cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Adaptive Guidance and Integrated Navigation with Reinforcement Meta-Learning
Creators: name: Gaudet, Brian
name: Linares, Richard
name: Furfaro, Roberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper proposes a novel adaptive guidance system developed using reinforcement meta-learning with a recurrent policy and value function approximator. The use of recurrent network layers allows the deployed policy to adapt real time to environmental forces acting on the agent. We compare the performance of the DR/DV guidance law, an RL agent with a non-recurrent policy, and an RL agent with a recurrent policy in four challenging environments with unknown but highly variable dynamics. These tasks include a safe Mars landing with random engine failure and a landing on an asteroid with unknown environmental dynamics. We also demonstrate the ability of a RL meta-learning optimized policy to implement a guidance law using observations consisting of only Doppler radar altimeter readings in a Mars landing environment, and LIDAR altimeter readings in an asteroid landing environment, thus integrating guidance and navigation.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1901.04473
Additional file 1 of Correction to: LINC00673 is activated by YY1 and promotes the proliferation of breast cancer cells via the miR-515-5p/MARK4/Hippo signaling pathway
Creators: name: Qiao, Kun
name: Ning, Shipeng
name: Wan, Lin
name: Wu, Hao
name: Wang, Qin
name: Zhang, Xingda
name: Xu, Shouping
name: Pang, Da
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1 : Figure S1. LINC00673 is highly expressed in breast cancer tissues. (a) LINC00673 data downloaded from the MiTranscriptome database. (b) Expression of LINC00673 in 950 breast cancer tissues and 107 normal breast tissues (TCGA). *** P < 0.001.
Priocera longula SCHENKLING 1906
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Priocera
Priocera longula

description: Priocera longula SCHENKLING, 1906 (Figs 55, 92, 143)
 Priocera longula SCHENKLING, 1906: 256.
HOLOTYPE: ♀. Here designated. Brazilia, Jatahy Goyas, Sept. á Sept. 97 (Brazil, Jatai, Goias) (SDEI).
 PARATYPE: One specimen. Brazil: Estado do Goias, collectors name not discernible (USNM). CORPORAAL 1950: 100.
 A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d (Fig.92): Inadditiontothetypes, I examined 12 specimens from: Brazil: Estado do Pará, Santarém, no other information available; Estado do Amazonas, Amazonas, Bates, no other information available; Estado do Bahia, Chapada, no other information available; Estado do Rondônia, Vilhena,?- XI-1973, M. Alvarenga. Specimens are deposited in: AMNH, CMNH, FMNH, SDEI, USNM, and WOPC.
D i a g n o s i s: Cranium and antenna flavotestaceous; prothoracic venter black; pronotum bicolored, pronotum proper with streaky black lines amidst testaceous areas, pronotal arch and pronotal collar mostly testaceous, infuscated at middle; pterothoracic venter black; elytral tricolored, each elytron with black markings at base and at apical 1/2 and with 3 oblong yellow markings, 2 near middle, one near base proximal to sutural margin; legs bicolorous, mostly testaceous, infuscated; abdominal ventrites I-IV testaceous, ventrites V and VI dark brown.
R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 8.0 mm; width 1.3 mm. Form: As in Fig. 143. Head: Frons about as wide as length of antennal pedicel, EW/FW 37/7. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses (PW /PL 70/107); elytral disc sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex narrowly rounded (EL /EW 280/40); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Pygidium emarginate along distal margin; phallobasic loop longer than phallobase; aedeagus as in Fig. 55.
V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 5.0-8.0 mm; width 1.0- 1.3 mm. Other than body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: One specimen was collected during November.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the West ern Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on pages 1183-1184, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854
The last two dynasties of the Sahis : an analysis of their history, archaeology, coinage and palaeography
Creators: name: Rehman, Abdur
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1976

description: Albiruni has done a great service to the early medieval rulers of North West India and Afghanistan by investigating their history. He complains of a serious lack of information and excuses himself for responsibility regarding the accuracy of the stories related to him about them. According to the information available to him the two preMuslim dynasties of Gandhara and Kabul were called 1Shahi11 (Sahi). He qualifies the dynasties as Turks and Hindus, but he tells nothing about their origin, the duration of their rule, the territorial limits of their kingdom and, except in a few cases, the dates of the individual rulers. The word 'Shaht1 is also known from Ibn Hauqal2 (A.D. 976). Istakhri (A.D. 951) uses the form Shah as a title for the pre-Ghaznavid rulers of Kabul.3 The Dewai stone inscription of Bhimal (c. A.D. 921-6U) and the Rajatarahgint5 (c. A.D. 111+9) have the form Sahi. The Kabul image (our no.l) and the Hatun rock (our no.2) inscriptions give the spelling Sahi.
Entropy production due to coupling to a heat bath in the kicked rotor problem
Creators: name: Nag, Sankhasubhra
name: Lahiri, Avijit
name: Ghosh, Gautam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Considering a kicked rotor coupled to a model heat bath both the classical and quantum entropy productions are calculated exactly. Starting with an initial wave packet, the von Neuman entropy as a function of time is determined from the reduced density matrix while the Liouville evolution of the corresponding Husimi distribution provides us with the classical entropy. It is found that both these entropies agree reasonably satisfying the same asymptotic growth law and more importantly both are proportional to the classical Liapounov exponent.
description: 9 pages, 5 .eps figures, Latex
Examining the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Telehealth Behaviour Change Intervention for Rural-Living Young Adult Cancer Survivors
Creators: name: Price, Jenson
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2019
Subjects: Telehealth
Health behaviour change
Self-determination theory
Mixed methods
Rural
Young adults
Cancer

description: Regular physical activity (PA) participation and fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption confers numerous positive health outcomes for cancer survivors, including prevention of cancer recurrence, second primary cancers, and other non-communicable chronic diseases. Rural-living young adult cancer survivors (YAs) possess unique barriers and concerns that influence their ability to participate in traditional face-to-face behaviour change interventions. Few researchers have explored alternative means for delivering behaviour change interventions grounded in theory utilizing a mixed-methods approach to assess processes of change and behavioural outcomes. To fill this gap and provide recommendations for future interventions and services focused on positive health behaviours in this population, the objective of the research presented in this thesis was to explore the feasibility and acceptability of a 12-week theory-based telehealth behaviour change intervention aiming to improve PA and FV consumption using a single-arm, mixed methods pilot trial. Over a 7-month period, 14 YAs self-referred. Of these 14, 5 were eligible and consented to participate with 3 completing the study. Retention to the study was 73% and adherence to the health coaching program ranged from 66.67-100% with a 40% attrition rate. Inquiry into the acceptability of the intervention offered insight into participants experiences, which was summarized within five themes: (1) the more time the better, (2) the human factor, (3) supporting access, (4) influencing the basic psychological needs, and (5) finding motivation. Collectively, the findings suggest the methods used require minor modifications before being deemed feasible despite the general acceptability of the intervention. Importantly, they highlight the necessity of more expansive recruitment strategies and a need to explore participants’ underlying intentions for participating in behaviour change interventions. Further, recommendations are made based on the findings to improve this style of intervention, including testing stepped down models of support because it may help some YAs maintain behaviour change post-intervention.
Fusion of heterogeneous bands and kernels in hyperspectral image processing
Creators: name: Islam, Muhammad Aminul
name: Anderson, Derek T.
name: Ball, John E.
name: Younan, Nicolas H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hyperspectral imaging is a powerful technology that is plagued by large dimensionality. Herein, we explore a way to combat that hindrance via non-contiguous and contiguous (simpler to realize sensor) band grouping for dimensionality reduction. Our approach is different in the respect that it is flexible and it follows a well-studied process of visual clustering in high-dimensional spaces. Specifically, we extend the improved visual assessment of cluster tendency and clustering in ordered dissimilarity data unsupervised clustering algorithms for supervised hyperspectral learning. In addition, we propose a way to extract diverse features via the use of different proximity metrics (ways to measure the similarity between bands) and kernel functions. The discovered features are fused with $l_{\infty}$-norm multiple kernel learning. Experiments are conducted on two benchmark datasets and our results are compared to related work. These datasets indicate that contiguous or not is application specific, but heterogeneous features and kernels usually lead to performance gain.
Supply response of sugarcane farmers in Thailand
Creators: name: Pinyopusarerk, Maneerat
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1977
Subjects: subject: Sugar growing Thailand

description: Sugar is one of the major exports of Thailand and sugarcane is the most important raw material used in producing sugar. Time series data for 8 years from 1957/68 to 1974/75 were analysed to estimate a supply response function for sugarcane farmers in 4 regions of Thailand, viz. Central, Eastern, Northern and North-eastern regions. A priori, farmers' decisions on the sugarcane planted area were expected to be influenced by relative expected profitability per rai of sugarcane, the level of rainfall at the sowing period, the influence of the Sugarcane Farmers' Association, the activity of quotaman, the cost of inputs, and Government intervention. Relative expected profitability per rai is defined as expected price per tonne of sugarcane times its expected yield per rai (i.e. gross return) divided by the product of expected price per tonne of the competing crop and its expected yield per rai. Expected yield was found by regressing yield over time. Farmers' price expectation formations were specified using the Nerlovian Expectation and the Naive models. Due to unavailability and unreliability of data, many variables were inevitably dropped. The general model was simplified and adjusted. Good fits, therefore, were not obtained. However, it was found from the study that farmers in two regions, viz. Eastern, and North-eastern regions have an inelastic supply response function. It is only farmers in the Northern region which have an elastic supply response function ranging from 2.00 to 5.52 depending on differing expectation models and the use of differing techniques. Policy recommendations, consequently, were not made because of the inadequacy of the results obtained.
Priocera marajoara Opitz 2021, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Priocera
Priocera marajoara

description: Priocera marajoara OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 58, 92, 146)
HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Amazonas, Bates (Brazil) (BMNH).
D i a g n o s i s: Cranium black; prothorax bicolorous, venter castaneous, pronotum mostly black, lower sides and posterior angles castaneous; legs bicolorous, femora mostly testaceous, black along dorsal margin, tibiae black, tarsi testaceous; elytra bicolorous, basal 1/2 mostly black, testaceous line extends backwards from humeral angle, apical 1/2 yellow except with faintly indicated light brown diagonal line before elytral apex, each elytral disc with 2 yellow markings, one oblong at elytral base near mesoscutellum, one triangular positioned in front of middle near epipleural margin.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 2.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 146. Head: Frons narrower than length of antennal pedicel (EW /FW 45/5). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses and small central fissure (PW /PL 70/120); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate, asetiferous punctures that extend a short distance beyond elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded (EL /EW 270/60); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Pygidial distal margin rounded; aedeagus as in Fig. 58.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (Fig. 92): This species is known from Brazil.
 E t y m o l o g y: The trivial name, morajoara, is a patronymic that honors the Amazonian Morajoara pre-Columbian culture, which once flourished on Morajó Island at the mouth of the Amazon River, in Brazil.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the West ern Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on pages 1185-1186, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854
Additional file 2: of Distinct signatures of lung cancer types: aberrant mucin O-glycosylation and compromised immune response
Creators: name: Lucchetta, Marta
name: Piedade, Isabelle
name: Mounir, Mohamed
name: Vabistsevits, Marina
name: Terkelsen, Thilde
name: Papaleo, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Figure S1 Analysis of the 820 up-regulated genes identified only by edgeR-TCGAb. The supplementary figure includes results about the changes in gene expression of the group of up-regulated genes identified only with the old implementation of DEA in TCGAbiolinks. (DOCX 1634 kb)
Priocera lustruata Opitz 2021, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Priocera
Priocera lustruata

description: Priocera lustruata OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 56, 92, 144)
 HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: BOLIVIA, S. Cruz Dept., 4 kl N Bermejo, 11-17 December 2012, Wappes & Skillman (FSCA). PARATYPES: 10 specimens. Bolivia: Departamento de Santa Cruz, 4 km N Bermejo, 11-17-XII-2012, Wappes & Skillman (ACMT, 1); idem, Refugio Los Volcanes, 18°06'S 63°36'W, 4-9-XII-2013, Wappes & Skillman (WOPC, 1); idem, 7-II-2012, J. Wappes & A. Bonaso (ACMT, 1); idem, Refugio Los Volcanes, 18°06'S 63°36'W, 8-XI-2011, 1,350 m, Wappes, Lingafelter & Woodley (ACMT, 1); Florida Province, Vicoquin area above Achira, road to Amboro, 18°07'S 63°47'W, 1,730 m, 22-25-I-2007, J. Prena (ACMT, 1); Achira area, 5-6-II-2013, Wappes & Bonaso (ACMT, 1); 4-5 km S Pampa Grande, Oleoducto Road, 18- 20-X-2003, Morris, Nearns, Wappes (RFMC, 1); N Achira, 17-XI-2003, 5,400 -5,800 feet, Wappes, Morris & Nearns (ACMT, 1); Hotel Fauna & Flora, 12-V-2004, Wappes (WOPC, 1); Departamento de La Paz, Plazuela to Inquisivi,?- XII-1984, collector not noted (JNRC, 1).
D i a g n o s i s: Cranium bicolorous, upper frons testaceous, remainder castaneous; antennae testaceous; prothoracic venter black; pronotum variegated testaceous and black; elytra tricolorous, mostly testaceous with dark brown variegations, each disc with three spots, anterior spot near anterior margin white, posterior 2 spots yellow; legs bicolorous, femora infuscated distally, prothoracic tibiae mostly testaceous, infuscated distally, mesothoracic and metathoracic tibiae mostly dark brown; abdomen light brown.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 7.0 mm; width 1.8 mm. Form: As in Fig. 144. Head: Frons slightly wider than length antennal pedicel, EW/FW 40/12. Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses (PW /PL 80/120); elytral disc slightly depressed at middle, sculptured with striate asetiferous punctures in basal 1/2, elytral apex rounded (EL /EW 300/55); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 56.
V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 6.5-8.0 mm; width 1.5-2.0 mm. The 3 yellow spots on the elytral disc may be white.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during February, October, November, and December, at altitudes that range from 1,350 to 1,768 m.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (Fig. 92): This species is known from Bolivia.
 E t y m o l o g y: Thetrivialname, lustruata, is a Latin name that stems from lustro (= luster). I refer to the sparkle emitted from the yellow spots of the elytral disc.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the West ern Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on pages 1184-1185, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854
Micrurus gallicus Rage & Holman 1984
Creators: name: Ivanov, Martin
name: Böhme, Madelaine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Elapidae
Micrurus
Micrurus gallicus

description: Micrurus cf. gallicus Rage & Holman, 1984
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 1 precaudal vertebra (BSPG 1997 XIII 642).
LOCALITY. — Griesbeckerzell 1a.
DESCRIPTION
 Precaudal vertebra (Fig. 12)
In lateral view, the vertebra is elongated. The neural spine is low; the cranial margin was most probably vertical or inclined caudally.The interzygapophyseal ridges are moderately well developed. The lateral foramina are small and not situated in depressions.The subcentral ridges are blunt but well developed, and extend from the heavily damaged synapophyses to the proximal margin of the condyle; they are slightly bent in dorsal direction.The distal tip of the straight and probably short hypapophysis is broken off.
In dorsal view, the zygosphenal lip shows a wide median and two distinct lateral lobes. The prezygapophyses are broken off. Epizygapophyseal spines are missing.
In ventral view, the hypapophysis extends cranially as far as the smooth cotylar rim. Blunt subcentral ridges are separated from the hypapophysis by wide and shallow subcentral grooves. The subcentral foramina are extremely small and barely visible at the base of the hypapophysis. The postzygapophyseal articular facets are subrectangular.
In cranial view, the neural arch is moderately and regularly vaulted; the neural canal (filled with firm sediment) displays wide lateral sinuses. The zygosphenal lip is almost straight, it is wide in comparison to the rounded cotyle.
In caudal view, the postzygapophyseal articular facets are horizontal and the zygantral area (also filled with firm sediment) is relatively wide. The condyle is rounded.Measurements of the vertebra are as follows: cl = 4.55 mm; naw = 3.02 mm; cl/naw = 1.51.
DISCUSSION
 The vertebra represents an adult individual with a neural canal that is characterized by a large diameter in comparison with the cotyle. Relatively small dimensions of the vertebra, together with an elongated vertebral centrum, short hypapophysis directed more posteriorly than ventrally, low neural (l) ns (d) (v) spine, and small cotyle and condyle are typical for the genus Micrurus. The vertebra does not differ from that of Micrurus gallicus reported originally from the French late Middle Miocene locality La Grive M (Rage & Holman 1984). However, the material does not allow for a safe species identification.
description: Published as part of Ivanov, Martin & Böhme, Madelaine, 2011, Snakes from Griesbeckerzell (Langhian, Early Badenian), North Alpine Foreland Basin (Germany), with comments on the evolution of snake faunas in Central Europe during the Miocene Climatic Optimum, pp. 411-449 in Geodiversitas 33 (3) on pages 433-434, DOI: 10.5252/g2011n3a2, http://zenodo.org/record/5378171
Priocera marginicollis
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Priocera
Priocera marginicollis

description: Priocera marginicollis (CHEVROLAT, 1843) (Figs 59, 92, 147)
 Clerus marginicollis CHEVROLAT, 1843: 31.
LECTOTYPE: Gender not known. Type locality: Brasilia, D. A. Pompon (Brazil). Here designated. (MNHN). CORPORAAL 1950: 100. CHEVROLAT did not select a holotype, therefore, I invoke Recommendation 73F of the ICZN (1999) and designate a lectotype for this nominal species.
 A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d (Fig.92): Inadditiontothelectotype, I examined 10 specimens from: Brazil: Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Parque Nacional Itatáial, 4-IV-1964, 1,200 m, C. E. & E. S. Ross; Nova Friburgo,?-IV-V-1884, P. Germain; Estado do São Paulo, Caraça,?-?-1884, P. Germain; Estado do Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia,?- I-1973, 300- 500 m, Fritz Plaumann; idem,?- II-1974, F. Plumann; Specimens are deposited in: CASC, FMNH, WFBM, and WOPC.
D i a g n o s i s: Forebody black, except pronotal posterior angles and pronotal collar testaceous; antennae, pterothorax, and legs testaceaous; elytral bicolored, basal 1/2 testaceous, testaceous region extends posteriorly along sutural margin to conjoin short oblique, testaceous fascia, apical half mostly black, apical region testaceous; abdomen black.
R e d e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 12.0 mm; width 4.0 mm. Form: As in Fig. 147. Head: Cranium conspicuously wrinkled; frons wider than length of antennal pedicel; EW/FW 50/60. Thorax: Pronotum faintly wrinkled at sides, finely punctate in remainder, disc with 2 tumescenses (PW/PL 150/200); elytral disc sculptured with substriate, asetiferous punctures that extend just behind elytral basal 1/2, elytral apex narrowly rounded (EL/EW 530/100); metathoracic femur gradually increasing in diameter to femoral apex. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 59.
V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 10.0-14.0 mm; width 3.0-4.0 mm. Other than body size, the available specimens are quite homogeneous.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during January, February, April, and May.
N o t e s: The lectotype was examined, but the description is based on a homotype specimen.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the West ern Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on page 1186, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854
Are helmeted cyclists taking more risk at signalized intersections?
Creators: name: Høye, Alena Katharina
name: Jensen, Morten Lind
name: Sørensen, Michael Wøhlk Jaeger
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between bicycle helmet use and safety behavior at signalized intersections. Two hypotheses were investigated: The first states that bicycle helmet use leads to risker behavior because of the increased sense of protection (risk compensation), the other states that helmeted cyclists have a general inclination toward safer behavior (safety package) and that helmet use is one of several behaviors for improving safety. Based on video recordings of 1031 cyclists at 12 signalized intersections in Denmark, two indicators of risky behavior were compared between helmeted and unhelmeted cyclists: Speed and time after the onset of yellow at which the cyclists crossed the stop line. Linear regression models were developed with gender, type of bicycle, and intersection characteristics as predictor variables, in addition to helmet use. Helmeted and unhelmeted cyclists do not differ in how many seconds after the onset of yellow they cross the stopping line. This is consistent with the absence of both risk compensation and safety package, alternatively with a general inclination of helmeted cyclists toward safer behavior which is about offset by risk compensation. Helmeted cyclists had higher speed on average, which indicates that risk compensation may occur. However, the higher speed may also be due to the generally better fitness of helmeted cyclists which is likely to result from larger cycling volumes. Moreover, the effect of helmet use on speed may be overestimated because of a lack of control for potential confounding variables. The results show further that, regardless of helmet use, before-red (lights on a separate bicycle signal shift to red before the main signal) is related to later crossings of the stop lane after the onset of yellow and that cyclists stop earlier on average at intersections with right-turn signals. The results do not provide support for the position that promoting or mandating bicycle helmet use will have adverse safety effects because of more risky behavior among helmeted cyclists.
The economic impact of new technologies on small rice farms in Iloilo, Philippines : a case study of two farmers at Cordova Norte
Creators: name: Delfin, Dulce Reyes
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 1979
Subjects: subject: Rice Case studiesPhilippines
subject: Agriculture Economic aspects Case studiesPhilippines

description: Because Philippine agriculture has been characterised by the dominance of small farms mostly less than four hectares in size, it was felt that new technology is a useful approach to improve the productive capacity of such farms. Thereby, this study aims to measure the economic benefits of new technologies developed for rice farmers in a range of practical situations. A case study approach was used .in exploring the situation of two sample farmers from the village of Cordova Norte in the province of Iloilo. Whole farm analysis was employed so that the farm is looked at as a whole entity with a set of resource supplies interrelated with the various activities of the farmer. This was demonstrated by using a linear programming (LP) technique which specified the combination of alternatives that will generate the optimal plan subject to specified resource situations. The impact of the introduction of new technologies (NTs) was assessed by comparing the "historical" situation which employs only historical technologies and the "new" situation where appropriate new technologies, available in the area were included in the farmers' options. These NTs include methods of rice crop establishment such as transplanting (TPR) , wet-seeding (WSR) , and dry-seeding (DSR) ; as well as new rice varieties such as IR36 and improved upland varieties such as corn DMR2. The results suggest that complementarities exist between different technologies. NTs generate a higher surplus to the farmer although the improvement differs in the different types of farms. As the marginal value product (MVP) indicates the scarcity of resources, the introduction of NTs program in the agricultural sector must start with the individual farm as the basic planning unit.
Potential injuries and costs averted by increased use of evidence-based behavioral road safety policies in North Carolina
Creators: name: Singichetti, Bhavna
name: Naumann, Rebecca B.
name: Sauber-Schatz, Erin
name: Proescholdbell, Scott
name: Marshall, Stephen W.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: The purpose of this study was to estimate the potential injuries and costs that could be averted by implementing evidence-based road safety policies and interventions not currently utilized in one U.S. state, North Carolina (NC). NC consistently has annual motor vehicle-related death rates above the national average. We used the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Motor Vehicle Prioritizing Interventions and Cost Calculator for States (MV PICCS) tool as a foundation for examining the potential injuries and costs that could be averted from underutilized evidence-based policies, assuming a $1.5 million implementation budget and that income generated from policy-related fines and fees would help offset costs. We further examined costs by payer source. Model results indicated that seven interventions should be prioritized for implementation in NC: increased alcohol ignition interlock use, increased seat belt fines, in-person license renewal for ages 70 and older, license plate impoundment, seat belt enforcement campaigns, saturation patrols, and speed cameras. Increasing the seat belt fine had the potential to avert the greatest number of fatal (n = 70) and non-fatal (n = 6,597) injuries annually, along with being the most cost-effective of the recommended interventions. Collectively, the seven recommended evidence-based policies/interventions have the potential to avert 302 fatal injuries, 16,607 non-fatal injuries, and $839 million annually in NC with the greatest costs averted for insurers. This study demonstrates the utility of the MV PICCS tool as a foundation for exploring state-specific impacts that could be realized through increased evidence-based road safety policy and intervention implementation. For NC, we found that increasing the seat belt fine would avert the most injuries, and had the greatest financial benefits for the state, and the lowest implementation costs. Incorporating fines and fees into policy implementation can create important financial feedbacks that allow for implementation of additional evidence-based and cost-effective policies/interventions. Given the recent uptick in U.S. motor vehicle-related deaths, analyses informed by the MV PICCS tool can help researchers and policy makers initiate discussions about successful state-specific strategies for reducing the burden of crashes.
Neonatrix Holman 1973
Creators: name: Rage, Jean-Claude
name: Bailon, Salvador
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Neonatrix

description: Genus Neonatrix Holman, 1973
 Neonatrix is an extinct genus from the Miocene of North America and Europe; it perhaps extends up to the early Pliocene in Europe (Venczel 2001). Species assigned to Neonatrix are characterized by their small size and short hypapophyses that do not project posteriorly behind the limit of the condyle. Szyndlar & Schleich (1993) and Szyndlar & Böhme (1993) rightly questioned the validity of this genus. It might be only an artificial, polyphyletic taxon based on homoplastic features, that should be split into two or more genera. However, we retain it pending further studies.
description: Published as part of Rage, Jean-Claude & Bailon, Salvador, 2005, Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the late early Miocene (MN 4) of Béon 1 (Montréal-du-Gers, southwestern France), pp. 413-441 in Geodiversitas 27 (3) on page 432, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5378363
Reconfigurable radiofrequency electronic functions designed with 3D Smith Charts in Metal-Insulator-Transition Materials
Creators: name: Muller, Andrei
name: Moldoveanu, Alin
name: Asavei, Victor
name: Khadar, Riyaz
name: Codesal, Esther Sanabria
name: Krammer, Anna
name: Fernandez-Bolaños, Montserrat
name: Cavalleri, Matteo
name: Zhang, Junrui
name: Casu, Emanuele
name: Schuler, Andreas
name: Ionescu, Adrian Mihai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, the field of Metal-Insulator-Transition (MIT) materials has emerged as an unconventional solution for novel energy efficient electronic functions, such as steep slope subthermionic switches, neuromorphic hardware, reconfigurable radiofrequency functions, new types of sensors, teraherz and optoelectronic devices. Designing radiofrequency (RF) electronic circuits with a MIT material like vanadium dioxide, VO2, requires the understanding of its physics and appropriate models and tools, with predictive capability over large range of frequency (1-100GHz). Here, we develop 3D Smith charts for devices and circuits having complex frequency dependences, like the ones resulting by the use of MIT materials. The novel foundation of a 3D Smith chart involves here the geometrical fundamental notions of oriented curvature and variable homothety in order to clarify first theoretical inconsistencies in Foster and Non Foster circuits, where the driving point impedances exhibit mixed clockwise and counter-clockwise frequency dependent paths on the Smith chart as frequency increases. We show here the unique visualization capability of a 3D Smith chart, which allows to quantify orientation over variable frequency. The new 3D Smith chart is applied as a 3D multi-parameter modelling and design environment for the complex case of Metal-Insulator-Transition (MIT) materials where their permittivity is dependent on the frequency. In this work, we apply 3D Smith charts to on Vanadium Dioxide (VO2) reconfigurable Peano inductors. We report fabricated inductors with record quality factors using VO2 phase transition to program multiple tuning states, operating in the range 4 GHz to 10 GHz. Finally, we fabricate new Peano curves filters used to extract the frequency-dependent dielectric constant of VO2 within 1 GHz-50 GHz for the accurate design of RF electronic applications with phase change materials
description: 36 pages, 13 article pages, 23 supplementary pages, 5 main article figures, 32 additional figures
Neonatrix natricoides Auge & Rage 2000
Creators: name: Rage, Jean-Claude
name: Bailon, Salvador
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Colubridae
Neonatrix
Neonatrix natricoides

description: Neonatrix natricoides Augé & Rage, 2000
 Neonatrix natricoides Augé & Rage, 2000: 293, 294, figs 24, 25.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 6 trunk vertebrae (Béon 2004 LT 75).
COMMENTS
This species is clearly characterized by the marked anteroposterior extension of the hypapophysis and by the overhanging anterior and posterior edges of the neural spine. The species was previously reported only from the middle Miocene (MN 6) of Sansan (France).
description: Published as part of Rage, Jean-Claude & Bailon, Salvador, 2005, Amphibians and squamate reptiles from the late early Miocene (MN 4) of Béon 1 (Montréal-du-Gers, southwestern France), pp. 413-441 in Geodiversitas 27 (3) on page 432, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5378363
Additional file 2 of Correction to: LINC00673 is activated by YY1 and promotes the proliferation of breast cancer cells via the miR-515-5p/MARK4/Hippo signaling pathway
Creators: name: Qiao, Kun
name: Ning, Shipeng
name: Wan, Lin
name: Wu, Hao
name: Wang, Qin
name: Zhang, Xingda
name: Xu, Shouping
name: Pang, Da
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2 : Figure S2. Potential therapeutic role of LINC00673 in breast cancer progression. (a) Effect of ASO on apoptosis in mouse organs. (b) H&E staining and sections were observed under an Olympus microscope. (c) Serum chemistry markers of liver and renal function in the 0.9% normal saline and ASO treatment groups. GPT: glutamic pyruvic transaminase; ALP: alkaline phosphatase; GGT: gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase; BUN: blood urea nitrogen; CRE: serum creatinine; and TBIL: total bilirubin.*P < 0.05, scale bar: 50 μm.
Constraints on a Putative Planet Sculpting the V4046 Sagittarii Circumbinary Disk
Creators: name: Ruiz-Rodriguez, Dary
name: Kastner, Joel H.
name: Dong, Ruobing
name: Principe, David A.
name: Andrews, Sean M.
name: Wilner, David J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the highest-resolution millimeter continuum and near-infrared (NIR) scattered-light images presented to date of the circumbinary disk orbiting V4046 Sgr, a ~20 Myr old actively accreting, close binary T Tauri star system located a mere 72.4 pc from Earth. We observed the disk with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at 870-micron during Cycle 4, and we analyze these data in conjunction with archival NIR (H band) polarimetric images obtained with SPHERE/IRDIS on the ESO Very Large Telescope. At 0.3'' (20 au) resolution, the 870-micron image reveals a marginally resolved ring that peaks at ~32 au and has an extension of ~ 90 au. We infer a lower limit on dust mass of ~ 60.0 M_earth within the 870-micron ring, and confirm that the ring is well aligned with the larger-scale gaseous disk. A second, inner dust ring is also tentatively detected in the ALMA observations; its position appears coincident with the inner (~14 au radius) ring detected in scattered light. Using synthetic 870 micron and H-band images obtained from disk-planet interaction simulations, we attempt to constrain the mass of the putative planet orbiting at 20 au. Our trials suggest that a circumbinary Jovian-mass planet may be responsible for generating the dust ring and gap structures detected within the disk. We discuss the longevity of the gas-rich disk orbiting V4046 Sgr in the context of the binary nature of the system.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, Accepted
Additional file 1: of Distinct signatures of lung cancer types: aberrant mucin O-glycosylation and compromised immune response
Creators: name: Lucchetta, Marta
name: Piedade, Isabelle
name: Mounir, Mohamed
name: Vabistsevits, Marina
name: Terkelsen, Thilde
name: Papaleo, Elena
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Text S1 Comparison of different curations of the datasets. The supplementary file includes a detailed comparison of the results achieved using different curations of the TCGA LUAD and LUSC datasets. (DOCX 17 kb)
Priocera migma Opitz 2021, nov.sp.
Creators: name: Opitz, Weston
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Priocera
Priocera migma

description: Priocera migma OPITZ nov.sp. (Figs 61, 98, 149)
 HOLOTYPE: ♂. Type locality: Venezuela: Aragua, Rancho Grande, 9-VII-1973, 1100 m, J. Saledo, J. Charigo (FSCA). PARATYPES: 2 specimens. Venezuela: Estado de Aragua, Rancho Grande, 9- VII-1973, 1,100 m, J. Saledo, J. Charigo (WOPC).
 D i a g n o s i s: Cranium bicolored, mostly castaneous, frons and epicranium partially yellow; antennae testaceous, prothorax mostly dark castaneous, pronotal arch yellow, pronotum proper and pronotal collar partially yellow; pterothorax dark castaneous; elytra bicolorous, admixture of brown and yellow, asetiferous punctures brown, concentration of brown coloration in middle 1.3 rd of disc proximal to sutural margin, narrow brown transverse band near apex; legs bicolorous, mostly yellow, femora with brown ring, tibiae mostly yellow, prothoracic and metathoracic tibiae infuscate at base, metathoracic tibia brown, tarsi yellow; abdomen brown.
D e s c r i p t i o n: Size: Length 6.0 mm; width 1.4 mm. Form: As in Fig. 149. Head: Frons broad, wider than length of antennal pedicel (EW /FW 33/30). Thorax: Pronotum finely punctate, with 2 tumescenses (PW /PL 95/115); elytral disc with basal tumescenses, middle of disc depressed, disc sculptured with striate asetiferous punctures that extend beyond basal 1/2, but do not reach elytral apex, latter narrowly rounded (EL /EW 320/70); metathoracic femur capitate. Abdomen: Aedeagus as in Fig. 61.
V a r i a t i o n: Size: Length 5.5-7.0 mm; width 1.2-2.0 mm. The dark brown markings on the elytral disc vary in size.
N a t u r a l h i s t o r y: Specimens were collected during January, May, and July, from 31 to 1,300 m.
D i s t r i b u t i o n (Fig. 89): The species is known from Venezuela.
 E t y m o l o g y: The specific epithet, migma, is a Greek term that translates as "mixture". I refer to the mixture of brown and yellow coloration on the elytral disc.
description: Published as part of Opitz, Weston, 2021, Taxonomic revision of the West ern Hemisphere checkered beetle genus Priocera KIRBY (Coleoptera, Cleridae, Clerinae), pp. 1145-1255 in Linzer biologische Beiträge 52 (2) on pages 1187-1188, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5038854
An examination of relationships between cannabis legalization and fatal motor vehicle and pedestrian-involved crashes
Creators: name: Calvert, Collin
name: Erickson, Darin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: While attention has been given to how legalization of recreational cannabis affects traffic crash rates, there was been limited research on how cannabis affects pedestrians involved in traffic crashes. This study examined the association between cannabis legalization (medical, recreational use, and recreational sales) and fatal motor vehicle crash rates (both pedestrian-involved and total fatal crashes). We used crash data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) to calculate monthly rates of fatal motor vehicle crashes and fatal pedestrian-involved crashes per 100,000 people from 1991 to 2018. Changes in monthly crash rates in three states that had legalized cannabis (Colorado, Washington, and Oregon) were compared to matched control states using segmented regression with autoregressive terms. We found no significant differences in pedestrian-involved fatal motor vehicle crashes between legalized cannabis states and control states following medical or recreational cannabis legalization. Washington and Oregon saw immediate decreases in all fatal crashes (-4.15 and −6.60) following medical cannabis legalization. Colorado showed an increase in trend for all fatal crashes after recreational cannabis legalization and the beginning of sales (0.15 and 0.18 monthly fatal crashes per 100,000 people). Overall findings do not suggest an elevated risk of total or pedestrian-involved fatal motor vehicle crashes associated with cannabis legalization.
A Supernova Remnant Collision with a Stellar Wind
Creators: name: Velazquez, Pablo F.
name: Koenigsberger, Gloria
name: Raga, Alejandro C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Numerical simulations of the interaction between supernova ejecta and a stellar wind are presented. We follow the temporal evolution of the shock fronts that are formed through such an interaction and determine the velocities, temperatures and densities. We model the X-ray emission from the SNR-stellar wind collision region and we compare it with recent results from X-ray observations carried out with the Chandra satellite of the SMC supernova remnant SNR 0057-7226 which could be interacting with the wind of the Wolf-Rayet system HD 5980. The simulations predict the presence of shell-like regions of enhanced X-ray emission which are consistent with the presence of X-ray emitting arcs in the Chandra image. Also the observed X-ray luminosity is comparable to the X-ray luminosities we obtain from the simulations for a supernova with an initial energy in the (1-5)E50 erg range.
description: 9 files into a tar.gz file (the Latex file of manuscript, 7 jpg figures, 1 style file: aastex.cls). Accepted by ApJ, Vol. 584, 2003 February 10
Additional file 1 of Predicting distribution of Zanthoxylum bungeanum Maxim. in China
Creators: name: Zhuo, Zhihang
name: Xu, Danping
name: Pu, Biao
name: Wang, Rulin
name: Ye, Meng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. List of environmental variables used in model development.