cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Spondylus orstomi Lamprell & Healy 2001
Creators: name: Raines, Bret
name: Huber, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Pectinida
Spondylidae
Spondylus
Spondylus orstomi

description: Spondylus orstomi Lamprell & Healy, 2001
Figures 18 C–F
 Spondylus orstomi Lamprell & Healy, 2001: p. 120, figs. 3 D–G.
 Spondylus cf. orstomi Lamprell & Healy, 2001 — Raines, 2002: p. 35, fig. 42.
 Spondylus orstomi Lamprell & Healy, 2001 — Huber, 2010: p. 220, figs. 3–4.
 Material examined. Several single valves and fragments from EI (BK), plus the MNHN type material.
 Diagnosis. Shell small to medium, elongate ovate, moderately thin, and inequivalve; auricles relatively small. Sculpture consisting of 12–16 well defined, low, rounded, primary radial ribs with 1–3 secondary riblets in the interstices. Both ribs and interstices covered in densely imbricated spines, with some spines occasionally being longer, thin and upright. Color variable from uniformly light brown, orange and bright yellow to maculations of orange and white.
 Remarks. Since the first report of this species at EI by Raines (2002), more valves have been collected, so we can now confirm that the species is indeed S. orstomi.
 Habitat. Occasionally found at several locations around EI, in sand and rubble, from 30–50 m.
 Distribution. Although Spondylus orstomi was originally described from New Caledonia, this deep water species has a much wider distribution. It is known from the Coral Sea, Philippines, and off China. The maximum size currently known is 60.6 mm from its furthest range in the East China Sea (coll. MHU). It has not been recorded from the Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand or the Kermadec Islands— E4.
description: Published as part of Raines, Bret & Huber, Markus, 2012, 3217, pp. 1-106 in Zootaxa 3217 on page 39
Tortula truncata Mitt.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Tortula
Tortula truncata

description: Tortula truncata (Hedw.) Mitt.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Alma, champs sablonneux; Bône; La Calle. Trabut (1887a): D’Oran à Mécheria. Corbière (1889): Blida. Corbière (1904), Jelenc (1955a), Ahayoun et al. (2007): Alger. Jelenc (1955a): Baba Ali; Kabylie du Djurdjura, Fort National; Littoral oranais; Rouiba. Jelenc (1955a), Ahayoun et al. (2007): Maison-Carrée. Frequent.
COMMENT
Pottia truncata var. archidioide s (Besch.) Paris was described by Bescherelle (1882) as P. truncata f. archidioide s Besch. from Oran, bord de la mare du djebel Santo. Jelenc (1955a) compiled this report and added two localities (Maison-Carrée and Rouiba). According to Ros et al. (2013), its identity has not been revised since.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 105, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
PENTINGNYA PENGEMBANGAN KOMPETENSI SEORANG GURU
Creators: name: Lestari, Mita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Kompetensi guru merupakan suatu kemampuan yang dimiliki oleh seorang guru meliputi aspek pengetahuan, keterampilan, proses berfikir, penyesuaian diri, sikap serta nilai-nilai yang dianut dalam melaksanakan profesi sebagai guru. Pengembangan profesi guru itu agar merangsang, memelihara, dan meningkatkan kompetensi guru dalam memecahkan masalah pendidikan dan pembelajaran yang berdampak pada peningkatan hasil belajar. Pengembangan kompetensi guru semakin penting dan wajib jika dikaitkan dengan peningkatan jenjang karier dalam jabatan fungsional guru itu sendiri. Tanpa mengikuti pengembangan diri secara berkelanjutan, sulit dan bahkan tidak mungkin bagi guru untuk menapaki jabatan fungsional yang lebih tinggi. Di samping itu, dalam proses belajar mengajar tersirat adanya satu kesatuan kegiatan yang tak terpisahkan antara siswa yang belajar dan guru yang mengajar. Agar proses pembelajaran dapat dilaksanakan secara efektif dan efisien, maka guru mempunyai peranan penting dalam mengantarkan peserta didiknya mencapai tujuan yang diharapkan. Karena itu, sudah selayaknya guru mempunyai berbagai kompetensi yang berkaitan dengan tugas dan tanggungjawabnya.
Normal dispersion silicon oxynitride microresonator Kerr frequency combs
Creators: name: Chen, Dongyu
name: Kovach, Andre
name: Poust, Sumiko
name: Gambin, Vincent
name: Armani, Andrea M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On-chip optical resonators have proven to be a promising platform for generating Kerr frequency combs. Whispering gallery mode resonators are particularly attractive because of their small footprint as well as low threshold and power consumption. This performance can be attributed to two characteristics: the cavity quality factor (Q) and the cavity dispersion. The input optical field into the cavity is amplified by the cavity Q, enabling nonlinear processes to occur with low input powers. In addition, the total span of the optical comb is governed by the dispersion. In an optical cavity-based comb, the dispersion is governed by the geometric dispersion of the cavity and the material dispersion. While many different materials have been explored, the realization of ultra-high Q (UHQ) on-chip frequency combs sources is still challenging for most materials. One exception is the family of integrated silica devices. However, because the silica attracts water molecules from the ambient environment, the lifetime of the device performance is fundamentally limited, unless packaged in a controlled atmosphere. Here, we demonstrate the generation of environmentally-stable frequency combs fabricated from SiO1.7N0.13 microtoroidal resonators. Due to the UHQ factors of the cavities, parametric oscillations with sub-microwatt thresholds are demonstrated. Based on their geometry and material properties, the cavities have normal dispersion. However, due to avoided mode crossing, frequency combs are generated. Finally, unlike SiO2, the SiO1.7N0.13 inhibits the formation of a water monolayer, allowing sub-microwatt performance to be maintained for over a week in devices stored with minimal environmental controls.
description: SI included
On Fast Travel through spherically symmetric spacetimes
Creators: name: Palmer, Belkis Cabrera
name: Marolf, Donald
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a static spacetime, the Killing time can be used to measure the time required for signals or objects to propagate between two of its orbits. By further restricting to spherically symmetric cases, one obtains a natural association between these orbits and timelike lines in Minkowski space. We prove a simple theorem to the effect that in any spacetime satisfying the weak energy condition the above signaling time is, in this sense, no faster than that for a corresponding signal in Minkowski space. The theorem uses a ormalization of Killing time appropriate to an observer at infinity. We then begin an investigation of certain related but more local questions by studying particular families of spacetimes in detail. Here we are also interested in restrictions imposed by the dominant energy condition. Our examples suggest that signaling in spacetimes satisfying this stronger energy condition may be significantly slower than the fastest spacetimes satisfying only the weak energy condition.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures, minor changes, typos fixed, references added
Kinetic-theory description of isoscalar dipole modes
Creators: name: Abrosimov, V. I.
name: Dellafiore, A.
name: Matera, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A semiclassical model, based on a solution of the Vlasov equation for finite systems with moving-surface, is employed to study the isoscalar dipole modes in nuclei. It is shown that, by taking into account the surface degree of freedom, it is possible to obtain an exact treatment of the centre of mass motion. It is also shown that a method often used to subtract the spurious strength in RPA calculations does not always give the correct result. An alternative analytical formula for the intrinsic strength function is derived in a simple confined-Fermi-gas model. In this model the intrinsic isoscalar dipole strength displays essentially a two-resonance structure, hence there are two relevant modes. The interaction between nucleons couples these two modes and changes the compressibility of the system. The evolution of the strength profile is then studied as a function of the compressibility of the nuclear fluid. Comparison with available data favours values of the incompressibility parameter of nuclear matter smaller than those suggested by the analysis of the monopole ``breathing'' mode.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures, revised version to be published in Nucl. Phys. A
Long Non Coding RNA FOXD3‑AS1 Alleviates Allergic Rhinitis by Elevating the Th1/Th2 Ratio via the Regulation of Dendritic Cells
Creators: name: Zhang, Hao
name: Zhu, Xinhua
name: Liu, Hongbing
name: Yang, Chunping
name: Liu, Yuehui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Hematology

description: This article aimed to explore whether the regulation of Th1/Th2 immune responses by FOXD3-AS1 is associated with dendritic cells (DCs) in allergic rhinitis (AR). HE staining was performed to assess the pathological changes in the nasal mucosa; ELISA was performed to measure the levels of Th1/Th2-related cytokines; flow cytometry was performed to analyze Th1/Th2 cells and MHC-II-, CD80-, and CD86-positive DCs; and qRT‒PCR and western blotting were performed to measure mRNA and protein expression levels, respectively. Our data revealed that LV-FOXD3-AS1 improved AR and increased the Th1/Th2 cell ratio in AR model mice. LV-FOXD3-AS1 further inhibited DC maturation both in vivo and in vitro. Moreover, the coculture system of DCs and CD4+ T cells demonstrated that LV-FOXD3-AS1 increased the Th1/Th2 cell ratio by inhibiting the maturation of DCs. In addition, LV-FOXD3-AS1 reduced the level of phosphorylated STAT6 in DCs derived from healthy mice, and STAT6 overexpression eliminated the inhibitory effect of LV-FOXD3-AS1 on the maturation of DCs. In summary, LV-FOXD3-AS1 ameliorated AR by increasing the Th1/Th2 cell ratio by inhibiting DC maturation via the inhibition of STAT6 phosphorylation. Our data confirmed the protective effect of FOXD3-AS1 in AR and provided a novel idea for the treatment of this disease.
Tortula vahliana Mont.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Tortula
Tortula vahliana

description: Tortula vahliana (Schultz) Mont.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Alger; Tiaret, 1150 m. Corbière (1904): Alger, faubourgh de Telemly, talus. Corbière (1905), Jelenc (1955a): Environs de Constantine, Le Hamma; Environs de Constantine, près la tuilerie Moutin. Braun-Blanquet & Maire (1924), Jelenc (1955a): Tlemcen. Bizot (1973): Ruines de Timgad. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 105, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Soft Temporal Switching of TL Parameters: Wave-field, Energy Balance, Applications
Creators: name: Hadad, Yakir
name: Shlivinski, Amir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Time-varying guiding structures introduce an additional degree of freedom, besides spatial-variation, that enables better control over the guided wave in a device. Periodically time-modulated structures which are usually considered enable wave control over narrowband signals. However, for ultrawideband short-pulse signals, time-variation in the form of temporal discontinuities is required. Such a setup has recently been proposed as a mean to overcome the Bode-Fano bound on impedance matching. While hard (abrupt) temporal discontinuities are relatively simple to analyze by employing continuity of magnetic flux and electric charge, soft (gradual) temporal switching of the guiding structure parameters is more challenging. This work explores the case of a short-pulse dynamics in a one-dimensional, metamaterial TL, medium with general smooth time-variation of its parameters. In this time-varying TL, wave-field solutions are obtained by a WKB approach which is more common in the context of gradual spatial variations. Using this methodology a leading order transmitted and reflected waves due to the time-variation are derived, followed by a discussion of the energy balance in such switched media. A canonical example of capacitor discharge into a long time-varied TL is given. These results may be used as analysis/synthesis tools for time-varying wave devices in electromagnetics and acoustics.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures
Metal ion and contaminant sorption onto aluminium oxide-based materials: A review and future research
Creators: name: Md. Aminul Islam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 30603 Colloid and Surface Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Environmental Chemistry
subject: 39901 Environmental Chemistry (incl. Atmospheric Chemistry)

description: Nanosized aluminium oxides (NAOs) are an important class of minerals widely found in soil, sediment, aquifer, and aquatic environments. Over the decades, these minerals have been explored as sorbents for the removal of wastewater contaminated with metal ions, anions, organic dyes, humic substances, phenolic compounds, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals from contaminated wastewater. This review summarizes the reported research of NAOs as sorbents and provides details on their sorption capacities including maximum removal capacity under various experimental conditions. Information on the composition, synthesis, characterization and experimental parameters together with sorption mechanisms is provided. A compilation of such information is not currently available and so this review should enable workers in the area to make more informed choices on suitable sorbents for large-scale environmental samples and be able to develop more efficient processes for environmental pollutant clean-up
Observations of the unusual counterpart to the X-ray pulsar AX J0051-733
Creators: name: Coe, M. J.
name: Haigh, N. J.
name: Laycock, S. G. T.
name: Negueruela, I.
name: Kaiser, C. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report optical and IR observations of the ASCA X-ray pulsar system AX J0051-733. The relationship between the X-ray source and possible optical counterparts is discussed. Long term optical data from over 7 years are presented which reveal both a 1.4d modulation and an unusually rapid change in this possible binary period. Various models are discussed.
description: 6 pages, 6 figs
A controversial debate between financial speculation and changes in agricultural commodity spot prices
Creators: name: Serrao, Amilcar
name: Serrao, Amilcar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Financialization
subject: Agricultural Commodity Spot Prices
subject: Futures Markets
subject: Granger-Causality Relations
subject: Speculation
subject: Vector Autoregressive (VAR) Model

description: Some research works state that speculation with agricultural commodities on the futures market has risen agricultural commodity spot prices. This research work analyzes the causal relationships between spot prices of corn, wheat, and soybean and agricultural commodity futures trading activities. These causal relationships between agricultural commodity spot prices and financial variables are tested for Granger-causality. Model results show that causal relationships have been found among changes in “volume traded” and “open positions” of futures contracts and changes in spot prices for corn. These results do not show that financial speculation might be a major driver of rising agricultural commodity prices.
A Full Treatment of Peculiar Velocities on the Reionization Light Cone
Creators: name: Chapman, Emma
name: Santos, Mario G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate simulations of the 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization require the generation of maps at specific frequencies given the values of astrophysical and cosmological parameters. The peculiar velocities of the hydrogen atoms producing the 21-cm radiation result in a shift in the observed frequency of the 21-cm radiation and changes the amplitude of the signal itself. This is not an effect we can remove but instead needs to be accurately modelled to ensure we infer the correct physical parameters from an observation. We describe the full calculation of the distortion of the 21-cm signal, and propose a new code that integrates the 21-cm intensity along the line of sight for each individual light cone pixel to fully capture the intensity contributions from multiple redshifts. This algorithm naturally deals with the typical divergences found in standard approaches, allowing for large optical depths and 21-cm absorption events at high redshifts. We find the new method results in up to a 60% decrease in power on the largest scales on the sky, and an increase of over 80% on the smallest scales on the sky. We find that the new implementation of the light cone results in a longer tail of bright temperatures in the brightness temperature distribution, as a result of the successful circumventing of a previous cap that had to be implemented to avoid a divergence in the brightness temperature. We conclude that this full treatment of the evolution of the light cone pixel can be an important effect.
description: Accepted by MNRAS
The Wisdom of the Economic Crowd: Calibrating Integrated Assessment Models Using Consensus
Creators: name: Howard, Peter H.
name: Derek, Sylvan
name: Howard, Peter H.
name: Derek, Sylvan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: social cost of carbon
subject: integrated assessment models
subject: climate damage functions
subject: inter-inter-generational discount rate
subject: expert
subject: expert elicitation

description: The social cost of carbon (SCC) is one of the primary tools used to shape greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction policies in the United States. The U.S. government’s SCC estimates are derived from three integrated assessment models (IAMs), developed by four climate economists. However, some economists – most prominently Robert Pindyck (2015) – argue that IAMs are over-reliant on the opinions of their modelers and fail to capture the wider consensus of experts. Pindyck (2015) recommends abandoning IAMs altogether, and calculating a simple “average SCC” to reflect the general opinion of experts on climate change. We propose and test an alternate approach: instead of replacing IAMs, we use expert elicitation as a method for calibrating key uncertain parameters in IAMs (Nordhaus (1994), Schauer (1995) and Roughgarden and Schneider (1999) used similar efforts in the 1990s). This approach ensures that official U.S. SCC estimates reflect the wider consensus of the economic community. To test this methodology, we conduct a 15-question online survey of all those who have published an article related to climate change in a highly ranked, peer-reviewed economics or environmental economics journal since 1994. This survey included questions on the appropriate inter-generational discount rate and expected climate damages – two important, highly uncertain parameters in IAMs. We sent the survey to 1,103 experts who met our selection criteria, and received 365 completed surveys. We find strong evidence that expert consensus has shifted since the last expert elicitation studies on the economics of climate change were conducted, more than 20 years ago. In particular, the consensus discount rate has declined and expected damages have increased, such that IAMs – which have been relatively stagnant in their discount rate and damage assumptions – do not reflect the current economic consensus. Our data can help establish a baseline for IAMs, in addition to providing other useful information for policymakers. To illustrate this point, we use the results from this survey to re-calibrate an IAM (DICE-2013R) to reflect the current state of expert opinion on expected climate damages and discount rates, and re-calculate the SCC. In general, we find a significant increase in the SCC – more than 10-fold under most scenarios – supporting the hypothesis that current IAMs do not reflect the current scientific consensus.
Limaria (Limatulella) Sacco 1898
Creators: name: Raines, Bret
name: Huber, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Limida
Limidae
Limaria

description: Limaria (Limatulella) sp.
Figures 23 A–C
 Limaria parallela (Dall et al.) — DiSalvo et al., 1988: p. 459.
 Material examined. One live taken specimen and two single valves (5 to 9 mm) (BK).
 Diagnosis. Shell small, less than 10 mm, obliquely-ovate, equivalve, thin and fragile. Valves oblique, moderately inflated and not gaping. Exterior surface consisting of numerous (ca. 35) fine radial ribs, crossed by fine commarginal striae. Color translucent white.
 Remarks. Limatulella encompasses species related to Limaria s.s. It is smaller, somewhat less ventricose, thinner, with very numerous radial ribs, but with closed or nearly closed valves.
 The limatulellid shape, the small size, the inflation and the non-gaping structure place this species in Limatulella. No respective species is known from the Hawaiian Islands, but two larger species Limaria (Limatulella) amakusaensis (Habe, 1960), L. viali (Jousseaume in Lamy 1919), are known from the Indo-Pacific and Japan. Unfortunately, the minute size, limited material and the barely known variability of its congeners makes a comparison or a new description exceedingly difficult. The Limaria (Promantellum) parallela (Fig. 23 B) recorded by DiSalvo et al. (1988) is not L. (P.) parallela at all, but it is consistent with the subgenus Limatulella.
 Habitat. Currently only found off the western coastline of EI, in sand and rubble, from 20–150 m. One live taken specimen collected at 100 m.
 Distribution. At present this Limaria (Limatulella) sp. is only known from Easter Island— E1.
description: Published as part of Raines, Bret & Huber, Markus, 2012, 3217, pp. 1-106 in Zootaxa 3217 on pages 46-47
Harnessing Spectral Singularities in Non-Hermitian Cylindrical Structures
Creators: name: Moccia, Massimo
name: Castaldi, Giuseppe
name: Alù, Andrea
name: Galdi, Vincenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-Hermitian systems characterized by suitable spatial distributions of gain and loss can exhibit "spectral singularities" in the form of zero-width resonances associated to real-frequency poles in the scattering operator. Here, we study this intriguing phenomenon in connection with cylindrical geometries, and explore possible applications to controlling and tailoring in unconventional ways the scattering response of sub-wavelength and wavelength-sized objects. Among the possible implications and applications, we illustrate the additional degrees of freedom available in the scattering-absorption-extinction tradeoff, and address the engineering of zero-forward-scattering, transverse scattering, and gain-controlled reconfigurability of the scattering pattern, also paying attention to stability issues. Our results may open up new vistas in active and reconfigurable nanophotonics platforms.
description: 12 pages, 10 figures; some typos corrected
Selection 1 of teaching resource packs for VOICES project
Creators: name: MARSHALL, SCOTT
Publisher: name: Edge Hill University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 390304
subject: Primary education
classificationCode: 390306
subject: Secondary education
classificationCode: 390407
subject: Inclusive education

description: The following is selection one of packs for the VOICES project. This is the first selection of packs. The purpose of these packs are to used by teachers in schools, to promote discussions of inclusion. On the file name and first slide of the pack, there are suggested age ranges.All resources were made using the findings of the VOICES.
USE OF WEB 2.0 FOR CREATING SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION BY LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS IN INDIA
Creators: name: Rakshikar, Nidhi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Library and Information Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications

description: Purpose - How researchers communicate their work and their findings vary in different subjects or disciplines, and in different institutional settings. Such differences have a strong influence on how library professionals, as researchers approach the adoption of new information and communications technologies. This article explores how library professionals as researchers, making use of various web 2.0 tools in the course of their research work, the factors that encourage or inhibit adoption and researchers’ attitudes towards web 2.0 and other forms of communication.
Methodology - The study began with an online as well as offline survey, which collected information about library professional’s information gathering and dissemination habits as researchers and their attitudes towards web 2.0.The study was conducted among 47 college librarians from India through a questionnaire.
Findings - The survey demonstrate that majority of the library professionals are not aware and user-friendly with the use of web 2.0 tools. Researchers are broadly supportive in their attitudes towards web 2.0: even non-users are more likely to define themselves as enthusiastic, than as skeptical or uninterested. But while there are some variations between disciplines, web 2.0 tools are for the most part not considered to be particularly important. This is unlikely to change until significant numbers of researchers see clear benefits from theuse of web 2.0.
Practical Implications - The findings of the study will certainly help the library professionals to explore and use new web 2.0 tools to the optimum level for the research work as well as to provide the web-based services effectively to library users. The findings of this study will be a guidance tool for workshop and training organizers to provide essentialskills to the library professionals for the successful adoption of Web 2.0 in college libraries.
Originality/Value – This is the original study conducted on the adoption and use of Web 2.0 technologies by library professionals in research and creating scholarly communication through using the questionnaire as a tool of data collection.
Investigating Economic and Demographic Factors Affecting Consumer Demand for Coconut-milk in the United States
Creators: name: Li, Jing
name: Dharmasena, Senarath
name: Li, Jing
name: Dharmasena, Senarath
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Dairy alternative beverages
subject: coconut-milk
subject: almond milk
subject: soymilk
subject: lactose free milk probit model
subject: Heckman two-step procedure
subject: Nielsen Homescan data

description: Data from U.S. households for calendar year 2014 were used in examining demographic and economic factors affecting demand for dairy alternative beverages such as coconut milk, almond milk, soymilk, and lactose free milk using Heckman two-step procedure. Preliminary analysis of data reveal that the own-price elasiticity of demand for almond milk, soymilk, dairy milk in the United States is -3.50, -1.68,and -0.53 respectively. Soymilk is found to be a substitute for almond milk and white milk, while white milk was found to be a substitute for soymilk. Income, age, employment status, education level, race, ethnicity, region and presence of children in a household are significant drivers of demand for soymilk and almond milk. Sample selection bias was statistically significant.
Impurity Scattering Induced Entanglement of Ballistic Electrons
Creators: name: Costa, A. T.
name: Bose, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how entanglement between two conduction electrons is generated in the presence of a localized magnetic impurity embedded in an otherwise ballistic conductor of special geometry. This process is a generalization of beam-splitter mediated entanglement generation schemes with a localized spin placed at the site of the beam splitter. Our entangling scheme is unconditional and robust to randomness of the initial state of the impurity. The entangled state generated manifests itself in noise reduction of spin-dependent currents.
description: To appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
PVDF/SiO2-g-CDs blended membrane for fluorescence detection and adsorption of metal ions
Creators: name: Li, Jingjing
name: Ji, Zhicheng
name: Sun, Heyu
name: Zhang, Dongdong
name: Zhao, Yiping
name: Chen, Li
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Hematology

description: The preparation method of PVDF/SiO2-g-CDs blended membrane was that the silanized modified carbon dots (CDs) were grafted onto the PVDF/SiO2 blended membrane surface. The surface composition, morphology, hydrophilicity, fluorescence performance and metal ions adsorption performance of PVDF/SiO2-g-CDs blended membrane were studied. The fluorescence quenching effect of the membrane with Hg2+ and Fe3+ was obvious. The quenching mechanism was the complexation of metal ions with the functional groups of CDs including -NH2, -OH and -COOH. The optical detection limits of PVDF/SiO2-g-CDs blended membrane for Hg2+ was 1.6 nM in the linear range of 0.0025–20 μM, and the optical detection limits for Fe3+ was 2.1 μM in the linear range of 0.5–5000 μM. The maximum adsorption capacity of PVDF/SiO2-g-CDs blended membrane for Fe3+ was 47.04 mg·g−1. The adsorption of the membrane conformed to the pseudo-second-order kinetics and Langumir model, and belonged to monolayer chemical adsorption on the membrane surface. Through adsorption thermodynamic analysis, adsorption was a spontaneous endothermic process. The recovery rate of fluorescence and adsorption capacity could still be maintained above 82% after five cycles. The PVDF/SiO2-g-CDs blended membrane had the ability to regenerate. In summary, the PVDF/SiO2-g-CDs blended membrane had the dual functions of detecting and adsorbing metal ions, and had broad application prospects in sewage treatment.
Funafutia levukana
Creators: name: Raines, Bret
name: Huber, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Lucinida
Lucinidae
Funafutia
Funafutia levukana

description: Funafutia levukana (E.A. Smith, 1885)
Figures 24 E–G
 Lucina levukana E.A. Smith, 1885: p. 181, pl. 13, fig. 6.
 Funafutia levukana (E.A. Smith, 1885) — Glover & Taylor, 2001: p. 286, figs. 22 A-D; Tröndlé & Boutet, 2009: p. 8.
 Material examined. More than fifty single valves from EI and SyG (BK), plus specimens from the Marquesas Islands (MHU).
 Diagnosis. Shell small (up to 6 mm in length), suborbicular, equivalve, inequilateral, not fragile. Umbones elevated. Exterior surface of irregularly spaced prominent, rounded commarginal lamellae, microscopic radials. Interior smooth with continuous pallial line; margins finely crenulate. Hinge stout, consisting of two cardinals in the LV, and one cardinal in the RV with prominent posterior and anterior laterals. Color white.
 Remarks. The oblique shape, lamellate sculpture with microscopic radials, the crenulated margin and the hinge configuration closely approach the type species Funafutia levukana (E.A. Smith 1885). Species within the genus Levukana are typically known from shallow water to 40 m, with a size of 6 mm. The EI species is known from 20–100 m, also from caves in 35–40 m (Motu Tantara) with a maximum size of 5 mm.
 Although the EI material has a somewhat denser commarginal sculpture with weaker radials and a slightly less pronounced anterior lateral in the LV, J. Taylor, (pers. comm., 2010) confirmed the specimens to be within the normal variability of F. levukana. Sizes and depths are comparable. Most likely, this species conforms to Kay (1995: 155) Lucina species from Easter Island.
 Habitat. Commonly found at many locations around EI and SyG, in fine sand, from 20–100 m.
 Distribution. Funafutia levukana is known from eastern Africa to the Marquesas Islands, but has not been recorded from the Hawaiian Islands. The presence of this species on Easter and Salas y Gómez Islands represents a range extension— E4.
description: Published as part of Raines, Bret & Huber, Markus, 2012, 3217, pp. 1-106 in Zootaxa 3217 on page 50
Beyond APC: On the Need for Diamond Open Access Publication Platforms
Creators: name: Miedema, Frank
name: Verbeke, Demmy
name: Sondervan, Jeroen
name: Woutersen-Windhouwer, Saskia
name: Oort, Frans
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Open Access
Diamond Open Access
Publication Platform
Memorandum

description: This memorandum demonstrates the need for Diamond Open Access Publication Platforms. On these platforms we should not only publish peer reviewed articles but also provide general Open Access to other forms of research output, such as monographs, reports, research protocols, intervention protocols, tests and questionnaires, software, data, and metadata. Innovative publication platforms could present promising opportunities, as they are not bound by the traditional format of the academic journal and the possibilities are literally endless for facilitating the publication, dissemination and preservation of scientific output. Digital Open Access publication platforms can also promote Open Education, by also publishing teaching materials. If publications of the various products of research are indexed in the same way as scientific articles, then publications and citations of these other products of research can also be counted in the same way, and thus be recognized and awarded in the evaluation of research and researchers. A full list of eleven desirable principles and requirements of Diamond Open Access publication platforms is presented.
Limaria (Promantellum) parallela
Creators: name: Raines, Bret
name: Huber, Markus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Limida
Limidae
Limaria
Limaria parallela

description: Limaria (Promantellum) parallela (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
Figures 22 F–H
 Lima parallela Dall et al., 1938: p. 106, pl. 27, figs. 9–12.
 Limaria (Promantellum) fragilis (Gmelin, 1791) — Rehder, 1980: p. 110.
 Limaria (Promantellum) parallela (Dall et al., 1938) — Severns, 2011: p. 460, pl. 210, fig. 2.
 Material examined. Over two dozen single valves (2.8 to 8.6 mm) from EI and SyG (BK), plus specimens from the Hawaiian Islands (MHU).
 Diagnosis. Shell small, obliquely-elongate, equivalve, thin and fragile. Posterior and anterior margins parallel the last third of the shell, and with long gapes. Exterior surface consisting of 22–24 fine radial threads, which are crossed by finer commarginal striae. Ventral margin with serrated appearance. Hinge short and straight, with wide ligament. Color translucent white.
 Remarks. Although Rehder (1980) was correct in selecting Promantellum, he misidentified this species as P. fragilis. The largest EI specimen slightly exceeds the 8 mm Hawaiian type specimen. However, Limaria (P.) fragilis (Gmelin, 1791) grows up to 35 mm, lives in very shallow water and is distributed further west with an Indian Ocean type locality.
 Habitat. Commonly found at many locations around EI and SyG, in sand and rubble, from 20–80 m.
 Distribution. Limaria (Promantellum) parallela is currently known only from the Hawaiian Islands, Easter Island and Salas y Gómez Island— E2.
description: Published as part of Raines, Bret & Huber, Markus, 2012, 3217, pp. 1-106 in Zootaxa 3217 on page 46
title: The Authorship of Stephen King’s Books Written Under the Pseudonym “Richard Bachman”: A Stylometric Analysis
Creators: name: Modrall Sperling, Dorothy
name: Neyt, Vincent
name: Kestemont, Mike
Publisher: name: UNSPECIFIED
Year: 2025

description: Between 1977 and 1984, Stephen King published five novels under the
pseudonym “Richard Bachman”. Reviewers noted similarities between King’s
and Bachman’s writing styles when Thinner (1984) was published, ultimately
leading to King’s unmasking. We investigate, using the Juola protocol, whether
computational techniques can correctly identify King as the author of the Bachman
books out of a selection of contemporary candidate authors – Dean Koontz,
Peter Straub, and Thomas Harris. We also perform a post-hoc analysis of the use
of pop-culture references and brand names in Bachman, King, Koontz, Straub,
and Harris novels, based on comments in reviews of Bachman and King novels.
The references extracted from the Bachman books occurred significantly
more often in King’s texts than in the others’, showing that attentive readers
could have “heard King’s voice” in the Bachman books through what a reviewer
denigratingly called King’s “compulsion to list brand-name products and his
affinity for pop-cult teenage junk”. These results contribute to the vexed issue of
explainability, which is a recurrent challenge in author identification for literary
texts.
To Frack or Not to Frack: Option Value Analysis on the U.S. Natural Gas Market
Creators: name: Davis, Rebecca J.
name: Sims, Charles
name: Davis, Rebecca J.
name: Sims, Charles
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: risk and uncertainty
subject: real options
subject: energy economics

description: Advances in horizontal drilling, 3-D seismic imaging, and hydraulic fracturing made it highly profitable for firms to produce large quantities of shale gas, making the natural gas boom possible. The number of firms entering the natural gas market from 2000 to present increased tenfold. There are three main testable explanations behind this jump in firm entry: reduced production costs from higher levels of recoverable reserves, lower risk of entry from less natural gas reserve uncertainty, and reduced sunk costs of entry lowering the risk of entry. We develop a real options model exploring the market entry decision of a firm when natural gas prices and reserves are uncertain to examine which of these three explanations impacts the market entry decision the most. The model shows that expected reductions in average costs of production and sunk costs of entry push the firm to optimally enter the natural gas market from 2000 to 2008 when firms were flooding the market. Surprisingly, expectations of lower natural gas reserve uncertainty do not have an influence on the entry decisions made by firms.
description: Paper #9628
Reti intertestuali in Plut. Quaes. conv. 1-3, 612B-659D
Creators: name: Ottavia, Mazzon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Character analysis
Quotation network
Intertextuality

description: Immagini in formato .svg delle reti intertestuali ricavate dal repertorio delle citazioni e dei riferimenti contenuti in Plut. Quaes. conv. 1-3, 612B-659D. Per l'analisi delle immagini e delle reti cfr. O. Mazzon, "Tra libri da leggere e libri da scrivere: Plutarco e la sua biblioteca in Quaes. conv. 1-3", Segno & Testo 19 (2021) i.c.s. Network_quoted authors.svg: Rappresentazione della rete intertestuale di QC 1-3. I nodi sono rappresentati da un lato dalle sezioni dell’opera (prooem. I; Liber I; prooem. II; Liber II; prooem. III; Liber III), dall’altro dagli autori citati all’interno del testo (in rosa i prosatori, in blu i poeti). Le linee di legame tra nodi riflettono il numero di citazioni (non si distinguono qui citazioni letterali, parafrastiche e allusioni) da un autore in una sezione dell’opera. Le dimensioni dei nodi e delle relative etichette e lo spessore delle linee di legame sono proporzionali al numero di citazioni contenute in ciascuna sezione dell’opera e al numero di volte in cui gli autori sono citati complessivamente. Network characters_quotations.svg: Interazioni tra personaggi e autori citati in QC 1-3. I nodi rappresentano da un lato i personaggi, dall’altro gli autori citati (tutti i nomi sono in latino); la loro dimensione è proporzionale al numero delle citazioni fatte o ricevute. I legami sono direzionati; il loro spessore è proporzionale al numero di volte in cui i personaggi citano gli autori.
Coherent propagation of quasiparticles in topological spin liquids at finite temperature
Creators: name: Hart, Oliver
name: Wan, Yuan
name: Castelnovo, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The appearance of quasiparticle excitations with fractional statistics is a remarkable defining trait of topologically ordered systems. In this work, we investigate the experimentally relevant finite temperature regime in which one species of quasiparticle acts as a stochastic background for another, more energetically costly, species that hops coherently across the lattice. The nontrivial statistical angle between the two species leads to interference effects that we study using a combination of numerical and analytical tools. In the limit of self-retracing paths, we are able to use a Bethe lattice approximation to construct exact analytical expressions for the time evolution of the site-resolved density profile of a spinon initially confined to a single site. Our results help us to understand the temperature-dependent crossover from ballistic to quantum (sub-)diffusive behaviour as a consequence of destructive interference between lattice walks. The subdiffusive behaviour is most pronounced in the case of semionic mutual statistics, and it may be ascribed to the localised nature of the effective tight-binding description, an effect that is not captured by the Bethe lattice mapping. In addition to quantum spin liquids, our results are directly applicable to the dynamics of isolated holes in the large-$U$ limit of the Hubbard model, relevant to ultracold atomic experiments. A recent proposal to implement $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topologically ordered Hamiltonians using quantum annealers provides a further exciting avenue to test our results.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures; updated figures in v2
ABORDAGENS PRELIMINARES SOBRE O SÍTIO ARQUEOLÓGICO XIII, COMPLEXO MEGALÍTICO REGO DA MURTA, ALVAIÁZERE
Creators: name: Figueiredo, Alexandra
name: Ribeiro Frazão, Keyla Maria
name: Monteiro, Cláudio
name: Tognoli, Anderson Rogério de Oliveira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: FIGUEIREDO, A.; FRAZÃO, K.; MONTEIRO, C.; TOGNOLI, A.; SANTOS, D. (2017) – ABORDAGENS PRELIMINARES SOBRE O SÍTIO ARQUEOLÓGICO XIII, COMPLEXO MEGALÍTICO REGO DA MURTA, ALVAIÁZERE, Distrito de Leiria, Portugal. In revista Antrope, As várias facetas da interdisciplinariedade em Arqueologia. nº 7. 69-85
Tortula viridifolia Blockeel & A. J. E. Sm.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Pottiales
Pottiaceae
Tortula
Tortula viridifolia

description: Tortula viridifolia (Mitt.) Blockeel & A.J.E.Sm.
RECORDS. — Corbière (1905), Jelenc (1955a): Environs de Constantine, djebel Ouach. Very rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 105, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
On the possibility of measuring the Earth's gravitomagnetic force in a new laboratory experiment
Creators: name: Iorio, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we propose, in a preliminary way, a new Earth-based laboratory experiment aimed to the detection of the gravitomagnetic field of the Earth. It consists of the measurement of the difference of the circular frequencies of two rotators moving along identical circular paths, but in opposite directions, on a horizontal friction-free plane in a vacuum chamber placed at South Pole. The accuracy of our knowledge of the Earth's rotation from VLBI and the possibility of measuring the rotators'periods over many revolutions should allow for the feasibility of the proposed experiment.
description: Latex2e, 8 pages, no figures, no tables, accepted for publication by Classical and Quantum Gravity. Typo corrected in the formula of the error in the difference of the orbital periods