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Case-Building Behavior, Persistence, and Emergence Success of \u3ci\u3ePycnopsyche Guttifer\u3c/i\u3e (Walker) (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) in Laboratory and \u3ci\u3ein situ\u3c/i\u3e Environments: Potential Trade-Offs of Material Preference
When removed from their cases in a non-flow laboratory environment, 5th instar Pycnopsyche guttifer (Walker) larvae were always successful in constructing a new case within 24 h when woody debris was present as a material choice. Most were successful within 1 h. Larvae were never successful at case building in the absence of wood in a non-flow environment. These laboratory-constructed ‘emergency cases’ were flimsy, lacking in shape, and larger than field cases. Laboratory case size, shape, and material preference remained constant after repeated daily evacuations over a series of 10 days. Larvae could be induced to construct a case composed of mineral particles only in the absence of wood and when placed in a laboratory stream with simulated flow conditions, or in situ in a natural stream. The emergence success of P. guttifer specimens induced to build these mineral cases, however, was significantly higher than that of larvae remaining in their field cases or of larvae that built wood cases. This result is likely due to a fungal infection that affected only larvae in wood cases. Our results demonstrate a scenario where a clearly non-preferred case construction material appears to increase survival
The efficacy of Ivermectin against strongyles in yearlings on Thoroughbred breeding farms in New Zealand
Numerical Modelling and Calibration of CFS Framed Shear Walls under Dynamic Loading
This paper describes the numerical modeling using OpenSees of steel sheathed cold-formed steel framed shear wall test specimens under dynamic loading. Two modeling phases were carried out; the first phase comprised non-linear models calibrated using existing reversed cyclic shear wall test data, and the second phase involved more advanced models calibrated using data from dynamic shake table tests of single- and double-storey shear walls as well as other ancillary test programs. The second phase models incorporated the behaviour of the hold-downs, floor framing and blocked bare frame, in addition to the sheathing. The final calibrated models were able to accurately predict the displacement and force response time histories of the single- and double-storey shear wall specimens. These calibrated models will later be relied on for Incremental Dynamic Analyses (IDA) of representative building structures to evaluate seismic design provisions for cold-formed steel framed shear walls to be used in conjunction with the National Building Code of Canada (NBCC)
Questionnaire study on parasite control practices on Thoroughbred and Standardbred breeding farms in New Zealand
Old and New Fields on Super Riemann Surfaces
The ``new fields" or ``superconformal functions" on super Riemann
surfaces introduced recently by Rogers and Langer are shown to coincide with
the Abelian differentials (plus constants), viewed as a subset of the functions
on the associated super Riemann surface. We confirm that, as originally
defined, they do not form a super vector space.Comment: 9 pages, LaTex. Published version: minor changes for clarity, two new
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A generalization of Hausdorff dimension applied to Hilbert cubes and Wasserstein spaces
A Wasserstein spaces is a metric space of sufficiently concentrated
probability measures over a general metric space. The main goal of this paper
is to estimate the largeness of Wasserstein spaces, in a sense to be precised.
In a first part, we generalize the Hausdorff dimension by defining a family of
bi-Lipschitz invariants, called critical parameters, that measure largeness for
infinite-dimensional metric spaces. Basic properties of these invariants are
given, and they are estimated for a naturel set of spaces generalizing the
usual Hilbert cube. In a second part, we estimate the value of these new
invariants in the case of some Wasserstein spaces, as well as the dynamical
complexity of push-forward maps. The lower bounds rely on several embedding
results; for example we provide bi-Lipschitz embeddings of all powers of any
space inside its Wasserstein space, with uniform bound and we prove that the
Wasserstein space of a d-manifold has "power-exponential" critical parameter
equal to d.Comment: v2 Largely expanded version, as reflected by the change of title; all
part I on generalized Hausdorff dimension is new, as well as the embedding of
Hilbert cubes into Wasserstein spaces. v3 modified according to the referee
final remarks ; to appear in Journal of Topology and Analysi
Long-term condition self-management support in online communities. A meta-synthesis of qualitative papers
Background: Recent years have seen an exponential increase in people with a long-term condition (LTC) using the internet for information and support. Prior research has examined support for LTC self-management (SM) through the provision of illness, every day and emotional work in the context of traditional offline communities. However, less is known about how communities hosted in digital spaces contribute through the creation of social ties and the mobilisation of an online illness ‘workforce’. Objectives: To understand the negotiation of LTC illness work in patient online communities and how such work may assist the SM of LTCs in daily life. Methods: A systematic search of qualitative papers was undertaken using AMED, CINAHL, Cochrane Database, Delphis, Embase, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Medline, PsychInfo, Scopus, Sociological Abstracts and Web of Science for papers published since 2004. 21 papers met the inclusion criteria of using qualitative methods and examined the use of peer-led online communities in those with a LTC. A qualitative meta-synthesis was undertaken and the review followed a line of argument synthesis. Results: The main themes identified in relation to the negotiation of Self-Management Support (SMS) were: 1) Redressing offline experiential information and knowledge deficits; 2) The influence of modelling and learning behaviours from others on SM; 3) Engagement which validates illness and negates offline frustrations; 4) Tie formation and community building; 5) Narrative expression and cathartic release; 6) Dissociative anonymity and invisibility. These translated into a line of argument synthesis in which four network mechanisms for SMS in patient online communities were identified. These were collective knowledge and identification through lived experience; support, information and engagement through readily accessible gifting relationships; sociability that extends beyond illness; and online disinhibition as a facilitator in the negotiation of SMS. Conclusion: Social ties forged in online spaces provide the bases for performing relevant SM work that can improve an individual’s illness experience, tackling aspects of SM that are particularly difficult to meet offline. Membership of online groups can provide those living with a LTC with ready access to a SMS illness ‘workforce’ and illness and emotional support. The substitutability of offline illness work may be particularly important to those whose access to support offline is either limited or absent. Furthermore, such resources require little negotiation online, since information and support is seemingly gifted to the community by its members. <br/
Next-to-Leading Order Hard Scattering Using Fully Unintegrated Parton Distribution Functions
We calculate the next-to-leading order fully unintegrated hard scattering
coefficient for unpolarized gluon-induced deep inelastic scattering using the
logical framework of parton correlation functions developed in previous work.
In our approach, exact four-momentum conservation is maintained throughout the
calculation. Hence, all non-perturbative functions, like parton distribution
functions, depend on all components of parton four-momentum. In contrast to the
usual collinear factorization approach where the hard scattering coefficient
involves generalized functions (such as Dirac -functions), the fully
unintegrated hard scattering coefficient is an ordinary function. Gluon-induced
deep inelastic scattering provides a simple illustration of the application of
the fully unintegrated factorization formalism with a non-trivial hard
scattering coefficient, applied to a phenomenologically interesting case.
Furthermore, the gluon-induced process allows for a parameterization of the
fully unintegrated gluon distribution function.Comment: 22 pages, Typos Fixed, Reference Added, Minor Clarification Adde
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