cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Terrestrial modification of the Ivuna meteorite and a reassessment of the chemical composition of the CI type specimen
Creators: name: King, A. J.
name: Phillips, K. J. H.
name: Strekopytov, S.
name: Vita-Finzi, C.
name: Russell, S. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rare CI carbonaceous chondrites are the most aqueously altered and chemically primitive meteorites but due to their porous nature and high abundance of volatile elements are susceptible to terrestrial weathering. The Ivuna meteorite, type specimen for the CI chondrites, is the largest twentieth-century CI fall and least affected by terrestrial alteration. The main mass of Ivuna (BM2008 M1) has been stored in a nitrogen atmosphere at least since 2008 and is the most pristine CI chondrite stone. We report the mineralogy, petrography and bulk elemental composition of BM2008 M1 and a second Ivuna stone (BM1996 M4) stored in air. Both Ivuna stones are breccias consisting of multiple rounded, phyllosilicate-rich clasts formed through aqueous alteration followed by impact processing. A polished thin section of BM2008 M1 analysed immediately after preparation was found to contain sulphate-bearing veins formed when primary sulphides reacted with oxygen and atmospheric water. A section of BM1996 M4 lacked veins but had sulphate grains on the surface recently formed (last 6 years). Differences in the extent of terrestrial alteration recorded by BM2008 M1 and BM1996 M4 probably reflect variations in the post-recovery curation history of the stones before entering the NHM collection, and indicate that where possible pristine samples of hydrated carbonaceous should be kept out of the terrestrial environment in a stable environment to avoid modification. The bulk elemental composition of the two Ivuna stones show some variability due to their heterogeneous nature but in general are similar to previous analyses of CI chondrites. We combine our elemental abundances with literature values to calculate a new average composition for the Ivuna meteorite, which is in good agreement with existing compilations of CI chondrites and the most recent solar photospheric abundances.
description: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (to be published)
Quantum gas distributions prescribed by factorization hypothesis of probability
Creators: name: Wang, Qiuping A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonextensive quantum gas distributions are investigated on the basis of the factorization hypothesis of compound probability required by thermodynamic equilibrium. It is shown that the formalisms of Tsallis nonextensive statistical mechanics with normalized average give distribution functions for standard bosons and fermions obeying Pauli principle. The formalism with unnormalized average leads to a intermediate quantum distribution comparable to that of fractional exclusion statistics, with Fermi surface at T=0 depending on the parameter $q$.
description: 5 pages, no figure, RevTeX, to be published in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals (2002)
Millennium Prize Problem no. 6 solved using joel's constant
Creators: name: joel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

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Improving the accuracy of freight mode choice models: A case study using the 2017 CFS PUF data set and ensemble learning techniques
Creators: name: Liu, Diyi
name: Lim, Hyeonsup
name: Uddin, Majbah
name: Liu, Yuandong
name: Han, Lee D.
name: Hwang, Ho-ling
name: Chin, Shih-Miao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The US Census Bureau has collected two rounds of experimental data from the Commodity Flow Survey, providing shipment-level characteristics of nationwide commodity movements, published in 2012 (i.e., Public Use Microdata) and in 2017 (i.e., Public Use File). With this information, data-driven methods have become increasingly valuable for understanding detailed patterns in freight logistics. In this study, we used the 2017 Commodity Flow Survey Public Use File data set to explore building a high-performance freight mode choice model, considering three main improvements: (1) constructing local models for each separate commodity/industry category; (2) extracting useful geographical features, particularly the derived distance of each freight mode between origin/destination zones; and (3) applying additional ensemble learning methods such as stacking or voting to combine results from local and unified models for improved performance. The proposed method achieved over 92% accuracy without incorporating external information, an over 19% increase compared to directly fitting Random Forests models over 10,000 samples. Furthermore, SHAP (Shapely Additive Explanations) values were computed to explain the outputs and major patterns obtained from the proposed model. The model framework could enhance the performance and interpretability of existing freight mode choice models.
Insights into herpesvirus assembly from the structure of the pUL7:pUL51 complex
Creators: name: Butt, Benjamin G
name: Owen, Danielle J
name: Jeffries, Cy M
name: Ivanova, Lyudmila
name: Hill, Chris H
name: Houghton, Jack W
name: Ahmed, Md Firoz
name: Antrobus, Robin
name: Svergun, Dmitri I
name: Welch, John J
name: Crump, Colin M
name: Graham, Stephen C
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS)
secondary envelopment
virus budding
focal adhesions
human cytomegalovirus (hcmv)
Virus

description: Funder: Nvidia; FundRef: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100007065
description: Funder: Wellcome Trust; FundRef: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004440
description: Funder: John Lucas Walker Studentship
description: Funder: Commonwealth Scholarship Commission; FundRef: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000867
description: Herpesviruses acquire their membrane envelopes in the cytoplasm of infected cells via a molecular mechanism that remains unclear. Herpes simplex virus (HSV)−1 proteins pUL7 and pUL51 form a complex required for efficient virus envelopment. We show that interaction between homologues of pUL7 and pUL51 is conserved across human herpesviruses, as is their association with trans-Golgi membranes. We characterized the HSV-1 pUL7:pUL51 complex by solution scattering and chemical crosslinking, revealing a 1:2 complex that can form higher-order oligomers in solution, and we solved the crystal structure of the core pUL7:pUL51 heterodimer. While pUL7 adopts a previously-unseen compact fold, the helix-turn-helix conformation of pUL51 resembles the cellular endosomal complex required for transport (ESCRT)-III component CHMP4B and pUL51 forms ESCRT-III–like filaments, suggesting a direct role for pUL51 in promoting membrane scission during virus assembly. Our results provide a structural framework for understanding the role of the conserved pUL7:pUL51 complex in herpesvirus assembly.
The provision of public library services to African/Caribbean communities in Nottinghamshire
Creators: name: Hylton, Tracey
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The provision of public library services to African/Caribbean communities in Nottinghamshire
Energy-Driven Osmosis in Unified Oscillatory Dynamic Field Theory
Creators: name: Martin, Doina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This research explores a novel approach to osmosis, where fluid motion is driven not by soluteconcentration gradients, but by oscillatory energy density variations in Unified Oscillatory DynamicField Theory (UODFT). Our simulations demonstrate that energy redistribution alone can induceosmotic-like behavior, suggesting that molecular diffusion is not a fundamental requirement. Wepropose an experimental setup utilizing oscillatory energy fields and nanoporous membranes tovalidate this theory in a controlled lab environment.
Convergence of double step scheme for a class of parabolic Clarke subdifferential inclusions
Creators: name: Bartosz, Krzysztof
name: Szafraniec, Paweł
name: Zhao, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we deal with a first order evolution inclusion involving a multivalued term generated by a Clarke subdifferential of a locally Lipschitz potential. For this problem we construct a double step time-semidiscrete approximation, known as the Rothe scheme. We study a sequence of solutions of the semidiscrete approximate problems and provide its weak convergence to a limit element that is a solution of the original problem.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2312.15723
Effect of supplementation of fish meal on growth and reproductive performance of crossbred heifers
Creators: name: Alam, M.S.
name: Rashid, M.H.
name: Uddin, M.E.
name: Asaduzzaman, M.
name: Alam, M.S.
name: Rashid, M.H.
name: Uddin, M.E.
name: Asaduzzaman, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Fish meal
subject: Crossbred heifers
subject: Rice straw
subject: Growth
subject: Reproduction
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology

description: The experiment was conducted at Bangladesh Agricultural University Dairy Farm to study the effect of fish meal (FM) on growth and reproductive performances of crossbred heifers. The experiment was designed into four treatment (T0=0% FM; T1=5% FM; T2=7.5% FM and T3 =10% FM) groups having initial weight 231.33 ± 32.39, 241.00 ± 46.29, 198.66 ±58.53 and 236.66 ± 31.64 kg, respectively. The average age of the animal is 2 years 9 month. Results of the experiment revealed that there was a significant difference of FM on daily DMI (kg/d). In 90 days period, FM with rice straw based diet had significant effect on daily weight gain (kg/d) of crossbred heifers. DM, CP and CF digestibility (%) differ significantly (p<0.05) among the group. But, the EE, Ash and NFE do not differ significantly. However, there is a tendency to increase digestibility when increase the FM among the Treatment group. Among this group T3 and T1 treatment showed 100% and T0 treatment 66% estrus and T1 did not showed estrus. Based on above findings, it may be concluded that supplementation of FM with Rice straw based diet can be the best options for feeding crossbred heifers to obtain better performances in terms of dry matter intake, digestibility, daily weight gain and reproductive performance especially estrus.
Short-Term Response of Cytosolic N O 3 − to Inorganic Carbon Increase in Posidonia oceanica Leaf Cells
Creators: name: Rubio, Lourdes
name: García-Pérez, Delia
name: Davies, Julia M.
name: Fernández, José A.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Plant Science
cytosolic NO3 −
elevated inorganic carbon
NO3 − efflux
anion channels
intracellular nitrate-selective microelectrodes
seagrasses

description: The concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased over the past 200 years and is expected to continue rising in the next 50 years at a rate of 3 ppm·year−1. This increase has led to a decrease in seawater pH that has changed inorganic carbon chemical speciation, increasing the dissolved HC O 3 − . Posidonia oceanica is a marine angiosperm that uses HC O 3 − as an inorganic carbon source for photosynthesis. An important side effect of the direct uptake of HC O 3 − is the diminution of cytosolic Cl− (Cl−c) in mesophyll leaf cells due to the efflux through anion channels and, probably, to intracellular compartmentalization. Since anion channels are also permeable to N O 3 − we hypothesize that high HC O 3 − , or even CO2, would also promote a decrease of cytosolic N O 3 − ( N O 3 − c ). In this work we have used N O 3 − - and Cl−-selective microelectrodes for the continuous monitoring of the cytosolic concentration of both anions in P. oceanica leaf cells. Under light conditions, mesophyll leaf cells showed a N O 3 − c of 5.7 ± 0.2 mM, which rose up to 7.2 ± 0.6 mM after 30 min in the dark. The enrichment of natural seawater (NSW) with 3 mM NaHCO3 caused both a N O 3 − c decrease of 1 ± 0.04 mM and a Cl c − decrease of 3.5 ± 0.1 mM. The saturation of NSW with 1000 ppm CO2 also produced a diminution of the N O 3 − c , but lower (0.4 ± 0.07 mM). These results indicate that the rise of dissolved inorganic carbon ( HC O 3 − or CO2) in NSW would have an effect on the cytosolic anion homeostasis mechanisms in P. oceanica leaf cells. In the presence of 0.1 mM ethoxyzolamide, the plasma membrane-permeable carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, the CO2-induced cytosolic N O 3 − diminution was much lower (0.1 ± 0.08 mM), pointing to HC O 3 − as the inorganic carbon species that causes the cytosolic N O 3 − leak. The incubation of P. oceanica leaf pieces in 3 mM HC O 3 − -enriched NSW triggered a short-term external N O 3 − net concentration increase consistent with the N O 3 − c leak. As a consequence, the cytosolic N O 3 − diminution induced in high inorganic carbon could result in both the decrease of metabolic N flux and the concomitant biomass N impoverishment in P. oceanica and, probably, in other aquatic plants.
Kinome capture sequencing of high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma reveals novel mutations in the JAK3 gene
Creators: name: Mittempergher, Lorenza
name: Piskorz, Anna M.
name: Bosma, Astrid J.
name: Michaut, Magali
name: Wisman, G. Bea A.
name: Kluin, Roelof J. C.
name: Nieuwland, Marja
name: Brugman, Wim
name: Van Der Ven, Kevin J. W.
name: Marass, Francesco
name: Morris, James
name: Rosenfeld, Nitzan
name: Jimenez-Linan, Mercedes
name: De Jong, Steven
name: Van Der Zee, Ate G. J.
name: Brenton, James D.
name: Bernards, René
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Research and analysis methods
Biology and life sciences
Medicine and health sciences

description: High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) remains the deadliest form of epithelial ovarian cancer and despite major efforts little improvement in overall survival has been achieved. Identification of recurring “driver” genetic lesions has the potential to enable design of novel therapies for cancer. Here, we report on a study to find such new therapeutic targets for HGSOC using exome-capture sequencing approach targeting all kinase genes in 127 patient samples. Consistent with previous reports, the most frequently mutated gene was TP53 (97% mutation frequency) followed by BRCA1 (10% mutation frequency). The average mutation frequency of the kinase genes mutated from our panel was 1.5%. Intriguingly, after BRCA1, JAK3 was the most frequently mutated gene (4% mutation frequency). We tested the transforming properties of JAK3 mutants using the Ba/F3 cell-based in vitro functional assay and identified a novel gain-of-function mutation in the kinase domain of JAK3 (p.T1022I). Importantly, p.T1022I JAK3 mutants displayed higher sensitivity to the JAK3-selective inhibitor Tofacitinib compared to controls. For independent validation, we re-sequenced the entire JAK3 coding sequence using tagged amplicon sequencing (TAm-Seq) in 463 HGSOCs resulting in an overall somatic mutation frequency of 1%. TAm-Seq screening of CDK12 in the same population revealed a 7% mutation frequency. Our data confirms that the frequency of mutations in kinase genes in HGSOC is low and provides accurate estimates for the frequency of JAK3 and CDK12 mutations in a large well characterized cohort. Although p.T1022I JAK3 mutations are rare, our functional validation shows that if detected they should be considered as potentially actionable for therapy. The observation of CDK12 mutations in 7% of HGSOC cases provides a strong rationale for routine somatic testing, although more functional and clinical characterization is required to understand which nonsynonymous mutations alterations are associated with homologous recombination deficiency.
Local approximation of multipartite quantum measurements
Creators: name: Cohen, Scott M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a necessary condition that a quantum measurement can be implemented by the class of protocols known as Local Operations and Classical Communication, or LOCC, including when an error is allowed but must vanish in the limit of an infinite number of rounds, a case referred to as asymptotic LOCC. Our condition unifies, extends, and provides an intuitive, geometric justification for previous results on asymptotic LOCC. We use our condition to answer a variety of long-standing, unsolved problems, including for distinguishability of certain sets of states by LOCC. These include various classes of unextendible product bases, for which we prove they cannot be distinguished by LOCC even when infinite resources are available and asymptotically vanishing error is allowed.
description: Comments welcome. Latest (close to published) version has a new title and is greatly expanded by inclusion of many examples of applications illustrating the power of our main result, Theorem $1$. One of the referee's on the paper noted that Theorem $1$ "constitutes a major breakthrough in the field of asymptotic LOCC" . . . in case that piques anyone's interest. :)
Japanagallia yoshimotoi C.A.Viraktamath 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Japanagallia
Japanagallia yoshimotoi

description: Japanagallia yoshimotoi sp. nov.
Figs 466–471.
 Color. Dark brown with black areas. Facial coloration as in J. curvata. Pronotum black except for ochraceous lateral and caudal margins. Scutellum black, two lateral spots yellowish white. Forewing cells, thoracic pleura and legs fuscous to black, venation paler.
 Male genitalia. Pygofer caudally sinuate, dorsocaudal margin mesally curved and produced into horn-like process. Connective about as long as broad, black pigmented. Aedeagus very broadly U-shaped, preatrial process triangular, longer than aedeagal shaft, caudally directed, apically pointed, aedeagal shaft short, stout, with two lateral, one dorsal and one ventral lamellate expansions and with prepical pair of short ventrally directed processes, gonopore apical.
 Measurements. Male 5.06 –5.16 mm long, 1.57 mm wide across eyes.
 Material examined. TAIWAN: HOLOTYPE ♂, Kwatzeling: Tainan: Hsien, 250 m, 6–7.iv.1965, C.M. Yoshimoto (BPBM). PARATYPE: 1 ♂, Alishan: Chiyai: Hsien, 2270 m, 8–9.iv.1965, Malaise trap, C.M. Yoshimoto (BPBM).
 Remarks. J. yoshimotoi resembles J. curvata and J. javana from which it differs in having lamellate expansions on the aedeagal shaft in the form of ridges, and in the shape of the pygofer.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on page 95
Regional Differences in the Demand for Agricultural Socialized Service
Creators: name: LI, Lu
name: LI, Lu
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Farmers
subject: Agricultural social service
subject: Demand willingness
subject: Influencing factors

description: With the gradual deepening of China's agricultural modernization, establishing a sound agricultural socialized service system is of great significance to improving the efficiency of resource use and achieving sustainable agricultural development. On the basis of the micro survey data on China's 12 provinces, we analyze the intensity of demand for agricultural socialized service in different regions as well as the main factors influencing farmers' demand willingness. The results show that there are regional differences in farmers' demand for agricultural socialized service, and among multiple factors affecting the demand willingness of agricultural socialized service, farmers' individual characteristics, household economic characteristics and farmers' social communication behavior have varying degrees of impact on farmers' choice of service.
­­­­­­Widespread conservation and lineage-specific diversification of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns across arthropods
Creators: name: Lewis, Samuel H.
name: Ross, Laura
name: Bain, Stevie A.
name: Pahita, Eleni
name: Smith, Stephen A.
name: Cordaux, Richard
name: Miska, Eric A.
name: Lenhard, Boris
name: Jiggins, Francis M.
name: Sarkies, Peter
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Research Article
subject: Biology and life sciences
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Research and analysis methods

description: Funder: Leverhulme Trust; funder-id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000275
description: Funder: Medical Research Council; funder-id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000265
description: Funder: Natural Environment Research Council; funder-id: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000270
description: Cytosine methylation is an ancient epigenetic modification yet its function and extent within genomes is highly variable across eukaryotes. In mammals, methylation controls transposable elements and regulates the promoters of genes. In insects, DNA methylation is generally restricted to a small subset of transcribed genes, with both intergenic regions and transposable elements (TEs) depleted of methylation. The evolutionary origin and the function of these methylation patterns are poorly understood. Here we characterise the evolution of DNA methylation across the arthropod phylum. While the common ancestor of the arthropods had low levels of TE methylation and did not methylate promoters, both of these functions have evolved independently in centipedes and mealybugs. In contrast, methylation of the exons of a subset of transcribed genes is ancestral and widely conserved across the phylum, but has been lost in specific lineages. A similar set of genes is methylated in all species that retained exon-enriched methylation. We show that these genes have characteristic patterns of expression correlating to broad transcription initiation sites and well-positioned nucleosomes, providing new insights into potential mechanisms driving methylation patterns over hundreds of millions of years.
Generalizations of Felder's elliptic dynamical r-matrices associated with twisted loop algebras of self-dual Lie algebras
Creators: name: Feher, L.
name: Pusztai, B. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A dynamical $r$-matrix is associated with every self-dual Lie algebra $\A$ which is graded by finite-dimensional subspaces as $\A=\oplus_{n \in \cZ} \A_n$, where $\A_n$ is dual to $\A_{-n}$ with respect to the invariant scalar product on $\A$, and $\A_0$ admits a nonempty open subset $\check \A_0$ for which $\ad κ$ is invertible on $\A_n$ if $n\neq 0$ and $κ\in \check \A_0$. Examples are furnished by taking $\A$ to be an affine Lie algebra obtained from the central extension of a twisted loop algebra $\ell(\G,μ)$ of a finite-dimensional self-dual Lie algebra $\G$. These $r$-matrices, $R: \check \A_0 \to \mathrm{End}(\A)$, yield generalizations of the basic trigonometric dynamical $r$-matrices that, according to Etingof and Varchenko, are associated with the Coxeter automorphisms of the simple Lie algebras, and are related to Felder's elliptic $r$-matrices by evaluation homomorphisms of $\ell(\G,μ)$ into $\G$. The spectral-parameter-dependent dynamical $r$-matrix that corresponds analogously to an arbitrary scalar-product-preserving finite order automorphism of a self-dual Lie algebra is here calculated explicitly.
description: LaTeX2e, 22 pages. Added a reference and a remark
Nandigallia C.A.Viraktamath 2011, gen. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Nandigallia

description: Key to species of Nandigallia gen. nov.
 1. Anal collar twisted, finger-like (Fig. 476); inner arm of male style more or less uniform in length with broad apex (Figs 480, 481); aedeagus with pair of apical finger-like processes (Figs 478, 479) (India: West Bengal; China: Fukien)............................................................................................. Nandigallia matai sp. nov.
 - Anal collar not twisted, with apical 0.33 bent at right angles (Fig. 488); inner arm of styles lamellate, broad with two lateral and one mesal denticles (Figs 492, 493); apical 0.33 of aedeagal shaft laterally flattened with one pair of preapical denticles (Figs 490, 491) (India: Karnataka)............................................... Nandigallia nandiensis sp. nov.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on page 95
SWOT Analysis on Breeding R&D of Tropical Crops in China in the Context of Implementing UPOV Convention 1991 Act
Creators: name: PU, Wenhui
name: DONG, Dingchao
name: LI, Qiong
name: ZHANG, Huijian
name: PU, Wenhui
name: DONG, Dingchao
name: LI, Qiong
name: ZHANG, Huijian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: SWOT analysis
subject: UPOV Convention 1991 Act
subject: Tropical crops
subject: Breeding
subject: New variety protection
subject: Development strategies

description: This paper firstly reviewed development process of UPOV Conventions and briefly introduced current situation of protection of new tropical crop varieties in China. Using SWOT approach, it analyzed internal strengths, weaknesses, external opportunities and threats of breeding R&D of tropical crops if implementing UPOV Convention 1991 Act in China. Internal strengths include rich resources, strategic significance of tropical crops, solid crop breeding foundation, and broad market prospect. Internal weaknesses include insufficient reserve of germplasm resources, weak R&D and protection of new varieties, low market level of breeding R&D entities, unreasonable structure, low input in breeding R&D, and weak protection awareness. Opportunities include bringing into play strengths of rich tropical plant resources, stimulating enthusiasm for new variety R&D and awareness for variety protection, promoting structural optimization of breeding input entities, raising technology level of breeding R&D, and promoting international cooperation of new variety protection. Threats include more strict restriction of intellectual property right, impact to weak fields of new variety R&D, and difficulty in implementing limitation of farmer privileges. Finally, it came up with four recommendations for breeding R&D of tropical crops in China in the contest of implementing UPOV Convention 1991 Act.
Compensatory Breeding in Years Following Drought in a Desert-Dwelling Cooperative Breeder
Creators: name: Bourne, Amanda R.
name: Cunningham, Susan J.
name: Spottiswoode, Claire N.
name: Ridley, Amanda R.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Ecology and Evolution
climate change
compensatory breeding
cooperative breeding
drought
environmental change
southern pied babbler
weather

description: Variation in weather patterns can influence reproductive effort and success not only within but also between breeding seasons. Where environmental conditions can be highly variable between years, the weather, and particularly extreme weather events such as heat waves and droughts, may exert a strong influence on reproductive effort (number of breeding attempts) and success (number of surviving young) from one breeding season to the next. We used a 15-year dataset for a cooperatively breeding bird, the southern pied babbler Turdoides bicolor, to determine the impact of high temperatures and drought on reproductive effort and success. We tested the influence on reproductive effort and success of mean daily maximum air temperature and drought both within a breeding season, to determine the relative importance of current conditions, and during the previous breeding season, to determine the relative importance of compensatory effects in response to prior conditions. Reproductive effort and success were lower during breeding seasons characterized by drought, and higher in the breeding seasons that followed droughts, but were not predicted by mean daily maximum temperatures measured over the full length of the breeding season. We provide evidence of compensatory breeding following drought in a bird species endemic to a semi-arid ecosystem and suggest that compensatory mechanisms may be an important part of both long-term population persistence and post-drought population recovery.
Advancing GUI for Generative AI: Charting the Design Space of Human-AI Interactions through Task Creativity and Complexity
Creators: name: Ding, Zijian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Technological progress has persistently shaped the dynamics of human-machine interactions in task execution. In response to the advancements in Generative AI, this paper outlines a detailed study plan that investigates various human-AI interaction modalities across a range of tasks, characterized by differing levels of creativity and complexity. This exploration aims to inform and contribute to the development of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) that effectively integrate with and enhance the capabilities of Generative AI systems. The study comprises three parts: exploring fixed-scope tasks through news headline generation, delving into atomic creative tasks with analogy generation, and investigating complex tasks via data visualization. Future work aims to extend this exploration to linearize complex data analysis results into narratives understandable to a broader audience, thereby enhancing the interpretability of AI-generated content.
Different dendritic domains of the GnRH neuron underlie the pulse and surge modes of GnRH secretion in female mice
Creators: name: Wang, Li
name: Guo, Wenya
name: Shen, Xi
name: Yeo, Shel
name: Long, Hui
name: Wang, Zhexuan
name: Lyu, Qifeng
name: Herbison, Allan E
name: Kuang, Yanping
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Research Article
Neuroscience
GnRH
hypothalamus
luteinizing hormone
Mouse

description: Funder: Wellcome Trust; FundRef: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100004440
description: The gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons exhibit pulse and surge modes of activity to control fertility. They also exhibit an unusual bipolar morphology comprised of a classical soma-proximal dendritic zone and an elongated secretory process that can operate as both a dendrite and an axon, termed a ‘dendron’. We show using expansion microscopy that the highest density of synaptic inputs to a GnRH neuron exists at its distal dendron. In vivo, selective chemogenetic inhibition of the GnRH neuron distal dendron abolishes the luteinizing hormone (LH) surge and markedly dampens LH pulses. In contrast, inhibitory chemogenetic and optogenetic strategies targeting the GnRH neuron soma-proximal dendritic zone abolish the LH surge but have no effect upon LH pulsatility. These observations indicate that electrical activity at the soma-proximal dendrites of the GnRH neuron is only essential for the LH surge while the distal dendron represents an autonomous zone where synaptic integration drives pulsatile GnRH secretion.
Universal DV-CV interaction mechanism for deterministic generation of entangled hybridity
Creators: name: Podoshvedov, Mihail S.
name: Podoshvedov, Sergey A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a general approach for the implementation of the hybrid entangled states consisting of continuous variable (CV) and discrete variable (DV) states. Peculiarities of DV-CV interaction mechanism on the beam splitter with arbitrary parameters is key for the for the birth of the entangled hybridity provided that some measurement event is registered in auxiliary mode. We show that the CV states forming entangled state can consist exclusively of either even or odd Fock states. Various input CV states including Schrodinger cat state (SCSs) are used at the input of the beam splitter where they mix with delocalized single photon. We show the hybrid entanglement generation is observed at any values of the experimental parameters used. Degree of the hybrid entanglement is evaluated. Conditions for generating the maximally entangled hybridity are established.
description: 7 Figures and 1 Table
Chinese Consumers' Awareness, Preferences and Purchasing Behavior on Korean Food
Creators: name: HAN, Yijun
name: LIU, Suyun
name: JIANG, Nan
name: HAN, Yijun
name: LIU, Suyun
name: JIANG, Nan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Korean food and agricultural products
subject: Consumer awareness
subject: Consumption preferences
subject: Purchasing behavior

description: Based on the survey and research of awareness, preferences and purchasing behavior of residents about Korean food and agricultural products in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Qingdao and Chongqing in 2014, this paper makes a statistical analysis of the influence of consumers' personal characteristics, awareness, buying habits and income on Chinese consumers' identification and purchase of Korean food and agricultural products, and performs an empirical analysis on the purchasing behavior using Tobit model. The results show that consumers' personal characteristics have no significant influence on the purchase of Korean food; consumers' income levels have a significant positive effect on the purchasing amount of Korean food; consumers' location has a significant effect on the purchasing amount; consumers' recognition has a positive effect on consumers' purchasing behavior, but it is not significant.
Long-Ranged Correlations in Sheared Fluids
Creators: name: Lutsko, James F.
name: Dufty, J. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The presence of long-ranged correlations in a fluid undergoing uniform shear flow is investigated. An exact relation between the density autocorrelation function and the density-mometum correlation function implies that the former must decay more rapidly than $1/r$, in contrast to predictions of simple mode coupling theory. Analytic and numerical evaluation of a non-perturbative mode-coupling model confirms a crossover from $1/r$ behavior at ''small'' $r$ to a stronger asymptotic power-law decay. The characteristic length scale is $\ell \approx \sqrt{λ_{0}/a}$ where $% λ_{0}$ is the sound damping constant and $a$ is the shear rate.
description: 15 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to PRE
The 3D structure of disc-instability protoplanets
Creators: name: Fenton, Adam
name: Stamatellos, Dimitris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. The model of disc fragmentation due to gravitational instabilities offers an alternate formation mechanism for gas giant planets, especially those on wide orbits. Aims. Our goal is to determine the 3D structure of disc-instability protoplanets and to examine how this relates to the thermal physics of the fragmentation process. Methods. We modelled the fragmentation of gravitationally unstable discs using the SPH code PHANTOM, and followed the evolution of the protoplanets formed through the first and second-hydrostatic core phases (up to densities 1e-3 g/cm3). Results. We find that the 3D structure of disc-instability protoplanets is affected by the disc environment and the formation history of each protoplanet (e.g. interactions with spiral arms, mergers). The large majority of the protoplanets that form in the simulations are oblate spheroids rather than spherical, and they accrete faster from their poles. Conclusions. The 3D structure of disc-instability protoplanets is expected to affect their observed properties and should be taken into account when interpreting observations of protoplanets embedded in their parent discs.
description: Accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters
Additional file 3 of Vertical leaping mechanics of the Lesser Egyptian Jerboa reveal specialization for maneuverability rather than elastic energy storage
Creators: name: Moore, Talia
name: Rivera, Alberto
name: Biewener, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Table S1. Effect of CoP model on muscle stress by joint. Stresses for each model are shown as a proportion of the model used (25% initial location, exponential movement). (PDF 30 kb)
Critical current in SFIFS junctions
Creators: name: Golubov, A. A.
name: Kupriyanov, M. Yu.
name: Fominov, Ya. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantitative theory of the Josephson effect in SFIFS junctions (S denotes bulk superconductor, F - metallic ferromagnet, I - insulating barrier) is presented in the dirty limit. Fully self-consistent numerical procedure is employed to solve the Usadel equations at arbitrary values of the F-layers thicknesses, magnetizations, and interface parameters. In the case of antiparallel ferromagnets' magnetizations the effect of the critical current enhancement by the exchange field is observed, while in the case of parallel magnetizations the junction exhibits the transition to the pi-state. In the limit of thin F layers, we study these peculiarities of the critical current analytically and explain them qualitatively; the scenario of the 0-pi transition in our case differs from those studied before. The effect of switching between 0 and pi states by changing the F-layers' mutual orientation is demonstrated.
description: 5 pages, 4 EPS figures; the style file jetpl.cls is included. Version 2: minor corrections
Additional file 4 of Vertical leaping mechanics of the Lesser Egyptian Jerboa reveal specialization for maneuverability rather than elastic energy storage
Creators: name: Moore, Talia
name: Rivera, Alberto
name: Biewener, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Figure S3. Joint Moment Sensitivity Analysis. The effect of different models of CoP movement on net joint moments with respect to time for all trials. The shaded area represents one standard deviation above and below the mean pattern of joint moment, depicted by bold lines for each model, as noted in the figure panel legends. The CoP model used in this paper began at 25% of the distance from MTP to the toe, and moved toward the toe at a rate of e x , indicated by the solid line in each plot. (PDF 29 kb)
Freeze-out in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Tomasik, Boris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I discuss the effects and quantities that influence the decoupling of particles from the fireball. The crucial role is played by the scattering rate. I show the results for the scattering rate at SPS and RHIC and discuss their implications.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, proceedings of SEWM 2002, October 2-5, Heidelberg, Germany
A Study of the Moderate Scale Operation of China's Agriculture
Creators: name: XIN, Ling
name: HU, Zhiquan
name: XIN, Ling
name: HU, Zhiquan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Scale operation of agriculture
subject: Moderate operation scale measurement
subject: Different regions

description: In order to promote the development of agricultural large-scale operation in China, this paper constructs a calculation model for agricultural moderate large-scale operation to estimate moderate operation scale of China’s major crops and different agricultural varieties in different regions based on the analysis of present situation of agricultural moderate large-scale operation. The results show that the national average moderate operation area of grain is 7.3 ha; the average moderate operation area of vegetable, cotton and apple is 0.61, 21.42 and 0.37 ha, respectively; the average moderate scale of hog and sheep is 388 and 234.8, respectively. In addition, for different varieties of agricultural products, we estimate their moderate scale in different provinces. The study provides a scientific basis for speeding up agricultural land transfer and realizing moderate large-scale operation, and sets forth corresponding recommendations on this basis.
Nandigallia matai C.A.Viraktamath 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: C. A. Viraktamath
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Nandigallia
Nandigallia matai

description: Nandigallia matai sp. nov.
Figs 472–481.
 Color. Ochraceous. Two spots on vertex, antennal cavities, anterior portions of pronotum, most of scutellum, facial sulci, claval cells and veins of corium, fuscous. Median stripe on vertex continuing on face, brownish. Legs ochraceous but annulated with brown. Abdomen ochraceous. Claval veins, anterior portions of claval suture and parts of vein M stamineous; cells of corium hyaline.
 Morphology. Small robust species. Vertex longer medially than next to eyes with two tubercles closer to eyes than to each other. Clypellus more or less parallel sided, apically slightly emarginated. Lateral arms of epicranial sulcus evident below ocelli. Face, vertex, pronotum, scutellum and forewings coarsely granulated. Pronotal disc nearly flat, anterior margin convex, posterior almost straight, with transverse shallow depression, lateral areas of depression transformed into shallow cavities. Scutellum transversely impressed in middle and with two shallow rounded depressions anterior to impressed line. Forewings with prominent venation and sparsely clothed with fine seta. Hind wings shorter than forewings. Sternal apodemes at base of abdomen well developed and sclerotized.
 Male genitalia. Subgenital plates quadrate fused basally, inner margins straight, outer margins curved caudally. Styles twisted caudally, outer arm stout, shorter than inner arm. Connective flat, broader proximally, abruptly narrowed about 0.33 caudally, distal margin strongly sinuate, anterior margin concave. Aedeagus with preatrium strongly developed, longer than dorsal apodeme, shaft bulbous at base, curved dorsad narrowed distally, terminated by one pair of short curved processes on either side of apical gonopore. Anal collar process twisted, with fingerlike process, surface uneven.
 Measurements. Male 3.3 mm long, 1.4 mm wide across eyes.
 Material examined. S. CHINA: HOLOTYPE ♂, Fukien: Kienyang city, 9.vii.1940, T.C. Ma (BPBM). Paratype: 1 ♂, INDIA: West Bengal: Siliguri, 31.x.1981, S. Viraktamath (UASB).
 Remarks. N. matai closely resembles N. nandiensis sp. nov. (see below) but differs in the structure of the male genitalia as given in the key. The twisted anal collar process is a unique character of this species.
description: Published as part of C. A. Viraktamath, 2011, Revision of the Oriental and Australian Agalliini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) 2844, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 2844 on pages 96-97
Assessing Anti-HCMV Cell Mediated Immune Responses in Transplant Recipients and Healthy Controls Using a Novel Functional Assay
Creators: name: Houldcroft, Charlotte J.
name: Jackson, Sarah E.
name: Lim, Eleanor Y.
name: Sedikides, George X.
name: Davies, Emma L.
name: Atkinson, Claire
name: McIntosh, Megan
name: Remmerswaal, Ester B. M.
name: Okecha, Georgina
name: Bemelman, Frederike J.
name: Stanton, Richard J.
name: Reeves, Matthew
name: Wills, Mark R.
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2020
Subjects: Cellular and Infection Microbiology
herpesvirus
host-pathogen interactions
secreted immunity
T cells
transplantation
cell-mediated immunity
antiviral
cytomegalovirus

description: HCMV infection, reinfection or reactivation occurs in 60% of untreated solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients. Current clinical approaches to HCMV management include pre-emptive and prophylactic antiviral treatment strategies. The introduction of immune monitoring to better stratify patients at risk of viraemia and HCMV mediated disease could improve clinical management. Current approaches quantify T cell IFNγ responses specific for predominantly IE and pp65 proteins ex vivo, as a proxy for functional control of HCMV in vivo. However, these approaches have only a limited predictive ability. We measured the IFNγ T cell responses to an expanded panel of overlapping peptide pools specific for immunodominant HCMV proteins IE1/2, pp65, pp71, gB, UL144, and US3 in a cohort of D+R– kidney transplant recipients in a longitudinal analysis. Even with this increased antigen diversity, the results show that while all patients had detectable T cell responses, this did not correlate with control of HCMV replication in some. We wished to develop an assay that could directly measure anti-HCMV cell-mediated immunity. We evaluated three approaches, stimulation of PBMC with (i) whole HCMV lysate or (ii) a defined panel of immunodominant HCMV peptides, or (iii) fully autologous infected cells co-cultured with PBMC or isolated CD8+ T cells or NK cells. Stimulation with HCMV lysate often generated non-specific antiviral responses while stimulation with immunodominant HCMV peptide pools produced responses which were not necessarily antiviral despite strong IFNγ production. We demonstrated that IFNγ was only a minor component of secreted antiviral activity. Finally, we used an antiviral assay system to measure the effect of whole PBMC, and isolated CD8+ T cells and NK cells to control HCMV in infected autologous dermal fibroblasts. The results show that both PBMC and especially CD8+ T cells from HCMV seropositive donors have highly specific antiviral activity against HCMV. In addition, we were able to show that NK cells were also antiviral, but the level of this control was highly variable between donors and not dependant on HCMV seropositivity. Using this approach, we show that non-viraemic D+R+ SOT recipients had significant and specific antiviral activity against HCMV.