cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Innovative use of foraminifera in ecotoxicology: a marine chronic bioassay for testing potential toxicity of drilling muds
Creators: name: Denoyelle, Mariéva
name: Jorissen, Frans J.
name: Galgani, François
name: Miné, Jacques
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session H
Year: 2024
Subjects: The sea and human culture and societies
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Benthic foraminifera are commonly used as bio-indicators of pollution in marine environments. The study of their assemblages (density, species composition, and diversity) has proven to be a reliable tool to assess and biomonitor the environmental impact of anthropogenic pollutions. We compare foraminifera and macrofauna as bio-indicators of the disposal of oil drill cuttings at a site off Congo. The most polluted sites are characterized by poor faunas, dominated by some very tolerant taxa. Slightly further from the disposal site, there is an area with strongly increased densities, heavily dominated by opportunistic taxa. Still further, the macrofauna appears to be similar to that at the reference area, but the foraminiferal fauna still suggests a slight environmental perturbation. The foraminiferal FIEI index, based on the species distribution in the study area, appears to be more discriminative than the macrofaunal ITI index, based on a priori definitions of the trophic guilds of the various taxa. Our comparative approach allows us to point out the benefits of (i) the use of macrofauna and foraminifera together, and (ii) the definition of the species groups used in biotic indices on the basis of observations made directly in the study area.
An Integrated Panel Data Approach to Modelling Economic Growth
Creators: name: Gao, Jiti
name: Pan, Guangming
name: Yang, Yanrong
name: Zhang, Bo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 380202
subject: Econometric and statistical methods
classificationCode: 380299
subject: Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: Accurate estimation for extent of cross-sectional dependence in large panel data analysis is paramount to further statistical analysis on the data under study. Grouping more data with weak relations (cross-sectional dependence) together often results in less efficient dimension reduction and worse forecasting. This paper describes cross-sectional dependence among a large number of objects (time series) via a factor model and parametrizes its extent in terms of strength of factor loadings. A new joint estimation method, benefiting from unique feature of dimension reduction for high dimensional time series, is proposed for the parameter representing the extent and some other parameters involved in the estimation procedure. Moreover, a joint asymptotic distribution for a pair of estimators is established. Simulations illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed estimation method in the finite sample performance. Applications in cross-country macro-variables and stock returns from S&P 500 are studied.
Just like everyone else : the knowledge/ignorance binary in censorship and lesbian and gay picturebooks
Creators: name: Beveridge, Lian Judith
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: In this dissertation I analyse lesbian and gay picturebooks and the discourse of a censorship challenge to these books. I take a deconstructive approach to the material, using queer theory, children’s literature criticism and children’s culture theory to analyse the ways in which the knowledge/ignorance and adult/child binaries are reinscribed and undone in these discourses. I focus on absences of LGBT-specific language, physical bodies, difference and non-normative gender identities in the picturebooks, and analyse a wide range of media in a challenge in Lexington, Massachusetts which began in 2005. I argue that both the books and the discourse of the challenge have the effect of reinscribing a construction of the ideal child as ignorant and asexual. This conceptualisation of childhood dismisses actual children’s ability to absorb, challenge or disseminate knowledge, and refuses to offer them possibilities of non-normative genders and sexualities for their lives. I argue that, due to the focus on sexuality and the unavoidably pedagogical nature of children’s literature, the picturebooks inherently trouble the knowledge/ignorance binary. Due to this disruptive condition the normalising politics of the picturebooks are inadequate to prevent the books from becoming controversial. Queer picturebooks that resisted normalisation and represented real difference would better respect the intellectual and emotional needs of child readers.
Sacred and Obscene Laughter in "The Contendings of Horus and Seth," in Egyptian Inversions of Everyday Life, and in the Context of Cultic Competition
Creators: name: Morris, Ellen F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient
History, Ancient
Egyptology
Egyptian literature

description: The eminent historian Robert Darnton has spent much of his career investigating episodes in French social history that no longer readily make sense,
such as why violent and obscene fairy tales were so popular in the French countryside during the Enlightenment and why a mass cat-lynching would
have proved so hilarious that a mere allusion to it was enough to dispatch the perpetrators into thigh-slapping bouts of laughter for weeks on end. To Darnton’s mind, historians have been far too apt to view eighteenth century France as comfortingly familiar terrain, where men and women thought and behaved much as they do today. Much enjoyed narrative events such as pre-pubescent Little Red Riding Hood’s strip-tease before the wolf just prior to being eaten, however, force an acknowledgment of the distance between now and then, between us and them. “When we cannot get a proverb, or a joke, or a ritual, or a poem,” Darnton maintains, “we know we are on to something.”

Despite the fact that millennia rather than centuries separate ancient Egypt from its historians, Egyptologists, too, have imposed their own worldviews upon the peoples they study. The many instances in which the Egyptian sense of decorum and humor did not match those of the keepers of their legacy has led over the past couple of centuries to the unabashedly sexual elements of their material culture and literature routinely being sequestered under lock and key or tastefully rephrased in Latin. While such censure has eroded markedly in the wake of the western sexual revolution and gay rights movement, it still persists in many of the visions of ancient Egypt conjured up for public consumption. Alan Lloyd, one of the most accomplished and insightful of Egypt’s historians, has never been guilty of the twin sins of boorish cultural imperialism and humourless prudery. It is to him, then, with hopes that he will enjoy it, that I dedicate this study exploring the conundrum of just why the sun-god, Pre-Harakhti, should have found the unexpected sight of his daughter’s genitals refreshingly funny. This seemingly gratuitous interlude in "The Contendings of Horus and Seth" defies a modern common sense approach to understanding it. If viewed from a more structural and etiological perspective, however, I hope to show that Hathor’s flash—like Darnton’s cat massacre—is capable of providing unexpected insight.
title: Analysis of biological quality elements (BQEs) and human-induced pressures to assess the benthic ecological status of coastal ecosystems under the WFD (2000/60/EC)
Creators: name: Bacci, T.
name: Cicero, A. M.
name: Gennaro, P.
name: Giovanardi, F.
name: La Valle, P.
name: Nicoletti, L.
name: Penna, M.
name: Rende, F. S.
name: Tomassetti, P.
name: Trabucco, B.
name: Aste, F.
name: Burgassi, M.
name: Sollazzo, C.
name: Giangrande, A.
name: Mangialajo, L.
name: Montefalcone, M.
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session H
Year: 2024
Subjects: The sea and human culture and societies
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Assessment of the ecological status of coastal marine ecosystems is requested by the European Water Framework Directive (WFD 2000/60/EC): data analysis and processing of biological quality elements (BQEs: macroinvertebrates, angiosperms, macroalgae, and phytoplankton), together with information on human-induced pressures and the deriving impacts on coastal areas, are strictly recommended by the Directive to evaluate reference conditions. This is a mandatory step in order to define a classification criterion and proceed with the ecological classification of coastal water bodies. In the present paper, the effects of the human-induced pressures on the biological data with regard to macroinvertebrates, angiosperms, and macroalgae were analysed. The data have been collected in the frame of the National Monitoring Program financed by the Ministry of the Environment (Environmental Protection Department). According to the WFD guidelines, the ecological response of the coastal marine ecosystem has been evaluated by using appropriate statistical tools and several indices of ecological status have been tested, by checking their compliance with the requests of the Directive. The research allows us to discriminate among different kinds of pressure and the related effects on biological elements that characterize coastal marine environments.
Hyperon forward spin polarizabilty gamma0
Creators: name: Kumar, K. B. Vijaya
name: Faessler, Amand
name: Gutsche, Thomas
name: Holstein, Barry R.
name: Lyubovitskij, Valery E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a systematic leading order calculation of hyperon Compton scattering and extract the forward spin polarizability gamma0 of hyperons within the framework of SU(3) heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory (HBChPT). The results obtained for gamma0 in the case of nucleons agree with that of the known results of SU(2) HBChPT when kaon loops are not considered.
description: 10 pages
title: A proposal for the assessment of the composition and community structure ofbenthic macroinvertebrates in transitional waters The QSB index
Creators: name: Puente, Araceli
name: Juanes, José A.
name: Echavarri-Erasun, Beatriz
name: Galván, Cristina
name: Ondiviela, Bárbara
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session H
Year: 2024
Subjects: The sea and human culture and societies
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires the assessment of benthic macroinvertebrates in transitional waters. According to the WFD, the classification tools for this biological indicator in different status categories should include the level of diversity and abundance, as well as the presence of taxa that are sensitive or indicative of pollution. However, the absence of changes in these variables does not imply that the community could not be disturbed. This fact is especially relevant in highly stressed natural estuarine communities, characterized by their low richness and high dominance. Consequently, the addition of metrics in the evaluation systems focused on the detection of changes in composition and structure of macroinvertebrates communities is encouraged. With this aim, a multimetric tool that includes the assessment of community integrity is proposed, and its suitability to detect impacts has been tested. The QSB tool (Quality of Soft Bottoms) includes richness, abundance, and opportunistic species, and compares the evaluated site with a predefined community type by means of the Bray–Curtis similarity index. The index has been used to assess macro-invertebrate communities in transitional water bodies within the Cantabric River Basin District (Spain, Northeast Atlantic).
On the Ownership of the Saqqara Mastabas and the Allotment of Political and Ideological Power at the Dawn of the State
Creators: name: Morris, Ellen F.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient
History, Ancient
Egyptology
Tombs
Power (Social sciences)

description: The issue of just who was buried in the largest, wealthiest, and most visually prominent tombs of the First Dynasty is crucial to resolve, or at least to explore thoroughly, if we are to have any sense of the political dynamics operative at the dawn of the Egyptian state. I am therefore on this occasion honored to add my voice to that of my professor, mentor, and scholarly hero of sorts in suggesting that the Saqqara mastabas do not belong to the officials to whom Egyptologists have long handed over their deeds. To mount my own argument, I will utilize mastaba 3504 as a case study. Ownership of this tomb, the nearest neighbor to the north of mastaba 3505, which Dr. O'Connor took as the focus for his own investigation, is usually attributed to an official named Sekhemka. In this essay I will introduce the reader to this opulent mastaba, highlight the reasons I believe its assignment to Sekhemka to be misguided, widen the frame to demonstrate the relevance of the case study, and finally introduce a tentative alternative hypothesis as to what category of people owned the Saqqara mastabas and why their identities may have been to some extent intentionally subsumed in that of the reigning king.
Mahavana caeca Bordoni, 2013, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Bordoni, A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Mahavana
Mahavana caeca

description: Mahavana caeca nov.sp. (Figs 6-10) E x a m i n e d m a t e r i a l: Holotype 3: Yunnan, Dali Bai Aut. Pref., mount. range E Weishan, 12 km NE Weishan, 2630-2660 m, 25°17'02.15''N, 100°22'23.30''E, M. Schülke 15.IX.2009 (cS); paratype: same data, 1♀ (cB). D e s c r i p t i o n: Body length 5,3 mm; length from anterior margin of head to posterior margin of elytra 2,4 mm. Similar to M. schulekei but with more rectangular head (Fig. 6). Ocular grooves superficial. Surface with polygonal and more distributed micro-reticulation and smaller and more distributed puncturation, with narrower median strip. Last three antennomeres as in Fig. 7. Pronotum, elytra and abdomen similar to those of M. schuelkei in shape, dimension and puncturation. Tergite and sternite of the male genital segment as in Figs 8-9. Aedeagus (Fig. 10), 1,22 mm long, more or less ovoidal, with parameres of particular shape; inner sac narrow, folded one time on itself, covered by fine scales and with 5 large spines of particular shape. E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet refers to the Latin caecus -a -um (blind). G e o g r a f i c a l d i s t r i b u t i o n This species is known only from the type locality. B i o n o m i c s The specimens were collected in "scrubs with pines and bamboo, litter", together with M. schuelkei.
description: Published as part of Bordoni, A., 2013, New data on Xantholinini from China. 19 °. Five new species of Mahavana from Yunnan (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 267-277 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (1) on page 269
Characterization theorem on losses in $GI^X/GI^Y/1/n$ queues
Creators: name: Abramov, Vyacheslav M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K25, 90B22

description: In this paper, we prove a characterization theorem on the number of losses during a busy period in $GI^X/GI^Y/1/n$ queueing systems, in which interarrival time distribution belongs to the class NWUE.
description: to appear in: Operations Research Letters
A Near Unit Root Test for High-Dimensional Nonstationary Time Series
Creators: name: Zhang, Bo
name: Gao, Jiti
name: Pan, Guangming
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: classificationCode: 380202
subject: Econometric and statistical methods
classificationCode: 380299
subject: Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: This paper considers a p-dimensional time series model of the form x(t)-δ(t)=φ(x(t-1)-δ(t-1))+Σ^(1/2)y(t), 1≤t≤T, where y(t) = (y(t1),...,y(tp)) and Σ^(1/2) is the square root of a symmetric positive definite matrix. Here φ≤1 and T(1-φ) is bounded and the linear processes y(tj) is of the form Σb(k)z(t-k,j) where Σ|bi| < infinity and {z(ij)} are independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) random variables with E(z(ij))=0, E|z(ij)|^2=1 and E|z(ij)|^4< infinity. We first investigate the asymptotic behavior of the first k largest eigenvalues of the sample covariance matrices of the time series model. We then propose an estimator of φ and use it to test for near unit roots. Simulations and empirical applications are also conducted to demonstrate the performance of the statistic.
Marginal dimensions for multicritical phase transitions
Creators: name: Dudka, M.
name: Folk, R.
name: Holovatch, Yu.
name: Moser, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The field-theoretical model describing multicritical phenomena with two coupled order parameters with n_{||} and n_{\perp} components and of O(n_{||}) \oplus O(n_{\perp}) symmetry is considered. Conditions for realization of different types of multicritical behaviour are studied within the field-theoretical renormalization group approach. Surfaces separating stability regions for certain types of multicritical behaviour in parametric space of order parameter dimensions and space dimension d are calculated using the two-loop renormalization group functions. Series for the order parameter marginal dimensions that control the crossover between different universality classes are extracted up to the fourth order in \varepsilon=4-d and to the fifth order in a pseudo-\varepsilon parameter using the known high-order perturbative expansions for isotropic and cubic models. Special attention is paid to a particular case of O(1) \oplus O(2) symmetric model relevant for description of anisotropic antiferromagnets in an external magnetic field.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of 4-th Conference on Statistical Physics: Modern Trends and Applications, July 3-6, 2012 Lviv, Ukraine
Figshare.rar
Creators: name: Satiarvand, Mostafa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 409999
subject: Other engineering not elsewhere classified

description: Drilling is one of the most dangerous activities in the oil and gas process industries. Therefore, a holistic approach was presented to prevent and control risks and reduce the uncertainty of blowouts, kick scenarios, and control layers based on the Fuzzy Bayesian Network (FBN).
Leptoquark toolbox for precision collider studies
Creators: name: Doršner, Ilja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: I will introduce a toolbox for precision collider studies of the leptoquark production mechanisms in the proton-proton collisions. The study I plan to present was prompted by the need for an up-to-date Monte Carlo event generator output that could be used for the current and future experimental searches and search recasts. I will, accordingly, report the NLO QCD inclusive cross sections in proton-proton collisions at various center-of-mass energies for all on-shell leptoquark production processes and, in view of these results, discuss the leptoquark search strategy.
Intermittent Dissipation and Local Heating in the Solar Wind
Creators: name: Osman, K. T.
name: Matthaeus, W. H.
name: Wan, M.
name: Rappazzo, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evidence for inhomogeneous heating in the interplanetary plasma near current sheets dynamically generated by magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence is obtained using measurements from the ACE spacecraft. These coherent structures only constitute 19% of the data, but contribute 50% of the total plasma internal energy. Intermittent heating manifests as elevations in proton temperature near current sheets, resulting in regional heating and temperature enhancements extending over several hours. The number density of non-Gaussian structures is found to be proportional to the mean proton temperature and solar wind speed. These results suggest magnetofluid turbulence drives intermittent dissipation through a hierarchy of coherent structures, which collectively could be a significant source of coronal and solar wind heating.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physics Review Letters
title: Physical disturbance impacts on ecosystem function: a comparative analysis using traditional and novel approaches
Creators: name: Rauhan, W. M.
name: Hussin, Wan
name: Cooper, Keith M.
name: Froján, Christopher R. S. Barrio
name: Defew, Emma
name: Bremner, Julie
name: Paterson, David M.
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session H
Year: 2024
Subjects: The sea and human culture and societies
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The objective of this study was to investigate the recovery of ecosystem function after marine aggregate dredging. A previously dredged area (Area 222), located off the southeast coast of England, was selected for this investigation; the experiment consisting of sites previously subject to relatively high and low dredging intensity, as well as two undisturbed reference areas. Data were analysed using traditional indices (abundance, species richness, and biomass) and functional analysis techniques (somatic production and taxonomic distinctness). Results showed that, whereas the recovery in the high activity site was incomplete, both traditional and functional analyses showed that macrofauna in the low activity dredging site had fully recovered seven years after the dredging ceased. Although both techniques showed some congruence in terms of the period required for recovery, the functional techniques recorded a faster rate of recovery compared with the traditional ones. This suggests that, whereas the aggregate extraction may alter the structure of macrobenthic assemblages, the benthic ecosystem may still be able to perform the same process, albeit with a different community.
Nonperturbative calculations of form factors for exclusive semileptonic Bs decays
Creators: name: Witzel, Oliver
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: We report on our determination of form factors for Bs->Ds l nu and Bs->K l nu semileptonic decays. Our calculations are based on RBC-UKQCD's gauge field ensembles and we use domain-wall fermions for up, down, strange, and charm quarks, while physical bottom quarks are simulated with the relativistic heavy quark action. Using three lattice spacings of 1/a = 1.78, 2.38, and 2.77 GeV we determine the form factors over the full q^2 range and extract R-ratios to investigate lepton flavor universality violations. In combination with experimental measurements, the ratio of our form factors for both decay processes will allow to obtain the ratio of CKM matrix elements |V_cb|/|V_ub|.
Details of selected articles and additional analyses from A meta-analytic cognitive framework of nudge and sludge
Creators: name: Luo, Yu
name: Li, Andrew
name: Soman, Dilip
name: Zhao, Jiaying
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour
classificationCode: 520499
subject: Cognitive and computational psychology not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 529999
subject: Other psychology not elsewhere classified

description: Complete list of studies in the meta-analysis and additional analyses
Mirror left-right symmetry
Creators: name: Gu, Pei-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a novel SU(3)_c\times SU(2)_L\times SU(2)_R\times U(1)_{B-L} left-right symmetric model where the standard model fermion and Higgs fields are SU(2)_L doublets or SU(2) singlets while their mirror partners are SU(2)_R doublets or SU(2) singlets. The scalar fields also include a real singlet for dark matter and two SU(2) triplets for seesaw. The mixing between the standard model and mirror fermions is forbidden by a Z_2\times Z'_2 discrete symmetry. The mirror charged fermions can decay into their standard model partners with the dark-matter scalar while the mirror neutrinos can decay into the mirror charged fermions through the right-handed gauge interactions. Our model can have new implications on the strong CP problem, leptogenesis, collider phenomenology and dark matter detection.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. One figure and some references are added
Erythrolamprus epinephelus
Creators: name: Pérez-Rojas, Diego A.
name: Escamilla-Quitián, Diego
name: Estupiñan-Tibaduiza, María Fernanda
name: Carvajal‑Cogollo, Juan E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Dipsadidae
Erythrolamprus
Erythrolamprus epinephelus

description: Erythrolamprus epinephelus (Cope, 1862) Materials examined. COLOMBIA • 2 adults ♀; Santander, municipality of Sucre, La Pradera, La Playa; 05° 52ʹ19″N, 073°54ʹ41″W 2574 m a.s.l.; 24 Jun. 2017; Diego Pérez leg.; UPTC-R 00025. Identification. Our specimen was identified as E. epinephelus based on: ventral scales 182, subcaudals 54, venter inmaculate, and scale pits present. Remarks. We found this species in the grassland habitat, where it was under rocks (Fig. 10B), near cultivated areas with evidence of the use of agrochemicals. As an escape strategy from predators, this species can flatten the body by contracting transverse muscles (Fig.10A).
description: Published as part of Pérez-Rojas, Diego A., Escamilla-Quitián, Diego, Estupiñan-Tibaduiza, María Fernanda & Carvajal‑Cogollo, Juan E., 2020, Annotated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of the Santander highland, Colombia, pp. 611-620 in Check List 16 (3) on pages 617-618, DOI: 10.15560/16.3.611, http://zenodo.org/record/5394085
title: Development of a combined indicator of bioturbination and redox, a proxy for seabed function?
Creators: name: Birchenough, S. N. R.
name: Parker, R. E.
name: Brooks, L.
name: Barry, J.
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session H
Year: 2024
Subjects: The sea and human culture and societies
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Marine systems are represented by a wide range of habitats. These systems are dynamic entities that have a high degree of complexity and may harbour high levels of biodiversity. Human-induced pressures (i.e. dredging, fishing, construction, pollution, and others) often produce additional disturbance to these marine systems with repercussions for biodiversity. Current national (e.g. Marine Bill, Charting Progress 2) and international (e.g. WFD, Habitats and Bird Directives, EUMSFD) legislation are focused on the quality and status of the marine environment. To this end, the UK has continued to work on the need to develop indicators that can assist with this process. This work has helped to identify the natural processes and human activities that are affecting marine systems. One of the marine descriptors within the EMSD is ”seabed integrity”. This descriptor asks Member States to ensure that the structure and function of ecosystems are safeguarded and benthic systems are not adversely affected. To date, we have furthered our understanding of the seabed by, for example, studying benthic systems. For this purpose indicator tools, such as a suite of benthic indices, have been employed as measurers of ”the health of benthic systems”. In most cases, this information mainly relates to the structure of benthic populations. However, there is a gap in terms of what we can measure with regards to the function of the ecosystem and how individual benthic animals perform their roles within specific ecosystems. There are also not enough data to assess if the functions of the seabed are safeguarded. This work has defined sediment function as an indicator to measure both carbon and nutrient cycling. These two processes are largely driven by the organisms controlling the redox potential of the sediments via bioturbation activities.
Five selfish reasons to join an open science initiative
Creators: name: Plomp, Esther
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Presentation given by Esther Plomp on 1 December 2023 for the Open Reproducible Data Science and Statistics network in MV.
Open Science initiatives promote the adoption of Open Science principles, contributing to the advancement of scientific knowledge for the benefit of society. Next to these broader advantages, joining an Open Science initiative also benefits you personally! This talk highlights five self-serving reasons on why joining an Open Science initiative will boost your research and/or career.
Observations and modeling of large area normal-metal/insulator/superconductor refrigerator cooling from 300 mK to below 100 mK
Creators: name: O'Neil, Galen C.
name: Lowell, Peter J.
name: Underwood, Jason M.
name: Ullom, Joel N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a normal-metal/insulator/superconductor (NIS) tunnel junction refrigerator, the normal-metal electrons are cooled and the dissipated power heats the superconducting electrode. This paper presents a review of the mechanisms by which heat leaves the superconductor and introduces overlayer quasiparticle traps for more effective heatsinking. A comprehensive thermal model is presented that accounts for the described physics, including the behavior of athermal phonons generated by both quasiparticle recombination and trapped quasiparticles. We compare the model to measurements of a large area (>400 um^2) NIS refrigerator with overlayer quasiparticle traps, and demonstrate that the model is in good agreement experiment. The refrigerator IV curve at a bath temperature of 300 mK is consistent with an electron temperature of 82 mK. However, evidence from independent thermometer junctions suggests that the refrigerator junction is creating an athermal electron distribution whose total excitation energy corresponds to a higher temperature than is indicated by the refrigerator IV curve.
'Normalising' what? Aboriginal land tenure reform in the Northern Territory of Australia
Creators: name: Howey, Kirsty
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This thesis examines recent Aboriginal land tenure reform in the Northern Territory of Australia. The Commonwealth and Northern Territory governments have introduced three reforms since 2006: Township Leases, 5-year Intervention Leases and 40-year Housing Leases. Each of the reforms provides for the grant of a “head-lease” on land owned under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth) to a government entity, which then has the power to issue sub-leases to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal persons. Scholars have tended to focus attention on the first two reforms, the Township Leases and the 5-year Intervention Leases, and the extent to which they have been successful or otherwise in achieving their policy objectives. Scholars have also tended to interpret one policy objective associated with all three reforms – the so-called “normalisation” of Aboriginal communities – as having a static meaning, often criticising it as a return to the Northern Territory’s colonial past. This thesis takes a different approach, attempting to examine the legal structure of all three reforms as part of wider discourse surrounding Aboriginal land tenure reform in the Northern Territory. I first analyse the legal structure of the reforms as evidenced in legislation and policy documentation, and then qualitatively examine the meaning of the term “normalise” in parliamentary hansard. My analysis reveals that the meaning of the word “normalise” has shifted since the first reform was introduced, and this change has been reflected by a parallel change in the legal structure of the reforms. The first two reforms (Township Leases and 5-year Intervention Leases) exhibit some parallels with the Northern Territory’s colonial property regime. However, the 40-year Housing Leases do not appear to possess the same characteristics and in fact may result in traditional Aboriginal owners of land in the Northern Territory exercising greater legal and economic control over their land.
A strong emission line near 24.8 angstrom in the X-ray binary system MAXI J0556--332: gravitational redshift or unusual donor?
Creators: name: Maitra, Dipankar
name: Miller, Jon M.
name: Raymond, John C.
name: Reynolds, Mark T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a strong emission line near 24.8 angstrom (0.5 keV) in the newly discovered X-ray binary system MAXI J0556-332 with the reflection grating spectrometer onboard the XMM-Newton observatory. The X-ray light curve morphology during these observations is complex and shows occasional dipping behavior. Here we present time- and rate-selected spectra from the RGS and show that this strong emission line is unambiguously present in all the XMM observations. The measured line center is consistent with the Ly-alpha transition of N VII in the rest frame. While the spectra contain imprints of absorption lines and edges, there appear to be no other significantly prominent narrow line due to the source itself, thus making the identification of the 24.8 angstrom line uncertain. We discuss possible physical scenarios, including a gravitationally redshifted O VIII Ly-alpha line originating at the surface of a neutron star or an unusual donor with an extremely high N/O abundance (>57) relative to solar, that may have produced this comparatively strong emission line.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. Uses aastex.cls, 4 figures, 2 tables, 15 pages
Continuous variable methods in relativistic quantum information: Characterisation of quantum and classical correlations of scalar field modes in noninertial frames
Creators: name: Adesso, Gerardo
name: Ragy, Sammy
name: Girolami, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review a recently introduced unified approach to the analytical quantification of correlations in Gaussian states of bosonic scalar fields by means of Renyi-2 entropy. This allows us to obtain handy formulae for classical, quantum, total correlations, as well as bipartite and multipartite entanglement. We apply our techniques to the study of correlations between two modes of a scalar field as described by observers in different states of motion. When one or both observers are in uniform acceleration, the quantum and classical correlations are degraded differently by the Unruh effect, depending on which mode is detected. Residual quantum correlations, in the form of quantum discord without entanglement, may survive in the limit of an infinitely accelerated observer Rob, provided they are revealed in a measurement performed by the inertial Alice.
description: 23 pages, 3 figures. v2: Setting clarified. To appear in Class. Quantum Grav. Special Issue on `Relativistic Quantum Information'
title: Biological water quality index in the changing world
Creators: name: Lauringson, Velda
name: Kotta, Jonne
name: Herkül, Kristjan
name: Kotta, Ilmar
name: Põllumäe, Arno
name: Veber, Triin
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session H
Year: 2024
Subjects: The sea and human culture and societies
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Global climate change is a well-acknowledged threat to ecosystems. In addition, coastal seas are concurrently threatened by another phenomenon, much more local in origin while almost comparably worldwide in spread—accelerated eutrophication. Public attention on ecosystem conservation and sustainable management has encouraged development of numerous biological water quality indices in recent years to facilitate the assessment of the ecological status of coastal marine areas. The key area of the present scientific focus is likely methodology, mainly the performance of different approaches and the validation of indices at local disturbance gradients. Large-scale environmental variability has gained attention from the spatial aspect, whereas the time-related component tends to receive less attention. Legislations such as the European Water Framework Directive are focused exclusively on local-scale disturbances. However, large- and local-scale temporal variability in environmental conditions display concurrent impact on the biological variability the indices are based on. The behaviour of biological water quality indices in response to changing climate is unknown, neither is studied the impact of mutual changes in large-and local-scale disturbances. The present study evaluates the contribution of climate- and eutrophication-related variables to the variability in two benthic water quality indices developed for classifying coastal sea areas according to the European Water Framework Directive in the northeastern Baltic Sea. Both climate and eutrophication contributed to the variability of the indices studied. This result indicates an urgent need to account for large-scale time-related variability in environmental conditions when applying biological water quality indices to the local-scale estimation of the disturbance status of water bodies.
Light storage based on four-wave mixing and electromagnetically induced transparency in cold atoms
Creators: name: Wu, Jinghui
name: Liu, Yang
name: Ding, Dong-Sheng
name: Zhou, Zhi-Yuan
name: Shi, Bao-Sen
name: Guo, Guang-Can
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed an experiment to observe the storages of an input probe field and an idler field generated through an off-axis four-wave mixing (FWM) process via a double-lambda configuration in a cold atomic ensemble. We analyzed the underlying physics in detail and found that the retrieved idler field came from two parts if there was no single-photon detuning for pump pulse: part 1 was from the collective atomic spin (the input probe field, the coupling field and the pump field combined to generate the idle field through FWM, then the idler was stored through electromagnetically induced transparency.); part 2 was from the generated new FWM process during the retrieval process (the retrieved probe field, the coupling field and the pump field combined to generate a new FWM signal). If there was single-photon detuning for pump pulse, then the retrieved idler was mainly from part 2. The retrieved two fields exhibited damped oscillations with the same oscillatory period when a homogeneous external magnetic field was applied, which was caused by the Larmor spin precession. We also experimentally realized the storage and retrieval of an image of light using FWM for the first time. In which, an image was added into the input signal. After the storage, the retrieved idler beams and input signal carried the same image. This image storage technique holds promises for application in image processing, remote sensing and quantum communication.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, 7 equations
Siphona perispoliata
Creators: name: Tachi, Takuji
name: Shima, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tachinidae
Siphona
Siphona perispoliata

description: Siphona perispoliata group
 Diagnosis. Abdomen. Shining black in ground color; tergite 3 without median marginal setae; male sternite 5 (Figs 4, 8) with a pair of developed apical lobes bearing pointed inner process. Male postabdomen (Figs 1–3, 5–7): pregonite fused with hypandrium at base, without seta; postgonite lacking. Female postabdomen (Figs 9–10): tergite 8 narrowly fused with each other in anterodorsal part; sternite 8 with some strong setae.
 Remarks. The character states described above are peculiar and thus are considered apomorphic. Siphona (Aphantorhaphopsis) expleta sp. nov. and S. (A.) perispoliata belong to this group and are distributed in the Oriental Region.
description: Published as part of Tachi, Takuji & Shima, Hiroshi, 2023, Systematic study of the subgenus Aphantorhaphopsis of the genus Siphona in East Asia and the Oriental Region (Diptera: Tachinidae), pp. 213-247 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 63 (1) on page 216, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2023.013, http://zenodo.org/record/10134105
Additional file 1: of Fine mapping of a panicle blast resistance gene Pb-bd1 in Japonica landrace Bodao and its application in rice breeding
Creators: name: Fang, Nengyan
name: Wei, Xiaorui
name: Shen, Lingtong
name: Yu, Yao
name: Li, Mengya
name: Yin, Congfei
name: He, Wanwan
name: Guan, Changhong
name: Chen, Hao
name: Zhang, Hongsheng
name: Bao, Yongmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Primers of PCR-based markers used for fine mapping Pb-bd1. (DOCX 17 kb)
An extracellular redox signal triggers calcium release and impacts the asexual development of Toxoplasma gondii
Creators: name: Alves, Eduardo
name: Benns, Henry J
name: Magnus, Lilian
name: Dominicus, Caia
name: Dobai, Tamás
name: Blight, Joshua
name: Wincott, Ceire J
name: Child, Matthew A
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry & Proteomics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Infectious Disease
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Computational & Systems Biology

description: The ability of an organism to sense and respond to environmental redox fluctuations relies on a signaling network that is incompletely understood in apicomplexan parasites such as Toxoplasma gondii. The impact of changes in redox upon the development of this intracellular parasite is not known. Here, we provide a revised collection of 58 genes containing domains related to canonical antioxidant function, with their encoded proteins widely dispersed throughout different cellular compartments. We demonstrate that addition of exogenous H2O2 to human fibroblasts infected with T. gondii triggers a Ca2+ flux in the cytosol of intracellular parasites that can induce egress. In line with existing models, egress triggered by exogenous H2O2 is reliant upon both Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase 3 and diacylglycerol kinases. Finally, we show that the overexpression a glutaredoxin-roGFP2 redox sensor fusion protein in the parasitophorous vacuole severely impacts parasite replication. These data highlight the rich redox network that exists in T. gondii, evidencing a link between extracellular redox and intracellular Ca2+ signaling that can culminate in parasite egress. Our findings also indicate that the redox potential of the intracellular environment contributes to normal parasite growth. Combined, our findings highlight the important role of redox as an unexplored regulator of parasite biology.
Using semantic web technologies to implement flexible information management systems
Creators: name: Saghafi, Arash
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Two main phenomena have recently become prominent in respect to information management. First, there has been a rapid increase in the number and variety of sources of information on the World Wide Web and in the role of users as content providers. In parallel, there has been an evolution of web technologies to support the creation, storage, and sharing of information. These developments have led to new paradigms such as cloud computing, crowdsourcing, and social collaboration. The second phenomenon is the increasing need of organizations to effectively and efficiently benefit from massive data — termed “big data” (a term also linked recently to cloud computing and to social network data). These two phenomena both indicate new needs and new technological opportunities. Traditionally, information management has been based on storing data in structured databases, where the structure reflects some expected uses, and managed with (at least some) central control (even for distributed data). These assumptions, however, do not fit the new paradigms, where flexible information management is needed to support different views of multiple users, unknown future uses, no central control, and new unexpected sources. This thesis explores an approach to information management intended to provide the flexibility to support multiple, varied, and emerging sources where uses of information may not be known in advance. The approach employs three principles. First, data should be stored independent of any pre-conceived “containers” that reflect anticipated uses (classes, tables). Second, reconciliation of meaning of data can be done by abstraction of the properties the data represent. Third, classification can be created as needed depending on the application, based on some usefulness considerations. The thesis has two objectives. First, suggest how to apply these principles in the implementation of a flexible information management system. Second, demonstrate how semantic web technologies can be used to implement this approach. These technologies include triplestores (storing data in resource description framework), related query languages (SPARQL), and formal ontologies (Web Ontology Language). The thesis describes a prototype implementation, demonstrates it on a case study, and discusses its advantages compared to traditional database systems.