cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Landau-Zener transition in a multilevel system. An exact result
Creators: name: Shytov, A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the S-matrix for the transitions at an avoided crossing of several energy levels, which is a multilevel generalization of the Landau-Zener problem. We demonstrate that, by extending the Schroedinger evolution to complex time, one can obtain an exact answer for some of the transition amplitudes. Similar to the Landau-Zener case, our result covers both the adiabatic regime (slow evolution.) and the diabatic regime (fast evolution). The form of the exact transition amplitude coincides with that obtained in a sequential pairwise level crossing approximation, in accord with the conjecture of Brundobler and Elser.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures
Norellia Robineau-Desvoidy 1830
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Norellia

description: Norellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
 Norellia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 673. Type species: Norellia pseudonarcisi Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: 673; by monotypy.
 Acantholena Rondani, 1856: 101. Type species: Acantholena maculipennis Rondani, 1856: 101; by original designation. Synonymized by SÉGUY (1935: 656).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 135, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
AN ANALYSIS OF SEX DIFFERENCES IN TEACHER-STUDENT INTERACTION IN ELEMENTARY/SECONDARY AND POSTSECONDARY MATHEMATICS/SCIENCE AND COMPOSITION/LITERATURE/LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOMS
Creators: name: Thomas, Dawn Frances
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This exploratory field study had three purposes: to determine sex differences in postsecondary teacher-student classroom interaction, to compare relationships between sex bias and interaction patterns in elementary/secondary and postsecondary classes, and to contribute information on equity and interaction in postsecondary education. Minor modifications were made to the INTERSECT Observation System (developed by The Network, Inc., for Project INTERSECT's elementary/secondary study) to collect postsecondary data. Similar collection methods allowed for comparisons between postsecondary and elementary/secondary classes. Total sample size was 64 classes/60 teachers: the elementary/secondary population had 30 classes/28 teachers in mathematics/science and language arts for grades four, six, and eight; the postsecondary population had 34 classes/32 teachers in mathematics and composition/literature classes for majors and nonmajors. Each class was observed twice. This study found approximately one-third more teacher-student interaction in elementary/secondary classes than in postsecondary. At all educational levels, males got more teacher interaction than expected and females less (coefficient of distribution, (+OR-) 4%). This inequity increased over time. However, the bias against females was greater in elementary/secondary classrooms. Elementary/secondary and postsecondary teachers used acceptance interactions the most frequently when responding to students (elementary/secondary, 53%; postsecondary, 65% of total interactions), followed by remediation (elementary/secondary, 31%; postsecondary, 33% of total interactions). These teachers rarely used praise and criticism. Similar patterns were found for the four types of intellectual interactions. Conduct, "other," and student-initiated interactions, and student call outs were more reflective of elementary/secondary education; they rarely occurred in postsecondary classes. There were no main effects for subject matter differences in teacher-male/female student interaction at any educational level. There was a rare interaction effect between subject matter and institution level. The postsecondary students in this study appeared to receive a more equitable education than the elementary/secondary students. Higher education classes appeared to offer a "blander" education. There was less student participation and less diverse teacher response to student comments.
Homogenous Lagrangian systems
Creators: name: Tulczyjew, Wlodzimierz M.
name: Urbanski, Pawel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 70H99

description: The application of the Legendre transformation to a hyperregular Lagrangian system results in a Hamiltonian vector field generated by a Hamiltonian defined on the phase space of the mechanical system. The Legendre transformation in its usual interpretation can not be applied to homogeneous Lagrangians found in relativistic mechanics. The dynamics of relativistic systems must be formulated in terms of implicit differential equations in the phase space and not in terms of Hamiltonian vector fields. The constrained Hamiltonian systems introduced by Dirac [1] are not general enough to cover some important cases. We formulate a geometric framework which permits Lagrangian and Hamiltonian descriptions of the dynamics of a wide class of mechanical systems. Lagrangians and Hamiltonians are presented as families of functions. The Legendre transformation and the inverse Legendre transformation are described as transitions between these families. Two examples, the dynamics of a relativistic particle and a space-time formulation of geometric optics (relativistic massless particle), are given.
description: An electronic version of a research paper, published in 1996, however not easy available
Encoder-Decoder Based Convolutional Neural Networks with Multi-Scale-Aware Modules for Crowd Counting
Creators: name: Thanasutives, Pongpisit
name: Fukui, Ken-ichi
name: Numao, Masayuki
name: Kijsirikul, Boonserm
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper, we propose two modified neural networks based on dual path multi-scale fusion networks (SFANet) and SegNet for accurate and efficient crowd counting. Inspired by SFANet, the first model, which is named M-SFANet, is attached with atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) and context-aware module (CAN). The encoder of M-SFANet is enhanced with ASPP containing parallel atrous convolutional layers with different sampling rates and hence able to extract multi-scale features of the target object and incorporate larger context. To further deal with scale variation throughout an input image, we leverage the CAN module which adaptively encodes the scales of the contextual information. The combination yields an effective model for counting in both dense and sparse crowd scenes. Based on the SFANet decoder structure, M-SFANet's decoder has dual paths, for density map and attention map generation. The second model is called M-SegNet, which is produced by replacing the bilinear upsampling in SFANet with max unpooling that is used in SegNet. This change provides a faster model while providing competitive counting performance. Designed for high-speed surveillance applications, M-SegNet has no additional multi-scale-aware module in order to not increase the complexity. Both models are encoder-decoder based architectures and are end-to-end trainable. We conduct extensive experiments on five crowd counting datasets and one vehicle counting dataset to show that these modifications yield algorithms that could improve state-of-the-art crowd counting methods. Codes are available at https://github.com/Pongpisit-Thanasutives/Variations-of-SFANet-for-Crowd-Counting.
description: Accepted at ICPR 2020
Acanthocnema himalaica Suwa 1986
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Acanthocnema
Acanthocnema himalaica

description: Acanthocnema himalaica Suwa, 1986
 Acenthocnema himalaica Suwa, 1986: 10. HOLOTYPE: J, East Nepal, Thudam (27°45′N, 87° 32′E), 3500 m a.s.l., 24.vi.1972, Y. Nishida leg. (EIHU).
 Distribution. Nepal (SUWA 1986: 10).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Acanthocnema longispina Suwa 1986
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Acanthocnema
Acanthocnema longispina

description: Acanthocnema longispina Suwa, 1986
 Acanthocnema longispina Suwa, 1986: 12. HOLOTYPE: J, Japan, Hokkaidô, Mt. Soranuma, 27.vii.1965, K. Kusigemati leg. (EIHU).
 Distribution. Japan (SUWA 1986: 12).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 136, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
National Well-being Policy and a Weighted Approach to Human Feelings
Creators: name: O'Donnell, Gus
name: Oswald, Andrew J.
name: O'Donnell, Gus
name: Oswald, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Life satisfaction
subject: anxiety
subject: happiness
subject: national well-being
subject: mental health

description: Governments are becoming interested in the concept of human well-being and how truly to assess it. As an alternative to traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information on citizens’ happiness, life satisfaction, and other psychological scores. Yet how could such data actually be used? This paper is a cautious attempt to contribute to thinking on that question. It suggests a possible weighting method to calculate first-order changes in society’s well-being, discusses some of the potential principles of democratic ‘well-being policy’, and (as an illustrative example) reports data on how sub-samples of citizens believe feelings might be weighted.
Relativistic five-quark equations and u, d- pentaquark spectroscopy
Creators: name: Gerasyuta, S. M.
name: Kochkin, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The relativistic five-quark equations are found in the framework of the dispersion relation technique. The five-quark amplitudes for the low-lying pentaquarks including u, d quarks are calculated. The poles of the five-quark amplitudes determine the masses of the lowest pentaquarks. The calculation of pentaquark amplitudes estimates the contributions of four subamplitudes. The main contributions to the pentaquark amplitude are determined by the subamplitudes, which include the meson states M.
description: 21 pages, pdf
Acanthocnema sternalis Suwa 1986
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Acanthocnema
Acanthocnema sternalis

description: Acanthocnema sternalis Suwa, 1986
 Acanthocnema sternalis Suwa, 1986: 14. HOLOTYPE: J, Japan, Hokkaidô, Mt. Daisetsu, 30.vii.1967, K. Kusigemati leg. (EIHU).
 Distribution. Japan (SUWA 1986: 14).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 137, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
On the Expected Backreaction During Preheating
Creators: name: Armendariz-Picon, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In previous work we argued that the correct procedure to predict the gravitational wave signal from preheating after inflation rests on the in-in formalism. We extend here our previous analysis to include the backreaction of the produced matter on the motion of the inflaton and the expansion of the universe, and study how the latter affect the spectrum of the resulting gravitational waves. The addition of backreaction demands the appropriate renormalization of divergent expectation values, which we regularize by preserving diffeomorphism invariance in a manner that is amenable to numerical integration. The very same calculation also allows us to determine for which strength of the inflaton to matter couplings reheating is successful. We illustrate our results with the scalar version of the Starobinsky model of inflation, and observe that it is hard to reheat the universe while keeping radiative corrections under control.
description: 40 pages, 10 figures. v2: Replaced with published version
Allomyella Malloch 1923
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Allomyella

description: Allomyella Malloch, 1923
 Allomyia Malloch, 1919b: 80. Type species: Allomyia unguiculata Malloch, 1919b: 80; by original designation. Junior homonym of Allomyia Felt, 1918 (see MALLOCH 1923b).
 Allomyella Malloch 1923b: 199. New substitute name for Allomyia Malloch, 1919b.
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 137, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Megaphthalmoides Ringdahl 1936
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Megaphthalmoides

description: Megaphthalmoides Ringdahl, 1936
 Megaphthalmoides Ringdahl, 1936: 179. Type species: Cordylura unilineata Zetterstedt, 1838: 727; by original designation.
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 138, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
AN ANALYSIS OF SEX DIFFERENCES IN TEACHER-STUDENT INTERACTION IN ELEMENTARY/SECONDARY AND POSTSECONDARY MATHEMATICS/SCIENCE AND COMPOSITION/LITERATURE/LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOMS
Creators: name: Thomas, Dawn Frances
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: This exploratory field study had three purposes: to determine sex differences in postsecondary teacher-student classroom interaction, to compare relationships between sex bias and interaction patterns in elementary/secondary and postsecondary classes, and to contribute information on equity and interaction in postsecondary education. Minor modifications were made to the INTERSECT Observation System (developed by The Network, Inc., for Project INTERSECT's elementary/secondary study) to collect postsecondary data. Similar collection methods allowed for comparisons between postsecondary and elementary/secondary classes. Total sample size was 64 classes/60 teachers: the elementary/secondary population had 30 classes/28 teachers in mathematics/science and language arts for grades four, six, and eight; the postsecondary population had 34 classes/32 teachers in mathematics and composition/literature classes for majors and nonmajors. Each class was observed twice. This study found approximately one-third more teacher-student interaction in elementary/secondary classes than in postsecondary. At all educational levels, males got more teacher interaction than expected and females less (coefficient of distribution, (+OR-) 4%). This inequity increased over time. However, the bias against females was greater in elementary/secondary classrooms. Elementary/secondary and postsecondary teachers used acceptance interactions the most frequently when responding to students (elementary/secondary, 53%; postsecondary, 65% of total interactions), followed by remediation (elementary/secondary, 31%; postsecondary, 33% of total interactions). These teachers rarely used praise and criticism. Similar patterns were found for the four types of intellectual interactions. Conduct, "other," and student-initiated interactions, and student call outs were more reflective of elementary/secondary education; they rarely occurred in postsecondary classes. There were no main effects for subject matter differences in teacher-male/female student interaction at any educational level. There was a rare interaction effect between subject matter and institution level. The postsecondary students in this study appeared to receive a more equitable education than the elementary/secondary students. Higher education classes appeared to offer a "blander" education. There was less student participation and less diverse teacher response to student comments.
Black box measures? How to study people’s algorithm skills
Creators: name: Hargittai, Eszter
name: Gruber, Jonathan
name: Djukaric, Teodora
name: Jaelle Fuchs
name: Brombach, Lisa
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Considerable scholarship has established that algorithms are an increasingly important part of what information people encounter in everyday life. Much less work has focused on studying users’ experiences with, understandings of, and attitudes about how algorithms may influence what they see and do. The dearth of research on this topic globally with diverse populations may be in part due to the difficulty of studying a subject about which there is no known ground truth given that details about algorithms are proprietary and rarely made public. This paper explicitly takes on the methodological challenges of studying people’s algorithm skills to shed light on the special considerations required when studying a topic about which even the researchers possess limited know-how. The paper advocates for more such scholarship to accompany existing system-level analyses of algorithms’ social implications and offers a blueprint for how to do so.
Microprosopa Becker 1894
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Microprosopa

description: Microprosopa Becker, 1894
 Microprosopa Becker, 1894: 147. Type species: Cordylura haemorrhoidalis Meigen, 1826: 237; by original designation.
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 138, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Additional file 1 of Combining heterogeneous subgroups with graph-structured variable selection priors for Cox regression
Creators: name: Madjar, Katrin
name: Zucknick, Manuela
name: Ickstadt, Katja
name: Rahnenführer, Jörg
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Additional supporting information for the results of the simulation studies and the case study.
THE IRANIAN TAX SYSTEM: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Ahmadi, Massoud
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: The purpose of this study is an examination of the Iranian tax system in the context of recent developments in oil prices. The reduction in Iran's oil revenues since 1975, has intensified the need to improve the performance of non-oil tax revenues on two grounds. First, in addition to providing an additional source of finance, it can reduce the impact of additional government expenditure on the rate of inflation and the structure of the domestic economy. Second, by strengthening the tax system and its administrative structure, fiscal authorities can devise--more effectively--appropriate tax policies to achieve desired economic objectives. In this study the tax system of Iran is described, analyzed, and evaluated against three broad standards of taxation: (1) equity, (2) efficiency, and (3) adequacy. The specific objectives of the study are: (1) to assess the incidence of the Iranian corporation income tax; (2) to evaluate Iran's tax revenue performance; (3) to explain Iran's low tax efforts; and (4) to assess the effectiveness of the Iranian tax administration. In achieving the first objective, the Krzyzaniak-Musgrave methodology concerning corporate tax incidence is directly linked with the Rao and Rao perspective on entrepreneurial behavior. In evaluating Iran's tax revenue performance, Singer's dummy variable method is used to measure the built-in flexibility of various taxes. Moreover, the Musgrave-Miller coefficient is employed to measure the effectiveness of built-in flexibility. In explaining Iran's low tax efforts, a cross-section model is developed in terms of two general determinants of taxable capacity, namely, the stage of development and the size of the foreign trade sector, in order to conduct an inter-country tax effort analysis. Finally, using development administration techniques, the organization of the Iranian tax administration is analyzed in order to identify the sources of "administrative incapacity.". The results of the analysis point to a picture of rapidly expanding tax bases and discretionary tax changes aimed at reducing tax yield, or in part offset by evasion, exemptions and weak administrative effort in collecting taxes at existing rates. This study presents major policy recommendations concerning the attainment of both a more efficient tax system and an effective administrative structure.
Pygmy Dipol Resonances as a Manifestation of the Structure of the Neutron-Rich Nuclei
Creators: name: Tsoneva, N.
name: Lenske, H.
name: Stoyanov, Ch.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dipole excitations in neutron-rich nuclei below the neutron threshold are investigated. The method is based on Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) and Quasiparticle-Phonon Model (QPM) theory. Of our special interest are the properties of the low-lying 1- Pygmy Resonance and the two-phonon quadrupole-octupole 1- states in Sn-isotopes including exploratory investigations for the experimentally unknown mass regions. In particular we investigate the evolution of the dipole strength function with the neutron excess. The use of HFB mean-field potentials and s.p. energies is found to provide a reliable extrapolation into the region off stability.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of the International Conference on Collective Motion in Nuclei Under Extreme Conditions (COMEX1), Paris, France, 10-13 June 2003
THE IRANIAN TAX SYSTEM: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
Creators: name: Ahmadi, Massoud
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study is an examination of the Iranian tax system in the context of recent developments in oil prices. The reduction in Iran's oil revenues since 1975, has intensified the need to improve the performance of non-oil tax revenues on two grounds. First, in addition to providing an additional source of finance, it can reduce the impact of additional government expenditure on the rate of inflation and the structure of the domestic economy. Second, by strengthening the tax system and its administrative structure, fiscal authorities can devise--more effectively--appropriate tax policies to achieve desired economic objectives. In this study the tax system of Iran is described, analyzed, and evaluated against three broad standards of taxation: (1) equity, (2) efficiency, and (3) adequacy. The specific objectives of the study are: (1) to assess the incidence of the Iranian corporation income tax; (2) to evaluate Iran's tax revenue performance; (3) to explain Iran's low tax efforts; and (4) to assess the effectiveness of the Iranian tax administration. In achieving the first objective, the Krzyzaniak-Musgrave methodology concerning corporate tax incidence is directly linked with the Rao and Rao perspective on entrepreneurial behavior. In evaluating Iran's tax revenue performance, Singer's dummy variable method is used to measure the built-in flexibility of various taxes. Moreover, the Musgrave-Miller coefficient is employed to measure the effectiveness of built-in flexibility. In explaining Iran's low tax efforts, a cross-section model is developed in terms of two general determinants of taxable capacity, namely, the stage of development and the size of the foreign trade sector, in order to conduct an inter-country tax effort analysis. Finally, using development administration techniques, the organization of the Iranian tax administration is analyzed in order to identify the sources of "administrative incapacity.". The results of the analysis point to a picture of rapidly expanding tax bases and discretionary tax changes aimed at reducing tax yield, or in part offset by evasion, exemptions and weak administrative effort in collecting taxes at existing rates. This study presents major policy recommendations concerning the attainment of both a more efficient tax system and an effective administrative structure.
Letter to Dr. N.S. Davis
Creators: name: Bennett, Thomas (Medical educator)
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 1867
Subjects: subject: Toland Medical College
subject: Smith, N. S. (Nathan Smith
subject: Education, Medical
subject: Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904
subject: Education, Medical/standards

description: Letter expressing approval of proposed standardization of medical education.
Impact of Neutrino Oscillation Measurements on Theory
Creators: name: Murayama, Hitoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Neutrino oscillation data had been a big surprise to theorists, and indeed they have ongoing impact on theory. I review what the impact has been, and what measurements will have critical impact on theory in the future.
description: 8 pages, uses aipproc, 6 figures. Plenary talk presented at Nufact 03, 5th International Workshop on Neutrino Factories & Superbeams, Columbia University, New York, 5-11 June 2003
Microprosopa frontata
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Microprosopa
Microprosopa frontata

description: Microprosopa frontata (Zetterstedt, 1838)
 Scatomyza frontata Zetterstedt, 1838: 724. HOLOTYPE: ♀, Sweden, ‘ Lapponia Tornensis [= Torne Lappmark], Jockasjervi [= Jukkasjärvi], 20.vi. [without year]’ (probably MZLU).
 Cordylura strigifrons Zetterstedt, 1838: 728. HOLOTYPE: ♀, Sweden, ‘Lapponia Umensi [= Lycksele Lappmark], Tresunda [= Tresund], in littore lacus Wojmsjoen [= shore of lake Wojmsjoen], D. Dahlbom leg.’ (probably MZLU). Synonymized by GORODKOV (1986: 24).
 Distribution. Sweden (HEDSTRÖM 1991: 143).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 138, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
AN ASSESSMENT OF DIRECTORS OF MILITARY DAY CARE CENTERS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE ADEQUACY OF CARE PROVIDED IN DAY CARE CENTERS ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS
Creators: name: Bates, Louis Joe
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of this study was: (1) to determine the adequacy of care provided in day care centers on United States military installations, as perceived by directors of these centers along lines of nine program objectives as presented on the Day Care Center Inventory (DCCI), (2) to determine statistically significant differences, if any, among the perceptions of day care center directors classified by the sponsoring branch of service (U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Navy) and by continent of installation location (North America, Europe, Asia, and Other), and (3) to interpret the findings from the perspective of suggested program and delivery modifications needed to achieve greater uniformity in the overall military day care undertaking. The following null hypotheses were tested in the study: (1) The adequacy of care provided in day care centers on U.S. military installations as assessed by the Day Care Center Inventory does not differ significantly among service branches: U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Navy. (2) The adequacy of care provided in day care centers on U.S. military installations assessed by the Day Care Center Inventory does not differ significantly according to continent of installation location: North America, Europe, Asia, and Other. The Day Care Center Inventory, The Day Care Center Clientele Checksheet, and the Day Care Center Personal Data Sheet were developed by the researcher to elicit by mail specific data from 459 military day care center directors worldwide. The Kruskal-Wallis statistic was used in hypothesis testing. Each study hypothesis was not rejected, to indicate that the adequacy of day care center care along lines of nine (9) program objectives showed no significant differences among day care centers by branch of sponsoring service or continent of installation location. This leads to researcher to conclude that military day care centers worldwide and in all service branches are delivering day care services with notable uniformity.
Generalized Adaptive Partition-based Method for Two-Stage Stochastic Programs with Fixed Recourse
Creators: name: Ramirez-Pico, Cristian
name: Moreno, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 90C15

description: We present a method to solve two-stage stochastic problems with fixed recourse when the uncertainty space can have either discrete or continuous distributions. Given a partition of the uncertainty space, the method is addressed to solve a discrete problem with one scenario for each element of the partition (sub-regions of the uncertainty space). Fixing first stage variables, we formulate a second stage subproblem for each element, and exploiting information from the dual of these problems, we provide conditions that the partition must satisfy to obtain the optimal solution. These conditions provide guidance on how to refine the partition, converging iteratively to the optimal solution. Results from computational experiments show how the method automatically refines the partition of the uncertainty space in the regions of interest for the problem. Our algorithm is a generalization of the adaptive partition-based method presented by Song & Luedtke (2015) for discrete distributions, extending its applicability to more general cases.
Microprosopa hoberlandti Sifner 1981
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Microprosopa
Microprosopa hoberlandti

description: Microprosopa hoberlandti Šifner, 1981
 Microprosopa hoberlandti Šifner, 1981: 91. HOLOTYPE: J, Iran, 10 km NW Zajnan, locality No. 264, 4.-5.vii.1973 (NMPC).
 New record. HUNGARY: Tarhos, Fenyscapda, 21.v.1963, 1 J, Mihályi leg. (FSPC).
 Distribution. Czech Republic (ŠIFNER 2003a: 41); Hungary (this paper); Iran (ŠIFNER 1981:
91); Slovakia (ŠIFNER 2003a: 41).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on page 139, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
AN ASSESSMENT OF DIRECTORS OF MILITARY DAY CARE CENTERS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE ADEQUACY OF CARE PROVIDED IN DAY CARE CENTERS ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS
Creators: name: Bates, Louis Joe
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: The purpose of this study was: (1) to determine the adequacy of care provided in day care centers on United States military installations, as perceived by directors of these centers along lines of nine program objectives as presented on the Day Care Center Inventory (DCCI), (2) to determine statistically significant differences, if any, among the perceptions of day care center directors classified by the sponsoring branch of service (U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Navy) and by continent of installation location (North America, Europe, Asia, and Other), and (3) to interpret the findings from the perspective of suggested program and delivery modifications needed to achieve greater uniformity in the overall military day care undertaking. The following null hypotheses were tested in the study: (1) The adequacy of care provided in day care centers on U.S. military installations as assessed by the Day Care Center Inventory does not differ significantly among service branches: U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Navy. (2) The adequacy of care provided in day care centers on U.S. military installations assessed by the Day Care Center Inventory does not differ significantly according to continent of installation location: North America, Europe, Asia, and Other. The Day Care Center Inventory, The Day Care Center Clientele Checksheet, and the Day Care Center Personal Data Sheet were developed by the researcher to elicit by mail specific data from 459 military day care center directors worldwide. The Kruskal-Wallis statistic was used in hypothesis testing. Each study hypothesis was not rejected, to indicate that the adequacy of day care center care along lines of nine (9) program objectives showed no significant differences among day care centers by branch of sponsoring service or continent of installation location. This leads to researcher to conclude that military day care centers worldwide and in all service branches are delivering day care services with notable uniformity.
Additional file 1 of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene knockout and interallelic gene conversion in human induced pluripotent stem cells using non-integrative bacteriophage-chimeric retrovirus-like particles
Creators: name: Mianné, Joffrey
name: Nasri, Amel
name: Van, Chloé Nguyen
name: Bourguignon, Chloé
name: Fieldès, Mathieu
name: Ahmed, Engi
name: Duthoit, Christine
name: Martin, Nicolas
name: Parrinello, Hugues
name: Louis, Anaïs
name: Iché, Alexandra
name: Gayon, Régis
name: Samain, Florine
name: Lamouroux, Lucille
name: Bouillé, Pascale
name: Bourdin, Arnaud
name: Assou, Said
name: De Vos, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Figs. S1-S11. Supplementary Figure S1. Transduction of the HY03 hiPSC line with LF-ZsGreen particles allows transient ZsGreen expression and does not affect pluripotency. Supplementary Figure S2. LF-ZsGreen particles allow the highly efficient delivery of RNA in different hiPSC lines. Supplementary Figure S3. Characterization of the HY03-GFP non-clonal reporter hiPSC line. Supplementary Figure S4. NGS analysis of DNAH5 indel size distribution. Supplementary Figure S5. LentiFlash® particle-based transduction of the CRISPR/Cas9 system to target the GFP fluorescent reporter sequence in a HCT116-GFP cell line that contains one GFP copy per cell. Supplementary Figure S6. Characterization of hiPSC clones in which DNAH5 or MCIDAS was knocked out by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing using the LentiFlash® system. Supplementary Figure S7. LentiFlash® particle-based transduction of the CRISPR/Cas9 components to target specific genes results in high indel formation in different hiPSC lines. Supplementary Figure S8. Interallelic gene conversion following iPSC electroporation and following LentiFlash® transduction of neural progenitors obtained from the PCD_02:30 hiPSC line results. Supplementary Figure S9. Characterization of hiPSC clonal lines harboring DNAH5 heterozygous mutations. Supplementary Figure S10. Specifically targeting the wild-type allele in hiPSC clones harboring a DNAH5 heterozygous mutation results in interallelic gene conversion. Supplementary Figure S11. Schematic representation of the expression cassettes carried by the plasmids used to produce the integrative lentiviral vector (ILV) that expresses the GFP reporter and of the expression cassettes carried by the plasmids used to produce non-integrative lentiviral particles (LentiFlash®) that express the ZsGreen reporter or the CRISPR/Cas9 systems. Supplementary Tables S1-3. Supplementary Table S1. sgRNA sequences. Supplementary Table S2. PCR primers. Supplementary Table S3. antibodies
Efficient mate finding in planktonic copepods swimming in turbulence
Creators: name: Michalec, François-Gaël
name: Fouxon, Itzhak
name: Souissi, Sami
name: Holzner, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Zooplankton live in dynamic environments where turbulence may challenge their limited swimming abilities. How this interferes with fundamental behavioral processes remains elusive. We reconstruct simultaneously the trajectories of flow tracers and calanoid copepods and we quantify their ability to find mates when ambient flow imposes physical constrains on their motion and impairs their olfactory orientation. We show that copepods achieve high encounter rates in turbulence due to the contribution of advection and vigorous swimming. Males further convert encounters within the perception radius to contacts and then to mating via directed motion toward nearby organisms within the short time frame of the encounter. Inertial effects do not result in preferential concentration, reducing the geometric collision kernel to the clearance rate, which we model accurately by superposing turbulent velocity and organism motion. This behavioral and physical coupling mechanism may account for the ability of copepods to reproduce in turbulent environments.
description: Author's accepted manuscript
Size-dependent decoherence of excitonic states in semiconductor microcrystallites
Creators: name: Liu, Yu-xi
name: Miranowicz, A.
name: Ozdemir, S. K.
name: Koashi, Masato
name: Imoto, Nobuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The size-dependent decoherence of the exciton states resulting from the spontaneous emission is investigated in a semiconductor spherical microcrystallite under condition $a_{B}\ll R_{0}\leqλ$. In general, the larger size of the microcrystallite corresponds to the shorter coherence time. If the initial state is a superposition of two different excitonic coherent states, the coherence time depends on both the overlap of two excitonic coherent states and the size of the microcrystallite. When the system with fixed size is initially in the even or odd coherent states, the larger average number of the excitons corresponds to the faster decoherence. When the average number of the excitons is given, the bigger size of the microcrystallite corresponds to the faster decoherence. The decoherence of the exciton states for the materials GaAs and CdS is numerically studied by our theoretical analysis.
description: 4 pages, two figures
A coordinateless form of the Dirac equation
Creators: name: Marchuk, N. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53Z05

description: We present a so called Dirac-type tensor equation (DTTE). This equation is written in coordinateless form with the aid of differential operators $d$ and $δ$. A wave function of DTTE belongs to a minimal left ideal of the algebra of exterior forms with respect to the Clifford product. We show that a coordinate form of DTTE is identical to the Dirac equation in a fixed coordinate system.
Killing-Yano tensors and surface terms
Creators: name: Baleanu, D.
name: Defterli, O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: New geometries were obtained by adding a suitable surface term involving the components of the angular momentum to the corresponding free Lagrangians. Killing vectors, Killing-Yano and Killing tensors of the obtained manifolds were investigated.
description: LATEX, 8 pages
A COMPARATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS OF "TRAINING, THE MAGAZINE OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT" AND "TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL"
Creators: name: Bernon, Douglas Baldauf
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study consisted of a comparative content analysis of two journals, Training, the Magazine of Human Resources Development, and Training and Development Journal, over a nineteen year span, from 1964 through 1982. The purpose of the study was to see what differences and similarities existed between the two journals that are circulated most widely to those working as trainers and human resources developers, and to determine to what extent the journals offered their readership similar ideas, emphases and perspectives. In short, it was a study that examined, compared and contrasted trends regarding content, methodology and author demographics of selected articles. All articles in both journals were examined, and those articles which focused on one of the four basic content areas--quality of worklife, evaluation, national policy issues, and retraining--were selected for analysis on a number of variables: length of the article (which was converted into standard inches for comparative purposes); methodology of presentation (which included research, interpretive literature reviews, techniques of practice, personal belief, theoretical or philosophical formulations and new or model programs); gender, professional affiliation and geographic location of the author; and the number of citations and references. From the population of 2,708 articles, 627 articles were selected, 203 or 22.3% of all articles published in Training, and 424 or 23.6% of all articles published in Training and Development Journal. What emerged from this study is a picture of two journals which are nearly identical in the percentage of space they devote to certain content areas, and nearly identical in the percentage of articles they publish by male and females, but strikingly different in other ways, most notably the methodologies used in presenting the articles. Training included a higher percentage of articles written by consultants and a lower percentage of articles written by academics. The editors have chosen to accept articles which contain few citations and references, and which are most frequently of the practical variety, as opposed to research pieces. Training and Development Journal, on the other hand, included more articles by academics, and a far higher percentage of the articles include citations and references.
Microprosopa lineata
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Microprosopa
Microprosopa lineata

description: Microprosopa lineata (Zetterstedt, 1838)
 Cordylura lineata Zetterstedt, 1838: 732. SYNTYPES: J ♀, Sweden, ‘ Hab. in Svecia boreali et Lapponia [= found in northern Sweden and Lappland], Lapponia Lulensi [= Lule Lappmark], in ripa arenosa fluminis Tornensis [= on a sandy shores of rivers in Torne Lappmark], Quickjock [= Kvikkjokk], vi.1843, Boheman leg.; Juckasjervi [= Jukkasjärvi], 24.vi.1821 ’ (probably MZLU).
 Distribution. Finland (HACKMAN 1980: 130); Russia – European Russia (GORODKOV 1970: 455, ENGELMARK 1999: 159); Sweden (HEDSTRÖM 1991: 143); Nearctic region (VOCKEROTH 1965: 835).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on pages 139-140, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493
Trichopalpus nigribasis Curran 1927
Creators: name: Šifner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Scathophagidae
Trichopalpus
Trichopalpus nigribasis

description: Trichopalpus nigribasis Curran, 1927
 Trichopalpus nigribasis Curran, 1927: 255. HOLOTYPE: J, Canada,Alta.[= Alberta], Banff, 23.viii.1922, No. 2606, C. B. G. Garrett leg. (CNC).
 Chaetosa pilirostris Ringdahl, 1936: 178. HOLOTYPE: J, Norway, ‘im nördlichen Norwegen [= in northern Norway], Ein J vom Verf. bei Tromsö [= one male collected by the author near Tromsø]’ (probably MZLU). Synonymized by GORODKOV (1986: 28).
 Distribution. Finland (HACKMAN 1980: 131); Norway (NELSON & GREVE 2002: 46); Nearctic region (VOCKEROTH 1965: 836).
description: Published as part of Šifner, František, 2008, A catalogue of the Scathophagidae (Diptera) of the Palaearctic region, with notes on their taxonomy and faunistics, pp. 111-196 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1) on pages 140-141, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5342493