cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Zarcosia sumatrensis Gompel 2020, n. sp.
Creators: name: Gompel, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aderidae
Zarcosia
Zarcosia sumatrensis

description: Zarcosia sumatrensis n. sp. (Figures 1; 3g,h; 4p; 5o; 6f) Etymology. The species’ name refers to its geographical origin. Type locality. Republic of Indonesia: Sumatra, Goea Limau Moangkaer [04°14’ N 98°10’ E]. Distribution. Republic of Indonesia: Sumatra (Figure 1). Description. (Figure 3g,h). Body length. ♂ holotype: 3.00 mm; ♀: 2.65± 0.19 mm (n=7). Dark brown, darker anteriorly, gracile, covered with very short, pulverulent pubescence. Appendages orange-brown. Head. Small, dark, barely wider than pronotum. Palpi orange, last article securiform. Integument, finely and densely punctuated, lightly rugose. Occiput lined with a very fine fringe of dense and short silver hairs posteriorly. Antennae. A third longer than elytra in ♂, as long as elytra in ♀, orange-brown, regularly filiform with antenommeres 3–10 cylindrical. Pronotum (Figure 6f). Round and convex, slightly elongated in ♂, as long as wide in ♀. Sides regularly curved. Surface mat, finely and densely punctuated, covered with dense, pruinose double pubescence. Elytra. Length: ♂ holotype: 2.00 mm; ♀: 1.95± 0.10 mm (n=7). Punctation fine and shallow, dense (space between points as wide as the points themselves). Disc depressed. Pubescence dense and short, whitish, comprised of short hairs borne from the points and interspersed pulverulent hairs. Legs. Particularly elongated. Foretibia thickened in a smooth tooth on their inner side (Figure 5o). Mesothoracic legs not observed (a single male devoid of mesothoracic legs was present in the type series). Aedeagus (Figure 4p). Sides subparallel in dorsal view, apex tapered in apical fifth, ending with a button. Strongly bent in lateral view, apex with a weak upward deflection. Appendages visible near apex. Type material. Holotype (♂, BMNH). Republic of Indonesia: Sumatra, Goea Limau Moangkaer, 04°14’ N 98°10’ E (J. C. van der Meer Mohr) 20.III.1932. Paratypes. Republic of Indonesia: Sumatra, Goea Limau Moangkaer, 04°14’ N 98°10’ E (J. C. van der Meer Mohr) 20.III.1932 (2 ♀ paratypes, BMNH); Sumatra, Goea Lau Rakit I, 02°20’ N 98°40’ E (J. C. van der Meer Mohr) 5.X.1934 (6 ♀ paratypes, BMNH; 2 ♀ paratypes, NGPC). Note. The extremely thin and elongated appendages of species likely represent adaptations to life in caves.
description: Published as part of Gompel, Nicolas, 2020, Synopsis of the Asian species in the genus Zarcosia Collado & Alonso-Zarazaga 1996 with new combinations and descriptions of fourteen new species, pp. 151-178 in Zootaxa 4838 (2) on pages 174-175, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4403783
The LOFAR Known Pulsar Data Pipeline
Creators: name: Alexov, A.
name: Hessels, J. W. T.
name: Mol, J. D.
name: Stappers, B.
name: van Leeuwen, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transient radio phenomena and pulsars are one of six LOFAR Key Science Projects (KSPs). As part of the Transients KSP, the Pulsar Working Group (PWG) has been developing the LOFAR Pulsar Data Pipelines to both study known pulsars as well as search for new ones. The pipelines are being developed for the Blue Gene/P (BG/P) supercomputer and a large Linux cluster in order to utilize enormous amounts of computational capabilities (50Tflops) to process data streams of up to 23TB/hour. The LOFAR pipeline output will be using the Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) to efficiently store large amounts of numerical data, and to manage complex data encompassing a variety of data types, across distributed storage and processing architectures. We present the LOFAR Known Pulsar Data Pipeline overview, the pulsar beam-formed data format, the status of the pipeline processing as well as our future plans for developing the LOFAR Pulsar Search Pipeline. These LOFAR pipelines and software tools are being developed as the next generation toolset for pulsar processing in Radio Astronomy.
description: 6 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in proceedings of "ISKAF2010 Science Meeting", PoS(ISKAF2010)60A
Ultrafast nano-focusing with full optical waveform control
Creators: name: Berweger, Samuel
name: Atkin, Joanna M.
name: Xu, Xiaoji X.
name: Olmon, Robert L.
name: Raschke, Markus B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spatial confinement and temporal control of an optical excitation on nanometer length scales and femtosecond time scales has been a long-standing challenge in optics. It would provide spectroscopic access to the elementary optical excitations in matter on their natural length and time scales and enable applications from ultrafast nano-opto-electronics to single molecule quantum coherent control. Previous approaches have largely focused on using surface plasmon polariton (SPP) resonant nanostructures or SPP waveguides to generate nanometer localized excitations. However, these implementations generally suffer from mode mismatch between the far-field propagating light and the near-field confinement. In addition, the spatial localization in itself may depend on the spectral phase and amplitude of the driving laser pulse thus limiting the degrees of freedom available to independently control the nano-optical waveform. Here we utilize femtosecond broadband SPP coupling, by laterally chirped fan gratings, onto the shaft of a monolithic noble metal tip, leading to adiabatic SPP compression and localization at the tip apex. In combination with spectral pulse shaping with feedback on the intrinsic nonlinear response of the tip apex, we demonstrate the continuous micro- to nano-scale self-similar mode matched transformation of the propagating femtosecond SPP field into a 20 nm spatially and 16 fs temporally confined light pulse at the tip apex. Furthermore, with the essentially wavelength and phase independent 3D focusing mechanism we show the generation of arbitrary optical waveforms nanofocused at the tip. This unique femtosecond nano-torch with high nano-scale power delivery in free space and full spectral and temporal control opens the door for the extension of the powerful nonlinear and ultrafast vibrational and electronic spectroscopies to the nanoscale.
description: Contains manuscript with 4 figures as well as supplementary material with 2 figures
Cluster-cluster aggregation with particle replication and chemotaxy: a simple model for the growth of animal cells in culture
Creators: name: Alves, S. G.
name: Martins, M. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aggregation of animal cells in culture comprises a series of motility, collision and adhesion processes of basic relevance for tissue engineering, bioseparations, oncology research and \textit{in vitro} drug testing. In the present paper, a cluster-cluster aggregation model with stochastic particle replication and chemotactically driven motility is investigated as a model for the growth of animal cells in culture. The focus is on the scaling laws governing the aggregation kinetics. Our simulations reveal that in the absence of chemotaxy the mean cluster size and the total number of clusters scale in time as stretched exponentials dependent on the particle replication rate. Also, the dynamical cluster size distribution functions are represented by a scaling relation in which the scaling function involves a stretched exponential of the time. The introduction of chemoattraction among the particles leads to distribution functions decaying as power laws with exponents that decrease in time. The fractal dimensions and size distributions of the simulated clusters are qualitatively discussed in terms of those determined experimentally for several normal and tumoral cell lines growing in culture. It is shown that particle replication and chemotaxy account for the simplest cluster size distributions of cellular aggregates observed in culture.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, to appear on Jstat
Statistical Distribution of Size and Lifetime of Bright Points Observed with the New Solar Telescope
Creators: name: Abramenko, Valentyna
name: Yurchyshyn, Vasyl
name: Goode, Philip
name: Kilcik, Ali
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of two-hour non-interrupted observations of solar granulation obtained under excellent seeing conditions with the largest aperture ground-based solar telescope - the New Solar Telescope (NST) - of Big Bear Solar Observatory. Observations were performed with adaptive optics correction using a broad-band TiO filter in the 705.7 nm spectral line with a time cadence of 10 s and a pixel size of 0.0375". Photospheric bright points (BPs) were detected and tracked. We find that the BPs detected in NST images are co-spatial with those visible in Hinode/SOT G-band images. In cases where Hinode/SOT detects one large BP, NST detects several separated BPs. Extended filigree features are clearly fragmented into separate BPs in NST images. The distribution function of BP sizes extends to the diffraction limit of NST (77 km) without saturation and corresponds to a log-normal distribution. The lifetime distribution function follows a log-normal approximation for all BPs with lifetime exceeding 100 s. A majority of BPs are transient events reflecting the strong dynamics of the quiet sun: 98.6% of BPs live less than 120 s. The longest registered life time was 44 minutes. The size and maximum intensity of BPs were found to be proportional to their life times.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Inverse problems for Jacobi operators I: Interior mass-spring perturbations in finite systems
Creators: name: del Rio, Rafael
name: Kudryavtsev, Mikhail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider a linear finite spring mass system which is perturbed by modifying one mass and adding one spring. From knowledge of the natural frequencies of the original and the perturbed systems we study when masses and springs can be reconstructed. This is a problem about rank two or rank three type perturbations of finite Jacobi matrices where we are able to describe quite explicitly the associated Green's functions. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for two given sets of points to be eigenvalues of the original and modified system respectively.
Intermittency Spectra of the Magnetic Field in Solar Active Regions
Creators: name: Abramenko, Valentyna
name: Yurchyshyn, Vasyl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results of a study of intermittency and multifractality of magnetic structures in solar active regions (ARs). Line-of-sight magnetograms for 214 ARs of different flare productivity observed at the center of the solar disk from January 1997 until December 2006 are utilized. Data from the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) instrument on-board the {\it Solar and Heliospheric Observatory} (SOHO) operating in the high resolution mode, the Big Bear Solar Observatory digital magnetograph and {\it Hinode} SOT/SP instrument were used. Intermittency spectra were derived via high-order structure functions and flatness functions. The flatness function exponent is a measure of the degree of intermittency. We found that the flatness function exponent at scales below approximately 10 Mm is correlated to the flare productivity (the correlation coefficient is - 0.63). {\it Hinode} data show that the intermittency regime is extended toward the small scales (below 2 Mm) as compared to the MDI data. The spectra of multifractality, derived from the structure functions and flatness functions, are found to be more broad for ARs of highest flare productivity as compared to that of low flare productivity. The magnetic structure of high-flaring ARs consists of a voluminous set of monofractals, and this set is much richer than that for low-flaring ARs. The results indicate relevance of the multifractal organization of the photospheric magnetic fields to the flaring activity. Strong intermittency observed in complex and high-flaring ARs is a hint that we observe a photospheric imprint of enhanced sub-photospheric dynamics.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures
title: Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Belgium)
title: Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Belgium)
Creators: name: Gerard, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Belgien
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: Politik
subject: Belgium--Politics and government--1914-1951
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Belgium

description: The First World War changed the balance of power in Belgium. From a strongly polarized system dominated by the Catholic Party, the country shifted towards a coalition system, marked by a tradeoff between left and right. That shift was facilitated by the patriotic responses resulting from the German invasion and the exceptional circumstances of the war. It was also strongly supported by King Albert I, who believed the coalition system would give more stability to the country. In 1918, the Catholic Party had to accept a democratic electoral reform and share power with the Liberals and Socialists.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
title: Between Acceptance and Refusal - Soldiers' Attitudes Towards War (Great Britain and Ireland)
title: Between Acceptance and Refusal - Soldiers' Attitudes Towards War (Great Britain and Ireland)
Creators: name: Meyer, Jessica
Publisher: name: BSB - Bavarian State Library
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soldat
subject: Großbritannien
subject: Weltkrieg [1914-1918]
subject: World War, 1914-1918--Great Britain
subject: Soldiers

description: This article examines British soldiers’ attitudes towards the First World War. It looks at what motivated men to enlist and the strategies employed by the military for enforcing discipline and maintaining morale in a force made up of citizen-soldiers. It considers the variations of individual response to such treatment and to experiences of the war more broadly. Finally, it traces the way in which varying perspectives during the war coalesced into a dominant narrative of disillusionment and futility in its aftermath.
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
description: 1914-1918-Online International Encyclopedia of the First World War
SkyMapper Filter Set: Design and Fabrication of Large Scale Optical Filters
Creators: name: Bessell, Michael
name: Bloxham, Gabe
name: Schmidt, Brian
name: Keller, Stefan
name: Tisserand, Patrick
name: Francis, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The SkyMapper Southern Sky Survey will be conducted from Siding Spring Observatory with u, v, g, r, i and z filters that comprise glued glass combination filters of dimension 309x309x15 mm. In this paper we discuss the rationale for our bandpasses and physical characteristics of the filter set. The u, v, g and z filters are entirely glass filters which provide highly uniform band passes across the complete filter aperture. The i filter uses glass with a short-wave pass coating, and the r filter is a complete dielectric filter. We describe the process by which the filters were constructed, including the processes used to obtain uniform dielectric coatings and optimized narrow band anti-reflection coatings, as well as the technique of gluing the large glass pieces together after coating using UV transparent epoxy cement. The measured passbands including extinction and CCD QE are presented.
description: 9 pages, 2 tables, 7 figures
Three perspectives on a collaborative attempt to use computer vision techniques to automatically classify historical newspaper images
Creators: name: Kleppe, Martijn
name: Smits, Thomas
name: Faber, Willem Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Computer Vision, Distant viewing, Digitized newspapers

description: Presentation given at the Workshop - Twin Talks: Understanding Collaboration in DH at DHN 2019, see also https://www.clarin.eu/event/2019/twintalksdhn2019.

Abstract:

In the last couple of years, scholars in the Humanities have started to explore the possibilities of the large-scale analysis of images. This development can be linked to the increasing availability of large visual datasets, the increase in computing power, and the development of new techniques, such as convolutional neural networks. However, there are no one-size-fits all researchers that are able to gather the right data, apply the new techniques, and analyze the results in meaningful ways. In this paper we present the collaboration of a Humanities researcher, a Research Software Engineer and Digital Scholarship Advisor to explore how new computer vision techniques can be used to automatically classify images extracted from a large collection of digitized historical newspapers. We will present the outcomes of our research and share the lessons we learned from our collaboration. First we will discuss the experiences of the Humanities researcher. Second we will discuss the lessons we learned from a technical perspective. Third, we will elaborate on the institutional perspective of the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) as a data provider but also as full partner of the research project. We will end with a reflection on the broader strategic role of heritage institutes as research partners to stimulate, collaborate and to preserve results of research projects in a sustainable manner.
Additional file 1 of Corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor-1 antagonist attenuates visceral hypersensitivity induced by trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid colitis and maternal separation in rats
Creators: name: Hasegawa, Ryoko
name: Nakaya, Kumi
name: Kanazawa, Motoyori
name: Fukudo, Shin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Zarcosia weigeli Gompel 2020, n. sp.
Creators: name: Gompel, Nicolas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Aderidae
Zarcosia
Zarcosia weigeli

description: Zarcosia weigeli n. sp. (Figures 1; 3e; 4r; 5i,t; 6d) Etymology. The species is named after Andreas Weigel in recognition of her efforts to collect material for others. Type locality. China: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, 23 km NW Jinghong, vic. Na Ban [22°09’ N 100°40’ E]. Distribution. China: Yunnan. Description. (Figure 3i,j). Female unknown. Body length. ♂: 2.53± 0.04 mm (n=2). Entirely black, elongated, covered with thin blond pubescence. Head. Small, weakly transverse, slightly wider than pronotum. Palpi dark brown, last article securiform. Punctation coarse, dense. Posterior margin lined with a fringe of dense white pubescence. Antennae. Subfiliform, slightly longer than elytra, black. Antennomere 3–8 more than twice as long as wide. Covered with hirsute white pubescence. Pronotum (Figure 6d). Subcylindrical, convex, longer than wide, sides weakly but regularly convex. Strongly and densely punctuated, points deep. Elytra. Length: ♂: 1.75±0.00 mm (n=2). Punctation stronger than on pronotum, dense, points deep, well defined. Covered with double pubescence: moderately long hair borne from punctation and interspersed whitish pulverulent hairs (Figure 5i). Moderately convex, depressed on disc. Legs. Long and thin, black, except last two tarsomeres, yellow. Sexual characters. Male foretibia weakly bent inward, with a small acute tooth on their inner side (Figure 5t). Aedeagus (Figure 4r). Simple, sturdy, sides parallel in dorsal view, progressively tapered in a regular triangle in apical fourth. Hardly bent in lateral view, with a weak apical upward deflection. Type material. Holotype (♂, NME). China: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, 23 km NW Jinghong, vic. Na Ban (NNNR), 22°09’ N 100°40’ E (730 m), Transition zone MF (A. Weigel) 23.V.2008. Paratype. China: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, 23 km NW Jinghong, vic. Na Ban (NNNR), 22°09’ N 100°40’ E (730 m), secondary forest, Rubber plant (A. Weigel) 20.V.2008 (1 ♂ paratype, NGPC).
description: Published as part of Gompel, Nicolas, 2020, Synopsis of the Asian species in the genus Zarcosia Collado & Alonso-Zarazaga 1996 with new combinations and descriptions of fourteen new species, pp. 151-178 in Zootaxa 4838 (2) on pages 177-178, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4403783
Effect of kindlin-1 deficiency on inflammatory cytokine expression in gingival keratinocytes in the presence of oral biofilm
Creators: name: Kehler, Angela
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Kindler syndrome (KS) is an autosomal recessive skin disorder of unknown etiology resulting in congenital skin blisters, photosensitivity, generalized progressive poikiloderma, and mucosal alterations. Early onset and severe periodontal disease has been noted as a common clinical finding. Kindlin-1 is an intracellular focal adhesion protein that functions in cellular adhesion in the epidermis and mucosal tissues through interaction and activation of integrins. Kindlin-1 deficiency, as occurs in KS, results in impaired adhesion of the junctional epithelium to the basement membrane and may contribute to severe periodontal disease. We hypothesize that kindlin-1 deficiency may affect other aspects of keratinocyte behavior, including expression of cytokines and mediators involved in inflammation and repair. Expression of kindlin-1 was down-regulated in human gingival keratinocytes (HGK) and confirmed via Western blot analysis and RT-PCR. HGKs were exposed to varying concentrations of a native and heat-inactivated oral biofilm extract as well as a 3-week live oral biofilm. mRNA was isolated from control and kindlin-1 deficient HGKs and RT-PCR was used to assess relative gene expression of the following gene products: β6 integrin, fibronectin ED-A and ED-B, IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, TNFα, TGFβ-1, TGFβ-3, MMP-1, MMP-2, MMP-9, and tenascin C. Kindlin-1 deficiency in HGKs was found to significantly up-regulate the expression of genes encoding for β6 integrin, IL-1α, and IL-1β. β6 integrin expression was increased in K1-deficient cells in the absence of biofilm treatment and when exposed to native biofilm extract. The pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1α and IL-1β were significantly up-regulated in K1-deficient cells as compared to control cells in keratinocytes exposed to native oral biofilm extract, and in control cells exposed to heat- inactivated biofilm. ii MMP-2, MMP-9, IL-8, tenascin C, ED-B fibronectin, and TGFβ-3 were differentially regulated by the presence of biofilm extract or live biofilm in the gingival keratinocytes. TGFβ-3 and ED- B fibronectin expression were down-regulated in cell exposed to biofilm, while IL-1α, IL-1β, MMP-2, MMP-9, and tenascin C were up-regulated. Our findings suggest that the severe and early-onset periodontal disease found in patients with KS may be a result of enhanced expression of certain pro-inflammatory cytokines.
Additional file 2 of Corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor-1 antagonist attenuates visceral hypersensitivity induced by trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid colitis and maternal separation in rats
Creators: name: Hasegawa, Ryoko
name: Nakaya, Kumi
name: Kanazawa, Motoyori
name: Fukudo, Shin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2
Bounds for the Ratios of Differences of Power Means in Two Arguments
Creators: name: Kouba, Omran
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using methods from classical analysis, sharp bounds for the ratio of differences of Power Means are obtained. Our results generalize and extend previous ones due to S. Wu(2005), and to S. Wu and L. Debnath.
description: 1 figure
Results on azimuthal anisotropy and longitudinal dynamics in the d+Au beam energy scan
Creators: name: Orjuela-Koop, Javier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: wwnd17
phenix
d+au
elliptic
flow
azimuthal
anisotropy
run16
fvtx
mid-rapidity
forward-rapidity
backward-rapidity

description: Talk presented at the Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics 2017 conference
Biosynthesis and accumulation of very-long-chain alkylresorcinols in cuticular waxes of Secale cereale and Brachypodium distachyon
Creators: name: Luna, Álvaro
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: 5-Alkylresorcinols are a class of phenolic lipids which have been identified in the cuticular waxes of various cereal crops. Due to their antifungal and antibacterial properties, ARs have potential applications as nutraceuticals. They are biosynthesized by type-III polyketide synthases (PKSs). Two candidate PKS genes were previously isolated from the two model grass species Secale cereale and Brachypodium distachyon, and were shown to encode alkylresorcinol synthases (ScARS and BdARS, respectively). Here I report the further characterization of these two enzymes, with the goal to test whether they are involved in the formation of cuticular wax alkylresorcinols. Series of alkylresorcinols were identified and quantified, containing ARs with C₁₉-C₂₇ alkyl chains in S. cereale waxes, and C₁₇-C₂₅ on B. distachyon waxes. In addition, a new series of methyl-branched alkylresorcinols was identified with C₁₉-C₂₅ chains. The accumulation of ARs was monitored in waxes on various organs of etiolated and normal plants, and the product amounts found to correlate with the expression patterns of the putative ARS genes in each species. Subcellular localization using GFP fusions showed that the ARS proteins are associated with ER membranes of epidermal cells, where very-long-chain acyl CoA substrates of ARSs are known to accumulate. Overall, my data indicate that both enzymes are indeed involved in the biosynthesis of grass surface alkylresorcinols.
Die Soziale Arbeit im Spannungsfeld der intra- und interprofessionellen Kooperation: Am Beispiel von Kindern mit einem psychisch kranken Elternteil
Creators: name: Portmann, Angeline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Die Autorin Angeline Portmann geht der Frage nach, welchen Beitrag die Soziale Arbeit in der intraund interprofessionellen Kooperation bei der Arbeit mit Kindern mit einem psychisch kranken Elternteil leisten kann. Dabei steht die Soziale Arbeit im Spannungsfeld der intra- und interprofessionellen Kooperation. Kinder mit einem psychisch erkrankten Elternteil sind oft mit vielfältigen Belastungen konfrontiert. Sie haben ein erhöhtes Risiko selbst an einer psychischen Störung zu erkranken oder psychische Probleme und Auffälligkeiten zu entwickeln. Aus verschiedenen Forschungsbefunden geht hervor, dass die Kinder einem hohen Risiko bezüglich ihrer Entwicklung ausgesetzt sind. Die Lebenssituation der betroffenen Kinder und ihren Familien ist häufig komplex. Die Angebote der Sozialen Arbeit können in dieser herausfordernden Situation zur Anlaufstelle werden. Dabei ist der Auftrag der Sozialen Arbeit sozialen Problemen vorzubeugen, sie zu lindern und zu lösen. In der Arbeit mit diesen Kindern sind verschiedene Akteurinnen und Akteure involviert, die auf eine funktionierende interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit angewiesen sind. Ein zentrales Ergebnis ist die Kooperation als Handlungsstrategie, die einen strukturellen Rahmen vorgibt und die Qualität der Unterstützung fördern kann. Die Soziale Arbeit nimmt eine wichtige Rolle im Kooperationsprozess ein. Die Sozialarbeitenden können sich die Koordinationsaufgabe zuschreiben und zum Beispiel als Case Managerin, Case Manager die Fallführung übernehmen. Damit die Soziale Arbeit als gleichwertige Profession zu anderen Disziplinen anerkannt wird, sind die Professionellen der Sozialen Arbeit in ihrer Position zu stärken.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa 2019 + Fussnote: Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Luzern - Soziale Arbeit, Ausbildungsgang Sozialarbeit, 2019 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA201903
What is dust? - Physical foundations of the averaging problem in cosmology
Creators: name: Wiltshire, David L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The problems of coarse-graining and averaging of inhomogeneous cosmologies, and their backreaction on average cosmic evolution, are reviewed from a physical viewpoint. A particular focus is placed on comparing different notions of average spatial homogeneity, and on the interpretation of observational results. Among the physical questions we consider are: the nature of an average Copernican principle, the role of Mach's principle, the issue of quasilocal gravitational energy and the different roles of spacetime, spatial and null cone averages. The observational interpretation of the timescape scenario is compared to other approaches to cosmological averaging, and outstanding questions are discussed.
description: 39 pages, 3 figures, Invited review accepted by Classical and Quantum Gravity for the special issue "Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models and Averaging in Cosmology"
COVID-19 Outbreak and Sectoral Performance of the Australian Stock Market: An Event Study Analysis
Creators: name: Alam, Md. Mahmudul
name: Wei, Haitian
name: Wahid, Abu N. M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 140207 Financial Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: The outbreak of COVID-19 has weakened the economy of Australia and its capital market since early 2020. The overall stock market has declined. However, some sectors become highly vulnerable while others continue to perform well even in the crisis period. Given this new reality, we seek to investigate the initial volatility and the sectoral return. In this study, we analyse data for eight sectors such as, transportation, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, energy, food, real estate, telecommunications and technology of the Australian stock market. In doing so, we obtain data from Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and analysed them based on `Event Study' method. Here, we use the 10-days window for the event of official announcement of the COVID-19 outbreak in Australia on 27 February, 2020. The findings of the study show that on the day of announcement, the indices for food, pharmaceuticals and healthcare exhibit impressive positive returns. Following the announcement, the telecommunications, pharmaceuticals and healthcare sectors exhibit good performance, while poor performance is demonstrated by the transportation industry. The findings are vital for investors, market participants, companies, private and public policymakers and governments to develop recovery action plans for vulnerable sectors and enable investors to regain their confidence to make better investment decisions.
Evidence from the asteroid belt for a violent past evolution of Jupiter's orbit
Creators: name: Morbidelli, Alessandro
name: Brasser, Ramon
name: Gomes, Rodney
name: Levison, Harold F.
name: Tsiganis, Kleomenis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the current orbital structure of large (>50km) asteroids in the main asteroid belt to constrain the evolution of the giant planets when they migrated from their primordial orbits to their current ones. Minton & Malhotra (2009) showed that the orbital distribution of large asteroids in the main belt can be reproduced by an exponentially-decaying migration of the giant planets on a time scale of tau ~ 0.5My. However, self-consistent numerical simulations show that the planetesimal-driven migration of the giant planets is inconsistent with an exponential change in their semi major axes on such a short time scale (Hahn & Malhotra, 1999). In fact, the typical time scale is tau > 5My. When giant planet migration on this time scale is applied to the asteroid belt, the resulting orbital distribution is incompatible with the observed one. However, the planet migration can be significantly sped up by planet-planet encounters. Consider an evolution where both Jupiter and Saturn have close encounters with a Neptune-mass planet (presumably Uranus or Neptune themselves) and where this third planet, after being scattered inwards by Saturn, is scattered outwards by Jupiter. This scenario leads to a very rapid increase in the orbital separation between Jupiter and Saturn that we show here to have only mild effects on the structure of asteroid belt. This type of evolution is called a jumping-Jupiter case. Our results suggest that the total mass and dynamical excitation of the asteroid belt before migration were comparable to those currently observed. Moreover, they imply that, before migration, the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn were much less eccentric than the current ones.
description: AJ, in press
Additional file 2 of Klotho overexpression protects human cortical neurons from β-amyloid induced neuronal toxicity
Creators: name: Shaker, Mohammed R.
name: Salloum-Asfar, Salam
name: Taha, Rowaida Z.
name: Javed, Ibrahim
name: Wolvetang, Ernst J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 2
Shell structure and orbit bifurcations in finite fermion systems
Creators: name: Magner, A. G.
name: Yatsyshyn, I. S.
name: Arita, K.
name: Brack, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We first give an overview of the shell-correction method which was developed by V. M. Strutinsky as a practicable and efficient approximation to the general selfconsistent theory of finite fermion systems suggested by A. B. Migdal and collaborators. Then we present in more detail a semiclassical theory of shell effects, also developed by Strutinsky following original ideas of M. Gutzwiller. We emphasize, in particular, the influence of orbit bifurcations on shell structure. We first give a short overview of semiclassical trace formulae, which connect the shell oscillations of a quantum system with a sum over periodic orbits of the corresponding classical system, in what is usually called the "periodic orbit theory". We then present a case study in which the gross features of a typical double-humped nuclear fission barrier, including the effects of mass asymmetry, can be obtained in terms of the shortest periodic orbits of a cavity model with realistic deformations relevant for nuclear fission. Next we investigate shell structures in a spheroidal cavity model which is integrable and allows for far-going analytical computation. We show, in particular, how period-doubling bifurcations are closely connected to the existence of the so-called "superdeformed" energy minimum which corresponds to the fission isomer of actinide nuclei. Finally, we present a general class of radial power-law potentials which approximate well the shape of a Woods-Saxon potential in the bound region, give analytical trace formulae for it and discuss various limits (including the harmonic oscillator and the spherical box potentials).
description: LaTeX, 67 pp., 30 figures; revised version (missing part at end of 3.1 implemented; order of references corrected)
The thermodynamic properties of Davydov-Scott's protein model in thermal bath
Creators: name: Sulaiman, A.
name: Zen, F. P
name: Alatas, H.
name: Handoko, L. T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermodynamic properties of Davydov-Scott monomer contacting with thermal bath is investigated using Lindblad open quantum system formalism. The Lindblad equation is investigated through path integral method. It is found that the environmental effects contribute destructively to the specific heat, and large interaction between amide-I and amide-site is not preferred for a stable Davydov-Scott monomer.
description: 8 pages, Proceeding of the Conference in Honour of Murray Gell-Mann's 80th Birthday : Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Cosmology and Complexity (2011) 661-668
A Multicolour Photometric Study of the neglected eclipsing binary FT Ursae Majoris
Creators: name: Yuan, Jin-Zhao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The multicolour photometric observations of the neglected eclipsing binary FT Ursae Majoris (FT UMa) were obtained in 2010. The 2003 version of Wilson-Devinney code was used to analyze the light curves in $B$, $V$, and $R$ bands simultaneously. Based on the spectroscopic mass ratio $q=0.984$ published by Pribulla et al., it is found that FT UMa is an evolved contact binary with a contact degree of 15.3%. The low amplitude of light variations, $\sim 0.15$ mag, arises mainly from a moderately low inclination angle of $i=62.^{\circ}80$ and almost identical components in size rather than the light dilution of a third component, which contributes light of only $\sim 10%$
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Geometric phase with nonunitary evolution in presence of a quantum critical bath
Creators: name: Cucchietti, F. M.
name: Zhang, J. -F.
name: Lombardo, F. C.
name: Villar, P. I.
name: Laflamme, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Geometric phases, arising from cyclic evolutions in a curved parameter space, appear in a wealth of physical settings. Recently, and largely motivated by the need of an experimentally realistic definition for quantum computing applications, the quantum geometric phase was generalized to open systems. The definition takes a kinematical approach, with an initial state that is evolved cyclically but coupled to an environment --- leading to a correction of the geometric phase with respect to the uncoupled case. We obtain this correction by measuring the nonunitary evolution of the reduced density matrix of a spin one-half coupled to an environment. In particular, we consider a bath that can be tuned near a quantum phase transition, and demonstrate how the criticality information imprinted in the decoherence factor translates into the geometric phase. The experiments are done with a NMR quantum simulator, in which the critical environment is modeled using a one-qubit system.
Additional file 1 of Effects of urban airborne particulate matter exposure on the human upper respiratory tract microbiome: a systematic review
Creators: name: Arca-Lafuente, Sonia
name: Nuñez-Corcuera, Beatriz
name: Ramis, Rebeca
name: Karakitsios, Spyros
name: Sarigiannis, Denis
name: García Dos Santos, Saúl
name: Fernández-Rodríguez, Amanda
name: Briz, Verónica
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Assessment of the quality of selected studies following the “Strengthening the Organization and Reporting of Microbiome Studies” checklist
Volume Six: Cognitive Defensiveness: Infamicate
Creators: name: Lehti, Andrew
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 500312
subject: Philosophy of cognition
classificationCode: 520401
subject: Cognition
classificationCode: 420313
subject: Mental health services
classificationCode: 520505
subject: Social psychology
classificationCode: 520405
subject: Psycholinguistics (incl. speech production and comprehension)

description: Abstract: Discrediting others and ideas is not always done through direct confrontation; sometimes it occurs through subtler means, such as associating a person's beliefs or statements with stigmatized ideas. This cognitive phenomenon is pervasive in social discourse, often employed to undermine credibility through indirect means. Infamicate captures this behavior, where the mere suggestion of a negative association is enough to cast doubt on the speaker without directly engaging with their ideas.Infamication, Infamicator, Infamicatory
Definition: The process of discrediting something through by association with something negative.
Climate change, forests, and communities : identifying the range of acceptable human interventions in forested ecosystems
Creators: name: Moshofsky, Molly Miriam
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Forest management is presently undergoing major changes to adapt to a changing climate. The objective of this research is to examine the variation in perceived acceptability of potential forest management interventions that can mitigate the risks of climate change among rural forest-based communities in British Columbia (BC) and Alberta. Engaging communities that will be impacted by such changes allows for the formation of forest policy that benefits local users. To accomplish this, four communities were selected for case studies and a mixed method research design was employed. Three management scenarios were designed to represent a spectrum of human intervention in forested ecosystems: continuing the status quo of planting local selectively bred seed; implementing assisted migration of tree populations by utilizing genomic and climatic knowledge; and genetically engineering trees to grow well in a changing climate. Three qualitative focus groups were conducted in each community and an exit Q sort exercise was administered to measure the perceived acceptance of a set of nine forest adaptation management scenarios. In tandem, a survey was administered that collected attitudinal data on social and political issues that were used to identify participants’ cultural worldviews. This data was used to determine if the theory of cultural cognition of risk (CCR) shaped the way participants perceived adaptation strategies. Results indicate that forester participants perceived the assisted migration-based strategies as relatively less acceptable compared to the other social groups. Environmentalist participants prioritized adaptation strategies that featured mixed species and business participants perceived all of the adaptation strategies more neutrally. Cultural cognition of risk was determined to play a role in shaping perceptions of the adaptation strategies in that those who were classified as individualists were most likely to perceive the local-based strategies as acceptable and least likely to perceive the assisted migration-based strategies as acceptable. Conversely, hierarchist participants were more likely to perceive assisted migration-based strategies as acceptable than the other cultural groups. In studying the perceptions of forest-dependent community residents, delivery of forestry-related climate change adaptation policy can be tailored to address the concerns and issues that these communities face.
Retrospective study of risk factors for pericardial effusion after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in children
Creators: name: Tong, Ke
name: Meng, Yan
name: Zhang, Luying
name: Lei, Xiaoying
name: Guan, Xianmin
name: Xiao, Li
name: Yu, Jie
name: Dou, Ying
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: The clinical characteristics, risk factors and survival prognosis of pericardial effusion (PE) after haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in children were investigated. Clinical data of children who underwent HSCT at the Children's Hospital Affiliated with Chongqing Medical University from January 2016 to December 2022 were analysed retrospectively. Cox proportional hazards regression and the Kaplan-Meier method were used to analyse the risk factors for post-HSCT PE and its impact on outcomes, respectively. We enrolled 452 patients with HSCT: 307 males and 145 females, with a median age of 3.4 (1.8 to 6.5) years at transplantation. Forty-five patients (10%) had PE within a median time of 25 (10.5 to 44) days, 42 (93%) within 100 days. Three patients with large PE were treated with pericardiocentesis and drainage, while the others were treated conservatively. Of the 45 patients with PE, 24 survived, and their PE disappeared after treatment. Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) grade, abnormal pre-HSCT electrocardiogram, hepatic veno-occlusive disease (HVOD), pulmonary infection and Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infection were risk factors for PE. The overall survival (OS) rates at 1, 3, and 5 years were 86.0%, 84.2%, and 82.3%, respectively. PE had a significant negative effect on OS after HSCT (P < 0.0001). Particularly, one patient with large PE died of pericardial tamponade. Post-HSCT PE usually occurred within 100 days. GVHD grade, abnormal pre-HSCT electrocardiogram, HVOD, pulmonary infection and EBV infection were closely related to PE. PE had a significant negative effect on OS rate.
The Space Density Evolution of Wet and Dry Mergers in the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey
Creators: name: Chou, Richard C. Y.
name: Bridge, Carrie R.
name: Abraham, Roberto G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze 1298 merging galaxies with redshifts up to z=0.7 from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey, taken from the catalog presented in Bridge et al. (2010). By analyzing the internal colors of these systems, we show that so-called wet and dry mergers evolve in different senses, and quantify the space densities of these systems. The local space density of wet mergers is essentially dentical to the local space density of dry mergers. The evolution in the total merger rate is modest out to z ~ 0.7, although the wet and dry populations have different evolutionary trends. At higher redshifts dry mergers make a smaller contribution to the total merging galaxy population, but this is offset by a roughly equivalent increase in the contribution from wet mergers. By comparing the mass density function of early-type galaxies to the corresponding mass density function for merging systems, we show that not all the major mergers with the highest masses (M_stellar > 10^11 M_solar) will end up with the most massive early-type galaxies, unless the merging timescale is dramatically longer than that usually assumed. On the other hand, the usually-assumed merging timescale of ~ 0.5-1 Gyr is quite consistent with the data if we suppose that only less massive early-type galaxies form via mergers. Since low-intermediate mass ellipticals are 10 --100 times more common than their most massive counterparts, the hierarchical explanation for the origin of early-type galaxies may be correct for the vast majority of early-types, even if incorrect for the most massive ones.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures. Accepted by AJ