cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Organic carbon inventories in natural and restored Ecuadorian mangrove forests
Creators: name: Alperin, Marc
name: Benninger, Larry
name: DelVecchia, Amanda G.
name: de Dios Morales, Juan
name: Bruno, John F.
name: Banerjee, Ovik
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Mangroves can capture and store organic carbon and their protection and therefore their restoration is a component of climate change mitigation. However, there are few empirical measurements of long-term carbon storage in mangroves or of how storage varies across environmental gradients. The context dependency of this process combined with geographically limited field sampling has made it difficult to generalize regional and global rates of mangrove carbon sequestration. This has in turn hampered the inclusion of sequestration by mangroves in carbon cycle models and in carbon offset markets. The purpose of this study was to estimate the relative carbon capture and storage potential in natural and restored mangrove forests. We measured depth profiles of soil organic carbon content in 72 cores collected from six sites (three natural, two restored, and one afforested) surrounding Muisne, Ecuador. Samples up to 1 m deep were analyzed for organic matter content using loss-on-ignition and values were converted to organic carbon content using an accepted ratio of 1.72 (g/g). Results suggest that average soil carbon storage is 0.055 ± 0.002 g cm−3 (11.3 ± 0.8% carbon content by dry mass, mean ± 1 SE) up to 1 m deep in natural sites, and 0.058 ± 0.002 g cm−3 (8.0 ± 0.3%) in restored sites. These estimates are concordant with published global averages. Evidence of equivalent carbon stocks in restored and afforested mangrove patches emphasizes the carbon sink potential for reestablished mangrove systems. We found no relationship between sediment carbon storage and aboveground biomass, forest structure, or within-patch location. Our results demonstrate the long-term carbon storage potential of natural mangroves, high effectiveness of mangrove restoration and afforestation, a lack of predictability in carbon storage strictly based on aboveground parameters, and the need to establish standardized protocol for quantifying mangrove sediment carbon stocks.
Novel Quantum Criticality in Two Dimensional Topological Phase transitions
Creators: name: Cho, Gil Young
name: Moon, Eun-Gook
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological quantum phase transitions intrinsically intertwine self-similarity and topology of many-electron wave-functions, and divining them is one of the most significant ways to advance understanding in condensed matter physics. Our focus is to investigate an unconventional class of the transitions between insulators and Dirac semimetals whose description is beyond conventional pseudo relativistic Dirac Hamiltonian. At the transition without the long-range Coulomb interaction, the electronic energy dispersion along one direction behaves like a relativistic particle, linear in momentum, but along the other direction it behaves like a non-relativistic particle, quadratic in momentum. Various physical systems ranging from TiO${}_2$-VO${}_2$ heterostructure to organic material $α$-(BEDT-TTF)${}_2$ I${}_3$ under pressure have been proposed to have such anisotropic dispersion relation. Here, we discover a novel quantum criticality at the phase transition by incorporating the 1/r long-range Coulomb interaction. Unique interplay between the Coulomb interaction and electronic critical modes enforces not only the anisotropic renormalization of the Coulomb interaction but also marginally modified electronic excitation. In connection with experiments, we investigate several striking effects in physical observables of our novel criticality.
description: 12 pages + 31 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, published version
Electoral rules and voter bias against female candidates in Brazilian congressional elections
Creators: name: Pereira, Frederico Batista
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: This paper examines whether and how electoral rules moderate the effect of voter bias on candidate choice. Voter bias against female candidates follows a pattern known as aversive sexism, which denotes that voters discriminate when the choice structure does not make the bias clear to others and to themselves. As a result, voters are less likely to vote for women when they can substitute ideologically close female candidates with male co-partisans. The paper uses survey data and a ballot experiment in Brazil to investigate why, contrary to conventional wisdom on the topic, voters are more likely to elect women running in plurality races for the Senate than in proportional races for the Chamber of Deputies. The results shed light on how institutions can produce voting patterns that harm the electoral prospects of female candidates.
Salin_procb_ESM_Methods from Differences in mitochondrial efficiency explain individual variation in growth performance
Creators: name: Salin, Karine
name: Villasevil, Eugenia M.
name: Anderson, Graeme J.
name: Lamarre, Simon G.
name: Melanson, Chloé A.
name: McCarthy, Ian
name: Selman, Colin
name: Metcalfe, Neil B.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology

description: The physiological causes of intraspecific differences in fitness components such as growth rate are currently a source of debate. It has been suggested that differences in energy metabolism may drive variation in growth, but it remains unclear whether covariation between growth rates and energy metabolism is (i) a result of certain individuals acquiring and consequently allocating more resources to growth and/or is (ii) determined by variation in the efficiency with which those resources are transformed into growth. Studies of individually housed animals under standardized nutritional conditions can help shed light on this debate. Here we quantify individual variation in metabolic efficiency in terms of the amount of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) generated per molecule of oxygen consumed by liver and muscle mitochondria and examine its effects both on the rate of protein synthesis within these tissues and on the rate of whole-body growth of individually fed juvenile brown trout (Salmo trutta) receiving either a high or low food ration. As expected, fish on the high ration on average gained more in body mass and protein content than those maintained on the low ration. Yet, growth performance varied more than 10-fold among individuals on the same ration, resulting in some fish on low rations growing faster than others on the high ration. This variation in growth for a given ration was related to individual differences in mitochondrial properties: a high whole-body growth performance was associated with high mitochondrial efficiency of ATP production in the liver. Our results show for the first time that among-individual variation in the efficiency with which substrates are converted into ATP can help explain marked variation in growth performance, independent of food intake. This study highlights the existence of inter-individual differences in mitochondrial efficiency and its potential importance in explaining intraspecific variation in whole-animal performance.
Quantitative trait loci for energy balance traits in an advanced intercross line derived from mice divergently selected for heat loss
Creators: name: Leamy, Larry J.
name: Valdar, William
name: Thorn, Stephanie R.
name: Elo, Kari
name: Nielsen, Merlyn K.
name: Pomp, Daniel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Obesity in human populations, currently a serious health concern, is considered to be the consequence of an energy imbalance in which more energy in calories is consumed than is expended. We used interval mapping techniques to investigate the genetic basis of a number of energy balance traits in an F11 advanced intercross population of mice created from an original intercross of lines selected for increased and decreased heat loss. We uncovered a total of 137 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for these traits at 41 unique sites on 18 of the 20 chromosomes in the mouse genome, with X-linked QTLs being most prevalent. Two QTLs were found for the selection target of heat loss, one on distal chromosome 1 and another on proximal chromosome 2. The number of QTLs affecting the various traits generally was consistent with previous estimates of heritabilities in the same population, with the most found for two bone mineral traits and the least for feed intake and several body composition traits. QTLs were generally additive in their effects, and some, especially those affecting the body weight traits, were sex-specific. Pleiotropy was extensive within trait groups (body weights, adiposity and organ weight traits, bone traits) and especially between body composition traits adjusted and not adjusted for body weight at sacrifice. Nine QTLs were found for one or more of the adiposity traits, five of which appeared to be unique. The confidence intervals among all QTLs averaged 13.3 Mb, much smaller than usually observed in an F2 cross, and in some cases this allowed us to make reasonable inferences about candidate genes underlying these QTLs. This study combined QTL mapping with genetic parameter analysis in a large segregating population, and has advanced our understanding of the genetic architecture of complex traits related to obesity.
The past, Brexit, and the future in Northern Ireland: a quasi-experiment
Creators: name: Godefroidt, Amélie
name: Dyrstad, Karin
name: Bakke, Kristin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: The UK’s decision to leave the European Union has raised questions about whether Brexit might bring “the Troubles” back to Northern Ireland. We exploit the timing of a unique survey to examine how the EU referendum campaign and its outcome shaped perceptions about the past conflict and preferences for the future in Northern Ireland. The survey reveals that, after the Leave vote, people were more likely to perceive the partitioning of the Island of Ireland and illegitimate rule of Westminster as important conflict causes. Respondents surveyed after the referendum were also more likely to see reunification with Ireland as desirable, and changes in conflict perceptions contributed to this change in preferences for the future. At the same time, public responses seem to be the result of a gradual change during the campaign rather than a shock effect to the outcome, and effects decay quickly. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the micro-foundations driving post-Brexit public opinion in Northern Ireland and the potential consequences of holding contentious referendums more generally.
Re-examining the relationship between invasive lionfish and native grouper in the Caribbean
Creators: name: Green, Stephanie J.
name: Bruno, John F.
name: Cox, Courtney E.
name: Valdivia, Abel
name: Hackerott, Serena
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Biotic resistance is the idea that native species negatively affect the invasion success of introduced species, but whether this can occur at large spatial scales is poorly understood. Here we re-evaluated the hypothesis that native large-bodied grouper and other predators are controlling the abundance of exotic lionfish (Pterois volitans/miles) on Caribbean coral reefs. We assessed the relationship between the biomass of lionfish and native predators at 71 reefs in three biogeographic regions while taking into consideration several cofactors that may affect fish abundance, including among others, proxies for fishing pressure and habitat structural complexity. Our results indicate that the abundance of lionfish, large-bodied grouper and other predators were not negatively related. Lionfish abundance was instead controlled by several physical site characteristics, and possibly by culling. Taken together, our results suggest that managers cannot rely on current native grouper populations to control the lionfish invasion.
A deep sea hydrothermal vent bio-sampler for large volume in-situ filtration of hydrothermal vent fluids
Creators: name: BEHAR, Alberto
name: MATTHEWS, Jaret
name: VENKATESWARAN, Kasthuri
name: BRUCKNER, James
name: JONSSON, Jonas
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: The Hydrothermal Vent BioSampler (HVB) currently being developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is
 designed to collect large-volume hydrothermal vent samples, operating with fluid temperatures reaching 400°C and at vent
 depths of up to 6,500 metres. The primary goal of the project is to collect 'pristine' samples untainted by the surrounding
 waters.  Analysis of the collected samples can reveal the existence of thermophillic organisms within the vent fluid,
 extending the upper limits of life with respect to thermo-tolerance. Any biology found at such environments can contribute
 to research in astrobiology, while the technology developed for the system can contribute to bio-containment techniques
 useful for Arctic and planetary exploration. The HVB performs in-situ filtering of hydrothermal vent fluids to concentrate
 a large sample volume to a smaller volume more suitable for transport. The HVB system is currently in the development
 phase. This paper provides a physical description of the current system, as well as a summary of the preliminary tests
 conducted in 2005 and 2006: pressure chamber tests and a two dive operations at a hydrothermal vent off the northern coast
 of Iceland.
Supplementary Figures and Tables from Climate drives spatial variation in Zika epidemics in Latin America.
Creators: name: Harris, Mallory
name: Caldwell, Jamie M.
name: Mordecai, Erin A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary material for Zika models including tables and figures of model fit, model selection, and covariate distributions.
Fluid approach to evaluate sound velocity in Yukawa systems (complex plasmas)
Creators: name: Khrapak, Sergey
name: Thomas, Hubertus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The conventional fluid description of multi-component plasma, supplemented by an appropriate equation of state for the macroparticle component, is used to evaluate the longitudinal sound velocity of Yukawa fluids. The obtained results are in very good agreement with those obtained earlier employing the quasi-localized charge approximation and molecular dynamics simulations in a rather broad parameter regime. Thus, a simple yet accurate tool to estimate the sound velocity across coupling regimes is proposed, which can be particularly helpful in estimating the dust-acoustic velocity in strongly coupled dusty (complex) plasmas. It is shown that, within the present approach, the sound velocity is completely determined by particle-particle correlations and the neutralizing medium (plasma), apart from providing screening of the Coulomb interaction, has no other effect on the sound propagation. The ratio of the actual sound velocity to its "ideal gas" (weak coupling) scale only weakly depends on the coupling strength in the fluid regime, but exhibits a pronounced decrease with the increase of the screening strength. The limitations of the present approach in applications to real complex plasmas are briefly discussed.
description: Physical Review E (in press)
Scaling of olfactory antennae of the terrestrial hermit crabs Coenobita rugosus and Coenobita perlatus during ontogeny
Creators: name: Bantay, Roxanne M.
name: Waldrop, Lindsay D.
name: Nguyen, Quang V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Although many lineages of terrestrial crustaceans have poor olfactory capabilities, crabs in the family Coenobitidae, including the terrestrial hermit crabs in the genus Coenobita, are able to locate food and water using olfactory antennae (antennules) to capture odors from the surrounding air. Terrestrial hermit crabs begin their lives as small marine larvae and must find a suitable place to undergo metamorphosis into a juvenile form, which initiates their transition to land. Juveniles increase in size by more than an order of magnitude to reach adult size. Since odor capture is a process heavily dependent on the size and speed of the antennules and physical properties of the fluid, both the transition from water to air and the large increase in size during ontogeny could impact odor capture. In this study, we examine two species of terrestrial hermit crabs, Coenobita perlatus H. Milne-Edwards and Coenobita rugosus H. Milne-Edwards, to determine how the antennule morphometrics and kinematics of flicking change in comparison to body size during ontogeny, and how this scaling relationship could impact odor capture by using a simple model of mass transport in flow. Many features of the antennules, including the chemosensory sensilla, scaled allometrically with carapace width and increased slower than expected by isometry, resulting in relatively larger antennules on juvenile animals. Flicking speed scaled as expected with isometry. Our mass-transport model showed that allometric scaling of antennule morphometrics and kinematics leads to thinner boundary layers of attached fluid around the antennule during flicking and higher odorant capture rates as compared to antennules which scaled isometrically. There were no significant differences in morphometric or kinematic measurements between the two species.
Ponencia sobre el manuscrito: Pseudomonas putida estimula el crecimiento de maíz en función de la temperatura
Creators: name: Vázquez-Martínez, Luisa Estela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: maíz; Pseudomonas putida KT2440; PGPR; rizósfera, temperatura

description: RESUMEN Favorecer el crecimiento vegetal es esencial frente al desenfrenado cambio climático que desestabiliza a los cultivos primarios como el del maíz, un cultivo representativo de México. Por ello es necesario el desarrollo de inoculantes que mejoren el rendimiento de los cultivos y disminuya el uso de agroquímicos [1]. Pseudomonas putida KT2440 es una destacable bacteria por sus méritos ambientales en la biorremediación y su capacidad para la colonización de la rizósfera de diversas plantas, factores críticos que la convierten en una buena candidata como promotora de crecimiento [2]. Por lo que este articulo se centra en evaluar su adhesión, colonización y capacidad de promover el crecimiento de maíz azul bajo dos condiciones de temperatura: 30°C y 40°C. Una vez ejecutados los métodos adecuados de desarrollo y el análisis de datos, se encontró que la estimulación fue mayor a una temperatura de 40 °C, ya que posiblemente la bacteria podría expresar mejor sus genes de promoción de crecimiento en condiciones extremas de temperatura cuando interacciona con las plantas.
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Supplementary Figures and Tables from Climate drives spatial variation in Zika epidemics in Latin America
Creators: name: Harris, Mallory
name: Caldwell, Jamie M.
name: Mordecai, Erin A.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Health Care
subject: Diseases
subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary material for Zika models including tables and figures of model fit, model selection, and covariate distributions.
scikit-image: image processing in Python
Creators: name: Yu, Tony
name: Gouillart, Emmanuelle
name: Warner, Joshua D.
name: Yager, Neil
name: van der Walt, Stéfan
name: Boulogne, François
name: Nunez-Iglesias, Juan
name: Schönberger, Johannes L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: scikit-image is an image processing library that implements algorithms and utilities for use in research, education and industry applications. It is released under the liberal Modified BSD open source license, provides a well-documented API in the Python programming language, and is developed by an active, international team of collaborators. In this paper we highlight the advantages of open source to achieve the goals of the scikit-image library, and we showcase several real-world image processing applications that use scikit-image. More information can be found on the project homepage, http://scikit-image.org.
Supplementary background, methods and data from Land sparing to make space for species dependent on natural habitats and high nature value farmland.
Creators: name: Feniuk, Claire
name: Balmford, Andrew
name: Green, Rhys E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Description of study design, survey sites, survey methods, analysis methods. Species specific data on the relationship between abundance and farm yield for birds and sedges. Detailed methods for each agricultural land use scenario.
In vitro biomechanical evaluation of internal fixation techniques on the canine lumbosacral junction
Creators: name: Early, Peter
name: Dillard, Stacy
name: Mente, Peter
name: Roe, Simon
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Few biomechanical studies have evaluated the effect of internal stabilization techniques after decompressive surgery on the stability of the canine lumbosacral junction. The purpose of this canine cadaver study is to evaluate the stability of the canine lumbosacral (LS) spine in flexion and extension following laminectomy and discectomy and then stabilization with each of the three techniques: pins and polymethylmethacrylate (P/PMMA), two dorsal locking plates (SOP) or bilateral transarticular facet screws (FACET).Using a cantilever biomechanical system, bending moments were applied to the LS and range of motion (ROM) was recorded via a rotational potentiometer. With 3 Nm, the ROM (n = 4 in each group) for P/PMMA, SOP and FACET were 1.92 ± 0.96°, 2.56 ± 0.55°and 3.18 ± 1.14°, respectively. With moments up to 35 Nm, the P/PMMA specimens appeared stable. Sacroiliac motion in the SOP and FACET groups invalidated further comparisons. Each of the stabilization techniques (P/PMMA, SOP, and FACET) significantly decreased the range of motion in flexion and extension for low bending moments.
Sequential Warped Products: Curvature and Killing Vector Fields
Creators: name: De, Uday Chand
name: Shenawy, Sameh
name: Ünal, Bülent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this note, we introduce a new type of warped products called as sequential warped products to cover a wider variety of exact solutions to Einstein's equation. First, we study the geometry of sequential warped products and obtain covariant derivatives, curvature tensor, Ricci curvature and scalar curvature formulas. Then some important consequences of these formulas are also stated. We provide characterizations of geodesics and two different types of conformal vector fields, namely, Killing vector fields and concircular vector fields on sequential warped product manifolds. Finally, we consider the geometry of two classes of sequential warped product space-time models which are sequential generalized Robertson-Walker spacetimes and sequential standard static spacetimes.
IMMUNOCYTOCHEMICAL RESEARCH ON THE EYESTALK AND THE VENTRAL NERVE CORD OF PALAEMONETES-PUNICUS (CRUSTACEA, DECAPODA)
Creators: name: Azzouna, A.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1991

description: The eyestalk and the ventral nerve cord of the prawn Palaemonetes punicus have been the subject of immunocytochemical investigations by fluorescent microscop. Five antibodies have been used against: the Hyperglycemic Hormone of the crab Carcinus maenas (CHH), the Adipokinetic Hormone of Insects (AKH), the Substance P Hormone, the Bombesin Hormone and the Serotonin Hormone. The Substance P-like was observed in little quantities in the sinus gland and the Medulla Terminalis X Organ (MTGX). Any positive reaction was observed by using anti-Bombesin. Using anti-CHH of Carcinus maenas, immuno-positive staining was obtained in some neurosecretory cells of the MTGX, and in the major part of the sinus gland and in the nerve joining the MTGX to the neurohemal gland. Using the antiserum produced against the Insect adipokinetic Hormone (AKH), it was possible to detect adipokinetic hormone-reactive peptides in some neurosecretory cells of MTGX, of MEX and in the lower part in the sinus gland. The anti-5HT was used only on the ventral nerve cord of the prawn. The results are positives.
Payer Incentives for Improving Interpretation of Germline Genetic Testing
Creators: name: Hooker, Gillian W.
name: Cohen, Matan
name: Geary, Janis
name: Deverka, Patricia
name: Mathews, Charles
name: Cook-Deegan, Robert
name: Majumder, Mary
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Methods and data supporting published analysis
The use of neuralgia medications to treat sensory neuropathic cough: our experience in a retrospective cohort of thirty-two patients
Creators: name: Bastian, Zachary J.
name: Bastian, Robert W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Objective. This study sought to: (1) quantify response rate and efficacy of amitriptyline, desipramine, and gabapentin in treating sensory neuropathic cough; and (2) describe an efficient treatment protocol.Study Design. This study is a retrospective case series.Methods. Persons diagnosed with sensory neuropathic cough during a one-year period were potential study candidates. To bolster the diagnosis credibility, only persons who had been treated elsewhere for gastroesophageal reflux disease, asthma, and allergy with no reduction of cough were included. Upon diagnosis of sensory neuropathic cough, each person was treated with either amitriptyline, desipramine, or gabapentin, titrating the dose upward to desired benefit or the dose limit. If the benefit was insufficient, another of the medications was used next, using a similar dose escalation strategy. Data points included patient demographics, initial and final medication, final dose, and degree of improvement.Results. 32 patients met the diagnostic and inclusion criteria and had a complete data set. 94% (30 of 32) of the patients responded to at least one of the medications. The 32 patients undertook a total of 45 single-medication trials. Patients reported symptom relief during 78% (14 of 18) of amitriptyline trials, 73% (11 of 15) of desipramine trials, and 83% (10 of 12) of gabapentin trials. At final dosage, symptom reduction averaged 77% on amitriptyline, 73% on desipramine, and 69% on gabapentin.Conclusion. Amitriptyline, desipramine, and gabapentin appear to vary in their effectiveness for individual cases of sensory neuropathic cough; across a whole cohort, symptom relief was similar in frequency and degree on any of the three medications. More evidence is needed to demonstrate more convincingly the effectiveness of these medications, but this data set suggests that each of these three medications deserves consideration in the codified treatment protocol presented here.
Generic Quantum Walks with Memory
Creators: name: Li, Dan
name: Gettrick, Michael Mc
name: Gao, Fei
name: Xu, Jie
name: Wen, Qiao-Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum walks with memory(QWM) are a type of modified quantum walks that record the walker's latest path. As we know, only two kinds of QWM are presented up to now. It is desired to design more QWM for research, so that we can explore the potential of QWM. In this work, through presenting the one-to-one correspondence between QWM on a regular graph and quantum walks without memory(QWoM) on line digraph of the regular graph, we construct a generic model of QWM on regular graphs. This construction gives a general scheme for building all possible standard QWM on regular graphs and makes it possible to study properties of different kinds of QWM. Here, by taking the simplest example which is QWM with 1 memory on the line, we analyze some properties of QWM, such as variance, occupancy rate and localization.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures
Nouvelles espèces pour l'Inventaire de la Faune Marine de Roscoff- Crustacés Amphipodes, Cumacés et Décapodes, Mollusques Gastéropodes et Ascidies
Creators: name: DAUVIN, Jean-Claude
name: IGLESIAS, Angeles
name: GENTIL, Franck
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1991

description: Seventeen species of in vertebrates are added to the list of marine fauna from Roscoff : Mollusca Gastropoda (Natica montagu), Amphipoda (Iphimedia nexa, I. perplexa, I. spatula, Gitana sarsi, Peltocoxa brevirostris. Calliopius laeviusculus, Leucothoë procera, Socarnes filicomis, Triphosella horingi, T. minima, Cheirocratus assimilis, Stenopleustes nodifer). Cumacean (Campylapsis legendrei), Decapoda (Lysmata seticaudara)
and Ascidian (Styela clava , Phallusia mammilata). Some faunistical and taxonomical remarks are given for two other species : Decapoda (Crangon allmani) and Amphipoda (Normannion chevreuxi).
BIOMASSES AND DIFFERENT SIZES OF WINTER ZOOPLANKTON IN A NORTHERN MEDITERRANEAN LAGOON
Creators: name: Hoai, T. L.
name: Gril, C.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1991

description: Normalized biomasses as proposed by Platt & Denman (1978), decrease linearly with organism size, in sea or lake pelagic ecosystems at steady state (Sprules et al., 1988). In a northern Mediterranean lagoon (Etang de Thau), winter zooplankton biomasses, estimated by image analysis, shown important fluctuations in every size class. Their averaged size-spectra were characterized by an increasing phase which grouped most of the individuals, and by a decreasing phase linked with less numerous organisms of large size. Size-structure differed from one lagoon area to another, following a gradient of density and of composition. Such structures characterize interface ecosystems where environmental conditions are forcing parameters.
Supplementary background, methods and data from Land sparing to make space for species dependent on natural habitats and High Nature Value farmland
Creators: name: Feniuk, Claire
name: Balmford, Andrew
name: Green, Rhys E.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Description of study design, survey sites, survey methods, analysis methods. Species specific data on the relationship between abundance and farm yield for birds and sedges. Detailed methods for each agricultural land use scenario.
Parents' Support and Knowledge of Their Daughters' Lives, and Females' Early Sexual Initiation In Nine European Countries
Creators: name: Godeau, Emmanuelle
name: Farhat, Tilda
name: Halpern, Carolyn Tucker
name: Madkour, Aubrey Spriggs
name: Gabhainn, Saoirse nic
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The association between early sexual initiation and parenting practices (e.g., support and knowledge) has not been tested in multiple European population-based samples using the same instrument.
Dynamics of incompatibility of quantum measurements in open systems
Creators: name: Addis, Carole
name: Heinosaari, Teiko
name: Kiukas, Jukka
name: Laine, Elsi-Mari
name: Maniscalco, Sabrina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The non-classical nature of quantum states, often illustrated using entanglement measures or quantum discord, constitutes a resource for quantum information protocols. However, the non-classicality of a quantum system cannot be encapsulated as a property of the state alone, as the set of available measurements used to extract information on the system is typically restricted. In this work we study how the non-classicality of quantum measurements, quantified via their incompatibility, is influenced by quantum noise and, further, how a non-Markovian environment may help us in maintaining the measurement resources.
description: v2: presentation improved and typos corrected
Correlates of Adolescent and Young Adult Sexual Initiation Patterns
Creators: name: Herring, Amy H.
name: Choukas-Bradley, Sophia
name: Reese, Bianka M.
name: Halpern, Carolyn T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: CONTEXT: Identifying adolescent characteristics associated with different patterns of sexual initiation is critical to promoting healthy sexual development.

METHODS: Patterns of sexual initiation were examined among 12,378 respondents to Waves 1 (1994-1995) and 4 (2008) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Multinomial logistic regression explored associations between adolescent characteristics and membership in five latent classes capturing the timing, sequence, pace and variety of sexual initiation patterns.

RESULTS: Age and indicators of greater psychosocial conventionality were associated with membership in the atypical "postponers" class (characterized by postponement of oral, vaginal and anal sexual activity until early adulthood), although patterns of associations varied by gender. For example, compared with males who attended religious services at least once a week, males who never attended religious services were more likely to appear in the vaginal initiators/multiple behaviors class (characterized by initiation of vaginal sex first and then initiation of another behavior after at least one year), rather than in the postponers class (relative risk ratio, 2.5). Compared with women who prayed at least once a day, those who never prayed were more likely to be in the vaginal initiators/single behavior class (whose members typically engaged in only one type of behavior), rather than in the postponers class (2.0).

CONCLUSIONS: Individuals who are more adherent, and presumably more committed, to the attitudes, values and expectations of conventional society are more likely than others to delay multiple types of sexual activity until well beyond the norm for their peers.
Dose finding when the target dose is on a plateau of a dose-response curve: comparison of fully sequential designs
Creators: name: Xiao, Changfu
name: Ivanova, Anastasia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Consider the problem of estimating a dose with a certain response rate. Many multistage dose-finding designs for this problem were originally developed for oncology studies where the mean dose-response is strictly increasing in dose. In non-oncology Phase II dose-finding studies the dose-response curve often plateaus in the range of interest and there are several doses with the mean response equal to the target. In this case it is usually of interest to find the lowest of these doses since higher doses might have higher adverse event rates. It is often desirable to compare the response rate at the estimated target dose with a placebo and/or active control. We investigate which of the several known dose-finding methods developed for oncology Phase I trials is the most suitable when the dose response curve plateaus. Some of the designs tend to spread the allocation among the doses on the plateau. Others, like the continual reassessment method and the t-statistic design, concentrate allocation at one of the doses with the t-statistic design selecting the lowest dose on the plateau more frequently.
Microbial ecology of deep-sea sunken wood: quantitative measurements of bacterial biomass and cellulolytic activities
Creators: name: PALACIOS, Carmen
name: ZBINDEN, Magali
name: BACO, Amy R.
name: TREUDE, Tina
name: SMITH, Craig R.
name: GAILL, Françoise
name: LEBARON, Philippe
name: BOETIUS, Antje
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: When deposited in marine sediments, sunken wood and large animal remains can undergo sufficiently steady
 decay for oxygen to be depleted, attracting anaerobic living forms. Chemosynthetically living communities have recently
 been identified around whale skeletons and sunken woods. The phylogenetic resemblance and overlap in species of
 metazoans living in these habitats with those of highly reduced environments like hydrothermal vents and vent seeps has
 led to the hypothesis that deep-sea organic rich matter deposits could play a major role in the adaptation and evolution of
 chemoautotrophic communities at the ocean basin. Until present little attention has been paid to the free-living microbial
 diversity and activities in large organic falls like sunken woods and whale bones. In this communication we outline a series
 of methods to quantitatively study microbial biodiversity and degradation processes in sunken wood. Cellulose is the most
 abundant component of plant material and it can only be degraded by fungi and bacteria. We present results from
 cellulolytic activities in a long-term ex-situ experiment on samples from naturally and experimentally immersed sunken
 wood. We also have developed methods to quantitatively measure microbial cell numbers in wood chips. Further studies at
 the molecular level in combination with the methods reported here will broad our narrow knowledge on the microbial
 biofilms that develop on and within sunken woods and give clues on the ecological importance of these deep-sea organic
 islands.
EVOLUTION OF THERMOSBENACEA FROM TULUM TO EL-HAMA-DE-GABES
Creators: name: Cals, P.
name: Monod, T.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1991

description: Very good collected and preserved Tulumella grandis by Jill Yayer allowed fine investigations on neuro-muscular anatomy of the ocular scales and thoracic legs. With peculiar muscular system, podomerism and unguli, the first free thoracopod can be considered as a gnathopod; this fact can be a general feature of all thermosbaenacean genera dealing with the definition of this group. The anatomy of the ocular-scale with ganglia and two distinct muscular systems is established only in T. grandis but can be true for all the podophtalmous Thermosbaenacea (Halosbaenidae family). The occurence of three pairs of small gills between thoracic pleurae and appendages is established only in one species: T. grandis. Relationships between thermosbaenacean genera and between peracaridan phyla are discussed.
METAMERIC EVOLUTION AND LEVELS OF MORPHOGENETIC TEGUMENTARY DISCONTINUITIES IN CRUSTACEA - COMPARISON WITH ACTIVITY OF HOMEOTIC GENES AND SEGMENT DIVERSITY
Creators: name: Cals, P.
name: Calsusciati, J.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1991

description: In the present time, there are two more or less separated works on arthropodian metamerical diversity. On one hand, the crustacean metamery is greatly variable with homonomous myriapod-like primitive organization (e.g. Remipedia) and with highly heteronomous tagmosis (e.g. Malacostracea). On the other hand, evolution of one to several homeotic genes complex is proposed for the evolution from Myriapod to Insect (Akam diagram). The phylogeny of Crustacea cannot be now directly related with this diagram, but a parallelism does exist.
Electronic supplementary material: The evolutionary dynamics of the Early Palaeozoic marine biodiversity accumulation.
Creators: name: Kröger, Björn
name: Franeck, Franziska
name: Rasmussen, Christian M. Ø.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Contents: 1. Additional information on Data and Methods; 2. Additional information on Results
Corona graphs as a model of small-world networks
Creators: name: Lv, Qian
name: Yi, Yuhao
name: Zhang, Zhongzhi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: G.2.2

description: We introduce recursive corona graphs as a model of small-world networks. We investigate analytically the critical characteristics of the model, including order and size, degree distribution, average path length, clustering coefficient, and the number of spanning trees, as well as Kirchhoff index. Furthermore, we study the spectra for the adjacency matrix and the Laplacian matrix for the model. We obtain explicit results for all the quantities of the recursive corona graphs, which are similar to those observed in real-life networks.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures
Use of historical control data for assessing treatment effects in clinical trials
Creators: name: Roychoudhury, Satrajit
name: Amzal, Billy
name: Chen, Fang
name: Ibrahim, Joseph G.
name: Kinnersley, Nelson
name: Berry, Scott
name: Viele, Kert
name: Hobbs, Brian
name: Lindborg, Stacy
name: Thompson, Laura
name: Neuenschwander, Beat
name: Enas, Nathan
name: Micallef, Sandrine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Clinical trials rarely, if ever, occur in a vacuum. Generally, large amounts of clinical data are available prior to the start of a study, particularly on the current study’s control arm. There is obvious appeal in using (i.e., ‘borrowing’) this information. With historical data providing information on the control arm, more trial resources can be devoted to the novel treatment while retaining accurate estimates of the current control arm parameters. This can result in more accurate point estimates, increased power, and reduced type I error in clinical trials, provided the historical information is sufficiently similar to the current control data. If this assumption of similarity is not satisfied, however, one can acquire increased mean square error of point estimates due to bias and either reduced power or increased type I error depending on the direction of the bias. In this manuscript, we review several methods for historical borrowing, illustrating how key parameters in each method affect borrowing behavior, and then, we compare these methods on the basis of mean square error, power and type I error. We emphasize two main themes. First, we discuss the idea of ‘dynamic’ (versus ‘static’) borrowing. Second, we emphasize the decision process involved in determining whether or not to include historical borrowing in terms of the perceived likelihood that the current control arm is sufficiently similar to the historical data. Our goal is to provide a clear review of the key issues involved in historical borrowing and provide a comparison of several methods useful for practitioners.
Acute kidney injury in statin initiators
Creators: name: Simpson, Ross J.
name: Pate, Virginia
name: Layton, J. Bradley
name: Stürmer, Til
name: Jonsson Funk, Michele
name: Kshirsagar, Abhijit V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Statins are widely used for preventing cardiovascular disease, yet recent reports suggest an increased risk of acute kidney injury (AKI). We estimated the one-year risk of AKI associated with statin initiation and determined the comparative safety of individual statin formulations.
Electronic supplementary material: The evolutionary dynamics of the Early Palaeozoic marine biodiversity accumulation
Creators: name: Kröger, Björn
name: Franeck, Franziska
name: Rasmussen, Christian M. Ø.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 40308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Contents: 1. Additional information on Data and Methods; 2. Additional information on Results
Community structure and temperature dynamics within a mussel assemblage on the Southern East Pacific Rise
Creators: name: SARRAZIN, Jozée
name: WALTER, Cécile
name: SARRADIN, Pierre-Marie
name: BRIND'AMOUR, Anik
name: DESBRUYÈRES, Daniel
name: BRIAND, Patrick
name: FABRI, Marie-Claire
name: VAN GAEVER, Saskia
name: VANREUSEL, Ann
name: BACHRATY, Charleyne
name: THIÉBAUT, Eric
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2006

description: The composition, biomass and diversity of the fauna in a Bathymodiolus thermophilus mussel assemblage
 colonizing diffuse flow areas on the SEPR is described and compared with biological characteristics of other hydrothermal
 assemblages. The spatio-temporal dynamics of temperatures over fine scales within the mussel habitat are characterized
 using newly-developed statistical approaches. Temperature data obtained from two adjacent habitats (a cirriped assemblage
 and a bare substratum) are compared. The results of the temperature data show that the mean temperature and the
 temperature variations were significantly higher in the mussel assemblage (mean temperature: 4.12 ± 1.85°C) in
 comparison with 2.40 ± 0.14°C in the cirriped assemblage and 2.20 ± 0.23°C on the bare substratum. Discrete temperature
 measurements showed that temperature data varied both at a broad and fine scales in the mussel assemblage. Finally,
 analysis of the temperature periodic variability in the mussel assemblage during a 4-day period showed significant periodic
 modulations near T = 24h. Although not significant, a second trend is also observed around T = 12h. This work represents
 a step forward to the understanding of species distribution patterns at vents.
Completeness of prescription information in US commercial claims databases
Creators: name: Roth, Mary T.
name: Brookhart, M. Alan
name: Lauffenburger, Julie C.
name: Farley, Joel F.
name: O'Malley, Cynthia D.
name: Critchlow, Cathy W.
name: Pate, Virginia
name: Balasubramanian, Akhila
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Pharmacy commercial claims databases are widely used for pharmacoepidemiologic research. However, concerns have been raised that these databases may not fully capture claims for generic medication as a result of patients filling outside the context of their insurance. This has implications for many research activities and quality improvement programs. We sought to estimate the percentage of missing drug claims in US commercial claims data using a novel design.