cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A pair of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-dwarf TOI-1064 characterized with CHEOPS
Creators: name: Wilson, Thomas G.
name: Goffo, Elisa
name: Alibert, Yann
name: Gandolfi, Davide
name: Bonfanti, Andrea
name: Persson, Carina M.
name: Cameron, Andrew Collier
name: Fridlund, Malcolm
name: Fossati, Luca
name: Rauer, Heike
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: techniques: photometric
subject: techniques: radial velocities
subject: planets and satellites: composition
subject: planets and satellites: detection
subject: planets and satellites: interiors
subject: stars: individual: TOI-1064 (TIC 79748331
subject: Gaia EDR3 6683371847364921088)
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::520 Astronomie::520 Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: We report the discovery and characterization of a pair of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-dwarf TOI-1064 (TIC 79748331), initially detected in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) photometry. To characterize the system, we performed and retrieved the CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS), TESS, and ground-based photometry, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) high-resolution spectroscopy, and Gemini speckle imaging. We characterize the host star and determine Teff,⋆=4734±67K⁠, R⋆=0.726±0.007R⊙⁠, and M⋆=0.748±0.032M⊙⁠. We present a novel detrending method based on point spread function shape-change modelling and demonstrate its suitability to correct flux variations in CHEOPS data. We confirm the planetary nature of both bodies and find that TOI-1064 b has an orbital period of Pb = 6.44387 ± 0.00003 d, a radius of Rb = 2.59 ± 0.04 R⊕, and a mass of Mb=13.5+1.7−1.8 M⊕, whilst TOI-1064 c has an orbital period of Pc=12.22657+0.00005−0.00004 d, a radius of Rc = 2.65 ± 0.04 R⊕, and a 3σ upper mass limit of 8.5 M⊕. From the high-precision photometry we obtain radius uncertainties of ∼1.6 per cent, allowing us to conduct internal structure and atmospheric escape modelling. TOI-1064 b is one of the densest, well-characterized sub-Neptunes, with a tenuous atmosphere that can be explained by the loss of a primordial envelope following migration through the protoplanetary disc. It is likely that TOI-1064 c has an extended atmosphere due to the tentative low density, however further radial velocities are needed to confirm this scenario and the similar radii, different masses nature of this system. The high-precision data and modelling of TOI-1064 b are important for planets in this region of mass–radius space, and it allow us to identify a trend in bulk density–stellar metallicity for massive sub-Neptunes that may hint at the formation of this population of planets.
Bio-image Analysis using Large Language Models
Creators: name: Haase, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Large Language Models (LLMs) change the way we do Bio-image Analysis. In this slides I outline how we came from GPU-accelerated bio-image analysis using CLIJ and clesperanto, and used code-generators to produce reporducible Bio-image Analysis workflows, e.g. as Jupyter Notebooks. LLMs such as ChatGPT now addsanother way for creating these workflows much more convienently. We see tools in action such as the Bio-image Analysis GPT, BiA-Bob and blablado which aim to accelerate the adoption of LLMs in the Bio-image Analysis Community for facilitate reporducible workflow creation.
Squalius turcicus De Filippi 1865
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Squalius
Squalius turcicus

description: 207. Squalius turcicus De Filippi, 1865
Common name. Transcaucasian chub
Taxonomy. Original description: Squalius turcicus De Filippi, 1865: 359 [River Arax [Aras Nehri] near Erzurum, Türkiye; holotype:? MZUT].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Khaefi et al. (2016: 148, fig. 8a), Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020: 152, fig. 278).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea, Lake Orumiyeh.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 445-Orumiyeh, 446-Caspian Highlands, 450-Turan Plain.
Conservation. —IUCN: LC.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Sefid-e rodkhaneyi.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
title: Wege bereiten, vermitteln und Denkräume schaffen! Reflexionen zu institutionellen und infrastrukturellen Erfolgsfaktoren für Digital Humanities an deutschen Universitäten auf Grundlage von Expert*inneninterviews
Creators: name: Wuttke, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften - ZfdG
Year: 2022

description: Dieser Beitrag stellt am Beispiel der ›Universität‹ exemplarisch dar, welche institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen die Digital Humanities brauchen, um Innovationspotenziale freizusetzen und eine tragende Rolle bezüglich der digitalen Transformation der Geisteswissenschaften einzunehmen. Im Mittelpunkt der Ausführungen steht die Betrachtung der Digital Humanities als community-induziertes Phänomen und die sich daraus ergebende wichtige Rolle von Induktion (d. h. von Wegbereiter*innen und Vermittler*innen) und Inkubation (d. h. institutionellen Denk- und Begegnungsräumen). Hiervon ausgehend wird ausgelotet, inwieweit diese Betrachtungsweise für andere institutionelle Kontexte fruchtbar gemacht werden kann.
description: This article uses the example of the ›university‹ to illustrate which institutional framework conditions the Digital Humanities need in order to release innovation potential and to take on a leading role in the digital transformation of the Humanities. The focus of the discussion is on the consideration of the Digital Humanities as a community-induced phenomenon and the resulting important role of induction (i.e. of pioneers and mediators) and incubation (i.e. institutional spaces for thought and encounter). Taking the above as a starting point, it will also be explored to what extent this approach can be made fruitful for other institutional contexts.
Long Polynomial Modular Multiplication using Low-Complexity Number Theoretic Transform
Creators: name: Chiu, Sin-Wei
name: Parhi, Keshab K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This tutorial aims to establish connections between polynomial modular multiplication over a ring to circular convolution and discrete Fourier transform (DFT). The main goal is to extend the well-known theory of DFT in signal processing (SP) to other applications involving polynomials in a ring such as homomorphic encryption (HE). HE allows any third party to operate on the encrypted data without decrypting it in advance. Since most HE schemes are constructed from the ring-learning with errors (R-LWE) problem, efficient polynomial modular multiplication implementation becomes critical. Any improvement in the execution of these building blocks would have significant consequences for the global performance of HE. This lecture note describes three approaches to implementing long polynomial modular multiplication using the number theoretic transform (NTT): zero-padded convolution, without zero-padding, also referred to as negative wrapped convolution (NWC), and low-complexity NWC (LC-NWC).
description: 10 pages
Electrohydrodynamic spray applicator for homogenous application and reduced overspray of sunscreen
Creators: name: Schleusener, Johannes
name: Schanzer, Sabine
name: Wille, Charlotte
name: Langen, Valentin
name: Richter, Heike
name: Lademann, Jürgen
name: Meinke, Martina C.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: confocal laser scanning microscopy
subject: skin
subject: spectroscopy
subject: sun protection factor
subject: sunscreens
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: The recommended amount of sunscreen by hand application (2 mg/cm(2)) is in reality not achieved, which decreases the homogeneity and thereby the effective sun protection factor (SPF). Materials and Methods: The homogeneity of sunscreen applied by a newly developed spray applicator using an electrostatically charged aerosol, for which a hand rubbing of the formulation is not necessary, is evaluated. In vivo experiments were performed on the volar forearms of human volunteers using the spray applicator compared to the standardized hand application according to ISO 24444. Results: The distribution homogeneity was assessed qualitatively using in vivo laser scanning microscopy and quantitatively by absorption spectroscopy after tape stripping and by the standard deviation of multiple spatially displaced reflectance measurements for non-invasive SPF determination below the minimal erythemal dose, which showed a significantly higher homogeneity by 20.9% after spray application compared to hand application. Conclusion: Non-invasive SPF determination of multiple spatially displaced reflectance measurements was proven to be a suitable method for the non-invasive determination of the sunscreen distribution homogeneity. Electrostatically charged spray application increased the sunscreen distribution homogeneity on the skin and can reduce the amount of overspray.
title: Kontextsensitive Entscheidungsfindung zur automatisierten Identifizierung und Clusterung deutschsprachiger Urbanonyme
Creators: name: Goldberg, Jan Michael
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften - ZfdG
Year: 2022

description: Viele historische Quellen enthalten zahlreiche Ortsangaben, deren manuelle Zuordnung viele Ressourcen bindet. Um hier Abhilfe zu schaffen wird ein Algorithmus beschrieben, mit dem solche Urbanonyme automatisiert geokodiert werden können. Ebenso ist es möglich, die Orte entsprechend ihrer gemeinsamen historischen Verwaltungszugehörigkeit zu clustern. Probleme wie gleiche Namen bei Ortsbezeichnungen werden vor allem durch eine Einbeziehung weiterer Informationen desselben Kontextes (derselben Quelle) gelöst. Eine Validierung geschieht anhand von etwa 3,4 Millionen überwiegend deutschsprachigen Ortsangaben aus der genealogischen Datenbank GEDBAS. Zusammenfassend lassen sich etwa drei von vier relevanten Ortsangaben identifizieren und lokalisieren. Über 90 Prozent der identifizierten Ortsangaben können ihrer historischen Provinz zugeordnet werden.
description: Many historical sources contain numerous names of places, the manual assignment of which ties up a lot of resources. To simpliy this, an algorithm is described with which such urbanonyms can be geocoded automatically. It is also possible to cluster the places according to their common historical administrative affiliation. Problems such as identical terms for place names are solved primarily by including further information from the same context (same source). A validation is done on the basis of about 3.4 million mostly German-language place names from the genealogical database GEDBAS. In summary, about three out of four relevant place names can be identified and localised. More than 90 percent of the identified place names can be assigned to their historical province.
FedSelect: Customized Selection of Parameters for Fine-Tuning during Personalized Federated Learning
Creators: name: Tamirisa, Rishub
name: Won, John
name: Lu, Chengjun
name: Arel, Ron
name: Zhou, Andy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advancements in federated learning (FL) seek to increase client-level performance by fine-tuning client parameters on local data or personalizing architectures for the local task. Existing methods for such personalization either prune a global model or fine-tune a global model on a local client distribution. However, these existing methods either personalize at the expense of retaining important global knowledge, or predetermine network layers for fine-tuning, resulting in suboptimal storage of global knowledge within client models. Enlightened by the lottery ticket hypothesis, we first introduce a hypothesis for finding optimal client subnetworks to locally fine-tune while leaving the rest of the parameters frozen. We then propose a novel FL framework, FedSelect, using this procedure that directly personalizes both client subnetwork structure and parameters, via the simultaneous discovery of optimal parameters for personalization and the rest of parameters for global aggregation during training. We show that this method achieves promising results on CIFAR-10.
Application of parelectric spectroscopy to detect skin cancer—A pilot study
Creators: name: Arnold‐Brüning, Frederike S.
name: Blaschke, Tobias
name: Kramer, Klaus
name: Lademann, Jürgen
name: Thiede, Gisela
name: Fluhr, Joachim W.
name: Patzelt, Alexa
name: Meinke, Martina C.
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: basal cell carcinoma
subject: dipole density
subject: dipole mobility
subject: malignant melanoma
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: Background: The early detection of skin cancer is still challenging and calls for objective, fast diagnostic, and ideally non-invasive methods in order to leave the potentially malignant tumor cells unaltered. In this paper, the parelectric spectroscopy was applied to evaluate the potential of a non-invasive detection of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and malignant melanoma. Materials and methods: A prototype of parelectric spectroscopy was used to investigate non-invasively dipole density and mobility of suspicious skin lesions. The differences in investigated tissue were analyzed compared to pathohistological findings in a clinical study on 51 patients with suspected BCC and malignant melanoma. Results: The non-invasive parelectric spectroscopy could differentiate between normal skin, BCC, and melanoma but failed to distinguish between different types of skin cancer. The data were normalized to unsuspected nearby skin because the different skin locations influence dipole density and mobility. Conclusion: The results of the pilot study indicate that the parelectric spectroscopy might be an additional, useful non-invasive diagnostic procedure to distinguish between normal skin and skin cancer.
title: Wie ›Der Mann auf dem Hochrad‹ den Protagonisten des ›Schlangenbaums‹ auf Abwege führte. Hypothesengeleitete stilometrische Untersuchung zweier Romane Uwe Timms
Creators: name: Schumacher, Mareike
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften - ZfdG
Year: 2022

description: Gegenstand dieses Artikels ist die Verknüpfung einer hypothesengeleiteten literaturwissenschaftlichen Fallstudie mit der Anwendung von Digital-Humanities-Verfahren. Primärtexte der Analyse sind dreizehn längere Erzähltexte des deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsautors Uwe Timm (Romane und Novellen, eine »Legende«). Aus einer seiner Selbstaussagen zum Werk leite ich Thesen ab, die ich mittels computergestützter stilometrischer Verfahren analysiere. Ziel ist es, eine Brücke zwischen einer computationellen Analyse und menschlichen Lesarten zu schlagen, um so zu neuen Einsichten über das literarische Werk des Autors zu gelangen.
description: The subject of this article is the linking of a hypothesis-driven case study in literary studies with the application of digital humanities methods. Primary texts of the analysis are thirteen longer narrative texts by the German-language contemporary author Uwe Timm (novels and novellas, a »legend«). I derive hypotheses from one of his self-statements about the work, which I analyze by means of computer-assisted stylometric procedures. The aim is to build a bridge between a computational analysis and human readings in order to arrive at new insights into the literary work of the author.
Regulation of the Ca2+-ATPase by cholesterol: A specific or non-specific effect?
Creators: name: Autzen, Henriette Elisabeth
name: Siuda, Iwona
name: Sonntag, Yonathan
name: Nissen, Poul
name: Møller, Jesper Vuust
name: Thøgersen, Lea
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Information and Computing Sciences
Biological Sciences
Neuroscience
Molecular Biology
Cell Biology
Medicine
Biochemistry

description: Like other integral membrane proteins, the activity of the Sarco/Endoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) is regulated by the membrane environment. Cholesterol is present in the endoplasmic reticulum membrane at low levels, and it has the potential to affect SERCA activity both through direct, specific interaction with the protein or through indirect interaction through changes of the overall membrane properties. There are experimental data arguing for both modes of action for a cholesterol-mediated regulation of SERCA. In the current study, coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations are used to address how a mixed lipid-cholesterol membrane interacts with SERCA. Candidates for direct regulatory sites with specific cholesterol binding modes are extracted from the simulations. The binding pocket for thapsigargin, a nanomolar inhibitor of SERCA, has been suggested as a cholesterol binding site. However, the thapsigargin binding pocket displayed very little cholesterol occupation in the simulations. Neither did atomistic simulations of cholesterol in the thapsigargin binding pocket support any specific interaction. The current study points to a non-specific effect of cholesterol on SERCA activity, and offers an alternative interpretation of the experimental results used to argue for a specific effect.
title: Epistemologie digitaler Experimentalsysteme am Beispiel von Zeitungsportalen. Methodologische und praktische Herausforderungen, Probleme und Perspektiven
Creators: name: Koenen, Erik
Publisher: name: Fabrikation von Erkenntnis – Experimente in den Digital Humanities. Hg. von Manuel Burghardt, Lisa Dieckmann, Timo Steyer, Peer Trilcke, Niels Walkowski, Joëlle Weis, Ulrike Wuttke. Wolfenbüttel 2021—2022. (= Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften / Sonderbände, 5)
Year: 2022

description: Mit der Digitalisierung historischer Zeitungen und deren Einspeisung in digitale Zeitungssammlungen und -portale hat sich eine ebenso neuartige wie spezifische Forschungsinfrastruktur für Zeitungen herausgebildet. Gleichwohl werden digitalisierte Zeitungen und Zeitungsportale als Datenform bzw. digitale Infrastruktur bislang noch eher selten thematisiert. Vor diesem Hintergrund entwirft und verfolgt der Beitrag mithilfe des Konzepts digitaler Experimentalsysteme eine epistemologische Perspektive, die die Eigenarten, Effekte und Folgen digitaler Forschungskontexte für die Zeitungsforschung methodologisch hinterfragt sowie die sich hieraus ergebenden experimentellen Spielräume aufzeigt. Methodologische und praktische Herausforderungen, Probleme und Potenziale werden exemplarisch für Zeitungsportale als (1.) digitale Archive bzw. Sammlungen, (2.) ›reading machines‹ und (3.) ›virtual research environments‹ herausgearbeitet und reflektiert.
description: With the digitization of historical newspapers and their embedding into digital newspaper collections and portals a novel as well as specific research infrastructure for newspapers has emerged. Nevertheless, digitized newspapers and newspaper portals as a form of data and digital infrastructure are still rarely discussed. In light of this, the paper uses the concept of digital experimental systems to develop and pursue an epistemological perspective that methodologically questions the characteristics, effects and implications of digital research contexts in newspaper research, and that makes the resulting experimental scope visible. Methodological and practical challenges, problems and potentials will be elaborated and reflected exemplarily for newspaper portals as (1.) digital archives and collections, (2.) ›reading machines‹ and (3.) ›virtual research environments‹.
description: Fabrikation von Erkenntnis – Experimente in den Digital Humanities. Hg. von Manuel Burghardt, Lisa Dieckmann, Timo Steyer, Peer Trilcke, Niels Walkowski, Joëlle Weis, Ulrike Wuttke. Wolfenbüttel 2021—2022. (= Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften / Sonderbände, 5)
SARS‐CoV‐2 receptor ACE 2 and TMPRSS 2 are primarily expressed in bronchial transient secretory cells
Creators: name: Lukassen, Soeren
name: Chua, Robert Lorenz
name: Trefzer, Timo
name: Kahn, Nicolas C.
name: Schneider, Marc A.
name: Muley, Thomas
name: Winter, Hauke
name: Meister, Michael
name: Veith, Carmen
name: Boots, Agnes W.
name: Hennig, Bianca P.
name: Kreuter, Michael
name: Conrad, Christian
name: Eils, Roland
Publisher: name: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: COVID-19
subject: epithelial differentiation
subject: FURIN
subject: Human Cell Atlas
subject: respiratory tract
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic affecting the human respiratory system severely challenges public health and urgently demands for increasing our understanding of COVID-19 pathogenesis, especially host factors facilitating virus infection and replication. SARS-CoV-2 was reported to enter cells via binding to ACE2, followed by its priming by TMPRSS2. Here, we investigate ACE2 and TMPRSS2 expression levels and their distribution across cell types in lung tissue (twelve donors, 39,778 cells) and in cells derived from subsegmental bronchial branches (four donors, 17,521 cells) by single nuclei and single cell RNA sequencing, respectively. While TMPRSS2 is strongly expressed in both tissues, in the subsegmental bronchial branches ACE2 is predominantly expressed in a transient secretory cell type. Interestingly, these transiently differentiating cells show an enrichment for pathways related to RHO GTPase function and viral processes suggesting increased vulnerability for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Our data provide a rich resource for future investigations of COVID-19 infection and pathogenesis.
Brucella, nitrogen and virulence
Creators: name: Ronneau, Severin
name: Moussa, Simon
name: Barbier, Thibault
name: Conde-Álvarez, Raquel
name: Zuniga-Ripa, Amaia
name: Moriyon, Ignacio
name: Jean-Jacques Letesson
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: The brucellae are α-Proteobacteria causing brucellosis, an important zoonosis. Although multiplying in endoplasmic reticulum-derived vacuoles, they cause no cell death, suggesting subtle but efficient use of host resources. Brucellae are amino-acid prototrophs able to grow with ammonium or use glutamate as the sole carbon–nitrogen source in vitro. They contain more than twice amino acid/peptide/polyamine uptake genes than the amino-acid auxotroph Legionella pneumophila, which multiplies in a similar vacuole, suggesting a different nutritional strategy. During these two last decades, many mutants of key actors in nitrogen metabolism (transporters, enzymes, regulators, etc.) have been described to be essential for full virulence of brucellae. Here, we review the genomic and experimental data on Brucella nitrogen metabolism and its connection with virulence. An analysis of various aspects of this metabolism (transport, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism, respiration and regulation) has highlighted differences and similarities in nitrogen metabolism with other α-Proteobacteria. Together, these data suggest that, during their intracellular life cycle, the brucellae use various nitrogen sources for biosynthesis, catabolism and respiration following a strategy that requires prototrophy and a tight regulation of nitrogen use.
Climate change does not decouple interactions between a central-place-foraging predator and its migratory prey
Creators: name: Gicquel, Morgane
name: East, Marion L.
name: Hofer, Heribert
name: Cubaynes, Sarah
name: Benhaiem, Sarah
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: climate change
subject: herbivore migration
subject: predator–prey interaction
subject: rainfall
subject: seasonality
subject: Serengeti National Park
subject: spatiotemporal trophic mismatch
subject: spotted hyena
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Little is known about potential cascading effects of climate change on the ability of predators to exploit mobile aggregations of prey with a spatiotemporal distribution largely determined by climatic conditions. If predators employ central-place foraging when rearing offspring, the ability of parents to locate sufficient prey could be reduced by climate change. In the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, migratory species dominate mammalian herbivore biomass. These migratory herds exploit nutrient-rich vegetation on the southern plains in the rainy season and surface water in the northwest in the dry season. Female spotted hyenas Crocuta crocuta breed throughout the year and use long-distance central-place-foraging “commuting trips” to migratory herds to fuel lactation for ≥12 months. Changes in rainfall patterns that alter prey movements may decrease the ability of mothers to locate profitable foraging areas and thus increase their overall commuting effort, particularly for high-ranking females that have priority of access to food resources within their clan territory and thus less commuting experience. In hyena clan territories, this may be reflected by a decrease in migratory herd presence and a decrease in the presence of lactating females, as maternal den presence represents the opposite of commuting effort. We investigated the strength of the relationship between rainfall volume, migratory herd presence in three hyena clan territories, and the responses of lactating females to this climate/prey relationship in terms of maternal den presence, using an observation-based dataset spanning three decades. The probability of migratory herd presence in hyena clan territories increased with the amount of rainfall 2 months earlier, and maternal den presence increased with migratory herd presence. Rainfall volume substantially increased over 30 years, whereas the presence of migratory herds in hyena clans and the strength of the relationship between rainfall and migratory herd presence decreased. Hyenas thus adjusted well to the climate change-induced decreased the presence of migratory herds in their territories, since maternal den presence did not decrease over 30 years and still matched periods of high prey abundance, irrespective of female social status. These results suggest a high plasticity in the response of this keystone predator to environmental variability.
Better Phone Communications in the Time of COVID 19
Creators: name: Damien, Howard
name: Barney, Jody
name: Carmody Ann
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: phone communication
hearing loss
auditory processing problems
anxiety
indigenous
disadvantaged minority

description: COVID 19 has meant a huge increase in phone and video communications to replace face to face conversations not possible because of social distancing. Few providing essential health, education, welfare and other services have been trained in how to conduct this kind of communication. This presentation describes how to get the best communication outcomes from phone conversations. These strategies will make phone service provision better for most. However, they are especially important for certain groups who're likely to have particular difficulties with phone conversations. These include; • Those listening to an unfamiliar language • Older people with age related hearing loss or auditory processing problems • People from disadvantaged minorities who have experienced childhood ear disease • Those who experience anxiety which can influence capacity to take in information • Many who use counseling services who have a history of childhood ear disease and/or auditory processing problems • Youth who have been involved with police who have found to have a high incidence of auditory processing problems • Children and adults with attention problems which will influence their taking in information • Children in care or that have had child protection reports made about them who have been found to have a high incidence of hearing loss and/or auditory processing problems
title: Anybody out there? Der Begriff der Masse im Crowdsourcing
Creators: name: Andrea Schilz
Publisher: name: Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften – ZfdG
Year: 2022

description: Der Artikel diskutiert kritisch den Begriff der ›Masse‹ unter der Perspektive von Crowdsourcing-Anwendungsfeldern. Es wird, auch unter historischer Rückbindung, ein Überblick zu spezifischen Methoden gegeben, die insbesondere im Feld der Citizen Science und in Projekten der Digital Humanities zum Einsatz kommen.
description: The article critically discusses the concept of ›the mass‹ from the perspective of crowdsourcing application fields. It provides, also considering historic aspects, an overview of specific methods used in the field of citizen science and in digital humanities projects.
The Interplay Between Strictness of Policies and Individuals’ Self-Regulatory Efforts: Associations with Handwashing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Luszczynska, Aleksandra
name: Szczuka, Zofia
name: Abraham, Charles
name: Baban, Adriana
name: Brooks, Sydney
name: Cipolletta, Sabrina
name: Danso, Ebrima
name: Keller, Jan
name: Knoll, Nina
name: Schwarzer, Ralf
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: COVID-19
subject: HAPA
subject: Policies
subject: Cross-country
subject: Pandemic
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Background Patterns of protective health behaviors, such as handwashing and sanitizing during the COVID-19 pandemic, may be predicted by macro-level variables, such as regulations specified by public health policies. Health behavior patterns may also be predicted by micro-level variables, such as self-regulatory cognitions specified by health behavior models, including the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA). Purpose This study explored whether strictness of containment and health policies was related to handwashing adherence and whether such associations were mediated by HAPA-specified self-regulatory cognitions. Methods The study (NCT04367337) was conducted among 1,256 adults from Australia, Canada, China, France, Gambia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, and Switzerland. Self-report data on cross-situational handwashing adherence were collected using an online survey at two time points, 4 weeks apart. Values of the index of strictness of containment and health policies, obtained from the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker database, were retrieved twice for each country (1 week prior to individual data collection). Results Across countries and time, levels of handwashing adherence and strictness of policies were high. Path analysis indicated that stricter containment and health policies were indirectly related to lower handwashing adherence via lower self-efficacy and self-monitoring. Less strict policies were indirectly related to higher handwashing adherence via higher self-efficacy and self-monitoring. Conclusions When policies are less strict, exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus might be higher, triggering more self-regulation and, consequently, more handwashing adherence. Very strict policies may need to be accompanied by enhanced information dissemination or psychosocial interventions to ensure appropriate levels of self-regulation.
Causal networks of phytoplankton diversity and biomass are modulated by environmental context
Creators: name: Chang, Chun-Wei
name: Miki, Takeshi
name: Ye, Hao
name: Souissi, Sami
name: Adrian, Rita
name: Anneville, Orlane
name: Agasild, Helen
name: Ban, Syuhei
name: Be'eri-Shlevin, Yaron
name: Chiang, Yin-Ru
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biodiversity
subject: Ecological networks
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecosystem ecology
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Untangling causal links and feedbacks among biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and environmental factors is challenging due to their complex and context-dependent interactions (e.g., a nutrient-dependent relationship between diversity and biomass). Consequently, studies that only consider separable, unidirectional effects can produce divergent conclusions and equivocal ecological implications. To address this complexity, we use empirical dynamic modeling to assemble causal networks for 19 natural aquatic ecosystems (N24◦~N58◦) and quantified strengths of feedbacks among phytoplankton diversity, phytoplankton biomass, and environmental factors. Through a cross-system comparison, we identify macroecological patterns; in more diverse, oligotrophic ecosystems, biodiversity effects are more important than environmental effects (nutrients and temperature) as drivers of biomass. Furthermore, feedback strengths vary with productivity. In warm, productive systems, strong nitrate-mediated feedbacks usually prevail, whereas there are strong, phosphate-mediated feedbacks in cold, less productive systems. Our findings, based on recovered feedbacks, highlight the importance of a network view in future ecosystem management.
Visualisation and analysis challenges for WALLABY
Creators: name: Fluke, Christopher
name: Barnes, David G.
name: Hassan, Amr H.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Visualisation and analysis of terabyte-scale datacubes, as will be produced with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), will pose challenges for existing astronomy software and the work practices of astronomers. Focusing on the proposed outcomes of WALLABY (Widefield ASKAP L-Band Legacy All-Sky Blind Survey), and using lessons learnt from HIPASS (HI Parkes All Sky Survey), we identify issues that astronomers will face with WALLABY data cubes. We comment on potential research directions and possible solutions to these challenges.
The atmosphere and architecture of WASP-189 b probed by its CHEOPS phase curve
Creators: name: Deline, A.
name: Hooton, M. J.
name: Lendl, M.
name: Morris, B.
name: Salmon, S.
name: Olofsson, G.
name: Broeg, C.
name: Ehrenreich, D.
name: Beck, M.
name: Rauer, Heike
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: techniques: photometric
subject: planets and satellites: atmospheres
subject: planets and satellites: individual: WASP-189 b
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::520 Astronomie::520 Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Context. Gas giants orbiting close to hot and massive early-type stars can reach dayside temperatures that are comparable to those of the coldest stars. These ‘ultra-hot Jupiters’ have atmospheres made of ions and atomic species from molecular dissociation and feature strong day-to-night temperature gradients. Photometric observations at different orbital phases provide insights on the planet’s atmospheric properties. Aims. We aim to analyse the photometric observations of WASP-189 acquired with the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) to derive constraints on the system architecture and the planetary atmosphere. Methods. We implemented a light-curve model suited for an asymmetric transit shape caused by the gravity-darkened photosphere of the fast-rotating host star. We also modelled the reflective and thermal components of the planetary flux, the effect of stellar oblateness and light-travel time on transit-eclipse timings, the stellar activity, and CHEOPS systematics. Results. From the asymmetric transit, we measure the size of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-189 b, Rp = 1.600−0.016+0.017 RJ, with a precision of 1%, and the true orbital obliquity of the planetary system, Ψp = 89.6 ± 1.2deg (polar orbit). We detect no significant hotspot offset from the phase curve and obtain an eclipse depth of δecl = 96.5−5.0+4.5 ppm, from which we derive an upper limit on the geometric albedo: Ag < 0.48. We also find that the eclipse depth can only be explained by thermal emission alone in the case of extremely inefficient energy redistribution. Finally, we attribute the photometric variability to the stellar rotation, either through superficial inhomogeneities or resonance couplings between the convective core and the radiative envelope. Conclusions. Based on the derived system architecture, we predict the eclipse depth in the upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) observations to be up to ~165 ppm. High-precision detection of the eclipse in both CHEOPS and TESS passbands might help disentangle reflective and thermal contributions. We also expect the right ascension of the ascending node of the orbit to precess due to the perturbations induced by the stellar quadrupole moment J2 (oblateness).
Advantages of Multimodal versus Verbal-Only Robot-to-Human Communication with an Anthropomorphic Robotic Mock Driver
Creators: name: Schreiter, Tim
name: Morillo-Mendez, Lucas
name: Chadalavada, Ravi T.
name: Rudenko, Andrey
name: Billing, Erik
name: Magnusson, Martin
name: Arras, Kai O.
name: Lilienthal, Achim J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Robots are increasingly used in shared environments with humans, making effective communication a necessity for successful human-robot interaction. In our work, we study a crucial component: active communication of robot intent. Here, we present an anthropomorphic solution where a humanoid robot communicates the intent of its host robot acting as an "Anthropomorphic Robotic Mock Driver" (ARMoD). We evaluate this approach in two experiments in which participants work alongside a mobile robot on various tasks, while the ARMoD communicates a need for human attention, when required, or gives instructions to collaborate on a joint task. The experiments feature two interaction styles of the ARMoD: a verbal-only mode using only speech and a multimodal mode, additionally including robotic gaze and pointing gestures to support communication and register intent in space. Our results show that the multimodal interaction style, including head movements and eye gaze as well as pointing gestures, leads to more natural fixation behavior. Participants naturally identified and fixated longer on the areas relevant for intent communication, and reacted faster to instructions in collaborative tasks. Our research further indicates that the ARMoD intent communication improves engagement and social interaction with mobile robots in workplace settings.
description: This paper has been accepted to the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), which will be held in Busan, South Korea on August 28-31, 2023. For more information, please visit: https://ro-man2023.org/main
title: Der MUSE Datensatz
Creators: name: Barzen, Johanna
name: Bühler, Fabian
name: Leymann, Frank
Publisher: name: Fabrikation von Erkenntnis – Experimente in den Digital Humanities. Hg. von Manuel Burghardt, Lisa Dieckmann, Timo Steyer, Peer Trilcke, Niels Walkowski, Joëlle Weis, Ulrike Wuttke. Wolfenbüttel 2021—2022. (= Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften / Sonderbände, 5)
Year: 2022

description: Das Filmkostüm ist ein vergleichsweise wenig untersuchtes diegetisches Gestaltungsmittel. Im Besonderen mangelt es an einem übergreifenden Konzept, Kostüme systematisch beschreibbar und damit, über Einzelfilmanalysen hinaus, analysierbar zu machen. Der MUSE Datensatz will diese Lücke schließen und stellt detaillierte, in eine umfassende Ontologie eingebettete Daten über Filmkostüme zur Verfügung. Die Kostümdaten enthalten sowohl Daten zu den Kostümen selber, zu den einzelnen Kleidungsstücken, den Attributen wie Farbe, Materialien, Zustand und deren Zusammenstellung, wie auch kontextualisierende Daten zu deren Vorkommen im Film.
description: Film costumes as diegetic design elements are only rudimentarily explored. There is especially a lack of an overarching concept to make costumes describable in a systematic way and thus analysable beyond individual film analyses. The MUSE dataset aims to fill this gap by providing detailed data on film costumes embedded in a comprehensive ontology. The costume data set contains both, data on the pieces of clothes that compose the costume, their arrangement, and their attributes such as colour, materials, and condition, as well as contextualizing data on the occurrence of the costumes in the film and the role wearing the costume.
description: Fabrikation von Erkenntnis – Experimente in den Digital Humanities. Hg. von Manuel Burghardt, Lisa Dieckmann, Timo Steyer, Peer Trilcke, Niels Walkowski, Joëlle Weis, Ulrike Wuttke. Wolfenbüttel 2021—2022. (= Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften / Sonderbände, 5)
(Thiazol-2-yl)hydrazone derivatives from acetylpyridines as dual inhibitors of MAO and AChE: synthesis, biological evaluation and molecular modeling studies
Creators: name: D’Ascenzio, Melissa
name: Chimenti, Paola
name: Gidaro, Maria Concetta
name: Monte, Celeste De
name: Vita, Daniela De
name: Granese, Arianna
name: Scipione, Luigi
name: Santo, Roberto Di
name: Costa, Giosuè
name: Alcaro, Stefano
name: Yáñez, Matilde
name: Carradori, Simone
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Several (thiazol-2-yl)hydrazone derivatives from 2-, 3- and 4-acetylpyridine were synthesized and tested against human monoamine oxidase (hMAO) A and B enzymes. Most of them had an inhibitory effect in the low micromolar/high nanomolar range, being derivatives of 4-acetylpyridine selective hMAO-B inhibitors also at low nanomolar concentrations. The structure–activity relationship, as confirmed by molecular modeling studies, proved that the pyridine ring linked to the hydrazonic nitrogen and the substituted aryl moiety at C4 of the thiazole conferred the inhibitory effects on hMAO enzymes. Successively, the strongest hMAO-B inhibitors were tested toward acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and the most interesting compound showed activity in the low micromolar range. Our results suggest that this scaffold could be further investigated for its potential multi-targeted role in the discovery of new drugs against the neurodegenerative diseases.
Varicorhinus imba subsp. persa
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cypriniformes
Cyprinidae
Varicorhinus
Varicorhinus imba
V imba persa (pallas, 1814)

description: 208. V imba persa (Pallas, 1814)
Common name. Persian vimba, Caspian vimba
Taxonomy. Original description: Cyprinus persa Pallas, 1814: 310 [Iran in lakes along the Kura River. No types known].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020: 153, fig. 281).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 450-Turan Plain.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Siyah koli.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: None.
Conservation. —IUCN: NE.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
The EBLM project – VIII. First results for M-dwarf mass, radius, and effective temperature measurements using CHEOPS light curves
Creators: name: Swayne, M. I.
name: Maxted, P. F. L.
name: Triaud, A. H. M. J.
name: Sousa, S. G.
name: Broeg, C.
name: Florén, H.-G.
name: Guterman, P.
name: Simon, A. E.
name: Boisse, I.
name: Rauer, Heike
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: techniques: photometric
subject: techniques: spectroscopic
subject: binaries: eclipsing
subject: stars: fundamental parameters
subject: stars: low-mass
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::520 Astronomie::520 Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: The accuracy of theoretical mass, radius, and effective temperature values for M-dwarf stars is an active topic of debate. Differences between observed and theoretical values have raised the possibility that current theoretical stellar structure and evolution models are inaccurate towards the low-mass end of the main sequence. To explore this issue, we use the CHEOPS satellite to obtain high-precision light curves of eclipsing binaries with low-mass stellar companions. We use these light curves combined with the spectroscopic orbit for the solar-type companion to measure the mass, radius, and effective temperature of the M-dwarf star. Here, we present the analysis of three eclipsing binaries. We use the pycheops data analysis software to fit the observed transit and eclipse events of each system. Two of our systems were also observed by the TESS satellite – we similarly analyse these light curves for comparison. We find consistent results between CHEOPS and TESS, presenting three stellar radii and two stellar effective temperature values of low-mass stellar objects. These initial results from our on-going observing programme with CHEOPS show that we can expect to have ∼24 new mass, radius, and effective temperature measurements for very low-mass stars within the next few years.
Effect of Prosopis (mesquite) invasion and clearing on vegetation cover in semi-arid Nama Karoo rangeland, South Africa
Creators: name: Thabisisani Ndhlovu
name: Milton, Suzanne J
name: Esler, Karen J
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology

description: The Nama-Karoo is the largest of the three biomes that comprise the semi-arid Karoo-Namib ecoregion of southern Africa. Large tracts of Nama-Karoo rangeland have been invaded by alien leguminous trees of the genus Prosopis. We assessed the impact of Prosopis invasion and clearing on vegetation cover in heavily grazed Nama-Karoo rangeland on two sheep farms in the Beaufort West district of the Western Cape province of South Africa. Our results suggest that, below critical threshold cover levels, Prosopis trees do not affect indigenous vegetation and add to overall rangeland vegetation cover. However, once Prosopis cover exceeds critical thresholds, the trees begin to negatively impact on indigenous vegetation (especially grasses) and overall vegetation cover. In addition, our data suggest that vegetation cover recovers after Prosopis clearing, being temporarily higher than pre-invasion levels possibly as a result of enhanced post-invasion soil fertility. Lastly, our results suggest that Prosopis trees reduce rangeland erosion potential at low cover and increase it after they exceed critical threshold cover. Information about thresholds of Prosopis impact can be used to direct clearing efforts for maximum benefit when resources are limited.