cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Illeis confusa Timberlake
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Illeis
Illeis confusa

description: Illeis confusa Timberlake
(Figs 117, 118)
Illeis confusa Timberlake, 1943: 61 (Type locality: Hong Kong).—Bielawski 1961a: 361; Poorani 2002a: 334; Poorani & Lalitha 2018: 119.
Illeis chinensis Yablokov-Khnzoryan, 1978: 182.— Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1982: 295; Synonymized by Yu 2010: 154.
Diagnosis. Length: 5.00–6.00 mm; width: 3.50–4.00 mm. Form elongate oval, dorsum moderately convex and glabrous. Externally similar to I. cincta but of variable coloration. Head and pronotum creamy white and elytra lemon yellow (Figs 117a, 118g, h) or uniform pinkish-fawn (Fig. 117b) or creamy yellow (118e, f, i), pronotum always with a pair of black spots. Male genitalia (Fig. 117c–f) and spermatheca (Fig. 117g) as illustrated.
Immature stages. Larva (Fig. 118a) yellow with four rows of black spots and thoracic black maculae as in other Illeis spp. but pupa characteristic (Fig. 118b–d), greyish yellow with two median pairs of black spots and lateral stripes followed by four rows of black spots on dorsal side.
Distribution. India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal); Nepal; Bhutan; Thailand; China; Hong Kong.
Prey / Associated habitat. Commonly found feeding on various powdery mildews infesting sunflower, castor, and several other plants. Found on shisham (Dalbergia sissoo) in Pakistan (Hayat et al. 2007). Found on mulberry in Nepal (Sajan et al. 2019).
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during August–October in Pakistan (Hayat et al. 2017).
Notes. It is similar to I. cincta and replaces the latter in the northern and eastern parts of India as the most common species of the genus. See Timberlake (1943), Bielawski (1961a), Ren et al. (2009) and Yu (2010) for more details.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on pages 166-169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Implementación de un modelo de costos ABC en una empresa vitivinícola
Creators: name: Contreras, H.
name: Mac Cawley, A.
name: Contreras, H.
name: Mac Cawley, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: ABC
subject: activity
subject: cost
subject: wine.

description: The objective of the present study was to determine the cost and profit of different products lines in a Chilean winery, using activity based costing (ABC). In order to introduce this system, the wine-making process is broken down into its different activities, and cost drivers are assigned according to the level of use of resources in each activity (and not based in volume of production). The use of this system allows to conclude that the traditional cost system punishes the lesser quality wines (bulk wines), subsidizing the higher quality ones (Reserves and Premium), which are produced in smaller volumes and are more intensive in the use of many resources, and thus, more expensive to produce.
description: Published by Asociación de Economistas Agrarios de Chile
Disc-binary interactions in depleted post-AGB binaries
Creators: name: Oomen, Glenn-Michael
name: Pols, Onno
name: Van Winckel, Hans
name: Nelemans, Gijs
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Binary post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) stars have orbital periods in the range of 100--2500 days in eccentric orbits. They are surrounded by circumbinary dusty discs. They are the immediate result of unconstrained binary interaction processes. Their observed orbital properties do not correspond to model predictions: Neither the periods nor the high eccentricities are expected. Our goal is to investigate if interactions between a binary and its circumbinary disc during the post-AGB phase can result in their eccentric orbits, while simultaneously explaining the chemical anomaly known as depletion. For this paper, we selected three binaries (EP Lyr, RU Cen, HD 46703) with well-constrained orbits, luminosities, and chemical abundances. We used the MESA code to evolve post-AGB models, while including the accretion of metal-poor gas. This allows us to constrain the evolution of the stars and study the impact of circumbinary discs on the orbital properties of the models. We investigate the effect of torques produced by gas inside the binary cavity and the effect of Lindblad resonances on the orbit, while also including the tidal interaction following the equilibrium tide model. We find that none of our models are able to explain the high orbital eccentricities of the binaries in our sample. The accretion torque does not significantly impact the binary orbit, while Lindblad resonances can pump the eccentricity up to only $e \approx 0.2$. At higher eccentricities, the tidal interaction becomes too strong, so the high observed eccentricities cannot be reproduced. However, even if we assume tides to be ineffective, the eccentricities in our models do not exceed $\approx 0.25$. We conclude that either our knowledge of disc-binary interactions is still incomplete, or the binaries must have left their phase of strong interaction in an eccentric orbit.
description: 17 pages + 8 pages appendix, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Second order reductions of the WDVV Equations related to classical Lie algebras
Creators: name: Hoevenaars, L. K.
name: Martini, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct second order reductions of the generalized Witten-Dijkgraaf-Verlinde-Verlinde system based on simple Lie algebras. We discuss to what extent some of the symmetries of the WDVV system are preserved by the reduction.
description: 6 pages, 1 table
Factores que intervienen en la frecuencia de consumo de vino en el sector oriente de Santiago, Chile
Creators: name: Jimenez, F.
name: Marshall, B.
name: Ortega, Jorge
name: Foster, William E.
name: Jimenez, F.
name: Marshall, B.
name: Ortega, Jorge
name: Foster, William E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: frequency of wine consumption
subject: ordered probit model.

description: From polls performed at random in five important supermarkets of the east sector of Santiago, information is generated to determine certain factors that intervene in the frequency of wine consumption, from two groups of variables: characteristics and habits of wine consumers and factors that characterize the wine purchase behavior. To deepen the knowledge of the factors that influence wine consumption and to determine their relative importance, a frequency of consumption scale is created and the results of an ordered probit model are analyzed, through the interpretation of the marginal effects. The pronounced influence of price as a factor of wine buying decision is verified in individuals located in intervals of frequency of consumption from moderate to low. On the other hand, the probability of finding individuals who always buy the same wine brand, in intervals of high frequency of wine consumption, is large.
description: Published by Asociación de Economistas Agrarios de Chile
title: МИСТАГОГИЯ ВИЗУАЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗА У ДОСТОЕВСКОГО: КНЯЗЬ-ХРИСТОС, СТРАННИК, СТАРЕЦ
Creators: name: Дорофеев, Даниил
Publisher: name: Новгородский государственный университет имени Ярослава Мудрого (НовГУ)
Year: 2021

description: Статья написана на материале выступления автора на международном симпозиуме «Визуальная теология: темы и горизонты», проходившем в Новгородском государственном университете имени Ярослава Мудрого 29–30 сентября 2021 года. В исследовании актуализируется проблема визуального образа человека в эстетическом, чувственно-воспринимаемом, философско-антропологическом и религиозно-антропологическом контекстах. Автор обращается к творчеству Ф. М. Достоевского, 200 лет со дня рождения и 140 лет со дня смерти которого широко отмечаются в России и во всём мире. Основная задача статьи заключается в раскрытии и обосновании значимости целостного визуального образа таких героев романов «Идиот», «Бесы», «Подросток» и «Братья Карамазовы», как князь Мышкин, монах Тихон, странник Макар Иванович и старец Зосима.
Antinociceptive constituents from Saccharum officinarum L. juice
Creators: name: Gomes, Anne C. C.
name: Soares, Mariana A.
name: Gomes, Anne K. C.
name: Silva, Natália L. C.
name: Miranda, Ana L. P.
name: Tributino, Jorge L. M.
name: Dandara A. Luz
name: Gisele C. De Amorim
name: Simas, Naomi K.
name: Kuster, Ricardo M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This work aimed to investigate the main components of methanol fractions (MFSC and MFSCf) from Saccharum officinarum L. juice and their in vivo antinociceptive potential. After LC-ESI-MS and ESI-MS/MS analysis, phenolic compounds, such as dicaffeoylquinic acid, schaftoside, vicenin-2, stilbene glycoside and the major compound tricin-7-O-(2″- α-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-α-D-galacturonide (1), were identified. MFSC and MFSCf significantly inhibited nociceptive responses in classical mice pain models. The isolated flavone, 1, inhibited strongly the neurogenic phase in formalin test without interfering with the inflammatory one. The co-administration of the opioid antagonist, naloxone, significantly reversed the antinociceptive effects on the neurogenic phase of both methanol fractions and 1, demonstrating the involvement of the opioid system on the antinociceptive effect. This work describes for the first time the antinociceptive effect of flavonoids present in sugarcane juice, highlighting the isolation and the structural elucidation of tricin-7-O-(2″-α-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-α-D-galacturonide through ESI-MS/MS, 1D- and 2D-NMR.
Illeis indica Timberlake
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Illeis
Illeis indica

description: Illeis indica Timberlake
(Fig. 119)
Illeis indica Timberlake, 1943: 61 (Holotype male, NHNM; Type locality: Lahore).—Bielawski 1961a: 364; Poorani 2002a: 334; Poorani & Lalitha 2018: 119.
Diagnosis. Length: 4.70–5.00 mm; width: 3.70–4.30 mm. It is similar to its other congeners, particularly I. confusa in coloration, but it can be readily separated by its distinctive, more elongate body (Fig. 119a–c) with the elytra conspicuously narrowed in posterior half. The male genitalia (Fig. 119e–h), especially penis with a bifid apex (Fig. 119g, h), are also diagnostic. Spermatheca (Fig. 119d) as illustrated.
Distribution. India: Northern and eastern regions (Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Odisha, Punjab, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Andaman Islands); Bangladesh; Pakistan; Thailand.
Prey/associated habitat. Feeds on powdery mildews infesting mulberry, Dalbergia sissoo, chillies, rose, and other plants (label data); powdery mildew on Lagerstroemia speciosa.
Seasonal occurrence. Collected during December (Bihar). April–May (Pakistan) (Hayat et al. 2017).
Notes. See Timberlake (1943), Bielawski (1961a) and Ghorpade (1976) for more detailed description / illustrations of the genitalia. Rahman et al. (1993) and Bhattacharjee et al. (1994) recorded it as feeding on mulberry powdery mildew caused by Phyllactinia corylea.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Criterios e indicadores de impacto para el programa de crédito individual de INDAP
Creators: name: Kobrich, Claus
name: Morales, D.
name: Maino, Mario
name: Kobrich, Claus
name: Morales, D.
name: Maino, Mario
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: evaluation criteria
subject: impact evaluation
subject: impact indicators
subject: loan program.

description: A program’s impact evaluation requires the identification of the evaluation criteria and the indicators to measure changes in these criteria. In the case of INDAP’s Individual Loan Program, the evaluation must not only consider how efficient money is lent or recovered, but also how the loan affects the beneficiaries, because productive development is fundamental for INDAP’s mission. Experts, INDAP officials, and beneficiaries were asked to identify which were the impacts induced by the loans and which criteria could be used to evaluate these impacts. The criteria were classified at institutional, beneficiary and local level. The first ones relate to lending and loan recovery. The second with changes in production factors, productive process, financial situation, or quality of life. The local criteria are aggregated and relate to employment, association, migration, and welfare. The main problem in identifying and using these criteria and indicators relate to the difficulty of isolating the loan’s effect on the indicator, the commensurability of various indicators for one criteria, and the indicators’ measurement and interpretation.
description: Published by Asociación de Economistas Agrarios de Chile
Brane Universes and the Cosmological Constant
Creators: name: Ellwanger, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cosmological constant problem and brane universes are reviewed briefly. We discuss how the cosmological constant problem manifests itself in various scenarios for brane universes. We review attempts - and their difficulties - that aim at a solution of the cosmological constant problem.
description: corrected typos, added references, 13 pages, accepted by MPLA as brief review
Equilibrio de un oligopolio con empresa dominante: Una aplicación al mercado de la carne de cerdo en Chile
Creators: name: Marchant, Ricardo
name: Marchant, Ricardo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: monopoly power
subject: oligopoly
subject: pork market
subject: residual demand elasticity

description: The production of meat pork has experienced a significant growth between 1975 and 2004. The base of this expansion is the concentration that exhibits this industry. In this study, the power of monopoly in the context of an oligopolical market with dominant firm of the Stackelberg type is estimated. The estimation of monopoly is made indirectly through the estimation of the elasticity of residual demand of the dominant company, under diverse levels of participation of the market. A system of equations of supply and demand of pork meat, applied to the indicated period, is used. A market power that evolves was obtained in direct form with the quota of market of the reference company, been of equal levels from 0.2% to 18.2%. One concludes that, according to the available antecedents, the power of monopoly of the dominant firm in 2000, reached 7%.
description: Published by Asociación de Economistas Agrarios de Chile
The LOFAR view of FR0 radio galaxies
Creators: name: Capetti, A.
name: Brienza, M.
name: Baldi, R. D.
name: Giovannini, G.
name: Morganti, R.
name: Hardcastle, M. J.
name: Rottgering, H. J. A.
name: Brunetti, G. F.
name: Best, P. N.
name: Miley, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the low-frequency radio properties of the sources in the Fanaroff-Riley class 0 catalog (FR0CAT) as seen by the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) observations at 150 MHz. This sample includes 104 compact radio active galactic nuclei (AGN) associated with nearby (z<0.05) massive early-type galaxies. Sixty-six FR0CAT sources are in the sky regions observed by LOFAR and all of them are detected, usually showing point-like structures with sizes smaller than 3-6 kpc. However, 12 FR0s present resolved emission of low surface brightness which contributes between 5% and 40% of the total radio power at 150 MHz, usually with a jetted morphology extending between 15 and 50 kpc. No extended emission is detected around the other FR0s, with a typical luminosity limit of 5 x 10$^{22}$ W/Hz over an area of 100 kpc x 100 kpc. The spectral slopes of FR0s between 150 MHz and 1.4 GHz span a broad range (-0.7 < $α$ < 0.8) with a median value of $\overlineα\sim 0.1$; 20% of them have a steep spectrum ($α$ > 0.5), an indication of the presence of substantial extended emission confined within the spatial resolution limit. The fraction of FR0s showing evidence for the presence of jets, by including both spectral and morphological information, is at least ~40%. This study confirms that FR0s and FRIs can be interpreted as two extremes of a continuous population of jetted sources, with the FR0s representing the low end in size and radio power.
description: Pre-proofs version - Accepted for publication in A&A
Los Bosques de Araucaria en Chile: Manejo Sostenible, el Costo de la Sostenibilidad y las Restricciones Técnicas a su Manejo.
Creators: name: Modrego, Felix
name: Melo, Oscar
name: Gilabert, H.
name: Modrego, Felix
name: Melo, Oscar
name: Gilabert, H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Production Economics
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Araucaria araucana
subject: matrix model
subject: forest management.

description: A bioeconomical model was developed to study sustained management of the species Araucaria araucana (Mol.) Koch. The model characterizes its dynamics using transition matrices, which determine the evolution of each diameter class in time. The economic problem was modeled as the maximization of the Land Expected Value (LEV), which allows determining an optimal harvest structure and an optimal length of the cutting cycle under a sustained yield condition. An optimal sustained management was obtained for a cutting cycle of 340 years, with a LEV of 105.791 US$*Ha-1. Based on this optimal cutting plan, a cost of 35.626 US$*Ha-1 was estimated to impose sustained yields in these forests. The opportunity cost of applying the technical constraints effective at the moment for natural forest under selection harvest to Araucaria stands management was also estimated. This cost was calculated taking as base the optimal sustained management, reaching 64.340 US$*Ha-1. A remarkable policy implication is the existence of a significant incentive against sustainable management of this species. On the other hand, there is evidence of a high opportunity cost to the potential application of the actual management normative in these forests. Therefore, this cost should be contrasted with the potential environmental and social benefits that the implementation of this normative could generate. This evidence contributes to design policies which improve social welfare, but also that consider the true opportunity cost that face the owners of this resource.
description: Published by Asociación de Economistas Agrarios de Chile
Illeis koebelei Timberlake
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Illeis
Illeis koebelei

description: Illeis koebelei Timberlake
(Fig. 121)
Illeis koebelei Timberlake, 1943: 44 (Type locality: Japan).— Poorani 2002: 334.
Diagnosis. Length: 3.50–5.10 mm; width: 3.10–4.00 mm. Form elongate oval, dorsum moderately convex and glabrous. Dorsal side uniform yellow with a pair of oblique oval black spots on posterior margin of pronotum above scutellar shield (Fig. 121a, b). Externally similar to other Illeis spp. of the region and appears to be closest to I. indica in having a distinctly elongate form. It can be reliably identified only by the male genitalia (Fig. 121c–e).
Distribution. India (Assam); Japan; China; Taiwan.
Notes. The illustrations given here are based on the material examined at BMNH. See Timberlake (1943), Bielawski (1961a) and Ren et al. (2009) for more detailed description and / or illustrations of the male genitalia.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Fractional-quantum-Hall-effect (FQHE) in 1D Hubbard models
Creators: name: Kleftogiannis, Ioannis
name: Amanatidis, Ilias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the quantum self-organization of interacting particles in one-dimensional(1D) many-body systems, modeled via Hubbard chains with short-range interactions between the particles. We show the emergence of 1D states with density-wave and clustering order, related to topology, at odd denominator fillings that appear also in the fractional-quantum-Hall-effect (FQHE), which is a 2D electronic system with Coulomb interactions between the electrons and a perpendicular magnetic field. For our analysis we use an effective topological measure applied on the real space wavefunction of the system, the Euler characteristic describing the clustering of the interacting particles. The source of the observed effect is the spatial constraints imposed by the interaction between the particles. In overall, we demonstrate a simple mechanism to reproduce many of the effects appearing in the FQHE, without requiring a Coulomb interaction between the particles or the application of an external magnetic field.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, small updates in the text and the references, published in EPJ B
Revitalizing historic town center by design : the case of Ladner Town Center
Creators: name: Xi, Yongdong
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis focuses on the role of design in revitalizing historic town center through the case study of Ladner Town Center. Ladner Town Center has a history of 136 years which traces back to its beginning of Ladner brothers' Ladner Landing. It has unique character as a historic town center, intimate scale, and highly respected by its residents and visitors. However, the town center has experienced a decline in its importance as a commercial center and its built space is deteriorating. The revitalization of Ladner Town Center is to retain and enhance its desirable characteristics: traditional character, human-friendly scale, and its unique physical characteristics; to rejuvenate its economic viability for the merchants and the community; and to enhance its convenience and attractiveness for residents and visitors. The case study of designing for revitalizing Ladner Town Center is approached by first analyzing the existing situation of the historic town center and the unique elements that form the character. Opportunities and constraints are concluded from this analysis, and a variety of basic principles and strategies are proposed related to the goals and objectives for revitalizing Ladner Town Center. Finally, a selected scheme is developed from two alternatives, and more detailed design or key portions of this selected scheme are presented.
The Fight Against Geography: Malaria and Economic Development in Italian Regions
Creators: name: Percoco, Marco
name: Percoco, Marco
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Geography
subject: Regional Growth
subject: Malaria

description: Geography has long been considered as a fundamental prerequisite for economic development and growth. In recent years, a growing number of papers have considered the role of physical geography as a determinant of regional growth and development by considering it as a source of “intrinsic advantage”. Malaria is considered to be strictly related to poverty and its geographically-related origin is now widely recognized, i.e. it is endemic only in certain areas of the globe whose environmental and climatic characteristics are ideal for the proliferation of mosquitoes which are the vector for the transmission of the disease. The World Health Organization is currently setting a series of policies aiming to eradicate the disease from Africa, with the specific goals to preserve human lives and possibly to boost economic growth in those areas. Among the several malaria parasites, the worst, Plasmodium falciparum, has infested Italian regions for centuries until the complete eradication occurred in the period 1945-1950. In this paper I provide an empirical assessment of the economic outcomes of malaria eradication in Italian regions. By making use of both macroeconomic and microeconomic data, I found support to the hypothesis that malaria eradication boosts productivity growth and that in the long run it leads to an increase in human capital. In particular, I found that the presence of malaria reduced significantly regional growth over the period 1891-1961, while its eradication increased the years of schooling for both males and females respectively, although my evidence points at a larger support for a very long run impact of eradication actions through an intergenerational spillover effect.
Democracy, Property Rights, Income Equality, and Corruption
Creators: name: Dong, Bin
name: Torgler, Benno
name: Dong, Bin
name: Torgler, Benno
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Corruption
subject: Democracy
subject: Income inequality
subject: Property rights

description: This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights protection. Our empirical analysis with cross-national panel data provides evidence that is consistent with the theoretical prediction. Moreover, the effect of democratization on corruption depends on the protection of property rights and income equality which shows that corruption is a nonlinear function of these variables. The results indicate that democracy will work better as a control of corruption if the property rights system works and there is a low level of income inequality. On the other hand if property rights are not secured and there is strong income inequality, democracy may even lead to an increase of corruption. In addition, property rights protection and the mitigation of income inequality contribute in a strong manner to the reduction of corruption.
Crossing borders and telling stories : legal and literary perspectives on the assessment of economic applicants within the Canadian Immigration system
Creators: name: Aylett, Alexander C. E.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: This thesis is a comparative analysis of the legal discourse used in two Canadian immigration law cases, Chen v. MEI, (FC, 1991 ; FCA, 1993; SCC, 1995) and Parmjit Singh Mangat v. MEI , (FC, 1991), and the narrative literary discourse used in M.G. Vassanji's novel The In-Between World of Vikram hall. The focus of this analysis is the way in which each of these discourses discusses and evaluates the discretionary judgment of morality. It covers the history of the use of discretionary judgment in the Canadian immigrant selection process, its relationship to quantifiable methods of assessment, and the curtailment of two key discretionary sections - section 11(3) of the Immigration Act and item 9, "Personal Suitability," of the selection criteria used to assess Independent Immigrants - at the end of the twentieth century. It is argued that the form of the law limits its content and that the type of discourse chosen by the law fosters a hermeneutic method which makes impossible the discussion of non-economic considerations within these discretionary sections. This cuts those working within the law off from the larger non-economic aims of the Immigration Act itself. The legal preference for logical positivist discourse (and the narrow perception of immigrants, Canadians and Canadian society which results from it) is compared to the discourse used in a work of literature. The techniques both of writing and of reading literary narrative are evaluated in terms of their ability to discuss the issue of morality, and to create a framework within which non-quantifiable issues of this sort can be discussed. It is argued that literary narrative, because of the relationship that it establishes with its reader, and its ability to develop complex general concepts through the discussion of particular events, can provide a clearer picture of what is involved with discretionary judgment. Further, the ability of narrative discourse to articulate these principles and processes may indicate a use for narrative within immigration law itself. It could perhaps serve as a vehicle for legislation pertaining to these types of non-quantifiable assessment, criteria.
Simulations of the Population of Centaurs II: Individual Objects
Creators: name: Horner, J.
name: Evans, N. W.
name: Bailey, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detailed orbit integrations of clones of five Centaurs -- namely, 1996 AR20, 2060 Chiron, 1995 SN55, 2000 FZ53 and 2002 FY36 -- for durations of 3 Myr are presented. One of our Centaur sample starts with perihelion initially under the control of Jupiter (1996 AR20), two start under the control of Saturn (Chiron and 1995 SN55) and one each starts under the control of Uranus (2000 FZ53) and Neptune (2002 FY36) respectively. A variety of interesting pathways are illustrated with detailed examples including: capture into the Jovian Trojans, repeated bursts of short-period comet behaviour, capture into mean-motion resonances with the giant planets and into Kozai resonances, as well as traversals of the entire Solar system. For each of the Centaurs, we provide statistics on the numbers (i) ejected, (ii) showing short-period comet behaviour and (iii) becoming Earth and Mars crossing. For example, Chiron has over 60 % of its clones becoming short-period objects, whilst 1995 SN55 has over 35 %. Clones of these two Centaurs typically make numerous close approaches to Jupiter. At the other extreme, 2000 FZ53 has roughly 2 % of its clones becoming short-period objects. In our simulations, typically 20 % of the clones which become short-period comets subsequently evolve into Earth-crossers.
description: 10 pages, in press at MNRAS
Fireball tomography from bottomonia elliptic flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
Creators: name: Bhaduri, Partha Pratim
name: Alqahtani, Mubarak
name: Borghini, Nicolas
name: Jaiswal, Amaresh
name: Strickland, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the elliptic flow of bottomonia produced in Pb$\,+\,$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=5.02$ TeV. We consider temperature-dependent decay widths for the anisotropic escape of various bottomonium states and observe that the transverse momentum dependence of bottomonia elliptic flow provides a tomographic information about the QGP fireball at different stages of its evolution. For the space-time evolution of the fireball, we employ simulation results from the 3+1D quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamic model. We find that our results for transverse momentum dependence of bottomonia elliptic flow are in reasonable agreement with experimental results from the ALICE and CMS collaborations.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, ancillary files with data of the figures are included in the source
A Consistent Reduced-Speed-of-Light Formulation of Cosmic Ray Transport Valid in Weak and Strong-Scattering Regimes
Creators: name: Hopkins, Philip F.
name: Squire, Jonathan
name: Butsky, Iryna S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a consistent set of moments equations for CR-magnetohydrodynamics, assuming a gyrotropic distribution function (DF). Unlike previous efforts we derive a closure, akin to the M1 closure in radiation hydrodynamics (RHD), that is valid in both the nearly-isotropic-DF and/or strong-scattering regimes, and the arbitrarily-anisotropic DF or free-streaming regimes, as well as allowing for anisotropic scattering and transport/magnetic field structure. We present the appropriate two-moment closure and equations for various choices of evolved variables, including the CR phase space distribution function, number density, total energy, kinetic energy, and their fluxes or higher moments, and the appropriate coupling terms to the gas. We show that this naturally includes and generalizes a variety of terms including convection/fluid motion, anisotropic CR pressure, streaming, diffusion, gyro-resonant/streaming losses, and re-acceleration. We discuss how this extends previous treatments of CR transport including diffusion and moments methods and popular forms of the Fokker-Planck equation, as well as how this differs from the analogous M1-RHD equations. We also present two different methods for incorporating a reduced speed of light (RSOL) to reduce timestep limitations: in both we carefully address where the RSOL (versus true c) must appear for the correct behavior to be recovered in all interesting limits, and show how current implementations of CRs with a RSOL neglect some additional terms.
description: 17 pages, 2 figures. Readers not interested in the detailed derivations can skip to Appendix A, which simply summarizes the key equations derived. Updated to match published MNRAS version
Chiral-Odd Twist-3 Distribution Function $e(x)$
Creators: name: Wakamatsu, M.
name: Ohnishi, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We clarify the nonperturbative origin of the $δ$-function singularity at $x = 0$ in the chiral-odd twist-3 distribution function $e(x)$ of the nucleon. We also compare a theoretical prediction for $e(x)$ based on the chiral quark soliton model with the empirical information extracted from the CLAS semi-inclusive DIS measurement.
description: LaTeX, 4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of Spin2004
ALMA 0.02"-resolution observations reveal HCN-abundance-enhanced counter-rotating and outflowing dense molecular gas at the NGC 1068 nucleus
Creators: name: Imanishi, Masatoshi
name: Nguyen, Dieu D.
name: Wada, Keiichi
name: Hagiwara, Yoshiaki
name: Iguchi, Satoru
name: Izumi, Takuma
name: Kawakatu, Nozomu
name: Nakanishi, Kouichiro
name: Onishi, Kyoko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present ALMA ~0.02"-resolution observations of the nucleus of the nearby (~14 Mpc) type-2 AGN NGC 1068 at HCN/HCO+/HNC J=3-2 lines, as well as at their 13C isotopologue and vibrationally excited lines, to scrutinize the morphological/dynamical/chemical/physical properties of dense molecular gas in the putative dusty molecular torus around a mass-accreting supermassive black hole. We confirm almost east-west-oriented dense molecular gas emission both morphologically and dynamically, which we regard as coming from the torus. Bright emission is compact (<3 pc), and low-surface-brightness emission extends out to 5-7 pc. These dense molecular gas properties are not symmetric between the eastern and western torus. The HCN J=3-2 emission is stronger than the HCO+ J=3-2 emission within the ~7 pc torus region, with an estimated dense molecular mass of (0.4-1.0)x10^6Msun. We interpret that HCN abundance is enhanced in the torus. We detect signatures of outflowing dense molecular gas and a vibrationally excited HCN J=3-2 line. Finally, we find that in the innermost (<1 pc) part of the torus, the dense molecular line rotation velocity, relative to the systemic velocity, is the opposite of that in the outer (>2 pc) part, in both the eastern and western torus. We prefer a scenario of counter-rotating dense molecular gas with innermost almost-Keplerian-rotation and outer slowly rotating (far below Keplerian) components. Our high-spatial-resolution dense molecular line data reveal that torus properties of NGC 1068 are much more complicated than the simple axi-symmetrically rotating torus picture in the classical AGN unification paradigm.
description: 45 pages, 20 Figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
Why do Black Holes Trace Bulges (& Central Surface Densities), Instead of Galaxies as a Whole?
Creators: name: Hopkins, Philip F.
name: Wellons, Sarah
name: Angles-Alcazar, Daniel
name: Faucher-Giguere, Claude-Andre
name: Grudic, Michael Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Previous studies of fueling black holes (BHs) in galactic nuclei have argued (on scales ~0.01-1000pc) accretion is dynamical with inflow rates $\dot{M}\simη\,M_{\rm gas}/t_{\rm dyn}$ in terms of gas mass $M_{\rm gas}$, dynamical time $t_{\rm dyn}$, and some $η$. But these models generally neglected expulsion of gas by stellar feedback, or considered extremely high densities where expulsion is inefficient. Studies of star formation, however, have shown on sub-kpc scales the expulsion efficiency $f_{\rm wind}=M_{\rm ejected}/M_{\rm total}$ scales with the gravitational acceleration as $(1-f_{\rm wind})/f_{\rm wind}\sim\bar{a}_{\rm grav}/\langle\dot{p}/m_{\ast}\rangle\sim Σ_{\rm eff}/Σ_{\rm crit}$ where $\bar{a}_{\rm grav}\equiv G\,M_{\rm tot}(
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, updated to match published MNRAS version
Supplementary document for A Numerical Study of High-Temperature, Disk-Based Tungsten and Molybdenum Thermophotovoltaic Selective Thermal Emitters - 7333066.pdf
Creators: name: Silva-Oelker, Gerardo
name: Jaramillo-Fernández, Juliana
name: Toledo-Muñoz, Nelson
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental document
Corruption and Social Interaction: Evidence from China
Creators: name: Dong, Bing
name: Torgler, Benno
name: Dong, Bing
name: Torgler, Benno
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Political Economy
subject: Corruption
subject: Social Interaction
subject: China

description: We explore theoretically and empirically whether social interaction, including local and global interaction, influences the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of corruption is positively associated with social interaction. Then we empirically verify the theoretical prediction using within-country evidence at the province-level in China during 1998 to 2007. Panel data evidence clearly indicates that social interaction has a statistically significantly positive effect on the corruption rate in China. Our findings, therefore, underscore the relevance of social interaction in understanding corruption.
Empirical Time Complexity of Generic Dijkstra Algorithm
Creators: name: Jurkiewicz, Piotr
name: Biernacka, Edyta
name: Domżał, Jerzy
name: Wójcik, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Generic Dijkstra is a novel algorithm for finding the optimal shortest path in both wavelength-division multiplexed networks (WDM) and elastic optical networks (EON), claimed to outperform known algorithms considerably. Because of its novelty, it has not been independently implemented and verified. Its time complexity also remains unknown. In this paper, we perform run-time analysis and show that Generic Dijkstra running time grows quadratically with the number of graph vertices and logarithmically with the number of edge units. We also discover that the running time of the Generic Dijkstra algorithm in the function of network utilization is not monotonic, as peak running time is at approximately 0.25 network utilization. Additionally, we provide an independent open source implementation of Generic Dijkstra in the Python language. We confirm the correctness of the algorithm and its superior performance. In comparison to the Filtered Graphs algorithm, Generic Dijkstra is approximately 2.3 times faster in networks with 25 to 500 nodes, and in 90% of calls its computation takes less time.
description: IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2021)
Brans-Dicke Theory as a Unified Model for Dark Matter - Dark Energy
Creators: name: Kim, Hongsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Brans-Dicke (BD) theory of gravity is taken as a possible theory of k-essence coupled to gravity. It then has been realized that the BD scalar field does indeed play a role of a k-essence, but in a very unique way which distinguishes it from other k-essence fields studied in the literature. That is, first in the BD scalar field-dominated era when the contribution from this k-essence overwhelms those from other types of matter, the BD theory predicts the emergence of a yet-unknown {\it zero acceleration} epoch which is an intermediate stage acting as a ``crossing bridge'' between the decelerating matter-dominated era and the accelerating phase. Upon realizing this, next, closer study of the effects of this k-essence on the evolutionary behavior of the matter-dominated and the accelerating eras has been performed. The result of the study indicates that the BD scalar field appears to interpolate {\it smoothly} between these two late-time stages by speeding up the expansion rate of the matter-dominated era somewhat while slowing down that of the accelerating phase to some degree. Thus with the newly found BD scalar field-dominated era in between these two, the late-time of the universe evolution appears to be mixed sequence of the three stages.
description: 25 pages, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.(MNRAS), in press
Illeis shensiensis Timberlake
Creators: name: POORANI, J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Illeis
Illeis shensiensis

description: Illeis shensiensis Timberlake
Illeis shensiensis Timberlake, 1943: 61 (Holotype male, NM; Type locality: China).—Bielawski 1961: 358; Ren et al. 2009: 243; Das et al. 2020b: 33.
Notes. It is similar to the other Indian species of Illeis with two-spotted pronotum and yellow elytra. It was originally described from China and Das et al. (2020b) recorded it from the north-eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and illustrated the male genitalia. See Timberlake (1943), Bielawski (1961a) and Ren et al. (2009) for detailed description and / or illustrations of the male genitalia.
Distribution. India (Arunachal Pradesh); China.
description: Published as part of POORANI, J., 2023, An illustrated guide to lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the Indian Subcontinent. Part 1. Tribe Coccinellini, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 5332 (1) on page 169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5332.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8261502
Efficiency Improving Fossil Fuel Technologies for Electricity Generation: Data Selection and Trends
Creators: name: Lanzi, Elisa
name: Verdolini, Elena
name: Hascic, Ivan
name: Lanzi, Elisa
name: Verdolini, Elena
name: Hascic, Ivan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Climate Change
subject: Technological Innovation
subject: Energy
subject: Patents
subject: Fossil Fuels

description: This paper studies innovation dynamics in efficiency improving electricity generation technologies as an important means of mitigating climate change impacts. Relevant patents are identified and used as an indicator of innovation. We find that patenting in efficiency improving technologies has mostly been stable over time, with a recent decreasing trend. We also find that majority of patents are first filed in OECD countries and only then in non-OECD or BRIC countries. Conversely, non-OECD and BRIC countries apply for patents that are mostly marketed domestically. This result shows that there is significant technology transfer in the field of efficiency improving technologies for electricity production. This flow of know-how is likely to contribute to mitigation of greenhouse gases emissions in emerging economies in the long run.
Estimation of COVID-19 under-reporting in Brazilian States through SARI
Creators: name: Paixão, Balthazar
name: Baroni, Lais
name: Salles, Rebecca
name: Escobar, Luciana
name: de Sousa, Carlos
name: Pedroso, Marcel
name: Saldanha, Raphael
name: Coutinho, Rafaelli
name: Porto, Fabio
name: Ogasawara, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to its impact, COVID-19 has been stressing the academy to search for curing, mitigating, or controlling it. However, when it comes to controlling, there are still few studies focused on under-reporting estimates. It is believed that under-reporting is a relevant factor in determining the actual mortality rate and, if not considered, can cause significant misinformation. Therefore, the objective of this work is to estimate the under-reporting of cases and deaths of COVID-19 in Brazilian states using data from the Infogripe on notification of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI). The methodology is based on the concepts of inertia and the use of event detection techniques to study the time series of hospitalized SARI cases. The estimate of real cases of the disease, called novelty, is calculated by comparing the difference in SARI cases in 2020 (after COVID-19) with the total expected cases in recent years (2016 to 2019) derived from a seasonal exponential moving average. The results show that under-reporting rates vary significantly between states and that there are no general patterns for states in the same region in Brazil. The published version of this paper is made available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00354-021-00125-3. Please cite as: B. Paixão, L. Baroni, M. Pedroso, R. Salles, L. Escobar, C. de Sousa, R. de Freitas Saldanha, J. Soares, R. Coutinho, et al., 2021, Estimation of COVID-19 Under-Reporting in the Brazilian States Through SARI, New Generation Computing