cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Prospektive Randomisierte interindividuelle Vergleichsstudie zwischen IC-8 und Symfony
Creators: name: Schojai, Merita
name: Schultz, T.
name: Jerke, C.
name: Dick, H. B.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Intraokular Linsen (IOL) mit erweiterter Tiefenschärfe (EDOF, engl.: enhanced depth of focus) sind eine neue inhomogene IOL-Gruppe, die Katarakt-Patienten nach der Operation eine Brillenunabhängigkeit ermöglichen sollen. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen werden verschiedene optische[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 33. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, Interventionelle und Refraktive Chirurgie (DGII)
Edukasi Siklus Ekonomi Modern dan Peningkatan Skill Bagi Pelaku Umkm Guna Menentukan Strategi  Serta Perencanaan Bisnis Di Desa Mugo Mulyo Kec. Sungai Batang Indragiri Hilir
Creators: name: Rezi Abdurrahaman, Nurhalizah Nurhalizah, Achriani Wida Utami, Nasyatul Nur Annisa, Nisca Rostyalina, Ilham Febriyano, Rahul Johannes, Adisti Salsabila, Salsabila Asrita Putri, Muhammad Farhan Khaliq, Ahmad Fauzan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: semakin krusial untuk membantu individu dalam membuat keputusan keuangan yang lebih terperinci dan terinformasi. Ditambah lagi, keahlian dalam melakukan pencatatan keuangan yang tepat sangat penting untuk pertumbuhan dan keberlangsungan perusahaan serta bisnis terutama UMKM. Metode yang digunakan dalam kegiatan ini adalah penelitian tindakan yang bertujuan untuk untuk meningkatkan pemahaman, kemampuan, dan keterampilan  UMKM  bagi  ibu-ibu  PKK dan pemilik UMKM di Desa Mugo Mulyo. Kegiatan ini dilaksanakan dalam 4 tahap, yaitu perencanaan, pelaksanaan, observasi dan evaluasi. Hasil yang didapat dari kegiatan ini adalah telah dilaksanakannya Sosialisasi Ekonomi Modern dan Pembukuan Dasar Keuangan serta Pelatihan Lilin Aroma Terapi bagi UMKM di Desa Mugo Mulyo. Penulis berharap kegiatan ini dapat memberikan manfaat bagi masyarakat Desa Mugo Mulyo sehingga dapat mengembangkan pemahaman mengenai Ekonomi Modern dan Dasar Pembukuan Keuangan.
title: Trico: A Novel Repellent for Preventing Deer Damage to Ornamental Shrubs
Creators: name: Curtis, Paul D
name: Eshenaur, Brian C
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Homeowners whose landscape plants are repeatedly browsed by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus; deer) desire repellent products that are effective and long-lasting. We conducted a 12-week trial from January 6 through April 5, 2021 to test the duration and efficacy of a novel deer repellent (Trico®) relative to Plantskydd®, a commonly used deer repellent, and untreated plants. We placed treated and control Japanese yew shrubs (Taxus media ‘Hicksii’) at 4 homeowner sites (Birch Hills Drive, Fairview Crescent, Pinegrove Ave., and St. Paul Blvd.) near Rochester, New York, USA, where we detected deer presence. Yews are frequently eaten by deer during winter and provide a good bioassay for testing repellents. To gauge the efficacy of the repellents, we photographed the yews and scored the level of deer browsing. We used ordinal logistic regression to determine the change in efficacy over time. Trico deer repellent reduced deer damage to yews (chi-square = 97.273, P < 0.0001). Damage to yews treated with Plantskydd did not differ from control plants (chi-square = 0.24, P = 0.621) after 12 weeks. The performance of deer repellents varied considerably among sites (chi-square = 109.460, P < 0.0001). Where there was intense deer browsing pressure (Pinegrove Ave. site), both repellents failed to protect the yews. However, at 3 of 4 sites, the Trico repellent effectively protected yews from deer browsing during winter through spring green-up in April. We found Trico to be an effective, long-lasting repellent for protecting ornamental shrubs from deer browsing during winter.
Constructive Projective Geometry
Creators: name: Mandelkern, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 51A05, Secondary 03F65

description: Of the great theories of classical mathematics, projective geometry, with its powerful concepts of symmetry and duality, has been exceptional in continuing to intrigue investigators. The challenge put forth by Errett Bishop (1928-1983), "Every theorem proved with nonconstructive methods presents a challenge: to find a constructive version, and to give it a constructive proof", motivates a large portion of current constructive work. This challenge can be answered by discovering the hidden constructive content of classical projective geometry. Here we briefly outline, with few details, recent constructive work on the real projective plane, and projective extensions of affine planes. Special note is taken of a number of interesting open problems that remain; these show that constructive projective geometry is still a theory very much in need of further effort. The Bishop-type constructive mathematics discussed in the present paper proceeds from a viewpoint well-nigh opposite that of either formal logic or recursive function theory.
Keine zwei verschiedenen Systeme mehr: Konferenzbeiträge auf der Zeitschriftenplattform (OJS) veröffentlichen
Creators: name: Withanage, Dulip
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Presentation
subject: Open Access
subject: OJS
subject: TIB
subject: PKP
subject: Conference
subject: confident
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: 020

description: Der Vortrag präsentiert die Arbeiten von TIB Open Publishing zur Veröffentlichung von Konferenzbänden mittels angepasster und erweiterter Funktionen von Open Journal Systems (OJS). Konferenzpublikationen sind ein quantitativ und qualitativ wichtiger Teil des publizierten wissenschaftlichen Outputs. Sie werden auf unterschiedlichen Wegen und mit unterschiedlichen Standards veröffentlicht. Open-Access-Veröffentlichungen von Konferenzbänden, die an aktuellen Publikations- und Qualitätsstandards orientiert sind, erhöhen die Zugänglichkeit und Nachnutzbarkeit der auf Konferenzen vorgestellten Erkenntnisse. TIB Open Publishing ist ein neuer Diamond-Open-Access-Verlag für Zeitschriften und Konferenzpublikationen, der OJS nutzt. OJS ist mit weltweit mehr als 30.000 Installationen die am weitesten verbreitete freie Open-Source-Software zur Veröffentlichung von Zeitschriften. Basierend auf den eigenen Anforderungen und im engen Austausch mit der weltweiten OJS-Community entwickelt die TIB eine bessere Unterstützung von OJS für Konferenzreihen und verwandte Komponenten und Workflows. Die Lösungen werden als freie Software zur Verfügung gestellt. Im Vortrag stellen wir das technische Konzept, ein Anwendungsbeispiel, die Zusammenarbeit mit verschiedenen Akteuren sowie das Modell für eine nachhaltige Weiterentwicklung vor. Darüber hinaus möchten wir die Kosteneinsparungen durch die Wiederverwendung vorhandener Ressourcen und durch ein einheitliches System für Zeitschriften und Konferenzpublikationen thematisieren.
Possible golden events for ringdown gravitational waves
Creators: name: Nakano, Hiroyuki
name: Tanaka, Takahiro
name: Nakamura, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a forbidden region in the parameter space of quasinormal modes of black holes in general relativity. Using both inspiral and ringdown phases of gravitational waves from binary black holes, we propose two methods to test general relativity. We also evaluate how our methods will work when we apply them to Pop III black-hole binaries with typical masses. Adopting the simple mean of the estimated range of the event rate, we have the expected rate of 500 ${\rm yr^{-1}}$. Then, the rates of events with signal-to-noise ratios greater than 20 and greater than 50 are 32 ${\rm yr^{-1}}$ and 2 ${\rm yr^{-1}}$, respectively. Therefore, there is a good chance to confirm (or refute) the Einstein theory in the strong gravity region by observing the expected quasinormal modes.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
title: Funktionelle Ergebnisse nach kombinierter Implantation einer Lochblendenlinse und einer segmental refraktiven bifokalen Intraokularlinse
Creators: name: Khoramnia, Ramin
name: Yildirim, T. M.
name: Son, H.-S.
name: Baur, I.
name: Auffarth, G. U.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Zielsetzung: Evaluation des Fern-, Intermediär- und der Nahvisus nach der Implantation einer Lochblendenlinse und einer segmental refraktiven bifokalen Intraokularlinse. Methoden: In dieser laufenden prospektiven Studie wurde bei 12 Patienten eine IC-8 IOL (Acufocus, Irvine, CA USA) in einem[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 33. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, Interventionelle und Refraktive Chirurgie (DGII)
title: Die Beurteilung einer Small-Apertur Intraokularlinse als Mix&Match Kombination mit einer EDoF Intraokluarlinse
Creators: name: Herbers, Claudia
name: Kaiser, I.
name: Lucchesi, R.
name: Teisch, S.
name: Abdassalam, S.
name: Moftah, M.
name: Kretz, F. T. A.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Ziel: Beurteilung der funktionellen Ergebnisse nach Mix&Match Implantation einer asymmetrischen Multifokallinse im ferndominanten Auge und einer Small-Aperture IOL im Partnerauge. Methode: Bei bisher 9 Patienten wurde im ferndominaten Auge die multifokale IOL Lentis LS-313 MF20 (Oculentis,[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 33. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, Interventionelle und Refraktive Chirurgie (DGII)
Decoherence of Impurities in a Fermi Sea of Ultracold Atoms
Creators: name: Cetina, Marko
name: Jag, Michael
name: Lous, Rianne S.
name: Walraven, Jook T. M.
name: Grimm, Rudolf
name: Christensen, Rasmus S.
name: Bruun, Georg M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the decoherence of $^{40}$K impurities interacting with a three-dimensional Fermi sea of $^{6}$Li across an interspecies Feshbach resonance. The decoherence is measured as a function of the interaction strength and temperature using a spin-echo atom interferometry method. For weak to moderate interaction strengths, we interpret our measurements in terms of scattering of K quasiparticles by the Fermi sea and find very good agreement with a Fermi liquid calculation. For strong interactions, we observe significant enhancement of the decoherence rate, which is largely independent of temperature, pointing to behavior that is beyond the Fermi liquid picture.
MPEC 2023-F24 : 2023 FA
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 FA

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.
The Turing Way guide to ethical research
Creators: name: Sharan, Malvika
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: About the event: This summer, MIT is piloting a new course for about 90 undergraduates, Experiential Ethics, in which students explore ethical and social issues relevant to their own experiences, with a focus on technology and social justice. During the Experiential Ethics Virtual Field Trip, Malvika Sharan talked about The Turing Way, shared the overall goal of the project and introduced The Turing Way Guide for Ethical Research to invite contributions from the class.
title: Quantifying Wildlife Use of Escape Ramps Along a Fenced Highway
Creators: name: Jensen, Alex J
name: Perrine, John D
name: Schaffner, Andrew A.
name: Brewster, Robert A.
name: Giordano, Anthony J
name: Robertson, Morgan
name: Siepel, Nancy R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Wildlife exclusion fencing can significantly reduce wildlife–vehicle collisions. However, some animals breach the fence and become trapped in the highway corridor, thereby increasing risk of a wildlife–vehicle collision. An emerging solution to this problem is the installation of earthen escape ramps (i.e., jumpouts), which allow trapped animals to escape the highway corridor. Few studies have quantified wildlife use of jumpouts, and none have investigated intraspecific differences in use. We used camera traps to document wildlife use of 4 2m-high jumpouts associated with wildlife exclusion fencing along Highway 101 near San Luis Obispo, California, USA, from 2012 to 2017. We surveyed for 7,361 nights across all 4 jumpouts, yielding 1,015 visitation events by 10 different species of large- and medium-sized mammals. Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) accounted for 895 (88%) detections; they jumped out 20% of the time when detected at the top of the ramp and were never detected using the jumpout to enter the highway corridor. We differentiated male and female deer using the presence of antlers and found that they jumped out at similar rates, but females were detected 6 times more often and were more likely to return to the same jumpout. Two groups of 2–3 deer accounted for ~41% of deer detections, which allowed us to investigate their behavior over time. These results indicate that individual variation could influence jumpout use, which should be considered when quantifying their use. To increase the overall jumpout rate, we recommend a jumpout height between 1.75 and 2 m.
Nanopublication beyond the sciences: the PeriodO period gazetteer
Creators: name: Golden, Patrick
name: Shaw, Ryan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The information expressed in humanities datasets is inextricably tied to a wider discursive environment that is irreducible to complete formal representation. Humanities scholars must wrestle with this fact when they attempt to publish or consume structured data. The practice of “nanopublication,” which originated in the e-science domain, offers a way to maintain the connection between formal representations of humanities data and its discursive basis. In this paper we describe nanopublication, its potential applicability to the humanities, and our experience curating humanities nanopublications in the PeriodO period gazetteer.
title: Korrektur von irregulärem kornealen Astigmatismus und Katarakt durch eine Intraokularlinse (IOL) mit Lochblendenfunktion (IC-8)
Creators: name: Mackert, Marc J.
name: Langer, J.
name: Priglinger, S.
name: Shajari, M.
name: Mayer, W.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Irregulärer kornealer Astigmatismus führt auf Grund von Refraktionsfehlern höherer Ordnung zu einer Visusminderung und schlechten Sehqualität. Eine neue IOL mit Lochblendenfunktion könnte den irregulären kornealen Astigmatismus bei Patienten, die sich einer[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 33. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, Interventionelle und Refraktive Chirurgie (DGII)
title: A comparative Study of Deep Generative Models for Image Generation
Creators: name: Szeliga, Albert
Publisher: name: Hochschule Hannover
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 004 Informatik

description: In the last years generative models have gained large public attention due to their high level of quality in generated images. In short, generative models learn a distribution from a finite number of samples and are able then to generate infinite other samples. This can be applied to image data. In the past generative models have not been able to generate realistic images, but nowadays the results are almost indistinguishable from real images. This work provides a comparative study of three generative models: Variational Autoencoder (VAE), Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and Diffusion Models (DM). The goal is not to provide a definitive ranking indicating which one of them is the best, but to qualitatively and where possible quantitively decide which model is good with respect to a given criterion. Such criteria include realism, generalization and diversity, sampling, training difficulty, parameter efficiency, interpolating and inpainting capabilities, semantic editing as well as implementation difficulty. After a brief introduction of how each model works on the inside, they are compared against each other. The provided images help to see the differences among the models with respect to each criterion. To give a short outlook on the results of the comparison of the three models, DMs generate most realistic images. They seem to generalize best and have a high variation among the generated images. However, they are based on an iterative process, which makes them the slowest of the three models in terms of sample generation time. On the other hand, GANs and VAEs generate their samples using one single forward-pass. The images generated by GANs are comparable to the DM and the images from VAEs are blurry, which makes them less desirable in comparison to GANs or DMs. However, both the VAE and the GAN, stand out from the DMs with respect to the interpolations and semantic editing, as they have a latent space, which makes space-walks possible and the changes are not as chaotic as in the case of DMs. Furthermore, concept-vectors can be found, which transform a given image along a given feature while leaving other features and structures mostly unchanged, which is difficult to archive with DMs.
J-kink domain walls and the DBI action
Creators: name: Eto, Minoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study $J$-kink domain walls in $D=4$ massive $\mathbb{C}P^1$ sigma model. The domain walls are not static but stationary, since they rotate in an internal $S^1$ space with a frequency $ω$ and a momentum ${\bf k}$ along the domain wall. They are characterized by a conserved current $J_μ= (Q,{\bf J})$, and are classified into magnetic ($J^2 < 0$), null ($J^2=0$), and electric ($J^2 > 0$) types. Under a natural assumption that a low energy effective action of the domain wall is dual to the $D=4$ DBI action for a membrane, we are lead to a coincidence between the $J$-kink domain wall and the membrane with constant magnetic field $B$ and electric field ${\bf E}$. We also find that $(Q, {\bf J}, ω, {\bf k})$ is dual to $(B, {\bf E}, H, {\bf D})$ with $H$ and ${\bf D}$ being a magnetizing field and a displacement field, respectively.
description: 16 pages, 1 figure
Report on Experience with Artifact Evaluation
Creators: name: Ganz, Leonard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This repository contains reports and presentations made during the seminar "Reproducibility of Scientific Results in Software Engineering Research" at LMU Munich. The seminar was lectured by Prof. Dr. Stefan Winter and Nian-Ze Lee, Ph.D. Content: 4 Labreports on the assigned artifacts Material generated thorughout the analysis and other artifacts Summary report Presentation of results Analyzed papers and their respective artifacts: Paper DOI Artifact DOI 10.1145/3428286 10.5281/zenodo.3975566, 10.5281/zenodo.3974360 10.1145/3368089.3409767 10.5281/zenodo.3877886 10.1145/3018743.3018745 - 10.1145/2950290.2950348 -
title: Herausforderungen bei torischen IOL
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Peter
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Torische Linsen spielen eine immer größere Rolle in der Katarakt-Chirurgie, die sich vom rein kurativen Eingriff weiterentwickelt hat zu einer refraktiven Prozedur. Torische Linsen können potentiell das Ergebnis bei vielen Patienten deutlich verbessern, es gibt jedoch einige Herausforderungen,[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 33. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, Interventionelle und Refraktive Chirurgie (DGII)
title: Ausrichtung torischer IOL mittels Femtosekondenlaser-assistierter Kapselsack-Markierungen
Creators: name: Hagen, Philipp R.
name: Breyer, D. R. H.
name: Kaymak, H.
name: Klabe, K.
name: Ax, T.
name: Kretz, F. T. A.
name: Auffarth, G. U.
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Eine aktuelle Studie von Inoue Y et al. [ref:1] zeigt, dass ca. 30% des postoperativ beobachteten Ausrichtungsfehlers torischer IOL bereits durch eine fehlerhafte IOL-Positionierung während der OP bedingt sind. Neue Femtosekundenlaser-generierte Markierungen, welche [zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 33. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, Interventionelle und Refraktive Chirurgie (DGII)
Population genetic structure between Yap and Palau for the coral Acropora hyacinthus
Creators: name: Davies, Sarah W.
name: Toonen, Robert J.
name: Karl, Stephen A.
name: Cros, Annick
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Information on connectivity is becoming increasingly in demand as marine protected areas are being designed as an integral part of a network to protect marine resources at the ecosystem level. Larval dispersal and population structure, however, remain very difficult to assess. Here, we tested the predictions of a detailed oceanographic connectivity model of larval dispersal and coral recruitment within Palau and between Palau and Yap, which was developed to support the review of the existing network of marine protected areas in Palau. We used high throughput microsatellite genotyping of the coral Acropora hyacinthus to characterize population genetic structure. Pairwise F ′ ST values between Palau and Yap (0.10), Palau and Ngulu (0.09) and Yap and Ngulu (0.09) were all significant and similar to pairwise F ′ ST values of sites within Palau (0.02–0.12) and within Yap (0.02–0.09) highlighting structure at island scale and indicating that recruitment may be even more localized than previously anticipated. A bottleneck test did not reveal any signs of a founder effect between Yap and Palau. Overall, the data supports the idea that recovery of A. hyacinthus in Palau did not come exclusively from a single source but most likely came from a combination of areas, including sites within Palau. In light of these results there seems to be very little connectivity around the barrier reef and management recommendation would be to increase the number or the size of MPAs within Palau.
title: In vitro Abbildungsqualität mit torischen Intraokularlinsen
Creators: name: Pieh, Stefan
Publisher: name: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Hintergrund: Torische Hinterkammerlinsen können einen Hornhautastigmatismus ausgleichen und die Brillenabhängigkeit reduzieren. Bei einem theoretisch perfekt zentrierten Implantat können Rotationsfehler durch ein torisches Brillenglas ohne Einbuße der Abbildungsqualität korrigiert[zum vollständigen Text gelangen Sie über die oben angegebene URL]
description: 33. Kongress der Deutschsprachigen Gesellschaft für Intraokularlinsen-Implantation, Interventionelle und Refraktive Chirurgie (DGII)
Talking about the past: What do educators think about reminiscing with girls, boys, and everyone else?
Creators: name: Grogan, Anna Margaret
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Gendered reminiscing conversations may impact children’s developing identities and potentially reinforce socially constructed binary-gendered stereotypes. Prior research has established that parent-child reminiscing has measurable benefits for young children including development of autobiographical memories, social-emotional and language skills. Parents display individual differences in their elaborative and emotional reminiscing styles and there is some evidence that reminiscing is a gendered practice whereby parents speak differently to female and male children. Although educators also show similar individual differences in elaborative style, there are no known studies focusing on educator-child reminiscing and child gender. The aim of this study was to investigate how educators varied their responses to the perceived genders of children in educator-child reminiscing conversation vignettes. An online quantitative survey was used to collect self-reported data from educators who currently work in Australian ECE settings. The survey included six reminiscing vignettes in which the protagonists’ gender and emotion was varied and two questionnaires: Caregiver-Child Reminiscence Scale and Gendered Emotion Beliefs Scale. A generalised linear mixed model analysis was undertaken to explore the relationship between differences in vignette protagonist gender and emotion states, and educators’ choice of elaborative and emotive language responses. The findings from this analysis indicated that there was no significant relationship between educators’ elaborative or emotive response preferences and child gender. However, there was a significant relationship between emotive language and vignette emotions, specifically sadness and anger. There was also evidence to suggest that university qualified educators were more likely to choose emotive responses compared to non-university qualified educators. Together, these findings indicate that educators in this study did not differ their responses based on children’s genders but did respond more emotively to children expressing negative emotions.
Among-site variability in the stochastic dynamics of East African coral reefs
Creators: name: Spencer, Matthew
name: Allen, Katherine A.
name: Chong, Fiona
name: Clancy, Damian
name: Bruno, John F.
name: McClanahan, Tim R.
name: Zychaluk, Kamila
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Coral reefs are dynamic systems whose composition is highly influenced by unpredictable biotic and abiotic factors. Understanding the spatial scale at which long-term predictions of reef composition can be made will be crucial for guiding conservation efforts. Using a 22-year time series of benthic composition data from 20 reefs on the Kenyan and Tanzanian coast, we developed Bayesian vector autoregressive state-space models for reef dynamics, incorporating among-site variability, and quantified their long-term behaviour. We estimated that if there were no among-site variability, the total long-term variability would be approximately one-third of its current value. Thus, our results showed that among-site variability contributes more to long-term variability in reef composition than does temporal variability. Individual sites were more predictable than previously thought, and predictions based on current snapshots are informative about long-term properties. Our approach allowed us to identify a subset of possible climate refugia sites with high conservation value, where the long-term probability of coral cover ≤0.1 (as a proportion of benthic cover of hard substrate) was very low. Analytical results show that this probability is most strongly influenced by among-site variability and by interactions among benthic components within sites. These findings suggest that conservation initiatives might be successful at the site scale as well as the regional scale.
Type I Superluminous Supernovae as Explosions inside Non-Hydrogen Circumstellar Envelopes
Creators: name: Sorokina, Elena
name: Blinnikov, Sergei
name: Nomoto, Ken'ichi
name: Quimby, Robert
name: Tolstov, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A number of Type I (hydrogenless) superluminous supernova (SLSN) events have been discovered recently. However, their nature remains debatable. One of the most promising ideas is the shock-interaction mechanism, but only simplified semi-analytical models have been applied so far. We simulate light curves for several Type I SLSN (SLSN-I) models enshrouded by dense, non-hydrogen circumstellar envelopes, using a multi-group radiation hydrodynamics code that predicts not only bolometric, but also multicolor light curves. We demonstrate that the bulk of SLSNe-I including those with relatively narrow light curves like SN 2010gx or broad ones like PTF09cnd can be explained by the interaction of the SN ejecta with he CS envelope, though the range of parameters for these models is rather wide. Moderate explosion energy ($\sim (2 - 4)\cdot 10^{51}$ ergs) is sufficient to explain both narrow and broad SLSN-I light curves, but ejected mass and envelope mass differ for those two cases. Only 5 to 10 $M_\odot$ of non-hydrogen material is needed to reproduce the light curve of SN 2010gx, while the best model for PTF09cnd is very massive: it contains almost $ 50 M_\odot $ in the CS envelope and only $ 5 M_\odot $ in the ejecta. The CS envelope for each case extends from 10 $R_\odot$ to $\sim 10^5R_\odot$ ($7\cdot 10^{15} $ cm), which is about an order of magnitude larger than typical photospheric radii of standard SNe near the maximum light. We briefly discuss possible ways to form such unusual envelopes.
description: 16 pages; ApJ, in press; 2 new figures added with new modeled light curves; the text is expanded and corrected according to referee's and editor's comments
Powerful ways of (not) knowing New Urban Tourism conflicts. Thin problematisation as limitation for tourism governance in Berlin
Creators: name: Sommer, Christoph
Publisher: name: Milton Park, Abingdon : Routledge
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Tourism
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: urban tourism
subject: Berlin
subject: Destination Governance
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein::710 | Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::700 | Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein::720 | Architektur

description: Governance habits of (not) knowing tourism conflicts predetermine options to act upon conflict-laden New Urban Tourism. Using Berlin as a case, the power of rendering tourism conflicts doable is empirically reconstructed in terms of various ‘thin problematisations’ mobilised by destination governance actors. In order to align doable problems and viable solutions—so the argument goes—Berlin’s municipal tourism governance builds on different knowledge formats (statistics, media statements, myths, concept work). The chapter argues that maintaining ‘thin problematisations’ of tourism conflicts limits a more far-reaching understanding and governance of (possibly unsolvable) contradictions of New Urban Tourism. Nevertheless, it is assumed that the complexity of New Urban Tourism inevitably needs to be reduced in order to be known and governed. Instead of relapsing into simplifications regarding (new urban) tourism conflicts, a further discussion of academic and more practice-related ways of knowing tourism problems is needed. To jointly venture into research co-operations with epistemic partners from tourism research and urban practice might help to gradually establish a more complex understanding of tourism frictions.
Non-perturbative over-production of axion-like-particles (ALPs) via derivative interaction
Creators: name: Mazumdar, Anupam
name: Qutub, Saleh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Axion like particles (ALPs) are quite generic in many scenarios for physics beyond the Standard Model, they are pseudoscalar Nambu-Goldstone bosons, and appear once any global $U(1)$ symmetry is broken spontaneously. The ALPs can gain mass from various non-perturbative quantum effects, such as anomalies or instantons. ALPs can couple to the matter sector incluidng a scalar condensate such as inflaton or moduli field via derivative interactions, which are suppressed by the axion {\it decay constant}, $f_χ$ . Although weakly interacting, the ALPs can be produced abundantly from the coherent oscillations of a homogeneous condensate. In this paper we will study such a scenario where the ALPs can be produced abundantly, and in some cases can even overclose the Universe via odd and even dimensional operators, as long as $f_χ/Φ_{\rm I} \ll 1$, where $Φ_{\rm I}$ denotes the initial amplitude of the coherent oscillations of the scalar condensate, $ϕ$. We will briefly mention how such dangerous overproduction would affect dark matter and dark radiation abundances in the Universe.
description: 17 pages, 18 figures
Density count of Leucadendron pubescens, Leucadendron salignum and Paranomus bracteolaris at site 3219AC/12
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
datasheet
density counts
Leucadendron pubescens
Leucadendron salignum
Paranomus bracteolaris

description: This is a scanned copy of a datasheet noting the density count of Leucadendron pubescens, Leucadendron salignum and Paranomus bracteolaris at site 3219AC/12. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape. SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
A Tangible Solution for Hand Motion Tracking in Clinical Applications
Creators: name: Salchow-Hömmen, Christina
name: Callies, Leonie
name: Laidig, Daniel
name: Valtin, Markus
name: Schauer, Thomas
name: Seel, Thomas
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: inertial sensor
subject: inertial measurement unit
subject: real-time motion tracking
subject: hand tracking
subject: magnetic disturbances
subject: dual quaternions
subject: hand and finger kinematics
subject: rehabilitation
subject: functional electrical stimulation

description: Objective real-time assessment of hand motion is crucial in many clinical applications including technically-assisted physical rehabilitation of the upper extremity. We propose an inertial-sensor-based hand motion tracking system and a set of dual-quaternion-based methods for estimation of finger segment orientations and fingertip positions. The proposed system addresses the specific requirements of clinical applications in two ways: (1) In contrast to glove-based approaches, the proposed solution maintains the sense of touch. (2) In contrast to previous work, the proposed methods avoid the use of complex calibration procedures, which means that they are suitable for patients with severe motor impairment of the hand. To overcome the limited significance of validation in lab environments with homogeneous magnetic fields, we validate the proposed system using functional hand motions in the presence of severe magnetic disturbances as they appear in realistic clinical settings. We show that standard sensor fusion methods that rely on magnetometer readings may perform well in perfect laboratory environments but can lead to more than 15 cm root-mean-square error for the fingertip distances in realistic environments, while our advanced method yields root-mean-square errors below 2 cm for all performed motions.
Common and rare genetic markers of lipid variation in subjects with type 2 diabetes from the ACCORD clinical trial
Creators: name: Havener, Tammy M.
name: McLeod, Howard L.
name: Marvel, Skylar W.
name: Buse, John B.
name: Wagner, Michael J.
name: Rotroff, Daniel M.
name: Motsinger-Reif, Alison A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Background Individuals with type 2 diabetes are at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Alterations in circulating lipid levels, total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and triglycerides (TG) are heritable risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Here we conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of common and rare variants to investigate associations with baseline lipid levels in 7,844 individuals with type 2 diabetes from the ACCORD clinical trial. Methods DNA extracted from stored blood samples from ACCORD participants were genotyped using the Affymetrix Axiom Biobank 1 Genotyping Array. After quality control and genotype imputation, association of common genetic variants (CV), defined as minor allele frequency (MAF) ≥ 3%, with baseline levels of TC, LDL, HDL, and TG was tested using a linear model. Rare variant (RV) associations (MAF < 3%) were conducted using a suite of methods that collapse multiple RV within individual genes. Results Many statistically significant CV ( p  < 1 × 10 −8 ) replicate findings in large meta-analyses in non-diabetic subjects. RV analyses also confirmed findings in other studies, whereas significant RV associations with CNOT2 , HPN-AS1 , and SIRPD appear to be novel ( q  < 0.1). Discussion Here we present findings for the largest GWAS of lipid levels in people with type 2 diabetes to date. We identified 17 statistically significant ( p  < 1 × 10 −8 ) associations of CV with lipid levels in 11 genes or chromosomal regions, all of which were previously identified in meta-analyses of mostly non-diabetic cohorts. We also identified 13 associations in 11 genes based on RV, several of which represent novel findings.
Supplementary documentation for SAEON's field instrument data collected at the Jonkershoek 20B station
Creators: name: South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) Fynbos Node
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: SAEON field instruments
Standard Operating Procedures
Calibration
Jonkershoek
Meteorological
Tipping bucket rain gauge
Rainfall
air temperature

description: This package contains supporting information for the meteorological data collected at Jonkershoek's 20B station, as part of the South African Environmental Observation Network's monitoring projects.
Micro-Patterning of PEG-Based Hydrogels With Gold Nanoparticles Using a Reactive Micro-Contact-Printing Approach
Creators: name: Yesildag, Cigdem
name: Ouyang, Zhaofei
name: Zhang, Zhenfang
name: Lensen, Marga C.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften
subject: PEG hydrogel
subject: Au NPs
subject: micropatteming
subject: cell adhension
subject: multifunctional

description: In this work a novel, relatively simple, and fast method for patterning of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) on poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)-based hydrogels is presented. In the hereby exploited reactive micro-contact printing (reactive-μ-CP) process, the surface of a micro-relief patterned PDMS-stamp is first functionalized with an amino-silane self-assembled monolayer (SAM), which is then inked with Au NPs. The stamp is subsequently brought into conformal contact with thiol-functionalized PEG-based hydrogel films. Due to the strong gold-thiol interactions the Au NPs are adequately and easily transferred onto the surfaces of these soft, multifunctional PEG hydrogels. In this way, defined μ-patterns of Au NPs on PEG hydrogels are achieved. These Au NPs patterns allow specific biomolecular interactions on PEG surfaces, and cell adhesion has been studied. Cells were found to effectively adhere only on Au NPs micro-patterns and to avoid the anti-adhesive PEG background. Besides the cell adhesion studies, these Au NPs μ-patterns can be potentially applied as biosensors in plasmon-based spectroscopic devices or in medicine, e.g., for drug delivery systems or photothermal therapies.
Online Supplementary Material: DNA methylation near CPT1A and changes in triglyceride-rich lipoproteins in response to weight-loss diet interventions
Creators: name: Li, Xiang
name: Shao, Xiaojian
name: Xue, Qiaochu
name: Kou, Minghao
name: M. Champagne, Catherine
name: Koseva, Boryana
name: Heianza, Yoriko
name: Grundberg, Elin
name: Bazzano, Lydia A.
name: Bray, George
name: M. Sacks, Frank
name: Qi, Lu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Nutritional epidemiology

description: Online supplementary material
Coral larvae for restoration and research: a large-scale method for rearing Acropora millepora larvae, inducing settlement, and establishing symbiosis
Creators: name: Beltran, Victor H.
name: Bourne, David G.
name: van de Water, Jeroen A.J.M.
name: Willis, Bette L.
name: Davies, Sarah W.
name: Torda, Gergely
name: Matz, Mikhail V.
name: Puill-Stephan, Eneour
name: Katz, Sefano M.
name: Buerger, Patrick
name: Hein, Margaux
name: Abrego, David
name: Joseph Pollock,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Here we describe an efficient and effective technique for rearing sexually-derived coral propagules from spawning through larval settlement and symbiont uptake with minimal impact on natural coral populations. We sought to maximize larval survival while minimizing expense and daily husbandry maintenance by experimentally determining optimized conditions and protocols for gamete fertilization, larval cultivation, induction of larval settlement by crustose coralline algae, and inoculation of newly settled juveniles with their dinoflagellate symbiont Symbiodinium . Larval rearing densities at or below 0.2 larvae mL −1 were found to maximize larval survival and settlement success in culture tanks while minimizing maintenance effort. Induction of larval settlement via the addition of a ground mixture of diverse crustose coralline algae (CCA) is recommended, given the challenging nature of in situ CCA identification and our finding that non settlement-inducing CCA assemblages do not inhibit larval settlement if suitable assemblages are present. Although order of magnitude differences in infectivity were found between common Great Barrier Reef Symbiodinium clades C and D, no significant differences in Symbiodinium uptake were observed between laboratory-cultured and wild-harvested symbionts in each case. The technique presented here for Acropora millepora can be adapted for research and restoration efforts in a wide range of broadcast spawning coral species.
Map: Kogelberg, Palmiet River experimental site
Creators: name: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center
Publisher: name: South African Environmental Observation Network
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre
Map
Kogelberg

description: This is a scanned copy of a map of Kogelberg, Palmiet River experimental site. The Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center (part of the former South African Forestry Research Institute) was established in 1935 at Jonkershoek, near Stellenbosch, under the directorship of Dr C. L. Wicht. The initial aim was to determine how forestry activities in state plantations would affect climate, water conservation and erosion, and was later expanded to include studies of fynbos ecology, fire and alien species. Studies from the 1930s to the early 1990s saw the accumulation of a large amount of data dealing with fire experiments, detailed vegetation plot surveys, rare plant surveys and ecological studies, hydrological studies and the development of management plans for catchments around the Western Cape.  SAEON now houses the archive of data collected by the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Center, which was originally held by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Validating variational principle for higher order theory of gravity
Creators: name: Ruz, Soumendranath
name: Sarkar, Kaushik
name: Sk, Nayem
name: Sanyal, Abhik Kumar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Metric variation of higher order theory of gravity requires to fix the Ricci scalar in addition to the metric tensor at the boundary. Fixing Ricci scalar at the boundary implies that the classical solutions are fixed once and forever to the de-Sitter or anti de-Sitter solutions. Here, we justify such requirement from the standpoint of Noether Symmetry.
description: 5 pages, To appear in Modern Physics Letters A
Facilitative and competitive interaction components among New England salt marsh plants
Creators: name: Rand, Tatyana A.
name: Emery, Nancy C.
name: Bertness, Mark D.
name: Bruno, John F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Intra- and interspecific interactions can be broken down into facilitative and competitive components. The net interaction between two organisms is simply the sum of these counteracting elements. Disentangling the positive and negative components of species interactions is a critical step in advancing our understanding of how the interaction between organisms shift along physical and biotic gradients. We performed a manipulative field experiment to quantify the positive and negative components of the interactions between a perennial forb, Aster tenuifolius , and three dominant, matrix-forming grasses and rushes in a New England salt marsh. Specifically, we asked whether positive and negative interaction components: (1) are unique or redundant across three matrix-forming species (two grasses; Distichlis spicata and Spartina patens , and one rush; Juncus gerardi ), and (2) change across Aster life stages (seedling, juvenile, and adult). For adult Aster the strength of the facilitative component of the matrix-forb interaction was stronger than the competitive component for two of the three matrix species, leading to net positive interactions. There was no statistically significant variation among matrix species in their net or component effects. We found little difference in the effects of J. gerardi on Aster at later life-history stages; interaction component strengths did not differ between juveniles and adults. However, mortality of seedlings in neighbor removal plots was 100%, indicating a particularly strong and critical facilitative effect of matrix species on this forb during the earliest life stages. Overall, our results indicate that matrix forming grasses and rushes have important, yet largely redundant, positive net effects on Aster performance across its life cycle. Studies that untangle various components of interactions and their contingencies are critical to both expanding our basic understanding of community organization, and predicting how natural communities and their component parts will respond to environmental change.