cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1908-01)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Ctenomys leucodon Waterhouse 1848
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys leucodon

description: Ctenomys leucodon Waterhouse, 1848. Nat. Hist. Mammal., 2: 281. TYPE LOCALITY: Bolivia, La Paz Dept., San Andres de Machaca. DISTRIBUTION: W. Bolivia and E. Peru around Lake Titicaca. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001009001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 583, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Initial conformation of kinesin's neck linker
Creators: name: Geng, Yi-Zhao
name: Ji, Qing
name: Liu, Shu-Xia
name: Yan, Shiwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: How ATP binding initiates the docking process of kinesin's neck linker is a key question in understanding kinesin mechanism. It is believed that the formation of an extra turn structure by the first three amino acids of neck linker (LYS325, THR326, ILE327 in 2KIN) is crucial for initiating the docking process. But the initial conformation of neck linker (specially the three amino acids of the extra turn) and the neck linker docking initiation mechanism remain unclear. By using molecular dynamics method, we investigate the initial conformation of kinesin's neck linker in the docking process. We find that, in the initial state of NL docking process, NL still has interactions with β0 and forms a conformation similar to the "cover-neck bundle" structure proposed by Hwang et al. [Structure 2008, 16(1): 62-71]. From this initial structure, the docking of the "cover-neck bundle" structure can be achieved. The motor head provides a forward force on the initial cover-neck bundle structure through ATP-induced rotation. This force, together with the hydrophobic interaction of ILE327 with the hydrophobic pocket on the motor head, drives the formation of the extra turn and initiates the neck linker docking process.
Deuterated molecules in Orion KL from Herschel/HIFI
Creators: name: Neill, Justin L.
name: Crockett, Nathan R.
name: Bergin, Edwin A.
name: Pearson, John C.
name: Xu, Li-Hong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive study of the deuterated molecules detected in the fullband HIFI survey of the Orion KL region. Ammonia, formaldehyde, and methanol and their singly deuterated isotopologues are each detected through numerous transitions in this survey with a wide range in optical depths and excitation conditions. In conjunction with a recent study of the abundance of HDO and H$_2$O in Orion KL, this study yields the best constraints on deuterium fractionation in an interstellar molecular cloud to date. As previous studies have found, both the Hot Core and Compact Ridge regions within Orion KL contain significant abundances of deuterated molecules, suggesting an origin in cold grain mantles. In the Hot Core, we find that ammonia is roughly a factor of 2 more fractionated than water. In the Compact Ridge, meanwhile, we find similar deuterium fractionation in water, formaldehyde, and methanol, with D/H ratios of (2---8) $\times$ $10^{-3}$. The [CH$_2$DOH]/[CH$_3$OD] ratio in the Compact Ridge is found to be $1.2 \pm 0.3$. The Hot Core generally has lower deuterium fractionation than the Compact Ridge, suggesting a slightly warmer origin, or a greater contribution from warm gas phase chemistry.
description: 39 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ. 3 figure sets are available in their entirety in the online form of the Journal
Ctenomys lewisi Thomas 1926
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys lewisi

description: Ctenomys lewisi Thomas, 1926. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 17:323. TYPE LOCALITY: Bolivia, Tarija Dept., Sama. DISTRIBUTION: S. Bolivia. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001010001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 583, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
Freeness in cognitive science
Creators: name: Gudowska-Nowak, Ewa
name: Nowak, Maciej A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this mini-review, dedicated to the Jubilee of Professor Tadeusz Marek, we highlight in a popular way the power of so-called free random variables (hereafter FRV) calculus, viewed as a potential probability calculus for the XXI century, in applications to the broad area of cognitive sciences. We provide three examples: (i) inference of noisy signals from multivariate correlation data from the brain; (ii) distinguished role of non-normality in real neuronal models; (iii) applications to the field of deep learning in artificial neural networks.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures. Mini-review dedicated to the Jubilee of Professor Tadeusz Marek
The Astronomy of Africa’s Health Systems Literature During the MDG Era: Where Are the Systems Clusters?
Creators: name: Phillips, James S.
name: Sheff, Mallory
name: Boyer, Christopher B.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Bibliometrics
Medical care--Research
Health services administration
Medical care

description: The volume of literature on health systems in sub-Saharan Africa has been expanding since the 2000 MDG era. Focus has remained generally on categorical health themes rather than systems concepts. Topics such as scaling-up, organizational development, data use for decision making, logistics, and financial planning remain underrepresented. And quite surprisingly, implementation science remains something of a “black hole.” But bibliometric evidence suggests there is a shift in focus that may soon address these gaps.
Campaign Finance for Women: Challenges, Incentives and Recommendations
Creators: name: Tovar-Restrepo, Marcela
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Women politicians
Equality
Campaign funds
Public administration

description: Campaign finance has been identified as a central component for achieving gender equity in the political realm. Despite the fact that women’s representation in national parliaments has significantly increased, the lack of economic resources is one of the main obstacles to achieving gender parity in parliaments. This paper outlines the funding challenges that women face in electoral processes and highlights the successful finance strategies that increase women’s participation in parliaments. These strategies may not be universal in their application, but they provide valuable lessons for women candidates participating in parliamentary electoral processes.
Learning alliance methodology: Contributions and challenges for multicultural planning in health service provision: A case study in Kent, UK
Creators: name: Moreno-Leguizamon, Carlos
name: Tovar-Restrepo, Marcela
name: Irazabal Zurita, Clara E.
name: Locke, Christine
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Multiculturalism
Health planning
City planning

description: This article examines contributions and challenges of learning alliance methodology to multicultural planning in health provision services in an urban context. A learning alliance was implemented to target health needs of different ethno-racial groups through an action research project in Swale, Kent, UK. We argue that a learning alliance is an innovative methodology that can contribute to multicultural planning by (1) promoting the involvement of new planning stakeholders and the institutionalization of learning alliance outcomes, (2) ensuring capacity-building strategies, (3) emphasizing documentation and dissemination as innovative practices, and (4) strengthening the network capacity of a community. Critical reflections are presented here as a constructive view to improve both the learning alliance methodology and multicultural planning. The article contributes to debates on public service delivery in the context of discussions about multiculturalism, health and planning.
Epigenetic Mechanisms in Developmental Alcohol-Induced Neurobehavioral Deficits
Creators: name: Basavarajappa, Balapal S.
name: Subbanna, Shivakumar
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Neuroplasticity
subject: Developmental neurobiology
subject: DNA--Methylation
subject: Epigenetics
subject: Fetal alcohol syndrome
subject: Developmental biology
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Alcohol consumption during pregnancy and its damaging consequences on the developing infant brain are significant public health, social, and economic issues. The major distinctive features of prenatal alcohol exposure in humans are cognitive and behavioral dysfunction due to damage to the central nervous system (CNS), which results in a continuum of disarray that is collectively called fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Many rodent models have been developed to understand the mechanisms of and to reproduce the human FASD phenotypes. These animal FASD studies have provided several molecular pathways that are likely responsible for the neurobehavioral abnormalities that are associated with prenatal alcohol exposure of the developing CNS. Recently, many laboratories have identified several immediate, as well as long-lasting, epigenetic modifications of DNA methylation, DNA-associated histone proteins and microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis by using a variety of epigenetic approaches in rodent FASD models. Because DNA methylation patterns, DNA-associated histone protein modifications and miRNA-regulated gene expression are crucial for synaptic plasticity and learning and memory, they can therefore offer an answer to many of the neurobehavioral abnormalities that are found in FASD. In this review, we briefly discuss the current literature of DNA methylation, DNA-associated histone proteins modification and miRNA and review recent developments concerning epigenetic changes in FASD.
Nations within Nations: Transnationalism and Indigenous Citizenship in Latin America
Creators: name: Tovar-Restrepo, Marcela
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: World citizenship
Indigenous peoples--Civil rights
Indigenous peoples
Ethnicity

description: This chapter explores strategies followed by indigenous peoples— both men and women—to produce new forms of gender and cultural difference within local and global shared and connected spaces. I focus on how these processes force us to rethink the politics of space, community, identity, and citizenship in Latin America. For that purpose, national constitutions and international agreements (e.g., the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007) are analyzed as key loci that illustrate how transnational imaginary significations, related to identity and citizenship, have traveled from local to global spheres, making possible the recognition of indigenous rights. I discuss contributions made by articulation theory to understand processes of creation of ethnic sameness and difference that are at the core of these emergent transnational citizenship projects pursued by indigenous movements.
Ctenomys magellanicus Bennett 1836
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys magellanicus

description: Ctenomys magellanicus Bennett, 1836. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1835:190. TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Magallanes, Bahia de San Gregorio. DISTRIBUTION: Extreme S. Chile and S. Argentina. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001011001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 583, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
The Range of Variation of the Mass of the Most Massive Star in Stellar Clusters Derived from 35 Million Monte Carlo Simulations
Creators: name: Popescu, Bogdan
name: Hanson, M. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A growing fraction of Simple Stellar Population (SSP) models, in an aim to create more realistic simulations capable of including stochastic variation in their outputs, begin their simulations with a distribution of discrete stars following a power-law function of masses. Careful attention is needed to create a correctly sampled Initial Mass Function (IMF) and in this contribution we provide a solid mathematical method called MASSCLEAN IMF Sampling for doing so. We then use our method to perform $10$ $million$ MASSCLEAN Monte Carlo stellar cluster simulations to determine the most massive star in a mass distribution as a function of the total mass of the cluster. We find a maximum mass range is predicted, not a single maximum mass. This maximum mass range is (a) dependent on the total mass of the cluster and (b) independent of an upper stellar mass limit, $M_{limit}$, for $unsaturated$ clusters and comes out naturally using our IMF sampling method. We then turn our analysis around, now starting with our new $25$ $million$ simulated cluster database, to constrain the highest mass star from the observed integrated colors of a sample of 40 low-mass LMC stellar clusters of known age and mass. Finally, we present an analytical description of the maximum mass range of the most massive star as a function of the cluster's total mass, and present a new $M_{max}-M_{cluster}$ relation.
description: The Astrophysical Journal, accepted
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1908-02)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
THE ROLE OF UPWARD INFLUENCE STRATEGIES IN SHAPING ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOUR: EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Creators: name: Obinna, Chukwuemeka Okoro
name: Esther, Ogechi Nwachukwu
Publisher: name: kEITH jOURNAL
Year: 2025
Subjects: Organizational citizenship behaviour; Soft upward influence strategies, Hard upward influence strategies

description: Prior studies report that citizenship behavior (OCB) of employees within organizations lead to improved growth and performance, however while several antecedents such as leaders’ behavior is known to influence OCB, the effect of upward influence strategies adopted by subordinates have not featured prominently in the literature. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between upward influence strategies and organizational citizenship behavior. 221 randomly selected employees of Ughelli North Local Government Council participated in the study. A structured questionnaire was administered to the respondents at place of work and retrieved thereafter. Simple linear regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses. Findings indicate that OCB was positively and significantly related to soft upward influence strategy, while hard upward influence strategy was negatively and significantly related to OCB. The study recommends that soft upward influence strategy should be adopted by employees as this will enhance OCB at the Local Government Councils
Magnetic bound states embedded in tantalum superconducting thin films
Creators: name: Arabi, Soroush
name: Li, Qili
name: Dhundhwal, Ritika
name: Fuchs, Dirk
name: Reisinger, Thomas
name: Pop, Ioan M.
name: Wulfhekel, Wulf
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the fabrication of superconducting devices, both in situ and ex situ processes are utilized, making the removal of unwanted oxide layers and impurities under vacuum conditions crucial. Oxygen descumming and argon milling are standard in situ cleaning methods employed for device preparation. We investigated the impact of these techniques on tantalum superconducting thin films using scanning tunneling microscopy at millikelvin temperatures. We demonstrate that these cleaning methods inadvertently introduce magnetic bound states within the superconducting gap of tantalum, likely by oxygen impurities. These bound states can be detrimental to superconducting qubit devices, as they add to dephasing and energy relaxation.
The Perception of the Values of Urban Space by Senior Citizens of Valparaiso
Creators: name: Fadda, Giulietta
name: Cortés, Alejandra
name: Olivi, Alessandra
name: Tovar-Restrepo, Marcela
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2010
Subjects: Quality of life
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Older people
City planning

description: This paper is framed within the context of the Fondecyt Research Project (No. 1061179) entitled “Senior Citizens' quality of life in an Urban Habitat: Valparaiso, a Case Study.” It investigates how certain topographical conditions in the urban habitat impact on the quality of life of the population's most senior age group. Following a theoretical approach, we discuss some of the initial results obtained in our field research, integrating a quantitative technique of territorial analysis, GIS maps, and the qualitative techniques of Focus Groups and ethnographic interviews. The study of senior citizens' perceptions of their quality of life in Valparaiso indicates that the city's irregular topography and character as a heritage city mediate how the elderly perceive the urban space, creating social networks and a sense of community uniquely their own.
Charge-density-wave order with momentum $(2Q, 0)$ and $(0, 2Q)$ within the spin-fermion model: continuous and discrete symmetry breaking, preemptive composite order, and relation to pseudogap in hole-doped cuprates
Creators: name: Wang, Yuxuan
name: Chubukov, Andrey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze charge order within the the spin-fermion model. We show that magnetically-mediated interaction gives rise to charge order $Δ_k^Q = \langle c^\dagger_{{\bf k}+{\bf Q}} c_{{\bf k}-{\bf Q}}\rangle$ with momenta ${\bf Q}=Q_x =(2Q,0)$ and ${\bf Q}=Q_y =(0,2Q)$, if the magnetic correlation length $ξ$ exceeds some critical value. We argue that $Δ_k^Q$ and $Δ_{-k}^Q$ are not equivalent, and their symmetric and antisymmetric combinations describe density modulations and bond current. We derive GL functional for four-component $U(1)$ order parameters $Δ^Q_{\pm k}$ with ${\bf Q} = Q_x$ or $Q_y$. Within mean-field we find two types of CDW states, I and II, depending on system parameters. In state I density and current modulations emerge with the same ${\bf Q} = Q_x$ or $Q_y$, breaking $Z_2$ lattice rotational symmetry, and differ in phase by $\pmπ/2$. The selection of $π/2$ or $-π/2$ additionally breaks $Z_2$ time-reversal symmetry, such that the total order parameter manifold is $U(1) \times Z_2 \times Z_2$. In state II density and current modulations emerge with different $\bf Q$ and the order parameter manifold is $U(1) \times U (1) \times Z_2$. We go beyond mean-field and show that discrete symmetries get broken before long-range charge order sets in. For state I, the system first breaks $Z_2$ lattice rotational symmetry ($C_4 \to C_2$) at $T= T_n$ and develops a nematic order, then breaks $Z_2$ time-reversal symmetry at $T_t < T_n$, and finally breaks $U(1)$ symmetry of a common phase of even and odd components of $Δ^Q_{k}$ at $T= T_{\rm cdw} < T_t < T_n$ and develops a true charge order. We argue that the preemptive orders lift $T_{\rm cdw}$ and reduces $T_{\rm sc}$ such that at large $ξ$ charge order may develop prior to superconductivity. We obtain the phase diagram and present quantitative comparison with ARPES data for hole-doped cuprates.
description: references added. 124 pages, 26 figures
Electronic states in a graphene flake strained by a Gaussian bump
Creators: name: Moldovan, D.
name: Masir, M. Ramezani
name: Peeters, F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of strain in graphene is usually modeled by a pseudo-magnetic vector potential which is, however, derived in the limit of small strain. In realistic cases deviations are expected in view of graphene's very high strain tolerance, which can be up to 25%. Here we investigate the pseudo-magnetic field generated by a Gaussian bump and we show that it exhibits significant differences with numerical tight-binding results. Furthermore, we calculate the electronic states in the strained region for a hexagon shaped flake with armchair edges. We find that the six-fold symmetry of the wave functions inside the Gaussian bump is directly related to the different effect of strain along the fundamental directions of graphene: zigzag and armchair. Low energy electrons are strongly confined in the armchair directions and are localized on the carbon atoms of a single sublattice.
Ctenomys maulinus Philippi 1872
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys maulinus

description: Ctenomys maulinus Philippi, 1872. Z. Ges. Naturw., N. F., 6:442. TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Talca Prov., Laguna de Maule. DISTRIBUTION: Between Talca and Cautin Provs. (S.C. Chile). ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001012001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 584, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
A Caring and Sustainable Economy: A Concept Note from a Feminist Perspective
Creators: name: Biesecker, Adelheid
name: Darooka, Priti
name: Gottschlich, Daniela
name: Lanuza, Magda
name: Röhr, Ulrike
name: Schildberg, Cäcilie
name: Tovar-Restrepo, Marcela
name: Ventura Dias, Vivianne
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Sustainable development
Economics

description: This concept note seeks to explain our shared understanding of a sustainable economy in which the principles of care are integrated with the principles of sustainability, and secondly, our views on an agenda for change. It should be seen as work in progress. Thus we invite everybody to use it, to contribute regional perspectives to it, and to expand it by practical experience, etc.
Weather on the Nearest Brown Dwarfs: Resolved Simultaneous Multi-Wavelength Variability Monitoring of WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB
Creators: name: Biller, Beth A.
name: Crossfield, Ian J. M.
name: Mancini, Luigi
name: Ciceri, Simona
name: Southworth, John
name: Kopytova, Taisiya G.
name: Bonnefoy, Mickaël
name: Deacon, Niall R.
name: Schlieder, Joshua E.
name: Buenzli, Esther
name: Brandner, Wolfgang
name: Allard, France
name: Homeier, Derek
name: Freytag, Bernd
name: Bailer-Jones, Coryn A. L.
name: Greiner, Jochen
name: Henning, Thomas
name: Goldman, Bertrand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present two epochs of MPG/ESO 2.2m GROND simultaneous 6-band ($r'i'z'JHK$) photometric monitoring of the closest known L/T transition brown dwarf binary WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB. We report here the first resolved variability monitoring of both the T0.5 and L7.5 components. We obtained 4 hours of focused observations on the night of UT 2013-04-22, as well as 4 hours of defocused (unresolved) observations on the night of UT 2013-04-16. We note a number of robust trends in our light curves. The $r'$ and $i'$ light curves appear to be anticorrelated with $z'$ and $H$ for the T0.5 component and in the unresolved lightcurve. In the defocused dataset, $J$ appears correlated with $z'$ and $H$ and anticorrelated with $r'$ and $i'$, while in the focused dataset we measure no variability for $J$ at the level of our photometric precision, likely due to evolving weather phenomena. In our focused T0.5 component lightcurve, the $K$ band lightcurve displays a significant phase offset relative to both $H$ and $z'$. We argue that the measured phase offsets are correlated with atmospheric pressure probed at each band, as estimated from 1D atmospheric models. We also report low-amplitude variability in $i'$ and $z'$ intrinsic to the L7.5 component.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures, accepted to ApJ Letters
EXPLORING UPWARD INFLUENCE STRATEGIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR IN NIGERIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
Creators: name: Emmanuel, Chukwudi Okoro
Publisher: name: kEITH jOURNAL
Year: 2025
Subjects: Organizational citizenship behaviour; Soft upward influence strategies, Hard upward influence strategies

description: Prior studies report that citizenship behavior (OCB) of employees within organizations lead to improved growth and performance, however while several antecedents such as leaders’ behavior is known to influence OCB, the effect of upward influence strategies adopted by subordinates have not featured prominently in the literature. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between upward influence strategies and organizational citizenship behavior. 221 randomly selected employees of Ughelli North Local Government Council participated in the study. A structured questionnaire was administered to the respondents at place of work and retrieved thereafter. Simple linear regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses. Findings indicate that OCB was positively and significantly related to soft upward influence strategy, while hard upward influence strategy was negatively and significantly related to OCB. The study recommends that soft upward influence strategy should be adopted by employees as this will enhance OCB at the Local Government Councils
The geography of post-disaster mental health: spatial patterning of psychological vulnerability and resilience factors in New York City after Hurricane Sandy
Creators: name: Gruebner, Oliver
name: Lowe, Sarah R.
name: Sampson, Laura
name: Galea, Sandro
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Natural disasters--Psychological aspects
Natural disasters--Social aspects
Hurricane Sandy (2012)
Public health

description: Only a very few studies have investigated the geographic distribution of psychological resilience and associated mental health outcomes after natural or man made disasters. Such information is crucial for location-based interventions that aim to promote recovery in the aftermath of disasters. The purpose of this study therefore was to investigate geographic variability of (1) posttraumatic stress (PTS) and depression in a Hurricane Sandy affected population in NYC and (2) psychological vulnerability and resilience factors among affected areas in NYC boroughs.
Methods: Cross-sectional telephone survey data were collected 13 to 16 months post-disaster from household residents (N = 418 adults) in NYC communities that were most heavily affected by the hurricane. The Posttraumatic Stress Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5) was applied for measuring posttraumatic stress and the nine-item Patient Health
Questionnaire (PHQ-9) was used for measuring depression. We applied spatial autocorrelation and spatial regimes regression analyses, to test for spatial clusters of mental health outcomes and to explore whether associations between vulnerability and resilience factors and mental health differed among New York City’s five boroughs. Results: Mental health problems clustered predominantly in neighborhoods that are geographically more exposed towards the ocean indicating a spatial variation of risk within and across the boroughs. We further found significant variation in associations between vulnerability and resilience factors and mental health. Race/ethnicity (being Asian or non-Hispanic black) and disaster-related stressors were vulnerability factors for mental health symptoms in Queens, and being employed and married were resilience factors for these symptoms in Manhattan and Staten Island. In addition, parental status was a vulnerability factor in Brooklyn and a resilience factor in the Bronx. Conclusions: We conclude that explanatory characteristics may manifest as psychological vulnerability and resilience
factors differently across different regional contexts. Our spatial epidemiological approach is transferable to other regions around the globe and, in the light of a changing climate, could be used to strengthen the psychosocial resources of demographic groups at greatest risk of adverse outcomes pre-disaster. In the aftermath of a disaster, the approach can be used to identify survivors at greatest risk and to plan for targeted interventions to reach them.
Application of observation operators for field scale soil moisture averages and variances in agricultural landscapes
Creators: name: Han, Eun Jin
name: Heathman, Gary C.
name: Merwade, Venkatesh
name: Cosh, Michael H.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Hydrology--Data processing
Soil moisture--Remote sensing
Soil moisture
Hydrology

description: Scale difference between in situ and remotely sensed soil moisture observations and model grid size has been an issue for validation of remote sensing data, soil moisture data assimilation and calibration of hydrologic models. This study aims to link two different scales of soil moisture estimates by upscaling single point measurements to field averages for representing field-scale agricultural areas (∼2 ha) located within the Upper Cedar Creek Watershed in northeastern Indiana. Several statistical methods, mainly focusing on cumulative distribution function (CDF) matching, are tested to upscale point measurements to spatially representative soil moisture. These transforming equations are termed observation operators. The CDF matching is found to be the most successful upscaling method followed by the mean relative difference method using temporally stable point measurements. This study also tests the temporal and spatial (horizontal and vertical) transferability of the different observation operators. Results indicate that the two observation operators from the CDF matching approach and the mean relative difference method using a temporally stable location are transferable in space, but not in time. Rainfall characteristic is most likely the dominant factor affecting the success of observation operator transferability. In addition, the CDF matching approach is found to be an effective method to deduce spatial variability (standard deviation) of soil moisture from single point measurements.
Ctenomys mendocinus Philippi 1869
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys mendocinus

description: Ctenomys mendocinus Philippi, 1869. Arch. Naturg., 1:38. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Mendoza Prov., Mendoza. DISTRIBUTION: East of the mountains from Salta Prov. to Chubut (Argentina). COMMENT: Formerly included azarae, latro, occultus, and tucumanus; see Roig and Reig, 1969, Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 30:670, and Reig et al., 1966, Contr. Cient. Fac. Cienc. Exact. Fis. Nat. Univ. Buenos Aires (Zool.), 2:299-352. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001013001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 584, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Roig, V. G., and O. A. Reig. 1969. Precipitin test relationships among Argentinian species of the genus Ctenomys (Rodentia, Octodontidae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, 30: 665 - 672.", "Reig, O. A., J. R. Contreras, and M. J. Piantanida. 1966. Contribucion a la elucidacion de la sistematica de las entidades del genero Ctenomys (Rodentia, Octodontidae). I. Relaciones de parentesco entre muestras de ocho poblaciones de tuco-tucos inferidas del estudio estadistico de variables del fenotipo y su correlacion con las caracteristicas del cariotipo. Contribuciones Cientificas Facultad Ciencias Exactas Naturales, Universidad Buenos Aires (Zoologia), 2: 299 - 352."]}
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1908-03)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/600765
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law

description: These Sessional Clippings books cover the period 1891 to 1972, and include newspaper accounts written by various legislative reporters who covered debates occurring in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. Transcripts of debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) were not published in B.C. until 1970; hence these "Sessional Clipping Books" augment the "Journals", the record of daily proceedings of the Legislative Assembly. Selected clippings from various newspapers including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the Colonist, and the Times newspapers, relating to the newspaper reports concerning activities of the Legislature. The original sessional clippings books comprise 351 ledger size print volumes, held at the Legislative Library in Victoria BC. The print volumes were microfilmed onto 26 reels in 1977 under a Tri University Libraries (TRIUL) project by Precision Micrographic Services (Vancouver, B.C.), with the permission of the Legislative Library, Victoria, British Columbia. This digital collection was created by scanning the 26 microfilm reels.
Implementation of surface soil moisture data assimilation with watershed scale distributed hydrological model
Creators: name: Han, Eun Jin
name: Merwade, Venkatesh
name: Heathman, Gary C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Hydrology--Data processing
Kalman filtering
Soil moisture
Hydrology

description: This paper aims to investigate how surface soil moisture data assimilation affects each hydrologic process and how spatially varying inputs affect the potential capability of surface soil moisture assimilation at the watershed scale. The Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) is coupled with a watershed scale, semi-distributed hydrologic model, the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), to assimilate surface (5 cm) soil moisture. By intentionally setting inaccurate precipitation with open loop and EnKF scenarios in a synthetic experiment, the capability of surface soil moisture assimilation to compensate for the precipitation errors were examined. Results show that daily assimilation of surface soil moisture for each HRU improves model predictions especially reducing errors in surface and profile soil moisture estimation. Almost all hydrological processes associated with soil moisture are also improved with decreased root mean square error (RMSE) values through the EnKF scenario. The EnKF does not produce as much a significant improvement in streamflow predictions as compared to soil moisture estimates in the presence of large precipitation errors and the limitations of the infiltration–runoff model mechanism. Distributed errors of the soil water content also show the benefit of surface soil moisture assimilation and the influences of spatially varying inputs such as soil and landuse types. Thus, soil moisture update through data assimilation can be a supplementary way to overcome the errors created by inaccurate rainfall. Even though this synthetic study shows the potential of remotely sensed surface soil moisture measurements for applications of watershed scale water resources management, future studies are necessary that focus on the use of real-time observational data.
Arclength parametrized Hamilton's equations for the calculation of instantons
Creators: name: Grafke, Tobias
name: Grauer, Rainer
name: Schäfer, Tobias
name: Vanden-Eijnden, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method is presented to compute minimizers (instantons) of action functionals using arclength parametrization of Hamilton's equations. This method can be interpreted as a local variant of the geometric minimum action method (gMAM) introduced to compute minimizers of the Freidlin-Wentzell action functional that arises in the context of large deviation theory for stochastic differential equations. The method is particularly well-suited to calculate expectations dominated by noise-induced excursions from deterministically stable fixpoints. Its simplicity and computational efficiency are illustrated here using several examples: a finite-dimensional stochastic dynamical system (an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model) and two models based on stochastic partial differential equations: the $ϕ^4$-model and the stochastically driven Burgers equation.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
Anisotropic exchange coupling in a nanowire double quantum dot with strong spin-orbit coupling
Creators: name: Li, Rui
name: You, J. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A spin-orbit qubit is a hybrid qubit that contains both orbital and spin degrees of freedom of an electron in a quantum dot. Here we study the exchange coupling between two spin-orbit qubits in a nanowire double quantum dot (DQD) with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We find that while the total tunneling in the DQD is irrelevant to the SOC, both the spin-conserved and spin-flipped tunnelings are SOC dependent and can compete with each other in the strong SOC regime. Moreover, the Coulomb repulsion between electrons can combine with the SOC-dependent tunnelings to yield an anisotropic exchange coupling between the two spin-orbit qubits. Also, we give an explicit physical mechanism for this anisotropic exchange coupling.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
Multi-mode microcavity frequency engineering through a shifted grating in a photonic crystal ring
Creators: name: Lu, Xiyuan
name: Sun, Yi
name: Chanana, Ashish
name: Javid, Usman A.
name: Davanco, Marcelo
name: Srinivasan, Kartik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Frequency engineering of whispering-gallery resonances is essential in microcavity nonlinear optics. The key is to control the frequencies of the cavity modes involved in the underlying nonlinear optical process to satisfy its energy conservation criterion. Compared to the conventional method that tailors dispersion by the cross-sectional geometry, thereby impacting all cavity mode frequencies, grating-assisted microring cavities, often termed as photonic crystal microrings, provide more enabling capabilities through mode-selective frequency control. For example, a simple single period grating added to a microring has been used for single-frequency engineering in Kerr optical parametric oscillation (OPO) and frequency combs. Recently, this approach has been extended to multi-frequency engineering by using multi-period grating functions, but at the cost of increasingly complex grating profiles that require challenging fabrication. Here, we demonstrate a simple approach, which we term as shifted grating multiple mode splitting (SGMMS), where spatial displacement of a single period grating imprinted on the inner boundary of the microring creates a rotational asymmetry that frequency splits multiple adjacent cavity modes. This approach is easy to implement and presents no additional fabrication challenges than an un-shifted grating, and yet is very powerful in providing multi-frequency engineering functionality for nonlinear optics. We showcase an example where SGMMS enables OPO generation across a wide range of pump wavelengths in a normal-dispersion device that otherwise would not support OPO.
Application of data assimilation with the Root Zone Water Quality Model for soil moisture profile estimation in the upper Cedar Creek, Indiana
Creators: name: Han, Eun Jin
name: Merwade, Venkatesh
name: Heathman, Gary C.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Hydrology--Data processing
Kalman filtering
Soil moisture
Hydrology

description: Data assimilation techniques have been proven as an effective tool to improve model forecasts by combining information about observed variables in many areas. This article examines the potential of assimilating surface soil moisture observations into a field-scale hydrological model, the Root Zone Water Quality Model, to improve soil moisture estimation. The Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF), a popular data assimilation technique for nonlinear systems, was applied and compared with a simple direct insertion method. In situ soil moisture data at four different depths (5, 20, 40, and 60 cm) from two agricultural fields (AS1 and AS2) in northeastern Indiana were used for assimilation and validation purposes. Through daily update, the EnKF improved soil moisture estimation compared with the direct insertion method and model results without assimilation, having more distinct improvement at the 5 and 20 cm depths than for deeper layers (40 and 60 cm). Local vertical soil property heterogeneity in AS1 deteriorated soil moisture estimates with the EnKF. Removal of systematic bias in the forecast model was found to be critical for more successful soil moisture data assimilation studies. This study also demonstrates that a more frequent update generally contributes in enhancing the open loop simulation; however, large forecasting error can prevent more frequent update from providing better results. In addition, results indicate that various ensemble sizes make little difference in the assimilation results. An ensemble of 100 members produced results that were comparable with results obtained from larger ensembles.
HERWIRI2: Exponentiated Electroweak Corrections in a Hadronic Event Generator
Creators: name: Yost, Scott A.
name: Halyo, Valerie
name: Hejna, Miroslav
name: Ward, B. F. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Reaching the desired precision level for W and Z processes at the LHC will require a mixture of higher-order QCD and electroweak corrections. HERWIRI2 is a step in implementing QED x QCD exponentiation in a hadronic event generator. This program implements leading electroweak corrections and coherent exclusive exponentiation in a HERWIG environment. We discuss the status of the program, recent tests, and future developments.
description: 6 pages, Presented at ICHEP 2012, Melbourne, Australia
Ctenomys minutus Nehring 1887
Creators: name: Honacki, James H.
name: Kinman, Kenneth E.
name: Koeppl, James W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1982
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Rodentia
Ctenomyidae
Ctenomys
Ctenomys minutus

description: Ctenomys minutus Nehring, 1887. Sitzb. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin, p. 47. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, Campos. DISTRIBUTION: Rio Grande do Sul and Mato Grosso (S.W. Brazil); Uruguay; N.W. Argentina. COMMENT: Reviewed by Langguth and Abella, 1970, Communic. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo, 10(129). ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001014001.
description: Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Rodentia (Part 6), pp. 560-594 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 584, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7353039
description: {"references": ["Langguth, A., and A. Abella. 1970. Las especies uruguayas del genero Ctenomys. Communiciones Zoologicos Museo Historia Natural de Montevideo, 10 (129): 1 - 20."]}