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Promoting global watershed management towards rural communities: the May Zeg-zeg initiativeLength: pp.192-195
Watershed managementRural development
Evidence for compact cooperatively rearranging regions in a supercooled liquid
We examine structural relaxation in a supercooled glass-forming liquid
simulated by NVE molecular dynamics. Time correlations of the total kinetic
energy fluctuations are used as a comprehensive measure of the system's
approach to the ergodic equilibrium. We find that, under cooling, the total
structural relaxation becomes delayed as compared with the decay of the
component of the intermediate scattering function corresponding to the main
peak of the structure factor. This observation can be explained by collective
movements of particles preserving many-body structural correlations within
compact 3D cooperatively rearranging regions.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Validation of a Wrist-Mounted Photoplethysmography Device During Graded Exercise Testing
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Time parameterization and stationary distributions in a relativistic gas
In this paper we consider the effect of different time parameterizations on
the stationary velocity distribution function for a relativistic gas. We
clarify the distinction between two such distributions, namely the J\"{u}ttner
and the modified J\"{u}ttner distributions. Using a recently proposed model of
a relativistic gas, we show that the obtained results for the proper-time
averaging does not lead to modified J\"{u}ttner distribution (as recently
conjectured), but introduces only a Lorentz factor to the well-known
J\"{u}ttner function which results from observer-time averaging. We obtain
results for rest frame as well as moving frame in order to support our claim.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Evaluation of VO2max Criteria in High-Active Trail Runners
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Tropical ancient DNA from bulk archaeological fish bone reveals the subsistence practices of a historic coastal community in southwest Madagascar
Taxonomic identification of archaeological fish bones provides important insights into the subsistence practices of ancient coastal peoples. However, it can be difficult to execute robust morphological identification of fish bones from species-rich fossil assemblages, especially from post-cranial material with few distinguishing features. Fragmentation, weathering and burning further impede taxonomic identification, resulting in large numbers of unidentifiable bones from archaeological sites. This limitation can be somewhat mitigated by taking an ancient DNA (aDNA) bulk-bone metabarcoding (BBM) approach to faunal identification, where DNA from non-diagnostic bone fragments is extracted and sequenced in parallel. However, a large proportion of fishing communities (both past and present) live in tropical regions that have sub-optimal conditions for long-term aDNA preservation. To date, the BBM method has never been applied to fish bones before, or to fossils excavated from an exposed context within a tropical climate. Here, we demonstrate that morphologically indistinct bulk fish bone from the tropics can be identified by sequencing aDNA extracted from 100 to 300 ya archaeological midden material in southwest Madagascar. Despite the biases of the approach, we rapidly obtained family, genus, and species-level assemblage information, and used this to describe a subset of the ichthyofauna exploited by an 18th century fishing community. We identified 23 families of fish, including benthic, pelagic, and coral-dwelling fishes, suggesting a reliance on a variety of marine and brackish habitats. When possible, BBM should be used alongside osteological approaches to address the limitations of both; however, this study highlights how genetic methods can nevertheless be a valuable tool for helping resolve faunal assemblages when morphological identification is hindered by taphonomic processes, lack of adequate comparative collections, and time constraints, and can provide a temporal perspective on fish biodiversity in the context of accelerated exploitation of the marine environment
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