cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Absence of invasive Chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in native Fijian ground frog (Platymantis vitiana) populations on Viwa-Tailevu, Fiji Islands
Creators: name: Narayan, Edward
name: Molinia, Frank
name: Hero, Jean-Marc
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: We report on the first survey of chytridiomycosis (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis- Bd) in the endangered Fijian ground frog (Platymantis vitiana) population on Viwa-Tailevu, Fiji Islands. This fungal pathogen has been implicated as the primary cause of amphibian declines worldwide. Few cases have been reported from tropical Asia however it was recently documented in 4 species of frogs in Indonesia. Two hundred individual frogs were swabbed from 5 different sites on Viwa Island. Swabs were tested to quantify the number of Bd zoospore equivalents using real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) technique. We found zero (%) prevalence of Bd in ground frogs. The lack of Bd may be due to 1) hot weather all year round inhibiting the spread of Bd, 2) Bd may be absent from Viwa Island due to a lack of amphibian introductions (not introduced or importation of exotic frogs such as Rana catesbeia-na, or Xenopus spp or pet trade spp) or 3) the lack of introduction by human vectors due to the geographic isolation, and low visitation of non-local people into the island. While it is difficult to test these hypotheses, a precautionary approach would suggest an effective quarantine is required to protect Fiji’s endemic frogs from future disease outbreak. Conservation effort and research is needed at international level to assist the Fiji government in monitoring and protecting their unique endemic amphibians from outbreaks of B. dendrobatidis.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 2 (2011)
Preliminary analysis of dorsal pattern variation and sexual dimorphism in Montivipera latifii (Mertens, Darevsky and Klemmer, 1967) (Ophidia: Viperidae)
Creators: name: Rajabizadeh, Mehdi
name: Yazdanpanah, Ali
name: Ursenbacher, Sylvain
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: In this study, sexual dimorphism and dorsal patterns were investigated in Latifi’s viper (Montivipera latifii) from Iran. Sexual dimorphism was evaluated in 13 males and 15 females using 12 morphological characteristics. Despite the low sample size, the results showed that both sexes significantly differ in the number of subcaudal scales, the number of outer circumocular scales and tail length. In a limited area, the Lar National Park, three different dorsal patterns were observed (n=26 specimens): about 50% displayed a complete zigzag dorsal pattern, 15% of the individuals displayed a striped dorsal pattern, and about 35% had an incomplete zigzag dorsal pattern. These findings confirmed partially results from former published studies. Finally, we hypothesised that the four pattern described in M. latifii could be a combination of only two genetically define dorsal marks.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
The intergenerational impact of maternal cancer on school-aged children and adolescents: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Paterson, Amy
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This scoping review protocol details the plans for conducting a scoping review with the objective of charting the existing literature on the intergenerational impact of a mother’s cancer on school-aged children and adolescents.
On the leading coefficient of polynomials orthogonal over domains with corners
Creators: name: Miña-Díaz, Erwin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42C05, 30E10, 30E15, 30C10, 30C15

description: Let $G$ be the interior domain of a piecewise analytic Jordan curve without cusps. Let $\{p_n\}_{n=0}^\infty$ be the sequence of polynomials that are orthonormal over $G$ with respect to the area measure, with each $p_n$ having leading coefficient $λ_n>0$. N. Stylianopoulos has recently proven that the asymptotic behavior of $λ_n$ as $n\to\infty$ is given by \[ \frac{n+1}π\frac{γ^{2n+2}}{ λ_n^{2}}=1-α_n, \] where $α_n=O(1/n)$ as $n\to\infty$ and $γ$ is the reciprocal of the logarithmic capacity of the boundary $\partial G$. In this paper, we prove that the $O(1/n)$ estimate for the error term $α_n$ is, in general, best possible, by exhibiting an example for which \[ \liminf_{n\to\infty}\,nα_n>0. \] The proof makes use of the Faber polynomials, about which a conjecture is formulated.
description: 7 pages
Energy-efficient hybrid spintronic-straintronic reconfigurable bit comparator
Creators: name: Biswas, Ayan K.
name: Atulasimha, Jayasimha
name: Bandyopadhyay, Supriyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We propose a reconfigurable bit comparator implemented with a nanowire spin valve whose two contacts are magnetostrictive with bistable magnetization. Reference and input bits are "written" into the magnetization states of the two contacts with electrically generated strain and the spin-valve's resistance is lowered if they match. Multiple comparators can be interfaced in parallel with a magneto-tunneling junction to determine if an N-bit input stream matches an N-bit reference stream bit by bit. The system is robust against thermal noise at room temperature and a 16-bit comparator can operate at roughly 416 MHz while dissipating at most 420 aJ per cycle.
description: Submitted to Applied Physics Letters. Version 1 ignored the energy dissipation in the passive resistors since they were very high. However, high resistances increase the RC time constant associated with charging. In version 2, the RC time constant has been reduced at the expense of increased energy dissipation, but the latter is still very small in absolute terms
Inference and Scientific Methodology Workshop - Study 2
Creators: name: Clark, Robbie
name: Munafo, Marcus
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: Arts and Humanities

description: This registration contains a protocol amendment and updated materials for a 2nd Workshop on Inference and Scientific Methodology. We ran the workshop once (Workshop/Study 1) at the University of Bristol on December 8th, 2021. Study 1 was preregistered and can be found at: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/VN5X9. Having used the feedback to change some of the workshop’s content and format, we have decided to run it a second time with the same aims. Consequently, we herein register our plan for Workshop/Study 2. In this second iteration, we will test whether our changes have improved the workshop. The questionnaire measures used to test this will be largely the same as before. We have made some minor adjustments, which mostly reflect changes to either the content/format or lessons from Workshop 1. We have also altered our recruitment strategy and sample population. The Study Protocol Amendment document discloses all changes from Study 1 to Study 2. Ethical approval for this study has been granted by the School of Psychological Science Research Ethics Committee at the University of Bristol (Approval Code: 10419).
Channel Simulation and Coded Source Compression
Creators: name: Hsieh, Min-Hsiu
name: Watanabe, Shun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Coded source compression, also known as source compression with helpers, has been a major variant of distributed source compression, but has hitherto received little attention in the quantum regime. This work treats and solves the corresponding quantum coded source compression through an observation that connects coded source compression with channel simulation. First, we consider classical source coding with quantum side information where the quantum side information is observed by a helper and sent to the decoder via a classical channel. We derive a single-letter characterization of the achievable rate region for this problem. The direct coding theorem of our result is proved via the measurement compression theory of Winter, a quantum-to-classical channel simulation. Our result reveals that a helper's scheme which separately conducts a measurement and a compression is suboptimal, and measurement compression seems necessary to achieve the optimal rate region. We then study coded source compression in the fully quantum regime, where two different scenarios are considered depending on the types of communication channels between the legitimate source and the receiver. We further allow entanglement assistance from the quantum helper in both scenarios. We characterize the involved quantum resources, and derive single-letter expressions of the achievable rate region. The direct coding proofs are based on well-known quantum protocols, the quantum state merging protocol and the fully quantum Slepian-Wolf protocol, together with the quantum reverse Shannon theorem.
description: Published version. The manuscript is a combination of results in arXiv:1501.04366 and arXiv:1504.05227. In particular, we show that channel simulation is a subroutine that the helper employs in the task of coded source compression in both classical and quantum regimes
Investigating Social Workers' Experiences with Peer Review
Creators: name: Dunleavy, Daniel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Peer review
subject: Social welfare research
subject: Social work
subject: Sociology of science

description: The aim of this study is to assess the quality and functioning of peer review in social work, by examining the experiences of social workers (i.e., researchers, academics, students, practitioners) who have received reviews and decisions for manuscripts in the year 2021.
Economic and racial/ethnic inequities in access to appealing parks
Creators: name: Curtis, David
name: Engel, Madeline
name: Hayes, Brittney
name: Morfas, Olivia
name: Rigolon, Alessandro
name: Kowaleski-Jones, Lori
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: parks; outdoor recreation; disparities; race; socioeconomic status; neighborhoods

description: The first aim of this study is to establish a new approach for measuring the appeal or attractiveness of parks that incorporates web-derived assessments of park size, features, amenities, and user perceptions. To validate the measure of park appeal, we will use visitation to individual parks in 2018 based on a large panel of smartphone devices representing approximately 10% of the adult population in our study area (SafeGraph, 2021). We expect that park size, features, amenities, and user perceptions each increase the appeal of parks and thus are associated with park visitation, even when adjusting for contextual characteristics that influence demand for parks (e.g., population in proximity). The second aim is to examine socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in park access. We hypothesize disparities in park appeal, such that neighborhood economic disadvantage and share of Hispanic residents are associated with access to less appealing parks (i.e., parks that are smaller, have fewer features and amenities, and lower user ratings) (Boone et al., 2009; Hughey et al., 2016; Rigolon, 2016). We make no directional hypotheses concerning differences in park density by neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage or racial/ethnic composition given prior mixed literature on disparities in park proximity and density (Rigolon, 2016, 2017; Wen et al., 2013). We will also explore disparities in park visitation by neighborhood characteristics after adjusting for differences in park appeal, but we make no specific hypotheses.
Cross-amplification of microsatellite loci reveals multiple paternity in Halys pit viper (Gloydius halys)
Creators: name: Simonov, Evgeniy
name: Wink, Michael
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: For Halys pit viper (Gloydius halys) species-specific microsatellite primers are not available. We tested a set of twenty primer pairs, originally developed for various Crotalinae species, for cross-amplification with Gloydius halys. The level of allelic polymorphism was assessed for eight successfully amplified loci via genotyping of a population sample. Between three to 24 alleles per locus were recorded. We examined a female and seven of its embryos for multiple paternity using seven microsatellite loci. More than two paternal alleles were detected in two loci indicating that two or more fathers were involved. This is the first report of multiple paternity in the wild population of Crotalinae. The life history characteristics of Halys pit-viper that can be associated with multiple paternity are discussed.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 2 (2011)
Image Processing with Dipole-Coupled Nanomagnets: Noise Suppression and Edge Enhancement Detection
Creators: name: Abeed, Md Ahsanul
name: Biswas, Ayan K.
name: Al-Rashid, Md Mamun
name: Atulasimha, Jayasimha
name: Bandyopadhyay, Supriyo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Hardware based image processing offers speed and convenience not found in software-centric approaches. Here, we show theoretically that a two-dimensional periodic array of dipole-coupled elliptical nanomagnets, delineated on a piezoelectric substrate, can act as a dynamical system for specific image processing functions. Each nanomagnet has two stable magnetization states that encode pixel color (black or white). An image containing black and white pixels is first converted to voltage states and then mapped into the magnetization states of a nanomagnet array with magneto-tunneling junctions (MTJs). The same MTJs are employed to read out the processed pixel colors later. Dipole interaction between the nanomagnets implements specific image processing tasks such as noise reduction and edge enhancement detection. These functions are triggered by applying a global strain to the nanomagnets with a voltage dropped across the piezoelectric substrate. An image containing an arbitrary number of black and white pixels can be processed in few nanoseconds with very low energy cost.
Entanglement detection via general SIC-POVMs
Creators: name: Xi, Ya
name: Zheng, Zhu-Jun
name: Zhu, Chuan-Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study separability problem using general symmetric informationally complete measurements and propose separability criteria in $\mathbb{C}^{d_{1}}\otimes\mathbb{C}^{d_{2}}$ and $\mathbb{C}^{d_{1}}\otimes\mathbb{C}^{d_{2}}\cdots\otimes\mathbb{C}^{d_{n}}$. Our criteria just require less local measurements and provide experimental implementation in detecting entanglement of unknown quantum states.
description: 10 pages, no figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1406.7820, arXiv:1407.0314 by other authors
Testing the ability to store sperm: an experimental manipulation of mating opportunities in the common wall lizard, Podarcis muralis
Creators: name: Pellitteri-Rosa, Daniele
name: Sacchi, Roberto
name: Pupin, Fabio
name: Bellati, Adriana
name: Cocca, Walter
name: Gentilli, Augusto
name: Galeotti, Paolo
name: Fasola, Mauro
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: Female common wall lizards (Podarcis muralis) typically reproduce annually and lay more than one clutch per season. In this study, we tested whether females store sperm between clutches and between years by manipulating mating opportunities of females through appropriate experiments. Our results revealed that females are definitely unable to store sperm for medium or long-term, suggesting they necessary need to repeatedly mate with males to fertilize their eggs. Finally, by comparing our results to other similar multi-clutched species, we conclude that sperm storage probably does not constitute a selective advantage for species with a promiscuous reproductive system based on multiple mating in populations with high densities.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
Navigating the CrossRoads of Development From Childhood to Adolescence: Through the transitional stages of communication that resolutes Self-Identity with the symbiocosm of communitization that challenges the conscience of the child and Adolescent mind
Creators: name: Warrick, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Arts and Humanities
subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Child Abuse
subject: Child & Adolescent Community Development
subject: Child & Adolescent Development
subject: Child Protective Services
subject: Childrens & Youth psychoanality
subject: Childrens and Adolescents Libertations
subject: Childrens PsycheSocialization
subject: Community Youth Projects
subject: Family Development
subject: Juvenile Criminology
subject: Juvenile Delinquency
subject: Juvenile patterns of communication
subject: Parental psychoanality
subject: Schematic representation with analytical patternization of categorical activity with Juvenile Delinquency
subject: The Identification of Deposing Family Dynamics
subject: The Identification of positive Family Dynamics
subject: The route of Special Education dilemmas for children & youth

description: ABSTRACT: This Manuscript is a compilation of collected research analysis applied to Theory that sequesters on the who, what, where, when, why, and how that is determinate of the outcomes with the factoring of Development perusary with Childhood and Adolescense. This query of Relativity poses for contemplation as to what direction taken will qualify the identification of the Self for children and adolescents with the decisions they make that will circumnavigate the course to the Route objective for establishing a symbiotic pattern of communication that will channel the personification of the Conscience with the youth mind. This is made possible whether the CrossRoads toward achieving Self-Actualization be guided by constructive or destructive forms of methodological assimilation into a community of attachment and security that equates with a psyche-somatic sense of belonging and assimbio-spheric communitization. This is made adherent in order for the systemic processing of Self-Actualization is to be plausibly transversive by methods of a transpositing binary symbiocodum formalization of a socio-linguistic communication; that is circum-navigational and the route course to achieving Self-Egosive relativity intunement with childrens and adolescents assimbiocodum relations to their associate community environments. From which many other children and adolescents have successfully transcended through; having pinnacled the Pre:Pubescent stages of Absolutionary Development in Childhood and Adolescence.
The significance of using satellite imagery data only in Ecological Niche Modelling of Iberian herps
Creators: name: Sillero, Neftalí
name: Brito, José
name: Martín-Alfageme, Santiago
name: García-Meléndez, Eduardo
name: Toxopeus, A.
name: Skidmore, Andrew
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: The environmental data used to calculate ecological niche models (ENM) are obtained mainly from ground-based maps (e.g., climatic interpolated surfaces). These data are often not available for less developed areas, or may be at an inappropriate scale, and thus to obtain this information requires fieldwork. An alternative source of eco-geographical data comes from satellite imagery. Three sets of ENM were calculated exclusively with variables obtained (1) from optical and radar images only and (2) from climatic and altitude maps obtained by ground-based methods. These models were compared to evaluate whether satellite imagery can accurately generate ENM. These comparisons must be made in areas with well-known species distribution and with available satellite imagery and ground-based data. Thus, the study area was the south-western part of Salamanca (Spain), using amphibian and reptiles as species models. Models’ discrimination capacity was measured with ROC plots. Models’ covariation was measured with a Spatial Spearman correlation. Four modelling techniques were used (Bioclim, Mahalanobis distance, GARP and Maxent). The results of this comparison showed that there were no significant differences between models generated using remotely sensed imagery or ground-based data. However, the models built with satellite imagery data exhibited a larger diversity of values, probably related to the higher spatial resolution of the satellite imagery. Satellite imagery can produce accurate ENM, independently of the modelling technique or the dataset used. Therefore, biogeographical analysis of species distribution in remote areas can be accurately developed only with variables from satellite imagery.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 2 (2012)
Quantum Tokens for Digital Signatures
Creators: name: Ben-David, Shalev
name: Sattath, Or
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The fisherman caught a quantum fish. "Fisherman, please let me go", begged the fish, "and I will grant you three wishes". The fisherman agreed. The fish gave the fisherman a quantum computer, three quantum signing tokens and his classical public key. The fish explained: "to sign your three wishes, use the tokenized signature scheme on this quantum computer, then show your valid signature to the king, who owes me a favor". The fisherman used one of the signing tokens to sign the document "give me a castle!" and rushed to the palace. The king executed the classical verification algorithm using the fish's public key, and since it was valid, the king complied. The fisherman's wife wanted to sign ten wishes using their two remaining signing tokens. The fisherman did not want to cheat, and secretly sailed to meet the fish. "Fish, my wife wants to sign ten more wishes". But the fish was not worried: "I have learned quantum cryptography following the previous story (The Fisherman and His Wife by the brothers Grimm). The quantum tokens are consumed during the signing. Your polynomial wife cannot even sign four wishes using the three signing tokens I gave you". "How does it work?" wondered the fisherman. "Have you heard of quantum money? These are quantum states which can be easily verified but are hard to copy. This tokenized quantum signature scheme extends Aaronson and Christiano's quantum money scheme, which is why the signing tokens cannot be copied". "Does your scheme have additional fancy properties?" the fisherman asked. "Yes, the scheme has other security guarantees: revocability, testability and everlasting security. Furthermore, if you're at sea and your quantum phone has only classical reception, you can use this scheme to transfer the value of the quantum money to shore", said the fish, and swam away.
description: Added illustration of the abstract to the ancillary files
Subjektive Theorien zur unterrichtsbezogenen Kooperation auf der Kindergartenstufe
Creators: name: Akermann, Judith
name: Junker, Rahel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Schulische Heilpädagogik
Masterarbeit

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit befasst sich mit der unterrichtsbezogenen Kooperation zwischen Regelklassenlehrkraft und Lehrperson der Schulischen Heilpädagogik auf der Kindergartenstufe. In Expertinnen-Interviews wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich amtierende Lehrpersonen in den Kantonen Zürich und St.Gallen eine angemessene Kooperation vorstellen. Das Forschungsinteresse gilt dabei der Einstellung zur kooperativen Umsetzung von integrativer Förderung. Aufgrund der theoretischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Forschungsprogramm Subjektive Theorien wird ein Interview-Leitfaden erarbeitet. Die qualitative Inhaltsanalyse zeigt, dass der gemeinsame Unterricht in den Augen der zehn Befragten eine Bereicherung darstellt. Aus den Befunden lässt sich ableiten, wie Kooperation auf der Kindergartenstufe in geeigneten Unterrichtskonzepten die Partizipation der Kinder unterstützt.
Genetic variability of Mesalina watsonana (Reptilia: Lacertidae) on the Iranian plateau and its phylogenetic and biogeographic affinities as inferred from mtDNA sequences
Creators: name: Smid, Jiri
name: Frynta, Daniel
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: The lacertid lizard Mesalina watsonana is widely distributed on the Iranian plateau where it is one of the most common lizards. However, the intraspecific variability and the phylogenetic position of this species within the genus still remain unknown. We sequenced a 715bp long fragment of the mtDNA cytochrome b gene from lizards sampled in 10 localities covering the Iranian distribution range of the species. We identified four distinct and geographically isolated clades with an average genetic divergence between them ranging from 9.8 to 13.1% (p-distance) which is comparable to the values of genetic distance commonly reported between Lacertidae species. Analyses combining data from recently published phylogeny of the genus Mesalina with our dataset confirmed the monophyly of M. watsonana. The isolation of this species from the rest of the genus points out the important role of the Zagros Mountains uplift during the Miocene. It is possible that this geological event participated on the isolation of the ancestor of M. watsonana from the rest of the Mesalina lizards and together with the upheaval of the whole Iranian plateau provided suitable environmental conditions for rapid diversification of this species.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
Symmetry-protected dissipative preparation of matrix product states
Creators: name: Zhou, Leo
name: Choi, Soonwon
name: Lukin, Mikhail D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose and analyze a method for efficient dissipative preparation of matrix product states that exploits their symmetry properties. Specifically, we construct an explicit protocol that makes use of driven-dissipative dynamics to prepare a many-body quantum state that features symmetry-protected topological order and non-trivial edge excitations. The preparation protocol is protected from errors that respect the symmetry, allowing for robust experimental implementation without fine-tuned control. Numerical simulations show that the preparation time scales polynomially in system size $n$. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this scaling can be improved to $\mathcal{O}(\log^2 n)$ by using parallel preparation of individual segments and fusing them via quantum feedback. A concrete scheme using excitation of trapped neutral atoms into Rydberg states via electromagnetically induced transparency is proposed, and generalizations to a broader class of matrix product states are discussed.
description: 20 pages, 5 figures, updated to include revisions for the journal version
Conic singularities metrics with prescribed scalar curvature: a priori estimates for normal crossing divisors
Creators: name: Li, Long
name: Wang, Jian
name: Zheng, Kai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The purpose of this paper is to prove the a priori estimates for constant scalar curvature Kaehler metrics with conic singularities along normal crossing divisors. The zero order estimates are proved by a reformulated version of Alexandrov's maximum principle. The higher order estimates follow from Chen-Cheng's frame work, equipped with new techniques to handle the singularities. Finally, we extend these estimates to the twisted equations.
Loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) foraging at Drini Bay in Northern Albania: Genetic characterisation reveals new haplotypes
Creators: name: Yilmaz, Can
name: Turkozan, Oguz
name: Bardakcı, Fevzi
name: White, Michael
name: Kararaj, Esmeralda
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: Loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) was studied over 3 summers in a nearshore habitat, the Patoku area in the southern part of Driniki Bay, Albania. Tissue samples were collected from 40 loggerhead turtles incidentally captured in stavnike fish-traps (a type of pond-net). A fragment of 859 base-pair mt-DNA d-loop region was amplified from these turtles and compared with previously described haplotypes. Haplotype CC-A2.1 (93%) was the dominant haplotype in the region. Two previously unknown haplotypes, CC-A6.1 and CC-A10.4, were decribed with this study. Furthermore, haplotype CC-A.2.8 was also observed which was previously recorded from Italy. Haplotype and nucleotide diversity were 0.14615 and 0.00017, respectively.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
Scavenging in the genus Natrix
Creators: name: Ayres, Cesar
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: Scavenging is reported as an unusual behaviour of snakes. However, it is likely more common than is supposed. Here I report the use of dead newts as prey source by water snakes of the genus Natrix at a dam in north-western Spain. Juveniles and adults viperine snakes (Natrix maura), and also an adult grass snake (Natrix natrix) were found feeding on newt carcasses.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
Implications of the Klein tunneling times on high frequency graphene devices using Bohmian trajectories
Creators: name: Pandey, Devashish
name: Villani, Matteo
name: Colomés, Enrique
name: Zhan, Zhen
name: Oriols, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Because of its large Fermi velocity, leading to a great mobility, graphene is expected to play an important role in (small signal) radio frequency electronics. Among other, graphene devices based on Klein tunneling phenomena are already envisioned. The connection between the Klein tunneling times of electrons and cut-off frequencies of graphene devices is not obvious. We argue in this paper that the trajectory-based Bohmian approach gives a very natural framework to quantify Klein tunneling times in linear band graphene devices because of its ability to distinguish, not only between transmitted and reflected electrons, but also between reflected electrons that spend time in the barrier and those that do not. Without such distinction, typical expressions found in the literature to compute dwell times can give unphysical results when applied to predict cut-off frequencies. In particular, we study Klein tunneling times for electrons in a two-terminal graphene device constituted by a potential barrier between two metallic contacts. We show that for a zero incident angle (and positive or negative kinetic energy), the transmission coefficient is equal to one, and the dwell time is roughly equal to the barrier distance divided by the Fermi velocity. For electrons incident with a non-zero angle smaller than the critical angle, the transmission coefficient decreases and dwell time can still be easily predicted in the Bohmian framework. The main conclusion of this work is that, contrary to tunneling devices with parabolic bands, the high graphene mobility is roughly independent of the presence of Klein tunneling phenomena in the active device region.
Additional file 3 of Power and positionality in the practice of health system responsiveness at sub-national level: insights from the Kenyan coast
Creators: name: Kagwanja, Nancy
name: Molyneux, Sassy
name: Whyle, Eleanor
name: Tsofa, Benjamin
name: Leli, Hassan
name: Gilson, Lucy
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 3.
Quotient algebra of compact-by-approximable operators on Banach spaces failing the approximation property
Creators: name: Tylli, Hans-Olav
name: Wirzenius, Henrik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B28, 47L10

description: We initiate a study of structural properties of the quotient algebra $\mathcal K(X)/\mathcal A(X)$ of the compact-by-approximable operators on Banach spaces $X$ failing the approximation property. Our main results and examples include the following: (i) there is a linear isomorphic embedding from $c_0$ into $\mathcal K(Z)/\mathcal A(Z)$, where $Z$ belongs to the class of Banach spaces constructed by Willis that have the metric compact approximation property but fail the approximation property, (ii) there is a linear isomorphic embedding from a non-separable space $c_0(Γ)$ into $\mathcal K(Z_{FJ})/\mathcal A(Z_{FJ})$, where $Z_{FJ}$ is a universal compact factorisation space arising from the work of Johnson and Figiel.
description: 21 pages
Quality and Intensity of Sensations Evoked By Cotton Swab Palpation of the Vestibule Among Women With and Without Vestibulodynia
Creators: name: Lewis, Jasmine
name: Zolnoun, Denniz
name: Bair, Eric
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The primary objective was to compare the quality and intensity of sensations evoked by cotton swab palpation of the vestibule among women with and without vestibulodynia.
Slicings of parallelogram polyominoes: Catalan, Schröder, Baxter, and other sequences
Creators: name: Beaton, Nicholas R.
name: Bouvel, Mathilde
name: Guerrini, Veronica
name: Rinaldi, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We provide a new succession rule (i.e. generating tree) associated with Schröder numbers, that interpolates between the known succession rules for Catalan and Baxter numbers. We define Schröder and Baxter generalizations of parallelogram polyominoes, called slicings, which grow according to these succession rules. In passing, we also exhibit Schröder subclasses of Baxter classes, namely a Schröder subset of triples of non-intersecting lattice paths, a new Schröder subset of Baxter permutations, and a new Schröder subset of mosaic floorplans. Finally, we define two families of subclasses of Baxter slicings: the $m$-skinny slicings and the $m$-row-restricted slicings, for $m \in \mathbb{N}$. Using functional equations and the kernel method, their generating functions are computed in some special cases, and we conjecture that they are algebraic for any $m$.
description: V4 incorporates comments from referees, including some reorganization
New data on the distribution of Darevskia pontica (Lantz and Cyrén, 1919) (Reptilia: Lacertidae) in Romania: filling a significant gap
Creators: name: Sos, Tibor
name: Kecskés, Attila
name: Hegyeli, Zsolt
name: Marosi, Bela
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: The distribution of the meadow lizard, Darevskia pontica, in Romania is still inadequately documented. In the light of new distribution data reported here and gleaned from the literature, the species is more widely distributed in the country. The distribution seems to be continuous in southern Romania, even if fragmented and associated with extant woodland patches. The present distribution pattern could be the result of extensive deforestation process in the area, which isolated this forest lizard to remnant patches, as already indicated in the literature.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
Sterbende und trauernde Menschen begleiten- Ein Auftrag für die Soziale Arbeit? Der Einbezug von Trauer in Zusammenhang mit Tod und Sterben im Studium der Sozialen Arbeit: Eine inhaltliche Dokomentenanalyse ausgewählter Brandenburger und Berliner Hochschulen
Creators: name: Voss, Juliane
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sterben, Tod und Trauer
Bachelorstudium Soziale Arbeit
Curriculaanalyse

description: Trauernde Menschen anzusprechen kann auch für professionelle Kräfte eine große Hürde darstellen, denn oft fehlt der Mut, sich mit diesem eher unangenehmen Thema zu befassen. Wie wichtig es ist über den Tod, die Trauer und das Sterben zu sprechen und diese nicht zu vermeiden, soll mit dieser Arbeit deutlich gemacht werden. Die übergeordnete Forschungsfrage lautet dabei, inwieweit die Themen Sterben, Tod und Trauer für die Soziale Arbeit relevant sind und wie sich dies im Studium ausgewählter Hochschulen in Brandenburg und Berlin widerspiegelt. Sterben, Tod und Trauer sind und werden immer wichtigere Bestandteile der Aufgabenbereiche Sozialer Arbeit, da eine immer größer werdende Zahl altersschwacher Menschen in unserer Gesellschaft versorgt werden muss (vgl. Krockauer & Jungbauer 2013, S. 10). Doch der Tod ist kein 'Privileg' des Alterns, sondern kann in allen Lebensphasen und damit in allen Arbeitsfeldern der Sozialen Arbeit auftreten (vgl. Student, Mühlum & Student 2007, S. 23). Es stellt sich daher die Frage, wie wichtig die Themen Sterben, Tod und Trauer für die Soziale Arbeit sind und wie sich diese im Studium der Sozialen Arbeit an ausgewählten Fachhochschulen in Brandenburg und Berlin darstellt. Um die Untersuchung der Studieninhalte zu legitimieren, gilt es vorerst den theoretischen Rahmen als Grundstein zu setzen und einen Auftrag der Sozialen Arbeit im Feld von Sterben, Tod und Trauer aufzuzeigen.
Reproductive strategy of male and female eastern spiny lizards Sceloporus spinosus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) from a region of the Chihuahuan Desert, México
Creators: name: Ramirez-Bautista, Aurelio
name: Stephenson, Barry
name: Hernández-Ibarra, Xóchitl
name: Hernández-Salinas, Uriel
name: Cruz-Elizalde, Raciel
name: Lozano, Abraham
name: Smith, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: We examined the reproductive strategy of male (n = 84) and female (n = 62) S. spinosus from a single population in San Luis Potosí, México. The male reproductive cycle peaked in March and April and declined from May to September, and was not correlated with fat body mass, but was positively correlated with liver mass. The female reproductive cycle peaked in April and May and declined from June through November, and was not correlated with fat body mass, but was correlated with liver mass. Mean clutch size based on oviductal eggs was 17.5 ± 1.9 (n = 12), and was not correlated with female snout-vent length. Our results for S. spinosus are generally similar to those of other populations of the S. spinosus species group. However, there are differences in some traits (e.g., timing of the initiation of the female reproductive cycle; clutch size), suggesting that the S. spinosus group could serve as another model group within Sceloporus to explore ecological and evolutionary causes of among population life history variation.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 2 (2012)
Identifying weak values with intrinsic dynamical properties in Modal theories
Creators: name: Pandey, Devashish
name: Sampaio, Rui
name: Ala-Nissila, Tapio
name: Albareda, Guillermo
name: Oriols, Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The so-called eigenvalue-eigenstate link states that no property can be associated to a quantum system unless it is in an eigenstate of the corresponding operator. This precludes the assignation of properties to unmeasured quantum systems in general. This arbitrary limitation of Orthodox quantum mechanics generates many puzzling situations such as for example the impossibility to uniquely define a work distribution, an essential building block of quantum thermodynamics. Alternatively, Modal theories (e.g., Bohmian mechanics) provide an ontology that always allows to define intrinsic properties, i.e., properties of quantum systems that are detached from any possible measuring context. We prove here that Aharonov, Albert and Vaidman's notion of weak value can always be identified with an intrinsic dynamical property of a quantum system defined in a certain Modal theory. Furthermore, the fact that weak values are experimentally accessible (as an ensemble average of weak measurements which are post-selected by a strong measurement) strengthens the idea that understanding the intrinsic (unperturbed) dynamics of quantum systems is possible and useful in a given Modal theory. As examples of the physical soundness of these intrinsic properties, we discuss three intrinsic Bohmian properties, viz., the dwell time, the work distribution and the quantum noise at high frequencies.
Introduction to Supersymmetric Theory of Stochastics
Creators: name: Ovchinnikov, Igor V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Many natural and engineered dynamical systems, including all living objects, exhibit signatures of what can be called spontaneous dynamical long-range order (DLRO). This order's omnipresence has long been recognized by the scientific community, as evidenced by a myriad of related concepts, theoretical and phenomenological frameworks, and experimental phenomena such as turbulence, $1/f$ noise, dynamical complexity, chaos and the butterfly effect, the Richter scale for earthquakes and the scale-free statistics of other sudden processes, self-organization and pattern formation, self-organized criticality, etc. Although several successful approaches to various realizations of DLRO have been established, the universal theoretical understanding of this phenomenon remained elusive. The possibility of constructing a unified theory of DLRO has emerged recently within the approximation-free supersymmetric theory of stochastics (STS). There, DLRO is the spontaneous breakdown of the topological or de Rham supersymmetry that all stochastic differential equations (SDEs) possess. This theory may be interesting to researchers with very different backgrounds because the ubiquitous DLRO is a truly interdisciplinary entity. The STS is also an interdisciplinary construction. This theory is based on dynamical systems theory, cohomological field theories, the theory of pseudo-Hermitian operators, and the conventional theory of SDEs. Reviewing the literature on all these mathematical disciplines can be time-consuming. As such, a concise and self-contained introduction to the STS, the goal of this paper, may be useful.
description: 44 pages; 13 figures; revtex 4-1; improved format, typos, refs
Is the exploratory behavior of Liolaemus nitidus modulated by sex?
Creators: name: Troncoso-Palacios, Jaime
name: Labra, Antonieta
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: Chemoreception is an important sensory modality used by lizards to assess their environments and to communicate. However, despite growing information regarding chemoreception in this taxon, its modulation by sex has been little explored, except in researches directly focused on reproductive aspects. In this study, we compared the responses of females and males of the Iguanid lizard Liolaemus nitidus to scents from conspecifics of the same sex, themselves (own), a predator, and a control. The only stimulus that induced different responses between sexes was the scent of conspecifics; males reacted sooner than females to these scents in agreement with their lower tolerance of potential sexual competitors. The similar ecology of the sexes may explain the similarities in their responses to the other scents we tested. However, independent of the scents, we found major behavioral differences between the sexes (e.g. males always tail waved for longer), pointing intrinsic sexual variation in behaviors associated to exploration.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
Navigating the CrossRoads of Development From Childhood to Adolescence: Through the transitional stages of communication that resolutes Self-Identity with the symbiocosm of communitization that challenges the conscience of the child and Adolescent mind
Creators: name: Warrick, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Child Abuse
subject: Child & Adolescent Community Development
subject: Child & Adolescent Development
subject: Child Protective Services
subject: Childrens & Youth psychoanality
subject: Childrens and Adolescents Libertations
subject: Childrens PsycheSocialization
subject: Community Youth Projects
subject: Family Development
subject: Juvenile Criminology
subject: Juvenile Delinquency
subject: Juvenile patterns of communication
subject: Parental psychoanality
subject: Schematic representation with analytical patternization of categorical activity with Juvenile Delinquency
subject: The Identification of Deposing Family Dynamics
subject: The Identification of positive Family Dynamics
subject: The route of Special Education dilemmas for children & youth

description: ABSTRACT: This Manuscript is a compilation of collected research analysis applied to Theory that sequesters on the who, what, where, when, why, and how that is determinate of the outcomes with the factoring of Development perusary with Childhood and Adolescense. This query of Relativity poses for contemplation as to what direction taken will qualify the identification of the Self for children and adolescents with the decisions they make that will circumnavigate the course to the Route objective for establishing a symbiotic pattern of communication that will channel the personification of the Conscience with the youth mind. This is made possible whether the CrossRoads toward achieving Self-Actualization be guided by constructive or destructive forms of methodological assimilation into a community of attachment and security that equates with a psyche-somatic sense of belonging and assimbio-spheric communitization. This is made adherent in order for the systemic processing of Self-Actualization is to be plausibly transversive by methods of a transpositing binary symbiocodum formalization of a socio-linguistic communication; that is circum-navigational and the route course to achieving Self-Egosive relativity intunement with childrens and adolescents assimbiocodum relations to their associate community environments. From which many other children and adolescents have successfully transcended through; having pinnacled the Pre:Pubescent stages of Absolutionary Development in Childhood and Adolescence.