cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Z-Cube: Mobile Living for Feminist Nomads
Creators: name: Ye, Zi
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: Homes proclaim our social standing and reflect the trend of the times. This project seeks to explore and redefine the relationship between modern homes and modern women who strive for mobile life styles.
Modernism and globalization have brought us a new way of living that could have never been imagined before— our workspace and homes are no longer limited to a specific unit but have extended to the entire globe. The physical changes compelled by modernity have also complemented the changing role of women. Since the beginning of the 20th century, modern women have expanded their lives outside of their homes and are playing a much more active role in society.
This project is designed for the modern feminist nomads—young women with international background living away from their home country—who are passionate about what they do professionally and proud of the women they are. The project will allow these women to determine what home means to them, and also allow their artifacts and concept of home to travel with them and, through the process, shape who they are. This project is a series of 5 different scales of designs: the Z-Cases, the Z-Cubes, the Z-Units, the Z-Communities, and the Z-Global Business Model. This series of designs is developed to better aid the life on the move for the feminist nomads, by making traveling , moving, and adjusting to a new community a much easier process.
Enriching and maintaining road digital twins with condition information
Creators: name: Mok, CY
name: Luo, P
name: Chen, W
name: Brilakis, I
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: Road Digital Twins
Condition Information
Enriching and Maintaining
IFC
Mask RCNN
Depth Map

description: Road inspections are mostly carried out manually, limiting their scalability and creating subjective human errors. Research into automating them was studied, though there are still gaps in how to efficiently replace various aspects of manual inspections, such as how to improve detection accuracy and how to integrate them into a defect progression tracking pipeline. Tackling these gaps would enable a digitalised solution for detecting and registering road defects, such as a road digital twin. This paper aims at closing these gaps by providing two unique contributions: Firstly, performing an analysis of the performances of defect detection using different data modalities (RGB images and point cloud data) under different conditions to outline the strengths and weaknesses of each modality. Secondly, to create a pipeline for using past defect information to guide detection through detecting within bounding boxes of known defects and to enable continuous tracking of defect conditions compatible with the IFC format. Mask RCNN was used for detection in the experiments. Results indicate that incorporating information from different modalities can indeed lead to more consistent and accurate detections, and past defect information can enhance detection accuracy in the case of previously known instances of defects.
title: 03_0986
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
$Q^2$ Dependence of Quadrupole Strength in the $γ^*p\toΔ^+(1232)\to p π^0$ Transition
Creators: name: CLAS Collaboration
name: Joo, K.
name: Smith, L. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Models of baryon structure predict a small quadrupole deformation of the nucleon due to residual tensor forces between quarks or distortions from the pion cloud. Sensitivity to quark versus pion degrees of freedom occurs through the $Q^2$ dependence of the magnetic ($M_{1+}$), electric ($E_{1+}$), and scalar ($S_{1+}$) multipoles in the $γ^* p \to Δ^+ \to p π^0$ transition. We report new experimental values for the ratios $E_{1+}/M_{1+}$ and $S_{1+}/M_{1+}$ over the range $Q^2$= 0.4-1.8 GeV$^2$, extracted from precision $p(e,e 'p)π^{\circ}$ data using a truncated multipole expansion. Results are best described by recent unitary models in which the pion cloud plays a dominant role.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. To be published in Phys. Rev. Lett. (References, figures and table updated, minor changes.)
Cicurina (Cicurella) porteri Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina porteri

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) porteri Gertsch 1992
(Figs 78–79, 138)
 Cicurina porteri Gertsch 1992: 115, figs 133–134 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas; Val Verde Co. Oriente Milestone Molasses Bat Cave, about 20 mi. NE Del Rio, January 25, 1964 J. Reddell; D. McKenzie & J. Porter, under rock beyond Bat room”. Examined (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 5.22; carapace length: 2.34; carapace width: 1.53; opisthosoma length 2.88. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 left side likewise; retromargin right side with 6 denticles (3 large, 3 small), left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 6.91; femur: 1.80; patella: 0.63; tibia: 1.75; metatarsus: 1.65; tarsus: 1.08; leg IV: total length: 8.08; femur: 2.20; patella: 0.60; tibia: 1.95; metatarsus: 2.18; tarsus: 1.15. Tarsal claw IV: 0.15. Epigynum length: 0.490. Epigynal ventral plate with moderate transverse slit, bearing medial, shallow indentation; atrium rectangular, almost completely intruded by the rounded dorsal plate reaching over the epigynal slit, atrial aperture small; bursa enlarged, not fused; copulatory ducts separated at midpoint, reaching over of primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located basally; primary pores visible (1 seen); stalk short, procurved, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore elongated; primary lobe kidney-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal long, externally positioned from the dictynoid pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Only reported from the type locality: Oriente Milestone Molasses Bat Cave (Val Verde County, Texas, Fig. 138).
 Remarks. Male unknown. Since the epigynum was damaged, the position of the bursa, copulatory ducts and primary pores may be slightly displaced in the illustration.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on pages 38-39
Thermally expandable nanocapsules obtained from surfactant-free emulsion polymerization
Creators: name: Shengyuan Liang
name: Jiwen Hu
name: Zhihua Li
name: Shudong Lin
name: Yuanyuan Tu
name: Zhenzhu Huang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Plasma Physics
subject: Computational Biology

description: In this work, thermally expandable nanocapsules (TENs) with a core/shell structure were prepared by one-step surfactant-free emulsion polymerization (SFEP). Acrylonitrile (AN), butyl acrylate (BA), and methyl methacrylate (MMA) were used as the main monomers while ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA) was employed as the crosslinking agent. In addition, toluene-p-sulfonyl hydrazide (TSH) was chosen as the blowing agent. Via SFEP, TENs were obtained without the negative effects exerted from emulsifiers and suspension stabilizers. The diameter of these synthesized nanocapsules was about 260 nm, and their core/shell structure was demonstrated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The thermal stability of the nanocapsules was studied by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). In addition, the morphology of nanocapsules before and after expansion was investigated by means of scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) analysis. The thermo-expandable properties, including the start expansion temperature and the maximum expansion temperature, were tested by dilatometer (DIL). The results show that all of the samples exhibited expansion behavior while both the EGDMA concentration and shell composition had an influence on the thermo-expandable properties of the synthesized nanocapsules.
Family Unification in Five and Six Dimensions
Creators: name: Babu, K. S.
name: Barr, S. M.
name: Kyae, Bumseok
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In family unification models, all three families of quarks and leptons are grouped together into an irreducible representation of a simple gauge group, thus unifying the Standard Model gauge symmetries and a gauged family symmetry. Large orthogonal groups, and the exceptional groups $E_7$ and $E_8$ have been much studied for family unification. The main theoretical difficulty of family unification is the existence of mirror families at the weak scale. It is shown here that family unification without mirror families can be realized in simple five-dimensional and six-dimensional orbifold models similar to those recently proposed for SU(5) and SO(10) grand unification. It is noted that a family unification group that survived to near the weak scale and whose coupling extrapolated to high scales unified with those of the Standard model would be evidence accessible in principle at low energy of the existence of small (Planckian or GUT-scale) extra dimensions.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures, minor corrections, references added
An examination of the provision of research funding information by the External Relations Office, Loughborough University of Technology
Creators: name: Lass, Deborah M.
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: An examination of the provision of research funding information by the External Relations Office, Loughborough University of Technology
Estimation of Remote Sensing and Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Grassland LAI
Creators: name: Sun, Chengming
name: Liu, Tao
name: Guo, Doudou
name: Tian, Ting
name: Wang, Lijian
name: Chen, Yingying
name: Li, Jianlong
name: Sun, Chengming
name: Liu, Tao
name: Guo, Doudou
name: Tian, Ting
name: Wang, Lijian
name: Chen, Yingying
name: Li, Jianlong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Estimation model
subject: Grassland LAI
subject: MODIS
subject: NDVI
subject: Temporal and spatial characteristics

description: To estimate the leaf area index (LAI) in large areas, this paper analyzes the relationships between normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and the grassland LAI based on MODIS data in the southern grassy mountains and slopes of China. By using nonlinear fitting equation we constructed the basic estimation model of grassland LAI with NDVI as the independent variable and introduced precipitation and temperature as regulatory factors. The model was validated with observed data in different years and the results showed that there was a good correlation between the simulated and observed LAI value with a statistically significant level of R2. RMSE was 0.302 and RRMSE was 0.154. It was also found that the spatial distribution of grassland LAI in south China showed a remarkable zonal characterization, and temporal distribution showed a single peak curve. These results provided a theoretical basis for the effective management of southern grassland resources and the carbon sink estimation of the nationwide grasslands.
Tugas makalah individu dan kelompok
Creators: name: Yanti
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ruang lingkup, karakteristik, strategi, peluang, analisa, kewirausahaan

description: Makalah Individu : Menjelaskan tentang pengertian, ruang lingkup, karakteristik dan strategi kewirausahaan. Makalah Kelompok : Menjelaskan tentang sumber peluang usaha, analisa peluang sebelum dijadikan sebuah usaha dan karakteristik kewirausahaan.
description: Makalah individu di buat oleh Yanti 11812054 ( 7B) Makalah kelompok di buat oleh Melania Khoiriyah 11812035 , Sulis Aspiyani 11812050, dan Yanti 11812054 (7B)
Neutrino Oscillations with Two $Δm^2$ Scales
Creators: name: Mocioiu, Irina
name: Shrock, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An approximation that is often used in fits to reactor and atmospheric neutrino data and in some studies of future neutrino oscillation experiments is to assume one dominant scale, $Δm^2$, of neutrino mass squared differences, in particular, $Δm^2_{atm} \sim 3 \times 10^{-3}$ eV$^2$. Here we investigate the corrections to this approximation arising from the quantity $Δm^2_{sol}$ relevant for solar neutrino oscillations, assuming the large mixing angle solution. We show that for values of $\sin^2(2θ_{13}) \sim 10^{-2}$ (in the range of interest for long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments with either intense conventional neutrino beams such as JHF-SuperK or a possible future neutrino factory) and for $Δm^2_{sol} \sim 10^{-4}$ eV$^2$, the contributions to $ν_μ\toν_e$ oscillations from both CP-conserving and CP-violating terms involving $\sin^2(Δm^2_{sol}L/(4E))$ can be comparable to the terms involving $\sin^2(Δm^2_{atm}L/(4E))$ retained in the one-$Δm^2$ approximation. Accordingly, we emphasize the importance of performing a full three-flavor, two-$Δm^2$ analysis of the data on $ν_μ\to ν_e$ oscillations in a conventional-beam experiment and $ν_e \to ν_μ$, $\barν_e \to \barν_μ$ oscillations at a neutrino factory. We also discuss a generalized analysis method for the KamLAND reactor experiment, and note how the information from this experiment can be used to facilitate the analysis of the subsequent data on $ν_μ\to ν_e$ oscillations. Finally, we consider the analysis of atmospheric neutrino data and present calculations of matter effects in a three-flavor, two-$Δm^2$ framework relevant to this data and to neutrino factory measurements.
description: 24 pages, revtex, 5 postscript figures, some refs. added
Too Much of a Good Thing? Causes and Consequences of Increases in Sugar Content of California Wine Grapes
Creators: name: Alston, Julian M.
name: Fuller, Kate B.
name: Lapsley, James T.
name: Soleas, George
name: Alston, Julian M.
name: Fuller, Kate B.
name: Lapsley, James T.
name: Soleas, George
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Agribusiness

description: The sugar content of California wine grapes has increased significantly over the past 10–20 years, and this implies a corresponding increase in the alcohol content of wine made with those grapes. In this paper we develop a simple model of winegrape production and quality, including sugar content and other characteristics as choice variables along with yield. Using this model we derive hypotheses about alternative theoretical explanations for the phenomenon of rising sugar content of grapes, including effects of changes in climate and producer responses to changes in consumer demand. We analyze detailed data on changes in the sugar content of California wine grapes at crush to obtain insight into the relative importance of the different influences. We buttress this analysis of sugar content of wine grapes with data on the alcohol content of wine.
description: Reprinted in Journal of Wine Economics, Volume 6, Number 2, 2011, Pages 135–159
Cicurina (Cicurella) puentecilla Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina puentecilla

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) puentecilla Gertsch 1992
(Figs 80–81, 134)
 Cicurina puentecilla Gertsch 1992: 111, figs 99–100 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162; Reddell & Cokendolpher 2004: 81; Paquin & Hedin 2004: 3243–3245, 3247, 3254.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas; Natural Bridge Caverns, Comal County, Texas, 2 Sept. 1978. A.G. Grubbs ”. Examined (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 5.22; carapace length: 2.61; carapace width: 1.89; opisthosoma length: 2.61. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 2 teeth (2 large), left side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small); retromargin right side with 5 denticles (3 large, 2 small), left side with 6 denticles (3 large, 3 small). Leg I: total length: 9.80; femur: 2.50; patella: 0.95; tibia: 2.50; metatarsus: 2.40; tarsus: 1.45; leg IV: total length: 10.70; femur: 2.65; patella: 0.90; tibia: 2.65; metatarsus: 3.05; tarsus: 1.45. Tarsal claw IV: 0.15. Epigynum: 0.462 mm. Epigynal ventral plate with moderate transverse slit, bearing medial, deep, inverted U-shaped indentation; atrium rectangular, half intruded by rounded dorsal plate, atrial aperture moderate; bursa enlarged, not fused; copulatory ducts separated at midpoint, nearly reaching top of primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located apically; primary pores visible (1 seen); stalk short, straight, obliquely directed, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe hat-shaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal short, internally positioned from the dictynoid pore; fertilization duct internally attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Only known from B-52 cave, Black Cat Cave, and Natural Bridge Caverns (type locality) (Comal County, Texas, Fig. 134). The occurrence of the species in B-52 Cave and Black Cat Cave is based on a DNA match of immature specimens (see Paquin & Hedin 2004).
 Remarks. Male unknown.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 39
Demand for Food in the United States: A Review of Literature, Evaluation of Previous Estimates, and Presentation of New Estimates of Demand
Creators: name: Okrent, Abigail M.
name: Alston, Julian M.
name: Okrent, Abigail M.
name: Alston, Julian M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety

description: Many findings and policy recommendations in the academic literature are influenced by published estimates of elasticities of demand for food. However, the quality of these estimates is diverse and depends on modeling choices and assumptions, including the functional form for demands, types of data used, separability structure, food defi nitions, and statistical techniques used to estimate the models. In this monograph, we make three contributions to the empirical literature on demand for food in the United States. First, we evaluate the elasticities of demand for food from previous studies using the mean absolute error in elasticity-based predictions of quantity responses to actual past changes in prices and total expenditure. Second, we estimate elasticities of demand for aggregate food products using annual and monthly data under various alternative assumptions about functional form. We evaluate how well these new estimates of elasticities of demand predict quantity responses to actual price and expenditure changes, both absolutely and compared with previous estimates from the literature. Third, we estimate two sets of elasticities of demand for disaggregated fruit and vegetables: one that is conditional on the total expenditure on fruit and vegetables and a second that is conditional on expenditure on goods. To facilitate and provide context for these empirical contributions, we begin the monograph with a succinct statement of the relevant theory that underpins demand models, some specifi c discussion of separability and aggregation assumptions and their implications for the interpretation of demand elasticities, and a review of issues more generally that arise in empirical demand analysis.
description: CWE working paper 1002
description: Reprinted as Giannini Foundation Monograph 48, April 2011
Quantum liquid with strong orbital fluctuations: the case of a pyroxene family
Creators: name: Feiguin, A.
name: Tsvelik, A. M.
name: Yin, Weiguo
name: Bozin, E. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss quasi one-dimensional magnetic Mott insulators of the pyroxene family where spin and orbital degrees of freedom remain tightly bound. We analyze their excitation spectrum and outline the conditions under which the orbital degrees of freedom become liberated so that the excitations become dispersive and the spectral weight shifts to energies much smaller than the exchange integral.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, Supplemental Material, revised version
Productivity and Technical Inefficiency of Alternative Pest Management Compliant and Non-Compliant Farmers: The Case of Shallot Growers in Java
Creators: name: Wahida
name: Yi, Dale
name: Umberger, Wendy
name: Stringer, Randy
name: Minot, Nicholas
name: Wahida
name: Yi, Dale
name: Umberger, Wendy
name: Stringer, Randy
name: Minot, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Alternative Pest Management
subject: Shallots
subject: Technical Inefficiency
subject: Propensity Score Matching
subject: Indonesia

description: In response to (a) growing demand for high safety and quality fresh food products; (b) increasingly stringent standards on chemical residues, and (c) concern regarding the sustainability of chemical input intensive agriculture, the adoption of sustainable production systems (IPM, Pesticide-Free, organic) in agriculture is rapidly expanding. This study uses data from 2011 Shallots Growers Survey in Indonesia to compare the productivity, technical efficiency of APM-adopter and conventional (non-adopter) shallots farmers. We also measure yield loss that may associate with technology adoption. Self-selectivity may cause the frontier production function to differ between the adopters and non-adopters. Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method is used to address self-selectivity before we continue the analysis with Stochastic Production Frontier (SPF). We reject the homogenous technology hypothesis and interestingly the result indicates that on average yield loss that associated with adopting APM farming practices only 1.5%. The yield loss itself can be gradually improved by implementing a proper training and extension methods and empowering the role of farmers’ group among shallot farmers.
Positivity of Energy in Einstein-Maxwell Axion-dilaton gravity
Creators: name: Rogatko, Marek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Avoiding the problem of the existence of asymptotically constant spinors satysfying certain differential equations on a non-compact hypersrface we presented the proof of positivity of the ADM and Bondi energy in Einstein-Maxwell axion-dilaton gravity. In our attitude spinor fields defining the enwergy need only be defined near infinity and there satysfying propagation equations.
description: 11 pages, Latex, to be published in Classical Quantum Gravity
title: Residential care and senile dementia : the effect of the physical and social environment of homes for elderly people on residents suffering from senile dementia.
Creators: name: Netten, Ann Penelope
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 1989

description: Projected changes in the population structure are such that there is little doubt that the condition of senile dementia will present a major problem for the "carers", be they professional or "informal", in the coming decades. This problem has to be put in the context of a growing emphasis on caring for elderly mentally infirm people "in the community" rather than in hospitals. It is likely, therefore, that there will be an increased need for, and pressure on, residential care services. In the residential care of demented elderly people the major policy issues are: the use of specialist facilities, staffing, the role of the home as a community resource, building design, and, increasingly, performance review and monitoring. The study used a model based on the social ecology of aging to examine how these, and other environmental influences impact upon the demented elderly residents of the homes. The study was limited in scale and any conclusions drawn must be tentative, therefore. However, the results confirm some of the current trends in residential care policy and cast doubt upon others. On balance the evidence is in favour of the use of specialist facilities, although the wide variety of provision under this label needs to be recognised and the formation of "positive" regimes encouraged Recommendations to enhance the status of residential care staff are supported by the results of the study and there would appear to be a future in the development of in-service training which could build on the strengths and mitigate the weaknesses of backgrounds in nursing qualifications. The use of homes as resource centres for the communities in which they are based, needs careful consideration. While any policy which encourages visitors to keep up regular contact is likely to have a beneficial effect on residents, the provision of short-term respite care in long-term facilities is brought into question by the results of this study. The trend towards group-living units would appear to benefit the spatial orientation of residents. The study provides a starting point for effective monitoring of residential care by linking a number of indicators of "process", such as regime type, to outcomes for residents with senile dementia.
Cicurina (Cicurella) rainesi Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina rainesi

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) rainesi Gertsch 1992
(Figs 82–83, 138)
 Cicurina rainesi Gertsch 1992: 117, figs 143–144 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162; Reddell 1995: 23; Cokendolpher 2004a: 24, 52.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas; Edwards Co. 3–Bounce Pit, Carta Valley, Feb., 1974. R. Raines, J. Lewis, R. Fieseler ”. Examined (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 4.59; carapace length: 2.61; carapace width: 1.64; opisthosoma length 1.98. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side likewise; retromargin right side with 7 denticles (3 large, 4 small), left side likewise. Leg I: total length: 7.45; femur: 1.90; patella: 0.75; tibia: 1.90; metatarsus: 1.80; tarsus: 1.10; leg IV: total length: 8.55; femur: 2.10; patella: 0.80; tibia: 2.05; metatarsus: 2.40; tarsus: 1.20. Tarsal claw IV: 0.15. Epigynum length: 0.406. Epigynal ventral plate with moderate transverse slit, bearing medial, deep, inverted U-shaped indentation; atrium rectangular, half intruded by rounded dorsal plate, atrial aperture moderate; bursa enlarged, not fused; copulatory ducts touching at midpoint, reaching well over primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located medially; primary pores not visible; stalk short, straight, horizontal, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore elongated; primary lobe elongated; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal short, externally positioned from dictynoid pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Only reported from the type locality: 3–Bounce Pit (Edwards County, Texas, Fig. 138).
 Remarks. Male unknown. The holotype vial also contained one immature specimen not mentioned in Gertsch (1992).
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on pages 39-40
Interference between the Atmospheric and Solar Oscillation Amplitudes
Creators: name: Huber, Patrick
name: Minakata, Hisakazu
name: Pestes, Rebekah
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose to detect the interference effect between the atmospheric-scale and solar-scale waves of neutrino oscillation, one of the key consequences of the three-generation structure of leptons. In vacuum, we show that there is a natural and general way of decomposing the oscillation amplitude into these two oscillation modes. The nature of the interference is cleanest in the $\barν_e$ disappearance channel since it is free from the CP-phase $δ$. We find that the upcoming JUNO experiment offers an ideal setting to observe this interference with more than $4\,σ$ significance, even under conservative assumptions about the systematic uncertainties.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, expanded discussion on how this relates to mass hierarchy, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Adoption of Nutritionally Enhanced Sweetpotato Varieties: The Role of Household Food Insecurity and Knowledge of Nutritional Benefits
Creators: name: Okello, Julius J.
name: Shikuku, Kelvin M.
name: Sindi, Kirimi
name: McEwan, Margaret
name: Low, Jan W.
name: Okello, Julius J.
name: Shikuku, Kelvin M.
name: Sindi, Kirimi
name: McEwan, Margaret
name: Low, Jan W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
International Development

description: Orange-fleshed sweetpotato, food insecurity, nutrition knowledge, adoption, Tanzania
Effect of size-dependent properties on electromechanical behavior of composite structures
Creators: name: K. B. Shingare
name: S. Naskar
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Due to its electromechanical applications in the form of nanodevices such as distributors, actuators, and sensors, the electromechanical behavior of piezocomposite structures becomes a new avenue for research. This article presents the derivation of an exact analytical solution of the composite plate based on theory of Kirchhoff’s plate and extended theory of piezoelectricity. The electromechanical behavior of piezocomposite structures accounting the influence of size-dependent properties such as piezoelectric and surface effect is investigated. In addition to this, the parametric analysis is carried out using the different parameters such as aspect ratio and thickness on the electromechanical response of composite structures. The consequences of the present study explore that the influence of size-dependent properties on the electromechanical behavior of composite structures is noteworthy with respect to the size of structures and can be ignored at bulk sizes. The electromechanical behavior including dynamic response (resonant frequency) of composite plates shows significant enhancement as compared to the conventional composite plate. This current study offers pathways for developing novel composite materials with enhanced control authority and offer guideline for the application and design of nanodevices in energy harvesting. It also highlights the opportunity to evolve high-performance and lightweight micro/nano-electro-mechanical system (M-/NEMS).
Construction and Performance of a Micro-Pattern Stereo Detector with Two Gas Electron Multipliers
Creators: name: Barvich, T.
name: Bluem, P.
name: Erdmann, M.
name: Fahrer, M.
name: Kaercher, K.
name: Kuehn, F.
name: Moermann, D.
name: Mueller, Th.
name: Neuberger, D.
name: Roederer, F.
name: Simonis, H. J.
name: Skiba, A.
name: Thuemmel, W. H.
name: Weiler, Th.
name: Weseler, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The construction of a micro-pattern gas detector of dimensions 40x10 cm**2 is described. Two gas electron multiplier foils (GEM) provide the internal amplification stages. A two-layer readout structure was used, manufactured in the same technology as the GEM foils. The strips of each layer cross at an effective crossing angle of 6.7 degrees and have a 406 um pitch. The performance of the detector has been evaluated in a muon beam at CERN using a silicon telescope as reference system. The position resolutions of two orthogonal coordinates are measured to be 50 um and 1 mm, respectively. The muon detection efficiency for two-dimensional space points reaches 96%.
description: 21 pages, 17 figures
A Mixed-methods Study on Female Landowner Estate Planning Objectives
Creators: name: zimmerer, rebekah
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: The majority of the forested land in New England is owned by private landowners, a large number of whom are at or above retirement age. In the coming decades these landowners are going to be making decisions about what happens to their land once they no longer own it. Female landowners specifically play a critical role in the long-term planning and decision-making process. Women generally have a longer life expectancy than men and assess their level of confidence and financial stability in ways that differ from men. This difference in perception influences the decisions they make about their land. Despite this, little is known about decisions female landowners are making and barriers they face to formulating informed decisions that are in line with their goals. In order to understand more about female landowners’ estate planning objectives, I conducted a mixed-methods study. Through a mail survey and subsequent qualitative interviews, I found that women were more likely than men to have lower confidence confidence in moving forward with plans for the land, lower certainty that their financial resources were adequate to move forward, and less certainty when it came to future decisions about their land. However, women who were certain about their estate planning objectives were more likely than men to have a conservation-based decision. The results of this mixed-methods study are applied to peer-to-peer network events and outcomes are discussed.
Droplets II: Internal Velocity Structures and Potential Rotational Motions in Pressure-dominated Coherent Structures
Creators: name: Chen, Hope How-Huan
name: Pineda, Jaime E.
name: Offner, Stella S. R.
name: Goodman, Alyssa A.
name: Burkert, Andreas
name: Friesen, Rachel K.
name: Rosolowsky, Erik
name: Scibelli, Samantha
name: Shirley, Yancy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of the internal velocity structures of the newly identified sub-0.1 pc coherent structures, droplets, in L1688 and B18. By fitting 2D linear velocity fields to the observed maps of velocity centroids, we determine the magnitudes of linear velocity gradients and examine the potential rotational motions that could lead to the observed velocity gradients. The results show that the droplets follow the same power-law relation between the velocity gradient and size found for larger-scale dense cores. Assuming that rotational motion giving rise to the observed velocity gradient in each core is a solid-body rotation of a rotating body with a uniform density, we derive the "net rotational motions" of the droplets. We find a ratio between rotational and gravitational energies, $β$, of $\sim 0.046$ for the droplets, and when including both droplets and larger-scale dense cores, we find $β\sim 0.039$. We then examine the alignment between the velocity gradient and the major axis of each droplet, using methods adapted from the histogram of relative orientations (HRO) introduced by Soler et al. (2013). We find no definitive correlation between the directions of velocity gradients and the elongations of the cores. Lastly, we discuss physical processes other than rotation that may give rise to the observed velocity field.
description: accepted to ApJ in Oct, 2019; in press
Clash of symmetries on the brane
Creators: name: Davidson, A.
name: Toner, B. F.
name: Volkas, R. R.
name: Wali, K. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If our 3+1-dimensional universe is a brane or domain wall embedded in a higher dimensional space, then a phenomenon we term the ``clash of symmetries'' provides a new method of breaking some continuous symmetries. A global $G_{\text{cts}} \otimes G_{\text{discrete}}$ symmetry is spontaneously broken to $H_{\text{cts}} \otimes H_{\text{discrete}}$, where the continuous subgroup $H_{\text{cts}}$ can be embedded in several different ways in the parent group $G_{\text{cts}}$, and $H_{\text{discrete}} < G_{\text{discrete}}$. A certain class of topological domain wall solutions connect two vacua that are invariant under {\it differently embedded} $H_{\text{cts}}$ subgroups. There is then enhanced symmetry breakdown to the intersection of these two subgroups on the domain wall. This is the ``clash''. In the brane limit, we obtain a configuration with $H_{\text{cts}}$ symmetries in the bulk but the smaller intersection symmetry on the brane itself. We illustrate this idea using a permutation symmetric three-Higgs-triplet toy model exploiting the distinct $I-$, $U-$ and $V-$spin U(2) subgroups of U(3). The three disconnected portions of the vacuum manifold can be treated symmetrically through the construction of a three-fold planar domain wall junction configuration, with our universe at the nexus. A possible connection with $E_6$ is discussed.
description: 30 pages, 9 embedded figures
Cicurina (Cicurella) reclusa Gertsch 1992
Creators: name: Paquin, Pierre
name: Dupérré, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Hahniidae
Cicurina
Cicurina reclusa

description: Cicurina (Cicurella) reclusa Gertsch 1992
(Figs 84–85, 134)
 Cicurina reclusa Gertsch 1992: 111, figs 97–98 (description of female). — Jackman 1997: 162; Reddell & Cokendolpher 2004: 81.
 HOLOTYPE female: “ Texas; Comal County, Kappelman Salamander Cave, 100 yards N.E. of Kappelman Cave, March 15, 1964, B. Russell & J. Reddell ”. Examined (AMNH).
 Description. Female holotype
Total length: 4.14; carapace length: 1.89; carapace width: 1.26; opisthosoma length: 2.25. Eyes absent. Cheliceral promargin right side with 3 teeth (2 large, 1 small), left side with 3 teeth likewise; retromargin right side with 5 denticles (3 large, 2 small), left side with 6 denticles (3 large, 3 small). Leg I: total length: 5.10; femur: 1.35; patella: 0.60; tibia: 1.20; metatarsus: 1.25; tarsus: 0.70; leg IV: total length: 5.95; femur: 1.55; patella: 0.60; tibia: 1.35; metatarsus: 1.60; tarsus: 0.85. Tarsal claw IV: 0.15. Epigynum: 0.182 mm (half). Epigynal ventral plate with moderate transverse slit; bursa enlarged; copulatory ducts reaching top of primary lobe apex; copulatory ducts constriction located basally; primary pores visible (1 seen); stalk short, procurved, joining the primary lobe at the aperture of the dictynoid pore; dictynoid pore rounded; primary lobe earshaped; secondary lobe absent; fertilization canal short, externally positioned from the dictynoid pore; fertilization duct medially attached to the primary lobe base.
 Distribution. Reported from two caves: Kappelman Cave and Kappelman Salamander Cave (Comal County, Texas, Fig. 134).
 Remarks. Male unknown. The data slightly differ in Gertsch’s (1992) paper: “N.W. of Kappelman Cave”. The description of the epigynum is incomplete, because it is damaged. The specimen from Kappelman Cave could not be located and examined to confirm the occurrence of Cicurina (Cicurella) reclusa in that cave. However, the locality is included in Fig. 134 based on Gertsch’s (1992) record and indicated by an open symbol.
description: Published as part of Paquin, Pierre & Dupérré, Nadine, 2009, of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 2002 on page 40
Agricultural Technology Adoption and Child Nutrition: Improved Maize Varieties in Rural Ethiopia
Creators: name: Zeng, Di
name: Alwang, Jeffrey Roger
name: Norton, George
name: Shiferaw, Bekele
name: Jaleta, Moti
name: Yirga, Chilot
name: Zeng, Di
name: Alwang, Jeffrey Roger
name: Norton, George
name: Shiferaw, Bekele
name: Jaleta, Moti
name: Yirga, Chilot
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: International Development
subject: child nutrition
subject: impact
subject: improved maize varieties
subject: Ethiopia

description: Adoption of agricultural technology can lead to multiple benefits to farm households, including increased productivity, incomes and food consumption. However, specific causal linkages between agricultural technology adoption and child nutrition outcomes are rarely explored in the literature. This paper helps bridge this gap through an impact assessment of the adoption of improved maize varieties on child nutrition outcomes using a recent household survey in rural Ethiopia. The conceptual linkage between adoption of improved maize varieties and child nutrition is first established using an agricultural household model. Instrumental variable (IV) estimation suggests the overall impacts of adoption on child height-for-age and weight-for-age z-scores to be positive and significant. Quantile IV regressions further reveal that such impacts are largest among children with poorest nutritional outcomes. By combining a decomposition procedure with system of equations estimation, it is found that the increase in own-produced maize consumption is the major channel through which adoption of improved maize varieties affects child nutrition.
Sperm Mitochondrial Copy Number and Associations with Oxidative Stress and Phthalate Metabolites in Male Partners Undergoing Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Creators: name: Olmsted, Alexandra
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2017

description: INTRODUCTION
Phthalates, a chemical class of plasticizers, are ubiquitous in the environment and recognized
as endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs). Recent data suggest that oxidative stress is a
potential mediator of poor male reproductive health associated with phthalate exposure.
Mitochondria are implicated in the production of excess oxidative stress and sperm
mitochondrial copy number (MtCopy) and deletions (MtDeletion) have been linked with
male infertility. However, little is known about the relationship of these mitochondrial
biomarkers in sperm with phthalate exposure and oxidative stress.
OBJECTIVES
To examine associations of urinary phthalate metabolites and isoprostane concentrations on
sperm MtCopy and MtDeletions in male partners undergoing assisted reproductive
technologies (ART).
METHODS
A total of (n=97) sperm samples were collected from male partners undergoing ART at
Baystate Medical Center, in Springfield, MA from 2014 to 2016 as part of the Sperm
Environmental Epigenetics and Development Study (SEEDS). Seventeen urinary phthalate
metabolites (n=103) were analyzed by the Centers for Disease Control using tandem mass
spectrometry. 15-F2t-Isoprostane (n=101) was measured using a competitive enzyme-linked
immonsorbent assay in urine of male individuals. A triplex Taqman probe-based qPCR
method was developed for relative quantification of genomic DNA, MtCopy and
MtDeletions. Multivariable linear or logistic regression was employed to examine
associations with age, BMI, batch and current smoking status with each outcome to
determine confounders used for adjustment.
RESULTS
Quartiles of MtCopy and MtDeletion were positively associated with the odds of male
infertility (p for trend < .0001 and 0.007, respectively). Urinary metabolite concentrations of
MCNP displayed a positive association with MtCopy (β=1.56; p =0.03). Urinary MEHP
concentrations were positively associated with MtDeletion in only infertile individuals
(n=30) (β = 0.075; p = 0.006). Urinary isoprostane concentration was not associated with
MtCopy or MtDeletion, but was associated with seven phthalate metabolite concentrations
(MEOHP, MEHHP, MBzP, MHBP, MiBP, and MHiBP).
CONCLUSIONS
To our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate the relationship between sperm
MtCopy and MtDeletion with oxidative stress and phthalates. These results suggest that
certain phthalate metabolites may be associated with a known biomarker of systemic
oxidative stress. Sperm mitochondrial function as measured by MtCopy and MtDeletion may
be considered biomarkers of male infertility, although no relationship was shown between
mitochondrial outcomes and oxidative stress. Future research is investigating these
relationships with developmental outcomes including embryo quality.