cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Growth and Properties of Dislocated Two-dimensional Layered Materials
Creators: name: Chen, Rui
name: Cao, Jinhua
name: Gee, Stephen
name: Liu, Yin
name: Yao, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials hosting dislocations have attracted considerable research attention in recent years. In particular, screw dislocations can result in a spiral topology and an interlayer twist in the layered materials, significantly impacting the stacking order and symmetry of the layers. Moreover, the dislocations with large strain and heavily distorted atomic registry can result in a local modification of the structures around the dislocation. The dislocations thus provide a useful route to engineering optical, electrical, thermal, mechanical and catalytic properties of the 2D layered materials, which show great potential to bring new functionalities. This article presents a comprehensive review of the experimental and theoretical progress on the growth and properties of the dislocated 2D layered materials. It also offers an outlook on the future works in this promising research field.
Breaking the Impasse in International Climate Negotiations: A New Direction for Currently Flawed Negotiations and a Roadmap for China to 2050
Creators: name: Zhang, ZhongXiang
name: Zhang, ZhongXiang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Carbon Intensity
subject: Post-Copenhagen Climate Change Negotiations
subject: Climate Commitments
subject: China

description: China’s unilateral pledge to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45 percent by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels raises both the stringency issue, and given that China’s pledge is in the form of carbon intensity, reliability issues concerning China’s statistics on energy and GDP. Moreover, as long as China’s commitments differ in form from those of other major greenhouse gas emitters, China is constantly confronted with both criticism on its carbon intensity commitment being less stringent and the threats of trade measures. In response to these concerns and to put China in a positive position, this paper will map out a realistic roadmap for China’s specific climate commitments towards 2050, with its main distinguishing features including China taking on absolute emission caps around 2030 and the three transitional periods of increasing climate obligations before that. With current international climate negotiations flawed with a focus on commitments on the targeted date of 2020 that does not accommodate well the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters, the paper suggests a new direction to break the current impasse in international climate negotiations.
The first attempts to measure light deflection by the Sun
Creators: name: Crispino, Luís C. B.
name: Paolantonio, Santiago
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Soon after Einstein's calculation of the effect of the Sun's gravitational field on the propagation of light in 1911, astronomers around the world tried to measure and verify the value. If the first attempts in Brazil in 1912 or Imperial Russia in 1914 had been successful, they would have proven Einstein wrong.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 14 of Birthweight: EN-BIRTH multi-country validation study
Creators: name: Kong, Stefanie
name: Day, Louise T.
name: Sojib Bin Zaman
name: Peven, Kimberly
name: Nahya Salim
name: Sunny, Avinash K.
name: Shamba, Donat
name: Rahman, Qazi Sadeq-Ur
name: Ashish, K.C.
name: Ruysen, Harriet
name: Shams El Arifeen
name: Mee, Paul
name: Gladstone, Miriam E.
name: Blencowe, Hannah
name: Lawn, Joy E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 14. Types of weighing scales used in EN-BIRTH study, Total denotes babies who were observed to be weighed.
Additional file 1 of Decision support tool and suggestions for the development of guidelines for the helicopter transport of patients with COVID-19
Creators: name: Bredmose, Per P.
name: Diczbalis, Monica
name: Butterfield, Emma
name: Habig, Karel
name: Pearce, Andrew
name: Osbakk, Svein Are
name: Voipio, Ville
name: Rudolph, Marcus
name: Maddock, Alistair
name: O’Neill, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Additional file 1.
Square vortex solitons with a large angular momentum
Creators: name: Michinel, Humberto
name: Salgueiro, Jose R.
name: Paz-Alonso, Maria J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show the existence of square shaped optical vortices with a large value of the angular momentum hosted in finite size laser beams which propagate in nonlinear media with a cubic-quintic nonlinearity. The light profiles take the form of rings with sharp boundaries and variable sizes depending on the power carried. Our stability analysis shows that these light distributions remain stable when propagate, probably for unlimited values of the angular momentum, provided the hosting beam is wide enough. This happens if the peak amplitude approaches a critical value which only depends on the nonlinear refractive index of the material. A variational approach allows us to calculate the main parameters involved. Our results add extra support to the concept of surface tension of light beams that can be considered as a trace of the existence of a liquid of light.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
General Remedies to Local Problems: An Applied Researcher’s Manual to Multiple Imputation
Creators: name: Kyureghian, Gayaneh
name: Capps, Oral
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
name: Kyureghian, Gayaneh
name: Capps, Oral
name: Nayga, Rodolfo M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Nonresponse is a pervasive and persistent problem in survey data. This research reviews several methods for imputing missing values. A special emphasis is placed on the multiple imputation methods as a more generalizable advanced remedy to missingness. An empirical application of these methods, along with a regression or conditional mean imputation, is provided. Contingent upon certain properties of data, inference based guidance to the choice and implementation of these methods is provided.
Observation of Flux Reversal in a Symmetric Optical Thermal Ratchet
Creators: name: Lee, Sang-Hyuk
name: Ladavac, Kosta
name: Polin, Marco
name: Grier, David G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that a cycle of three holographic optical trapping patterns can implement a thermal ratchet for diffusing colloidal spheres, and that the ratchet-driven transport displays flux reversal as a function of the cycle frequency and the inter-trap separation. Unlike previously described ratchet models, the approach we describe involves three equivalent states, each of which is locally and globally spatially symmetric, with spatiotemporal symmetry being broken by the sequence of states.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted for publication in Physical Review Letters
Enabling Big Data Analytics at Manufacturing Fields of Farplas Automotive
Creators: name: Akin, Ozgun
name: Deniz, Halil Faruk
name: Nefis, Dogukan
name: Kiziltan, Alp
name: Cakir, Altan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Digitization and data-driven manufacturing process is needed for today's industry. The term Industry 4.0 stands for today industrial digitization which is defined as a new level of organization and control over the entire value chain of the life cycle of products; it is geared towards increasingly individualized customer's high-quality expectations. However, due to the increase in the number of connected devices and the variety of data, it has become difficult to store and analyze data with conventional systems. The motivation of this paper is to provide an overview of the understanding of the big data pipeline, providing a real-time on-premise data acquisition, data compression, data storage and processing with Apache Kafka and Apache Spark implementation on Apache Ha-doop cluster, and identifying the challenges and issues occurring with implementation the Farplas manufacturing company, which is one of the biggest Tier 1 automotive supplier in Turkey, to study the new trends and streams related to topics via Industry 4.0.
description: 8 pages
Clocking plasmon nanofocusing by THz near-field streaking
Creators: name: Wimmer, Lara
name: Schröder, Benjamin
name: Sivis, Murat
name: Herink, Georg
name: Ropers, Claus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply terahertz (THz) near-field streaking in a nanofocusing geometry to investigate plasmon polariton propagation on the shaft of a conical nanotip. By evaluating the delay between a streaking spectrogram for plasmon-induced photoemission with a measurement for direct apex excitation, we obtain an average plasmon group velocity, which is in agreement with numerical simulations. Combining plasmon-induced photoemission with THz near-field streaking facilitates extensive control over localized photoelectron sources for time-resolved imaging and diffraction.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Additional file 16 of Birthweight: EN-BIRTH multi-country validation study
Creators: name: Kong, Stefanie
name: Day, Louise T.
name: Sojib Bin Zaman
name: Peven, Kimberly
name: Nahya Salim
name: Sunny, Avinash K.
name: Shamba, Donat
name: Rahman, Qazi Sadeq-Ur
name: Ashish, K.C.
name: Ruysen, Harriet
name: Shams El Arifeen
name: Mee, Paul
name: Gladstone, Miriam E.
name: Blencowe, Hannah
name: Lawn, Joy E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 16. Interview results with data collectors and health workers on barriers and enablers checklist, EN-BIRTH study.
Additional file 15 of Birthweight: EN-BIRTH multi-country validation study
Creators: name: Kong, Stefanie
name: Day, Louise T.
name: Sojib Bin Zaman
name: Peven, Kimberly
name: Nahya Salim
name: Sunny, Avinash K.
name: Shamba, Donat
name: Rahman, Qazi Sadeq-Ur
name: Ashish, K.C.
name: Ruysen, Harriet
name: Shams El Arifeen
name: Mee, Paul
name: Gladstone, Miriam E.
name: Blencowe, Hannah
name: Lawn, Joy E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 15. Adjusted LBW prevalence in exit surveys and routine registers, EN-BIRTH study.
Additional file 6 of Does a 6-point scale approach to post-treatment 18F-FDG PET-CT allow to improve response assessment in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma? A multicenter study
Creators: name: Bonomo, P.
name: A. Merlotti
name: S. Morbelli
name: V. Berti
name: C. Saieva
name: F. Bergesio
name: A. Bacigalupo
name: L. Belgioia
name: C. Franzese
name: E. Lopci
name: A. Casolo
name: E. D’Angelo
name: D. Alterio
name: L. Travaini
name: L. Berretta
name: V. Pirro
name: S. Ursino
name: D. Volterrani
name: M. Roncali
name: F. Vigo
name: S. Cicchetti
name: F. Scalone
name: G. Belli
name: S. Cauda
name: I. Desideri
name: E. Russi
name: L. Livi
name: A. Bianchi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 6: material. FDG-PET/CT analysis
SHAXSLARARO KOMMUNIKATSIYAGA EMPATIYANING TA'SIRI
Creators: name: Alimirzayev, Nodirbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada shaxslararo munosabat o’rnatishda empativlik xususiyatining ijobiy va salbiy ta’sirlari tahlil qilingan. Yuqori empativlik darajasiga ega bo’lgan shaxslarda shaxslararo munosabat o’rnatishda qiyinlikka duch kelishi va stressga beriluvchanlik oqibatida salomatlikka   salbiy ta’sir ko’rsatishi aniqlangan.
Urban Palio and Scharlach Races in Fifteenth- and Early Sixteenth-Century Italy and Germany
Creators: name: Jaser, Christian
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: History of sport
subject: history of horse racing
subject: Renaissance history
subject: humananimal studies
subject: 940 Geschichte Europas

description: For the first time since antiquity, the Italian and German urban horse races for the prize of a precious piece of cloth called palio or scharlach could be studied as a fully-developed competitive ‘sport culture’ in all its dimensions, from planning and organization to the competitive performance itself through to the discursive perception and symbolic communication of victories and defeats. On both sides of the Alps, this communal tradition of horse racing experienced its heyday in the later fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Notwithstanding this contemporaneity and a bunch of organizational similarities, the Northern and Southern racing phenonema did not form a specific field of transalpine entanglement, but rather unconnected parallel worlds. In this essay, I will present some key comparative aspects of the transalpine field of urban horse racing: organizational structures, spatial arrangements, social range of the participants, the central role of equine agency for the success or failure of racing performances, and different media representations of victories.
Topologically protected gap states and resonances in gated trilayer graphene
Creators: name: Jaskólski, W.
name: Sarbicki, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gated trilayer graphene exhibits energy gap in its most stable ABC stacking. Here we show that when the stacking order changes from ABC to CBA, three gapless states appear in each valley. The states are topologically protected and their number is related to the change of the valley Chern number across the stacking boundary. The stacking change is achieved by corrugation or delamination in the top and bottom layers, which simultaneously yields two AB/BA stacking domain walls in the pairs of adjacent layers (in bilayers). This in turn causes that for some gate voltages two pairs of topological resonances appear additionally in the conduction and valence band continua.
description: 5 pages, 6 figures
Entwicklungstendenzen der Milchproduktion in Schweden - Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Milcherzeugern
Creators: name: Deumelandt, Friederike
name: Lassen, Birthe J.
name: Schierholz, Friederike
name: Wagner, Peter
name: Deumelandt, Friederike
name: Lassen, Birthe J.
name: Schierholz, Friederike
name: Wagner, Peter
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Milchproduktion
subject: Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
subject: Betriebsmanagement
subject: Befragung
subject: Regionalanalyse
subject: dairy production
subject: competitiveness
subject: farm management
subject: survey
subject: regional analysis

description: Zusammenfassung : Der vorliegende Bericht untersucht die mittelfristigen Veränderungen in der Milchproduktion in Schweden. Im Rahmen einer web-basierten Umfrage zwischen Dezember 2009 und März 2010 wurden 273 schwedische Milcherzeuger zu künftigen Entwicklungstrends in ihrer Region und Entwicklungsperspektiven auf ihrem Betrieb befragt. Die befragten Milcherzeuger erwarten insgesamt einen weiteren Rückgang der Milchproduktion in Schweden, insbesondere in Nordschweden. Den insgesamt eher rückläufigen Erwartungen stehen die künftigen Wachstumspläne der teilnehmenden Milcherzeuger gegenüber, die sich insgesamt gut aufgestellt sehen. Da jedoch überwiegend größere und zukunftsorientierte Betriebe befragt wurden, ist diese Diskrepanz nachvollziehbar. Neben einer zunehmenden Konzentration der Milchproduktion in Süd-/Ostschweden sehen die Milcherzeuger auch eine wachsende Bedeutung der ökologisch erzeugten Milch. Diese wird ihren Einschätzungen nach überwiegend in Ostschweden – im Einzugsbereich von Stockholm – erzeugt werden. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary: This report analyzes the mid-term changes in milk production in Sweden. A written web-based survey was conducted between December 2009 and March 2010. 273 Swedish dairy farmers answered an online questionnaire about developments in their region and on their farm. The respondents expect a further decrease in milk production in Sweden, especially in Northern Sweden. On the other hand, the participating dairy farmers state that they plan to increase their milk production and see themselves in a good competitive position. This can be explained by the chosen survey sample that consists mainly of larger and future-oriented farms. In addition to the concentration of milk production in South and East Sweden, the respondents expect an increase in organic milk production. According to the participants organic production will gain special importance in the east of Sweden – in the area near Stockholm.
Zero-Temperature Limit of the SUSY-breaking Complexity in Diluted Spin-Glass Models
Creators: name: Parisi, Giorgio
name: Rizzo, Tommaso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the SUSY-breaking complexity of the Bethe Lattice Spin-Glass in the zero temperature limit. We consider both the Gaussian and the bimodal distribution of the coupling constants. For $J_{ij}=\pm 1$ the SUSY breaking theory yields fields distributions that concentrate on integer values at low temperatures, at variance with the unbroken SUSY theory. This concentration takes place both in the quenched as well as in the simpler annealed formulation.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Abasy Atlas v2.2: The most comprehensive and up-to-date inventory of meta-curated, historical, bacterial regulatory networks, their completeness and system-level characterization
Creators: name: Escorcia-Rodríguez, Juan M.
name: Tauch, Andreas
name: Freyre-González, Julio A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: Genomics (q-bio.GN)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Some organism-specific databases about regulation in bacteria have become larger, accelerated by high-throughput methodologies, while others are no longer updated or accessible. Each database homogenize its datasets, giving rise to heterogeneity across databases. Such heterogeneity mainly encompasses different names for a gene and different network representations, generating duplicated interactions that could bias network analyses. Abasy (Across-bacteria systems) Atlas consolidates information from different sources into meta-curated regulatory networks in bacteria. The high-quality networks in Abasy Atlas enable cross-organisms analyses, such as benchmarking studies where gold standards are required. Nevertheless, network incompleteness still casts doubts on the conclusions of network analyses, and available sampling methods cannot reflect the curation process. To tackle this problem, the updated version of Abasy Atlas presented in this work provides historical snapshots of regulatory networks. Thus, network analyses can be performed at different completeness levels, making possible to identify potential bias and to predict future results. We leverage the recently found constraint in the complexity of regulatory networks to develop a novel model to quantify the total number of regulatory interactions as a function of the genome size. This completeness estimation is a valuable insight that may aid in the daunting task of network curation, prediction, and validation. The new version of Abasy Atlas provides 76 networks (204,282 regulatory interactions) covering 42 bacteria (64% Gram-positive and 36% Gram-negative) distributed in 9 species, containing 8,459 regulons and 4,335 modules.
description: 25 pages, 6 figures, 11 pages supplementary information
Monte Carlo studies for parameterization of B-mixing with dilepton events
Creators: name: Song, Zhongzhi
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: In this thesis, we report on a Monte Carlo (MC) study of the parameterization of probability distribution functions (PDFs) for neutral B mixing using dilepton events. T(45) decays are generated and those with at least 2 leptons in final state are used in this study. By choosing appropriate functions, a parameterization of the B meson decay time difference Δt is obtained by studying the B lifetime and the neutral B mixing frequency dependence of the dilepton events using an event re-weighting technique. Our results, combined with Monte Carlo studies of detector resolutions, can be used to obtain more precise measurements of the B mixing frequency and B lifetimes from experimental data.
A step away from impaired well-being: a latent growth curve analysis of an intervention with activity trackers among employees
Creators: name: Lennefer, Thomas
name: Reis, Dorota
name: Lopper, Elisa
name: Hoppe, Annekatrin
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Wearable activity trackers
subject: employees’ health
subject: physical activity
subject: eHealth
subject: latent growth curve model (LGCM)
subject: workplace health promotion
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: The present study evaluated the effectiveness of a workplace intervention combining activity trackers (behavioural approach) with an online coach (cognitive approach) in order to increase employees’ number of steps and improve their impaired well-being (i.e., emotional strain and negative affect). To analyse the intervention’s effectiveness, the study applied latent growth curve modelling. Moreover, we tested whether work-related and personal resources (i.e., job control and self-efficacy) moderated the intervention’s effectiveness and whether an increase in number of steps was associated with an improvement in impaired well-being. During the intervention, data were collected at six measurement points from 108 mainly low active employees. The results revealed that employees increased their number of steps until the second intervention week; this increase was not moderated by job control or self-efficacy. Moreover, the intervention was effective in decreasing emotional strain and negative affect over the course of the intervention. Further analyses showed that the increase in number of steps was related to the decrease in negative affect, whereas no such association was found for the increase in number of steps and the decrease in emotional strain. In conclusion, the findings showed that our intervention was effective in improving physical activity and impaired well-being among employees.
Find Unique Usages: Helping Developers Understand Common Usages
Creators: name: Aghayi, Emad
name: Massey, Aaron
name: LaToza, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: When working in large and complex codebases, developers face challenges using \textit{Find Usages} to understand how to reuse classes and methods. To better understand these challenges, we conducted a small exploratory study with 4 participants. We found that developers often wasted time reading long lists of similar usages or prematurely focused on a single usage. Based on these findings, we hypothesized that clustering usages by the similarity of their surrounding context might enable developers to more rapidly understand how to use a function. To explore this idea, we designed and implemented \textit{Find Unique Usages}, which extracts usages, computes a diff between pairs of usages, generates similarity scores, and uses these scores to form usage clusters. To evaluate this approach, we conducted a controlled experiment with 12 participants. We found that developers with Find Unique Usages were significantly faster, completing their task in 35% less time.
The dS/dS Correspondence
Creators: name: Alishahiha, Mohsen
name: Karch, Andreas
name: Silverstein, Eva
name: Tong, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a holographic duality for the de Sitter static patch which consolidates basic features of its geometry and the behavior of gravity and brane probes, valid on timescales short compared to the decay or Poincare recurrence times. Namely de Sitter spacetime $dS_d(R)$ in $d$ dimensions with curvature radius $R$ is holographically dual to two conformal field theories on $dS_{d-1}(R)$, cut off at an energy scale 1/R where they couple to each other and to $d-1$ dimensional gravity. As part of our analysis, we study brane probes in de Sitter and thermal Anti de Sitter spaces, and interpret the terms in the corresponding DBI action via strongly coupled thermal field theory. This provides a dual field theoretic interpretation of the fact that probes take forever to reach a horizon in general relativity.
description: 29 pages, harvmac big; 3 figures; v2: references added, minor typo fixed
Effects of wildfire and harvest disturbances on forest soil bacterial communities
Creators: name: Smith, Nancy Rosalee
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Little attention has been paid to the effects of wildfires on soil bacterial communities. The opposite is true for the effects of harvest treatments on soil bacterial communities. This scarcity of microbiological research post wildfire may be because of the unpredictability of such events or because of a focus on other fire-induced changes such as soil chemistry. In this study, Boreal forest soil bacterial communities were assessed post disturbance in four treatments: control, harvest, burn and burn-salvage. The burn treatments were areas affected by the wildfire near Chisholm, Alberta in May, 2001. Changes in these microbial communities occurred as a consequence of the wildfire or harvest treatment disturbance, with greater effects in the burn treatments. Significant decreases in microbial biomass carbon (C[sub mic]) were seen as a result of the burn or harvest treatments. Microbial biomass nitrogen (N[sub mic]) decreased in the harvest treatment, but increased in the burn treatments, probably because of microbial assimilation of the increased amounts of available NH₄⁺ and NO₃⁻ due to burning. The C[sub mic]:N[sub mic] decreased in the harvest, burn and burn-salvage treatments, indicating a probable decrease in fungal biomass. Nonparametric ordination of molecular fingerprint data (ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis and rRNA gene denaturing-gradient gel electrophoresis) of 119 samples indicated clear distinctions between community composition in the burned and unburned treatments. Differences between control versus harvest and between burn versus burn-salvage treatments were less obvious, but multi-response permutation procedures demonstrated statistically significant separations between the two. Sequencing of bands from fingerprints uncovered interesting patterns of bacterial divisions specific to treatment type, y- and α-Proteobacteria were highly characteristic of the unburned treatments, while β-Proteobacteria and members of Bacillus were highly characteristic of the burned treatments. Biomass determinations confirmed general trends observed in past literature, while relatively new molecular methods unveiled new and interesting effects to bacterial communities in Boreal forest soils impacted by human and natural disturbances.
The Dynamics of Store Hour Changes and Consumption Behavior: Results of a Longitudinal Study of Consumer Attitudes toward Saturday Shopping in Germany
Creators: name: Grunhagen, Marko
name: Grove, Stephen J.
name: Gentry, James W.
name: Grunhagen, Marko
name: Grove, Stephen J.
name: Gentry, James W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2000
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: Americans who travel internationally are often shocked to discover retail outlets closed during weekend and evening hours in cities such as Paris, Rome and Berlin. Fortunately, based on the implicit assumption that demand clearly exists, retailers at various locations throughout the globe have increased their hours of operation. While political debate regarding a variety of issues (costs, the rights of labor, religion, etc.) often rages, there has been an implicit assumption that latent demand for longer hours of operation exists. Our study investigates through a longitudinal examination consumer perceptions of Saturday shopping in a country where such an activity was previously restricted. Specifically, we study perceptions of Saturday shopping among a sample of German college students who were raised with limited Saturday shopping hours. Data were gathered in 1996 – the year German legislation allowed expanded hours for retailers – and again in 1999, and comparisons are made. Strong differences are found between consumer attitudes towards Saturday shopping at the time of expansion and three years later, indicating the need for differentiating retail strategies in Germany and in other parts of the world that may soon be providing similar expanded retail access.
Some features of effective radius and variance of dust particles in the numerical simulation of dust climate on Mars
Creators: name: Wong, Chi-Fong
name: Chow, Kim-Chiu
name: Chan, Kwing L.
name: Xiao, Jing
name: Wang, Yemeng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Airborne dust is an important constituent in the Martian atmosphere because of its radiative interaction with the atmospheric circulation, and dust size is one crucial factor in determining this effect. In numerical modeling of the dust processes, description of the dust size is usually dependent on the choice of a particular size distribution function, or with fixed values of effective radius (ER) and effective variance (EV) though they are variable in reality. In this work, analytical expressions have been derived to specify ER and EV for N-bin dust schemes based on the model calculated dust mixing ratio. Numerical simulations based on this approach thus consider the effects of variable ER on the atmospheric radiation and their interaction. The results have revealed some interesting features of the dust distribution parameters such as the seasonal and spatial variation of ER and EV, which are generally consistent with some previous observational and modeling studies. Compared with the usual approach of using fixed ER, simulation results with the present approach suggest that the variability of ER can have significant effect on the simulated thermal field of the Martian atmosphere.
description: 15 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 5 of Does a 6-point scale approach to post-treatment 18F-FDG PET-CT allow to improve response assessment in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma? A multicenter study
Creators: name: Bonomo, P.
name: A. Merlotti
name: S. Morbelli
name: V. Berti
name: C. Saieva
name: F. Bergesio
name: A. Bacigalupo
name: L. Belgioia
name: C. Franzese
name: E. Lopci
name: A. Casolo
name: E. D’Angelo
name: D. Alterio
name: L. Travaini
name: L. Berretta
name: V. Pirro
name: S. Ursino
name: D. Volterrani
name: M. Roncali
name: F. Vigo
name: S. Cicchetti
name: F. Scalone
name: G. Belli
name: S. Cauda
name: I. Desideri
name: E. Russi
name: L. Livi
name: A. Bianchi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 5: table 1. positive predictive value and corresponding 95% CI of composite TNref for specific scores. PPV: positive predictive value
Shallow groundwater in the Atankwidi Catchment of the White Volta Basin: current status and future sustainability
Creators: name: Barry, Boubacar
name: Kortatsi, Benony
name: Forkuor, Gerald
name: Gumma, Murali Krishna
name: Namara, Regassa E.
name: Rebelo, Lisa-Maria
name: Van Den Berg, Joost
name: Laube, Wolfram
name: Barry, Boubacar
name: Kortatsi, Benony
name: Forkuor, Gerald
name: Gumma, Murali Krishna
name: Namara, Regassa E.
name: Rebelo, Lisa-Maria
name: Van Den Berg, Joost
name: Laube, Wolfram
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Groundwater irrigation
subject: Aquifers
subject: River basins
subject: Catchment areas
subject: Irrigation practices
subject: Remote sensing
subject: Mapping

description: The Atankwidi Catchment, which lies in the White Volta Basin in West Africa, is intensively cultivated by locals for economic gains. During dry seasons, farmers irrigate their crops, chiefly tomatoes, using shallow groundwater harvested from shallow ponds they dig using simple tools like an axe, hoe, bucket and bowls. Recent expansion in cultivated areas has brought to the fore the need to estimate the volume of shallow groundwater stored in the catchment’s underlying aquifer and to what extent it can sustain the incremental growth in irrigated areas.
Measurement of the Polarized Structure Function $σ_{LT^\prime}$ for $p(\vec{e},e'π^+)n$ in the $Δ(1232)$ Resonance Region
Creators: name: CLAS Collaboration
name: Joo, K.
name: Smith, L. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The polarized longitudinal-transverse structure function $σ_{LT^\prime}$ has been measured using the $p(\vec e,e'π^+)n$ reaction in the $Δ(1232)$ resonance region at $Q^2=0.40$ and 0.65 GeV$^2$. No previous $σ_{LT^\prime}$ data exist for this reaction channel. The kinematically complete experiment was performed at Jefferson Lab with the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer (CLAS) using longitudinally polarized electrons at an energy of 1.515 GeV. A partial wave analysis of the data shows generally better agreement with recent phenomenological models of pion electroproduction compared to the previously measured $π^0 p$ channel. A fit to both $π^0 p$ and $π^+ n$ channels using a unitary isobar model suggests the unitarized Born terms provide a consistent description of the non-resonant background. The $t$-channel pion pole term is important in the $π^0 p$ channel through a rescattering correction, which could be model-dependent.
description: 6 pages, LaTex, 5 eps figures: Submitted to PRC/Brief Reports v2: Updated reference
title: Microstructure Formation and Resistivity Change in CuCr during Rapid Solidification
Creators: name: Hauf, Ulla
name: Kauffmann, Alexander
name: Kauffmann-Weiss, Sandra
name: Feilbach, Alexander
name: Boening, Mike
name: Mueller, Frank E. H.
name: Hinrichsen, Volker
name: Heilmaier, Martin
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2024

description: The formation of the surface-near microstructure after a current interruption of CuCr contact materials in a vacuum interrupter is characterized by a fast heating and subsequently rapid solidification process. In the present article, we reveal and analyse the formation of two distinct microstructural regions that result from the heat, which is generated and dissipated during interruption. In the topmost region, local and global texture, as well as the resulting microstructure, indicate that both Cu and Cr were melted during rapid heating and solidification whereas in the region underneath, only Cu was melted and elongated Cu-grains solidified with the <001>-direction perpendicularly aligned to the surface. By analysing the lattice parameter of the Cu solid solution, a supersaturation of the solid solution with about 2.25 at % Cr was found independent if Cu was melted solely or together with the Cr. The according reduction of electrical conductivity in the topmost region subsequent to current interruption and the resulting heat distribution are discussed based on these experimental results.
Additional file 17 of Birthweight: EN-BIRTH multi-country validation study
Creators: name: Kong, Stefanie
name: Day, Louise T.
name: Sojib Bin Zaman
name: Peven, Kimberly
name: Nahya Salim
name: Sunny, Avinash K.
name: Shamba, Donat
name: Rahman, Qazi Sadeq-Ur
name: Ashish, K.C.
name: Ruysen, Harriet
name: Shams El Arifeen
name: Mee, Paul
name: Gladstone, Miriam E.
name: Blencowe, Hannah
name: Lawn, Joy E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 17. EN-BIRTH interview results with data collectors and health workers on estimated time to complete documentation.
Dust in the Photospheric Environment III. A Fundamental Element in the Characterization of Ultracool Dwarfs
Creators: name: Tsuji, Takashi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent photometry of L and T dwarfs revealed that the infrared colors show a large variation at a given Teff and, within the framework of our Unified Cloudy Model (UCM), this result can be interpreted as due to a variation of the critical temperature (Tcr) which is essentially a measure of the thickness of the dust cloud. It appears that the L/T transition takes place at around Teff = 1400K, where Tcr shows a particularly large change. Thus the L/T transition is associated with a drastic change of the thickness of the dust cloud at around Teff = 1400K, but the reason for this change is unknown. Once we allow Tcr to vary at given Teff and log g, the two-color and color-magnitude diagrams can be well explained as the effect of Teff, log g, and Tcr, but not by that of Teff and log g alone. In general, the effects of Teff and Tcr are difficult to discriminate on individual spectra, but this degeneracy of Teff and Tcr can be removed to some extent by the analysis of the SED on an absolute scale. The reanalysis of a selected sample of spectra revealed that the L-T spectral sequence may not necessarily be a sequence of Teff, but may reflect a change of the thickness of the dust cloud, represented by Tcr in our UCM. Also, an odd 'brightening' of the absolute J magnitudes plotted against the L-T spectral types may also be a manifestation that the L-T spectral sequence is not a temperature sequence, since Mbol also shows a similar 'brightening'. Then, the 'J-brightening' may not be due to any atmospheric effect and hence should not be a problem to be solved by model atmospheres including the UCMs. Thus, almost all the available observed data are reasonably well interpreted with the UCMs in which the cloud thickness varies, and the problem now is how to understand why the cloud thickness (or Tcr) changes independently of Teff and log g.
description: 40 pages, 12 Postscript figures, to be published in The Astrophysical Journal. A short note discussing the effect of methane opacities based on the line list by R. Freedman is added in the revised version
Additional file 18 of Birthweight: EN-BIRTH multi-country validation study
Creators: name: Kong, Stefanie
name: Day, Louise T.
name: Sojib Bin Zaman
name: Peven, Kimberly
name: Nahya Salim
name: Sunny, Avinash K.
name: Shamba, Donat
name: Rahman, Qazi Sadeq-Ur
name: Ashish, K.C.
name: Ruysen, Harriet
name: Shams El Arifeen
name: Mee, Paul
name: Gladstone, Miriam E.
name: Blencowe, Hannah
name: Lawn, Joy E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 18. Ethical approval of local institutional review boards, EN-BIRTH study.
Additional file 1 of Independence of HIF1a and androgen signaling pathways in prostate cancer
Creators: name: Tran, Maxine G. B.
name: Bibby, Becky A. S.
name: Lingjian Yang
name: Lo, Franklin
name: Warren, Anne Y.
name: Shukla, Deepa
name: Osborne, Michelle
name: Hadfield, James
name: Carroll, Thomas
name: Stark, Rory
name: Scott, Helen
name: Ramos-Montoya, Antonio
name: Massie, Charlie
name: Maxwell, Patrick
name: West, Catharine M. L.
name: Mills, Ian G.
name: Neal, David E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
GRAB: A Dataset of Whole-Body Human Grasping of Objects
Creators: name: Taheri, Omid
name: Ghorbani, Nima
name: Black, Michael J.
name: Tzionas, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Training computers to understand, model, and synthesize human grasping requires a rich dataset containing complex 3D object shapes, detailed contact information, hand pose and shape, and the 3D body motion over time. While "grasping" is commonly thought of as a single hand stably lifting an object, we capture the motion of the entire body and adopt the generalized notion of "whole-body grasps". Thus, we collect a new dataset, called GRAB (GRasping Actions with Bodies), of whole-body grasps, containing full 3D shape and pose sequences of 10 subjects interacting with 51 everyday objects of varying shape and size. Given MoCap markers, we fit the full 3D body shape and pose, including the articulated face and hands, as well as the 3D object pose. This gives detailed 3D meshes over time, from which we compute contact between the body and object. This is a unique dataset, that goes well beyond existing ones for modeling and understanding how humans grasp and manipulate objects, how their full body is involved, and how interaction varies with the task. We illustrate the practical value of GRAB with an example application; we train GrabNet, a conditional generative network, to predict 3D hand grasps for unseen 3D object shapes. The dataset and code are available for research purposes at https://grab.is.tue.mpg.de.
description: ECCV 2020
An assessment of crop water productivity in the Indus and Ganges River Basins: current status and scope for improvement
Creators: name: Cai, Xueliang
name: Sharma, Bharat R.
name: Matin, Mir Abdul
name: Sharma, Devesh
name: Gunasinghe, Sarath
name: Cai, Xueliang
name: Sharma, Bharat R.
name: Matin, Mir Abdul
name: Sharma, Devesh
name: Gunasinghe, Sarath
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Water productivity
subject: Crops
subject: Yields
subject: Rice
subject: Wheat
subject: River basins
subject: Models
subject: Remote sensing
subject: Evapotranspiration
subject: Mapping

description: The Indus and Ganges River Basin, being the most populous in the world, is under extreme pressure to sustain food security. Production resources including water are being exploited to various levels from underdevelopment to heavy overexploitation. This report provides a bird’s eye view of the basin and focuses on the nexus between agricultural production and water consumption, making it possible to pinpoint the areas with high/low water productivity and identify the factors behind this, which helps to promote informed decision making in light of environmental sustainability.
Cladonotinae Bolivar 1887
Creators: name: Bhaskar, Dhaneesh
name: Stermšek, Sara
name: Easa, P. S.
name: Franjević, Damjan
name: Skejo, Josip
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tetrigidae

description: Subfamily Cladonotinae Bolívar, 1887   Representatives in India and Sri Lanka. India and Sri Lanka are inhabited by representatives of 7 genera belonging to two tribes (Xerophyllini and Cladonotini), altogether 13 species.
 Notes. Following Storozhenko & Paik’s (2011) division of the subfamily into two tribes, Cladonotini and Xerophyllini, species and genera of India and Sri Lanka are attributed to those two tribes. Cladonotini members have a convex vertex, with its middle part being the highest, with no fastigial horns, while Xerophyllini members have a concave, depressed vertex with high fastigial horns.
description: Published as part of Bhaskar, Dhaneesh, Stermšek, Sara, Easa, P. S., Franjević, Damjan & Skejo, Josip, 2020, Wide-nosed pygmy grasshoppers (Cladonotinae: Cladonotini, Xerophyllini) of India and Sri Lanka: catalogue with an identification key and description of a new species of the genus Tettilobus, pp. 474-500 in Zootaxa 4894 (3) on page 481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4894.3.12, http://zenodo.org/record/4315827
An Unveiling Event in the Type 2 AGN NGC4388: A Challenge for a Parsec Scale Absorber
Creators: name: Elvis, Martin
name: Risaliti, G.
name: Nicastro, F.
name: Miller, J. M.
name: Fiore, F .
name: Puccetti, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present two Rossi Xray Timing Explorer (RXTE) PCA observations of the type~2 Seyfert galaxy NGC 4388 caught in an unusual low X-ray absorption state. The observations were triggered by a detection in the 1.5-3 keV band of the RXTE All-Sky Monitor. NGC 4388 was found at a somewhat high continuum level (f(2-10 keV)=8x10(-11)erg cm(-2) s(-1)) and with a column density (N_H~3x10(22)cm(-2)), a factor ~10 lower than normal. The second PCA observation, four hours later, gave N_H<2x10(21)cm(-2) indicating, at the 3.1 sigma level, variability so rapid puts the absorber on a few 100 Schwartzschild radii scale, similar to the Broad Emission Line Region, or smaller. This small scale creates difficulties for the parsec-scale obscuring torus paradigm of Unified Schemes for type 1 and type 2 AGNs.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. ApJLetters, in press. Author list corrected