cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Gender Dimensions of Disaster Risk and Resilience : Existing Evidence
Creators: name: Erman, Alvina
name: De Vries Robbé, Sophie Anne
name: Fabian Thies, Stephan
name: Kabir, Kayenat
name: Maruo, Mirai
Publisher: name: World Bank
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Gender
subject: Violence Prevention
subject: Health and Conflict

description: Men and women, boys and girls have different experiences of disasters. Gender dynamics impact both the way they are affected by disasters and their capacity to withstand and recover from them. Gender inequalities can result in gender-differentiated disaster impact, and differentiated impacts can influence gender dynamics, which in turn affect future resilience to shocks. Disaster risk management policies are designed to maximize results, taking local conditions - including gender dynamics - as fixed. When women and men are affected differently by disasters, practitioners and policy makers have a responsibility to use the tools available for mitigating disaster impacts to close gender gaps in outcome. An improved understanding of the gender dynamics of disaster risk and resilience also allows for better policy and program design, which benefits all stakeholders.
title: The Woodland Beach Core, Delaware: Paleocene-Eocene Record of a Mid-Atlantic Shoreline Sequence
Creators: name: Smith, Matthew
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: PETM
subject: Milankovitch cycles
subject: Foraminifera
subject: Artifact removal

description: The Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), also known as Eocene Thermal Maximum 1 (ETM-1) is a global warming spike that occurs within a long term warming trend in the early Cenozoic Era (56 million years ago). This spike has been detected in the paleoclimate record as a sudden global temperature increase of approximately 5°C an associated increased the amount of 13C-depleted carbon in the ocean. The Wilson Lake core from New Jersey, USA recorded the PETM event. The nearby Woodland Beach core drilled in Delaware, does not immediately appear to have recorded the PETM event. Whether or not the PETM is recorded within the Woodland Beach core is investigated in this thesis using available micro- and nannofossil information, planktonic and benthonic foraminifera, and sediment color intensity analysis. A possible record of the Eocene Layer of Mysterious Origin (ELMO), also known as the Eocene Thermal Maximum 2 (ETM-2) is also investigated. Data from benthonic and planktonic foraminifera counts and preservation, calcareous nannofossils, and sediment color intensity collectively indicate that the most likely position of the Paleocene-Eocene boundary and start of the PETM is at a core depth of 407.8 ft.
The Manuscript of Claude Dupin's Commentary on Montesquieu's 'Esprit des lois'
Creators: name: Kra, Pauline
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Europe
subject: History
subject: French literature
subject: Literature--Philosophy
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Claude Dupin published two versions of his critique of the Esprit des lois: Réflexions sur quelques parties d’un livre intitulé ‘De l’esprit des loix,’  in 2 volumes, which appeared in 1749 and was suppressed by the author;  and  Observations sur un livre intitulé de l’Esprit des loix, in three volumes,  published before 1755 and also suppressed.  In 2004 Cecil Courtney discovered at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University a manuscript entitled Observations sur un livre intitulé "De l'Esprit des lois", which is the final revised and unpublished version of Dupin's work. The manuscript remained unknown to Montesquieu scholars  till 2004 because of a spelling error  in the card catalogue: it was cross referenced to "Montesquiou, Charles Louis de Secondat"  and  was listed among works on Montesquiou.      The Columbia manuscript shows that after the publication of the Observations Dupin continued to make changes in his work seeking to strengthen his arguments and to make the connection of his text to the Esprit des lois more transparent. The most important change is  the reorganization of chapters.  The published Réflexions and Observations  are divided into chapters which correspond either to books or to chapters of the Esprit des lois.   The manuscript, on the other hand,  is divided into chapters which correspond to chapters in the Esprit des lois and bear the same titles. The article examines the most frequent types of omissions, additions  and  characteristic revisions of style. Dupin failed to refute or to elucidate the Esprit des lois , but the table of contents of the manuscript  is valuable because it connects Dupin's comments to individual chapters of the Esprit des lois and the references he provides are useful for the investigation of sources of information that were available to Montesquieu.
title: Initial Considerations toward Knowledge Mining
Creators: name: Kaufman, Kenneth A.
name: Michalski, Ryszard S.
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Knowledge mining
subject: Data mining
subject: Inductive databases
subject: Machine learning

description: In view of the tremendous production of computer data worldwide, there is a strong need for new powerful tools that can automatically generate useful knowledge from a variety of data, and present it in human-oriented forms. In efforts to satisfy this need, researchers have been exploring ideas and methods developed in machine learning, statistical data analysis, data mining, text mining, data visualization, pattern recognition, etc. The first part of this paper is a compendium of ideas on the applicability of symbolic machine learning and logical data analysis methods toward this goal. The second part outlines a multistrategy methodology for an emerging research direction, called knowledge mining, by which we mean the derivation of high-level concepts and descriptions from data through symbolic reasoning involving both data and relevant background knowledge. The effective use of background as well as previously created knowledge in reasoning about new data makes it possible for the knowledge mining system to derive useful new knowledge not only from large amounts of data, but also from limited and weakly relevant data.
Sheng shi xin sheng : [shi er juan] [volume 04]
盛世新聲 : [十二卷] [第四冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: [China] : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2018

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Edition: [Ke ben]
Supplementary document for Evaluation of a coherent 2-μm differential absorption lidar for water vapor and radial wind velocity measurements - 6246452.pdf
Creators: name: Iwai, Hironori
name: Aoki, Makoto
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Overview of H2O-DIAL validation cases obtained with radiosondes launched at NICT.
การออกแบบพื้นที่สำหรับการเรียนรู้ด้วยตัวเองในมหาวิทยาลัย
Creators: name: บุษกร รมยานนท์
Publisher: name: Thammasat Printing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: พื้นที่สำหรับการเรียนรู้ด้วยตัวเอง,สภาพแวดล้อมเพื่อการเรียนรู้,การออกแบบพื้นที่การเรียนรู้,การออกแบบที่มีมนุษย์เป็นศูนย์กลาง

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 12, 1
Bio-field Treatment: An Effective Strategy to Improve the Quality of BeefExtract and Meat Infusion Powder
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Chemistry

description: The present research work investigated the influence of bio-field treatment on two common flavoring agents used in food industries namely beef extract powder (BEP) and meat infusion powder (MIP). The treated powders were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), particle size analysis, surface area analysis, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The FT-IR results showed disappearance of triglycerides peaks in both the treated powders as compared to control. XRD results corroborated the amorphous nature of both control and treated samples. The BEP showed enhanced average particle size (d50) and d99 (size exhibited by 99% of powder particles) by 5.7% and 16.1%, respectively as compared to control. Contrarily, the MIP showed a decreased particle size (d50;0.4% and d99; 18.1%) as compared to control.It was assumed that enormous energy was stored in MIP after bio-field treatment that led to fracture into smaller particles. The surface area was increased in both the treated powders. DSC result showed significant increase in melting temperature, in BEP and MIP, which indicated the higher thermal stability of the samples. However, the specific heat capacity (∆H) was decreased in both samples, which was probably due to high energy state of the powders.
Optimal Control-Enhanced Deconvolution of NMR Spectra: Homo- and Heteronuclear Decoupling
Creators: name: Reinsperger, Tony
Publisher: name: Karlsruhe
Year: 2016
Subjects: NMR Spectroscopy
Optimal Control Theory
Heteronuclear Decoupling Sequences
Pure Shift NMR
Residual Dipolar Couplings

description: The present thesis reports new approaches to increase sensitivity and resolution in high-resolution NMR spectroscopy via homo- and heteronuclear decoupling. First, a methodology to obtain a new class of self-compensating heteronuclear decoupling sequences by means of numerical optimizations based on optimal control algorithms is presented. Further, the pure shift methodology is applied to heteronuclear correlation experiments in order to measure heteronuclear one-bond couplings more accurately.
Antibiogram, Biochemical Reactions and Genotyping Characterization of Biofield Treated Staphylococcus aureus
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Biology

description: Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is the key organism for food poisoning due to massive production of heat stable exotoxins. The current study was attempted to investigate the effect of Mr. Trivedi’s biofield treatment on S. aureus. S. aureus (ATCC 25923) was divided into two parts, Group (Gr.) I: control and Gr. II: treatment. After biofield treatment, Gr. II was further subdivided into two parts, Gr. IIA and Gr. IIB. Gr. IIA was analyzed on day 10, while Gr. IIB was stored and analyzed on day 159 after revival (Study I). The revived sample (Gr. IIB) were retreated on day 159 (Study II), and divided into three separate tubes. Tube 1 was analyzed on day 5, likewise, tube 2 and 3 were analyzed on day 10 and 15, respectively. All the experimental parameters were studied using automated MicroScan Walk-Away® system. The 16S rDNA sequencing was carried out in Gr. IIA sample to correlate the phylogenetic relationship of S. aureus with other bacterial species. The antimicrobial susceptibility and minimum inhibitory concentration showed significant alteration i.e. 92.86% and 90.00% respectively in treated cells of S. aureus as compared to control. The biochemical reactions also showed the significant (35.71%) alteration in treated sample with respect to control. The biotype number and microbial species were substantially changed in Gr. IIA (767177; Staphylococcus cohnii subsp. urealyticum) on day 10, while only the biotype numbers were changed in rest of the treated samples as compared to control (307016; S. aureus). The 16S rDNA analysis showed that the identified strain in this experiment was S. aureus (GenBank Accession No.: L37597) after biofield treatment. However, the nearest homolog genus-species was found as Staphylococcus simiae (GenBank Accession No.: DQ127902). These results suggested that biofield treatment has a significant impact on S. aureus in lyophilized as well as revived state.
Energy-Momentum Squared Gravity: A Brief Overview
Creators: name: Cipriano, Ricardo A. C.
name: Ganiyeva, Nailya
name: Harko, Tiberiu
name: Lobo, Francisco S. N.
name: Pinto, Miguel A. S.
name: Rosa, João Luís
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
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: In this work, we present a review of Energy-Momentum Squared Gravity (EMSG) -- more specifically, $f(R,T_{μν}T^{μν})$ gravity, where $R$ represents the Ricci scalar and $T_{μν}$ denotes the energy-momentum tensor. The inclusion of quadratic contributions from the energy-momentum components has intriguing cosmological implications, particularly during the Universe's early epochs. These effects dominate under high-energy conditions, enabling EMSG to potentially address unresolved issues in General Relativity (GR), such as the initial singularity and aspects of big-bang nucleosynthesis in certain models. The theory's explicit non-minimal coupling between matter and geometry leads to the non-conservation of the energy-momentum tensor, which prompts the investigation of cosmological scenarios through the framework of irreversible thermodynamics of open systems. By employing this formalism, we interpret the energy-balance equations within EMSG from a thermodynamic perspective, viewing them as descriptions of irreversible matter creation processes. Since EMSG converges to GR in a vacuum and differences emerge only in the presence of an energy-momentum distribution, these distinctions become significant in high-curvature regions. Therefore, deviations from GR are expected to be pronounced in the dense cores of compact objects. This review delves into these facets of EMSG, highlighting its potential to shed light on some of the fundamental questions in modern cosmology and gravitational theory.
description: 40 pages, 4 figures, published version in Universe
Virtuality and différance in the age of the hyperreal
Creators: name: Nashef, Hania
Publisher: name: Intellect Ltd.
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Mass media--Study and teaching

description: Jean Baudrillard sees in today's simulation the model 'of a real but without origin or reality: a hyperreal'. With the hyperreal, the individual is unable to distinguish what is real and what is not. In this article, I argue how the pervasiveness of media, in the form of mobile phones, tablets with their applications and social networking sites, singularly or in unison create and sustain the existence of the hyperreal. They succeed at once through an imagined call for urgency and an implosion of meaning that cannot be contained. This type of media is a priori a form of simulation, and has not only erased the boundaries that exit between the real and the unreal but has also developed as a site accountable for continual deference of the being-in-theworld, forcing on the latter a perpetual existence in the hyperreal.
Virtuality and différance in the age of the hyperreal
Creators: name: Nashef, Hania
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mass media--Study and teaching
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Jean Baudrillard sees in today’s simulation the model ‘of a real but without origin or reality: a hyperreal’. With the hyperreal, the individual is unable to distinguish what is real and what is not. In this article, I argue how the pervasiveness of media, in the form of mobile phones, tablets with their applications and social networking sites, singularly or in unison create and sustain the existence of the hyperreal. They succeed at once through an imagined call for urgency and an implosion of meaning that cannot be contained. This type of media is a priori a form of simulation, and has not only erased the boundaries that exit between the real and the unreal but has also developed as a site accountable for continual deference of the being-in-theworld, forcing on the latter a perpetual existence in the hyperreal.
The U.C. Berkeley Shakespeare Program
Creators: name: Richmond, Hugh M.
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Drama
subject: English literature
subject: Mass media--Study and teaching
subject: Teaching
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
subject: Literature--Study and teaching

description: This essay describes and illustrates the activities associated with the University of California at Berkeley's Shakespeare Program, over the last forty years, covering teaching innovations, numerous research publications, multiple productions and videos of Shakespeare's plays, and creation of websites, Shakespeare's Staging and Milton Revealed.
Amatory Magnetism: Shakespeare's Formulation
Creators: name: Richmond, Hugh M.
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: British literature
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

description: Using the techniques of Symbolic Logic this paper consolidates the theories about Shakespeare's views on human sexuality as explored in H. M. Richmond, "Shakespeare's Sexual Comedy," reformulating them as an algorithm demonstrating that intense love seemingly depends on encounter with a powerful; obstacle to the full realization of a relationship.
Assignments for Literary Data: Some Approaches (Spring 2015)
Creators: name: Goldstone, Andrew
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Digital humanities
subject: English language
subject: Methodology
subject: Open educational resources
subject: Literature--Study and teaching

description: An archive of assignments used in my graduate English course. Includes R markdown source and PDF files of ten homeworks and solution sets, as well as PDFs of assignments for a midterm paper and final data analysis-report. The contents are more fully described in the included README.md file.
Assignments for Literary Data: Some Approaches (Spring 2015)
Creators: name: Goldstone, Andrew
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology
subject: Digital humanities
subject: Literature--Study and teaching
subject: English language
subject: Open educational resources

description: An archive of assignments used in my graduate English course. Includes R markdown source and PDF files of ten homeworks and solution sets, as well as PDFs of assignments for a midterm paper and final data analysis-report. The contents are more fully described in the included README.md file.
Immune recognition of Candida albicans influenced by defects in cell signal transduction pathways
Creators: name: Mehrotra, Pankaj
name: Hall, Rebecca A.
name: Wagener, Jeanette
name: Gow, Neil A. R.
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Candida albicans is a major opportunistic fungal pathogen of humans, which can cause superficial skin infections as well as fatal systemic disease in immune-compromised individuals. During the infection process C. albicans has to respond to stresses imposed by the host environment, such as ROS generation by phagocytic cells and enzymes designed to degrade invading microbes.  These stresses result in the activation of multiple signaling pathways including the cAMP-PKA, MAPKs and the Ca2+-calcineurin pathways. Mutations in these pathways affect C. albicans cell surface chemistry and morphogenesis, both of which are believed to be key factors in fungal immune recognition.

In the context of this project, which is a part of Marie Curie INT Network “ARIADNE”, we are investigating how the activation or inhibition of these pathways influences myeloid cell immune recognition of C. albicans. Initial results demonstrate that these pathways have marked influence on the immunological signature of the cell by direct or indirect  effects on the cell wall composition and yeast  hypha morphogenesis.
Sheng shi xin sheng : [shi er juan] [volume 07]
盛世新聲 : [十二卷] [第七冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: [China] : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2018

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Edition: [Ke ben]
John Milton: the First Modern
Creators: name: Richmond, Hugh M.
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Aesthetics
subject: British literature
subject: Comparative literature
subject: Digital humanities

description: John Milton is a hero to Millennials: C. S. Lewis based Perelandra on Paradise Lost; Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy mirrors the epic;  Mark Morris’s best ballet is “L’Allegro and Il Penseroso”; digital artist Terrance Lindall created virtual images of Paradise Lost for the Oxford U. Press; Comus is the originator and lead Krewe for the New Orleans Carnival, and the name of an acoustic-art rock band.  Paradise Lost provides the basis for one of the most successful recent video games, The Talos Principle, in which Milton plays a major character. His autobiographical recoveries from failed ambition provide therapy for modern trauma. We cover, audio-visually, the relevance of Sonnets, Lycidas, Comus, Paradise Lost (Books 1 & 2, 9 & 10), Paradise Regained (Book IV), and Samson Agonistes.
John Milton: the First Modern
Creators: name: Richmond, Hugh M.
Publisher: name: unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Comparative literature
subject: Digital humanities
subject: British literature
subject: Aesthetics

description: John Milton is a hero to Millennials: C. S. Lewis based Perelandra on Paradise Lost; Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy mirrors the epic; Mark Morris's best ballet is "L'Allegro and Il Penseroso"; digital artist Terrance Lindall created virtual images of Paradise Lost for the Oxford U. Press; Comus is the originator and lead Krewe for the New Orleans Carnival, and the name of an acoustic-art rock band. Paradise Lost provides the basis for one of the most successful recent video games, The Talos Principle, in which Milton plays a major character. His autobiographical recoveries from failed ambition provide therapy for modern trauma. We cover, audio-visually, the relevance of Sonnets, Lycidas, Comus, Paradise Lost (Books 1 & 2, 9 & 10), Paradise Regained (Book IV), and Samson Agonistes.
Sheng shi xin sheng : [shi er juan] [volume 08]
盛世新聲 : [十二卷] [第八冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: [China] : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2018

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Edition: [Ke ben]
การจัดองค์ประกอบเพื่อการใช้สอยและการเชื่อมต่อที่ว่างในสถาปัตยกรรมไทยสมัยใหม่
Creators: name: สันติรักษ์ ประเสริฐสุข
Publisher: name: Thammasat Printing House
Year: 2015
Subjects: การจัดองค์ประกอบ,การใช้สอย,การเชื่อมต่อที่ว่าง,การสืบสาน,การปรับเปลี่ยน,การคิดใหม่-ทำใหม่

description: Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies, 12, 1
Evaluation of the Impact of Biofield Treatment on Physical and Thermal Properties of Casein Enzyme Hydrolysate and Casein Yeast Peptone
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Chemistry

description: In the present study, the influence of biofield treatment on physical and thermal properties of Casein Enzyme Hydrolysate (CEH) and Casein Yeast Peptone (CYP) were investigated. The control and treated samples were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Thermo Gravimetric Analysis (TGA), particle size and surface area analysis. The FTIR results revealed that biofield treatment has caused reduction of amide group (amide-I and amide-II) stretching vibration peak that is associated with strong intermolecular hydrogen bonding in treated CEH as compared to control. However, no significant changes were observed in FTIR spectrum of treated CYP. The TGA analysis of treated CEH showed a substantial improvement in thermal stability which was confirmed by increase in maximum thermal decomposition temperature (217°C) as compared to control (209°C). Similarly, the treated CYP also showed enhanced thermal stability as compared to control. DSC showed increase in melting temperature of treated CYP as compared to control. However the melting peak was absent in DSC of treated CEH which was probably due to rigid chain of the protein. The surface area of treated CEH was increased by 83% as compared to control. However, a decrease (7.3%) in surface area was observed in treated CYP. The particle size analysis of treated CEH showed a significant increase in average particle size (d50) and d99 value (maximum particle size below which 99% of particles are present) as compared to control sample. Similarly, the treated CYP also showed a substantial increase in d50 and d99 values which was probably due to the agglomeration of the particles which led to formation of bigger microparticles. The result showed that the biofield treated CEH and CYP could be used as a matrix for pharmaceutical applications.
Phenotyping and 16S rDNA Analysis after Biofield Treatment on Citrobacter braakii: A Urinary Pathogen
Creators: name: Trivedi, Mahendra
Publisher: name: SMN - The ScienceMedia Network
Year: 2016
Subjects: Natural Sciences
Biology

description: Citrobacter braakii (C. braakii) is widespread in nature, mainly found in human urinary tract. The current study was attempted to investigate the effect of Mr. Trivedi’s biofield treatment on C. braakii in lyophilized as well as revived state for antimicrobial susceptibility pattern, biochemical characteristics, and biotype number. Lyophilized vial of ATCC strain of C. braakii was divided into two parts, Group (Gr.) I: control and Gr. II: treated. Gr. II was further subdivided into two parts, Gr. IIA and Gr. IIB. Gr. IIA was analysed on day 10 while Gr. IIB was stored and analysed on day 159 (Study I). After retreatment on day 159, the sample (Study II) was divided into three separate tubes. First, second and third tube was analysed on day 5, 10 and 15, respectively. All experimental parameters were studied using automated MicroScan Walk-Away® system. The 16S rDNA sequencing of lyophilized treated sample was carried out to correlate the phylogenetic relationship of C. braakii with other bacterial species. The antimicrobial susceptibility and minimum inhibitory concentration showed 39.29% and 15.63% alteration respectively in treated cells of C. braakii as compared to control. Tetracycline showed improved sensitivity pattern, i.e., from resistant to susceptible after biofield treatment, with support of decreased MIC value (>8 to ≤ 4 µg/mL) by two-fold in all the treated samples as compared to the control. Biochemical reactions also showed significant (42.42%) alteration in the treated samples with respect to the control. Biotype numbers with species were substantially changed in Gr. IIA (53131052, Citrobacter freundii complex) on day 10 and in Gr. IIB, Study I (53111052; Citrobacter amalonaticus) on day 159 as compared to the control (77365776; Citrobacter braakii). Moreover, biotype numbers with species were substantially changed in Gr. IIB, Study II after retreatment on day 5 (53111042, Citrobacter amalonaticus) and (53131052; Citrobacter freundii complex) on day 10 and 15 as compared to the control. 16S rDNA analysis showed that the identified microbe as Citrobacter freundii (GenBank Accession Number: DQ517285) with 95% identity. The nearest homolog genus-species of C. braakii was found to be Citrobacter werkmanii (Accession No. AF025373). The results suggested that biofield treatment has a significant impact on C. braakii in lyophilized as well as revived state.
Yeast-hypha transition and immune recognition of Candida albicans affected by defects in the cell signal transduction pathways
Creators: name: Mehrotra, Pankaj
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Oral Presentation at EU-Initial Training Network “Ariadne”, 11th March, 2013, Asilomar, CA, USA
Plant functional constraints guide a macroevolutionary trade-off in growth responses to nitrogen
Creators: name: Wooliver, Rachel
name: Pfennigwerth, Alix
name: Bailey, Joseph
name: Schweitzer, Jennifer
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Decades of research show that plants vary in their growth responses to increasing soil nitrogen (N), supporting theory on evolutionary trade­offs between competitive and conservative growth strategies. However, we lack an understanding of the evolutionary processes guiding trade­offs in competitive and conservative growth responses to N addition (GRN), processes which should include selection across environmental gradients and constraint within certain plant functional types. We collected previously published data on total biomass responses of 125 terrestrial plant species to N fertilization. We calculated phylogenetic signal of GRN to assess the influence of shared evolutionary history N use capacities. To determine whether this variation is consistent with stabilizing selection towards unique N use capacities, we compared the fit of species’ GRN data to models that approximate evolution according to genetic drift with and without stabilizing selection across plant functional types, biomes, and environmental gradients.

Responses to N fertilization ranged from a 60% decrease to an 1800% increase in biomass. We identified a significant phylogenetic signal for GRN, and evolutionary models incorporating stabilizing selection plus genetic drift explained more variation in GRN than models incorporating genetic drift alone. Parameter estimates from selection­-based models indicate that plant functional types have experienced selection towards GRN values (i.e., evolutionary optima) that differ more than among biomes or across climatic gradients. Overall, our results suggest that phylogenetic relatedness and stabilizing selection associated with functional constraints are two aspects of past evolution that govern whether species will be winners or losers in global soil N addition scenarios.
Trait evolution within frugivory networks
Creators: name: Hui, Cang
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Background/Question/Methods

Mutualistic frugivory networks are formed by interactions between species which exploit each other for mutual benefit and are crucial components to sustain ecosystem function and services, foster biodiversity and affect community stability. Despite their diversity, mutualistic interactions exhibit surprisingly well-organized structures. In particular, they are often found to be within a certain range of connectance, nestedness and modularity, as well as a right skewed degree distribution. Connectance measures the proportion of realized interactions among all possible ones in a network, and mutualistic networks often have a low to moderate level of connectance. A high level of nestedness, where specialists only interact with a subset of species with which generalists interact, is also a common feature of mutualistic networks. Modularity depicts the extent to which a network is compartmentalized into delimited modules where species are strongly interacting with species within the same module but not those from other modules. Being a typical feature of food webs, high modularity is also common in some mutualistic networks. Most species are poorly connected, with only a small number being well connected, resulting in a degree distribution following mostly a truncated power law. Evidently, these multiple features of mutualistic networks are not independent of each other, suggesting that an integrated model is required to better capture the intrinsic dynamic features of species interactions.

Results/Conclusions

Here, I review a list of eco-evolutionary models for investigating the pattern emergence in bipartite mutualistic networks with trait-mediated interactions – phylogenetic modelling, adaptive interaction switching and adaptive dynamics. Firstly, using knowledge of the phylogenies of the interacting species, our model yielded a significantly better fit to 21% of a set of plant–frugivore mutualistic networks. This highlights the importance, in a substantial minority of cases, of inheritance of interaction patterns without excluding the potential role of ecological novelties in forming the current network architecture. Second, the model allowing interaction switches between partner species produced predictions which fit remarkably well with observations, and thus the interaction switch is likely a key ecological process that results in nestedness of real-world networks. Finally, trait-based adaptive dynamics models highlight the importance of assortative interactions and the balance of costs incurred by coevolving species as factors determining the eventual phenotypic outcome of coevolutionary interactions. The interplay of ecological and evolutionary processes through trait-mediated interactions can explain these widely observed architectures in mutualistic networks.
Root traits at global scale: factors influencing the distribution of root traits globally

Creators: name: Valverde-Barrantes, Oscar J.
name: Freschet, Grégoire T.
name: Roumet, Catherine
name: Blackwood, Christopher B.
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Fine roots are responsible for most nutrient and water acquisition in plants and drivers of belowground ecological processes such as soil carbon accrual, soil microbial dynamics and soil respiration. Attributes such as specific root length (SRL), diameter, root tissue density (RTD) and root nitrogen content (RNC) have been reported as key traits influencing ecosystem processes. Nevertheless, few hypotheses have been proposed to explain fine root trait diversity among seed plants (Spermatophyta). One common hypothesis is that root traits should be directly correlated with leaf traits as part of the resource-use economic plan of the entire plant (PES hypothesis). Then, leaf and roots should exhibit similar trait syndromes reflecting their resource acquisition strategies. Similarly, is expected that mycorrhizal associations would align with the PES gradient with ectomycorrhizal species falling in the conservative side of the spectrum. Additionally, it has been proposed that trait syndromes in roots are highly phylogenetically conserved (RTPC hypothesis), reflecting independent evolutionary strategies for resource acquisition among plant lineages. Here, compiling root, leaf, climatic ranges and mycorrhizal status of 600+ species from the literature, we describe for the first time global patterns in trait variation for four key functional root traits, testing the validity of both PES and RTPC hypotheses.

Rather than the tight coupling with leaves, or mycorrhizal types, as expected from the PES hypothesis, we found strong trait association with phylogenetic affiliation and growth form, supporting the RTPC hypothesis. Surprisingly, mycorrhizal associations had little effect on traits, whereas temperature had a significant effect on root diameter and SRL and rain patterns on RTD. However, these climatic patterns lost significance after phylogenetic corrections, suggesting that traits were largely affected by the representation of plant clades across climatic gradients. Trait coordination between above and belowground traits varied depending on the phylogenetic groups considered, with clades dominated by non-woody plants showing stronger morphological integration, whereas woody-dominated clades had higher N integration between organs. Phylogenetic structuring explained 30-46% of trait variation for diameter, SRL and RNC, whereas RTD had little phylogenetic signal. Moreover, variation in SRL and diameter was substantially affected by super-order divisions, suggesting deep divergences in the segregation of these traits. In contrast, RNC and RTD seem more influenced by recent evolutionary events. Overall, the inclusion of phylogenetic information appears as reliable way to improve global models, enhancing our ability to predict how shifts in vegetation will affect belowground functional traits, nutrient and carbon fluxes.
An invasive tree's soil nitrogen legacy declines with time-since-restoration and with prescribed fire
Creators: name: Corbin, Jeffrey D.
name: Sandoval, Sonia
name: Fitzgerald, Briana
name: Peterson, Kathryn
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Background/Question/Methods

Non-native nitrogen-fixing plants are a particular threat to ecosystems because of their capacity to alter soil nutrient cycles. Even after they have been removed, nitrogen pools and/or rates of N cycling may remain elevated – a “legacy” of invasion that outlives the plants’ presence. It remains unresolved how long such legacies last and what management strategies contribute to their relaxation. We quantified the magnitude of invasion legacies on soil N cycling rates in an inland pitch pine barren habitat invaded by the N-fixing black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) tree. We used laboratory incubations to measure rates of net N mineralization and net nitrification in soils from 47 sites that included a range of land use (currently invaded, never invaded, and invaded-but-restored). Among restored sites, we took advantage of a chronosequence of time-since-restoration (0-16 years), as well as variation in fire history (0-4 fires). We hypothesized that, overall, N dynamics in restored sites would be intermediate between sites that are currently invaded and those that have never been invaded. We also hypothesized that, among the restored sites, N cycling rates would decline as time-since-restoration increased. Finally, we hypothesized that sites that experienced prescribed burns would have lower N cycling rates than those that have not burned.

Results/Conclusions

Currently-invaded sites had the highest rates of both net N mineralization and net nitrification by a factor of more than two. Rates of net N mineralization did not differ between restored and never-invaded sites, though their rates of N cycling were all significantly lower than in locust-dominated sites. N cycling rates decreased significantly in restored sites as the number of years since restoration increased – but only in unburned plots. Fire had transient effects of reducing soil N cycling rates in the most-recently burned sites, but overall, N cycling rates in burned sites were not significantly lower compared to unburned ones. Our study demonstrates that, while the N-fixing black locust tree leaves a legacy of altered soil N dynamics even after it is removed, the magnitude of that legacy decreased with time even in the absence of other active management. These findings may inform management in the numerous other systems in which N-fixing invaders have transformed N cycling rates.
Spatial and temporal patterns of avian schistosomiasis ("swimmer's itch") in Michigan lakes
Creators: name: Messner, Madelyn
name: Raffel, Thomas
Publisher: name: F1000Research
Year: 2016

description: Parasitic flatworms in the family Schistosomatidae infect millions of people worldwide and contribute to thousands of deaths each year. Swimmer’s itch is a nasty rash caused by schistosome species that normally infect snails and birds. Snails release thousands of cercariae that swim through the water and burrow into human skin. This model system was used to conduct a survey of 14 sites on 8 lakes in northern Michigan. The goal of this survey was to fill knowledge gaps in the literature by tracking daily fluctuations of cercaria abundance in the water and to identify environmental predictors of swimmer’s itch transmission.

Temporal and spatial data on parasite and host populations, as well as environmental variables were collected. Variables measured included water temperature, light intensity, water nutrient levels, periphyton growth, and riparian land use. Snail populations were assessed using visual quadrat surveys. Daily cercaria samples were collected from each site from July 6 through August 2, 2015 by filtering 50 liters of surface water through a nitex mesh filter. Cercarial DNA was extracted from these samples and quantified using qPCR. R was used to perform multiple linear regression models for the site-level analyses.
Sheng shi xin sheng : [shi er juan] [volume 06]
盛世新聲 : [十二卷] [第六冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: [China] : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2018

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Edition: [Ke ben]
title: Porgy and Bess
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Porgy and Bess
subject: Everyman Opera for Europe
subject: Gershwin, Ira
subject: Gershwin, George
subject: Davis, Blevins
subject: Breen, Robert
subject: Heyward, Dorothy
subject: Heyward, DuBose

description: Playbill.
The Role of China in Montesquieu's "Esprit des lois"
Creators: name: Kra, Pauline
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: French literature
subject: Philosophy
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: Campaign literature

description: Montesquieu's ideas on China have been the subject of much study and controversy. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that, as discussed in twenty-two books of the Esprit des lois, China serves to illustrate Montesquieu's fundamental principles and to elucidate his method. References to the empire appear frequently in the concluding chapters of books or at the end of sequences of arguments to show how relations between various factors can be reversed by special circumstances. China is an exception and a paradox. Montesquieu's insistence on the fact that the Chinese Empire is a despotic regime aims to convey that his definitions of types of government are theoretical and that in reality they encompass a variety of forms determined by particular circumstances. China also plays an important role in the development of Montesquieu's theory of climate demonstrating how the relations between physical and moral causes can be reversed. Wise Chinese policies, such as the creation of feudatory states and constructive treatment of conquered nations, are described as the counterpart of destructive practices. The analysis of the interaction between the distinct elements of the esprit général is offset and cofirmed by their exceptional fusion in Chinese rites. Chinese overpopulation and birth control are the turning point in the book on propagation.The importance of China for the opening of trade routes to Asia is recognized in the context of the history of commerce. The discussion of the expansion of European foreign trade concludes with a comparison to the vast extent of Chinese internal trade. In the penultimate chapter of the book on the composition of laws China is invoked once again to confront theory with experience and legislative uniformity with diversity.
The British Army in India during WW2
Creators: name: Project Team, Their Finest Hour
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: My father, Wilfred Creek was born in August1910, in Worcester. He worked in the family estate agency and auctioneer business until he joined the RAF in 1941 and was trained as a radio technician. He married my mother, Marjorie Briney, in September 1939, and my brother Graham was born in June 1941.After training in Blackpool and the Cotswolds he was posted to serve in India and Burma. During his time there he sent home drawings, poems, newspaper cuttings, birthday and Christmas cards to his family which Marjorie assembled into a scrapbook (Item 2).He would not talk about his experiences in the war after he returned home, apart from one story which involved him having to climb a radio mast in a thunder storm. I imagine that much of what he experienced was too harrowing to talk about. In scrapbook {Item one}, as well as photographs he took in Barrakpore, Calcutta, and Tibet, there are newspaper cuttings about the famine in Bengal and the desperate plight of the local people which must have affected him deeply.He was artistic and musical, and a talented actor. He enjoyed performing in reviews, and helped organise concerts and shows for his comrades. He also hand drew posters and menus for special celebration meals.During his time in Burma he contracted two severe bouts of vaccine fever, he was demobbed and returned home in 1946. My mother said he came home a changed man, so he was probably suffering from what we now know as PTSD. He rejoined the family business, and I was born in 1947, followed by my sister in 1948. A vivid childhood memory is of his RAF uniform hanging in a wardrobe.My mother-in-law, Thelma Welch from Birmingham and my father-in-law, Leslie Salisbury from Worcester met during the war. They both worked in agriculture with the Land Army. Thelma drove tractors and lorries, while Leslie worked with livestock. They married in 1944 and after the war they made their home in a double decker bus in the corner of a field. There was a shortage of housing due to the severe bombing of Birmingham and the West Midlands. Their son Keith, my husband, was born in October 1945. We were married in 1969.
Sheng shi xin sheng : [shi er juan] [volume 05]
盛世新聲 : [十二卷] [第五冊]
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: [China] : [publisher not identified]
Year: 2018

description: Wood-block printing, on double leaves, East Asian binding.
Edition: [Ke ben]
A Phenomenon Occurs through Charles Dickens’s Characters in Bleak House
Creators: name: Melendez, Lillian
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Literature

description: Bleak House by Charles Dickens is based in the Victorian era and the author writes this book with his own experimentation of phenomenology, even though Edmund Husserl set the blueprint on the philosophy of phenomenology. According to Robert Paradowski, “Every mental act must have a content, according to Husserl, because one cannot be aware without being aware of something; Husserl asserted that all acts of consciousness are intentional, that is, that they all have an object. Husserl’s study of intentionality led him to the crucial belief that reality was neither material nor mental, but experiential. This meant that phenomenology was more a method of philosophizing than an actual philosophy” (Robert Paradowski). Each passage in Bleak House represents the notion of a phenomenon through the characters’ urge to release suppressive thoughts in order to be faithfully in-tune to what exist and does not physically change. They are consciously exploring the existence of things with their minds while being physically in-active. Dickens opposes the Cartesian, Hobbesian, and Lockean philosophy by challenging their limited viewpoint through his characters, and these fictional beings becomes the examples of opposing the rejection against the mind being in public use.
A Terence Staging in the Sixteenth Century
Creators: name: Richmond, Hugh M.
Publisher: name: Humanities Commons
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Drama
subject: European literature

description: This essay discusses an illustration of the opening scene of an indoor Renaissance performance, from an edition of Terrence dated 1580. This is the Prologue of the comedy "Heauton Timorumenos" ("The Self-Tormentor") by Terence (195-159 B.C.) with an actor as the Prologue in a day-lit theatre. This setting marks the beginning of a shift away from outdoor theatres to the modern indoor stage. To see the title page of the edition go to the Terence entry in Primary Renaissance Texts in the Performance Bibliography of http://shakespearestaging.berkeley.edu