cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Meteorus kyushuensis Maeto 1988
Creators: name: Stigenberg, Julia
name: Ronquist, Fredrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Meteorus
Meteorus kyushuensis

description: Meteorus kyushuensis Maeto
Fig. 103
 Meteorus kyushuensis Maeto, 1988:328. Holotype ♀, (Type No. 2567, Kyushu Univ.) Japan: Gokanosho, Kumamoto Pref., Kyushu 14.v.1980, K. Ohara [L.T.]—examined.
 Diagnosis: In Huddleston’s key this species runs to M. hirsutipes, and it also groups with this species in our key. The main characters separating these species are the claws (long and slender in M. hirsutipes, of ordinary length in M. kyushuensis) and the clypeus (very flat and wide in M. hirsutipes, flat but not at all wide in M. kyushuensis).
 Studied material: 5 specimens.
 Description: Size about 3.0–4.5. Antennal articles 23–24. Head broad, rounded behind eyes. Length of eye 1.4–1.7 times temple. Ocelli small, OOL=2.6–2.8. Eyes small, only slightly convergent. Malar space about 0.7 times basal breadth of mandible. Face not protuberant, twice as broad as high. Clypeus 0.65 as wide as face, distinctly divided, punctuate. Tentorial pits indistinct. Mandibles stout, not twisted. Precoxal sulcus narrow. Propodeum convex, rugose and with weak carina; excavate medially. Petiolar tergum 1.5 times longer than wide apically; dorsope distinct; ventral folds of petiolar tergum not joined. Ovipositor very long, 4.5 times length of petiolar tergum. Ovipositor very weakly curved downward, length of ovipositor sheaths 2.0 times petiolar tergum, and 0.95 times fore wing. Hind coxa punctuate or reticulate–punctate; tarsal claws with simple but somewhat thickened at base. Colour black to brown; antennae, head, prothorax and legs yellow–brown; the head is yellowish–brown to orange, except for occiput and frons. Male similar to female except antennae 28 articles, malar space 0.9 times basal width of mandible and length of eye 1.3 times length of temple.
 Distribution: Japan; Sweden.
 Biology: In Japan M. kyushuensis is recorded as a parasitoid of the larvae of the fungus beetle Neotriplax lewisi (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) (Maeto, 1988a). We found 4 specimens within the SMTP and they were caught from July to September in an Alder wood ravine and in a 15 yr old spruce plantation.
description: Published as part of Stigenberg, Julia & Ronquist, Fredrik, 2011, Revision of the Western Palearctic Meteorini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with a molecular characterization of hidden Fennoscandian species diversity 3084, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3084 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3084.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5244448
Taxing the People, Not Trade: the International Monetary Fund and the Structure of Taxation in Developing Countries
Creators: name: Reinsberg, Bernhard
name: Stubbs, Thomas
name: Kentikelenis, Alexander
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Article
International Monetary Fund
IMF programs
State capacity
Taxation
Tax conditionality
Value-added tax
F33
F34
F53

description: Funder: University of Glasgow
description: Abstract: Strengthening fiscal capacity in low- and middle-income countries is essential for achieving sustainable development. The International Monetary Fund—the world’s premier agent of fiscal policy reform—has taken a front-stage role in this process, promoting a model of tax policy that favors broad-based consumption taxes and discourages trade taxes. This article investigates the links between IMF-mandated tax reforms and the evolution of tax revenues. Using novel measures of tax-related conditionality and disaggregated data on revenues, our analysis shows that IMF interventions are significantly related to changes in tax structure. In particular, IMF programs increase revenues derived from goods and services taxes, but decrease revenues collected from trade taxes. Results for personal and corporate income taxes are inconclusive. These findings have important implications for debates on the role of the IMF in developing countries.
Number conserving analysis of measurement-based braiding with Majorana zero modes
Creators: name: Knapp, Christina
name: Väyrynen, Jukka I.
name: Lutchyn, Roman M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Majorana-based quantum computation seeks to encode information non-locally in pairs of Majorana zero modes, thereby isolating qubit states from a local noisy environment. In addition to long coherence times, the attractiveness of Majorana-based quantum computing relies on achieving topologically protected Clifford gates from braiding operations. Recent works have conjectured that mean-field BCS calculations may fail to account for non-universal corrections to the Majorana braiding operations. Such errors would be detrimental to Majorana-based topological quantum computing schemes. In this work, we develop a particle-number conserving approach for measurement-based topological quantum computing and investigate the effect of quantum phase fluctuations. We demonstrate that braiding transformations are indeed topologically protected in charge-protected Majorana-based quantum computing schemes.
description: 8 pages+appendices, 1 figure, v3
Upconversion nanoparticles as intracellular pH messengers
Creators: name: Tsai, Evaline S.
name: Joud, Fadwa
name: Wiesholler, Lisa M.
name: Hirsch, Thomas
name: Hall, Elizabeth A. H.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Paper
Female Role Models in Analytical Chemistry
Upconversion nanoparticles
Nanosensors
pH measurements
Intracellular
Fluorescence microscopy
Endocytosis

description: Abstract: Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) should be particularly well suited for measurement inside cells because they can be imaged down to submicrometer dimensions in near real time using fluorescence microscopy, and they overcome problems, such as photobleaching, autofluorescence, and deep tissue penetration, that are commonly encountered in cellular imaging applications. In this study, the performance of an UCNP modified with a pH-sensitive dye (pHAb) is studied. The dye (emission wavelength 580 nm) was attached in a polyethylene imine (PEI) coating on the UCNP and excited via the 540-nm UCNP emission under 980-nm excitation. The UC resonance energy transfer efficiencies at different pHs ranged from 25 to 30% and a Förster distance of 2.56 nm was predicted from these results. Human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells, equilibrated with nigericin H+/K+ ionophore to equalize the intra- and extracellular pH‚ showed uptake of the UCNP-pHAb conjugate particles and, taking the ratio of the intensity collected from the pHAb emission channel (565–630 nm) to that from the UCNP red emission channel (640–680 nm), produced a sigmoidal pH response curve with an apparent pKa for the UCNP-pHAb of ~ 5.1. The UCNP-pHAb were shown to colocalize with LysoBrite dye, a lysosome marker. Drug inhibitors such as chlorpromazine (CPZ) and nystatin (NYS) that interfere with clathrin-mediated endocytosis and caveolae-mediated endocytosis, respectively, were investigated to elucidate the mechanism of nanoparticle uptake into the cell. This preliminary study suggests that pH indicator–modified UCNPs such as UCNP-pHAb can report pH in SH-SY5Y cells and that the incorporation of the nanoparticles into the cell occurs via clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Graphical abstract
Additional file 8 of Comparative analysis of Streptococcus suis genomes identifies novel candidate virulence-associated genes in North American isolates
Creators: name: Estrada, April A.
name: Gottschalk, Marcelo
name: Gebhart, Connie J.
name: Marthaler, Douglas G.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Sequence alignments of 89 K PAI CH1/CH2 and CH5/CH6. Alignments of the CH1/CH2 and CH5/CH6 DNA sequences using the S. suis strain 05ZYH33 as the reference and generated using Boxshade.
Maximum Amplification of Enstrophy in 3D Navier-Stokes Flows
Creators: name: Kang, Di
name: Yun, Dongfang
name: Protas, Bartosz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This investigation concerns a systematic search for potentially singular behavior in 3D Navier-Stokes flows. Enstrophy serves as a convenient indicator of the regularity of solutions to the Navier Stokes system --- as long as this quantity remains finite, the solutions are guaranteed to be smooth and satisfy the equations in the classical (pointwise) sense. However, there are no estimates available with finite a priori bounds on the growth of enstrophy and hence the regularity problem for the 3D Navier-Stokes system remains open. In order to quantify the maximum possible growth of enstrophy, we consider a family of PDE optimization problems in which initial conditions with prescribed enstrophy $\mathcal{E}_0$ are sought such that the enstrophy in the resulting Navier-Stokes flow is maximized at some time $T$. Such problems are solved computationally using a large-scale adjoint-based gradient approach derived in the continuous setting. By solving these problems for a broad range of values of $\mathcal{E}_0$ and $T$, we demonstrate that the maximum growth of enstrophy is in fact finite and scales in proportion to $\mathcal{E}_0^{3/2}$ as $\mathcal{E}_0$ becomes large. Thus, in such worst-case scenario the enstrophy still remains bounded for all times and there is no evidence for formation of singularity in finite time. We also analyze properties of the Navier-Stokes flows leading to the extreme enstrophy values and show that this behavior is realized by a series of vortex reconnection events.
description: 39 pages, 15 figures; accepted for publication in Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Compactified $λϕ^4$ Theory
Creators: name: Malbouisson, A. P. C.
name: Malbouisson, J. M. C.
name: Santana, A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the massive vector $N$-component $(λϕ^{4})_{D}$ theory in Euclidian space and, using an extended Matsubara formalism we perform a compactification on a $d$-dimensional subspace, $d\leq D$. This allows us to treat jointly the effect of temperature and spatial confinement in the effective potential of the model, setting forth grounds for an analysis of phase transitions driven by temperature and spatial boundary. For $d=2$, which corresponds to the heated system confined between two parallel planes (separation $L$), we obtain, in the large $N$ limit at one-loop order, formulas for temperature- and boundary-dependent mass and coupling constant. The equation for the critical curve in the $β\times L$ plane is also derived.
description: LATEX, 11 pages no figures
Antiadiabatic View of Fast Environmental Effects on Optical Spectra
Creators: name: Huu, D. K. Andrea Phan
name: Dhali, Rama
name: Pieroni, Carlotta
name: Di Maiolo, Francesco
name: Sissa, Cristina
name: Terenziani, Francesca
name: Painelli, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An antiadiabatic approach is proposed to model how the refractive index of the surrounding medium affects optical spectra of molecular systems in condensed phases. The approach solves some of the issues affecting current implementations of continuum solvation models and more generally of effective models where a classical description is adopted for the molecular environment.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures Plus supporting info (12 pages, 7 fig)
Using Spectral Blurring to Assess Effects of Channel Interaction on Speech-in-Noise Perception with Cochlear Implants
Creators: name: Goehring, Tobias
name: Arenberg, Julie G.
name: Carlyon, Robert P.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
cochlear implants
speech perception
channel interaction
site selection

description: Abstract: Cochlear implant (CI) listeners struggle to understand speech in background noise. Interactions between electrode channels due to current spread increase the masking of speech by noise and lead to difficulties with speech perception. Strategies that reduce channel interaction therefore have the potential to improve speech-in-noise perception by CI listeners, but previous results have been mixed. We investigated the effects of channel interaction on speech-in-noise perception and its association with spectro-temporal acuity in a listening study with 12 experienced CI users. Instead of attempting to reduce channel interaction, we introduced spectral blurring to simulate some of the effects of channel interaction by adjusting the overlap between electrode channels at the input level of the analysis filters or at the output by using several simultaneously stimulated electrodes per channel. We measured speech reception thresholds in noise as a function of the amount of blurring applied to either all 15 electrode channels or to 5 evenly spaced channels. Performance remained roughly constant as the amount of blurring applied to all channels increased up to some knee point, above which it deteriorated. This knee point differed across listeners in a way that correlated with performance on a non-speech spectro-temporal task, and is proposed here as an individual measure of channel interaction. Surprisingly, even extreme amounts of blurring applied to 5 channels did not affect performance. The effects on speech perception in noise were similar for blurring at the input and at the output of the CI. The results are in line with the assumption that experienced CI users can make use of a limited number of effective channels of information and tolerate some deviations from their everyday settings when identifying speech in the presence of a masker. Furthermore, these findings may explain the mixed results by strategies that optimized or deactivated a small number of electrodes evenly distributed along the array by showing that blurring or deactivating one-third of the electrodes did not harm speech-in-noise performance.
Meteorus limbatus Maeto 1988
Creators: name: Stigenberg, Julia
name: Ronquist, Fredrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Meteorus
Meteorus limbatus

description: Meteorus limbatus Maeto
Fig. 75, 104
 Meteorus limbatus Maeto, 1989:581. Holotype ♀, (Type No. 2655, Kyushu Univ.) Japan: Bonto, Akkeshi, Hokkaido, 10.vii.1977, K. Yamagishi —examined.
 Diagnosis: Meteorus limbatus is very similar to M. abscissus in size and structure but the long scattered setae on the clypeus are quite distinct from the dense, short setae of M. abscissus.
 Studied material: ~ 10 specimens.
 Description: Size 3.5–5.0 mm. Antennae with 29–31 articles, all articles longer than wide. Length of eye is more than double the length of temple in dorsal aspect; eyes large, slightly convergent and protuberant; width of face equal its height; OOL=1.5; clypeus equals the width of face, not distinctly divided from face, smoothly arched, tentorial pits distinct; length of malar space 0.75 times basal width of mandible; mandibles slender and twisted. Precoxal sulcus deep and moderately wide. Petiolar tergum apically 1.8–2.3 times longer than wide; dorsope present, laterope deep; ventral folds of petiolar tergum not joined, dorsal aspect with distinct striae; ovipositor straight, thick; length of ovipositor 1.8 times that of petiolar tergum; propodeum with no carina, reticulate and smoothly velved. Fore wing m–cu slightly antefurcal; pterostigma brown with lighter boarder. Hind coxa rugose; tarsal claws with a toothed lobe. Colour dark brown with yellow distinct markings. Ocellar area and neck dark. Propodeum, petiolar tergum, precoxal sulcus and mesoscutum dark, scutellum yellow. Dark specimens are known from northern Japan. Male unknown.
 Distribution: Palearctic. Country records: France; Italy; Japan; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom.
 Biology: We found one specimen within the SMTP and it was caught in July. This specimen was caught in an alder wood ravine.
description: Published as part of Stigenberg, Julia & Ronquist, Fredrik, 2011, Revision of the Western Palearctic Meteorini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with a molecular characterization of hidden Fennoscandian species diversity 3084, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3084 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3084.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5244448
Interaction of biofuel, food security, indirect land use change and greenhouse mitigation policies in the European Union
Creators: name: Pena-Levano, Luis M
name: Rasetti, Michele
name: Melo, Grace
name: Pena-Levano, Luis M
name: Rasetti, Michele
name: Melo, Grace
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: International Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: European biofuel policy
subject: Biodiesel
subject: GTAP-BIO-FCS
subject: Land use change
subject: GHG emissions

description: The European Union is putting a lot of effort in mitigating climate change effects and lessen the dependence of fossil fuels. Several policies are being proposed in the Renewable Energy Directives (RED), such as increasing the share of renewable sources in fuel mix, specific increases in fuel production? and anti-dumping strategies. However, these policies raise concerns with respect to competition with food production, and indirect increases GHG emissions caused by land use change. Our study evaluates the RED policies together with additional climate mitigation policies using a computable general equilibrium modeling. Our results suggest that, for the case of the European Union (EU), an increase in biofuel production does not represent a threat in food security. In addition, we found that the land use change in the EU are modest compared to previous studies in developing regions. Our findings illustrate how the imposition of a regime can vary depending on the economic development of a region.
Synthesis and characterization of copper nanoparticles on walnut shell for catalytic reduction and C-C coupling reaction
Creators: name: Zamani, Asghar
name: Marjani, Ahmad Poursattar
name: Nikoo, Abbas
name: Heidarpour, Mojtaba
name: Dehghan, Ahmad
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Walnut shell-stabilized copper nanoparticles (CuNP/WS) were successfully prepared by a simple reaction of copper sulfate and Sodium borohydride. Formation of copper nanoparticles in this bio-nanocomposite was observed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscope (EDX). CuNP/WS was found to be an efficient, inexpensive, easy to prepare, green and reusable catalyst in the reduction of aromatic nitro and nitrile compounds to their corresponding amines with NaBH4 at 35 °C in aqueous medium. We continued our studies on the application of this nanocomposite in the classic Ullman reaction to synthesize biaryl. This method has the advantages of high yields, elimination of expensive stabilizer and homogeneous catalysts, simple methodology and easy work up. The catalyst can be recovered from the reaction mixture and reused several times without any significant loss of catalytic activity.
The 2019 Taurid resonant swarm: prospects for ground detection of small NEOs
Creators: name: Clark, David L.
name: Wiegert, Paul
name: Brown, Peter G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In June 2019 the Earth will approach within 5° mean anomaly of the centre of the Taurid resonant swarm, its closest post-perihelion encounter with Earth since 1975. This will be the best viewing geometry to detect and place limits on the number of NEOs proposed to reside at the swarm centre until the early 2030s. We present an analysis of the optimal times and pointing locations to image NEOs associated with the swarm
description: 6 page, 8 figures
Speaker-independent classification of phonetic segments from raw ultrasound in child speech
Creators: name: Ribeiro, Manuel Sam
name: Eshky, Aciel
name: Richmond, Korin
name: Renals, Steve
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ultrasound tongue imaging (UTI) provides a convenient way to visualize the vocal tract during speech production. UTI is increasingly being used for speech therapy, making it important to develop automatic methods to assist various time-consuming manual tasks currently performed by speech therapists. A key challenge is to generalize the automatic processing of ultrasound tongue images to previously unseen speakers. In this work, we investigate the classification of phonetic segments (tongue shapes) from raw ultrasound recordings under several training scenarios: speaker-dependent, multi-speaker, speaker-independent, and speaker-adapted. We observe that models underperform when applied to data from speakers not seen at training time. However, when provided with minimal additional speaker information, such as the mean ultrasound frame, the models generalize better to unseen speakers.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, published in ICASSP2019 (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2019)
Social Sciences & Humanities Open Marketplace: A user-centric service for collaboration and knowledge sharing across the SSH communities
Creators: name: SSHOC
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: SSHOC
Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud
European Open Science Cloud
EOSC

description: SSH Open Marketplace Curation Strategy: Relies on harvesting from third parties while emphasising community-curation by its users, our valued SSH researchers and scholars.
 Free and Open: The SSH Open Marketplace advocates open science and open access and so the information in the marketplace is freely accessible. It is not a place for buying and selling something. A social infrastructure: The emphasis on community-based curation makes the SSH Open Marketplace a social infrastructure. Its usage relies on the SSH community to refine, update and correct information on the marketplace as an information brokering service with CLARIN and DARIAH experiences playing a key role. Role of LIBER: A community of practitioners and specialists with expertise on two key aspects of the SSH Open Marketplace: community involvement for curation and experience in collecting/structuring/exposing information. Value Proposition: The unique value of the SSH Open Marketplace as a discovery portal of Tools and Services is its connection to relevant Training Materials, Publications, Datasets, and Workflows. The SSH Open Marketplace is much more than just another catalogue by bringing a discovery portal straight to the SSH community. Like a library, it acts as a repository for Tools and Services with enriched metadata and making it so much easier to connect people with the resources they need.
 Designed for: The SSH communities of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), span- ning students, scholars, junior and senior researchers, as well as resource providers en- abling them to highlight their work.
 Connected communities: The SSH Open Marketplace is embedded within the existing communities of DARIAH, CLARIN, and CESSDA. It cooperates closely with them, while benefiting from the support of other partners like LIBER.
Quantization of energy and writhe in self-repelling knots
Creators: name: Hoidn, Phoebe
name: Kusner, Robert B.
name: Stasiak, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Probably the most natural energy functional to be considered for knotted strings is the one given by the electrostatic repulsion. In the absence of counter-charges, a charged, knotted string evolving along the energy gradient of electrostatic repulsion would progressively tighten its knotted domain into a point on a perfectly circular string. However, in the presence of charge screeningthe self-repelling knotted strings can get stabilised. It is known that energy functionals in which repulsive forces between repelling charges grow inversely proportional to the third or higher power of their relative distance stabilise self-repelling knots. Especially interesting is the case of the third power since the repulsive energy becomes scale invariant and does not change upon Moebius transformations (reflections in spheres) of knotted trajectories. We observe here thatknots minimising their repulsive Moebius energy show quantization of the energy and writhe (measure of chirality) within several tested families of knots.
description: LaTeX, 16 pages, 4 figures
Evaluation of total phenolic, flavonoid, carbohydrate contents and antioxidant activities of various solvent extracts from Angelica amurensis root
Creators: name: Zhang, Luyun
name: Yu, Junlin
name: Xu, Qian
name: Zhu, Junyi
name: Zhang, Hui
name: Xia, Guangqing
name: Zang, Hao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: We investigated the antioxidant activities of different solvent extracts of Angelica amurensis root (AAR). The yield of aqueous extract was the highest. The methanol extract had the highest total phenolic content and total flavonoid content. The aqueous extract showed the highest total carbohydrate content. Methanol and ethanol extracts showed high DPPH and ABTS radical-scavenging abilities, and high antioxidant activities in FRAP and CUPRAC assays. The extract of chloroform and water exhibited high ability to scavenge hydroxyl radicals. All extracts showed high inhibition of β-carotene bleaching, ethyl acetate extract showed the best effect. Ethyl acetate extract exhibited the highest protection against cellular oxidative damage. The best extraction solvent for the active substance in AAR was methanol. AAR may act as a natural antioxidant.
title: In den Diskurs eingesickert: Der Antifeminismus der AfD
Creators: name: Rüther, Daniela
name: Beaufaÿs, Sandra
Publisher: name: DuEPublico
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 5
subject: FOS: Social sciences
subject: Gender Studies
classificationCode: 5.6
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Innerhalb der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte haben rechte Netzwerke und Parteien es geschafft, „Gender“ als Kampfbegriff zu etablieren und negative Aufmerksamkeit von Politik und Öffentlichkeit auf Geschlechterforschung, Gender und Queer Studies zu lenken. Daniela Rüther ist Historikerin an der Ruhr Universität Bochum. Sie hat gerade ein Buch veröffentlicht, in dem sie die Feindbilder der AfD historisch kontextualisiert und deren antidemokratische Strategien im Parlament analysiert: „Die Sexbesessenheit der AfD Rechte im ‚Gender-Wahn‘“ (Rüther 2025).
Investigating tax culture of the tax payers of the Iranian Tax Administration
Creators: name: Niknamian, Sorush
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 150101 Accounting Theory and Standards
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150199 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability not elsewhere classified
subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: 150302 Business Information Systems
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: 159999 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 150499 Commercial Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 150501 Consumer-Oriented Product or Service Development

description: The purpose of this study is to investigate the tax culture of tax payers in the Iranian Tax Administration. This was an applied-descriptive survey study. The statistical population was divided into three groups according to the share of tax revenue in 2017 and 12 provinces from 31 provinces selected by cluster and quota sampling. The sample size was calculated using the Cochran formula for a large population of 690 people for each group. A questionnaire was used to collect data. The content validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by the experts and the construct validity was verified by factor analysis. The reliability of the questionnaires was also calculated using Cronbach's alpha (0.925). The data were analyzed using correlation coefficient, mean test and factor analysis using the Structural Equation Modeling in LISREL. The results showed that each of the components of the tax culture of the tax payers was higher than satisfactory.
Influences of microcontact shape on the state of a frictional interface
Creators: name: Pilvelait, Tom
name: Dillavou, Sam
name: Rubinstein, Shmuel M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The real area of contact of a frictional interface changes rapidly when the normal load is altered, and evolves slowly when normal load is held constant, aging over time. Traditionally, the total area of contact is considered a proxy for the frictional strength of the interface. Here we show that the state of a frictional interface is not entirely defined by the total real area of contact but depends on the geometrical nature of that contact as well. We directly visualize an interface between rough elastomers and smooth glass and identify that normal loading and frictional aging evolve the interface differently, even at a single contact level. We introduce a protocol wherein the real area of contact is held constant in time. Under these conditions, the interface is continually evolving; small contacts shrink and large contacts coarsen.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Antifungal fatty acid derivatives against Penicillium italicum from the deep-sea fungus Aspergillus terreus SCSIO 41202
Creators: name: Yang, Zhiqiang
name: Kaliaperumal, Kumaravel
name: Zhang, Jingyi
name: Liang, Yan
name: Guo, Can
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Yang, Bin
name: Liu, Yonghong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The present work reports the bioassay-guided isolation of four bioactive fatty acid derivatives involving a new butenolide, namely sinulolide I (1) together with three known metabolites (2–4) from the deep-sea sediment derived fungus Aspergillus terreus SCSIO 41202. The chemical structure of compound 1 was elucidated based on extensive spectroscopic methods (1D/2D NMR and HR-ESI-MS), optical rotation and circular dichroism analyses, while the structures of the known compounds (2–4) were established by comparison of NMR spectral data with those reported in literature. All of these four compounds (1–4) exhibited significant antifungal activity against citrus postharvest pathogen Penicillium italicum (MICs around 0.031–0.125 mg/mL).
Expectation of reward differentially modulates executive inhibition
Creators: name: Herrera, Paula M.
name: Van Meerbeke, Alberto Vélez
name: Speranza, Mario
name: Cabra, Claudia López
name: Bonilla, Mauricio
name: Canu, Michaël
name: Bekinschtein, Tristan A.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Research Article
Cognitive psychology
Inhibition
Executive control
Expectation
Reward
Stop signal task

description: Abstract: Background: Inhibitory control, a key modulatory component of cognition guiding strategy and behaviour, can be affected by diverse contingencies. We explore here the effect of expectation of reward over behavioural adjustment in a Stop Signal Task modulated by reward. We hypothesize that cognitive control is modulated by different expectation of the reward. Methods: Participants were allocated to two groups differing in their degree of knowledge in what to expect from rewards. Expected Specific Reward participants (N = 21) were informed of the different monetary feedbacks they would receive after each successful inhibition. Unexpected Reward participants (N = 24) were only told that they would receive monetary reward after correct inhibitory trials, but not the amounts or differences. Results: Our results confirmed previous observations demonstrating a “kick-start effect” where a high reward feedback at the beginning of the task increases response inhibition. The Expected Specific Reward condition seems also to improve inhibitory control -as measured by the stop signal reaction time (SSRT)-, compared to the Unexpected Reward group. Conclusions: Knowledge of reward magnitudes seems to play a role in cognitive control irrespective of feedback magnitude. The manipulation of reward expectation appears to trigger different strategies for cognitive control, inducing a bottom-up effect of external cues, or a top-down effect given by the anticipation of incoming rewards. This is an early exploration to unearth possible higher order modulators - expectation and motivation- of cognitive control. This approach aims to gain insight into diverse psychopathological conditions related to impulsivity and altered reward systems such as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), personality disorders, substance abuse, pathological gambling and cognitive aspects of Parkinson Disease.
Meteorus lionotus Thomson 1895
Creators: name: Stigenberg, Julia
name: Ronquist, Fredrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Meteorus
Meteorus lionotus

description: Meteorus lionotus Thomson
Fig. 32, 105
 Meteorus lionotus Thomson, 1895:2160. Lectotype ♂, Sweden: Norrland (MZLU, Lund)—examined.
 Meteorus ruficoloratus Fischer, 1957b:4. Holotype ♂, Germany: München, 15.vii.1884. (Kreichbaumer) (ZSBS, Münich).
 Diagnosis: The extremely contracted head along with the size of the ocelli make this species easy to distinguish. The only similar species that it can be mistaken for is M. versicolor but the contracted head and the ocellar size (OOL=0.5) of M. lionotus is well distinguished from the more rounded head and smaller ocelli (OOL=1) of M. versicolor.
 Studied material: ~ 10 specimens.
 Description: Size about 4–5mm. Antennae with 31–33 articles, long. Head very strongly contracted behind the eyes. Ocelli very large, OOL=0.5, protuberant. Eyes not strongly protuberant. Clypeus strongly protuberant. Mandibles strongly twisted, small. Precoxal sulcus shallow, rugose. Propodeum generally depressed, with distinct lateral carinae and occasionally with a weak medial transverse carina. Petiolar tergum long with no dorsal pits; ventral borders conjoined at midpoint of segment. Ovipositor about 1.5 times length of petiolar tergum. Legs long, slender; tarsal claws with strong basal lobe. Colour testaceous, black around ocelli and occipital region, legs are always light in colour. Male same as female except that ocelli and eyes slightly smaller.
 Distribution: Western Palearctic. Country records: Austria; China; Czechoslovakia; Finland; Germany; Greece; Norway; Poland; Slovakia; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom.
 Biology: M. lionotus is most commonly recorded as a parasitoid of Geometridae larvae (Huddleston 1980, Yu et al. 2005).
description: Published as part of Stigenberg, Julia & Ronquist, Fredrik, 2011, Revision of the Western Palearctic Meteorini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with a molecular characterization of hidden Fennoscandian species diversity 3084, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 3084 (1) on page 59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3084.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5244448
Extended Minimal Flavour Violating MSSM and Implications for B Physics
Creators: name: Ali, A.
name: Lunghi, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently reported measurements of the CP asymmetry a(psi K) by the BABAR and BELLE collaborations are in good agreement with the standard model (SM) prediction, resulting from the unitarity of the CKM matrix. The so-called minimal flavour violating (MFV) supersymmetric extensions of the standard model, in which the CKM matrix remains the only flavour changing structure, predict a(psi K) similar to the one in the SM. With the anticipated precision in a(psi K) and other CP asymmetries at the B factories and hadron colliders, one hopes to pin down any possible deviation from the SM. We discuss an extension of the MFV-supersymmetric models which comfortably accommodates the current measurements of the CP asymmetry a(psi K), but differs from the SM and the MFV-supersymmetric models due to an additional flavour changing structure beyond the CKM matrix. We suggest specific tests in forthcoming experiments in B physics. In addition to the CP-asymmetries in B-meson decays, such as a(psi K) and a(pi pi), and the mass difference Delta M_s in the Bs-bar(Bs) system, we emphasize measurements of the radiative transition b -> d gamma as sensitive probes of the postulated flavour changing structure. Interestingly, the CKM-unitarity analysis in the Extended-MFV model also allows solutions rho < 0, as opposed to the SM and the MFV models for which only rho > 0 solutions are now admissible, implying gamma > pi/2, where gamma=- arg (Vub). Such large values of gamma are hinted by the current measurements of the branching ratios for the decays B -> pi pi and B -> K pi.
description: 35 pages, 12 figures. Theoretical analysis modified in view of the recent CP violation observed in B-> J/Psi K decays. Resulting constraints on the model parameters are recomputed
Revisiting the impact of stellar magnetic activity on the detectability of solar-like oscillations by Kepler
Creators: name: Mathur, S.
name: Garcia, R. A.
name: Bugnet, L.
name: Santos, A. R. G.
name: Santiago, N.
name: Beck, P. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over 2,000 stars were observed for one month with a high enough cadence in order to look for acoustic modes during the survey phase of the Kepler mission. Solar-like oscillations have been detected in about 540 stars. The question of why no oscillations were detected in the remaining stars is still open. Previous works explained the non-detection of modes with the high level of magnetic activity. However, the studied stars contained some classical pulsators and red giants that could have biased the results. In this work, we revisit this analysis on a cleaner sample of 1,014 main-sequence solar-like stars. First we compute the predicted amplitude of the modes. We find that the stars with detected modes have an amplitude to noise ratio larger than 0.94. We measure reliable rotation periods and the associated photometric magnetic index for 684 stars and in particular for 323 stars where the mode amplitude is predicted to be high enough to be detected. We find that among these 323 stars 32% have a magnetic activity level larger than the Sun at maximum activity, explaining the non-detection of p modes. Interestingly, magnetic activity cannot be the primary reason responsible for the absence of detectable modes in the remaining 68% of the stars without p modes detected and with reliable rotation periods. Thus, we investigate metallicity, inclination angle, and binarity as possible causes of low mode amplitudes. Using spectroscopic observations for a subsample, we find that a low metallicity could be the reason for suppressed modes. No clear correlation with binarity nor inclination is found. We also derive the lower limit for our photometric activity index (of 20-30 ppm) below which rotation and magnetic activity are not detected. Finally with our analysis we conclude that stars with a photometric activity index larger than 2,000 ppm have 98.3% probability of not having oscillations detected.
description: Paper Accepter for publication in Frontiers Astronomy and Space Sciences. 31 pages and 15 figures
Supplementary document for Plasmonic lithography fast imaging model based on decomposition machine learning method - 6186751.pdf
Creators: name: Ding, Huwen
name: Liu, Lihong
name: Li, Ziqi
name: Dong, Lisong
name: Wei, Yayi
name: Ye, Tian-Chun
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Revised Supplement
Tumor Necrosis Factor α Influences Phenotypic Plasticity and Promotes Epigenetic Changes in Human Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Neuroblasts
Creators: name: Guarnieri, Giulia
name: Sarchielli, Erica
name: Comeglio, Paolo
name: Herrera-Puerta, Erika
name: Piaceri, Irene
name: Nacmias, Benedetta
name: Benelli, Matteo
name: Kelsey, Gavin
name: Maggi, Mario
name: Gallina, Pasquale
name: Vannelli, Gabriella Barbara
name: Morelli, Annamaria
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: neuroinflammation
Alzheimer’s disease
neurogenesis
human fetal neurons
DNA methylation
nucleus basalis of Meynert
ciliogenesis
NGF
TNFα receptors

description: TNFα is the main proinflammatory cytokine implicated in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders, but it also modulates physiological functions in both the developing and adult brain. In this study, we investigated a potential direct role of TNFα in determining phenotypic changes of a recently established cellular model of human basal forebrain cholinergic neuroblasts isolated from the nucleus basalis of Meynert (hfNBMs). Exposing hfNBMs to TNFα reduced the expression of immature markers, such as nestin and β-tubulin III, and inhibited primary cilium formation. On the contrary, TNFα increased the expression of TNFα receptor TNFR2 and the mature neuron marker MAP2, also promoting neurite elongation. Moreover, TNFα affected nerve growth factor receptor expression. We also found that TNFα induced the expression of DNA-methylation enzymes and, accordingly, downregulated genes involved in neuronal development through epigenetic mechanisms, as demonstrated by methylome analysis. In summary, TNFα showed a dual role on hfNBMs phenotypic plasticity, exerting a negative influence on neurogenesis despite a positive effect on differentiation, through mechanisms that remain to be elucidated. Our results help to clarify the complexity of TNFα effects in human neurons and suggest that manipulation of TNFα signaling could provide a potential therapeutic approach against neurodegenerative disorders.
title: Sonia Medel talks about addressing the "isms" in co-ops
Creators: name: Medel, Sonia
Publisher: name: Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cooperative societies

description: Building equitable, accessible and affordable campuses through Co-operatives. Webinars discussing co-operatives, what they are and how they could make for more equitable and accessible campus communities. Co-op webinar 2. This video is part of the second webinar in the webinar series on "COVID-19 Response: Building Higher Learning Resilience in the Face of Epidemics: Co-operatives and Campuses". Webinar occurred on March 17th, 2021.
Chandra X-ray spectroscopy of the focused wind in the Cygnus X-1 system III. Dipping in the low/hard state
Creators: name: Hirsch, Maria
name: Hell, Natalie
name: Grinberg, Victoria
name: Ballhausen, Ralf
name: Nowak, Michael A.
name: Pottschmidt, Katja
name: Schulz, Norbert S.
name: Dauser, Thomas
name: Hanke, Manfred
name: Kallman, Timothy R.
name: Brown, Gregory V.
name: Wilms, Jörn
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of three Chandra High Energy Transmission Gratings observations of the black hole binary Cyg X-1/HDE 226868 at different orbital phases. The stellar wind that is powering the accretion in this system is characterized by temperature and density inhomogeneities including structures, or "clumps", of colder, more dense material embedded in the photoionized gas. As these clumps pass our line of sight, absorption dips appear in the light curve. We characterize the properties of the clumps through spectral changes during various dip stages. Comparing the silicon and sulfur absorption line regions (1.6-2.7 keV $\equiv$ 7.7-4.6 Å) in four levels of varying column depth reveals the presence of lower ionization stages, i.e., colder or denser material, in the deeper dip phases. The Doppler velocities of the lines are roughly consistent within each observation, varying with the respective orbital phase. This is consistent with the picture of a structure that consists of differently ionized material, in which shells of material facing the black hole shield the inner and back shells from the ionizing radiation. The variation of the Doppler velocities compared to a toy model of the stellar wind, however, does not allow us to pin down an exact location of the clump region in the system. This result, as well as the asymmetric shape of the observed lines, point at a picture of a complex wind structure.
description: 19 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Entomobrya mauretanica Baquero 2009
Creators: name: Jordana, Rafael
name: Greenslade, Penelope
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Entomobryidae
Entomobrya
Entomobrya mauretanica

description: Entomobrya mauretanica Handschin, 1925 sensu Baquero et al., 2009
(Fig. 2H)
Type locality. Tamalelt, Morocco.
Material examined. Two male, SA, Hindmarsh Island, Wyndgate land, - 35.516°S, 138.8762°E, 25m asl, vegetated plot, pitfalls, 4.x.2013, PG GH leg; one female, SA, Glen Osmond, - 34.960°S, 138.650°E, 300m asl, under stones, 1.ix.1974, C. Johnston leg.
Remarks. These specimens have the same colour and chaetotaxy as the described species, including the form of the labral papillae and other structures. Entomobrya mauretanica was previously only known from Morocco. It is clearly an introduced species to Australia and here many thousands of kilometres out of its previous known range.
description: Published as part of Jordana, Rafael & Greenslade, Penelope, 2020, Biogeographical and ecological insights from Australasian faunas: the megadiverse collembolan genus, Entomobrya (Entomobryidae), pp. 1-104 in Zootaxa 4770 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4770.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3797958