cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Lathrobium imadatei Watanabe & Luo 1992
Creators: name: Peng, Zhong
name: Li, Qi-Li
name: Shen, Liang
name: Gu, Fu-Kang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lathrobium
Lathrobium imadatei

description: Lathrobium imadatei Watanabe & Luo, 1992
(Figs 2 A, 3)
 Material studied. China: Zhejiang: 3 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, Taishun Co., Wuyanling Natural Reserve, 27°42'N 119°39'E, 700–1300 m, 10.V.2004, Hu, Tang & Zhu leg. (SNUC).
 Comment. Lathrobium imadatei has been recorded only from Wuyanling Natural Reserve in Zhejiang. For illustrations of L. imadatei see Figs 2 A, 3.
description: Published as part of Peng, Zhong, Li, Qi-Li, Shen, Liang & Gu, Fu-Kang, 2015, On the Lathrobium fauna of the Donggong Mountains, eastern China, pp. 245-263 in Zootaxa 3905 (2) on pages 246-247, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/245085
Additional file 1 of Antithrombotic effect and action mechanism of Salvia miltiorrhiza and Panax notoginseng herbal pair on the zebrafish
Creators: name: Yin, Shi-Jun
name: Luo, Ying-Qing
name: Zhao, Cong-Peng
name: Chen, Hua
name: Zhong, Zhang-Feng
name: Wang, Shengpeng
name: Wang, Yi-Tao
name: Yang, Feng-Qing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Zebrafish primers used for RT-qPCR analysis. Table S2. Identification of the components of DS–SQ by HPLC–MS/MS. Fig. S1. Total ion chromatograms (TICs) of DS–SQ extract in both positive ion mode (A) and in negative ion mode (B). Fig. S2. The chemical structures of nine compounds from DS–SQ. Fig. S3. The results of agarose gel electrophoresis (A) and absorbance ratios of groups G28-G30 (B).
PO - DEVELOPMENT OF A TOOLBOX - AN ONLINE LIBRARY FOR SMART TOOLS AND OTHER RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO THE AG SECTOR
Creators: name: SchrÃ¶Er-Merker, Eva
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Smart technology
subject: Technology
subject: Adoption

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Impact of Neutron Irradiation on LGADs with a Carbon-Enriched Shallow Multiplication Layer: Degradation of Timing Performance and Gain
Creators: name: Ramos, E. Navarrete
name: Duarte-Campderros, J.
name: Fernández, M.
name: Gómez, G.
name: González, J.
name: Hidalgo, S.
name: Jaramillo, R.
name: del Árbol, P. Martínez Ruiz
name: Moll, M.
name: Quintana, C.
name: Sikdar, A. K.
name: Vila, I.
name: Villegas, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this radiation tolerance study, Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) with a carbon-enriched broad and shallow multiplication layer were examined in comparison to identical non-carbonated LGADs. Manufactured at IMB-CNM, the sensors underwent neutron irradiation at the TRIGA reactor in Ljubljana, reaching a fluence of $1.5e^{15} {n_{eq}} cm^{-2}$. The results revealed a smaller deactivation of boron and improved resistance to radiation in carbonated LGADs. The study demonstrated the potential benefits of carbon enrichment in mitigating radiation damage effects, particularly the acceptor removal mechanism, reducing the acceptor removal constant by more than a factor of two. Additionally, time resolution and collected charge degradation due to irradiation were observed, with carbonated samples exhibiting better radiation tolerance. A noise analysis focused on baseline noise and spurious pulses showed the presence of thermal-generated dark counts attributed to a too narrow distance between the gain layer end and the p-stop implant at the periphery of the pad for the characterized LGAD design; however, without significant impact of operation performance.
Social inclusion, sport for development and peace, and community-based research: Free Play for Kids
Creators: Scherer, Jay
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2020

SSHRC IG awarded 2021. Thousands of refugees and immigrants arrive in Canada every year and are increasingly settling in the major Prairie urban centres, including in Edmonton, Alberta. Immigrants and refugees are supported in various capacities in the resettlement process by an expanding non-profit sector, including organizations that provide sport and leisure activities for young people. This three-year community-based research (CBR) project will explore the role of Free Play for Kids---a non-profit, Sport For Development and Peace (SDP) organization in Edmonton, Alberta---in providing socially inclusive, after school sporting opportunities for newcomers at no cost to participants and their families.

The three interrelated issues that will be addressed include: (1) What are the enabling and constraining participatory strategies and development objectives of SDP organizations like Free Play for Kids – as well as the taken-for-granted assumptions, knowledge(s), and subjectivities of staff and volunteers – in their efforts to provide socially inclusive and safe sporting opportunities in the COVID-19 era? (2) What are the experiences of racialized children within the sporting programs and spaces, and how do they serve as both a site of inclusion (e.g., a social bridge for connection with others from different ethnic backgrounds, including Canadian-born citizens) and exclusion for young people (e.g., along the lines of gender)? (3) In what ways does involvement in these sporting opportunities support racialized parents of young participants and their family members in the resettlement process?
Additional file 7: of Elucidating the transcriptional program of feline injection-site sarcoma using a cross-species mRNA-sequencing approach
Creators: name: Wei, Qi
name: Ramsey, Stephen
name: Larson, Maureen
name: Berlow, Noah
name: Ochola, Donasian
name: Shiprack, Christopher
name: Kashyap, Amita
name: SĂŠguin, Bernard
name: Keller, Charles
name: LĂśhr, Christiane
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Figure S2. Full membrane images for BARX1 and FN1 immunoblots. (A) Anti-BARX1 stained Western with ladder. (B) Same membrane stained for total protein with Pierce Removable Total Protein. (C) Anti-FN1 stained Western with ladder. (B) Same membrane stained for total protein with Pierce Removable Total Protein. (PDF 132 kb)
A Multiwavelength View of Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies in the Pavo Group
Creators: name: Machacek, M.
name: Ashby, M. L. N.
name: Jones, C.
name: Forman, W. R.
name: Bastian, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combine Spitzer IRAC mid-infrared (MIR) and Chandra X-ray observations of the dominant galaxies NGC6872 and NGC6876 in the Pavo group with archival optical and HI data to study interaction-induced star formation. In spiral galaxy NGC6872, 8.0 and 5.8 micron nonstellar emission having colors consistent with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is concentrated in clumps in three regions: in a 5 kpc radius outer ring about the center of the spiral galaxy, in a bridge of emission connecting NGC6872's northern spiral arm to IC4970, and along the full extent of NGC6872's tidal arms. PAH emission is correlated with young star clusters and dense HI regions. We find no strong differences in the MIR colors of star-forming regions in the spiral galaxy NGC6872 as a function of position relative to the tidally interacting companion galaxy IC4970. We find 11 very luminous X-ray sources (>~ (0.5 - 5) x 10^{39} ergs/s) clustered to the southwest in NGC6872, near bright star-forming regions. In NGC6872's tidal features, young star clusters form at the boundaries of diffuse X-ray gas, suggesting that stars form as gas stripped by the interactions cools. The nucleus of NGC6872 is a weak X-ray point source (0.5-8 keV luminosity of 8.5 x 10^{39} ergs/s), but there is little evidence in the inner 1 kpc of NGC6872 for PAH emission from recent star formation or nuclear activity. However, a 4 kpc `stream', leading from the outer ring of NGC6872 to the nucleus, may signal transport of interstellar matter into NGC6872's nuclear region. Nonstellar emission, consistent with PAH emission, is also found in the central region of elliptical galaxy NGC6877, companion to dominant Pavo group elliptical NGC6876. However, in the central region of NGC6876, the dust emission is more likely due to silicate emission from old AGB stars.
description: 17 pages, 24 figures, ApJ, accepted
Nearly Perfect Fluidity: From Cold Atomic Gases to Hot Quark Gluon Plasmas
Creators: name: Schaefer, Thomas
name: Teaney, Derek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Shear viscosity is a measure of the amount of dissipation in a simple fluid. In kinetic theory shear viscosity is related to the rate of momentum transport by quasi-particles, and the uncertainty relation suggests that the ratio of shear viscosity eta to entropy density s in units of hbar/k_B is bounded by a constant. Here, hbar is Planck's constant and k_B is Boltzmann's constant. A specific bound has been proposed on the basis of string theory where, for a large class of theories, one can show that eta/s is greater or equal to hbar/(4 pi k_B). We will refer to a fluid that saturates the string theory bound as a perfect fluid. In this review we summarize theoretical and experimental information on the properties of the three main classes of quantum fluids that are known to have values of eta/s that are smaller than hbar/k_B. These fluids are strongly coupled Bose fluids, in particular liquid helium, strongly correlated ultracold Fermi gases, and the quark gluon plasma. We discuss the main theoretical approaches to transport properties of these fluids: kinetic theory, numerical simulations based on linear response theory, and holographic dualities. We also summarize the experimental situation, in particular with regard to the observation of hydrodynamic behavior in ultracold Fermi gases and the quark gluon plasma.
description: 76 pages, 11 figures, review article, extensive revisions
PO - DAIRY EXCEL'S 15 MEASURES OF DAIRY FARM COMPETITIVENESS
Creators: name: Shoemaker, Dianne E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Agribusiness
subject: Dairy Farm Competitiveness
subject: Dairy Farm Financial Management
subject: Competitiveness

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Chilo infuscatellus
Creators: name: Léger, Théo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Chilo
Chilo infuscatellus

description: Chilo infuscatellus (Snellen, 1890)
Figs. 37, 96, 154.
Chilo infuscatellus Snellen 1890: 94. Type locality: Indonesia, Java
= Argyria sticticraspis Hampson 1919: 449; Gupta 1940: 788; Isaac & Rao 1941: 799; Isaac & Venkatraman 1941: 806 [syn. Kapur 1950].
= Argyria coniorata Hampson 1919: 449. Fletcher 1928 (syn.).
= Diatraea calamina Hampson 1919: 544; Kapur 1950 (syn.).
= Diatraea auricilia (Dudgeon): Fletcher & Ghosh 1920: 387.
= Diatraea shariinensis Eguchi 1933: 3; Kapur 1950 (syn.).
= Chilo tadzhikiellus Gerasimov 1949: 704; Błeszyński 1962: 111 (syn.).
MATERIAL
3 ♀ (detailed information on Table S1; https://doi.org/ 10.5061/dryad.b8gtht7mh).
DIAGNOSIS
Chilo infuscatellus, also known as the Yellow Top Borer, have narrow brownish forewings medially speckled with dark brown and snow white hindwings. This species can be separated from other Chilo species by the presence of a conspicuous cornutus on the vesica of the male genitalia (Fig. 96). In female genitalia (Fig. 154), the following characters distinguish this species from congeneric species: ostial pouch distincly incised; ductus bursae devoid of swellings and sclerotized markings; corpus bursae with one signum (Anon, 2019; Bleszynski, 1970c).
DISTRIBUTION
AFGHANISTAN; INDIA; INDONESIA, MYANMAR; PHILIPPINES: Luzon (Benguet; Zambales); TAIWAN; TAJIKISTAN; TIMOR (Bleszynski, 1970c). Collected at altitudes between 150 and 500 m on the Philippines.
DNA BARCODING
A maximum intraspecific p-distance of 0.3% is observed between MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL11-B01, MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL11-A01, and MFNLEP-PYRALPHIL11-G01, all from Luzon (Zambales). The haplotypes of Luzon are most closely related to those found in Thailand (see Fig. S2e). A maximum intraspecific divergence of 7.1% is observed in specimen LSTEM114-18 from Java identified as Chilo infuscatellus.
REMARKS
Błeszyński (1970) investigated one female specimen from Klondyke on Luzon, Philippines.
description: Published as part of Léger, Théo, 2024, Half of the Diversity Undescribed: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals 32 New Species and a High Cryptic Diversity in the Scopariinae and Crambinae of the Philippines (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), pp. 1-93 in Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3 (2) on pages 49-50, DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9527, http://zenodo.org/record/15116964
Anomaly at finite density and chiral fermions on lattice
Creators: name: Gavai, Rajiv V.
name: Sharma, Sayantan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using both perturbation theory in the Euclidean formalism as well as the non-perturbative Fujikawa's method, we verify that the chiral anomaly equation remains unaffected in continuum QCD in the presence of nonzero chemical potential, μ. We extend our considerations to lattice fermions with exact chiral symmetry and discuss the consequences for the recent Bloch-Wettig proposal for the Dirac operator at finite chemical potential. We propose a new simpler method of incorporating μ.
description: Talk presented at the XXVII International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, July 26-31, 2009, Peking University, Beijing, China; 7 pages, 3 figures
PO - INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON ARABLE FARMS IN THE BRITISH ISLES AND THEIR LINKS WITH AGRONOMIC PROBLEMS AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Creators: name: Tranter, Richard
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Integrated Pest Management
subject: arable farms
subject: financial performance

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
PO - PRECISION AGRICULTURE INVESTMENT - FIXED COST ANALYSIS AS A STARTING POINT IN EVALUATING RETURN-ON-INVESTMENT
Creators: name: Ward, Barry
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Precision Agriculture
subject: technology
subject: fixed costs

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Less than 10 percent of star formation in z=0.6 massive galaxies is triggered by major interactions
Creators: name: Robaina, Aday R.
name: Bell, Eric F.
name: Skelton, Rosalind E.
name: McIntosh, Daniel H.
name: Somerville, Rachel S.
name: Zheng, Xianzhong
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
name: Bacon, David
name: Balogh, Michael
name: Barazza, Fabio D.
name: Barden, Marco
name: Boehm, Asmus
name: Caldwell, John A. R.
name: Gallazzi, Anna
name: Gray, Meghan E.
name: Haussler, Boris
name: Heymans, Catherine
name: Jahnke, Knud
name: Jogee, Shardha
name: van Kampen, Eelco
name: Lane, Kyle
name: Meisenheimer, Klaus
name: Papovich, Casey
name: Peng, Chien Y.
name: Sanchez, Sebastian F.
name: Skibba, Ramin
name: Taylor, Andy
name: Wisotzki, Lutz
name: Wolf, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Both observations and simulations show that major tidal interactions or mergers between gas-rich galaxies can lead to intense bursts of starformation. Yet, the average enhancement in star formation rate (SFR) in major mergers and the contribution of such events to the cosmic SFR are not well estimated. Here we use photometric redshifts, stellar masses and UV SFRs from COMBO-17, 24 micron SFRs from Spitzer and morphologies from two deep HST cosmological survey fields (ECDFS/GEMS and A901/STAGES) to study the enhancement in SFR as a function of projected galaxy separation. We apply two-point projected correlation function techniques, which we augment with morphologically-selected very close pairs (separation <2 arcsec) and merger remnants from the HST imaging. Our analysis confirms that the most intensely star-forming systems are indeed interacting or merging. Yet, for massive (M* > 10^10 Msun) star-forming galaxies at 0.4
description: Submitted to ApJ. 41 pages, 11 figures
Optimierung des Projektmanagements in der Produktentwicklung mit agilen Arbeitsmethoden
Creators: name: Amiry, Faresta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Produktentwicklung
Projektmanagement
agil

description: Das steigendende Tempo der Technologieentwicklung und immer kürzer werdende Produktlebenszyklen führen zu Veränderungen in den Anforderungen von Produktentwicklungen. Konventionelle Projektmanagementmethoden und Wasserfallmodelle in der Produktentwicklung sind zu starr, da Änderungen in den Anforderungen mit einem hohen Dokumentations- und Koordinationsaufwand verbunden sind. In der Softwareentwicklung sind agile Methoden, wie Scrum bereits seit vielen Jahren etabliert. Unternehmen versuchen mit agilen Arbeitsweisen ihre Entwicklungsprozesse änderungsfreundlicher zu gestalten.
 Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, den Nutzen agiler Methoden in Produktentwicklungen außerhalb der Softwareentwicklung zu untersuchen. Dazu wird ein konkretes Konzept anhand eines Fallbeispiels erarbeitet, welches die folgende Forschungsfrage beantwortet: „Wie können agile Methoden in Unternehmen außerhalb der Softwareentwicklung die Innovationskraft stärken und Verschwendungen im Produktentwicklungsprozess reduzieren?“
 Der Nutzen agiler Methoden wird anhand von Experteninterviews untersucht, indem das entwickelte Konzept bewertet wurde. Die qualitative Inhaltsanalyse der Interviewinhalte hat ergeben, dass das Lean Canvas eine Struktur bietet, interdisziplinärer zu arbeiten und innovative Lösungen zu fördern. Mit agilen Methoden wird häufig noch Planlosigkeit und Chaos verbunden, somit fand die Idee, in den frühen Phasen der Produktentwicklung rein agil zu arbeiten, kaum Zuspruch.
 Das Ergebnis dieser Arbeit ist ein hybrides Phasenmodell, in der die konventionelle Vorgehensweise vorherrscht, in der Vorentwicklungs- und Designphase aber agile Elemente nach Scrum eingebaut sind. Die Phasen vor dem Projektstart bzw. nach der Prozessstabilität sind nicht Teil der Untersuchung.
 Die vorliegende Arbeit bietet Unternehmen ein beispielhaftes Vorgehen zur Analyse der Eignung agiler Methoden für ihren Produktentwicklungsprozess.
Leveraging Large Language Models for Knowledge-free Weak Supervision in Clinical Natural Language Processing
Creators: name: Hsu, Enshuo
name: Roberts, Kirk
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The performance of deep learning-based natural language processing systems is based on large amounts of labeled training data which, in the clinical domain, are not easily available or affordable. Weak supervision and in-context learning offer partial solutions to this issue, particularly using large language models (LLMs), but their performance still trails traditional supervised methods with moderate amounts of gold-standard data. In particular, inferencing with LLMs is computationally heavy. We propose an approach leveraging fine-tuning LLMs and weak supervision with virtually no domain knowledge that still achieves consistently dominant performance. Using a prompt-based approach, the LLM is used to generate weakly-labeled data for training a downstream BERT model. The weakly supervised model is then further fine-tuned on small amounts of gold standard data. We evaluate this approach using Llama2 on three different n2c2 datasets. With no more than 10 gold standard notes, our final BERT models weakly supervised by fine-tuned Llama2-13B consistently outperformed out-of-the-box PubMedBERT by 4.7% to 47.9% in F1 scores. With only 50 gold standard notes, our models achieved close performance to fully fine-tuned systems.
Memory and linguistic demands of the Token Test (Pham et al., 2022)
Creators: name: Pham, Theresa
name: Bardell, Taylor E.
name: Vollebregt, Meghan
name: Kuiack, Alyssa K.
name: M. D. Archibald, Lisa
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2022
Subjects: Child language acquisition
Natural language processing
Memory and attention

description: Purpose: Working memory and linguistic knowledge are highly intertwined in language tasks. Verbal working memory in particular has been studied as a potential constraint on language performance. This, in turn, highlights the need for a clinical assessment tool that will assist clinicians in understanding individual children’s performance in relation to working memory and language. In this study, we investigated whether performance on the Token Test could capture differences in verbal working memory and linguistic knowledge given its manipulation of length and syntactic complexity.Method: In Experiment 1, 257 children ages 4–7 years completed our Modified-Shortened Token Test, in which they carried out commands of increasing length and complexity. Experiment 2 was an exploratory study that included a separate group of 24 kindergarten-age children who completed our Modified-Shortened Token Test as well as other memory and language measures.Results: The factor analysis in Experiment 1 revealed a three-factor solution with factors corresponding to verbal working memory, linguistic, and basic attention constructs. In Experiment 2, we conducted exploratory correlations between composite scores formed based on identified factors (from Experiment 1) and related measures. Recalling sentences and formulating sentences correlated with the working memory demands of the Token Test, whereas following directions and word structure correlated with Token Test linguistic factor.Conclusions: A modified Token Test has the potential to be used clinically to understand language performance. In particular, differential performance across sentences could reveal relative verbal working memory and linguistic knowledge abilities.
Supplemental Material S1. Supplementary Experiments 1 and 2.
Pham, T., Bardell, T. E., Vollebregt, M., Kuiack, A. K., & Archibald, L. M. D. (2022). Evaluating the Modified-Shortened Token Test as a working memory and language assessment tool. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_JSLHR-21-00369
Colonization of lilypads by Sida crystallina (O.F. Mèuller) in Marion Lake, British Columbia
Creators: name: Starr, Paul Joseph
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Sida crystallina, a cladoceran, is found in densities up to 45 per square centimeter underneath lilypads (Nuphar poly-sepalum) in Marion Lake, British Columbia. Floats, boats, and other artificial substrates are rapidly colonized by Sida to densities comparable to those underneath lilypads. Sida only persists underneath horizontal-lying substrates. On substrates receiving direct sunlight, filamentous algae grow and displace Sida. The high densities of Sida under lilypads attract several predators, both vertebrate and invertebrate; however, the overall Sida populations appears to be unaffected by predation. At the end of the summer, the population declines rapidly, possibly due to predation as well as to natural mortality. Rapid flushing occurs in Marion Lake after a rainstorm, and lilypads appear to serve as a refuge from the current. It is also likely that lilypads serve as feeding locations in areas of relatively high phytoplankton concentrations (compared with the open water of the lake). The observed colonization behaviour would then be selectively advantageous if feeding sites are in short supply and intra-specific competition is high. The dynamics of colonization were monitored four times over the summer, and population growth parameters were obtained concurrently. From a comparision of these, it seems that most of the observed growth on the artificial substrates is due to immigration and not to reproduction. All population drops are due to emigration. From an experiment testing the rate of colonization as a function of the distance to the nearest Nuphar bed, it appears that the colonization is by clumps of Sida at the mercy of the lake currents. During periods of persistent wind, colonization is most rapid in areas where these clumps tend to be concentrated by the wind. Otherwise, the artificial substrates nearest to the Nuphar beds are colonized first. The population statistics obtained over the summer show that after an initial period of rapid growth, the population growth rate becomes very slow (probably not much more than one birth per individual). It is likely that Sida is exploiting its environment to a maximum by maintaining its population as near as possible to its carrying capacity.
Large-eddy simulation of large-scale structures in long channel flow
Creators: name: Chung, D.
name: McKeon, B. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate statistics of large-scale structures from large-eddy simulation (LES) of turbulent channel flow at friction Reynolds numbers $Re_τ= 2 {\rm k}$ and $200 {\rm k}$. To properly capture the behaviour of large-scale structures, the channel length is chosen to be 96 times the channel half-height. In agreement with experiments, these large-scale structures are found to give rise to an apparent amplitude modulation of the underlying small-scale fluctuations. This effect is explained in terms of the phase relationship between the large- and small-scale activity. The shape of the dominant large-scale structure is investigated by conditional averages based on the large-scale velocity, determined using a filter width equal to the channel half-height. The conditioned field demonstrates coherence on a scale of several times the filter width, and the small-scale--large-scale relative phase difference increases away from the wall, passing through $π/2$ in the overlap region of the mean velocity before approaching $π$ further from the wall. We also found that, near the wall, the convection velocity of the large-scales departs slightly, but unequivocally, from the mean velocity.
description: Submitted to the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and currently under review
Rates and Delay Times of Type Ia Supernovae
Creators: name: Ruiter, Ashley J.
name: Belczynski, Krzysztof
name: Fryer, Chris L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the evolution of binary stars to calculate synthetic rates and delay times of the most promising Type Ia Supernovae progenitors. We present and discuss evolutionary scenarios in which a white dwarf reaches the Chandrasekhar-mass and potentially explodes in a Type Ia supernova. We consider: Double Degenerate (DDS), Single Degenerate (SDS), and AM Canum Venaticorum scenarios. The results are presented for two different star formation histories; burst (elliptical-like galaxies) and continuous (spiral-like galaxies). It is found that delay times for the DDS in our standard model (with common envelope efficiency alpha = 1) follow a power-law distribution. For the SDS we note a wide range of delay times, while AM CVn progenitors produce a short burst of SNe Ia at early times. We point out that only the rates for two merging carbon-oxygen white dwarfs, the only systems found in the DDS, are consistent with the observed rates for typical Milky Way-like spirals. We also note that DDS progenitors are the dominant population in elliptical galaxies. The fact that the delay time distribution for the DDS follows a power-law implies more Type Ia supernovae (per unit mass) in young rather than in aged populations. Our results do not exclude other scenarios, but strongly indicate that the DDS is the dominant channel generating SNe Ia in spiral galaxies, at least in the framework of our adopted evolutionary models. Since it is believed that white dwarf mergers cannot produce a thermonuclear explosion given the current understanding of accreting white dwarfs, either the evolutionary calculations along with accretion physics are incorrect, or the explosion calculations are inaccurate and need to be revisited (Abridged).
description: 14 pages, 2 tables, 3 figures, submitted to ApJ
Lathrobium immanissimum Peng & Li 2012
Creators: name: Peng, Zhong
name: Li, Qi-Li
name: Shen, Liang
name: Gu, Fu-Kang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Lathrobium
Lathrobium immanissimum

description: Lathrobium immanissimum Peng & Li, 2012
 Material studied. China: Zhejiang: 1 ♂, Longquan, Fengyang Shan, 27°53'59''N 119°09'41''E, 1700 m, 08.X.2013, Peng, Yin & Yu leg. (SNUC); 7 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Longquan, Fengyang Shan, 27°54'33''N 119°10'20''E, 1170–1300 m, 07.X.2013, Feng, Peng, Yin & Yu leg. (SNUC); 5 ♀♀, Longquan, Fengyang Shan, 27°53'22''N 119°10'25''E, 1500 m, 05.X.2013, Feng, Peng & Yu leg. (SNUC); 5 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Longquan, Fengyang Shan, 27°54'N 119°13'E, 1450–1600 m, 22.VII.2006, Li & Shen leg. (SNUC); 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Qingyuan County, mountain near Liyang, 27°49'38''N 119°11'22''E, 990–1160 m, 29.IV.2014, Peng, Song, Yan & Yu leg. (SNUC); 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, Qingyuan, Baishanzu Natural Reserve, 27°45'26''N 119°12'08''E, 1730 m, 02.V.2014, Peng, Song, Yan & Yu leg. (SNUC); 6 ♂♂, 10 ♀♀, Qingyuan, Baishanzu Natural Reserve, 27°45'14''N 119°11'55''E, 1560–1750 m, 01.V.2014, Peng, Song, Yan & Yu leg. (SNUC); 3 ♂♂, Longquan, Fengyang Shan, 27°54'33''N 119°10'20''E, 1170–1300 m, 06.X.2013, Feng, Peng, Yin & Yu leg. (SNUC).
 Comment. Lathrobium immanissimum was previously known from Baishanzu Natural Reserve in Zhejiang. The above material indicates that it is widespread in the southern Donggong Mountains. For illustrations of L. immanissimum see Peng et al. (2012a).
description: Published as part of Peng, Zhong, Li, Qi-Li, Shen, Liang & Gu, Fu-Kang, 2015, On the Lathrobium fauna of the Donggong Mountains, eastern China, pp. 245-263 in Zootaxa 3905 (2) on page 247, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3905.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/245085
Pyrrole as a scaffold for the synthesis of complex molecules
Creators: name: Olivier, WJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: A new, Br‚àö‚àènsted-acid-mediated method for the efficient conjugate addition of pyrroles bearing N-tethered ˜í¬±,˜í‚â§-unsaturated esters (1, 2) and ketones (6) has been developed. This study highlighted significant differences in reactivity dependent on the identity of the Michael acceptor. Specifically, ˜í¬±,˜í‚â§-unsaturated ketone 6 cyclised under mildly acidic conditions, through exposure to silica gel, while esters 1 and 2 were unreactive under these conditions. However, treatment of these ester substrates with stronger acids promoted cyclisation, with methanesulfonic acid providing optimal results. This annulation methodology was applied to facilitate racemic total syntheses of the indolizidine alkaloids tashiromine (8) and indolizidine 209I (9). The former was synthesised in only five steps from commercially available starting material 5. [Chemical diagram from thesis abstract in the PDF not included here]. A number of more complex polycyclic alkaloids, belonging to the Stemona alkaloid class, have also been accessed. Specifically, the first total syntheses of sessilifoliamides B (10) and D (12) and the second synthesis of sessilifoliamide C (11) were achieved from a simple pyrrole starting material. The bicyclic lactam core was obtained on a gram-scale, with a methanesulfonic-acid-mediated cyclisation of ester 2 and an efficient oxidative dearomatisation/hydrogenation strategy constituting the key transformations in the synthetic sequence. Overall, sessilifoliamide C (and its C-11 epimer) were synthesised in 24% yield over 11 steps, in addition to sessilifoliamide B and D which were accessed in 13 and 17 steps, respectively. [Chemical diagram from thesis abstract in the PDF not included here]. The total syntheses of the tetracyclic pyrrole natural product dehydrostenine A (13) along with the structure originally assigned to dehydrostenine B (14), were also completed from a pyrrole starting material in 10 and 11 steps, respectively. The core tetracyclic structure of these compounds (i.e., heterocycle 16) was constructed via a Br‚àö‚àènsted-acid-promoted conjugate addition of a pyrroloazepine bearing a pendant ˜í¬±,˜í‚â§-unsaturated lactone (i.e., lactone 15). Significantly, the results of this study along with analysis of complementary reported synthetic studies, reveal that the structures assigned to dehydrostenines A and B in the original isolation work were incorrect and, thus, revisions to the structures of these natural products have been proposed. [Chemical diagram from thesis abstract in the PDF not included here]. Finally, a number of unexpected results obtained during these studies employing intramolecular conjugate additions of pyrroles to construct the bicyclic or tetracyclic architecture of these Stemona alkaloids, were investigated and rationalised by employing experiment and density functional theory.
Hierarchical Bag of Paths for Kernel Based Shape Classification
Creators: name: Dupé, François-Xavier
name: Brun, Luc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph kernels methods are based on an implicit embedding of graphs within a vector space of large dimension. This implicit embedding allows to apply to graphs methods which where until recently solely reserved to numerical data. Within the shape classification framework, graphs are often produced by a skeletonization step which is sensitive to noise. We propose in this paper to integrate the robustness to structural noise by using a kernel based on a bag of path where each path is associated to a hierarchy encoding successive simplifications of the path. Several experiments prove the robustness and the flexibility of our approach compared to alternative shape classification methods.
Chemical evolution of local galaxies in a hierarchical model
Creators: name: Calura, Francesco
name: Menci, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the chemical properties of local galaxies within a cosmological framework in the hierarchical picture of galaxy formation. To this aim, we use a hierarchical semi-analytic model which includes the contribution from (i) low and intermediate mass stars, (ii) type Ia Supernovae (SNe) and (iii) massive stars. - Abridged - We compare our predictions with available observations in the Milky Way (MW), in local dwarf galaxies and in local ellipticals. For Milky-Way-like galaxies, we can successfully reproduce the [O-Fe] vs [Fe/H] relation observed in disc stars and the stellar metallicity distribution (SMD). For dwarf galaxies, the stellar metallicity vs mass relation is reproduced by assuming that a substantial fraction of the heavy elements is lost through metal-enhanced outflows and a type Ia SN realization probability lower than the one of MW-like galaxies. - Abridged - In ellipticals, the observations indicate higher [alpha/Fe] values in larger galaxies. - Abridged - Our results computed with a standard Salpeter initial mass function (IMF) indicate a flat [alpha/Fe]-sigma relation. However, we suggest a possible solution to this problem and show how, by assuming a star formation-dependent IMF with a slope x=1.35 in systems with star formation rates < 100 M_sun/yr and slightly flatter (i.e. with x=1) in object with stronger star formation, the observed correlation between [alpha/Fe] and sigma can be accounted for on a large velocity dispersion range. Fundamental roles are played also by interaction-triggered starbursts and AGN.
description: MNRAS, accepted, 27 pages, 22 figures
Optical Trapping of an Ion
Creators: name: Schneider, Ch.
name: Enderlein, M.
name: Huber, T.
name: Schaetz, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For several decades, ions have been trapped by radio frequency (RF) and neutral particles by optical fields. We implement the experimental proof-of-principle for trapping an ion in an optical dipole trap. While loading, initialization and final detection are performed in a RF trap, in between, this RF trap is completely disabled and substituted by the optical trap. The measured lifetime of milliseconds allows for hundreds of oscillations within the optical potential. It is mainly limited by heating due to photon scattering. In future experiments the lifetime may be increased by further detuning the laser and cooling the ion. We demonstrate the prerequisite to merge both trapping techniques in hybrid setups to the point of trapping ions and atoms in the same optical potential.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
Critical Behavior of a Point Contact in a Quantum Spin Hall Insulator
Creators: name: Teo, Jeffrey C. Y.
name: Kane, C. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a quantum point contact in a quantum spin Hall insulator. It has recently been shown that the Luttinger liquid theory of such a structure maps to the theory of a weak link in a Luttinger liquid with spin with Luttinger liquid parameters g_ρ= 1/g_σ= g < 1. We show that for 1/2
description: 23 pages, 11 figures
PO - PEER RECOGNITION OF EXCELLENCE IN AGRICULTURE VIA â€˜CARASâ€™ (THE UK COUNCIL FOR AWARDS OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES)
Creators: name: Stansfield, Malcolm
name: Wibberley, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: agriculture
subject: outstanding contribution
subject: recognition

description: Twenty-First International Farm Management Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-7, 2017
Asymptotic safety in higher-derivative gravity
Creators: name: Benedetti, Dario
name: Machado, Pedro F.
name: Saueressig, Frank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the non-perturbative renormalization group flow of higher-derivative gravity employing functional renormalization group techniques. The non-perturbative contributions to the $β$-functions shift the known perturbative ultraviolet fixed point into a non-trivial fixed point with three UV-attractive and one UV-repulsive eigendirections, consistent with the asymptotic safety conjecture of gravity. The implication of this transition on the unitarity problem, typically haunting higher-derivative gravity theories, is discussed.
description: 8 pages; 1 figure; revised version
title: Биомаркеры кардиохирургически-ассоциированного острого повреждения почек
title: Biomarkers of Cardiac Surgery-Associated Acute Kidney Injury
Creators: name: Греков, Илья Сергеевич
Publisher: name: Издательский центр СурГУ
Year: 2021

description: Цель – провести обзор научной литературы, посвященной оценке диагностической и прогностической значимости различных биомаркеров у пациентов с острым повреждением почек после кардиохирургических вмешательств. Материал и методы. Проведен поиск научной литературы в базах данных Web of Science, Scopus,
MEDLINE, PubMed и РИНЦ по следующим ключевым словам: острое повреждение почки, биомаркеры, кардиохирургия. Глубина поиска – 10 лет. Результаты. Использование стандартных критериев диагностики почечного повреждения, основанных на определении величины диуреза и концентрации сывороточного креатинина, не удовлетворяет возможности верификации патологии на субклиническом этапе, так как повышение последнего может происходить лишь после значительного повреждения почечных структур. С учетом подобных аспектов были предприняты попытки поиска более чувствительных и специфических биомаркеров почечного повреждения. В статье обсуждается проблема использования определения «острое повреждение почки» в контексте диагностики, рассматриваются возможности применения биомаркеров в клинической практике и основные требования к ним, а также приводятся значения некоторых основных маркеров острого почечного повреждения (NGAL, FABP1, кальпротектина и KIM-1).
description: The study aims to review the scientific literature devoted to the diagnostic and prognostic significance of various biomarkers in patients with acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery. Material and methods. The scientific literature was searched in the following databases: Web of Science, Scopus, MEDLINE, PubMed and RSCI. The keywords: acute kidney injury, biomarkers, cardiac surgery. The search depth is 10 years. Results. The possibility of using standard criteria for the diagnosis of renal damage, based on the measuring of the amount of urine output and the concentration of serum creatinine, does not satisfy the possibility to verify the pathology at the subclinical stage, since an increase in the latter can occur only after significant damage of the renal structures. Considering these aspects, attempts have been made to search for more sensitive and specific biomarkers of renal damage. The study discusses the problem of using the definition “acute kidney injury” in the context of diagnosis, considers the possibilities and basic requirements for the use of biomarkers in clinical practice, and also presents the values of some of the main markers of acute renal damage (NGAL, FABP1, calprotectin and KIM-1).
Statistical Assessment of Shapes and Magnetic Field Orientations in Molecular Clouds through Polarization Observations
Creators: name: Tassis, K.
name: Dowell, C. D.
name: Hildebrand, R. H.
name: Kirby, L.
name: Vaillancourt, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a novel statistical analysis aimed at deriving the intrinsic shapes and magnetic field orientations of molecular clouds using dust emission and polarization observations by the Hertz polarimeter. Our observables are the aspect ratio of the projected plane-of-the-sky cloud image, and the angle between the mean direction of the plane-of-the-sky component of the magnetic field and the short axis of the cloud image. To overcome projection effects due to the unknown orientation of the line-of-sight, we combine observations from 24 clouds, assuming that line-of-sight orientations are random and all are equally probable. Through a weighted least-squares analysis, we find that the best-fit intrinsic cloud shape describing our sample is an oblate disk with only small degrees of triaxiality. The best-fit intrinsic magnetic field orientation is close to the direction of the shortest cloud axis, with small (~24 deg) deviations toward the long/middle cloud axes. However, due to the small number of observed clouds, the power of our analysis to reject alternative configurations is limited.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Partial purification and characterization of dnase I from the intestinal mucosa of rat
Creators: name: Frizell, John William
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: DNase I activity has been found in the small intestine of the rat. This work involves a partial purification and characterization of this enzyme. Crude enzyme extract was prepared by ultracentrifugation of the homogenate of washed mucosal scrapings. The DNase I activity of the crude enzyme preparation was not stable, it could be stabilized by divalent metal Ions, The crude enzyme extract was chromatographed on DEAE cellulose in phosphate buffer and the adsorbed enzyme eluted with a phosphate gradient. The crude enzyme was "shown to contain proteolytic enzymes. The active material was freeze-dried, redissolved freed of phosphate and chromatographed on Sephadex G-100. The active material eluted from the Sephadex column was adsorbed on DEAE cellulose and eluted with a linear gradient of phosphate. This procedure gave a purification of 200-400 fold, relative to the crude enzyme extract. The product was not stable in the absence of Ca⁺⁺ and contained proteolytic enzymes. The molecular weight of the enzyme was estimated as 3.05 x 10⁴ daltons by gel filtration on Sephadex G-100. The properties of the rat enzyme were compared to those of the bovine enzyme. No significant difference was found in molecular-weight, inhibition by Na⁺, K⁺, haemoglobin or iodoacetate, pH optimum, or metal ion requirements. The interactions of Ca⁺⁺ with the DNA-DNase system were explored. In the presence of Mg⁺⁺, Ca⁺⁺ first activates and then inhibits DNase activity.