cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Storage in the energy transition: A regulator perspective
Creators: name: van der Zee , Wouter
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: The underground storage will play an important role in the energy transition, both for energy storage as for CCS. Current storage activities in the Netherlands are for natural gas, diesel oil and nitrogen are in both in depleted gas reservoirs and salt caverns. These probably will be extended in the near future with storage of CO2, hydrogen and compressed air. The Dutch State Supervision of Mines is the regulator who oversees that these activities are performed in such a way that they are safe, now and in the future. This means that the full life cycle has to be considered with a broad perspective on the safety of people and the environment. The predictions of behaviour of the storage and its fluids and related risk will have large uncertainties due to the level of uncertainty in the subsurface data used, and the limited amount of data to calibrate the models which calculate the risk. In most cases this will mean that the risk can’t be calculated probabilistically. In that case for decision making it is necessary to not only investigate the most likely scenario, but to the range of realistic, possible scenarios to identify the real risk. The period after storage will be orders magnitudes longer than the storage activity itself. This will lead to even larger uncertainties for this phase. We have to face the fact that we can only partly reduce this uncertainty by further research and monitoring. However research and monitoring can help us to quantify the uncertainty. This emphasizes the importance that operators, policy makers and regulators are able to handle the uncertainties in their decisions before, during and after the storage activities, and communicate openly about them.
title: Auch ein Flugblatt aus der deutschen Nationalversammlung. Das souveräne Volk an seine Diener; [1848]
title: Heiliger Sankt Blum, Sankt Zitz, Sankt Schlöffel, wo will das hinaus! Die letzte Woche habt ihr schlechte Arbeit geschafft ...
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Krumm, Johann
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel
Transcripts of Interviews with Experts on Data Competencies in the AEC Industry
Creators: name: Khalil, Zeinab
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Artificial intelligence (AI)
Building information modeling (BIM)
AEC industry
Competency
Data
Data literacy

description: These are transcripts of semi-structured interviews conducted by the author with five participants between February 28 and April 6, 2023, as a part of the author's research on data competencies for the advancement of AI applications in the AEC industry. Each interview has been transcribed in a separate word document. An excel spreadsheet is provided containing information on the professional profiles of the participants, whose names have been anonymised. Slight modifications have been made to the original speech such as grammar corrections, rephrasing of words, and removal of repetitions, to improve readability.
A good mass proxy for galaxy clusters with XMM-Newton
Creators: name: Zhao, Hai-Hui
name: Jia, Shu-Mei
name: Chen, Yong
name: Li, Cheng-Kui
name: Song, Li-Ming
name: Xie, Fei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use a sample of 39 galaxy clusters at redshift z < 0.1 observed by XMM-Newton to investigate the relations between X-ray observables and total mass. Based on central cooling time and central temperature drop, the clusters in this sample are divided into two groups: 25 cool core clusters and 14 non-cool core clusters, respectively. We study the scaling relations of Lbol-M500, M500-T, M500-Mg and M500-YX, and also the influences of cool core on these relations. The results show that the M500-YX relation has a slope close to the standard self-similar value, has the smallest scatter and does not vary with the cluster sample. Moreover, the M500-YX relation is not affected by the cool core. Thus, the parameter of YX may be the best mass indicator.
description: ApJ Accepted, 25 pages, 7 figures
General practitioners' perceptions, attitudes and experiences of frailty and frailty screening
Creators: name: Ambagtsheer, Rachel
name: Archibald, Mandy
name: Lawless, Michael
name: D Mills
name: Yu, Solomon
name: Beilby, Justin
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: General practitioners (GPs) are uniquely positioned to support frailty identification and management. However, awareness of frailty and its treatment remains an emergent concept for many. Consequently, our aim was to explore GPs' perceptions, attitudes and experiences of frailty and frailty screening. METHOD: A qualitative focus group study was conducted with 22 South Australian GPs. GPs were recruited through a combination of purposive, convenience and snowball sampling. Data were analysed using a thematic analysis approach. RESULTS: GPs saw frailty as a cycle of worsening decline punctuated by experience of negative outcomes. Participants largely felt that they already knew who their frail patients were without the need for formal screening. Consequently, there was varied support for formal screening, largely dependent on its intended purpose. Few GPs had actively intervened to prevent the onset or progression of frailty, with most strategies aimed at stabilisation and management. DISCUSSION: This study suggests that Australian GPs may be open to a proactive approach to frailty assessment and treatment, given appropriate training and resources.
Tides, planetary companions, and habitability: Habitability in the habitable zone of low-mass stars
Creators: name: Van Laerhoven, Christa
name: Barnes, Rory
name: Greenberg, Richard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Earth-scale planets in the classical habitable zone (HZ) are more likely to be habitable if they possess active geophysics. Without a constant internal energy source, planets cool as they age, eventually terminating tectonic activity and rendering the planet sterile to life. However, for planets orbiting low-mass stars, the presence of an outer companion could generate enough tidal heat in the HZ planet to prevent such cooling. The range of mass and orbital parameters for the companion that give adequate long-term heating of the inner HZ planet, while avoiding very early total desiccation, is probably substantial. We locate the ideal location for the outer of a pair of planets, under the assumption that the inner planet has the same incident flux as Earth, orbiting example stars: a generic late M dwarf ($T_{eff}=2670 K$) and the M9V/L0 dwarf DEN1048. Thus discoveries of Earth-scale planets in the HZ zone of old small stars should be followed by searches for outer companion planets that might be essential for current habitability.
description: Submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; 12 pages, 9 figures
Meromacrus ghilianii Rondani 1848
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Meromacrus
Meromacrus ghilianii

description: Meromacrus ghilianii Rondani, 1848
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1848b: 71.
TYPE LOCALITY: “ Brasile [Brazil]” (Rondani 1848b: 63); [Belem (Pará), Brazil] (Papavero 1973: 343). See Remarks.
TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (MZUN: Box Coll. entomol. extra-europea, Fam. Sirfidei - Gen. Dolichomerus a Meromacrus): Meromacrus ghiliani [sic!] Rnd., Brasile / M. Zool. N° 11254 / ♂.
CURRENT STATUS: valid species (Thompson et al. 1976: 112).
REMARKS: Rondani (1848b: 71) described Meromacrus ghilianii from just the male sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected in South America by V. Ghiliani. Costa (1866: 32) listed a single MZUN specimen (as Meromacrus ghiliani [sic!]) numbered “634”. We also found one syntype in this study. Although Rondani (1848b: 63) only gave the type locality as “ Brasile ”, Papavero (1973: 343) gave a more accurate type locality based on a note in Spinola (1853) that said all specimens collected by Ghiliani in 1846 were collected in Belem, Pará, Brazil.
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 259, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621
Betti numbers of Gaussian fields
Creators: name: Park, Changbom
name: Pranav, Pratyush
name: Chingangbam, Pravabati
name: van de Weygaert, Rien
name: Jones, Bernard
name: Vegter, Gert
name: Kim, Inkang
name: Hidding, Johan
name: Hellwing, Wojciech A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the relation between the genus in cosmology and the Betti numbers for excursion sets of three- and two-dimensional smooth Gaussian random fields, and numerically investigate the Betti numbers as a function of threshold level. Betti numbers are topological invariants of figures that can be used to distinguish topological spaces. In the case of the excursion sets of a three-dimensional field there are three possibly non-zero Betti numbers; $β_0$ is the number of connected regions, $β_1$ is the number of circular holes, and $β_2$ is the number of three-dimensional voids. Their sum with alternating signs is the genus of the surface of excursion regions. It is found that each Betti number has a dominant contribution to the genus in a specific threshold range. $β_0$ dominates the high-threshold part of the genus curve measuring the abundance of high density regions (clusters). $β_1$ dominates the genus near the median thresholds which measures the topology of negatively curved iso-density surfaces, and $β_2$ corresponds to the low-threshold part measuring the void abundance. We average the Betti number curves (the Betti numbers as a function of the threshold level) over many realizations of Gaussian fields and find that both the amplitude and shape of the Betti number curves depend on the slope of the power spectrum $n$ in such a way that their shape becomes broader and their amplitude drops less steeply than the genus as $n$ decreases. This behaviour contrasts with the fact that the shape of the genus curve is fixed for all Gaussian fields regardless of the power spectrum. Even though the Gaussian Betti number curves should be calculated for each given power spectrum, we propose to use the Betti numbers for better specification of the topology of large scale structures in the universe.
description: Reference added, 7 pages, 4 figures, published in Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
title: A virtual field tour of the Wren's Nest National Nature Reserve, part of the Black Country Unesco Geopark, UK
Creators: name: Hodgetts , David
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: The Wren's Nest National Nature Reserve, situated in the West Midlands, UK, is well known for its exposures of Silurian (Wenlock and Ludlow Series) carbonates. The Wren’s Nest was first recognised as a nature reserve in 1965, and in 2020 it became recognised as part of the part of the Black Country Unesco Geopark. The area has significant geological importance due to the superb preservation of its fossils, with more than 700 macro fossil species identified (including brachiopods, bivalves,corals, crinoids, trilobites, gastropods, cephalopods and bryozoans), and is particularly well known for the trilobite Calymene blumenbachii, locally known as the “Dudley Bug”. The Wren’s Nest Hill forms a large elongated N-S anticlinal dome structure faulted along is main axis by the Wrens Nest Fault, with the structure forming in the Late Carboniferous as a result of the Variscan Orogeny. The nature reserve also has an extensive industrial heritage with the limestone being mined since the 1700’s for building stones, lime, fertilizer and during the industrial revolution as a flux for iron smelting, with abundant coal being available locally from the surrounding coal measures. An extensive network of mines and tunnels exists, with Dark Cavern being the largest man-made cavern in the UK. These mines are linked together by a series of underground canals which in turn join the national canal network. With the underground workings closed off to the public for safety reasons this field tour is constructed using surface data only and attempts to reconstruct as much as possible through information from the archives.
Physical Frailty: ICFSR International Clinical Practice Guidelines for Identification and Management
Creators: name: Dent, Elsa
name: J Morley
name: A Cruz-Jentoft
name: L Woodhouse
name: Beilby, Justin
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Objective: The task force of the International Conference of Frailty and Sarcopenia Research (ICFSR) developed these clinical practice guidelines to overview the current evidence-base and to provide recommendations for the identification and management of frailty in older adults. Methods: These recommendations were formed using the GRADE approach, which ranked the strength and certainty (quality) of the supporting evidence behind each recommendation. Where the evidence-base was limited or of low quality, Consensus Based Recommendations (CBRs) were formulated. The recommendations focus on the clinical and practical aspects of care for older people with frailty, and promote person-centred care. Recommendations for Screening and Assessment: The task force recommends that health practitioners case identify/screen all older adults for frailty using a validated instrument suitable for the specific setting or context (strong recommendation). Ideally, the screening instrument should exclude disability as part of the screening process. For individuals screened as positive for frailty, a more comprehensive clinical assessment should be performed to identify signs and underlying mechanisms of frailty (strong recommendation). Recommendations for Management: A comprehensive care plan for frailty should address polypharmacy (whether rational or nonrational), the management of sarcopenia, the treatable causes of weight loss, and the causes of exhaustion (depression, anaemia, hypotension, hypothyroidism, and B12 deficiency) (strong recommendation). All persons with frailty should receive social support as needed to address unmet needs and encourage adherence to a comprehensive care plan (strong recommendation). First-line therapy for the management of frailty should include a multi-component physical activity programme with a resistance-based training component (strong recommendation). Protein/caloric supplementation is recommended when weight loss or undernutrition are present (conditional recommendation). No recommendation was given for systematic additional therapies such as cognitive therapy, problem-solving therapy, vitamin D supplementation, and hormone-based treatment. Pharmacological treatment as presently available is not recommended therapy for the treatment of frailty.
Nonparametric regression with the scale depending on auxiliary variable
Creators: name: Efromovich, Sam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The paper is devoted to the problem of estimation of a univariate component in a heteroscedastic nonparametric multiple regression under the mean integrated squared error (MISE) criteria. The aim is to understand how the scale function should be used for estimation of the univariate component. It is known that the scale function does not affect the rate of the MISE convergence, and as a result sharp constants are explored. The paper begins with developing a sharp-minimax theory for a pivotal model $Y=f(X)+σ(X,\mathbf{Z})\varepsilon$, where $\varepsilon$ is standard normal and independent of the predictor X and the auxiliary vector-covariate $\mathbf{Z}$. It is shown that if the scale $σ(x,\mathbf{z})$ depends on the auxiliary variable, then a special estimator, which uses the scale (or its estimate), is asymptotically sharp minimax and adaptive to unknown smoothness of f(x). This is an interesting conclusion because if the scale does not depend on the auxiliary covariate $\mathbf{Z}$, then ignoring the heteroscedasticity can yield a sharp minimax estimation. The pivotal model serves as a natural benchmark for a general additive model $Y=f(X)+g(\mathbf{Z})+σ(X,\mathbf{Z})\varepsilon$, where $\varepsilon$ may depend on $(X,\mathbf{Z})$ and have only a finite fourth moment. It is shown that for this model a data-driven estimator can perform as well as for the benchmark. Furthermore, the estimator, suggested for continuous responses, can be also used for the case of discrete responses. Bernoulli and Poisson regressions, that are inherently heteroscedastic, are particular considered examples for which sharp minimax lower bounds are obtained as well. A numerical study shows that the asymptotic theory sheds light on small samples.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOS1126 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Frailty and Seasonality
Creators: name: Dent, Elsa
name: Ambagtsheer, Rachel
name: Beilby, Justin
name: Stewart, Simon
Publisher: name: Torrens University Australia
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111199 Nutrition and Dietetics not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Frailty in older adults is a complex condition in which only a minor external stressor may cause severe complications leading to death. In the context of the recent devastating bushfires in Australia and the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, recognising and protecting those affected has magnified the impact and public health importance of frailty. Effects of frailty include bodily deterioration and the failure of physiological systems to cope with changes in the environment. Frailty prevalence is around 9–17% in community-dwelling older adults aged 65 years and over and renders an older adult at heightened risk of adverse outcomes such as infections, hospitalisation, pre-mature admission to care facilities, and mortality. Although the physiological and functional decline that occurs with frailty usually occurs gradually over a number of years, this functional decline can occur rapidly when external stressors are present.
Processing RGB Astronomical Images with SAOImage DS9 and Adobe Lightroom
Creators: name: Brady, Jacob
name: Kemp, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Middlebury
Year: 2022
Subjects: Astronomical sciences
Astronomical instrumentation
Higher education

description: The production of an RGB astronomical image is both an artistic and technical process. There are standard ideals for an image (good noise/detail ratio, no clipping, neutral/uniform sky, ..., etc.), but after this it is up to the eye of the editor to create a "good" image. The aim of this guide it to familiarize the user with two pieces of software, SAOImage DS9 and Adobe Lightroom (version 5 was used for this guide), in order to build confidence in editing an image to meet the standard ideals, so that the user's artistic intuition can be revealed, rather than being trapped behind the basics of image editing.
Phylogenetic analysis of phenotypic characters of Tunicata supports basal Appendicularia and monophyletic Ascidiacea
Creators: name: Braun, Katrin
name: Leubner, Fanny
name: Stach, Thomas
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
subject: 590 Tiere (Zoologie)

description: With approximately 3000 marine species, Tunicata represents the most disparate subtaxon of Chordata. Molecular phylogenetic studies support Tunicata as sister taxon to Craniota, rendering it pivotal to understanding craniate evolution. Although successively more molecular data have become available to resolve internal tunicate phylogenetic relationships, phenotypic data have not been utilized consistently. Herein these shortcomings are addressed by cladistically analyzing 117 phenotypic characters for 49 tunicate species comprising all higher tunicate taxa, and five craniate and cephalochordate outgroup species. In addition, a combined analysis of the phenotypic characters with 18S rDNA ‐sequence data is performed in 32 OTU s. The analysis of the combined data is congruent with published molecular analyses. Successively up‐weighting phenotypic characters indicates that phenotypic data contribute disproportionally more to the resulting phylogenetic hypothesis. The strict consensus tree from the analysis of the phenotypic characters as well as the single most parsimonious tree found in the analysis of the combined dataset recover monophyletic Appendicularia as sister taxon to the remaining tunicate taxa. Thus, both datasets support the hypothesis that the last common ancestor of Tunicata was free‐living and that ascidian sessility is a derived trait within Tunicata. “Thaliacea” is found to be paraphyletic with Pyrosomatida as sister taxon to monophyletic Ascidiacea and the relationship between Doliolida and Salpida is unresolved in the analysis of morphological characters; however, the analysis of the combined data reconstructs Thaliacea as monophyletic nested within paraphyletic “Ascidiacea”. Therefore, both datasets differ in the interpretation of the evolution of the complex holoplanktonic life history of thaliacean taxa. According to the phenotypic data, this evolution occurred in the plankton, whereas from the combined dataset a secondary transition into the plankton from a sessile ascidian is inferred. Besides these major differences, both analyses are in accord on many phylogenetic groupings, although both phylogenetic reconstructions invoke a high degree of homoplasy. In conclusion, this study represents the first serious attempt to utilize the potential phylogenetic information present in phenotypic characters to elucidate the inter‐relationships of this diverse marine taxon in a consistent cladistic framework.
Paragus ebracatus Rondani 1857
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Paragus
Paragus ebracatus

description: Paragus ebracatus Rondani, 1857
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 188 (key), 193 (description).
TYPE LOCALITY: “ in planitie agri parmensis [Parmese plains (Italy)]”.
TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♀, syntype (MZUF: Box 7): Paragus Latr. / ebracatus Rnd. / 342 / = P. cinctus Schiner & Egger, P. Goeldlin det., 1971.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Paragus cinctus Schiner & Egger, 1853 (Peck 1988: 80).
REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 193) described Paragus ebracatus from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length: “ Foemina tantum legi [I collected only the female]”. We found one syntype in this study.
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 262, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621
Stenographischer Bericht über die Volksversammlung zu Frankfurt a/M., am 12. April 1849, die deutsche Verfassungs-Angelegenheit betreffend; [1849]
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2018

description: Kopftitel
Investigation of the induction time and recovery in a flotation column: A kinetic analysis
Creators: name: Fahad, Musliyar Kurungattil
name: Prakash, Ritesh
name: Majumder, Subrata Kumar
name: Ghosh, Pallab
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The recovery of coal particles in a flotation column was investigated to determine its dependency on the type of frother, particle size, and gas and feed velocities. The kinetics of the cumulative recovery was established. The induction time and flotation rate constant were analyzed based on the recovery, incorporating the stability, attachment, and collision efficiencies of the particles with the bubbles. An inverse relationship between recovery and induction time was observed. Recovery of the particles was noticed to increase with superficial air velocity and frother dose, while it decreased with increasing particle size and feed circulation velocity. The induction time decreases with increasing superficial air velocity and frother dose but increases with increasing particle size and feed circulation velocity. Low induction time and high recovery were observed in the cationic frother. Small particles with low induction time can be captured with ease and have excellent selectivity. A generalized correlation for the induction time was proposed based on experiments under different operating conditions. The presented research will be beneficial in terms of increasing the transport efficiency of flotation systems.
A Hybrid ARQ Scheme Based on Polar Codes
Creators: name: Chen, Kai
name: Niu, Kai
name: Lin, Jiaru
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) scheme based on a novel class of rate-compatible polar (\mbox{RCP}) codes are proposed. The RCP codes are constructed by performing punctures and repetitions on the conventional polar codes. Simulation results over binary-input additive white Gaussian noise channels (BAWGNCs) show that, using a low-complexity successive cancellation (SC) decoder, the proposed HARQ scheme performs as well as the existing schemes based on turbo codes and low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The proposed transmission scheme is only about 1.0-1.5dB away from the channel capacity with the information block length of 1024 bits.
description: Submitted to IEEE Communications Letters
Paragus excalceatus Rondani 1868
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Paragus
Paragus excalceatus

description: Paragus excalceatus Rondani, 1868
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1868a: 34.
TYPE LOCALITY: “ in Agro Bononiensi [Bolognese territory (Italy)]”.
TYPE MATERIAL: not found in this study. See Remarks.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Paragus cinctus Schiner & Egger, 1853 (Peck 1988: 81).
REMARKS: Rondani (1868a: 34) described Paragus excalceatus without specifying the number, the sex or the length of the specimens. We could not locate any type specimens of this nominal species in our study. A MZUF male under the name Paragus excalceatus from “ Etruria ” (= Tuscany) is not included in the type series because it is not from the type locality.
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 262, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621
Influence of the C/O ratio on titanium and vanadium oxides in protoplanetary disks
Creators: name: Ali-Dib, M.
name: Mousis, O.
name: Pekmezci, G. S.
name: Lunine, J. I.
name: Madhusudhan, N.
name: Petit, J. -M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. The observation of carbon-rich disks have motivated several studies questioning the influence of the C/O ratio on their gas phase composition in order to establish the connection between the metallicity of hot-Jupiters and that of their parent stars. Aims. We to propose a method that allows the characterization of the adopted C/O ratio in protoplanetary disks independently from the determination of the host star composition. Titanium and vanadium chemistries are investigated because they are strong optical absorbers and also because their oxides are known to be sensitive to the C/O ratio in some exoplanet atmospheres. Methods. We use a commercial package based on the Gibbs energy minimization technique to compute the titanium and vanadium equilibrium chemistries in protoplanetary disks for C/O ratios ranging from 0.05 to 10. Our calculations are performed for pressures ranging from 1e-6 to 1e-2 bar, and for temperatures ranging from 50 to 2000 K. Results. We find that the vanadium nitride/vanadium oxide and titanium hydride/titanium oxide gas phase ratios strongly depend on the C/O ratio in the hot parts of disks (T > 1000 K). Our calculations suggest that, in these regions, these ratios can be used as tracers of the C/O value in protoplanetary disks.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Trigonometric Parallaxes of High Mass Star Forming Regions: the Structure and Kinematics of the Milky Way
Creators: name: Reid, M. J.
name: Menten, K. M.
name: Brunthaler, A.
name: Zheng, X. W.
name: Dame, T. M.
name: Xu, Y.
name: Wu, Y.
name: Zhang, B.
name: Sanna, A.
name: Sato, M.
name: Hachisuka, K.
name: Choi, Y. K.
name: Immer, K.
name: Moscadelli, L.
name: Rygl, K. L. J.
name: Bartkiewicz, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Over 100 trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions for masers associated with young, high-mass stars have been measured with the BeSSeL Survey, a VLBA key science project, the EVN, and the Japanese VERA project. These measurements provide strong evidence for the existence of spiral arms in the Milky Way, accurately locating many arm segments and yielding spiral pitch angles ranging from 7 to 20 degrees. The widths of spiral arms increase with distance from the Galactic center. Fitting axially symmetric models of the Milky Way with the 3-D position and velocity information and conservative priors for the solar and average source peculiar motions, we estimate the distance to the Galactic center, Ro, to be 8.34 +/- 0.16 kpc, a circular rotation speed at the Sun, To, to be 240 +/- 8 km/s, and a rotation curve that is nearly flat (a slope of -0.2 +/- 0.4 km/s/kpc) between Galactocentric radii of 5 and 16 kpc. Assuming a "universal" spiral galaxy form for the rotation curve, we estimate the thin disk scale length to be 2.44 +/- 0.16 kpc. The parameters Ro and To are not highly correlated and are relatively insensitive to different forms of the rotation curve. Adopting a theoretically motivated prior that high-mass star forming regions are in nearly circular Galactic orbits, we estimate a global solar motion component in the direction of Galactic rotation, Vsun = 14.6 +/- 5.0 km/s. While To and Vsun are significantly correlated, the sum of these parameters is well constrained, To + Vsun = 255.2 +/- 5.1 km/s, as is the angular speed of the Sun in its orbit about the Galactic center, (To + Vsun)/Ro = 30.57 +/- 0.43 km/s/kpc. These parameters improve the accuracy of estimates of the accelerations of the Sun and the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar in their Galactic orbits, significantly reducing the uncertainty in tests of gravitational radiation predicted by general relativity.
description: 38 pages, 6 tables, 6 figures; v2 fixed typos and updated pulsar section; v3 replaced fig 2 (wrong file)
On Euler's decomposition formula for qMZVs
Creators: name: Medina, Jaime Castillo
name: Ebrahimi-Fard, Kurusch
name: Manchon, Dominique
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this short and elementary note we derive a q-generalization of Euler's decomposition formula for the qMZVs recently introduced by Y. Ohno, J. Okuda, and W. Zudilin. This answers a question posed by these authors in [10].
Paragus majoranae Rondani, P. Goeldlin 1857
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Paragus
Paragus majoranae

description: Paragus majoranae Rondani, 1857
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1857: 188 (key), 192 (description).
TYPE LOCALITY: “ in agro parmensis ” [Parmese territory (Italy)].
TYPE MATERIAL: 1 ♂, syntype (terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) (MZUF: Box 7): Paragus Latr. / majoranae Rnd., ♂, Parm. / 338 / Lecto-Paratypus [incorrectly designated], Goeldlin design.; 1 ♂, syntype (terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) (MZUF: Box 7): Paragus Latr. / majoranae Rnd., ♂, Parm. / 338 / P. bradescui det. Sommaggio; 1 ♂, syntype (terminalia in a microvial pinned below specimen) (MZUF: Box 7): Paragus Latr. / majoranae Rnd., ♂, Parm. / 338 / Lecto-paratypus [incorrectly designated] / P. bradescui det. Sommaggio; 1 ♀, syntype (MZUF: Box 7): Paragus Latr. / majoranae Rnd. / 338; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, syntypes (couple pinned together) (MZUF: Box B): Paragus Latr. majoranae R., 116, Parma / 393 116.
CURRENT STATUS: valid species (Peck 1988: 81, Belcari et al. 1995a: 10, Sommaggio 2002: 55).
REMARKS: Rondani (1857: 192) described both sexes of Paragus majoranae without specifying the exact number of specimens and not giving a range of length. Goeldlin de Tiefenau (1976: 96) incorrectly designated a lectotype (♂) from “Sicil [= Sicily]”, which is not the type locality and reported finding only two males at MZUF. We found six syntypes in this study: four males and two females. Sommaggio (2002) demonstrated that the name majoranae had been until then wrongly applied to the species now referred to as Paragus pecchiolii Rondani, 1857. Sommaggio (2002: 54) considered Paragus gorgus Vujić & Radenković, 1999 the same as “ Paragus majoranae” sensu Goeldlin de Tiefenau (1976: 96), which is exemplified by the specimen invalidly designated by him as lectotype. We leave any further lectotype designation to future specialists.
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on pages 262-263, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621
title: Relative Importance of Climate and Humans on Water Storage Changes using GRACE Satellite Data
Creators: name: Scanlon , Bridget R.
Publisher: name: Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft - Geologische Vereinigung e.V. (DGGV)
Year: 2021

description: Understanding climate and human impacts on water storage is critical for sustainable water-resources management. Here we assessed causes of total water storage (TWS) variability from GRACE satellites by comparison with climate forcing, particularly droughts and irrigation water use, in major aquifers in the U.S.. Results show that long-term variability in TWS from 2002 – 2020 tracked by GRACE satellites is dominated by interannual variability in most of the major aquifers. Low TWS trends in the humid eastern U.S. are linked to low drought intensity. Although irrigation pumpage in the humid Mississippi Embayment aquifer exceeded that in the semiarid California Central Valley, a surprising lack of TWS depletion in Mississippi is attributed to streamflow capture. Marked depletion in the southwestern Central Valley and south-central High Plains totaled ~90 km3, about three times greater than the capacity of Lake Mead, the largest U.S. reservoir. Depletion in the Central Valley was driven by long-term droughts (≤5 years) amplified by increased groundwater irrigation. Low or slightly rising TWS trends in the northwestern (Columbia and Snake Basins) U.S. are attributed to dampening of drought impacts by mostly surface water irrigation. GRACE satellite data highlight synergies between climate and irrigation, resulting in little impact on TWS in the humid east, amplifyied TWS depletion in the semiarid southwest and southcentral U.S., and dampened TWS depletion in the northwest and north central U.S.. Sustainable groundwater management benefits from conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater, inefficient surface water irrigation promoting groundwater recharge, efficient groundwater irrigation minimizing depletion, and increasing managed aquifer recharge.
Engineering ZIF-8 Hybridization by Extracted Lignin with Antibacterial Property for Uptake of Methomyl Residues from Wastewater
Creators: name: Abdelhameed, Reda M.
name: Hasanin, Mohamed
name: Abdel-Gawad, Hassan
name: Hegazi, Bahira
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The hybridization between lignin and ZIF-8 and the removal of methomyl insecticides from wastewater was studied. Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) were used to confirm the compounds. The effect of variables such as adsorbent dosage and contact time on the methomyl removal efficiency was investigated. The optimized condition dosage was 1 g L−1 at speed = 300 rpm, 300 min, and the pesticide concentration was 200 mg L−1 at room temperature (25°C) and pH = 7. The SEM and FTIR were used to thoroughly examine the reaction mechanism. Kinetic and isotherm parameters were precisely matched to the Langmuir and pseudo-second order models. The adsorption capacity in 60% ZIF-8@Lignin approached 324.6 mg g−1 which was significantly higher than that of lignin alone. Compared to other studies, the current study demonstrated superior adsorption capacity and cost-effectiveness. Antimicrobial testing confirmed that adding ZIF-8 to lignin enhanced the microbial activity and the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) value. The lowest values against all tested microbial strains were 19 mg mL−1.
Pelecocera schinerii Rondani 1865
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Pelecocera
Pelecocera schinerii

description: Pelecocera schinerii Rondani, 1865
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1865a: 135.
TYPE LOCALITY: “ Im Kienthale bei Mödling [= near Vienna]” (Schiner 1860: 315) [locality for Pelecocera scaevoides (Fallén, 1817) sensu Schiner (1860)].
TYPE MATERIAL: 12 ♂♂, syntypes (NHMW: Box 5/82): scaevoides det. Egger / Austria Alte Sammlung [= old collection]; 1 ♂, syntype (NHMW: Box 5/82): scaevoides det. Egger / Coll. Egger Austria; 9 ♀♀, syntypes (NHMW: Box 5/82): scaevoides det. Egger / Coll. Egger Austria; 1 ♀, syntype (NHMW: Box 5/82): scaevoides det. Egger / Coll. Egger Austria / Pelecocera scaevoides Fallen det. F.C. Thompson 1984/1985.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Chamaesyrphus scaevoides (Fallén, 1817) (Peck 1988: 95).
REMARKS: Rondani (1865a: 135) proposed Pelecocera schinerii for Pelecocera scaevoides (Fallén, 1817) sensu Schiner (1860: 315), which he considered a new species. Rondani referred to Schiner’s redescription of Pelecocera scaevoides from an unspecified number of specimens collected by Egger, so the type material of Pelecocera schinerii Rondani should be in either Schiner’s or Egger’s collection. In Egger’s collection (NHMW) we found 13 males and ten females labeled as Pelecocera scaevoides, which we consider as syntypes of Pelecocera schinerii Rondani, 1865.
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 264, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621
Basic Adsorption Heat Exchanger Theory Calculation Scripts
Creators: name: Velte-Schäfer, Andreas
Publisher: name: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Year: 2023

description: Scripts for calculating basic adsorption heat exchanger theory equations including examples. Scripts may be used with R 4.3.0 https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ in combination with RStudio https://posit.co/products/open-source/rstudio/
Pipiza varians Rondani 1847
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Pipiza
Pipiza varians

description: Pipiza varians Rondani, 1847
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1847d: 343.
TYPE LOCALITY: “ Austria ” (Fabricius 1805: 186) [type locality for Pipiza virens (Fabricius, 1805)].
TYPE MATERIAL: see Remarks.
CURRENT STATUS: junior synonym of Pipizella virens (Fabricius, 1805) (Peck 1988: 91, Belcari et al. 1995a: 11); junior synonym of Pipizella maculipennis (Meigen, 1822) (Steenis & Lucas 2011: 156).
REMARKS: Rondani (1847d: 343) considered Pipiza virens (Fabricius, 1805), Pipiza campestris (Fallén, 1817), Pipiza maculipennis (Meigen, 1822), Pipiza varipes (Meigen, 1822), Pipiza annulata (Macquart, 1829) and Pipiza morosa (Loew, 1840) as the same species but, instead of applying the Principle of Priority, he incorrectly proposed the substitute name Pipiza varians. Rondani (1857: 186) reaffirmed having proposed Pipiza varians to combine the above six nominal species plus Pipiza geniculata Curtis, 1835. Pipiza varians was considered by Schiner (1864: 111), Verrall (1901: 23), Bezzi & Stein (1907: 8) and Kertész (1910: 11) as a synonym of Pipiza virens (Fabricius, 1805); Bezzi (1892: 87, 1894: 287, 1900a: 92) and Bezzi & De Stefani-Perez (1897: 55) treated it as a valid species. The type material for Pipiza varians will be the same as for the name it was proposed to replace, i. e., Pipiza virens. Steenis & Lucas (2011: 168) stated that there is no type of Pipiza virens in the ZMUC where the Fabrician collection is preserved. They incorrectly stated that J.A.W. Lucas designated a lectotype in the MNHN. Under the name Pipiza virens there are five specimens (non-types) in the MNHN (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 2020). Michelsen (2017: 26) listed this nominal species among the Fabrician Diptera types in the ZMUC. Under the name Pipiza varians there are ten males and five females in the MZUF, one male and one female in the MSNC and one male and one female in the MZUB. Steenis & Lucas (2011: 156) incorrectly designated a MZUF male of Pipiza varians as the lectotype.
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 265, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621
Open Star Cluster Image Analysis with Aperture Photometry Tool
Creators: name: Kemp, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Middlebury
Year: 2022
Subjects: Astronomical sciences
Astronomical instrumentation
Higher education

description: In the image analysis for this observing project, we will learn how to create a color magnitude diagram to study the physical and evolutionary properties of a population of stars in an open cluster. Color magnitude diagrams are related to Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams, and we will measure both the brightness and color of the stars in a cluster in our color-magnitude diagram. We will use color as a proxy for temperature of the stars in our cluster.
Syrphus excavatus Rondani 1851
Creators: name: Sforzi, Alessandra
name: Sommaggio, Daniele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Syrphidae
Syrphus
Syrphus excavatus

description: Syrphus excavatus Rondani, 1851
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: 1851: 359.
TYPE LOCALITY: “ regioni equatoriali dell’America, principalmente nelle vicinanze del Rio Napo [Equatorial regions of (South) America, mainly in the vicinity of Napo River]” (Rondani 1851: 357).
TYPE MATERIAL: not found in this study.
CURRENT STATUS: valid species (Thompson et al. 1976: 39).
REMARKS: Rondani (1851: 359) described Syrphus excavatus from just the female sex, without specifying the exact number of specimens, but giving a single measurement of length, from material collected by Osculati (1850) during his journey through equatorial South America. Osculati (1850: 240) named but did not describe the species. Leonardi et al. (1995: 148) and Mazzotti (2011: 166) reported the Osculati collection in Milan as destroyed. We also did not find any material during this study.
description: Published as part of Sforzi, Alessandra & Sommaggio, Daniele, 2021, Catalog of the Diptera types described by Camillo Rondani, pp. 1-438 in Zootaxa 4989 (1) on page 271, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4989.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4980621
The topology of T-duality for T^n-bundles
Creators: name: Bunke, Ulrich
name: Rumpf, Philipp
name: Schick, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In string theory, the concept of T-duality between two principal T^n-bundles E_1 and E_2 over the same base space B, together with cohomology classes h_1\in H^3(E_1) and h_2\in H^3(E_2), has been introduced. One of the main virtues of T-duality is that h_1-twisted K-theory of E_1 is isomorphic to h_2-twisted K-theory of E_2. In this paper, a new, very topological concept of T-duality is introduced. We construct a classifying space for pairs as above with additional "dualizing data", with a forgetful map to the classifying space for pairs (also constructed in the paper). On the first classifying space, we have an involution which corresponds to passage to the dual pair, i.e. to each pair with dualizing data exists a well defined dual pair (with dualizing data). We show that a pair (E,h) can be lifted to a pair with dualizing data if an only if h belongs to the second step of the Leray-Serre filtration of E (i.e. not always), and that in general many different lifts exist, with topologically different dual bundles. We establish several properties of the T-dual pairs. In particular, we prove a T-duality isomorphism of degree -n for twisted K-theory.
description: 67 pages, LaTex2e. The revised version contains in particular an extended introduction explaining the physical background. Final version. Numbering as in Rev. Math. Phys
Spin-Driven Bond Order in a 1/5-Magnetization Plateau Phase in a Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet CuFeO2
Creators: name: Nakajima, Taro
name: Terada, Noriki
name: Mitsuda, Setsuo
name: Bewley, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated spin-wave excitations in a magnetic-field-induced 1/5-magnetization plateau phase in a triangular lattice antiferromagnet CuFeO2 (CFO), by means of inelastic neutron scattering measurements under applied magnetic fields of up to 13.4 T. Comparing the observed spectra with the calculations in which spin-lattice coupling effects for the nearest neighbor exchange interactions are taken into account, we have determined the Hamiltonian parameters in the field-induced 1/5- plateau phase, which directly show that CFO exhibits a bond order associated with the magnetic structure in this phase.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in PRB