cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Kerivoula phalaena Thomas 1912
Creators: name: Cakenberghe, Victor Van
name: Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu
name: Akawa, Prescott Musaba
name: Seamark, Ernest
name: Verheyen, Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Kerivoula
Kerivoula phalaena

description: Kerivoula phalaena Thomas, 1912
Fig. 35 A–B
Kerivoula phalaena Thomas, 1912: 281.
* Kerivoula phalaena Thomas, 1912.
Although not separately listed in their catalog part, Hayman et al. (1966: 57) refer to this species, as Koopman (1965: 31) mentioned a specimen from Lukolela (Mai-Ndombe Province) in the AMNH. Two additional specimens have been collected since then: one from Wafanya (Tshuapa Province) and one from Irangi (Sud-Kivu Province). Fahr (2013t: 732) indicated that K. phalaena is mainly recorded from the rainforest zones in western and central Africa, with outlying records from the Afromontane- Afroalpine zones in northeastern DRC and western Uganda and from the Guinea Savanna BZ in Côte d’Ivoire. This is confirmed by our map, which is based on climatic data and suggests that K. phalaena might occur even further to the east.
description: Published as part of Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), pp. 1-327 in European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382) on page 76, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.382, http://zenodo.org/record/3860077
Teaching material to support students' understanding of programming in technology education
Creators: name: Salomonsson, Niklas
name: Wickberg Hugerth, Mattias
name: Anderhag, Per
Publisher: name: Stockholm University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390113
subject: Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy

description: This item constitutes the teaching material that came out of a study on teaching programming as part of technology education in lower secondary education, and which is further discussed in a trade journal paper. In the study, we discuss how we have used results from a small research project on programming to develop the teaching within the subject of technology. In the research project, we observed that students employed various strategies when programming a robot to follow a curved line, and that these strategies were differently successful in solving the task. The outcome of this project, along with our experiences of teaching programming at elementary and high school levels, were used to create and test teaching materials that support students' understanding of programming. The material addresses not only programming-specific concepts but also phenomena relevant to the subject of technology, such as feedback systems, purposefulness, and trial and error. The teaching material, which is based on the didactic model of Organizing Purposes, consists of a PowerPoint with brief teacher comments.Update: Uploaded new version of material with the correction of two figures that used faulty values.
Kerivoula smithii Thomas 1880
Creators: name: Cakenberghe, Victor Van
name: Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu
name: Akawa, Prescott Musaba
name: Seamark, Ernest
name: Verheyen, Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Kerivoula
Kerivoula smithii

description: Kerivoula smithii Thomas, 1880
Fig. 35 C–D
Kerivoula Smithii Thomas, 1880: 166.
* Kerivoula smithi Thomas, 1880.
* Kerivoula? aerosa Tomes, 1858: 333.
Hayman et al. (1966: 58) mention a specimen from Bukavu (RMCA 23172; Sud-Kivu Province) as possibly belonging to “ K. aerosa ”. They also indicated that there is some doubt about the African origin of the types of this species. As aerosa is currently assigned to the mainly southeast Asian genus Phoniscus, it has been suggested that they actually came from the Malay Archipelago (Happold 2013 as: 735). In the meantime, the Bukavu specimen has been re-identified by Jakob Fahr as belonging to K. smithii. He also re-identified three other animals: one from Koteli (RMCA 16190; Bas-Uélé Province), one from Eala (RMCA 16189; Equateur Province) and one from Gumba Island (RMCA 14263; Mongala Province). The two former represent K. cuprosa, whereas the latter could only be identified as Kerivoula sp. We also report four additional localities: Kalehe Territory (Sud-Kivu Province), Ukaika (Ituri Province), Aketi (Bas-Uélé Province) and Wafanya (Tshuapa Province), with the exception of the latter all in the northeastern part of the DRC. Fahr (2013u: 733) indicates that K. smithii is primarily found in the rain forest zones of southeastern Nigeria to the DRC and from the Afromontane-Afroalpine and the Somalia- Masai bushland zones in Kenya. The SDM map confirms this view.
description: Published as part of Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), pp. 1-327 in European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382) on pages 76-78, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.382, http://zenodo.org/record/3860077
title: AI-based chatbots in customer service and their effects on user compliance
Creators: name: Adam, Martin
name: Wessel, Michael
name: Benlian, Alexander
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2024

description: Communicating with customers through live chat interfaces has become an increasingly popular means to provide real-time customer service in many e-commerce settings. Today, human chat service agents are frequently replaced by conversational software agents or chatbots, which are systems designed to communicate with human users by means of natural language often based on artificial intelligence (AI). Though cost- and time-saving opportunities triggered a widespread implementation of AI-based chatbots, they still frequently fail to meet customer expectations, potentially resulting in users being less inclined to comply with requests made by the chatbot. Drawing on social response and commitment-consistency theory, we empirically examine through a randomized online experiment how verbal anthropomorphic design cues and the foot-in-the-door technique affect user request compliance. Our results demonstrate that both anthropomorphism as well as the need to stay consistent significantly increase the likelihood that users comply with a chatbot’s request for service feedback. Moreover, the results show that social presence mediates the effect of anthropomorphic design cues on user compliance.
Teaching material to support students' understanding of programming in technology education
Creators: name: Salomonsson, Niklas
name: Wickberg Hugerth, Mattias
name: Anderhag, Per
Publisher: name: Stockholm University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 390113
subject: Science, technology and engineering curriculum and pedagogy

description: This item constitutes the teaching material that came out of a study on teaching programming as part of technology education in lower secondary education, and which is further discussed in a trade journal paper. In the study, we discuss how we have used results from a small research project on programming to develop the teaching within the subject of technology. In the research project, we observed that students employed various strategies when programming a robot to follow a curved line, and that these strategies were differently successful in solving the task. The outcome of this project, along with our experiences of teaching programming at elementary and high school levels, were used to create and test teaching materials that support students' understanding of programming. The material addresses not only programming-specific concepts but also phenomena relevant to the subject of technology, such as feedback systems, purposefulness, and trial and error. The teaching material, which is based on the didactic model of Organizing Purposes, consists of a PowerPoint with brief teacher comments.
Effect of Film Thickness on CeO2/Au Vertically Aligned Nanocomposite Morphology and Properties
Creators: name: Moceri, Matteo T
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 401601
subject: Ceramics
classificationCode: 401602
subject: Composite and hybrid materials
classificationCode: 401807
subject: Nanomaterials
classificationCode: 340304
subject: Optical properties of materials

description: The primary goal of this work is to gain a fundamental understanding on how growth conditions affect the morphology and crystallography orientation of CeO2/Au vertically aligned nanocomposite (VAN) thin films. Focus has been placed on how the changes in morphology and crystallography translate to tunable optical properties. The morphological effects have been observed and analyzed via two main approaches: the change in morphology was observed at multiple points along the film thickness, and the morphology at the film/substrate interface has been analyzed with respect to total film thickness. The changes in Au crystallography orientations have been observed by measuring peak shift in XRD patterns and determining the resulting in- and out-of-plane strain. To observe additional effects of this morphology change, optical measurements have been taken for films at the bottom, middle, and top of the thickness range. Strong trends in transmittance, plasmonic absorption peak shifts and hyperbolic permittivity behavior are correlated with the film thickness. This tunability of optical properties likely arises from changes in both Au pillar phase morphology and crystal orientation. These findings demonstrate that changing film thickness may be a desirable method to easily tune the morphology and optical properties of VAN thin films.
In silico design, in vitro construction and in vivo application of synthetic small regulatory RNAs in bacteria
Creators: name: Brueck, Michel
name: Berghoff, Bork A.
name: Schindler, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Small regulatory RNAs (sRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs in bacteria capable of post-transcriptional regulation. sRNAs have recently gained attention as tools in basic and applied sciences for example to fine-tune genetic circuits or biotechnological processes. Even though sRNAs often have a rather simple and modular structure, the design of functional synthetic sRNAs is not necessarily trivial. This protocol outlines how to use computational predictions and synthetic biology approaches to design, construct and validate synthetic sRNA functionality for their application in bacteria. The computational tool, SEEDling, matches the optimal seed region with the user-selected sRNA scaffold for repression of target mRNAs. The synthetic sRNAs are assembled using Golden Gate cloning and their functionality is subsequently validated. The protocol uses the acrA mRNA as an exemplary proof-of-concept target in Escherichia coli. Since AcrA is part of a multidrug efflux pump, acrA repression can be revealed by assessing oxacillin susceptibility in a phenotypic screen. However, in case target repression does not result in a screenable phenotype, an alternative validation of synthetic sRNA functionality based on a fluorescence reporter is described.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures
Exploring the Capabilities and Limitations of Large Language Models for Radiation Oncology Decision Support
Creators: name: Putz, Florian
name: Haderleina, Marlen
name: Lettmaier, Sebastian
name: Semrau, Sabine
name: Fietkau, Rainer
name: Huang, Yixing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Thanks to the rapidly evolving integration of LLMs into decision-support tools, a significant transformation is happening across large-scale systems. Like other medical fields, the use of LLMs such as GPT-4 is gaining increasing interest in radiation oncology as well. An attempt to assess GPT-4's performance in radiation oncology was made via a dedicated 100-question examination on the highly specialized topic of radiation oncology physics, revealing GPT-4's superiority over other LLMs. GPT-4's performance on a broader field of clinical radiation oncology is further benchmarked by the ACR Radiation Oncology In-Training (TXIT) exam where GPT-4 achieved a high accuracy of 74.57%. Its performance on re-labelling structure names in accordance with the AAPM TG-263 report has also been benchmarked, achieving above 96% accuracies. Such studies shed light on the potential of LLMs in radiation oncology. As interest in the potential and constraints of LLMs in general healthcare applications continues to rise5, the capabilities and limitations of LLMs in radiation oncology decision support have not yet been fully explored.
description: Officially published in the Red Journal
Myotis bocagii
Creators: name: Cakenberghe, Victor Van
name: Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu
name: Akawa, Prescott Musaba
name: Seamark, Ernest
name: Verheyen, Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis bocagii

description: Myotis bocagii (Peters, 1870)
Fig. 35 E–F
Vespertilio Bocagii Peters, 1870: 125.
* Myotis bocagei (Peters, 1870).
* Myotis bocagei bocagei (Peters, 1870).
* Myotis bocagei hildegardeae Thomas, 1904: 209.
* Myotis bocagei cupreolus Thomas, 1904: 407.
Besides 40 specimens identified to the specific level, Hayman et al. (1966: 51) recognized three subspecies, of which hildegardeae is currently included in the nominate subspecies. This agrees with a statement made by Hayman [in Fain 1953: 99]: “ … since the more specimens [of M. b. hildegardeae] I see, the less I think it possible to maintain hildegardeae as a valid race”. Happold (2013 an: 692) indicates that M. b. bocagii occurs in the woodland savannah from Ethiopia to Angola and the former Transvaal, and M. b. cupreolus in the rainforest from Liberia to the DRC. In the CRB area, Hayman et al. (1966, map 68) reported M. bocagii from the eastern part (provinces Bas-Uélé, Haut-Uélé, Ituri, Nord-Kivu, Sud- Kivu, Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami and Haut-Katanga), Rwanda, and from the western part (provinces Kongo Central, Kinshasa and Kwilu) of the DRC. They did not report any specimens from the more central areas or from the northwestern part of the country. We were able to trace specimens from the latter area and from almost all of the northern half of the country, as well as from Rwanda and Burundi, but none from the south-central provinces (Kasaï-Central, Kasaï Oriental, Lualaba). The distribution map given by Happold (2013 an: 693) doesn’t include any of the additional northern specimens and, therefore, separates the eastern distribution patches from the western ones. Our map suggests that both are connected and that only the border zone between the DRC and Angola might not be an optimal habitat for M. bocagii.
description: Published as part of Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), pp. 1-327 in European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382) on page 78, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.382, http://zenodo.org/record/3860077
Signal vs Noise in Eye-tracking Data: Biometric Implications and Identity Information Across Frequencies
Creators: name: Raju, Mehedi H.
name: Friedman, Lee
name: Lohr, Dillon
name: Komogortsev, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Prior research states that frequencies below 75 Hz in eye-tracking data represent the primary eye movement termed ``signal'' while those above 75 Hz are deemed ``noise''. This study examines the biometric significance of this signal-noise distinction and its privacy implications. There are important individual differences in a person's eye movement, which lead to reliable biometric performance in the ``signal'' part. Despite minimal eye-movement information in the ``noise'' recordings, there might be significant individual differences. Our results confirm the ``signal'' predominantly contains identity-specific information, yet the ``noise'' also possesses unexpected identity-specific data. This consistency holds for both short-(approx. 20 min) and long-term (approx. 1 year) biometric evaluations. Understanding the location of identity data within the eye movement spectrum is essential for privacy preservation.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Myotis welwitschii Scotophilinae
Creators: name: Cakenberghe, Victor Van
name: Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu
name: Akawa, Prescott Musaba
name: Seamark, Ernest
name: Verheyen, Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis welwitschii

description: Myotis welwitschii (Gray, 1866)
Fig. 36 C–D
Scotophilus welwitschii Gray, 1866: 211.
* Myotis welwitschi venustus (Matschie, 1899).
The validity of the subspecies venustus was already doubted prior to Hayman et al. (1966), e.g., by Kershaw (1922: 181) and Frechkop (1954: 19), and this view was later confirmed by Kock (1967: 324).
In the DRC, Hayman et al. (1966: 52, map 71) reported this species from Nord-Kivu Province in the east and from the southeastern provinces of Haut-Lomami, Haut-Katanga and Lualaba. More recently, it has been found in Rwanda and Burundi. Happold (2013 ao: 709) gives a patchy distribution in eastern and southern Africa, from Ethiopia to the RSA, with an extension into the southern part of the DRC and Angola. She also plotted two separate localities in Guinea and Cameroon.
description: Published as part of Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), pp. 1-327 in European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382) on page 80, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.382, http://zenodo.org/record/3860077
Scotophilus dinganii
Creators: name: Cakenberghe, Victor Van
name: Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu
name: Akawa, Prescott Musaba
name: Seamark, Ernest
name: Verheyen, Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotophilus
Scotophilus dinganii

description: Scotophilus dinganii (A. Smith, 1833)
Fig. 36 E–F
Vespertilio Dinganii A. Smith, 1833: 59.
* Scotophilus nigrita (Schreber, 1775): 58.
* Scotophilus nigrita herero Thomas, 1906: 174.
As indicated below, S. nigrita was erroneously used to identify the medium-sized African Scotophilus species. Robbins (1978: 212) showed that the correct name for this species should be S. dinganii.
Hayman et al. (1966: 57, map 83) reported “ S. nigrita ” from over almost the entire DRC and from northern Rwanda, with the exception of the northwestern part of the DRC and the most central part. Here, we include additional specimens from the northwestern, southwestern and southeastern parts of the country as well as from Rwanda and Burundi. This still leaves the central part of the DRC unoccupied by this species. The only central DRC record is a specimen from Boende (Tshuapa Province), but this is a juvenile specimen, which is probably too young to be identified with certainty.
Furthermore, we removed a number of localities from the northeastern part of the DRC as the underlying specimens belonged to the next species.
Happold (2013 am: 674) based her distribution map on data from Robbins et al. (1985: 63), which resulted in a rather detailed map with a lot of finger-like extrusions and areas which almost touch one another. We believe that the species has a wider distribution, only lacking in eastern Somalia, southern Namibia and most of the RSA and probably also from the west and central African rainforest as mentioned by Happold. However, we need to point out that some of the east African records might need to be reassigned to a separate species, e.g., S. colias as was tentatively suggested by Vallo et al. (2011: 350).
description: Published as part of Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), pp. 1-327 in European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382) on page 80, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.382, http://zenodo.org/record/3860077
Supplementary Information and Supplementary Data 1 for  "Organic Food has Lower Environmental Impacts per Area Unit and Similar Climate Impacts per Mass Unit Compared to Conventional"
Creators: name: Hashemi, Fatemeh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This supplementary material accompanies an article titled "Organic Food has Lower Environmental Impacts per Area Unit and Similar Climate Impacts per Mass Unit Compared to Conventional" in the Journal of Communications Earth & Environment. It comprises two files:

Supplementary Information File (in Word format): This file offers an overview of the environmental impacts associated with organic food.

Supplementary Data 1 (an Excel sheet): This file contains a tabular summary of 100 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies. These studies assess either the environmental impacts of organic food or provide comparisons between organic and conventional food. Additionally, there is a file titled 'Description of Supplementary Data 1' which provides a legend for interpreting the information presented in Supplementary Data 1.
Myotis tricolor
Creators: name: Cakenberghe, Victor Van
name: Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu
name: Akawa, Prescott Musaba
name: Seamark, Ernest
name: Verheyen, Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis tricolor

description: Myotis tricolor (Temminck, 1832)
Fig. 36 A–B
Vespertilio tricolor Temminck, 1832: 106.
* Myotis tricolor (Temminck, 1832).
In general, M. tricolor primarily occurs in eastern and southern Africa, from Ethiopia to the RSA, only touching the eastern border of CRB (Bernard 2013: 707). The record from a cave near Thysville (RMCA 16450; Hayman et al. 1966: 52) is, therefore, already far to the west, but not impossible as Koopman (1989: 7) reported a specimen from Liberia, and ACR (2016: 1207) reported another from Nigeria.
description: Published as part of Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), pp. 1-327 in European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382) on pages 78-80, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.382, http://zenodo.org/record/3860077
LLMatic: Neural Architecture Search via Large Language Models and Quality Diversity Optimization
Creators: name: Nasir, Muhammad U.
name: Earle, Sam
name: Cleghorn, Christopher
name: James, Steven
name: Togelius, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools capable of accomplishing a broad spectrum of tasks. Their abilities span numerous areas, and one area where they have made a significant impact is in the domain of code generation. Here, we propose using the coding abilities of LLMs to introduce meaningful variations to code defining neural networks. Meanwhile, Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms are known to discover diverse and robust solutions. By merging the code-generating abilities of LLMs with the diversity and robustness of QD solutions, we introduce \texttt{LLMatic}, a Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithm. While LLMs struggle to conduct NAS directly through prompts, \texttt{LLMatic} uses a procedural approach, leveraging QD for prompts and network architecture to create diverse and high-performing networks. We test \texttt{LLMatic} on the CIFAR-10 and NAS-bench-201 benchmarks, demonstrating that it can produce competitive networks while evaluating just $2,000$ candidates, even without prior knowledge of the benchmark domain or exposure to any previous top-performing models for the benchmark. The open-sourced code is available in \url{https://github.com/umair-nasir14/LLMatic}.
description: Accepted to The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2024
TASF_22.10: Geochemical evidence for a chondritic impactor in altered impact glass from the Stac Fada Member impactite, NW Scotland
Creators: name: Goodwin, A.
name: Garwood, R. J.
name: Tartèse, R.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3705
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: TASF_22.10.pdf.
Sample points: Geochemical evidence for a chondritic impactor in altered impact glass from the Stac Fada Member impactite, NW Scotland
Creators: name: Goodwin, A.
name: Garwood, R. J.
name: Tartèse, R.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3705
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Sample points.
TASF_22.17: Geochemical evidence for a chondritic impactor in altered impact glass from the Stac Fada Member impactite, NW Scotland
Creators: name: Goodwin, A.
name: Garwood, R. J.
name: Tartèse, R.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3705
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: TASF_22.17.pdf.
Identifying the Role of Neutrophils and Myeloperoxidase in a Zebrafish Model of DMD
Creators: name: TULANGEKAR, ANKITA SUHAS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 310507
subject: Genetic immunology
classificationCode: 320905
subject: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases

description: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a severe and progressive muscle disease. Muscle failure is caused by structural defects, but the failing muscle also triggers an immune response that can exacerbate damage. In this thesis I explore the role of neutrophils, a component of the immune system, in contributing to muscle damage using a zebrafish disease model. I identify a key enzyme that contributes to muscle damage and show that muscle is improved by its removal. Additionally, I identify a drug that removes this enzymes function which can now be explored as a treatment for DMD.
Scotophilus leucogaster
Creators: name: Cakenberghe, Victor Van
name: Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu
name: Akawa, Prescott Musaba
name: Seamark, Ernest
name: Verheyen, Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotophilus
Scotophilus leucogaster

description: Scotophilus leucogaster (Cretzschmar, 1826)
Fig. 37 A–B
Nycticejus leucogaster Cretzschmar, 1826: 71.
* Scotophilus leucogaster (Cretzschmar, 1826).
Hayman et al. (1966: 56–57, map 82) mention one locality in the DRC (Faradje, Haut-Uélé Province), and refer to Koopman (1965: 17) who indicated that Pachyotus altilis (the name under which Allen 1917: 447 reported these specimens) is a synonym of S. l. leucogaster. Allen (1917) and Hayman et al. (1966) report on two specimens, whereas the AMNH catalog mentions three. The third specimen (AMNH 49283, a foetal specimen) has the same original number (1865) as AMNH 49015 (an adult female).
Only one additional specimen has been reported since: MHNG 1896.016 from Mweya, Burundi.
The map presented by Van Cakenberghe & Happold (2013i: 677) shows S. leucogaster to be present in a number of areas south of the Sahara: Senegal / Gambia; Guinea / Sierra Leone; Burkina Faso /northern Ghana to southwestern Chad; central Sudan; central Ethiopia; northeastern DRC; southwestern Zambia /northern Namibia /northern Botswana /western Zimbabwe. They also plotted individual records from Mauritania, Côte d’Ivoire, Central African Republic, Uganda, Kenya, western Angola and Namibia, and Mozambique. The SDM map suggests a sub-Saharan distribution, with a northward extention along the River Nile. The species probably will not occur in eastern Ethiopia, Eritrea or Somalia, in the central African rain forest or in southern Africa, except for the northeastern tip of the RSA and southern Mozambique.
description: Published as part of Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), pp. 1-327 in European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382) on page 82, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.382, http://zenodo.org/record/3860077
TASF_22.16: Geochemical evidence for a chondritic impactor in altered impact glass from the Stac Fada Member impactite, NW Scotland
Creators: name: Goodwin, A.
name: Garwood, R. J.
name: Tartèse, R.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3705
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: TASF_22.16.pdf.
TASF_22.08: Geochemical evidence for a chondritic impactor in altered impact glass from the Stac Fada Member impactite, NW Scotland
Creators: name: Goodwin, A.
name: Garwood, R. J.
name: Tartèse, R.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 3705
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: TASF_22.08.pdf.
Scotophilus nux Thomas 1904
Creators: name: Cakenberghe, Victor Van
name: Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu
name: Akawa, Prescott Musaba
name: Seamark, Ernest
name: Verheyen, Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotophilus
Scotophilus nux

description: Scotophilus nux Thomas, 1904
Fig. 37 E–F
* Scotophilus nigrita nux Thomas, 1904: 208.
Thomas (1915: 468) already mentioned “The conspicuous difference between the colour of S. nux and that of all forms of S. nigrita makes me now think that it should be recognized as a distinct species, and not merely a subspecies of the older known form.” This view, however, was ignored by most subsequent authors, until it was resurrected by Robbins (1983: 19) and Robbins et al. (1985: 53, 71).
Hayman et al. (1966: 57) only mentioned specimens from the northeastern part of the DRC (Bas- Uélé, Haut-Uélé and Ituri Provinces). One additional specimen was collected in Kongolo (Tanganyika Province) in southeastern DRC. Van Cakenberghe & Happold (2013j: 681) indicate that the species is recorded from the rainforest and the northern and eastern rainforest-savanna mosaics from Sierra Leone in the west to Cameroon, and from northwestern DRC to western Kenya. We agree with this distribution, although it occurs further to the south in the DRC than previously accepted. The climatic data used for the SDM map confirm that the gap between Cameroon and the DRC is probably due to insufficient sampling, as suggested by Van Cakenberghe & Happold. They also confirm the gap between southwestern Ghana and southern Nigeria, which might be linked to the “ Dahomey Gap”, but further investigation in that area is needed to confirm this.
description: Published as part of Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), pp. 1-327 in European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382) on pages 82-84, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.382, http://zenodo.org/record/3860077
OST zine
Creators: name: Minkin, Louisa
name: Eshun, Esi
name: Mhishi, Lennon
name: Dawson, Ian
Publisher: name: University of the Arts London
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 360602
subject: Fine arts

description: OST zine is documentation of the Prisoners of Love: Affect, Containment and Alternative Futures project residency at the temporary OPENing Space in Angel Court, Bank, London in August and September 2023.Artists and writers represented in the zine are:THOMAS ALLISON, RIHANATA BIGEY, DAWN CODEX, IAN DAWSON, ESI ESHUN, DARBY HERMAN, JOSEPH IJOYEMI, COMPOUND 13 LAB, MAME AFUA MENSAH, LENNON MHISHI, LOUISA MINKIN, RABIYA NAGI, ADANMA NWANKWO, CHARLES NYIHA, DESERAE TAILFEATHERSThe zine contains an essay by Esi Eshun: The Quiet Object and a reflection by Lennon Mhishi: In defense of dreams. Each artist has contributed thoughts on their work in progress and there are some thoughts on the project methodology by Louisa Minkin and Ian Dawson.
Scotophilus nigrita
Creators: name: Cakenberghe, Victor Van
name: Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu
name: Akawa, Prescott Musaba
name: Seamark, Ernest
name: Verheyen, Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotophilus
Scotophilus nigrita

description: Scotophilus nigrita (Schreber, 1774)
Fig. 37 C–D
Vespertilio Nigrita Schreber, 1774: 171.
* Scotophilus gigas Dobson, 1875: 122.
Until Robbins (1978: 212), the largest representative of the genus Scotophilus was called S. gigas, whereas this should be S. nigrita, a name that had been used for the medium-sized African form for decades. Unfortunately, this led to confusion that left its mark on a lot of subsequent publications, where it wasn’t always clear whether nigrita was used to designate the large or the medium-sized form.
Hayman et al. (1966: 56, map 81) reported “ S. gigas ” from one locality: Albertville (= Kalemie) in Tanganyika Province. The only other specimen from the CRB area was collected in Bujumbura, Burundi.
With the exception of two small areas in Ghana, Happold (2013 am: 679) only plotted individual localities on her distribution map, which shows a major gap between the locality in western Nigeria (the easternmost for West Africa) and central Sudan. Further to the south, there are records from the DRC, coastal Kenya and Tanzania, and Mozambique. ACR (2016: 1120) provides some additional records from Niger, northern Cameroon, Sudan and South Sudan, which more or less bridge the gap between West Africa and Sudan, and which also may confirm the assignment of the Sudanese specimens to the nominate subspecies as mentioned by Happold (2013 am: 678). The SDM map also suggests that such a connection might well be possible through the Central African Republic and central Cameroon or through central Chad and northern Cameroon. Although the species hasn’t been confirmed from the central African rainforest, its occurrence in the West African forest block makes it plausible.
description: Published as part of Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), pp. 1-327 in European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382) on page 82, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.382, http://zenodo.org/record/3860077
Glauconycteris alboguttata J. A. Allen 1917
Creators: name: Cakenberghe, Victor Van
name: Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu
name: Akawa, Prescott Musaba
name: Seamark, Ernest
name: Verheyen, Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Glauconycteris
Glauconycteris alboguttata

description: Glauconycteris alboguttata J.A. Allen, 1917
Fig. 38 A–B
* Glauconycteris alboguttatus J.A. Allen, 1917: 449.
The only known representatives of this species in the CRB area are the three specimens reported by Hayman et al. (48, 49, map 60) and one additional specimen from Yalosemba (Mongala Province; CM 86658) reported by Eger & Schlitter (2001: 7) and Thorn et al. (2009: 61). Besides these four specimens, Happold (2013 aa: 564) indicates that the species also occurs in the coastal area of Cameroon. Based on climatic data, we suspect that the species can occur over the central African forest belt from southern Nigeria to Rwanda and Burundi.
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Glauconycteris argentata
Creators: name: Cakenberghe, Victor Van
name: Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu
name: Akawa, Prescott Musaba
name: Seamark, Ernest
name: Verheyen, Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
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Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Glauconycteris
Glauconycteris argentata

description: Glauconycteris argentata (Dobson, 1875)
Fig. 38 C–D
Chalinolobus argentatus Dobson, 1875: 385.
* Glauconycteris argentata (Dobson, 1875).
Hayman et al. (1966: 49) mention 72 records for this species, of which at least one (RMCA 16213; Mukishi, Haut-Lomami Province) was re-identified as G. variegata (Wim Wendelen, pers. comm.). They also they mentioned the same museum numbers for the series from Boma and Butembo. These numbers apply for the Butembo specimens and the correct numbers for the Boma series are 6571 to 6576 and 7250). Their map 61 contains two localities we cannot identify from the specimens they listed. One of these is most probably Ibembo (Bas-Uélé Province), where they reported G. beatrix (see map 62), and another one is in Kasaï Province.
Within the CRB area, G. argentata occurs in three separate regions: one along the eastern border of the DRC (Ituri, Nord- and Sud-Kivu Provinces) and Rwanda and Burundi. A second region is at the mouth of the Congo River (Kongo Central Province), and a third runs from Mbandaka (Equateur Province) over Boende and Ikela (Tshuapa Province), Lodja (Sankuru Province) to Kananga (Kasaï-Central Province). This agrees very well with the map given by Happold (2013 ab: 565), although she also cites the “Ibembo” record listed above. Extralimitally, the species occurs in the coastal areas of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, southwestern Kenya, northeastern Tanzania, northern Malawi and Angola. The SDM map suggests that G. argentata might be more widespread over central and eastern Africa, from southern Nigeria in the west to Kenya and Tanzania in the east, between 5° N and 10° S.
description: Published as part of Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), pp. 1-327 in European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382) on page 84, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.382, http://zenodo.org/record/3860077
Glauconycteris beatrix Thomas 1901
Creators: name: Cakenberghe, Victor Van
name: Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu
name: Akawa, Prescott Musaba
name: Seamark, Ernest
name: Verheyen, Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Glauconycteris
Glauconycteris beatrix

description: Glauconycteris beatrix Thomas, 1901
Fig. 38 E–F
* Glauconycteris beatrix Thomas, 1901: 256.
Glauconycteris beatrix was reported by Hayman et al. (1966: 49, map 62) from two localities in northern DRC: Ibembo in Bas-Uélé Province and Paulis (= Isiro) in Haut-Uélé Province. Additional specimens are reported from Irangi (Sud-Kivu), Aketi (Bas-Uélé), Wafanya (Tshuapa) and Kimbinga, near Kikwit (Kwilu). The specimens from Kimbinga were erroneously reported as Miniopterus minor by Van Cakenberghe et al. (2000: 308). Happold (2013 ac: 566) only mapped the specimens from Irangi, and except for the coastal areas of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, she only plotted individual records for Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, southern Nigeria, Gabon and northern Angola. Our distribution map suggests that G. beatrix could occur in the forest belts of both West and Central Africa, ranging from Sierra Leone in the west to western Kenya in the east.
description: Published as part of Cakenberghe, Victor Van, Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu, Akawa, Prescott Musaba, Seamark, Ernest & Verheyen, Erik, 2017, The bats of the Congo and of Rwanda and Burundi revisited (Mammalia: Chiroptera), pp. 1-327 in European Journal of Taxonomy 382 (382) on page 86, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.382, http://zenodo.org/record/3860077
Glauconycteris curryae Eger & Schlitter 2001
Creators: name: Cakenberghe, Victor Van
name: Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu
name: Akawa, Prescott Musaba
name: Seamark, Ernest
name: Verheyen, Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Glauconycteris
Glauconycteris curryae

description: Glauconycteris curryae Eger & Schlitter, 2001
Fig. 39 A–B
Glauconycteris curryi Eger & Schlitter, 2001: 2.
This species is known from only seven specimens from five rainforest localities in Cameroon and one in the DRC (Yalosemba, Mongala Province) (Eger 2013: 568).
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Amtliches Verzeichnis der Lehrer, Beamten und Studierenden an der Königlich-Bayerischen Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität zu München 1882; 1882
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Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 1882

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Dispersion relations alone cannot guarantee causality
Creators: name: Gavassino, Lorenzo
name: Disconzi, Marcelo M.
name: Noronha, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that linear superpositions of plane waves involving a single-valued, covariantly stable dispersion relation $ω(k)$ always propagate outside the lightcone, unless $ω(k) =a+b k$. This implies that there is no notion of causality for individual dispersion relations, since no mathematical condition on the function $ω(k)$ (such as the front velocity or the asymptotic group velocity conditions) can serve as a sufficient condition for subluminal propagation in dispersive media. Instead, causality can only emerge from a careful cancellation that occurs when one superimposes all the excitation branches of a physical model. This is shown to happen automatically in local theories of matter that are covariantly stable. Hence, we find that the need for nonhydrodynamic modes in relativistic fluid mechanics is analogous to the need for antiparticles in relativistic quantum mechanics.
description: 6 pages (Main Text) + 2 pages (Supplementary Material), published on Physical Review Letters, see https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.162301
Décimas trovadas que cantan al valiente ejército español: Digital Edition
Creators: name: Jacsont Pauline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Spanish literature
Digital edition
XML-TEI

description: Digital edition of a Spanish pliego de cordel (19th c.). It contains the XML-TEI file of the edition, as well as the files that led to this edition, i.e. the digital facsimiles (raw and retouched), and the transcription produced by the OCR tool e-Scriptorium (ALTO-XML). This digital edition is a part of the research project Desenrollando el cordel / Untangling the cordel / Démêler le cordel (2020-2024), led by the professor Constance Carta at the University of Geneva and supported by the philanthropic Sandoz-Monique de Meuron Family Foundation.
Glauconycteris superba Hayman 1939
Creators: name: Cakenberghe, Victor Van
name: Tungaluna, Guy-Crispin Gembu
name: Akawa, Prescott Musaba
name: Seamark, Ernest
name: Verheyen, Erik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Glauconycteris
Glauconycteris superba

description: Glauconycteris superba Hayman, 1939
Fig. 40 A–B
Glauconycteris superba Hayman, 1939: 219.
* Glauconycteris superba superba Hayman, 1939.
At the time of Hayman et al. (1966) only two specimens of this remarkably coloured bat were known: the holotype of the species from the DRC and a specimen from Ghana, which was considered to belong to a separate subspecies, G. superba sheila Hayman, 1947. In 1972, a third specimen was collected in Côte d’Ivoire. In the next 40 years, not a single specimen of this species was found, but in 2012 two animals were collected: one in the Bangangai Game Reserve, South Sudan (Reeder et al. 2013), and one from Mbiye Island, near Kisangani, Tshopo Province, DRC (Gembu Tungaluna et al. 2013: 18). In 2015, another specimen was collected on Mbiye Island. This is the first time the species was collected at the same locality, suggesting that G. superba is not as rare as was assumed during the first 40 years after its initial discovery.
As if to confirm the previous statement, after the manuscript for this paper was submitted, Ing et al. (2016) and Hassanin et al. (2017) reported on ten additional specimens from Mbiye island and the Yoko Forest Reserve (00°17′ N, 25°17′ E). Hassanin et al. (2017) also described a new species of Glauconycteris, which is not covered in the current paper.
Based on a number of morphological characters, Reeder et al. (2013) created a separate genus for superba: Niumbaha. These characters include the considerably larger skull; more striking body patterns; not excessively foreshortened (i.e., longer) rostrum; more robust muzzle; unreduced relative canine size; unelongated wing tips (second phalanxes); more robust, subquadrangular ears, with a larger free lobe at the inner margin; a more strongly curved tragus; position of the nostrils. Although these are quite important differences, we remain reluctant to follow Reeder et al. (2013) in separating superba from the genus Glauconycteris, due to the fact that the morphological characters were probably only examined on one specimen and some of them might be the result of the large size of superba. The rejection of Niumbaha as a separate genus is confirmed by the DNA analyses by Hassanin et al. (2017).
Given the fact that G. superba was rarely collected in the past, it is very difficult to assess its general distribution. The SDM map suggests that it may occur in the forest zones of West and Central Africa.
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