cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gonocephalus grandis
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Agamidae
Gonocephalus
Gonocephalus grandis

description: Gonocephalus grandis (Gray, 1845) — Erroneous.
Great Anglehead Lizard
Singapore records.
Gonocephalus grandis —Shahriza, 2018: 153.— Janssen & Sy, 2022: 34.
Remarks. Gonocephalus grandis ranges from southern Thailand to southern Peninsular Malaysia, and Sumatra, with disjunct populations in southern Laos and southern Vietnam (Grismer 2011b). Shahriza (2018) likely confused G. grandis with the erroneous records of G. bellii when he listed it as occurring in Singapore. Nonetheless, no species of Gonocephalus is found in Singapore.
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
Family Gekkonidae Gray, 1825 (3 species)
Genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (1 species)
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on page 283, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Mapping Areas for Policy Evaluation: An Analysis of Rural Hungary
Creators: name: Monasterolo, Irene
name: Monasterolo, Irene
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: agricultural and RD policy evaluation
subject: transition
subject: policy targeting
subject: EU enlargement

description: The paper provides an analysis of the effect of the EU membership on the agricultural and rural counties of Hungary, paying particular attention to the introduction of the CAP and Cohesion Policy. Moving from the mixed case study approach introduced for the evaluation of Rural Development policies, Hungarian rural areas are mapped using multivariate statistical methodologies (principal components analysis and cluster analysis) on a set of relevant variables periodically updated and available at a disaggregated level. Comparing the Hungarian rural counties in 2003 and 2007, a divergence between the expected objectives of the EU membership and the actual outcome emerges, with rural areas by far the worse off. Marginalization increased in lagging behind counties, such as Nógrád, confirming the presence of winning and losing regions as a result of the enlargement. Moreover, this study highlights the limits imposed by lacking national statistical sources on the quality of statistical analysis, and on the possibilities to undertake further evaluations of the EU accession experiences.
Dynamic instability of speckle patterns in nonlinear random media
Creators: name: Skipetrov, S. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Linear stability analysis of speckle pattern resulting from multiple, diffuse scattering of coherent light waves in random media with intensity-dependent refractive index (noninstantaneous Kerr nonlinearity) is performed. The speckle pattern is shown to become unstable with respect to dynamic perturbations within a certain frequency band, provided that nonlinearity exceeds some frequency-dependent threshold. Although the absolute instability threshold is independent of the response time of nonlinearity, the latter significantly affects speckle dynamics (in particular, its spectral content) beyond the threshold. Our results suggest that speckle dynamics becomes chaotic immediately beyond the threshold.
description: RevTeX, 10 pages, 6 figures, to appear in J. Opt. Soc. Am. B
Aphanothece microscopica Nageli 1849
Creators: name: Jr, Watson Arantes Gama
name: Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse
name: Sant'Anna, Célia Leite
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Chroococcales
Chroococcaceae
Aphanothece
Aphanothece microscopica

description: Aphanothece cf. microscopica Nägeli (1849: 59) (Figs. 1H–1I).
Round colonies, 24.6–77.8 µm diam., sub-colonies often present, 8.0–12.7 µm diam. Sheath firm, hyaline, conspicuous. Cells sparsely to densely disposed, cylindrical, rarely ellipsoid, 3.1–6.0(7.2) × 1.7–2.9 µm, 1.8–2.0 times longer than wide. Cell content slightly granulated, intense blue-green.
 Habitat: —Waterlogged soil covered by vegetation.
 Notes: —The studied specimens have a cell length smaller than what is proposed by Komárek & Anagnostidis (1998). Furthermore, the habitat of Aphanothece microscopica is a little different (moorland freshwater). However, Desikachary (1959) reported the occurrence of A. microscopica in waterlogged soils from India, and Wille (1914) found this species among mosses.
 Studied material: — BRAZIL. São Paulo: Cananéia, State Park of “Ilha do Cardoso” (Perequê), 25º 4’ 8” S, 47º 55’ 12.24” W, 29 June 2010, W.A. Gama-Jr. & C.F.S. Malone (SP 401439).
description: Published as part of Jr, Watson Arantes Gama, Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse & Sant'Anna, Célia Leite, 2014, How diverse are coccoid cyanobacteria? A case study of terrestrial habitats from the Atlantic Rainforest (São Paulo, Brazil), pp. 61-97 in Phytotaxa 178 (2) on page 63, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.178.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5145178
Response to “Ethanol Production and Gasoline Prices: A Spurious Correlation” by Knittel and Smith
Creators: name: Hayes, Dermot J.
name: Hayes, Dermot J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Agribusiness
Crop Production/Industries
Demand and Price Analysis

description: In a recent working paper, Christopher Knittel and Aaron Smith present an attack on a peer-reviewed paper “The Impact of Ethanol Production on US and Regional Gasoline Markets Relating Ethanol Production to Gasoline Prices" written by myself and Xiaodong Du, and published in 2009 in Energy Policy (Vol. 37 No.8), as well as two subsequent working papers in 2011 and 2012. Our work found that as ethanol production increased, the price of gasoline fell relative to the price of crude oil. Knittel and Smith claim to have refuted this result, and conclude that their “Empirical models that are most consistent with economic theory suggest effects that are near zero and statistically insignificant.”
Initial Conditions for a Universe
Creators: name: Bojowald, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In physical theories, boundary or initial conditions play the role of selecting special situations which can be described by a theory with its general laws. Cosmology has long been suspected to be different in that its fundamental theory should explain the fact that we can observe only one particular realization. This is not realized, however, in the classical formulation and in its conventional quantization; the situation is even worse due to the singularity problem. In recent years, a new formulation of quantum cosmology has been developed which is based on quantum geometry, a candidate for a theory of quantum gravity. Here, the dynamical law and initial conditions turn out to be linked intimately, in combination with a solution of the singularity problem.
description: 7 pages, this essay was awarded First Prize in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Contest 2003
The Effects of Crop Insurance Subsidies and Sodsaver on Land Use Change
Creators: name: Miao, Ruiqing
name: Hennessy, David A.
name: Feng, Hongli
name: Miao, Ruiqing
name: Hennessy, David A.
name: Feng, Hongli
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: There have long been concerns that federal crop insurance subsidies may significantly impact land use decisions. It is well known that classical insurance market information asymmetry problems can lead to a social excess of risky land entering crop production. We provide a conceptual model to show that the problem will arise absent any information failures. This is because the subsidy is (a) proportional to acres planted, and (b) greatest for the most production risky land. Using field-level yield data, we follow this observation through to establish the implications of subsidies for the extent of crop production, with particular emphasis on the US Prairie Pothole Region, where cropland growth is likely to have marked adverse environmental impacts. Simulation results show that up to 3% of land under federal crop insurance would have not been converted from grassland if there had been no crop insurance subsidies. Sodsaver, a provision that eliminates crop insurance and Supplemental Revenue Assistance payments in the first five years of crop production on new breakings, will reduce grassland conversion by 4.9% or less.
Gloeothece fuscolutea Nageli 1849
Creators: name: Jr, Watson Arantes Gama
name: Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse
name: Sant'Anna, Célia Leite
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Chroococcales
Chroococcaceae
Gloeothece
Gloeothece fuscolutea

description: Gloeothece fuscolutea (Nägeli) Nägeli (1849: 57) (Figs. 1L – 2A).
 Basionym: Gloeocapsa fuscolutea Nägeli ex Kützing (1849: 224).
Round to elliptical colonies, 10.7–24.0 µm diam. Sheath firm, hyaline to yellowish, conspicuous, non-lamellate to 1–4 lamellae, smooth. Cells oblong to ellipsoid, 6.7–11.1 × 3.9–5.6 µm, 1.9–2.1 times longer than wide. Cell content homogenous to slightly granulated, olive green.
 Habitat: —Wet rocks and concrete wall.
 Studied material: — BRAZIL. São Paulo: Peruíbe, Ecological Station “Juréia-Itatins”, 24° 22.783’ S, 47° 1.287’ W, 16 August 2011, W.A. Gama-Jr., G.S. Hentschke, C.F.S. Malone & C.L. Sant’Anna (SP 427312); 24° 23.013’ S, 47° 4.836’ W, 17 August 2011, W.A. Gama-Jr., G.S. Hentschke, C.F.S. Malone & C.L. Sant’Anna (SP 427324); Cananéia, “Recanto do Mar” Inn, 25º 1’ 16” S, 47º 55’ 31” W, 30 November 2010, W.A. Gama-Jr. & C.F.S. Malone (SP 427337).
description: Published as part of Jr, Watson Arantes Gama, Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse & Sant'Anna, Célia Leite, 2014, How diverse are coccoid cyanobacteria? A case study of terrestrial habitats from the Atlantic Rainforest (São Paulo, Brazil), pp. 61-97 in Phytotaxa 178 (2) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.178.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5145178
Separability discrimination and decomposition of $m$-partite quantum mixed states
Creators: name: Li, Ying
name: Ni, Guyan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The separability detecting problem of mixed states is one of the fundamental problems in quantum information theory. In the last 20 years, almost all methods are based on the sufficient or necessary conditions for entanglement. However, in this paper, we only need one algorithm to solve the problem. We propose a tensor optimization method to check whether an $m$-partite quantum mixed state is separable or not and give a decomposition for it if it is. We first convert the separability discrimination problem of mixed states to the positive Hermitian decomposition problem of Hermitian tensors. Then, employing the $E$-truncated $K$-moment method, we obtain an optimization model for discriminating separability. Moreover, applying semidefinite relaxation method, we get a hierarchy of semidefinite relaxation optimization models and propose an $E$-truncated $K$-moment and semidefinite relaxations (ETKM-SDR) algorithm for detecting the separability of mixed states. The algorithm can also be used for symmetric and non-symmetric decomposition of separable mixed states. By numerical examples, we find that not all symmetric separable states have symmetric decompositions. The algorithm can be used for studying properties of mixed states in the future.
Direct Detection of Dark Matter in the MSSM with Non-Universal Higgs Masses
Creators: name: Ellis, J.
name: Ferstl, A.
name: Olive, K. A.
name: Santoso, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate dark matter scattering rates in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM), allowing the soft supersymmetry-breaking masses of the Higgs multiplets, m_{1,2}, to be non-universal (NUHM). Compared with the constrained MSSM (CMSSM) in which m_{1,2} are required to be equal to the soft supersymmetry-breaking masses m_0 of the squark and slepton masses, we find that the elastic scattering cross sections may be up to two orders of magnitude larger than values in the CMSSM for similar LSP masses. We find the following preferred ranges for the spin-independent cross section: 10^{-6} pb \ga σ_{SI} \ga 10^{-10} pb, and for the spin-dependent cross section: 10^{-3} pb \ga σ_{SD}, with the lower bound on σ_{SI} dependent on using the putative constraint from the muon anomalous magnetic moment. We stress the importance of incorporating accelerator and dark matter constraints in restricting the NUHM parameter space, and also of requiring that no undesirable vacuum appear below the GUT scale. In particular, values of the spin-independent cross section another order of magnitude larger would appear to be allowed, for small \tan β, if the GUT vacuum stability requirement were relaxed, and much lower cross-section values would be permitted if the muon anomalous magnetic moment constraint were dropped.
description: 30 pages LaTeX, 40 eps figures
Cnemaspis kumpoli Taylor 1963
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gekkonidae
Cnemaspis
Cnemaspis kumpoli

description: Cnemaspis kumpoli Taylor, 1963 — Erroneous.
Kumpol’s Rock Gecko
Singapore records.
Cnemaspis kumpoli —Chan-ard et al., 2015: 62.
Remarks. Chan-ard et al. (2015) listed Singapore as part of the distribution for C. kumpoli, likely confusing it with C. peninsularis. Cnemaspis kumpoli is only found in Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia (Grismer et al. 2014c).
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on page 283, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Analysing the Main Belt asteroid distributions by wavelets
Creators: name: Baluev, R. V.
name: Rodionov, E. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform statistical wavelet analysis of the Main Belt asteroids, seeking statistically significant asteroid families. The goal is to test the new wavelet analysis algorithm and to compare its results with more traditional methods like the hierarchic clustering. We first consider several 1D distributions for various physical and orbital parameters of asteroids. Then we consider three bivariate distributions for the three orbital parameters (a,e,i) taken pairwisely. The full 3D analysis of this space is not available here, but based on the 2D results we perform a disentangling of overlapped 2D families and derive total of 44 3D families with confirmed statistical significance.
description: 24 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables; accepted by Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy
Spermatogenesis of male patients with congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism receiving pulsatile GnRH therapy versus gonadotropin therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Yucong Zhang, Gongwei Long
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110306 Endocrinology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Context: Pulsatile GnRH therapy and gonadotropin therapy (GT) were widely used for male patients with congenital hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (CHH), but their efficiency were not well compared before. Objective: To compare the efficiency of restoring fertility using these two therapies. Data Sources: PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus were systematically searched. Data Selection: Comparative study evaluating efficiency of pulsatile GnRH therapy and GT for male CHH patients were inclueded. Data Extraction: Data were independently extracted by two reviewers. Data Synthesis: For continuous outcomes, the weighted mean difference (WMD) was used to measure the difference, whereas the risk ratio (RR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) was calculated for binary variables. Overall, eight articles from seven studies were included in the analysis. Patients from two different groups were determined to be comparable in age, proportion with Kallmann’s syndrome, percentage of cryptorchidism and pretreatment hormones (FSH, LH, and testosterone). GnRH therapy resulted in a larger testicular volume (WMD 3.04 ml; p=0.002) and earlier spermatogenesis (WMD -5.30 mo; p=0.004) compared to GT. However, the difference in the rate of positive sperm detection (p=0.08), sperm concentration (p=0.37), and pregnancy rate (p=0.11) was not significant. Allergic reactions mostly occurred during GnRH therapy, while gonadotropin therapy was related to a higher incidence of gynecomastia and acne. Conclusions: Compared to gonadotropin therapy, GnRH was related to earlier spermatogenesis and less estradiol-related adverse reactions, although there was no significant difference in spermatogenesis rate, sperm concentration, and pregnancy rate. High-quality randomized controlled trials are needed for future research.
An Analysis of an Integrated Mathematical Modeling -- Artificial Neural Network Approach for the Problems with a Limited Learning Dataset
Creators: name: Buchaniec, Szymon
name: Gnatowski, Marek
name: Brus, Grzegorz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: One of the most common and universal problems in science is to investigate a function. The prediction can be made by an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) or a mathematical model. Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages. Mathematical models were sought as more trustworthy as their prediction is based on the laws of physics expressed in the form of mathematical equations. However, the majority of existing mathematical models include different empirical parameters, and both approaches inherit inevitable experimental errors. At the same time, the approximation of neural networks can reproduce the solution extremely well if fed with a sufficient amount of data. The difference is that an ANN requires big data to build its accurate approximation whereas a typical mathematical model needs just several data points to estimate an empirical constant. Therefore, the common problem that developer meet is the inaccuracy of mathematical models and artificial neural network. An another common challenge is the computational complexity of the mathematical models, or lack of data for a sufficient precision of the Artificial Neural Networks. In the presented paper those problems are addressed using the integration of a mathematical model with an artificial neural network. In the presented analysis, an ANN predicts just a part of the mathematical model and its weights and biases are adjusted based on the output of the mathematical model. The performance of Integrated Mathematical modeling - Artificial Neural Network (IMANN) is compared to a Dense Neural Network (DNN) with the use of the benchmarking functions. The obtained calculation results indicate that such an approach could lead to an increase of precision as well as limiting the data-set required for learning.
E74 Like ETS Transcription Factor 3 is a Negative Regulator of Pathogenic Lamina Propria T Helper 17.1 Cells in Murine Colitis
Creators: name: Hu, Bo
name: Wang, Hao
name: Xiao, Fei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Interleukin-17A (IL-17A)-expressing T cells, including T helper 17 (Th17) and T helper 17.1 (Th17.1) cells, play a significant role in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). Identifying the mechanisms underlying the heterogeneity and plasticity of IL-17A-expressing T cells is crucial for understanding and controlling their pathogenicity. The role of E74 like ETS transcription factor 3 (ELF3) in regulating the pathogenicity of IL-17A-expressing T cells has not been studied before. Dextran sulfate sodium was used to induce acute colitis in transgenic mice co-expressing IL-17A and enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP). IL-17A-expressing T cells were analyzed by flow cytometry. ELF3 expression was evaluated by reverse transcription and quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Lentivirus-mediated ELF3 overexpression was performed to assess the effect of ELF3 on Th17 and Th17.1 cells in vitro. The in vivo effect of ELF3 on Th17.1 cells was analyzed in an adoptive transfer colitis model. ELF3 was expressed by IL-17A-expressing T cells in the colonic lamina propria after colitis induction. Th17 cells and Th17.1 cells were distinguished based on the expression of C-X-C motif chemokine receptor 3, cytokine production, and key regulators. Th17 cells expressed higher ELF3 than Th17.1 cells. Ectopic ELF3 overexpression did not alter Th17 cell function while suppressing Th17.1 cell function in vitro. When adoptively transferred into Rag1 knockout mice to induce colitis, ELF3-overexpressing Th17.1 cells were less pathogenic than the control Th17.1 cells. ELF3 suppresses the pathogenicity of Th17.1 cells in colitis.
Supplemental Information from Host heterogeneity mitigates virulence evolution
Creators: name: P. Signe White
name: Choi, Angela
name: Rishika Pandey
name: Menezes, Arthur
name: Penley, McKenna
name: Gibson, Amanda K.
name: Roode, Jacobus De
name: Morran, Levi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Statistical analysis, results, and explanation of experimental design
Practical use of pharmaceutically purified oral cannabidiol in Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
Creators: name: Lattanzi, Simona
name: Zaccara, Gaetano
name: Russo, Emilio
name: La Neve, Angela
name: Lodi, Monica Anna Maria
name: Striano, Pasquale
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Pharmaceutically purified oral cannabidiol (CBD) has been recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency as treatment of seizures associated with Dravet syndrome (DS) and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS), which are severe and difficult-to-treat developmental and epileptic encephalopathies with onset in early childhood. This review will critically review the pharmacokinetic properties of CBD, the interactions with antiseizure and non-antiseizure medications, and the main tolerability and safety issues to provide guidance for its use in everyday practice. CBD is metabolized in the liver and can influence the activity of enzymes involved in drug metabolism. The best characterized drug-drug interaction is between CBD and clobazam. The most common adverse events include somnolence, gastrointestinal discomfort, and increase in serum transaminases. High-grade purified CBD oral solution represents an effective therapeutic option in patients with DS and LGS. The findings cannot be extrapolated to other cannabis-based products, synthetic cannabinoids for medicinal use and non-medicinal cannabis and CBD derivatives.
Supplementary data from Links between environment and stomatal size through evolutionary time in Proteaceae
Creators: name: Jordan, Gregory J.
name: Carpenter, Raymond J.
name: Holland, Barbara R.
name: Beeton, Nicholas J.
name: Woodhams, Michael D.
name: Brodribb, Timothy J.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Data, code, additional result and analyses for Jordan et al. Links between environment and stomatal size through evolutionary time in Proteaceae.
Lemmermanniella terrestris W.A.Gama-Jr 2012
Creators: name: Jr, Watson Arantes Gama
name: Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse
name: Sant'Anna, Célia Leite
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Synechococcales
Synechococcaceae
Lemmermanniella
Lemmermanniella terrestris

description: Lemmermanniella terrestris W.A. Gama-Jr. in Gama-Jr et al. (2012: 320) (Figs. 2K – 3A).
Hollow, round to elongated colonies, 43.7–243.7 µm diam., sub-colonies often present, 10.2–16.9 µm diam. Sheath gelatinous, hyaline, inconspicuous, following the colony outline. Cells ellipsoid, 2.5–7.1(8.8) × 1.4–2.5 µm, 2.4– 3.1 times longer than wide, ends acuminate or round (rare). Pseudofilaments rarely found, 3–5 cells. Cell content granulated, pale blue-green to grey.
 Habitat: —Dry soil.
 Studied material: — BRAZIL. São Paulo: Cananéia, “Recanto do Mar” Inn, 25º 1’ 16” S, 47º 55’ 31” W, 30 June 2010, W.A. Gama-Jr. & C.F.S. Malone (SP 401446).
description: Published as part of Jr, Watson Arantes Gama, Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse & Sant'Anna, Célia Leite, 2014, How diverse are coccoid cyanobacteria? A case study of terrestrial habitats from the Atlantic Rainforest (São Paulo, Brazil), pp. 61-97 in Phytotaxa 178 (2) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.178.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5145178
Hemidactylus bowringii
Creators: name: Figueroa, Alex
name: Low, Martyn E. Y.
name: Lim, Kelvin K. P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Gekkonidae
Hemidactylus
Hemidactylus bowringii

description: Hemidactylus bowringii (Gray, 1845) — Erroneous.
Bowring’s Gecko
Singapore records.
Hemidactylus bowringi —N. Koh, 1986: 1–2.
Remarks. Hemidactylus bowringii was erroneously reported from a newspaper article on Singapore’s lizards that stated it is among the most common lizards in Singapore (Koh 1986). Hemidactylus bowringii is a species complex that ranges from Nepal, northern India, and Bangladesh east through northern Myanmar and Vietnam to southern China, Taiwan, and the Ryukyu Islands (McMahan & Zug 2007). No other reports of H. bowringii from Singapore exist. It is possible that there was some confusion of specimens of H. frenatus with regenerated tails that lacked spines.
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Alex, Low, Martyn E. Y. & Lim, Kelvin K. P., 2023, Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution, pp. 1-378 in Zootaxa 5287 (1) on page 283, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5287.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7960319
Rich diversity of crystallographic phase formation in 2D Rex:Mo1-xS2 (x< 0.5) alloy
Creators: name: Sharona, H.
name: Vishal, B.
name: Bhat, U.
name: Paul, A.
name: Mukherjee, A.
name: Sarma, S. C.
name: Peter, S. C.
name: Datta, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the observation of rich variety of crystallographic phase formation in RexMo1-xS2 alloy for x < 0.5. For x < 0.23, no low dimensional super-structural modulation is observed and inter-cation hybridization remains discrete forming dimers to tetramers with increasing Re concentration. For x > 0.23, super-strutural modulaton is observed. Depending on the Re concentrations (x = 0.23, 0.32, 0.38 and 0.45) and its distributions, various types of cation hybridization results in rich variety of low dimensional super-structural modulation as directly revealed by high resolution transmission electron microscopy. These layered alloy system may be useful for various energy and novel device applications.
Determination of the local concentrations of Mn interstitials and antisite defects in GaMnAs
Creators: name: Glas, F.
name: Patriarche, G.
name: Largeau, L.
name: Lemaitre, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a method for the determination of the local concentrations of interstitial and substitutional Mn atoms and As antisite defects in GaMnAs. The method relies on the sensitivity of the structure factors of weak reflections to the concentrations and locations of these minority constituents. High spatial resolution is obtained by combining structure factor measurement and X-ray analysis in a transmission electron microscope. We demonstrate the prevalence of interstitials with As nearest neighbors in as-grown layers.
description: 10 pages, 4 figures
Dynamic characterization of beating sinusoidal wave oscillations in a thin-slice solid-state laser with coupled orthogonally polarized transverse modes
Creators: name: Otsuka, Kenju
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dynamic characterization of self-induced beating sinusoidal wave (BSW) oscillations and related phenomena, which were previously explored in a thin-slice dual-polarization solid-state laser operating in the regime of incomplete mode-locking of orthogonally polarized transverse eigenmodes, namely, a quasi-locked state [Laser Physics Letters, 15 (2018) 075001], is performed in terms of the amplitude correlation coefficient and intensity circulation among various orthogonally polarized mode pairs. Polarization-dependent symmetry-breaking featuring a nonreciprocal intensity flow for different orthogonally polarized mode pairs operating in the BSW state are found. The singular state is hidden in a nonlinear system where a perfect mode-locked BSW state with a large amplitude correlation coefficient featuring reciprocal intensity flow is established for a transverse mode pair possessing particular polarization directions that are related to the intensity ratio of orthogonally polarized transverse eigenmodes. Self-organized chaos synchronization is shown to take place for such a singular transverse mode pair subjected to self-mixing modulations.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures
Multifractal Properties of Price Fluctuations of Stocks and Commodities
Creators: name: Matia, Kaushik
name: Ashkenazy, Yosef
name: Stanley, H. Eugene
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We analyze daily prices of 29 commodities and 2449 stocks, each over a period of $\approx 15$ years. We find that the price fluctuations for commodities have a significantly broader multifractal spectrum than for stocks. We also propose that multifractal properties of both stocks and commodities can be attributed mainly to the broad probability distribution of price fluctuations and secondarily to their temporal organization. Furthermore, we propose that, for commodities, stronger higher order correlations in price fluctuations result in broader multifractal spectra.
description: Published in Euro Physics Letters (14 pages, 5 figures)
Supplementary material S2: Optimization of assembly parameters and filtering of individuals and loci from Urbanization without isolation: the absence of genetic structure among cities and forests in the tiny acorn ant Temnothorax nylanderi
Creators: name: A. Khimoun
name: C. Doums
name: M. Molet
name: B. Kaufmann
name: R. Peronnet
name: P. A. Eyer
name: S. Mona
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Urban alteration of neutral and adaptive evolutionary processes is still underexplored. Using a genome-wide SNP dataset, we investigated (i) urban-induced modifications of population demography, genetic diversity and population structure and (ii) signature of divergent selection between urban and forest populations in the ant species, Temnothorax nylanderi. Our results did not reveal an impact of urbanization on neutral processes since we observed: (i) analogous genetic diversity among paired urban/forest sites and two control populations; (ii) weak population genetic structure explained neither by habitat (urban versus forest) nor by geography; (iii) a remarkably similar demographic history across populations with an ancestral growth followed by a recent decline, regardless of their current habitat or geographical location. The micro-geographical home range of ants may explain their resilience to urbanization. Finally, we detected 19 candidate loci discriminating urban/forest populations and associated with core cellular components, molecular function or biological process. Two of these loci were associated with a gene ontology term that was previously found to belong to a module of co-expressed genes related to caste phenotype. These results call for transcriptomics analyses to identify genes associated with ant social traits and to infer their potential role in urban adaptation.
Diagnosis of bulk phase diagram of non-reciprocal topological lattices by impurity modes
Creators: name: Liu, Yanxia
name: Chen, Shu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the single impurity problem in the non-Hermitian lattice described by the non-reciprocal Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model and obtain the phase diagram of localized bound states induced by the impurity. The existence of analytical results permits us to determine the phase boundaries exactly, which separate regions with different number of bound states. Particularly, in the limit of strong impurity potential, we find that the phase boundaries of mid-gap bound states are identical to the boundaries of topological phase diagrams of the bulk system in the absence of impurity. The existence of correspondence between mid-gap impurity modes and bulk phases indicate that we are able to diagnose the bulk phase diagram of the non-reciprocal topological model by its impurity modes.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, version accepted by PRB
Chlorogloea novacekii Komarek & Montejano 1994
Creators: name: Jr, Watson Arantes Gama
name: Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse
name: Sant'Anna, Célia Leite
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Chroococcales
Entophysalidaceae
Chlorogloea
Chlorogloea novacekii

description: Chlorogloea cf. novacekii Komárek & Montejano (1994: 6) (Figs. 10D–10E).
Polarized, elongated colonies, 58.3–95.0 µm length. Sheath firm to diffluent, hyaline, conspicuous, non-lamellate, smooth. Cells spherical, 2.6–3.2 µm diam., to cylindrical 1.3–1.9 × 2.7–3.3 µm, arranged in rows. Cell content homogenous or 2–4 granules per cell, pale blue-green.
 Habitat: —Wet rocks.
 Notes: — Chlorogloea novacekii was described from a wet cave with a mean temperature lower than 20 °C (Komárek & Montejano 1994), different than the environmental conditions found in the Atlantic Rainforest.
 Studied material: — BRAZIL. São Paulo: São Luís do Paraitinga, State Park of “Serra do Mar” (Santa Virgínia), 23º 20’ 16” S, 45º 9’ 1” W, 22 February 2010, W.A. Gama-Jr. (SP 401418).
description: Published as part of Jr, Watson Arantes Gama, Iv, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse & Sant'Anna, Célia Leite, 2014, How diverse are coccoid cyanobacteria? A case study of terrestrial habitats from the Atlantic Rainforest (São Paulo, Brazil), pp. 61-97 in Phytotaxa 178 (2) on page 82, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.178.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5145178
Supplementary material S4: abc-skyline plot of Ɵ values through time obtained on the folded SFS and the mean pairwise difference. from Urbanization without isolation: the absence of genetic structure among cities and forests in the tiny acorn ant Temnothorax nylanderi
Creators: name: A. Khimoun
name: C. Doums
name: M. Molet
name: B. Kaufmann
name: R. Peronnet
name: P. A. Eyer
name: S. Mona
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Urban alteration of neutral and adaptive evolutionary processes is still underexplored. Using a genome-wide SNP dataset, we investigated (i) urban-induced modifications of population demography, genetic diversity and population structure and (ii) signature of divergent selection between urban and forest populations in the ant species, Temnothorax nylanderi. Our results did not reveal an impact of urbanization on neutral processes since we observed: (i) analogous genetic diversity among paired urban/forest sites and two control populations; (ii) weak population genetic structure explained neither by habitat (urban versus forest) nor by geography; (iii) a remarkably similar demographic history across populations with an ancestral growth followed by a recent decline, regardless of their current habitat or geographical location. The micro-geographical home range of ants may explain their resilience to urbanization. Finally, we detected 19 candidate loci discriminating urban/forest populations and associated with core cellular components, molecular function or biological process. Two of these loci were associated with a gene ontology term that was previously found to belong to a module of co-expressed genes related to caste phenotype. These results call for transcriptomics analyses to identify genes associated with ant social traits and to infer their potential role in urban adaptation.
A Proposal for a Bioeconomical Model of an Apple Orchard
Creators: name: Hester, Susan M.
name: Cacho, Oscar J.
name: Hester, Susan M.
name: Cacho, Oscar J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1997
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Management of deciduous perennial fruit crops requires a good understanding of the many physiological and horticultural factors that influence tree growth and fruit production. Crucial decisions that must be made include the choice of tree density, tree variety, pruning and training techniques. These choices, some of which are made before the orchard is planted, have implications for grower returns over the life of the orchard because they influence tree growth and fruit quantity and quality. A dynamic model of an apple tree is developed in this study, with the ultimate goal of stimulating apple orchard management decisions in a multi-period setting. The model takes into account the vegetative and reproductive physiology of apple trees, factors affecting apple quality and quantity, and the interrelationships between these factors. The model is designed to allow flexibility in the incorporation of alternative apple cultivars and pruning/training systems. The implementation and importance of these features are discussed in the paper.
Supplementary material S3: FST values estimated between pairs of sampled sites from Urbanization without isolation: the absence of genetic structure among cities and forests in the tiny acorn ant Temnothorax nylanderi
Creators: name: A. Khimoun
name: C. Doums
name: M. Molet
name: B. Kaufmann
name: R. Peronnet
name: P. A. Eyer
name: S. Mona
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Urban alteration of neutral and adaptive evolutionary processes is still underexplored. Using a genome-wide SNP dataset, we investigated (i) urban-induced modifications of population demography, genetic diversity and population structure and (ii) signature of divergent selection between urban and forest populations in the ant species, Temnothorax nylanderi. Our results did not reveal an impact of urbanization on neutral processes since we observed: (i) analogous genetic diversity among paired urban/forest sites and two control populations; (ii) weak population genetic structure explained neither by habitat (urban versus forest) nor by geography; (iii) a remarkably similar demographic history across populations with an ancestral growth followed by a recent decline, regardless of their current habitat or geographical location. The micro-geographical home range of ants may explain their resilience to urbanization. Finally, we detected 19 candidate loci discriminating urban/forest populations and associated with core cellular components, molecular function or biological process. Two of these loci were associated with a gene ontology term that was previously found to belong to a module of co-expressed genes related to caste phenotype. These results call for transcriptomics analyses to identify genes associated with ant social traits and to infer their potential role in urban adaptation.
Additional file 2: of Unprecedented bacterial community richness in soybean nodules vary with cultivar and water status
Creators: name: Sharaf, Hazem
name: Rodrigues, Richard
name: Moon, Jinyoung
name: Zhang, Bo
name: Mills, Kerri
name: Williams, Mark
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Figure S10. Overview of the study design and workflow. (PDF 92 kb)
Optical detection of Mott and generalized Wigner crystal states in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices
Creators: name: Regan, Emma C.
name: Wang, Danqing
name: Jin, Chenhao
name: Utama, M. Iqbal Bakti
name: Gao, Beini
name: Wei, Xin
name: Zhao, Sihan
name: Zhao, Wenyu
name: Yumigeta, Kentaro
name: Blei, Mark
name: Carlstroem, Johan
name: Watanabe, Kenji
name: Taniguchi, Takashi
name: Tongay, Sefaattin
name: Crommie, Michael
name: Zettl, Alex
name: Wang, Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Moiré superlattices are emerging as a new route for engineering strongly correlated electronic states in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures, as recently demonstrated in the correlated insulating and superconducting states in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene and ABC trilayer graphene/boron nitride moiré superlattices. Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) moiré heterostructures provide another exciting model system to explore correlated quantum phenomena, with the addition of strong light-matter interactions and large spin-orbital coupling. Here we report the optical detection of strongly correlated phases in semiconducting WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices. Our sensitive optical detection technique reveals a Mott insulator state at one hole per superlattice site (ν = 1), and surprising insulating phases at fractional filling factors ν = 1/3 and 2/3, which we assign to generalized Wigner crystallization on an underlying lattice. Furthermore, the unique spin-valley optical selection rules of TMDC heterostructures allow us to optically create and investigate low-energy spin excited states in the Mott insulator. We reveal an especially slow spin relaxation lifetime of many microseconds in the Mott insulating state, orders-of-magnitude longer than that of charge excitations. Our studies highlight novel correlated physics that can emerge in moiré superlattices beyond graphene.
description: 25 pages, 7 figures
Convexity properties of functions defined on metric Abelian groups
Creators: name: Fechner, Włodzimierz
name: Páles, Zsolt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 26A51, 26B25, 52A01, 22A10

description: The notions of quasiconvexity, Wright convexity and convexity for functions defined on a metric Abelian group are introduced. Various characterizations of such functions, the structural properties of the functions classes so obtained are established and several well-known results are extended to this new setting.
Cost-effectiveness of olaparib maintenance therapy when used with and without restriction by BRCA1/2 mutation status for platinum-sensitive relapsed ovarian cancer
Creators: name: Li-Jen Cheng
name: Wong, Grace
name: Wen-Yee Chay
name: Ngeow, Joanne
name: Yongqiang Tan
name: Swee Sung Soon
name: Aziz, Mohamed Ismail Abdul
name: Pearce, Fiona
name: Kwong Ng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Objectives: To determine whether olaparib maintenance therapy, used with and without restriction by BRCA1/2 mutation status, is cost-effective at the population level for platinum-sensitive relapsed ovarian cancer in Singapore. Methods: A partitioned survival model compared three management strategies: 1) treat all patients with olaparib; 2) test for germline BRCA1/2 mutation, followed by targeted olaparib use in mutation carriers only; 3) observe all patients. Mature overall survival (OS) data from Study 19 and a 15-year time horizon were used and direct medical costs were applied. Sensitivity analyses were conducted to explore uncertainties. Results: Treating all patients with olaparib was the most costly and effective strategy, followed by targeted olaparib use, and observation of all patients. Base-case incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) for all-olaparib and targeted use strategies were SGD133,394 (USD100,926) and SGD115,736 (USD87,566) per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) gained, respectively, compared to observation. ICERs were most sensitive to the cost of olaparib, time horizon and discount rate for outcomes. When these parameters were varied, ICERs remained above SGD92,000 (USD69,607)/QALY. Conclusions: At the current price, olaparib is not cost-effective when used with or without restriction by BRCA1/2 mutation status in Singapore, despite taking into account potential OS improvement over a long time horizon.