cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stenoloba lichenosella Kononenko & Ronkay 2001
Creators: name: Behounek, G.
name: Kononenko, V. S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Stenoloba
Stenoloba lichenosella

description: Stenoloba lichenosella Kononenko & Ronkay, 2001 Insecta Koreana, 18(2): 100, figs 6, 27. Type locality: North Vietnam, Tam Dao, 1200 m. Holotype: male, ZFMK, Bonn. Han & Kononenko 2009: 16, figs 12, 27, 43. Material examined. 1 female, Laos, Prov. Champassak, Dong Hua Xao NBCA, Nam Phak River, 280 m, 105°11'O, 15°58'N, 28–29.iii 1998 (Csorba G. & O.Merkl leg.), genitalia slide RKY 7164, HNHM, Budapest. Note. The species has been described on the basis of a single male from North Vietnam (Kononenko, Ronkay 2001), then recorded in South and South West China (Han & Kononenko 2009), the female genitalia were described in the same publication. The new record of S. lichenosella from Laos extends its known distribution. Distribution. North Vietnam, Laos (new record), south and south-west China.
description: Published as part of Behounek, G. & Kononenko, V. S., 2010, Fourteen new species of the genus Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 from South East Asia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Bryophilinae), pp. 1-31 in Zootaxa 2679 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2679.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5301975
description: {"references": ["Kononenko, V. S. & Ronkay L. (2001) A revision of the genus Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Bryophilinae) with description of 15 new species and 3 new subspecies from East Asia (II). Insecta Koreana, 18 (2), 95 - 121.", "Han, H. L. & Kononenko, V. S. (2009) A review of the genus Stenoloba Staudinger, 1892 from China, with description of 6 new species and 7 new records for China (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Bryophilinae). Zootaxa, 2268, 1 - 22."]}
An Information--Theoretic Equality Implying the Jarzynski Relation
Creators: name: Vedral, Vlatko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a general information-theoretic equality for a system undergoing two projective measurements separated by a general temporal evolution. The equality implies the non-negativity of the mutual information between the measurement outcomes of the earlier and later projective measurements. We show that it also contains the Jarzynski relation between the average exponential of the thermodynamical work and the exponential of the difference between the initial and final free energy. Our result elucidates the information-theoretic underpinning of thermodynamics and explains why the Jarzynski relation holds identically both quantumly as well as classically.
description: 2 pages, no figures
Dynamics of pedestrians in regions with no visibility - a lattice model without exclusion
Creators: name: Cirillo, Emilio N. M.
name: Muntean, Adrian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases (nlin.CG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the motion of pedestrians through obscure corridors where the lack of visibility (due to smoke, fog, darkness, etc.) hides the precise position of the exits. We focus our attention on a set of basic mechanisms, which we assume to be governing the dynamics at the individual level. Using a lattice model, we explore the effects of non-exclusion on the overall exit flux (evacuation rate). More precisely, we study the effect of the buddying threshold (of no-exclusion per site) on the dynamics of the crowd and investigate to which extent our model confirms the following pattern revealed by investigations on real emergencies: If the evacuees tend to cooperate and act altruistically, then their collective action tends to favor the occurrence of disasters.
description: 20 pages
Automated GUI Testing for Agile Development Environments
Creators: name: Hellmann, Theodore
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Science
subject: Software Testing
subject: Software Development
subject: Empirical Methods

description: For as long as graphical user interfaces (GUIs) have existed, it has been difficult to test them. This difficulty has become more pressing with the advent of Agile development methodologies, which stress that software should be fully tested to demonstrate that it works from developers’ and users’ points of view. In this thesis, I explored the fundamental question of whether automated GUI testing and Agile development environments are, or can be made, compatible. I conducted systematic mapping studies to determine how GUI testing and agile are currently compatible in existing literature, and performed an interview study with practitioners in order to determine how well these results matched up with what is done in industry. Based on the results of these studies, I confirmed that test-driven development (TDD) was a major area where automated GUI tests could fit into an agile process. I proposed a novel approach to TDD of GUIs that leverages Agile User Interaction Design techniques: by using an interactive low-fidelity prototype – already part of many Agile development processes – as the basis for automated GUI tests, TDD can be performed on a GUI with minimal added effort. A controlled experiment was used to validate this approach with practitioners, and the results indicated that this approach would be useful in practice.
Tuning Proton Conduction in Metal-Organic Frameworks
Creators: name: Wong, Norman
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Chemistry--Inorganic
subject: Chemistry--Physical
subject: Materials Science
subject: MOF
subject: conduction
subject: conductivity

description: Proton conductivity was explored in an organosulfonate and three organophosphonate based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The MOFs synthesized closely resembled a number of previously reported structures allowing for comparison between structure and property. Modifications to the MOFs resulted in significant differences in their properties relative to the reported derivatives. The first MOF discussed utilized Cs+ and 2,4,6-trihydroxy-1,3,5-benzenetrisulfonic acid to form a highly connected framework, Cs3PGS·3H2O. Owing to the large, polarizable cation and thus dynamic nature, the MOF achieved a maximum proton conductivity of 1.1x10-5 Scm-1 at 70°C, 50% relative humidity (RH). The second MOF, utilizing Cu2+ and 1,3,5-benzenetriphosphonic acid yielded Cu-BTP, a layered structure with hydrated interlayer. The robustness of Cu-BTP was explored for proton conduction and allowed hydration level, structure and proton conductivity to be explored together. Proton conductivity in CuBTP reached 7.0 x 10-5 Scm-1 at 85°C, 98% RH. The third MOF, formed by a series of trivalent lanthanides (Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd) and 1,2,4,5-tetrakisphosphonomethyl benzene, explored the lanthanide contraction effect, to which the Pr3+ derivative resulted in the maximum conductivity of 3.9x10-3 Scm-1 at 85°C, 95% RH. This high conductivity was achieved due to the contraction effect on the growth of particles. Finally, anion substitution in a Zr-phosphate-phosphonate MOF, using the ligand bis(2-phosphonoethyl)-4,4’-bipyridinium dibromide, enabled control over the proton conductivity. The substitution of HSO4- for F- anions content and conductivity were explored. In all four projects, the MOFs were crystalline and enabled structure-property relationships to be established.
Neural signatures of surprise in auditory learning
Creators: name: Abel, Lance
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Introduction: Auditory mismatch responses (aMMRs) are neural signatures of learning evident when animals hear a surprising sound. Various mathematical models have been advanced to predict the amplitude, latency, and location of aMMRs. Method: Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), I played auditory tones to participants using the Roving Oddball paradigm. I contrasted the spatiotemporal pattern of aMMRs and of gross brain activity (as measured by Global Field Power [GFP]) in different age groups, including in an understudied group aged 10-16. I used various mathematical models including the Bayesian Hierarchical Gaussian Filter (HGF) - and a variant of this that I modified to incorporate physical stimulus characteristics - to quantify the neural surprise likely to be evoked by auditory tones, examining whether this predicted brain activity. Results: I found that aMMR amplitudes increased on trials where greater surprise was predicted. With age, anticipatory activity increased and aMMR amplitudes decreased. Unexpectedly, this decrease with age was not monotonic and older individuals’ aMMRs occurred at a lower latency than younger individuals’ aMMRs. The HGF predicted the magnitude of surprise better than traditional models did, especially on trials when the model predicted greater surprise. Incorporating physical pitch characteristics further improved model predictions. Unexpectedly, more repetitions of a tone were not always associated with less surprise and incorporating the precision of predictions and re-training the model continuously were not unambiguously found to improve predictions. Discussion: My results broadly support the utility of Bayesian accounts of learning, with older individuals displays less evidence of neural surprise and greater anticipatory activity in relation to predictable stimulus features. However, the pattern of aMMRs found also suggests that brains may not implement Bayesian learning over purely categorical features, but also use continuous stimulus information, and that the role of precision is more nuanced. Some of the results with respect to age are arguably discordant with Bayesian predictions and more consistent with the developmental emergence of structure learning based on stimulus saliency.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Treatment of Psychological Distress in Pregnancy: Is there an Effect on Maternal Autonomic Response to Acute Stress?
Creators: name: Shay, Matthew Shawn
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mental Health
subject: Psychology--Behavioral
subject: Psychology--Physiological
subject: Prenatal mental health
subject: Autonomic Nervous System
subject: Stress Reactivity
subject: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy

description: Pregnancy is a time of increased physical and emotional stress for many women. Examination of cardiovascular response to acute stress can provide a non-invasive way of assessing autonomic nervous system function. Previous research suggests that the experience of heightened stress response in pregnancy is a risk factor for poor maternal and child health. Treatment of psychological distress with mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in non-pregnant populations can positively impact cardiovascular reactivity to stress. The current randomized controlled trial investigated MBCT for treatment of prenatal distress and examined whether MBCT was associated with changes in the physiological stress response. Women between 12-28 weeks gestation were recruited for participation in an 8-week MBCT intervention (N = 29) or assigned to treatment-as-usual (N = 32). Cardiovascular responses to a laboratory-based Stroop task and mental arithmetic stressors were measured by respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), heart rate, and systolic and diastolic blood pressure) and assessed at pre-treatment, posttreatment, and three-months postpartum. MBCT participants experienced higher RSA at posttreatment for Stroop, mental arithmetic, and during the respective recovery periods, as well as greater RSA reactivity to both stressors at three-months follow-up. No changes in blood pressure or blood pressure reactivity were found. MBCT appeared to increase vagal activity posttreatment and vagal response to acute stress at three-months follow-up. Treatment of maternal distress with mindfulness-based interventions may have physiological health benefits.
Pregnancy-Related Anxiety in Mwanza, Tanzania: a Qualitative Approach
Creators: name: King Rosario, Melanie
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mental Health
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Obstetrics and Gynecology
subject: Public Health
subject: Pregnancy
subject: Mental Health
subject: qualitative
subject: phenomenology
subject: anxiety
subject: Nursing

description: Pregnancy-related anxiety is defined as fears and worries related to the health of the woman, the baby, the pregnancy, and delivery; it is a strong determinant of preterm birth and other maternal and infant outcomes. There is limited research on the mental health of pregnant women residing in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and little exploration into women’s experiences of pregnancy-related anxiety. In this descriptive phenomenological study, ten pregnant and postpartum women participated in semi-structured interviews. Following Colaizzi’s method of analysis, the essence of the women’s experience was described. The findings revealed a state of worry and concern, often causing physical symptoms, and disrupting personal sense of peace. Major themes included: fear for survival of self and child; lack of knowledge about pregnancy, symptoms, and side effects; spirituality and acceptance. Personal relationships, interactions with the healthcare system, and peer support also played an important role in the participants’ experiences.
Nitric oxide and enteric glia in the regulation of intestinal ion transport in health and disease
Creators: name: MacEachern, Sarah
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: Neuroscience

description: Background & Aims: Enteric glia are increasingly recognized as an important functional component of the enteric nervous system. They have been indirectly implicated in the regulation of epithelial ion transport, which regulates homeostatic water and ion balance, through the release of the gaseous neurotransmitter nitric oxide, which has multifaceted roles in the physiological regulation and pathophysiological dysregulation of ion transport. However, the roles of enteric glia and nitric oxide in the regulation of ion transport are poorly understood in health and disease. Using nitric oxide synthase inhibition and a model of glial metabolic inhibition, the primary aims of this work were to investigate the physiological regulation of epithelial ion transport by nitric oxide and enteric glia, and how this regulation is altered during intestinal inflammation. Methods: Ion transport was measuring using full-thickness segments of mouse colon in an Ussing chamber apparatus. The release of nitric oxide from enteric glia and neurons within the myenteric plexus was assessed using amperometry and the cellular sites of nitric oxide release were investigated using nitric oxide imaging. Results: Under physiological conditions, nitric oxide release from enteric glia and neurons within the myenteric plexus regulates the nicotinically-mediated biphasic stimulation of epithelial ion transport in a concentration-dependent manner, while nitric oxide and enteric glia are not involved in the regulation of electrically-evoked stimulation of ion transport. Following intestinal inflammation, ion transport is hyporesponsive to stimulation, as the biphasic nicotinic response is reduced, and the response to electrically-evoked stimulation is absent. The inhibition of nitric oxide synthase or ii the metabolic inhibition of enteric glia further inhibits the nicotically-mediated response, and restores the electrically-evoked secretory response. Conclusions: This work demonstrates novel functional roles for nitric oxide released from enteric glia in the nicotinically-mediated physiological regulation and electrically-evoked pathophysiological dysregulation of intestinal ion transport. Additionally, a previously unappreciated role for the myenteric plexus in the regulation of nicotinically-mediated ion transport under physiological conditions is described. The data presented in this thesis highlight and extend the important roles of nitric oxide and enteric glia within the myenteric plexus in gastrointestinal health and disease.
The scalar bi-spectrum in the Starobinsky model: The equilateral case
Creators: name: Martin, Jerome
name: Sriramkumar, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Shortened abstract) While a featureless, nearly scale invariant, primordial scalar power spectrum fits the most recent CMB data rather well, certain features in the spectrum are known to lead to a better fit to the data (although, the statistical significance of such results remains an open issue). In the inflationary scenario, one or more periods of deviations from slow roll are necessary in order to generate features in the scalar perturbation spectrum. Over the last couple of years, it has been recognized that such deviations from slow roll inflation can also result in reasonably large non-Gaussianities. The Starobinsky model involves the canonical scalar field and consists of a linear inflaton potential with a sudden change in the slope. The change in the slope causes a brief period of departure from slow roll which, in turn, results in a sharp rise in power, along with a burst of oscillations in the scalar spectrum for modes that leave the Hubble radius just before and during the period of fast roll. The hallmark of the Starobinsky model is that it allows the scalar power spectrum to be evaluated analytically in terms of the three parameters that describe the model. We evaluate the bi-spectrum of the scalar perturbations in the Starobinsky model in the equilateral limit. Remarkably, we find that, all the different contributions to the the bi-spectrum too can be evaluated completely analytically. We show that the quantity $\fnl$, which characterizes the extent of non-Gaussianity, can be expressed purely in terms of the ratio of the two slopes on either side of the discontinuity in the potential. Further, we find that, for certain values of the parameters, $\fnl$ in the Starobinsky model can be as large as the mean value that has been arrived at from the analysis of the recent CMB data.
description: 66 pages, 15 figures
Calibration robust entanglement detection beyond Bell inequalities
Creators: name: Moroder, Tobias
name: Gittsovich, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In its vast majority entanglement verification is examined either in the complete characterized or totally device independent scenario. The assumptions imposed by these extreme cases are often either too weak or strong for real experiments. Here we investigate this detection task for the intermediate regime where partial knowledge of the measured observables is known, considering cases like orthogonal, sharp or only dimension bounded measurements. We show that for all these assumptions it is not necessary to violate a corresponding Bell inequality in order to detect entanglement. We derive strong detection criteria that can be directly evaluated for experimental data and which are robust against large classes of calibration errors. The conditions are even capable of detecting bound entanglement under the sole assumption of dimension bounded measurements.
description: 10 pages + appendix, 1 figure
MAHALLIY XOM-ASHYOLAR ASOSIDA YUQORI ADGEZION MODDALARNI OLISH VA XOSSALARI
Creators: name: Sharipova, Nasiba
name: Amonova, Nilufar
name: Qosimova, Nargiza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Maqolada yuqori molekulyar birikmalarning adgeziya (yopishqoqligi) va avtogeziyasi sohasidagi qarashlar polimerlar kimyosining rivojlanishi va kimyo sanoati korxonalari tomonidan ishlab chiqariladigan agdeziyon moddalar va ularning sanoat rivojlanishidagi ahamiyati muhokama qilingan.
From Steppe to Stable: Horses and Horsemanship in the Ancient World
Creators: name: Willekes, Carolyn
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: History--Ancient
subject: Literature--Classical
subject: Horse
subject: Ancient History
subject: Environmental history
subject: Military History
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This dissertation is a re-evaluation of the horse in the ancient world. The approach is not based on humans and human controls, rather it seeks to examine the equines of antiquity from the viewpoint of the horses themselves. This is accomplished by looking at equine conformation and how form dictated function.
Identifying and explaining large-scale genome sequence convergence
Creators: name: Bryans, Nathaniel
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sequence Convergence
subject: Convergent Evolution
subject: Adaptation
subject: Phylogenetics

description: Recently it has been shown that convergent sequence evolution can happen in nature at unexpectedly large scales, systematically misleading methods of phylogenetic reconstruction. For this reason, among others, there has been growing interest in sequence convergence in recent years. Although various techniques for detecting sequence convergence, such as site-specific log-likelihood support and ancestral sequence reconstruction, have been used, there does not yet exist a general statistical procedure for reliably distinguishing between random convergence and convergence resulting from parallel selective pressures or time-heterogeneous evolutionary processes. Here, I intend to further our understanding of sequence convergence by creating a new algorithm for detecting, quantifying and understanding non-random sequence convergence in a principled and unbiased manner. I design and implement a new approach for detecting convergence across entire phylogenies, making it amenable to a wider variety of datasets than was previously possible. Finally, I investigate the role of effective population size in contributing to sequence convergence, where I show for the first time that time-heterogeneity in effective population sizes can be sufficient to cause large-scale episodes of convergent sequence evolution. This surprising finding suggests an apparently non-adaptive mechanistic explanation since it can occur without changes to the underlying fitness landscape and is instead driven by lineages with increased effective population sizes becoming enabled to climb higher on the same adaptive peaks. As a result, we believe this phenomenon to be of adaptive significance even though it does not require adaptation to a changing environment per se. These finding suggest that time-heterogeneous evolutionary processes must be integrated into the models used for phylogenomic reconstruction and in comparative genomics more broadly.
Figure S7:Syn-rift carbonate platforms in space and time: testing and refining conceptual models using stratigraphic and seismic numerical forward modelling
Creators: name: Masiero, Isabella
name: Hollis, Cathy
name: Burgess, Pete
name: Manifold, Lucy
name: Gawthorpe, Rob
name: Marshall, Jim
name: Lecomte, Isabella
name: Rotevatn, Atle
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Results of Model run 61-62 showing a sliced 3D view of the models (a, d), a dip-oriented cross-section through each model (b, f), equivalent seismic images of the same cross-section (c, g), and (e), chronostratigraphic diagram of the cross-section from Model run 62, to show the development of unconformities caused by eustatic sea-level fall.
Dimensionality selection in a molecule-based magnet
Creators: name: Goddard, Paul A.
name: Manson, Jamie L.
name: Singleton, John
name: Franke, Isabel
name: Lancaster, Tom
name: Steele, Andrew J.
name: Blundell, Stephen J.
name: Baines, Christopher
name: Pratt, Francis L.
name: McDonald, Ross D.
name: Ayala-Valenzuela, Oscar E.
name: Corbey, Jordan F.
name: Southerland, Heather I.
name: Sengupta, Pinaki
name: Schlueter, John A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gaining control of the building blocks of magnetic materials and thereby achieving particular characteristics will make possible the design and growth of bespoke magnetic devices. While progress in the synthesis of molecular materials, and especially coordination polymers, represents a significant step towards this goal, the ability to tune the magnetic interactions within a particular framework remains in its infancy. Here we demonstrate a chemical method which achieves dimensionality selection via preferential inhibition of the magnetic exchange in an $S=1/2$ antiferromagnet along one crystal direction, switching the system from being quasi-two- to quasi-one-dimensional while effectively maintaining the nearest-neighbour coupling strength.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
Anticipatory Governance, Anticipatory Advocacy, Knowledge Brokering, and the State of Disabled People's Rights Advocacy in Canada: Perspectives of Two Canadian Cross-Disability Rights Organizations
Creators: name: Diep, Lucy
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Public and Social Welfare
subject: Social Structure and Development
subject: Disability Studies
subject: technology
subject: science, technology and innovation
subject: anticipatory governance
subject: anticipatory advocacy
subject: disabled people
subject: people with disabilities
subject: Advocacy

description: Advancements in science, technology and innovation (STI), both conceptualized and emerging, are continuing to impact society as a whole, and disabled people in particular, in numerous ways. How STI advancements should be governed to address the impacts has been discussed for some time and several STI governance frameworks have emerged to tackle this challenge. While each framework may vary by strategy and approach, anticipatory practice (or foresight) and public engagement are two approaches utilized across these different strategies. The purpose of this study was to examine the utility and consequences of anticipatory governance practice (which entails anticipatory practice and public engagement) as an indicator of success for STI governance for disabled people. Using a multiple-case study research design, and the frameworks of Ability Studies and Sherry Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation, my thesis focuses on the views of advocates for disabled people’s rights from two national cross-disability rights organizations in Canada on the practical reality of advocacy in Canada and the capacity of disabled people to engage in and influence discourse on STI governance, especially in an anticipatory way, and what they see as approaches to increase disabled people’s influence on STI governance. I also explore the role of the knowledge broker as a facilitator for collaboration and information exchange to support cross-disability rights organizations in the practice of anticipatory advocacy. The study’s main conclusion is that the application of anticipatory practices to governance frameworks generates the need for anticipatory advocacy - the capacity and ability to advocate in an anticipatory way to be part of anticipatory governance discourses. However, anticipatory governance is, as a practical reality, a privileged discourse that is limited to those who fulfill certain abilities to participate in this practice. For disabled people and cross-disability rights organizations, anticipatory practices pose many barriers and challenges and much work remains to be done for and by disabled people in order to ensure their meaningful engagement in anticipatory governance practices for STI.
Many ants make light work; quantifying force output of weaver ant teams
Creators: name: Stewardson, Madelyne
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Teams benefit from increased participation to a point – where the benefit of cooperation is outweighed by the cost of coordination. In social insects, this trade-off has an opportunity to be averted, as advanced coordination emerges from self-organised, distributed mechanisms. Where observed human behaviours such as a lack of motivation and accountability in teams challenge productivity, social insect mechanisms, such as positive feedback loops, could serve to improve it. In chapter one, I discuss human, robot and social insect teams and propose collective force generation as an ideal system to observe the complexities of efficient teamwork. In chapter two, I measure forces applied by teams of weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina). During nest construction, weaver ants attach to leaf edges and self-assemble into pulling chains, folding leaves together to make nesting chambers. Here I find that weaver ants not only sustain their individual effort despite increasing team sizes, but also contribute additional force per team member, in some circumstances. Chain arrangement and body posture analysis reveal individuals within a team contribute uneven amounts of effort, potentially revealing the control mechanism generating ‘superefficient’ teamwork. Further study of social insect systems will inspire the application of control mechanisms that generate effective teamwork, for the improvement of engineered systems such as swarm robotics.
Accessing Data in the DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities
Creators: name: Braukmann, Ricarda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Open Access
Data Access
Trustworthy Digital Repository

description: Flash presentation given during the CLARIAH Conference 2023. 
This presentation gives information about the different access conditions that can be applied in the DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities.
Identifying Novel Causes of Human Neuromuscular Disease
Creators: name: Smith, Christopher
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: Genetics
subject: Medical Genetics
subject: Neuromuscular Disease
subject: Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
subject: Exome
subject: Gene Discovery

description: Neuromuscular diseases (NMDs) are a class of disorders that affect the peripheral nervous system or muscle. These conditions generally result in the loss of voluntary control of movement. They are often genetic, follow Mendelian inheritance, and to date more than 500 causative genes have been identified. Clinical and genetic heterogeneity make correct and specific diagnosis challenging. Identifying novel disease genes will likely improve diagnostic rates, especially as the use of genome scale sequencing techniques in clinical diagnostics increases. Exome sequencing is an extremely powerful tool in Mendelian disease gene discovery. We have leveraged the power of whole exome sequencing in a cohort of 16 individuals with disparate NMDs to: identify novel candidate disease genes (IARS, MSTO1, RAB11FIP2, RNMT), validate previously identified candidate disease genes (MYH14, TAF1, COQ7), propose expansions to the recognized clinical phenotypes of known genes (GLE1, DOK7), and in collaboration with clinical geneticists provide diagnosis to participant patients.
Supplementary Table 1 from Feeding without teeth: the material properties of rhamphothecae from two species of durophagous sea turtles
Creators: name: Ingle, Danielle N.
name: Perez, Eliza
name: Porter, Marianne E.
name: Marshall, Christopher D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Animal IDs for Table 1
Ultraviolet Degradation of BTX in Waste Gas: Effects of Photocatalysis and Ozone Premixing
Creators: name: Atyabi, Mahsasadat
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Environmental
subject: Photolysis, Photocatalysis, degradation, BTX, ozone premixing

description: The focus of this study is on potential modifications of ultraviolet degradation of BTX (Benzene, Toluene and Xylene) in waste gas. A considerable amount of such pollutants is emitted from glycol dehydrators in the natural gas sector. ThePhotolytic technique has been recognized as a promising technique to control BTX emissions to theenvironment. In this work the effectiveness of other alternatives such as photocatalytic technology and photolysis in the presence of ozone are studied. A simulation model developed for benzene photolysis in waste gas by Mahmoudkhani (2012) was extended to include photocatalysis on the reactor wall. The model was applied to a cylindrical reactor containing a 40 W amalgam UV lamp in the axis. The model predictions of photodegradation with 254 nm and 185 nm light irradiation was compared with a combination of photolytic and photocatalytic degradation. At air flow rates of 1 L/min and benzene mass flow rates ranging from 0.5 to 10 mg/min, a degradation efficiency of 77%-23% is predicted for the catalytic process. In comparison, the model of Mahmoudkhani (2012) predicted an efficiency of 95%-20% for the noncatalytic process. However, a maximum quantum yield (ϕ) of 6.67×〖10〗^(-4) was predicted for the photocatalytic process. This low value explains the lack of benefit predicted when a photocatalytic coating is applied. It is concluded that the photolytic approach is a feasible alternative to the photocatalytic approach, especially for low concentrations of benzene emissions from waste gas. Furthermore, adding ozone greatly improves the efficiency of the process. Modeling of photolytic degradation with ozone confirms the experimental results; however, the modeling slightly overestimates the efficiency. Based on energy requirement calculations, it is concluded that the lowest energy is consumed when combination of ozone premixing and condensation pretreatment along with UV photolysis is used.
Measurement of the quantum zero-point motion of a nanomechanical resonator
Creators: name: Safavi-Naeini, Amir H.
name: Chan, Jasper
name: Hill, Jeff T.
name: Alegre, T. P. Mayer
name: Krause, Alex
name: Painter, Oskar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical sideband spectroscopy measurements of a mesoscopic mechanical oscillator cooled near its quantum ground state. The mechanical oscillator, corresponding to a 3.99GHz acoustic mode of a patterned silicon nanobeam, is coupled via radiation pressure to a pair of co-localized 200THz optical modes. The mechanical mode is cooled close to its quantum ground state from a bath temperature of 18K using radiation pressure back-action stemming from the optical pumping of one of the optical cavity resonances. An optical probe beam, resonant with the second optical cavity resonance, is used to transduce the mechanical motion and determine the phonon occupancy of the mechanical mode. Measurement of the asymmetry between up-converted and down-converted photons of the probe beam yields directly the displacement noise power associated with the quantum zero-point motion of the mechanical oscillator, and provides an absolute calibration of the average phonon occupancy of the mechanical mode.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
MSSM corrections to the top-antitop quark forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron
Creators: name: Berge, Stefan
name: Wackeroth, Doreen
name: Wiebusch, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effects of the complete supersymmetric QCD and electroweak one-loop corrections to the ttbar forward-backward asymmetry at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We work in the complex Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM), only restricted by the condition of minimal flavor violation (MFV). We perform a comprehensive scan over the relevant parameter space of the complex MFV-MSSM and determine the maximal possible contributions of these MSSM loop corrections to the forward-backward asymmetry in the ttbar center-of-mass frame.
description: 25 pages, 9 figures
Supplementary Table 2 from Feeding without teeth: the material properties of rhamphothecae from two species of durophagous sea turtles
Creators: name: Ingle, Danielle N.
name: Perez, Eliza
name: Porter, Marianne E.
name: Marshall, Christopher D.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 90301 Biomaterials
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: Animal IDs for Table 2
Permeable Pavement in Cold Climates - Improving Hydraulic and Water Quality Performance
Creators: name: Huang, Jian
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Engineering--Civil
subject: permeable pavement
subject: stormwater
subject: Water Quality

description: The application of permeable pavements has been promoted to reduce pressures on traditional stormwater management systems and enhance urban water. However, the performance of permeable pavement under cold climate context is still uncertain. This thesis focused on assessing the hydraulic and water quality performance of permeable pavements based on field and laboratory experiments and developing a modeling approach for assisting engineering design of permeable pavements. In a series of field experiments, simulated 100-year storm events with durations of 20 minutes were applied to the pavement surfaces in order to examine and compare the hydraulic and environmental performance of the three permeable pavement types under cold climate conditions. Results demonstrated that PA, PC and PICP are all effective in mitigating storm runoff under cold climate conditions. All pavement types in general have the same level of performance in removing TSS, TP, TN, and heavy metals. A series of laboratory experiments were designed to assess the ability of the three pavement types to remove TSS, TP and TN within their surface and sub-surface layers individually. PA, PC and PICP with sub-surface layers consisting of different gravel sizes were investigated at various thicknesses. The lab-scale pavements were also compared with the field-scale pavements in terms of pollutant removal. Superior performance in removing pollutants was found in the PC surface layer compared to surface layers of PA and PICP. A regression model based on these results was developed to provide estimates of water quality performance in the field. A mathematical model for predicting hydraulic and water quality performance in both the short- and long-term is proposed based on field measurements for the three types of permeable pavements. The proposed model can simulate the outflow hydrographs with a coefficient of determination (R2) ranging from 0.762 to 0.907, and normalized root-mean-square deviation (NRMSD) ranging from 13.78% to 17.83%. Comparison of the time to peak flow, peak flow, runoff volume and TSS removal rates between the measured and modeled values in model validation phase had a maximum difference of 11%.
Andreev interferometer with three superconducting electrodes
Creators: name: Galaktionov, A. V.
name: Zaikin, A. D.
name: Kuzmin, L. S
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop a quasiclassical theory of Andreev interferometers with three superconducting electrodes. Provided tunneling interface resistance between one superconducting electrode and the normal metal strongly exceeds two others, significant current sensitivity to the external magnetic flux is observed only at subgap voltages. If all barrier conductances are comparable, multiple Andreev reflection comes into play and substantial current modulation can be achieved in both subgap and overgap voltage regimes. Our analysis reveals a large variety of interesting features which can be used for performance optimization of Andreev interferometers.
description: 9 pages, 13 figures
Figure S3:Syn-rift carbonate platforms in space and time: testing and refining conceptual models using stratigraphic and seismic numerical forward modelling
Creators: name: Masiero, Isabella
name: Hollis, Cathy
name: Burgess, Pete
name: Manifold, Lucy
name: Gawthorpe, Rob
name: Marshall, Jim
name: Lecomte, Isabella
name: Rotevatn, Atle
Publisher: name: Geological Society of London
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Geology
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Results of Model run 3-4 showing a sliced 3D view of the models (a and d), a dip-oriented cross-section through each model (b and e), equivalent seismic images of the same cross-section (c and f). Note how the high rate of hangingwall basin subsidence limits the areal extent of shallow water carbonate production in Model run 3.
3-tuples have at most 7 prime factors infinitely often
Creators: name: Maynard, James
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11N05, 11N35, 11N36

description: Let $L_1$, $L_2$ $L_3$ be integer linear functions with no fixed prime divisor. We show there are infinitely many $n$ for which the product $L_1(n)L_2(n)L_3(n)$ has at most 7 prime factors, improving a result of Porter. We do this by means of a weighted sieve based upon the Diamond-Halberstam-Richert multidimensional sieve.
description: 13 Pages
Harmonic structure and performance in some passages of Chopin's Ballade No. 4 in F minor
Creators: name: Yu, Libby
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This document examines some passages in Frederic Chopin’s fourth Ballade, Op. 52 and identifies its consistent disruption of the expected tonal energies of the I-V-I triangle. Examples based on Schenkerian analysis show how the dominant becomes delayed and loses its energy, revealing consistent and purposeful disruptions of continuity. Structurally important dominants, whether introductory to tonics, interruptive, or involved in perfect cadences, are treated in such a way as to lose their normal accentual and rhetorical force, whether because of rhythmic placement, length, melodic design, dynamics, or textural organization. Another consistent feature in the Ballade is the cycle of descending major thirds, expressed as the relationship of a major chord to the one a major third below, which serves as the substitute for the motion from dominant to tonic, producing an effect of “false’’ resolution. Several passages are shown to illustrate how Chopin deconstructs the tonal triangle by employing an entirely different axis of motion through the augmented triad. Performance suggestions with regard to touch, rubato, textural variety, articulation and pedalling are discussed, based on the integration of the musical analysis and the articulations of the musical score.
Effects of Longitudinal Changes in Charlson Comorbidity on Prognostic Survival Model Performance Among Newly Diagnosed Patients with Hypertension
Creators: name: Rymkiewicz, Peter
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Epidemiology
subject: Health Care Management
subject: Medicine and Surgery
subject: comorbidity
subject: Charlson Comorbidity Index
subject: CCI
subject: Longitudinal
subject: hypertension
subject: Survival Analysis
subject: time to event
subject: change in comorbidity
subject: longitudinal comorbidity
subject: time varying covariate model
subject: TVCM

description: Objectives: To assess methods of defining comorbidities by comparing risk adjusted mortality predictive model fit and performance among newly diagnosed hypertensive population. Methods: We included nearly all patients 18 year and older with an incident diagnosis of hypertension from one Canadian Province. We compared prognostic model performance for Cox regression models using Charlson comorbidities as time-invariant covariates (TIC) at baseline and time-varying covariates (TVC). Cox regression was used to calculate hazard ratios. Model fit and performance was based on the comparison of the AIC and Likelihood Ratio. Results: All Cox regression time-varying covariate models (TVCMs) outperformed time-invariant covariate (TIVMs) baseline models, based on a comparison of AIC and Likelihood Ratio, regardless of the method used to adjust for individual risk using the Charlson Comorbidities. TVCMs included all 17 Charlson comorbidities as individual independent variables showed the best fit and performance compared with similar baseline models, AIC (1,670,491 to 1,720,126) and Likelihood Ratio (112,941.72 to 63,239.78) respectively. Conclusion: Accounting for changes in patient comorbidity status over time more accurately capture a patient’s health risk and improves predictive model fit and performance over longer follow-up periods than traditional baseline method.
Explicit Computation of the Abel-Jacobi Map and its Inverse
Creators: name: Labrande, Hugo
Publisher: name: Graduate Studies
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computer Science
subject: theta function
subject: abel-jacobi map
subject: multiprecision computation

description: The Abel-Jacobi map links the short Weierstrass form of a complex elliptic curve to the complex torus associated to it. One can compute it with a number of operations which is quasi-linear in the target precision, i.e. in time O(M(P ) log P ). Its inverse is given by Weierstrass’s p-function, which can be written as a function of θ, an important function in number theory. The natural algorithm for evaluating θ requires O(M(P) sqrt(P) ) operations, but some values (the theta-constants) can be computed in O(M(P) log P ) operations by exploiting the links with the arithmetico-geometric mean (AGM). In this manuscript, we generalize this algorithm in order to compute θ in O(M(P) log P ). We give a function F which has similar properties to the AGM. As with the algorithm for theta-constants, we can then use Newton’s method to compute the value of θ. We implemented this algorithm, which is faster than the naive method for precisions larger than 260,000 decimal digits. We then study the generalization of this algorithm in higher genus, and in particular how to generalize the F function. In genus 2, we managed to prove that the same method leads to a O(M(P) log P ) algorithm for θ; the same complexity applies to the Abel-Jacobi map. This algorithm is faster than the naive method for precisions smaller than in genus 1, of about 3,000 decimal digits. We also outline a way one could reach the same complexity in any genus. Finally, we study a new algorithm which computes an isogeny of elliptic curves with given kernel. This algorithm uses the Abel-Jacobi map because it is easy to evaluate the isogeny on the complex torus; this algorithm may be generalizable to higher genera.
VISIR-VLT Images of the Water Maser Emitting Planetary Nebula K 3-35
Creators: name: Blanco, Mónica W.
name: Guerrero, Martín A.
name: Miranda, Luis F.
name: Lagadec, Eric
name: Suárez, Olga
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: K3-35 is an extremely young bipolar planetary nebula that contains a precessing bipolar jet and a small (radius 80 AU) water maser equatorial ring. We have obtained VISIR- VLT images of K 3-35 in the PAH1 (λ=8.6 μm), [S iv] (λ=10.6 μm), and SiC (λ=11.85 μm) filters to analize the mid-IR morphology and the temperature structure of its dust emission. The images show the innermost nebular regions undetected at optical wavelegths and the precessing bipolar jets. The temperature map shows variations in the temperature in the equatorial zone and in regions associated to its jets.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, 283 IAU Symp. Planetary Nebulae an Eye to the Future