cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The DWD climate predictions website: Towards a seamless outlook based on subseasonal, seasonal and decadal predictions
Creators: name: Paxian, A.
name: Mannig, B.
name: Tivig, M.
name: Reinhardt, K.
name: Isensee, K.
name: Pasternack, Alexander
name: Hoff, A.
name: Pankatz, K.
name: Buchholz, S.
name: Wehring, S.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Climate service
subject: Subseasonal prediction
subject: Seasonal prediction
subject: Decadal prediction
subject: Statistical downscaling
subject: User co-production
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::551 Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie

description: The climate predictions website of the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD, https://www.dwd.de/climatepredictions) presents a consistent operational outlook for the coming weeks, months and years, focusing on the needs of German users. At global scale, subseasonal predictions from the European Centre of Medium-Range Weather Forecasts as well as seasonal and decadal predictions from the DWD are used. Statistical downscaling is applied to achieve high resolution over Germany. Lead-time dependent bias correction is performed on all time scales. Additionally, decadal predictions are recalibrated. The website offers ensemble mean and probabilistic predictions for temperature and precipitation combined with their skill (mean squared error skill score, ranked probability skill score). Two levels of complexity are offered: basic climate predictions display simple, regionally averaged information for Germany, German regions and cities as maps, time series and tables. The skill is presented as traffic light. Expert climate predictions show complex, gridded predictions for Germany (at high resolution), Europe and the world as maps and time series. The skill is displayed as the size of dots. Their color is related to the signal in the prediction. The website was developed in cooperation with users from different sectors via surveys, workshops and meetings to guarantee its understandability and usability. The users realize the potential of climate predictions, but some need advice in using probabilistic predictions and skill. Future activities will include the further development of predictions to improve skill (multi-model ensembles, teleconnections), the introduction of additional products (data provision, extremes) and the further clarification of the information (interactivity, video clips).
A Model of Using the Asymmetric Polydopamine Thin Film for Mimicking Epithelial Folding In Vitro
Creators: name: Nie, Yan
name: Liu, Yue
name: Xu, Xun
name: Wang, Weiwei
name: Scharnagl, Nico
name: Heuchel, Matthias
name: Lendlein, Andreas
name: Ma, Nan
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: asymmetric thin film
subject: epithelial folding mimics
subject: in vitro models
subject: polydopamine
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: The basement membrane (BM) is a biointeractive ultrathin network with distinct composition and organization of its epithelial and stromal sides, which render BMs with asymmetric biofunctions and mechanical properties. There are difficulties in the recapitulation of the highly hierarchical structure and function of BM. Here, the interfacial assembly method for the generation of BM mimics is applied. Dopamine is the starting material for the polymerization and assembly of polydopamine (PDA) into asymmetric materials. Compared to the PDA coating formed at the solid/liquid interface (≈20 nm), the PDA film formed at the air/liquid interface displays a thickness of ≈100 nm. Moreover, it possesses an asymmetric surface topography and an apparent Young's modulus of ≈1.0 MPa, which is structurally and mechanically similar to natural BMs. Of interest, the airside and the waterside of the PDA film exhibit differences in their adhesion affinity to the human skin keratinocytes. With stronger active mechanical processes between living cells and the waterside of PDA film, epithelial folding could be mimicked. Together, the PDA film is able to recapitulate the structural and mechanical complexity of natural BMs, indicating the prospective future of using PDA films for in vitro modeling cell-BM interaction and tissue formation.
Structural, magnetic, electric, dielectric, and thermodynamic properties of multiferroic GeV4S8
Creators: name: Widmann, S.
name: Günther, A.
name: Ruff, E.
name: Tsurkan, V.
name: von Nidda, H. -A. Krug
name: Lunkenheimer, P.
name: Loidl, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The lacunar spinel GeV4S8 undergoes orbital and ferroelectric ordering at the Jahn-Teller transition around 30 K and exhibits antiferromagnetic order below about 14 K. In addition to this orbitally driven ferroelectricity, lacunar spinels are an interesting material class, as the vanadium ions form V4 clusters representing stable molecular entities with a common electron distribution and a well-defined level scheme of molecular states resulting in a unique spin state per V4 molecule. Here we report detailed x-ray, magnetic susceptibility, electrical resistivity, heat capacity, thermal expansion, and dielectric results to characterize the structural, electric, dielectric, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties of this interesting material, which also exhibits strong electronic correlations. From the magnetic susceptibility, we determine a negative Curie-Weiss temperature, indicative for antiferromagnetic exchange and a paramagnetic moment close to a spin S = 1 of the V4 molecular clusters. The low-temperature heat capacity provides experimental evidence for gapped magnon excitations. From the entropy release, we conclude about strong correlations between magnetic order and lattice distortions. In addition, the observed anomalies at the phase transitions also indicate strong coupling between structural and electronic degrees of freedom. Utilizing dielectric spectroscopy, we find the onset of significant dispersion effects at the polar Jahn-Teller transition. The dispersion becomes fully suppressed again with the onset of spin order. In addition, the temperature dependencies of dielectric constant and specific heat possibly indicate a sequential appearance of orbital and polar order.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures
Revealing invisible stews: new results of organic residue analyses of Beveled Rim Bowls from the Late Chalcolithic site of Shakhi Kora, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Creators: name: Perruchini, Elsa
name: Glatz, Claudia
name: Heimvik, Synnove Gravdal
name: Bendrey, Robin
name: Hald, Mette Marie
name: Del Bravo, Francesco
name: Sameen, Salh Mohammed
name: Toney, Jaime
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Beveled Rim Bowls
subject: Late Chalcolithic
subject: Mesopotamia
subject: Uruk expansion
subject: Early complex societies
subject: Urbanism
subject: Food and food practices
subject: 900 Geschichte und Geografie::930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie::930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie

description: Beveled Rim Bowls (BRBs) are the most iconic and well-known vessel type of ancient Southwest Asia. Roughly and carelessly produced, these conical bowls are attested in their thousands at 4th millennium BCE sites from southern Iraq and the Persian Gulf to the highlands of eastern Turkey and Iran. Questions regarding their function and relationship with emergent state institutions have stood at the centre of nearly a century of debates about the nature of early Mesopotamian urbanism and the so-called Uruk Expansion. In this paper we present the results of organic residue analyses of 10 BRBs from the site of Shakhi Kora in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala River Valley in the Kurdistan Region of north-east Iraq. Our analytical results challenge traditional interpretations that see BRBs as containers of cereal-based rations and bread moulds. The presence of meat- and potentially also dairy-based foods in the Shakhi Kora vessels lends support to multi-purpose explanations and points to local processes of appropriation of vessel meaning and function.
An Analysis of the New LHC Data through the Dispersion Relations
Creators: name: Selyugin, O. V.
name: Cudell, J. -R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyse the tension between the (indirect) measurements of the total cross section, and show the impact of various assumptions on the extraction of the parameters from the elastic scattering amplitude, with a special attention to the total cross section. In particular, the determination of the phase of the elastic scattering amplitude will play an important role, and we shall study it via dispersion relations. We shall also examine the origin of the dependence on momentum transfer of the slopes of the different parts of the scattering amplitude in different models. We shall also give the results of another similar analysis based on a Regge-trajectory approach for the hadron scattering amplitude.
description: 5 pages
Murina tubinaris
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Murina
Murina tubinaris

description: Murina tubinaris (Scully, 1881). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1881: 200. TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan, Gilgit. DISTRIBUTION: N. Pakistan; N.E. India; Burma; Laos; Vietnam. COMMENT: Listed as a subspecies of huttoni by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951: 186; but also see Hill, 1964, Fedn. Mus. J., Kuala Lumpur, N.S., 8:49,50. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014028011001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 183, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp."]}
An experimental analysis of self-efficacy as a predictor of success in controlling heart rate increase with and without biofeedback
Creators: name: Heffernan-Colman, Colleen J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Interview with Dakota Descoteaux
Creators: name: HIV In My Day
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: Descoteaux, Dakota
Treatment & Medical Responses
Caregiving
Death & Loss
Gay Community
Positive Thinking & Resiliency

description: An interview with Dakota Descoteaux as part of the HIV in My Day Oral History project. Interviewer: Ben Klassen. Location: Vancouver (AIDS Van).
Simultaneous Input and State Estimation for Linear Time-Varying Continuous-Time Stochastic Systems
Creators: name: Yong, Sze Zheng
name: Zhu, Minghui
name: Frazzoli, Emilio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we present an optimal filter for linear time-varying continuous-time stochastic systems that simultaneously estimates the states and unknown inputs in an unbiased minimum-variance sense. We first show that the unknown inputs cannot be estimated without additional assumptions. Then, we discuss two complementary variants of the filter: (i) for the case when an additional measurement containing information about the state derivative is available, and (ii) for the case without the additional measurement but the input signals are assumed to be sufficiently smooth and have bounded derivatives. Conditions for uniform asymptotic stability and the existence of a steady-state solution for the proposed filter, as well as the convergence rate of the state and input estimate biases are given. Moreover, we show that a principle of separation of estimation and control holds and that the unknown inputs may be rejected. Two examples, including a nonlinear vehicle reentry example, are given to illustrate that our filter is applicable even when some strong assumptions do not hold.
description: Extended version of an IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control paper with the same title
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of treatment interventions for Internet use disorders: Critical analysis of the methodical quality according to the PRISMA guidelines
Creators: name: Basenach, Lara
name: Renneberg, Babette
name: Salbach, Harriet
name: Dreier, Michael
name: Wölfling, Klaus
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Internet use disorder
subject: SRMA of treatment intervention for IUD
subject: evaluation of reporting quality
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Rationale As a result of concerns about predominantly online behavioral addictions, an increasing number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses (SRMA) of treatment interventions for internet use disorders (IUD) are being recorded. This review was designed to (a) systematically identify the evidence base of SRMA and to (b) critically appraise the quality of reporting according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Methods Four databases were searched until August 2022 to systematically identify SRMA. PRISMA indicators were evaluated on a three-level response format to obtain an overall score operationalizing the quality of reporting (score range: 0–84). Additionally, the percentage of adherence to the PRISMA indicators was calculated. Results Reporting quality of 23 SRMA, comprising 12 systematic reviews and 11 meta-analyses was evaluated. Quality scores ranged from 25 to 77 (M: 52.91; SD: 17.46). Results of the critical appraisal revealed deviations from the PRISMA indicators, including missing information on (a) registration of a study protocol, (b) statistical synthesis methods (c) evaluation of certainty of evidence, and (d) risk of bias assessment. Eleven (47.83%) of the SRMAs partially adhered, and twelve (52.17%) completely adhered to the PRISMA indicators. Conclusion This first critical appraisal on the reporting quality of SRMA on treatment interventions for IUD highlights limitations of the evidence base. Inadequate reporting compromises the practical utility and validity of SRMA and may complicate ongoing efforts of consensus on evidence-based interventions for IUD. Future research should focus on sufficient and transparent reporting of the methodological approach.
Higher Spin Black Holes with Soft Hair
Creators: name: Grumiller, Daniel
name: Perez, Alfredo
name: Prohazka, Stefan
name: Tempo, David
name: Troncoso, Ricardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a new set of boundary conditions for higher spin gravity, inspired by a recent "soft Heisenberg hair"-proposal for General Relativity on three-dimensional Anti-de Sitter. The asymptotic symmetry algebra consists of a set of affine $\hat u(1)$ current algebras. Its associated canonical charges generate higher spin soft hair. We focus first on the spin-3 case and then extend some of our main results to spin-$N$, many of which resemble the spin-2 results: the generators of the asymptotic $W_3$ algebra naturally emerge from composite operators of the $\hat u(1)$ charges through a twisted Sugawara construction; our boundary conditions ensure regularity of the Euclidean solutions space independently of the values of the charges; solutions, which we call "higher spin black flowers", are stationary but not necessarily spherically symmetric. Finally, we derive the entropy of higher spin black flowers, and find that for the branch that is continuously connected to the BTZ black hole, it depends only on the affine purely gravitational zero modes. Using our map to $W$-algebra currents we recover well-known expressions for higher spin entropy. We also address higher spin black flowers in the metric formalism and achieve full consistency with previous results.
description: 24 pages, no figures
Myotis abei Yoshikura 1944
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis abei

description: Myotis abei Yoshikura, 1944. Zool. Mag. (Tokyo), 56:6. TYPE LOCALITY: U.S. S. R., Sakhalin, Shirutoru. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 184, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Characteristics of the new phase in CDT
Creators: name: Ambjørn, J.
name: Gizbert-Studnicki, J.
name: Görlich, A.
name: Jurkiewicz, J.
name: Klitgaard, N.
name: Loll, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), a candidate theory of nonperturbative quantum gravity in 4D, turns out to have a rich phase structure. We investigate the recently discovered bifurcation phase $C_b$ and relate some of its characteristics to the presence of singular vertices of very high order. The transition lines separating this phase from the "time-collapsed" $B$-phase and the de Sitter phase $C_{dS}$ are of great interest when searching for physical scaling limits. The work presented here sheds light on the mechanisms behind these transitions. First, we study how the $B$-$C_b$ transition signal depends on the volume-fixing implemented in the simulations, and find results compatible with the previously determined second-order character of the transition. The transition persists in a transfer matrix formulation, where the system's time extension is taken to be minimal. Second, we relate the new $C_b$-$C_{dS}$ transition to the appearance of singular vertices, which leads to a direct physical interpretation in terms of a breaking of the homogeneity and isotropy observed in the de Sitter phase when crossing from $C_{dS}$ to the bifurcation phase $C_b$.
description: 32 pages, 17 figures
Psychological interventions for generalized anxiety disorder: Effects and predictors in a naturalistic outpatient setting
Creators: name: Krzikalla, Clara
name: Morina, Nexhmedin
name: Andor, Tanja
name: Nohr, Laura
name: Buhlmann, Ulrike
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Anxiety disorders
subject: Metacognition
subject: Mental health therapies
subject: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie

description: Objective Numerous randomized controlled trials (RCTs) demonstrate the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), metacognitive therapy (MCT), and methods to reduce intolerance of uncertainty (IU-CBT) in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). However, few studies have investigated these treatments under conditions of routine clinical care. The main objective of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of psychotherapy for GAD in an outpatient setting and to identify factors influencing treatment outcome. Methods Fifty-nine GAD patients received naturalistic CBT (including MCT and IU-CBT) in an outpatient clinic and postgraduate training center for psychotherapy. Patients completed self-report questionnaires at the beginning and end of therapy regarding the main outcome worry as well as metacognitions, intolerance of uncertainty, depression, and general psychopathology. Results Worry, negative metacognitions, intolerance of uncertainty, depression, and general psychopathology decreased significantly (p’s < .001) with large effect sizes for all symptoms (d = 0.83–1.49). A reliable change in the main outcome worry was observed in 80% of patients, and recovery occurred in 23%. Higher worry scores at posttreatment were predicted by higher pretreatment scores, female sex, and less change in negative metacognitive beliefs during treatment. Conclusions Naturalistic CBT for GAD appears to be effective in routine clinical care for worry as well as depressive symptoms, with particular benefits associated with altering negative metacognitions. However, a recovery rate of only 23% is lower than the rates reported in RCTs. Treatment needs to be improved, especially for patients with more severe GAD and for women.
Towards an explicit local Jacquet-Langlands correspondence beyond the cuspidal case
Creators: name: Sécherre, Vincent
name: Stevens, Shaun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show how the modular representation theory of inner forms of general linear groups over a non-Archimedean local field can be brought to bear on the complex theory in a remarkable way. Let F be a non-Archimedean locally compact field of residue characteristic p, and let G be an inner form of the general linear group GL(n,F). We consider the problem of describing explicitly the local Jacquet--Langlands correspondence between the complex discrete series representations of G and GL(n,F), in terms of type theory. We show that the congruence properties of the local Jacquet--Langlands correspondence exhibited by A. Mínguez and the first named author give information about the explicit description of this correspondence. We prove that the problem of the invariance of the endo-class by the Jacquet--Langlands correspondence can be reduced to the case where the representations $π$ and its Jacquet--Langlands transfer JL($π$) are both cuspidal with torsion number 1. We also give an explicit description of the Jacquet--Langlands correspondence for all essentially tame discrete series representations of G, up to an unramified twist, in terms of admissible pairs, generalizing previous results by Bushnell and Henniart. In positive depth, our results are the first beyond the case where $π$ and JL($π$) are both cuspidal.
X-Sprint: Climate and Migration - 100% Open Research for Climate Change
Creators: name: Worthington, Simon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: OCK; Open Climate Knowledge; data mining; contentmine; climate; climate change; 100% open; open access; open science

description: X-Sprint: Climate and migration - Workshop - Infrastructure for the Year to come Summer School 2020 #OCK @OCKProject - 10 June 2020. From the Open Climate Knowledge project. https://github.com/OCKProject
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Myotis adversus
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis adversus

description: Myotis adversus (Horsfield, 1824). Zool. Res. Java, Part 8. REVIEWED BY: F. R. Allison (FRA); A. C. Ziegler (ACZ). TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Java. DISTRIBUTION: Taiwan and Malaya, south and east to New Guinea, Bismarck Arch., Solomon Isis, to New Hebrides and coastal Australia (except Western Australia); perhaps Tibet (China). COMMENT: Includes taiwanensis; see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951:149; but see also Findley, 1972, Syst. Zool., 21:43. Includes carimatae and abbotti; see Tate, 1941, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 78:551. Includes Anamygdon solomonis; see Phillips and Birney, 1968, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 81:495. Medway, 1969:35, listed this species from Thailand, but Lekagul and McNeely, 1977:206, did not (FRA). ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014014001001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 184, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
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Groundwater flow reversal between small water bodies and their adjoining aquifers: A numerical experiment
Creators: name: Steidl, Jörg
name: Gliege, Steffen
name: Semiromi, Majid Taie
name: Lischeid, Gunnar
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: groundwater flow reversal
subject: HydroGeoSphere
subject: kettle hole
subject: numerical experiment
subject: surface–groundwater interaction
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: The countless kettle holes in the Late Pleistocene landscapes of Northern Europe are hotspots for biodiversity and biogeochemical processes. As a rule, they are hydraulically connected to the shallow groundwater system. The rapid, intensive turnover of carbon, nutrients and pollutants in the kettle holes therefore has a major impact on the quality of the shallow groundwater downstream. As a result of high-evapotranspiration rates from their riparian vegetation or strong storm events, the process of downstream groundwater flow may stagnate and reverse back towards the kettle hole, making interactions between the groundwater and kettle hole more complex. Furthermore, the highly heterogeneous soil landscape in the catchment contributes to this complexity. Therefore, the present study aims to enhance our understanding of this complicated interaction. To this end, 24 model variants were integrated into HydroGeoSphere, capturing a wide range of uncertainties in quantifying the extent and timing of groundwater flow reversal between a kettle hole and the adjacent aquifer. The findings revealed that the groundwater flow reversal lasted between 1 month and 19 years at most and occurred in a distance of more than 140 m downstream of the kettle hole. Our results demonstrated that the groundwater flow reversal arises especially often in areas where the shallow aquifer possesses low-hydraulic conductivity. There may also be a recurrent circulating flow between the groundwater and kettle hole, resulting in solute turnover within the kettle hole. This holds particularly true in dry periods with medium to low-water levels within the kettle hole and a negative water balance. However, shallow groundwater flow reversals are not necessarily a consequence of seasonal effects. In this respect, the properties of the local shallow aquifer by far outweigh the effect of the kettle hole location in the regional flow regime.
Low Mach Number Fluctuating Hydrodynamics for Electrolytes
Creators: name: Péraud, Jean-Philippe
name: Nonaka, Andy
name: Chaudhri, Anuj
name: Bell, John B.
name: Donev, Aleksandar
name: Garcia, Alejandro L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We formulate and study computationally the low Mach number fluctuating hydrodynamic equations for electrolyte solutions. We are interested in studying transport in mixtures of charged species at the mesoscale, down to scales below the Debye length, where thermal fluctuations have a significant impact on the dynamics. Continuing our previous work on fluctuating hydrodynamics of multicomponent mixtures of incompressible isothermal miscible liquids (A. Donev, et al., Physics of Fluids, 27, 3, 2015), we now include the effect of charged species using a quasielectrostatic approximation. Localized charges create an electric field, which in turn provides additional forcing in the mass and momentum equations. Our low Mach number formulation eliminates sound waves from the fully compressible formulation and leads to a more computationally efficient quasi-incompressible formulation. We demonstrate our ability to model saltwater (NaCl) solutions in both equilibrium and nonequilibrium settings. We show that our algorithm is second-order in the deterministic setting, and for length scales much greater than the Debye length gives results consistent with an electroneutral/ambipolar approximation. In the stochastic setting, our model captures the predicted dynamics of equilibrium and nonequilibrium fluctuations. We also identify and model an instability that appears when diffusive mixing occurs in the presence of an applied electric field.
description: 37 pages, 5 figures
Effects of SQ3R training on the recall of textbook material by underachieving adolescents
Creators: name: Fleiszig, Janina.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Magnetoresistance and surface roughness study of the initial growth of electrodeposited Co/Cu multilayers
Creators: name: Tóth, B. G.
name: Péter, L.
name: Bakonyi, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect has been widely investigated on electrodeposited ferromagnetic/non-magnetic (FM/NM) multilayers generally containing a large number of bilayers. In most applications of the GMR effect, layered structures consisting of a relatively small number of consecutive FM and NM layers are used. It is of great interest, therefore, to investigate the initial stages of GMR multilayer film growth by electrodeposition. In the present work we have extended our previous studies on ED GMR multilayers to layered structures with a total thickness ranging from a few nanometers up to 70 nm. The evolution of the surface roughness and electrical transport properties of such ultrathin ED Co/Cu layered structures was investigated. Various layer combinations were produced including both Co and Cu either as starting or top layers in order (i) to see differences in the nucleation of the first layer and (ii) to trace out the effect of the so called exchange reaction. Special attention was paid to measure the field dependence of the magnetoresistance, MR(H) in order to derive information for the appearance of superparamagnetic regions in the magnetic layers. This proved to be helpful for monitoring the evolution of the layer microstructure at each step of the deposition sequence.
description: 29 pages, 12 figures
Does polycentrism deliver? A case study of energy community governance in Europe
Creators: name: Anfinson, Kellan
name: Laes, Erik
name: Bombaerts, Gunter
name: Standal, Karina
name: Krug, Michael
name: Di Nucci, Maria-Rosaria
name: Schwarz, Lucas
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Polycentric governance
subject: Energy communities
subject: EU Clean Energy Package
subject: REDII
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft

description: The European Union's Clean Energy Package (CEP) plans to transform ‘passive consumers’ into ‘active citizens’ to support the transition to a carbon-neutral energy system by 2050. By stimulating the growth of renewable energy communities, the CEP works towards the redefinition of renewable energy as an economic commodity to a common good. In this paper, we approach the implementation of the CEP through the notion of polycentricity. Building on previous literature, we identified seven variables for effective polycentric energy governance: equity and co-benefits; inclusivity and local involvement; information, demonstration and innovation; ownership and accountability; organizational multiplicity; experimentation and flexibility; and clear goals set and enforced by a higher-level authority. To compare a variety of polycentric institutional configurations, we analyze Norway, the Netherlands, and Germany. Our findings indicate that, in general, some degree of polycentricity appears to be beneficial for the energy transition. This is the foundation for building local ownership and inclusivity and thus the emphasis is rightly placed there and could be expanded. Secondly, issues of ownership and accountability stand out as key enablers of renewable energy communities and the additional common goods that they bring to the energy system. These communities need to be enabled in financial terms to deploy a sufficient amount of projects, e.g., by giving them access to risk capital in the early development stages. In turn, this requires clear regulations and accountability mechanisms being installed on what precisely falls under the definition of a renewable energy community. Finally, we found that even as polycentricity is a promising approach, it does need to be anchored with a significant role for higher level government in order to function effectively.
Myotis albescens
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis albescens

description: Myotis albescens (E. Geoffroy, 1806). Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 8:204. TYPE LOCALITY: Paraguay, Paraguari, Yaguaron (of neotype). DISTRIBUTION: S. Veracruz (Mexico) to Uruguay, N. Argentina, Peru, and Surinam. COMMENT: Includes argentatus; see LaVal, 1973, Bull. Los Ang. Cty. Mus. Nat. Hist. Sei. Soc., 15: 25. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014014002001 as M. albescens. 5301405014014005001 as M. argentatus.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 184, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Internal electric fields control triplet formation in halide perovskite-sensitized photon upconverters
Creators: name: Prashanthan, Karunanantharajah
name: Levine, Igal
name: Musiienko, Artem
name: Gutierrez-Partida, Emilio
name: Hempel, Hannes
name: Lips, Klaus
name: Unold, Thomas
name: Stolterfoht, Martin
name: Dittrich, Thomas
name: MacQueen, Rowan W.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials science
subject: Nanomaterials
subject: photon upconverters
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik

description: Halide perovskite-based photon upconverters utilize perovskite thin films to sensitize triplet exciton formation in a small-molecule layer, driving triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion. Despite having excellent carrier mobility, these systems suffer from inefficient triplet formation at the perovskite/annihilator interface. We studied triplet formation in formamidinium-methylammonium lead iodide/rubrene bilayers using photoluminescence and surface photovoltage methods. By studying systems constructed on glass as well as hole-selective substrates, comprising self-assembled layers of the carbazole derivative 2PACz ([2-(9H-carbazol-9-yl)ethyl]phosphonic acid) on indium-doped tin oxide, we saw how changes in the carrier dynamics induced by the hole-selective substrate perturbed triplet formation at the perovskite/rubrene interface. We propose that an internal electric field, caused by hole transfer at the perovskite/rubrene interface, strongly affects triplet exciton formation, accelerating exciton-forming electron-hole encounters at the interface but also limiting the hole density in rubrene at high excitation densities. Controlling this field is a promising path to improving triplet formation in perovskite/annihilator upconverters.
Myotis annectans
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis annectans

description: Myotis annectans (Dobson, 1871). Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, p. 213. TYPE LOCALITY: India, Assam, Naga Hills. DISTRIBUTION: Assam (India) to Thailand. COMMENT: Includes primula; see Topal, 1970, Ann. Hist.- Nat. Mus. Nat. Hungarici Zool., 62:373-375. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014014004001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 184, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
What prevents gravitational collapse in string theory?
Creators: name: Mathur, Samir D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is conventionally believed that if a ball of matter of mass $M$ has a radius close to $2GM$ then it must collapse to a black hole. But string theory microstates (fuzzballs) have no horizon or singularity, and they do {\it not} collapse. We consider two simple examples from classical gravity to illustrate how this violation of our intuition happens. In each case the `matter' arises from an extra compact dimension, but the topology of this extra dimension is not trivial. The pressure and density of this matter diverge at various points, but this is only an artifact of dimensional reduction; thus we bypass results like Buchadahl's theorem. Such microstates give the entropy of black holes, so these topologically nontrivial constructions dominate the state space of quantum gravity.
description: 6 pages (Essay awarded an honorable mention in the Gravity Research Foundation 2016 essay competition.)
Economic and social development as an element in geographic education within Victorian secondary schools : past, present and future
Creators: name: Casinader, Niranjan.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Myotis atacamensis
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis atacamensis

description: Myotis atacamensis (Lataste, 1892). Actes Soc. Sei. Chile, 1:80. TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Antofogasta, San Pedro de Atacama. DISTRIBUTION: S. Peru; N. Chile. Coastal desert (AP). COMMENT: Listed as a subspecies of chiloensis by Cabrera, 1958:99. Includes nicholsoni; see LaVal, 1973, Bull. Los Ang. Cty. Mus. Nat. Hist. Sei. Soc., 15: 18-20.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 184, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
description: {"references": ["Cabrera, A. 1958. Dos felidos argentinos ineditos (Mammalia, Carnivora). Neotropica, 3 (12): 70 - 72."]}
Myotis bocagei
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Myotis
Myotis bocagei

description: Myotis bocagei (Peters, 1870). J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa, ser. 1, 3:125. TYPE LOCALITY: Angola, Duque de Braganca. DISTRIBUTION: Liberia to S. Yemen, south to Angola, Zambia, and Transvaal (South Africa). COMMENT: Includes dogalensis; see Corbet, 1978:49. ISIS NUMBER: 5301405014014012001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Chiroptera, pp. 111-215 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 185, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7352990
Venus cloud morphology and motions from ground-based images at the time of the Akatsuki orbit insertion
Creators: name: Sánchez-Lavega, A.
name: Peralta, J.
name: Gómez-Forrellad, J. M.
name: Hueso, R.
name: Pérez-Hoyos, S.
name: Mendikoa, I.
name: Rojas, J. F.
name: Horinouchi, T.
name: Lee, Y. J.
name: Watanabe, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report Venus image observations around the two maximum elongations of the planet at June and October 2015. From these images we describe the global atmospheric dynamics and cloud morphology in the planet before the arrival of JAXA Akatsuki mission on December the 7th. The majority of the images were acquired at ultraviolet wavelengths (380-410 nm) using small telescopes. The Venus dayside was also observed with narrow band filters at other wavelengths (890 nm, 725-950 nm, 1.435 μm CO2 band) using the instrument PlanetCam-UPV/EHU at the 2.2m telescope in Calar Alto Observatory. In all cases, the lucky imaging methodology was used to improve the spatial resolution of the images over the atmospheric seeing. During the April-June period, the morphology of the upper cloud showed an irregular and chaotic texture with a well developed equatorial dark belt (afternoon hemisphere), whereas during October-December the dynamical regime was dominated by planetary-scale waves (Yhorizontal, C-reversed and ψ-horizontal features) formed by long streaks, and banding suggesting more stable conditions. Measurements of the zonal wind velocity with cloud tracking in the latitude range from 50$^{\circ}$N to 50$^{\circ}$S shows agreement with retrievals from previous works.
description: Accepted in Astrophys. Journal Letters, 22 pages, 5 figures
Quartz under stress: Raman calibration and applications of metamorphic inclusions to geobarometry
Creators: name: Reynard, Bruno
name: Zhong, Xin
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: quartz
subject: Raman calibration
subject: geobarometry
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie::550 Geowissenschaften

description: An experimental calibration of the shifts of three major Raman peaks of quartz with hydrostatic pressure and uniaxial differential stress is presented, and implications for their use in geobarometry based on Raman spectroscopy of quartz inclusions are discussed. The position of the 206 cm−1 peak depends only on hydrostatic pressure P, and its pressure dependence is recalibrated with a peak-fitting procedure that is more adequate for Raman barometry than previous calibrations. The position of the 128 and 464 cm−1 peaks depends on P and also on differential stress σ, which can be determined from the position of these two peaks knowing hydrostatic pressure from the position of the 206 cm−1 peak. The results obtained here are different from those inferred previously from first-principles calculations. The present calibration provides direct relationships between Raman shifts and stress, with a simple formulation of residual pressure and differential stress assuming uniaxial stress along the c axis of quartz inclusions. It is tested on data from experimental and natural inclusions. Residual pressures from the present calibration are similar within uncertainties to those obtained with previous experimental calibrations. Residual differential stresses obtained from the 128 and 464 cm−1 peaks are very sensitive to the precision of Raman measurements. Experimental inclusions yield residual pressures consistent with synthesis pressure. Differential stresses obtained on some experimental inclusions are sometimes incompatible, providing a criterion for identifying inclusions under complex stress conditions that are not appropriate for geobarometry. Recent data on natural inclusions show self-consistent differential stress, consistent with the assumption of major stress along the symmetry axis of the inclusion crystals. The average pressure values from the 128 and 464 cm−1 peaks are similar to the residual pressure from the 206 cm−1 peak that depends only on hydrostatic pressure. It can be used to obtain pressure when the 206 cm−1 peak position cannot be used due to interference with host mineral peaks. Using the 128 and 464 cm−1 peaks alone, or averaging either 128 and 206 or 206 and 464 cm−1 peaks, can induce systematic bias in the residual pressure determination. Applications of the present results to natural inclusions suggest that combined determination of residual pressure and differential stress may be used for both barometry and thermometry pending further calibration.
Development of an inhibiting antibody against equine interleukin 5 to treat insect bite hypersensitivity of horses
Creators: name: Langreder, Nora
name: Schäckermann, Dorina
name: Meier, Doris
name: Becker, Marlies
name: Schubert, Maren
name: Dübel, Stefan
name: Reinard, Thomas
name: Figge-Wegener, Stefanie
name: Roßbach, Kristine
name: Bäumer, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Antibody therapy
subject: Applied immunology
subject: Biologics
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: Insect bite hypersensitivity (IBH) is the most common allergic skin disease of horses. It is caused by insect bites of the Culicoides spp. which mediate a type I/IVb allergy with strong involvement of eosinophil cells. No specific treatment option is available so far. One concept could be the use of a therapeutic antibody targeting equine interleukin 5, the main activator and regulator of eosinophils. Therefore, antibodies were selected by phage display using the naïve human antibody gene libraries HAL9/10, tested in a cellular in vitro inhibition assay and subjected to an in vitro affinity maturation. In total, 28 antibodies were selected by phage display out of which eleven have been found to be inhibiting in the final format as chimeric immunoglobulin G with equine constant domains. The two most promising candidates were further improved by in vitro affinity maturation up to factor 2.5 regarding their binding activity and up to factor 2.0 regarding their inhibition effect. The final antibody named NOL226-2-D10 showed a strong inhibition of the interleukin 5 binding to its receptor (IC50 = 4 nM). Furthermore, a nanomolar binding activity (EC50 = 8.8 nM), stable behavior and satisfactory producibility were demonstrated. This antibody is an excellent candidate for in vivo studies for the treatment of equine IBH.