cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Occupational cooling practices of emergency first responders in the United States: A survey
Creators: name: Bach, Aaron J. E.
name: Maley, Matthew J.
name: Minett, Geoffrey M.
name: Stewart, Ian B.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Despite extensive documentation directed specifically toward mitigating thermal strain of first responders, we wished to ascertain the degree to which first responders applied cooling strategies, and what opinions are held by the various agencies/departments within the United States. An internet-based survey of first responders was distributed to the International Association of Fire Chiefs, International Association of Fire Firefighters, National Bomb Squad Advisory Board and the USA Interagency Board and their subsequent departments and branches. Individual first responder departments were questioned regarding the use of pre-, concurrent, post-cooling, types of methods employed, and/or reasons why they had not incorporated various methods in first responder deployment. Completed surveys were collected from 119 unique de-identified departments, including those working in law enforcement (29%), as firefighters (29%), EOD (28%) and HAZMAT technicians (15%). One-hundred and eighteen departments (99%) reported heat strain/illness to be a risk to employee safety during occupational duties. The percentage of departments with at least one case of heat illness in the previous year were as follows: fire (39%) HAZMAT (23%), EOD (20%) and law enforcement (18%). Post-cooling was the scheduled cooling method implemented the most (63%). Fire departments were significantly more likely to use post-cooling, as well as combine two types of scheduled cooling compared to other departments. Importantly, 25% of all departments surveyed provided no cooling whatsoever. The greatest barriers to personnel cooling were as follows – availability, cost, logistics, and knowledge. Our findings could aid in a better understanding of current practices and perceptions of heat illness and injury prevention in United States first responders. Abbreviations: EOD: explosive ordnance disposal; HAZMAT: hazardous materials
Landscape Architecture Student Choice: Profession or Provider
Creators: name: Barthelmeh, Mike
name: Karanja, Dennis
Publisher: name: Landscape Review
Year: 2017

description: Secondary school students face many choices about tertiary education. Some will have a career path in mind and choose to attend an institution that offers a relevant programme, while others will choose a programme offered by an institution that has been selected for other reasons. This paper investigates whether students enrolled in one of the three accredited landscape architecture programmes in New Zealand first chose their career rather than first selected an institution. It also reports on the factors that influenced these choices. Ninety-seven first-year landscape architecture students were invited to complete a self-administered questionnaire. Seventy-five per cent chose a career in landscape architecture first, rather than first selecting an institution. In choosing a career, extrinsic motivations were more important than family or institutional influences, but institutional influences were more important than family or extrinsic factors when selecting a provider. The main factors influencing choice have implications for the profession; they also have implications for institutions regarding programme distinctiveness. Many factors play a role in these choices, including selection of subjects at school. Survey respondents reported on their choices of subject at secondary school and the usefulness of those subjects to their landscape architecture programme. A particular combination of secondary school courses may be a useful signal for students to consider landscape architecture as a possible career path.
description: Landscape Review, Vol 17 No 1 (2017): Potential and Possibility: Educating Landscape Architects and Exploring Landscapes
A Study on the Relationship Between Depth Map Quality and the Overall 3D Video Quality OF Experience
Creators: name: Banitalebi-Dehkordi, Amin
name: Pourazad, Mahsa T.
name: Nasiopoulos, Panos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The emergence of multiview displays has made the need for synthesizing virtual views more pronounced, since it is not practical to capture all of the possible views when filming multiview content. View synthesis is performed using the available views and depth maps. There is a correlation between the quality of the synthesized views and the quality of depth maps. In this paper we study the effect of depth map quality on perceptual quality of synthesized view through subjective and objective analysis. Our evaluation results show that: 1) 3D video quality depends highly on the depth map quality and 2) the Visual Information Fidelity index computed between the reference and distorted depth maps has Pearson correlation ratio of 0.75 and Spearman rank order correlation coefficient of 0.67 with the subjective 3D video quality.
Distances to Galaxies from the Correlation Between Luminosities and Linewidths. III. Cluster Template and Global Measurements of H0
Creators: name: Tully, R. Brent
name: Pierce, M. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The correlation between the luminosities and rotation velocities of galaxies can be used to estimate distances to late-type galaxies. It is an appropriate moment to re-evaluate this method given the great deal of new information available. The major improvements described here include: (a) the template relations can now be defined by large, complete samples, (b) the samples are drawn from a wide range of environments, (c) the relations are defined by photometric information at B,R,I and K' bands, (d) the multi-band information clarifies problems associated with internal reddening, (e) the template zero-points are defined by 24 galaxies with accurately known distances, and (f) the relations are applied to 12 clusters scattered across the sky and out to velocities of 8,000 km/s. The biggest change from earlier calibrations are associated with point (e). Roughly a 15% increase in the distance scale has come about with the five-fold increase in the number of zero-point calibrators. The overall increase in the distance scale from the luminosity--linewidth methodology is about 10% after consideration of all factors. Modulo an assumed distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud of 50 kpc and no metallicity corrections to the Cepheid calibration, the resulting value of the Hubble Constant is H0 = 77 +- 8 km/s/Mpc where the error is the 95% probable statistical error. Cummulative systematic errors internal to this analysis should not exceed 10%. Uncertainties in the distance scale ladder external to this analysis are estimated at 10%. If the Cepheid calibration is shifted from the LMC to NGC 4258 with a distance established by observations of circum-nuclear masers then H0 is larger by 12%.
description: 34 pages including 15 figures and 1 table. One 14 page landscape table not encapsulated. Paper accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Do Programmers Work at Night or During the Weekend?
Creators: name: Claes, Maëlick
name: Mäntylä, Mika
name: Kuutila, Miikka
name: Adams, Bram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Abnormal working hours can reduce work health, general well-being, and productivity, independent from a profession. To inform future approaches for automatic stress and overload detection, this paper establishes empirically collected measures of the work patterns of software engineers. To this aim, we perform the first large-scale study of software engineers' working hours by investigating the time stamps of commit activities of 86 large open source software projects, both containing hired and volunteer developers. We find that two thirds of software engineers mainly follow typical office hours, empirically established to be from 10h to 18h, and do not usually work during nights and weekends. Large variations between projects and individuals exist. Surprisingly, we found no support that project maturation would decrease abnormal working hours. In the Firefox case study, we found that hired developers work more during office hours while seniority, either in terms of number of commits or job status, did not impact working hours. We conclude that the use of working hours or timestamps of work products for stress detection requires establishing baselines at the level of individuals.
Trees for shade, shelter, survival and body maintenance
Creators: name: LINDSAY WHISTANCE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Shade
Shelter
Grooming
Behaviour
Homeostasis
Silvopastoral systems
Survival; AFINET; factsheet

description: Le sylvopastoralisme offre aux animaux d'élevage l'accès à un abri en hiver et à l'ombre en été, ainsi que des endroits où se gratter pour maintenir l'état du pelage. Le comportement des animaux d'élevage se distingue en plusieurs catégories : la locomotion, l'instinct maternel, la nutrition, la reproduction, la sociabilité et le repos. L'accès aux arbres peut être bénéfique pour tout cela. Le comportement quotidien d'un animal dépend en grande partie du maintien de l'équilibre, qu'on appelle aussi l'homéostasie. Par exemple, lorsqu'un animal a faim, il se déplace et pâture. De même, quand il fait chaud ou froid, il cherche de l'ombre ou un abri et les arbres, les arbustes et les brise-vent peuvent offrir une protection efficace. La condition du pelage est importante pour le maintien de la santé des animaux. Les troncs et les branches des arbres sont facilement utilisés comme grattoirs. Les mères de toutes les espèces recherchent un abri disponible lors de l'accouchement.
The Correlation Between Galaxy HI Linewidths and K' Luminosities
Creators: name: Rothberg, B.
name: Saunders, W.
name: Tully, R. B.
name: Witchalls, P. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relationship between galaxy luminosities and rotation rates is studied with total luminosities in the K' band. Extinction problems are essentially eliminated at this band centered at 2.1 micron. A template luminosity-linewidth relation is derived based on 65 galaxies drawn from two magnitude-limited cluster samples. The zero-point is determined using 4 galaxies with accurately known distances. The calibration is applied to give the distance to the Pisces Cluster (60 Mpc) at a redshift in the CMB frame of 4771 km/s. The resultant value of the Hubble Constant is 81 km/s/Mpc. The largest sources of uncertainty arises from the small number of zero-point calibrators at this time at K' and present application to only one cluster.
description: 13 pages including 5 figures and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Photoinduced High-Frequency Charge Oscillations in Dimerized Systems
Creators: name: Yonemitsu, Kenji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photoinduced charge dynamics in dimerized systems is studied on the basis of the exact diagonalization method and the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for a one-dimensional spinless-fermion model at half filling and a two-dimensional model for $κ$-(bis[ethylenedithio]tetrathiafulvalene)$_2$X [$κ$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$X] at three-quarter filling. After the application of a one-cycle pulse of a specifically polarized electric field, the charge densities at half of the sites of the system oscillate in the same phase and those at the other half oscillate in the opposite phase. For weak fields, the Fourier transform of the time profile of the charge density at any site after photoexcitation has peaks for finite-sized systems that correspond to those of the steady-state optical conductivity spectrum. For strong fields, these peaks are suppressed and a new peak appears on the high-energy side, that is, the charge densities mainly oscillate with a single frequency, although the oscillation is eventually damped. In the two-dimensional case without intersite repulsion and in the one-dimensional case, this frequency corresponds to charge-transfer processes by which all the bonds connecting the two classes of sites are exploited. Thus, this oscillation behaves as an electronic breathing mode. The relevance of the new peak to a recently found reflectivity peak in $κ$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$X after photoexcitation is discussed.
description: 21 pages, 9 figures
Isolating the Penguin-diagram Contribution to $CP$ Violation in $B^{0}_{d}$ vs $\bar{B}^{0}_{d}\rightarrow π^{+}π^{-}$
Creators: name: Xing, Zhi-zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A reliable prediction for $CP$ violation in $B^{0}_{d}$ vs $\bar{B}^{0}_{d}\rightarrow π^{+}π^{-}$ suffers from the penguin-diagram induced uncertainty. With the help of SU(3) relations, we show that both the magnitude and strong phase shift of the penguin amplitude can be approximately determined only from the branching ratios of $B^{0}_{d}\rightarrow π^{+}π^{-}$, $B^{0}_{d}\rightarrow K^{+}π^{-}$, and $B^{+}_{u}\rightarrow K^{0}π^{+}$.
description: Latex file 11 pages; LMU-14/94 (August 1994)
BIZNESDA RAQAMLI TEXNOLOGIYALARDAN FOYDALANISHNING ZAMONAVIY TAHLILI
Creators: name: Jo'raboyev, I.T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Biznesda raqamli texnologiyalarning biznesda qo'llanilishi va ularning samaradorligini o'rganishga bag'ishlangan. Zamonaviy biznes dunyosida raqamli texnologiyalar juda muhim rol o'ynaydi va kompaniyalarga raqobatbardosh bo'lish, samaradorlikni oshirish hamda yangi imkoniyatlar yaratish imkonini beradi. Tahlil raqamli texnologiyalarning turli yo'nalishlarida, jumladan, marketing, ishlab chiqarish, mijozlar bilan aloqalar va boshqaruv jarayonlarida qo'llanilishini ko'rib chiqadi. Raqamli texnologiyalardan samarali foydalanish kompaniyalar uchun raqobatbardoshlikni oshirishda muhim omil bo'lib, bu jarayonda kompaniyalarning raqamli transformatsiya jarayonini to'g'ri boshqarish zarur. Shu bilan birga, raqamli texnologiyalarni joriy etish jarayonida duch kelinadigan muammolar va ularni yengish yo'llari ham ko'rib chiqiladi.
Is baryon number violated when electroweak strings intercommute?
Creators: name: Lo, Hoi-Kwong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We reexamine the self-helicity and the intercommutation of electroweak strings. A plausible argument for baryon number conservation when electroweak strings intercommute is presented. The connection between a segment of electroweak strings and a sphaleron is also discussed.
description: CALT-68-1948, 11 pages, 5 figures available upon request. Replaced with revised version. (Request should be sent to hkl@guinness.ias.edu)
Occupational cooling practices of emergency first responders in the United States: A survey
Creators: name: Bach, Aaron J E
name: Maley, Matthew J
name: Minett, Geoffrey M
name: Stewart, Ian B
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Despite extensive documentation directed specifically toward mitigating thermal strain of first responders, we wished to ascertain the degree to which first responders applied cooling strategies, and what opinions are held by the various agencies/departments within the United States. An internet-based survey of first responders was distributed to the International Association of Fire Chiefs, International Association of Fire Firefighters, National Bomb Squad Advisory Board and the USA Interagency Board and their subsequent departments and branches. Individual first responder departments were questioned regarding the use of pre-, concurrent, post-cooling, types of methods employed, and/or reasons why they had not incorporated various methods in first responder deployment. Completed surveys were collected from 119 unique de-identified departments, including those working in law enforcement (29%), as firefighters (29%), EOD (28%) and HAZMAT technicians (15%). One-hundred and eighteen departments (99%) reported heat strain/illness to be a risk to employee safety during occupational duties. The percentage of departments with at least one case of heat illness in the previous year were as follows: fire (39%) HAZMAT (23%), EOD (20%) and law enforcement (18%). Post-cooling was the scheduled cooling method implemented the most (63%). Fire departments were significantly more likely to use post-cooling, as well as combine two types of scheduled cooling compared to other departments. Importantly, 25% of all departments surveyed provided no cooling whatsoever. The greatest barriers to personnel cooling were as follows – availability, cost, logistics, and knowledge. Our findings could aid in a better understanding of current practices and perceptions of heat illness and injury prevention in United States first responders. Abbreviations: EOD: explosive ordnance disposal; HAZMAT: hazardous materials
Riboflavin and pantothenic acid biosynthesis are crucial for iron homeostasis and virulence in the pathogenic mold Aspergillus fumigatus
Creators: name: Anna-Maria Dietl
name: Meir, Zohar
name: Shadkchan, Yona
name: Osherov, Nir
name: Haas, Hubertus
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Background: Aspergillus fumigatus is the most prevalent airborne fungal pathogen, causing invasive fungal infections mainly in immunosuppressed individuals. Death rates from invasive aspergillosis remain high because of limited treatment options and increasing antifungal resistance. The aim of this study was to identify key fungal-specific genes participating in vitamin B biosynthesis in A. fumigatus. Because these genes are absent in humans they can serve as possible novel targets for antifungal drug development. Methods: By sequence homology we identified, deleted and analysed four key A. fumigatus genes (riboB, panA, pyroA, thiB) involved respectively in the biosynthesis of riboflavin (vitamin B2), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), pyridoxine (vitamin B6) and thiamine (vitamin B1). Results: Deletion of riboB, panA, pyroA or thiB resulted in respective vitamin auxotrophy. Lack of riboflavin and pantothenic acid biosynthesis perturbed many cellular processes including iron homeostasis. Virulence in murine pulmonary and systemic models of infection was severely attenuated following deletion of riboB and panA, strongly reduced after pyroA deletion and weakly attenuated after thiB deletion. Conclusions: This study reveals the biosynthetic pathways of the vitamins riboflavin and pantothenic acid as attractive targets for novel antifungal therapy. Moreover, the virulence studies with auxotrophic mutants serve to identify the availability of nutrients to pathogens in host niches. Abbreviations: BPS: bathophenanthrolinedisulfonate; BSA: bovine serum albumin; CFU: colony forming unit; -Fe: iron starvation; +Fe: iron sufficiency; hFe: high iron; NRPSs: nonribosomal peptide synthetases; PKSs: polyketide synthaseses; wt: wild type
Weak quantum discord
Creators: name: Dieguez, P. R.
name: Angelo, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Originally introduced as the difference between two possible forms of quantum mutual information, quantum discord has posteriorly been shown to admit a formulation according to which it measures a distance between the state under scrutiny and the closest projectively measured (non-discordant) state. Recently, it has been shown that quantum discord results in higher values when projective measurements are substituted by weak measurements. This sounds paradoxical since weaker measurements should imply weaker disturbance and, thus, a smaller distance. In this work we solve this puzzle by presenting a quantifier and an underlying interpretation for what we call weak quantum discord. As a by-product, we introduce the notion of symmetrical weak quantum discord.
description: 12 pages, 1 figure
Garden as Education: Learning the ‘Old Ways’ of Traditional Mediterranean Food Practices
Creators: name: Harrisson, Fiona
Publisher: name: Landscape Review
Year: 2016

description: A former red-brick housing commission house in the bay-side suburbs of Melbourne has been transformed by Mark Dymiotis to replicate traditional village Mediterranean practices of his heritage. For many years, people have come into the garden through the Council of Adult Education and the Open Garden scheme to learn wine making and bread baking and other traditional Greek—Mediterranean everyday food practices. Mark draws on his own heritage and the knowledge of older people, the migrants who brought these practices to this land, about which he has been researching, writing and teaching for over 20 years. The garden is a platform for teaching about healthy and aff ordable everyday dietary practices.
description: Landscape Review, Vol 16 No 2 (2016): Gardens as Laboratories
Analysis of RNA-Seq datasets reveals enrichment of tissue-specific splice variants for nuclear envelope proteins
Creators: name: Capitanchik, Charlotte
name: Dixon, Charles R.
name: Swanson, Selene K.
name: Florens, Laurence
name: Kerr, Alastair R. W.
name: Schirmer, Eric C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Laminopathies yield tissue-specific pathologies, yet arise from mutation of ubiquitously-expressed genes. A little investigated hypothesis to explain this is that the mutated proteins or their partners have tissue-specific splice variants. To test this, we analyzed RNA-Seq datasets, finding novel isoforms or isoform tissue-specificity for: Lap2, linked to cardiomyopathy; Nesprin 2, linked to Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and Lmo7, that regulates the Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy linked emerin gene. Interestingly, the muscle-specific Lmo7 exon is rich in serine phosphorylation motifs, suggesting regulatory function. Muscle-specific splice variants in non-nuclear envelope proteins linked to other muscular dystrophies were also found. Nucleoporins tissue-specific variants were found for Nup54, Nup133, Nup153 and Nup358/RanBP2. RT-PCR confirmed novel Lmo7 and RanBP2 variants and specific knockdown of the Lmo7 variantreduced myogenic index. Nuclear envelope proteins were enriched for tissue-specific splice variants compared to the rest of the genome, suggesting that splice variants contribute to its tissue-specific functions.
Additional file 1 of Novel lipid indicators and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus among Chinese hypertensive patients: findings from the Guangzhou Heart Study
Creators: name: Deng, Hai
name: Hu, Peng
name: Li, Huoxing
name: Zhou, Huanning
name: Wu, Xiuyi
name: Yuan, Maohua
name: Duan, Xueru
name: Lao, Miaochao
name: Wu, Chuchu
name: Zheng, Murui
name: Lao, Xiang Qian
name: Zhao, Wenjing
name: Liu, Xudong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cell Biology
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Flow chart of selection of hypertensive patients. Table S1. Association between lipid indicators and the risk of T2DM. Table S2. Stratified analyses on the association between triglyceridemic-waist phenotypes and the risk of T2DM. Table S3. Stratified analyses on the association between triglyceride glucose index and the risk of T2DM. Table S4. Stratified analyses on the association between lipid accumulation product and the risk of T2DM. Table S5. Stratified analyses on the association between visceral adiposity index and the risk of T2DM. Table S6. Association between triglyceridemic-waist phenotypes and the risk of T2DM by defining WC ≥ 80 cm in women as enlarged waist circumference. Table S7. Association between lipid indices and the risk of T2DM with additional adjustment for total cholesterol and LDL-C. Table S8. Association between lipid indicators and the risk of T2DM by using different definition of hypertension.
Vector boson pair production in e-e- collisions with polarized beams
Creators: name: Helde, Paavo
name: Huitu, Katri
name: Maalampi, Jukka
name: Raidal, Martti
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1994
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The $W$-boson pair production in $e^-e^-$ collisions with polarized beams is investigated. The helicity amplitudes are derived for general couplings and the conditions for a good high-energy behaviour of the cross-section are given. The results are applied to the heavy vector boson production in the context of the left-right symmetric model. The Ward identities and the equivalence theorem are also discussed.
description: 17 pages+ 8 figures(uuencoded compressed ps-file appended), HU-SEFT R 1994-09 (the original version of the file was unreproducable in some computers)
Correlation and scaling behaviors of $PM_{2.5}$ concentration in China
Creators: name: Zhang, Yongwen
name: Chen, Dean
name: Fan, Jingfang
name: Havlin, Shlomo
name: Chen, Xiaosong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Air pollution has become a major issue and caused widespread environmental and health problems. Aerosols or particulate matters are an important component of the atmosphere and can transport under complex meteorological conditions. Based on the data of $PM_{2.5}$ observations, we develop a network approach to study and quantify their spreading and diffusion patterns. We calculate cross-correlation functions of time lag between sites within different season. The probability distribution of correlation changes with season. It is found that the probability distributions in four seasons can be scaled into one scaling function with averages and standard deviations of correlation. This seasonal scaling behavior indicates there is the same mechanism behind correlations of $PM_{2.5}$ concentration in different seasons. Further, from weighted and directional degrees of complex network, different properties of $PM_{2.5}$ concentration are studied. The weighted degrees reveal the strongest correlations of $PM_{2.5}$ concentration in winter and in the North China plain. These directional degrees show net influences of $PM_{2.5}$ along Gobi and inner Mongolia, the North China plain, Central China, and Yangtze River Delta.
description: 7 pages, 11 figures
Hard production of a Z boson plus heavy flavor jets at LHC and the intrinsic charm content of a proton
Creators: name: Lipatov, A. V.
name: Lykasov, G. I.
name: Malyshev, M. A.
name: Prokhorov, A. A.
name: Turchikhin, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cross section of associated production of a Z boson with heavy flavor jets in $pp$ collisions is calculated using the SHERPA Monte Carlo generator and the analytical combined QCD approach based on kt-factorization at small x and conventional collinear QCD at large x. A satisfactory description of the ATLAS and CMS data on the $p_T$ spectra of Z bosons and c-jets in the whole rapidity, y, region is shown. Searching for the intrinsic charm (IC) contribution in these processes, which could be visible at large y > 1.5, we study observables very sensitive to non-zero IC contributions and less affected by theoretical QCD scale uncertainties. One of such observables is the so-called double ratio: the ratio of the differential cross section of Z + c production in the central region of |y| < 1.5 and in the forward region 1.5 < |y| < 2.5, divided by the same ratio for Z + b production. These observables could be more promising for the search of IC at LHC as compared to the observables considered earlier.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures
Non-equilibrium Pair Breaking in Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 Superconductors: Evidence for Formation of Photo-Induced Excitonic Spin-Density-Wave State
Creators: name: Yang, X.
name: Luo, L.
name: Mootz, M.
name: Patz, A.
name: Budko, S. L.
name: Canfield, P. C.
name: Perakis, I. E.
name: Wang, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ultrafast terahertz (THz) pump{probe spectroscopy reveals unusual out-of-equilibrium Cooper pair dynamics driven by femtosecond (fs) optical quench of superconductivity (SC) in iron pnictides. We observe a two{step quench of the SC gap, where an abnormally slow (many 100's of ps) quench process is clearly distinguished from the usual fast (sub-ps) hot{phonon{mediated scattering channel. This pair breaking dynamics depends strongly on doping, pump uence, and temperature. The above observations, together with quantum kinetic modeling of non-equilibrium SC and magnetic correlations, provide evidence for photogeneration of a transient state where SC competes with build{up of spin-density-wave (SDW) excitonic correlation between quasi-particles (QP).
description: main text + supplementary
The Gaseous Environments of Radio Galaxies
Creators: name: Worrall, D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: X-ray emission traces the gaseous environments of radio sources. The medium must be present for jet confinement, but what are its influence on jet fuelling, dynamics, propagation, and disruption? The observational situation is both complicated and enriched by radio sources being multi-component X-ray emitters, with several possible regions of non-thermal emission. Recent work, primarily based on sensitive ROSAT pointings, is used to contrast the X-ray emission and environments of radio sources with (a) low power, (b) high power at high redshift, (c) high power at lower redshift, and (d) GHz peaked spectrum emission. The trends in external gas density and pressure near extended radio structures are reviewed. Imminently-available X-ray measurements with vastly improved resolution and sensitivity have great potential for resolving many open issues.
description: 20 pages, including 11 figures, using elsart.sty to appear in `Life Cycles of Radio Galaxies' ed. J Biretta et al., New Astronomy Reviews (Elsevier Science)
Non-Hermitian lattices with a flat band and polynomial power increase
Creators: name: Ge, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we first discuss systematically three general approaches to construct a non-Hermitian flat band, defined by its dispersionless real part. They resort to, respectively, spontaneous restoration of non-Hermitian particle-hole symmetry, a persisting flat band from the underlying Hermitian system, and a compact Wannier function that is an eigenstate of the entire system. For the last approach in particular, we show the simplest lattice structure where it can be applied, and we further identify a special case of such a flat band where every point in the Brillouin zone is an exceptional point of order 3. A localized excitation in this "EP3 flat band" can display either a conserved power, quadratic power increase, or even quartic power increase, depending on whether the localized eigenstate or one of the two generalized eigenvectors is initially excited. Nevertheless, the asymptotic wave function in the long time limit is always given by the eigenstate, and in this case, the compact Wannier function or its superposition in two or more unit cells.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures
Browse, preserved tree fodder and nutrition
Creators: name: LINDSAY WHISTANCE
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Tree fodder; Browse; Protein; Minerals; Selective feeding; Learning; Silvopastoral systems; AFINET; factsheet

description: En règle générale, les feuilles fraîches ou bien conservées d'arbres sont de bonnes sources d'alimentation, parfois meilleures que les graminées communément cultivées. Les fourrages ligneux sont également une bonne source de micronutriments, notamment de vitamines et de minéraux spécifiques. Lorsque les animaux ont accès à des arbres ou à des haies, ils se dirigent naturellement vers eux, montrant leur intérêt à les pâturer. La proportion de fourrage ligneux peut atteindre respectivement 12 à 55%, 20 à 76% et 60 à 93% du régime alimentaire des bovins, ovins et caprins. Les chèvres tolèrent des niveaux élevés de fourrages ligneux dans leur régime alimentaire en raison de leur salive qui peut se lier aux tanins, et de leur foie de grande taille qui traite efficacement les tanins. Bien que le système digestif des ruminants soit bien adapté à un régime à base d'herbe, il n'empêche pas une digestion efficace du fourrage ligneux. Le feuillage est accessible jusqu'à une hauteur de 2 m pour les bovins et de 1,2 m pour les ovins. Les chèvres arrivent à pâturer quasiment sur toute la hauteur de l'arbre.
Analysis of RNA-Seq datasets reveals enrichment of tissue-specific splice variants for nuclear envelope proteins
Creators: name: Capitanchik, Charlotte
name: Dixon, Charles
name: Swanson, Selene K.
name: Florens, Laurence
name: Kerr, Alastair R. W.
name: Schirmer, Eric C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Nuclear envelopathies/laminopathies yield tissue-specific pathologies, yet arise from mutation of ubiquitously-expressed genes. One possible explanation of this tissue specificity is that tissue-specific partners become disrupted from larger complexes, but a little investigated alternate hypothesis is that the mutated proteins themselves have tissue-specific splice variants. Here, we analyze RNA-Seq datasets to identify muscle-specific splice variants of nuclear envelope genes that could be relevant to the study of laminopathies, particularly muscular dystrophies, that are not currently annotated in sequence databases. Notably, we found novel isoforms or tissue-specificity of isoforms for: Lap2, linked to cardiomyopathy; Nesprin 2, linked to Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and Lmo7, a regulator of the emerin gene that is linked to Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy. Interestingly, the muscle-specific exon in Lmo7 is rich in serine phosphorylation motifs, suggesting an important regulatory function. Evidence for muscle-specific splice variants in non-nuclear envelope proteins linked to other muscular dystrophies was also found. Tissue-specific variants were also indicated for several nucleoporins including Nup54, Nup133, Nup153 and Nup358/RanBP2. We confirmed expression of novel Lmo7 and RanBP2 variants with RT-PCR and found that specific knockdown of the Lmo7 variant caused a reduction in myogenic index during mouse C2C12 myogenesis. Global analysis revealed an enrichment of tissue-specific splice variants for nuclear envelope proteins in general compared to the rest of the genome, suggesting that splice variants contribute to regulating its tissue-specific functions.
The Sitio Roberto Burle Marx: A Case Study in the Garden as Scientific Laboratory or Vegetal Studio for a Moving Work of Art?
Creators: name: Raxworthy, Julian
Publisher: name: Landscape Review
Year: 2016

description: The garden is a place of experimentation, where gardeners try out plants and both see how they grow and explore how to use them to eff ect, but does that make the garden a ‘laboratory’? Roberio Dias (2008) has described the Sitio Roberto Burle Marx (Roberto Burle Marx personal garden and nursery outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) as a ‘landscape laboratory’. Using the Sitio as a case study and Dias’s 2008 essay as a point of departure, this paper asks, if a laboratory is ‘a room or building equipped for scientific experiments, research or teaching’, does the phrase ‘garden as laboratory’ accurately describe how the garden operates as a creative space? If it does not, what would be a more appropriate description? Considering the garden as an artist’s studio recognises that, even while science is involved in the process of growing plants, its aim is to cultivate plants for aesthetic purposes. If each plant is a test, and the tests interact ecologically, then the art produced in the garden as studio is of a radically diff erent type: a moving work of art. In reconceiving the garden as studio and its art as alive, I aim to help enrich theories of planting design to engage them with growth.
description: Landscape Review, Vol 16 No 2 (2016): Gardens as Laboratories
Garden Streetscapes: Front Yards as Territorial Confi gurations
Creators: name: Scheerlinck, Kris
name: Schoonjans, Yves
Publisher: name: Landscape Review
Year: 2016

description: Too often, we assume great streets are defi ned by great buildings. Yet many streetscapes distinguish themselves by the presence of fl ower or vegetable gardens, front yards or backyards, allotment gardens, community playing fi elds or parks. Gardens, as a substantial element of low-density (and even high-density) neighbourhoods, articulate a highly qualitative relationship between private and public properties, between shared spaces and those used individually and between domestic spaces that can be separated or joined. As a consequence, streetscapes need to be considered as spaces delimited not only by building faÃ§ades but also by configurations of garden walls, fences, strips of grass, tree lines, muddy roads or concrete slabs for parking: these are the territorial borders that indicate how and to what extent collective spaces can be interpreted and appropriated by their users. This paper presents a theoretical framework that studies gardens as structural elements of streetscapes and it discusses a case study in Williamsburg, New York, that is part of the international Streetscape Territories Research Project being conducted by the Department of Architecture of the University of Leuven on different cases of streetscapes in New York, Barcelona, Ghent, Brussels, Havana, Addis Ababa and so on (see also www.streetscapeterritories.wordpress.com). Additional international references to recent uses of space in diff erent sociocultural contexts are provided to broaden the perspective of the research. The paper deals with the following research question: Can we describe the structural role of gardens in the making and use of contemporary streetscapes?
description: Landscape Review, Vol 16 No 2 (2016): Gardens as Laboratories
Spectrum Sensing: Enhanced Energy Detection Technique Based on Noise Measurement
Creators: name: Arjoune, Youness
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Spectrum sensing enables cognitive radio systems to detect unused portions of the radio spectrum and then use them while avoiding interferences to the primary users. Energy detection is one of the most used techniques for spectrum sensing because it does not require any prior information about the characteristics of the primary user signal. However, this technique does not distinguish between the signal and the noise. It has a low performance at low SNR, and the selection of the threshold becomes an issue because the noise is uncertain. The detection performance of this technique can be further improved using a dynamic selection of the sensing threshold. In this work, we investigate a dynamic selection of this threshold by measuring the power of noise present in the received signal using a blind technique. The proposed model was implemented and tested using GNU Radio software and USRP units. Our results show that the dynamic selection of the threshold based on measuring the noise level present in the received signal during the detection process increases the probability of detection and decreases the probability of false alarm compared to the ones of energy detection with a static threshold.
Alley cropping diversifies your farm and improves the environment
Creators: name: MERCEDES ROIS
name: MICHAEL DEN HERDER
name: IIRIS MATTILA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: productivity; combinations; diversification; tree rows; crops; AFINET; factsheet

description: Alley cropping, or planting woody perennials rows in arable or vegetable fields, is an innovative idea worthy of exploration by farmers seeking both an additional long term income, rather than income based solely on annual production, and to increase the environmental resilience of their system. It is advisable that the trees and shrubs planted should have some of the following characteristics: i) produce a product or multiple products (e.g., timber, nuts) with an acceptable local market, ii) have deep roots to reduce competition with the crops, iii) do not produce allelochemicals or acid foliage that would prevent some crops growing under them. Companion crops, planted in the alleys between the tree rows, may be: 1) cereal and forage crops; 2) fruits, berries, ornamental or aromatic/medicinal plants; or 3) biomass producing crops. In the initial stages, the growing environment in the alley will be favorable to row crops requiring full sun. As trees grow, they will increase shade, water and nutrient competition and humidity levels, decreased temperatures and wind, so shade tolerant species will be more suitable then. The management of trees includes weed control, pruning and thinning.
Analysis of RNA-Seq datasets reveals enrichment of tissue-specific splice variants for nuclear envelope proteins
Creators: name: Capitanchik, Charlotte
name: Dixon, Charles R.
name: Swanson, Selene K.
name: Florens, Laurence
name: Kerr, Alastair R. W.
name: Schirmer, Eric C.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Laminopathies yield tissue-specific pathologies, yet arise from mutation of ubiquitously-expressed genes. A little investigated hypothesis to explain this is that the mutated proteins or their partners have tissue-specific splice variants. To test this, we analyzed RNA-Seq datasets, finding novel isoforms or isoform tissue-specificity for: Lap2, linked to cardiomyopathy; Nesprin 2, linked to Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and Lmo7, that regulates the Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy linked emerin gene. Interestingly, the muscle-specific Lmo7 exon is rich in serine phosphorylation motifs, suggesting regulatory function. Muscle-specific splice variants in non-nuclear envelope proteins linked to other muscular dystrophies were also found. Nucleoporins tissue-specific variants were found for Nup54, Nup133, Nup153 and Nup358/RanBP2. RT-PCR confirmed novel Lmo7 and RanBP2 variants and specific knockdown of the Lmo7 variantreduced myogenic index. Nuclear envelope proteins were enriched for tissue-specific splice variants compared to the rest of the genome, suggesting that splice variants contribute to its tissue-specific functions.
Microwave background anisotropies due to non-linear structures in open and Lambda universes
Creators: name: Dabrowski, Y.
name: Hall, M. J.
name: Sawicki, I. L.
name: Lasenby, A. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new method arising from a gauge-theoretic approach to general relativity is applied to the formation of clusters in an expanding universe. The three cosmological models (Omega_0=1, Omega_Lambda=0), (Omega_0=0.3, Omega_Lambda=0.7), (Omega_0=0.3, Omega_Lambda=0) are considered, which extends our previous application (Lasenby et al. 1999 -"http://xxx.soton.ac.uk/abs/astro-ph/9810123"-, Dabrowski et al. 1999 -"http://xxx.soton.ac.uk/abs/astro-ph/9810149"-). A simple initial velocity and density perturbation of finite extent is imposed at the epoch z=1000 and we investigate the subsequent evolution of the density and velocity fields for clusters observed at redshifts z=1, z=2 and z=3. Photon geodesics and redshifts are also calculated so that the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies due to collapsing clusters can be estimated. We find that the central CMB temperature decrement is slightly stronger and extends to larger angular scales in the non-zero Omega_Lambda case. This effect is strongly enhanced in the open case. Gravitational lensing effects are also considered and we apply our model to the reported microwave decrement observed towards the quasar pair PC 1643+4631 A & B.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
Garden as 1:1: Between Paper Thinking and Earth Moving in Landscape Architectural Learning
Creators: name: Harrisson, Fiona
Publisher: name: Landscape Review
Year: 2016

description: Decisions about design are invariably decisions about materials (Temple, 2011, p 50). Design education seeks to mimic the design process in landscape architectural practice. Yet the educational process is fundamentally different because design ideas are rarely tested through building. Student learning, therefore, remains in the realm of abstraction: the representation of a design idea without translation into the actual material these ideas are intended to shape. Thinking through ideas at full scale off ers an alternative way to explore design learning so students understand the spatial, social and material consequences of their ideas. Working at the 1:1 scale gives them an insight into the implications of their design decisions and experience in working directly with the materials of their concern. It also off ers an opportunity to work one to one with each other and clients.
description: Landscape Review, Vol 16 No 2 (2016): Gardens as Laboratories