cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Towards a network governance of European lifelong learning: a structural analysis of Commission expert groups
Creators: name: Milana, Marcella
name: Gosia Klatt
name: Tronca, Luigi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: The influence of the European Commission (EC) expert groups on policy coordination within the European Union has received a growing interest among researchers, who have assessed their role in policy-making processes, their participation patterns, their transparency, and their knowledge-generating process. This article interrogates the structural configuration of the networks, and the relationships between the actors, formed through the Commission expert groups on adult learning, and under the Education and Training 2020 work programme, respectively, by means of a Social Network Analysis. So attention is paid on the mutual-constitutivness of a social network and its members, or the potential power within a network, and of a network, to influence member states’ domestic adaptation of communitarian policies. Our analysis points at noticeable differences between the connectivity of each of the Commission expert groups, and the groups emerging from the two forms of network governance these produce in the adult learning, and education and training domains. A key result, however, is that two actors (i.e. Flemish Department for Education and Training, Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland) stand out as fully embedded in both forms of network governance, and represent highly connected ‘informal’ brokers across policy domains.
Hyalochiton multiseriatus
Creators: name: Montemayor, I.
name: Linnavuori, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Hyalochiton
Hyalochiton multiseriatus

description: Hyalochiton multiseriatus (Reuter, 1888)
 Distribution in Iran. Iran (no locality) (Péricart & Golub 1996); Khuzestan (Linnavuori 2011).
 General distribution. Syrio-Anatolian, known from Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, and Syria (Péricart & Golub 1996).
description: Published as part of Montemayor, I. & Linnavuori, E., 2012, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 22-39 in Zootaxa 3207 on page 29
Form Factor of a Quantum Graph in a Weak Magnetic Field
Creators: name: Nagao, Taro
name: Saito, Keiji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using periodic orbit theory, we evaluate the form factor of a quantum graph to which a very weak magnetic field is applied. The first correction to the diagonal approximation describing the transition between the universality classes is shown to be in agreement with Pandey and Mehta's formula of parametric random matrix theory.
description: LaTeX, 7 pages, no figure
Philonotis caespitosa Jur.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryales
Bartramiaceae
Philonotis
Philonotis caespitosa

description: Philonotis caespitosa Jur.
RECORDS. — Pierrot (2000): Environs de Blida, gorges de l’oued el Kébir. Boukhatem et al. (2017): El-Kala National Park, Tonga lake watershed. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 89, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Dictyla platyoma
Creators: name: Montemayor, I.
name: Linnavuori, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Dictyla
Dictyla platyoma

description: Dictyla platyoma (Fieber, 1861)
 Distribution in Iran. Golestan (Heiss 2002).
 General distribution. From Central Europe and Balkan Peninsula to Central Asia and Russian Far East, also known from Cyprus; record from Egypt seems doubtful (Péricart & Golub 1996).
description: Published as part of Montemayor, I. & Linnavuori, E., 2012, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 22-39 in Zootaxa 3207 on page 27
Particles in turbulent separated flow over a bump: effect of the Stokes number and lift force
Creators: name: Mollicone, Jean-Paul
name: Sharifi, Mahshid
name: Battista, Francesco
name: Gualtieri, Paolo
name: Casciola, Carlo Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Particle-laden turbulent flow that separates due to a bump inside a channel is simulated to analyse the effects of the Stokes number and the lift force on the particle spatial distribution. The fluid friction Reynolds number is approximately 900 over the bump, the highest achieved for similar computational domains. A range of particle Stokes numbers are considered, each simulated with and without the lift force in the particle dynamic equation. When the lift force is included a significant difference in the particle concentration, in the order of thousands, is observed in comparison with cases where the lift force is omitted. The greatest deviation is in regions of high vorticity, particularly at the walls and in the shear layer but results show that the concentration also changes in the bulk of the flow away from the walls. The particle behaviour changes drastically when the Stokes number is varied. As the Stokes number increases, particles bypass the recirculating region that is formed after the bump and their redistribution is mostly affected by the strong shear layer. Particles segregate at the walls and particularly accumulate in secondary recirculating regions behind the bump. At higher Stokes numbers, the particles create reflection layers of high concentration due to their inertia as they are diverted by the bump. The fluid flow is less influential and this enables the particles to enter the recirculating region by rebounding off walls and create a focus of high particle concentration.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Physics of Fluids
Induced correlations and rupture of molecular chaos by anisotropic dissipative Janus hard disks
Creators: name: Lasanta, Antonio
name: Torrente, Aurora
name: de Haro, Mariano Lopez
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A system of smooth "frozen" Janus-type disks is studied. Such disks cannot rotate and are divided by their diameter into two sides of different inelasticities. Taking as a reference a system of colored elastic disks, we find differences in the behavior of the collisions once the anisotropy is included. A homogeneous state, akin to the homogeneous cooling state of granular gases, is seen to arise and the singular behavior of both the collisions and the precollisional correlations are highlighted.
The Mass Function of Field Galaxies at 0.4 < z < 1.2 Derived From the MUNICS K-Selected Sample
Creators: name: Drory, N.
name: Bender, R.
name: Snigula, J.
name: Feulner, G.
name: Hopp, U.
name: Maraston, C.
name: Hill, G. J.
name: de Oliveira, C. Mendes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the number density evolution of massive field galaxies in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 1.2 using the K-band selected field galaxy sample from the Munich Near-IR Cluster Survey (MUNICS). We rely on spectroscopically calibrated photometric redshifts to determine distances and absolute magnitudes in the rest-frame K-band. To assign mass-to-light ratios, we use two different approaches. First, we use an approach which maximizes the stellar mass for any K-band luminosity at any redshift. We take the mass-to-light ratio of a Simple Stellar Population (SSP) which is as old as the universe at the galaxy's redshift as a likely upper limit. Second, we assign each galaxy a mass-to-light ratio by fitting the galaxy's colours against a grid of composite stellar population models and taking their M/L. We compute the number density of galaxies more massive than 2 x 10^10 h^-2 Msun, 5 x 10^10 h^-2 Msun, and 1 x 10^11 h^-2 Msun, finding that the integrated stellar mass function is roughly constant for the lowest mass limit and that it decreases with redshift by a factor of ~ 3 and by a factor of ~ 6 for the two higher mass limits, respectively. This finding is in qualitative agreement with models of hierarchical galaxy formation, which predict that the number density of ~ M* objects is fairly constant while it decreases faster for more massive systems over the redshift range our data probe.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the ESO/USM Workshop "The Mass of Galaxies at Low and High Redshift", Venice (Italy), October 24-26, 2001
Factors associated with chest injuries to front seat occupants in frontal impacts
Creators: name: Karthikeyan Ekambaram
name: Frampton, Richard
name: Lenard, James
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Objective: Frontal impact chest protection in European cars has been highlighted as an area where possible improvements could be made. The chest is particularly vulnerable in older occupants whose numbers are forecast to increase significantly in the coming decades. This study aimed to provide some direction to areas for possible improvements in frontal crash chest protection. Methods: Real-world crash injury data were interrogated, focusing on cars with current restraint components. The research examined belted front seat occupants in frontal impacts where airbags, pretensioners, and load limiters were present. Results: The chest was the most often injured body region at Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) 2+, 3+, and 4+ injury levels. The rate of AIS 2+ and AIS 3+ chest injuries was highest among elderly occupants and lowest among young occupants, and elderly occupants sustained proportionally more severe chest injuries in low/moderate-speed impacts compared to young and middle-aged occupants. However, it should be noted that rates of AIS 2 chest injury were also significantly higher for middle-aged occupants compared to the young. The front passenger seat was shown to be more often associated with significant chest injury than the driver seat. The higher proportion of elderly female occupants was postulated as a reason for this. Skeletal injury was the most frequent type of AIS 2+ chest injury, and the rate of injury for elderly occupants with such injuries was higher than that for young and middle-aged occupants. With the increase in the number of rib fractures, the risk of pulmonary complications and organ injuries tended to increase. The major cause of chest injury was identified as restraining loads transmitted to the chest via the seat belt. The absence of intrusion in the majority of cases suggests an opportunity for the restraint system to better manage the crash pulse, not only for elderly occupants but for those who are middle-aged as well. Conclusions: This study shows the necessity for safety interventions, through new vehicle crashworthiness systems, to improve chest protection, especially for middle-aged and elderly car occupants. Deployment of appropriate injury risk criteria, use of an appropriate dummy thorax, development of a low-energy restraint test, and the development of more adaptive restraints have been discussed as possible solutions to the problem.
Dictyonota strichnocera Fieber 1844
Creators: name: Montemayor, I.
name: Linnavuori, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Dictyonota
Dictyonota strichnocera

description: Dictyonota strichnocera Fieber, 1844
 Distributon in Iran. Hamadan (Samin et al. 2011), North Iran (Putchkov 1974), Iran (no locality cited) (Péricart1983; Péricart & Golub 1996).
 General distribution. European, extending to Asian Turkey, Asian part of Kazakhstan, and Iran (Péricart & Golub 1996).
description: Published as part of Montemayor, I. & Linnavuori, E., 2012, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 22-39 in Zootaxa 3207 on page 28
Cut-based matheuristic algorithms to detect tacit collusion in deregulated electricity markets
Creators: name: Elhüseyni, Murat
name: Celebi, Emre
name: Şahin, Güvenç
name: Torkayesh, Ali Ebadi
name: Yılmaz, Elif
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2025
Subjects: Space Science
Pharmacology
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Information Systems not elsewhere classified
Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: In deregulated electricity markets, the trading mechanism aims at maintaining competition among generator companies to enable just and affordable electricity prices. The relationship between generators and Independent System Operator (ISO) can be considered as a Stackelberg game formulated as a bi-level optimization problem where each generator maximizes its profit at the upper level, while ISO minimizes the cost of generation for market clearing at the lower level. Theoretically, the market is considered to be in a Nash equilibrium state under an ideal level of competition. Yet, generators could collude tacitly to obtain larger profits than they would have obtained from the largest payoff in a Nash equilibrium. In order to detect such collusions, we consider a non-linear bi-level problem formulation. The original bi-level formulation is reformulated using two alternative mixed integer linear programming formulations utilizing the linear programming property of the lower level and various linearization methods. Besides a total enumaration algorithm (based on a trivial but computationally expensive method) to detect collusions, we develop matheuristic algorithms relying on adding cuts, identification of Nash equilibrium state, partial enumeration methods and their combinations. The performance of the algorithms is compared with each other based on their capacity in identifying collusive states and the required computational effort.
title: Funkia :
title: Principes directeurs pour la conduite de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité.
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: International Union For The Protection Of New Varieties Of Plants,
Publisher: name: International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants,
Year: 0
Subjects: Plants
New Varieties of Plants
Funkia

description: Ces principes directeurs (“principes directeurs d’examen”) visent à approfondir les principes énoncés dans l’introduction générale (document TG/1/3) et dans les documents TGP qui s’y rapportent afin de donner des indications concrètes détaillées pour l’harmonisation de l’examen de la distinction, de l’homogénéité et de la stabilité (DHS) et, en particulier, à identifier des caractères convenant à l’examen DHS et à la production de descriptions variétales harmonisées.
Galeatus cellularis Jakovlev 1884
Creators: name: Montemayor, I.
name: Linnavuori, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Galeatus
Galeatus cellularis

description: Galeatus cellularis Jakovlev, 1884
 Distribution in Iran. Semnan (Golub 1974b), Iran (no locality cited) (Péricart 1983; Péricart & Golub 1996).
 General distribution. Ukraine, European and Asian part of Kazakhstan, Asian Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia and Mongolia (Péricart & Golub 1996).
description: Published as part of Montemayor, I. & Linnavuori, E., 2012, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Tingidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), pp. 22-39 in Zootaxa 3207 on page 28
Maternal cholecalciferol supplementation during gestation improves antioxidant capacities in gilts and piglets
Creators: name: Zhao, Lianpeng
name: Mao, Zhengyu
name: Mou, Daolin
name: Huang, Long
name: Yang, Min
name: Ding, Dajing
name: Yan, Hui
name: Fang, Zhengfeng
name: Che, Lianqiang
name: Zhuo, Yong
name: Jiang, Xuemei
name: Xu, Shengyu
name: Lin, Yan
name: Li, Jian
name: Huang, Chao
name: Zou, Yuanfeng
name: Li, Lixia
name: Wu, De
name: Feng, Bin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Mental Health

description: Various studies have evaluated the relationship between cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) and reproductive performance. This study aimed at investigating the effects of maternal D3 supplementation during gestation on reproductive performance and antioxidant capacities of gilts and their offsprings. Twenty-three Landrace × Yorkshire gilts were randomly allocated into two groups and fed on one of the following two diets during gestation: control diet or D3 supplemented diet. It was found that D3 supplementation had a tendency to increase the number of total born and born alive piglets. Moreover, it elevated serum 25-hydroxycholecalciferol concentrations in gilts and newborn piglets. Besides, D3 supplementation improved the activities of antioxidant enzymes (GSH-Px, T-AOC and T-SOD) in the blood of gilts, umbilical cord and newborn piglets and piglets’ liver, while serum malondialdehyde concentrations of gilts and umbilical cord were reduced in the D3 group. In addition, D3 supplementation upregulated the expression of antioxidant related genes in the placenta and piglets’ liver. In conclusion, D3 supplementation during gestation might improve antioxidant capacities in gilts, placenta and in newborn piglets. Therefore, D3 supplementation has the potential to enhance the reproductive performance of gilts.HIGHLIGHTSD3 supplementation has a significant role in the nutrition of gilts.Maternal D3 supplementation during gestation increased the number of born and born alive piglets.Maternal D3 supplementation during gestation improved the antioxidant capacities of gilts, placenta and newborn piglets. D3 supplementation has a significant role in the nutrition of gilts. Maternal D3 supplementation during gestation increased the number of born and born alive piglets. Maternal D3 supplementation during gestation improved the antioxidant capacities of gilts, placenta and newborn piglets.
Institutional shifts and landscape change: the impact of the Período Especial on Cuba’s land system architecture
Creators: name: Stuhlmacher, Michelle
name: B.L. Turner II
name: Frazier, Amy E.
name: Yushim Kim
name: Leffel, Jessica
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Formal institutions, especially policies, play a key role in land system change. Compared to other drivers of change, however, the impact of policies on landscapes is under-addressed in land system science, in part due to difficulties isolating their effect on longitudinal land change. We address this gap by examining land system architecture changes in Cuba brought about by the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and the resulting economic crisis: El Período Especial (‘Special Period’). Employing a satellite imagery time-series alongside a review of policy documents, we identify statistically significant land system changes linked to the era’s institutional shifts. We find that concentrated policy efforts to transform agriculture and protect forests corresponded to considerable changes for agriculture but minimal changes to forests. Some changes resulting from the institutional shifts of the Período Especial became visible in the landscape as soon as a few years, while others took decades to manifest.
Particle-vortex dynamics in noncommutative space
Creators: name: Correa, D. H.
name: Lozano, G. S.
name: Moreno, E. F.
name: Schaposnik, F. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the problem of a charged particle in the presence of a uniform magnetic field plus a vortex in noncommutative planar space considering the two possible non-commutative extensions of the corresponding Hamiltonian, namely the ``fundamental'' and the ``antifundamental'' representations. Using a Fock space formalism we construct eigenfunctions and eigenvalues finding in each case half of the states existing in the ordinary space case. In the limit of $θ\to 0$ we recover the two classes of states found in ordinary space, relevant for the study of anyon physics.
description: 13 pages, no figures, plain LaTeX. References added
Philonotis calcarea Schimp.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryales
Bartramiaceae
Philonotis
Philonotis calcarea

description: Philonotis calcarea (Bruch & Schimp.) Schimp.
RECORDS. — Bescherelle (1882): Atlas; Constantine; Djurjura. Bescherelle (1882), Litschauer (1904), Jelenc (1955a): Cascades de la Chiffa. Bescherelle (1882), Jelenc (1955a): Blidah, les Deux-Frères; Bône; Kabylie des Babor, djebel Tababor; Oran. Trabut (1887a): D’Oran à Mécheria. Corbière (1889): Blida, Fontaine-Fraîche. Corbière (1889), Litschauer (1904), Jelenc (1955a): Blida, l’oued Sidi-el-Kebir, 200 m. Julien (1894): Région de Constantine. Jelenc (1949, 1967): Monts de Tlemcen, cirque d’el Ourit au pied de la cascade supérieure. Jelenc (1951, 1967): Haute plaine de Tlemcen, cascades de l’oued bou Ennag à la traversée des collines des Beni Mester, 500 m. Jelenc (1953): Aizer, dans uns source en contre-bas du chemin Lapie, 1800 m; Aurès, flanc sud du Chélia, dans l’oued Tacherchar, 1700 m; Bèlezma, suintement d’une source ad Chellala, 1800 m; Flanc nord du djebel Pharaoun, dans les torrents près d’Aïn Mimoun. Jelenc (1953, 1967): Djurdjura, Dra Inguel, au-dessous de Tizi Toumdelt, 1600 m. Jelenc (1954b, 1967): Massif du Djurdjura, en contre-bas du lac Goulmine, 1600 m. Jelenc (1955a): Djebel Dira; Kabylie des Babor, Aït Embarek; Kabylie des Babor, Sebt des Beni Sliman; Kabylie du Djudjura, Aït Ali; Kabylie du Djudjura, Aït Daoud; Kabylie du Djudjura, djebel Gouraya; Kabylie du Djudjura, gorges de l’oued Isser; Kabylie du Djudjura, Tirourda; Monts de Constantine. Mazari & Boulaacheb (2023): Setif, Megriss Mountain. Common.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 89, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Optimal compressive multiphoton imaging at depth using single-pixel detection
Creators: name: Wijesinghe, Philip
name: Escobet-Montalbán, Adrià
name: Chen, Mingzhou
name: Munro, Peter R T
name: Dholakia, Kishan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Compressive sensing can overcome the Nyquist criterion and record images with a fraction of the usual number of measurements required. However, conventional measurement bases are susceptible to diffraction and scattering, prevalent in high-resolution microscopy. Here, we explore the random Morlet basis as an optimal set for compressive multiphoton imaging, based on its ability to minimise the space-frequency uncertainty. We implement this approach for the newly developed method of wide-field multiphoton microscopy with single-pixel detection (TRAFIX), which allows imaging through turbid media without correction. The Morlet basis is well-suited to TRAFIX at depth, and promises a route for rapid acquisition with low photodamage.
Photo-responsive azo-functionalised flexible polymer substrate for liquid crystal alignment
Creators: name: B. Sivaranjini
name: K. Mohana
name: S. Esakkimuthu
name: V. Ganesh
name: S. Umadevi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: An azobenzene derivative containing a dimethylchlorosilane end group was chemically attached to a flexible polymer substrate to create permanent photo alignment layer. The commercially obtained polymer substrate (overhead projector film) was characterised and found to contain cellulose acetate as the main component. Surface functionalization of the substrate was confirmed through X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), attenuated total reflectance fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy, water contact angle (CA) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) techniques. Photo-isomerisation behaviour of the azo-layer on the polymer substrate was additionally confirmed by UV-diffuse reflection spectroscopy (UV-DRS). Further, the azo-modified flexible substrate was analysed for the orientation of the bulk liquid crystal (LC) sample and tuning the LC orientation by utilising photo-switching behaviour of the azo-layer on the substrate.
Preparation and properties of 1-methyl-1H-benzimidazole-based mesogenic compounds incorporating ethynyl moiety
Creators: name: Jiazhen Dang
name: Shenghua Du
name: Liyuan Ren
name: Mengting Zhang
name: Chen, Pei
name: Aiai Gao
name: Weisong Du
name: Xinbing Chen
name: Zhongwei An
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
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: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Heterocyclic mesogenic compounds are one of the interesting liquid crystals. Here, a series of 1-methyl-1H- benzimidazole-based mesogenic compounds incorporating ethynyl moiety, 2-[4-[2-[4-(alkoxy)phenyl]ethynyl]phenyl]-1-methyl-1H-1,3-benzimidazole derivatives (nPEPMx) with terminal groups of H, CH3 and NO2 (coded as nPEPMH, nPEPMM and nPEPMN, respectively), are synthesised and their properties are evaluated. It is noted that the compounds nPEPMx with short alkoxy chain less than 9 carbon atoms display enantiotropic nematic mesophases, whereas corresponding reference compounds without ethynyl moiety have enantiotropic smectic mesophases. The mesophase ranges of compounds nPEPMx 50–70°C and 55–108°C on heating and cooling for nPEPMH, 76–106°C and 98–142°C for nPEPMM, and 78–132°C and 130–166°C for nPEPMN, respectively. Besides, compounds nPEPMx show obviously large birefringence of 0.501–0.641, suggesting a potential application in liquid crystal mixture. The high birefringence may result from its large π-conjugated molecule structure incorporating ethynyl and benzimidazole π-conjugated mesogenic unit.
Non-adiabatic corrections to elastic scattering of halo nuclei
Creators: name: Summers, N. C.
name: Al-Khalili, J. S.
name: Johnson, R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the formalism for the leading order corrections to the adiabatic approximation to the scattering of composite projectiles. Assuming a two-body projectile of core plus loosely-bound valence particle and a model (the core recoil model) in which the interaction of the valence particle and the target can be neglected, we derive the non-adiabatic correction terms both exactly, using a partial wave analysis, and using the eikonal approximation. Along with the expected energy dependence of the corrections, there is also a strong dependence on the valence-to-core mass ratio and on the strength of the imaginary potential for the core-target interaction, which relates to absorption of the core in its scattering by the target. The strength and diffuseness of the core-target potential also determine the size of the corrections. The first order non-adiabatic corrections were found to be smaller than qualitative estimates would expect. The large absorption associated with the core-target interaction in such halo nuclei as Be11 kills off most of the non-adiabatic corrections. We give an improved estimate for the range of validity of the adiabatic approximation when the valence-target interaction is neglected, which includes the effect of core absorption. Some consideration was given to the validity of the eikonal approximation in our calculations.
description: 14 pages with 10 figures, REVTeX4, AMS-LaTeX v2.13, submitted to Phys. Rev. C
Safety and Privacy for Online Sex Workers
Creators: name: Teela Sanders
name: Campbell, Rosie
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Beyond the Gaze (BtG) was a three-year study of the safety and working conditions of online sex work in the UK and is the largest study to date of this sector. By online we mean those who use digital technology to run their business and specifically to safety screen and protect their privacy. You might be an independent escort (in call or out call), pro dom, pro sub, webcammer or agency worker. Whilst the following information is primarily for those who offer face-to-face services, the safety and privacy tips can also be helpful to other sectors of the industry. We also have a section on camming. Please share with other sex workers posting a link to this PDF on forums or send to other sex workers you know, especially those who are new to sex work. Maybe you work with someone whose first language isn’t English, you might want to share some of this safety information with them, sharing our Romanian and Portuguese language flyers, available free online https://www.beyond-the-gaze.com/safety-info/
Experimental simultaneous read out of the real and imaginary parts of the weak value
Creators: name: Hariri, A.
name: Curic, D.
name: Giner, L.
name: Lundeen, J. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The weak value, the average result of a weak measurement, has proven useful for probing quantum and classical systems. Examples include the amplification of small signals, investigating quantum paradoxes, and elucidating fundamental quantum phenomena such as geometric phase. A key characteristic of the weak value is that it can be complex, in contrast to a standard expectation value. However, typically only either the real or imaginary component of the weak value is determined in a given experimental setup. Weak measurements can be used to, in a sense, simultaneously measure non-commuting observables. This principle was used in the direct measurement of the quantum wavefunction. However, the wavefunction's real and imaginary components, given by a weak value, are determined in different setups or on separate ensembles of systems, putting the procedure's directness in question. To address these issues, we introduce and experimentally demonstrate a general method to simultaneously read out both components of the weak value in a single experimental apparatus. In particular, we directly measure the polarization state of an ensemble of photons using weak measurement. With our method, each photon contributes to both the real and imaginary parts of the weak-value average. On a fundamental level, this suggests that the full complex weak value is a characteristic of each photon measured.
Research of Farmland Quality Evaluation Based on Land Consolidation——A Case Study of Land Consolidation Project in Mofang Village, Daixian County, Shanxi Province
Creators: name: WANG, Yuan
name: LIU, Jingliang
name: WANG, Yuan
name: LIU, Jingliang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Daixian County
subject: Land consolidation
subject: Farmland quality
subject: Evaluation

description: Taking land consolidation project in Mofang Village of Daixian County as an example, on the basis of counting natural and utilization grades before and after farmland consolidation, farmland quality in the project region after the consolidation is evaluated.
Philonotis capillaris Lindb.
Creators: name: Ros, Rosa M.
name: Olaf, Susana Rams
name: Eloy, Olaf Werner
name: Cerón, Eloy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Bryophyta
Bryopsida
Bryales
Bartramiaceae
Philonotis
Philonotis capillaris

description: Philonotis capillaris Lindb.
RECORDS. — Litschauer (1904), Jelenc (1955a): Fort National und Michelet, 1000-1200 m. Jelenc (1951, 1967): Monts de Tlemcen, Oued Khémis près du village du Khémis, 800 m. Boukhatem et al. (2017): El-Kala National Park, Tonga lake watershed. Rare.
description: Published as part of Ros, Rosa M., Olaf, Susana Rams, Eloy, Olaf Werner & Cerón, Eloy, 2024, Revisiting the Bryophyte Checklist of Algeria: Exploring Diversity and Distribution, pp. 49-116 in Cryptogamie, Bryologie 20 (5) on page 89, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-bryologie2024v45a5, http://zenodo.org/record/14593891
Inclined turbulent thermal convection in liquid sodium
Creators: name: Zwirner, Lukas
name: Khalilov, Ruslan
name: Kolesnichenko, Ilya
name: Mamykin, Andrey
name: Mandrykin, Sergei
name: Pavlinov, Alexander
name: Shestakov, Alexander
name: Teimurazov, Andrei
name: Frick, Peter
name: Shishkina, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inclined turbulent thermal convection by large Rayleigh numbers in extremely small-Prandtl-number fluids is studied based on results of both, measurements and high-resolution numerical simulations. The Prandtl number $Pr\approx0.0093$ considered in the experiments and the Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) and $Pr=0.0094$ considered in the Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) correspond to liquid sodium, which is used in the experiments. Also similar are the studied Rayleigh numbers, which are, respectively, $Ra=1.67\times10^7$ in the DNS, $Ra=1.5\times10^7$ in the LES and $Ra=1.42\times10^7$ in the measurements. The working convection cell is a cylinder with equal height and diameter, where one circular surface is heated and another one is cooled. The cylinder axis is inclined with respect to the vertical and the inclination angle varies from $β=0^\circ$, which corresponds to a Rayleigh-Bénard configuration (RBC), to $β=90^\circ$, as in a vertical convection (VC) setup. The turbulent heat and momentum transport as well as time-averaged and instantaneous flow structures and their evolution in time are studied in detail, for different inclination angles, and are illustrated also by supplementary videos, obtained from the DNS and experimental data. To investigate the scaling relations of the mean heat and momentum transport in the limiting cases of RBC and VC configurations, additional measurements are conducted for about one decade of the Rayleigh numbers around $Ra=10^7$ and $Pr\approx0.009$. With respect to the turbulent heat transport in inclined thermal convection by low $Pr$, a similarity of the global flow characteristics for the same value of $RaPr$ is proposed and analysed, based on the above simulations and measurements and on complementary DNS for $Ra=1.67\times10^6$, $Pr=0.094$ and $Ra=10^9$, $Pr=1$.
Practice guidance for working with online sex workers
Creators: name: Teela Sanders
name: Campbell, Rosie
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: As well as being informed by findings from the Beyond the Gaze (BtG) surveys of projects, sex worker survey and interviews, this guidance has been shaped by practices and experiences shared by a range of individual and organisations. This has included discussion and consultation within the BtG and National Ugly Mugs (NUM) Practitioners Group. Thanks to all those who have taken part in that group which first met in September 2015, all have contributed by sharing practice and thoughts which have shaped this guidance. Big thanks to NUM who have been a partner in the research and supported the project in a range of ways. Thanks to those online sex workers, who cannot be named for matters of privacy and confidentiality, but who contributed to this guidance, took part in BtG research interviews and the larger sex worker survey.This practice guidance is based on the collective practice & knowledge shared by all those individuals and organisations who took part in the research about their experiences of working in the online sector. In the spirit of not reinventing the wheel we refer to and flag up some existing information and guidance resources. Working within the confines of word limits this guidance is unable to do full justice to all the information and practice shared, but it does highlight some key learning points from BtG which practitioners may choose to consider in their work.Aims of the guidance:To share key learning from BtG about the support needs of online sex workers (OLSWs).To offer guidance about providing information and support services for OLSWs, including netreach methods.To provide information about other existing relevant guidance and resources.
Interplay between various crystalline and hexatic-B phases in 75OBC liquid crystal: X-ray diffraction and calorimetry study
Creators: name: Voronov, Vitaliy P.
name: Muratov, Andrey R.
name: Sulyanov, Sergey N.
name: Molodenskiy, Dmitry S.
name: Dorovatovskii, Pavel V.
name: Grebenev, Vadim V.
name: Ostrovskii, Boris I.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: X-ray diffraction and high-resolution adiabatic calorimetry have been used to study the polymorphic behaviour of 75OBC liquid crystal. On heating of 75OBC from the room temperature, the crystal phase (Cr-I) melts directly to smectic A (Sm-A) and then to isotropic phase. On cooling from isotropic phase the 75OBC undergoes successive transitions to Sm-A, hexatic B (Hex-B), crystalline (Cr-II) phases, and next to another crystal phase – Cr-III. The latter two crystalline phases were shown to relax slowly to Cr-I phase, which is stable at low temperatures. X-ray data indicate that the Cr-II phase possesses orthorhombic lattice with herringbone in-plane order of the molecules (Cr-E). The Cr-I and Cr-III phases belong to different low symmetry monoclinic lattices. Our results demonstrate a complex polymorphism of 75OBC compound: the thermodynamic pathway that involves monotropic Hex-B and orthorhombic Cr-E phases corresponds to a local thermodynamic minimum, while the other ones showing melting from the Cr-I to Sm-A phase belongs to the global minimum. The similar thermal behaviour was observed for other members of nmOBC homologous series, possessing a Sm-A – Hex-B – Cr-E phase sequence on cooling. The 75OBC polymorphic behaviour is discussed in terms of molecular packing and stability of Cr-E orthorhombic lattice that precedes the transition to the Hex-B phase.
Formation of supermassive primordial black holes by Affleck-Dine mechanism
Creators: name: Kawasaki, Masahiro
name: Murai, Kai
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 supermassive black holes (SMBHs) observed in the galactic centers. Although the origin of SMBHs has not been well understood yet, previous studies suggest that seed black holes (BHs) with masses $10^{4-5}M_\odot$ exist at a high redshift ($z \sim 10$). We examine whether primordial black holes (PBHs) produced by inhomogeneous baryogenesis can explain those seed black holes. The inhomogeneous baryogenesis is realized in the modified Affleck-Dine mechanism. In this scenario, there is no stringent constraint from CMB $μ$-distortion in contrast to the scenario where Gaussian fluctuations collapse into PBHs. It is found that the model can account for the origin of the seed BHs of the SMBHs.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures
Análise Antropológica do Material Osteológico proveniente do monumento megalítico Anta II de Rego da Murta, Alvaiázere (Leiria): caso de estudo de um indíviduo adulto com patologia traumática e sua relação com o contexto depositado.
Creators: name: Figueiredo, Alexandra
name: Alves, Daniel
name: Ferreira, Augusto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Alves, Daniel; Ferreira, Augusto, Figueiredo, Alexandra (2022). .Análise Antropológica do Material Osteológico proveniente do monumento megalítico Anta II de Rego da Murta, Alvaiázere (Leiria): caso de estudo de um indíviduo adulto com patologia traumática e sua relação com o contexto depositado.  In ANTROPE - Da Arte Rupestre ao ar livre ao mundo Contemorâneo, nº 14. ISSN 2183-1386. www.cta.ipt.pt. pp.122-141
Path Choice of Rural Land Transfer in China
Creators: name: DING, Yumin
name: LING, Ye
name: WU, Yang
name: DING, Yumin
name: LING, Ye
name: WU, Yang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural land transfer
subject: Transformation of homesteads
subject: Rural land collective property right system

description: Establishing rural land collective property right system with clear ownership, complete powers and functions, smooth transfer, and strict protection is the basic guarantee to the equal exchange of land elements. In this study, the reform of relevant legal systems to China’s rural land transfer was introduced firstly, and then the guiding ideology of China’s rural land transfer was proposed. Finally, the ways of practicing rural land transfer in China were discussed. Based on the premise of insisting on and improving the strictest land preservation system, farmers should have the right to occupy, use, and transfer their contracted land, and they can transfer their land contracting and management right in ways of exchange, subcontracting, renting, stock cooperation, and trust. Exploring the ways of equal exchange of land elements according to local conditions is an important political and economic issue concerning the livelihood and development of farmers in China, so it should be conducted under the guidance of the correct ideas to integrate scattered land in China’s rural areas, develop moderate-scale management, shorten the income gap between urban and rural areas, and realize balancing development of urban and rural areas in China.
Beyond the gaze briefings
Creators: name: Teela Sanders
name: Campbell, Rosie
name: Scoular, Jane
name: Pitcher, Jane
name: Cunningham, Stewart
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: These are the core findings from the project focusing on five key themes:1. overall findings2. mapping the internet sex industry3. findings for police4. findings for practitioners5. customers who pay for sex
Spatial Space and Plant Landscape Design of Urban Ecological Buildings
Creators: name: MIAO, Yue
name: CHEN, Xiaogang
name: MIAO, Yue
name: CHEN, Xiaogang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Ecological buildings
subject: Special space
subject: Greening design
subject: Plant landscape

description: This paper mainly discusses the application of plant landscape design in special space of ecological buildings. From the concept of special space of ecological buildings, it elaborates social benefits and ecological benefits of greening projects in special space. It introduces the classification method for special space of ecological building with habitat as the major part combining characteristics of building form. On the basis of such classification, it discusses green design method and plant selection principle, to provide certain reference for garden designers in green design of ecological buildings.
Asymptotic function for multi-growth surfaces using power-law noise
Creators: name: Katsuragi, H.
name: Honjo, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical simulations are used to investigate the multiaffine exponent $α_q$ and multi-growth exponent $β_q$ of ballistic deposition growth for noise obeying a power-law distribution. The simulated values of $β_q$ are compared with the asymptotic function $β_q = \frac{1}{q}$ that is approximated from the power-law behavior of the distribution of height differences over time. They are in good agreement for large $q$. The simulated $α_q$ is found in the range $\frac{1}{q} \leq α_q \leq \frac{2}{q+1}$. This implies that large rare events tend to break the KPZ universality scaling-law at higher order $q$.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. E