cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scotoecus hirundo de Winton 1899
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotoecus
Scotoecus hirundo

description: Scotoecus hirundo de Winton, 1899. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 4:355. TYPE LOCALITY: Ghana, Gambaga. DISTRIBUTION: Senegal to Ethiopia, south to Angola, Zambia and Malawi. SYNONYMS: albigula, artinii, falabae, hindei. COMMENTS: Includes hindei; see Hayman and Hill (1971:36) and Robbins (1980:84); but see also J. E. Hill (1974b).
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 226, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Hayman, R. W., and J. E. Hill. 1971. Order Chiroptera. Part 2. Pp. 1 - 73, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 15 Jul 1971]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.", "Robbins, L. W., J. R. Choate, and R. L. Robbins. 1980. Nongeographic and interspecific variation in four species of Hylomyscus (Rodentia: Muridae) in southern Cameroon. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 49: 31 - 48.", "Hill, J. E. 1974 b. New records of bats from southeastern Asia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 27: 127 - 138."]}
"Show me your boobs" : how do child psychotherapists understand the sexual behaviours of traumatised, latency aged boys in the therapy sessions?
Creators: name: Azzopardi, Sylvia.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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The formation of massive, quiescent galaxies at cosmic noon
Creators: name: Feldmann, Robert
name: Hopkins, Philip F.
name: Quataert, Eliot
name: Faucher-Giguere, Claude-Andre
name: Keres, Dusan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cosmic noon (z~1.5-3) marked a period of vigorous star formation for most galaxies. However, about a third of the more massive galaxies at those times were quiescent in the sense that their observed stellar populations are inconsistent with rapid star formation. The reduced star formation activity is often attributed to gaseous outflows driven by feedback from supermassive black holes, but the impact of black hole feedback on galaxies in the young Universe is not yet definitively established. We analyze the origin of quiescent galaxies with the help of ultra-high resolution, cosmological simulations that include feedback from stars but do not model the uncertain consequences of black hole feedback. We show that dark matter halos with specific accretion rates below ~0.25-0.4 per Gyr preferentially host galaxies with reduced star formation rates and red broad-band colors. The fraction of such halos in large dark matter only simulations matches the observed fraction of massive quiescent galaxies (~10^10-10^11 Msun). This strongly suggests that halo accretion rate is the key parameter determining which massive galaxies at z~1.5-3 become quiescent. Empirical models that connect galaxy and halo evolution, such as halo occupation distribution or abundance matching models, assume a tight link between galaxy properties and the masses of their parent halos. These models will benefit from adding the specific accretion rate of halos as a second model parameter.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, to appear in MNRAS Letters
Effect of a high fat diet on colon inflammation in a female estrogen deficient mouse model
Creators: name: Malonza, Natasha
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: Obesity and metabolic disease are symptoms of menopause, which can be modeled using 4-vinylcyclohexene diepoxide (VCD)–treated mice to induce estrogen deficiency combined with high-fat diet (HFD) feeding. The trend of replacing saturated fatty acids (SFAs), for example coconut oil, with seed oils that are high in polyunsaturated fatty acids, specifically linoleic acid (LA), may induce inflammation and gut dysbiosis, and worsen symptoms of estrogen deficiency. To investigate this hypothesis, vehicle (VEH)- or VCD-treated C57BL/6J mice were fed a HFD (45% kcal fat) with a high LA:SFA ratio (22.5%: 8%), referred to as the 22.5% LA diet, or a HFD with a low LA:SFA ratio (1%: 31%), referred to as 1% LA diet, for a period of 23 to 25 weeks. Compared with VCD-treated mice fed the 22.5% LA diet, VCD-treated mice fed the 1% LA diet showed lower weight gain. Overall, these data suggest that consuming different types of dietary fat from a variety of sources, without overemphasis on any type, is the optimal approach for promoting metabolic health regardless of estrogen status.
Scotoecus pallidus Dobson 1876
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotoecus
Scotoecus pallidus

description: Scotoecus pallidus Dobson, 1876. Monogr. Asiat. Chiroptera, App. D:186. TYPE LOCALITY: Pakistan, Punjab, Lahore, Mian Mir. DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan, N India. COMMENTS: Included in Nycticeius by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:177); but see J. E. Hill (1974b).
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 226, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.", "Hill, J. E. 1974 b. New records of bats from southeastern Asia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 27: 127 - 138."]}
Correspondence behavior of classical and quantum dissipative directed transport via thermal noise
Creators: name: Carlo, Gabriel G.
name: Ermann, Leonardo
name: Rivas, Alejandro M. F.
name: Spina, María E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We systematically study several classical-quantum correspondence properties of the dissipative modified kicked rotator, a paradigmatic ratchet model. We explore the behavior of the asymptotic currents for finite $\hbar_{\rm eff}$ values in a wide range of the parameter space. We find that the correspondence between the classical currents with thermal noise providing uctuations of size $\hbar_{\rm eff}$ and the quantum ones without it, is very good in general with the exception of specific regions. We systematically consider the spectra of the corresponding classical Perron-Frobenius operators and quantum superoperators. By means of an average distance between the classical and quantum sets of eigenvalues we find that the correspondence is unexpectedly quite uniform. This apparent contradiction is solved with the help of the Weyl-Wigner distributions of the equilibrium eigenvectors, which reveal the key role of quantum effects by showing surviving coherences in the asymptotic states.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
The Gaia-ESO Survey: Probes of the inner disk abundance gradient
Creators: name: Jacobson, H. R.
name: Friel, E. D.
name: Jilkova, L.
name: Magrini, L.
name: Bragaglia, A.
name: Vallenari, A.
name: Tosi, M.
name: Randich, S.
name: Donati, P.
name: Cantat-Gaudin, T.
name: Sordo, R.
name: Smiljanic, R.
name: Overbeek, J. C.
name: Carraro, G.
name: Tautvaisiene, G.
name: Roman, I. San
name: Villanova, S.
name: Geisler, D.
name: Munoz, C.
name: Jimenez-Esteban, F.
name: Tang, B.
name: Gilmore, G.
name: Alfaro, E. J.
name: Bensby, T.
name: Flaccomio, E.
name: Koposov, S. E.
name: Korn, A. J.
name: Pancino, E.
name: Recio-Blanco, A.
name: Casey, A. R.
name: Costado, M. T.
name: Franciosini, E.
name: Heiter, U.
name: Hill, V.
name: Hourihane, A.
name: Lardo, C.
name: de Laverny, P.
name: Lewis, J.
name: Monaco, L.
name: Morbidelli, L.
name: Sacco, G. G.
name: Sousa, S. G.
name: Worley, C. C.
name: Zaggia, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nature of the metallicity gradient inside the solar circle (R_GC < 8 kpc) is poorly understood, but studies of Cepheids and a small sample of open clusters suggest that it steepens in the inner disk. We investigate the metallicity gradient of the inner disk using a sample of inner disk open clusters that is three times larger than has previously been studied in the literature to better characterize the gradient in this part of the disk. We used the Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) [Fe/H] values and stellar parameters for stars in 12 open clusters in the inner disk from GES-UVES data. Cluster mean [Fe/H] values were determined based on a membership analysis for each cluster. Where necessary, distances and ages to clusters were determined via comparison to theoretical isochrones. The GES open clusters exhibit a radial metallicity gradient of -0.10+-0.02 dex/kpc, consistent with the gradient measured by other literature studies of field red giant stars and open clusters in the range R_GC ~ 6-12 kpc. We also measure a trend of increasing [Fe/H] with increasing cluster age, as has also been found in the literature. We find no evidence for a steepening of the inner disk metallicity gradient inside the solar circle as earlier studies indicated. The age-metallicity relation shown by the clusters is consistent with that predicted by chemical evolution models that include the effects of radial migration, but a more detailed comparison between cluster observations and models would be premature.
description: Accepted to A&A; 9 pages, 5 figures; Full Table 2 in source
Scotomanes Dobson 1875
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotomanes

description: Scotomanes Dobson, 1875. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875:371. TYPE SPECIES: Nycticejus ornatus Blyth, 1851. SYNONYMS: Scoteinus. COMMENTS: Includes Scoteinus; see Sinha and Chakraborty (1971).
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 226, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Sinha, Y. P., and S. Chakroborty. 1971. Taxonomic status of the vespertilionid bat Nycticeius emarginatus Dobson. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of Calcutta, 24: 53 - 57."]}
How biological children in a famly experience & perceive the introduction of a fostered child : an exploratory study
Creators: name: Ganci, Maria.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Solitary wave simulations of the Boussinesq Systems
Creators: name: Ersoy, Ozlem
name: Dag, Idiris
name: Korkmaz, Alper
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In the study, the collocation method based on exponential cubic B-spline functions is proposed to solve one dimensional Boussinesq systems numerically. Two initial boundary value problems for Regularized and Classical Boussinesq systems modeling motion of traveling waves are considered. The accuracy of the method is validated by measuring the error between the numerical and analytical solutions. The numerical solutions obtained by various values of free parameter $p$ are compared with some solutions in literature.
description: 13 pages, 4 figures
Evolutionary regression in Victorian children's literature
Creators: name: McCullough, Anna Lauren
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Children's literature
subject: Evolutionary theory
subject: Recapitulation
subject: Fantasy
subject: Regression
subject: PR990.M3
subject: Children's literature, English--History and criticism
subject: Evolution (Biology) in literature
subject: Fantasy fiction--History and criticism

description: The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species coincided with a growing number of fantastical children’s texts in Victorian Britain. This thesis examines how children’s literature envisions evolutionary change in idiosyncratic ways, arguing that children’s authors blend evolutionary paradigms rather than subscribing to any particular theory. I identify how children’s writers approach key evolutionary ideas, such as progress, agency, kinship with animals, and mutual aid. Children’s authors are particularly interested in recapitulation, the idea that individual development mirrors the evolution of the species, but they often envision it as nonlinear or regressive. Spanning children’s works from 1861-1911, this thesis draws together several academic disciplines, including history of science, Victorian studies, and scholarship on children’s literature. I examine a wide, and often hitherto unstudied, variety of texts: major scientific publications, scientific lectures, essays in periodicals, and children’s fiction, among other contextual and biographical materials. This thesis fills multiple gaps in scholarly literature by re-evaluating children’s authors as scientific theorists in their own right who contribute new ideas to evolutionary discourse. The first chapter discusses Andrew Lang’s concept of relapse, by which he promotes a physical and epistemological blend of past and present. Chapter 2 analyzes George MacDonald’s Princess books, in which physical regression is intimately related to spiritual evolution. The third chapter examines the violent and nonsensical animal worlds of Lewis Carroll, Jean Ingelow, and Tom Hood. In the fourth chapter, I discuss Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books, which use Darwinian kinship with all life forms to establish an interspecies community. Finally, Chapter 5 considers Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, a text that encapsulates the Victorian fascination with alternative modes of evolution. These writers’ depictions of evolutionary regression challenge a monolithic definition of evolution, epitomizing the striking diversity of evolutionary thought in the late nineteenth century.
Scotomanes emarginatus
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotomanes
Scotomanes emarginatus

description: Scotomanes emarginatus (Dobson, 1871). Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, p. 211. TYPE LOCALITY: " India." DISTRIBUTION: India. COMMENTS: Included in Nycticeius by Ellerman and Morrison-Scott (1951:177); but see J. E. Hill (1974b). Probably a synonym of S. ornatus.
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 226, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Ellerman, J. R., and T. C. S. Morrison-Scott. 1951. Checklist of Palaearctic and Indian mammals 1758 to 1946. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London, 810 pp.", "Hill, J. E. 1974 b. New records of bats from southeastern Asia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 27: 127 - 138."]}
Tidal Disruption Events Prefer Unusual Host Galaxies
Creators: name: French, K. Decker
name: Arcavi, Iair
name: Zabludoff, Ann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) are transient events observed when a star passes close enough to a supermassive black hole to be tidally destroyed. Many TDE candidates have been discovered in host galaxies whose spectra have weak or no line emission yet strong Balmer line absorption, indicating a period of intense star formation that has recently ended. As such, TDE host galaxies fall into the rare class of quiescent Balmer-strong galaxies. Here, we quantify the fraction of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with spectral properties like those of TDE hosts, determining the extent to which TDEs are over-represented in such galaxies. Galaxies whose spectra have Balmer absorption H$δ_{\rm A}$ $-$ $σ$(H$δ_{\rm A}$) $>$ 4 Å (where $σ$(H$δ_{\rm A}$) is the error in the Lick H$δ_{\rm A}$ index) and H$α$ emission EW $$ 1.31 Å and H$α$ EW $80\times$ enhancement in such hosts and providing an observational link between the $γ$/X-ray-bright and optical/UV-bright TDE classes.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures, accepted to ApJL
Gate-induced Gap in Bilayer Graphene Suppressed by Coulomb Repulsion
Creators: name: Xu, Jin-Rong
name: Song, Ze-Yi
name: Lin, Hai-Qing
name: Zhang, Yu-Zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of on-site Coulomb repulsion $U$ on the band gap of the electrically gated bilayer graphene by employing coherent potential approximation in the paramagnetic state, based on an ionic two-layer Hubbard model. We find that, while either the on-site Coulomb repulsion $U$ or the external perpendicular electric field $E$ alone will favor a gapped state in the bilayer graphene, competition between them will surprisingly lead to a suppression of the gap amplitude. Our results can be applied to understand the discrepancies of gap size reported from optical and transport measurements, as well as the puzzling features observed in angular resolved photoemission spectroscopic study.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Cloud Instance Management and Resource Prediction For Computation-as-a-Service Platforms
Creators: name: Doyle, Joseph
name: Giotsas, Vasileios
name: Anam, Mohammad Ashraful
name: Andreopoulos, Yiannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Computation-as-a-Service (CaaS) offerings have gained traction in the last few years due to their effectiveness in balancing between the scalability of Software-as-a-Service and the customisation possibilities of Infrastructure-as-a-Service platforms. To function effectively, a CaaS platform must have three key properties: (i) reactive assignment of individual processing tasks to available cloud instances (compute units) according to availability and predetermined time-to-completion (TTC) constraints; (ii) accurate resource prediction; (iii) efficient control of the number of cloud instances servicing workloads, in order to optimize between completing workloads in a timely fashion and reducing resource utilization costs. In this paper, we propose three approaches that satisfy these properties (respectively): (i) a service rate allocation mechanism based on proportional fairness and TTC constraints; (ii) Kalman-filter estimates for resource prediction; and (iii) the use of additive increase multiplicative decrease (AIMD) algorithms (famous for being the resource management in the transport control protocol) for the control of the number of compute units servicing workloads. The integration of our three proposals\ into a single CaaS platform is shown to provide for more than 27% reduction in Amazon EC2 spot instance cost against methods based on reactive resource prediction and 38% to 60% reduction of the billing cost against the current state-of-the-art in CaaS platforms (Amazon Lambda and Autoscale).
description: Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Cloud Engineering, IC2E 2016, April 2016, Berlin, Germany
Attachment, separation and loss : meanings for children in complex foster care
Creators: name: Geoghegan, Kaye.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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Scotomanes ornatus
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotomanes
Scotomanes ornatus

description: Scotomanes ornatus (Blyth, 1851). J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 20:511. TYPE LOCALITY: India, Assam, Khasi Hills, Cherrapunji. DISTRIBUTION: NE India (including Sikkim), Burma, S China, Thailand, Vietnam. SYNONYMS: imbrensis, nivicolus, sinensis.
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 226, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
Single-Ion Atomic Clock with $3\times10^{-18}$ Systematic Uncertainty
Creators: name: Huntemann, N.
name: Sanner, C.
name: Lipphardt, B.
name: Tamm, Chr.
name: Peik, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally investigate an optical frequency standard based on the $^2S_{1/2} (F=0)\to {}^2F_{7/2} (F=3)$ electric octupole (\textit{E}3) transition of a single trapped $^{171}$Yb$^+$ ion. For the spectroscopy of this strongly forbidden transition, we utilize a Ramsey-type excitation scheme that provides immunity to probe-induced frequency shifts. The cancellation of these shifts is controlled by interleaved single-pulse Rabi spectroscopy which reduces the related relative frequency uncertainty to $1.1\times 10^{-18}$. To determine the frequency shift due to thermal radiation emitted by the ion's environment, we measure the static scalar differential polarizability of the \textit{E}3 transition as $0.888(16)\times 10^{-40}$ J m$^2$/V$^2$ and a dynamic correction $η(300~\text{K})=-0.0015(7)$. This reduces the uncertainty due to thermal radiation to $1.8\times 10^{-18}$. The residual motion of the ion yields the largest contribution $(2.1\times 10^{-18})$ to the total systematic relative uncertainty of the clock of $3.2\times 10^{-18}$.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
The Impact Crater Size-Frequency Distribution on Pluto Follows a Truncated Pareto Distribution: Results from a First Data Set Based on the Recent New Horizons' Flyby
Creators: name: Zaninetti, L.
name: Scholkmann, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently it could be shown ( that the impact crater size-frequency distribution of Pluto (based on an analysis of first images obtained by the recent New Horizons flyby) follows a power law alpha = 2.4926 in the interval of diameter (D) values ranging from 3.75 km to the largest determined value of 37.77 km. A reanalysis of this data set revealed that the whole crater SFD (i.e., with values in the interval of 1.2-37.7 km) can be described by a truncated Pareto distribution.
description: 2 pages and 1 figure
Scotophilus Leach 1821
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotophilus

description: Scotophilus Leach, 1821. Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13:69, 71. TYPE SPECIES: Scotophilus kuhlii Leach, 1821. SYNONYMS: Pachyotus. COMMENTS: Includes Pachyotus; see Walker et al. (1975:359). African species revised by Koopman (1984b) and by C. B. Robbins et al. (1985).
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 226, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Walker, E. P., F. Warnick, S. E. Hamlet, K. I. Lange, M. A. Davis, H. E. Uible, and P. F. Wright. 1975. Mammals of the world. Third ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1: 1 - 646; 2: 647 - 1500.", "Koopman, K. F. 1984 b. A progress report on the systematics of African Scotophilus (Vespertilionidae). Proceedings of the Sixth International Bat Research Conference, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 4: 102 - 113."]}
Sertoli cell only syndrome: etiology and clinical management
Creators: name: Ghanami Gashti, Nasrin
name: Gilani, Mohammad
Ali Sadighi
name: Abbasi, Mehdi
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Engineering
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Almost 50% of infertility cases are due to male factors, and spermatogenesis failure is one of the most severe forms of male infertility. Sertoli cell-only syndrome (SCOS) also known as germ cell aplasia is characterized by azoospermia in which the seminiferous tubules of testicular biopsy are lined only with Sertoli cells. The definitive diagnosis of SCOS is by diagnostic testicular biopsy. Although SCOS may be a result of Klinefelter syndrome, most of the SCOS men have a normal karyotype. Along with genetic aberrations, signaling pathways and endocrine processes might be major factors in the development of SCOS. Sperm retrieval and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) are available treatments for SCOS. However, some SCOS patients do not have therapeutic options to help them having a biological child. This review aims to summarize our present knowledge about SCOS and to highlight the importance of future researches in the diagnosis and treatment of this disorder.
Stellar population constraints on the ages of galactic bars
Creators: name: James, Phil A.
name: Percival, Susan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the stellar populations within the central regions of four nearby barred galaxies, and use a novel technique to constrain the duration of bar activity. We focus on the star formation 'desert', a region within each of these galaxies where star formation appears to have been suppressed by the bar. New H beta spectroscopic data are presented, and used to produce spectroscopic line indices which are compared with theoretical predictions from population synthesis models for simple stellar populations and temporally truncated star formation histories. This analysis shows that the dearth of star formation activity in these regions appears to have been continuing for at least 1 Gyr, with timescales of several Gyr indicated for two of the galaxies. This favours models in which strong bars can be long-lived features of galaxies, but our results also indicate a significant diversity in stellar population ages, and hence in the implied histories of bar activity in these four galaxies.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 9 pages, 8 figures
Scotophilus borbonicus
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotophilus
Scotophilus borbonicus

description: Scotophilus borbonicus (E. Geoffroy, 1803). Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 8:201. TYPE LOCALITY: Reunion Isl (France). DISTRIBUTION: Madagascar, Reunion Isl (Mascarene Isis). Records from Mauritius (Mascarene Isis) are erroneous, see Cheke and Dahl (1981). STATUS: May be extinct; see Cheke and Dahl (1981:217). COMMENTS: Included equivocally in leucogaster by Hayman and Hill (1971:50-51); but see Koopman (1975:414-416). Hill (1980b) considered African viridis and damarensis, and possibly leucogaster to be conspecific with borbonicus, but C. B. Robbins et al. (1985) rejected any affinity with African mainland species. Also see comment under leucogaster. Koopman (1986), included viridis, damarensis, and nigritellus (but not leucogaster) in this species.
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on pages 226-227, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Cheke, A. S., and A. F. Dahl. 1981. The status of bats on western Indian Ocean Islands, with special reference to Pteropus. Mammalia, 45: 205 - 238.", "Hayman, R. W., and J. E. Hill. 1971. Order Chiroptera. Part 2. Pp. 1 - 73, in The mammals of Africa: An identification manual (J. Meester and H. W. Setzer, eds.) [issued 15 Jul 1971]. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., not continuously paginated.", "Koopman, K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 154: 353 - 444.", "Hill, J. E. 1980 b. The status of Vespertilio borbonicus E. Geoffroy, 1803 (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Zoologische Mededelingen, 55: 287 - 295.", "Koopman, K. F. 1986. Sudan bats revisited: An update of \" Bats of the Sudan \". Cimbebasia, ser. A. 8 (2): 9 - 13."]}
The First Spectrum of the Coldest Brown Dwarf
Creators: name: Skemer, Andrew
name: Morley, Caroline
name: Allers, Katelyn
name: Geballe, Thomas
name: Marley, Mark
name: Fortney, Jonathan
name: Faherty, Jacqueline
name: Bjoraker, Gordon
name: Lupu, Roxana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recently discovered brown dwarf WISE 0855 presents our first opportunity to directly study an object outside the Solar System that is nearly as cold as our own gas giant planets. However the traditional methodology for characterizing brown dwarfs---near infrared spectroscopy---is not currently feasible as WISE 0855 is too cold and faint. To characterize this frozen extrasolar world we obtained a 4.5-5.2 $μ$m spectrum, the same bandpass long used to study Jupiter's deep thermal emission. Our spectrum reveals the presence of atmospheric water vapor and clouds, with an absorption profile that is strikingly similar to Jupiter. The spectrum is high enough quality to allow the investigation of dynamical and chemical processes that have long been studied in Jupiter's atmosphere, but now on an extrasolar world.
description: submitted to ApJL
Scotophilus celebensis Sody 1928
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotophilus
Scotophilus celebensis

description: Scotophilus celebensis Sody, 1928. Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned.-Ind., 88:90. TYPE LOCALITY: Indonesia, Sulawesi, Toli Toli. DISTRIBUTION: Sulawesi. COMMENTS: Probably a subspecies of S. heathi, see Sinha (1980).
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 227, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Sinha, Y. P. 1980. The bats of Rajasthan: Taxonomy and zoogeography. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 76: 7 - 63."]}
Evolution of Intrinsic Scatter in the SFR-Stellar Mass Correlation at 0.5
Creators: name: Kurczynski, Peter
name: Gawiser, Eric
name: Acquaviva, Viviana
name: Bell, Eric F.
name: Dekel, Avishai
name: de Mello, Duilia F.
name: Ferguson, Henry C.
name: Gardner, Jonathan P.
name: Grogin, Norman A.
name: Guo, Yicheng
name: Hopkins, Philip F.
name: Koekemoer, Anton M.
name: Koo, David C.
name: Lee, Seong-Kook
name: Mobasher, Bahram
name: Primack, Joel R.
name: Rafelski, Marc
name: Soto, Emmaris
name: Teplitz, Harry I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present estimates of intrinsic scatter in the Star Formation Rate (SFR) - Stellar Mass (M*) correlation in the redshift range 0.5 < z < 3.0 and in the mass range 10^7 < M* < 10^11 Msun. We utilize photometry in the Hubble Ultradeep Field (HUDF12), Ultraviolet Ultra Deep Field (UVUDF) campaigns and CANDELS/GOODS-S. We estimate SFR, M* from broadband Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) and the best available redshifts. The maximum depth of the HUDF photometry (F160W 29.9 AB, 5 sigma depth) probes the SFR-M* correlation down to M* ~ 10 ^7 Msun, a factor of 10-100X lower in M* than previous studies, and comparable to dwarf galaxies in the local universe. We find the slope of the SFR-M* relationship to be near unity at all redshifts and the normalization to decrease with cosmic time. We find a moderate increase in intrinsic scatter with cosmic time from 0.2 to 0.4 dex across the epoch of peak cosmic star formation. None of our redshift bins show a statistically significant increase in intrinsic scatter at low mass. However, it remains possible that intrinsic scatter increases at low mass on timescales shorter than ~ 100 Myr. Our results are consistent with a picture of gradual and self-similar assembly of galaxies across more than three orders of magnitude in stellar mass from as low as 10^7 Msun.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables. Revised and resubmitted to ApJ Letters. Comments welcome
Scotophilus dinganii
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotophilus
Scotophilus dinganii

description: Scotophilus dinganii (A. Smith, 1833). S. Afr. Quart. J., 2:59. TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, Port Natal (= Durban). DISTRIBUTION: Senegal and Sierra Leone east to Somalia and S Yemen and south to South Africa and Namibia. SYNONYMS: colias, herero, planirostris, pondoensis (see C. B. Robbins et al., 1985). COMMENTS: Placed in leucogaster by Koopman (1975:414-416, as nigrita; 1986) and Koopman et al. (1978:4-5); but see also Schütter et al. (1980).
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 227, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Koopman, K. F. 1975. Bats of the Sudan. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 154: 353 - 444.", "Koopman, K. F., R. E. Mumford, and J. F. Heisterberg. 1978. Bat records from Upper Volta, west Africa. American Museum Novitates, 2643: 1 - 6."]}
Environmental Education For All - Learning Planet Festival 2023
Creators: name: Orero, Pilar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Accessibility, Greenscent, Green Deal, Pilar Orero, Transmedia Catalonia

description: Pilar Orero provides valuable insights into the advancement of inclusive environmental education. By focusing on accessibility, the presentation highlights the importance of making educational opportunities related to the environment available and accessible to everyone, regardless of their abilities. This emphasis on inclusiveness underscores the significance of providing equal access to information and resources for individuals to learn about and engage with their natural surroundings. Overall, the insights shared by Orero serve as a compelling call to action for promoting accessible environmental education.
Illustrate, inform, bring closer: astronomy posters and models for the public visits in open days
Creators: name: Ovejero Bermúdez, Víctor
name: Ceballos, M. Teresa
name: Cardiel, Nicolás
name: Carrera, Francisco. J
name: Domínguez-Quintero, Rosa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: X-ray astronomy
posters
outreach

description: The Outreach and Communication department at Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Spain) opens its doors to the scholars in a monthly basis, to show them our research lines and facilities. IFCA is also open for mentoring sessions with girls in STEM or for general public to commemorate special science-related days. To Illustrate our activities and bring all these visitors closer to our lines of astronomy research, we have prepared several hand-made, analogical models like the mock-up of an X-ray space observatory and a black hole or the ©LEGO model of the Apollo 11 rocket. These models are very useful to explain astronomy in a very simple way making science concepts more accessible and to make them more accessible. As a complementary, informative tool explaining the details of the models, we are developing a series of posters (in Spanish), easily readable in a non-expert language, as part of the permanent exhibition. The posters are designed also to include gender perspective, highlighting the research of some women astronomers in the field related with the scientific concept. We present here an initial set of three of these posters (in Spanish): - the description of the black hole parts and some interesting facts about black holes. - the current knowledge about active galaxies nuclei (AGN) as hosts of active black holes - the details of the astronomy citizen science tool for galaxy classification CLAXSON (http://xmm-ssc.irap.omp.eu/claxson) that we use in our STEM activities and Master Class of Astrophysics (https://ifca.unican.es/es-es/educacion-y-divulgacion/clases-magistrales-de-astrofisica). The English version of the individual posters can be found at http://xmm-ssc.irap.omp.eu/xmm2athena/posters/
description: Funded by the Sociedad Española de Astronomía Grant PID2021-122955OB-C41 funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by "ERDF A way of making Europe"
Multiwavelength study of the fast rotating supergiant high-mass X-ray binary IGR J16465-4507
Creators: name: Chaty, Sylvain
name: LeReun, Audrey
name: Negueruela, Ignacio
name: Coleiro, Alexis
name: Castro, Norberto
name: Simon-Diaz, Sergio
name: Heras, Juan Antonio Zurita
name: Goldoni, Paolo
name: Goldwurm, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Since its launch, the X-ray and gamma-ray observatory INTEGRAL satellite has revealed a new class of high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXB) displaying fast flares and hosting supergiant companion stars. Optical and infrared (OIR) observations in a multi-wavelength context are essential to understand the nature and evolution of these newly discovered celestial objects. The goal of this multiwavelength study (from ultraviolet to infrared) is to characterise the properties of IGR J16465-4507, to confirm its HMXB nature and that it hosts a supergiant star. We analysed all OIR, photometric and spectroscopic observations taken on this source, carried out at ESO facilities. Using spectroscopic data, we constrained the spectral type of the companion star between B0.5 and B1 Ib, settling the debate on the true nature of this source. We measured a high rotation velocity of v = 320 +/- 8 km/s from fitting absorption and emission lines in a stellar spectral model. We then built a spectral energy distribution from photometric observations to evaluate the origin of the different components radiating at each energy range. We finally show that, having accurately determined the spectral type of the early-B supergiant in IGR J16465-4507, we firmly support its classification as an intermediate supergiant fast X-ray transient (SFXT).
description: A&A in press, 14 pages, 15 tables, 13 figures
Scotophilus heathi
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotophilus
Scotophilus heathi

description: Scotophilus heathi (Horsfield, 1831). Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1831:113. TYPE LOCALITY: India, Madras. DISTRIBUTION: Afghanistan to S China, including Hainan Isl, south to Sri Lanka and Vietnam. SYNONYMS: belangeri, flaveolus, insularis, luteus, watkinsi.
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 227, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
Cell surface imaging and bioorthogonal chemistry
Creators: name: Zhang, Shuo
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2021

description: The labelling of the plasma membrane with targeted fluorescent probes offers a convenient and non-invasive means to image the cell membrane and follow morphological changes and dynamics in real-time. However, despite many examples of fluorescent plasma membrane probes, a “universal targeting/anchoring moiety” is still required. In the first research section of my PhD, I report on the development of a small library of stearic acid-based probes, labelled with 6-carboxyfluorescein, via solid-phase synthesis, in which variation in both charge and hydrophobicity were explored. An optimal probe was discovered that carried both a positively charged amino group and a stearic acid tail that exhibited intense plasma membrane brightness and robust retention. In the second section of my PhD thesis, I investigated a light-driven, reversible addition−fragmentation chain-transfer (photo-RAFT) polymerisation with a newly developed fluorophore-conjugated RAFT agent, containing a BODIPY dye attached to a thiocarbonylthio group. This new RAFT agent enabled light-controlled (470 nm) “on/off” polymerisation, producing well-defined polymers, with excellent photostability. It provides an expedient route to homogeneous fluorescently-labelled polymers. In the third part of my PhD thesis, I discovered amphiphilic polymer-based fluorescent probes which showed long-term plasma membrane binding, and that allowed imaging and simultaneous functionalisation of the cell surface with azides, as shown by fluorophore attachment via cycloaddition chemistry. The polymer structure was optimised using a library approach.
The evolved-star dust budget of the Small Magellanic Cloud: the critical role of a few key players
Creators: name: Srinivasan, Sundar
name: Boyer, Martha L.
name: Kemper, Francisca
name: Meixner, Margaret
name: Riebel, David
name: Sargent, Benjamin A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The lifecycle of dust in the interstellar medium (ISM) is heavily influenced by outflows from asymptotic giant branch (AGB) and red supergiant (RSG) stars, a large fraction of which is contributed by a few very dusty sources. We compute the dust input to the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) by fitting the multi-epoch mid-infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of AGB/RSG candidates with models from the {\em G}rid of {\em R}SG and {\em A}GB {\em M}odel{\em S} (GRAMS) grid, allowing us to estimate the luminosities and dust-production rates (DPRs) of the entire population. By removing contaminants, we guarantee a high-quality dataset with reliable DPRs and a complete inventory of the dustiest sources. We find a global AGB/RSG dust-injection rate of $(1.3\pm 0.1)\times 10^{-6}$ \msunperyr, in agreement with estimates derived from mid-infrared colours and excess fluxes. As in the LMC, a majority (66\%) of the dust arises from the extreme AGB stars, which comprise only $\approx$7\% of our sample. A handful of far-infrared sources, whose 24 \mic\ fluxes exceed their 8 \mic\ fluxes, dominate the dust input. Their inclusion boosts the global DPR by $\approx$1.5$\times$, making it necessary to determine whether they are AGB stars. Model assumptions, rather than missing data, are the major sources of uncertainty; depending on the choice of dust shell expansion speed and dust optical constants, the global DPR can be up to $\approx$10 times higher. Our results suggest a non-stellar origin for the SMC dust, barring as yet undiscovered evolved stars with very high DPRs.
description: 28 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scotophilus kuhlii Leach 1821
Creators: name: Koopman, Karl F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1993
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Vespertilionidae
Scotophilus
Scotophilus kuhlii

description: Scotophilus kuhlii Leach, 1821. Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13:71. TYPE LOCALITY: " India ". DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan to Taiwan, south to Sri Lanka and W Malaysia, southeast to Philippines and Aru Isis (Indonesia). SYNONYMS: castaneus, collinus, consobrinus, gairdneri, panayensis, solutatus, swinhoei, temmincki, wroughtoni. COMMENTS: Generally called temmincki; but see Hill and Thonglongya (1972:191-193).
description: Published as part of Karl F. Koopman, 1993, Order Chiroptera, pp. 137-241 in Mammal Species of the World (2 nd Edition), Washington and London :Smithsonian Institution Press on page 227, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353060
description: {"references": ["Hill, J. E., and K. Thonglongya. 1972. Bats from Thailand and Cambodia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series, 22: 171 - 196."]}
Remarks on derivative nonlinear Schrödinger systems with multiple masses
Creators: name: Li, Chunhua
name: Sunagawa, Hideaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35Q55, 35B40

description: We prove global existence of small solutions to the initial value problem for a class of cubic derivative nonlinear Schrödinger systems with the masses satisfying suitable non-resonance relations. The large-time asymptotics of the solutions are also shown. This work is intended to provide a counterpart of the previous paper (arXiv:1507.07617) in which the mass resonance case was treated.
description: 17 pages
Pontryagin maximum principle for optimal sampled-data control problems
Creators: name: Bourdin, Loïc
name: Trélat, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this short communication, we first recall a version of the Pontryagin maximum principle for general finite-dimensional nonlinear optimal sampled-data control problems. This result was recently obtained in [L. Bourdin and E. Tr{é}lat , Optimal sampled-data control, and generalizations on time scales, arXiv:1501.07361, 2015]. Then we discuss the maximization condition for optimal sampled-data controls that can be seen as an average of the weak maximization condition stated in the classical Pontryagin maximum principle for optimal (permanent) controls. Finally, applying this theorem, we solve a linear-quadratic example based on the classical parking problem.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1501.07361