cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Chrysura Dahlbom 1845
Creators: name: Paukkunen, Juho
name: Rosa, Paolo
name: Soon, Villu
name: Johansson, Niklas
name: Ødegaard, Frode
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Chrysididae
Chrysura

description: 13. Genus Chrysura Dahlbom, 1845
Chrysura Dahlbom 1845: 6. Type species: Chrysis austriaca Fabricius, 1804 [= Chrysura austriaca (Fabricius, 1804)], designated by Bodenstein 1939: 125.
Holochrysis Rye 1878: 134. Invalid emendation of Olochrysis Lichtenstein, 1876.
Remarks. Dahlbom described the genus Chrysura in 1845 with ten species: C. unicolor, C. confluens, C. foveata, C. humboldti, C. bicolor, C. sulcata, C. austriaca, C. candens, C. nitidula and C. coeruleipes. Bodenstein (1939: 133) later designated Chrysis austriaca Fabricius as the type species of the genus. As noted by Vikberg (1986a: 61) and based on Erkki Valkeila’s unpublished manuscript, Bodenstein’s designation of the types species is incorrect, as Chrysis austriaca Fabricius, 1804 is not the same as C. austriaca sensu Dahlbom (1829, 1831, 1845), which is Chrysis neglecta Shuckard, 1837 (Dahlbom 1854: 134; Mocsáry, 1889: 255; Dalla Torre 1892: 80, Balthasar 1954: 143). Linsenmaier (1951) placed C. neglecta in the genus Euchroeus, subgenus Pseudospinolia Linsenmaier. Later Pseudospinolia was raised to generic level by Bohart & Kimsey (1980). If C. austriaca Dahlbom were to be chosen as the type species, the name Chrysura would be the first available name for the genus Pseudospinolia Linsenmaier and Monochrysis Lichtenstein, 1876 would become the first available name for Chrysura sensu auctorum. However, the current usage of the name C. austriaca (e.g. Morgan 1984, Kimsey & Bohart 1991, Rosa 2006) favours the nominal species named in the fixation (C. austriaca Fabricius). Consequently we observe that stability of nomenclature is maintained by the current and correct interpretation of the taxon C. austriaca Fabricius, which is not in contrast with the interpretation of the genus given by Dahlbom. We therefore consider no need for designation of a new type species.
description: Published as part of Paukkunen, Juho, Rosa, Paolo, Soon, Villu, Johansson, Niklas & Ødegaard, Frode, 2014, Faunistic review of the cuckoo wasps of Fennoscandia, Denmark and the Baltic countries (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae), pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 3864 (1) on page 47, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3864.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4930433
Characterizing and Accelerating Methanogenic Hydrocarbon Biodegradation
Creators: name: Toth, Courtney
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hydrocarbon
subject: Methanogenesis
subject: Biodegradation

description: Microbial transformation of hydrocarbons to methane is an environmentally relevant but slow process taking place in a wide variety of electron acceptor-depleted environments, from oil reservoirs and coal deposits, to contaminated groundwater and deep sediments. Despite the prevalence of chemical evidence demonstrating methanogenic hydrocarbon metabolism in field investigations, there are significant gaps in our understanding of the anaerobic activation mechanisms of model substrates (particularly monoaromatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, PAHs) and whole crude oil, as well as the degradation pathways and microorganisms governing oil transformation to methane. By studying the chemical and functional responses of methanogenic consortia to enrichment on model and mixed hydrocarbon substrates, we can gain a more complete understanding of the fate of hydrocarbon components in electron acceptor-depleted environments. In this dissertation, we sought to characterize the biodegradation of an expanded range of hydrocarbon substrates using a series of chemical and molecular approaches. We also explored cultivation-based strategies for optimizing rates of methanogenic hydrocarbon utilization, of which the most successful methods were adopted for future cultivation studies described here. Members of the Desulfosporosinus genus, known to catalyze methanogenic toluene biodegradation, were also found to co-metabolize other alkylbenzene substrates. Other members of the Firmicutes phylum, such as Desulfotomaculum, were shown to be functionally capable of activating toluene by addition to fumarate in a crude oil-degrading produced water consortium, and are proposed to play a key role in the formation of heavy oil in petroleum reservoirs. Microbial community sequencing, DNA-based stable isotope probing, and metagenomic surveys of previously established and novel methanogenic PAH-degrading cultures suggest that Clostridium may be important for degrading larger aromatic structures by an unknown mechanism. Experimental evidence of a hypothetical energy conservation mechanism in Syntrophus was detected during alkylbenzene biodegradation, suggesting this organism plays a vital role in coordinating syntrophic hydrocarbon biodegradation in a bioenergetically favourable manner. In all, this research has gleaned new insights into the microorganisms and metabolic processes regulating methanogenic hydrocarbon biodegradation, and has produced a wealth of new research questions to be explored in future investigations.
Additional file 2 of The association between first-time accreditation and the delivery of recommended care: a before and after study in the Faroe Islands
Creators: name: Bergholt, Maria Daniella
name: Falstie-Jensen, Anne Mette
name: Hibbert, Peter
name: Eysturoy, Barbara Joensen
name: Guttesen, Gunnvá
name: Róin, Tóra
name: Valentin, Jan Brink
name: Braithwaite, Jeffrey
name: von Plessen, Christian
name: Johnsen, Søren Paaske
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Castilla y León en la frontera. Territorio y población
Creators: name: Senabre López, Daniel
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: Zamora y Salamanca no parecen responder a las políticas europeas y regionales de integración e inversión pública sobre sus áreas de frontera, buscando estabilidad demográfica, incremento y mejora económica. La absorción de las distintas partidas económicas de los Fondos de Desarrollo Regional, las inversiones en infraestructuras básicas y de comunicaciones y el resto de aportaciones económicas no han sido revulsivos suficientes. Zamora y Salamanca continúan perdiendo población y caracterizándose por un envejecimiento progresivo. ¿Por qué no cambian los parámetros demográficos, la cohesión territorial, los niveles de renta? ¿La posición de aparente privilegio junto a la frontera con Portugal resulta, al final, una característica negativa? ¿Podemos hablar de un efecto-frontera contrario a lo que debería ser, un estímulo?
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 1
Motor cortex excitability in vitro: Modulation by cannabinoid 1 receptors and stress
Creators: name: Hussin, Ahmed T
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: in vitro electrophysiology
subject: synaptic
subject: Motor cortex
subject: pyramidal neuron
subject: endocannabinoid
subject: stress

description: An investigation was conducted into the activation mode of layer V pyramidal neurons of the motor cortex in response to intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) used to derive motor maps. An experimental preparation that combines ICMS and patch clamp singlecell electrophysiology was used. Bath application of glutamate (AMPA and NMDA) and GABAA receptor antagonists caused a significant reduction in spiking responses, suggesting a mainly synaptic mode of activation. These findings validate this preparation termed slice-ICMS in further examinations of neurotransmitter systems in motor map expression. In a second study, an investigation into the role of the cannabinoid receptor 1 in the excitability of motor cortex layer V pyramidal neurons was conducted. Endocannabinoids (eCBs) are ubiquitous retrograde messengers that inhibit neurotransmitter release in the central nervous system. CB1 receptor activation decreased excitability in layer V pyramidal neurons measured as a decrease in spiking responses to ICMS. This effect was compromised when rats were repeatedly stressed, suggesting downregulation of the CB1 receptor with stress in the motor cortex.
Las bases sociológicas del bajo clero salmantino en el siglo XVIII: una aproximación a través de los expedientes de órdenes
Creators: name: Díaz Bouzas, Guillermo
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: Durante muchos años la historiografía ha centrado los estudios sobre la Iglesia en la cúspide de la jerarquía y sus instituciones, dejando huérfano al sector mayoritario: el bajo clero. Su importancia era capital, por cuanto eran los encargados de ofrecer cobijo espiritual a una masa poblacional que veía en estos miembros del estamento eclesiástico una figura ejemplarizante. Al mismo tiempo, constituían una de las principales autoridades en el ámbito local y un miembro más de la comunidad con la cual se relacionaban en su vida cotidiana. Su procedencia sociológica se encuentra, todavía, rodeada de una oscuridad que los historiadores solamente han podido disipar recurriendo a la conjetura. En este trabajo intentaremos acercarnos a esta problemática empleando, como marco espacial y temporal, la diócesis de Salamanca en los primeros años del siglo XVIII. Emplearemos los expedientes de órdenes custodiados en el Archivo Diocesano y, más concretamente, las informaciones de moribus et vita que contienen para intentar reconstruir su base sociológica.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 1
Black Hole growth and AGN obscuration by instability-driven inflows in high-redshift disk galaxies fed by cold streams
Creators: name: Bournaud, Frederic
name: Dekel, Avishai
name: Teyssier, Romain
name: Cacciato, Marcello
name: Daddi, Emanuele
name: Juneau, Stephanie
name: Shankar, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Disk galaxies at high redshift have been predicted to maintain high gas surface densities due to continuous feeding by intense cold streams leading to violent gravitational instability, transient features and giant clumps. Gravitational torques between the perturbations drive angular momentum out and mass in, and the inflow provides the energy for keeping strong turbulence. We use analytic estimates of the inflow for a self-regulated unstable disk at a Toomre stability parameter Q~1, and isolated galaxy simulations capable of resolving the nuclear inflow down to the central parsec. We predict an average inflow rate ~10 Msun/yr through the disk of a 10^11 Msun galaxy, with conditions representative of z~2 stream-fed disks. The inflow rate scales with disk mass and (1+z)^{3/2}. It includes clump migration and inflow of the smoother component, valid even if clumps disrupt. This inflow grows the bulge, while only a fraction ~ 10^-3 of it needs to accrete onto a central black hole (BH), in order to obey the observed BH-bulge relation. A galaxy of 10^11 Msun at z~2 is expected to host a BH of ~10^8 Msun, accreting on average with moderate sub-Eddington luminosity L_X ~ 10^42-43 erg/s, accompanied by brighter episodes when dense clumps coalesce. We note that in rare massive galaxies at z~6, the same process may feed 10^9 Msun BH at the Eddington rate. High central gas column densities can severely obscure AGN in high-redshift disks, possibly hindering their detection in deep X-ray surveys.
description: ApJL in press
Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Scalable Stirred Suspension Bioreactors for Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion
Creators: name: Le, An
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Bioreactor
subject: CFD
subject: Aggregate
subject: Pluripotent
subject: Scale-up
subject: Scale-down
subject: Eddy

description: Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) including embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells are known for their potential use in cell-based therapy, disease model study, and drug screening. One of the key challenges in pluripotent stem cell research is to establish scalable bioprocesses that reliably produce cells with high quality at any desired quantity. Stirred suspension bioreactors (SSBs) are known to provide a controlled and well-mixed environment for aggregate-forming cells, such as murine and human PSCs. Hydrodynamic environment of SSBs, particularly shear stress and small eddies, have been shown to have a significant impact on the expansion and pluripotency of pluripotent stem cells. However, the exact mechanism has not been fully understood. In this project, computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation was employed to model the hydrodynamic environment within SSBs with various configurations and physical conditions. Understanding the hydrodynamics is one of the first key steps in bioprocess development of PSCs using SSBs.
Context-based gait recognition
Creators: name: Bazazian, Shermin
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Biometrics
subject: Gait recognition
subject: Information fusion

description: With the increasing demand for automatic security systems capable of recognizing people from a far distance and with as less cooperation as possible, gait recognition emerged as a very popular behavioral biometric because it is remotely observable and unobtrusive. However, the complexity and the high variability of gait patterns limit the power of gait recognition algorithms and adversely affect their recognition rates. Aiming to improve the performance of gait recognition systems without sacrificing the main advantages of gait, in this thesis, I introduce a novel multimodal gait recognition system that combines the gait patterns of the subjects with the context data related to their behavioral and social patterns. To the best of my knowledge, this is one of the only examples that the social patterns of the subjects have been used as a source of information in a multimodal biometric system. This thesis introduces a well-defined framework for defining, modeling, learning, storing and matching context data in a gait recognition system. The proposed behavioral modeling and matching framework is very flexible and can easily be adapted to different applications and multimodal biometric systems. According to the conducted experiments, the proposed gait recognition system can achieve significant improvements in the performance at a very low computational cost. The comparison of the method with other existing methods in the same area shows that the proposed approach is applicable and effective.
L’humanisme cristià: sobre la interrelació fe-cultura
Creators: name: Saranyana, Josep Ignasi
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: De la revelació no només ens venen veritats que superen la raó, sinó també altres nocions a les quals, tot i no ser pròpiament sobrenaturals, el pensament humà potser no hauria arribat mai sense l’ajut de la revelació. Aquestes veritats naturals vingudes per vies alienes a la reflexió s’incorporen de mica en mica a la cultura universal i fecunden les intel·ligències, i les impel·leixen molt més enllà, però sense transcendir l’ordre propi natural i sense fer-hi violència. Això és l’humanisme cristià, que cal distingir de la confessionalitat humanística i de l’apologètica. En el darrer epígraf d’aquest assaig s’ofereixen alguns exemples que mostren com la revelació esperona la reflexió humana i fecunda l’activitat científica.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 1
Additional file 2 of An integrative approach to identify sand fly vectors of leishmaniasis in Ethiopia by morphological and molecular techniques
Creators: name: Pareyn, Myrthe
name: Dvorak, Vit
name: Halada, Petr
name: Van Houtte, Natalie
name: Girma, Nigatu
name: de Kesel, Wim
name: Merdekios, Behailu
name: Massebo, Fekadu
name: Leirs, Herwig
name: Volf, Petr
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Interspecies K2P distances of cox1 and nad4 genes of Ethiopian sand flies. The lower left quadrant presents the K2P distances (SD) of the cox1 gene, the upper right quadrant of the nad4 gene. The nad4 gene of P. duboscqi specimens was not included in the analysisa.
Additional file 1 of An integrative approach to identify sand fly vectors of leishmaniasis in Ethiopia by morphological and molecular techniques
Creators: name: Pareyn, Myrthe
name: Dvorak, Vit
name: Halada, Petr
name: Van Houtte, Natalie
name: Girma, Nigatu
name: de Kesel, Wim
name: Merdekios, Behailu
name: Massebo, Fekadu
name: Leirs, Herwig
name: Volf, Petr
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Intraspecies K2P distances of cox1 and nad4 genes of Ethiopian sand flies. Abbreviations: K2P, Kimura 2-parameter model; SD, standard deviation.
Formation of Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Kravtsov, Andrey
name: Borgani, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this review, we describe our current understanding of cluster formation: from the general picture of collapse from initial density fluctuations in an expanding Universe to detailed simulations of cluster formation including the effects of galaxy formation. We outline both the areas in which highly accurate predictions of theoretical models can be obtained and areas where predictions are uncertain due to uncertain physics of galaxy formation and feedback. The former includes the description of the structural properties of the dark matter halos hosting cluster, their mass function and clustering properties. Their study provides a foundation for cosmological applications of clusters and for testing the fundamental assumptions of the standard model of structure formation. The latter includes the description of the total gas and stellar fractions, the thermodynamical and non-thermal processes in the intracluster plasma. Their study serves as a testing ground for galaxy formation models and plasma physics. In this context, we identify a suitable radial range where the observed thermal properties of the intra-cluster plasma exhibit the most regular behavior and thus can be used to define robust observational proxies for the total cluster mass. We put particular emphasis on examining assumptions and limitations of the widely used self-similar model of clusters. Finally, we discuss the formation of clusters in non-standard cosmological models, such as non-Gaussian models for the initial density field and models with modified gravity, along with prospects for testing these alternative scenarios with large cluster surveys in the near future.
description: 66 pages, 17 figures, review to be published in 2012 Annual Reviews of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Van Gerven Oei, Vicent W. J. (ed.) Lapidari, 3 vols. Punctum Books. Departamentit të shqiponjave, Nueva York-Tirana, 2015
Creators: name: Baró Queralt, Xavier
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 1
Taking duties seriously?: the state obligations to consult and to accommodate indigenous peoples' rights
Creators: name: Potes, Gladys Veronica
Publisher: name: Law
Year: 2007

description: Bibliography: p. 176-189
description: Worldwide, recognition of the rights of Indigenous Peoples has not been coupled with an assumption of obligations to protect those rights. Meanwhile, in the name of economic growth, States sanction activities that negatively impact fundamental interests of the Indigenous Peoples in their ancestral lands. Based on Henry Shue's approach to right-based duties the author elaborates criteria to assess whether State obligations to Indigenous Peoples are construed as guarantees against standard threats to the exercise of Indigenous rights. The author finds that in contrast to the Inter American System of Human Rights' interpretation of State obligations that aims to further the exercise of Indigenous rights, the Canadian Courts' approach to obligations aims to confirm State sovereignty and to advance a utilitarian form of reconciliation. The latter perspective infuses the nascent Canadian doctrine on consultation and accommodation. The duties that result are ill conceived to further the enjoyment of Indigenous rights.
Integrated Interpretation of Microseismic with Surface Seismic Data in a Tight Gas Reservoir, Central Alberta, Canada
Creators: name: Rafiq, Aamir
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geophysics
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Integrated
subject: Interpretation
subject: Microseismic
subject: Facies
subject: Reservoir
subject: Geomechanics
subject: Geophysics
subject: Geology
subject: Integration

description: Integrated interpretation of microseismicity with surface seismic data can provide valuable information about reservoir characteristics, mechanical stratigraphy, induced and pre-existing fracture systems. Although there are numerous integrated studies that focus on unconventional plays, relatively little attention has been given to tight gas environments. Typical interpretation of microseismic data focuses on the spatial and temporal distribution of microseismic events to estimate stimulated reservoir volume and, in some cases, to infer the character and geometry of discrete fracture networks. This thesis describes a methodology for integrated interpretation of 3D seismic data with microseismicity recorded during the open hole stimulation of two horizontal treatment wells of a tight-sand unit deposited in the Hoadley field, a Cretaceous marine barrier-bar complex in Western Canada. I introduce a novel approach, Microseismic Facies Analysis (MFA), to extract additional information from microseismic clusters. The interpreted microseismic facies are then correlated with surface seismic attributes in order to delineate reservoir partitions that are interpreted to reflect lithofacies variations associated with depositional trends.
Additional file 4 of An integrative approach to identify sand fly vectors of leishmaniasis in Ethiopia by morphological and molecular techniques
Creators: name: Pareyn, Myrthe
name: Dvorak, Vit
name: Halada, Petr
name: Van Houtte, Natalie
name: Girma, Nigatu
name: de Kesel, Wim
name: Merdekios, Behailu
name: Massebo, Fekadu
name: Leirs, Herwig
name: Volf, Petr
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S3 Interspecies K2P distances of cox1 gene of Phlebotomus sand flies of the subgenus Adlerius.
Environmental Modelling
Creators: name: Hassan, Quazi K.
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2018

description: ©2018 by Quazi K. Hassan, University of Calgary, licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. No claim to works/information adopted from either public domain or other licensed sources. Professor Quazi K. Hassan produces these lecture notes on environmental modelling that he has been teaching since 2009. He and the University of Calgary do not assume any responsibility for the applicability of these materials or the consequences of their use. He puts his best effort not to infringe others’ copyright. However, if anyone finds an unintentional mistake, he sincerely apologizes and requests you to communicate him at qhassan@ucalgary.ca for taking the necessary actions.
description: This is a lecture note series for the course ENGO 583/ENEN 635 Environmental Modelling. These cover the following topics: nature and purpose of environmental modelling; the top-down and the bottom-up approaches; typology of environmental models; definition of fundamental concepts; steps involved in designing and building a model; calibration, verification and validation of models; scale dependency; sensitivity analysis; characteristics, architecture and functioning of selected environmental models.
Additional file 1 of Evolution of nuptial gifts and its coevolutionary dynamics with male-like persistence traits of females for multiple mating
Creators: name: Kamimura, Yoshitaka
name: Yoshizawa, Kazunori
name: Lienhard, Charles
name: Ferreira, Rodrigo L.
name: Abe, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 1. Examples of the coevolutionary dynamics between the male seminal gift size and optimal number of matings for females observed in CON (control) and DF (doubling females) runs.
Similarities in electronic properties of organic charge-transfer solids and layered cobaltates
Creators: name: Mazumdar, Sumit
name: Clay, R. Torsten
name: Li, Hongtao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The apparently counterintuitive carrier concentration-dependent electronic properties of layered cobaltates have attracted wide interest. Here we point out that very similar carrier-concentration dependence has previously been noted in strongly correlated quasi-one dimensional (quasi-1D) organic charge-transfer solids. The normal states of both families can be understood, over the entire range of carrier concentration of interest, within the extended Hubbard Hamiltonian with significant intersite Coulomb interaction. As with the charge-transfer solids, superconductivity in the cobaltates appears to be limited to bandfilling of one-quarter. We point out further that there exist other families of correlated superconductors, such as spinels, where too strong correlations, geometric lattice frustration and bandfilling of one-quarter seem to be the essential features of the unconventional superconductors.
description: 4 pages and 2 figs
Multiple populations in globular clusters. Lessons learned from the Milky Way globular clusters
Creators: name: Gratton, Raffaele
name: Carretta, Eugenio
name: Bragaglia, Angela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent progress in studies of globular clusters has shown that they are not simple stellar populations, being rather made of multiple generations. Evidence stems both from photometry and spectroscopy. A new paradigm is then arising for the formation of massive star clusters, which includes several episodes of star formation. While this provides an explanation for several features of globular clusters, including the second parameter problem, it also opens new perspectives about the relation between globular clusters and the halo of our Galaxy, and by extension of all populations with a high specific frequency of globular clusters, such as, e.g., giant elliptical galaxies. We review progress in this area, focusing on the most recent studies. Several points remain to be properly understood, in particular those concerning the nature of the polluters producing the abundance pattern in the clusters and the typical timescale, the range of cluster masses where this phenomenon is active, and the relation between globular clusters and other satellites of our Galaxy.
description: In press (The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review)
La meva visita a la infermeria fenomenològica
Creators: name: Embree, Lester
name: Escribano López, Xavier
Publisher: name: Revista d'Humanitats
Year: 2021

description: Presentem a continuació el text traduït d’una conferència impartida a UIC Barcelona, el 13 de desembre del 2012, amb el títol “My Visit to Phenomenological Nursing” de Lester Embree, fins fa poc professor de la Florida Atlantic University, als Estats Units. Després d’assabentar-nos fa poc del seu traspàs, que va tenir lloc el 19 de gener del 2017, retem homenatge d’aquesta manera a un destacat representant de l’escola fenomenològica, un dels fundadors del Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (CARP) i de l’Organization of Phenomenological Organizations (OPO) i autor de nombrosos articles i llibres amb notable ressò internacional. Algunes de les seves obres s’han traduït a diverses llengües, com l’italià, el romanès, el coreà i el xinès, entre d’altres. En particular, el seu llibre Anàlisi reflexiva (2013) pot llegir-se també en llengua catalana. La conferència va tenir lloc a la Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut de la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, en el marc de les activitats vinculades al Màster en Ciències de la Infermeria i, com es veurà, la seva temàtica estableix ponts i vinculacions molt estrets entre disciplines científiques i humanístiques que intervenen en el món de la salut. Per aquest motiu, semblava especialment adient que una conferència que posa en diàleg les humanitats amb altres camps de coneixement mereixés un lloc en el número inicial de la nostra revista.
description: Revista d'Humanitats, Núm. 1
El Cid visigodo: tendencias arrianas en el Cantar de Mio Cid
Creators: name: Byfield, Caroline Trinity
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Language and Literature
subject: Cid
subject: Arianism
subject: Medieval

description: The following project analyzes the Arian tendencies in the medieval Spanish epic, The Song of the Cid, a text that has always been considered Catholic. Historical and theological information pertinent to the subject were utilized to set forth a literary analysis of the poem. In the first chapter, the history of the Visigoths is summarized from their creation until their conversion to Catholicism in 589, during their reign in the Iberian Peninsula. The second chapter discusses Arius and his theology, mostly his stance on the hierarchy of the Trinity, in comparison to those ideas of the Catholic Church. The literary analysis takes place in the third chapter, and includes the application of the information discussed in the previous chapters to examine Arian traits in the text. In conclusion, it is established that is possible that the poem may have been influenced by this heretical Christian religion.
Las políticas de la infancia en España a la luz de la convención de los derechos del niño. Especial referencia a Cataluña
Creators: name: Fernández-Arrojo, María
Publisher: name: Quaderns de Polítiques Familiars
Year: 2021

description: Aquest article analitza els objectius estratègics de les polítiques i lleis espanyoles per a la protecció de la infància. A més, es considerarà la mateixa política i llei en una de les seves comunitats autònomes més pròsperes, Catalunya. Concretament, mostra la influència de la Convenció sobre els Drets dels Infants i el paper de la Unió Europea en aquestes polítiques en els àmbits social, educatiu i sanitari. Finalment, els reptes que ha d’afrontar Espanya en relació amb la protecció dels drets dels infants s’analitzen a la llum de les observacions del Comitè dels Drets de l’Infant en el seu informe del 5 de març de 2018.
description: Quaderns de Polítiques Familiars, Núm. 6 (2020): Las políticas de la infancia en España a la luz de la convención de los derechos del niño. Especial referencia a Cataluña
in a new land: (be)longing
Creators: name: Rodriguez Del Ojo, Nurgul
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fine Arts
subject: Identity formation
subject: diaspora
subject: Immigration
subject: porcelain
subject: installation art
subject: text-based art
subject: multiculturalism
subject: autoethnography

description: This support paper explores my growing interest in different forms of existence, being, identity formation and specifically diaspora. Through research creation, the field of art and design invariably involves a study of the interplay between a researcher and their artistic work in process. In this writing, the methodologies focus on exploring diaspora, immigration, Canada and ‘the migrants’ time’ in the twenty-first century in terms of understanding political and cultural realities of migration. For Marsha Meskimmon and Robin Cohen, migration is the biggest concern in an era of globalization characterized by the rapid pace of modernization. Four different installation art projects are discussed in this support paper: DESigual: (Ad)dressing identity, Becoming Words: on Process, Becoming Words: “I am going to die in this country as an immigrant.”, and “In a new land…Be longing”. Through these projects, I have explored the practice of installation art, text-based art, and the underlying content of porcelain. I have undertaken a material exploration porcelain paper clay and a conceptual exploration of its use as a medium to emphasize what I refer to as embodied materiality. I aim to visualize the experience of replacement and displacement through representational and non-representational sculptures by making art objects, searching a new material: such as porcelain and using text.
Difusió i coneixement de l’acolliment familiar
Creators: name: Bertran Arqué, Elisabet
name: Trenado Santarén, Rosa M.
Publisher: name: Quaderns de Polítiques Familiars
Year: 2021

description: Aquest article analitza els objectius estratègics de les polítiques i lleis espanyoles per a la protecció de la infància. A més, es considerarà la mateixa política i llei en una de les seves comunitats autònomes més pròsperes, Catalunya. Concretament, mostra la influència de la Convenció sobre els Drets dels Infants i el paper de la Unió Europea en aquestes polítiques en els àmbits social, educatiu i sanitari. Finalment, els reptes que ha d’afrontar Espanya en relació amb la protecció dels drets dels infants s’analitzen a la llum de les observacions del Comitè dels Drets de l’Infant en el seu informe del 5 de març de 2018.
description: Quaderns de Polítiques Familiars, Núm. 6 (2020): Las políticas de la infancia en España a la luz de la convención de los derechos del niño. Especial referencia a Cataluña
Additional file 2 of Evolution of nuptial gifts and its coevolutionary dynamics with male-like persistence traits of females for multiple mating
Creators: name: Kamimura, Yoshitaka
name: Yoshizawa, Kazunori
name: Lienhard, Charles
name: Ferreira, Rodrigo L.
name: Abe, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 2. Examination of genetic correlation between the male seminal gift size and optimal number of matings for females.
Pi-Extension and Hypervalency of Conjugated Organophosphorus Compounds
Creators: name: Grenon, Nicole
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: Chemistry--Inorganic
Chemistry--Organic

description: The work of this thesis focuses on synthesizing and analyzing new electron-accepting materials that could be beneficial for the development of organic n-type materials for application in organic electronics. The first research chapter focuses on the synthesis of pyridine-extended dithienophosphole oxide compounds in attempts to combine the strong emission of the dithienophosphole oxide backbone with the exciting electrochemical properties of methylated viologens. The motivation for this research and the various synthetic approaches attempted will be discussed in detail. Further, reasoning for the unsuccessful nature of this project will be offered. In the second research chapter, intramolecular Lewis acid/base interactions are formed to produce new hypervalent phosphorus compounds with electron-accepting capabilities. Systematic phosphorus functionalization is performed to allow for manipulation and exploitation of the electrochemical and optical properties of the molecule. Finally, the interactions present in the compounds are rationalized using theoretical calculations.
Calculating Generators of Multigraded Algebras
Creators: name: Ilten, Nathan Owen
name: Kastner, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present an algorithm to find generators of the multigraded algebra A associated to an arbitrary p-divisor D on some variety Y. A modified algorithm is also presented for the case where Y admits a torus action. We demonstrate our algorithm by computing generators for the Cox ring of the smooth del Pezzo surface of degree 5.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures
r Duality and "Instead-of-Confinement" Mechanism in N=1 Supersymmetric QCD
Creators: name: Shifman, M.
name: Yung, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider N=2 SQCD with the U(N) gauge group and N_f flavors (N_f>N) perturbed by an N=2 breaking deformation - a small mass term μfor the adjoint matter. We study r-vacua, with the constraint $2N_f/3 < r \le N. At large values of the parameter ξ\simμm (m is a typical value of the quark masses) r quark flavors condense, by construction. The effective low-energy theory with the gauge group U(r)\times U(1)^{N-r} is at weak coupling. Upon reducing ξthe original theory undergoes a crossover transition from weak to strong coupling. As the original theory becomes strongly coupled, at low energies it is described by a weakly coupled infrared-free dual theory with the gauge group U(N_f-r)\times U(1)^{N-N_f+r} and N_f light dyon flavors. These dyons condense triggering formation of non-Abelian strings which still confine monopoles, rather than quarks, contrary to naive duality arguments. "Instead-of-confinement" mechanism for quarks and gauge bosons of the original theory takes place: screened quarks and gauge bosons of the original theory decay, on curves of the marginal stability (CMS), into confined monopole-antimonopole pairs that form stringy mesons. Next, we increase the deformation parameter μthus decoupling the adjoint fields. Then our theory flows to N=1 SQCD. The gauge group of the dual theory becomes U(N_f-r). We show that the dual theory is weakly coupled if we are sufficiently close to the Argyres-Douglas point. The "instead-of-confinement" mechanism for quarks and gauge bosons survives in the limit of large μ. It determines low-energy non-Abelian dynamics in the r-vacua of N=1 SQCD.
description: 61 pp., 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1103.3471 and arXiv:1204.4164; v.2. One reference added, one reference corrected, minor textual changes
Local delivery of antimicrobial peptides using self-organized TiO₂ nanotubes for implant-related infections
Creators: name: Ma, Menghan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Among the various complications that lead to the failure of orthopaedic implants, prosthetic-related infections have been reported as one of the major causes. Local delivery of antimicrobial agents through the implants surface is an ideal solution to the peri-implant infection problem. Due to the increasing resistance of pathogens to the current therapy utilizing antibiotics, developing novel antimicrobial agents has received much attention recently. Among the potential alternatives are the antimicrobial peptides (AMPs). Because of their broad-spectrum bactericidal ability, low toxicity and immunogenicity, as well as complex killing mechanisms, AMPs have much lower possibility of developing resistance than traditional antibiotics. In the past decade, fabrication of TiO₂ nanotubular structures by anodization method has attracted great interests because of its controllable, reproducible results as well as the simple process. In light of their high surface-to-volume ratio, controllable dimensions, excellent biocompatibility, adjustable wettability and other promising properties, TiO₂ nanotubes are considered as an ideal carrier for drugs. In the current study, self-organized, vertically-oriented TiO₂ nanotubes were successfully prepared by anodization method in both water based electrolytes (phosphoric acid based and ammonium sulphate based electrolytes) and organic based electrolytes (Glycerol based and Ethylene glycol based electrolytes). The nanotube coatings prepared in ethylene glycol based electrolytes, with ~80nm diameter and ~7 μm thickness, were selected for the drug delivery purpose. HHC-36, one of the most potent broad-spectrum AMPs with the sequence of (KRWWKWWRR) was loaded onto the titanium dioxide nanotubes via a simple vacuum assisted physical adsorption method. Antimicrobial activity test against Gram-positive bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus) demonstrated that this novel AMP-loaded nanotube surface significantly inhibited bacteria proliferation and effectively reduced bacterial adhesion on the surface. It was also found that the antimicrobial activities of the samples were highly dependent on the drug loading conditions. By changing the loading conditions, the bacteria killing rate after 4 hour incubation increased dramatically from 90% to 99.9%. In vitro study showed that the AMP-loaded nanotube samples are not cytotoxic for MG-63 osteoblast-like cells.
MUCHFUSS - Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS
Creators: name: Geier, S.
name: Schaffenroth, V.
name: Hirsch, H.
name: Tillich, A.
name: Heber, U.
name: Maxted, P. F. L.
name: Østensen, R. H.
name: Barlow, B. N.
name: O'Toole, S. J.
name: Kupfer, T.
name: Marsh, T.
name: Gänsicke, B.
name: Napiwotzki, R.
name: Cordes, O.
name: Müller, S.
name: Classen, L.
name: Ziegerer, E.
name: Drechsel, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The project Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS (MUCHFUSS) aims at finding hot subdwarf stars with massive compact companions (white dwarfs with masses $M>1.0 {\rm M_{\odot}}$, neutron stars or black holes). The existence of such systems is predicted by binary evolution calculations and some candidate systems have been found. We identified $\simeq1100$ hot subdwarf stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Stars with high velocities have been reobserved and individual SDSS spectra have been analysed. About 70 radial velocity variable subdwarfs have been selected as good candidates for follow-up time resolved spectroscopy to derive orbital parameters and photometric follow-up to search for features like eclipses in the light curves. Up to now we found nine close binary sdBs with short orbital periods ranging from $\simeq0.07 {\rm d}$ to $1.5 {\rm d}$. Two of them are eclipsing binaries with companions that are most likely of substellar nature.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures, AN, in press
Sexting, victimación y ansiedad en mujeres jóvenes españolas
Creators: name: Plans, Anna
Publisher: name: Quaderns de Polítiques Familiars
Year: 2021

description: La creciente erotización de nuestro entorno y ciertos estereotipos femeninos dificultan el avance social de la mujer repercutiendo además en el incremento de la violencia de género. Según el informe sobre la Sexualización de las Niñas (2012/22047 INI) esta situación contribuye al aumento de los abusos sexuales y favorece las conductas sexuales agresivas y de violencia en general. Además, el mundo online de las redes sociales y los servicios de mensajería instantánea como WhatsApp y Telegram entre otros facilitan situaciones de control, así como el envío de imágenes o vídeos sexuales explícitos exigidos mediante coacción, chantaje o amenazas de difundir determinadas imágenes.
description: Quaderns de Polítiques Familiars, Núm. 6 (2020): Las políticas de la infancia en España a la luz de la convención de los derechos del niño. Especial referencia a Cataluña
Las familias y la infancia en época de COVID-19 : el tiempo después o la nueva normalidad? Una visión desde la Salud Mental
Creators: name: Grifoll, Carmen
Publisher: name: Quaderns de Polítiques Familiars
Year: 2021

description: ¿Qué ha fallado en nuestro sistema para que la catástrofe nos haya cogido completamente desprevenidos a pesar de las advertencias de los científicos?, es la pregunta que plantea Slavoj Zizek en la introducción de su libro sobre “La Pandemia”. Esta pregunta, aunque no obtenga respuesta, ha sido objeto y lo sigue siendo de reflexiones, análisis y artículos en diferentes ámbitos. Por citar tan sólo dos ejemplos: la comunidad científica y su sistema de publicaciones que ante la afluencia de estos temas han solicitado velar aún más por la calidad de los contenidos antes de su publicación; por otra parte un grupo de científicos españoles ha publicado, en la prestigiosa revista “The Lancet”, un artículo solicitando una auditoría independiente sobre la gestión del coronavirus en España.
description: Quaderns de Polítiques Familiars, Núm. 6 (2020): Las políticas de la infancia en España a la luz de la convención de los derechos del niño. Especial referencia a Cataluña
RDA TIGER D1.3 Project Handbook
Creators: name: Delipalta, Alex
name: Rettberg, Najla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: EOSC
RDA

description: This Deliverable presents the RDA TIGER project handbook. It defines the main management structures, reporting procedures, responsibilities and internal and external project communication processes. Where appropriate the handbook directs the reader to the Consortium Agreement, Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation plan as well as the RDA TIGER Data Management Plan (D1.2). This document will guide the RDA TIGER processes across the consortium over the project period and will be updated and/or revised where needed.
Random Network Modeling of Tight Formations
Creators: name: Bashtani, Farzad
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Chemical
subject: Engineering--Petroleum
subject: Random Network Modeling
subject: Mesa Verde Formation
subject: Tight Formation
subject: Drainage and Imbibition
subject: Quasi Static Displacement
subject: Immiscible Flow
subject: Two Phase Flow
subject: Berea Sandstone
subject: Synthetic Oil Sand
subject: Pore Scale Modeling
subject: Relative Permeability
subject: Resistivity Index

description: The objective if this study is investigating the capability of random network modeling techniques to predict fluid flow behaviour in unconventional formations. 3D random networks are constructed in order to represent Berea sandstone, synthetic oil-sand, and the Mesaverde formation located in north Wyoming, United States. The modified network modeling software solves the fundamental equations of single-phase and two-phase immiscible flow incorporating wettability and contact angle assuming a quasi-static displacement mechanism. Macroscopic properties network such as porosity, absolute permeability, and formation factor are calculated and compared to experimental data. The model is modified in order to implement the wetting phase trapping during the primary drainage process. A new methodology for reconstruction of digital porous media using experimental MICP data is introduced. Subsequently, immiscible two phase flow properties such as capillary pressure, relative permeability, and resistivity curves are predicted and compared to available experimental data.
Additional file 3 of Evolution of nuptial gifts and its coevolutionary dynamics with male-like persistence traits of females for multiple mating
Creators: name: Kamimura, Yoshitaka
name: Yoshizawa, Kazunori
name: Lienhard, Charles
name: Ferreira, Rodrigo L.
name: Abe, Jun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Additional file 3. Comparisons of relative intensity of sexual selection between the sexes.