cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Returns to schooling, mobility, and the gender wage gap: Evidence from Sri Lanka and India
Creators: name: Ranasinghe, Rasika A.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay deals with the on-going debate about the size and direction of measurement-error bias in returns to education, using evidence from Sri Lanka. This corrected measure is approximately 5.5%, which is less than the corresponding OLS estimate of 7.8% for two person households. The second essay examines the effectiveness of free education on improving intergenerational educational mobility in Sri Lanka, using two measures: the estimated effect of parental education on that of the child; and schooling correlations between parents and children. Results indicate that educational mobility has increased across generations. However, when compared to countries with no free education in place, schooling correlations suggest that Sri Lanka has a relatively low intergenerational educational mobility, posing important policy issues relating to the free education system that has long been in place in Sri Lanka. The final essay is an analysis of the gender wage gap in urban India. Large wage gains by primary educated females were observed during 1993 and 1999. These gains are mostly concentrated among low educated females in the casual informal sector. Several decompositions of the gender wage gap are performed in order to get an understanding of the factors that underlie such changes. The contribution of differences in the male-female wage structure to the gap has increased during this period. Occupational differences between men and women explain most of the wage gap that is due to differences in productive attributes.
Green Washing Your Clothes
Creators: name: Felizarta, David
name: Kuang, Emily
name: Ho, Jeffrey
name: Wong, Mark
name: Howarth, Tristan
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of implementing a correlational design study was to determine how individuals perceived eco-friendly (green) detergents in terms of sustainability and performance compared to generic laundry detergents. It was hypothesized that participants would perceive green detergents as superior in sustainability but inferior in performance compared to its counterparts. In this study, participants were intercepted on UBC campus with verbal consent and were asked to answer a quick survey preceding a printed image of a laundry detergent. Surveys included a free-association task, in which participants were asked to generate words after being shown an image of the respective detergent, consumer behaviour questions, Likert-scale questions regarding personal and perceived cleanliness and sustainability, and basic demographic/psychographic questions. Subsequent results conclude that Nellie’s, a green product, was perceived as the most sustainable option. However, in terms of performance, it scored the same as its generic counterparts, supporting only half of our proposed hypothesis. Students (or perhaps Millennials) may already have certain brands in mind with regards to laundry detergents, but are flexible in trying new ones. Repositioning Nellie’s as the premier sustainable brand and changing its packaging can potentially allow students to shift their preferences and opt for greener products. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Socialization experiences of part -time faculty: A study of socialization programs and employment longevity
Creators: name: Loh, Katherine
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In this examination of the socialization experiences of part-time faculty at a four-year comprehensive university, a survey was administered to part-time faculty that gathered data on (1) their perceptions of their socialization experiences through its processes and outcomes, (2) the professional profile of these part-time faculty, and (3) the factors behind their employment longevity---referred to in the study as non-transient part-time faculty. For the most part, part-time faculty who participated in this study had positive perceptions about their socialization experiences and exhibited a strong sense of loyalty and commitment to their institution. However, they did not participate much in socialization programs provided by the institution, and individual socialization efforts were also minimal or limited to informal activities such as lunches or holiday parties. Non-transient part-time faculty at this institution had an average employment tenure of 4.75 years and attributed their employment longevity to intrinsic factors such as intellectual satisfaction in the process of teaching and interaction with students, professional satisfaction in being associated with an institution of higher learning, and convenience in their flexible teaching schedule. This study was remarkable in the fact that the data did not support the somewhat negative perspectives on part-time faculty employment in the conventional literature. Part-time faculty here chose their employment status willingly and primarily to earn extra income. A majority had no desire to seek full-time teaching positions, and a minority indicated that they were teaching part-time due to a lack of more favorable employment options. This study highlighted the importance of customizing and adapting socialization programs to the needs of the institution and the part-time faculty. It also emphasized the importance of studying part-time faculty from a human resource perspective, focusing on their deployment as contingent workforce---or contingent faculty---as higher education continues to manage tight or diminishing budgets.
Socialization experiences of part -time faculty: A study of socialization programs and employment longevity
Creators: name: Loh, Katherine
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3902
subject: Education policy, sociology and philosophy

description: In this examination of the socialization experiences of part-time faculty at a four-year comprehensive university, a survey was administered to part-time faculty that gathered data on (1) their perceptions of their socialization experiences through its processes and outcomes, (2) the professional profile of these part-time faculty, and (3) the factors behind their employment longevity---referred to in the study as non-transient part-time faculty. For the most part, part-time faculty who participated in this study had positive perceptions about their socialization experiences and exhibited a strong sense of loyalty and commitment to their institution. However, they did not participate much in socialization programs provided by the institution, and individual socialization efforts were also minimal or limited to informal activities such as lunches or holiday parties. Non-transient part-time faculty at this institution had an average employment tenure of 4.75 years and attributed their employment longevity to intrinsic factors such as intellectual satisfaction in the process of teaching and interaction with students, professional satisfaction in being associated with an institution of higher learning, and convenience in their flexible teaching schedule. This study was remarkable in the fact that the data did not support the somewhat negative perspectives on part-time faculty employment in the conventional literature. Part-time faculty here chose their employment status willingly and primarily to earn extra income. A majority had no desire to seek full-time teaching positions, and a minority indicated that they were teaching part-time due to a lack of more favorable employment options. This study highlighted the importance of customizing and adapting socialization programs to the needs of the institution and the part-time faculty. It also emphasized the importance of studying part-time faculty from a human resource perspective, focusing on their deployment as contingent workforce---or contingent faculty---as higher education continues to manage tight or diminishing budgets.
Duality for compact group actions on operator algebras and applications: irreducible inclusions and Galois correspondence
Creators: name: Peligrad, Costel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider compact group actions on C*- and W*- algebras. We prove results that relate the duality property of the action (as defined in the Introduction) with other relevant properties of the system such as the relative commutant of the fixed point algebras being trivial (called the irreducibility of the inclusion) and also to the Galois correspondence between invariant C*-subalgebras containing the fixed point algebra and the class of closed normal subgroups of the compact group.
Cylindrinotus nitidus
Creators: name: Nabozhenko, Maxim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Cylindrinotus
Cylindrinotus nitidus

description: Cylindrinotus nitidus (Seidlitz, 1896)
(Figs. 9, 32, 33, 64, 65)
 Helops (Cylindrinotus) nitidus Seidlitz 1896: 721. Reitter 1902: 218, 1922: 125. Lectotype (male) and paralectotype (female) at ZSM, labeled: “ Syria / nitidus // Cotypus Helops (Cylindrinotus) nitidus Seidlitz, 1898 ” (curator’ s last label). Lectotype designated here. Other paralectotypes (2♂♂ and 2♀♀) are deposited in NMW.
description: Published as part of Nabozhenko, Maxim, 2015, Review of the Genus Cylindrinotus Faldermann, 1837 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini), pp. 101-114 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) (mo 14) 69 on page 107, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.101, http://zenodo.org/record/4908100
A GLIMPSE of Star Formation in the Giant H II Region RCW 49
Creators: name: Whitney, B. A.
name: Indebetouw, R.
name: Babler, B. L.
name: Meade, M. R.
name: Watson, C.
name: Wolff, M. J.
name: Wolfire, M. G.
name: Clemens, D. P.
name: Bania, T. M.
name: Benjamin, R. A.
name: Cohen, M.
name: Devine, K. E.
name: Dickey, J. M.
name: Heitsch, F.
name: Jackson, J. M.
name: Kobulnicky, H. A.
name: Marston, A. P.
name: Mathis, J. S.
name: Mercer, E. P.
name: Stauffer, J. R.
name: Stolovy, S. R.
name: Churchwell, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: GLIMPSE imaging using the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) on the Spitzer Space Telescope indicates that star formation is ongoing in the RCW 49 giant H II region. A photometric comparison of the sources in RCW 49 to a similar area to its north finds that at least 300 stars brighter than 13th magnitude in band [3.6] have infrared excesses inconsistent with reddening due to foreground extinction. These are likely young stellar objects (YSOs) more massive than 2.5 M_sun suggesting that thousands more low-mass stars are forming in this cloud. Some of the YSOs are massive (B stars) and therefore very young, suggesting that a new generation of star formation is occurring, possibly triggered by stellar winds and shocks generated by the older (2-3 Myr) central massive cluster. The Spitzer IRAC camera has proven to be ideally suited for distinguishing young stars from field stars, and the GLIMPSE survey of the Galactic Plane will likely find thousands of new star formation regions.
description: Accepted by ApJS, Spitzer edition. 9 pages, 6 figures. Due to space limitations on astro-ph, figures 1-4 are submitted as separate .jpg files at http://arxiv.org/ps/astro-ph/0406100. Full-resolution figures and text can be downloaded from http://www.astro.wisc.edu/glimpse/glimpsepubs.html
Protohalonia venusta
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Protohalonia venusta (Timberlake, 1961)
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ 15.45 km north of Shoshone, Inyo County, California, USA; May 3, 1960]
This species inhabits the xeric regions of western North America. In the BCP, it is only known from the Lower Colorado Desert in BC (Timberlake 1969). See fig. 114.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 182, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Bayesian inference in autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity models: A Monte Carlo assessment
Creators: name: Meseguer, Javier
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: In recent decades, ARCH (Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity) models have become widely popular in modelling the volatility dynamics of financial time-series. This dissertation investigates the finite-sample performance of Bayesian and frequentist estimators for three ARCH-type econometric models commonly used in the empirical literature. Our investigation focuses on the versatility of the Bayesian framework to accommodate non-sample information relevant to the theoretical consistency of these models. In particular, the Bayesian approach enables the econometrician to explicitly entertain the appropriate parameter inequality constraints that guarantee the prediction of non-negative conditional variances, as well as the covariance stationarity of the process of interest. Our findings suggest that the Bayesian point and interval estimators of the parameters generally perform competitively, and quite often outperform their common sampling theory counterparts. Under the appropriate positivity and stationarity constraints, posterior means an medians frequently exhibit lower mean squared error than the maximum likelihood estimator. Similarly, Bayesian credible and highest posterior density intervals often enjoy greater finite-sample probability content than asymptotic confidence intervals. Based on strictly sampling-theory performance criteria, the evidence provides compelling support in favor of the Bayesian framework.
Bayesian inference in autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity models: A Monte Carlo assessment
Creators: name: Meseguer, Javier
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In recent decades, ARCH (Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity) models have become widely popular in modelling the volatility dynamics of financial time-series. This dissertation investigates the finite-sample performance of Bayesian and frequentist estimators for three ARCH-type econometric models commonly used in the empirical literature. Our investigation focuses on the versatility of the Bayesian framework to accommodate non-sample information relevant to the theoretical consistency of these models. In particular, the Bayesian approach enables the econometrician to explicitly entertain the appropriate parameter inequality constraints that guarantee the prediction of non-negative conditional variances, as well as the covariance stationarity of the process of interest. Our findings suggest that the Bayesian point and interval estimators of the parameters generally perform competitively, and quite often outperform their common sampling theory counterparts. Under the appropriate positivity and stationarity constraints, posterior means an medians frequently exhibit lower mean squared error than the maximum likelihood estimator. Similarly, Bayesian credible and highest posterior density intervals often enjoy greater finite-sample probability content than asymptotic confidence intervals. Based on strictly sampling-theory performance criteria, the evidence provides compelling support in favor of the Bayesian framework.
Xenoglossa cacuminis
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Xenoglossa cacuminis (LaBerge, 2001)
[Holotype: CNIN; ♀ 21 km. SW of Zapotitlán Salinas at 1,420 mts elev., Puebla, México; November 3, 1991] Xenoglossa cacuminis is distributed from central Mexico to the southwestern USA. Within the BCP, it is known from a single male specimen collected in the Magdalena Plains in November 1982 (LaBerge 2001). See fig. 115.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 183, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Studies of DVCS and photoproduction of photons at high t with the H1 Detector
Creators: name: Favart, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The diffractive scattering of photon off proton $γ^{(*)} p \to γY$ (where $Y$ denotes the proton dissociative system or the elastically scattered proton) is measured in two different kinematic regimes at high energy with the H1 detector at HERA. i) the process is studied for the first time at large transverse photon momentum $p_t^γ > 2$ GeV in photoproduction regime ($Q^2 < 0.01$ GeV$^2$)and photon-proton c.m.s. energy $175 < W < 247 {\rm GeV}$. The cross section is measured differentially in $t$ and in $\xpom$. The measurement is compared to a LL BFKL prediction of QCD. ii) in electroproduction, the Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) $γ^* p \to γp$ cross section has been measured more precisely and in an extended kinematic domain: at photon virtualities $4
description: Contribution to the Proceedings of International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics EPS, July 17th-23rd 2003, Aachen, Germany
X-ray Emission from the Hot ISM and SW Radio Lobe of the Nearby Radio Galaxy Centaurus A
Creators: name: Kraft, R. P.
name: Vazquez, S.
name: Forman, W. R.
name: Jones, C.
name: Murray, S. S.
name: Hardcastle, M. J.
name: Worrall, D. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from two {\em Chandra}/ACIS-I observations and one {\em XMM-Newton} observation of X-ray emission from the ISM and the inner radio lobes of the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A. The ISM has an average radial surface brightness profile that is well described by a $β$-model profile with index $β$=0.40$\pm$0.04 and a temperature of $k_BT_{ISM}\sim$0.29 keV beyond 2 kpc from the nucleus. We find that diffuse X-ray emission is coincident with the outer half of the southwest radio lobe, and a bright X-ray enhancement is detected along the edge of the lobe. On the basis of energetic and lifetime arguments, we reject a nonthermal explanation for this emission. We model this emission as a thin, hot shell or cap of X-ray emitting plasma surrounding the radio lobe that was created by the supersonic inflation of the lobe. This plasma shell is both hotter than ($k_BT_{SH}\sim$2.9 keV) and greatly overpressurized relative to the ambient ISM indicating supersonic expansion. We estimate that the lobe is expanding into the ISM at approximately Mach 8.5 or 2400 km s$^{-1}$. We are not directly observing the bow shock, but rather the cooler, denser material that is accumulating ahead of the contact discontinuity. The thermal energy in the shell is a significant fraction of the thermal energy of the hot ISM, demonstrating the possibility that the hot ISM of early galaxies can be re-energized by outflows from nuclear activity. Interestingly, no similarly bright X-ray emission is detected in or along the edge of the NE lobe, implying that there are differences in the dynamics and evolution of the kpc-scale radio components.
description: 48 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Cylindrinotus batesi Allard 1876
Creators: name: Nabozhenko, Maxim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Cylindrinotus
Cylindrinotus batesi

description: Cylindrinotus batesi Allard, 1876
(Figs. 34, 35, 50, 51, 66, 67)
 Cylindrinotus batesi Allard 1876: 15, 39. Allard 1877: 51, 216; Seidlitz 1896: 721 (note); Reitter 1922: 125 (note). Lectotype male at BMNH, labeled “ Kurdistan // Cylindrinotus batesi // Cylindrinotus batesi type All.//F. Bates Coll. 81–19.”. Lectotype is designated here.
 Material Examined. TURKEY: 1♂, 2 ♀ ♀: Choruh (valley of Çoruh River), 1896, leg. Herz (ZIN); 1♀: Trapezund (now Trabzon), 17.v.1917, leg. W. Eichler (ZIN); 4♂♂: Artvin Province, Hatila River valley, Fıstıklı, 2.v.2007, leg. M.V. Nabozhenko (CN).
 Distribution. The species is known only from Artvin and Trabzon Provinces of Turkey.
 Bionomics. Specimens of C. batesi were found in Artvin Province at night (21:00 hrs) on the trunks of Fagus orientalis Lipsky (Fagaceae), where they fed on foliose lichens.
description: Published as part of Nabozhenko, Maxim, 2015, Review of the Genus Cylindrinotus Faldermann, 1837 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini), pp. 101-114 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) (mo 14) 69 on page 107, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.101, http://zenodo.org/record/4908100
Education and child labor in Latin America
Creators: name: Siaens, Corinne
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis explores the link between education and child labor in Latin America using cross-sectional analysis, recent methodological advances and simple theoretical tools. First, it proposes a methodology to estimate the economic cost for a child to be working. Child labor and schooling are not necessarily incompatible and child labor is not the only reason why children drop out of school. As a result, measuring the economic cost of child labor as the cost of not attending school results in an overestimation. In this dissertation, the real substitution effect between school and work is estimated to adjust downward the cost of school drop-out in order to estimate the economic cost of child labor. The methodology is applied to the case of Paraguay. Second, this dissertation investigates whether "Ninos de Solidaridad", a demand-side program in Mexico, has an impact on school attendance, child labor and inequality. Demand-side programs are expected to have an impact to the extent that the lack of income is among the factors causing school drop-out. However, evaluating such programs requires using appropriate techniques. This thesis shows that matching estimates are biased when the outcome is a binary variable and a condition for program participation. In the case of "Ninos de Solidaridad", the thesis shows that one must rely on locality level estimates to provide an unbiased estimate for the impact on school attendance. Third the dissertation presents a theoretical model for the optimal allocation of a child's time between schooling and labor, given the possibility of benefiting from publicly funded demand-side schooling interventions. The poorest families may not be able to send their children to school, even in the presence of the program, because the marginal utility of the children's income is just too high as compared to the stipends, which tend to be of low value because of budget constraints. The model shows that a program with a proportional stipend would reach a higher proportion of the poor than a program with a fixed stipend conditional on school attendance but that both types of program may exclude the poorest families.
Born-Infeld-type phantom on the brane world
Creators: name: Liu, Dao-jun
name: Li, Xin-zhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the evolution of Born-Infeld-type phantom in the second Randall-Sundrum brane scenario, and find that there exists attractor solution for the potential with a maximum, which implies a cosmological constant at the late time. Especially, we discuss the BI model of constant potential without and with dust matter. In the weak tension limit of the brane, we obtain an exact solution for the BI phantom and scale factor and show that there is no big rip during the evolution of the brane.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, Reference added, Phys. Rev. D in press
Education and child labor in Latin America
Creators: name: Siaens, Corinne
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 3803
subject: Economic theory

description: This thesis explores the link between education and child labor in Latin America using cross-sectional analysis, recent methodological advances and simple theoretical tools. First, it proposes a methodology to estimate the economic cost for a child to be working. Child labor and schooling are not necessarily incompatible and child labor is not the only reason why children drop out of school. As a result, measuring the economic cost of child labor as the cost of not attending school results in an overestimation. In this dissertation, the real substitution effect between school and work is estimated to adjust downward the cost of school drop-out in order to estimate the economic cost of child labor. The methodology is applied to the case of Paraguay. Second, this dissertation investigates whether "Ninos de Solidaridad", a demand-side program in Mexico, has an impact on school attendance, child labor and inequality. Demand-side programs are expected to have an impact to the extent that the lack of income is among the factors causing school drop-out. However, evaluating such programs requires using appropriate techniques. This thesis shows that matching estimates are biased when the outcome is a binary variable and a condition for program participation. In the case of "Ninos de Solidaridad", the thesis shows that one must rely on locality level estimates to provide an unbiased estimate for the impact on school attendance. Third the dissertation presents a theoretical model for the optimal allocation of a child's time between schooling and labor, given the possibility of benefiting from publicly funded demand-side schooling interventions. The poorest families may not be able to send their children to school, even in the presence of the program, because the marginal utility of the children's income is just too high as compared to the stipends, which tend to be of low value because of budget constraints. The model shows that a program with a proportional stipend would reach a higher proportion of the poor than a program with a fixed stipend conditional on school attendance but that both types of program may exclude the poorest families.
Malingering: Representations of feigned disease in American history, 1800--1920
Creators: name: Hackford, Heidi M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 43
subject: History, heritage and archaeology
classificationCode: 4303
subject: Historical studies

description: Feigning disease, or malingering, is an age-old tool that a variety of nineteenth-century Americans used to cope with the anxieties of a developing industrial capitalist society. Like legitimate disease, malingering provided an arena for projecting, rationalizing, and contesting social values. Elites represented malingerers as dependent, idle, immoral, and undeserving of citizenship. Yet, other images of the behavior as sometimes justified persisted, particularly when it upheld deeply rooted values. Individuals' attempts to cope with industrial capitalist society by malingering can be viewed collectively as a challenge to the social, economic, and political demands of that system. Representations of malingering illuminate the relationship between the individual and the state through a person's most basic frame of reference and experience, the body. Though neglected by most historians, malingering is a common phenomenon in the cultural history of Western societies. People malingered to avoid work and other social responsibilities prescribed by their race, class, and gender. Traditionally associated with the underclass, malingering was perceived to be on the rise among all social groups throughout nineteenth-century America. Moral suasion and internalized codes of behavior were taking the place of overt physical control to regulate social conduct, yet they did not deter malingering. Sentimentalism and sympathy, considered key components of a humanistic, developed society, disseminated values surrounding illness behavior through various cultural media that also sometimes portrayed deception as a useful tool in an increasingly complex and unequal environment. Slaves, soldiers, workers, middle-class women, children, and criminals all used malingering to pursue their personal goals. Their varying success demonstrates the different degrees of freedom and dependence experienced daily by nineteenth-century Americans. Malingerers challenged values such as the work ethic, truthfulness, and sympathy for the sick and disabled. Fears about malingerers reflected anxiety that many people were not committed to the American State and the industrial capitalist system. In reality, however, malingering served as a safety valve; those who could achieve some autonomy through feigning sickness had no reason to demand reform overtly. Malingering demonstrates that physical condition is a crucial and often overlooked factor in an individual's experience of state power.
HERA Transverse Polarimeter absolute scale and error by rise-time calibration
Creators: name: Gharibyan, V.
name: Schuler, K. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We give the results of an analysis of some 18 rise-time calibrations which are based on data collected in 1996/97. Such measurements are used to determine the absolute polarization scale of the transverse electron beam polarimeter (TPOL) at HERA. The results of the 1996/97 calibrations are found to be in good agreement with earlier calibrations of the TPOL performed in 1994 with errors of 1.2% and 1.1%. Based on these calibrations and a comparison with measurements from the longitudinal polarimeter (LPOL) at HERA carried out over a two-months period in 2000, we obtain a mean LPOL/TPOL ratio of 1.018. Both polarimeters are found to agree with each other within their overall errors of about 2% each.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, Contributed to NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Spin Structure of the Nucleon, June 29-July 4, 2002, Nor-Amberd, Armenia
Xenoglossa davidsoni
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Xenoglossa davidsoni (Cockerell, 1905)
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ Los Angeles, California, USA]
Xenoglossa davidsoni is distributed in the southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico. Within the BCP, it has been recorded in the Coastal Sage Matorral and the Succulent Coastal Matorral (LaBerge 2001). We reviewed 21 specimens (11 ♀, 10 ♂) from the Coastal Sage Matorral at Rosarito Beach, and the Succulent Coastal Matorral at 6 mi. NW El Rosario (CASC). See fig. 115.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 183, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
title: Lexical access and representations in children : naming and word learning
Creators: name: Ramtohul, Venita S.
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2008

description: This thesis is concerned with naming and word learning in typical children. The investigations of naming concerned lexical processes and representations associated with children’s quick and accurate picture naming. The investigations of word learning concerned the development of naming processes and representations during word learning. The aim of the investigations of naming was to better understand the way that different cognitive processes contribute to the speed and accuracy of discrete and serial naming. The contribution of age, gender, semantic abilities, phonological abilities and speed of response to non-lexical stimuli was analysed in relation to children’s speed and accuracy of naming. The findings indicated that age, but not gender, was related to the naming process; that different processes are involved in discrete and serial naming, and that speed of non-lexical information processing speed appeared to be an important variable to accurate (and fast) naming. Additional analyses on a sample of children with Word Finding Difficulties concerned errors and the role of lexical factors in the naming process. These findings revealed that lexical factors were not as important as participant characteristics, such as age or language ability. The aim of the investigations of word learning was to assess the role of semantic and phonological information in relation to the development of lexical representations. Children learnt a set of nonsense words and their knowledge of these words was assessed using a comprehensive range of tasks involving different lexical abilities. The children had greater difficulty with assessments of production than assessments of comprehension, and did poorly on tasks involving the retrieval of semantic representations. In addition, comparisons of the effectiveness of different types of input revealed that visual input was most effective and that children were able to use information from one modality to form lexical representations in another modality. The implications of these findings for existing knowledge about typical populations, as well as for understanding atypical development, are discussed.
Shape and size changes of adherent elastic epithelia
Creators: name: Loewe, Benjamin
name: Serafin, Francesco
name: Shankar, Suraj
name: Bowick, Mark J.
name: Marchetti, M. Cristina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Epithelial tissues play a fundamental role in various morphogenetic events during development and early embryogenesis. Although epithelial monolayers are often modeled as two-dimensional (2D) elastic surfaces, they distinguish themselves from conventional thin elastic plates in three important ways - the presence of an apical-basal polarity, spatial variability of cellular thickness, and their nonequilibrium active nature. Here, we develop a minimal continuum model of a planar epithelial tissue as an active elastic material that incorporates all these features. We start from a full three-dimensional (3D)description of the tissue and derive an effective 2D model that captures, through the curvature of the apical surface, both the apical-basal asymmetry and the spatial geometry of the tissue. Crucially, variations of active stresses across the apical-basal axis lead to active torques that can drive curvature transitions. By identifying four distinct sources of activity, we find that bulk active stresses arising from actomyosin contractility and growth compete with boundary active tensions due to localized actomyosin cables and lamellipodial activity to generate the various states spanning the morphospace of a planar epithelium. Our treatment hence unifies 3D shape deformations through the coupled mechanics of apical curvature change and in-plane expansion/contraction of substrate-adhered tissues. Finally, we discuss the implications of our results for some biologically relevant processes such as tissue folding at the onset of lumen formation.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures (including Appendix), published version including more calculations without changing results
Malingering: Representations of feigned disease in American history, 1800--1920
Creators: name: Hackford, Heidi M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Feigning disease, or malingering, is an age-old tool that a variety of nineteenth-century Americans used to cope with the anxieties of a developing industrial capitalist society. Like legitimate disease, malingering provided an arena for projecting, rationalizing, and contesting social values. Elites represented malingerers as dependent, idle, immoral, and undeserving of citizenship. Yet, other images of the behavior as sometimes justified persisted, particularly when it upheld deeply rooted values. Individuals' attempts to cope with industrial capitalist society by malingering can be viewed collectively as a challenge to the social, economic, and political demands of that system. Representations of malingering illuminate the relationship between the individual and the state through a person's most basic frame of reference and experience, the body. Though neglected by most historians, malingering is a common phenomenon in the cultural history of Western societies. People malingered to avoid work and other social responsibilities prescribed by their race, class, and gender. Traditionally associated with the underclass, malingering was perceived to be on the rise among all social groups throughout nineteenth-century America. Moral suasion and internalized codes of behavior were taking the place of overt physical control to regulate social conduct, yet they did not deter malingering. Sentimentalism and sympathy, considered key components of a humanistic, developed society, disseminated values surrounding illness behavior through various cultural media that also sometimes portrayed deception as a useful tool in an increasingly complex and unequal environment. Slaves, soldiers, workers, middle-class women, children, and criminals all used malingering to pursue their personal goals. Their varying success demonstrates the different degrees of freedom and dependence experienced daily by nineteenth-century Americans. Malingerers challenged values such as the work ethic, truthfulness, and sympathy for the sick and disabled. Fears about malingerers reflected anxiety that many people were not committed to the American State and the industrial capitalist system. In reality, however, malingering served as a safety valve; those who could achieve some autonomy through feigning sickness had no reason to demand reform overtly. Malingering demonstrates that physical condition is a crucial and often overlooked factor in an individual's experience of state power.
Low Thermal Budget High-k/Metal Surface Gate for Buried Donor-Based Devices
Creators: name: Anderson, Evan M.
name: Campbell, DeAnna M.
name: Maurer, Leon N.
name: Baczewski, Andrew D.
name: Marshall, Michael T.
name: Lu, Tzu-Ming
name: Lu, Ping
name: Tracy, Lisa A.
name: Schmucker, Scott W.
name: Ward, Daniel R.
name: Misra, Shashank
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Atomic precision advanced manufacturing (APAM) offers creation of donor devices in an atomically thin layer doped beyond the solid solubility limit, enabling unique device physics. This presents an opportunity to use APAM as a pathfinding platform to investigate digital electronics at the atomic limit. Scaling to smaller transistors is increasingly difficult and expensive, necessitating the investigation of alternative fabrication paths that extend to the atomic scale. APAM donor devices can be created using a scanning tunneling microscope (STM). However, these devices are not currently compatible with industry standard fabrication processes. There exists a tradeoff between low thermal budget (LT) processes to limit dopant diffusion and high thermal budget (HT) processes to grow defect-free layers of epitaxial Si and gate oxide. To this end, we have developed an LT epitaxial Si cap and LT deposited Al2O3 gate oxide integrated with an atomically precise single-electron transistor (SET) that we use as an electrometer to characterize the quality of the gate stack. The surface-gated SET exhibits the expected Coulomb blockade behavior. However, the leverage of the gate over the SET is limited by defects in the layers above the SET, including interfaces between the Si and oxide, and structural and chemical defects in the Si cap. We propose a more sophisticated gate stack and process flow that is predicted to improve performance in future atomic precision devices.
description: Version accepted for open access publication in Journal of Physics: Materials. Added keywords, additional text to the abstract, additional discussion of interfaces, and additional references. Consolidated references into one section at the end of the document instead of one part for the main article and one part for the supplementary material
Unification of the physics of nucleons and nuclei
Creators: name: Meißner, Ulf-G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I outline an ambitious program which aims to achieve a unified description of nucleon and nuclear properties based on one chiral effective field theory.
description: 9 pp, 6 figs, plenary talk at 17th International IUPAP Conference on Few-body Problems in Physics, June 5-10, 2003, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Fatty acid analysis of lipid A from seven immunotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Creators: name: Kamal, Fariborz
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a pathogenic gram-negative bacterium, resistant to antibiotics, that proliferates in immunologically compromised individuals leading to lethal sepsis. The toxic principle in the outer cell membrane is a lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and a vaccine that combines LPS from several strains of the organism shows therapeutic promise. The lipid component (Lipid A) obtained from LPS comprises a C-1 phosphorylated beta-(1→6)-linked glucosamine disaccharide extensively O- and N-acylated by long-chain fatty acyl groups. This report describes the identification by GC-FID and CG-MS these acyl groups in the lipid A of seven immunotypes of P. aeruginosa (Fisher classification) from a proposed heptavalent LPS vaccine prepared from whole cells by extraction with trichloroacetic acid (Boivin procedure). Acyl groups identified were decanoic acid, dodecanoic acid, 2-hydroxydecanoic acid, and 3-hydroxydodecanoic acid as anticipated from literature reports, along with saturated fatty acids hexanoic acid, octanoic acid, nonanoic acid, undecanoic acid, tetradecanoic acid, hexadecanoic acid, octadecanoic acid, tetracosanoic acid, eicosanoic acid, and docosanoic acid. In addition, branched and unsaturated fatty acids 14-methylpentadecanoic acid, 9-octadecenoic acid (Z), 12-octadecadienoic acid (Z,Z), and 9,12,15-octadecatrienoic acid (Z,Z,Z) were also detected. ESI-MS analysis of the original free lipid A samples and GC-MS analysis of acyl groups isolated from the partition of the Boivin LPS between phenol and water showed that the acyl groups other than decanoic acid, dodecanoic acid, 2-hydroxydecanoic acid, and 3-hydroxydodecanoic acid identified are not associated with the free lipid A structure and appear to be the result of the cell culture process and subsequent trichloroacetic acid extraction (Boivin procedure) of LPS from the cell culture medium.
Cylindrinotus erivanus
Creators: name: Nabozhenko, Maxim
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Cylindrinotus
Cylindrinotus erivanus

description: Cylindrinotus erivanus (Reitter, 1902)
(Figs. 3, 4, 22, 23, 38, 39, 52, 53, 70)
 Helops (Cylindronotus) erivanus Reitter 1902: 219. Holotype (male) and three paratypes (one male, two females) at HNHM, labeled: “Caucasus, Armen. Geb. Leder, Reitter// Erivan. Coll. Reitter ”. Holotype has additional handwritten label: “ C. erivanus m. 1900. Type”.
Bibliography is given in Abdurakhmanov and Nabozhenko (2011).
 Material Examined. ARMENIA: 1♂: Alagös [now Aragats Mt.], vii 1871 (ZSM); 1♂, 1♀: Byurakan (southern slopes of Aragats Mt.), 5.v. 1972, leg. M.S. Gilyarov (ZIN); 1♂: Tsakhkadzor, 9.vii.1983, leg. A. Kravets (ZIN); 5♂♂, 3♀♀: Kotayk Province, Arailer Mt., 16.v.1990, 28–30. v.1993, 8–20.v.1995, 20.v.1995, 18–19.v.1996, leg. M.Yu. Kalashyan (ZIN, CK); 2♀♀: Kotayk Province, S slope of Arailer Mt., 10– 11.05.1997, leg. Karagyan (CK); 2♀♀: Kotayk Province, Arailer Mt. between N 40°23′ E44°25′ and N 40°24′ and E 44°26′, 19.v.1994, leg. M.Yu. Kalashyan (CK); 22♂♂, 27♀♀: Kotayk Province, Hrazdan District, 10 km N Arzakan, 14–19.v. 1999, leg. M.V. Nabozhenko (ZIN); 1♂, 1♀: Kotayk Province, 2–4 km E Hankavan, 5.v.2001, leg. M.Yu. Kalashyan (CK).
 Distribution. Central Armenia.
 Bionomics. The species inhabits xerophytic montane steppe.
description: Published as part of Nabozhenko, Maxim, 2015, Review of the Genus Cylindrinotus Faldermann, 1837 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini), pp. 101-114 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) (mo 14) 69 on page 110, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.101, http://zenodo.org/record/4908100
Searches for Fast Radio Transients
Creators: name: Cordes, J. M.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss optimal detection of fast radio transients from astrophysical objects while taking into account the effects of propagation through intervening ionized media, including dispersion, scattering and scintillation.Our analysis applies to the giant-pulse phenomenon exhibited by some pulsars, for which we show examples, and to radio pulses from other astrophysical sources, such as prompt radio emission from gamma-ray burst sources and modulated signals from extra-terrestrial civilizations.
description: Submitted to ApJ