodleian Student Editions workshop series, organised by Mike Webb, curator of Early Modern Manuscripts, and Miranda Lewis, Digital Editor of Early Modern Letters Online.
The a-function in six dimensions
Creators: name: Gracey, J. A.
name: Jack, I.
name: Poole, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The a-function is a proposed quantity defined in even dimensions which has a monotonic behaviour along RG flows, related to the beta-functions via a gradient flow equation. We study the a-function for a general scalar theory in six dimensions, using the beta-functions up to three-loop order for both the MSbar and MOM schemes (the latter presented here for the first time at three loops).
description: 27 pages, seven figures, uses axodraw. Minor improvements in wording
Accurate fundamental parameters and distance to a massive early-type eclipsing binary in the Danks 2 cluster
Creators: name: Kourniotis, M.
name: Bonanos, A. Z.
name: Williams, S. J.
name: Castro, N.
name: Koumpia, E.
name: Prieto, J. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the properties of the O-type, massive eclipsing binary 2MASS J13130841-6239275 located in the outskirts of the Danks 2 cluster in the G305 star-forming complex, using near-infrared spectroscopy from VLT/ISAAC. We derive the masses and radii to be 24.5$\pm$0.9 M$_{\odot}$ and 9.2$\pm$0.1 R$_{\odot}$ for the primary and 21.7$\pm$0.8 M$_{\odot}$ and 8.7$\pm$0.1 R$_{\odot}$ for the secondary component. In addition, we evaluate the sensitivity of our parameters to the choice of the spectral features used to determine the radial velocities. Both components appear to be main-sequence O6.5$-$O7 type stars at an age of $\sim$5 Myr, which is in agreement with the age of the cluster. A high visual extinction of A$_{5495}$=11.9$\pm$0.1 mag is reported, which is likely attributed to the cold molecular gas contaminating the north-east region of the cluster. By fitting the spectral energy distribution of the system to the available $BVI_{c}JHK_{s}$ photometry, we determine a distance to the system of 3.52$\pm$0.08 kpc with a precision of 2$\%$, which is the most well-determined distance to the Danks 2 cluster and the host complex reported in the literature.
description: 13 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A
Spin nematics, valence-bond solids and spin liquids in SO($N$) quantum spin models on the triangular lattice
Creators: name: Kaul, Ribhu K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a simple model of SO($N$) spins with two-site interactions which is amenable to quantum Monte-Carlo studies without a sign problem on non-bipartite lattices. We present numerical results for this model on the two-dimensional triangular lattice where we find evidence for a spin nematic at small $N$, a valence-bond solid (VBS) at large $N$ and a quantum spin liquid at intermediate $N$. By the introduction of a sign-free four-site interaction we uncover a rich phase diagram with evidence for both first-order and exotic continuous phase transitions.
(103059) Ruth Carr Lascelles
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Limit theorems for locally stationary processes
Creators: name: Kawka, Rafael
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 310
subject: 330
subject: 620

description: We present limit theorems for locally stationary processes that have a one sided time-varying moving average representation. In particular, we prove a central limit theorem (CLT), a weak and a strong law of large numbers (WLLN, SLLN) and a law of the iterated logarithm (LIL) under mild assumptions that are closely related to those originally imposed by Dahlhaus and Polonik (2006).
description: Discussion Paper / SFB823;9/2019
04 December 1786: Maitland, Penelope (1731-1805) to West, Charlotte (1769-1860)
Creators: name: Orchard, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430201
subject: Archival, repository and related studies

description: A manuscript letter from the Bodleian Special Collections which has been transcribed, edited, and annotated by students participating in the Bodleian Student Editions workshop series, organised by Mike Webb, curator of Early Modern Manuscripts, and Miranda Lewis, Digital Editor of Early Modern Letters Online.
Sources of calcium for the agamid lizard Psammophilus blanfordanus during embryonic development
Creators: name: Jee, Jyoti
name: Kumar Mohapatra, Birendra
name: Kumar Dutta, Sushil
name: Sahoo, Gunanidhi
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2016

description: We determined the sources of calcium for the developing embryo and the parallel changes in eggshell structure in the Indian agamid lizard Psammophilus blanfordanus. The developing eggs were opened at 0 (freshly laid), 10, 20, 30, 35, 38, and 40 days of incubation and at hatching (day 41) and subjected to chemical and structural analyses. The oval and flexible-shelled eggs had undergone significant changes in size (40% increase in length, 68% increase in breadth and 315% increase in weight) from laying to hatching. The fresh eggshell contained 2.76 mg (12.51%) calcium whereas the hatched eggshell had only 1.02 mg (7.20%), or a 63% reduction from its original content. The yolk + fluids fraction provides only 0.47 mg to the 1.76 mg of calcium in the hatchling, the rest being resorbed from the eggshell during development. The fresh eggshell (62 µm thick) had a rough granular structure in its calcareous layer with near uniform rectangular/polygonal fields made up of globules of varying sizes. The membrane layer had a multilayered mat of interwoven, irregularly oriented and bifurcated, fibres of uneven thickness. The spherical globules were absent at several places in the hatched eggshell as a result of eggshell calcium utilisation by the developing embryo. Hence, like that of most reptiles, the eggshell of Psammophilus blanfordanus also acts as a secondary source of calcium for the developing embryo. The embryo utilizes the eggshell calcium towards the end of development.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 11 No 2 (2016)
Photo-identification in amphibian studies: a test of I3S Pattern
Creators: name: Sannolo, Marco
name: Gatti, Francesca
name: Mangiacotti, Marco
name: Scali, Stefano
name: Sacchi, Roberto
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2016

description: Photo-identiﬁcation is used for individual recognition of several animal species. It gives the possibility to take photos of large species from a distance or to avoid invasive marking techniques in small animals. For amphibians, the use of non-invasive marking methods is even more relevant in the light of their global decline. Here we use the photo-identification data from a population of Triturus carnifex to validate the photo-identification software I3S Pattern. This recently developed utility has never been applied to amphibians. The software proved to be efficient and accurate for individual recognition for this species. Contrarily to the previous releases of the I3S family, I3S Pattern is particularly suitable for amphibians characterized by a complex individual pattern of large blotches or irregular spots, which are not readily identified by eye.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 11 No 1 (2016)
(103070) Edmund Morris Carr Saunders
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Amendment of the type locality of the endemic Sicilian pond turtle Emys trinacris Fritz et al. 2005, with some notes on the highest altitude reached by the species (Testudines, Emydidae)
Creators: name: Marrone, Federico
name: Sacco, Francesco
name: Arizza, Vincenzo
name: Arculeo, Marco
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2016

description: The type locality of the Sicilian pond turtle Emys trinacris is here amended, and its correct name and geographical coordinates are provided. The locus typicus of the species lies at 1007 m a.s.l., i.e. nearly 400 m below what previously thought. The updated altitudinal distribution range of the species, based on verified published localities only, is between 0 and 1036 m a.s.l.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 11 No 1 (2016)
Deep Chandra, HST-COS, and Megacam Observations of the Phoenix Cluster: Extreme Star Formation and AGN Feedback on Hundred Kiloparsec Scales
Creators: name: McDonald, M.
name: McNamara, B. R.
name: van Weeren, R. J.
name: Applegate, D. E.
name: Bayliss, M.
name: Bautz, M. W.
name: Benson, B. A.
name: Carlstrom, J. E.
name: Bleem, L. E.
name: Chatzikos, M.
name: Edge, A. C.
name: Fabian, A. C.
name: Garmire, G. P.
name: Hlavacek-Larrondo, J.
name: Jones-Forman, C.
name: Mantz, A. B.
name: Miller, E. D.
name: Stalder, B.
name: Veilleux, S.
name: Zuhone, J. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new ultraviolet, optical, and X-ray data on the Phoenix galaxy cluster (SPT-CLJ2344-4243). Deep optical imaging reveals previously-undetected filaments of star formation, extending to radii of ~50-100 kpc in multiple directions. Combined UV-optical spectroscopy of the central galaxy reveals a massive (2x10^9 Msun)), young (~4.5 Myr) population of stars, consistent with a time-averaged star formation rate of 610 +/- 50 Msun/yr. We report a strong detection of OVI(1032,1038) which appears to originate primarily in shock-heated gas, but may contain a substantial contribution (>1000 Msun/yr) from the cooling intracluster medium. We confirm the presence of deep X-ray cavities in the inner ~10 kpc, which are amongst the most extreme examples of radio-mode feedback detected to date, implying jet powers of 2-7 x10^45 erg/s. We provide evidence that the AGN inflating these cavities may have only recently transitioned from "quasar-mode" to "radio-mode", and may currently be insufficient to completely offset cooling. A model-subtracted residual X-ray image reveals evidence for prior episodes of strong radio-mode feedback at radii of ~100 kpc, with extended "ghost" cavities indicating a prior epoch of feedback roughly 100 Myr ago. This residual image also exhibits significant asymmetry in the inner ~200 kpc (0.15R500), reminiscent of infalling cool clouds, either due to minor mergers or fragmentation of the cooling ICM. Taken together, these data reveal a rapidly evolving cool core which is rich with structure (both spatially and in temperature), is subject to a variety of highly energetic processes, and yet is cooling rapidly and forming stars along thin, narrow filaments.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
title: Learning Latent Representation for Robust Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Creators: name: Gao, Zhiqiang
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2025

description: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved impressive performance for various applications, but they may not generalize well on new data due to the data distribution shift problem. This problem can manifest in various ways, such as sample selection bias, class distribution shift, and covariate shift. One of these is domain shift, which occurs when test data are sampled from a new target domain that differs from the training data in terms of appearance, background, or style. Manually annotating data in a new domain can be time-consuming and expensive. To address this issue, Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) aims to infer domain-invariant representations by using labeled source domain data and unlabeled target domain data. This thesis focuses on the UDA problem and explores a more challenging case called Robust Unsupervised Domain Adaption (RUDA), where corrupted samples may exist in the target domain. DNNs are vulnerable to feature corruptions such as well-crafted adversarial attacks and common corruptions, so the performance of DNNs needs to be certified not only on clean data but also on corrupted data. The goal of this thesis is to provide a new understanding of both UDA and RUDA from the perspective of latent representation and distribution. For vanilla UDA, we investigate the incomplete domain adaptation issue of the current advanced adversarial domain adaptation method. To solve this problem, we propose a feature gradient distribution divergence as a complementary metric. For robustness against common corruptions in UDA, we show that the key to achieving robustness is to alleviate the feature shift of corrupted samples. To accomplish this, we develop an unsupervised adversarial regularization method that penalizes these feature shifts and enables the model to better generalize to unseen types of corruptions. For robustness against adversarial attacks, we investigate how to generalize well on adversarial attacks generated from future data of the target domain. We demonstrate that reducing the feature-shift distribution divergence between the training and testing datasets of the target domain can certify better robust generalization.
Olim palus, where once upon a time the marsh: distribution, demography, ecology and threats of amphibians in the Circeo National Park (Central Italy)
Creators: name: Romano, Antonio
name: Novaga, Riccardo
name: Costa, Andrea
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2016

description: The Circeo National Park lies in a territory that was deeply shaped by human activity, and represents one of the few remaining patches of plain wetland habitat in Central Italy. In this study distribution and few demographic information of the amphibians in the Park were provided. Seven species and 25 bibliographic and 84 original breeding sites were recorded, and population size estimations were carried out for a population of these three species: Pelophylax sinkl esculentus, Bufo balearicus and Rana dalmatina. For the studied populations of pool frog and green toad the operational sex ratio and the demographic effective population size was also estimated. For Rana dalmatina, which is strictly associated to forest environment, a positive and significant correlation between the number of egg clutches and maximum depth of the swamps was found. The State plain forest is the most important habitat for amphibians’ conservation in the park. The occurrence of dangerous alien species was investigated and they are evaluated as the major threat for amphibians in the park, especially the crayfish Procambarus clarkii in the State plain forest. Index of Calling Survey were performed for anurans and the medians did not differ among species. The potential distribution of amphibians in the Park was evaluated by building a species distribution model. Finally, the absence of three species reported in literature in the 60’s of the last century (Bombina pachypus, Salamandrina perspicillata, Rana italica) is also discussed.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 11 No 2 (2016)
(103056) Reginald Francis Lascelles
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The landscape of G-structures in eight-manifold compactifications of M-theory
Creators: name: Babalic, Elena Mirela
name: Lazaroiu, Calin Iuliu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider spaces of "virtual" constrained generalized Killing spinors, i.e. spaces of Majorana spinors which correspond to "off-shell" $s$-extended supersymmetry in compactifications of eleven-dimensional supergravity based on eight-manifolds $M$. Such spaces naturally induce two stratifications of $M$, called the chirality and stabilizer stratification. For the case $s=2$, we describe the former using the canonical Whitney stratification of a three-dimensional semi-algebraic set ${\cal R}$. We also show that the stabilizer stratification coincides with the rank stratification of a cosmooth generalized distribution ${\cal D}_0$ and describe it explicitly using the Whitney stratification of a four-dimensional semi-algebraic set $\mathfrak{P}$. The stabilizer groups along the strata are isomorphic with $\mathrm{SU}(2)$, $\mathrm{SU}(3)$, $\mathrm{G}_2$ or $\mathrm{SU}(4)$, where $\mathrm{SU(2)}$ corresponds to the open stratum, which is generically non-empty. We also determine the rank stratification of a larger generalized distribution ${\cal D}$ which turns out to be integrable in the case of compactifications down to $\mathrm{AdS}_3$.
description: 68 pages
18 November 1783: Maitland, Penelope (1731-1805) to West, Charlotte (1769-1860)
Creators: name: Orchard, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430201
subject: Archival, repository and related studies

description: A manuscript letter from the Bodleian Special Collections which has been transcribed, edited, and annotated by students participating in the Bodleian Student Editions workshop series, organised by Mike Webb, curator of Early Modern Manuscripts, and Miranda Lewis, Digital Editor of Early Modern Letters Online.
THE ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDEANDINTENTION TO USE CERVICAL CANCER SCREENINGANDITSCOLLERATES AMONG ARMY WOMENINETHIOPIA
Creators: name: Belachew Khasay
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Background: Cervical cancer is a global public health problem & it is the 4 th leading causecancermorbidity and mortality. Almost 70% of the global burden failed in developing counties. InEthiopiacervical cancer is the 2 nd leading cause of cancer mortality. Cervical cancer screeningis effectiveprevention method can avert >80% morbidity and mortality. However, globally a billionof womenmissed this opportunity. Poor utilization of cervical cancer screening was the prominent problemindeveloping countries. In Ethiopia cervical cancer screening coverage was 0.6%. Lowlevel of knowledge,negative attitude and low intention towards cervical cancer screening were among many obstaclesthathider the successfulness of cervical cancer screening on which this study aimed. Objectives: This study were measure level of knowledge, determine attitude, assess intentiontousecervical cancer screening and identify correlates of intention among army women of Ethiopia. Methods: A cross sectional study design was used to assess knowledge, attitude, intentiontowardscervical cancer screening and its correlates among army women of Ethiopia on April, 2016. Twentyoneposts were included in this study. Single population proportion formula was used to determinethesample size & a total of 423 samples were taken. Simple random sampling technique was usedtoselectstudy participants
WHEN BLACK MOVEMENTS MATTER: EFFECTS OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT ON LOCAL NEWSPAPER ATTENTION TO BLACK VICTIMS OF LETHAL POLICING
Creators: name: Lu, Todd Jiajin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Scholars of mass media and racism highlight racial stereotypes and legitimation of racist discourse in coverage of minority communities. However, the Black Lives Matter movement drew widespread media attention to high profile cases of police brutality against Black civilians and racist policing practices in the United States. Using a unique dataset of media coverage of 501 Black victims killed by US law enforcement between 2014 and 2016 in over two hundred local newspapers, this paper tests four main movement pathways—resource mobilization, frame resonance, political process theory, and social media activism—that explain why some Black victims killed by police received more local newspaper attention than others. This paper finds support for resource mobilization and frame resonance theories while no support for political process theory and social media activism. Black victims of lethal policing were more likely to receive local newspaper coverage when they were unarmed, where a local racial justice organization was present, and where local Black Lives Matter protests were present. Furthermore, the effect of protest was mediated through successful frame alignment with an injustice frame rather than a criminality frame. Local protests only mattered for unarmed Black victims and did not matter for armed Black victims. Implications for scholarship of mass media, race/ethnicity, and social movements are discussed.
(103057) Hugh Francis Seymour
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(103058) Cecil Elizabeth Lascelles
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Η ανταγωνιστικότητα της Ελληνικής Οικονομίας κατά τη χρονική περίοδο 2016-2021. Η εξωστρέφεια της Οικονομίας σε συνδυασμό με τις Άμεσες Ξένες Επενδύσεις.
Creators: name: Κυριακίδου, Φωτεινή
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ανταγωνισμός -- Ελλάδα
subject: Ανταγωνισμός, Διεθνής -- Ελλάδα
subject: Ελλάδα -- Οικονομική πολιτική
subject: Χρηματοοικονομική -- Κυβερνητική πολιτική -- Ελλάδα -- 2016-2021
subject: Οικονομική ανάπτυξη -- Ελλάδα
subject: Διεθνείς οικονομικές σχέσεις -- Ελλάδα
subject: Επενδύσεις -- Ελλάδα
subject: Επιχειρησιακός σχεδιασμός -- Ελλάδα
subject: Δείκτες ανταγωνιστικότητας
subject: Ανταγωνιστικότητα
subject: Εξωστρέφεια οικονομίας
subject: Άμεσες ξένες επενδύσεις
subject: Ελληνική οικονομία
subject: Competitiveness indicators
subject: Competitiveness
subject: Economic extroversion
subject: Foreign direct investment
subject: Greek economy

description: Αριθμός Εισαγωγής: 013459 cd
description: To 2020 αποτέλεσε ένα έτος ορόσημο για την Ελλάδα, καθώς η χώρα εισήλθε στην τρίτη δεκαετία του 21 ου αιώνα, η οποία ακολούθησε μια δεκαετία ισχυρής οικονομικής και κοινωνικής κρίσης επιστέγασμα της οποίας αποτέλεσε και η πανδημία του κορονοϊού. Η χώρα, πέρα από τις πολυεπίπεδες προκλήσεις που αντιμετώπισε και συνεχίζει να αντιμετωπίζει σε εθνικό, οικονομικό και κοινωνικό επίπεδο, βρίσκεται μπροστά και σε τεράστιες ευκαιρίες και προκλήσεις που προσφέρουν τα νέα χρηματοδοτικά εργαλεία του Ταμείου Ανάκαμψης και η ίδια η πανδημία. Καθίσταται λοιπόν αναγκαία η εκπόνηση μιας στρατηγικής διαχείρισης της πανδημίας με σκοπό να απορροφήσει τους κραδασμούς και να ενισχύσει τους πληττόμενους τομείς της οικονομίας. Για το λόγο αυτό, απαιτείται η γρήγορη απορρόφηση και αποδοτική αξιοποίηση των πόρων του Ταμείου Ανάκαμψης, καθώς και η δημοσιονομική προσαρμογή της χώρας. Οι βασικοί άξονες της νέας εθνικής στρατηγικής και του σχεδίου «Ελλάδα 2.0» είναι η ανάκαμψη και η ανάπτυξη της εθνικής οικονομίας και η αύξηση της ανταγωνιστικότητας, μέσα από τον εκσυγχρονισμό των δομών του κράτους αλλά και των κλάδων της οικονομίας, στο πλαίσιο της δίδυμης μετάβασης (πράσινης και ψηφιακής), η ανάπτυξη και η διεύρυνση των δεξιοτήτων του ανθρώπινου δυναμικού, η ενίσχυση της κοινωνικής συνοχής αλλά και η προώθηση των ιδιωτικών επενδύσεων. Η παρούσα εργασία επιχειρεί να διερευνήσει το οικονομικό περιβάλλον της Ελλάδος για την περίοδο από το 2016 μέχρι και το 2021, την εξωστρέφεια αυτής και να εντοπίσει τους τομείς εκείνους στους οποίους η χώρα είναι ανταγωνιστική και λαμβάνει την πλειονότητα των άμεσων ξένων επενδύσεων. Για τον λόγο αυτό, η παρούσα έρευνα μελετά τους δείκτες ανταγωνιστικότητας, επιχειρεί να αναλύσει την ελληνική οικονομία κατά την περίοδο 2016 μέχρι 2021 και να μελετήσει την εξωστρέφεια της ελληνικής οικονομίας, ενώ τέλος ερευνά τις άμεσες ξένες επενδύσεις κατά την περίοδο 2016 μέχρι και 2021 και τις προοπτικές και επιπτώσεις που φέρουν στην Ελληνική οικονομία.
19 October 1788: Maitland, Penelope (1731-1805) to West, Charles Augustus (1766-1854)
Creators: name: Orchard, Jack
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430201
subject: Archival, repository and related studies

description: A manuscript letter from the Bodleian Special Collections which has been transcribed, edited, and annotated by students participating in the Bodleian Student Editions workshop series, organised by Mike Webb, curator of Early Modern Manuscripts, and Miranda Lewis, Digital Editor of Early Modern Letters Online.
Property Types for Mutable Data Structures in Java
Creators: name: Bachmeier, Joshua
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2022

description: Property Types are a kind of user-defined refinement type about variables and fields in a program. They are verified by discharging as many properties as possible using a scalable type checker. The remaining assertions are forwarded to a less scalable but more powerful deductive verification tool. However, the design and implementation by Lanzinger et al. cannot function in the presence of aliasing and mutability. In this thesis, we find that property checking can be performed safely on mutable data structures provided exclusive mutable access to the referenced object, which we define as property-safety. We study different approaches to aliasing control, including uniqueness, ownership and permissions. Based on this research, we present the Exclusivity Type System, which can be used to check the property-safety of program variables and class fields. Using flow-sensitive type refinement, we develop Mutable Property Types, which can track changes in a variable’s property type over time. Impure methods can be annotated to specify how they change the Property Types of their receiver and arguments. We explain how the original Property Checker’s program translation can be adapted to include correct assertions about the pre- and post-types of each method. We present a prototypical implementation of the Exclusivity Checker for Java programs using the Checker Framework. Our work provides many insights into the nature of property type verification on mutable data structures and we devise the theoretical groundwork for performing this verification. To corroborate the reasonableness of the presented approach, we suggest a thorough analysis of our systems through formal proofs.
AI Reliance and Decision Quality: Fundamentals, Interdependence, and the Effects of Interventions
Creators: name: Schoeffer, Jakob
name: Jakubik, Johannes
name: Voessing, Michael
name: Kuehl, Niklas
name: Satzger, Gerhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In AI-assisted decision-making, a central promise of having a human-in-the-loop is that they should be able to complement the AI system by overriding its wrong recommendations. In practice, however, we often see that humans cannot assess the correctness of AI recommendations and, as a result, adhere to wrong or override correct advice. Different ways of relying on AI recommendations have immediate, yet distinct, implications for decision quality. Unfortunately, reliance and decision quality are often inappropriately conflated in the current literature on AI-assisted decision-making. In this work, we disentangle and formalize the relationship between reliance and decision quality, and we characterize the conditions under which human-AI complementarity is achievable. To illustrate how reliance and decision quality relate to one another, we propose a visual framework and demonstrate its usefulness for interpreting empirical findings, including the effects of interventions like explanations. Overall, our research highlights the importance of distinguishing between reliance behavior and decision quality in AI-assisted decision-making.