cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Pseudopoda anfracta Zhang, Jager & Liu 2023, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Zhang, He
name: Zhu, Yang
name: Zhong, Yang
name: Jäger, Peter
name: Liu, Jie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Sparassidae
Pseudopoda
Pseudopoda anfracta

description:  Pseudopoda anfracta Zhang, Jäger & Liu, spec. nov. Figs 12–13, Map 2 Type material.  VIETNAM, Cao Bang Province: Holotype female from Pia Oac Forest, 22.60°N, 105.88°E, 1314 m, 6 August 2010, P. Lumboung leg. (IRSN, IRSN0001). Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin adjective anfractus, - a, - um, meaning “crooked”, referring to the crook-shaped S in ventral view; adjective. Diagnosis. The female of P. anfracta Zhang, Jäger & Liu, spec. nov. is similar to that of P. minor Jäger, 2001 (Jäger 2001) by having similar loops of IDS in ventral view, but can be distinguished by: 1) Anterior margin of EF distinctly trilobate; 2) Ends of anterior margins of LL anteriad; 3) Posterior part of IDS covered by LL in dorsal view (anterior margin of EF roundish with only short AB, ends of anterior margins of LL distinctly bent and mediad, posterior part of IDS freely visible in dorsal view in P. minor). FEMALE (IRSN0001): Measurements: Small sized. Body length 9.6, DS length 4.4, width 4.0, OS length 5.2, width 3.5. Eyes: AME 0.17, ALE 0.27, PME 0.19, PLE 0.24, AME–AME 0.15, AME–ALE 0.08, PME–PME 0.20, PME–PLE 0.34, AME–PME 0.31, ALE–PLE 0.24, CH AME 0.38, CH ALE 0.32. Spination: Pp 131, 101, 2121, 1014; Fe I–II 323, III 322, IV 331; Pa I–IV 001; Ti I 1024, II 2024, III 2026, IV 2126; Mt I–II 1014, III 3025, IV 3037. Measurements of palps and legs: Pp 6.1 (1.7, 0.9, 1.3, –, 2.2); I 14.2 (4.0, 1.8, 3.7, 3.4, 1.3); II 17.2 (4.4, 2.0, 5.2, 4.1, 1.5); III 12.4 (3.8, 1.6, 3.0, 2.8, 1.2); IV 13.5 (4.2, 1.1, 3.2, 3.6, 1.4). Leg formula: II-I-IV-III. Cheliceral furrow with ca. 17 denticles. Epigyne (Figs 12A–C): As in diagnosis. EF slightly wider than long, with indistinct AB. Colouration (Figs 13A–B): DS reddish brown with dark spots, partly connected by fine lines, margin with thin dashed line and brown marbled pattern. Fovea and striae distinctly marked. OS dorsally reddish brown with a longitudinal white tripartite patch in posterior part, ventrally dark yellow. MALE: Unknown. Distribution. Vietnam (Cao Bang Province).
description: Published as part of Zhang, He, Zhu, Yang, Zhong, Yang, Jäger, Peter & Liu, Jie, 2023, A taxonomic revision of the spider genus Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 (Araneae: Sparassidae) from East, South and Southeast Asia, pp. 1-304 in Megataxa 9 (1) on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.9.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7658066
Remarks on Legendrian Self-Linking
Creators: name: Beasley, Chris
name: McLellan, Brendan
name: Zhang, Ruoran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Thurston-Bennequin invariant provides one notion of self-linking for any homologically-trivial Legendrian curve in a contact three-manifold. Here we discuss related analytic notions of self-linking for Legendrian knots in Euclidean space. Our definition is based upon a reformulation of the elementary Gauss linking integral and is motivated by ideas from supersymmetric gauge theory. We recover the Thurston-Bennequin invariant as a special case.
description: 42 pages, many figures; v2: minor revisions, published version
title: Energy substitution and the institutional environment
Creators: name: Andal, Emmanuel Genesis T.
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2023

description: This thesis contributes insights on the role of institutions on the substitution for fossil fuels across countries. Using panel data econometric methods, the research focusses on 19 European countries from years 2011-2018, and finds evidence that (a) higher industrialisation levels in the economy positively affects energy substitution; that (b) changes in industrialisation levels, not the levels themselves, negatively affects energy substitution, but state-related institutions in support of green energy policy weaken this effect; and that (c) higher degrees of state participation of the electricity sector negatively affects energy substitution, but state-related institutions in support of green energy policy likewise weaken this effect. Furthermore, qualitative research methods were used to investigate how community-based approaches to renewable energy help in the substituting renewables for fossil fuels in Europe. This feature online interviews focussing on 14 REScoop.eu member cooperatives and organisations and 4 non-REScoop.eu organisations, and a complementary online survey of 32 respondents. This part of the research finds that (a) cooperatives’ legal form is not seen to generate the perceived advantages to cooperatives in renewable energy proliferation and (b) in addressing associated land use issues; that (c) there is the perception that renewable energy cooperatives directly help in renewable energy proliferation through localising energy production and stimulating the local economy, (d) by making renewables more acceptable at the local level, and (e) by building trust-based relationships with the communities; and that (f) such cooperatives are hampered by the general lack of corresponding professional and technical expertise, by being mostly run by volunteer work, and by the democratic decision-making process.
Preweaning Sensorimotor Deficits and Adolescent Hypersociability in Grin1 Knockdown Mice
Creators: name: Baker, Lorinda K.
name: Riddick, Natallia V.
name: Moy, Sheryl S.
name: Koller, Beverly H.
name: Nikolova, Viktoriya D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Mice with knockdown of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor NR1 subunit, encoded by the gene Grin1, have been investigated as a model for the intrinsic NMDA hypofunction hypothesized for schizophrenia. Previous work has shown that adult Grin1 mutant mice have overt deficits in habituation and sensorimotor gating, exaggerated reactivity to environmental stimuli, reduced social approach, and other alterations that reflect behavioral manifestations of schizophrenia. In humans, the emergence of overt symptoms of the disorder typically occurs in adolescence or early adulthood, suggesting a role for aberrant maturation of NMDA receptor signaling in symptom onset. The following study evaluated Grin1 mutant mice for abnormal behavioral phenotypes during the preweaning, adolescent, and adult periods. Measures included open field activity, prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle responses, and social preference in a three-chamber choice task. Mice from the C57BL/6J inbred strain, one of the parental strains for the Grin1 line, were also tested. The results showed that developmental reduction of NMDA receptor function led to significant alterations in behavior during the second and third weeks of life, including exaggerated startle responses and sensorimotor gating deficits on postnatal day 13, and pronounced hypersociability in adolescence. Male Grin1 mutant mice were more susceptible than female mice to the detrimental effects of decreased NMDA signaling. Overall, these findings provide evidence that reduced Grin1 function leads to abnormal phenotypes in the preweaning period, and that deficient NMDA signaling can lead to both overt hypersociability or marked asociality, dependent upon sex and age.
Weighted noncommutative regular projective curves
Creators: name: Kussin, Dirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a noncommutative regular projective curve over a perfect field $k$. We study global and local properties of the Auslander-Reiten translation $τ$ and give an explicit description of the complete local rings, with the involvement of $τ$. We introduce the $τ$-multiplicity $e_τ(x)$, the order of $τ$ as a functor restricted to the tube concentrated in $x$. We obtain a local-global principle for the (global) skewness $s(\mathcal{H})$, defined as the square root of the dimension of the function (skew-) field over its centre. In the case of genus zero we show how the ghost group, that is, the group of automorphisms of $\mathcal{H}$ which fix all objects, is determined by the points $x$ with $e_τ(x)>1$. Based on work of Witt we describe the noncommutative regular (smooth) projective curves over the real numbers; those with $s(\mathcal{H})=2$ we call Witt curves. In particular, we study noncommutative elliptic curves, and present an elliptic Witt curve which is a noncommutative Fourier-Mukai partner of the Klein bottle. If $\mathcal{H}$ is weighted, our main result will be formulae for the orbifold Euler characteristic, involving the weights and the $τ$-multiplicities. As an application we will classify the noncommutative $2$-orbifolds of nonnegative Euler characteristic, that is, the real elliptic, domestic and tubular curves. Throughout, many explicit examples are discussed.
description: 59 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables. v7: Retitled (smooth replaced by regular). Several minor improvements, added reference. More general formulations of some results in Sec. 8. Example 2.9, Lemma 7.5, Example 11.3 and Thm. 11.4 added. More details on insertion of weights in 13.1 and 13.2
title: Structural cables subjected to blast fragmentation
Creators: name: Judge, Ryan
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: In civil engineering, steel cables are widely used in the construction of bridges and sports stadia. However, their robustness and resilience against explosively formed fragment impact, whether accidental or malicious, remains largely unknown and very little research has been carried out on this subject to date. The concern is that small fragments projected from the explosion and travelling at high velocity may induce significant damage to the cables. This damage could rupture a cable releasing large amounts of kinetic energy into the surrounding structure and other damaged cables resulting in multiple cable loss and possible disproportionate collapse of the structure. To begin investigating this problem a good understanding of the localised damage sustained by the cables on impact is required. The work described within this thesis begins to address this problem by use of both physical tests and detailed finite element analysis. The tests involved firing fragment simulating projectiles at velocities ranging from 200 – 1400 m/s at un-tensioned spiral strand cables. Detailed finite element models have been developed for the spiral strand cables, with careful considerations given to the geometry of the cables, inter-wire contact mechanics, cable end boundary conditions and material modelling. The numerical results have been verified by comparison with the test results, with particular attention paid to the localised damage area, the fragment penetration depth, and the number of heavily damaged and totally broken wires. A global response study has also been undertaken on a case study structure to assess the effects of sudden cable loss. The work contained with this thesis forms part of larger research programme studying the robustness and resilience of cable supported structures subjected to highly transient loading conditions.
Enumeration of Complex and Real Surfaces via Tropical Geometry
Creators: name: Markwig, Hannah
name: Markwig, Thomas
name: Shustin, Eugenii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14T05, 51M20, 14N10

description: We prove a correspondence theorem for singular tropical surfaces in real three space, which recovers singular algebraic surfaces in an appropriate toric three-fold that tropicalize to a given singular tropical surface. Furthermore, we develop a three-dimensional version of Mikhalkin's lattice path algorithm that enumerates singular tropical surfaces passing through an appropriate configuration of points in real three space. As application we show that there are pencils of real surfaces of degree $d$ in projective three space containing at least $(3/2)d^3+O(d^2)$ singular surfaces, which is asymptotically comparable to the number $4(d-1)^3$ of all complex singular surfaces in the pencil. Our result relies on the classification of singular tropical surfaces (arXiv:1106.2676).
description: 30 pages; appendix concerning the computation of discriminants inserted
The Translational Role of Diffusion Tensor Image Analysis in Animal Models of Developmental Pathologies
Creators: name: Styner, Martin
name: Johns, Josephine M.
name: Oguz, Ipek
name: McMurray, Matthew S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DTI) has proven itself a powerful technique for clinical investigation of the neurobiological targets and mechanisms underlying developmental pathologies. The success of DTI in clinical studies has demonstrated its great potential for understanding translational animal models of clinical disorders, and preclinical animal researchers are beginning to embrace this new technology to study developmental pathologies. In animal models, genetics can be effectively controlled, drugs consistently administered, subject compliance ensured, and image acquisition times dramatically increased to reduce between-subject variability and improve image quality. When pairing these strengths with the many positive attributes of DTI, such as the ability to investigate microstructural brain organization and connectivity, it becomes possible to delve deeper into the study of both normal and abnormal development. The purpose of this review is to provide new preclinical investigators with an introductory source of information about the analysis of data resulting from small animal DTI studies to facilitate the translation of these studies to clinical data. In addition to an in depth review of translational analysis techniques, we present a number of relevant clinical and animal studies using DTI to investigate developmental insults in order to further illustrate techniques and to highlight where small animal DTI could potentially provide a wealth of translational data to inform clinical researchers.
A citizen science success story - BioMARató 2021: noteworthy results
Creators: name: Salvador, Xavier
name: Piera, Jaume
name: Liñán, Sonia
name: Justamante, Ángela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: citizen science
marine biodiversity
citizen observatory
science
BioBlitz
BioMARató

description: This infographic summarises the results of the first edition of the BioMARató-Beaches with life, one of the most significant citizen science and marine observations events in Catalonia. BioMARató 2021 was coordinated by the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM) together with the Cos4Cloud project, the company Anèl·lides, serveis ambientals marins, the environmental association Xatrac, and two diving centers: Oceánicos, and Plàncton Diving and the Calonge and Sant Antoni city council, which seeks to promote conservation and awareness of the marine ecosystem.
Multiband character of $β$-FeSe: Angular dependence of the magnetoresistance and upper critical field
Creators: name: Amigó, M. L.
name: Crivillero, V. Ale
name: Franco, D. G.
name: Nieva, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied $ab$-plane transport properties in single crystals of the superconductor $β$-FeSe up to 16 T. In the normal state, below 90 K, the crystals present a strongly anisotropic positive magnetoresistance that becomes negligible above that temperature. In the superconducting state (T$_c$=8.87(5) K) the upper critical field anisotropy $H$$_{c2}$$\parallel$$ab$ / $H$$_{c2}$$\parallel$$c$ changes with temperature and the angular dependence of the dissipation for fixed temperatures and fields reflects a strongly anisotropic behavior. Our results make evident that multiband effects are needed to describe the measured transport properties. We model the magnetoresistance and upper critical field behavior with a two-band model showing that the diffusivities ratio parameter remains unchanged going from the normal to the superconducting state.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, 27th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT27)
title: A 3 flavour joint near and far detector neutrino oscillation analysis at T2K
Creators: name: Calland, Richard
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2015

description: The Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) experiment is a second generation longbaseline neutrino experiment and the �rst to use an o�-axis neutrino beam to produce narrow neutrino energy spectrum. T2K was designed to measure with precision the atmospheric mixing parameters, and also look for evidence of non-zero �13. T2K's near detector (ND280) provides constraints on the beam ux and neutrino cross-section uncertainties, as well as making valuable cross-section measurements. This thesis describes an oscillation analysis that uses samples from both near and far detectors. Importantly, �� and �e samples at the far detector are combined to produce a joint oscillation analysis. A Markov chain Monte Carlo is used to construct the Bayesian posterior distribution by sampling a likelihood function. From the Bayesian posterior distribution, the oscillation parameters of interest and their errors are estimated. When analysing with only T2K run 1-4 data, the best �t point for the oscillation parameters is �m2 32 = (
title: Determinants of health seeking behaviours and health service utilization : an analytical study of health seeking behaviours in the Northern areas of Pakistan
Creators: name: Tasneem Shaikh, Babar
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2023

description: Currently the health policy planning process in Pakistan is impaired by a lack of analysis of how people use public, private and informal health care. Understanding the drivers of health seeking behaviour is important in order to develop rational policies to provide efficient, effective, acceptable, cost-effective, affordable and accessible health services and an overall responsive health care system. Better information is required on the determinants of health seeking behaviour such as socio-demographic, economic, physical accessibility, financial accessibility, women's autonomy and health service factors. To study the determinants of health seeking behaviour and their role in health service utilization in the population of the Northern Areas of Pakistan; and to improve the health policy planning process by providing evidence based information to the local government and the health care providers (private and traditional).
Editorial: Ethik nach Gefühl?
Creators: name: Meyer Zu Hörste-Bührer, Raphaela
name: Volp, Ulrich
name: Kobel, Esther
name: Erbele-Küster, Dorothea
name: Roth, Michael
name: Zimmermann, Ruben
Publisher: name: Journal of Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity
Year: 2020

description: Editorial
description: Journal of Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity, Bd. 2 (2020): JEAC 2: Ethik und Emotionen
Gravitational leptogenesis, C, CP and strong equivalence
Creators: name: McDonald, J. I.
name: Shore, Graham M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The origin of matter-antimatter asymmetry is one of the most important outstanding problems at the interface of particle physics and cosmology. Gravitational leptogenesis (baryogenesis) provides a possible mechanism through explicit couplings of spacetime curvature to appropriate lepton (or baryon) currents. In this paper, the idea that these strong equivalence principle violating interactions could be generated automatically through quantum loop effects in curved spacetime is explored, focusing on the realisation of the discrete symmetries C, CP and CPT which must be broken to induce matter-antimatter asymmetry. The related issue of quantum corrections to the dispersion relation for neutrino propagation in curved spacetime is considered within a fully covariant framework.
description: 32 pages, 5 figures
Persistent Loss of Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Increased Cell Death following Adolescent, but Not Adult, Chronic Ethanol Exposure
Creators: name: Crews, Fulton T.
name: Liu, Wen
name: Spear, Linda P.
name: Broadwater, Margaret A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Although adolescence is a common age to initiate alcohol consumption, long-lasting consequences of exposure to alcohol at this time of considerable brain maturation are largely unknown. In studies utilizing rodents, behavioral evidence is beginning to emerge suggesting that the hippocampus may be persistently affected by repeated ethanol exposure during adolescence, but not by comparable alcohol exposure in adulthood. The purpose of this series of experiments was to explore a potential mechanism of hippocampal dysfunction in adults exposed to ethanol during adolescence. Given that disruption in adult neurogenesis has been reported to impair performance on tasks thought to be hippocampally-related, we used immunohistochemistry to assess levels of doublecortin (DCX), an endogenous marker of immature neurons, in the dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampus 3–4 weeks after adolescent (P28–48) or adult (P70–90) intermittent ethanol exposure to 4 g/kg ethanol administered intragastrically. We also investigated another neurogenic niche, the subventricular zone (SVZ), to determine if effects of ethanol exposure were region-specific. Levels of cell proliferation and cell death were also examined in the DG via assessing Ki67 and cleaved caspase-3 immunoreactivity, respectively. Significantly less DCX was observed in the DG of adolescent (but not adult) ethanol exposed animals ~4 weeks post-exposure when these animals were compared to control age-mates. Effects of adolescent ethanol on DCX immunoreactivity were specific to the hippocampus, with no significant exposure effects emerging in the SVZ. In both DG and SVZ there was a significant age-related decline in neurogenesis as indexed by DCX. The persistent effect of adolescent ethanol exposure on reduced DCX in the DG appears to be related to significant increases in cell death, with significantly more cleaved caspase-3 positive immunoreactivity observed in the adolescent ethanol group compared to controls, but no alterations in cell proliferation when indexed by Ki67. These results suggest that a history of adolescent ethanol exposure results in lowered levels of differentiating neurons, likely due at least in part to increased cell death of immature neurons. These effects were evident in adulthood, weeks following termination of the chronic exposure, and may contribute to previously reported behavioral deficits on hippocampal-related tasks after the chronic exposure.
A bound on the norm of overconvergent $p$-adic multiple polylogarithms
Creators: name: Jarossay, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We generalize the definition of overconvergent $p$-adic multiple polylogarithms and of $p$-adic cyclotomic multiple zeta values and we prove a bound on their norm. A byproduct of the proof is a characterization of these objects in terms of certain regularized $p$-adic iterated integrals. The generalization of the definition consists in replacing the underlying Frobenius structure by its iterations. The bound on the norms of overconvergent $p$-adic multiple polylogarithms that we obtain is a prerequisite for our subsequent papers on $p$-adic cyclotomic multiple zeta values.
description: 25 pages. This is Part I-1 of "$p$-adic cyclotomic multiple zeta values and $p$-adic pro-unipotent harmonic actions"
Surface Tension and Negative Pressure Interior of a Non-Singular `Black Hole'
Creators: name: Mazur, Pawel O.
name: Mottola, Emil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The constant density interior Schwarzschild solution for a static, spherically symmetric collapsed star has a divergent pressure when its radius $R\le\frac{9}{8}R_s=\frac{9}{4}GM$. We show that this divergence is integrable, and induces a non-isotropic transverse stress with a finite redshifted surface tension on a spherical surface of radius $R_0=3R\sqrt{1-\frac{8}{9}\frac{R}{R_s}}$. For $r < R_0$ the interior Schwarzschild solution exhibits negative pressure. When $R=R_s$, the surface is localized at the Schwarzschild radius itself, $R_0=R_s$, and the solution has constant negative pressure $p =-\barρ$ everywhere in the interior $r
description: 45 pages, 10 figures, Dedicated to Professor Andrzej Staruszkiewicz on the occasion of his 75th birthday
Maternal Style Selectively Shapes Amygdalar Development and Social Behavior in Rats Genetically Prone to High Anxiety
Creators: name: Akil, Huda
name: Clinton, Sarah M.
name: Cohen, Joshua L.
name: Glover, Matthew E.
name: Fant, Andrew D.
name: Pugh, Phyllis C.
name: Simmons, Rebecca K.
name: Kerman, Ilan A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The early-life environment critically influences neurodevelopment and later psychological health. To elucidate neural and environmental elements that shape emotional behavior, we developed a rat model of individual differences in temperament and environmental reactivity. We selectively bred rats for high vs. low behavioral response to novelty and found that high reactive (bHR) rats display greater risk-taking, impulsivity, and aggression relative to low reactive (bLR) rats, which show high levels of anxiety/depression-like behavior and certain stress vulnerability. The bHR/bLR traits are heritable but prior work revealed bHR/bLR maternal style differences, with bLR dams showing more maternal attention than bHRs. The present study implemented a cross-fostering paradigm to examine the contribution of maternal behavior on bLR offspring’s brain development and emotional behavior. bLR offspring were reared by biological bLR mothers or fostered to a bLR or bHR mother and then evaluated to determine effects on: 1) developmental gene expression in the hippocampus and amygdala; and 2) adult anxiety/depression-like behavior. Genome-wide expression profiling showed that cross-fostering bLR rats to bHR mothers shifted developmental gene expression in the amygdala (but not hippocampus), reduced adult anxiety and enhanced social interaction. Our findings illustrate how an early-life manipulation such as cross-fostering changes the brain’s developmental trajectory and ultimately impacts adult behavior. Moreover, while earlier studies highlighted hippocampal differences contributing to the bHR/bLR phenotypes, our results point to a role of the amygdala as well. Future work will pursue genetic and cellular mechanisms within the amygdala that contribute to bHR/bLR behavior either at baseline or following environmental manipulations.
Pseudopoda parvipunctata Jager 2001
Creators: name: Zhang, He
name: Zhu, Yang
name: Zhong, Yang
name: Jäger, Peter
name: Liu, Jie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Sparassidae
Pseudopoda
Pseudopoda parvipunctata

description:  Pseudopoda parvipunctata Jäger, 2001 Figs 198–200, Maps 2, 4 Pseudopoda parvipunctata Jäger, 2001: 94, figs 49e–l (Holotype: male from Doi Suthep and Doi Pui, Chaing Mai Province, Thailand, deposited in QMB; Paratypes: 2 females from Doi Suthep and Doi Pui, Chaing Mai Province, Thailand, deposited in QMB. Examined). Material examined.  CHINA, Yunnan Province: 2 males, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Mengla County, Bubang Village, 21.61°N, 101.58°E, 680 m, 24 November 2019, B. Liang, J. Chen, J. Liu & Z. Li leg. (CBEE, LJ201903771 – LJ201903772).  THAILAND, Chiang Mai Province: 2 males, Doi Suthep, 18.80°N, 98.92°E, 1100 m, 21 December 1958, B. Degenbol leg. (ZMUC, THI0032 – THI0033).  LAOS, Luang Nam Tha Province: 1 female, Luang Nam Tha, Nam Ha 5, between Luang Nam Tha and Muang Sing, 21.15°N, 101.33°E, 848 m, secondary forest, along stream, leaf litter, 5 March 2008, P. Jäger leg. (SMF, SD568). Description. For details see Jäger (2001). Variation. Males: the apical part of the E is differently situated and oriented than in the holotype (cf. Jäger, 2001: figs 49e–g). Moreover, the distal loop of the spermophor seen in ventral view is slightly differently oriented than in the holotype. Females: Lateral margins of FW convex (distinctly concave in paratype; cf. Jäger 2001: figs 49i–k); anterior tips of lateral loops of IDS medio-anteriad (roughly anteriad in paratype). Distribution. China (Yunnan Province), Laos (Luang Nam Tha Province) and Thailand (Chiang Mai Province; type locality).
description: Published as part of Zhang, He, Zhu, Yang, Zhong, Yang, Jäger, Peter & Liu, Jie, 2023, A taxonomic revision of the spider genus Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 (Araneae: Sparassidae) from East, South and Southeast Asia, pp. 1-304 in Megataxa 9 (1) on page 221, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.9.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7658066
title: An augmented passive immunotherapy to treat pneumococcal diseases
Creators: name: Bangert, Mathieu
Publisher: name: University of Liverpool Repository
Year: 2013

description: Background: Bacterial infections, particularly those of the respiratory tract, are a serious cause of mortality worldwide despite vaccinations and optimized treatment strategies. Prior to the introduction of antibiotics, passive immunotherapy was widely used to treat a range of bacterial infections. A successful opsonin based treatment, however, requires effective clearance by phagocytic cells. Augmented passive immunotherapy (API) is a novel treatment strategy that combines pathogen specific immunoglobulin (IVIG) and the immunomodulating peptide P4 to treat fulminant bacterial infections. Using in vivo, in vitro and ex vivo models of pneumococcal infection, this thesis aimed to describe host responses to API. Methods: The in vivo recruitment and activation of phagocytes following peptide treatment in the absence of infection was characterised using flow cytometry and electron microscope imaging. These findings were translated to murine infection models by treating pneumococcal septicemia with intravenous peptide administration and pneumococcal pneumonia with intranasal peptide administration. In vitro phagocytosis killing assays were used to determine the ability of P4 to augment bacterial killing of a range of pneumococcal serotypes and describe the involvement of phagocytic Fcγ receptors. Ex vivo assays of phagocytic function of human neutrophil and alveolar macrophages were used to translate murine and in vitro findings. Results: Peptide administration in the absence and presence of infection led to rapid recruitment of monocytes, neutrophils and macrophages and their activation as demonstrated by increased FcγR expression. Intravenous peptide administration during septicemia led to significantly increased survival rates in models of invasive and acute invasive pneumococcal diseases in young and aged mice of various genetic backgrounds. Intranasal peptide administration during pneumonia prevented the onset of septicemia and subsequent host mortality. Increased survival was associated with reduced bacterial burden in affected tissue. Peptide treatment of neutrophil cell lines, human neutrophils and alveolar macrophages modulates FcγR expression resulting in augmented phagocytic killing of opsonised pneumococci. Conclusion: Augmented passive immunotherapy is a synergistic treatment that enhances natural host immune responses to infection by opsonizing pathogens and inducing their effective phagocytic clearance.
The effector program of human CD8 T cells supports tissue remodeling
Creators: name: Delacher, Michael
name: Schmidleithner, Lisa
name: Simon, Malte
name: Stüve, Philipp
name: Sanderink, Lieke
name: Hotz-Wagenblatt, Agnes
name: Wuttke, Marina
name: Schambeck, Kathrin
name: Ruhland, Brigitte
name: Hofmann, Veronika
name: Bittner, Sebastian
name: Ritter, Uwe
name: Pant, Asmita
name: Helbich, Sara Salome
name: Voss, Morten
name: Lemmermann, Niels A.
name: Bessiri-Schake, Lisa
name: Bohn, Toszka
name: Eigenberger, Andreas
name: Menevse, Ayse Nur
name: Gebhard, Claudia
name: Strieder, Nicholas
name: Abken, Hinrich
name: Rehli, Michael
name: Huehn, Jochen
name: Beckhove, Philipp
name: Hehlgans, Thomas
name: Junger, Henrik
name: Geissler, Edward K.
name: Prantl, Lukas
name: Werner, Jens M.
name: Schmidl, Christian
name: Brors, Benedikt
name: Imbusch, Charles D.
name: Feuerer, Markus
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 610 Medizin

description: CD8 T lymphocytes are classically viewed as cytotoxic T cells. Whether human CD8 T cells can, in parallel, induce a tissue regeneration program is poorly understood. Here, antigen-specific assay systems revealed that human CD8 T cells not only mediated cytotoxicity but also promoted tissue remodeling. Activated CD8 T cells could produce the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-ligand amphiregulin (AREG) and sensitize epithelial cells for enhanced regeneration potential. Blocking the EGFR or the effector cytokines IFN-γ and TNF could inhibit tissue remodeling. This regenerative program enhanced tumor spheroid and stem cell–mediated organoid growth. Using single-cell gene expression analysis, we identified an AREG+, tissue-resident CD8 T cell population in skin and adipose tissue from patients undergoing abdominal wall or abdominoplasty surgery. These tissue-resident CD8 T cells showed a strong TCR clonal relation to blood PD1+TIGIT+ CD8 T cells with tissue remodeling abilities. These findings may help to understand the complex CD8 biology in tumors and could become relevant for the design of therapeutic T cell products.
Pseudopoda sacciformis Zhang, Jager & Liu 2023, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Zhang, He
name: Zhu, Yang
name: Zhong, Yang
name: Jäger, Peter
name: Liu, Jie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Sparassidae
Pseudopoda
Pseudopoda sacciformis

description:  Pseudopoda sacciformis Zhang, Jäger & Liu, spec. nov. Figs 212–213, Map 2 Type material.  LAOS, Champasak Province: Holotype female from Tad Etou, 15.19°N, 106.10°E, 900 m, by night, by hand, 26 November 2009, P. Jäger leg. (SMF, PJ3231). Paratype: 1 female, with same data as for holotype (SMF, PJ3235). Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin adjective sacciformis, - is, - e, meaning “saccate”, referring to the shape of LL in ventral view; adjective. Diagnosis. The female of P. sacciformis Zhang, Jäger & Liu, spec. nov. differs from those of other Pseudopoda members by the following characters: 1) FW laterad (not mediad as in almost all other Pseudopoda species); 2) LL boots-shaped, most anterior point of anterior margins situated in the middle. FEMALE (CAS0017): Measurements: Small sized. Body length 8.5–9.2, DS length 4.2, width 3.9, OS length 4.3, width 2.7. Eyes: AME 0.16, ALE 0.27, PME 0.20, PLE 0.24, AME–AME 0.16, AME–ALE 0.09, PME–PME 0.19, PME–PLE 0.30, AME–PME 0.27, ALE–PLE 0.25, CH AME 0.37, CH ALE 0.30. Spination: Pp 131, 101, 2121, 1014; Fe I–II 323, III 322, IV 331; Pa I–III 101, IV 000; Ti I–II 2228, III–IV 2126; Mt I–II 3034, III–IV 3036. Measurements of palps and legs: Pp 6.2 (1.8, 0.9, 1.2, –, 2.3); I 18.0 (5.3, 1.8, 5.0, 4.6, 1.3); II 21.7 (5.9, 2.1, 6.5, 5.4, 1.8); III 14.8 (4.7, 1.6, 3.8, 3.6, 1.1); IV 17.3 (5.6, 1.1, 4.4, 4.8, 1.4). Leg formula: II-I-IV-III. Cheliceral furrow with ca. 20 denticles. Epigyne (Figs 212A–C): As in diagnosis. EF wider than long,AB narrow, fused to EF after running indistinctly a short distance anteriorly. Posterior part of LL with two small lateral rims. IDS with spherical structures in anterolateral part, the latter not covered by FW; FW distinctly separated from each other. Colouration (Figs 213A–B): DS light yellow with dark spots, mainly along striae. Fovea distinctly marked by acute “V”. OS dorsally with reddish-brown patches arranged symmetrically in two longitudinal lines, ventrally lighter with several small irregular marks. MALE: Unknown. Distribution. Laos (Champasak Province).
description: Published as part of Zhang, He, Zhu, Yang, Zhong, Yang, Jäger, Peter & Liu, Jie, 2023, A taxonomic revision of the spider genus Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 (Araneae: Sparassidae) from East, South and Southeast Asia, pp. 1-304 in Megataxa 9 (1) on pages 230-235, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.9.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7658066
Interparental aggression and infant patterns of adrenocortical and behavioral stress responses
Creators: name: Stifter, Cynthia A.
name: Mills-Koonce, W. Roger
name: Towe-Goodman, Nissa R.
name: Granger, Douglas A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Drawing on emotional security theory, this study examined linkages between interparental aggression, infant self-regulatory behaviors, and patterns of physiological and behavioral stress responses in a diverse sample of 735 infants residing in predominately low-income, nonmetropolitan communities. Latent profile analysis revealed four classes of adrenocortical and behavioral stress response patterns at 7-months of age, using assessments of behavioral and cortisol reactivity to an emotion eliciting challenge, as well as global ratings of the child’s negative affect and basal cortisol levels. The addition of covariates within the latent profile model suggested that children with more violence in the home and who used less caregiver-oriented regulation strategies were more likely to exhibit a pattern of high cortisol reactivity with moderate signs of distress rather than the average stress response, suggesting possible patterns of adaptation in violent households.
Application Examples of Leveraging Task Parallelism with Chapel
Creators: name: Strout, Michelle Mills
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The Chapel programming language provides constructs for expressing a wide range of parallelism patterns, while also remaining easy-to-use. This talk will show usage examples from machine learning, data analytics, aeronautical engineering, hydrology, and other application areas. Perspectives of how existing workflows were adjusted to leverage Chapel and the resulting performance and scaling will also be presented.
OPE convergence in non-relativistic conformal field theories
Creators: name: Goldberger, Walter D.
name: Khandker, Zuhair U.
name: Prabhu, Siddharth
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by applications to the study of ultracold atomic gases near the unitarity limit, we investigate the structure of the operator product expansion (OPE) in non-relativistic conformal field theories (NRCFTs). The main tool used in our analysis is the representation theory of charged (i.e. non-zero particle number) operators in the NRCFT, in particular the mapping between operators and states in a non-relativistic "radial quantization" Hilbert space. Our results include: a determination of the OPE coefficients of descendant operators in terms of those of the underlying primary state, a demonstration of convergence of the (imaginary time) OPE in certain kinematic limits, and an estimate of the decay rate of the OPE tail inside matrix elements which, as in relativistic CFTs, depends exponentially on operator dimensions. To illustrate our results we consider several examples, including a strongly interacting field theory of bosons tuned to the unitarity limit, as well as a class of holographic models. Given the similarity with known statements about the OPE in SO(2,d) invariant field theories, our results suggest the existence of a bootstrap approach to constraining NRCFTs, with applications to bound state spectra and interactions. We briefly comment on a possible implementation of this non-relativistic conformal bootstrap program.
description: 35 pages, v2: references added, minor typos corrected
Catechol- O -methyltransferase Val158met polymorphism interacts with early experience to predict executive functions in early childhood: COMT and Executive Functions in Childhood
Creators: name: Sulik, Michael
name: Willoughby, Michael
name: Petrill, Stephen
name: Greenberg, Mark
name: Blair, Clancy
name: Mills- Koonce, Roger
name: Bartlett, Christopher
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Numerous studies demonstrate that the Methionine variant of the catechol-O-methyltransferase Val158Met polymorphism, which confers less efficient catabolism of catecholamines, is associated with increased focal activation of prefrontal cortex (PFC) and higher levels of executive function abilities. By and large, however, studies of COMT Val158Met have been conducted with adult samples and do not account for the context in which development is occurring. Effects of early adversity on stress response physiology and the inverted U shape relating catecholamine levels to neural activity in PFC indicate the need to take into account early experience when considering relations between genes such as COMT and executive cognitive ability. Consistent with this neurobiology, we find in a prospective longitudinal sample of children and families (N=1292) that COMT Val158Met interacts with early experience to predict executive function abilities in early childhood. Specifically, the Valine variant of the COMT Val158Met polymorphism, which confers more rather than less efficient catabolism of catecholamines is associated with higher executive function abilities at child ages 48 and 60 months and with faster growth of executive function for children experiencing early adversity, as indexed by cumulative risk factors in the home at child ages 7, 15, 24, and 36 months. Findings indicate the importance of the early environment for the relation between catecholamine genes and developmental outcomes and demonstrate that the genetic moderation of environmental risk is detectable in early childhood.
Pseudopoda schwendingeri Jager 2001
Creators: name: Zhang, He
name: Zhu, Yang
name: Zhong, Yang
name: Jäger, Peter
name: Liu, Jie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Sparassidae
Pseudopoda
Pseudopoda schwendingeri

description: Pseudopoda schwendingeri Jäger, 2001 Figs 216–218, Map 2 Pseudopoda schwendingeri Jäger, 2001: 52, figs 30a–d, 31a–e, 32a–m (Holotype: male from Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, deposited in MHNG. Paratypes: 4 males, 6 females from Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, deposited in MHNG; 1 male from Huay Nam Dang, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, deposited in MHNG; 2 males from Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, deposited in QMB. Examined). ZWUC0001).  Nan Province: 1 male, 2 females, Bo Kluea District, Khun Nam Wa Noi, 19.15°N, 101.16°E, 750 m, 8 December 2005, P. Dankittipakul leg. (MHNG, THI0050, THI0052, THI0054). Description. For details see Jäger & Vedel (2007). Distribution. Thailand (Chiang Mai and Nan Provinces).
description: Published as part of Zhang, He, Zhu, Yang, Zhong, Yang, Jäger, Peter & Liu, Jie, 2023, A taxonomic revision of the spider genus Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 (Araneae: Sparassidae) from East, South and Southeast Asia, pp. 1-304 in Megataxa 9 (1) on page 236, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.9.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7658066
description: {"references": ["Jager, P. & Vedel, V. (2007) Sparassidae of China 4. The genus Pseudopoda (Araneae: Sparassidae) in Yunnan Province. Zootaxa, 1623, 1 - 38. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1623.1.1"]}
Social Competence in Children of Alcoholic Parents Over Time.
Creators: name: Wong, Maria M.
name: Fitzgerald, Hiram E.
name: Zucker, Robert A.
name: Hussong, Andrea M.
name: Puttler, Leon I.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: In the current study, the authors tested the hypothesis that children of alcoholic parents (COAs) show deficits in social competence that begin in early childhood and escalate through middle adolescence. Teachers, parents, and children reported on the social competence of COAs and matched controls in a community sample assessed from ages 6 to 15. Hierarchical linear growth models revealed different patterns of change in social competence across development as a function of the reporter of various indicators of competence. Moreover, female COAs showed deficits in social competence in early childhood that receded in adolescence and that varied across subtypes of parent alcoholism. Implications of these findings for understanding the development of social competence in children, and at-risk children in particular, are discussed.
Pseudopoda spatiosa Zhang, Jager & Liu 2023, spec. nov.
Creators: name: Zhang, He
name: Zhu, Yang
name: Zhong, Yang
name: Jäger, Peter
name: Liu, Jie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Sparassidae
Pseudopoda
Pseudopoda spatiosa

description:  Pseudopoda spatiosa Zhang, Jäger & Liu, spec. nov. Figs 224–225, Map 2 Type material.  VIETNAM, Ha Giang Province: Holotype female from Vi Xuyue, Tay Con Linh, Nature Forest, 22.80°N, 104.81°E, 2200 m, 5 December 2002, Pham Dinh Sac leg. (IOZ, LJ20210628008). Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin adjective spatiosus, - a, - um, meaning “large”, referring to the large S in ventral view; adjective. Diagnosis. The female of P. spatiosa Zhang, Jäger & Liu, spec. nov. is similar to that of P. bibulba (Xu & Yin, 2000) (Xu & Yin 2000) by the S with distinct large lateral loops. It can be recognised by the anterior margins of LL forming a very wide “U” or “V”, sclerotised part of IDS forming 2 circles in ventral view (anterior margins of LL forming a trapezoid, sclerotised part of IDS building a “W” in P. bibulba). FEMALE (LJ20210628008): Measurements: Medium sized. Body length 11.8, DS length 4.9, width 4.6, OS length 6.9, width 5.5. Eyes: AME 0.18, ALE 0.31, PME 0.21, PLE 0.24, AME–AME 0.13, AME–ALE 0.08, PME–PME 0.19, PME–PLE 0.35, AME–PME 0.28, ALE–PLE 0.24, CH AME 0.37, CH ALE 0.31. Spination: Pp 131, 101, 2101, 1014; Fe I–III 323, IV 322; Pa I–IV 101; Ti I–IV 2126; Mt I–II 2024, III 3025, IV 3037. Measurements of palps and legs: Pp 6.5 (1.9, 0.9, 1.3, –, 2.4); I 15.6 (4.6, 1.8, 4.3, 3.7, 1.2); II 19.7 (5.3, 2.3, 5.9, 4.6, 1.6); III 14.3 (4.3, 1.7, 3.9, 3.4, 1.0); IV 16.2 (5.0, 1.3, 4.1, 4.3, 1.5). Leg formula: II-IV-I-III. Cheliceral furrow with ca. 28 denticles. Epigyne (Figs 224A–C): As in diagnosis. EF wider than long, with indistinct AB, and its anterior margins trilobate. LL touching each other along the median line. FW central covering part of IDS. FD long and narrow. Colouration (Figs 225A–B): DS reddish-brown with indistinct brown marks and lines. Fovea and striae distinct. OS dorsally yellow with reddish-brown marks, especially in posterior half, ventrally yellow with several dots. Dorsal PS, Cx and sternum and dorsal and ventral OS with several scars. MALE: Unknown. Distribution. Vietnam (Ha Giang Province).
description: Published as part of Zhang, He, Zhu, Yang, Zhong, Yang, Jäger, Peter & Liu, Jie, 2023, A taxonomic revision of the spider genus Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 (Araneae: Sparassidae) from East, South and Southeast Asia, pp. 1-304 in Megataxa 9 (1) on pages 244-245, DOI: 10.11646/megataxa.9.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7658066
description: {"references": ["Xu, X. & Yin, C. M. (2000) One new species of the genus Heteropoda from China (Araneae: Heteropodidae). Acta Laser Biology Sinica, 9, 37 - 39."]}