cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Development of terpenoid repellents against Aedes albopictus: a combined study of biological activity evaluation and computational modelling
Creators: name: Wang, J.
name: Feng, X.
name: Yuan, W.
name: Zhang, J.
name: Zhu, S.
name: Xu, L.
name: Li, H.
name: Song, J.
name: Rao, X.
name: Liao, S.
name: Wang, Z.
name: Si, H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: To explore novel terpenoid repellents, 22 candidate terpenoid derivatives were synthesized and tested for their electroantennogram (EAG) responses and repellent activities against Aedes albopictus. The results from the EAG experiments revealed that 5-(2-hydroxypropan-2-yl)-2-methylcyclohex-2-en-1-yl formate (compound 1) induced distinct EAG responses in female Aedes albopictus. At concentrations of 0.1, 1, 10, 100, and 1000 mg/L, the EAG response values for compound 1 were 179.59, 183.99, 190.38, 193.80, and 196.66 mV, demonstrating comparable or superior effectiveness to DEET. Repellent activity analysis indicated significant repellent activity for compound 1, closest to the positive control DEET. The in silico assessment of the ADMET profile of compound 1 indicates that it successfully passed the ADMET evaluation. Molecular docking studies exhibited favourable binding of compound 1 to the active site of the odorant binding protein (OBP) of Aedes albopictus, involving hydrophobic forces and hydrogen bond interactions with residues in the OBP pocket. The QSAR model highlighted the influential role of hydrogen-bonding receptors, positively charged surface area of weighted atoms, polarity parameters of molecules, and maximum nuclear-nuclear repulsion force of carbon-carbon bonds on the relative EAG response values of the tested compounds. This study holds substantial significance for the advancement of new terpenoid repellents.
Nomada marshamella
Creators: name: Schedl, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada marshamella

description: Nomada marshamella (KIRBY, 1802)
Vo: 1♀ Zentrum, MF, 23.5.1995, NF leg. et in coll. W. Schedl, det. T. Kopf 2012.
 Ö: Kleptoparasit bei mehreren Andrena Arten. Mitte April bis Ende Mai (SCHEUCHL 1995).
V: in weiten Teilen Europas (SCHEUCHL 1995).
description: Published as part of Schedl, Wolfgang, 2015, Stechimmen II im Botanischen Garten Innsbruck (Tirol, Österreich): Artengarnitur, Blütenbesuch, Phänologie (Insecta: Hymenoptera), pp. 939-954 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1) on page 945, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5415758
Charmonium with three flavors of dynamical quarks
Creators: name: Di Pierro, Massimo
name: El-Khadra, Aida X.
name: Gottlieb, Steven
name: Kronfeld, Andreas S.
name: Mackenzie, Paul B.
name: Menscher, Damian P.
name: Oktay, Mehmet B.
name: Simone, James N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a calculation of the charmonium spectrum with three flavors of dynamical staggered quarks from gauge configurations that were generated by the MILC collaboration. We use the Fermilab action for the valence charm quarks. Our calculation of the spin-averaged 1P--1S and 2S--1S splittings yields a determination of the strong coupling, with $\ams(M_Z) = 0.119 (4)$.
description: 6 pages, uses espcrc2.sty, Lattice2002(heavyquark)
Resonant Configurations in Scalar Field Theories: Can (Some) Oscillons Live Forever?
Creators: name: Gleiser, Marcelo
name: Krackow, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the longevity of oscillons numerically, paying particular attention to radially-symmetric oscillons that have been conjectured to have an infinitely-long lifetime. In two spatial dimensions, oscillons have not been seen to decay. In three spatial dimensions, specific initial Gaussian configurations seem to lead to oscillons with spikes in lifetime that have been conjectured to be infinite. We study such ``resonant'' oscillons in two and three spatial dimensions, applying two tests to study their longevity: parametric resonance and virialization. Without offering a formal proof, our numerical results, within their precision, offer support for the conjecture that, in both dimensions, resonant oscillons may be infinitely long-lived.
description: 15 pages, 14 figure. Version accepted for publication in Physical Review D. Two new figures, some comments added for clarification
Chemical composition and anticholinesterase inhibitory activity of the essential oil of Pseuduvaria macrophylla (Oliv.) Merr. from Malaysia
Creators: name: Salleh, Wan Mohd Nuzul Hakimi Wan
name: Shamsul Khamis
name: Mohd Azlan Nafiah
name: Abed, Salam Ahmed
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: This study was designed to examine the chemical composition and anticholinesterase inhibitory activity of the essential oil of Pseuduvaria macrophylla (Oliv.) Merr. (Annonaceae) from Malaysia. The essential oil was obtained by hydrodistillation and fully analyzed by gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The analysis led to the identification of thirty-four chemical components that represented 87.7 ± 0.5% of the total oil. The essential oil was found to be rich in germacrene D (21.1 ± 0.4%), bicyclogermacrene (10.5 ± 0.5%), δ-cadinene (5.6 ± 0.2%), α-copaene (5.1 ± 0.3%), and α-cadinol (5.0 ± 0.3%). Anticholinesterase activity was evaluated using Ellman method. The essential oil showed weak inhibitory activity against acetylcholinesterase (I%: 32.5%) and butyrylcholinesterase (I%: 35.4%) assays. Our findings demonstrate that the essential oil could be very useful for the characterization, pharmaceutical and therapeutic applications of the essential oil from Pseuduvaria macrophylla.
Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) strigata LeConte 1859
Creators: name: Bílý, Svatopluk
name: Kubáň, Vítězslav
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Anthaxia
Anthaxia strigata

description: Anthaxia (Melanthaxia) strigata LeConte, 1859 species-group
(Figs. 6, 10, 14, 20, 28)
 Diagnosis. Medium-sized (3.8–6.5 mm), dark bronze, flattened species; frons flat, slightly grooved medially; vertex 1.2–1.4 times as wide as width of eye; pubescence of head combined: anterior portion of frons with white, posterior portion and vertex with brown or black pubescence; pronotum 1.7–1.8 times as wide as long, regularly convex with nearly indistinct lateroposterior depressions; pronotal sculpture consisting of rather rough polygonal cells with well-developed central grains; cells on lateral sides of pronotum longitudinally more elongate forming typical, longitudinal rugae or fine carinae (Fig. 28); elytra 1.7–1.8 times as long as wide, with fine, dense and nearly regular punctation; apical third of elytral margins finely but distinctly serrate; elytral pubescence short, brown to black, semi-erect; ventral surface lustrous, metallic green-bronze or blue-green with sparse but rather long, recumbent white pubescence; anal ventrite with fine, sharp lateral serration, male meso- and metatrochanters with long, sharp spine on posterior margin (Fig. 14); male meso- and metatibiae with fine, sharp, inner preapical serration (Fig. 10); aedeagus rather long and robust, parameres somewhat narrowed at posterior half (Fig. 6).
 Species of this group resemble in habitus those of the A. (M.) aeneogaster species-group but they differ by the characteristically more elongate pronotal sculpture with large, welldeveloped central grains, sharp, long spines on the male meso- and metatrochanters, welldeveloped lateral serration of elytral apex and anal ventrite and by the metallic colouration of ventral surface.
 Species included. Anthaxia (M.) strigata LeConte, 1859, A. (M.) hatchi Barr, 1971, A. (M.) barri Bílý, 1995.
description: Published as part of Bílý, Svatopluk & Kubáň, Vítězslav, 2010, A study on the Nearctic species of the genus Anthaxia (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Buprestinae: Anthaxiini). Subgenus Melanthaxia. Part I, pp. 535-546 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (2) on page 542, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5326225
title: Beginning Female Teaching Principals: Gender and Leadership Challenges in Small School Communities
Creators: name: Gilbert, Cheryl Cleary
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Female school principals
subject: School leadership
subject: Gender roles in leadership

description: The central focus of this study was to examine the leadership experiences of females commencing their careers as teaching principals in rural and remote small school communities in Queensland. The specific aims of the study were: first, to understand female beginning teaching principals’ perceptions of small school leadership prior to commencing in the role and to determine if those perceptions changed during their first year; second, to identify the expectations other school staff and the community held for a female teaching principal as leader of the school; third, to investigate the social complexities of living in a rural and remote community and the influences they had on the leadership experiences of a female beginning teaching principal; fourth, to understand whether gender impacts on the leadership practices of female beginning teaching principals in rural and remote communities; and finally, to evaluate the leadership experiences of female beginning teaching principals in rural and remote small school communities and their implications for future career direction. Rural and remote areas of Queensland are populated with small schools, many of which are lead by young females commencing their careers as principals. They are responsible for completing the dual responsibilities of both teacher and principal, with little training and in some cases, limited classroom or life experiences. In addition, these isolated communities have been shown to hold definite cultural and gender expectations, frequently resulting in a high turnover of teaching principals (Clarke, 2003; Clarke & Stevens, 2006; Dempsey, 1992; Lester, 2003; Michael, 1996). Consequently, this study was interested in the experiences of females who commenced their leadership careers in these isolated environments.
Eucera longicornis
Creators: name: Schedl, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Eucera
Eucera longicornis

description: Eucera longicornis (LINNAEUS, 1758)
Vo: 13 Arboretum W, 26.5.1997, NF leg et in coll. W. Schedl, det. T. Kopf 2012.
Ö: oligolektisch auf Fabaceae (SCHEUCHL 1995).
V: ganz Europa mit Ausnahme des hohen Nordens und der Gebirge (SCHEUCHL 1995).
description: Published as part of Schedl, Wolfgang, 2015, Stechimmen II im Botanischen Garten Innsbruck (Tirol, Österreich): Artengarnitur, Blütenbesuch, Phänologie (Insecta: Hymenoptera), pp. 939-954 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1) on page 945, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5415758
Particle Production via Dirac Dipole Moments in the Magnetized and Non-magnetized Exponentially Expanding Universe
Creators: name: Dogan, Semra Gurtas
name: Gecim, Ganim
name: Sucu, Yusuf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present paper, we solve the Dirac equation in the 2+1 dimensional exponentially expanding magnetized by uniform magnetic field and non-magnetized universes, separately. Asymptotic behaviors of the solutions are determined. Using these results we discuss the current of a Dirac particle to discuss the polarization densities and the magnetization density in the context of Gordon decomposition method. In this work we also calculate the total polarization and magnetization, to investigate that the magnetic field how can effect on the particle production. Furthermore, the electric and the magnetic dipole moments calculated, and based on these we have discussed the effects of the dipole moments on the charge distribution of the universe and its conductivity for both the early and the future time epoch in the presence/absence a constant magnetic field and exponentially expanding spacetime.
description: 16 pages, published version in the special issue "Implications of Gravitational Particle Creation" in the Advances in High Energy Physics
Intergalactic Magnetic Fields from First-Order Phase Transitions
Creators: name: Ellis, John
name: Fairbairn, Malcolm
name: Lewicki, Marek
name: Vaskonen, Ville
name: Wickens, Alastair
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the generation of intergalactic magnetic fields in two models for first-order phase transitions in the early Universe that have been studied previously in connection with the generation of gravitational waves (GWs): the Standard Model supplemented by an $|H|^6$ operator (SM+$H^6$) and a classically scale-invariant model with an extra gauged U(1) $B - L$ symmetry (SM$_{B-L}$). We consider contributions to magnetic fields generated by bubble collisions and by turbulence in the primordial plasma, and we consider the hypotheses that helicity is seeded in the gauge field or kinetically. We study the conditions under which the intergalactic magnetic fields generated may be larger than the lower bounds from blazar observations, and correlate them with the observability of GWs and possible collider signatures. In the SM+$H^6$ model bubble collisions alone cannot yield large enough magnetic fields, whereas turbulence may do so. In the SM$_{B-L}$ model bubble collisions and turbulence may both yield magnetic fields above the blazar bound unless the B$-$L gauge boson is very heavy. In both models there may be observable GW and collider signatures if sufficiently large magnetic fields are generated.
description: 19 pages, 6 figures
Convexity and the Separability Problem of Quantum Mechanical Density Matrices
Creators: name: Pittenger, Arthur O.
name: Rubin, Morton H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A finite dimensional quantum mechanical system is modeled by a density rho, a trace one, positive semi-definite matrix on a suitable tensor product space H[N] . For the system to demonstrate experimentally certain non-classical behavior, rho cannot be in S, a closed convex set of densities whose extreme points have a specificed tensor product form. Two mathematical problems in the quantum computing literature arise from this context: (1) the determination whether a given rho is in S and (2) a measure of the ``entanglement'' of such a rho in terms of its distance from S. In this paper we describe these two problems in detail for a linear algebra audience, discuss some recent results from the quantum computing literature, and prove some new results.We emphasize the roles of densities rho as both operators on the Hilbert space H[N] and also as points in a real Hilbert space M. We are able to compute the nearest separable densities tau0 to rho0 in particular classes of inseparable densities and we use the Euclidean distance between the two in M to quantify the entanglement of rho0. We also show the role of tau0 in the construction of separating hyperplanes, so-called entanglement witnesses in the quantum computing literature.
Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) williamsi A. STRAND 1935
Creators: name: I. V
name: A. V
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Gyrophaena
Gyrophaena williamsi

description: Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) williamsi A. STRAND 1935
 M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d Irkutsk Area:, Slyudyanskiy distr., SW Baikal, Bolshie Koty, 13.VI-10.VII.1993, leg. A. Shavrin; Buryatia Republic: 12, 20, Tunkinskiy distr., val. of Kyngarga riv., Arshan, 26-29.VIII.2009, in Tricholomopsis rutilans (SCHAEFF.) SINGER, leg. I. Enushchenko; Chita Area:, 2, Kyrinskiy distr., right side of Agutsa riv., Buninda stream, 28.VII.2009, in Pholiota adiposa (BATSCH) P. KUMM., leg. A. Shavrin & I. Enushchenko.
D i s t r i b u t i o n: North and central Europe, European part of Russia, East Siberia.
 B i o n o m i c s: This species has been collected from Tricholomopsis rutilans (FR.) SING and Pholiota odiposa (FR.) KUMM. According to RUSCH (1990) and VOITENKOVA (2009), this species prefers Tricholomopsis rutilans (FR.) SING.
C o m m e n t: This species is here reported from Siberia for the first time.
description: Published as part of I. V & A. V, 2011, Contribution to the knowledge of Gyrophaena MANNERHEIM 1830 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Gyrophaenina) of the Baikal region, pp. 1199-1217 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (2) on page 1211, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5326168
Anthophora acervorum
Creators: name: Schedl, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Anthophora
Anthophora acervorum

description: Anthophora acervorum (LINNAEUS, 1758)
 Vo: 13 6.3.91, an Blüten von Jasminum nudiflorum, 12.3o Uhr, NF leg. et det. W. Schedl 2011/14, 1♀ Alpinum N, an Blüten von Daphne mezereum, 14.III.2012, 1♀ 13 Alpinum, 14.III.2012 an Blüten von Erica carnea, 14.III.2012 beobachtet, 131♀ Kräutergarten, 22.III.2014, Blütenbesuch an Pulmonaria officinalis L., NF, alle leg., in coll. et det. W. Schedl 2014.
Ö: polylektisch, Anfang April bis Anfang Juni (SCHEUCHL 1995).
V: ganz Europa (SCHEUCHL 1995).
description: Published as part of Schedl, Wolfgang, 2015, Stechimmen II im Botanischen Garten Innsbruck (Tirol, Österreich): Artengarnitur, Blütenbesuch, Phänologie (Insecta: Hymenoptera), pp. 939-954 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1) on page 945, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5415758
Orbifolds and Flows from Gauged Supergravity
Creators: name: Corrado, Richard
name: Gunaydin, Murat
name: Warner, Nicholas P.
name: Zagermann, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine orbifolds of the IIB string via gauged supergravity. For the gravity duals of the A_{n-1} quiver gauge theories, we extract the massless degrees of freedom and assemble them into multiplets of N=4 gauged supergravity in five dimensions. We examine the embedding of the gauge group into the isometry group of the scalar manifold, as well as the symmetries of the scalar potential. From this we find that there is a large SU(1,n) symmetry group which relates different RG flows in the dual quiver gauge theory. We find that this symmetry implies an extension of the usual duality between ten-dimensional IIB solutions which involves exchanging geometric moduli with background fluxes.
description: 37 pages, harvmac
Lattice-Constant and Band-Gap Tuning in Wurtzite and Zincblende BInGaN Alloys
Creators: name: Greenman, Kevin P.
name: Williams, Logan
name: Kioupakis, Emmanouil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: InGaN light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are more efficient and cost effective than incandescent and fluorescent lighting, but lattice mismatch limits the thickness of InGaN layers that can be grown on GaN without performance-degrading dislocations. In this work, we apply hybrid density functional theory calculations to investigate the thermodynamic stability, lattice parameters, and band gaps of wurtzite and zincblende quaternary BInGaN alloys. We find that the wurtzite phase is more stable and can be lattice-matched to GaN for BInGaN compositions containing up to ~30% boron. The lattice match with GaN decreases strain and enables thicker active layers that mitigate Auger recombination and increase the efficiency of the LEDs. The band gap of the alloy remains tunable throughout the visible spectrum. Our results indicate that BInGaN alloys are promising alternatives to InGaN for high-efficiency, high-power LEDs.
Taxonomic revision of commercially used Arthrospira (Cyanobacteria) strains: a polyphasic approach
Creators: name: Papapanagiotou, Georgia
name: Gkelis, Spyros
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: The cyanobacterial genus Arthrospira Stizenberger ex Gomont 1892 includes some of the most commercially significant microalgae, commonly known under the taxonomically incorrect brand name ‘Spirulina’. However, the infrageneric classification of the genus is still undefined. Herein, the classification of two Arthrospira strains (Nigrita M1 and Nigrita C1) from a commercial culture installation was studied and a polyphasic meta-analysis approach to a representative number (> 30) of strains was applied, in an attempt to determine the taxonomic relationships among the existing Arthrospira strains. The combined analysis of molecular (16S rRNA, 16S-23S rRNA ITS and cpcBA-IGS sequences) and phenotypic (13 morphological and morphometric characters) data of the studied Arthrospira strains divided them into three clusters/taxa. The main two taxa, namely Taxon I and Taxon II, include planktonic representatives, with irregular and regular helical structure of the filament, respectively. In contrast, Taxon III comprises the benthic representatives of the genus. Arthrospira strains Nigrita M1 and Nigrita C1 fall into Taxon I and II, respectively. The combined phenotypic and phylogenetic analysis suggests classification of Arthrospira strains into three taxa as subspecies of a single species within the genus Arthrospira.
Exploring crucial structural attributes of quinolinyl methoxyphenyl sulphonyl-based hydroxamate derivatives as ADAM17 inhibitors through classification-dependent molecular modelling approaches
Creators: name: Samoi, T.B.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: Ghosh, B.
name: Jha, T.
name: Adhikari, N.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A Disintegrin and Metalloproteinase 17 (ADAM17), a Zn2+-dependent metalloenzyme of the adamalysin family of the metzincin superfamily, is associated with various pathophysiological conditions including rheumatoid arthritis and cancer. However, no specific inhibitors have been marketed yet for ADAM17-related disorders. In this study, 94 quinolinyl methoxyphenyl sulphonyl-based hydroxamates as ADAM17 inhibitors were subjected to classification-based molecular modelling and binding pattern analysis to identify the significant structural attributes contributing to ADAM17 inhibition. The statistically validated classification-based models identified the importance of the P1' substituents such as the quinolinyl methoxyphenyl sulphonyl group of these compounds for occupying the S1' - S3' pocket of the enzyme. The quinolinyl function of these compounds was found to explore stable binding of the P1' substituents at the S1' – S3' pocket whereas the importance of the sulphonyl and the orientation of the P1' moiety also revealed stable binding. Based on the outcomes of the current study, four novel compounds of different classes were designed as promising ADAM17 inhibitors. These findings regarding the crucial structural aspects and binding patterns of ADAM17 inhibitors will aid the design and discovery of novel and effective ADAM17 inhibitors for therapeutic advancements of related diseases.
Atmospheric Charged $K/π$ Ratio and Measurement of Muon Annual Modulation with a Liquid Scintillation Detector at Soudan
Creators: name: Zhang, C.
name: Mei, D. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a measurement of muon annual modulation in a 12-liter liquid scintillation detector with a live-time of more than 4 years at the Soudan Underground Laboratory. Muon minimum ionization in the detector is identified by its observed pulse shape and large energy deposition. The measured muon rate in the detector is 28.69$\pm$2.09 muons per day with a modulation amplitude of 2.66$\pm$ 1.0\% and a phase at Jul 22 $\pm$ 36.2 days. This annual modulation is correlated with the variation of the effective atmospheric temperature in the stratosphere. The correlation coefficient, $α_{T}$, is determined to be $0.898 \pm 0.025$. This can be interpreted as a measurement of the atmospheric charged kaon to pion ($K$/$π$) ratio of 0.094$^{+0.044}_{-0.061}$ for $E_{p} > $ 7 TeV, consistent with the measurement from the MINOS far detector. To further constrain the value of $K$/$π$ ratio, a Geant4 simulation of the primary cosmic-ray protons with energy up to 100 TeV is implemented to study the correlation of $K$/$π$ ratio and the muon annual modulation for muon energy greater than 0.5 TeV. We find out that a charged $K$/$π$ ratio of 0.1598, greater than the upper bound (0.138) from this work at the production point 30 km above the Earth surface in the stratosphere cannot induce muon annual modulation at the depth of Soudan.
description: 6 pages and 11 figures
Anoplius nigerrimus
Creators: name: Schedl, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Anoplius
Anoplius nigerrimus

description: Anoplius nigerrimus (SCOPOLI, 1763)
Vo: 13 System, 17.8.2002, NF leg. et in coll. W. Schedl, det. H. Wolf 2002; 13 Arboretum untere Wiese, 29.7.2004, NF leg. et in coll. W. Schedl, det. H. Wolf 2002.
Ö: in verschiedenen Habitaten, nistet in sandigen Böden aber auch in Pflanzenstängeln und Totholz (WOLF & SORG 2007).
V: Paläarktis bis "russländisches" Asien (WOLF & SORG, 2007).
description: Published as part of Schedl, Wolfgang, 2015, Stechimmen II im Botanischen Garten Innsbruck (Tirol, Österreich): Artengarnitur, Blütenbesuch, Phänologie (Insecta: Hymenoptera), pp. 939-954 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1) on page 949, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5415758
Quantum probing topological phase transitions by non-Markovianity
Creators: name: Giorgi, Gian Luca
name: Longhi, Stefano
name: Cabot, Albert
name: Zambrini, Roberta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Understanding the physical significance and probing the global invariants characterizing quantum topological phases in extended systems is a main challenge in modern physics with major impact in different areas of science. Here, a quantum-information-inspired probing method is proposed where topological phase transitions are revealed by a non-Markovianity quantifier. The idea is illustrated by considering the decoherence dynamics of an external read-out qubit that probes a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain with either pure dephasing or dissipative coupling. Qubit decoherence features and non-Markovianity measure clearly signal the topological phase transition of the SSH chain.
Plant wax compounds and soil microbial DNA profiles to ascertain urban land use type
Creators: name: L. A. Dawson
name: L. M. Macdonald
name: K. Ritz
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: S1–S7: Soil particle size, spectral colour, pH, soil C, soil N, loss on ignition and elemental data
พัฒนาซอฟต์แวร์ประยุกต์บนอุปกรณ์สื่อสารเคลื่อนที่เพื่อแนะนำโครงการอันเนื่องมาจากพระราชดำริ
Creators: name: นิศากร เถาสมบัติ
Publisher: name: Siam Technology College,Bangkok,Thailand
Year: 2019
Subjects: ซอฟต์แวร์ประยุกต์, อุปกรณ์สื่อสารเคลื่อนที่, โครงการอันเนื่องมาจากพระราชดำริ

description: วารสารนวัตกรรมและเทคโนโลยีการเรียนรู้วิทยาลัยเทคโนโลยีสยาม, 2, 1, 41
Revision of the New World Species of Rhipidandrus LeConte, 1862 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) and a Phylogenetic Analysis of the Tribe Bolitophagini (Tenebrionidae: Tenebrioninae)
Creators: name: Replogle, Charla Renee
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 309999
subject: Other agricultural, veterinary and food sciences not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 310913
subject: Invertebrate biology
classificationCode: 310401
subject: Animal systematics and taxonomy
classificationCode: 310402
subject: Biogeography and phylogeography
classificationCode: 310410
subject: Phylogeny and comparative analysis

description:  Chapter 1 is the first revision of the New World species of the genus Rhipidandrus LeConte, 1862 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). All previously described species except R. fungicola Friedenreich, 1883 are redescribed, including a diagnosis and distribution information. Rhipidandrus punctatus n. sp. is described from Peru, Panama, and Chiapas, Mexico. New synonymies (junior synonyms first) include: R. mexicanus Sharp, 1905 = R. paradoxus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1818); R. cornutus (Arrow, 1904) = R. panamaensis (Barber, 1914) = R. peruvianus (Laporte, 1840); R. peninsularis Horn, 1894 = R. micrographus (Lacordiare, 1865). Eledona peruviana Laporte, 1840 is recognized as nomen nudum according to ICZN 1999: Article 12. A revised species checklist, a dichotomous key, an interactive key, and distribution maps are also presented.  
Chapter 2 represents the first phylogenetic insight into the relationships within Bolitophagini in relation to Toxicini with more than three taxa sampled. For analyses, 34 taxa were sampled, with representatives from nine bolitophagine genera and seven toxicine genera with 3 outgroup taxa. Six gene regions from nuclear, ribosomal, and mitochondrial DNA were amplified using polymerase chain reactions and sequenced. Bayesian and maximum likelihood analyses were run on the 4049 bp concatenated dataset via the CIPRES Science Gateway. In both resulting trees, the monophyly of Bolitophagini is recovered with high support (BS = 100, PP = 100). The monophyly of Toxicini was recovered, but with poor support (BS = 60, PP = 70). The monophyletic clade containing both Bolitophagini and Toxicini was also recovered with high support (BS = 100, PP = 100).  
A computational system for lattice QCD with overlap Dirac quarks
Creators: name: Chiu, Ting-Wai
name: Hsieh, Tung-Han
name: Huang, Chao-Hsi
name: Huang, Tsung-Ren
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We outline the essential features of a Linux PC cluster which is now being developed at National Taiwan University, and discuss how to optimize its hardware and software for lattice QCD with overlap Dirac quarks. At present, the cluster constitutes of 30 nodes, with each node consisting of one Pentium 4 processor (1.6/2.0 GHz), one Gbyte of PC800 RDRAM, one 40/80 Gbyte hard disk, and a network card. The speed of this system is estimated to be 30 Gflops, and its price/performance ratio is better than $1.0/Mflops for 64-bit (double precision) computations in quenched lattice QCD with overlap Dirac quarks.
description: 3 pages, Lattice 2002(machine)
Electric control of spin transport in GaAs (111) quantum wells
Creators: name: Hernández-Mínguez, A.
name: Biermann, K.
name: Hey, R.
name: Santos, P. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show by spatially and time-resolved photoluminescence that the application of an electric field transverse to the plane of an intrinsic GaAs (111) quantum well (QW) allows the transport of photogenerated electron spins polarized along the direction perpendicular to the QW plane over distances exceeding 10~$μ$m. We attribute the long spin transport lengths to the compensation of the in-plane effective magnetic field related to the intrinsic spin-orbit (SO) interaction by means of the electrically generated SO-field. Away from SO-compensation, the precession of the spin vector around the SO-field decreases the out-of-plane polarization of the spin ensemble as the electrons move away from the laser generation spot. The results are reproduced by a model for two-dimensional drift-diffusion of spin polarized charge carriers under weak SO-interaction.
Amerika-Mura: discourses of modernity and identity in contemporary urban Japan
Creators: name: Cameron, Donald Stuart
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2002

description: This thesis is an exploration of the notion of modernity in the context of Amerika-mura ('American Village'), a district of Osaka, Japan commonly styled as the centre of that city's wakamono bunka ('youth culture'). The thesis begins with a presentation of historical and theoretical approaches to the study of Japan, problematising both essentialist and postmodern treatments. The theme of 'multiple responses to modernity' is proposed as an alternative to the notions of 'culture' and 'society' as a tool for the investigation of mutually constitutive personal and spatial identities in specific contexts. A series of examples demonstrates the complex relationship between such responses, firstly exploring historical contexts in Osaka and Japan in which notions of the 'new', the 'foreign' and the 'strange' have been interpreted, framed and spectacularised. At the level of the urban environment in Amerika-mura, these responses are shown to range from the 'framing discourses' of tourism and planning to nostalgic appeals for a return to a simpler, more 'authentic' time and place At the level of individual engagement with this environment, they vary from the collective project of sutoriito fasshon ('street fashion') to the network of unique trajectories which create personal 'topographies of taste.' This thesis explores all of the above discourses through a selection of contexts where these intersect with the physical site of Amerika-mura. It draws upon a variety of theoretical approaches from the fields of anthropology, human geography and cultural studies, in addition to a selection of conceptual frameworks proposed by Japanese sociologists. These are deployed in an investigation of Amerika-mura as a 'microcosm of modernity', a site in which a unique spatial identity is paradoxically constructed around the juxtaposition of ostensibly disparate elements. Parallel to this investigation, a series of personal narratives is deployed in an exploration of the way in which 'authentic' individual identities are shaped both within, and in opposition to, the multitude of discourses mediated through the district.
Cytotoxic phenolic compounds isolated from the fruits of Macaranga denticulata
Creators: name: Le, Tran Nguyen Vu
name: Truong, Bich Ngan
name: Le, Thi Phuong
name: Litaudon, Marc
name: Tran, Dang Thach
name: Chau, Van Minh
name: Mai, Huong Doan Thi
name: Pham, Van Cuong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: A new modified geranylated flavonoid, 3′-dehydroxy-solophenol C (1), along with 17 known compounds (2–18) were isolated from the fruits of Macaranga denticulata. Their structures were established by spectral analysis, such as mass spectrometry, 1D-NMR and 2D-NMR. The new geranylated flavonoid 1 showed a moderate cytotoxic activity against the A549 cell line with IC50 value of 16.0 µM. Compound 9 showed the highest cytotoxic activities against KB, HepG2, Lu-1 and MCF7 cell lines with IC50 values of 0.6, 0.8, 1.3 and 1.2 µM, respectively.
title: The Global Performance Art Network: How the Net Works
Creators: name: Clunn, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Performance artists
subject: Network theory

description: As a performance artist, I have experienced a strong synergy connecting performance artists, the work they make, the network they create and inhabit, and the trust that binds them together. I wanted to discover how that network operated. Therefore, this doctoral research project focuses on the question, “What is the operation of the global performance art network? ” Network theory forms the overarching theoretical framework, with the additional concepts of trust, community, social capital, and performance art playing a key part in the analysis. With no known research into the global performance art network to date, the research will contribute to theory development and practical perspectives in relation to performance art. In addressing the research question, I acknowledge my personal ontology and self-interest in the subject matter. This duality of researcher / participant has allowed for a conscious ethnographic approach to this research. I have adopted a pragmatist paradigm in approaching this research question, which encourages a mixed methods strategy, combining quantitative and qualitative research methods, allowing for triangulation of data.
Ceratitis capitata
Creators: name: Fazel, M.
name: Fallahzadeh, M.
name: Gheibi, M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tephritidae
Ceratitis
Ceratitis capitata

description: Ceratitis capitata (WIEDEMANN 1824)
M a t e r i a l: 7 2: Shiraz; 29°36' N 52°31' E, 1538 m, 2 Nov. 2009.
H o s t p l a n t: Larvae in peaches, pears and apples (Rosaceae). Over 250 plant types from more than 40 families (WHITE & ELSON- HARRIS 1992).
D i s t r i b u t i o n: Afro-tropical, introduced: North Africa, South Europe, Middle East, Nearctic, Neotropical, West Australia (NORRBOM 2004).
description: Published as part of Fazel, M., Fallahzadeh, M. & Gheibi, M., 2011, Introduction to the Fruit Flies fauna (Diptera, Tephritidae) of Fars province, Iran, pp. 1229-1235 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 43 (2) on page 1230, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5326206
Neutrino currents in wakes of cosmic strings
Creators: name: Sau, Sovan
name: Sanyal, Soma
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrinos rotating around Abelian Higgs strings will generate a neutral current close to the string. As the string moves through the cosmic plasma, the velocity kick generated by the motion of the string will enhance the neutrino current in the wake region. The neutrino current density depends on its distance from the string and is oscillatory in nature. This leads to neutrino density gradients in the plasma. Such a flux of neutrinos with periodic density fluctuations will lead to electron currents in the plasma. The current will act like a cross-perturbation across the cosmic string wake. The perturbation as well as the high Reynolds number of the plasma will result in the generation of magnetic fields in the wake of the cosmic string.
description: 16 pages 2 figure Substantially revised to include estimation of the magnetic field generated in the cosmic string wake
ALAN_supplementary materials.docx from Long-term exposure to artificial light at night in the wild decreases survival and growth of a coral reef fish
Creators: name: Schligler, Jules
name: Cortese, Daphne
name: Beldade, Ricardo
name: Swearer, Stephen E.
name: Mills, Suzanne C.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Artificial light at night (ALAN) is an increasing anthropogenic pollutant, closely associated with human population density, and now well recognized in both terrestrial and aquatic environments. However, we have a relatively poor understanding of the effects of ALAN in the marine realm. Here, we carried out a field experiment in the coral reef lagoon of Moorea, French Polynesia, to investigate the effects of long-term exposure (18–23 months) to chronic light pollution at night on the growth and survival of wild juvenile orange-fin anemonefish, Amphiprion chrysopterus. Long-term exposure to environmentally relevant underwater illuminance (mean: 4.3 lx), reduced survival (mean: 36%) and growth (mean: 44%) of juvenile anemonefish compared to that of juveniles exposed to natural moonlight underwater (mean: 0.03 lx). Our study carried out in an ecologically realistic situation in which the direct effects of artificial lighting on juvenile anemonefish are combined with the indirect consequences of artificial lighting on other species, such as their competitors, predators and prey, revealed the negative impacts of ALAN on life-history traits. Not only are there immediate impacts of ALAN on mortality, but the decreased growth of surviving individuals may also have considerable fitness consequences later in life. Future studies examining the mechanisms behind these findings are vital to understand how organisms can cope and survive in nature under this globally increasing pollutant.
Field Quantization, Photons and Non-Hermitean Modes
Creators: name: Brown, S. A.
name: Dalton, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Field quantization in three dimensional unstable optical systems is treated by expanding the vector potential in terms of non-Hermitean (Fox-Li) modes in both the cavity and external regions. The cavity non-Hermitean modes (NHM) are treated using the paraxial and monochromaticity approximations. The NHM bi-orthogonality relationships are used in a standard canonical quantization procedure based on introducing generalised coordinates and momenta for the electromagnetic (EM) field. The quantum EM field is equivalent to a set of quantum harmonic oscillators (QHO), associated with either the cavity or the external region NHM. This confirms the validity of the photon model in unstable optical systems, though the annihilation and creation operators for each QHO are not Hermitean adjoints. The quantum Hamiltonian for the EM field is the sum of non-commuting cavity and external region contributions, each of which is sum of independent QHO Hamiltonians for each NHM, but the external field Hamiltonian also includes a coupling term responsible for external NHM photon exchange processes. Cavity energy gain and loss processes is associated with the non-commutativity of cavity and external region operators, given in terms of surface integrals involving cavity and external region NHM functions on the cavity-external region boundary. The spontaneous decay of a two-level atom inside an unstable cavity is treated using the essential states approach and the rotating wave approximation. Atomic transitions leading to cavity NHM photon absorption have a different coupling constant to those leading to photon emission, a feature resulting from the use of NHM functions. Under certain conditions the decay rate is enhanced by the Petermann factor.
description: 38 pages, tex, 2 figures, ps. General expression for decay rate added. To be published in Journal of Modern Optics
title: An Appropriate Climate Change Adaptation Policy for Sri Lanka
Creators: name: Panditharante, Chandani
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Climate change
subject: Sri Lanka
subject: Climate change adaptation policy

description: This thesis focuses on an appropriate national climate change adaptation policy for Sri Lanka. An extensive multidisciplinary literature review guides the thesis in defining ‘appropriate’ climate change adaptation, and in determining a developmental paradigm on which an adaptation policy could be based. The thesis also sets out a policy process framework for developing an appropriate adaptation policy. The thesis draws on a wide array of literature and on policy actor understandings of adaptation policy content and processes, in order to build a theoretical basis for an appropriate climate change adaptation policy. A series of semi-structured in-depth interviews, carried out in Sri Lanka, were used as the primary source of empirical data. Together with these, review of a broad range of policy documents, budgetary information and status reports, helped provide rigour to the analysis. Use of theoretical literature and of multiple information sources allowed the research to generate credible, rich, and transferable findings.
Pseudoscymnus truncatulus Yu 1997
Creators: name: Yu, Guoyue
name: Montgomery, Michael E.
name: Yao, Defu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Pseudoscymnus
Pseudoscymnus truncatulus

description: Pseudoscymnus truncatulus Yu 1997 in Yu et al. 1997 (Yunnan).
 Distribution. China (Yunnan).
 Specimen Examined. Type: 1 Ƌ, Yunnan: Heyuan. Other: 1 Ƌ, Yunnan: Jianchuan.
 Remarks. The specimen from Jianchuan has brown maxillary palpi and the brown base of elytron is very narrow.
description: Published as part of Yu, Guoyue, Montgomery, Michael E. & Yao, Defu, 2000, Lady Beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) From Chinese Hemlocks Infested With The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Adelges Tsugae Annand (Homoptera: Adelgidae), pp. 154-199 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 54 (2) on page 186, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X(2000)054[0154:LBCCFC]2.0.CO;2
Anoplius infuscatus
Creators: name: Schedl, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Anoplius
Anoplius infuscatus

description: Anoplius infuscatus (VAN DER LINDEN, 1827)
Vo: 1♀ 23.5.2000, NF leg. et in coll. W. Schedl, det. H. Wolf 2000.
Ö: in verschiedenen Habitaten, bevorzugt in Sandheiden (WOLF & SORG 2007).
V: Paläarktis bis "russländisches" Asien, Südafrika (WOLF & SORG 2007).
description: Published as part of Schedl, Wolfgang, 2015, Stechimmen II im Botanischen Garten Innsbruck (Tirol, Österreich): Artengarnitur, Blütenbesuch, Phänologie (Insecta: Hymenoptera), pp. 939-954 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (1) on page 949, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5415758