cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Entropy-area law and temperature of de Sitter horizons from modular theory
Creators: name: D'Angelo, Edoardo
name: Fröb, Markus B.
name: Galanda, Stefano
name: Meda, Paolo
name: Much, Albert
name: Papadopoulos, Kyriakos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive an entropy-area law for the future horizon of an observer in diamonds inside the static patch of de Sitter spacetime, taking into account the backreaction of quantum matter fields. We prove positivity and convexity of the relative entropy for coherent states using Tomita--Takesaki modular theory, from which the QNEC for diamonds follows. Furthermore, we show that the generalized entropy conjecture holds. Finally, we reveal that the local temperature which is measured by an observer at rest exhibits subleading quantum corrections with respect to the well-known cosmological horizon temperature $H/(2π)$.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in PTEP
Japanagallia malaisei C.A.Viraktamath 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Japanagallia
Japanagallia malaisei

description: Japanagallia malaisei sp. nov.
Figs 423–427.
 Color. Dark brown. Two round spots, narrow median stripe on vertex, upper part of face, frontoclypeus, clypellus, lorum, antennal cavities, most of gena, inner margin of eye and band from latter to ocellus, black. Rest of face pale yellow. Ocelli red. Pronotum and scutellum black except pale yellow posterior and lateral margins of pronotum and two marginal spots distad of median impressed line on scutellum. Forewings brown except pale yellow claval veins and claval sutures. Subgenital plates ochraceous.
 Male genitalia. Pygofer broad, caudodorsally terminated into sharp spine. Styles with inner arm caudally drawn out into process. Dorsal apodeme of aedeagus well developed, without process; caudal atrial process well developed, curved and some what pointed apically, shaft with pair of lateral short processes at base, gonopore terminal and surrounded by collar with uneven width.
 Measurements. Male 4.30 mm long, 1.40 mm wide across eyes.
 Material examined. MYANMAR: HOLOTYPE ♂, N.E. Burma: Kambaiti, 7000ft (2113 m), 30.v.1934, R. Malaise, B.M. 1935-630 (BMNH).
 Remarks. J. malaisei resembles J. mussooriensis sp. nov., but differs in being longer, more slender and darker in color. The male genitalia are very distinctive.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on page 87
Rotational Damping and Compound Formation in Warm Rotating Nuclei
Creators: name: Matsuo, M.
name: Leoni, S.
name: Grassi, C.
name: Vigezzi, E.
name: Bracco, A.
name: Dossing, T.
name: Herskind, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rotational damping width Γ_{rot} and the compound damping width Γ_{comp} are two fundamental quantities that characterize rapidly rotating compound nuclei having finite thermal excitation energy. A two-component structure in the strength function of consecutive E2 transitions reflects the two widths, and it causes characteristic features in the double and triple gamma-ray spectra. We discuss a new method to extract experimentally values of Γ_{rot} and Γ_{comp}. The first preliminary result of this method is presented.
description: PDF, 8 pages, invited talk at the Conference on Frontiers of Nuclear Structure (FNS2002), August 2002, Berkeley
MPEC 2025-D09 : 2025 DB
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 DB

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
of A novel approach for the generation of genetically modified mammary epithelial cell cultures yields new insights into TGFÎ˛ signaling in the mammary gland
Creators: name: Kohn, Ethan
name: Zhijun Du
name: Sato, Misako
name: Schyndle, Catherine Van
name: Welsh, Michael
name: Yu-An Yang
name: Stuelten, Christina
name: Binwu Tang
name: Wenjun Ju
name: Bottinger, Erwin
name: Lalage Wakefield
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: of A novel approach for the generation of genetically modified mammary epithelial cell cultures yields new insights into TGFÎ˛ signaling in the mammary gland
Regulation of nerve growth and patterning by cell surface protein disulphide isomerase
Creators: name: Cook, Geoffrey MW
name: Sousa, Catia
name: Schaeffer, Julia
name: Wiles, Katherine
name: Jareonsettasin, Prem
name: Kalyanasundaram, Asanish
name: Walder, Eleanor
name: Casper, Catharina
name: Patel, Serena
name: Chua, Pei Wei
name: Riboni-Verri, Gioia
name: Raza, Mansoor
name: Swaddiwudhipong, Nol
name: Hui, Andrew
name: Abdullah, Ameer
name: Wajed, Saj
name: Keynes, Roger J
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Developmental Biology
Neuroscience
spinal nerve
repeat patterning
somite
axon guidance
Chicken
Human
Rat

description: Funder: Medical Research Council; FundRef: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000265
description: Funder: Wellcome; FundRef: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004440
description: Funder: Spinal Research; FundRef: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007922
description: Funder: Trinity College, University of Cambridge; FundRef: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000727
description: Funder: University of Cambridge; FundRef: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000735
description: Funder: Rosetrees Trust; FundRef: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000833
description: Funder: The Anatomical Society
description: Contact repulsion of growing axons is an essential mechanism for spinal nerve patterning. In birds and mammals the embryonic somites generate a linear series of impenetrable barriers, forcing axon growth cones to traverse one half of each somite as they extend towards their body targets. This study shows that protein disulphide isomerase provides a key component of these barriers, mediating contact repulsion at the cell surface in chick half-somites. Repulsion is reduced both in vivo and in vitro by a range of methods that inhibit enzyme activity. The activity is critical in initiating a nitric oxide/S-nitrosylation-dependent signal transduction pathway that regulates the growth cone cytoskeleton. Rat forebrain grey matter extracts contain a similar activity, and the enzyme is expressed at the surface of cultured human astrocytic cells and rat cortical astrocytes. We suggest this system is co-opted in the brain to counteract and regulate aberrant nerve terminal growth.
MOESM2 of A novel approach for the generation of genetically modified mammary epithelial cell cultures yields new insights into TGFÎ˛ signaling in the mammary gland
Creators: name: Kohn, Ethan
name: Zhijun Du
name: Sato, Misako
name: Schyndle, Catherine Van
name: Welsh, Michael
name: Yu-An Yang
name: Stuelten, Christina
name: Binwu Tang
name: Wenjun Ju
name: Bottinger, Erwin
name: Lalage Wakefield
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Authorsâ original file for figure 2
High current-carrying capability in c-axis-oriented superconducting MgB2 thin films
Creators: name: Kim, Hyeong-Jin
name: Kang, W. N.
name: Choi, Eun-Mi
name: Kim, Mun-Seog
name: Kim, Kijoon H. P.
name: Lee, Sung-Ik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In high-quality c-axis-oriented MgB2 thin films, we observed high critical current densities (Jc) of 16 MA/cm^2 at 15 K under self fields comparable to those of cuprate high-temperature superconductors. The extrapolated value of Jc at 5 K was estimated to be 40 MA/cm^2. For a magnetic field of 5 T, a Jc of 0.1 MA/cm^2 was detected at 15 K, suggesting that this compound would be a very promising candidate for practical applications at high temperature and lower power consumption. The vortex-glass phase is considered to be a possible explanation for the observed high current-carrying capability.
description: 3 pages and 4 figures, to be published in Physical Review Letters
The effect of inhomogeneous carbon prices on the cost-optimal design of a simplified European power system
Creators: name: Schlott, Markus
name: Hofmann, Fabian
name: Wang, Changlong
name: Gomes, R. O.
name: Kies, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Carbon prices are one of the most prominent methods to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and have been adopted by several countries around the world. However, regionally different carbon prices can lead to carbon leakage. We investigate a simplified European power system where carbon prices are varied with respect to GDP per capita and find that inhomogeneous carbon prices lead to significant carbon leakage due to coal-fired generation remaining a major source of power in Eastern Europe.
description: 6 pages, 11 figures
A seven-Earth-radius helium-burning star inside a 20.5-min detached binary
Creators: name: Lin, Jie
name: Wu, Chengyuan
name: Xiong, Heran
name: Wang, Xiaofeng
name: Nemeth, Peter
name: Han, Zhanwen
name: Li, Jiangdan
name: Elias-Rosa, Nancy
name: Salmaso, Irene
name: Filippenko, Alexei V.
name: Brink, Thomas G.
name: Yang, Yi
name: Chen, Xuefei
name: Yan, Shengyu
name: Zhang, Jujia
name: Guo, Sufen
name: Cai, Yongzhi
name: Mo, Jun
name: Xi, Gaobo
name: Liu, Jialian
name: Guo, Jincheng
name: Xia, Qiqi
name: Xiang, Danfeng
name: Li, Gaici
name: Li, Zhenwei
name: Zheng, WeiKang
name: Zhang, Jicheng
name: Liu, Qichun
name: Guo, Fangzhou
name: Chen, Liyang
name: Li, Wenxiong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Binary evolution theory predicts that the second common envelope (CE) ejection can produce low-mass (0.32-0.36 Msun) subdwarf B (sdB) stars inside ultrashort-orbital-period binary systems, as their helium cores are ignited under nondegenerate conditions. With the orbital decay driven by gravitational-wave (GW) radiation, the minimum orbital periods of detached sdB binaries could be as short as ~20 minutes. However, only four sdB binaries with orbital periods below an hour have been reported so far, while none of them has an orbital period approaching the above theoretical limit. Here we report the discovery of a 20.5-minute-orbital-period ellipsoidal binary, TMTS J052610.43+593445.1, in which the visible star is being tidally deformed by an invisible carbon-oxygen white dwarf (WD) companion. The visible component is inferred to be an sdB star with a mass of ~0.33 Msun, approaching that of helium-ignition limit, although a He-core WD cannot be completely ruled out. In particular, the radius of this low-mass sdB star is only 0.066 Rsun, about seven Earth radii, possibly representing the most compact nondegenerate star ever known. Such a system provides a key clue to map the binary evolution scheme from the second CE ejection to the formation of AM CVn stars having a helium-star donor, and it will also serve as a crucial verification binary of space-borne GW detectors in the future.
description: 24 pages, 11 figures, 1 table, published on Nature Astronomy, URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02188-2
Surface Roughness and Effective Stick-Slip Motion
Creators: name: Ponomarev, I. V.
name: Meyerovich, A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of random surface roughness on hydrodynamics of viscous incompressible liquid is discussed. Roughness-driven contributions to hydrodynamic flows, energy dissipation, and friction force are calculated in a wide range of parameters. When the hydrodynamic decay length (the viscous wave penetration depth) is larger than the size of random surface inhomogeneities, it is possible to replace a random rough surface by effective stick-slip boundary conditions on a flat surface with two constants: the stick-slip length and the renormalization of viscosity near the boundary. The stick-slip length and the renormalization coefficient are expressed explicitly via the correlation function of random surface inhomogeneities. The effective stick-slip length is always negative signifying the effective slow-down of the hydrodynamic flows by the rough surface (stick rather than slip motion). A simple hydrodynamic model is presented as an illustration of these general hydrodynamic results. The effective boundary parameters are analyzed numerically for Gaussian, power-law and exponentially decaying correlators with various indices. The maximum on the frequency dependence of the dissipation allows one to extract the correlation radius (characteristic size) of the surface inhomogeneities directly from, for example, experiments with torsional quartz oscillators.
description: RevTeX4, 14 pages, 3 figures
OIL PIPELINE MARKETS AND OPERATIONS
Creators: name: Hull, Bradley
name: Hull, Bradley
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Despite a considerable literature regarding other modes of transportation, little is written about oil pipelines. This is remarkable since oil pipelines move 17% of all intercity ton miles, but also understandable since they have a low public profile and with near total automation, have few employees. This article attempts to bridge the gap by comparing pipeline operations and those of the other modes, showing striking similarities along with a few significant differences. It also portrays pipeline markets and their changing trends. In recent years, they have served an industry that is experiencing rapidly shifting geographical markets, proliferation of new products, and outsourcing of transportation by shippers. The pipeline industry has responded to these challenges with increased competitive entry, numerous capital construction projects, and a high reliance on technology. These issues, along with the regulatory constraints and responses are portrayed.
Bioengineering horizon scan 2020
Creators: name: Kemp, Luke
name: Adam, Laura
name: Boehm, Christian R
name: Breitling, Rainer
name: Casagrande, Rocco
name: Dando, Malcolm
name: Djikeng, Appolinaire
name: Evans, Nicholas G
name: Hammond, Richard
name: Hills, Kelly
name: Holt, Lauren A
name: Kuiken, Todd
name: Markotić, Alemka
name: Millett, Piers
name: Napier, Johnathan A
name: Nelson, Cassidy
name: ÓhÉigeartaigh, Seán S
name: Osbourn, Anne
name: Palmer, Megan
name: Patron, Nicola J
name: Perello, Edward
name: Piyawattanametha, Wibool
name: Restrepo-Schild, Vanessa
name: Rios-Rojas, Clarissa
name: Rhodes, Catherine
name: Roessing, Anna
name: Scott, Deborah
name: Shapira, Philip
name: Simuntala, Christopher
name: Smith, Robert DJ
name: Sundaram, Lalitha S
name: Takano, Eriko
name: Uttmark, Gwyn
name: Wintle, Bonnie
name: Zahra, Nadia B
name: Sutherland, William J
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Feature Article
Genetics and Genomics
Human Biology and Medicine
Point of View
bioengineering
biotechnology
horizon scanning
foresight
point of view
None

description: Horizon scanning is intended to identify the opportunities and threats associated with technological, regulatory and social change. In 2017 some of the present authors conducted a horizon scan for bioengineering (Wintle et al., 2017). Here we report the results of a new horizon scan that is based on inputs from a larger and more international group of 38 participants. The final list of 20 issues includes topics spanning from the political (the regulation of genomic data, increased philanthropic funding and malicious uses of neurochemicals) to the environmental (crops for changing climates and agricultural gene drives). The early identification of such issues is relevant to researchers, policy-makers and the wider public.
Japanagallia mussooriensis C.A.Viraktamath 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Japanagallia
Japanagallia mussooriensis

description: Japanagallia mussooriensis sp. nov.
Figs 30, 76 –79,428–434, 571, 585, 600.
 Color. Black. Vertex yellow with spot on inner angle of eye, one median spot continued on face, and two lateral somewhat oval spots, black. Face black excepting lateral areas, antennal ledges, area mesad of compound eyes and dorsad of ocellus, yellow or ochraceous. Pronotum black with hind margin yellow. Scutellum black except apical yellow area. Claval veins, area on either side of claval suture brown, apical half of forewings dark brown, basal half black; anal margin between inner claval vein, apices of outer claval veins and claval suture, whitish. Femora black with apices brownish, remaining of fore and middle legs ochraceous, hind legs dark fuscous. Subgenital plates dark brown.
 Male genitalia. Pygofer caudally narrowed, recurved into dorsal acute process with tooth-like projections on outer margin basally. Dorsal apodeme and preatrium of aedeagus well developed making aedeagus anchor-shaped in lateral aspect; shaft with pair of basal processes, series of three processes on preatrium and on dorsal apodeme (Fig. 433); process on apex of dorsal apodeme lamellate and bilobed, aedeagal shaft brown pigmented, with large oblique gonopore. Anal collar process broadened caudally with series of round perforations.
 Measurements. Male and female 4.0 mm long, 1.37 mm wide across eyes.
 Material examined. INDIA: HOLOTYPE ♂, Uttaranchal: Mussoorie, 27.iv.1975, C.A. Viraktamath (UASB). PARATYPES: 2 ♂, same data as holotype; 1 ♂, Mundali, Jaunsa Division, Dehra Dun dist. Alt. 9000 ft (2730 m), 12.v.1910, 2965/21, Indian Museum Coll. Distant Coll. B.M. 1911-383 (BMNH, UASB). MYANMAR: 1 ♂, Kambaiti 7000ft (2113m), 30.iv.1934, R. Malaise, B.M. 1935-630 (BMNH). Additonal material: INDIA: 1 ♂, Mundali, Jaunsa Divison, Dehra Dun dist., 900oft, 12.v.[19]10, Ind. Mus. From Ind. Mus. Distant Coll. B.M. 1911-383 (BMNH); NEPAL: 2 ♂, 2 ♀, Kathmandu, Chandragiri, V.K. Thapa (UASB).
 Remarks. J. mussooriensis resembles J. malaisei but can be readily distinguished by the structure of the pygofer and aedeagus. The specimens from Mussoorie were collected on slopes on one side of the path covered with grass and annual herbs belonging to the family Asteraceae.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on pages 87-88
Polymer collapse in the presence of hydrodynamic interactions
Creators: name: Kikuchi, N.
name: Gent, A.
name: Yeomans, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate numerically the dynamical behaviour of a polymer chain collapsing in a dilute solution. The rate of collapse is measured with and without the presence of hydrodynamic interactions. We find that hydrodynamic interactions both accelerate polymer collapse and alter the folding pathway.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
The evolution of transformational change in multilateral funds dedicated to financing adaptation to climate change
Creators: name: Kasdan, Marli
name: Kuhl, Laura
name: Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
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: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Transformational adaptation is increasingly viewed as necessary to prevent the worst offsets in development gains due to severe climate impacts. However, clarity regarding how to produce transformational adaptation in practice is lacking, creating problems for project design and implementation. This paper examines (1) how transformational adaptation has been defined by major funders of adaptation; (2) how the concept has influenced funding priorities and the financing of projects. The study is based on a comparative analysis of the investment criteria, board meeting minutes, documents, and reports of the primary financial mechanisms under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: the Least Developed Country Fund, the Special Climate Change Fund, the Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund. Our study demonstrates an increasing emphasis on transformational adaptation across funds over time, particularly in the Green Climate Fund. Transformative potential does guide funding decisions, but a clear understanding of whether transformational change is achievable, feasible, and desirable under all conditions has not yet emerged, an issue acknowledged by the funds and regularly discussed. Our analysis suggests that acknowledging tensions which arise with transformation in adaptation finance is critical because investment criteria and definitions of transformation impact the approaches to adaptation countries take.
Invariant subalgebras of the small $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal algebra
Creators: name: Creutzig, Thomas
name: Linshaw, Andrew R.
name: Riedler, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Various aspects of orbifolds and cosets of the small $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal algebra are studied. First, we determine minimal strong generators for generic and specific levels. As a corollary, we obtain the vertex algebra of global sections of the chiral de Rham complex on any complex Enriques surface. We also identify orbifolds of cosets of the small $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal algebra with $\text{Com}(V^{\ell}(\mathfrak{sl}_2), V^{\ell+1}(\mathfrak{sl}_2) \otimes \mathcal{W}_{-5/2}(\mathfrak{sl}_4, f_{\text{rect}}))$ and in addition at special levels with Grassmanian cosets and principal $\mathcal{W}$-algebras of type $A$ at degenerate admissible levels. These coincidences lead us to a novel level-rank duality involving Grassmannian supercosets.
description: Many corrections and improvements to the exposition. Conjecture 7.9 from previous version is now a theorem
Nose-to-brain delivery of liposomes for the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Creators: name: Lee, David
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2025

description: The efficacy of Alzheimer’s disease treatment is limited by the blood-brain barrier and the systemic side effects of the medications. To overcome this barrier, we propose the nose-to-brain (NtB) delivery of anti-Alzheimer’s disease medications in combination with siRNA targeting beta-secretase -1 (BACE-1), a key enzyme that produces beta-amyloid peptide. To deliver these therapeutic agents to the brain, we propose a liposomal formulation that can encapsulate these agents. The cationic lipid is incorporated into the liposome to increase the encapsulation of siRNA. We describe the evaluation of the physicochemical properties of the liposomes and their safety, as well as their efficacy in vitro and in vivo. To investigate the efficacy of the treatment groups, we demonstrate the evaluation of the nasal epithelial cell permeability, beta-amyloid peptide levels, and pro-inflammatory mRNA expression of human neuronal cells and mouse brain tissues and the behavioral study of the transgenic mice.
Chromosomal evolution and phylogenetic considerations in cuckoos (Aves, Cuculiformes, Cuculidae)
Creators: name: Dos Santos, Michelly Da Silva
name: Kretschmer, Rafael
name: Furo, Ivanete De Oliveira
name: Gunski, Ricardo José
name: Del Valle Garnero, Analía
name: Valeri, Mirela Pelizaro
name: O’Brien, Patricia C. M.
name: Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm A.
name: De Oliveira, Edivaldo Herculano Corrêa
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Article
subject: Biology and life sciences
subject: Research and analysis methods
subject: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The Cuckoos have a long history of difficult classification. The species of this order have been the subject of several studies based on osteology, behavior, ecology, morphology and molecular data. Despite this, the relationship between Cuculiformes and species of other orders remains controversial. In this work, two species of Cuculidae, Guira guira (Gmelin, 1788) and Piaya cayana (Linnaeus, 1766), were analyzed by means of comparative chromosome painting in order to study the chromosome evolution of this group and to undertake the first chromosome mapping of these species. Our results demonstrate high chromosomal diversity, with 2n = 76 in G. guira, with fission and fusion events involving ancestral syntenies, while P. cayana presented only fissions, which were responsible for the high diploid number of 2n = 90. Interestingly, there were no chromosomal rearrangements in common between these species. Our results, based on Giemsa staining, were compared with previous data for other cuckoos and also with taxa proposed as sister-groups of Cuculiformes (Otidiformes, Musophagiformes and Opisthocomiformes). Cytogenetic comparisons demonstrated that cuckoo species can be divided into at least three major groups. In addition, we found no evidence to place Cuculiformes close to the groups proposed previously as sister-groups.
Effects of modified gravity on microscopic properties and cooling timescale of white dwarfs
Creators: name: Wojnar, Aneta
name: Kalita, Surajit
name: Sarmah, Lupamudra
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There are currently two open questions in white dwarf physics: why are massive dwarfs observed less often in astronomical surveys, and why have not any super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs been found despite the discovery of more than a dozen peculiar, overly-luminous type Ia supernovae in about a couple of decades? According to different research, magnetic fields appear to somewhat resolve these issues, but stability remains a concern. For the first time, we investigate how modified gravity affects the specific heat of electrons and ions, the crystallization process, and the cooling mechanism in white dwarfs. We demonstrate it for the Ricci-based gravity. We show that massive white dwarfs fade faster and conclude that it could be a physical reason, apart from the presence of high magnetic fields, both for finding fewer massive white dwarfs and the lack of direct detection of super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs.
description: 7 pages with 3 figures; accepted for publication in Physics Letters B
Experiences of oldest-old caregivers whose partner is approaching end-of-life: A mixed-method systematic review and narrative synthesis
Creators: name: Morgan, Tessa
name: Bharmal, Aamena
name: Duschinsky, Robbie
name: Barclay, Stephen
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Article
subject: Medicine and health sciences
subject: Research and analysis methods
subject: People and places
subject: Biology and life sciences
subject: Social sciences
subject: FOS: Social sciences

description: Background and objectives: Population ageing has rapidly increased the number of people requiring end-of-life care across the globe. Governments have responded by promoting end-of-life in the community. Partly as a consequence, older spouses are frequently providing for their partner’s end-of-life care at home, despite potentially facing their own health issues. While there is an emerging literature on young-old caregivers, less is known about spouse carers over 75 who are likely to face specific challenges associated with their advanced age and relationship status. The aim of this review, therefore, is to identify and synthesise the literature concerning the experiences of caregiver’s aged 75 and over whose partner is approaching end-of-life. We conducted a mixed-method systematic review and narrative synthesis of the empirical literature published between 1985 and May 2019, identified from six databases: Medline, PsychINFO, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Embase, Sociological Abstracts and Social Service Abstracts. Hand searching and reference checking were also conducted. Gough’s Weight of Evidence and Morgan’s Feminist Quality Appraisal tool used to determine the quality of papers. From the initial 7819 titles, 10 qualitative studies and 9 quantitative studies were included. We identified three themes: 1) “Embodied impact of care” whereby caring was found to negatively impact carers physical and psychological health, with adverse effects continuing into bereavement; 2) “Caregiving spouse’s conceptualisation of their role” in which caregiver’s navigated their self and marriage identities in relation to their partner’s condition and expectations about gender and place; 3) “Learning to care” which involved learning new skills and ways of coping to remain able to provide care. We identified a recent up-surge in published papers about very old spousal caregivers, which now comprise a small, medium-quality evidence base. This review outlines a range of potential lines of inquiry for future research including further clarification of the impact of caregiving on the likelihood of mortality, the incidence of men and women providing end-of-life care amongst this age group, and the role of anticipatory grief in shaping their perceptions of their relationship and their own longevity.
Shock interactions, coping strategy choices and household food security
Creators: name: Ansah, Isaac Gershon Kodwo
name: Gardebroek, Cornelis
name: Ihle, Rico
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Agriculture-based livelihoods in developing countries are often challenged by a multitude of unforeseeable shocks, but economic research mostly focuses on single shocks. This paper investigates how climate, health, pest and price shocks individually and in combination relate to farm households’ coping strategy choices. First, we use binary probit models to examine how interactions from coinciding shocks relate to coping strategy choices. Next, we assess how coping strategies relate to household food security in a recursive framework. We find that when shocks are considered individually, the nature of shocks and their duration affect the likelihood of using savings. However, when climate shocks interact with health, pest or price shocks, there are incremental effects that increase the probability of depleting household assets to cope. Our findings suggest that governmental and non-governmental organizations should support rural farm households in managing the effects of multiple shocks through the provision and enhancement of markets for labour, insurance and outputs as well as formal safety nets. This support will help them to protect their assets and foster long-term wealth creation for escaping chronic poverty and food insecurity.
Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Paratransit Brokerage
Creators: name: Pagano, Anthony M.
name: Metaxatos, Paul
name: O’Laughlin, Roseann M.
name: Morreale, Alicia
name: Pagano, Anthony M.
name: Metaxatos, Paul
name: O’Laughlin, Roseann M.
name: Morreale, Alicia
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: The benefits of interagency coordination of public and human service transportation have been recognized and promoted by federal, state and local governments. Potential coordination benefits can be realized by centralizing critical functions of transit operations. One of the ways this can be realized is by brokering partransit services. This paper discusses barriers that agencies face when planning to implement paratransit brokerages. The barriers were developed from a synthesis of the literature and interviews with paratransit providers in Illinois. Strategies for implementing brokerages that attempt to overcome these barriers based on an analysis of paratransit operators in the state of Illinois are also presented. These strategies include establishing an advisory board, developing an agreement among participants, specification of the type of brokerage that will be implemented and technological changes.
Predicting proton-nucleus total reaction cross sections up to 300 MeV using a simple functional form
Creators: name: Deb, P. K.
name: Amos, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Total reaction cross sections are predicted for proton scattering from various nuclei. A simple functional form has been used that reproduces the total reaction cross sections for the scattering of protons from (15) nuclei spanning the mass range from ${}^9$Be to ${}^{238}$U and for proton energies 10 to 300 MeV.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Japanagallia neotappana C.A.Viraktamath 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Japanagallia
Japanagallia neotappana

description: Japanagallia neotappana sp. nov.
Figs 435–436.
 Color. Pale brown, with variable black markings. Two more or less round spots on vertex, inverted Y, two sub-marginal stripes on clypeus, obovate spot on clypellus, inner marginal band on lorum, antennal pit, lateral margin of ocellus, mesal area adjacent to eye, black. Basal broad marginal band on pronotum, short median stripe, two lateral spots arising from it, black. Scutellum except caudolateral margin, apex and thoracic pleura, black. In some specimens submarginal bands on clypeus coalesce with each other and with inverted Y on face making frontoclypeus black. Anterior pronotal band some times broad and triangularly extended laterad joining median stripe by narrow fuscous band leaving two large brownish yellow spots. Remaining of face, pronotum, scutellum, brownish yellow. Forewing cells brown, costal area and veins paler.
 Male genitalia. Dorsal process of pygofer narrow, spine-like, caudal lobe ventrally directed, with short, stout setae. Aedeagal shaft without basal processes, apex comparatively narrower, with two plate-like processes laterally at base, gonopore subapical.
 Measurement. Male 4.77–4.89 mm long and 1.61–1.66 mm wide across eyes.
 Material examined. CHINA: HOLOTYPE ♂, Fukien: Shaown: Shui Paikai, 1.iv.1942, T.C. Maa (BPBM). PARATYPE: 1 ♂, same data as holotype except 26.iii.1942 (BPBM).
 Remarks. J. neotappana closely resembles J. tappana but differs in lacking a pair of horn-like processes at the base of the shaft on the dorsal margin and in having a pair of plate-like processes at the base of the shaft.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on page 89
MPEC 2025-D10 : 2025 DC
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 DC

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Identification of additional jets in the t-tbar b-bbar events using a deep neural network
Creators: name: Choi, Jieun
name: Kim, Tae Jeong
name: Lim, Jongwon
name: Park, Jiwon
name: Ryou, Yeonsu
name: Song, Juhee
name: Yun, Soohyun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the top quark pair production in association with the Higgs boson decaying to a b quark pair t-tbar H (b-bbar), the final state has an irreducible nonresonant background from the production of a top quark pair in association with a b quark pair t-tbar b-bbar. Therefore, understanding of the t-tbar b-bbar process precisely in particular differential cross-section as functions of the properties of the additional b jets not from the top quark decay is essential for improving the sensitivity of a search for the t-tbar H b-bbar process. The two additional b jets can be identified by using various approaches. In this paper, the performances are compared quantitatively in the lepton+jets decay channel in terms of the matching efficiency of assigning two additional b jets as a figure of merit. This study provides valuable information towards the precise measurement of differential cross-sections as a function of properties of the additional b jets in the t-tbar b-bbar events. We showed that a matching efficiency of around 40% could be achieved using a deep neural network method. In the events with at least 4 b jets, this performance is 8% better than that achieved using minimum Delta R(b,bbar) method. This is consistent with the boosted decision tree method within its statistical uncertainty.
Functional Relationships of Wood Anatomical Traits in Norway Spruce
Creators: name: Piermattei, Alma
name: Von Arx, Georg
name: Avanzi, Camilla
name: Fonti, Patrick
name: Gärtner, Holger
name: Piotti, Andrea
name: Urbinati, Carlo
name: Vendramin, Giovanni Giuseppe
name: Büntgen, Ulf
name: Crivellaro, Alan
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Plant Science
allometric effect
ontogenesis
quantitative wood anatomy
temporal stability
xylem hydraulic constraints

description: The quantitative assessment of wood anatomical traits offers important insights into those factors that shape tree growth. While it is known that conduit diameter, cell wall thickness, and wood density vary substantially between and within species, the interconnection between wood anatomical traits, tree-ring width, tree height and age, as well as environment effects on wood anatomy remain unclear. Here, we measure and derived 65 wood anatomical traits in cross-sections of the five outermost tree rings (2008–2012) of 30 Norway spruce [Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.] trees growing along an altitudinal gradient (1,400–1,750 m a.s.l.) in the northern Apennines (Italy). We assess the relationship among each anatomical trait and between anatomical trait groups according to their function for (i) tree-ring growth, (ii) cell growth, (iii) hydraulic traits, and (iv) mechanical traits. The results show that tree height significantly affects wood hydraulic traits, as well as number and tangential diameter of tracheids, and ultimately the total ring width. Moreover, the amount of earlywood and latewood percentage influence wood hydraulic safety and efficiency, as well as mechanical traits. Mechanically relevant wood anatomical traits are mainly influenced by tree age, not necessarily correlated with tree height. An additional level of complexity is also indicated by some anatomical traits, such as latewood lumen diameter and the cell wall reinforcement index, showing large inter-annual variation as a proxy of phenotypic plasticity. This study unravels the complex interconnection of tree-ring tracheid structure and identifies anatomical traits showing a large inter-individual variation and a strong interannual coherency. Knowing and quantifying anatomical variation in cells of plant stem is crucial in ecological and biological studies for an appropriate interpretation of abiotic drivers of wood formation often related to tree height and/or tree age.
AIRLINE PASSENGER PROFILING SYSTEMS AFTER 9/11: PERSONAL PRIVACY VERSUS NATIONAL SECURITY
Creators: name: Ravich, Timothy M.
name: Ravich, Timothy M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: In 1966, as commercial jet-airline travel became more routine, the United States Supreme Court confirmed that the “freedom to travel throughout the United States has long been recognized as a basic right under the Constitution.”1 Recent federal security measures designed in response to the terrorism of September 11, 2001 complicate this freedom. Currently, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is implementing a comprehensive computerized profiling system called “Secure Flight.” Secure Flight is the next generation of the TSA’s existing “Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening System” (CAPPS). CAPPS itself generated considerable privacy and civil liberty concerns, evoking references to an Orwellian society. The current aviation security environment marks a shift in the government’s approach to airline passengers’ rights. Governmental impulses to regulate and upgrade airline service through an “Airline Passengers’ Bill of Rights” (Ravich 2002) have ceded to security-related initiatives that implicate passengers’ Fourth Amendment privacy rights. This article surveys the constitutional concerns about the TSA’s initial CAPPS program and its subsequent reformulation. In doing so, this article confronts and offers a practical and legal juxtaposition of the ideal of a “right to be let alone” (Warren and Brandeis 1890) relative to the post- September 11 ultimatum of former American Airlines Chairman and CEO Robert L. Crandall (2002): “You want to travel on the airline system? You give up your privacy. You don’t want to give up your privacy? Don’t fly. Your privacy isn’t equal to the safety of the rest of us.”
Climate change events in the Bengali migration to the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Rafiqul Islam
name: Schech, Susanne
name: Udoy Saikia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The internal migration of Bengali people to the CHT since the 1970s has been a significant factor in the long-standing ethnopolitical conflict in this region. The prevailing view is that while poverty and environmental disasters were push factors in this migration, government settlement programmes were primarily responsible for this population shift. This article offers a fresh perspective on this historic migration by exploring its environmental causes. It shows through an analysis of a questionnaire survey and interviews with Bengali settlers in the CHT that climatic events such as floods, cyclones, and riverbank erosion contributed to the migration decisions of the majority of the respondents. Government protection and provision of land and social networks in the CHT were mediating factors that enabled Bengali migrants to settle permanently in the CHT. This insight challenges the conventional narrative that the settlement was primarily politically motivated and confirms that complex migration motivations cannot be reduced to single drivers.
Integrated Spectroscopy of Bulge Globular Clusters and Fields. II. Implications for stellar population models and elliptical galaxies
Creators: name: Maraston, C.
name: Greggio, L.
name: Renzini, A.
name: Ortolani, S.
name: Saglia, R. P.
name: Puzia, T. H.
name: Kissler-Patig, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Synthetic Lick indices (e.g. Mg_2, Fe, etc.) of Simple Stellar Population (SSP) models are calibrated for the first time up to solar metallicity with a sample of Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) which includes the metal rich GCs of the Galactic bulge. This metallicity range is relevant to elliptical galaxies. It is shown that the Bulge GCs and integrated light follow the same correlation between Mg and Fe indices of elliptical galaxies, showing weaker Fe indices at given Mg indices with respect to models that assume solar-scaled abundances. This similarity is the robust empirical evidence for enhanced alpha/Fe ratios in the stellar populations of elliptical galaxies, since the globular clusters are independently known to be alpha-enhanced. The uniqueness of this alpha-overabundance solution is checked by exploring the whole range of model ingredients. We argue that the standard models reproduce the Mg-Fe correlation at low metallicities because the stellar templates used in the synthesis are the alpha-enhanced stars of the galactic Halo. These same models, however, fail to recover the Mg-Fe pattern of Bulge clusters and ellipticals at high metallicities because the high-metallicity templates are disk stars, which are not alpha-enhanced. The new SSP models by Thomas, Maraston & Bender (2002) which incorporate the dependence on alpha/Fe reproduce the Mg and Fe indices of GCs at all metallicities, with alpha/Fe=+0.3, which is in agreement with spectroscopic abundance determinations. The Balmer indices (Hbeta, Hdelta, Hgamma) are very well calibrated, provided the Horizontal Branch morphology is taken into account. In particular, we reproduce the Balmer lines of NGC 6388 and NGC 6441, which are metal-rich GCs with a tail of warm Horizontal Branch stars. {Abridged}
description: 19 pages, 13 figures, Astronomy and Astrophysics in press. Only minor changes after the referee report