cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Solutions of the Einstein field equations for a bounded and finite discontinuous source, and its generalization: Metric matching conditions and jumping effects
Creators: name: Lapiedra, Ramon
name: Morales-Lladosa, Juan Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the metrics of the General Relativity, whose energy-momentum tensor has a bounded support where it is continuous except for a finite step across the corresponding boundary surface. As a consequence, the first derivative of the metric across this boundary could perhaps present a finite step too. However, we can assume that the metric is ${\cal C}^1$ class everywhere. In such a case, although the partial second derivatives of the metric exhibit finite (no Dirac $δ$ functions) discontinuities, the Dirac $δ$ functions will still appear in the conservation equation of the energy-momentum tensor. As a consequence, strictly speaking, the corresponding metric solutions of the Einstein field equations can only exist in the sense of distributions. Then, we assume that the metric considered is ${\cal C}^1$ class everywhere and is a solution of the Einstein field equations in this sense. We explore the consequences of these two assumptions, and in doing so we derive the general conditions that constrain the jumps in the second partial derivatives across the boundary. The example of the Oppenheimer-Snyder metric is considered and some new results are obtained on it. Then, the formalism developed in this exploration is applied to a different situation, i.e., to a given generalization of the Einstein field equations for the case where the partial second derivatives of the metric exist but are not symmetric.
description: 10 pages, no figures
Multifractality of the Feigenbaum attractor and fractional derivatives
Creators: name: Frisch, U.
name: Khanin, K.
name: Matsumoto, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that fractional derivatives of the (integrated) invariant measure of the Feigenbaum map at the onset of chaos have power-law tails in their cumulative distributions, whose exponents can be related to the spectrum of singularities $f(α)$. This is a new way of characterizing multifractality in dynamical systems, so far applied only to multifractal random functions (Frisch and Matsumoto (J. Stat. Phys. 108:1181, 2002)). The relation between the thermodynamic approach (Vul, Sinai and Khanin (Russian Math. Surveys 39:1, 1984)) and that based on singularities of the invariant measures is also examined. The theory for fractional derivatives is developed from a heuristic point view and tested by very accurate simulations.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures, J.Stat.Phys. in press
title: The Role of Need for Affect and Need for Cognition in Self-Evaluation
Creators: name: Aquino, Antonio
name: Haddock, Geoffrey
name: Maio, Gregory R.
name: Alparone, Francesca Romana
Publisher: name: Psychology Hub
Year: 2020
Subjects: Need for affect; need for cognition; self-evaluation; warmth; competence

description: The primary aim of this study was to investigate whether individual differences in affective and cognitive orientation predict the relative importance of warmth-related and competence-related traits in self-evaluation. 99 participants (85 females) completed the Need for Affect and Need for Cognition scales. Later, participants rated the extent to which warmth- and competence-related traits described their own personality. In line with our hypotheses, affective people expressed more positive evaluations of warmth traits and more negative evaluations of cold traits relative to cognitive people, who expressed more positive evaluations of competence traits and more negative evaluations of incompetence traits. This differentiation has implications for self-evaluation processes and individual differences in affective and cognitive orientation.
description: Psychology Hub, Vol 37, No 1 (2020)
Aleurodicus flavus Hempel
Creators: name: Martin, Jon H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aleyrodidae
Aleurodicus
Aleurodicus flavus

description: Aleurodicus flavus Hempel
(Fig. 45)
 Aleurodicus flavus Hempel, 1922a: 4. Syntypes, Brazil [MZUSP, not examined].
DISTRIBUTION. Neotropical Region – Brazil.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. 1 puparium, Brazil, 14.xii.1922 (Bondar #359, Q. 23020) (USNM); 5 puparia, Brazil, Bahia, received 15.viii.1923 (Bondar #491, Q. 23301) (USNM); 4 puparia, Brazil, Olinda, Pernambuco, on Cocos nucifera, i.1972 (Arruda) (BMNH ex-USNM, B.M. 1998-131).
 COMMENTS. Mound & Halsey (1978) listed both MZUSP and USNM as depositories for syntypes of A. flavus. However, the USNM collection does not contain any type material (Debra Creel, personal communication). Two slides in USNM were donated by Bondar (see above). In the species description Hempel had noted that the original material had been sent to him for classification by Bondar, and it is therefore probable that these are part of the original material. However, the only certain type material resides in MZUSP, quoted as type #20,546 by Hempel. Other material has therefore been compared with the Bondar donation to USNM for determination purposes.
 This species was discussed by Russell (1965), as part of her description of A. dispersus. A. flavus is very similar to A. dispersus, but A. flavus possesses a pair of tiny compound pores on abdominal segment VII (not mentioned by Hempel), and has notched simple pores extending across the median line on segment VII (Fig. 45), and on segment VIII posterior to the vasiform orifice. A. charlesi, described here, is also a member of the dispersus species-group, similarly with one pair of smaller compound pores present on abdominal segment VII, but these are considerably larger in charlesi than in A. flavus.
description: Published as part of Martin, Jon H., 2008, A revision of Aleurodicus Douglas (Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae), with two new genera proposed for palaeotropical natives and an identification guide to world genera of Aleurodicinae, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 1835 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1835.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5127230
Evolution of Robust High Speed Optical-Flow-Based Landing for Autonomous MAVs
Creators: name: Scheper, Kirk Y. W.
name: de Croon, Guido C. H. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automatic optimization of robotic behavior has been the long-standing goal of Evolutionary Robotics. Allowing the problem at hand to be solved by automation often leads to novel approaches and new insights. A common problem encountered with this approach is that when this optimization occurs in a simulated environment, the optimized policies are subject to the reality gap when implemented in the real world. This often results in sub-optimal behavior, if it works at all. This paper investigates the automatic optimization of neurocontrollers to perform quick but safe landing maneuvers for a quadrotor micro air vehicle using the divergence of the optical flow field of a downward looking camera. The optimized policies showed that a piece-wise linear control scheme is more effective than the simple linear scheme commonly used, something not yet considered by human designers. Additionally, we show the utility in using abstraction on the input and output of the controller as a tool to improve the robustness of the optimized policies to the reality gap by testing our policies optimized in simulation on real world vehicles. We tested the neurocontrollers using two different methods to generate and process the visual input, one using a conventional CMOS camera and one a dynamic vision sensor, both of which perform significantly differently than the simulated sensor. The use of the abstracted input resulted in near seamless transfer to the real world with the controllers showing high robustness to a clear reality gap.
description: This is an accepted manuscript preprint of published work available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2019.103380. Please cite with Kirk Y.W Scheper and Guido C.H.E. de Croon, Evolution of robust high speed optical-flow-based landing for autonomous MAVs, Robotics and Autonomous Systems 124, 2020
Time-Dependent CP Violation in $B^0 \to P^0P^0X^0$ Decays
Creators: name: Gershon, Tim
name: Hazumi, Masashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We note that in decays of the type $B^0 \to P^0P^0X^0$, where $P^0$ and $X^0$ represent any CP eigenstate spin-0 neutral particles, the final state is a CP eigenstate. We consider the possibilities for studying time-dependent CP violation in decays of this type at $B$ factories with high luminosity, with particular attention to $B^0 \to \ks \ks \ks$. We also comment on some cases where $X^0$ has non-zero spin, and decays of the type $B^0 \to P^0 Q^0 X^0$, where the three final state particles are different spin-0 CP eigenstates.
description: 13 pages, 3 figures To appear in Physics Letters B
title: A Corpus-Based Study of Academic Vocabulary in Foundation-Level Students' Assessed Academic Writing at a UK University
Creators: name: Therova, Dana
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: Academic vocabulary is widely recognised as a key aspect of writing style in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) contexts, and there is a well-established link between the knowledge and use of academic vocabulary and academic achievement. Given that written assignments represent one of the main modes of assessment at UK universities, the significance of academic vocabulary in assessed academic writing seems indisputable.

 This study reports on a textual analysis of the deployment of academic vocabulary in four genres of assessed academic writing produced by multilingual foundation-level students (N=193), in the context of one UK university in 2014 - 2018. It also investigates the deployment of academic vocabulary longitudinally by considering the development of these vocabulary items over the duration of a one-year foundation programme. Textual analysis is conducted through a corpus-based approach assisted by AntWordProfiler (Anthony, 2014) and AntConc (Anthony, 2018), which enable the identification and further exploration of academic vocabulary items on the basis of the New Academic Vocabulary List (Gardner & Davies, 2014). This is complemented by an online survey (N=51) and semi-structured interviews (N=14) exploring students’ perceptions of the main factors contributing to the acquisition, deployment and development of academic vocabulary items in their written assignments.

 Findings generated by textual analysis highlight the effects of the writing genre, topic and assignment brief on academic vocabulary in written production. The interview and survey findings underline the importance of an instructed environment and exposure to appropriate sources as well as the vital role of feedback, peer support and opportunities for practice. These findings have potentially important pedagogical implications for foundation programmes catering for diverse student populations.
MOESM1 of “A very humiliating illness”: a qualitative study of patient-centered Care for Rifampicin-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa
Creators: name: Furin, Jennifer
name: Loveday, Marian
name: Sindisiwe Hlangu
name: Dickson-Hall, Lindy
name: Roux, Sacha
name: Nicol, Mark
name: Cox, Helen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Study interview guide: contains the questions used to guide the open-ended interviews.
Aleurodicus guppyii Quaintance & Baker
Creators: name: Martin, Jon H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aleyrodidae
Aleurodicus
Aleurodicus guppyii

description: Aleurodicus guppyii Quaintance & Baker
(Figs 62, 138)
 Aleurodicus guppyii Quaintance & Baker, 1913: 59. Syntypes, Trinidad [BMNH, examined].
 Aleurodicus guppyi Quaintance & Baker: Martin & Watson, 1998: 91; Martin & Mound, 2007: 50 [unjustified emendation].
DISTRIBUTION. Neotropical Region – Trinidad.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. 2 syntype puparia, Trinidad, Port of Spain, on Rheedia latiflora, received 25.v.1911 (F.W.Urich, Q. 6717) (BMNH ex-USNM, B.M. 1998-131).
 COMMENTS. This species is only known from its original material. Two syntype puparia are present in BMNH, but are not in ideal condition, the nature of the simple pores not being clear. However, it is clear that there is no band of modified 8-shaped pores between the puparial margin and the submarginal band of widerimmed pores (see couplet 26 of key to Aleurodicus species, p. 18, and fig. 62), and this character distinguishes A. guppyii from the similar A. juleikae. The distinct pigmented patch in the middle of the forewing (Fig. 138) is a useful diagnostic feature.
description: Published as part of Martin, Jon H., 2008, A revision of Aleurodicus Douglas (Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae), with two new genera proposed for palaeotropical natives and an identification guide to world genera of Aleurodicinae, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 1835 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1835.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5127230
Universal SSE algorithm for Heisenberg model and Bose Hubbard model with interaction
Creators: name: Zyubin, M. V.
name: Kashurnikov, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose universal SSE method for simulation of Heisenberg model with arbitrary spin and Bose Hubbard model with interaction. We report on the first calculations of soft-core bosons with interaction by the SSE method. Moreover we develop a simple procedure for increase efficiency of the algorithm. From calculation of integrated autocorrelation times we conclude that the method is efficient for both models and essentially eliminates the critical slowing down problem.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Quantum Walk and Dressed Photon
Creators: name: Hamano, Misa
name: Saigo, Hayato
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A physical model called dressed photons, a composite system of photons and excitation of electrons in the nano-particles, is effectively used in the realm of near-field optics. Many interesting behaviors of dressed photons are known, especially the rapid energy transfer and the accumulation to singular points, e.g., points with strong dissipation. We propose a new modelling of dressed photons based on quantum walks, especially Grover walks on semi-infinite graphs which we call jellyfish graphs, and show a universal accumulation phenomena around the point with strong dissipation.
description: In Proceedings QSQW 2020, arXiv:2004.01061
Casimir Operators and Monodromy Representations of Generalised Braid Groups
Creators: name: Millson, J. J.
name: Toledano-Laredo, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let g be a complex, simple Lie algebra with Cartan subalgebra h and Weyl group W. We construct a one-parameter family of flat connections D on h with values in any finite-dimensional h-module V and simple poles on the root hyperplanes. The corresponding monodromy representation of the braid group B of type g is a deformation of the action of (a finite extension of) W on V. The residues of D are the Casimirs of the sl(2)-subalgebras of g corresponding to its roots. The irreducibility of a subspace U of V under these implies that, for generic values of the parameter, the braid group B acts irreducibly on U. Answering a question of Knutson and Procesi, we show that these Casimirs act irreducibly on the weight spaces of all simple g-modules if g is sl(3) but that this is not the case if g is not isomorphic to sl(2) or sl(3). We use this to disprove a conjecture of Kwon and Lusztig stating the irreducibility of quantum Weyl group actions of Artin's braid group B_n on the zero weight spaces of all simple U_{q}sl(n)-modules for n greater or equal to 4. Finally, we study the irreducibility of the action of the Casimirs on the zero weight spaces of self-dual g-modules and obtain complete classification results for g=sl(n) or g(2).
description: 43 pages, no figures. Substantially revised, to appear in Transformation Groups. Exposition in sections 3,4,5 and 8 improved. Material in sections 6 and 7 on the representations of the Casimir algebra of so(2n), so(2n+1) and sp(2n) has been removed and will appear in a future publication
Time variation of G and αwithin models with extra dimensions
Creators: name: Loren-Aguilar, P.
name: Garcia-Berro, E.
name: Isern, J.
name: Kubyshin, Yu. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the formulae for the time variation of the gravitational "constant" G and of the fine structure "constant" αin various models with extra dimensions and analyze their consistency with the available observational data for distant supernovae. We find that the reported variation of αtranslates into a small variation of G that makes distant supernovae to appear brighter, in contradiction with recent observations of high z supernovae. The significance of these results within the framework of some cosmological scenarios is also discussed. We find, however, that the magnitude of the effect is not large enough to safely discard the models with extra dimensions studied here.
description: 15 pages, LaTeX, 2 postscript figures
title: Targeting Motor Neuron - Immune System Crosstalk to Modulate the Disease Progression in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mouse Model
Creators: name: Trolese, Maria Chiara
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: ALS is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterised by remarked heterogeneity, which might stem from the multisystemic, non-cell-autonomous and complex nature of the disease.

 The early deterioration of the peripheral compartment has led to ALS being recognised as distal axonopathy, whereby muscles and nerves actively contribute to neurodegeneration. However, the contribution of the inflammatory response in the CNS starkly contrasts to the periphery, revealing its pivotal role at promoting phenomena of protection and/or toxicity.

 We corroborated these observations showing a higher activation of the MCP1 chemokine within MNs and peripheral compartment of C57SOD1G93A than 129SvSOD1G93A mice. Therefore, we surmised that the higher peripheral degeneration and faster disease progression of 129SvSOD1G93A mice stemmed from this defective immune response.

 To decipher the contribution of the peripheral immune response in ALS progression, the therapeutic potential of MCP1 was assessed. The chemokine was induced alongside the motor units of the two SOD1G93A models through a single intramuscular injection of a scAAV9 vector engineered with MCP1 (scAAV9_MCP1).

 The scAAV9_MCP1-mediated boosting of the immune response prevented the degeneration of the peripheral compartment whilst the chemokine induction within MNs led to a neuroprotective activity, resulting in the amelioration of the clinical phenotype in C57SOD1G93A but not 129SvSOD1G93A mice.

 This discrepancy pointed the nature and temporal activation of the immune response out as discriminating factors to promote the peripheral compartment regeneration and slow-down ALS progression.

 The analysis of ALS patients muscles validated our findings, demonstrating a direct correlation between the immune cells inflammatory fingerprint and the rate of the disease progression. These observations candidate the peripheral compartment as a primary target for the development of therapeutic interventions effective at influencing the ALS progression. Moreover, the comprehension of the MCP1 role within the motor unit of SOD1G93A mice might provide innovative evidence regarding the contribution of the immune response in ALS.
Aleurodicus jamaicensis Cockerell 1902
Creators: name: Martin, Jon H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aleyrodidae
Aleurodicus
Aleurodicus jamaicensis

description: Aleurodicus jamaicensis Cockerell
(Fig. 61)
 Aleurodicus jamaicensis Cockerell, 1902: 280. Holotype puparium, Jamaica [USNM, examined].
DISTRIBUTION. Neotropical Region – Jamaica.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. Holotype puparium, Jamaica, Kingston, “postal May 26 1903 from T.D.A.Cockerell ”, Q.3276, Type no. 14771 (USNM, 8999); numerous puparia, Jamaica, on Cocos nucifera (BMNH).
 COMMENTS. A. jamaicensis was described from a single specimen and the type specimen is therefore properly a holotype, not a syntype as listed in Mound & Halsey (1978). The holotype has a very large thoracic parasitoid emergence hole, and was not cleared of debris or otherwise treated prior to mounting. When redescribing it, Quaintance & Baker (1913) readily admitted that their own redescription was wanting, because of the condition of the specimen. Through the kindness of USNM, the author was permitted to remount this specimen. Remounting has allowed the dorsum and venter to be separated, the parasitoid’s pupal remains to be removed and mounted adjacent to the puparium, maceration of remaining body contents, dewaxing and staining. The result is a great improvement, and it can be seen that parasitoid emergence occurred when the adult whitefly, a male (its claspers are still present), was forming within its puparium. The type preparation retains its original labels, with the addition of a circular “ holotype ” label.
 Submarginal chaetotaxy appears to comprise the 12 setal pairs typical for Aleurodicus, these setae rather short and lining the mesal boundary of the wide-rimmed pore band (Fig. 61): however, cephalothoracic submedian setae have been destroyed by the emergence of the parasitoid. A. jamaicensis belongs to the pulvinatus- group of species, with a submarginal band of wide-rimmed pores, and its dorsal disc with scattered septate pores. However, there are small numbers of bright pores anterior to the small compound pores on abdominal segment VII but none adjacent to the compound pores on abdominal segment III. Most distinctive of all, within the pulvinatus group, is the absence of small compound pores on abdominal segment VIII.
description: Published as part of Martin, Jon H., 2008, A revision of Aleurodicus Douglas (Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae), with two new genera proposed for palaeotropical natives and an identification guide to world genera of Aleurodicinae, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 1835 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1835.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5127230
MOESM9 of Development of elastin-like polypeptide for targeted specific gene delivery in vivo
Creators: name: Aena Yi
name: Dahye Sim
name: Lee, Young-Jin
name: Sarangthem, Vijaya
name: Rang-Woon Park
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 9: Figure S9. Mice bearing a subcutaneous 4T1 tumor were injected intravenously with Cy5.5 labelled siRNA encapsulated in ELP variants (molar ratio 1:20 (siRNA:ELPs)) at a siRNA dose of 250 µg/kg. The in vivo fluorescence images shown were taken at different times after injection using the IVIS in vivo imaging system. The results shown are representative of 3 independent experiments.
Saturn mean motion_Tabule magne_Recomputed by Husson (Matthieu) (2022) | Type-C (ID n° 857)
Creators: name: Husson, Matthieu
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2022
Subjects: Astronomy
History of astronomy
DISHAS
Astronomical table

description: This is a type C edition: A type-C edition is a recalculated version of a table using modern computation methods.
You can find it on the DISHAS project website from this link: https://dishas.obspm.fr/table-edition/857
title: The Ecological Superblock - Computational Ecology Principles in Urban Systems Design
Creators: name: Tabony, Aiman
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: The rapid, ongoing and upcoming climatic and ecological changes, coupled with the rapid acceleration in population growth, raise doubts and concerns regarding the ability of the existing urban systems to adapt to the future changes. Nevertheless, these changes represent a key opportunity to utilise ecological based design superblocks. The research departs from a critical reflection on the work of Hilberseimer’s “Decentralized City” and Soleri’s “Arcology”, who considered the city and the superblock to be a single and unified ecological system. It contextualizes the research within the larger scope leading the focus to the investigation of ecology and its subfield, the ecosystem. This narrows the study down to three dominant areas of research: ecology, computational ecology and urban design. Through the integration of System Dynamic modelling method in the design process, the research investigates the implementation of ecological parameters, coupled with morphological and metabolic parameters and processes. The design methodology is proved by the development of a computational design model which integrates the System Dynamics model And the Evolutionary Design model. The models were examined through a set of design experiments of a superblock which was integrated with the flow of the dynamics of the climate and ecological system. The output of the design method is a multi-dimensional datascape, opening up new possibilities in the field of urban design and planning that are more robust in the face of changes in the environmental context.
Additional file 13 of Conversion between 100-million-year-old duplicated genes contributes to rice subspecies divergence
Creators: name: Wei, Chendan
name: Wang, Zhenyi
name: Wang, Jianyu
name: Teng, Jia
name: Shen, Shaoqi
name: Xiao, Qimeng
name: Bao, Shoutong
name: Feng, Yishan
name: Zhang, Yan
name: Li, Yuxian
name: Sun, Sangrong
name: Yue, Yuanshuai
name: Wu, Chunyang
name: Wang, Yanli
name: Zhou, Tianning
name: Xu, Wenbo
name: Yu, Jigao
name: Wang, Li
name: Wang, Jinpeng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 13: Fig. S6. Histogram of Gene Ontology (GO) statistics for converted genes and nonconverted genes in XI-ZS97. X-axis shows user selected GO terms; Y-axis shows the percentages of genes (number of a particular gene divided by total gene number).
A Catalog of Spectroscopically Identified White Dwarf Stars in the First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Creators: name: Kleinman, S. J.
name: Harris, Hugh C.
name: Eisenstein, Daniel J.
name: Liebert, James
name: Nitta, Atsuko
name: Krzesiński, Jurek
name: Munn, Jeffrey A.
name: Dahn, Conard C.
name: Hawley, Suzanne L.
name: Pier, Jeffrey R.
name: Schmidt, Gary
name: Silvestri, Nicole M.
name: Smith, J. Allyn
name: Szkody, Paula
name: Strauss, Michael A.
name: Knapp, G. R.
name: Collinge, Matthew J.
name: Mukadam, A. S.
name: Koester, D.
name: Uomoto, Alan
name: Schlegel, D. J.
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Brinkmann, J.
name: Lamb, D. Q.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: York, Donald G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the full spectroscopic white dwarf and hot subdwarf sample from the SDSS first data release, DR1. We find 2551 white dwarf stars of various types, 240 hot subdwarf stars, and an additional 144 objects we have identified as uncertain white dwarf stars. Of the white dwarf stars, 1888 are non-magnetic DA types and 171, non-magnetic DBs. The remaining (492) objects consist of all different types of white dwarf stars: DO, DQ, DC, DH, DZ, hybrid stars like DAB, etc., and those with non-degenerate companions. We fit the DA and DB spectra with a grid of models to determine the Teff and log(g) for each object. For all objects, we provide coordinates, proper motions, SDSS photometric magnitudes, and enough information to retrieve the spectrum/image from the SDSS public database. This catalog nearly doubles the known sample of spectroscopically-identified white dwarf stars. In the DR1 imaged area of the sky, we increase the known sample of white dwarf stars by a factor of 8.5. We also comment on several particularly interesting objects in this sample.
description: To be published ApJ, 20May04. 52 pages, 13 figures, 12 tables. Full tables are available at the (now-corrected) SDSS DR1 Value-added catalog at http://www.sdss.org/dr1/products/value_added/index.html
Entanglement-spectrum characterization of ground-state nonanalyticities in coupled excitation-phonon models
Creators: name: Stojanovic, Vladimir M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The polaron concept captures physical situations involving an itinerant quantum particle (excitation) that interacts strongly with bosonic degrees of freedom and becomes heavily boson-dressed. While the Gerlach-Löwen theorem rules out the occurrence of nonanalyticities of ground-state-related quantities for a broad class of polaron models, examples were found in recent years of sharp transitions pertaining to strongly momentum-dependent interactions of an excitation with dispersionless (zero-dimensional) phonons. On the example of a lattice model with Peierls-type excitation-phonon interaction, such level-crossing-type small-polaron transitions are analyzed here through the prism of the entanglement spectrum of the excitation-phonon system. By evaluating this spectrum in a numerically-exact fashion it is demonstrated that the behavior of the entanglement entropy in the vicinity of the critical excitation-phonon coupling strength chiefly originates from one specific entanglement-spectrum eigenvalue, namely the smallest one. While the discrete translational symmetry of the system implies that those eigenvalues can be labeled by the bare-excitation quasimomentum quantum numbers, here it is shown numerically that they are predominantly associated to the quasimomenta $0$ and $π$, including cases where a transition between the two takes place deeply in the strong-coupling regime.
description: published with minor revision
title: Sociocultural Impacts of English and Globalisation on Women in Higher Education in Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Waterkeyn, Tamsin
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: There is increasing focus on the dominance of English undermining different cultures (Bray, 1993; Canagarajah, 1999; Kubota, 2002a, 2002b; Block and Cameron, 2002; Phillipson, 2009; Altbach, 2013; Chowdhury and Le Ha, 2014; Piller, 2017). In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), westernisation through teaching English is problematised (Elyas and Picard, 2010; Badry and Willoughby, 2015; Barnawi, 2015; Barnawi and Al-Hawsawi, 2017; Abouammoh, 2018). In Higher Education (HE) in KSA, internationalisation strategies are countered by a protectionist stance over Islamic and cultural roots. This stance is especially evident in teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL), leading to high levels of 'cultural sensitivity' censorship in the Saudi classroom. There is an ongoing debate about cultural sensitivity and whether English is perceived as a 'threat' in the Gulf Arab Muslim EFL context (Gobert, 2015; Aljohani, 2016; El-Sakran, 2017). Located in Riyadh, at a time of strict restrictions on women, this qualitative study expands on research on the 'hidden population' (Al-Kahtani et al. 2005, p.229) within female-only Saudi Higher Education Institutes (HEIs). Using semi-structured interviews and a narrative inquiry methodology (Bell, 2002; Labov, 2003; Cortazzi, 2014), it pioneers intercultural investigation into an insider-perspective of 21 women: 8 non-Muslim western women EFL teachers and 13 Saudi women EFL learners. More specifically, it examines sociocultural changes in learning/ teaching English: learner motivation, acculturation (Jandt, 2004; Wright, 2005) and teacher demotivation (Kumazawa, 2013). Findings reveal that English is perceived more positively and used more diversely than studies hitherto claim. Metaphors such as 'a weapon', 'a key' and 'an adapter' add new gender-related concepts to investment theory (Darvin and Norton, 2015). Findings explore themes of 'likeness' and 'integration', 'othering' of women, which contribute to the understanding of the low retention of foreign faculty members in Saudi HEIs (Badry and Willoughby, 2015).
title: When consistency is a virtue: effect of need for closure on preference for consistency
Creators: name: Di Santo, Daniela
Publisher: name: Psychology Hub
Year: 2020
Subjects: need for closure; epistemic motivation; cognitive consistency; preference for consistency

description: Two studies were conducted to verify whether individuals who are high on need for cognitive closure (NFC) have a greater preference for consistency. NFC represents a personal aversion toward uncertainty that induces a desire for certain knowledge, order, and structure. As suggested by a recent theory and research on cognitive consistency, individuals who are high on NFC are uncomfortable with inconsistent information that can undermine their desire for certain knowledge. On the other hand, these individuals should prefer consistent information that can preserve epistemic certainty. Through two correlational studies, the present work confirms this assumption, identifying a high desire for consistency in individuals with high NFC
description: Psychology Hub, V. 37, N. 2 (2020)
MOESM8 of Development of elastin-like polypeptide for targeted specific gene delivery in vivo
Creators: name: Aena Yi
name: Dahye Sim
name: Lee, Young-Jin
name: Sarangthem, Vijaya
name: Rang-Woon Park
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
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: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 8: Figure S8. Luciferase gene silencing. (a–b) 4T1 cells (3X103) were plated in 96-well plates and treated with different concentrations of siRNA (50, 100, 200 nM) encapsulated with ELPs at 1:20 molar ratio. Gene silencing was examined by measuring BL (bio-luminescence) using IVIS (n = 3). (c) 4T1 cells (3X103) were plated in 96-well plates and treated with siRNA 200 nM encapsulated with ELP variants at 1:20 molar ratio for 48 h. Cellular viabilities were assessed by measuring WST-8 absorbance at 450 nm (n = 5 samples). The graph represents percentage of cell viability when compared to control non treated cells. The results are representative of 3 independent experiments.
Aleurodicus magnificus Costa Lima 1928
Creators: name: Martin, Jon H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aleyrodidae
Aleurodicus
Aleurodicus magnificus

description: Aleurodicus magnificus Costa Lima
(Figs 6, 25, 58)
 Aleurodicus magnificus Costa Lima, 1928: 129–131. Lectotype puparium here designated, Brazil [USNM].
DISTRIBUTION. Neotropical Region - Belize, Brazil, Ecuador, Panamá.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. Type material detailed and discussed below (USNM); puparia with the following country / host combinations – Belize: Tetracera; Brazil:? Annona; Ecuador; Annona; Panamá: Tetracera, Nectandra, Unonopsis, Vismia (BMNH).
 COMMENTS. A slide bearing type data was loaned to the author by USNM as part of this study, although no depository was quoted by Mound & Halsey (1978). The data are “ Aleurodicus magnificus Costa Lima, on orange, S. Lourenço, Sul de Minas, Brazil, 1921, from Costa Lima 1949”. The slide contains seven puparia, two of them noticeably smaller than the other five and perhaps representing sexual dimorphism. For the reasons stated here on p. 9, a lectotype has been here designated from amongst the specimens on this USNM slide, and is clearly indicated.
 This species secretes a dense, woolly, tangle with particularly coarse strands of secretion. Colonies of puparia often appear dirty, greyish. Most commonly, puparia are aligned along the undersides of leaf midribs, rather than in broader aggregations - reminiscent of the species formerly included in Lecanoideus, particularly A. mirabilis (see below).
 Morphologically, A. magnificus is extremely similar to A. neglectus, and the two species’ general appearance is as in figures 6 and 25; the two species comprise a small species-group, differing in the distribution of simple pores on the dorsal disc – see key to species, couplets 4 & 5 (p. 16) and figures 58 and 59. Both species lack notched simple pores on abdominal segments I and VII.
description: Published as part of Martin, Jon H., 2008, A revision of Aleurodicus Douglas (Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae), with two new genera proposed for palaeotropical natives and an identification guide to world genera of Aleurodicinae, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 1835 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1835.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5127230
Dark Energy and Dark Matter Halos
Creators: name: Kuhlen, M.
name: Strigari, L. E.
name: Zentner, A. R.
name: Bullock, J. S.
name: Primack, Joel R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of dark energy on the density profiles of dark matter haloes with a suite of cosmological N-body simulations and use our results to test analytic models. We consider constant equation of state models, and allow both w>-1 and w-1 quintessence models seem to exacerbate the central density problem relative to the standard w=-1 model. Meanwhile w
description: 16 p., 11 fig.; replaced with revised version, accepted for publication in MNRAS; corrected error (w=-1.5 halo mass function now agrees with Jenkins et al. fitting formula), rewrote several sections, added references
MOESM1 of Shortening antibiotic duration in the treatment of acute cholangitis: rationale and study protocol for an open-label randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Iwata, Kentaro
name: Doi, Asako
name: Oba, Yuichiro
name: Matsuo, Hiroo
name: Ebisawa, Kei
name: Nagata, Manabu
name: Nishimura, Sho
name: Yoshimura, Kenichi
name: Atsuhiro Masuda
name: Shiomi, Hideyuki
name: Kodama, Yuzo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT checklist.
Mixing and relaxation dynamics of the Henon map at the edge of chaos
Creators: name: Borges, Ernesto P.
name: Tirnakli, Ugur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mixing properties (or sensitivity to initial conditions) and relaxation dynamics of the Henon map, together with the connection between these concepts, have been explored numerically at the edge of chaos. It is found that the results are consistent with those coming from one-dimensional dissipative maps. This constitutes the first verification of the scenario in two-dimensional cases and obviously reinforces the idea of weak mixing and weak chaos. Keywords: Nonextensive thermostatistics, Henon map, dynamical systems
description: 10 pages with 3 figs
title: Acting with Impunity? The Performance Impact and Strategic Outcomes of Corporate Social Irresponsibility
Creators: name: Croxton, Nicola
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2021

description: Complex global challenges such as climate change and the 2008 financial crisis have pushed firms to adopt more socially responsible strategies. Yet many still display socially irresponsible behavior, and the demonstrable effect on firm performance and strategic growth has been scarcely researched. Consequently, this thesis aims to address the following overarching research question: does corporate social irresponsibility (CSiR) adversely affect performance and strategic growth or can firms act with impunity? Specifically, we examined the financial and non-financial outcomes of being socially irresponsible. Additionally, we analyzed whether corporate political activity (CPA) and corporate reputation moderate these relationships.

 The thesis is comprised of three core chapters. In the first chapter we applied content analysis to systematically review the instrumental stakeholder theory (IST) literature to first, determine the current state of knowledge; and second, extend the theory into the nonmarket domain. Following from this review, in the second core chapter we draw on IST to conduct a quantitative analysis to determine the impact of CSiR on both market and corporate social performance, and the moderating role of CPA. Our findings suggest that CSiR does not seem to influence market-based performance measures. Meanwhile, it does diminish corporate social performance—a negative effect that is intensified by the firm engaging in financial and relational political activity. Finally, in the third core chapter we use IST and signaling theory to explore the firms’ ability to announce new mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the aftermath of a CSiR event. Our results show that there is a partially significant negative relationship between firm involvement in CSiR and the increase in M&A announcements, which becomes nonsignificant when M&As are announced in developing economies. Moreover, whereas lobbying expenditures negatively moderate this relationship (consistent with the analysis in the previous chapter), corporate reputation exerts a positive moderating effect.

 This thesis contributes theoretically to advancing IST and signaling theory literatures through engaging and applying these ideas in the nonmarket strategy domain. Empirically, the primary contribution of this thesis is in adding to extant research on the financial and non-financial outcomes of CSiR by using quantitative methods. Specifically, we developed a unique CSiR database from LexisNexis media publications, that formed the basis of the analyses in Chapters 3 and 4. Finally, the findings of this thesis have important implications for managers and leaders, who may extract valuable lessons about stakeholder management and the implications of CSiR, CPA, and corporate reputation.
Circular Wilson loops in defect ${\cal N}$=4 SYM: phase transitions, double-scaling limits and OPE expansion
Creators: name: Bonansea, S.
name: Davoli, S.
name: Griguolo, L.
name: Seminara, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider circular Wilson loops in a defect version of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory which is dual to the D3-D5 brane system with $k$ units of flux. When the loops are parallel to the defect, we can construct both BPS and non-BPS operators, depending on the orientation of the scalar couplings in the R-symmetry directions. At strong 't Hooft coupling we observe, in the non supersymmetric case, a Gross-Ooguri-like phase transition in the dual gravitational theory: the familiar disk solution dominates, as expected, when the operator is far from the defect while a cylindrical string worldsheet, connecting the boundary loop with the probe D5-brane, is favourite below a certain distance (or equivalently for large radii of the circles). In the BPS case, instead, the cylindrical solution does not exist for any choice of the physical parameters, suggesting that the exchange of light supergravity modes always saturate the expectation value at strong coupling. We study the double-scaling limit for large $k$ and large 't Hooft coupling, finding full consistency in the non-BPS case between the string solution and the one-loop perturbative result. Finally we discuss, in the BPS case, the failure of the double-scaling limit and the OPE expansion of the Wilson loop, finding consistency with the known results for the one-point functions of scalar composite operators.
description: 51 pages, 17 Figures
Understanding Popper's Experiment
Creators: name: Qureshi, Tabish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An experiment proposed by Karl Popper is considered by many to be a crucial test of quantum mechanics. Although many loopholes in the original proposal have been pointed out, they are not crucial to the test. We use only the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics to point out what is fundamentally wrong with the proposal, and demonstrate that Popper's basic premise was faulty.
description: Edited version, to appear in Am. J. Phys
Aleurodicus maritimus Hempel, 1922 b: 1160 - 1161
Creators: name: Martin, Jon H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aleyrodidae
Aleurodicus
Aleurodicus maritimus

description: Aleurodicus maritimus Hempel
(Figs 7, 26)
 Aleurodicus maritimus Hempel, 1922b: 1160–1161. Syntypes, Brazil [MZUSP, examined].
 Aleurodicus linguosus Bondar, 1923: 76–78. Syntypes, Brazil [USNM, examined]. Synonymised by Costa Lima, 1928: 133.
DISTRIBUTION. Neotropical Region - Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Surinam, Trinidad.
 MATERIAL EXAMINED. Syntypes of A. maritimus and A. linguous as discussed below (MZUSP, USNM); numerous samples from all countries listed above (BMNH).
 COMMENTS. The author was able to examine syntypes of both A. linguosus and A. maritimus through the kindness of USNM and MZUSP, respectively, in connection with an earlier study of aleurodicine whiteflies in Belize (Martin, 2004). Costa Lima (1928) considered A. linguosus to be a junior synonym of A. maritimus, and his opinion is considered sound by the present author.
 A. maritimus is a member of the capiangae / dugesii species-group.
description: Published as part of Martin, Jon H., 2008, A revision of Aleurodicus Douglas (Sternorrhyncha, Aleyrodidae), with two new genera proposed for palaeotropical natives and an identification guide to world genera of Aleurodicinae, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 1835 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1835.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5127230