cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stars, Dust, and the Growth of UV-Selected Sub-L* Galaxies at Redshift z~2
Creators: name: Sawicki, Marcin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: [Abridged] This work concerns very faint (R_lim=28 AB mag; M_(stars, lim) ~ 10^8 Msun), UV-selected sub-L* BX galaxies at z~2.3. Stellar masses, dust content, and dust-corrected SFRs are constrained using broadband SED fitting, giving insights into the nature of these low-mass systems. First, a correlation found between rest-frame UV luminosity and galaxy stellar mass suggests that many sub-L* galaxies at z~2.3 may have approximately constant star formation histories. A nearly-linear relation between stellar mass and star formation rate is also found, hinting that the rate at which a sub-L* BX galaxy forms its stars is directly related to the mass of stars that it has already formed. A possible explanation is that new gas that falls onto the galaxy's host halo along with accreting dark matter is the source of fuel for ongoing star formation. The instantaneous efficiency of star formation is low in this scenario, of order 1%. The low-mass end of the stellar mass function is steeper than expected from extrapolations of shallower surveys, resulting in a SMD at z~2.3 that's ~25% of the present-day value; this value is z~1.5-2x higher than that given by extrapolations of shallower surveys, suggesting that the build-up of stellar mass in the universe has proceeded more rapidly than previously thought. An update to the KDF z~2 UV LF finds a steeper faint-end slope than previously reported, though not as steep as that found by Reddy & Steidel (2009). Finally, sub-L* galaxies at z~2 carry very small amounts of dust compared to their more luminous cousins, so that while only ~20% of 1700A photons escape from a typical M* galaxy, more than half make it out of an M*+3 one. This paucity of dust highlights the fact that sub-L* galaxies are not simple scaled copies of their more luminous cousins. It also suggests that sub-L* are important contributors to keeping the Universe ionized at z~2.
description: Resubmitted to MNRAS after addressing referee's comments
A novel theory-based implementation intervention to increase prescription of inspiratory muscle training for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Creators: name: Simms, Alanna Marie
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: INTRODUCTION: A number of implementation interventions are available to address existing gaps between research and practice; little is known about the effectiveness of these interventions among rehabilitation professionals. PURPOSE: To assess the effectiveness of a behavioural-based versus an information-based intervention for increasing health professionals’ prescription of inspiratory muscle training (IMT) in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in out-patient pulmonary rehabilitation. STUDY DESIGN: Single Blind, Randomized Clinical Trial METHODS AND MEASURES: We recruited a convenience sample of six hospital pulmonary rehabilitation programs in Canada. After being stratified by geographical location and type of facility, paired hospitals were randomly assigned to receive either a behavioural-based or an information-based intervention. The behavioural-based intervention consisted of an interactive workshop, delivered by an expert in two 45 minute meetings, and provision of Threshold IMT devices. The first meeting included: 1) a summary of evidence for IMT in COPD; 2) prescription details for IMT; 3) skills practice. The second meeting was a semi-structured problem solving session. The information-based intervention was a 90 minute didactic lecture on: 1) evidence for IMT in COPD; 2) prescription details for IMT, which was supplemented by copies of two recent, peer-review articles. Participants in both interventions received handouts detailing how to prescribe IMT for people with COPD and a handheld respiratory pressure meter (MicroRPM). The participants were 61 health professionals, the majority being physiotherapists and respiratory therapists, and 488 patients with COPD from the six hospital out-patient pulmonary rehabilitation programs. IMT prescription was the primary outcome. A multiple choice questionnaire, used to evaluate health professionals’ knowledge on IMT for people with COPD, was a secondary outcome. Data were analyzed using Chi-square and Mann-Whitney U test. RESULTS: No patients with COPD were prescribed IMT in the participating sites during the 6-month pre-intervention phase. Prescription rates for IMT only increased in the behavioural-based intervention group: 12 of 118 patients with COPD who attended pulmonary rehabilitation were prescribed IMT, which reflected a 10.2% increase (95% CI: 5.7-17.1%). CONCLUSION: A behavioural-based intervention appears to be more effective than a lecture approach to increase health professionals’ prescription of IMT for people with COPD.
Properties of Umbral Dots from Stray Light Corrected Hinode Filtergrams
Creators: name: Louis, Rohan E.
name: Mathew, Shibu K.
name: Rubio, Luis R. Bellot
name: Ichimoto, Kiyoshi
name: Ravindra, B.
name: Bayanna, A. Raja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High resolution blue continuum filtergrams from Hinode are employed to study the umbral fine structure of a regular unipolar sunspot. The removal of scattered light from the images increases the rms contrast by a factor of 1.45 on average. Improvement in image contrast renders identification of short filamentary structures resembling penumbrae that are well separated from the umbra-penumbra boundary and comprise bright filaments/grains flanking dark filaments. Such fine structures were recently detected from ground based telescopes and have now been observed with Hinode. A multi-level tracking algorithm was used to identify umbral dots in both the uncorrected and corrected images and to track them in time. The distribution of the values describing the photometric and geometric properties of umbral dots are more easily affected by the presence of stray light while it is less severe in the case of kinematic properties. Statistically, umbral dots exhibit a peak intensity, effective diameter, lifetime, horizontal speed and a trajectory length of 0.29 I_QS, 272 km, 8.4 min, 0.45 km/s and 221 km respectively. The 2 hr 20 min time sequence depicts several locations where umbral dots tend to appear and disappear repeatedly with various time intervals. The correction for scattered light in the Hinode filtergrams facilitates photometry of umbral fine structure which can be related to results obtained from larger telescopes and numerical simulations.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ : 10 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables
Fermionic Coset, Critical Level W^(2)_4-Algebra and Higher Spins
Creators: name: Creutzig, Thomas
name: Gao, Peng
name: Linshaw, Andrew R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The fermionic coset is a limit of the pure spinor formulation of the AdS5xS5 sigma model as well as a limit of a nonlinear topological A-model, introduced by Berkovits. We study the latter, especially its symmetries, and map them to higher spin algebras. We show the following. The linear A-model possesses affine $\AKMSA{pgl}{4}{4}_0$ symmetry at critical level and its $\AKMSA{psl}{4}{4}_0$ current-current perturbation is the nonlinear model. We find that the perturbation preserves $\mathcal{W}^{(2)}_4$-algebra symmetry at critical level. There is a topological algebra associated to $\AKMSA{pgl}{4}{4}_0$ with the properties that the perturbation is BRST-exact. Further, the BRST-cohomology contains world-sheet supersymmetric symplectic fermions and the non-trivial generators of the $\mathcal{W}^{(2)}_4$-algebra. The Zhu functor maps the linear model to a higher spin theory. We analyze its $\SLSA{psl}{4}{4}$ action and find finite dimensional short multiplets.
description: 25 pages
MPEC 2023-H119 : 2023 HO2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 HO2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Spectroscopic follow-up of UV-excess objects selected from the UVEX survey
Creators: name: Verbeek, Kars
name: Groot, Paul J.
name: Scaringi, Simone
name: Napiwotzki, Ralf
name: Spikings, Ben
name: Østensen, Roy H.
name: Drew, Janet
name: Steeghs, Danny
name: Casares, Jorge
name: Corral-Santana, Jesus M.
name: Corradi, Romano
name: Deacon, Niall
name: Drake, Jeremy
name: Gansicke, Boris T.
name: González-Solares, Eduardo
name: Greimel, Robert
name: Heber, Ulrich
name: Irwin, Mike
name: Knigge, Christian
name: Nelemans, Gijs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of the first spectroscopic follow-up of 132 optically blue UV-excess sources selected from the UV-excess survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (UVEX). The UV-excess spectra are classified into different populations and grids of model spectra are fit to determine spectral types, temperatures, surface gravities and reddening. From this initial spectroscopic follow-up 95% of the UV-excess candidates turn out to be genuine UV-excess sources such as white dwarfs, white dwarf binaries, subdwarfs type O and B, emission line stars and QSOs. The remaining sources are classified as slightly reddened main-sequence stars with spectral types later than A0V. The fraction of DA white dwarfs is 47% with reddening smaller than E(B-V)<0.7 mag. Relations between the different populations and their UVEX photometry, Galac- tic latitude and reddening are shown. A larger fraction of UVEX white dwarfs is found at magnitudes fainter than g>17 and Galactic latitude smaller than |b|<4 compared to main-sequence stars, blue horizontal branch stars and subdwarfs.
Hospitalization charges for extremely preterm infants: A ten-year analysis in Shanghai, China
Creators: name: Zhu, Zhicheng
name: Wang, Jin
name: Chen, Chao
name: Zhou, Jianguo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Biotechnology
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy
Computational Biology

description: Extreme prematurity exerts a substantial economic burden on families and societies worldwide, especially in developing countries with limited healthcare resources. This study aimed to estimate initial hospitalization charges after extremely preterm birth in China over previous decade. A retrospective study was conducted in the largest tertiary neonatal intensive care unit in Shanghai, China, including 441 extremely preterm infants (gestational age <28 weeks) discharged between 2010 and 2019. Hospitalization data and medical charges were obtained from electronic inpatient medical records. Subgroup analysis was conducted to examine how the charges and length of stay varied by gestational age, discharge year, survival status, and major morbidities. The median total hospitalization charge was $20 770.70 with a median length of stay of 70.0 days. Total and daily charges declined as gestational age increased. A rising trend was found over time for overall and daily medical charges. Compared with decedents, survivors had longer length of stay and higher total hospitalization charges, but their charge per day was lower. Total hospitalization charges were significantly higher in infants with necrotizing enterocolitis (Stage II-III), bronchopulmonary dysplasia, and sepsis when compared with neonates of the same gestational age without these co-morbidities. Charges for treatments accounted for the highest proportion (31.3%). Local statistics collected retrospectively might limit generalizability to other regions. Long-term medical charges were not reported. Economic burden of the initial hospitalization for extremely preterm infants was substantial in China. Such economic factors should be fully taken into account for perinatal consultations, medical insurance policy-making, and clinical decisions.
Adaptation-Aware Architecture Modeling and Analysis of Energy Efficiency for Software Systems
Creators: name: Stier, Christian
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2019
Subjects: Energieeffizienz
Software-Architektur
Entwurfszeitanalyse
Palladio
Selbst-Adaptivität
Energy Efficiency
Software Architecture
Design-Time Analysis
Self-Adaptivity

description: This work presents an approach for the architecture analysis of energy efficiency for static and self-adaptive software systems. It introduces a modeling language that captures consumption characteristics on an architectural level. The outlined analysis predicts the energy efficiency of systems described with this language. Lastly, this work introduces an approach for considering transient effects in design time architecture analyses.
Questionnaire sur le niveau d'activité et les indicateurs de développement durable dans les villes suisses
Creators: name: Anne, Boesch
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This document is the pre-final French version of a questionnaire that will be sent to all Swiss cities approx. September 2021 about their activities (government and administration) related to sustainable development - or other transversal issues - and their potential use of sustainable development indicators (or indicators about similar transversal issues)
Global Sensitivity Analysis for Covering Reservoir Geological and Flow Uncertainty
Creators: name: Karami Moghadam, Ali
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Petroleum Engineering
subject: Reservoir Simulation
subject: Sensitivity Analysis
subject: Uncertainty Quantification
subject: Engineering--Petroleum

description: Understanding sources of uncertainty has a major impact in the reservoir management design and significantly influences the operations decision-making. Integrating all sources of flow and geological uncertainty is very important to quantify the production uncertainty and to make optimal decisions in reservoir development. However, this task is computationally very intensive and the current methods used by the industry are not robust enough to capture the full complexity of the problem. To address this, this research focuses on identifying sources of input uncertainty that significantly influence reservoir response and decision making. Some sources of input uncertainty are significant by themselves. Others are significant through their interactions. Yet others are not significant at all. This information offers great insight as well as computational gains that reservoir engineers can exploit towards better utilizing their knowledge when making reservoir decisions for the company assets. For this purpose, this research provides promising sensitivity analysis frameworks that are suitable for tackling complex multi-dimensional models within the reservoir modelling workflow and overcome the drawbacks of the commonly used approaches. The first section of this research study introduces a screening method that can successfully categorize the uncertain parameters in terms of their significance to the reservoir response with a low computational cost. This method is followed by a more sophisticated approach that is able to quantify the contribution of each input parameter to the variability of the model responses as well as the existing interactions among the parameters. The relation between the accuracy of the results and the choice of experiment design is discussed in this section. In order to overcome the high cost of computation intrinsic to this method, Single-Layer and Multi-Layer Neural Network surrogate models are successfully employed and integrated with the method. In the next chapter, another approach based on classifying the response/decision variables into a limited set of discrete classes is discussed. This approach quantifies the sensitivity to parameters and parameter interactions, and incorporates the possibility that the interactions can be asymmetric for complex reservoir modeling. The discussed approaches are demonstrated and validated with multiple well known sensitivity analysis test functions and real field case studies.
Elampus bidens
Creators: name: Paukkunen, Juho
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Soon, Villu
name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ødegaard, Frode
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Elampus
Elampus bidens

description: 2. Elampus bidens (Förster, 1853)
Notozus bidens Förster 1853: 335. Holotype ♀; Poland: Silesia (ZMB) (examined).
Remarks. The species has been reported from Denmark by Allearter.dk (2010). According to K. Runge Poulsen (in litt.) the record was based on one specimen, collected from NEZ: Tibirke Bakker 15.VII.1913 (coll. Klöcker) and deposited in ZMUC. We have checked this specimen, which belongs to the species E. panzeri. Thus E. bidens should be removed from the Danish fauna.
description: Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433
How well does a linear model predict the responses of primary visual cortex neurons to a natural scene stimulus?
Creators: name: Pietravalle, Nadia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The goal was to test how well a linear model of the responses of neurons in area 18 of cat visual cortex, derived from recordings made in anaesthetized adult cats, predicts responses to natural scene stimuli. Methods: Estimates of the spatio-temporal receptive field profile of the neurons were obtained by reverse correlation to an m-sequence stimulus (Reid et al., 1997). The receptive field estimate, together with a non-linear response function, was then used to give the expected probability, or rate, of spike firing (Chichilnisky, 2001; Ringach & Malone, 2007) during a time-varying natural scene stimulus. The ability of the model to describe the responses was assessed by computing the correlation coefficient between the rates predicted by the model and those observed during stimulation with a natural scene (Willmore & Smyth, David & Gallant, 2005). For each LN functional model identified for all real A18 neurons using m-sequence responses, a Poisson spike generator was added (Heeger, 2000) to simulate ‘LNP’ responses to m-sequence and natural scene stimuli, and was used to assess the statistical significance of the results. Results: The LN model, with parameters derived from responses to m-sequence stimuli, was able to predict responses to m-sequence stimuli with fairly high reliability (correlation coefficients in the range 0.84 – 0.96). However the model was only able to weakly predict responses to natural scene stimuli. This result was confirmed by comparing the correlation coefficients between predicted and observed firing rates obtained for actual and for simulated responses to the natural scene stimulus; values ranged from 0.14 to 0.59, in marked contrast to the simulated ones ranging from 0.47 to 0.88. Reasons for the inability of the LNP model to predict responses to natural scene stimuli are discussed.
Screen time: The effects on children’s emotional, social, and cognitive development
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Chloe
name: Low, Felicia
name: Gluckman, Peter
Publisher: name: The University of Auckland
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: 111403 Paediatrics
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: In today’s digital world, children are growing up with screens and digital devices pervading almost every aspect of their lives. This is a new phenomenon not even seen in the previous generation. Given that the early years are especially important for the optimal brain development, how does exposure to screen time affect children’s socioemotional and cognitive development? Are adolescents similarly affected?
 Koi Tū’s latest evidence brief examines these issues and more by synthesising the latest research on recreational screen time and children’s development. It also provides a set of recommendations for screen use that acknowledge the realities of contemporary New Zealand family life.
SEARCH FOR LEPTON FLAVOUR UNIVERSALITY VIOLATION AT THE CMS EXPERIMENT
Creators: name: Yun, Hyeon Seo
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 510703
subject: Particle physics

description: This thesis presents two studies in search for violation of lepton flavor universality as predicted by the Standard Model. The first searches for signs of the violation by studying beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics models involving same flavor and opposite sign dilepton pair and bottom quarks as final states. This study was done using the dataset collected during years of 2016, 2017 and 2018, with center of mass energy $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV and integrated luminosity of 138 $fb^-1$. In the study, scale factors were derived in order to correct deviations between simulation and real life data, specifically for high transverse momentum muons and top\&anti-top quark background. Furthermore, lower limits of energy scale were calculated leading to exclusion of the BSM models with energy scale values lower than that of the calculated value.The second study also searches for of the lepton flavor universality violation, but in the specific decay of a tauon into three muons ($\tau \rightarrow 3\mu$). In the study, graph based neural network model (GNN) designed to classify $\tau \rightarrow 3\mu$ events at the CMS detector was converted to high level synthesis (HLS) code, so that the GNN could be coded into a custom hardware such as field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) for deployment. Moreover, techniques such as pruning and quantization were applied in an attempt to make the GNN more light weight, due to strict requirements of FPGA.
fMRI techniques to investigate the functional recovery of individual patients following ischemic stroke
Creators: name: Douglas, Erin Ashley
Publisher: name: University of Calgary
Year: 2005

description: Bibliography: p. 79-94
description: Recently, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to investigate recovery of function post-stroke; however, it has not been implemented clinically due to the variability of measurements taken from individuals across imaging sessions. In this project, it was demonstrated that brain activity measurements based on a laterality index (LI) exhibits less variability than counting fMRI map pixels in a region of interest. It was also demonstrated that combining data from three to four runs of a specific task was required to detect <10% changes in LI across imaging sessions in individuals. Finally, T 2 * within ischemic tissue was elevated and more homogenous than in normal tissue, suggesting the need for an alternative to conventional fMRI. Overall, the results of this project provide the foundation for a clinically useful tool to investigate functional recovery of an individual patient, with the potential to impact on clinical care to help reduce long-term disability.
Habitat metrics based on multi‐temporal Landsat imagery for mapping large mammal habitat
Creators: name: Oeser, Julian
name: Heurich, Marco
name: Senf, Cornelius
name: Pflugmacher, Dirk
name: Belotti, Elisa
name: Kuemmerle, Tobias
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Habitat
subject: Landsat
subject: large mammal
subject: metrics
subject: spectral‐temporal
subject: suitability
subject: 550 Geowissenschaften

description: Up‐to‐date and fine‐scale habitat information is essential for managing and conserving wildlife. Studies assessing wildlife habitat commonly rely on categorical land‐cover maps as predictors in habitat models. However, broad land‐cover categories often do not adequately capture key habitat features and generating robust land‐cover maps is challenging and laborious. Continuous variables derived directly from satellite imagery provide an alternative for capturing land‐cover characteristics in habitat models. Improved data availability and processing capacities now allow integrating all available images from medium‐resolution sensors in compositing approaches that derive spectral‐temporal metrics at the pixel level, summarizing spectral responses over time. In this study, we assessed the usefulness of such metrics derived from Landsat imagery for mapping wildlife habitat. We categorize spectral‐temporal metrics into habitat metrics characterizing different aspects of wildlife habitat. Comparing the performance of these metrics against categorical land‐cover maps in habitat models for lynx, red deer and roe deer, we found that models using habitat metrics consistently outperformed models based on categorical land‐cover maps, with average improvements of 13.7% in model AUC and 9.7% in the Continuous Boyce Index. Performance increases were larger for seasonal habitat models, indicating that the habitat metrics capture intra‐annual variability in habitat conditions better than land‐cover maps. Comparing suitability maps to ancillary data further revealed that our habitat metrics were sensitive to fine‐scale heterogeneity in habitat associated with forest structure. Overall, our study highlights the considerable potential of Landsat‐based spectral temporal metrics for assessing wildlife habitat. Given these metrics can be derived directly and in an automatized fashion from globally and freely available Landsat imagery, they open up new possibilities for monitoring habitat dynamics in space and time.
Prevalence of carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1A (CPT1A) variant p.P479L and risk of infant mortality in Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon
Creators: name: Collins, Sorcha Alexia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The p.P479L (c.1436C>T) variant of hepatic CPT1A is frequent in Inuit and British Columbia First Nations populations of Canada. CPT1A is a major regulatory point in long chain fatty acid oxidation in the liver. CPT1A deficiency is an autosomal recessive disorder that causes metabolic decompensation triggered by fasting, which can progress to seizures and sudden death, if not treated. This study assesses prevalence and clinical impact of the P479L variant in the Canadian territories and reviews modifiable risk factors associated with infant mortality (IM) in Nunavut. Methods: Ethics approval was obtained from university REBs and local research institutes, with consultation with territorial Aboriginal groups. Newborn screening blood spots from all infants born in 2006 (n=1584) and sudden death in infancy cases (n=31; 1999-2008) in the territories were genotyped for the P479L variant. Results: P479L homozygosity in each territory was 64%, 3%, and 1% for Nunavut, NWT, and Yukon, respectively. Within NWT, homozygosity was highest in Inuvialuit (21%) and very low in First Nations (1%). Homozygosity in sudden death cases was highest in Nunavut (18/20) and associated with an increased risk (OR: 5.15; 95% CI: 1.19-22.38). Homozygosity was 29% for NWT cases (2/7), 67% in NWT Inuvialuit (2/3), and was not present in Yukon cases (0/4). Review of Nunavut IM cases (n=78; 1999-2008) identified Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) as the leading causes of infant death (47%), followed by death due to infectious disease (28%). At least 23% of IM cases were premature. Discussion: The P479L variant is very frequent in the Inuit/Inuvialuit of Canada. Although the sample size was small, there was an associated risk for sudden death in infants homozygous for the variant in Nunavut. SIDS and SUDI are the leading causes of infant death in Nunavut, followed by death due to infectious disease. Since deaths in these two categories are largely preventable, prevention strategies and further exploration into the P479L variant and other determinants are indicated. Management strategies, including newborn screening for the P479L variant, need to be developed in consultation with health authorities, local medical professionals, and local communities.
Saldula fucicola
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Saldidae
Saldula
Saldula fucicola

description: Saldula fucicola (J. Sahlberg 1878) Material examined. CHINA: QINGHAI: Haibeizhan, Menyuan, 14.vii.1989, 1♀, collector unknown (NKUM); Jiangyuan, 26.vi.1990, 1 J, M-87, collector unknown (NKUM). SICHUAN: Jiuzhaigou County, N Dajisi Vill., 33°20′49″N 103°48′31″E, 2770 m a.s.l., 21.vi.2012, 1 J, I. Belousov, I. Kabak, G. Davidian & A. Korolev lgt. (ZISP). Distribution. Euro-Siberian forest species distributed in northern areas of Europe, Ukraine, Crimea, Caucasus, Asian part of Kazakhstan, Mongolia, northwestern China, Siberia, and Far East of Russia; in Balkan, Caucasus and Central Asia the species occurs in mountains (LINDSKOG 1995, VINOKUROV 2004, AUKEMA et al. 2013, VINOKUROV & KMENT 2015). In China known from Inner Mongolia (LI et al. 2008) and Xinjiang (CHEN & LINDSKOG 1994, VINOKUROV et al. 2012). New for Qinghai and Sichuan provinces.
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N., 2015, A new species and new data on distribution of the shore bugs of China (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Saldidae), pp. 569-584 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (2) on page 581, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5303022
description: {"references": ["LINDSKOG P. 1995: Infraorder Leptopodomorpha. Pp. 115 - 142. In: AUKEMA B. & RIEGER CH. (eds): Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, xxvi + 222 pp.", "VINOKUROV N. N. 2004: New genus and species of family Saldidae (Heteroptera) from Northern China. Zoosystematica Rossica 13 (1): 9 - 13.", "AUKEMA B., RIEGER CH. & RABITSCH W. 2013: Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. VI. Supplement. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, xxiii + 629 pp.", "VINOKUROV N. N. & KMENT P. 2015: Contribution to the faunistics on shore bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Leptopodomorpha) of Palaearctic Region and Himalayas. Zootaxa 4028 (3): 367 - 387.", "LI H. - W., NONNAIZAB N. - A. & WUEN N. - A. 2008: A Checklist of Saldidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) from Inner Mongolia of China. Mongolian State University of Agriculture, Plant Protection Research Institute Association of Plant Protection, Ecology & Plant Protection. Ulaabaatar 3: 29 - 31.", "CHEN P. - P. & LINDSKOG P. 1994: A namelist of Leptopodomorpha from China (Hemiptera). Chinese Journal of Entomology 14: 405 - 409.", "VINOKUROV N. N., LUO ZH. - H. & LU ZH. - ZH. 2012: Studies of true bugs of Xinjiang, western China. I. Leptopodomorpha: shore bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Saldidae). Zootaxa 3336: 51 - 61."]}
Conscience Issue Tracker - September 2024
Creators: name: Prouse, Chantal
name: Tyhurst, Charlotte
name: Jolicoeur-Becotte, Marie
name: Bechthold, Kristina
name: Miksza, Jerod
name: Lamberti, Dylan
name: Barclay, Christophe
name: Gold, E. Richard
Publisher: name: Conscience
Year: 2024

description: Conscience Issue Tracker - September 2024Issues in this in this edition:

Patient groups and generic companies criticize two US patent bills

FTC sues drug middlemen for inflating insulin prices

Draghi report touts path to pull EU pharma from ‘slow agony’

Innovative pharma-government partnership to enhance UK clinical trials

Study combines data and molecular simulations to accelerate drug discovery
Saldula recticollis
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Saldidae
Saldula
Saldula recticollis

description: Saldula recticollis (Horváth, 1899) Material examined. CHINA: GUANGDONG: Nanling National Natural Reserve, Dadongshan, 24º55.768′N 112º42.960′E, 680 m a.s.l. [Fig. 35], 19.–21.iv.2013, 1 J 2 ♀♀, J. Hájek & J. Růžička (NMPC); Danxia Shan NP, slopes of Elder peak, 25º01.6′N 113º44.2′E, 190 m a.s.l. [Fig. 36], 26.iv.2013, 3 JJ, J. Hájek & J. Růžička lgt. (NMPC). GUANGXI: Jiangdi, 25º55.6′N 110º14.8′E, 365 m a.s.l., 12.iv.2013, 1♀, J. Hájek & J. Růžička lgt. (NMPC). Habitat. In Guangdong, Saldula recticollis was found on exposed wet rocks (Figs 35, 36) (J. Hájek, pers. comm.). Distribution. South of the Far East of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan (LINDSKOG 1995, AUKEMA et al. 2013). In China known from eastern and southern territories (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Guizhou, Fujian, Sichuan, Qinghai, Yunnan) (CHEN 1987). New records for Guangdong Province and Guangxi Autonomous Region.
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N., 2015, A new species and new data on distribution of the shore bugs of China (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Saldidae), pp. 569-584 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (2) on page 582, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5303022
description: {"references": ["LINDSKOG P. 1995: Infraorder Leptopodomorpha. Pp. 115 - 142. In: AUKEMA B. & RIEGER CH. (eds): Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, xxvi + 222 pp.", "AUKEMA B., RIEGER CH. & RABITSCH W. 2013: Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. VI. Supplement. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, xxiii + 629 pp."]}
Salda littoralis
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Saldidae
Salda
Salda littoralis

description: Salda littoralis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Fig. 30) Material examined. CHINA: XINJIANG: N Tien-Shan, ESE Shaty, 42°38′19″N 80°42′44″E, 3055 m a.s.l., 2.vii.2012, 1 J 2 ♀♀, I. Kabak lgt. (ZISP); Narat Mt. R. Tshon-Dzhergalan River, 43°08′57″N 83°30′53″E), 2515 m a.s.l., 19.vii.2102, 1 ♀, I. Kabak lgt. (ZISP); S Altai Mts, Keshtau Mt., ENE Qinghe, 46º47′21″N 90º44′42″E, 2730 m a.s.l., 12.viii.2013, 1 ♀, I. Kabak lgt. (ZISP); S Altai Mts, NE of Koktokay Vill., 47°18′03″N 89°58′47″E), 1410 m a.s.l., 14.viii.2013, 3 ♀♀, I. Kabak lgt. (ZISP). Distribution. Holarctic species (LINDSKOG 1995, AUKEMA et al. 2013, FERENCA et al. 2014). In China known from Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and Xinjiang (CHEN & LINDSKOG 1994, VINOKUROV et al. 2012). In Xinjiang, this species occurs in Tien Shan Mts. and Mongolian Altai Mts. at altitudes of 1400 to 3000 m a.s.l. (Fig. 30).
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N., 2015, A new species and new data on distribution of the shore bugs of China (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Saldidae), pp. 569-584 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (2) on page 582, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5303022
description: {"references": ["LINDSKOG P. 1995: Infraorder Leptopodomorpha. Pp. 115 - 142. In: AUKEMA B. & RIEGER CH. (eds): Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, xxvi + 222 pp.", "AUKEMA B., RIEGER CH. & RABITSCH W. 2013: Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. VI. Supplement. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, xxiii + 629 pp.", "FERENCA R., TAMUTIS V. & STANKUTE R. 2014: Data on new species of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Lithuanian fauna. New and Rare for Lithuania Insect Species 26: 19 - 25.", "CHEN P. - P. & LINDSKOG P. 1994: A namelist of Leptopodomorpha from China (Hemiptera). Chinese Journal of Entomology 14: 405 - 409.", "VINOKUROV N. N., LUO ZH. - H. & LU ZH. - ZH. 2012: Studies of true bugs of Xinjiang, western China. I. Leptopodomorpha: shore bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Saldidae). Zootaxa 3336: 51 - 61."]}
Teloleuca pellucens
Creators: name: Vinokurov, Nikolay N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Saldidae
Teloleuca
Teloleuca pellucens

description: Teloleuca pellucens (Fabricius, 1779) Material examined. CHINA: GANSU: Xiahe (= Labrang) env., 35°11.5′N, 102°30.6′E), 2940 m a.s.l., 19.–22. vi.2005, 1 spec., J. Hájek, D. Král & J. Růžička lgt. (NMPC); S Zhoni Village, N slope Guangai Shan Mt. Range, Shuiergou Valley, 34°30′04″N 103°27′4″E, 2800–3000 m a.s.l., 30.vii.1990, 2 ♀♀ 1 larva, I. Belousov & I. Kabak lgt. (ZISP); Zhuggu county, Dahe env., 33°51′15″N 103°53′25″E, 3798 m a.s.l., 30.vii.2004, 1 ♀, I. Belousov & I. Kabak lgt. (ZISP). Habitat. The specimen from Xiahe was collected near the stream flowing in close valley with loess loam (J. Hájek, pers. comm.). Distribution. Holarctic species (LINDSKOG 1995, AUKEMA et al. 2013). In China earlier recorded only from Gansu province (CHEN & LINDSKOG 1994).
description: Published as part of Vinokurov, Nikolay N., 2015, A new species and new data on distribution of the shore bugs of China (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Saldidae), pp. 569-584 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (2) on page 583, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5303022
description: {"references": ["LINDSKOG P. 1995: Infraorder Leptopodomorpha. Pp. 115 - 142. In: AUKEMA B. & RIEGER CH. (eds): Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, xxvi + 222 pp.", "AUKEMA B., RIEGER CH. & RABITSCH W. 2013: Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. VI. Supplement. The Netherlands Entomological Society, Amsterdam, xxiii + 629 pp.", "CHEN P. - P. & LINDSKOG P. 1994: A namelist of Leptopodomorpha from China (Hemiptera). Chinese Journal of Entomology 14: 405 - 409."]}
Empowerment-Themed Advertising Effects: Activation of Empowerment and Objectification Schemas in Women Age 18-35
Creators: name: Bue, Amelia C. Couture
name: Dal Cin, Sonya
name: Harrison, Kristen
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Advertisements that ostensibly serve to empower women have become popular in recent years, but recent research calls into question the psychological effectiveness of these advertisements. While seemingly progressive, empowerment-themed advertisements (ETAs) often pair empowerment-themed narratives with objectifying visuals despite the established harmful effects of objectification in media. Though empowerment and objectification intuitively seem incompatible, this relationship has not been empirically tested. The current study used experimental design to examine the relationship between empowerment and objectification schemas following exposure to ETAs. U.S. women age 18–35 (N= 273) were randomly assigned to view advertisements from one of five conditions displaying combinations of high/low empowerment and objectification themes. They then completed a lexical decision task (LDT) to measure schema activation. While ETAs were perceived as significantly more empowering than other advertisement types in the manipulation check, no advertising condition exhibited greater activation of empowerment schemas than the control group as measured by the LDT, suggesting that ETAs were largely ineffective at activating empowerment schemas. Contrary to initial expectations, there was no evidence that objectification content suppressed priming of empowerment schemas, though interpretation of the objectification schema findings is complicated by the likely impact of cognitive load on LDT response times.
Effect of molecular structure on the viscoelastic properties of cellulose acetate in a ternary system
Creators: name: Hsieh, Chia-Wen Carmen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A series of ternary systems composed of cellulose acetate (CA), N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMA), and water were prepared by varying the mixing temperature, order of component addition, and polymer substitution pattern with increasing water content. The viscoelastic properties of the resulting ternary systems were measured using steady state and dynamic rheology. The CA/DMA/H₂O mixture formed physical gels at 17.5 and 19 wt% nonsolvent concentrations after heating to 50 and 70/90°C respectively. Gel formation was characterized by the loss of a Newtonian plateau in the steady state as well as the transition of the elastic (G') modulus becoming greater than the viscous (G") modulus in the dynamic state. The molecular structure of the polymer influenced the viscoelastic properties of the resulting gel. Commercially available CA was found to be partially acetylated at the C2, C3, and C6 positions and contained a total degree of substitution (DS) of 2.47. As CA cluster size in solution decreases with increasing temperature, viscosity measurements showed higher viscosity for samples heated at 50°C, where the loss of the linear stress-strain relationship occurred at 17.5 wt% water. In the dynamic state, higher heating temperature produced higher elastic moduli with a longer linear viscoelastic region (LVR), indicative of a stable system. Changing the sequence of polymer addition by adding CA to a DMA/H₂O solution resulted in lower overall viscoelastic moduli as compared to adding water to a CA/DMA solution. CA that was regioselectively synthesized to a DS of 2.4 showed different viscoelastic behaviour than the commercial CA. This polymer was completely acetylated at C2 and C3 and partially acetylated at position 6. The system underwent phase separation induced gelation at much lower nonsolvent content. Stress sweep experiments confirmed a shorter LVR and higher G' than commercial CA. Increasing the DS of the regioselective polymer to 2.8 led to a longer LVR and higher G' than all other polymers at the same nonsolvent content. The enhanced steady shear viscosity and dynamic viscoelastic properties were a result of the intensification of hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic interactions between the polymer, solvent, and nonsolvent.
Sample_Weight_Model for Predictive Coding Deep Neural Network (Front. Psychol., 15 March 2018)
Creators: name: Watanabe, Eiji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Sample weight model used in Illusory Motion Reproduced by Deep Neural Networks Trained for Prediction (Front. Psychol., 15 March 2018; https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00345).
This model was generated with predictive coding deep neural network using 500K FPSI video images.
Traditional And Novel Methods for Oil Extraction
Creators: name: Sanganamoni Shivashankar, K Suresh, P Anitha and A Sathish
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2023

description: Oils are one of the major contributors of fat in our diet; it enhances palatability of food, shelf-life and makes food tasty. The method used for extraction of the oil is of paramount importance as it determines the quality of the final products and the possible environmental implications. It is obvious that the oil yield from oil-bearing agricultural products depends on the methods or techniques being adopted. There are various oil extraction methods with advantages and dis-advantages. Finding the best oil extraction method for particular oil-bearing agricultural product would increase the oil yield and quality.
Elampus sanzii Gogorza 1887
Creators: name: Paukkunen, Juho
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Soon, Villu
name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ødegaard, Frode
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Elampus
Elampus sanzii

description: 3. Elampus sanzii Gogorza, 1887
Elampus Sanzii Gogorza 1887: 33. Holotype ♂; Spain: Madrid (MNCN).
Remarks. This species was reported from Sweden in Dyntaxa (2013) and from Latvia by Tumšs & Maršakovs (1970: 90, as Notozus sanzii), Soon (2004: 44) and Rosa & Soon (2012, as doubtful). The single Swedish specimen was recently found to be misidentified and represent E. foveatus. According to Tumšs & Maršakovs (1970), two specimens were found in Latvia (one female from Staldzene and one male from Staicele). However, no specimens determined as E. sanzii have been found in Tumšs’ and Maršakovs’ collections in Riga. One exceptionally green specimen of E. panzeri, which had the same data as E. sanzii in Tumšs & Maršakovs' publication, was found among specimens of E. panzeri, and it probably represents the other Latvian specimen. Because E. sanzii is a southern species in Europe, the Latvian records are doubtful and most likely erroneous.
description: Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433
Sample_Weight_Model for Predictive Coding Deep Neural Network (Front. Psychol., 15 March 2018)
Creators: name: Watanabe, Eiji
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Sample weight model used in Illusory Motion Reproduced by Deep Neural Networks Trained for Prediction (Front. Psychol., 15 March 2018; https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00345).
This model was generated with predictive coding deep neural network using 500K FPSI video images.
[Important remarks][About 29v_300K_i10K.model]
The video used in the paper has a bug where it plays the same two frames in a row (which may not be a bug for artificial perception...). The model 29v_300K_i10K.model was trained on the video with the bug fixed. The GPU parameters and initial values were fixed for 29v_300K_i10K.model training.
The videos used for the training were shared below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i8Iv4Gd9zwVyvgXTtVb4RIHeex4D5tXr/view?usp=sharing