cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Hybridisation rates, population structure, and dispersal of sambar deer (Cervus unicolor) and rusa deer (Cervus timorensis) in south-eastern Australia
Creators: name: Hill, Erin
name: Murphy, Nicholas
name: Li-Williams, S
name: Davies, C
name: Forsyth, D
name: Comte, S
name: Rollins, LA
name: Hogan, F
name: Wedrowicz, F
name: Crittle, T
name: Thomas, E
name: Woodford, L
name: Pacioni, C
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 31
subject: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
classificationCode: 41
subject: Environmental sciences

description: Context. Introduced populations of sambar deer (Cervus unicolor) and rusa deer (Cervus timorensis) are present across south-eastern Australia and are subject to local population control to alleviate their negative impacts. For management to be effective, identification of dispersal capability and management units is necessary. These species also readily hybridise, so additional investigation of hybridisation rates across their distributions is necessary to understand the interactions between the two species. Aims. Measure the hybridisation rate of sambar and rusa deer, assess broad-scale population structure present within both species and identify distinct management units for future population control, and measure the likely dispersal capability of both species. Methods. In total, 198 sambar deer, 189 rusa deer, and three suspected hybrid samples were collected across Victoria and New South Wales (NSW). After sequencing and filtering, 14 099 polymorphic single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers were retained for analysis. Hybridisation rates were assessed before the data were split by species to identify population structure, diversity indices, and dispersal distances. Key results. Across the entire dataset, 17 hybrids were detected. Broad-scale population structure was evident in sambar deer, but not among the sites where rusa deer were sampled. Analysis of dispersal ability showed that a majority of deer movement occurred within 20 km in both species, suggesting limited dispersal. Conclusions. Distinct management units of sambar deer can be identified from the dataset, allowing independent population control. Although broad-scale population structure was not evident in the rusa deer populations, dispersal limits identified suggest that rusa deer sites sampled in this study could be managed separately. Sambar × rusa deer hybrids are present in both Victoria and NSW and can be difficult to detect on the basis of morphology alone. Implications. Genetic analysis can identify broad-scale management units necessary for population control, and estimates of dispersal capability can assist in delineating management units where broad-scale population structure may not be apparent. The negative impacts associated with hybridisation require further investigation to determine whether removal of hybrids should be considered a priority management aim.
Ainda sobre aplicativos e transporte privado de passageiros
Creators: name: Fortini, Cristiana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 180103 Administrative Law
subject: FOS: Law

description: A ADPF 574, ajuizada pela Associação Brasileira das Empresas de Transporte Terrestre de Passageiros (Abrati), objetiva a declaração de inconstitucionalidade de decisões judiciais que autorizam o serviço de transporte coletivo de passageiros, por meio de aplicativos e plataformas digitais. Pretende-se ainda a declaração de inconstitucionalidade por omissão da Agência Reguladora de Transporte Terrestre na fiscalização e proibição da atividade por não delegatários do Estado. Alegam que há fuga regulatória e que é preciso equilibrar a livre-iniciativa com a garantia de um serviço universal, contínuo regular.
The influence of Ga$^+$-irradiation on the transport properties of mesoscopic conducting thin films
Creators: name: Barzola-Quiquia, J.
name: Dusari, S.
name: Bridoux, G.
name: Bern, F.
name: Molle, A.
name: Esquinazi, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied the influence of 30keV Ga$^+$-ions -- commonly used in focused ion beam (FIB) devices -- on the transport properties of thin crystalline graphite flake, La$_{0.7}$Ca$_{0.3}$MnO$_3$ and Co thin films. The changes of the electrical resistance were measured in-situ during irradiation and also the temperature and magnetic field dependence before and after irradiation. Our results show that the transport properties of these materials strongly change at Ga$^+$ fluences much below those used for patterning and ion beam induced deposition (IBID), limiting seriously the use of FIB when the intrinsic properties of the materials of interest are of importance. We present a method that can be used to protect the sample as well as to produce selectively irradiation-induced changes.
description: 14 pages, 11 figures, will be published in Nanotechnology 2010
Multi-state interferometric measurement of nonlinear AC Stark shift
Creators: name: Takai, Junnosuke
name: Shibata, Kosuke
name: Sekiguchi, Naota
name: Hirano, Takuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate measurement of quadratic AC Stark shifts between Zeeman sublevels in an $^{87}$Rb Bose--Einstein condensate using a multi-state atomic interferometer. The interferometer can detect a quadratic shift without being affected by relatively large state-independent shifts, thereby improving the measurement precision. We measure quadratic shifts in the total spin $F = 2$ state due to the light being near-resonant to the D$_1$ line. The agreement between the measured and theoretical detuning dependences of the quadratic shifts confirms the validity of the measurement. We also present results on the suppression of nonlinear spin evolution using near-resonant dual-color light pulses with opposite quadratic shifts.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
An Investigation of the possibility of charged particle detection using tunneling between superconductors
Creators: name: Wood, Gordon Harvey
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: A study has been made which demonstrates the feasibility of developing a nuclear particle detector utilizing tunneling between superconductors. For optimum detector performance, temperatures lower than 1.2°K are mandatory. Accordingly, a He⁴ cryostat capable of being modified to a He³ cryostat has been constructed and tested. The detectors, which have been fabricated and tested at 1.4° K, consist of thin aluminum and lead films separated by an insulating layer of aluminum oxide. The d-c tunneling currents have been observed and are found to compare favourably with the results of previous workers. The d-c response of the device to gamma radiation was, as expected, unobservable.
Majority-spin non-quasiparticle states in half-metallic ferrimagnet Mn$_2$VAl
Creators: name: Chioncel, L.
name: Arrigoni, E.
name: Katsnelson, M. I.
name: Lichtenstein, A. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The density of non-quasiparticle states in the ferrimagnetic full-Heuslers Mn$_2$VAl alloy is calculated from first principles upon appropriate inclusion of correlations. In contrast to most half-metallic compounds, this material displays an energy gap in the majority-spin spectrum. For this situation, non-quasiparticle states are located below the Fermi level, and should be detectable by spin-polarized photoemission. This opens a new way to study many-body effects in spintronic-related materials.
description: 6pages, 4 fig. accepted in PRB
title: Correlates of Marital Stability in Utah
Creators: name: Harman, Amy Lynn Andersen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2005

description: This study investigated the relationship between marital stability and social support and negative interactions in Utah. Past research indicates that negative behavioral interactions have a negative correlation with marital stability. Past research also indicates that support of one's marriage positively correlates with marital stability. The data were taken from the Utah Marriage Movement Statewide Baseline survey. The total sample for this study included 886 married men and women over the age of 18. Spearman's rho correlation and multiple regression were used to analyze the data. Results of the study show that negative interactions had a negative correlation with marital stability. Social support was shown to positively correlate with marital stability to a small degree. Demographic variables of gender and educations were also analyzed. The correlation between negative interactions and marital stability was the strongest of the variables.
A discussion of Frieman's method in the theory of irreversible processes
Creators: name: Tam, Yun-Kwong Sebastian
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: We investigate a new perturbation technique introduced by E. Frieman to derive a kinetic equation from the equations of the BBGKY hierarchy. The orders of magnitude of the terms in the latter equations are calculated and Frieman's estimate is found incorrect. His derivation of the Landau's equation for a weakly coupled gas actually depends on the existence of the relaxation time rather than the much shorter mean free time as he expected. A physical interpretation of the Grad's theorem and Grad's original proof is given to justify the choice of the molecular chaos, conditions at the initial time. Two examples are given to clarify the applicability of the perturbation method.
Additional file 2 of Frailty as a predictor of mortality among patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao-Ming
name: Jiao, Jing
name: Cao, Jing
name: Huo, Xiao-Peng
name: Zhu, Chen
name: Wu, Xin-Juan
name: Xie, Xiao-Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Supplemental Figure 2. Subgroup meta-analysis of the effects of frailty on mortality based on study design.
Highly sensitive measurement of a megahertz rf electric field with a Rydberg-atom sensor
Creators: name: Liu, Bang
name: Zhang, Li-Hua
name: Liu, Zong-Kai
name: Zhang, Zheng-Yuan
name: Zhu, Zhi-Han
name: Gao, Wei
name: Guo, Guang-Can
name: Ding, Dong-Sheng
name: Shi, Bao-Sen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rydberg atoms have great potential in electric field measurement and have an advantage with a large frequency bandwidth from the kHz to the THz scale. However, the sensitivity for measuring a weak MHz electric field signal is limited by the spectroscopic resolution, because the weak electric field induces only a small perturbation of the population and energy level shift of the Rydberg atoms. Here, we report highly sensitive measurement of a weak MHz electric field using electromagnetically induced transparency with Rydberg atoms in a thermal atomic system. Using the heterodyne method on a 30-MHz electric field, we successfully measure the minimum electric field strength to be \textcolor{black}{37.3 $\mathrm{μV/cm}$} with a sensitivity up to $-65$ dBm/Hz and a linear dynamic range over 65 dB. Additionally, we measure an amplitude-modulated signal and demodulate the signal with a fidelity over 98\%. This work extends the sensitivity of atomic sensors for measuring MHz electric fields, which advances atomic electric field-sensing technology.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 3 of Frailty as a predictor of mortality among patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao-Ming
name: Jiao, Jing
name: Cao, Jing
name: Huo, Xiao-Peng
name: Zhu, Chen
name: Wu, Xin-Juan
name: Xie, Xiao-Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 3: Supplemental Figure 3. Subgroup meta-analysis of the effects of frailty on mortality based on geographic region.
Caged black hole thermodynamics: Charge, the extremal limit, and finite size effects
Creators: name: Gilmore, James B.
name: Ross, Andreas
name: Smolkin, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend the effective field theory treatment of the thermodynamics of small compactified black holes to the case of charged black holes. The relevant thermodynamic quantities are computed to second order in the parameter λ\sim(r_0/L)^(d-3). We discuss how the addition of charge to a caged black hole may delay the phase transition to a black string. In the extremal limit, we construct an exact black hole solution which serves as a check for our perturbative results. Finite size effects are also included through higher order operators in the worldline action. We calculate how the thermodynamic quantities are modified in the presence of these operators, and show they enter beyond order λ^2 as in the uncharged case. Finally, we use the exact solution to constrain the Wilson coefficients of the finite size operators in the extremal limit.
description: 27 pages, 7 figures; published version & references added
Frequency Throttling Side-Channel Attack
Creators: name: Liu, Chen
name: Chakraborty, Abhishek
name: Chawla, Nikhil
name: Roggel, Neer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Modern processors dynamically control their operating frequency to optimize resource utilization, maximize energy savings, and conform to system-defined constraints. If, during the execution of a software workload, the running average of any electrical or thermal parameter exceeds its corresponding predefined threshold value, the power management architecture will reactively adjust CPU frequency to ensure safe operating conditions. In this paper, we demonstrate how such power management-based frequency throttling activity forms a source of timing side-channel information leakage, which can be exploited by an attacker to infer secret data even from a constant-cycle victim workload. The proposed frequency throttling side-channel attack can be launched by both kernel-space and user-space attackers, thus compromising security guarantees provided by isolation boundaries. We validate our attack methodology across different systems and threat models by performing experiments on a constant-cycle implementation of AES algorithm based on AES-NI instructions. The results of our experimental evaluations demonstrate that the attacker can successfully recover all bytes of an AES key by measuring encryption execution times. Finally, we discuss different options to mitigate the threat posed by frequency throttling side-channel attacks, as well as their advantages and disadvantages.
Dynamics, Origin, and Activation of Main Belt Comets
Creators: name: Haghighipour, Nader
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of Main Belt Comets (MBCs) has raised many questions regarding the origin and activation mechanism of these objects. Results of a study of the dynamics of these bodies suggest that MBCs were formed in-situ as the remnants of the break-up of large icy asteroids. Simulations show that similar to the asteroids in the main belt, MBCs with orbital eccentricities smaller than 0.2 and inclinations lower than 25 degrees have stable orbits implying that many MBCs with initially larger eccentricities and inclinations might have been scattered to other regions of the asteroid belt. Among scattered MBCs, approximately 20 percent reach the region of terrestrial planets where they might have contributed to the accumulation of water on Earth. Simulations also show that collisions among MBCs and small objects could have played an important role in triggering the cometary activity of these bodies. Such collisions might have exposed sub-surface water ice which sublimated and created thin atmospheres and tails around MBCs. This paper discusses the results of numerical studies of the dynamics of MBCs and their implications for the origin of these objects. The results of a large numerical modeling of the collisions of m-sized bodies with km-sized asteroids in the outer part of the asteroid belt are also presented and the viability of the collision-triggering activation scenario is discussed.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 263: Icy Bodies of the Solar System (Eds. D. Lazzaro, D. Prialnik, o. Schulz and J.A. Fernandez), Cambridge Univ. Press
Complete NLO Operators in the Higgs Effective Field Theory
Creators: name: Sun, Hao
name: Xiao, Ming-Lei
name: Yu, Jiang-Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We enumerate the complete and independent sets of operators at the next-to-leading order (NLO) in the Higgs effective field theory (HEFT), based on the Young tensor technique on the Lorentz, gauge and flavor structures. The operator-amplitude correspondence tells a type of operators forms the on-shell amplitude basis, and for operators involving in Nambu-Goldstone bosons, the amplitude basis is further reduced to the subspace satisfying the Adler's zero condition in the soft momentum limit. Different from dynamical field, the spurion should not enter into the Lorentz sector, instead it only plays a role of forming the $SU(2)$ invariant together with other dynamical fields. With these new treatments, for the first time we could obtain the 224 (7704) operators for one (three) generation fermions, 295 (11307) with right-handed neutrinos, and find there were 6 (9) terms of operators missing and many redundant operators can be removed in the effective theory without (with) right-handed neutrinos.
description: 64 pages, 3 tables, revised version: explicit form of operators listed is not changed, error in counting number of leptonic operators without vR is corrected, references updated
Additional file 4 of Frailty as a predictor of mortality among patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao-Ming
name: Jiao, Jing
name: Cao, Jing
name: Huo, Xiao-Peng
name: Zhu, Chen
name: Wu, Xin-Juan
name: Xie, Xiao-Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 4: Supplemental Figure 4. Subgroup meta-analysis of the effects of frailty on mortality according to different models.
High angular resolution near-IR view of the Orion Bar revealed by Keck/NIRC2
Creators: name: Habart, Emilie
name: Gal, Romane Le
name: Alvarez, Carlos
name: Peeters, Els
name: Berné, Olivier
name: Wolfire, Mark G.
name: Goicoechea, Javier R.
name: Schirmer, Thiébaut
name: Bron, Emeric
name: Röllig, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nearby Photo-Dissociation Regions (PDRs), where the gas and dust are heated by the far UV-irradiation emitted from stars, are ideal templates to study the main stellar feedback processes. With this study we aim to probe the detailed structures at the interfaces between ionized, atomic, and molecular gas in the Orion Bar. This nearby prototypical strongly irradiated PDR will be among the first targets of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) within the framework of the PDRs4All Early Release Science program. We employed the sub-arcsec resolution accessible with Keck-II NIRC2 and its adaptive optics system to obtain the most detailed and complete images, ever performed, of the vibrationally excited line H$_2$ 1-0 S(1) at 2.12~$μ$m, tracing the dissociation front, and the [FeII] and Br$γ$ lines, at 1.64 and 2.16~$μ$m respectively, tracing the ionization front. We obtained narrow-band filter images in these key gas line diagnostic over $\sim 40''$ at spatial scales of $\sim$0.1$''$ ($\sim$0.0002~pc or $\sim$40~AU at 414~pc). The Keck/NIRC2 observations spatially resolve a plethora of irradiated sub-structures such as ridges, filaments, globules and proplyds. A remarkable spatial coincidence between the H$_2$ 1-0 S(1) vibrational and HCO$^+$ J=4-3 rotational emission previously obtained with ALMA is observed. This likely indicates the intimate link between these two molecular species and highlights that in high pressure PDR the H/H$_2$ and C$^+$/C/CO transitions zones come closer as compared to a typical layered structure of a constant density PDR. This is in agreement with several previous studies that claimed that the Orion Bar edge is composed of very small, dense, highly irradiated PDRs at high thermal pressure immersed in a more diffuse environment.
A conjugate gradient method for the solution of the non-LTE line radiation transfer problem
Creators: name: Paletou, F.
name: Anterrieu, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This study concerns the fast and accurate solution of the line radiation transfer problem, under non-LTE conditions. We propose and evaluate an alternative iterative scheme to the classical ALI-Jacobi method, and to the more recently proposed Gauss-Seidel and Successive Over-Relaxation (GS/SOR) schemes. Our study is indeed based on the application of a preconditioned bi-conjugate gradient method (BiCG-P). Standard tests, in 1D plane parallel geometry and in the frame of the two-level atom model, with monochromatic scattering, are discussed. Rates of convergence between the previously mentioned iterative schemes are compared, as well as their respective timing properties. The smoothing capability of the BiCG-P method is also demonstrated.
description: Research note: 4 pages, 5 figures, accepted to A&A
title: Latino Children's Kindergarten Entry: Views of Parents and Teachers
Creators: name: Stephens, Shanda
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2001

description: This study examined parental and teacher expectations of kindergarten readiness of Latino children. The perceptions of Latino mothers, Latino fathers, and kindergarten teachers were analyzed and compared. Specifically, parents' and teachers' responses were compared in three areas: perceptions of what parents can do to prepare children for kindergarten, priorities for requisite kindergarten entry skills, and rankings of the importance of specified skills to be emphasized in kindergarten. Differences between kindergarten teachers' expectations for nonnative English-speaking children and native English-speaking children were also examined. The parent sample consisted of 35 Latino mother/father pairs. AJI were parents of children who entered kindergarten Fall, 2000. The teacher sample consisted of 33 kindergarten teachers from two large school districts in a western state. Major findings indicate that some differences do exist between teachers' and Latino parents' priorities for requisite kindergarten entry skills as well as their rankings of the importance of specified skills to be emphasized in kindergarten. Supporting previous research, both mothers and fathers rated academic concepts such as counting, reading, and writing higher than teachers. By contrast, teachers rated more developmentally appropriate concepts higher. All groups agreed that parents could do more to prepare children for kindergarten, but parents and teachers differed in their responses of what parents could specifically do to encourage this preparation. Teachers mentioned reading to children, enriching the child 's environment, and communication more often than both mothers and fathers. Parents were more likely to mention emotional support and discussing school with their children as ways parents could foster kindergarten preparation. Teachers expected native English-speaking children to know how to follow directions upon kindergarten entry more than they expected it for nonnative English speaking children. Furthermore, teachers who had training in ESL education placed more emphasis on incorporating speaking skills in nonnative children's kindergarten curricula than did teachers without multicultural training. Also included in the study are concrete examples of concerns Latino parents have as their child enters school, challenges teachers face in having linguistic diversity in their classroom, as well as teacher suggestions for improving ESL kindergarten preparation. Implications of these findings for parents, schools, and children are discussed. Suggestions for future research are then offered.
title: Perceived Affective and Behavioral Characteristics of Mother-Daughter Relationships and Subsequent Mentoring Relationships
Creators: name: McShane, Anne
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1989

description: Mentoring has been recognized as an important relationship in a variety of circumstances. This study was conducted for the purpose of determining the perceived benefits or disadvantages of a mentor relationship and identifying characteristics of the relationship. Another objective was to explore to what extent the nature of the mother/daughter relationship functions as a factor that makes the choice of a mentoring pattern more likely.
The study sample consisted of 47 females, 12 graduate students and 35 assistant or associate professors on the faculty at Utah State University. The subjects completed several mother/daughter inventories, a mentoring inventory, and a personality inventory. Twenty subjects were interviewed for a more in-depth exploration of both their mentoring experience and mother/daughter relationship. Subjects were divided into groups based on gender of the person most facilitative of their professional objectives.
The male-Mentored, female-mentored, and non-mentored groups were comparable on measures of perceived mother.daughter relationship characteristics and personality variables. The relationship between the score on a mother/daughter attention measure and total mentor score was .29. The Pearson correlations between perceived mother rejection and father love was -.61.
Subjects were categorized as to whether they et the criteria for having had a mentor based on scores on a mentor inventory. Seventy-eight percent of subjects who specified females as most significant to their career met the criteria for having been mentored. Fifty percent of subjects who indicated a male was most facilitative scored high enough to meet the criteria.
A multiple regression model used to predict total mentor score based on perceived mother attention and gender of mentor accounted for 20% of the total variability. An interaction was present between gender of the individual specified to be most significant tot he protege and perceived mother attention. Separate multiple regression equations resulted in a correlation of .53 between mother attention and mentor score when the specified individual was male and .16 when the individual named was female.
Phonon broadening of spectral lines in impurity doped solids
Creators: name: Rystephanick, Raymond Gary
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The theory of the phonon broadening of optical absorption lines in impurity doped semiconductors is discussed starting with Kubo's formulation of the adiabatic dielectric susceptibility. The absorption constant is related to a two particle temperature Green's function using Matsubara's method. The interaction of the electrons (or holes) with the lattice vibrations is assumed to be small so that it can be treated as a perturbation to the independent electron and lattice vibration systems. Using this approximation, Dyson equations are obtained, using the technique of Feynman diagrams, for the one particle electron and phonon Green's functions and for the two particle Green's function and these are solved within the framework of the approximation. The line shape function is calculated explicitly and it is found that the line consists of a sharp peak whose width depends on temperature and is due to the finite lifetime of the bound carrier states, and of a continuous background due to multi-phonon processes which accompany the optical absorption. The technique used here is compared with previous work on this problem employing temperature dependent double-time advanced and retarded Green's functions. The results obtained are compared with those obtained by previous authors.
Additional file 5 of Frailty as a predictor of mortality among patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao-Ming
name: Jiao, Jing
name: Cao, Jing
name: Huo, Xiao-Peng
name: Zhu, Chen
name: Wu, Xin-Juan
name: Xie, Xiao-Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 5: Supplemental Figure 5. Begg’s test for publication bias.
Low-Mass X-ray Binaries
Creators: name: Bahramian, Arash
name: Degenaar, Nathalie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A large fraction of X-ray sources in our Galaxy are low-mass X-ray binaries, containing a black hole or a neutron star accreting from a gravitationally bound low-mass ($\leq$1 M$_\odot$) companion star. These systems are among the older population of stars and accreting systems in the Galaxy, and typically have long accretion histories. Low-mass X-ray binaries are categorized into various sub-classes based on their observed properties such as X-ray variability and brightness, nature of the companion star and/or the compact object, and binary configuration. In this Chapter, we review the phenomenology of sub-classes of these systems and summarize observational finding regarding their characteristics, populations, and their distribution in the Galaxy.
description: Invited chapter for Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics (Section Eds. V. Doroshenko, A. Santangelo; Eds. C. Bambi and A. Santangelo, Springer Singapore, expected in 2022)
title: An Evaluation of the Pupil Progress Reporting System of the Elementary Schools of Ogden, Utah
Creators: name: Thomas, Glenn
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1957

description: Modern education today is concerned with the growth and development of the whole child. It is the school’s obligation to report to the parents the progress the child is making. The system of reporting the progress of students to parents is important in any school because it is often the only contact between the parents and the teachers. The modern school should seek to provide the most satisfactory types of reports known. Continuous evaluation of the reporting system is of prime importance in order to assure a good report of the child’s progress to the parents. As experience points the way to improvement, it seems the methods of reporting should be revised accordingly.
Spontaneous R-Parity Breaking and Left-Right Symmetry
Creators: name: Perez, Pavel Fileviez
name: Spinner, Sogee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a simple renormalizable left-right theory where R-parity is spontaneously broken and neutrino masses are generated through the Type I seesaw mechanism and R-parity violation. In this theory R-parity and the gauge symmetry are broken by the sneutrino vacuum expectation values and there is no Majoron problem. The SU(2)_R and R-parity violation scales are determined by the SUSY breaking scale making the model very predictive. We discuss the spectrum and possible tests of the theory through the neutralinos, charginos, Z^' and W_R decays at the Large Hadron Collider.
description: 4 pages, minor corrections, title changed, to appear in Physics Letters B
Improving numerical accuracy for the viscous-plastic formulation of sea ice
Creators: name: Li, Tongtong
name: Gelb, Anne
name: Lee, Yoonsang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate modeling of sea ice dynamics is critical for predicting environmental variables and is important in applications such as navigating ice breaker ships. Research for both modeling and simulating sea ice dynamics is ongoing, with the most widely accepted model based on the viscous-plastic (VP) formulation introduced by Hibler in 1979. Due to its highly nonlinear features, this model is intrinsically challenging for computational solvers. In particular, sea ice simulations often significantly differ from satellite observations. This study therefore focuses on improving the numerical accuracy of the VP sea ice model. Since the poor convergence observed in existing numerical simulations stems from the nonlinear nature of the VP formulation, this investigation proposes using the celebrated weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme -- as opposed to the frequently employed centered difference (CD) scheme -- for the spatial derivatives in the VP sea ice model. We then proceed to numerically demonstrate that WENO yields higher-order convergence for smooth solutions, and that furthermore it is able to resolve the discontinuities in the sharp features of sea ice covers -- something that is not possible using CD methods. Finally, our proposed framework integrates a potential function method that utilizes the phase field method to naturally incorporates the physical restrictions of ice thickness and ice concentration in transport equations, resulting in a modified transport equations which includes additional forcing terms. Our method does not require post-processing, thereby avoiding the possible introduction of discontinuities and corresponding negative impact on the solution behavior. Numerical experiments are provided to demonstrate the efficacy of our new methodology.
title: The Identification and Measurement of Conditional and Unconditional Self-Liking
Creators: name: Splendlove, Alan
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1999

description: The concept of unconditional self-love is fundamental to many theoretical perspectives in social science and is referred to periodically in the literature. This study addressed the problem that scientific literature refers to unconditional self-love, but does not clearly define it, differentiate it from other types of feelings that comprise self-esteem, measure it, or even attempt to substantiate its existence. The purpose of this study was to define, describe, and measure unconditional self-love so that it may be used in the treatment of problems caused by low self-esteem.
To achieve this purpose, the concept of self-love was defined in relation to self-liking, separated from the other components of self-esteem, and operationalized through the creation of the Unconditional Self-Liking (USL) model and the Unconditional Self-Liking (USL) scale. The USL scale is a self-report questionnaire that simultaneously measures two variables in relation to one another. This was done using the intersect of the variables of personal success and self-liking as a measure of unconditionality across nine areas of self-identity. The USL model allows for the measurement and description of four primary types of self-liking: (a) conditional self-likers who like themselves only when they succeed, (b) unconditional self-dislikers who dislike themselves even when they succeed, (c) conditional self-dislikers who dislike themselves when they fail, and (d) unconditional self-likers who like themselves even when they fail.
The USL scale was administered to a convenience sample of 164 undergraduate university students who also completed the Modified Barrett-Lennard Relationship Inventory (BLRI) and the 10-question Rosenberg Self-Esteem (RSE) scale. The subjects' responses on the three scales were compared.
Major findings indicated that individual levels of self-liking varied between areas of self-identity. Moreover, the level of self-liking was not necessarily dependent on their level of success. Each of the corresponding measures of the three instruments showed positive correlations, except the measures of unconditionality. Finally, each of the four primary patterns of self-liking described by the USL model characterized some subjects. Findings support the concept of unconditional self- liking, which suggests that high levels of self-liking arc not limited to only the most capable, intelligent, talented, or attractive people.
Additional file 1: of Population genomics identifies patterns of genetic diversity and selection in chicken
Creators: name: Li, Diyan
name: Li, Yan
name: Li, Miao
name: Che, Tiandong
name: Tian, Shilin
name: Chen, Binlong
name: Zhou, Xuming
name: Zhang, Guolong
name: Gaur, Uma
name: Luo, Majing
name: Tian, Kai
name: He, Mengnan
name: He, Shen
name: Xu, Zhongxian
name: Jin, Long
name: Tang, Qianzi
name: Dai, Yifei
name: Xu, Huailiang
name: Hu, Yaodong
name: Zhao, Xiaoling
name: Yin, Huadong
name: Wang, Yan
name: Zhou, Rongjia
name: Yang, Chaowu
name: Du, Huarui
name: Jiang, Xiaosong
name: Zhu, Qing
name: Li, Mingzhou
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: This file includes Figures S1 to S12 and Tables S1 to S10. (DOCX 17545 kb)
title: Dimensions of Parent-Child Affinity in the Nation of Thailand
Creators: name: Thorson, Kristine R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1999

description: In this study, 96 children from Thailand were interviewed using the 30-item Parent-Affinity Perception Scale. Children from four age groups (preschool, first graders, third graders, and sixth graders) were asked to choose either "Mother" or " Father" as a response for this questionnaire.
Children's perceptions of affinity in relationship with their parents and their parental preference were studied. The children were to select which parent they would prefer in three categories: (1) as a companion in activities that were physical or social, (2) who they would go to for help in personal or moral needs, and (3) for various activity destinations.
The results showed a preference for "Mother" over "Father" on a majority of the questions. Boys and girls selected "Mother" for more of the items overall, except for physical activity where "Father" was chosen. When comparing all of the age groups, "Mother" was selected as the preferred parent in all instances except for the sixth-grade boys.
Traumatic pericardial rupture
Creators: name: Teh, Joelin
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Emergency
subject: Mediastinum
subject: CT
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Trauma

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 64 years
description: Clinical History: A 64 year old female motorist involved in a high-speed motor vehicle accident presents with hypoxia and hypotension. Final Diagnosis: Blunt traumatic pericardial rupture
Comparison of multivariate post-processing methods using global ECMWF ensemble forecasts
Creators: name: Lakatos, Mária
name: Lerch, Sebastian
name: Hemri, Stephan
name: Baran, Sándor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An influential step in weather forecasting was the introduction of ensemble forecasts in operational use due to their capability to account for the uncertainties in the future state of the atmosphere. However, ensemble weather forecasts are often underdispersive and might also contain bias, which calls for some form of post-processing. A popular approach to calibration is the ensemble model output statistics (EMOS) approach resulting in a full predictive distribution for a given weather variable. However, this form of univariate post-processing may ignore the prevailing spatial and/or temporal correlation structures among different dimensions. Since many applications call for spatially and/or temporally coherent forecasts, multivariate post-processing aims to capture these possibly lost dependencies. We compare the forecast skill of different nonparametric multivariate approaches to modeling temporal dependence of ensemble weather forecasts with different forecast horizons. The focus is on two-step methods, where after univariate post-processing, the EMOS predictive distributions corresponding to different forecast horizons are combined to a multivariate calibrated prediction using an empirical copula. Based on global ensemble predictions of temperature, wind speed and precipitation accumulation of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts from January 2002 to March 2014, we investigate the forecast skill of different versions of Ensemble Copula Coupling (ECC) and Schaake Shuffle (SSh). In general, compared with the raw and independently calibrated forecasts, multivariate post-processing substantially improves the forecast skill. While even the simplest ECC approach with low computational cost provides a powerful benchmark method, recently proposed advanced extensions of the ECC and the SSh are found to not provide any significant improvements over their basic counterparts.
description: 27 pages, 13 figures
Additional file 6 of Frailty as a predictor of mortality among patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Zhang, Xiao-Ming
name: Jiao, Jing
name: Cao, Jing
name: Huo, Xiao-Peng
name: Zhu, Chen
name: Wu, Xin-Juan
name: Xie, Xiao-Hua
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Developmental Biology
Science Policy

description: Additional file 6: Supplemental Figure 6. Sensitivity analysis of the association between frailty and mortality.
Psychologically-Inspired, Unsupervised Inference of Perceptual Groups of GUI Widgets from GUI Images
Creators: name: Xie, Mulong
name: Xing, Zhenchang
name: Feng, Sidong
name: Chen, Chunyang
name: Zhu, Liming
name: Xu, Xiwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graphical User Interface (GUI) is not merely a collection of individual and unrelated widgets, but rather partitions discrete widgets into groups by various visual cues, thus forming higher-order perceptual units such as tab, menu, card or list. The ability to automatically segment a GUI into perceptual groups of widgets constitutes a fundamental component of visual intelligence to automate GUI design, implementation and automation tasks. Although humans can partition a GUI into meaningful perceptual groups of widgets in a highly reliable way, perceptual grouping is still an open challenge for computational approaches. Existing methods rely on ad-hoc heuristics or supervised machine learning that is dependent on specific GUI implementations and runtime information. Research in psychology and biological vision has formulated a set of principles (i.e., Gestalt theory of perception) that describe how humans group elements in visual scenes based on visual cues like connectivity, similarity, proximity and continuity. These principles are domain-independent and have been widely adopted by practitioners to structure content on GUIs to improve aesthetic pleasant and usability. Inspired by these principles, we present a novel unsupervised image-based method for inferring perceptual groups of GUI widgets. Our method requires only GUI pixel images, is independent of GUI implementation, and does not require any training data. The evaluation on a dataset of 1,091 GUIs collected from 772 mobile apps and 20 UI design mockups shows that our method significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art ad-hoc heuristics-based baseline. Our perceptual grouping method creates the opportunities for improving UI-related software engineering tasks.
description: 12 Pages, accepted to ESEC/FSE '2022
title: Children's Stress Behaviors and Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Family Child Care Homes
Creators: name: Chang, Chih-Ying
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2000

description: This study investigated and qualitatively compared differences in children's stress reactions across two levels of developmentally appropriate practice in family child care homes. Data were collected through observations.
Six children, five boys and one girl from six different family child care homes, between the ages of 36 and 60 months, were observed for the type and frequency of stress behaviors. The six family child care homes were divided into two groups based on more or less use of appropriate practices, and they were observed for the use of appropriate practices. Three one-hour observations were held in each family child care home. The Classroom Child Stress Behavior Instrument was used to identify stress behaviors in children. The Rating Scale for Measuring the Degree of Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Classrooms and the Guidelines of Developmentally Appropriate Practice were used to identify developmentally appropriate/inappropriate practices.
Results indicated that children in the homes where developmentally appropriate practices were used tended to display fewer stress behaviors than the children in the homes that used developmentally appropriate practices less frequently. Children in the homes that used developmentally appropriate practices frequently exhibited primarily passive stress behaviors or active self-to-self stress behaviors. Children in homes that used inappropriate practices displayed more active stress behaviors toward other children or objects. The child care providers from the homes that used more appropriate practices spent time with children, motivated children involved in play, and applied teaching strategies. In developmentally inappropriate homes, the environment there tended to be a less positive climate and children were less motivated.