cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Intraspecific variation in environmental and geographic space use: insights from individual movement data
Creators: name: Bonnet-Lebrun, Anne-Sophie
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: migration
birds
individual variability
foraging strategies
space use
individual specialisation
site fidelity
residency
migration patterns
tracking data
ringing data
movement
ecology

description: Species’ ranges arise from the interplay between environmental preferences, biotic and abiotic environmental conditions, and accessibility. Understanding of – and predictive models on – species distributions often build from the assumption that these factors apply homogenously within each species, but there is growing evidence for individual variation. Here, I use movement data to investigate individual-level decisions and compromises regarding the different costs and benefits influencing individuals’ geographic locations, and the species-level spatial patterns that emerge from these. I first developed a new method that uses tracking data to quantify individual specialisation in geographic space (site fidelity) or in environmental space (environmental specialisation). Applying it to two species of albatrosses, I found evidence of site fidelity but weak environmental specialisation. My results have implications for how limited research efforts are best-targeted: if animals are generalists, effort are best spent by understanding in depth individual patterns, i.e., better to track fewer individuals for long periods of time; whereas if animals tend to be specialists, efforts should be dedicated to tracking as many individuals as possible, even if for shorter periods. I then investigated individual migratory strategies and their drivers in nine North American bird species, using ringing/recovery data. I found latitudinal redistribution of individuals within the breeding and non-breeding ranges that generally did not follow textbook patterns (‘chain migration’ or ‘leapfrog migration’). Migratory individuals tend to trade off the benefits of migration (better tracking of climatic niche; better access to resources) and its costs (increasing with migratory distance). I found that birds are more likely to remain as residents in areas with warmer winter temperatures, higher summer resource surpluses and higher human population densities (presumably because of a buffering effect of urban areas). Overall, my results highlight the importance of considering individual variation to understanding the ecological processes underpinning species’ spatial patterns.
description: St John's College Benefactors' Scholarship Cambridge Philosophical Society
Comprehensive Evaluation of New Self-cultivated Sugarcane Lines by Grey Relational Analysis
Creators: name: Ma, Wenqing
name: Guo, Qiang
name: Wei, Chizhang
name: Li, Hengrui
name: Peng, Chong
name: Liang, Zhenhua
name: Ma, Wenqing
name: Guo, Qiang
name: Wei, Chizhang
name: Li, Hengrui
name: Peng, Chong
name: Liang, Zhenhua
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Sugarcane
subject: Grey relational analysis
subject: Lines
subject: Comprehensive evaluation

description: The grey relational analysis (GRA) was used to evaluate the 10 sugarcane lines by 13 main agronomic characters. The result showed that the grey correlation degree of self-cultivated lines GNY08-320 (0.7502), GNY08-336 (0.7409), GNY08-186 (0.7369), and GNY08-225 (0.7277) were higher than ROC22 (CK), so the 4 lines can be further tested, and the others were worse than CK that should be further observed or eliminated.
Modeling Core-Collapse Supernovae in 3-Dimensions
Creators: name: Fryer, C. L.
name: Warren, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first complete 3-dimensional simulations of the core-collapse of a massive star from the onset of collapse to the resultant supernova explosion. We compare the structure of the convective instabilities that occur in 3-dimensional models with those of past 2-dimensional simulations. Although the convective instabilities are clearly 3-dimensional in nature, we find that both the size-scale of the flows and the net enhancement to neutrino heating does not differ greatly between 2- and 3-dimensional models. The explosion energy, explosion timescale, and remnant mass does not differ by more than 10% between 2- and 3-dimensional simulations.
description: 5 pages text, 3 separate figures (see http://qso.lanl.gov/~clf for more info), accepted by ApJ
Tectonic setting of late Cambrian to early Ordovician meta-tuffs in Kanchanaburi Province, Western Thailand
Creators: name: Suwijai Jatupohnkhongchai
Publisher: name: Department of Mineral Resources of Thailand
Year: 2022
Subjects: Silurian-Devonian unit
Sibumasu Terrane
Volcanic arc
Late Cambrian-early Ordovician tuff
Proto-Tethys ocean

description: Thai Geoscience Journal, 3, 3, 20-31
MOESM1 of Rapid diagnostics of orthopedic implant-associated infections using Unyvero ITI implant and tissue infection application is not optimal for Staphylococcus species identification
Creators: name: Aamot, Hege
name: BjĂ¸Rn Johnsen
name: SkrĂĽmm, Inge
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Details of criteria fulfilment for orthopaedic implant-associated infection (OIAI) on the included 15 patients based on the criteria described by Parvizi and co-workers [6].
Late Triassic freshwater conchostracan, ostracods, and stromatolites from Huai Hin Lat Formation, northeastern Thailand
Creators: name: Anisong Chitnarin
Publisher: name: Department of Mineral Resources of Thailand
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ostracods
Huai Hin Lat Formation
Late Triassic
stromatolite
Khorat Plateau

description: Thai Geoscience Journal, 3, 3, 32-50
Well-posedness for a Whitham-Boussinesq system with surface tension
Creators: name: Dinvay, Evgueni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We regard the Cauchy problem for a particular Whitham-Boussinesq system modelling surface waves of an inviscid incompressible fluid layer. The system can be seen as a weak nonlocal dispersive perturbation of the shallow water system. The proof of well-posedness relies on energy estimates. However, due to the symmetry lack of the nonlinear part, in order to close the a priori estimates one has to modify the traditional energy norm in use. Hamiltonian conservation provides with global well-posedness at least for small initial data in the one dimensional settings.
Sanitary and phytosanitary standards: Does consumers’ health protection justify developing countries’ producers’ exclusion?
Creators: name: Grazia, Cristina
name: Hammoudi, Abdelkakim
name: Hamza, Oualid
name: Grazia, Cristina
name: Hammoudi, Abdelkakim
name: Hamza, Oualid
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agribusiness
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: The objective of this paper is to analyze the effects public regulatory tools for food safety, notably maximum admitted contamination thresholds and official controls performed at importing country’s borders on both developing countries’ market access and consumers’ health. An Industrial Economics approach is developed that endogenizes the sanitary risk associated with imports by explicitly taking into account the interaction between the public regulatory tools and the strategic response of producers/exporters. Producers’ strategic reaction is shown to crucially depend on the characteristics of the economic environment. Moreover, a regulatory reinforcement may exacerbate producers/exporters exclusion without improving consumers’ health protection.
Scalar meson exchange in V->P0P0gamma decays
Creators: name: Escribano, Rafel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complementarity between Chiral Perturbation Theory and the Linear Sigma Model is exploited to study scalar meson exchange in V->P0P0gamma decays. The recently reported experimental data on phi->pi0pi0gamma, phi->pi0etagamma and rho->pi0pi0gamma can be satisfactorily accommodated in our framework.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX, uses espcrc2.sty. Talk presented at the 9th International High-Energy Physics Conference in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD 2002), Montpellier, France, 2-9 July 2002
Tidal interaction of a rotating 1 Msun star with a binary companion
Creators: name: Savonije, G. J.
name: Witte, M. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the tidal torque on a uniformly rotating 1 Msun star at various stages of core hydrogen burning by an orbiting companion. We apply the `traditional approximation' and solve the radial part of the tidal perturbations by matrix inversion of the set of finite difference equations on a very fine grid. We have identified resonances with gravity- and quasi-toroidal modes with up to 1000 radial nodes in the more evolved stellar models. For low forcing frequencies we find significant tidal response due to viscous damping of inertial modes in the convective envelope of the solar-type star. We conclude that effects due to stellar rotation (including resonance locking) may considerably enhance the speed of tidal evolution in solar-type stars.
description: accepted for publ. in A&A, 11 pages, 6 figures
Preliminary Report on the Vertebrate Faunal Remains from the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project
Creators: name: Kintigh, Keith
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Zuni
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/53/zuni
subject: Cibola
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/8/cibola
subject: Hinkson Ranch
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/75803/hinkson-ranch
subject: Historic Native American
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/30/historic-native-american
subject: Ancestral Puebloan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/19/ancestral-puebloan
subject: PaleoIndian
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/4/paleoindian
subject: Cibola
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/39/cibola
subject: Archaic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/8/archaic
subject: Zuni
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/40/zuni
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Euroamerican
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/28/euroamerican
subject: H-Spear Site
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/30/h-spear-site
subject: Ojo Bonito
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/64/ojo-bonito
subject: Jaralosa Pueblo
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/34/jaralosa-pueblo
subject: Hinkson Site
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/27/hinkson-site
subject: Fauna
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4/fauna
subject: OBAP
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/51/obap
subject: Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/133320/ojo-bonito-archaeological-project
subject: Data Recovery / Excavation
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/5/data-recovery-excavation
subject: Reconnaissance / Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/7/reconnaissance-survey
subject: Systematic Survey
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/12/systematic-survey

description: Excavations conducted by the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project (OBAP) in 1987, 1988, and 1994 have recovered a relatively large and well-preserved faunal assemblage. This report presents the results of a preliminary study ofthe animal bone from these excavations. In the first part of analysis, an overview of the taxonomic composition of the OBAP assemblage is provided and the diversity and proportional distribution of identified fauna are described. More in-depth analyses of intra- and intersite assemblage variability are then undertaken in order to assess spatial and temporal differences in faunal procurement and utilization. These analyses are followed by a brief discussion of the various types ofcultural modification observed in the OBAP assemblage.
Entomoculia (Entomoculia) melonii Fancello & Hernando & Leo 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Fancello, Luca
name: Hernando, Carles
name: Leo, Piero
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Entomoculia
Entomoculia melonii

description: Entomoculia (Entomoculia) melonii sp. nov.
(Figs 5, 10–11)
 Diagnosis. An Entomoculia ascribable to the nominal subgenus for its robust build, the presence of chitinized thickenings on the male genital segment and for the characters of the male and female genitalia; welldifferentiated from its congeners by the conformation of the aedeagus and female copulatory plates.
 Type locality. SW Sardinia, Medio Campidano prov., Villacidro, San Sisinnio.
 Type series. Holotype ♂: “SW Sardinia, Villacidro (Medio Campidano), San Sisinnio, 250 m, 2.I.1987, leg. P. Leo ” (MSNG). Paratypes: Villacidro (Medio Campidano prov.), San Sisinnio, 250 m, 8.V.1986, leg. P. Leo, 3 ♂♂ and 1 ♀ (2 ♂♂ and 1 ♀ CLF-PL, 1 ♂ CNBFVR); 2.I.1987, leg. P. Leo, 2 ♀ (CLF-PL); 15.III.1987, leg. P. Leo, 1 ♀ (CLF-PL); 9.XII.1989, leg. P. Leo, 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ (CLF-PL); 24.IV.1990, leg. P. Leo, 1 ♂ (CLF-PL).
 Description. Total length 1.00–1.10 mm. Head shiny, with diverging edges, distinctly widening posteriorly, and with inconspicuous frontal carinas; microreticulation faint, punctuation strong and sparse. Pronotum about as long as wide, shiny, with imperceptible microreticulation; punctuation slightly thinner than on head and slightly sparser; median longitudinal dimples lacking. Elytra shiny with imperceptible microsculpture and scattered punctuation. Aedeagus as in Fig. 10, with sternal lamina strongly bending downward, short, robust and tapering at apex. Female genital armature complex, structured as in Fig. 11.
 Observations. Entomoculia melonii sp. nov. is clearly separable from all congeners by the genital characters of both sexes.
 Ecological notes. The type specimens were found in samples taken at the base of old olive trees. The sampling locality is situated on argilloschist Palaeozoic soil. No other endogean beetles were collected together with the new species.
 Etymology. We dedicate this species to our friend Carlo Meloni from Cagliari, an expert of the Sardinian insect fauna with whom we have shared countless excursions.
description: Published as part of Fancello, Luca, Hernando, Carles & Leo, Piero, 2009, The endogean beetle fauna of the Marganai-Oridda-Valle del Leni area (SW Sardinia), with description of seven new species of Staphylinidae Leptotyphlinae (Coleoptera) *, pp. 317-338 in Zootaxa 2318 on pages 323-324
Four lignans from Portulaca oleracea L. and its antioxidant activities
Creators: name: Ma, Yifei
name: Bao, Yongrui
name: Zhang, Wenjie
name: Ying, Xixiang
name: Stien, Didier
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: A new lignan, named oleralignan (1) and three known componds (+)-syringaresinol (2), (+)-lirioresinol A (3) and monomethyl 3,3′,4,4′-tetrahydroxy-δ-truxinate (4) were isolated from the P. oleracea for the first time. The compound (1) were identified by 1D, 2D NMR spectroscopic methods and high resolution electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. In addition, it was found that the four lignans presented the scavenging activities in 1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl-hydrazyl (DPPH) radical quenching assay more than that of hydroxyl anisole (BHA).
B meson B-parameters and the decay constant in two-flavor dynamical QCD
Creators: name: JLQCD Collaboration
name: Yamada, N.
name: Aoki, S.
name: Bulkhalter, R.
name: Fukugita, M.
name: Hashimoto, S.
name: Ishikawa, K-I.
name: Ishizuka, N.
name: Iwasaki, Y.
name: Kanaya, K.
name: Kaneko, T.
name: Kuramashi, Y.
name: Okawa, M.
name: Onogi, T.
name: Tominaga, S.
name: Tsutsui, N.
name: Ukawa, A.
name: Yoshié, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a two-flavor dynamical QCD calculation of the B meson B parameters and decay constant. We use NRQCD for heavy quark and the nonperturbatively O(a)-improved Wilson action for light quark at $β$=5.2 on a $20^3\times 48$ lattice. We confirm that the sea quark effect increases the heavy-light decay constant, while estimate of its magnitude depends significantly on the fitting form in the chiral extrapolation. For the B parameters, on the other hand, we do not find a significant sea quark effect. The chiral extrapolation with logarithmic term is examined for both quantities and compared with the prediction of ChPT.
description: 3 pages, 3 figures, Lattice2001(heavyquark)
A genomic analysis of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus from bovine milk and the discovery of a novel streptococcus species
Creators: name: Hadjirin, Nazreen F
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: S. aurues
Antimicrobial resisitance
Bovine
Genomic Anaysis
Virulence

description: Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are important pathogens of humans and livestock, including dairy cows. In livestock it represents a concern for public health as it may act as a reservoir that can infect humans and provide a source of transferrable resistance genes. The divergent mecA gene, mecC, was first identified in dairy cows in the UK, and has since been detected in many species in continental Europe. However, limited data exists on the epidemiological characteristics or the transmission dynamics of bovine mecC MRSA in the UK. S. aureus Mobile Genetic Elements (MGEs) often encode virulence and antimicrobial resistance genes that can contribute to the pathogenicity of the strain. Acquisition or loss of MGEs and variations within the core genome are reported to play an important role in S. aureus host adaptation although the mechanisms underlying S. aureus host specificity are not fully understood. This study was undertaken to determine the antimicrobial resistance and bovine associated virulence features of S. aureus isolated from bovine milk. The first two chapters of this thesis comprise of an introduction and a description of the methods used. Chapter 3 describes bovine associated features in bulk tank milk S. aureus isolates. SaPI borne-vwb and sec_bovine were widespread. Further, genome analysis detected six new SaPIs harbouring these genes and a class of site-specific integrases that appear to be associated with ruminant derived isolates. Examination of the fnbpA gene identified host specific variations that may be used to distinguish bovine from human isolates. Chapter 4 presents data on the epidemiological characteristics of mecC MRSA at the cow level within a dairy herd. Data from a longitudinal study undertaken suggested that mecC MRSA infections were transient and may not be associated with clinical disease. The prevalence varied between 1.14%-5.07% during the one-year study period, while SNP based whole genome phylogeny revealed four possible chains of transmission. Chapter 5 details a survey conducted to detect the prevalence of MRSA in UK retail meat. No mecC MRSA were found however CC398 were found and compared to CC398 isolates from the bulk tank milk study. A phylogenetic study provided no evidence of a common lineage of livestock association MRSA colonising both cattle and pigs in the UK. Chapter 6 describes the characterisation of a novel Streptococcus species isolated from a mastitic cow from New Zealand. Genome sequencing and phenotypic studies revealed this isolate, originally thought to be Streptococcus uberis to be most closely related to Streptococcus pseudoporcinus.
description: Personal Funding for tuition and other related expenses MRC funding for laboratory expenses
Fluctuations of the quark densities in nuclei
Creators: name: Chanfray, G.
name: Ericson, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the static scalar susceptibility of the nuclear medium, i.e., the change of the quark condensate for a small modification of the quark mass. In the linear sigma model it is linked to the in-medium sigma propagator. At ordinary nuclear densities, when chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken, the scalar susceptibility is distinct from the pseudoscalar one, which is linked to the fluctuations of the quark pseudoscalar density. We show that the pseudoscalar one, which is large in the vacuum, owing to the smallness of the pion mass, follows the density evolution of the quark condensate and thus decreases. The scalar one instead increases due to the mixing with the softer modes of the nucleon-hole excitations. At normal nuclear matter density the two susceptibilities become much closer, a partial chiral symmetry restoration effect as they become equal when the full restoration is achieved.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Phys. Rev. C
Determinants of diffusion and adoption of improved technology for rice parboiling in Benin
Creators: name: Dandedjrohoun, Lidia
name: Diagne, Aliou
name: Biaou, Gauthier
name: N'Cho, Simon
name: Midingoyi, Soul-Kifouly
name: Dandedjrohoun, Lidia
name: Diagne, Aliou
name: Biaou, Gauthier
name: N'Cho, Simon
name: Midingoyi, Soul-Kifouly
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies

description: The widespread use of traditional rice-parboiling methods in Benin leads to poor quality of final rice. To address this problem, the national agricultural research institute of Benin and Africa Rice Center have developed improved rice parboiling technology. An educational video developed by AfricaRice was used for it diffusion. Women have expressed high interest in the use of the technology and have reported that it helps increase the quality of their final rice despite its’ relatively high cost. This paper uses the Average Treatment Effect (ATE) framework and data collected from 200 women rice parboilers in central Benin to estimate the actual and potential adoption rates of this technology and the determinants of its diffusion and adoption. 85% of the sampled women were exposed to the technology in 2008. With this incomplete diffusion, the actual adoption rate is 67%, whereas the potential adoption rate is estimated to be 75%. “Being member of a parboilers association’’ and “Participation in video training” are positively associated with knowledge and adoption of this technology. This indicates that support and promotion of women parboilers associations is a means to increase technology uptake and access and video-supported training is an extension tool to promote agricultural technology awareness and adoption.
A novel immune-related long non-coding RNA signature improves the prognosis prediction in the context of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Creators: name: Chen, Lin
name: Cai, Zhimou
name: Lyu, Kexing
name: Cai, Zhiwei
name: Lei, Wenbin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: The tumor immune microenvironment plays an important role in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Reliable prognostic signatures able to accurately predict the immune landscape and survival rate of HNSCC patients are crucial to ensure an individualized/effective treatment. Here, we used HNSCC transcriptomic and clinical data retrieved from The Cancer Genome Atlas and identified differentially expressed immune-related long non-coding RNAs (DEirlncRNAs). DEirlncRNA pairs were recognized using univariate analysis. Cox and Lasso regression analyses were used to determine the association between DEirlncRNA pairs and the patients’ overall survival and build the prediction model. Receiver operating characteristic curves and Kaplan–Meier survival curves were used to validate the prediction model. We then reevaluated the model based on the clinical factors, tumor-infiltrating immune cells, chemotherapeutic efficacy, and immunosuppression biomarkers. We built a risk score model based on 18 DEirlncRNA pairs, closely related to the overall survival of patients (hazard ratio: 1.376; 95% confidence interval: 1.302–1.453; P < 0.0001). Compared with two recently published lncRNA signatures, our DEirlncRNA pair signature had a higher area under the curve, indicating better prognostic performance. Additionally, the signature score positively correlated with aggressive HNSCC outcomes (low immunity score, significantly reduced CD8 + T cell infiltration, and low expression of immunosuppression biomarkers). However, high-risk patients might have high chemosensitivity. Overall, the lncRNAs signature established here shows promising clinical prediction and the effective disclosure of the tumor immune microenvironment in HNSCC patients; therefore, such signature might help distinguish patients that could benefit from immunotherapy.
The determinants of firm exit in the French food industries
Creators: name: Blanchard, Pierre
name: Huiban, Jean-Pierre
name: Mathieu, Claude
name: Blanchard, Pierre
name: Huiban, Jean-Pierre
name: Mathieu, Claude
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: A semi-parametric approach is used to estimate firm propensity to exit. The unobserved individual productivity of a firm is first estimated using the Ackerberg et al. (2006) approach and then introduced as a determinant of firm exit in conjunction with other variables that may serve as barriers to exit, including the firm’s level of sunk costs and the industry concentration. Using an unbalanced panel of data for 5,849 firms in French food industries from 1996 to 2002, we find a significantly negative relationship between a firm’s probability to exit and its individual efficiency and age. In addition to validating these well-known results, we also show that the level of sunk costs may be an important barrier to exit. Ultimately, the relationship between the propensity to exit and the industry level of concentration contains a turning point: the relationship is at first increasing but then becomes decreasing.
Dynamics of European agricultural productivity: An analysis of regional convergence
Creators: name: Guerva, Maria Carmen
name: Guerva, Maria Carmen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Productivity Analysis

description: This paper analyses the evolution of the European agricultural productivity distribution under the hypothesis of persistent differences in productivity levels over time. We use the Cambridge Econometrics European Regional Database and work on a sample of 125 EU-15 regions from 1985 to 2004. Density functions, transition matrices and stochastic kernels are combined to study the dynamics of the productivity distribution. We observe no evidence of strong productivity convergence. Regional disparities across European agricultures are large and persistent. The highest levels of persistence are concentrated in both extremes of the productivity distribution. Additionally, we propose a regional typology on the basis of different structural patterns according to the economic and territorial dimension of the holdings, the characteristics of the labour force and the productive specialization. The main result is that the diversity of patterns conditions productivity and hinders sectoral convergence. Divergence in agricultural productivity will continue if differences in structural patterns persist in the future.
MOESM1 of Desiccation resistance and pigmentation variation reflects bioclimatic differences in the Drosophila americana species complex
Creators: name: Davis, Jeremy
name: Moyle, Leonie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Bioclimatic variables used in analysis of environmental variation within and between species, including source, resolution, and loadings for the first 3 principal component axes. Table S2. Associations between environmental PC1 or PC2 and UV survival, separated by treatment level. Reported statistics are from Pearsonâ s correlation between each PC and median UV resistance. Bonferroni-corrected significance level is P < 0.0004. Table S3. Correlations between UV resistance (survival in days, post-exposure) at each energy exposure level and each of the other two physiological traits measured. Reported statistics are Pearsonâ s correlation coefficients between each trait and UV survival at one energy level, separated by sex. Bonferroni-corrected significance level is P < 0.0004. Figure S1. Meier-Kaplan survival curves after UV treatment for each population. X-axis is time (in days); Y-axis is survival probability (for each 20 fly trial). Panels are organized by UV-B energy exposure (from top to bottom: 0J, 100J, 500J, 1000J, and 5000J) and by sex (with males on the left and females on the right). Population legend is in bottom right for reference throughout. Figure S2. Associations between desiccation resistance and pigmentation for males (triangles, solid line) and females (circles, dotted line). Mean population desiccation resistance and pigmentation are correlated in males (r(7) = 0.701, P = 0.0355), but only marginally in females (r(7) = 0.594, P = 0.0914). Figure S3. Survival time in days for UV resistance trials across treatments for each species â split by sex. Survival time was significantly influenced by sex (F(1, 4.22), P < 0.001) with females living longer in general. With sexes combined, only the 5000J exposure group (F(3, 12.36), P < 0.001) significantly differed in relative survival from the reference treatment level (100J, see methods), while 500J (F(3, -0.23), P = 0.82) and 1000J (F(3, -0.31), P = 0.76) did not.
The genome of Euglena gracilis: Annotation, function and expression
Creators: name: Ebenezer, ThankGod
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2018
Subjects: Euglena gracilis
genomics
transcriptomics
label-free proteomics
cell biology
evolution
secondary endosymbiosis
parasitism
environmental response
molecular biology

description: Euglena gracilis is a species of unicellular photosynthetic flagellate that inhibits aquatic ecosystems. E. gracilis belongs to the supergroup Excavata, and are an important component of the global biosphere, have biotechnological potential and is useful biological model due to their evolutionary history and complex biology. Whilst the evolutionary position of E. gracilis is now clear, their relationship with other protists such as Naegleria, Giardia, and Kinetoplastids, remains to be investigated in detail. Investigating and understanding the biology of this complex organism is a promising way to approach many evolutionary puzzles, including secondary endosymbiotic events and the evolution of parasitism, due to their relationship with Kinetoplastids. Here, I report a draft genome for E. gracilis, together with a high quality transcriptome and proteomic analysis. The estimated genome size is ~ 2 Gbp, with a GC content of ~ 50 % and a protein coding potential predicted at 36,526 Open Reading Frames (ORFs). Less than 25% of the genome is single copy sequence, indicating extensive repeat structure. There are evidences for large number of paralogs amongst specific gene families, indicating expansions and possible polyploidy as well as extensive sharing of genes with other non photosynthetic and photosynthetic eukaryotes: red and green algael genes, together with trypanosomes and other members of the excavates. Functional resolution into several of the biological systems indicates multiple similarities with the trypanosomatids in terms of orthology, paralogy, relatedness and complexity. Several biological systems such as nuclear architecture (e.g. chromosome segregation, nuclear pore complex, nuclear lamins), protein trafficking, translation, surface, consist of conserved and divergent components. For instance, several gene families likely associated with the cell surface and signal transduction possess very large numbers of lineage-specific paralogs, suggesting great flexibility in environmental monitoring and, together with divergent mechanisms for metabolic control, novel solutions to adaptation to extreme environments. I also demonstrate that the majority of control of protein expression levels is post-transcriptional and absence of transcriptional regulation, despite the presence of conventional introns. These data are a major advance in the understanding of the nuclear genome of Euglenids and provide a platform for investigation of the contributions of E. gracilis and relatives to the biosphere.
description: Yousef Jameel PhD Scholarship Cambridge Commonwealth, European & International Trust Scholarship Cambridge Philosophical Society Research Studentship Cambridge University Lundgren Research Award Medical Research Council (Grant #: P009018/1) to Prof. Mark C. Field
3D Trajectory Optimization in UAV-Assisted Cellular Networks Considering Antenna Radiation Pattern and Backhaul Constraint
Creators: name: Chowdhury, Md Moin Uddin
name: Maeng, Sung Joon
name: Bulut, Eyuphan
name: Guvenc, Ismail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper explores the effects of three-dimensional (3D) antenna radiation pattern and backhaul constraint on optimal 3D path planning problem of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), in interference prevalent downlink cellular networks. We consider a cellular-connected UAV that is tasked to travel between two locations within a fixed time and it can be used to improve the cellular connectivity of ground users by acting as a relay. Since the antenna gain of a cellular base station changes significantly with the UAV altitude, the UAV can increase the signal quality in its backhaul link by changing its height over the course of its mission. This problem is non-convex and thus, we explore the dynamic programming technique to solve it. We show that the 3D optimal paths can introduce significant network performance gain over the trajectories with fixed UAV heights.
description: Revised final version
Entomoculia (Entomoculia) carbonaria Fancello & Hernando & Leo 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Fancello, Luca
name: Hernando, Carles
name: Leo, Piero
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Entomoculia
Entomoculia carbonaria

description: Entomoculia (Entomoculia) carbonaria sp. nov.
(Figs 9, 13)
Species known only from the study area and described above.
description: Published as part of Fancello, Luca, Hernando, Carles & Leo, Piero, 2009, The endogean beetle fauna of the Marganai-Oridda-Valle del Leni area (SW Sardinia), with description of seven new species of Staphylinidae Leptotyphlinae (Coleoptera) *, pp. 317-338 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 331
Nucleation of ergodicity by a single mobile impurity in supercooled insulators
Creators: name: Krause, Ulrich
name: Pellegrin, Théo
name: Brouwer, Piet W.
name: Abanin, Dmitry A.
name: Filippone, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a disordered Hubbard model, and show that, at sufficiently weak disorder, a single spin-down mobile impurity can thermalize an extensive initially localized system of spin-up particles. Thermalization is enabled by resonant processes which involve correlated hops of the impurity and localized particles. This effect indicates that certain localized insulators behave as "supercooled" systems, with mobile impurities acting as ergodic seeds. We provide analytical estimates, supported by numerical exact diagonalization (ED), showing how the critical disorder strength for such mechanism depends on the particle density of the localized system. In the $U\rightarrow\infty$ limit, doublons are stable excitations, and they can thermalize mesoscopic systems by a similar mechanism. The emergence of an additional conservation law leads to an eventual localization of doublons. Our predictions apply to fermionic and bosonic systems and are readily accessible in ongoing experiments simulating synthetic quantum lattices with tunable disorder.
description: 5 pages + supplementary material (8 pages)
INVESTIGATING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: SURVEY OF INCLUSIVE DESIGN ATTITUDES WITHIN LONDON’S TUBE STATIONS
Creators: name: Harding, John
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2011
Subjects: Inclusive Design
Transport Buildings
Crossrail

description: This thesis explored whether an exclusive and family unfriendly environment resulted from biased design attitudes of built environment professionals (Section 1). Literature surveys observed that designers design for their own demographic group and that railway development privileged or disadvantaged different groups of people (Section 2). Surveys identified that bias when only 0.5% of Tube travellers had disabilities, whereas 17% of Londoners had disabilities (Section 2). Analyses from the literature review raised three research questions (Section 3) and the method chosen was a questionnaire survey (Section 4). Three Main Research Questions Q1: Who had favourable or inadequate experience at Tube stations? Q2: What, and who, caused favourable or inadequate experience at Tube stations? Q3: How can we overcome inadequate passenger experience? The survey group chosen were clients or designers of Crossrail, London’s newest underground railway. Section 5 presented evidence and analyses; Section 6 discussed the results and Section 7 responded to those research questions. The thesis concluded in Section 8 by standing back to review the research project and make recommendations. This thesis made a contribution to knowledge by finding a way to measure those ‘soft’ issues, like gentleness, comfort, security, confidence, love and belonging, creativity and lack of prejudice. The survey found a lack of those positive experiences in most of the demographic groups surveyed. This thesis respected those qualities that need addressing by designers, clients and operators of the built environment, and Tube stations. It found that better dissemination of knowledge using well-defined briefs; continued professional development, professional ethics and professional built environment courses may make London’s built environment more family friendly and inclusive to ensure both a sustainable economy and a healthy and just society.
description: Crossrail Ltd. funded my course
Capillary forces in the acoustics of patchy-saturated porous media
Creators: name: Tserkovnyak, Yaroslav
name: Johnson, David Linton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A linearized theory of the acoustics of porous elastic formations, such as rocks, saturated with two different viscous fluids is generalized to take into account a pressure discontinuity across the fluid boundaries. The latter can arise due to the surface tension of the membrane separating the fluids. We show that the frequency-dependent bulk modulus $\tilde{K}(ω)$ for wave lengths longer than the characteristic structural dimensions of the fluid patches has a similar analytic behavior as in the case of a vanishing membrane stiffness and depends on the same parameters of the fluid-distribution topology. The effect of the capillary stiffness can be accounted by renormalizing the coefficients of the leading terms in the low-frequency asymptotic of $\tilde{K}(ω)$.
description: 27 pages, 3 figures
Single Charged Higgs Boson Production in Polarized Photon Collision and the Probe of New Physics
Creators: name: He, Hong-Jian
name: Kanemura, Shinya
name: Yuan, C. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study single charged Higgs boson production in photon-photon collision as a probe of the new dynamics of Higgs interactions. This is particularly important when the mass ($M_{H^\pm}$) of charged Higgs bosons ($H^{\pm}$) is relatively heavy and above the kinematic limit of the pair production ($M_{H^\pm} > \sqrt{s}/2$). We analyze the cross sections of single charged Higgs boson production from the photon-photon fusion processes, $γγ\to τ\bar νH^+$ and $γγ\to b \bar c H^+$, as motivated by the minimal supersymmetric standard model and the dynamical Topcolor model. We find that the cross sections at such a $γγ$ collider can be sufficiently large even for $M_{H^\pm} > \sqrt{s}/2$, and is typically one to two orders of magnitude higher than that at its parent $e^-e^+$ collider. We further demonstrate that the polarized photon beams can provide an important means to determine the chirality structure of Higgs Yukawa interactions with the fermions.
description: Version published in Physical Review D, (minor refinements, refs updated, 35 pages, 16 figures)
Entomoculia (Entomoculia) melonii Fancello & Hernando & Leo 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Fancello, Luca
name: Hernando, Carles
name: Leo, Piero
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Entomoculia
Entomoculia melonii

description: Entomoculia (Entomoculia) melonii sp. nov.
(Figs 5, 10–11)
Species known only from the study area and described above.
description: Published as part of Fancello, Luca, Hernando, Carles & Leo, Piero, 2009, The endogean beetle fauna of the Marganai-Oridda-Valle del Leni area (SW Sardinia), with description of seven new species of Staphylinidae Leptotyphlinae (Coleoptera) *, pp. 317-338 in Zootaxa 2318 on page 331
MOESM2 of Unraveling the genetic architecture for carbon and nitrogen related traits and leaf hydraulic conductance in soybean using genome-wide association analyses
Creators: name: Steketee, Clinton
name: Sinclair, Thomas
name: Riar, Mandeep
name: Schapaugh, William
name: Zenglu Li
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2. Genome-wide Manhattan plots for carbon and nitrogen related traits.
Designing Arbitrary One-dimensional Potentials on an Atom Chip
Creators: name: Tajik, Mohammadamin
name: Rauer, Bernhard
name: Schweigler, Thomas
name: Cataldini, Federica
name: Sabino, João
name: Møller, Frederik S.
name: Ji, Si-Cong
name: Mazets, Igor E.
name: Schmiedmayer, Jörg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use laser light shaped by a digital micro-mirror device to realize arbitrary optical dipole potentials for one-dimensional (1D) degenerate Bose gases of 87Rb trapped on an atom chip. Superposing optical and magnetic potentials combines the high flexibility of optical dipole traps with the advantages of magnetic trapping, such as effective evaporative cooling and the application of radio-frequency dressed state potentials. As applications, we present a 160 $μ$m long box-like potential with a central tuneable barrier, a box-like potential with a sinusoidally modulated bottom and a linear confining potential. These potentials provide new tools to investigate the dynamics of 1D quantum systems and will allow us to address exciting questions in quantum thermodynamics and quantum simulations.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
The Advantages of Maternal and Child Health Services on the Mother and Children in Berdale MCH Baidoa.
Creators: name: Mustaf, Hassan Mohamed
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Maternal
Child Health
Mother and Children

description: Abstract 

The researcher intended to collect primary data using questionnaire as a research instrument. Descriptive and cross sectional designs were used. This study targeted a population 100 and selected 80 respondents as sample. The shape of the questionnaire in the demographic section is looked upon in terms of Gender, Age, marital status, and level of education. Analysis of data in this study was done concurrently with data collection. After data collection the questionnaires of respondents were sorted out accordingly; responses were verified, coded, categorized and entered into the computer using statistical package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0 software program.

 

The general objective of the study is to determine the advantages of maternal and child health services on the mother and children in Berdale MCH Baidoa Somalia. The study specifically focused on the advantages of MCH family planning services for mother and children, the advantages of MCH antenatal services for mother and children and the advantages of MCH postnatal services for mother and children.

 

The majority of the respondents 36(45.0%) agreed that Family planning provides many benefits to mother, children, father, and the family and enables her to regain her health after delivery, 13(16.3%) strongly agreed it, 12(15.0%) disagreed it, 10(12.5%) strongly disagree it, and 9(11.3%) were neutral. The majority of the respondents 30(37.5%) agreed that Good antenatal care includes regular screening which can detect and prevent early complications such as hypertension and pregnancy diabetes, 18(22.5%) disagreed it, 15(18.8%) strongly disagreed it, 11(13.8%) strongly agreed it, and 6(7.5%) were neutral.
MOESM1 of Topology Consistency of Disease-specific Differential Co-regulatory Networks
Creators: name: Nazarieh, Maryam
name: Rajula, Hema Sekhar Reddy
name: Helms, Volkhard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1 The PDF file includes several figures and tables containing all the supporting materials for the manuscript.