cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Coremacera Rondani 1856
Creators: name: Vala, Jean-Claude
name: Williams, Christopher D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciomyzidae
Coremacera

description: Genus Coremacera Rondani, 1856
 Coremacera marginata (Fabricius, 1775) (Fig. 3)
 Musca marginata Fabricius, 1775: 784.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 6 ♂, 2 ♀, M09-SES1400-T1-M1; 1 ♂, M09-SES1400-T1-M2; 4 ♂, 2 ♀, M09-SES1400-T4-M2; 9 ♂, 6 ♀, M09-SES-1400-T6-M2; 1 ♂, 2 ♀, M09-SES1400-T7-M2; 2 ♀, M09-SES1400-T8-M2.
 DISTRIBUTION. — Eurasian, from Scandinavia to Spain, Greece and Turkey, extending to Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran.
COMMENTS
 Coremacera marginata is frequently collected in various terrestrial, shaded habitats: sub-xeric grasslands, even under direct sunlight; Quercus forest or Pine edge; garrigue; Mediterranean shrub formations, including city gardens and boundaries of meadows; and other humid areas.
 Females oviposit at the end of September, mainly near terrestrial molluscs that are attacked and eaten by the larvae. These are especially Cochlicopa lubricella (Rossmässler, 1835), C. minima (Siemaschko, 1774), Discus rotundatus (Müller, 1847), Helicella itala (Linnaeus,1758), H. caperata (Montagu, 1803), Cernuella virgata (Da Costa, 1778), young Helix aspersa Müller, 1774, Fruticicola fruticum (O. F. Müller, 1774), Trochulus hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758), and Oxychilus Fitzinger, 1833 spp. However, Zonitoides arboreus (Say, 1817), which are often abundant at the capture sites, is not attacked in the laboratory. Larvae first feed as predators and continue in a saprophagous manner after the prey is killed, after which they attack a second snail. This species is univoltine, overwintering in the pupal stage outside the snail shell, and flies from June to early November. The life cycle is described by Knutson (1973). We found the 35 specimens only in Malaise traps installed at 1400 m altitude in the natural pastures of the Sestrière site Vallon de Saint-Dalmas. Usually, this species is collected from the end of May to October, and even at altitudes as low as 2-3 m, as in parts of the Camargue, southwest France (Vala collector).
description: Published as part of Vala, Jean-Claude & Williams, Christopher D., 2015, Sciomyzidae Fallén, 1820 (Diptera) collected in the Mercantour National Park, France, pp. 611-619 in Zoosystema 37 (4) on page 615, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n4a7, http://zenodo.org/record/5156946
Novel Signals from Neutron Star Mergers at 511 keV
Creators: name: Takhistov, Volodymyr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Synergetic observations of multi-band coincidence signals from merging neutron stars have definitively marked the significance of multi-messenger astronomy. We present a new generic signature of neutron star mergers, positron emission and the associated 511 keV radiation, produced from ejected neutron-rich radioactive merger material. Accounting for historical neutron star mergers within the Milky Way allows to readily explain the origin of the long-observed 511 keV emission line from the Galactic Center. Further, we draw a direct link between heavy element production ($r$-process nucleosynthesis) and 511 keV emission, which signifies the surprising recent observations of Reticulum II ultra-faint dwarf spheroidal galaxy as a smoking gun of our proposal. This novel tracer of neutron star mergers provides a distinct handle for exploring binary merger history.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC-2019), Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Cardenas Endo supplemental figures re-upload.docx
Creators: name: Cardenas-Diaz, Fabian L.
name: Leavens, Karla
name: Siddharth Kishore
name: Osorio-Quintero, Catherine
name: Yi-Ju Chen
name: Stanger, Ben Z.
name: Wang, Pei
name: French, Deborah
name: Gadue, Paul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: 60104 Cell Metabolism
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplemental figures and materials for submitted manuscript entitled "A dual reporter EndoC-βH1 human b-cell line for efficient quantification of calcium flux and insulin secretion"
Two-way shape memory effect and mechanical properties of Pulse Discharge Sintered Ni2.18Mn0.82Ga
Creators: name: Takagi, T.
name: Khovailo, V.
name: Nagatomo, T.
name: Matsumoto, M.
name: Ohtsuka, M.
name: Abe, T.
name: Miki, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mechanical and shape memory properties of a polycrystalline Ni2.18Mn0.82Ga alloy prepared by a PDS (Pulse Discharge Sintering) method were investigated. It was found that the material demonstrates the two-way shape memory effect after a loading - unloading cycle performed in the martensitic state, i. e. essentially without special training. The samples exhibiting the two-way shape memory effect show a significant enhancement in the magnitude of magnetic-field-induced strain.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, REVTEX-4
Validation of DIC approaches to study surface displacements atdeep-seated rockslides
Creators: name: Bickel, Valentin
name: Manconi, Andrea
name: Amann, Florian
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962
The evolution of the electron number density in the coma of comet 67P at the location of Rosetta from 2015 November through 2016 March
Creators: name: Vigren, Erik
name: Edberg, Niklas J. T.
name: Eriksson, Anders I.
name: Galand, Marina
name: Henri, Pierre
name: Johansson, Fredrik L.
name: Odelstad, Elias
name: Rubin, Martin
name: Vallieres, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A comet ionospheric model assuming the plasma to move radially outward with the same bulk speed as the neutral gas and not being subject to severe reduction through dissociative recombination has previously been tested in a series of case studies associated with the Rosetta mission at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It has been found that at low activity and within several tens of km from the nucleus such models (which originally were developed for such conditions) generally work well in reproducing observed electron number densities, in particular when plasma production through both photoionization and electron-impact ionization is taken into account. Near perihelion, case studies have, on the contrary, showed that applying similar assumptions overestimates the observed electron number densities at the location of Rosetta. Here we compare ROSINA/COPS driven model results with RPC/MIP derived electron number densities for an extended time period (2015 November through 2016 March) during the post-perihelion phase with southern summer/spring. We observe a gradual transition from a state when the model grossly overestimates (by more than a factor of 10) the observations to being in reasonable agreement during 2016 March.
description: (accepted version of manuscript)
Configuration of a High-Resolution Paraglacial Borehole Monitoring System at the Great Aletsch Glacier
Creators: name: Hugentobler, Marc
name: Loew, Simon
name: Roques, Clément
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962
Atractides denticulatus Walter 1947
Creators: name: Gerecke, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Trombidiformes
Hygrobatidae
Atractides
Atractides denticulatus

description: Atractides (s. str.) denticulatus Walter, 1947
(Figs 27 Q; 28 A-B; 31 D)
 Material examined: Calabria: Pollino, I 1132 Int, 2/7/0 (2/3/0 slide); Sicilia: Peloritani, I 576 Int 1, 0/2/1 slide; I 577 Int 2, 0/2/0 (0/1/0 slide); I 646 Int 1, 0/1/1 slide.
Habitat: Hyporheobiont. All records in the study area from interstitial digs at lower altitudes, 90-480 m.
Distribution: Central and Southern Europe. First records from Italy (reported from an uncertain site in Italy or Corsica by Gerecke & Di Sabatino 2013).
 Fig. 10: Atractides dinisi sp. nov., holotype ♀ (I 652). A, gnathosoma with chelicera and palp lateral; B, palp medial; C, I-L-4-6; D, venter; E, genital field. Scale bars: 100 µm.
description: Published as part of Gerecke, Reinhard, 2021, The water mites of the family Hygrobatidae (Acari, Hydrachnidia) in Italy, pp. 1-85 in Zootaxa 5009 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5009.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5157635
Quantum coherence of spatial photonic qudits: experimental measurement and path-marker analysis
Creators: name: Machado, P.
name: Pádua, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Discussions about quantum interference, indistinguishability and superpostion between quantum states goes back to the beginning of quantum mechanics, but the theoretical problem concerning quantitative measures for quantum coherence was only recently solved by Baumgratz et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113 140401 (2014)]. Since then many works have explored one of the possible coherence measures, the l1 norm, which has not yet been experimentally obtained for spatial photonic states in high dimensions. In this article we study states prepared with photons crossing multiple slits and implement the theoretical proposal of T. Paul and T. Qureshi [ Phys. Rev. A 95 042110 (2017)] to determine experimentally the l1 norm of qutrit states. We analyze the method validity and present an alternative for states in which one of their assumptions does not apply. We also discuss the requirements necessary for using an interference pattern for measuring quantum coherence of qudits by treating the measure-operator that describe the detection optical configuration as path-markers, relating them with the quantum coherence determination.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Quantifying energy condition violations in traversable wormholes
Creators: name: Kar, Sayan
name: Dadhich, Naresh
name: Visser, Matt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The `theoretical' existence of traversable Lorentzian wormholes in the classical, macroscopic world is plagued by the violation of the well--known energy conditions of General Relativity. In this brief article we show : (i) how the extent of violation can be quantified using certain volume integrals (ii) whether this `amount of violation' can be minimised for some specific cut--and--paste geometric constructions. Examples and possibilities are also outlined.
description: 8 pages, no figures, to appear in Proceedings of ICGC04, Cochin, India (January 5-10,2004)
Spatial and temporal characteristics of low flows across Switzerland
Creators: name: Floriancic, Marius
name: Berghuijs, Wouter Reinier
name: Molnar, Peter
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962
Research Paper-Fake News.pdf
Creators: name: Jaideep Kulkarni
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 160807 Sociological Methodology and Research Methods
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Social media in today's world has moved from a place for connecting with people to a place that acts as a source of information. It is now almost impossible to imagine a life without social media. They play a vital role in a person's everyday life. People not only share their personal affairs with their friends and families through social media but also talk about politics, healthcare, technology and whatnot. Social media has ensured that people gain new information instantly and helps them to be prepared and stay ahead in life. They now hold a crucial place in information sharing and knowledge transfer. However, they do not stop with vital information sharing. There is also the spread of misinformation on social media. This paper studies the spread of fake news on the social media platform, Twitter. This paper analyses the type of media shared on Twitter and how it can influence the spread of fake news. It investigates the source of fake news and the reasons for their generation. It also investigates who receives and shares the fake news and the reason for sharing. The paper finally examines the spread of fake news during elections and epidemics. It analyses how this fake news during elections and epidemics influences and manipulates people and concludes that the spread is more during this period.
Dolomite dissolution in natural sandstone during flow-through experiments with CO2-rich brin
Creators: name: Ma, Jin
name: Saar, Martin O.
name: Kong, Xiang-Zhao
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962
title: Parameters for the design of HDD installed power cables in soil and rock
Creators: name: Sass, Ingo
name: Eckhardt, Maximilian
name: Schedel, Markus
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2020

description: Technical University of Darmstadt, Geothermal Science and Technology, Darmstadt, Germany (1); Darmstadt Graduate School of Excellence Energy Science and Engineering, Darmstadt, Germany (2).

 When operating buried power cables, the mechanical and thermal properties of the cable bedding need to meet certain requirements. On the one hand, positioning and protection of the cable and protection pipe from mechanical stress demand mechanical stability. On the other hand, electric losses during transmission result in thermal energy that needs to be dissipated. Since the ampacity of the cable depends on the maximum permissible temperature of the conductor, the potential load of the power line is directly connected to the thermal properties of the bedding. To avoid accelerated aging or even damaging of the cable, an adequate assessment of the cable bedding is essential to ensure a safe long-term operation within the mechanical and thermal limits. While an underground cable route is typically realized using cable trenches, intersection points with existing infrastructure (e.g. roads, railway network, inland waters) need to be crossed under using engineering methods like horizontal directional drilling (HDD). Since one segment of the cable route with poorer bedding properties would reduce the potential load of the whole power line, the backfill materials used to fill the space between protection pipe and borehole wall also have to be designed to meet the requirements mentioned. In this contribution, laboratory investigations are discussed, which can be used for the design of adequate backfill materials considering important subsoil properties.
Rapid prediction of crucial hotspot interactions for icosahedral viral capsid self-assembly by energy landscape atlasing validated by mutagenesis
Creators: name: Wu, Ruijin
name: Prabhu, Rahul
name: Ozkan, Aysegul
name: Sitharam, Meera
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Icosahedral viruses have their infectious genome encapsulated by a shell assembled by a multiscale process, starting from an integer multiple of 60 viral capsid or coat protein (VP) monomers. We predict and validate inter-atomic hotspot interactions between VP monomers that are important for the assembly of 3 icosahedral viral capsids: Adeno Associated Virus serotype 2 (AAV2) and Minute Virus of Mice (MVM), both T=1 single stranded DNA viruses, and Bromo Mosaic Virus (BMV), a T=3 single stranded RNA virus. Experimental validation is by in-vitro, site-directed mutagenesis data found in literature. We combine ab-initio predictions at two scales: at the interface-scale, we predict the importance (cruciality) of an interaction for successful subassembly across each interface between VP monomers; and at the capsid-scale, we predict the cruciality of an interface for successful capsid assembly. At the interface-scale, we measure cruciality by changes in the capsid free-energy landscape partition function when an interaction is removed. The partition function computation uses atlases of interface subassembly landscapes, rapidly generated by a novel geometric method and curated opensource software EASAL (efficient atlasing and search of assembly landscapes). At the capsid-scale, cruciality of an interface for successful assembly of the capsid is based on combinatorial entropy. Our study goes from resource-light, multiscale computational predictions of crucial hotspot inter-atomic interactions to validation using data on site-directed mutagenesis' effect on capsid assembly. By reliably and rapidly narrowing down target interactions, (no more than 1.5 hours per interface on a laptop with Intel Core i5-2500K 3.2Ghz CPU and 8GB of RAM) our predictions can inform and reduce time-consuming in-vitro and in-vivo experiments, or more computationally intensive in-silico analyses.
A laboratory approach for seismic data interpretation: the borehole Humilly-2 (France)
Creators: name: Hefny, Mahmoud
name: Zappone, Alba
name: Madonna, Claudio
name: Moscariello, Andrea
name: Burg, Jean-Pierre
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962
Diversity in the Regulatory Landscape Governing Candida albicans Biofilm Formation
Creators: name: Manning Huang
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The diploid dimorphic fungus Candida albicans displays a remarkable degree of phenotypic diversity among members of the species. In particular, strains display significant variability in capacity for filamentation and biofilm formation, virulence determinants of this clinically relevant human pathogen. Phenotypic diversity has not thus far been investigated in our studies of C. albicans virulence determinants, primarily because genetic engineering in this species relies on a single laboratory strain lineage:
SC5314 and its engineered derivatives. In this dissertation, we discuss several methods to rapidly investigate gene function in multiple clinical isolates, and use both Nanostring
and RNA-seq to compare regulatory circuitry governing filamentation and biofilm formation in C. albicans. We identify widespread circuit diversification, a phenomenon where a target gene is under the control of regulator A in background A, yet under the control of regulator B in background B. Finally, we explore possible mechanisms that
may underlie circuit diversification, and investigate multi-strain core targets for gene function in filamentation.
Limb functional recovery is impaired in fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF2) deficient mice despite chronic ischaemia-induced vascular growth
Creators: name: Adeola Adeyemo
name: Johnson, Christopher
name: Stiene, Andrew
name: LaSance, Kathleen
name: Zhihua Qi
name: Lemen, Lisa
name: Schultz, Jo El J.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: FGF2 is a potent stimulator of vascular growth; however, even with a deficiency of FGF2 (Fgf2-/-), developmental vessel growth or ischaemia-induced revascularization still transpires. It remains to be elucidated as to what function, if any, FGF2 has during ischaemic injury. Wildtype (WT) or Fgf2-/- mice were subjected to hindlimb ischaemia for up to 42 days. Limb function, vascular growth, inflammatory- and angiogenesis-related proteins, and inflammatory cell infiltration were assessed in sham and ischaemic limbs at various timepoints. Recovery of ischaemic limb function was delayed in Fgf2-/- mice. Yet, vascular growth response to ischaemia was similar between WT and Fgf2-/- hindlimbs. Several angiogenesis- and inflammatory-related proteins (MCP-1, CXCL16, MMPs and PAI-1) were increased in Fgf2-/- ischaemic muscle. Neutrophil or monocyte recruitment/infiltration was elevated in Fgf2-/- ischaemic muscle. In summary, our study indicates that loss of FGF2 induces a pro-inflammatory microenvironment in skeletal muscle which exacerbates ischaemic injury and delays functional limb use.
Spectral flow of the Dirac spectrum in intersecting vortices
Creators: name: Reinhardt, H.
name: Tok, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectrum of the Dirac Hamiltonian in the background of crossing vortices is studied. To exploit the index theorem, and in analogy to the lattice the space-time manifold is chosen to be the four-torus $\T^4$. For sake of simplicity we consider two idealized cases: infinitely fat and thin transversally intersecting vortices. The time-dependent spectrum of the Dirac Hamiltonian is calculated and in particular the influence of the vortex crossing on the quark spectrum is investigated. For the infinitely fat intersecting vortices it is found that zero modes of the four-dimensional Dirac operator can be expressed in terms of those eigenspinors of the Euclidean time-dependent Dirac Hamiltonian, which cross zero energy. For thin intersecting vortices the time gradient of the spectral flow of the Dirac Hamiltonian is steepest at the time at which the vortices cross each other.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures, references added, minor corrections
In-situ strain detection of stress-strain relationships and their controls on progressive damage in marble and quartzite by neutron diffraction experiments
Creators: name: Voigtländer, Anne
name: Leith, Kerry
name: Breuer, Simon
name: Müller, Birgit I.R.
name: Scheffzük, Christian
name: Schilling, Frank R.
name: Krautblatter, Michael
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962
A glacial or fluvial origin for Alpine valleys: How personality, politics, and war killed one of the great debates in geomorphology
Creators: name: Leith, Kerry
name: Fox, Matthew
name: Moore, Jeffrey
name: Loew, Simon
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962
Pherbellia cinerella
Creators: name: Vala, Jean-Claude
name: Williams, Christopher D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Sciomyzidae
Pherbellia
Pherbellia cinerella

description: Pherbellia cinerella (Fallén, 1820)
 Sciomyza cinerella Fallén, 1820: 14.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Additional species collected by J.-C. Vala. Boréon: 13-17.VI.2014, 2♂. Valdeblore (2800 m), Larch forest, 1 ♀; Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée (2700 m), 3 ♂, 2 ♀.
DISTRIBUTION. — Common species with a wide distribution in the Palaearctic and Oriental Regions. Also collected in Israel, Turkey, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Afghanistan.
COMMENTS
 This species was not found in the material received from the MNHN. However, six males and three females had been already collected at Beonia in a chestnut grove (2060 m) on 7.IX.2009, and one couple (1232-1235 m) on 11.IX.2009. All specimens were identified by R. Rozkošný (ATBI + M Database: EDIT 2010). During subsequent surveys in the park, we collected eight specimens by sweep netting in the same coniferous forest type throughout 13-17.VI.2014. This Pherbellia species is very common in the Palaearctic region and can be collected in habitats ranging from dry areas to humid grasslands. Larvae attack and eat a variety of shoreline and terrestrial snails. Bratt et al. (1969) described all the immature stages and detailed the larval biology. This species is polyvoltine and overwinters as adult (Vala 1984).
description: Published as part of Vala, Jean-Claude & Williams, Christopher D., 2015, Sciomyzidae Fallén, 1820 (Diptera) collected in the Mercantour National Park, France, pp. 611-619 in Zoosystema 37 (4) on page 613, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n4a7, http://zenodo.org/record/5156946
Photometric and Kinematic Misalignments and Their Evolution Among Fast and Slow Rotators in the Illustris Simulation
Creators: name: Yang, Lisiyuan
name: Xu, Dandan
name: Mao, Shude
name: Springel, Volker
name: Li, Hongyu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the Illustris simulation to study the distributions of ellipticities and kinematic misalignments of galactic projections, as well as the intrinsic shapes and rotation of the simulated galaxies. Our results for the projections of galaxies display clear trends of an overall increase of kinematic misalignment and a slight decrease of ellipticity for fast rotators with increasing masses, while revealing no clear distinction between slow rotators of different mass. It is also found that the number of very slow rotators with large ellipticities is much larger than found in observations. The intrinsic properties of the galaxies are then analysed. The results for the intrinsic shapes of the galaxies are mostly consistent with previous results inferred from observational data. The distributions of intrinsic misalignment of the galaxies suggest that some of the galaxies produced by Illustris have significant rotation around their medium axes. Further analysis reveals that most of these galaxies display signs of non-equilibrium. We then study the evolution of the intrinsic misalignments and shapes of three specific Illustris galaxies, which we consider as typical ones, along the main progenitor line of their merger trees, revealing how mergers influence the intrinsic shapes and kinematics: the spin axis in general stays close to the shortest axis, and tends to quickly relax to such an equilibrium state within a few dynamical times of the galaxy after major perturbations; triaxiality and intrinsic flatness in general decrease with time, however, sometimes increases occur that are clearly seen to correlate with major merger events.
description: 16 pages, 18 figures
To be agents or not to be agents, that is the question: the impact of the online platforms revolution on the notion of agency under EU competition law
Creators: name: Villani, Luca
Publisher: name: Market and Competition Law Review
Year: 2020

description: In recent years, practitioners, commentators and competition authorities have been facing the question of whether online platforms fit the mould of a typical agent under EU competition law. The stakes are high. If online platforms could be qualified as agents, the obligations imposed on them in relation to the contracts concluded and/or negotiated on behalf of their principal(s) may fall outside Article 101 (1) TFEU. This article wishes to contribute to the debate in two ways. First, it offers an assessment of whether, under existing EU competition law, online platforms can be qualified as agents. Second, it provides a conceptual framework to determine whether the existing rules are fit for purpose. After a brief overview of the relevant case-law, the article finds that, as a matter of current law, online platforms can fall under the definition of agents. However, the article considers that the existing rules should be updated to reflect the disruptive changes brought by the online platforms revolution. The existing rules were conceived at a time when value was created and transferred following the traditional value chain (or pipeline) model. Value flew in a linear way from producers to consumers. Companies are nowadays increasingly shifting from the value chain model to a more complex business model, i.e. the platform model. The platform model re-shaped ordinary competitive dynamics. Under the platform model, value is created through a complex array of interactions among producers, a number of principals, consumers and online platforms. The output is a package of products and services. Online platforms compete with each other, with other market players and sometimes even with their principals. The article finds that these new challenges are not adequately addressed by the EU Guidelines on Vertical Restraints, that should be reviewed accordingly to catch up with the online platforms revolution.
description: Market and Competition Law Review, v. 4 n. 2 (2020)
Epeolus Latreille 1802
Creators: name: Astafurova, Yulia V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Epeolus

description: Genus Epeolus Latreille, 1802
 Epeolus Latreille, 1802: 427. Type species: Apis variegata Linnaeus, 1758, monobasic.
description: Published as part of Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2021, Review of the Epeolus tarsalis species group (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Epeolus Latreille, 1802), with description of a new species, pp. 26-36 in Zootaxa 5006 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5006.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5157333
Numerical Optimal Control of HIV Transmission in Octave/MATLAB
Creators: name: Campos, Carlos
name: Silva, Cristiana J.
name: Torres, Delfim F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 34K28, 49N90, 92D30

description: We provide easy and readable GNU Octave/MATLAB code for the simulation of mathematical models described by ordinary differential equations and for the solution of optimal control problems through Pontryagin's maximum principle. For that, we consider a normalized HIV/AIDS transmission dynamics model based on the one proposed in our recent contribution (Silva, C.J.; Torres, D.F.M. A SICA compartmental model in epidemiology with application to HIV/AIDS in Cape Verde. Ecol. Complex. 2017, 30, 70--75), given by a system of four ordinary differential equations. An HIV initial value problem is solved numerically using the ode45 GNU Octave function and three standard methods implemented by us in Octave/MATLAB: Euler method and second-order and fourth-order Runge-Kutta methods. Afterwards, a control function is introduced into the normalized HIV model and an optimal control problem is formulated, where the goal is to find the optimal HIV prevention strategy that maximizes the fraction of uninfected HIV individuals with the least HIV new infections and cost associated with the control measures. The optimal control problem is characterized analytically using the Pontryagin Maximum Principle, and the extremals are computed numerically by implementing a forward-backward fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. Complete algorithms, for both uncontrolled initial value and optimal control problems, developed under the free GNU Octave software and compatible with MATLAB are provided along the article.
description: Submitted 1-Oct-2019; Revised 7-Dec-2019; Accepted 17-Dec-2019; Published 19-Dec-2019 in Math. Comput. Appl., EISSN 2297-8747 [https://doi.org/10.3390/mca25010001]
Two strings to one bow? Article 47 of the EU charter of fundamental rights in the EU competition case law: between procedural and substantive fairness
Creators: name: Gentile, Giulia
Publisher: name: Market and Competition Law Review
Year: 2020

description: In recent years, the EU competition framework has been under strain because of the increasing market interconnectivity. Criticisms have raised regarding the EU competition enforcement model. In response, institutional debate and measures have focused on the enhancement of fairness in this area of EU law. Following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, another source of ‘fairness’ in the enforcement of EU competition law is the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Article 47 of the EU Charter is the most invoked provision in the context of EU competition litigation. Considered to reaffirm the EU general principle of effective judicial protection, this article constitutionalises the right to an effective remedy and to a fair trial. Although the existing literature has highlighted the overall influence of fundamental rights in the enforcement of competition law, the contribution of Article 47 Charter, as interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union, in enhancing fairness in EU competition policies remains, so far, underexplored. The current paper aims to fill this gap in the literature by offering a threefold input. First, the paper situates the discussion on fairness in EU competition law in the broader philosophical debate regarding various conception(s) of fairness. Second, the paper analyses the case law of the EU Court of Justice on Article 47 of the EU Charter in EU competition litigation. Finally, the paper discusses what kind of ‘fairness’ Article 47 strengthens in the area of EU competition law enforcement.
description: Market and Competition Law Review, v. 4 n. 2 (2020)
Source wavelet inversion for laterally-varying scaling errors using Marchenko focusing functions
Creators: name: Mildner, Constantin
name: Broggini, Filippo
name: Robertsson, Johan O.A.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962
A method for monitoring glacial loss and temperature variation using satellite observations: Case study of Pico de Orizaba and Iztaccíhuatl (Mexico)
Creators: name: Viola, Donna
name: McKay, Christopher P.
name: Navarro-González, Rafael
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Throughout the world, tropical glaciers are rapidly receding and some are at risk of complete loss within the next several decades. It is therefore important to monitor these glacial regions to better understand the factors affecting glacier loss and risks to nearby communities. Here, we provide an update on the summit glacier extents of Pico de Orizaba (19.03°N, 97.27°W) and Iztaccíhuatl (19.18°N, 98.64°W) in central Mexico, reporting areas every 1–11 years between 2001 and 2019 (depending on the availability of high-quality imagery). Glacier extents are derived from multispectral satellite imagery (Landsat 7–8 and the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2) using a semi-automated mapping method that takes the ratio of the near-infrared (or panchromatic) and shortwave infrared bands and applies appropriate threshold(s) for glacier identification. We also use thermal band imagery from Landsat 7–8 to estimate surface temperatures of both the glaciers and the surrounding terrain to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the summit environment. We find that glacier retreat has continued on both summits, and surface temperatures (even over glacier ice) can be at or near the melting point of water during some parts of the year, particularly on lower-elevation Iztaccíhuatl, suggesting a risk of continued ice loss in the future.
BVR photometry of the resolved dwarf galaxy Ho IX
Creators: name: Georgiev, Tsvetan B.
name: Bomans, Dominik J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present BVR CCD photometry down to limiting magnitude B=23.5 mag for 232 starlike objects and 11 diffuse objects in a 5.4' x 5.4' field of Ho IX. The galaxy is a gas-rich irregular dwarf galaxy possibly very close to M 81, which makes it especially interesting in the context of the evolution of satellite galaxies and the accretion of dwarf galaxies. Investigations of Ho IX were hampered by relatively large contradictions in the magnitude scale between earlier studies. With our new photometry we resolved these discrepancies. The color magnitude diagram (CMD) of Ho IX is fairly typical of a star-forming dwarf irregular, consistent with earlier results. Distance estimates from our new CMD are consistent with Ho IX being very close to M 81 and therefore being a definite member of the M 81 group, apparently in very close physical proximity to M 81.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, uses aa.cls, A&A in press
Epeolus ladakhensis Bogusch 2019
Creators: name: Astafurova, Yulia V.
name: Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Epeolus
Epeolus ladakhensis

description: Epeolus ladakhensis Bogusch, 2019
 Epeolus ladakhensis Bogusch, 2019: 267–271, ♀ (type locality: India, Kashmir).
description: Published as part of Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2021, Review of the Epeolus tarsalis species group (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Epeolus Latreille, 1802), with description of a new species, pp. 26-36 in Zootaxa 5006 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5006.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5157333
New CPC Regulation and ECN+ Directive: the powers of national authorities in the fields of consumer protection and antitrust
Creators: name: Massa, Claudia
Publisher: name: Market and Competition Law Review
Year: 2020

description: National authorities in individual countries are responsible for the enforcement of EU consumer protection and antitrust laws together with the European Commission. This article seeks to define the powers of national consumer and antitrust authorities when enforcing those laws. In doing so, it analyses two main EU acts: on the one hand, EU Regulation no. 2017/2394, thanks to which national consumer authorities now have stronger powers to detect irregularities and take speed action; on the other hand, EU Directive 2019/1 that aims to ensure that, when applying the EU antitrust rules, national competition authorities have the appropriate enforcement tools in order to bring about a genuine common competition enforcement area. The article will also take into consideration that in both the consumer protection and the antitrust fields, the national authorities act in the framework of Networks (the “Consumer Protection Cooperation Network” and the “European Competition Network”), and it will emerge that this aspect also helps to define the scope of the action and inter-action of those authorities. In fact, the exercise of their powers must always take place in compliance with and within the limits imposed by the EU law principle of sincere cooperation enshrined by Article 4(3) TEU.
description: Market and Competition Law Review, v. 4 n. 2 (2020)
Table S10 from Identification of candidate genes controlling chilling tolerance of rice in the cold region at the booting stage by BSA-Seq and RNA-Seq
Creators: name: Guo, Zhenhua
name: Cai, Lijun
name: Chen, Zhiqiang
name: Wang, Ruiying
name: Zhang, Lanming
name: Guan, Shiwu
name: Zhang, Shuhua
name: Ma, Wendong
name: Liu, Chuanxue
name: Pan, Guojun
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020

description: Rice is sensitive to low temperatures, specifically at the booting stage. Chilling tolerance of rice is a quantitative trait loci that is governed by multiple genes, and thus, its precise identification through the conventional methods is an arduous task. In this study, we investigated the candidate genes related to chilling tolerance at the booting stage of rice. The F2 population was derived from Longjing25 (chilling-tolerant) and Longjing11 (chilling-sensitive) cross. Two bulked segregant analysis pools were constructed. A 0.82 Mb region containing 98 annotated genes on chromosomes 6 and 9 was recognized as the candidate region associated with chilling tolerance of rice at the booting stage. Transcriptomic analysis of Longjing25 and Longjing11 revealed 50 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) on the candidate intervals. KEGG pathway enrichment analysis of DEGs was performed. Nine pathways were found to be enriched, which contained 10 DEGs. A total of four genes had different expression patterns or levels between Longjing25 and Longjing11. Four out of the 10 DEGs were considered as potential candidate genes for chilling tolerance. This study will assist in the cloning of the candidate genes responsible for chilling tolerance and molecular breeding of rice for the development of chilling-tolerant rice varieties.
Optimized experimental network design for earthquake location problems: applications to geothermal fields seismic networks
Creators: name: Toledo Zambrano, Tania
name: Jousset, Philippe
name: Maurer, Hansruedi
name: Krawczyk, Charlotte M.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962
Sediment sizes produced by landslides in a threshold landscape
Creators: name: Prancevic, Jeffrey
name: Roda-Boluda, Duna
name: Tofelde, Stefanie
name: Bufe, Aaron
name: Hemingway, Jordon
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2018

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 20
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962
Decisiveness of Stochastic Systems and its Application to Hybrid Models
Creators: name: Bouyer, Patricia
name: Brihaye, Thomas
name: Randour, Mickael
name: Rivière, Cédric
name: Vandenhove, Pierre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In [ABM07], Abdulla et al. introduced the concept of decisiveness, an interesting tool for lifting good properties of finite Markov chains to denumerable ones. Later, this concept was extended to more general stochastic transition systems (STSs), allowing the design of various verification algorithms for large classes of (infinite) STSs. We further improve the understanding and utility of decisiveness in two ways. First, we provide a general criterion for proving decisiveness of general STSs. This criterion, which is very natural but whose proof is rather technical, (strictly) generalizes all known criteria from the literature. Second, we focus on stochastic hybrid systems (SHSs), a stochastic extension of hybrid systems. We establish the decisiveness of a large class of SHSs and, under a few classical hypotheses from mathematical logic, we show how to decide reachability problems in this class, even though they are undecidable for general SHSs. This provides a decidable stochastic extension of o-minimal hybrid systems. [ABM07] Parosh A. Abdulla, Noomene Ben Henda, and Richard Mayr. 2007. Decisive Markov Chains. Log. Methods Comput. Sci. 3, 4 (2007).
description: In Proceedings GandALF 2020, arXiv:2009.09360
Taxi services, platforms and Article 101 TFEU: changing the shape of the transport intermediation services industry?
Creators: name: Andreangeli, Arianna
Publisher: name: Market and Competition Law Review
Year: 2020

description: The taxi services market has relied on platforms for many years. Taxis can be hailed at the kerb or by using taxi ranks. Often, consumers rely on intermediaries, such as taxi phone lines. The task of these intermediaries is to despatch a call to a driver, so that the latter can meet consumers’ demand in each case. Today, the use of phone apps reliant on geolocalisation software is among the most common ways in which calls are despatched to taxi service providers. Apps come with significant benefits for both parties. Consumers can track the car they reserved, whereas drivers can deploy more efficiently their working time since they can locate and respond to calls from customers in areas that are within their reach. The entry into the market for taxi despatch services of these novel instruments has not been without consequences, however. Are we witnessing a sea change in the way in which traditional platforms in this market have conducted their business so far? What are the competition law implications of the entry of phone apps in the taxi despatch services’ market? How far is the application of the competition rules going to affect the nature of taxi despatch platforms? What are the implications of these decisions for the functioning of other platform-based markets? This paper analyses this question by relying on the practice of national authorities who, in a number of contexts, have ruled on the legality of taxi platforms. It will be argued that the emergence of platform despatchers using geolocalisation technologies may not only “disrupt” those business models that have characterised the taxi despatching market so far. It could also lead to a change in the approach that competition law has adopted in relation to other two-sided markets where intermediation is key to the matching of demand and supply, perhaps by spelling the end of “closed” platforms in favour of open models of intermediation. The paper will conclude with some more general reflections on the application of the EU competition rules to two-sided markets. It will be submitted that, due to the focus placed on the need to avoid the foreclosure of the market in favour of and by existing incumbents, the ability for users to enter and exit from a platform and, more generally, to rely on a variety of channels for service intermediation are going to be essential to maintain the openness and competitiveness of these markets.
description: Market and Competition Law Review, v. 4 n. 2 (2020)
A new look at nuclear supersymmetry though transfer experiments
Creators: name: Barea, J.
name: Bijker, R.
name: Frank, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nuclear supersymmetry is reviewed and some of its applications and extensions are discussed, together with a proposal for new, more stringent and precise tests to probe the supersymmetry classification, in particular, correlations between nuclei that belong to the same supermultiplet. The combination of these theoretical and experimental studies may play a unifying role in nuclear phenomena
description: 13 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Government Financing of Farm Exports in the Postwar Period
Creators: name: Rafler, Doris Detre
name: Rafler, Doris Detre
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1955
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Political Economy

description: The extent to which farm exports have received assistance from the United States Government is a subject of continuing interest and controversy. Relative data on a current basis are published in the Demand and Price Situation. This article presents a comprehensive estimate and analysis of Government financing during the post-World War II period. It also discusses the relationship of Government financed exports to total agricultural exports, to the gross foreign expenditures of the United States, and to overall measures of surplus disposal.
Rheology enhanced transport in Non-Newtonian porous media flows
Creators: name: Seybold, Hansjörg
name: Dias Araujo, Ascanio
name: Lima, Roberto
name: Andrade, Roberto
name: Soares de Andrade, Jose Jr.
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2017

description: Geophysical Research Abstracts, 19
description: ISSN:1029-7006
description: ISSN:1607-7962