cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Solving procedure for a twenty-five diagonal coefficient matrix: direct numerical solutions of the three dimensional linear Fokker-Planck equation
Creators: name: Ujevic, Maximiliano
name: Letelier, Patricio S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe an implicit procedure for solving linear equation systems resulting from the discretization of the three dimensional (seven variables) linear Fokker-Planck equation. The discretization of the Fokker-Planck equation is performed using a twenty-five point molecule that leads to a coefficient matrix with equal number of diagonals. The method is an extension of Stone's implicit procedure, includes a vast class of collision terms and can be applied to stationary or non stationary problems with different discretizations in time. Test calculations and comparisons with other methods are presented in two stationary examples, including an astrophysical application for the Miyamoto-Nagai disk potential for a typical galaxy.
description: 20 pages, RevTex, no proofreading, accepted in Journal of Computational Physics
Curved Holographic Optical Elements from a Geometric View Point
Creators: name: Graf, Tobias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 35A30, 35A35, 53A04, 53A05, 53Z05, 53Z30, 78A10, 78A55

description: We present a geometric framework to model the optical effects of deformations of planar holographic optical elements (HOE) into curved surfaces, such as sphere segments. In particular, we consider deformations which do not preserve the Gaussian curvature.
description: 23 pages, 12 Figures
Additional file 4 of MiR-212-3p functions as a tumor suppressor gene in group 3 medulloblastoma via targeting nuclear factor I/B (NFIB)
Creators: name: Perumal, Naveenkumar
name: Kanchan, Ranjana K.
name: Doss, David
name: Bastola, Noah
name: Atri, Pranita
name: Chirravuri-Venkata, Ramakanth
name: Thapa, Ishwor
name: Vengoji, Raghupathy
name: Maurya, Shailendra K.
name: Klinkebiel, David
name: Talmon, Geoffrey A.
name: Nasser, Mohd W.
name: Batra, Surinder K.
name: Mahapatra, Sidharth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 4: Fig. S3. Deregulated pathways associated with miR-212-3p silencing in group 3 MB. (A) Bubble plot (FunSet plot) representing 12 clusters of significantly enriched GO biological processes. FunSet employs hypergeometric test to perform the enrichments and additionally uses semantic similarity measure with Aggregate Information Content (AIC) index to cluster highly similar GO terms [17]. (B) Enriched biological pathways associated with miR-212-3p silencing identified using Enrichr ( https://maayanlab.cloud/Enrichr/ ) [4] highlighting regulation of cell cycle phase transition as the most enriched pathway in miR-212-3p overexpressed HDMB03 cells
Propagation of matter wave solitons in periodic and random nonlinear potentials
Creators: name: Abdullaev, Fatkhulla Kh.
name: Garnier, Josselin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the motion of bright matter wave solitons in nonlinear potentials, produced by periodic or random spatial variations of the atomic scattering length. We obtain analytical results for the soliton motion, the radiation of matter wave, and the radiative soliton decay in such configurations of the Bose-Einstein condensate. The stable regimes of propagation are analyzed. The results are in remarkable agreement with the numerical simulations of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with periodic or random spatial variations of the mean field interactions.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Spectrum of extensive multiclusters in the Kuramoto model with higher-order interactions
Creators: name: Xu, Can
name: Skardal, Per Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Globally coupled ensembles of phase oscillators serve as useful tools for modeling synchronization and collective behavior in a variety of applications. As interest in the effects of simplicial interactions (i.e., non-additive, higher-order interactions between three or more units) continues to grow we study an extension of the Kuramoto model where oscillators are coupled via three-way interactions that exhibits novel dynamical properties including clustering, multistability, and abrupt desynchronization transitions. Here we provide a rigorous description of the stability of various multicluster states by studying their spectral properties in the thermodynamic limit. Not unlike the classical Kuramoto model, a natural frequency distribution with infinite support yields a population of drifting oscillators, which in turn guarantees that a portion of the spectrum is located on the imaginary axes, resulting in neutrally stable or unstable solutions. On the other hand, a natural frequency distribution with finite support allows for a fully phase-locked state, whose spectrum is real and may be linearly stable or unstable.
High-Resolution Non-Invasive X-ray Diffraction Analysis of Artists Paints
Creators: name: Hiley, Craig I.
name: Hansford, Graeme M.
name: Eastaugh, Nicholas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Energy-dispersive X-ray diffraction (EDXRD) is extremely insensitive to sample morphology when implemented in a back-reflection geometry. The capabilities of this non-invasive technique for cultural heritage applications have been explored at high resolution at the Diamond Light Source synchrotron. The results of the XRD analysis of the pigments in 40 paints, commonly used by 20th century artists, are reported here. It was found that synthetic organic pigments yielded weak diffraction patterns at best, and it was not possible to unambiguously identify any of these pigments. In contrast, the majority of the paints containing inorganic pigments yielded good diffraction patterns amenable to crystallographic analysis. The high resolution of the technique enables the extraction of a range of detailed information: phase identification (including solid solutions), highly accurate unit cell parameters, phase quantification, crystallite size and strain parameters and preferred orientation parameters. The implications of these results for application to real paintings are discussed, along with the possibility to transfer the technique away from the synchrotron and into the laboratory and museum through the use of state-of-the-art microcalorimeter detectors. The results presented demonstrate the exciting potential of the technique for art history and authentication studies, based on the non-invasive acquisition of very high quality crystallographic data.
description: Main article: 25 pages, 5 figures; Supplementary information: 35 pages, 37 figures. Accepted for publication in the Journal of Cultural Heritage with revisions
Pressure-Induced Zero-Gap Semiconducting State in Organic Conductor $α$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ Salt
Creators: name: Katayama, Shinya
name: Kobayashi, Akito
name: Suzumura, Yoshikazu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show a zero-gap semiconducting (ZGS) state in the quasi-two-dimensional organic conductor $α$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ salt, which emerges under uniaxial pressure along the a-axis (the stacking axis of the BEDT-TTF molecule). The ZGS state is the state in which a Dirac cone with the band spectrum of a linear dispersion exists around the Fermi point connecting an unoccupied (electron) band with an occupied (hole) band. The spectrum exhibits a large anisotropy in velocity, which depends on the direction from the Fermi point. By varying the magnitude of several transfer energies of a tight-binding model with four sites per unit cell, it is shown that the ZGS state exists in a wide pressure range, and is attributable to the large anisotropy of the transfer energies along the stacking axis.
description: 6 pages, 8 figures, to be published in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
Energetic Considerations in Quantum Target Ranging
Creators: name: Karsa, Athena
name: Pirandola, Stefano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: While quantum illumination (QI) can offer a quantum-enhancement in target detection, its potential for performing target ranging remains unclear. With its capabilities hinging on a joint-measurement between a returning signal and its retained idler, an unknown return time makes a QI-based protocol difficult to realise. This paper outlines a potential QI-based approach to quantum target ranging based on recent developments in multiple quantum hypothesis testing and quantum-enhanced channel position finding (CPF). Applying CPF to time bins, one finds an upper-bound on the error probability for quantum target ranging. However, using energetic considerations, we show that for such a scheme a quantum advantage may not physically be realised.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 5 of MiR-212-3p functions as a tumor suppressor gene in group 3 medulloblastoma via targeting nuclear factor I/B (NFIB)
Creators: name: Perumal, Naveenkumar
name: Kanchan, Ranjana K.
name: Doss, David
name: Bastola, Noah
name: Atri, Pranita
name: Chirravuri-Venkata, Ramakanth
name: Thapa, Ishwor
name: Vengoji, Raghupathy
name: Maurya, Shailendra K.
name: Klinkebiel, David
name: Talmon, Geoffrey A.
name: Nasser, Mohd W.
name: Batra, Surinder K.
name: Mahapatra, Sidharth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 5: Table S1. Genes (and associated pathways) enriched by miR-212-3p expression restoration in HDMB03 cells. Detailed gene list for selected clusters of significantly enriched GO biological processes represented in Additional file 4: Fig. S3A. Presented clusters were selected based on -log10 FDR values with threshold p <0.05.
Geometrization of Classical Wave Fields
Creators: name: Olkhov, Oleg A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Geometrical model for material Dirac wave field and for Maxwell electromagnetic field is suggested where above fields are considered as propagating regions of the space itself with distorted euclidean geometry. It is shown that equations for these fields can be considered as relations describing the space topological defects. These defects, being closed topological manifolds, are embedded in the outer five-dimensional space, and observable objects appear to be intersections of above defects with the physical space. This interpretation explains irrational properties of quantum objects such as wave-corpuscular duality, stochastic behavior, instantaneous nonlocal correlation in EPR-paradox, the light velocity invariance and so on. Wave-corpuscular properties arise as a result of the defect periodical movement in the outer space relative to its intersection with the physical space, and just this periodical movement attributes phase to the propagating object. Appearance of probabilities within the formalism is a consequence of uncertainty of the closed topological manifold shape, and ensemble of all possible shapes for the same object can be considered as an ensemble of hidden variables that leads to probabilistic description. Embedded in the outer space topological defects provide channels for nonlocal correlations between their intersections-- noninteracting particles in EPR-experiments, and this means that the proposed approach can be considered as a nonlocal model with hidden variables.
description: 7 pages, Int.Conf.,Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations-4, Vaxjo, Sweden. 11-16 June 2007
Additional file 6 of MiR-212-3p functions as a tumor suppressor gene in group 3 medulloblastoma via targeting nuclear factor I/B (NFIB)
Creators: name: Perumal, Naveenkumar
name: Kanchan, Ranjana K.
name: Doss, David
name: Bastola, Noah
name: Atri, Pranita
name: Chirravuri-Venkata, Ramakanth
name: Thapa, Ishwor
name: Vengoji, Raghupathy
name: Maurya, Shailendra K.
name: Klinkebiel, David
name: Talmon, Geoffrey A.
name: Nasser, Mohd W.
name: Batra, Surinder K.
name: Mahapatra, Sidharth
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 6: Fig. S4. Putative oncogenic targets of miR-212-3p and their associated pathways in group 3 MB tumors. (A) Expression analysis by RNA Sequencing of isolated miR-212-3p targets (37 genes) in local cohort of group 3 MB tumors (pediatric CB n=10; group 3 MB n=7; Kanchan et al., GSE148390). Those observed to be significantly elevated in group 3 tumors were the following 14 genes: CCDC71L, CTDSPL2, EDIL3, GIGYF1, HSBP1, KDM5A, NFIB, NRCAM, PSMA2, SDC2, SEPHS1, TAF4, TMEM43, and USP9X. (B) Enriched cellular/biological pathways associated with these targets identified using FunSet tool [17]. (C) Expression of NFIB across MB subgroups in a large MB meta-dataset (NC n=291; WNT n=118; SHH MB n=405; group 3 MB n=233; group 4 MB, n=530; Weishaupt et al., GSE124814). Box plots (A) represent gene expression (Log2 Transcripts Per Million) and were analyzed using Mann-Whiteny U test; *p <0.05, **p <0.01, ***p <0.001. Pathways represented as an inverted bar graph based on the -log10 FDR values with threshold p <0.05 (red dashed line). CB, cerebellum; NC, normal cerebellum.
Spinor Field Realizations of $W_{2,6}$ String and $W_{6}$ String
Creators: name: Zhao, Shu-Cheng
name: Zhang, Li-Jie
name: Liu, Yu-Xiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper the spinor field BRST charges of the W2,6 string and W6 string are constructed, where the BRST charges are graded.
description: 8 pages, no figures
IPBES Data Management Tutorials - Chapter 1: Introduction to IPBES data management Policy
Creators: name: IPBES Task Force On Knowledge And Data
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IPBES
data management policy

description: The IPBES data management tutorials are short videos to help experts implement the IPBES data management Policy. They cover topics ranging from data management policy, reports, active research data, tools, and examples. This chapter provides an overview on data management within the IPBES platform, and the series of the tutorials prepared by the task force on knowledge and data that will assist experts with the implementation of the IPBES data management policy. The chapter includes the following sessions: Session 1.1. Welcome remarks (10.5281/zenodo.4018673) Session 1.2. Introduction to IPBES tutorials and training (10.5281/zenodo.4014804) Session 1.3. IPBES and data management (10.5281/zenodo.4018578) Session 1.4. Introduction to the IPBES data management tutorials (10.5281/zenodo.4014814)
description: These tutorials were created in collaboration between the IPBES task force on knowledge and data and the IPBES task force on capacity building. For inquires please contact tsu.data@ipbes.net
description: {"references": ["IPBES (2020): IPBES Data Management Policy ver. 1.0. Task Force on Knowledge and Data, Krug, R.M., Omare, B., and Niamir, A. (eds.) IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3551079"]}
Kinematics of Ionised Gas in the Barred Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151
Creators: name: Asif, M. W.
name: Mundell, C. G.
name: Pedlar, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have determined the structure and kinematics of ionised gas in the weak oval bar of the archetypal Seyfert 1 galaxy, NGC 4151, using the TAURUS Fabry-Perot interferometer to simultaneously map the distribution and kinematics of Hbeta emission. We also present broad-band ultraviolet imaging of the host galaxy, obtained with XMM-Newton, that shows the detailed distribution of star formation in the bar and in the optically-faint outer spiral arms. We compare the distribution and kinematics of ionised gas with that previously determined in neutral hydrogen by Mundell & Shone; we suggest that the distribution of bright, patchy UV emission close to the HI shocks is consistent with ionisation by star clusters that have formed in compressed pre-shock gas. These clusters then travel ballistically through the gaseous shock to ionise gas downstream along the leading edge of the bar. In addition, we detect, for the first time, ionised gas within the shock itself which is streaming to smaller radii in the same manner as the neutral gas.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures. Accepted by MNRAS
Additional file 1 of 24-hour Movement Questionnaire (QMov24h) for adults: development process and measurement properties
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Bruno
name: Júdice, Pedro B.
name: Marques, Adilson
name: Carraça, Eliana V.
name: Lopes, Luís
name: Sousa-Sá, Eduarda
name: Encantado, Jorge
name: Videira-Silva, António
name: Cliff, Dylan P.
name: Mendes, Romeu
name: Santos, Rute
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Complete analytical solution to the quantum Yukawa potential
Creators: name: Napsuciale, M.
name: Rodriguez, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a complete analytical solution to the quantum problem of a particle in the Yukawa potential, using supersymmetry and a systematic expansion of the corresponding super-potentials. Results for the critical screening of the ground state improve in several figures existing results based on both numerical solutions and approximation methods. Our calculation to order $(a_{0}/D)^{2}$ for the squared ground state wavefunction at the origin, which enter in darkonium transitions, yields a correction of $π^{4}/216$ to results based on variational techniques.
description: Updated published version, 5 pages, one figure added, 1 figure updated, notation changed
The prevalence and survival of children with cerebral palsy in British Columbia
Creators: name: Lai, Benjamin Chao-Liang
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The evidence that trends in the prevalence of cerebral palsy (CP) and survival rate of children with CP have increased in most industrialized countries over the past four decades was noted through systematic review of a number of current population-based studies. The biggest difficulty in evaluating these papers was the lack of a standardized protocol. Researchers working in different countries used different definitions, different criteria of inclusion and ascertainment, and different prognostic factors for survival. The information presented was not easily comparable and could not be readily extrapolated to the situation in British Columbia and Canada. As well, there was very limited information about the prevalence of CP and the survival of persons with CP and its associated problems in British Columbia. To evaluate the prevalence of CP, survival rates, and associated problems in British Columbia, a retrospective study is proposed which links the information identified through two databases: the databases of the Health Surveillance Registry and the linked databases of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research. Additional information relating to etiologic factors, functional abilities, prognostic factors and management will be extracted from the medical charts of patients using a data collection protocol designed as part of this thesis the Cerebral Palsy Chart Review Protocol. The feasibility of using the Cerebral Palsy Chart Review Protocol was tested on a convenience sample of hospital charts of children with CP. After reviewing sample charts, additional sections such as visual and hearing impairments were added, neonatal record evaluation forms were simplified, the sections on feeding and orthopaedic problems were modified, and the parameters for evaluating the severity of CP were expanded to include ambulation skills, mental ability, manual dexterity, and visual and hearing impairments. Although the proposed provincial retrospective study has some limitations and methodological issues, overall the Chart Review Protocol is felt to be a feasible extraction method for a broader population review of cases. The proposed study will provide important information for health, education, social service and community planners and will be helpful in assessing methods and techniques in management and prevention of CP.
Decision to Adopt and Exit Best Management Practices by Dairy Farmers
Creators: name: Hall, Larry M.
name: Paudel, Krishna P.
name: Gauthier, Wayne M.
name: Westra, John V.
name: Hall, Larry M.
name: Paudel, Krishna P.
name: Gauthier, Wayne M.
name: Westra, John V.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Best management practices
subject: dairy
subject: entry
subject: exit
subject: Louisiana

description: Dairy farmers in Louisiana were surveyed to find out the factors leading these farmers to terminate best management practices. Results indicated that only few farmers have exited the practices once they adopt those. However, the longevity of best management practices adoption can be increased by emphasizing on education and targeting to operators who have already been in dairy practices for a longer time period.
Non-linear terms in 2D cosmology
Creators: name: Devecchi, F. P.
name: Froehlich, M. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we investigate the behavior of two-dimensional (2D) cosmological models, starting with the Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) theory of gravitation. A geometrical term, non-linear in the scalar curvature $R$, is added to the JT dynamics to test if it could play the role of dark energy in a 2D expanding universe. This formulation makes possible, first, the description of an early (inflationary) 2D universe, when the van der Waals (vdW) equation of state is used to construct the energy-momentum tensor of the gravitational sources. Second, it is found that for later times the non-linear term in $R$ can generate an old 2D universe in accelerated expansion, where an ordinary matter dominated era evolves into a decelerated/accelerated transition, giving to the dark energy effects a geometrical origin. The results emerge through numerical analysis, following the evolution in time of the scale factor, its acceleration, and the energy densities of constituents.
description: tex file plus figures in two zipped files. To appear in Europhys. Lett
Reduced neutron spectroscopic factors when using potential geometries constrained by Hartree-Fock calculations
Creators: name: Lee, Jenny
name: Tostevin, J. A.
name: Brown, B. A.
name: Delaunay, F.
name: Lynch, W. G.
name: Saelim, M. J.
name: Tsang, M. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out a systematic analysis of angular distribution measurements for selected ground-state to ground-state (d,p) and (p,d) neutron transfer reactions, including the calcium isotopes. We propose a consistent three-body model reaction methodology in which we constrain the transferred-neutron bound state and nucleon-target optical potential geometries using modern Hartree-Fock calculations. Our deduced neutron spectroscopic factors are found to be suppressed by ~30% relative to independent-particle shell-model values, from 40Ca through 49Ca. The other nuclei studied, ranging from B to Ti, show similar average suppressions with respect to large-basis shell-model expectations. Our results are consistent with deduced spectroscopic strengths for neutrons and protons from intermediate energy nucleon knockout reactions, and for protons from (e,e'p) reactions, on well-bound nuclei. PACS: 24.50.+g, 24.10.Eq, 25.40.-h, 25.45.-z
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, Submitted to Physical Review C
Biographical Research and Presentation in the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography: Achievements and Challenges
Creators: name: Hameršak, Filip
name: Jemen, Nataša
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Founded in 1950, the Institute of Lexicography in Zagreb, later named after erudite Croatian writer Miroslav Krleža, its initiator and the first director, is one of the key places for biographical research in Croatia. Central project and also central edition in the field is Hrvatski biografski leksikon (Croatian Biographical Lexicon; HBL), started in mid-1970s, and from 1983 to 2021 resulting in nine printed volumes (letters A–Marj) with 12 547 articles, and also in the on-line edition since 2015, containing most of the printed articles and also more than 200 supplemental articles in the Lo–Ž range. The speaker will strive to present the general starting idea and base infrastructure, the conception and the (somewhat) varying realisation of the HBL, its practical achievements and challenges and also its position in the changing broader context, including similar projects of the Institute, especially Bibliografski katalog (The Bibliographical Catalogue) and Hrvatski osobnik (The Croatian Personal Database). Finally, comparison could be made to Slovenski biografski leksikon (Slovenian Biographical Lexicon) respective Novi Slovenski biografski leksikon (New Slovenian Biographical Lexicon) and other national biographical lexicons.
Social Communication Scale for autistic children (Wang et al., 2025)
Creators: name: Wang, Li
name: Qi, Xin
name: Meng, Ziyan
name: Xiang, Meiyu
name: Li, Zhuoqing
name: Zhang, Sitong
name: Hu, Longyun
name: Hirai, Hoyee W.
name: To, Carol K. S.
name: Wong, Patrick C. M.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 420318
subject: People with disability
classificationCode: 470402
subject: Child language acquisition
classificationCode: 470303
subject: Chinese languages

description: Purpose: Assessing social communication and measuring its changes among young autistic children presents significant challenges, particularly when tracking intervention effects within short timeframes. Existing measures, mostly validated in Western contexts, may not be suitable for culturally diverse populations. Addressing this gap, the Social Communication Scale (SCS) was developed to provide a culturally accessible and reliable measure for the Chinese population. This study explores the psychometric properties of the SCS and its ability to capture intervention-induced changes.Method: Fifty-two autistic children aged 2–5 years were recruited from China. One parent per family participated in a 20-week support program aimed at enhancing parents’ communication strategies to prompt social communication with their children at home. The SCS was administered before and after the program.Results: The SCS exhibited outstanding overall interrater reliability (ICC = .91) and convergent validity with established measures, including the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule–Second Edition, the Communication subdomain of the Mullen Scales of Early Learning, and the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales–Third Edition. Notably, the SCS effectively captured subtle changes during the 20-week intervention.Conclusions: As the first social communication scale developed for Chinese autistic preschoolers, the SCS proves to be a reliable and valid measure. This addresses unique challenges in autism assessment and intervention in China. To strengthen its broader applicability, future research should prioritize validating the SCS with larger and more diverse samples across various regions, contributing to a comprehensive understanding of its value and limitations.Supplemental Material S1. Measuring changes in social communication in Chinese autistic preschoolers: A preliminary study using the Social Communication Scale (SCS).Wang, L., Qi, X., Meng, Z., Xiang, M., Li, Z., Zhang, S., Hu, L., Hirai, H. W., To, C. K. S., & Wong, P. C. M. (2025). Assessing social communication and measuring changes in Chinese autistic preschoolers: A preliminary study using the Social Communication Scale. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 68(4), 1950–1965. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00255
Additional file 2 of 24-hour Movement Questionnaire (QMov24h) for adults: development process and measurement properties
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Bruno
name: Júdice, Pedro B.
name: Marques, Adilson
name: Carraça, Eliana V.
name: Lopes, Luís
name: Sousa-Sá, Eduarda
name: Encantado, Jorge
name: Videira-Silva, António
name: Cliff, Dylan P.
name: Mendes, Romeu
name: Santos, Rute
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 2.
General structure of Thomas$-$Whitehead gravity
Creators: name: Brensinger, Samuel
name: Heitritter, Kenneth
name: Rodgers, Vincent
name: Stiffler, Kory
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thomas-Whitehead (TW) gravity is a projectively invariant model of gravity over a d-dimensional manifold that is intimately related to string theory through reparameterization invariance. Unparameterized geodesics are the ubiquitous structure that ties together string theory and higher dimensional gravitation. This is realized through the projective geometry of Tracy Thomas. The projective connection, due to Thomas and later Whitehead, admits a component that in one dimension is in one-to-one correspondence with the coadjoint elements of the Virasoro algebra. This component is called the diffeomorphism field $\mathcal{D}_{ab }$ in the literature. It also has been shown that in four dimensions, the TW\ action collapses to the Einstein-Hilbert action with cosmological constant when $\mathcal{D}_{ab}$ is proportional to the Einstein metric. These previous results have been restricted to either particular metrics, such as the Polyakov 2D\ metric, or were restricted to coordinates that were volume preserving. In this paper, we review TW gravity and derive the gauge invariant TW action that is explicitly projectively invariant and general coordinate invariant. We derive the covariant field equations for the TW action and show how fermionic fields couple to the gauge invariant theory. The independent fields are the metric tensor $g_{ab}$, the fundamental projective invariant $Π^{a}_{\,\,\,bc}$, and the diffeomorphism field $\mathcal D_{ab}$.
description: 52 pages. Made revisions for acceptance to the journal Physical Review D
Higher dimensional Kaluza-Klein Monopoles
Creators: name: Mann, Robert
name: Stelea, Cristian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is well known that the Kaluza-Klein monopole of Sorkin, Gross and Perry can be obtained from the Euclidean Taub-NUT solution with an extra compact fifth spatial dimension via Kaluza-Klein reduction. In this paper we consider Taub-NUT-like solutions of the vacuum Einstein field equations, with or without cosmological constant, in five dimensions and higher, and similarly perform Kaluza-Klein reductions to obtain new magnetic KK brane solutions in higher dimensions, as well as further sphere reductions to magnetic monopoles in four dimensions. In six dimensions we also employ spatial and timelike Hopf dualities to untwist the circle fibration characteristic to these spaces and obtain charged strings. A variation of these methods in ten dimensions leads to a non-uniform electric string in five-dimensions.
description: 28 pages, Latex, v.2 Typos corrected, references added. To appear in Nucl. Phys. B
Variable selection using MM algorithms
Creators: name: Hunter, David R.
name: Li, Runze
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 62J12, 65C20. (Primary)

description: Variable selection is fundamental to high-dimensional statistical modeling. Many variable selection techniques may be implemented by maximum penalized likelihood using various penalty functions. Optimizing the penalized likelihood function is often challenging because it may be nondifferentiable and/or nonconcave. This article proposes a new class of algorithms for finding a maximizer of the penalized likelihood for a broad class of penalty functions. These algorithms operate by perturbing the penalty function slightly to render it differentiable, then optimizing this differentiable function using a minorize-maximize (MM) algorithm. MM algorithms are useful extensions of the well-known class of EM algorithms, a fact that allows us to analyze the local and global convergence of the proposed algorithm using some of the techniques employed for EM algorithms. In particular, we prove that when our MM algorithms converge, they must converge to a desirable point; we also discuss conditions under which this convergence may be guaranteed. We exploit the Newton-Raphson-like aspect of these algorithms to propose a sandwich estimator for the standard errors of the estimators. Our method performs well in numerical tests.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053605000000200 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Cosmology with variable parameters and effective equation of state for Dark Energy
Creators: name: Sola, Joan
name: Stefancic, Hrvoje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A cosmological constant, Lambda, is the most natural candidate to explain the origin of the dark energy (DE) component in the Universe. However, due to experimental evidence that the equation of state (EOS) of the DE could be evolving with time/redshift (including the possibility that it might behave phantom-like near our time) has led theorists to emphasize that there might be a dynamical field (or some suitable combination of them) that could explain the behavior of the DE. While this is of course one possibility, here we show that there is no imperative need to invoke such dynamical fields and that a variable cosmological constant (including perhaps a variable Newton's constant too) may account in a natural way for all these features.
description: LaTeX, 9 pages, 1 figure. Talk given at the 7th Intern. Workshop on Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT 05)
Bounded H_\infty-calculus for pseudodifferential Douglis-Nirenberg systems of mild regularity
Creators: name: Denk, R.
name: Saal, J.
name: Seiler, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K25, 47G30

description: Parameter-ellipticity with respect to a closed subsector of the complex plane for pseudodifferential Douglis-Nirenberg systems is discussed and shown to imply the existence of a bounded H_\infty-calculus in suitable scales of Sobolev, Besov, and Hoelder spaces. We also admit non pseudodifferential perturbations. Applications concern systems with coefficients of mild Hoelder regularity and the generalized thermoelastic plate equations.
description: 22 pages
Additional file 4 of 24-hour Movement Questionnaire (QMov24h) for adults: development process and measurement properties
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Bruno
name: Júdice, Pedro B.
name: Marques, Adilson
name: Carraça, Eliana V.
name: Lopes, Luís
name: Sousa-Sá, Eduarda
name: Encantado, Jorge
name: Videira-Silva, António
name: Cliff, Dylan P.
name: Mendes, Romeu
name: Santos, Rute
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 4.
Observational constraints on dark energy with generalized equations of state
Creators: name: Capozziello, S.
name: Cardone, V. F.
name: Elizalde, E.
name: Nojiri, S.
name: Odintsov, S. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effects of viscosity terms depending on the Hubble parameter and its derivatives in the dark energy equation of state. Such terms are possible if dark energy is a fictitious fluid originating from corrections to the Einstein general relativity as is the case for some braneworld inspired models or fourth order gravity. We consider two classes of models whose singularities in the early and late time universe have been studied by testing the models against the dimensionless coordinate distance to Type Ia Supernovae and radio-galaxies also including priors on the shift and the acoustic peak parameters. It turns out that both models are able to explain the observed cosmic speed up without the need of phantom (w < -1) dark energy.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Farm Level Impacts of Bt Corn Adoption in a Developing Country: Evidence from the Philippines
Creators: name: Mutuc, Maria Erlinda M.
name: Pan, Suwen
name: Rejesus, Roderick M.
name: Yorobe, Jose M.
name: Mutuc, Maria Erlinda M.
name: Pan, Suwen
name: Rejesus, Roderick M.
name: Yorobe, Jose M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Bt
subject: censoring
subject: corn
subject: farm level impacts genetically modified crops
subject: pesticide use
subject: technology adoption

description: This article examines the ex post farm-level impacts of Bt corn adoption in the Philippines. Using an econometric approach that addresses simultaneity, selection, and censoring problems, we show that Bt corn adoption provides modest but statistically significant increases in farm-level yields and profits. Furthermore, our results suggest that farm-level yield and profit impacts of Bt corn adoption are underestimated when censoring in the pesticide application variable is not considered in the estimation procedures. Previous literature have emphasized the importance of simultaneity and selection problems but this is the first study that have raised the issue of censoring problems in estimating the farm-level effects of Bt corn adoption.
Land Trusts Policy: Is It Socially Optimal?
Creators: name: Farja, Yanay
name: Rausser, Gordon C.
name: Farja, Yanay
name: Rausser, Gordon C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: The impressive growth in land conservation by the private sector, primarily by land trusts, has resulted from a number of policies that subsidize such activity. These include federal income and estate tax benefits, and state income and property tax benefits. We model the equilibrium in the private land conservation market and the social welfare maximization problem of the government. We estimate the supply of conservation easements in the San Francisco Bay Area counties. Our results show that conservation easements are own price inelastic, but nevertheless are sensitive to the opportunity cost of land. For a simultaneous equation model, the spillover effect of easements on the value of other properties is found to be positive and significant. A possible equity implication is the barriers to entry facing low-income individuals in the housing market.
Effects of Antidumping Duties with Bertrand Competition: Some Evidence for Frozen Catfish Fillets
Creators: name: Duc, Nguyen Minh
name: Kinnucan, Henry W.
name: Duc, Nguyen Minh
name: Kinnucan, Henry W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: antidumping tariff
subject: Bertrand competition
subject: Byrd Amendment
subject: catfish
subject: price

description: Antidumping duties are popular in the United States because under the Byrd Amendment domestic industry gets to keep tariff revenues. However, whether antidumping duties are an effective instrument of protection depends crucially on the tariff's ability to increase demand for the home good. Under Bertrand competition, the Byrd Amendment enhances tariff effects on the home price and trade flows in comparison to perfect competition. Assuming Bertrand competition and differentiated products, price-reaction functions of frozen catfish fillets are derived and estimated jointly with a demand equation using monthly data for the period January 1999 - December 2005. An inverse demand equation for farm-level products is also added to explore the efficacy of the tariff on price of farmed catfish. The estimated increase associated with the duty is exhibited tiny in price and sales of domestic fillets but insignificant in farm price. The result suggests antidumping duties are a weak tool for protecting the domestic catfish industry.
Data Needs for Consumer and Retail Firm Studies
Creators: name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
name: Denbaly, Mark
name: Perloff, Jeffrey M.
name: Denbaly, Mark
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Agribusiness
Consumer/Household Economics

description: Growing concentration in the retail grocery sector raises new economic questions that are difficult to answer with existing data sources. In part because of concentration in the retail data industry as well the fact that these data are not primarily collected for academic research purposes, currently available grocery-level datasets are extremely expensive, not properly randomized, and lack critical information. We discuss the increase in concentration at the retail level, concentration in data provision, data needs for a number of important research areas, and possible solutions.
Dynamical Modeling of CXOGBS J175553.2-281633: A 10 Hour Long Orbital Period Cataclysmic Variable
Creators: name: Gomez, Sebastian
name: Torres, Manuel A. P.
name: Jonker, Peter G.
name: Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, Zuzanna
name: van Grunsven, Theo F. J.
name: Udalski, Andrzej
name: Hynes, Robert I.
name: Heinke, Craig O.
name: Maccarone, Thomas J.
name: Salinas, Ricardo
name: Strader, Jay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present modeling of the long-term optical light curve and radial velocity curve of the binary stellar system CXOGBS J175553.2-281633, first detected in X-rays in the \textit{Chandra} Galactic Bulge Survey. We analyzed 7 years of optical I-band photometry from OGLE and found long-term variations from year to year. These long-term variations can most likely be explained with by either variations in the luminosity of the accretion disk or a spotted secondary star. The phased light curve has a sinusoidal shape, which we interpret as being due to ellipsoidal modulations. We improve the orbital period to be $P = 10.34488 \pm 0.00006$ h with a time of inferior conjunction of the secondary star $T_0 = {\rm HJD\ } 2455260.8204 \pm 0.0008$. Moreover, we collected 37 spectra over 6 non-consecutive nights. The spectra show evidence for an evolved K7 secondary donor star, from which we obtain a semi-amplitude for the radial velocity curve of $K_2 = 161 \pm 6 $ km s$^{-1}$. Using the light curve synthesis code {\tt XRbinary}, we derive the most likely orbital inclination for the binary of $i = 63.0\pm0.7$ deg, a primary mass of $M_1 = 0.83 \pm 0.06$ M$_\odot$, consistent with a white dwarf accretor, and a secondary donor mass of $M_2 = 0.65 \pm 0.07$ M$_\odot$, consistent with the spectral classification. Therefore, we identify the source as a long orbital period cataclysmic variable star.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, accepted to MNRAS
A Spatial Panel Simultaneous-Equations Model of Business Growth, Migration Behavior, Local Public Services and Household Income in Appalachia
Creators: name: Gebremariam, Gebremeskel H.
name: Gebremedhin, Tesfa G.
name: Schaeffer, Peter V.
name: Phipps, Tim T.
name: Jackson, Randall W.
name: Gebremariam, Gebremeskel H.
name: Gebremedhin, Tesfa G.
name: Schaeffer, Peter V.
name: Phipps, Tim T.
name: Jackson, Randall W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development

description: In this paper we develop a spatial panel simultaneous-equations model of business growth, migration behavior, local public services and median household income in a partial lag-adjustment growth-equilibrium framework and utilizing a one-way error component model for the disturbances. This model is an extension of the 'jobs follow people or people follow jobs' literature and it improved previous models in the growth-equilibrium tradition by: (1) explicitly modeling local government and regional income in the growth process; (2) explicitly modeling gross in-migration and gross out-migration separately in order to spell out the differential effects, which used to be glossed over under net population change in previous studies; (3) explicitly incorporating both spatially lagged dependent variables and spatially lagged error terms to account for spatial spillover effects in the data set; and (4) extending and generalizing the modeling and estimation of simultaneous systems of spatially interrelated cross sectional equations into a panel data setting. To estimate the model, we develop a five-step new estimation strategy by generalizing the Generalized Spatial Three-Stage Least Squares (GS3SLS) approach outlined in Kelejian and Prucha (2004) into a panel data setting. The empirical implementation of the model uses county-level data from the 418 Appalachian counties for 1980-2000. Generally, the results from these model estimations are consistent with the theoretical expectations and empirical findings in the equilibrium growth literature and provide support to the basic hypotheses of this study. First, the estimates show the existence of feedback simultaneities among the endogenous variables of the model. Second, the results also show the existence of conditional convergence with respect to the respective endogenous variable of each equation of the model and the speed of adjustment parameters are generally comparable to those in literature. Third, the results from the parameter estimation of the model indicate the existence of spatial autoregressive lag effects and spatial cross-regressive lag effects with respect to the endogenous variables of the model. One of the key conclusions is that sector specific policies should be integrated and harmonized in order to give the desirable outcome. Besides, regionally focusing resources for development policy may yield greater returns than treating all locations the same.