cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Apport et place de la xylologie en archéologie préventive
Creators: name: Lecomte‐Schmitt, Blandine
Publisher: name: Inrap
Year: 2020

description: L’archéo-xylologie est l’étude des bois archéologiques principalement découverts en milieu humide. Ces bois gorgé d’eau, mis au jour lors de fouilles archéologiques, conservent souvent leur forme et leur aspect d’origine. Matériau naturel utilisé par les hommes de toute époque, il permet d’entrevoir les environnements passés à travers ses caractéristiques écologiques (cernes de croissance, morphologie de la plante) et documente certaines pratiques anthropiques (récolte, façonnage, utilisation). Les vestiges se font pourtant rares et seule une infime partie est parvenue jusqu’à nous du fait, d’une part, des conditions particulières nécessaires à leur conservation et, d’autre part, du hasard de leur découverte.
description: Archaeo-xylology is the study of archaeological woods, mainly found in wetlands. These waterlogged woods unearthed during archaeological excavations often retain their original shape and appearance. As a natural material used by men of all eras, it gives a glimpse of past environments through its ecological characteristics (growth rings, plant morphology) and documents certain anthropic practices (harvesting, shaping, use). However, remains are rare and only a tiny part of them have come down to us because of the special conditions necessary for their conservation and the chance of their discovery.
Lampria circumdata
Creators: name: Estrada, Alejandro
name: Nápoles, Jesús Romero
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Lampria
Lampria circumdata

description: Lampria circumdata (Bellardi, 1861) (Figure 8) Distribution of the species in Mexico. Unknown (Papavero 2009). New records. Morelos, Quintana Roo, and Veracruz. Material examined. MEXICO: Morelos, 4 km W Ajuchitlán [Tropical Deciduous Forest], 18°27.632′ N 99°00.125′ W, 940 m, 19/xi/1995. A. Rodríguez (1♂ EBCC). Quintana Roo, Carretera Chetumal-Pto. Juárez km 146, 17/iii/1982, M. García (1♂ CNIN). Veracruz, [Catemaco], Estación Los Tuxtlas, [18°34′ N 95°04′ W], 17-18/iv/1986, A. Ibarra, E. Ramírez y P. Blanca (1♂ CNIN); same data, except: 140 m, 23/ iv/1985, P. Sinaca (1♂ EBTLT); El Vigía trail, 18/iv/1986, E. Ramírez (1♂ EBTLT); same data, except: 480 m, 21/iv/1986, E. Ramírez (1♂ EBTLT); same data, except: 160 m, 13/iv/1986, P. Sinaca (1♂ EBTLT).
description: Published as part of Estrada, Alejandro & Nápoles, Jesús Romero, 2020, New distribution records of Asilidae (Insecta: Diptera) for Mexico, pp. 1-13 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (783) on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5458908
description: {"references": ["Bellardi, L. 1861. Saggio di ditterologia messicana. parte II 2: 99 pp., Torino. (Also published in: Memorie della Reale accademia delle scienze di Torino 21: 103 - 199, 1864).", "Papavero, N. 2009. Catalogue of the Neotropical Diptera: Asilidae. Neotropical Diptera 17: 1 - 178."]}
title: Report on the 4th International workshop on System Innovation towards Sustainable Agriculture (SISA-4)
Creators: name: SISA-4 organising committee
name: Elzen, Boelie
name: Hvitsand, Christine
name: König, Bettina
name: Romera, Alvaro
name: van Dis, Renée
name: Verdugo-Raab, David
Publisher: name: KOBRA Universität Kassel
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: transformation
subject: transition
subject: agriculture
subject: agrofood
subject: food system
subject: agricultural system
classificationCode: 630
subject: 630
classificationCode: 300
subject: 300
classificationCode: Transformation
subject: Transformation
classificationCode: Übergang
subject: Übergang
classificationCode: Landwirtschaft
subject: Landwirtschaft
classificationCode: Nachhaltigkeit
subject: Nachhaltigkeit
classificationCode: Lebensmittelproduktion
subject: Lebensmittelproduktion
classificationCode: Agrarstruktur
subject: Agrarstruktur

description:
Societies are facing enormous and persisting sustainability challenges. Research, international negotiations, EU and national policies try to address these with differing degrees of ambition and direction across societal fields. The systems of agricultural production and food consumption is one such field. Research insights from agricultural knowledge and innovation system (AKIS) have led to new forms of research and development of agricultural systems (e.g. more ecological modes of farming, precision farming) at national and international levels. Recent attempts to make farming more sustainable are giving participatory, inter- and transdisciplinary research approaches more prominence to take the multifaceted and complex nature of agri-food knowledge and innovation systems, their interconnections to other systems and the systemic characteristics of change into account. However, progress in making agri-food systems around the globe more sustainable and resilient has been slow and fragmented. Moreover, sustainability transition efforts are now confronted with the impacts of disturbances and disruptions, such as societal conflicts and crisis events. Developments around the globe, not least due to recent crises, have left actors somewhat without directionality. The present upraise of farmers in many countries echoes the importance of developing research and studies about transitions grounded in societal expectations, political promises and critiques from farmers. To contribute to moving research and practice forward, we planned a workshop to address the following overarching questions: What have we achieved and learned so far through the many initiatives in research, policy and practice around agri-food sustainability transitions? What knowledge is needed to inform actors and society on feasible pathways to feed the changing world in a sustainable manner and how can we stimulate these pathways?
Polacantha (Echinitropis) xanthocera
Creators: name: Estrada, Alejandro
name: Nápoles, Jesús Romero
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Polacantha
Polacantha xanthocera

description: Polacantha (Echinitropis) xanthocera (Williston, 1901) (Figure 13) Genus distribution in Mexico. Baja California, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guerrero, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí and Tamaulipas (Papavero 2009). Species distribution in Mexico. Guerrero (Williston 1901). New records. Jalisco * and Morelos *. Material examined. MEXICO: Jalisco, Estación Chamela [Tropical Deciduous Forest] [19°30′ N, 105°00 W], 2/x/1989, E. Ramírez (1♂, 1♀ EBCC); same data, except: 12/viii/1985, M. Sánchez (1♀ EBCC); same data, except: 2/x/1993, P. Manrique (1♂, 1♀ EBCC); same data, except: 1/x/1993 (1♀ EBCC). Morelos, 4 km W Ajuchitlán [Tropical Deciduous Forest], 18°27.632′ N, 99°00.125′ W, 940 m, 19/xi/1995, E. Ramírez (1♀ EBCC). Remarks. These specimens represent the first records for the species since its description by Williston (1901).
description: Published as part of Estrada, Alejandro & Nápoles, Jesús Romero, 2020, New distribution records of Asilidae (Insecta: Diptera) for Mexico, pp. 1-13 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (783) on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5458908
description: {"references": ["Williston, S. W. 1901. Asilidae, supplement (part). p. 298 - 332. In: F. D. Godman and O. Salvin (eds.). Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Zoologia. Class Insecta. Order Diptera. Vol. I. R. H. Porter; London. viii + 378 p.", "Papavero, N. 2009. Catalogue of the Neotropical Diptera: Asilidae. Neotropical Diptera 17: 1 - 178."]}
Arrêt de Callisto : bilan et réflexions
Creators: name: Stéphane, POUYLLAU
name: Nicolas, SAURET
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Jupyter
SHS
SSH
Notebooks
Python

description: L’expérience et le contexte actuel du HN Lab nous impose un premier bilan d’étape, à la suite duquel nous avons décidé de fermer Callisto, dans sa forme actuelle.
Persistent currents in absence of magnetic field in graphene nanorings: The ambiguous role of inter valley scattering
Creators: name: Benjamin, Colin
name: Jayannavar, A M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Persistent currents can arise in normal-metal rings due to a magnetic flux threading the ring in equilibrium. However, can persistent currents arise in absence of magnetic flux in the same normal-metal rings? Yes they can but in a non-equilibrium set-up. This is known as current magnification. In this work we show that current magnification can be seen in graphene nanorings. Further, graphene can have electrons polarized with a valley quantum number. Electron scattering between valleys can have a non-trivial effect on these persistent currents including inducing a sign change and generating them for parameters where none existed to begin with.
description: 5 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in Applied Physics Letters. Applied Physics Letters (2014)
Black-hole entropy and minimal diffusion
Creators: name: Arzano, Michele
name: Calcagni, Gianluca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The density of states reproducing the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy-area scaling can be modeled via a nonlocal field theory. We define a diffusion process based on the kinematics of this theory and find a spectral dimension whose flow exhibits surprising properties. While it asymptotes four from above in the infrared, in the ultraviolet the spectral dimension diverges at a finite (Planckian) value of the diffusion length, signaling a breakdown of the notion of diffusion on a continuum spacetime below that scale. We comment on the implications of this minimal diffusion scale for the entropy bound in a holographic and field-theoretic context.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure. v2: physical interpretation of the results clarified
Stenocephalemys albocaudata Frick 1914
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Stenocephalemys
Stenocephalemys albocaudata

description: Stenocephalemys albocaudata Frick, 1914. Ann. Carnegie Mus., 9:8. TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, Chilalo Mtns., Inyala Camp. DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410011061001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 556, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
An optimized intelligent boosting model for diabetic retinopathy segmentation severity analysis using fundus images
Creators: name: M. Gargi
name: Namburu, Anupama
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Severity classification
Affected region segmentation
Squirrel optimization
Extreme boosting
Feature analysis

description: Engineering and Applied Science Research, 50, 2, 163-175
A Fast Hadamard Transform for Signals with Sub-linear Sparsity in the Transform Domain
Creators: name: Scheibler, Robin
name: Haghighatshoar, Saeid
name: Vetterli, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A new iterative low complexity algorithm has been presented for computing the Walsh-Hadamard transform (WHT) of an $N$ dimensional signal with a $K$-sparse WHT, where $N$ is a power of two and $K = O(N^α)$, scales sub-linearly in $N$ for some $0 < α< 1$. Assuming a random support model for the non-zero transform domain components, the algorithm reconstructs the WHT of the signal with a sample complexity $O(K \log_2(\frac{N}{K}))$, a computational complexity $O(K\log_2(K)\log_2(\frac{N}{K}))$ and with a very high probability asymptotically tending to 1. The approach is based on the subsampling (aliasing) property of the WHT, where by a carefully designed subsampling of the time domain signal, one can induce a suitable aliasing pattern in the transform domain. By treating the aliasing patterns as parity-check constraints and borrowing ideas from erasure correcting sparse-graph codes, the recovery of the non-zero spectral values has been formulated as a belief propagation (BP) algorithm (peeling decoding) over a sparse-graph code for the binary erasure channel (BEC). Tools from coding theory are used to analyze the asymptotic performance of the algorithm in the very sparse ($α\in(0,\frac{1}{3}]$) and the less sparse ($α\in(\frac{1}{3},1)$) regime.
description: 17 pages. 11 figures. A shorter version was submitted to the 51st Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing (2013)
Prolepsis tristis
Creators: name: Estrada, Alejandro
name: Nápoles, Jesús Romero
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Prolepsis
Prolepsis tristis

description: Prolepsis tristis (Walker, 1854) (Figure 14) Genus distribution in Mexico. Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (Papavero 2009). Species distribution in Mexico. Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, and Nayarit (Papavero 2009). New records. Oaxaca * (Dominguillo), Puebla *, and Tabasco * (Huimalquillo). Material examined. MEXICO: Oaxaca, Dominguillo 19 km SSE de Cuicatlán [Tropical Deciduous Forest], 17°38.907′ N, 96°54.703′ W, 760 m, 20/ix/1998, E. Ramírez (1♂ EBCC); same data, except: 23/ vi/1998, E. González (1♀ EBCC); San Pedrito Chicozapotle 4 km SSE de Cuicatlán [Tropical Deciduous Forest], 17°46.331′ N, 96°56.671′ W, 670 m, 16/x/1998, E. González (1♀ EBCC); 30 km SSE de Cuicatlán [Tropical Deciduous Forest], 17°36.489 N, 96°55.996 W, 1220 m, 21/ix/1998, E. Ramírez (1♂ EBCC). Puebla, Carretera Cuautla-Huajuapan, 31/viii/1990, A. Cadena and L. Cervantes (1♀ CNIN). Tabasco, Huimanguillo, Laguna Limones, 20/viii/1982, H. Mendoza (1♀ CNIN).
description: Published as part of Estrada, Alejandro & Nápoles, Jesús Romero, 2020, New distribution records of Asilidae (Insecta: Diptera) for Mexico, pp. 1-13 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (783) on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5458908
description: {"references": ["Papavero, N. 2009. Catalogue of the Neotropical Diptera: Asilidae. Neotropical Diptera 17: 1 - 178."]}
Predictive Scaling Laws for Spherical Rotating Dynamos
Creators: name: Oruba, Ludivine
name: Dormy, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: State of the art numerical models of the Geodynamo are still performed in a parameter regime extremely remote from the values relevant to the physics of the Earth's core. In order to establish a connection between dynamo modeling and the geophysical motivation, {it is necessary to use} scaling laws. Such scaling laws establish the dependence of essential quantities (such as the magnetic field strength) on measured or controlled quantities. They allow for a direct confrontation of advanced models with geophysical {constraints}. (...) We show that previous empirical scaling laws for the magnetic field strength essentially reflect the statistical balance between energy production and dissipation for saturated dynamos. Such power based scaling laws are thus necessarily valid for any dynamo in statistical equilibrium and applicable to any numerical model, irrespectively of the dynamo mechanism. We show that direct numerical fits can provide contradictory results owing to biases in the parameters space covered in the numerics and to the role of a priori hypothesis on the fraction of ohmic dissipation. We introduce predictive scaling laws, i.e. relations involving input parameters of the governing equations only. We guide our reasoning on physical considerations. We show that our predictive scaling laws can properly describe the numerical database and reflect the dominant forces balance at work in these numerical simulations. We highlight the dependence of the magnetic field strength on the rotation rate. Finally, our results stress that available numerical models operate in a viscous dynamical regime, which is not relevant to the Earth's core.
ARATORIS HISTORIA APOSTOLICA. LIBRO PRIMO: TRADUZIONE E COMMENTO
Creators: name: MORI, ROBERTO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2013

description: My Ph.D. dissertation analyzes from a philological and literary point of view the first book of Arator?s Historia Apostolica, a biblical epos about Peter and Paul based on the Acts of the Apostles. In the first chapter I study Arator?s letters to pope Vigilius, Florianus and Parthenius and the public reading carried out by the poet in 544 A.D., in order to investigate his historical background and his aims. In the second part of my work the reader will find the Latin text with the apparatus fontium, while in the third one I submit my personal Italian translation of the first book. Finally, in the last chapter, I illustrate the subjects and the stilistic-rhetoric strategies used by Arator: the examples reported show that he often alludes to some well-known passages of Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius and other pagans or Christian Latin poets, as well as to some prose works of Augustin, Ambrose an so on. Some of these poetic references are involuntary recollections of expressions studied during his education, while others are voluntary allusions. In the latter case, Arator usually wants either to relate to the original content or to say something completely different by using the same linguistic pattern. An appendix with a list of manuscripts containing Arator?s works comes at the end of this thesis.
Stenocephalemys griseicauda Petter 1972
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Stenocephalemys
Stenocephalemys griseicauda

description: Stenocephalemys griseicauda Petter, 1972. Mammalia, 36: 171. TYPE LOCALITY: Ethiopia, Bale Mtns., Dinsho. DISTRIBUTION: Ethiopia.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 556, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLIED TO THE STUDY OF CONSCIOUS PERCEPTIVE STATES
Creators: name: MUSUMECI, MARIALESSIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2019

description: My PhD research consists of the processing of signals from a 14-electrode EEG system, connected to immersive glasses that allow for a realistic visual experience and for the investigation of the brain network in order to identify signal features corresponding to different perceptive and cognitive stimuli. The aim of the research is to implement a procedure that identifies correspondences among EEG signals and chaotic attractors. The chaotic attractors can be defined as a trajectory of a dynamical system, contained in a defined volume of phase space. A dynamical system can have chaotic behavior, i.e. an organized (but not periodic) behavior sensitive to the initial conditions. EEG signals can be considered dynamical systems. In this work a custom Artificial Neural Network (ITSOM) processes individual signals or many signals simultaneously. The sequence of the ITSOM winning nodes tends to repeat itself creating a time series of chaotic attractors. The ITSOM attributes similar codes to attractors emerging from similar brain states, perceptions and emotions. These attractors are isomorphic to the attractors in which the corresponding dynamical system (the signal time series) is evolving and univocally characterize the input element that produces them. If the attractors are chaotic, this means that the signals are individually self-organized or, by examining more signals together, there is a form of coherence among signals. The ITSOM network memorizes the time series of the winning nodes. The cumulative scores for each input are normalized following the z standardized variable distribution. Attractors are labeled with a binary code that univocally identifies them, and the flexibility of the Artificial Neural Network allows attributing the same codes to similar dynamical events. During the experiment, the subject is looking at the screen while different shades of colors, yellow, red and blue are displayed. Each stimulation lasts five seconds, between stimuli there is a black screen, used to reset the previous color stimuli. The collected results show, as forecast, many correspondences among binary codes coming from similar stimuli. The thesis provides a detailed description of these results.
Hartree Approximation to the One Loop Quantum Gravitational Correction to the Graviton Mode Function on de Sitter
Creators: name: Mora, P. J.
name: Tsamis, N. C.
name: Woodard, R. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Hartree approximation to the Einstein equation on de Sitter background to solve for the one loop correction to the graviton mode function. This should give a reasonable approximation to how the ensemble of inflationary gravitons affects a single external graviton. At late times we find that the one loop correction to the plane wave mode function $u(η,k)$ goes like $G H^2 \ln(a)/a^2$, where $a$ is the inflationary scale factor. One consequence is that the one loop corrections to the "electric" components of the linearized Weyl tensor grow compared to the tree order result.
description: 23 pages, uses LaTeX2e, version 2 expanded (by 7 pages) for publication to define the effective mode equation and compare the exact one loop result for it with the Hartree approximation
Pseudorus martini Papavero 1975
Creators: name: Estrada, Alejandro
name: Nápoles, Jesús Romero
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Pseudorus
Pseudorus martini

description: Pseudorus martini Papavero, 1975 (Figure 17) Species distribution in Mexico. Morelos and Puebla (Papavero 1975, 2009). New records. Jalisco and Michoacán. Material examined. MEXICO: Jalisco, Estación Chamela [Tropical Deciduous Forest] [19°30′ N, 105°00′ W], 4/ix/1989, E. Ramírez (2♂, 3♀ EBCC); same data, except: 5/ix/1990, 7/ix/1989, and 23/ viii/1989 (1♂, 2♀ EBCC); same data, except: 15/viii/1988, 12/ix/1988, and 19/ix/1988 (3♂ EBCC); same data, except: 15/x/1996, R.L. Westcott (1♂ EBCC); 11 km SE Tonaya, 1000 m, 5/x/1991, F.A. Noguera (3♀ EBCC); 6.6 km SW San Buenaventura [Tropical Deciduos Forest], 19°45.06′ N, 104°03.55′ W, 840 m, 3/ xii/1996, F.A. Noguera (1♂ EBCC); same data, except: 30/ix/1997, B. Rodríguez (1♂ EBCC); same data, except: 2/x/1997, M.E. Guardado (1♀ EBCC); same data, except: 3/ix/1997, M.A. Morales (1♀ EBCC); 4 km SW San Buenaventura [Tropical Deciduous Forest], 19°45.72′ N, 104°02.87′ W, 740 m, 6/xi/1996, M.E. Guardado (1♂ EBCC). Michoacán, La Sauda, 8/x/1988, R. Ayala (1♀ EBCC). Remarks. These specimens represent the first records for the species since its description by Papavero (1975).
description: Published as part of Estrada, Alejandro & Nápoles, Jesús Romero, 2020, New distribution records of Asilidae (Insecta: Diptera) for Mexico, pp. 1-13 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (783) on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5458908
description: {"references": ["Papavero, N. 1975. Studies of Asilidae (Diptera) Systematics and Evolution. IV. Tribe Megapodini Carrera (Dasypogoninae), with a review of the Neotropical species. Arquivos de Zoologia 26 (3): 191 - 318.", "Papavero, N. 2009. Catalogue of the Neotropical Diptera: Asilidae. Neotropical Diptera 17: 1 - 178."]}
MOLECULAR DIVERGENCE IN TWO MEDITERRANEAN SONGBIRD SPECIES OF THE GENUS SYLVIA (AVES: SYLVIIDAE): IMPLICATIONS FOR TAXONOMY AND RESEARCH
Creators: name: NESPOLI, DAVIDE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2016

description: Mediterranean region is one of world?s best explored areas in terms of ornithological research and it is considered a main biodiversity hotspot for the Western Palearctic (Myers et al. 2000), especially because it played a fundamental role in the divergence and speciation processes for many taxa, due to dynamics linked mainly to glaciations and salinity crises (Hewitt 1996; Taberlet et al. 1998). Most taxonomical research in ornithology carried on within this region has been based on anatomical and morphological differentiation of populations; this could have led to underestimating the real degree of divergence occurring in some morphologically cryptic populations in the region. We here analyse genetic divergence in two Sylvia (Aves: Sylviidae) species, formerly suspected of hiding complexes of cryptic sister species. We demonstrate the existence of complete molecular diagnosability and strong patterns of structuration of molecular variability in mitochondrial and nuclear markers for two taxa, which we propose to elevate to the rank of Confirmed Candidate Species (Galimberti et al. 2012): Sylvia [sarda] balearica and western Sylvia [cantillans] cantillans. We simultaneously urge the need to properly re-evaluate conservation status and policies for at least Sylvia [sarda] balearica, endemic to only a small archipelago. Molecular identification of migrating and wintering individuals of Sylvia [cantillans] allowed us to gather the first certain data about the wintering areas of single taxon of the species complex and to highlight a pattern of great dynamism in their yearly trajectories. We suggest expanding our preliminary research by coupling a more capillary distribution of ringing efforts in Northern and Central Africa with molecular identifications of trapped individuals.
Stochomys Thomas 1926
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Stochomys

description: Stochomys Thomas, 1926. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 17: 176. REVIEWED BY: E. Van der Straeten (EVS). COMMENT: Includes Dephomys; see Misonne, 1974, Part 6: 29. Included in Aethomys by Delany, 1975, The Rodents of Uganda; but also see Corbet and Hill, 1980:177.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 556, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
description: {"references": ["Misonne, X. 1974. Order Rodentia. Part 6. Pp. 1 - 39, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.", "Delany, M. J. 1975. The rodents of Uganda. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 165 pp.", "Corbet, G. B., and J. E. Hill. 1980. A world list of mammalian species. British Museum (Natural History), London, 226 pp."]}
Saropogon pulcherrimus Williston 1901
Creators: name: Estrada, Alejandro
name: Nápoles, Jesús Romero
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Asilidae
Saropogon
Saropogon pulcherrimus

description: Saropogon pulcherrimus Williston, 1901 (Figure 18) Genus distribution in Mexico. Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Guerrero, Morelos, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Sonora and Tamaulipas (Papavero 2009). Species distribution in Mexico. Guerrero (Williston 1901; Papavero 2009). New records. Morelos (2.5 km W from Ajuchitlán). Material examined. MEXICO: Morelos, 2.5 km W from Ajuchitlán [Tropical Deciduous Forest], 18°28.065′ N, 98°59.546′ W, 950 m, 9/x/1996, B. Rodríguez (1♂ EBCC); same data, except: 18/xi/1995, E. Ramírez (1♂ EBCC); same data except: 18/xi/1995, A. Rodríguez (2♀ EBCC). Remarks. These specimens represent the first records for the species since Williston (1901) described it in the supplement of the Biologia Centrali-Americana.
description: Published as part of Estrada, Alejandro & Nápoles, Jesús Romero, 2020, New distribution records of Asilidae (Insecta: Diptera) for Mexico, pp. 1-13 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (783) on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5458908
description: {"references": ["Williston, S. W. 1901. Asilidae, supplement (part). p. 298 - 332. In: F. D. Godman and O. Salvin (eds.). Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Zoologia. Class Insecta. Order Diptera. Vol. I. R. H. Porter; London. viii + 378 p.", "Papavero, N. 2009. Catalogue of the Neotropical Diptera: Asilidae. Neotropical Diptera 17: 1 - 178."]}
Impact of Marriage and Social Norms in Determining Women’s Property Rights within the Muslim Communities of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Minnee, Rubaiya
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2022

description: The Bangladeshi Muslim society like most Islamic societies lacks advancement of women’s rights, seen in most western societies, in the context of property rights, access to land and ability to enforce their rights. Furthermore, the absence of a codified jurisdiction on marital property puts divorced and separated women in Bangladesh at far greater risk of economic hardship and poverty than the men. Considering the importance of Muslim women’s rights to access, control and own land through both inheritance and marriage, it is important to assess Bangladeshi Muslim women’s status in family, marriage, and society as a whole. With the aim to establish that women’s marital property rights would improve their overall wellbeing, this study will adopt a desk-based research in exploring the deep-rooted issues involving the construction of gender and marriage in context of Muslim women’s rights to own, access and control land in Bangladesh. In order to analyse the best approach to introduce community property regime in the Muslim society of Bangladesh, the level of development and the status of women’s property rights in six different Muslim countries, namely Tunisia, Morocco, Malaysia, Indonesia, Turkey, and Iran, have been thoroughly analysed to demonstrate the extensive benefits of community property regimes. This nonempirical research will mostly include studying through religious scriptures, archives of libraries, online resources, published academic journals and articles, policies, and reports. Furthermore, taking a Human Rights based approach this paper will examine women’s rights and property rights as basic human rights. Essentially, this research will focus on the Muslim women and their land rights in Bangladesh in the context of marital impact, religious beliefs, and influences of long-practiced traditional social norms in order to evaluate the degree of reworking of rules and norms surrounding marriage and family would be required to facilitate joint marital property regime in the Muslim society of Bangladesh.
Degree of Regularity of Linear Homogeneous Equations
Creators: name: Gandhi, Kavish
name: Golowich, Noah
name: Lovász, László Miklós
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05D10, 11B30

description: We define a linear homogeneous equation to be strongly r-regular if, when a finite number of inequalities is added to the equation, the system of the equation and inequalities is still r-regular. In this paper, we show that, if a linear homogeneous equation is r-regular, then it is strongly r-regular. In 2009, Alexeev and Tsimerman introduced a family of equations, each of which is (n-1)-regular but not n-regular, verifying a conjecture of Rado from 1933. These equations are actually strongly (n-1)-regular as an immediate corollary of our results.
description: 7 pages. This is an update of our previous version that proves a stronger result
Multiferroicity in the geometrically frustrated FeTe2O5Cl
Creators: name: Pregelj, M.
name: Zorko, A.
name: Zaharko, O.
name: Jeglič, P.
name: Kutnjak, Z.
name: Jagličić, Z.
name: Jazbec, S.
name: Luetkens, H.
name: Hillier, A. D.
name: Berger, H.
name: Arčon, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The layered FeTe2O5Cl compound was studied by specific-heat, muon spin relaxation, nuclear magnetic resonance, dielectric, as well as neutron and synchrotron x-ray diffraction measurements, and the results were compared to isostructural FeTe2O5Br. We find that the low-temperature ordered state, similarly as in FeTe2O5Br, is multiferroic - the elliptical amplitude-modulated magnetic cycloid and the electric polarization simultaneously develop below 11 K. However, compared to FeTe2O5Br, the magnetic elliptical envelop rotates by 75(4) deg and the orientation of the electric polarization is much more sensitive to the applied electric field. We propose that the observed differences between the two isostructural compounds arise from geometric frustration, which enhances the effects of otherwise subtle Fe3+ (S = 5/2) magnetic anisotropies. Finally, x-ray diffraction results imply that, on the microscopic scale, the magnetoelectric coupling is driven by shifts of the O1 atoms, as a response to the polarization of the Te4+ lone-pair electrons involved in the Fe-O-Te-O-Fe exchange bridges.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures. (http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.224421)
Vorticity survival in magnetised Friedmann universes
Creators: name: Dosopoulou, Fani
name: Tsagas, Christos G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a general relativistic approach to investigate the effects of weak cosmological magnetic fields on linear rotational perturbations during the radiation and dust epochs of the universe. This includes ordinary kinematic vorticity, as well as vortex-like inhomogeneities in the density distribution of the cosmic medium. Our study confirms that magnetic fields can source both types of perturbations and shows that their presence also helps cosmic rotation to survive longer. In agreement with previous Newtonian studies, we find that during the dust era vorticity decays slower than in non-magnetised cosmologies. Prior to equipartition the magnetic effect is more pronounced, since it helps the aforementioned rotational distortions to maintain constant magnitude. Overall, magnetised universes seem to provide a much better environment for the survival of cosmic vorticity than their magnetic-free counterparts.
description: Typos corrected, references added. PRD in press
DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL HIGH PERFORMANCE PROTEIN MICROARRAYS FOR DIAGNOSTIC APPLICATIONS
Creators: name: GAGNI, PAOLA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2015

description: Several application of protein microarray technology in diagnostics have been published and a limited number of protein microarrays is currently available on the In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) market. Albeit several advantages, related to the miniaturization, the multiplexing capability and the possibility of integrating the immunoassays in biosensing devices, microarrays may still lack of specificity or sensitivity. To overcome these limitations and expand the use of protein microarray platform in diagnostics, the present PhD research aimed at developing innovative approaches to increase the assay specificity and sensitivity, reaching very low detection limits, that are compatible with the use of the proposed devices in diagnostics. Furthermore, the use of protein microarrays has been applied to the characterization of emerging biomarkers: exosomes. First of all, surface immobilized hydrogels have been investigated as reagent reservoir for microarray reagents. They have been demonstrated to store reagents in a dry form, stable over days, in a format easy to transport and to preserve. Moreover, they also acted as chambers able to physically separate analytes or reagents which may cross-react with proteins on the printed arrays. In this way the solution was prevented from spreading over the surface and the assays provided sentitive performances, comparable to standard static incubations. In further studies, the complementarity of information provided by fluorescence-based, label-free IRIS and SP-IRIS microarray platforms has been applied to develop immunoassays useful in the diagnostics of Neurodegenerative Disorders. Specifically, two different assay formats have been exploited. The first part of the work focused on the development of a classical sandwich immunoassay able to detect physiological concentrations of Amyloid-beta peptides, biomarkers for Alzheimer?s disease, in both artificial cerebrospinal fluid and real human samples. The second study was aimed at extending the concept of protein microarrays to extracellular vesicles (i.e., exosomes) detection through surface antigen-antibodies recognition. In this innovative application, the nanoparticles were detected with label-free IRIS (total biomass measurements) and SP-IRIS (particle counting and size distribution). In addition, individual particles were incubated with gold-labeled antibodies to identify biomarkers expressed on their surface.
Regulatory Relevance of the European Research Cluster to Understand the Health Impacts of Micro- and Nanoplastics (CUSP)
Creators: name: Foss Hansen, Steffen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: microplastics
nanoplastics
human health
plastic particles
policy
regulatory frameworks
Horizon 2020

description: The presence of micro-and nanoplastics (mnps) is part of our everyday life and they find their way into our body through the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. It is not known how MNPs might be affecting human health. Policymakers and regulatory authorities around the world are increasingly implementing regulatory measures to address this concern. Early in 2021, the EC funded five large-scale research projects under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. These five projects have formed the European Research Cluster to Understand the Health Impacts of Micro- and Nanoplastics (CUSP). In close collaboration with the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and a constant dialogue between scientists, stakeholders and policy makers, CUSP is enhancing the policy relevance and impact of the research, as described in this policy brief.
LACK OF P21 EXPRESSION IN TUMOR-ASSOCIATED APCS TRIGGERS THE ACTIVATION OF A POTENT ANTI-TUMOR IMMUNE RESPONSE
Creators: name: TANASKOVIC, OLGA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2019

description: Over the last decade, the cell-cycle inhibitor p21 has been shown to sustain leukaemia propagation with two distinct mechanisms. On one hand, p21 was shown to be critical for maintaining increased self-renewal capacities of leukaemia stem cells. Indeed, the absence of p21 in leukaemia stem cells leads to their functional exhaustion, which results in loss of leukaemia transplantability in syngeneic mice. On the other hand, p21 expression is crucial for evading the surveillance mechanisms of the immune system, thus ensuring tumor growth. Specifically, lack of p21 in the leukemic microenvironment activates a potent CD4+ T-cell mediated immunological response against tumor in syngeneic context (un-published data from the host laboratory). To translate the observed p21-dependent anti-tumoral immunity into novel immune-therapies against cancer, underlying mechanisms needed to be unrevealed. In my thesis work, I dissected the cellular bases of the p21-dependent anti-tumor immuni-ty. I disclosed a crucial role of the p21-/- tumor microenvironment in triggering activation of an anti-tumor immunological response. In particular, for the first time I identified rare iron-loaded CD68+ tumor-associated macrophages (iTAMs) in the p21-null context as key me-diators of a potent immunological mechanisms of cancer clearance. By unravelling crucial players of the p21-dependent anti-tumor immunity, my work set the basis for the future de-sign of novel anti-cancer vaccines. Such vaccines will grant more efficient and less toxic treatment for cancer patients. To further transpose such immunological mechanism of cancer clearance in humans, the us-age of a proper humanized mouse model is needed. Actually, humanized mice allow to study the interaction between human immune system and cancers of human origin. I gener-ated hCB-CD34+ NSG mice containing all the cellular components of human immunity. However, I showed that these mice are fully accessible to human tumor growth, demon-strating the inadequacy of hCB-CD34+ NSG model in immuno-oncology. Thus, the devel-opment of a proper humanized mouse model to study p21-dependent anti-tumoral immune response in human context remains necessary.
The K-theoretical range of Cuntz-Krieger algebras
Creators: name: Arklint, Sara E.
name: Bentmann, Rasmus
name: Katsura, Takeshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46L35, 46L80, (46L55)

description: We augment Restorff's classification of purely infinite Cuntz-Krieger algebras by describing the range of his invariant on purely infinite Cuntz-Krieger algebras. We also describe its range on purely infinite graph C*-algebras with finitely many ideals, and provide 'unital' range results for purely infinite Cuntz-Krieger algebras and unital purely infinite graph C*-algebras.
description: 16 pages. This article contains material that was originally contained arXiv:1301.7223v1. v2: minor changes, v3: minor changes, final version
Stochomys defua
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Stochomys
Stochomys defua

description: Stochomys defua (Miller, 1900). Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci., 2:635. TYPE LOCALITY: Liberia, Mt. Coffee. DISTRIBUTION: Guinea to Ghana. COMMENT: Includes eburnea; see Misonne, 1974, Part 6: 29. Sometimes included in a separate genus Dephomys; see Rosevear, 1969. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410011058032001 as Rattus defua.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 5), pp. 504-560 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 556, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353037
description: {"references": ["Misonne, X. 1974. Order Rodentia. Part 6. Pp. 1 - 39, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.). [issued 10 Sep 1974]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.", "Rosevear, D. R. 1969. The rodents of West Africa. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 677: 1 - 604."]}
Quantization of n coupled scalar field theory
Creators: name: Kim, Yong-Wan
name: Myung, Yun Soo
name: Park, Young-Jai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a model of n coupled scalar fields in Minkowski spacetime where all masses degenerate, which is considered as a toy model of polycritical gravity on AdS spacetime. We quantize this model within the Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin (BRST) scheme by introducing n Faddeev-Popov (FP) ghost fields. Extending a BRST quartet generated by two scalars and two FP ghosts to n scalars and n FP ghosts, there remains a physical subspace with positive norm for odd n, but there exists only the vacuum for even n. This clearly shows a non-triviality of odd-higher order derivative scalar field theories. This is helpful to understand the truncation mechanism which is used to obtain a unitary conformal field theory dual to linearized polycritical gravity. It turns out that the truncation mechanism is nothing but a general quartet mechanism appeared when introducing the FP ghost action.
description: 18 pages, version to appear in PRD
Wave turbulence in the two-layer ocean model
Creators: name: Harper, Katie L
name: Nazarenko, Sergey V
name: Medvedev, Sergey B
name: Connaughton, Colm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper looks at the two-layer ocean model from a wave turbulence perspective. A symmetric form of the two-layer kinetic equation for Rossby waves is derived using canonical variables, allowing the turbulent cascade of energy between the barotropic and baroclinic modes to be studied. It turns out that energy is transferred via local triad interactions from the large-scale baroclinic modes to the baroclinic and barotropic modes at the Rossby deformation scale. From there it is then transferred to the large-scale barotropic modes via a nonlocal inverse transfer. Using scale separation a sys- tem of coupled equations were obtained for the small-scale baroclinic component and the large-scale barotropic component. Since the total energy of the small-scale component is not conserved, but the total barotropic plus baroclinic energy is conserved, the baroclinic energy loss at small scales will be compensated by the growth of the barotropic energy at large scales. It is found that this transfer is mostly anisotropic and mostly to the zonal component.
Consistent use of Type Ia supernovae highly magnified by galaxy clusters to constrain the cosmological parameters
Creators: name: Zitrin, Adi
name: Redlich, Matthias
name: Broadhurst, Tom
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss how Type Ia supernovae (SNe) strongly magnified by foreground galaxy clusters should be self-consistently treated when used in samples fitted for the cosmological parameters. While the cluster lens magnification of a SN can be well constrained from sets of multiple images of various background galaxies with measured redshifts, its value is typically dependent on the fiducial set of cosmological parameters used to construct the mass model to begin with. In such cases, one should not naively demagnify the observed SN luminosity by the model magnification into the expected Hubble diagram, which would then create a bias, but take into account the cosmological parameters a-priori chosen to construct the mass model. We quantify the effect and find that a systematic error of typically a few percent, up to a few-dozen percent, per magnified SN, may be propagated onto a cosmological parameter fit, unless the cosmology assumed for the mass model is taken into account (the bias can be even larger if the SN is lying very near the critical curves). We also simulate how such a bias propagates onto the cosmological parameter fit using the Union2.1 sample, supplemented with strongly magnified SNe. The resulting bias on the deduced cosmological parameters is generally at the few percent level, if only few biased SNe are included, and increasing with the number of lensed SNe and their redshift. Samples containing magnified Type Ia SNe, e.g. from ongoing cluster surveys, should readily account for this possible bias.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures; V3: typos fixed (including in some equations), modifications and corrections made following referee report; accepted for publication