cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
QCD running in neutrinoless double beta decay: Short-range mechanisms
Creators: name: González, M.
name: Hirsch, M.
name: Kovalenko, S. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The decay rate of neutrinoless double beta ($0νββ$) decay contains terms from heavy particle exchange, which lead to dimension-9 (d=9) six fermion operators at low energies. Limits on the coefficients of these operators have been derived previously neglecting the running of the operators between the high-scale, where they are generated, and the energy scale of double beta decay, where they are measured. Here we calculate the leading order QCD corrections to all possible d=9 operators contributing to the $0νββ$ amplitude and use RGE running to calculate 1-loop improved limits. Numerically, QCD running changes limits by factors of the order of or larger than typical uncertainties in nuclear matrix element calculations. For some specific cases, operator mixing in the running changes limits even by up to two orders of magnitude. Our results can be straightforwardly combined with new experimental limits or improved nuclear matrix element calculations to re-derive updated limits on all short-range contributions to $0νββ$ decay.
description: Updated after erratum 16 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
title: Book review : Forgotten children: addressing the health needs of looked after children and young people. The Residential Care Health Project, Astron, Edinburgh
Creators: name: Furnivall, Judy
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2004

description: Forgotten Children is the report of the Lothian-based Residential Care Health Project. It should be compulsory reading for any health and social work professional who works with looked after and accommodated children. At a simple level, it adds further confirmation of the serious health difficulties facing young people looked after away from their families. The team discovered high levels of psychological and physical morbidity – much of which had either not been diagnosed before or had been lost to follow up because of the lack of stability in children's lives.
Volunteering & Identity Formation
Creators: name: Rangel, Katie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Introduction: Occupations, including those occupations in which you do things together (“enacted togetherness”), creates meaning and are linked to identity. Unpaid volunteerism is a valuable occupation in later life and brings positive feelings of one’s self-perception or identity. Study Aim: To explore how the social occupation of engaging in a volunteer organization supports identity formation.
Phylogeographic link between Sicilian and Corso-Sardinian Testudo h. hermanni confirmed
Creators: name: Giacalone, Gabriele
name: Lo Valvo, Mario
name: Fritz, Uwe
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2009

description: Our study confirms that Sicilian and Corso-Sardinian Testudo h. hermanni share a certain mtDNA haplotype, while tortoises from peninsular Italy harbour slightly different haplotypes. When the fossil record is considered, this striking pattern agrees well with the idea of local extinction in Corsica and Sardinia and later replacement by tortoises originating elsewhere, either by natural oversea dispersal or translocation by man.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 4 No 2 (2009)
Additional file 4 of Electroacupuncture reduces inflammatory damage following cerebral ischemia–reperfusion by enhancing ABCA1-mediated efferocytosis in M2 microglia
Creators: name: Liao, Yu-sha
name: Zhang, Tie-chun
name: Tang, Yu-qi
name: Yu, Pei
name: Liu, Ya-ning
name: Yuan, Jing
name: Zhao, Ling
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 4.
title: Digital-based production: introduction and fields of application
Creators: name: Metternich, Joachim
name: Kreß, Antonio
Publisher: name: Springer Nature
Year: 2023

description: This special issue on “digital-based production” gives an overview about the current research on the integration of digital technologies into production processes and their fields of application. It covers topics from Industry 4.0, artificial intelligence and data analytics to the Industrial Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Production Systems. This issue offers valuable insights for those interested in improving production efficiency, quality, and sustainability through digital technologies. In this foreword, we describe promising application fields of digital-based production and classify the submitted articles accordingly.
First record of salamander predation by a Liophis (Wagler, 1830) snake in the Venezuelan Andes
Creators: name: Esqueda, Luis Felipe
name: Natera-Mumaw, Marco
name: La Marca, Enrique
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2009

description: Information available so far is exceedingly meagre about the diet of the snakes included in the genus Liophis, one of the most diverse groups that inhabit terrestrial ecosystems of South America. For the first time is documented the predation of a salamander by Liophis from Venezuela, including a brief overview on the alteration of montane and submontane Andean ecosystem and their effect on the natural dynamic.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 4 No 2 (2009)
Local duality in algebra and topology
Creators: name: Barthel, Tobias
name: Heard, Drew
name: Valenzuela, Gabriel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55P60, 13D45, 14B15, 55U35

description: The first goal of this paper is to provide an abstract framework in which to formulate and study local duality in various algebraic and topological contexts. For any stable $\infty$-category $\mathcal{C}$ together with a collection of compact objects $\mathcal{K} \subset \mathcal{C}$ we construct local cohomology and local homology functors satisfying an abstract version of local duality. When specialized to the derived category of a commutative ring $A$ and a suitable ideal in $A$, we recover the classical local duality due to Grothendieck as well as generalizations by Greenlees and May. More generally, applying our result to the derived category of quasi-coherent sheaves on a quasi-compact and separated scheme $X$ implies the local duality theorem of Alonso Tarrío, Jeremías López, and Lipman. As a second objective, we establish local duality for quasi-coherent sheaves over many algebraic stacks, in particular those arising naturally in stable homotopy theory. After constructing an appropriate model of the derived category in terms of comodules over a Hopf algebroid, we show that, in familiar cases, the resulting local cohomology and local homology theories coincide with functors previously studied by Hovey and Strickland. Furthermore, our framework applies to global and local stable homotopy theory, in a way which is compatible with the algebraic avatars of these theories. In order to aid computability, we provide spectral sequences relating the algebraic and topological local duality contexts.
description: Significantly revised version to appear in Advances in Mathematics. Section 6 has been removed, and an expanded version will appear in a separate paper
Effects of Respiratory Muscle Strength Training and Shaker Exercise on Swallow Function: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Bragg, Emily
name: Benitez, Celicia
name: Coats, Amanda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Question: In adult patients with dysphagia, how does Respiratory Muscle Strength Training compare to the Shaker exercise in improving functional outcomes of swallowing? Oropharyngeal dysphagia is a dysfunction of swallowing which can affect the ability of a bolus to move from the oral cavity through and into the esophagus. This is a common issue among individuals with neurologic conditions as well as elderly adults and can cause complications such as aspiration pneumonia, malnutrition, dehydration, and possibly death. This systematic review explores two leading therapy exercises that are being used to improve the symptoms of oropharyngeal dysphagia: Respiratory Muscle Strength Training (RMST) and the Shaker Exercise (also commonly referred to as head lift). RMST is an exercise technique that targets the inspiratory and expiratory muscles to increase the amount of air pressure an individual can generate. The Shaker Exercise focuses on strengthening the suprahyoid and infrahyoid muscles to promote upper esophageal sphincter (UES) opening.
Ratsnake response to bottomland flooding: implications for avian nest predation
Creators: name: Carfagno, Gerardo L.F.
name: Weatherhead, Patrick J.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2009

description: Lower predation has been documented for birds’ nests located over water and a recent study found lower predation on wood duck (Aix sponsa) nests in bottomland forest during flooding. In a three-year study we used radio telemetry to determine whether flooding affected use of bottomlands by ratsnakes (Elaphe obsoleta) and thus might explain reduced nest predation. Of the 22 ratsnakes we tracked, only five used bottomlands and three of them did so exclusively, suggesting a surprising degree of habitat specialization by individual snakes. Those individuals regularly moved into flooded forest and their frequency of movement and distance moved appeared unaffected by flooding. Although it seems unlikely that ratsnakes leave bottomlands during floods, they may prey more extensively on small mammals that are restricted to trees when the forest is flooded, thereby reducing predation pressure on nesting birds.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 4 No 2 (2009)
Cybercrime in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Lagebild 2013
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nordrhein-Westfalen , Computerkriminalität
subject: 360

description: Das Lagebild Cybercrime stellt phänomenspezifisch und phänomenübergreifend die Entwicklung der Cybercrime im engeren Sinne im Land Nordrhein-Westfalen dar. Cybercrime umfasst die Straftaten, die sich gegen das Internet, weitere Datennetze und informationstechnische Systeme oder deren Daten richten. Cybercrime umfasst auch solche Straftaten, die mittels dieser Informationstechnik begangen werden. Die Daten basieren auf Ermittlungsverfahren der Polizeibehörden in NRW, die nach einheitlichem Standard erhoben werden.
Site fidelity in the Sichuan Torrent Frog (Amolops mantzorum) in a montane region in western China
Creators: name: Liao, Wen Bo
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: I used mark-recapture technique to estimate site fidelity in a subtropical high-elevation torrent frog (Amolops mantzorum) during the breeding season in Fengtongzhai National Nature Reserve in western China. I captured, measured, and individually marked 30 males and 15 females in 20 May 2007. I recorded each individual’s initial positions using a Global Positioning System (GPS). For each night from 21 May to 10 June 2007, I recaptured the marked individuals and recorded capture points. The results showed that 16 males and 4 females were never recaptured in the field experiment. Most of the remaining individuals were recaptured only one time. Males and female were recaptured more than 2 and 8 times, respectively. Males and females were recaptured from subsequent positions as far apart as 55 m and 30 m, as close as 0.2 m and 0.1 m. Average neighbor distances on successive capture positions of males recaptured was 10.1 m, and that of females was 4.2 m, suggesting that there were significant difference in site fidelity between females and males. However, there was not significant average activity distance between the sexes. For females, small average activity areas were 10.9 ± 14.9 m2.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 2 (2011)
Supplementary information, Figures S1-S9 and Table S6 from Recombination landscape dimorphism and sex chromosome evolution in the dioecious plant Rumex hastatulus
Creators: name: Rifkin, Joanna L.
name: Hnatovska, Solomiya
name: Yuan, Meng
name: Sacchi, Bianca M.
name: Choudhury, Baharul I.
name: Gong, Yunchen
name: Rastas, Pasi
name: Barrett, Spencer C. H.
name: Wright, Stephen I.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60408 Genomics

description: There is growing evidence from diverse taxa for sex differences in the genomic landscape of recombination, but the causes and consequences of these differences remain poorly understood. Strong recombination landscape dimorphism between the sexes could have important implications for the dynamics of sex chromosome evolution because low recombination in the heterogametic sex can favour the spread of sexually antagonistic alleles. Here, we present a sex-specific linkage map and revised genome assembly of Rumex hastatulus and provide the first evidence and characterization of sex differences in recombination landscape in a dioecious plant. We present data on significant sex differences in recombination, with regions of very low recombination in males covering over half of the genome. This pattern is evident on both sex chromosomes and autosomes, suggesting that pre-existing differences in recombination may have contributed to sex chromosome formation and divergence. Our analysis of segregation distortion suggests that haploid selection due to pollen competition occurs disproportionately in regions with low male recombination. We hypothesize that sex differences in the recombination landscape have contributed to the formation of a large heteromorphic pair of sex chromosomes in R. hastatulus, but more comparative analyses of recombination will be important to investigate this hypothesis further.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Sex determination, sex chromosome evolution, and the role of sexual differentiation in land plants’.
Additional file 2 of Combination of arsenic trioxide and apatinib synergistically inhibits small cell lung cancer by down-regulating VEGFR2/mTOR and Akt/c-Myc signaling pathway via GRB10
Creators: name: Yu, Yao
name: Shang, Yu
name: Shi, Si
name: He, Yaowu
name: Shi, Wenchao
name: Wang, Menghan
name: Wang, Qi
name: Xu, Dandan
name: Shi, Ce
name: Chen, Hong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
Effects of Health Claims on Consumption and Taste in Children: The Moderating Effects of Sex.
Creators: name: Tirelli, Alessandro
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Eating
Obesity
Food
Health claims
Children
Sex differences

description: Research on adults has shown that when certain energy dense foods (EDF) are marketed as ‘healthy’, consumption of these foods increases during a single eating occasion. However, the effect health claims can have on consumption and taste in pre-adolescent children is largely unknown. The main objective of this thesis was to examine how health claims influence energy intake (EI) and liking in pre-adolescent children. A between-subject experimental design was used, whereby 66 participants (34 girls and 32 boys, mean ± SD age: 10.5 ± 1.4 years), consumed a chocolate milkshake while watching specific videos on YouTube ® for 20 minutes. The participants were randomly assigned in equal numbers split into one of two groups. For one group (control), no label was added and nothing was said about the milkshake. In the experimental (health claim) group, the milkshakes were labeled and presented as “high in calcium, and healthy”. The primary outcomes were EI and liking of the milkshake, while appetite sensations were also assessed using visual analogue scales (VAS). Results from Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) indicate that compared to the same shake without a health claim, a chocolate milkshake that was advertised as healthy was perceived as healthier, although there was no effect on EI or taste. When sex was investigated, boys consumed significantly more calories than girls when the milkshake was advertised as healthy. The higher EI from boys in the ‘healthy’ condition suggests a health claim may elicit different food consumption behaviors between sexes. In addition, the participants from the experimental (healthy) group who rated the milkshake as highly healthy consumed significantly more calories than those from the same group who only rated the milkshake moderately healthy. Further research is needed to better determine the effects of different health claims on children’s taste and EI, and to corroborate these initial findings and examine the underlying reasons for the observed sex differences.
Chemosensory responses to chemical and visual stimuli in five species of colubrid snakes
Creators: name: Saviola, Anthony
name: McKenzie, Valerie
name: Chiszar, David
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: Snakes utilize chemical and visual stimuli during predation, however the emphasis on these cues and which cues are used to initiate predation varies among species. For example, rattlesnakes using the ambush strategy rely on chemical cues to locate an ambush station, then visual and thermal cues to initiate envenomating strikes, then chemical cues again to track prey. By contrast, many natricine snakes use chemical cues to initiate predation, increasing the rate of tongue flicking regardless of whether visual cues are present. The present study examined the individual and interactive effects of chemical and visual stimuli of prey on the predatory behavior of five snake taxa representing three feeding guilds. Bull snakes (Pituophis catenifer), Eastern Corn snakes (Pantherophis guttatus), and Midland Rat snakes (Scotophis spiloides) have a diet primarily consisting of mammals; Western Fox snakes (Mintonius vulpina) prey primarily on bird eggs; and Common Kingsnakes (Lampropeltis getula) prey equally on mammals and reptiles. Three patterns of response to chemical and visual stimuli of the test prey (Mus musculus) were observed. Mammal specialists responded to chemical cues. Fox snakes responded to visual cues, but not to chemical cues. Kingsnakes exhibited increased rates of tongue flicking in response to both chemical and visual stimuli. This study suggests correlations between the evolution of prey preference, foraging ecology and the utilization of chemical or visual stimuli by snakes.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
Effects of Police Union Endorsements in Local Elections
Creators: name: Gaudette, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This survey uses a conjoint experiment and asks a series of questions designed to determine how voters view endorsements, whether police union endorsements are uniquely valuable, how candidate and voter race and party affiliation affects perception of candidate endorsements, and what kinds of voters are most (positively or negatively) impacted by police union endorsements.
An Expert System Integrated with a Bridge Information Management System (BrIMS), Cost Estimating, Deterioration Forecasting, and Linear Scheduling at the Conceptual Design Stage
Creators: name: Markiz, Nizar
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2018
Subjects: Expert System
Bridge Information Management System (BrIMS)
Cost Estimating
Deterioration Forecasting
Linear Scheduling
Conceptual Design

description: Major bridge stakeholders such as federal and provincial transportation agencies are in dire need for objective knowledge-based systems that assist decision-makers in the selection of bridge type. Besides that, estimating bridge construction costs at the conceptual design stage is an increasing necessity for accurate budgeting and effective allocation of funding. Whilst multiple bridge management systems have already been developed; they still possess major drawbacks pertaining to interoperability and integration with complex time and cost optimization-related problem solving. In another perspective, infrastructure restoration has been backlogged with multifaceted factors that have captured the attention of municipal and federal authorities. Several successful integrations of bridge information management systems (BrIMS) with decision support systems and computer-aided engineering design solutions have significantly leveraged downstream processes of bridge maintenance operations and inspired many researchers. The subjective nature of evaluating bridge conditions and deteriorations is the main factor that influences bridge maintenance, repair, and replacement decisions. In order to overcome this shortcoming, the objectives of this study are intended to demonstrate the viability of integrating a decision support system with a stochastic gamma deterioration model utilizing a probabilistic fuzzy logic strategic approach at the conceptual design stage. In summary, this study presents a systematic multi-objective knowledge-based approach for selecting bridge type, forecasting elemental deteriorations, linear scheduling, and estimating construction costs at the conceptual design stage. The proposed methodology comprises a framework to deploy a system that automatically generates conceptual cost estimates by integrating objective functions with bridge information modeling (BrIM) through an external data interchange protocol in synchrony with interoperability standards. Deployment of the developed system shall minimize the degree of subjectivity involved while decision makings pertaining to bridge projects and assists designers and cost engineers obtain results in an integrated quantitative, qualitative, and systematic manner. The successful deployment of the expert system signifies a technological achievement of novelty pertaining to the integration of bridge information modeling (BrIM) concept with probabilistic fuzzy logic strategic approaches at the conceptual design stage of bridges.
title: Programmes & praxis : a review of taken-for-granted knowledge
Creators: name: Fulcher, Leon
Publisher: name: Strathprints - University of Strathclyde
Year: 2004

description: Over the past decade, the term programme has entered the daily language of residential child and youth care workers, managers and planners in Scotland, almost as though it has always described a schedule of activities and routines operating in and around group care services. This term has been used extensively in North America since the end of the Second World War but was much less common in the United Kingdom until recent years. References to programme vary, ranging from personalised care & treatment programmes or curricula, as with the components of an anger-management programme, to directed-learning opportunities using programmed instruction or a schedule of service outputs supplied through purchase of service agreements with government.
Support for heritage townscapes in the U.K.
Creators: name: Shipley, Robert
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Community development, Urban--United Kingdom
subject: Shrinking cities
subject: Urban renewal--United Kingdom
subject: Historic districts--United Kingdom
subject: Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)
subject: Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI)

description: The decline of many town centres is an unfortunate result of various economic and social forces. There have been various attempts in different parts of the world to assist in reversing the decline of older urban-core areas. In 1998, the Townscape Heritage Initiative was established in the United Kingdom by the Heritage Lottery Fund to assist the revitalization of communities with significant historical buildings.
description: Part of the "Arts, Culture, and Tourism/ Arts, culture et tourisme" section of the issue.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5421/Article012.pdf?sequence=3
Der Knabe und das Mädchen
Creators: name: Werdmüller, Johann Rudolf
Publisher: name: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1759
Subjects: subject: 301 Soziologie, Anthropologie
subject: Neujahrsblatt
subject: Lebensalter
subject: Kind

description: Titelvariante: Die erste Stufe des menschlichen Alters. Der Knabe und das Mädchen
Morphological variation of Ridged Frogs of the Taita Hills, Kenya
Creators: name: Ng’endo, Rossa
name: Kairu, Eunice
name: Osiemo, Zipporah
name: Ogol, Callistus
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: Comparing of morphological character variation within taxa continues to play an important role in improving species inventories. Using morphometrical and non-meristic morphological adult characters, the diversity of the genus Ptychadena in Taita Hills was studied. Comparative material from elsewhere was not used, and therefore species names were only provisionally allocated to the taxa identified. Available names were discussed on the basis of comparisons with morphological data from other regions. The results revealed that female species are larger in size than males. Two species were identified and for each a standardized diagnosis of 32 characters is provided. Comparison of results with morphological data from related studies done elsewhere reveals that certain characters are of critical importance in differentiating the two Ptychadena species. The power of these morphological characters is discussed, especially for the background of rapid and easy identification of Ptychadena species in the field for conservation purposes.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 2 (2011)
Non-invasive baroreceptor function measurement in humans and the interaction with large artery stiffness
Creators: name: Desai, Vaidehi
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: With age, the capacity of the large arteries to stretch decreases, and baroreceptor function is impaired. As baroreceptors are stretch receptors, these two phenomena may be mechanistically linked. This thesis investigates the correlation between these two parameters. A systematic review of the literature showed that in 35 studies that investigated the correlation between arterial stiffness and baroreceptor sensitivity (BRS), 89% showed the correlation to be significant. All but one study attempted to assess BRS only under resting BP conditions. There is scope for future investigations to investigate the wider BRS function curve and its association with arterial stiffness. A pilot study into arterial stiffness and BRS correlation was conducted. The hypothesis was that BRS and arterial stiffness are correlated, and baroreceptor modulation on blood pressure (BP) dampens as large arteries like the carotid artery and aorta become stiffer. BRS was assessed in 10 healthy participants under resting BP conditions and during BP altered by manoeuvres (leg ischemia, head-up tilt test, deep breathing test, handgrip exercise, and cycling ergometer exercise). Continuous finger BP and heart rate (HR) were measured non-invasively to estimate BRS. BRS from the finger BP was quantified by sequence and spectral methods. BRS from the calculated aortic BP was quantified using the sequence method only. Arterial stiffness was measured by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV), carotid compliance, and carotid distensibility. BRS averaged across all manoeuvres was not correlated with arterial stiffness. Removing manoeuvres that caused BRS resetting (head-up tilt, exercise), the study was suitably powered to find that BRS was correlated with cfPWV (R2=0.7788, p=0.022) after adjusting for age and sex but not carotid compliance (R2=0.870, p=0.336). The conflicting result emphasises the need for a purpose-designed study on the topic, preferably using manoeuvres or vasoactive drugs to investigate BRS across a wider BP range. Sample size calculations showed that a study of 100 participants would allow investigation of all permutations of the correlation between carotid compliance, distensibility, and BRS calculated using peripheral and aortic BP.
A Simple and Adaptive Dispersion Regression Model for Count Data
Creators: name: Klakattawi, Hadeel S.
name: Vinciotti, Veronica
name: Yu, Keming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Other Statistics (stat.OT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Regression for count data is widely performed by models such as Poisson, negative binomial (NB) and zero-inflated regression. A challenge often faced by practitioners is the selection of the right model to take into account dispersion, which typically occurs in count datasets. It is highly desirable to have a unified model that can automatically adapt to the underlying dispersion and that can be easily implemented in practice. In this paper, a discrete Weibull regression model is shown to be able to adapt in a simple way to different types of dispersions relative to Poisson regression: overdispersion, underdispersion and covariate-specific dispersion. Maximum likelihood can be used for efficient parameter estimation. The description of the model, parameter inference and model diagnostics is accompanied by simulated and real data analyses.
Quantifying the intersexual and interspecific morphometric variation in two resembling sympatric lacertids: Iberolacerta horvathi and Podarcis muralis
Creators: name: Žagar, Anamarija
name: Osojnik, Nadja
name: Carretero, Miguel
name: Vrezec, Al
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: Podarcis muralis and Iberolacerta horvathi are sympatric, frequently syntopic, lacertids through the entire range of I. horvathi and very similar in their general body size and shape, as well as in most ecological traits. We morphologically compared adults from the area of sympatry using biometric measurements and performed analyses to investigate their sexual size and shape dimorphism. A total of 34 males and 24 females of I. horvathi, and 25 males and 23 females of P. muralis, all adult individuals, were measured. Both species showed sexual size dimorphism with females being longer (snout-vent length, SVL) than males. After SVL correction (ANCOVA), head width, length and height and mass showed to be sexually dimorphic in both species. Males carry relatively wider, longer and higher heads and were heavier than conspecific females. I. horvathi heads were more flattened than those of P. muralis and P. muralis were heavier than I. horvathi. Both species displayed the same pattern of sexual dimorphism regarding body size, head size and shape not only in direction but also in magnitude. All results confirm that both species are very similar in studied biometric characters and, together with their ecological similarities, these suggest in absence of other factors they are likely to interact when living together.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
GIF-ABLE Library: Integrating GIFs Into Your Library Culture
Creators: name: Hammer, Kelsey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: There’s a lot of talk about “starting conversations,” but GIFs go beyond, to creating words. In today’s visual and digital world, we can share information, emotion, and artistry in new and exciting mediums. At the Robert B. House Undergraduate Library, we are integrating GIFs into our engagement and instruction to share and celebrate staff, collections, events, partners, and students. GIFs are a new way to tell the story of life in your library and it’s easy to get started! Winner of People's Choice Award at the 2017 UNC SILS Project Fair.
Dini-Zertifikat Fuer Open-Access-Repositorien Und -Publikationsdienste 2013
Creators: name: Beucke, Daniel
name: David, Sammy
name: Hartmann, Thomas
name: Meinecke, Isabella
name: Mruck, Katja
name: Mühlhölzer, Marianna
name: Müller, Uwe
name: Pampel, Heinz
name: Scholze, Frank
name: Summann, Friedrich
name: Vierkant, Paul
name: Voigt, Michaela
name: Zielke, Dennis
Publisher: name: Forschungzentrum Jülich
Year: 2013
Subjects: repository
open access
Zertifikat
Publikationsdienste
DINI e.V.

description: Zenodo (2013). doi:10.5281/zenodo.7132
description: Das Publikationswesen ist ein wesentlicher Stützpfeiler des wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisfort-schritts und der Wissenschaft insgesamt. Zu seinen Kennzeichen gehören (a) die Organisation einer effektiven Kommunikation zwischen Wissenschaftler/-innen (zwischen Autor/-innen und allen potenziellen Rezipient/-innen, d. h. die Sicherstellung einer adäquaten Verbreitung), (b) ein hohes Maß an Vertrauenswürdigkeit, das den Nutzer/-innen des Publikationswesens (d. h. den Wissenschaftler/-innen) vermittelt wird (z. B. in Bezug auf das Prioritätsrecht, die Wahrung des Urheberrechts sowie die Authentizität und die inhaltliche Qualität wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten), (c) Nachhaltigkeit und Nachprüfbarkeit (dauerhafte Zitierbarkeit und langfristige Verfüg-barkeit, Nachvollziehbarkeit von einzelnen Schritten auf dem Weg zur Veröffentlichung). Mit dem vorliegenden Kriterienkatalog, der dem DINI-Zertifikat zugrunde liegt, werden diese allgemeinen Erwartungen an das wissenschaftliche Publizieren in konkrete Mindestanforderungen übersetzt, die an Open-Access-Repositorien und -Publikationsdienste zu stellen sind. Sie bilden als Plattformen für die Veröffentlichung und Bereitstellung wissenschaftlicher Publikationen in elektronischer Form wichtige Knotenpunkte für den wissenschaftlichen Kommunikationsprozess und tragen als Open-Access-Dienste zur Verbreitung und Demokratisierung von Wissen bei.
description: Published by Zenodo
Tail tip removal for tissue sampling has no short-term effects on microhabitat selection by Podarcis bocagei, but induced autotomy does
Creators: name: García-Muñoz, Enrique
name: Ceacero, Francisco
name: Pedrajas, Luis
name: Kaliontzopoulou, Antigoni
name: Carretero, Miguel Á.
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: Tail tip removal is a common method for obtaining tissue samples for genetics and other studies on lizards. This study evaluates the effect of tail tip autotomy on microhabitat selection in the lacertid Podarcis bocagei. Different-length tail fragments were experimentally removed from lizards of a small population. Forcing lizards to autotomise small tail tips (<1 cm) did not affect microhabitat selection. In contrast, a significant negative effect was observed in those lizards which underwent induced autotomy of the entire tail (> 5 cm). After autotomy these lizards were observed to favour more closed habitats, where predator avoidance is expected to be more efficient, although of potentially lower thermal quality.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 2 (2011)
Narrative Chronology of Athletic Identity (AI), Sport Participation, and Spinal Cord Injury (SCI): Two Female Perspectives
Creators: name: Audick, Lauren
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: BackgroundAI and team sport participation are indicated to assist with adjustment after SCI and foster a higher quality of life through physical and psychological benefits.Narratives regarding AI among individuals who experienced a long term physical disability describe the loss of AI, some redeveloped AI over a lengthy timeThere is a significant lack of research related to women with disabilities; similar trend exists in AI SCI researchResearch Aim: To investigate how female athletes who experienced a SCI describe athletic identity over the course of their lifetime.
New distribution and genetic data extend the ranges of the spectacled salamanders, genus Salamandrina, in the Apulia region (South Italy)
Creators: name: Liuzzi, Cristiano
name: Mastropasqua, Fabio
name: Salvi, Daniele
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2011

description: Additional data on the distribution of the genus Salamandrina in the Apulia region (southern Italy) are provided. Based on fieldwork carried out from May to August 2011 in two new localities, Volturara Appula (Foggia province) and Spinazzola (Barletta province), the presence of Salamandrina species was recorded. Results from the genetic analyses of the 12S rRNA gene fragment from six individuals demonstrated that S. perspicillata occurs in Volturara Appula while S. terdigitata in the Spinazzola locality. The latter species is reported for the first time for the Apulia region. These new distribution data represent considerable range extensions for the Salamandrina species, indicating that more surveys are needed to complement the existing knowledge on their distribution as well as of the herpetofauna from the Apulia region. The conservation implications of our findings are also discussed.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 6 No 2 (2011)
Asymptotic Safety in the Conformal Hidden Sector?
Creators: name: Wang, Zhi-Wei
name: Sage, Frederick S.
name: Steele, T. G.
name: Mann, R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We combine the notion of asymptotic safety (AS) with conformal invariance in a hidden sector beyond the Standard Model. We use the renormalization group (RG) equations as a bridge to connect UV boundary conditions and EW/TeV scale physics and furnish a detailed example in the context of a leptophobic $U(1)'$ model. A broad selection of UV boundary conditions are formulated corresponding to differing AS scenarios, and we find an AS scenario with very strong predictive power, allowing unique determination of most of the parameters in the model. We obtain the interrelationships among the couplings, the transition scale of the fixed point $M_{UV}$ and the generations of quarks coupled to the $Z'$, and especially the correlation between $M_{UV}$ and the top quark Yukawa coupling $Y_t$. Several phenomenological implications of our results are presented for selected $Z'$ masses.
description: 10 pages and 1 figure. Section divisions and explanations added. Published in JPG
Arts, culture, and tourism
Creators: name: Miguelez, Alain
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Sociology, Urban
subject: City and town life
subject: Street life

description: Summary of one of the seven themes of the 2001 CIP conference in Ottawa - "arts, culture, and tourism".
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5422/Article011.pdf?sequence=3
FAIR-EASE Poster 2022
Creators: name: Rizzo, Alessandro
name: Lefevre, Corentin
name: Mancarella, Cristina
name: Greco, Andrea
name: Pierkot, Christelle
name: Vernet, Marine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: FAIR
data
earth system
environment
biodiversity
EOSC

description: FAIR-EASE focuses on opening these gateways for the earth and environmental sciences which require a large volume of data from sources such as satellite, in-situ observations, models, and even omics experiments. Earth system domains are interconnected, but the present digital architecture is based essentially on distributed and domain-dependent data repositories inducing real difficulties for integrated uses of all the environmental data. This creates barriers for several studies with large societal impacts, such as climate change, agriculture and food, human safety and health. To go beyond this state-of-the-art, the overall objective of FAIR-EASE is to customize and operate distributed and integrated services for observation and modelling of the Earth system, environment and biodiversity by improving their different components implemented in close cooperation with user-communities, the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and research infrastructures in their design and sustainable availability.
Making Service Decisions Based on Evidence
Creators: name: Crescenzi, Anita
name: Allegri, Francesca
name: Degener, Christie T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Background: Usability testing and a user survey were conducted to better understand user perceptions and to aid decision making about Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Document Delivery (DD) cost and user experience. Usability Study: 10 usability test sessions were conducted with participants recruited from the UNC Health Affairs schools. Participants were asked to think aloud while completing a series of (known item) search tasks. Post task and post test interviews and questionnaires were administered to measure user satisfaction and perceptions. Survey: An IRB-approved online survey was administered via Qualtrics for one month using questions from instrument in the literature augmented with service-specific questions. 70 of 87 responses were analyzed for self-reported usage patterns, awareness of service availability and service costs, performance, expectations and service satisfaction.
Least squares estimation for the subcritical Heston model based on continuous time observations
Creators: name: Barczy, Matyas
name: Nyul, Balazs
name: Pap, Gyula
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 60H10, 91G70, 60F05, 62F12

description: We prove strong consistency and asymptotic normality of least squares estimators for the subcritical Heston model based on continuous time observations. We also present some numerical illustrations of our results.
description: 22 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1310.4783
On the distribution of Uromastyx alfredschmidti Wilms and Böhme, 2000 (Squamata: Agamidae: Uromastycinae)
Creators: name: Sindaco, Roberto
name: Wilms, Thomas
name: Venchi, Alberto
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: The article reports on two new findings of Uromastyx alfredschmidti Wilms and Böhme, 2000 that allow for a more precise definition of its distribution range and, consequently, a new conservation assessment in compliance with IUCN parameters. Following review of available museum specimens, the Hoggar Mts. (Algeria), should not to be considered within the natural range of the species. Nomenclatorial clarifications on existing literature are also provided.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 1 (2012)
A specialization inequality for tropical complexes
Creators: name: Cartwright, Dustin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14D06, 14T05

description: We prove a specialization inequality relating the dimension of the complete linear series on a variety to the tropical complex of a regular semistable degeneration. Our result extends Baker's specialization inequality to arbitrary dimension.
description: 30 pages, 3 figures. v1: Split off of arXiv:1308.3813v1. v2: Expanded exposition of tropical complexes
Lincoln's Gettysburg lessons for modern Canadians
Creators: name: Livingstone, David W.
Publisher: name: Vancouver Island University - Royal Roads University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Rhetoric--Political aspects
subject: Speeches, addresses, etc.

description: Pericles, Lincoln, D’Arcy McGee, and the perils of unprincipled rhetoric.
description: This article was originally published as: Livingstone, D.W. (2013, November 19). Lincoln’s Gettysburg lessons for modern Canadians. C2C Journal. Retrieved from http://www.c2cjournal.ca/2013/11/lincolns-gettysburg-lessons-for-modern-canadians/. C2C Journal is an online Canadian magazine publishing original commentaries, stories, reviews and investigative reports. More information about the publication can be found at: http://www.c2cjournal.ca/.
description: "Commentary" article.
description: https://viurrspace.ca/bitstream/handle/10613/5423/Livingstone.Lincoln.pdf?sequence=3
Amphibians in Southern Apennine: distribution, ecology and conservation notes in the “Appennino Lucano, Val d’Agri e Lagonegrese” National Park (Southern Italy)
Creators: name: Romano, Antonio
name: Bartolomei, Remo
name: Conte, Antonio
name: Fulco, Egidio
Publisher: name: Acta Herpetologica
Year: 2012

description: Italy is the European country with the highest amphibian richness and endemism. However distributional data from some Southern Italy areas are scanty, in particularly for the Basilicata region. In this study, we present the results of field and bibliographic survey on the amphibians of the “Appennino Lucano, Val d’Agri e Lagonegrese” National Park (almost 70,000 ha). We recorded breeding activity of 12 amphibian species in 307 sites, for a total of 493 records. For some endemic species we provide new ecological data, such as new altitudinal limit (Salamandrina terdigitata) or expansion of the annual activity cycle (Bombina pachypus). Indices of diffusion, density and rarity were applied to test the status of each species in the Park. Correspondence analyses showed a clear aquatic habitat partitioning between anurans and urodelans and, concerning the latter, between newts and salamanders, newts being strictly dependent on artificial water bodies. Our results support the growing idea, recently formalized by the IUCN, that maintaining and restoring artificial water bodies may be fundamental for an appropriate conservation management of amphibian communities in Mediterranean rural landscapes.
description: Acta Herpetologica, Vol 7 No 2 (2012)
On Erasure Combinatorial Batch Codes
Creators: name: Jung, JiYoon
name: Mummert, Carl
name: Niese, Elizabeth
name: Schroeder, Michael W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05B05, 05B20, 05B40

description: Combinatorial batch codes were defined by Paterson, Stinson, and Wei as purely combinatorial versions of the batch codes introduced by Ishai, Kushilevitz, Ostrovsky, and Sahai. There are $n$ items and $m$ servers, each of which stores a subset of the items. A batch code is an arrangement for storing items on servers so that, for prescribed integers $k$ and $t$, any $k$ items can be retrieved by reading at most $t$ items from each server. Silberstein defined an erasure batch code (with redundancy $r$) as a batch code in which any $k$ items can be retrieved by reading at most $t$ items from each server, while any $r$ servers are unavailable (failed). In this paper, we investigate erasure batch codes with $t=1$ (each server can read at most one item) in a combinatorial manner. We determine the optimal (minimum) total storage of an erasure batch code for several ranges of parameters. Additionally, we relate optimal erasure batch codes to maximum packings. We also identify a necessary lower bound for the total storage of an erasure batch code, and we relate parameters for which this trivial lower bound is achieved to the existence of graphs with appropriate girth.
Co-Sleeping as a Family Occupation: Perspectives of an American Family
Creators: name: George, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Background: • Co-­sleeping: Bed sharing of family members with children • Preferred practice in several cultures • Increasing trend in the US, despite regulations from the AAP • Dearth of literature in OS/OT Research. Questions: Why do families co-­sleep despite warnings from the medical community? What is their experience?