cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Heath Implications of Unconventional Natural Gas Development in Pennsylvania
Creators: name: Peng, Lizhong
name: Meyerhoefer, Chad
name: Chou, Shin-Yi
name: Peng, Lizhong
name: Meyerhoefer, Chad
name: Chou, Shin-Yi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: shale gas development
subject: air pollution
subject: pneumonia
subject: asthma

description: We investigate the health impacts of unconventional natural gas development of Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania between 2001 and 2013 by merging well permit data from Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection with a database of all inpatient hospital admissions. Through a difference-in-differences regression analysis that compares changes in hospitalization rates over time for air pollution-sensitive disease in counties with unconventional gas wells to changes in hospitalization rates in non-well counties, we find significant associations between shale gas development and hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), pneumonia, and upper respiratory infections (URI). In particular, we find that county-level hospitalization rates for AMI among young adults (aged 20-44) increased by 24 percent due to shale gas development. Hospitalizations for pneumonia and URI also increased by 8.5 percent and 17 percent, respectively, among the elderly. These adverse effects on health are consistent with higher levels of air pollution resulting from unconventional natural gas development.
The $^{10}$Li spectrum and the $^{11}$Li properties
Creators: name: Garrido, E.
name: Fedorov, D. V.
name: Jensen, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The neutron--$^9$Li interaction and the corresponding low-energy $^{10}$Li spectrum are decisive for the properties of $^{11}$Li described as a three-body system (n+n+$^{9}$Li). We compute structure and breakup properties of $^{11}$Li as function of this interaction. The hyperfine structure due to the spin 3/2 of both $^{9}$Li and $^{11}$Li is needed and treated with special care. We use the hyperspherical adiabatic expansion of the Faddeev equations for the structure and the participant-spectator model for the breakup reactions of $^{11}$Li. We use established experimental constraints of both $^{11}$Li (binding energy, size and differential breakup cross sections) and of $^{10}$Li (a virtual s-state below 50 keV and a $p$-resonance around 0.54 MeV).Another $p$-resonance must then be present below 0.54 MeV and another $s$-level must be present between about 0.5 MeV and 1 MeV depending on unknown spin assignments. All established facts are in agreement with our predictions obtained within the same consistent model.
description: 27 pages, 8 figures
A Bracing Nonlinear Walk in Applied Mechanics: Memoirs and Reflections
Creators: name: J. Michael T. Thompson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 91503 Engineering Practice
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: This article is an informal auto-biographical memoir by Mike Thompson, reflecting in retirement on his scientific researches in nonlinear phenomena, wandering pictorially from shell buckling, through bifurcations and chaos to climate tipping points. Some ideas and advice to young researchers are offered whenever it seems appropriate. Two research groups at University College London, and their
two IUTAM Symposia are given some prominence, as are the ten years editing the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
A simple model for magnetic reconnection heated corona
Creators: name: Liu, B. F.
name: Mineshige, S.
name: Shibata, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a simple model for a magnetic reconnection heated corona above a thin accretion disk in AGNs and Galactic black hole candidates(GBHCs). The basic assumptions are that (1) the magnetic reconnection heat is cooled down overwhelmingly by Compton scattering in the corona and that (2) thermal conduction is dominantly cooled by evaporation of the chromospheric plasma in the disk-corona interface before Compton cooling sets in. With these two basic equations as well as equi-partition of magnetic energy with gas energy in the disk, we can consistently determine the fraction of accretion energy dissipated in the corona without free parameters, and thus determine the temperature and all other quantities in both the corona and disk for given black hole mass and accretion rate. Then, we calculate the luminosity contributed from the disk and corona and the coronal flux weighted Compton $y$ parameter. It is found that, at a low luminosity (less than 0.1 Eddington luminosity) the spectrum is hard with energy spectral index of around 1, while at a high luminosity (larger than 0.1 Eddington luminosity) the spectrum can be either soft or hard. We also find that the situation is almost same for supermassive and stellar-mass black holes. These features are consistent with observations of AGNs and GBHCs.
description: 8 pages including 2 figures. accepted by ApJ Letter
ElimiNet: A Model for Eliminating Options for Reading Comprehension with Multiple Choice Questions
Creators: name: Parikh, Soham
name: Sai, Ananya B.
name: Nema, Preksha
name: Khapra, Mitesh M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The task of Reading Comprehension with Multiple Choice Questions, requires a human (or machine) to read a given passage, question pair and select one of the n given options. The current state of the art model for this task first computes a question-aware representation for the passage and then selects the option which has the maximum similarity with this representation. However, when humans perform this task they do not just focus on option selection but use a combination of elimination and selection. Specifically, a human would first try to eliminate the most irrelevant option and then read the passage again in the light of this new information (and perhaps ignore portions corresponding to the eliminated option). This process could be repeated multiple times till the reader is finally ready to select the correct option. We propose ElimiNet, a neural network-based model which tries to mimic this process. Specifically, it has gates which decide whether an option can be eliminated given the passage, question pair and if so it tries to make the passage representation orthogonal to this eliminated option (akin to ignoring portions of the passage corresponding to the eliminated option). The model makes multiple rounds of partial elimination to refine the passage representation and finally uses a selection module to pick the best option. We evaluate our model on the recently released large scale RACE dataset and show that it outperforms the current state of the art model on 7 out of the $13$ question types in this dataset. Further, we show that taking an ensemble of our elimination-selection based method with a selection based method gives us an improvement of 3.1% over the best-reported performance on this dataset.
description: IJCAI-18
title: Entwicklung von Methoden zur Erfassung hydromorphologischer Strukturen aus Vermessungsdaten
Creators: name: Pflum, Annika
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2021

description: Die flächenhafte Erfassung von Gewässerstrukturen ist für verschiedene hydromorphologische Fragestellungen von Bedeutung. Luftgestützte Fernerkundungsdaten bieten die Möglichkeit, eindeutige Strukturgrenzen anhand von messbaren Parametern zu bestimmen und somit den Aufwand zeit- und kostenintensiver Geländekartierungen zu reduzieren. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden die Potenziale hochaufgelöster Digitaler Geländemodelle sowie hochaufgelöster multispektraler Luftbilddaten für die Entwicklung von automatisierten Auswertungsverfahren zur objektiven und reproduzierbaren Strukturerfassung untersucht. Anhand eines Untersuchungsgebietes am Rhein nahe dem Naturschutzgebiet „Kühkopf-Knoblochsaue“ wurden verschiedene geometrische und radiometrische Parameter geprüft. Zur geometrischen Abgrenzung von Böschungen, Rinnen, Wällen und Senken wurde auf Basis von bestehenden Verfahren zur Bruchkantenextraktion eine Methodik entwickelt, um anhand des Parameters Krümmung Strukturabgrenzungen in Form von Ober- und Unterkanten zu erstellen. Die in der Literatur nicht eindeutig definierte Böschungsoberkante des Ufers wurde auf diese Weise ebenfalls objektiv verortet und die Lage- und Höhengenauigkeit anhand von terrestrisch vermessenen Oberkantenpunkten bestätigt. Die Uferböschung wurde in einem nachfolgenden Arbeitsschritt durch eine neigungsbasierte Methodik klassifiziert, wodurch eine Unterscheidung flacherer und steilerer Uferbereiche sowie die Detektion besonderer Uferformen, z.B. Stufenufern, möglich war. Die Erfassung von Auengewässern, Totholz, Bänken und ufernahen Sohlstrukturen kann mithilfe von Verfahren der computergestützten Bildanalyse und -klassifikation erfolgen, deren Potenziale in der vorliegenden Arbeit vorgestellt werden. Insgesamt kommen die Untersuchungen zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Entwicklung einer weitgehend automatisierten Gewässerstrukturkartierung möglich ist, Fachexpertise bei der fachgerechten Anwendung ist jedoch unabdingbar.
Melomystrongylus Smales 2009, new genus
Creators: name: Smales, L. R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Nematoda
Secernentea
Strongylida
Heligmonellidae
Melomystrongylus

description: Melomystrongylus, new genus
 Diagnosis. – Trichostrongyloidea: Heligmonellidae: Nippostrongylinae. Synlophe well developed with pointed ridges; in midbody axis of orientation of ridges passing through ventral right and dorsal left sides inclined about 65° from sagittal axis in anterior body, lacking clear orientation in mid and hind body. Ventral ridge 5’ hypertrophied anteriorly. Bursa asymmetrical with larger left lobe. Dorsal ray divided distal to level of branching of rays 8 from dorsal trunk. Parasites of hydromyine murids.
  Type species. –  Melomystrongylus sepikensis, new species.
description: Published as part of Smales, L. R., 2009, Helminths Of Melomys Rufescens And Melomys Spp. (Muridae: Hydromyinae) From Papua New Guinea With The Descriptions Of A New Genus And Five New Species In The Heligmonellidae (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea), pp. 5-15 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5341456
The Potential to Use Futures and Options to Manage Crop Insurance Losses
Creators: name: Driedger, Jonathon
name: Porth, Lysa
name: Boyd, Milton
name: Driedger, Jonathon
name: Porth, Lysa
name: Boyd, Milton
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: crop insurance
subject: hedging
subject: futures contracts

description: Crop insurers have limited ability to manage the risk of losses once premiums are set and farmers have taken out their policies. Any additional instruments that enhance the ability for insurers to reduce their risk between when premiums are set and final yields are determined can help manage potential losses. The relationship between crop insurance losses and changes in futures prices are examined, and whether there is the potential to hedge crop insurance losses with grain futures contracts.
Temporal pattern recognition with delayed feedback spin-torque nano-oscillators
Creators: name: Riou, M.
name: Torrejon, J.
name: Garitaine, B.
name: Araujo, F. Abreu
name: Bortolotti, P.
name: Cros, V.
name: Tsunegi, S.
name: Yakushiji, K.
name: Fukushima, A.
name: Kubota, H.
name: Yuasa, S.
name: Querlioz, D.
name: Stiles, M. D.
name: Grollier, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent demonstration of neuromorphic computing with spin-torque nano-oscillators has opened a path to energy efficient data processing. The success of this demonstration hinged on the intrinsic short-term memory of the oscillators. In this study, we extend the memory of the spin-torque nano-oscillators through time-delayed feedback. We leverage this extrinsic memory to increase the efficiency of solving pattern recognition tasks that require memory to discriminate different inputs. The large tunability of these non-linear oscillators allows us to control and optimize the delayed feedback memory using different operating conditions of applied current and magnetic field.
A Bracing Nonlinear Walk in Applied Mechanics: Memoirs and Reflections
Creators: name: Thompson, Michael J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 91503 Engineering Practice
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies

description: This article is an informal auto-biographical memoir by Mike Thompson, reflecting in retirement on his scientific researches in nonlinear phenomena, wandering pictorially from shell buckling, through bifurcations and chaos to climate tipping points. Some ideas and advice to young researchers are offered whenever it seems appropriate. Two research groups at University College London, and their
two IUTAM Symposia are given some prominence, as are the ten years editing the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Anisotropy in granular media: classical elasticity and directed force chain network
Creators: name: Otto, M.
name: Bouchaud, J. -P.
name: Claudin, P.
name: Socolar, J. E. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general approach is presented for understanding the stress response function in anisotropic granular layers in two dimensions. The formalism accommodates both classical anisotropic elasticity theory and linear theories of anisotropic directed force chain networks. Perhaps surprisingly, two-peak response functions can occur even for classical, anisotropic elastic materials, such as triangular networks of springs with different stiffnesses. In such cases, the peak widths grow linearly with the height of the layer, contrary to the diffusive spreading found in `stress-only' hyperbolic models. In principle, directed force chain networks can exhibit the two-peak, diffusively spreading response function of hyperbolic models, but all models in a particular class studied here are found to be in the elliptic regime.
description: 34 pages, 17 figures (eps), submitted to PRE, figures amended, partially to compare better to recent exp. work
Parachaetocladius abnobaeus
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Bilyj, Bohdan
name: Beresford, David V.
name: Somers, Keith M.
name: Dillon, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Parachaetocladius
Parachaetocladius abnobaeus

description: Parachaetocladius abnobaeus (Wülker)
Figs 26A–D
 Diagnosis. SI seta pectinate; premandible simple without brush; antenna (Fig. 26A) with long blade exceeding the length of flagellum, 4 th segment longer than the 3 rd, 6 th hair-like segment may be present, AR 1.0; mandible (Fig. 26B) with two inner teeth; mentum (Fig. 26C) with broad median tooth that's notched apically, 4 lateral teeth, outer most tooth larger than the proceeding one and occasionally bifid; VM plates poorly defined; posterior end of abdomen as in Fig. 26D; abdominal segment 9 extending over the base of anal tubules and posterior parapods; procercus strongly reduced with one very long apical seta, 0.3x the length of body; anal tubules elongate tapering distally, with three constrictions and slightly shorter than posterior parapod.
 Notes. The identification is based on information provided by Epler (2001). Saether & Sublette (1983) provide illustrations (Figs 24A, D, F) of a very similar unassociated larva, under the name Parachaetocladius sp. A, but no corresponding description or its origin is given in the paper.
 Ecology and habitat. Larvae has been reported to occur in spring fed streams and springs (Ferrington et al. 1995). In study streams larvae occurred in riffles areas. A very rare species in our study, it was found only in one stream (D1).
 Sampling sites. Algonquin Provincial Park.
 Nearctic distribution. Canada: Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia. USA: Kansas, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee.
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin, Bilyj, Bohdan, Beresford, David V., Somers, Keith M. & Dillon, Peter J., 2012, 3324, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3324 on page 32
Impact of Off-Farm Labor Supply and Government Subsidy on Korean Farmland Value
Creators: name: Joo, Hyunjeong
name: Mishra, Ashok
name: Joo, Hyunjeong
name: Mishra, Ashok
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Off-farm Labor Supply
subject: Government Subsidy
subject: South Korea
subject: Farmland Value

description: Off-farm income and government subsidy payments are the main sources of income for farm households, as they provide farm households with income security. Increased income from off-farm work or government subsidies can be capitalized in farm assets such as farmland. A plethora of literature has investigated the impact of off-farm income and government subsidies on farmland values. However, these studies are mainly concentrated in North America and West European countries. The goal of this paper is to study the impact of off-farm income and government subsidies on farmland values in South Korea using the unconditional quantile regression. We found that off-farm income and government payments have positive and significant effects on farmland values; this effect is higher in the upper quantiles. Results from this study can assist policymakers in many countries as they design agricultural policies to encourage growth in the non-farm economy.
The CHANDRA HETGS X-ray Grating Spectrum of Eta Car
Creators: name: Corcoran, M. F.
name: Swank, J. H.
name: Petre, R.
name: Ishibashi, K.
name: Davidson, K.
name: Townsley, L.
name: Smith, R.
name: White, S.
name: Viotti, R.
name: Damineli, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Eta Car may be the most massive and luminous star in the Galaxy and is suspected to be a massive, colliding wind binary system. The CHANDRA X-ray observatory has obtained a calibrated, high-resolution X-ray spectrum of the star uncontaminated by the nearby extended soft X-ray emisssion. Our 89 ksec CHANDRA observation with the High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) shows that the hot gas near the star is non-isothermal. The temperature distribution may represent the emission on either side of the colliding wind bow shock, effectively ``resolving'' the shock. If so, the pre-shock wind velocities are ~ 700 and ~ 1800 km/s in our analysis, and these velocities may be interpreted as the terminal velocities of the winds from Eta Car and from the hidden companion star. The forbidden-to-intercombination (f/i) line ratios for the He-like ions of S, Si and Fe are large, indicating that the line forming region lies far from the stellar photosphere. The iron fluorescent line at 1.93 Angstrom, first detected by ASCA, is clearly resolved from the thermal iron line in the CHANDRA grating spectrum. The Fe fluorescent line is weaker in our CHANDRA observation than in any of the ASCA spectra. The CHANDRA observation also provides an uninterrupted high-time resolution lightcurve of the stellar X-ray emission from Eta Car and suggests that there was no significant, coherent variability during the CHANDRA observation. The Eta Car CHANDRA grating spectrum is unlike recently published X-ray grating spectra of single massive stars in significant ways and is generally consistent with colliding wind emission in a massive binary.
description: revised after comments from referee and includes a new variability analysis, taking into account the effects of CCD pileup
Syntactically Supervised Transformers for Faster Neural Machine Translation
Creators: name: Akoury, Nader
name: Krishna, Kalpesh
name: Iyyer, Mohit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Standard decoders for neural machine translation autoregressively generate a single target token per time step, which slows inference especially for long outputs. While architectural advances such as the Transformer fully parallelize the decoder computations at training time, inference still proceeds sequentially. Recent developments in non- and semi- autoregressive decoding produce multiple tokens per time step independently of the others, which improves inference speed but deteriorates translation quality. In this work, we propose the syntactically supervised Transformer (SynST), which first autoregressively predicts a chunked parse tree before generating all of the target tokens in one shot conditioned on the predicted parse. A series of controlled experiments demonstrates that SynST decodes sentences ~ 5x faster than the baseline autoregressive Transformer while achieving higher BLEU scores than most competing methods on En-De and En-Fr datasets.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted to ACL 2019
Psilometriocnemus triannulatus Saether
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Bilyj, Bohdan
name: Beresford, David V.
name: Somers, Keith M.
name: Dillon, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Psilometriocnemus
Psilometriocnemus triannulatus

description: Psilometriocnemus triannulatus Saether
Figs 34A–F
 Diagnosis. SI seta apically dissected; pectin epipharyngis with three peg-like scales; premandible with two teeth; antenna 6 segmented, the last one hair-like barely visible, segment 3 is 0.25x as long as segment 4, blade about as long as flagellum, 5 segmented; AR 0.9 (see Notes); mandible with there inner teeth; mentum with broad bifid median tooth, 5 lateral teeth, last outer two reduced and share a common base; VM plate distinct, originating from the outer margin of first lateral and ending with a posterordorsal extension; setae submenti placed at a level posterior to the plates; procercus with 3 strong apical setae with bulbous bases and 6 fine setae that appear to be arising more laterally; anal tubules elongate about same length as posterior parapods; supraanal seta with basal spinules.
 Notes. Generally in agreement with description of larva given by Saether (1982: 486) as Psilometriocnemus cristatus Saether. The AR is determined from a 5-segmented antenna.
 Ecology and habitat. Species inhabit springs and cool headwater streams (Ferrington et al. 1995).
 Sampling sites. We found the larvae inhabiting streams in all the provincial parks and districts located in our study area.
 Nearctic distribution. Canada: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec. USA: Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee.
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin, Bilyj, Bohdan, Beresford, David V., Somers, Keith M. & Dillon, Peter J., 2012, 3324, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3324 on page 43
An assessment of resistance of two plantain (Plantago lanceolata) cultivars to phenoxy herbicides
Creators: name: Shrivastav, Nidhi
name: Harrington, Kerry C.
name: Kemp, Peter D.
name: Ghanizadeh, Hossein
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Plantain (Plantago lanceolata L.) is becoming widely adopted in New Zealand livestock systems due to its productivity, nutritional values and its role in reducing nitrate leaching from grazed pastures. Although sometimes grown alone, plantain is generally used in mixtures with grass and clover species; however, this makes it more difficult to selectively control weeds within these swards using herbicides. There has been some selection for phenoxy herbicide resistance in a cultivar of plantain, Agritonic, in New Zealand. Its level of resistance to MCPB, MCPA, an MCPB/MCPA mix, 2,4-D and 2,4-DB was compared to that of a more susceptible cultivar, Tonic, in dose-response experiments. The results showed that the resistance ranged between 1.3 and 3.5-fold compared to Tonic, and it was only significant for 2,4-D and MCPB/MCPA mix in the first and second experiments, respectively. Among all the tested herbicides, rates of MCPB and the MCPB/MCPA mix that are currently used in clover-based pastures were less damaging to Agritonic plants than the other herbicides tested. However, variability in resistance of the Agritonic plants resulted in some surviving the recommended rates of MCPA, 2,4-DB and 2,4-D, suggesting there is potential to select for higher levels of resistance to phenoxy herbicides.
A Statistical Strategy for the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect's Cluster Data
Creators: name: Lee, Jounghun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a statistical strategy for the efficient determination of the cluster luminosity function from the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effects survey. To determine the cluster luminosity function from the noise contaminated SZ map, we first define the zeroth-order cluster luminosity function as a discrepancy between the measured peak number density of the SZ map and the mean number density of noise. Then we demonstrate that the noise contamination effects can be removed by the stabilized deconvolution of the zeroth-order cluster luminosity function with the one-dimensional Gaussian distribution. We test this analysis technique against Monte-Carlo simulations, and find that it works quite well especially in the medium amplitude range where the conventional cluster identification method based on the threshold cut-off usually fails.
description: final version, accepted by ApJ Letters
Bio catalytic oxidation of sulphide laden wastewater from leather industry using sulfide: Quinone oxidoreductase immobilized bio reactor
Creators: name: Mannacharaju, Mahesh
name: Sridevi Chittybabu
name: Sardhar Basha Sheikh John
name: Swarnalatha Somasundaram
name: Sekaran Ganesan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Anaerobic treatment of sulphate rich wastewater results in high amount of sulphide in liquid phase and gaseous phase. Sulphide is malodorous in gaseous phase and toxic even at very low concentrations in liquid phase and causes objectionable environmental issues. In the present investigation the sulphide present in the UASB treated post tanning wastewater was oxidised into elemental sulphur using Sulfide: Quinone oxidoreductase (SQR) immobilized Functionalized Carbon-silica matrix (FCSM) packed bed reactor. The variables employed for the production of Bacillus clausii biomass for the extraction of SQR were optimized using RSM. The purified SQR showed the maximum activity and stability at pH 6.0 to 8.0 and the percentage oxidation of sulphide at HRT of 24 h were 99.2% ± 0.2 at pH 6.0; 99.6% ± 0.2 at pH 7.0 and 99.6% ± 2.12 at pH 8.0. The effect of temperature on SQR activity was optimized and it established the maximum activity and stability at 40 °C with sulphide oxidation of 99.6% ± 0.8%. The optimum conditions for immobilization of SQR onto FCSM were time, 240 min; pH, 7.0; temperature, 40 °C and SQR concentration, 10 mg/g. The immobilization of SQR onto FCSM obeyed the Langmuir isotherm model. The immobilization of SQR onto FCSM was confirmed by SEM, FT-IR, XRD, TGA and DSC analyses. The SQR-FCSM packed bed reactor was operated separately for the oxidation of sulfide in UASB treated post-tanning wastewater under continuous mode at different HRTs and it recorded the maximum sulphide oxidation by 99 ± 0.1% at HRT of 15 h with residual sulphide of 2.4 ± 1.1 mg/L. The formation of elemental Sulphur was confirmed by XRD studies. The present investigation provides the scope for the removal of sulphide and thereby substantial reduction in Total Dissolved Solids from post tanning wastewater without addition of chemicals.
Parametriocnemus lundbeckii
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Bilyj, Bohdan
name: Beresford, David V.
name: Somers, Keith M.
name: Dillon, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Parametriocnemus
Parametriocnemus lundbeckii

description: Parametriocnemus lundbeckii (Johannsen)
Figs 27A–F
 Diagnosis. Labrum as in Fig. 27A; SI seta plumose; premandible with 2 apical teeth; antenna (Fig. 27B) 5-segmented, 3 rd segment is shorter than 4 th, LO large enveloping the 3 rd, AR 1.2–1.4; mandible (Fig. 27C) with 3 inner teeth, 2 nd lateral slightly recessed; mentum (Fig. 27D) with two median teeth, and 4 + 1 tiny lateral teeth (occasionally worn off), lateral margins extended posteriorly as a dorsal plate with a black spot (Fig. 27E); ventromental plates raised distally and ending just past setae submenti; posterior end of abdomen as in Fig. 27F; procercus with 7 apical setae; anal tubules tapering, as long or slightly longer than posterior parapods.
 Notes. The lava is in agreement with species description given by Simpson & Bode (1980: 56) and larvae reared from another project. This species is similar to the Nearctic P. eoclivus, but the latter has larger antennal LO that extend to segment 4, also AR is higher, (1.9–2.0). The larva of the Palearctic Parametriocnemus stylatus (Kieffer) is very similar to P. lundbeckii. In the Holarctic key (Cranston et al. 1983) the mentum shown (fig. 9.54 A) for this species, correctly interprets the VM plate on the left side, but the “second plate” added on the right side is actually a dorsomental plate connected to the posterolateral extension of the mentum.
 Ecology and habitat. Larvae occur in clean streams of piedmont and mountains. This species is not tolerant of high turbidity or low oxygen (Simpson & Bode 1980).
 Sampling sites. We found the larvae inhabiting streams in all the provincial parks and districts located in our study area.
 Nearctic distribution. Canada: Alberta, Québec, Saskatchewan, first record for Ontario. Greenland. USA: Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas.
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin, Bilyj, Bohdan, Beresford, David V., Somers, Keith M. & Dillon, Peter J., 2012, 3324, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3324 on page 35
Efficient T2 mapping with Blip-up/down EPI and gSlider-SMS (T2-BUDA-gSlider)
Creators: name: Cao, Xiaozhi
name: Liao, Congyu
name: Zhang, Zijing
name: Iyer, Siddharth Srinivasan
name: Wang, Kang
name: He, Hongjian
name: Liu, Huafeng
name: Setsompop, Kawin
name: Zhong, Jianhui
name: Bilgic, Berkin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Purpose: To rapidly obtain high isotropic-resolution T2 maps with whole-brain coverage and high geometric fidelity. Methods: A T2 blip-up/down echo planar imaging (EPI) acquisition with generalized Slice-dithered enhanced resolution (T2-BUDA-gSlider) is proposed. A radiofrequency (RF)-encoded multi-slab spin-echo EPI acquisition with multiple echo times (TEs) was developed to obtain high SNR efficiency with reduced repetition time (TR). This was combined with an interleaved 2-shot EPI acquisition using blip-up/down phase encoding. An estimated field map was incorporated into the joint multi-shot EPI reconstruction with a structured low rank constraint to achieve distortion-free and robust reconstruction for each slab without navigation. A Bloch simulated subspace model was integrated into gSlider reconstruction and utilized for T2 quantification. Results: In vivo results demonstrated that the T2 values estimated by the proposed method were consistent with gold standard spin-echo acquisition. Compared to the reference 3D fast spin echo (FSE) images, distortion caused by off-resonance and eddy current effects were effectively mitigated. Conclusion: BUDA-gSlider SE-EPI acquisition and gSlider-subspace joint reconstruction enabled distortion-free whole-brain T2 mapping in 2 min at ~1 mm3 isotropic resolution, which could bring significant benefits to related clinical and neuroscience applications.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures
Autophagic degradation of CCN2 (cellular communication network factor 2) causes cardiotoxicity of sunitinib
Creators: name: Xu, Zhifei
name: Jin, Ying
name: Gao, Zizheng
name: Zeng, Yan
name: Du, Jiangxia
name: Yan, Hao
name: Chen, Xueqin
name: Ping, Li
name: Lin, Nengming
name: Yang, Bo
name: He, Qiaojun
name: Luo, Peihua
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Cell Biology
Molecular Biology
Pharmacology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer
Virology

description: Excessive macroautophagy/autophagy is one of the causes of cardiomyocyte death induced by cardiovascular diseases or cancer therapy, yet the underlying mechanism remains unknown. We and other groups previously reported that autophagy might contribute to cardiomyocyte death caused by sunitinib, a tumor angiogenesis inhibitor that is widely used in clinic, which may help to understand the mechanism of autophagy-induced cardiomyocyte death. Here, we found that sunitinib-induced autophagy leads to apoptosis of cardiomyocyte and cardiac dysfunction as the cardiomyocyte-specific Atg7−/+ heterozygous mice are resistant to sunitinib. Sunitinib-induced maladaptive autophagy selectively degrades the cardiomyocyte survival mediator CCN2 (cellular communication network factor 2) through the TOLLIP (toll interacting protein)-mediated endosome-related pathway and cardiomyocyte-specific knockdown of Ccn2 through adeno-associated virus serotype 9 (AAV9) mimics sunitinib-induced cardiac dysfunction in vivo, suggesting that the autophagic degradation of CCN2 is one of the causes of sunitinib-induced cardiotoxicity and death of cardiomyocytes. Remarkably, deletion of Hmgb1 (high mobility group box 1) inhibited sunitinib-induced cardiomyocyte autophagy and apoptosis, and the HMGB1-specific inhibitor glycyrrhizic acid (GA) significantly mitigated sunitinib-induced autophagy, cardiomyocyte death and cardiotoxicity. Our study reveals a novel target protein of autophagic degradation in the regulation of cardiomyocyte death and highlights the pharmacological inhibitor of HMGB1 as an attractive approach for improving the safety of sunitinib-based cancer therapy.
Paraphaenocladius exagitans
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Bilyj, Bohdan
name: Beresford, David V.
name: Somers, Keith M.
name: Dillon, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Paraphaenocladius
Paraphaenocladius exagitans

description: Paraphaenocladius exagitans (Johannsen)
Figs 28A–E
 Diagnosis. Head including posterior margin yellowish brown; distal end of premandible, mandible and mentum dark brown. Labrum as in Fig. 28A; SI seta plumose; premandible with two apical teeth plus one short inner tooth; antenna (Fig. 28B) 5-segmented, 3 rd segment shorter than 4 th, large LO enveloping 3 rd segment, AR 0.5; mandible (Fig. 28C) with 4 inner teeth, apical tooth as long as combined first two inner teeth; mentum (Fig. 28D) with divided broad median tooth and 5 lateral teeth, outer margin extended posterolaterally as a dorsal plate; VM plates with a convoluted posterior extension; setae submenti placed anteriorly between the VM plates; postmental distance 94 µm; posterior end of abdomen as in Fig. 28E; procercus with 3 short apical setae; anal tubules elongate, with three constrictions, about twice the length of posterior parapod.
 Notes. The genus has been revised by Saether and Wang (1995) in which they list three subspecies under P. exagitans. The larva, collected in this study, probably belongs to the nominate species based on distribution that includes Ontario.
 Ecology and habitat. Larvae occur mainly in semi-aquatic habitats, mainly in moss or moist soils of the stream banks and may also occur in springs, (Saether & Wang 1995).
 Sampling sites. Algonquin Provincial Park.
 Nearctic distribution. Canada: Ontario. USA: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Illinois, New York, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Wisconsin.
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin, Bilyj, Bohdan, Beresford, David V., Somers, Keith M. & Dillon, Peter J., 2012, 3324, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3324 on page 36
The impact of smoking on the effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors — a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Lee, Kirsty Wai Chung
name: J., Sarah
name: Kasherman, Lawrence
name: Marschner, Ian
name: Stockler, Martin
name: Gralla, Richard
name: Yang, James Chih-Hsin
name: Mok, Tony
name: Lee, Chee Khoon
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The impact of smoking on the effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors — a systematic review and meta-analysis
Mechanical heterogeneity in tissues promotes rigidity and controls cellular invasion
Creators: name: Li, Xinzhi
name: Das, Amit
name: Bi, Dapeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We study the influence of cell-level mechanical heterogeneity in epithelial tissues using a vertex-based model. Heterogeneity in single cell stiffness is introduced as a quenched random variable in the preferred shape index($p_0$) for each cell. We uncovered a crossover scaling for the tissue shear modulus, suggesting that tissue collective rigidity is controlled by a single parameter $f_r$, which accounts for the fraction of rigid cells. Interestingly, the rigidity onset occurs at $f_r=0.21$, far below the contact percolation threshold of rigid cells. Due to the separation of rigidity and contact percolations, heterogeneity can enhance tissue rigidity and gives rise to an intermediate solid state. The influence of heterogeneity on tumor invasion dynamics is also investigated. There is an overall impedance of invasion as the tissue becomes more rigid. Invasion can also occur in the intermediate heterogeneous solid state and is characterized by significant spatial-temporal intermittency.
Whether Credit Kuznets Curve Exists in Rural India?: A panel household data analysis from 2001 to 2012
Creators: name: Bhattarai, Madhusudan
name: P, Padmaja
name: Joshi, P K
name: Bhattarai, Madhusudan
name: P, Padmaja
name: Joshi, P K
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Household behavior
subject: Panel data analyses
subject: formal and informal sector of credit
subject: Financial Markets
subject: and Agricultural Economics
subject: Natural resources

description: Improving access of low-cost credit to farmers is an important public policy for increasing agricultural production in developing countries. It improves liquidity in rural areas and also supports for expansion of non-farm sector activities in the economy. However, the relationship between access to credit and households’ income and asset has not yet been properly understood in the literature. Therefore, using 500 panel form of rural household data in India from 2001 to 2011, we have analyzed relationship between credit and household income using kuznets curve framework. We test a hypothesis that “household credit behaves like a Kuznets curve.” Our empirical results clearly suggest that debt of a rural household exhibits an inverted U-shaped relationship with income of a household. That is, income elasticity of debt is not constant across the household but it varies with the income level of household, resulting in a non-linear relationship. The household income also determines consumption. If access to credit (level of credit) of a household is also determined by income of the household, then it raises a serious doubt on validity of consumption smoothening hypothesis in developing countries where credit rationing is widespread. The credit has important role in smoothening level of consumption of a household even though household income fluctuates year to year. The study finding has huge policy implications on designing credit policy and in understanding permanent income and consumption of rural household.
description: This is a poster prepared for presentation at AAEA 2016 annual conference in Boston, MA.
Structure of end states for a Haldane Spin Chain
Creators: name: Kenzelmann, M.
name: Xu, G.
name: Zaliznyak, I. A.
name: Broholm, C.
name: DiTusa, J. F.
name: Aeppli, G.
name: Ito, T.
name: Oka, K.
name: Takagi, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inelastic neutron scattering was used to probe edge states in a quantum spin liquid. The experiment was performed on finite length antiferromagnetic spin-1 chains in Y_2BaNi_{1-x}Mg_xO_5. At finite fields, there is a Zeeman resonance below the Haldane gap. The wave vector dependence of its intensity provides direct evidence for staggered magnetization at chain ends, which decays exponentially towards the bulk (xi = 8(1) at T=0.1K). Continuum contributions to the chain end spectrum indicate inter-chain-segment interactions. We also observe a finite size blue shift of the Haldane gap.
description: 4 pages RevTex, 3 figures
Around heat decay on forms and relations of nilpotent Lie groups
Creators: name: Rumin, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 58J50; 58A10; 58J10; 53C17

description: One knows that the large time heat decay exponent on a nilpotent group is given by half the growing rate of the volume of its large balls. This work deals with the similar problem of trying to interpret geometrically the heat decay on (one) forms. We will show how it is (partially) related to the depth of the relations required to define the group. The tools used apply in general on Carnot-Caratheodory manifolds.
description: 36 pages; some typos corrected
Precision measurement of the ionization energy and quantum defects of 39K I
Creators: name: Peper, Michael
name: Helmrich, Felix
name: Butscher, Jonas
name: Agner, Josef Anton
name: Schmutz, Hansjürg
name: Merkt, Frédéric
name: Deiglmayr, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present absolute-frequency measurements in ultracold 39K samples of the transitions from the ground state to np Rydberg states. A global nonlinear regression of the np1/2 and np3/2 term values yields an improved wave number of 35009.8139710(22)(sys)(3)(stat) cm-1 for the first ionization threshold of 39K and the quantum defects of the np1/2 and np3/2 series. In addition, we report the frequencies of selected one-photon transitions n's = 32. The fine-structure splitting of the f series is less than 100 kHz at n=31, significantly smaller than the hydrogenic splitting, and the fine structure of the g series is regular for n >= 30, with a fine-structure splitting compatible with the hydrogenic prediction. From the measured quantum defects of the f and g series we derive an estimate for the static dipole and quadrupole polarizabilities of the K+ ion core. Additionally, the hyperfine splitting of the 4s1/2 ground state of 39K was determined to be 461.719700(5) MHz using radio-frequency spectroscopy and Ramsey-type interferometry.
Energy density gradient and its effect on light propagation
Creators: name: Skrynnik, Sergey
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Redshift
Lensing
dark energy
dispersion
Hubble coefficient

description: This paper explores the influence of the energy density gradient on light propagation. It is shown that the energy density gradient can explain phenomena such as redshift and gravitational lensing without the need for space curvature. It is proposed that the inhomogeneity of energy density in different regions of the Universe may affect the trajectory of photons, leading to changes in their frequency and direction of movement. Possible experimental confirmations of this hypothesis are considered, including an analysis of weak gravitational lensing.

 

В данной работе рассматривается влияние градиента плотности энергии на распространение света. Показано, что градиент плотности энергии может объяснять такие явления, как красное смещение и гравитационное линзирование, без необходимости привлечения концепции искривления пространства. Предложено, что неоднородность плотности энергии в разных областях Вселенной может влиять на траекторию фотонов, приводя к изменению их частоты и направлению движения. Рассматриваются возможные экспериментальные подтверждения данной гипотезы, включая анализ слабого гравитационного линзирования.
Platysmittia bilyji Saether
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Bilyj, Bohdan
name: Beresford, David V.
name: Somers, Keith M.
name: Dillon, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Platysmittia
Platysmittia bilyji

description: Platysmittia bilyji Saether
Figs 31A–D
 Diagnosis. Labrum as in Fig. 31A; SI seta serrated bifid; premandible with 2 apical teeth; antenna (Fig. 31B) apparently 6-segmented, last one difficult to discern, 3 rd segment. reduced, about half as long as 4 th, blade slightly longer than flagellum, AR 1.0 (see Notes); mandible (Fig. 31C) with 3 inner teeth; mentum (Fig. 31D) with two median teeth and 5 laterals, the last two are paired; VM plates arched posterolaterally; setae submenti located near base of mentum; upper anal tubules elongate conical directed posteriorly, lower tubules narrower, curled ventrally.
 Notes. Generally agrees with description given by Jacobsen (1998), except 6 th hair-like antennal segment could not be discerned. Antennal ratio is based on 5-segmented antenna.
 Ecology and habitat. Larvae have been recorded in small intermittent streams within deciduous forests on leafy detritus and are mainly facultative collector-gatherers (Jacobsen 1998). In study streams larvae were abundant in areas with leaf packs.
 Sampling sites. Little White River, Killarney, Arrowhead and Algonquin Provincial Parks and Muskoka District.
 Nearctic distribution. Canada: Manitoba, first Ontario record. USA: Maryland, Pennsylvania.
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin, Bilyj, Bohdan, Beresford, David V., Somers, Keith M. & Dillon, Peter J., 2012, 3324, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 3324 on page 39