cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Reference Framework for Variability Management of Software Product Lines
Creators: name: Aleem, Saiqa
name: Capretz, Luiz Fernando
name: Ahmed, Faheem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Variability management (VM) in software product line engineering (SPLE) is introduced as an abstraction that enables the reuse and customization of assets. VM is a complex task involving the identification, representation, and instantiation of variability for specific products, as well as the evolution of variability itself. This work presents a comparison and contrast between existing VM approaches using qualitative meta-synthesis to determine the underlying perspectives, metaphors, and concepts of existing methods. A common frame of reference for the VM was proposed as the result of this analysis. Putting metaphors in the context of the dimensions in which variability occurs and identifying its key concepts provides a better understanding of its management and enables several analyses and evaluation opportunities. Finally, the proposed framework was evaluated using a qualitative study approach. The results of the evaluation phase suggest that the organizations in practice only focus on one dimension. The presented frame of reference will help the organization to cover this gap in practice.
description: 24 pages
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Sacramento and Stockton Deep Water Ship Channels Maintenance Dredging and Bank Protection Project
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2016

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2014-00017
Neotoma lepida Thomas 1893
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Neotoma
Neotoma lepida

description: Neotoma lepida Thomas, 1893. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 6, 12:235. TYPE LOCALITY: USA, "Simpson's Route" between Camp Floyd (= Fairfield), Utah and Carson City, Nevada (as restricted by Goldman, 1932:61). DISTRIBUTION: SE Oregon and SW Idaho, south through Nevada and S California, USA, to S Baja California, Mexico. SYNONYMS: abbreviata, arenacea, aridicola, bella, californica, desertorum, egresso, felipensis, gilva, grinnelli, insularis, intermedia, latirostra, marcosensis, marshalli, molagrandis, nevadensis, notia, nudicauda, perpallida, petricola, pretiosa, ravida, sola, vicina. COMMENTS: Subgenus Neotoma. Aside from removal of N. devia, may still represent a composite of two species (see Mascarello, 1978).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 711-712, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Goldman, E. A. 1932. Review of woodrats of Neotoma lepida group. Journal of Mammalogy, 13: 59 - 67.", "Mascarello, J. T. 1978. Chromosomal, biochemical, mensural, penile, and cranial variation in desert woodrats (Neotoma lepida). Journal of Mammalogy, 59: 477 - 495."]}
Adenylate kinase 9 is essential for sperm function and male fertility in mammals
Creators: name: O’Callaghan, Elena
name: Navarrete-Lopez, Paula
name: Stiavnicka, Miriama
name: M. Sáncheza, José
name: Maroto, Maria
name: Pericuesta, Eva
name: Fernández-González, Raul
name: O’Meara, Ciara
name: Eivers, Bernard
name: M. Kelleher, Margaret
name: Evans, Ross D.
name: Mapel, Xena M.
name: Lloret-Villas, Audald
name: Pausch, Hubert
name: Balastegui-Alarcón, Miriam
name: Avilés, Manuel
name: Sanchez-Rodriguez, Ana
name: Roldan, Eduardo R. S.
name: McDonald, Michael
name: A. Kenny, David
name: Fair, Sean
name: Gutiérrez-Adán, Alfonso
name: Lonergan, Patrick
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Despite passing routine laboratory tests for semen quality, bulls used in artificial insemination exhibit significant variation in fertility. Routine analysis of fertility data identified a dairy bull with extreme subfertility (10% pregnancy rate). To characterize the subfertility phenotype, a range of in vitro, in vivo, and molecular assays were carried out. Sperm from the subfertile bull exhibited reduced motility and severely reduced caffeine-induced hyperactivation compared to controls. Ability to penetrate the zona pellucida, cleavage rate, cleavage kinetics, and blastocyst yield after IVF or AI were significantly lower than in control bulls. Whole-genome sequencing from semen and RNA sequencing of testis tissue revealed a critical mutation in adenylate kinase 9 (AK9) that impaired splicing, leading to a premature termination codon and a severely truncated protein. Mice deficient in AK9 were generated to further investigate the function of the gene; knockout males were phenotypically indistinguishable from their wild-type littermates but produced immotile sperm that were incapable of normal fertilization. These sperm exhibited numerous abnormalities, including a low ATP concentration and reduced motility. RNA-seq analysis of their testis revealed differential gene expression of components of the axoneme and sperm flagellum as well as steroid metabolic processes. Sperm ultrastructural analysis showed a high percentage of sperm with abnormal flagella. Combined bovine and murine data indicate the essential metabolic role of AK9 in sperm motility and/or hyperactivation, which in turn affects sperm binding and penetration of the zona pellucida. Thus, AK9 has been found to be directly implicated in impaired male fertility in mammals.
Brans-Dicke theory in the local potential approximation
Creators: name: Benedetti, Dario
name: Guarnieri, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Brans-Dicke theory with arbitrary potential within a functional renormalization group framework. Motivated by the asymptotic safety scenario of quantum gravity and by the well-known relation between f(R) gravity and Brans-Dicke theory at the classical level, we concentrate our analysis on the fixed-point equation for the potential in four dimensions and with Brans-Dicke parameter omega equal to zero. For two different choices of gauge, we study the resulting equations by examining both local and global properties of the solutions, by means of analytical and numerical methods. As a result of our analysis we do not find any nontrivial fixed point in one gauge, but we find a continuum of fixed points in the other one. We interpret such inconsistency as a result of the restriction to omega equal to zero, and thus we suggest that it indicates a failure of the equivalence between f(R) gravity and Brans-Dicke theory at the quantum level.
description: 34 pages, 8 figures; v2: corrected some misprints, added a new figure, four new references and some clarifying comments
Helioseismology from SODISM and HMI Intensity Images
Creators: name: Corbard, Thierry
name: Salabert, David
name: Boumier, Patrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Continuum intensity images from PICARD/SODISM and SDO/HMI covering a 209 days period in 2011 are analyzed in order to extract mode parameters for spherical harmonics up to $l=100$. SODISM helioseismology signal is affected by the low orbit of PICARD and by important gaps and CCD persistence effects. SODISM intensity signal has a lower signal to noise ratio and duty cycle than HMI and less modes were successfully fitted over the same period. A comparison of the rotation profiles obtained from both sets of continuum images shows however that the results remain compatible within one standard deviation of HMI formal errors.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Conference Series of Astronomical Society of the Pacific, NSO WorkshopNSO Workshop #27 Fifty Years of Seismology of the Sun and Stars
Observation of charge-to-spin conversion with giant efficiency at Ni$_{0.8}$Fe$_{0.2}$/Bi$_{2}$WO$_{6}$ interface
Creators: name: Das, Saikat
name: Sugimoto, Satoshi
name: Kushwaha, Varun Kumar
name: Kozuka, Yusuke
name: Kasai, Shinya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Magnetization switching using spin-orbit torque offers a promising route to developing non-volatile memory technologies. The prerequisite, however, is the charge-to-spin current conversion, which has been achieved traditionally by harnessing the spin-orbit interaction in heavy metals, topological insulators, and heterointerfaces hosting a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas. Here, we report the observation of charge-to-spin current conversion at the interface between ferromagnetic Ni$_{0.8}$Fe$_{0.2}$ and ferroelectric Bi$_{2}$WO$_{6}$ thin films. The resulting spin-orbit torque consists of damping-like and field-like components, and the estimated efficiency amounts to about 0.48 $\pm$ 0.02, which translates to 0.96 $\pm$ 0.04 nm$^{-1}$ in terms of interfacial efficiency. These numbers are comparable to contemporary spintronic materials exhibiting giant spin-orbit torque efficiency. We suggest that the Rashba Edelstein effect underpins the charge-to-spin current conversion on the interface side of Ni$_{0.8}$Fe$_{0.2}$. Further, we provide an intuitive explanation for the giant efficiency in terms of the spin-orbit proximity effect, which is enabled by orbital hybridization between W and Ni (Fe) atoms across the interface. Our work highlights that Aurivillius compounds are a potential addition to the emerging transition metal oxide-based spin-orbit materials.
description: 20 pages
Thermodynamics of a static electric-magnetic black hole in Einstein-Born-Infeld-AdS theory with different horizon geometries
Creators: name: Tataryn, Mykhailo
name: Stetsko, Mykola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider black hole solutions with electric and magnetic sources in the four-dimensional Einstein-Born-Infeld-AdS theory with spherical, planar and hyperbolic horizon geometries. Exact analytical solutions for the metric function, electric and magnetic fields were obtained and they recover the RN-AdS black hole in the limit beta goes to infinity for spherical horizon in the absence of the magnetic charge. Expressions for temperature, electric and magnetic potential were obtained and they satisfy the first law of the extended black hole thermodynamics, where a negative cosmological constant is associated with thermodynamic pressure. Also, the Born-Infeld vacuum polarization term was included into the first law in order to satisfy the Smarr relation. Critical behavior of the black hole was examined and condition on electric and magnetic charges were obtained when phase transition appears. Also, the critical ratio and capacity at constant pressure were calculated. Electric and magnetic charges enter into the metric function and thermodynamic quantities symmetrically and thus the presence of the magnetic charge does not bring very significant new features. Finally, we examine the Joule-Thomson expansion if the black hole mass is fixed. The inversion and isenthalpic curves were plotted and the cooling and heating regions were demonstrated. These results recover the Joule-Thomson expansion recently considered for the RN-AdS black hole in the corresponding limit.
Wetting Boundary Conditions in Phase-Field-Based Simulation of Binary Fluids: Some Comparative Studies and New Development
Creators: name: Huang, Jun-Jie
name: Huang, Haibo
name: Wang, Xinzhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied several wetting boundary conditions (WBCs) in the simulation of binary fluids based on phase-field theory. Five WBCs, three belonging to the surface energy (SE) formulation using the linear, cubic and sine functions (denoted as LinSE, CubSE and SinSE), the fourth using a geometric formulation (Geom), and the fifth using a characteristic interpolation (CI), were compared with each other through the study of several problems: (1) the static contact angle of a drop; (2) a Poiseuille flow-driven liquid column; (3) a wettability gradient (WG)-driven liquid column; (4) drop dewetting. It was found that while all WBCs can predict the static contact angle fairly accurately, they may affect the simulation outcomes of dynamic problems differently, depending on the driving mechanism. For the flow-driven problem, to use different WBCs had almost no effect on the flow characteristics over a large scale. But for other capillarity-driven problems, the WBC had some noticeable effects. For the WG-driven liquid column, Geom gave the most consistent prediction between the drop velocity and dynamic contact angles, and LinSE delivered the poorest prediction in this aspect. Except for Geom, the dynamic contact angle differed from the prescribed (static) one when other WBCs were used. For drop dewetting, Geom led to the most violent drop motion whereas CubSE caused the weakest motion; the initial contact line velocity was also found to be dependent on the WBC. For several problems, CubSE and SinSE gave almost the same results, and those by Geom and CI were close as well, possibly due to similar consideration in their design. Besides various comparisons, a new implementation that may be used for all WBCs was proposed to mimic the wall energy relaxation and control the degree of slip. This new procedure made it possible to allow the simulations to match experimental measurements well.
Neotoma martinensis Goldman 1905
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Neotoma
Neotoma martinensis

description: Neotoma martinensis Goldman, 1905. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 18:28. TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Baja California Norte, San Martin Island. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. STATUS: IUCN - Endangered. COMMENTS: Subgenus Neotoma. Listed as nominal species of N. lepida group by Goldman (1932); also see Mascarello (1978).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 712, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Goldman, E. A. 1932. Review of woodrats of Neotoma lepida group. Journal of Mammalogy, 13: 59 - 67.", "Mascarello, J. T. 1978. Chromosomal, biochemical, mensural, penile, and cranial variation in desert woodrats (Neotoma lepida). Journal of Mammalogy, 59: 477 - 495."]}
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Discovery Clean Water Alliance, Phase 5A Project – Columbia River Outfall and Effluent Pipeline, Vancouver, Clark County, Washington (COE NWS-2017-25) Hydrologic Unit codes: 170800030103 (Lower Salmon Creek), 170800030104 (Lake River-Frontal Columbia), and 170800030200 (Hayden Island-Columbia River)
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2020

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2019-03126
Neotoma mexicana Baird 1855
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Neotoma
Neotoma mexicana

description: Neotoma mexicana Baird, 1855. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7:333. TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Chihuahua, mountains near Chihuahua. DISTRIBUTION: SE Utah and C Colorado, USA, southwards through W and interior Mexico, to highlands of Guatemala, El Salvador, and W Honduras. SYNONYMS: atrata, bullata, chamula, distincta, eremita, fallax, ferruginea, fulviventer, griseoventer, inopinata, inornata, isthmica, madrensis, navus, ochracea, orizabae, parvidens, pietà, pinetorum, scopulorum, sinaloae, solitaria, tenuicauda, torquata, tropicalis, vulcani. COMMENTS: Subgenus Neotoma. Subspecies classification revised by Hall (1955). Specific homogeneity of included taxa doubtful. See Comely and Baker (1986, Mammalian Species, 262).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 712, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Hall, E. R. 1955. A new subspecies of wood rat from Nayarit, Mexico, with new name combinations for the Neotoma mexicana group. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 45: 328 - 332."]}
title: A reinforcement learning approach to multi-robot planar construction
Creators: name: Strickland, Caroline
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2019

description: We consider the problem of shape formation in a decentralised swarm of robots
 trained using a subfield of machine learning called reinforcement learning. Shapes
 are formed from ambient objects which are pushed into a desired pattern. The
 shape is specified using a projected scalar field that the robots can locally sample.
 This scalar field plays a similar role to the pheromone gradients used by social
 insects such as ants and termites to guide the construction of their sophisticated
 nests. The overall approach is inspired by the previously developed orbital construction
 algorithm.
 Reinforcement learning allows one or more agents to learn the best action
 to take in a given situation by interacting with their environment and learning
 a mapping from states to actions. Such systems are well-suited to robotics, as
 robots often interact with complex environments through a variety of sensors and
 actuators. When reinforcement learning is applied to a multi-agent system, it is
 called 'multi-agent reinforcement learning' (MARL). The main feature that MARL
 offers is flexibility | a multi-agent decentralised system can have agents added,
 removed, or reconstructed without need for rewriting the system. This allows for
 more robust solutions due to its ability to cope with failure.
 With the use of simulators paired with MARL, we can effectively learn policies
 that result in the formation of unique shapes. This is a vast improvement over
 hand-coded solutions, as it removes dependence on hard-coded actions. Reinforcement
 learning eliminates the need for writing control algorithms in the first place
 | which tend to be be extremely task-specific and time-consuming.
Treatment of copper nanoparticles (CuNPs) for two spermatogenic cycles impairs testicular activity via down-regulating steroid receptors and inhibition of germ cell proliferation in a mice model
Creators: name: Nicy, Vanrohlu
name: Das, Milirani
name: Gurusubramanian, Guruswami
name: Mondal, Pradip
name: Roy, Vikas Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Although copper is an indispensable trace metal for biological functions, its excess exposure causes hazardous effects on health. Copper in the form of nanoparticles (CuNPs) is widely used at present and therefore, the living organism is at continuous risk of its adverse effect. The prolonged treatment of CuNPs has not been evaluated yet on the male reproductive system. To demonstrate the combined adverse effects and the mechanism of copper nanoparticles (CuNPs), three doses of CuNPs, 10, 100 and 200 mg/kg were orally given to mice for 70 days. The present study demonstrated that CuNPs decreased the sperm quality parameters, male circulating hormones, induces testicular damages, increased oxidative stress, apoptosis, decreases antioxidant enzymes, germ cell proliferation, and increases the expression of 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase-1 (OGG1), apelin receptor (APJ) as well. CuNPs also down-regulated the expression of AR and Erα in the testis. These results suggest that CuNPs manifested their adverse effect on testis via modulating steroid and cytokine (apelin) receptors. The adverse effect of testis was most pronounced at the highest dose (200 mg/kg) of CuNPs, however, other doses show a less toxic effect on various parameters. In conclusion, results indicated that CuNPs may impair spermatogenesis via oxidative stress-mediated DNA damage and germ cell apoptosis at high doses.
title: Endangered Species Act Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Essential Fish Habitat Response for the Stimson Marina Bulkhead Repair Project, King County, Washington WCRO-2019-04045
Creators: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Publisher: name: United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. West Coast Region
Year: 2020

description: ESA Section 7 Consultation ; WCRO-2019-04045
Quantitative adverse outcome pathway (qAOP) using bayesian network model on comparative toxicity of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs): safe-by-design approach
Creators: name: Jeong, Jaeseong
name: Choi, Jinhee
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: While the various physicochemical properties of engineered nanomaterials influence their toxicities, their understanding is still incomplete. A predictive framework is required to develop safe nanomaterials, and a Bayesian network (BN) model based on adverse outcome pathway (AOP) can be utilized for this purpose. In this study, to explore the applicability of the AOP-based BN model in the development of safe nanomaterials, a comparative study was conducted on the change in the probability of toxicity pathways in response to changes in the dimensions and surface functionalization of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). Based on the results of our previous study, we developed an AOP leading to cell death, and the experimental results were collected in human liver cells (HepG2) and bronchial epithelium cells (Beas-2B). The BN model was trained on these data to identify probabilistic causal relationships between key events. The results indicated that dimensions were the main influencing factor for lung cells, whereas -OH or -COOH surface functionalization and aspect ratio were the main influencing factors for liver cells. Endoplasmic reticulum stress was found to be a more sensitive pathway for dimensional changes, and oxidative stress was a more sensitive pathway for surface functionalization. Overall, our results suggest that the AOP-based BN model can be used to provide a scientific basis for the development of safe nanomaterials.
Oersted Lecture 2013: How should we think about how our students think?
Creators: name: Redish, Edward F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Physics Education (physics.ed-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Physics Education Research (PER) applies a scientific approach to the question, "How do our students think about and learn physics?" PER allows us to explore such intellectually engaging questions as, "What does it mean to understand something in physics?" and, "What skills and competencies do we want our students to learn from our physics classes?" To address questions like these, we need to do more than observe student difficulties and build curricula. We need a theoretical framework -- a structure for talking about, making sense of, and modeling how one thinks about, learns, and understands physics. In this paper, I outline some aspects of the Resources Framework, a structure that some of us are using to create a phenomenology of physics learning that ties closely to modern developments in neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics. As an example of how this framework gives new insights, I discuss epistemological framing -- the role of students' perceptions of the nature of the knowledge they are learning and what knowledge is appropriate to bring to bear on a given task. I discuss how this foothold idea fits into our theoretical framework, show some classroom data on how it plays out in the classroom, and give some examples of how my awareness of the resources framework influences my approach to teaching.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures, AAPT 2013 Oersted Award Lecture
Neotoma micropus Baird 1855
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Neotoma
Neotoma micropus

description: Neotoma micropus Baird, 1855. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 7:333. TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Tamaulipas, Charco Escondido. DISTRIBUTION: SE Colorado and SW Kansas through W Texas and most of New Mexico, USA; south in Mexico to N Chihuahua, E San Luis Potosi, and S Tamaulipas. SYNONYMS: canescens, leucophaea, littoralis, planiceps, surberi. COMMENTS: Subgenus Neotoma. Limited hybridization documented with N. floridana in Oklahoma (Birney, 1973) and believed probable with N. albigula in Colorado (Finley, 1958) and Coahuila (Anderson, 1969b); also see comments under N. albigula and N. floridana. See Braun and Mares (1989, Mammalian Species, 330).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 712, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Finley, R. B., Jr. 1958. The wood rats of Colorado: Distribution and ecology. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 10: 213 - 552.", "Anderson, S. 1969 b. Taxonomic status of the woodrat, Neotoma albigula, in southern Chihuahua, Mexico. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 51: 25 - 50."]}
Global algebras of nonlinear generalized functions with applications in general relativity
Creators: name: Nigsch, Eduard A.
name: Sämann, Clemens
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 46F30 46T30 83C35 53C50

description: We give an overview of the development of algebras of generalized functions in the sense of Colombeau and recent advances concerning diffeomorphism invariant global algebras of generalized functions and tensor fields. We furthermore provide a survey on possible applications in general relativity in light of the limitations of distribution theory.
Neotoma nelsoni Goldman 1905
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Neotoma
Neotoma nelsoni

description: Neotoma nelsoni Goldman, 1905. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 18:29. TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Veracruz, Perote, 7800 ft. DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. COMMENTS: Subgenus Neotoma. Affiliated with N. albigula but separate stature uncertain (see Hall and Genoways, 1970).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 712, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Hall, E. R., and H. H. Genoways. 1970. Taxonomy of the Neotoma albigula-group of woodrats in central Mexico. Journal of Mammalogy, 51: 504 - 516."]}
Infinity and Continuum in the Alternative Set Theory
Creators: name: Trlifajová, Kateřina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: History and Overview (math.HO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 03A05

description: Alternative set theory was created by the Czech mathematician Petr Vop\v enka in 1979 as an alternative to Cantor's set theory. Vop\v enka criticised Cantor's approach for its loss of correspondence with the real world. Alternative set theory can be partially axiomatised and regarded as a nonstandard theory of natural numbers. However, its intention is much wider. It attempts to retain a correspondence between mathematical notions and phenomena of the natural world. Through infinity, Vop\v enka grasps the phenomena of vagueness. Infinite sets are defined as sets containing proper semisets, i.e. vague parts of sets limited by the horizon. The new interpretation extends the field of applicability of mathematics and simultaneously indicates its limits. This incidentally provides a natural solution to some classic philosophical problems such as the composition of a continuum, Zeno's paradoxes and sorites. Compared to strict finitism and other attempts at a reduction of the infinite to the finite Vop\v enka's theory reverses the process: he models the finite in the infinite.
description: 25 pages
Partition Function of Chiral Boson on 2-Torus from Floreanini-Jackiw Lagrangian
Creators: name: Chen, Wei-Ming
name: Ho, Pei-Ming
name: Kao, Hsien-chung
name: Khoo, Fech Scen
name: Matsuo, Yutaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the problem of quantizing a chiral boson on a torus. The conventional approach is to extract the partition function of a chiral boson from the path integral of a non-chiral boson. Instead we compute it directly from the chiral boson Lagrangian of Floreanini and Jackiw modified by topological terms involving auxiliary fields. A careful analysis of the gauge-fixing condition for the extra gauge symmetry reproduces the correct results for the free chiral boson, and has the advantage of being applicable to a wider class of interacting chiral boson theories.
description: 31 pages, minor modification
$ω$Test: WebView-Oriented Testing for Android Applications
Creators: name: Hu, Jiajun
name: Wei, Lili
name: Liu, Yepang
name: Cheung, Shing-Chi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: D.2.5

description: WebView is a UI widget that helps integrate web applications into the native context of Android apps. It provides powerful mechanisms for bi-directional interactions between the native-end (Java) and the web-end (JavaScript) of an Android app. However, these interaction mechanisms are complicated and have induced various types of bugs. To mitigate the problem, various techniques have been proposed to detect WebView-induced bugs via dynamic analysis, which heavily relies on executing tests to explore WebView behaviors. Unfortunately, these techniques either require manual effort or adopt random test generation approaches, which are not able to effectively explore diverse WebView behaviors. In this paper, we study the problem of test generation for WebViews in Android apps. Effective test generation for WebViews requires identifying the essential program properties to be covered by the generated tests. To this end, we propose WebView-specific properties to characterize WebView behaviors, and devise a cross-language dynamic analysis method to identify these properties. We develop $ω$Test, a test generation technique that searches for event sequences covering the identified WebView-specific properties. An evaluation on 74 real-world open-/closed-source Android apps shows that $ω$Test can cover diverse WebView behaviors and detect WebView-induced bugs effectively. $ω$Test detected 36 previously-unknown bugs. From the 22 bugs that we have reported to the app developers, 13 bugs were confirmed, 9 of which were fixed.
description: Accepted by the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2023)
Solutions of Spinorial Yamabe-type Problems on $S^m$: Perturbations and Applications
Creators: name: Isobe, Takeshi
name: Xu, Tian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53C27, 35R01

description: This paper is part of a program to establish the existence theory for the conformally invariant Dirac equation \[ D_{\textit{g}}ψ=f(x)|ψ|_{\textit{g}}^{\frac2{m-1}}ψ\] on a closed spin manifold $(M,\textit{g})$ of dimension $m\geq2$ with a fixed spin structure, where $f:M\to\mathbb{R}$ is a given function. The study on such nonlinear equation is motivated by its important applications in Spin Geometry: when $m=2$, a solution corresponds to an isometric immersion of the universal covering $\widetilde M$ into $\mathbb{R}^3$ with prescribed mean curvature $f$; meanwhile, for general dimensions and $f\equiv constant$, a solution provides an upper bound estimate for the Bär-Hijazi-Lott invariant.
X-ray spectrometry imaging and chemical speciation assisting to understand the toxic effects of copper oxide nanoparticles on zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Creators: name: Santos-Rasera, Joyce Ribeiro
name: de Lima, Rafael Giovanini
name: Alves, Dejane Santos
name: Monteiro, Regina Teresa Rosim
name: de Carvalho, Hudson Wallace Pereira
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Currently, copper nanoparticles are used in various sectors of industry, agriculture, and medicine. To understand the effects induced by these nanoparticles, it is necessary to assess the environmental risk and safely expand their use. In this study, we evaluated the toxicity of copper oxide (nCuO) nanoparticles in Danio rerio adults, their distribution/concentration, and chemical form after exposure. This last assessment had never been performed on copper-exposed zebrafish. Such evaluation was done through the characterization of nCuO, acute exposure tests and analysis of distribution and concentration by microstructure X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (µ-XRF) and atomic absorption spectroscopy (GF-AAS). Synchrotron X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) was performed to find out the chemical form of copper in hotspots. The results show that the toxicity values of fish exposed to nCuO were 2.4 mg L−1 (25 nm), 12.36 mg L−1 (40 nm), 149.03 mg L−1 (80 nm) and 0.62 mg L−1 (CuSO4, used as a positive control). The total copper found in the fish was in the order of mg kg-1 and it was not directly proportional to the exposure concentration; most of the copper was concentrated in the gastric system. However, despite the existence of copper hotspots, chemical transformation of CuO into other compounds was not detected.
Interroger les compétences informationnelles dans le cadre d'une alliance. Atelier 26 des JNF 2025 à Nanterre
Creators: name: Touitou, Cécile
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: baromètre des usages
subject: atelier
subject: bibliothèque universitaire
subject: academic library
subject: survey
subject: Information Literacy

description: Trame, contenu et restitutions de l'atelier 26 proposé aux JNF 2025 organisées à Nanterre.

 

Cet atelier avait pour objectif de poser les bases d'un baromètre des compétences informationnelles conçu pour répondre aux besoins des étudiants européens d'une alliance universitaire. L'accent est mis sur l'identification des thématiques essentielles afin de refléter la diversité des pratiques de recherche documentaire, de gestion de l’information et de compréhension critique de sources.Par ailleurs, l'atelier visait à élaborer des questions pertinentes et contextualisées, permettant d'évaluer l'usage des compétences informationnelles en 2025. Une attention particulière sera accordée à l'intégration des compétences spécifiques à l'intelligence artificielle, telles que la recherche d'information assistée par IA et l'évaluation critique de sources générées par ces outils.  L’objectif final est d'engager une réflexion collective sur les pratiques informationnelles des étudiants d’aujourd’hui, en offrant un éclairage sur leurs besoins, leurs stratégies et les défis qu’ils rencontrent dans l'accès et le traitement de l’information académique.

 

Programme de l'atelier

Introduction

Brève explication du contexte de l’Alliance CIVICA et de l’importance du baromètre sur les compétences informationnelles. Présentation des étapes précédentes réalisées auprès des étudiants et des enseignants.

1. Identification des thématiques clés

Cette partie permettra de recueillir des idées sur les compétences et pratiques informationnelles à évaluer, y compris l’usage de l’IA via une discussion interactive. Quels enjeux spécifiques à un contexte multiculturel ?  Synthèse et priorisation collaborative

2. Élaboration des questions pour le baromètre

Cette deuxième partie de l’atelier consiste à un travail en sous-groupes : chaque groupe prend en charge une des thématiques spécifiques issue du point 1 et élabore des questions qui reflètent les compétences et usages identifiés.

3. Restitution et feedback. Chaque groupe présente ses questions aux autres participants.
Acute Responses and Chronic Adaptations of the Arterial System to Resistance Exercise
Creators: name: Black, Jane M.
Publisher: name: Cardiff Metropolitan University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)

description: Resistance training is rarely prescribed to enhance cardiovascular function; in fact, suggestions have been made that long-term resistance training may lead to chronic augmentations in carotid arterial stiffness and consequently, an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. This has led some to conclude that resistance exercise may have negative effects on vascular health. Despite this, there is substantial evidence supporting favourable effects of resistance exercise on both physiological and psychosocial well-being. Given the debate around the effects of resistance exercise, the main aim of this thesis was to comprehensively assess the true impact of resistance training on the carotid artery, whilst also advancing our understanding of the acute responses and chronic adaptations of major peripheral arteries (brachial and femoral) to resistance training. The findings provide evidence that exercise-induced remodelling in arterial diameter is a localised phenomenon. Furthermore, during acute resistance exercise, transient changes in the mechanical behaviour of the carotid arterial wall occur in healthy, but untrained men. These include reductions in circumferential deformation (strain) and the rate of deformation of the carotid arterial wall during systole (systolic strain rate). Conversely, immediately post-exercise, both strain and systolic strain rate are augmented above baseline levels. The rate of deformation of the carotid arterial wall during diastole (diastolic strain rate) is also augmented immediately post-exercise, but this is only observed in resistance trained men. Collectively, the findings of this thesis suggest that long-term resistance training may produce health-related benefits to the arterial system, as evidenced by the greater diastolic strain rate observed in resistance trained men. An enhanced diastolic strain rate in the carotid artery likely represents a superior ability to buffer the elevations in flow and pressure associated with resistance exercise, serving as a protective mechanism to prevent rupture of the arterial wall at supra-systolic pressures, and helping to deliver a less pulsatile flow downstream. Enhanced diastolic function associated with long-term resistance training may therefore reflect an important index of improved health, and compliment the cardiovascular adaptations associated with endurance-based exercise, although further research is still required.
Enhanced Superconductivity up to 43 K by P/Sb Doping of Ca1-xLaxFeAs2
Creators: name: Kudo, Kazutaka
name: Mizukami, Tasuku
name: Kitahama, Yutaka
name: Mitsuoka, Daisuke
name: Iba, Keita
name: Fujimura, Kazunori
name: Nishimoto, Naoki
name: Hiraoka, Yuji
name: Nohara, Minoru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of isovalent doping on the superconducting transition temperature Tc in novel 112-type iron arsenide Ca1-xLaxFeAs2 were studied by conducting measurements of electrical resistivity rho and magnetization M. P or Sb doping strongly enhances Tc: P-doped Ca0.84La0.16FeAs2 and Sb-doped Ca0.85La0.15FeAs2 exhibited Tc of 41 and 43 K, respectively, while Ca0.85La0.15FeAs2 without P/Sb exhibited Tc = 35 K. These observations will give a hint for further enhancing Tc of rare-earth doped Ca-Fe-As systems.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures
Faster real root decision algorithm for symmetric polynomials
Creators: name: Labahn, George
name: Riener, Cordian
name: Din, Mohab Safey El
name: Schost, Éric
name: Vu, Thi Xuan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Symbolic Computation (cs.SC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we consider the problem of deciding the existence of real solutions to a system of polynomial equations having real coefficients, and which are invariant under the action of the symmetric group. We construct and analyze a Monte Carlo probabilistic algorithm which solves this problem, under some regularity assumptions on the input, by taking advantage of the symmetry invariance property. The complexity of our algorithm is polynomial in $d^s, {{n+d} \choose d}$, and ${{n} \choose {s+1}}$, where $n$ is the number of variables and $d$ is the maximal degree of $s$ input polynomials defining the real algebraic set under study. In particular, this complexity is polynomial in $n$ when $d$ and $s$ are fixed and is equal to $n^{O(1)}2^n$ when $d=n$.
Neotoma palatina Goldman 1905
Creators: name: Musser, Guy G.
name: Carleton, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Muridae
Neotoma
Neotoma palatina

description: Neotoma palatina Goldman, 1905. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 18:27. TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Jalisco, Bolanos, 2800 ft. DISTRIBUTION: EC Jalisco, Mexico. COMMENTS: Subgenus Neotoma. Specific distinctiveness from N. albigula reasserted by Hall and Genoways (1970).
description: Published as part of Guy G. Musser & Michael D. Carleton, 1993, Order Rodentia - Family Muridae, pp. 501-755 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 712, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353098
description: {"references": ["Hall, E. R., and H. H. Genoways. 1970. Taxonomy of the Neotoma albigula-group of woodrats in central Mexico. Journal of Mammalogy, 51: 504 - 516."]}
“You don’t have to push yourself until you break”: Exploring rest during undergraduate field experiences
Creators: name: Jolley, Alison
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Field experiences are an important aspect of geoscience training; however, the novelty and complexity of the environment may overwhelm students. One way to mitigate these feelings is to provide time for rest. Yet, prior work indicates that <50% of field courses provide time for social interactions/recreation. This study presents a qualitative phenomenological case study of student experiences of rest during field education (n = 16). This work was informed by occupational balance theory, comprised of mental, physical, social, and rest components of a person’s life. Students completed a questionnaire indicating their general preferences for rest, and they participated in pre-post rest day interviews to uncover perceptions of the mental, physical, social, and rest components of their field experiences. Findings indicate that students expect at least one day of rest per week during field experiences, and they want to have a choice in what they do during that rest time. After the rest day, students had reduced feelings of anxiety, mentioned the physical challenges and long field days less, and made fewer references to competition and differing knowledge amongst the group. Most students felt physically and mentally recharged after the rest day, and some linked the rest day to more effective groupwork afterward. However, some of these benefits were affected when students encountered their first mapping exercise following the rest day. These findings suggest that rest should be intentionally provisioned within field experiences, with special attention to student agency and support.
Diagnostic virologique des infections respiratoires dans la phase post-Covid-19
Creators: name: Pozzetto, Bruno
name: Jean-Winoc Decousser
name: Romano-Bertrand, Sara
Publisher: name: Health & Co
Year: 2023
Subjects: Haut Conseil de la santé publique

description: La pandémie de Covid-19 a rappelé le fardeau des pathologies respiratoires virales. Elle a permis un essor considérable du diagnostic virologique. L’irruption fin 2021 de la souche Omicron de SARS-CoV-2 puis de ses sous-variants a fait de la Covid-19 une virose désormais centrée sur la sphère respiratoire supérieure. Par ailleurs, la saison 2022-2023 a été marquée par la circulation prolongée d’un grand nombre de virus respiratoires dont le virus respiratoire syncytial et les virus grippaux A et B. À la suite de cette situation épidémiologique inédite, le Haut Conseil de la santé publique a arrêté en août 2023 une nouvelle doctrine tenant compte de l’expérience acquise au cours de la crise « Covid-19 » (mesures barrières, dépistage, vaccination…) et étendue à l’ensemble des viroses saisonnières. Après avoir rappelé ces éléments de contexte, cet article propose une revue des outils disponibles pour le diagnostic des viroses respiratoires tant à l’hôpital qu’en médecine de ville. Les tests génomiques occupent une place centrale avec l’avènement de tests rapides (une heure ou moins) permettant pour certains le dépistage simultané de plusieurs pathogènes (diagnostic multiplex ou syndromique). La place des tests antigéniques, avec leurs avantages et leurs limites, est également traitée. Sont abordés plus brièvement les apports des techniques de culture, de sérologie virale et d’évaluation de l’immunité cellulaire. La revue se conclut par quelques conduites diagnostiques à recommander en fonction du contexte épidémio-clinique.