cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
National Opinion Polls National Political Surveys; June 1969
June 1969
Creators: name: NOP Market Research Limited
Publisher: name: UK Data Service
Year: 1981

description: The NOP National Political Surveys were designed principally to ascertain public opinion on political parties, leaders and government, and to record voting intention. In addition, the majority of the surveys included data of topical interest and of social importance.
On the mechanical modeling of cell components
Creators: name: Klinge, Sandra
name: Wiegold, Tillmann
name: Aygün, Serhat
name: Gilbert, Robert P.
name: Holzapfel, Gerhard A.
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 620
subject: 670
subject: Eukaryontische Zelle
subject: Actin-Filament
subject: Cytosol
subject: Polymere
subject: Finite-Elemente-Methode

description: Eukaryotic cells are complex systems which carry out a variety of different tasks. The current contribution gives insight into the modeling of some of their vital components and represents an overview of results achieved within the international D‐A‐CH project on computational modeling of transport processes in a cell. The first part of the contribution studies viscoelastic effects of cross‐linked actin network embedded in cytosol. The basic‐model is used to simulate the actin behavior at a microscopic level. It considers the influence of the physical length, the end‐to‐end distance and the stretch modulus in order to provide a relationship between the stretch of a single polymer chain and the applied tension force. The effective behavior of the cell cytoplasm is simulated by using the multiscale finite element method. Here, a standard large strain viscous approach is applied for the cytosol, while the generalized Maxwell model simulates viscous effects occurring in filaments due to deviatoric changes. The examples dealing with combinations of tension‐holding tests give insight into the effective behavior of the cytoplasm.
description: Proceedings in Applied Mathematics & Mechanics;Vol. 20, 2021, Issue 1, Special Issue: 91st Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) Art.No. e202000129
Experimental Implementation of the Quantum Baker's Map
Creators: name: Weinstein, Yaakov S.
name: Lloyd, Seth
name: Emerson, Joseph V.
name: Cory, David G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports on the experimental implementation of the quantum baker's map via a three bit nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum information processor. The experiments tested the sensitivity of the quantum chaotic map to perturbations. In the first experiment, the map was iterated forward and then backwards to provide benchmarks for intrinsic errors and decoherence. In the second set of experiments, the least significant qubit was perturbed in between the iterations to test the sensitivity of the quantum chaotic map to applied perturbations. These experiments are used to investigate previous predicted properties of quantum chaotic dynamics.
description: submitted to PRL
Rhotana kuncheriai Zelazny & Webb 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Rhotana
Rhotana kuncheriai

description: Rhotana kuncheriai Zelazny, sp. nov.
(Figs. 46, 205)
 Description. Forewings 1.8 times longer than wide, length in male 4.6–4.9 mm (mean = 4.8, n= 4). Colour stramineous to orange; brightest orange on facial carinae and clypeus; abdomen light brown, slightly tinted with orange. Forewings not powdered; faintly yellowish-brown with clear areas at base of Cu1, between Ms1a and Ms2, as well as before - and after apical cross-veins; infuscated around 2nd subcostal sector; orange-brown around last subcostal sector; veins stramineous, but last subcostal sector, apex of Sc, and apical cross-vein between R and Sc orange; in one paratype apical parts of R and M tinted with orange. Hindwings with two large contiguous brownblack marks in posterior apical corner; the larger mark with a small white dot and its basal margin irregular; rest of hindwings lightly infuscated, but area basad of marks and clavus colourless; the clear areas inside and before the black marks may be covered with white powder; apical parts of veins red, except for Sc and R. Facial carinae contiguous at their bases; rostrum short, not quite reaching hind coxae; subantennal processes very small; lateral carinae of pronotum poorly developed. Forewings with costal margin slightly -, apical part of Sc strongly sinuate; Sc+R fork in basal third of wing; Ms1 branches slightly before its middle; Ms1b touches the apical part of Cu1; a small triangle at base of Ms1. Pygofer of male genitalia with large, lateral projections, curved downwards; genital styles long. Apical part of aedeagus ending in two large lobes, the right one partly overlapping the left one, a small emargination on the ventral side of the left lobe.
 Etymology. The species is named for the collector, K.J. Kuncheria, and ' kuncheriai ' is a latinized noun used in the genitive case.
 Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 4.9 mm, body 2.7 mm), MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO; labels: 1) NORTH BORNEO (SE)/ Forest Camp, 19 km / N. of Kalabakan / 60m, 27.X.1962 2) K.J. Kuncheria / Collector / BISHOP (BPBM). Paratypes. MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO, same data as holotype 2 ♂ (fw. 2x4.6), (one 14.X.1962), Y. Hirashima (BPBM). WEST MALAYSIA: Pahang, F.M. S., Pelcan, 1 ♂ (fw. 4.9), 25.IV.1939, H.M. Pendlebury (BMNH).
 Distribution. North Borneo, West Malaysia.
 Diagnosis. Rhotana kuncheriai resembles R. excelsa Melichar and R. mindanaoensis Zelazny, both from the Philippines. It can be distinguished from these by the forewings lacking any larger red areas, by the shape of the hindwing marks, and by the male aedeagus lacking a hook-like tip.
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on pages 75-76
Quasiclassical theory of superconductivity: interfering paths
Creators: name: Ozana, M.
name: Shelankov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the method of two-point quasiclassical Green's function to geometries where the trajectories include interfering paths and loops. For a system of two superconducting layers separated by partially transparent interface, corrections to the quasiclassical solutions for the Green's function are explicitly found as well as the deviation from the normalization condition.
description: 16 pages, 14 figures; Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Power Corrections in Flavour-Singlet Deep Inelastic Scattering
Creators: name: Smye, G. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the 1/Q^2 power-suppressed corrections to structure functions in the flavour-singlet channel of deep inelastic lepton scattering arising from renormalon insertions into an initial-state gluon, as obtained using the dispersive approach. The pinch technique is used as a convenient tool in the separation of contributions.
description: 23 pages, 7 figures
Spectral Gap Critical Exponent for Glauber Dynamics of Hierarchical Spin Models
Creators: name: Bauerschmidt, Roland
name: Bodineau, Thierry
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Article

description: Abstract: We develop a renormalisation group approach to deriving the asymptotics of the spectral gap of the generator of Glauber type dynamics of spin systems with strong correlations (at and near a critical point). In our approach, we derive a spectral gap inequality for the measure recursively in terms of spectral gap inequalities for a sequence of renormalised measures. We apply our method to hierarchical versions of the 4-dimensional n-component |φ|4 model at the critical point and its approach from the high temperature side, and of the 2-dimensional Sine-Gordon and the Discrete Gaussian models in the rough phase (Kosterlitz–Thouless phase). For these models, we show that the spectral gap decays polynomially like the spectral gap of the dynamics of a free field (with a logarithmic correction for the |φ|4 model), the scaling limit of these models in equilibrium.
Rhotana sabaea Zelazny & Webb 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Rhotana
Rhotana sabaea

description: Rhotana sabaea Zelazny, sp. nov.
(Figs. 54, 208)
 Description. Forewings 1.8 times longer than wide, length 4.5 mm. Colour stramineous; clypeus, rostrum, fore tibiae, and mesonotum faintly tinted with orange-brown. Forewings not powdered; around clavus base, first-, and second subcostal sector and along apical cross-veins faintly infuscated; brown marks around last subcostal sector and at hind margin just before apex of Cu1; veins stramineous, but last subcostal sector, apex of Sc, some parts of R and M, and the cross-veins between Sc, R, and M orange. Hindwings with three black marks. Facial carinae contiguous up to lower level of eyes; subantennal processes and lateral carinae of pronotum poorly developed; rostrum not reaching hind coxae. Forewings with apical part of Sc strongly sinuate; Sc+R fork in basal third of wing; Ms1 branched before its middle, Ms1b connected to apical part of Cu1 by cross-vein; a triangle at base of Ms1. Pygofer of male genitalia with triangular, lateral projections. Aedeagus ending in a long and pointed process which is curved downwards; dorsal side of apical part with a rounded lobe, its apical margin finely serrated.
 Etymology. The species name is a latinized adjective (sabaeus, -a, -um = from Sabah).
 Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 4.5 mm), MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH; labels 1) SABAH: Sook, / 1500 ft. 17m. SW/Keningan,/ 15.VIII.1977 2) M.E. Bacchaus / B.M. 1978-48 (BMNH).
 Distribution. North Borneo.
 Diagnosis. Rhotana sabaea is similar to R. latipennis Walker, R. crassa sp. nov., and R. hirashimai, sp. nov., all also from Borneo. It can be distinguished from these by the brown mark around the last subcostal sector of the forewings as well as the long pointed process and the serrated lobe on the apical part of the male aedeagus.
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on pages 77-78
Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Interfaces with Curved Initial Shapes and Variational Formula
Creators: name: Fukai, Yohsuke T.
name: Takeuchi, Kazumasa A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study fluctuations of interfaces in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class with curved initial conditions. By simulations of a cluster growth model and experiments of liquid-crystal turbulence, we determine the universal scaling functions that describe the height distribution and the spatial correlation of the interfaces growing outward from a ring. The scaling functions, controlled by a single dimensionless time parameter, show crossover from the statistical properties of the flat interfaces to those of the circular interfaces. Moreover, employing the KPZ variational formula to describe the case of the ring initial condition, we find that the formula, which we numerically evaluate, reproduces the numerical and experimental results precisely without adjustable parameters. This demonstrates that precise numerical evaluation of the variational formula is possible at all, and underlines the practical importance of the formula, which is able to predict the one-point distribution of KPZ interfaces for general initial conditions.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures including Supplemental Material
Profitability and Risk of Retained Ownership of Beef Calves
Creators: name: Novak, Frank
name: Eales, James
name: Munro, Earl
name: Novak, Frank
name: Eales, James
name: Munro, Earl
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries
Risk and Uncertainty

description: This study investigates the risk and return of retained ownership of steer calves past weaning, in Alberta. The study is approached using an historical simulation. The base simulation model is based on a producer retaining 100 beef steers every fall for the years 1979 to 1991. There are three weaning weights examined being four hundred and fifty, five hundry and fifty and six hundred and fifty pounds. In additition to the base model a further simulation is developed to examine selective hedging strategies. Participation in the National Tripartite Stabilization Program has been a benefit to producers who retain ownership, both in terms of increased return and decreased risk. Selective hedging strategies, based on a target return, can increase returns and decrease the level of risk. A routine hedge was not found to be a successful risk management tool over long production horizons.
Quantum bath control with nuclear spin state selectivity via pulse-adjusted dynamical decoupling
Creators: name: Lang, J. E.
name: Broadway, D. A.
name: White, G. A. L.
name: Hall, L. T.
name: Stacey, A.
name: Hollenberg, L. C. L.
name: Monteiro, T. S.
name: Tetienne, J. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamical decoupling (DD) is a powerful method for controlling arbitrary open quantum systems. In quantum spin control, DD generally involves a sequence of timed spin flips ($π$ rotations) arranged to average out or selectively enhance coupling to the environment. Experimentally, errors in the spin flips are inevitably introduced, motivating efforts to optimise error-robust DD. Here we invert this paradigm: by introducing particular control "errors" in standard DD, namely a small constant deviation from perfect $π$ rotations (pulse adjustments), we show we obtain protocols that retain the advantages of DD while introducing the capabilities of quantum state readout and polarisation transfer. We exploit this nuclear quantum state selectivity on an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond to efficiently polarise the $^{13}$C quantum bath. The underlying physical mechanism is generic and paves the way to systematic engineering of pulse-adjusted protocols with nuclear state selectivity for quantum control applications.
News Diversity Reconsidered: A Systematic Literature Review Unraveling the Diversity in Conceptualizations
Creators: name: Joris, Glen
name: De Grove, Frederik
name: Van Damme, Kristin
name: De Marez, Lieven
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Concerns about selective exposure and disinformation in the digital news environment have brought the concept of news diversity to the forefront of academic debates. Despite its growing prominence in scholarly work, however, news diversity often remains hard to grasp. The current paper aims to re-assess what the concept of news diversity means in an evolving news ecology. To do so, we draw on three dominant conceptualizations of news and media diversity. We use their strengths to unravel the variety in conceptualizations of news diversity and to explain how diversity is built on different conceptual and normative assumptions towards news media and democracy. Based on these insights, we perform a systematic literature review in which we map the current communication science literature that address news diversity. Results show that 43 different news diversity dimensions have been used in literature, indicating a form of academic cherry-picking with both normative and conceptual implications. We propose a way forward by formulating recommendations for future diversity research. This includes a shift to a more theoretically grounded approach in conceptualizing news diversity, a call for interdisciplinary research, and giving the idea of normativity a more pronounced place in research on news diversity.
Consensus-based technical recommendations for clinical translation of renal BOLD MRI
Creators: name: Bane, Octavia
name: Mendichovszky, Iosif A.
name: Milani, Bastien
name: Dekkers, Ilona A.
name: Deux, Jean-Francois
name: Eckerbom, Per
name: Grenier, Nicolas
name: Hall, Michael E.
name: Inoue, Tsutomu
name: Laustsen, Christoffer
name: Lerman, Lilach O.
name: Liu, Chunlei
name: Morrell, Glen
name: Pedersen, Michael
name: Pruijm, Menno
name: Sadowski, Elizabeth A.
name: Seeliger, Erdmann
name: Sharma, Kanishka
name: Thoeny, Harriet
name: Vermathen, Peter
name: Wang, Zhen J.
name: Serafin, Zbigniew
name: Zhang, Jeff L.
name: Francis, Susan T.
name: Sourbron, Steven
name: Pohlmann, Andreas
name: Fain, Sean B.
name: Prasad, Pottumarthi V.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2019
Subjects: Review
BOLD MRI
Kidney
Imaging
Biomarkers
Standardization
Consensus

description: Abstract: Harmonization of acquisition and analysis protocols is an important step in the validation of BOLD MRI as a renal biomarker. This harmonization initiative provides technical recommendations based on a consensus report with the aim to move towards standardized protocols that facilitate clinical translation and comparison of data across sites. We used a recently published systematic review paper, which included a detailed summary of renal BOLD MRI technical parameters and areas of investigation in its supplementary material, as the starting point in developing the survey questionnaires for seeking consensus. Survey data were collected via the Delphi consensus process from 24 researchers on renal BOLD MRI exam preparation, data acquisition, data analysis, and interpretation. Consensus was defined as ≥ 75% unanimity in response. Among 31 survey questions, 14 achieved consensus resolution, 12 showed clear respondent preference (65–74% agreement), and 5 showed equal (50/50%) split in opinion among respondents. Recommendations for subject preparation, data acquisition, processing and reporting are given based on the survey results and review of the literature. These technical recommendations are aimed towards increased inter-site harmonization, a first step towards standardization of renal BOLD MRI protocols across sites. We expect this to be an iterative process updated dynamically based on progress in the field.
You Don’t Say He was Kidnapped! Vietnamese Diasporic Media’s Coverage of Trinh Xuan Thanh Issue
Creators: name: Trang-Nhung Pham
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Current literature on diasporic media often focuses on its role in serving and representing diasporas, highlighting their characteristics while paying less attention to pattern of coverage. This paper tries to fill in the gap by examining how diasporic media differ from each other and from the media in their respective home countries when reporting a debatable issue. The article argues that journalistic operation of diasporic media is subjected to two forces of influence: the media system of the host country in which they operate and preferences of the diasporic community they address. Through content analysis (N = 395) of news coverage of Trinh Xuan Thanh issue by Vietnamese news outlets in Vietnam, Germany and the US, the author finds that public service mentality towards diasporic community is a powerful force guiding diasporic media’s journalistic choices. It is also suggestive that the connection diasporic media maintain with their homeland can be critical rather than complimentary.
Continuous monitoring of vital signs with the Everion biosensor on the surgical ward: a clinical validation study
Creators: name: Haveman, Marjolein E.
name: van Melzen, Rianne
name: Schuurmann, Richte C.L.
name: Moumni, Mostafa El
name: Hermens, Hermie J.
name: Tabak, Monique
name: de Vries, Jean-Paul P.M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Wearable sensors enable continuous vital sign monitoring, although information about their performance on nursing wards is scarce. Vital signs measured by telemonitoring and nurse measurements on a surgical ward were compared to assess validity and reliability. In a prospective observational study, surgical patients wore a wearable sensor (Everion, Biovotion AG, Zürich, Switzerland) that continuously measured heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR), oxygen saturation (SpO2), and temperature during their admittance on the ward. Validity was evaluated using repeated-measures correlation and reliability using Bland-Altman plots, mean difference, and 95% limits of agreement (LoA). Validity analyses of 19 patients (median age, 68; interquartile range, 62.5–72.5 years) showed a moderate relationship between telemonitoring and nurse measurements for HR (r = 0.53; 95% confidence interval, 0.44-0.61) and a poor relationship for RR, SpO2, and temperature. Reliability analyses showed that Everion measured HR close to nurse measurements (mean difference, 1 bpm; LoA, −16.7 to 18.7 bpm). Everion overestimated RR at higher values, whereas SpO2 and temperature were underestimated. A moderate relationship was determined between Everion and nurse measurements at a surgical ward in this study. Validity and reliability of telemonitoring should also be assessed with gold standard devices in future clinical trials.
Additional file 8 of The fruit morphometric variation and fruit type evolution of the stone oaks (Fagaceae, Lithocarpus)
Creators: name: Chen, Xi
name: Qin, Yuanyi
name: Jia, Dongrui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 8: Table S2. The comparison of species included in our phylogenetic study and study by Yang et al. (2018).
Rhotana truncata Zelazny & Webb 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Rhotana
Rhotana truncata

description: Rhotana truncata Zelazny, sp. nov.
(Fig. 210)
 Description. Forewings 2.0 times longer than wide, length about 5.6 mm. Colour stramineous to light brown. Forewings not powdered, faintly infuscated, interrupted by clear areas, slightly darker in a mark distad of clavus apex and in a V-shaped band from last subcostal sector to base of Ms3 and to 2nd subcostal sector; a red mark around base of last subcostal sector and apex of Sc; 2nd subcostal sector and surrounding veins, apical margin, and anterior apical cross-veins and surrounding veins red; remaining veins stramineous. Hindwings with three brown-black marks around apices of Ms1, Ms2, and claval vein. Pygofer of male genitalia with a pair of prominent, lateral projections. Genital styles elongated, a small hump between dorsal processes. Aedeagus short, apical part truncated, without processes.
 Etymology. The species name is a Latin participle (truncatus, -a, -um = truncated).
 Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 5.6 mm), MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO; labels: 1) N. BORNEO / BETTOTAN/ NR. SANDAKAN/ Aug. 2nd 1927 1A) C.B. K. & H.M.P./ F.M. S./ Museums 2) Ex F.M.S. R6 / Museum / B.M. 1955-354 (BMNH).
 Distribution. North Borneo.
 Diagnosis. Rhotana truncata resembles closely R. hirashimai sp. nov., also from Borneo. It can be separated from that species by the forewings bearing a clearly defined, although faint mark distad of the clavus tip and by the male aedeagus lacking a pointed terminal process.
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on pages 78-79
Updated Constraints on the Minimal Supergravity Model
Creators: name: Baer, H.
name: Balazs, C.
name: Belyaev, A.
name: Mizukoshi, J.
name: Tata, X.
name: Wang, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, refinements have been made on both the theoretical and experimental determinations of the i.) mass of the lightest Higgs scalar (m_h), ii.) relic density of cold dark matter in the universe (Omega_CDM h^2), iii.) branching fraction for radiative B decay BF(b \to s γ), iv.) muon anomalous magnetic moment (a_μ), and v.) flavor violating decay B_s \to μ^+μ^-. Each of these quantities can be predicted in the MSSM, and each depends in a non-trivial way on the spectra of SUSY particles. In this paper, we present updated constraints from each of these quantities on the minimal supergravity (mSUGRA) model as embedded in the computer program ISAJET. The combination of constraints points to certain favored regions of model parameter space where collider and non-accelerator SUSY searches may be more focussed.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures. Version published in JHEP
Revised scored Sensory Perception Quotient reveals sensory hypersensitivity in women with autism
Creators: name: Taylor, Emily
name: Holt, Rosemary
name: Tavassoli, Teresa
name: Ashwin, Chris
name: Baron-Cohen, Simon
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research
Autism spectrum conditions
Sensory
Sensory Perception Quotient
Hypersensitivity
Broader autism phenotype
females

description: Funder: Autism Research Trust
description: Funder: Autism Speaks; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000073
description: Funder: European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
description: Funder: National Institute for Health Research; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000272
description: Funder: Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care
description: Abstract: Background: Previous research using the Sensory Perception Quotient (SPQ) has reported greater sensory hypersensitivity in people with autism spectrum condition (ASC) compared to controls, consistent with other research. However, current scoring of the SPQ does not differentiate between hyper and hyposensitivity, making it uncertain whether individuals with ASC might also show differences in hyposensitivity. Furthermore, no research to date has focused on sensory differences in females, and whether differences in sensory sensitivity extend to the broader autism phenotype (BAP). The present study aimed to fill these gaps. Methods: The present study developed and validated a Revised Scoring of the Sensory Perception Quotient (SPQ-RS) in order to investigate self-reported hypersensitivity and hyposensitivity in three groups of adults: a female ASC group (n = 152), mothers of children with ASC (BAP mothers group; n = 103), and a control mothers group (n = 74). All participants completed the SPQ as a self-report measure of sensory processing and the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) as a measure of the degree of autism traits. Results: The female ASC group reported significantly more hypersensitivity, but not more hyposensitivity, compared to the control female and BAP mothers groups. The BAP mothers group did not differ from the control mothers group in either reported hypersensitivity (p = .365) or hyposensitivity (p = .075), suggesting atypical sensory sensitivity is not a BAP trait within females. SPQ-RS hypersensitivity scores positively correlated with autistic traits in the female ASC (r = .266) and BAP mothers groups (r = .350). Conclusions: The present findings revealed greater sensory hypersensitivity, but not hyposensitivity, in females with ASC compared to BAP and control female groups, and that a greater degree of autism traits relates to higher hypersensitivity in ASC females. The results offer support for the enhanced perceptual functioning model using large samples of females, who are an understudied population, and demonstrate the validity of the SPQ-RS as a valuable new research tool for exploring self-reported hypersensitivity and hyposensitivity.
Returns to Farmland Investment in Alberta, 1964-89
Creators: name: Phillips, W.
name: Bauer, L.
name: Akabua, K.
name: Phillips, W.
name: Bauer, L.
name: Akabua, K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Land Economics/Use

description: The objective of this study was to analyze the performance of Alberta farmland relative to investment opportunities from financial securities. It is an extension of an earlier study undertaken by Mercier (1988) and Phillips et al. (1989). This study re-examines the period from 1964 to 1985, and extends the data series to 1989. The results show that Alberta farmland out performed the stock market in both nominal and real terms, but with greater volatility. In nominal terms, farmland had an annual return of 19.8% as opposed to 12.2% in the stock market. The standard deviation of returns in farmland was 20.6% compared to 16.2%. The real return for farmland was 12.6% whereas the stock market earned 5.9%. About 55% of the total return to investment in Alberta farmland was due to capital gain; measured in real terms, income accounted for the major portion at about 66%. Farmland and stock market returns were found to be uncorrelated in both nominal and real terms. Beta values, which measure the degree of association, were estimated at -0.1632 and -0.1351 for nominal and real terms respectively. Neither nominal nor real beta values were significantly different from zero at the 5% probability level. These results are not inconsistent with earlier studies, and are attributed to the fact that returns in agriculture are subject to a different set of economic and environmental influences than are present for the stock market generally. This suggests possibilities for risk reduction by including stock market investments in conjunction with farmland ownership. Whereas no correlation was found between farmland and the stock market, returns in excess of what can be explained by compensation for risk were detected. The estimated alpha values of 11.27% and 10.21% for the nominal and real situations were significantly different from zero at the 5% level of probability. These values may be due, partially, to the fact that real estate taxes were not deducted in computing the results. Furthermore, the costs of administration in farmland investments, because of the much less formal market environment in which they are held, may be considerably greater than for the stock market. In addition,' stock market investments are considerably more divisible and liquid than is the farmland counterpart. Factors such as these bear further study.
Data and Infrastructure as Privilege
Creators: name: Wrisley, David Joseph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: humanities data
infrastructure
decolonization
digital history

description: This working paper was commissioned by the Society of French Historical Studies and was pre-circulated for a virtual event (Digital Humanities: Ways Forward, A Conference in Honor of David Kammerling Smith; March 20, 2021).

https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/20202021-digital-series-events

The final paper was published in Historical Reflections / Réflexions historiques, 49.3(2023), 28-36. https://doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2023.490301
Transnational Journalism Networks “From Below”. Cross-Border Journalistic Collaboration in Individualized Newswork
Creators: name: Heft, Annett
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Journalism pioneers practice and foster the method of cross-border collaboration, contributing to the ongoing transformation of the journalistic field. This paper analyzes cross-border journalistic collaborations primarily initiated beyond large media organizations. Based on information provided by Hostwriter members and Dataharvest – the EIJC participants, this study carves out (1) central motives, (2) types and characteristics of cross-border research collaborations, and (3) the advantages and challenges of the method as perceived by practitioners “from below.” We argue that bottom-up collaborations contribute to a normalization of the practice through small-scale, less institutionalized, and less binding forms that enable a gradual transition towards a new mindset in the broader field. The above pioneering platforms foster a developing network of open-minded and multicultural practitioners.
How Well Do Foreign Exchange Markets Function: Might a Tobin Tax Help?
Creators: name: Frankel, Jeffrey
name: Frankel, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: financial transactions
subject: turnover
subject: trading volume
subject: tax
subject: foreign exchange market
subject: speculation
subject: United Nations

description: The paper offers an examination of the foreign exchange markets as they currently operate, followed by a consideration of the arguments over the desirability of a Tobin tax. Misgivings regarding how well the markets are working arise from recent apparent misalignments and crises, on the one hand, and from a set of seven academic findings, on the other hand. A review of the structure and size of the foreign exchange markets draws on the most recent central bank surveys released in September 1995. The BIS figure for the worldwide total is $1,230 billion of trading per day in April 1995. Importantly, less than one in five transactions is with a non-financial customer (.18 in London and New York). The case in favor of the Tobin tax features two major arguments. (1) Such a levy might reduce exchange rate volatility. A simple model giving this conclusion is presented in the Appendix. The starting point is a calculation showing that even a small tax would be a large disincentive to short-term transactions. The disincentive to long-term capital flows would be much smaller. This property does not extend to other forms of capital controls, and constitutes the beauty of the Tobin tax proposal. The crucial proposition then becomes that short-term speculation is on average destabilizing. Some support for this claim is cited, in the form of tests on survey data of exchange rate forecasts by market participants. (2) The Tobin tax would raise a lot of revenue more efficiently than alternative taxes such as tariffs. Some possible flaws in earlier estimates of revenue are pointed out here. The relevant base of transactions on which the tax would fall is larger than some have assumed, but the possible drop in trading volume in response to the tax is larger as well. A tax large enough to alter the structure of trading could conceivably collapse trading volume to as little as $151 billion/day. The author does not support a tax of this magnitude. Nevertheless, it is clear that even a more reasonable tax rate of 0.1 per cent would raise a lot of revenue, $166 billion per year in one estimate that is presented for the sake of concreteness. Whether this would be desirable depends heavily on the use to which the funds were put, or the alternative sources of tax revenue for which they are substituted. The case against the Tobin tax also has two major components. (1) It might create distortions and inefficiencies. As noted, it is even conceivable that the fundamental structure of the foreign exchange market could change, from decentralized and dealer-driven to centralized and customer-driven. Whether this would constitute a loss or gain in efficiency is difficult to say. (2) The Tobin tax would be extremely difficult to enforce. Along these lines lie the author's greatest doubts.
Rhotana melichari Zelazny & Webb 2011
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Rhotana
Rhotana melichari

description: Rhotana melichari species group
 Diagnosis. The species of the Rhotana melichari species group can be recognized by the combination of the following characters:
1. Forewings very broad, 1.6 to 1.7 times longer than wide.
2. Forewings with apical part of Cu1 deflected, angle between this part and longitudinal axis of forewing and usually more than 60°.
3. Forewings with Ms1 fork usually close to apex of basal median cell.
4. Facial carinae separated at their base.
5. Male pygofer without lateral projections.
6. Male genital styles often widening towards the end and with the proximal dorsal process unusually broad; it also can have a needle-like process at the inner ventral margin.
7. Male anal segment can have 2 small ventral processes near its apex.
8. Rostrum long, labium surpasses hind coxae by about one third to one half of its length.
9. Hindwings colourless.
 Distribution. Species of this group are found in New Guinea and New Ireland.
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on page 79
The small Ca 2+ -binding protein CSE links Ca 2+ signalling with nitrogen metabolism and filament integrity in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120
Creators: name: Walter, Julia
name: Leganés, Francisco
name: Aro, Eva-Mari
name: Gollan, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Microbial biochemistry, physiology and metabolism
Anabaena
Calcium
Cyanobacteria
Heterocysts
Nitrogen fixation
Filaments

description: Funder: FP7 People: Marie-Curie Actions; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100011264; Grant(s): 2013–607607
description: Abstract: Background: Filamentous cyanobacteria represent model organisms for investigating multicellularity. For many species, nitrogen-fixing heterocysts are formed from photosynthetic vegetative cells under nitrogen limitation. Intracellular Ca2+ has been implicated in the highly regulated process of heterocyst differentiation but its role remains unclear. Ca2+ is known to operate more broadly in metabolic signalling in cyanobacteria, although the signalling mechanisms are virtually unknown. A Ca2+-binding protein called the Ca2+ Sensor EF-hand (CSE) is found almost exclusively in filamentous cyanobacteria. Expression of asr1131 encoding the CSE protein in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 was strongly induced by low CO2 conditions, and rapidly downregulated during nitrogen step-down. A previous study suggests a role for CSE and Ca2+ in regulation of photosynthetic activity in response to changes in carbon and nitrogen availability. Results: In the current study, a mutant Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 strain lacking asr1131 (Δcse) was highly prone to filament fragmentation, leading to a striking phenotype of very short filaments and poor growth under nitrogen-depleted conditions. Transcriptomics analysis under nitrogen-replete conditions revealed that genes involved in heterocyst differentiation and function were downregulated in Δcse, while heterocyst inhibitors were upregulated, compared to the wild-type. Conclusions: These results indicate that CSE is required for filament integrity and for proper differentiation and function of heterocysts upon changes in the cellular carbon/nitrogen balance. A role for CSE in transmitting Ca2+ signals during the first response to changes in metabolic homeostasis is discussed.
MOESM3 of Potential impact of climate change on the geographical distribution of two wild vectors of Chagas disease in Chile: Mepraia spinolai and Mepraia gajardoi
Creators: name: RubĂŠn Garrido
name: Bacigalupo, Antonella
name: PeĂąa-GĂłmez, Francisco
name: Bustamante, Ramiro
name: Cattan, Pedro
name: Gorla, David
name: Carezza Botto-Mahan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. List of articles used to obtain occurrence coordinates for Mepraia spinolai and Mepraia gajardoi.
THE IMPACT OF ARMED CONFLICT ON HEALTH SERVICE SYSTEM IN LAS-ANOD GENERAL HOSPITAL
Creators: name: Jama, Awed Nour
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: ARMED
CONFLICT
HEALTH
SERVICE
SYSTEM
GENERAL HOSPITAL

description: Abstract

Armed conflict has a profound impact on healthcare systems, disrupting services and jeopardizing public health. This study examines the effects of armed conflict on the health service system in Las-Anod General Hospital, Somalia. The research investigates the extent of damage to healthcare infrastructure, interruptions in medical supplies, and the challenges faced by healthcare professionals in conflict-affected areas.

Using a mixed-methods approach, data was collected through surveys and interviews with hospital staff, administrators, and affected individuals. Findings indicate that frequent armed conflicts have led to severe hospital damage, reduced healthcare accessibility, and increased mortality rates. The study highlights key challenges, including the displacement of medical personnel, shortages in essential medicines, and disruptions in emergency medical services.

The research further explores mitigation strategies, emphasizing the need for enhanced security measures, better resource allocation, and international humanitarian support. By addressing these challenges, policymakers and stakeholders can work towards restoring healthcare services and ensuring medical care remains accessible during crises. This study contributes to the broader discourse on conflict and health, offering insights for sustainable healthcare solutions in war-affected regions.
Constraining nuclear star cluster formation using MUSE-AO observations of the early-type galaxy FCC47
Creators: name: Fahrion, Katja
name: Lyubenova, Mariya
name: van de Ven, Glenn
name: Leaman, Ryan
name: Hilker, Michael
name: Martín-Navarro, Ignacio
name: Zhu, Ling
name: Alfaro-Cuello, Mayte
name: Coccato, Lodovico
name: Corsini, Enrico M.
name: Falcón-Barroso, Jesús
name: Iodice, Enrichetta
name: McDermid, Richard M.
name: Sarzi, Marc
name: de Zeeuw, Tim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are found in at least 70% of all galaxies, but their formation path is still unclear. In the most common scenarios, NSCs form in-situ from the galaxy's central gas reservoir, through merging of globular clusters (GCs), or through a combination of the two. As the scenarios pose different expectations for angular momentum and stellar population properties of the NSC in comparison to the host galaxy and the GC system, it is necessary to characterise the stellar light, NSC and GCs simultaneously. The large NSC (r$_\rm{eff} = 66$ pc) and rich GC system of the early-type Fornax cluster galaxy FCC47 (NGC1336) render this galaxy an ideal laboratory to constrain NSC formation. Using MUSE science verification data assisted by adaptive optics, we obtained maps for the stellar kinematics and for stellar-population properties of FCC47. We extracted the spectra of the central NSC and determined line-of-sight velocities of 24 GCs and metallicities of five. FCC47 shows two decoupled components (KDCs): a rotating disk and the NSC. Our orbit-based dynamical Schwarzschild model revealed that the NSC is a distinct kinematic feature and it constitutes the peak of metallicity and old ages in the galaxy. The main body consists of two counter-rotating populations and is dominated by a more metal-poor population. The GC system is bimodal with a dominant metal-poor population and the total GC system mass is $\sim 17\%$ of the NSC mass ($\sim$ 7 $\times$ $10^8 M_\odot$). The rotation, high metallicity and high mass of the NSC cannot be uniquely explained by GC-inspiral and most likely requires additional, but quickly quenched, in-situ formation. The presence of two KDCs most probably are evidence of a major merger that has altered the structure of FCC47 significantly, indicating the important role of galaxy mergers in forming the complex kinematics in the galaxy-NSC system.
description: 21 pages, accepted in A&A
A consistent treatment for pion form factors in space-like and time-like regions
Creators: name: Hwang, Chien-Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We write down some relevant matrix elements for the scattering and decay processes of the pion by considering a quark-meson vertex function. The pion charge and transition form factors $F_π$, $F_{πγ}$, and $F_{πγ^*}$ are extracted from these matrix elements using a relativistic quark model on the light-front. We found that, the form factors $F_π$ and $F_{πγ}$ in the space-like region agree well with experiment. Furthermore, the branching ratios of all observed decay modes of the neutral pion, that are related to the form factors $F_{πγ}$ and $F_{πγ^*}$ in the time-like region, are all consistent with the data as well. Additionally, $F_π$ in the time-like region, which deals with the nonvalence contribution, is also discussed.
description: 24 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Regional Trading Arrangements: Natural or Super-Natural
Creators: name: Frankel, Jeffrey A.
name: Stein, Ernesto
name: Wei, Shang-Jin
name: Frankel, Jeffrey A.
name: Stein, Ernesto
name: Wei, Shang-Jin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Free Trade Area
subject: customs union
subject: regionalism
subject: continent
subject: trade
subject: geography
subject: distance
subject: transport costs
subject: Article XXIV
subject: MFN

description: This paper summarizes recent research by the authors on the effects of tree trade areas (FTAs). Within our model, which emphasizes inter-continental transport costs, several conclusions arise. (1) FTAs are likely to be detrimental over a moderate range of parameter values, even if drawn along natural regional lines. (2) A small margin of preferences for neighbors is beneficial. (3) Optimal preferences depend on the parameters, particularly on transport costs. (4) If preferences are raised futther, they enter the zone of negative returns to regionalization, and eventually the super-natural zone, where welfare is lower than under the MFN status quo. Estimates from the gravity model suggest the world system may already be in the super-natural zone. The core model leaves out many factors. But we have pursued a variety of extensions by now. Perhaps the two most important are generalizing the highly stylized model of trade (to include factor endowments), and relaxing the assumption that the inter-bloc level of tariffs remains fixed. In the latter case, allowing tariffs to be endogenous yields a much more optimistic outlook for the effects of FTAs.