cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mediterranean precipitation climatology, seasonal cycle, and trend as simulated by CMIP5
Creators: name: Kelley, Colin Patrick
name: Ting, Mingfang
name: Seager, Richard
name: Kushnir, Yochanan
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Climatic changes

description: Winter and summer Mediterranean precipitation climatology and trends since 1950 as simulated by the newest generation of global climate models, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5), are evaluated with respect to observations and the previous generation of models (CMIP3) used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report. Observed precipitation in the Mediterranean region is defined by wet winters and drier summers, and is characterized by substantial spatial and temporal variability. The observed drying trend since 1950 was predominantly due to winter drying, with very little contribution from the summer. However, in the CMIP5 multimodel mean, the precipitation trend since 1950 is evenly divided throughout the seasonal cycle. This may indicate that in observation, multidecadal internal variability, particularly that associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), dominates the wintertime trend. An estimate of the observed externally forced trend shows that winter drying dominates in observations but the spatial patterns are grossly similar to the multimodel mean trend. The similarity is particularly robust in the eastern Mediterranean region, indicating a radiatively forced component being stronger there. Results of this study also reveal modest improvement for the CMIP5 multi-model ensemble in representation of the observed six month winter and summer climatology. The results of this study are important for assessment of model predictions of hydroclimate change in the Mediterranean region, often referred to as a "hotspot" of future subtropical drying.
Parton Distribution Amplitudes and Non-Perturbative Renormalisation
Creators: name: Boyle, P. A.
name: Brömmel, D.
name: Donnellan, M. A.
name: Flynn, J. M.
name: Jüttner, A.
name: Sachrajda, C. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for the first two moments of the light-cone distribution amplitudes of the pion and kaon pseudo-scalar mesons and of the rho, K* and phi vector mesons. The calculations are performed on the RBC/UKQCD collaborations' ensembles generated with the Iwasaki gauge action and with 2+1 flavours of domain wall fermions. In addition we also provide some results on the necessary non-perturbative renormalisation which we perform using the Rome-Southampton method. We discuss the benefits of the momentum source approach such as much smaller statistical errors and the possibility to see effects of the discretisation.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, Talk given at the XXVI International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 14 - 19 2008, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
title: Fate of β-Lactoglobulin, α-Lactalbumin, and Casein Proteins in Ultrafiltered Concentrated Milk after Ultra-high Temperature Processing
Creators: name: Alleyne, Mark Christopher
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1994

description: The problem of age gelation in ultra-high temperature (U1IT) sterilized milk retentate (ultrafiltered 3x concentrated) is investigated in this work. Transmission electron microscopy (1EM), utilizing the microcube encapsulation technique and protocols for immunolocalization of milk proteins, provides insight into the phenomenon of age gelation ofUHT-sterilized, ultrafiltered (UF) milk retentate. Primary antibodies (specific for the native as well as the complexed forms of milk proteins) and secondary antibodies (conjugated to gold probes) are used to elucidate the positions of the milk proteins in various samples of milk from the stage of milking through UHT sterilization and storage for 12 months, by which time gelation had occurred. The movement of the milk proteins is charted and these data are used to determine the role of the proteins in age gelation of UHT-sterilized UF milk retentate.
Heat-denatured β-lactoglobulin and α-lactalbumin form complexes within the serum as well as with the casein components of the micelles. UHT sterilization not only denatures β-lactoglobulin and α-lactalbumin, but catalyzes the reaction of these whey proteins and K-casein, leading to the successful formation of the complex. Complexing of β-lactoglobulin and K-casein competitively weakens the complex of K-casein to other casein fractions of the micelle. This leads to migration of K-casein from the micelle to the serum, compromising the role of K-casein in stabilizing the casein proteins within the micellar moiety. The time-dependent loss of K-casein from the micelle would expose the calcium-insoluble micellar αs1-casein and β-casein to the serum calcium. Subsequent to this, some αs1-casein and β-casein are also released from the micelles, and gelation of the milk occurs. No information was obtained on location of αs2-casein. The release of K-casein from the micelles thus apparently represents the critical factor in the phenomenon of age gelation in UHT-sterilized milk concentrates.
title: Pantothenate-p-nitroanilide as a Substrate for Pantetheinase Assay
Creators: name: Davidson, Robert T.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1994

description: Pantothenate-p-nitroanilide has been synthesized for use as a substrate in a continuous spectrophotometric assay of pantetheinase activity monitoring absorbance at 410 nm. Pantothenate-p-nitroanilide is a crystalline compound with a molecular weight of 338.0 and a melting point of 146-149°C. Use of this substrate in the described assay is suitable for enzyme activity determination in high protein content media such as blood serum. Serum pantetheinase activity was determined for rats of varying pantothenate nutriture. Rats with mildly (but significantly, p < 0.05) lower serum pantothenate levels had significantly higher serum pantetheinase activities than the control group (6.24 nmol/min/ml ± 0.72 and 16. 16 nmol/min/ml ± 4. 14, respectively, p=0.0005).
Morphological Description of Telaepolella tubasferens n. g., n. sp., Isolate ATCC© 50593™, a Filose Amoeba in the Gracilipodida, Amoebozoa
Creators: name: Lahr, Daniel J. G.
name: Anderson, O. Roger
name: Kubik, Gabriela M.
name: Grant, Jessica
name: Gant, Anastasia L.
name: Katz, Laura A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular biology

description: We describe the amoeboid isolate ATCC© 50593™ as a new taxon, Telaepolella tubasferens n. gen. n. sp. This multinucleated amoeba has filose pseudopods and is superficially similar to members of the vampyrellids (Rhizaria) such as Arachnula impatiens Cienkowski, 1876, which was the original identification upon deposition. However, previous multigene analyses place this taxon within the Gracilipodida Lahr and Katz 2011 in the Amoebozoa. Here, we document the morphology of this organism at multiple life history stages and describe data underlying the description as a new taxon. We demonstrate that T. tubaspherens is distinct from Arachnula and other rhizarians (Theratromyxa, Leptophrys) in a suite of morphological characters such as general body shape, relative size of pseudopods, distinction of ecto- and endoplasmic regions, and visibility of nuclei in non-stained cells (an important diagnostic character). Although Amoebozoa taxa generally have lobose pseudopods, genera in Gracilipodida such as Flamella and Filamoeba as well as several organisms previously classified as protosteloid amoebae (e.g. schizoplasmodiis, cavosteliids and Stemonitales) present filose pseudopodia. Thus, classification of amoeboid organisms merely by filose-lobose distinction must be reconsidered.
title: Microstructural Changes in Casein Micelles during Acidification of Skim Milk
Creators: name: Du, Hongwen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1994

description: Pasteurized skim milk was acidified using glucono-δ-lactone (GDL) at 10, 20, 30, and 40°C or with 1.2% freeze-dried yogurt starter culture at 40°C. Milk coagulation was followed by measuring turbidity, curd firmness, particle size, and casein micelle microstructural changes using transmission electron microscopy .
The pH of milk was gradually lowered during acidification with GDL or starter culture. Acidification rate showed greater influence on turbidity change at 10°C than at 20, 30, or 40°C.
Average casein micelle size increased with decreasing temperature. The patterns of average micelle size versus pH were not affected by temperature. No great variation of average micelle size was observed above pH 5.2. Below pH 5.0 the size increased exponentially as the milk gelled. Acidification rate did not influence average micelle size at 10°C. Acidification rate, types of acidifying agents, and temperature had no effect on the Formagraph gelation pH and the rate at which curd firmness developed.
Casein micelles became less compact and less distinct with decreasing temperature before acidification. As pH was lowered, protein was dissociated from and then reassociated with casein micelles. Acidification rate had no effect on microstructure change of casein micelles at 10°C.
title: Effects of Whey Protein Concentrate, Phosphate, and Sodium Hydroxide on Texture and Acceptability of Turkey and Beef Rolls
Creators: name: Moiseev, Igor V.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1994

description: Processed turkey rolls were prepared with 1 or 3% whey protein concentrates WPC-50 (pH=5.80), WPC-60 (pH=4.53) and WPC-75 (pH=6.85} containing 50, 60 and 75% protein along with controls (phosphate and no phosphate). Control rolls made with 0.5% phosphate had the highest bind strength, and sensory evaluation scores. Only WPC-75 (1%) was acceptable as a binding agent and flavor enhancer. WPC-60 reduced pink discoloration of rolls, but flavor, bind and cohesiveness scores were unacceptably low. WPC-50 was not an effective binding agent. In general, rolls made with 3% WPC had lower scores for intensity of turkey flavor.
Bind strength and sensory characteristics were compared for restructured beef rolls formulated with 1% salt, 0.375% sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP) or O. 07 % sodium hydroxide (NaOH), and 5, 10 or 20% added water. Controls also had 1% salt, but no STPP or NaOH. Relative bind strength of rolls was STPP > NaOH > controls. Addition of 20% water reduced bind strength. Cooked yield, moisture content, beef flavor and texture of NaOH rolls were similar to STPP rolls. Bind strength and cohesiveness of NaOH rolls were lower than STPP rolls, but still acceptable.
For measuring bind strength of turkey and beef rolls, a sensitive and inexpensive penetrometer was developed. It was equipped with a top-loading balance, accessories, IBM-compatible personal computer and Quick-Basic program that allowed continuously collected penetration force data . at specific time intervals. Penetrometer bind strength and taste panel cohesiveness of turkey and beef rolls were highly correlated (r=0.89 and r=0.93, respectively).
P-connection on Riemannian almost product manifolds
Creators: name: Mekerov, Dimitar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C15, 53C25, 53B05

description: In the present work, we introduce a linear connection (preserving the almost product structure and the Riemannian metric) on Riemannian almost product manifolds. This connection, called P-connection, is an analogue of the first canonical connection of Lichnerowicz in the Hermitian geometry and the B-connection in the geometry of the almost complex manifolds with Norden metric. Particularly, we consider the P-connection on a the class of manifolds with nonintegrable almost product structure.
description: 8 pages
Summertime cyclones over the Great Lakes Storm Track from 1860–2100: variability, trends, and association with ozone pollution
Creators: name: Turner, A. J.
name: Fiore, Arlene M.
name: Horowitz, Larry W.
name: Bauer, Michael P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Atmospheric chemistry
Meteorology
Environmental sciences

description: Prior work indicates that the frequency of summertime mid-latitude cyclones tracking across the Great Lakes Storm Track (GLST, bounded by: 70° W, 90° W, 40° N, and 50° N) are strongly anticorrelated with ozone (O₃) pollution episodes over the Northeastern United States (US). We apply the MAP Climatology of Mid-latitude Storminess (MCMS) algorithm to 6-hourly sea level pressure fields from over 2500 yr of simulations with the GFDL CM3 global coupled chemistry-climate model. These simulations include (1) 875 yr with constant 1860 emissions and forcings (Pre-industrial Control), (2) five ensemble members for 1860–2005 emissions and forcings (Historical), and (3) future (2006–2100) scenarios following the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5) and a sensitivity simulation to isolate the role of climate warming from changes in O₃ precursor emissions (RCP 4.5*). The GFDL CM3 Historical simulations capture the mean and variability of summertime cyclones traversing the GLST within the range determined from four reanalysis datasets. Over the 21st century (2006–2100), the frequency of summertime mid-latitude cyclones in the GLST decreases under the RCP 8.5 scenario and in the RCP 4.5 ensemble mean. These trends are significant when assessed relative to the variability in the Pre-industrial Control simulation. In addition, the RCP 4.5* scenario enables us to determine the relationship between summertime GLST cyclones and high-O₃ events (> 95th percentile) in the absence of emission changes. The summertime GLST cyclone frequency explains less than 10% of the variability in high-O₃ events over the Northeastern US in the model, implying that other factors play an equally important role in determining high-O₃ events.
title: Transing the narrative: transgender identities in Britain, 1870-1940s
Creators: name: Austin, Amy Lesley Catherine
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2025

description: This thesis provides a multi-faceted historical discussion of transgender identities in Britain 
in the period c.1870-1950. In doing so, it develops a distinct approach. Much of the extant 
historical research on transgender identities has either focused primarily on the United 
States, or treated Britain as but one example in a broader European transgender history. 
Much good work has resulted, but at the cost of losing elements of a specifically British 
cultural context, and subsuming the British experience within a very medicalised European 
discourse. This, combined with a tendency, when British sources are studied, to treat 
individuals in isolation, has encouraged a preoccupation with ‘reclaiming’ and categorising 
individuals as ‘either/or’, and privileging a ‘wrong body’ narrative. By moving the focus away 
from European medical discourse we are able to argue that British transgender identities, in 
all their diversity, can only be fully understood by supplementing medical discourse with 
nation-specific cultural sources. This thesis combines a re-examination through a 
transgender lens of key medical and cultural sources that have received academic attention 
as well as introducing previously overlooked sources of critical relevance to British discourse 
on gender non-conformity. The result is a richer, more robustly historical account. 
Building on Jack Halberstam’s and Kit Heyam’s work, the more fluid, inclusive approach 
taken here reveals a theoretical hierarchy and privileging of certain transgender identities 
within British representations of gender non-conformity. More respect and validation were 
accorded those assigned female at birth (AFAB) and those following a linear, medical transition narrative than those assigned male at birth (AMAB) and those whose gender 
identity was fluid. Non-binary identities meanwhile were almost erased. This thesis provides 
a small representation of the legacy of diverse, disruptive gender identities and that there is 
not and has never been one way to be trans.
Belladrilus Righi 1984
Creators: name: Santos, Alessandra
name: Gorte, Tatiane
name: Demetrio, Wilian C.
name: Ferreira, Talita
name: Nadolny, Herlon
name: Cardoso, Guilherme B. X.
name: Tonetti, Caroline
name: Ralisch, Ricardo
name: Nunes, Amanda P.
name: Coqueiro, Ana Carolina P.
name: Leandro, Hudson C. L.
name: Wandscheer, Cassio A. R.
name: Bortoluzzi, Jeankleber
name: Brown, George G.
name: Bartz, Marie L. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Haplotaxida
Ocnerodrilidae
Belladrilus

description: Belladrilus sp.1 (new species)
COFMBRPR0709, 1 individual in no-tillage, Ajuricaba watershed, Marechal Candido Rondon—PR (24° 35' 00.25"S, 54° 07' 00.18"W); 2015; A. Santos, H. Nadolny, G.X. Cardoso, C. Tonetti, T. Gorte, J. Bortoluzzi, M.L.C. Bartz, colls.
description: Published as part of Santos, Alessandra, Gorte, Tatiane, Demetrio, Wilian C., Ferreira, Talita, Nadolny, Herlon, Cardoso, Guilherme B. X., Tonetti, Caroline, Ralisch, Ricardo, Nunes, Amanda P., Coqueiro, Ana Carolina P., Leandro, Hudson C. L., Wandscheer, Cassio A. R., Bortoluzzi, Jeankleber, Brown, George G. & Bartz, Marie L. C., 2018, Earthworm species in no-tillage agroecosystems and native Atlantic forests in Western Paraná, Brazil, pp. 517-534 in Zootaxa 4496 (1) on page 521, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4496.1.40, http://zenodo.org/record/1447015
title: Influence of Ultra-high Temperature Process Parameters on Age Gelation of Mille Concentrate
Creators: name: Elhilaly, Mohamed A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1994

description: The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of ultra-high temperature process parameters on age gelation of milk concentrate. Skim milk was concentrated to 2X (volume reduction) using reverse osmosis. The milk concentrate was preheated at 75 or 90°C for 20 or 50 s and UHT-processed at 138 or 145°C for 4 or 16 s. Sterilizing methods used were direct steam injection and indirect plate heat exchanger. The samples were aseptically collected in presterilized plastic containers and stored at 15 or 35°C. At 15°C storage temperature, the steam-injected samples gelled in 5 months when 4 s UHT time was used. When UHT time was increased to 16 s, the samples gelled in 6 months.
Of the samples that were UHT processed by indirect plate heat exchanger for 4 s and stored at 15°C, all gelled after 7 months. When UHT time was increased to 16 s, all the 138°C samples gelled after 7 months as did the samples that were preheated for 50 s and UHT-processed at 138°C. The samples preheated at 75°C for 50 sand UHT-processed at 145°C gelled after 8 months, whereas at 90°C preheat temperature the samples gelled after 9 months.
The samples stored at 35°C did not gel but showed different sedimentation levels. The sediment depth in the container was always greater for the steam-injected samples. The samples that received higher heat treatments by the two processing methods had a higher sedimentation depth.
The pH decreased during storage and the extent of reduction was higher at 35°C storage temperature . Maillard browning occurred at both storage temperatures. Browning was greater in samples stored at 35°C and processed by indirect plate heat exchanger.
Tectonic Subsidence of the Early Paleozoic Passive Continental Margin in Eastern California and Southern Nevada
Creators: name: Christie-Blick, Nicholas
name: Levy, Marjorie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1991
Subjects: subject: Geomorphology
subject: Plate tectonics
subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Quantitative analysis of tectonic subsidence in Cambrian and Ordovician platform carbonates and associated strata exposed in the Spring Mountains (Nevada) and the Nopah, Funeral, and Inyo Ranges (California) indicates that subsidence associated with this segment of the early Paleozoic passive continental margin is exponential in form, consistent with thermal contraction of the lithosphere following extension. As in other parts of the North American Cordillera, continental separation in the southern Great Basin appears to have taken place between 590 and 545 Ma. These results are not sensitive to uncertainties in stratigraphic thickness, biostratigraphic age control, or paleobathymetry. Uncertainties in the Cambrian time scale lead to predictable variations in the inferred time of onset of thermal subsidence, but they have no effect on the inferred stratigraphic position of the rift to post-rift transition. A younger age for the base of the Middle Cambrian results in a younger inferred age of onset of thermal subsidence accompanied by greater rates of subsidence during the Cambrian, whereas a significantly older estimate of the onset of thermal subsidence can be obtained only if the base of the Middle Cambrian is substantially older than 540 Ma, a possibility that is inconsistent with available data. Results of the subsidence analysis are particularly significant because this is one of the few regions along the length of the North American Cordillera where they can be compared directly to the geologic evidence for syn-rift and post-rift deposition. Basement-involved faulting associated with the Amargosa basin ("aulacogen") ceased during deposition of the Noonday Dolomite, which is thought to be older than 700-680 Ma on the basis of stromatolites of late Riphean affinity. The overlying Johnnie Formation contains supposed Vendian stromatolites (younger than 700-680 Ma). If it is assumed that our results indicate the timing of the final rift to post-rift transition, then either the ages inferred from stromatolites are incorrect or the lithosphere was thinned regionally after deposition of the Noonday. The latter possibility is supported by limited geologic evidence for extension in latest Proterozoic and Early Cambrian time. The lack of appreciable physical evidence for crustal extension after deposition of the Noonday, however, may imply that (1) a uniform extension model for lithospheric thinning is inappropriate for this part of the margin or that (2) some or all of the localities studied are continentward of the hinge zone, and that the observed subsidence is exaggerated by flexural loading in a deeper basin to the west.
Thermal conductance in thin wires with surface disorder
Creators: name: Akguc, Gursoy B.
name: Gong, Jiangbin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Elastic wave characteristics of the heat conduction in low-temperature thin wires can be studied via a wave scattering formalism. A reaction matrix formulation of heat conductance modeled by elastic wave scattering is advocated. This formulation allows us to treat thin wires with arbitrary surface disorder. It is found that the correlation in the surface disorder may significantly affect the temperature dependence of the heat conductance.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Experimental study of attenuation and dispersion over a broad frequency range: 1. The apparatus
Creators: name: Takei, Yasuko
name: Fujisawa, Kazuhiro
name: McCarthy, Christine
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Rock mechanics--Models
subject: Internal friction
subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: We have developed a new experimental method to investigate the anelasticity of a polycrystalline solid at high homologous temperature (T/Tm = 0.6–0.7). By using a rock analogue (borneol polycrystals) and a partially molten rock analogue (borneol + melt) having low melting and eutectic temperatures (Tm = 204.5°C, Te = 43°C), respectively, testing high homologous temperature can occur near room temperature. An apparatus is described for cyclic compressive, Young's modulus type attenuation experiments over a wide range of frequencies (10–10−4 Hz) and at small strain amplitudes (10−6–10−5). Creep tests to measure steady state viscosity can also be performed. Details of the apparatus, including its piezoelectric actuator, dual laser displacement meters and trio of load cells, are discussed. Attenuation spectra and modulus dispersion measured for aluminum, acrylic plastic, and a rock analogue are presented to illustrate the accuracy of the method.
Can we predict the duration of an interglacial?
Creators: name: Tzedakis, P. C.
name: Wolff, E. W.
name: Skinner, L. C.
name: Brovkin, V.
name: Hodell, D. A.
name: McManus, Jerry F.
name: Raynaud, D.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Paleoclimatology
subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Differences in the duration of interglacials have long been apparent in palaeoclimate records of the Late and Middle Pleistocene. However, a systematic evaluation of such differences has been hampered by the lack of a metric that can be applied consistently through time and by difficulties in separating the local from the global component in various proxies. This, in turn, means that a theoretical framework with predictive power for interglacial duration has remained elusive. Here we propose that the interval between the terminal oscillation of the bipolar seesaw and three thousand years (kyr) before its first major reactivation provides an estimate that approximates the length of the sea-level highstand, a measure of interglacial duration. We apply this concept to interglacials of the last 800 kyr by using a recently-constructed record of interhemispheric variability. The onset of interglacials occurs within 2 kyr of the boreal summer insolation maximum/precession minimum and is consistent with the canonical view of Milankovitch forcing pacing the broad timing of interglacials. Glacial inception always takes place when obliquity is decreasing and never after the obliquity minimum. The phasing of precession and obliquity appears to influence the persistence of interglacial conditions over one or two insolation peaks, leading to shorter (~ 13 kyr) and longer (~ 28 kyr) interglacials. Glacial inception occurs approximately 10 kyr after peak interglacial conditions in temperature and CO2, representing a characteristic timescale of interglacial decline. Second-order differences in duration may be a function of stochasticity in the climate system, or small variations in background climate state and the magnitude of feedbacks and mechanisms contributing to glacial inception, and as such, difficult to predict. On the other hand, the broad duration of an interglacial may be determined by the phasing of astronomical parameters and the history of insolation, rather than the instantaneous forcing strength at inception.
Haplodrilus Eisen 1900
Creators: name: Santos, Alessandra
name: Gorte, Tatiane
name: Demetrio, Wilian C.
name: Ferreira, Talita
name: Nadolny, Herlon
name: Cardoso, Guilherme B. X.
name: Tonetti, Caroline
name: Ralisch, Ricardo
name: Nunes, Amanda P.
name: Coqueiro, Ana Carolina P.
name: Leandro, Hudson C. L.
name: Wandscheer, Cassio A. R.
name: Bortoluzzi, Jeankleber
name: Brown, George G.
name: Bartz, Marie L. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Haplotaxida
Ocnerodrilidae
Haplodrilus

description: Haplodrilus sp.1 (new species)
COFMBRPR0820, 1 individual in no-tillage, Ajuricaba watershed, Marechal Candido Rondon—PR (24° 35' 05.39"S, 54° 06' 53.92"W); 2015; A. Santos, H. Nadolny, G.X. Cardoso, C. Tonetti, T. Gorte, J. Bortoluzzi, M.L.C. Bartz, colls.
description: Published as part of Santos, Alessandra, Gorte, Tatiane, Demetrio, Wilian C., Ferreira, Talita, Nadolny, Herlon, Cardoso, Guilherme B. X., Tonetti, Caroline, Ralisch, Ricardo, Nunes, Amanda P., Coqueiro, Ana Carolina P., Leandro, Hudson C. L., Wandscheer, Cassio A. R., Bortoluzzi, Jeankleber, Brown, George G. & Bartz, Marie L. C., 2018, Earthworm species in no-tillage agroecosystems and native Atlantic forests in Western Paraná, Brazil, pp. 517-534 in Zootaxa 4496 (1) on page 522, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4496.1.40, http://zenodo.org/record/1447015
title: In Vivo Biopotency Evaluation of Chromium-Containing Complexes
Creators: name: Keller, Jay Rulon
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1994

description: Seven chromium-containing complexes were tested for effects on blood glucose regulation, serum cholesterol levels, serum triglyceride levels, and body composition. The compounds included Cr picolinate, Cr chelidonate, chromate, Cr chelidamate, Cr arginate, nichrome, and Cr chloride.
The study was divided into two major sections, a rat study and a chicken study. In the rat study all seven chromium-containing complexes were tested. They were administered to the rats in four different testing periods at 1 ppm, 5 ppm, and 25 ppm of chromium. Methods of administration varied for each testing period. After the chromium compounds were administered, a glucose tolerance test (GTT) was conducted on the rats in each of the four experiments. No consistent, significant findings were observed in blood glucose or insulin levels or in blood glucose or insulin change during the GTI. Tissue and blood samples were collected at the end of the study. Liver tissue weights were significantly reduced as the level of chromium supplementation increased. A similar trend was noted in the epididymal fat pad weight, but was not statistically significant.
In the chicken study the partitioning effects of Cr picolinate, chromate, Cr chelidamate, Cr arginate, nichrome, and Cr chloride were more closely examined. The chickens were supplemented at 3, 15, and 75 ppm for 8 weeks. No beneficial effects from the supplementation were noted in feed efficiency, total intake, fasting blood glucose and insulin levels, HDL and total cholesterol levels, or serum triglycerides. At the end of 3 weeks the birds supplemented at 3 ppm were heavier than the other treatment birds. At the end of the 8 weeks the birds were sectioned into primal cuts and weighed. No beneficial effects of chromium supplementation were noted in any of the cuts when expressed as a raw weight, percent of dressed weight, or percent of live bird weight. Kidney chromium levels were significantly increased as the level of chromium supplementation increased in the picolinate-, arginate-, and chelidamate-treated groups. Chromium chloride-, picolinate-, arginate-, and chelidamate-treated groups all showed significant increases in liver chromium levels as the level of chromium supplementation increased.
HIV Risk Factors for Women Married to Men Who Inject Drugs: A Qualitative Case Study from Kachin State, Myanmar
Creators: name: Oo, Ye Htut
name: Doe, Gyaw Htet
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: HIV
Women
Drugs
Myanmar

description: Women who are married to injection drug users may be at increased risk for HIV infection. However, limited information about them was available in Kachin State in Myanmar. Only a few harm reduction services were available to them, and their needs had not been effectively addressed. Thus, this study aimed to explore HIV risk factors for these women. Ten in-depth interviews and four focus
 group discussions with the women, as well as seven interviews with key informants were conducted. The data was collected in five townships of Kachin State where the drop-in centers of a local nongovernmental organization were situated. Participants were recruited using purposive sampling method. Thematic analysis was carried out using "Atlas.ti 6" software. Unawareness of HIV status of their husbands, not practicing protected sex, lack of HIV knowledge, unequal power relations between the women and their husbands, limited access to health services, and language barriers were identified as the risk factors. It was shown that condom-use decisions were made by their husbands and the women had to comply with their decision even if they had knowledge of HIV
 transmission. Thus, services are needed to reduce gender inequality and increase decision making capacity of women on condom use negotiation.
First Order String Theory and the Kodaira-Spencer Equations. II
Creators: name: Gamayun, O.
name: Marshakov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first-order bosonic string theory, perturbed by primary operator, corresponding to the deformation of target-space complex structure is considered. We compute the correlation functions in this theory and study their divergencies. It is found, that consistency of these correlation functions with the world-sheet conformal invariance requires the Kodaira-Spencer equations to be satisfied by target-space Beltrami differentials. This statement is checked explicitly for the three-point and four-point correlators, containing one probe operator. We discuss the origin of these divergences and their relation with beta-functions or effective action and polyvertex structures in BRST approach.
description: 21 pages, 3 figures
title: A Response Surface Study of Extruded Corn Starch/Skim Milk Powder Blends
Creators: name: Singh, Sachin
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1994

description: Skim milk was ultrafiltered to three lactose/protein ratios and spray dried. The skim milk powder was extruded with pearled corn starch at different moisture contents, protein contents, lactose/protein ratios, and feed rates (control variables). Response surface methodology and a central composite in cube experimental design were used. This design required 30 experimental runs with 16 factorial points, 8 axial points, and 6 center points for replication. The physical and functional properties evaluated were expansion ratio, product temperature, bulk density, color, shear stress, viscosity, and water absorption index (response variables). Scanning electron microscopy was done to evaluate the microstructural attributes of the extrudates.
A quadratic model was used to express the response variables in terms of the control variables. Response surfaces were generated by assigning center point values to 2 of the 4 control variables and then solving the fitted equations as a quadratic in the remaining 2 control variables.
An increase in moisture content decreased expansion ratio, product temperature, color, and water absorption index, and increased bulk density, shear stress, and viscosity. An increase in protein content decreased product temperature, shear stress, viscosity, and water absorption index, increased color, and had no effect on expansion ratio and bulk density. An increase in lactose/protein ratio decreased product temperature, viscosity, and water absorption index, and had no effect on expansion ratio, bulk density, color, and shear stress. Feed rate did not have significant individual effect on any response variable. Expansion ratio had a negative correlation with bulk density (r = -0.61) and shear stress (r = -0.62) and a positive correlation with product temperature (r = 0.52). Bulk density and shear stress were positively correlated (r = 0.69), and product temperature and water absorption index were positively correlated too (r = 0.81). Expansion ratio, bulk density, color, and shear stress were chosen to determine a combined set of extrusion conditions most likely to produce an extrudate with properties suitable for a snack-type product.
Metamorphic reworking of a high pressure–low temperature mélange along the Motagua fault, Guatemala: A record of Neocomian and Maastrichtian transpressional tectonics
Creators: name: Brueckner, Hannes K.
name: Lallemant, Hans G. Avé
name: Sisson, Virginia B.
name: Harlow, George E.
name: Hemming, Sidney R.
name: Martens, Uwe
name: Tsujimori, Tatsuki
name: Sorensen, Sorena S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geochemistry
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Plate tectonics
subject: Strike-slip faults (Geology)
subject: Metamorphic rocks
subject: Eclogite

description: The Guatemala suture zone is a major east–west left-lateral strike slip boundary that separates the North American and Caribbean plates in Guatemala. The Motagua fault, the central active strand of the suture zone, underwent two major collisional events within a system otherwise dominated by strike–slip motion. The first event is recorded by high-pressure/low temperature (HP/LT) eclogites and related rocks that occur within serpentinites both north and south of the Motagua fault. Lawsonite eclogites south of the fault are not significantly retrograded and give 40Ar/39Ar ages of 125–116 Ma and Sm–Nd mineral isochrons of 144–132 Ma. Eclogites north of the fault give similar Sm–Nd isochron ages (131–126 Ma) but otherwise differ in that they are strongly overprinted by a lower pressure assemblage and, along with associated HP/LT rocks, give much younger 40Ar/39Ar ages of 88–55 Ma indicating a later amphibolite facies metamorphic event. We propose therefore that all serpentinite hosted eclogites along the Motagua fault formed at essentially the same time in different parts of a laterally extensive Lower Cretaceous forearc subduction system, but subsequently underwent different histories. The southern assemblages were thrust southwards (present coordinates) immediately after HP metamorphism whereas the northern association was retrograded during a later collision that thrust it northward at ca. 70 Ma. They were subsequently juxtaposed opposite each other by major strike slip motion. This model implies that the HP rocks on opposing sides of the Motagua fault evolved along a plate boundary that underwent both dip slip and strike slip motion throughout the Late Cretaceous as a result of oblique convergence. The juxtaposition of a convergent and strike slip system means that HP/LT rocks within serpentinites can be found at depth along much of the modern Guatemala suture zone and its eastward extension into the northern Caribbean. Both sets of assemblages were exhumed relatively recently by the uplift of mountain ranges on both sides of the fault caused by movement along a restraining bend. Recent exhumation explains the apparently lack of offset of surface outcrops along a major strike slip fault.
Thriving in transition : the personal characteristics and processes of thriving in young males in periods of geographic dislocation
Creators: name: Harris, MW
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study examined the personal characteristics and processes of thriving in a group of young men during a geographically dislocating transition. The concept of thriving broadened the traditional vulnerability and coping focus of transition research, to one that incorporated positive learning and growth. The challenging circumstances surrounding geographic dislocation provided the context for these characteristics and processes to be examined and explained. The study was conducted with 24 young male, elite athletes drawn from the Australian Football League who were required to relocate to take up their player contracts. A partially mixed, sequential design was employed, firstly to identify the features of the participant group. Despite their homogeneity on a range of instruments, the outcome variations were not adequately explained. Subsequently, the particular characteristics and processes that contributed to thriving were examined. From the results, a comprehensive analysis of the experience of the geographically, dislocating transition identified a principle group of 16 characteristics (concepts) and associated processes. Based on variations in these identified concepts, the study's participants clustered in one of three groups (categories): those who were thriving, surviving or languishing in regard to the challenge of the geographically dislocating transition. Thriving was further examined in relation to a theoretical framework of transition as a cyclical process. This was explained as a dynamic exchange across stages of transition, rather than as a standard linear model. While the transition was recursive, the stages were disjunctive and at the same time interconnected. Thriving explained by this model required the resolution of tasks associated with the concepts at each stage. For each of the categories the concepts were the same however the resolution of the associated tasks was more problematic. The recursive process of learning gave the thriving participants a significant advantage. They had a positive trajectory on the thriving transition cycle and their ability to progress was enhanced by the satisfactory resolution of issues at each stage of the challenge. Those whose tasks were poorly resolved or unresolved were less able to thrive as the transition unfolded. This study provided new insights into the characteristics and processes of thriving in a geographically dislocating transition. Thriving was observed as a cyclic, staged process where the trajectories of passage, and adjustment strategies, exerted a significant influence on the outcomes. To advance the learnings from this research and to broaden the application of possible interventions, the direction of future research should extend the methodology to other groups in transition, and to a wider range of transition challenges.
Nearshore Antarctic reef assemblages : influence of sedimentation and benthic irradiance
Creators: name: Goldsworthy, Paul Michael
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Sediment runoff accelerated by human activities is known to be a major threat to nearshore marine communities worldwide, however impacts of sedimentation in Antarctica are largely unknown. Each summer at Australia's Casey Station, meltwater entrains sediment from crushed rock roadways causing visible surface plumes in Brown Bay. Observations during previous studies indicated a paucity of reef species in Brown Bay compared to other bays in the Windmill Islands. Differences were attributed to two possible factors: 1) elevated sedimentation rates resulting from human activities, and 2) lower benthic irradiance caused by thicker snow cover overlying sea ice. This thesis examines the potential impacts of sedimentation and benthic irradiance on shallow rocky reef assemblages in Antarctica using both manipulative in situ and aquarium experiments. Digital video transects quantitatively confirmed that reefs in Brown Bay supported a significantly lower cover of biota, fewer total species and individuals, and fewer sponge species compared to nearby 'control' bays. Recruitment to artificial substrata in Brown Bay and 'control' bays was numerically dominated by spirorbid polychaetes and encrusting bryozoan species after 13 and 37 months. Recruitment varied significantly between bays, although overall fewer species and fewer bryozoan species recruited at Brown Bay. More taxa recruited when sedimentation was experimentally inhibited in Brown Bay (using Plexiglas shields), indicating sediment loads were hindering recruitment. Aquarium experiments showed a 0.5 mm thick sediment layer prevented zoospore settlement and early post-settlement growth of the brown alga, Himantothallus grandifolius, and smothering of attached zoospores by a thin layer of sediment caused reduced germ tube growth. Translocated individuals of red alga, Palmaria decipiens, in Brown Bay and 'control bays' had thalli lengths 80 - 99% shorter after 12 and 36 months compared to lengths at initial deployment. Reduced thallus growth was apparent even when sedimentation was artificially reduced, indicating that factors other than sedimentation influence the growth of adult P.decipiens. A clear effect of irradiance levels on thallus growth of this species in the absence of sedimentation was subsequently identified in aquarium experiments, and results correlated with the field observations. Anthropogenically increased sedimentation rates in Antarctica were shown to influence recruitment success of sessile reef taxa (flora and fauna), while benthic irradiance was identified as a strong determinant of macroalgal distribution. Sound environmental management of runoff accelerated by human activities in Antarctica is considered critical for reducing impacts on marine environments, particularly in light of climate change predictions for polar environments.
Additional file 2 of Long-term survival of a patient with microsatellite-stable refractory colorectal cancer with regorafenib and PD-1 inhibitor sintilimab: a case report and review of literature
Creators: name: Zhang, Yong
name: Zhang, Fang
name: Zhao, Lingdi
name: Fu, Xiaomin
name: Shang, Yiman
name: Gao, Quanli
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Detailed patient history.
Partial results on extending the Hopf Lemma
Creators: name: Li, YanYan
name: Nirenberg, Louis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35J60; 53A05

description: In [1], Theorem 3, the authors proved, in one dimension, a generalization of the Hopf Lemma, and the question arose if it could be extended to higher dimensions. In this paper we present two conjectures as possible extensions, and give a very partial answer. We write this paper to call attention to the problem.
title: Uptake, Absorption, and Adsorption Kinetics of Ferrous and Ferric Iron in Iron-replete and Iron-deficient Rats
Creators: name: Ummadi, Madhavi
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1994

description: Various concentrations of ferrous and ferric iron solutions were held at room temperature for 60 min before they were assayed for ferrous iron, which may be unstable due to oxidation. The ferrous and ferric solutions (in pH 2 HCl) were maintained as such for 60 min without the use of chelators. There was no significant oxidation of ferrous iron. Also, four different levels of each ferrous and ferric iron were injected into proximal duodenal loops of rat intestine and uptake was determined at four different time intervals. Two iron-replete rats were assigned to each of the treatments. The in situ experiments showed that iron was taken up rapidly from pH 2.0 solutions of ferrous and ferric iron. Maximum amount of iron was taken up in the first 10 min. Uptake of ferrous iron was significantly greater (p < 0.05) than uptake of ferric iron, and there were significant differences in total uptake among the four iron levels used.
Uptake, absorption, and adsorption kinetics of both ferrous and ferric iron were determined in situ for both iron-replete and iron-deficient rats. Deficiency caused greater uptake and absorption, confirming a biological adaptation of these processes. Both uptake and absorption were greater for ferrous than for ferric iron and were possibly taken up by different pathways or by a ferrous-ferric pathway with preference for ferrous. Uptake and absorption kinetics were biphasic for both ferrous and ferric iron. The first phase demonstrated saturation kinetics and was followed by a nonsaturable phase at higher concentrations of luminal iron. Iron deficiency altered the uptake and absorption kinetics of ferrous and ferric iron, but not always in a similar manner, suggesting that ferrous and ferric iron were each taken up by a separate pathway. Indications were that enhanced absorption during deficiency was largely due to adaptation of ferric uptake. Iron adsorption was directly proportional to luminal iron concentration, but it was greater for ferric than for ferrous, possibly due to charge interactions. Iron deficiency caused increased adsorption of both ferrous and ferric iron, supporting the notion that adsorption acts to maintain iron in a form available for uptake.