cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Potency of the invisible : an exploration into urban symbiotics through installation practice
Creators: name: Robinson, Denise Ava
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This research project explores the 'invisible' beyond the visible; elements that inform and affect personal experience within the urban site. Psychological, physiological and philosophical aspects of the human experience form the theoretical premise of the project. The human desire to order and find meaning informs the artistic exploration and processes resulting in a series of installations as a visual representation of the symbiotic relationships evident within urban space. Interest in the complex and intricate interchanges between external (environmental) and internal (personal) elements underpin this investigation. The personal experience of relocation and dislocation provided impetus to explore the innate desire to connect or find meaning in a place. The project examines conscious and unconscious behaviours, and cognitive processes central to the individual's quest to mark territory or define 'place' in order to embed within them a sense of belonging. Reference is made to artists who work in reductive abstraction, biographical interplay between life and art, and divergent material processes - Robert Hunter, Robert Irwin, Agnes Martin, Kasmir Malevich and Piet Mondrian are discussed for their reductive use of mark or colour as visual exploration of the inexplicable; Joseph Beuys, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Rauschenberg and Dieter Roth whose works reflect personal investigations into the intersection between life and art; and Eva Hesse's work is examined for her exploration and use of disparate materials and processes. The philosophical focus for the research includes Henri Lefebvre's writings on 'rhythm-analysis', Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (2008), and Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space (1994); providing critical dialogue for the investigation into body-environment experience. Anne Buttimer and David Seamon's The Human Experience of Space and Place (1980), together with Irwin Altman and Setha Low' s Place Attachment, Human Behaviour and Environment (1992), provided in-depth analysis into the inter-relatedness between person and place. My intent is to decode the personal experience of the urban environment, and through integrated processes of transforming every day banal activity and objects, reflect the collective experience. The systematic, repetitive ordering and diarising processes contain a personal narrative of every day activities that lay at the core of our subjective experience. Personal discarded matter and urban detritus are amalgamated and fused into various absorbent surfaces reflecting the continual interchanges and transformations that underpin human experience. The visual outcome of this research project seeks to reflect, expose, and ultimately reconnect us with, the often 'invisible' woven into our lives .
High-momentum tail in the Tonks-Girardeau gas under general confining potentials
Creators: name: Moreno, Gustavo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that the ground state momentum distribution of a one-dimensional system of impenetrable bosons exhibits a $k^{-4}$ tail for any confining potential. We also derive an expression for easily computing the asymptotic occupation numbers and verify our results with an exact numerical approach.
description: Minor modifications
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Des juifs, des chrétiens et des livres. Manuscrits hébreux médiévaux de la France du Nord, Paris (Éditions de la Bibliothèque nationale de France) 2023
Creators: name: Fray, Jean-Luc
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Des juifs, des chrétiens et des livres. Manuscrits hébreux médiévaux de la France du Nord, Paris (Éditions de la Bibliothèque nationale de France) 2023, 128 p., 36 ill. (Conférences Léopold Delisle), ISBN 978-2-7177-2882-8, EUR 29,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/4
Nikolas Jaspert, Harald Müller (Hg.), Klangräume des Mittelalters, Ostfildern (Jan Thorbecke Verlag) 2023
Creators: name: Koal, Valeska
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Nikolas Jaspert, Harald Müller (Hg.), Klangräume des Mittelalters, Ostfildern (Jan Thorbecke Verlag) 2023, 413 S., 17 farb. Abb. (Vorträge und Forschungen, 94), ISBN 978-3-7995-6895-1, EUR 55,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/4
Physicality of the analogue
Creators: name: Robinson, DA
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Inside the video player, spools spin, sensors read and heads rotate, generating an analogue signal from the videotape running through the system to the monitor. Within this electro mechanical space there is opportunity for intervention. Its accessibility allows direct manipulation to take place, creating imagery on the tape as pre-recorded signal of black burst without sound rolls through its mechanisms. The actual physical contact, manipulation of the tape, the moving mechanisms and the resulting images are the essence of the variable electrical space within which the analogue video signal is generated. In a way similar to the methods of the Musique Concrete pioneers, or EISENSTEIN's refinement of montage, I have explored the physical possibilities of machine intervention. I am working with what could be considered the last traces of analogue - audiotape was superseded by the compact disc and the videotape shall eventually be replaced by digital video. For me, analogue is the space inside the video player. My work involves physical manipulation of the tape and moving parts within this space. This exegesis examines examples and texts of artists using tape-based and digital media and discusses the processes behind what I consider to be an extreme video vision. My interventions push the boundaries of analogue vision and sound.
Study of tRNA in maturing salmon (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha) testes
Creators: name: Urquhart, Nadine Iris
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: During the sexual maturation of salmon testes, there is a drastic decrease in the RNA content of testis tissue and there are marked changes in the type of proteins synthesized. For these reasons, maturing salmon testes seemed an excellent tissue in which to study developmental changes of tRNA populations. Transfer RNA has been isolated from salmon testes at four distinct stages of sexual maturation. Determination of the amounts of tRNA in testes at these four stages of development has shown that during spermatogenesis the testis tRNA population decreases proportionally to that of total testis RNA. Evidence is presented to suggest that the tRNA population of testis tissue is specialized for the synthesis of basic nuclear proteins. Not only was the relative amount of arginine and lysine tRNA extracted from salmon testes found to be significantly greater than tRNA prepared from salmon liver but the relative amount of lysine and arginine tRNA in testis tissue at a specific stage of development seemed adapted to the specific type of basic nuclear protein synthesis occurring at that phase of maturation. These results, together with the results of others suggest that the levels of various tRNAs in cells are altered in a manner consistent with the utilization of various amino acids in protein synthesis. The tRNA[sup Arg] isoacceptors of salmon testes were separated by chromatography on BD-cellulose and RPC-5 columns and their ribosome-binding responses compared in the presence of the six arginine codons which had been synthesized enzymatically. Evidence suggests that of the six tRNA[sup Arg] isoacceptors separated on RPC-5 arginyl-tRNA[sub I] specific for CGA (C,U) and arginyl-tRNA[sub II] specific for codon AGG preferentially increase during the phase of salmon testis maturation in which synthesis of basic nuclear proteins is transformed from mainly histones to mainly protamines. Also, during this research, the effect of temperature, storage, NaCl concentration and ethanol on the extent of charging of salmon testis tRNA by salmon liver arginyl-tRNA synthetase was determined. The Km values of salmon liver arginyl-tRNA synthetase for arginine and salmon testis tRNA were found to be 0.19 µM and 0.76 µM, respectively.
Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, Laura Miquel Milian (ed.), Living on the Edge. Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages, Berlin, Boston (De Gruyter Oldenbourg) 2022
Creators: name: Smelyansky, Eugene
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel, Laura Miquel Milian (ed.), Living on the Edge. Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages, Berlin, Boston (De Gruyter Oldenbourg) 2022, 288 p. (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 83), ISBN 978-1-5015-1486-9, EUR 97,95.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/4
Christian Alexander Neumann (ed.), Old Age before Modernity. Case Studies and Methodological Perspectives 500 BC–1700 AD, Heidelberg (Heidelberg University Publishing) 2023
Creators: name: Preston-Matto, Lahney
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Christian Alexander Neumann (ed.), Old Age before Modernity. Case Studies and Methodological Perspectives 500 BC–1700 AD, Heidelberg (Heidelberg University Publishing) 2023, 343 p. (Online-Schriften des DHI Rom. Neue Reihe, 8), ISBN 978-3-96822-174-8, DOI 10.17885/heiup.1086, EUR 65,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/4
Novel High Transverse Momentum Phenomena in Hadronic and Nuclear Collisions
Creators: name: Brodsky, Stanley J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I discuss a number of novel phenomenological features of QCD in high transverse momentum reactions. The presence of direct higher-twist processes, where a proton is produced directly in the hard subprocess, can explain the "baryon anomaly" -- the large proton-to-pion ratio seen at RHIC in high centrality heavy ion collisions. Direct hadronic processes can also account for the deviation from leading-twist PQCD scaling at fixed x_T = 2p_T/\sqrt s. I suggest that the "ridge" -- the same-side long-range rapidity correlation observed at RHIC in high centrality heavy ion collisions is due to the imprint of semihard DGLAP gluon radiation from initial-state partons which have transverse momenta biased toward the trigger. Rescattering interactions from gluon-exchange, normally neglected in the parton model, have a profound effect in QCD hard-scattering reactions, leading to leading-twist single-spin asymmetries, diffractive deep inelastic scattering, diffractive hard hadronic reactions, the breakdown of the Lam-Tung relation in Drell-Yan reactions, nuclear shadowing --all leading-twist dynamics not incorporated in the light-front wavefunctions of the target computed in isolation. Antishadowing is shown to be quark flavor specific and thus different in charged and neutral deep inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering. I also discuss the consequences of color-octet intrinsic heavy quark distributions in the proton for heavy particle and Higgs production at high x_F. The AdS/CFT correspondence between Anti-de Sitter space and conformal gauge theories allows one to compute the analytic form of frame-independent light-front wavefunctions of mesons and baryons and to compute quark and gluon hadronization at the amplitude level.
description: Invited Talk, 4th International Workshop on High-PT Physics at the LHC 09
NPR - Farm Succession Planning: A Workback Approach (p135-144)
Creators: name: Betker, Terry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Succession planning
subject: transition
subject: farm management

description: A typical farming family with a relatively large and very successful farm. Progressive and well managed. Incorporated with Mom and Dad as the common shareholders. A family farm in the truest sense. An eldest son and two younger daughters, one of which is living in a city in another part of the country and the other in Grade 11. The son wants to farm and has completed post secondary education. The farm has expanded recently, acquiring additional land, in anticipation of the sonâ€™s return. The farm generates good levels of profit and carries a substantial debt load. Mom and Dad had decided that they needed to have a â€˜succession planâ€™. They started with some research. They talked to their accountant, lawyer and an investment advisor. They collected a lot of great information and developed a really good understanding of the tax, legal and investment issues that needed to be addressed.But they still did not feel comfortable with where things were at and as a result, set succession planning aside. After all, on a farm there is an endless list of things that need to get done that are seemingly more important than succession planning. A common occurrence, why is it happening? What changes are needed that will result in more farmers completing succession plans? Certainly, tax and legal issues must be resolved in a manner most suitable to the family. But from a family and farm business continuity perspective, the single most important consideration is the transfer of ownership and management. A great number of farmers will comment that even with all the succession planning resources available to them, they still do not know what needs to be done, by whom and in what order. Applying process, with clarity of timelines and accountability, helps in working through difficult issues. The same holds true for farmers involved in succession planning. A comprehensive and integrated step-by-step approach to planning will enable farm families to work through the challenges associated with succession planning, helping to ensure that more farms are able to successfully transition ownership and management to the next generation.
description: Eighteenth International Farm Management Congress, Methven, New Zealand, 2011
NPR - A Balanced Management Approach To Growing Farms (p244-251)
Creators: name: Betker, Terry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: farm management
subject: balanced management
subject: strategy

description: Actual observations show that two neighbouring farms will typically report different financial outcomes. One farm will be better off than the other. Same enterprises. Same size. Same weather. The only variable is the difference in management decisions made for each of the farms. Longer term, the implications pertain to the potential impact on the ability of the farm to support growth objectives and sustainability. An increasing number of farms are facing the issue of not having the capacity to support growth. Why is this happening?
description: Eighteenth International Farm Management Congress, Methven, New Zealand, 2011
NPR - Problems With Farm Succession: The Case Of Saskatchewan, Canada (p164-169)
Creators: name: Brown, William J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: succession
subject: planning
subject: goals

description: The succession planning process should start years if not decades before the transfers take place. Unfortunately most farm couples in the exiting generation have not saved enough money outside the farm business to finance their retirement. They have to rely on the farm assets to generate their retirement income either through sale and/or rental. The situation is complicated further when the exiting generation wants the farm business to pass to the next generation intact and to also be fair to all their beneficiaries. A number of tools were investigated including sale of all assets, sale of livestock and machinery and rental of land, insurance on the exiting generation with non-farming beneficiaries claiming the proceeds, and incorporation of the farm business. The only tool that does not require the exiting generation to lower their retirement income and/or the incoming generation to have substantial off farm income is incorporation.
description: Eighteenth International Farm Management Congress, Methven, New Zealand, 2011
First Results from the Swarms Survey. SDSS 1257+5428: A Nearby, Massive White Dwarf Binary with a Likely Neutron Star or Black Hole Companion
Creators: name: Badenes, Carles
name: Mullally, Fergal
name: Thompson, Susan E.
name: Lupton, Robert H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first results from SWARMS (Sloan White dwArf Radial velocity data Mining Survey), an ongoing project to identify compact white dwarf (WD) binaries in the spectroscopic catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The first object identified by SWARMS, SDSS 1257+5428, is a single-lined spectroscopic binary in a circular orbit with a period of 4.56 hr and a semiamplitude of 322.7+-6.3 km/s. From the spectrum and photometry, we estimate a WD mass of 0.92(+0.28,-0.32) Msun. Together with the orbital parameters of the binary, this implies that the unseen companion must be more massive than 1.62(+0.20,-0.25) Msun, and is in all likelihood either a neutron star or a black hole. At an estimated distance of 48(+10,-19) pc, this would be the closest known stellar remnant of a supernova explosion.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures, ApJ in press
On the extreme positive star-formation feedback condition in SCUBA sources
Creators: name: Silich, S.
name: Tenorio-Tagle, G.
name: Munoz-Tunon, C.
name: Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, F.
name: Wunsch, R.
name: Palous, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed study of the hydrodynamics of the matter reinserted by massive stars via stellar winds and supernovae explosions in young assembling galaxies. We show that the interplay between the thermalization of the kinetic energy provided by massive stars, radiative cooling of the thermalized plasma and the gravitational pull of the host galaxy, lead to three different hydrodynamic regimes. These are: a) The quasi-adiabatic supergalactic winds. b) The bimodal flows, with mass accumulation in the central zones and gas expulsion from the outer zones of the assembling galaxy. c) The gravitationally bound regime, for which all of the gas returned by massive stars remains bound to the host galaxy and is likely to be reprocessed into futher generations of stars. Which of the three possible solutions takes place, depends on the mass of the star forming region its mechanical luminosity (or star formation rate) and its size. The model predicts that massive assembling galaxies with large star formation rates similar to those detected in SCUBA sources ($\sim 1000$ M$_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$) are likely to evolve in a positive star-formation feedback condition, either in the bimodal, or in the gravitationally bound regime. This implies that star formation in these sources may have little impact on the intergalactic medium and result instead into a fast interstellar matter enrichment, as observed in high redshift quasars.
description: accepted by ApJ, 16 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 2 of The pelvis urinary microbiome in patients with kidney stones and clinical associations
Creators: name: Liu, Fengping
name: Zhang, Nan
name: Wu, Yunhong
name: Jiang, Peng
name: Jiang, Tingting
name: Wang, Yang
name: Zhang, Yuwei
name: Zhai, Qixiao
name: Zou, Yeqing
name: Feng, Ninghan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Physiology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Bacteria in bladder urine detected by EQUC and 16S rRNA sequencing Abbreviation: colony forming units, CFU. a The similarity of bacterial sequence cutoff is 97%. b If the genome sequence of a bacterium was identified as heterozygous three times or was difficult to bind, the bacterium was defined as an unidentified bacterium.
title: Метаболически ассоциированная неалкогольная жировая болезнь печени
title: Metabolically Associated Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Creators: name: Биек, Альфред Юлаевич
name: Саитов, Азиз Русланович
name: Добрынина, Ирина Юрьевна
name: Арямкина, Ольга Леонидовна
Publisher: name: Издательский центр СурГУ
Year: 2021

description: Цель – изучить возможности ранней диагностики неалкогольной жировой болезни печени, протекающей
с метаболически ассоциированной патологией, для определения ее значимости при коморбидности. Материал
и методы. В комбинированном 3-этапном исследовании проведен анализ 595 случаев неалкогольной жировой
болезни печени, диагностированной в когорте 2 030 больных с метаболически ассоциированной коморбидной
патологией. Результаты. Получены дополнительные возможности и критерии ранней диагностики: применение неинвазивных калькуляторов для диагностики фиброза печени, расчет риска развития неалкогольной
жировой болезни печени, в том числе роль ожирения как его модифицированного фактора, особенно на стадии
неалкогольного стеатогепатита. Наличие сахарного диабета 2-го типа, абдоминального ожирения, артериальной гипертонии, ишемической болезни сердца, хронической болезни почек и развитие неалкогольной жировой
болезни печени у лиц с атерогенной дислипидемией IIb, IV типов обосновывают понятие метаболически ассоциированной неалкогольной жировой болезни печени.
description: The study aims to analyze the possibilities of early diagnostics of a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, proceeding with metabolically associated pathology, in order to determine its significance in comorbidity. Material and methods. In the course of the 3-staged combined study, an analysis of 595 cases of a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in cohort of 2 030 patients with metabolically associated comorbid pathology was carried out. Results. Additional possibilities and criteria for diagnostics are obtained. They include use of non-invasive calculators for liver fibrosis diagnostics and calculation of risk factor for the development of a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, inter alia obesity as a modified factor of liver fibrosis, especially at the stage of a non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Metabolically associated non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is determined by such factors as type 2 diabetes, abdominal obesity, arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease, chronic kidney disease and the development of liver disease in individuals with types IIb and IV atherogenic dyslipidemia.
Seasonal variation and drivers of zooplankton, macroinvertebrate and littoral fish communities from irrigation ponds in a semi-arid region in the Eastern Cape (South Africa)
Creators: name: Mofu, L
name: Dalu, T
name: Wasserman, RJ
name: Woodford, DJ
name: Khosa, D
name: Weyl, OLF
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Irrigation ponds are increasingly abundant globally, particularly in water-stressed countries with limited natural surface waters, yet knowledge of their ecology is limited. Here, we assessed zooplankton, macroinvertebrate, and littoral fish communities from irrigation ponds located in the Sundays River Valley in South Africa. This study assessed the seasonal community patterns in response to physico-chemical and biotic components. Water temperature, water depth, Secchi depth, and ammonium concentrations differed significantly across seasons. Similarly, Chlorophyll-a concentrations differed seasonally, with water transparency identified as the main driver. Zooplankton was dominated by Rotifera, Copepoda and Cladocera. Seasonal changes in temperature and subsequent fluctuations in water levels resulted in changes in zooplankton community. Macroinvertebrates were dominated by insects, notably the families Corixidae and Naucoridae. The littoral fish community comprised of Glossogobius callidus, Oreochromis mossambicus and Gambusia affinis. Zooplankton, macroinvertebrates and littoral fish abundances, species richness, diversity and assemblage composition differed significantly across seasons with temperature identified as the main driver of these differences. This study demonstrates that bottom-up processes are the dominant drivers of the irrigation pond communities in the Sundays River Valley and highlights the relevance of seasonal abiotic drivers in structuring these communities, particularly G. callidus and G. affinis.
Limiting absorption principle and well-posedness for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations with anisotropic sign-changing coefficients
Creators: name: Nguyen, Hoai Minh
name: Sil, Swarnendu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the limiting absorption principle and the well-posedness of Maxwell equations with anisotropic sign-changing coefficients in the time-harmonic domain. The starting point of the analysis is to obtain Cauchy problems associated with two Maxwell systems using a change of variables. We then derive a priori estimates for these Cauchy problems using two different approaches. The Fourier approach involves the complementing conditions for the Cauchy problems associated with two elliptic equations, which were studied in a general setting by Agmon, Douglis, and Nirenberg. The variational approach explores the variational structure of the Cauchy problems of the Maxwell equations. As a result, we obtain general conditions on the coefficients for which the limiting absorption principle and the well-posedness hold. Moreover, these {\it new} conditions are of a local character and easy to check. Our work is motivated by and provides general sufficient criteria for the stability of electromagnetic fields in the context of negative-index metamaterials.
Alessandro Mulieri, Serena Masolini, Jenny Pelletier (ed.), Marsilius of Padua. Between History, Politics, and Philosophy, Turnhout (Brepols) 2023
Creators: name: Miethke, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Alessandro Mulieri, Serena Masolini, Jenny Pelletier (ed.), Marsilius of Padua. Between History, Politics, and Philosophy, Turnhout (Brepols) 2023, 445 p. (Disputatio, 36), ISBN 978-2-503-60133-5, EUR 115,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/4
Seasonal variation in water quality, plankton diversity and microbial load of tropical freshwater lakes in Nigeria
Creators: name: Anyanwu, Ihuoma N
name: Ezema, Confidence A
name: Ebi, Sowechi
name: Nwajiuba, Chinyere A
name: Nworie, Okoro
name: Anorue, Chioma O
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Seasonal changes significantly affect tropical ecosystems; hence, verification of how these changes affect water quality is important for waterbodies that serve as water and food sources, particular as such changes are often associated with shifts in plankton diversity and microbial loads. This study assessed the seasonal changes in water quality, plankton diversity and microbial load in four lakes serving as sources of drinking water. Temperature, hardness and phosphate concentration were elevated in the dry season, and pH, biochemical oxygen demand, transparency, turbidity, total dissolved solids, conductivity, alkalinity and nitrate concentrations were elevated in the wet season. A phytoplankton analysis revealed that Chlorophyta, Bacillariophyta, Cyanophyta and Dinophyta were most common, with the families Desmidiaceae, Microcystaceae and Euglenaceae (phylum Euglenophyta) displaying dominance. For zooplankton, Rotifera was most common, with Branchionidae dominating the lakes in both seasons. In the wet season, Chlorophyta, Cyanophyta, Bacillariophyta and Dinophyta dominated, with Aphanizomenonaceae and Microcystaceae the most diverse families. Disease-causing pathogens, Ascaridae, Trichuridae and Ancylostomatidae (phylum Nematoda), were detected during periods of high rainfall. The waters in the dry season had higher microbial loads than in the wet season, ranging from 1.50 to 233.50 CFU g−1 (p < 0.05). This demonstrates the seasonal variations in risk to users and underlies the importance of regular assessment of water quality particularly given the threat of seasonal changes elated to climate change.
Tunable Superconducting Phase Transition in Metal-Decorated Graphene Sheets
Creators: name: Kessler, B. M.
name: Girit, C. O.
name: Zettl, A.
name: Bouchiat, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using typical experimental techniques it is difficult to separate the effects of carrier density and disorder on the superconducting transition in two dimensions. Using a simple fabrication procedure based on metal layer dewetting, we have produced graphene sheets decorated with a non-percolating network of nanoscale tin clusters. These metal clusters both efficiently dope the graphene substrate and induce long-range superconducting correlations. This allows us to study the superconducting transition at fixed disorder and variable carrier concentration. We find that despite structural inhomogeneity on mesoscopic length scales (10-100 nm), this material behaves electronically as a homogenous dirty superconductor. Our simple self-assembly method establishes graphene as an ideal tunable substrate for studying induced two-dimensional electronic systems at fixed disorder and our technique can readily be extended to other order parameters such as magnetism.
Rosamond McKitterick, Rome and the Invention of the Papacy. The Liber Pontificalis, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2020
Creators: name: Sot, Michel
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Rosamond McKitterick, Rome and the Invention of the Papacy. The Liber Pontificalis, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2020, 271 p. (The James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and Culture), ISBN 978-1-108-83682-1, GBP 29,99.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/4
Low-energy muons via frictional cooling
Creators: name: Bao, Yu
name: Caldwell, Allen
name: Greenwald, Daniel
name: Xia, Guoxing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-energy muon beams are useful for a range of physics experiments. We consider the production of low-energy muon beams with small energy spreads using frictional cooling. As the input beam, we take a surface muon source such as that at the Paul Scherrer Institute. Simulations show that the efficiency of low energy muon production can potentially be raised to 1%, which is significantly higher than that of current schemes.
Jean-Marie Martin, Amedeo Feniello, De la Pouille à l’Artois. Documents italiens concernant le comte d’Artois Robert II conservés aux archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais (1266–1303), Paris (CNRS Éditions) 2022
Creators: name: Hélary, Xavier
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Jean-Marie Martin, Amedeo Feniello, De la Pouille à l’Artois. Documents italiens concernant le comte d’Artois Robert II conservés aux archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais (1266–1303), Paris (CNRS Éditions) 2022, 208 p. (Documents, études et répertoires, 92), ISBN 978-2-271-14032-6, EUR 70,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/4
Additional file 1 of Galectin-9 is required for endometrial regenerative cells to induce long-term cardiac allograft survival in mice
Creators: name: Zhao, Yiming
name: Li, Xiang
name: Yu, Dingding
name: Hu, Yonghao
name: Jin, Wang
name: Qin, Yafei
name: Kong, Dejun
name: Wang, Hongda
name: Li, Guangming
name: Alessandrini, Alessandro
name: Wang, Hao
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1. Gal-9 Expression in ERC Culture Supernatant. (A) Gal-9 secretion was measured in p2-p5 ERC culture supernatant by ELISA. (B) Gal-9 secretion was measured in IFN-γ-pre-stimulated ERC supernatant. Statistical analysis was performed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), and the post-test was the least significant difference (LSD) test, n = 3. * p < 0.05 and ** p < 0.01. Bar graphs represent mean ± SD. Abbreviation: ERC, endometrial regenerative cell.
Werner Maleczek (Bearb.), nach Vorarbeiten von Othmar Hageneder, Die Register Innocenz’ III. 3. Band, erster Teil. Texte und Indices, Wien (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften) 2023
Creators: name: Tock, Benoît-Michel
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Werner Maleczek (Bearb.), nach Vorarbeiten von Othmar Hageneder, Die Register Innocenz’ III. 3. Band, erster Teil: 3. Pontifikatsjahr, 1200/1201, das erhaltene Registerfragment. Texte und Indices, Wien (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften) 2023, LVIII–125 S. (Publikationen des Österreichischen Historischen Instituts in Rom. II. Abteilung. Quellen. 1. Reihe), ISBN 978-3-7001-9211-4, EUR 98,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/4
Exploring Superconductivity under Strong Coupling with the Vacuum Electromagnetic Field
Creators: name: Thomas, Anoop
name: Devaux, Eloïse
name: Nagarajan, Kalaivanan
name: Chervy, Thibault
name: Seidel, Marcus
name: Hagenmüller, David
name: Schütz, Stefan
name: Schachenmayer, Johannes
name: Genet, Cyriaque
name: Pupillo, Guido
name: Ebbesen, Thomas W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Light-matter interactions have generated considerable interest as a means to manipulate material properties. Light-induced superconductivity has been demonstrated using pulsed lasers. An attractive alternative possibility is to exploit strong light-matter interactions arising by coupling phonons to the vacuum electromagnetic field of a cavity mode as has been suggested and theoretically studied. Here we explore this possibility for two very different superconductors, namely YBCO (YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6+x}$) and Rb$_3$C$_{60}$, coupled to surface plasmon polaritons, using a novel cooperative effect based on the presence of a strongly coupled vibrational environment allowing efficient dressing of the otherwise weakly coupled phonon bands of these compounds. By placing the superconductor-surface plasmon system in a SQUID magnetometer, we find that the superconducting transition temperatures ($T_{c}$) for both compounds are modified in the absence of any external laser field. For YBCO, $T_{c}$ decreases from 92 K to 86 K while for Rb$_3$C$_{60}$, it increases from 30 K to 45 K at normal pressures. In the latter case, a simple theoretical framework is provided to understand these results based on an enhancement of the electron-phonon coupling. This proof-of-principle study opens a new tool box to not only modify superconducting materials but also to understand the mechanistic details of different superconductors.
description: 25 pages, 4 figures
21 cm radiation: A new probe of fundamental physics
Creators: name: Khatri, Rishi
name: Wandelt, Benjamin D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New low frequency radio telescopes currently being built open up the possibility of observing the 21-cm radiation before the Epoch of Reionization in the future, in particular at redshifts 200 > z > 30, also known as the dark ages. At these high redshifts, Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation is absorbed by neutral hydrogen at its 21-cm hyperfine transition. This redshifted 21-cm signal thus carries information about the state of the early Universe and can be used to test fundamental physics. We study the constraints these observations can put on the variation of fundamental constants. We show that the 21-cm radiation is very sensitive to the variations in the fine structure constant and can in principle place constraints comparable to or better than the other astrophysical experiments (fractional change < 10^ {-5}). Making such observations will require radio telescopes of collecting area 10 - 10^6 sq. km compared to 1 sq. km of current telescopes. These observations will thus provide independent constraints on the fine structure constant at high redshifts, observations of quasars being the only alternative. More importantly the 21-cm absorption of CMB is the only way to probe the redshift range between recombination and reionization.
description: Contribution to The proceedings of the Joint Discussion 9, XXVIIth IAU General Assembly, Rio de Janeiro :"Are the fundamental constants varying with spacetime?" Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana vol 80 n.4
EcoCost : an ecological evaluation system for building materials
Creators: name: Sainsbury, SL
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: \EcoCost\" is an ecologically-based evaluation system for building materials. The system assesses the reduction of biomass and biodiversity and the destruction of natural features caused by obtaining manufacturing distributing and using materials. The parameters of the EcoCost system include: pollutant output from industrial processes; land degradation caused by raw material collection; energy consumption and generation; pollution and land degradation due to transport; longevity of materials; resource scarcity; reusability and recyclability engendered in creating a material and getting it to a site. The system synthesises data from a wide range of sources to give quantitative consistent repeatable impact evaluations to the various parameters. In order to achieve a valid mathematical relationship between the disparate parameters of impact a scalar range related to a constant base entity for each factor is proposed. Choosing a scalar range for ecological impact between 0 (representing no impact) and 1 representing the maximum impact) allows for the required mathematical operations to be made. There is only one single constant which all the various factors of ecological evaluation share and that is the planetary ecosphere this is taken as the constant base entity. Each parameter is evaluated using these principal references. The system then determines an overall comparative EcoCost with a linking ecological impact evaluation algorithm."
Elizabeth A. Lambourn (ed.), A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney (Bloomsbury Academic) 2023
Creators: name: Schreiner, Peter
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Elizabeth A. Lambourn (ed.), A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney (Bloomsbury Academic) 2023, 280 p. (A Cultural History of the Sea, 2), ISBN 978-1-4742-9902-2, GBP 67,50.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/4
NPR - Utilising Lucernes Potential For Dairy Farming (p227-235)
Creators: name: Campion, Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: lucerne
subject: Medicago sativa
subject: dairy farming

description: New Zealand farming systems are based on ryegrass and white clover pastures. Production from these pastures under irrigation does not get much better than 17,000 kg of dry matter per hectare per year. This response relies on irrigation and nitrogen applications. Future potential lies in exploring species changes, or cropping to grow more dry matter. This paper discusses using lucerne to alter the farming system in irrigated dairy farming. Lucerne has been shown to grow up to 24,000 kg dry matter per year in irrigated trial situations. Lucerne does not require nitrogen applications and has shown to be beneficial in assisting with nitrate removal. Projected budgets show a lucerne system can generate high returns. However a change of this magnitude will require changes to farming systems. It is very important to manage lucerne correctly. Farmer experience has shown that it is not difficult to change and the potential benefits are high.
description: Eighteenth International Farm Management Congress, Methven, New Zealand, 2011
Phenomenological description of the states $0^+$ and $2^+$ in some even-even nuclei
Creators: name: Raduta, A. A.
name: Aaron, F. D.
name: de Guerra, E. Moya
name: Faessler, Amand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A sixth-order quadrupole boson Hamiltonian is used to describe the states $0^+$ and $2^+$ identified in several nuclei by various types of experiments. Two alternative descriptions of energy levels are proposed. One corresponds to a semi-classical approach of the model Hamiltonian while the other one provides the exact eigenvalues. Both procedures yield close formulas for energies. The first procedure involves four parameters, while the second involves a compact formula with five parameters. In each case the parameters are fixed by a least-square fit procedure. Applications are performed for eight even-even nuclei. Both methods yield results which are in a surprisingly good agreement with the experimental data. We give also our predicted reduced transition probabilities within the two approaches, although the corresponding experimental data are not yet available.
description: 27pages, 18 figures
NPR - Ethical Perceptions: Management Versus Production At A Large Multinational Seed Company (p257-267)
Creators: name: Craven, Pieter
name: Bisschoff, Christo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Multinational company
subject: ethical perceptions
subject: business ethics

description: This study determines the ethical profiles and dispositions of three groups of managers in South Africa. These groups consisted of: a) Top & Middle Managers from a specific company active in the agricultural sector in South Africa. b) Production Managers from a specific company active in the agricultural sector in South Africa. The research objectives were to, firstly, measure the ethical views of the groups as it pertain to questionable actions undertaken by anonymous businesses and consumers. Secondly, to identify ethical discrepancies that exist among the different respondent groups, and thirdly, once identified, to determine the statistical significance of those differences. The research uses a well-tested research tool developed by Fullerton (1993) that poses an international battery of questionable actions by management. Individual as well as company behaviour is tested within the research instrument. The research provides a snapshot of the three chosen groups. Overall, the aggregate sampleâ€™s ethical dispositions offer no evidence for concern, especially regarding individual behaviour. When segmented on the basis of field of study, the groups also do not differ significantly from each other on individual ethical behaviour. Regarding company ethics, the groups also show acceptable ethical dispositions; however, they differ more in their views of which actions are acceptable and which are not, and more so with regard to company behaviour than with individual behaviour. Still, all of the groups show a high level of ethical standards, and the grand means calculated for each group show that it cannot be concluded that neither group of managers regard the RSA environment to be a laissez faire society where anything goes.
description: Eighteenth International Farm Management Congress, Methven, New Zealand, 2011
Similar neurocognitive outcomes after 48 weeks in HIV-1-infected participants randomized to continue tenofovir/emtricitabine + atazanavir/ritonavir or simplify to abacavir/lamivudine + atazanavir
Creators: name: Wohl, D.
name: Small, C.B.
name: Edelstein, H.
name: Shaefer, M.S.
name: Robertson, K.
name: Maruff, P.
name: Ross, L.L.
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2019

description: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated neurocognitive disorders can persist in many patients despite achieving viral suppression while on antiretroviral therapy (ART). Neurocognitive function over 48 weeks was evaluated using a Cogstate test battery assessing psychomotor function, attention, learning, and working memory in 293 HIV-1-infected, ART-experienced, and virologically suppressed adults. The ASSURE study randomized participants 1:2 to remain on tenofovir/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC) and ritonavir-boosted atazanavir (ATV/r) or simplify to abacavir/lamivudine + atazanavir (ABC/3TC + ATV). Neurocognitive z-scores were computed using demographically adjusted normative data and were classified as “impaired” (defined as either a z-score ≤ − 2 or having 2 or more standardized individual test z-scores ≤ − 1); while higher scores (equaling better performance) were classified as “normal”. By z-scores, 54.7% of participants had impaired neurocognition at baseline and 50.2% at week 48. There were no significant differences (p < 0.05) in the baseline-adjusted performance between treatment groups for any individual test or by z-score. Specific demographic and medical risk factors were evaluated by univariate analysis for impact on neurocognitive performance. Factors with p < 0.10 were evaluated by backwards regression analysis to identify neurocognition-correlated factors after accounting for treatment, assessment, and baseline. Four risk factors at baseline for impaired neurocognition were initially identified: lower CD4 nadir lymphocyte counts, higher Framingham risk scores, and interleukin-6 levels, and a history of psychiatric disorder not otherwise specified, however none were found to moderate the effect of treatment on neurocognition. In this aviremic, treatment-experienced population, baseline-adjusted neurocognitive function remained stable and equivalent over 48 weeks with both TDF/FTC + ATV/r-treated and in the ART-simplified ABC/3TC + ATV treatment groups.
Martina Hacke, Die Boten der Nationen der Universität von Paris im Mittelalter. Von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des Mittelalters. Entstehung und Ausgestaltung eines universitären Kommunikationsinstituts, Husum (Matthiesen) 2022
Creators: name: Wagendorfer, Martin
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Martina Hacke, Die Boten der Nationen der Universität von Paris im Mittelalter. Von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des Mittelalters. Entstehung und Ausgestaltung eines universitären Kommunikationsinstituts, Husum (Matthiesen) 2022, 612 S., zahlr. Abb. (Historische Studien, 513), ISBN 978-3-7868-1513-6, EUR 79,00.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/4
Sarah Fourcade, La Noblesse à la conquête du livre. France, v. 1300–v. 1530, Paris (Honoré Champion) 2021; S. C. Kaplan, Women’s Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, and France. A Family Affair, Liverpool (Liverpool University Press) 2023
Creators: name: Kopp, Vanina
Publisher: name: Francia-Recensio
Year: 2023

description: Sarah Fourcade, La Noblesse à la conquête du livre. France, v. 1300–v. 1530, Paris (Honoré Champion) 2021, 718 p. (Études d’histoire médiévale, 17), ISBN 978-2-7453-5591-1, EUR 95,00.



S. C. Kaplan, Women’s Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, and France. A Family Affair, Liverpool (Liverpool University Press) 2023, 384 p. (Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe), ISBN 978-1-80085-632-5, EUR 114,89.
description: Francia-Recensio, 2023/4