cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Inflationary cosmology in modified gravity theories
Creators: name: Bamba, Kazuharu
name: Odintsov, Sergei D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review inflationary cosmology in modified gravity such as $R^2$ gravity with its extensions in order to generalize the Starobinsky inflation model. In particular, we explore inflation realized by three kinds of effects: modification of gravity, the quantum anomaly, and the $R^2$ term in loop quantum cosmology. It is explicitly demonstrated that in these inflationary models, the spectral index of scalar modes of the density perturbations and the tensor-to-scalar ratio can be consistent with the Planck results. Bounce cosmology in $F(R)$ gravity is also explained.
description: 24 pages, no figure, invited review to appear in Symmetry
Supplementary Methods and Results from Habituation underpins preference for mates with novel phenotypes in the guppy.
Creators: name: M. J. Daniel
name: L. Koffinas
name: K. A. Hughes
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Contains additional information on husbandry, behavioural protocols, statistical outputs, supplementary analyses, and a figure summarizing the predictions
Effects of total and regional fat loss on plasma CRP and IL-6 in overweight and obese, older adults with knee osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Beavers, K. M.
name: Beavers, D. P.
name: Miller, G. D.
name: Newman, J. J.
name: Messier, S. P.
name: Lyles, M. F.
name: Mihalko, S. L.
name: Anderson, A. M.
name: Nicklas, B. J.
name: Loeser, R. F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: To describe associations between total and regional body fat mass loss and reduction of systemic levels of inflammation (C-reactive protein (CRP) and interleukin-6 (IL-6)) in obese, older adults with osteoarthritis, undergoing intentional weight loss.
Superradiance in stars
Creators: name: Cardoso, Vitor
name: Brito, Richard
name: Rosa, Joao L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has long been known that dissipation is a crucial ingredient in the superradiant amplification of wavepackets off rotating objects. We show that, once appropriate dissipation mechanisms are included, stars are also prone to superradiance and superradiant instabilities. In particular, ultra-light dark matter with small interaction cross section with the star material or self-annihilation can trigger a superradiant instability. On long timescales, the instability strips the star of most of its angular momentum. Whether or not new stationary configurations surrounded by scalar condensates exist, remains to be seen.
description: 5 pages, RevTex 4. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
NEW SPECIES FOR THE INVENTORY OF MARINE FAUNA FROM ROSCOFF - AMPHIPODA AND CUMACEA (CRUSTACEA)
Creators: name: Dauvin, J. C.
name: Zouhiri, S.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1994

description: Three species of invertebrates are added to the list of marine fauna from Roscoff: crustacea amphipoda, Lysianassa sp, and Austrosyrrhoe fimbriatus, and crustacea cumacea : Nannastacus brevicaudatus.
(400186) James Wighton Booth
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
TOVAR MODDIY ZAXIRALAR HISOBI VA AUDITINI TAKOMILLASHTIRISH MASALALARI
Creators: name: Ibodullayeva, Sayyora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Bu maqolada tovar moddiy zahiralari hisobini yuritish,  inventarizatsiyani baholash, nazorat qilish va auditini takomillashtirish  masalalari yoritilgan.
Toric data and Killing forms on homogeneous Sasaki-Einstein manifold $T^{1,1}$
Creators: name: Slesar, Vladimir
name: Visinescu, Mihai
name: Vilcu, Gabriel Eduard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Throughout this paper we investigate the complex structure of the conifold $C(T^{1,1})$ basically making use of the interplay between symplectic and complex approaches of the Kähler toric manifolds. The description of the Calabi-Yau manifold $C(T^{1,1})$ using toric data allows us to write explicitly the complex coordinates and apply standard methods for extracting special Killing forms on the base manifold. As an outcome, we obtain the complete set of special Killing forms on the five-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein space $T^{1,1}$.
description: 17 pages
Function of the chondrocyte PI-3 kinase-Akt signaling pathway is stimulus dependent
Creators: name: Loeser, R. F.
name: Greene, M. A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The PI-3 kinase-Akt pathway plays a role in cartilage anabolic as well as catabolic processes in response to activation by insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and the pro-inflammatory cytokines interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and oncostatin M (OSM). The goal of this study was to determine how PI-3 kinase-Akt signaling regulates these seemingly opposing functions.
A Class of Exponential Integrators Based on Spectral Deferred Correction
Creators: name: Buvoli, Tommaso
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We introduce a new class of arbitrary-order exponential time differencing methods based on spectral deferred correction (ETDSDC) and describe a simple procedure for initializing the requisite matrix functions. We compare the stability and accuracy properties of our ETDSDC meth- ods to those of an existing implicit-explicit spectral deferred correction scheme (IMEXSDC). We find that ETDSDC methods have larger accuracy regions and comparable stability regions. We conduct numerical experiments to compare ETD and IMEX spectral deferred correction schemes against a competing fourth-order ETD Runge-Kutta scheme. We find that high-order ETDSDC schemes are the most efficient in terms of function evaluations and overall speed when solving partial differential equations to high accuracy. Our results suggest that high-order ETDSDC schemes are well-suited to work in conjunction with spectral spatial methods or other high-order spatial discritizations. Addi- tionally, ETDSDC schemes appear to be immune to severe order reduction, a problem which affects other ETD and IMEX schemes, including IMEXSDC.
description: 23 pages, 4 figures
Supplementary Methods and Results from Habituation underpins preference for mates with novel phenotypes in the guppy
Creators: name: M. J. Daniel
name: L. Koffinas
name: K. A. Hughes
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Contains additional information on husbandry, behavioural protocols, statistical outputs, supplementary analyses, and a figure summarizing the predictions
Heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor (HB-EGF) is increased in osteoarthritis and regulates chondrocyte catabolic and anabolic activities
Creators: name: Loeser, R. F.
name: Ulici, V.
name: Chubinskaya, S.
name: Long, D. L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: We determined if the epidermal growth factor receptor ligand HB-EGF is produced in cartilage and if it regulates chondrocyte anabolic or catabolic activity.
Three symmetry breakings in strong and radiative decays of strange heavy mesons
Creators: name: Cheung, Chi-Yee
name: Hwang, Chien-Wen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we investigate three symmetry breaking effects in strong and radiative decays of strange heavy mesons. We study 1/m_Q corrections within the heavy quark effect theory, as well as SU(3) and SU(2) symmetry breakings induced by light quark mass differences and the η-πmixing vertex. These effects are studied in a covariant model. The numerical results show that the 1/m_Q corrections of the coupling constants are consistent with α_s Λ_{QCD}/m_Q. The SU(3) symmetry violating effect of the strong coupling constant is obviously larger than that of the magnetic coupling constant. The value of the η-πmixing vertex has some changes because of the renewed data. As compared with the other theoretical calculations and the experimental data, our radiative decay rates are much larger than those of the other theoretical methods, except for \chiPT; however, our branching ratios are close to the experimental data.
description: 26 pages, 9 figures; several changes made for further clarity; one figure and some references added; results and conclusions unchanged, version to appear in Eur. Phys. J. C. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1401.3917
(400185) Christina Booth
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
L'ISTRUTTORIA NELL'ARBITRATO RITUALE
Creators: name: DI GIROLAMO, ALESSIO FILIPPO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2017

description: Il presente elaborato si propone di affrontare il tema relativo alla individuazione delle norme che disciplinano lo svolgimento dell?istruttoria nell?arbitrato rituale. In particolare, una volta chiarita la questione, avente carattere preliminare, della natura del procedimento arbitrale, l?indagine si concentra, dapprima, sul potere delle parti e, successivamente, sul potere degli arbitri di dettare le regole del procedimento arbitrale nonch� sui limiti cui tali poteri vanno incontro. Nella prassi, tuttavia, l?esercizio del potere regolamentare risulta estremamente limitato: pertanto l?elaborato si intrattiene, anche e soprattutto, sull?ipotesi che pi� di frequente si verifica, giungendo ad affermare che ? in assenza di diverse disposizioni delle parti (e degli arbitri) ? non possono che trovare applicazione, in quanto compatibili, le norme del codice di rito che disciplinano lo svolgimento dell?istruttoria nel giudizio ordinario di cognizione. Alla luce di tale conclusione, la trattazione si occupa di illustrare come, e con quali limiti, i mezzi di prova previsti dal libro II del codice di rito possano trovare applicazione anche nell?ambito del giudizio arbitrale. Infine, talune notazioni conclusive sono riservate all?arbitrato di equit�, al fine di dimostrare come, sotto il profilo della disciplina della fase istruttoria, esso non si discosti dall?arbitrato di diritto.
MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBIOTA INTERACTION FOR BIOCONTROL OF PLANT PATHOGENS
Creators: name: PASSERA, ALESSANDRO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: Il controllo delle fitopatie � un tema molto importante nell?agricoltura moderna: da un lato si vede il bisogno di mantenere alto, ed anzi incrementare, il livello produttivo delle colture; dall?altro vi � una forte spinta verso la riduzione di input in agricoltura per ottenere una maggiore sostenibilit� dei processi produttivi. In questo scenario, il controllo biologico, o biocontrollo, dei patogeni pu� essere un valido strumento per raggiungere entrambi gli obbiettivi. Nel presente lavoro di tesi � stata valutata la capacit� di 7 diversi ceppi batterici, precedentemente isolati da piante di melo e vite, di essere agenti di biocontrollo e di promozione della crescita. I diversi saggi condotti nell?ambito di questo studio hanno incluso prove in vitro, in vivo, in planta, ed in silico per caratterizzare le potenzialit� di questi ceppi, ottenendo i risultati di seguito riassunti: capacit� di inibire la crescita miceliare di ascomycota e basidiomycota in vitro; capacit� di ridurre la colonizzazione da parte di Botrytis cinerea in vivo su bacche di pomodoro; capacit� di promuovere la crescita e di ridurre l?incidenza di Pseudomonas syringae e Cymbidium Ringspot Virus su piante di peperone in planta; identificazione di tratti genetici noti e di possibile nuovo interesse per il biocontrollo dall?analisi in silico dei genomi dei ceppi. In conclusione, questo studio non ha solo caratterizzato l?effetto di 7 ceppi candidati agenti di biocontrollo, ma ha indagato sui loro meccanismi d?azione, ponendo le basi per ulteriori studi atti a definire con maggior precisione i meccanismi molecolari alla base del biocontrollo al fine di identificare nuovi strumenti per un?agricoltura moderna e sostenibile.
Focus on Micromonas pusilla Butcher (Manton & Parke) a ubiquitous minute (1-2 μm) green alga classified within the Mamiellales (Prasinophyceae).
Creators: name: SIMON, Nathalie
name: FOULON, Elodie
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2009

Abstract
Translocation frequency of double-stranded DNA through a solid-state nanopore
Creators: name: Bell, Nicholas A. W.
name: Muthukumar, Murugappan
name: Keyser, Ulrich F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Solid-state nanopores are single molecule sensors that measure changes in ionic current as charged polymers such as DNA pass through. Here, we present comprehensive experiments on the length, voltage and salt dependence of the frequency of double-stranded DNA translocations through conical quartz nanopores with mean opening diameter 15 nm. We observe an entropic barrier limited, length dependent translocation frequency at 4M LiCl salt concentration and a drift-dominated, length independent translocation frequency at 1M KCl salt concentration. These observations are described by a unifying convection-diffusion equation which includes the contribution of an entropic barrier for polymer entry.
description: 12 pages, 15 figures
Osteoarthritic changes in vervet monkey knees correlate with meniscus degradation and increased matrix metalloproteinase and cytokine secretion
Creators: name: Loeser, R. F.
name: Vanderman, K. S.
name: Register, T. C.
name: Shively, C. A.
name: Willey, J. S.
name: Stehle, J. R.
name: Stone, A. V.
name: Ferguson, C. M.
name: Long, D. L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Meniscus injury increases osteoarthritis risk but its pathobiology in osteoarthritis is unclear. We hypothesized that older adult vervet monkeys would exhibit knee osteoarthritic changes and the degenerative menisci from these animals would secrete matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and pro-inflammatory cytokines that contribute to the development of osteoarthritis.
(400184) Margaret Booth
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Supplemental tables and figures for "The cost of chemical defence: the impact of toxin depletion on fitness-relevant traits of cane toads (Rhinella marina)." from The cost of chemical defence: the impact of toxin depletion on growth and behaviour of cane toads (Rhinella marina).
Creators: name: Blennerhassett, Ryann A.
name: Bell-Anderson, Kim
name: Shine, Richard
name: Brown, Gregory P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Many animals capable of deploying chemical defences are reluctant to use them, suggesting that synthesis of toxins imposes a substantial cost. Typically, such costs have been quantified by measuring the elevation in metabolic rate induced by toxin depletion (i.e. during replenishment of toxin stores). More generally, we might expect that toxin depletion will induce shifts in a broad suite of fitness-relevant traits. In cane toads (Rhinella marina), toxic compounds that protect against predators and pathogens are stored in large parotoid (shoulder) glands. We used correlational and experimental approaches in field and laboratory settings to investigate impacts of toxin depletion on growth rate and behaviour in cane toads. In free-ranging toads, larger toxin stores were associated with smaller gonads and livers, suggesting energetic trade-offs between toxin production and both reproduction and energy metabolism. Experimental removal of toxin (by manually squeezing parotoid glands) reduced rates of growth in body mass in both captive and free-ranging toads. Radio tracking demonstrated that de-toxined toads dispersed more slowly than did control toads. Given that toxin stores in cane toads take several months to fully replenish, deploying toxin to repel a predator may impose a substantial cost, explaining why toads use toxin only as a final line of defence.
Holographic CFTs on maximally symmetric spaces: correlators, integral transforms and applications
Creators: name: Hinterbichler, Kurt
name: Stokes, James
name: Trodden, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study one and two point functions of conformal field theories on spaces of maximal symmetry with and without boundaries and investigate their spectral representations. Integral transforms are found, relating the spectral decomposition to renormalized position space correlators. Several applications are presented, including the holographic boundary CFTs as well as spacelike boundary CFTs, which provide realizations of the pseudo-conformal universe.
Inclusion and hearing impairment: A case study
Creators: name: Deane, Julie
Publisher: name: CQUniversity
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130399 Specialist Studies in Education not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Educational sciences

description: This study investigated the effect of inclusive practice for a student with hearing - impairment. The findings of the case study provide a valuable resource for classroom teachers, to assist them and guide them in teaching a student who is hard of hearing or deaf. During the 1970's and 1980's, Australian and New Zealand special education theory and practice, and education of the hearing -impaired (no less than other specialisation) were strongly influenced by the ideas of normalisation and mainstreaming. These ideas were gaining popularity from Scandinavian developments, the influence of PL94-142 (The Education of All Handicapped Children Act) in the United States and the Report of the Warnock Committee of Enquiry into special education in Great Britain. Segregation has been most widely used as a method of dealing with disabled people. Students with disabilities (intellectual, physical and sensory) are a group of students who have traditionally been segregated educationally and a separate educational structure has been developed around them. As the last decade of the twentieth century passes away, educators are coming to terms with change, which is seen to come out of a concept known as social justice. Inclusion is a complex topic. It ensures educational outcomes for all students and acknowledges that all students are learners.
A re-description of Typton spongicola Costa, 1844, the type species of the genus Typton Costa, 1844 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pontoniinae)
Creators: name: BRUCE, Alexander J.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2009

description: The type material of Typton spongicola Costa, 1844, the type species of the genus Typton Costa, 1844, appears
 to be no longer extant. The available descriptions are brief and incompletely illustrated. A more complete and fully
 illustrated re-description is now provided.
On Separate Universes
Creators: name: Dai, Liang
name: Pajer, Enrico
name: Schmidt, Fabian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (abridged version) The separate universe conjecture states that in General Relativity a density perturbation behaves locally (i.e. on scales much smaller than the wavelength of the mode) as a separate universe with different background density and curvature. We prove this conjecture for a spherical compensated tophat density perturbation of arbitrary amplitude and radius in $Λ$CDM. We then use Conformal Fermi Coordinates to generalize this result to scalar perturbations of arbitrary configuration and scale. In this case, the separate universe conjecture holds for the isotropic part of the perturbations. The anisotropic part on the other hand is exactly captured by a tidal field in the Newtonian form. We show that the separate universe picture is restricted to scales larger than the sound horizons of all fluid components. We then derive an expression for the locally measured matter bispectrum induced by a long-wavelength mode of arbitrary wavelength. We show that nonlinear gravitational dynamics does not generate observable contributions that scale like local-type non-Gaussianity $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc}$, and hence does not contribute to a scale-dependent galaxy bias $Δb \propto k^{-2}$ on large scales; rather, the locally measurable long-short mode coupling assumes a form essentially identical to subhorizon perturbation theory results, once the long-mode density perturbation is replaced by the synchronous-comoving gauge density perturbation. Apparent $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc}$-type contributions arise through projection effects on photon propagation, which depend on the specific large-scale structure tracer and observable considered, and are in principle distinguishable from the local mode coupling induced by gravity. We conclude that any observation of $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc}$ beyond these projection effects signals a departure from standard single-clock inflation.
description: 36 pages and 1 figure. To be submitted to JCAP. Comments are welcome. Version 2: Abstract improved. Added Section 5.2 to clarity the initial condition in CFC for single-clock inflation
(400183) Alexander Paton Booth
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(400182) Isabella Paton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Plasma levels of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL1Ra) predict radiographic progression of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Aliferis, C. F.
name: Jordan, J. M.
name: Alekseyenko, A. V.
name: Rybak, L.
name: Li, Z.
name: Samuels, J.
name: Abramson, S. B.
name: Kraus, V. B.
name: Attur, M.
name: Greenberg, J. D.
name: Statnikov, A.
name: Zhou, H.
name: Lu, Q. A.
name: Todd, J.
name: Krasnokutsky, S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators, such as IL-1β and IL1Ra, are produced by joint tissues in osteoarthritis (OA), where they may contribute to pathogenesis. We examined whether inflammatory events occurring within joints are reflected in plasma of patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (SKOA).
CHEMICAL PARADIGMS SEEN THROUGH CHARGE DENSITY DESCRIPTOR LENSES
Creators: name: SALEH, GABRELE
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2014

description: The main focus of this thesis is the exploration of new applications of electron-density-based descriptors for the investigation of several chemical paradigms. The property of electron density of being a measurable quantity will be fully exploited by comparing experimentally and theoretically derived results throughout the thesis. In addition, a chapter is devoted to the application of electron-density-based descriptors to the study of chemical bonding in coordination polymers, therefore demonstrating the impact that this kind of research may have on ?real-life? chemistry.
(400181) Catherine Louisa Inch
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
A REDESCRIPTION OF THE ASCIDICOLID COPEPOD HAPLOSTOMA-CANUI
Creators: name: Ooishi, S.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1994

description: The female of Haplostoma canui, a copepod associate of the compound ascidian Polyclinum aurantium, is redescribed on the basis of specimens collected at Roscoff. Some morphological features of these are at variance with those reported in the original description. The differences are summarized in a table, and the specializations of H. canui are also discussed.
Radiographic features of hand osteoarthritis in adult Kashin-Beck Disease (KBD): the Yongshou KBD study
Creators: name: Kraus, V. B.
name: Caterson, B.
name: Cao, J.
name: Fu, Q.
name: Jordan, J. M.
name: Renner, J. B.
name: Luo, M.
name: Duance, V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Kashin-Beck disease (KBD) is a rare and severe osteoarthropathy endemic to China. We evaluated the frequency and patterns of hand radiographic osteoarthritis (rOA) in adults with and without KBD.
(400180) David Inglis Rea
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Supplemental tables and figures for "The cost of chemical defence: the impact of toxin depletion on fitness-relevant traits of cane toads (Rhinella marina)." from The cost of chemical defence: the impact of toxin depletion on growth and behaviour of cane toads (Rhinella marina)
Creators: name: Blennerhassett, Ryann A.
name: Bell-Anderson, Kim
name: Shine, Richard
name: Brown, Gregory P.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 60801 Animal Behaviour

description: Many animals capable of deploying chemical defences are reluctant to use them, suggesting that synthesis of toxins imposes a substantial cost. Typically, such costs have been quantified by measuring the elevation in metabolic rate induced by toxin depletion (i.e. during replenishment of toxin stores). More generally, we might expect that toxin depletion will induce shifts in a broad suite of fitness-relevant traits. In cane toads (Rhinella marina), toxic compounds that protect against predators and pathogens are stored in large parotoid (shoulder) glands. We used correlational and experimental approaches in field and laboratory settings to investigate impacts of toxin depletion on growth rate and behaviour in cane toads. In free-ranging toads, larger toxin stores were associated with smaller gonads and livers, suggesting energetic trade-offs between toxin production and both reproduction and energy metabolism. Experimental removal of toxin (by manually squeezing parotoid glands) reduced rates of growth in body mass in both captive and free-ranging toads. Radio-tracking demonstrated that de-toxined toads dispersed more slowly than did control toads. Given that toxin stores in cane toads take several months to fully replenish, deploying toxin to repel a predator may impose a substantial cost, explaining why toads use toxin only as a final line of defence.
DESCRIPTION OF 2 NEW SPECIES OF SPHAEROSYLLIS (POLYCHAETA, SYLLIDAE, EXOGONINAE) AND 1ST REPORT OF SPHAEROSYLLIS-GLANDULATA FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN-SEA
Creators: name: Somaschini, A.
name: Sanmartin, G.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1994

description: Three species of Sphaerosyllis are described : S. gravinae sp. nov., S. glandulata, reported for the first time from the Mediterranean Sea and S. giandoi sp. nov. These species were collected from interstitial habitats and Posidonia oceanica beds of Pontine Islands (Latium, Central Tyrrhenian Sea).
(400179) Christian Jamieson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Supplementary Material from The impact of pelvic lateral rotation on hindlimb kinematics and stride length in the red-legged running frog, Kassina maculata.
Creators: name: Collings, Amber J.
name: Porro, Laura B.
name: Hill, Cameron
name: Richards, Christopher T.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 110601 Biomechanics
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Some frog species, such as Kassina maculata (red-legged running frog), use an asynchronous walking/running gait as their primary locomotor mode. Prior comparative anatomy work has suggested that lateral rotation of the pelvis improves walking performance by increasing hindlimb stride length; however, this hypothesis has never been tested. Using non-invasive methods, experimental high-speed video data collected from eight animals were used to create two three-dimensional kinematic models. These models, each fixed to alternative local anatomical reference frames, were used to investigate the hypothesis that lateral rotation of the mobile ilio-sacral joint in the anuran pelvis plays a propulsive role in walking locomotion by increasing hindlimb stride length. All frogs used a walking gait (duty factor greater than 0.5) despite travelling over a range of speeds (0.04–0.23 m s−1). The hindlimb joint motions throughout a single stride were temporally synchronized with lateral rotation of the pelvis. The pelvis itself, on average, underwent an angular excursion of 12.71° (±4.39°) with respect to the body midline during lateral rotation. However, comparison between our two kinematic models demonstrated that lateral rotation of the pelvis only increases the cranio-caudal excursion of the hindlimb modestly. Thus, we propose that pelvic lateral rotation is not a stride length augmenting mechanism in K. maculata.
MEASUREMENTS OF THE HIGGS BOSON PRODUCTION CROSS SECTION AND OF CP VIOLATION IN THE DITAU DECAY CHANNEL WITH THE ATLAS DETECTOR
Creators: name: MURRONE, ALESSIA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2020

description: This thesis presents two measurements performed in the $Htautau$ channel and based on the proton-proton collisions data collected by the ATLAS experiment during 2015 and 2016 and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.1~fb$^{-1}$. The $Htautau$ is a considerably important decay channel because it allows to directly measure the Higgs Yukawa coupling and to probe the Higgs boson properties. Measurements of the Higgs production cross section in the $Htautau$ decay channel are presented. The observed (expected) significance of the $H ightarrow au au$ signal excess over the expected background amounts to 4.4 (4.1) standard deviations. This result, combined with the data taken at $sqrt{s}=7$ and 8 TeV, leads to an observed (expected) significance of 6.4 (5.4) and constitutes the first ATLAS observation of $H ightarrow au au$. The measured total cross section of $H ightarrow au au$, using the data collected at $sqrt{s}=13$~TeV, is $3.77^{+0.60}_{-0.59}~( ext{stat.})~^{+0.87}_{-0.74}~( ext{syst.})$~pb which is consistent with the Standard Model expectation. In addition, total cross sections for the vector boson fusion and gluon-gluon fusion processes have been measured separately and similar results are reported based on the simplified template cross section framework. All of these measurements are in agreement with the Standard Model predictions. The second measurement presented in this manuscript concerns a CP violation study in the same decay channel. The coupling structure of the vertex where the Higgs couples to two electroweak gauge bosons in its vector boson fusion production is investigated. The Optimal Observable method is used to directly test CP invariance in this vertex. No sign of CP violation is observed and constraints on the $ ilde{d}$ parameter, which governs the strength of CP violation, have been set. A 68% CL interval is observed for $ ilde{d}$ of [-0.090, 0.035], compared to an expected interval of $ ilde{d} in [-0.035, 0.033]$. No constraints can be set at 95% CL despite an expected interval $ ilde{d} in [-0.21, 0.15]$ at 95% CL was determined.
The Application of Autocorrelation SETI Search Techniques in an ATA Survey
Creators: name: Harp, G. R.
name: Ackermann, R. F.
name: Astorga, Alfredo
name: Arbunich, Jack
name: Hightower, Kristin
name: Meitzner, Seth
name: Barott, W. C.
name: Nolan, Michael C.
name: Messerschmitt, D. G.
name: Vakoch, Douglas A.
name: Shostak, Seth
name: Tarter, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a novel radio autocorrelation (AC) search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). For selected frequencies across the terrestrial microwave window (1-10 GHz) observations were conducted at the Allen Telescope Array to identify artificial non-sinusoidal periodic signals with radio bandwidths greater than 4 Hz, which are capable of carrying substantial messages with symbol-rates from 4-1000000 Hz. Out of 243 observations, about half (101) were directed toward sources with known continuum flux > ~1 Jy over the sampled bandwidth (quasars, pulsars, supernova remnants, and masers), based on the hypothesis that they might harbor heretofore undiscovered natural or artificial, repetitive, phase or frequency modulation. The rest of the targets were mostly toward exoplanet stars with no previously discovered continuum flux. No signals attributable to extraterrestrial technology were found in this study. We conclude that the maximum probability that future observations like the ones described here will reveal repetitively modulated emissions is less than 1% for continuum sources and exoplanets, alike. The paper concludes by describing a new approach to expanding this survey to many more targets and much greater sensitivity using archived data from interferometers all over the world.
description: 33 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables
(400178) Alexander Booth
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(400177) Margaret Rea
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Effect of tilted magnetic field on magnetosubbands and conductance of bi-layer quantum wire
Creators: name: Chwiej, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The single electron magnetotransport in a vertical bi-layer semiconductor nanowire made of InAlAs/InGaAs and AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure is theoretically studied. The magnetic field is directed perpendicularily to the main (transport) axis of the quantum wire and both non-zero components of magnetic field, that is the transverse and the vertical ones, allow to change the magnitude of intra-layer and inter-layer subbands mixing, respectively. We analyze in detail the changes introduced to energy dispersion relation E(k) by strong titled magnetic field up to several teslas for a symmetric and an asymmetric confining potential in the growth direction. These calculated energy dispersion relations are thereafter used to show that the value of conductance of bi-layer nanowire may jump as well as drop by few conductance quanta when the Fermi energy is changed what in conjunction with spin Zeeman effect may give a moderately spin polarized current.
How to sample larval fish for taxonomical and ecophysiological studies in shallower temperate coastal ecosystems?
Creators: name: CHÍCHARO, Luis
name: FARIA, Ana
name: MORAIS, Pedro
name: AMARAL, Ana
name: MENDES, Carlos
name: CHÍCHARO, Maria Alexandra
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2009

description: Recruitment predictions for fish are often difficult to make due to the intrinsic variability of species and the
 incomplete sampling procedures. The aim of this study was to analyse the fish larval catches (abundance, diversity, size and
 damage) from a standard 500 µm ichthyoplankton net and different light traps (structure, size and light intensity) in
 temperate coastal turbid waters. Catches from different gears were always made on the same date or season, same location
 and same tidal phase. Results showed that light traps captured significantly bigger larvae (almost post-flexion) than those
 captured with the ichthyoplankton net, nevertheless the diversity was lower. Clupeidae species were the most represented
 taxon; however, the traps also caught Atherinidae, Gobiidae, Sparidae, Soleidae and Labridae. The light traps were less
 stressful devices, allowing the capture of live and active larvae. This showed other possible uses for the light trap, e.g. larval
 behavioural and physiological studies. Light traps constitute a good complementary sampling option for post-flexion
 larvae, being aware of species selectivity associated with their use.
The association between vitamin K status and knee osteoarthritis features in older adults: The Health, Aging and Body Composition Study
Creators: name: McAlindon, T. E.
name: Kritchevsky, S. B.
name: Hsu, F. C.
name: Loeser, R. F.
name: Drummen, N.
name: Kwoh, C. K.
name: Harris, T. B.
name: Nevitt, M.
name: Booth, S. L.
name: Womack, C.
name: Shea, M. K.
name: Vermeer, C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: BACKGROUND: Vitamin K-dependent (VKD) proteins, including the mineralization inhibitor matrix-gla protein (MGP), are found in joint tissues including cartilage and bone. Previous studies suggest low vitamin K status is associated with higher osteoarthritis (OA) prevalence and incidence.

OBJECTIVE: To clarify what joint tissues vitamin K is relevant to in OA, we investigated the cross-sectional and longitudinal association between vitamin K status and knee OA structural features measured using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

METHODS: Plasma phylloquinone (PK, vitamin K1) and dephosphorylated-uncarboxylated MGP ((dp)ucMGP) were measured in 791 older community-dwelling adults who had bilateral knee MRIs (mean ± SD age = 74 ± 3 y; 67% female). The adjusted odds ratios (and 95% confidence intervals) [OR (95%CI)] for presence and progression of knee OA features according to vitamin K status were calculated using marginal models with generalized estimating equations (GEEs), adjusted for age, sex, body mass index (BMI), triglycerides and other pertinent confounders.

RESULTS: Longitudinally, participants with very low plasma PK (<0.2 nM) were more likely to have articular cartilage and meniscus damage progression after 3 years [OR (95% CIs): 1.7(1.0-3.0), 2.6(1.3-5.2) respectively] compared to sufficient PK (≥ 1.0 nM). Higher plasma (dp)ucMGP (reflective of lower vitamin K status) was associated with higher odds of meniscus damage, osteophytes, bone marrow lesions, and subarticular cysts cross-sectionally [ORs (95% CIs) comparing highest to lowest quartile: 1.6(1.1-2.3); 1.7(1.1-2.5); 1.9(1.3-2.8); 1.5(1.0-2.1), respectively].

CONCLUSION: Community-dwelling men and women with very low plasma PK were more likely to have progression of articular cartilage and meniscus damage. Plasma (dp)ucMGP was associated with presence of knee OA features but not progression. Future studies are needed to clarify mechanisms underlying vitamin Ks role in OA.
EVOLUTION OF SPERM QUALITY OF SPARUS-AURATA AND DICENTRARCHUS-LABRAX DURING SPAWNING
Creators: name: Kara, M. H.
name: Labed, S.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1994

description: The sperm quality of sea bream (Sparus aurata) and sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) is estimated by the density of spermatozoa, the intensity of their motility and his duration after dilution. The survival of sperm conserved at 4 degrees C is examinated. In the case of the two species, the milt presente a different quality depending on the date of the sample. With a mean seasonal value of 3.9.10(9) cell./ml for sea bream and 14.10(9) cell./ml for sea bass, the density of spermatozoa decreased progressively during the period of reproduction. The initial intensity of gametes' motility is minimal at the end of spermiation's period. The motility's duration is maximal in the middle of this latter for the sea bream but it increases progressively in the case of the sea bass. The sperm sampled in the middle of the season is conserved much longer : 3 days for the sea bream and 10 days for the sea bass.