cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nutritional associations among fauna at hydrocarbon seep communities in the Gulf of Mexico
Creators: name: MacAvoy, Stephen
name: Fisher, Charles R.
name: Carney, Robert S.
name: Macko, Stephen A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The Gulf of Mexico supports dense aggregations of megafauna associated with hydro- carbon seeps on the Louisiana Slope. The visually dominant megafauna at the seeps — mussels and tube worms — derive their nutrition from symbiotic relationships with sulfide or methane-oxidizing bacteria. The structure of the tube worm aggregations provide biogenic habitat for numerous species of heterotrophic animals. Carbon, nitrogen and sulfur stable isotope analyses of heterotrophic fauna collected with tube worm aggregations in the Green Canyon Lease area (GC 185) indicate that most of these species derive the bulk of their nutrition from chemoautolithotrophic sources. The isotope analyses also indicate that although 2 species may be deriving significant nutritional input from the bivalves, none of the species analyzed were feeding directly on the tube worms. Grazing gastropods and deposit-feeding sipunculids were used to estimate the isotopic value of the free-living chemoau- tolithotrophic bacteria associated with the tube worms (δ13C –32 to –20‰; δ15N 0 to 7‰; δ34S –14 to –1‰). The use of tissue δ34S analyses in conjunction with tissue δ13C and δ15N led to several insights into the trophic biology of the communities that would not have been evident from tissue stable C and N analyses alone.
Generation of high-order harmonics with tunable photon energy and spectral width using double pulses
Creators: name: Oldal, Lénárd Gulyás
name: Csizmadia, Tamás
name: Ye, Peng
name: Harshitha, Nandiga Gopalakrishna
name: Zaïr, Amelle
name: Kahaly, Subhendu
name: Varjú, Katalin
name: Füle, Miklós
name: Major, Balázs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This work theoretically investigates high-order harmonic generation in rare gas atoms driven by two temporally delayed ultrashort laser pulses. Apart from their temporal delay, the two pulses are identical. Using a single-atom model of the laser-matter interaction it is shown that the photon energy of the generated harmonics is controllable within the range of one eV -- a bandwidth comparable to the photon energy of the fundamental field -- by varying the time delay between the generating laser pulses. It is also demonstrated that high-order harmonics generated by double pulses have advantageous characteristics, which mimick certain properties of an extreme ultraviolet (XUV) monochromator. With the proposed method, a simpler setup at a much lower cost and comparatively higher spectral yield can be implemented in contrast to other approaches.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, after peer-review, corrected typo in author list
Additional file 1 of Health measures of Eeyouch (Cree) who are eligible to participate in the on-the-land Income Security Program in Eeyou Istchee (northern Quebec, Canada)
Creators: name: Moriarity, Robert J.
name: Zuk, Aleksandra M.
name: Liberda, Eric N.
name: Tsuji, Leonard J. S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Additional file 1 of Higher number of steps and breaks during sedentary behaviour are associated with better lipid profiles
Creators: name: Aho, Sonja
name: Meri-Sisko Vuoristo
name: Raitanen, Jani
name: Mansikkamäki, Kirsi
name: Alanko, Johanna
name: Vähä-Ypyä, Henri
name: Luoto, Riitta
name: Pirkko-Liisa Kellokumpu-Lehtinen
name: Vasankari, Tommi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1. Questionnaire. Questionnaire form. The parts of the questionnaire concerning background and lifestyle factors were developed for this study. Our questionnaire included generally used Health Related Quality of Life Questionnaires (SF-36 and 15-D), and the depression screening tool (DEPS) which are validated questionnaires and previously published in English in many studies of lifestyle factors and different type of diseases.
Nutritional associations among fauna at hydrocarbon seep communities in the Gulf of Mexico
Creators: name: MacAvoy, Stephen
name: Fisher, Charles R.
name: Carney, Robert S.
name: Macko, Stephen A.
Publisher: name: Marine Ecology Progress Series
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The Gulf of Mexico supports dense aggregations of megafauna associated with hydro- carbon seeps on the Louisiana Slope. The visually dominant megafauna at the seeps — mussels and tube worms — derive their nutrition from symbiotic relationships with sulfide or methane-oxidizing bacteria. The structure of the tube worm aggregations provide biogenic habitat for numerous species of heterotrophic animals. Carbon, nitrogen and sulfur stable isotope analyses of heterotrophic fauna collected with tube worm aggregations in the Green Canyon Lease area (GC 185) indicate that most of these species derive the bulk of their nutrition from chemoautolithotrophic sources. The isotope analyses also indicate that although 2 species may be deriving significant nutritional input from the bivalves, none of the species analyzed were feeding directly on the tube worms. Grazing gastropods and deposit-feeding sipunculids were used to estimate the isotopic value of the free-living chemoau- tolithotrophic bacteria associated with the tube worms (δ13C –32 to –20‰; δ15N 0 to 7‰; δ34S –14 to –1‰). The use of tissue δ34S analyses in conjunction with tissue δ13C and δ15N led to several insights into the trophic biology of the communities that would not have been evident from tissue stable C and N analyses alone.
Governance of market-oriented fresh food value chains: export chains from New Zealand
Creators: name: Trienekens, Jacques
name: Velzen, Mariska Van
name: Lees, Nic
name: Saunders, Caroline
name: Pascucci, Stefano
name: Trienekens, Jacques
name: Velzen, Mariska Van
name: Lees, Nic
name: Saunders, Caroline
name: Pascucci, Stefano
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: market orientation
subject: value chain governance
subject: fresh global food chains

description: The competition in international food markets is increasingly moving towards products with higher levels of added value and higher degrees of differentiation, requiring companies to become more market-oriented. Market orientation is ‘the extent to which an actor in the marketplace uses knowledge about the market, especially about customers, as a basis for decision-making on what to produce, how to produce it, and how to market it’. Market orientation comprises three constructs: market intelligence generation, dissemination and responsiveness. Value chain governance can facilitate market orientation requirements. Value chain governance includes network governance, contracting and informal relationships. Knowledge about how governance can facilitate a value chain’s market orientation is limited. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore how the governance of a global food value chain can facilitate the value chain’s market orientation. The study applies a multiple case study design. Four in-depth case studies were conducted on global food value chains from New Zealand to Western Europe dealing with the products apples, kiwis, venison and lamb. Interviews were conducted with actors from these four value chains in the Netherlands as well as in New Zealand. In each value chain actors with similar functions were interviewed in order to make the results comparable. Analysis of the case studies shows that network governance (i.e. leadership, shared governance and facilitation), contractual agreements (i.e. type and content: price, volume, quality) and informal relationships (i.e. trust and commitment) can contribute to the market orientation of a value chain. Leaderships and shared governance, in combination with good informal relationships in the chain, as well as contractual incentives, are main contributors to market orientation in global fresh food value chains. The paper adds to the still very scarce literature on governance of value chains and market orientation of value chains.
Additional file 1 of Comparison of pathogenicity of subtype H9 avian influenza wild-type viruses from a wide geographic origin expressing mono-, di-, or tri-basic hemagglutinin cleavage sites
Creators: name: Rokshana Parvin
name: Schinkoethe, Jan
name: Grund, Christian
name: Ulrich, Reiner
name: Bönte, Franziska
name: Behr, Klaus P.
name: Voss, Matthias
name: Samad, Mohammed A.
name: Hassan, Kareem E.
name: Luttermann, Christine
name: Beer, Martin
name: Harder, Timm
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 1. List of viruses, including sequence accession numbers, used in this study.
Additional file 1 of Combination of conditional cash transfer program and environmental health interventions reduces child mortality: an ecological study of Brazilian municipalities
Creators: name: De Souza, Anelise Andrade
name: Sueli Aparecida Mingoti
name: Rômulo Paes-Sousa
name: Heller, Leo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Descriptive measures of mortality rates by years of study and municipalities selected – Region Midwest (N = 302). Table S2. Descriptive measures of mortality rates by years of study and municipalities selected – Region Northeast (N = 1.163). Table S3. Descriptive measures of mortality rates by years of study and municipalities selected – Region North (N = 188). Table S4. Descriptive measures of mortality rates by years of study and municipalities selected – Region Southeast (N = 1.037). Table S5. Descriptive measures of mortality rates by years of study and municipalities selected – Region South (N = 777).
Polyamorphism of ice at low temperatures from constant-pressure simulations
Creators: name: Martonak, R.
name: Donadio, D.
name: Parrinello, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report results of MD simulations of amorphous ice in the pressure range 0 - 22.5 kbar. The high-density amorphous ice (HDA) prepared by compression of Ih ice at T = 80 K is annealed to T = 170 K at intermediate pressures in order to generate relaxed states. We confirm the existence of recently observed phenomena, the very high-density amorphous ice and a continuum of HDA forms. We suggest that both phenomena have their origin in the evolution of the network topology of the annealed HDA phase with decreasing volume, resulting at low temperatures in the metastability of a range of densities.
description: 11 pages, 5 postscript figures. To be published in Physical Review Letters
Report on lactation characteristics of animal species; Selection of the animal species to be used in in vivo studies (D3.2)
Creators: name: Ashkenazi, Nurit
name: Ventrella, Domenico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: This deliverable is focused on performing a detailed literature review to gain a better understanding of the lactation process features in the most used animal species for biomedical research. The results help choose a suitable candidate species for in vivo studies, which analyze drug transfer into milk during lactation with a high translatable value to the human setting.
Relationship between water quality, δ15N, and aspergillosis of Caribbean sea fan corals
Creators: name: Baker, David M.
name: MacAvoy, Stephen
name: Kim, Kiho
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: It has been hypothesized that excess nitrogen (N) contributes to coral reef decline by exacerbating the impact of disease. We tested the relationship between N concentration and the prevalence and severity of aspergillosis of the sea fan coral Gorgonia ventalina at 9 reefs along the Florida Keys Reef Tract. Quarterly water quality data, averaged over 1 and 4 yr prior to a disease sur- vey, were used to examine whether aspergillosis dynamics reflected short- or long-term N concentra- tions. A positive relationship was detected between prevalence of aspergillosis and long-term total nitrogen (TN) concentration; in contrast, disease severity was positively related to the ratio between dissolved inorganic nitrogen and total phosphate (DIN:TP) over both short- and long-terms. These results may reflect the differential influence of N on the host and pathogen. We also tested whether N isotope analysis (δ15N) of sea fan coral tissue and skeleton could be used to assess the relative expo- sure to anthropogenic N inputs and its impact on disease. There was no relationship between δ15N and aspergillosis (either prevalence or severity). Furthermore, there was no relationship between δ15N and environmental concentrations of N. It is possible that the source of N (e.g. anthropogenic) does not affect the dynamics of sea fan aspergillosis, or that the δ15N signatures were suppressed by agricultural effluents and other N sources, thus confounding our analyses with disease.
Baseline inventory of the UBC food system : healthy food situation plan : audit of the top 10 vending machines
Creators: name: Ma, Vicki
name: Phipps, Grace
name: Tomczky, Matthew
name: Yiu, Camilla
name: Yp, Nancy
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: The aim of this project is to promote a sustainable and healthy UBC Vancouver campus food system through the completion of an audit of the top 10 selling vending machines. The audit enabled us to provide recommendations to stakeholders who will facilitate sales of healthy vending machine snacks on campus in adherence to the Healthier Choices in Vending Machines in BC Public Buildings Policy. The audits of the top 10 vending machines, the healthy snack food trial run at Gage Residence’s vending machine and a Natural Source Vending machine at Creekside Community Center, were compiled onto an Excel Spreadsheet. The Brand Name Food List website was used to categorize vending machine items into food groups and “choose most”, “choose sometimes”, “choose least”, and “not recommended,” according to BC’s vending guidelines. Interviews with stakeholders were done face-to-face and via email, and a literature search was conducted using Google Scholar, PubMed and MedLine. Findings show that on average, 59% of items in the top ten vending machines are “not recommended”, 26% are “choose least”, 15% are “choose sometimes”, and no items are “choose most”. Further, the vending Checkmark system is either not applied or incorrectly applied in all vending machines. UBC Food Services (UBCFS) is five years into their ten year contract with VendMaster and the existing terms of the contract do not require UBC to adhere to the Healthier Choices in Vending Machines in BC Public Buildings Policy until the contract in finished. There are many barriers to the implementation of healthy snacks in vending machines including: taste, cost, and packaging. Recommendations that can help UBCFS move toward adherence to the policy are: increasing the availability and decreasing the prices of “choose most” and “choose sometimes” items with the implementation of a colour-coding system. In addition, future LFS 450 students can conduct consumer surveys to determine snack preferences and coordinate taste tests of new products. During the next five years, we hope to see progress made toward adhering to the BC Vending Guidelines and the increased sales of healthy snacks from vending machines on the UBC Vancouver campus. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Additional file 1 of PD-L1 tumour expression is predictive of pazopanib response in soft tissue sarcoma
Creators: name: Kim, Sang Kyum
name: Kim, Jee Hung
name: Kim, Seung Hyun
name: Lee, Young Han
name: Han, Jung Woo
name: Wooyeol Baek
name: Woo, Ha Young
name: Jeon, Min Kyung
name: Kim, Hyo Song
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
Continuous melting of compact polymers
Creators: name: Jacobsen, Jesper Lykke
name: Kondev, Jane'
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The competition between chain entropy and bending rigidity in compact polymers can be addressed within a lattice model introduced by P.J. Flory in 1956. It exhibits a transition between an entropy dominated disordered phase and an energetically favored crystalline phase. The nature of this order-disorder transition has been debated ever since the introduction of the model. Here we present exact results for the Flory model in two dimensions relevant for polymers on surfaces, such as DNA adsorbed on a lipid bilayer. We predict a continuous melting transition, and compute exact values of critical exponents at the transition point.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
A Logit Analysis of Right-to-Farm Conflicts
Creators: name: Andrews, Margaret S.
name: Lopez, Rigoberto A.
name: Lisansky, Judith
name: Andrews, Margaret S.
name: Lopez, Rigoberto A.
name: Lisansky, Judith
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Political Economy

description: This paper analyzes survey data on farmer worry and actual effects for right-to-farm conflicts in New Jersey via logit models. Findings reveal that farm operation characteristics are more strongly linked to land use conflicts than either farmer characteristics or urban pressure.
Relationship between water quality, δ15N, and aspergillosis of Caribbean sea fan corals
Creators: name: Baker, David M.
name: MacAvoy, Stephen
name: Kim, Kiho
Publisher: name: Marine Ecology Progress Series
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: It has been hypothesized that excess nitrogen (N) contributes to coral reef decline by exacerbating the impact of disease. We tested the relationship between N concentration and the prevalence and severity of aspergillosis of the sea fan coral Gorgonia ventalina at 9 reefs along the Florida Keys Reef Tract. Quarterly water quality data, averaged over 1 and 4 yr prior to a disease sur- vey, were used to examine whether aspergillosis dynamics reflected short- or long-term N concentra- tions. A positive relationship was detected between prevalence of aspergillosis and long-term total nitrogen (TN) concentration; in contrast, disease severity was positively related to the ratio between dissolved inorganic nitrogen and total phosphate (DIN:TP) over both short- and long-terms. These results may reflect the differential influence of N on the host and pathogen. We also tested whether N isotope analysis (δ15N) of sea fan coral tissue and skeleton could be used to assess the relative expo- sure to anthropogenic N inputs and its impact on disease. There was no relationship between δ15N and aspergillosis (either prevalence or severity). Furthermore, there was no relationship between δ15N and environmental concentrations of N. It is possible that the source of N (e.g. anthropogenic) does not affect the dynamics of sea fan aspergillosis, or that the δ15N signatures were suppressed by agricultural effluents and other N sources, thus confounding our analyses with disease.
Does intranasal application of zinc sulfate produce anosmia in mouse? An olfactometric and anatomical study
Creators: name: McBride, Kathleen
name: Slotnick, Burton
name: Margolis, Frank L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Mice pre-trained in an olfactometer were tested daily on odor detection and discrimination tasks after irrigation of their olfac- tory epithelium in each naris with 50 μl of 5% zinc sulfate or saline. Anterograde transport of a wheatgerm agglutinin–horse- radish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) conjugate from the epithelium to the olfactory bulb was used to assess anatomical connectivity in these and in mice that were used only for histological analyses. One day after treatment, saline controls performed at high levels of accuracy in detecting vapor from solutions of 5–0.01% ethyl acetate and in an odor discrimination task but most ZnSO4-treated mice performed at chance for 5–30 days before showing recovery. Although dense WGA-HRP reaction product was found in the accessory olfactory bulb, there was little or no evidence for axonal transport to glomeruli of the main olfactory bulb in the first 4–8 days after treatment. These results demonstrate that intranasal application of ZnSO4 to mice produces a brief but essentially total disruption of functional connections from the olfactory epithelium to the main olfactory bulb and a corresponding transient anosmia.
Creating Spatial Flatness by Combining String Gas Cosmology and Power Law Inflation
Creators: name: Kamali, Vahid
name: Brandenberger, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that it is possible to combine an early phase of String Gas Cosmology which can explain the origin of the observed structures on cosmological scales with a short later period of power law inflation which creates spatial flatness. The resulting model is consistent with the ``swampland criteria'' and the constraints coming from the {\it Trans-Planckian Censorship Conjecture}. Such a construction is not possible using only canonical slow-roll inflation, but it can emerge in the warm inflation scenario or in cold inflation with an exponential potential. The resulting cosmology is non-singular. We discuss the spectrum of cosmological perturbations resulting in our scenario. On large scales (scales which remain larger than the Hubble radius after the initial string gas phase) the spectrum is determined by the thermal string gas fluctuations set up in the primordial phase, and it is almost scale-invariant with a slight red tilt. On small scales, the perturbations produced during the inflationary phase dominate. On these scales, the spectrum is once again nearly scale-invariant. There is an intermediate range (scales which enter the Hubble radius during the period of inflation) where the string gas fluctuations are damped but continue to dominate over those produced during the period of inflation. On these scales the spectrum has a sharp red spectral index of $n_s - 1 \sim -2$.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
The Effect of Risk on the Rental Value of Agricultural Land
Creators: name: Hall, Joyce A.
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Hall, Joyce A.
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Land Economics/Use
Risk and Uncertainty

description: A theoretical model determining the rental value of agricultural land under risk aversion is developed. Land rent is modeled as a function of expected output price, input price and risk. Cross sectional time series data for the Corn Belt states (1970-1986) are used assuming a corn-soybean rotation. Farm programs are included as contingent claims.
Podocerus Leach 1814
Creators: name: Hughes, L. E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Amphipoda
Podoceridae
Podocerus

description: Podocerus Leach 1814
 Podocerus Leach, 1814: 433.— Stebbing, 1906: 700.—J. L. Barnard, 1970: 237.— Lincoln, 1979: 570.—Barnard & Karaman, 1991: 664. (Type species Podocerus variegatus Leach, 1814 by monotypy).
 Platophium Dana, 1852: 309.— Dana, 1853: 837 (type species Platophium brasiliense Dana, 1853 by monotypy).
 Dexiocerella Haswell, 1885: 107 (type species Cyrtophium dentatum Haswell, 1879 subsequent selection of Barnard & Karaman, 1991).
 Diagnosis. Following Hughes (2012): Pereon depressed, with 5–7 segments; urosome of 3 segments. Antennae 1 accessory flagellum present; maXilla 1 inner plate reduced and non-setose or absent, outer plate with 9 spines; maXilla 2 without facial setae; maXilliped palp 4 blunt; brood plates on pereopods 2–4 or 2–5; uropod 2 uniramus or biramus; uropod 3 without rami.
description: Published as part of Hughes, L. E., 2013, Podoceridae of Tropical Australia (Peracarida: Amphipoda), pp. 1-37 in Records of the Australian Museum 65 (1) on page 7, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.65.2013.1592, http://zenodo.org/record/4684223
CONSUMER EXPENDITURES AT DIRECT PRODUCE MARKETS
Creators: name: Schatzer, Raymond Joe
name: Tilley, Daniel S.
name: Moesel, Douglas
name: Schatzer, Raymond Joe
name: Tilley, Daniel S.
name: Moesel, Douglas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Interviews of customers at direct produce markets were conducted to determine the reason why expenditure patterns vary. Frequency of shopping at outlets, income, uses of produce, household composition, and distance to the outlet are important determinants of expenditures at direct product outlets.
Point Source Confusion in SZ Cluster Surveys
Creators: name: Bartlett, James G.
name: Melin, Jean-Baptiste
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the effect of point source confusion on cluster detection in Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) surveys. A filter matched to the spatial and spectral characteristics of the SZ signal optimally extracts clusters from the astrophysical backgrounds. We calculate the expected confusion (point source and primary cosmic microwave background [CMB]) noise through this filter and quantify its effect on the detection threshold for both single and multiple frequency surveys. Extrapolating current radio counts, we estimate that confusion from sources below 100 microJy limits single-frequency surveys to 1-sigma detection thresholds of Y 3.10^{-6} arcmin^2 at 30 GHz and Y 10^{-5} arcmin^2 at 15 GHz (for unresolved clusters in a 2 arcmin beam); these numbers are highly uncertain, and an extrapolation with flatter counts leads to much lower confusion limits. Bolometer surveys must contend with an important population of infrared point sources. We find that a three-band matched filter with 1 arcminute resolution (in each band) efficiently reduces confusion, but does not eliminate it: residual point source and CMB fluctuations contribute significantly the total filter noise. In this light, we find that a 3-band filter with a low-frequency channel (e.g, 90+150+220 GHz) extracts clusters more effectively than one with a high frequency channel (e.g, 150+220+300 GHz).
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics; Updated grant information in acknowledgements
Does intranasal application of zinc sulfate produce anosmia in mouse? An olfactometric and anatomical study
Creators: name: McBride, Kathleen
name: Slotnick, Burton
name: Margolis, Frank L.
Publisher: name: Chemical Senses
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Mice pre-trained in an olfactometer were tested daily on odor detection and discrimination tasks after irrigation of their olfac- tory epithelium in each naris with 50 μl of 5% zinc sulfate or saline. Anterograde transport of a wheatgerm agglutinin–horse- radish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) conjugate from the epithelium to the olfactory bulb was used to assess anatomical connectivity in these and in mice that were used only for histological analyses. One day after treatment, saline controls performed at high levels of accuracy in detecting vapor from solutions of 5–0.01% ethyl acetate and in an odor discrimination task but most ZnSO4-treated mice performed at chance for 5–30 days before showing recovery. Although dense WGA-HRP reaction product was found in the accessory olfactory bulb, there was little or no evidence for axonal transport to glomeruli of the main olfactory bulb in the first 4–8 days after treatment. These results demonstrate that intranasal application of ZnSO4 to mice produces a brief but essentially total disruption of functional connections from the olfactory epithelium to the main olfactory bulb and a corresponding transient anosmia.
Revised Canonical Quantum Gravity via the Frame Fixing
Creators: name: Mercuri, Simone
name: Montani, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new reformulation of the canonical quantum geometrodynamics, which allows to overcome the fundamental problem of the frozen formalism and, therefore, to construct an appropriate Hilbert space associate to the solution of the restated dynamics. More precisely, to remove the ambiguity contained in the Wheeler-DeWitt approach, with respect to the possibility of a (3 + 1)-splitting when the space-time is in a quantum regime, we fix the reference frame (i.e. the lapse function and the shift vector) by introducing the so-called kinematical action; as a consequence the new super-Hamiltonian constraint becomes a parabolic one and we arrive to a Schroedinger-like approach for the quantum dynamics. In the semiclassical limit our theory provides General Relativity in the presence of an additional energy-momentum density contribution coming from no longer zero eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian constraints; the interpretation of these new contributions comes out in natural way as soon as it is recognized that the kinematical action can be recasted in such a way it describes a pressureless, but, in general, non geodesic perfect fluid.
description: 24 pages, 0 figures, to appear on Int. Jour. Mod. Phys. D
Additional file 1 of Use of therapeutic caffeine in acute care postoperative and critical care settings: a scoping review
Creators: name: M. Bright
name: V. Raman
name: Laupland, K. B.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Appendix. Search criteria.
Impact of financial reimbursement on retention rates in military clinical trial research : A natural experiment within a multi-site randomized effectiveness trial with active duty service members
Creators: name: Novak, Laura A.
name: Belsher, Bradley E.
name: Freed, Michael C.
name: McCutchan, Phoebe K.
name: Liu, Xian
name: Evatt, Daniel P.
name: Tanielian, Terri
name: Bray, Robert M.
name: Engel, Charles C.
Publisher: name: Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture

description: Introduction:Achieving adequate retention rates in clinical trials is essential to ensuring meaningful results. Although financial reimbursement is an effective strategy to increase participant retention, current policies restrict the use of federal funds to reimburse U.S. active duty Service members for research participation. It is unknown whether permitting financial reimbursement among this population would improve trial retention rates. A recent randomized effectiveness trial received approval to provide reimbursement to Service member participants several months after recruitment began, creating a natural experiment to study the effects of financial reimbursement on retention. Materials and methods:Active duty Service members recruited from six U.S. military treatment facilities (N = 666) were enrolled in a collaborative care study and completed assessments at baseline, three-, six-, and 12-months. Data on study assessment completion rates at three- and six-months were analyzed using the mixed-effects binary logit model to determine the probabilities of completing assessments based on reimbursement status. Results:Participants who received reimbursement were significantly more likely to complete study assessments at both time-points than participants who did not receive reimbursement (p < 0.01). Survey completion was 5% and 4% greater among participants offered reimbursement at three- and six-month time-points, respectively. Conclusion:Results suggest that providing Service members with reimbursement for research participation is associated with modest increases in retention rates in clinical trials. Findings provide useful insight for researchers, funding agencies, and policy-makers in considering retention strategies to maximize the value and impact of military research.
Additional file 2 of TCF 4 tumor suppressor: a molecular target in the prognosis of sporadic colorectal cancer in humans
Creators: name: Anwar, Mumtaz
name: Malhotra, Pooja
name: Kochhar, Rakesh
name: Bhatia, Alka
name: Mahmood, Akhtar
name: Singh, Rajinder
name: Safrun Mahmood
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Diastylis Say 1818
Creators: name: Gerken, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Cumacea
Diastylidae
Diastylis

description: Diastylis Say, 1818
 Type species. Diastylis rathkii (Krøyer, 1841) by designation.
 Diagnosis. Female and subadult male. Carapace with pseudorostrum not greatly elongate. Pereopods 3–4 with or without rudimentary exopods. Telson twice length of pleonite 6, with post-anal portion, with at least 3 pairs of lateral setae. Adult male.Antennule not greatly expanded, may have brush of setae on peduncle article 3. Antennae extending to end of pleon. Pereopod and exopod bases may be weakly expanded. With 2 pairs of pleopods.
 Remarks. There is currently only one species described from Australian waters that fits within the genus Diastylis. As noted in the introduction, the Australian diastylid fauna is unusual in that it is not dominated by Diastylis species. Within the Australian fauna, the genus that is most likely to be confused with Diastylis is Makrokylindrus. The telson in the only species of Makrokylindrus currently known from Australian waters is distinctly longer than the uropod peduncles, while the only species of Diastylis from this region has the telson shorter than the uropod peduncles. The difference in telson length relative to uropod peduncle length is not characteristic for the genera, but it serves to easily distinguish between the two Australian species.
description: Published as part of Gerken, Sarah, 2014, Eleven New Species and a New Genus of Diastylidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) from Australia and One New Species from Canada, pp. 1-62 in Records of the Australian Museum 66 (1) on page 16, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.66.2014.1601, http://zenodo.org/record/4684387
Food insecurity and child health
Creators: name: Thomas, Margaret M.C.
name: Miller, Daniel P.
name: Morrissey, Taryn
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: OBJECTIVES: Food insecurity is an important public health problem facing children in the United States. Although a number of previous studies suggest that food insecurity has negative impacts on health, these studies have not dealt thoroughly with issues of selection bias. We use propensity scoring techniques to approximate the causal effects of food insecurity on children’s health and health care use outcomes. METHODS: We use nationally representative data from the 2013–2016 waves of the National Health Interview Study (N = 29 341). Using inverse probability of treatment weighting, a propensity scoring method, we examine a broad range of child health outcomes and account for a comprehensive set of controls, focusing on a sample of children 2 to 17 years old. RESULTS: Household food insecurity was related to significantly worse general health, some acute and chronic health problems, and worse health care access, including forgone care and heightened emergency department use, for children. Compared to rates had they not been food insecure, children in food-insecure household had rates of lifetime asthma diagnosis and depressive symptoms that were 19.1% and 27.9% higher, rates of foregone medical care that were 179.8% higher, and rates of emergency department use that were 25.9% higher. No significant differences emerged for most communicable diseases, such as ear infections or chicken pox, or conditions that may develop more gradually, including anemia and diabetes. CONCLUSIONS: Policies used to reduce household food insecurity among children may also reduce children’s chronic and acute health problems and health care needs.
Student engagement and community building for sustainability
Creators: name: Runkle, Quinn
name: Sadowski, Rosalind
name: Willock, Angela
name: Rasmussen, Spencer
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Student engagement in sustainability is an emerging field of importance. This project addresses the need for more research on the topic by examining both student engagement and, as a support, community building for sustainability. The University of British Columbia is at the forefront of sustainability innovation and has already made great accomplishments in its support for student initiatives. This project works to better inform future endeavors as well as make specific recommendations in regards to our findings. Student engagement in sustainability is a critical step in building a more sustainable campus at UBC and beyond. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Study of the decay B0(B0bar)-->rho+rho-, and constraints on the CKM angle alpha
Creators: name: Aubert, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a data sample of 89 million Y(4s)-->B0B0bar decays collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B Factory at SLAC, we measure the B0(B0bar)-->rho+rho- branching fraction as $(30\pm 4 stat \pm 5 syst) \times 10^{-6}$ and a longitudinal polarization fraction of $f_L = 0.99 \pm 0.03 stat ^{+0.04}_{-0.03} syst$. We measure the time-dependent-asymmetry parameters of the longitudinally polarized component of this decay as $C_L = -0.17\pm 0.27 stat \pm 0.14 syst$ and ${S_L} = -0.42 \pm 0.42 stat \pm 0.14 syst$. We present constraints on the CKM angle $α$.
description: Submitted to PRL
Food insecurity and child health
Creators: name: Thomas, Margaret M.C.
name: Miller, Daniel P.
name: Morrissey, Taryn
Publisher: name: Pediatrics
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: OBJECTIVES: Food insecurity is an important public health problem facing children in the United States. Although a number of previous studies suggest that food insecurity has negative impacts on health, these studies have not dealt thoroughly with issues of selection bias. We use propensity scoring techniques to approximate the causal effects of food insecurity on children’s health and health care use outcomes. METHODS: We use nationally representative data from the 2013–2016 waves of the National Health Interview Study (N = 29 341). Using inverse probability of treatment weighting, a propensity scoring method, we examine a broad range of child health outcomes and account for a comprehensive set of controls, focusing on a sample of children 2 to 17 years old. RESULTS: Household food insecurity was related to significantly worse general health, some acute and chronic health problems, and worse health care access, including forgone care and heightened emergency department use, for children. Compared to rates had they not been food insecure, children in food-insecure household had rates of lifetime asthma diagnosis and depressive symptoms that were 19.1% and 27.9% higher, rates of foregone medical care that were 179.8% higher, and rates of emergency department use that were 25.9% higher. No significant differences emerged for most communicable diseases, such as ear infections or chicken pox, or conditions that may develop more gradually, including anemia and diabetes. CONCLUSIONS: Policies used to reduce household food insecurity among children may also reduce children’s chronic and acute health problems and health care needs.
Governing climate engineering : A proposal for immediate governance of solar radiation management
Creators: name: Jinnah, Sikina
name: Nicholson, Simon
name: Morrow, David R.
name: Dove, Zachary
name: Wapner, Paul
name: Valdivia, Walter
name: Thiele, Leslie Paul
name: McKinnon, Catriona
name: Light, Andrew
name: Lahsen, Myanna
name: Kashwan, Prakash
name: Gupta, Aarti
name: Gillespie, Alexander
name: Falk, Richard
name: Conca, Kenneth
name: Chong, Dan
name: Chhetri, Netra
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Solar radiation management (SRM) technologies would reflect a small amount of incoming solar radiation back into space before the radiation can warm the planet. Although SRM may emerge as a useful component of a global response to climate change, there is also good reason for caution. In June 2017, the Academic Working Group on Climate Engineering Governance released a policy report, “Governing Solar Radiation Management”, which developed a set of objectives to govern SRM in the near-term future: (1) keep mitigation and adaptation first; (2) thoroughly and transparently evaluate risks, burdens, and benefits; (3) enable responsible knowledge creation; and (4) ensure robust governance before any consideration of deployment. To advance the governance objectives identified above, the working group developed twelve recommendations, grouped into three clusters: (1) create politically legitimate deliberative bodies; (2) leverage existing institutions; and (3) make research transparent and accountable. This communication discusses the rationale behind each cluster and elaborates on a subset of the recommendations from each cluster.
An algorithm for evaluating stable densities in Zolotarev's (M) parameterization
Creators: name: Nolan, John
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Abstract-one of the major obstacles to the use of stable distributions in applications is the lack of formulas for their densities. A program is described to calculate a general a-stable density for o > 0.75 and any skewness value p.
Low light level CCDs and visibility parameter estimation
Creators: name: Basden, A. G.
name: Haniff, C. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, low light level charge coupled devices (L3CCDs) capable of on-chip gain have been developed, leading to sub-electron effective readout noise, allowing for the detection of single photon events. Optical interferometry usually requires the detection of faint signals at high speed and so L3CCDs are an obvious choice for these applications. Here we analyse the effect that using an L3CCD has on visibility parameter estimation (amplitude and triple product phase), including situations where the L3CCD raw output is processed in an attempt to reduce the effect of stochastic multiplication noise introduced by the on-chip gain process. We establish that under most conditions, fringe parameters are estimated accurately, whilst at low light levels, a bias correction which we determine here, may need to be applied to the estimate of fringe visibility amplitude. These results show that L3CCDs are potentially excellent detectors for astronomical interferometry at optical wavelengths.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Feasibility of Isolation Remediation Technology for Heavy Metal Contaminated Soil
Creators: name: LI Pengfeng
name: LIU Wei
name: WANG Shuguang
name: LI Pengfeng
name: LIU Wei
name: WANG Shuguang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Soil, Combined pollution, Heavy metal, Isolation remediation

description: This paper discussed current situations of researches about the isolation remediation technology “soil barrier and landfill technology” and “physical isolation remediation technology” for heavy metal contaminated soil in mining areas. In view of defects of current technologies, it introduced a new isolation remediation technology, of which the new isolation materials were mixed by slaked lime, soil, find sand, and clay mineral in certain proportion. The new isolation remediation technology is expected to realize isolation remediation of heavy metal combined pollution of soil through chemical passivation of slaked lime and physical adsorption function of clay minerals or activated carbons.
Makrokylindrus Stebbing 1912
Creators: name: Gerken, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Cumacea
Diastylidae
Makrokylindrus

description: Makrokylindrus Stebbing, 1912
 Type species. Makrokylindrus fragilis Stebbing, 1912.
 Diagnosis. Telson longer than uropod peduncles, without lateral setation, without distinct post-anal portion.
 Remarks. This species is included in a short key with the new species of Diastylis. As noted by Day (1980), the genera Diastylis and Makrokylindrus may be difficult to impossible to differentiate, as the generic diagnoses rely on telson pre and post-anal proportions and setation.
description: Published as part of Gerken, Sarah, 2014, Eleven New Species and a New Genus of Diastylidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) from Australia and One New Species from Canada, pp. 1-62 in Records of the Australian Museum 66 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.66.2014.1601, http://zenodo.org/record/4684387