cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Production of recombinant extracellular cholesterol esterase using consistently active promoters in Burkholderia stabilis
Creators: name: Keitaro Yoshida
name: Konishi, Kenji
name: Magana-Mora, Arturo
name: Rougny, Adrien
name: Yasutake, Yoshiaki
name: Muramatsu, Shuji
name: Murata, Satomi
name: Toshitaka Kumagai
name: Aburatani, Sachiyo
name: Shin-Ichi Sakasegawa
name: Tamura, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Burkholderia stabilis FERMP-21014 produces highly active cholesterol esterase in the presence of fatty acids. To develop an overexpression system for cholesterol esterase production, we carried out RNA sequencing analyses to screen strongly active promoters in FERMP-21014. Based on gene expression consistency analysis, we selected nine genes that were consistently expressed at high levels, following which we constructed expression vectors using their promoter sequences and achieved overproduction of extracellular cholesterol esterase under fatty acid-free conditions. Of the tested promoters, the promoter of BSFP_0720, which encodes the alkyl hydroperoxide reductase subunit AhpC, resulted in the highest cholesterol esterase activity (24.3 U mL−1). This activity level was 243-fold higher than that of the wild-type strain under fatty acid-free conditions. We confirmed that cholesterol esterase was secreted without excessive accumulation within the cells. The gene expression consistency analysis will be useful to screen promoters applicable to the overexpression of other industrially important enzymes. Production of recombinant cholesterol esterase using consistently active promoters.
UV-isomerisation in nematic elastomers as a route to photo-mechanical transducer
Creators: name: Cviklinski, J.
name: Tajbakhsh, A. R.
name: Terentjev, E. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The macroscopic shape of liquid crystalline elastomers strongly depends on the order parameter of the mesogenic groups. This order can be manipulated if photoisomerisable groups, e.g. containing N=N bonds, are introduced into the material. We have explored the large photo-mechanical response of such an azobenzene-containing nematic elastomer at different temperatures, using force and optical birefringence measurements, and focusing on fundamental aspects of population dynamics and the related speed and repeatability of the response. The characteristic time of ``on'' and ``off'' regimes strongly depends on temperature, but is generally found to be very long. We were able to verify that the macroscopic relaxation of the elastomer is determined by the nematic order dynamics and not, for instance, by the polymer network relaxation.
description: Latex (EPJE class) 12 figures
Aging in the long-range Ising model
Creators: name: Christiansen, Henrik
name: Majumder, Suman
name: Henkel, Malte
name: Janke, Wolfhard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The current understanding of aging phenomena is mainly confined to the study of systems with short-ranged interactions. Little is known about the aging of long-ranged systems. Here, the aging in the phase-ordering kinetics of the two-dimensional Ising model with power-law long-range interactions is studied via Monte Carlo simulations. The dynamical scaling of the two-time spin-spin autocorrelator is well described by simple aging for all interaction ranges studied. The autocorrelation exponents are consistent with $λ=1.25$ in the effectively short-range regime, while for stronger long-range interactions the data are consistent with $λ=d/2=1$. For very long-ranged interactions, strong finite-size effects are observed. We discuss whether such finite-size effects could be misinterpreted phenomenologically as sub-aging.
supplementary materials from Phenotypic plasticity in the mandibular morphology of Japanese macaques: captive–wild comparison
Creators: name: Siti Norsyuhada Kamaluddin
name: Tanaka, Mikiko
name: Wakamori, Hikaru
name: Nishimura, Takeshi
name: Ito, Tsuyoshi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: One table and nine figures
Quantum Hall Effect on the Hyperbolic Plane
Creators: name: Carey, A.
name: Hannabus, K.
name: Mathai, V.
name: McCann, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 58 (Primary)

description: In this paper, we study both the continuous model and the discrete model of the Quantum Hall Effect (QHE) on the hyperbolic plane. The Hall conductivity is identified as a geometric invariant associated to an imprimitivity algebra of observables. We define a twisted analogue of the Kasparov map, which enables us to use the pairing between $K$-theory and cyclic cohomology theory, to identify this geometric invariant with a topological index, thereby proving the integrality of the Hall conductivity in this case.
description: AMS-LaTeX, 28 pages
title: Assessing Structural Complexity of Mangroves and its Implications for Ecosystem Services
Creators: name: Kamal, Shafagh
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mangrove ecosystems
subject: Subtropical shorelines

description: As dominant ecosystems on protected tropical and subtropical shorelines, mangroves are globally important for essential ecosystem services such as acting as nursery habitat for juvenile nekton, land building and coastal protection. The structural complexity associated with the aerial roots of mangroves strongly underpins these services. However, due to the lack of a satisfactory method for measuring and quantifying this complexity, the relationship between complexity and mangrove ecosystem services is still obscure. The objectives of this study were (1) to find a low-cost method for realistically quantifying habitat complexity; and (2) to assess the importance of habitat structural complexity to the principal ecosystem services offered by mangroves, namely, supporting fish assemblage, flow attenuation and sediment trapping. An innovative, simple, and low-cost method based on an RGB_D scanning sensor (Kinect) and free and readily accessible software (Meshlab, Matlab, Qubicle Constructor and Voxeliser) was used to capture realistic 3D models of mangrove aerial roots. This low-cost approach provides a novel method to capture and measure structural complexity at a mesoscale in a full 3D approach, enabling an analysis of the relationship between habitat complexity and mangrove ecosystem services. The fractal dimension (FD) and AVR (area/volume ratio of the 3D model) indices were developed to quantify mangrove root structural complexity. The cube counting method was used for three-dimensional characterisation of FD of the space around aerial roots. To assess the apparent complexity of the structure to fish potentially using the roots, rectangular prisms with dimensions corresponding to the allometry of the fish were used to estimate the FD values.
title: Genetic variation in Runx2 related to bone mineral density
Creators: name: Doecke, James
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Runx2
subject: Bone mineral density
subject: Osteoblast transcription factor
subject: Linkage disequilibrium

description: The main hypotheses tested within this research focussed on the identification of polymorphisms within Runx2, and the classification of these with respect to bone mineral density (BMD). A separate set of hypotheses focussed upon the effects of calcium treatment in an elderly population, to identify any differences in BMD, bone mineral content (BMC) and bone area between the specific genotypes identified. The initial research strategy included taking subjects’ from the extremes of a population to identify alleles specifically related to the bone mineral density trait. The idea was tested using Runx2, the well known osteoblast transcription factor. From a population of 1300 subjects (from the Geelong Osteoporosis Study: the GOS) the age-weight adjusted femoral neck BMD was ranked and the upper and lower deciles taken to represent the adjusted extremes. After adjusting and ranking, the two groups (n=130 each) were not significantly different for age or weight. In these 260 subjects, we identified 16 allelic variations within the Runx2 gene and gene promoters (P1 and P2), and characterized these novel variations with respect to BMD strata by genotype using DHPLC.
Bradysia heydemanni
Creators: name: Menzel, Frank
name: Smith, Jane E.
name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Bradysia
Bradysia heydemanni

description: BRADYSIA HEYDEMANNI (LENGERSDORF, 1955)
New to British list.
 Material examined: Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire, 2 males, 7.vi.−21.vi.1995; 10 males, 26.v.− 26.xi.1996, all Ismay leg. (HRI, PPCM). Cadair Idris, Gwynedd, 1 male, 4.ix.1993, Laurence leg. (PBLN). Epping Forest, Essex, 1 male, x.1998, Dagley leg. (PPCM). Stanford battle area, Norfolk, 1 male, 27.iii.− 10.iv.1988, Withers leg. (PPWM).
 Ecological notes: found in ancient broad-leaved woodland and grassland; open montane habitats. iii–xi.
description: Published as part of Menzel, Frank, Smith, Jane E. & Chandler, Peter J., 2006, The sciarid fauna of the British Isles (Diptera: Sciaridae), including descriptions of six new species, pp. 1-147 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 146 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00190.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5435693
Additional file 1: of Overexpression of chaperonin containing T-complex polypeptide subunit zeta 2 (CCT6b) suppresses the functions of active fibroblasts in a rat model of joint contracture
Creators: name: Yi, Xiaoyou
name: Wang, Zhe
name: Ren, Jianhua
name: Zhuang, Ze
name: Liu, Kaihua
name: Wang, Kun
name: He, Ronghan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Table S1. List of siRNA sequences used in this study. Figure S1. Immunohistochemistry analysis of the expression of CCT6b in human contractive knee capsule (A) and normal control sample (B). Arrows indicate the CCT6b staining (magnification Ă â 10). (DOCX 2594 kb)
title: Pathways to Innocence: Examining Wrongful Conviction Journeys in Australia
Creators: name: Fuller, Jacqueline A
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: wrongful conviction
subject: Australia
subject: criminal justice system

description: In recent decades, academic interest in wrongful convictions has grown exponentially, and the issue has been widely acknowledged as a cause for serious concern, both in Australia and internationally (Brants, 2011; Dioso-Villa, 2015; Gould & Leo, 2010; Hoyle et al., 2019; Langwallner, 2012; Roach, 2015a; Weathered, 2013b). However, empirical consideration of the issue has remained siloed, focused on the separate stages of a wrongful conviction, rather than considering the problem as a complete pathway. Guided by previous research and employing a mixed-methods research methodology, this dissertation aimed to extend our existing knowledge of the wrongful conviction narrative by examining the complete journey of a wrongful conviction in Australia — from when an innocent person is first suspected of a crime and their journey to exoneration. This dissertation also identified the important role of advocates in the identification and correction of wrongful convictions in Australia. This was achieved by using two wrongful conviction datasets from Australia and the United States (US) and semi-structured interviews with wrongful conviction advocates, as well as additional data sources, such as court transcripts and media reports. Three studies that address the research questions are presented in this dissertation.
Finite groups, spherical 2-categories, and 4-manifold invariants
Creators: name: Mackaay, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we define a class of state-sum invariants of compact closed oriented piece-wise linear 4-manifolds using finite groups. The definition of these state-sums follows from the general abstract construction of 4-manifold invariants using spherical 2-categories, as we defined in a previous paper, although it requires a slight generalization of that construction. We show that the state-sum invariants of Birmingham and Rakowski, who studied Dijkgraaf-Witten type invariants in dimension 4, are special examples of the general construction that we present in this paper. They showed that their invariants are non-trivial by some explicit computations, so our construction includes interesting examples already. Finally, we indicate how our construction is related to homotopy 3-types. This connection suggests that there are many more interesting examples of our construction to be found in the work on homotopy 3-types, such as by Brown, for example.
description: LaTeX 44 pages, 10 eps.files, accepted for publication in Adv Math. Much better introduction explaining the fundamental ideas, equivalence relation on weak mon. 2-structures defined and theorem added
Additional file 9 of Glycolate oxidase-dependent H2O2 production regulates IAA biosynthesis in rice
Creators: name: Li, Xiangyang
name: Liao, Mengmeng
name: Huang, Jiayu
name: Xu, Zheng
name: Lin, Zhanqiao
name: Ye, Nenghui
name: Zhang, Zhisheng
name: Peng, Xinxiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9.
MOESM2 of An atypical weakly haemolytic strain of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae is avirulent and can be used to protect pigs from developing swine dysentery
Creators: name: La, Tom
name: Nyree Phillips
name: Coiacetto, Flaminia
name: Hampson, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Changes in cell numbers observed at pm in the large intestine of pigs in experiment 3. Pigs marked in bold had gross pathological changes observed at pm.
Uncertainty relation under information measurement and feedback control
Creators: name: Van Vu, Tan
name: Hasegawa, Yoshihiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here, we investigate the uncertainty of dynamical observables in classical systems manipulated by repeated measurements and feedback control; the precision should be enhanced in the presence of an external controller but limited by the amount of information obtained from the measurements. We prove that the entropy production and the information quantity constrain from below the fluctuation of arbitrary observables that are antisymmetric under time reversal. The information term is the sum of the mutual entropy production and the Kullback--Leibler divergence, which characterises the irreversibility of the measurement outcomes. The result holds for finite observation times and for both continuous- and discrete-time systems. We apply the derived relation to study the precision of a flashing Brownian ratchet.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures
Bradysia hildae HELLER 2000
Creators: name: Menzel, Frank
name: Smith, Jane E.
name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Bradysia
Bradysia hildae

description: BRADYSIA HILDAE HELLER, 2000
New to British list.
 Material examined: Bromley, Greater London, 1 male, 11.vii.1953, Biggs leg. (NMS). Cadair Idris, Gwynedd, 1 male, 22.x.1993, Laurence leg. (PBLN). Epping Forest, Essex, 1 male, iv.-v.1999, Dagley leg. (PPCM). Letchworth, Hertfordshire, 1 male, iii.1936; 1 male, vi.1936, all Edwards leg. (BMNH).
 Ecological notes: found in ancient broad-leaved woodland; grassland; open montane habitats. iii–vii, x.
description: Published as part of Menzel, Frank, Smith, Jane E. & Chandler, Peter J., 2006, The sciarid fauna of the British Isles (Diptera: Sciaridae), including descriptions of six new species, pp. 1-147 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 146 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00190.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5435693
Automated assembly of oligosaccharides containing multiple cis-glycosidic linkages
Creators: name: Hahm, Heung Sik
name: Hurevich, Mattan
name: Seeberger, Peter H.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Carbohydrate chemistry
subject: Polysaccharides
subject: Chemical synthesis
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::572 Biochemie

description: Automated glycan assembly (AGA) has advanced from a concept to a commercial technology that rapidly provides access to diverse oligosaccharide chains as long as 30-mers. To date, AGA was mainly employed to incorporate trans- glycosidic linkages, where C2 participating protecting groups ensure stereoselective couplings. Stereocontrol during the installation of cis- glycosidic linkages cannot rely on C2-participation and anomeric mixtures are typically formed. Here, we demonstrate that oligosaccharides containing multiple cis-glycosidic linkages can be prepared efficiently by AGA using monosaccharide building blocks equipped with remote participating protecting groups. The concept is illustrated by the automated syntheses of biologically relevant oligosaccharides bearing various cis-galactosidic and cis-glucosidic linkages. This work provides further proof that AGA facilitates the synthesis of complex oligosaccharides with multiple cis-linkages and other biologically important oligosaccharides.
(2+1) null-plane quantum Poincaré group from a factorized universal $R$-matrix
Creators: name: Ballesteros, Angel
name: Herranz, Francisco J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The non-standard (Jordanian) quantum deformations of $so(2,2)$ and (2+1) Poincaré algebras are constructed by starting from a quantum $sl(2,\R)$ basis such that simple factorized expressions for their corresponding universal $R$-matrices are obtained. As an application, the null-plane quantum (2+1) Poincaré Poisson-Lie group is quantized by following the FRT prescription. Matrix and differential representations of this null-plane deformation are presented, and the influence of the choice of the basis in the resultant $q$-Schrödinger equation governing the deformed null plane evolution is commented.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX
MOESM1 of An atypical weakly haemolytic strain of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae is avirulent and can be used to protect pigs from developing swine dysentery
Creators: name: La, Tom
name: Nyree Phillips
name: Coiacetto, Flaminia
name: Hampson, David
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1. Histopathological changes observed at pm in the large intestine of pigs from experiment 3. Pigs marked in bold had gross pathological changes observed at pm.
title: Environmental Influences on Benthic Algal Communities and their Application for Biomonitoring of Australian and Chinese Rivers
Creators: name: Tan, Xiang
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Aquatic sciences
subject: Freshwater ecosystems
subject: Benthic algae
subject: Aquatic ecosystem

description: Benthic algae a re one of the most important primary producers i n lotic ecosystems, and changes i n their community structure and function (e.g., metabolism) will influence other organisms at higher trophic levels or even the entire aquatic ecosystem through bottom-up effects. Since they are known to be sensiti ve to changes i n ambient conditions, benthic algae and especially diatoms have been widely used as i ndicators of environmental changes in aquatic ecosystems, particular ly i n E urope , through developi ng diatom-based indices. However, these indices have not been widely used i n other continents. Applications of such i ndices in Asia and Oceania first require testi ng to see whether the y can perform as reliable bioindicators across time and space, considering that aquatic systems are constantly changing in terms of their ambient environment such as water physical and chemical conditions. Nevertheless, few studies have been carried out to compare the environmental influences on benthic algal communities among different geographic regions, nor the influences at different spatial scales (e.g., catchment, reach, and habitat). F urthermore, few studies have considered how diatom indices perform compare with other commonly used bioindicators of aquatic ecosystem health.
The Hall effect in ballistic flow of two-dimensional interacting particles
Creators: name: Alekseev, P. S.
name: Semina, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In high-quality solid-state systems at low temperatures, the hydrodynamic or the ballistic regimes of heat and charge transport are realized in the electron and the phonon systems. In these regimes, the thermal and the electric conductance of the sample can reach abnormally large magnitudes. In this paper, we study the Hall effect in a system of interacting two-dimensional charged particles in a ballistic regime. We demonstrated that the Hall electric field is caused by a change in the densities of particles due to the effect of external fields on their free motions between the sample edges. In one-component (electron or hole) systems the Hall coefficient turns out to one half compared with the one in conventional disordered Ohmic samples. This result is consistent with the recent experiment on measuring of the Hall resistance in ultra-high-mobility GaAs quantum wells. In two-component electron-hole systems the Hall electric field depends linearly on the difference between the concentrations of electrons and holes near the charge neutrality point (the equilibrium electron and hole densities coincide) and saturates to the Hall field of a one-component system far from the charge neutrality point. We also studied the corrections to magnetoresistance and the Hall electric field due to inter-particle scattering being a precursor of forming a viscous flow. For the samples shorter than the inter-particle scattering length, the obtained corrections govern the dependencies of magnetoresistance and the Hall field on temperature.
New combinatorial formula for modified Hall-Littlewood polynomials
Creators: name: Kirillov, Anatol N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We obtain new combinatorial formulae for modified Hall--Littlewood polynomials, for matrix elements of the transition matrix between the elementary symmetric functions and Hall-Littlewood's ones, and for the number of rational points over the finite field of unipotent partial flag variety. The definitions and examples of generalized mahonian statistic on the set of transport matrices and dual mahonian statistic on the set of transport (0,1)-matrices are given. We also review known q-analogues of Littlewood-Richardson numbers and consider their possible generalizations. Several conjectures about multinomial fermionic formulae for homogeneous unrestricted one dimensional sums and generalized Kostka-Foulkes polynomials are formulated. Finally we suggest two parameters deformations of polynomials $P_{λμ}(t)$ and one dimensional sums.
description: PlainTeX, 53p. Replaced version contains new subsection 1.6 and some typo corrections
title: Corporate Financial Disclosure in Emerging Markets: The case of the UAE
Creators: name: Al-Zarouni, Abdulkareem
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Corporate disclosure
subject: Securities markets
subject: Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
subject: United Arab Emirates

description: Previous research has reported a positive association between corporate disclosure and the efficiency of securities markets (Barrett 1977; Kothari 2001; Gao 2008). This efficiency depends on the availability and accessibility of information at a low transaction cost. Disclosure has been considered as essential to the economic development and growth of emerging economies by Gill and Tropper (1988). Despite the importance of corporate disclosure, little research has been conducted in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, including the UAE. The purposes of this study, therefore, are to: (a) assess the current level of corporate disclosure; (b) investigate whether firms in the UAE disclose what different user-groups need; and (c) examine the relationship between a number of firms’ characteristics (industry type, listing status, profitability, liquidity, market capitalization, foreign ownership, composition of board of directors, and audit committee) and the level of disclosure. To achieve the first objective a disclosure index, comprising 317 information items from statutory and IFRS requirements, was developed and matched against the annual reports of the 113 sample UAE firms. The second phase of this study involved the administration of a survey research instrument which was sent to eight financial reporting user-groups to ascertain their perception on corporate disclosure and their needs. The impact of various firm’s characteristics on the extent of corporate disclosure was tested using multiple regression analysis. Our results revealed that the overall disclosure level of UAE firms ranged between low to moderate, with an average disclosure level of 57%, and that none of the firms in the sample complied with all the disclosure requirements of the mandatory items. The banking sector scored the highest level of compliance with mandatory requirements. The study showed that user-groups view annual reports as the most important source of information. However, 56% of users believed the current level of disclosure to be insufficient. Most of the sample companies failed to disclose adequate information relating to long-term performance and future forecasts. The study also found that the level of disclosure varies depending on certain firm’s characteristics. Results of the univariate and multiple regression analysis identified that listing status, industry type, and market capitalization were significant variables in explaining variation in the level of disclosure among UAE firms. The study concluded with the acknowledgment of some limitations associated with this kind of research. Implications, recommendations and potential future research avenues were finally identified.
The Exoplanet Population Observation Simulator. II -- Population Synthesis in the Era of Kepler
Creators: name: Mulders, Gijs D.
name: Mordasini, Christoph
name: Pascucci, Ilaria
name: Ciesla, Fred J.
name: Emsenhuber, Alexandre
name: Apai, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The collection of planetary system properties derived from large surveys such as Kepler provides critical constraints on planet formation and evolution. These constraints can only be applied to planet formation models, however, if the observational biases and selection effects are properly accounted for. Here we show how epos, the Exoplanet Population Observation Simulator, can be used to constrain planet formation models by comparing the Bern planet population synthesis models to the Kepler exoplanetary systems. We compile a series of diagnostics, based on occurrence rates of different classes of planets and the architectures of multi-planet systems, that can be used as benchmarks for future and current modeling efforts. Overall, we find that a model with 100 seed planetary cores per protoplanetary disk provides a reasonable match to most diagnostics. Based on these diagnostics we identify physical properties and processes that would result in the Bern model more closely matching the known planetary systems. These are: moving the planet trap at the inner disk edge outward; increasing the formation efficiency of mini-Neptunes; and reducing the fraction of stars that form observable planets. We conclude with an outlook on the composition of planets in the habitable zone, and highlight that the majority of simulated planets smaller than 1.7 Earth radii have substantial hydrogen atmospheres. The software used in this paper is available online for public scrutiny at https://github.com/GijsMulders/epos
description: Accepted in ApJ
title: The Emergence of Local Climate Change Adaptation Policy: An Advocacy Coalition in Indonesian Cities 1993-2013
Creators: name: Setiadi, Rukuh
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Climatic change stratgies, Indonesia
subject: City development policies, Indonesia
subject: City planning, Environmental aspects, Indonesia
subject: Local climate change adaptation policy, Indonesia

description: Recently, a growing trend in development and implementation of local climate change adaptation policies has been evident in several Indonesian cities. Some city governments have equipped themselves with climate change strategies, especially those which have maintained a substantial collaboration with international non- government organisations (NGOs) and aid agencies. These agencies invested a considerable amount of research on facts and evidence about climate change and its consequences at the city level. Equally importantly, learning mechanisms have been advocated to facilitate the transfer of knowledge. This phenomenon provides a promising setting for theoretical discourse about the emergence of climate adaptation policy at the city level and an opportunity to better understand the complex relationship between the roles of research (production of facts and evidence), learning (transfer of knowledge), and policy development (values and moral judgment). The aim of this PhD project is to contribute to providing a more accurate explanation of the emergence of climate adaptation policies at the city level. Two main research questions will be addressed in this study: (1) What is the process of the development of climate adaptation policies at the city level? (2) Do policy research and learning mechanisms really matter when the city governments make decisions leading to climate adaptation policies?
Additional file 1: of Incidence and radiological pattern of eosinophilic granuloma: a retrospective study in a Chinese tertiary hospital
Creators: name: Zhao, Sha-Sha
name: Yan, Lin-Feng
name: Feng, Xiu-Long
name: Du, Pang
name: Chen, Bao-Ying
name: Dong, Wen-Ting
name: Gao, Yi
name: He, Jie-Bing
name: Cui, Guang-Bin
name: Wang, Wen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: Space Science
Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Basic information of 76 patients. (DOCX 29 kb)
Probing States in the Mott Insulator Regime
Creators: name: Roberts, D. C.
name: Burnett, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method to probe states in the Mott insulator regime produced from a condensate in an optical lattice. We consider a system in which we create time-dependent number fluctuations in a given site by turning off the atomic interactions and lowering the potential barriers on a nearly pure Mott state to allow the atoms to tunnel between sites. We calculate the expected interference pattern and number fluctuations from such a system and show that one can potentially observe a deviation from a pure Mott state. We also discuss a method in which to detect these number fluctuations using time-of-flight imaging.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures. Send correspondence to d.roberts1@physics.ox.ac.uk
title: An Empirical Examination of an Offender x Situation Interaction Typology of Male Adolescent Sexual Offending
Creators: name: Dowling, Christopher Gerald
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Male adolescent sexual offenders
subject: Sexual offending
subject: Predatory sexual offending
subject: Opportunistic sexual offending
subject: Situational sexual offending

description: This thesis empirically examined the validity of Wortley and Smallbone’s (2006) offender x situation interaction typology of sexual offending, using a sample of male adolescent sexual offenders. Driven primarily by applied concerns with the situational prevention of sexual offending, this typology draws on the ideas that have emerged from interactional psychology to emphasise the interdependent influence of internal (dispositional) and external (situational) factors on sexual offending. It proposes the existence of three sexual offender types (‘Predatory’, ‘Opportunist’, and ‘Situational’), distinguished based on the strength of their predisposition towards sexual offending, and three offence situation types (‘Challenged’, ‘Tempted’, and ‘Precipitated’), that vary in the extent to which they allow/encourage sexual offending. It highlights that those with stronger predispositions towards sexual offending will do so across a wider range of situations, including those that inhibit/discourage such behaviour, while those with weaker or ambivalent motivations will limit their sexual offending to situations that are perceived to encourage such behaviour, or make it easy and safe to engage in.
Toll-like receptor-4 antagonist (+)-naloxone elicits sexually dimorphic attenuation of inflammation-induced fetal programming in mice. Supplemental Tables 1-5
Creators: name: Chin, Loretta
name: Dorian, Camilla
name: Hutchinson, Mark
name: Robertson, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of Adelaide
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 111401 Foetal Development and Medicine
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110799 Immunology not elsewhere classified
subject: 111404 Reproduction
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology

description: Supplemental Tables S1-S5 from:
Toll-like receptor-4 antagonist (+)-naloxone elicits sexually dimorphic attenuation of inflammation-induced fetal programming in miceChin P-Y, Dorian C, Sharkey DJ, Hutchinson MR, Rice KC, Moldenhauer LM, Robertson SA.
Attosecond streaking in a nano-plasmonic field
Creators: name: Kelkensberg, F.
name: Koenderink, A. F.
name: Vrakking, Marcus
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik

description: A theoretical study of the application of attosecond streaking spectroscopy to time-resolved studies of the plasmonic fields surrounding isolated, resonantly excited spherical nanoparticles is presented. A classification of the different regimes in attosecond streaking is proposed and identified in our results that are derived from Mie calculations of plasmon fields, coupled to classical electron trajectory simulations. It is shown that in an attosecond streaking experiment, the electrons are almost exclusively sensitive to the component of the field parallel to the direction in which they are detected. This allows one to probe the different components of the field individually by resolving the angle of emission of the electrons. Finally, simulations based on fields calculated by finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) are compared with the results obtained using Mie fields. The two are found to be in good agreement with each other, supporting the notion that FDTD methods can be used to reliably investigate non-spherical structures.
Additional file 8 of Glycolate oxidase-dependent H2O2 production regulates IAA biosynthesis in rice
Creators: name: Li, Xiangyang
name: Liao, Mengmeng
name: Huang, Jiayu
name: Xu, Zheng
name: Lin, Zhanqiao
name: Ye, Nenghui
name: Zhang, Zhisheng
name: Peng, Xinxiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8.
Social editing of video recordings of lectures
Creators: name: Esponda-Argüero, Margarita
name: Jankovic, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Automatic video editing
subject: social navigation
subject: virtual videography
subject: human computation
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::006 Spezielle Computerverfahren

description: In this paper we show how video recordings of lectures can be enhanced through “social editing”, a special sort of “human computation”. We record lectures using six cameras arranged to produce a panoramic view (360 degrees) of the classroom. After recording, viewers can replay the lectures on a computer and can navigate through them tilting and zooming a virtual camera. All user interactions are recorded by the system, and are later used to decide which views should be stored and their zoom level. The result is an automatically edited video as a result of the social navigation of the first few initial viewers of the lecture.
title: External State-Building and Why Norms Matter
title: The European Union’s Fight against Corruption in the Southern Caucasus
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Börzel, Tanja A.
name: Hüllen, Vera Van
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: In dieser Ausgabe wird untersucht, unter welchen Bedingungen die Bemühungen externer Akteure zum Staatsaufbau (state-building) in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit effektiv sind. Wir argumentieren, dass die Legitimität der extern geförderten Norm unter lokalen Akteuren wesentlich für den erfolgreichen Aufbau von Staatskapazitäten ist. Internationale Normen müssen anschlussfähig sein an dominante innerstaatliche Diskurse über politische Reformen. Empirisch untersuchen wir die Anti-Korruptions-Programme der Europäischen Union (EU) und ihre Implementation in einer der korruptesten Regionen der Welt, dem Südkaukasus. Wir zeigen, dass Legitimität erklären kann, warum die Bemühungen der EU in Georgien zur Verringerung von Korruption beigetragen haben, nicht aber in Armenien. In beiden Ländern konnten politische Eliten die Anti-Korruptions-Programme selektiv als Instrument gegen politische Gegner nutzen und mit Hilfe vergrößerter Staatskapazitäten das Regime stabilisieren. Allerdings wurde nur in Georgien die Korruptionsbekämpfung durch eine dauerhafte innerstaatliche Mobilisierung unterstützt, die zusätzlichen Druck auf politische Eliten zur effektiven Umsetzung institutioneller Reformen aufbaute.
description: This paper asks under which conditions the state-building efforts of external actors in areas of limited statehood are likely to be effective. We argue that the legitimacy of the specific norms promoted by external actors among local actors is crucial for their success in strengthening state capacities. International norms need to resonate with the dominant domestic discourse on political reforms. To substantiate our argument, we focus on the European Union’s (EU) anti-corruption programs and their implementation in one of the most corrupt regions in the world, the Southern Caucasus. We show that legitimacy can explain why the EU’s fight against corruption helped reduce corruption in Georgia but not in Armenia. In both countries, political elites could selectively use anti-corruption programs as an instrument against political opponents using enhanced state capacities to stabilize the incumbent regime. Only in Georgia, however, the fight against corruption was facilitated by sustained domestic mobilization for anti-corruption policies that added pressure on political elites ‘from below.’
title: Alluvial Gully Erosion Rates and Processes Across the Mitchell River Fluvial Megafan in Northern Queensland, Australia
Creators: name: Shellberg, Jeffrey Gray
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Alluvial gully erosion
subject: Land degradation
subject: Mitchell megafan
subject: Floodplain hydrology
subject: Mitchell River Queensland

description: Gully erosion is the process by which running water cuts new unstable channels into erodible regolith. It causes severe land degradation, is a major component of contemporary sediment budgets, and is a major source of sediment pollution to aquatic ecosystems. In northern Australia, there is widespread gully erosion into unconfined alluvial deposits on active and abandoned floodplains – here defined as alluvial gully erosion. In catchments draining to the Gulf of Carpentaria, alluvial gullies can cover 0.2% to 1.0 % of the total catchment area and locally >10% of the floodplain area. Alluvial gully erosion has been poorly documented and differs substantially from colluvial or hillslope gullying in south-eastern or northern Australia. The objectives of this research were to investigate and quantify alluvial gully erosion processes and rates at a variety of spatial and temporal scales across a pilot study area, which encompasses the Mitchell River fluvial megafan on the Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland. Along the Mitchell megafan, alluvial gullies are concentrated along main drainage channels. Their scarp heights and potential energy are highly correlated to the local relief between the floodplain and river thalweg, which is a result of river incision into the megafan since the Pleistocene. Other factors such as floodplain hydrology, soil texture and chemistry, vegetation cover, and land-use disturbance also influence the distribution and propagation of gullies, via changes in the driving and resisting forces. The frequency of river flood inundation of alluvial gullies on the floodplain changes longitudinally according to river incision and confinement. Near the top of the megafan, flood water is contained in the macro-channel up to the 100-yr recurrence interval (RI) but still backwaters adjacent alluvial gullies. In downstream Holocene floodplains, complete inundation of alluvial gullies occurs beyond the 3- to 5-yr RI and can contribute significantly to total annual erosion. However, a majority of gully scarp retreat is still driven by direct rainfall and infiltration-excess runoff, with the 24-hr rainfall total being the most predictive variable. This direct erosion is enhanced by inherent soil dispersibility and the lack of vegetative cover, with the later if present having the potential to dissipate the effective kinetic energy of rainfall and promote infiltration.
A method for computing driving and detuning beam coupling impedances of an asymmetric cavity using eigenmode simulations
Creators: name: Arsenyev, S.
name: Salvant, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a method for numerical calculation of driving and detuning transverse beam coupling impedances of an asymmetric cavity. The method relies on eigenmode simulations and can be viewed as an alternative to time domain wakefield simulations. A similar procedure is well-established for symmetric cavities, and this paper extends it to the case of an asymmetric cavity. The method is benchmarked with time-domain wakefield simulations and its practical implementation is discussed.
Scaling behavior of the conserved transfer threshold process
Creators: name: Lubeck, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze numerically the critical behavior of an absorbing phase transition in the conserved transfer threshold process. We determined the steady state scaling behavior of the order parameter as a function of both, the control parameter and an external field, conjugated to the order parameter. The external field is realized as a spontaneous creation of active particles which drives the system away from criticality. The obtained results yields that the conserved transfers threshold process belongs to the universality class of absorbing phase transitions in a conserved field.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. E
Bradysia ismayi Menzel 2006, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Menzel, Frank
name: Smith, Jane E.
name: Chandler, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciaridae
Bradysia
Bradysia ismayi

description: BRADYSIA ISMAYI MENZEL SP. NOV.
New to British list.
 Material examined: Beaulieu River, Hampshire, 1 male, 22.v.1936, Edwards leg. (BMNH). Coed Tycanol, Pembrokeshire, 2 males, 10.vi.−29.vi.1999, Levey & Pavett leg. [paratypes of Bradysia ismayi] (HRI, PPCM). Chigwell Row Wood, Chigwell Row, Essex, 1 male, 23.v.−27.v.2002; 1 male, 11.vi.2002; 1 male, 18.vi.2002; 1 male, 20.vi.2002, all Ismay & Schulten leg. [holotype and paratypes of Bradysia ismayi] (DEI). Epping Forest, Essex, 1 male, v.1999, Dagley leg. [paratype of Bradysia ismayi] (PPCM). Hafod Garregog, Gwynedd, 1 male, 18.ix.−28.ix.1999, Levey & Pavett leg. [paratype of Bradysia ismayi] (PPCM). Letchworth, Hertfordshire, 1 male, ix.1936, Edwards leg. (BMNH). Migdale Loch, Highland Region, 1 male, 31.v.2002, Chandler leg. [paratype of Bradysia ismayi] (PPCM). Milham Ford School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, 1 male, 18.v.−22.v.2001, Webb leg. [paratype of Bradysia ismayi] (PPCM). The Loke, Norwich, Norfolk, 1 male, 21.viii.−24.viii.1989; 1 male, 28.iv.−4.v.1990; 1 male, 21.viii.1992, all Laurence leg. [paratypes of Bradysia ismayi] (PBLN).
 Ecological notes: found in broad-leaved woodland; ancient woodland with oak, hazel and bramble; pine woodland on higher ground; school grounds with old poplars; alder and birch carr by stream; heathland (heather) with oak and holly; garden. v–vi, viii–ix.
description: Published as part of Menzel, Frank, Smith, Jane E. & Chandler, Peter J., 2006, The sciarid fauna of the British Isles (Diptera: Sciaridae), including descriptions of six new species, pp. 1-147 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 146 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00190.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5435693
q-Ultraspherical polynomials for q a root of unity
Creators: name: Spiridonov, V.
name: Zhedanov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Properties of the $q$-ultraspherical polynomials for $q$ being a primitive root of unity are derived using a formalism of the $so_q(3)$ algebra. The orthogonality condition for these polynomials provides a new class of trigonometric identities representing discrete finite-dimensional analogs of $q$-beta integrals of Ramanujan.
description: 7 pages, LATEX