cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: An investigation of our ability to control unwanted autobiographical memories of past morally relevant actions: EEG and behavioural evidence
Creators: name: Satish, Akul
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2021

description: We are often faced with reminders of unpleasant memories from our past that triggers a discomforted state of being. Attempts to avoid such reminders would be futile. Fortunately, a large body of research indicates that the unwanted memories and emotions elicited by these reminders can be controlled to improve our mental state. However, our understanding of this memory control is based on simpler memories such as words or pictures. So, the present thesis aimed to explore our ability to control memories of complex autobiographical memories, and its consequences on memory and emotion. Memories of past morally wrong actions were specifically observed as they are theorised to be particular motivators to engage control processes. In the first experiment (Chapter 3), evidence from real-time behavioural, ERP, and EEG oscillation measures indicated that autobiographical memories can be successfully avoided using direct suppression. Moreover, morally wrong memories were rated as more difficult to suppress than morally right memories. Importantly, repeated attempts at memory control improved the ability to reduce unwanted intrusions of memory contents (Chapter 3), and ameliorated the immediate negative emotions associated with morally wrong memories (Chapter 5). Both strategies of substituting negative thoughts with positive imagery, and upward counterfactual thinking, provided a distinct advantage over direct suppression for regulation of immediate emotions. The experiment reported in Chapter 4 found that suppression was not effective at beating the EEG-based forensic concealed-information test for either immoral and personal, or lab-created, autobiographical memories. The thesis thus provides new evidence that suppression may not be effective at avoiding incrimination from this forensic test for real-world emotional autobiographical memories. Overall, memory control can be useful for reducing intrusive thoughts and negative emotions associated with unpleasant autobiographical memories of past immoral actions. The thesis has implications for theories of memory control, emotion regulation and forensic practice.
γ Peptide Nucleic Acid-Based miR-122 Inhibition Rescues Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet
Creators: name: Gaddam, Ravinder
name: Dhuri, Karishma
name: Kim, Young-Rae
name: Jacobs, Julia S.
name: Li, Qiuxia
name: Irani, Kaikobad
name: Bahal, Raman
name: Vikram, Ajit
Publisher: name: Health Research Alliance
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cardiology (incl. cardiovascular diseases)

description: The blood levels of microRNA-122 (miR-122) is associated with the severity of cardiovascular disorders, and targeting it with efficient and safer miR inhibitors could be a promising approach. Here, we report the generation of a γ-peptide nucleic acid (γPNA)-based miR-122 inhibitor (γP-122-I) that rescues vascular endothelial dysfunction in mice fed a high-fat diet. We synthesized diethylene glycol-containing γP-122-I and found that its systemic administration counteracted high-fat diet (HFD)-feeding-associated increase in blood and aortic miR-122 levels, impaired endothelial function, and reduced glycemic control. A comprehensive safety analysis established that γP-122-I affects neither the complete blood count nor biochemical tests of liver and kidney functions during acute exposure. In addition, long-term exposure to γP-122-I did not change the overall adiposity, or histology of the kidney, liver, and heart. Thus, γP-122-I rescues endothelial dysfunction without any evidence of toxicity in vivo and demonstrates the suitability of γPNA technology in generating efficient and safer miR inhibitors.
Inventory Rationing on a One-for-One Inventory Model for Two Priority Customer Classes with Backorders and Lost Sales
Creators: name: Oguzhan Vicil
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy

description: In this study, we are primarily motivated by the research problem of recognizing heterogeneous customer behavior towards waiting for order fulfillment under the threshold rationing policy (also known as the critical level policy), and aim to find its effect on system stock levels and performance measures. We assume a continuous review one-for-one ordering policy with generally distributed lead times. In the first model, we consider the case in which low-priority customer class exhibits zero patience for waiting if the demand is not satisfied immediately (a lost sale), while the demand of high-priority customer class can be backordered. This is the first study in the literature to consider this model. We provide an exact analysis for the derivation of the steady-state probability distribution and the average infinite horizon cost per unit time. We then develop an efficient optimization procedure to minimize the average expected cost rate. We also determine the forms of the optimal solutions for the two service level optimization models that are common in practice. In the second model, we study the opposite case in which the high-priority customer class exhibits zero patience for waiting. We establish a theoretical basis for the rationale of using the Continuous-Time Markov Chain (CTMC) approach as an approximation. We show that under certain assumptions the steady-state probabilities of the system with generally distributed lead times are identical to the steady-state probabilities of the CTMC system with the same mean. This result enables us to link the dynamics of the studied model to the CTMC model, which may open new doors for future research.
Non-equilibrium structures and slow dynamics in a two dimensional spin system with competitive long range and short range interactions
Creators: name: Osenda, Omar
name: Tamarit, Francisco A.
name: Cannas, Sergio A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a lattice spin model that mimics a system of interacting particle through a short range repulsive potential and a long range attractive power law decaying potential. We performed a detailed analysis of the general equilibrium phase diagram of the model at finite temperature, showing that the only possible equilibrium pases are the ferromagnetic and the antiferromagnetic ones. We then studied the non equilibrium behavior of the model after a quench to subcritical temperatures, in the antiferromagnetic region of the phase diagram region, where the pair interaction potential behaves in the same qualitative way as in a Lennard-Jones gas. We found that, even in the absence of quenched disorder or geometric frustration, the competition between interactions gives rise to non--equilibrium disordered structures at low enough temperatures that strongly slow down the relaxation of the system.
description: 14 pages, 20 figures
Radial thermal expansion of pure and Xe-saturated bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes at low temperatures
Creators: name: Dolbin, A. V.
name: Esel'son, V. B.
name: Gavrilko, V. G.
name: Manzhelii, V. G.
name: Popov, S. N.
name: Vinnikov, N. A.
name: Danilenko, N. I.
name: Sundqvist, B.
name: .
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radial thermal expansion coefficient (a)r of pure and Xe-saturated bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes has been measured in the interval 2.2-120 K. The coefficient is positive above T = 5.5 K and negative at lower temperatures. The experiment was made using a low temperature capacitance dilatometer with a sensitivity of 2x10-9 cm and the sample was prepared by compacting a CNT powder such that the pressure applied oriented the nanotube axes perpendicular to the axis of the cylindrical sample. The data show that individual nanotubes have a negative thermal expansion while the solid compacted material has a positive expansion coefficient due to expansion of the intertube volume in the bundles. Doping the nanotubes with Xe caused a sharp increase in the magnitude of (a)r in the whole range of temperatures used, and a peak in the dependence (a)r (T) in the interval 50-65 K. A subsequent decrease in the Xe concentration lowered the peak considerably but had little effect on the thermal expansion coefficient of the sample outside the region of the peak. The features revealed have been explained qualitatively.
description: 12 pages,6 figures
Vacuum fluctuations and topological Casimir effect in Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmologies with compact dimensions
Creators: name: Saharian, A. A.
name: Mkhitaryan, A. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Wightman function, the vacuum expectation values of the field squared and the energy-momentum tensor for a massless scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter in spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universes with an arbitrary number of toroidally compactified dimensions. The topological parts in the expectation values are explicitly extracted and in this way the renormalization is reduced to that for the model with trivial topology. In the limit when the comoving lengths of the compact dimensions are very short compared to the Hubble length, the topological parts coincide with those for a conformal coupling and they are related to the corresponding quantities in the flat spacetime by standard conformal transformation. In the opposite limit of large comoving lengths of the compact dimensions, in dependence of the curvature coupling parameter, two regimes are realized with monotonic or oscillatory behavior of the vacuum expectation values. In the monotonic regime and for nonconformally and nonminimally coupled fields the vacuum stresses are isotropic and the equation of state for the topological parts in the energy density and pressures is of barotropic type. In the oscillatory regime, the amplitude of the oscillations for the topological part in the expectation value of the field squared can be either decreasing or increasing with time, whereas for the energy-momentum tensor the oscillations are damping.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures
POGO: Philology-Oriented Graphematics Ontology
Creators: name: Monella, Paolo
Publisher: name: Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP)
Year: 2023
Subjects: Digital Humanities
Humanities Computing (Digital Humanities)
Humanities Computing
Digital philology
Digital palaeography
Graphematics
Classics
Classical philology
Medieval philology
Ontologies

description: POGO (Philology-Oriented Graphematics Ontology) is an ontology including key concepts of graphematics (such as Grapheme, Allograph, Glyph, Brevigraph). It is oriented towards digital philology, and particularly towards the diplomatic transcription of textual documents (such as European and Near Eastern medieval manuscripts, inscriptions, papyri) written with pre-modern handwritten writing systems.
Cutting Planes for Security-Constrained Unit Commitment with Regulation Reserve
Creators: name: Jianqiu Huang
name: Pan, Kai
name: Yongpei Guan
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: With significant economic and environmental benefits, renewable energy is increasingly used to generate electricity. To hedge against the uncertainty due to the increasing penetration of renewable energy, an ancillary service market was introduced to maintain reliability and efficiency, in addition to day-ahead and real-time energy markets. To co-optimize these two markets, a unit commitment problem with regulation reserve (the most common ancillary service product) is solved for daily power system operations, leading to a large-scale and computationally challenging mixed-integer program. In this paper, we analyze the polyhedral structure of the co-optimization model to speed up the solution process by deriving problem-specific strong valid inequalities. Convex hull results for certain special cases (i.e., two- and three-period cases) with rigorous proofs are provided, and strong valid inequalities covering multiple periods under the most general setting are derived. We also develop efficient polynomial-time separation algorithms for the inequalities that are in the exponential size. We further tighten the formulation by deriving an extended formulation for each generator in a higher-dimensional space. Finally, we conduct computational experiments to apply our derived inequalities as cutting planes in a branch-and-cut algorithm. Significant improvement from our inequalities over commercial solvers demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach, leading to practical usefulness to enhance the co-optimization of energy and ancillary service markets.
Warum müssen wir Kinder vor einer SARS-CoV-2-Infektion schützen?
Creators: name: Wieler, Lothar H.
name: Häcker, Georg
Publisher: name: Robert Koch-Institut
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: COVID-19
subject: Pandemie
subject: Kinder und Jugendliche
subject: Infektionsschutz
subject: Schulen
subject: 610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: In der COVID-19-Pandemie führten die bisherigen Kontaktbeschränkungen zu gravierenden Einschränkungen des regulären Kita- und Schulbetriebs. Die Mehrzahl der 12- bis 18-Jährigen ist momentan noch nicht gegen COVID-19 geimpft und für rund 9 Millionen Kinder unter dem Alter von 12 Jahren ist noch kein Impfstoff zugelassen. Der uneingeschränkte Zugang zu Kitas und Schulen und damit ein kontinuierliches Betreuungs- und Bildungsangebot ohne erhöhtes Infektions- und Erkrankungsrisiko kann nur unter Aufrechterhaltung von infektionspräventiven Maßnahmen gewährleistet werden. Die Umsetzung etablierter Hygiene- und Infektions-schutzkonzepte, das Fernbleiben symptomatischer Kinder und Betreuender/Lehrender sowie ein vollständiger Immunschutz aller weiteren Personen, in deren Obhut die Kinder leben und betreut werden, sind daher essenziell.
POGO: Philology-Oriented Graphematics Ontology
Creators: name: Monella, Paolo
Publisher: name: Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP)
Year: 2023
Subjects: Digital Humanities
Humanities Computing (Digital Humanities)
Humanities Computing
Digital philology
Digital palaeography
Graphematics
Classics
Classical philology
Medieval philology
Ontologies

description: POGO (Philology-Oriented Graphematics Ontology, https://github.com/vedph/graphematics) is an ontology including key concepts of graphematics (such as Grapheme, Allograph, Glyph, Brevigraph). It is oriented towards digital philology: it includes the concepts/objects that a philologist needs to create a digital diplomatic transcription of a textual document (such as European and Near Eastern medieval manuscripts, inscriptions, papyri) written with pre-modern handwritten writing systems.
Complete Human Mitochondrial Genome Construction Using L-systems
Creators: name: Hassana, Sk. Sarif
name: Choudhury, Pabitra Pal
name: Pal, Amita
name: Brahmachary, R. L.
name: Goswami, Arunava
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Other Quantitative Biology (q-bio.OT)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Recently, scientists from The Craig J. Venter Institute reported construction of very long DNA molecules using a variety of experimental procedures adopting a number of working hypotheses. Finding a mathematical rule for generation of such a long sequence would revolutionize our thinking on various advanced areas of biology, viz. evolution of long DNA chains in chromosomes, reasons for existence of long stretches of non-coding regions as well as would usher automated methods for long DNA chains preparation for chromosome engineering. However, this mathematical principle must have room for editing / correcting DNA sequences locally in those areas of genomes where mutation and / or DNA polymerase has introduced errors over millions of years. In this paper, we report the basics and applications of L-system (a mathematical principle) which could answer all the aforesaid issues. At the end, we present the whole human mitochondrial genome which has been generated using this mathematical principle using PC computation power. We can claim now that we can make any stretch of DNA, be it 936 bp of olfactory receptor, with or without introns, mitochondrial DNA to 3 x 109 bp DNA sequences of the whole human genome with even a PC computation power.
An Investigation on the Interfacial Adhesion between Amine Functionalized Luffa Fiber and Epoxy Resin and Its Effect on Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Their Composites
Creators: name: Dharmalingam, Sangeetha
name: Meenakshisundaram, Omkumar
name: Elumalai, Vijayakumar
name: Boopathy, Rajendra S.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology

description: The objective of this work is to develop a natural fiber-reinforced epoxy composite with enhanced compatibility between resin and the fiber, achieved by amino silane treatment of Luffa fiber. Amine modification on the surface of the Luffa fiber is confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Composites with different volume fractions (2%, 4%, 6%, and 8%) of amine functionalized/un-functionalized Luffa fiber and epoxy resin are fabricated. The functionalized/un-functionalized Luffa epoxy composites are subjected to various studies such as tensile, flexural, and impact in the area of the effect of amine functionalization of fiber/epoxy composites. Dynamic mechanical analysis and fatigue analysis are carried out to enable a study on the effect of amine functionalization. Variations in thermal stability of the composites are studied using TGA analysis. A maximum tensile strength value of 18.3 MPa is reached for the 6% amine functionalized composite compared to the plain epoxy of 9.4 MPa. The amine functionalized fiber-reinforced composites show improved thermal, mechanical, and morphological properties as a result of improved interaction between the fiber and matrix.
Regenerated Cellulose Fibers Wetspun from Different Waste Cellulose Types
Creators: name: Ma, Yibo
name: Nasri-Nasrabadi, Bijan
name: You, Xiang
name: Wang, Xungai
name: Rainey, Thomas J.
name: Byrne, Nolene
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Hematology

description: Regenerated cellulosic fibers were successfully spun from various waste cellulose sources (cotton linter, bagasse, and cardboard) suitable for use as a textile fibers using a wet spinning process with an ionic liquid/dimethyl sulfoxide (IL/DMSO) mixture as the solvent. The solubility of the waste cellulose sources in IL/DMSO varies according to the source of the raw material. Regenerated fibers can be spun from all the waste feedstock, the spinnability and fiber tensile strength is governed by the DP and chemical composition of the cellulose. The structural properties of the spun fibers are determined by x-ray diffraction, thermalgravimetric analysis, and scanning electron microscope. The results reveal that the properties of the starting materials and thus how the waste feed streams are pretreated have a significant impact on the mechanical properties, crystallite structure, thermal stability, and the morphology of the fibers.
Additional file 6 of The origin of the parrotfish species Scarus compressus in the Tropical Eastern Pacific: region-wide hybridization between ancient species pairs
Creators: name: Carlon, David B.
name: Robertson, D. Ross
name: Barron, Robert L.
name: Choat, John Howard
name: Anderson, David J.
name: Schwartz, Sonja A.
name: Sánchez-Ortiz, Carlos A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Table S5. Coalescence estimates based on Migrate Model 6 $$\theta$$ θ estimates.
Additional file 4 of The origin of the parrotfish species Scarus compressus in the Tropical Eastern Pacific: region-wide hybridization between ancient species pairs
Creators: name: Carlon, David B.
name: Robertson, D. Ross
name: Barron, Robert L.
name: Choat, John Howard
name: Anderson, David J.
name: Schwartz, Sonja A.
name: Sánchez-Ortiz, Carlos A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Table S3. Results from Evanno method to choose the best Structure model.
The VLA survey of the Chandra Deep Field South III: X-ray spectral properties of radio sources
Creators: name: Tozzi, P.
name: Mainieri, V.
name: Rosati, P.
name: Padovani, P.
name: Kellermann, K. I.
name: Fomalont, E.
name: Miller, N.
name: Shaver, P.
name: Bergeron, J.
name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Brusa, M.
name: Giacconi, R.
name: Hasinger, G.
name: Lehmer, B. D.
name: Nonino, M.
name: Norman, C.
name: Silverman, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the X-ray properties of the radio sources detected in a deep 1.4 and 5 GHz VLA Radio survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (E-CDFS). Among the 266 radio sources detected, we find 89 sources (1/3 of the total) with X-ray counterparts in the catalog of the 1Ms exposure of the central 0.08 deg^2 (Giacconi et al. 2002; Alexander et al. 2003) or in the catalog of the 250 ks exposure of the 0.3 deg^2 E-CDFS field (Lehmer et al. 2005). For 76 (85%) of these sources we have spectroscopic or photometric redshifts, and therefore we are able to derive their intrinsic properties from X-ray spectral analysis, namely intrinsic absorption and total X-ray luminosities. We find that the population of submillijansky radio sources with X-ray counterparts is composed of a mix of roughly 1/3 star forming galaxies and 2/3 AGN. The distribution of intrinsic absorption among X-ray detected radio sources is different from that of the X-ray selected sample. Namely, the fraction of low absorption sources is at least two times larger than that of X-ray selected sources in the CDFS. This is mostly due to the larger fraction of star forming galaxies present among the X-ray detected radio sources. If we investigate the distribution of intrinsic absorption among sources with L_X>10^42 erg s^-1 in the hard 2-10 keV band (therefore in the AGN luminosity regime), we find agreement between the X-ray population with and without radio emission. In general, radio detected X-ray AGN are not more heavily obscured than the non radio detected AGN. This argues against the use of radio surveys as an efficient way to search for the missing population of strongly absorbed AGN.
description: 56 pages, 16 figures, ApJ in press
Attitudes of British Columbia doctors toward the manufacture and marketing of drugs
Creators: name: Roberts, Guy Lawrence
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this study was to find differences, in degree of "skepticism" about the manufacturing and marketing of drugs, among groups of medical doctors categorized according to training and experience, "Skepticism" was measured by a questionnaire prepared by the Department of Pharmacology with the collaboration of the Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia. The questionnaire was composed of eighteen statements representing issues about the manufacturing and marketing of drugs; "skepticism" was measured by degree of agreement or disagreement with each statement, expressed on a four-point response scale accompanying each statement. Eleven different ways of classifying doctors according to training and experience were employed, and each of these eleven involved a plurality of groups. Altogether 906 groups were considered. The "Skepticism" questionnaire together with a "Personal Data" section to supply data for classifying according to training and experience were sent to the 2413 B.C. doctors registered by the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons. Of the 2413 sent, 1193 were returned. Chi-square comparisons were made in order to determine which groups of doctors were relatively "skeptical" or "naive" according to each of the eighteen questionnaire statements. The great majority of comparisons failed to show differences significant at the .05 level. Comparisons which were significant showed instances where groups of respondents were relatively "skeptical" or "naive"; these were the findings it was the purpose of this study to obtain. These findings were discussed with reference to the particular groups of doctors, and questionnaire statements involved.
title: Multiple Imputation of Missing Passenger Boarding Data in the National Census of Ferry Operators
Creators: name: Giesbrecht, Lee H.
Publisher: name: United States Department of Transportation
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/02xfw2e90
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2008
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87933
subject: Ferry service
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88442
subject: Passenger counting
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88107
subject: Boarding

description: BTS technical report;4p. in various pagings
description: This report presents findings from the 2006 National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO) augmented with imputed values for passengers and passenger miles. Due to the imputation procedures used to calculate missing data, totals in Table 1 may not correspond to calculations obtained from using only the data in the NCFO. The 2006 NCFO data were collected from 230 ferry operators by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a component of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration in the U.S. Department of Transportation. The data were supplemented by other sources of ferry data, such as the U.S. Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers. The database contains information on ferry systems, including operators, routes, vessels, and passenger and vehicle boarding.
Stability measures in metastable states with Gaussian colored noise
Creators: name: Fiasconaro, Alessandro
name: Spagnolo, Bernardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of the escape time from a metastable state of an overdamped Brownian particle, in the presence of colored noise generated by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We analyze the role of the correlation time on the enhancement of the mean first passage time through a potential barrier and on the behavior of the mean growth rate coefficient as a function of the noise intensity. We observe the noise enhanced stability effect for all the initial unstable states used, and for all values of the correlation time $τ_c$ investigated. We can distinguish two dynamical regimes characterized by weak and strong correlated noise respectively, depending on the value of $τ_c$ with respect to the relaxation time of the system.
description: 6 pages, 7 figures
Work or Welfare? An Empirical Analysis of Unemployment Insurance and Employment Decisions by Gender in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creators: name: Wang, Xinyi
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: COVID-19
subject: CARES Act
subject: Gender Gap
subject: Unemployment Insurance

description: The COVID-19 pandemic hits female workers the most. To protect those people who are vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic, the government has launched an additional weekly supplement since March 2020. The CARES Act proposed a $600 weekly unemployment compensation from March 2020 to July 2020 and another $300 weekly unemployment compensation starting from January 2021 and suggested to end by September 2021. Twenty-nine States followed the suggested end time of this additional $300 weekly compensation, while the remaining twenty-two states decided to end this unemployment insurance benefit earlier. Holzer, Hubbard, and Strain found that with the early state-level expiration in June 2021 of the pandemic unemployment befits, the unemployment rate would be lowered by 3.5% if all states withdrew the unemployment benefit in June 2021 (Holzer et al., 2021). Similarly, I will also study the expiration of the second round of unemployment benefits in the United States but focus on the gendered effect of the UI benefits expiration. I have used the difference-in-difference method to do an event study of the UI benefits $300 per week benefits expiration. I found that male workers were around 0.5% more likely to find a job after the UI benefits expired than female workers1. Moreover, the UI benefits expiration increases the employment rate by 1.2%.
Additional file 11 of The origin of the parrotfish species Scarus compressus in the Tropical Eastern Pacific: region-wide hybridization between ancient species pairs
Creators: name: Carlon, David B.
name: Robertson, D. Ross
name: Barron, Robert L.
name: Choat, John Howard
name: Anderson, David J.
name: Schwartz, Sonja A.
name: Sánchez-Ortiz, Carlos A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 11: Table S7. PCR primers and conditions.
The [OIII] emission line luminosity function of optically selected type-2 AGN from zCOSMOS
Creators: name: Bongiorno, A.
name: Mignoli, M.
name: Zamorani, G.
name: Lamareille, F.
name: Lanzuisi, G.
name: Miyaji, T.
name: Bolzonella, M.
name: Carollo, C. M.
name: Contini, T.
name: Kneib, J. P.
name: Fevre, O. Le
name: Lilly, S. J.
name: Mainieri, V.
name: Renzini, A.
name: Scodeggio, M.
name: Bardelli, S.
name: Brusa, M.
name: Caputi, K.
name: Civano, F.
name: Coppa, G.
name: Cucciati, O.
name: de la Torre, S.
name: de Ravel, L.
name: Franzetti, P.
name: Garilli, B.
name: Halliday, C.
name: Hasinger, G.
name: Koekemoer, A. M.
name: Iovino, A.
name: Kampczyk, P.
name: Knobel, C.
name: Kovac, K.
name: Borgne, J. -F. Le
name: Brun, V. Le
name: Maier, C.
name: Merloni, A.
name: Nair, P.
name: Pello, R.
name: Peng, Y.
name: Montero, E. Perez
name: Ricciardelli, E.
name: Salvato, M.
name: Silverman, J.
name: Tanaka, M.
name: Tasca, L.
name: Tresse, L.
name: Vergani, D.
name: Zucca, E.
name: Abbas, U.
name: Bottini, D.
name: Cappi, A.
name: Cassata, P.
name: Cimatti, A.
name: Guzzo, L.
name: Leauthaud, A.
name: Maccagni, D.
name: Marinoni, C.
name: McCracken, H. J.
name: Memeo, P.
name: Meneux, B.
name: Oesch, P.
name: Porciani, C.
name: Pozzetti, L.
name: Scaramella, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a catalog of 213 type-2 AGN selected from the zCOSMOS survey. The selected sample covers a wide redshift range (0.15
description: 20 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
An application of linear programming to log allocation in the forest industry of British Columbia
Creators: name: Sydneysmith, Sam
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis presents an application of linear programming to the question of efficient log allocation in the forest industry of British Columbia. Current procedures for allocating logs among alternative utilization processes are discussed and it is suggested that a more efficient allocation might be obtained through a systematic approach to the problem. The economic necessity of improving net returns to the log supply is emphasized. A linear programme log-allocation model is presented, based on an integrated-industry in the coastal region of British Columbia. The model encompasses three main categories of log-use, namely sawmilling, plywood production and pulp production, and demonstrates how a given supply of logs may be optimally distributed among these structurally different log-conversion processes. Emphasis throughout this study is on the structure of the linear programme model, although considerable effort was directed to obtaining realistic data. Solutions of the model, obtained through the services of the Computing Centre at the University of British Columbia, are discussed, and a superficial comparison is made with actual log allocation in the industry. Modifications of the model to suit the log-allocation problem faced by an individual firm in the short-run are discussed and normal comparative-statics applications are considered. It is pointed out that many of the simplifying assumptions in the model may be relaxed. However, the main limitation to its practical application by industry and government lies in the quality and type of data available. In this respect it is suggested that the linear programme model of this thesis provides a valuable guide to the production data required to improve economic efficiency in the forest industry.
Additional file 2 of Genomic variation in the American pika: signatures of geographic isolation and implications for conservation
Creators: name: Klingler, Kelly B.
name: Jahner, Joshua P.
name: Parchman, Thomas L.
name: Ray, Chris
name: Peacock, Mary M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1. Pairwise comparisons of Nei’s D (Nei 1972) based on allele frequencies for each sampled pika population. The distribution of Nei’s D for all pairwise comparisons is represented by a heat map with warmer colors indicating greater genome-wide genetic differentiation. Figure created by authors KBK and JPJ.
Early Results from the Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey: C III Emission Lines in Of Spectra
Creators: name: Walborn, Nolan R.
name: Sota, Alfredo
name: Apellaniz, Jesus Maiz
name: Alfaro, Emilio J.
name: Morrell, Nidia I.
name: Barba, Rodolfo H.
name: Arias, Julia I.
name: Gamen, Roberto C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On the basis of an extensive new spectroscopic survey of Galactic O stars, we introduce the Ofc category, which consists of normal spectra with C III λ\lambda4647-4650-4652 emission lines of comparable intensity to those of the Of defining lines N III λ\lambda4634-4640-4642. The former feature is strongly peaked to spectral type O5, at all luminosity classes, but preferentially in some associations or clusters and not others. The relationships of this phenomenon to the selective C III \lambda5696 emission throughout the normal Of domain, and to the peculiar, variable Of?p category, for which strong C III λ\lambda4647-4650-4652 emission is a defining characteristic, are discussed. Magnetic fields have recently been detected on two members of the latter category. We also present two new extreme Of?p stars, NGC 1624-2 and CPD -28^{\circ}2561, bringing the number known in the Galaxy to five. Modeling of the behavior of these spectral features can be expected to better define the physical parameters of both normal and peculiar objects, as well as the atomic physics involved.
description: 12 pages, 1 table, 2 figures; accepted for ApJL, vol. 711
title: Τεχνοοικονομική ανάλυση για την αντικατάσταση της μηχανής πρόωσης
Επιβατηγού/Οχηματαγωγού πλοίου από Diesel σε LNG
Creators: name: Πλανακης Κωνσταντινος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2021

description: Σε αυτή την εργασία επιχειρείται  η τεχνοοικονομική μελέτη πάνω στη μετασκευή των μηχανών πρόωσης του πλοίου “Olympic Champion” της ANEK LINES, από μηχανές καύσης πετρελαίου σε μηχανές καύσης διπλού καυσίμου (πετρελαίου/φυσικού αερίου). Ο στόχος αυτής της μελέτης είναι ο υπολογισμός των οικονομικών οφελών της επένδυσης που θα αποκομίσει η ναυτιλιακή εταιρεία από την εφαρμογή μιας τεχνολογίας η οποία είναι σύμφωνη με τους νέους περιβαλλοντικούς κανονισμούς, σε αντίθεση με τη συμβατική επιλογή κινητήρα πρόωσης του πλοίου “Olympic Champion”.
Η προσέγγιση του παραπάνω θέματος επιχειρείται μέσα από δύο βασικούς άξονες.  Ο πρώτος αναφέρεται στην τεχνική διαδικασία της μετασκευής αναλύοντας τις τεχνικές διαφορές και τις ενεργειακές απαιτήσεις μεταξύ των δυο κατηγοριών μηχανών, της καύσης ναυτιλιακού πετρελαίου και της καύσης φυσικού αερίου, τις τεχνικές μεθόδους που ακολουθούνται με τον απαραίτητο εξοπλισμό που χρειάζεται καθώς και τις νέες  ανάγκες που προκύπτουν για να έχει ως καύσιμο το φυσικό αέριο το πλοίο που εξετάζεται. Ο δεύτερος βασικός άξονας αφορά στην οικονομική ανάλυση της επένδυσης με τον υπολογισμό κατά προσέγγιση του συνολικού κόστους που απαιτείται, για τη μετασκευή  που μελετάται, σε συνάρτηση με τις σημερινές τιμές των ναυτιλιακών καυσίμων. Ωστόσο η βασική συνισταμένη των πιο πάνω είναι η συμβατότητα της μετατροπής αυτής στο πλαίσιο μιας παγκόσμιας προσπάθειας για τη στροφή στην “πράσινη ναυτιλία”.
Η μελέτη και η ανάλυση των τεχνικών, οικονομικών και περιβαλλοντικών δεδομένων,  που αφορούν στη μετασκευή των μηχανών πρόωσης του πλοίου “Olympic Champion”  από μηχανές καύσης πετρελαίου σε μηχανές καύσης φυσικού αερίου,  συγκλίνουν στο συμπέρασμα ότι πρόκειται για μια αξιόπιστη διαδικασία με περιβαλλοντικό όφελος ενώ αποτελεί μια συμφέρουσα επένδυση της ANEK LINES.
On a possible manifestation of the four color symmetry $Z'$ boson in $μ^+μ^-$ events at the LHC
Creators: name: Smirnov, A. D.
name: Zaitsev, Yu. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The cross section of the $μ^+μ^-$ pair production in $pp$-collisions at the LHC is calculated with acount of the $Z'$ boson induced by the minimal four color quark-lepton symmetry($MQLS$). The $μ^+μ^-$ invariant mass spectrum with account of the $MQLS$ $Z'$ boson is analysed in dependence on the $Z'$ mass. The mass region for the $MQLS$ $Z'$ boson observable at the LHC is found in dependence on the significance and on the integrated luminosity.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Modern Physics Letters A
Additional file 2 of Association between circle of Willis and ischemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Oumer, Mohammed
name: Mekuriaw Alemayehu
name: Abebe Muche
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 2. Newcastle–Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale.
Vegetational and environmental variations in the ecosystems of the coastal western hemlock zone
Creators: name: Orlóci, László
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis describes the biogeoclimatic zones on the southwestern British Columbia mainland and gives a detailed analysis of the vegetation-environmental patterns within the Coastal western hemlock zone. Ecosystem classifications are proposed utilizing coordination techniques and stratification. The major underlying causes of variations in the floristic structure among individual ecosystems are identified by four environmental gradients: regional climate, parent material, local climate (exposure), and soil-moisture regime. The orographic influence of Vancouver Island and the Coast Mountains results in a regional climatic gradient from low to high elevations. Natural segments of this gradient, recognized on the basis of zonal (climatic climax) vegetation and mesic soils, constitute the biogeoclimatic zones and subzones. Land types are separated from within the Coastal western hemlock zone on the basis of parent materials. The rock outcrop land type includes a mosaic of peaks, knolls, and crevices characterized by a coincident pattern of the vegetation types. All glacial drift deposits, except those of the swampy habitats, belong to the glacial drift land type. Maximum floristic variations in the glacial drift land type occur along a soil-moisture gradient. A lesser variation in the floristic structure is attributed to a local climatic gradient from cool to warm exposure. These gradients signify different sets of vegetation types in the different subzones of the Coastal western hemlock zone. The spring-water swamp land type includes waterlogged mineral soils and waterlogged woody peats in the vicinity of spring lines. The vegetation of the spring-water swamps has remarkable uniformity throughout both subzones. Narrow valley-like depressions with permanent or semipermanent streamlets and intermittent overflow water constitute the ravine alluvial land type. The vegetation of the ravines shows little variation among the two subzones. The flood-plain communities of the Squamish alluvial plain land type reflect the influence of overflow water and post-flood drainage. The basic unit of classification used is the ecosystem type, a segment in a simple vegetation-environmental gradient. A vegetation-environmental gradient is simple if it consists of a single set of vegetation types along an environmental gradient. Ecosystem type mapping involved approximately 85 acres in the southwestern part of the University of British Columbia Research Forest; a map is enclosed (in the thesis).
An Economical Order Quantity Inventory Model for TimeDependent Deterioration Rate with Price Dependent Demand under Permitted Delay
Creators: name: Kumar, Mukesh
name: Singh, Satya Jeet
name: Kumar, Sandeep
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2021
Subjects: Inventory
permitted delay
deterioration and time varying holding cost

description: In the current study, we develop an inventory model for the deteriorating items under the variable holding cost. The decline (or deterioration) rate depends on time; also, the demand rate depends on the price of the item. The shortage cost is linear in nature. The interest rate is a component of selling prices and shortages. Supplier offers a trade-credit period to the customer during which there is no interest charged, but upon the prescribed time limit expiry, the supplier will charge some interest. This study validates with a numerical example and explains the sensitivity analysis, and the optimal solution not only exists but also feasible.
On the quantum criticality in the ground and the thermal states of XX model
Creators: name: Son, Wonmin
name: Vedral, Vlatko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the critical behavior of the ground state and the thermal state of the XX model. We analyze the full energy spectrum and the eigenstates to reconstruct the ground state and the thermally excited state. With the solutions, we discuss about several physical properties of the states, which are related to quantum phase transition, in various limits, at zero temperature as well as at a thermal equilibrium.
description: 4 pages, 7 figures, Tourn conference, June 25-28, 2008
Defence of President Fillmore :before a meeting of the American party, held at Cincinnati, Friday evening, May 30, 1856. by Hon. James Brooks, (of New York). Reported by T. Shinkwin, of Cincinnati, Joseph Smith Esq., in the Chair.
Creators: name: Brooks, James, 1810-1873.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description:
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Additional file 1 of Association between circle of Willis and ischemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Oumer, Mohammed
name: Mekuriaw Alemayehu
name: Abebe Muche
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1. PRISMA checklist.
An EOQ Policy for Decaying Items with Constant Rate of Demand and Decreased Willingness of Buying over the Life Cycle of Item
Creators: name: Kumar, Sandeep
Publisher: name: Reliability: Theory & Applications
Year: 2021
Subjects: Inventory
decaying items
demand
willingness
life cycle
costs

description: In present study an EOQ model is proposed for decaying items with constant demand in which the process of demand is related to the willingness to receive the good quality items by giving the power to the costumers of checking the quality of items before reaching the effective purchasing. The cost of disposing is also considered for unsold units alongside the regular costs for storage and acquirement. This study presents a mathematical analysis to acquire the EOQ policy under certain conditions. To minimize the total expected inventory cost, a linear decrement is assumed in purchasing during the cycle of product life. Then the optimal parameters are found for the model with the help of a numerical example. In the last a numerical sensitivity analysis is presented to prove that the traditional EOQ model for decaying items is approximated by the proposed study during the sufficiently large life cycle.
Analytic Expressions for the Surface Brightness Profile of GRB Afterglow Images
Creators: name: Granot, Jonathan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exact profile of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow image on the plane of the sky can provide important constraints on the underlying physics. In particular, it can test whether the magnetic field in the emitting shocked external medium decreases significantly with the distance behind the shock front, or remains roughly constant. Moreover, it enables more accurate measurements of the afterglow image size and the expected scintillation properties. In this work analytic expressions are derived for the afterglow image in power law segments (PLSs) of the afterglow synchrotron spectrum in which the emission originates from a very thin layer just behind the shock, while simple semi-analytic expressions are derived for the remaining PLSs in which the emission arises from the bulk of the shocked fluid. In all cases the expressions are for a general power law external density profile, and are convenient to use in afterglow studies.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures