cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Fuzzy Dark Matter and Dark Matter Halo Cores
Creators: name: Burkert, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Whereas cold dark matter (CDM) simulations predict central dark matter cusps with densities that diverge as $ρ$(r)$\sim$ 1/r observations often indicate constant density cores with finite central densities $ρ_0$ and a flat density distribution within a core radius r$_0$. This paper investigates whether this core-cusp problem can be solved by fuzzy dark matter (FDM), a hypothetical particle with a mass of order m$\approx$10$^{-22}$eV and a corresponding de Broglie wavelength on astrophysical scales. We show that galaxies with CDM halo virial masses M$_{vir} \leq 10^{11}$M$_{\odot}$ follow two core scaling relations. In addition to the well known universal core column density $Σ_0 \equiv ρ_0 \times$r$_0$ = 75 M$_{\odot}$pc$^{-2}$ core radii increase with virial masses as r$_0 \sim$ M$_{vir}^γ$ with $γ$ of order unity. Using the simulations by Schive et al. (2014) we demonstrate that FDM can explain the r$_0$-M$_{vir}$ scaling relation if the virial masses of the observed galaxy sample scale with formation redshift z as M$_{vir}\sim$(1+z)$^{-0.4}$. The observed constant $Σ_0$ is however in complete disagreement with FDM cores which are characterised by a steep dependence $Σ_0 \sim$r$_0^{-3}$, independent of z. More high-resolution simulations are now required to confirm the Schive et al. simulations and explore especially the transition region between the soliton core and the surrounding halo. If these results hold, FDM can be ruled out as the origin of observed dark matter cores and other physical processes are required to account for their formation.
description: 14 pages, 1 figure, ApJ, in press
Additional file 1 of Self-report of domestic violence and forced sex are related to sexual risk behaviors in a sample of juvenile detainees
Creators: name: Selitsky, Lea
name: Markowitz, Norman
name: Baxa, Dwayne M.
name: Kaljee, Linda
name: Miree, Cheryl A.
name: Nishat Islam
name: Chez Burse
name: Rehnuma Newaz
name: Dankerlui, Doreen
name: Jacobsen, Gordon
name: Joseph, Christine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1: Table E1. Report of history of chlamydia, risky sexual behaviors, and traumatic experiences by race/ethnicity (n = 308).
Evaluation and comparison of energy tax, resource tax and air pollution tax: an environmental-DSGE model
Creators: name: Xiao, Bowen
name: Guo, Xiaodan
name: Xu, Fangqiu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology

description: How governments choose green fiscal policies to achieve green transition is an urgent issue to be solved. In this context, an environmental-dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is developed to analyze and compare the macroeconomic effects of fossil energy tax, natural resource tax and air pollution tax. The research shows that the supply-side policy, the natural resource tax, has a stronger impact on the economy than the other two demand-side policies, the fossil energy tax and air pollution tax. More importantly, supply-side policies are more effective than demand-side policies in two aspects: (1) all three policies can make up for the negative impact of tight fiscal policies on the economy, with supply-side policy offsetting the negative impact to a greater extent than demand-side policy; (2) all three policies can act as automatic stabilisers of the economy, with supply-side policy being more effective than demand-side policy in smoothing economic fluctuations.
Search for Correlated High Energy Cosmic Ray Events with CHICOS
Creators: name: Carlson, B. E.
name: Brobeck, E.
name: Jillings, C. J.
name: Larson, M. B.
name: Lynn, T. W.
name: McKeown, R. D.
name: Hill, James E.
name: Falkowski, B.
name: Seki, R.
name: Sepikas, J.
name: Yodh, G. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the results of a search for time correlations in high energy cosmic ray data (primary E > 10^{14} eV) collected by the California HIgh school Cosmic ray ObServatory (CHICOS) array. Data from 60 detector sites spread over an area of 400 km^2 were studied for evidence of correlated events separated by more than 1 km with coincidence times ranging from 1 microsec up to 1 second. All searches were consistent with the absence of excess coincidences except for a 2.9 sigma excess observed for coincidence times less than 10 microsec. We report upper limits for the coincidence probability as a function of coincidence time.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Python and ImageJ  implementations of spatial speckle contrast calculations and associated simulated and experimental datasets
Creators: name: Pain, Frédéric
name: Chammas, Marc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic imaging
subject: Optics
subject: Fluid dynamics
subject: Laser Speckle Imaging
subject: Blood flow

description: Datasets files

These are the three datasets of raw time integrated speckle images  used in a submitted publication.

These are mutlitif files that can be open for rapid examination in FIJI (Imagej).

Dataset 1 is composed simulated time integrated speckle patterns images

2 files :   dataset1_tc1ms.tif and dataset1_tc01ms.tif

Images are 32-bit and 1000 x 1000 pixels. For both datasets in dataset 1, the following simulation parameters are used :3 pixels per speckle ; rho = 1 ie (100% moving scatterers and no static scatterers);a decorrelation function g1(tc,n,rho) with n = 1 parameter corresponding to ordered flow and mutliple scattering as described in James E. et al . Simulation of statistically accurate time-integrated dynamic speckle patterns in biomedical optics Opt Lett 46 4390-4393 (2021).

Each data set is composed of 15 images corresponding to simulated exposure times of  0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 0.8, 1, 2, 3.5, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 and 60 ms

For Dataset1_tc1ms.tif, the decorrelation time was set to 1 ms.

For Dataset1_tc01ms.tif, the decorrealtion time was set to 0.1 ms.

Dataset 2  is composed of experimental data acquired in vivo at the surface of an anesthetized mouse

1 file dataset_2_in_vivo_6exposures.tif

Images are 16-bit ( camera bit depth = 12-bit) and 1920 *1440. They are time-integrated raw speckle data acquired sucessively using a modulated laser pulse method with the set-up and methods described in  Soleimanzad, H. et al. Multiple speckle exposure imaging for the study of blood flow changes induced by functional activation of barrel cortex and olfactory bulb in mice. Neurophotonics 6, 015008 (2019).

The data set is composed of 6 images at expsoure times of  1, 2, 5, 10, 15 and 20 ms

Scripts files

Both files are fully commented

Python implementations of speckle spatial contrast calculations methods 

1 file Ks_methods.py

ImageJ macro  for speckle spatial contrast calculation for a 3D stack of  2D  images in .tif format.

1 file KsIJ.ijm
Additional file 1 of Parasite clearance, cure rate, post-treatment prophylaxis and safety of standard 3-day versus an extended 6-day treatment of artemether–lumefantrine and a single low-dose primaquine for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Bagamoyo district, Tanzania: a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Mhamilawa, Lwidiko E.
name: Ngasala, Billy
name: Morris, Ulrika
name: Eliford Ngaimisi Kitabi
name: Barnes, Rory
name: Aung Paing Soe
name: Mmbando, Bruno P.
name: Björkman, Anders
name: Mårtensson, Andreas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1. Median change in haemoglobin concentration g/dL between D0 and D7 by age groups and sex for control and intervention arms.
Quantum Gravity as Theory of "Superfluidity"
Creators: name: Barbashov, B. M.
name: Pervushin, V. N.
name: Zakharov, A. F.
name: Zinchuk, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A version of the cosmological perturbation theory in general relativity (GR) is developed, where the cosmological scale factor is identified with spatial averaging of the metric determinant logarithm and the cosmic evolution acquires the pattern of a superfluid motion: the absence of "friction-type" interaction, the London-type wave function, and the Bogoliubov condensation of quantum universes. This identification keeps the number of variables of GR and leads to a new type of potential perturbations. A set of arguments is given in favor of that this "superfluid" version of GR is in agreement with the observational data.
description: 8 pages, "Long Communication" at the XXVIII Spanish Relativity Meeting "A Century of Relativity Physics" Oviedo, Spain, 6-10 Sept. 2005; http://fisi24.ciencias.uniovi.es/ere05.html; To be published in "AIP Conference Proceedings"
Measurement sequences for magic state distillation
Creators: name: Haah, Jeongwan
name: Hastings, Matthew B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magic state distillation uses special codes to suppress errors in input states, which are often tailored to a Clifford-twirled error model. We present detailed measurement sequences for magic state distillation protocols which can suppress arbitrary errors on any part of a protocol, assuming the independence of errors across qubits. Provided with input magic states, our protocol operates on a two-dimensional square grid by measurements of $ZZ$ on horizontal pairs of qubits, $XX$ on vertical pairs, and $Z,X$ on single qubits.
description: 8 pages
Entanglement in the XX spin chain with an energy current
Creators: name: Eisler, V.
name: Zimboras, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the ground state of the XX chain that is constrained to carry a current of energy. The von Neumann entropy of a block of $L$ neighboring spins, describing entanglement of the block with the rest of the chain, is computed. Recent calculations have revealed that the entropy in the XX model diverges logarithmically with the size of the subsystem. We show that the presence of the energy current increases the prefactor of the logarithmic growth. This result indicates that the emergence of the energy current gives rise to an increase of entanglement.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Regularities with random interactions in energy centroids defined by group symmetries
Creators: name: Kota, V. K. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Regular structures generated by random interactions in energy centroids defined over irreducible representations (irreps) of some of the group symmetries of the interacting boson models $sd$IBM, $sdg$IBM, $sd$IBM-$T$ and $sd$IBM-$ST$ are studied by deriving trace propagations equations for the centroids. It is found that, with random interactions, the lowest and highest group irreps in general carry most of the probability for the corresponding centroids to be lowest in energy. This generalizes the result known earlier, via numerical diagonalization, for the more complicated fixed spin ($J$) centroids where simple trace propagation is not possible.
description: 18 pages, 3 figures
Direct-Current Generator Based on Dynamic Water-Semiconductor Junction with Polarized Water as Moving Dielectric Medium
Creators: name: Lu, Yanghua
name: Yan, Yanfei
name: Yu, Xutao
name: Zhou, Xu
name: Feng, Sirui
name: Xu, Chi
name: Zheng, Haonan
name: Yang, Zunshan
name: Li, Linjun
name: Liu, Kaihui
name: Lin, Shisheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is a rising prospective in harvesting energy from water droplets, as microscale energy is required for the distributed sensors in the interconnected human society. However, achieving a sustainable direct-current generating device from water flow is rarely reported, and the quantum polarization principle of the water molecular remains uncovered. Herein, we propose a dynamic water-semiconductor junction with moving water sandwiched between two semiconductors as a moving dielectric medium, which outputs a sustainable direct-current voltage of 0.3 V and current of 0.64 uA with low internal resistance of 390 kilohm. The sustainable direct-current electricity is originating from the dynamic water polarization process in water-semiconductor junction, in which water molecules are continuously polarized and depolarized driven by the mechanical force and Fermi level difference, during the movement of the water on silicon. We further demonstrated an encapsulated portable power-generating device with simple structure and continuous direct-current voltage, which exhibits its promising potential application in the field of wearable electronic generators.
Green human resource management practices and employee green behavior
Creators: name: Veerasamy, Udhayageetha
name: Joseph, Michael Sammanasu
name: Parayitam, Satyanarayana
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Virology

description: This research explores the effect of Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) practices on employee green behavior (EGB). A conceptual model involving two double-moderations is developed and tested with the data collected from 397 respondents from various industries in India. Hayes’s PROCESS macros were used in testing the hypotheses. Consistent with the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity (AMO) and Social Identity Theory (SIT), the green recruitment strategies (GRS) and green institutional initiatives (GII) positively predict EGB. The results indicate that the significant three-way interaction between GRS, employee green training and development (E-GTD), and employee green participation and involvement (E-GPI) influenced EGB. The findings also suggest that the three-way interaction between GII, employee green performance management, appraisal (E-GPMA), employee green compensation, and rewards (E-GCR) influencing the EGB was significant. The implications for green human resource management (G-HRM) and sustainability are discussed.
"Time"-covariant Schrödinger equation and the canonical quantization of the Reissner-Nordström black hole
Creators: name: Pailas, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 83C45 (Primary), 83C22 (Secondary)

description: A "time"-covariant Schrödinger equation is defined for the minisuperspace model of the Reissner-Nordström (RN) black hole, as a "hybrid" between the "intrinsic time" Schrödinger and Wheeler-DeWitt(WDW) equations. To do so, a reduced, regular and "time(r)"-dependent Hamiltonian density was constructed, without "breaking" the re-parametrization covariance $r\rightarrow f(\tilde{r})$. As a result, evolution of states with respect to the parameter $r$ and probabilistic interpretation of the resulting quantum description is possible, while quantum schemes for different gauge choices are equivalent by construction. The solutions are found for a Dirac's delta and a Gaussian initial states. A geometrical interpretation of the wavefunctions is presented via Bohm analysis. Alongside, a criterion is presented to adjudicate which, between two singular spacetimes is "more" or "less" singular. Two ways to adjudicate about the existence of singularities are compared (vanishing of the probability density at the classical singularity and semi-classical spacetime singularity). Finally, an equivalence of the reduced equations with these of a 3D electromagnetic pp-wave spacetime is revealed.
description: 4 figures
Allpass Feedback Delay Networks
Creators: name: Schlecht, Sebastian J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the 1960s, Schroeder and Logan introduced delay line-based allpass filters, which are still popular due to their computational efficiency and versatile applicability in artificial reverberation, decorrelation, and dispersive system design. In this work, we extend the theory of allpass systems to any arbitrary connection of delay lines, namely feedback delay networks (FDNs). We present a characterization of uniallpass FDNs, i.e., FDNs, which are allpass for an arbitrary choice of delays. Further, we develop a solution to the completion problem, i.e., given an FDN feedback matrix to determine the remaining gain parameters such that the FDN is allpass. Particularly useful for the completion problem are feedback matrices, which yield a homogeneous decay of all system modes. Finally, we apply the uniallpass characterization to previous FDN designs, namely, Schroeder's series allpass and Gardner's nested allpass for single-input, single-output systems, and, Poletti's unitary reverberator for multi-input, multi-output systems and demonstrate the significant extension of the design space.
Improving the Measurement and Analysis of African Agricultural Productivity: Promoting Complementarities between Micro and Macro Data
Creators: name: Kelly, Valerie A.
name: Hopkins, Jane
name: Reardon, Thomas
name: Crawford, Eric W.
name: Kelly, Valerie A.
name: Hopkins, Jane
name: Reardon, Thomas
name: Crawford, Eric W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1995
Subjects: Productivity Analysis

description: A wide variety of multilateral and bilateral agencies, private sector firms, and African governments have a need for high quality, reliable data on agricultural productivity. This paper identifies numerous situations where poor data lead to incorrect estimates of African land and labor productivity. The paper argues that better coordination of macro, meso, and micro data collection, reporting, and analysis efforts can lower costs and improve our ability to monitor trends and to quantify determinants of agricultural productivity. Seven key points are made in the discussion: (1) Missing or poorly measured variables used in the numerator (output) or denominator (land and labor, for example) are biasing productivity ratios; (2) In most cases, these errors underestimate levels of agricultural productivity in Africa and distort trends; (3) Micro data are an important source of information for identifying the existence and magnitude of these errors in macro and meso data; (4) Information from micro data can improve estimates of productivity ratios when macro data are not available and too costly to collect; (5) Detailed micro data sets are the best source of information on the farm-level determinants of agricultural productivity; this information contributes to the development of productivity-enhancing policies and technologies; (6) Micro data play an important role in identifying the appropriate variables to monitor in macro and meso series; (7) Only consistently high-quality macro data in unbroken time series can provide adequate information about productivity trends and the contribution of policy and technological change to national agricultural productivity over time. From these conclusions it becomes evident that improving the data used to monitor and analyze agricultural productivity requires much greater cross-fertilization of detailed micro studies and broad macro-data collection and reporting efforts. As data collection and analysis costs are high, researchers and statistical services need to ensure the maximum complementarity possible among different types of surveys and data. This requires coordination among donors, government agencies, and research institutes that fund, collect, and analyze agricultural data.
Supplementary Figure 3 from Long-read sequencing reveals atypical mitochondrial genome structure in a New Zealand marine isopod
Creators: name: Pearman, William S.
name: Wells, Sarah J.
name: Dale, James
name: Silander, Olin K.
name: Freed, Nikki E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Supplementary Figure 3: Cumulative GC skew plot of the dimer generated by GenSkew, using a stepsize of 100, and window size of 100. The total GC skew (G-C/G+C) of the dimer is 0.002, while for the monomer it is 0.194.
Opera, narrative, and the modernist crisis of historical subjectivity
Creators: name: Lee, Sherry Denise
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The concept of a crisis of subjective identity and its expression in modernist artworks of the fin-de-siècle and early twentieth century is central to this study of narrative in operas by Franz Schreker (1878-1934) and Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942). Focused on modernist operatic expressions of subjectivity in crisis, this project explores and expands ideas of Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), starting from his assertion that modern works of art should be dialectical expressions of the crisis of the individual subject alienated within the instrumental mechanisms of modern society. This study examines individual narrative and musical expressions of marginal subjectivity from several perspectives, including Adorno's musical aesthetics, Freudian and post-Freudian psychoanalytical concepts, and literary and gender-based theories. The study begins by mapping out a constellation of concepts that figure in the discussion to follow: Adorno's critical theory of authentic expression in modern music; philosophical and psychoanalytical concepts of subjectivity; and the narrative thread running through historical, theoretical, and literary concerns of this project. In the main portion of the dissertation, Adorno's 1959 essays on Schreker and Zemlinsky serve as points of departure for discussions of four operas: Schreker's "Der ferne Klang" (1912) and "Die Gezeichneten" (1918), with libretti by the composer, and Zemlinsky's "Eine florentinische Tragödie" (1917) and "Der Zwerg" (1921), both based on texts by Oscar Wilde. Adorno criticized Schreker for composing sensually alluring yet technically deficient works that sought to escape rather than authentically express the modernist human condition. This project examines and elucidates Adorno's case against Schreker, focusing on his criticism of Schreker's central idea of sound, and defends the critical quality of Schreker's artistic conception, reinterpreting the Schrekerian sound through close readings of the operatic narratives. Adorno praised Zemlinsky's eclectic compositional style for its expressivity and socio-historical authenticity; yet he dismissed both Wildean operas, considering their libretti dramatically flawed. However, the present reading finds the subtle psychosexual implications of Wilde's texts suggestive for re-hearing the musical relationships in both operas, in terms of the issues of subjective crisis they explore. The dissertation concludes by addressing questions of historicity raised by Adorno's discussion of the historical fate of both composers.
Additional file 1 of New generation breast cancer cell lines developed from patient-derived xenografts
Creators: name: Finlay-Schultz, Jessica
name: Jacobsen, Britta M.
name: Riley, Duncan
name: Paul, Kiran V.
name: Turner, Scott
name: Ferreira-Gonzalez, Andrea
name: J. Chuck Harrell
name: Kabos, Peter
name: Sartorius, Carol A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file : Supplemental Figure 1. IHC of PDX from which cell lines were derived. PDX were stained with antibodies to ER, PR, AR, CK5, and CK8/18. Slides were loaded into Aperio digital slide viewer and images captured at 40x magnification with Imagescope (Leica). Supplemental Figure 2. Nuclear-GFP labeled UCD cell lines for proliferation assays. Representative images of UCD cell lines during Incucyte analysis. Individual wells were captured at 6-18 h post plating. Mag bars,300 microns. Supplemental Fig. 3. Growth of UCD cell lines in vivo. One million cells were inoculated billaterally into the #4 mammary fat pads of NSG mice. Animals were supplemented with slow release estrogen pellets and tumors measure weekly. Mean plus SEM are indicated. N=6 tumors UCD12 and UCD47 and N = 3 tumors forUCD65. Supplemental Figure 4. Expressison profiles of UCD cell lines show moderate to strong positive correlation to their PDX tumors of origin. The RNA-seq expression profiles (FPKM) of UCD cell lines and UCD PDX were compared using the r package ggpubr. The r2 correlation and p values were plotted for each cell line and thecorresponding PDX. Supplementary Figure 5. Vimentin expression in ER negative UCD cell lines. UCD46, UCD115, and UCD178 cells were plated on glass slides in regular media. Cells were fixed and stained by immunocytochemistry with an antibody to vimentin with DAPI counterstain. Scale bar, 50 μM.
Civil society for sustainable change: strategies of NGOs and active citizens to contribute to sustainability transitions
Creators: name: Buijs, Arjen E.
name: de Koning, Susan
name: Mattijssen, Thomas J. M.
name: Smeding, Ingeborg W.
name: Smits, Marie-José
name: Steins, Nathalie A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: According to the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, a “Whole-of-Society” approach is needed to initiate transitions to a nature-positive society. Many look at civil society to initiate and accelerate such transitions. In this article, we investigate strategies from Civil Society Actors (CSAs) to contribute to transformative change, with specific focus on Tiny Forests and Beach Clean-Ups in the Netherlands. Results show that CSAs have a clear Theory of Change to achieve their goals, and act upon that vision through assembling power and resources, developing policy-relevant environmental knowledge, mobilising public support and media coverage and initiating innovative sustainable practices. Adopting mosaic governance approaches, CSAs strategically position themselves in social and institutional networks, connecting professionals and citizens for political leverage. However, our findings show that the step from local impact towards transition remains a large one and the contribution of CSAs should be valued as emergent, co-produced and part of a broader transition movement.
Zero-mode counting formula and zeros in orbifold compactifications
Creators: name: Sakamoto, Makoto
name: Takeuchi, Maki
name: Tatsuta, Yoshiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We thoroughly analyze the number of independent zero modes and their zero points on the toroidal orbifold $T^2/\mathbb{Z}_N$ ($N = 2, 3, 4, 6$) with magnetic flux background, inspired by the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. We first show a complete list for the number $n_η$ of orbifold zero modes belonging to $\mathbb{Z}_{N}$ eigenvalue $η$. Since it turns out that $n_η$ quite complicatedly depends on the flux quanta $M$, the Scherk-Schwarz twist phase $(α_1, α_2)$, and the $\mathbb{Z}_{N}$ eigenvalue $η$, it seems hard that $n_η$ can be universally explained in a simple formula. We, however, succeed in finding a single zero-mode counting formula $n_η = (M-V_η)/N + 1$, where $V_η$ denotes the sum of winding numbers at the fixed points on the orbifold $T^2/\mathbb{Z}_N$. The formula is shown to hold for any pattern.
description: 40 pages, 3 figures
Nanoscale Strain Engineering of Giant Pseudo-Magnetic Fields, Valley Polarization and Topological Channels in Graphene
Creators: name: Hsu, C. -C.
name: Teague, M. L.
name: Wang, J. -Q.
name: Yeh, N. -C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The existence of nontrivial Berry phases associated with two inequivalent valleys in graphene provides interesting opportunities for investigating the valley-projected topological states. Examples of such studies include observation of anomalous quantum Hall effect in monolayer graphene, demonstration of topological zero modes in molecular graphene assembled by scanning tunneling microscopy, and detection of topological valley transport either in graphene superlattices or at bilayer graphene domain walls. However, all aforementioned experiments involved non-scalable approaches of either mechanically exfoliated flakes or atom-by-atom constructions. Here we report an approach to manipulating the topological states in monolayer graphene via nanoscale strain engineering at room temperature. By placing strain-free monolayer graphene on architected nanostructures to induce global inversion symmetry breaking, we demonstrate the development of giant pseudo-magnetic fields (up to 800 Tesla), valley polarization, and periodic one-dimensional topological channels for protected propagation of chiral modes in strained graphene, thus paving a pathway towards scalable graphene-based valleytronics.
description: Manuscript (5 Figures, 14 pages) and Supplementary Material (9 Figures, 11 pages), published in Science Advances
Supplementary Figure 5 from Long-read sequencing reveals atypical mitochondrial genome structure in a New Zealand marine isopod
Creators: name: Pearman, William S.
name: Wells, Sarah J.
name: Dale, James
name: Silander, Olin K.
name: Freed, Nikki E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Supplementary Figure 5 Annotated polished copy of the mitochondrial ‘unit’ for Isocladus armatus. This unit is a total of 14,569 bp, annotations were created using MITOS2, and figure created using OGDRAW2.
Characterization of cadherins, adamts, steroid receptors, during blastocyst formation in vitro of adamts in the bovine ovary
Creators: name: Madan, Pavneesh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In bovine, early embryonic mortality (EEM) results in low reproductive efficiency, the major cause for which is believed to be impaired development of the embryo, but mechanisms involved therein remain poorly understood. A lack of progesterone support from the corpus luteum (CL) also contributes to EEM. Recent studies demonstrate that regulated expression of distinct cadherins that mediate Ca²⁺ - dependent cell-cell adhesion and ADAMTS (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs) subtypes involved in cell-matrix interactions, and steroid receptors mediate important cellular events underlying the formation and organization of tissues, however, their role in preimplantation embryogenesis is poorly characterized. Understanding genes involved in the blastocyst and CL formation provides interesting possibilities in improving embryo viability. To address these issues, investigations into the expression of cadherins, ADAMTS, estrogen and progesterone receptor isoforms during the preimplantation embryogenesis in bovine embryos at timed stages of development has been undertaken, using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) or immunohistochemistry strategies. In addition, expression of ADAMTS subtypes in ovarian follicles and CL has also been characterized. These studies indicate that multiple cadherins, both type 1 (E-, N - and P-Cad) and type 2 (cad-8, -10 and -11), with their specific localizations, at least in part, provide the molecular basis for the formation and organization of the inner cell mass and the trophectoderm. The differential mRNA and protein expression of steroid receptor isoforms (ERα, ERβ, PRA and PRB) suggests distinct role(s) during early embryogenesis and provides evidence for direct effect of steroids on the embryo. The regulated but complex expression of ADAMTS subtypes both in the embryo (ADAMTS-1, -4, -5, -6, -8, -9, -10, but not ADAMTS-2, -3, -7 or -12) and the ovary (ADAMTS-1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -7, -8, -9, but not ADAMTS-6, -10 or -12) suggests that these proteinases could be involved in cell-matrix interactions and contributing towards important cellular events like cell migration, differentiation and remodeling of the extracellular matrix. Though, the biological significance of these molecules remains unclear, these studies demonstrate that novel cellular molecules involved in cell-cell, cell-matrix and steroid interactions could be playing a key role during developmental processes like embryogenesis and/or CL formation.
Higgs modulation of emergent mass as revealed in kaon and pion parton distributions
Creators: name: Cui, Zhu-Fang
name: Ding, Minghui
name: Gao, Fei
name: Raya, Khepani
name: Binosi, Daniele
name: Chang, Lei
name: Roberts, Craig D.
name: Rodriguez-Quintero, Jose
name: Schmidt, Sebastian M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strangeness was discovered roughly seventy years ago, lodged in a particle now known as the kaon, $K$. Kindred to the pion, $π$; both states are massless in the absence of Higgs-boson couplings. Kaons and pions are Nature's most fundamental Nambu-Goldstone modes. Their properties are largely determined by the mechanisms responsible for emergent mass in the standard model, but modulations applied by the Higgs are crucial to Universe evolution. Despite their importance, little is known empirically about $K$ and $π$ structure. This study delivers the first parameter-free predictions for all $K$ distribution functions (DFs) and comparisons with the analogous $π$ distributions, i.e. the one-dimensional maps that reveal how the light-front momentum of these states is shared amongst the gluons and quarks from which they are formed. The results should stimulate improved analyses of existing data and motivate new experiments sensitive to all $K$ and $π$ DFs.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Supplementary Figure 1 from Long-read sequencing reveals atypical mitochondrial genome structure in a New Zealand marine isopod
Creators: name: Pearman, William S.
name: Wells, Sarah J.
name: Dale, James
name: Silander, Olin K.
name: Freed, Nikki E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: Supplementary Figure 1 The currently known distribution of atypical mitochondrial (purple) across Isopoda at the family level. Purple indicates that for all species for which information is available, mitochondrial genomes are atypical in structure, while grey indicates they are typical. Families with purple and grey (in Cymothoidae and Ligiidae) indicate reports of both types of structure within the family. Green indicates that the taxon with the associated mitochondrial structure is terrestrial, red indicates freshwater, and blue indicates marine. This tree reflects the relationships based on Fig. S4 from (Lins et al., 2017), based on the nuclear 18S, 28S and mitochondrial COI genes. This tree was selected based on the wide taxonomic breadth, however recent studies using nuclear markers suggest Tylidae should be placed within the Oniscidea suborder (Becking et al., 2017). This is reflected above using dashed lines to indicate the potential positions of Tylidae. Sphaeromatidae, in bold, includes Isocladus armatus ¬– which is the focus of this investigation. The numbers on the right in bold indicate the number of taxa investigated for atypical mitochondrial structure
D2.3.24 – Provide information on dissemination, for example dissemination at workshops/conferences, articles for the EuroFIR website and scientific publications such as peer reviewed journals.
Creators: name: Khokhar, Dr Santosh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: NoE and NEXUS Projects
The EuroFIR Food Platform
EuroFIR

description: Information on dissemination, for example dissemination at workshops/conferences, articles for the EuroFIR website and scientific publications such as peer reviewed journals.
The Impact of Agricultural Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Synthesis of Symposium Findings
Creators: name: Oehmke, James F.
name: Crawford, Eric W.
name: Oehmke, James F.
name: Crawford, Eric W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: International Development
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The Symposium on the Impact of Technology on Agricultural Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa funded by AID/AFR/ARTS and AID/RD/EID under the Michigan State University Food Security Cooperative Agreements, was held in Washington, D.C., Oct. 14-16, 1992. A primary purpose of the symposium was to present evidence which would either confirm or contradict the perception that the accomplishments of TDT were insufficient to justify continued funding. A secondary objective was to consider the adequacy of available analytical tools for impact assessment. The rate of return (ROR) is the most commonly used valuative measure of investments in technology development and transfer. Examined as a group, the estimated RORs support the proposition that African agricultural research has had people-level impacts, and that these impacts are large enough to justify the level of investment that led to the impacts. An important part of the impact assessment story is the analysis of factors that had a positive or negative effect on the impact of TDT. Five major factors emerged from the studies presented and comments by symposium participants: agroclimatic conditions, civil unrest, research system performance, policy, and markets. Progress has been made in moving forward with the process of TDT, in spite of adverse conditions. This progress includes enhancing the capabilities of national, regional and international institutions to generate new techniques, pushing forward the technology frontier, transferring technology, and increasing productivity both in farm production and post-harvest activities. Activities such as structural adjustment, improvements in agricultural and macroeconomic policy, greater reliance on democracy and capitalism, investments in infrastructure, and a greater willingness to work with the private sector have increased the potential for TDT to have significant impact. Given the importance of raising productivity in agriculture as a step towards agricultural transformation, continued investment in agricultural TDT is merited. The evidence of impact achieved from previous investments shows that those investments have paid off. Coupled with the evidence of beneficial changes in the macroeconomic policy environment in many countries, this provides the basis for expecting that future investments will pay off. What is perhaps unique about the symposium is the movement towards a commodity sector perspective as the next logical step toward including more demand-side considerations in the TDT agenda.
Προσδιορισμός φυτοφαρμάκων σε βιολογικά δείγματα
Creators: name: Ταϊρη, Μαρία Ευθυμίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2025
Subjects: Φυτοπροστατευτικά προϊόντα
Βιολογικά Δείγματα
Οργανοφωσφωρικά
Καρβαμιδικά
Πυρεθροειδή
GC-MS
Pesticides
Biological Samples
Organophosphorus
Carbamates
Pyrethroids

description: Εξαιτίας της ευρείας χρήσης τους, οι δηλητηριάσεις από φυτοφάρμακα στις μέρες μας είναι, δεδομένης της σοβαρότητας τους, ένα κρίσιμο ζήτημα που διεγείρει ανησυχία τόσο σε πανελλαδικό όσο και σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο. Τα διαφόρων κατηγοριών φυτοπροστατευτικά προϊόντα, στα οποία ο άνθρωπος εκτίθεται μέσω διαφορετικών οδών και κάτω από διάφορες συνθήκες, μπορούν να προκαλέσουν στην υγεία του τόσο από ήπιες έως σοβαρές, όσο και από βραχυπρόθεσμες έως μακροπρόθεσμες συνέπειες. Συχνότερα και κρισιμότερα περιστατικά δηλητηριάσεων σε βάθος χρόνου, έχουν σημειωθεί σε ανθρώπους λόγω της έκθεσής τους, σκόπιμης ή τυχαίας, σε σημαντικές ποσότητες οργανοφωσφωρικών, καρβαμιδικών και πυρεθροειδών φυτοφαρμάκων, τα οποία δρουν με διαφορετικούς μηχανισμούς στον ανθρώπινο οργανισμό προκαλώντας ποικίλες επιδράσεις. Επομένως, η ανάπτυξη μεθόδων για τον γρήγορο και αξιόπιστο προσδιορισμό των εν λόγω ενώσεων σε ανθρώπινα υποστρώματα, γίνεται μία ολοένα και επιτακτικότερη ανάγκη στον τομέα της κλινικής, και όχι μόνον, τοξικολογίας. Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι η ανάδειξη των βασικότερων και συχνότερα εφαρμοζόμενων μεθόδων προσδιορισμού των κυριότερων φυτοφαρμάκων σε βιολογικά δείγματα και η παρουσίαση δύο υποθέσεων μελέτης που αφορούν σε περιστατικά οξείας δηλητηρίασης από φυτοφάρμακα.
description: Due their widespread use, pesticide poisoning has become, given its seriousness, a critical issue of concern both nationally and globally. The different types of pesticide products, to which humans are being exposed through different routes and under varying conditions, can cause health effects ranging from mild to severe and from short-term to long-term. Over the years, the most frequent and critical incidents of poisoning, have occurred in humans after intended or accidental exposure to significant quantities of organophosphorus, carbamate and pyrethroid pesticides, which act by different mechanisms within the human body causing a wide variety of impacts. Therefore, developing methods for the rapid and reliable determination of these compounds in human matrices is an increasingly urgent need in the field of clinic toxicology and beyond. The aim of this paper is to highlight the most common and frequently applied methods for the determination of the most toxic pesticides in biological samples and to present two case reports of acute pesticide poisoning cases.
Project Lyra: Catching 1I/'Oumuamua Using Nuclear Thermal Rockets
Creators: name: Hibberd, Adam
name: Hein, Andreas M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first definite interstellar object observed in our solar system was discovered in October of 2017 and was subsequently designated 1I/'Oumuamua. In addition to its extrasolar origin, observations and analysis of this object indicate some unusual features which can only be explained by in-situ exploration. For this purpose, various spacecraft intercept missions have been proposed. Their propulsion schemes have been chemical, exploiting a Jupiter and Solar Oberth Maneuver (mission duration of 22 years) and also using Earth-based lasers to propel laser sails (1-2 years), both with launch dates in 2030. For the former, mission durations are quite prolonged and for the latter, the necessary laser infrastructure may not be in place by 2030. In this study Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) is examined which has yet to materialise as far as real missions are concerned, but due to its research and development in the NASA Rover/NERVA programs, actually has a higher TRL than laser propulsion. Various solid reactor core options are studied, using either engines directly derived from the NASA programs, or more advanced options, like a proposed particle bed NTP system. With specific impulses at least twice those of chemical rockets, NTP opens the opportunity for much higher ΔV budgets, allowing simpler and more direct, time-saving trajectories to be exploited. For example a spacecraft with an upgraded NERVA/Pewee-class NTP travelling along an Earth-Jupiter-1I trajectory, would reach 1I/'Oumuamua within 14 years of a launch in 2031. The payload mass to 1I/'Oumuamua would be around 2.5metric tonnes, but even larger masses and shorter mission durations can be achieved with some of the more advanced NTP options studied. In all 4 different proposed NTP systems and 5 different trajectory scenarios are examined.
O'ZBYEKISTONDA OZIQ-OVQAT XAVFSIZLIGINING NAZARIY ASOSLARI VA UNI TA'MINLAShNING USTUVOR YO'NALIShLARI
Creators: name: Sheraliev, Xayitali
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Prezidentimizning 2018 yil 16 yanvardagi “Mamlakatning oziq-ovqat xavfsizligini yanada ta’minlash chora-tadbirlari to‘g‘risida”gi farmoniga muvofiq, oziq ovqat xavfsizligini ta’minlash, bozorni sifatli, xavfsiz va arzon mahsulotlar bilan to‘ldirish, aholining xarid imkoniyatini mustahkamlash, tashqi iqtisodiy faoliyatni liberallashtirish va sog‘lom raqobat muhitini rivojlantirish bo‘yicha ustuvor vazifalar belgilangan. Shu asosida yurtimizda talab yuqori bo‘lgan oziq-ovqat tovarlarini import qilishda to‘siq va cheklovlarni bartaraf etish, tashqi iqtisodiy faoliyat sub’ektlari huquqlarini himoya qilish kafolatlarini kuchaytirish bo‘yicha izchil chora-tadbirlar amalga oshirilmoqda.
Additional file 1 of Within-family plasticity of nervous system architecture in Syllidae (Annelida, Errantia)
Creators: name: Schmidbaur, Hannah
name: Schwaha, Thomas
name: Franzkoch, Rico
name: Purschke, Günter
name: Steiner, Gerhard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1 Figure S1. Schematic phylogenetic tree of Syllidae, species for which data were obtained, anterior and segmental innervation in each subfamily. Asterisks indicate a character observed in at least one, but not all of the species in a subfamily. Fine innervation patterns only observed in some of the species are omitted. Details on the distribution of somata of the nervous system and of the nuchal organ can only be given for Exogoninae and Syllinae, as histological data is missing in the other subfamilies. Information about Nereididae combined from [10, 11, 25, 37, 72, 79]. Other families of the Phyllodocida were omitted for better readability. Abbreviations: mn – main nerve, mvn – median ventral nerve, pmn – paramedian nerve, I - IV – segmental neurite bundles.