cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Shifting Selves: Queer Muslim Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands
Creators: Brennan, Sarah French
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: LGBTQ studies
Dutch
Political refugees
Sexual minorities
Muslims
Islamophobia
Toleration

description: This dissertation explores the potential of the queer Muslim asylum seeker to confront the Dutch national imaginary. An archetype of homonationalism, the Netherlands faces rising tides of Islamophobia, waters which queer Muslims must learn to navigate. An asylum seeker’s success in the system depends on their “credibility”, hinging on the consistency of their self-representation which is constantly being reconstructed. These constant reconstructions, what Ewing (1990) refers to as “shifting selves”, are not conscious or noticed by the individual; yet, in the context of asylum claim-making, reconstitutions of the self may rise to the surface, asylum seekers then engaging in conscious strategizing. I analyze these contexts ethnographically through informal interviews and participant observation, at the height of the so-called “Refugee Crisis” of the mid-2010s in Europe. I find that as the figure of the queer Muslim asylum seeker confronts the Dutch national imaginary, it both confirms it—representing national commitments to human rights, to tolerance, and to protection of sexual minorities—and challenges it—embodying impossible identities, and evincing a failure of the nation to live up to its ideals: What is “tolerance” when it is weaponized against minority groups? What kind of queerness is being protected if deviation from a cultural norm is disqualifying? Whose human rights are being protected by a system that demands the subject of those rights conform to formulations inconsistent with lived experience?
Reminiscences on science at I.H.E.S. A problem on homoclinic theory and a brief review
Creators: name: Gallavotti, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On the occasion of the 40-th anniversary of IHES I present a few scientific reminiscences: most of my scientific life has been marked by my visits and I run through them concluding with the analysis of a problem that originated during my last visit. The problem is to develop a convergent perturbative algorithm for the construction of the ``Eliasson's potential'' for the stable and unstable manifolds of an invariant torus: and to study its properties. A brief review follows.
description: 70 Kb; 15 pages, plain TeX, 3 figures
MOESM2 of Quantifying bluetongue vertical transmission in French cattle from surveillance data
Creators: name: Courtejoie, Noémie
name: Bournez, Laure
name: Zanella, Gina
name: Durand, Benoît
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. In-silico experiments to test the modelling framework in fully known populations. This file contains the protocol and results of the in silico experiments conducted to test our modelling framework. We constructed fully known populations in which we varied the values of four key parameters in order to investigate their influence on the estimation of vertical and vector-borne transmission: the probability of vertical transmission in the population, the size of the dataset, the level of exposure to vector-borne transmission, and the spatial heterogeneity of that exposure in the study area. We thus identified a set of conditions providing reliable estimates of vertical transmission.
Shifting from Driving to Riding: a study of the impacts of on-demand cab services on public transit ridership and vehicle ownership in Hyderabad, India
Creators: Aluri, Jahnavi
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Automobile ownership
Urban transportation
Choice of transportation--Public opinion
Taxicabs

description: This thesis explores the effects of on-demand cab services, Uber and Ola, on public transit ridership and vehicle ownership in Hyderabad, India. India has grown to be Uber’s third largest market in the world but still lacks any comprehensive policies at the federal level to regulate on-demand cab services. These services have risen in popularity and have led to the evolution of new ownership and financial models to help populations afford a car to “drive to work.” This research examines the spatial effects of this rising popularity on public transit ridership and vehicle ownership in Hyderabad. This research found that there has been a shift in the proportion of on-demand cabs and cars to all vehicles from 2010 to 2016. This research also found that annual occupancy ratio along bus routes in the city has decreased from 2014 to 2016. This research found that these relationships are localized in the city. This thesis concludes by recommending further studies be carried out to understand the full extent of these effects to effectively incorporate these technologies and plan for the future mobility of city residents.
Supersymmetric Nonlinear Sigma Models as Gauge Theories
Creators: name: Higashijima, Kiyoshi
name: Nitta, Muneto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models are obtained from linear sigma models by imposing supersymmetric constraints. If we introduce auxiliary chiral and vector superfields, these constraints can be expressed by D-terms and F-terms depending on the target manifolds. Auxiliary vector superfields appear as gauge fields without kinetic terms. If there are no D-term constraints, the target manifolds are always non-compact manifolds. When all the degrees of freedom in these non-compact directions are eliminated by gauge symmetries, the target manifold becomes compact. All supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models, whose target manifolds are the hermitian symmetric spaces, are successfully formulated as gauge theories.
description: 38 pages, LaTeX, no figures, the version to appear in Prog. Theor. Phys. 103 (2000)
A colourful path to matrix-tree theorems
Creators: name: Kassel, Adrien
name: Lévy, Thierry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C30, 05C22, 15A15

description: In this short note, we revisit Zeilberger's proof of the classical matrix-tree theorem and give a unified concise proof of variants of this theorem, some known and some new.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, and 1 colour
THOMAS P. ANSHUTZ: A REAPPRAISAL OF EAKINS' PUPIL AS AN ARTIST AND TEACHER
Creators: name: Maynard, Catherine Simpson
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1973

description: Though seldom mentioned in surveys of American art, Thomas Anshutz, through his connection with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts--for over thirty-six years--first as student, then as teacher and director; came in contact with many painters who became leaders in art in this country. Further investigation of Anshutz and his relationship to Eakins, to the Eight and other contemporaries, seems necessary. Obviously Anshutz has been severely underestimated as an artist and teacher. The predominating influence in Anshutz's career was Thomas Eakins. The Eakins years from 1876 to 1891, include time spent with Eakins while a student as well as Anshutz's early teaching years. This time span was the most productive in terms of his painting output and produced the well known Steel Workers, Noontime. After his first trip to Europe in 1892, Anshutz evolved away from Eakins stylistically to a brighter more painterly oeuvre. However, Anshutz continued the tradition of Eakins and his significance as a teacher seems to lie in what he was able to convey to his students of Eakins' methods rather than any original contribution on his own part. As an artist his works are uneven in quality. Other than some promising landscapes of the 1890s he never again achieved the pinnacle of Steel Workers, Noontime. He remains an obscure artist known solely for his one masterpiece and for his influence on his famous pupils, who revered him.
Cerastium lanceolatum Volponi
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Cerastium
Cerastium lanceolatum

description: Cerastium lanceolatum (Poir.) Volponi  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, HZ; up to 3 600 m. Distribution: I.
 Voucher: Sirimon Track, Alt. 2 742 m, 17 Jul. 2014, SAJIT 001872 (HIB) & CPG 28351 (HIB, PE).
References: Bussmann (1993), Bussmann & Beck (1995a, 1998), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Shiva's Waterfront Temples: Reimagining the Sacred Architecture of India's Deccan Region
Creators: Kaligotla, Subhashini
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2015
Subjects: Stone buildings
Hindu temples
Art
South Asians
Middle Ages
History

description: This dissertation examines Deccan India’s earliest surviving stone constructions, which were founded during the 6th through the 8th centuries CE and are known for their unparalleled formal eclecticism. Whereas past scholarship explains their heterogeneous formal character as an organic outcome of the Deccan’s “borderland” location between north India and south India, my study challenges the very conceptualization of the Deccan temple within a binary taxonomy that recognizes only northern and southern temple types. Rejecting the passivity implied by the borderland metaphor, I emphasize the role of human agents—particularly architects and makers—in establishing a dialectic between the north Indian and the south Indian architectural systems in the Deccan’s built worlds and built spaces. Secondly, by adopting the Deccan temple cluster as an analytical category in its own right, the present work contributes to the still developing field of landscape studies of the premodern Deccan. I read traditional art-historical evidence—the built environment, sculpture, and stone and copperplate inscriptions—alongside discursive treatments of landscape cultures and phenomenological and experiential perspectives. As a result, I am able to present hitherto unexamined aspects of the cluster’s spatial arrangement: the interrelationships between structures and the ways those relationships influence ritual and processional movements, as well as the symbolic, locative, and organizing role played by water bodies. The project therefore reimagines the Deccan’s sacred centers not as conglomerations of disjointed monuments but as integrated environments in which built structures interact with, and engage, natural elements, and vice versa.
Water recycling at processing plants in water scarce regions : a case study of thickener design for the Mansour Abad processing plant
Creators: name: Behrouzi, Kourosh
name: Fard, Majid Vafaei
name: Raeiszadeh, Anahita
name: Faeghi Nia, Aida
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Due to the shortage of water sources and its critical consequences, the need for water recovery is of increasing importance. Mineral processing plants are generally water consuming although some wastewater can be recycled. The most common technique to recycle water is through thickening. Thickeners are built to concentrate the solids content of the pulp and clarify the overflow water. In this paper, two approaches are employed for the design of thickeners due to their use in the mining industry. First the Coe and Clevenger method was analysed and then the Fitch and Talmage method was evaluated. In the conditions that settling of solids is for clarifying purposes, counter current decantation may be used. In this paper the method of calculating the optimum thickener in type and size regarding economic factors was evaluated and a case study of thickener design for the Mansour Abad concentration plant is described. The thickener's area was estimated to be 4.7 m² with depth of 1.80 ±0.20 m. [All papers were considered for technical and language appropriateness by the organizing committee.]
Shifting power and Institutional Relationships: The role of stakeholders in shaping Cananea, Mexico
Creators: Montemayor Solano, Lucrecia
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: City planning
Local government--Economic aspects
Public policy (Law)
Labor laws and legislation

description: This study focuses on the shifting institutional relationships amongst stakeholders -local government, Grupo Mexico (a mining company), labor unions, and the community- in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. It provides insight into planning processes and governance structures by analyzing: (1) how have relationships amongst stakeholders shifted through time and how they currently work in the context of a single-industry economy; and (2) how these changes promote/hinder these relationships and create opportunities for community empowerment and participation. Through a historical analysis of shifting relationships two points of drastic change were found. First, in 1989 when the mine was privatized, and second, in 2007 when the Section 65 union went on a 30+ month strike. These moments created a power void in which new actors arose and new partnerships were created. Through in-depth interviews with local government actors, industry representatives, union members and key community members an assessment of their perceptions, their current plans, issues, and collaborative actions with regards to Cananea’s future were further analyzed. This demonstrated a wide array of understandings of ‘community participation’ as well as a variety of plans -not all in concert with each other- and efforts to accommodate Cananea’s future growth. This research stems from this understanding and proposes future collaborations where the wider community is actively involved and where other partnerships are furthered. Finally, this research inserts itself in a wider discussion advocating for a pivotal role of the state, where the local government initiates community participation mechanisms which augment accountability and foster community empowerment efforts currently undertaken by private institutions, promote economic diversity through collaborative mechanisms aided by the state government and in coordination with local industries, and establish reciprocal mechanisms of trust and growth amongst all stakeholders.
Macroscopic chaos in globally coupled maps
Creators: name: Cencini, M.
name: Falcioni, M.
name: Vergni, D.
name: Vulpiani, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the coherent dynamics of globally coupled maps showing macroscopic chaos. With this term we indicate the hydrodynamical-like irregular behaviour of some global observables, with typical times much longer than the times related to the evolution of the single (or microscopic) elements of the system. The usual Lyapunov exponent is not able to capture the essential features of this macroscopic phenomenon. Using the recently introduced notion of finite size Lyapunov exponent, we characterize, in a consistent way, these macroscopic behaviours. Basically, at small values of the perturbation we recover the usual (microscopic) Lyapunov exponent, while at larger values a sort of macroscopic Lyapunov exponent emerges, which can be much smaller than the former. A quantitative characterization of the chaotic motion at hydrodynamical level is then possible, even in the absence of the explicit equations for the time evolution of the macroscopic observables.
description: 24 pages revtex, 9 figures included. Improved version also with 1 figure and some references added
Additional file 6: of Genomics-driven discovery of a biosynthetic gene cluster required for the synthesis of BII-Rafflesfungin from the fungus Phoma sp. F3723
Creators: name: Sinha, Swati
name: Choy-Eng Nge
name: Leong, Chung
name: Ng, Veronica
name: Crasta, Sharon
name: Alfatah, Mohammad
name: Falicia Goh
name: Kia-Ngee Low
name: Huibin Zhang
name: Arumugam, Prakash
name: Lezhava, Alexander
name: Swaine Chen
name: Kanagasundaram, Yoganathan
name: Siew Ng
name: Eisenhaber, Frank
name: Eisenhaber, Birgit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Figure S8. Phylogenetic tree analysis of the functional distribution of C domains using MEGA7 (Maximum Likelihood (ML) tree). (PDF 23 kb)
Additional file 2 of The DNA methylation of FOXO3 and TP53 as a blood biomarker of late-onset asthma
Creators: name: Yuan, Lin
name: Wang, Leyuan
name: Du, Xizi
name: Qin, Ling
name: Yang, Ming
name: Zhou, Kai
name: Wu, Mengping
name: Yang, Yu
name: Zheng, Zhiyuan
name: Xiang, Yang
name: Qu, Xiangping
name: Liu, Huijun
name: Qin, Xiaoqun
name: Liu, Chi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Table S2. Methylation level of each CpG site in the CpG islands of FOXO3 and TP53.
Super-Matrix KdV and Super-Generalized NS Equations from Self-Dual Yang-Mills Systems with Supergauge Groups
Creators: name: LaChapelle, J.
name: Legare, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Super-matrix KdV and super-generalized non-linear Schrodinger equations are shown to arise from a symmetry reduction of ordinary self-dual Yang-Mills equations with supergauge groups
description: 13 pages, LaTeX2e
Full data from "REANALYSIS AND INTEGRATION OF PUBLIC MICROARRAY DATASETS REVEALS NOVEL HOST GENES MODULATED IN LEPROSY"
Creators: name: Leal-Calvo, Thyago
name: Ozorio Moraes, Milton
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: microarray
leprosy
reanalysis

description: This repository contains a tarball (bzip2 compressed) including all raw data, processed data, R source code and Rstudio Project files from the analysis described in the article: REANALYSIS AND INTEGRATION OF PUBLIC MICROARRAY DATASETS REVEALS NOVEL HOST GENES MODULATED IN LEPROSY.  Peer-reviewed available at Molecular Genomics and Genetics: 10.1007/s00438-020-01705-6
Shortchanged: Racism, School Finance and Educational Inequality in North Carolina, 1964-1997
Creators: Cyna, Esther
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2021
Subjects: History
Education--Finance
Education history
Racism in education
Race discrimination--Law and legislation
Discrimination in education

description: This dissertation examines inequality in school funding in North Carolina from 1964 to 1997. It highlights local, county and state decisions about the distribution of educational funds, and shows that public officials have created and maintained school funding mechanisms that exacerbated inequalities between racial groups to preserve White capital and advantage White communities. Discriminatory taxation schemes, district-line gerrymandering and voter suppression ensured White control of school boards and boards of county commissioners, which presided over school budgets, resulting in uneven revenue distribution. I analyze these mechanisms as instances of theft—theft of civil rights and financial resources—within a tradition of kleptocracy in the state.I first focus on four case studies, including two rural and two urban and suburban counties, where I examine the correlation between financial inequities and racial segregation through quantitative and qualitative analysis. I ask how historical actors have addressed educational inequalities over time, and how local governments, courts and legislatures responded to these intertwined challenges. This study investigates the discrepancy between the legacies of Jim Crow in school finance and racially neutral arguments in education reform and school finance litigation. All four case-study counties became involved in the 1994 Leandro v. State lawsuit, which challenged the state’s school funding formula. The urban-rural plaintiff coalition highlighted contradictions in arguments about the root causes of resource inequalities in public schools. The Leandro case did not address racial discrimination, and I question and historicize this silence.
Structure Constants for New Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras of U(N+,N-) Tensor Operators and Applications
Creators: name: Calixto, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The structure constants for Moyal brackets of an infinite basis of functions on the algebraic manifolds M of pseudo-unitary groups U(N_+,N_-) are provided. They generalize the Virasoro and W_\infty algebras to higher dimensions. The connection with volume-preserving diffeomorphisms on M, higher generalized-spin and tensor operator algebras of U(N_+,N_-) is discussed. These centrally-extended, infinite-dimensional Lie-algebras provide also the arena for non-linear integrable field theories in higher dimensions, residual gauge symmetries of higher-extended objects in the light-cone gauge and C^*-algebras for tractable non-commutative versions of symmetric curved spaces.
description: 8 pages, LaTeX, no figures; minor comments added; to appear in J. Phys A (Math. Gen.)
MOESM1 of Quantifying bluetongue vertical transmission in French cattle from surveillance data
Creators: name: Courtejoie, Noémie
name: Bournez, Laure
name: Zanella, Gina
name: Durand, Benoît
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1. Description of cattle trade protocols in the restriction zone. This paragraph gives more details about the control measures that were implemented during the study period (2016), and provides a better understanding of the data collection process.
Shortage-field Incentives: Impacts in Teacher Retention and Recruitment
Creators: Rosen, Rachel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2012
Subjects: Education and state
School management and organization

description: Shortages in the teaching subfields of math, science, special and bilingual education have been one of the most persistent problems in teacher labor markets. This problem is in part due to the single salary schedule by which most public school teachers are paid, and which usually only gives pay increases for years of experience and additional credentials. However, in recent years, to combat shortages a minority of school districts have begun to offer additional financial incentives to teachers in shortage-fields. However, there has been little rigorous empirical evidence on whether these incentives are effective for changing labor market outcomes. Utilizing an Instrumental Variables Difference-in-Differences model with a novel instrument, I estimate whether districts that provide such incentives report better recruitment conditions and experience higher rates of retention of shortage-field teachers than comparable districts that do not offer incentives. I find positive and statistically significant impacts on retention. Findings are discussed in terms of estimated incentive magnitudes, as well as in light of a document review of collectively bargained contracts from districts that provide shortage-field incentives.
Two-Component Dust in Spherically Symmetric Motion
Creators: name: Haager, Gernot
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two components of spherically symmetric, inhomogeneous dust penetrating each other are introduced as a generalization of the well-known Tolman-Bondi dust solution. The field equations of this model are formulated and general properties are discussed. inhomogeneous Special solutions with additional symmetries - an extra Killing- or homothetic vector - and their matching to the corresponding Tolman-Bondi solution are investigated.
description: 16 pages, LaTeX, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Class. Quantum Grav
The Negro in Illinois Politics, 1865-1870: A Study of the Race Issue in Illinois During Reconstruction
Creators: name: Marshall, Arthur Russell
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 1977

description: Freedman's rights dominated state politics in Illinois during the Reconstruction years of 1865-70. Illinois was a racist society, and both Democrats and Republicans manipulated racial attitudes to their political advantage . The Democrats, linking the Negro with the Republican party, appealed negatively to white racist attitudes. The Republicans, seeking political dominance through the support of the black vote, used the rhetoric of the "Bloody Shirt," the preservation of the Union's hard-won victory in the Civil War, and the need to punish the South. On the issue of black rights, therefore, the Republican party avoided confronting racial equality, and implicitly substituted the issue of political dominance. By the close of the decade people tired of the black cause. Politicians, perceiving little political advantage in espousing the black cause, dropped the issue. The blacks in Illinois, nevertheless, emerged from the political maneuvering of this period with some political and civil rights they had not previously enjoyed.
Cerastium octandrum A. Rich.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Cerastium
Cerastium octandrum

description: Cerastium octandrum Hochst. ex A.Rich.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: HZ, AZ, NZ; 1 900–4 600 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Teleki Valley, Alt. 4 175 m, 26 Sep. 1985, Stephenson 317 (EA).
References: Turrill (1956), Young & Peacock (1985), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a), Abdi (2013), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
MOESM2 of Development and application of a tri-allelic PCR assay for screening Vgsc-L1014F kdr mutations associated with pyrethroid and organochlorine resistance in the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus
Creators: name: Martins, Walter Silva
name: BĂĄrbara Silva Pereira
name: Alves, Ana Vieira
name: Murphy, Annabel
name: Martins, Paulo Silva
name: Weetman, David
name: Wilding, Craig
name: Donnelly, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2: Table S1. Allelic and genotypic frequency of Vgsc-1014F in relation to mosquito survival phenotype by deltamethrin, lambda-cyhalothrin or DDT in C. quinquefasciatus from Tororo, Uganda.
Hamiltonian self-adjoint extensions for (2+1)-dimensional Dirac particles
Creators: name: Falomir, H.
name: Pisani, P. A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Condensed Matter (cond-mat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81Q10; 35p05

description: We study the stationary problem of a charged Dirac particle in (2+1) dimensions in the presence of a uniform magnetic field B and a singular magnetic tube of flux Phi = 2 pi kappa/e. The rotational invariance of this configuration implies that the subspaces of definite angular momentum l+1/2 are invariant under the action of the Hamiltonian H. We show that, for l different from the integer part of kappa, the restriction of H to these subspaces, H_l is essentially self-adjoint, while for l equal to the integer part of kappa, H_l admits a one-parameter family of self-adjoint extensions (SAE). In the later case, the functions in the domain of H_l are singular (but square-integrable) at the origin, their behavior being dictated by the value of the parameter gamma that identifies the SAE. We also determine the spectrum of the Hamiltonian as a function of kappa and gamma, as well as its closure.
description: RevTex, 7 pages, 1 figure (references added - version to appear in Jour. Phys. A: Math. and Gen.)
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Accomplished Novice Urban Teachers Explain Their Decisions
Creators: Allen, Jennifer Ann
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Education
Urban schools
Teacher morale
Teachers--Attitudes

description: What factors—personal, contextual, and professional—contribute to accomplished early career urban teachers’ perceptions of effectiveness and their decisions to stay or leave their classrooms? The finding of this study was that no single factor is responsible for whether a teacher chooses to stay or leave his or her classroom; however, there is a constellation of factors that plays a role in both supporting and frustrating teachers; how the teachers respond to these factors and how these factors interact help to explain their decisions. What differentiates the degree of impact of the institutional or professional factors on the teachers’ morale and, ultimately, on their decisions to stay or leave their classrooms are the other mitigating factors—namely, the personal and contextual factors that either bolster the teachers or diminish their level of commitment. Seven connecting assertions are drawn from an examination of the commonalities and differences between and among cases regarding the factors that contribute to each teacher’s perception of success and influence his or her career decision to stay in or leave the urban classroom. These assertions regarding the factors that contribute to teachers’ perceptions of success and their career decisions include: • the alignment of each teacher’s classroom experience with his or her expectations shaped by earlier events and relationships • the ability of each teacher to cope with and manage the day-to-day challenges by incorporating self-care and cognitive reframing strategies in order to maintain optimism, resilience, and well-being • the establishment of a relationship of mutual and reciprocated trust with the school leader(s) • the teacher’s perceived quality of relationships with colleagues • the teacher’s perceived ability to establish individual, personal, and authentic connections with students • the ability to make decisions regarding curriculum and pedagogical practice • the ability to tolerate and navigate constant and seemingly questionable change
The gradient discretisation method for linear advection problems
Creators: name: Droniou, Jérôme
name: Eymard, Robert
name: Gallouët, T.
name: Herbin, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We adapt the Gradient Discretisation Method (GDM), originally designed for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations, to the case of a linear scalar hyperbolic equations. This enables the simultaneous design and convergence analysis of various numerical schemes, corresponding to the methods known to be GDMs, such as finite elements (conforming or non-conforming, standard or mass-lumped), finite volumes on rectangular or simplicial grids, and other recent methods developed for general polytopal meshes. The scheme is of centred type, with added linear or non-linear numerical diffusion. We complement the convergence analysis with numerical tests based on the mass-lumped P1 conforming and non conforming finite element and on the hybrid finite volume method.
Drymaria cordata Roem. & Schult.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Drymaria
Drymaria cordata

description: Drymaria cordata (L.) Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: LMWF; 1 300–2 700 m. Distribution: I.
 Voucher: Chogoria Track, Alt. 1 860 m, 28 Jan. 2015, SAJIT 002969 (HIB).
References: Bussmann (1993, 1994), Bussmann & Beck (1995a, 1998), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 67, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Sand tailings dams : design, construction and operation
Creators: name: Barrera, Sergio
name: Valenzuela, Luis
name: Campaña, Jose
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The design of sand tailings dams for tailings impoundments in highly seismic regions has been subjected to a long development process with continuous improvement mainly because of the general concern originated by several earthquake induced failures. Two important hydraulic sand fills and sand tailings dam failures in the 1960’s (San Fernando dam in California and El Cobre tailings dam in Chile) are the most well-known. The development process continued until it achieved the present situation where recent designs show a reasonably high degree of safety and reliability and also relatively cost effective construction and operational control methods. As a consequence of the knowledge and experience gained mainly over the last 30 years, it has been possible not only to design but also to construct and to operate sand tailings dams of more than 200 m in height and with rates of production and placement of tailings sand as high as 45,000 tons per day. This achievement is the result of continuous knowledge gained regarding geotechnical behaviour of tailings sands under high confining pressures; hydraulic transport and pumping of sandy slurries; new numerical methods of dynamic stability analysis and the improvement of reliable sand disposal and compaction methods. This paper provides a summary of the evolution that occurred over the last 30 years in the design of tailings impoundments with sand dams. It also describes the fundamental design concepts, the knowledge gained in the behavior of tailings sands under high confining pressures and dynamic loads. The paper finally identifies areas where it is possible to further improve designs, operation and closure. A large part of the experience and examples presented are related to actual tailings dams located in Chile, where several high and large dams exist or are planned to be built shortly. [All papers were considered for technical and language appropriateness by the organizing committee.]
Additional file 1 of Non-O blood group is associated with lower risk of in-hospital mortality in non-surgically managed patients with type A aortic dissection
Creators: name: Huang, Song
name: Chen, Yequn
name: Huang, Zhaotao
name: Wu, Shiwan
name: Xiong, Nianling
name: Huang, Xiru
name: Wang, Xin
name: Chen, Chang
name: Wang, Bin
name: Li, Weiping
name: Hong, Liangli
name: Ye, Shu
name: Tan, Xuerui
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine
Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Cancer
Science Policy
Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test of normality. Table S2. Distribution of various death causes in O and non-O blood groups. Table S3. Univariate Cox proportional hazards analyses of all-cause mortality. Table S4. Multivariate stepwise logistic regression analyses of all-cause mortality. Table S5. Univariate Cox proportional hazards analyses of ADR-related mortality. Table S6. Multivariate stepwise logistic regression analyses of ADR-related mortality. Table S7. Associations of blood type with risk of in-hospital mortality caused by ADR. Table S8. Associations of blood type with causes of in-hospital mortality in TAAD patients. Table S9. Associations of blood type with causes of in-hospital mortality in TBAD patients.
A Communal Retreat for Writers in the Adirondacks
Creators: name: Makker, Kirin Joya
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2002

description: This thesis will explore the design of a retreat for writers in Adirondack Park in upper New York State. The intent of the project is to investigate how the 'border' between a group of buildings and the natural wooded landscape in which they sit may be blurred. It is the assumption of the author that rendering indistinct this border between the built and the natural will have bearing on whether a human's relationship to nature is harmonious. This study considers the transition (space, plane, or volume) from built to natural material: how do a compound, a building, and a construction detail meet the natural world in a manner in which the distinction between natural and human built is unconventionally blurred? How do a collection of buildings, a structure, and a detail suggest a harmonious relationship with the natural setting in which, or with which, they sit? The purpose of this thesis is to explore these questions and thus investigate the transition of natural landscape to built work at a variety of scales: the site scale, the building scale, and the detail scale.
On the Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau Formulation of the Covariant Hamiltonian Dynamics in Field Theory
Creators: name: Kanatchikov, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1999
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the De Donder-Weyl (DW) covariant Hamiltonian field equations of any field can be written in Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau (DKP) matrix form. As a consequence, the (modified) DKP beta-matrices (5 X 5 in four space-time dimensions) are of universal significance for all fields admitting the DW Hamiltonian formulation, not only for a scalar field, and can be viewed as field theoretic analogues of the symplectic matrix, leading to the so-called ``k-symplectic'' (k=4) structure. We also briefly discuss what could be viewed as the covariant Poisson bracket given by beta-matrices and the corresponding Poisson bracket formulation of DW Hamiltonian field equations.
description: 6 pages, LaTeX2e
Sagina abyssinica A. Rich.
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Sagina
Sagina abyssinica

description: Sagina abyssinica Hochst. ex A.Rich.  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: HZ, AZ, NZ; 2 100–4 500 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Sirimon Track, Alt. 3 727 m, 18 Jul. 2014, SAJIT 001898 (HIB).
References: Bussmann (1993, 1994), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Sagina afroalpina Hedberg
Creators: name: Zhou, Ya-Dong
name: Mwachala, Geoffrey
name: Hu, Guang-Wan
name: Wang, Qing-Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Sagina
Sagina afroalpina

description: Sagina afroalpina Hedberg  —
Habit: Herb.
Habitat: HZ, AZ, NZ; 2 900–4 600 m. Distribution: II.
 Voucher: Sirimon Track, Alt. 3 666 m, 18 Jul. 2014, SAJIT 001895 (HIB).
 References: Turrill (1956), Rehder et al. (1981), Young & Peacock (1985), Bussmann (1993, 1994), Abdi (2013), Agnew (2013).
description: Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464
Additional file 5: of Genomics-driven discovery of a biosynthetic gene cluster required for the synthesis of BII-Rafflesfungin from the fungus Phoma sp. F3723
Creators: name: Sinha, Swati
name: Choy-Eng Nge
name: Leong, Chung
name: Ng, Veronica
name: Crasta, Sharon
name: Alfatah, Mohammad
name: Falicia Goh
name: Kia-Ngee Low
name: Huibin Zhang
name: Arumugam, Prakash
name: Lezhava, Alexander
name: Swaine Chen
name: Kanagasundaram, Yoganathan
name: Siew Ng
name: Eisenhaber, Frank
name: Eisenhaber, Birgit
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S2. HMMER search results against the HMM models of DCL, LCL, starter and dual type of C domains with all 9 C domains as query sequences. (PDF 78 kb)
Prevalence of Depression in Type 2 Diabetic Patients Using PHQ-9 Scale: A Clinic Based Cross Sectional Study
Creators: name: Takalkar, Anant
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 170113 Social and Community Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Background: The prevalence of depression is higher in patients with chronic illnesses such as diabetes and hypertension. The PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire) is an instrument designed to diagnose depression by the criteria identified by 4th Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Aim and Objective: To assess the depression in diabetic population using PHQ-9 scoring system and its association with some sociodemographic correlates. Material and Methods: It is a cross-sectional study involving 46 consecutive patients presenting at a tertiary care centre, aged >18yrs and diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. The PHQ-9 questionnaires were given to patients who were included in the study. Data was entered in MS excel sheet and analysed by using SPSS 24.0 version, IBM USA. Results: Prevalence of major depression in our study was 41.3%. Out of 19 patients with major depression, Majority was from 51-60 and above 60 years age group i.e., 7 (36.8%) each. There is statistically significant difference in the proportion of males and females between two categories of depression. (p<0.05).Females were more prone to major depression as compared to males. Conclusion: The prevalence of major depression in our study was 41.3%. Females were more prone to depression in our study being having more PHQ-9 score. PHQ-9 seems to be acceptable in our study being easy to administer and for quick assessment of depression in busy clinical schedule.
Shrinkage in lime stucco: Does “banking” mortar help mitigate shrinkage?
Creators: Borhanuddin, Raudhah
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration
subject: Building materials--Testing
subject: Stucco
subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Materials science

description: One of the most common problems with lime stucco, used in building conservation, is shrinkage during the early stages of curing.  In most situations, shrinkage is seen as cracking and/or separation from the underlying masonry wall.  According to much of the published literature, shrinkage in lime-based materials is often associated with the amounts of both water and aggregate that are used in the mix.  Early manuals of practice and historical builders’ notes suggest that lime mortars (and therefore stuccos) should not be used right after they are made, and that instead they should be kept for a period of time prior to application.
In traditional construction, numerous practices were developed, sometimes based on the specific needs of a given site.  Some of these practices were passed down without a complete understanding of the underlying principles.  It has been said that the “banking” of lime mortar will help mitigate shrinkage in stucco.  This was based on the belief that short-term storage of the components (lime putty and sand) would somehow cause them to be in a more stable state to be used than as freshly mixed materials.  Interviews with practicing masons as well as a literature review show that although “banking” has been in practice for centuries, there is a lack of research of the actual mechanism and its specific effect in mitigating shrinkage problems.
This thesis has explored the practice of “banking” and the role it plays in mitigating shrinkage.  A series of laboratory experiments was developed to study selected parameters: type of lime, amount of sand and amount of water.  With “banking” as central procedure in the research, variations in these parameters were tested to better understand if the practice will have effect in one mix and not another, or if the practice will affect all mixes.  Although the mechanism of “banking” mortar for a relatively short period of time is not well understood, observations derived from this research support the masons’ belief that “banking” helps mitigate shrinkage.
Comparative study on the performance of iron-amended cassava pulp feed bio-methanation in CSTRs
Creators: name: Htay Aung Pyae
name: Aye, Win Win
name: Chatpet Yossapol
name: Somchai Dararatana
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biogas
Cassava
Scrap iron
ZVI
CSTRs
Buffer
Methane

description: Engineering and Applied Science Research, 46, 3, 219-226