cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Calcium-Rich Gap Transients: Tidal Detonations of White Dwarfs?
Creators: name: Sell, P. H.
name: Maccarone, T. J.
name: Kotak, R.
name: Knigge, C.
name: Sand, D. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We hypothesize that at least some of the recently discovered class of calcium-rich gap transients are tidal detonation events of white dwarfs (WDs) by black holes (BHs) or possibly neutron stars. We show that the properties of the calcium-rich gap transients agree well with the predictions of the tidal detonation model. Under the predictions of this model, we use a follow-up X-ray observation of one of these transients, SN 2012hn, to place weak upper limits on the detonator mass of this system that include all intermediate-mass BHs (IMBHs). As these transients are preferentially in the stellar haloes of galaxies, we discuss the possibility that these transients are tidal detonations of WDs caused by random flyby encounters with IMBHs in dwarf galaxies or globular clusters. This possibility has been already suggested in the literature but without connection to the calcium-rich gap transients. In order for the random flyby cross-section to be high enough, these events would have to be occurring inside these dense stellar associations. However, there is a lack of evidence for IMBHs in these systems, and recent observations have ruled out all but the very faintest dwarf galaxies and globular clusters for a few of these transients. Another possibility is that these are tidal detonations caused by three-body interactions, where a WD is perturbed toward the detonator in isolated multiple star systems. We highlight a number of ways this could occur, even in lower-mass systems with stellar-mass BHs or neutron stars. Finally, we outline several new observational tests of this scenario, which are feasible with current instrumentation.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in MNRAS
From Vijayapuri to Sriksetra? The Beginnings of Buddhist Exchange across the Bay of Bengal as Witnessed by Inscriptions from Andhra Pradesh and Myanmar
Creators: name: Griffiths, Arlo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Sri Ksetra

description: From Vijayapuri to Sriksetra? The Beginnings of Buddhist Exchange across the Bay of Bengal as Witnessed by Inscriptions from Andhra Pradesh and Myanmar
description: The project will investigate the beginnings of Buddhist exchange across the Bay of Bengal based on the inscriptions of Vijayapuri (modern Nagarjunakonda) in India and Sriksetra (near modern Pyay) in Myanmar. Combining the expertise of five leading scholars from Europe and the United States, it will produce a state-of-the-art digital publication of these documents, and a volume of articles dealing with early Buddhist networks and the spread of Indian culture to Southeast Asia. Crossing the academic divide between South and Southeast Asia, it will make a key contribution to the decipherment of the Pyu language, address the challenge that early Buddhism in Myanmar poses to the notion of a "Sanskrit cosmopolis," and refine current models of the diffusion of Buddhism across Asia.
Supplementary Material for literature review and case study from Thermal landscape change as a driver of ectotherm responses to plant invasions.
Creators: name: Garcia, Raquel A.
name: Clusella-Trullas, Susana
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: A growing body of research demonstrates the impacts of invasive alien plants on native animals, but few studies consider thermal effects as a driver of the responses of native organisms. As invasive alien plants establish and alter the composition and arrangement of plant communities, the thermal landscapes available to ectotherms also change. Our study reviews the research undertaken to date on the thermal effects of alien plant invasions on native reptiles, amphibians, insects and arachnids. The 37 studies published between 1970 and early 2019 portray an overall detrimental effect of invasive plants on thermal landscapes, ectothermic individuals' performance and species abundance, diversity and composition. With a case study of a lizard species, we illustrate the use of thermal ecology tools in plant invasion research and test the generality of alien plant effects: changes in thermoregulation behaviour in invaded landscapes varied depending on the level of invasion and lizard traits. Together, the literature review and case study show that thermal effects of alien plants on ectotherms can be substantial albeit context-dependent. Further research should cover multiple combinations of native/invasive plant growth forms, invasion stages and ectotherm traits. More attention is also needed to test causality along the chain of effects from thermal landscapes to individuals, populations and communities.
(400036) Ellen Martha Anderson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
ON THE NATURE OF THE COASTAL LAGOON WINKLES ATTRIBUTED TO LITTORINA-TENEBROSA AND LITTORINA-SAXATILIS
Creators: name: Barnes, R. S. K.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1993

description: The name Littorina tenebrosa (Montagu) has been used in the past for (at least) two different winkles: sensu Muus (1967), etc. for the ''lagoon winkle'', a small. fragile, low-spired form that lives permanently submerged climbing on macrophytes in non-tidal coastal lagoons and lagoon-like pools, and sensu Forbes & Hanley (1853) et al. for a large, intertidal, brackish and sheltered shore form with a high spire that also commonly occurs in lagoons, though usually only on the substratum. The Forbes & Hanley usage appears to be that of the original author and in this usage L. tenebrosa is generally agreed to be synonymous with the sheltered-habitat form of Littorina saxatilis. Authors using the name sensu Muus et al., however, have argued that their ''L. tenebrosa'' is not synonymous with L. saxatilis. This conclusion is supported by behavioural, morphological and habitat differences between the lagoon winkle and both lagoonal and marine L. saxatilis, but not by preliminary breeding experiments. In practice, the lagoon winkle is reproductively isolated from even the sheltered-habitat form of L. saxatilis sharing the same lagoonal habitat (L. tenebrosa sensu Forbes & Hanley) and it is here given a new name. Littorina saxatilis var. lagunae. It is suggested that L. s. lagunae has had a paedomorphic origin. The nomenclature of the exposed- and sheltered-habitat forms of L. saxatilis is also discussed in relation to the nature of the rough winkles in the Venetian Lagoon type locality and in other coastal lagoons : it is concluded that the names L. s. var. saxatilis and L. s. var. rudis both apply to the sheltered habitat form and not, respectively, to the exposed and sheltered forms as used in some recent literature.
Determining the quality of IMCI pneumonia care in Malawian children
Creators: name: Hosseinipour, Mina C.
name: Kamthunzi, Portia
name: Olson, Dan
name: Bjornstad, Erica
name: Lufesi, Norman
name: Preidis, Geoffrey A.
name: McCollum, Eric D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Although pneumonia is the leading cause of child mortality worldwide, little is known about the quality of routine pneumonia care in high burden settings like Malawi that utilize World Health Organization’s Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) guidelines. Due to severe human resource constraints, the majority of clinical care in Malawi is delivered by non-physician clinicians called Clinical Officers (COs).
An abnormal hermaphrodite pelagic stingray Pteroplatytrygon violacea (Dasyatidae) captured off the southern coast of Brazil
Creators: name: RIBEIRO-PRADO, César Corat
name: ODDONE, María Cristina
name: AMORIM, Alberto Ferreira De
name: CAPAPÉ, Christian
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2009

description: An abnormal hermaphroditic (intersexual) pelagic stingray Pteroplatytrygon violacea (Bonaparte, 1832) was
 captured off the southern coast of Brazil. The adult specimen was 470 mm disc width, 880 mm total length and 2440 g total
 weight. The right clasper was rigid, elongated and 115 mm in length while the left clasper was absent. The dissection of the
 abdominal cavity revealed that both testicles were normally developed. However, the right Leydig's gland was small and
 apparently atrophied while the left was larger and more developed. Both reproductive ducts were slightly convoluted. The
 lack of enlarged dermal denticles on either the dorsal or ventral body surfaces was typical of adult females. In all, 14 cases
 of normal (4) and abnormal (10) hermaphroditism, including the Brazilian P. violacea, were found in batoid species, to date,
 confirming that the phenomenon is very rare among these chondrichthyan species, more than in sharks.
(400035) Louisa Anderson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Supplementary Material for literature review and case study from Thermal landscape change as a driver of ectotherm responses to plant invasions
Creators: name: Garcia, Raquel A.
name: Clusella-Trullas, Susana
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: A growing body of research demonstrates the impacts of invasive alien plants on native animals, but few studies consider thermal effects as a driver of the responses of native organisms. As invasive alien plants establish and alter the composition and arrangement of plant communities, the thermal landscapes available to ectotherms also change. Our study reviews the research undertaken to date on the thermal effects of alien plant invasions on native reptiles, amphibians, insects and arachnids. The 37 studies published between 1970 and early 2019 portray an overall detrimental effect of invasive plants on thermal landscapes, ectothermic individuals' performance and species abundance, diversity and composition. With a case study of a lizard species, we illustrate the use of thermal ecology tools in plant invasion research and test the generality of alien plant effects: changes in thermoregulation behaviour in invaded landscapes varied depending on the level of invasion and lizard traits. Together, the literature review and case study show that thermal effects of alien plants on ectotherms can be substantial albeit context-dependent. Further research should cover multiple combinations of native/invasive plant growth forms, invasion stages and ectotherm traits. More attention is also needed to test causality along the chain of effects from thermal landscapes to individuals, populations and communities.
Additional file 1 of Psychiatric and medical comorbidities of eating disorders: findings from a rapid review of the literature
Creators: name: Hambleton, Ashlea
name: Pepin, Genevieve
name: Le, Anvi
name: Maloney, Danielle
name: Touyz, Stephen
name: Maguire, Sarah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA diagram.
Ages of Star Clusters in the Tidal Tails of Merging Galaxies
Creators: name: Mulia, A. J.
name: Chandar, R.
name: Whitmore, B. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the stellar content in the tidal tails of three nearby merging galaxies, NGC 520, NGC 2623, and NGC 3256, using BVI imaging taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The tidal tails in all three systems contain compact and fairly massive young star clusters, embedded in a sea of diffuse, unresolved stellar light. We compare the measured colors and luminosities with predictions from population synthesis models to estimate cluster ages and find that clusters began forming in tidal tails during or shortly after the formation of the tails themselves. We find a lack of very young clusters ($\le 10$ Myr old), implying that eventually star formation shuts off in the tails as the gas is used up or dispersed. There are a few clusters in each tail with estimated ages that are older than the modeled tails themselves, suggesting that these may have been stripped out from the original galaxy disks. The luminosity function of the tail clusters can be described by a single power-law, $dN/dL \propto L^α$, with $-2.6 < α< -2.0$. We find a stellar age gradient across some of the tidal tails, which we interpret as a superposition of 1) newly formed stars and clusters along the dense center of the tail and 2) a sea of broadly distributed, older stellar material ejected from the progenitor galaxies.
description: 13 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ. Image quality on some figures has been degraded to comply with arxiv file limitations
ENIGMA OF THE TROPHIC ADAPTATION OF THE SHRIMP ALVINOCARIDIDAE IN HYDROTHERMAL AREAS ALONG THE MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
Creators: name: Segonzac, M.
name: Desaintlaurent, M.
name: Casanova, B.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1993

description: This study deals with comparison of morphology and in situ behaviour of three Alvinocarididae species from the Snake Pit hydrothermal area (mid-Atlantic ridge), explored during the Hydrosnake cruise (1988). Spatial distribution on the site is described and illustrated for the three species. Rimicaris exoculara highly predominates. Modifications, apparently more morphological than functional, allowed adaptation to an environment characterised by extreme physico-chemical conditions and richness in bacteria. This species has developed a culture of bacteria on its mouthparts and under the carapace to complement nutrient input drawn from bacterial production from the surface of active chimneys. Rimicaris exoculata aggregates on active diffusers and affect the mineralization processes. Morphological comparison between the three carid species enables to recognize three different levels in their trophic adaptation. Rimicaris exoculata is considered as a primary consumer. Chorocaris chacei may be optionaly necrophagous and Alvinocaris markensis is necrophagous. The latter two species do not have the same spatial distribution as Rimicaris. We notice a possible relation between the different pigmentation of carids and their diet and we make assumptions about their ability in detecting trophic areas. The trophic specialization, represented by a morphological series of changes in the mouthparts, from Alvinocaris to Rimicaris through Chorocaris, goes with a gradual spread of a bilobed ocular organ, whose function is still unknown.
Catechol-O-methyltransferase inhibition increases pain sensitivity through activation of both β2- and β3-adrenergic receptors
Creators: name: Fecho, Karamarie
name: Tan, Kai Soo
name: Diatchenko, Luda
name: Flood, Patrick
name: Nackley, Andrea Gail
name: Maixner, William
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), an enzyme that metabolizes catecholamines, has recently been implicated in the modulation of pain. Our group demonstrated that human genetic variants of COMT are predictive for the development of Temporomandibular Joint Disorder (TMJD) and are associated with heightened experimental pain sensitivity (Diatchenko et al. 2005). Variants associated with heightened pain sensitivity produce lower COMT activity. Here we report the mechanisms underlying COMT-dependent pain sensitivity. To characterize the means whereby elevated catecholamine levels, resulting from reduced COMT activity, modulate heightened pain sensitivity, we administered a COMT inhibitor to rats and measured behavioral responsiveness to mechanical and thermal stimuli. We show that depressed COMT activity results in enhanced mechanical and thermal pain sensitivity. This phenomenon is completely blocked by the nonselective β-adrenergic antagonist propranolol or by the combined administration of selective β2- and β3-adrenergic antagonists, while administration of β1-adrenergic, α-adrenergic, or dopaminergic receptor antagonists fail to alter COMT-dependent pain sensitivity. These data provide the first direct evidence that low COMT activity leads to increased pain sensitivity via a β2/3-adrenergic mechanism. These findings are of considerable clinical importance, suggesting that pain conditions resulting from low COMT activity and/or elevated catecholamine levels can be treated with pharmacological agents that block both β2- and β3-adrenergic receptors.
The relationship of allopregnanolone immunoreactivity and HPA-axis measures to experimental pain sensitivity: Evidence for ethnic differences☆
Creators: name: Girdler, Susan S.
name: Mechlin, Beth
name: Maixner, William
name: Morrow, A. Leslie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: In animal models, allopregnanolone (ALLO) negatively modulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and has been shown to exert analgesic effects. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between plasma ALLO immunoreactivity (ALLO-ir), HPA-axis measures, and pain sensitivity in humans. Forty-five African Americans (21 men, 24 women) and 39 non-Hispanic Whites (20 men, 19 women) were tested for pain sensitivity to tourniquet ischemia, thermal heat, and cold pressor tests. Plasma ALLO-ir, cortisol, and β-endorphin concentrations were taken following an extended rest period. Lower concentrations of ALLO-ir were associated with increased pain tolerance to all three pain tests and increased pain threshold to the thermal heat pain task in the non-Hispanic Whites only (rs = -.35 to -.49, ps < .05). Also, only in the non-Hispanic Whites was cortisol associated with thermal heat tolerance (r = +.39, p<.05) and threshold (r = +.50, p < .01) and cold pressor tolerance (r = +.32, p < .05), and was β-endorphin concentrations associated with cold pressor tolerance (r = +.33, p<.05). Mediational analyses revealed that higher cortisol levels mediated the relationship between lower ALLO-ir and increased thermal heat pain threshold in the non-Hispanic Whites only. These results suggest that lower ALLO-ir concentrations are associated with decreased pain sensitivity in humans, especially in non-Hispanic Whites, and that this relationship may be mediated by HPA-axis function.
(400034) William Bain Anderson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Micro- and nano-scale engineering and structures shape architecture at nucleation from In-As-Sb-P composition liquid phase on an InAs(100) surface
Creators: name: Gambaryan, Karen M.
name: Marquardt, Oliver
name: Boeck, Torsten
name: Trampert, Achim
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nanostructures
subject: nanoarchitecture
subject: liquid phase epitaxy
subject: electronic properties
subject: infrared photodetectors
subject: 73.21.La
subject: 73.22.Dj
subject: 81.10.Dn

description: In this review paper we present results of the growth, characterization and electronic properties of In(As,Sb,P) composition strain-induced micro- and nanostructures. Nucleation is performed from In-As-Sb-P quaternary composition liquid phase in Stranski--Krastanow growth mode using steady-state liquid phase epitaxy. Growth features and the shape transformation of pyramidal islands, lens-shape and ellipsoidal type-II quantum dots (QDs), quantum rings and QD-molecules are under consideration. It is shown that the application of a quaternary In(As,Sb,P) composition wetting layer allows not only more flexible control of lattice-mismatch between the wetting layer and an InAs(100) substrate, but also opens up new possibilities for nanoscale engineering and nanoarchitecture of several types of nanostructures. HR-SEM, AFM, TEM and STM are used for nanostructure characterization. Optoelectronic properties of the grown structures are investigated by FTIR and photoresponse spectra measurements. Using an eight-band $mathbfkcdotmathbfp$ model taking strain and built-in electrostatic potentials into account, the electronic properties of a wide range of InAs$_1-x-y$Sb$_x$P$_y$ QDs and QD-molecules are computed. Two types of QDs mid-infrared photodetectors are fabricated and investigated. It is shown that the incorporation of QDs allows to improve some output device characteristics, in particularly sensitivity, and to broaden the spectral range.
Additional file 2 of Psychiatric and medical comorbidities of eating disorders: findings from a rapid review of the literature
Creators: name: Hambleton, Ashlea
name: Pepin, Genevieve
name: Le, Anvi
name: Maloney, Danielle
name: Touyz, Stephen
name: Maguire, Sarah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Studies included in the Rapid Review.
(400033) Elizabeth Brown Anderson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
CYTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF GONADS DURING SEXUAL-MATURATION OF THE CUTTLEFISH (SEPIA-OFFICINALIS L) FROM THE BAY OF SEINE
Creators: name: Koueta, N.
name: Boucaudcamou, E.
name: Renou, A. M.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1993

description: A cytological study of germ cells and follicular cells was carried out during- the sexual maturation of cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) population from the bay of Seine. The results obtained show that, during the second year of life, an intense multiplication of male germ cells occurs during August and September. the remaining period of maturation being mostly a differenciation phase (spermiogenesis). In female. follicular cell multiplication (previtellogenesis) occurs in ovary during October and November whereas vitellogenesis begins in December and is pursued during winter. It appears clearly that, in the aim of an experimental study of the mitogenic effect of the optic gland gonadotropin on its target cells, the periods of intense multiplication so established are those in which male germ cells and follicular cells are likely to give an optimal response and should be the most suitable to undertake experimental studies.
Evidence of altered epidermal nerve fiber morphology in adults with self-injurious behavior and neurodevelopmental disorders
Creators: name: Symons, Frank J.
name: Kennedy, William
name: Dahl, Norm
name: Hardrict, Ronald
name: Wendelschafer-Crabb, Gwen
name: Bodfish, James W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The purpose of this preliminary study was to examine the morphology and neuropeptide density of epidermal nerve fibers quantified through skin biopsy samples from three adults with neurodevelopmental disorders and chronic self-injurious behavior (SIB) secondary to mental retardation compared with non-SIB normal IQ controls. A cross-sectional design was used with 3 mm punch skin biopsies collected from each participant from non-self-injurious body sites and compared with site-matched existing normal control skin samples. The study was conducted at an outpatient clinic. The primary dependent measure for the morphology analyses was the coefficient of variation (CV) to quantify the mean gap length between epidermal nerve fibers for each subject. Visual microscopic examination and quantitative analysis of the microscopy images suggested there were morphological abnormalities (increased CV) in the epidermal nerve fibers among the chronic SIB cases. Substance P (SP) fiber density was increased with 2 to 3 times as many fibers in SIB subjects as control subjects. Additional empirical work is needed to clarify the relation between sensory innervation of the skin and self-injury to improve assessment and treatment outcomes.
(400032) James Anderson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
High efficiency in mode selective frequency conversion
Creators: name: Quesada, Nicolás
name: Sipe, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Frequency conversion (FC) is an enabling process in many quantum information protocols. Recently, it has been observed that upconversion efficiencies in single-photon, mode-selective FC are limited to around 80%.In this letter we argue that these limits can be understood as time-ordering corrections (TOCs) that modify the joint conversion amplitude of the process. Furthermore we show, using a simple scaling argument, that recently proposed cascaded FC protocols that overcome the aforementioned limitations act as "attenuators" of the TOCs. This observation allows us to argue that very similar cascaded architectures can be used to attenuate TOCs in photon generation via spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Finally, by using the Magnus expansion, we argue that the TOCs, which are usually considered detrimental for FC efficiency, can also be used to increase the efficiency of conversion in partially mode selective FC.
Figure S1; Tables S1 - S4 from Muscle mass drives cost in sexually selected arthropod weapons.
Creators: name: O'Brien, Devin M.
name: Boisseau, Romain P.
name: Duell, Meghan
name: McCullough, Erin
name: Powell, Erin C.
name: Ummat Somjee
name: Solie, Sarah
name: Hickey, Anthony J.
name: Holwell, Gregory I.
name: Painting, Christina J.
name: Emlen, Douglas J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Figure S1: Scaling relationship between log RMR and log relative weapon muscle mass A (muscle mass/body size; top) and log relative muscle mass B (muscle mass/body mass; bottom) for stick insects, frog-legged beetles, and stag beetles. Red lines represent OLS regression. Shaded areas represent 95% confidence intervals around OLS regressions.; Table S1: Source and rearing data for study species. All animals were fed ad libidum. *New Zealand long-legged harvestmen measured shortly after capture and immediately returned to the wild.; Table S2: Measurements of weapon and body size included as variables in principal components analyses (rounded to the nearest hundredth), % variation explained by PC1 in weapon size or body size PCAs, and section of weapon dissected for muscle digestion for each species. Bold measures of weapon/body size were used for scaling analyses.; Table S3: Summary of multiple regression models (resting metabolic rate (RMR) regressed on overall weapon size and body size (RMR~body size *weapon size) within the same model).; Table S4: Summary of relative muscle mass A (RMM-A) and B (RMM-B) for each species. *measured as wet muscle mass. Relative muscle mass A = muscle mass/linear measurements of body size. Relative muscle mass B = muscle mass/body mass.
The unexpected occurrence of late Sardina pilchardus The unexpected occurrence of late Sardina pilchardus in a temperate estuary
Creators: name: MORAIS, Pedro
name: FARIA, Ana
name: CHÍCHARO, Maria Alexandra
name: CHÍCHARO, Luís
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2009

description: The presence of sardine larval stages inside estuaries has generally been regarded as accidental and restricted to
 the lower part of estuaries. Sampling done with a zooplankton net in the Guadiana estuary corroborated this hypothesis.
 Late sardine larvae (32.8 ± 2.0 mm) were, however, unexpectedly collected with an otter trawl, 14 km upstream from the
 mouth of the estuary. Thus, this work intends to: (1) discriminate and compare the abiotic characteristics of the sites where
 maximum abundance of sardine larval stages were registered, when captured with a zooplankton net, with the characteris-
 tics of the sites where late sardine larvae were collected with an otter trawl; (2) demonstrate that the presence of the late
 sardine larvae inside the Guadiana estuary was not accidental. The average salinity of the site were late larvae where
 collected was 4.2 ± 2.3, i.e. 87.3% lower than the average salinity where maximum abundance of early larvae was
 registered. We suggest that the presence of the late sardine larvae inside the Guadiana estuary was not accidental. In order
 to migrate to that location and remain in the estuary, counteracting river inflow, these late larvae must have employed active
 migration and retention strategies. New methodologies need to be implemented for routine sampling of all larval stages of
 sardine, in order to achieve a complete understanding of their life cycle.
(400031) Maria Menzies Anderson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Self-efficacy for managing pain, symptoms, and function in patients with lung cancer and their informal caregivers: Associations with symptoms and distress
Creators: name: Porter, Laura S.
name: Garst, Jennifer
name: Baucom, Donald
name: Keefe, Francis J.
name: McBride, Colleen M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: This study examined self-efficacy for managing pain, symptoms, and function in patients with lung cancer and their caregivers, and associations between self-efficacy and patient and caregiver adjustment. 152 patients with early stage lung cancer completed measures of self-efficacy, pain, fatigue, quality of life, depression, and anxiety. Their caregivers completed a measure assessing their self-efficacy for helping the patient manage symptoms and measures of psychological distress and caregiver strain. Analyses indicated that, overall, patients and caregivers were relatively low in self-efficacy for managing pain, symptoms, and function, and that there were significant associations between self-efficacy and adjustment. Patients low in self-efficacy reported significantly higher levels of pain, fatigue, lung cancer symptoms, depression, and anxiety, and significantly worse physical and functional well being, as did patients whose caregivers were low in self-efficacy. When patients and caregivers both had low self-efficacy, patients reported higher levels of anxiety and poorer quality of life than when both were high in self-efficacy. There were also significant associations between patient and caregiver self-efficacy and caregiver adjustment, with lower levels of self-efficacy associated with higher levels of caregiver strain and psychological distress. These preliminary findings raise the possibility that patient and caregiver self-efficacy for managing pain, symptoms, and function may be important factors affecting adjustment, and that interventions targeted at increasing self-efficacy may be useful in this population.
Additional file 1 of Beyond the vaccines: a glance at the small molecule and peptide-based anti-COVID19 arsenal
Creators: name: Nepali, Kunal
name: Sharma, Ram
name: Sharma, Sachin
name: Thakur, Amandeep
name: Liou, Jing-Ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Activity of profile of small molecules as anti-COVID drugs.
Development and psychometric analysis of the PROMIS pain behavior item bank
Creators: name: Callahan, Leigh F.
name: Jensen, Mark P.
name: Keefe, Francis J.
name: Amtmann, Dagmar
name: Cook, Karon F.
name: Chen, Wen Hung
name: Harnam, Neesha
name: Revicki, Dennis A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The measurement of pain behavior is a key component of the assessment of persons with chronic pain; however few self-reported pain behavior instruments have been developed. We developed a pain behavior item bank as part of the Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS). For the Wave I testing, because of the large number of PROMIS items, a complex sampling approach was used where participants were randomly assigned to either respond to two full item banks or to multiple 7-item blocks of items. A web-based survey was designed and completed by 15,528 members of the general population and 967 individuals with different types of chronic pain. Item response theory (IRT) analysis models were used to evaluate item characteristics and to scale both items and individuals on the pain behavior domain. The pain behavior item bank demonstrated good fit to a unidimensional model (Comparative Fit Index = 0.94). Several iterations of IRT analyses resulted in a final 39 item pain behavior bank, and different IRT models were fit to the total sample and to those participants who experienced some pain. The results indicated that these items demonstrated good coverage of the pain behavior construct. Pain behavior scores were strongly related to pain intensity and moderately related to self-reported general health status. Mean pain behavior scores varied significantly by groups based on pain severity and general health status. The PROMIS pain behavior item bank can be used to develop static short-form and dynamic measures of pain behavior for clinical studies.
Functional organization of the benthic macrofauna in the Bizerte lagoon (SW Mediterranean Sea), semi-enclosed area subject to strong environmental/anthropogenic variations
Creators: name: AFLI, Ahmed
name: BOUFAHJA, Fehmi
name: SADRAOUI, Sami
name: BEN MUSTAPHA, Karim
name: AÏSSA, Patricia
name: MRABET, Ridha
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2009

description: The Bizerte lagoon belongs to a large lagoonal complex increasingly affected by anthropogenic activities during
 the last years. At the same time, it is influenced by seawater inputs and by the freshwaters coming from Ichkeul Lake and
 several wadis, this giving rise to greatly fluctuating environmental conditions. To study the functional organization of the
 benthic macroinvertebrates, 11 stations facing the main important contamination sources were sampled using a 0.1 m² Van
 Veen grab. Our results showed that the ecosystem presented signs of trophic imbalance and the overall macrobenthic
 community was very impoverished, despite the apparent satisfactory ecological status showed by biotic indices. In this
 situation, microbial food web replaced the herbivore one while only some invertebrate species tolerant to environmental
 fluctuations were able to survive in such conditions.
(400030) Martha Bain
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Pain site frequency and location in sickle cell disease: The PiSCES project
Creators: name: Roberts, John D.
name: Roseff, Susan D.
name: Penberthy, Lynne T.
name: Dahman, Bassam A.
name: Levenson, James L.
name: McClish, Donna K.
name: Aisiku, Imoigele P.
name: Bovbjerg, Viktor E.
name: Smith, Wally R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Treatment options for sickle cell disease (SCD) pain could be tailored to pain locations. But few epidemiologic descriptions of SCD pain location exist; these are based on few subjects over short time periods. We examined whether SCD pain locations vary by disease genotype, gender, age, frequency of pain, depression, pain crisis or healthcare utilization.
SPATIAL-DISTRIBUTION AND SEASONAL-VARIATION OF SUBTIDAL POLYCHAETE POPULATIONS IN THE MONDEGO ESTUARY (WESTERN PORTUGAL)
Creators: name: Pardal, M. A.
name: Marques, J. C.
name: Bellan, G.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1993

description: The Mondego estuary consists of two arms, north and south. The north arm is deeper, while the south arm is largely silted up, causing freshwater to flow primarily by the north arm. Environmental stress is severe. essentially due to harbour activities, salt-works, aquaculture farms. and nutrients and chemicals discharged from agricultural areas of the lower Mondego river valley. From December 1989 to September 1990 a study of the subtidal macrofaunal community was carried out. Polychaetes were found to be the most abundant macrofaunal group of the Mondego estuary subtidal community, representing about 34.5 % of the species and 63 % of the individuals sampled. Both biological and physicochemical data were analysed by principal components analysis (PCA), and data on the Polychaete fauna was also analysed with regard to spatial and temporal variations of total abundance. The Mondego estuary seems to present an impoverished subtidal Polychaete fauna with regard to the number of species, although the south arm presents enhanced populations. In the inner areas of the south arm. the Polychaete fauna is characterized by abundant populations of Amage adspersa, followed by more sparse populations of Capitella capitata, Heteromastus filiformis, Polydora ciliata, and Streblospio shrubsolii. Moreover, the number of species was roughly stable through the year, and Polychaetes exhibited by far the most elevated abundances found in the estuary. In the north arm, the Polychaete fauna was characterized by Hediste diversicolor and Streblospio shrubsolii, almost restricted to the upstream section, followed by the sporadic occurrence of other species. The north arm exhibited an extremely impoverished Polychaete fauna, both in number of species and total abundance. as compared to the south arm. In the downstream area of the south arm and near the mouth of the estuary the Polychaete fauna was characterized by the occurrence of a mixture of uncommon species e.g. Eulalia sp., Eteone picta, Glycera convoluta, Lagis koreni, Nephthys spp.,
Changes in pain from a repetitive thermal stimulus: The roles of adaptation and sensitization
Creators: name: Maixner, William
name: Hollins, Mark
name: Harper, Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: This study examined processes that contribute to the changing painfulness of a repeatedly presented thermal (heat) stimulus. The 3-s pulses were presented to the side of the hand at a rate of 4/min, too slow to engage wind-up. Over the course of 32 trials, pain intensity (measured by verbal report on a 0–100 scale) first declined and then (in most cases) rose again, indicating adaptation and sensitization, respectively. The magnitude of adaptation grew across a series of three runs, indicating that adaptation has a slow as well as a fast component. The rate of sensitization depended on stimulus temperature, but not on subjective pain intensity; this result implies that sensitization takes place at an early processing stage. Adaptation and sensitization were comparable in participants with fibromyalgia (FM), temporomandibular disorders (TMD), and in healthy controls (HC), indicating these processes occur before the perceptual amplification that characterizes FM and TMD. The ability of vibration to reduce pain has previously been shown to involve segmental inhibition; the finding in the present study that vibratory gating of pain is significantly (inversely) related to the rate of sensitization suggests that the latter also reflects segmental processes. Several lines of evidence thus point to the conclusion that adaptation and sensitization occur at early stages of sensory information processing.
ELECTROPHORETIC AND IMMUNOLOGICAL STUDY OF SOME TEGUMENT COMPONENTS AND OF THEIR RELATION WITH SERIE PROTEINS IN MACROPIPUS-PUBER (CRUSTACEA-DECAPODA)
Creators: name: Ghidalia, W.
name: Montmory, C.
name: Vicomte, M.
name: Lambin, P.
name: Fine, J. M.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1976

Abstract
Moments of the inverse participation ratio for the Laplacian on finite regular graphs
Creators: name: Clark, Timothy B. P.
name: Del Maestro, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the first and second moments of the inverse participation ratio (IPR) for all eigenvectors of the Laplacian on finite random regular graphs with $n$ vertices and degree $z$. By exactly diagonalizing a large set of $z$-regular graphs, we find that as $n$ becomes large, the mean of the inverse participation ratio on each graph, when averaged over a large ensemble of graphs, approaches the numerical value $3$. This universal number is understood as the large-$n$ limit of the average of the quartic polynomial corresponding to the IPR over an appropriate $(n-2)$-dimensional hypersphere of $\mathbb{R}^n$. For a large, but not exhaustive ensemble of graphs, the mean variance of the inverse participation ratio for all graph Laplacian eigenvectors deviates from its continuous hypersphere average due to large graph-to-graph fluctuations that arise from the existence of highly localized modes.
description: 24 pages, 10 figures, fixed typos and included new arguments on graph eigenvector distribution