cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Swift metabolite changes and leaf shedding are milestones in the acclimation process of grapevine under prolonged water stress
Creators: name: Degu, Asfaw
name: Hochberg, Uri
name: Wong, Darren C. J.
name: Alberti, Giorgio
name: Lazarovitch, Naftali
name: Peterlunger, Enrico
name: Castellarin, Simone D.
name: Herrera, Jose C.
name: Fait, Aaron
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: Grape leaves provide the biochemical substrates for berry development. Thus, understanding the regulation of grapevine leaf metabolism can aid in discerning processes fundamental to fruit development and berry quality. Here, the temporal alterations in leaf metabolism in Merlot grapevine grown under sufficient irrigation and water deficit were monitored from veraison until harvest. Results: The vines mediated water stress gradually and involving multiple strategies: osmotic adjustment, transcript-metabolite alteration and leaf shedding. Initially stomatal conductance and leaf water potential showed a steep decrease together with the induction of stress related metabolism, e.g. up-regulation of proline and GABA metabolism and stress related sugars, and the down-regulation of developmental processes. Later, progressive soil drying was associated with an incremental contribution of Ca2+ and sucrose to the osmotic adjustment concomitant with the initiation of leaf shedding. Last, towards harvest under progressive stress conditions following leaf shedding, incremental changes in leaf water potential were measured, while the magnitude of perturbation in leaf metabolism lessened. Conclusions: The data present evidence that over time grapevine acclimation to water stress diversifies in temporal responses encompassing the alteration of central metabolism and gene expression, osmotic adjustments and reduction in leaf area. Together these processes mitigate leaf water stress and aid in maintaining the berry-ripening program.
Der ausgesprochene Verzicht auf Heiligenbilder in verifizierten byzantinischen Siegelinschriften
Creators: name: Wassiliou-Seibt, Alexandra-Kyriaki
Publisher: name: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Year: 2016
Subjects: Byzantine Sigillography; metrical inscriptions; byzantine seals; saints

description: THE EMPHATIC ABANDONMENT OF HOLY FIGURES ON BYZANTINE SEALS WITH METRICAL INSCRIPTIONS There is only a small number of Byzantine seals inscriptions laying emphasis on the abandonment of representations of the Theotokos, of Christ or of saints; instead they offer special verses. In some cases they argue this deviation from the standard repertoire with “piety” (εὐλάβεια). The majority of these bulls stem from the second half of the XII century and were issued by members of the high military or civil aristocracy; by using curious expressions they outstrip the usual tradition. Three of them use formulas found already in the later XI or early XII century; they cannot stem from the same historical context, as shortly was assumed in a quite anachronistic way. The princess Anna Komnene (the eldest daughter of Alexios I) and her husband Nikephoros (Bryennios) used such verses for their seals. That has nothing to do with the anathema against Eustratios, the metropolitan of Nikaia, by the synod on April 26, 1117, nor with the familiar conflicts concerning the succession of the emperor Alexios. If the content of this couple’s seals inscriptions was really intending theological-political propaganda, then that should be interpreted as support for the emperor and his principal advocate Eustratios, the metropolitan of Nikaia, against Leon, the metropolitan of Chalkedon (and his followers), who had accused the emperor of treating icons without the necessary piety (in the years 1081/1082-1095). A more plausible and logical explanation for the deliberate omission of holy figures on seals results by their short function: as soon as they were detached from the document or letter they were thrown away without any regard to the holy images on the obverse.
description: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature, Vol 6 (2016)
title: ¿Cuándo se debe pensar en la RM para valorar el pericardio?
Creators: name: Fernández-Pérez, Gabriel Carlos
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: MR
subject: Cardiac

description: Objetivo docente
Revisión del tema
Conclusiones
description: Objetivo docente:
En el estudio de la patología del pericardio,
la ecografía es el método de imagen de primera línea.
Sin embargo esta exploración es a menudo subóptima no sólo porque el paciente pueda tener mala ventana acústica,
sino porque son muchas las...
Nikolaos Mesarites, Description of the Church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople. New Critical Perspectives
Creators: name: Daskas, Beatrice
Publisher: name: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Year: 2016
Subjects: Nikolaos Mesarites; Church of the Holy Apostles; Ekprasis

description: This study offers a reappraisal of Nikolaos Mesarites’ Description of the church of the Holy Apostles at Constantinople, by providing new insights into its genre and the context of its composition. By concentrating on the text’s encomiastic features, the first part of the study retraces its carefully carved rhetorical construction. The second part analyses the so far neglected concluding section of the Description, in which the author, by hinting at the current historical juncture – the very years preceding the fourth Crusade – would seem to disclose a specific purpose for its composition. Finally, an hypothesis for dating the Description is also suggested, with the intention of defining it further in a forthcoming dedicated article.
description: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature, Vol 6 (2016)
Classical Imagery and the Joy of the Resurrection. Arsenios' Stichoi on the Sunday of the Resurrection
Creators: name: Newman, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Year: 2016
Subjects: Arsenios of Corfu, Ekphrasis on Pascha, Resurrection

description: In the Stichoi on the Sunday of the Resurrection, Arsenios of Corfu alludes to several couples from Classical mythology in the context of a springtime idyll. These mythological couples are not the ideal lovers the paradisic context of the poem makes them seem to be. This paper examines these allusions and discusses how Arsenios uses their mythological context to create a juxtaposition of the frustrated eroticism of Classical myth and the fulfillment of Pascha.
description: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature, Vol 6 (2016)
Encomium for Jeff Pressing
Creators: name: Williams, Benedict
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: On April 28, 2002, the world lost one of its most vibrant and unique polymaths. At 55 years young, Dr Jeffrey Lynn Pressing passed away in his sleep, the victim of meningococcal disease. Born in San Diego in 1946, Jeff spent his formative years in the United States of America. By all accounts he was interested in just about everything, but especially in music and science. Jeff's brilliance was obvious even in his youth. In 1962 he was admitted to CalTech at a mere 15 years of age, making him the youngest student to be enrolled in a CalTech degree course to that date. Following his undergraduate degree, Jeff spent a year in Munich on a Fulbright Fellowship, where he learned to speak fluent German. Returning to the States he obtained a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California in 1972, working under the distinguished Joseph Mayer. Anecdotal evidence suggests that, while deeply involved in his scientific studies, Jeff was constantly listening to all forms of recorded music, particularly classical, much to the annoyance of his college roommates. Despite a successful publication record in physical science, not long after gaining his Ph.D. Jeff decided to turn his attention more fully to music. In 1975 he moved to Australia, where he took up an academic position in the music department of La Trobe University, eventually becoming head of the department.
Habitat type strongly influences the structural benthic invertebrate community composition in a landscape characterized by ubiquitous, long-term occurrences of agricultural stress
Creators: name: Trau, Fee Nanett
name: Fisch, Kathrin
name: Lorenz, Stefan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: The importance of small water bodies for biodiversity and ecosystem processes has long been neglected in research and policy development. However, due to their heterogeneous characteristics and habitat structures, these water bodies are biodiversity hotspots for various aquatic and terrestrial organisms. This was already shown for example for rotifers, aquatic birds, and amphibians. Knowledge of benthic invertebrate community structures in small water bodies is scarce. Thus, we performed a comprehensive field study of these structures in an agricultural landscape in the northeastern German lowlands. We obtained a dataset containing biological (taxon abundances) and chemical (pesticide residue and nutrient concentrations) data, as well as data on environmental parameters (e.g., conductivity and habitat type) for 111 samples. The dataset was analysed by using generalized linear models, permutational multivariate analysis of variance, and partial redundancy analysis to understand the relationships among benthic invertebrate communities, agricultural stressors, and environmental parameters. The factor that best explained structural community compositions was the habitat type. Pesticides and nutrient concentrations are of minor importance in our analysis. Most likely due to the ubiquitous and long-term occurrence of the agricultural stressors, the structural indices used in benthic invertebrate biomonitoring were not sufficiently sensitive.
title: Claves radiologicas para el diagnostico de los endometriomas de pared abdominal.
Creators: name: Castro Copete, Mª Carmen
Publisher: name: Sociedad Española de Radiología Médica
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Abdomen
subject: Genital / Reproductive system female

description: Objetivos
Material y método
Resultados
Conclusiones
description: Objetivos:
Describir las caracteristicas radiologicas de los endometriomas de la pared abdominal que permitiran realizar su diagnostico con alta fiabilidad a pesar de su escasa especificidad...
“Sklavenia” (“Σκλαυηνία”) Revisited: Previous and Recent Considerations
Creators: name: Gkoutzioukostas, Andreas
Publisher: name: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Year: 2017
Subjects: Sklavenia, Theophylact Simocatta, Vita of St Willibald, Eichstätt

description: In this article the terms Σκλαυηνία mentioned in Theophylact Simocatta’s History (κατὰ τῆς Σκλαυηνίας πληθύος στρατοπεδεύεσθαι) and “Slawinia” attested in the Vita of St Willibald, Bishop of Eichstätt (“ad urbem Manafasiam in Slawinia terrae”) are re-examined. Contrary to recent interpretations, it is concluded that both terms are adjectives and not nouns, as I argued in a previous study on this topic. Some new arguments are added to support my view.
description: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature, Vol 7 (2017)
The effect of unilateral cam femoroacetabular impingement on the three-dimensional kinematics of the pelvis and hip and the kinetics of the hip
Creators: name: Kennedy, Matthew J
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Health Sciences, General.
subject: Health Sciences, Recreation.

description: Cam femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is caused by decreased concavity of the femoral head-neck junction which results in a jamming of the proximal femur into the acetabulum within normal range of motion (ROM). This condition is known to decrease hip ROM, and has been reported to cause hip pain in a variety of daily activities including sitting and walking, and activities requiring large hip mobility. It is important to determine the effect of cam FAI on self-generated dynamic ROM and common daily activities in order to ascertain its influence on hip functionality. This study measured the effect of cam FAI on total dynamic hip ROM, and the biomechanics of the hip and pelvis during walking, sitting, standing and maximal depth squats. A cam impingement group (n = 17) was compared to a matched control group (n = 14) using between-group one-way ANOVAs. The level of variability for sitting and standing strategies was also compared between the two groups using F-tests. For maximal dynamic hip mobility, the FAI group had a decreased flexed internal rotation, external rotation and total transverse ROM, as well as decreased hip abduction and total sagittal ROM compared to the matched control group. For walking, the FAI had significantly lower peak hip abduction, frontal ROM, and sagittal ROM than the controls, as well as attenuated pelvic frontal ROM. Reduced hip mobility during gait may be caused by soft tissue restriction, and FAI participants may have decreased pelvic mobility in the frontal plane. For the sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit manoeuvres there were no significant differences in peak kinematic or kinetic values of the hip and pelvis between the two groups. However, the cam FAI group had significantly higher variability in peak angles in the frontal plane, and peak hip extension moments of force during both sitting and standing. This likely resulted from the FAI group having varying sit and stand compensatory strategies. For the 2 maximal depth squat the FAI group had decreased sagittal pelvic range of motion and could not squat as deep as the control group. Limited pelvic ROM in FAI patients reduces their capacity to perform motions requiring large amplitudes at the hip joint such as maximum squat. Restricted pelvic sagittal ROM could represent a key factor in the pathomechanics of FAI.
Supplementary document for 1GHz clocked distribution of electrically generated entangled photon pairs - 4914253.pdf
Creators: name: Shooter, Ginny
name: Xiang, Zi-Heng
name: Mueller, Jonathan
name: Skiba-Szymanska, Joanna
name: Huwer, Jan
name: Griffiths, Jonathan
name: Mitchell, Tom
name: Anderson, Matthew
name: Muller, Tina
name: Krysa, Andrey
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
An Unpublished Byzantine Medical Fragment (Parisinus Suppl. gr. 607): Pharmaceutical Knowledge and Practice in Tenth-Century Constantinople
Creators: name: Rance, Philip
Publisher: name: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Year: 2017
Subjects: Byzantine Philology; Literature; Codicology; Medical Texts

description: The purpose of this paper is to introduce, edit and translate an unpublished fragment of Byzantine medical writing. Parisinus suppl. gr. 607 preserves a short and seemingly acephalous anthology of pharmaceutical remedies. A consideration of recipe collections as a distinctive but hard-to-define species of Byzantine Fachliteratur seeks to integrate this text into recent scholarship concerning a broad category of informal therapeutic writings, which testify to Byzantine drug lore, clinical practice and medicinal book culture. Investigation of the codicological structure clarifies that a secondary hand copied the fragment onto a blank folio in the mid-tenth century, contemporary with the compilation this manuscript in a high socio-cultural and intellectual milieu in Constantinople. Examination of compositional contexts, embracing philological, textual, literary-historical and medical dimensions, suggests a ‘private’ remedy collection indicative of the use of texts in ‘household medicine’. This fragment draws particular attention as one of the earliest surviving specimens, while the codex has escaped the notice of previous inventories of Greek manuscripts with medical content.
description: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature, Vol 7 (2017)
Unveiling temporal variation in dissolved organic matter (DOM) with high-frequency spectroscopic measurements in a shallow eutrophic lake
Creators: name: Sepp, Margot
name: Cremona, Fabien
name: Kõiv, Toomas
name: Nõges, Peeter
name: Nõges, Tiina
name: Laas, Alo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays an important role in biogeochemistry of lake ecosystems. Studies measuring DOM at short intervals in lakes are rare, and thus its short-term dynamics are largely unknown. We investigated DOM temporal variation in large, shallow, eutrophic Lake Võrtsjärv (Estonia) during one growing season (May–Sep 2016) using a field-deployable in situ spectrometer to measure absorbance spectra (wavelength range 200–708 nm) at a 2 h interval coupled with monthly discrete water sampling. Collected spectra were analyzed together with some in-lake variables, lake metabolic rates, and meteorological and hydrological data using boosted regression tree (BRT) and random forest (RF) models. Different spectral parameters were used to assess total and allochthonous DOM quantity and relative share of autochthonous DOM. All parameters (i.e., DOM quantity and quality) varied on a large scale. For example, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations ranged from 12.0 to 17.3 mg L−1. High levels of DOM were mainly of allochthonous origin, and a strong relationship with inflow indicated the same. The relative share of autochthonous DOM increased with rising air temperature as primary production rose in warm water; however, we found no direct relationships with gross primary production. RF and BRT models explained up to 38% and 63% of DOM temporal variability, respectively. Our results showed that monthly water samples did not capture large variation in DOM. Therefore, high-frequency measurements using in situ spectrometry improve temporal representativeness of DOM monitoring in lakes compared to traditional sampling methods.
Ἡ ἔκφραση ᾠὸν οὔριον ὄφεως στὰ Θαύματα τῶν ἁγίων Κύρου καὶ Ἰωάννου, ἡ προφητεία τοῦ Ἠσαΐα καὶ ὁ θρύλος τοῦ βασιλίσκου στὴν ὕστερη ἀρχαιότητα
Creators: name: Καλβιάινεν, Νικόλαος
Publisher: name: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Year: 2017
Subjects: Miracles of ss. Cyrus and John; snake's egg; wind eggs

description: The purpose of the present note is to solve a small editorial problem in the Miracles of ss. Cyrus and John 34 (BHG 477-479), by Sophronius. The word οὔριον in the phrase ᾠὸν οὔριον ὄφεως (used of a snake’s egg from which a live hatchling emerges), which has puzzled translators and for which a correction to ὥριον has been proposed, is explained as a somewhat playful reference to Isaiah 59, 5 ᾠὰ ἀσπίδων ... οὔριον εὗρεν, καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ βασιλίσκος. In order to elucidate the background of Sophronius’ use of the phrase, the article briefly examines the concept of the infertile “wind eggs” and the genesis and development of the basilisk legend in ancient medical, paradoxographical and Christian theological literature. Finally, an attempt is made to establish a connection between the word οὔριον and its early Medieval rendering as concalefactum et virulentum in Anastasius the Librarian’s Latin translation of the Miracles.
description: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature, Vol 7 (2017)
Inappropriateness of health care in Canada: a systematic review protocol
Creators: name: Squires, Janet E
name: Graham, Ian D
name: Grinspun, Doris
name: Lavis, John
name: Légaré, France
name: Bell, Robert
name: Bornstein, Stephen
name: Brien, Susan E
name: Dobrow, Mark
name: Greenough, Megan
name: Estabrooks, Carole A
name: Hillmer, Michael
name: Horsley, Tanya
name: Katz, Alan
name: Krause, Christina
name: Levinson, Wendy
name: Levy, Adrian
name: Mancuso, Michelina
name: Maybee, Alies
name: Morgan, Steve
name: Penno, Letitia N
name: Neuner, Andrew
name: Rader, Tamara
name: Roberts, Janet
name: Teare, Gary
name: Tepper, Joshua
name: Vandyk, Amanda
name: Widmeyer, Denise
name: Wilson, Michael
name: Grimshaw, Jeremy M
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2019

description: Background: There is increasing recognition in Canada and globally that a substantial proportion of health care delivered is inappropriate as evidenced by (1) harmful and/or ineffective practices being overused, (2) effective clinical practices being underused, and (3) other clinical practices being misused. Inappropriate health care leads to negative patient experiences, poor health outcomes, and inefficient use of scarce health care resources. The purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic review of inappropriate health care in Canada. Our specific objectives are to (1) systematically search and critically review published and grey literature for studies on inappropriate health care in Canada; (2) estimate the nature and magnitude of inappropriate health care in Canada and its provincial and territorial jurisdictions. Methods: We will include all quantitative study designs reporting objective or subjective measurements of inappropriate health care in Canada over the last 10 years. We will search the following online databases: MEDLINE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, EconLit, and ISI-Web of Knowledge, which contains Web of Science Core Collection-Citation Indexes, Science Citation Index Expanded, Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science, and Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Social Science & Humanities. We will also search grey literature sources to identify provincial and national audits of inappropriate health care. Two authors will independently screen, assess data quality, and extract data for synthesis. Study findings will be synthesized narratively. We will organize our data into three care categorizations: preventive care, acute care, and chronic care. We will provide a compendium of inappropriate health care for each care category for Canada and each Canadian province and territory, where sufficient data exists, by calculating (1) overall medians of underuse, overuse, and misuse of clinical practices and (2) the range of medians of underuse, overuse, and misuse for each clinical practice investigated. Discussion: This review will result in the first-ever evidence-based compendium of inappropriate health care in Canada. We will also develop detailed reports of inappropriate health care for each Canadian province and territory. Systematic review registration: PROSPERO CRD42018093495
What drives urea price fluctuations?
Creators: name: Skalski, Emma
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Urea prices
subject: fertilizer
subject: markets
subject: VECM

description: This paper examines the key drivers of global urea price fluctuations. As a key agricultural input boosting yields per hectare, urea reached a record $925 per metric ton in April 2022 in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the onset of the war in Ukraine. This price increase raised production costs for farmers, thereby presenting a substantial threat to global food security. This study employs a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) on monthly data from 1985 to 2023 to examine the effects of energy prices, agricultural commodity prices, the real effective exchange rate (REER) and temperature anomalies on urea price dynamics, while also assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. The main results indicate that energy and agricultural prices positively affect urea prices in the long run, while the REER has a negative impact. Furthermore, increasing temperature anomalies are associated with higher urea prices. Finally, I find that the COVID-19 pandemic significantly contributed to increases in urea prices. These findings provide valuable information on the dynamics of urea prices, enabling the development of agricultural policies and decision making to stabilize urea prices and ensure stable access to this fertilizer, which plays a crucial role in global food security.
Sight-reading for piano students: Comparing three methods of assessment
Creators: name: Lemay, Catherine
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Music.
subject: Education, Music.

description: One important component of music reading research is measurement, quantification, and evaluation of accuracy in sight-reading performance. Researchers have used various methods of assessment such as the sight-reading tests and scales, quantification of errors, and evaluation by expert examiners. These three methods of assessment have been used independently in research; however, they have never been tested to determine if they provide comparable analyses. This study, therefore, adapted the Watking-Farnum Performance Scale for wind instrumentalists to be used in the context of piano performance and then compared it to the two other assessment methods, more specifically Gilman's Scoring Algorithm and Expert Examiners. Each method of assessment was used to analyze the sight-reading performances of eight piano students on five newly composed exercises. The assessment procedures and subject assessments were then compared. It was found that these methods differed greatly in their assessment procedures as well as in their assessment of subjects.
Population response of pelagic fishes (ciscoes, Coregonus spp.) to rapidly accelerated eutrophication of an originally oligotrophic deep lake
Creators: name: Mehner, Thomas
name: Wollrab, Sabine
name: Gonsiorczyk, Thomas
name: Nejstgaard, Jens
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Not much is known about early responses of pelagic fish populations to rapidly increasing nutrient concentrations in originally oligotrophic lakes. Here we report on population parameters of a pair of pelagic ciscoes (Coregonus spp.) exposed to accelerating eutrophication of the deep (69.5 m) and stratified Lake Stechlin (northeast Germany), in which total phosphorus (TP) concentration increased from ∼15 to >60 mg m−3 within 10 years. With increasing TP concentrations, lower Secchi depths, declining oxygen concentrations in deeper water layers, higher phytoplankton, and higher zooplankton biomass were observed. Correlation analyses supported strong bottom-up directed effects of higher TP concentrations on primary and secondary producers and negative effects of TP on water quality parameters. Annual hydroacoustic records and midwater trawling showed an increase in average individual fish size. No temporal trend was found in fish biomass, but we observed cyclic annual biomass fluctuations. Diel vertical migration amplitudes of ciscoes declined, primarily by the occurrence of more fish in shallower waters than in previous years during daytime. We propose that release from density-dependent food limitation, due to increased plankton food abundances, resulted in increased individual sizes for both cisco species, which in turn increasingly blurs species discrimination because length distributions of both species are no longer substantially different. Our data show the value of long-term lake monitoring, including fish population surveys, to understand the initially subtle changes in biotic communities that may precede more drastic, potentially irreversible changes from anthropogenic pressures.
Supplementary document for 1GHz clocked distribution of electrically generated entangled photon pairs - 4914253.pdf
Creators: name: Shooter, Ginny
name: Xiang, Zi-Heng
name: Mueller, Jonathan
name: Skiba-Szymanska, Joanna
name: Huwer, Jan
name: Griffiths, Jonathan
name: Mitchell, Tom
name: Anderson, Matthew
name: Muller, Tina
name: Krysa, Andrey
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
The Hero, the Rival, and the Dragon: The Tripartite Structure of Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoe
Creators: name: Fonseca, Rui Carlos
Publisher: name: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Year: 2017
Subjects: Byzantine vernacular romance, narrativeByzantine vernacular romance; narrative structure; tripartite pattern; typical situations

description: This article focuses on the narrative structure of the Byzantine vernacular romance Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoe. I argue that the first half of the romance is built upon a tripartite pattern, telling the stories of three male characters playing the role of the princess’ suitor. These three male characters are the hero, the rival, and the dragon, and their stories are reshaped and adapted from a common basic plot, each involving a similar set of typical situations and repeated motives.
description: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature, Vol 7 (2017)
Filling the knowledge gap: A suspect screening study for 1310 potentially persistent and mobile chemicals with SFC- and HILIC-HRMS in two German river systems
Creators: name: Kuckelkorn, Jochen
name: Neuwald, Isabelle
name: Muschket, Matthias
name: Zahn, Daniel
name: Strobel, Claudia
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2021
Subjects: Abwasser
Grundwasser
Trinkwasser
Wasserkreislauf

description: Persistent and mobile chemicals (PM chemicals) were searched for in surface waters by hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) and supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), both coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS). A suspect screening was performed using a newly compiled list of 1310 potential PM chemicals to the data of 11 surface water samples from two river systems. In total, 64 compounds were identified by this approach. The overlap between HILIC- and SFC-HRMS was limited (31 compounds), confirming the complementarity of the two methods used. The identified PM candidates are characterized by a high polarity (median logD -0.4 at pH 7.5), a low molecular weight (median 187 g/mol), are mostly ionic (54 compounds) and contain a large number of heteroatoms (one per four carbons on average). Among the most frequently detected novel or yet scarcely investigated water contaminants were cyanoguanidine (11/11 samples), adamantan-1-amine (10/11), trifluoromethanesulfonate (9/11), 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonate (10/11), and the inorganic anions hexafluorophosphate (11/11) and tetrafluoroborate (10/11). 31% of the identified suspects are mainly used in ionic liquids, a chemically diverse group of industrial chemicals with numerous applications that is so far rarely studied for their occurrence in the environment. Prioritization of the findings of PM candidates is hampered by the apparent lack of toxicity data. Hence, precautionary principles and minimization approaches should be applied for the risk assessment and risk management of these substances. The large share of novel water contaminants among these findings of the suspect screening indicates that the universe of PM chemicals present in the environment has so far only scarcely been explored. Dedicated analytical methods and screening lists appear essential to close the analytical gap for PM compounds. © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Sequence features and expression profiles of a novel α-amylase gene from Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis
Creators: name: Shao, S-R
name: Hu, J-J
name: Wang, M-Q
Publisher: name: Invertebrate Survival Journal
Year: 2024

description: Amylase is the main digestive enzyme in crustaceans, and plays extremely important roles in metabolism, growth and development. Some studies have also shown that amylase may play a role in the immune defense system of aquatic organisms. In this study, a novel α-amylase gene (designated as EsAMY) was cloned and identified from Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis. The complete cDNA sequence of EsAMY contained a 5' untranslated region (UTR) of 39 bp, a 3' UTR of 70 bp with a polyA tail, and an open reading frame (ORF) of 1554 bp encoding a polypeptide of 517 amino acids with the predicted molecular weight of 56.9 kDa. The deduced amino acids sequence of EsAMY contained conserved cysteine site, active catalytic site, calcium binding site and chloride binding site, which was similar with previously identified α-amylase genes in other species. Quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) analysis showed that EsAMY transcripts were detectable in all the tested tissues, with the highest mRNA expression levels in hemocytes. Both Aeromonas hydrophila and polybrominated diphenyl ether-47 (BDE-47) stimulation could significantly induce the mRNA expression of EsAMY gene in hemocytes, and its responses to A. hydrophila was more intense than those of BDE-47. These results indicate that EsAMY is a new member of the amylase family and may be involved in the immune response of Chinese mitten crab to both invasive microorganisms and external pollutant stimulation.
description: Invertebrate Survival Journal, Vol. 21 No. 1 (2024)
Quantum noise in optical fibers II: Raman jitter in soliton communications
Creators: name: Corney, J. F.
name: Drummond, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The dynamics of a soliton propagating in a single-mode optical fibre with gain, loss, and Raman coupling to thermal phonons is analyzed. Using both soliton perturbation theory and exact numerical techniques, we propose that intrinsic thermal quantum noise from the phonon reservoirs is a larger source of jitter and other perturbations than the gain-related Gordon-Haus noise for short pulses ( ≤ 1 ps), assuming typical fibre parameters. The size of the Raman timing jitter is evaluated for both bright and dark (topological) solitons and is larger for bright solitons. Because Raman thermal quantum noise is a nonlinear, multiplicative noise source, these effects are stronger for the more intense pulses that are needed to propagate as solitons in the short-pulse regime. Thus Raman noise may place additional limitations on fibre-optical communications and networking by use of ultrafast (subpicosecond) pulses.
Psellos' Imperial Poetry
Creators: name: Lauritzen, Frederick
Publisher: name: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Year: 2017
Subjects: Michael Psellos, Emperor, Court poetry, Imperial palace, Panegyrics

description: The poetry of Michael Psellos (1018-1081) reveals a strong connection with the imperial court. The poems edited by Westerink and considered genuine by him (1-52) are often dedicated the emperors or empresses and the content is tied to dynamics at the palace. Therefore Psellos’ genuine poetic production may be considered ‘poesies d’occasion’ or ‘Gelegenheitsdichtung’ or imperial poetry.
description: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature, Vol 7 (2017)
Ἐπιγραφῆναι τῇ σορῷ σου τὸν φθόνον. Ioannes Cheilas in the Funerary Epigrams of Manuel Philes
Creators: name: Samara, Demetra
Publisher: name: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Year: 2018
Subjects: Manuel Philes, Ioannes Cheilas, Ephesos, Funerary Epigrams

description: Manuel Philes, the most prolific poet of the early Palaiologan era, composed at the beginning of the 14th century twelve dodecasyllable four-verse funerary epigrams for Ioannes Cheilas, the deceased metropolitan of Ephesos, which are preserved in four manuscripts dated in the 14th and 15th centuries. The present paper provides the critical edition and an English translation of these epigrams, in which the main idea that comes up is that of the envy (φθόνος) together with wear (φθορά), motifs that raise questions about the ambiguous personality of the deceased. The epigrams present Cheilas as a man who became a victim of injustice and show a close relationship between him and the poet.
description: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature, Vol 8 (2018)
Cloning and subcellular localization of silkworm suppressor of cytokine signaling 6 and its expressional changes in response to the infection of Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus
Creators: name: Cui, M
name: Wang, Q
name: Zhang, C
name: Xia, A
name: Wang, Q
name: Liu, X
name: Chen, K
name: Xia, H
Publisher: name: Invertebrate Survival Journal
Year: 2024

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The role of suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS) 6 in the silkworm growth and development and in the immune response to Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV) infection remains largely unclear. In this study, we cloned the ORF of silkworm SOCS6, named as BmSOCS6. We found that BmSOCS6 locates mainly in cytoplasmic space, and expresses at the highest level in embryogenesis. BmSOCS6 expresses relatively highly in the fat body of BmNPV-susceptible silkworm 306 but lowly in BmNPV-resistant silkworm NB and BC8, and BmNPV inoculation further reduces its expression with more pronounced effect in NB and BC8 than 306. However, BmSOCS6 expression in the midgut and hemolymph decreases without BmNPV inoculation but recovers with BmNPV inoculation, both of which are more pronounced in NB and BC8 than 306. BmNPV inoculation also induces a general down-regulation of BmSOCS6 expression in BmN cells. SOCS6 has previously been shown to positively regulate apoptosis and negatively regulate the production of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Therefore, compared to susceptible silkworms, BmSOCS6 may promote apoptosis in the midgut and hemolymph with increased expression and enhance the production of AMPs in the fat body with decreased expression, contributing to the resistance to BmNPV infection in resistant silkworms.
description: Invertebrate Survival Journal, Vol. 21 No. 1 (2024)
Origins of ultradiffuse galaxies in the Coma cluster - II. Constraints from their stellar populations
Creators: name: Ferre-Mateu, Anna
name: Alabi, Adebusola
name: Forbes, Duncan
name: Romanowsky, Aaron J.
name: Brodie, Jean
name: Pandya, Viraj
name: Martín-Navarro, Ignacio
name: Bellstedt, Sabine
name: Wasserman, Asher
name: Stone, Maria B.
name: Okabe, Nobuhiro
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In this second paper of the series we study, with new Keck/DEIMOS spectra, the stellar populations of seven spectroscopically confirmed ultradiffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the Coma cluster. We find intermediate to old ages (~7Gyr), low metallicities ([Z/H] ~ -0.7 dex) and mostly supersolar abundance patterns ([Mg/Fe] ~0.13 dex). These properties are similar to those of low-luminosity (dwarf) galaxies inhabiting the same area in the cluster and are mostly consistent with being the continuity of the stellar mass scaling relations of more massive galaxies. These UDGs' star formation histories imply a relatively recent infall into the Coma cluster, consistent with the theoretical predictions for a dwarf-like origin. However, considering the scatter in the resulting properties and including other UDGs in Coma, together with the results from the velocity phase-space study of the Paper I in this series, a mixed-bag of origins is needed to explain the nature of all UDGs. Our results thus reinforce a scenario in whichmany UDGs are field dwarfs that become quenched through their later infall onto cluster environments, whereas some UDGs could be genuine primordial galaxies that failed to develop due to an early quenching phase. The unknown proportion of dwarf-like to primordial-like UDGs leaves the enigma of the nature of UDGs still open.
Consciousness, Dreams, and the Observer Effect: A Research Design Toward the Simulation Hypothesis
Creators: name: Çalışkan, Esra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: consciousness
observer effect
EEG
dream research
simulation hypothesis
quantum eraser
altered states
meditation
Bilinç
Gözlemci etkisi
Rüyalar ve semboller
Değişmiş bilinç halleri
Meditasyon

description: This study explores patterns of consciousness during dream and meditation states, with a particular focus on how these altered states might reflect observer-dependent phenomena. Inspired by the Quantum Eraser Experiment, it considers whether measurable differences in EEG data could support aspects of the simulation hypothesis. Though written outside of formal academic training, the paper merges intuitive observation with scientific literature, aiming to open a dialogue between inner experience and empirical inquiry.

A Turkish version of the paper is included as a supplementary file for native readers.
Vitamin E as an index of tissue peroxidation: The effect of vitamin C deficiency and ischemia/reperfusion.
Creators: name: Pietrzak, Ewa M.
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Biology, Microbiology.

description: Levels and turnover of vitamin E ($\alpha$-T) were studied in guinea pigs placed for three weeks on a diet containing a scorbutic level of vitamin C and either a low level (LE group) or a high level (HE group) of hexadeuterium-labelled vitamin E (d$\sb6$-RRR-$\alpha$-T acetate). The levels of vitamin C in the ten tissues analyzed declined very rapidly at rates that were the same in both the LE and HE groups, indicating that the level of dietary vitamin E had no effect upon tissue vitamin C levels. On the vitamin C deficient diet, the total $\alpha$-T (d$\sb0$- + d$\sb6$-$\alpha$-T) declined significantly over 21 days in the HE group in two tissues with high P-450 enzyme activity and in one tissue with a high partial pressure of oxygen, whereas on a vitamin C-sufficient diet with the same concentration of vitamin E the levels of total $\alpha$-T remained steady in the same tissues. In the LE "scorbutic" group, the total $\alpha$-T declined only in heart and kidney, whereas in the vitamin C-sufficient LE group there was a decline of total $\alpha$-T in all tissues analyzed except brain. The results show that in guinea pigs, at least, vitamin C is indispensable for proper uptake of vitamin E from the gut and absorption into tissues. Changes of vitamin E levels also were studied in six anatomical regions of the brain of rats subjected to controlled ischemia/reperfusion. Analysis showed that ischemia/reperfusion caused statistically significant losses of vitamin E in all regions, except the pons-medulla, and the extent of loss correlated well with the previously determined deterioration of the blood-brain barrier in the corresponding regions. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
Floods driving functional zooplankton diversity in a core area of the Brazilian Pantanal
Creators: name: de Lima, Érica Oliveira
name: de Souza Magalhães Braghin, Louizi
name: Bonecker, Cláudia Costa
name: Da Silva, Carolina Joana
name: Lázaro, Wilkinson Lopes
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The dynamics of water in floodplains are fundamental elements in structuring aquatic communities. Our research investigated zooplankton communities in the Pantanal ecosystem. We know that the different phases of the hydroperiod influence the functioning of aquatic ecosystems, but there is still a lack of understanding regarding the taxonomic and functional diversity of zooplankton in these areas. Over a period of three years (2018 to 2020), we assessed the zooplankton community in habitats along the Paraguay River at the Taiamã Ecological Station, considering the flood, ebb, drought, and inundation phases. We used indices such as RaoQ, FEve, FDiv, CWM, and RLQ to investigate the potential relationships between the taxonomic and functional diversity of zooplankton and the hydroperiod phases and limnological variables. We identified 153 species of zooplankton, with greater richness in the families Lecanidae and Brachionidae (rotifers) and Chydoridae and Daphnidae (cladocerans). Species composition varied significantly between flood and drought phases. We observed positive relationships between chlorophyll a, total nitrogen/phosphorus, and species with larger body size, pelagic habitat, filter-feeding mode, and medium predator evasion capacity, while littoral species and those with low predator evasion capacity showed negative relationships. CWM exhibited differences in functional traits between hydroperiod phases. FDiv analysis indicated well-defined ecological functions among the community species, and the low FEve value during the flood phase indicated the dominance of certain functional attributes. These results emphasize the relationship between hydrological processes and the distribution of zooplankton communities, highlighting the importance of functional diversity in understanding ecological interactions.
Mείναντα κενεόν: un locus criticus e una citazione omerica in una lettera di Demetrio Calcondila a Marco Musuro
Creators: name: Cattaneo, Gianmario
Publisher: name: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Year: 2018
Subjects: Homer, Marcus Musurus, Demetrius Chalcondylas

description: The author demonstrates that a passage of a Greek letter written by Demetrius Chalcondylas to the famous scholar and editor Marcus Musurus, which was considered corrupted by the editor, is actually genuine, and it contains an allusion to Homer, Iliad, 2.298. Analysing the manuscript which preserves this letter (Par. gr. 2966), he restores the correct reading, and explains the meaning of the sentence in this context.
description: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature, Vol 8 (2018)
Supplementary document for Chiral topological photonics with an embedded quantum emitter - 4914658.pdf
Creators: name: Foster, Andrew
name: Mehrabad, Mahmoud Jalali
name: Dost, Rene
name: Clarke, Edmund
name: Patil, Pallavi
name: Fox, A. Mark
name: Skolnick, Maurice
name: Wilson, Luke
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Il mecenate Costantino Licudi e la monodia di Michele Psello in memoria di Maria Sclerena (Poem 17 Westerink)
Creators: name: Lauritzen, Frederick
Publisher: name: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature
Year: 2018
Subjects: Michael Psellos, Constantine Leichoudes, Maria Skleraina, Constantine IX Monomachos, Saint George of the Mangan,

description: Psellos’ funerary poem in memory of Maria Skleraina (Poem 17 Westerink) was formally addressed to the emperor Constantine IX Monomachos and to her family, but actually the main recipient of the poem was the imperial minister (mesazon) Constantine Leichoudes, future patriarch of Constantinople (1059-1063). Psellos wrote the poem within the cultural atmosphere promoted by Leichoudes at the complex of Saint George of the Mangana, where she was buried. Thus Leichoudes was part of the culture at the court of Constantine IX Monomachos, in a similar manner to Maecenas under the emperor Augustus.
description: Parekbolai. An Electronic Journal for Byzantine Literature, Vol 8 (2018)