cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Determinants of Cross-National Entrepreneurial Activity
Creators: name: Nielsen, Genevieve
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Economics
Business

description: This paper investigates factors that affect the decision to engage in entrepreneurial activity using cross-national unbalanced panel data from 2002 to 2010 for forty-eight high-income countries, In a random effects model with clustered standard errors, a one percentage-point increase in the percentage of the population engaged in venture capital is associated with a 0.753 percentage-point increase in entrepreneurial activity. A one standard-deviation increase in the social desirability index is associated with a 0.149 percentage-point increase in total entrepreneurial activity. Both effects are statistically significant at the 0.01 level. While regulatory constraints have a statistically insignificant impact on total early-stage entrepreneurial activity, they have a negative and statistically significant impact on formal sector entrepreneurial activity.
Plecotus ognevi Kishida 1927
Creators: name: Andronova, R. S.
name: Dolgikh, A. M.
name: Shaydurov, K. V.
name: Gotvanskiy, A. V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Plecotus
Plecotus ognevi

description: Plecotus ognevi Kishida, 1927 — Сибирский ушан
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В Красной книге Хабаровского края имеет статус и категорию реΔкости 2 — широко распространенный реΔкий виΔ с сокращающейся чисΛенностью (Красная книга Хабаровского края… 2019).
description: Published as part of Andronova, R. S., Dolgikh, A. M., Shaydurov, K. V. & Gotvanskiy, A. V., 2024, New data on the mammalian fauna of the Bolshekhekhtsirsky Nature Reserve, pp. 4-18 in Amurian Zoological Journal XVI (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2024-16-1-4-18, http://zenodo.org/record/12990551
Percolation diffusion into self-assembled mesoporous silica microfibres
Creators: name: Canning, John
name: Huyang, George
name: Ma, Miles
name: Beavis, Alison
name: Bishop, David
name: Cook, Kevin
name: McDonagh, Andrew
name: Shi, Donqi
name: Peng, Gang-Ding
name: Crossley, Maxwell J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Percolation diffusion into long (11.5 cm) self-assembled, ordered mesoporous microfibres is studied using optical transmission and laser ablation inductive coupled mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Optical transmission based diffusion studies reveal rapid penetration (< 5 s, D > 80 um2.s-1) of Rhodamine B with very little percolation of larger molecules such as zinc tetraphenylporphyrin (ZnTPP) observed under similar loading conditions. The failure of ZnTPP to enter the microfibre was confirmed, in higher resolution, using LA-ICP-MS. In the latter case, LA-ICP-MS was used to determine the diffusion of zinc acetate dihydrate, D ~ 3 x 10-4 nm2.s-1. The large differences between the molecules are accounted for by proposing ordered solvent and structure assisted accelerated diffusion of the Rhodamine B based on its hydrophilicity relative to the zinc compounds. The broader implications and applications for filtration, molecular sieves and a range of devices and uses are described.
description: 18 pages, 6 figures, Accepted in Nanomaterials, Special Issue on Mesoporous Materials
title: The Association Between Sperm DNA Methylation and Sperm Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number
Creators: name: Houle, Emily
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: Background: Infertility has become a growing concern across the world as cases continue to increase each year. Research has now shifted to identifying novel biomarkers to predict male fertility. While mtDNAcn has recently been found to show promising results as potential biomarker, its regulation remains unclear.
Method: Triplex probe-based PCR was used to quantify mtDNA levels, while 850K Array was used to measure methylation levels. A-clustering algorithm followed by generalized estimating equations (GEE) lead to clustering of individual CpG sites, containing a minimum of 2 CpGs within 1000 base pairs of each other. These clusters were used for analysis of the association between mtDNAcn and DNA methylation within sperm. Metascape1 was used to annotate gene ontology terms.
Result: Generalized estimating equation model analysis produced 6,038 FDR significant (q
Conclusion: Thus, we show that sperm mtDNAcn is strongly associated with sperm DNA methylation and the associated implicates mtDNAcn as an influence on infertility.
Determination of diffractive PDFs from global QCD analysis of inclusive diffractive DIS and dijet cross-section measurements at HERA
Creators: name: Salajegheh, Maral
name: Khanpour, Hamzeh
name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
name: Hashamipour, Hadi
name: Soleymaninia, Maryam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an updated set of {\tt SKMHS} diffractive parton distribution functions (PDFs). In addition to the diffractive deep-inelastic scattering (diffractive DIS) data sets, the recent diffractive dijet cross sections measurements by the H1 experiment from the HERA collider are added to the data sample. The new set of diffractive PDFs, entitled {\tt SKMHS23} and {\tt SKMHS23-dijet}, are presented at next-to-leading order (NLO) and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) accuracy in perturbative QCD. Since the gluons directly contribute to jet production through the boson-gluon fusion process, the data on diffractive dijet production in inclusive DIS help to constrain the gluon density, allowing for the determination of both the quark and gluon densities with better accuracy. The NLO and NNLO theory predictions calculated using both {\tt SKMHS23} and {\tt SKMHS23-dijet} are compared to the analyzed data showing excellent agreements. The effect arising from the inclusion of diffractive dijet data and higher order QCD corrections on the extracted diffractive PDFs and data/theory agreements are clearly examined and discussed.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures and 5 tables
Highly ranked journals of Information Science & Library Science JCR-2021 subject category
Creators: name: Kosyakov, Denis
name: Pislyakov, Vladimir
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 461005
subject: Informetrics

description: Highly ranked journals of Information Science & Library Science JCR-2021 subject category. (Topics are meso level “citation topic” assigned to the papers in the Web of Science database.)
Development of Nurses Competency for Monitoring Sepsis among Patients in Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Creators: name: Kanokpan Ngammuk
name: Konlawij Trongtrakul
name: Areeya Jirathananuwat
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2020
Subjects: sepsis
competency
intensive patient

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 64, 6, 389-396
Dynamical bar-mode instability in rotating and magnetized relativistic stars
Creators: name: Franci, Luca
name: De Pietri, Roberto
name: Dionysopoulou, Kyriaki
name: Rezzolla, Luciano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present three-dimensional simulations of the dynamical bar-mode instability in magnetized and differentially rotating stars in full general relativity. Our focus is on the effects that magnetic fields have on the dynamics and the onset of the instability. In particular, we perform ideal-magnetohydrodynamics simulations of neutron stars that are known to be either stable or unstable against the purely hydrodynamical instability, but to which a poloidal magnetic field in the range of $10^{14}$--$10^{16}$ G is superimposed initially. As expected, the differential rotation is responsible for the shearing of the poloidal field and the consequent linear growth in time of the toroidal magnetic field. The latter rapidly exceeds in strength the original poloidal one, leading to a magnetic-field amplification in the the stars. Weak initial magnetic fields, i.e. $ \lesssim 10^{15}$ G, have negligible effects on the development of the dynamical bar-mode instability, simply braking the stellar configuration via magnetic-field shearing, and over a timescale for which we derived a simple algebraic expression. On the other hand, strong magnetic fields, i.e. $\gtrsim 10^{16}$ G, can suppress the instability completely, with the precise threshold being dependent also on the amount of rotation. As a result, it is unlikely that very highly magnetized neutron stars can be considered as sources of gravitational waves via the dynamical bar-mode instability.
description: 18 pages, 13 figures
Conformal Field Theory of Critical Casimir Interactions in 2D
Creators: name: Bimonte, G.
name: Emig, T.
name: Kardar, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermal fluctuations of a critical system induce long-ranged Casimir forces between objects that couple to the underlying field. For two dimensional (2D) conformal field theories (CFT) we derive an exact result for the Casimir interaction between two objects of arbitrary shape, in terms of (1) the free energy of a circular ring whose radii are determined by the mutual capacitance of two conductors with the objects' shape; and (2) a purely geometric energy that is proportional to conformal charge of the CFT, but otherwise super-universal in that it depends only on the shapes and is independent of boundary conditions and other details.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 1 of The key values and factors identified by older adults to promote physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour using co-production approaches: a scoping review
Creators: name: Ioannou, Elysa
name: Chen, Henglien Lisa
name: Bromley, Vicky
name: Fosker, Sam
name: Ali, Khalid
name: Fernando, Avanka
name: Mensah, Ekow
name: Fowler-Davis, Sally
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1: Table A1. Key results of values and factors identified by older people for increasing PA extracted for thematic analysis.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1938-10)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
title: Optimization of Thermal Energy Storage Sizing Using Thermodynamic Analysis
Creators: name: Villanueva, Andrew
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: The aim of this thesis is to examine the effect that Thermal Energy Storage (TES) sizing has on a building’s ability to meet heating and cooling demands in an energy and cost efficient manner. The focus of the research is the quantification the effects of TES for system sizing and boiler cycling. Research is accomplished by modelling TES systems with various storage capacities using thermodynamic analysis. Energy costs are subject to increase during peak usage periods due to a limited supply of energy. Peak heating and cooling periods also force thermal systems to be sized for loads that are only experienced for a small fraction of the year leading to poor efficiencies and frequent cycling during off peak times of year. TES introduces the capability to mitigate this issue by shifting peak thermal loads from one period to another, theoretically reducing the minimum necessary boiler or chiller capacity for a given system and potentially improving the efficiency of 4 thermal systems. The scope of this research is to model the operation of thermal systems with varying storage capacities in order to quantify these capabilities with respect to capacity and cycling. This is accomplished with modelling in Transient Systems Simulation Program (TRNSYS). In this software, a simple heating loop and cooling loop are independently considered and subjected to hourly load data extrapolated from heating and cooling load data originating from a retirement community in Massachusetts. The model built is intended to be robust enough to be easily applied and adapted to assess similar problems with energy storage capacity sizing.
Capillarity of soft amorphous solids: a microscopic model for surface stress
Creators: name: Weijs, Joost H.
name: Snoeijer, Jacco H.
name: Andreotti, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The elastic deformation of a soft solid induced by capillary forces crucially relies on the excess stress inside the solid-liquid interface. While for a liquid-liquid interface this "surface stress" is strictly identical to the "surface free energy", the thermodynamic Shuttleworth equation implies that this is no longer the case when one of the phases is elastic. Here we develop a microscopic model that incorporates enthalpic interactions and entropic elasticity, based on which we explicitly compute the surface stress and surface free energy. It is found that the compressibility of the interfacial region, through the Poisson ratio near the interface, determines the difference between surface stress and surface energy. We highlight the consequence of this finding by comparing with recent experiments and simulations on partially wetted soft substrates.
Colt Culture: Examining Representations of the American West in Victorian London
Creators: name: Randell, Jacqueline
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Europeans
History

description: In 1851, the Great Exhibition in London’s Hyde Park featured displays of art and technology from across the world. Compared to exhibitions from France, India, and Great Britain itself, the U.S. section seemed unimpressive with the exception of one item: the Colt revolver. Following its appearance at the Great Exhibition, the Colt revolver emerged frequently in British popular culture and culminated in the appearance of cowboys with revolvers in the late 1880s on Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. This paper explores representations of masculinity, white imperial authority, and the American West in Victorian England by tracking the appearance of the Colt revolver in exhibitions, children’s literature, and staged shows. It follows three chronological stages of the Colt revolver: in exhibition culture, in popular literature, and in the Wild West Show. Ultimately, it demonstrates that while the Colt revolver failed in the British marketplace, it thrived in British popular imagination and established figures of the American West in the minds of many Victorians prior to the famed Wild West Show.
How flexible electrification can integrate fluctuating renewables
Creators: name: Göke, Leonard
name: Weibezahn, Jens
name: Kendziorski, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: To phase-out fossil fuels, energy systems must shift to renewable electricity as the main source of primary energy. In this paper, we analyze how electrification can support the integration of fluctuating renewables, like wind and PV, and mitigate the need for storage and thermal backup plants. Using a cost minimizing model for system planning, we find substantial benefits of electricity demand in heating, transport, and industry adapting to supply. In Germany, flexible demand halves the residual peak-load and the residual demand and reduces excess generation by 80%. Flexible operation of electrolyzers has the most significant impact accounting for 42% of the reduction in residual peak-load and 59% in residual demand. District heating networks and BEVs also provide substantial flexibility, while the contribution of space and process heating is negligible. The results are robust to restrictions on the expansion of the transmission grid.
title: Validity Parameters for Step Counting Wearable Technologies During Treadmill Walking in Young People 6-20 Years of Age
Creators: name: Gould, Zachary
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: Introduction: Wearable technologies play an important contemporary role in the measurement of physical activity (PA) and promotion of human health across the lifespan, including for young people (i.e., children, adolescents, and young adults). As new objective wearable technologies continue to develop, standardized approaches to documenting validation parameters (i.e., measures of accuracy, precision, and bias) are needed to ensure confidence and comparability in step-defined PA. Purpose: To produce validity parameters for step counting wearable technologies during treadmill walking in young people 6-20 years of age Methods: 120 participants completed 5-minute treadmill bouts from13.4 to 134.1 m·min-1. Participants wore eight technologies (two at the arm/wrist, four at the waist, one on the thigh, and one on the ankle) while steps were directly observed. Speed, wear location, and age -specific measures of accuracy (mean absolute percent error; MAPE), precision (correlation coefficient, standard deviation; SD, coefficient of variation; CoV), and bias (percent error; PE) were computed and cataloged. Results: Speed and wear location had a significant effect on accuracy and bias measures for wearable technologies (pConclusion: While the analyses indicate the significance of speed and wear location on wearable technology performance, the useful and comprehensive validity reference values cataloged herein will help optimize measurement of PA in youth. Future research should continue to rigorously validate new wearable technologies as they are developed, and also extend these standardized reference values developed in the laboratory to the free-living environment.
Application of the nuclear equation of state obtained by the variational method to core-collapse supernovae
Creators: name: Togashi, H.
name: Takano, M.
name: Sumiyoshi, K.
name: Nakazato, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The equation of state (EOS) for hot asymmetric nuclear matter which is constructed with the variational method starting from the Argonne v18 and Urbana IX nuclear forces is applied to spherically symmetric core-collapse supernovae (SNe). We first investigate the EOS of isentropic beta-stable SN matter, and find that the matter with the variational EOS is more neutron-rich than that with the Shen EOS. Using the variational EOS for uniform matter supplemented by the Shen EOS of non-uniform matter at low densities, we perform general-relativistic spherically symmetric simulations of core-collapse SNe with and without neutrino transfer, starting from a presupernova model of 15 solar mass. In the adiabatic simulation without neutrino transfer, the explosion is successful, and the explosion energy with the variational EOS is larger than that with the Shen EOS. In the case of the simulation with neutrino transfer, the shock wave stalls and then the explosion fails, as in other spherically symmetric simulations. The inner core with the variational EOS is more compact than that with the Shen EOS, due to the relative softness of the variational EOS. This implies that the variational EOS is more advantageous for SN explosions than the Shen EOS.
description: 22 pages, 17 figures, typos corrected, final version published in PTEP
Happiness and Associated Factors of First to Sixth - Year Medical Students at Faculty of Medicine Vajira Hospital
Creators: name: Varuna Kolkijkovin
name: Nutthorn Pattrayuttawat
name: Thanawin Nukongmai
name: Nattapol Passara
name: Apichart Phonglauhaphan
name: Kongphob Angsupasakorn
name: Sataphat Boonchaivatanachot
Publisher: name: Text and Journal Publication
Year: 2020
Subjects: Happiness
medical students
factors

description: Vajira Medical Journal, 64, 6, 397-410
Highly ranked journals of Information Science & Library Science JCR-2021 subject category
Creators: name: Kosyakov, Denis
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 461005
subject: Informetrics

description: Highly ranked journals of Information Science & Library Science JCR-2021 subject category. (Topics are meso level “citation topic” assigned to the papers in the Web of Science database.)
Editor's Note: View from the South Lawn
Creators: name: Baldwin, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social sciences--Research
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: The 2014 Executive Board has helped push the Journal of Politics and Society forward over the past year. Our quality of submissions has never been better, and our strategy is oriented to take advantage of an increasing shift to digital viewership. The Journal has long appealed to an audience that believes in the ability of undergraduate scholarship to shed insight on the pressing issues of our time. Over the past year, we have built new forms of content that each allow us to better fulfill our mission. I encourage you to read these new forms of
content throughout the year, in addition to the printed Journal.
Balancing Public Servants’ Responsibilities with The Implied Freedom of Political Communication: What Can We Learn from Banerji?
Creators: name: Morris, Shireen
name: Sorial, Sarah
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Constitutional law

description: There is a longstanding institutional tradition that requires public servants to refrain from participating in public debate, in the interests of preserving Australian Public Service (‘APS’) impartiality. At the same time, there is recognition in APS guidelines that public servants are also citizens entitled, to some extent, to express their political views. Comcare v Banerji presented an opportunity to resolve these competing tensions, yet the case leaves us with various uncertainties about whether and how public servants can contribute to public debate. This uncertainty has several potential consequences. First, without principled criterion by which to assess public comments, managers might err on the side of caution and overreach in restricting employees’ speech. Second, government employees might self-censor for similar reasons. Third, when gagging of public servants goes too far, this can itself appear politically biased, compromising APS impartiality and professionalism. In this paper, we argue that public servants are constitutional actors. Like other constitutional actors, they should be allowed to wear two hats, to enable a reasonable level of free speech in their private and expert capacities. We propose policy recommendations building on the Justices’ proposals, that may help clarify a better balance between public servants’ responsibilities and the freedom of political communication.
Construction of a general semilocal exchange-correlation hole model: Application to nonempirical meta-GGA functionals
Creators: name: Constantin, L. A.
name: Fabiano, E.
name: Della Sala, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a reverse-engineering method we construct a meta-generalized gradient approximation (meta-GGA) angle-averaged exchange-correlation hole model which has a general applicability. It satisfies known exact hole constraints and can exactly recover the exchange-correlation energy density of any reasonable meta-GGA exchange-correlation energy functional satisfying a minimal set of exact properties. The hole model is applied to several non-empirical meta-GGA functionals: the Tao-Perdew-Staroverov-Scuseria (TPSS), the revised TPSS (revTPSS) and the recently Balanced LOCalization (BLOC) meta-GGA of L.A. Constantin, E. Fabiano, and F. Della Sala, (J. Chem. Theory Comput. 9, 2256 (2013)). The empirical M06-L meta-GGA functional is also considered. Real-space analyses of atoms and ions as well as wave-vector analyses of jellium surface energies, show that the meta-GGA hole models, in particular the BLOC one, are very realistic and can reproduce many features of benchmark XC holes. In addition, the BLOC hole model can be used to estimate with good accuracy the Coulomb hole radius of small atoms and ions. Thus, the proposed meta-GGA hole models provide a valuable tool to validate in detail existing meta-GGA functionals, and can be further used in the development of DFT methods beyond the semilocal level of theory.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
Development strategies and path dependence: Institutional elements for making sense of Brazil’s falling behind and South Korea’s forging ahead
Creators: name: Arend, Marcelo
name: Fagotti, Vinicius Zuniga
name: Guerrero, Glaison Augusto
name: Fonseca, Pedro Cezar Dutra
name: Bichara, Julimar Da Silva
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2023
Subjects: industrial policy
late industrialization
Brazil
South Korea
institutional hysteresis
O43
O14
O33

description: The present research aims to analyze two archetypal 20th century development strategy cases: Brazil’s and South Korea’s. During the last century, both countries had been experiencing catching up processes, but by the 1980’s Brazil started to lag behind while South Korea began to technologically and productively forge ahead. In light of this, this paper sustains that industrial policy choices and distinct institutional arrangements, set during the initial years of each country’s late industrialization process, were responsible for defining their different long term economic trajectories. A dialogue with Amsden’s work (2001) is proposed, through which we discuss her industrial policy bifurcation hypothesis regarding the so-termed countries of the “rest” in the 1980’s. By electing two emblematic members of such group, we seek to show how industrial policy choices made in the past still condition the two countries’ economic trajectories, especially so with regards to the degree with which knowledge intensive assets have been accumulated.
description: PSL Quarterly Review, Vol. 76 No. 305 (2023): June
title: Dietary Oligosaccharides Modulate Bifidobacterial Production of the Neurotransmitter Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
Creators: name: Rozycki, Michelle
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: Bifidobacteria are the predominant members of the infant gut, colonize adults to a lesser extent, and are recognized as beneficial microbes. Various bifidobacterial species produce ��-aminobutryic acid (GABA), the chief inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system. It is postulated that in order to produce GABA, the bifidobacterial genome must contain the gadB and gadC genes which encode a glutamate decarboxylase and a glutamate/GABA antiporter, respectively. Once exported by GadC, GABA is absorbed and transported systemically throughout the host. We hypothesize that specific dietary oligosaccharides will modulate bifidobacterial production of GABA due to varying intracellular concentrations of glutamate. To test this, 33 bifidobacterial strains were screened for GABA production via reverse phase HPLC. Interestingly, 10 strains contained both gadB and gadC genes, but only 8 strains produced detectable GABA in vitro. To further elucidate the extrinsic factors influencing GABA production, strains were subjected to different dietary components. Specifically, lactose and the dietary oligosaccharide FOS were evaluated for the ability to promote biosynthesis of intracellular glutamate and thus potentially GABA. Understanding the relationship between diet, bifidobacterial physiology, and GABA production may inform dietary interventions to modulate this neurotransmitter in vivo.
title: Pay models for online news in the US and Europe
title: 2019 update
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Simon, Felix M.
name: Graves, Lucas
Publisher: name: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Year: 2019

description: As legacy news revenues continue to decline, and with the lion’s share of digital advertising revenues claimed by large technology companies, pay models have become an increasingly important part of the business of digital news. In this factsheet, we analyse the adoption of three dominant forms of pay models – freemium, metered paywalls, and hard paywalls – across 212 leading news organisations in the United States and six European markets (Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and the United Kingdom). Comparing the situation in 2017 and 2019, we find an upward trend in the adoption of pay models, with newspapers and news magazines across Europe and the US moving away from digital news offered for free. However, a majority of outlets continue to offer free access to news, so that fears about paywalls limiting the access to quality information seem to be overblown for now. We further find that pay models are not evenly distributed across countries but tied to the individual circumstances of each market.
An EFT hunter's guide to two-to-two scattering: HEFT and SMEFT on-shell amplitudes
Creators: name: Liu, Hongkai
name: Ma, Teng
name: Shadmi, Yael
name: Waterbury, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the contact terms contributing to the four-point amplitudes of the standard-model particles, keeping terms with up to quartic energy growth. Imposing just the unbroken low-energy symmetry, and treating the electroweak gauge bosons and the Higgs as independent degrees of freedom, we obtain the most general four-point contact-term amplitudes, corresponding to the HEFT framework. The contact terms are spanned by a basis of Stripped Contact Terms (SCTs), which carry the polarization information, multiplied by polynomials in the Mandelstam invariants. For terms with quadratic energy growth, we also derive the low-energy SMEFT predictions, via on-shell Higgsing of the massless SMEFT contact terms. We discuss several aspects of bottom-up versus top-down on-shell derivations of the HEFT and SMEFT amplitudes, highlighting in particular the simple counting of HEFT dimensions in the on-shell approach and the transparent relation between perturbative unitarity and gauge-invariance in the little-group covariant massive spinor formalism. Our results provide a formulation of EFT analyses directly in terms of observable quantities. For terms with quadratic energy growth, we also provide the mapping to the Warsaw basis.
description: 38 pages, 1 figure
Shear viscosity due to the Landau damping from quark-pion interaction
Creators: name: Ghosh, Sabyasachi
name: Lahiri, Anirban
name: Majumder, Sarbani
name: Ray, Rajarshi
name: Ghosh, Sanjay K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have calculated the shear viscosity coefficient $η$ of the strongly interacting matter in the relaxation time approximation, where a quasi particle description of quarks with its dynamical mass is considered from NJL model. Due to the thermodynamic scattering of quarks with pseudo scalar type condensate (i.e. pion), a non zero Landau damping will be acquired by the propagating quarks. This Landau damping may be obtained from the Landau cut contribution of the in-medium self-energy of quark-pion loop, which is evaluated in the framework of real-time thermal field theory.
The codification of local knowledges through digital cartographic artefacts: A Case study of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Creators: name: Specht, Doug
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2022

description: The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, affectionately known as HOT, worked on mapping the city of Dar es Salaam between 2014 and 2020. The efforts of HOT were designed to not only build a map of the city that would ‘put people on the map’, but to also use these maps to aid in development and humanitarian interventions through one of Africa’s fastest growing cities, all while using participatory mapping practices. This thesis examines the extent to which HOT has been able to achieve the creation of a new map of Dar es Salaam, the influence this map had on development projects, and the degree to which the map was built using participatory methods. The research undertook a deep analysis of map completion and accuracy and used interviews to explore the interplay between technology and micro/macro politics around the mapping of Dar es Salaam. Findings suggest that HOT is still underdeveloped as an organization and lacks the maturity to create true participatory models of working. That many of their practices were exclusionary to the local population and that weak management structures and procedures allowed colonial and ‘outsider’ saviour complexes to grow within the organisation. The work concludes by noting that HOT has begun to change many of its practices since 2020 where this research ends.
The Influence of Environment on the Circumgalactic Medium
Creators: name: Yoon, Joo Heon
name: Putman, Mary
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of environment on the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is investigated through a comparison of Lya absorption line data in the Virgo Cluster and the field. This Letter uses the first systematic survey of background QSOs in and around the Virgo Cluster and large existing surveys of galaxies at low redshift. While previous studies found denser gas (higher equivalent width) closer to a galaxy (lower impact parameter), this correlation disappears in the Virgo environment. In addition, the covering fraction of the CGM is lower in the cluster environment than in the circumcluster environment and field. The results indicate that the CGM is suppressed for cluster galaxies while galaxies in the circumcluster environment have abundant CGM. The truncation of the CGM may result in the quenching of star formation through starvation. Our results also show that CGM surveys must consider the role of environment.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, ApJL in press
Balancing Public Servants’ Responsibilities with The Implied Freedom of Political Communication: What Can We Learn from Banerji?
Creators: name: Morris, Shireen
name: Sorial, Sarah
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Constitutional law

description: There is a longstanding institutional tradition that requires public servants to refrain from participating in public debate, in the interests of preserving Australian Public Service (‘APS’) impartiality. At the same time, there is recognition in APS guidelines that public servants are also citizens entitled, to some extent, to express their political views. Comcare v Banerji presented an opportunity to resolve these competing tensions, yet the case leaves us with various uncertainties about whether and how public servants can contribute to public debate. This uncertainty has several potential consequences. First, without principled criterion by which to assess public comments, managers might err on the side of caution and overreach in restricting employees’ speech. Second, government employees might self-censor for similar reasons. Third, when gagging of public servants goes too far, this can itself appear politically biased, compromising APS impartiality and professionalism. In this paper, we argue that public servants are constitutional actors. Like other constitutional actors, they should be allowed to wear two hats, to enable a reasonable level of free speech in their private and expert capacities. We propose policy recommendations building on the Justices’ proposals, that may help clarify a better balance between public servants’ responsibilities and the freedom of political communication.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1938-11)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Can we reform capitalism for its own good? A roadmap to sustainability
Creators: name: Guttmann, Robert
Publisher: name: PSL Quarterly Review
Year: 2023
Subjects: reformability of capitalism
long waves
theory of régulation
sustainable development goals
B51
E32
F55
P10

description: An intensifying combination of instability, inequality, and environmental degradation obliges us to consider how best to reform capitalism. The question of the system’s reformability has deep historic roots in capitalism’s long-wave dynamic where periods of crises have recurrently set in motion ambitious reform programs such as the New Deal in the 1930s or the Reagan/Thatcher Revolution in the 1980s. But there is nothing mechanical about this process. The same crisis dynamic also triggers destabilizing polarization in the body politic which hinders consensus for broad reform. And any such reform program must also address the transformational requirements of the moment. France’s Régulation Theory (RT) can be quite helpful in this regard with its unique institutionalist approach to capitalism’s historic evolution and its typology of crises. Using RT we identify the basic outlines of a progressive reform program rooted in sustainable development and global public goods.
description: PSL Quarterly Review, Vol. 76 No. 304 (2023): March
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1938-12)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
title: Real-Time TDDFT-Based Filtered Spectroscopy
Creators: name: Williams, Ivan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2020

description: We demonstrate the ability to simulate targeted excitation of atomistic systems using our real-time TDDFT-based simulation framework NESSIE. Traditional ap- proaches for extracting spectra through real-time TDDFT involves excitation of all frequencies via impulse requiring long simulation times and yielding poor resolution. By exciting the system with a modulated sinc pulse between the frequencies of inter- est we are able to obtain a spectral response with far more precision in a significantly shorter time frame than competing implementations.
Fundamental stellar properties from asteroseismology
Creators: name: Aguirre, V. Silva
name: Casagrande, L.
name: Miglio, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate characterization of stellar populations is of prime importance to correctly understand the formation and evolution process of our Galaxy. The field of asteroseismology has been particularly successful in such an endeavor providing fundamental parameters for large samples of stars in different evolutionary phases. We present our results on determinations of masses, radii, and distances of stars in the CoRoT and Kepler fields, showing that we can map and date different regions of the galactic disk and distinguish gradients in the distribution of stellar properties at different heights. We further review how asteroseismic determinations can produce a unique set of constraints, including ages, outside the solar neighborhood for galactic chemical evolution models.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 298, "Setting the scene for Gaia and LAMOST", eds. S. Feltzing, G. Zhao, N. A. Walton, and P. A. Whitelock
Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus 1758
Creators: name: Andronova, R. S.
name: Dolgikh, A. M.
name: Shaydurov, K. V.
name: Gotvanskiy, A. V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Vespertilio
Vespertilio murinus

description: Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus, 1758 — Αвухцветный кожан
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description: Published as part of Andronova, R. S., Dolgikh, A. M., Shaydurov, K. V. & Gotvanskiy, A. V., 2024, New data on the mammalian fauna of the Bolshekhekhtsirsky Nature Reserve, pp. 4-18 in Amurian Zoological Journal XVI (1) on page 8, DOI: 10.33910/2686-9519-2024-16-1-4-18, http://zenodo.org/record/12990551
The evolution of immune genes in tsetse flies (Glossina) and insights into tsetse-symbiont-trypanosome interactions
Creators: name: Bruce, Robert
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2022

description: Tsetse flies (genera Glossina) are the sole biological vectors of African Trypanosoma species, the infectious agents of African Trypanosomiasis. Vector control is a key inhibitor of disease transmission; however, long-term control measures are economically and ecologically unsustainable and therefore, alternatives must be explored. In this thesis we aim to explore the evolution of three important immune genes: attacin-A (AttA), Defensin (Def) and Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2), in relation to symbionts and parasitic interactions. This could in turn lay the foundations for genetic control methods The successful identification of novel attacin orthologues confirmed the previous descriptions of attacin clusters within the Glossina genome, while a single novel defensin orthologue was identified in each of the six Glossina genomes. A total of six TLRs were confirmed within the Glossina genome, and three additional TLRs were potentially identified, though these are unconfirmed. The evolutionary history of the attacin cluster remains undetermined, however concerted evolution likely impacts the evolution of AttA, while Def and TLRs are governed by strict Darwinian selection. A wild population sample of Glossina morsitans morsitans illustrated differing levels of nucleotide variation in each gene, Def being the least polymorphic (n = 8) and TLR2 being the most (n = 22). All genes indicated a recent population expansion event and deviations from neutrality, indicative of population expansion and balancing selection. Genetic variation in both AttA and TLR2 was found to be maintained via purifying selection, while Def exhibited signs of the Red Queen arms race and balancing section. Trypanosome infection rates were unexpectedly high (69.35%), consisting of mixed species infections. Advantageous Def variants were observed to reduce infection rates within samples, while an observable relationship between TLR2 and symbiont variation, and infection rate requires further research. The results within described the impacts of evolution and population change on immune genes and how the interactions with symbiont populations can influence trypanosome infection rates. This thesis indicates that an understanding of the evolution and interactions of the tsetse-symbiont-trypanosome triplet could be used to inform novel genetic control methods.