cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Entangled Methodologies for Participatory Multispecies Futures
Creators: name: Bista, Priyanka
Publisher: name: Environmental Design
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: multispeciesdesign
subject: participatorydesign
subject: architecture
subject: multispeciesconflicts
subject: multispeciesfutures
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The Anthropocene is most known for its impact on biodiversity loss; however, it’s also an era that negatively impacts and excludes the most marginalized communities. This disconnect is particularly evident and further exacerbated in contexts like Koshi Tappu, Nepal, fraught with increasing daily human-wildlife conflict as a result of being home to over 80,000 people while situated directly adjacent to the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve (KTWR). Also located in a sensitive geopolitical region next to the border of India, macroeconomics, political tumult, and ethnic conflicts further heighten these pressures and conflicts. My attempt through the DDes was to understand how the field of design, particularly multispecies design, could contribute to this contentious, conflicted context. The research objectives aimed to develop a multispecies design methodology that helps build understanding, foster empathetic relationships, and mitigate conflict between human and nonhuman stakeholders, particularly focused on conflict species and local communities living with them. Additionally, I aimed to contribute new case studies from the Global South and explore potential practice platforms through teaching and practice that could directly support and advance this work. The research revealed four key insights: firstly, that the methodology is a two phased process, that gives space to immerse in understanding, unpacking, and documenting the conflict space before moving to the solution space. Secondly, if we are to engage people, participatory design methods need to go hand-in-hand with multispecies design methods. Thirdly, to engage communities, each step of the process needs to include “learning” opportunities that unlock inherent learning potential in communities and landscapes. Fourthly, the methodology artifact is a library of tools designed to support facilitators, whether designers or educators, in engaging participants, whether students or communities, through a participatory multispecies design process. Finally, I feel that I’ve only scratched the surface of the enormous potential inherent in developing a Participatory Multispecies Learning Tool Library that operates as a support structure for engaging in Multispecies Conflicts worldwide.
Anti-inflammatory activity of the water extract of Semiliquidambar cathayensis leaf
Creators: name: Liu, Ziyue
name: Kaliaperumal, Kumaravel
name: Chen, Hongfeng
name: Zhang, Jun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: In this study, the anti-inflammatory effect of the water extract of Semiliquidambar cathayensis leaf (WESCL) was evaluated for the first time. WESCL exhibited anti-inflammatory activity by significantly reducing the cell metamorphosis, the production of nitric oxide (NO), and reactive oxygen species (ROS) in LPS-stimulated RAW 264.7 macrophages while showing no cytotoxic effect to the cells. Furthermore, an in vivo study revealed that WESCL could alleviate the disease development of osteoarthritis (OA) and decrease the level of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in mice. Chemical composition analysis indicated that WESCL contained high amounts of phenolic compounds, flavonoids, and triterpenoid saponins, with the total content being 30.6 mg gallic acid equivalent (GAE)/g, 38.2 mg quercetin equivalent (QE)/g, 100.5 mg oleanolic acid equivalent (OAE)/g, respectively. The present study successfully identified WESCL as a naturally-occurring anti-inflammatory agent, supporting its potent application for the treatment of inflammation-related diseases.
TBLT Perspectives on Teaching from an EFL Textbook at a Vietnam University
Creators: name: Dao, Hao
name: Newton, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Open Access Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This study investigated the relationship between the affordances for task-based teaching in a textbook and teachers’ awareness of and uptake of these affordances. Specifically, it compared and evaluated the communicativeness and task-likeness of activities in the textbook, New Cutting Edge, Elementary (Cunningham & Moore, 2005) and then contrasted these findings with classroom observation data on the way the activities were implemented by three Vietnamese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers at a Vietnamese university. Interviews with the teachers provided further data on their implementation decisions. The analysis and evaluation of the textbook activities and how they were implemented adopted two coding frameworks, one for evaluating communicativeness (Littlewood, 2004) and the other for evaluating task-likeness (Ellis, 2018). The analysis of communicativeness revealed that while the textbook has a high proportion of activities with low communicative value, the task analysis showed that many of these activities are, in fact, either tasks or task-like. However, form-focused activities typically precede the tasks, which compromises the alignment of the textbook with TBLT. Data from classroom observations of three 90-minute lessons taught by each teacher showed that the teachers consistently reduced the communicativeness and task-likeness of the textbook activities, and replaced them with teacher-centered, explicit grammar explanation and drill practice. Stimulated recall interviews and follow-up semi-structured interviews revealed the teachers’ rationales for their practice, including their concern about the unsuitability of tasks for low proficiency students, exam pressure and time constraints, and their lack of awareness of the nature of language learning tasks.
Solutions to the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation
Creators: name: Zhang, Da-jun
name: Zhao, Song-lin
name: Sun, Ying-ying
name: Zhou, Jing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37K40, 35Q35, 35Q35

description: This is a continuation of Ref.[1](arXiv:nlin.SI/0603008). In the present paper we review solutions to the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation in terms of Wronskians. The Wronskian entry vector needs to satisfy a matrix differential equation set which contains complex operation. This is different from the case of the Korteweg-de Vries equation. We introduce an auxiliary matrix to deal with the complex operation and then we are able to give complete solution expressions for the matrix differential equation set. The obtained solutions to the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation can simply be categorized by two types: solitons and breathers, together with their limit cases. Besides, we give rational solutions to the modified Korteweg-de Vries equation in Wromskian form. This is derived with the help of the Galilean transformed modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. Finally, typical dynamics of the obtained solutions is analyzed and illustrated. We list out the obtained solutions and their corresponding basic Wronskian vectors in the conclusion part.
description: 37 pages and 11 figures. We added some comments and references in the new version
title: ‘Old Friends’ and learning to be friendly: How hygiene and social contact may affect the early-life gut microbiome and socioemotional development
Creators: name: Barth, Delaney Anne
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiome
subject: Metabolome
subject: Child Development
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Sciences
subject: Psychology--Developmental

description: The human gut microbiome is a fundamental factor in human health and wellbeing. The development of the microbiome during early infancy is a critical process that has long-term implications for brain development and social behaviour. However, modern life may be limiting exposure to important microbes due to decreased contact with a wide range of microorganisms. The unique circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic further disrupted exposure, with increased hygiene practices and physical distancing policies limiting exposure to diverse microbes. The current study aimed to investigate the association between hygiene practices and social contact with features of the gut microbiome and metabolome in infants and their potential impact on socioemotional outcomes. Results showed that changes in social contact and hygiene practices associated with the diversity, composition and metabolomic environment of the gut microbiome in infants and there was evidence that changes in the gut microbiome associate with socioemotional development at 1 year of age. Additionally, the effect of hygiene practices on the microbiome was less than expected, while social contact proved to be a much more influential variable for the 3-month microbiome. Our findings suggest that the connections between early social interactions, the gut microbiome, and socioemotional development are complex, with social contact having a more significant impact than previously anticipated.
On the possibility to measure the (pi0 to gamma gamma) decay width and the (gamma* gamma to pi0) transition form factor with the KLOE-2 experiment
Creators: name: Babusci, D.
name: Czyz, H.
name: Gonnella, F.
name: Ivashyn, S.
name: Mascolo, M.
name: Messi, R.
name: Moricciani, D.
name: Nyffeler, A.
name: Venanzoni, G.
name: Collaboration, KLOE-2
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A possibility of KLOE-2 experiment to measure the width Gamma(pi0 to gamma gamma) and the (pi0 gamma gamma*) form factor F(Q^2) at low invariant masses of the virtual photon in the space-like region is considered. This measurement is an important test of the strong interaction dynamics at low energies. The feasibility is estimated on the basis of a Monte-Carlo simulation. The expected accuracy for Gamma(pi0 to gamma gamma) is at a per cent level, which is better than the current experimental world average and theory. The form factor will be measured for the first time at Q^2 less or equal 0.1 GeV^2 in the space-like region. The impact of these measurements on the accuracy of the pion-exchange contribution to the hadronic light-by-light scattering part of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon is also discussed.
description: 2-column style; matches the revision accepted by EPJC
Aerosols in atmospheric chemistry and biogeochemical cycles of nutrients
Creators: name: Kanakidou, Maria
name: Myriokefalitakis, Stelios
name: Tsigaridis, Kostas
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Atmospheric aerosols
Biogeochemical cycles
Nutrient cycles
Biotic communities
Atmospheric chemistry

description: Atmospheric aerosols have complex and variable compositions and properties. While scientific interest is centered on the health and climatic effects of atmospheric aerosols, insufficient attention is given to their involvement in multiphase chemistry that alters their contribution as carriers of nutrients in ecosystems. However, there is experimental proof that the nutrient equilibria of both land and marine ecosystems have been disturbed during the Anthropocene period.

This review study first summarizes our current understanding of aerosol chemical processing in the atmosphere as relevant to biogeochemical cycles. Then it binds together results of recent modeling studies based on laboratory and field experiments, focusing on the organic and dust components of aerosols that account for multiphase chemistry, aerosol ageing in the atmosphere, nutrient (N, P, Fe) emissions, atmospheric transport, transformation and deposition. The human-driven contribution to atmospheric deposition of these nutrients, derived by global simulations using past and future anthropogenic emissions of pollutants, is put into perspective with regard to potential changes in nutrient limitations and biodiversity. Atmospheric deposition of nutrients has been suggested to result in human-induced ecosystem limitations with regard to specific nutrients. Such modifications favor the development of certain species against others and affect the overall functioning of ecosystems. Organic forms of nutrients are found to contribute to the atmospheric deposition of the nutrients N, P and Fe by 20%–40%, 35%–45% and 7%–18%, respectively. These have the potential to be key components of the biogeochemical cycles since there is initial proof of their bioavailability to ecosystems. Bioaerosols have been found to make a significant contribution to atmospheric sources of N and P, indicating potentially significant interactions between terrestrial and marine ecosystems. These results deserve further experimental and modeling studies to reduce uncertainties and understand the feedbacks induced by atmospheric deposition of nutrients to ecosystems.
Pseudorhombila (Pilumnoplax) abyssicola Miers 1885
Creators: name: Froglia, Carlo
name: Clark, Paul F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Pseudorhombilidae
Pseudorhombila
Pseudorhombila abyssicola

description: Pseudorhombila (Pilumnoplax) abyssicola Miers 1885: 588.
 Pilumnoplax abyssicola Miers 1886: 228, pl. XIX, fig. 2.
 Remarks. Castro (2007: 628) listed Miers (1885: 588) in his synonym of Carcinoplax abyssicola but considered it a nomen nudum. This is not the case as Miers (1885: 558) stated “...together with Pseudorhombila (Pilumnoplax) abyssicola, n. sp., a species with nearly glabrous carapace, straight entire front, and three antero-lateral marginal teeth, of which the two last only are spiniform and acute,...”. Although the Narrative description by Miers was brief, it made the species name available.
 Valid as Carcinoplax abyssicola (Miers, 1885).
description: Published as part of Froglia, Carlo & Clark, Paul F., 2011, The forgotten Narrative of H. M. S. Challenger and the implications for decapod nomenclature, pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 2788 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200635
Additional file 1 of New insights into phenotypic heterogeneity for the distinct lipid accumulation of Schizochytrium sp. H016
Creators: name: Bao, Zhendong
name: Zhu, Yuanmin
name: Zhang, Kai
name: Feng, Yumei
name: Zhang, Meng
name: Li, Ruili
name: Yu, Longjiang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Comparative analysis of fluorescence intensity of two cell subsets after PI staining. Figure S2. Heatmap showing the relative expression of DEGs related to cell cycle at each stage in H016-H and H016-L. Figure S3. Scanning electron microscopy observation of cell division status during fermentation process of two cell subpopulations. Figure S4. The volcano map of difference expression genes between H016-H and H016-L in fermentation process. Figure S5. Go classification of difference expression genes between H016-H and H016-L. Figure S6. KEGG classification of difference expression genes between H016-H and H016-L. Figure S7. Expression trends of genes in six clusters. The gray lines represent the expression levels of individual genes. The blue lines represent the average expression level of genes in the cluster. Figure S8. KEGG enrichment analysis of differentially expressed genes in two cell subpopulations during fermentation.
title: Estimating imprecision lower bound in a neighbourhood of a known Cramér-Rao lower bound
Creators: name: Salimi Moghadam, Mahkame
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Fisher information
subject: Cramér-Rao lower bound
subject: Mach–Zehnder interferometer
subject: Singular matrices
subject: Quantum metrology
subject: Parameter estimation
subject: Physics--Theory
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The ultimate metrology limit, classical or quantum, for estimating an unknown parameter defining a distribution of measurement outcomes, is determined by the Cramér-Rao lower bound (CRLB). However, which distribution pertains to the measurement setup can itself fluctuate for running each trial of the experiment or even within one run, meaning that we are estimating the distribution parameter in the case that we have a distribution of distributions. Our aim is to estimate the imprecision CRLB for the parameter of a distribution but in a small neighbourhood of this distribution rather than precisely at this parameter. We determine this CRLB in a neighbourhood by calculating a Taylor expansion of the Fisher information for the distribution in a neighbourhood of its defining parameter, obtain the expression for the CRLB for each distribution in this neighbourhood and then calculate the average CRLB over this neighbourhood. We illustrate our result for the case of two-parameter estimation in SU(2) interferometry for which singularities of the CRLB arise, making this averaging not just illustrative but also needed to circumvent the singularity.
Two, three, many body systems involving mesons
Creators: name: Oset, E.
name: Torres, A. Martinez
name: Khemchandani, K. P.
name: Roca, L.
name: Yamagata, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk we show recent developments on few body systems involving mesons. We report on an approach to Faddeev equations using chiral unitary dynamics, where an explicit cancellation of the two body off shell amplitude with three body forces stemming from the same chiral Lagrangians takes place. This removal of the unphysical off shell part of the amplitudes is most welcome and renders the approach unambiguous, showing that only on shell two body amplitudes need to be used. Within this approach, systems of two mesons and one baryon are studied, reproducing properties of the low lying $1/2^+$ states. On the other hand we also report on multirho and $K^*$ multirho states which can be associated to known meson resonances of high spin.
description: Talk given in the International School of Nuclear Physics, Erice 2011
title: Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Chronic Pain in Adolescent Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Single-group Feasibility Trial
Creators: name: Patton, Michaela
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: survivors of childhood cancer
subject: adolescents
subject: pain
subject: eHealth
subject: intervention
subject: Mental Health
subject: Oncology
subject: Psychology--Clinical

description: Introduction: Two-thirds of survivors of childhood cancer experience long-term side effects from treatments, like chronic pain. No pain management interventions have been tested on youth survivors of childhood cancer. Including parents in treatment and understanding parents’ own experience with pain can help improve youth outcomes. Web-based Management of Adolescent Pain (WebMAP) is an evidence-based, online intervention that includes parents, but has not yet been tested on survivors of childhood cancer. Methods: Survivors and parents were given online questionnaires about their pain. The feasibility and acceptability of WebMAP in survivors of childhood cancer and their parents was evaluated. Qualitative interviews were conducted and analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. Results: The prospective observational study found that half of survivors of childhood cancer with chronic pain have parents with chronic pain. The intervention study found that WebMAP met acceptability benchmarks but did not meet all feasibility benchmarks. Themes that emerged from qualitative interviews included “We found the program useful” and “There were areas of the program that could be improved upon”. Conclusion: Pain is prevalent in both survivors of childhood cancer and their parents. WebMAP is acceptable but not feasible in this specific subset of survivors of childhood cancer. WebMAP may be better suited for survivors whose primary concern is pain. Survivors of childhood cancer may benefit from an intervention that addresses multiple common health sequela in this population. Qualitative interviews provide helpful considerations for pediatric health interventions, more broadly.
CBR with Commonsense Reasoning and Structure Mapping: An Application to Mediation
Creators: name: Baydin, Atilim Gunes
name: de Mantaras, Ramon Lopez
name: Simoff, Simeon
name: Sierra, Carles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.6; I.2.1
subject: 91E40, 68T05, 68T20, 68T30

description: Mediation is an important method in dispute resolution. We implement a case based reasoning approach to mediation integrating analogical and commonsense reasoning components that allow an artificial mediation agent to satisfy requirements expected from a human mediator, in particular: utilizing experience with cases in different domains; and structurally transforming the set of issues for a better solution. We utilize a case structure based on ontologies reflecting the perceptions of the parties in dispute. The analogical reasoning component, employing the Structure Mapping Theory from psychology, provides a flexibility to respond innovatively in unusual circumstances, in contrast with conventional approaches confined into specialized problem domains. We aim to build a mediation case base incorporating real world instances ranging from interpersonal or intergroup disputes to international conflicts.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures; updated copyright notice
Finding a cost-effective optical system to identify 2D materials
Creators: name: Bastante, Pablo
name: Pucher, Thomas
name: Castellanos-Gomez, Andres
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: optical microscopy
two-dimensional materials
optical identification
low-cost

description: In this technical note we compare different optical systems (optical microscopes and homebuilt systems based on zoom lenses) to identify two-dimensional materials with the goal to find a cost-effective solution. In the V2 file we have included the comparison of transmission mode images as well.
title: A Scalable Fabrication Methodology for the Manufacturing of Cardiovascular Perfusion and Drainage Cannulae
Creators: name: Feddema, Joshua
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: PVC
subject: Plastisol
subject: Cannula
subject: Cannulae
subject: Engineering--Biomedical
subject: Plastics Technology

description: Cannula manufacturing techniques are held as trade secrets by their respective companies, including large biomedical companies such as Medtronic Cardiopulmonary, Getinge, and Edwards [1]. While exact details are not available, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastisol dip molding is a known commercial method used to fabricate cannula. Through exploratory experimentation and the investigation of different fabrication techniques, this project aimed to refine a basic dip molding process into the controlled precision fabrication of cannulae. Crude tube-shaped structures can be produced with basic dip molding; however, significant research and development was required to refine the process to a clinically relevant level. For medical applications, cannulae require embedded coils, good surface finish, uniform and reproduceable geometries, acceptable tip and connector joints, and clinically relevant markings. This project investigated precision dip molding and subsequent cannula assembly to meet these requirements. The result of this work was a viable 18 step fabrication methodology that takes 56 minutes to produce cardiovascular cannula shafts specifically for placement into the aorta. These prototypes were considered clinically acceptable by an ICU physician, supporting the credibility of the research. Additional prototyping of cannula for the drainage of venous blood was conducted, showing the versatility of the fabrication methodology. Flow testing on the cannula prototypes showed excellent lumen reinforcement with a <2% flow reduction when bent according to ISO 18193 standards. Simulation based tools were built to aid in the future development of cannula designs. Beyond manufacturing, this research presents the underlying physics believed to govern fabrication with PVC plastisol, an atypical plasticizer polymer material. With this understanding, appropriate plastisol handling, and fabrication troubleshooting are achievable.
Left ventricular twisting mechanics during incremental exercise : the influence of aerobic fitness and venous return
Creators: name: Drury, Chipman Taylor
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The role left ventricular (LV) twisting mechanics play in the stroke volume response to incremental exercise is unknown. Furthermore, the influences of aerobic fitness and venous return on LV twisting mechanics during vigorous exercise have not been investigated previously. To examine this issue, LV twisting mechanics and haemodynamics were assessed in eight endurance-trained (VO₂ max = 68.1 ± 5.6 mL∙kg⁻¹∙min⁻¹) and eight normally active (VO₂ max = 50.1 ± 5 mL∙kg⁻¹∙min⁻¹) males during incremental upright and supine exercise at rest and during heart rates of 110, 130, 150, and 170 bpm. LV twisting mechanics were measured via echocardiography, while haemodynamic measures were collected using impedance cardiography. During both incremental protocols, cardiac output increased continuously in both groups. Stroke volume (SV) and end-diastolic volume increased to a greater extent in endurance-trained athletes compared to normally active individuals during exercise in both postural positions (e.g., SV at 170 bpm supine: ET, 45%; NA, 30.5%; SV at 170 upright: ET, 44.7%; NA, 33.8%; p < 0.05). No differences in the response of LV twisting mechanics to incremental exercise in either posture existed between groups. During supine exercise, SV and LV systolic and diastolic twisting mechanics reached a plateau during sub-maximal exercise (110 – 150 bpm). During upright exercise, LV systolic twisting mechanics increased with each exercise stage until maximum, while LV diastolic twisting mechanics plateaued at approximately 110 bpm. These results indicate that aerobic fitness has minimal influence on LV twisting mechanics during exercise, while changes in cardiac loading resulting from changes in posture have a significant effect. It appears that at higher intensity exercise, LV twisting mechanics play a reduced role in maintaining cardiac function as compared to low to moderate intensity exercise, regardless of aerobic fitness and venous return
Brachygrapsus kingsleyi Miers 1885
Creators: name: Froglia, Carlo
name: Clark, Paul F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Plagusiidae
Brachygrapsus
Brachygrapsus kingsleyi

description: Brachygrapsus kingsleyi Miers 1885: 587.
 Litocheira kingsleyi Miers 1886: 232, pl. XXI, fig. 1.
 Remarks. The species was originally named Brachygrapsus kingsleyi Miers, 1885. Miers (1886: 232) assigned the species to Litocheira but stated “ Brachygrapsus kingsleyi, Miers, Narr. Chall. Exp., vol. i. pt. ii. p. 587, 1880.” His 1880 date of publication may be a typographical error but this is not evident in the Challenger Brachyura Errata. Türkay (1978) erected a new genus, Miersiograpsus, with Brachygrapsus kingsleyi Miers, 1885, as the type species and a new species Miersiograpsus australiensis. Michael Türkay is one of the few contemporary authors to quote the earlier Narrative description of Miers (1885).
 Valid as Miersiograpsus kingsleyi (Miers, 1885).
description: Published as part of Froglia, Carlo & Clark, Paul F., 2011, The forgotten Narrative of H. M. S. Challenger and the implications for decapod nomenclature, pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 2788 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200635
Cotunneling in the ν= 5/2 fractional quantum Hall regime
Creators: name: Zielke, Robert
name: Braunecker, Bernd
name: Loss, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that cotunneling in the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall regime allows us to test the Moore-Read wave function, proposed for this regime, and to probe the nature of the fractional charge carriers. We calculate the cotunneling current for electrons that tunnel between two quantum Hall edge states via a quantum dot and for quasiparticles with fractional charges e/4 and e/2 that tunnel via an antidot. While electron cotunneling is strongly suppressed, the quasiparticle tunneling shows signatures characteristic of the Moore-Read state. For comparison, we also consider cotunneling between Laughlin states, and find that electron transport between Moore-Read states and between Laughlin states at filling factor 1/3 have identical voltage dependences.
Subulina octona
Creators: name: de Lima, Marcos Silva
name: Silva, Fernanda dos Santos
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes
name: Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe
name: Guilherme, Edson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Achatinidae
Subulina
Subulina octona

description: Subulina octona (Bruguière, 1789) Figure 4F–H Bulimus octonus Bruguière, 1789: 325. Material examined. Brazil • Acre, Porto Acre, HFR; 09° 45′01″S, 067°40′19″W; 10.I.2019; W. Lima and M. Lima leg.; 2, UFAC 1052. Type locality. Guadeloupe. Distribution. Naturally occurring in tropical continental Americas, but introduced to the Caribbean Islands, Africa, Asia, and Pacific Islands (Pilsbry 1906; Cowie 2000; Massemin et al. 2009; Miquel and Herrera 2014).
description: Published as part of de Lima, Marcos Silva, Silva, Fernanda dos Santos, Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes, Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe & Guilherme, Edson, 2021, Terrestrial gastropods of Reserva Florestal Humaitá, southwestern Brazilian Amazon, pp. 269-281 in Check List 17 (1) on page 274, DOI: 10.15560/17.1.269
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title: Computational Improvements for PT Flash Calculations: A New Look at the Initiation and Underemphasized Aspects of Calculation Method Modifications
Creators: name: Shirazi Manesh, Amir Ahmad
Publisher: name: Schulich School of Engineering
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: PT flash
subject: Flash Calculations
subject: Stability Analysis
subject: Optimization
subject: Thermodynamics
subject: Engineering--Chemical

description: Phase equilibrium calculations at constant pressure and constant temperature, PT flash calculations, are at the heart of thermodynamic modeling and simulations. Reliability and efficiency of simulations are heavily dependent on these calculations. Accordingly, there has been many attempts to improve these calculations using the available mathematical tools and the knowledge amassed in this regard is considerable. However, in relation to the characteristics of the problem, it seems that there are still capacities in the mathematical methods and these capacities should be used to attain better results. This study is an attempt to employ the connection between the special structure of the flash problem and the author’s understanding of mathematical methods to improve efficiency of the calculations while preserving reliability of the results. It was found a consideration should be made in design of the unidirectional search algorithms or in application of the line search methods to the problem and effect of making this consideration on flash results was discussed. It was shown that line search methods with a specific search direction can be applied to improve the efficiency of stability test calculations in hard cases. The efficiency of the line search methods with different types of factorization was evaluated and similarity of their abilities was found. With respect to initial guesses required to conduct stability analysis in PT flash calculations, as a global optimization problem, it was shown that considerably smaller sets of guesses, compared to the sets suggested in the literature, can provide the same level of results reliability. Application of these sets to the calculations can lead to a significant computational burden reduction. Two approaches which are customarily used in the stability analysis were evaluated and it was shown that searching for the lowest negative minimum of modified tangent plane distance function can cause considerably extra computational cost for the optimization-based calculations. Using the results, an approach to initialization of the calculations with a previously recommended stability test and prioritization of the guesses in the reduced size sets was suggested. A case of failure of successive substitution method in phase split calculations was reported and a combined line search-trust region method to remedy was suggested. Patterns of stability test and phase split iterations convergence behaviour with respect to the location of successive substitution method basin of attraction in stability test calculations were reported. A modification for line search methods to improve the efficiency of stability test calculations in difficult to converge specifications was introduced.
title: Template-Directed Design of Robust Phosphonate Metal-Organic Frameworks for Carbon Capture
Creators: name: Gabert, Evan Darryl
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Metal-Organic Framework
subject: Template
subject: Carbon Capture
subject: Hydrogen Bonded
subject: Chemistry--Inorganic
subject: Materials Science

description: Metal-organic frameworks are versatile and tunable materials. Phosphonate MOFs offer greater stability, but structural control is challenging. This thesis utilizes hydrogen-bonded metal-organic framework (HMOF) intermediates to control phosphonate MOF properties. HMOFs are porous hydrogen-bonded solids composed of secondary sphere interactions between phosphonate linkers and hexaaquachromium(III) ions. HMOFs are metastable and well ordered. Thus, they serve as an isolatable intermediate that is easily characterized. Upon heating, aqua ligands are irreversibly replaced by phosphonates. While the resulting MOFs are often poorly ordered, they retain properties of their prior HMOF structure. This work shows the flexibility of HMOF hydrogen bonds allow guest molecules to substantially change framework structure. If the guest is retained during dehydration, it will continue to shape pore structure and result in a unique MOF. The resulting MOFs are rigid and retain the guest-imprinted pore structure after guest removal. This “HMOF to MOF” method allows for the controlled synthesis of robust phosphonate MOFs. This proof-of-concept study develops the HMOF to MOF method towards the creation of solid sorbents for carbon capture. A novel highly flexible HMOF, H-CALF-55, was dehydrated in the presence of numerous guests. This resulted in formation of unique MOF structures with tunable isotherm shape and gas capacity (0.5 to 1.2 mmol/g). The MOFs retained their gas capacity after one week of exposure to boiling water or 6 M HCl. The unconventional use of CO2 guests resulted in 1.5 times higher CO2 capacity than guest-free synthesis. Lastly, the use of template mixtures to form MOFs imprinted by guest-guest interaction was explored. H-CALF-55 dehydrated around a combination of CO2 and water had increased CO2 capacity relative to the single-guest MOFs. Amine modified HMOFs were dehydrated around trace water. The resulting MOFs exhibited 3-fold higher CO2 capacities at 40 mbar when wetted prior to analysis with 5.2 mass percent water. No such effect was observed in MOFs prepared from bulk water. This suggests that the template used can have great impact on MOF properties, including tuning material performance in the presence of water. A critical metric for carbon capture materials.
title: LGBTQ+ Patients’ Experiences of Harm in Psychotherapy: A Scoping Review & Reflexive Thematic Analysis of the Peer-Reviewed Literature
Creators: name: Furlani, Noah Bauschen
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Harmful experiences
subject: LGBTQ+
subject: Therapy
subject: Educational Psychology

description: Harmful experiences in therapy, such as microaggressions and sexual boundary violations, occur more frequently than is commonly thought. Existing research shows that while LGBTQ+ people seek out psychotherapy in greater proportion than their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts, they also tend to report more harmful experiences in therapy. Harmful experiences in therapy negatively affect therapy outcomes and may worsen patients’ psychological well-being. Therapists also have a long history of harm against sexual and gender minority patients. In order to improve the safety and efficacy of psychotherapy for LGBTQ+ patients, a better understanding of their harmful experiences in therapy is needed. In this thesis, I first conducted a scoping review to identify the relevant peer-reviewed literature on LGBTQ+ patients’ experiences of harm in therapy. Our review identified 61 articles based on the inclusion criteria. Articles’ participant demographic data, focus population, and publishing information was charted. To identify forms of harm, I further conducted a Reflexive Thematic Analysis on the articles extracted during the scoping review. Through this process, I generated three superordinate themes: (1) conversion therapy-related harms; (2) discrimination and prejudice in psychotherapy; and (3) heterosexist and cissexist enactments and misattunements. These results are discussed in light of current events and the related peer-reviewed literature, noting increases in conversion therapy targeting trans and nonbinary people and anti-trans legislation. In addition, I also highlighted several gaps in the extracted literature, including insufficient attention to major ethical breaches, such as violations of confidentiality and sexual boundary violations. Finally, I note implications of these results for clinical practice and training.
Habroconus mayi
Creators: name: de Lima, Marcos Silva
name: Silva, Fernanda dos Santos
name: Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes
name: Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe
name: Guilherme, Edson
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Stylommatophora
Euconulidae
Habroconus
Habroconus mayi

description: Habroconus mayi (F.C. Baker, 1913) Figure 5O–Q Guppya mayi Baker 1913: 632, pl. 21, figs. 6, 7. Material examined. Brazil • Acre, Porto Acre, HFR; 09° 45′54″S, 067°68′34″W; 12.I.2017; M. Lima leg.; 2, UFAC 715. Identification. The present specimens were collected in 2017, on a trip previous to the actual main collection effort. They can be identified by their delicate, brown, translucent, conical shell, which lacks a strong angulation on the body whorl (Baker 1913). This record, the first from Acre, extends the species distribution circa 250 km to the west. Genetic data. CO1, MW 033970; 16S, MW 035046; ITS2+28S, MW 045521; from voucher specimen UFAC 715. Type locality. Camp 39, 284km above Porto Velho(Rondônia state) along Madeira-Mamoré Railroad, Brazil. Distribution. Northern Rondônia state and possibly southern Amazonas state, Brazil (Simone 2006).
description: Published as part of de Lima, Marcos Silva, Silva, Fernanda dos Santos, Simone, Luiz Ricardo Lopes, Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe & Guilherme, Edson, 2021, Terrestrial gastropods of Reserva Florestal Humaitá, southwestern Brazilian Amazon, pp. 269-281 in Check List 17 (1) on page 278, DOI: 10.15560/17.1.269
description: {"references": ["Baker F (1913) The land and freshwater mollusks of Stanford Expedition to Brazil. Proceedings Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 65: 618 - 672.", "Simone LRL (2006) Land and freshwater molluscs of Brazil. Editora Grafica Bernardi & Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisas do Estado de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 399 pp."]}
Pseudorhombila (Pilumnoplax) normani Miers 1885
Creators: name: Froglia, Carlo
name: Clark, Paul F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Pseudorhombilidae
Pseudorhombila
Pseudorhombila normani

description: Pseudorhombila (Pilumnoplax) normani Miers 1885: 587.
 Pilumnoplax heterochir (Studer) Miers 1886: 227, pl. XIX, fig. 1.
 Remarks. Miers (1886: 227; footnote, 228) synonymised Pseudorhombila (Pilumnoplax) normani Miers, 1885, with Pilumnoplax heterochir (Studer, 1883). Miers (1886) made a reference to the earlier description published in the Narrative and cites “Miers, Narr. Chall. Exp., vol. i. pt. ii. p. 587, 1880”. His 1880 date of publication may be a typographical error but this is not listed in the Challenger Brachyura errata. Pilumnus heterochir Studer, 1883, is the type species of Neopilumnoplax Serène, in Guinot, 1969. Pseudorhombila normani was overlooked by Guinot in her generic reappraisal (1969) and in her synthesis (1971). This species was not listed as a synonym of N. heterochir by Ng et al. (2008).
 Valid as Neopilumnoplax heterochir (Studer, 1883).
description: Published as part of Froglia, Carlo & Clark, Paul F., 2011, The forgotten Narrative of H. M. S. Challenger and the implications for decapod nomenclature, pp. 45-56 in Zootaxa 2788 on page 50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200635
Estimation of a quantum interaction parameter using weak measurements: Theory and experiment
Creators: name: Hofmann, Holger F.
name: Goggin, Michael E.
name: Almeida, Marcelo P.
name: Barbieri, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the estimation of a small interaction parameter from the outcomes of weak quantum measurements implemented by the interaction. The relation of weak values and sensitivity is explained and the different contributions of postselected results are identified using experimental data. The results show how weak values can be used to control the distribution of input state sensitivity between different postselected outcomes.
description: Replace with the published version. Comments still welcome
Additional file 1 of A multifunctional enolase mediates cytoadhesion and interaction with host plasminogen and fibronectin in Mycoplasma hyorhinis
Creators: name: Wang, Jia
name: Yu, Yanfei
name: Li, Yao
name: Li, Shiyang
name: Wang, Li
name: Wei, Yanna
name: Wu, Yuzi
name: Pillay, Bala
name: Olaniran, Ademola Olufolahan
name: Chiliza, Thamsanqa E.
name: Shao, Guoqing
name: Feng, Zhixin
name: Xiong, Qiyan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1. Assessment of the specificity of the prepared polyclonal antibody against M. hyorhinis enolase. (A) The whole cell lysate of M. hyorhinis and purified WT rEno protein were subjected to 12% SDS-PAGE and transferred to a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane. After blocking with 5% skim milk in TBST buffer, the membrane was incubated with the anti-rEno serum (1:5000 dilution), followed by horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG (1:10 000 dilution). Finally, filters were developed with Electro-Chemi-Luminescence (ECL) substrate using a ChemiDoc XRS+ system (Bio-Rad, USA). (B) The serum obtained before immunization was used as the negative control. M, protein molecular weight marker; lane 1, whole cell lysate of M. hyorhinis; lane 2, purified WT rEno.
A universal model for predicting human migration under climate change: examining future sea level rise in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Davis, Kyle Frankel
name: Bhattachan, Abinash
name: D'Odorico, Paolo
name: Suweis, Samir
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2018
Subjects: Human beings--Migrations
Climatic changes
Sea level
Migration, Internal--Mathematical models
Environmental refugees
Internally displaced persons

description: Climate change is expected to impact the habitability of many places around the world in significant and unprecedented ways in the coming decades. While previous studies have provided estimates of populations potentially exposed to various climate impacts, little work has been done to assess the number of people that may actually be displaced or where they will choose to go. Here we modify a diffusion-based model of human mobility in combination with population, geographic, and climatic data to estimate the sources, destinations, and flux of potential migrants as driven by sea level rise (SLR) in Bangladesh in the years 2050 and 2100. Using only maps of population and elevation, we predict that 0.9 million people (by year 2050) to 2.1 million people (by year 2100) could be displaced by direct inundation and that almost all of this movement will occur locally within the southern half of the country. We also find that destination locations should anticipate substantial additional demands on jobs (594 000), housing (197 000), and food (783 × 10^9 calories) by mid-century as a result of those displaced by SLR. By linking the sources of migrants displaced by SLR with their likely destinations, we demonstrate an effective approach for predicting climate-driven migrant flows, especially in data-limited settings.