cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Multiscale map analysis in alluvial fan flood-prone areas
Creators: name: Scorpio, Vittoria
name: Santangelo, Nicoletta
name: Santo, Antonio
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Several case studies of geomorphological mapping at various scales in order to identify areas prone to alluvial fan flooding are presented in this paper. The selected areas are located in southern Italy and are representative of a geomorphic unit (foothills consisting of coalescent alluvial fans) found throughout the southern Apennines. The medium-scale approach represents the best tool to identify areas susceptible to flooding, using detailed geomorphological mapping of fan systems. It can be considered a preliminary analysis, which provides important information for large areas and identifies zones which need further investigation. Large-scale map analysis may be applied to a single fan and used to distinguish fan portions prone to different degrees of hazard exposure, thus providing accurate information for decision-makers who are called upon to plan hazard management. In both cases, analysis based on detailed geological and geomorphological field surveys is often coupled with remotely sensed data.
Satanic Individualism, Divine Omnipotence and Chaos in John Milton’s Paradise Lost: Post-Restoration Ontology and Politics of Uncertainty
Creators: name: Mascetti, Yaakov
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2016

description: If Milton's Satan clearly blooms out seventeenth-century arguments in favor of individualism, freedom of thought and of religious belief that had characterized one side of the political debate before and after the Revolution, Milton's God leaves little space to the individual to express a self-fashioned particularity. And between these two fronts, the complexities of Milton's chaotic narrative tempt the reader to choose either one or the other front. This paper has, nevertheless, argued in favor of an alternative stance, one in which Milton endeavors to accommodate the two irreconcilable models in the hubbub of his Chaos. To view his Chaos as good, evil or neutral means, in an extended sense, to force it and Milton's narrative and social conception into a fixed mode, to take sides in the "endless warrs" between the Satanic and the Divine fronts. The narrative of Milton's Paradise Lost is a realm of indeterminacy which elicits from the reader a choice of some kind. The theological and political conundrum of Milton's chaos is not to be resolved, but appreciated in its mutable complexity.
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 2006: Recent historiographical trends of the British Studies
The Eighteenth Century Church of England in Historical Writing
Creators: name: Sanna, Guglielmo
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2016

description: Eighteenth century Anglicanism must be set against the circumstances under which it laboured, at a time when Church and State were so closely related that the welfare of the former could not be promoted but by advancing the interest of the latter.
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 2006: Recent historiographical trends of the British Studies
Computation by Convective Logic Gates and Thermal Communication
Creators: name: Bartlett, Stuart
name: Gao, Andrew K
name: Yung, Yuk L
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a novel computational architecture based on fluid convection logic gates and heat flux-mediated information flows. Our previous work demonstrated that Boolean logic operations can be performed by thermally-driven convection flows. In this work, we use numerical simulations to demonstrate a different, but universal Boolean logic operation (NOR), performed by simpler convective gates. The gates in the present work do not rely on obstacle flows or periodic boundary conditions, a significant improvement in terms of experimental realizability. Conductive heat transfer links can be used to connect the convective gates, and we demonstrate this with the example of binary half addition. These simulated circuits could be constructed in an experimental setting with modern, 2-dimensional fluidics equipment, such as a thin layer of fluid between acrylic plates. The presented approach thus introduces a new realm of unconventional, thermal fluid-based computation.
Secondary mineral formation during ferrihydrite reduction by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 depends on incubation vessel orientation and resulting gradients of cells, Fe2+ and Fe minerals
Creators: name: Dippon, Urs
name: Schmidt, Caroline
name: Behrens, Sebastian
name: Kappler, Andreas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: ABSTRACTIn previous studies on microbial ferric iron (Fe(III)) reduction varying results regarding reduction rates and secondary mineral formation have been reported for almost identical conditions regarding temperature, pH, medium composition, Fe(III) mineral identity and bulk iron concentration. Here we show that in addition to physico-chemical parameters also geometric aspects, i.e. incubation orientation and dimension of cultivation vessels, influence the reduction rates and mineralogy. We incubated the Fe(III)-reducer Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 in test tubes at ferrihydrite (FH) concentrations of 1.3-50 mM either in vertical or horizontal orientation. Cells and minerals formed a pellet at the bottom of the tubes with different thicknesses at the same initial FH concentration depending on the incubation orientation. In vertically incubated tubes thick FH pellets were present at the bottom of the tubes and magnetite was formed in all setups with ≥2.5 mM initial FH. In tubes that were incubated horizontally no magnetite was formed in presence of <5 mM initial FH. Spatially resolved analysis of the supernatant and mineral sediment including voltammetric microelectrodes, Xray diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopy revealed strong gradients of Fe2+ in both the aqueous supernatant and mineral pellet, whereas a heterogeneous distribution of cells and minerals in the sediment pellet was detected. The highest cell density and, consequently, the initiation of FH reduction was found at the mineral-supernatant interface. This study demonstrates that small changes in incubation conditions can significantly influence and even change the experimental results of geomicrobiological experiments.
title: Prevalence of and risk factors for Helicobacter pylori infection and its effect on growth of children in Mexico.
Creators: name: Jimenez-Guerra, Francisco
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 1999

description: Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection causes achlorydria, depressed gastric acid barrier, impaired immune response and is suspected in bacterial overgrowth and diarrhoea. These features of the infection are known to cause significant malabsorption of nutrients and impairment of linear growth in children. The prevalence of H. pylori infection in children is known to be much higher in developing countries, especially among the lower socio-economic groups. The true prevalence of infection in urban children in Mexico and its impact on their growth are largely unknown. This study examined the prevalence of H. pylori infection in school children from an urban area in Northwest Mexico and attempted to identify the risk factors that predispose individuals to infection in childhood; as well as to relate the presence of this infection to growth of children. The cross-sectional study was conducted in 1997/98 in the poorest socio-economic sectors of the city of Hermosillo, Sonora, among 178 children aged 9 and 10 years. H. pylori status was determined in children by the 13C-urea breath test. Anthropometric (weight and height) and haemoglobin measurements along with analysis of faecal samples and a 24-hour dietary recall were carried out in each child. Family sociodemographic/socio-economic status and living conditions data were elicited from parents by interview via structured questionnaires. The overall prevalence rate of H. pylori infection for the children in Hermosillo as determined by this study was 47.1%. The findings indicate that rural-born father, number of siblings, the type of main water supply (one tap in the yard) and the sharing of bed by the study child are important risk factors for acquiring the H. pylori infection. A borderline significant but small effect of H. pylori infection on height for-age was observed in this study. H. pylori infection was found to be positively highly associated with Hymenolepis nana. No differences in mean energy, protein and iron intakes between H. pylori positive and negative children were observed. However, significant differences in the mean energy, protein and iron intakes were observed between boys and girls. H. pylori infection and enteric parasites were not significantly correlated with the presence of anaemia.
Carpogenic germination of sclerotia of Sclerotinia minor and ascosporic infection of pyrethrum flowers
Creators: name: O’Malley, Thomas B.
name: Hay, Frank S.
name: Scott, Jason B.
name: Gent, David H.
name: Shivas, Roger G.
name: Pethybridge, Sarah J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: Medicine

description: Carpogenic germination of sclerotia and infection of flowers by ascospores of Sclerotinia minor is rare and seldom documented in most hosts. During 2007–2009, S. minor isolates were obtained from surface-sterilized pyrethrum flowers collected from fields in Australia. The isolation frequency of S. minor from flowers in 2007, 2008 and 2009, was 15.8%, 5%, and 1.4%, respectively. During these years, the prevalence of S. minor in flowers amongst pyrethrum fields varied between 10.3% and 60%. Sclerotia with apothecia, consistent in size with S. minor, were collected in one field. Colonies from individual ascospores from this isolate were identified as S. minor. A subsample of 10 S. minor isolates was selected for further studies. Phylogenetic analysis based on the internal transcribed spacer region grouped these isolates with S. minor, and distinct from published sequences of other Sclerotinia spp. Species-specific primers developed previously to differentiate the four major Sclerotinia spp. (S. sclerotiorum, S. minor, S. homoeocarpa and S. trifoliorum) were used to confirm identity. Of the 10 S. minor isolates, eight were able to carpogenically germinate in vitro. Pathogenicity of S. minor to flowers was confirmed in the greenhouse using ascospores. This study is one of the few instances documenting the ability of S. minor to infect floral tissues and the first documentation of S. minor causing flower disease of pyrethrum. These findings serve as a scaffold for further investigations into the mechanisms of flower infection by S. minor and have implications for the management of the Sclerotinia disease complex affecting pyrethrum in Australia.
The Effect of Redistricting Commissions on District Bipartisanship and Member Ideology
Creators: name: Ryan, Josh M.
name: Lyons, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: AbstractReformers advocate the use of commissions rather than legislatures to redistrict as a way of promoting less partisan districts and ideologically moderate congressional members. Much of the evidence in political science suggests that gerrymandering is not a cause of congressional polarization, but whether or not commissions produce different types of districts or members remains an important and unanswered question, especially now that many states have adopted reforms. This article examines whether commissions reduce district partisanship or ideological extremity using time-series-cross-sectional data. We find that bipartisan districts promote member moderation, but there is no evidence that commissions have distinct effects on districts or members as compared to districts drawn by legislatures, consistent with the notion that limiting gerrymandering is not a solution for polarization. These conclusions call into question the appropriateness of redistricting reform, especially when one considers the undemocratic nature of commissions.
Planiliza abu
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mugiliformes
Mugilidae
Planiliza
Planiliza abu

description: 293. Planiliza abu (Heckel, 1843)
Common name. Abu mullet
Taxonomy. Original description: Mugil abu Heckel, 1843a: 1097 (107) [Tigris River, near Mosul, Iraq; syntypes: NMW 9224-30 (7), 67868 (2)].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Randall (1995: 234, fig., as Chelon abu).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Tigris, Persis, Hormuz, Lake Maharlu.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 441-Lower Tigris & Euphrates, 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates, 451-Northern Hormuz Drainages.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Mahi biah.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: LC.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
AXBOROT BO'LIMINI O'QITISH METODIKASI
Creators: name: Normurodova, Sadoqat
name: Ismatullayeva, Gulshoda
name: Asadova, Shaxina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Axborot bo‘limini o‘qitish metodikasi, axborot texnologiyalarining zamonaviy vositalarini taqdim etishga asoslanadi. Axborot bo‘limi o‘quvchilarga axborotni yig‘ish, tasniflash, saqlash va uzatish jarayonlarini chuqur o‘rgatish bilan birga, axborot xavfsizligi, axborot tizimlari va dasturiy ta’minotlar haqida keng tushuncha beradi. O‘qitish metodikasi axborotdan samarali foydalanish va uni amaliyotda qo‘llashga qaratilgan. Bu metodikada quyidagi asosiy yondashuvlar qo‘llaniladi: interaktiv darslar, amaliy mashg‘ulotlar, guruhli ishlar, elektron resurslardan foydalanish, va o‘quvchilarga muhim axborot tizimlaridan foydalanish bo‘yicha mashqlar berish. O‘qituvchi axborotni turli shakllarda, jumladan, matn, audio, video va grafiklar orqali taqdim etadi. Axborot bo‘limi o‘qitish metodikasi o‘quvchilarga axborot texnologiyalarining turli xil dasturlarini va usullarini o‘rganishga imkon yaratadi, bu esa ularning informatika bo‘yicha bilimlarini kengaytiradi.
C3: Continued Pretraining with Contrastive Weak Supervision for Cross Language Ad-Hoc Retrieval
Creators: name: Yang, Eugene
name: Nair, Suraj
name: Chandradevan, Ramraj
name: Iglesias-Flores, Rebecca
name: Oard, Douglas W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pretrained language models have improved effectiveness on numerous tasks, including ad-hoc retrieval. Recent work has shown that continuing to pretrain a language model with auxiliary objectives before fine-tuning on the retrieval task can further improve retrieval effectiveness. Unlike monolingual retrieval, designing an appropriate auxiliary task for cross-language mappings is challenging. To address this challenge, we use comparable Wikipedia articles in different languages to further pretrain off-the-shelf multilingual pretrained models before fine-tuning on the retrieval task. We show that our approach yields improvements in retrieval effectiveness.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted as a SIGIR 2022 Short Paper
District Population Size and Candidates’ Vote-seeking Strategies: Evidence from Japan
Creators: name: Matsubayashi, Tetsuya
name: Ueda, Michiko
name: Uekami, Takayoshi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: AbstractThis paper examines whether candidates in Japanese local elections are more likely to declare affiliation with parties as the population size of districts increases, and thus the importance of party reputations and resources for mobilization increases. To test this hypothesis, we use data from Japanese municipal legislative elections between 1999 and 2010 where the vast majority of candidates run as independents. We exploit variations in the population size of districts before and after massive municipal mergers. We find that the percentage of candidates affiliated with political parties increased when the number of votes required for winning a seat increased as a result of municipal mergers. Our analysis also finds that candidates in municipalities that merged were more likely to join parties, compared to those in municipalities that did not experience mergers.
Writing the Literary and Cultural History of Radicalism in the English Revolution
Creators: name: McDowell, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2016

description: Literary analysis of the rhetorical techniques and resources of some of the key texts produced by mid-seventeenth-century radicals reveals them to be sophisticated readers and writers who were not excluded from mainstream intellectual culture but rather appropriated aspects of that culture in a moment of historical crisis to develop languages of subversion, opposition and reform.
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 2006: Recent historiographical trends of the British Studies
Fabricating radical traditions
Creators: name: Hessayon, Ariel
Publisher: name: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography
Year: 2016

description: Vestiges of radicalism recovered in manuscripts and rediscovered in printed texts have sometimes intermingled with perceived radical heritages to produce vibrant radical eruptions. This can be seen by tracing the ways through which radicalism in the English Revolution has been successively appropriated and constructed - and how, subject to competing interpretations, these fabrications have disintegrated leaving only shards of radical traditions.
description: Cromohs - Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 2006: Recent historiographical trends of the British Studies
Perca fluviatilis Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Perciformes
Percidae
Perca
Perca fluviatilis

description: 295. Perca fluviatilis Linnaeus, 1758
Common name. European perch
Taxonomy. Original description: Perca fluviatilis Linnaeus, 1758: 289 [Europe; syntypes: BMNH 1853.11.12.3 (1, left half-skin), 1853.11.12.2 (1, right half-skin)].
Revisions. Berg (1949: 1032).
Illustrations. Berg (1949: 1033, fig. 756).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Soof mahi-e haji Tarkhan.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: LC.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
title: Ultrastructural studies on the salivary glands of ticks : Haemaphysalis leachii leachii (Audouin) (Ixodoidea: Ixodidae) and Ornithodoros (Ornithodoros) moubata (Murray) (Ixodoidea: Argasidae)
Creators: name: El-Shoura Mohamed Omar, MSM
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 1979

description: Salivary glands of the unfed tick Haemaphysalis leachii contain four types of alveoli. Type I alveoli have the morphological characteristics of transporting epithelia. Types II, III and IV are granule-secreting alveoli and are considered to secrete the enzymes and cement components required during feeding. After female attachment, types II, III and IV alveoli are initially concerned with the secretion of granular materials but become involved with fluid secretion as feeding progresses. Salivary glands of the unfed ticks Ornithodoros moubata contain two types of alveoli. Type I is similar to that of H. leachii. Type II are granule-secreting alveoli but structurally differ from those of H. leachii. These alveoli do not secrete cement and are not significantly active during feeding. Salivation processes in the tick H. leachii and 0. moubata seem to be mainly under neural control.
Characterization of two pigeon paramyxovirus type 1 isolates in China
Creators: name: Abie Awu
name: Shao, Meng-Yu
name: Liu, Meng-Meng
name: Hu, Yan-Xin
name: Qin, Zhuo-Ming
name: Tian, Fu-Lin
name: Zhang, Guo-Zhong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Microbiology

description: For over three decades, there has been a continuing panzootic caused by a virulent variant avian paramyxovirus type 1 strain, the so-called pigeon paramyxovirus type 1. It is found primarily in racing pigeons, but it has also spread to wild birds and poultry. In this study, two pigeon paramyxovirus type 1 strains, SD12 and BJ13, obtained from diseased pigeons in China, were characterized. Phylogenetic analysis based on complete sequences allowed characterization of both strains as genotype VI, class II. Further phylogenetic analysis of a 374-nucleotide section of the fusion gene showed that SD12 fell into lineage VIbii-d and BJ13 into VIbii-f. The deduced amino acid sequence of the cleavage site of the fusion protein confirmed that both isolates contained the virulent motif 112K/RRQKR↓F117 at the cleavage site. Nevertheless, the values of intracerebral pathogenicity indices showed the SD12 isolate to be a velogenic strain and BJ13 isolate to be a mesogenic strain. The SD12 isolate was further investigated via clinical observation, RNA detection, histopathology and viral serology in experimentally infected 3-week-old chickens. It showed a mild pathological phenotype in chickens, with viral replication restricted to a few tissues. The molecular mechanism for the SD12 isolate to have a virulent motif but low levels of virulence for chickens requires further study.
Sander lucioperca
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Perciformes
Percidae
Sander
Sander lucioperca

description: 296. Sander lucioperca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common name. Zander
Taxonomy. Original description: Perca lucioperca Linnaeus, 1758: 289 [European lakes; no types known].
Revisions. Berg (1949: 1020) as Lucioperca lucioperca.
Illustrations. Berg (1949: 1021, fig. 748) as Lucioperca lucioperca.
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Caspian Sea, Tigris, Lake Orumiyeh, Namak Lake, Kor River.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 434-Kura-South Caspian Drainages, 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates, 445-Orumiyeh, 447-Namak, 450-Turan Plain.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Soof mahi-e ordaki.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: LC.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Toughening of Epoxy with Preformed Polyethylene Thermoplastic Filler
Creators: name: Saurabh Chaudhary
name: Parthasarathy, Surekha
name: Mangla, Vikas
name: Kumar, Devendra
name: Prasun Kumar Roy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry

description: The potential of polyethylene as a thermoplastic filler towards improving the fracture properties of epoxy resin was explored. Oxo-degradable films were subjected to thermo-oxidative exposure, and the oxidized polyethylene (OPE) was extracted with acetone to remove low molecular weight products (APE). The presence of functionalities led to its homogenous dispersion in the epoxy matrix. Blending of epoxy with OPE and APE led to significant improvement in both quasi-static and impact properties, as evidenced by 44% increase in GIC and 21% increase in impact strength at loadings of 3% w/w. The strain rate sensitivity of the composites was also investigated.
Investigation of the use of aerobic granules for the treatment of sugar beet processing wastewater
Creators: name: Irem Kocaturk
name: Erguder, Tuba Hande
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Engineering

description: The treatment of sugar beet processing wastewater in aerobic granular sequencing batch reactor (SBR) was examined in terms of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and nitrogen removal efficiency. The effect of sugar beet processing wastewater of high solid content, namely 2255 ± 250 mg/L total suspended solids (TSS), on granular sludge was also investigated. Aerobic granular SBR initially operated with the effluent of anaerobic digester treating sugar beet processing wastewater (Part I) achieved average removal efficiencies of 71 ± 30% total COD (tCOD), 90 ± 3% total ammonifiable nitrogen (TAN), 76 ± 24% soluble COD (sCOD) and 29 ± 4% of TSS. SBR was further operated with sugar beet processing wastewater (Part II), where the tCOD, TAN, sCOD and TSS removal efficiencies were 65 ± 5%, 61 ± 4%, 87 ± 1% and 58 ± 10%, respectively. This study indicated the applicability of aerobic granular SBRs for the treatment of both sugar beet processing wastewater and anaerobically digested processing wastewater. For higher solids removal, further treatment such as a sedimentation tank is required following the aerobic granular systems treating solid-rich wastewaters such as sugar beet processing wastewater. It was also revealed that the application of raw sugar beet processing wastewater slightly changed the aerobic granular sludge properties such as size, structure, colour, settleability and extracellular polymeric substance content, without any drastic and negative effect on treatment performance.
Experience Report: Standards-Based Grading at Scale in Algorithms
Creators: name: Chen, Lijun
name: Grochow, Joshua A.
name: Layer, Ryan
name: Levet, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: K.3.2
subject: 97-02, 97D40, 97D60, 97P20

description: We report our experiences implementing standards-based grading at scale in an Algorithms course, which serves as the terminal required CS Theory course in our department's undergraduate curriculum. The course had 200-400 students, taught by two instructors, eight graduate teaching assistants, and supported by two additional graders and several undergraduate course assistants. We highlight the role of standards-based grading in supporting our students during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conclude by detailing the successes and adjustments we would make to the course structure.
description: This is an extended version of our paper, which will appear in ITiCSE 2022
Planiliza subviridis
Creators: name: Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz
name: Esmaeili, Hamid Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mugiliformes
Mugilidae
Planiliza
Planiliza subviridis

description: 294. Planiliza subviridis (Valenciennes, 1836)
Common name. Greenback mullet
Taxonomy. Original description: Mugil subviridis Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1836: 115 [Ganges River, Malabar, India; syntypes: MNHN A–3649 (now 1) Mumbai, A–3650 (1) Ganges, A –3651 (1) Puducherry, 1990–0132 (ex MNHN A–3649) (1);? ZMB (ex MNHN) 1834 (1) Mumbai].
Revisions. None.
Illustrations. Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020: 279, fig. 508).
Distribution in Iran. —Distribution in River Basin: Tigris, Persis.—Distribution in Ecoregions: 441-Lower Tigris & Euphrates, 442-Upper Tigris & Euphrates.
Status in Iran. [Native].—Kafal mahi-e posht sabz.—Listed in previous checklists from Iran by Esmaeili et al. (2017 a, 2018); Jouladeh-Roudbar et al. (2020) and Eagderi et al. (2022).—Iran material: ZM-CBSU.
Conservation. —IUCN: LC.
description: Published as part of Sayyadzadeh, Golnaz & Esmaeili, Hamid Reza, 2024, Freshwater lamprey and fishes of Iran: Reappraisal and updated checklist with a note on Eagderi et al. (2022), pp. 1-99 in Zootaxa 5402 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5402.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10524097
Physico-chemical properties of Tecoma stans Linn. seed oil: a new crop for vegetable oil
Creators: name: Hassen Mohamed Sbihi
name: Sadok Mokbli
name: Imededdine Arbi Nehdi
name: Saud Ibrahim Al-Resayes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry

description: Tecoma stans Linn. is known to have various medicinal and therapeutic properties. However, to our knowledge, no information is available regarding their seed oils. In this study, the fatty acid (FA) compositions, physico-chemical properties and antioxidant capacities of T. stans seed oils (TSOs) were investigated. The oil content of the seeds was 15%. The FAs of the TSOs were analysed by GC–MS. α-Linolenic (45.47%), oleic (23.56%), linoleic (11.48%), palmitic (6.09%) and stearic (4.12%) acids were the major detected FAs. γ-Linolenic acid and stearidonic acid, unusually FAs, were also present (1.04% and 6.65%, respectively). The total tocol content in the TSOs was found to be 266.06 mg/100 g. The main component was γ-tocopherol (78.93%). The total phenolic content (168.69 mg GAE/100 g oil) and total flavonoid content (5.54 mg CE/g oil) were also determined in the TSOs.
Differential response of terpenes and anthraquinones derivatives in Rumex dentatus and Lavandula officinalis to harsh winters across north-western Himalaya
Creators: name: Sumira Jan
name: Kamili, Azra N.
name: Parray, Javid A.
name: Yashbir S. Bedi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Herbs adapted to diverse climates exhibit distinct variability to fluctuating temperatures and demonstrate various metabolic and physiological adaptations to harsh environments. In this research, Rumex dentatus L. and Lavandula officinalis L. were collected before snowfall in September–November to evaluate variability in major phytoconstituents to diverse seasonal regime. LC-MS was used for simultaneous determination of eight anthraquinone derivatives in R. dentatus, i.e. emodin, physcion, chrysophanol, physcion glucoside, endocrocin, emodin glucoside, chrysophanol glucoside and chromone derivatives and monoterpenes in L. officinalis i.e. (Z)-β-ocimene, (E)-β-ocimene, terpene alcohol, terpin-4-ol, acetate ester-linalyl acetate and bicyclic sesquiterpene (E)-caryophyllene. The correlation analysis confirmed significant variation in anthraquinone glucoside and terpene content within Rumex and Lavender, respectively, and altitude was established as the determinant factor in secondary metabolism of both herbs. The study concludes the propagation of herbs in bioclimatic belts which favour accumulation of major constituents and validate their greater pharmacological activity.
Investigation of the Use of Aerobic Granules for the Treatment of Sugar Beet Processing Wastewater
Creators: name: Irem Kocaturk
name: Erguder, Tuba Hande
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Engineering

description: The treatment of sugar beet processing wastewater in aerobic granular sequencing batch reactor (SBR) was examined in terms of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and nitrogen removal efficiency. The effect of sugar beet processing wastewater of high solid content, namely 2255 ± 250 mg/L total suspended solids (TSS), on granular sludge was also investigated. Aerobic granular SBR initially operated with the effluent of anaerobic digester treating sugar beet processing wastewater (Part I) achieved average removal efficiencies of 71±30% total COD (tCOD), 90±3% total ammonifiable nitrogen (TAN), 76±24% soluble COD (sCOD) and 29±4% of TSS. SBR was further operated with sugar beet processing wastewater (Part II), where the tCOD, TAN, sCOD and TSS removal efficiencies were 65±5%, 61±4%, 87±1% and 58±10%, respectively. This study indicated the applicability of aerobic granular SBRs for the treatment of both sugar beet processing wastewater and anaerobically digested processing wastewater. For higher solids removal, further treatment such as a sedimentation tank is required following the aerobic granular systems treating solid rich wastewaters such as sugar beet processing wastewater. It was also revealed that the application of raw sugar beet processing wastewater slightly changed the aerobic granular sludge properties such as size, structure, colour, settleability and EPS content, without any drastic and negative effect on treatment performance.TENT-2014-1603-SUPPLEMENTARY_File.docx
title: Droits humains, recherche et engagement  dans les sciences sociales au XXIe siècle
Publisher: name: EHESS
Year: 2015

description: La section LDH de   l’EHESS organise depuis plus de vingt ans des rencontres et des actions   sur des situations impliquant des manquements graves aux droits de   l’homme. Quelle relation pouvons-nous établir entre ces engagements   concrets à propos des innombrables situations discriminatoires liées à   la conjoncture politique et sociale et les domaines où nous exerçons nos   savoirs comme historiens, sociologues, psychologues, philosophes,   juristes, anthropologues, linguistes, etc. dans le cadre commun de   l’EHESS.
title: Droits humains, recherche et engagement  dans les sciences sociales au XXIe siècle
Publisher: name: EHESS
Year: 2015

description: La section LDH de   l’EHESS organise depuis plus de vingt ans des rencontres et des actions   sur des situations impliquant des manquements graves aux droits de   l’homme. Quelle relation pouvons-nous établir entre ces engagements   concrets à propos des innombrables situations discriminatoires liées à   la conjoncture politique et sociale et les domaines où nous exerçons nos   savoirs comme historiens, sociologues, psychologues, philosophes,   juristes, anthropologues, linguistes, etc. dans le cadre commun de   l’EHESS
Naphthalene thiourea derivative based colorimetric and fluorescent dual chemosensor for F−  and Cu2+/Hg2+ ions
Creators: name: Duraisamy Udhayakumari
name: Velmathi, Sivan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: A structurally simple (Z)-2-(naphthalen-2-ylmethylene)-N-phenylhydrazinecarbothioamide (R1) was used as a colorimetric and fluorescent sensor for both F−  and Cu2+/Hg2+ ions. R1 selectively recognised F−  ions as indicated by colour change from colourless to green. Fluorescence spectral data reveal that R1 is an excellent fluorescence chemosensor for Cu2+ ions. Finally, R1 was successfully applied to the bioimaging of Cu2+ ions in RAW 264.7 macrophage cells.
Ensemble of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for real-time gravitational wave signal recognition
Creators: name: Ma, CunLiang
name: Wang, Wei
name: Wang, He
name: Cao, Zhoujian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the rapid development of deep learning technology, more and more researchers apply it to gravitational wave (GW) data analysis. Previous studies focused on a single deep learning model. In this paper we design an ensemble algorithm combining a set of convolutional neural networks (CNN) for GW signal recognition. The whole ensemble model consists of two sub-ensemble models. Each sub-ensemble model is also an ensemble model of deep learning. The two sub-ensemble models treat data of Hanford and Livinston detectors respectively. Proper voting scheme is adopted to combine the two sub-ensemble models to form the whole ensemble model. We apply this ensemble model to all reported GW events in the first observation and second observation runs (O1/O2) by LIGO-VIRGO Scientific Collaboration. We find that the ensemble algorithm can clearly identify all binary black hole merger events except GW170818. We also apply the ensemble model to one month (August 2017) data of O2. There is no false trigger happens although only O1 data are used for training. Our test results indicate that the ensemble learning algorithms can be used in real-time GW data analysis.
description: The test code and the source data are available at https://github.com/WeiWang31/EnsembleModel
Toughening of Epoxy with Preformed Polyethylene Thermoplastic Filler
Creators: name: Saurabh Chaudhary
name: Parthasarathy, Surekha
name: Mangla, Vikas
name: Kumar, Devendra
name: Prasun Kumar Roy
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry

description: ABSTRACTThe potential of polyethylene as a thermoplastic filler towards improving the fracture properties of epoxy resin was explored. Oxo-degradable films were subjected to thermo-oxidative exposure, and the oxidised polyethylene (OPE) was extracted with acetone to remove low molecular weight products (APE). The presence of functionalities led to its homogenous dispersion in the epoxy matrix. Blending of epoxy with OPE and APE led to significant improvement in both quasi-static and impact properties, as evidenced by 44% increase in GIC and 21% increase in impact strength at loadings of 3% w/w. The strain rate sensitivity of the composites was also investigated.
Scheduling Virtual Conferences Fairly: Achieving Equitable Participant and Speaker Satisfaction
Creators: name: Patro, Gourab K.
name: Jana, Prithwish
name: Chakraborty, Abhijnan
name: Gummadi, Krishna P.
name: Ganguly, Niloy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, almost all conferences have moved to virtual mode due to the pandemic-induced restrictions on travel and social gathering. Contrary to in-person conferences, virtual conferences face the challenge of efficiently scheduling talks, accounting for the availability of participants from different timezones and their interests in attending different talks. A natural objective for conference organizers is to maximize efficiency, e.g., total expected audience participation across all talks. However, we show that optimizing for efficiency alone can result in an unfair virtual conference schedule, where individual utilities for participants and speakers can be highly unequal. To address this, we formally define fairness notions for participants and speakers, and derive suitable objectives to account for them. As the efficiency and fairness objectives can be in conflict with each other, we propose a joint optimization framework that allows conference organizers to design schedules that balance (i.e., allow trade-offs) among efficiency, participant fairness and speaker fairness objectives. While the optimization problem can be solved using integer programming to schedule smaller conferences, we provide two scalable techniques to cater to bigger conferences. Extensive evaluations over multiple real-world datasets show the efficacy and flexibility of our proposed approaches.
description: In proceedings of the Thirty-first Web Conference (WWW-2022). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2010.14624
Expedient Strategy for the Synthesis of 5-Acylethynylpyrrole-2-carbaldehydes
Creators: name: Tomilin, Denis N.
name: Sobenina, Lyubov N.
name: Markova, Marina V.
name: Gotsko, Maxim D.
name: Ushakov, Igor A.
name: Smirnov, Vladimir I.
name: Vaschenko, Alexander V.
name: Mikhaleva, Albina I.
name: Trofimov, Boris A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemistry
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Science Policy
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology

description: 5-Acylethynylpyrrole-2-carbaldehydes have been synthesized from the protected pyrrole-2-carbaldehydes by their transition-metal-free topochemical mechanoactivated ethynylation with acylbromoacetylenes in a solid Al2O3 medium (room temperature, 6 h, 41–54% yields).
title: Immunity to trichinella spiralis
Creators: name: Moloney, NA
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 1979

description: The major part of this work was concerned with the mechanism of protective immunity which acts against the parenteral phase of a Trichinella spiralis infection in mice. Passively transferred immune serum always gave strong protection, to recipients, against an intravenous challenge of newborn larvae, regardless of whether the donor animals were sensitized by single, multiple, full or parenteral infections of T. spiralis. Small doses of immune serum gave significant protection, against challenge, to mice. Sensitized spleen cells and mesenteric lymph node cells, taken from infected donors, varied in their ability to protect recipient mice against challenge. Immune serum was only effective when transferred before a parenteral challenge, suggesting that it affected the newborn larvae and not the muscle larvae. The protective factors in immune serum appeared seventeen days after a single parenteral infection was given; they became progressively more protective after this time and there was evidence of their presence in serum taken five months after infection. The serum factors were protective in the absence of effector T-cells but whether they acted alone, against newborn larvae, or required the cooperation of non-specific cells was not fully established. Genetical studies on the ability of CBA and NIH mice to expel intestinal T. spiralis were made. CBA mice responded poorly to infection whereas NIH mice responded well. Cross breeding between the strains and back crosses with the first generation progeny of these showed that the responder characteristic of NIH mice was dominant and its inheritance was polygeneic. The ability to expel adult worms was not linked to the genes coding for the colour or sex of the mice.
Supplementary Material for Manuscript: Archaeological evidence of resource utilisation of walrus, Odobenus rosmarus, over the past two millennia: A systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Buss, Danielle L
name: Dierickx, Katrien
name: Falahati-Anbaran, Mohsen
name: Elliott, Deirdre
name: Rankin, Lisa K
name: Whitridge, Peter
name: Frasier, Brenna
name: Richard, Jean-Simon
name: van den Hurk, Youri
name: Barrett, James H
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Supplementary data files:

Table S1. The number of hits from scoping searches of four research platforms for zooarchaeological literature that may contain walrus. Searches conducted in English (e.g. Walrus* AND NISP*) for Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus on the 10th of August 2023 and for JSTOR on the 9th of January 2024.

Table S2. The number of hits from scoping searches of two research platforms (Google Scholar, JSTOR) for zooarchaeological literature that may contain walrus. Search conducted in 22 non-English languages on the 10th of August 2023 and the 9th of January 2024, respectively.

Table S3. Metadata of data variables to be extracted adopted from [104] with some minor adjustments.

Prisma-P Checklist: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-analysis Protocols 2015 completed checklist

[104] Buss DL, van den Hurk Y, Falahati-Anbaran M, Elliott D, Evans S, Frasier BA, Mulville JA, Rankin LK, Stebergløkken H, Whitridge P, Barrett JH. 2023 Archaeological evidence of resource utilisation of the great whales over the past two millennia: A systematic review protocol. PLoS One 18, e0295604.
Effects of Clicker Use on Calculus Students’ Mathematics Anxiety
Creators: name: Batchelor, John
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This paper reports the results of a survey study of clicker use and mathematics anxiety among students enrolled in an undergraduate calculus course during the Fall 2013 semester. Students in two large lecture sections of calculus completed surveys at the beginning and end of the course. One class used clickers, whereas the other class was taught without clickers. The purpose of the study is to determine what relationship, if any, exists between clicker use and mathematics anxiety among students enrolled in an undergraduate calculus course.