cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stochastic dynamics of dissolving active particles
Creators: name: Chamolly, Alexander
name: Lauga, Eric
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Regular Article
Soft Matter: Colloids and Nanoparticles

description: Abstract.: The design of artificial microswimmers has generated significant research interest in recent years, for promise in applications such as nanomotors and targeted drug-delivery. However, many current designs suffer from a common problem, namely the swimmers remain in the fluid indefinitely, posing risks of clogging and damage. Inspired by recently proposed experimental designs, we investigate mathematically the dynamics of degradable active particles. We develop and compare two distinct chemical models for the decay of a swimmer, taking into account the material composition and nature of the chemical or enzymatic reaction at its surface. These include a model for dissolution without a reaction, as well as models for a reacting swimmer studied in the limit of large and small Damköhler number. A new dimensionless parameter emerges that allows the classification of colloids into ballistic and diffusive type. Using this parameter, we perform an asymptotic analysis to derive expressions for colloid lifetimes and their total mean squared displacement from release and validate these by numerical Monte Carlo simulations of the associated Langevin dynamics. Supported by general scaling relationships, our theoretical results provide new insight into the experimental applicability of a wide range of designs for degradable active colloids. Graphical abstract:
Analyzing the Welfare Impact of Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling On Producers and Consumers; The Case of U.S. Beef and Pork
Creators: name: Yeboah, Osei
name: Naanwaab, Cephas B.
name: Ekua, Effraim
name: Yeboah, Osei
name: Naanwaab, Cephas B.
name: Ekua, Effraim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling
subject: Equilibrium Displacement Model

description: Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (MCOOL) is a labeling law passed in 2008 Farm Bill by the US Congress which requires all food commodities to be labeled by their country of origin. Total cost assessed to the meat industry from the implementation of mandatory COOL has raised concerns for research into the estimation of how cost associated with mandatory COOL are shared across the supply chain and how the increased cost will be borne by producers and consumers. The research seeks to determine the welfare impacts of mandatory COOL on producers and consumers in the beef and pork sectors. Using Equilibrium Displacement Model, we estimate the consumer and producer surplus with existing cost estimates associated with mandatory COOL implementation. The empirical result shows that a 2% and 5% increase in demand for beef and pork is not sufficient to offset mandatory COOL cost.
A Federated Filtering Framework for Internet of Medical Things
Creators: name: Sanyal, Sunny
name: Wu, Dapeng
name: Nour, Boubakr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Based on the dominant paradigm, all the wearable IoT devices used in the healthcare sector also known as the internet of medical things (IoMT) are resource constrained in power and computational capabilities. The IoMT devices are continuously pushing their readings to the remote cloud servers for real-time data analytics, that causes faster drainage of the device battery. Moreover, other demerits of continuous centralizing of data include exposed privacy and high latency. This paper presents a novel Federated Filtering Framework for IoMT devices which is based on the prediction of data at the central fog server using shared models provided by the local IoMT devices. The fog server performs model averaging to predict the aggregated data matrix and also computes filter parameters for local IoMT devices. Two significant theoretical contributions of this paper are the global tolerable perturbation error (${To{l_F}}$) and the local filtering parameter ($δ$); where the former controls the decision-making accuracy due to eigenvalue perturbation and the later balances the tradeoff between the communication overhead and perturbation error of the aggregated data matrix (predicted matrix) at the fog server. Experimental evaluation based on real healthcare data demonstrates that the proposed scheme saves upto 95\% of the communication cost while maintaining reasonable data privacy and low latency.
description: 6 pages, 6 Figures, accepted for oral presentation in IEEE ICC 2019, Internet of Things, Federated Learning and Perturbation theory
Vermicompost as Substrate Amendment for Tomato Transplant Production
Creators: name: Tringovska, Ivanka
name: Dintcheva, Tsvetanka
name: Tringovska, Ivanka
name: Dintcheva, Tsvetanka
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance

description: Vermicompost may be a promising substitute for peat especially in transplant production. Vermicomposting is a sustainable solution for management of organic wastes. However, due to variability of organic wastes, vermicomposts might have varying nutrient content levels. The study compared vermicomposts from different sources on growth and nutrition of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) transplants. Chemical composition of vermicomposts differed. Common characteristics were high pH and very high electrical conductivity. All vermicomposts stimulated growth of tomato transplants, with up to a 2.2-fold increase occurring in shoot biomass. Differences in growth were attributed mainly to differences in nutrient content of the potting mixtures, but some changes in physical and biological properties of the substrate could also be responsible.
Leucothoe cheiriserra Serejo 1998
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe cheiriserra

description: Leucothoe cheiriserra Serejo, 1998
 Leucothoe cheiriserra Serejo, 1998: 123–128, figs 13–15.
 Type locality and specimens. Paredes Reef, Abrolhos, Bahia, Brazil. Holotype, female, 2.8 mm, MNRJ 8542; paratypes, unmeasured males and females, MNRJ 8544, MNRJ 8543, MNRJ 8545, MNRJ 8546, USNM 282801, ZMA Amph. 203833.
 Material examined. No material available for examination. Diagnosis based on description by Serejo (1998).
 Diagnosis (female). Maxilliped outer plate tuberculate. Maxilla 1 palp constricted. Gnathopod 1 propodus palm with large triangular teeth; short dactylus. Telson apex bidentate.
 Male (sexually dimorphic characters). Gnathopod 1 propodus with stronger dentition on inner margin. Gnathopod 2 carpus anterior margin serrate.
 Habitat. Coral reefs; depth not reported.
 Host. Unknown.
 Distribution. Atlantic Ocean: Bahia, Brazil (Serejo 1998).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
Supporting resources for PhD thesis Designing a Personal Awareness Agent to Ameliorate Information Overload (GitHub)
Creators: name: Goddard, David
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 460803
subject: Collaborative and social computing
classificationCode: 460806
subject: Human-computer interaction
classificationCode: 460912
subject: Knowledge and information management

description: GitHub repository containing supporting resources for the PhD Thesis Designing a Personal Awareness Agent to Ameliorate Information Overload by David Goddard
Extraction of Lipids from Liquid Biological Samples for High-Throughput Lipidomics
Creators: name: Furse, Samuel
name: Watkins, Adam J.
name: Koulman, Albert
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: lipidomics
lipid extraction
lipid metabolism

description: Extraction of the lipid fraction is a key part of acquiring lipidomics data. High-throughput lipidomics, the extraction of samples in 96w plates that are then run on 96 or 384w plates, has particular requirements that mean special development work is needed to fully optimise an extraction method. Several methods have been published as suitable for it. Here, we test those methods using four liquid matrices: milk, human serum, homogenised mouse liver and homogenised mouse heart. In order to determine the difference in performance of the methods as objectively as possible, we used the number of lipid variables identified, the total signal strength and the coefficient of variance to quantify the performance of the methods. This showed that extraction methods with an aqueous component were generally better than those without for these matrices. However, methods without an aqueous fraction in the extraction were efficient for milk samples. Furthermore, a mixture containing a chlorinated solvent (dichloromethane) appears to be better than an ethereal solvent (tert-butyl methyl ether) for extracting lipids. This study suggests that a 3:1:0.005 mixture of dichloromethane, methanol and triethylammonium chloride, with an aqueous wash, is the most efficient of the currently reported methods for high-throughput lipid extraction and analysis. Further work is required to develop non-aqueous extraction methods that are both convenient and applicable to a broad range of sample types.
Hepcidin Increases Cytokines in Alzheimer’s Disease and Down’s Syndrome Dementia: Implication of Impaired Iron Homeostasis in Neuroinflammation
Creators: name: Raha, Animesh Alexander
name: Ghaffari, Seyedeh Deniz
name: Henderson, James
name: Chakraborty, Subhojit
name: Allinson, Kieren
name: Friedland, Robert P.
name: Holland, Anthony
name: Zaman, Shahid H.
name: Mukaetova-Ladinska, Elizabeta B.
name: Raha-Chowdhury, Ruma
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: Neuroscience
Alzheimer’s disease
Down’s syndrome dementia
ferritin
hepcidin
choroid plexus
macrophage activation syndrome
neuroinflammation

description: The liver-derived hormone hepcidin, a member of the defensin family of antimicrobial peptides, plays an important role in host defense and innate immunity due to its broad antibacterial and antiviral properties. Ferritin, an iron storage protein is often associated with iron deficiency, hypoferritinemia, hypoxia, and immune complications, which are all significant concerns for systemic infection in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Down’s syndrome (DS) dementia. Serum and post-mortem brain samples were collected from AD, DS and age-matched control subjects. Serum samples were analyzed with ELISA for ferritin, hepcidin and IL-6. Additionally, post-mortem brain sections were assessed by immunohistochemistry for iron-related and inflammatory proteins. A significant increase in serum hepcidin levels was found in DS, compared to controls and AD subjects (p < 0.0001). Hepcidin protein was visible in the epithelial cells of choroid plexus, meningeal macrophages and in the astrocytes close to the endothelium of blood vessels. Hepcidin co-localized with IL-6, indicating its anti-inflammatory properties. We found significant correlation between hypoferritinemia and elevated levels of serum hepcidin in AD and DS. Hepcidin can be transported via macrophages and the majority of the vesicular hepcidin enters the brain via a compromised blood brain barrier (BBB). Our findings provide further insight into the molecular implications of the altered iron metabolism in acute inflammation, and can aid towards the development of preventive strategies and novel treatments in the fight against neuroinflammation.
Stochastic search and joint fine-mapping increases accuracy and identifies previously unreported associations in immune-mediated diseases
Creators: name: Asimit, Jennifer L.
name: Rainbow, Daniel B.
name: Fortune, Mary D.
name: Grinberg, Nastasiya F.
name: Wicker, Linda S.
name: Wallace, Chris
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
/631/208/205/2138
/631/208/248/144
/631/114/2415
/631/250/38
/45/43
/141
article

description: Abstract: Thousands of genetic variants are associated with human disease risk, but linkage disequilibrium (LD) hinders fine-mapping the causal variants. Both lack of power, and joint tagging of two or more distinct causal variants by a single non-causal SNP, lead to inaccuracies in fine-mapping, with stochastic search more robust than stepwise. We develop a computationally efficient multinomial fine-mapping (MFM) approach that borrows information between diseases in a Bayesian framework. We show that MFM has greater accuracy than single disease analysis when shared causal variants exist, and negligible loss of precision otherwise. MFM analysis of six immune-mediated diseases reveals causal variants undetected in individual disease analysis, including in IL2RA where we confirm functional effects of multiple causal variants using allele-specific expression in sorted CD4+ T cells from genotype-selected individuals. MFM has the potential to increase fine-mapping resolution in related diseases enabling the identification of associated cellular and molecular phenotypes.
Leucothoe crassimana Kossmann 1880
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe crassimana

description: Leucothoe crassimana Kossman, 1880
 Leucothoe crassimana Kossmann, 1880: 131–132, pl. 13, figs 9, 10. — Sowinsky, 1897: 46–47, pl x. — Sowinsky, 1898: 492– 493, pl. 11, figs 20–22, pl. 12, figs 7, 8. — Stebbing, 1906: 168.
 Type locality and specimens. Red Sea. Holotype, female, 7 mm.
 Material examined. No material available for examination. Diagnosis based on description by Kossman (1880).
 Diagnosis (female). Kossman’s original description of Leucothoe crassimana is vague with illustrations of only gnathopods 1 and 2.
 Note. At best this species was described as belonging to the Leucothoidae. Pending examination of type or topotypic material, this species should not be considered valid.
 Male (sexually dimorphic characters). Unknown
 Habitat. Habitat and depth not reported.
 Host. Unknown.
 Distribution. Red Sea: coastal areas (Kossman 1880; Sowinsky 1897; Sowinsky 1898; Stebbing 1906).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
CP Violation, Sneutrino Oscillation and Neutrino Masses in R-parity Violating Supersymmetric Standard Model
Creators: name: Chun, Eung Jin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In supersymmetric theories, sneutrino--anti-sneutrino mixing can occur with the oscillation time $\sim 0.01$ ps corresponding the atmospheric neutrino mass scale $\sim 0.05$ eV. We explore the possibility of observing sneutrino oscillation phenomena and CP violation when R-parity violation explains the observed neutrino masses and mixing. It is shown for some parameter region in the bilinear model of R-parity violation that the tiny sneutrino mass splitting and time-dependent CP violating asymmetries could be measured in the future experiments if the tau sneutrino is the lightest supersymmetric particle.
description: 13pp. title changed, new numerical examples added, main conclusions not changed. version to appear in PLB
Leucothoe ctenochasma Moore 1987
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe ctenochasma

description: Leucothoe ctenochasma Moore, 1987
 Leucothoe ctenochasma Moore, 1987: 251, figs 9, 10. — Lowry & Stoddart, 2003: 155.
 Type locality and specimens. Tinderbox, d'Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania. Holotype, female, 3 mm, AM P 36290; paratypes, sex unkown, 3 mm, AM P 36291, ovigerous female, 3 mm, sex unknown, 2 mm, BMNH.
 Material examined. No material available for examination. Diagnosis based on description by Moore (1987).
 Diagnosis (female). Maxilliped outer plate tuberculate. Mandibular palp article 3 short. Gnathopod 1 propodus and carpus narrow, elongate. Gnathopod 2 with high mediofacial row; carpus short. Pereopods 5–7 bases narrowly expanded. Telson with facial setae, apex bidentate. Moore reported the color of L. ctenochasma as pale pink.
 Male (sexually dimorphic characters). Unknown.
 Habitat. Among holdfasts of Ecklonia radiata; 3– 4 m.
 Host. Sponges: Callyspongia Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864, Holopsamma laminaefavosa, Mycale sp., and Phorbas sp.
 Distribution. Pacific Ocean: Tasmania (Moore 1987; Lowry & Stoddart 2003).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
Zero temperature momentum distribution of an impurity in a polaron state of one-dimensional Fermi and Tonks-Girardeau gases
Creators: name: Gamayun, Oleksandr
name: Lychkovskiy, Oleg
name: Zvonarev, Mikhail B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the momentum distribution function of a single distinguishable impurity particle which formed a polaron state in a gas of either free fermions or Tonks-Girardeau bosons in one spatial dimension. We obtain a Fredholm determinant representation of the distribution function for the Bethe ansatz solvable model of an impurity-gas $δ$-function interaction potential at zero temperature, in both repulsive and attractive regimes. We deduce from this representation the fourth power decay at a large momentum, and a weakly divergent (quasi-condensate) peak at a finite momentum. We also demonstrate that the momentum distribution function in the limiting case of infinitely strong interaction can be expressed through a correlation function of the one-dimensional impenetrable anyons.
description: 39 pages, 10 figures; Restored overall phase factor in Eq. (66), references added
Cosmic strings in compactified gauge theory
Creators: name: Nakamula, Atsushi
name: Hirenzaki, Satoru
name: Shiraishi, Kiyoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A solution of the vortex type is given in a six-dimensional $SU(2)\times U(1)$ pure gauge theory coupled to Einstein gravity in a compactified background geometry. We construct the solution of an effective abelian Higgs model in terms of dimensional reduction. The solution, however, has a peculiarity in its physically relevant quantity, a deficit angle, which is given as a function of the ratio of the gauge couplings of $SU(2)$ and $U(1)$. The size of the extra space (sphere) is shown to vary with the distance from the axis of the "string".
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
The $σ$ meson in a nuclear medium through two pion photoproduction
Creators: name: Roca, L.
name: Oset, E.
name: Vacas, M. J. Vicente
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present theoretical results for $(γ, π^0 π^0)$ production on nucleons and nuclei in the kinematical region where the scalar isoscalar $ππ$ amplitude is influenced by the $σ$ pole. The final state interaction of the pions modified by the nuclear medium produces a spectacular shift of strength of the two pion invariant mass distribution induced by the moving of the $σ$ pole to lower masses and widths as the nuclear density increases.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
Leucothoe ctenochir K. H. Barnard 1925
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe ctenochir

description: Leucothoe ctenochir K.H. Barnard, 1925
 Leucothoe ctenochir K.H. Barnard, 1925: 342–344, pl. 34, fig. 8. — Griffiths, 1974b: 246. — Griffiths, 1974c: 302. — Griffiths, 1975: 140. — Ledoyer, 1979a: 102, fig. 62. — Ledoyer, 1986: 655–657, fig. 249.
 Type locality and specimens. Port Shepstone, South Africa. Holotype, male, 6.5 mm, SAM A4404.
 Material examined. No material available for examination. Diagnosis based on description by K. H. Barnard (1925) and Ledoyer (1979).
 Diagnosis. Gnathopod 1 basis proximally expanded; propodus proximally inflated. Gnathopod 2 basis distally expanded; propodus palm with six to seven comb-like tubercles.
 Note. Barnard’s (1925) original description is vague, but subsequent reports agree closely.
 Female (sexually dimorphic characters). No significant sexually dimorphic character.
 Habitat. Habitat not reported; 65 m (reported as 36 fthm).
 Host. Unknown.
 Distribution. Indian Ocean: Port Shepstone (K.H. Barnard 1925), east coast Durban to Cape Peninsula (Griffiths 1974b; Griffiths 1974c; Griffiths 1975), Tulear, Madagascar (Ledoyer 1979a; Ledoyer 1986).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
Ancient origins of low lean mass among South Asians and implications for modern type 2 diabetes susceptibility
Creators: name: Pomeroy, Emma
name: Mushrif-Tripathy, Veena
name: Cole, Tim J.
name: Wells, Jonathan C. K.
name: Stock, Jay T.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article
/631/181/19/2471
/692/699/2743/137/773
article

description: Abstract: Living South Asians have low lean tissue mass relative to height, which contributes to their elevated type 2 diabetes susceptibility, particularly when accompanied by obesity. While ongoing lifestyle transitions account for rising obesity, the origins of low lean mass remain unclear. We analysed proxies for lean mass and stature among South Asian skeletons spanning the last 11,000 years (n = 197) to investigate the origins of South Asian low lean mass. Compared with a worldwide sample (n = 2,003), South Asian skeletons indicate low lean mass. Stature-adjusted lean mass increased significantly over time in South Asia, but to a very minor extent (0.04 z-score units per 1,000 years, adjusted R2 = 0.01). In contrast stature decreased sharply when agriculture was adopted. Our results indicate that low lean mass has characterised South Asians since at least the early Holocene and may represent long-term climatic adaptation or neutral variation. This phenotype is therefore unlikely to change extensively in the short term, so other strategies to address increasing non-communicable disease rates must be pursued.
An Overview of Livestock Improvement and Extension Management Technologies: Panacea for Attaining Food Security and Industrial Development in Nigeria
Creators: name: Age, A. I.
name: Unongo, E. A.
name: Age, A. I.
name: Unongo, E. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance

description: This paper is an overview of livestock improvement and extension management technologies that are aimed at attainment of Food security and industrial development in Nigeria. It demystifies the concept of livestock improvement and examines the rationale for embarking on livestock improvement; and it also highlights livestock improvement management technologies that are sinequa non for attaining food security and industrial development in Nigeria. The paper recommends adoption of cross breeding of improved breeds of livestock; Pedigree selection, artificial insemination, establishment of progeny-testing stations and adoption of performance testing and livestock breeding value evaluation.
Two-gluon coupling and collider phenomenology of color-octet technirho mesons
Creators: name: Chivukula, R. Sekhar
name: Grant, Aaron
name: Simmons, Elizabeth H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has recently been suggested that gauge invariance forbids the coupling of a massive color-octet vector meson to two gluons. While this is true for operators in an effective Lagrangian of dimension four or less, we demonstrate that dimension six interactions will lead to such couplings. In the case of technicolor, the result is a technirho-gluon-gluon coupling comparable to the naive vector meson dominance estimate, but with a substantial uncertainty. This has implications for several recent studies of technicolor phenomenology.
description: 6 pages, LaTeX; added a reference
Evaluation of Carabid Beetle Diversity in Different Bioenergy Cropping Systems
Creators: name: Mast, Benjamin
name: Hönninger, Simone Graeff
name: Claupein, Wilhelm
name: Mast, Benjamin
name: Hönninger, Simone Graeff
name: Claupein, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance

description: Changes in agricultural land use as a consequence of an increased demand of energy crops have resulted in an increase of maize cropped area in many regions of Germany. The focus on maize as main biogas substrate, has led in some cases to negative ecological and environmental impacts, such as a loss of agro biodiversity reflected in a loss of field flora and fauna biodiversity. The present paper deals with the evaluation of the fauna in different bioenergy cropping systems on two sites in South-West Germany, with a special focus on the species richness of carabid beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages as an indicator for the general status of diversity. A maize field, an agroforestry system with maize and different tree species as well as different alternative biogas crops (amaranth, sunflower) was investigated for their carabid beetle activity, density, and species richness using pitfall traps. Moreover, for an adequate evaluation of the carabid assemblages different common diversity indices (Shannon-Wiener diversity (H’), Simpson diversity (D) and Evenness (J’)) were used. In the case of the maize field on both field edges 8 and 6 carabid beetle species, respectively were trapped, while in the field centre 2 carabid beetle species were trapped. The agroforestry system indicated slightly higher crabid beetle species richness close to the tree strips. The investigation of alternative biogas crops showed no significant differences in carabid beetle diversity. Overall, the results of the different studies showed, that biodiversity of bioenergy cropping systems could be enhanced by the creation of refuge areas for carabid beetles or other animals. Refuges could be either field margins with grass and hedgerows or strips of more extensively used perennial energy crops across the field.
Lectins in Cervical Screening
Creators: name: Lim, Anita WW
name: Neves, André A.
name: Lam Shang Leen, Sarah
name: Lao-Sirieix, Pierre
name: Bird-Lieberman, Elizabeth
name: Singh, Naveena
name: Sheaff, Michael
name: Hollingworth, Tony
name: Brindle, Kevin
name: Sasieni, Peter
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: lectins
cervical cancer
screening
glycans

description: Cervical screening in low-resource settings remains an unmet need. Lectins are naturally occurring sugar-binding glycoproteins whose binding patterns change as cancer develops. Lectins discriminate between dysplasia and normal tissue in several precancerous conditions. We explored whether lectins could be developed for cervical screening via visual inspection. Discovery work comprised lectin histochemistry using a panel of candidate lectins on fixed-human cervix tissue (high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN3, n = 20) or normal (n = 20)), followed by validation in a separate cohort (30 normal, 25 CIN1, 25 CIN3). Lectin binding was assessed visually according to staining intensity. To validate findings macroscopically, near-infra red fluorescence imaging was conducted on freshly-resected cervix (1 normal, 7 CIN3), incubated with topically applied fluorescently-labelled lectin. Fluorescence signal was compared for biopsies and whole specimens according to regions of interest, identified by the overlay of histopathology grids. Lectin histochemistry identified two lectins—wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and Helix pomatia agglutinin (HPA)—with significantly decreased binding to CIN3 versus normal in both discovery and validation cohorts. Findings at the macroscopic level confirmed weaker WGA binding (lower signal intensity) in CIN3 vs. normal for biopsies (p = 0.0308) and within whole specimens (p = 0.0312). Our findings confirm proof-of-principle and indicate that WGA could potentially be developed further as a probe for high-grade cervical disease.
Semantic segmentation and uncertainty quantification with vision transformers for industrial applications
Creators: name: Wursthorn, Kira
name: Gao, Lili
name: Landgraf, Steven
name: Ulrich, Markus
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2024

description: Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in semantic segmentation tasks. However, their deployment in critical applications necessitates reliable uncertainty quantification to assess model confidence. To tackle this challenge, we combine a state-of-the-art ViT with the popular uncertainty quantification method Monte Carlo Dropout (MCD) to predict both segmentation and uncertainty maps. We focus on an industrial machine vision setting and carry out the experiments on the T-LESS dataset. The evaluation is carried out with regard to both the segmentation accuracy and the predicted uncertainties using appropriate metrics.
The Positive Relationship between Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity and Bone Mineral Content Is Not Mediated by Free Leptin Index in Prepubertal Children: The PANIC Study
Creators: name: Constable, Annie M.
name: Porter, Josie E.
name: Benger, Danielle
name: Vlachopoulos, Dimitris
name: Barker, Alan R.
name: Moore, Sarah A.
name: Soininen, Sonja
name: Haapala, Eero A.
name: Westgate, Kate
name: Brage, Soren
name: Agostinete, Ricardo R.
name: Fernandes, Romulo A.
name: Lakka, Timo A.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2021
Subjects: prepubertal age
free leptin index
accelerometery
bone mass
childhood
DXA
growth

description: Purpose: Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) positively influences bone mineral content (BMC) in prepubertal children, but it is unknown whether this relationship is partially mediated by free leptin index. The aim of this study was to examine whether the relationship between MVPA and total body less head (TBLH) BMC is mediated or moderated by free leptin index in prepubertal children. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional analysis on 401 children (194 girls) from baseline examinations of the Physical Activity and Nutrition in Childhood Study. We applied the four-way decomposition mediation analysis method to assess whether free leptin index, measured from fasted blood samples, mediated the relationship between accelerometer-measured MVPA and TBLH BMC measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Results: MVPA had a positive controlled direct effect on TBLH BMC in girls and boys (β = 0.010 to 0.011, p 0.05). There was no mediation or interaction between MVPA, free leptin index and TBLH BMC in girls or boys (β = −0.000 to 0.001, p > 0.05). Conclusion: Our study indicates that MVPA positively influences TBLH BMC through pathways not related to free leptin index in predominantly normal-weight prepubertal children, likely primarily through mechanical loading. The relationships between MVPA, free leptin index and TBLH BMC may be influenced by other factors such as pubertal status and adiposity, so it is unknown whether these observations extend to overweight and obese children at different stages of puberty.
Leucothoe dolichoceras K. H. Barnard 1916
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe dolichoceras

description: Leucothoe dolichoceras K.H. Barnard, 1916
 Leucothoe dolichoceras K.H. Barnard, 1916: 151, 152, pl. 26, fig. 14. —K.H. Barnard, 1925: 343, 344. — Griffiths, 1974b: 246. — Griffiths, 1974c: 303. — Griffiths, 1975: 140.
 Type locality and specimens. Cape St. Francis NE, distant 29 miles. Holotype, male, 12 mm, SAM A167; paratype, male, SAM A3399.
 Material examined. No material available for examination. Diagnosis based on description by K. H. Barnard (1916, 1925).
 Diagnosis. Gnathopod 2 propodus palm with three large comb-like projections, similar to L. ctenochir.
 Note. Barnard’s original description of Leucothoe dolichoceras is vague with only gnathopod 2 illustrated. Subsequent reports do not describe the species nor do they provide illustrations. This is likely a valid species, but examination of the type or topotypic material is necessary to distinguish diagnostic characters for the species.
 Female (sexually dimorphic characters). Unknown.
 Habitat. Habitat not reported; 136 m (reported as 75 fthm).
 Host. Unknown.
 Distribution. Atlantic Ocean: Cape St. Francis to west coast, Africa (K.H. Barnard 1916; K.H. Barnard 1925; Griffiths 1974b; Griffiths 1975).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
Electronic Supplementary Material from Macro- and mesoscale pattern interdependencies in complex networks
Creators: name: M. J. Palazzi
name: J. Borge-Holthoefer
name: C. J. Tessone
name: A. Solé-Ribalta
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60199 Biochemistry and Cell Biology not elsewhere classified
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: The ESM provides several sections with extended explanation, and additional developments and figures
Performance Evaluation of LTE-CommSense System for Discrimination of Presence of Multiple Objects in Outdoor Environment
Creators: name: Sardar, Santu
name: Mishra, Amit K.
name: Khan, Mohammed Zafar Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: LTE-CommSense is a novel instrumentation scheme which analyzes channel affected reference signals of LTE downlink signal to obtain knowledge about the environmental change. This work presents the characterization of LTE-CommSense instrument to detect presence or absence of objects in outdoor environment. Additionally, we analyze its capability of detecting and distinguishing when multiple objects are present. For performance evaluation and characterization of this instrument, we derive object detection accuracy, FAR, FRR and resolution which we believe are the most important figures of merit in this case. As the operation of LTE-CommSense is to detect events instead of objects, we redefine the concept of resolution for LTE-CommSense. Two different proposals to represent the redefined resolution viz. Neyman Pearson principle based and Cramer Rao principle based resolution are presented here. All the performance metrics are derived using practical data captured using an SDR platform modeled as a LTE-CommSense receiver. We observe that, LTE-CommSense provides better performance in detecting presence or absence of objects at near range.
description: This paper is a postprint of a paper submitted to and accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and is subject to IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement Copyright
Simulating the Impact of Exogenous Food Price Shock on Agriculture and the Poor in Nigeria: Results from a Computable General Equilibrium Model
Creators: name: Nkang, Nkang
name: Omonona, Bolarin
name: Yusuf, Suleiman
name: Oni, Omobowale
name: Nkang, Nkang
name: Omonona, Bolarin
name: Yusuf, Suleiman
name: Oni, Omobowale
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance

description: Motivated by the recent global economic crisis, this paper simulated the impact of a rise in the price of imported food on agriculture and household poverty in Nigeria using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) class of decomposable poverty measures on the 2006 social accounting matrix (SAM) of Nigeria and the updated 2004 Nigeria Living Standards Survey (NLSS) data. Results show that a rise in import price of food increased domestic output of food, but reduced the domestic supply of other agricultural commodities as well as food and other agricultural composites. Furthermore, a rise in the import price of food increased poverty nationally and among all household groups, with rural-north households being the least affected by the shock, while their rural-south counterparts were the most affected. A major policy implication drawn from this paper is that high import prices in import competing sectors like agriculture tend to favour the sector but exacerbate poverty in households. Thus, efforts geared at addressing the impact of this shock should strive to balance welfare and efficiency issues.
Three new tetralol analogs from soil-derived fungus Myrothecium verrucaria with anti-inflammatory activity
Creators: name: Liu, Lu
name: Tang, Ming-Xu
name: Sang, Xia-Nan
name: Chen, Shao-Fei
name: Lu, Xiao-Jie
name: Wang, Yu-Bo
name: Si, Ying-Ying
name: Wang, Hai-Feng
name: Chen, Gang
name: Pei, Yue-Hu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Three new tetralol analogs, myrochromanols A-C (1–3), together with 11 known trichothecenes (4–14), were isolated from a soil fungus Myrothecium verrucaria HL-P-1. The structures of the three new compounds were elucidated by extensive spectroscopic analysis including HRESIMS, NMR, and ECD calculation. All of the new compounds were tested for their anti-inflammatory activity and cytotoxicity. Compounds 1 and 3 inhibited lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced NO production in BV2 cells with IC50 values of 26.04 and 25.80 μM, respectively. Three new tetralol analogs were isolated from a soil fungus Myrothecium verrucaria HL-P-1. All of them were tested for their anti-inflammatory and cytotoxicity activity.
Phase diagram of bipartite entanglement
Creators: name: Facchi, Paolo
name: Parisi, Giorgio
name: Pascazio, Saverio
name: Scardicchio, Antonello
name: Yuasa, Kazuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the features of the entanglement spectrum (distribution of the eigenvalues of the reduced density matrix) of a large quantum system in a pure state. We consider all Rényi entropies and recover purity and von Neumann entropy as particular cases. We construct the phase diagram of the theory and unveil the presence of two critical lines.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures
Leucothoe epidemos White & Thomas 2009
Creators: name: White, Kristine N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Ericales
Ericaceae
Leucothoe
Leucothoe epidemos

description: Leucothoe epidemos White & Thomas, 2009
 Leucothoe epidemos White & Thomas, 2009: 505–508, figs 7, 8.
 Type locality and specimens. Watsons Bay, Lizard Island, 14°39.41'S 145° 27.14°E. Holotype, male, 14.6 mm, AM P 70663; paratype, female, 12.7 mm, AM P 71221.
 Material examined. Unmeasured males and females, AM P 70663, AM P 71221, AM P 70631, AM P 70589, AM P 70647, AM P 70662, AM P 70736, AM P 70754, AM P 70761, AM P 70764, AM P 70918, AM P 70970, AM P 70885, AM P 17028, AM P 71175, AM P 71184, AM P 71100, AM P 71168, AM P 71260, AM P 71230, AM P 71281, AM P 71377, AM P 71354, AM P 71380, AM P 71372, AM P 71358, AM P 71427, AM P 71416, AM P 71492. Diagnosis based on description by White & Thomas (2009).
 Diagnosis. Eyes posteriorly concave. Mandibular palp article 2 with 17–18 distal setae. Gnathopod 1 coxa with one facial seta; basis anterior margin with 12 setae; carpus proximal margin with three serrate rows, distal margin setose. Gnathopod 2 basis widened anterodistally with three distal tubercles, anterior margin with 12–14 setae; carpus distally truncate, spoon-like, smooth; propodus with one mediofacial setal row displaced to midline, palm convex with four major projections.
 Female (sexually dimorphic characters). Gnathopod 2 carpus not spoon-like, anterior margin serrate; propodus mediofacial setal row less setose; submarginal setal row with eight setae. Pereopod 3 with marginal setae.
 Habitat. Among algae and coral rubble; 2– 20 m.
 Host. Ascidians: Polycarpa aurata (Quoy and Gaimard, 1834), Atriolum robustum Kott, 1983 and Styela sp; Sponge: Spirastrella vagabunda (Ridley, 1884).
 Distribution. Pacific Ocean: Lizard Island, Australia (White & Thomas, 2009).
description: Published as part of White, Kristine N., 2011, A taxonomic review of the Leucothoidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) 3078, pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 3078 (1) on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3078.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243821
Effective description of the LOFF phase of QCD
Creators: name: Mannarelli, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an effective field theory for the crystalline color superconductivity phase of QCD. It is kown that at high density and at low temperature QCD exhibits a transition to a color superconducting phase characterized by energy gaps in the fermion spectra. Under specific circumstances the gap parameter has a crystalline pattern, breaking translational and rotational invariance. The corresponding phase is the crystalline color superconductive phase (or {\it LOFF} phase). We compute the parameters of the low energy effective lagrangian describing the motion of the free phonon in the high density medium and derive the phonon dispersion law.
description: Talk at the Giselda Meeting, Frascti (Roma), 14-18 Jen 2001. Latex file, 7 pages, 1 figure
All Appendices for Methodological rigor and reporting quality of the literature on wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, and release: A global systematic review
Creators: name: Massie, Gloeta
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 300907
subject: Veterinary medicine (excl. urology)
classificationCode: 300912
subject: Veterinary surgery
classificationCode: 300999
subject: Veterinary sciences not elsewhere classified

description: All Appendices for Methodological rigor and reporting quality of the literature on wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, and release: A global systematic review
Financial Instruments and Conflicts of Interest: Application to French Agricultural Co-operatives
Creators: name: Declerck, Francis
name: Declerck, Francis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: co-operative
subject: agricultural co-operative
subject: financing
subject: financial instrument
subject: conflict of interest
subject: shareholder

description: To finance their growth and value creation, agricultural co-operatives have at their disposal several financial instruments: equity, quasi-equity or debt. Many of these instruments are particularly innovative and have been designed specifically for co-operatives. In France, only recently have some co-operatives expanded their types of financing to include external funders through the issue of OTC- or publicly-traded securities. Agricultural co-operatives' governance and economic projects are often misunderstood by external financial investors. The risk of conflicts of interest plays a role in these misunderstandings in the way retained earnings, returns to agricultural products brought by co-op member and returns to equity capital. Such risks are identified and answers are proposed.
Dynamical Effects beyond Mean Field in Drip Line Nuclei
Creators: name: Sagawa, H.
name: Colo, G.
name: Suzuki, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New structure problems are raised in nuclei near drip lines by recent RIB experiments. We pointed out the importance of dynamical effect beyond mean field theories to the new structure problems.
description: 6pages, 3figures
Deep learning inter-atomic potential model for accurate irradiation damage simulations
Creators: name: Wang, Hao
name: Guo, Xun
name: Zhang, Linfeng
name: Wang, Han
name: Xue, Jianming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a hybrid scheme that interpolates smoothly the Ziegler-Biersack-Littmark (ZBL) screened nuclear repulsion potential with a newly developed deep learning potential energy model. The resulting DP-ZBL model can not only provide overall good performance on the predictions of near-equilibrium material properties but also capture the right physics when atoms are extremely close to each other, an event that frequently happens in computational simulations of irradiation damage events. We applied this scheme to the simulation of the irradiation damage processes in the face-centered-cubic aluminium system, and found better descriptions in terms of the defect formation energy, evolution of collision cascades, displacement threshold energy, and residual point defects, than the widely-adopted ZBL modified embedded atom method potentials and its variants. Our work provides a reliable and feasible scheme to accurately simulate the irradiation damage processes and opens up new opportunities to solve the predicament of lacking accurate potentials for enormous newly-discovered materials in the irradiation effect field.