cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Diphylla ecaudata Spix 1823
Creators: name: Velazco, Paúl M.
name: Patterson, Bruce D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae
Diphylla
Diphylla ecaudata

description: Diphylla ecaudata Spix, 1823
 VOUCHER MATERIAL: El Diamante: 1 adult female (MUSM 39188), 2 adult males (FMNH 203522; MUSM 39189); see table 6 for measurements.
 IDENTIFICATION: Descriptions and measurements of Diphylla ecaudata have been provided by Swanepoel and Genoways (1979), Greenhall et al. (1984), and Kwon and Gardner (2008). Currently two subspecies are recognized: D. e. centralis (southern United States southward through eastern Mexico and Central America) and D. e. ecaudata (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil, excluding the central Amazon basin) (Greenhall et al., 1984; Kwon and Gardner, 2008). Our Mayo River basin specimens exhibit the diagnostic characteristics of the species: thumb small (usually less than 13 mm), lacking basal pads; uropatagium well furred; occlusal margin of lower inner incisors with four lobes, of lower outer incisors with three lobes; two upper incisors and two lower molars on each side (Kwon and Gardner, 2008; Cirranello et al., 2016). Our Mayo River basin voucher material represents the nominate subspecies.
TABLE 6
 External and craniodental measurements (mm) and weights (g) of Desmodus rotundus and Diphylla ecaudata
REMARKS: Our female (MUSM 39188) was lactating.
description: Published as part of Velazco, Paúl M. & Patterson, Bruce D., 2019, Small Mammals Of The Mayo River Basin In Northern Peru, With The Description Of A New Species Of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), pp. 1-69 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2019 (429) on pages 14-15
Spectral Energy Distribution of the First Galaxies: Contribution from Pre-Main-Sequence Stars
Creators: name: Mitani, Hiroto
name: Yoshida, Naoki
name: Omukai, Kazuyuki
name: Hosokawa, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the major goals of next-generation space-borne and ground-based telescopes is to detect and characterize the first galaxies that were in place in the first few hundred million years after the big bang. We study the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the first galaxies and discuss the prospects for detection and identification. We consider very young star-forming galaxies at $z=15$ and incorporate the contribution from pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars. Unlike in the present-day galaxies, primordial protostars are not embedded in dusty gas clouds, and hence the light from them can be visible at a wide range of wavelengths. We use MESA code to follow the PMS evolution and use the BT-Settl model to calculate the SED of individual PMS stars. We show that PMS stars contribute to boost the flux in the mid-infrared, and that the galaxy SED at very early evolutionary phases is overall redder than at later phases. The infrared flux contribution is comparable to that caused by emission lines powered by massive stars. We argue that the contribution from PMS stars is important for characterizing young galaxies in the early Universe and also for target selection with future deep galaxy surveys.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, published online in MNRAS letters
Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites
Creators: name: Mathur, Arunesh
name: Acar, Gunes
name: Friedman, Michael J.
name: Lucherini, Elena
name: Mayer, Jonathan
name: Chetty, Marshini
name: Narayanan, Arvind
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. We present automated techniques that enable experts to identify dark patterns on a large set of websites. Using these techniques, we study shopping websites, which often use dark patterns to influence users into making more purchases or disclosing more information than they would otherwise. Analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites, we discover 1,818 dark pattern instances, together representing 15 types and 7 broader categories. We examine these dark patterns for deceptive practices, and find 183 websites that engage in such practices. We also uncover 22 third-party entities that offer dark patterns as a turnkey solution. Finally, we develop a taxonomy of dark pattern characteristics that describes the underlying influence of the dark patterns and their potential harm on user decision-making. Based on our findings, we make recommendations for stakeholders including researchers and regulators to study, mitigate, and minimize the use of these patterns.
description: 32 pages, 11 figures, ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2019)
Renormalisation in Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Jirari, H.
name: Kröger, H.
name: Luo, X. Q.
name: Melkonyan, G.
name: Moriarty, K. J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a recently proposed quantum action depending on temperature. We construct a renormalisation group equation describing the flow of action parameters with temperature. At zero temperature the quantum action is obtained analytically and is found free of higher time derivatives. It makes the quantum action an ideal tool to investigate quantum chaos and quantum instantons.
description: replaced version with new figs. Text (LaTeX), 3 Figs. (ps)
CRIMINAL REGULATION USING LANGUAGE IN THE CRIMINAL LAW CODE
Creators: name: LAELY WULANDARI
name: RODLIYAH
name: AMIRUDDIN
name: LALU PARMAN
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Criminal Acts; Language; Law.

description: Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine and analyse whether the legal resolution of criminal acts using language is currently in line with the objectives of justice, certainty, and legal utility. This research uses the statutory approach, conceptual approach, and case approach methods. Legal materials were collected through literature study by obtaining legal materials from documents such as legislation, books, reports, and scientific research results, as well as other library materials and inventories of legal materials, including primary, secondary, and tertiary legal materials. The results show that the application of criminal acts using language in the national life of Indonesia has not yet fulfilled the principles of justice, certainty, and utility. Indicators found in this research are many unclear and overlapping regulations that lead to interpretations. Currently, there are three regulations governing criminal acts using language, namely (1) the Criminal Law Code (2) the Information and Electronic Transactions Law and (3) the Law on the Elimination of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination. Some problematic issues are as follows: (1) The justifying reasons in Article 310 of the Criminal Law Code are not explained whether they are the same as the justifying reasons regulated in Article 49 of the old Criminal Law Code. (2) Defamation articles regulated in both the old Criminal Law Code and the new Criminal Law Code may or may not be applied not because of the basis of the act but because of the subjective value of the judge. (3) The meaning of "group" in the criminal act of spreading hatred against race and ethnicity has no limitations. (4) The article on insulting the president is reintroduced in the new Criminal Law Code, thus this article undergoes re-criminalization because it has been declared invalid by the Constitutional Court's decision, similarly with the incitement article which, in the Constitutional Court's decision, changes from a formal criminal act to a material criminal act in the new Criminal Law Code, returning to being a formal criminal act.
T-duality and Noncommutative DBI Action
Creators: name: Kamani, Davoud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article we study the noncommutative description of the DBI Lagrangian and its T-dual counterpart. We restrict the freedoms of the noncommutativity parameters of these Lagrangians. Therefore the noncommutativity parameter, the effective metric, the effective coupling constant of the string and the extra modulus ${\tilde Φ}$ of the effective T-dual theory, can be expressed in terms of the closed string variables $g$, $B$, $g_s$ and the noncommutativity parameter of the effective theory of open string.
description: 8 pages, Latex, no figure, Some formulas have been canceled
Anoura caudifer
Creators: name: Velazco, Paúl M.
name: Patterson, Bruce D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae
Anoura
Anoura caudifer

description: Anoura caudifer (É. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, 1818)
 VOUCHER MATERIAL: Tingana: 2 adult males (FMNH 203340; MUSM 39113); Waqanki: 4 adult females (FMNH 203338, 203526; MUSM 39111, 39112), 1 adult male (FMNH 203524); see table 7 for measurements.
 IDENTIFICATION: Descriptions and measurements of Anoura caudifer have been provided by Husson (1962), Handley (1984), Molinari (1994), Simmons and Voss (1998), Mantilla-Meluk and Baker (2006), Brosset and Charles-Dominique (1990), and Pacheco et al. (2018). No subspecies are currently recognized in A. caudifer (Griffiths and Gardner, 2008a). Our Mayo River basin specimens exhibit the diagnostic characteristics of the species: well-developed calcar, slightly smaller than the foot; presence of a short tail; lower lip protruding less than 3 mm beyond upper lip; skull with keel along midline of mesopterygoid fossa that is not flattened posteriorly and usually extends onto septum between basisphenoid pits; and upper last premolar lacking medial internal cusp. Our vouchers fall within the range of measurements reported for A. caudifer.
REMARKS: Two females (FMNH 203338, 203526) that we collected were pregnant, each with a single embryo (crown-rump length [CRL] = 20 mm).
description: Published as part of Velazco, Paúl M. & Patterson, Bruce D., 2019, Small Mammals Of The Mayo River Basin In Northern Peru, With The Description Of A New Species Of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), pp. 1-69 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2019 (429) on pages 15-16
Stringent Constraints on Cosmological Neutrino-Antineutrino Asymmetries from Synchronized Flavor Transformation
Creators: name: Abazajian, Kevork N.
name: Beacom, John F.
name: Bell, Nicole F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We assess a mechanism which can transform neutrino-antineutrino asymmetries between flavors in the early universe, and confirm that such transformation is unavoidable in the near bi-maximal framework emerging for the neutrino mixing matrix. We show that the process is a standard Mikheyev-Smirnov-Wolfenstein flavor transformation dictated by a synchronization of momentum states. We also show that flavor ``equilibration'' is a special feature of maximal mixing, and carefully examine new constraints placed on neutrino asymmetries. In particular, the big bang nucleosynthesis limit on electron neutrino degeneracy xi_e < 0.04 does not apply directly to all flavors, yet confirmation of the large-mixing-angle solution to the solar neutrino problem will eliminate the possibility of degenerate big bang nucleosynthesis.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures; minor changes to match PRD version
Detecting Fault Injection Attacks with Runtime Verification
Creators: name: Kassem, Ali
name: Falcone, Yliès
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Fault injections are increasingly used to attack/test secure applications. In this paper, we define formal models of runtime monitors that can detect fault injections that result in test inversion attacks and arbitrary jumps in the control flow. Runtime verification monitors offer several advantages. The code implementing a monitor is small compared to the entire application code. Monitors have a formal semantics; and we prove that they effectively detect attacks. Each monitor is a module dedicated to detecting an attack and can be deployed as needed to secure the application. A monitor can run separately from the application or it can be ``weaved'' inside the application. Our monitors have been validated by detecting simulated attacks on a program that verifies a user PIN.
Additional file 2 of Analysis of risk factors for carotid intima-media thickness in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Western China assessed by logistic regression combined with a decision tree model
Creators: name: Zhou, Yuan-Yuan
name: Qiu, Hong-Mei
name: Yang, Ying
name: Han, Yuan-Yuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2. STROBE Statementâ€”checklist of items that should be included in reports of cross-sectional studies.
Zelus renardii Kolenati 1857
Creators: name: Heyden, Torsten van der
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Zelus
Zelus renardii

description: So far, the invasive Nearctic assassin bug species
Zelus renardii Kolenati, 1857
(Heteroptera: Reduviidae) has been reported from the islands of Tenerife (BAENA & SANTOS, 2021; VAN DER HEYDEN, 2022), Lanzarote (VAN DER HEYDEN, 2023a) and Fuerteventura (VAN DER HEYDEN, 2023b).
The species is present on the island of Gran Canaria, too: On 24-09-2023, it was found near Meloneras, located in the extreme south of the island. Two related photos were uploaded to the online database iNaturalist (see here). Assumingly, this record, the first one for the island of Gran Canaria, will be reported more extensively by the photographer and a co-author.
On 07-10-2023, an adult specimen of Z. renardii (Fig. 1) was found nearby; just about 500 m north of the first finding. A photo of the specimen was uploaded to the online database iNaturalist (see here).
A stable population of Z. renardii seems to exist on the island of Gran Canaria, at least in the south of the island.
description: Published as part of Heyden, Torsten van der, 2023, New records of Heteroptera from the Canary Islands (Spain), VII, pp. 81-82 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 27 on page 81, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12812994
Ditomus calydonius subsp. calydonius ssp. calydonius (P. ROSSI 1790
Creators: name: Guéorguiev, B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Ditomus
Ditomus calydonius
Ditomus calydonius ssp. calydonius (p. rossi 1790)

description: Ditomus calydonius ssp. calydonius (P. ROSSI 1790)
R o m a n i a: "Dobroudja. Mangalia, A.L. Montandon.", 1 s. (MIZ).
First record for Romania.
description: Published as part of Guéorguiev, B., 2011, New and interesting records of Carabid Beetles from South-East Europe, South-West and Central Asia, with taxonomic notes on Pterostichini and Zabrini (Coleoptera, Carabidae), pp. 501-547 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (1) on page 525, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5324736
A novel approach to the functional classification of retinal ganglion cells
Creators: name: Hilgen, Gerrit
name: Kartsaki, Evgenia
name: Cessac, Bruno
name: Sernagor, Evelyne
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2019

description: At present, over 30 types of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) have been identified in the mouse, typically based on common anatomical features, shared gene expression or responses to light. Here, we introduce a novel, multidisciplinary approach for classifying RGCs using pharmacogenetics combined with large-scale retinal electrophysiology and anatomy. We altered the firing level of Scnn1a- (here shown) and Grik4-expressing RGCs through inhibitory (hM4Di) and excitatory (hM3Dq)
DREADD (Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs) activation to isolate their light-evoked responses from the pool of RGC responses.
Our approach thus allows us to unravel how RGCs sharing gene expression respond to complex visual scenes.
Interdisciplinary participation in climate-adapted urban land-use planning – findings of two gaming simulations in the city of Bottrop, Germany
Creators: name: Fuchs, Marisa
name: Kirstein, Madeleine Loren
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Climate adaptation
subject: Interdisciplinarity
subject: Gaming simulation
subject: Public participation
subject: Social learning
subject: Urban land-use planning
subject: 710

description: Purpose - Sustainable and climate-adapted urban development requires integrative governance approaches and forms of collaboration between different disciplinary actors in urban society. Integrative approaches are a particular challenge for those planning cultures in which they are not yet sufficiently established. This also applies to formal urban land-use planning in Germany, which forms the governance setting of this study. This study aims to examine how interdisciplinary participation in formal urban land-use planning contributes to the consideration of climate adaptation in the planning process. Design/methodology/approach - This paper traces the process of two differently designed interdisciplinary participation formats based on the methodological framework of a gaming simulation, each in the context of a formal urban land-use planning procedure in Bottrop, Germany. The gaming simulations are designed as performance simulations in which we involved several representatives from different public authorities. Findings - The gaming simulations show that interdisciplinary participation can lead to an increased awareness of climate adaptation requirements in particular and a mutual understanding of different logics of action in the context of comprehensive and sustainable urban planning in general. In addition, this paper provides recommendations as to how and under what conditions the benefits of the simulations can be transferred to municipal practice. Originality/value - While integrative and interdisciplinary formats are increasingly being used in the context of informal urban planning, this does not apply to formal urban land-use planning. Participation in formal urban land-use planning procedures is classically linear and multidisciplinary in Germany. Using two simulated interdisciplinary participation formats, this paper tested to what extent the consideration of climate adaptation requirements as a cross-sectoral task can benefit from interdisciplinarity in the context of two formal urban land-use planning procedures.
description: International journal of climate change strategies and management; 17(1)
Infinite towers of supertranslation and superrotation memories
Creators: name: Compère, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A framework that structures the gravitational memory effects and which is consistent with gravitational electric-magnetic duality is presented. A correspondence is described between memory observables, particular subleading residual gauge transformations, associated overleading gauge transformations and their canonical surface charges. It is shown that matter-induced transitions can generate infinite towers of independent memory effects at null infinity. These memories are associated with an infinite number of conservation laws at spatial infinity which lead to degenerate towers of subleading soft graviton theorems. It is shown that the leading order mutually commuting supertranslations and (novel) superrotations are both associated with a leading displacement memory effect, which suggests the existence of new boundary conditions.
description: 5 pages. Proof of existence of towers of memories added. To be published in PRL
Cosmic optical activity in the spacetime of a scalar-tensor screwed cosmic string
Creators: name: Bezerra, V. B.
name: Cuesta, H. J. Mosquera
name: Ferreira, C. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Measurements of radio emission from distant galaxies and quasars verify that the polarization vectors of these radiations are not randomly oriented as naturally expected. This peculiar phenomenon suggests that the spacetime intervening between the source and observer may be exhibiting some sort of optical activity, the origin of which is not known. In the present paper we provide a plausible explanation to this phenomenon by investigating the rôle played by a Chern-Simons-like term in the background of an ordinary or superconducting screwed cosmic string in a scalar-tensor gravity. We discuss the possibility that the excess in polarization of the light from radio-galaxies and quasars can be understood as if the electromagnetic waves emitted by these cosmic objects interact with a scalar-tensor screwed cosmic string through a Chern-Simons coupling. We use current astronomical data to constrain possible values for the coupling constant of this theory, and show that it turns out to be: $λ\sim 10^{-26}$ eV, which is two orders of magnitude larger than in string-inspired theories.
description: Revised version, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Lonchophylla handleyi Hill 1980
Creators: name: Velazco, Paúl M.
name: Patterson, Bruce D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae
Lonchophylla
Lonchophylla handleyi

description: Lonchophylla handleyi Hill, 1980
 VOUCHER MATERIAL: Tarapoto: 1 subadult male (FMNH 203346); see table 8 for measurements.
 IDENTIFICATION: Descriptions and measurements of Lonchophylla handleyi have been provided by Gardner (1976), Bowles et al. (1979), Hill (1980), Solari et al. (1999), Dávalos (2004), Woodman and Timm (2006), Woodman (2007), Dávalos and Corthals (2008), and Mantilla-Meluk et al. (2010). No subspecies are currently recognized in L. handleyi (Griffiths and Gardner, 2008b). Our specimen conforms in almost all respects to previous descriptions and exhibits the diagnostic characteristics of L. handleyi: fringe of hairs on the uropatagium; moderately inflated postorbital region; postorbital processes absent; posterior margin of infraorbital foramen located above the posterior root of P5; and weakly developed posterolingual cusp of P5 (Woodman and Timm, 2006; Griffiths and Gardner, 2008b). Because our specimen is a subadult, its measurements fall at the lower end or just outside the ranges previously reported for L. handleyi.
description: Published as part of Velazco, Paúl M. & Patterson, Bruce D., 2019, Small Mammals Of The Mayo River Basin In Northern Peru, With The Description Of A New Species Of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), pp. 1-69 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2019 (429) on page 19
Some qualitative studies of the focusing inhomogeneous Gross-Pitaevskii equation
Creators: name: Ardila, Alex H.
name: Dinh, Van Duong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the Cauchy problem for an inhomogeneous Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We first derive a sharp threshold for global existence and blow up of the solution. Then we construct and classify finite time blow up solutions at the minimal mass threshold. Additionally, using variational techniques, we study the existence, the orbital stability and instability of standing waves.
description: 23 pages
Lophostoma silvicolum d'Orbigny 1836
Creators: name: Velazco, Paúl M.
name: Patterson, Bruce D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Thymelaeaceae
Lophostoma
Lophostoma silvicolum

description: Lophostoma silvicolum d’Orbigny, 1836
 VOUCHER MATERIAL: Waqanki: 1 adult male (FMNH 203542); see table 9 for measurements.
 IDENTIFICATION: Descriptions and measurements of Lophostoma silvicolum have been provided by Swanepoel and Genoways (1979), Baker et al. (2004), Velazco and Cadenillas (2011), and Velazco and Gardner (2012). Currently three subspecies are recognized: L. s. centralis (eastern Honduras to Costa Rica), L. s. laephotis (Guianas to the lower Amazon basin of Brazil), and L. s. silvicolum (Panama through South America east of the Andes, in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela) (Williams and Genoways, 2008; Velazco and Cadenillas, 2011). L. silvicolum is distinguished from other species in the genus by the following combination of characteristics: large size (FA> 45 mm, GLS> 4 mm); brown to gray ventral fur; strong indentation present on the lingual cingulum of the upper canine; and M1 hypocone moderately to well developed (Velazco and Gardner, 2012).
 Velazco and Cadenillas (2011) analyzed cytochrome b sequences from all Lophostoma species, including our specimen (FMNH 203542). The specimens of L. silvicolum recovered from different localities throughout its range grouped into three clades. One of these clades was sister to L. evotis and contained specimens from Panama, Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, and eastern Peru (Mayo River basin). However, after reviewing more than 250 specimens of L. silvicolum throughout its entire distribution, Velazco and Cadenillas (2011) could not find a clear morphological or morphometric pattern that matched either the three molecular clades or the traditionally recognized subspecies. Before resolving this problem by making a taxonomic decision to either recognize the three subspecies as full species or, alternatively, lump the three subspecies and L. evotis together into one species, we believe that it is necessary to analyze nuclear and additional mitochondrial markers. Accordingly, here we simply refer our specimen to L. silvicolum as traditionally recognized. Our specimen conforms with previous descriptions and exhibits all the diagnostic characteristic of the species, and its measurements fall within the range previously documented for the species.
description: Published as part of Velazco, Paúl M. & Patterson, Bruce D., 2019, Small Mammals Of The Mayo River Basin In Northern Peru, With The Description Of A New Species Of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), pp. 1-69 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2019 (429) on page 19
Efficacy of medical education combined with extended care on adherence to inhaled glucocorticoids and clinical effects in patients with bronchial asthma
Creators: name: Zhou, Jin
name: Yang, Xuhao
name: Zhou, Jiaqing
name: Xiong, Maoyu
name: Wen, Li
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Science Policy

description: To observe the clinical efficacy of medical education combined with extended care in patients with bronchial asthma and its effect on adherence to inhaled glucocorticoids. Ninety-eight patients with bronchial asthma were divided into the control group and the experimental group, n = 49, by utilizing the random number table method. The control group was given routine education and care as well as routine out-of-hospital instructions, and the experimental group was given medical education and extended care based on the control group. Asthma disease knowledge mastery, asthma control, quality of life, medication adherence and lung function were compared between both groups, and the number of asthma attacks and re-hospitalizations were recorded. The experimental group performed higher scores of health knowledge, asthma control test and quality of life, rate of complete adherence, forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), peak expiratory flow rate, and FEV1/forced vital capacity. The number of asthma attacks and the times of re-hospitalizations were lower in the experimental group (all p < 0.05). Medical education combined with extended care can improve bronchial asthma patients’ mastery of asthma disease knowledge, effectively control patients’ conditions, enhance patients’ quality of life and lung function, increase patients’ adherence to inhaled glucocorticoids, and reduce the recurrence of bronchial asthma patients.
Ceiling Effects for Hybrid Aerial-Surface Locomotion of Small Rotorcraft
Creators: name: Hsiao, Yi Hsuan
name: Chirarattananon, Pakpong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As platform size is reduced, the flight of aerial robots becomes increasingly energetically expensive. Limitations on payload and endurance of these small robots have prompted researchers to explore the use of bimodal aerial-surface locomotion as a strategy to prolong operation time while retaining a high vantage point. In this work, we propose the use of ``ceiling effects'' as a power conserving strategy for small rotorcraft to perch on an overhang. In the vicinity of a ceiling, spinning propellers generate markedly higher thrust. To understand the observed aerodynamic phenomena}, momentum theory and blade element method are employed to describe the thrust, power, and rotational rate of spinning propellers in terms of propeller-to-ceiling distance. The models, which take into account the influence of neighboring propellers as present in multirotor vehicles, are verified using two propeller types 23-mm and 50-mm radii in various configurations on a benchtop setup. The results are consistent with the proposed models. In proximity to the ceiling, power consumption of propellers with 23-mm radius arranged in a quadrotor configuration was found to reduce by a factor of three. To this end, we present a conceptual prototype that demonstrates the use of ceiling effects for perching maneuvers. Overall, the promising outcomes highlight possible uses of ceiling effects for efficient bimodal locomotion in small multirotor vehicles
description: Accepted for publication in IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics
Derivative corrections to the D-brane Born-Infeld action: non-geodesic embeddings and the Seiberg-Witten map
Creators: name: Wyllard, Niclas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We dimensionally reduce the four-derivative corrections to the parity-conserving part of the D9-brane effective action involving all orders of the gauge field, to obtain corrections to the actions for the lower-dimensional Dp-branes. These corrections involve the second fundamental form and correspond to a non-geodesic embedding of the Dp-brane into (flat) ten-dimensional space. In addition, we study the transformation of the corrections under the Seiberg-Witten map relating the ordinary and non-commutative theories. A speculative discussion about the higher-order terms in the derivative expansion is also included.
description: 20 pages, LaTeX. v2: relation between (2.11) and result in hep-th/9903210 clarified. v3: minor changes; reference added
Three new biflavonoids from the branches and leaves of Cephalotaxus oliveri and their antioxidant activity
Creators: name: Xiao, Shu
name: Mu, Zhen-Qiang
name: Cheng, Chun-Ru
name: Ding, Jie
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Three new biflavonoids, named oliveriflavones A-C (1–3), together with two known flavonoids (quercetin (4) and rutin (5)), were isolated from the endangered plant Cephalotaxus oliveri. The chemical structures of these compounds were elucidated by comprehensive spectroscopic methods including NMR, HRESIMS, IR, UV, and CD spectra. Compounds 1–5 were first isolated from the genus Cephalotaxus. All the compounds were tested for their antioxidant activity. Compounds 4 and 5 showed excellent activity with IC50 values of 0.03 ± 0.06 μM and 0.02 ± 0.10 μM, respectively.
Effect of Embedded Length on Laterally Loaded Capacity of Pile Foundation
Creators: name: Omed Azeez
name: Rizgar Hummadi
name: Hasan, Ahmed
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 90501 Civil Geotechnical Engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: In the analysis of soil-pile interaction under lateral load, the effect of the embedded length of a pile is an important parameter which has a significant influence on its lateral load capacity. This paper investigates the effect of embedded length of a single pile on its ultimate lateral load capacity. In this research, a 30mm steel rod pile was used, and four embedment lengths were selected (250, 300, 350, and 400 mm) for embedment ratios (length to diameter, L/D) = 8.3, 10, 11.7 and 13.3, respectively. The pile was embedded in three different relative densities of sand (loose, medium, and dense). The tests were performed using constant rate displacement method. The results indicate that there is an increase in the capacity of laterally loaded pile up to 247% when embedded ratio (L/D) increases from 8.3 to 13.3 and when the relative density increases from 12% to 85% there is an increase up to 599% in the resistant capacity of the pile.
Dixus clypeatus
Creators: name: Guéorguiev, B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Dixus
Dixus clypeatus

description: Dixus clypeatus (P. ROSSI 1790)
E u r o p e a n T u r k e y: "Constantinopel V.1898 W. Gottwald S. V.", 1 s. (MNHUB); "Chalkali b. Konstantinopel 26.5.1926 Bischoff S.G.", 1 s. (MNHUB).
First records for European Turkey.
description: Published as part of Guéorguiev, B., 2011, New and interesting records of Carabid Beetles from South-East Europe, South-West and Central Asia, with taxonomic notes on Pterostichini and Zabrini (Coleoptera, Carabidae), pp. 501-547 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (1) on page 526, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5324736
Detection of Cecropin B by liquid-crystal biosensor based on AuNPs signal amplification
Creators: name: Su, Xiuxia
name: Xu, Jia
name: Zhang, Jing
name: Yang, Dong
name: Huo, Wenjing
name: He, Chen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A novel biosensor was prepared by using gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) signal amplification technology combined with liquid crystal biosensor to detect Cecropin B (CB). The surface of the substrate was modified with (3-aminopropyl)-triethoxysilane/N,N-dimethyl-N-octadecyl-(3-aminopropyl)-trimethoxysilyl chloride (APTES/DMOAP), glutaraldehyde (GA) as crosslinking, the AuNPs and Cecropin B antibody (anti-CB) complex could be fixed on the basal surface. CB and anti-CB can bind to make the liquid crystal (LC) changes in a vertical orientation, so as to achieve the purpose of testing. The volume of AuNPs is much larger than that of CB and anti-CB, thus AuNPs can play the role of signal amplification. Compared to the experiments without nano-gold amplification, our method has a lower detection limit. Finally, the limit of CB detection could be as low as 1.49 × 10−2 ng/mL. This method has the advantages of good specificity, high sensitivity, low detection limit and simple operation.
Magneto-hydrodynamical origin of eclipsing time variations in post-common-envelope binaries for solar mass secondaries
Creators: name: Navarrete, Felipe H.
name: Schleicher, Dominik R. G.
name: Käpylä, Petri J.
name: Schober, Jennifer
name: Völschow, Marcel
name: Mennickent, Ronald E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Eclipsing time variations have been observed for a wide range of binary systems, including post-common-envelope binaries. A frequently proposed explanation, apart from the possibility of having a third body, is the effect of magnetic activity, which may alter the internal structure of the secondary star, particularly its quadrupole moment, and thereby cause quasi-periodic oscillations. Here we present two compressible non-ideal magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of the magnetic dynamo in a solar mass star, one of them with three times the solar rotation rate ("slow rotator"), the other one with twenty times the solar rotation rate ("rapid rotator"), to account for the high rotational velocities in close binary systems. For the slow rotator, we find that both the magnetic field and the stellar quadrupole moment change in a quasi-periodic manner, leading to O-C (observed - corrected times of the eclipse) variations of ~0.025 s. For the rapid rotator, the behavior of the magnetic field as well as the quadrupole moment changes become considerably more complex, due to the less coherent dynamo solution. The resulting O-C variations are of the order 0.13 s. The observed system V471~Tau shows two modes of eclipsing time variations, with amplitudes of 151 s and 20 s, respectively. However, the current simulations may not capture all relevant effects due to the neglect of the centrifugal force and self-gravity. Considering the model limitations and that the rotation of V471 Tau is still a factor of 2.5 faster than our rapid rotator, it may be conceivable to reach the observed magnitudes.
description: 16 pages, 24 figures, accepted for publication with MNRAS
Artibeus (Artibeus) planirostris
Creators: name: Velazco, Paúl M.
name: Patterson, Bruce D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae
Artibeus
Artibeus planirostris

description: Artibeus (Artibeus) planirostris (Spix, 1823)
 VOUCHER MATERIAL: El Diamante: 2 adult females (FMNH 203608; MUSM 39135); Tingana: 1 adult female (FMNH 203436); Waqanki: 2 adult females (FMNH 203606; MUSM 39134), 1 adult male (FMNH 203434); see table 10 for measurements.
 IDENTIFICATION: We consulted descriptions and measurements of Artibeus planirostris provided by Husson (1962, 1978), Patten (1971), Handley (1987), Brosset and Charles-Dominique (1990), Lim and Wilson (1993), Lim (1997), Hollis (2005), and Lim et al. (2005). Currently three subspecies are recognized: A. p. fallax (Venezuela [south and east of the Orinoco river]), Trinidad, Grenada, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, and the lower Amazon basin of Brazil), A. p. hercules (southeastern Colombia and the eastern lowlands of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia), and A. p. planirostris (southern Bolivia, northern Argentina, Paraguay, and eastern and southern Brazil) (Marques-Aguiar, 2008). The only major morphological difference recognized among subspecies is that A. p. hercules tends to be larger than the other subspecies (Hollis, 2005). Based on distribution, the voucher material from Mayo River basin should correspond to the subspecies A. p. hercules. However, measurements of our material span the published variation of size for the entire species, and hence do not conform to published characteristics of the subspecies. We therefore recommend against formally recognizing subspecies in Artibeus planirostris until truly diagnostic characters can be found, including additional data from molecular markers.
description: Published as part of Velazco, Paúl M. & Patterson, Bruce D., 2019, Small Mammals Of The Mayo River Basin In Northern Peru, With The Description Of A New Species Of Sturnira (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), pp. 1-69 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2019 (429) on page 23
Dixus obscurus
Creators: name: Guéorguiev, B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Carabidae
Dixus
Dixus obscurus

description: Dixus obscurus (DEJEAN 1825)
E u r o p e a n T u r k e y: " Stambul, Turcia Biró 1925.VI 20 ", 1 s. (HNHM); " Istanbul " / " Baner 68 Turkey ", 1 s. (NMW).
First records for European Turkey.
description: Published as part of Guéorguiev, B., 2011, New and interesting records of Carabid Beetles from South-East Europe, South-West and Central Asia, with taxonomic notes on Pterostichini and Zabrini (Coleoptera, Carabidae), pp. 501-547 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (1) on page 526, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5324736
Neutrino Rates in Color Flavor Locked Quark Matter
Creators: name: Reddy, Sanjay
name: Sadzikowski, Mariusz
name: Tachibana, Motoi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the weak interaction rates involving Goldstone bosons in the Color Flavor Locked (CFL) quark matter. Neutrino mean free path and the rate of energy loss due to neutrino emission in a thermal plasma of CFL pions and kaons is calculated. We find that in addition to neutrino scattering off thermal mesons, novel Cherenkov like processes wherein mesons are either emitted or absorbed contribute to the neutrino opacity. Lack of Lorentz invariance in the medium and loss of rotational invariance for processes involving mesons moving relative to the medium allow for novel processes such as $π^0 \to ν\barν$ and $e^- π^+ \to ν_e$. We explore and comment on various astrophysical implications of our finding.
description: 21 pages, 4 figures
On Scherk-Schwarz mechanism in gauged five-dimensional supergravity and on its relation to bigravity
Creators: name: Lalak, Zygmunt
name: Matyszkiewicz, Radoslaw
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate the relation between the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism and flipped gauged brane-bulk supergravities in five dimensions. We discuss the form of supersymmetry violating Scherk-Schwarz terms in pure supergravity and in supergravity coupled to matter. We point out that brane-induced supersymmetry breakdown in 5d Horava-Witten model is not of the Scherk-Schwarz type. We discuss in detail flipped super-bigravity, which is the locally supersymmetric extension of the (++) bigravity.
description: 23 pages, Latex, version published in Nucl. Phys. B
Evaluation of a novel pediatric asthma inhalation drug delivery device: a focus on patient accessibility, ease of use, dosage feedback, and future directions
Creators: name: Zhu, Lily
name: Khandeshi, Aditya
name: Xu, Maxwell A.
name: Bai, Yunong
name: Kedia, Varun
name: Pitaktong, Isaree
name: Egyen-Davis, Damali
name: Arpornsuksant, Punthitra
name: Jassal, Mandeep
name: Lee, Carlton K. K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Pediatric asthma management faces challenges in medication delivery through oral inhalation devices. While dry powder inhalers (DPIs) are increasingly prescribed to children, many do not receive their prescribed dosage due to insufficient inspiratory flow. This study investigates the utilization of metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) and DPIs among pediatric patients with asthma, focusing on medication delivery challenges. Two survey cohorts comprising a total of 42 caregivers of patients with asthma were conducted. Modifications in the second cohort addressed neutral Likert scale responses to obtain more nuanced feedback. Caregivers expressed concerns about uncertainties in their child’s ability to use both MDIs and DPIs and challenges in ensuring proper dosage. Notably, 42% of caregivers in the second cohort rated their child’s inhaler usage as unable, indicating a significant worry about the efficacy of current delivery methods. Additionally, 50% of caregivers across both cohorts expressed uncertainties about their child receiving the full medication dosage. In response to identified challenges with DPIs, an adaptor device emerged as a potential solution, with caregivers exhibiting positive perceptions post-exposure. Features prioritized for the device include ease of use and assurance of dose delivery. The study highlights caregiver preferences and the need for innovations to ensure effective medication delivery for pediatric asthma patients. A DPI adaptor device shows promise in addressing technical issues and alleviating caregiver concerns, ultimately contributing to more effective asthma management. Future research should refine these devices based on caregiver feedback to meet the evolving needs of the pediatric asthma population.
Identification and expression profiling of genes involved in circadian clock regulation in red dragon fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus) by full-length transcriptome sequencing
Creators: name: Ma, Huaqing
name: Wu, Jiao
name: Zhang, He
name: Tang, Hua
name: Wan, Yinglang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants fix CO2 at night, exhibiting a reversed regulatory pattern of metabolomic pathways compared with most model plants, which have C3 and C4 pathways. In this study, we used a valuable tropic fruit, red dragon fruit (Hylocereus polyrhizus), as model plant to identify and analyze the circadian regulation genes. Due to the absence of red dragon fruit’s whole-genome dataset, we established a full-length transcriptome dataset using single-molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing method. A 7.66-Gb dataset with 4,552,474 subreads was generated, with an average length of 1,683 bp and an N50 of 2,446 bp. Using this dataset, we identified center oscillator genes: CCA1 (CIRCADIAN CLOCK ASSOCIATED1), ELF3 (EARLY FLOWERING 3), GI (GIGANTEA), LHY (LATE ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL), LNK1 (NIGHT LIGHT-INDUCIBLE AND CLOCK-REGULATED 1), and TOC1 (TIMING OF CAB EXPRESSION 1); a gene for the input pathway: CRY1 (CRYPTOCHROME); a gene for the output pathway: CO (CONSTANS); and genes related to the CAM pathway: MDH (MALATE DEHYDROGENASE), ME (MALIC ENZYMES), and PPDK (PYRUVATE PHOSPHATE DIKINASE). We further established the 24-h rhythmic expression pattern of these genes and classified these into three groups: HpCCA1, HpELF3, HpLHY, HpLNK1, and HpGI have expression peaks during the day; HpTOC1, HpCO, and HpCRY1 have highest expression levels at night; The genes involved in the CAM pathways, namely, HpMDH, HpME1, and HpPPDK, have double expression peaks in the day and night. Comparison of these expression patterns between red dragon fruit and model plants could provide clues in understanding the circadian clock regulation and the activity of the CAM pathways in cactus plants.