cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Priodontes maximus
Creators: name: Oliveira, Marcela Alvares
name: Calouro, Armando Muniz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Cingulata
Dasypodidae
Priodontes
Priodontes maximus

description: Priodontes maximus (Kerr, 1792), Giant Armadillo Records. Recorded by opportunistic sightings (09° 07.632′S, 068°06.230′W) and hunting interviews. Identification. Its carapace is highly flexible, with 11–13 moveable bands. Hair is sparse. The body is dark brown, except for the head and tail and for a light-colored stripe around the edges of the body. The tail is long, narrow, and covered with small pentagonal scales (Carter et al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Oliveira, Marcela Alvares & Calouro, Armando Muniz, 2020, Medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil, pp. 127-136 in Check List 16 (1) on page 131, DOI: 10.15560/16.1.127
description: {"references": ["Carter TS, Superina M, Leslie DMJ (2016) Priodontes maximus (Cingulata: Chlamyphoridae). Mammalian Species 48 (932): 21 - 34. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / mspecies / sew 002"]}
Inclusive Constraints on Unified Dark Matter Models from Future Large-Scale Surveys
Creators: name: Camera, Stefano
name: Carbone, Carmelita
name: Moscardini, Lauro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the very last years, cosmological models where the properties of the dark components of the Universe - dark matter and dark energy - are accounted for by a single "dark fluid" have drawn increasing attention and interest. Amongst many proposals, Unified Dark Matter (UDM) cosmologies are promising candidates as effective theories. In these models, a scalar field with a non-canonical kinetic term in its Lagrangian mimics both the accelerated expansion of the Universe at late times and the clustering properties of the large-scale structure of the cosmos. However, UDM models also present peculiar behaviours, the most interesting one being the fact that the perturbations in the dark-matter component of the scalar field do have a non-negligible speed of sound. This gives rise to an effective Jeans scale for the Newtonian potential, below which the dark fluid does not cluster any more. This implies a growth of structures fairly different from that of the concordance LCDM model. In this paper, we demonstrate that forthcoming large-scale surveys will be able to discriminate between viable UDM models and LCDM to a good degree of accuracy. To this purpose, the planned Euclid satellite will be a powerful tool, since it will provide very accurate data on galaxy clustering and the weak lensing effect of cosmic shear. Finally, we also exploit the constraining power of the ongoing CMB Planck experiment. Although our approach is the most conservative, with the inclusion of only well-understood, linear dynamics, in the end we also show what could be done if some amount of non-linear information were included.
description: 22 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
Mazama americana
Creators: name: Oliveira, Marcela Alvares
name: Calouro, Armando Muniz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Cervidae
Mazama
Mazama americana

description:  Mazama americana (Erxleben, 1777) . Red Brocket Figure 2C Records. Recorded by line transect (09°15.898′S, 068° 58.372′W), opportunistic sightings camera trapping, hunter interviews, and hunting calendar. Identification. The body is predominantly reddish-brown but varies from light to very dark. The neck is brown which contrasts with the color of the trunk. The flanks are similarly paler colored. There are white blotches at the base of the ears (Rossi 2000).
description: Published as part of Oliveira, Marcela Alvares & Calouro, Armando Muniz, 2020, Medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil, pp. 127-136 in Check List 16 (1) on page 131, DOI: 10.15560/16.1.127
description: {"references": ["Rossi RV (2000) Taxonomia de Mazama Rafinesque, 1817 do Bra- sil (Artiodactyla, Cervidae). Master thesis, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, 174 pp."]}
Democracy and planning for the long-term : the case for better representing the current generation
Creators: name: Iselin, Rama Kiosh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Climate change and other long-term problems have proven to be particularly difficult for democracies to address. Why is that? One explanation favoured by some political theorists, is that future citizens do not have a voice in the democratic process. Several innovative institutional mechanisms have been proposed to address this issue of representation. There is, however, a risk in making this argument. It provides justification for an elite few to use the rights of future citizens to trump the rights of current citizens. This essay argues that this is neither desirable nor necessary. Through an analysis of the polling and rhetoric surrounding climate change in the United States, this essay argues that rather than a lack of representation of future citizens, it is the underrepresentation of the future interests of current citizens that is leading to a lack of long-term planning. Interestingly, this insight leads me to support many of the same institutional mechanisms these theorists propose, but for an entirely different reason: they help us get closer to what current citizens want. The power of this argument is not only that it is more accurate, but also that it replaces an imaginary interest group with a real one.
A Phase Space Diagram for Gravity
Creators: name: Hernandez, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In modified theories of gravity including a critical acceleration scale, $a_{0}$, a critical length scale, $r_{M}=(GM/a_{0})^{1/2}$, will naturally arise, with the transition from the Newtonian to the dark matter mimicking regime occurring for systems larger than $r_{M}$. This adds a second critical scale to gravity, in addition to the one introduced by the criterion $v < c$ of the Shwarzschild radius, $r_{S}=2GM/c^{2}$. The distinct dependencies of the two above length scales give rise to non-trivial phenomenology in the (mass, length) plane for astrophysical structures, which we explore here. Surprisingly, extrapolation to atomic scales suggests gravity should be at the dark matter mimicking regime there.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure, Final version accepted for publication in Entropy
Ancistrocerus capra subsp. spenceri Bequaert 1944
Creators: name: Fateryga, Alexander V.
name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Fateryga, Valentina V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ancistrocerus
Ancistrocerus capra
Ancistrocerus capra spenceri bequaert, 1944

description: Ancistrocerus capra spenceri Bequaert, 1944
 Ancistrocerus antilope var. (or subsp.) spenceri Bequaert, 1944: 277 (♀; type locality: “ British Columbia: Kamloops ” [Canada]; holotype, ♀ [Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts]).
DISTRIBUTION: Canada (British Columbia).
description: Published as part of Fateryga, Alexander V., Carpenter, James M. & Fateryga, Valentina V., 2023, Ancistrocerus capra (de Saussure, 1857), a Valid Species, Not a Synonym of A. antilope (Panzer, 1798) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), pp. 1-16 in American Museum Novitates 2023 (4002) on page 7, DOI: 10.1206/4002.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10134000
Precious Metals in SDSS Quasar Spectra I: Tracking the Evolution of Strong, 1.5 < z < 4.5 CIV Absorbers with Thousands of Systems
Creators: name: Cooksey, Kathy L.
name: Kao, Melodie M.
name: Simcoe, Robert A.
name: O'Meara, John M.
name: Prochaska, J. Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have vastly increased the CIV statistics at intermediate redshift by surveying the thousands of quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data-Release 7. We visually verified over 16,000 CIV systems with 1.46 < z < 4.55---a sample size that renders Poisson error negligible. Detailed Monte Carlo simulations show we are approximately 50% complete down to rest equivalent widths W_r ~ 0.6 Å. We analyzed the sample as a whole and in ten small redshift bins with approximately 1500 doublets each. The equivalent width frequency distributions f(W_r) were well modeled by an exponential, with little evolution in shape. In contrast with previous studies that modeled the frequency distribution as a single power law, the fitted exponential gives a finite mass density for the CIV ions. The co-moving line density dN_CIV/dX evolved smoothly with redshift, increasing by a factor of 2.37+/-0.09 from z = 4.55 to 1.96, then plateauing at dN_CIV/dX ~ 0.34 for z = 1.96 to 1.46. Comparing our SDSS sample with z < 1 (ultraviolet) and z > 5 (infrared) surveys, we see an approximately 10-fold increase in dN_CIV/dX over z ~ 6 --> 0, for W_r >= 0.6 Å. This suggests a monotonic and significant increase in the enrichment of gas outside galaxies over the 12 Gyr lifetime of the universe.
description: 17 pages (emulateapj), 13 figures, 4 tables; accepted to ApJ and in press; also see http://igmabsorbers.info
Relativistic quantum chemistry on quantum computers
Creators: name: Veis, Libor
name: Višňák, Jakub
name: Fleig, Timo
name: Knecht, Stefan
name: Saue, Trond
name: Visscher, Lucas
name: Pittner, Jiří
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Last years witnessed a remarkable interest in application of quantum computing for solving problems in quantum chemistry more efficiently than classical computers allow. Very recently, even first proof-of-principle experimental realizations have been reported. However, so far only the non-relativistic regime (i.e. Schroedinger equation) has been explored, while it is well known that relativistic effects can be very important in chemistry. In this letter we present the first quantum algorithm for relativistic computations of molecular energies. We show how to efficiently solve the eigenproblem of the Dirac-Coulomb Hamiltonian on a quantum computer and demonstrate the functionality of the proposed procedure by numerical simulations of computations of the spin-orbit splitting in the SbH molecule. Finally, we propose quantum circuits with 3 qubits and 9 or 10 CNOTs, which implement a proof-of-principle relativistic quantum chemical calculation for this molecule and might be suitable for an experimental realization.
Heterotic-Type II duality in the hypermultiplet sector
Creators: name: Louis, Jan
name: Valandro, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the duality between heterotic string theory compactified on K3 x T^2 and type IIA compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold X in the hypermultiplet sector. We derive an explicit map between the field variables of the respective moduli spaces at the level of the classical effective actions. We determine the parametrization of the K3 moduli space consistent with the Ferrara-Sabharwal form. From the expression of the holomorphic prepotential we are led to conjecture that both X and its mirror must be K3 fibrations in order for the type IIA theory to have an heterotic dual. We then focus on the region of the moduli space where the metric is expressed in terms of a prepotential on both sides of the duality. Applying the duality we derive the heterotic hypermultiplet metric for a gauge bundle which is reduced to 24 point-like instantons. This result is confirmed by using the duality between the heterotic theory on T^3 and M-theory on K3. We finally study the hyper-Kaehler metric on the moduli space of an SU(2) bundle on K3.
description: 27 pages; references added, typos corrected
title: Demographic analysis for two species of commercial skates from the northern Tyrrhenian and Ligurian seas
Creators: name: Barone, Monica
name: Mancusi, Cecilia
name: Serena, Fabrizio
name: Abella, Alvaro
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session E
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The starry ray (Raja asterias) and the thornback ray (Raja clavata) are frequently caught as bycatch of the commercial fisheries in the northern Tyrrhenian and Ligurian Seas, representing the better known elasmobranch species in the area. In absence of data on catch, effort, and age composition in the catch, growth parameters and maturity information combined with mortality and fecundity estimates were used to construct a life-history table for the two species. The demographic traits for the unfished population and for hypothetical combinations of fishing mortality levels and size of first capture were assessed. For the unexploited population of R. asterias and R. clavata the estimated values of the intrinsic rate of population increase were both positive and respectively r = 0.378 and r = 0.364. At the current fishing mortality and size of first capture the r for R. asterias was 0.228, becoming negative at fishing rate higher than 0.4; for R. clavata r was 0.319 but became negative at F higher than 0.3. The soundness of demographic parameters and the sensitivity of the model to the input values estimated for the two species, characterized by different life-history traits, are discussed.
A New Window on Primordial non-Gaussianity
Creators: name: Pajer, Enrico
name: Zaldarriaga, Matias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We know very little about primordial curvature perturbations on scales smaller than about a Mpc. Measurements of the mu-type distortion of the CMB spectrum provide the unique opportunity to probe these scales over the unexplored range from 50 to 10^4 Mpc^-1. This is a very clean probe, in that it relies only on well-understood linear evolution. We point out that correlations between mu-distortion and temperature anisotropies can be used to test Gaussianity at these very small scales. In particular the mu-T cross correlation is proportional to the very squeezed limit of the primordial bispectrum and hence measures fNL^loc, while mu-mu is proportional to the primordial trispectrum and measures tauNL. We present a Fisher matrix forecast of the observational constraints.
description: 5 pages, one figure. v2: added clarifying comments and references, fixed typos
Tayassu pecari
Creators: name: Oliveira, Marcela Alvares
name: Calouro, Armando Muniz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Artiodactyla
Tayassuidae
Tayassu
Tayassu pecari

description: Tayassu pecari (Link, 1795), White-lipped Peccary Record. Recorded by hunting interviews (09°08.306′S, 068°55.899′W). Identification. The fur of the adults varies from dark brown to black, with lighter bands along the jaw line (Mayers and Wetzel 1987).
description: Published as part of Oliveira, Marcela Alvares & Calouro, Armando Muniz, 2020, Medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil, pp. 127-136 in Check List 16 (1) on page 131, DOI: 10.15560/16.1.127
description: {"references": ["Mayers JJ, Wetzel RM (1987) Tayassu pecari. Mammalian Species 293 (12): 1 - 7. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3503865"]}
A novel approach to the dynamics of Szekeres dust models
Creators: name: Sussman, Roberto A.
name: Bolejko, Krzysztof
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain an elegant and useful description of the dynamics of Szekeres dust models (in their full generality) by means of `quasi-local' scalar variables constructed by suitable integral distributions that can be interpreted as weighed proper volume averages of the local covariant scalars. In terms of these variables, the field equations and basic physical and geometric quantities are formally identical to their corresponding expressions in the spherically symmetric LTB dust models. Since we can map every Szekeres model to a unique LTB model, rigorous results valid for the latter models can be readily generalized to a non-spherical Szekeres geometry. The new variables lead naturally to an initial value formulation in which all scalars are expressed as scaling laws in terms of their values at an arbitrary initial space slice. These variables also yield a significant simplification of numerical work, since the fluid flow evolution equations become a system of autonomous ordinary differential equations subjected to algebraic constraints containing the information on the deviations from spherical symmetry. As an example of how this formalism can be applied, we show that spherical symmetry is stable against small dipole-like perturbations. This new approach to the dynamics of the Szekeres solutions has an enormous potential for dealing with a wide variety of theoretical issues and for constructing non-spherical models of cosmological inhomogeneities to fit observational data.
description: 26 pages, 2 figures
Mitochondrial disease patient motivations and barriers to participate in clinical trials
Creators: name: Zolkipli-Cunningham, Zarazuela
name: Xiao, Rui
name: Stoddart, Amy
name: McCormick, Elizabeth M.
name: Holberts, Amy
name: Burrill, Natalie
name: McCormack, Shana
name: Williams, Lauren
name: Wang, Xiaoyan
name: Thompson, John L.
name: Falk, Marni J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Mitochondrial pathology
Biometry
Clinical trials
Patients--Attitudes

description: Background
Clinical treatment trials are increasingly being designed in primary mitochondrial disease (PMD), a phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous collection of inherited multi- system energy deficiency disorders that lack effective therapy. We sought to identify motivating factors and barriers to clinical trial participation in PMD.

Methods
A survey study was conducted in two independent mitochondrial disease subject cohorts. A discovery cohort invited subjects with well-defined biochemical or molecularly- confirmed PMD followed at a single medical center (CHOP, n = 30/67 (45%) respondents). A replication cohort included self-identified PMD subjects in the Rare Disease Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) national contact registry (n = 290/1119 (26%) respondents). Five-point Likert scale responses were analyzed using descriptive and quantitative statistics. Experienced and prioritized symptoms for trial participation, and patient attitudes toward detailed aspects of clinical trial drug features and study design.

Results
PMD subjects experienced an average of 16 symptoms. Muscle weakness, chronic fatigue, and exercise intolerance were the lead symptoms encouraging trial participation.

Motivating trial design factors included a self-administered study drug; vitamin, antioxidant, natural or plant-derivative; pills; daily treatment; guaranteed treatment access during and after study; short travel distances; and late-stage (phase 3) participation. Relative trial participation barriers included a new study drug; discontinuation of current medications; disease progression; daily phlebotomy; and requiring participant payment. Treatment trial type or design preferences were not influenced by population age (pediatric versus adult), prior research trial experience, or disease severity.

Conclusions
These data are the first to convey clear PMD subject preferences and priorities to enable improved clinical treatment trial design that cuts across the complex diversity of disease. Partnering with rare disease patient communities is essential to effectively design robust clinical trials that engage patients and enable meaningful evaluation of emerging treatment interventions.
Quantum plasmonics: second-order coherence of surface plasmons launched by quantum emitters into a metallic film
Creators: name: Mollet, O.
name: Huant, S.
name: Dantelle, G.
name: Gacoin, T.
name: Drezet, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the issue of the second-order coherence of single surface plasmons launched by a quantum source of light into extended gold films. The quantum source of light is made of a scanning fluorescent nanodiamond hosting five nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers. By using a specially designed microscopy that combines near-field optics with far-field leakage-radiation microscopy in the Fourier space and adapted spatial filtering, we find that the quantum statistics of the initial source of light is preserved after conversion to surface plasmons and propagation along the polycrystalline gold film.
description: Second version with minor changes made to comply with Referees' comments. Editorially approved for publication in Phys. Rev. B on 22 June 2012
title: Elasmoit project: Elements for the assessment and protection of Elasmobranchs in the Italian Seas
Creators: name: Barone, Monica
name: Mancusi, Cecilia
name: Relini, Giulio
name: Serena, Fabrizio
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session E
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Elasmoit was an Italian project with the primary goal of collecting information on the status of exploitation and conservation of elasmobranch fish in the Italian seas. This project was promoted by the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea (MiATTM) and coordinated by the Italian Society for the Marine Biology (SIBM) with the participation of the Italian group for the research on sharks, skates, and chimaeras (GRIS). The project started in February 2009 and ended in January 2010. The project especially focused on the pelagic species, as in the Italian seas there were fewer data on captures of these vulnerable species available with respect to demersal species. The main activities of the project were: the collection of data available, from bibliography and research surveys, needed also for a critic revision and implementation of the National Action Plan. A second essential activity was the periodic monitoring of landings at the main harbours of the selected regions (Liguria, Sardinia, Sicily, and Apulia) and on board vessels operating with longlines. At the end of the project, a database of references and biological data was produced, followed by maps of distribution and abundance for the principal species. The original outputs of the project are presented here with special emphasis on the guidelines for the implementation and compilation of the future Italian Plan of Action.
Speothos venaticus
Creators: name: Oliveira, Marcela Alvares
name: Calouro, Armando Muniz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Canidae
Speothos
Speothos venaticus

description: Speothos venaticus (Lund, 1842), Bush Dog Record. Recorded by hunter interviews (09°08.045′S, 068°57.037′W). Identification. The body is narrow and the ears are small and rounded. The tail, snout, and limbs are short. Its fur is thick and reddish brown, nearly uniform in colour in the dorsum and ventral portions, except for the head fur, which is reddish tan (Beisiegel and Zuercher 2005).
description: Published as part of Oliveira, Marcela Alvares & Calouro, Armando Muniz, 2020, Medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil, pp. 127-136 in Check List 16 (1) on page 131, DOI: 10.15560/16.1.127
description: {"references": ["Beisiegel BM, Zuercher GL (2005) Speothos venaticus. Mammalian Species 783 (20): 1 - 6. https: // doi. org / 10.1644 / 783.1"]}
Ancistrocerus capra
Creators: name: Fateryga, Alexander V.
name: Carpenter, James M.
name: Fateryga, Valentina V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Vespidae
Ancistrocerus
Ancistrocerus capra

description: Ancistrocerus capra (de Saussure, 1857)
 CANADA: Ontario: 13: Nipigon, VIII-12-1948 (W. and J. Gertsch) [AMNH].
 UNITED STATES: Colorado: 13: Larimer Co.: Hewlett Canyon, 6000–6500 ft, VII-7-1979 (J. Carpenter) [FSCV]. Michigan: 13: Marquette Co.: Diorite, VIII-5-1962 (J. and B. Rozen) [AMNH]. Minnesota: 1♀: Marshall Co.: Old Mill S.P., VIII-18-1972 (R. Wagner) [FSCV]. Nevada: 13: Humboldt Co.: 18 mi N Paradise Valley, Lye Creek Camp, 7500 ft, VII-7-1966 (F., P., and M. Rindge) [AMNH]. New Mexico: 13: Santa Fe Co.: 8 mi NE Santa Fe, Hyde State Park, 8700 ft, VII-30-1964 (F., P., and M. Rindge) [AMNH]. 13: Socorro Co.: 28 mi SW Magdalena, Bear Trap Camp, 8500 ft, VII-10-1965 (F., P., and M. Rindge) [AMNH]. New York: 1♀: Fishers, IX-10-1933 [FSCV]. 1♀, 13: Ulster Co.: Oliverea, 460–725 m, VIII-13-1995 (P. Gambino) [AMNH]. North Dakota: 13: Fargo, on Solidago canadensis, IX-3-1917 (O. Stevens) [AMNH]. Utah: 13: San Juan Co.: 7 mi W Monticello, Buckbroad Flat Camp, 8800 ft, VII-26- 1960 (F., P., and M. Rindge) [AMNH]. Wisconsin: 13: Clark Co.: Worden Township, VII-28- 1919 [AMNH]. Wyoming: 1♀, 13: Fremont Co.: 28 mi SW Lander, Louis Lake, 8600 ft, VIII-2-1962 (F., P., and M. Rindge) [AMNH].
description: Published as part of Fateryga, Alexander V., Carpenter, James M. & Fateryga, Valentina V., 2023, Ancistrocerus capra (de Saussure, 1857), a Valid Species, Not a Synonym of A. antilope (Panzer, 1798) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Eumeninae), pp. 1-16 in American Museum Novitates 2023 (4002) on page 13, DOI: 10.1206/4002.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10134000
title: The use of the French long line CPUE to provide an abundance index for porbeagle in the North East Atlantic
Creators: name: Biais, Gérard
name: Vollette, Julie
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session E
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.A porbeagle catch per unit of effort (cpue) series of the French longline fishery was presented at the 2009 ICES Working Group on Elasmobranch Fishes (WGEF). This fishery has targeted porbeagle in the Northeast Atlantic up to 2009, mainly along the continental edge of the Bay of Biscay shelf and of the south of Ireland shelf. This cpue series was used to carry out exploratory assessments at the 2009 WGEF. Days at sea was adopted for fishing effort unit in order to get a series as long as possible and consequently the cpue is expressed in catch per day at sea. The aggregative behaviour of the porbeagle and the fishing practices in response to this behaviour, however, raise the question of the ability of this cpue index to track changes in stock abundance accurately. This question has been investigated in recent years, from 2000 onwards, by analysing the logbooks of several vessels.
Hardware error detection in multicore parallel programs
Creators: name: Wei, Jiesheng
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The scaling of Silicon devices has exacerbated the unreliability of modern computer systems, and power constraints have necessitated the involvement of software in hardware error detection. Simultaneously, the multi-core revolution has impelled software to become parallel. Therefore, there is a compelling need to protect parallel programs from hardware errors. Parallel programs’ tasks have significant similarity in control data due to the use of high-level programming models. In this thesis, we propose BlockWatch to leverage the similarity in parallel program’s control data for detecting hardware errors. BlockWatch statically extracts the similarity among different threads of a parallel program and checks the similarity at runtime. We evaluate BlockWatch on eight SPLASH-2 benchmarks to measure its performance overhead and error detection coverage. We find that BlockWatch incurs an average overhead of 15% across all programs, and provides an average SDC coverage of 97% for faults in the control data.
Herpailurus yagouaroundi
Creators: name: Oliveira, Marcela Alvares
name: Calouro, Armando Muniz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Felidae
Herpailurus
Herpailurus yagouaroundi

description: Herpailurus yagouaroundi (É. Geoffory Saint-Hilare, 1803), Jaguarundi Record. Recorded by hunter interviews (09°12.947′S, 068°56.955′W). Identification. The coloration is distinct, without patches. The head is small, narrow, and flattened, with small, rounded ears. The body is slight and elongated, with a long tail and relatively short legs (Oliveira 1998).
description: Published as part of Oliveira, Marcela Alvares & Calouro, Armando Muniz, 2020, Medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil, pp. 127-136 in Check List 16 (1) on page 132, DOI: 10.15560/16.1.127
description: {"references": ["Oliveira TG (1998) Herpailurus yagouaroundi. Mammalian Species 578 (1): 1 - 6. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3504500"]}
A search for magnetic fields in cool sdB stars
Creators: name: Mathys, G.
name: Hubrig, S.
name: Mason, E.
name: Michaud, G.
name: Schoeller, M.
name: Wesemael, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hot cluster Horizontal Branch (HB) stars and field subdwarf B (sdB) stars are core helium burning stars that exhibit abundance anomalies that are believed to be due to atomic diffusion. Diffusion can be effective in these stars because they are slowly rotating. In particular, the slow rotation of the hot HB stars (T_eff > 11000K), which show abundance anomalies, contrasts with the fast rotation of the cool HB stars, where the observed abundances are consistent with those of red giants belonging to the same cluster. The reason why sdB stars and hot HB stars are rotating slowly is unknown. In order to assess the possible role of magnetic fields on abundances and rotation, we investigated the occurrence of such fields in sdB stars with T_eff < 30000K, whose temperatures overlap with those of the hot HB stars. We conclude that large-scale organised magnetic fields of kG order are not generally present in these stars but at the achieved accuracy, the possibility that they have fields of a few hundred Gauss remains open. We report the marginal detection of such a field in SB 290; further observations are needed to confirm it.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, to appear in Astronomische Nachrichten, Proceedings of the 7th Potsdam Thinkshop on "Magnetic Fields in Stars and Exoplanets"
Pteronura brasiliensis
Creators: name: Oliveira, Marcela Alvares
name: Calouro, Armando Muniz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Carnivora
Mustelidae
Pteronura
Pteronura brasiliensis

description: Pteronura brasiliensis (Gmelin, 1788), Giant Otter Record. Recorded by hunting interviews (09°08.046′S, 068°57.276′W). Identification. The fur is short and dark brown, with light patches on the chest and throat. Each individual has the patches in a unique pattern, which allows individuals to be recognized. The feet have interdigital webs. The tail is long and dorsoventrally flattened (Noonan et al. 2017).
description: Published as part of Oliveira, Marcela Alvares & Calouro, Armando Muniz, 2020, Medium-sized and large mammals of the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractivist Reserve, Acre, Brazil, pp. 127-136 in Check List 16 (1) on page 133, DOI: 10.15560/16.1.127
description: {"references": ["Noonan P, Prout S, Hayssen V (2017) Pteronura brasiliensis (Carnivora: Mustelidae). Mammalian Species 49 (953): 97 - 108."]}
Learning with a network of competing synapses
Creators: name: Bhat, Ajaz Ahmad
name: Mahajan, Gaurang
name: Mehta, Anita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Competition between synapses arises in some forms of correlation-based plasticity. Here we propose a game theory-inspired model of synaptic interactions whose dynamics is driven by competition between synapses in their weak and strong states, which are characterized by different timescales. The learning of inputs and memory are meaningfully definable in an effective description of networked synaptic populations. We study, numerically and analytically, the dynamic responses of the effective system to various signal types, particularly with reference to an existing empirical motor adaptation model. The dependence of the system-level behavior on the synaptic parameters, and the signal strength, is brought out in a clear manner, thus illuminating issues such as those of optimal performance, and the functional role of multiple timescales.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures; published in PLoS ONE
Othering France : depictions of French politics in Punch, 1848-1851
Creators: name: Zhou, Carson Yichen
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This thesis examines caricatures of French politics in the British cartoon periodical Punch between the years 1848 and 1851. I argue that although the French “Other” was seen by Britons in the eighteenth century as a military danger, by the 1848 revolution it had been transformed into a dystopian analogue of Great Britain’s own constitutional achievements. Punch contributes to the British nation-building project by juxtaposing the supposed failures of the French liberal movement, with the supposed successes of British government. Its cartoons depict French constitutionalism in the era as violent and radical, constantly threatened by the forces of revolutionary turmoil on the one hand, and Bonapartist autocracy on the other. Moreover, Punch depicts these problems as self-inflicted; when given the choice between disorder and dictatorship, Frenchmen chose the latter.
title: Multiple lines of evidence to identify bioaccumulation mechanisms for mercury (Hg) in estuarine food webs with an emphasis on a recreationally targeted fish species
Creators: name: Jones, H.
name: Macleod, C.
name: Swadling, K.
name: Tracey, S.
name: Butler, E.
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session F
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Heavy metal contamination is a feature of many urbanized estuaries and the Derwent Estuary (Tasmania, Australia) is no exception. Past industrial practices have resulted in elevated metal levels in water, sediments, and biota. Despite significant reductions in loads and improved estuarine conditions there are still risks associated with contaminated sediments and seafood. Muscle tissues in several recreationally targeted fish have mercury concentrations above regulatory guidelines. Flathead (Platycephalus bassensis—a common recreationally fished species) has been used for many years as a local indicator of environmental health. Sediment mercury loads in the mid and lower estuary are comparatively low, but our study has demonstrated that 83% of sized (>300 mm) flathead from the mid-estuary had mercury levels well above the recommended seafood safety limit of 0.5 mg kg–1 (mean 0.68 mg kg–1). There were clear spatial differences in contamination with only 33% of fish from the lower eastern estuary (<3 km away) exceeding the safety limit. Previous studies have suggested that flathead are highly resident in nature and relatively stable in the food chain, with recent distribution surveys also suggesting a high degree of residency in this species. The multiple lines of evidence approach used in our study also support this assumption, with data suggesting strong spatial differences in mercury loadings as well as regionally differentiated feeding patterns and mercury concentrations in prey. We present these data along with 15N isotope ratios for key components of the food chain and relate this to distribution patterns for flathead and other key species.
Kalenderblätter I/2018 bis XII/2018
Creators: name: Arbeitsgruppe Geschichte Der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock Rostock
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 500 Natural sciences

description: Nikodem Caro und seine Kontakte zur Universität Rostock / Über Naturwissenschaftler und Mathematiker als Rostocker Rektoren und ihre Amtseinführung / Mathematik, quo vadis? / Eike Libbert zum Gedenken / Über die Zusammenarbeit von Rostocker und kubanischen Chemikern / Fast vergessen: Ehrendoktor Arnold Sommerfeld / Wolfgang Engel - ein Leben für die Mathematik / Goldenes Doktorjubiläum 2018 / 40 Jahre Landespilzausstellungen im Botanischen Garten der Universität Rostock / Karl Werner Posnansky: Zur Erinnerung an einen Chemiker zwischen den Welten / Das Mathematisch-Physikalische Seminar / Ulrich Vietinghoff - ein Rostocker Pionier der Ökosystemmodellierung / Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner - Ehrendoktor der Universität Rostock
Magnetic levitation of metamaterial bodies enhanced with magnetostatic surface resonances
Creators: name: Urzhumov, Yaroslav
name: Chen, Wenchen
name: Bingham, Chris
name: Padilla, Willie
name: Smith, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose that macroscopic objects built from negative-permeability metamaterials may experience resonantly enhanced magnetic force in low-frequency magnetic fields. Resonant enhancement of the time-averaged force originates from magnetostatic surface resonances (MSR) which are analogous to the electrostatic resonances of negative-permittivity particles, well known as surface plasmon resonances in optics. We generalize the classical problem of MSR of a homogeneous object to include anisotropic metamaterials, and consider the most extreme case of anisotropy where the permeability is negative in one direction but positive in the others. It is shown that deeply subwavelength objects made of such indefinite (hyperbolic) media exhibit a pronounced magnetic dipole resonance that couples strongly to uniform or weakly inhomogeneous magnetic field and provides strong enhancement of the magnetic force, enabling applications such as enhanced magnetic levitation.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
title: Relationship between biological, pathological and toxicological parameters and the cause of death in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded on the coast of Belgium and northern France
Creators: name: Jauniaux., T.
name: Das, K.
name: Haelters, J.
name: Jacques, T.
name: Kiszka, J.
name: Pezeril, S.
name: Stekké, V.
name: Weijs, L.
name: Coignoul, F.
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session F
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The Marine Animals Research and Intervention Network (MARIN) investigated the cause of death of marine mammals stranded on the coastline of the southern North Sea (Belgium and northern France) or as bycatch delivered by fishers. The aim of the study was to compare biological, pathological, and toxicological parameters involved in the cause of death (traumatic or infectious) of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) collected between 1990 and 2008. In total, 520 porpoises were necropsied and sampled. Two causes of death appeared to prevail: first, infectious diseases: 191 animals had severe parasitosis and pneumonia, and second, bycatch in fishing nets: 120 had died of trauma, mostly as a result of bycatch in fishing gear. Most strandings and bycatches occurred in winter and there were more males than females. The majority of stranded animals taken as bycatch were juveniles. Compared with porpoises taken as bycatch, animals that had died of an infectious process had a thinner blubber layer (emaciation) and the histological investigation demonstrated a marked lymphoid depletion (spleen, thymus, and lymph nodes). Nevertheless, many porpoises taken as bycatch that could serve as a ”control“ population also presented evidence of emaciation and infectious diseases, thus confirming the need to carry out a complete necropsy to evaluate their health status. The total PCBs was determined in the blubber of selected individuals: it was higher in males than females and higher in adults than juveniles. Finally, the animals that had died of infectious disease were more contaminated than porpoises taken as bycatch. Our observations are very similar to results previously reported from neighbouring countries.
Wind Energy and Grid Integration in Sri Lanka: Lessons Learned from the April 2018 AHK trip
Creators: name: Clifton, Andrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: renewable energy

description: This document describes on a strategic level how wind energy could contribute to Sri Lanka's renewable energy goals, and the potential implications for the Sri Lanka electrical grid. This document is based on information gathered by the author during a trip to Sri Lanka with the German Chambers of Commerce (Deutsche Auslandshandelskammern, AHK) in April 2018 and later research.

This document is intended for readers in development and business agencies who are interested in the grid integration of renewable energy sources. Readers should note that due to the multi-disciplinary and international nature of this work that there are sections that are simplified, and that expert assistance would be appropriate. Detailed references are not provided.
Comparing HARPS and Kepler surveys: The alignment of multiple-planet systems
Creators: name: Figueira, P.
name: Marmier, M.
name: Boué, G.
name: Lovis, C.
name: Santos, N. C.
name: Montalto, M.
name: Udry, S.
name: Pepe, F.
name: Mayor, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims. We study a subset of the planetary population characterized both by HARPS and Kepler surveys. We compare the statistical properties of planets in systems with m.sin i >5-10 M_Earth and R>2 R_Earth. If we assume that the underlying population has the same characteristics, the different detection sensitivity to the orbital inclination relative to the line of sight allows us to probe the planets' mutual inclination. Methods. We considered the frequency of systems with one, two and three planets as dictated by HARPS data. We used Kepler's planetary period and host mass and radii distributions (corrected from detection bias) to model planetary systems in a simple yet physically plausible way. We then varied the mutual inclination between planets in a system according to different prescriptions (completely aligned, Rayleigh distributions and isotropic) and compared the transit frequencies with one, two or three planets with those measured by Kepler. Results. The results show that the two datasets are compatible, a remarkable result especially because there are no tunable knobs other than the assumed inclination distribution. For m.sin i cutoffs of 7-10 M_Earth, which are those expected to correspond to the radius cutoff of 2 R_Earth, we conclude that the results are better described by a Rayleigh distribution with mode of 1 deg or smaller. We show that the best-fit scenario only becomes a Rayleigh distribution with mode of 5 deg if we assume a rather extreme mass-radius relationship for the planetary population. Conclusions. These results have important consequences for our understanding of the role of several proposed formation and evolution mechanisms. They confirm that planets are likely to have been formed in a disk and show that most planetary systems evolve quietly without strong angular momentum exchanges (abridged).
description: 10 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
title: Long time-series data showing recent recovery of gastropod populations from the effects of tributyl tin at the Shetland Oil Terminal
Creators: name: Gubbins, Matt
name: Moore, Jon
name: Fryer, Rob
name: Davies, Ian
Publisher: name: ASC 2010 - Theme session F
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Surveys of gastropod (dogwhelk, Nucella lapillus) populations at the Shetland Oil Terminal in Sullom Voe for the effects of tributyl tin (TBT) from shipping have been commissioned by the terminal’s Environmental Advisory Group (SOTEAG) and now represent one of the longest time-series of biological effects data available (1987–2009). These data from 20 shoreline sites around the oil terminal in the Voe and less affected waters of Yell Sound, show a substantial recovery of TBT-induced imposex as measured by vas deferens sequence index (VDSI), relative penis size index (RPSI), and female sterility associated with decreasing shipping traffic, reduced usage of free-association antifoulants and now the complete ban imposed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on TBT usage on large vessels in 2008. Data are presented that show in 2009, for the first time and following the IMO ban, no incidence of imposex-induced female sterility at any of the surveyed sites. At some of the most affected sites, some metrics of imposex are now at or close to zero (sterility, RPSI) and the rate of recovery of VDSI is greater than previously recorded. Data are assessed using OSPAR statistical methodologies and assessment criteria and presented alongside data showing associated changes in dogwhelk population structure in the area.
Strongly First Order Phase Transitions Near an Enhanced Discrete Symmetry Point
Creators: name: Barger, Vernon
name: Chung, Daniel J. H.
name: Long, Andrew J.
name: Wang, Lian-Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a group theoretic condition which may be applied to extensions of the Standard Model in order to locate regions of parameter space in which the electroweak phase transition is strongly first order, such that electroweak baryogenesis may be a viable mechanism for generating the baryon asymmetry of the universe. Specifically, we demonstrate that the viable corners of parameter space may be identified by their proximity to an enhanced discrete symmetry point. At this point, the global symmetry group of the theory is extended by a discrete group under which the scalar sector is non-trivially charged, and the discrete symmetry is spontaneously broken such that the discrete symmetry relates degenerate electroweak preserving and breaking vacua. This idea is used to investigate several specific models of the electroweak symmetry breaking sector. The phase transitions identified through this method suggest implications for other relics such as dark matter and gravitational waves.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures