cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Effect of Screening on Spin Polarization in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
Creators: name: V'yurkov, V.
name: Vetrov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The experimentally observed amazing dependence of a critical magnetic field Bc of a full field-induced spin polarization and a spin susceptibility of a two-dimensional electron gas on the electron density can be explained by screening of the Coulomb potential. The possibility of spontaneous full spin polarization expected at lower electron densities also crucially depends on screening.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Transitivity and degree assortativity explained: The bipartite structure of social networks
Creators: name: Filho, Demival Vasques
name: O'Neale, Dion R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dynamical processes, such as the diffusion of knowledge, opinions, pathogens, "fake news", innovation, and others, are highly dependent on the structure of the social network on which they occur. However, questions on why most social networks present some particular structural features, namely high levels of transitivity and degree assortativity, when compared to other types of networks remain open. First, we argue that every one-mode network can be regarded as a projection of a bipartite network, and show that this is the case using two simple examples solved with the generating functions formalism. Second, using synthetic and empirical data, we reveal how the combination of the degree distribution of both sets of nodes of the bipartite network --- together with the presence of cycles of length four and six --- explains the observed levels of transitivity and degree assortativity in the one-mode projected network. Bipartite networks with top node degrees that display a more right-skewed distribution than the bottom nodes result in highly transitive and degree assortative projections, especially if a large number of small cycles are present in the bipartite structure.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures
Additional file 1 of Post-extubation oxygenation strategies in acute respiratory failure: a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Yasuda, Hideto
name: Hiromu Okano
name: Mayumi, Takuya
name: Narita, Chihiro
name: Onodera, Yu
name: Nakane, Masaki
name: Shime, Nobuaki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1: PRISMA NMA Checklist of Items to Include When Reporting A Systematic Review Involving a Network Meta-analysis. Table S2: Search strategy. Table S3: Estimate and certainty of the evidence of direct, indirect, and network comparison. (a) Short-term mortality. (b) Reintubation, (c) Post-extubation respiratory failure. Fig. S1: PRISMA Flow Diagram (search, inclusion, and exclusion). Fig. S2: Risk of bias summary for each comparison. (a) NPPV vs. COT. (b) HFNC vs. COT. (c) HFNC vs. NPPV. COT: conventional oxygen therapy, HFNC: high-flow nasal cannula oxygen; NPPV: noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation. Fig. S3: Forest plots for the pairwise comparison of short-term mortality. (a) NPPV vs. COT. (b) HFNC vs. COT. (c) HFNC vs. NPPV. COT: conventional oxygen therapy, HFNC: high-flow nasal cannula oxygen; NPPV: noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation. Fig. S4: Forest plots for the pairwise comparison of reintubation. (a) NPPV vs. COT. (b) HFNC vs. COT. (c) HFNC vs. NPPV. COT: conventional oxygen therapy, HFNC: high-flow nasal cannula oxygen; NPPV: noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation. Fig. S5: Forest plots for the pairwise comparison of post-extubated respiratory failure. (a) NPPV vs. COT. (b) HFNC vs. COT. (c) HFNC vs. NPPV. COT: conventional oxygen therapy, HFNC: high-flow nasal cannula oxygen; NPPV: noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation.
Using Point-of-Purchase Data To Evaluate Local WIC Nutrition Education Interventions: Feasibility Study
Creators: name: Bell, Loren
name: Gleason, Stacy
name: Bell, Loren
name: Gleason, Stacy
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: The effect of nutrition education—an important component of many Federal Food Assistance programs—on participants’ food consumption behavior is difficult to ascertain. This study finds that combining point-of-purchase data with State data on the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is a feasible method to assess behavioral changes in WIC participants. The major obstacle to using these data as a practical method of evaluating WIC participant food-purchasing behaviors is the recruitment of enough stores to allow for a representative sample ofWIC participants to be included. The study found that nutrition education intervention directed at encouraging the purchase of 1-percent and skim milk, as well as low-fat cheese, did not significantly influence purchasing patterns among WIC participants.
In-depth analysis on mobility funding in Erasmus and beyond
Creators: name: Erasmus for All Partnership
Publisher: name: Erasmus for All
Year: 2023

description: This report maps mobility scholarships across Europe, analysing the Erasmus+ and other funding schemes. It also includes the conclusions of Student Social Labs, which aimed at collecting the views of students on the current Erasmus+ grant scheme, and an analysis of previous initiatives focusing on the same topic.

The “Erasmus for All” project aims to tackle the low levels of Higher Education (HE) student participation in Erasmus mobility exchange by proposing a more economically viable scholarship scheme that will allow any HE students to spend part of their studies abroad in any of the 33 programme countries.
Dynamical screening effects of substrate phonons on two-dimensional excitons
Creators: name: Steinhoff, Alexander
name: Florian, Matthias
name: Jahnke, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomically thin materials are exceedingly susceptible to their dielectric environment. For transition metal dichalcogenides, sample placement on a substrate or encapsulation in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are frequently used. In this paper we show that the dielectric response due to optical phonons of adjacent materials influences excitons in 2d crystals. We provide an analytic model for the coupling of 2d charge carriers to optical substrate phonons, which causes polaron effects similar to that of intrinsic 2d phonons. We apply the model to hBN-encapsulated WSe2, finding a significant reduction of the exciton binding energies due to dynamical screening effects.
Effects of WIC and Food Stamp Program Participation on Child Outcomes
Creators: name: Lee, Bong Joo
name: Mackey-Bilaver, Lucy
name: Chin, Meejung
name: Lee, Bong Joo
name: Mackey-Bilaver, Lucy
name: Chin, Meejung
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Security and Poverty

description: Both joint or separate participation in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the Food Stamp Program reduces the risk of child abuse or neglect and several nutrition-related health problems, such as anemia, failure to thrive, and nutritional deficiency. This study examines the relationship between WIC and Food Stamp Program participation and young children’s health and mistreatment outcomes. The analysis uses a unique individual-level longitudinal database that links administrative datasets on WIC and Food Stamp Program participation, Medicaid enrollment and claims, and child abuse and neglect reports in Illinois.
Additional file 4 of Habitat suitability analysis reveals high ecological flexibility in a “strict” forest primate
Creators: name: Hansen, Malene
name: Ventie Nawangsari
name: Beest, Floris
name: Schmidt, Niels
name: Stelvig, Mikkel
name: Dabelsteen, Torben
name: Nijman, Vincent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4: Appendix Fig. 1. Response curves for the six variables with lowest importance (out of the ten included covariates) as based on the MaxEnt algorithm.
Three-loop anomalous dimension of the heavy-light quark current in HQET
Creators: name: Chetyrkin, K. G.
name: Grozin, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The anomalous dimension of the heavy-light quark current in HQET is calculated with three-loop accuracy, as well as the renormalized heavy-quark propagator. The NNL perturbative correction to f_B/f_D is obtained.
description: 16 pages, 7 eps figures. Typos in the discussion of fB/fD corrected. Paper is also available at http://www-ttp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/Preprints/ Results and REDUCE programs are available at http://www-ttp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/Progdata/ttp03/ttp03-10/
title: Identification of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for drought tolerance and leaf senescence in juvenile barley
Creators: name: Wehner, Gwendolin
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2017
Subjects: Barley; Drought stress; Leaf senescence; QTL; eQTL

description: Drought stress as a trait with increasing importance in the background of climate change is an important factor limiting barley yield. Induced by drought, leaf senescence may occur prematurely, leading to a stop of photosynthesis and to an early translocation of stored assimilates into grains. For barley breeding, the identification of quantitative trait loci (QTL) involved in drought stress and leaf senescence may be an advantage as reliable phenotyping for drought stress is difficult to achieve. Therefore, the aim of the present thesis was to identify markers associated to drought stress response and drought stress induced leaf senescence in juvenile barley through genome wide association studies (GWAS), which will facilitate efficient marker based selection procedures. In a first step, a screening method was developed for analysing drought stress response and early leaf senescence in juvenile barley. Next, in semi controlled greenhouse pot experiments 156 winter barley genotypes were analysed in early developmental stages under control and drought stress treatment. Drought application started at the primary leaf stage and continued for a four weeks stress period. These experiments were used for phenotyping six physiological parameters (biomass yield, leaf colour, electron transport rate at photosystem II, osmolality, content of free proline and total content of soluble sugars), as well as for gene expression analysis of genes involved in drought stress and leaf senescence. Significant genotypic and treatment effects were detected for all phenotypic traits and gene expression data. Based on these data and on 3,212 SNP markers of the Illumina 9k iSelect Chip, GWAS were conducted to detect QTL and expression QTL (eQTL). In total, 47 significant QTL were identified for the traits analysed under drought stress conditions and 15 significant eQTL were found for the relative expression of the 14 genes involved in these traits. Under drought stress conditions, two major QTL regions overlapping for different traits such as biomass yield and leaf colour were detected on chromosome 2H at 50 cM and on chromosome 5H at 45 cM. In these QTL, genes coding for proteins involved in drought stress or leaf senescence were identified. Four of these genes showed a differential expression and thus, eQTL were detected. One eQTL for TRIUR3 coincides with the phenotypic QTL on chromosome 5H. After validation respective markers BOPA1_9766-787 and SCRI_RS_102075 may be used in future barley breeding programmes for improving tolerance to drought stress and leaf senescence.
description: Dissertationen aus dem Julius Kühn-Institut, Identification of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for drought tolerance and leaf senescence in juvenile barley
"When He Feels Cold, He Goes to the Seahorse"-Blending Generative AI into Multimaterial Storymaking for Family Expressive Arts Therapy
Creators: name: Liu, Di
name: Zhou, Hanqing
name: An, Pengcheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Storymaking, as an integrative form of expressive arts therapy, is an effective means to foster family communication. Yet, the integration of generative AI as expressive materials in therapeutic storymaking remains underexplored. And there is a lack of HCI implications on how to support families and therapists in this context. Addressing this, our study involved five weeks of storymaking sessions with seven families guided by a professional therapist. In these sessions, the families used both traditional art-making materials and image-based generative AI to create and evolve their family stories. Via the rich empirical data and commentaries from four expert therapists, we contextualize how families creatively melded AI and traditional expressive materials to externalize their ideas and feelings. Through the lens of Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC), we characterize the therapeutic implications of AI as expressive materials. Desirable interaction qualities to support children, parents, and therapists are distilled for future HCI research.
description: to appear at ACM CHI '24
Heteralonia (Acrodisca) offuscata
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Heteralonia
Heteralonia offuscata

description: Heteralonia (Acrodisca) offuscata (Bezzi)
 Exoprosopa offuscata Bezzi, 1921a: 141.
 Distribution. Namibia, South Africa (Northern & Western Cape).
 Material examined. 1♂, 2♀♀, Windhoek, Regenstein 32, SE2217Ca, 12.xii.1973, H 1679.
description: Published as part of Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1149 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Review of Dietary Reference Intakes for Selected Nutrients: Challenges and Implications for Federal Food and Nutrition Policy
Creators: name: Devaney, Barbara
name: Crepinsek, Mary Kay
name: Fortson, Ken
name: Quay, Lisa
name: Devaney, Barbara
name: Crepinsek, Mary Kay
name: Fortson, Ken
name: Quay, Lisa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are the most recent set of nutrient-based reference values, which, together with recommended dietary assessment methods, are being used to update estimates of nutrient adequacy of population subgroups. Recent estimates suggest both dramatic dietary deficiencies and excesses for selected nutrients among some subgroups. This report takes a critical look at the studies and methods used to set DRIs. The findings show that errors in dietary recall data—either underreporting or overreporting of intakes—may partially explain the inadequacies and excessive intakes. In addition, the lack of sensitive, specific biochemical markers has resulted in DRIs for selected nutrients to be based on less than optimal data. Because the DRIs are used by food and nutrition assistance programs to set nutritional objectives, establish program benefits, and evaluate program outcomes, it is important to understand the issues involved in deriving the DRIs and how to interpret the results of dietary assessments.
One dimensional quantum walk with unitary noise
Creators: name: Shapira, Daniel
name: Biham, Ofer
name: Bracken, A. J.
name: Hackett, Michelle
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of unitary noise on the discrete one-dimensional quantum walk is studied using computer simulations. For the noiseless quantum walk, starting at the origin (n=0) at time t=0, the position distribution Pt(n) at time t is very different from the Gaussian distribution obtained for the classical random walk. Furthermore, its standard deviation, sigma(t) scales as sigma(t) ~ t, unlike the classical random walk for which sigma(t) ~ sqrt{t}. It is shown that when the quantum walk is exposed to unitary noise, it exhibits a crossover from quantum behavior for short times to classical-like behavior for long times. The crossover time is found to be T ~ alpha^(-2) where alpha is the standard deviation of the noise.
description: 28 pages, 12 figures
Michigan: A State at the Intersection of the Debate Over Full Planting Flexibility
Creators: name: Thornsbury, Suzanne
name: Martinez, Lourdes
name: Schweikhardt, David
name: Thornsbury, Suzanne
name: Martinez, Lourdes
name: Schweikhardt, David
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: Greater flexibility in U.S. farm programs with elimination of the restriction on the planting of fruit and vegetable (FAVR) crops is likely to be a major issue in congressional 2007 farm policy discussions. Michigan is a state with a wide range of both FAVR and program crops planted under the current policy. To capture the diversity of situations that would apply among crops covered by the current policy, this research has examined a broad set of Michigan FAVR crops (dry beans, pickling cucumbers, processing tomatoes, fresh market tomatoes, squash, and blueberries). We evaluate both those factors that are likely to prevent the entry of Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program (DCP) crop producers into the production of FAVR crops (barriers to entry or disincentives) and those factors that are likely to encourage DCP crop producers to enter the production of FAVR crops (inducements to entry or incentives). The balance will determine the likely outcome from elimination of the FAVR. With the exception of dry beans, a change in the FAVR would provide only small (or no) positive incentives for DCP crop producers to enter the production of FAVR crops. Similarly, barriers to entry would, in many cases, be high enough to significantly limit, or even prohibit, movement of DCP crop producers into the markets for FAVR crops. When considering these factors in combination, only dry beans appear to have the potential for entry of a significant number of new producers. In most other cases, the probability of entry by new producers appears to be low. Even with a low or zero response in total supply, equity issues will likely still arise.
Οι ανατομικές παραλλαγές της κοιλιακής αορτής και των κλάδων της. Η κλινική τους σημασία
Creators: name: Βασιλειάδου, Στυλιανή Θεοδώρου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Ανατομικές Παραλλαγές
Κοιλιακή Αορτή και Κλάδοι
Κλινική Σημασία Ανατομικών Παραλλαγών
Anatomical Variants
Abdominal Aorta and Branches
Clinical Significance of Anatomical Variants

description: Σκοπός της εργασίας ήταν η μελέτη των διαφόρων ανατομικών παραλλαγών που αφορούν στην κοιλιακή αορτή και κυρίως στους κλάδους της, οι οποίες προκύπτουν κατά τη διάρκεια της ανάπτυξης του καρδιαγγειακού συστήματος του εμβρύου. Ταυτόχρονα μελετήθηκε η κλινική σημασία αυτών, η οποία ποικίλλει από ασυμπτωματικό τυχαίο εύρημα έως αίτιο κλινικών συνδρόμων ή επιπλοκών κατά τη διάρκεια χειρουργικών επεμβάσεων και επεμβατικών ακτινολογικών διαδικασιών. Πραγματοποιήθηκε ανασκόπηση της βιβλιογραφίας όπου συμπεριλήφθηκαν πτωματικές μελέτες (ανατομές και χειρουργεία λήψης οργάνων από δότες), απεικονιστικές μελέτες αλλά και μελέτες που αφορούν ασθενείς που χειρουργήθηκαν (διάφορα είδη επεμβάσεων συμπεριλαμβανομένων και των μεταμοσχεύσεων οργάνων), προκειμένου να γίνει καταγραφή των κυριότερων ανατομικών παραλλαγών της κοιλιακής αορτής και των κλάδων της. Διαπιστώθηκε μεγάλη ποικιλία στην έκφυση, στον αριθμό και στην πορεία των κύριων κλάδων της κοιλιακής αορτής, γεγονός που δημιουργεί την ανάγκη ταξινόμησης ή την ανανέωση των υπαρχόντων συστημάτων ταξινόμησης τους. Επιπλέον, παρουσιάζοντας την κλινική σημασία των παραλλαγών, γίνεται εμφανές ότι η ακριβής γνώση τους είναι εξαιρετικά σημαντική και χρήσιμη σε πολλούς τομείς της ιατρικής.
description: The aim of the present thesis was the study of various anatomical variants related to the abdominal aorta and mainly its branches, which arise during the development of the cardiovascular system of the fetus. At the same time, their clinical significance was studied, which varies from an asymptomatic random finding to a cause of clinical syndrome or complications during surgeries and invasive radiological procedures. A review of the literature included cadaver studies (anatomies and organ donation surgeries), imaging studies and studies of patients who underwent surgery (various types of surgery, including organ transplants) in order to refer the main anatomical variants of abdominal aorta and its branches. There was a great variety in the origin, the number and the course of the main branches of the abdominal aorta, which creates the need for classification or renewal of the existing classification systems. In addition, presenting the clinical significance of the variants, it becomes apparent that their precise knowledge is extremely important and useful in many fields of medicine.
Προσδιορισμός της τοξικότητας δυνητικά τοξικών μικροφυκών
Creators: name: Ζαχαριουδάκη, Άννα Παναγιώτη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2021
Subjects: Gambierdiscus
Ciguatera
Τοξικότητα
Toxicity

description: Τα δινομαστιγωτά του γένους Gambierdiscus έχουν την ικανότητα παραγωγής βιοτοξινών οι οποίες συσσωρεύονται στους ιστούς ιχθύων προκαλώντας τη νόσο Ciguatera Fish Poisoning (CFP). Η νόσος αυτή ήταν παλαιότερα περιορισμένη γεωγραφικά σε τροπικές-υποτροπικές περιοχές, παρόλα αυτά το γένος Gambierdiscus καταγράφηκε για πρώτη φορά στη Μεσόγειο (Κρήτη) το 2003, δημιουργώντας έτσι τις προϋποθέσεις για πιθανή εμφάνιση CFP. Προκειμένου να διερευνηθεί η τοξικότητα αυτών των δυνητικά τοξικών οργανισμών πραγματοποιήθηκε εκχύλιση τοξίνης από στελέχη τα οποία απομονώθηκαν από την Κρήτη και την Κύπρο. Τα στελέχη από τις δύο περιοχές αναπτύσσονται σε συνθήκες καλλιέργειας για περαιτέρω διερεύνηση της τοξικότητάς τους με τη μέθοδο της κυτταροτοξικότητας σε κυτταρικές σειρές νευροβλαστώματος (N2A) τόσο για δράση ciguatoxin όσο και για maitotoxin. Η διερεύνηση της κυτταροτοξικότητας πραγματοποιήθηκε με την παρατήρηση της μορφολογικής διαφοροποίησης των κυττάρων N2A και με την μέθοδο του ποσοτικού προσδιορισμού κυτταροτοξικότητας MTT. Σύμφωνα με τα αποτελέσματα της παρούσας έρευνας, παρατηρήθηκε τοξικότητα στα στελέχη που μελετήσαμε. Το αποτέλεσμα αυτό υποδεικνύει την ανάγκη ενός προγράμματος παρακολούθησης του γένους στη Μεσόγειο.
description: Dinoflagellates of the genus Gambierdiscus have the ability to produce biotoxins that accumulate in fish tissues causing Ciguatera Fish Poisoning (CFP). This disease used to be geographically limited to tropical-subtropical regions, however the genus Gambierdiscus was recorded in the Mediterranean (Crete) in 2003, thus creating the conditions for a possible occurrence of CFP. In order to investigate the toxicity of these potentially toxic organisms, toxin was extracted from strains that were isolated from Crete and Cyprus. Strains from both regions are grown under culture conditions to further investigate their toxicity for both ciguatoxin and maitotoxin action. The investigation of cytotoxicity was performed by observing the morphological differentiation of neuroblastoma cell lines (N2A) and by the method of quantification of MTT cytotoxicity. According to the results of the present study, toxicity was observed in the strains that were studied. This result indicates the need for a monitoring program in the Mediterranean.
Middle School Student Lunch Consumption: Impact of National School Lunch Program Meal and Competitive Foods
Creators: name: Cullen, Karen
name: Watson, Kathy
name: Zakeri, Issa
name: Cullen, Karen
name: Watson, Kathy
name: Zakeri, Issa
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: National School Lunch Program
subject: Child Nutrition Programs
subject: food assistance programs
subject: competitive foods
subject: snack bar
subject: vending
subject: middle school
subject: diet
subject: Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Program
subject: FANRP
subject: ERS
subject: USDA

description: Children’s consumption of National School Lunch Program (NSLP) meals is associated with several positive dietary quality outcomes but concerns remain. Students who consumed mainly NSLP food reported higher intake of most nutrients, milk, fruits, and vegetables and lower intakes of sweetened beverages and candy than students who consumed mainly non-NSLP food, including a la carte items, food from vending machines, and food from home. Students in the “mainly NLSP” group also consumed more sodium, fat, and saturated fat, however, and calorie intake was also higher for this group, although it was only 80 percent of the NSLP requirement for calories served at lunch. The findings were based on lunchtime food records collected from students in three Houston area middle schools during school year 2001-02.
Haplotaxoides undefined-B
Creators: name: Martin, Patrick
name: Fend, Steven
name: Martinsson, Svante
name: Klinth, Mårten
name: Torii, Takaaki
name: Erséus, Christer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Annelida
Clitellata
Haplotaxoidida
Haplotaxoididae
Haplotaxoides
Haplotaxoides undefined-B

description: Haplotaxoides sp. B
Material examined: USNM 1716321: USA, Oregon, Lane Co., McKenzie River below Leaburg Fish Hatchery, approximately 44.116 °N, 122.634 °W, 2 Feb 2017; anterior end of immature worm on slide, posterior end analysed for DNA (CE32195); for molecular data, see Table 1. S. Fend collection: 2 Feb 2017; three whole mounts. All collected by S. Fend.
Description
Length 20–36 mm, maximum diameter 168–190 μm; 97–157 segments. Dorsal chaetae slightly sigmoid, length 32–54 μm, diameter 2–3 μm, nodulus 0.42–0.46 x the chaetal length from the tip. Ventral chaetae strongly hooked, some with dorsal keel at tip; length 76–95 μm, diameter 4–6 μm, nodulus at 0.35–0.42 the length from the tip. Cuticular layer of body wall 1.5–2.5 μm. Mouth, pharynx, and other gut characters as described above. Coelomocytes numerous, 8–18 μm long; ventral glands to 130 μm, usually 3/bundle.
description: Published as part of Martin, Patrick, Fend, Steven, Martinsson, Svante, Klinth, Mårten, Torii, Takaaki & Erséus, Christer, 2024, Towards an integrative revision of Haplotaxidae (Annelida: Clitellata), pp. 1-38 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (zlae 141) (zlae 141) 202 (4) on pages 19-20, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae141, http://zenodo.org/record/14810304
Field E+A Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts (0.3
Creators: name: Tran, Kim-Vy H.
name: Franx, Marijn
name: Illingworth, Garth D.
name: van Dokkum, Pieter
name: Kelson, Daniel D.
name: Magee, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We select E+A candidates from a spectroscopic dataset of ~800 field galaxies and measure the E+A fraction at 0.3
description: Accepted by ApJ
New Interstellar Extinction Maps Based on Gaia and Other Sky Surveys
Creators: name: Gontcharov, G. A.
name: Marchuk, A. A.
name: Khovrichev, M. Yu.
name: Mosenkov, A. V.
name: Savchenko, S. S.
name: Il'in, V. B.
name: Polyakov, D. M.
name: Smirnov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new three-dimensional (3D) interstellar extinction maps in the $V$ and Gaia $G$ filters within 2 kpc of the Sun, a 3D differential extinction (dust spatial distribution density) map along the lines of sight in the same space, a 3D map of variations in the ratio of the extinctions in the $V$ and Gaia $G$ filters within 800 pc of the Sun, and a 2D map of total Galactic extinction through the entire dust half-layer from the Sun to extragalactic space for Galactic latitudes $|b|>13^{\circ}$. The 3D maps have a transverse resolution from 3.6 to 11.6 pc and a radial resolution of 50 pc. The 2D map has an angular resolution of 6.1 arcmin. We have produced these maps based on the Gaia DR3 parallaxes and Gaia, Pan-STARRS1, SkyMapper, 2MASS, and WISE photometry for nearly 100 million stars. We have paid special attention to the space within 200 pc of the Sun and high Galactic latitudes as regions where the extinction estimates have had a large relative uncertainty so far. Our maps estimate the extinction within the Galactic dust layer from the Sun to an extended object or through the entire dust half-layer from the Sun to extragalactic space with a precision $σ(A_\mathrm{V})=0.06$ mag. This gives a high relative precision of extinction estimates even at high Galactic latitudes, where, according to our estimates, the median total Galactic extinction through the entire dust half-layer from the Sun to extragalactic objects is $A_\mathrm{V}=0.12\pm0.06$ mag. We have shown that the presented maps are among the best ones in data amount, space size, resolution, precision, and other properties.
description: 15 pages, 4 tables
Constraints on $H^\pm$ parameter space in 2HDM at $\sqrt{s}=$ 8 TeV and $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
Creators: name: Ahmed, Ijaz
name: Badshah, Murad
name: Kausar, Nadia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reflects the heavy Higgs scenario where the mass of charged Higgs is equal to or greater than 200 GeV. The CMS observed and expected values of upper limits on the product $σ_H^\pm BR(H^\pm \rightarrow tb^\mp)$, assuming $H^\pm \rightarrow tb^\mp=1$, both at 8 TeV (at integrated luminosity of 19.7 $fb^{-1}$ ) and 13 TeV (at integrated luminosity of 35.9 $fb^{-1}$ ) c.m energies are used. By comparing these expected and observed upper limits with computational values , we find out the expected and observed exclusion regions of charged Higgs parameter space ($ m_H^\pm - tanβ$ space ) in 2HDM both at $\sqrt{s}=$8 and $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV. We compare the expected and observed exclusion regions and observe that exclusion regions made by observed upper limits are always greater than the exclusion made by expected upper limits both at 8 and 13 TeV c.m energies. Only in the mass range from 200 GeV to 220 GeV the expected exclusion region is greater than the observed one only at $\sqrt{s}=$13 TeV. We also equate the exclusion regions at these two different center of mass energies and find that the expected exclusion region and observed exclusion region at $\sqrt{s}=$13 TeV are always greater than the expected exclusion region and observed exclusion region at $\sqrt{S}=$8 TeV respectively.
description: 11 pages,19 figures,12 tables
Optimal scheduling of energy and mass flows based on networked multi-carrier hubs formulation: a general framework
Creators: name: Mabrouk, Mohamed Tahar
name: Majidniya, Mahdi
name: Lacarrière, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Due to increased energy demand and environmental concerns such as greenhouse gas emissions and natural resources depletion, optimizing energy and raw materials usage has recently drawn much attention. Achieving more synergy between different energy sectors and manufacturing processes could lead to substantial improvements. Energy hubs are already well-known solutions for studying multi-carrier energy systems. In the present study, a multi-carrier hub is defined as a geographic area where different processes take place to convert energy and material flows possibly consumed locally, stored, or exported. Hub boundaries correspond to an area small enough to neglect losses when energy and materials flows are exchanged between the processes. A general formulation is introduced to model such a hub. This formalism encompasses all the possible configurations without limitations or preconceptions regarding used carriers or processes' architecture. For this purpose, a new hub representation is proposed that allows optimization while considering all possible arrangements (parallel, serial, or a combination of them). It is implemented in a framework that allows the creation of several multi-carrier hubs and connecting some of them to exchange flows through dedicated networks. The formalism is based on linear programming (LP). The features of the developed framework are illustrated by a case study consisting of a network made of three hubs and considering heat, electricity, water, and hydrogen flows.The study aims to optimally schedule processes usage and materials and energy storage to minimize the cost of imported resources. The study is done in a short-term period. It shows the benefits of synergy between the different processes in the hub.
Heteralonia (Acrodisca) umbrosa
Creators: name: Greathead, David J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Heteralonia
Heteralonia umbrosa

description: Heteralonia (Acrodisca) umbrosa (Loew)
 Exoprosopa umbrosa Loew, 1860: 194.
 Distribution. Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa (Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga), Tanzania, Zimbabwe.
 Material examined. 1♂, Katuma Mulilo District, Salambala camp site, 17°50’01”S 24°36’09”E, 22–24.ii.2001, A.H. Kirk­Spriggs & E. Marais, Malaise trap sample; 1♂, Katima Mulilo District, Salambala 4 km NE of, 17°49’21”S 24°36’07”E, 25.iii.–1.iv.2001, A.H. Kirk­Spriggs & E. Marais, Malaise trap sample; 4♂♂, Kavango, Popa Falls, 18°07’S 21°04’E, 26.ii.–1.iii.1992, E. Marais & M. Pusch.
description: Published as part of Greathead, David J., 2006, New records of Namibian Bombyliidae (Diptera), with notes on some genera and descriptions of new species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 1149 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5058081
Chi**2 analysis of the minimal supergravity model including WMAP, g(mu)-2 and b -> s gamma constraints
Creators: name: Baer, Howard
name: Balazs, Csaba
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent results from the WMAP measurements of the cosmic background radiation yield very tight constraints on the relic density of supersymmetric cold dark matter. We combine the WMAP constraint with those from the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and the b -> s gamma branching fraction in a chi^2 determination over the minimal supergravity model (mSUGRA) parameter space. The most favored region of mSUGRA parameter space for almost all tan(beta) values is the hyperbolic branch/focus point (HB/FP) region, with moderate to small values of superpotential Higgs mass |mu| and large GUT scale scalar mass m_0. These favored regions of mSUGRA parameter space can be probed by direct search experiments for supersymmetric dark matter. An exception to the HB/FP region can occur at very large tan(beta) with positive mu values, where wide regions allow resonance annihilation of neutralinos in the early universe.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures. JCAP version. A copy of the paper with better resolution figures can be found at http://www.hep.fsu.edu/~balazs/Physics/Papers/2003/
Linguistic modal conventionalism in the real world
Creators: name: Due, Clare
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2018

description: This thesis examines the prospects for a theory of metaphysical modality according to which modal truth is determined by conventional rules governing the terms in a natural language. I label this theory ‘linguistic modal conventionalism’, or ‘LMC’. My focus is on articulating and responding to a specific objection to LMC: the objection that conventionalism about the modal features of objects and propositions leads to conventionalism about ordinary objects and non-modal truth. The first part of the thesis sets out the theoretical background for LMC by describing its empiricist and naturalistic motivations, its historical background, and its modern variants. I argue that modern versions of LMC are able to respond to the Quinean and Kripean challenges that faced the theory’s positivist predecessors. The middle part of the thesis is devoted to describing the threat of object and truth conventionalism. I argue that the tight connection between an object’s conditions of existence and its modal properties means that conventionalism about modal properties leads to conventionalism about objects themselves. Similarly, the modal nature of a proposition’s truth conditions means that conventionalism about modal features of propositions leads to conventionalism about non-modal truth. The final chapters of the thesis present a way for LMC to respond to these threats. I argue that the theory should do away with the problematic ontology by rejecting modal features of objects and propositions, and providing truth conditions for modal sentences in terms of linguistic rules directly. After describing the metaphysics and semantics of this position, I conclude by responding to a number of potential objections for LMC, and by arguing that it satisfies the empiricist and naturalist desiderata by which it is motivated.
Quantization of Gravitational System and its Cosmological Consequences
Creators: name: Arbab, Arbab I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have found that the hierarchial problems appearing in cosmology is a manifestation of the quantum nature of the universe. The universe is still described by the same formulae that once hold at Planck's time. The universe is found to be governed by the Machian equation, $G M=Rc^2$, where $M$ and $R$ are mass and radius of the universe. A Planck's constant for different cosmic scales is provided. The status of the universe at different stages is shown to be described in terms of the fundamental constants (eg. \textcolor{blue}{$c, \hbar, G, Λ, H$}) only. The concept of maximal (minimal) acceleration, power, temperature, etc., is introduced and justified. The electromagnetic interactions are shown to be active at a cosmic level. Their contribution would exclude the inclusion of dark energy in cosmology.
description: To appear in Gen. Relativ. Gravit., 39, 2004, (17 pages of LateX)
Emergence of a pseudogap in the BCS-BEC crossover
Creators: name: Richie-Halford, Adam
name: Drut, Joaquín E.
name: Bulgac, Aurel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Strongly correlated Fermi systems with pairing interactions become superfluid below a critical temperature $T_c$. The extent to which such pairing correlations alter the behavior of the liquid at temperatures $T > T_c$ is a subtle issue that remains an area of debate, in particular regarding the appearance of the so-called pseudogap in the BCS-BEC crossover of unpolarized spin-$1/2$ nonrelativistic matter. To shed light on this, we extract several quantities of crucial importance at and around the unitary limit, namely: the odd-even staggering of the total energy, the spin susceptibility, the pairing correlation function, the condensate fraction, and the critical temperature $T_c$, using a non-perturbative, constrained-ensemble quantum Monte Carlo algorithm.
description: 6 pages (including references), 4 figures; Added Journal Reference
The Disaster Utopia
Creators: name: Naylor, Brit Adam
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: This project examines the architectural implications of the sociological phenomenon of the “disaster utopia,” coined by Rebecca Solnit. In the state of exception following catastrophic events, disaster capitalists and neoliberal governments work in concert to consolidate wealth and power. But ordinary people are also capable of forcing change and creating community; indeed, the strengthening of community bonds in the wake of disaster is well documented. After decades of disinvestment in public services and infrastructure, climate-related disasters threaten to overwhelm our capacity to adapt. People who have been displaced from their homes increasingly rely on the good will of one another, growing stronger communities from informal networks of mutual aid. The project offers a fictional narrative of the near future, in which citizens taking refuge from a disaster are forced to house themselves in absence of support from the state. The story begins with a fire similar to the one that destroyed Paradise, CA and ends with a rain-on-snow event like that which caused some of the worst flooding on the west coast. The unpredictability of climate and the relentless compounding of the effects of disaster is a central concern of this thesis. It is the point of view of the author that, at this time, neither the state nor the field of architecture is seriously interested in addressing the profound crisis that is only beginning to unfold. For this reason, the protagonist of the narrative is not the architectural professional but the ordinary individual radicalized by circumstance. The project is sited in Eugene, OR, a place of origin for radical environmentalist and anarchist ideals. This thesis posits that informal changes enacted by citizens in the wake of disaster can transform into lasting, formalized changes in the built environment that speak to changing notions of privacy and sharing. The architectural interventions - a flexible community bench and table, a driveway bathhouse and kitchen, and a treehouse guesthouse - represent shifting ideas about community, amenities, and domesticity, respectively.
Relativistic Potentials with Rational Extensions
Creators: name: Haritha, K.
name: Chaitanya, K. V. S. Shiv
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we construct isospectral Hamiltonians without shape invariant potentials for the relativistic quantum mechanical potentials such as the Dirac Oscillator and Hydrogen-like atom.
description: 18 pages
Integration von Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten in die operativen und strategischen Prozesse von Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaften für Immobilienfonds
Creators: name: Friedrich, Thomas
Publisher: name: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Nachhaltigkeit
Immobilien
Immobilienfonds
Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaften

description: In der Dissertation wird ein Vorschlag zur Integration von Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten in bestehende Prozesse des Risiko- und Portfoliomanagements von Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaften für Immobilienfonds entwickelt und dargestellt. Für die Beurteilung der Bedeutung von Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten für das Portfolio- und Risikomanagement von Immobilienportfolien wurden im Kern dieser Arbeit die beiden wesentlichen Forschungsfragen untersucht und beantwortet: 1. Birgt die Integration von Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten das Potential zur Verbesserung der Wirtschaftlichkeit von Immobilienportfolios? 2. Wie lassen sich diese Nachhaltigkeitsaspekte in ausgewählte Prozesse und Modelle des Immobilienportfolio- und Immobilienrisikomanagements integrieren? Zur Beantwortung der ersten Frage wurde zunächst die Literatur hinsichtlich existierender Analysen, die den grundlegenden Zusammenhang zwischen Rentabilität und Nachhaltigkeitsfaktoren untersucht haben, ausgewertet. Darüber hinaus wurden eigene empirische Untersuchungen zu diesem Zusammenhang angestellt. Unter Nutzung eines Datensatzes für vorwiegend gewerbliche Immobilien mit wesentliche Kennzahlen (u.a. Renditen und Leerstände), wurden Teilportfolios (durchschnittlich/nachhaltig) gebildet und verglichen. Die Hypothese eines positiven Zusammenhanges zwischen Rentabilität und Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten von Immobilienportfolios konnte bestätigt werden. Für die Beantwortung der zweiten Forschungsfrage wurde eine Expertenbefragung durchgeführt. Erhoben und analysiert wurden Angaben zu den in der Immobilienwirtschaft verbreiteten Prozessen und Modellen zum Portfolio- und Risikomanagement sowie zu Stand und Trends bei der Integration von Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten und den dabei auftretenden Problemen. Auf Basis einer vorgenommenen Auswertungen wurde ein Lösungsansatz zur Integration von Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten in Prozesse des Immobilienportfolio- und Risikomanagements erarbeitet. Hierbei wurden die aus der aktuellen EU-Regulierung zur Taxonomie stammenden technischen Prüfkriterien für die Errichtung und Renovierung, den Erwerb und das Eigentum von Immobilien aufgegriffen und in ein Prüfschema überführt, das Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaften für Immobilienfonds nutzen können. Die Arbeit liefert damit einen Beitrag zu bewertungsmethodischen Fragen und zur Weiterentwicklung des Portfolio- und Risikomanagements in der immobilienwirtschaftlichen Praxis durch stärkere Einbeziehung von Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten.
Folding Mechanism of Small Proteins
Creators: name: Kim, Seung-Yeon
name: Lee, Julian
name: Lee, Jooyoung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Quantitative Biology (q-bio)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Extensive Monte Carlo folding simulations for four proteins of various structural classes are carried out, using a single atomistic potential. In all cases, collapse occurs at a very early stage, and proteins fold into their native-like conformations at appropriate temperatures. The results demonstrate that the folding mechanism is controlled not only by thermodynamic factors but also by kinetic factors: The way a protein folds into its native structure, is also determined by the convergence point of early folding trajectories, which cannot be obtained by the free energy surface.
description: 11 pages, 4 figures