cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia
Creators: name: Boan, Phillip
name: Evans, Scott
name: Hall, Christine
name: Droser, Mary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: spatial ecology
Ediacara Biota
Australia
Paleontology

description: The spatial distribution of in situ sessile organisms, including those from the fossil record, provides information about life histories, such as possible dispersal and/or settlement mechanisms, and how taxa are interacting with each other and their local environments. At Nilpena Ediacara National Park (NENP), South Australia, the exquisite preservation and excavation of 33 fossiliferous bedding planes from the Ediacara Member of the Rawnsley Quartzite reveals in situ communities of the Ediacara Biota. Here, the spatial distributions of three relatively common taxa, Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus, occurring on excavated surfaces were analyzed using spatial point pattern analysis. Tribrachidium have a variable spatial distribution, implying that settlement or post-settlement conditions/preferences had an effect on populations. Rugoconites display aggregation, possibly related to their reproductive methods in combination with settlement location availability at the time of dispersal and/or settlement. Additionally, post-settlement environmental controls could be affecting Rugoconites on other surfaces, resulting in lower populations and densities. Both Tribrachidium and Rugoconites also commonly occur as individuals on a number of beds constraining possible reproductive strategies and environmental/substrate preferences. The distribution of Obamus is consistent with selective settlement, aggregating near conspecifics and on substrates of mature microbial mat. This dispersal process is the first example of substrate selective dispersal amongst the Ediacara Biota, thus making Obamus similar to numerous modern sessile invertebrates with similar dispersal and settlement strategies.
description: Please see the README document ("README_TribRugoObam.txt") and the accompanying published article: Boan, Evans, Hall, and Droser (in press). Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia Funding provided by: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000104
Award Number: NNG04GJ42GFunding provided by: American Museum of Natural History
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100005835
Award Number: Funding provided by: Geological Society of America
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100005720
Award Number: Graduate Student Geoscience Grant # 13053-21Funding provided by: Paleontological Society
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010841
Award Number:
Hospital-based Healthcare Workers' Experiences of Involvement in Statutory, Perinatal Child Protection Processes – A Scoping Review
Creators: name: Johnsen, Maegan
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social Work
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Medical Education
subject: Mental and Social Health
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Psychological Phenomena and Processes
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Nursing Midwifery
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Interprofessional Education
subject: Aboriginal
subject: assumption of care
subject: baby
subject: child protection
subject: infant
subject: infant removal
subject: moral distress
subject: relational ethics
subject: uplift

description: As the number of infants entering Out of Home Care (OoHC) at birth internationally continues to rise, Hospital Based Healthcare Workers (HBHCWs) in maternity and paediatric settings are increasingly likely to have experiences of involvement in ethically, morally and legally complex child protection processes. This review will aim to identify and synthesise qualitative literature pertaining to the perspectives of HBHCWs with experiences of involvement in child protection processes occurring in the perinatal period.Guided by the PRISMA extension for Scoping Reviews, databases Ovid MEDLINE, CINAHL Plus, PsychINFO, ProQuest, Web of Science (WoS), SCOPUS and Informit will be searched using a multi-stringed approach. Data will be extracted and thematically analysed from sources identified as meeting the review inclusion criteria.
Sharks, blast fishing and shifting baselines: insights from Hass's 1942 Aegean expedition
Creators: name: ZOGARIS, Stamatis
name: DE MADDALENA, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2014

description: In 1942 Hans Hass filmed underwater scenes in the Aegean Sea; here we survey references to sharks from the expedition's film and accompanying book. The expedition documented the responses of sharks and other marine life to illegal blast fishing for the first time. The elasmobranchs in the film and the book have never been identified to species level and no scientific account exists about sharks or other predator responses to blast fishing in Greece's seas. Positive identification is accomplished for two species of sharks (Carcharhinus obscurus and Carcharhinus plumbeus) and a large- bodied ray (Dasyatis centroura) in the film. The most abundant shark depicted in the film, the Dusky Shark Carcharhinus obscurus, is identified in Greece's waters for the first time. Hans Hass's film shows never-before recorded shark behavior; perhaps before the ultimate population crash precipitated by modern over-fishing practices that have widely affected large- bodied elasmobranchs in European seas. It is the authors' opinion that a shifting baseline syndrome has masked the catastrophic impact of elasmbranch over-fishing in the Mediterranean and "anecdotal" documentation such as this early filming expedition may help provide hints to the pre-collapse reference conditions.
Exotic properties and optimal control of quantum heat engine
Creators: name: Ou, Congjie
name: Abe, Sumiyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A quantum heat engine of a specific type is studied. This engine contains a single particle confined in the infinite square well potential with variable width and consists of three processes: the isoenergetic process (which has no classical analogs) as well as the isothermal and adiabatic processes. It is found that the engine possesses exotic properties in its performance. The efficiency takes the maximum value when the expansion ratio of the engine is appropriately set, and, in addition, the lower the temperature is, the higher the maximum efficiency becomes, highlighting aspects of the influence of quantum effects on thermodynamics. A comment is also made on the relevance of this engine to that of Carnot.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Published version
Chest High-Frequency Oscillatory Treatment for Severe Atelectasis in a Patient With Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis:
Creators: name: Cairns, Bruce A.
name: Hwang, James
name: Jones, Samuel W.
name: Short, Kathy A.
name: Boschini, Laura A.
name: Klatt-Cromwell, Cristine
name: Ortiz-Pujols, Shiara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Atelectasis is a significant risk factor for the development of pneumonia, especially in pediatric populations that are more prone to alveolar collapse or those who may have weakened muscular tone. The Metaneb® System is a pneumatic, non-invasive physiotherapy technique that delivers chest high frequency oscillations (CHFO). CHFO has been shown to enhance mucociliary clearance of secretions and help resolve patchy atelectasis. This report describes the case of a 17 year old female who developed significant left sided atelectasis after extubation and was effectively managed with complete resolution of her atelectasis with the Metaneb System, obviating the need for reintubation.
(3857) Arthur Sanders
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Permafrost response to temperature rise in carbon and nutrient cycling: Effects from habitat-specific conditions and factors of warming
Creators: name: Gao, Wenlong
name: Sun, Weimin
name: Xu, Xingliang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Permafrost is warming at a rate of two times faster than the rest of the Earth's surface. However, there is still a lack of a quantitative basis for predicting the functional stability of permafrost ecosystems in carbon (C) and nutrient cycling. We compiled the data of 708 observations from 89 air-warming experiments in the Northern Hemisphere and characterized the general effects of temperature increase on permafrost C exchange and balance, biomass production, microbial biomass, soil nutrients, and vegetation N dynamics via a meta-analysis. Also, an investigation was made on how responses may change with habitat-specific (e.g., plant functional groups and soil moisture status) conditions and warming variables (e.g., warming phases, levels, and timing). Warming downregulated net ecosystem C exchange generally via stimulating ecosystem respiration (15.6%) more than photosynthesis (6.2%). Vegetation usually responded to warming by investing more the C to the belowground, as belowground biomass increased much more (30.1%) than aboveground biomass (2.9%). Warming had a minor effect on microbial biomass. Warming increased soil ammonium and nitrate concentrations. What's more, a synthesis of 70 observations from 11 herbs and 9 shrubs revealed a 2.5% decline of N in green leaves. Compared to herbs, shrubs demonstrated a stronger response in respiration and had green leaf N declined by a greater extent. Not only in dry conditions did green leaf N decline with warming but also in wet conditions. Warming in non-growing seasons would negatively affect soil water, C uptake, and biomass production during growing seasons. Permafrost C loss and vegetation N decline may increase with warming levels and timing. Overall, our findings suggest that besides a positive C cycling-climate feedback, there will be negative feedback between permafrost nutrient cycling and climate warming.
description: Funding provided by: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Crossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001809
Award Number: 32001209
Unsteady self-sustained detonation waves in flake aluminum dust/air mixtures
Creators: name: Liu, Qingming
name: Huang, Jinxiang
name: Zhang, Yunming
name: Li, Shuzhuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Self-sustained detonation waves in flake aluminum dust/air mixtures have been studied in a tube of diameter 199 mm and length 32.4 m. A pressure sensor array of 32 sensors mounted around certain circumferences of the tube was used to measure the shape of the detonation front in the circumferential direction and pressure histories of the detonation wave. A two-head spin detonation wave front was observed for the aluminum dust/air mixtures, and the cellular structure resulting from the spinning movement of the triple point was analyzed. The variations in velocity and overpressure of the detonation wave with propagation distance in a cell were studied. The interactions of waves in triple-point configurations were analyzed and the flow-field parameters were calculated. Three types of triple-point configuration exist in the wave front of the detonation wave of an aluminum dust/air mixture. Both strong and weak transverse waves exist in the unstable self-sustained detonation wave.
description: 25 pages, 13 figures, 1 table
FEEDING AND SPATIAL-DISTRIBUTION IN 3 GASTROPOD MOLLUSKS - RISSOA-PARVA (DACOSTA), BARLEEIA-UNIFASCIATA (MONTAGU) AND BITTIUM-RETICULATUM (DACOSTA)
Creators: name: Borja, A.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1986

Abstract
Project Management: Διαχείριση έργου από το ερευνητικό στάδιο στην εμπορική αξιοποίηση των αποτελεσμάτων της έρευνας μέσω της ανάπτυξη νεοφυών επιχειρήσεων- τεχνοβλαστών
Creators: name: Γρίβα, Αικατερίνη Ι.
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2025
Subjects: Διαχείριση έργου
Ερευνητικό έργο
Τεχνοβλαστός
Project management
Research project
Spin-off

description: Αντικείμενο της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η μελέτη της χρήσης τεχνικών Διαχείρισης Έργων (Project management) από μία ερευνητική ομάδα του ΑΠΘ κατά τη διάρκεια τoυ σχεδιασμού και υποβολής της ερευνητικής πρότασης, της υλοποίησης του ερευνητικού προγράμματος και κατά την εμπορική αξιοποίηση των αποτελεσμάτων της έρευνάς τους. Στην εργασία γίνεται βιβλιογραφική ανάλυση στις έννοιες του έργου και της διαχείρισης έργου και στη συνέχεια παρουσιάζονται στοιχεία για την έρευνα στο ΑΠΘ, οι ιδιαιτερότητες μιας νεοφυούς επιχείρησης και το οικοσύστημα στη βόρεια Ελλάδα. Στο κύριο μέρος της εργασίας παρουσιάζεται η ανάλυση των case studies με τη χρήση τεχνικών Διαχείρισης Έργου. Η εργασία ολοκληρώνεται με τα συμπεράσματα και τη συζήτηση σχετικά με τα επόμενα βήματά μας.
description: The purpose of this thesis is to examine the use of project management techniques by a research team at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The starting point of this thesis is a literature review on project and project management concepts. Data on the university's research areas, an introduction to entrepreneurship and an overview of the ecosystem in Northern Greece are also presented. The main part of the thesis is the analysis in designing the research proposal, implementing the project and commercializing the research results using project management techniques. Finally, conclusions are drawn and a way forward is discussed.
DNA and Inflammatory Mediators in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid From Children With Acute Inhalational Injuries:
Creators: name: Jones, Samuel W.
name: Abode, Kathleen A.
name: Kocis, Keith C.
name: Harris, Bradford D.
name: Joyner, Benny L.
name: Coverstone, Andrea M.
name: Noah, Terry L.
name: Ortiz-Pujols, Shiara M.
name: Cairns, Bruce A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Assess the feasibility of using serial bronchoalveolar lavage fluids (BALF) to characterize the course of cell damage and inflammation in airways of pediatric patients with acute burn or inhalation injury.
(3859) Christina Sutherland
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Unitary Limit of Two-Nucleon Interactions in Strong Magnetic Fields
Creators: name: Detmold, William
name: Orginos, Kostas
name: Parreno, Assumpta
name: Savage, Martin J.
name: Tiburzi, Brian C.
name: Beane, Silas R.
name: Chang, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-nucleon systems are shown to exhibit large scattering lengths in strong magnetic fields at unphysical quark masses, and the trends toward the physical values indicate that such features may exist in nature. Lattice QCD calculations of the energies of one and two nucleons systems are performed at pion masses of $m_π\sim 450$ and 806 MeV in uniform, time-independent magnetic fields of strength {\bf B}| \sim 10^{19}$-$10^{20}$ Gauss to determine the response of these hadronic systems to large magnetic fields. Fields of this strength may exist inside magnetars and in peripheral relativistic heavy ion collisions, and the unitary behavior at large scattering lengths may have important consequences for these systems.
description: Accepted journal version
Validation of the Intermolecular Disulfide Bond in Caspase-2
Creators: name: Harvest, Carissa K.
name: Amason, Megan E.
name: Lacey, Carolyn A.
name: Li, Lupeng
name: Miao, Edward A.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: Caspases are a family of proteins involved in cell death. Although several caspase members have been well characterized, caspase-2 remains enigmatic. Caspase-2 has been implicated in several phenotypes, but there has been no consensus in the field about its upstream activating signals or its downstream protein targets. In addition, the unique ability of caspase-2 to form a disulfide-bonded dimer has not been studied in depth. Herein, we investigate the disulfide bond in the context of inducible dimerization, showing that disulfide bond formation is dimerization dependent. We also explore and review several stimuli published in the caspase-2 field, test ferroptosis-inducing stimuli, and study in vivo infection models. We hypothesize that the disulfide bond will ultimately prove to be essential for the evolved function of caspase-2. Proving this will require the discovery of cell death phenotypes where caspase-2 is definitively essential.
From Lorentz-Chern-Simons to Massive Gravity in 2+1 Dimensions
Creators: name: del Pino, Simón
name: Giribet, Gaston
name: Toloza, Adolfo
name: Zanelli, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a generalization of Chiral Gravity, which follows from considering a Chern-Simons action for the spin connection with anti-symmetric contorsion. The theory corresponds to Topologically Massive Gravity at the chiral point non-minimally coupled to an additional scalar mode that gathers the torsion degree of freedom. In this setup, the effective cosmological constant (the inverse of the curvature radius of maximally symmetric solutions) is either negative or zero, and it enters as an integration constant associated to the value of the contorsion at infinity. We explain how this is not in conflict with the Zamolodchikov's $c$-theorem holding in the dual boundary theory. In fact, we conjecture that the theory formulated about three-dimensional Anti-de Sitter space is dual to a two-dimensional conformal field theory whose right- and left-moving central charges are given by $c_{R}=24k$ and $c_{L}=0$, respectively, being $k$ the level of the Chern-Simons action. We study the classical theory both at the linear and non-linear level. In particular, we show how Chiral Gravity is included as a special sector. In addition, the theory has other sectors, which we explore; we exhibit analytic exact solutions that are not solutions of Topologically Massive Gravity (and, consequently, neither of General Relativity) and still satisfy Brown-Henneaux asymptotically AdS$_{3}$ boundary conditions.
description: 9 pages
THE GENUS EURYDICE (CRUSTACEA : ISOPODA) IN THE AEGEAN SEA, INCLUDING E. LONGISPINA SP. NOV.
Creators: name: JONES, D.A.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1969

description: Collections from sand beaches and coastal waters of Chios included seven species of Eurydice, of which E. longispina is new to science. A full description of E. czerniavsky is also given, with brief descriptive notes of other little known species and discussions of their systematic positions.
Qualitative sampling revealed that E. czerniavsky and E. pontica were restricted to exposed beaches, whilst E. longispina and E. rotundicauda favoured a more sheltered shore. The genus extended from the intertidal zone to offshore waters with individual species showing characteristically limited ranges according to the depth of water over which they were found, E. pontica being limited to the water’s edge, E. dollfusi extending to depths of 1 or 2 m, E. spinigera from about 1 to 10 m and E.inermis over 10 m. The ecology and geographical distribution of these species is discussed in relation to the work of other authors in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
(3855) John Holmes
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Ontogenetic and temporal changes in the diet of the Chilean silverside Odontesthes regia (Atherinidae) in southern Chile
Creators: name: FIERRO, Pablo
name: BERTRAN, Carlos
name: MARTINEZ, Danixa
name: VALDOVINOS, Claudio
name: VARGAS-CHACOFF, Luis
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2014

description: The Chilean silverside Odontesthes regia (Humboldt, 1821) is a common fish in the littoral of Southern South America mainly observed in estuaries, spawning areas of the species. Information on its diet in these environments is scarce, especially for juveniles. We studied the ontogenetic changes in diet of the Chilean silverside in the estuary of the Río Valdivia (Southern Chile). Three size classes were considered in the analyses according to sexual maturity: small (< 50 mm), medium (50-140 mm) and large (> 140 mm). The analysis of the stomach contents was related to the food offer in the four seasons of the year. The 287 stomachs analysed contained a wide variety of food items, including 35 invertebrate taxa as well as plant debris, unidentified detritus and fish scales. Small-sized individuals fed mostly on zooplankton, particularly on copepods and ostracods; medium-sized fish consumed a combination of benthonic invertebrates and zooplankton while large individuals fed mainly on benthonic crustaceans. Although temporal differences were observed in the diet of the silversides, the onto - genetic organization (small, medium and large sizes) was maintained. Based on the results of different stomach contents for different size classes, O. regia should be classified as a selective omnivorous predator.
(3852) Mary Walker Sutherland
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Réponse des nématodes libres à la qualité des eaux et des sédiments de la lagune de Ghar El Melh (Tunisie) en été 1999
Creators: name: MAHMOUDI, Ezzeddine
name: BEYREM, Hamouda
name: AÏSSA, Patricia
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2002

description: Response of free-living nematodes to the quality of waters and sediments at Ghar El Melh lagoon (Tunisia) during
 summer 1999. The Ghar El Melh lagoon, a stretch of water in the Northern Tunisia, knows since 1994, notably in summer,
 an alarming reduction of its fisheries resources. In order to study the response of free-living nematodes to water and sediment
 quality of this area, ten stations have been sampled. According to this study, the salinity and dissolved oxygen of waters and
 the ammonia contents of sediments were key factors for densities, biomasses and specific diversity of the nematofauna.
The Role of Seizure Disorders in Burn Injury and Outcome in Sub-Saharan Africa:
Creators: name: Varela, Carlos
name: Jonathan, C. Samuel
name: Tyson, Anna F.
name: Cairns, Bruce A.
name: Boschini, Laura P.
name: Charles, Anthony G.
name: Kendig, Claire E.
name: Mjuweni, Stephano
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Patients with epilepsy have higher incidence and severity of burn injury. Few studies describe the association between epilepsy and burns in low-income settings, where epilepsy burden is highest. We compared patients with and without seizure disorder in a burn unit in Lilongwe, Malawi.
(3853) Cockburn Margaret Forrest Bisset
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Comparison of fruit texture and aquaporin gene expression in papaya “Khak Nual” cultivated under varying conditions
Creators: name: Burns, Parichart
name: Saengmanee, Pimpilai
name: Utkhao, Winai
name: Terdwongworakul, Anupun
name: Thaipong, Kriengsak
name: Doung-Ngern, Uthaiwan
name: Siripanich, Jingtar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: The effects of cultivation conditions on the texture of unripe papaya fruit ‘Khak Nual’ were investigated. Fruit from papaya cultivated using raised bed conditions were crisper than those cultivated under open field conditions. Conversely, fruit cultivated under open field conditions were firmer. In all cases, mesocarp cells and intercellular spaces were larger in papaya fruit cultivated in raised beds, reflecting the higher relative humidity (RH) of the cultivation conditions and greater water availability. At harvest, TIP2–1, TIP4–1, SIP1 and PIP1–3 expression was significantly higher in fruit cultivated under raised bed conditions, which correlated with the larger cells of the mesocarp, the RH and the ready availability of water. There also appeared to be a link between aquaporin gene expression and crispness in papaya fruit from both conditions. Expression of TIP2–1 and TIP4–1 correlated with papaya fruit under open field conditions while SIP1 and PIP2–5 correlated with papaya fruit under raised bed conditions. The results clearly demonstrate the effect of cultivation conditions on fruit texture, with water availability being critical in the production of market-preferred crisp fruit with the optimal conditions. These conditions are reflected in the higher expression of the water transport aquaporins which likely control crispness.
Review of Pomponema Cobb (Nematoda: Cyatholaimidae) with description of a new species from China Sea
Creators: name: HUANG, Yong
name: ZHANG, Yan
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2014

description: Species of Pomponema have been reviewed and key for identification of Pomponema species has been provided. At the same time, one new species, Pomponema multisupplementa sp. nov. from the Yellow Sea is described. Pomponema multisupplementa sp. nov. is characterized by spindle body with lateral differentiation of three longitudinal rows of large dots; male head sensilla in the 6 + 6 pattern, four cephalic setae missing; females with four cephalic setae and their head sensilla in the 6 + 10 pattern; spiral amphidial fovea look like oval-shaped; pharynx with a oval posterior bulb; spicules curved with proximal cephalate and distal tapered; gubernaculum plate, hooked anteriorly, arcuate and parallel to spicule, without dorsocaudal apophysis; 72-76 tubular precloacal supplements; tail conical with distal third cylindrical.
title: Entendidos: A Study of Emotional Communication Among Gay Men of Barcelona
Creators: name: Jiminéz Ramírez, José Luis
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2002

description: This thesis offers an analysis and a reconsideration of the emotional needs and emotional-moral experiences of a group of young gay men of Barcelona. It focuses in particular on: (1) their growing up different in the context of their predominantly heterosexual society, (2) their relationship' experiences of intimacy, love and sex and (3) their friendship and socialisation experiences both with other gay and/or straight men. In depth interviews were carried out with a student friendship-group of eight young gay men, using elements of psychoanalytic interviewing, friendship as a relational emotional paradigm and an adapted version of a voice-centred relational method to deal with gay male experience. Findings suggest that: (a) young homosexual men of Barcelona do not necessarily assume the adoption of a gay identity (in the Anglo-Saxon way) as the only way to make sense of their homosexual emotional needs nor do their way of speaking and sharing their emotional experiences assume a linear, straightforward discourse to articulate their emotional needs and homosexual experience; (b) the cultural specificity of emotional development should be fully acknowledged and incorporated into the structure of psychoanalytic practice, instead of assuming clinical competence to deal with gay men by simply framing their experience according to heterosexual assumptions and paradigms on male emotional development, and, (c) that there is needed further sensitivity and awareness of the cultural specificity of male homosexual experiences that incorporates issues of identity, emotional needs, love, intimacy, sexuality and morality within current sociological research on gay experience, instead of reducing gay experience to mere discourse or rational narratives.
Modelling the brightness increase signature due to asteroid collisions
Creators: name: McLoughlin, Ev
name: Fitzsimmons, Alan
name: McLoughlin, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a model to predict the post-collision brightness increase of sub-catastrophic collisions between asteroids and to evaluate the likelihood of a survey detecting these events. It is based on the cratering scaling laws of Holsapple and Housen (2007) and models the ejecta expansion following an impact as occurring in discrete shells each with their own velocity. We estimate the magnitude change between a series of target/impactor pairs, assuming it is given by the increase in reflecting surface area within a photometric aperture due to the resulting ejecta. As expected the photometric signal increases with impactor size, but we find also that the photometric signature decreases rapidly as the target asteroid diameter increases, due to gravitational fallback. We have used the model results to make an estimate of the impactor diameter for the (596) Scheila collision of D=49-65m depending on the impactor taxonomy, which is broadly consistent with previous estimates. We varied both the strength regime (highly porous and sand/cohesive soil) and the taxonomic type (S-, C- and D-type) to examine the effect on the magnitude change, finding that it is significant at early stages but has only a small effect on the overall lifetime of the photometric signal. Combining the results of this model with the collision frequency estimates of Bottke et al. (2005), we find that low-cadence surveys of approximately one visit per lunation will be insensitive to impacts on asteroids with D<20km if relying on photometric detections.
Fruit set is moderately dependent on insect pollinators in strawberry and is limited by the availability of pollen under natural open conditions
Creators: name: Menzel, Christopher Michael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Modern strawberry (Fragaria ×ananassa Duch.) cultivars are hermaphrodite and have fertile flowers, with the anthers releasing viable pollen. Cultivars are self-compatible and do not require cross-pollination. Studies supporting managed or wild insects are based on a few reports and there are problems with the methods used to assess pollination. This review examined the role of pollination in strawberry. The mean (± s.d. or standard deviation) pollinator dependence (PD) for yield (self-pollination versus open- or insect-assisted pollination) was 0.36 ± 0.26 (P < 0.001, N = 52 studies). The yields of plants exposed to supplementary insects were higher than those exposed to pollinators under natural open conditions, with a calculated pollen limitation (PL) of 0.20 ± 0.17 (P < 0.001, N = 20 studies). Fields close to semi-natural habitats, wildflowers, grass or hedges can have more pollinators and a greater diversity of pollinators than fields further away. However, a greater abundance of pollinators does not always lead to higher fruit set. Yield is dependent on insect pollinators (moderate pollinator dependence) and is limited by the availability of pollen under natural open conditions (moderate pollen limitation).
Determinants of Demand for Private Health Insurance in Uganda
Creators: name: Medard, Turyamureba
name: Yawe, Bruno L.
name: Bosco, Oryema John
name: Medard, Turyamureba
name: Yawe, Bruno L.
name: Bosco, Oryema John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: demand
subject: health insurance
subject: logit
subject: Uganda

description: Health insurance coverage in Uganda is still very low, with only five percent of the individuals covered by any form of health insurance. This study examines the factors that influence demand for private health insurance in Uganda using the 2016 Uganda Demographic Health Survey data. A logistic regression model was employed to identify the determinants of demand for voluntary health insurance in Uganda. The results showed that wealth index, level of education, age of the individual, marital status, residence, and access to information were significant factors affecting uptake of health insurance in Uganda. Individuals from well off households were more likely to have a health insurance cover compared to individuals from the poor ones. Also, individuals who had access to information through listening to radio, reading newspapers, and watching television were more likely to demand health insurance compared to those without access. The findings, therefore, highlight the need for poverty reduction strategies to enhance the incomes of the poor and provide educational interventions regarding the benefits of health insurance in all regions.
Pulse Wave Velocity in Korean American Men and Women
Creators: name: Barksdale, Debra J.
name: Logan, Jeongok G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Arterial stiffness is an important clinical marker of cardiovascular diseases. Although many studies have been conducted on different racial groups, less is known about arterial stiffness in Asian Americans. Korean Americans constitute the fifth largest subgroup in the Asian American population and reportedly have a noticeably high prevalence of hypertension. The aims of this study were to assess arterial stiffness and blood pressure and to examine the effect of age and gender on arterial stiffness and blood pressure in 102 Korean American men and women aged 21 to 60 years. The values of arterial stiffness for Korean Americans in this study were compared to published reference values for other racial and ethnic groups. Arterial stiffness was measured by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity, which is the gold standard for determining arterial stiffness. Findings indicated that aging was an important determinant of arterial stiffness, which increased linearly with age. Although there was no gender difference observed in arterial stiffness, the effect of age on arterial stiffness was greater in women than in men. After adjusting for covariates including age, body mass index, and smoking, multiple regression models showed that arterial stiffness and gender were significant predictors of systolic and diastolic blood pressure. The comparisons of these findings to those from several other studies that used the same method to measure arterial stiffness showed that Korean Americans may have levels of arterial stiffness that are similar to or slightly higher than those of other racial groups. Considering that arterial stiffness is an independent predictor of future development of hypertension, more studies are required to examine cardiovascular risk of this understudied group.
Coherent $ψ$(2S) photo-production in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s}_{\rm NN}$ = 2.76 TeV
Creators: name: ALICE Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have has performed the first measurement of the coherent $ψ$(2S) photo-production cross section in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC. This charmonium excited state is reconstructed via the $ψ$(2S) $\rightarrow l^{+}l^{-}$ and $ψ$(2S) $\rightarrow$ J/$ψπ^{+}π^{-}$ decays, where the J/$ψ$ decays into two leptons. The analysis is based on an event sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 22 $μ\rm{b}^{-1}$. The cross section for coherent $ψ$(2S) production in the rapidity interval $-0.9
description: 22 pages, 5 captioned figures, 3 tables, authors from page 17, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/1854
Association of a protease with polytene chromosomes of Drosophila melanogaster
Creators: name: Cavagnaro, Joy
name: Pierce, Dorothy A.
name: Chae, Chi Bom
name: Lucchesi, John C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1980

description: Incubation of Drosophila salivary glands with radioactive diisopropyl fluorophosphate results in the uniform labeling of polytene chromosomes. Extensive labeling is seen only when chromosome squashes are prepared by a formaldehyde fixation procedure and not by standard acetic acid techniques. The labeling is inhibited in the presence of tosylphenylalanine chloromethyl ketone and phenylmethane sulfonylfluoride but not by tosyllysine chloromethyl ketone, suggesting that a chymotrypsin-like serine protease is associated with the chromosomes. Protease inhibitors show no apparent effect on heat-shock specific puffing.
The reproductive biology of Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758) (Teleostei: Sparidae) in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea (Central Mediterranean)
Creators: name: BOTTARI, Teresa
name: MICALE, Valeria
name: LIGUORI, Marilia
name: RINELLI, Paola
name: BUSALACCHI, Barbara
name: BONFIGLIO, Rossella
name: RAGONESE, Sergio
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2014

description: The present study of reproduction pattern of Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758) in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea was based on the analysis of the sex structure (including hermaphroditism incidence), gonad maturation and size at maturity. The southern Tyrrhenian Sea population of Boops boops is a gonochoric species as protogynous hermaphroditism was present in a very low percentage of individuals (< 1%). The overall sex ratio was equally distributed, whereas the sex ratio by size class had a prevalence of females between 151 and 190 mm total length (TL). Overall size at first maturity (Lm) was 138 mm TL, with no significant difference between males (142 mm TL) and females (131 mm TL). Spawning took place from February to April, with a peak in March. Histological examination allowed to validate the macroscopic scale adopted in the present study, revealing a satisfactory percentage (88 %) of correct classification.
Dissociation of opsonized particle phagocytosis and respiratory burst activity in an Epstein-Barr virus-infected myeloid cell line
Creators: name: Pagano, Joseph S.
name: Karpas, Abraham
name: Greenberger, Joel S.
name: Newburger, Peter E.
name: Cohen, Harvey J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1980

description: A continuous tissue culture cell line (Karpas line 120), derived from a patient with acute myeloblastic leukemia, not only demonstrates myeloblastic morphology and in vitro expression of several myeloid- specific biochemical markers but also contains Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) nuclear antigen. The present studies demonstrate EBV-genome-specific DNA within the total cellular DNA by molecular hybridization, thus establishing the presence of stable viral genome integration. The cells demonstrate complex coordinated myeloid functions including ingestion, degranulation, and respiratory burst activity. Line 120 cells show a respiratory burst (superoxide and hydrogen peroxide generation and hexosemonophosphate shunt activity) in response to soluble (phorbol myristate acetate) and particulate (latex beads) stimuli, as do normal granulocytes. They ingest complement-opsonized particles (lipopolysaccharide-oil droplets, zymosan, and bacteria), and degranulate in response to them. However, unlike normal granulocytes, the line 120 cells do not demonstrate respiratory burst activity in response to these complementopsonized particles. The dissociation between ingestion of complement-opsonized particles and activation of oxygen-dependent bactericidal activity severely impairs bacterial killing as compared with normal polymorphonuclear phagocytes.
Capital Flight and its Impact on Economic Growth: the Case of WAEMU Countries
Creators: name: Sodji, Kuamvi
name: Sodji, Kuamvi
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: capital flight
subject: economic growth
subject: residual method
subject: WAEMU

description: This paper estimates the volume of capital flight using the residual method, and analyzes the impact of capital flight on economic growth in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). Over the period 1970 to 2016, total real capital flight from these countries is found to be positive and significant with a magnitude that amounts to 58655.28 million constant dollars, representing 57.5 percent of GDP. Four countries have experienced significant real capital flight over the past four decades, namely Ivory coast, Niger, Burkina Faso and Senegal. Thus, through the use of dynamic fixed effects estimation, it is found that in the long run, capital flight significantly reduces economic growth in countries with positive capital flight and the adverse effect seems to be unquestionably aggravated with investment in the case of these groups of countries. Furthermore, the paper recommends that the authorities show commitment to reducing capital flight by improving governance, strengthening the quality of institutions, and promoting a stable policy environment.
Propagation of collective pair excitations in disordered Bose superfluids
Creators: name: Lellouch, Samuel
name: Lim, Lih-King
name: Sanchez-Palencia, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effect of disorder on the propagation of collective excitations in a disordered Bose superfluid. We incorporate local density depletion induced by strong disorder at the meanfield level, and formulate the transport of the excitations in terms of a screened scattering problem. We show that the competition of disorder, screening, and density depletion induces a strongly non-monotonic energy dependence of the disorder parameter. In three dimensions, it results in a rich localization diagram with four different classes of mobility spectra, characterized by either no or up to three mobility edges. Implications on experiments with disordered ultracold atoms are discussed.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Length-weight relationships of the three most abundant pelagic fish species caught by mid-water trawls and purse seine in the Black Sea
Creators: name: SATILMIS, Hasan Huseyin
name: SUMER, Cetim
name: OZDEMIR, Suleyman
name: BAYRAKLI, Baris
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2014

description: Length-weight relationships were estimated for the three most abundant and frequently caught pelagic fish species, anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus ponticus, horse mackerel Trachurus mediterraneus ponticus, and sprat Sprattus sprattus phalericus caught by mid-water trawls and purse seine between November 2002 and November 2003 in the Black Sea. The values of the slope b in the length-weight relationships ranged between 2.969 and 3.134, with a mean of 10.95 ± 0.03 cm total length (TL) for anchovy, between 3.003 and 3.099, with a mean of 9.55 ± 0.04 cm TL for sprat, between 3.250 and 3.290, with a mean of 13.60 ± 0.07 cm TL for horse mackerel. Isometric growth (Pauly's t-test, P > 0.05) was observed in females and all individuals for sprat, in males and all individuals for anchovy. Positive allometric growth (Pauly's t-test, P < 0.05) was estimated in males for sprat, females for anchovy and females, males and all individuals for horse mackerel.