cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Exploring pre-professional musicians’ experiences of a somatic movement approach as a practice method for musical phrasing
Creators: name: Wyers, Marilyn
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2019

description: This thesis explores pre-professional musicians’ experiences of a Somatic Movement approach as a practice method for musical phrasing. It develops possibilities for music performance learning through Enactive perspectives and the principles of Somatics. The Enactivist-based notion of Image Schemata, proposed by Mark Johnson (1987, 2007) and George Lakoff (Lakoff & Johnson 1980), is drawn upon to consider ways in which sensorimotor interaction can establish patterns of understanding of musical phrasing. In conjunction, Somatic Movement approaches including Laban Movement Analysis/Bartenieff Fundamentals (LMA/BF) and Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) are used to look at how the application of a Somatic Movement-inspired approach can be an important mediator in helping performers fulfil their musical phrasing intentions with a greater sense of ease and agency. Using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, seven undergraduate students of western classical music performance participated in a series of Somatic Movement-inspired workshops (six in the pilot study and one in the main study). The workshops, which were video-recorded, focused on Somatic Movement/music exercises and explorations. Observation, individual interviews and video-assisted recall were used to collect data, which also acted as feedback to the participants. Laban-inspired Kestenberg ‘Shape Flow’ categories were used to look at participants’ movement patterns and the musical material. Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis was used to analyse the interview data allowing participants’ experiences to be examined ideographically and in detail. Themes identified included Embodiment, Musical Intentionality, Performer Agency and Learner Autonomy. The potential contribution of these findings toward developing a framework that supports a pedagogical orientation of embodiment for pre-professional music students in higher education was discussed. The implications and benefits concerning attending to movement and, the shaping and refining of pre-professional music students’ own practice as reflective learners and as future embodied music performers were considered.
Teaching value propositions as part of the business model
Creators: name: Yrjölä, Mika
Publisher: name: Journal of Business Models
Year: 2019

description: This paper outlines and discusses one approach for teaching business students about the role of value propositions as an important part of any organization’s business model. The course-wide approach is organized around understanding, creating and capturing value. The approach involves traditional teaching, interactive discussions, group work, pitching, and peer evaluation.
description: Journal of Business Models, Vol 7 No 3 (2019): Special Issue: Teaching Business Models - Part 1
Cosmology in a supersymmetric model with gauged $B-L$
Creators: name: Yajnik, Urjit A.
name: Sarkar, Anjishnu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider salient cosmological features of a supersymmetric model which is Left-Right symmetric and therefore possessing gauged $B-L$ symmetry. The requirement of breaking parity and also obtaining charge preserving vacua introduces some unique features to this model (MSLRM), resulting in a preference for non-thermal Leptogenesis. Assuming that the model preserves TeV scale supersymmetry, we show that the vacuum structure generically possesses domain walls, which can serve two important purposes. They can signal a secondary inflation required to remove unwanted relics such as gravitino and moduli and also generate lepton asymmetry by a mechanism similar to electroweak baryogenesis. The requirement of disappearance of domain walls imposes constraints on the soft parameters of the theory, testable at the TeV scale. We also propose an alternative model with spontaneous parity violation (MSLR\rlap/P). Incorporating the same cosmological considerations in this case entails constraints on a different set of soft parameters.
description: 18 pages. Minor changes in text, but conclusion remains same. Published in Phys. Rev. D
Grammar of Peer Production
Creators: name: Kostakis, Vasilis
name: Bauwens, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: peer production
political economy
commons
value creation
sustainability

description: In 2005, Michel Bauwens published “The Political Economy of Peer Production”, which discussed the principles, characteristics, and the future of the then nascent ecosystem of peer production. This chapter revisits Bauwens’ 2005 article, adopting, expanding and refining the operational concepts – or “grammar” – he used to define peer production projects and the institutional ecosystems that sustain them. Our aim is to provide a framework that would give a theoretical underpinning to the transformative practices of peer production. In a time of deep environmental, social and political crisis, it is important to understand how a new kind of society, based on the centrality of the commons and within a reformed market and state, is possible. This chapter, thus, discusses and introduces new paradigmatic ways of value creation that have the potential to be more radically inclusive and sustainable.
Additional file 7 of A new experimental design to study inflammation-related versus non-inflammation-related depression in mice
Creators: name: Cardinal, Pierre
name: Monchaux de Oliveira, Camille
name: Sauvant, Julie
name: Foury, Aline
name: Darnaudéry, Muriel
name: Vancassel, Sylvie
name: Castanon, Nathalie
name: Capuron, Lucile
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 7: Fig. S3. HFD and UCMS differentially modulated PFC gene expression of inflammatory markers and related neurobiological processes. Relative gene expression (as compared to controls) measured by TLDA analysis in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of unstressed (Controls) or stressed (UCMS) SD and HFD mice. Detailed analysis revealed significant impact of HFD and/or UCMS for: (A) Markers of microglial activation (CCL2, CXCL9, CXCL1, CD86, CD74); (B) enzymes from the KYN pathway (KMO, HAAO, KAT) and the neurotoxicity/neuroprotection ratio (expression level of KMO/KAT); (C) enzymes from the BH4 pathway (GCH1, PTPS); (D) key elements of the 5-HT system (5-HTT, MAOA) and (E) oxidative enzymes (NOS2, CAT). (n = 8–10 mice/group). All results are graphed as means ± SEM. *P
อิทธิพลของ NAA และ BA ต่อการเพิ่มปริมาณโปรโตคอร์มของกล้วยไม้เอื้องสายม่านพระอินทร์
Creators: name: พรทิพย์ อติชาติ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2556
Subjects: สารควบคุมการเจริญเติบโต , การเพิ่มยอด, กล้วยไม้เอื้องสายม่านพระอินทร์

description: ฉบับพิเศษ, วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Aiding Development or Aiding Politics? How Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa Impact the Efficacy of Official Development Assistance in Ethiopia
Creators: name: Meyer, Courtney
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: This article approaches the concept of sustainable development with a mind to the sustainability of the neoliberal economic philosophy through which official development is currently allocated. This article examines a contemporary aid-dependent state in sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia, to question how governance strategies impact the efficacy of official development assistance. Much contemporary development literature neglects politics, concluding that aid effectiveness is contingent on economic variables. An increasing number of econometric studies consider the impact of aid on institutions, yet few discuss the political and developmental objectives, ultimately illustrating the naïveté of the neoliberal good-governance framework and the importance of recognizing how interests, ideas, and ideologies combine to create the specificities of politics in Africa. I argue that aspects of politics in Africa such as neopatrimonialism and patronage must be recognized as ends to governance strategies and that these may sometimes take precedence; however, whether these factors impede development depends on the regime’s objectives. Although it accompanied its development efforts with human-rights abuses to secure the regime’s future, the Meles Zenawi regime nonetheless made great strides toward economic prosperity.
description: Consilience, No 9 (2013): Issue Nine: 2013
การผลิตถ่านชีวภาพจากต้นไมยราบยักษ์
Creators: name: ปานใจ สื่อประเสริฐสิทธิ์
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2556
Subjects: ถ่านชีวภาพ, ต้นไมยราบยักษ์

description: ฉบับพิเศษ, วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Synchrotron emission from the T Tauri binary system V773 Tau A
Creators: name: Massi, M.
name: Forbrich, J.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Torricelli-Ciamponi, G.
name: Neidhofer, J.
name: Leurini, S.
name: Bertoldi, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The pre-main sequence binary system V773 Tau A shows remarkable flaring activity around periastron passage. Here, we present the observation of such a flare at a wavelength of 3 mm (90 GHz) performed with the Plateau de Bure Interferometer. We examine different possible causes for the energy losses responsible for the e-folding time of 2.3 hours of that flare. We exclude synchrotron, collisional, and inverse Compton losses because they are not consistent with observational constraints, and we propose that the fading of the emission is due to the leakage of electrons themselves at each reflection between the two mirror points of the magnetic structure partially trapping them. The magnetic structure compatible with both our leakage model and previous observations is that of a helmet streamer that, as in the solar case, can occur at the top of the X-ray-emitting, stellar-sized coronal loops of one of the stars. The streamer may extend up to 20 R and interact with the corona of the other star at periastron passage, causing recurring flares. The inferred magnetic field strength at the two mirror points of the helmet streamer is in the range 0.12 - 125 G, and the corresponding Lorentz factor, gamma, of the partially trapped electrons is in the range 20 < gamma < 632. We therefore rule out that the emission could be of gyro-synchrotron nature: the derived high Lorentz factor proves that the nature of the emission at 90 GHz from this pre-main binary system is synchrotron radiation. Based on observations carried out with the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer. IRAM is supported by INSU/CNRS (France), MPG (Germany), and IGN (Spain).
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, A&A in press
Note from the Editor-in-Chief
Creators: name: Sing, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: Dear Readers, It is my great pleasure to announce the publication of our 9th Issue. Our editorial and managing teams have worked diligently over the past few months to compile a collection of articles we believe effectively address topics trending in sustainable development today. As Editor-in-Chief, I would like to extend my appreciation to our editors and supporting boards for their tireless efforts in producing another critical asset to the field of sustainable development. This season’s issue features a variety of articles attending to topics ranging from sustainable agriculture, urban planning, climate change, and development initiatives, among others. We are particularly excited to present Professor Douglas Kelbaugh’s opinion piece on “The Environmental Paradox of Cities.” In this article, Professor Kelbaugh presents new ways of thinking about the impact that densely inhabited urban zones have on the local and global environment. In addition to several provocative opinion pieces, Issues IX also features several scholarly articles, photo essays, and a field note. In one of our featured scholarly articles, Damilola Olawuyi addresses a timely topic through her discussion of the impacts of major oil spills. For those who followed our coverage of the systematic contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon by Texaco, this article may be of particular interest. Our featured field note, by Angelica Patterson, focuses on the topic of climate change through the lens of a local case study based in New York State’s Black Rock Forest. Finally, we have included a collection of photo essays, which we hope will give human value to the topics we discuss. The mission of Consilience has always been to initiate dialogue on issues in sustainable development. We hope that, through engagement, our readers, editors, and authors can come together in some capacity to discuss solutions to the many problems threatening sustainable development. The interdisciplinary nature of our publication is a deliberate attempt to illustrate the range of people, institutions, and systems unsustainable practices affect. Yet, through collective action, we can find solutions to address some of our planet’s most pressing communal problems. It is our hope that Consilience can play some small role in setting this communal awareness and cooperation in motion. I invite you to read Issues IX as well as our past publications and Briefings Column. As always, please contact me with any questions, critiques, feedback or submissions at contact@consiliencejournal.org. Regards, Alexandra Sing Editor-in-Chief Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development
description: Consilience, No 9 (2013): Issue Nine: 2013
A Review of Economic Instruments Employed for Biodiversity Conservation
Creators: name: Ekpe, Edem Kodzo
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: Globally, the use of economic instruments for biodiversity conservation has gained a lot of support. This is because of the concern for the economic well being of people living in and near biodiversity-rich areas. Also, economic drivers are the main threats to biodiversity. This policy of using economic instruments is being used on a case-by-case basis worldwide. A review of their use from a global perspective is important to facilitate learning from issues resulting from their implementation. This article documents and reviews the specific economic instruments being used in different parts of the world for biodiversity conservation. An analysis of the economic instruments using a demand or supply classification suggests that more instruments are targeted at increasing supply of biological resources for human use. A review of literature and field documents was also employed to determine trends in the use of economic instruments for conservation. A major trend observed is the relatively low investments in economic instruments used for biodiversity conservation in developing countries, even though such countries tend to be rich in biodiversity.
description: Consilience, No 9 (2013): Issue Nine: 2013
Appraising weak and strong sustainability: searching for a middle ground
Creators: name: Davies, George Randal
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: This paper seeks to address the ongoing issue of weak and strong sustainability, searching for a middle ground. It discusses the differences between weak and strong sustainability arguing for equality and equity between nature and humankind though movement towards an eco-socio-feminist perspective as an idealist point of view. Through this, full equality and balance may be attained.
description: Consilience, No 10 (2013): Issue Ten: 2013
Binary black hole signatures in polarized light curves
Creators: name: Dotti, Massimo
name: Bonetti, Matteo
name: D'Orazio, Daniel J.
name: Haiman, Zoltan
name: Ho, Luis C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Variable active galactic nuclei showing periodic light curves have been proposed as massive black hole binary (MBHB) candidates. In such scenarios the periodicity can be due to relativistic Doppler-boosting of the emitted light. This hypothesis can be tested through the timing of scattered polarized light. Following the results of polarization studies in type I nuclei and of dynamical studies of MBHBs with circumbinary discs, we assume a coplanar equatorial scattering ring, whose elements contribute differently to the total polarized flux, due to different scattering angles, levels of Doppler boost, and line-of-sight time delays. We find that in the presence of a MBHB, both the degree of polarization and the polarization angle have periodic modulations. The minimum of the polarization degree approximately coincides with the peak of the light curve, regardless of the scattering ring size. The polarization angle oscillates around the semi-minor axis of the projected MBHB orbital ellipse, with a frequency equal either to the binary's orbital frequency (for large scattering screen radii), or twice this value (for smaller scattering structures). These distinctive features can be used to probe the nature of periodic MBHB candidates and to compile catalogs of the most promising sub-pc MBHBs. The identification of such polarization features in gravitational-wave detected MBHBs would enormously increase the amount of physical information about the sources, allowing the measurement of the individual masses of the binary components, and the orientation of the line of nodes on the sky, even for monochromatic gravitational wave signals.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Additional file 2: of A novel FLI1 exonic circular RNA promotes metastasis in breast cancer by coordinately regulating TET1 and DNMT1
Creators: name: Chen, Naifei
name: Zhao, Gang
name: Yan, Xu
name: Lv, Zheng
name: Yin, Hongmei
name: Zhang, Shilin
name: Song, Wei
name: Li, Xueli
name: Li, Lingyu
name: Du, Zhonghua
name: Jia, Lin
name: Zhou, Lei
name: Li, Wei
name: Hoffman, Andrew
name: Hu, Ji-Fan
name: Cui, Jiuwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Oligonucleotide sequences of PCR primers. (PDF 119 kb)
Orthogonal Exponentials for Bernoulli Iterated Function Systems
Creators: name: Jorgensen, Palle
name: Kornelson, Keri
name: Shuman, Karen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate certain spectral properties of the Bernoulli convolution measures on attractor sets arising from iterated function systems on the real line. In particular, we examine collections of orthogonal exponential functions in the Hilbert space of square integrable functions on the attractor. We carefully examine a test case where the parameter lambda is equal to 3/4 and therefore the IFS has overlap. We also determine rational values of lambda for which infinite sets of orthogonal exponentials exist.
The Monitoring and Evaluation System of the Millennium Villages Project-Potou/Senegal: Close Look at the Mid-term Evaluation Report
Creators: name: Kinda, Ousséni
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: This paper explores the monitoring and evaluation system of the Millennium Villages Project in Potou, rural Senegal. It specifically focuses on the first evaluation report undertaken in 2009 after three years of intervention to assess the impacts of the project on communities in Potou. Theory of change, causal attribution, scaling-up, use of evaluation, and learning are the key issues that are addressed throughout the paper. Interviews with beneficiaries and project staff as well as the analysis of the project’s evaluation report revealed that the project has created many positive impacts in the communities of Potou. However, unintended negative results have been observed in the sectors of education, health, and agriculture. Given the weaknesses that have been identified in the evaluation method, this paper suggests some strategies to strengthen the methodology of future evaluations, thus allowing for distinct attribution of the impacts to the project.
description: Consilience, No 9 (2013): Issue Nine: 2013
通过转录组学分析刺芒柄花素影响BMDM细胞焦亡的机制
Creators: name: 伍蓉
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Transcriptome or Gene expression
Monoisolate

description: BMDM用LPS处理2小时后，再用刺芒柄花素处理2小时，最后ATP处理30分钟，收集样品，进行转录组测序分析。
Two-dimensional spin models with macroscopic degeneracy
Creators: name: Dmitriev, D. V.
name: Krivnov, V. Ya.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a class of anisotropic spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ models with competing ferro- and antiferromagnetic interactions on two-dimensional Tasaki and kagome lattices consisting of corner sharing triangles. For certain values of the interactions the ground state is macroscopically degenerated in zero magnetic field. In this case the ground state manifold consists of isolated magnons as well as the bound magnon complexes. The ground state degeneracy is estimated using a special form of exact wave function which admits arrow configuration representation on two-dimensional lattice. The comparison of this estimate with the result for some special exactly solved models shows that the used approach determines the number of the ground states with exponential accuracy. It is shown that the main contribution to the ground state degeneracy and the residual entropy is given by the bound magnon complexes.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures
Class of exactly soluble models of one-dimensional spinless fermions and its application to the Tomonaga-Luttinger Hamiltonian with nonlinear dispersion
Creators: name: Rozhkov, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is shown that for some special values of Hamiltonian parameters the Tomonaga-Luttinger model with nonlinear dispersion is unitary equivalent to the system of noninteracting fermions. For such parameter values the density-density propagator of the Tomonaga-Luttinger Hamiltonian with nonlinear dispersion can be found exactly. In a generic situation the exact solution can be used as a reference point around which a perturbative expansion in orders of certain irrelevant operators may be constructed.
description: 12 pages, 0 figure, revtex 4
通过Chip-seq研究BMDM发生焦亡时Hnrnpul2蛋白与Nlrp3基因的关系
Creators: name: 伍蓉
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Other
Chip-seq
Monoisolate

description: BMDM利用LPS和ATP诱导细胞焦亡，通过试剂盒获得交联的染色质，与anti-HNRNPUL2抗体共孵育，最终获得的DNA进行Chip-seq。
Lyman-alpha radiation pressure: an analytical exploration
Creators: name: Tomaselli, Giovanni Maria
name: Ferrara, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study radiation pressure due to Lyman alpha line photons, obtaining and exploring analytical expressions for the force-multiplier, $M_F(N_H, Z) = F_α/(L_α/c)$, as a function of gas column density, $N_H$, and metallicity, $Z$, for both dust-free and dusty media, employing a WKB approach for the latter case. Solutions for frequency offset emission to emulate non-static media moving with a bulk velocity $v$, have also been obtained. We find that, in static media, Ly$α$ pressure dominates over both photoionization and dust-mediated UV radiation pressure in a very wide parameter range ($16 < \log N_H < 23$; $-4 < \log[Z/Z_\odot] < 0$). For example, it overwhelms the other two forces by 10 (300) times in standard (low-$Z$) star-forming clouds. Thus, in agreement with previous studies, we conclude that Ly$α$ pressure plays a dominant role in the initial acceleration of the gas around luminous sources, and must be implemented in galaxy formation, evolution and outflow models and simulations.
Additional file 2 of Action leveraging evidence to reduce perinatal mortality and morbidity (ALERT): study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda
Creators: name: Akuze, Joseph
name: Annerstedt, Kristi Sidney
name: Benova, Lenka
name: Chipeta, Effie
name: Dossou, Jean-Paul
name: Gross, Mechthild M.
name: Kidanto, Hussein
name: Marchal, Bruno
name: Alvesson, Helle Mölsted
name: Pembe, Andrea B.
name: van Damme, Wim
name: Waiswa, Peter
name: Hanson, Claudia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Standards for Reporting Implementation Studies (StaRI).
Legal and Sustainable Development Impacts of Major Oil Spills
Creators: name: Olawuyi, Damilola S
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: Oil spills trigger the application of several interrelated national, regional, and international laws and regulations that provide windows of redress for victims. This paper provides a summary of the legal and sustainable development principles at play where oil spills occur. It provides a simplified synopsis of the relevant principles of international environmental law through which victims of oil spillage can seek compensation. It also highlights the absence of a comprehensive convention on safety standards for oil platforms in international laws applicable to oil spillage.
description: Consilience, No 9 (2013): Issue Nine: 2013
Sustainable Indigenous Orchards: An Agroforestry Project in the Colombian Amazon
Creators: name: Shigematsu, Jorge
name: Sadowski, Sylvia Garcia
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: In 2010, NGOs Green Hope Colombia and Forestever started the development of an agroforestry project in the Colombian Amazon. Jorge Shigematsu, the director of Green Hope Colombia, who had been doing social work with indigenous communities in this region since 2007, witnessed how lands in the area had been subjected to indiscriminate tree cutting and light-burn agriculture, resulting in land degradation, loss of biodiversity, food scarcity and displacement of agricultural activities for illegal hunting and animal trafficking. Eventually, these practices would result in the destruction of parts of the region’s Amazon forest. Jorge reasoned that investing in education about sustainability would become essential to protect the forest and to rescue the land and people’s cultural values and traditions. He met Maikov Dumas, a French agro-development engineer and director of NGOs Forestever and Up2Green. They partnered to execute the Sustainable Indigenous Orchard Reforestation Program, which by the end of 2012 had achieved planting of twenty thousand (20,000) native species trees. Their work will serve as a case study for research on economic development and sustainability in indigenous communities, educational outreach and relations between state and indigenous governments. It also provides a perspective on the question of how to approach and balance potential conflicts between ancient indigenous practices and environmental and social sustainability.
description: Consilience, No 10 (2013): Issue Ten: 2013
Online Supplementary Material: Low temperature vortex liquid in $\rm La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$
Creators: name: Li, Lu
name: Checkelsky, J. G.
name: Komiya, Seiki
name: Ando, Yoichi
name: Ong, N. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report here the supplementary material for Ref. [1]. Using torque magnetometry, we measured the magnetization anisotropy of 7 crystals of $\rm La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4$ (LSCO). In optimally-doped cuprates, the bulk susceptibility is dominated by the paramagnetic van-Vleck orbital term $χ_{orb}$ which has a significant anisotropy ($χ^{orb}_c>χ^{orb}_{ab}$) that changes weakly with $T$ (subscripts $c$ and ${ab}$ identify quantities measured with $\bf H||c$ and $\bf H\perp c$, respectively). Moreover, in the lightly-doped regime, the paramagnetic spin susceptibilities $χ^s_c$ and $χ^s_{ab}$ become significantly large below the interval 40-60 K. However, the spin susceptibility is very nearly isotropic (except below 10 K where its anisotropy becomes measurable). Against the large orbital and spin terms, the weak diamagnetic signal is very difficult to resolve using standard bulk magnetometry in lightly-doped cuprates. By contrast, torque magnetometry selectively detects the orbital diamagnetism generated by supercurrents confined to the CuO$_2$ layers while ignoring the large spin contribution when it is isotropic. The orbital van-Vleck contribution is also detected, but as a ``background'' that is $H$-linear to intense fields and only mildly $T$ dependent.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures, Supplement to cond-mat/0702121, Nature Physics, in press
非孕和怀孕小鼠粪便非靶向代谢组分析
Creators: name: 伍蓉
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Metabolome
Multiisolate

description: 收集同笼C57雌鼠在非孕和怀孕状态下的粪便，进行非靶向代谢组分析。
Additional file 1 of The ANHEQ Evaluation Criteria: Introducing Reliable Rating Scales for Assessing Nordic Hamstring Exercise Quality
Creators: name: Alt, Tobias
name: Schmidt, Marcus
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Expanded description of the ANHEQ criteria.
Determinants of Market Participation in Nigerian Small-Scale Fishery Sector: Evidence from Niger Delta Region
Creators: name: Onoja, Anthony O
name: Usoroh, B. B.
name: Adieme, D. T.
name: Deedam, N. J.
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: This study was designed to determine the factors that influence fisher farmers to participate in the marketing of their produce in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. A total of 120 fish farmers were randomly selected for the study. The data gathered through the use of a structured questionnaire were analyzed using the logistic regression model. The probability of participating in fish marketing was significantly determined by household size, distant to the nearest marketing channel, price of the commodity and sex of the fish farmer/marketer. Market infrastructure development, provision of marketing incentives to women and development of an institutionalized marketing information service are recommended.
description: Consilience, No 9 (2013): Issue Nine: 2013
Agrobiodiversity Conservation as a Coping Strategy: Adapting to Climate Change in the Northern Highlands of Bolivia
Creators: name: Baldinelli, Guilia Mari
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: This article is the result of my observations in two Aymara communities of the Northern Bolivian Altiplano, where I am collecting data for my PhD thesis. My thesis aims to explore the connections between on-farm conservation of local crop varieties and migration of Aymara people away from their communities of origin in the Altiplano to urban areas. While studying the conservation of agrobiodiversity performed by Bolivian farmers, I investigated the use of different crop varieties, conserved by indigenous people, in response to climate change. The consequences of climate change are evident in the rural areas of the Altiplano Norte: prolonged droughts, followed by heavy precipitations and floods. Agriculture is severely affected by such extreme climatic events and the response of the farmers varies. In this article, I focus on a possible adaptation approach enabled by a strategic use of the numerous crop varieties that many Aymara farmers still own. Although the relevant knowledge is slowly being lost, some agrobiodiversity “champions” still hold it and use it to adapt sustainably to new climatic conditions. Research about the agronomic characteristics and the use of local varieties is still needed to provide indigenous farmers with further options to face environmental and climatic change in the Altiplano Norte.
description: Consilience, No 11 (2014): Issue Eleven: 2014
Collective Effects in Models for Interacting Molecular Motors and Motor-Microtubule Mixtures
Creators: name: Menon, Gautam I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three problems in the statistical mechanics of models for an assembly of molecular motors interacting with cytoskeletal filaments are reviewed. First, a description of the hydrodynamical behaviour of density-density correlations in fluctuating ratchet models for interacting molecular motors is outlined. Numerical evidence indicates that the scaling properties of dynamical behavior in such models belong to the KPZ universality class. Second, the generalization of such models to include boundary injection and removal of motors is provided. In common with known results for the asymmetric exclusion processes, simulations indicate that such models exhibit sharp boundary driven phase transitions in the thermodynamic limit. In the third part of this paper, recent progress towards a continuum description of pattern formation in mixtures of motors and microtubules is described, and a non-equilibrium ``phase-diagram'' for such systems discussed.
description: Proc. Int. Workshop on "Common Trends in Traffic Systems", Kanpur, India, Feb 2006; to be published in Physica A
Effects of capture, power loss factor, and variable transmit power level in multiple-access systems
Creators: name: Wong, Victor J. K. (Jack Keung)
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The problem of data transmission in a slotted ALOHA system with one central base station and a number of mobiles is addressed. Of particular interest is the probability qi of successful packet reception ("capture") when i mobile users transmit in a given time slot. This probability depends on the propagation law, as well as fading, transmit power variations, spatial distribution and capture models. The capture probability in a noisy system is studied and the values of qi for large i appear to be independent of the noise level as long as the noise is reasonable (i.e. the normalized noise power is less than one). Conditions under which qi decreases monotonically with i are derived. Examples are also given to illustrate cases in which qi may not decrease monotonically with i. The effect of the power loss factor, β, on different spatial distribution and capture models is studied. It is shown that in a noiseless system, qi increases with β for the two capture models considered. A new spatial distribution, referred to as the inverse-distance spatial distribution, is proposed which allows an exact expression for qi to be obtained. A transmit power selection scheme, which decreases with distance over a selected range of distance, is proposed. Simulation results are used to show that under certain conditions, the throughput performance can be greatly improved with such a transmit power law.
The Forgotten Document-Oriented Database Management Systems: An Overview and Benchmark of Native XML DODBMSes in Comparison with JSON DODBMSes
Creators: name: Truică, Ciprian-Octavian
name: Apostol, Elena-Simona
name: Darmont, Jérôme
name: Pedersen, Torben Bach
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: H.2

description: In the current context of Big Data, a multitude of new NoSQL solutions for storing, managing, and extracting information and patterns from semi-structured data have been proposed and implemented. These solutions were developed to relieve the issue of rigid data structures present in relational databases, by introducing semi-structured and flexible schema design. As current data generated by different sources and devices, especially from IoT sensors and actuators, use either XML or JSON format, depending on the application, database technologies that store and query semi-structured data in XML format are needed. Thus, Native XML Databases, which were initially designed to manipulate XML data using standardized querying languages, i.e., XQuery and XPath, were rebranded as NoSQL Document-Oriented Databases Systems. Currently, the majority of these solutions have been replaced with the more modern JSON based Database Management Systems. However, we believe that XML-based solutions can still deliver performance in executing complex queries on heterogeneous collections. Unfortunately nowadays, research lacks a clear comparison of the scalability and performance for database technologies that store and query documents in XML versus the more modern JSON format. Moreover, to the best of our knowledge, there are no Big Data-compliant benchmarks for such database technologies. In this paper, we present a comparison for selected Document-Oriented Database Systems that either use the XML format to encode documents, i.e., BaseX, eXist-db, and Sedna, or the JSON format, i.e., MongoDB, CouchDB, and Couchbase. To underline the performance differences we also propose a benchmark that uses a heterogeneous complex schema on a large DBLP corpus.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures, 7 tables
Independent Study on Changing Student Behaviour to Increase Energy Sustainability and Efficiency at the Macdonald Campus of McGill University
Creators: name: Wu, Andrew
name: Singh, Jaaved
name: Tikasz, Peter
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: This paper explores social perception towards energy consumption on Macdonald campus, as seen by different subsections of the Macdonald community: undergraduate, graduate, faculty and staff. A total of 118 community members were randomly surveyed via a semi-structured questionnaire. Main findings of our research suggested that, as a whole, community members believe Macdonald Campus to be a relatively energy-efficient place. However, results indicated a discrepancy between students and faculty/staff in terms of their perception of energy efficiency on campus. Furthermore, there was broad agreement regarding the inaccessibility of information on energy use on campus, suggesting that this was a primary leverage point to enact social change. Various initiatives are presented, aimed towards increasing information accessibility. With a planned implementation date of Fall 2012, these initiatives are expected to have a significant impact on environmental awareness, ultimately decreasing energy use on campus and reducing its’ environmental impact.
description: Consilience, No 10 (2013): Issue Ten: 2013
Tuning interactions between spins in a superconductor
Creators: name: Ding, Hao
name: Hu, Yuwen
name: Randeria, Mallika T.
name: Hoffman, Silas
name: Deb, Oindrila
name: Klinovaja, Jelena
name: Loss, Daniel
name: Yazdani, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Novel many-body and topological electronic phases can be created in assemblies of interacting spins coupled to a superconductor, such as one-dimensional topological superconductors with Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at their ends. Understanding and controlling interactions between spins and the emergent band structure of the in-gap Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states they induce in a superconductor are fundamental for engineering such phases. Here, by precisely positioning magnetic adatoms with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), we demonstrate both the tunability of exchange interaction between spins and precise control of the hybridization of YSR states they induce on the surface of a bismuth (Bi) thin film that is made superconducting with the proximity effect. In this platform, depending on the separation of spins, the interplay between Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction, spin-orbit coupling, and surface magnetic anisotropy stabilizes different types of spin alignments. Using high-resolution STM spectroscopy at millikelvin temperatures, we probe these spin alignments through monitoring the spin-induced YSR states and their energy splitting. Such measurements also reveal a quantum phase transition between the ground states with different electron number parity for a pair of spins in a superconductor tuned by their separation. Experiments on larger assemblies show that spin-spin interactions can be mediated in a superconductor over long distances. Our results show that controlling hybridization of the YSR states in this platform provides the possibility of engineering the band structure of such states for creating topological phases.
description: 26 pages, 4 figures, and Supplementary Information (42 pages, 27 figures, 2 tables)
Agrobiodiversity Conservation as a Coping Strategy: Adapting to Climate Change in the Northern Highlands of Bolivia
Creators: name: Harfouche, Caroline Damienne
name: Jung, Diane
Publisher: name: Consilience
Year: 2020

description: Punta Cana, one of the largest tourist destinations in the Caribbean, is located in the western part of the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola. Increased human activity has had a negative impact on the aquatic ecosystems, significantly decreasing the number of coral reefs, mangroves and sea grasses. The decline is not only occurring in the Caribbean, but also worldwide and is attributed to human and natural causes. It is believed that the degradation of aquatic ecosystems is partially driven by increased sedimentation. Sedimentation levels directly impact the wellbeing of aquatic ecosystems. Suspended particles reduce the amount of light that penetrates the water, which reduces photosynthesis and the production of dissolved oxygen. The suspended material can clog fish gills reducing their resistance to disease, lowering growth rates and affecting egg and larval production. Increased sedimentation means a thicker layer of particles accumulates on the floor of the aquatic biome and smothers eggs and benthic macroinvertebrates. The Indigenous Eyes Ecological Reserve, situated on 1500 acres of protected land on the resort, has twelve freshwater lagoons. Since only three of them are open to swimming, it was an ideal natural setting to conduct an experiment to compare the effect of human activity on the levels of sedimentation in two lagoons – one open and one closed to swimming. We also measured the effect of sedimentation levels on the size of the Tarebia granifera in each of the lagoons. The data was analyzed using One-Way ANOVA.
description: Consilience, No 11 (2014): Issue Eleven: 2014
High-throughput screening of functional antigen and TCR via Jurkat reporter combine with droplet microfluidics
Creators: name: 李毅坚
Publisher: name: CNGB
Year: 2023
Subjects: Raw sequence reads
Monoisolate

description: Here, we developed an integrated platform which combine with Jurkat reporter system, DNA barcoding and droplet microfluidics to enable the library-on-library functional antigens and TCR screening. Next, analysis of T cell activation related genes and DNA barcode based on single-cell RNA-sequencing can determine the specific recognition between the antigens and their functional TCRs.
On the computation of the probability of undetected error for linear block codes on the Gilbert channel
Creators: name: Wong, Brenden
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: An important measure of the performance of error detecting codes is the probability of undetected error. Extensive study on the subject has yielded results which allow for the computation of the probability of undetected error for many codes on the binary symmetric channel (BSC). However, little is known about code performance in more complicated channel models. The Gilbert channel is a two-state, three-parameter model with memory which simulates the effects of burst noise. In this thesis, we investigate methods to compute the probability of undetected error of binary linear block codes on this channel. We examine an approach to approximate code performance based on the P(m,n) distribution which is the probability of m errors in a block of n bits and the weight distribution of the code. For the Gilbert channel, P(m,n) can in principle be calculated from the channel parameters. In practice however, existing methodologies suffer from rather excessive computational requirements, particularly when n is larger than one thousand or so. We have developed an efficient method to calculate P(m,n) for reasonable channel parameters. This allows the probability of undetected error for many codes to be readily estimated. For certain channel and code parameters, the approximation method described above may not be sufficiently accurate. Exact analytical results are difficult to obtain, however; because unlike the BSC, the probability of a particular error pattern on the Gilbert channel depends not just on the number of 1's in the pattern. Nevertheless, by appropriately exploiting certain symmetries present on the Gilbert channel, we can acquire some useful results. We have derived the probability of undetected error for the single parity check code. We have also obtained a formula for summing over a cyclic class of vectors and shown that reciprocal generator polynomials generate cyclic codes which have the same probability of undetected error on the Gilbert channel. The Monte Carlo simulation technique is often used when exact analysis is difficult. In a simulation study of CRC codes, we are able to observe several interesting qualitative results with just a reasonable amount of computational effort. We find that as on the BSC, on the Gilbert channel the probability of undetected error does not always increase with worsening channel conditions. Also, the CRC-CCITT code appears to maintain its superiority in terms of error detection performance over the CRC-ANSI code on the Gilbert channel, and perhaps most significantly, for some ranges of channel parameters, the probability of undetected error estimated using BSC results with the effective bit error rate can be quite inaccurate.