cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A mesh adaptivity scheme on the Landau-de Gennes functional minimization case in 3D, and its driving efficiency
Creators: name: Bajc, Iztok
name: Hecht, Frédéric
name: Žumer, Slobodan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper presents a 3D mesh adaptivity strategy on unstructured tetrahedral meshes by a posteriori error estimates based on metrics, studied on the case of a nonlinear finite element minimization scheme for the Landau-de Gennes free energy functional of nematic liquid crystals. Newton's iteration for tensor fields is employed with steepest descent method possibly stepping in. Aspects relating the driving of mesh adaptivity within the nonlinear scheme are considered. The algorithmic performance is found to depend on at least two factors: when to trigger each single mesh adaptation, and the precision of the correlated remeshing. Each factor is represented by a parameter, with its values possibly varying for every new mesh adaptation. We empirically show that the time of the overall algorithm convergence can vary considerably when different sequences of parameters are used, thus posing a question about optimality. The extensive testings and debugging done within this work on the simulation of systems of nematic colloids substantially contributed to the upgrade of an open source finite element-oriented programming language to its 3D meshing possibilities, as also to an outer 3D remeshing module.
ASSESSMENT OF FACTORS AFFECTING ACCESS TO FORMAL CREDIT FOR SMALL FARM HOLDERS "The case of BasonaWerana District in North Shoa Zone of AmharaRegionEthiopia"
Creators: name: WondwosenTefera
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: In Ethiopia, among other things, lack of finance is one of the fundamental problems hampering production, productivity and income of rural poor farm households. Since access to institutional finance is very limited, the majority of the poor are forced to search financial services through informal channels so forced them to remain in the vicious circle of poverty. The study was sought to ascertain use of formal financial credit and factors that affect smallholder farmer’s access to formal credit. A multistage sampling method was employed to select ten out of thirty rural kebeles in BasonaWerana district and 422 farm households. Structured interview schedule was developed, pre-tested and used for collecting quantitative data for the study from the sampled household heads. Focus group discussion, and key informant interview were held to generate qualitative data. Descriptive statistics and logit model were used for analyzing quantitative data and the qualitative data was analyzed thematically. The output from the study indicates that 103 (24.41%) of the sampled farm households were formal financial credit users, whereas the remaining (75.59%) were non-users. However, among the credit users 89(86.40%) reported as they were not satisfied with the credit amount. Farmers acknowledge group lending solves the problem of collateral requirement, but also mentioned as it has a sort of limitations in affecting the credit demand negatively.
Optical orientation of electron spins and valence band spectroscopy in germanium
Creators: name: Pezzoli, Fabio
name: Balocchi, Andrea
name: Vitiello, Elisa
name: Amand, Thierry
name: Marie, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated optical orientation in the vicinity of the direct gap of bulk germanium. The electron spin polarization is studied via polarization-resolved photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy unfolding the interplay between doping and ultrafast electron transfer from the center of the Brillouin zone towards its edge. As a result, the direct-gap photoluminescence circular polarisation can vary from 30% to -60% when the excitation laser energy increases. This study provides also simultaneous access to the resonant electronic Raman scattering due to inter-valence band excitations of spin-polarized holes, yielding a fast and versatile spectroscopic approach for the determination of the energy spectrum of holes in semiconducting materials.
(503251) Joseph Swithenbank
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Phyllostomidae Gray 1825
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae

description: Family PHYLLOSTOMIDAE (NEW WORLD LEAF-NOSED BATS) • Relatively small to medium-sized bats with a usually welldevelopedfleshy noseleat above nostrils; great variation nN size. • 3.5-15. 5 cm. • Nearctic and Neotropical Regions. • Tropical rainforests, tropical dry forests, subtropical cloudforests, transformed landscapes, and deserts. • 60 genera, 217 species, 295 taxa. • 1 species Critically Endangered, 6 species Endangered, 7 species Vulnerable; none Extinct since 1600.
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Phyllostomidae, pp. 444-583 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 444, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6458594
Wirtschaftsaffine Schule oder Schule der Demokratie? Schritte zur Stärkung der politischen Bildung in der Sekundarstufe I in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Creators: name: Hedtke, Reinhold
Publisher: name: Fakultät für Soziologie
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: Politische Bildung
subject: ökonomische BIldung
subject: Schulfach Wirtschaft
subject: allgemeinbildende Schulen
subject: Bildungspolitik

description: Bezogen auf die obligatorische Lernzeit und den Wahlpflichtbereich wird die politische Bildung in Nordrhein-Westfalen gegenüber der ökonomischen Bildung durch die Landesregierung in mehrfacher Hinsicht erheblich benachteiligt. Diese Schieflage verschärft sich durch die Einführung des Schulfachs Wirtschaft und die Ausweitung wirtschaftlicher Inhalte in den gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Unterrichtsfächern. Die Privilegierung ökonomischer Bildung in nordrhein-westfälischen Schulen ist wissenschaftlich be-legt und wird auch in Öffentlichkeit und Landespolitik breit diskutiert. Um ein ausgewogenes Verhältnis zwischen politischem und wirtschaftlichem Lernen an allgemeinbildenden Schulen in Nordrhein-Westfalen wiederherzustellen, werden die folgenden bildungspolitischen Maßnahmen vorgeschlagen. Sie lassen sich relativ kurzfristig und mit einem überschaubaren Aufwand realisieren.
Susanna Barsotti, Lorenzo Cantatore (a cura di), Letteratura per l'infanzia. Forme, temi e simboli del contemporaneo, Carocci, Roma 2019
Creators: name: Forni, Dalila
Publisher: name: Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education
Year: 2020

description: Ricerche di Pedagogia e Didattica. Journal of Theories and Research in Education, Vol 15, No 1 (2020)
Groundwater level monitoring of Danish chalk and limestone aquifers for surveying quantitative status and groundwater resources trend
Creators: name: Henriksen, H.J.
name: Nilsson, B.
name: Ditlefsen, C.
name: Troldborg, L.
name: Thorling, L.
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Examples of (a) annual reporting of groundwater level monitoring results, (b) time-series for Mid-Zealand catchment comparing modelled and observed groundwater level and (c) visualization of maps for depth to phreatic head, and time-series of groundwater level.
(503252) George Edward Shiffner
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Semilinear p-evolution equations in Sobolev spaces
Creators: name: Ascanelli, Alessia
name: Boiti, Chiara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove local in time well-posedness in Sobolev spaces of the Cauchy problem for semi-linear p-evolution equations of the first order with real principal part, but complex valued coefficients for the lower order terms, assuming decay conditions on the imaginary parts as |x| goes to infinity.
Genetic influences on neonatal cortical thickness and surface area
Creators: name: Girault, J.B.
name: Jha, S.C.
name: Zhu, H.
name: Gilmore, J.H.
name: Zou, F.
name: Li, G.
name: Ahn, M.
name: Styner, M.
name: Schmitt, J.E.
name: Knickmeyer, R.C.
name: Murphy, V.A.
name: Shen, D.
name: Xia, K.
name: Wang, L.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Year: 2018

description: Genetic and environmental influences on cortical thickness (CT) and surface area (SA) are thought to vary in a complex and dynamic way across the lifespan. It has been established that CT and SA are genetically distinct in older children, adolescents, and adults, and that heritability varies across cortical regions. Very little, however, is known about how genetic and environmental factors influence infant CT and SA. Using structural MRI, we performed the first assessment of genetic and environmental influences on normal variation of SA and CT in 360 twin neonates. We observed strong and significant additive genetic influences on total SA (a2 = 0.78) and small and nonsignificant genetic influences on average CT (a2 = 0.29). Moreover, we found significant genetic overlap (genetic correlation = 0.65) between these global cortical measures. Regionally, there were minimal genetic influences across the cortex for both CT and SA measures and no distinct patterns of genetic regionalization. Overall, outcomes from this study suggest a dynamic relationship between CT and SA during the neonatal period and provide novel insights into how genetic influences shape cortical structure during early development.
(103899) Thomas Lo Pinniger
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Negative-frequency modes in quantum field theory
Creators: name: Dickinson, Robert
name: Forshaw, Jeff
name: Millington, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a departure from standard quantum field theory, constructed so as to permit momentum eigenstates of both positive and negative energy. The resulting theory is intriguing because it brings about the cancellation of leading ultra-violet divergences and the absence of a zero-point energy. The theory gives rise to tree-level source-to-source transition amplitudes that are manifestly causal and consistent with standard S-matrix elements. It also leads to the usual result for the oblique corrections to the standard electroweak theory. Remarkably, the latter agreement relies on the breakdown of naive perturbation theory due to resonance effects. It remains to be shown that there are no problems with perturbative unitarity.
description: 15 pages. Prepared for the proceedings of DISCRETE2014: the Fourth Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, King's College London, to appear in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). Presented by P. Millington
TRACE: A Topological Graph Representation for Automatic Sulcal Curve Extraction
Creators: name: Landman, B.A.
name: Kim, S.H.
name: Lyu, I.
name: Styner, M.A.
name: Woodward, N.D.
Publisher: name: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Year: 2018

description: A proper geometric representation of the cortical regions is a fundamental task for cortical shape analysis and landmark extraction. However, a significant challenge has arisen due to the highly variable, convoluted cortical folding patterns. In this paper, we propose a novel topological graph representation for automatic sulcal curve extraction (TRACE). In practice, the reconstructed surface suffers from noise influences introduced during image acquisition/surface reconstruction. In the presence of noise on the surface, TRACE determines stable sulcal fundic regions by employing the line simplification method that prevents the sulcal folding pattern from being significantly smoothed out. The sulcal curves are then traced over the connected graph in the determined regions by the Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm. For validation, we used the state-of-the-art surface reconstruction pipelines on a reproducibility data set. The experimental results showed higher reproducibility and robustness to noise in TRACE than the existing method (Li et al. 2010) with over 20% relative improvement in error for both surface reconstruction pipelines. In addition, the extracted sulcal curves by TRACE were well-aligned with manually delineated primary sulcal curves. We also provided a choice of parameters to control quality of the extracted sulcal curves and showed the influences of the parameter selection on the resulting curves.
Analysis of Jeans instability from the Boltzmann equation
Creators: name: Kremer, Gilberto M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of self-gravitating fluids is analyzed within the framework of a collisionless Boltzmann equation in the presence of gravitational fields and Poisson equation. Two cases are analyzed: a system with baryonic and dark matter in a static universe and a single system in an expanding universe. The amplitudes of the perturbed distribution functions are considered as a linear combination of the collision invariants of the Boltzmann equation. For the system of baryonic and dark matter, the Jeans mass of the combined system is smaller than the one of the single system indicating that a smaller mass is needed to initiate the collapse. For the single system in an expanding universe it is not necessary to make use of Jeans "swindle"and it shown that for small wavelengths the density contrast oscillates while for large wavelengths it grows with time and the Jeans instability emerges.
description: 10 pages, 1 figure, new analysis
(103901) Martha Witherington
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Detection and spread of high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the Antarctic Region
Creators: name: Banyard, Ashley C
name: Bennison, Ashley
name: Byrne, Alexander MP
name: Reid, Scott M
name: Lynton-Jenkins, Joshua G
name: Mollett, Benjamin
name: De Silva, Dilhani
name: Peers-Dent, Jacob
name: Finlayson, Kim
name: Hall, Rosamund
name: Blockley, Freya
name: Blyth, Marcia
name: Falchieri, Marco
name: Fowler, Zoe
name: Fitzcharles, Elaine M
name: Brown, Ian H
name: James, Joe
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: Infectious Disease
subject: Infectious Disease
classificationCode: Ecology,Evolution & Ethology
subject: Ecology,Evolution & Ethology

description: Until recent events, the Antarctic was the only major geographical region in which high pathogenicity avian influenza virus (HPAIV) had never previously been detected. Here we report on the detection of clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 HPAIV in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions of South Georgia and the Falkland Islands, respectively. We initially detected H5N1 HPAIV in samples collected from brown skuas at Bird Island, South Georgia on 8th October 2023. Since this detection, mortalities were observed in several avian and mammalian species at multiple sites across South Georgia. Subsequent testing confirmed H5N1 HPAIV across several sampling locations in multiple avian species and two seal species. Simultaneously, we also confirmed H5N1 HPAIV in southern fulmar and black-browed albatross in the Falkland Islands. Genetic assessment of the virus indicates spread from South America, likely through movement of migratory birds. Critically, genetic assessment of sequences from mammalian species demonstrates no increased risk to human populations above that observed in other instances of mammalian infections globally. Here we describe the detection, species impact and genetic composition of the virus and propose both introductory routes and potential long-term impact on avian and mammalian species across the Antarctic region. We also speculate on the threat to specific populations following recent reports in the area.
A Murnaghan--Nakayama rule for values of unipotent characters in classical groups
Creators: name: Lübeck, Frank
name: Malle, Gunter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20C20, 20C30, 20C33, 20C34

description: We derive a Murnaghan--Nakayama type formula for the values of unipotent characters of finite classical groups on regular semisimple elements. This relies on Asai's explicit decomposition of Lusztig restriction. We use our formula to show that most complex irreducible characters vanish on some $\ell$-singular element for certain primes $\ell$. As an application we classify the simple endotrivial modules of the finite quasi-simple classical groups. As a further application we show that for finite simple classical groups and primes $\ell\ge3$ the first Cartan invariant in the principal $\ell$-block is larger than~2 unless Sylow $\ell$-subgroups are cyclic.
description: Added a missing assumption to the statement of theorem 2. 25.11.16: Added a corrigendum to the proof of Thm. 7.1
(103900) Charles Witherington
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
An Improvised Frequent Pattern Tree Based Association Rule Mining Technique with Mining Frequent Item Sets Algorithm and a Modified Header Table
Creators: name: Agarwal, Vandit
name: Kushal, Mandhani
name: Kumar, Dr. Preetham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In todays world there is a wide availability of huge amount of data and thus there is a need for turning this data into useful information which is referred to as knowledge. This demand for knowledge discovery process has led to the development of many algorithms used to determine the association rules. One of the major problems faced by these algorithms is generation of candidate sets. The FP Tree algorithm is one of the most preferred algorithms for association rule mining because it gives association rules without generating candidate sets. But in the process of doing so, it generates many CP trees which decreases its efficiency. In this research paper, an improvised FP tree algorithm with a modified header table, along with a spare table and the MFI algorithm for association rule mining is proposed. This algorithm generates frequent item sets without using candidate sets and CP trees.
description: 15 pages, 8 tables, 7 figures, journal paper
(103905) Sophia Wilkinson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Bistability: Requirements on Cell-Volume, Protein Diffusion, and Thermodynamics
Creators: name: Endres, Robert G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Subcellular Processes (q-bio.SC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Bistability is considered wide-spread among bacteria and eukaryotic cells, useful e.g. for enzyme induction, bet hedging, and epigenetic switching. However, this phenomenon has mostly been described with deterministic dynamic or well-mixed stochastic models. Here, we map known biological bistable systems onto the well-characterized biochemical Schloegl model, using analytical calculations and stochastic spatio-temporal simulations. In addition to network architecture and strong thermodynamic driving away from equilibrium, we show that bistability requires fine-tuning towards small cell volumes (or compartments) and fast protein diffusion (well mixing). Bistability is thus fragile and hence may be restricted to small bacteria and eukaryotic nuclei, with switching triggered by volume changes during the cell cycle. For large volumes, single cells generally loose their ability for bistable switching and instead undergo a first-order phase transition.
description: 23 pages, 8 figures
Using ecological and genomic approaches to restore Australian grasslands in the face of global change
Creators: name: DE SILVA, NISSANKA PRASANGI
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Genomics

description: This thesis explores the genomic potential of two native Australian grass species Bothriochlo decipiens and Bothriochloa macra to assess their stability to be used in Australian grassland restoration and also explores the role of whole genome duplications play in giving rise to adaptation in grasses. The results suggest that the two study species are suitable to be used in grassland restoration due the presence of signals of local adaptation, specially to drought related factors. Further, findings from this thesis supports the hypothesis that polyploidy is a potential driver in giving rise to novel adaptation in plants.
title: The Potential Influence of Organic Food Consumption and Intention-Behavior Gap on Consumers’ Subjective Wellbeing
Creators: name: Ismael, Diana
name: Ploeger, Angelika
Publisher: name: Universität Kassel
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: intention-behavior gap
subject: organic food consumption
subject: subjective wellbeing
subject: conventional food
subject: food test
subject: physical
subject: emotional
subject: social and intellectual dimensions
subject: German consumers
subject: 630
subject: Biologisches Lebensmittel
subject: Verbraucherverhalten
subject: Wohlbefinden

description: Gefördert durch den Publikationsfonds der Universität Kassel
(103895) Elizabeth Buckley
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Skeletal Shape Correspondence Through Entropy
Creators: name: Vicory, J.
name: Hong, J.
name: Prieto, J.C.
name: Yang, D.
name: Pizer, S.M.,
name: Paniagua, B.
name: Styner, M.
name: Wang, R.
name: Whitaker, R.
name: Tu, L.
name: Elhabian, S.
Publisher: name: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Year: 2018

description: We present a novel approach for improving the shape statistics of medical image objects by generating correspondence of skeletal points. Each object's interior is modeled by an s-rep, i.e., by a sampled, folded, two-sided skeletal sheet with spoke vectors proceeding from the skeletal sheet to the boundary. The skeleton is divided into three parts: the up side, the down side, and the fold curve. The spokes on each part are treated separately and, using spoke interpolation, are shifted along that skeleton in each training sample so as to tighten the probability distribution on those spokes' geometric properties while sampling the object interior regularly. As with the surface/boundary-based correspondence method of Cates et al., entropy is used to measure both the probability distribution tightness and the sampling regularity, here of the spokes' geometric properties. Evaluation on synthetic and real world lateral ventricle and hippocampus data sets demonstrate improvement in the performance of statistics using the resulting probability distributions. This improvement is greater than that achieved by an entropy-based correspondence method on the boundary points.
(103896) Rhoda Cecil Witherington
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Commensurability resonances in two-dimensional magneto-electric lateral superlattices
Creators: name: Schluck, J.
name: Fasbender, S.
name: Heinzel, T.
name: Pierz, K.
name: Schumacher, H. W.
name: Kazazis, D.
name: Gennser, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hybrid lateral superlattices composed of a square array of antidots and a periodic one-dimensional magnetic modulation are prepared in $\mathrm{Ga[Al]As}$ heterostructures. The two-dimensional electron gases exposed to these superlattices are characterized by magnetotransport experiments in vanishing average perpendicular magnetic fields. Despite the absence of closed orbits, the diagonal magnetoresistivity in the direction perpendicular to the magnetic modulation shows pronounced classical resonances. They are located at magnetic fields where snake trajectories exist which are quasi-commensurate with the antidot lattice. The diagonal magnetoresistivity in the direction of the magnetic modulation increases sharply above a threshold magnetic field and shows no fine structure. The experimental results are interpreted with the help of numerical simulations based on the semiclassical Kubo model.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Short Term Mission: Metagenomics tools for the study of SARS-COV-2 in animals
Creators: name: Yagüe, Carlos Sacristan
name: Poirier, Aurore
name: La Ragione, Roberto
name: Campling, Elaine
name: Cantlay, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Short Term Missions (STMs) are small travel grants with the aim of sharing scientific expertise, methodologies, equipment and facilities to harmonise the existing approaches and methodologies within the large OHEJP network, and to drive the research forward in a collaborative and non-duplicative fashion to strengthen both the scientific capacity within the OHEJP and also future prevention, preparedness, detection and response of the EU to foodborne and other emerging threats across human-animal-environmental sectors.
(103897) Henry William Pinniger
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Association of Prenatal Maternal Depression and Anxiety Symptoms with Infant White Matter Microstructure
Creators: name: Schmidt, N.L.
name: Adluru, N.
name: Planalp, E.M.
name: Davidson, R.J.
name: Alexander, A.L.
name: Kalin, N.H.
name: Schmidt, C.K.
name: Kecskemeti, S.R.
name: Short, S.J.
name: Dean, D.C.
name: Burghy, C.A.
name: Wooten, W.
name: Styner, M.A.
name: Birn, R.M.
name: Frye, C.
name: Goldsmith, H.H.
Publisher: name: American Medical Association
Year: 2018

description: Importance: Maternal depression and anxiety can have deleterious and lifelong consequences on child development. However, many aspects of the association of early brain development with maternal symptoms remain unclear. Understanding the timing of potential neurobiological alterations holds inherent value for the development and evaluation of future therapies and interventions. Objective: To examine the association between exposure to prenatal maternal depression and anxiety symptoms and offspring white matter microstructure at 1 month of age. Design, Setting, and Participants: This cohort study of 101 mother-infant dyads used a composite of depression and anxiety symptoms measured in mothers during the third trimester of pregnancy and measures of white matter microstructure characterized in the mothers' 1-month offspring using diffusion tensor imaging and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging performed from October 1, 2014, to November 30, 2016. Magnetic resonance imaging was performed at an academic research facility during natural, nonsedated sleep. Main Outcomes and Measures: Brain mapping algorithms and statistical models were used to evaluate the association between maternal depression and anxiety and 1-month infant white matter microstructure as measured by diffusion tensor imaging and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging findings. Results: In the 101 mother-infant dyads (mean [SD] age of mothers, 33.22 [3.99] years; mean age of infants at magnetic resonance imaging, 33.07 days [range, 18-50 days]; 92 white mothers [91.1%]; 53 male infants [52.5%]), lower 1-month white matter microstructure (decreased neurite density and increased mean, radial, and axial diffusivity) was associated in right frontal white matter microstructure with higher prenatal maternal symptoms of depression and anxiety. Significant sex × symptom interactions with measures of white matter microstructure were also observed, suggesting that white matter development may be differentially sensitive to maternal depression and anxiety symptoms in males and females during the prenatal period. Conclusions and Relevance: These data highlight the importance of the prenatal period to early brain development and suggest that the underlying white matter microstructure is associated with the continuum of prenatal maternal depression and anxiety symptoms.
Micronycteris yatesi Siles & Brooks 2013
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae
Micronycteris
Micronycteris yatesi

description: 7. Yates’s Big-eared Bat Micronycteris yatesi French: Micronyctére de Yates / German: Yates-GroRohrblattnase / Spanish: Micronicterio de Yates Taxonomy. Micronycteris yatesi Siles & Brooks, 2013, “ Bolivia: Chuquisaca Department, Provincia Oropeza, Zurima, 33 km northeast of Sucre (18°46’40.2”S, 65°07'40.3"W). Collected at 1,800 m above sea level.” This species is monotypic. Distribution. Known from a few localities in C & E Bolivia (Zurima in Chuquisaca and Refugio Los Volcanes and Estancia Patuju in Santa Cruz departments); it might be found in W Brazil because some Sanborn’s Big-eared Bats (Micronycteris sanborni) from that region might be Yates’s Big-eared Bat. Descriptive notes. Head—body 48-60 mm, tail 7-9-2 mm, ear 15-6-18-2 mm, hindfoot 11-4-11-7 mm, forearm 34-5-36-7 mm. Yates’s Big-eared Bat is medium-sized. As most species of Micronycteris, it has bicolored, long (8-10 mm) dorsal pelage, with hairs having white bases and tawny to brown tips. Ventral fur is completely white on throat and sternal region, but abdominal area is pale buff. Ears are large (15-18 mm), with rounded tips, and their bases are connected by high, notched band. Hindfeet are hairy. Based on DNA sequence data, Yates’s Big-eared Bat can be distinguished from congeners by nucleotide differences that result in unique amino acids in cytochrome-b protein at positions 67 (alanine), 181 (leucine), and 316 (alanine). Habitat. Various Bolivian ecoregions, including Yungas, Cerrado, Chiquitano Dry Forest, and Inter-Andean Dry Forest, with dry forest, humid inner tropics, and seasonally dry subtropics. Yates’s Big-eared Bat occurs in semideciduous savanna, composed of a mosaic of open grassland, to a landscape dominated by moderately dissected valleys and small plains, with largely disturbed or destroyed deciduous dry forest. Food and Feeding. No information. Breeding. No information. Activity patterns. Yates’s Big-eared Bat is nocturnal. Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information. Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The [UCN Red List. Consider-Ing its rarity, proven by its low rate of capture and presence in highly vulnerable habitats, Yates’s Big-eared Bat might become threatened in Bolivia and elsewhere. Bibliography. Aguirre & Teran (2007), Larsen et al. (2011), Santos et al. (2010), Siles et al. (2013), Simmons (1996), Simmons et al. (2002), Solari (2017a).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Phyllostomidae, pp. 444-583 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on pages 491-492, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6458594
A variational approach to path estimation and parameter inference of hidden diffusion processes
Creators: name: Sutter, Tobias
name: Ganguly, Arnab
name: Koeppl, Heinz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 62M05, 60J60, 60H10, 49J15

description: We consider a hidden Markov model, where the signal process, given by a diffusion, is only indirectly observed through some noisy measurements. The article develops a variational method for approximating the hidden states of the signal process given the full set of observations. This, in particular, leads to systematic approximations of the smoothing densities of the signal process. The paper then demonstrates how an efficient inference scheme, based on this variational approach to the approximation of the hidden states, can be designed to estimate the unknown parameters of stochastic differential equations. Two examples at the end illustrate the efficacy and the accuracy of the presented method.
description: 37 pages, 2 figures, revised
(103898) Mary Cecil Pinniger
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Development of white matter circuitry in infants with fragile x syndrome
Creators: name: Hazlett, H.C.
name: Shen, M.D.
name: Swanson, M.R.
name: Estes, A.
name: Botteron, K.N.
name: Gerig, G.
name: Piven, J.
name: Styner, M.
name: Wolff, J.J.
name: McKinstry, R.C.
Publisher: name: American Medical Association
Year: 2018

description: IMPORTANCE Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a genetic neurodevelopmental disorder and the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability in males. However, there are no published data on brain development in children with FXS during infancy. OBJECTIVE To characterize the development of white matter at ages 6, 12, and 24 months in infants with FXS compared with that of typically developing controls. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Longitudinal behavioral and brain imaging datawere collected at 1 or more time points from 27 infants with FXS and 73 typically developing controls between August 1, 2008, and June 14, 2016, at 2 academic medical centers. Infants in the control group had no first- or second-degree relatives with intellectual or psychiatric disorders, including FXS and autism spectrum disorder. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Nineteen major white matter pathwayswere defined in common atlas space based on anatomically informed methods. Diffusion parameters, including fractional anisotropy, were compared between groups using linear mixed effects modeling. Fiber pathways showing group differences were subsequently examined in association with direct measures of verbal and nonverbal development. RESULTS There were significant differences in the development of 12 of 19 fiber tracts between the 27 infants with FXS (22 boys and 5 girls) and the 73 infants in the control group (46 boys and 27 girls), with lower fractional anisotropy in bilateral subcortical-frontal, occipital-temporal, temporal-frontal, and cerebellar-thalamic pathways, as well as 4 of 6 subdivisions of the corpus callosum. For all 12 of these pathways, there were significant main effects between groups but not for the interaction of age × group, indicating that lower fractional anisotropy was present and stable from age 6 months in infants with FXS. Lower fractional anisotropy values in the uncinate fasciculi were correlated with lower nonverbal developmental quotient in the FXS group (left uncinate, F = 10.06; false discovery rate-corrected P = .03; right uncinate, F = 21.8; P = .004). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE The results substantiate in human infants the essential role of fragile X gene expression in the early development of white matter. The findings also suggest that the neurodevelopmental effects of FXS are well established at 6 months of age.
(103892) Jane Buckley
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Micronycteris brosseti Simmons & Voss 1998
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae
Micronycteris
Micronycteris brosseti

description: 9. Brosset’s Big-eared Bat Micronycteris brosseti French: Micronyctere de Brosset / German: Brosset-GroRohrblattnase / Spanish: Micronicterio de Brosset Taxonomy. Micronycteris brosseti Simmons & Voss, 1998, “Paracou,” French Guiana. Micronycteris brosseti was eventually associated with the gray-bellied group (M. giovanniae, M. matses, M. megalotis, M. macrotis, and M. buriri). Monotypic. Distribution. Known only from NE Peru (Loreto Department), Guyana, French Guiana; one possible record in SE Brazil (Sao Paulo). It is expected to occur throughout Amazonia and Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Descriptive notes. Head-body 51-61 mm, tail 10-14 mm, ear 18-20 mm, hindfoot 10-11 mm, forearm 31-5-34 mm; weight 4-3-5 g. Brosset’s Big-eared Bat is one ofthe smaller species of Micronycteris. Venter is pale gray to pale buff, being paler than dark brown dorsum. Dorsal hair is bicolored, with white bases (one-third to one-half of each hair). Short dense fur occurs on lower one-third of medial side of pinna (less than or equal to 4 mm). First phalanx of fourth digit is longer than second. Calcar is longer than foot, and tibia shorter than 14-5 mm. Habitat. Well-drained primary forests. Food and Feeding. Brosset’s Big-eared Bat presumably is mainly insectivorous and occasionally eats fruits. Breeding. Adult male Brosset’s Big-eared Bats and non-pregnant females have been caught in French Guiana in August and March. Activity patterns. Brosset’s Big-eared Bats are crepuscular. Individuals were captured when they emerged from a hollow tree between 18:45 h and 19:15 h. They occur in hollow trees and have been caught in ground-level mist nets. Movements, Home range and Social organization. There is a record of a colony ofat least four male and three female Brosset’s Big-eared Bats in a single roost in a hollow tree with only one entrance 1 m aboveground. Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. Brosset’s Big-eared Bat is rare, known only from ten specimens. Natural history and current population trends are unknown. Deforestation could be a conservation threat. Bibliography. Charles-Dominique et al. (2001), Garbino (2016), Lim, B.K. et al. (1999), Nogueira, Peracchi & Moratelli (2007), Paglia et al. (2012), Reis et al. (2017), Simmons & Voss (1998), Williams & Genoways (2008).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Phyllostomidae, pp. 444-583 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 492, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6458594
PINGU and the neutrino mass hierarchy: Statistical and systematic aspects
Creators: name: Capozzi, F.
name: Lisi, E.
name: Marrone, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The proposed PINGU project (Precision IceCube Next Generation Upgrade) is expected to collect O(10^5) atmospheric muon and electron neutrino in a few years of exposure, and to probe the neutrino mass hierarchy through its imprint on the event spectra in energy and direction. In the presence of nonnegligible and partly unknown shape systematics, the analysis of high-statistics spectral variations will face subtle challenges that are largely unprecedented in neutrino physics. We discuss these issues both on general grounds and in the currently envisaged PINGU configuration, where we find that possible shape uncertainties at the (few) percent level can noticeably affect the sensitivity to the hierarchy. We also discuss the interplay between the mixing angle theta_23 and the PINGU sensitivity to the hierarchy. Our results suggest that more refined estimates of spectral uncertainties are needed in next-generation, large-volume atmospheric neutrino experiments.
description: 20 pages, including 8 figures and 3 tables