cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Alcohol's modulation of cocaine-induced place preferences: Serial and concurrent interactions
Creators: name: Busse, Gregory D.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: In humans, alcohol consumption commonly precedes and co-occurs with cocaine use, suggesting that alcohol may act as a significant catalyst for the initiation and maintenance of cocaine use. Although the bases for these interactions are unknown, it is possible that alcohol influences the likelihood to begin, maintain and reinitiate cocaine use by modulating cocaine reinforcement. Therefore, the purpose of the present assessments was to examine alcohol's ability to modulate cocaine reinforcement using a drug abuse model (i.e., the conditioned place preference design) sensitive to drug interactions similar to those that occur in the human cocaine using population. Specifically, Experiment 1 assessed the effects of alcohol preexposure (1.5 g/kg) on place preferences conditioned by 20 mg/kg cocaine. Experiment 2a and 2b examined the effects of alcohol (0.5g/kg) on place preferences conditioned by low (2.5 and 5 mg/kg; Experiment 2a), intermediate (20 mg/kg; Experiment 2b) and high (30 and 40 mg/kg; Experiment 2b) doses of cocaine when these two compounds are administered concurrently. Finally, Experiment 3 assessed the ability of alcohol (0.5 and 1.0 g/kg) to reinstate place preferences conditioned by 20 mg/kg cocaine. In Experiment 1, cocaine's ability to condition a place preference was not altered after animals were preexposed to alcohol, suggesting that alcohol history produced no measurable change in cocaine's reinforcing effects. In Experiment 2a and 2b, however, alcohol potentiated the place conditioning effects of 5 mg/kg cocaine, had no effect on place preferences produced by 20 mg/kg cocaine and attenuated place preferences conditioned by 30 and 40 mg/kg cocaine. These data indicate that alcohol produced a bi-directional modulation in cocaine reinforcement that was selective to cocaine dose. Finally, in Experiment 3, priming injections of 0.5 and 1.0 g/kg alcohol failed to reinstate cocaine place preferences previously conditioned by 20 mg/kg cocaine, suggesting that alcohol did not renew the salience of cocaine reinforcement in animals with previous cocaine experience. Together, these findings suggest that within the CPP design, only the concurrent administration of cocaine and alcohol produced measurable changes in cocaine's reinforcing effects.
Eleodes (Tricheleodes) barbatus Wickham 1918
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Fleming, David
name: Franz, Nico M.
name: Smith, Aaron D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Eleodes
Eleodes barbatus

description: Eleodes (Tricheleodes) barbatus Wickham, 1918
(Fig. 5A)
 Diagnosis. Body small, broadly oval, heavily punctate and clothed in long, golden setae. Pronotum rounded, with large punctures medially, each with a single, long seta. Elytra quite rounded and rugose, with rows of large punctures separating tubercles which each produce a single seta.
 Distribution. Coconino, Apache, and Navajo Counties, Arizona. New Mexico, Colorado, Utah.
 Remarks. This distinctive species is the smallest of the Arizona fauna and only rivaled in size by several of the coastal species in California. It can be found in aeolian sand formations in the Four Corners region. Its relative scarcity in collections and patchy distribution are likely due to limited collecting in the deserts of this region.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Fleming, David, Franz, Nico M. & Smith, Aaron D., 2015, Amphidorini Leconte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Arizona: Keys and Species Accounts, pp. 27-54 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) (mo 14) 69 on pages 44-45, DOI: 0.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.27, http://zenodo.org/record/10086147
Quantum fluctuations and life
Creators: name: Davies, P. C. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There have been many claims that quantum mechanics plays a key role in the origin and/or operation of biological organisms, beyond merely providing the basis for the shapes and sizes of biological molecules and their chemical affinities. These range from the suggestion by Schrodinger that quantum fluctuations produce mutations, to the conjecture by Hameroff and Penrose that quantum coherence in microtubules is linked to consciousness. I review some of these claims in this paper, and discuss the serious problem of decoherence. I advance some further conjectures about quantum information processing in bio-systems. Some possible experiments are suggested.
description: 10 pages, no figures, conference paper
Caught in the WWWeb: Privacy and the control over personal information in the e -commerce environment
Creators: name: Neidhart De Ortiz, Jenifer Lynn
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study of the economic value of personal information in e-commerce and social life attempts to reconceptualize the issue of privacy as a question of control of personal information flows in social relations. The lens of privacy serves as a valuable mechanism for examining the structure of e-commerce, since individual control over personal information is regarded in conventional human rights analysis as a key benchmark for assessing the structures of freedom and individual rights within a social system. Utilizing a socio-cultural analysis of public policy, the study demonstrates that e-commerce policies in the period from 1994 through 2000 have tended to diminish prevailing standards of individual privacy within the U.S. A pattern is identified in the policy conceptualization and treatment of personal information flow that is instructive for its implications for the development of private rights in a democratic society. The theoretical approach employs Jacques Ellul's concept of technique and Anthony Giddens' "rules and resources" to identify four distinct patterns of personal information flow that individually and collectively determine the base of individual privacy in e-commerce. One pattern reveals that, while e-commerce techniques are increasingly automated, privacy protections tend to be non-systematic and laborious. Second and related to this finding of skewed automation, the same e-commerce techniques increasingly appear integrated with each other to create a system of e-commerce techniques. A third pattern identified by the study is the erosion of individual control from the lack of boundaries or set aside aspects of personal information flow. Finally, the trend of the proliferation of multiple and distinct privacy regimes exacerbates the first three patterns that together diminish levels of individual privacy. This fourth pattern suggests that an individual attempting to exercise control over personal information would need to learn the practices and policies for each commercial or institutional website with which transactions are undertaken. Together, these four patterns of personal information flow detail a specific, coordinated, and increasingly efficient system of personal information flow within e-commerce whereby the individual user would need to engage in a systematic struggle to define personal privacy preferences.
Political Events and Economic Trends: The Effects of the Intifada on the Israeli Economy
Creators: name: Fishelson, Gideon
name: Fishelson, Gideon
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: The natural flows of economic activities are often disturbed by political-military exogenous events that cause the various economic activities to change course. Such an event was the uprising - Intifada - that started in December 1987 in the West Bank and Gaza, WBG, and affected the economy of these areas as well as that of Israel. In this study we perform an econometric analysis that was aimed at detecting the change of levels and trends of the various real economic activities in Israel. The same time dependent behavioral model was applied to all activities. The findings indicate that the intifada did have significant effects, from the statistical point of view, on most economic activities. The exceptions are various export activities.
An Unexplained 10 Degree - 40 Degree Shift in the Location of Some Diverse Neutral Atom Data at 1 AU
Creators: name: Collier, Michael R.
name: Moore, Thomas E.
name: Simpson, David
name: Roberts, Aaron
name: Szabo, Adam
name: Fuselier, Stephen
name: Wurz, Peter
name: Lee, Martin A.
name: Tsurutani, Bruce T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Four different data sets pertaining to the neutral atom environment at 1 AU are presented and discussed. These data sets include neutral solar wind and interstellar neutral atom data from IMAGE/LENA, energetic hydrogen atom data from SOHO/HSTOF and plasma wave data from the magnetometer on ISEE-3. Surprisingly, these data sets are centered between 262 degrees and 292 degrees ecliptic longitude, about 10 degrees - 40 degrees from the upstream interstellar neutral flow direction at 254 degrees resulting from the motion of the Sun relative to the local interstellar cloud. Some possible explanations for this offset, none of which is completely satisfactory, are discussed.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, 2 color peer-reviewed paper, in press, COSPAR/WSC
Local Services and International Market Integration
Creators: name: Horn, Henrik
name: Shy, Oz
name: Horn, Henrik
name: Shy, Oz
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Endogenous Market Segmentation
subject: International Market Integration
subject: Bundling of Local Services

description: The consequences of international market integration are typically evaluated by comparing an equilibrium where international consumer arbitrage is impossible to a different equilibrium where arbitrage is assumed to be completely costless. This note suggests that this procedure tends to exaggerate the gains from integration since firms can still segment markets themselves after government imposed trade restrictions are removed. We develop a simple example with two products, one that is homogeneous across markets, and one that is bundled with a non-tradable, e.g., local services. Integration of the markets for the homogeneous product has the expected consequence of yielding product's price equalization across markets. However, integration of the markets for bundled products will leave the economy entirely unaffected.
Caught in the WWWeb: Privacy and the control over personal information in the e -commerce environment
Creators: name: Neidhart De Ortiz, Jenifer Lynn
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science
classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: This study of the economic value of personal information in e-commerce and social life attempts to reconceptualize the issue of privacy as a question of control of personal information flows in social relations. The lens of privacy serves as a valuable mechanism for examining the structure of e-commerce, since individual control over personal information is regarded in conventional human rights analysis as a key benchmark for assessing the structures of freedom and individual rights within a social system. Utilizing a socio-cultural analysis of public policy, the study demonstrates that e-commerce policies in the period from 1994 through 2000 have tended to diminish prevailing standards of individual privacy within the U.S. A pattern is identified in the policy conceptualization and treatment of personal information flow that is instructive for its implications for the development of private rights in a democratic society. The theoretical approach employs Jacques Ellul's concept of technique and Anthony Giddens' "rules and resources" to identify four distinct patterns of personal information flow that individually and collectively determine the base of individual privacy in e-commerce. One pattern reveals that, while e-commerce techniques are increasingly automated, privacy protections tend to be non-systematic and laborious. Second and related to this finding of skewed automation, the same e-commerce techniques increasingly appear integrated with each other to create a system of e-commerce techniques. A third pattern identified by the study is the erosion of individual control from the lack of boundaries or set aside aspects of personal information flow. Finally, the trend of the proliferation of multiple and distinct privacy regimes exacerbates the first three patterns that together diminish levels of individual privacy. This fourth pattern suggests that an individual attempting to exercise control over personal information would need to learn the practices and policies for each commercial or institutional website with which transactions are undertaken. Together, these four patterns of personal information flow detail a specific, coordinated, and increasingly efficient system of personal information flow within e-commerce whereby the individual user would need to engage in a systematic struggle to define personal privacy preferences.
Megaparsec-scale structure around the proto-cluster core SPT2349$-$56 at $z\,{=}\,4.3$
Creators: name: Hill, Ryley
name: Chapman, Scott
name: Scott, Douglas
name: Apostolovski, Yordanka
name: Aravena, Manuel
name: Bethermin, Matthieu
name: Bradford, C. M.
name: de Breuck, Carlos
name: Canning, Rebecca E. A.
name: Dong, Chenxing
name: Gonzalez, Anthony
name: Greve, Thomas R.
name: Hayward, Christopher C.
name: Hezaveh, Yashar
name: Litke, Katrina
name: Malkan, Matt
name: Marrone, Daniel P.
name: Phadke, Kedar
name: Reuter, Cassie
name: Rotermund, Kaja
name: Spilker, Justin
name: Vieira, Joaquin D.
name: Weiss, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an extensive ALMA spectroscopic follow-up programme of the $z\,{=}\,4.3$ structure SPT2349$-$56, one of the most actively star-forming proto-cluster cores known, to identify additional members using their [C{\sc ii}] 158\,$μ$m and \mbox{CO(4--3)} lines. In addition to robustly detecting the 14 previously published galaxies in this structure, we identify a further 15 associated galaxies at $z\,{=}\,4.3$, resolving 55$\,{\pm}\,$5\,per cent of the 870-$μ$m flux density at 0.5\,arcsec resolution compared to 21\,arcsec single-dish data. These galaxies are distributed into a central core containing 23 galaxies extending out to 300\,kpc in diameter, and a northern extension, offset from the core by 400\,kpc, containing three galaxies. We discovered three additional galaxies in a red {\it Herschel\/}-SPIRE source 1.5\,Mpc from the main structure, suggesting the existence of many other sources at the same redshift as SPT2349$-$56 that are not yet detected in the limited coverage of our data. An analysis of the velocity distribution of the central galaxies indicates that this region may be virialized with a mass of (9$\pm$5)$\,{\times}\,$10$^{12}$\,M$_{\odot}$, while the two offset galaxy groups are about 30 and 60\,per cent less massive and show significant velocity offsets from the central group. We calculate the [C{\sc ii}] and far-infrared number counts, and find evidence for a break in the [C{\sc ii}] luminosity function. We estimate the average SFR density within the region of SPT2349$-$56 containing single-dish emission (a proper diametre of 720\,kpc), assuming spherical symmetry, to be roughly 4$\,{\times}\,10^4$\,M$_{\odot}$\,yr$^{-1}$\,Mpc$^{-3}$; this may be an order of magnitude greater than the most extreme examples seen in simulations.
description: Submitted to MNRAS Feb. 25, 2020. Accepted Apr. 29, 2020
Effect of Suction/Injection on the Stream of a Magnetohydrodynamic Casson Fluid over a Vertical Stretching Surface Installed in a Porous Medium with a Variable Heat Sink/Source
Creators: name: Mehta, Ruchika
Publisher: name: Research Administration Division
Year: 2021
Subjects: Casson fluid
Extending surface
Heat source/sink
Permeability
Suction/injection

description: Science & Technology Asia, 26, 4, 13-26
Exploratory study of the relationship between social anxiety, depressogenic style and coping skills in children
Creators: name: Reavis, Rebecca
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5201
subject: Applied and developmental psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology

description: Literature related to the interactions between social anxiety, general anxiety, depression, attributional style, cognitive distortion, self-perceptions of social competence and coping in children is limited, although many studies have examined these variables separately. The present study examined the relationship between each of the variables and sought to determine how levels of social anxiety might impact attributional style, cognitive distortion and coping. Findings revealed that higher levels of social anxiety symptomatology were related to cognitive distortion and self-perception of social competence. Children with more social anxiety tended to display more cognitive errors and to have a lower self-perception of their acceptability with their peers. Attributional style and coping were not found to be related to social anxiety. Possible explanations for the absence of a relationship between some of the variables are discussed and areas for further research are proposed.
Xenoglossa (Xenoglossa) strenua Cresson 1878
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 (Xenoglossa) strenua Cresson, 1878
[Lectotype: ANSP; ♂ Texas, USA]
It has a wide distribution encompassing much of North America, with northern Mexico as the southern range of the species. This species specializes on the pollen from squash plants in the genus Cucurbita L. (Hurd & Linsley 1964). Within Baja California, it has only been documented in the Lower Colorado Desert in Mexicali Valley, as detailed in the records by Hurd & Linsley (1964). See fig. 120.
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 189, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Exploratory study of the relationship between social anxiety, depressogenic style and coping skills in children
Creators: name: Reavis, Rebecca
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Literature related to the interactions between social anxiety, general anxiety, depression, attributional style, cognitive distortion, self-perceptions of social competence and coping in children is limited, although many studies have examined these variables separately. The present study examined the relationship between each of the variables and sought to determine how levels of social anxiety might impact attributional style, cognitive distortion and coping. Findings revealed that higher levels of social anxiety symptomatology were related to cognitive distortion and self-perception of social competence. Children with more social anxiety tended to display more cognitive errors and to have a lower self-perception of their acceptability with their peers. Attributional style and coping were not found to be related to social anxiety. Possible explanations for the absence of a relationship between some of the variables are discussed and areas for further research are proposed.
title: Stretch activation in muscle: a Ca2+ independent mechanism?
Creators: name: De Nicola, Gian Felice
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2008

description: The aim of this thesis has been the understanding at the molecular level of stretch activation in muscles. Stretch activation is a feature common to all types of muscle. Such a mechanism is particularly important in cardiac muscles in vertebrates and in indirect flight muscles in insects. Here, the three-dimensional structure of Lethocerus troponin C isoform (F1), recently discovered to be crucial in regulating stretch-activated contraction, is presented. The interactions between F1 and the other subunits of the Lethocerus troponin trimer are also analyzed. Finally a model for stretch activation in muscle, based on the experimental data produced during this thesis, is proposed.
Color-redshift Relations and Photometric Redshift Estimations of Quasars in Large Sky Surveys
Creators: name: Wu, Xue-Bing
name: Zhang, Wei
name: Zhou, Xu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With a recently constructed composite quasar spectrum and the χ^2 minimization technique, we demonstrated a general method to estimate the photometric redshifts of a large sample of quasars by deriving the theoretical color-redshift relations and comparing the theoretical colors with the observed ones. We estimated the photometric redshifts from the 5-band SDSS photometric data of 18678 quasars in the first major data release of SDSS and compare them with the spectroscopic redshifts. The redshift difference is smaller than 0.1 for 47% of quasars and 0.2 for 68 % of them. Based on the calculation of the theoretical color-color diagrams of stars, galaxies and quasars in both the SDSS and BATC photometric systems, we expected that with the BATC system of 15 intermediate filters we would be able to select candidates of high redshift quasars more efficiently than in the SDSS, provided the BATC survey could detect objects with magnitude fainter than 21.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Chinese Journal of Atronomy & Astrophysics
Liquid-solid slip on charged walls: dramatic impact of charge distribution
Creators: name: Xie, Yanbo
name: Fu, Li
name: Niehaus, Thomas
name: Joly, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nanofluidic systems show great promises for applications in energy conversion, where their performance can be enhanced by nanoscale liquid-solid slip. However, efficiency is also controlled by surface charge, which is known to reduce slip. Combining molecular dynamics simulations and analytical developments, we show the dramatic impact of surface charge distribution on the slip-charge coupling. Homogeneously charged graphene exhibits a very favorable slip-charge relation (rationalized with a new theoretical model correcting some weaknesses of the existing ones), leading to giant electrokinetic energy conversion. In contrast, slip is strongly affected on heterogeneously charged surfaces, due to the viscous drag induced by counter-ions trapped on the surface. In that case slip should depend on the detailed physical chemistry of the interface controlling the fraction of bound ions. Our numerical results and theoretical models provide new fundamental insight on the molecular mechanisms of liquid-solid slip, and practical guidelines for searching new functional interfaces with optimal energy conversion properties, e.g. for blue energy or waste heat harvesting.
description: Main text: 7 pages, 3 figures; supplemental material: 22 pages, 5 figures; to be published in Physical Review Letters
The distance to the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128
Creators: name: Rejkuba, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The distance to NGC 5128, the central galaxy of the Centaurus group and the nearest giant elliptical to us, has been determined using two independent distance indicators: the Mira period-luminosity (PL) relation and the luminosity of the tip of the red giant branch (RGB). The data were taken at two different locations in the halo of NGC 5128 with the ISAAC near-IR array on ESO VLT. From more than 20 hours of observations with ISAAC a very deep Ks-band luminosity function was constructed. The tip of the RGB is detected at Ks=21.24 \pm 0.05 mag. Using an empirical calibration of the K-band RGB tip magnitude, and assuming a mean metallicity of [M/H]=-0.4 dex and reddening of E(B-V)=0.11, a distance modulus of NGC 5128 of (m-M)_0=27.87 \pm 0.16 was derived. The comparison of the H-band RGB tip magnitude in NGC 5128 and the Galactic Bulge implies a distance modulus of NGC 5128 of (m-M)_0=27.9 \pm 0.2 in good agreement with the K-band RGB tip measurement. The population of stars above the tip of the RGB amounts to 2176 stars in the outer halo field and 6072 stars in the inner halo field. The large majority of these sources belong to the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) population in NGC 5128 with numerous long period variables. Mira variables were used to determine the distance of NGC 5128 from a period-luminosity relation calibrated using the Hipparcos parallaxes and LMC Mira period-luminosity relation in the K-band. This is the first Mira period-luminosity relation outside the Local Group. A distance modulus of 27.96 \pm 0.11 was derived, adopting the LMC distance modulus of 18.50 \pm 0.04. The mean of the two methods yields a distance modulus to NGC 5128 of 27.92 \pm 0.19 corresponding to D=3.84 \pm 0.35 Mpc.
description: 11 pages, 8 figures; A&A in press
Core-Level X-Ray Photoemission Satellites in Ruthenates: A New Mechanism Revealing the Mott Transition
Creators: name: Kim, Hyeong-Do
name: Noh, Han-Jin
name: Kim, K. -H.
name: Oh, S. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Ru 3d core-level x-ray photoemission spectra of various ruthenates are examined. They show in general two-peak structures, which can be assigned as the screened and unscreened peaks. The screened peak is absent in a Mott insulator, but develops into a main peak in the metallic regime. This spectral behavior is well explained by the dynamical mean-field theory calculation for the single-band Hubbard model with on-site core-hole potential using the exact diagonalization method. The new mechanism of the core-level photoemission satellite can be utilized to reveal the Mott transition phenomenon in various strongly correlated electron systems, especially in nano-scale devices and phase-separated materials.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRL
Effect of cognitive behavioral therapy on smokers' cognitive coping skills
Creators: name: Thorndike, Frances P.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Although nearly 70% of smokers in the United States have tried to abstain form smoking, less than 5% who attempt to quit on their own successfully maintain abstinence. Depressed smokers are thought to have an even harder time quitting. To meet these smokers' needs, researchers have begun designing cognitive behavioral smoking cessation treatments. These treatments are designed to reduce dysphoria-related smoking and thus improve the likelihood of abstinence. These studies have yielded mixed results. In an effort to better understand these mixed findings, the current study was designed to test the effects of cognitive therapy on smokers' cognitive coping skills. Fifty-one smokers were randomized to either a comparison group, which included standard cessation education, behavioral strategies, and scheduled, reduced smoking, or a cognitive behavioral treatment group (CBT), which included the elements of the comparison group as well as cognitive therapy. Both groups consisted of eight 90-minute sessions. In the CBT condition, smokers also learned to manage negative affect through cognitive restructuring. Contrary to expectations, CBT did not improve smokers' cognitive coping skills. That is, smokers in the CBT group did not show greater improvement in their cognitive coping skills from pre-test to post-test than comparison group participants. The alternative hypothesis predicted that CBT would reduce dichotomous thinking, but this finding failed to reach traditional levels of significance. In an exploratory vein, the two hypotheses were investigated among smokers presumed to be more vulnerable to depression. In contrast to what other studies have found, CBT improved cognitive coping skills only among smokers without a history of depression. Thirty-eight percent of CBT participants and 22% of comparison group participants were abstinent one month after quit date.
Effect of cognitive behavioral therapy on smokers' cognitive coping skills
Creators: name: Thorndike, Frances P.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 52
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
classificationCode: 5203
subject: Clinical and health psychology
classificationCode: 5204
subject: Cognitive and computational psychology

description: Although nearly 70% of smokers in the United States have tried to abstain form smoking, less than 5% who attempt to quit on their own successfully maintain abstinence. Depressed smokers are thought to have an even harder time quitting. To meet these smokers' needs, researchers have begun designing cognitive behavioral smoking cessation treatments. These treatments are designed to reduce dysphoria-related smoking and thus improve the likelihood of abstinence. These studies have yielded mixed results. In an effort to better understand these mixed findings, the current study was designed to test the effects of cognitive therapy on smokers' cognitive coping skills. Fifty-one smokers were randomized to either a comparison group, which included standard cessation education, behavioral strategies, and scheduled, reduced smoking, or a cognitive behavioral treatment group (CBT), which included the elements of the comparison group as well as cognitive therapy. Both groups consisted of eight 90-minute sessions. In the CBT condition, smokers also learned to manage negative affect through cognitive restructuring. Contrary to expectations, CBT did not improve smokers' cognitive coping skills. That is, smokers in the CBT group did not show greater improvement in their cognitive coping skills from pre-test to post-test than comparison group participants. The alternative hypothesis predicted that CBT would reduce dichotomous thinking, but this finding failed to reach traditional levels of significance. In an exploratory vein, the two hypotheses were investigated among smokers presumed to be more vulnerable to depression. In contrast to what other studies have found, CBT improved cognitive coping skills only among smokers without a history of depression. Thirty-eight percent of CBT participants and 22% of comparison group participants were abstinent one month after quit date.
New Expansion Scheme to Solitary Wave Solutions for a Model of Wave-Wave Interactions in Plasma
Creators: name: Pankaj, Ram Dayal
Publisher: name: Research Administration Division
Year: 2021
Subjects: Generalized Zakharov System (GZS)
Periodic wave
Solitary wave solution
solution
Travelling wave solution

description: Science & Technology Asia, 26, 4, 49-59
Analysis of identified particle yields and Bose-Einstein (HBT) correlations in p+p collisions at RHIC
Creators: name: Csorgo, T.
name: Csanad, M.
name: Lorstad, B.
name: Ster, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simultaneous Buda-Lund hydro model fits are presented to identified particle spectra and two-particle Bose-Einstein correlations as measured by the STAR collaboration in $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV p+p collisions at RHIC. Preliminary results are compared to similar results in Au+Au collisions at RHIC, hadron+p reactions as well as Pb+Pb collisions at CERN SPS.
description: Invited talk of T. Csorgo at the 20th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Jamaica (6 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Heavy Ion Physics)
Anthophorula (Anthophorisca) nitens
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: Anthophorula (Anthophorisca) nitens (Cockerell, 1915) **
[Holotype: USNM; ♀ Laguna, California, USA]
This species represents a new record for Mexico and the BCP. We examined one male and female identified by Timberlake, collected in the Succulent Coastal Matorral 5 mi E of Hamilton Ranch in June 1963 (CASC). See fig. 121.
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 189, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Mathematical Study of MHD Casson Fluid Flow through Porous Media along with Soret and Dufour Effects Over a Stretching Surface
Creators: name: Mehta, Ruchika
Publisher: name: Research Administration Division
Year: 2021
Subjects: Chemically reactive
Casson fluid flow
Magnetic field
Multiple slip
Porous media

description: Science & Technology Asia, 26, 4, 60-73
Growth performance of Spirulina platensis in three different concentrations of banana leaf ash with added jackjfruit seed powder and urea
Creators: name: Toyub, M. A.
name: Rahman, M. M.
name: Miah, M. I.
name: Habib, M. A. B.
name: Toyub, M. A.
name: Rahman, M. M.
name: Miah, M. I.
name: Habib, M. A. B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Spirulina
subject: Culture media
subject: Cell weight
subject: Chlorophyll a

description: The growth performance of Spirulina platensis was studied in three different concentrations of banana leaf ash (BLA) added with 0.4 g/I jackfruit seed powder (JSP) and 0.2 g/I urea in the laboratory. S. platensis was cultured in three different concentrations viz. 4.8, 7.2 and 9.6 g/1 of BLA and Kosaric medium (KM) as control with three replications for a period of three months. Each trial was done for a period of 12 days in the laboratory. The initial cell weight of S. platensis was 4 mg/1 which attained a maximum cell weight of 545 mg/1 in Kosaric medium followed by 523, 485, and 307 mg/1 in 7.2, 4.8, and 9.6 .mg/1 of BLA media with added 0.4 g/I JSP and 0.2 g/I urea respectively, on the 8th day of culture. Similar trend was observed in case of chlorophyll a content where the highest amount was 8.12 mg/I in KM and among different concentrations of BLA highest amount was 7.53 mg/I in 7.2 g/I BLA with added 0.4 g/I JSP and 0.2 g/I urea. The percentage of crude protein, crude lipid, moisture, ash and NFE contents of JSP were recorded 12, 1.85, 10, 3.62, and 72.53%, respectively. The percentage of total nitrogen, phosphorus, sulpher, sodium and calcium of BLA were recorded 0.18, 0.09, 2.35, 0.10, 0.07 and 10.81%, respectively. The result showed that the growth rate of S. platensis was significantly (p<0.05) higher in 7.2 g/1 BLA medium with 0.4 g/I JSP and 0.2 g/I urea than other concentrations of BLA. It is suggested that BLA algal culture medium is as effective as commercially produced culture medium making it feasible to culture Spirulina.
A Computational Approach for Solving Fractional Model of Malignant Tumour Growth based on Dynamics of Cell Cycle
Creators: name: Singh, Jagdev
Publisher: name: Research Administration Division
Year: 2021
Subjects: Atangana-Baleanu fractional derivative
Analytical method
Cell Cycle
Fractional differential equation
Malignant tumour

description: Science & Technology Asia, 26, 4, 74-83
Eleodes (Omegeleodes) debilis LeConte 1858
Creators: name: Johnston, M. Andrew
name: Fleming, David
name: Franz, Nico M.
name: Smith, Aaron D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Eleodes
Eleodes debilis

description: Eleodes (Omegeleodes) debilis LeConte, 1858
(Fig. 9D)
 Diagnosis. Body elongate-ovate. Pronotum subquadrate, widest just anterior of middle, lateral margins moderately arcuate, anterior angles very slightly projected. Elytra fairly densely punctate, punctures moderately large, more or less arranged in striae, posterior region tapering evenly to apex. Profemora unarmed in both sexes, probasitarsus with pencil brush of dark spicules interrupting apex of plantar surface in both sexes. Prosternum widest near posterior margin of procoxae, prosternal process rapidly narrowing just behind procoxae, forming large triangular projection. Male parameres narrow and more or less parallel laterally in apical 2/3, apex not deflexed ventrally. Female genitalia with coxites subrectangular, gonostyle large, transverse, positioned posteriorly on coxite.
 Distribution. Pinal and Cochise Counties, Arizona. New Mexico, Texas; Chihuahua, Mexico.
 Remarks. This species strongly resembles both E. arcuatus and E. extricatus. It can be separated from the latter externally by the moderately large punctures of the elytra and lack of muricate sculpturing, or most decisively by the apically narrowed male genitalia.
description: Published as part of Johnston, M. Andrew, Fleming, David, Franz, Nico M. & Smith, Aaron D., 2015, Amphidorini Leconte (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Arizona: Keys and Species Accounts, pp. 27-54 in The Coleopterists Bulletin (mo 14) (mo 14) 69 on page 45, DOI: 0.1649/0010-065X-69.mo4.27, http://zenodo.org/record/10086147
Teacher perception of the tension between conformity and individuality of students in a Catholic school
Creators: name: Abou-Moussa, Richard A.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3902
subject: Education policy, sociology and philosophy
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: This study presents the perceptions of teachers in a suburban Catholic school in relation to the conformity of students to the collective culture in the school and to students' expression of their individuality. Teachers' points of view are employed to explain how the socialization process in the school can be managed effectively. In addition, the study concludes by drawing essential factors that contribute to this effectiveness. The school that was studied is a small Catholic school. Although its population includes minorities with respect to race and socioeconomic status, all students seem to be well integrated within the school's community. This research draws on an array of theoretical and research backgrounds to elucidate the social dynamics in school, which explain schools' social and educative functions and emphasize the inevitability of the socialization function in schools. It also draws attention to the effectiveness of Catholic schools in that respect. The study uses a descriptive qualitative approach that includes extensive interviewing in addition to observation and document analysis, in order to acquire a perspective on the teachers' thoughts and social patterns in the school. This research concludes that the effectiveness of the socialization process in the studied school can be attributed to two main sources. First is the maintenance of a particular culture that not only focuses on valuing academics and moral standards, but also, through the close-knit community, emanates care and individual attention that nurture the individuality of students. This is made possible because of the small size, which facilitates the building of the collective without diminishing the individual. Secondly, the school community recognizes its function as a social agent and acknowledges the students' homes as the environment for personal development. Again, by virtue of the small size of the school, the two environments are brought together through significant and obvious parental involvement in the life of the school.
Anthophorula (Anthophorisca) sidae
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: Anthophorula (Anthophorisca) sidae (Cockerell, 1897)
[ANSP; Mesilla, New Mexico, USA; July 21, 1896]
Anthophorula sidae is distributed in northwestern Mexico and southwestern USA. Prior to our recent fieldwork, this species had only been reported in BC by Timberlake (1980b) with specimens collected in the Lower Colorado Desert in July 1953. The BBPT collected specimens (35 ♂, 19 ♀) in the same ecoregion in May 2021 (ECOAB). See fig. 121.
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 189, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Numerical Simulation for Activation Energy Impact on Darcy-Forchheimer Flow of Casson Fluid Suspended with Nano Particles over a Stretching Cylinder
Creators: name: Pradip Kumar Gaur
Publisher: name: Research Administration Division
Year: 2021
Subjects: Activation energy
Casson hybrid nanofluid
Chemical reaction
Darcy- Forchheimer flow

description: Science & Technology Asia, 26, 4, 106-114
Nonlocal Correlation of Spin in High Energy Physics
Creators: name: Qian, Chen
name: Li, Jun-Li
name: Khan, Abdul Sattar
name: Qiao, Cong-Feng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Nonlocality is a key feature of quantum theory and is reflected in the violation of Bell inequalities for entangled systems. The experimental tests beyond the electromagnetism and massless quanta are of great importance for understanding the nonlocality in different quantum interactions. In this work, we develop a generalized Clauser-Horne inequality pertaining especially to the high energy physics processes, which is quantum mechanical intervene free. We find, in the process of pseudoscalar quarkonium exclusive decay to entangled $Λ\barΛ$ pairs, the inequality could be violated and is verifiable in high energy experiments, like BES III or BELLE II.
description: 13 pages, 1 figure
Resonant Excitation of White Dwarf Oscillations in Compact Object Binaries: 1. The No Back Reaction Approximation
Creators: name: Rathore, Yasser
name: Blandford, Roger D.
name: Broderick, Avery E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the evolution of white dwarfs with compact object companions (specifically black holes with masses up to 10^6 solar masses, neutron stars, and other white dwarfs). We suppose that the orbits are initially quite elliptical and then shrink and circularise under the action of gravitational radiation. During this evolution, the white dwarfs will pass through resonances when harmonics of the orbital frequency match the stellar oscillation eigenfrequencies. As a star passes through these resonances, the associated modes will be excited and can be driven to amplitudes that are so large that there is a back reaction on the orbit which, in turn, limits the growth of the modes. A formalism is presented for describing this dynamical interaction for a non-rotating star in the linear approximation when the orbit can be treated as non-relativistic. A semi-analytical expression is found for computing the resonant energy transfer as a function of stellar and orbital parameters for the regime where back reaction may be neglected. This is used to calculate the results of passage through a sequence of resonances for several hypothetical systems. It is found that the amplitude of the l=m=2 f-mode can be driven into the non-linear regime for appropriate initial conditions. We also discuss where the no back reaction approximation is expected to fail, and the qualitative effects of back reaction.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures. Figure 3 corrected. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Analysis of Chk2, ATM, NBS1, three proteins involved in the cellular response to DNA damage
Creators: name: Buscemi, Giacomo
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: In presence of damage to nuclear DNA, eukaryotic cells trigger a set of signal transduction pathways, which lead to the arrest of cell-cycle progression until repair has occurred, to the increase of DNA repair capacity or, in some cases to a controlled suicide (apoptosis). In human cells in presence of DNA damage Chk2 kinase protein is activated by ATM, the protein mutated in ataxia telangiectasia (AT), and targets several substrates involved in the global DNA damage response. I demonstrated that Chk2 activation after DNA damage induction by ɣ-radiation treatment requires, besides ATM, Nbs1, the gene product involved in the Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome (NBS), a disorder that shares with AT chromosome fragility, radiosensitivity and radioresistant DNA synthesis. While in normal cells Chk2 undergoes a time-dependent increased phosphorylation and activation, in NBS cells these events are impaired. These defects can be complemented by the reintroduction of wild type copy of Nbs1 gene, but not by a deletion mutant encoding for a protein unable to form a complex with Mre11 and Rad50 in the nucleus. These results underline the main role of Nbs1 complex in ATM-Chk2 pathway in response to DNA damage and suggest that some defects in NBS and AT cells may result from defective Chk2 activation. Since Nbs1 and ATM are involved in DNA breaks resolution, I investigated the lesion specificity of Chk2 response. Normal lymphoblastoid cells were exposed to different DNA damaging agents and proteins modifications and activation were evaluated. I demonstrated that ATM and Chk2 respond respectively to a low (<3) and a higher (>19) amount of double strand breaks per cell. Furthermore Chk2 activation was detectable only in response to double strand breaks occurrence but not to single strand breaks or lesions induced by UV or hydroxyurea. These data underline the specificity and the different sensitivity of DNA damage response components.