cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Jane Addams, Hull-House, and the “Danger” of Women’s Work
Creators: name: Buffington, Melanie L.
name: Wolfgang, Courtnie N.
name: Taylor, Pamela G.
Publisher: name: The Pennsylvania State University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Published in Transdisciplinary Inquiry, Practice, and Possibilities in Art Education: Proceedings from The Penn State Seminar @50; https://doi.org/10.26209/arted50
Spin wave optics for gravitational waves lensed by a Kerr black hole
Creators: name: Kubota, Kei-ichiro
name: Arai, Shun
name: Motohashi, Hayato
name: Mukohyama, Shinji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational waves exhibit the unique signature of their spin-2 nature in processes of wave scattering, due to the interaction between spin and a background spacetime. Since the spin effect is more pronounced for longer wavelengths and gravitational waves sourced by binaries have a long wavelength, it may become an important effect in addition to the wave effect. We study the propagation of gravitational waves lensed by a Kerr black hole by numerically solving the Teukolsky equation with a source term of the equal-mass circular binary, taking into account both spin effect and wave effect. We find helicity-dependent small-period oscillation in the power spectrum of the amplification factor in the forward direction and the oscillation is enhanced as spin of a prograde Kerr black hole increases.
description: 19 pages, 16 figures. PRD accepted
Litocythere Hobbs & Walton 1968
Creators: name: Meisch, Claude
name: Smith, Robin J.
name: Martens, Koen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Litocythere

description: Litocythere Hobbs & Walton, 1968
* Litocythere lucileae Hobbs & Walton, 1968: NA
description: Published as part of Meisch, Claude, Smith, Robin J. & Martens, Koen, 2024, An updated subjective global checklist of the extant non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea), pp. 1-144 in European Journal of Taxonomy 974 on page 76, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.974.2767, http://zenodo.org/record/14500383
Zammaralna bleuzeni Boulard & Sueur 1996
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Zammaralna
Zammaralna bleuzeni

description: Zammaralna bleuzeni Boulard & Sueur, 1996.
The genus is endemic to Venezuela (Boulard & Sueur 1996).
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F., 2007, Additions to the cicada fauna of Venezuela with the description of a new species and checklist of the Venezuelan cicada fauna (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cicadidae), pp. 21-32 in Zootaxa 1503 on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1503.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/273813
Trisinuata Ballantyne in Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013
Creators: name: Ho, - Z.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Trisinuata

description: Trisinuata Ballantyne 2013
Fig. 95
Trisinuata Ballantyne in Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013: 112, figs 228–265.
Type species: Trisinuata caudabifurca Ballantyne.
Diagnosis. Trisinuata is a largely New Guinean genus that belongs in a group of 10 genera characterized by: an elongate slender aedeagus with LL concealed behind the ML when viewed from beneath, pronotal width less than width across the elytral humeri, parallel-sided elytra, aedeagal sheath elongate slender, widest across the middle, with posterior half of sternite tapering evenly towards a narrow entire apex; bulbous paraprocts absent. Males have bipartite LOs in V7, expanded horizontal PLP in New Guinean species, trisinuate posterior margin of V7, and several species have deflexed elytral apices. Males are distinguished from Colophotia which has median carina on V7 between LO halves, and oblique PLP; from Pteroptyx in lacking bulbous paraprocts and an MFC; from Pyrophanes in lacking incurving lobes along the posterior margin of V7; from Australoluciola, which has entire LOs in V7 by the bipartite LOs; from Medeopteryx in having bipartite LOs in V7 with expanded PLP. It differs from Inflata indica in lacking the bulbous ML and paraprocts on the aedeagal sheath. Three species are dorsally brown; the remaining species have orange yellow pronota with dark brown elytra. Females associated by label data are macropterous. Larvae are not associated.
description: Published as part of Ho, - Z., 2019, The Luciolinae of S. E. Asia and the Australopacific region: a revisionary checklist (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) including description of three new genera and 13 new species, pp. 1-174 in Zootaxa 4687 (1) on page 149, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4687.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3508098
Mechanisms of non-enveloped viral exit from the host
Creators: name: Chen, Ying-Han
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Viral exit from the host cell is a critical step of the viral lifecycle. Enveloped viruses have employed numerous mechanisms to exit their host including direct budding out of the plasma membrane, budding into the secretory pathway to be trafficked out, or budding into the endosomal membrane system to be exocytosed. Comparatively little is known about how non-enveloped RNA viruses such as Poliovirus (PV), Coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3), Rotavirus, Reovirus exit the host cell. Here I showed PV hijacks and diverts the host autophagy pathway to capture numerous virions in autophagosomes which are then trafficked by actin machinery to filopodial extensions and fuse with the plasma membrane to release infectious large vesicles containing mature polio virions. I also demonstrated the infectivity of the virus when inside a vesicle is higher then when free likely due to the vesicles containing many virions as the “clustered bombs”. Finally, I found the exported viral vesicles are highly enriched in phosphatidylserine lipids and that the infection on subsequent host cells is dependent on not only the poliovirus receptor but also the phosphotidylserine lipids on the vesicles. My findings suggest that non-enveloped viruses also carry a piece of the host with them on their pathogenic journey. The lipid and protein components within these membranes potentially modulate the pathogenesis of non-enveloped viruses within the host and provide a new paradigm for viral spread and tropism.
Comparisons and extensions of structural and reduced form  approaches to the pricing of commercial real estate securities and  loans in the financial crisis (2007-2010) and the recovery (2013-2014)
Creators: name: Christopoulos, Andreas D.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: To date, the ~$1Trillion CMBS sector in the US does not actively utilize widely accepted  advanced derivatives valuation methods. In the absence of risk neutral values for CMBS it is  proposed here that risks of default were neither correctly anticipated nor priced in the Crisis  (11/2007-12/2010) nor in the Recovery (1/2013-3/2014), thus far. If schisms between market  and model prices enable one to secure excess returns then one may reasonably question the weak  form efficiency of the CMBS sector. To investigate, I apply four model approaches (structural  form, reduced form, generalization of calibrated simulation, and a special case of the  generalization) in both the Crisis and the Recovery using two representative loan and bond  samples on a daily basis.    The key findings are: First, statistical analysis demonstrates the need for the generalized  approach. The special case is misspecified and inadequate to the task of modeling CMBS default  risk. Second , although the structural form yields results in keeping with the generalization, it  too is insensitive to risks associated with loan characteristics, borrower behavior, and bond pricing. Third , the reduced form represents a comprehensive and better approach than all others.  Building off details that characterize the generalized approach, the Cox Process of the reduced  form has embedded within its design the capability to accurately evaluate complex economic  relationships that govern the timing and amount of loan defaults. As the reduced form economy  is robust, accurate pricing at the bond level is an immediate consequence, given accurate  implementation. Finally , evidence indicates a sizable disconnect between fair value and market  pricing with differentiation amongst the models. Trading tests and statistical analyses suggest  an inefficient CMBS market evidenced by the earning of excess returns in backtesting. This  dissertation provides valuable insights pertaining to CMBS risk estimation, the pricing of those  risks, and CMBS market efficiency.
Team member distance and innovative team performance
Creators: name: Eisenberg, Julia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Geographical dispersion of team members is posited to have negative effects on team dynamics such as communication and cohesion, and in turn on team performance because both of these dynamics are important mechanisms for improving team performance. Members of teams who do not have other collocated team members to support them, that is, isolates working alone at a location, present a special case of geographical dispersion. Organizations have tried to use leadership interventions such as transformational or shared leadership to mitigate the likely negative effects of distance among team members.  This study examines the influence of both transformational and shared leadership styles, on geographically dispersed teams at the team level as well as isolation at the individual level.   This study is based on a sample of 86 cross-functional innovation-focused teams from 29 companies across multiple industries.  At the team level, I find that as geographical dispersion increases, higher levels of transformational leadership effects become less positive on mediating team dynamics. Because team communication and cohesion are adversely affected, geographical dispersion negatively impacts team performance. Transformational leadership also has a similar pattern of effects at the individual level in influencing team performance through team communication, but not team cohesion. At the individual level, I find that as shared leadership increases, isolates have more positive perceptions of innovative team performance, but team communication and cohesion do not appear to mediate that effect.
Lordocythere Hobbs & Hobbs 1970
Creators: name: Meisch, Claude
name: Smith, Robin J.
name: Martens, Koen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Entocytheridae
Lordocythere

description: Lordocythere Hobbs & Hobbs, 1970
* Lordocythere petersi Hobbs & Hobbs, 1970: NA
description: Published as part of Meisch, Claude, Smith, Robin J. & Martens, Koen, 2024, An updated subjective global checklist of the extant non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea), pp. 1-144 in European Journal of Taxonomy 974 on page 76, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.974.2767, http://zenodo.org/record/14500383
Islamophobia from the inside
Creators: name: Erturk, Esref
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Although there is a vast literature on the securitization and Islamophobia phenomena in Western societies, there is relatively less research about the perceptions and mobilization of Muslim immigrants in the West, especially Turks, with respect to these phenomena. Therefore, the research set out to explore whether there has been any change in the forms of mobilization of Turkish immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands after 9/11 as a response to the securitization of integration. The present comparative study identified not only the changes after 9/11, but also the main similarities and differences between the two cases. Characteristics of Turkish immigrants and the context of reception, as well as the subjective aspects (such as perceptions, feelings, emotions, and so on) related to the issue were taken into account in the study. From the methodological perspective, the study employed a mixed methods research approach by including interviews, participant observation, and a quantitative analysis of population and political representation data. In total, in Germany and the Netherlands, 27 face to face semi-structured interviews were conducted with either the representatives of Turkish organizations or the political party members that originated from Turkey.    The study concluded that Turkish immigrants in both countries have been negatively affected by the securitization process. They felt that they faced more problems (such as discrimination, hate crimes, more restrictive policies towards them, and so on) in their contexts after 9/11. Along with these perceptions, the changes in their characteristics and the context of reception played an important role in their mobilization in this process. The study revealed that they became more mobilized and organized after 9/11.  After evaluating the motives and objectives of mobilization and acculturation strategies of Turkish immigrants, the study identified three main forms of mobilization (political, social, and cultural) as a response to the securitization of integration. Not only differences between the characteristics of Turkish immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands but also dissimilarities in their receiving contexts resulted in differences in their political mobilization approaches. However, their social and cultural mobilization approaches in both countries have mainly been similar.
Additional file 1: of Weaknesses and capacities affecting the Prehospital emergency care for victims of road traffic incidents in the greater Kampala metropolitan area: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Balikuddembe, Joseph
name: Ardalan, Ali
name: Davoud Khorasani-Zavareh
name: Nejati, Amir
name: Owais Raza
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A questionnaire intended to identify the capacities and weaknesses of emergency medical Systems for the victims of road traffic incidents in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area. (DOCX 412Â kb)
Trichoptilus pelias Meyrick 1907
Creators: name: Pathania, Prakash C.
name: Das, Apurva
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pterophoridae
Trichoptilus
Trichoptilus pelias

description: 103. Trichoptilus pelias Meyrick, 1907 (Plate 6, Fig. 11)
Trichoptilus pelias Meyrick, 1907; Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1907: 472.
TL: India.
Distribution: India (Karnataka, Meghalaya).
description: Published as part of Pathania, Prakash C., Das, Apurva & Chandra, Kailash, 2021, Catalogue of superfamily Pterophoroidea Kuznetsov & Stekolnikov (Lepidoptera) of India, pp. 201-236 in Zootaxa 4915 (2) on page 223, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4915.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4454312
Additional file 1: of Weaknesses and capacities affecting the Prehospital emergency care for victims of road traffic incidents in the greater Kampala metropolitan area: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Balikuddembe, Joseph
name: Ardalan, Ali
name: Davoud Khorasani-Zavareh
name: Nejati, Amir
name: Owais Raza
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: A questionnaire intended to identify the capacities and weaknesses of emergency medical Systems for the victims of road traffic incidents in the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area. (DOCX 412Â kb)
Colophotia miranda Olivier 1886
Creators: name: Ho, - Z.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Colophotia
Colophotia miranda

description: Colophotia miranda Olivier 1886
Figs 474−483
Colophotia miranda Olivier 1886: 186; 1902: 76; Olivier 1913b: 59. McDermott 1966: 116. Ballantyne & Lambkin 2013: 64. Type. Not located in MNHN by Ballantyne 2013.
Specimens examined. PHILIPPINES. Male determined Colophotia miranda Olivier by K G Blair (Figs 463−465) (NHML). MALAYSIA Sarawak Nov. 1895 female det. Olivier (Olivier Box 60 MNHN) (Also addressed below as a possible female of Luciola lata) (Figs 474, 475). BRUNEI (as N. Borneo Brunei) female det. E. Olivier (Pic box 47 MNHN) (Also addressed below as a possible female of Luciola lata).
Remarks. Olivier (1886) described a 15 mm long male from the Philippines (Bohol) as totally yellow dorsally and with a single recurved appendage of the terminal abdomen. Subsequently (1913b) he indicated the occurrence of the species from Borneo, but this time the abdomen having “two long elevated appendicles curved upwards”. He did not however list any specimens. It is possible the first specimen may have been a species of Pygoluciola, or even a female, while the second specimen could have been a Colophotia sp. The single male identified by Blair in NHML conforms in both size and colour to Olivier (1886) but the abdomen to neither description (the specimen was not dissected). Luciola lata Olivier, which was described with a median carina on the last abdominal segment, is a large pale species from Borneo, and was synonymised with L. pallescens Gorham by McDermott (1966). The latter species is addressed here and assigned to Abscondita, and L. lata addressed below. None of the specimens we examined have any suggestion of a median carina on V7, and McDermott’s synonymy of lata with pallescens is rejected.
The issue is further confused as several Luciolinae have large females which approach Olivier’s (1886) description of C. miranda. Abscondita anceyi is a large pale specimen with black elytral apices. Abscondita pallescens comb. nov. female is entirely pale yellowish brown dorsally except for variously sized brownish marks on the pronotum. Luciola candezei and L. ochracea are both pale coloured dorsally but with distinctive black abdomens and are probably the same species. Luciola concreta Olivier from Java is a little smaller at 10 mms. See further discussion under Abscondita pallescens (Gorham) comb. nov.
The two females from MNHN identified as Colophotia miranda female are very likely conspecific with a single male we address below as a possible male of Luciola lata.
description: Published as part of Ho, - Z., 2019, The Luciolinae of S. E. Asia and the Australopacific region: a revisionary checklist (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) including description of three new genera and 13 new species, pp. 1-174 in Zootaxa 4687 (1) on pages 150-153, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4687.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3508098
HISTOPATHOLOGICAL ALTERATIONS IN SOME ORGANS OF Clarias gariepinus JUVENILES EXPOSED TO SUBLETHAL CONCENTRATIONS OF Albezia gummifera CRUDE BACK EXTRACTS
Creators: name: Abuh, G. E.
name: Sulaiman Y.*
name: Maga D.
name: Isaac, E. K.
name: Banyigyi A. H.
name: Aliyu, A.A
name: Davies, I. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Peacock flower, Catfish, Sub-Lethal, Histopathology Alterations.

description: Abstract: The traditional fishing with Albezia gummifera could not be environmentally friendly to the aquatic ecosystem. This study investigated the sub-lethal effects of crude back extracts of A. gummifera on histology of gills, liver, kidney and gonads of Clarias gariepinus juveniles. Fish juveniles were exposed to sub-lethal concentrations (1.00, 2.00 and 3.00 g/L) obtained by using 1/10th, 1/15th and 1/20th  of 2.5g/L LC50 value of A. gummifera for 56 days with untreated control (0.00g/L). The routine Paraffin wax method and hematoxylin eosin staining techniques of tissue processing were adopted for the examination of the organ histology of the exposed fish. The organ histomorphology in C. gariepinus juveniles from the control 0.00g/L tanks showed normal morphology. Histopathological lessions increase with an increase in the concentration of the plant extract. Alterations in gills are slight atrophy in midline cartilage and primary lamellae as well as complete loss of secondary lamellae. The liver exhibited atrophy, inflammation, and slightly thickened cellular demarcations and the nuclei are severely shrunken. The kidney indicated atrophy as evidenced by the increase in interstitial spaces and necrosis as seen by the loss of cellular materials. Testes showed severe atrophy, massive tissue degeneration, and massive loss of spermatozoa and the seminiferous tubules appear empty. Ovarian damages are atrophy and shrunken perifollicular cells, the previtellogenic oocyte and vitelline envelope are greatly reduced in size and there is loss of vitellogenic oocyte. In conclusion,  sublethal concentrations of crude back extract of A. gummifera induced  histological alterations in some vital organs and reproductive organs of  C. gariepinus juveniles  therefore it should be used with caution during fishing.
Applications of weak attraction theory in Out(Fn)
Creators: name: Ghosh, Pritam
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Given a finite rank free group FN of rank ≥ 3 and two exponentially growing outer automorphisms ψ and φ with dual lamination pairs Λ± ψ and Λ± φ associated to them, which satisfy a notion of independence described in this paper, we will use the pingpong techniques developed by Handel and Mosher [14] to show that there exists an integer M > 0, such that for every m, n ≥ M, the group GM = hψ m, φn i will be a free group of rank two and every element of this free group which is not conjugate to a power of the generators will be fully irreducible and hyperbolic. We will also look at a different proof of the theorem of Kapovich and Lustig in [18] which shows that the Cannon-Thurston map for a fully-irreducible hyperbolic automorphism exists and is finiteto-one.
Additional file 1: of Attitudes toward clinical trials across the Alzheimerâ  s disease spectrum
Creators: name: NuĂąo, Michelle
name: Gillen, Daniel
name: Dosanjh, Kulwant
name: Brook, Jenny
name: Elashoff, David
name: Ringman, John
name: Grill, Joshua
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Appendix. (DOC 59 kb)
Two-stage portfolio optimization with higher-order conditional measures of risk
Creators: name: Gülten, Sitki
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: In this study, an application of novel risk modeling and optimization techniques to daily portfolio management will be described.    In the first part, I develop and compare specialized methods for scenario generation and scenario tree construction. The quality of multi-stage stochastic optimization models depends heavily on the quality of the underlying scenario model. First, multivariate GO-GARCH model is used to generate adequate number of scenarios. Then, five different methods, a multi-facility location based backward scenario tree generation method, and forward and backward modified K-Means and Two-Step Cluster methods are used to generate scenario trees. Next, these five methods are tested on two-stage portfolio problems with different number of scenario sets. Finally, a Monge-Kantorovich transportation model is developed to compare the probability distribution of the GARCH-generated scenarios with the probability distribution in the constructed scenario trees.    In the second part, I construct a two-stage stochastic programming problem with conditional measures of risk, which is used to re-balance the portfolio on a rolling horizon basis, with transaction costs included in the model. A conditional risk mapping approach will be used in the model so that information from the previous investment period can be used in the decision for the next investment  period.    Artzner et al. introduced coherent risk measures that reflect the interests of risk-averse investors. I will use coherent risk measures, such as semideviation risk function of order two or higher in this study. Next, the risk-averse multicut method, which is an extension of Bender’s decomposition and proposed originally for first-order risk measure by Miller and Ruszczy´nski, will be generalized  to higher order risk measures in order to solve two-stage mean-risk portfolio problem. Performance of this method with the stated risk functions are evaluated on the scenario tree which is constructed in the first part.    In the third part, I present an extensive simulation study on daily returns of Dow Jones companies by using several versions of the methodology. We show that two-stage models outperform single-stage models in terms of long-term performance. We also show that using high-order risk measures are superior to first-order measures.
Lampyris serraticornis Boisduval 1835
Creators: name: Ho, - Z.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Lampyris
Lampyris serraticornis

description: Lampyris serraticornis Boisduval 1835
Lampyris serraticornis Boisduval 1835: 124. McDermott 1966: 123.
Type. New Holland. Not located.
Remarks. McDermott (1966) assigned this species to species incertae. It was described as pale dorsally with black elytral apex. The only Australian species that approaches this is Aquilonia costata (Lea) known from far north Australia.
description: Published as part of Ho, - Z., 2019, The Luciolinae of S. E. Asia and the Australopacific region: a revisionary checklist (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) including description of three new genera and 13 new species, pp. 1-174 in Zootaxa 4687 (1) on page 153, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4687.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3508098
Radial Mode Stability of Two-Fluid Neutron Stars
Creators: name: Caballero, Daniel A.
name: Ripley, Justin L.
name: Yunes, Nicolás
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Radial mode stability is a necessary condition for the astrophysical viability of compact objects. In recent years, astrophysical models with two fluids have gain popularity, especially in their ability to model dark matter admixed neutron stars. Just as is the case of single-fluid stars, a stability criterion based on the background equations has been developed -- the critical curve for the particle numbers of the two fluids in the two-dimensional configuration space determines a one-dimensional sequence that labels the marginally stable configurations -- but its validity depends on the linear stability of radial perturbations which remains unstudied. In this paper, we establish a set of stability criteria for two perfect-fluid relativistic stars by carefully studying the radial mode perturbation equations. We prove that modes are complete, have real eigenvalues with a minimum eigenvalue (i.e. a fundamental mode), thus a configuration is stable if and only if the fundamental mode is positive. As a consequence, our work formally and rigorously proves these necessary conditions for the stability criterion based on the background equations.
description: 30 pages, 1 figure, version accepted by Physical Review D
Trichoptilus regalis
Creators: name: Pathania, Prakash C.
name: Das, Apurva
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pterophoridae
Trichoptilus
Trichoptilus regalis

description: 104. Trichoptilus regalis (Fletcher, 1909)
Oxyptilus regalis Fletcher, 1909; Spolia Zeylanica, 6: 25.
Oxyptilus chordites Meyrick, 1913; Exotic Microlepidoptera, 1: 106.
TL: Ceylon [now Sri Lanka].
Distribution: India (Karnataka), China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand.
Host: Caesalpina sappan (Fabaceae) and Calycopteris floribunda (Combretaceae).
description: Published as part of Pathania, Prakash C., Das, Apurva & Chandra, Kailash, 2021, Catalogue of superfamily Pterophoroidea Kuznetsov & Stekolnikov (Lepidoptera) of India, pp. 201-236 in Zootaxa 4915 (2) on page 223, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4915.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4454312
Luciola angusticollis Olivier 1886
Creators: name: Ho, - Z.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Lampyridae
Luciola
Luciola angusticollis

description: Luciola angusticollis Olivier 1886
Luciola angusticollis Olivier 1886: 184; 1902: 74. Schultze 1916: 43. McDermott 1966: 99. Ballantyne et al. 2016 Tables 6, 7. Type. Male. PHILIPPINES. Not located.
Remarks. Olivier (1886) described a small (5.5 mm long) species with yellowish dorsum having black elytral apices, abdominal segments anterior to the LO black, and the terminal ventrite rounded. He highlighted the rectangular outline of the pronotum which was considerably narrower than the elytra. While the dorsal colour pattern and outline of V7 suggests A bscondita, we do not know of any Abscondita species as small as this.
description: Published as part of Ho, - Z., 2019, The Luciolinae of S. E. Asia and the Australopacific region: a revisionary checklist (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) including description of three new genera and 13 new species, pp. 1-174 in Zootaxa 4687 (1) on page 153, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4687.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3508098
Loxoconcha Sars 1866
Creators: name: Meisch, Claude
name: Smith, Robin J.
name: Martens, Koen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Loxoconchidae
Loxoconcha

description: Loxoconcha Sars, 1866
Syn.: Loxoconchissa (Loxocaspia) Schornikov, 1973 (fide Boomer et al. 1996)
Loxoconcha elliptica Brady, 1868: PA
Syn.: Loxoconcha gauthieri Klie, 1929 (fide Athersuch et al. 1989)
Syn.: Loxoconcha emelwardensis Redeke, 1936 (fide Wagner 1957)
Loxoconcha galilea Lerner-Seggev, 1968: PA
Loxoconcha immodulata Stepanaitys, 1958: PA
* Loxoconcha rhomboidea (Fischer, 1855) Wagner 1957: PA
Cythere rhomboidea Fischer, 1855
description: Published as part of Meisch, Claude, Smith, Robin J. & Martens, Koen, 2024, An updated subjective global checklist of the extant non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea), pp. 1-144 in European Journal of Taxonomy 974 on page 76, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.974.2767, http://zenodo.org/record/14500383
Additional file 1: of Abiraterone acetate plus LHRH therapy versus abiraterone acetate while sparing LHRH therapy in patients with progressive, metastatic and chemotherapy-naïve, castration-resistant prostate cancer (SPARE): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Carsten-Henning Ohlmann
name: Jäschke, Michelle
name: Jaehnig, Peter
name: Susane Krege
name: Gschwend, Jürgen
name: Rexer, Heidrun
name: Stöckle, Michael
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Trial protocol. (PDF 1322 kb)
Laser-triggered THz emission from near critical density targets
Creators: name: Bychenkov, V. Yu.
name: Brantov, A. V.
name: Lobok, M. G.
name: Kuratov, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Femtosecond laser pulse propagation in a relativistic self-trapping regime (RST) in a near-critical density plasma makes it possible to maximize the total charge of the accelerating electrons and laser-to-electrons conversion rate, that can be used to provide a large amount of the THz range coherent transition radiation. The three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations demonstrate how such transition radiation generates when electrons escape into vacuum either from the low-density target itself, or after passing through a thin foil located at the target end. Advantage of the RST regime for generation of THz pulses is clearly demonstrated as compared to laser irradiation of such a standard target as a foil with preplasma on its front side. Simulation performed has shown that for the optimized laser-target matching a 2-J femtosecond laser pulse is able to produce quasi-unipolar Thz pulses with energy exceeding 100 mJ.
description: 19 pages, 8 figures
Essays on free trials in the presence of network externality
Creators: name: Guo, Shuojia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: The distribution of free trial samples has long been used as a common and important promotional to create brand awareness, improve brand loyalty, and expand product category. Not only does it provide sampled customers with firsthand experience of the true quality of the product, it also generates consumer goodwill to help expedite the diffusion of new product. Despite those advantages, however, sampling can have negative impact on the firm sometimes. Not mention the expensive cost of distributing free samples, the firm also risks losing part of the demand for its commercial product when introducing the free sampling. This leads to a dilemma for business firms: What are the effects of free sample trials? Is it always good to distribute free samples? Under what conditions should a firm offer free trial samples to the market? What is the optimal way of offering a free trial? How firm performance is improved by the free sample trials?    In this dissertation, we study the firm’s optimal strategy of free trials in the presence of network externality. In the first essay, we study a software monopolist and derive (a) the conditions under which free sample trials are profitable, and (b) the optimal duration of the free trial period. We consider two underlying factors favoring free trials: resolving uncertainty about the performance of the product and the network externality. On the other hand, however, those free versions may cannibalize the sales of the paid version.We examine how a monopolist software company can optimally determine the free trial period as well as the price of the paid version. We show that the firm is more profitable to offer free trials when the network externality is modest and consumers’ initial beliefs of the product quality are low. The implementation of optimal trial duration can increase the firm’s profit substantially compared to the typical 30-day scenario.    In the second essay, we build an analytical model in a duopoly setting to examine the tradeoff between network effects and the cannibalization effect, and aims to uncover the conditions under which firms should introduce the free trial product. Our proposed analytical model suggests that when network externality is large, the firm is better off providing free demos with low quality to keep vertical differentiation between itself and its competitor. Although the distribution of free trial demos with a higher quality may drive the competitor out of market, the firm will suffer from a more severe cannibalization on its own demand.    The third essay is a case study. We use a unique experimental design to empirically test how the online free samples have impact on immediate sales. Specifically, using the three month transaction data from a free sampling event in a Chinese online marketplace, we adopted a difference in difference approach to study how free sample impacts on sales differs in the pre and post promotion period, and how WOM interact with free sample effectiveness to influence sales.
Contact localized β-actin translation drives epithelial adherens junction assembly
Creators: name: Gutierrez, Natasha C.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: Adherens junctions are multi-protein adhesion complexes that anchor to the actin cytoskeleton at cell-cell contact sites to stimulate tissue assembly and thereby regulate barrier maintenance, epithelial tissue homeostasis, and embryonic development.  Previously it was demonstrated that the mRNA for β-actin contains a nucleotide sequence in its 3’ UTR, called the zipcode, which is necessary for targeting and translational regulation of this transcript.  The zipcode sequence is recognized by the translation regulator zipcode binding protein-1, ZBP1.  Additionally, deleting zipcode sequences causes mislocalization of their mRNA transcript.  Here we show mislocalizing β-actin’s monomer synthesis inhibits adherens junction assembly following epithelial cell-cell contact.  Additionally, inhibiting RhoA and Src signaling, required for β-actin mRNA zipcode-mediated spatially regulated β-actin translation, prevents adherens junction assembly and significantly perturbs epithelial barrier integrity. In fact, TRITC-dextran barrier permeability significantly increases in epithelial cells expressing β-actin transcripts without the 3’ untranslated region (Δ3’UTR-β-actin) at steady state and in the hours post-contact compared to full-length expressing cells.  Moreover, in full-length β-actin GFP (FL-β-actin GFP) expressing cells, β-actin mRNA zipcode antisense oligonucleotide masking of the zipcode sequence also perturbs barrier maintenance. Intriguingly, chemically inhibiting the signaling pathways required for β-actin mRNA localization and local translation (RhoA and Src) also perturbs epithelial barrier maintenance. Taken together, we demonstrate epithelial cell-cell contact stimulates E-cadherin mediated signaling to spatially regulate β-actin mRNA zipcode-dependent monomer synthesis thereby driving adherens junction assembly, cell, and tissue adhesion required for proper epithelial tissue function.
Change in firm technology strategy in response to a disruptive event
Creators: name: Hamilton, Denis G.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation examines change in firm technology strategy in response to an industry wide disruptive event.  More specifically, this research focuses on how firm technology strategy changes (as measured by changes in technology investment levels) in response to a downward price shock in the industry. While economic theory would generally suggest that firms would likely reduce their technology investment levels in an industry experiencing significant declining price levels does this outcome occur in all cases?  Under what circumstances might firms sustain or increase their technology investment levels in response to a disruptive event that creates significant downward price pressures?  Two models are examined.  The first evaluates overall industry behavior in response to this type of disruptive event.  The second model then examines the association of a set of relevant factors to specific observed changes in firm technology investment levels following the disruptive event.  A study was conducted to examine whether significant medical procedure reimbursement reform in the healthcare industry during the 1980s (a significant, disruptive event that created downward price pressure on the medical device industry) resulted in a change in technology strategy (increase or decrease in technology investment levels) of technology oriented medical device firms. To track changes in technology investment levels U.S. patent data for technology oriented medical device firms was collected for the period 1976 through 1990 (periods before, during, and after the period of the healthcare reimbursement reforms).  The results of the study found that overall, contrary to general economic theory and to the predictions of a government sponsored comprehensive research study, technology oriented medical device firms significantly increased their technology investment levels following this disruptive event.  Further, firms with high technology intensity prior to the disruptive event were more likely to increase their technology investment levels post the disruptive event while small firms were less likely to increase their technology investment levels post the disruptive event.  Firms that were not affiliated with a technology oriented parent firm were more likely to decrease their technology investment level post the disruptive event. Proposed explanations for these findings are presented.  The research has potential implications for policy makers evaluating the likely impact of healthcare reforms on medical technology investment levels. Limitations of the study and recommendations for further research are also presented.
The Kurd industry
Creators: name: Haskollar, Elçin
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2014

description: This dissertation is largely concerned with the tension between human rights principles and political realism. It examines the relationship between ethics, politics and power by discussing how Kurdish issues have been shaped by the political landscape of the twenty-first century. It opens up a dialogue on the contested meaning and shape of human rights, and enables a new avenue to think about foreign policy, ethically and politically. It bridges political theory with practice and reveals policy implications for the Middle East as a region. Using the approach of a qualitative, exploratory multiple-case study based on discourse analysis, several Kurdish issues are examined within the context of democratization, minority rights and the politics of exclusion. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews, archival research and participant observation. Data analysis was carried out based on the theoretical framework of critical theory and discourse analysis. Further, a discourse-interpretive paradigm underpins this research based on open coding. Such a method allows this study to combine individual narratives within their particular socio-political, economic and historical setting. It helps in the framing of Kurdish experiences to explore the ideological dimensions of Kurdish problems and processes of the Kurdish struggle in Iraq, Turkey and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Stylized facts in Web3
Creators: name: Chen, Wei-Ru
name: Silva, A. Christian
name: Tung, Shen-Ning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This paper presents a comprehensive statistical analysis of the Web3 ecosystem, comparing various Web3 tokens with traditional financial assets across multiple time scales. We examine probability distributions, tail behaviors, and other key stylized facts of the returns for a diverse range of tokens, including decentralized exchanges, liquidity pools, and centralized exchanges. Despite functional differences, most tokens exhibit well-established empirical facts, including unconditional probability density of returns with heavy tails gradually becoming Gaussian and volatility clustering. Furthermore, we compare assets traded on centralized (CEX) and decentralized (DEX) exchanges, finding that DEXs exhibit similar stylized facts despite different trading mechanisms and often divergent long-term performance. We propose that this similarity is attributable to arbitrageurs striving to maintain similar centralized and decentralized prices. Our study contributes to a better understanding of the dynamics of Web3 tokens and the relationship between CEX and DEX markets, with important implications for risk management, pricing models, and portfolio construction in the rapidly evolving DeFi landscape. These results add to the growing body of literature on cryptocurrency markets and provide insights that can guide the development of more accurate models for DeFi markets.
description: 41 pages, 32 figures, 3 tables, published version
Madagascarcypris Martens 1986
Creators: name: Meisch, Claude
name: Smith, Robin J.
name: Martens, Koen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Ostracoda
Podocopida
Cyprididae
Madagascarcypris

description: Madagascarcypris Martens, 1986
* Madagascarcypris voeltzkowi (G.W. Müller, 1898) Martens 1986: AT
Cypris voeltzkowi G.W. Müller, 1898
description: Published as part of Meisch, Claude, Smith, Robin J. & Martens, Koen, 2024, An updated subjective global checklist of the extant non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea), pp. 1-144 in European Journal of Taxonomy 974 on page 76, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.974.2767, http://zenodo.org/record/14500383
Additional file 1: Table S1. of The likelihood of total knee arthroplasty following arthroscopic surgery for osteoarthritis: a systematic review
Creators: name: Winter, Amelia
name: Collins, Jamie
name: Katz, Jeffrey
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Search Strings by Search Engines. Table of bibliographic search terms used to identify candidate articles. (DOCX 13 kb)
The evolution of inharmonicity and noisiness in contemporary popular music
Creators: name: Deruty, Emmanuel
name: Meredith, David
name: Lattner, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: I.5.4; H.5.5
subject: 68T05, 42C40

description: Much of Western classical music relies on instruments based on acoustic resonance, which produce harmonic or quasi-harmonic sounds. In contrast, since the mid-twentieth century, popular music has increasingly been produced in recording studios, where it is not bound by the constraints of harmonic sounds. In this study, we use modified MPEG-7 features to explore and characterise the evolution of noise and inharmonicity in popular music since 1961. We place this evolution in the context of other broad categories of music, including Western classical piano music, orchestral music, and musique concrète. We introduce new features that distinguish between inharmonicity caused by noise and that resulting from interactions between discrete partials. Our analysis reveals that the history of popular music since 1961 can be divided into three phases. From 1961 to 1972, inharmonicity in popular music, initially only slightly higher than in orchestral music, increased significantly. Between 1972 and 1986, this rise in inharmonicity was accompanied by an increase in noise, but since 1986, both inharmonicity and noise have moderately decreased. In recent years (up to 2020), popular music has remained much more inharmonic than popular music from the 1960s or orchestral music involving acoustic resonance instruments. However, it has become less noisy, with noise levels comparable to those of orchestral music. We relate these trends to the evolution of music production techniques. In particular, the use of multi-tracking may explain the higher inharmonicity in popular music compared to orchestral music. We illustrate these trends with analyses of key artists and tracks.
description: 41 pages, 23 figures