cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Effects of Trade Liberalisation on Poverty in Vietnam
Creators: name: Le, Minh Son
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Trade liberalisation
subject: Trade liberalisation and poverty
subject: Economic development, Vietnam
subject: Social development, Vietnam

description: Trade liberalisation is frequently advocated as a major potential contributor to economic growth and development. Many developing countries, such as Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Ghana, Uganda, and particularly Vietnam, attained high economic growth and reduced poverty considerably. After transforming a centrally planned economy into an open market economy in 1986, Vietnam attained remarkable achievements in economic growth and the reduction of poverty. Yet the empirical literature on the relationship between trade liberalisation and poverty has been criticised primarily for its inadequate methodology and inconclusiveness (Rodriguez and Rodrik, 2001; Wacziarg and Welch, 2008; Pacheco-Lopez and Thirlwall, 2009; Singh, 2010). The persistence of poverty amongst a considerable proportion of the population in transitional or liberalised developing economies also questions the real effects of trade liberalisation on poverty. Some studies posit that the tradepoverty relationship is largely a case- and country-specific issue (McCulloch, et al., 2001; Berg and Krueger, 2003; Pacheco-Lopez and Thirlwall, 2009; Rodrik, 2010). The potential impacts of trade liberalisation on poverty are enormous and pervasive, but to a large extent, difficult to verify empirically. As cross-country studies are subject to some critical drawbacks, the focus of research has recently shifted to examining the relationship at the microeconomic level. Winters (2002) and Winters, et al. (2004) suggest four main pathways through which trade liberalisation reaches households and thereby affects poverty: economic growth, market distribution, employment, and government revenue. These main channels adequately cover the main stakeholders in a market economy and can be empirically verified.
Experimental test of non-macrorealistic cat-states in the cloud
Creators: name: Ku, Huan-Yu
name: Lambert, Neill
name: Jhan, Fong-Ruei
name: Emary, Clive
name: Chen, Yueh-Nan
name: Nori, Franco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Leggett-Garg inequality attempts to classify experimental outcomes as arising from one of two possible classes of physical theories: those described by macrorealism (which obey our intuition about how the macroscopic classical world behaves), and those that are not (e.g., quantum theory). The development of cloud-based quantum computing devices enables us to explore the limits of macrorealism in new regimes. In particular, here we take advantage of the properties of the programmable nature of the IBM quantum experience to observe the violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality (in the form of a ``quantum witness") as a function of the number of constituent systems (qubits), while simultaneously maximizing the `disconnectivity', a potential measure of macroscopicity, between constituents. Our results show that two-qubit and four-qubit ``cat states" (which have large disconnectivity) are seen to violate the inequality, and hence can be classified as nonmacrorealistic. In contrast, a six-qubit cat state does not violate the ``quantum-witness" beyond a so-called clumsy invasive-measurement bound, and thus is compatible with ``clumsy macrorealism". As a comparison, we also consider un-entangled product states with n = 2, 3, 4, and 6 qubits, in which the disconnectivity is low.
Unitary spherical highest weight representations
Creators: name: Kroetz, Bernhard
name: Neeb, Karl-Hermann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we give a classification of the $H$-spherical unitary highest weight representations of a hermitian Lie group $G$.
description: 32 pages
Guided Resonances in Photonic Crystal Slabs for Cavity Optomechanics
Creators: Bui, Catvu Huu
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: In this thesis, the phenomenon of Fano-type guided resonances found in photonic crystal slab structures is investigated numerically and experimentally as a means to enhance the reflectivity of an ultrathin silicon nitride micromechanical membrane while preserving its thickness, low eigenmode mechanical mass and high mechanical Q factor. This enhancement finds its use in the growing field of cavity optomechanics, particularly in the membrane-in-the-middle configuration, in which a 50-nm-thick silicon nitride membrane with a high mechanical Q is coupled to the optical field inside a high-finesse Fabry-Perot cavity excited by a 1064 nm laser. It is predicted that ground state cooling and the observations of quantum behaviors in such system could be made feasible should a more demanding set of requirements, among which is an improved reflectivity of the membrane, be satisfied. Addressing this requirement for high reflectivity, this thesis proposes and demonstrates the incorporation of photonic crystals, in the form of small-area square-lattice hole arrays, into the freestanding micromechanical membranes. At normal incidence plane wave illumination, Fano-type guided resonances in such photonic crystal membrane are excited and provide a mechanism via which strong reflectivity peaks could be tuned to target wavelengths. To accomplish this, transmission spectral line shapes, field distributions inside the membrane and photonic band diagrams are studied using finite-difference
time-domain and plane wave expansion methods. Then, using electron beam lithography, photonic crystal structures designed for a transmission dip near 1064 nm are patterned into freestanding silicon nitride membranes. The fabricated membranes are tested optically for normal-incidence transmission spectra using a broadband source. Guided resonances and improved reflectivity near 1064 nm are verified against simulations. Preservation of the high Q factors of mechanical modes of patterned membranes is confirmed experimentally via mechanical ringdown measurements, verifying that the patterned membranes retain important characteristics in the context of optomechanics, namely their small thicknesses, low eigenmode mechanical masses and high Q factors. By realizing in the same device a good reflector and a high-Q mechanical resonator, these results should lead to improved performances of optomechanical systems of the membrane-in-the-middle type and present a path towards motional ground state cooling of such membrane as well as observations of related quantum effects.
Lentilactobacillus senioris Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lentilactobacillus
Lentilactobacillus senioris

description: DESCRIPTION OF LENTILACTOBACILLUS SENIORIS COMB. NOV.
 Lentilactobacillus senioris (se.ni.o’ris. L. gen. n. senioris of an elderly person, indicating the source of the type strain).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus senioris Oki et al., 2012, 606 VP
 Growth is observed at 15 and 37 °C but not at 45 °C; the type strain was isolated from human faeces [173]. L. senioris is the most distantly related member of the genus, has the smallest genome size (1.57 Mbp) and lowest G+C content (39.9) among species in the genus, and does not share the signature genes that are shared by other lentilactobacilli, which may indicate that L. senioris transitions from a free-living to a host-adapted lifestyle.
Isolated from from the faeces of a 100-year-old female.
 The type strain is YIT 12364 T = DSM 24302 T = JCM 17472 T.
Genome sequence accession number: AYZR00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: AB602570.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2846, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
BOWIE-ALIGN: A JWST comparative survey of aligned vs misaligned hot Jupiters to test the dependence of atmospheric composition on migration history
Creators: name: Kirk, James
name: Ahrer, Eva-Maria
name: Penzlin, Anna B. T.
name: Owen, James E.
name: Booth, Richard A.
name: Alderson, Lili
name: Christie, Duncan A.
name: Claringbold, Alastair B.
name: Esparza-Borges, Emma
name: Fisher, Chloe E.
name: López-Morales, Mercedes
name: Mayne, N. J.
name: McCormack, Mason
name: Meech, Annabella
name: Panwar, Vatsal
name: Powell, Diana
name: Taylor, Jake
name: Sergeev, Denis E.
name: Valentine, Daniel
name: Wakeford, Hannah R.
name: Wheatley, Peter J.
name: Zamyatina, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A primary objective of exoplanet atmosphere characterisation is to learn about planet formation and evolution, however, this is challenged by degeneracies. To determine whether differences in atmospheric composition can be reliably traced to differences in evolution, we are undertaking a transmission spectroscopy survey with JWST to compare the compositions of a sample of hot Jupiters that have different orbital alignments around F stars above the Kraft break. Under the assumption that aligned planets migrate through the inner disc, while misaligned planets migrate after disc dispersal, the act of migrating through the inner disc should cause a measurable difference in the C/O between aligned and misaligned planets. We expect the amplitude and sign of this difference to depend on the amount of planetesimal accretion and whether silicates accreted from the inner disc release their oxygen. Here, we identify all known exoplanets that are suitable for testing this hypothesis, describe our JWST survey, and use noise simulations and atmospheric retrievals to estimate our survey's sensitivity. With the selected sample of four aligned and four misaligned hot Jupiters, we will be sensitive to the predicted differences in C/O between aligned and misaligned hot Jupiters for a wide range of model scenarios.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted to RASTI on 8th October 2024
Lentilactobacillus sunkii Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lentilactobacillus
Lentilactobacillus sunkii

description: DESCRIPTION OF LENTILACTOBACILLUS SUNKII COMB. NOV.
 Lentilactobacillus sunkii (sun’ki.i. N.L. gen. n. sunkii of sunki, non-salted Japanese traditional pickle).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus sunkii Watanabe et al. 2009, 759 VP
 Physiological properties and origin are comparable to L. kisonensis [333]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.69 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 42.1.
Isolated from sunki, a fermented turnip product, and from kefir.
 The type strain is YIT 11161 T = DSM 19904 T = JCM 15039 T = NRIC 0744 T.
Genome sequence accession number: AZEA00000000.mol% G+C content of DNA is 36.9.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2847, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Modified Pathway to Survival highlights importance of rapid access to quality institutional delivery care to decrease neonatal mortality in Serang and Jember districts, Java, Indonesia
Creators: name: Latief, Kamaluddin
name: Setel, Philip W
name: Nandiaty, Fitri
name: Deviany, Poppy E
name: Weaver, Emily H
name: Anggondowati, Trisari
name: Nugraheni, Sri A
name: Rianty, Tika
name: Achadi, Endang L
name: Kalter, Henry D
name: Sumarmi, Sri
Publisher: name: International Society of Global Health
Year: 2023

description:
Background: Three-quarters of births in Indonesia occur in a health facility, yet the neonatal mortality rate remains high at 15 per 1000 live births. The Pathway to Survival (P-to-S) framework of steps needed to return sick neonates and young children to health focuses on caregiver recognition of and care-seeking for severe illness. In view of increased institutional delivery in Indonesia and other low- and middle-income countries, a modified P-to-S is needed to assess the role of maternal complications in neonatal survival. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional verbal and social autopsy study of all neonatal deaths from June through December 2018, identified by a proven listing method in two districts of Java, Indonesia. We examined care-seeking for maternal complications, delivery place, and place and timing of neonatal illness onset and death. Results: The fatal illnesses of 189/259 (73%) neonates began in their delivery facility (DF), 114/189 (60%) of whom died before discharge. Mothers whose neonate's illness started at their delivery hospital and lower-level DF were more than six times (odds ratio (OR) = 6.5; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 3.4-12.5) and twice (OR = 2.0; 95% CI = 1.01-4.02) as likely to experience a maternal complication as those whose neonates fell fatally ill in the community, and illness started earlier (mean = 0.3 vs 3.6 days; P < 0.001) and death came sooner (3.5 vs 5.3 days; P = 0.06) to neonates whose illness started at any DF. Despite going to the same number of providers/facilities, women with a labour and delivery (L/D) complication who sought care from at least one other provider or facility on route to their DF took longer than those without a complication to reach their DF (median = 3.3 vs 1.3 hours; P = 0.01). Conclusions: Neonates' fatal illness onset in their DF was strongly associated with maternal complications. Mothers with a L/D complication experienced delays in reaching their DF, and nearly half the neonatal deaths occurred in association with a complication, suggesting that mothers with complications first seeking care at a hospital providing emergency maternal and neonatal care might have prevented some deaths. A modified P-to-S highlights the importance of rapid access to quality institutional delivery care in settings where many births occur in facilities and/or there is good care-seeking for L/D complications.
Boundedly finite conjugacy classes of tensors
Creators: name: Bastos, Raimundo
name: Monetta, Carmine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $n$ be a positive integer and let $G$ be a group. We denote by $ν(G)$ a certain extension of the non-abelian tensor square $G \otimes G$ by $G \times G$. Set $T_{\otimes}(G) = \{g \otimes h \mid g,h \in G\}$. We prove that if the size of the conjugacy class $\left |x^{ν(G)} \right| \leq n$ for every $x \in T_{\otimes}(G)$, then the second derived subgroup $ν(G)''$ is finite with $n$-bounded order. Moreover, we obtain a sufficient condition for a group to be a BFC-group.
Scalar transport in compressible flow
Creators: name: Vergassola, M.
name: Avellaneda, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transport of scalar fields in compressible flow is investigated. The effective equations governing the transport at scales large compared to those of the advecting flow are derived by using multi-scale techniques. Ballistic transport generally takes place when both the solenoidal and the potential components of the velocity do not vanish, despite of the fact that it has zero average value. The calculation of the effective ballistic velocity $V_b$ is reduced to the solution of one auxiliary equation. An analytic expression for $V_b$ is derived in some special instances, i.e. flows depending on a single coordinate, random with short correlation times and slightly compressible cellular flow. The effective mean velocity $V_b$ vanishes for velocity fields which are either incompressible or potential and time-independent. For generic compressible flow, the most general conditions ensuring the absence of ballistic transport are isotropy and/or parity invariance. When $V_b$ vanishes (or in the frame of reference moving with velocity $V_b$), standard diffusive transport takes place. It is known that diffusion is always enhanced by incompressible flow. On the contrary, we show that diffusion is depleted in the presence of time-independent potential flow. Trapping effects due to potential wells are responsible for this depletion. For time-dependent potential flow or generic compressible flow, transport rates are enhanced or depleted depending on the detailed structure of the velocity field.
description: 27 pages, submitted to Physica D
title: Total Synthesis of Hyphodermins A-D and Other Potential Inhibitors of Glycogen Phosphorylase
Creators: name: Henderson, Luke Christian
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: total synthesis
subject: hyphodermins A-D
subject: inhibitors
subject: glycogen phosphorylase

description: The Hyphodermin A-H natural products were isolated in 1997. This thesis reports the first total synthesis of Hyphodermins A-D (47-50). The reaction sequence to Hyphodermin B, 48, involved conversion of dione 58 to a methoxy enolether followed by vinyl Grignard addition to give diene 54. A Diels-Alder cyclo-addition reaction with dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate followed by dehydrogenation with Pd/C gave diester 66. Conversion of the ester to the corresponding phthalic acid, cyclisation with acetic anhydride and reduction of the anhydride moiety to the lactol with LiAlH(t-BuO)3 gave (±)-Hyphodermin B, 47. (±)-Hyphodermin B, 48, was synthesised in six steps and with an overall yield of 38%. A key step in this synthesis was the regioselective reduction of anhydride 56 at C1 to (±)-Hyphodermin B, 48. The total synthesis of Hyphodermins A, C and D (47, 49 and 50) used diester 66 as a common starting material. Installation of a double bond ?,? to the ketone moiety of 66 via ?-bromination and dehydrohalogenation gave unsaturated diester 110. Ester hydrolysis, cyclisation with acetic anhydride and reduction of C1 (as per the synthesis of (±)-Hyphodermin B, 47) resulted in the formation of lactol 113. In the synthesis of Hyphodermins C, 49, and D, 50, lactol 113 was converted to the corresponding methyl ether and epoxidised to give Hyphodermins C, 49, and D, 50. Hyphodermins C, 49, and D, 50, were synthesised in eleven steps in unoptimised overall yields of 49, 0.33% and 50, 1.5% respectively. The synthesis of Hyphodermin A, 47, was achieved by protection of lactol 113 as a THP ether followed by epoxidation and selective deprotection under mild acidic conditions. (±)-Hyphodermin A, 47, was synthesised in twelve steps from diketone 58, and in an unoptimised overall yield of 1.55%. Hyphodermin analogues 47, 48, 50, 66, 70, 108, 109, 110, 113, 117 and 130 were assayed for potential inhibitory activity against GPa. None of the analogues inhibited GPa at a concentration less than 100 µM. This thesis also reports preliminary investigations into the synthesis of a spiro-proline scaffold 136, in an effort to develop a library of amino acid mimetics for the C-terminal sequence of the GL subunit of PP-1 which binds to GPa.
BOWIE-ALIGN: How formation and migration histories of giant planets impact atmospheric compositions
Creators: name: Penzlin, Anna B. T.
name: Booth, Richard A.
name: Kirk, James
name: Owen, James E.
name: Ahrer, Eva-Maria
name: Christie, Duncan A.
name: Claringbold, Alastair B.
name: Esparza-Borges, Emma
name: López-Morales, M.
name: Mayne, N. J.
name: McCormack, Mason
name: Meech, Annabella
name: Panwar, Vatsal
name: Powell, Diana
name: Sergeev, Denis E.
name: Taylor, Jake
name: Wheatley, Peter J.
name: Zamyatina, Maria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hot Jupiters present a unique opportunity for measuring how planet formation history shapes present-day atmospheric composition. However, due to the myriad pathways influencing composition, a well-constructed sample of planets is needed to determine whether formation history can be accurately traced back from atmospheric composition. To this end, the BOWIE-ALIGN survey will compare the compositions of 8 hot Jupiters around F stars, 4 with orbits aligned with the stellar rotation axis and 4 misaligned. Using the alignment as an indicator for planets that underwent disc migration or high-eccentricity migration, one can determine whether migration history produces notable differences in composition between the two samples of planets. This paper describes the planet formation model that motivates our observing programme. Our model traces the accretion of chemical components from the gas and dust in the disc over a broad parameter space to create a full, unbiased model sample from which we can estimate the range of final atmospheric compositions. For high metallicity atmospheres (O/H > 10 times solar), the C/O ratios of aligned and misaligned planets diverge, with aligned planets having lower C/O (< 0.25) due to the accretion of oxygen-rich silicates from the inner disc. However, silicates may rain out instead of releasing their oxygen into the atmosphere. This would significantly increase the C/O of aligned planets (C/O > 0.6), inverting the trend between the aligned and misaligned planets. Nevertheless, by comparing statistically significant samples of aligned and misaligned planets, we expect atmospheric composition to constrain how planets form.
description: 11pages 10 figures, (appendix: 6 page, 4 figures), accepted to mnras (Oct 14., 2024)
Fully spin-polarized nodal loop semimetals in alkaline-metal monochalcogenide monolayers
Creators: name: Zhou, Xiaodong
name: Zhang, Run-Wu
name: Zhang, Zeying
name: Ma, Da-Shuai
name: Feng, Wanxiang
name: Mokrousov, Yuriy
name: Yao, Yugui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological semimetals in ferromagnetic materials have attracted enormous attention due to the potential applications in spintronics. Using the first-principles density functional theory together with an effective lattice model, here we present a new family of topological semimetals with a fully spin-polarized nodal loop in alkaline-metal monochalcogenide $MX$ ($M$ = Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs; $X$ = S, Se, Te) monolayers. The half-metallic ferromagnetism can be established in $MX$ monolayers, in which one nodal loop formed by two crossing bands with the same spin components is found at the Fermi energy. This nodal loop half-metal survives even when considering the spin-orbit coupling owing to the symmetry protection provided by the $\mathcal{M}_{z}$ mirror plane. The quantum anomalous Hall state and Weyl-like semimetal in this system can be also achieved by rotating the spin from the out-of-plane to the in-plane direction. The $MX$ monolayers hosting rich topological phases thus offer an excellent materials platform for realizing the advanced spintronics concepts.
Lapidilactobacillus achengensis Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lapidilactobacillus
Lapidilactobacillus achengensis

description: DESCRIPTION OF LAPIDILACTOBACILLUS ACHENGENSIS COMB. NOV.
 Lapidilactobacillus achengensis (a.cheng.en´sis. N.L. masc. adj. achengensis, pertaining to Acheng, a county in Heilongjiang Province, P.R. China).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus achengensis Long et al. 2020, 15 VP.
 L. achengensis grows between 10 and 37°C but not at 5 and 45°C and metabolises several pentoses and a broad spectrum of disaccharides [338]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.64 Mbp. The mol% GC content of DNA is 49.0.
Isolated from a vegetable fermentation [338].
 The type strain is 247-4 T = NCIMB 15155 T = CCM 8897 T = LMG 31059 T = CCTCC AB 2018410 T.
Genome sequence accession number: RHOV00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: MK 110810.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2847, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Gypsum Recycling in PlaNYC 2030: Spaces for Government Intervention
Creators: Bauer, Caroline H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Environmental law
Public policy (Law)
Gypsum industry
Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Government policy

description: Initiative 5 of PlaNYC 2030 details the city's support in developing "cost-effective recycling options" for gypsum scrap in the construction and demolition (C&D) waste stream (148). Currently only 0.06% of drywall waste is recycled, a very low rate in comparison with the fact that nearly 70% of the entire C&D waste stream is recycled in NYC. This research will follow a question posited in alignment with the city's agenda: How can NYC incentivize drywall recycling? Primary research components include observation of demolitions as well as interviews with key stakeholders in the gypsum supply chain. Illustrative diagrams are included to explain the life-cycle of gypsum from extraction to disposal. A key finding of this research is that the poor recycling rate for gypsum does not present a significant environmental or public health threat. As such, the gypsum problem does not warrant regulatory intervention to solve. Nevertheless, recommendations for future policy directions are still provided.
Gushan: the Formation of a Chan Lineage During the Seventeenth Century and Its Spread to Taiwan
Creators: Wang, Hsuan-Li
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Religion

description: Taking Gushan Monastery in Fujian Province as a reference point, this dissertation investigates the formation of the Gushan Chan lineage in Fujian area and its later diffusion process to Taiwan. From the perspective of religion diffusion studies, this dissertation investigates the three stages of this process: 1. the displacement of Caodong Chan center to Fujian in the seventeenth century; 2. Chinese migration bringing Buddhism to Taiwan in the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and 3. the expansion diffusion activities of the institutions and masters affiliated with this lineage in Taiwan during the Japanese rule (1895-1945), and the new developments of humanistic Buddhism after 1949. In this spreading process of the Gushan Chan lineage, Taiwanese Buddhism has emerged as the bridge between Chinese and Japanese Buddhism because of its unique historical experiences. It is in the expansion diffusion activities of the Gushan Chan lineage in Taiwan that Taiwanese Buddhism has gradually attained autonomy during the Japanese rule, leading to post-war new developments in contemporary humanistic Buddhism.
Technical Information Processing System : a toolbox for the mining and minerals professional
Creators: name: Kirk, Keith G.
name: Hamm, Louis W.
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The Technical Information Processing System (TIPS) is a computer system which has been jointly developed by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) and the States. The system provides the regulatory agencies with a comprehensive set of analytical tools to aid in technical decision-making processes related to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA).
The Photon Spectrum of Asymmetric Dark Stars
Creators: name: Maselli, Andrea
name: Kouvaris, Chris
name: Kokkotas, Kostas D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Asymmetric Dark Stars, i.e., compact objects formed from the collapse of asymmetric dark matter could potentially produce a detectable photon flux if dark matter particles self-interact via dark photons that kinetically mix with ordinary photons. The morphology of the emitted spectrum is significantly different and therefore distinguishable from a typical black-body one. Given the above and the fact that asymmetric dark stars can have masses outside the range of neutron stars, the detection of such a spectrum can be considered as a smoking gun signature for the existence of these exotic stars.
description: Minor changes to match the version published on IJMPD
Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health self-care among women, healthcare providers, and other key informants: a mixed-methods study in South Africa and Zambia
Creators: name: Cartwright, Alice F.
name: Milford, Cecilia
name: Fawzy, Maria
name: Chabu, Esther
name: Maphumulo, Virginia
name: Beksinska, Mags
name: Chinyama, Manze
name: Velarde, Marissa
name: Wong, Christina
name: Mudenda, Mayaba
name: Tang, Jennifer H.
name: Kasaro, Margaret
name: Callahan, Rebecca
name: Smit, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2023

description:
Background “Self-care” for sexual and reproductive health (SRH) includes contraceptive methods and other supplies that people can use with or without the support of a healthcare provider. Self-administered tests, self-injection of injectable contraception, or self-removal of intrauterine devices (IUDs) can increase people’s access to and autonomy over their own SRH. Objectives of this study were to assess women’s current interest in and use of SRH self-care and explore key informants’ (KI) opinions of self-care, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods Data for this study came from female participants in the longitudinal Contraceptive Use Beyond ECHO (CUBE) study, and KIs, including healthcare providers, in South Africa and Zambia between September 2020 and June 2021. For this analysis, we used data from a participant phone survey (n = 537), and from in-depth interviews (IDIs) completed with a sub-sample of women (n = 39) and KIs (n = 36). Survey data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, and IDI data were analyzed using applied thematic analysis. Results Female survey participants in South Africa were more interested in learning about emergency contraceptive pills, subcutaneous injectable contraception, and CycleBeads, while Zambian participants wanted more information and access to condoms. However, in IDIs in both countries, women described minimal experience with self-care beyond condom use. In the Zambian KI IDIs, COVID-19 led to increased self-care counseling on subcutaneous injectable contraception and HIV self-testing. KIs who do not counsel on self-care were concerned that women may harm themselves or blame the provider for difficulties. Two KIs thought that women could possibly self-remove IUDs, but most expressed concerns. Reported barriers to self-care included COVID movement restrictions, transport costs, lack of accessible pharmacies, women’s low awareness, and possible stigma. Conclusions Women surveyed reported interest in learning more about SRH self-care methods and resources, but in IDIs did not report extensive previous use besides condoms. KIs described some concerns about women’s ability to use self-care methods. Counseling on and provision of self-care methods and supplies may have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, but ensuring that self-care is more than just a temporary measure in health systems has the potential to increase access to SRH care and support women’s autonomy and healthcare needs.
Lapidilactobacillus gannanensis Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lapidilactobacillus
Lapidilactobacillus gannanensis

description: DESCRIPTION OF LAPIDILACTOBACILLUS GANNANENSIS COMB. NOV.
 Lapidilactobacillus gannanensis (gan.nan.en´sis. N.L. masc. adj. gannanensis, pertaining to Gannan, a county in Heilongjiang Province, PR China).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus gannanensis Long et al. 2020, 16 VP.
 L. gannanensis grows between 15 and 37 °C but not at 10 and 45°C; the strain produces acid from D-glucose, N-acetylglucosamine, salicin, cellobiose and gentiobiose but not from pentoses [338]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.39 Mbp. The mol% GC content of DNA is 40.8.
Isolated from a vegetable fermentation [338].
 The type strain is 143-1 T = NCIMB 15157 T = CCM 8937 T = CCTCC AB 2018409 T.
Genome sequence accession number: RHOT00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: MK 110813.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2847, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Quantum Dissipation versus Classical Dissipation for Generalized Brownian Motion
Creators: name: Cohen, Doron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We try to clarify what are the genuine quantal effects that are associated with generalized Brownian Motion (BM). All the quantal effects that are associated with the Zwanzig-Feynman-Vernon-Caldeira-Leggett model are (formally) a solution of the classical Langevin equation. Non-stochastic, genuine quantum mechanical effects, are found for a model that takes into account either the disordered or the chaotic nature of some environment.
description: ~4 pages, no figures
Additional file 15 of Endoplasmic reticulum stress increases exosome biogenesis and packaging relevant to sperm maturation in response to oxidative stress in obese mice
Creators: name: Li, Yangyang
name: Zhao, Wenzhen
name: Fu, Rong
name: Ma, Zhuoyao
name: Hu, Yanqin
name: Liu, Yue
name: Ding, Zhide
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 15.
Lapidilactobacillus mulanensis Zheng, Wittouck, Salvetti, Franz, Harris, Mattarelli, O'Toole, Pot, Vandamme, Walter, Watanabe, Wuyts, Felis, Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020, COMB. NOV.
Creators: name: Zheng, Jinshui
name: Wittouck, Stijn
name: Salvetti, Elisa
name: Franz, Charles M. A. P.
name: Harris, Hugh M. B.
name: Mattarelli, Paola
name: O'Toole, Paul W.
name: Pot, Bruno
name: Vandamme, Peter
name: Walter, Jens
name: Watanabe, Koichi
name: Wuyts, Sander
name: Felis, Giovanna E.
name: Gänzle, Michael G.
name: Lebeer, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Firmicutes
Bacilli
Lactobacillales
Lactobacillaceae
Lapidilactobacillus
Lapidilactobacillus mulanensis

description: DESCRIPTION OF LAPIDILACTOBACILLUS MULANENSIS COMB. NOV.
 Lapidilactobacillus mulanensis (mu.lan.en´sis. N.L. masc. adj. mulanensis, pertaining to Mulan, a county in Heilongjiang Province, PR China).
 Basonym: Lactobacillus mulanensis Long et al. 2020, 14 VP.
 L. mulanensis grows between 15 and 32 °C; the strain produces acid from hexoses and disaccharides but not from pentoses [338]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.32 Mbp. The mol% GC content of DNA is 42.5.
Isolated from a vegetable fermentation [338].
 The type strain is 143-6 T = NCIMB 15162 T = CCM 8951 T = JCM 33274 T = CCTCC AB 2018411 T.
Genome sequence accession number: RHOW00000000.
16S rRNA gene accession number: MK 110808.
description: Published as part of Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O'Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4) on page 2847, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/10114954
Electron-Ion Temperature Ratio in Transrelativistic Unmagnetized Shock Waves
Creators: name: Vanthieghem, Arno
name: Tsiolis, Vasileios
name: Fiuza, Frederico
name: Sekiguchi, Kazuhiro
name: Spitkovsky, Anatoly
name: Todo, Yasushi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Weakly magnetized shock waves are paramount to a large diversity of environments, including supernova remnants, blazars, and binary-neutron-star mergers. Understanding the distribution of energy between electrons and ions within these astrophysical shock waves spanning a wide spectrum of velocities is a long-standing challenge. In this study, we present a unified model for the downstream electron temperature within unmagnetized shock waves. Encompassing velocities from Newtonian to relativistic, we probe regimes representative of the gradual deceleration of the forward shock in the late gamma-ray burst afterglow phase, such as GRB 170817A. In our model, heating results from an ambipolar electric field generated by the difference in inertia between electrons and ions, coupled with rapid electron scattering in the decelerating turbulence. Our findings demonstrate that the electron temperature consistently represents $10\%$ of the incoming ion kinetic energy in the shock front frame over the full range of shock velocities.
description: Proceedings of HEPRO VIII (Paris 2023)
Propagation effects in optical waveguides, fibres and devices
Creators: name: Tomljenovic-Hanic, Snjezana
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2003
Subjects: propagation effects
optical waveguides
fibres
devices
photonic crystals
bend loss
optical attenuators
grating

description: This thesis consist of a theoretical study of propagation effects in optical waveguides, fibres and photonic crystals, with some comparison with experiment. ¶ ...
Coherent-state path-integral approach for constrained fermion systems
Creators: name: Junker, Georg
name: Klauder, John R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coherent-state path-integral representation for the propagator of fermionic systems subjected to first-class constraints is constructed. As in the bosonic case the importance of path-integral measures for Lagrange multipliers is emphasized. One example is discussed in some detail.
description: 4 pages, to appear in the proceedings of "Path-Integrals from peV to TeV, Florence, Italy, 25-29 August 1998
Lags in the Release, Adoption, and Propagation of npm Vulnerability Fixes
Creators: name: Chinthanet, Bodin
name: Kula, Raula Gaikovina
name: McIntosh, Shane
name: Ishio, Takashi
name: Ihara, Akinori
name: Matsumoto, Kenichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Security vulnerability in third-party dependencies is a growing concern not only for developers of the affected software, but for the risks it poses to an entire software ecosystem, e.g., Heartbleed vulnerability. Recent studies show that developers are slow to respond to the threat of vulnerability, sometimes taking four to eleven months to act. To ensure quick adoption and propagation of a release that contains the fix (fixing release), we conduct an empirical investigation to identify lags that may occur between the vulnerable release and its fixing release (package-side fixing release). Through a preliminary study of 231 package-side fixing release of npm projects on GitHub, we observe that a fixing release is rarely released on its own, with up to 85.72% of the bundled commits being unrelated to a fix. We then compare the package-side fixing release with changes on a client-side (client-side fixing release). Through an empirical study of the adoption and propagation tendencies of 1,290 package-side fixing releases that impact throughout a network of 1,553,325 releases of npm packages, we find that stale clients require additional migration effort, even if the package-side fixing release was quick (i.e., package patch landing). Furthermore, we show the influence of factors such as the branch that the package-side fixing release lands on and the severity of vulnerability on its propagation. In addition to these lags we identify and characterize, this paper lays the groundwork for future research on how to mitigate lags in an ecosystem.
description: Published to Empirical Software Engineering Journal
The asymptotic evolution of the stellar merger V1309 Sco: a Blue Straggler in the making?
Creators: name: Ferreira, Thiago
name: Saito, Roberto K.
name: Minniti, Dante
name: Navarro, María Gabriela
name: Ramos, Rodrigo Contreras
name: Smith, Leigh
name: Lucas, Philip W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar mergers are estimated to be common events in the Galaxy. The best studied stellar merger case to date is V1309 Sco (= Nova Scorpii 2008) which was originally misclassified as a Nova event. Later identified as the merger of the components of a cool overcontact binary system with 1.52 Msun and 0.16 Msun, V1309 Sco showed an initial period of P = 1.4 days before the merger. Post-outburst evolution demonstrated that V1309 Sco was unlike the typical Classical Novae and Symbiotic Recurrent Novae with significant dust production around it, and indicated that the system may become a post-AGB (or pre-PN) soon. Here we present a study of V1309 Sco about ten years after the outburst, based on near-IR variability and colour data from the ESO surveys VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) and VVV eXtended (VVVX). We find that reasonable equilibrium in this stellar merger is being reached and that the star has settled into a nearly constant magnitude. A dramatic change in its near-IR colours from (J-Ks) = 1.40 in 2010 to (J-Ks) = 0.42 in 2015 and a possible low amplitude periodic signal with P = 0.49 days in the post-outburst data are consistent with a "blue straggler" star, predicted to be formed from a stellar merger.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 6 pages and 4 figures
Refined Thermodynamics of Black Holes with Proper Conserved Charges
Creators: name: Tavlayan, Aydin
name: Tekin, Bayram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Field equations of a classical, geometric, theory of gravity, augmented with some semiclassical considerations strongly suggest that the gravitational field representing a stationary black hole can be simply described with a few thermodynamical coordinates and their conjugates that obey the four laws of thermodynamics plus the Smarr formula and the reverse isoperimetric inequality that bounds the maximum entropy for a given effective volume of space. The thermodynamics of black holes is a promising window to the quantum nature of black holes; hence, it is important to understand all the details of these laws. The identification and the meaning of these thermodynamic coordinates depend on the gravity theory under consideration. For example, the existence of dimensionful coupling constants, such as the cosmological constant, changes the scaling properties of the theory, its solutions, and the laws of thermodynamics. Here we show, using the background Killing charge method, which applies to the black hole solutions of any gravity theory that has a maximally symmetric vacuum, to define the mass and angular momentum, instead of using the Komar mass and the angular momentum, how the thermodynamics of black holes such as the $D$ dimensional Kerr-AdS black holes in cosmological Einstein's theory and the spherically symmetric black holes in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory changes. We give the effective volume of black holes even without a cosmological constant.
description: 19 pages, matches the published version