cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Kunzea oil : investigation of composition, bioactivity and therapeitic potential
Creators: name: Thomas, J
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: For thousands of years natural products have had a prominent role in treating ailments. Among the plant-derived products used as medicinal agents, essential oils have been widely appreciated for their use as antimicrobial agents. Myrtaceous essential oils have also attracted industrial interest primarily due to their antimicrobial properties. Tea tree oil is the prominent contender. Kunzea oil is a myrtaceous essential oil obtained from the shrub Kunzea ambigua (Smith) Druce 1917. K. ambigua, genus Kunzea, family Myrtaceae, is endemic to northeast Tasmania as well as the Furneaux Islands and eastern coastal regions of Victoria and southern New South Wales. Kunzea oil has been listed as a therapeutic substance by the Therapeutic Goods Administration in Australia for topical application for the treatment of various dermatological ailments (AUSTL 72143; 1996). Kunzea oil is currently used in aromatherapy, as a topical antiseptic and for the treatment of various bacterial-fungal skin infections, eczema and psoriasis in humans and pastern dermatitis in horses. The initial objective of the study was to examine the chemical composition, antimicrobial activity and the insect repellency potential of kunzea oil. The second phase of the study investigated the potential usefulness of kunzea oil for the treatment of onychomycosis and efficacy of formulations containing kunzea oil for the treatment of pastern dermatitis in horses, in randomised controlled trials. Investigation on the chemical composition of kunzea oils demonstrated differences between oils from different plants (Kunzea spp.) analysed in this study. The results from the repellency trial indicated that K. ambigua essential oil offers protection from biting mosquitoes similar to that afforded by citronella oil. Kunzea oil-based formulations may be suitable for use in areas of low mosquito activity by people who wish to avoid the use of synthetic repellents. Kunzea oil appears to possess potentially useful in vitro antimicrobial activity with some fractions having higher activity. However, more work is required to further establish the optimum antimicrobial potential of kunzea oil. Two of the randomised clinical trials demonstrated the potential clinical usefulness of kunzea oil based topical formulations to treat pastern dermatitis in horses and pedal fungal infections in humans. Results of the pilot in vivo investigations open several avenues for further work in the form of in vitro bioassays and randomised, controlled trials for the development of topical formulations as an addition to the current battery of topical modalities for the management of cutaneous infections in humans and animals.
GSscraper: an R package for scraping search results from Google Scholar. Presentation at ESMARConf2021
Creators: name: Haddaway, Neal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This presentation introduces the GSscraper package, which contains a suite of functions to scrape search results from Google Scholar by using a function that pauses before downloading each page of results to avoid IP blocking. It then scrapes the locally saved files for citation relevant information. These functions help to radically improve transparency in (particularly grey) literature searching, and to support integration of GS search results with other citations in the screening process of a review. In particular, GSscraper allows DOIs to be scraped from the hyperlinks in the search results, facilitating deduplication and crossreferencing with existing citations. Challenges remain in avoiding blocking from GS's bot detection, but options to minimise this risk exist and are in development.
Teaching about sexual violence in digital learning environments
Creators: name: Keene, Samantha
name: Jordan, jan
Publisher: name: Open Access Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 169999 Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The use of local and nationwide lockdowns has been a necessary public health measure in the battle against the spread of COVID-19. Lockdowns have affected the higher education landscape by requiring university staff to shift their face-to-face teaching to either fully online, or blended, delivery modes. This shift to online delivery presents a pedagogical challenge for teachers of sensitive topics, such as sexual violence. Teaching about sexual violence safely requires a careful, considered and trauma-informed approach, usually established through building trust and rapport with students in the classroom. Building trust and rapport in the online environment, however, requires a redevelopment of traditional teaching approaches to ensure student safety. This reflexive commentary provides an overview of our experience when required to quickly teach an undergraduate criminology course about sexual violence in an online environment, brought about by a sudden lockdown due to COVID-19. We discuss the strategies and techniques we employed to safeguard and protect students completing our course in an online environment. These strategies may be of benefit to other university staff who are contemplating teaching sensitive topics online.
Control of development by Phytochrome in the garden pea (Pisum sativum L.)
Creators: name: Weller, James
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The phytochrome family is a well-known and important group of biliprotein photoreceptors which mediate effects of light on plant development. This thesis comprises an investigation of the physiological roles of different forms of phytochrome in the garden pea (Piswn sativwn L.). The presented work focuses on the isolation and subsequent physiological characterization of various phytochrome-deficient mutants of pea, including mutants deficient in phytochrome A, phytochrome B and phytochrome chromophore synthesis. Ethylmethanesulfonate mutagenesis was employed to induce muta tion in the pea cul tivar Torsdag. M2 seedlings were screened under red (R) or far-red light (FR) conditions to identify potential phytochrome-deficient mutants. All candidate mutants were back-crossed to the parental line to establish the nature of the genetic control of the mutant phenotypes, and complementation testing was performed between mutant lines showing similar alterations to spectral sensitivity. Four distinct loci were defined by mutants isolated in these screens, corresponding to the previously described LV locus and three novel loci designated FUN1, PCDl and PCD2. LV and FUN1 were mapped to linkage groups VI and II, respectively. Apoprotein-deficient mutants. Mutant lv plants are deficient in a phyB apoprotein and show reduced responses to R, while funl mutants are deficient in phytochrome A apoprotein and are unresponsive to FR. Physiological studies suggest that phyB controls seedling phytochrome responses in the LFR mode, whereas phyA controls responses in the VLFR and HIR modes. Double mutants lacking both phyA and phyB reveal (a) that phyA is the only phytochrome controlling responses to continuous FR (b) that both phyA and phyB are required for normal responses to continuous R, and (c) neither phyA nor phyB play a substantial role in inhibition of stem elongation by blue light. Examination of mature plant photoresponses revealed a continuing role for both phyA and phyB in the maintenance of full de-etiolation, and an important role for phyA in photoperiod detection and flower induction. Chromophor e-de ficient mutants. Mutant pcd1 and pcd2 plants show a reduction in both phyA- and phyB-mediated responses at the seedling stage and a severe depletion of spectrally active phytochrome, consistent with deficiency in the common tetrapyrrole chromophore, phytochromobilin (Pq>B). In vitro assembly studies, in vivo feeding of Pq>B precursors, and HPLC-based assay of heme and biliverdin (BV) IXa metabolism in isolated plastids revealed the pcd1 and pcd2 mutants to be deficient in the conversion of heme to BV IXa and BV IXa to Pq>B, respectively.
Biomimetic surfaces inspired by cabbage leaves for Escherichia coli biofilm prevention in the food industry
Creators: name: Mergulhão, Filipe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: food industry; biomimetic surfaces

description: Food contact surfaces are usually colonized by microorganisms, even following cleaning and disinfection. They can grow as biofilms, which are contamination sources of finished products, reducing their shelf life and causing foodborne diseases. One way to reduce fouling is to design naturally cleaning surfaces based on biomimetic designs. Four self-cleaning leaves (Tenderheart cabbage, Cauliflower, White cabbage, and Leek) were analysed for their surface properties along with their biomimetic replicates. The leaves and artificial replicates were subjected to retention assays using Escherichia coli as a model organism. All the surfaces were non-wettable (water contact angles higher than 100 °), with the biomimetic Tenderheart cabbage demonstrating the most non-wettable surface. However, when the hydrophobicity of the surfaces was determined, the White cabbage was demonstrated to be the most hydrophobic surface (  ≈ - 88 mJ m-2). The natural White cabbage also presented the lowest roughness values (  = 3.5 µm), although the corresponding replica was the roughest of the fabricated surfaces (  = 5.3 µm). The Leek leaves retained more E. coli cells than the other cabbages and it was found that surface hydrophobicity was not a controlling factor in the bacterial retention. The biomimetic surfaces were more efficient at avoiding bacterial retention than natural leaves, indicating that the nano-scale topography associated with the natural leaves is not essential for its antifouling performance in the tested environment. A reduction in bacterial retention of about 1 log was obtained with most of the surfaces produced, validating the idea that biomimetic surfaces inspired by self-cleaning leaves may have some potential for the development of industrial antifouling surfaces.
The nature of p-modes and granulation in HD 49933 observed by CoRoT
Creators: name: Kallinger, T.
name: Gruberbauer, M.
name: Guenther, D. B.
name: Fossati, L.
name: Weiss, W. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: Recent observations of HD49933 by the space-photometric mission CoRoT provide photometric evidence of solar type oscillations in a star other than our Sun. The first published reduction, analysis, and interpretation of the CoRoT data yielded a spectrum of p-modes with l = 0, 1, and 2. Aims: We present our own analysis of the CoRoT data in an attempt to compare the detected pulsation modes with eigenfrequencies of models that are consistent with the observed luminosity and surface temperature. Methods: We used the Gruberbauer et al. frequency set derived based on a more conservative Bayesian analysis with ignorance priors and fit models from a dense grid of model spectra. We also introduce a Bayesian approach to searching and quantifying the best model fits to the observed oscillation spectra. Results: We identify 26 frequencies as radial and dipolar modes. Our best fitting model has solar composition and coincides within the error box with the spectroscopically determined position of HD49933 in the H-R diagram. We also show that lower-than-solar Z models have a lower probability of matching the observations than the solar metallicity models. To quantify the effect of the deficiencies in modeling the stellar surface layers in our analysis, we compare adiabatic and nonadiabatic model fits and find that the latter reproduces the observed frequencies better.
description: accepted to be published in A&A, 9 pages, 5 figures
Now more than ever - Afghans in Pakistan need more mobility and durable solutions to stay
Creators: name: Isikozlu, Elvan
name: Mielke, Katja
name: Javed, Muhammad Mudassar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: protracted displacement
migration governance
connectivity
(social) mobility
immobility
refugee regime
translocal lives
social networks
agency
social class
local integration
return
repatriation
durable solution
Pakistan
Afghanistan

description: The Taliban’s recent seizure of Kabul and overall control of the country has once again led many Afghans to flee their country. With more than 2.67 million Afghans registered as refugees worldwide (as of 2020), and possibly more to come, Afghans are the second-largest refugee population after Syrians. Their displacement began more than 40 years ago, many of whom have taken refuge in Pakistan, which has 1.4 million Afghans registered with UNHCR as refugees (UNHCR, 2020) and more than 800,000 registered with the government of Pakistan. Close to one million Afghans remain undocumented in Pakistan. Based on substantive empirical research with Afghan refugees and experts in Pakistan (see TRAFIG working paper 7), the authors argue that ending the protracted displacement of Afghans in Pakistan requires a change in Pakistani policies. The Pakistani Government should issue a national refugee law that provides future certainty for registered Afghans, or transform Pakistan's current protection system into a generous visa regulation system for Afghans Whichever course of action is taken, the following outcomes are crucial: Afghans with protection needs should have the option to undergo UNHCR-administered Refugee Status Determination (RSD) procedures and be able to apply for asylum in Pakistan. All Afghans should have the right to mobility, not only throughout Pakistan but also across the border to keep up relationships in Afghanistan and beyond. Afghans residing in Pakistan for more than 10 years and those who were born in Pakistan to Afghan parents should be eligible for Pakistani citizenship.
description: TRAFIG Practice Note No. 7
The stellar population and complex structure of the bright-rimmed cloud IC 1396N
Creators: name: Beltran, M. T.
name: Massi, F.
name: Lopez, R.
name: Girart, J. M.
name: Estalella, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. IC 1396N is a bright-rimmed cloud associated with an intermediate-mass star-forming region, where a number of Herbig-Haro objects, H2 jet-like features, CO molecular outflows, and millimeter compact sources have been observed. Aims. To study in detail the complex structure of the IC 1396N core and the molecular outflows detected in the region and to reveal the presence of additional YSOs inside this globule. Methods. We carried out a deep survey of the IC 1396N region in the J, H, K' broadband filters and deep high-angular resolution observations in the H2 narrowband filter with NICS at the TNG telescope. The completeness limits in the 2MASS standard are Ks~17.5, H~18.5 and J~19.5. Results. A total of 736 sources have been detected in all three bands within the area where the JHK' images overlap. There are 128 sources detected only in HK', 67 detected only in K', and 79 detected only in H. We found only few objects exhibiting a Near-Infrared excess and no clear signs of clustering of sources towards the southern rim. In case of triggered star formation in the southern rim of the globule, this could be very recent, because it is not evidenced through Near-Infrared imaging alone. The H2 emission is complex and knotty and shows a large number of molecular hydrogen features spread over the region, testifying a recent star-formation activity throughout the whole globule. This emission is resolved into several chains or groups of knots that sometimes show a jet-like morphology. The shocked cloudlet model scenario previously proposed to explain the V-shaped morphology of the CO molecular outflow powered by the intermediate-mass YSO BIMA 2 seems to be confirmed by the presence of H2 emission at the position of the deflecting western clump. New possible flows have been discovered in the globule,
description: Comments: 19 pages, 5 tables, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
Composition of cosmic rays accelerated in active galactic nuclei
Creators: name: Berezhko, E. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The composition of the overall spectrum of cosmic rays (CRs) is studied under the assumption that ultra high energy CRs above the energy 10^{17} eV are produced at the shock created by the expanding cocoons around active galactic nuclei (AGNs). It is shown that the expected CR composition is characterised by two peaks in the energy dependence of the mean CR atomic number . The first one at the energy ε\approx 10^{17} eV corresponds to the very end of the Galactic CR component, produced in supernova remnants (SNRs). It is followed by a sharp decrease of within the energy interval from 10^{17} to 10^{18} eV. This is a signature of the transition from Galactic to extragalactic CRs. The second peak, with \approx 2, at energy ε\approx 10^{19} eV, expected at the beginning of the GZK cutoff, is the signature of the CR production by the nonrelativistic cocoon shocks. The calculated CR composition is consistent with the existing data. The alternative scenario, which suggests reacceleration increasing the energy of CRs produced in SNRs by a factor of 30, is also examined.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Nanomagnetism of Magnetoelectric Granular Thin-Film Antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Appel, Patrick
name: Shields, Brendan J.
name: Kosub, Tobias
name: Hedrich, Natascha
name: Hübner, René
name: Faßbender, Jürgen
name: Makarov, Denys
name: Maletinsky, Patrick
Publisher: name: Washington, DC : ACS Publ.
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Antiferromagnets
subject: Hall magnetometry
subject: intergranular exchange energy
subject: magnetoelectrics
subject: nitrogen vacancy magnetometry
subject: surface magnetization
subject: 540
subject: 660

description: Antiferromagnets have recently emerged as attractive platforms for spintronics applications, offering fundamentally new functionalities compared with their ferromagnetic counterparts. Whereas nanoscale thin-film materials are key to the development of future antiferromagnetic spintronic technologies, existing experimental tools tend to suffer from low resolution or expensive and complex equipment requirements. We offer a simple, high-resolution alternative by addressing the ubiquitous surface magnetization of magnetoelectric antiferromagnets in a granular thin-film sample on the nanoscale using single-spin magnetometry in combination with spin-sensitive transport experiments. Specifically, we quantitatively image the evolution of individual nanoscale antiferromagnetic domains in 200 nm thin films of Cr 2 O 3 in real space and across the paramagnet-to-antiferromagnet phase transition, finding an average domain size of 230 nm, several times larger than the average grain size in the film. These experiments allow us to discern key properties of the Cr 2 O 3 thin film, including the boundary magnetic moment density, the variation of critical temperature throughout the film, the mechanism of domain formation, and the strength of exchange coupling between individual grains comprising the film. Our work offers novel insights into the magnetic ordering mechanism of Cr 2 O 3 and firmly establishes single-spin magnetometry as a versatile and widely applicable tool for addressing antiferromagnetic thin films on the nanoscale. © 2019 American Chemical Society.
A microstructured fiber source of photon pairs at widely separated wavelengths
Creators: name: Slater, Joshua A.
name: Corbeil, Jean-Simon
name: Virally, Stephane
name: Bussieres, Felix
name: Kudlinski, Alexandre
name: Bouwmans, Geraud
name: Lacroix, Suzanne
name: Godbout, Nicolas
name: Tittel, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a source of photon pairs with widely separated wavelengths, 810 nm and 1548 nm, generated through spontaneous four-wave mixing in a microstructured fiber. The second-order auto-correlation function g^{(2)}(0) was measured to confirm the non-classical nature of a heralded single photon source constructed from the fiber. The microstructured fiber presented herein has the interesting property of generating photon pairs with wavelengths suitable for a quantum repeater able to link free-space channels with fiber channels, as well as for a high quality telecommunication wavelength heralded single photon source. It also has the advantage of straightforward coupling into optical fiber. These reasons make this photon pair source particularly interesting for long distance quantum communication.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures. Published version
title: Zuckerman Biscayne Bay Dock Seawall
title: Endangered Species Act - Section 7 Consultation Biological Opinion Dock Construction and Shoreline Stabilization, Miami-Dade County, Florida
title: Rubinson Bay Dr Dock Seawall Riprap
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Southeast Region
Year: 2021

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; SERO-2021-01325; SERO-2021-01327
Producing interactive flow diagrams for systematic reviews using the PRISMA2020 package. Presentation at ESMARConf2021
Creators: name: Haddaway, Neal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Systematic review flow charts have great potential as a tool for communication and transparency when used not only as static graphics, but also as interactive ‘site maps’ for reviews. This package makes use of the DiagrammeR R package to develop a customisable flowchart that conforms to PRISMA2020 standards. It allows the user to specify whether previous and other study arms should be included, and allows interactivity to be embedded through the use of mouseover tooltips and hyperlinks on box clicks.The package has the following capabilities: 1) to allow the user to produce systematic review flow charts that conform to the latest update of the PRISMA statement (Page et al. 2020); 2) to adapt this code and publish a free-to-use, web-based tool (a Shiny App) for producing publication-quality flow chart figures without any necessary prior coding experience; 3) to allow users to produce interactive versions of the flow charts that include hyperlinks to specific web pages, files or document sections. This presentation will introduce the R package and ShinyApp and discuss the benefits that such an easily usable tool brings, along with the use of interactivity in such visualisations.
Additional file 1: Table S1. of Role of a common variant of Fat Mass and Obesity associated (FTO) gene in obesity and coronary artery disease in subjects from Punjab, Pakistan: a case control study
Creators: name: Shahid, Saleem
name: Shabana
name: Rehman, Abdul
name: Hasnain, Shahida
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Primers and Probes for TaqMan Assay. (DOCX 10 kb)
Entropic force and entanglement system
Creators: name: Myung, Yun Soo
name: Kim, Yong-Wan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce the isothermal cavity, static holographic screen, and accelerating surface as holographic screen to study the entropic force in the presence of the Schwarzschild black hole. These may merge to provide a consistent holographic screen to define the entropic force on the stretched horizon near the event horizon. Considering the similarity between the stretched horizon of black hole and the entanglement system, we may define the entropic force in the entanglement system without referring the source mass.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in PRD
Dynamics of Fluid Vesicles in Flow through Structured Microchannels
Creators: name: Noguchi, Hiroshi
name: Gompper, Gerhard
name: Schmid, Lothar
name: Wixforth, Achim
name: Franke, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of fluid vesicles is studied under flow in microchannels, in which the width varies periodically along the channel. Three types of flow instabilities of prolate vesicles are found. For small quasi-spherical vesicles -- compared to the average channel width -- perturbation theory predicts a transition from a state with orientational oscillations of a fixed prolate shape to a state with shape oscillations of symmetrical ellipsoidal or bullet-like shapes with increasing flow velocity. Experimentally, such orientational oscillations are observed during the slow migration of a vesicle towards the centerline of the channel. For larger vesicles, mesoscale hydrodynamics simulations and experiments show similar symmetric shape oscillation at reduced volumes $V^* \gtrsim 0.9$. However, for non-spherical vesicles with $V^* \lesssim 0.9$, shapes are found with two symmetric or a single asymmetric tail.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
Soft Inkjet Circuits: Rapid Multi-Material Fabrication of Soft Circuits using a Commodity Inkjet Printer
Creators: name: Khan, Arshad
name: Roo, Joan Sol
name: Kraus, Tobias
name: Steimle, Jürgen
Publisher: name: New York City : Association for Computing Machinery
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fabrication
subject: printed electronics
subject: conductive inkjet printing
subject: circuits
subject: new materials
subject: ubiquitous and wearable computing
subject: 004

description: Despite the increasing popularity of soft interactive devices, their fabrication remains complex and time consuming. We contribute a process for rapid do-it-yourself fabrication of soft circuits using a conventional desktop inkjet printer. It supports inkjet printing of circuits that are stretchable, ultrathin, high resolution, and integrated with a wide variety of materials used for prototyping. We introduce multi-ink functional printing on a desktop printer for realizing multi-material devices, including conductive and isolating inks. We further present DIY techniques to enhance compatibility between inks and substrates and the circuits' elasticity. This enables circuits on a wide set of materials including temporary tattoo paper, textiles, and thermoplastic. Four application cases demonstrate versatile uses for realizing stretchable devices, e-textiles, body-based and re-shapeable interfaces.
A Search for Planets with SALT
Creators: name: Adamów, Monika
name: Niedzielski, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As the SALT High Resolution Spectrograph completion is nearing we plan to extend the Pennsylvania-Torun Planets Search (PTPS) with HET to the southern hemisphere. Due to overlap of the skies available for both HET and SALT in the declination range (+10, -10) deg some cooperation and immediate follow up is possible. Here we present, as an example, a $\sim$ 1000 star sample of evolved stars for the future SALT Planet Search.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
Open Synthesis and R. Presented at ESMARConf2021
Creators: name: Haddaway, Neal
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This presentation will introduce the concept of Open Synthesis (the application of Open Science principles to evidence synthesis), ongoing work by the evidence synthesis community to develop definitions and operationalise the concept, and how R facilitates Open Synthesis practices.
Sustained yield in Tasmanian forest management: An examination of the conflicts between sustained yield management and the provision of non-wood values
Creators: name: Piller, GJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The traditional principles of sustained yield have long been relied upon in the planning of forestry management. Along with the more recently introduced concept of multiple-use , sustained yield remains the catchcry of forest managers. The principles of sustained yield concentrate on planning the extent and timing of harvesting for wood production objectives. However, in the transition from forestry management to forest management, these principles, with their heavy emphasis on wood production objectives, have been at variance with the multiple use concept in a number of ways. This study attempts to document these areas of conflict for forest management in Tasmania . Sustained yield management in Tasmania is carried out on a regional basis. One of these regions, the Southern Forests, is used as a case study for examining the compatibility between the application of sustained yield and multiple use concepts. The techniques of sustained yield management used in the Southern Forests are documented with particular attention being paid to the assumptions made in the planning of management operations. These assumptions are then analysed in terms of their potential effect on management's ability to incorporate non-wood objectives in its planning. The study concludes that while strong reliance on the traditional principles of sustained yield is maintained, non-wood values will only get partial consideration in forest management planning. This consideration is usually given where there is only minimal interference with wood production objectives. A change in the present use of sustained yield estimates and a shift in the emphasis of data collection are suggested as preliminary steps in ensuring that non-wood values are given adequate consideration in forest management planning.
Automatic Library Migration Using Large Language Models: First Results
Creators: name: Almeida, Aylton
name: Xavier, Laerte
name: Valente, Marco Tulio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Despite being introduced only a few years ago, Large Language Models (LLMs) are already widely used by developers for code generation. However, their application in automating other Software Engineering activities remains largely unexplored. Thus, in this paper, we report the first results of a study in which we are exploring the use of ChatGPT to support API migration tasks, an important problem that demands manual effort and attention from developers. Specifically, in the paper, we share our initial results involving the use of ChatGPT to migrate a client application to use a newer version of SQLAlchemy, an ORM (Object Relational Mapping) library widely used in Python. We evaluate the use of three types of prompts (Zero-Shot, One-Shot, and Chain Of Thoughts) and show that the best results are achieved by the One-Shot prompt, followed by the Chain Of Thoughts. Particularly, with the One-Shot prompt we were able to successfully migrate all columns of our target application and upgrade its code to use new functionalities enabled by SQLAlchemy's latest version, such as Python's asyncio and typing modules, while preserving the original code behavior.
description: Accepted at 18th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), pages 1-7, 2024
Holographic Superconductor/Insulator Transition at Zero Temperature
Creators: name: Nishioka, Tatsuma
name: Ryu, Shinsei
name: Takayanagi, Tadashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the five-dimensional AdS gravity coupled to a gauge field and a charged scalar field. Under a Scherk-Schwarz compactification, we show that the system undergoes a superconductor/insulator transition at zero temperature in 2+1 dimensions as we change the chemical potential. By taking into account a confinement/deconfinement transition, the phase diagram turns out to have a rich structure. We will observe that it has a similarity with the RVB (resonating valence bond) approach to high-Tc superconductors via an emergent gauge symmetry.
description: 25 pages, 23 figures; A new subsection on a concrete string theory embedding added, references added (v2); Typos corrected, references added (v3)
Steplike intensity threshold behavior of extreme ionization in laser-driven Xe clusters
Creators: name: Döppner, T.
name: Müller, J. P.
name: Przystawik, A.
name: Göde, S.
name: Tiggesbäumker, J.
name: Meiwes-Broer, K. -H.
name: Varin, C.
name: Ramunno, L.
name: Brabec, T.
name: Fennel, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The generation of highly charged Xe$^{q+}$ ions up to {$q=24$} is observed in Xe clusters embedded in helium nanodroplets and exposed to intense femtosecond laser pulses ($λ$=800 nm). Laser intensity resolved measurements show that the high-$q$ ion generation starts at an unexpectedly low threshold intensity of about {10$^{14}$ W/cm$^{2}$}. Above threshold, the Xe ion charge spectrum saturates quickly and changes only weakly for higher laser intensities. Good agreement between these observations and a molecular dynamics analysis allows us to identify the mechanisms responsible for the highly charged ion production and the surprising intensity threshold behavior of the ionization process.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, content revised
Independent Geometrical Control of Spin and Charge Resistances in Curved Spintronics
Creators: name: Das, Kumar Sourav
name: Makarov, Denys
name: Gentile, Paola
name: Cuoco, Mario
name: Van Wees, Bart J.
name: Ortix, Carmine
name: Vera-Marun, Ivan J.
Publisher: name: Washington, DC : ACS Publ.
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: curved nanoarchitectures
subject: electrical and spin resistance
subject: geometrical control
subject: nonlocal spin valves
subject: Spintronics
subject: 540
subject: 660

description: Spintronic devices operating with pure spin currents represent a new paradigm in nanoelectronics, with a higher energy efficiency and lower dissipation as compared to charge currents. This technology, however, will be viable only if the amount of spin current diffusing in a nanochannel can be tuned on demand while guaranteeing electrical compatibility with other device elements, to which it should be integrated in high-density three-dimensional architectures. Here, we address these two crucial milestones and demonstrate that pure spin currents can effectively propagate in metallic nanochannels with a three-dimensional curved geometry. Remarkably, the geometric design of the nanochannels can be used to reach an independent tuning of spin transport and charge transport characteristics. These results laid the foundation for the design of efficient pure spin current-based electronics, which can be integrated in complex three-dimensional architectures. © 2019 American Chemical Society.
title: Sustainability assessment of carpooling and ridesharing in the pandemic era
title: Αξιολόγηση βιωσιμότητας συνεπιβατισμού και συν-μεταφοράς στην εποχή της πανδημίας
Creators: name: Ταραση Δημητρα
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2020

description: Urbanization, climate change, high energy consumption, and the rising travel demand present formidable challenges to the modern world and require not only an integrated urban and transport planning but also a swift towards sustainable mobility. Aiming to limit the use of private vehicle and implement low cost environmentally friendly transport policies, ridesharing (e.g., carpooling, public transit) seems to be a viable solution.
The present study performs a sustainability assessment of carpool systems on university campuses and further a carpooling SWOT analysis. Moreover, in the midst of the pandemic, this thesis examines the COVID-19 impact on urban mobility, sheds light on the subsequent changes on citizens’ travel habits, and creates a typology of indicators.
The findings demonstrated that although a significant share of citizens has already reduced private car use and opt for alternative and sustainable transport modes (walking, cycling, public transport), the under research cities (Chania and Rethymno) remain car-centric. On the other hand, the slight increase in “green transportation” detected during curfew, subsided alongside the lifting of the confinement measures, and car dominance reemerged.
Another crucial parameter concerning urban mobility is safety. The sharp decline in public transit ridership revealed that passengers have safety concerns, and they are skeptical or even reluctant to use the bus. The feeling of insecurity was also prevalent regarding carsharing.
This study highlights that safety is a parameter of utmost importance in the design of sustainable, effective, yet resilient transport systems.
title: Atmospheric Turbulence Avoidance
Creators: name: Federal Aviation Administration
Publisher: name: Federal Aviation Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05q0y0j38
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 1997
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91114
subject: Clear air turbulence
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91113
subject: Atmospheric turbulence
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90596
subject: Aviation safety

description: This Advisory Circular (AC) describes to pilots, aircrew members, dispatchers, and other operations personnel the various types of clear air turbulence (CAT) and some of the weather patterns associated with it. Also included are "Rules of Thumb" for avoiding or minimizing CAT encounters. Appendix 1 provides a sample Atmospheric Hazards Advisory and Avoidance System that air carriers can tailor to their specific needs.
uniforum 34 (2021) Nr. 5
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
name: Justus Liebig University Giessen
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek Gießen
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: ddc:000

description: Wenn der Blick auf globale Zusammenhänge gelenkt wird: Medizinstudierende handeln in Modell-Konferenzen der Vereinten Nationen Resolutionen zu Zukunftsthemen wie Gesundheit, Klimawandel und Migration aus. Was es mit Einsteins Aufzug auf sich hat: Eine Arbeitsgruppe des I. Physikalischen Instituts erforscht das Verhalten von Mikropartikeln in Plasmen. Ein Beitrag über Experimente in Schwerelosigkeit. Wer hinter QVIZ ILLE? steckt: Studierende beweisen, wie zeitgemäß ein Lateinstudium ist, und legen ein professionell gestaltetes Kartenspiel zur römischen Literaturgeschichte vor. Viel Spaß mit dem Quiztett. Wo wissenschaftlicher Austausch gelebt wird: Bei der Ringvorlesung des Präsidenten zum Thema »Wirtschaft neu denken« geht es um die Grenzen von Markt und Wachstum – und damit auch um Gewinner und Verlierer. Wie Medienwandel im Mittelalter funktioniert hat: Ein DFG-Projekt zur Digitalisierung der Handschriften des Fraterherrenstiftes St. Markus in Butzbach steht diesmal im Mittelpunkt unserer »Unersetzlich«-Serie.
Gut microbiome depletion and repetitive mild traumatic brain injury differentially modify bone development in male and female adolescent rats
Creators: name: Wong, KR
name: Sgro, M
name: Yamakawa, GR
name: Li, C
name: McDonald, Stuart
name: Sun, M
name: Shultz, SR
name: Brady, RD
name: Mychasiuk, R
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Dysregulation of the gut microbiome has been shown to disrupt both bone formation and bone resorption in several preclinical and clinical models. However, the role of microbiome in adolescent bone development remains poorly understood. This effect of disrupted bone development may be more pronounced during adolescence, when bone development is vulnerable to environmental stimuli and external insults (e.g., antibiotic treatment and traumatic brain injury), as this is a critical window of development. Therefore, in this study, we sought to investigate the effect of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury (RmTBI) and gut microbiome depletion by antibiotic treatment on femur length and bone density in male and female adolescent Sprague Dawley rats. Rats were randomly assigned to receive standard or antibiotic autoclaved drinking water and to receive sham or RmTBIs injuries. Using micro-computed tomography (μCT), we found sexually dimorphic changes in adolescent bone development in response to microbiome depletion and RmTBI. Specifically, gut microbiome depletion stunted femur growth in males and altered cross sectional bone area (CSA), bone area fraction, and the bone volume of low and mid density bone in the distal metaphyseal region of the femur. Conversely, RmTBI and antibiotic treatment individually disrupted bone growth, bone area fraction, and bone volume of high-density bone within the distal metaphyseal region of the femur in females, but not when combined. Therefore, findings from this study indicate that gut microbiome and RmTBI may alter bone development in a sex-dependent manner during adolescence.
Determinants in the Kronecker product of matrices: The incidence matrix of a complete graph
Creators: name: Hanusa, Christopher R. H.
name: Zaslavsky, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 15A15, 05C50, 15A57

description: We investigate the least common multiple of all subdeterminants, lcmd(A x B), of a Kronecker product of matrices, of which one is an integral matrix A with two columns and the other is the incidence matrix of a complete graph with n vertices. We prove that this quantity is the least common multiple of lcmd(A) to the power n-1 and certain binomial functions of the entries of A.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures; revised and updated version to appear in Linear and Multilinear Algebra, 2010
Exchange kernel $f^h_x(q,ω)$ of electron liquid from the variational principle of McLachlan
Creators: name: Nazarov, Vladimir U.
name: Silkin, Vyacheslav M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By minimizing, in the $L_2$ norm, the difference between the left- and the right-hand sides of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation, the variational principle of McLachlan (McLVP) [A. McLachlan, Molecular Physics {\bf 8}, 39 (1964)] provides a powerful tool for the generation of equations of motion. If the trial wave function is the Slater determinant, McLVP produces a temporally and spatially nonlocal exchange potential [V. U. Nazarov, Phys. Rev. B {\bf 87}, 165125 (2013)]. We study the performance of the corresponding wave-vector and frequency-dependent exchange kernel $f^h_x(q,ω)$ of the homogeneous electron liquid. While the McLVP-based $f^h_x(q,ω)$ lacks correlations by construction, we find that it accurately accounts for exchange, reproducing features in the quantum Monte Carlo data, which the known constraint-based kernels miss. We argue that the complementary use of the McLVP- and the constraint-based exchange-correlation kernels will enhance the performance of the linear response time-dependent density functional theory of the electron liquid.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Some anomalies of mesosphere/lower thermosphere parameters during the recent solar minimum
Creators: name: Jacobi, C.
name: Hoffmann, P.
name: Placke, M.
name: Stober, G.
Publisher: name: Göttingen : Copernicus
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: anomalies
subject: solar
subject: gravity waves
subject: 550

description: The recent solar minimum has been characterized by an anomalous strong decrease of thermospheric density since 2005. Here we analyze anomalies of mesosphere/lower thermosphere parameters possibly connected with this effect. In particular, nighttime mean LF reflection heights measured at Collm, Germany, show a very strong decrease after 2005, indicating a density decrease. This decrease is also visible in mean meteor heights measured with VHF meteor radar at Collm. This density decrease is accompanied by an increase of gravity wave (GW) amplitudes in the upper mesosphere and a decrease in the lower thermosphere. On the decadal scale, GWs are negatively correlated with the background zonal wind, but this correlation is modulated in the course of the solar cycle, indicating the combined effect of GW filtering and density decrease.
Superintegrable Hamiltonian systems with noncompact invariant submanifolds. Kepler system
Creators: name: Sardanashvily, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Mishchenko-Fomenko theorem on superintegrable Hamiltonian systems is generalized to superintegrable Hamiltonian systems with noncompact invariant submanifolds. It is formulated in the case of globally superintegrable Hamiltonian systems which admit global generalized action-angle coordinates. The well known Kepler system falls into two different globally superintegrable systems with compact and noncompact invariant submanifolds.
description: 23 pages
Correlations in multithermostat Brownian systems with Lorentz force
Creators: name: Abdoli, Iman
name: Kalz, Erik
name: Vuijk, Hidde D.
name: Wittmann, René
name: Sommer, Jens-Uwe
name: Brader, Joseph M.
name: Sharma, Abhinav
Publisher: name: [London] : IOP
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Brownian dynamics
subject: diffusion
subject: Lorentz force
subject: multiple thermostats
subject: nonequilibrium systems
subject: 530

description: We study the motion of a Brownian particle subjected to Lorentz force due to an external magnetic field. Each spatial degree of freedom of the particle is coupled to a different thermostat. We show that the magnetic field results in correlation between different velocity components in the stationary state. Integrating the velocity autocorrelation matrix, we obtain the diffusion matrix that enters the Fokker-Planck equation for the probability density. The eigenvectors of the diffusion matrix do not align with the temperature axes. As a consequence the Brownian particle performs spatially correlated diffusion. We further show that in the presence of an isotropic confining potential, an unusual, flux-free steady state emerges which is characterized by a non-Boltzmann density distribution, which can be rotated by reversing the magnetic field. The nontrivial steady state properties of our system result from the Lorentz force induced coupling of the spatial degrees of freedom which cease to exist in equilibrium corresponding to a single-temperature system. © 2020 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.