cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Degradation of permafrost carbon in the Kolyma River
Creators: name: Keskitalo, Kirsi
name: Bröder, Lisa
name: Jong, Dirk
name: Zimov, Nikita
name: Davydova, Anya
name: Davydov, Sergey
name: Tesi, Tommaso
name: Mann, Paul
name: Haghipour, Negar
name: Eglinton, Timothy I.
name: Vonk, Jorien
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: Soil temperatures in permafrost (i.e. perennially frozen ground) are rising globally. The increasing temperatures accelerate permafrost thaw and release of organic carbon, that has been locked in permafrost soils since the last glacial period, to the contemporary carbon cycle. The potential remineralisation of organic carbon to greenhouse gases can contribute to further climate warming. Particulate organic carbon (POC) in the Kolyma River is older than dissolved organic carbon (DOC) thus serves as a good tracer for abrupt permafrost thaw (i.e. river bank erosion and thermokarst) that dominantly releases old POC. While dissolved organic carbon (DOC) mobilised from the old Yedoma outcrops on the banks of the Kolyma River is shown to be highly labile, vulnerability of POC to biodegradation is not yet known. In this study we aim to constrain degradation rates for POC in the Kolyma River. To capture seasonal variability of the POC pool and its degradation rate the incubation was conducted both during the spring freshet and in late summer (2019 and 2018, respectively). We incubated whole-water samples over 9 to 15 days and quantified POC (and DOC) loss over time, as well as dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC). The incubation was carried out in the dark. We also tracked changes in POC composition and age with carbon isotopes (d13C-OC, d13C-DIC, ∆14C). Preliminary results from 2018 suggest a decrease in POC concentrations of up to 30 % while those of DOC decrease by up to 11 %. The rate of POC degradation is nearly three times faster than DOC though the absolute amounts of DOC are in turn higher than those of POC (< 1 mg L-1 for POC and ~3 mg L-1 for DOC). Furthermore, the changes in d13C of POC, DOC and DIC suggest ongoing microbial degradation and conversion of organic carbon into inorganic carbon. These first estimates show that POC degrades fairly rapidly while transported in the Kolyma River. A better understanding of POC degradation along lateral flow paths is critical for improving our knowledge of permafrost thaw and its possible climate impacts in the future.
description: EGUsphere
Software Engineering Education Beyond the Technical: A Systematic Literature Review
Creators: name: Groeneveld, Wouter
name: Vennekens, Joost
name: Aerts, Kris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Higher education provides a solid theoretical and practical, but mostly technical, background for the aspiring software developer. Research, however, has shown that graduates still fall short of the expectations of industry. These deficiencies are not limited to technical shortcomings. The ever changing landscape of 'lean' enterprise software development requires engineers to be equipped with abilities beyond the technical. How can higher education help students become great software developers in this context? As a first step towards answering this question, we present the results of a systematic literature review, focusing on noncognitive abilities, better known as 'soft skills'. Our results identify self-reflection, conflict resolution, communication, and teamwork as the top four taught skills. Internships and capstone projects require more attention as a teaching aspect to facilitate the learning of multiple skills, including creativity. Interdisciplinary teaching and group composition are other important factors that influence learning. By providing novel insights on relationships between noncognitive abilities and teaching aspects, this work contributes to the continuous improvement of software engineering curricula. These findings may also serve as a springboard for further investigation of certain undervalued skills.
description: 13 pages. Published in Proceedings of the 47th SEFI Conference 2019; 2019. (SEFI - European Society for Engineering Education; Brussels)
Competitive divalent cation incorporation in the ferrous phosphate mineral vivianite
Creators: name: Kubeneck, Luisa Joëlle
name: Thomas Arrigo, Laurel K.
name: Rothwell, Katherine A.
name: Kretzschmar, Ruben
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: Phosphorus (P) is often a limiting nutrient in soils and aquatic systems, but excessive concentrations can lead to eutrophication. The chemical forms in which P is retained in soils and sediments determine its bioavailability. Under reducing conditions, the ferrous phosphate mineral vivianite has been shown to be a major P burial phase in various environments such as coastal sediments. Depending on the local environmental geochemistry, ferrous iron (Fe2+) can be substituted by other divalent cations such as magnesium (Mg2+) and manganese (Mn2+). The substitution of Fe2+ could alter mineralogical characteristics of vivianite, which influences its further reactivity and thus the P and iron (Fe) cycle. Despite the importance of divalent cation substitution in vivianite in the environment, questions remain if certain divalent cations are preferentially incorporated and how they compete for substitution.

Here, we assessed the competitive incorporation of Mn2+ and Mg2+ into vivianite by carrying out vivianite precipitation experiments in anoxic aqueous solutions at pH 7. Additionally, we explored how varying salinity simulating an estuarine gradient influences the incorporation of Mn2+ and Mg2+. Changes in mineralogy with different degrees of Mn2+/ Mg2+ substitution were studied with X-ray powder diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, total elemental dissolution and other techniques.

Based on 19 different vivianites, our results demonstrate that Fe2+ is replaced by up to 50% by Mn2+/ Mg2+ in the vivianite structure, with preferential incorporation of Mn2+ over Mg2+. Increases in salinity seem to slightly enhance divalent cation incorporation. Following from our results, we will discuss the factors influencing divalent cation incorporation into vivianite, and how divalent cation substitution alters mineralogical characteristics. Finally, we will highlight how the substitution of Fe2+ by other divalent cations potentially enhances P fixation in form of vivianite under Fe-limiting conditions.
description: EGUsphere
The District Nurse’s role: Caseload Profiling, the journey from academia to effective practice implementation.
Creators: name: Harper-McDonald, Bruce
name: Baguley, Fiona
Publisher: name: Communicare
Year: 2015

description: This article looks at one student’s journey in taking theory and applying it to practice by caseload profiling on practice placement and how this has subsequently led to practice development. It is widely appreciated that demographics are impacting on the delivery of healthcare in Scotland. This led to the student‘s realisation of the importance of district nurses managing, evidencing and delivering an equitable service. Caseload profiling is a vital tool to deliver this and the article will explore caseload profiling and how this can be applied to practice. It will also explore the benefits and challenges of applying caseload profiling in practice and equip readers in the skill of caseload profiling.
description: Communicare, Vol 1 No 2 (2015)
Anusaaraka: Overcoming the Language Barrier in India
Creators: name: Bharati, Akshar
name: Chaitanya, Vineet
name: Kulkarni, Amba P.
name: Sangal, Rajeev
name: Rao, G Umamaheshwara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I,2,7

description: The anusaaraka system makes text in one Indian language accessible in another Indian language. In the anusaaraka approach, the load is so divided between man and computer that the language load is taken by the machine, and the interpretation of the text is left to the man. The machine presents an image of the source text in a language close to the target language.In the image, some constructions of the source language (which do not have equivalents) spill over to the output. Some special notation is also devised. The user after some training learns to read and understand the output. Because the Indian languages are close, the learning time of the output language is short, and is expected to be around 2 weeks. The output can also be post-edited by a trained user to make it grammatically correct in the target language. Style can also be changed, if necessary. Thus, in this scenario, it can function as a human assisted translation system. Currently, anusaarakas are being built from Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali and Punjabi to Hindi. They can be built for all Indian languages in the near future. Everybody must pitch in to build such systems connecting all Indian languages, using the free software model.
description: Published in "Anuvad: Approaches to Translation", Rukmini Bhaya Nair, (editor), Sage, New Delhi, 2001
Identification of second-gradient elastic materials from planar hexagonal lattices. Part II: Mechanical characteristics and model validation
Creators: name: Rizzi, G.
name: Corso, F. Dal
name: Veber, D.
name: Bigoni, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Positive definiteness and symmetry of the constitutive tensors describing a second-gradient elastic (SGE) material, which is energetically equivalent to a hexagonal planar lattice made up of axially deformable bars, are analyzed by exploiting the closed form-expressions obtained in part I of the present study in the \lq condensed' form. It is shown that, while the first-order approximation leads to an isotropic Cauchy material, a second-order identification procedure provides an equivalent model exhibiting non-locality, non-centrosymmetry, and anisotropy. The derivation of the constitutive properties for the SGE from those of the \lq condensed' one (obtained by considering a quadratic remote displacement which generates stress states satisfying equilibrium) is presented. Comparisons between the mechanical responses of the periodic lattice and of the equivalent SGE material under simple shear and uniaxial strain show the efficacy of the proposed identification procedure and therefore validate the proposed constitutive model. This model reveals that, at higher-order, a lattice material can be made equivalent to a second-gradient elastic material exhibiting an internal length, a finding which is now open for applications in micromechanics.
description: 25 pages, 11 figures
Sedimentation of Oblate Ellipsoids at low and Moderate Reynolds numbers
Creators: name: Fonseca, F.
name: Herrmann, H. J.
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: In many applications to biophysics and environmental engineering, sedimentation of non-spherical particles for example: ellipsoids, is an important problem. In our work, we simulate the dynamics of oblate ellipsoids under gravity. We study the settling velocity and the average orientation of the ellipsoids as a function of volume fraction. We see that the settling velocity shows a local maximum at the intermmediate densities unlike the spheres. The average orientation of the ellipsoids also shows a similar local maximum and we observe that this local maximum disappears as the Reynolds number is increased. Also, at small volume fractions, we observe that the oblate ellipsoids exhibit an orientational clustering effect in alignment with gravity accompanied by strong density fluctuations. The vertical and horizontal fluctuations of the oblate ellipsoids are small compared to that of the spheres.
Additional file 1 of Western Australian adolescent emotional wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
Creators: name: Thomas, H. M.
name: Runions, K. C.
name: Lester, L.
name: Lombardi, K.
name: Epstein, M.
name: Mandzufas, J.
name: Barrow, T.
name: Ang, S.
name: Leahy, A.
name: Mullane, M.
name: Whelan, A.
name: Coffin, J.
name: Mitrou, F.
name: Zubrick, S. R.
name: Bowen, A. C.
name: Gething, P. W.
name: Cross, D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. CHU9D item mean scores and total CHU9D scores by grade, gender, and survey cycle at Cycle 1 (June 2020). Table S2. CHU9D item mean scores and total CHU9D scores by grade, gender, and survey cycle at Cycle 2 (October 2020).
The Big Issue: ergonomics in healthcare education
Creators: name: Hubbard, R.
name: Regan, K.
name: Strath, A.
name: Vosper, H.
Publisher: name: Communicare
Year: 2015

description: “To err is human, to cover up is unforgivable, and to fail to learn is inexcusable.” (Liam Donaldson, speaking at the launch of the World Alliance for Patient Safety - Washington DC, 2004).
description: Communicare, Vol 1 No 2 (2015)
Implications of the Universal Temperature Profile for Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Roychowdhury, Suparna
name: Nath, Biman B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the X-ray cluster gas density distribution in hydrostatic equilibrium using the universal temperature profile obtained from recent simulations involving only gravitational processes. If this temperature profile is an indicator of the influence of gravitational processes alone on the intracluster medium, then the comparison of various X-ray parameters expected from this profile and the observed data would point towards any additional physics that may be required. We compare the entropy at 0.1 R_{200} and R_{500}, the scaled entropy profile, the gas fraction at 0.3 R_{200} and the gas fraction profile with recent observations and discuss the implications of this temperature profile in light of these data. We find that the entropy imparted to the gas from gravitational processes alone is larger than previously thought. The entropy at R_{500} for rich clusters is consistent with data, whereas the entropy at 0.1R_{200} is still less than the observed values. We also find that the gas fraction in the inner region of clusters, expected from gravitational processes alone, is smaller than previously thought but larger than the observed data. It does show a trend with the emission-weighted temperature () as shown by data. We therefore find that the role of any additional non-gravitational process influencing the physical state of ICM would have to be revised in light of these findings.
description: 11 pages including 11 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS, uses mn.sty (included)
MOESM1 of Nationwide survey on training and device utilization during tracheal intubation in French intensive care units
Creators: name: M. Martin
name: P. Decamps
name: A. Seguin
name: C. Garret
name: L. Crosby
name: O. Zambon
name: A. Miailhe
name: E. Canet
name: J. Reignier
name: J. Lascarrou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Document S1. Questionnaire.
Softening of DNA near Melting as Disappearance of an Emergent Property
Creators: name: Majumdar, Debjyoti
name: Bhattacharjee, Somendra M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Near the melting transition the bending elastic constant, $κ$, an emergent property of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA), is shown not to follow the rod-like scaling for small length $N$. The reduction in $κ$ with temperature is determined by the denatured bubbles for a continuous transition, e.g., when the two strands are gaussian, but by the broken bonds near the open end in a Y-like configuration for a first-order transition as for strands with excluded volume interactions. In the latter case, a lever rule is operational implying a phase coexistence although dsDNA is known to be a single phase.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, supplementary material
MOESM1 of Bovine ticks harbour a diverse array of microorganisms in Pakistan
Creators: name: Ghafar, Abdul
name: Cabezas-Cruz, Alejandro
name: Clemence Galon
name: Dasiel Obregon
name: Gasser, Robin
name: Moutailler, Sara
name: Jabbar, Abdul
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Primers used for validation of microfluidic real-time PCR results.
Supplementary document for Sub-picosecond tunable mid-infrared light source for driving high-efficiency optical rectification - 6591337.pdf
Creators: name: Liu, Jinsheng
name: Ding, Yufang
name: Gu, Xingbin
name: Yuan, Peng
name: Zhang, Dongfang
name: Wang, Jing
name: Xie, Guoqiang
name: Tu, Heng
name: Yao, Jiyong
name: Qian, Liejia
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Auletini Desbrochers des Loges 1908
Creators: name: O'Brien, Charles W.
name: Robert H. Turnbow, Jr.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Attelabidae

description: Auletini  Auletina   Auletobius guadelupensis Hustache, 1929: 178
 Distribution. Dominica (New Record), Guadeloupe (O’Brien and Wibmer 1982)
 Recent Dominica Collections. 4 mi. E Salisbury, VIII-19-1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); 6 mi. E Salisbury, Morne Apion, 2500’, VIII-19-1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); Morne Trois Pitons Nat’l. Pk., trail to Middleham Falls, 15 o 21.06’N 61 o 20.06’W, el. 2200 ft., V-20-2000, L. Benavides, E. Chavez, J. Dye & E. Kretsch, Malaise trap, 2000/010 (TAMU); Springfield Estates, Fifi Trail, el. 442 m., V-23- VI- 4-2003, coll. T. Decker & B. Wells, flight intercept trap, site 2 tropical deciduous forest (TAMU); St. Paul Par., Pont Cassé, 1900’, VI- 19-2004, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); St. Paul Par., Springfield Plantation, VI- 21-2004, R. Turnbow (RHTC); St. Paul Par., 5 km. NE Roseau, Springfield Plantation, VI- 22-2004, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); St. George Par., 1.5-3.5 km. W Freshwater Lake, VI- 23-2004, R. Turnbow (RHTC); St. George Par., 2.5-3.5 km. W Freshwater Lake, Morne Trois Pitons N. P., VI- 23-2004, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); St. Paul Par., Springfield Plantation, VI- 23-2004, R. Turnbow (RHTC); St. John Par., Cabrits Nat. Pk., VI- 26-2004, R. Turnbow (RHTC); St. Peter Par., ~1900’, Syndicate Falls Nature Trail, VI- 27-2004, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); St. Peter Par., Syndicate trailhead, VI- 28-2004, R. Turnbow (RHTC)
description: Published as part of O'Brien, Charles W. & Robert H. Turnbow, Jr., 2011, An Annotated List of the Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) of Dominica (Excluding Scolytinae and Platypodidae), pp. 1-31 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (179) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5161026
How to wear a mask properly: Hygiene rules for elderly homes during work and leisure time
Creators: name: Awan, Attabik
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020
Subjects: Corona
elderly care
Corona pandemic
helpfulETH

description: Elderly homes pose a high-risk environment in pandemic situations. Staff specialized on elderly-care will often lack specific training for pandemic situations. Among other measures, hygiene rules and guidelines for staff and visitors can therefore help create awareness to avoid spreading infection.
This project developed education and information material designed for elderly homes. The prints serve as templates and as reference for similar education campaigns in possible future pandemic situations. Information on such prints must be renewed and adapted to the respective situation. The information displayed on these prints are specific for the corona pandemic and are not to be used after 11 June 2020.
title: Secondary high-grade chondrosarcoma arising from enchondroma
Creators: name: Halpern Araya, Vicente
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal system
subject: Musculoskeletal bone
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Neoplasia
subject: Clinical Case

description: Clinical History: An 81-year-old female consults for a 4-month mass and functional limitation in the right shoulder without any other associated symptoms. No traumatic background associated. The physical exam showed a petrous mass attached to the deep planes on the posterolateral surface of the shoulder.

description: 81 years, female
Additional file 3: of Prevalence and risk factors for acute kidney injury among trauma patients: a multicenter cohort study
Creators: name: Harrois, Anatole
name: Soyer, Benjamin
name: Gauss, Tobias
name: Hamada, Sophie
name: Raux, Mathieu
name: Duranteau, Jacques
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Univariate analysis and stepwise logistic regression model including risk factors associated with the occurrence of AKI of all stages (R, I or F). (DOCX 32 kb)
Los Angeles Metro Bus Data Analysis Using GPS Trajectory and Schedule Data (Demo Paper)
Creators: name: Nguyen, Kien
name: Yang, Jingyun
name: Lin, Yijun
name: Lin, Jianfa
name: Chiang, Yao-Yi
name: Shahabi, Cyrus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the widespread installation of location-enabled devices on public transportation, public vehicles are generating massive amounts of trajectory data in real time. However, using these trajectory data for meaningful analysis requires careful considerations in storing, managing, processing, and visualizing the data. Using the location data of the Los Angeles Metro bus system, along with publicly available bus schedule data, we conduct a data processing and analyses study to measure the performance of the public transportation system in Los Angeles utilizing a number of metrics including travel-time reliability, on-time performance, bus bunching, and travel-time estimation. We demonstrate the visualization of the data analysis results through an interactive web-based application. The developed algorithms and system provide powerful tools to detect issues and improve the efficiency of public transportation systems.
description: SIGSPATIAL'18, demo paper, 4 pages
Editorial
Creators: name: Team, Editorial
name: Maehle, Val
Publisher: name: Communicare
Year: 2014

description: I have great pleasure in introducing the first student e-journal at Robert Gordon University – hosted by the Faculty of Health and Social Care. RGU’s Mission is to transform people and communities and we believe we can achieve this through our graduates. Our students are also the life blood of our professions and are critical to the future progress of practice. Therefore the aim of “Communicare” is to celebrate our student body’s work and encourage individuals to learn more about the publishing process so as health and social care professionals they will be equipped to influence the body of evidence that will improve patient care. Professor Val Maehle Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Care
description: Communicare, Vol 1 No 1 (2014)
Weak universality of spin-glass transitions in three-dimensional $\pm J$ models
Creators: name: Nakamura, Tota
name: Endoh, Shin-ichi
name: Yamamoto, Takeo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find a possibility of a weak universality of spin-glass phase transitions in three-dimensional $\pm J$ models. The Ising, the XY and the Heisenberg models seem to undergo finite-temperature phase transitions with a ratio of the critical exponents $γ/ν\sim 2.4$. Evaluated critical exponents may explain corresponding experimental results. The analyses are based upon nonequilibrium relaxation from a paramagnetic state and finite-time scaling.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, manuscript revised, incorrect data are withdrawn
Managing Ecosystem Services for Human Benefit: Economic and Environmental Policy Challenges
Creators: name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Xue, Dayuan
name: Tisdell, Clement A.
name: Xue, Dayuan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: ecosystem services
subject: China
subject: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

description: In the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005), ecologists identified and pointed out a multitude of environmental and other benefits obtained by human-beings from ecosystem services. Frequently, these benefits are not fully recognized and they are not adequately taken into account in decision-making in contemporary economic and political systems for reasons outlined in this contribution. In particular, this adversely affects the optimal conservation of natural, near natural and unmanaged ecosystems. The human benefits from ecosystem services as set out in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment are summarized and this assessment is examined critically. Economic views about the economic value of different types of ecosystems and forms of biosphere use are outlined and assessed. Determining the economic value of alternative forms of land-use (more generally biosphere-use) is extremely difficult because of knowledge constraints. Often the biophysical consequences, that is, variations in the supply of ecosystems services resulting from alterations in ecosystems, are poorly known. The economic valuation of changes in ecosystems (alterations in biosphere-use) is also hampered by poor information about the demand for these services (for example, the willingness of beneficiaries to pay for their supply) and the cost of replacing these services if they are lost (or diminished in availability) as a result of ecosystem change. While this limits the scope for economic valuation, it does not mean the rational valuation of biosphere use is impossible. It has been suggested that the supply of ecosystem services can be managed optimally, in some cases, if private landholders are paid for supplying these services. The benefits and drawbacks of this approach are discussed. China’s policies to restore the supply of particular ecosystem services, for example, its Grain-for-Green program, are used to illustrate some of these matters.
MOESM1 of Evolving knowledge graph similarity for supervised learning in complex biomedical domains
Creators: name: Sousa, Rita
name: Silva, Sara
name: Pesquita, Catia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 Supplementary figures and tables.
Update on splitting of lifetimes of $c$ and $b$ hyperons within the heavy quark expansion and decays $Ξ_Q \to Λ_Q π$
Creators: name: Voloshin, M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is argued that the results of recent precision measurements by LHCb of the lifetimes of charmed and bottom hyperons are very well consistent with the description within heavy quark expansion and allow to accurately determine matrix elements of light-flavor nonsinglet four-quark operators over the hyperons and to accurately reproduce the difference of lifemes of $Λ_b$ and $Ξ_b^-$. When combined with the recent LHCb results on the decay $Ξ_b^- \to Λ_b π^-$ this leads to prediction of a lower bound on the rate of the decays $Ξ_c \to Λ_c π$.
description: 10 pages
Soil Physical Properties of Different Land Use Types in Loess Hilly Region
Creators: name: MENG Tingting
name: LIU Jinbo
name: MENG Tingting
name: LIU Jinbo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Loess hilly region, Land use type, Particle composition, Soil moisture

description: [Objectives] To explore the impact of land use changes on physical properties of soil in loess hilly region. [Methods] The methods of field sampling and indoor analysis were adopted. Farmland in a small watershed in the middle of the Loess Plateau, grassland that had been abandoned for 7 years, grassland that had been abandoned for 30 years, jujube orchard and ditch were sampled, and the particle composition (clay, silt and sand) and moisture changes of the soil in the top 0-100 cm were studied. [Results] In the small watershed, the top 0-100 cm of the soil was composed of 14% clay, 70% silt and 16% sand. The contents of clay, silt and sand in the grassland that had been abandoned for 30 years varied greatly, while varied little in the land of other use types. The soil moisture content of grassland that had been abandoned for 30 years, jujube orchard, grassland that had been abandoned for 7 years, farmland and ditch increased with the increase of depth, with means of 10.29%, 11.66%, 10.08%, 11.43% and 11.34%, respectively. [Conclusions] This study provides a theoretical basis for the growth of crops of different land use types in the loess hilly region.
Arrhenodini Lacordaire 1865
Creators: name: O'Brien, Charles W.
name: Robert H. Turnbow, Jr.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Brentidae

description: Arrhenodini   Raphyrhynchus nitidicollis Gyllenhal, 1833: 328
 Distribution. Costa Rica, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, South America (Blackwelder 1947; Peck 2006)
 Recent Dominica Collections. 4 km. SW Pont Cassé, VIII-14-1986, ca. 1900’, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); St. Paul Par., Pont Cassé, VI- 19-2004, R. Turnbow (CWOB); St. John Par., Cabrits Nat. Pk., bl trap, VI- 27-2004, R. Turnbow (CWOB and RHTC); ibid. VI- 28-2004 (CWOB and RHTC)
description: Published as part of O'Brien, Charles W. & Robert H. Turnbow, Jr., 2011, An Annotated List of the Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) of Dominica (Excluding Scolytinae and Platypodidae), pp. 1-31 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (179) on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5161026
Heterogeneous Bacillus Spore Germination and Superdormancy under High Pressure
Creators: name: Delbrück, Alessia I.
name: Zhang, Yifan
name: Hug, Vera
name: Off, Cosima L.
name: Benke, Stephan
name: Mathys, Alexander
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2020

description: Introduction: High pressure (HP) of 150 MPa can trigger germination of spores, making them lose their extreme resistance, thereby increasing their susceptibility to milder inactivation strategies. However, germination response within a population is heterogeneous and of special concern are high pressure superdormant (HPSD) spores, i.e. spores that remain dormant after exposure to the germination trigger. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to provide suitable tools to study germination heterogeneity and investigate HP superdormancy. Methods: Bacillus subtilis spores were HP treated at 150 and 37°C, stained with SYTO16 and PI, and analyzed via flow cytometry to visualize different subpopulations. Each subpopulation was singlecell sorted with fluorescence activated cell sorting and characterized for its cultivability and heat resistance (80°C/10 min). The influence of heat activation (75°C/30 min) on HP germination was further investigated. The role of germination proteins was studied using isogenic mutants lacking specific germination proteins. Results are expressed as mean value of n=3 ± standard deviation. Results: Four subpopulations were detected including heat-resistant and mostly cultivable HPSD spores, heat-sensitive and cultivable germinated spores, heat-sensitive and partially-cultivable germinated spores, and membrane-compromised cells with barely detectable cultivability. Heat activation did not increase germination; it slowed down germination with 23 and 13 % more HPSD spores after a 2 and 6 min HP treatment respectively. Elevated SpoVA levels had no influence on germination. Germinant receptors strongly influenced HP germination; wildtype spores showed 1 ± 0.35 % HPSD spores after 16 min and the mutant lacking germinant receptors still showed 93.1 ± 0.6 % after 40 min HP treatment. Significance: This research provides a better understanding of heterogeneous spore behavior under HP, and contributes to further investigations of HP germination mechanisms and development of mild HP-based spore control strategies.
STUDENTS AS PARTNERS IN A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT APPROACH TO LEARNING ENHANCEMENT: A CASE STUDY FROM A PHARMACY UNDERGRADUATE COURSE.
Creators: name: Buchan, Sarah
name: Regan, Kirsty
name: Filion-Murphy, Christine
name: Little, Kirsten
name: Strath, Alison
name: Rowe, Iain
name: Vosper, Helen
Publisher: name: Communicare
Year: 2014

description: Higher education is experiencing a period of significant change and the quality of student learning experience has never been more important (or come under more scrutiny). This is one of the major drivers behind the move towards viewing students as partners in their learning experience. This is further supported by an awareness that engaging students in ‘purposive activities’ beyond the classroom has been shown to have a positive impact on student achievement and satisfaction. Another significant influence on healthcare curricula is the patient safety agenda: it is increasingly expected that, as part of their undergraduate training, students will be exposed to Quality Improvement (QI) methodology. This paper discusses the application of QI models to educational enhancement: supporting students in recognising areas of their curricula that would benefit from such activity and giving them the opportunity to change them effectively unites and addresses both the patient safety and student engagement agendas.
description: Communicare, Vol 1 No 1 (2014)
Negative refraction in outer space?
Creators: name: Mackay, Tom G.
name: Lakhtakia, Akhlesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mediums which do not support the propagation of plane waves with negative phase velocity (NPV) when viewed at rest can support NPV propagation when they are viewed in a reference frame which is uniformly translated at sufficiently high velocity. Thus, relativistic negative refraction may be exploited in astronomical scenarios.
Thermo-hydrodynamic response of sparse fracture systems to heat injection
Creators: name: Brixel, Bernard
name: Klepikova, Maria
name: Lei, Qinghua
name: Roques, Clément
name: Jalali, Reza
name: Loew, Simon
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2019

description: DECOVALEX 2019 Symposium Abstracts
Additional file 1 of Low social acceptance among peers increases the risk of persistent musculoskeletal pain in adolescents. Prospective data from the Fit Futures Study
Creators: name: Jahre, Henriette
name: Grotle, Margreth
name: Smedbråten, Kaja
name: Richardsen, Kåre Rønn
name: Côté, Pierre
name: Steingrímsdóttir, Ólöf Anna
name: Nielsen, Christopher
name: Storheim, Kjersti
name: Småstuen, Milada
name: Stensland, Synne Øien
name: Øiestad, Britt Elin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. STROBE Statement—checklist of items that should be included in reports of observational studies.
Kinks bounded by fermions
Creators: name: Perapechka, Ilya
name: Shnir, Yakov
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present and study new mechanism of interaction between the solitons based on the exchange interaction mediated by the localized fermion states. As particular examples, we consider solutions of simple 1+1 dimensional scalar field theories with self-interaction potentials, including sine-Gordon model and the polynomial $ϕ^4$, $ϕ^6$ models, coupled to the Dirac fermions with back-reaction. We discover that there is an additional fermion exchange interaction between the solitons, it leads to the formation of static multi-soliton bound states. Further, we argue that similar mechanisms of formation of stable coupled multi-soliton configurations can be observed for a wide class of physical systems.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
LOcAl DEcisions on Replicated States (LOADER) in programmable data planes: programming abstraction and experimental evaluation
Creators: name: Sviridov, German
name: Bonola, Marco
name: Tulumello, Angelo
name: Giaccone, Paolo
name: Bianco, Andrea
name: Bianchi, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Programmable data planes recently emerged as a prominent innovation in Software Defined Networking (SDN), by permitting support of stateful flow processing functions over hardware network switches specifically designed for network processing. Unlike early SDN solutions such as OpenFlow, modern stateful data planes permit to keep (and dynamically update) local per-flow states inside network switches, thus dramatically improving reactiveness of network applications to state changes. Still, also in stateful data planes, the control and update of non-local states is assumed to be completely delegated to a centralized controller and thus accessed only at the price of extra delay. Our LOADER proposal aims at contrasting the apparent dichotomy between local states and global states. We do so by introducing a new possibility: permit to take localized (in-switch) decisions not only on local states but also on replicated global states, thus providing support for network-wide applications without incurring the drawbacks of classical approaches. To this purpose, i) we provide high-level programming abstractions devised to define the states and the update logic of a generic network-wide application, and ii) we detail the underlying low level state management and replication mechanisms. We then show LOADER's independence of the stateful data plane technology employed, by implementing it over two distinct stateful data planes (P4 switches and OPP - Open Packet Processor - switches), and by experimentally validating both implementations in an emulated testbed using a simple distributed Deny-of-Service (DoS) detection application.
Spin Orientation and Spin Precession in Inversion-Asymmetric Quasi Two-Dimensional Electron Systems
Creators: name: Winkler, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inversion asymmetry induced spin splitting of the electron states in quasi two-dimensional (2D) systems can be attributed to an effective magnetic field B which varies in magnitude and orientation as a function of the in-plane wave vector k||. Using a realistic 8x8 Kane model that fully takes into account spin splitting because of both bulk inversion asymmetry and structure inversion asymmetry we investigate the spin orientation and the effective field B for different configurations of a quasi 2D electron system. It is shown that these quantities depend sensitively on the crystallographic direction in which the quasi 2D system was grown as well as on the magnitude and orientation of the in-plane wave vector k||. These results are used to discuss how spin-polarized electrons can precess in the field B(k||). As a specific example we consider GaInAs-InP quantum wells.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Dryophthorinae Schoenherr 1825
Creators: name: O'Brien, Charles W.
name: Robert H. Turnbow, Jr.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Dryophthoridae

description: Dryophthorinae   Dryophthorus guadelupensis Hustache, 1932: 84
 Distribution. Dominica (New Record), Guadeloupe (O’Brien and Wibmer 1982)
 Recent Dominica Collections. ca. 2500’, Morne Trois Pitons N. P., Freshwater Lake, VIII-15- 1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB)
 Dryophthorus nanus Hustache, 1932: 84
 Distribution. Dominica (New Record), Guadeloupe (O’Brien and Wibmer 1982)
 Recent Dominica Collections. 4 km. SW Pt. Cassé, VIII-14-1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); ca. 800’, 6 km. NW Pt. Cassé, VIII-14-1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); ca. 2500’, Morne Trois Pitons N. P., Freshwater Lake, VIII-15-1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); ca. 2600’, Morne Trois Pitons N. P., Freshwater Lake, VIII-17-1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); 4 mi. E Salisbury, VIII-19-1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); St. David Par., 11 km. NE Pont Cassé, VI- 20-2004, R. Turnbow, from cut banana stalk (RHTC)
 Stenommatus sp.
 Distribution. Dominica
 Recent Dominica Collections. 2 km. SW Pt. Cassé, VIII-14-1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); ca. 1900’, Pt. Cassé, VIII-18-1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB); 1 km. NE Pt. Cassé, VIII-18- 1986, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (CWOB)
description: Published as part of O'Brien, Charles W. & Robert H. Turnbow, Jr., 2011, An Annotated List of the Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) of Dominica (Excluding Scolytinae and Platypodidae), pp. 1-31 in Insecta Mundi 2011 (179) on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5161026
Additional file 2 of Low social acceptance among peers increases the risk of persistent musculoskeletal pain in adolescents. Prospective data from the Fit Futures Study
Creators: name: Jahre, Henriette
name: Grotle, Margreth
name: Smedbråten, Kaja
name: Richardsen, Kåre Rønn
name: Côté, Pierre
name: Steingrímsdóttir, Ólöf Anna
name: Nielsen, Christopher
name: Storheim, Kjersti
name: Småstuen, Milada
name: Stensland, Synne Øien
name: Øiestad, Britt Elin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Analyses of baseline characteristics of study participants and participants lost to follow-up.
Supplementary document for The decaying dynamics of harmonic mode-locking in a SESAM-based mode-locked fiber laser - 6642846.pdf
Creators: name: Ma, Xiaohui
name: Zhang, Kai
name: Li, Chuchen
name: Chen, Kai
name: Yong, Zhou
name: Zhang, Wei
name: FANG, WENTAN
name: Chen, Xiaolin
name: Huang, Song
name: Yu, Ronghua
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The characteristics of the FML and HML solitons
Language Access: An Information Based Approach
Creators: name: Bharati, Akshar
name: Chaitanya, Vineet
name: Kulkarni, Amba P.
name: Sangal, Rajeev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I,2,7

description: The anusaaraka system (a kind of machine translation system) makes text in one Indian language accessible through another Indian language. The machine presents an image of the source text in a language close to the target language. In the image, some constructions of the source language (which do not have equivalents in the target language) spill over to the output. Some special notation is also devised. Anusaarakas have been built from five pairs of languages: Telugu,Kannada, Marathi, Bengali and Punjabi to Hindi. They are available for use through Email servers. Anusaarkas follows the principle of substitutibility and reversibility of strings produced. This implies preservation of information while going from a source language to a target language. For narrow subject areas, specialized modules can be built by putting subject domain knowledge into the system, which produce good quality grammatical output. However, it should be remembered, that such modules will work only in narrow areas, and will sometimes go wrong. In such a situation, anusaaraka output will still remain useful.
description: Published in the proceedings of Knowledge Based Computer Systems conference, 2000, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, Dec. 2000
Continuous and discrete abstractions for planning, applied to ship docking
Creators: name: Meyer, Pierre-Jean
name: Yin, He
name: Brodtkorb, Astrid H.
name: Arcak, Murat
name: Sørensen, Asgeir J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We propose a hierarchical control framework for the synthesis of correct-by-construction controllers for nonlinear control-affine systems with respect to reach-avoid-stay specifications. We first create a low-dimensional continuous abstraction of the system and use Sum-of-Squares (SOS) programming to obtain a low-level controller ensuring a bounded error between the two models. We then create a discrete abstraction of the continuous abstraction and use formal methods to synthesize a controller satisfying the specifications shrunk by the obtained error bound. Combining both controllers finally solves the main control problem on the initial system. This two-step framework allows the discrete abstraction methods to deal with higher-dimensional systems which may be computationally expensive without the prior continuous abstraction. The main novelty of the proposed SOS continuous abstraction is that it allows the error between abstract and concrete models to explicitly depend on the control input of the abstract model, which offers more freedom in the choice of the continuous abstraction model and provides lower error bounds than when only the states of both models are considered. This approach is illustrated on the docking problem of a marine vessel.