cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Individual and combined effects of land use and weeds on Cry1Ab/c protein expression and yield of transgenic cry1Ab/c rice
Creators: name: Fu, Jianmei
name: Liu, Biao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Considering the anticipated commercial exploitation of insect-resistant transgenic rice and that the planting area of cultivated rice overlaps with wild rice, simulating an escape of transgenic rice from farmlands and exploring its fitness after entering semi-natural or natural ecosystems through uncontrolled seed dispersal or gene flow are critical to understand the resulting potential long-term environmental risks. The expression of foreign Cry1Ab/c protein and vegetative and reproductive fitness of insect-resistant transgenic rice Huahui1 (HH1) and its parental-line Minghui63 (MH63) were studied under four treatments combining land use and weed competition: farmland and uncultivated land under weed control (F-NW and U-NW, respectively), and farmland and uncultivated land without weed control (F-W and U-W, respectively). The expression of Cry1Ab/c was significantly lower in U-NW, F-W, and U-W than that in the control treatment, F-NW. Except for plant height, key vegetative (tiller number and biomass) and reproductive (grain number and grain weight per plant) growth indices of transgenic HH1 were significantly lower than those of the parental-line MH63 in F-NW and U-NW, indicating a significant fitness cost. In F-W and U-W, vegetative growth indices (plant height, tiller number, and biomass) were similar in HH1 and MH63; however, key reproductive indices including seed-set rate were significantly higher in HH1 than in MH63, indicating significant fitness benefits. Although these results support large-scale cultivation of insect-resistant transgenic rice in China, the ecological risk involved is high in farmland or uncultivated land without weed control (F-W and U-W).
High-Precision Measurements of Atmospheric Transitions' Influence on Substellar Evolution
Creators: name: Dupuy, Trent J.
name: Liu, Michael C.
name: Brandt, Timothy D.
name: Brandt, G. Mirek
name: Chen, Minghan
name: Li, Yiting
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Over their lifetimes, self-luminous brown dwarfs and giant planets cool and fade, giving rise to changes in their atmospheres. This cooling is itself mediated by the atmosphere (and interior), which is a key challenge in computing self-consistent evolutionary models. Empirically determining the influence that changing atmospheres have on the evolution of substellar objects requires measurements of their fundamental parameters of mass and/or age. In recent years there has been major progress in using high-precision mass benchmarks to measure the influence of the L/T transition on substellar cooling rates. The strongest tests of evolutionary models use binary brown dwarfs with individual dynamical mass measurements as "mini-clusters" to probe luminosity/temperature evolution. There is now ample evidence that cooling slows during the L/T transition, an effect that is not included in most evolutionary model grids. While theory has successfully predicted some aspects of luminosity evolution, there remains tension between some substellar cooling ages and other independent age-dating methods.
Additional file 1 of Effects of plant-derived protein and rapeseed oil on growth performance and gut microbiomes in rainbow trout
Creators: name: Zhang, Cunfang
name: Hu, Lingyong
name: Hao, Jiahui
name: Cai, Weijie
name: Qin, Minxin
name: Gao, Qiang
name: Nie, Miaomiao
name: Qi, Delin
name: Ma, Rui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1.
Concurrent Algebras for VLSI Design
Creators: name: Balraj, Timothy S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1988
Subjects: Computer science

description: As the size and complexity of VLSI chips increases, designers are beginning to rely more and more on automated chip design systems to help layout, route, or even design circuits. silicon compilers convert the functional description of a system to a mask level design of a chip that implements the system. In order to ease the task of describing the system, and to help analyse and verify its working, the description languages are based on algebraic systems. A typical circuit has a number of actions occurring at any given time. So we use concurrent algebras as the basis for the description languages. In this paper, we survey algebras that enable the description and analysis of concurrent systems. We examine them particularly from the point of view of using them to implement systems in VLSI. We therefore concentrate on the basics of each algebra, and omit features that are not readily implementable, such as recursion. We will look at four algebras: trace theory, path expressions, Milner's calculus of communicating systems (CCS), and an algebra of finite events (CAFE). We choose the first three since each has been used in some form of silicon compiler or other automated hardware design s)"Item, and together they demonstrate all the features found in higher level description systems for hardware. The fourth is an algebra that we are developing to address the problems of describing systems of events of finite duration. In chapter 2 we introduce an informal net notation and the concept of observers, which we use in the next four chapters to describe each algebra briefly. In chapter 7, we compare the algebras in terms of their treatment of independence, the type of parallel composition they use, and the inter-event dependencies they allow. We end by explaining the relative advantages and disadvantages of the algebras in various situations. The goal hoped that this comparative discussion of the algebras is to aid in the design of process description languages to be used in silicon compilers.
Funerary inscription for Marcus Lus[-?] Silvan[us]
Creators: name: Prag, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sicily
subject: epigraphy
subject: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300138808
subject: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462492

description: TEI EpiDoc record
Mechanisms of Integrating Vibrotactile and Force Cues for 3D User Interaction within Virtual Environments
Creators: name: Tarng, Stanley
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Virtual Reality
subject: Haptics
subject: Vibrotactile
subject: Force Feedback
subject: Multi-sensory
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Engineering--Electronics and Electrical
subject: Psychology--Cognitive
subject: Psychology--Experimental

description: A model for the mechanism of integration for vibrotactile and force cues in the haptic modality is important to facilitate task performance of human users in a three-dimensional (3D) virtual environment (VE). To investigate this mechanism, the research in this thesis used maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) and proposed proportional likelihood estimation (PLE) as the models of the integration. Two significant findings are as follows: (1) I found that based on the task accuracy, MLE was unable to integrate vibrotactile and force cues despite its ability to integrate cues of different modalities in literature; (2) Integration with PLE revealed that the mechanism of integration of vibrotactile and force cues may not be entirely additive as assumed in MLE. This work sheds an insight for proper model of integration between vibrotactile and force cues for interactive tasks in VEs.
Additional file 5 of Accuracy and usability of a diagnostic decision support system in the diagnosis of three representative rheumatic diseases: a randomized controlled trial among medical students
Creators: name: Knitza, Johannes
name: Tascilar, Koray
name: Gruber, Eva
name: Kaletta, Hannah
name: Hagen, Melanie
name: Liphardt, Anna-Maria
name: Schenker, Hannah
name: Krusche, Martin
name: Wacker, Jochen
name: Kleyer, Arnd
name: Simon, David
name: Vuillerme, Nicolas
name: Schett, Georg
name: Hueber, Axel J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 5: Figure S5. All symptoms entered and their entry order into the DDSS for case 2.
The IIc Parallel Language and Its Implementation on Dado2
Creators: name: Mills, Russell C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Computer science

description: llc is an extension of C that has been implemented on the massively parallel Dado2 tree-structured MIMD multicomputer. In an llc program, a single controlling processor invokes operations in parallel in subsets of a set of attached processors, which themselves can invoke parallel operations in remaining processors. Language features include distributed storage (objects with one element per processor), the ability to pass parallel values as function arguments and to return them from functions, and built-in and user-defined reduction operators. The paper first describes the synchronous model of hierarchically parallel computations used by llc. It next describes the syntax of the llc language and its semantics in detail. It then describes the Dado architecture and the implementation of llc on Dado2. A summary of the strengths of llc follows. Finally, several examples of llc programs help to clarify the important features of the language.
Evidence for crust cooling in the transiently accreting 11-Hz X-ray pulsar in the globular cluster Terzan 5
Creators: name: Degenaar, N.
name: Brown, E. F.
name: Wijnands, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The temporal heating and subsequent cooling of the crusts of transiently accreting neutron stars carries unique information about their structure and a variety of nuclear reaction processes. We report on a new Chandra Director's Discretionary Time observation of the globular cluster Terzan 5, aimed to monitor the transiently accreting 11-Hz X-ray pulsar IGR J17480-2446 after the cessation of its recent 10-week long accretion outburst. During the observation, which was performed ~125 days into quiescence, the source displays a thermal spectrum that fits to a neutron star atmosphere model with a temperature for an observer at infinity of kT~92 eV. This is ~10% lower than found ~75 days earlier, yet ~20% higher than the quiescent base level measured prior to the recent outburst. This can be interpreted as cooling of the accretion-heated neutron star crust, and implies that crust cooling is observable after short accretion episodes. Comparison with neutron star thermal evolution simulations indicates that substantial heat must be released at shallow depth inside the neutron star, which is not accounted for in current nuclear heating models.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Minor changes according to referee report. MNRAS Letters in press
Quantitative analysis of alkanoate and condensed arenes in the extracts from direct coal liquefaction residue by ultrasonication-assisted solvent extraction using alcohols
Creators: name: Li, Peng
name: Zhao, Yu-Qing
name: Fan, Gui-Xia
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Shenmu-Fugu coal liquefaction residue (SFCLR) was ultrasonically extracted with methanol, ethanol, and isopropanol, respectively. Abundant of condensed arenes (CAs) were identified in the extracts using gas chromatography/mass spectrometer (GC/MS) by quantitative analysis, besides some alkanes and heteroatom-containing compounds. The most dominant CAs is benzo[ghi]perylene with its yield of 71.77 mg/g in isopropanol extract based on GC/MS analysis. Series of alkanoates were identified in the extracts from SFCLR with high yields. Interestingly, methyl alkanoates were identified in each of the three extracts, while ethyl and isopropyl alkanoates were only identified in the ethanol and isopropanol extracts, respectively. Accordingly, we presume that transesterification of methyl alkanoates with ethanol or isopropanol occurs during the ultrasonication-assisted solvent extraction.
Alterations in current density and trnsmural regional heterogeneity of cardiac repolarization K+ currents in left ventricular hypertrophy
Creators: name: Geonzon, Radzfel
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Heart - Hypertrophy
subject: Electrophysiology
subject: Heart - Left ventricle
subject: Potassium channels
subject: Ion channels

description: Bibliography: p. 94-102.
Diamonon coriaceum Raf.
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Diamonon
Diamonon coriaceum

description: Diamonon coriaceum (Hook.) Raf., Fl. Tellur. 2: 76. 1836 Type: Based on Solanum coriaceum Hook.
description: Published as part of Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308
Simple Mechanisms and Preferences for Honesty
Creators: name: Holden, Richard
name: Kartik, Navin
name: Tercieux, Olivier
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Economics

description: We consider full implementation in abstract complete-information environments when agents have an arbitrarily small preference for honesty. We offer a condition called separable punishment and show that when it holds and there are at least two agents, any social choice function can be implemented by a simple mechanism in two rounds of iterated deletion of strictly dominated strategies. We also extend our result to settings of incomplete information so long as there is non-exclusive information.
Methane Cycling and Methanotrophic Bacteria in Base Mine Lake, a Model End-Pit Lake in the Alberta Oilsands
Creators: name: Albakistani, Emad
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences

description: We studied methanotrophic bacteria over three years (2015 - 2018) in Base Mine Lake, Fort McMurray, Canada. The lake represents the first large scale demonstration of end-pit lake technology in the Alberta oilsands. 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and measurement of methanotrophic rates were applied to evaluate the effect of seasonal changes on methanotrophic diversity and activity, and to understand the biogeochemical cycling of methane and oxygen. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence relative abundance, the predominantly detected methanotrophic genera were Methylobacter/Crenothrix in the winter and Methylocaldum in the summer. Methanotrophs were most abundant in winter throughout the water column, and in summer at the bottom of the lake near the fluid fine tailings interface. Potential methanotrophic rates decreased over three years from 2015-2018.
PARIS: Probabilistic Alignment of Relations, Instances, and Schema
Creators: name: Suchanek, Fabian M.
name: Abiteboul, Serge
name: Senellart, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the main challenges that the Semantic Web faces is the integration of a growing number of independently designed ontologies. In this work, we present PARIS, an approach for the automatic alignment of ontologies. PARIS aligns not only instances, but also relations and classes. Alignments at the instance level cross-fertilize with alignments at the schema level. Thereby, our system provides a truly holistic solution to the problem of ontology alignment. The heart of the approach is probabilistic, i.e., we measure degrees of matchings based on probability estimates. This allows PARIS to run without any parameter tuning. We demonstrate the efficiency of the algorithm and its precision through extensive experiments. In particular, we obtain a precision of around 90% in experiments with some of the world's largest ontologies.
description: VLDB2012. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1105.5516
Additional file 1 of Sexual selection on population-level mating opportunities drives morph ratios in a fig wasp with extreme male dimorphism
Creators: name: Cook, James M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1. Fig-level data on females and winged and wingless males.
Revision-Based Generation of Natural Language Summaries Providing Historical Background: Corpus-Based Analysis, Design, Implementation and Evaluation
Creators: name: Robin, Jacques
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: Computer science

description: Automatically summarizing vast amounts of on-line quantitative data with a short natural language paragraph has a wide range of real-world applications. However, this specific task raises a number of difficult issues that are quite distinct from the generic task of language generation: conciseness, complex sentences, floating concepts, historical background, paraphrasing power and implicit content. In this thesis, I address these specific issues by proposing a new generation model in which a first pass builds a draft containing only the essential new facts to report and a second pass incrementally revises this draft to opportunistically add as many background facts as can fit within the space limit. This model requires a new type of linguistic knowledge: revision operations, which specify the various ways a draft can be transformed in order to concisely accommodate a new piece of information. I present an in-depth corpus analysis of human-written sports summaries that resulted in an extensive set of such revision operations. I also present the implementation, based on functional unification grammars, of the system STREAK, which relies on these operations to incrementally generate complex sentences summarizing basketball games. This thesis also contains two quantitative evaluations. The first shows that the new revision-based generation model is far more robust than the one-shot model of previous generators. The second evaluation demonstrates that the revision operations acquired during the corpus analysis and implemented in STREAK are, for the most part, portable to at least one other quantitative domain (the stock market). STREAK is the first report generator that systematically places the facts which it summarizes in their historical perspective. It is more concise than previous systems thanks to its ability to generate more complex sentences and to opportunistically convey facts by adding a few words to carefully chosen draft constituents. The revision operations on which STREAK is based constitute the first set of corpus-based linguistic knowledge geared towards incremental generation. The evaluation presented in this thesis is also the first attempt to quantitatively assess the robustness of a new generation model and the portability of a new type of linguistic knowledge.
Solanum byrsinum Voigt
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum byrsinum

description: Solanum byrsinum Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calc. 511. 1845 Type: Based on Solanum coriaceum Hook.
description: Published as part of Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308
Analytical solutions for the Rabi model
Creators: name: Yu, Lixian
name: Zhu, Shiqun
name: Liang, Qifeng
name: Chen, Gang
name: Jia, Suotang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Rabi model that describes the fundamental interaction between a two-level system with a quantized harmonic oscillator is one of the simplest and most ubiquitous models in modern physics. However, this model has not been solved exactly because it is hard to find a second conserved quantity besides the energy. Here we present a unitary transformation to map this unsolvable Rabi model into a solvable Jaynes-Cummings-like model by choosing a proper variation parameter. As a result, the analytical energy spectrums and wavefunctions including both the ground and the excited states can be obtained easily. Moreover, these explicit results agree well with the direct numerical simulations in a wide range of the experimental parameters. In addition, based on our obtained energy spectrums, the recent experimental observation of Bloch-Siegert in the circuit quantum electrodynamics with the ultrastrong coupling can be explained perfectly. Our results have the potential application in the solid-state quantum information processing.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Testing Reliable Distributed Applications Through Simulated Events
Creators: name: Winfrey, Travis L.
name: Kaiser, Gail E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1989
Subjects: Computer science

description: There are many distributed applications that incorporate application-specific reliability algorithms which operate on top of general purpose networking, operating system and programming language facilities. We present a framework for application-level reliability testing suitable for a wide range of distributed applications, and describe how we've applied it to one particular application, Mercury, a distributed, multi-user programming environment.
Shaken Granular Lasers
Creators: name: Folli, Viola
name: Puglisi, Andrea
name: Leuzzi, Luca
name: Conti, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Granular materials have been studied for decades, also driven by industrial and technological applications. These very simple systems, composed by agglomerations of mesoscopic particles, are characterized, in specific regimes, by a large number of metastable states and an extreme sensitivity (e.g., in sound transmission) on the arrangement of grains; they are not substantially affected by thermal phenomena, but can be controlled by mechanical solicitations. Laser emission from shaken granular matter is so far unexplored; here we provide experimental evidence that it can be affected and controlled by the status of motion of the granular, we also find that competitive random lasers can be observed. We hence demonstrate the potentialities of gravity affected moving disordered materials for optical applications, and open the road to a variety of novel interdisciplinary investigations, involving modern statistical mechanics and disordered photonics.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. To be published in Physical Review Letters
Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) - Portage and Compute Canada
Creators: name: Moon, Jeff
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: national data services
subject: research data management
subject: canada
subject: digital research infrastructure
subject: data discovery
subject: federated repository
subject: https://dictionary.casrai.org/Research_data_management
subject: https://dictionary.casrai.org/Data_management
subject: https://dictionary.casrai.org/Digital_infrastructure

description: Presentation on the Federated Research Data Repository and how it relates to the Findability aspect of the FAIR Principles. For the National Data Services Framework Summit 2019.
"Elasticity and Image" : directing George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man
Creators: name: Parfitt, Anne-Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: “Elasticity and Image”: Directing George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man examines the research, preparation, and rehearsal process behind Arms and the Man, staged at the University of British Columbia’s Frederic Wood Theatre from March 18-27, 2010. My objective was to discover how to create a production that stayed true to the text, while appealing to a more contemporary audience. The ideas of elasticity and image were cornerstones in the development and rehearsal process. I was interested to see in which ways I could stretch the world of the play while maintaining its authenticity. During rehearsal, I wanted to create an environment of exploration and support the actors in staying connected to the text. Chapter 1 identifies key areas of research on George Bernard Shaw’s life leading up to and directly following 1894, when he wrote Arms and the Man. It includes bibliographical information. Chapter 2 is a detailed directorial analysis. Chapter 3 is a journal that follows my process from early design meetings, through development and research, rehearsal and the complete run of the production. Chapter 4 is a reflection, focusing on two elements of the process, using the theme of elasticity as the foundation for creation and the transition from the rehearsal hall into the theatre.
Radio galaxies of the local universe: all-sky catalog, luminosity functions, and clustering
Creators: name: van Velzen, Sjoert
name: Falcke, Heino
name: Schellart, Pim
name: Nierstenhoefer, Nils
name: Kampert, Karl-Heinz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To understand the feedback of black holes on their environment or the acceleration of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in the present cosmic epoch, a systematic, all-sky inventory of radio galaxies in the local universe is needed. Here we present the first catalog of radio-emitting galaxies that meets this requirement. Our catalog allows the selection of volume-limited subsamples containing all low-power radio galaxies, similar to the prototypical low-power radio galaxies Cen A or M87, within some hundred Mpc. It is constructed by matching radio emission from the NVSS and SUMSS surveys to galaxies of the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) using an image-level algorithm that properly treats the extended structure of radio sources. The sample contains 575 radio-emitting galaxies with a flux greater than 213 mJy at 1.4 GHz. Over 30% of the galaxies in our catalog are not contained in existing large-area extra-galactic radio samples. We compute the optical and radio luminosity functions and the fraction of radio galaxies as a function of galaxy luminosity. We find that the galaxy density around radio galaxies is significantly higher than around non-radio galaxies of the same luminosity and morphology. This enhanced clustering suggests a causal relation between external galaxy properties, such as environment or merger history, and the formation of powerful jets in the present universe. Since the enhancement is observed with respect to galaxies of the same luminosity and Hubble type, it is not primarily driven by black hole mass. Our automated matching procedure is found to select radio-emitting galaxies with high efficiency (99%) and purity (91%), which is key for future processing of deeper, larger samples.
description: Published in AA. The catalog and images are available at http://ragolu.science.ru.nl
Epitaph for Ofillia Proba and L. Ofillius Faustus
Creators: name: Prag, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sicily
subject: epigraphy
subject: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300138808
subject: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462492

description: TEI EpiDoc record
Discovery and Hot Replacement of Replicated Read-Only File Systems, with Application to Mobile Computing
Creators: name: Zadok, Erez
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1994
Subjects: Computer science

description: We describe a mechanism for replacing files, including open files, of a read-only file system while the file system remains mounted; the act of replacement is transparent to the user. Such a “hot replacement“ mechanism can improve fault-tolerance, performance, or both. Our mechanism monitors, from the client side, the latency of operations directed at each file system. When latency degrades, the client automatically seeks a replacement file system that is equivalent to but hopefully faster than the current file system. The files in the replacement file system then take the place of those in the current file system. This work has particular relevance to mobile computers, which in some cases might move over a wide area. Wide area movement can be expected to lead to highly variable response time, and give rise to three sorts of problems: increased latency, increased failures, and decreased scalability. If a mobile client moves through regions having partial replicas of common file systems, then the mobile client can depend on our mechanism to provide increased fault tolerance and more uniform performance.
On Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Near-Optimal Singular Stochastic Controls
Creators: name: Hafayed, Mokhtar
name: Abbas, Syed
name: Veverka, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60H10, 93E20

description: This paper is concerned with necessary and sufficient conditions for near-optimal singular stochastic controls for systems driven by a nonlinear stochastic differential equations (SDEs in short). The proof of our result is based on Ekeland's variational principle and some delicate estimates of the state and adjoint processes. This result is a generalization of Zhou's stochastic maximum principle for near-optimality to singular control problem.
description: 19 pages, submitted to journal
Additional file 4 of Diversity and flexibility of algal symbiont community in globally distributed larger benthic foraminifera of the genus Amphistegina
Creators: name: Prazeres, Martina
name: Roberts, T. Edward
name: Ramadhani, Shadrina Fildzah
name: Doo, Steve S.
name: Schmidt, Christiane
name: Stuhr, Marleen
name: Renema, Willem
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 4 : Supplementary Fig. S1. Heatmap of relative abundance of ASVs grouped by phylum for each species collected from different sites. Scale was log-10 transformed. Supplementary Fig. S2. Two-dimensional plots of Principal Coordinates Analysis utilising Bray Curtis distance matrix showing differences in algal symbiont community in A. lobifera collected from different sites. Supplementary Fig. S3. Two-dimensional plots of Principal Coordinates Analysis utilising Bray Curtis distance matrix showing differences in algal symbiont community in A. lessonii collected from different sites. Supplementary Fig. S4. Two-dimensional plots of Principal Coordinates Analysis utilising Bray Curtis distance matrix showing differences in algal symbiont community in A. radiata collected from different sites.
The deficiencies of Kaehler groups
Creators: name: Kotschick, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20F05, 32Q15, 57M05 (Primary) 14F35, 20J05 (Secondary)

description: Generalizing the theorem of Green--Lazarsfeld and Gromov, we classify Kaehler groups of deficiency at least two. As a consequence we see that there are no Kaehler groups of even and strictly positive deficiency. With the same arguments we prove that Kaehler groups that are non-Abelian and are limit groups in the sense of Sela are surface groups.
description: 10 pages; small edits in v2; corrected a type on v3; to appear in Journal of Topology
A Comparison of Cache Performance in Server-Based and Symmetric Database Architectures
Creators: name: Leff, Avraham
name: Pu, Calton
name: Korz, Frederick
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: Computer science

description: We study the cache performance in a symmetric distributed main-memory database. The high performance networks in many large distributed systems enable a machine to reach the main memory of other nodes more quickly than the time to access local disks. We therefore introduce remote memory as an additional layer in the memory hierarchy between local memory and disks. In order to appreciate the tradeoffs of memory and cpu in the symmetric architecture, we compare system performance in alternative architectures. Simulations show that, by exploiting remote memory (in each node‘s cache), performance improves over a wide range of cache sizes as compared to a distributed client/server architecture. We also compare the symmetric model to a centralized-server model and parameterize the performance tradeoffs.
The Role of Graphene Oxide - Polyacrylamide Interactions on the Stability and Microstructure of Oil-in-Water Emulsions
Creators: name: Jahandideh, Heidi
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Pickering emulsions
subject: Graphene oxide
subject: Graphene oxide - polyacrylamide
subject: Education--Sciences
subject: Engineering
subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Materials Science

description: The emulsification of oil in water by nanoparticles (NPs) can be facilitated by addition of costabilizers, such as polymers and surfactants. However, the mechanism of this synergistic effect and its impacts on emulsions’ properties remain unclear. In my thesis project, I have studied the synergistic interaction of NP-polymer systems using graphene oxide (GO) and an anionic polyacrylamide (PAM) in stabilization of paraffin oil/water emulsion systems. Oil-free GO and GO-PAM dispersions were analyzed by imaging their morphology directly via Cryo-TEM and atomic force microscopy (AFM). X-ray diffraction (XRD) results confirm the adsorption of PAM molecules onto GO sheets resulting in the formation of ultimate GO-PAM complexes. The adsorption phenomenon is a consequence of hydrogen bonding and acid-base interactions, conceivably leading to a resilient hybrid electron-donor-acceptor complex. The microstructures of emulsions that are captured with two-color fluorescent microscopy and Cryo-TEM reveal the localization of GO-PAM complexes at the interface while large GO-PAM flocs coexist at the interface and in between oil droplets. Rheological measurements confirm that GO-PAM complexes have a higher desorption energy from the interface. Our findings, with insights into both structure and rheology, form a foundational understanding for integration of other polymers and NPs in emulsion systems, which enables efficient design of these systems for an application of interest.
Solanum vacciniifolium Dunal
Creators: name: Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de
name: 2009
name: Knapp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Solanales
Solanaceae
Solanum
Solanum vacciniifolium

description: Solanum vacciniifolium Dunal, in DC., Prodr. 13(1): 160. 1852 Type: Cuba. Havana, R. de la Sagra 294 (holotype, G- DC [F neg. 33944, IDC microfiche 800-61.2075: I.2]).
description: Published as part of Madrid, Anales del Jardín Botánico de, 2009 & Knapp, Sandra, 2009, Synopsis and lectotypification of Solanum (Solanaceae) species endemic in the West Indies, pp. 65-84 in Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.3989/ajbm.2209, http://zenodo.org/record/6326308
Holographic Screens and Transport Coefficients in the Fluid/Gravity Correspondence
Creators: name: Eling, Christopher
name: Oz, Yaron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider in the framework of the fluid/gravity correspondence the dynamics of hypersurfaces located in the holographic radial direction at r = r_0. We prove that these hypersurfaces evolve, to all orders in the derivative expansion and including all higher curvature corrections, according to the same hydrodynamics equations with identical transport coefficients. The analysis is carried out for normal fluids as well as for superfluids. Consequently, this proves the exactness of the bulk viscosity formula derived in arXiv:1103.1657 via the null horizon dynamics.
description: 4 pages; v2: added clarifying comments and references; v3: added comment about dependence of bulk viscosity formula on full equilibrium solution, not only horizon data
TLex v.68 User's Manual
Creators: name: Kearns, Steven M.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: Computer science

description: The TLex Language, a regular expression-based language for finding and extracting information from text, is described. TLex features a pattern language that includes intersection, complement, and context sensitive operators. In addition, TLex automatically creates a parse tree from a successful match and offers convenient functions for manipulating it.
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of different deployment strategies for larviciding to control malaria: a simulation study
Creators: name: Runge, Manuela
name: Mapua, Salum
name: Nambunga, Ismail
name: Smith, Thomas A.
name: Chitnis, Nakul
name: Okumu, Fredros
name: Pothin, Emilie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: A simple periodically forced difference equation model for mosquito population dynamics.
Redundancy Management in a Symmetric Distributed Main-Memory Database
Creators: name: Pu, Calton
name: Leff, Avraham
name: Korz, Frederick
name: Chen, Shu-Wie
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1990
Subjects: Computer science

description: We describe the architecture of a symmetric distributed main memory database. The high performance networks in many large distributed systems enable a machine to reach the main memory of other modes faster than local disks. Thus we introduce remote memory as an additional layer in the memory hierarchy between local memory and disks. Exploiting the remote memory (every node's cache) improves performance and increases availability. We have created a simulation program that shows this significant advantage over a wide range of cache sizes and compares the effects of several object replacement policies in the symmetric distributed main memory database.
Statically Unrolling Recursion to Improve Opportunities for Parallelism
Creators: name: Deshpande, Neil Ashish
name: Edwards, Stephen A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Computer science

description: We present an algorithm for unrolling recursion in the Haskell functional language. Adapted from a similar algorithm proposed by Rugina and Rinard for imperative languages, it essentially inlines a function in itself as many times as requested. This algorithm aims to increase the available parallelism in recursive functions, with an eye toward its eventual application in a Haskell-to-hardware compiler. We first illustrate the technique on a series of examples, then describe the algorithm, and finally show its Haskell source, which operates as a plug-in for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
Investigations into Macrophage-Infectious Bronchitis Virus (IBV) Interaction and Shell-less Egg Syndrome
Creators: name: Amarasinghe, Aruna
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Macrophage
subject: Infectious bronchitis virus
subject: Shell gland
subject: shell-less egg
subject: Interleukin 1β
subject: Molecular epidemiology
subject: layer chicken
subject: spike protein gene
subject: Western Canada
subject: Animal Pathology
subject: Biology--Molecular
subject: Veterinary Science
subject: Virology

description: Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) is a coronavirus and infects chickens globally causing economic losses. The disease caused by IBV is known as infectious bronchitis (IB) and is prevalent in commercial broiler and layer chickens and breeder flocks in Canada. The control of IB relies on vaccination done on the day of hatch and then several times during the grower period depending on the purpose of rearing the chickens. Although the vaccine-induced immunity protects chickens from production losses induced by IBV infection, vaccine failures are frequent. Given the issues in current IB control measures, sustainable control measures developed understanding the host-IBV interaction is required. The studies conducted in the thesis focused in two major areas; 1) understanding the interaction between IBV and host immune system mainly macrophages and 2) investigating the role of IBV in a recently emerged concern of Western Canadian table-egg layer industry, shell-less egg syndrome (SES). The work described in chapter 2 of the thesis led to the finding that IBV replicates in avian macrophages in vivo and in vitro. In vitro, we showed that IBV not only targets macrophages leading to productive infection but also affects selected functions of macrophages, particularly the production of nitric oxide (NO). As shown in chapter 3, IBV infection upregulates the expression of interleukin (IL)-1β in both tracheal and lung tissues. An additional observation made was that there was a signiﬁcant association between the IBV genome load and macrophage recruitment in lungs. Overall, we found that macrophages can act as a source of cytokines, which is beneficial against IBV infection. However, the ability of IBV to replicate within macrophage by decreasing selected immune functions can be detrimental to the host. Chapter 4 provides details of our work leading to the elucidation of the etiology of SES. First, molecular characterization showed that about 70% of the IBV strains isolated from layer flocks affected with SES in Western Canada were Massachusetts (Mass) genotype. Infection of layer chickens with one of the Mass IBV isolate induced shell-less eggs. The work of chapter 5 compared two Mass IBV isolates recovered from Western Canadian layer flocks for whole genome variations and documented the differences in pathogenicity, tissue distribution, and macrophage response. The knowledge generated in the thesis increased the understanding of IBV-macrophage interaction, documented the IBV genotypes observable in Western Canada layer flocks and elucidated the etiology of SES observed in layer operations in Canada.
Approximate String Matching on the DADO2 Parallel Computer
Creators: name: Mori, Toshikatsu
name: Stolfo, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1988
Subjects: Computer science

description: This paper presents an approximate string matching algorithm on the 1023-processor parallel computer DADO2. To allow proximity in matching between the text and search pattern, the dynamic programming method is used as the matching algorithm. This paper includes timing measurements and comparison with a conventional sequential computer (VAX). The results show significant speedup over the sequential computer.
Saints and suffragists: the children's prose of Christina Rossetti and Augusta
Creators: name: Abbott, Julie Anne
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Rossetti, Christina Georgia, 1830-1894 - Criticism and interpretation
subject: Webster, Augusta, 1837-1894 - Criticism and interpretation
subject: Children's literature - History and criticism
subject: Femininity in literature

description: Bibliography: p. 113-118.
Additional file 2 of Evaluation of different deployment strategies for larviciding to control malaria: a simulation study
Creators: name: Runge, Manuela
name: Mapua, Salum
name: Nambunga, Ismail
name: Smith, Thomas A.
name: Chitnis, Nakul
name: Okumu, Fredros
name: Pothin, Emilie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Additional result figures.
The Japanese Big Bang as a Unilateral Action
Creators: name: Hamada, Koichi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1998
Subjects: Finance

description: Japan followed the British example of the "Big Bang" in April 1998. This move towards "Big Bang" is a unilateral action without requiring any conditions for the policy measures of other countries. This move has many economic grounds. The Japanese financial system has had incentive problems. Financial agents were looking at, or watching, the signals of policy makers and supervising administrative authorities rather than watching the signals of the markets. This created prolonged financial difficulties during the 1990s. The "Big Bang" is an attempt to liberalize the Japanese market towards the external world and, thereby, deregulate the internal financial market. Needless to say, political resistance against the process exists by various interest groups. If the "Big Bang" question overcomes the resistance, however, it may work as an effective means of modernizing and revitalizing the Japanese financial system by restoring proper incentive mechanisms.
Answering Top-k Queries Over a Mixture of Attractive and Repulsive Dimensions
Creators: name: Ranu, Sayan
name: Singh, Ambuj K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we formulate a top-k query that compares objects in a database to a user-provided query object on a novel scoring function. The proposed scoring function combines the idea of attractive and repulsive dimensions into a general framework to overcome the weakness of traditional distance or similarity measures. We study the properties of the proposed class of scoring functions and develop efficient and scalable index structures that index the isolines of the function. We demonstrate various scenarios where the query finds application. Empirical evaluation demonstrates a performance gain of one to two orders of magnitude on querying time over existing state-of-the-art top-k techniques. Further, a qualitative analysis is performed on a real dataset to highlight the potential of the proposed query in discovering hidden data characteristics.
description: VLDB2012