Diversity of rodents and treeshrews in different habitats in western Sarawak, Borneo.

A diverse community of 63 rodent species and nine treeshrew species are found in Borneo (Phillipps & Phillipps, 2016). They play an important role in providing ecosystem services by contributing to pollination, seed dispersal, and germination; and also food for larger carnivores (Shanahan & Compton, 2000; Morand et al., 2006; Payne & Francis, 2007; Phillipps & Phillipps, 2016). Bornean tropical forests have been lost, degraded, and fragmented by anthropogenic activities since the early 1970s (Bryan et al., 2013; Gaveau et al., 2014), consequently created new or alternative habitats for rodents and treeshrews especially resilient, adaptive, or opportunistic species that can thrive in such disturbed areas while forest-dependent species would decline in number or become locally extinct (Traweger et al., 2006; Palmeirim et al., 2020). This study was conducted to determine the species richness and abundance of rodents and treeshrews in four different habitats (i.e. forest, oil palm plantation, rural villages, and urban area) in the western part of Sarawak, Borneo. The data collected from this study is important and useful in contributing new knowledge on the occupancy of anthropogenically created habitats for rodents and treeshrews and gives an insight into how each rodent and treeshrew species responded to human disturbance in term of their species richness and abundance in each habitat type

Search for jet extinction in the inclusive jet-pT spectrum from proton-proton collisions at s=8 TeV

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published articles title, journal citation, and DOI.The first search at the LHC for the extinction of QCD jet production is presented, using data collected with the CMS detector corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 10.7  fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The extinction model studied in this analysis is motivated by the search for signatures of strong gravity at the TeV scale (terascale gravity) and assumes the existence of string couplings in the strong-coupling limit. In this limit, the string model predicts the suppression of all high-transverse-momentum standard model processes, including jet production, beyond a certain energy scale. To test this prediction, the measured transverse-momentum spectrum is compared to the theoretical prediction of the standard model. No significant deficit of events is found at high transverse momentum. A 95% confidence level lower limit of 3.3 TeV is set on the extinction mass scale

Searches for electroweak neutralino and chargino production in channels with Higgs, Z, and W bosons in pp collisions at 8 TeV

Searches for supersymmetry (SUSY) are presented based on the electroweak pair production of neutralinos and charginos, leading to decay channels with Higgs, Z, and W bosons and undetected lightest SUSY particles (LSPs). The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of about 19.5 fb(-1) of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV collected in 2012 with the CMS detector at the LHC. The main emphasis is neutralino pair production in which each neutralino decays either to a Higgs boson (h) and an LSP or to a Z boson and an LSP, leading to hh, hZ, and ZZ states with missing transverse energy (E-T(miss)). A second aspect is chargino-neutralino pair production, leading to hW states with E-T(miss). The decays of a Higgs boson to a bottom-quark pair, to a photon pair, and to final states with leptons are considered in conjunction with hadronic and leptonic decay modes of the Z and W bosons. No evidence is found for supersymmetric particles, and 95% confidence level upper limits are evaluated for the respective pair production cross sections and for neutralino and chargino mass values

The ecological interdependence of emergent and established organizational populations: Legitimacy transfer, violation by comparison, and unstable identities

10.1287/orsc.1060.0209Organization Science175577-59

A multifunctional mutagenesis system for analysis of gene function in zebrafish

10.1534/g3.114.015842G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics561283-129

Enabling organizational cultural change using systemic strategic human resource management – a longitudinal case study

Researchers report that successful cultural change in an organization is difficult to achieve. This research contends that it is more likely to be successful when a systemic approach to strategic human resource management (SHRM) is used to facilitate the change. The contention was tested in an action research case study and longitudinal assessment of change in a large Australian public sector agency. A clear finding from this research is that the cultural change had been sustained through the systemic application of SHRM.<br /