cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
H$_4$: A Challenging System For Natural Orbital Functional Approximations
Creators: name: Ramos-Cordoba, Eloy
name: Lopez, Xabier
name: Piris, Mario
name: Matito, Eduard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correct description of nondynamic correlation by electronic structure methods not belonging to the multireference family is a challenging issue. The transition of $D_{2h}$ to $D_{4h}$ symmetry in H$_4$ molecule is among the most simple archetypal examples to illustrate the consequences of missing nondynamic correlation effects. The resurge of interest in density matrix functional methods has brought several new methods including the family of Piris Natural Orbital Functionals (PNOF). In this work we compare PNOF5 and PNOF6, which include nondynamic electron correlation effects to some extent, with other standard ab initio methods in the H$_4$ $D_{4h}/D_{2h}$ potential energy surface. Thus far, the wrongful behavior of single-reference methods at the $D_{2h}-D_{4h}$ transition of H$_4$ has been attributed to wrong account of nondynamic correlation effects, whereas in geminal-based approaches it has been assigned to a wrong coupling of spins and the localized nature of the orbitals. We will show that actually $\textit{interpair}$ nondynamic correlation is the key to a cusp-free qualitatively correct description of H$_4$ PES. By introducing $\textit{interpair}$ nondynamic correlation, PNOF6 is shown to avoid cusps and provide the correct smooth PES features at distances close to equilibrium, total and local spin properties along with the correct electron delocalization, as reflected by natural orbitals and multicenter delocalization indices.
description: 8 pages, 3 tables, 6 figures
TIR-only protein RBA1 recognizes a pathogen effector to regulate cell death in Arabidopsis
Creators: name: Yang, Li
name: Nishimura, Marc T.
name: Chung, Eui-Hwan
name: El Kasmi, Farid
name: Hyunh, Michael
name: Nishimura, Erin Osborne
name: Dangl, Jeffery L.
name: Sondek, John E.
name: Anderson, Ryan G.
name: Law, Terry F.
name: Machius, Mischa
name: Liu, Qingli L.
name: Cherkis, Karen A.
name: Nimchuk, Zachary L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Multicellular organisms must have complex immune systems to detect and defeat pathogens. Plants rely on nucleotide binding site leucine rich repeat (NLR) intracellular receptors to detect pathogens. For hundreds of years, plant breeders have selected for disease-resistance traits derived from NLR genes. Despite the molecular cloning of the first NLRs more than 20 y ago, we still do not understand how these sensors function at a mechanistic level. Here, we identified a truncated NLR protein that activates cell death in response to a specific pathogen effector. Understanding how truncated NLRs function will provide a better mechanistic understanding of the plant immune system and an expanded toolkit with which to engineer disease resistance rationally in crops.
Probabilistic Forecasts of Volatility and its Risk Premia
Creators: name: Maneesoonthorn, Worapree
name: Martin, Gael M.
name: Forbes, Catherine S.
name: Grose, Simone
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Econometric and statistical methods
Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: The object of this paper is to produce distributional forecasts of physical volatility and its associated risk premia using a non-Gaussian, non-linear state space approach. Option and spot market information on the unobserved variance process is captured by using dual 'model-free' variance measures to define a bivariate observation equation in the state space model. The premium for diffusive variance risk is defined as linear in the latent variance (in the usual fashion) whilst the premium for jump variance risk is specified as a conditionally deterministic dynamic process, driven by a function of past measurements. The inferential approach adopted is Bayesian, implemented via a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm that caters for the multiple sources of non-linearity in the model and the bivariate measure. The method is applied to empirical spot and option price data for the S&P500 index over the 1999 to 2008 period, with conclusions drawn about investors' required compensation for variance risk during the recent financial turmoil. The accuracy of the probabilistic forecasts of the observable variance measures is demonstrated, and compared with that of forecasts yielded by more standard time series models. To illustrate the benefits of the approach, the posterior distribution is augmented by information on daily returns to produce Value at Risk predictions, as well as being used to yield forecasts of the prices of derivatives on volatility itself. Linking the variance risk premia to the risk aversion parameter in a representative agent model, probabilistic forecasts of relative risk aversion are also produced.
College completion predicts lower depression but higher metabolic syndrome among disadvantaged minorities in young adulthood
Creators: name: Miller, Gregory E.
name: Chen, Edith
name: Schorpp, Kristen M.
name: Gaydosh, Lauren
name: Harris, Kathleen Mullan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: College graduates enjoy healthier, longer lives compared with individuals who do not graduate from college. However, the health benefit of educational attainment is not as great for blacks as it is for whites. Moreover, college completion may not erase the detrimental effects of early-life disadvantage for blacks and Hispanics. We use nationally representative data on young adults to test whether American minorities experience differential returns to educational attainment. We find that college completion predicts lower rates of depression for all racial groups. It also predicts lower metabolic syndrome among whites. However, college completion predicts higher metabolic syndrome among black and Hispanic adults from disadvantaged backgrounds, suggesting upward mobility may come at a health cost to young minorities in America.
Additional file 1 of The gut microbiota modifies antibody durability and booster responses after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination
Creators: name: Seong, Hye
name: Yoon, Jin Gu
name: Nham, Eliel
name: Choi, Yu Jung
name: Noh, Ji Yun
name: Cheong, Hee Jin
name: Kim, Woo Joo
name: Kim, Eui Ho
name: Kim, Chulwoo
name: Han, Young-Hee
name: Lim, Sooyeon
name: Song, Joon Young
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1.
Wave propagation in complex coordinates
Creators: name: Horsley, S. A. R.
name: King, C. G.
name: Philbin, T. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the analytic continuation of wave equations into the complex position plane. For the particular case of electromagnetic waves we provide a physical meaning for such an analytic continuation in terms of a family of closely related inhomogeneous media. For bounded permittivity profiles we find the phenomenon of reflection can be related to branch cuts in the wave that originate from poles of the permittivity at complex positions. Demanding that these branch cuts disappear, we derive a large family of inhomogeneous media that are reflectionless for a single angle of incidence. Extending this property to all angles of incidence leads us to a generalized form of the Poschl Teller potentials. We conclude by analyzing our findings within the phase integral (WKB) method.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures
Ephippiger ephippiger subsp. diurnus Dufour 1841
Creators: name: Monnerat, C.
name: Thorens, P.
name: Walter, T.
name: Gonseth, Y.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Ephippiger

description: Ephippiger ephippiger diurnus Dufour, 1841 Westliche Sattelschrecke EN B 2a, B 2b(iii,iv) § CH Waldrandart, auch verbuschter Flächen
description: Published as part of Monnerat C., Thorens P., Walter T. & Gonseth Y., 2007, Rote Liste der Heuschrecken der Schweiz, pp. 1-62 in Umwelt-Vollzug 7 (19) on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.270238
Women's access to corporate board positions: the perception of women on boards in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Creators: name: Alquraini, Saud Khalid
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Despite changes that have increased women's participation in the labour force, women remain rare on corporate boards of companies listed on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia stock exchange. The purpose of this qualitative study was to develop a multi-dimensional understanding of factors influencing women's access to corporate board positions through exploring the experiences of the women currently serving on boards in Saudi Arabia. The study set out to establish the demographic characteristics of the women and the factors that influenced their appointment. Concomitantly was the need to establish general factors influencing women's access to corporate boards in Saudi Arabia. Guided by an analytical framework that identified national, firm, and individual-level factors as the main explanatory themes of women's access to corporate boards, the study's theoretical framework was anchored on a combination of Institutional Theory and Resource Dependence Theory. The study adopted constructivism and therefore used a qualitative approach. Data was collected through a combination of qualitative interviews with purposefully sampled female (n=10) and male (n=10) members of gender diverse boards, stakeholder representatives (n=6), and desk research. Through template analysis, factors that influenced the appointment of the women were found to be a combination of formal and informal institutions and firms' resource needs. The study concluded that facilitators of women's access to boards resulted from an interplay of multiple country-, firm-, and individual-level factors. At the same time, barriers arose from contradictions among the same factors because of the conservative culture and individual women's responses. The study contributes to the literature on facilitators of board gender diversity in conservative societies by highlighting the importance of relationships and extending the definition of 'desired external resources' to include trust-based relationships. The study demonstrates the multi-dimensional nature of factors influencing women's access to corporate board positions in Saudi Arabia. Further, the study contributes to practice through identifying resources embedded in women that have been deemed valuable by firms and to policy through highlighting inherent discriminatory practices in board recruitment processes.
Smart optical coherence tomography for ultra-deep imaging through highly scattering media
Creators: name: Badon, Amaury
name: Li, Dayan
name: Lerosey, Geoffroy
name: Boccara, A. Claude
name: Fink, Mathias
name: Aubry, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiple scattering of waves in disordered media is a nightmare whether it be for detection or imaging purposes. The best approach so far to get rid of multiple scattering is optical coherence tomography. It basically combines confocal microscopy and coherence time-gating to discriminate ballistic photons from a predominant multiple scattering background. Nevertheless, the imaging depth range remains limited to 1 mm at best in human soft tissues. Here we propose a matrix approach of optical imaging to push back this fundamental limit. By combining a matrix discrimination of ballistic waves and iterative time-reversal, we show both theoretically and experimentally an extension of the imaging-depth limit by at least a factor two compared to optical coherence tomography. In particular, the reported experiment demonstrates imaging through a strongly scattering layer from which only one reflected photon over 1000 billion is ballistic. This approach opens a new route towards ultra-deep tissue imaging.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures
RECOMENDAÇÕES PARA MELHORIA DE PRÁTICAS DE CONTROLE INTERNO E DE GERENCIAMENTO DE RISCOS NAS ORGANIZAÇÕES
Creators: name: Chaves, Lúcia Cláudia Alves
name: Araújo, Davi Jônatas Cunha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Recomendações, Procedimentos de Controle Interno, Gerenciamento de Riscos.

description: RESUMO O controle interno e o gerenciamento de riscos permitem que os administradores permaneçam focados na busca das metas de desempenho operacional e financeiro das suas organizações, ao mesmo tempo que operam dentro dos limites impostos pelas legislações aplicáveis e minimizam surpresas ao longo do caminho. Na ordem do framework do Committee of Sponsoring Organizations’ (COSO), com enfoque no gerenciamento de riscos corporativos (COSO, 2004), as recomendações de melhoria para os controles e o gerenciamento de riscos devem acontecer na ordem das oito perspectivas do COSO para que estes possam funcionar de maneira que o alcance dos objetivos seja assegurado nas organizações de modo geral.
description: Material didático com recomendações para melhoria de práticas de controle interno e de gerenciamento de riscos nas organizações. Produto resultante de um trabalho de dissertação elaborada e defendida no âmbito do PPGCFTG.
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The social genome of friends and schoolmates in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health
Creators: name: Fletcher, Jason M.
name: Harris, Kathleen Mullan
name: Boardman, Jason D.
name: Domingue, Benjamin W.
name: Belsky, Daniel W.
name: Conley, Dalton
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Our study reported significant findings of a “social genome” that can be quantified and studied to understand human health and behavior. In a national sample of more than 5,000 American adolescents, we found evidence of social forces that act to make friends and schoolmates more genetically similar to one another compared with random pairs of unrelated individuals. This subtle genetic similarity was observed across the entire genome and at sets of genomic locations linked with specific traits—educational attainment and body mass index—a phenomenon we term “social–genetic correlation.” We also find evidence of a “social–genetic effect” such that the genetics of a person’s friends and schoolmates influenced their own education, even after accounting for the person’s own genetics.
Correlated evolution of male and female reproductive traits drive a cascading effect of reinforcement in Drosophila yakuba
Creators: name: Matute, Daniel R.
name: Venkat, Aarti
name: Comeault, Aaron A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Selection against maladaptive hybridization can drive the evolution of reproductive isolation in a process called reinforcement. While the importance of reinforcement in evolution has been historically debated, many examples now exist. Despite these examples, we typically lack a detailed understanding of the mechanisms limiting the spread of reinforced phenotypes throughout a species' range. Here we address this issue in the fruit fly Drosophila yakuba, a species that hybridizes with its sister species D. santomea and is undergoing reinforcement in a well-defined hybrid zone on the island of São Tomé. Within this region, female D. yakuba show increased postmating-prezygotic (gametic) isolation towards D. santomea when compared with females from allopatric populations. We use a combination of natural collections, fertility assays, and experimental evolution to understand why reinforced gametic isolation in D. yakuba is confined to this hybrid zone. We show that, among other traits, D. yakuba males from sympatric populations sire fewer progeny than allopatric males when mated to allopatric D. yakuba females. Our results provide a novel example of reinforcement acting on a postmating-prezygotic trait in males, resulting in a cascade of reproductive isolation among conspecific populations.
title: Kohlenstoffionentherapie: Eine systematische Übersichtsarbeit zu Wirksamkeit und Sicherheit bei 12 onkologischen Indikationen
Creators: name: Goetz, Gregor
name: Mitić, Maria
name: Wild, Claudia
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund/Fragestellung: Man verspricht sich von der Kohlenstoff-Ionentherapie (engl. carbon ion radiotherapy = CIRT) viel: Es soll durch sie eine präzisere und schonendere Krebstherapie möglich werden. Unklar ist jedoch, bei welchen Tumorindikationen die CIRT effektiver und sicherer[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: EbM und Digitale Transformation in der Medizin; 20. Jahrestagung des Deutschen Netzwerks Evidenzbasierte Medizin
Diabolical survival in Death Valley: recent pupfish colonization, gene flow and genetic assimilation in the smallest species range on earth
Creators: name: Simons, Lee H.
name: Turner, Bruce J.
name: Martin, Christopher H.
name: Crawford, Jacob E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: One of the most endangered vertebrates, the Devils Hole pupfish Cyprinodon diabolis, survives in a nearly impossible environment: a narrow subterranean fissure in the hottest desert on earth, Death Valley. This species became a conservation icon after a landmark 1976 US Supreme Court case affirming federal groundwater rights to its unique habitat. However, one outstanding question about this species remains unresolved: how long has diabolis persisted in this hellish environment? We used next-generation sequencing of over 13 000 loci to infer the demographic history of pupfishes in Death Valley. Instead of relicts isolated 2–3 Myr ago throughout repeated flooding of the entire region by inland seas as currently believed, we present evidence for frequent gene flow among Death Valley pupfish species and divergence after the most recent flooding 13 kyr ago. We estimate that Devils Hole was colonized by pupfish between 105 and 830 years ago, followed by genetic assimilation of pelvic fin loss and recent gene flow into neighbouring spring systems. Our results provide a new perspective on an iconic endangered species using the latest population genomic methods and support an emerging consensus that timescales for speciation are overestimated in many groups of rapidly evolving species.
Search for photonic signatures of gauge-mediated supersymmetry in 8 TeV $pp$ collisions with the ATLAS detector
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A search is presented for photonic signatures motivated by generalised models of gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking. This search makes use of $20.3{\rm fb}^{-1}$ of proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s}=8$ TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC, and explores models dominated by both strong and electroweak production of supersymmetric partner states. Four experimental signatures incorporating an isolated photon and significant missing transverse momentum are explored. These signatures include events with an additional photon, lepton, $b$-quark jet, or jet activity not associated with any specific underlying quark flavor. No significant excess of events is observed above the Standard Model prediction and model-dependent 95% confidence-level exclusion limits are set.
description: 43 pages plus author list (60 pages total), 12 figures, 9 tables, published version, all figures and tables, including auxiliary material, are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/SUSY-2014-01/
Ephippiger terrestris subsp. bormansi von Wattenwyl 1882
Creators: name: Monnerat, C.
name: Thorens, P.
name: Walter, T.
name: Gonseth, Y.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Ephippiger
Ephippiger terrestris
Ephippiger terrestris bormansi von wattenwyl, 1882

description: Ephippiger terrestris bormansi von Wattenwyl, 1882 Südalpen-Sattelschrecke VU B 2b(iii,iv) Grünlandart
description: Published as part of Monnerat C., Thorens P., Walter T. & Gonseth Y., 2007, Rote Liste der Heuschrecken der Schweiz, pp. 1-62 in Umwelt-Vollzug 7 (19) on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.270238
Hybridization as a facilitator of species range expansion
Creators: name: Pfennig, Karin S.
name: Kelly, Audrey L.
name: Pierce, Amanda A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Explaining the evolution of species geographical ranges is fundamental to understanding how biodiversity is distributed and maintained. The solution to this classic problem in ecology and evolution remains elusive: we still do not fully know how species geographical ranges evolve and what factors fuel range expansions. Resolving this problem is now more crucial than ever with increasing biodiversity loss, global change and movement of species by humans. Here, we describe and evaluate the hypothesis that hybridization between species can contribute to species range expansion. We discuss how such a process can occur and the empirical data that are needed to test this hypothesis. We also examine how species can expand into new environments via hybridization with a resident species, and yet remain distinct species. Generally, hybridization may play an underappreciated role in influencing the evolution of species ranges. Whether—and to what extent—hybridization has such an effect requires further study across more diverse taxa.
CORPORATE BRAND AND BRAND VALUATION METHODS IN GHANA A CASE STUDY OF LISTED BANKS IN GHANA
Creators: name: Tano, Emmanuella Afua Benewaa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Intangible assets, Brand valuation, Corporate brands.

description: ABSTRACT Background and Purpose: The world today has made us increasingly aware of the importance of branded
 products, services and corporations; hence, a brand if managed well, can be a very valuable asset for the growth
 and success of any company. However, many companies face the challenge of assigning a monetary value to
 these brands in order to present them in their fair values, in their statement of financial position. Thus, this study
 seeks to ascertain the various intangible assets recognized by the various banks on the Ghana Stock Exchange
 (GSE) as well as how these banks, initially recognize, measure and disclose both financial and non-financial
 information in their Statement of Financial Information (SOFP).
 Approach/Design/Methodology: Primary data would be collected through qualitative interviews via a set of
 survey questions set out in the form of questionnaires; while secondary data is collected from articles, literatures
 in journals and the internet. Furthermore, the data is analyzed by using the thematic approach.
 Findings: Based on the data collected, the specific intangible assets including brand assets, recognized and
 disclosed by the listed banks are determined; as well as their underlying recognition criteria, measurement and
 disclosures.
 Originality/Significance: There is no current research performed in the Ghanaian context, in relation to the
 research topic. Thus, it seeks to add to the existing literature on the subject matter in the context of developing
 economies
Testing the Equality of the Risk Difference in Multiple Comparative Trials
Creators: name: Banerjee, Soumik
name: Saha, Krishna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Clinical Trials, Correlated Binary Data, Likelihood Ratio Test, Risk Difference,Test of Homogeneity.

description: In clinical trials, estimating risk difference (RD) is one of the most used epidemiologic indices to
 quantify the efficacy of a potential drug. In this paper, we develop some likelihood-based test procedures
 for testing the homogeneity of the risk difference based on the binomial model. Our goal is to
 develop a robust test procedure independent of the number of observations per center and the number
 of centers. The likelihood ratio test (LRT) based on the binomial likelihood shows significantly
 good results in terms of the type I error rate for medium and large number of observations per center
 irrespective of the number of centers. We also develop a score test or C(α) test based on binomial
 likelihood which requires the parameter estimates only under the null hypothesis. Our proposed test
 procedures are then compared with existing test procedures, by Monte Carlo simulations, in terms
 of size. Corrected variance non-parametric methods show better type I error rates for small number
 of observations per center irrespective of the number of centers. An illustrative application of the
 proposed test procedures is presented.
Metapopulation dominance and genomic-island acquisition of Bradyrhizobium with superior catabolic capabilities
Creators: name: Hollowell, Amanda C.
name: Regus, John U.
name: Sachs, Joel L.
name: Moore, Devora
name: Gano-Cohen, Kelsey A.
name: Bantay, Roxanne
name: Bernardo, Andrew
name: Turissini, David
name: Pham, Jonathan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Root nodule-forming rhizobia exhibit a bipartite lifestyle, replicating in soil and also within plant cells where they fix nitrogen for legume hosts. Host control models posit that legume hosts act as a predominant selective force on rhizobia, but few studies have examined rhizobial fitness in natural populations. Here, we genotyped and phenotyped Bradyrhizobium isolates across more than 800 km of the native Acmispon strigosus host range. We sequenced chromosomal genes expressed under free-living conditions and accessory symbiosis loci expressed in planta and encoded on an integrated ‘symbiosis island’ (SI). We uncovered a massive clonal expansion restricted to the Bradyrhizobium chromosome, with a single chromosomal haplotype dominating populations, ranging more than 700 km, and acquiring 42 divergent SI haplotypes, none of which were spatially widespread. For focal genotypes, we quantified utilization of 190 sole-carbon sources relevant to soil fitness. Chromosomal haplotypes that were both widespread and dominant exhibited superior growth on diverse carbon sources, whereas these patterns were not mirrored among SI haplotypes. Abundance, spatial range and catabolic superiority of chromosomal, but not symbiosis genotypes suggests that fitness in the soil environment, rather than symbiosis with hosts, might be the key driver of Bradyrhizobium dominance.
Ephippiger vicheti Harz 1966
Creators: name: Monnerat, C.
name: Thorens, P.
name: Walter, T.
name: Gonseth, Y.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Ephippiger
Ephippiger vicheti

description: Ephippiger vicheti Harz, 1966 Strauch-Sattelschrecke VU B 2b(iii,iv) Waldrandart
description: Published as part of Monnerat C., Thorens P., Walter T. & Gonseth Y., 2007, Rote Liste der Heuschrecken der Schweiz, pp. 1-62 in Umwelt-Vollzug 7 (19) on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.270238
Dimming of the Mid-20th Century Sun
Creators: name: Foukal, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Advances in understanding of the white light faculae measured at the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 1874 to 1976 suggest that they offer a more direct measure of solar brightening by small diameter photospheric magnetic flux tubes than do chromospheric proxies. Proxies such as the area of Ca K plages, the Mg index or the microwave flux include many dark photospheric structures as well as pores and sunspots. Our reconstruction of variation in total solar irradiance,TSI,based on the faculae indicates that the sun dimmed by almost 0.1 percent in the mid- twentieth century rather than brightening as represented in previous reconstructions. This dimmimg at the sun's highest activity level since the seventeenth century is consistent with the photometric behavior observed in somewhat younger sun like stars. The prolonged TSI decrease may have contributed more to the cooling of climate between about 1940 and 1970 than present models indicate.
Emergent gravity in the cubic tight-binding model of Weyl semimetal in the presence of elastic deformations
Creators: name: Cortijo, Alberto
name: Zubkov, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the tight-binding model with cubic symmetry that may be relevant for the description of a certain class of Weyl semimetals. We take into account elastic deformations of the semimetal through the modification of hopping parameters. This modification results in the appearance of emergent gauge field and the coordinate dependent anisotropic Fermi velocity. The latter may be interpreted as emergent gravitational field.
description: Latex, 12 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1508.03114
Eupholidoptera chabrieri Charpentier 1825
Creators: name: Monnerat, C.
name: Thorens, P.
name: Walter, T.
name: Gonseth, Y.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Eupholidoptera
Eupholidoptera chabrieri

description: Eupholidoptera chabrieri (Charpentier, 1825) Grüne Strauchschrecke LC
description: Published as part of Monnerat C., Thorens P., Walter T. & Gonseth Y., 2007, Rote Liste der Heuschrecken der Schweiz, pp. 1-62 in Umwelt-Vollzug 7 (19) on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.270238
Leptophyes albovittata Kollar 1833
Creators: name: Monnerat, C.
name: Thorens, P.
name: Walter, T.
name: Gonseth, Y.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Phaneropteridae
Leptophyes
Leptophyes albovittata

description: Leptophyes albovittata (Kollar, 1833) Gestreifte Zartschrecke DD Erstnachweis 1999
description: Published as part of Monnerat C., Thorens P., Walter T. & Gonseth Y., 2007, Rote Liste der Heuschrecken der Schweiz, pp. 1-62 in Umwelt-Vollzug 7 (19) on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.270238
How stellar feedback simultaneously regulates star formation and drives outflows
Creators: name: Hayward, Christopher C.
name: Hopkins, Philip F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analytic model for how momentum deposition from stellar feedback simultaneously regulates star formation and drives outflows in a turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). Because the ISM is turbulent, a given patch of ISM exhibits sub-patches with a range of surface densities. The high-density patches are 'pushed' by feedback, thereby driving turbulence and self-regulating local star formation. Sufficiently low-density patches, however, are accelerated to above the escape velocity before the region can self-adjust and are thus vented as outflows. In the turbulent-pressure-supported regime, when the gas fraction is $\gtrsim 0.3$, the ratio of the turbulent velocity dispersion to the circular velocity is sufficiently high that at any given time, of order half of the ISM has surface density less than the critical value and thus can be blown out on a dynamical time. The resulting outflows have a mass-loading factor ($η\equiv M_{\rm out}/M_{\star}$) that is inversely proportional to the gas fraction times the circular velocity. At low gas fractions, the star formation rate needed for local self-regulation, and corresponding turbulent Mach number, decline rapidly; the ISM is 'smoother', and it is actually more difficult to drive winds with large mass-loading factors. Crucially, our model predicts that stellar-feedback-driven outflows should be suppressed at $z \lesssim 1$ in $M_{\star} \gtrsim 10^{10} M_{\odot}$ galaxies. This mechanism allows massive galaxies to exhibit violent outflows at high redshifts and then 'shut down' those outflows at late times, thereby enabling the formation of a smooth, extended thin stellar disk. We provide simple fitting functions for $η$ that should be useful for sub-resolution and semi-analytic models. [abridged]
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Minor edits (added brief discussion of cosmic rays, corrected some typos)
Speciation through the lens of biomechanics: locomotion, prey capture and reproductive isolation
Creators: name: Langerhans, R. Brian
name: Stewart, William J.
name: Lauder, George V.
name: Martin, Christopher H.
name: Jamniczky, Heather A.
name: Higham, Timothy E.
name: Rogers, Sean M.
name: Reznick, David N.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Speciation is a multifaceted process that involves numerous aspects of the biological sciences and occurs for multiple reasons. Ecology plays a major role, including both abiotic and biotic factors. Whether populations experience similar or divergent ecological environments, they often adapt to local conditions through divergence in biomechanical traits. We investigate the role of biomechanics in speciation using fish predator–prey interactions, a primary driver of fitness for both predators and prey. We highlight specific groups of fishes, or specific species, that have been particularly valuable for understanding these dynamic interactions and offer the best opportunities for future studies that link genetic architecture to biomechanics and reproductive isolation (RI). In addition to emphasizing the key biomechanical techniques that will be instrumental, we also propose that the movement towards linking biomechanics and speciation will include (i) establishing the genetic basis of biomechanical traits, (ii) testing whether similar and divergent selection lead to biomechanical divergence, and (iii) testing whether/how biomechanical traits affect RI. Future investigations that examine speciation through the lens of biomechanics will propel our understanding of this key process.
Effects of scalar mesons in a Skyrme model with hidden local symmetry
Creators: name: He, Bing-Ran
name: Ma, Yong-Liang
name: Harada, Masayasu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of light scalar mesons on the skyrmion properties by constructing and examining a mesonic model including pion, rho meson, and omega meson fields as well as two-quark and four-quark scalar meson fields. In our model, the physical scalar mesons are defined as mixing states of the two- and four-quark fields. We first omit the four-quark scalar meson field from the model and find that when there is no direct coupling between the two-quark scalar meson and the vector mesons, the soliton mass is smaller and the soliton size is larger for lighter scalar mesons; when direct coupling is switched on, as the coupling strength increases, the soliton becomes heavy, and the radius of the baryon number density becomes large, as the repulsive force arising from the $ω$ meson becomes strong. We then include the four-quark scalar meson field in the model and find that mixing between the two-quark and four-quark components of the scalar meson fields also affects the properties of the soliton. When the two-quark component of the lighter scalar meson is increased, the soliton mass decreases and the soliton size increases.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
title: Lower-cost, ligther and greener polypropylene-based biocomposites for construction applications
Creators: name: Mihai, Mihaela
Publisher: name: National Research Council Canada
Year: 2015

description: This presentation discloses the viability of the formulation, processing, and performance of advanced biocomposites and bioblends based on polypropylene (PP) designed for industrial manufacturing. The PP was compounded with three different types of cellulosic fibers, in a bioblends with polylactide (PLA) as bio-sourced polymer, and in PP/PLA/cellulosic biocomposites. These biomaterials were characterized in terms of morphology, mechanical and thermal properties. Tensile strength, tensile modulus, and the heat deflection temperature of the bioblends and the biocomposites presented at least equivalent values comparing with virgin PP and with PP current industrial grades. The extruded biocomposites, foamed in injection molding process, presented similar properties as the unfoamed and reference counterparts while being up to 25 wt.% lighter, up to 50% less expensive, and up to 50% greener.
description: Technical Plastics Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers, March 23-25 2015, Orlando, FL, USA
title: EVI-Pilotprojekt: Zu welchen häufigen Behandlungsanlässen wünschen sich Allgemeinmedizinerinnen/Allgemeinmediziner im Beratungsgespräch evidenzbasierte Gesundheitsinformationen?
Creators: name: Glehr, Reingard
name: Loder, Christine
name: Wratschko, Kerstin
name: Siebenhofer, Andrea
name: Posch, Nicole
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund/Fragestellung: Im Rahmen des Projektes EVI (Evidenzbasierte Informationen zur Unterstützung von gesundheitskompetenten Entscheidungen) [ref:1] werden bereits vorhandene hochwertige Gesundheitsinformationen gesammelt, bewertet und Hausärztinnen/Hausärzten[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: EbM und Digitale Transformation in der Medizin; 20. Jahrestagung des Deutschen Netzwerks Evidenzbasierte Medizin
Genetic variation during range expansion: effects of habitat novelty and hybridization
Creators: name: Pfennig, Karin S.
name: Pierce, Amanda A.
name: Rice, Amber M.
name: Gutierrez, Rafael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: How species' ranges evolve remains an enduring problem in ecology and evolutionary biology. Species' range limits are potentially set by the inability of peripheral populations to adapt to range-edge habitat. Indeed, peripheral populations are often assumed to have reduced genetic diversity and population sizes, which limit evolvability. However, support for this assumption is mixed, possibly because the genetic effects of range expansion depend on two factors: the extent that habitat into which expansion occurs is novel and sources of gene flow. Here, we used spadefoot toads, Spea bombifrons, to contrast the population genetic effects of expansion into novel versus non-novel habitat. We further evaluated gene flow from conspecifics and from heterospecifics via hybridization with a resident species. We found that range expansion into novel habitat, relative to non-novel habitat, resulted in higher genetic differentiation, lower conspecific gene flow and bottlenecks. Moreover, we found that hybridizing with a resident species introduced genetic diversity in the novel habitat. Our results suggest the evolution of species' ranges can depend on the extent of differences in habitat between ancestral and newly occupied ranges. Furthermore, our results highlight the potential for hybridization with a resident species to enhance genetic diversity during expansions into novel habitat.
Leptophyes laticauda Frivaldsky 1867
Creators: name: Monnerat, C.
name: Thorens, P.
name: Walter, T.
name: Gonseth, Y.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Phaneropteridae
Leptophyes
Leptophyes laticauda

description: Leptophyes laticauda (Frivaldsky, 1867) Südliche Zartschrecke LC
description: Published as part of Monnerat C., Thorens P., Walter T. & Gonseth Y., 2007, Rote Liste der Heuschrecken der Schweiz, pp. 1-62 in Umwelt-Vollzug 7 (19) on page 34, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.270238
title: Erstellung einer standardisierten Methode zur Entwicklung von leitlinienbasierten Qualitätsindikatoren für die ambulante Versorgung in Österreich
Creators: name: Petschk, Karin
name: Semlitsch, Thomas
name: Jeitler, Klaus
name: Burgmann, Sarah
name: Siebenhofer, Andrea
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund/Fragestellung: Eine zuverlässige Messung und Darstellung von Qualität ist entscheidend, um eine qualitätsvolle medizinische Versorgungsqualität zu erhalten und weiterzuentwickeln. Für die Bewertung und Beurteilung werden Qualitätsindikatoren (QI) eingesetzt[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: EbM und Digitale Transformation in der Medizin; 20. Jahrestagung des Deutschen Netzwerks Evidenzbasierte Medizin
The MAGNUM survey: Positive feedback in the nuclear region of NGC 5643 suggested by MUSE
Creators: name: Cresci, G.
name: Marconi, A.
name: Zibetti, S.
name: Risaliti, G.
name: Carniani, S.
name: Mannucci, F.
name: Gallazzi, A.
name: Maiolino, R.
name: Balmaverde, B.
name: Brusa, M.
name: Capetti, A.
name: Cicone, C.
name: Feruglio, C.
name: Bland-Hawthorn, J.
name: Nagao, T.
name: Oliva, E.
name: Salvato, M.
name: Sani, E.
name: Tozzi, P.
name: Urrutia, T.
name: Venturi, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the ionization and kinematics of the ionized gas in the nuclear region of the barred Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC~5643 using MUSE integral field observations in the framework of the MAGNUM (Measuring Active Galactic Nuclei Under MUSE Microscope) survey. The data were used to identify regions with different ionization conditions and to map the gas density and the dust extinction. We find evidence for a double sided ionization cone, possibly collimated by a dusty structure surrounding the nucleus. At the center of the ionization cone, outflowing ionized gas is revealed as a blueshifted, asymmetric wing of the [OIII] emission line, up to projected velocity v(10)~-450 km/s. The outflow is also seen as a diffuse, low luminosity radio and X-ray jet, with similar extension. The outflowing material points in the direction of two clumps characterized by prominent line emission with spectra typical of HII regions, located at the edge of the dust lane of the bar. We propose that the star formation in the clumps is due to `positive feedback' induced by gas compression by the nuclear outflow, providing the first candidate for outflow induced star formation in a Seyfert-like radio quiet AGN. This suggests that positive feedback may be a relevant mechanism in shaping the black hole-host galaxy coevolution.
description: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
title: Labormedizinische Leistungen für nichtinfektiöse Enteritis und Kolitis in der vertragsärztlichen Versorgung
Creators: name: Kamory, Ennikö
name: Merins, Elena
name: Quast, Annika
name: Schiffner, Roman
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund/Fragestellung: Die Zahl der Patienten mit nichtinfektiösen Darmerkrankungen wie z.B. Morbus Crohn und Colitis ulcerosa steigt in Deutschland mit einer Inzidenz von 6,6 bzw. 5 je 100.000 im Jahr. Unser Ansatz untersucht, welche labormedizinischen Leistungen mit nichtinfektiöser[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: EbM und Digitale Transformation in der Medizin; 20. Jahrestagung des Deutschen Netzwerks Evidenzbasierte Medizin