cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
January 2020 Open Pharma roundtable meeting report
Creators: name: Macdonald, Steph
name: Sabir, Sarah
name: Watts, Zoe
name: Koder, Tim
name: Farrow, Paul
name: Rees, Tom
Publisher: name: Open Pharma
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Health Care
subject: 111504 Pharmaceutical Sciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: In January 2020, Open Pharma Members and Supporters attended a roundtable meeting hosted by GSK in Brentford, UK. The meeting focused on how we, as medical publication professionals, can work together to improve the accessibility and discoverability of our research outputs, and what is the best way to communicate these to a targeted and increasingly busy audience.
The effects of cross -border mergers and acquisitions in the European Union
Creators: name: Diepold, Brian D.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 35
subject: Commerce, management, tourism and services

description: This dissertation focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions within the European Union (original EU 15). These international transactions have been growing in importance over the past decade and warrant additional study. This study estimates country-specific wealth effects associated with the announcement of cross-border mergers and empirically examines the determinants of the variation. The results show that there are differentials in the average wealth effects of cross-border mergers based on the home country of the target and acquiring firms. Several EU nations differ significantly from EU averages, which would imply that the owners (shareholders) of firms in particular countries stand to benefit more from cross-border mergers than those in other countries. Beyond showing that such country-specific differences exist, the research continues to explain empirically why these differences exist. It is also shown that these findings are not unique to the EU by examining a small sample of cross-border mergers in Australia. Overall, the results provide some insight into why wealth effects of cross-border mergers vary between countries. The results initially provide some evidence that legal origin is in some way important, similar to its overall importance in the development of financial markets and the valuation of firms. There also appears to be evidence that per capita income is important in explaining the variation in abnormal returns. There is evidence that cultural differences (captured through trust) and tax differentials (captured through VAT rates) influence investors' reactions. Finally, an important finding is that the wealth effects may be at least equally dependent upon the country-pair for each merger rather than prevailing individual country average effects.
Townsendiella pulchra Crawford 1916
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Townsendiella pulchra Crawford, 1916
[USNM; ♀ Las Cruces, Doña Ana Co., New Mexico, USA]
Townsendiella pulchra is found in the southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico. Linsley (1943) reported its presence (1 ♀) in the Lower Colorado Desert 20 mi south Palacio, BC. This species is a brood parasite, and the host is Hesperapis larreae (Rozen & McGinley 1991, Orr & Griswold 2015). See fig. 142.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 216, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Faster addition algorithm based on generalized earliest first (GEF) technique
Creators: name: Hassan, M. R.
name: Rahman, M. M.
name: Hossain, M. S.
name: Hashem, M. M. A.
name: Hassan, M. R.
name: Rahman, M. M.
name: Hossain, M. S.
name: Hashem, M. M. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Fast addition
subject: Carry propagation
subject: Conditional sum adder

description: In this paper, an improved GEF fast addition algorithm is proposed. The proposed algorithm reduces time and memory space. In this algorithm, carry is calculated on the basis of arrival timing of the operand's bits without overhead of sorting. Intermediate terms are generated from the most significant - bit and the carry is generated from the least significant bit using the functions of efficient operators. This algorithm shows better performance for use in the fastest computational devices of the near future.
The effects of cross -border mergers and acquisitions in the European Union
Creators: name: Diepold, Brian D.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions within the European Union (original EU 15). These international transactions have been growing in importance over the past decade and warrant additional study. This study estimates country-specific wealth effects associated with the announcement of cross-border mergers and empirically examines the determinants of the variation. The results show that there are differentials in the average wealth effects of cross-border mergers based on the home country of the target and acquiring firms. Several EU nations differ significantly from EU averages, which would imply that the owners (shareholders) of firms in particular countries stand to benefit more from cross-border mergers than those in other countries. Beyond showing that such country-specific differences exist, the research continues to explain empirically why these differences exist. It is also shown that these findings are not unique to the EU by examining a small sample of cross-border mergers in Australia. Overall, the results provide some insight into why wealth effects of cross-border mergers vary between countries. The results initially provide some evidence that legal origin is in some way important, similar to its overall importance in the development of financial markets and the valuation of firms. There also appears to be evidence that per capita income is important in explaining the variation in abnormal returns. There is evidence that cultural differences (captured through trust) and tax differentials (captured through VAT rates) influence investors' reactions. Finally, an important finding is that the wealth effects may be at least equally dependent upon the country-pair for each merger rather than prevailing individual country average effects.
Inhomogeneous HeII reionization in Hydrodynamic Simulations
Creators: name: Sanderbeck, Phoebe Upton
name: Bird, Simeon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The reionization of the second electron of helium shapes the physical state of intergalactic gas at redshifts between 2 < z < 5. Because performing full in situ radiative transfer in hydrodynamic simulations is computationally expensive for large volumes, the physics of HeII reionization is often approximated by a uniform UV background model that does not capture the patchiness of reionization. We have devised a model that implements the effects of HeII reionization using semi-analytic calculations of the thermal state of intergalactic gas-- a way to bypass a full radiative transfer simulation while still realizing the physics of HeII reionization that affects observables such as the Lyman alpha forest. Here we present a publicly-available code that flexibly models inhomogeneous HeII reionization in simulations at a negligible computational cost. Because many of the parameters of HeII reionization are uncertain, our model is customizable from a set of free parameters. We show results from this code in MP-Gadget, where this model is implemented. We demonstrate the resulting temperature evolution and temperature-density relation of intergalactic gas-- consistent with recent measurements and previous radiative transfer simulations. We show that the impact of HeII reionization gives rise to subtle signatures in the one-dimensional statistics of the Lyman alpha forest at the level of several per cent, in agreement with previous findings. The flexible nature of these simulations are ideal for studies of HeII reionization and future observations of the HeII Lyman alpha forest.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures
Do coping responses and dietary restraint predict self-efficacy following depressed or elated mood induction in female smokers?
Creators: name: Elliott, Adrienne K.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Dietary restraint is positively associated with cigarette use in young women (Krahn, et al. 1992). Dieting smokers who rely on cigarettes for effect regulation and weight management may be especially prone to weight gain and smoking relapse following initial abstinence (Pinto, et al., 1999). Low mood has been shown to reduce self-efficacy, which may adversely affect goal directed efforts (Bandura, 1989) such as quitting smoking or losing weight. Using a cognitively based mood induction procedure (Velten, 1968), the present investigation was designed to assess the interactive effect of female smokers' coping style, dietary restraint, and mood state in predicting self-efficacy and temptation to smoke or eat. Additional analyses explored weight control smoking and current or past depressive symptoms in predicting smoking and eating efficacy and temptation. A total of 83 female smokers were recruited from a large private urban university and the local community. Mean age of participants was approximately 33, 66% identified themselves as white, and they reported smoking an average of 11 cigarettes per day. Results suggested that depressed mood was significantly correlated with efficacy to refrain from smoking but not with efficacy to refrain from eating. Also, positive mood was found to be significantly correlated with efficacy to refrain from smoking but not with efficacy to refrain from eating. Consistent with Ruderman (1985), positive and negative mood states appeared to have a different effect on women who were high or low on dietary restraint. Specifically, women who were high on dietary restraint had greater confidence in their ability to refrain from smoking or eating when in a positive mood and less confidence when in a low mood. Additional exploratory analyses regarding weight control smokers suggested that their self-efficacy decreased in response to the positive mood induction. This is contrasted with high dietary restrainers whose efficacy was enhanced by being in a positive mood state. Finally, more use of approach coping among dietary restrainers was not associated with better efficacy and less temptation to smoke or eat as the primary hypotheses predicted. Further, avoidance coping was not associated with increased temptation and reduced efficacy among dietary restrainers.
Townsendiella rufiventris Linsley 1942
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Townsendiella rufiventris Linsley, 1942
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ Palm Springs, Riverside Co., California, USA; March 26, 1932]
Townsendiella rufiventris has been recorded in Arizona, Nevada, and California in the US, as well as in BC, Mexico. In BC, it has been reported in the Central Desert (Orr & Griswold 2015). Bees in the genus Conanthalictus are the recorded hosts of this brood parasite (Rozen &McGinley 1991, Orr & Griswold 2015). See fig. 142.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 216, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Do coping responses and dietary restraint predict self-efficacy following depressed or elated mood induction in female smokers?
Creators: name: Elliott, Adrienne K.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Dietary restraint is positively associated with cigarette use in young women (Krahn, et al. 1992). Dieting smokers who rely on cigarettes for effect regulation and weight management may be especially prone to weight gain and smoking relapse following initial abstinence (Pinto, et al., 1999). Low mood has been shown to reduce self-efficacy, which may adversely affect goal directed efforts (Bandura, 1989) such as quitting smoking or losing weight. Using a cognitively based mood induction procedure (Velten, 1968), the present investigation was designed to assess the interactive effect of female smokers' coping style, dietary restraint, and mood state in predicting self-efficacy and temptation to smoke or eat. Additional analyses explored weight control smoking and current or past depressive symptoms in predicting smoking and eating efficacy and temptation. A total of 83 female smokers were recruited from a large private urban university and the local community. Mean age of participants was approximately 33, 66% identified themselves as white, and they reported smoking an average of 11 cigarettes per day. Results suggested that depressed mood was significantly correlated with efficacy to refrain from smoking but not with efficacy to refrain from eating. Also, positive mood was found to be significantly correlated with efficacy to refrain from smoking but not with efficacy to refrain from eating. Consistent with Ruderman (1985), positive and negative mood states appeared to have a different effect on women who were high or low on dietary restraint. Specifically, women who were high on dietary restraint had greater confidence in their ability to refrain from smoking or eating when in a positive mood and less confidence when in a low mood. Additional exploratory analyses regarding weight control smokers suggested that their self-efficacy decreased in response to the positive mood induction. This is contrasted with high dietary restrainers whose efficacy was enhanced by being in a positive mood state. Finally, more use of approach coping among dietary restrainers was not associated with better efficacy and less temptation to smoke or eat as the primary hypotheses predicted. Further, avoidance coping was not associated with increased temptation and reduced efficacy among dietary restrainers.
Universal Neutrino Mass Hierarchy and Cosmological Baryon Number Asymmetry
Creators: name: Xing, Zhi-zhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conjecture that three light Majorana neutrinos and their right-handed counterparts may have a universal geometric mass hierarchy. Incorporating this phenomenological conjecture with the Fritzsch texture of lepton mass matrices in a simple seesaw mechanism, we show that it is possible to simultaneously account for current neutrino oscillation data and the cosmological baryon number asymmetry via leptogenesis.
description: RevTex 8 pages (1 PS figure included). Fig. 1 changed. Accepted for publication in PRD
Nomada ashmeadi Cockerell 1903
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Nomada ashmeadi Cockerell, 1903 **
[Holotype: USNM; ♀ Los Angeles Co., California, USA]
Nomada ashmeadi represents a new species record for Mexico and the BCP. The BBPT collected one female in the Coastal Sage Matorral in Estero La Lagunita, Ensenada City in April 2022 (MABC). See fig. 143.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 217, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Economics of BINA-6 rice production in some selected areas of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Mian, M. R. U.
name: Al-Imran, M.
name: Mian, M. R. U.
name: Al-Imran, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Profitability
subject: Contributory variables
subject: Returns to scale
subject: Resource use efficiency
subject: Potentiality

description: BINA-6 (Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture-6) Tice variety is a profitable enterprise irrespective of farm size. Its profitability increases with the increase in farm size. All the contributory variables in the production function have positive and significant impacts on the yield of BINA-6 rice. Among them impacts of animal labour and power tiller and irrigation are highly significant. Resource allocation efficiency analysis shows that production process of BINA-6 rice is going on in the rational zone of production (i.e, in stage-II) where resources are being used efficiently. Results of the sensitivity analysis reveals that BINA-6 rice is profitable compared to BR-28 and BR-29 (BRRI Dhan 28 and BRRI Dhan 29 respectively) and it was still potential in changed economic condition of rice production. Researchers are suggested to take initiate to reduce the maturity period of BINA-6 rice variety and extension workers uld policy makers should take necessary steps to expand the cultivation of this rice all over the country.
Depression and expectancies for the effectiveness of specific negative affect regulation strategies
Creators: name: Friedman-Wheeler, Dara G.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Mood-regulation behaviors have been found to be associated with factors such as neuroticism and current negative affect. These individual-difference variables may play a role in the selection of coping behaviors: certain types of coping strategies have been found to be associated with higher levels of neuroticism and/or depressive symptoms. In the context of 72 adult cigarette smokers, patterns of coping behaviors and expectancies for their effectiveness were compared between those with a history of major depression and those without such a history. The relationships of current depressive symptoms, depression proneness, and neuroticism with these coping variables were also explored. The various indicators of depression showed significant relationships with certain coping behaviors, such as behaving passively, fading out, and withdrawing from the situation.
Time-domain simulation of the full hydrodynamic model
Creators: name: Aste, A.
name: Vahldieck, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple upwind discretization of the highly coupled non-linear differential equations which define the hydrodynamic model for semiconductors is given in full detail. The hydrodynamic model is able to describe inertia effects which play an increasing role in different fields of opto- and microelectronics. A silicon $n^+ - n - n^+$ - structure is simulated, using the energy-balance model and the full hydrodynamic model. Results for stationary cases are then compared, and it is pointed out where the energy-balance model, which is implemented in most of today's commercial semiconductor device simulators, fails to describe accurately the electron dynamics. Additionally, a GaAs $n^+ - n - n^+$-structure is simulated in time-domain in order to illustrate the importance of inertia effects at high frequencies in modern submicron devices.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, prepared using jnmauth.cls
Production and consumption behaviour of poultry-meat and egg in rural and urban areas of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Rahman, S. M. A.
name: Islam, M. R.
name: Sayeed, M. A.
name: Sarker, M. S. K.
name: Rahman, S. M. A.
name: Islam, M. R.
name: Sayeed, M. A.
name: Sarker, M. S. K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Poultry
subject: Egg
subject: Production
subject: Consumption
subject: Income elasticity of demand

description: This study was undertaken with a view to determining the poultry and egg production and their consumption behaviour with variation in income in rural and urban areas of Bangladesh. For this purpose, 800 households from 4 regions were interviewed. Results showed that the number of local poultry per urban and rural households were 0.56 and 16.26 respectively. The numbers of commercial layer per urban and rural households were 0.38 and 3.31 respectively. Annual egg production per layer were 48.16, 280.40 and 57.64 for local, commercial layer and duck respectively. It is revealed that per capita daily consumption of poultry meat and egg were respectively increased to 7.64g and 6.31g in 2002 compared to 6.04g and 4.82g in 1995. The calculated value of coefficient of income elasticity of demand for poultry meat and egg were +1.20 and +1.28, respectively. The most responsible factors that affected the demard for and supply of poultry meat and egg were identified. Some suggestions were made to improve the production and consumption of poultry and egg in the country.
Nomada Scopoli 1770
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada

description: Genus Nomada Scopoli, 1770
Nomada are brood parasites on a wide variety of genera including Andrena and Panurgus (Andrenidae), Agapostemon, Halictus, Lasioglossum, and Lipotriches (Halictidae); Melitta (Melittidae), and Colletes (Colletidae) Michener (2007).
Specimen identifications of this genus were made with reference to original descriptions, open access holotype images by the USNM (USNM, 2024), and series of reference specimens determined by R. R. Snelling, and A. Byron vouchered at CASC and LACM.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 217, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Depression and expectancies for the effectiveness of specific negative affect regulation strategies
Creators: name: Friedman-Wheeler, Dara G.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Mood-regulation behaviors have been found to be associated with factors such as neuroticism and current negative affect. These individual-difference variables may play a role in the selection of coping behaviors: certain types of coping strategies have been found to be associated with higher levels of neuroticism and/or depressive symptoms. In the context of 72 adult cigarette smokers, patterns of coping behaviors and expectancies for their effectiveness were compared between those with a history of major depression and those without such a history. The relationships of current depressive symptoms, depression proneness, and neuroticism with these coping variables were also explored. The various indicators of depression showed significant relationships with certain coping behaviors, such as behaving passively, fading out, and withdrawing from the situation.
Poverty alleviation through livestock and poultry raising in selected areas of Ililymens;ngh district
Creators: name: Rahman, M. W.
name: Ali, R. N.
name: Kabir, M. S.
name: Rahman, M. W.
name: Ali, R. N.
name: Kabir, M. S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Poverty alleviation
subject: Livestock & Poultry
subject: Income generation

description: The study was undertaken to investigate the contribution of livestock and poultry for income generation, employment opportunity and the alleviation of rural poverty. With the views in mind, 90 samples were collected through stratified random sampling from six villages of Mymensingh district. The study identified all categories household existed below income poverty line and the poverty gap were higher when livestock and poultry sources of income deducted. On the other hand, Cost of Basic Need (CBN) method, large and medium raisers existed above poverty line and marginal and small raisers existed below the expenditure poverty line. Benefit generated through raising livestock was highest in increase income and lowest for improve knowledge. Low price of livestock products, lack of improve breed and shortage of grazing land were identified as major constraints and possible steps have been suggested for overcome of that constraints with the help of local administration and livestock related development agencies.
Nonlinear Stochastic Estimators on the Special Euclidean Group SE(3) using Uncertain IMU and Vision Measurements
Creators: name: Hashim, Hashim A
name: Lewis, Frank L
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Two novel robust nonlinear stochastic full pose (i.e, attitude and position) estimators on the Special Euclidean Group SE(3) are proposed using the available uncertain measurements. The resulting estimators utilize the basic structure of the deterministic pose estimators adopting it to the stochastic sense. The proposed estimators for six degrees of freedom (DOF) pose estimations consider the group velocity vectors to be contaminated with constant bias and Gaussian random noise, unlike nonlinear deterministic pose estimators which disregard the noise component in the estimator derivations. The proposed estimators ensure that the closed loop error signals are semi-globally uniformly ultimately bounded in mean square. The efficiency and robustness of the proposed estimators are demonstrated by the numerical results which test the estimators against high levels of noise and bias associated with the group velocity and body-frame measurements and large initialization error. Keywords: Nonlinear stochastic pose filter, pose observer, position, attitude, Ito, stochastic differential equations, Brownian motion process, adaptive estimate, feature, inertial measurement unit, inertial vision system, 6 DOF, IMU, SE(3), SO(3), orientation, landmark, Gaussian, noise.
Do men hold African American and White American women to different standards of beauty?
Creators: name: Freedman, Rachel E.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The present study examined racial differences in men's preferences for African American and White American women's body size and shape and whether men held these women to different standards of beauty. Contrary to expectations, African American men did not choose heavier female figures as ideal. There was a slight trend for African American men, however, to choose a lower WHR (more curvaceous) figure as ideal. The study's findings suggest that African American men and White American men of various backgrounds and socioeconomic levels are more similar than different in their preferences for female weight. Preferences for WHR appear to be a cultural variant in which a subset of African American men preferred a lower WHR than their White American counterparts.
Forecasting fish production in Bangladesh using AR1MA model
Creators: name: Haque, M. E.
name: Hossain, M. I.
name: Rahman, K. M. M.
name: Haque, M. E.
name: Hossain, M. I.
name: Rahman, K. M. M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Production
subject: ARIMA
subject: Growth
subject: Forecasting

description: The study tried to find out the best ARIMA model that could be used to make efficient forecast of inland, marine and total fish production in Bangladesh. It also tried to find out the best deterministic type growth model that are commonly used to describe growth pattern and also for forecasting. It appeared from the study that all the time series were second order homogeneous nonstationary. The total and inland production followed a second order integrated moving average process of order one. The process of generating the marine production was different from the other two processes. The second differenced marine production was simply a white noise. The fitness of the models was very satisfactory and forecasts obtained using them had very low standard errors. The forecasted total fish productions in 2000-01 to 2000-05 are 1763, 1867, 1974, 2085 and 2199 thousandlons. The best deterministic type growth models were quadratic for total and inland fish production and cubic for marine production. It also appeared that ARIMA models are the best for short term forecasting compared to the deterministic models.
Do men hold African American and White American women to different standards of beauty?
Creators: name: Freedman, Rachel E.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5205
subject: Social and personality psychology

description: The present study examined racial differences in men's preferences for African American and White American women's body size and shape and whether men held these women to different standards of beauty. Contrary to expectations, African American men did not choose heavier female figures as ideal. There was a slight trend for African American men, however, to choose a lower WHR (more curvaceous) figure as ideal. The study's findings suggest that African American men and White American men of various backgrounds and socioeconomic levels are more similar than different in their preferences for female weight. Preferences for WHR appear to be a cultural variant in which a subset of African American men preferred a lower WHR than their White American counterparts.
Costs and cost-effectiveness of seasonal affective disorder treatment: Comparing light therapy, group cognitive -behavioral therapy, and their combination
Creators: name: Freed, Michael C.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Examining treatment costs and cost-effectiveness has become increasingly important in evaluating treatment programs. However, the cost-effectiveness of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) treatment has not been evaluated. Relative to the "best available" treatment (i.e., light therapy; LT), preliminary data suggest that a SAD-tailored, group cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is equally efficacious during the acute treatment phase with less severe symptoms and lower recurrence rates during the subsequent winter. Here, the relative cost-effectiveness of CBT, LT, their combination (CBT+LT), and a minimal contact/delayed treatment control (MCDT) was determined. Participants with Major Depression, Recurrent with Seasonal Pattern were randomized to 1 of 4 6-week conditions: LT (90-min. of 10,000 lux/day), CBT (12 group sessions), CBT+LT, or a MCDT. Structured Interview Guide for the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression-SAD Version (SIGH-SAD) remission rates and quality adjusted life years (QALY) derived from the Beck Depression Inventory 2nd Edition (BDI-II) served as measures of effectiveness. Treatment adherence was also assessed. Data from participants who were randomized to and completed the 6-week treatment phase were used for the post-treatment analysis (N = 59), and only the active treatment groups attended a 1-year winter follow-up visit (N = 39). Mental health provider rates from Antonuccio et al. (1997) were used to estimate treatment costs in the present study. Those rates were adjusted to represent 2003 dollars in the Washington, DC metro area. In general, all three treatments were significantly more effective than MCDT and similar in effectiveness to each other at post-treatment. At the 1-year follow-up, CBT and CBT+LT were similar in effectiveness to each other, and both were significantly more effective than LT. CBT was found to be the least expensive treatment with similar outcomes to LT at post-treatment and significantly more favorable outcomes than LT at 1-year follow-up. CBT+LT was found to be the most expensive treatment, and the effectiveness of CBT+LT was not significantly different from CBT. CBT had the lowest cost per QALY followed by LT. CBT+LT had the highest cost per QALY. The findings suggest that Rohan's group CBT for SAD holds promise as a cost-effective, stand-alone, treatment alternative to LT.
Use of World Vegetable Center breeding lines among seed companies in Asia in 2020
Creators: name: Schreinemachers, Pepijn
name: Lin, Mandy
name: APSA-WorldVeg Vegetable Breeding Consortium
Publisher: name: World Vegetable Center
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: WORLD VEGETABLE CENTER
subject: ASIA
subject: GERMPLASM
subject: BITTER GOURDS
subject: PEPPERS
subject: PUMPKINS
subject: TOMATOES
subject: SEED COMPANIES
subject: VEGETABLE VARIETIES

description: Summary of key findings 1. Consortium membership increased from 43 members in 2019 to 44 members in 2020. The share of small companies (<100 employees) has increased every year since 2017 and was 48% in 2020. Half of the consortium members are based in India. 2. This study collected data on key performance indicators for 23 seed companies in 2021, which is substantially better than in previous years showing that the revised data collection method worked. A total of 34 seed companies have provided data at any time since 2017. 3. These data show that WorldVeg-developed germplasm was found in 25 tons of tomato, pepper, bitter gourd and pumpkin seed sold in Asia by 19 different seed companies. This seed is potentially enough to plant 171,000 hectares under these vegetable crops and benefit 490,000 small-scale farm families. 4. These estimates are substantially higher (+48%) than the previous study we did in 2019, which showed that WorldVeg genetic material was used by 7 seed companies and reached 112,200 hectares under these vegetable crops and benefited 330,300 small-scale farm families. This increase can partly be attributed to a larger sample of seed companies in this study as compared to the previous study. 5. Our data showed that WorldVeg bitter gourd lines and hybrids were sold by 7 companies in 2020 with total seed sales of about 2.6 tons. This is the first evidence for impact of the WorldVeg bitter gourd program as our 2019 study showed zero sales. Thirteen companies are currently using WorldVeg bitter gourd material in their breeding program.
Costs and cost-effectiveness of seasonal affective disorder treatment: Comparing light therapy, group cognitive -behavioral therapy, and their combination
Creators: name: Freed, Michael C.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Examining treatment costs and cost-effectiveness has become increasingly important in evaluating treatment programs. However, the cost-effectiveness of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) treatment has not been evaluated. Relative to the "best available" treatment (i.e., light therapy; LT), preliminary data suggest that a SAD-tailored, group cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is equally efficacious during the acute treatment phase with less severe symptoms and lower recurrence rates during the subsequent winter. Here, the relative cost-effectiveness of CBT, LT, their combination (CBT+LT), and a minimal contact/delayed treatment control (MCDT) was determined. Participants with Major Depression, Recurrent with Seasonal Pattern were randomized to 1 of 4 6-week conditions: LT (90-min. of 10,000 lux/day), CBT (12 group sessions), CBT+LT, or a MCDT. Structured Interview Guide for the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression-SAD Version (SIGH-SAD) remission rates and quality adjusted life years (QALY) derived from the Beck Depression Inventory 2nd Edition (BDI-II) served as measures of effectiveness. Treatment adherence was also assessed. Data from participants who were randomized to and completed the 6-week treatment phase were used for the post-treatment analysis (N = 59), and only the active treatment groups attended a 1-year winter follow-up visit (N = 39). Mental health provider rates from Antonuccio et al. (1997) were used to estimate treatment costs in the present study. Those rates were adjusted to represent 2003 dollars in the Washington, DC metro area. In general, all three treatments were significantly more effective than MCDT and similar in effectiveness to each other at post-treatment. At the 1-year follow-up, CBT and CBT+LT were similar in effectiveness to each other, and both were significantly more effective than LT. CBT was found to be the least expensive treatment with similar outcomes to LT at post-treatment and significantly more favorable outcomes than LT at 1-year follow-up. CBT+LT was found to be the most expensive treatment, and the effectiveness of CBT+LT was not significantly different from CBT. CBT had the lowest cost per QALY followed by LT. CBT+LT had the highest cost per QALY. The findings suggest that Rohan's group CBT for SAD holds promise as a cost-effective, stand-alone, treatment alternative to LT.
Studies on physico-chemical characteristics of jackfruit-
Creators: name: Haque, M. A.
name: Haque, M. A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Physico-chemical characteristics
subject: Jackfruit
subject: Artocarpus heterophyllus

description: Fruit characteristics (both quantitative and qualitative) of 45 jackfruit germplasm at Horticulture farm, BAU, Mymensingh have been studied. The fruits under study were three types Khaja, Ghila and Dorasa. There were large variations in the individual weight of fruit ranging from 2.60 kg to 17.00 kg. Percentage ofs edible portion also varied from 29.17% to 60.00%. the TSS was found to be in the range of 14 to 30%. There were distinct variations among the findings of the germplasm on fruit shape (globose, ovoid and oblong), skin clour (brown, green, light chocolate, light yellows etc.), flesh colour (yellow to whitish yellow) sweetness (less sweet to very sweet), juiciness of pulp (less juicy to very juicy); and seed shape (Ellipsoid to spheroid) and colour (light brown to deep brown) of seeds.
Studies on floral biology of jackfruit
Creators: name: Haque, M. A.
name: Majumder, S.
name: Haque, M. A.
name: Majumder, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Blossom biology
subject: Jackfruit
subject: Artocarpus heterophyllus

description: A study on blossom biology of jackfruit was carried out during February, 2000 to May, 2001 at Jackfruit Research Project, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh. Eight germplasm (Nos-14, 16, 25, 29, 20, 45, 46 and 58) of same age were selected for the study. The period for the floral bud development varied from 51 to 75 days with an average of 59.4 days. Six different sequences of spike opening was observed on footstalk. The availability of pollen grains and receptivity of female spikes ranged from 4 to 7 days (ay. 5.3 days) and 19 to 32 days (ay. 26 days), respectively. The peak emergence of anther and its dehiscence occurred during 2-4 P.M. and 4-6 P.M., respectively and the peak emergence of stigma at 8-10 A.M.
The assessment of executive functions in adolescents: Development of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function - Self-Report version
Creators: name: Lee, Sonia S.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study was designed to investigate initial psychometric properties of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function - Self-Report. Generally, executive functions are described as the self-regulatory or control processes that not only organize, but also direct all cognitive, behavioral, and emotional activities. The BRIEF-SR is unique in its availability as a brief, self-report measure for use in conjunction with other assessment measures of executive functions in either a normative or clinical population of adolescents, ages 11 to 18 years. The BRIEF-SR is particularly advantageous in that it may be administered along with the BRIEF-Parent Form and the BRIEF-Teacher Form to capture more thoroughly the executive function profile of an adolescent. Overall, the results from this study support the reliability (interrater and internal consistency), validity (convergent and divergent), and initial clinical utility (with an ADHD population) of the BRIEF-SR as a way to quantify the adolescents' perception of his/her difficulties. The development of a self-report questionnaire for adolescents will contribute to the assessment and treatment of executive functioning disorders.
Variability, correlation and path coefficient analysis of cowpea
Creators: name: Naher, Z.
name: Rabbani, M. G.
name: Rahman, M. O.
name: Garvey, E. J.
name: Naher, Z.
name: Rabbani, M. G.
name: Rahman, M. O.
name: Garvey, E. J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Variability
subject: Correlation
subject: Path coefficient
subject: Cowpea

description: The present s'udy was conducted to study the variability, correlation and path coefficient analysis of 68 cowpea accessions. The results of the.experiment revealed that wide range of variations were present for days to 50% flowering, duration of flowering, number of racemes per plant, days to pod maturity, pod length, pod width, number of pods per peduncle, number of pods per plant, dry matter content of edible pod, 100 seeds weight and yield per plant.. Both genotypic and phenotypic variances were found significant in all the traits. Phenotypic coefficient of variation (PCV) was little higher than the genotypic coefficient of variation (GCV) for all the traits. • The low differences between the phenotypic and genotypic coefficient of variations. indicated low environmental influences on the expression of the characters. Correlation coefficient indicated that yield per plant had significant and positive association with duration of flowering, number of racemes per plant, number of pods per plant and pod length. Path coefficient analysis revealed that duration of flowering, number of racemes per plant, number of pods per plant and pod length also showed positive direct effect on yield per plant of cowpea.
The assessment of executive functions in adolescents: Development of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function - Self-Report version
Creators: name: Lee, Sonia S.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: This study was designed to investigate initial psychometric properties of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function - Self-Report. Generally, executive functions are described as the self-regulatory or control processes that not only organize, but also direct all cognitive, behavioral, and emotional activities. The BRIEF-SR is unique in its availability as a brief, self-report measure for use in conjunction with other assessment measures of executive functions in either a normative or clinical population of adolescents, ages 11 to 18 years. The BRIEF-SR is particularly advantageous in that it may be administered along with the BRIEF-Parent Form and the BRIEF-Teacher Form to capture more thoroughly the executive function profile of an adolescent. Overall, the results from this study support the reliability (interrater and internal consistency), validity (convergent and divergent), and initial clinical utility (with an ADHD population) of the BRIEF-SR as a way to quantify the adolescents' perception of his/her difficulties. The development of a self-report questionnaire for adolescents will contribute to the assessment and treatment of executive functioning disorders.
Nomada californiae Cockerell 1903
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Nomada californiae Cockerell, 1903 **
[Holotype: ANSP; ♀ Southern California, California, USA]
Nomada californiae is a new species record for Mexico. The BBPT collected this species in the Coastal Sage Matorral in Guadalupe Valley in March 2019 (1 ♂), Chaparral in May 2021 (1 ♀), and Baja California Mountains in Sierra San Pedro Mártir (5 ♂). Voucher specimens are in MABC. See fig. 143.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 217, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532