cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The galaxy population of the complex cluster system Abell 3921
Creators: name: Pranger, Florian
name: Böhm, Asmus
name: Ferrari, Chiara
name: Diaferio, Antonaldo
name: Hunstead, Richard
name: Maurogordato, Sophie
name: Benoist, Christophe
name: Brinchmann, Jarle
name: Schindler, Sabine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a spectrophotometric analysis of the galaxy pop. in the area of the merging cluster Abell 3921 at redshift 0.093. We investigate the impact of the complex cluster environment on galaxy properties such as morphology or star formation rate. We combine multi-object spectroscopy from the 2dF spectrograph with optical imaging taken with the ESO WFI. We carry out a redshift analysis and determine cluster velocity dispersions using biweight statistics. Applying a Dressler-Shectman (DS-)test we seek evidence for cluster substructure. Cluster and field galaxies are investigated with respect to [OII] and Hα equivalent width, SFR and morphological descriptors such as concentration index and Gini coefficient. We study these cluster galaxy properties as a function of clustercentric distance and investigate the spatial distribution of various galaxy types. Applying the DS-test we find a 3rd component (A3921-C) in addition to the two main subclusters (A3921-A and A3921-B) already known. The re-determined mass ratio between the main components A and B is approx. 2:1. Similar to prev. studies of galaxy clusters, we find that a large fraction of the disk galaxies close to the cluster core show no detectable star formation. These are likely systems that are quenched due to ram pressure stripping. We also find quenched spirals at rather large distances of 3 to 4 Mpc from the cluster core. A3921-C might be a group of galaxies falling onto the main cluster components. We speculate that the unexpected population of quenched spirals at large clustercentric radii in A3921-A and A3921-B might be an effect of the ongoing cluster merger: shocks in the ICM might give raise to enhanced ram pressure stripping and at least in part be the cause for the quenching of star formation. These quenched spirals might be an interm. stage in the morphological transformation of field spirals into cluster S0s.
description: 14 pages, 22 figures, accepted version (Astronomy & Astrophysics) 1 page corrigendum (1 figure)
title: Dissolution Rates of Allophane, Fe-Allophane, and Hisingerite and Implications for Aqueous Alteration on Mars and in Potential Returned Martian Samples
Creators: name: Ralston, S. J.
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2018

description: Recent measurements from Mars document X-ray amorphous/nano-crystalline materials in multiple locations across the planet. However, despite their prevalence, little is known about these materials or what their presence implies for the history of Mars. The amorphous component of the martian soil in Gale Crater has an X-ray diffraction pattern that can be partially fit with allophane (approximately Al2O3•(SiO2)1.3-2•(H2O)2.5-3), as well as low-temperature water release consistent with allophane. The chemical data from Gale Crater suggest that other silicate phases similar to allophane, such as Fe-substituted allophane (here, approximately (Fe2O3)0.01(Al2O3)0.99(SiO2)2•3H2O) and hisingerite (approximately Fe3+2Si2O5(OH)4•(H2O)), may also be present. In order to investigate the properties of these poorly crystalline components of the martian soil, we synthesized allophane, Fe-substituted allophane, and hisingerite; characterized the synthetic materials by infrared spectroscopy, electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and evolved gas analysis; and performed dissolution experiments at acidic, near-neutral, and alkaline conditions in order to determine dissolution kinetics and alteration phases for these poorly crystalline materials. Our analyses demonstrate that allophane, Fe-allophane, and hisingerite are appropriate analogs for silicate phases in the martian amorphous soil component. These poorly crystalline materials dissolve rapidly at all experimental pH conditions, indicating that similar materials on Mars must have had limited interaction with liquid water since their formation. For allophane, logrdiss = -11.05 – 0.088 × pH; for Fe-allophane, logrdiss = -11.09 – 0.091 × pH; and for hisingerite, logrdiss = -11.49 – 0.032 × pH. Additionally, incipient phyllosilicate phases form in hisingerite and allophane under high pH conditions, but are much more sparse at low pH, which, combined with the enrichment of Fe expected from weathering, may be a useful tool for examining returned samples of martian soils for evidence of past aqueous alteration.
Least-Squares Fitting Methods for Estimating the Winding Rate in Twisted Magnetic-Flux Tubes
Creators: name: Crouch, Ashley D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate least-squares fitting methods for estimating the winding rate of field lines about the axis of twisted magnetic-flux tubes. These methods estimate the winding rate by finding the values for a set of parameters that correspond to the minimum of the discrepancy between magnetic-field measurements and predictions from a twisted flux-tube model. For the flux-tube model used in the fitting, we assume that the magnetic field is static, axisymmetric, and does not vary in the vertical direction. Using error-free, synthetic vector magnetic-field data constructed with models for twisted magnetic-flux tubes, we test the efficacy of fitting methods at recovering the true winding rate. Furthermore, we demonstrate how assumptions built into the flux-tube models used for the fitting influence the accuracy of the winding-rate estimates. We identify the radial variation of the winding rate within the flux tube as one assumption that can have a significant impact on the winding-rate estimates. We show that the errors caused by making a fixed, incorrect assumption about the radial variation of the winding rate can be largely avoided by fitting directly for the radial variation of the winding rate. Other assumptions that we investigate include the lack of variation of the field in the azimuthal and vertical directions in the flux tube model used for the fitting, and the inclination, curvature, and location of the flux-tube axis. When the observed field deviates substantially from the flux-tube model used for the fitting, we find that the winding-rate estimates can be unreliable. We conclude that the magnetic-flux tube models used in this investigation are probably too simple to yield reliable estimates for the winding rate of the field lines in solar magnetic structures in general, unless additional information is available to justify the choice of flux-tube model used for the fitting.
description: Accepted for publication in Solar Physics
Additional file 2 of Improving expression and assembly of difficult-to-express heterologous proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by culturing at a sub-physiological temperature
Creators: name: So, Kum-Kang
name: Le, Ngoc My Tieu
name: Nguyen, Ngoc-Luong
name: Kim, Dae-Hyuk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure. S2 Northern blot analysis (A) and Quantitative real time RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) analysis (B) of LTB-VP1 in a selected transformant (#4) under 20 °C and 30 °C conditions. A 20 μg total RNA was loaded on each lane. RNA preparations from cells harvested at day 1, 3, and 5 days after cultivation at 20 °C (Lanes 2-4, respectively) and 30 °C (Lanes 5-7, respectively). Lane 1 contains RNA sample from a mock transformant cultured for 3 days at 30 °C as a negative control. GPD was used as an internal control and rRNAs are shown to indicate equal amount of RNA loaded on each lane. B qRT-PCR results of changes in expression of LTB-VP1 under 20 °C and 30 °C conditions are shown. No significant differences between 20 °C and 30 °C were observed.
Dissecting the relationship between plasma and tissue metabolome in a cohort of women with obesity: Analysis of subcutaneous and visceral adipose, muscle, and liver
Creators: name: Wu, Zhanxuan Emily
name: Kruger, Marlena
name: Cooper, Garth
name: Sequeira, Ivana
name: McGill, Anne-Thea
name: Poppitt, Sally
name: Fraser, Karl
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3101
subject: Biochemistry and cell biology

description: Untargeted metabolomics of blood samples has become widely applied to study metabolic alterations underpinning disease and to identify biomarkers. However, understanding the relevance of a blood metabolite marker can be challenging if it is unknown whether it reflects the concentration in relevant tissues. To explore this field, metabolomic and lipidomic profiles of plasma, four sites of adipose tissues (ATs) from peripheral or central depot, two sites of muscle tissue, and liver tissue from a group of nondiabetic women with obesity who were scheduled to undergo bariatric surgery (n = 21) or other upper GI surgery (n = 5), were measured by liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. Relationships between plasma and tissue profiles were examined using Pearson correlation analysis subject to Benjamini–Hochberg correction. Plasma metabolites and lipids showed the highest number of significantly positive correlations with their corresponding concentrations in liver tissue, including lipid species of ceramide, mono- and di-hexosylceramide, sphingomyelin, phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), lysophosphatidylethanolamine, dimethyl phosphatidylethanolamine, ether-linked PC, ether-linked PE, free fatty acid, cholesteryl ester, diacylglycerol and triacylglycerol, and polar metabolites linked to several metabolic functions and gut microbial metabolism. Plasma also showed significantly positive correlations with muscle for several phospholipid species and polar metabolites linked to metabolic functions and gut microbial metabolism, and with AT for several triacylglycerol species. In conclusion, plasma metabolomic and lipidomic profiles were reflective more of the liver profile than any of the muscle or AT sites examined in the present study. Our findings highlighted the importance of taking into consideration the metabolomic relationship of various tissues with plasma when postulating plasma metabolites marker to underlying mechanisms occurring in a specific tissue.
Surface Resistivity for Concrete Quality Assurance
Creators: name: Tat, Stanley
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2018

description: The goal of this study was to determine the effectiveness of SRT for concrete quality assurance and to evaluate the relationship between SRT and the three chloride ion ingress methods currently used by various State DOTs. Additionally, the influence of binder type and content, concrete age, and water-to cementitious materials ratio on the experimental results were also examined.

In this study, Type V Portland and three SCMs; namely fly ash, slag, and silica fume were used. Fine and coarse, aggregates were supplied by a local quarry. To evaluate the transport properties of the studied concretes, RMT, RCPT, and ACT were employed. The evaluations of experimental results were based on binder content, binder type, w/cm, and concrete age.

The findings of the experimental program revealed improvements in the results of SRT, RCPT, RMT and ACT due to increases in the binder type and content, as well as concrete age. One the other hand, increases in water-to-cementitious materials ratio displayed a reversal trend. Incorporation of the secondary cementitious materials (SCMs), as a partial substitution of Portland cement, improved the results for the four testing methods and the outcomes improved with the increases in the partial replacement of Portland cement with SCMs. Amongst the three utilized SCMs, silica fume produced superior performance in all four testing programs when compared to slag and fly ash. The studied slag concretes produced better results as compared to those of the fly ash mixtures. The statistical evaluations of the test results showed strong inverse relationships between SRT and the three chloride ion penetration methods, substantiating the use of surface resistivity test for concrete quality assurance and paving the way for its adoption by the Nevada Department of Transportation and other public and private agencies.
Estimating Aquifer Characteristics and Identification of a Sub-Basin for Artificial Storage and Recovery, Northeastern Ivanpah Valley, Nevada
Creators: name: Taranik, Nikolas James
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2014

description: The identification of a structurally controlled sub-basin with impediments to groundwater flow within Southern Nevada could provide a favorable area for artificial recharge and storage of native or imported water, extending the water supply of Southern Nevada. For this purpose, the area of northeastern Ivanpah Valley was investigated to determine the ability of the aquifer to accept and recover stored water, if acceptable water quality existed in the potential sub-basin storage area, and if structural controls impeded and isolated groundwater flow. The results found evidence the proposed sub-basin is structurally isolated by the McCullough, Roach, and Stateline Faults, which was determined by field mapping, groundwater geochemistry, and stable and radiometric isotope data. Aquifer data of hydraulic conductivity, transmissivity, specific yield, and specific capacity compiled from previous studies also indicated the northern portion of Ivanpah Valley would meet the basic requirements for artificial storage and recovery of groundwater, either via injection wells or infiltration basins. The sub-basin identified during this research was found to have degraded groundwater quality not acceptable for artificial water storage and recovery operations. Based upon the native groundwater quality of the sub-basin, artificial recharge operations in Ivanpah Valley should occur outside of the identified sub-basin within the main portions of the valley. Further hydrogeologic study is needed to understand groundwater interaction across these impediments dividing the sub-basin and the remainder of Ivanpah Valley before artificial recharge and recovery operations occur.
Analysis of Lithic Assemblages from Virgin Branch Puebloan Sites on the Shivwits Plateau
Creators: name: Wambach, Thomas Carl
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2014

description: Flaked stone technology, as with any utilitarian technology, is studied by archaeologists for a number of reasons. Often lithics are studied to understand the activities of a prehistoric group. Everything from the final product to the waste material can, when recovered in suitable amounts, reflect the conscious decisions of its creator. Understanding this helps to embed all stages of stone tool (lithic) use into aspects of human behavior and in understanding the organization of technology.
The Virgin Branch Puebloans are the westernmost sub-branch of the Ancestral Puebloan culture of the American Southwest. While some of their expanse has been studied within their lowland regions, their upland territory, specifically the Shivwits Plateau on the Arizona Strip, has until very recently remained understudied. This thesis examined the flaked stone tools, cores, and debitage recovered from eight sites within the vicinity of Mt. Dellenbaugh on the Shivwits Plateau. Its goal is to understand past human behavior with reference to site function, raw material use, and lithic reduction strategies for the purpose of adding to the information compiled by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' ongoing research within the region.
Results showed that at many sites a wide range of similar activities were occurring with some possibly including evidence of more specialized activities. In addition to this, with the exception of a few differences in raw material selection and some variation in the lithic debitage, most of the sites were utilizing similar reduction strategies even as distance from the raw material source increased.
Vorwort
Creators: name: Bánffy, Eszter
name: Hofmann, Kerstin P.
name: Gramsch, Alexander
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2018

description: -
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 95 (2017)
Six-Dimensional Superconformal Field Theories from Principal 3-Bundles over Twistor Space
Creators: name: Saemann, Christian
name: Wolf, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We construct manifestly superconformal field theories in six dimensions which contain a non-Abelian tensor multiplet. In particular, we show how principal 3-bundles over a suitable twistor space encode solutions to these self-dual tensor field theories via a Penrose-Ward transform. The resulting higher or categorified gauge theories significantly generalise those obtained previously from principal 2-bundles in that the so-called Peiffer identity is relaxed in a systematic fashion. This transform also exposes various unexplored structures of higher gauge theories modelled on principal 3-bundles such as the relevant gauge transformations. This enables us to formulate the non-Abelian differential cohomology that describes principal 3-bundles with connective structures.
description: v3: 45 pages, improved presentation, published version
transplants
Creators: name: Weber, Denise
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2015

description: transplants is a body of poetry that joys in migration and grafting; in change and self-destruction; in cycles of survival and death; in resurrection and reincarnation. In this collection, I write of saints and prophets as regular people, faulted and accessible, transposed into the landscapes I've inhabited: from the deserts of Las Vegas and Mesa Verde in the U.S. to the coasts and jungles of Belize and Costa Rica in Central America. Through their eyes, one may find the profound within things overlooked, and the vulnerability of our mortal condition. transplants draws on not only stolen and transformed identities, but also appropriated texts and foreign languages. Some of the poems seek to disrupt human authorities and communications, through heavy collages and loose translations of canonical works. Folktales and myths are woven together with modern narratives. Human systems are overturned. "Home" and "family" become alienating or alienated; other places and things become beloved. The physical body, too, is a site for metamorphosis. Speakers transform, growing parts, removing layers, shape-shifting, and moving through time and space. Decay and weathering play their role in the conversion of things from one state to another, yet death is not the end of all things.
A least-squares method for sparse low rank approximation of multivariate functions
Creators: name: Chevreuil, Mathilde
name: Lebrun, Régis
name: Nouy, Anthony
name: Rai, Prashant
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 65D15, 62J02, 15A69

description: In this paper, we propose a low-rank approximation method based on discrete least-squares for the approximation of a multivariate function from random, noisy-free observations. Sparsity inducing regularization techniques are used within classical algorithms for low-rank approximation in order to exploit the possible sparsity of low-rank approximations. Sparse low-rank approximations are constructed with a robust updated greedy algorithm which includes an optimal selection of regularization parameters and approximation ranks using cross validation techniques. Numerical examples demonstrate the capability of approximating functions of many variables even when very few function evaluations are available, thus proving the interest of the proposed algorithm for the propagation of uncertainties through complex computational models.
Discrete Chaotic Sequence based on Logistic Map in Digital Communications
Creators: name: Mankar, V. H.
name: Das, T. S.
name: Sarkar, S. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The chaotic systems have been found applications in diverse fields such as pseudo random number generator, coding, cryptography, spread spectrum (SS) communications etc. The inherent capability of generating a large space of PN sequences due to sensitive dependence on initial conditions has been the main reason for exploiting chaos in spread spectrum communication systems. This behaviour suggests that it is straightforward to generate a variety of initial condition induced PN sequences with nice statistical properties by quantising the output of an iterated chaotic map. In the present paper the study has been carried out for the feasibility and usefulness of chaotic sequence in SS based applications like communication and watermarking.
description: National Conference on "Emerging Trends in Electronics Engineering & Computing" (E3C 2010)
Multiple views of magnetism in cool stars
Creators: name: Morin, J.
name: Jardine, M.
name: Reiners, A.
name: Shulyak, D.
name: Beeck, B.
name: Hallinan, G.
name: Hebb, L.
name: Hussain, G.
name: Jeffers, S. V.
name: Kochukhov, O.
name: Vidotto, A.
name: Walkowicz, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetic fields are regarded as a crucial element for our understanding of stellar physics. They can be studied with a variety of methods which provide complementary - and sometimes contradictory - information about the structure, strength and dynamics of the magnetic field and its role in the evolution of stars. Stellar magnetic fields can be investigated either with direct methods based on the Zeeman effect or through the observation of activity phenomena resulting from the interaction of the field with the stellar atmosphere. In this Cool Stars XVII Splinter Session we discussed the results obtained by the many ongoing studies of stellar activity and direct studies of surface magnetic fields, as well as the state- of-the-art techniques on which they are based. We show the strengths and limitations of the various approaches currently used and to point out their evolution as well as the interest of coupling various magnetism and activity proxies.
description: 4 pages. Summary of the splinter session "Multiple views of magnetism in cool stars" held at the 17th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, June 25th 2012, Barcelona, Spain. Submitted for publication in AN 334, Eds Klaus Strassmeier and Mercedes Lopez-Morales
Additional file 3 of Improving expression and assembly of difficult-to-express heterologous proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by culturing at a sub-physiological temperature
Creators: name: So, Kum-Kang
name: Le, Ngoc My Tieu
name: Nguyen, Ngoc-Luong
name: Kim, Dae-Hyuk
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3: Table S1. List of Primers used in this study.
The impact of teacher cognition on code-switching in Arabic classrooms
Creators: name: Kawafha, Hazem
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 399999
subject: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: This study aims to investigate the code-switching practices by Arabic teachers working in independent Arabic schools in Sydney, Australia. Central to the investigation is the relationships between their code-switching practices and their stated beliefs. Two types of code-switching are considered: between first language (L1) and second language (L2), and between colloquial and standard varieties of Arabic.The use of L1 (in this case English) in the foreign language classroom is a contentious issue. It is discouraged by proponents of the communicative approach who consider the classroom to be a site for immersion in the target language. While L1 use has been extensively investigated in regard to the teaching of English, there has been little research work conducted on teacher code-switching during Arabic language teaching. In addition, there is growing interest in the study of Arabic diglossia, the situation where two distinct varieties exist in a language. Fusha (Standard language) functions as a formal written language and is considered the official language of the Arab countries. Ammiya (colloquial language) consists of different spoken regional dialects (vernaculars) depending mainly on the different geographical areas. While there has been interest in the area of Arabic diglossic code-switching or diglossic switching between Fusha and Ammiya varieties in a range of contexts, research investigating the use of code-switching between Arabic language varieties in the classroom context is limited.Data were collected using three methods (questionnaires, classroom observations and interviews). The data revealed that L1/L2 (Standard or colloquial) code-switching was clustered around certain classroom functions such as instructing and explaining concepts. The patterns of code-switching between standard and colloquial variants were less systematic and depended more on the individual and the context. However, teacher beliefs, based on their education and experience, may sometimes differ from the orthodox view and even from the policy of the school. Teaching practices are not always consistent with their teaching beliefs. Inconsistencies were observed between the teachers’ stated beliefs and their actual practices in both L1/L2 and colloquial/standard code-switching. Teaching context, teacher experience, and language background were important in explaining these inconsistencies.The findings reported in this study have the potential to contribute further understanding of the origins and effects of teacher code--switching beliefs and decisions in classrooms and to increase teacher awareness of the reasons for these choices.
title: Heidelberger Jahrbücher Online, Bd. 3 (2018): Perspektiven der Mobilität
title: Perspektiven der Mobilität
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Heidelberg University Publishing
Publisher: name: Heidelberg University Publishing
Year: 2018

description: Titel
Inhalt
Vorwort...1-4
Mobilität als Bewegung im physischen, sozialen und geistigen Raum...5-19
Wie mobil sind Pflanzen?...21-52
Wandern und Methode: Thoreaus Essay „Walking“ (1862) im Lichte Gadamers...53-72
(Why) have women left East Germany more frequently than men?...73-97
„Biologische Invasionen“ - Neophyten, Neozoen, Krankheitserreger...99-118
Biodiversity on oceanic islands - evolutionary records of past migration events...119-155
Mobilität und Dynamik im Zellkern...157-192
Assistenzroboter für eine Steigerung der Mobilität im Alter...193-223
Sorex bedfordiae Thomas 1911
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex bedfordiae

description: Sorex bedfordiae Thomas, 1911. Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911(90):3. TYPE LOCALITY: "Omi-san, Sze-chwan" [= China, Sichuan, Emei Shan]. DISTRIBUTION: Montane forests of S Gansu and W Shensi to Yunnan (China); adjacent Burma and Nepal. SYNONYMS: gomphus, fumeolus, nepalensis, wardii. COMMENTS: Subgenus Sorex. Formerly a subspecies of cylindricauda but recognized as a full species by Corbet (1978c) and Hoffmann (1987).
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 112-113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
description: {"references": ["Corbet, G. B. 1978 c. The mammals of the Palaearctic region: A taxonomic review. British Museum (Natural History), London, 314 pp.", "Hoffmann, R. S. 1987. A review of the systematics and distribution of Chinese red-toothed shrews (Mammalia: Soricinae). Acta Theriologica Sinica, 7: 100 - 139."]}
Nazeris curvilaminatus Ma, Miao & Hu 2021, sp. n.
Creators: name: Ma, Wen-Jing
name: Miao, Zheng-Yi
name: Hu, Jia-Yao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Nazeris
Nazeris curvilaminatus

description: Nazeris curvilaminatus Ma, Miao & Hu, sp. n. (Figs 3, 14–19) Type material. Holotype: China: male: ‘ China: Guangxi, Jinxiu County, Yinshan Conservation Station, 24°10′01″N, 110°14′38″E, mixed leaf litter, sifted, 1200 m, 10–11.VII.2014, Peng, Song, Yu & Yan leg.’ (SNUC). Description. Body length 7.8 mm; forebody length 4.1 mm. Body (Fig. 3) dark brown; antennae and legs yellowish brown. Head (Fig. 14) 1.07 times as long as wide; punctation very dense, moderately coarse, non-umbilicate, interstices lacking microsculpture; postocular portion approximately twice as long as eye length. Pronotum (Fig. 14) 1.21 times as long as wide, 0.96 times as long and 0.84 times as broad as head; punctation non-umbilicate, moderately dense and as coarse as that of head; midline posteriorly with long and very narrow impunctate elevation; interstices without microsculpture. Elytra (Fig. 14) 0.61 times as long as wide, 0.51 times as long and as broad as pronotum; punctation as dense and coarse as that of pronotum; interstices lacking microsculpture. Abdomen with punctation dense and rather coarse on tergites III–V, dense and less coarse on tergite VI, moderately dense and fine on tergites VII–VIII; interstices lacking microsculpture. Male. Sternite VII (Fig. 15) with posterior margin nearly truncate in the middle. Sternite VIII (Fig. 16) with triangular posterior excision. Aedeagus (Figs 17, 18) well sclerotized, ventral process wide at base, with small triangular excision at apex in ventral view, with pair of curved basal laminae ventrally; dorso-lateral apophyses widened in apical half in ventral view, curved to dorsal side and slightly widened at apex in lateral view, extending beyond apex of ventral process. Distribution and habitat data. The species is known only from the Dayao Mountains in middle Guangxi. The specimens were collected by sifting mixed leaf litter at an altitude of 1,200 m. Comparative notes. The new species is similar to N. inaequalis Assing (Assing 2014: 26, Figs 53–59; Hu et al. 2018: 183, Figs 4–11) in general appearance from Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangdong, but can be separated by the posterior margin of male sternite VIII lacking dense long setae; dorso-lateral apophyses of aedeagus much longer, extending beyond the apex of ventral process. Etymology. The specific epithet is composed of the Latin words ‘curvatus’ and ‘lamina’, indicating the curved basal laminae of the ventral process.
description: Published as part of Ma, Wen-Jing, Miao, Zheng-Yi & Hu, Jia-Yao, 2021, New data of Nazeris Fauvel from the Dayao Mountains, Guangxi, China (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Paederinae), pp. 579-587 in Zootaxa 5016 (4) on page 584, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5016.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/5222651
title: Walking in Broken Pixels
Creators: name: Klein, Hans M.
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2016

description:
This is a creative project containing short stories of varying length, that speak to current situations involving human relationships mediated by modern tools for communication. In my thesis, I am seeking to depict how, despite the increasing ease in communication and visibility, there can still be a pervading feeling of confusion. In these fictional pieces, the fluctuation in length is used as a way to imitate distraction brought on by tools intended to help communication. This distraction is used as a way to bring readers into the content of the stories, understand the confused and distracted characters, that are often struggling with how to engage their worlds of intense visibility. They yearn to find ways to reconcile this intense exposure with feelings of isolation brought on by close connections from their devices.
title: Poly(vinylpyridine) Nanostructures for Nanoparticle Synthesis and Energy-related Catalysis
Creators: name: Taylor, Audrey
Publisher: name: Western Washington University
Year: 2015

description:
Synthetic methodologies that allow for intentionally designed structures PtxM100-x with a specified size, composition, and inter-particle spacing are key to advancing the field of energy-related catalysis. The synthesis of these catalytic nanostructures can be carried out using well-defined polymer frameworks that selectively retain catalyst precursors. Poly(vinylpyridine), (PVP) a polymer bearing pyridine residues is capable of metal-coordination or electrostatic association with metal anions in acidic media. In this work, we explore the synthesis of cross-linked PVP colloids and block copolymer templates capable of loading with catalyst precursors (ie: PtCl62-, AuCl4-, IrCl62-). PtxM100-x. Nanoparticles were produced in PVP frameworks by both photolytic and thermal reduction methods and were analyzed via atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning transmission electron microscopy-energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (STEM-EDS). Thermogravimetric infrared spectroscopy (TGA-FTIR) was used to investigate thermal and chemical properties of the materials. Elemental compositions were determined by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) and electrochemical measurements for electrocatalytic oxidation of alcohols were examined using cyclic voltammetry (CV). Bimetallic nanoparticles of platinum-iridium (PtxIr100-x) were synthesized on electrodes and analytical substrates via block copolymer templates for the activity of formic acid oxidation.
Encoding Performance Data in MEI with the Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit (AMPACT)
Creators: name: Devaney, Johanna
name: Beauchamp, Cecilia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper presents a new method of encoding performance data in MEI using the recently added \texttt{} element. Performance data was extracted using the Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit (AMPACT) and encoded as a JSON object within an \texttt{} element linked to a specific musical note. A set of pop music vocals has was encoded to demonstrate both the range of descriptors that can be encoded in and how AMPACT can be used for extracting performance data in the absence of a fully specified musical score.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures
Star-shaped oligomers with truxenone centre and triphenylene branches: mesomorphism, optical and electronic properties
Creators: name: Zhang, Wen
name: Yu, Wen-Hao
name: Feng, Chun
name: Xiang, Shi-Kai
name: Wang, Bi-Qin
name: Zhao, Ke-Qing
name: Ni, Hai-Liang
name: Hu, Ping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Three star-shaped oligomers with an electron-deficient truxenone (TrO) as the central core and three electron-rich triphenylenes (TP) as the peripheral arms were prepared, in which the triphenylenes groups are, respectively, connected to the central truxenone core at 2, 7 and 12 positions through a highly flexible O(CH2)nO (n = 6,8,10) polymethylene chain. All these triphenylene-armed oligomers TrO[O(CH2)nOTP]3 (n = 6,8,10) exhibit liquid crystalline over broad mesophase ranges including room temperature. Oligomer TrO[O(CH2)6OTP]3 exhibit a rectangular columnar mesophase, while others with the linkage longer show a hexagonal columnar mesophase. This modulation of phase behaviours was demonstrated to be generated by steric perturbations introduced between the three decyloxy substituents in central truxenone core and the linkages with different lengths, which cause the disturbance of the intracolumnar structure and influence the degree of ordering in columnar phases. No new electronic absorption except for the usual bands of the individual truxenone or triphenylene part was observed in dichloromethane solution of TrO[O(CH2)6OTP]3. However, two new emission peaks emerged and the intensity and position of the emission peaks were found to exhibit pronounced changes upon concentration variation, which can be attributed to the formation of intermolecular excimers.
DEP Bulletin:Volume 36 Issue 21
Creators: name: No Name Supplied
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2012

description: The DEP bulletin is a semi-monthly publication of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. It contains a list of construction permit applications recently filed or acted upon by the Department along with a calendar of events of interest, a schedule of public hearings, and Environmental Impact Statements acted upon during the period.
Cosmic Emulation: The Concentration-Mass Relation for wCDM Universes
Creators: name: Kwan, Juliana
name: Bhattacharya, Suman
name: Heitmann, Katrin
name: Habib, Salman
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The concentration-mass relation for dark matter-dominated halos is one of the essential results expected from a theory of structure formation. We present a simple prediction scheme, a cosmic emulator, for the c-M relation as a function of cosmological parameters for wCDM models. The emulator is constructed from 37 individual models, with three nested N-body gravity-only simulations carried out for each model. The mass range covered by the emulator is 2 x 10^{12} M_sun < M <10^{15} M_sun with a corresponding redshift range of z=0 -1. Over this range of mass and redshift, as well as the variation of cosmological parameters studied, the mean halo concentration varies from c ~ 2 to c ~ 8. The distribution of the concentration at fixed mass is Gaussian with a standard deviation of one-third of the mean value, almost independent of cosmology, mass, and redshift over the ranges probed by the simulations. We compare results from the emulator with previously derived heuristic analytic fits for the c-M relation, finding that they underestimate the halo concentration at high masses. Using the emulator to investigate the cosmology dependence of the c-M relation over the currently allowable range of values, we find -- not surprisingly -- that σ_8 and ω_m influence it considerably, but also that the dark energy equation of state parameter, w, has a substantial effect. In general, the concentration of lower-mass halos is more sensitive to changes in cosmological parameters as compared to cluster mass halos.
description: Updated Sec 4.3 with comparisons to Prada et al. (2012), Duffy et al (2008) and Neto et al. (2007); the c-M emulator is publicly available from http://www.hep.anl.gov/cosmology/CosmicEmu
Three methods to detect the predicted $D \bar{D}$ scalar meson X(3700)
Creators: name: Xiao, C. W.
name: Oset, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In analogy to the f_0(500), which appears as a $ππ$ resonance in chiral unitary theory, and the f_0(980), which appears as a quasibound $K \bar K$ state, the extension of this approach to the charm sector also predicts a quasibound $D \bar D $ state with mass around 3720 MeV, named as X(3700), for which some experimental support is seen in the $e^+ e^- \to J/ψD \bar D $ reaction close to the $D \bar D $ threshold. In the present work we propose three different experiments to observe it as a clear peak. The first one is the radiative decay of the $ψ(3770)$, $ψ(3770) \to γX(3700) \to γηη'$. The second one proposes the analogous reaction $ψ(4040) \to γX(3700) \to γηη'$ and the third reaction is the $e^+ e^- \to J/ψX(3700) \to J/ψηη'$. Neat peaks are predicted for all the reactions and the calculated rates are found within measurable range in present facilities.
description: extra experimental information added
Sorex bendirii
Creators: name: Hutterer, Rainer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Insectivora
Soricidae
Sorex
Sorex bendirii

description: Sorex bendirii (Merriam, 1884). Trans. Linnean Soc. New York, 2:217. TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "Klamath Basin, Oregon " = Oregon, Klamath Co., 1 mile (1.6 km) from Williamson River, 18 miles (29 km) SE of Fort Klamath. DISTRIBUTION: A narrow coastal area from NW California to Washington (USA); a few records from SE British Columbia (Canada). SYNONYMS: albiventer, paimeri. COMMENTS: Originally described in the monotypic genus Atophyrax Merriam; now in subgenus Otisorex. Reviewed by Pattie (1973, Mammalian Species, 27).
description: Published as part of Rainer Hutterer, 1993, Order Insectivora, pp. 69-130 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353085
description: {"references": ["Pattie, D. 1973. Sorex bendirii. Mammalian Species, 27: 1 - 2."]}
Nutrition Transition of Hadza Foragers: Implications for Juvenile Behavior
Creators: name: Pollom, Trevor
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2018

description: The Hadza foragers of Tanzania are undergoing early stages of nutrition transition and an increased level of market integration. Accompanying these shifts is a significant change in diet composition with greater access to maize, wheat, and other domesticated cultigens, even in the most remote bush camps. Despite the rapid rate of nutrition transition, few studies have attempted to quantify the possible effects this transition is having on Hadza diet or foraging behaviors. Here, we attempt to fill this gap in the literature by reporting results of a mixed methods cross-sectional study on juvenile foragers taken from two time points, 2005 and 2017. During the summer of 2017 we conducted detailed interviews and recorded in camp food returns for a sample of young Hadza foragers aged 5-14 years. Comparing our 2017 data to age matched data collected in 2005, our results indicate that juveniles are targeting a smaller variety of wild foods, with noticeable absences of food species that have historically been considered staples in Hadza diet (e.g. honey, tubers, figs). Accompanying these dietary shifts are important behavioral changes, such as a smaller percentage of juveniles residing in camps going out to forage in 2017 compared to 2005. Additionally, semi-structured interview data suggests that maize has become a reliable staple food. However, despite changes in foraging return composition, increased reliance on maize, and a reduction in the overall percentage of children producing foraging returns, we found that some juveniles still remain highly productive foragers in the midst of nutrition transition. These data have important implications for understanding the decisions that foragers make in shifting ecological landscapes, monitoring the health outcomes of Hadza juveniles, and the use and interpretation of data generated from contemporary Hadza research in the 21st century.
25-Hydroxyvitamin D, IGF-1, and Waist Circumference A Cross-Sectional Study
Creators: name: Mccune, Damon
Publisher: name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year: 2014

description: Purpose: Waist circumference has been shown to have a link to various forms of chronic disease and low levels of Vitamin D (25(OH)D) and IGF-1. The purpose of this study is to assess if there is a relationship with Vitamin D (25(OH)D) and IGF-1 levels and waist circumference.
Methods: As part of a cross-sectional correlation study, participants were males and females (n=26), ages 25-65, who were students at UNLV and/or individuals who attend local health and wellness facilities as well as attendees of classes held by the UNLV Nutrition Center. Participants reported to UNLV to review and sign informed consent and submit a finger stick blood draw under sterile conditions as well as resting blood pressure and waist circumference. The finger stick blood draw sample was used to obtain serum 25(OH)D and IGF-1 levels using ELISA kits. Participants completed food frequency questionnaires asking about eating habits prior to study and surveys were administered to determine level and type of physical activity. Participants then reported to a local Quest Diagnostics at their convenience to obtain a fasting comprehensive metabolic panel. Data were collected and evaluated using Microsoft Excel and SPSS software.
Results: Subjects were separated into two groups according to waist circumference (Female >35", Male >40") Data reflected no significant difference between large waist and normal waist circumference groups in regards to both IGF-1 and 25(OH)D. Data did reflect, however, that a significant relationship between IGF-1 and waist circumference did exist (P=.006). Although, a significant relationship between 25(OH)D and waist circumference did not exist.
Conclusion: Waist circumference has an inverse relationship to IGF-1. Abdominal obesity may cause a reduction in the amount of free IGF-1 produced by the body which could increase risk for chronic disease. Obtaining waist circumference as well as activity level is relatively convenient in medical treatment settings and could provide clinicians with more valuable information regarding patient's level of risk for disease.
Genetic agent approach for improving on-the-fly web map generalization
Creators: name: lejdel, Brahim
name: kazar, Okba
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
subject: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The utilization of web mapping becomes increasingly important in the domain of cartography. Users want access to spatial data on the web specific to their needs. For this reason, different approaches were appeared for generating on-the-fly the maps demanded by users, but those not suffice for guide a flexible and efficient process. Thus, new approach must be developed for improving this process according to the user needs. This work focuses on defining a new strategy which improves on-the-fly map generalization process and resolves the spatial conflicts. This approach uses the multiple representation and cartographic generalization. The map generalization process is based on the implementation of multi- agent system where each agent was equipped with a genetic patrimony.
description: 10 pages, 07 figures, International Journal of Information Technology Convergence and Services (IJITCS) Vol.2, No.3, June 2012