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British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1905-02)
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.
IoT-Based Environmental Control System for Fish Farms with Sensor Integration and Machine Learning Decision Support
Creators: name: Dhinakaran, D.
name: Gopalakrishnan, S.
name: Manigandan, M. D.
name: Anish, T. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In response to the burgeoning global demand for seafood and the challenges of managing fish farms, we introduce an innovative IoT based environmental control system that integrates sensor technology and advanced machine learning decision support. Deploying a network of wireless sensors within the fish farm, we continuously collect real-time data on crucial environmental parameters, including water temperature, pH levels, humidity, and fish behavior. This data undergoes meticulous preprocessing to ensure its reliability, including imputation, outlier detection, feature engineering, and synchronization. At the heart of our system are four distinct machine learning algorithms: Random Forests predict and optimize water temperature and pH levels for the fish, fostering their health and growth; Support Vector Machines (SVMs) function as an early warning system, promptly detecting diseases and parasites in fish; Gradient Boosting Machines (GBMs) dynamically fine-tune the feeding schedule based on real-time environmental conditions, promoting resource efficiency and fish productivity; Neural Networks manage the operation of critical equipment like water pumps and heaters to maintain the desired environmental conditions within the farm. These machine learning algorithms collaboratively make real-time decisions to ensure that the fish farm's environmental conditions align with predefined specifications, leading to improved fish health and productivity while simultaneously reducing resource wastage, thereby contributing to increased profitability and sustainability. This research article showcases the power of data-driven decision support in fish farming, promising to meet the growing demand for seafood while emphasizing environmental responsibility and economic viability, thus revolutionizing the future of fish farming.
Replication materials for: "What drives opposition to social rights for immigrants? Clarifying the role of psychological predispositions"
Creators: name: Taylor, Alyssa
name: Chueri, Juliana
name: Knotz, Carlo Michael
name: Gandenberger, Mia Katharina
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2022
Subjects: Experiments
Immigration
Political attitudes
Prejudice
Survey
Welfare state

description: Replication materials for "What drives opposition to social rights for immigrants? Clarifying the role of psychological predispositions", published in Political Studies (vol 73, 1): https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217241228456
Cutting tool life
Creators: name: Soori, Mohsen
name: Arezoo, Behrooz
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: CAD/CAM systems

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 During chip formation process of machining operations, thermo-mechanical loads are generated which can decrease life of cutting tool and quality of machined components. As a result, analysing the cutting temperatures and cutting tool life during milling operations can enhance productivity in process of part manufacturing using CNC machine tools. To predict the cutting tool life and cutting temperature during machining operations of AISI 1038 Carbon Steel, an application of the virtual machining system is developed. The impact of machining parameters such as cutting speed, feed rate and depth of cut on the cutting tool life and temperature are investigated in order to enhance productivity of milling operations. The modified Johnson-Cook model is used to investigate the combined influence of strain rate and deformation temperature on yield stress during alloy milling operations. Finite element analysis of milling operations is implemented to obtain the cutting temperature of the milling tool during the chip formation process. Then, cutting tool life during milling operations is predicted in order to be analyzed and maximized. The results of virtual machining system in prediction of cutting temperature as well as life of cutting tool are compared with the experimental results in order to validate the developed methodology in the study. So, an advanced virtual machining system is developed in the study in order to decrease cutting temperatures and increase cutting tool life in terms of efficiency enhancement of part production using milling operation.
Excited-State-Specific Kohn-Sham Formalism for the Asymmetric Hubbard Dimer
Creators: name: Loos, Pierre-François
name: Giarrusso, Sara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Building on our recent study [https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02052, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 14, 8780 (2023)], we explore the generalization of the ground-state Kohn-Sham (KS) formalism of density-functional theory (DFT) to the (singlet) excited states of the asymmetric Hubbard dimer at half-filling. While we found that the KS-DFT framework can be straightforwardly generalized to the highest-lying doubly-excited state, the treatment of the first excited state presents significant challenges. Specifically, using a density-fixed adiabatic connection, we show that the density of the first excited state lacks non-interacting $v$-representability. However, by employing an analytic continuation of the adiabatic path, we demonstrate that the density of the first excited state can be generated by a complex-valued external potential in the non-interacting case. More practically, by performing state-specific KS calculations with exact and approximate correlation functionals -- each state possessing a distinct correlation functional -- we observe that spurious stationary solutions of the KS equations may arise due to the approximate nature of the functional.
description: 14 pages, 10 figures
Ctenomys dorsalis Thomas 1900
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 dorsalis

description: Ctenomys dorsalis Thomas, 1900. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 6:385. TYPE LOCALITY: Paraguay, Boqueron Prov., N. Chaco. DISTRIBUTION: Paraguay, west of the River Paraguay. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001004001.
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
Ctenomys emilianus Thomas and St. Leger 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 emilianus

description: Ctenomys emilianus Thomas and St. Leger, 1926. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 18: 637. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Neuquen Prov., Chos Malal. DISTRIBUTION: Neuquen Prov., at the base of the Andes (Argentina). ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001005001.
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
From Contract to Status: Collaboration and the Evolution of Novel Family Relationships
Creators: name: Scott, Elizabeth S.
name: Scott, Robert E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Domestic relations
subject: Cohabitation agreements
subject: Gay liberation movement
subject: Public welfare
subject: Same-sex marriage--Law and legislation
subject: Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: The past decade has witnessed dramatic changes in public attitudes about and legal status for same-sex couples who wish to marry. These changes demonstrate that the legal conception of the family is no longer limited to traditional marriage. They also raise the possibility that other relationships -- cohabiting couples and their children, voluntary kin groups, multigenerational groups, and polygamists -- might gain legal recognition as families. This Article probes the challenges faced by aspiring families and the means by which they could attain their goal. It builds on the premise that the state remains committed to social-welfare criteria for granting family status, recognizing as families only those categories of relationships that embody a long-term commitment to mutual care and interdependence and, on that basis, function well to satisfy members' dependency needs. Groups aspiring to legal recognition as families must overcome substantial uncertainties as to whether they meet these criteria if they are to obtain the rights and obligations of legally recognized families. Uncertainty contributes to a lack of confidence in the durability and effectiveness of their relationships on the part of the aspiring family members themselves, the larger social community, and, ultimately, the state. The Article develops an informal model to illustrate the nature of these uncertainties, as well as the solutions to the possible obstacles they create. Using a hypothetical group consisting of two adult men and two adult women in a polyamorous relationship, we show how legal status for family groups can result from an evolutionary process for overcoming uncertainties that uses collaborative techniques to build trust and confidence. Collaborative processes have been shown in other settings to be effective mechanisms for creating trust incrementally and thus appear to offer a way forward for novel families. The Article describes how the successful movement to achieve marriage rights for LGBT couples has roughly conformed to the collaborative processes we propose, and it identifies the absence of meaningful collaboration as one factor explaining the stasis that characterizes the status of unmarried cohabitants. This evidence supports the prediction that the future progress of other aspiring family groups toward attaining legal status may depend on how well they are able to engage the collaborative mechanisms that smooth the path from contract to status.
Prevalence and Correlates of Low Medication Adherence in Apparent Treatment-Resistant Hypertension
Creators: name: Irvin, Marguerite R.
name: Shimbo, Daichi
name: Mann, Devin M.
name: Reynolds, Kristi
name: Krousel-Wood, Marie
name: Limdi, Nita A.
name: Lackland, Daniel T.
name: Calhoun, David A.
name: Oparil, Suzanne
name: Muntner, Paul
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Patient compliance
Hypertension--Treatment
Hypertension
Medical sciences
Medicine

description: Low medication adherence may explain part of the high prevalence of apparent treatment-resistant hypertension (aTRH). The authors assessed medication adherence and aTRH among 4026 participants taking ≥3 classes of antihypertensive medication in the population-based Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) trial using the 4-item Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS). Low adherence was defined as an MMAS score ≥2. Overall, 66% of participants taking ≥3 classes of antihypertensive medication had aTRH. Perfect adherence on the MMAS was reported by 67.8% and 70.9% of participants with and without aTRH, respectively. Low adherence was present among 8.1% of participants with aTRH and 5.0% of those without aTRH (P
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1905-03)
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.
Manopt, a Matlab toolbox for optimization on manifolds
Creators: name: Boumal, Nicolas
name: Mishra, Bamdev
name: Absil, P. -A.
name: Sepulchre, Rodolphe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Software (cs.MS)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Optimization on manifolds is a rapidly developing branch of nonlinear optimization. Its focus is on problems where the smooth geometry of the search space can be leveraged to design efficient numerical algorithms. In particular, optimization on manifolds is well-suited to deal with rank and orthogonality constraints. Such structured constraints appear pervasively in machine learning applications, including low-rank matrix completion, sensor network localization, camera network registration, independent component analysis, metric learning, dimensionality reduction and so on. The Manopt toolbox, available at www.manopt.org, is a user-friendly, documented piece of software dedicated to simplify experimenting with state of the art Riemannian optimization algorithms. We aim particularly at reaching practitioners outside our field.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1905-04)
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
subject: Law
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/993678
subject: FOS: Law
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.
Correlation of positive and negative reciprocity fails to confer an evolutionary advantage: Phase transitions to elementary strategies
Creators: name: Szolnoki, Attila
name: Perc, Matjaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Economic experiments reveal that humans value cooperation and fairness. Punishing unfair behavior is therefore common, and according to the theory of strong reciprocity, it is also directly related to rewarding cooperative behavior. However, empirical data fail to confirm that positive and negative reciprocity are correlated. Inspired by this disagreement, we determine whether the combined application of reward and punishment is evolutionary advantageous. We study a spatial public goods game, where in addition to the three elementary strategies of defection, rewarding and punishment, a fourth strategy combining the later two competes for space. We find rich dynamical behavior that gives rise to intricate phase diagrams where continuous and discontinuous phase transitions occur in succession. Indirect territorial competition, spontaneous emergence of cyclic dominance, as well as divergent fluctuations of oscillations that terminate in an absorbing phase are observed. Yet despite the high complexity of solutions, the combined strategy can survive only in very narrow and unrealistic parameter regions. Elementary strategies, either in pure or mixed phases, are much more common and likely to prevail. Our results highlight the importance of patterns and structure in human cooperation, which should be considered in future experiments.
description: 10 two-column pages, 10 figures; accepted for publication in Physical Review X
Ctenomys frater Thomas 1902
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 frater

description: Ctenomys frater Thomas, 1902. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 7: 185. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Jujuy Prov., Sunchai. DISTRIBUTION: Mountains south of Jujuy and in Salta Prov. (Argentina); S.W. Bolivia. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001006001.
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
Heavy hybrid stars from multi-quark interactions
Creators: name: Benic, Sanjin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the possibility of obtaining heavy hybrid stars within the framework of the two flavor Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model with 8-quark interactions in the scalar and in the vector channel. The main impact of the 8-quark scalar channel is to reduce the onset of quark matter, while the 8-quark vector channel acts to stiff the equation of state at high densities. Within the parameter space where the 4-quark vector channel is small, and the 8-quark vector channel sizeable, stable stars with $2 M_\odot$ and above are found to hold quark matter in their cores.
description: to match the published version in EPJA
Relationship Between Cardiovascular Disease Knowledge and Race/Ethnicity, Education, and Weight Status
Creators: name: Giardina, Elsa-Grace V.
name: Mull, Lorraine
name: Sciacca, Robert R.
name: Akabas, Sharon
name: Flink, Laura E.
name: Moise, Nathalie
name: Paul, Tracy K.
name: Dumas, Nicole E.
name: Bier, Michael L.
name: Mattina, Deirdre
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Health risk communication
Body weight--Health aspects
Cardiovascular system--Diseases
Medical sciences
Epidemiology

description: Background: Inadequate cardiovascular disease (CVD) knowledge has been cited to account for the imperfect decline in CVD among women over the last 2 decades.

Hypothesis: Due to concerns that at-risk women might not know the leading cause of death or symptoms of a heart attack, our goal was to assess the relationship between CVD knowledge race/ethnicity, education, and body mass index (BMI).

Methods: Using a structured questionnaire, CVD knowledge, socio-demographics, risk factors, and BMI were evaluated in 681 women.

Results: Participants included Hispanic, 42.1% (n = 287); non-Hispanic white (NHW), 40.2% (n = 274); non-Hispanic black (NHB), 7.3% (n = 50); and Asian/Pacific Islander (A/PI), 8.7% (n = 59). Average BMI was 26.3 ± 6.1 kg/m2. Hypertension was more frequent among overweight (45%) and obese (62%) than normal weight (24%) (P < 0.0001), elevated total cholesterol was more frequent among overweight (41%) and obese (44%) than normal weight (30%) (P < 0.05 and P < 0.01, respectively), and diabetes was more frequent among obese (25%) than normal weight (5%) (P < 0.0001). Knowledge of the leading cause of death and symptoms of a heart attack varied by race/ethnicity and education (P < 0.001) but not BMI. Concerning the leading cause of death among women in the United States, 87.6% (240/274) NHW answered correctly compared to 64% (32/50) NHB (P < 0.05), 28.3% (80/283) Hispanic (P < 0.0001), and 55.9% (33/59) A/PI (P < 0.001). Among participants with ≤12 years of education, 21.2% knew the leading cause of death and 49.3% knew heart attack symptoms vs 75.7% and 75.5%, respectively, for >12 years (both P < 0.0001).

Conclusions: Effective prevention strategies for at-risk populations need to escalate CVD knowledge and awareness among the undereducated and minority women.
title: Griechische Blumenlese oder kleine Sammlung vorzüglicher Stellen aus den griechischen Schriftstellern; 1783
title: Ein Lehr- und Lesebuch zum Unterricht in der griechischen Sprache
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Facius, Johann Friedrich
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2015

description: Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Nürnberg, bey Ernst Christoph Grattenauer, 1783.
UNDERSTANDING THE IGBO APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM FROM AN ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSPECTIVE
Creators: name: Ugochukwu, Christian Eze
Publisher: name: kEITH jOURNAL
Year: 2025
Subjects: Apprenticeship; Entrepreneur; Performance; Igbo people, Nigeria

description: The Igbo people of Nigeria have excelled in entrepreneurship in recent years. This is due to the Igbo people's ownership and management of an expanding number of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) and large business enterprises (LBEs), both of which are important indicators of the expansion of the Nigerian economy. There has long been an apprenticeship system in the Igbo people, which has spawned new enterprises and entrepreneurs. The largest business incubation scheme in the world, according to reports is Igbo apprenticeship system. This technique has been implied to be a secret of the Igbos, the most hardworking tribe in Nigeria, but the young are not drawn to it since it is falsely believed to be a program for people who cannot succeed in formal schooling. Modernizing this system is the goal of this study. The history, diversity, effectiveness, and drawbacks of the apprenticeship system in general, and the Igbo apprenticeship system in particular, have been studied in the literature. After identifying the system's flaws and weaknesses, this study promotes a hybrid apprenticeships were modern education and apprenticeship system are combined. It was suggested, among other things, that the system be overhauled so that it fosters an inventive ecosystem. This study will make it easier to strengthen Nigeria's Igbo-Apprenticeship program. The study comes to the conclusion that the Igbo people would eventually become a major socio-political and economic force in Nigeria and throughout Africa if they continue to advance at this rate
Quantum systems of ultra-cold bosons with customized inter-particle interactions
Creators: name: Streltsov, Alexej I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent progress in cooling and trapping of polarized clouds of chromium $^{52}Cr$, dysprosium $^{164}Dy$ and erbium $^{168}Er$ opens a road-map to quantum systems where shapes of inter-particle interactions can be customized. The main purpose of this work is to get a deeper insight on a role which the overall shape of the inter-particle interaction plays in a context of trapped ultra-cold bosons. We show that strong inter-particle repulsion inevitably leads to multi-hump fragmentation of the ground state. The fragmentation phenomenon is universal -- it takes place in traps of different dimensionality and topologies and for very broad classes of repulsive inter-particle potentials. The physics behind is identified and explained.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, supplementary material (12 pages, 2 figures)
Ctenomys fulvus Philippi 1860
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 fulvus

description: Ctenomys fulvus Philippi, 1860. Reise Wüste Atacama, p. 157. TYPE LOCALITY: Chile, Antofagasta Prov., Pingo-Pingo. DISTRIBUTION: Mountains and Monte desert of N.W. Argentina and N. Chile. COMMENT: Includes robustus, a Rassenkreis subspecies restricted to the oasis of Pica in Tarapaca Prov., Chile; see Mann, 1978, Gayana Zool., 40: 292. Includes coludo, famosus, johanis, and tulduco; see Cabrera, 1961:548-549; but also see Contreras, et al., 1977, Physis, sec. C, 36(92):159-162, who considered these forms provisionally distinct; also see comment under validus. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001007001 as C. fulvus. 5301410027001021001 as C. robustus.
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
description: {"references": ["Mann, G. F. 1978. Los pequenos mamiferos de Chile (marsupiales, quiropteros, edentados y roedores). Guyana (Zoologia), 40: 1 - 342."]}
A Milky Way-like barred spiral galaxy at a redshift of 3
Creators: name: Costantin, Luca
name: Pérez-González, Pablo G.
name: Guo, Yuchen
name: Buttitta, Chiara
name: Jogee, Shardha
name: Bagley, Micaela B.
name: Barro, Guillermo
name: Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.
name: Koekemoer, Anton M.
name: Cabello, Cristina
name: Corsini, Enrico Maria
name: Méndez-Abreu, Jairo
name: de la Vega, Alexander
name: Iyer, Kartheik G.
name: Bisigello, Laura
name: Cheng, Yingjie
name: Morelli, Lorenzo
name: Haro, Pablo Arrabal
name: Buitrago, Fernando
name: Cooper, M. C.
name: Dekel, Avishai
name: Dickinson, Mark
name: Finkelstein, Steven L.
name: Giavalisco, Mauro
name: Holwerda, Benne W.
name: Huertas-Company, Marc
name: Lucas, Ray A.
name: Papovich, Casey
name: Pirzkal, Nor
name: Seillé, Lise-Marie
name: Vega-Ferrero, Jesús
name: Wuyts, Stijn
name: Yung, L. Y. Aaron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The majority of massive disk galaxies in the local Universe show a stellar barred structure in their central regions, including our Milky Way. Bars are supposed to develop in dynamically cold stellar disks at low redshift, as the strong gas turbulence typical of disk galaxies at high redshift suppresses or delays bar formation. Moreover, simulations predict bars to be almost absent beyond $z = 1.5$ in the progenitors of Milky Way-like galaxies. Here we report observations of ceers-2112, a barred spiral galaxy at redshift $z_{\rm phot} \sim 3$, which was already mature when the Universe was only 2 Gyr old. The stellar mass ($M_{\star} = 3.9 \times 10^9 M_{\odot}$) and barred morphology mean that ceers-2112 can be considered a progenitor of the Milky Way, in terms of both structure and mass-assembly history in the first 2 Gyr of the Universe, and was the closest in mass in the first 4 Gyr. We infer that baryons in galaxies could have already dominated over dark matter at $z \sim 3$, that high-redshift bars could form in approximately 400 Myr and that dynamically cold stellar disks could have been in place by redshift $z = 4-5$ (more than 12 Gyrs ago).
description: Published in Nature. Accepted on September 12
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1907-03)
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: Politics and government
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919741
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.
British Columbia Legislative Assembly sessional clipping book (1907-04)
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.
Short Sleep Duration as an Independent Predictor of Cardiovascular Events in Japanese Patients With Hypertension
Creators: name: Eguchi, Kazuo
name: Pickering, Thomas G.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Hoshide, Satoshi
name: Ishikawa, Joji
name: Ishikawa, Shizukiyo
name: Shimada, Kazuyuki
name: Kario, Kazuomi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Hypertension--Patients
Sleep--Physiological aspects
Cardiovascular system--Diseases
Medicine
Medical sciences

description: Background - It is not known whether short duration of sleep is a predictor of future cardiovascular events in patients with hypertension.

Methods - To test the hypothesis that short duration of sleep is independently associated with incident cardiovascular diseases (CVD), we performed ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring in 1255 subjects with hypertension (mean [SD] age, 70.4 [9.9] years) and followed them for a mean period of 50 (23) months. Short sleep duration was defined as less than 7.5 hours (20th percentile). Multivariable Cox hazard models predicting CVD events were used to estimate the adjusted hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval (CI) for short sleep duration. A riser pattern was defined when mean nighttime systolic BP exceeded daytime systolic BP. The end point was a cardiovascular event: stroke, fatal or nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI), and sudden cardiac death.

Results - In multivariable analyses, short duration of sleep (<7.5 hours) was associated with incident CVD (hazard ratio [HR], 1.68; 95% CI, 1.06-2.66; P = .03). A synergistic interaction was observed between short sleep duration and the riser pattern (P = .09). When subjects were classified according to their sleep time and a riser vs nonriser pattern, the group with shorter sleep duration plus the riser pattern had a substantially and significantly higher incidence of CVD than the group with predominant normal sleep duration plus the nonriser pattern (HR, 4.43; 95% CI, 2.09-9.39; P < .001), independent of covariates.

Conclusions - Short duration of sleep is associated with incident CVD risk and the combination of the riser pattern and short duration of sleep that is most strongly predictive of future CVD, independent of ambulatory BP levels. Physicians should inquire about sleep duration in the risk assessment of patients with hypertension.
Ctenomys knighti Thomas 1919
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 knighti

description: Ctenomys knighti Thomas, 1919. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 3:498. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Catamarca Prov., Otro Cerro. DISTRIBUTION: Mountains between Tucuman and La Rioja (W. Argentina), north to Salta. ISIS NUMBER: 5301410027001008001.
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 Property of Having a $k$-Regular Subgraph Has a Sharp Threshold
Creators: name: Letzter, Shoham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We prove that the property of containing a $k$-regular subgraph in the random graph model $G(n,p)$ has a sharp threshold for $k\ge3$. We also show how to use similar methods to obtain an easy prove for the (known fact of) sharpness of having a non empty $k$-core for $k\ge3$.
Ctenomys latro Thomas 1918
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 latro

description: Ctenomys latro Thomas, 1918. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, 1:38. TYPE LOCALITY: Argentina, Tucuman Prov., Tapia. DISTRIBUTION: N. W. Argentina. COMMENT: Considered distinct from mendocinus by Roig and Reig, 1969, Comp. Biochem. Physiol., 30: 670.
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
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."]}
Shifts in stability and control effectiveness during evolution of Paraves support aerial maneuvering hypotheses for flight origins
Creators: name: Evangelista, Dennis
name: Cam, Sharlene
name: Huynh, Tony
name: Kwong, Austin
name: Mehrabani, Homayun
name: Tse, Kyle
name: Dudley, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The capacity for aerial maneuvering shaped the evolution of flying animals. Here we evaluate consequences of aviaian morphology for aerial performance (1,2) by quantifying static stability and control effectiveness of physical models (3) for numerous taxa sampled from within the lineage leading to birds (Paraves, 4). Results of aerodynamic testing are mapped phylogenetically (5-9) to examine how maneuvering characteristics correlate with tail shortening, fore- and hindwing elaboration, and other morphological features (10). In the evolution of the Avialae we observe shifts from static stability to inherently unstable aerial planforms; control effectiveness also migrated from tails to the forewings. These shifts suggest that some degree of aerodynamic control and and capacity for maneuvering preceded the evolution of strong power stroke. The timing of shifts also suggests some features normally considered in light of development of a power stroke may play important roles in control.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, 1 supplemental figures and 5 supplemental tables
Flat-relative optimal extraction. A quick and efficient algorithm for stabilised spectrographs
Creators: name: Zechmeister, M.
name: Anglada-Escudé, G.
name: Reiners, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Optimal extraction is a key step in processing the raw images of spectra as registered by two-dimensional detector arrays to a one-dimensional format. Previously reported algorithms reconstruct models for a mean one-dimensional spatial profile to assist a properly weighted extraction. We outline a simple optimal extraction algorithm including error propagation, which is very suitable for stabilised, fibre-fed spectrographs and does not model the spatial profile shape. A high signal-to-noise, master-flat image serves as reference image and is directly used as an extraction profile mask. Each extracted spectral value is the scaling factor relative to the cross-section of the unnormalised master-flat which contains all information about the spatial profile as well as pixel-to-pixel variations, fringing, and blaze. The extracted spectrum is measured relative to the flat spectrum. Using echelle spectra of the HARPS spectrograph we demonstrate a competitive extraction performance in terms of signal-to-noise and show that extracted spectra can be used for high precision radial velocity measurement. Pre- or post-flat-fielding of the data is not necessary, since all spectrograph inefficiencies inherent to the extraction mask are automatically accounted for. Also the reconstruction of the mean spatial profile by models is not needed, thereby reducing the number of operations to extract spectra. Flat-relative optimal extraction is a simple, efficient, and robust method that can be applied easily to stabilised, fibre-fed spectrographs.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in A&A (2013-10-29)
Validity and Reliability of Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Instruments in Osteoarthritis
Creators: name: Broderick, Joan E.
name: Schneider, Stefan
name: Junghaenel, Doerte U.
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Stone, Arthur A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Outcome assessment (Medical care)
subject: Osteoarthritis--Patients
subject: Computer adaptive testing
subject: Medicine
subject: Medical sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Objective - Evaluation of known-group validity, ecological validity, and test–retest reliability of 4 domain instruments from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) in osteoarthritis (OA) patients.

Methods - We recruited an OA sample and a comparison general population (GP) sample through an internet survey panel. Pain intensity, pain interference, physical functioning, and fatigue were assessed for 4 consecutive weeks with PROMIS short forms on a daily basis and compared with same-domain Computer Adaptive Testing (CAT) instruments that use a 7-day recall. Known-group validity (comparison of OA and GP), ecological validity (comparison of aggregated daily measures with CAT instruments), and test–retest reliability were evaluated.

Results - The recruited samples matched the demographic characteristics (age, sex, race, and ethnicity) of the US sample for arthritis and the 2009 Census for the GP. Compliance with repeated measurements was excellent at >95%. Known-group validity for CATs was demonstrated with large effect sizes (pain intensity 1.42, pain interference 1.25, and fatigue 0.85). Ecological validity was also established through high correlations between aggregated daily measures and weekly CATs (≥0.86). Test–retest validity (7-day) was very good (≥0.80).

Conclusion - PROMIS CAT instruments demonstrated known-group and ecological validity in a comparison of OA patients with a GP sample. Adequate test–retest reliability was also observed. These data provide encouraging initial data on the utility of these PROMIS instruments for clinical and research outcomes in OA patients.
Plasma sphingomyelin and longitudinal change in percent emphysema on CT. The MESA Lung study
Creators: name: Ahmed, Firas S.
name: Jiang, Xian-Cheng
name: Schwartz, Joseph E.
name: Hoffman, Eric A.
name: Yeboah, Joseph
name: Shea, Steven J. C.
name: Burkart, Kristin Marie
name: Barr, R. Graham
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2014
Subjects: Tomography
Ceramides
Emphysema, Pulmonary
Medical sciences
Medicine
Diagnostic imaging

description: Context: Ceramide causes endothelial apoptosis and emphysema-like changes in animal models.

Objectives: Test if plasma sphingomyelin, a major precursor of ceramide, would predict longitudinal increase in the percentage of emphysema-like lung on computed tomography (CT).

Materials and methods: 3840 participants had their plasma sphingomyelin measured at baseline examination and their pulmonary emphysema measured on cardiac CT scans at baseline and on follow-up visits. Mixed effects models were used to adjust for potential confounders.

Results: One standard deviation increase in sphingomyelin predicted a 0.12% per year (95% CI: 0.02–0.22; p = 0.019) greater increase of percent emphysema.

Discussion and conclusion: Higher plasma levels of sphingomyelin predicted greater annual increase in quantitatively measured percent emphysema.
Spatial Clustering of Citizen Science Data Improves Downstream Species Distribution Models
Creators: name: Ahmed, Nahian
name: Roth, Mark
name: Hallman, Tyler A.
name: Robinson, W. Douglas
name: Hutchinson, Rebecca A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Citizen science biodiversity data present great opportunities for ecology and conservation across vast spatial and temporal scales. However, the opportunistic nature of these data lacks the sampling structure required by modeling methodologies that address a pervasive challenge in ecological data collection: imperfect detection, i.e., the likelihood of under-observing species on field surveys. Occupancy modeling is an example of an approach that accounts for imperfect detection by explicitly modeling the observation process separately from the biological process of habitat selection. This produces species distribution models that speak to the pattern of the species on a landscape after accounting for imperfect detection in the data, rather than the pattern of species observations corrupted by errors. To achieve this benefit, occupancy models require multiple surveys of a site across which the site's status (i.e., occupied or not) is assumed constant. Since citizen science data are not collected under the required repeated-visit protocol, observations may be grouped into sites post hoc. Existing approaches for constructing sites discard some observations and/or consider only geographic distance and not environmental similarity. In this study, we compare ten approaches for site construction in terms of their impact on downstream species distribution models for 31 bird species in Oregon, using observations recorded in the eBird database. We find that occupancy models built on sites constructed by spatial clustering algorithms perform better than existing alternatives.
description: AAAI 2025