cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Igerna quinlani C.A.Viraktamath 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Igerna
Igerna quinlani

description: Igerna quinlani sp. nov.
Figs 327–332.
 Color. Ochraceous. Two somewhat round spots on vertex, closer to each other than to eyes, antennal pits, apical spot on frontoclypeus, black. Pronotum with posterior submarginal brownish black band anteromedially conically produced, anterior margin with fuscous to brown spots behind eyes. Basal angles of scutellum with dark brown triangular spots. Forewings pale brown with brownish veins. Thoracic pleura and abdomen dark brown. Female seventh sternite and ovipositor ochraceous.
 Morphology. Face including eyes about as wide as long. Ocelli closer to adjacent eyes than to each other.
 Male genitalia. Caudal lobe of pygofer with caudal and subcaudal denticles. Styles slender elongate, apical curvature short, with inner arm slender and elongated into attenuated process. Connective broad at base, longer than broad, posterior margin with median U-shaped excavation. Aedeagus fused with connective, dorsal apodeme and socle well developed; shaft compressed and hooked apically and terminating in pair of caudally directed flattened processes, each process with basal denticle on outer margin near base, gonopore subapical and on caudal margin. Anal collar simple, horseshoe shaped.
 Female genitalia. Seventh sternite medially carinate with inverted V-shaped posterior margin, medially and apically dark pigmented.
 Measurements. Male 3.8 mm long and 1.21 mm wide across eyes. Female 4.0 mm long and 1.29 mm wide across eyes.
 Material examined. NEPAL: HOLOTYPE ♂, Ghanpokhara, 7000 ft (2123 m), 30.iv.1954, J. Quinlan, B.M. Nepal Expd., B.M. 1954-540 (BMNH). PARATYPES: 1 ♂, same data as holotype; 1 ♂, Ulleri, 6000–7000 ft (1820–2123 m), 19.v.1954, J. Quinlan; 1 ♀, 2 miles (3.2 Km), SE of Sikha, 21–22.v.1954, J. Quinlan (BMNH).
 Remarks. I. quinlani shares the character of fused connective and aedeagus with I. violacea. This species is named after its collector Mr J. Quinlan. Coloration in some specimens is variable. In the paratype male the following areas are black: an inverted Y with broad lateral arms on upper part of face, a larger spot between ocellus and eye, a smaller spot laterad of ocellus, broken submarginal bands of frontoclypeus, inner margin of lora and facial sulci; the basal half of scutellum and a median stripe in the apical half are black. In the female paratype, the submarginal band on the pronotum is reduced to two lateral and one median faint fuscous spots.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on page 75
Microscopic model of superconductivity in carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Gonzalez, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose the model of a manifold of one-dimensional interacting electron systems to account for the superconductivity observed in ropes of nanotubes. We rely on the strong suppression of single-particle hopping between neighboring nanotubes in a disordered rope and conclude that the tunnelling takes place in pairs of electrons, which are formed within each nanotube due to the existence of large superconducting correlations. Our estimate of the transition temperature is consistent with the values that have been measured experimentally in ropes with about 100 metallic nanotubes.
description: 4 pages, to appear in Physical Review Letters
Simple encoding of higher derivative gauge and gravity counterterms
Creators: name: Carrasco, John Joseph M.
name: Rodina, Laurentiu
name: Yin, Zanpeng
name: Zekioglu, Suna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Invoking increasingly higher dimension operators to encode novel UV physics in effective gauge and gravity theories traditionally means working with increasingly more finicky and difficult expressions. We demonstrate that local higher derivative supersymmetric-compatible operators at four-points can be absorbed into simpler higher-derivative corrections to scalar theories, which generate the predictions of Yang-Mills and Gravity operators by suitable replacements of color-weights with color-dual kinematic weights as per Bern-Carrasco-Johansson double-copy. We exploit that Jacobi-satisfying representations can be composed out of other Jacobi-satisfying representations, and show that at four-points only a small number of building blocks are required to generate the predictions of higher-derivative operators. We find that this construction saturates the higher-derivative operators contributing to the four-point supersymmetric open and closed-string tree amplitudes, presenting a novel representation of the four-point supersymmetric open string making this structure manifest, as well as identifying the only four additional gauge-invariant building blocks required to saturate the four-point bosonic open string.
description: 7 pages, matches journal version
Crow Canyon Archaeobotanical Remains References
Creators: name: Oas, Sarah
name: Adams, Karen R.
Year: 2021
Subjects: Mesa Verde
Basketmaker III
Pueblo I
Pueblo II
Pueblo III
Ancestral Puebloan
Non-Domestic Structures
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Macrobotanical
Data Recovery / Excavation

description: Document with bibliographic information concerning references for the archaeobotanical identification and analysis methods, the taxonomic flora of reference, and the primary archaeobotanical reports from the 11 Crow Canyon Archaeological Center project reports
title: Restorative justice education and social dynamics in the classroom
Creators: name: Saleh, Tina
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: In this research, I examine teachers’ experiences with implementing Restorative Justice Education (RJE) in schools in Newfoundland. I investigate their experiences with navigating social class and social production in the classroom, and their perceptions around the change in culture that RJE is producing in schools. Further, I look how teachers think Restorative Justice Education is contributing to reconciliation efforts in the Canadian context. I also look at how teachers think RJE is creating equitable and inclusive classroom environments, and how their responses reveal a social movement occurring in education. I examined these research questions through eighteen qualitative interviews and discuss patterns and themes that emerged inductively in the responses. My research also reveals the potential of and opportunities that lie ahead for RJE to contribute to positive social change, and to provide more in-depth, collaborative and consultative education on Indigenous history in Canada.
Order statistics for d-dimensional diffusion processes
Creators: name: Yuste, S. B.
name: Acedo, L.
name: Lindenberg, Katja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for the ordered sequence of first passage times of arrival of N random walkers at a boundary in Euclidean spaces of d dimensions.
KIR Variation in Iranians Combines High Haplotype and Allotype Diversity With an Abundance of Functional Inhibitory Receptors
Creators: name: Alicata, Claudia
name: Ashouri, Elham
name: Nemat-Gorgani, Neda
name: Guethlein, Lisbeth A.
name: Marin, Wesley M.
name: Tao, Sudan
name: Moretta, Lorenzo
name: Hollenbach, Jill A.
name: Trowsdale, John
name: Traherne, James A.
name: Ghaderi, Abbas
name: Parham, Peter
name: Norman, Paul J.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: NK cells
subject: KIR
subject: HLA class I
subject: Iranian populations
subject: immune diversity

description: Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphocytes that eliminate infected and transformed cells. They discriminate healthy from diseased tissue through killer cell Ig-like receptor (KIR) recognition of HLA class I ligands. Directly impacting NK cell function, KIR polymorphism associates with infection control and multiple autoimmune and pregnancy syndromes. Here we analyze KIR diversity of 241 individuals from five groups of Iranians. These five populations represent Baloch, Kurd, and Lur, together comprising 15% of the ethnically diverse Iranian population. We identified 159 KIR alleles, including 11 not previously characterized. We also identified 170 centromeric and 94 telomeric haplotypes, and 15 different KIR haplotypes carrying either a deletion or duplication encompassing one or more complete KIR genes. As expected, comparing our data with those representing major worldwide populations revealed the greatest similarity between Iranians and Europeans. Despite this similarity we observed higher frequencies of KIR3DL1*001 in Iran than any other population, and the highest frequency of HLA-B*51, a Bw4-containing allotype that acts as a strong educator of KIR3DL1*001+ NK cells. Compared to Europeans, the Iranians we studied also have a reduced frequency of 3DL1*004, which encodes an allotype that is not expressed at the NK cell surface. Concurrent with the resulting high frequency of strong viable interactions between inhibitory KIR and polymorphic HLA class I, the majority of KIR-A haplotypes characterized do not express a functional activating receptor. By contrast, the most frequent KIR-B haplotype in Iran expresses only one functional inhibitory KIR and the maximum number of activating KIR. This first complete, high-resolution, characterization of the KIR locus of Iranians will form a valuable reference for future clinical and population studies.
Breakup of the weakly bound 17F nucleus
Creators: name: Bertulani, C. A.
name: Danielewicz, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The breakup of the radioactive 17F nucleus into a proton and 16O is studied for the reaction 17F + 208Pb --> p + 16O + 208Pb at 65 MeV/nucleon. The possibility of using this reaction as a test case for studying dynamical Coulomb reacceleration effects is assessed. It is shown that the reaction is dominated by elastic nuclear breakup (diffraction dissociation).
description: 17 figures and 8 figures
Empirical Analysis on Factors Influencing Distribution of Vegetable Production
Creators: name: WU, Wenjie
name: WU, Wenjie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Vegetable
subject: Production distribution
subject: Influence factors

description: Since the reform and opening-up, there has been a great change in spatial pattern of China’s vegetable production. This paper studied vegetable production in provinces of China in 1978-2013. From the sequential characteristics, China’s vegetable production area is constantly growing and takes on stage characteristic. From the spatial distribution, China’s vegetable production takes on the trend of “going down the south” and “marching the west”. In order to grasp rules of changes of vegetable production and the influence factors, this paper made theoretical and empirical analysis on factors possibly influencing distribution of vegetable production. Results show that major factors influencing distribution of China’s vegetable production include irrigation condition, non-agricultural employment, market demand, knowledge spillover, comparative effectiveness, rural road and government policies.
Bar strengths in spiral galaxies estimated from 2MASS images
Creators: name: Laurikainen, Eija
name: Salo, Heikki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-axisymmetric forces are presented for 107 spiral galaxies using the 2 Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) images. We apply both Cartesian integration and a polar grid integration utilizing a limited number of azimuthal Fourier components of density. We found that bar strength is independent of the method used to evaluate the gravitational potential. However, the polar method is more suitable for weak and noisy images. Bar strength was found to be sensitive to the Hubble-type dependent scale height of the disk, which has been ignored in the previous studies. On the other hand, the method is rather insensitive to the vertical model of the disk, as long as a same vertical dispersion is assumed, or to the boxy/peanut shaped structure, studied in terms of non-constant vertical scale height along the disk. In the near-IR most galaxies in our sample show non-axisymmetric forces in some level, and 40 percent of them have bars in a sense that they have regions with a constant phase of the m=2 Fourier density component.
description: 37 pages with 12 figures (text in TEX-format and figures in ps and eps). Accepted to MNRAS
Self-Attention Transducers for End-to-End Speech Recognition
Creators: name: Tian, Zhengkun
name: Yi, Jiangyan
name: Tao, Jianhua
name: Bai, Ye
name: Wen, Zhengqi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recurrent neural network transducers (RNN-T) have been successfully applied in end-to-end speech recognition. However, the recurrent structure makes it difficult for parallelization . In this paper, we propose a self-attention transducer (SA-T) for speech recognition. RNNs are replaced with self-attention blocks, which are powerful to model long-term dependencies inside sequences and able to be efficiently parallelized. Furthermore, a path-aware regularization is proposed to assist SA-T to learn alignments and improve the performance. Additionally, a chunk-flow mechanism is utilized to achieve online decoding. All experiments are conducted on a Mandarin Chinese dataset AISHELL-1. The results demonstrate that our proposed approach achieves a 21.3% relative reduction in character error rate compared with the baseline RNN-T. In addition, the SA-T with chunk-flow mechanism can perform online decoding with only a little degradation of the performance.
Performance Analysis of TLS for Quantum Robust Cryptography on a Constrained Device
Creators: name: Barton, Jon
name: Buchanan, William J
name: Pitropakis, Nikolaos
name: Sayeed, Sarwar
name: Abramson, Will
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Advances in quantum computing make Shor's algorithm for factorising numbers ever more tractable. This threatens the security of any cryptographic system which often relies on the difficulty of factorisation. It also threatens methods based on discrete logarithms, such as with the Diffie-Hellman key exchange method. For a cryptographic system to remain secure against a quantum adversary, we need to build methods based on a hard mathematical problem, which are not susceptible to Shor's algorithm and which create Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC). While high-powered computing devices may be able to run these new methods, we need to investigate how well these methods run on limited powered devices. This paper outlines an evaluation framework for PQC within constrained devices, and contributes to the area by providing benchmarks of the front-running algorithms on a popular single-board low-power device.
Kith or Kin? Familiarity as a Cue to Kinship in Social Birds
Creators: name: Leedale, Amy E.
name: Li, Jianqiang
name: Hatchwell, Ben J.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ecology and Evolution
kin discrimination
kin recognition
cooperation
familiarity
social birds

description: Interacting with relatives provides opportunities for fitness benefits via kin-selected cooperation, but also creates potential costs through kin competition and inbreeding. Therefore, a mechanism for the discrimination of kin from non-kin is likely to be critical for individuals of many social species to maximize their inclusive fitness. Evidence suggests that genetic cues to kinship are rare and that learned or environmental cues offer a more parsimonious explanation for kin recognition in most contexts. This is particularly true among cooperatively breeding birds, where recognition of familiar individuals is usually regarded as the most plausible mechanism for kin discrimination. In this article, we first review the evidence that familiarity provides an effective decision rule for discrimination of kin from non-kin in social birds. We then consider some of the complexities of familiarity as a cue to kinship, especially the problems of how individuals become familiar, and how familiar individuals are recognized. We conclude that while familiarity as a mechanism for kin recognition may be more parsimonious and widespread than genetic mechanisms, its apparent simplicity as a decision rule governing social interactions may be deceptive. Finally, we identify directions for future research on familiarity as a kin recognition mechanism in social birds and other taxa.
Determining surface magnetization and local magnetic moments with atomic scale resolution
Creators: name: Hofer, W. A.
name: Fisher, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to determine the direction of surface magnetization and local magnetic moments on the atomic scale. The method comprises high resolution scanning tunneling microscope experiments in conjunction with first principles simulations of the tunneling current. The potential of the method is demonstrated on a model system, antiferromagnetic Mn overlayers on W(110). We expect that it will ultimately allow to study the detailed changes of magnetic surface structures in the vicinity of dopants or impurities.
description: Four pages (RevTeX) and five figures (EPS). For related papers see http://cmmp.phys.ucl.ac.uk/~wah/
Igerna sikkima C.A.Viraktamath 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Igerna
Igerna sikkima

description: Igerna sikkima sp. nov.
Figs 72, 360–368.
 Color. Ochraceous with dark brown to black markings on head and pronotum (Figs 360 and 361). Forewings chocolate brown with claval suture and commissure ochraceous, apices of forewings paler. Legs ochraceous with chocolate brown markings.
 Morphology. Face including eyes wider than long. Ocelli closer to adjacent eyes than to each other.
 Male genitalia. Caudal lobe of pygofer turned mesally with distal stout spines. Connective longer than broad with bifid distal margin. Aedeagus with forked process on preatrium, forks divergent about as long as shaft, shaft more or less of uniform width with pair of lamellate processes having serrated margins at midlength; gonopore on dorsal margin near apex; shaft with spicules in apical quarter and also along gonopore; dorsal apodeme well developed. Anal collar process with simple dorsally directed process hook-like.
 Measurements. Male 3.6–3.8 mm long, 1.10–1.11 mm wide across eyes.
 Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Sikkim: Gangtok, 2123 m, 9.vi.2005, C.A. Viraktamath (UASB). PARATYPES: INDIA: Sikkim: 10 ♂, same data as holotype; 1 ♂, West Bengal: Kalimpong, 1780 m, 6.vi.2005, C.A. Viraktamath (BMNH, NPC, NMNH, ZSI, UASB).
 Remarks. I. sikkima is similar to I. darjeelingensis but differs in the structure of the aedeagus. It lacks the apical processes present in I. darjeelingensis but has a lamellate process at midlength of shaft. Both species occur in the same habitat and were swept from grassland mixed with herbs in Sikkim along with specimens of I. keyae sp. nov.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on pages 75-77
MOESM1 of Droplet-based microfluidic high-throughput screening of heterologous enzymes secreted by the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica
Creators: name: Beneyton, Thomas
name: Thomas, Stéphane
name: Griffiths, Andrew
name: Jean-Marc Nicaud
name: Drevelle, Antoine
name: Rossignol, Tristan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Description of the dropmaker device. Droplets were produced by flow-focusing of the aqueous stream (inlet a) with two streams of fluorinated oilcontaining surfactant (inlet b). The device was used to produce 20 pl droplets that were collected off-chip (outlet c). The width of the microfluidic channels was 20 μm.
The impacst of CAP post-2013 and regional climate change on agricultural land use intensity and the environment in Austria
Creators: name: Kirchner, Mathias
name: Schonhart, Martin
name: Schmid, Erwin
name: Kirchner, Mathias
name: Schonhart, Martin
name: Schmid, Erwin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Common Agricultural Policy
subject: Climate Change
subject: Agri-environmental
subject: Land Use
subject: Environment

description: We assess anticipated changes in policy and regional climate on agrarian land use development indicators in Austria for the period 2025-2040. A spatially explicit bio-economic integrated assessment quantifies impacts at 1km grid resolution in order to take into account the heterogeneity of Austrian agricultural landscapes. The impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2013 on regional producer surplus are slightly positive and payments shift from intensive to extensive production regions. The economic impact of climate change depends on changes in precipitation patterns. Policy change leads to intensification of land use in favorable cropland and grassland regions and extensification in marginal regions. Regional climate change amplifies land use intensification with increases in crop yields, e.g. in Alpine regions, and land use extensification with declining crop yields, e.g. in eastern cropland regions. Environmental indicators deteriorate at national level in all scenarios. The highly spatially diverging impacts call for more targeted policy measures.
Quantification of 3D spatial correlations between state variables and distances to the grain boundary network in full-field crystal plasticity spectral method simulations
Creators: name: Kühbach, Markus
name: Roters, Franz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Deformation microstructure heterogeneities play a pivotal role during dislocation patterning and interface network restructuring. Thus, they affect indirectly how an alloy recrystallizes if at all. Given this relevance, it has become common practice to study the evolution of deformation microstructure heterogeneities with 3D experiments and full-field crystal plasticity computer simulations including tools such as the spectral method. Quantifying material point to grain or phase boundary distances, though, is a practical challenge with spectral method crystal plasticity models because these discretize the material volume rather than mesh explicitly the grain and phase boundary interface network. This limitation calls for the development of interface reconstruction algorithms which enable us to develop specific data post-processing protocols to quantify spatial correlations between state variable values at each material point and the points' corresponding distance to the closest grain or phase boundary. This work contributes to advance such post-processing routines. Specifically, two grain reconstruction and three distancing methods are developed to solve above challenge. The individual strengths and limitations of these methods surplus the efficiency of their parallel implementation is assessed with an exemplary DAMASK large scale crystal plasticity study. We apply the new tool to assess the evolution of subtle stress and disorientation gradients towards grain boundaries.
description: Manuscript submitted to Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
Modelling the effects of low-input dairy farming using bookkeeping data from Austria
Creators: name: Kirchweger, Stefan
name: Eder, Michael
name: Kantelhardt, Jochen
name: Kirchweger, Stefan
name: Eder, Michael
name: Kantelhardt, Jochen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Dairy Farming
subject: Farm Competitiveness
subject: Low-input farming
subject: Cluster Analysis
subject: Matching Method

description: Despite the ongoing trend of higher intensities in dairy farming, some farmers select rather low-input systems. We identify such system in an agricultural bookkeeping dataset and assess economic effects of this system selection under volatile prices situations using cluster analysis and direct covariates matching. We find one lowinput cluster with low levels of input use and three clusters with rather higher input levels. Those clusters differ in site conditions, farm size and milk production. After applying the matching methodology, the results indicate that choosing a low-input system does not affect farm income but reduces the work load and borrowed capital even under volatile markets.
MOESM14 of Droplet-based microfluidic high-throughput screening of heterologous enzymes secreted by the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica
Creators: name: Beneyton, Thomas
name: Thomas, Stéphane
name: Griffiths, Andrew
name: Jean-Marc Nicaud
name: Drevelle, Antoine
name: Rossignol, Tristan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 14: Figure S6. Construction of xlnc libraries using error-prone PCR. The construction of xlnc mutant libraries was obtained by PCR amplification in two steps. First step, the PCR fragment composed of Zeta1, URA3 marker and pTEF promoter was amplified using primers Zeta1for and epPCRrev using the JME2603 plasmid as a template (top figure) under normal PCR condition (PCR1). Then, the PCR fragment composed of xlnc and Zeta2 was amplified using primers epPCR-for and Zeta2rev and the JME2603 plasmid as a template (top figure) under epPCR mutagenic conditions (PCR2). Second step, a fusion PCR was performed under standard PCR conditions using an equimolar proportion of both fragments as templates and using primers Zeta1for and Zeta2rev (PCR3).
How Does Composition of Household Income Affect Child Nutrition Outcomes? Evidence from Uganda
Creators: name: Kirk, Angeli
name: Kilic, Talip
name: Carletto, Calogero
name: Kirk, Angeli
name: Kilic, Talip
name: Carletto, Calogero
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Development
subject: Child Nutrition
subject: Anthropometrics
subject: Household Income
subject: Agriculture
subject: Nutrition- Sensitive Agricultural Production
subject: Uganda
subject: Sub-Saharan Africa

description: This study attempts to fill the knowledge gap between the cross-country analyses that explore the links between income and nutrition without insights on micro-level determinants, and the numerous microeconomic studies that suggest mechanisms of impact but are hindered by some combination of small sample size, incomplete data, and questionable approaches to impact estimation. The analysis uses the three annual waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey, and features panel regressions of child anthropometric outcomes controlling for time-invariant childlevel heterogeneity and other time-variant observables. The paper starts by looking at how the outcomes correlate with short-term changes in rural household income. The impact is subsequently differentiated by sector of income, first between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, and by type of agriculture. The analysis documents no impact of short-term changes in total gross income on weight-related measures but documents positive effects on height-related outcomes. Sector-differentiated analyses indicate that only the share of income originating from non-farm self-employment exerts positive and statistically significant effects on both height and weight measures. For height, the income shares pertaining to (i) consumption of own crop production and (ii) low-protein crop production appear to be underlining the negative effect of the share of income originating from crop production. The results suggest stickiness of crop production to own consumption, and while this may be nutrition-supporting in some contexts, income growth in the production of low-nutrient crops in Uganda may crowd out consumption of other goods and services that have the potential to serve as better nutritional investments.
Costs of landj degradation in Eastern Africa
Creators: name: Kirui, Oliver
name: Mrzabaev, Alisher
name: Kirui, Oliver
name: Mrzabaev, Alisher
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: Land degradation is a serious impediment to improving rural livelihoods in eastern Africa. This paper identifies land degradation patterns based on Land Use Cover Change and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index decline, compares the costs of action against inaction against land degradation using the Total Economic Value approach in four countries – Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania. Results show that land degradation hotspots cover about 51%, 41%, 23% and 22% of the terrestrial areas in Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia and Kenya respectively. The cost of land degradation between 2001-2009 periods is about US$2 billion in Malawi, US$11 billion in Kenya, US$18 billion in Tanzania and US$35 billion in Malawi. These represent about 5%, 7%, 14% and 23%, of GDP in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Ethiopia respectively. The costs of action as compared to the costs of inaction represented only about 23.7%, 24.1%, 26.0% and 26.2% in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania.
Anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Creators: name: Bersanelli, M.
name: Maino, D.
name: Mennella, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the present status of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy observations and discuss the main related astrophysical issues, instrumental effects and data analysis techniques. We summarise the balloon-borne and ground-based experiments that, after COBE-DMR, yielded detection or significant upper limits to CMB fluctuations. A comparison of subsets of combined data indicates that the acoustic features observed today in the angular power spectrum are not dominated by undetected systematics. Pushing the accuracy of CMB anisotropy measurements to their ultimate limits represents one of the best opportunities for cosmology to develop into a precision science in the next decade. We discuss the forthcoming sub-orbital and space programs, as well as future prospects of CMB observations.
description: 83 pages, 16 figures. Revised version, accepted by "La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento"
Finite size scaling and the role of the thermodynamic ensemble in the transition temperature of a dilute Bose gas
Creators: name: Mueller, Erich J.
name: Baym, Gordon
name: Holzmann, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Bose-Einstein condensation phase transition in a weakly interacting gas through a perturbative analysis of finite systems. In both the grand canonical and the canonical ensembles, perturbation theory suffers from infrared divergences and cannot directly determine the transition temperature in the thermodynamic limit. However, in conjunction with finite size scaling, perturbation theory provides a powerful calculation tool. We implement it here to estimate a shift in the transition temperature in the canonical ensemble consistent with grand canonical calculations.
description: 12 pages, 2 figures
Beyond mirkwood: Enhancing SED Modeling with Conformal Predictions
Creators: name: Gilda, Sankalp
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Traditional spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting techniques face uncertainties due to assumptions in star formation histories and dust attenuation curves. We propose an advanced machine learning-based approach that enhances flexibility and uncertainty quantification in SED fitting. Unlike the fixed NGBoost model used in mirkwood, our approach allows for any sklearn-compatible model, including deterministic models. We incorporate conformalized quantile regression to convert point predictions into error bars, enhancing interpretability and reliability. Using CatBoost as the base predictor, we compare results with and without conformal prediction, demonstrating improved performance using metrics such as coverage and interval width. Our method offers a more versatile and accurate tool for deriving galaxy physical properties from observational data.
description: 6 pages + 1 reference page. Accepted to the 3rd AI2ASE workshop at AAAI 2024 (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
MOESM11 of Droplet-based microfluidic high-throughput screening of heterologous enzymes secreted by the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica
Creators: name: Beneyton, Thomas
name: StĂŠphane Thomas
name: Griffiths, Andrew
name: Jean-Marc Nicaud
name: Drevelle, Antoine
name: Rossignol, Tristan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Additional file 11: Figure S5. Sequence alignment. Clustal multiple sequence alignment of the endo-Î˛-1,4-xylanase C amino acid sequence and the translated sequencesof the mutated XYNC in the six clones identified as thermoresistant. Mutations are underlined in yellow.
Igerna wilsoni C.A.Viraktamath 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Igerna
Igerna wilsoni

description: Igerna wilsoni sp. nov.
Figs 381–390.
 Color. Head with pair of black spots one on either side of median line, clypellus, lora, antennal bases, clypeus, chocolate brown, median stripe on frons extending to clypeus and spots enclosing lower part of ocelli, chocolate brown. Pronotum with anterior margin, two connected lateral spots and median stripe extending from it, chocolate brown. Anterior half of scutellum black, median rounded extension of same on posterior half brown. Forewing cells brown.
 Morphology. Face including eyes as long as wide. Ocelli closer to eyes than to each other.
 Male genitalia. Pygofer simple, caudal margin rather truncate. Styles typical of Igerna. Connective sclerotized and pigmented, longer than wide, lateral margins excavated. Aedeagus complex, stout basally, with ventral platelike apodeme having distal median acuminate process; aedeagal shaft with pair of basal processes directed caudally, shaft slender, with pair of lateral subapical teeth, at base of ventral apodeme and base of aedeagus with spines; gonopore apical. Anal collar simple.
 Measurement. Male 4.10 mm long and 1.30 mm wide across eyes.
 Material examined. INDIA: HOLOTYPE ♂, West Bengal: Gopaldhara BW, Darjeeling, 4720 ft (1431m), 24.iii.1918, H. Stevens (BMNH).
 Remarks. Igerna wilsoni resembles species of Japanagallia but lacks the cross veins between the claval veins. It shares a ventral process of the aedeagus with some undescribed species of Igerna from the Afrotropical region and I. quinlani. None of the other Oriental Igerna possesses a spine-like structure on the aedeagus. The species is named after Dr M. R. Wilson, in recognition of his contributions to Auchenorrhyncha systematics.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on pages 79-81
Intersubband gain in a Bloch oscillator and Quantum cascade laser
Creators: name: Willenberg, Harald
name: Dohler, Gottfried H.
name: Faist, Jerome
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The link between the inversion gain of quantum cascade structures and the Bloch gain in periodic superlattices is presented. The proposed theoretical model based on the density matrix formalism is able to treat the gain mechanism of the Bloch oscillator and Quantum cascade laser on the same footing by taking into account in-plane momentum relaxation. The model predicts a dispersive contribution in addition to the (usual) population-inversion-dependent intersubband gain in quantum cascade structures and - in the absence of inversion - provides the quantum mechanical description for the dispersive gain in superlattices. It corroborates the predictions of the semi-classical miniband picture, according to which gain is predicted for photon energies lower than the Bloch oscillation frequency, whereas net absorption is expected at higher photon energies, as a description which is valid in the high-temperature limit. A red-shift of the amplified emission with respect to the resonant transition energy results from the dispersive gain contribution in any intersubband transition, for which the population inversion is small.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Large deviations of glassy effective potentials
Creators: name: Franz, Silvio
name: Rocchi, Jacopo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The theory of glassy fluctuations can be formulated in terms of disordered effective potentials. While the properties of the average potentials are well understood, the study of the fluctuations has been so far quite limited. Close to the MCT transition, fluctuations induced by the dynamical heterogeneities in supercooled liquids can be described by a cubic field theory in presence of a random field term. In this paper we set up the general problem of the large deviations going beyond the assumption of the vicinity to $T_{MCT}$ and analyze it in the paradigmatic case of spherical ($p$-spin) glass models. This tool can be applied to study the probability of the observation of a dynamics with memory of the initial condition in regimes where, typically, the correlation $C(t,0)$ decays to zero at long times, at finite $T$ and at $T=0$.
title: Poly-N-isopropylacrylamide Based Microgels : A Study on Magnetic Microgels and Their Structure
Creators: name: Witt, Marcus Ulf
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2021

description: The thesis presents studies of the combination of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) with N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM) based microgels (MGs). Poly-NIPAM (PNIPAM) microgels are used for model systems, e.g. for the development of surface coatings, actuators, sensors or drug containers. Combining MNPs with MGs opens up new applications. The magnetic microgels (MMGs) can be influenced in external magnetic fields. The first part of the thesis studies first obstacles of loading the MGs with MNPs. The part starts by measuring the influence of the electric charge on the loading with MNPs. It is shown that the negatively charged MNPs are preferable embedded in positively charge MGs. The study also shows that there are additional factors influencing the MG loading. The prepared MMGs can be influenced by external magnetic fields. For example MMGs which are adsorbed on a surface, can be deformed in a magnetic field. Additional experiments also show that the MMGs can be separated from the dispersion with magnets. The second study focuses on the internal structure of the MGs by different synthesis methods, in particular on the distribution of cross-linker. Three different methods are studied: the batch method (everything in one reaction vessel), the feeding method (the reactants are fed continuously into the reaction vessel) and the semi-batch method (a combination of the two mentioned beforehand). The reaction rate constants are measured for the different monomers. Additionally, the reaction time could be drastically reduced, without compromising the gel properties. The third study further improves the understanding of the cross-linker distribution. The cross-linker concentration is correlated with the elastic modulus. The batch microgels show a heterogeneous distribution of cross-linker with the highest concentration in the particle center. The feeding microgels show a homogeneous distribution of cross-linker. The cross-linker distribution could also be observed with transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The microgels are loaded with MNPs and the magnetic microgels are imaged with the TEM. The TEM images show that the distribution of the MNPs is correlated to the cross-linker distribution. The fourth study focuses on an additional co-polymer and its influence on the MNP distribution inside the MGs. The added co-polymer is hydrophobic and polymerized into one of two gels. The resulting two MMGs are analyzed by the AG Wende (in particular by Joachim Landers) with a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) to measure magnetic properties. The measurements show the relaxation behavior of the MNPs inside the gel network. The relaxation behavior is influenced by the environment and can be used as a measure for the interaction strength between MNP and microgel matrix.
Dynamics of transient cat-states in degenerate parametric oscillation with and without nonlinear Kerr interactions
Creators: name: Teh, R. Y.
name: Sun, F. -X.
name: Polkinghorne, R. E. S.
name: He, Q. Y.
name: Gong, Q.
name: Drummond, P. D.
name: Reid, M. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A cat-state is formed as the steady-state solution for the signal mode of an ideal, degenerate parametric oscillator, in the limit of negligible single-photon signal loss. In the presence of the signal loss, this is no longer true over timescales much longer than the damping time. However, for sufficient parametric nonlinearity, a cat-state can exist as a transient state. In this paper, we study the dynamics of the creation and decoherence of cat-states in degenerate parametric oscillation, both with and without the effect of a Kerr nonlinearity that applies to recent superconducting-circuit experiments generating cat-states in microwave cavities. We determine the time of formation and the lifetime of a cat-state in terms of three dimensionless parameters $λ$, $g$ and $χ$. These relate to the driving strength, the parametric nonlinearity, and the Kerr nonlinearity, respectively. We find that the Kerr nonlinearity has little effect on the threshold parametric nonlinearity ($g>1$) required for the formation of cat-states, and does not significantly alter the decoherence time of the cat-state, but can reduce the time of formation. The quality of the cat-state increases with the value $g$, and can also improved by the Kerr nonlinearity. To verify the existence and quality of the cat-state, we consider several signatures, including interference fringes and negativity, and show how they can be computed. We simulate a superconducting-circuit experiment using published experimental parameters and found good agreement with experimental results, indicating that a nonclassical cat-like state with a small Wigner negativity is generated in the experiment. A stronger nonlinearity would lead to a cat-state with convincing cat-state signatures. Finally, we explore the feasibility of creating large cat-states with a coherent amplitude of 20, corresponding to 400 photons.
Additional file 2: Figure S1. of Pioglitazone ameliorates the phenotype of a novel Parkinsonâ s disease mouse model by reducing neuroinflammation
Creators: name: Pinto, Milena
name: Nadee Nissanka
name: Peralta, Susana
name: Brambilla, Roberta
name: Diaz, Francisca
name: Moraes, Carlos
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Pro-inflammatory cytokines are increased in Cox10/DAT-cre mice and decrease after Pioglitazone treatment. (PDF 277 kb)
Directed force chain networks and stress response in static granular materials
Creators: name: Socolar, J. E. S.
name: Schaeffer, D. G.
name: Claudin, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A theory of stress fields in two-dimensional granular materials based on directed force chain networks is presented. A general equation for the densities of force chains in different directions is proposed and a complete solution is obtained for a special case in which chains lie along a discrete set of directions. The analysis and results demonstrate the necessity of including nonlinear terms in the equation. A line of nontrivial fixed point solutions is shown to govern the properties of large systems. In the vicinity of a generic fixed point, the response to a localized load shows a crossover from a single, centered peak at intermediate depths to two propagating peaks at large depths that broaden diffusively.
description: 18 pages, 12 figures. Minor corrections to one figure