cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Understanding the impact of phylloplane biocontrol agents on insects
Creators: name: Grenz, Kristina
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2020

description: Aphids are a major pest to the agricultural and horticultural industry, causing significant yield losses by directly feeding on crop plants and acting as vectors for plant diseases. Insecticide resistance and concern for the environment and human health has placed growers under increasing pressure to find alternative methods of aphid control. Pseudomonas poae PpR24 is a novel potential biocontrol agent with plant-growth promoting properties, proven to be naturally virulent to aphids as well as act as a deterrent when sprayed on a plant. This project furthers our understanding of the impact of PpR24 on the green peach potato aphid, Myzus persicae, in a sweet pepper, Capsicum annumm L., model system. An experimental evolution approach was applied in a bid to evolve PpR24 isolates with improved aphid virulence and biofilm formation, traits that may be desirable in a biocontrol agent. After ten passage cycles, no improvement was seen in aphicidal properties but one isolate, PpR24b4, evolved significantly strong biofilms at a cost to aphid virulence, bacterial growth and motility. Whole genome sequencing and variant calling analysis of the wild-type and derived isolates found single nucleotide polymorphisms in the genes wspF and gacS of PpR24b4. Both genes have known associations with biofilm formation and secondary metabolite production, which may explain the phenotypic differences observed between the wild-type and biofilm-forming isolate. To elucidate PpR24s deterrent effect and investigate any changes to volatile emissions as a result of the evolutionary passages, Solid-Phase Microextraction and Dynamic Headspace Extraction with GC-MS were used to identify the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by PpR24 in a spray suspension and when applied C. annuum plants. Anti-microbial and plant-growth promoting VOCs were identified from the bacterial suspensions, whereas green leaf volatiles used in plant defence and signalling aphid natural enemies were identified from plants sprayed with PpR24. Significant differences were observed in the compound emissions of the biofilm-forming isolate, PpR24b4, when compared to the wild-type PpR24. Non-target effects of PpR24 on three species of commercially available aphid natural enemies was investigated by simulating likely routes of exposure. PpR24 had no significant effect on the mirid bug, Macrolophus pygmaeus Rambur, although significant effects were observed on Aphidius colemani Viereck, and Orius laevigatus Fieber, depending on the route of exposure. The data presented in this study furthers our understanding of how PpR24 could be applied in an integrated pest management system to prevent and control aphid infestations.
Mass measurement of 56Sc reveals a small A=56 odd-even mass staggering, implying a cooler accreted neutron star crust
Creators: name: Meisel, Z.
name: George, S.
name: Ahn, S.
name: Bazin, D.
name: Brown, B. A.
name: Browne, J.
name: Carpino, J. F.
name: Chung, H.
name: Cole, A. L.
name: Cyburt, R. H.
name: Estradé, A.
name: Famiano, M.
name: Gade, A.
name: Langer, C.
name: Matoš, M.
name: Mittig, W.
name: Montes, F.
name: Morrissey, D. J.
name: Pereira, J.
name: Schatz, H.
name: Schatz, J.
name: Scott, M.
name: Shapira, D.
name: Smith, K.
name: Stevens, J.
name: Tan, W.
name: Tarasov, O.
name: Towers, S.
name: Wimmer, K.
name: Winkelbauer, J. R.
name: Yurkon, J.
name: Zegers, R. G. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the mass excesses of 52-57Sc, obtained from recent time-of-flight nuclear mass measurements at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. The masses of 56Sc and 57Sc were determined for the first time with atomic mass excesses of -24.85(59)(+0 -54) MeV and -21.0(1.3) MeV, respectively, where the asymmetric uncertainty for 56Sc was included due to possible contamination from a long-lived isomer. The 56Sc mass indicates a small odd-even mass staggering in the A = 56 mass-chain towards the neutron drip line, significantly deviating from trends predicted by the global FRDM mass model and favoring trends predicted by the UNEDF0 and UNEDF1 density functional calculations. Together with new shell-model calculations of the electron-capture strength function of 56Sc, our results strongly reduce uncertainties in model calculations of the heating and cooling at the 56Ti electron-capture layer in the outer crust of accreting neutron stars. We found that, in contrast to previous studies, neither strong neutrino cooling nor strong heating occurs in this layer. We conclude that Urca cooling in the outer crusts of accreting neutron stars that exhibit superbursts or high temperature steady-state burning, which are predicted to be rich in A=56 nuclei, is considerably weaker than predicted. Urca cooling must instead be dominated by electron capture on the small amounts of adjacent odd-A nuclei contained in the superburst and high temperature steady-state burning ashes. This may explain the absence of strong crust Urca cooling inferred from the observed cooling light curve of the transiently accreting x-ray source MAXI J0556-332.
description: Accepted to Physical Review Letters
Horton Law in Self-Similar Trees
Creators: name: Kovchegov, Yevgeniy
name: Zaliapin, Ilya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Self-similarity of random trees is related to the operation of pruning. Pruning $R$ cuts the leaves and their parental edges and removes the resulting chains of degree-two nodes from a finite tree. A Horton-Strahler order of a vertex $v$ and its parental edge is defined as the minimal number of prunings necessary to eliminate the subtree rooted at $v$. A branch is a group of neighboring vertices and edges of the same order. The Horton numbers $N_k[K]$ and $N_{ij}[K]$ are defined as the expected number of branches of order $k$, and the expected number of order-$i$ branches that merged order-$j$ branches, $j>i$, respectively, in a finite tree of order $K$. The Tokunaga coefficients are defined as $T_{ij}[K]=N_{ij}[K]/N_j[K]$. The pruning decreases the orders of tree vertices by unity. A rooted full binary tree is said to be mean-self-similar if its Tokunaga coefficients are invariant with respect to pruning: $T_k:=T_{i,i+k}[K]$. We show that for self-similar trees, the condition $\limsup(T_k)^{1/k}0$ and every $k\geq 1$. This work is a step toward providing rigorous foundations for the Horton law that, being omnipresent in natural branching systems, has escaped so far a formal explanation.
Calorimetric evidence for a mobile surface layer in ultrathin polymeric films: poly(2-vinyl pyridine)
Creators: name: Madkour, Sherif
name: Yin, Huajie
name: Füllbrandt, Marieke
name: Schönhals, Andreas
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 530 Physik

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: Specific heat spectroscopy was used to study the dynamic glass transition of ultrathin poly(2-vinyl pyridine) films (thicknesses: 405-10 nm). The amplitude and the phase angle of the differential voltage were obtained as a measure of the complex heat capacity. In a traditional data analysis, the dynamic glass transition temperature T-g is estimated from the phase angle. These data showed no thickness dependency on T-g down to 22 nm (error of the measurement of +/- 3 K). A derivative-based method was established, evidencing a decrease in T-g with decreasing thickness up to 7 K, which can be explained by a surface layer. For ultrathin films, data showed broadening at the lower temperature side of the spectra, supporting the existence of a surface layer. Finally, temperature dependence of the heat capacity in the glassy and liquid states changes with film thickness, which can be considered as a confinement effect.
The role of grain dynamics in determining the onset of sediment transport
Creators: name: Clark, Abram H.
name: Shattuck, Mark D.
name: Ouellette, Nicholas T.
name: O'Hern, Corey S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sediment transport occurs when the nondimensional fluid shear stress $Θ$ at the bed surface exceeds a minimum value $Θ_c$. A large collection of data, known as the Shields curve, shows that $Θ_c$ is primarily a function of the shear Reynolds number ${\rm{Re}}_*$. It is commonly assumed that $Θ>Θ_c({\rm{Re}}_*)$ occurs when the ${\rm Re}_*$-dependent fluid forces are too large to maintain static equilibrium for a typical surface grain. A complimentary approach, which remains relatively unexplored, is to identify $Θ_c({\rm{Re}}_*)$ as the applied shear stress at which grains cannot stop moving. With respect to grain dynamics, ${\rm{Re}}_*$ can be viewed as the viscous time scale for a grain to equilibrate to the fluid flow divided by the typical time for the fluid force to accelerate a grain over the characteristic bed roughness. We performed simulations of granular beds sheared by a model fluid, varying only these two time scales. We find that the critical Shields number $Θ_c({\rm Re}_*)$ obtained from the model mimics the Shields curve and is insensitive to the grain properties, the model fluid flow, and the form of the drag law. Quantitative discrepancies between the model results and the Shields curve are consistent with previous calculations of lift forces at varying ${\rm Re}_*$. Grains at low ${\rm Re}_*$ find more stable configurations than those at high ${\rm{Re}}_*$ due to differences in the grain reorganization dynamics. Thus, instead of focusing on mechanical equilibrium of a typical grain at the bed surface, $Θ_c({\rm{Re}}_*)$ may be better described by the stress at which mobile grains cannot find a stable configuration and stop moving.
description: to appear in Phys. Rev. Fluids
On the random dynamics of Volterra quadratic operators
Creators: name: Jamilov, U. U.
name: Scheutzow, Michael
name: Wilke-Berenguer, M.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 510 Mathematik

description: Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
description: This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
description: We consider random dynamical systems generated by a special class of Volterra quadratic stochastic operators on the simplex Sm-1. We prove that in contrast to the deterministic set-up the trajectories of the random dynamical system almost surely converge to one of the vertices of the simplex Sm-1, implying the survival of only one species. We also show that the minimal random point attractor of the system equals the set of all vertices. The convergence proof relies on a martingale-type limit theorem, which we prove in the appendix.
Reactivity effects of inorganic content in biomass gasification: A review
Creators: name: Trubetskaya, Anna
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: Engineering

description: This review article discusses the effects of inorganic content and mechanisms on raw biomass and char during gasification. The impacts of the inherent inorganics and externally added inorganic compounds are summarized based on a literature search from the most recent 40 years. The TGA and larger-scale studies involving K-, Ca-, and Si-related mechanisms are critically reviewed with the aim of understanding the reaction mechanisms and kinetics. Differences between the reaction pathways of inorganic matter, and subsequent effects on the reactivity during gasification, are discussed. The present results illustrate the complexity of ash transformation phenomena, which have a strong impact on the design of gasifiers as well as further operation and process control. The impregnation and mixing of catalytic compounds into raw biomass are emphasized as a potential solution to avoid reactivity-related operational challenges during steam and CO2 gasification. This review clearly identifies a gap in experimental knowledge at the micro and macro levels in the advanced modelling of inorganics transformation with respect to gasification reactivity.
Political space and contemporary democratic citizenship
Creators: name: Harris, Richard Robert
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: This thesis begins from the assumption that there are inherent tensions within contemporary democratic citizenship that cause intractable conflicts between citizens over political policies. These conflicts are often caused by a lack of understanding of each other’s positions as well as a lack of concern for the common good. The thesis will attempt to defend one central argument: that a rich description of the actual physical political spaces in which political and ethical commitments are formed helps to provide us with both a clearer picture of the limitations and highest potentials of contemporary citizenship. To demonstrate this point, the study critically considers the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, Romand Coles, and Jeffrey Stout, describing and evaluating their distinctive conceptions of political space. While the work underlines the importance of examining physical political space when studying citizenship, it also points towards a new, more hopeful vision for democratic citizenship itself.
Wide bandwidth instantaneous RF spectrum analyzer based on nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond
Creators: name: Chipaux, M.
name: Toraille, L.
name: Larat, C.
name: Morvan, L.
name: Pezzagna, S.
name: Meijer, J.
name: Debuisschert, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an original analog method to perform instantaneous and quantitative spectral analysis of microwave signals. An ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers held in a diamond plate is pumped by a 532 nm laser. Its photoluminescence is imaged through an optical microscope and monitored by a digital camera. The microwave signal is converted to an oscillating magnetic field in the area of the NV centers by a loop shaped antenna. Induced magnetic resonances are detected through a decrease of the NV centers photoluminescence. A magnetic field gradient induces a Zeeman shift of the resonances and transforms the frequency information into spatial information, which allows for the simultaneous analysis of the microwave signal in the entire frequency bandwidth of the device. The time dependent spectral analysis of an amplitude modulated microwave signal is demonstrated over a bandwidth of 600 MHz, associated to a frequency resolution of 7 MHz and a refresh rate of 4 ms. With such integration time, a field of a few hundreds of μW can be detected. Since the optical properties of NV centers can be maintained even in high magnetic field, we estimate that an optimized device could allow frequency analysis in a range of 30 GHz, only limited by the amplitude of the magnetic field gradient. In addition, an increase of the NV centers quantity could lead both to an increase of the microwave sensitivity and to a decrease of the minimum refresh rate down to a few μs.
description: 9 pages, 2 figures
DDI Agency Registry Upgrades
Creators: name: Smith, Dan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: The DDI Registry is a service run by the DDI Alliance that supports the registration and resolution of DDI agency ids. Agency ids are used in the creation of a DDI URN, and provide a unique namespace for all organizations using the DDI standards. Since 2013 the DDI Registry has supported agency registration and DNS SRV based agency id resolution. There are many environments where DNS resolution services can not be accessed, such as from within a browser using javascript. This presentation will outline the new HTTP based resolution feature of the DDI Registry for agency id service resolution. It will describe the service location options for resolution, give an overview of the new agency service discovery document, and provide a demonstration of the DDI URN to website resolution for web browser users. Recorded version of this talk: https://youtu.be/A5fTACixzqc
Exploring the Dawn of Galaxies
Creators: name: Wilkins, Stephen M.
name: Stanway, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Some few hundred million years after the big bang the Universe was illuminated by the first stars and galaxies thereby bringing an end to the cosmological dark ages. Since the installation of WFC3 on the Hubble Space Telescope our ability to probe this critical period of the Universe's history has dramatically changed with thousands of objects now identified within the first billion years of the Universe's history. Our understanding of this period of the Universe's history will further grow thanks to both the Atacama Large millimetre/sub-millimetre Array and the James Webb Space Telescope.
description: 4 pages, introduction to the "Cosmic Dawn" series of articles published in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Translation, canonization, and the cult of the saints in England, 1160-1220
Creators: name: Hasseler, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2014

description: The twelfth century marked a significant change in the way that saints were made. While previously sanctification had been a primarily local phenomenon, overseen by local bishops through the ritual practice of translation, throughout the twelfth century the development of formalized, juridical canonization processes allowed the papacy to oversee the process of making a new saint. This thesis addresses the nature of this shift, arguing that even as canonization proceedings became more common, the ritual of translation still retained significance as an act of local cult building. Focusing on the cults of Edward the Confessor and Thomas Becket, both of whom were canonized by the papacy and subsequently translated by their communities, this study will show that the translation ceremony remained significant through the twelfth century as a moment at which saints were commemorated, their lives narrated, and their remains enshrined within the sacral landscape of the community.
Development and Implementation of a Feedback Evaluation Tool
Creators: name: Jensen, Rachel M
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: Purpose: We sought to develop and gather validity evidence for a concise feedback evaluation tool (FET) to assess feedback quality in a variety of clinical settings. Methods: The 9-item FET was developed through an expert consensus panel and review of existing literature; revisions were made based on pilot feedback. Nine standardized videos of feedback interactions were developed. Raters were recruited from 6 groups (expert, faculty, resident, medical student, non-physician medical, and non-medical); all raters underwent video-based rater training prior to watching and evaluating the videos using the FET. A factor analysis was performed to evaluate latent constructs. Intraclass and Pearson correlations were used to establish interrater reliability. A generalizability study with a nested design was used to examine the internal structure validity; a subsequent decision study was performed to determine the number of raters needed for a G-coefficient >0.80. Results: Each feedback video was reviewed by 18-25 raters yielding a total of 193 evaluations. A factor analysis identified two latent constructs measured. Intraclass correlations ranged from 0.89 to 0.96. Pearson correlations between expert raters and other rater groups ranged from 0.69-0.78. The generalizability study revealed a G-coefficient of 0.98 with 14.2% of variance attributed to the person delivering feedback. The decision study revealed that 2 raters of any type were needed for a G-coefficient >0.80. Discussion: This study demonstrates validity evidence in support of the use of the 9-item FET instrument when evaluating the quality of feedback delivered in a clinical setting. Future directions will include studying tool usability and implementation in a teaching setting.
A Survey on Handover Management in Mobility Architectures
Creators: name: Ferretti, Stefano
name: Ghini, Vittorio
name: Panzieri, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This work presents a comprehensive and structured taxonomy of available techniques for managing the handover process in mobility architectures. Representative works from the existing literature have been divided into appropriate categories, based on their ability to support horizontal handovers, vertical handovers and multihoming. We describe approaches designed to work on the current Internet (i.e. IPv4-based networks), as well as those that have been devised for the "future" Internet (e.g. IPv6-based networks and extensions). Quantitative measures and qualitative indicators are also presented and used to evaluate and compare the examined approaches. This critical review provides some valuable guidelines and suggestions for designing and developing mobility architectures, including some practical expedients (e.g. those required in the current Internet environment), aimed to cope with the presence of NAT/firewalls and to provide support to legacy systems and several communication protocols working at the application layer.
Developing a solution for the premixed concrete method and proposing a step by step fabrication process.
Creators: name: Henriksen, Thomas
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: Complex geometry concrete is being used in building and infrastructure projects however, costly in-situ mouldings are necessary to achieve these geometries. Advancing discretised concrete shell structures requires the development of a new moulding system at lower cost and reduced mould production times. Future thinwalled glass fibre reinforced concrete (GFRC) elements must possess good continuous surface quality, with the required edge-returns and panel offsets, combined with the physical material properties to increase spans and lower the risk of visible surface cracks. Existing moulding systems do not have the capability to meet these contemporary architectural aesthetic and design aspirations. A new mould system to produce free-form thin-walled GFRC elements is presented and can be used to replace CNC milled moulds for the manufacture of thin walled GFRC. Such a system allows the mould for thin-walled GFRC elements to be produced in a fast, cost effective and more efficient manner. A new step-by-step process to achieve such new thin-walled GFRC panels is described, permitting the fabrication of complex geometry thinwalled GFRC elements using more cost effective large-scale production methods. This process bridges the gap between the limited capabilities of current solutions, and the architectural aesthetic demands for good surface quality, with the option of having an edge-return and the same surface quality as the front surface to give a monolithic appearance.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 5 (2017): Advancing the manufacture of complex geometry GFRC for today's building envelopes
Oryssomus guyanensis Almeida & Santos, 2014, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Almeida, Lúcia M.
name: Santos, Paula B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Oryssomus
Oryssomus guyanensis

description: Oryssomus guyanensis sp. nov.
(Fig. 4)
Description of holotype (female). Length 4.92, width 3.42 mm. Form elongate oval, widest at middle of elytra, somewhat flattened dorsoventrally (Fig. 4 C). General color brownish yellow, thorax and abdomen dark brown medially (Fig. 4 A, B). Outline of pronotum and elytron discontinuous. Pronotum brownish yellow, with a small basal black spot, translucent at apex; finely, densely punctured; pubescence of semidecumbent yellowish hairs (Fig. 4 D). Elytra brownish yellow with an triangular black spot extending almost to apex. Elytral punctures coarse, dense, slightly larger than on pronotum, sparse and thinner in the discal area. Antenna (Fig. 4 G) and mouthparts brownish yellow, hypomera and epipleura yellow, legs brownish yellow. Metaventrite finely, sparsely punctured medially and anteriorly; coarsely, densely punctured laterally and posteriorly with punctures large, often confluent. Abdominal ventrites coarsely punctured, punctures separated by about a diameter or less, punctures becoming coarser laterally on first ventrite (Fig. 4 E). First abdominal ventrite with postcoxal line extending beyond middle of first sternum. Genitalia with genital plates triangular, elongate, styli with setae; spermatheca elongate, uniform (Fig. 4 F).
Male. Unknown.
Etymology. The name of this species refers to the known geographical distribution of the species.
Discussion. The elytral color pattern of Oryssomus guyanensis sp. nov. resembles O. guillermo sp. nov., but differs in the shape of the dorsal black spot and female genitalia, which have elongated coxites.
Type material. “ Guyane Française,/ Commune de Roura,/ Montagne des Chevaux,/RN2 PK22, 03.I. 2010, vitre,/SEAG col.” “ ♀ ” [white label]. “ HOLOTYPE / Oryssomus guyanensis / Almeida & Santos, 2014” [red label]. 1 ex. [MNHN]; “ Guyane Française,/ Commune de Roura,/ Montagne des Chevaux,/RN2 PK 22, 31.III. 2013,/polytrap swing, SEAG col.” “ ♀ ” [white label]. “ PARATYPE / Oryssomus guyanensis / Almeida & Santos, 2014” [yellow label]. 1 ex. “DZUP/245997” [DZUP].
Geographical distribution. Montagne des Chevaux, French Guiana (Fig. 15).
description: Published as part of Almeida, Lúcia M. & Santos, Paula B., 2014, Synopsis of Oryssomini Gordon (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from the Neotropical region with new species of Oryssomus Mulsant, Pseudoryssomus Gordon and Gordonoryssomus Almeida & Lima, pp. 42-68 in Zootaxa 3846 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3846.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/250860
The Relation between Employment and Depression in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Creators: name: Schweers, Molly
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Developmental psychology
subject: Counseling psychology
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Many studies have investigated the symptoms, etiology, and intervention strategies for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, little research has addressed outcomes of adults with ASD. Additionally, research on co-occurring disorders such as depression is also very limited. This study looked at predictors of depression in adults with ASD, specifically employment and ASD symptom severity. This study measured co-morbid disorders including depression, long term outcomes, and ASD symptom severity in 97 adults with ASD diagnosed at the TEACCH Autism Program between 1965 and 2000 reported by caregivers of the adults. In addition to the data collected from adulthood, childhood assessment data were used including intelligence, ASD symptom severity, and adaptive functioning. Employment, childhood intelligence, and ASD symptom severity were predicted to be related to the presence of depression in adults with ASD. The results showed employment factors were most significantly related to depression in adults. Vocational index, number of hours worked per week, and current job status were strong predictors of depression. Specifically, individuals who had previously held a job but were not currently employed were more likely to score higher on the ADAMS Depression scale than individuals who never had a job or who were currently employed. Activities of daily living were also related to current depression. These findings show the importance of focusing interventions on integrating supported employment and depression interventions to help decrease depressive symptoms and increase employment outcomes.
wastewater samples during advanced wastewater treatment process
Creators: name: 贾舒宇
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Environment
Environmental

description: A total of 18 water samples were taken from the raw wastewater, effluent of secondary sedimentation tank, denitrifying biofilter, UV disinfection, and constructed wetland, as well as receiving river water for three times in December 2019 for a period of three consecutive days in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, China. All the raw metagenomic datasets and 16S rRNA amplicon sequences have been deposited into this project.
Outcomes Assessment Pitfalls: Challenges to Quantifying Knowledge Gain in a Sex Education Game
Creators: name: Bertozzi-Villa, Amelia
name: Bertozzi, Elena
name: Sridhar, Aparna
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Information Technology
subject: Public Health Education and Promotion
subject: Other Education
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Education
subject: International Public Health
subject: Secondary Education
subject: Adolescent Health
subject: Family planning
subject: Game
subject: India
subject: Sex Education

description: Analysis of pre- and post-game knowledge assessment test for a sex education game distributed to teens in Chennai, India.
Optical Identification of He White Dwarfs Orbiting Four Millisecond Pulsars in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
Creators: name: Cadelano, M.
name: Pallanca, C.
name: Ferraro, F. R.
name: Salaris, M.
name: Dalessandro, E.
name: Lanzoni, B.
name: Freire, P. C. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We used ultra-deep UV observations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope to search for optical companions to binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. We identified four new counterparts (to MSPs 47TucQ, 47TucS, 47TucT and 47TucY) and confirmed those already known (to MSPs 47TucU and 47TucW). In the color magnitude diagram, the detected companions are located in a region between the main sequence and the CO white dwarf cooling sequences, consistent with the cooling tracks of He white dwarfs of mass between 0.15 Msun and 0.20 Msun. For each identified companion, mass, cooling age, temperature and pulsar mass (as a function of the inclination angle) have been derived and discussed. For 47TucU we also found that the past accretion history likely proceeded in a sub-Eddington rate. The companion to the redback 47TucW is confirmed to be a non degenerate star, with properties particularly similar to those observed for black widow systems. Two stars have been identified within the 2-sigma astrometric uncertainty from the radio positions of 47TucH and 47TucI, but the available data prevent us from firmly assessing whether they are the true companions of these two MSPs.
description: 27 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication by ApJ
L-carnitine attenuated hyperuricemia-associated left ventricular remodeling through ameliorating cardiomyocytic lipid deposition
Creators: name: 杨阳(Yang Yang)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Metabolome
Multispecies
Medical

description: Hyperuricemia (HUA) is associated with left ventricular remodeling (LVR) and thereby causes the initiation and development of a large number of cardiovascular diseases. LVR is typically accompanied by cardiomyocyte energy metabolic disorder. The energy supply of cardiomyocytes is provided by glucose and fatty acid (FA) metabolism. Currently, the effect of HUA on cardiomyocytic FA metabolism is unclear. In this study, we demonstrate that UA-induced cardiomyocyte injury is associated with cytoplasmic lipid deposition, which can be ameliorated by the FA metabolism-promoting drug L-carnitine (LC). UA suppresses carnitine palmitoyl transferase 1B (CPT1B), thereby inhibiting FA transport into the mitochondrial inner matrix for elimination. LC intervention can ameliorate HUA-associated left ventricular anterior wall thickening in mice. This study showed that FA transport dysfunction plays is a critical mechanism in both cardiomyocytic injury and HUA-associated LVR and promoting cytoplasmic FA transportation through pharmacological treatment by LC is a valid strategy to attenuate HUA-associated LVR.
Differences in human perception
Creators: name: Hakak, Alireza Mahdizadeh
name: Bhattacharya, Joydeep
name: Biloria, Nimish
name: De Kleijn, Roy
name: Shah- Mohammadi, Fanak
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: Spatial navigation involves dynamic and intricate brain functions, fundamentally required to locate oneself in space, which is vital for any human’s survival in their daily life. Sensorimotor abilities are quintessential for spatial navigation wherein subjects associate external sensory stimuli with sensori commands. Individuals for instance process external stimiuli such as buildings in the environment and pathways between the buildings and internally create spatial information in their brain and use this information to navigate in the environment (Brunsdon, Nickels, & Coltheart, 2007; Davis, 1999; Farah, 1989). Therefore, individuals create a mental image of the environment which they are navigating and with respect to their target, they manipulate their current position (Palermo, Iaria, & Guariglia, 2008). The Chapter identifies the difference in human perception of different spatial environments via analyzing activated parts of the brain [of the participants in the experiment], as they encounter three different types of environments: - Fully-designed environment - Semi-designed environments - Abstract-environment The aim of the experiment was to prove that human perception is different in abstract environments as comparison to fully designed and semi designed environments. Since an abstract environment, has multiple degrees of freedom as compared to the physical world and is thus unlike a fully-designed or a semi-designed environment, the difference in perception of these kinds of environments can be related to creativity and divergent thinking. The experiment was conducted at The Goldsmiths University, London in collaboration with the Faculty of Psychology, under the supervision of Professor Joydeep Bhattacharya. The findings have been published in the fifth journal paper “Navigating abstract virtual environment: an eeg study”. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 1-10, Springer publisher, New York, USA
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 7 (2017): Enhancing [Spatial] Creativity
Sample UVE
Creators: name: Hakak, Alireza Mahdizadeh
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: By applying virtual environments in design processes, architects can expect a variety of solutions, as compared to conventional methods despite the problems with visual perception or mental workload or frequency of iteration between creation and modification (Schnabel & Kvan, 2003). Designers use different tools to communicate and express their thoughts. Although some architects visualize their design decisions through large-scale models, modelling is always limited by the overall dimensions, scale, resource constraints and material restrictions. To overcome these constraints, architects implement virtual environments (Bertol & Foell, 1997). Although virtual environments can be easily found everywhere, immersive virtual environments (IVE) are typically found in research-laboratories or universities. Recent progression in technology provided the ground for IVEs to be implemented in the consumer electronics sector such as the gaming industry (Leach, 2002). The story is the same in the discipline of architecture and opportunities for applying VEs in architectural design are still developing (Stuart, 2001). VEs are employed successfully to study, communicate, collaborate, and present architectural designs but are rarely used for the actual act of creation and form-finding in the field of architecture (Maze, 2002). In this chapter another application of the IVEs is proposed: to create an immersive UVE. This application is not developed for the purpose of visualization or form finding, but specifically for enhancing creativity.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 7 (2017): Enhancing [Spatial] Creativity
Introduction
Creators: name: Hakak, Alireza Mahdizadeh
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: Creative potential of human spearheads their civilization. In fact, progress in every sphere of our lives crucially depends on our creativity. Emphasizing the role of creativity in design even more than other disciplines pushes one to explore understanding of creativity as a key role player in Architecture. Furthermore, by identifying the basic principles of our ingenuity/creativity, researchers might be able to enhance these abilities in the future. But how can we define creativity? Though creativity is the hallmark of human cognition, and therefore a topic of enormous scientific importance, yet not a single definition of creativity exists that is universally accepted by creativity researchers, and the scenario hasn’t changed much in the last fifty years. Nevertheless, any creative output (be it an idea, product, or performance) should have, at least, three characteristics: novelty (it is original), usefulness (it is functional and adaptive), and surprising (it is non-obvious, therefore eliciting an aesthetical or affective response). Many architects confess that, very gradually and unconsciously they tend to inherit and hold on to conventional design approaches, because slowly confinements in construction and conventional stereotypes impose on them, dominate them and prevent them to think innovatively. Now, it is seemingly logical that if you get a chance to see and explore some innovative notions in virtual environments, devoid of any physical limitation, then it will lead to conceptual expansion, since diverse pictures/ inspirations shall be added to pre-conceived design ideas. This will help designers to expand their conceptual boundaries and thus eventually help them to enhance their creativity. Being in varied or miscellaneous environments can help train individuals to encode information in multiple ways, building a myriad of associations between diverse concepts.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 7 (2017): Enhancing [Spatial] Creativity
Literature Review
Creators: name: Hakak, Alireza Mahdizadeh
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: A pivotal target of this thesis is ‘how to enhance creativity’. This chapter reviews effective parameters correlated with creativity in architectural design. The Chapter starts with the definition of creativity and investigates where creative ideas come from. Further on, it also elaborates upon types of creativity and touches upon the relationship between tolerance of ambiguity and creativity. To narrow down the widespread topic of creativity and focus on creativity in architecture, the research ignores aspects of creativity which focus on personality and behavior of creative people, their mood, their state and their temper, intelligence vs. creativity, motivation and so forth. Instead, the research focuses on cognitive aspects such as thinking patterns, conceptual blending, idea expansion and tolerance of ambiguity. These aspects are elaborated in the first journal article: “Creativity in architecture -A review on effective parameters correlated with creativity in architectural design” in the Journal of civil engineering and architecture, ISSN 1934-7359, USA, Nov. 2014, Volume 8, No. 11 (Serial No. 84), pp. 1371-1379.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 7 (2017): Enhancing [Spatial] Creativity
Quantifying the UV continuum slopes of galaxies to z~10 using deep Hubble and Spitzer/IRAC observations
Creators: name: Wilkins, Stephen M.
name: Bouwens, Rychard J.
name: Oesch, Pascal A.
name: Labbe, Ivo
name: Sargent, Mark
name: Caruana, Joseph
name: Wardlow, Julie
name: Clay, Scott
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of the UV-continuum slopes provide valuable information on the physical properties of galaxies forming in the early universe, probing the dust reddening, age, metal content, and even the escape fraction. While constraints on these slopes generally become more challenging at higher redshifts as the UV continuum shifts out of the Hubble Space Telescope bands (particularly at z>7), such a characterisation actually becomes abruptly easier for galaxies in the redshift window z=9.5-10.5 due to the Spitzer/IRAC 3.6um-band probing the rest-UV continuum and the long wavelength baseline between this Spitzer band and the Hubble H-band. Higher S/N constraints on the UV slope are possible at z~10 than at z=8. Here we take advantage of this opportunity and five recently discovered bright z=9.5-10.5 galaxies to present the first measurements of the mean slope for a multi-object sample of galaxy candidates at z~10. We find the measured observed slopes of these candidates are $-2.1\pm0.3\pm0.2$ (random and systematic), only slightly bluer than the measured slopes at 3.5
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, accepted in MNRAS
Transcriptome of Myzus persicae in response to fungal infection
Creators: name: 刘苏(Su Liu)
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Transcriptome or Gene expression
Monoisolate
Agricultural

description: This study aims to identify differentially expressed genes in the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae, in response to entomopathogenic fungus Lecanicillium dimorphum.
2D vs. 3D
Creators: name: Hakak, Alireza Mahdizadeh
name: Biloria, Nimish
name: Dabbagh, Amirmasoud
name: Venhari, Armaghan Ahmadi
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: One of the main targets of this research is to find methods and tools for enhancing creativity. This chapter compares the results of an experiment focusing on the starting phase of a design process from two different dimensions: analogue 2D vs. digital 3D. The experiment involves providing the same design task to a group of students using two different starting points: first, with a lower dimension of analogue 2D (pen and paper) and the next time with a higher dimension using 3D software. Students, in their last semester of Bachelor’s, who were quite familiar with architecture and design were used as test subjects. A group of architecture experts were assigned as jurors, who subjectively judged whether the creative performance of the students had been enhanced after experimenting with the higher dimension 3d environment. This part of the research is elaborated in the second journal article “Thinking Out of the Box” from Out of the Box! Increasing the Dimension of Starting Point, Case study: Architecture students”, Scientific research publishing, 2016
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 7 (2017): Enhancing [Spatial] Creativity
Implementing UVEs
Creators: name: Hakak, Alireza Mahdizadeh
name: Biloria, Nimish
name: Rahimi, Mozhgan Raouf
Publisher: name: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment
Year: 2018

description: This chapter introduces unconventional virtual environments (UVEs) in the context of this research. The characteristics, types and parameters of UVEs are defined. Moreover, the role of experience and its efficacy on idea expansion and divergent thinking are also discussed in this Chapter. The brain possesses existing knowledge of architectural space, styles and physical world. By exposure to UVE, previously unknown data feed can be added to this existing knowledgebase. The brain tries to digest this new feed by connecting them to the previous/existing knowledge of space. It is hypothesized that the challenge of the brain to digest new feeds, indirectly stimulate creativity. To prove this hypothesis, more research experiments were designed. These, are discussed in the following chapters. After examining the hypothesis, a possible implementation of UVEs within architectural pedagogy is also discussed. It is also suggested to provide workshops for developing UVEs and let students navigate and interact with them during their education in order to expand their inventory of experiences. The more they can expand their experiences, the more combination of ideas is made possible, which, will indirectly influence their creativity. Respective research findings have been published in the third journal article: “Implementing unconventional virtual environments for enhancing creativity in Architecture pedagogy”, IGI Global Publisher, Volume 3, Issue 4, 2012, pp. 41-52.
description: A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, No. 7 (2017): Enhancing [Spatial] Creativity
Dissemination of contextualized statistical information: achieving interoperability between DDI-CDI and NGSI-LD
Creators: name: Cotton, Franck
name: Gregory, Arofan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: INTERSTAT, a project funded under the European Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) initiative [1], aims at developing an open framework allowing the interoperability between national statistical portals and the European Data portal in order to build cross-border data services.

 One way to reach this interoperability is to allow statistical open data to be made available through a key building block of the CEF infrastructure known as the Context Broker [2]. This would allow to disseminate statistical data in a way that can be contextualized in time and space, interoperable with other sources, and available via simple and standard web services for consumption on various platforms.

 The core specification for the Context Broker is NGSI-LD [3], an ETSI [4] standard for context information (IoT, Smart Cities, etc.) which combines an information model and an API. To disseminate statistical information through the Context Broker, it is necessary to map statistical information models to NGSI-LD, in particular the DDI Cross-domain integration model and other foundational information models used in the statistical community.

 INTERSTAT is working at building this cross-standard data model and a software implementation of this bridge capability. The project includes three concrete pilots that will allow to experiment and validate the results of this activity. A recorded version of this talk can be found here: https://youtu.be/YKk-x-Yl3ZI
 References:

 [1] [Connecting Europe Facility](https://ec.europa.eu/inea/en/connecting-europe-facility).
 [2] [CEF Context Broker](https://ec.europa.eu/cefdigital/wiki/display/CEFDIGITAL/Context+Broker).
 [3] [NGSI-LD API](https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/CIM/001_099/009/01.04.02_60/gs_CIM009v010402p.pdf).
 [4] [European Telecommunications Standards Institute](https://www.etsi.org/)