cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: A Decision Tool to Identify Population Management Strategies for Common Ravens and Other Avian Predators
Creators: name: Currylow, Andrea F.
name: Hanley, Brenda J.
name: Holcomb, Kerry L.
name: Shields, Timothy
name: Boland, Stephen
name: Boarman, William I.
name: Vaughn, Mercy
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Some avian species have developed the capacity to leverage resource subsidies associated with human manipulated landscapes to increase population densities in habitats with naturally low carrying capacities. Elevated corvid densities and new territory establishment have led to an unsustainable increase in depredation pressure on sympatric native wildlife prey populations as well as in crop damage. Yet, subsidized predator removal programs aimed at reducing densities are likely most effective longer-term when conducted in tandem with subsidy control, habitat management, and robust assessment monitoring programs. We developed decision support software that leverages stage structured Lefkovitch population matrices to compare and identify treatment strategies that reduce subsidized avian predator densities most efficiently, in terms of limiting both cost and take levels. The StallPOPd (Version 4; available at https://doi.org/10.7298/sk2e-0c38.4) software enables managers to enter the area of their management stratum and the demographic properties (vital rates) of target bird population(s) of interest to evaluate strategies to decrease or curtail further population growth. Strategies explicitly include the reduction in fertility (i.e., eggs hatched) and/or the culling of hatchlings, non-breeders and/or breeders, but implicitly comprise reduction in survival or reproduction through subsidy denial. We illustrate the utilities of the software with examples using common ravens (Corvus corax; ravens) in the Mojave Desert of California, USA. Unfortunately, the survival and reproduction effects of each unit of a particular subsidy in that system have remained elusive, though this is the priority of current research. Because the software leverages a life history representation that is known to characterize hundreds of wildlife species in addition to ravens, the work expands the suite of tools available to wildlife managers and agricultural industry specialists to abate bird damage and impacts on sensitive wildlife in habitats with persistent human subsidies.
Chameleonic Theories: A Short Review
Creators: name: Zanzi, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the chameleon mechanism, a field (typically scalar) has a mass that depends on the matter density of the environment: the larger is the matter density, the larger is the mass of the chameleon. We briefly review some aspects of chameleonic theories. In particular, in a typical class of these theories, we discuss the lagrangian, the role of conformal transformations, the equation of motion and the thin-shell effect. We also discuss $f(R)$ theories and chameleonic quantum gravity.
description: Invited contribution to the special issue "Modified Gravity Cosmology: from Inflation to Dark Energy", published in Universe. 30 pages. 2 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:hep-ph/0608078, arXiv:astro-ph/0611816 by other authors
A rose by any other name : the study of an un-named baby
Creators: name: Rouse, Juliet.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Engineering the Success of Quantum Walk Search Using Weighted Graphs
Creators: name: Wong, Thomas G.
name: Philipp, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuous-time quantum walks are natural tools for spatial search, where one searches for a marked vertex in a graph. Sometimes, the structure of the graph causes the walker to get trapped, such that the probability of finding the marked vertex is limited. We give an example with two linked cliques, proving that the captive probability can be liberated by increasing the weights of the links. This allows the search to succeed with probability 1 without increasing the energy scaling of the algorithm. Further increasing the weights, however, slows the runtime, so the optimal search requires weights that are neither too weak nor too strong.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures
Pipistrellus nanulus Thomas 1904
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus nanulus

description: Pipistrellus nanulus Thomas, 1904. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 14:198. TYPE LOCALITY: Cameroon, Efulen. DISTRIBUTION: Sierra Leone to Kenya; Bioko. COMMENTS: Subgenus Pipistrelli.
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 222, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
Verasight May 2022 Schuldt Survey
Creators: name: Schuldt, Jonathon P.
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2023

description: Discussing climate change with friends and family (1); concerns about climate change (5); climate change and food (7); lifestyle changes (1); effect of pandemic vs. climate change on global supply changes/high prices (1); climate change beliefs (2); willingness to campaign for action on climate change (1); climate change affects some groups more than others/all groups about equally (1).
Pipistrellus nanus
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus nanus

description: Pipistrellus nanus (Peters, 1852). Reise nach Mossambique, Säugethiere, p. 63. TYPE LOCALITY: Mozambique, Inhambane. DISTRIBUTION: South Africa to Ethiopia, Sudan, Niger, Mali, and Senegal; Madagascar; Pemba and Zanzibar. SYNONYMS: abaensis, africani, culex, fouriei, helios, minusculus, pagenstecheri, pusillulus, stampflii. COMMENTS: Subgenus Pipistrelli. The oldest name for this species is africani; see Koopman (1975:400).
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 222, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Koopman, K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 154: 353 - 444."]}
Learning optimal nonlinearities for iterative thresholding algorithms
Creators: name: Kamilov, Ulugbek S.
name: Mansour, Hassan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Iterative shrinkage/thresholding algorithm (ISTA) is a well-studied method for finding sparse solutions to ill-posed inverse problems. In this letter, we present a data-driven scheme for learning optimal thresholding functions for ISTA. The proposed scheme is obtained by relating iterations of ISTA to layers of a simple deep neural network (DNN) and developing a corresponding error backpropagation algorithm that allows to fine-tune the thresholding functions. Simulations on sparse statistical signals illustrate potential gains in estimation quality due to the proposed data adaptive ISTA.
Pipistrellus nathusii
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus nathusii

description: Pipistrellus nathusii (Keyserling and Blasius, 1839). Arch. Naturgesch., 5(1):320. TYPE LOCALITY: Germany, Berlin. DISTRIBUTION: W Europe to Urals and Caucasus, and W Asia Minor; S England. SYNONYMS: unicolor. COMMENTS: Subgenus Pipistrelli.
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 222, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
Pipistrellus paterculus Thomas 1915
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus paterculus

description: Pipistrellus paterculus Thomas, 1915. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 24:32. TYPE LOCALITY: Burma, Mt. Popa. DISTRIBUTION: N India, Burma, Thailand, SW China. SYNONYMS: yunnanensis. COMMENTS: Subgenus Pipistrellus. Included in abramus by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951), but see Hill and Harrison (1987).
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 222-223, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.", "Hill, J. E., and D. L. Harrison. 1987. The baculum in the Vespertilioninae (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) with a systematic review, a synopsis of Pipistrellus and Eptesicus, and the description of a new genus and subgenus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 52 (7): 225 - 305."]}
title: Alternative Perspectives on Selection: Social Impact and Validation of Graduate Selection within a Multinational Oil Company
Creators: name: Cunningham-Snell, Nicole Ann
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 1999

description: This research investigates various theoretical perspectives on graduate selection. Four standpoints are examined: organisational justice in selection, the emergence of the psychological contract, the influence of social moderators on selection predictive validity, and assessment centre construct validity. Two studies were conducted into the graduate selection procedures of a multinational oil company (Shell International). In Study A, applicants were contacted in retrospect and asked about their experiences of the selection process. In Study B, a longitudinal design was employed whereby applicants responded to questionnaires at various time points within the selection process and following four months of employment, In Study B, data were also collected from the organisation, including ratings of applicants' potential at selection and subsequent potential four months post-entry. The results of both studies highlight the dynamic nature of the interaction between potential recruits and the organisation during the selection process. Differences between applicants' prior expectations of procedural justice and their perceptions of reality measured immediately after a selection method, are found to have an impact on several selection outcome variables. The selection decision is found to have a direct impact on applicants' reactions to procedural justice, with unsuccessful applicants having lower perceptions of procedural justice when measured post-, but not pre-communication of the outcome decision. The dynamic nature of the psychological contract is shown from selection to four months post entry, with recruits' perceptions generally becoming more congruent with the organisation's perspective. The results also highlight the potential influence of selection and socialisation moderators of predictive validity. Finally, poor assessment centre construct validity is demonstrated, despite the small number of criteria used and the reasonable predictive validity. Overall, this research illustrates the advantage of conducting integrated research which simultaneously examines multiple perspectives on selection. In conclusion, the original contributions of this research to selection theory, and a number of implications for practice are discussed.
Psychotherapy of a child with autistic features : issues of diagnosis, presentation, case management, treatment, and structures
Creators: name: Lynch, Marell.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Pipistrellus peguensis Sinha 1969
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus peguensis

description: Pipistrellus peguensis Sinha, 1969. Proc. Zool. Soc. Calcutta, 22:83. TYPE LOCALITY: Burma, Pegu. DISTRIBUTION: Burma. COMMENTS: Subgenus Pipistrellus.
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 223, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
Pipistrellus permixtus Aellen 1957
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus permixtus

description: Pipistrellus permixtus Aellen, 1957. Rev. Suisse Zool., 64:200. TYPE LOCALITY: Tanzania, Dar-es-Salaam. DISTRIBUTION: Tanzania. COMMENTS: Subgenus Pipistrellus.
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 223, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
Unfolding homoclinic connections formed by corner intersections in piecewise-smooth maps
Creators: name: Simpson, David J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37G25 37G15 37E30

description: The stable and unstable manifolds of an invariant set of a piecewise-smooth map are themselves piecewise-smooth. Consequently, as parameters of a piecewise-smooth map are varied, an invariant set can develop a homoclinic connection when its stable manifold intersects a non-differentiable point of its unstable manifold (or vice-versa). This is a codimension-one bifurcation analogous to a homoclinic tangency of a smooth map, referred to here as a homoclinic corner. This paper presents an unfolding of generic homoclinic corners for saddle fixed points of planar piecewise-smooth continuous maps. It is shown that a sequence of border-collision bifurcations limits to a homoclinic corner and that all nearby periodic solutions are unstable.
title: Diffuse Beam with Electronic THz Source Array
Creators: name: Headland, Daniel
name: Zatta, Robin
name: Pfeiffer, Ullrich
Publisher: name: Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Year: 2021

description: An array of terahertz sources in 0.13 μm SiGe BiCMOS has previously been developed to mitigate the well-known issue of low available power from compact terahertz sources. However, the device projects beams toward different, non-overlapping directions, rendering it unsuitable for use as a general-purpose illumination source. To address this issue, custom optics are employed for incoherent power combining, and subsequently utilized in a demonstration of terahertz imaging.
description: This document is the accepted manuscript version that has been published in final form in: 2018 43rd International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz). https://doi.org/10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2018.8509901
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Signatures of topological quantum phase transitions in driven and dissipative qubit-arrays
Creators: name: Dong, Y. L.
name: Neupert, Titus
name: Chitra, R.
name: Schmidt, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study photonic signatures of symmetry broken and topological phases in a driven, dissipative circuit QED realization of spin-1/2 chains. Specifically, we consider the transverse-field XY model and a dual model with 3-spin interactions. The former has a ferromagnetic and a paramagnetic phase, while the latter features, in addition, a symmetry protected topological phase. Using the method of third quantization, we calculate the non-equilibrium steady-state of the open spin chains for arbitrary system sizes and temperatures. We find that the bi-local correlation function of the spins at both ends of the chain provides a sensitive measure for both symmetry-breaking and topological phase transitions of the systems, but no universal means to distinguish between the two types of transitions. Both models have equivalent representations in terms of free Majorana fermions, which host zero, one and two topological Majorana end modes in the paramagnetic, ferromagnetic, and symmetry protected topological phases, respectively. The correlation function we study retains its bi-local character in the fermionic representation, so that our results are equally applicable to the fermionic models in their own right. We propose a photonic realization of the dissipative transverse-field XY model in a tunable setup, where an array of superconducting transmon qubits is coupled at both ends to a photonic microwave circuit.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Towards an understanding of psychodynamic parent psychotherapy
Creators: name: Rowntree, Jennie.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Lattice and string worldsheet in AdS/CFT: a numerical study
Creators: name: Forini, Valentina
name: Bianchi, Lorenzo
name: Bianchi, Marco S.
name: Leder, Björn
name: Vescovi, Edoardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a possible discretization for the gauge-fixed Green-Schwarz (two-dimensional) sigma-model action for the Type IIB superstring and use it for measuring the cusp anomalous dimension of planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM as derived from string theory. We perform lattice simulations employing a Rational Hybrid Monte Carlo (RHMC) algorithm and a Wilson-like fermion discretization. In this preliminary study, we compare our results with the expected behavior for very large values of $g=\frac{\sqrtλ}{4π}$, which is the perturbative regime of the sigma-model, and find a qualitative agreement at finite lattice spacing. For smaller $g$ the continuum limit is obstructed by a divergence. We also detect a phase in the fermion determinant, whose origin we explain, which for small $g$ leads to a sign problem not treatable via standard reweigthing. Results presented here are discussed thoroughly in~\cite{toappear}.
description: Contribution to the proceedings of Lattice 2015, July 14--18, Kobe, Japan
Effective interaction between active colloids and fluid interfaces induced by Marangoni flows
Creators: name: Domínguez, Alvaro
name: Malgaretti, Paolo
name: Popescu, Mihail N.
name: Dietrich, Siegfried
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show theoretically that near a fluid-fluid interface a single active colloidal particle generating, e.g., chemicals or a temperature gradient experiences an effective force of hydrodynamic origin. This force is due to the fluid flow driven by Marangoni stresses induced by the activity of the particle; it decays very slowly with the distance from the interface, and can be attractive or repulsive depending on how the activity modifies the surface tension. We show that, for typical systems, this interaction can dominate the dynamics of the particle as compared to Brownian motion, dispersion forces, or self-phoretic effects. In the attractive case, the interaction promotes the self-assembly of particles into a crystal-like monolayer at the interface.
description: The manuscript proper and the supplementary information have been merged consecutively into a single PDF file
Un effet de moiré sur les espaces symétriques de type non-compact
Creators: name: Afgoustidis, Alexandre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that if $X$ is a symmetric space of the noncompact type, just as adding Helgason waves which propagate in all direction yields an elementary spherical function for $X$, a Helgason wave can be produced by adding elementary spherical functions whose centers cluster along a horocycle in $X$.
description: In French. Short note: 8 pages, 3 figures. An English version is available on the author's webpage
title: Thinking Like a Raven: Restoring Integrity, Stability, and Beauty to Western Ecosystems
Creators: name: Marzluff, John M.
name: Loretto, Matthias-Claudio
name: Ho, Cameron K.
name: Coleman, Georgia W.
name: Restani, Marco
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2021

description: Common ravens (Corvus corax; ravens) are generalist predators that pose a threat to several rare wildlife species in the western United States. Recent increases in raven populations, which are fueled by increased human subsidies—notably food, water, and nest sites—are concerning to those seeking to conserve rare species. Due to the challenges and inefficiencies of reducing or eliminating subsidies, managers increasingly rely on lethal removal of ravens. Over 125,000 ravens were killed by the U.S. Government from 1996 to 2019, and annual removals have increased 4-fold from the 1990s to mid-2010s. We contend that lethal removal of ravens, while capable of improving the reproduction of rare species, is at best a short-term and ethically untenable solution to a problem that will continue to grow until subsidies are meaningfully reduced or made inaccessible to ravens. In part because of ravens’ abilities to track natural and anthropogenic resources across unfamiliar and expansive areas, the removal of subsidies can lead to sustained shifts in raven abundance, which can have long-lasting benefits for sensitive species. In the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, USA, for example, we documented extensive use of human subsidies during fall/winter, daily 1-way commutes regularly in excess of 50 km by territorial birds to such subsidies, and dispersals of >700 km by nonbreeders that exploited food and roost subsidies. We call for managers to embrace new approaches to subsidy reduction including: increased involvement of conservation social scientists; increased enforcement of local, state, and federal laws; and increased deployment of a diversity of new technologies to haze and aversively condition ravens. Tackling the hard job of reducing subsidies over the expansive area exploited by ravens is right because it will increase the integrity, stability, and beauty of western ecosystems.
Detecting Exomoons Around Self-luminous Giant Exoplanets Through Polarization
Creators: name: Sengupta, Sujan
name: Marley, Mark S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Many of the directly imaged self-luminous gas giant exoplanets have been found to have cloudy atmospheres. Scattering of the emergent thermal radiation from these planets by the dust grains in their atmospheres should locally give rise to significant linear polarization of the emitted radiation. However, the observable disk averaged polarization should be zero if the planet is spherically symmetric. Rotation-induced oblateness may yield a net non-zero disk averaged polarization if the planets have sufficiently high spin rotation velocity. On the other hand, when a large natural satellite or exomoon transits a planet with cloudy atmosphere along the line of sight, the asymmetry induced during the transit should give rise to a net non-zero, time resolved linear polarization signal. The peak amplitude of such time dependent polarization may be detectable even for slowly rotating exoplanets. Therefore, we suggest that large exomoons around directly imaged self-luminous exoplanets may be detectable through time resolved imaging polarimetry. Adopting detailed atmospheric models for several values of effective temperature and surface gravity which are appropriate for self-luminous exoplanets, we present the polarization profiles of these objects in the infrared during transit phase and estimate the peak amplitude of polarization that occurs during the inner contacts of the transit ingress/egress phase. The peak polarization is predicted to range between 0.1 and 0.3 % in the infrared.
description: 13 pages (AASTEX) including 3 eps figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
title: Fiabilité des réseaux d'extincteurs automatiques à eau
Creators: name: Richardson, J. K.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Sprinklers
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0462
subject: Gicleurs
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0462
subject: sprinkler system
subject: réseaux d'extincteurs
subject: reliability
subject: fiabilité
subject: performance
subject: inspection

description: Les réseaux d'extincteurs automatiques à eau ont joué pendant plus d'un siècle un rôle important dans la protection incendie des bâtiments. Statistiques à l'appui, ce Digest montre que la fiabilité des réseaux en place est supérieure à 96 %. On suggère des moyens de l'améliorer jusqu'à 99 % grâce à une conception appropriée et par l'inspection et l'entretien réguliers des installations.
Sodium oxybate extended-release suspension (LUMRYZ™) in narcolepsy: a profile of its use
Creators: name: Blair, Hannah A.
Publisher: name: Adis Journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Medicine

description: Declarations
Funding The preparation of this review was not supported by any external funding.
Authorship and conflict of interest Hannah Blair is a salaried employee of Adis International Ltd/Springer Nature and declares no relevant conflicts of interest. All authors contributed to this article and are responsible for its content.
Ethics approval, Consent to participate, Consent for publication, Availability of data and material, Code availability Not applicable.

Additional information about this Adis Drug Review can be found here. 

  
Abstract Sodium oxybate extended-release suspension (LUMRYZ™; hereafter referred to as sodium oxybate ER) represents a promising novel option for the treatment of narcolepsy. It is the first once-nightly sodium oxybate formulation to be approved in the USA for the treatment of cataplexy or excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in adults with narcolepsy. Sodium oxybate ER has a pharmacokinetic profile that supports a single bedtime dose. In a pivotal phase 3 trial, once-nightly sodium oxybate ER dose-dependently increased sleep latency during the daytime, reduced cataplexy and daytime sleepiness, and improved disrupted nighttime sleep (DNS) compared with placebo in patients aged ≥ 16 years with narcolepsy. These improvements were statistically significant and clinically meaningful. Most patients who switched from twice-nightly immediate-release sodium oxybate (hereafter referred to as sodium oxybate IR) to once-nightly sodium oxybate ER in an open-label extension/switching study preferred the once-nightly formulation. Once-nightly sodium oxybate ER was generally well tolerated, including over the longer term, with a tolerability profile consistent with that of twice-nightly sodium oxybate IR.

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Pipistrellus petersi
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus petersi

description: Pipistrellus petersi (Meyer, 1899). Abh. Zool. Anthrop.-Ethnology. Mus. Dresden, 7(7): 13. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, Minahassa. DISTRIBUTION: Borneo; Sulawesi; Buru and Amboina (Molucca Isis); Philippines. COMMENTS: Subgenus Falsistrellus.
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 223, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
title: Facteurs modifiant la perte de transmission du son
Creators: name: Warnock, A. C. C.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Sound transmission & insulation
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0840
subject: Transmission acoustique et insonorisation
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0840
subject: sound transmission loss
subject: perte de transmission sonore
subject: partitions
subject: cloison
subject: floors
subject: plancher
subject: mass
subject: masse
subject: stiffness
subject: rigidité

description: Les pertes de transmission du son par les murs et les planchers à simple ou double paroi dépendent des propriétés physiques des matériaux et des méthodes d'assemblage. Ce Digeste examine ces facteurs.
The seed, the egg-shell and the dark-void : in search of a space for psychological birth
Creators: name: Fraser, Sue.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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title: Transmission du son par les fenêtres
Creators: name: Quirt, J. D.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Walls
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0842
subject: Murs
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0842
subject: Windows
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0390
subject: Fenêtres
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0390
subject: sounds
subject: sons
subject: windows
subject: fenêtre
subject: sound insulating
subject: isolation acoustique
subject: fixed windows
subject: fenêtre fixe
subject: noise (acoustics)
subject: bruit (acoustique)

description: Ce Digeste traitera de l'influence des caractéristiques types des fenêtres sur la transmission du son.
title: Le béton modifié aux résines
Creators: name: Blaga, A.
name: Beaudoin, J. J.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Concrete
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: Béton
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: polymeric materials
subject: matériau polymerique
subject: impregnated concrete
subject: béton imprégné
subject: concrete (materials)
subject: béton (matériau)
subject: natural rubber
subject: caoutchouc naturel
subject: water absorption
subject: absorption d'eau
subject: chemical attack
subject: aggressivité chimique
subject: freeze thaw cycles
subject: gel dégel

description: Il existe deux catégories de béton modifié aux résines : le béton imprégné de résine et le béton additionné de résine. On obtient le premier en imprégnant des éléments préfabriqués en béton de ciment Portland avec un monomère qui est ensuite transformé en polymère solide. On fabrique le second en remplaçant une partie du liant par un polymère (souvent du genre latex). Les avantages de ces deux types de béton par rapport au béton conventionnel sont les suivants : plus grande résistance, plus faible perméabilité à l'eau, meilleure résistance aux produits chimiques et aux cycles gel-dégel.
Leptogenesis and residual CP symmetry
Creators: name: Chen, Peng
name: Ding, Gui-Jun
name: King, Stephen F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss flavour dependent leptogenesis in the framework of lepton flavour models based on discrete flavour and CP symmetries applied to the type-I seesaw model. Working in the flavour basis, we analyse the case of two general residual CP symmetries in the neutrino sector, which corresponds to all possible semi-direct models based on a preserved $Z_2$ in the neutrino sector, together with a CP symmetry, which constrains the PMNS matrix up to a single free parameter which may be fixed by the reactor angle. We systematically study and classify this case for all possible residual CP symmetries, and show that the $R$-matrix is tightly constrained up to a single free parameter, with only certain forms being consistent with successful leptogenesis, leading to possible connections between leptogenesis and PMNS parameters. The formalism is completely general in the sense that the two residual CP symmetries could result from any high energy discrete flavour theory which respects any CP symmetry. As a simple example, we apply the formalism to a high energy $S_4$ flavour symmetry with a generalized CP symmetry, broken to two residual CP symmetries in the neutrino sector, recovering familiar results for PMNS predictions, together with new results for flavour dependent leptogenesis.
description: 35 pages, 8 figures
Factorization of the transition matrix for the general Jacobi system
Creators: name: Aktosun, Tuncay
name: Choque-Rivero, Abdon E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 39A70, 47A40, 47A68, 47B36, 47B39

description: The Jacobi system on a full-line lattice is considered when it contains additional weight factors. A factorization formula is derived expressing the scattering from such a generalized Jacobi system in terms of the scattering from its fragments. This is done by writing the transition matrix for the generalized Jacobi system as an ordered matrix product of the transition matrices corresponding to its fragments. The resulting factorization formula resembles the factorization formula for the Schrödinger equation on the full line.
description: 18 pages
Diagnostic testing uptake rates after abnormal cell-free DNA screen result
Creators: name: Meibos, Bailey
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: Background: Cell-free DNA screening (cfDNA), also referred to as non-invasive prenatal screening (NIPS), is utilized to screen for fetal chromosomal aneuploidies during pregnancy. Fetal aneuploidy can be life-limiting or result in lifelong disability. CfDNA screening is not diagnostic. Thus, all patients are offered diagnostic testing following a positive cfDNA screen, but not all patients pursue this testing.Objectives: The primary objectives are to describe the uptake rate of diagnostic testing for patients that have a positive cfDNA screen and determine the demographic and clinical characteristics that correlate with higher diagnostic testing uptake rates.Methods: This is a retrospective chart review of patients who had an abnormal cfDNA screen result at a single academic medical center over a period of ten years.Results: One hundred thirty-nine patients had a positive cfDNA screen for aneuploidy involving chromosomes 21, 18, 13, X, or Y. Fifty-five percent pursued confirmatory diagnostic prenatal testing. For the cases that pursued diagnostic testing (76/139), fetal aneuploidy was confirmed in 72%. We examined factors, such as demographic and clinical characteristics, that are associated with a higher uptake rate of diagnostic testing. After removing patients that were missing the required information, a total of 107 subjects were included in the final analysis. We observed that patient ethnicity (OR = 5.00), a history of previous pregnancy termination (OR = 4.29), the use of expanded carrier screening (OR = 4.81), and the type of aneuploidy predicted (OR = 5.56) were all found to be associated with higher diagnostic testing uptake rates.Conclusion: In patients with an abnormal cfDNA result for trisomy 21, 13, 18, X, or Y, 55% pursued confirmatory diagnostic testing. Factors that correlated with diagnostic testing uptake rates included the severity of the condition predicted, history of a previous pregnancy termination, certain ethnicities, and the use of other reproductive technologies such as expanded carrier screening. The presence or absence of ultrasound findings was not a predictor of whether patients pursued diagnostic testing.
Are Easy Language websites greener?
Creators: name: González-Sordé, Mariona
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Green Deal, GreenSCENT, Horizon2020, UX, Accessibility, Diversity, Inclusion, Green Digital Accessibility

description: Mariona's presentation will examine the relationship between Easy Language (EL) and website sustainability. It will highlight the growing importance of sustainable design principles in website development, particularly in reducing carbon emissions and energy consumption. The presentation will also address the underexplored aspect of EL's potential to enhance website accessibility. By investigating the intersection between EL and website sustainability, Mariona's study aims to contribute to a more inclusive and environmentally conscious approach to website design.
Grand challenges in altmetrics: heterogeneity, data quality and dependencies
Creators: name: Haustein, Stefanie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As uptake among researchers is constantly increasing, social media are finding their way into scholarly communication and, under the umbrella term altmetrics, were introduced to research evaluation. Fueled by technological possibilities and an increasing demand to demonstrate impact beyond the scientific community, altmetrics received great attention as potential democratizers of the scientific reward system and indicators of societal impact. This paper focuses on current challenges of altmetrics. Heterogeneity, data quality and particular dependencies are identified as the three major issues and discussed in detail with a particular emphasis on past developments in bibliometrics. The heterogeneity of altmetrics mirrors the diversity of the types of underlying acts, most of which take place on social media platforms. This heterogeneity has made it difficult to establish a common definition or conceptual framework. Data quality issues become apparent in the lack of accuracy, consistency and replicability of various altmetrics, which is largely affected by the dynamic nature of social media events. It is further highlighted that altmetrics are shaped by technical possibilities and depend particularly on the availability of APIs and DOIs, are strongly dependent on data providers and aggregators, and potentially influenced by technical affordances of underlying platforms.
title: Le béton de résine
Creators: name: Blaga, A.
name: Beaudoin, J. J.
Publisher: name: Conseil national de recherches du Canada. Division des recherches en construction
Year: 1986
Subjects: subject: Concrete
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: Béton
valueUri: urn:ircsubjects:IRC0740
subject: polymer concrete
subject: béton polymère
subject: resin concrete
subject: béton de résine
subject: chemical attack
subject: aggressivité chimique
subject: corrosivity
subject: corrosivité
subject: water absorption
subject: absorption d'eau
subject: freeze thaw cycles
subject: gel dégel

description: Le béton de résine est constitué d'un liant de polymère, parfois thermoplastique mais généralement thermodurcissable, et d'une charge minérale comme le gravier ou la pierre concassée. Comparativement au béton de ciment Portland, le béton de résine possède une plus grande résistance mécanique, résiste mieux aux produits chimiques et aux agents corrosifs, absorbe moins l'eau et présente une plus grande stabilité aux cycles gel-dégel.
The question of infant observation as research : a phenomenological perspective
Creators: name: Parker, Georgina Joyce.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The MUSCLES Treasury Survey III: X-ray to Infrared Spectra of 11 M and K Stars Hosting Planets
Creators: name: Loyd, R. O. Parke
name: France, Kevin
name: Youngblood, Allison
name: Schneider, Christian
name: Brown, Alexander
name: Hu, Renyu
name: Linsky, Jeffrey
name: Froning, Cynthia S.
name: Redfield, Seth
name: Rugheimer, Sarah
name: Tian, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a catalog of panchromatic spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for 7 M and 4 K dwarf stars that span X-ray to infrared wavelengths (5 Å - 5.5 μm). These SEDs are composites of Chandra or XMM-Newton data from 5 - ~50 Å, a plasma emission model from ~50 - 100 Å, broadband empirical estimates from 100 - 1170 Å, HST data from 1170 - 5700 Å, including a reconstruction of stellar Lyα emission at 1215.67 Å, and a PHOENIX model spectrum from 5700 - 55000 Å. Using these SEDs, we computed the photodissociation rates of several molecules prevalent in planetary atmospheres when exposed to each star's unattenuated flux ("unshielded" photodissociation rates) and found that rates differ among stars by over an order of magnitude for most molecules. In general, the same spectral regions drive unshielded photodissociations both for the minimally and maximally FUV active stars. However, for ozone visible flux drives dissociation for the M stars whereas NUV flux drives dissociation for the K stars. We also searched for an FUV continuum in the assembled SEDs and detected it in 5/11 stars, where it contributes around 10% of the flux in the range spanned by the continuum bands. An ultraviolet continuum shape is resolved for the star ε Eri that shows an edge likely attributable to Si II recombination. The 11 SEDs presented in this paper, available online through the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes, will be valuable for vetting stellar upper-atmosphere emission models and simulating photochemistry in exoplanet atmospheres.
description: 20 pages, 12 figures, 4 tables. Accepted to the ApJ. Spectra in FITS format available for download at https://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/muscles
Pipistrellus pipistrellus
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus pipistrellus

description: Pipistrellus pipistrellus (Schreber, 1774). Die Säugethiere, 1:167. TYPE LOCALITY: France. DISTRIBUTION: British Isles, S Scandinavia, and W Europe to the Volga and Caucasus; Morocco; Asia Minor and Israel to Kashmir, Kazakhstan, and Sinkiang (China). Perhaps Korea, Japan and Taiwan. SYNONYMS: aladdin, bactrianus, brachyotos, flavescens, genei, griseus, limbatus, macropterus, mediterraneus, melanopterus, minutissimus, murinus, nigricans, pusillus, pygmaeus, stenotus, typus. COMMENTS: Subgenus Pipistrellus. Includes aladdin; see Corbet (1978c:53).
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 223, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp."]}
An extensive spectroscopic time-series of three Wolf-Rayet stars. I. The lifetime of large-scale structures in the wind of WR 134
Creators: name: Aldoretta, E. J.
name: St-Louis, N.
name: Richardson, N. D.
name: Moffat, A. F. J.
name: Eversberg, T.
name: Hill, G. M.
name: Shenar, T.
name: Artigau, É.
name: Gauza, B.
name: Knapen, J. H.
name: Kubát, J.
name: Kubátová, B.
name: Maltais-Tariant, R.
name: Muñoz, M.
name: Pablo, H.
name: Ramiaramanantsoa, T.
name: Richard-Laferrière, A.
name: Sablowski, D. P.
name: Simón-Díaz, S.
name: St-Jean, L.
name: Bolduan, F.
name: Dias, F. M.
name: Dubreuil, P.
name: Fuchs, D.
name: Garrel, T.
name: Grutzeck, G.
name: Hunger, T.
name: Küsters, D.
name: Langenbrink, M.
name: Leadbeater, R.
name: Li, D.
name: Lopez, A.
name: Mauclaire, B.
name: Moldenhawer, T.
name: Potter, M.
name: Santos, E. M. dos
name: Schanne, L.
name: Schmidt, J.
name: Sieske, H.
name: Strachan, J.
name: Stinner, E.
name: Stinner, P.
name: Stober, B.
name: Strandbaek, K.
name: Syder, T.
name: Verilhac, D.
name: Waldschläger, U.
name: Weiss, D.
name: Wendt, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: During the summer of 2013, a 4-month spectroscopic campaign took place to observe the variabilities in three Wolf-Rayet stars. The spectroscopic data have been analyzed for WR 134 (WN6b), to better understand its behaviour and long-term periodicity, which we interpret as arising from corotating interaction regions (CIRs) in the wind. By analyzing the variability of the He II $λ$5411 emission line, the previously identified period was refined to P = 2.255 $\pm$ 0.008 (s.d.) days. The coherency time of the variability, which we associate with the lifetime of the CIRs in the wind, was deduced to be 40 $\pm$ 6 days, or $\sim$ 18 cycles, by cross-correlating the variability patterns as a function of time. When comparing the phased observational grayscale difference images with theoretical grayscales previously calculated from models including CIRs in an optically thin stellar wind, we find that two CIRs were likely present. A separation in longitude of $Δϕ\simeq$ 90$^{\circ}$ was determined between the two CIRs and we suggest that the different maximum velocities that they reach indicate that they emerge from different latitudes. We have also been able to detect observational signatures of the CIRs in other spectral lines (C IV $λλ$5802,5812 and He I $λ$5876). Furthermore, a DAC was found to be present simultaneously with the CIR signatures detected in the He I $λ$5876 emission line which is consistent with the proposed geometry of the large-scale structures in the wind. Small-scale structures also show a presence in the wind, simultaneously with the larger scale structures, showing that they do in fact co-exist.
description: 13 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables, will appear in the Monthly Notices for the Royal Astronomical Society, http://www.astro.umontreal.ca/~emily/CIR_Lifetime_WR134_full.pdf