cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Athenian metic
Creators: name: Ritchie, Virginia Joyce
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This thesis considers the position of the Athenian metic in the fifth and fourth centuries B. C. Chapter I, the Introduction, sets the limits of the study. In Chapter II the status of the resident alien is shown to have been no accident, hut a conscious creation, well-defined within the Kleisthenic democracy. While the rights of the metic appear superficially analogous to those of the citizen, in fact they differed in five essentials: 1) the metic was not independent but required a "patron" or prostates; 2) he paid an annual tax, the metoikion; 3) he had no political rights; 4) he could not marry an Athenian citizen; and 5) he was forbidden to own real property, either land or houses. Chapter III tests the validity of the antithesis between the citizen or homo politicus and the non-citizen or homo economicus. The economic pursuits of both metic and citizen are outlined, and it is thus seen that the metic's rôle in the Athenian economy was not casual but fundamental: he monopolized banking and trade and was predominant in industry. By contrast the citizen's activities were those based on his ownership of land. Because of this division, land, industry, and commerce never became permanently interrelated and Athens' economy remained inherently weak. Indispensable as the metic was to Athens, Chapter IV points out that he never overcame the citizen's jealous hold on the right to citizenship. In fact, a very high penalty was set for the usurpation of this privilege. The naturalization of the metic was rare even in the fourth century, when the demos lavished every kind of honour on foreign kings and dignitaries whose patronage it sought. Chapter V concludes that, although the metic was responsible for Athens' economic superiority and, indeed, for much of her cultural heritage, his contributions have been underestimated, if not ignored. As a result, our picture of Athenian life is one-sided. A discussion of two historical problems that concern the metic and a chronological table are appended.
Holy communion : commentary on the instruction Immensae caritatis.
Creators: name: Catholic Church.
name: National Conference Of Catholic Bishops. Bishops' Committee On The Liturgy.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description:
 Contains the text of the Vatican instruction Immensae caritatis, the commentary of the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy, as well as the following rites: Rite for commissioning an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion, and the Distribution of Communion to the sick.
Defining a conceptual topography of word concreteness: Clustering properties of emotion, sensation, and magnitude among 750 english words
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: concrete-abstract
lexical-semantic
multidimensional scaling
semantic memory
word concreteness effect

description: © 2017 Troche, Crutch and Reilly. Cognitive science has a longstanding interest in the ways that people acquire and use abstract vs. concrete words (e.g., truth vs. piano). One dominant theory holds that abstract and concrete words are subserved by two parallel semantic systems. We recently proposed an alternative account of abstract-concrete word representation premised upon a unitary, high dimensional semantic space wherein word meaning is nested. We hypothesize that a range of cognitive and perceptual dimensions (e.g., emotion, time, space, color, size, visual form) bound this space, forming a conceptual topography. Here we report a normative study where we examined the clustering properties of a sample of English words (N = 750) spanning a spectrum of concreteness in a continuous manner from highly abstract to highly concrete. Participants (N = 328) rated each target word on a range of 14 cognitive dimensions (e.g., color, emotion, valence, polarity, motion, space). The dimensions reduced to three factors: Endogenous factor, Exogenous factor, and Magnitude factor. Concepts were plotted in a unified, multimodal space with concrete and abstract concepts along a continuous continuum. We discuss theoretical implications and practical applications of this dataset.
Cohomology of Filippov algebras and an analogue of Whitehead's lemma
Creators: name: de Azcarraga, Jose A.
name: Izquierdo, J. M
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that two cohomological properties of semisimple Lie algebras also hold for Filippov (n-Lie) algebras, namely, that semisimple n-Lie algebras do not admit non-trivial central extensions and that they are rigid i.e., cannot be deformed in Gerstenhaber sense. This result is the analogue of Whitehead's Lemma for Filippov algebras. A few comments about the n-Leibniz algebras case are made at the end.
description: plain latex, no figures, 29 pages
Why reorganization of firms fails: evidence from Estonia. Summary: Saneerimismenetluse ebaõnnestumise põhjused Eestis
Creators: name: Lukason, Oliver
name: Urbanik, Artjom
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2013
Subjects: firm reorganization; firm failure; reorganization law

description: Although most countries have firm reorganization option in legislation (either as a separate law or part of insolvency code), the practice of successful reorganizations has remained modest. Reorganization law was introduced in Estonia in late 2008, but only a few firms have been successfully reorganized since. Derived from previous the article studies, what are the reasons for firm reorganization failure. From legal viewpoint, main causes are found to be that firms under reorganization do not submit reorganization plans to court and the preconditions for reorganization lapse. The financial ratios for successful and unsuccessful reorganizations are not significantly different according to independent samples median test. Unsuccessfully
reorganized firms perform worse than successful ones in the year before reorganization year, but the opposite phenomenon occurs two and three years before reorganization year.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 1 (2013)
Nucleon Spin and Momentum Decomposition Using Lattice QCD Simulations
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: hep-lat
hep-ex
hep-ph
nucl-ex
nucl-th

description: © 2017 American physical. We determine within lattice QCD the nucleon spin carried by valence and sea quarks and gluons. The calculation is performed using an ensemble of gauge configurations with two degenerate light quarks with mass fixed to approximately reproduce the physical pion mass. We find that the total angular momentum carried by the quarks in the nucleon is Ju+d+s=0.408(61)stat(48)syst and the gluon contribution is Jg=0.133(11)stat(14)syst, giving a total of JN=0.54(6)stat(5)syst that is consistent with the spin sum. For the quark intrinsic spin contribution, we obtain 12ΔΣu+d+s=0.201(17)stat(5)syst. All quantities are given in the modified minimal subtraction scheme at 2 GeV. The quark and gluon momentum fractions are also computed and add up to xu+d+s+xg=0.804(121)stat(95)syst+0.267(12)stat(10)syst=1.07(12)stat(10)syst, thus satisfying the momentum sum.
Listening effort in a realistic multi-talker speech comprehension test
Creators: name: Guo, Xinyu
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 520406
subject: Sensory processes, perception and performance

description: Introduction: Current speech comprehension assessments cannot provide a sensitive and comprehensive measure of listeners' real-life speech comprehension ability. Furthermore, they do not assess listeners’ listening effort, an important index during speech comprehension. Therefore, this study aimed to develop and evaluate a realistic multi-talker speech comprehension test and then examine the correlation between perceived listening effort and the outcome measures of this test.Methods: We developed a new speech comprehension test using audio-visual recordings of spontaneous conversations between two talkers. We applied a category monitoring paradigm in which listeners were given a word category and responded to target words related to the given category by pressing a hand-held button. The conversations were combined with babble noise at three different signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) to vary the task difficulty. The outcome measures were listening effort self-rating, hit rate, response time (RT), and head/gaze switch delay. We tested thirty participants with normal hearing who spoke English as their first language. We examined the individual outcome measures in the three SNR conditions and correlated them with listening effort self-ratings.Results: With increasing listening difficulty, listening effort ratings increased, hit rate decreased, RT increased, and head switch delay decreased. There was no visible effect of SNR on the gaze switch delay. The effort ratings showed a significant negative correlation with hit rate, a significant positive correlation with RT, and a significant negative correlation with head switch delay.Conclusion: The proposed test provides a sensitive assessment of listeners’ speech comprehension performance in the real world, even though the outcome measures are limited by various participant- and material-related factors. Hit rate, RT, and head switch delay may be potential indicators of listening effort. The current study may provide normative data for future studies.
title: U.S. International Trade in Transportation-Related Goods
Creators: name: Sprung, Michael
name: Henley, Elijah
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2003
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89005
subject: International trade
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/92057
subject: Transportation equipment industry
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/96717
subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88684
subject: Unit costs

description: BTS Issue Brief, No. 5;2p.
description: Trade in motor vehicles and parts makes up three of every four dollars that the U.S. trades in transportation-related goods. Canada is the United States' leading trade partner in transportation-related goods, followed by Japan and Mexico. While the United States had a $100 billion trade deficit in motor vehicles and parts in 2001, it had a $24 billion surplus in aircraft, maritime vessel, and railway locomotive trade.
title: The Role of Macrophytes in Constructed Surface-flow Wetlands for Mine Water Treatment : A Review
Creators: name: Opitz, Joscha
name: Alte, Matthias
name: Bauer, Martin
name: Peiffer, Stefan
Publisher: name: University of Bayreuth
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Passive treatment
subject: Filtration
subject: Biogeochemistry
subject: Settling pond
subject: Hydrodynamics
subject: 500
subject: 540
subject: 550
subject: 570
subject: 580

description: Constructed wetlands are a standard sustainable technology in waste and mine water treatment. Whereas macrophytes actively contribute to decomposition and/or removal of wastewater’s organic pollutants, removal of hydrolysable metals from mine water is not attributable to direct metabolic, but rather various indirect macrophyte-related mechanisms. These mechanisms result in higher treatment efficiency of (vegetated) wetlands relative to (unvegetated) settling ponds. Contribution of macrophytes to treatment predominantly includes: enhanced biogeochemical oxidation and precipitation of hydrolysable metals due to catalytic reactions and bacterial activity, particularly on immersed macrophyte surfaces; physical filtration of suspended hydrous ferric oxides by dense wetland vegetation down to colloids that are unlikely to gravitationally settle efficiently; scavenging and heteroaggregation of dissolved and colloidal iron, respectively, by plant-derived natural organic matter; and improved hydrodynamics and hydraulic efficiency, considerably augmenting retention and exposure time. The review shows that constructed surface-flow wetlands have considerable advantages that are often underestimated. In addition to treatment enhancement, there are socio-environmental benefits such as aesthetic appearance, biotope/habitat value, and landscape diversity that need to be considered. However, there is currently no quantitative, transferrable approach to adequately describe the effect and magnitude of macrophyte-related benefits on mine water amelioration, let alone clearly assign optimal operational deployment of either settling ponds or wetlands. A better (quantitative) understanding of underlying processes and kinetics is needed to optimise assembly and sizing of settling ponds and wetlands in composite passive mine water treatment systems.
MPEC 2023-K135 : 2023 KQ2
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 KQ2

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Provably efficient algorithms for joint placement and allocation of virtual network functions
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: cs.NI

description: © 2017 IEEE. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has the potential to significantly reduce the capital and operating expenses, shorten product release cycle, and improve service agility. In this paper, we focus on minimizing the total number of Virtual Network Function (VNF) instances to provide a specific service (possibly at different locations) to all the flows in a network. Certain network security and analytics applications may allow fractional processing of a flow at different nodes (corresponding to datacenters), giving an opportunity for greater optimization of resources. Through a reduction from the set cover problem, we show that this problem is NP-hard and cannot even be approximated within a factor of (1 - o(1))lnm (where m is the number of flows) unless P=NP. Then, we design two simple greedy algorithms and prove that they achieve an approximation ratio of (1 - o(1))ln m + 2, which is asymptotically optimal. For special cases where each node hosts multiple VNF instances (which is typically true in practice), we also show that our greedy algorithms have a constant approximation ratio. Further, for tree topologies we develop an optimal greedy algorithm by exploiting the inherent topological structure. Finally, we conduct extensive numerical experiments to evaluate the performance of our proposed algorithms in various scenarios.
Fermi/LAT discovery of gamma-ray emission from a relativistic jet in the narrow-line Seyfert 1 quasar PMN J0948+0022
Creators: name: Foschini, L.
name: Ghisellini, G.
name: Maraschi, L.
name: Tavecchio, F.
name: Angelakis, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of high-energy gamma-ray emission from the peculiar quasar PMN J0948+0022 (z=0.585+/-0.001). Contrary to the expectations, the optical spectrum of this quasar shows only narrow lines [FWHM(Hbeta) ~ 1500 km/s] and the typical characteristics of narrow-line Seyfert 1 type galaxies. However, the strong radio emission and the flat spectrum suggest the presence of a relativistic jet, which can now be confirmed by the detection of MeV-GeV photons. PMN J0948+0022 is therefore the first radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 quasar to be detected at gamma-rays and the third type of gamma-ray emitting AGN, after blazars and radiogalaxies.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of the conference "Accretion and ejection in AGN: a global view" (Como, 22-26 June 2009)
Analysis of the share of extensive and intensive factors on changes of the output on all levels of the economy. Zusammenfassung: Analyse des Einflussanteiles der extensiven und intensiven Faktoren der Produktionsänderung
Creators: name: Mihola, Jiri
name: Wawrosz, Petr
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2013
Subjects: dynamic indicators; economic growth; intensive and extensive factors of change of indicators

description: The paper answers one of the typical problems of economic theory - how it is in practice possible to measure and to interpret the quality of economic time series oat all economic levels. The task is on the macroeconomic level solved by weighted geometric aggregation of input factors (labour and capital) into summary input factor (SIF) - the method is similar to the Cobb-Douglas production function. The paper shows differences of our approach to the approach of growth accounting – our approach is based on more general condition and covers not only situations of growth of economic indicators but also situations of their falls or stagnation. The approach allows also distinguishing the compensation of input factors. So, the methodology presented in the paper can be used in many practical applications, for instance it enables us to count clearly intensive and extensive parameters of economic growth.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 1 (2013)
High Sensitivity Array Observations of the z=1.87 Sub-Millimeter Galaxy GOODS 850-3
Creators: name: Momjian, E.
name: Wang, W-H.
name: Knudsen, K. K.
name: Carilli, C. L.
name: Cowie, L. L.
name: Barger, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present sensitive phase-referenced VLBI results on the radio continuum emission from the z=1.87 luminous submillimeter galaxy (SMG) GOODS 850-3. The observations were carried out at 1.4 GHz using the High Sensitivity Array (HSA). Our sensitive tapered VLBI image of GOODS 850-3 at 0.47 x 0.34 arcsec (3.9 x 2.9 kpc) resolution shows a marginally resolved continuum structure with a peak flux density of 148 \pm 38 uJy/beam, and a total flux density of 168 \pm 73 uJy, consistent with previous VLA and MERLIN measurements. The derived intrinsic brightness temperature is > 5 \pm 2 x 10^3 K. The radio continuum position of this galaxy coincides with a bright and extended near-infrared source that nearly disappears in the deep HST optical image, indicating a dusty source of nearly 9 kpc in diameter. No continuum emission is detected at the full VLBI resolution (13.2 x 7.2 mas, 111 x 61 pc), with a 4-sigma point source upper limit of 26 uJy/beam, or an upper limit to the intrinsic brightness temperature of 4.7 x 10^5 K. The extent of the observed continuum source at 1.4 GHz and the derived brightness temperature limits are consistent with the radio emission (and thus presumably the far-infrared emission) being powered by a major starburst in GOODS 850-3, with a star formation rate of ~2500 M_sun/yr. Moreover, the absence of any continuum emission at the full resolution of the VLBI observations indicates the lack of a compact radio AGN source in this z=1.87 SMG.
description: 19 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in AJ
Photon beam asymmetry Σ in the reaction γ→p→pω for E= 1.152 to 1.876 GeV
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: nucl-ex

description: Photon beam asymmetry $\Sigma$ measurements for $\omega$ photoproduction in the reaction $\vec{\gamma} p \to \omega p$ are reported for photon energies from 1.152 to 1.876 GeV. Data were taken using a linearly-polarized tagged photon beam, a cryogenic hydrogen target, and the CLAS spectrometer in Hall B at Jefferson Lab. The measurements obtained markedly increase the size of the database for this observable, extend coverage to higher energies, and resolve discrepancies in previously published data. Comparisons of these new results with predictions from a chiral-quark-based model and from a dynamical coupled-channels model indicate the importance of interferences between $t$-channel meson exchange and $s$- and $u$-channel contributions, underscoring sensitivity to the nucleon resonances included in those descriptions. Comparisons with the Bonn-Gatchina partial-wave analysis indicate the $\Sigma$ data reported here help to fix the magnitudes of the interference terms between the leading amplitudes in that calculation (Pomeron exchange and the resonant portion of the $J^P=3/2^+$ partial wave), as well as the resonant portions of the smaller partial waves with $J^P$= $1/2^-$, $3/2^-$, and $5/2^+$.
title: Better Road Congestion Measures Are Needed
Creators: name: Memmott, Jeffery L.
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2003
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89147
subject: Congestion management systems
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88462
subject: Traffic congestion
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88430
subject: Peak hour traffic
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97259
subject: Off peak periods
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97322
subject: Data collection

description: BTS Issue Brief, No. 4;2p.
description: Road congestion is growing worse as demand outstrips new roadway construction and other efforts to increase traffic flows. Better ways to measure congestion are needed to effectively address the problem. Actual measures of speeds and delays are key to understanding congestion.
The system of firm support grants in Estonia: whom does it favor? Summary: Ettevõtlustoetused Eestis: millist ettevõtet need soosivad?
Creators: name: Mõttus, Maksim
name: Lukason, Oliver
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2013
Subjects: EU funds; government grants; support system

description: After joining the European Union, remarkable support has been provided to Estonian firms through government grants financed from EU funds, but so far it has not been systematically studied, which firms can get support from them. Current study analyzes all grants for firms financed from EU funds in Estonia in the period of 2007-2013. The paper outlines most supported firms based on activities financed and restrictions set on firms and application. The results indicate that some limitations make only a narrow range of firms eligible to get financial support. The grant measures in different implementing units providing grants vary a lot. Also, grants directed to fixed asset investments have more restrictions when compared with those directed to reimbursement of costs.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 1 (2013)
Low-temperature lattice anomaly in LaFeAsO0.93F0.07 probed by x-ray absorption spectroscopy: Evidence for strong electron-lattice interaction
Creators: name: Zhang, C. J.
name: Oyanagi, H.
name: Sun, Z. H.
name: Kamihara, Y.
name: Hosono, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The local lattice structure in newly discovered LaFeAsO1-xFx superconductors is studied by extended x-ray absorption fine structure measurements. An anomalous upturn of the mean-square relative displacement of the Fe-As bond is detected below ~70 K as electron carriers are introduced,reflecting the occurrence of Fe-As bond local lattice fluctuation. Similar to that in cuprates, this lattice fluctuation exhibits an abrupt depression at the onset superconducting transition temperature. The results indicate that strong electron-lattice interaction is involved in the superconducting transition in oxypcnictide superconductors, putting a strict limitation on possible theoretical models.
description: 15 pages, 6 figures
Appendices for the following article: Inagaki et al. (2025). Comparative Analyses of the White-Lipped Tree Frog (Polypedates leucomystax) Using Mitochondrial Genomes. Current Herpetology.
Creators: name: Inagaki, Hidetoshi
name: Haramoto, Yoshikazu
name: Kinumi, Tomoya
name: Tominaga, Atsushi
name: Jang-Liaw, Nian-Hong
name: Shigeri, Yasushi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310902
subject: Animal cell and molecular biology

description: Table S1 and Figure S1 are supplemental data sets of the article (Inagaki et al) in Current Herpetology (2025).
title: Transportation Difficulties Keep Over Half a Million Disabled at Home
Creators: name: Durant, Sharon
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2003
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91614
subject: Persons with disabilities
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87969
subject: Passenger transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89724
subject: Needs assessment
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88194
subject: Accessibility

description: BTS Issue Brief, No. 3;2p.
description: How people get around affects every aspect of their lives. A new Bureau of Transportation Statistics survey found that: Nationally, almost 15 million people in this country have difficulties getting the transportation they need. Of these, about 6 million (40 percent) are people with disabilities. More than 3.5 million people in this country never leave their homes. Of these, 1.9 million (54 percent) are people with disabilities. About 560,000 disabled people indicate they never leave home because of transportation difficulties.
Misidentified Human Gene Functions with Mouse Models: The Case of the Retinoblastoma Gene Family in Senescence
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Animals
Cells, Cultured
Cellular Senescence
Disease Models, Animal
Fibroblasts
Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
Gene Silencing
Genetic Association Studies
Humans
Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Mice
Mice, Knockout
Multigene Family
RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
RNA, Small Interfering
Retinoblastoma Protein
Signal Transduction
Transcription, Genetic

description: © 2017 The Authors Although mice models rank among the most widely used tools for understanding human genetics, biology, and diseases, differences between orthologous genes among species as close as mammals are possible, particularly in orthologous gene pairs in which one or more paralogous (i.e., duplicated) genes appear in the genomes of the species. Duplicated genes can possess overlapping functions and compensate for each other. The retinoblastoma gene family demonstrates typical composite functionality in its three member genes (i.e., RB1, RB2/P130, and P107), all of which participate in controlling the cell cycle and associated phenomena, including proliferation, quiescence, apoptosis, senescence, and cell differentiation. We analyzed the role of the retinoblastoma gene family in regulating senescence in mice and humans. Silencing experiments with each member of the gene family in mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) and fibroblasts from mouse and human tissues demonstrated that RB1 may be indispensable for senescence in mouse cells, but not in human ones, as an example of species specificity. Furthermore, although RB2/P130 seems to be implicated in maintaining human cell senescence, the function of RB1 within any given species might differ by cell type, as an example of cell specificity. For instance, silencing RB1 in mouse fibroblasts induced a reduced senescence not observed in mouse MSCs. Our findings could be useful as a general paradigm of cautions to take when inferring the role of human genes analyzed in animal studies and when examining the role of the retinoblastoma gene family in detail.
The dynamics and determinants of social capital in the European Union and neighbouring countries. Summary: Sotsiaalkapitali dünaamika ja determinandid: EL vanade ja uute liikmesriikide ning nende naaberriikide võrdlus
Creators: name: Parts, Eve
Publisher: name: MATTIMAR OÜ
Year: 2013
Subjects: Social capital; Europe; old and new member states; neighbouring countries

description: This empirical study investigates the dynamics and the determinants of social capital in Europe over the period 1990-2008, using empirical data from EVS. Methodologically, factor analysis and regression analysis are implemented. The analysis covers 20 Western-European countries, 10 new member states and 15 EU neighbouring countries. Comparison of the levels of social capital showed that, with few exceptions, the levels of social capital are lower in Eastern Europe as compared to the old member states in Western Europe. Regression results of the determinants of social capital showed that most influential factors of social capital are education and satisfaction with democracy. It follows that investments in educational system and improving democratization processes could increase the level of social capital as an important factor of economic development.
description: Estonian Discussions on Economic Policy, Vol 21, No 1 (2013)
Measuring home environments across cultures: Invariance of the HOME scale across eight international sites from the MAL-ED study
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Measurement invariance
Validity
Culture
MAL-ED
Environment
Low-income countries

description: © 2017 The Authors The home environment provides the context for much of a child's early development. Examples of important aspects of the home environment include safety, cleanliness, and opportunities for cognitive stimulation. This study sought to examine the psychometric properties of an adapted form of the Home Observation for the Measurement of the Environment (HOME; Caldwell & Bradley, 1984, 2003) across the eight international sites of the MAL-ED project (Dhaka, Bangladesh; Vellore, India; Bhakatapur, Nepal; Naushahro Feroze, Pakistan; Fortaleza, Brazil; Loreto, Peru; Venda, South Africa; Haydom, Tanzania), to identify a factor structure that fit the data at all sites, and to derive a subset of items that could be used to examine home environmental characteristics across sites. A three-factor structure (i.e., Emotional and Verbal Responsivity; Clean and Safe Environment; Child Cleanliness) was identified, and partial measurement equivalence/invariance across sites was supported. Overall, these findings lend support for the use of portions of this abbreviated and adapted version of the HOME for use among heterogeneous, cross-cultural groups in low- and middle-income nations.
Supplementary document for Precise determination of energy transfer upconversion coefficient for the Erbium and Ytterbium codoped laser crystals - 6747452.pdf
Creators: name: Zhang, Kuanshou
name: Li, Yuanji
name: Liu, Kunlun
name: Feng, Jinxia
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: additional data
Do fixational eye movements help or hinder hyperacuity?
Creators: name: Lukyanova, Veronika
name: Reiniger, Jenny L.
name: Sayim, Bilge
name: Harmening, Wolf M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Hyperacuity
Fixational eye movements
Adaptive optics
Retinal imaging

description: Preliminary results on the influence of fixational eye movements on hyperacuity assessed using adaptive optics microstimulation presented as a poster at NeuroCon 2021, Günzburg, Germany, November 6 and at BIGS Neuroscience student retreat, Bonn, Germany, November 12, 2021.
description: Supported by an ANR and DFG grant awarded to Bilge Sayim (ANR-19-FRAL-0004) and Wolf Harmening (DFG Ha5323/8-1).
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title: Transportation Energy Efficiency Trends in the 1990s
Creators: name: Harrison, Ivy
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2003
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91419
subject: Energy consumption
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97115
subject: Trend (Statistics)
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87969
subject: Passenger transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87968
subject: Freight transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97484
subject: Tables (Data)

description: BTS Issue Brief, No. 2;2p.
description: In the 1990s the transportation sector showed little increase in energy efficiency as transportation activity and energy use continued to grow. Passenger travel energy-efficiency levels improved slightly, mainly due to efficiency gains in the aviation sector. Freight transportation energy-efficiency levels declined slightly as modes of transportation that consumed the most energy for freight movement became less energy efficient.
Controlling the spontaneous spiking regularity via channel blocking on Newman-Watts networks of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons
Creators: name: Ozer, Mahmut
name: Perc, Matjaz
name: Uzuntarla, Muhammet
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We investigate the regularity of spontaneous spiking activity on Newman-Watts small-world networks consisting of biophysically realistic Hodgkin-Huxley neurons with a tunable intensity of intrinsic noise and fraction of blocked voltage-gated sodium and potassium ion channels embedded in neuronal membranes. We show that there exists an optimal fraction of shortcut links between physically distant neurons, as well as an optimal intensity of intrinsic noise, which warrant an optimally ordered spontaneous spiking activity. This doubly coherence resonance-like phenomenon depends significantly, and can be controlled via the fraction of closed sodium and potassium ion channels, whereby the impacts can be understood via the analysis of the firing rate function as well as the deterministic system dynamics. Potential biological implications of our findings for information propagation across neural networks are also discussed.
description: 6 two-column pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in Europhysics Letters
Genomic analyses of African Trypanozoon strains to assess evolutionary relationships and identify markers for strain identification
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Amino Acid Motifs
Evolution, Molecular
Genetic Markers
Genome, Protozoan
Multigene Family
Phylogeny
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Trypanosoma
Trypanosoma brucei brucei
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense
Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense

description: © 2017 Richardson et al. African trypanosomes of the sub-genus Trypanozoon) are eukaryotic parasitesthat cause disease in either humans or livestock. The development of genomic resources can be of great use to those interested in studying and controlling the spread of these trypanosomes. Here we present a large comparative analysis of Trypanozoon whole genomes, 83 in total, including human and animal infective African trypanosomes: 21 T. brucei brucei, 22 T. b. gambiense, 35 T. b. rhodesiense and 4 T. evansi strains, of which 21 were from Uganda. We constructed a maximum likelihood phylogeny based on 162,210 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs.) The three Trypanosoma brucei sub-species and Trypanosoma evansi are not monophyletic, confirming earlier studies that indicated high similarity among Trypanosoma “sub-species”. We also used discriminant analysis of principal components (DAPC) on the same set of SNPs, identifying seven genetic clusters. These clusters do not correspond well with existing taxonomic classifications, in agreement with the phylogenetic analysis. Geographic origin is reflected in both the phylogeny and clustering analysis. Finally, we used sparse linear discriminant analysis to rank SNPs by their informativeness in differentiating the strains in our data set. As few as 84 SNPs can completely distinguish the strains used in our study, and discriminant analysis was still able to detect genetic structure using as few as 10 SNPs. Our results reinforce earlier results of high genetic similarity between the African Trypanozoon. Despite this, a small subset of SNPs can be used to identify genetic markers that can be used for strain identification or other epidemiological investigations.
Python files and resources
Creators: name: Trevisan, Riccardo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 400808
subject: Photovoltaic power systems
classificationCode: 401102
subject: Environmentally sustainable engineering
classificationCode: 401199
subject: Environmental engineering not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 400803
subject: Electrical energy generation (incl. renewables, excl. photovoltaics)

description: Python files and resources
title: Commuting Expenses: Disparity for the Working Poor
Creators: name: Roberto, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2003
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88253
subject: Commuting
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88247
subject: Travel costs
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91599
subject: Low income groups

description: BTS Issue Brief, No. 1;2p.
description: The working poor spent a fraction of what other workers spent on commuting expenses, but those costs amounted to a significantly higher proportion of their income. The working poor who drove their own vehicle spent a higher percentage of their income on commuting than those who used public transit. The working poor used the less expensive commuting options of public transit, carpooling, biking, and walking more frequently than higher income workers.
L^2 stability estimates for shock solutions of scalar conservation laws using the relative entropy method
Creators: name: Leger, Nicholas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35L45; 35L65; 35L67

description: We consider scalar nonviscous conservation laws with strictly convex flux in one spatial dimension, and we investigate the behavior of bounded L^2 perturbations of shock wave solutions to the Riemann problem using the relative entropy method. We show that up to a time-dependent translation of the shock, the L^2 norm of a perturbed solution relative to the shock wave is bounded above by the L^2 norm of the initial perturbation.
description: 17 pages
Diamagnetic and Expansion Effects on the Observable Properties of the Slow Solar Wind in a Coronal Streamer
Creators: name: Rappazzo, A. F.
name: Velli, M.
name: Einaudi, G.
name: Dahlburg, R. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The plasma density enhancements recently observed by the Large-Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft have sparked considerable interest. In our previous theoretical study of the formation and initial motion of these density enhancements it is found that beyond the helmet cusp of a coronal streamer the magnetized wake configuration is resistively unstable, that a traveling magnetic island develops at the center of the streamer, and that density enhancements occur within the magnetic islands. As the massive magnetic island travels outward, both its speed and width increase. The island passively traces the acceleration of the inner part of the wake. In the present paper a few spherical geometry effects are included, taking into account either the radial divergence of the magnetic field lines and the average expansion suffered by a parcel of plasma propagating outward, using the Expanding Box Model (EBM), and the diamagnetic force due to the overall magnetic field radial gradients, the so-called melon-seed force. It is found that the values of the acceleration and density contrasts can be in good agreement with LASCO observations, provided the spherical divergence of the magnetic lines starts beyond a critical distance from the Sun and the initial stage of the formation and acceleration of the plasmoid is due to the cartesian evolution of MHD instabilities. This result provides a constraint on the topology of the magnetic field in the coronal streamer.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, posting for archival purposes
Perceptions of Stakeholders: A Look Beyond Community Health Workers in Tobacco Cessation Curriculum
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Erika
Publisher: name: University of Chicago
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: CHW
subject: Community Health Workesr
subject: Managers
subject: Perceptions
subject: Tobacco Cessation

description: The goal of this thesis is to examine how stakeholders who work with community health workers, including directors of training programs and direct managers, perceive the needs of community health workers in the domain of tobacco cessation programs and education. I will also examine how the needs of stakeholders are aligned with those of community health workers, as well as potential implications of misalignment. Results show salient themes of role playing, rapport, and resources for distribution mentioned by the stakeholders, which are largely adjacent to the need of CHWs for evidence-based personalized methods for tobacco cessation, motivation, and key language. Their themes are more consistent with empowering their CHWs and giving them the tools that they need, while CHWs are more focused on their patients, as is both of their mandates, respectively. Ultimately, both are interested in effective tobacco cessation and the decrease in tobacco rates in the communities they are a part of.
Harnack’s inequality for a class of non-divergent equations in the Heisenberg group
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Apriori estimates
subelliptic equations
symplectic matrices

description: © 2017 Taylor & Francis. We prove an invariant Harnack’s inequality for operators in non-divergence form structured on Heisenberg vector fields when the coeﬃcient matrix is uniformly positive definite, continuous, and symplectic. The method consists in constructing appropriate barriers to obtain pointwise-to-measure estimates for supersolutions in small balls, and then invoking the axiomatic approach developed by Di Fazio, Gutiérrez, and Lanconelli to obtain Harnack’s inequality.
Research on the picture titles test
Creators: name: Sanderson, Isabelle Anne
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Dombrose and Slobin's Picture Titles Test was administered to 100 male and 85 female university students ranging in age from 19 to 22 years. The results were examined for different impulse, ego, and superego pattern between males and females, and amongst the age groups. The results were also tested for the possibility of a response bias in the pictures. The Picture Titles Test results did not show differential response on sex or age at a significant level. The Picture Titles Test was found to have a response bias in the content of its pictures. All subjects regardless of sex or age responded in favour of one of the variables for each of the pictures. The response bias precluded the possibility of obtaining sex differences and interfered with the projection of the inner personality of the subject.
Aharonov-Bohm interference in topological insulator nanoribbons
Creators: name: Peng, Hailin
name: Lai, Keji
name: Kong, Desheng
name: Meister, Stefan
name: Chen, Yulin
name: Qi, Xiao-Liang
name: Zhang, Shou-Cheng
name: Shen, Zhi-Xun
name: Cui, Yi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Topological insulators represent novel phases of quantum matter with an insulating bulk gap and gapless edges or surface states. The two-dimensional topological insulator phase was predicted in HgTe quantum wells and confirmed by transport measurements. Recently, Bi2Se3 and related materials have been proposed as three-dimensional topological insulators with a single Dirac cone on the surface and verified by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiments. Here, we show unambiguous transport evidence of topological surface states through periodic quantum interference effects in layered single-crystalline Bi2Se3 nanoribbons. Pronounced Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the magnetoresistance clearly demonstrate the coverage of two-dimensional electrons on the entire surface, as expected from the topological nature of the surface states. The dominance of the primary h/e oscillation and its temperature dependence demonstrate the robustness of these electronic states. Our results suggest that topological insulator nanoribbons afford novel promising materials for future spintronic devices at room temperature.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, RevTex format
Epistemological Letters 13
Creators: name: Shimony, Abner
name: Clauser, J.F.
name: Horne, M.A.
name: Moldauer, P.A.
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: Issue 13 is a written symposium on the foundations of quantum physics, edited by François Bonsack, Abner Shimony, and others. It was published and distributed to a limited mailing list by Association Ferdinand Gonseth.
title: The Background, Criteria, and Usage of the Intermodal Passenger Connectivity Database
Creators: name: Goldberg, Bruce
Publisher: name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/05xfdey77
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2009
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/87906
subject: Intermodal transportation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97349
subject: Databases
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97455
subject: Manuals

description: BTS technical report;10p. in various pagings
description: Intermodal connections, the links that allow passengers to switch from one mode to another to complete a trip, have been an important element of federal transportation policy since passage of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA). Since then, the U.S. Department of Transportation has encouraged the development of intermodal connectivity. There is a general consensus that the U.S. passenger transportation system has become more intermodally linked since the passage of ISTEA, but the degree of that connectivity has never been measured. To provide a baseline connectivity measurement against which to measure future progress, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), a component of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), is developing the Intermodal Passenger Connectivity Database (IPCD). This report describes in detail the background for the project, the considerations that were taken into account in the development of the project, the criteria used to determine where connectivity exists, and information to help users of the IPCD understand its contents.