cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Now you see me, now you don’t : Adapting practice through target exclusion negatively impacts motor learning
Creators: name: Hodges, Nicola J., 1970-
name: Coppola, Thomas M.
name: Peters, Carrie
name: Larssen, Beverley
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2021

description: How to optimize practice through scheduling of different task components or skills is a question that has received a lot of attention in motor learning research. Consistently, schedules with high variability in the order that skills are practiced elicit better learning outcomes than schedules with low variability. Another idea is that learners should seek to reduce the uncertainty of a practice outcome, by avoiding well-learned, low error components in acquisition. To test this idea, we used a target exclusion method to prevent learners from returning to task components with low error and studied how individuals given choice over practice choose to allocate time to components of varying difficulty. We compared exclusion methods in a random-schedule group, a self-control group and in a yoked, matched-schedule control (6 groups total) in a multi-target adaptation paradigm. To manipulate uncertainty, we excluded targets from practice once participants attained a criterion error score (mean <5o) from the last 5 trials to the same target. Contrary to our predictions, groups that practiced without target exclusion were more accurate in retention compared to exclusion groups; irrespective of practice schedule. Self-control groups adopted uncertainty-based practice, spending more time at difficult targets and less time at easier targets. However, there were no group differences in error, based on schedule-type (random, self-control and yoked). In conclusion, target exclusion was not an effective method for learning and did not support the efficacy of uncertainty-based practice for learning novel skills. There were benefits from keeping easier/low error skills in practice for later retention. This did not appear to be related to the increased switching between skills, but could be related to increased task engagement and more optimal challenge associated with practice on a range of target difficulties, rather than the most difficult.
OPTIMIZING PUBLIC SPENDING WITH THE HELP OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Creators: name: Primov, Asadulla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Advances in the fields of digital technologies and artificial intelligence have been widely used in the public administration system in recent years. In particular, the role of modern information technologies in optimizing public spending and rational use of financial resources has increased dramatically. This article discusses the potential of artificial intelligence and digital technologies in increasing economic efficiency, their role in the effective allocation of budget funds, as well as the possibilities of real-time monitoring and forecasting. The analysis shows that digital solutions serve as an important tool in ensuring the transparency of public spending, reducing bureaucratic obstacles and reducing the risk of corruption. Systems based on artificial intelligence help clarify spending, prevent excessive and duplicate financing. The article examines the effectiveness of digital technologies in managing public spending on the example of foreign and domestic experiences. It also analyzes the infrastructure, legal framework and human capital needed for the integration of AI (artificial intelligence) platforms in the public sector. Based on the research results, practical recommendations are given on optimizing public spending in the conditions of Uzbekistan. This article will serve as a useful resource for economists, IT specialists, public finance management bodies, and researchers interested in digital reforms.
Huia sumatrana Yang 1991
Creators: name: Inger, Robert F.
name: Iskandar, Djoko T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Ranidae
Huia
Huia sumatrana

description: Huia sumatrana Yang
This series agrees very closely with the holotype (FMNH 209922) and adult paratype (FMNH 209912). The fully webbed toes, the extreme sexual dimorphism in size (see Table 4), and the distinctive, dark, diagonal markings in the temporal region noted in the original description (Yang, 1991) are particularly diagnostic. The original description has confused the sexual dimorphism in tympanum diameter. At one point the description attributes a smaller tympanum in males: ”…disk of third finger 0.61 times the tympanum, 0.44- 0.53 in females,” then ascribes a larger tympanum to males: “...tympanum 0.53 eye diameter in females, 0.62-0.74 in males” (Yang, 1991). The tympanum of males is visibly larger than that of females (see also Table 4). Males have slightly longer heads (HL/SVL; Mann-Whitney test U=23, P<0.002). SVL and body proportions are given in Table 4. All the females measured had enlarged, non-pigmented ova.
Coloration (in preservative) is medium to dark brown above. The throat varies from immaculate whitish to heavily marked with irregular brown spots, some of which often appear also on the chest. The diagonal dark bars in front of and behind the tympanum are consistent features of the pattern. The bar behind the tympanum is continued forward above the tympanum to the rear of the eye. The bar at the shoulder mentioned by Yang (1991) is sometimes marked only by a row of small spots. The weak dorsolateral fold is usually marked by several small black spots.
The white velvety nuptial pad of males covers the medial surface of the first metacarpal and the medial and dorsal surfaces of the basal phalanx of the first finger. The distal edge of the pad is opposite the center of the subarticular tubercle of the first finger. The nuptial pad is usually constricted and in a small percentage of males the constriction divides the pad into two parts.
 This species differs from the recently described Amolops (Huia) modiglianii, as noted by Doria et al. (1999), in having more extensive webbing, in the presence of an outer metatarsal tubercle, and in having the first finger longer than the second.
All but two of this large series were collected along clear, rocky streams flowing through forests at 255-405 m ASL near Padang. One frog was obtained from the rocky stream flowing through the Harau Valley (536-566 m), and one from the Batang Tarusan (1166-1170 m), near Lubuk Selasih.
description: Published as part of Inger, Robert F. & Iskandar, Djoko T., 2005, A Collection Of Amphibians From West Sumatra, With Description Of A New Species Of Megophrys (Amphibia: Anura), pp. 133-142 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (1) on page 137, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244974
Chiang Mun Temple: Development According to Sappaya Principles to Promote Buddhist Tourism in Chiang Mai
Creators: name: Tanaporn Ruenkhum
Publisher: name: DR.KEN Institute of Academic Development and Promotion
Year: 2022
Subjects: Buddhist Tourism
Chiang Mun Temple
Sappaya

description: Interdisciplinary Academic and Research Journal, 2, 3, 121-136
O występowaniu Ancylosis oblitella (Zeller, 1848) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) w Polsce
Creators: name: Jarosław Buszko
name: Adam Larysz
name: Grzegorz Chowaniec
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ancylosis oblitella, Pyralidae, salt meadows, waste land, life history, Chenopodiaceae, Poland

description: On the occurrence of Ancylosis oblitella (Zeller, 1848) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in Poland.Ancylosis oblitella was found in two different regions in Poland. Its occurrence is related to industriallymodified habitats such as salt meadows and waste land. Rearing from ova was conducted on Atriplexprostrata and early stages and life history were described. The species appears in two generations a year.
title: Discriminating if a network flow could have been created from a given sequence of network packets
Creators: name: Keim, Jens
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2022

description: This thesis aims to design a neural network (NN), that is capable of discriminating if a network flow could have been created based on a sequence of packets and can be used as a discriminative network (DN) for a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) in future work. For this, we first determined the features of network flows and packets alike, which are relevant to this task. We then created a dataset by extracting the relevant features from well-known network traffic datasets from the field of network intrusion detection (NID), as well as falsifying said datapoints to provide negative samples. We also provide a pipeline for the process of creating such datasets. For our NN model we compared available architectures of recurrent neural networks (RNNs): simple RNN (simpleRNN), Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), and Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs). Furthermore our model uses a special kind of RNN called a conditional RNN (condRNN), which already has provided good results for a mixture of conditional and sequential input in the field of image region classification. This is necessary as a flow is the conditional counterpart to a sequence of packets. We aim to test the effectiveness of the different RNN architectures in regards to our problem and in the context of condRNNs.
Culex (Culex) guiarti Blanchard
Creators: name: Harbach, Ralph E.
name: Wilkerson, Richard C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Culex
Culex guiarti

description: Culex (Culex) guiarti Blanchard
subspecies guiarti Blanchard, 1905 —original combination: Culex guiarti [nomen novum for Culex viridis Theobald, 1903a]. Distribution: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, Senegal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda (Wilkerson et al. 2021, but not Sudan, see Simsaa et al. 2021).
subspecies sudanicus Edwards, 1941 —original combination: Culex guiarti var. sudanicus (subspecific status by Harbach & Howard 2007). Distribution: Ghana, Nigeria (Wilkerson et al. 2021).
Culex guiarti sudanicus was originally described and named as a variety that was considered to be morphologically “Intermediate between C. guiarti and C. weschei ” (Edwards 1941). It was recognized as a subspecies of Cx. guiarti by Harbach & Howard (2007).
Edwards (1941) noted that sudanicus resembled the nominotypical form in having the proboscis entirely dark-scaled, the abdominal sterna with dark apical bands and the distal half of the midfemur extensively dark-scaled dorsally in posterior view, but exhibited the following differences: Scutal integument uniformly brownish, not paler on the fossae (shoulders), scales nearly entirely pale and coarser; mesokatepisternal scales more numerous, the upper and lower patches almost contiguous; proepisternal scales and setae also more numerous; anterior scales of forecoxa all pale; male genitalia as in the typical form, gonostylus not unusually broad (moderately broad and rather suddenly narrowed apically in the typical form). The larva is known for the typical form (Hopkins 1952), but it is not known for sudanicus. The typical form has been recorded from many countries in sub-Sharan Africa whereas sudanicus is only recorded from Ghana and Nigeria (Wilkerson et al. 2021). Based on the paucity of morphological data and the fact that the typical form has also been recorded from Ghana and Nigeria, we believe that Edwards (1941) was correct in describing sudanicus as a morphological variant of Cx. guiarti. Consequently, it seems prudent to formally recognize sudanicus as a synonymous name: sudanicus Edwards, 1941, junior subjective synonym of Culex (Culex) guiarti Blanchard, 1905. “ Culex sudanicus ” should be removed from the list of Culex species included in the Encyclopedia of Life. We retain a second synonym of Culex guiarti, Culex viridis Theobald, 1903a, described from Buse, Uganda.
description: Published as part of Harbach, Ralph E. & Wilkerson, Richard C., 2023, The insupportable validity of mosquito subspecies (Diptera: Culicidae) and their exclusion from culicid classification, pp. 1-184 in Zootaxa 5303 (1) on pages 85-86, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5303.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8043342
Förderung der Beweiskompetenz in der achten Schulstufe: Entwicklung, Durchführung und Evaluation einer Unterrichtseinheit im Kompetenzbereich Zahl & Variable
Creators: name: Jullier, Romaine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Mathematikunterricht
Mathematikdidaktik
Unterrichtsintervention
Beweiskompetenz
Methodenwissen
heuristische Lösungsbeispiele

description: Der Aufbau mathematischer Argumentations-, Begründungs- und Beweiskompetenz ist in den neuen Lehrplänen und Curricula als zentraler Bestandteil der mathematischen Bildung der obligatorischen Schulzeit verankert. Der Unterricht soll diesbezüglich dazu beitragen, dass Lernende Zusammenhänge, Strukturen und Regelmässigkeiten erkennen, diese erforschen und schliesslich mathematisch beweisen, warum ein bestimmter Zusammenhang besteht. Wenn Lernende mathematische Inhalte begründen, Strukturen erkennen sowie Beziehungen zwischen Inhalten herstellen, entwickeln sie in der Regel ein tieferes Verständnis für Sachverhalte. Im Bereich Beweisen sind bereits viel Theoriewissen, Wissen über die Fähigkeiten der Lernenden sowie Wissen über Fehlkonzepte von Lernenden vorhanden. Was jedoch nur sehr spärlich verfügbar ist, sind für den Unterricht taugliche Förderansätze zum Beweisen. In dieser explorativen Interventionsstudie wird eine Unterrichtseinheit zur Förderung der Beweiskompetenz basierend auf dem aktuellen Forschungsstand und fachdidaktischen Konzepten im Bereich des Beweisens entwickelt, durchgeführt und mit einem Pre- und Posttestkontrollgruppendesign evaluiert. Bei der Auswertung kommt eine Methodentriangulation zum Einsatz und es werden sowohl quantitative wie auch qualitative Analysemethoden angewendet. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, inwiefern eine Leistungssteigerung im Bereich der Beweiskompetenz durch eine Unterrichtsintervention bewirkt werden kann und ob die Unterrichtsintervention auf gewisse Gruppen von Lernenden bereichsspezifisch oder allgemein eine besondere Wirkung hat. Die Ergebnisse sind deskriptiver Art und zeigen, dass alle Lernenden von der Unterrichtsintervention profitieren, unabhängig von ihrem bereichsspezifischen Vorwissen. Des Weiteren profitieren die Lernenden in allen fokussierten und durch den Pre- und den Posttest erfassten Bereichen der Beweiskompetenz. Die Unterrichtseinheit, basierend auf dem Prozessmodell des schulischen Beweisens, heuristischen Lösungsbeispielen sowie dem Thematisieren und Reflektieren von Methodenwissen des Beweisens, hat insgesamt positive Auswirkungen auf die Beweiskompetenz der Lernenden.
description: +repphzhbib2019MA
Tailoring renewable materials via plant biotechnology
Creators: name: De Vries, Lisanne
name: Guevara-Rozo, Sydne
name: Cho, MiJung
name: Liu, Li-Yang
name: Renneckar, Scott
name: Mansfield, Shawn D., 1969-
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Plants inherently display a rich diversity in cell wall chemistry, as they synthesize an array of polysaccharides along with lignin, a polyphenolic that can vary dramatically in subunit composition and interunit linkage complexity. These same cell wall chemical constituents play essential roles in our society, having been isolated by a variety of evolving industrial processes and employed in the production of an array of commodity products to which humans are reliant. However, these polymers are inherently synthesized and intricately packaged into complex structures that facilitate plant survival and adaptation to local biogeoclimatic regions and stresses, not for ease of deconstruction and commercial product development. Herein, we describe evolving techniques and strategies for altering the metabolic pathways related to plant cell wall biosynthesis, and highlight the resulting impact on chemistry, architecture, and polymer interactions. Furthermore, this review illustrates how these unique targeted cell wall modifications could significantly extend the number, diversity, and value of products generated in existing and emerging biorefineries. These modifications can further target the ability for processing of engineered wood into advanced high performance materials. In doing so, we attempt to illuminate the complex connection on how polymer chemistry and structure can be tailored to advance renewable material applications, using all the chemical constituents of plant-derived biopolymers, including pectins, hemicelluloses, cellulose, and lignins.
title: Concepts and microstructure design for multicaloric cooling using Ni-Mn-based Heusler compounds
Creators: name: Pfeuffer, Lukas
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2022

description: The world’s rising population as well as environmental and economic changes go hand in hand with an increasing need for sustainable and energy-efficient cooling solutions. The most promising alternative to currently used vapor-compression technology is solid-state caloric cooling which utilizes the giant thermal response to an external field in vicinity of first-order phase transitions. However, there are still several limitations such as irreversibilities and energy losses during cyclic operation as well as the necessity of a rather large external field which hamper its application. The utilization of more than one external field which is known as multicaloric cooling, promises to overcome these limitations. For this purpose, materials with a pronounced cross-response to multiple stimuli are required. In this work, metamagnetic Ni-Mn-based Heusler compounds are investigated with respect to their multicaloric properties under magnetic fields and uniaxial stress. Different combinations of the two external stimuli are explored and the influence of microstructure on the caloric response and mechanical stability is investigated. It is demonstrated that a suitable combination of magnetic field and uniaxial stress can enable a significant improvement of the magnitude and reversibility of the caloric effect as compared to its single caloric counterparts. Moreover, a strong influence of microstructural features like precipitates, grain diameter and texture on the functional and mechanical performance is revealed. It is shown that a tailored microstructure design in metamagnetic Ni-Mn-based Heusler allows to simultaneously achieve excellent caloric and mechanical properties.
Differential Privacy Made Easy
Creators: name: Aitsam, Muhammad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Data privacy is a major issue for many decades, several techniques have been developed to make sure individuals' privacy but still world has seen privacy failures. In 2006, Cynthia Dwork gave the idea of Differential Privacy which gave strong theoretical guarantees for data privacy. Many companies and research institutes developed differential privacy libraries, but in order to get the differentially private results, users have to tune the privacy parameters. In this paper, we minimized these tune-able parameters. The DP-framework is developed which compares the differentially private results of three Python based DP libraries. We also introduced a new very simple DP library (GRAM-DP), so the people with no background of differential privacy can still secure the privacy of the individuals in the dataset while releasing statistical results in public.
Limnonectes shompenorum Das 1996
Creators: name: Inger, Robert F.
name: Iskandar, Djoko T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Dicroglossidae
Limnonectes
Limnonectes shompenorum

description: Limnonectes shompenorum Das
Male 83.9 mm SVL, with enlarged odontoids; female 87.5 mm, with enlarged, pigmented ova. These frogs agree closely with the original description (Das, 1996). The webbing is very slightly more extensive than figured by Das (1996) and the throat lacks dark pigment noted in the original description.
description: Published as part of Inger, Robert F. & Iskandar, Djoko T., 2005, A Collection Of Amphibians From West Sumatra, With Description Of A New Species Of Megophrys (Amphibia: Anura), pp. 133-142 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (1) on page 138, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244974
title: Analytical Investigation of Viscoelastic Stagnation-Point Flows with Regard to Their Singularity
Creators: name: Liu, Jie
name: Oberlack, Martin
name: Wang, Yongqi
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022

description: Singularities in the stress field of the stagnation-point flow of a viscoelastic fluid have been studied for various viscoelastic constitutive models. Analyzing the analytical solutions of these models is the most effective way to study this problem. In this paper, exact analytical solutions of two-dimensional steady wall-free stagnation-point flows for the generic Oldroyd 8-constant model are obtained for the stress field using different material parameter relations. For all solutions, compatibility with the conservation of momentum is considered in our analysis. The resulting solutions usually contain arbitrary functions, whose choice has a crucial effect on the stress distribution. The corresponding singularities are discussed in detail according to the choices of the arbitrary functions. The results can be used to analyze the stress distribution and singularity behavior of a wide spectrum of viscoelastic models derived from the Oldroyd 8-constant model. Many previous results obtained for simple viscoelastic models are reproduced as special cases. Some previous conclusions are amended and new conclusions are drawn. In particular, we find that all models have singularities near the stagnation point and most of them can be avoided by appropriately choosing the model parameters and free functions. In addition, the analytical solution for the stress tensor of a near-wall stagnation-point flow for the Oldroyd-B model is also obtained. Its compatibility with the momentum conservation is discussed and the parameters are identified, which allow for a non-singular solution.
title: A low‐cost environmental chamber to simulate warm climatic conditions
Creators: name: Darehshouri, Sahand
name: Michelsen, Nils
name: Schüth, Christoph
name: Schulz, Stephan
Publisher: name: Wiley
Year: 2022

description: Environmental chambers are used for a variety of experiments in multiple disciplines but are often prohibitively expensive. In this study, we developed an environmental chamber that allows reliable regulation of temperature and relative humidity in a range typical for warm climatic conditions. As we have only used consumer products, which are readily available off the shelf, the device is affordable (
Asymptotics for Exponential Functionals of Random Walks
Creators: name: Xu, Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 60G50, 60J55, secondary 60F10, 60E05

description: This paper provides a detailed description for the asymptotics of exponential functionals of random walks with light/heavy tails. We give the convergence rate based on the key observation that the asymptotics depends on the sample paths with either slowly decreasing local minimum or final value below a low level. Also, our thoughtful analysis of the interrelationship between the local minimum and the final value provides the exact expression for the limiting coefficients in terms of some transformations of the random walk.
description: 43 pages, 1 Figure, 1 table. We thank Zhihao Cui and Hao Wu a lot for pointing out several typos and errors that have been highlightened with red color
Precision molecular threading/dethreading
Creators: name: Tabacchi, Gloria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Computational Chemistry
subject: NMR Spectroscopy
subject: 30302 Nanochemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry
subject: Organic Chemistry
subject: 30699 Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: 30505 Physical Organic Chemistry
subject: 30701 Quantum Chemistry
subject: Supramolecular Chemistry
subject: 30306 Synthesis of Materials
subject: 30799 Theoretical and Computational Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: 30307 Theory and Design of Materials

description: Precision molecular threading/dethreading.

J. Groppi, L. Casimiro, M. Canton, S. Corra, M. Jafari-Nasab, G. Tabacchi, L. Cavallo, M. Baroncini, S. Silvi, E. Fois, A. Credi, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 14825.

 https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202003064
title: Optimising metameric spectra for integrative lighting to modulate the circadian system without affecting visual appearance
Creators: name: Zandi, Babak
name: Stefani, Oliver
name: Herzog, Alexander
name: Schlangen, Luc J. M.
name: Trinh, Quang Vinh
name: Khanh, Tran Quoc
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2022

description: Smart integrative lighting systems aim to support human health and wellbeing by capitalising on the light-induced effects on circadian rhythms, sleep, and cognitive functions, while optimising the light’s visual aspects like colour fidelity, visual comfort, visual preference, and visibility. Metameric spectral tuning could be an instrument to solve potential conflicts between the visual preferences of users with respect to illuminance and chromaticity and the circadian consequences of the light exposure, as metamers can selectively modulate melanopsin-based photoreception without affecting visual properties such as chromaticity or illuminance. This work uses a 6-, 8- and 11-channel LED luminaire with fixed illuminance of 250 lx to systematically investigate the metameric tuning range in melanopic equivalent daylight illuminance (EDI) and melanopic daylight efficacy ratio (melanopic DER) for 561 chromaticity coordinates as optimisation targets (2700 K to 7443 K ± Duv 0 to 0.048), while applying colour fidelity index Rf criteria from the TM-30-20 Annex E recommendations (i.e. Rf ≥ 85, Rf,h1 ≥ 85). Our results reveal that the melanopic tuning range increases with rising CCT to a maximum tuning range in melanopic DER of 0.24 (CCT: 6702 K, Duv: 0.003), 0.29 (CCT: 7443 K, Duv: 0) and 0.30 (CCT: 6702, Duv: 0.006), depending on the luminaire’s channel number of 6, 8 or 11, respectively. This allows to vary the melanopic EDI from 212.5–227.5 lx up to 275–300 lx without changes in the photopic illuminance (250 lx) or chromaticity (Δu′v′ ≤ 0.0014). The highest metameric melanopic Michelson contrast for the 6-, 8- and 11-channel luminaire is 0.16, 0.18 and 0.18, which is accomplished at a CCT of 3017 K (Duv: − 0.018), 3456 K (Duv: 0.009) and 3456 K (Duv: 0.009), respectively. By optimising ~ 490,000 multi-channel LED spectra, we identified chromaticity regions in the CIExy colour space that are of particular interest to control the melanopic efficacy with metameric spectral tuning.
The Use of Consonant Sounds in Vocalization: Background, Questions, and its Importance for Singing
Creators: name: ภคอิงค์ภักดิ์ ศุภการ
Publisher: name: วารสารวิพิธพัฒนศิลป์ โครงการบัณฑิตศึกษา สถาบันบัณฑิตพัฒนศิลป์
Year: 2022
Subjects: vocalization
consonants
singing
vocal technique

description: วารสารวิพิธพัฒนศิลป์, 2, 1, 67-83
Rana chalconota
Creators: name: Inger, Robert F.
name: Iskandar, Djoko T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Amphibia
Anura
Ranidae
Rana
Rana chalconota

description: Rana chalconota (Schlegel)
Males with nuptial pads, SVL 28.1-38.1 mm (Table 5); mature females, SVL 37.8-43.2 mm (Table 5); juveniles, SVL 23.5- 28.6 mm (n= 7). Round dark spots on back (except in two); heavy dusting of melanophores on the ventral surface of the legs; throat whitish, with dark mottling. The webbing is blackish. Vomerine teeth in patches equidistant from each other and the choanae. Toes three and five fully webbed to base of discs, toe four fully webbed to distal subarticular tubercle; outer metatarsal tubercle elevated. Males with velvety, whitish nuptial pads on the first finger; vocal sac openings at the corners of the floor of the mouth; whitish spinules on the granules of the dorsum. A weak humeral gland present in 10/ 16 males. Males have a larger tympanum than females (Table 5).
We have compared these to a sample from Bohorok, North Sumatra. The two samples are similar in most characters, including the color of the webbing, in the presence of a weak humeral gland in the males, and in body proportions (Table 5). However, they differ in size (Table 5).
Geographic variation in this species is known to involve secondary sex characters of males. Males from Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo usually have the nuptial pad constricted, but those from Java do not (Inger, 1966). The nuptial pads in males from the Padang-Payakumbuh-Lubuk Serasih area are not constricted, though they are in about half of those from Bohorok. The spinules of the dorsum appear on the upper eyelids of Bornean males but only in a portion of those from Java (Inger, 1966). All but one of the males from Sumatra have spinules on the upper eyelid. Males in the present sample from Sumatra are about the same size as those from Java (30-40 mm; Iskandar, 1998), but the females are much smaller than those from Java (45-65 mm; Iskandar, 1998), which is the type locality of the species.
description: Published as part of Inger, Robert F. & Iskandar, Djoko T., 2005, A Collection Of Amphibians From West Sumatra, With Description Of A New Species Of Megophrys (Amphibia: Anura), pp. 133-142 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53 (1) on page 138, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13244974
Interpersonal problems of cocaine dependent adults differ from those of a normative sample
Creators: name: Minges, Mary
name: Zilcha-Mano, Sigal
name: Doorn, Katie Aafjes-Van
name: Gorman, Bernard
name: Barber, Jacques P.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Our research examined patterns of interpersonal problems in patients with a primary diagnosis of cocaine dependence (CD), comparing them with those in a normative sample. We hypothesized that the patterns of individuals with CD would reveal constellations of interpersonal problems distinct from those of the sample, not only at baseline, but also at termination of treatment. Analysis was conducted on 402 CD patients from the training and the main trial phases of the National Institute on Drug Abuse Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study. Responses to the Inventory for Interpersonal Problems were analyzed—from baseline, from month one, and at treatment termination—according to the Interpersonal Circumplex Model and were compared to the normative sample. The CD sample was described using four distinct subtypes, named according to their relative angular displacement at baseline and highest two subscale means: Cold and Socially Avoidant, Vindictive and Domineering, Overly Nurturant and Intrusive, Nonassertive and Exploitable. Each subtype remained distinct across treatment and consistently reported different types of interpersonal difficulties than the normative population at termination, consistent with the interpersonal pathoplasticity model. In all subtypes, overall interpersonal distress decreased over the course of treatment, to the extent that by treatment termination they were no more or less distressed than the normative sample. These findings have important clinical implications. The interpersonal challenges of patients struggling with addiction to cocaine warrant clinical attention, beyond mediating levels of distress.
A practical measure of health facility efficiency: an innovation in the application of routine health information to determine health worker productivity in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Hasan, Md Zabir
name: Dinsa, Girmaye D.
name: Berman, Peter A.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Background A simple indicator of technical efficiency, such as productivity of health workers, measured using routine health facility data, can be a practical approach that can inform initiatives to improve efficiency in low- and middle-income countries. This paper presents a proof of concept of using routine information from primary healthcare (PHC) facilities to measure health workers’ productivity and its application in three regions of Ethiopia. Methods In four steps, we constructed a productivity measure of the health workforce of Health Centers (HCs) and demonstrated its practical application: (1) developing an analytical dataset using secondary data from health management information systems (HMIS) and human resource information system (HRIS); (2) principal component analysis and factor analysis to estimate a summary measure of output from five indicators (annual service volume of outpatient visits, family planning, first antenatal care visits, facility-based deliveries by skilled birth attendants, and children [< 1 year] with three pentavalent vaccines); (3) calculating a productivity score by combining the summary measure of outputs and the total number of health workers (input), and (4) implementing regression models to identify the determinant of productivity and ranking HCs based on their adjusted productivity score. Results We developed an analytical dataset of 1128 HCs; however, significant missing values and outliers were reported in the data. The principal component and factor scores developed from the five output measures were highly consistent (correlation coefficient = 0.98). We considered the factor score as the summary measure of outputs for estimating productivity. A very weak association was observed between the summary measure of output and the total number of staff. The result also highlighted a large variability in productivity across similar health facilities in Ethiopia, represented by the significant dispersion in summary measure of output occurring at similar levels of the health workers. Conclusions We successfully demonstrated the analytical steps to estimate health worker productivity and its practical application using HMIS and HRIS. The methodology presented in this study can be readily applied in low- and middle-income countries using widely available data—such as DHIS2—that will allow further explorations to understand the causes of technical inefficiencies in the health system.
Community-wide hackathons to identify central themes in single-cell multi-omics
Creators: name: Lê Cao, Kim-Anh
name: Abadi, Al J.
name: Davis-Marcisak, Emily F.
name: Hsu, Lauren
name: Arora, Arshi
name: Coullomb, Alexis
name: Deshpande, Atul
name: Feng, Yuzhou
name: Jeganathan, Pratheepa
name: Loth, Melanie
name: Meng, Chen
name: Mu, Wancen
name: Pancaldi, Vera
name: Sankaran, Kris
name: Singh, Amrit
name: Sodicoff, Joshua S.
name: Stein-O’Brien, Genevieve L.
name: Subramanian, Ayshwarya
name: Welch, Joshua D.
name: You, Yue
name: Argelaguet, Ricard
name: Carey, Vincent J.
name: Dries, Ruben
name: Greene, Casey S.
name: Holmes, Susan
name: Love, Michael I.
name: Ritchie, Matthew E.
name: Yuan, Guo-Cheng
name: Culhane, Aedin C.
name: Fertig, Elana
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

Abstract
Variants of normality and steadfastness deform
Creators: name: Bauman, Alexander
name: Ellers, Havi
name: Hu, Gary
name: Murayama, Takumi
name: Nair, Sandra
name: Wang, Ying
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 13F45, 13B25 (Primary) 14B07, 13B22, 13F25 (Secondary)

description: The cancellation problem asks whether $A[X_1,X_2,\ldots,X_n] \cong B[Y_1,Y_2,\ldots,Y_n]$ implies $A \cong B$. Hamann introduced the class of steadfast rings as the rings for which a version of the cancellation problem considered by Abhyankar, Eakin, and Heinzer holds. By work of Asanuma, Hamann, and Swan, steadfastness can be characterized in terms of $p$-seminormality, which is a variant of normality introduced by Swan. We prove that $p$-seminormality and steadfastness deform for reduced Noetherian local rings. We also prove that $p$-seminormality and steadfastness are stable under adjoining formal power series variables for reduced (not necessarily Noetherian) rings. Our methods also give new proofs of the facts that normality and weak normality deform, which are of independent interest.
description: 22 pages. Comments welcome! v2: Minor changes
Simultaneous measurement of rice grain friction coefficient and angle of repose using rotating cylinders
Creators: name: Massah, Jafar
name: Khazaei, Javad
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Year: 2022

description: Several methods have been developed to measure the friction coefficient of grains and seeds as well as their angle of repose, independently. However, it seems that one single method capable of simultaneous measurement of these two important parameters of grain products is of importance. In this study, simultaneous measurement of brown rice grain friction coefficient and angle of repose is performed by using rotating cylinders method. The effects of rotational speed, cylinder diameter and filling degree on rice grains, also lower and higher angle of repose along with their friction properties were considered. Results showed that proper speed for reaching slumping and rolling motions depends on cylinder diameter and filling degree varying from 0.5 to 9.7 rpm and 2 to 34.6 rpm, respectively. An insignificant difference in the range of 1° to 4° was observed between lower and upper angles of repose which indicates the reliability of the proposed method to determine the dynamic angle of repose. Results also revealed that rotational speed of cylinders did not significantly affect the lower and upper angles of repose; however, they were not affected by filling degree. Finally, the friction coefficient of rice grains was affected by cylinder diameter and filling degree. The findings of this study may be applied in the design and mathematical modeling of grains’ motions in rotary dryers, mixers, and silos.
description: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, Vol. 95 (2022): Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Les facteurs psychologiques de la résilience ayant aidé les joueurs de hockey universitaires à surmonter les contextes d’adversité sur leur parcours universitaire
Creators: name: Lachance, Sara
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2020
Subjects: facteurs psychologiques
résilience
athlètes
hockey
haut niveau

description: Dans le domaine du sport de haut niveau, les athlètes sont parfois confrontés à des contextes d’adversité où de nombreux obstacles sont présents sur leur parcours. Plusieurs individus cèdent et abandonnent face à des situations d’adversité, tandis que d’autres réussissent à les surmonter. Alors que certains athlètes sont incapables de réagir de façon adéquate au stress, d’autres font preuve de résilience et trouvent ainsi la capacité de surmonter un tel contexte. L’objectif de l’étude vise à identifier les facteurs psychologiques de la résilience auxquels les joueurs de hockey de niveau universitaire ont eu recours pour surmonter les contextes d’adversité et persévérer afin de terminer leurs années d’éligibilité. Les résultats ont permis de mettre en lumière les 5 facteurs psychologiques de la résilience auxquels ont eu recours les participants de l’étude préalablement identifiés par Fletcher et Sarkar (2012), soit la concentration, la confiance, la motivation, la perception d’un support social, et la personnalité positive. Cette étude a également fait émerger trois nouveaux facteurs non présents dans le modèle de Fletcher et Sarkar (2012), soit le sentiment d’appartenance, la capacité à lâcher-prise, et la préservation de l’identité sociale. À partir d’entrevues auprès de 12 joueurs de hockey universitaires, l’étude fait état de la manifestation de ces 8 caractéristiques psychologiques de la résilience au sein de leur contexte d’adversité afin de les surmonter.
The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Gentiana triflora and comparative analysis with its congeneric species
Creators: name: Zhang, Xinke
name: Miao, Yujing
name: Sun, Xiao
name: Jiang, Yuan
name: Zeng, Tiexin
name: Zheng, Yan
name: Huang, LinFang
Publisher: name: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
Year: 2022

description: Gentiana triflora is an important medicinal plant in China with economic and medicinal value. Here, we report the complete chloroplastsequences of G. trifloral. The cp genome of G. triflora of 149, 125 bp contains 130 unique genes, including 85 protein-coding genes,8 rRNA genes, and 37 tRNA genes. The analysis of repeat showed that palindromic had the highest frequency. Besides, a total numberof 45 SSR were identified, most of which were mononucleotide adenine-thymine. Comparative genome analysis of Gentiana speciesrevealed that the pair of the inverted repeat was more conserved than the single-copy region. This analysis resulted in identification of 8 hypervariable regions (trnH-GUG, trnG-UCC-intron, atpI, trnD-GUC, trnL-UAA, rpl32-trnL-UAG, petA and ycf1). Phylogenetic analysis revealed that G. triflora was most closely related to Gentiana manshurica. In conclusion, this study enriched the genomic resources of the Gentiana genus and provided a basis for evolution and phylogeny analyses.
description: Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, Vol. 95 (2022): Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality
National Project, Regional Perspective: Newfoundland, Canada and Identities, 1949-1991
Creators: name: Conway, Shannon
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2020
Subjects: Canada
Newfoundland
official national identity
regionalism
national identity
post-1949
Canadian identity
Newfoundland identity

description: The Canadian government has long striven for an official national identity grounded in a cohesive sense of national unity, but this has been in contrast to the regional reality of the Canadian state. The postwar period reveals increased concern within Canada regarding its national identity, when the federal government was attempting to construct an intrinsic identity and trying to encode what it meant to be Canadian. When Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, it became an additional element in this enduring struggle. After confederation, a cultural revival in the province further entrenched its distinct identity during the same period in which it was acclimatizing to a new Canadian reality. The main goals of this research are to comprehend how Newfoundland understood official Canadian identity in its post-confederation period and how the province pursued a distinct identity while becoming a part of Canada. This project examines how Newfoundland understood official constructions of Canadian identity during the post-1949 period to observe how Canada’s official national identity was understood outside of the dominant central-Canada perspective. This alternative regional perspective provides an understanding of how the realities of Canada’s regionalism play a role in why the official national identity was not as homogenous or uniting as the federal government had idealized. By addressing the national question of Canadian identity through a regional Newfoundland perspective, this project seeks to deepen and expand our knowledge and understanding of modern Canada and its continued regional realities.
AJP_Supplementary_FINAL.pdf
Creators: name: Agnew, Emma
name: Yutzey, Katherine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cardiology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplemental detailed methods, tables and figures for SCAR FORMATION AND DECREASED CARDIAC FUNCTION FOLLOWING ISCHEMIA/REPERFUSION INJURY IN 1-MONTH-OLD SWINEby Agnew et al
Canadian food ladders for dietary advancement in children with IgE-mediated allergy to milk and/or egg
Creators: name: Chomyn, Alanna
name: Chan, Edmond S.
name: Yeung, Joanne
name: Vander Leek, Timothy K.
name: Williams, Brock
name: Soller, Lianne
name: Abrams, Elissa M.
name: Mak, Raymond
name: Wong, Tiffany
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2021

description: Food ladders are clinical tools already widely used in Europe for food reintroduction in milk- and egg-allergic children. Previously developed milk and egg ladders have limited applicability to Canadian children due to dietary differences and product availability. Herein we propose a Canadian version of cow’s milk and egg food ladders and discuss the potential role that food ladders may have in the care of children with IgE-mediated allergies to cow’s milk and/or egg, as either a method of accelerating the acquisition of tolerance in those who would outgrow on their own, or as a form of modified oral immunotherapy in those with otherwise persistent allergy.
Carbon Mineralization with North American PGM Mine Tailings—Characterization and Reactivity Analysis
Creators: name: Woodall, Caleb M.
name: Lu, Xueya
name: Dipple, Gregory
name: Wilcox, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2021

description: Global efforts to combat climate change call for methods to capture and store CO₂. Meanwhile, the global transition away from fossil energy will result in increased production of tailings (i.e., wastes) from the mining of nickel and platinum group metals (PGMs). Through carbon mineralization, CO₂ can be permanently stored in calcium- and magnesium-bearing mine tailings. The Stillwater mine in Nye, Montana produces copper, nickel, and PGMs, along with 1 Mt of tailings each year. Stillwater tailings samples have been characterized, revealing that they contain a variety of mineral phases, most notably Ca-bearing plagioclase feldspar. Increases in inorganic carbon in the tailings and ion concentration in the tailings storage facilities suggest carbonation has taken place at ambient conditions over time within the tailings storage facilities. Two experiments were performed to simulate carbon mineralization at ambient temperature and pressure with elevated CO₂ concentration (10% with N₂), revealing that less than 1% of the silicate-bound calcium within the tailings is labile, or easily released from silicate structures at low-cost ambient conditions. The Stillwater tailings could be useful for developing strategies of waste management as production of nickel and PGM minerals increases during the global transition away from fossil energy, but further work is needed to develop a process that can realize their full carbon storage potential.
Perverse filtration for generalized Kummer varieties of fibered surfaces
Creators: name: Zhang, Zili
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $A\to C$ be a proper surjective morphism from a smooth connected quasi-projective commutative group scheme of dimension 2 to a smooth curve. The construction of generalized Kummer varieties gives a proper morphism $A^{[[n]]}\to C^{((n))}$. We show that the perverse filtration associated with this morphism is multiplicative.
description: 20 pages