cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Displacement
Creators: name: Malcolm, Benjamin H.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: A Hmong refugee sees snow in Vermont for the first time. A Laotian comedian attempts to speak truth to power with his satirical musical revue. A fortune-telling taxi driver in Bangkok ponders his inability to see a foreigner's future. A Burmese monk walks toward his final act and a group of soldiers at the front gate of his temple. In this collection of fiction stories set in Southeast Asia and the USA, the author examines these and three other cases of physical, emotional, and spiritual displacement. These dislocations, whether through a meeting of cultures, a move into another culture, a fight against one's own culture, or sometimes because of a culture-blind traumatic event, bring about new perspectives, new possibilities, and sometimes even tragedy. These seven stories don't seek easy answers, but they do seek to find a community amid cultures, and contemplation in the midst of displacement.
Using High-Fidelity Simulators in Vet Teaching Practices – a VET Teacher Perspective
Creators: name: Nyström, Sofia
name: Ahn, Song-ee
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: VET teacher
simulation training
teaching method
practice theory

description: Vocational education needs to keep up with the latest technology and machinery currently used within work practice in order to educate employable students. High-fidelity simulators are proposed as one solution to this problem. This paper aims to investigate how the introduction and use of high-fidelity simulators impact teaching practices in VET at upper secondary schools from a teacher perspective. This paper is based on interviews and informal conversations with ten VET teachers from two schools as well as several hours of observations of their teaching practice. Drawing upon a sociomaterial perspective on learning and practice (Schatzki, 2002), the findings show that the simulation training was very loosely connected to the teaching practice when it was introduced. However, due to the development of the simulator, as well as teachers’ increased knowledge of what can be simulated and how to enact their pedagogical intentions with simulation training, the teaching practice changed. The emerging practice required a rearrangement of teachers’ work, doings, sayings and new relatings.
Highlights.docx
Creators: name: Medas, Fabio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110323 Surgery
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Although thyroid and parathyroid surgery is considered a clean procedure with a low incidence of Surgical Site Infections (SSIs), still a great number of endocrine surgeons use antibiotic prophylaxis (AP). The aim of this study was to assess if AP is significantly effective in reducing the incidence SSIs in this kind of surgery. Materials and methods. A systematic literature search was performed using Pubmed, Scopus, and ISI-Web of Science. Prospective and retrospective studies addressing the efficacy of AP in reducing the incidence of SSIs in thyroid and parathyroid surgery were included in the systematic review and metanalysis.
Gravitational-wave captures by intermediate-mass black holes in galactic nuclei
Creators: name: Fragione, Giacomo
name: Loeb, Abraham
name: Kremer, Kyle
name: Rasio, Frederic A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) have not been detected beyond any reasonable doubt, despite their potential role as massive seeds for quasars and sources of tidal disruption events, ultra-luminous X-ray sources, dwarf galaxy feedback, and hypervelocity stars. Gravitational wave (GW) observations can help to find and confirm the existence of IMBHs. Current and upcoming detectors, such as LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, LISA, ET, and DECIGO promise to identify the full range from stellar-mass to supermassive black holes (SMBHs). In this paper, we address the question of whether IMBHs can produce GWs in galactic nuclei. We consider the possibility that stellar black holes (SBHs) form bound systems and later coalesce with an IMBH through gravitational captures in the dense nucleus. We show that this mechanism is efficient for IMBH masses in the range $\sim 3\times 10^3$ M$_\odot$--$2\times 10^4$ M$_\odot$. We find that the typical distributions of peak frequencies and merger timescales depend mainly on the IMBH mass. In particular, the typical peak frequency is about $0.2\,$Hz, $0.1\,$Hz, $0.09\,$Hz, and $0.05\,$Hz for $M_{\rm IMBH}=5\times 10^3$ M$_\odot$, $8\times 10^3$ M$_\odot$, $1\times 10^4$ M$_\odot$, and $2\times 10^4$ M$_\odot$, respectively. Our results show that, at design sensitivity, both DECIGO and ET should be able to detect these IMBH--SBH mergers. Furthermore, most of the mergers will appear eccentric ($e \gtrsim 0.1$), providing an indication of their dynamical origin.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures, accepted by ApJ
Inclusive Vocational Teacher Education in Austria and Germany – A Country Comparison of Personal Characteristics of Pre-Service Teachers
Creators: name: Miesera, Susanne
name: Moser, Daniela
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: vocational teacher education
inclusion
Austria
Germany

description: All around the world, educational institutions are developing into inclusive systems. Inclusion in vocational education and training includes young people with very heterogeneous individual needs and demands. Teachers are confronted with the challenges of designing inclusive instruction that enables successful vocational training. To fulfill these requirements, educational institutions are implementing inclusion-oriented courses in teacher education based on state-specific regulations. This article examines the experiences, attitudes, and self-efficacy expectations of prospective vocational teachers regarding inclusive education in a country comparison. Baumert and Kunter's propose a competency model of teacher professionalism, which considers the competency facets of knowledge and skills as well as personality characteristics. Significant differences in attitudes and self-efficacy between Austrian and German trainee teachers are found. The results of the study and their implications for future research and teacher education are discussed.
Homotopy self-equivalences of 4-manifolds
Creators: name: Hambleton, Ian
name: Kreck, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57N13, 57R65

description: We establish a braid of interlocking exact sequences containing the group of homotopy self-equivalences of a smooth or topological 4-manifold. The braid is computed for manifolds whose fundamental group is finite of odd order.
description: Changes made to improve exposition following a referee's report
The Role of Risk in the Context of Climate Change, Land Use Choices and Crop Production: Evidence from Zambia.
Creators: name: Smith, V.
name: De Pinto, A.
name: Robertson, R.
name: Smith, V.
name: De Pinto, A.
name: Robertson, R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: This study examines the empirical importance of the effects of the risk environment on the impacts of climate change on farm land allocations and consequent effect on agricultural output in Zambia. We use a discrete-choice model consistent with a mean-variance utility function to model farm-level land allocations among alternative crops. Results indicate that risk-reducing decisions reinforce the trend to shift away from maize production in response to climate change impacts on mean temperatures and precipitation. The opportunity cost of these decisions is explored through a simulation scenario in which yield variability is reduced to zero. Important conclusions can be derived from this analysis. First, when the economic effects of climate change are considered, decision-making under uncertainty and risk should be at the forefront of the problems that issues that need to be addressed. Second, concentrating on farm-level effects of responses to climate change is not sufficient. To understand the economy wide consequences of climate change, the aggregate effects of individual decisions should be assessed. Third, results indicate that increased efforts in risk management and in policies aiming at reducing risk can lead to significant positive outcomes. Acknowledgement : This work was supported by a grant from the Bureau of Food Security at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This work was implemented as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), which is carried out with support from CGIAR Fund Donors and through bilateral funding agreements. For details please visit donors. The authors take sole responsibility for the opinions expressed within this study.
The Asymmetric Response of Farmers to the Expected Change of Rubber Price: the Roles of Sunk Cost and Path Dependency
Creators: name: Min, S.
name: Wang, X.
name: Liu, M.
name: Huang, J.
name: Min, S.
name: Wang, X.
name: Liu, M.
name: Huang, J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Demand and Price Analysis

description: This study examines the impacts of sunk cost and path dependency on farmers' responses to the expected price change. A simple choice experiment was implemented to collect the responses of farmers to the hypothetical change in rubber price. The results show that near 73% of farmers choose to adjust their productive behaviors when rubber price is hypothesized to increase by 50%, while it is only about 55% when rubber price is hypothesized to increase by 50%. The responses of farmers to these two hypothetical changes in rubber price are significantly asymmetrical. The sunk cost and path dependency of rubber farming are proxied by the planting area of and experience in rubber farming, respectively. The estimation results of a bivariate probit model indicate that the higher sunk cost and longer path dependency of rubber farming significantly hinder farmers' probabilities to adjust their productive behaviors in the response to the two hypothetical changes in rubber price. The significant difference in the impacts of sunk cost and path dependency on the choice of response behaviors under the two hypothetical situations may help to explain the observed asymmetric response. The impacts of sunk cost and path dependency on the choice of specific productive adjusting behavior are heterogeneous. Acknowledgement : This study has been conducted in the framework of the Sino-German SURUMER Project , funded by the Bundesministerium f r Wissenschaft, Technologie und Forschung (BMBF), FKZ: 01LL0919. I also acknowledge the funding support from National Natural Sciences of China (71742002; 71673008) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (8201400850).
Supplementary Material from Phylogenetic clustering and rarity imply risk of local species extinction in prospective deep-sea mining areas of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone
Creators: name: Macheriotou, Lara
name: Rigaux, Annelien
name: Derycke, Sofie
name: Vanreusel, Ann
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Science
subject: Ecology

description: An understanding of the forces controlling community structure in the deep sea is essential at a time when its pristineness is threatened by polymetallic nodule mining. Because abiotically defined communities are more sensitive to environmental change, we applied occurrence- and phylogeny-based metrics to determine the importance of biotic versus abiotic structuring processes in nematodes, the most abundant invertebrate taxon of the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ), an area targeted for mining. We investigated the prevalence of rarity and the explanatory power of environmental parameters with respect to phylogenetic diversity (PD). We found evidence for aggregation and phylogenetic clustering in nematode amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) and the dominant genus Acantholaimus, indicating the influence of environmental filtering, sympatric speciation, affinity for overlapping habitats and facilitation for community structure. PD was associated with abiotic variables such as total organic carbon, chloroplastic pigments equivalents and/or mud content, explaining up to 57% of the observed variability and providing further support of the prominence of environmental structuring forces. Rarity was high throughout, ranging from 64 to 75% unique ASVs. Communities defined by environmental filtering with a prevalence of rarity in the CCFZ suggest taxa of these nodule-bearing abyssal plains will be especially vulnerable to the risk of extinction brought about by the efforts to extract them.
Displacement
Creators: name: Malcolm, Benjamin H.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: A Hmong refugee sees snow in Vermont for the first time. A Laotian comedian attempts to speak truth to power with his satirical musical revue. A fortune-telling taxi driver in Bangkok ponders his inability to see a foreigner's future. A Burmese monk walks toward his final act and a group of soldiers at the front gate of his temple. In this collection of fiction stories set in Southeast Asia and the USA, the author examines these and three other cases of physical, emotional, and spiritual displacement. These dislocations, whether through a meeting of cultures, a move into another culture, a fight against one's own culture, or sometimes because of a culture-blind traumatic event, bring about new perspectives, new possibilities, and sometimes even tragedy. These seven stories don't seek easy answers, but they do seek to find a community amid cultures, and contemplation in the midst of displacement.
Perdita (Epimacrotera) polycarpae Timberlake 1954
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
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita polycarpae

description: Perdita (Epimacrotera) polycarpae Timberlake, 1954
[Holotype: UCRC; ♂ North of Cathedral City, California, US; October 8, 1945]
Perdita polycarpae is a specialist on pollen from plants in the genus Euphorbia L. Timberlake (1954). This species is widely distributed in the SD in Arizona and California, USA. In Mexico, it has only been collected in BCS (Timberlake 1954). We reviewed one specimen determined by Timberlake from Las Animas, Sierra Laguna in October 1941 (CASC), and added coordinates to this location, however, we acknowledge that the location may have a significant margin of error due to the lack of precise geographic references. See fig. 38.
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 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
The Value of Work-Based Learning in the Perpective of Lifelong Learning-Recognize and Validate Transversals Competences in the Third Sector
Creators: name: Marcone, Valerio Massimo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: certification
lifelong learning
transversal competences
work based learning
third sector

description: Context: The Paper aims to explore work-based learning in light of the increasingly demanded need to make the competences acquired in non-formal and informal contexts recognizable and visible. In the context of the Third sector, the development of transversals competences increasingly requires "enhancement" because still too often these skills and competences are invisible and difficult to transfer to other contexts. Approach: Along this line, the research project intends to analyze and understand, through empirical survey quali-quantitative, the transversal compentences of civil service operators in the double key of active citizenship and employability. Results: From the collection of the data that emerged trough the focus groups, the most active transversal skills were identified for each of the six areas of competence by the civil service operators Conclusions: From the partial analysis of the results relating to the qualitative survey using the focus group tool, the need to implement training methodologies regarding the observation of learning processes in the voluntary sector emerges strongly, in order to give more and more visibility to those transversal competences developed by civil service operators.
Fundamental and vortex solitons in a two-dimensional optical lattice
Creators: name: Yang, Jianke
name: Musslimani, Ziad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fundamental and vortex solitons in a two-dimensional optically induced waveguide array are reported. In the strong localization regime, the fundamental soliton is largely confined to one lattice site, while the vortex state comprises of four fundamental modes superimposed in a square configuration with a phase structure that is topologically equivalent to the conventional vortex. However, in the weak localization regime, both the fundamental and vortex solitons spread over many lattice sites. We further show that fundamental and vortex solitons are stable against small perturbations in the strong localization regime.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures
Spin Reversal of a Quantum Hall Ferromagnet at a Landau Level Crossing
Creators: name: Lupatini, M.
name: Knüppel, P.
name: Faelt, S.
name: Winkler, R.
name: Shayegan, M.
name: Imamoglu, A.
name: Wegscheider, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: When Landau levels (LLs) become degenerate near the Fermi energy in the quantum Hall regime, interaction effects can drastically modify the electronic ground state. We study the quantum Hall ferromagnet formed in a two-dimensional hole gas around the LL filling factor $ν=1$ in the vicinity of a LL crossing in the heave-hole valence band. Cavity spectroscopy in the strong-coupling regime allows us to optically extract the two-dimensional hole gas' spin polarization. By analyzing this polarization as a function of hole density and magnetic field, we observe a spin flip of the ferromagnet. Furthermore, the depolarization away from $ν=1$ accelerates close to the LL crossing. This is indicative of an increase in the size of Skyrmion excitations as the effective Zeeman energy vanishes at the LL crossing.
Observational constraints on braneworld inflation: the effect of a Gauss-Bonnet term
Creators: name: Tsujikawa, Shinji
name: Sami, M.
name: Maartens, Roy
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-energy modifications to general relativity introduce changes to the perturbations generated during inflation, and the latest high-precision cosmological data can be used to place constraints on such modified inflation models. Recently it was shown that Randall-Sundrum type braneworld inflation leads to tighter constraints on quadratic and quartic potentials than in general relativity. We investigate how this changes with a Gauss-Bonnet correction term, which can be motivated by string theory. Randall-Sundrum models preserve the standard consistency relation between the tensor spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar ratio. The Gauss-Bonnet term breaks this relation, and also modifies the dynamics and perturbation amplitudes at high energies. We find that the Gauss-Bonnet term tends to soften the Randall-Sundrum constraints. The observational compatibility of the quadratic potential is strongly improved. For a broad range of energy scales, the quartic potential is rescued from marginal rejection. Steep inflation driven by an exponential potential is excluded in the Randall-Sundrum case, but the Gauss-Bonnet term leads to marginal compatibility for sufficient e-folds.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, version to appear in Physical Review D
Can We Instruct LLMs to Compensate for Position Bias?
Creators: name: Zhang, M
name: Meng, Z
name: Collier, N
Publisher: name: Association for Computational Linguistics
Year: 2024

description: Position bias in large language models (LLMs) leads to difficulty in accessing information retrieved from the retriever, thus downgrading the effectiveness of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) approaches in open-question answering. Recent studies reveal that this bias is related to disproportional attention across the context. In this work, we examine how to direct LLMs to allocate more attention towards a selected segment of the context through prompting, aiming to compensate for the shortage of attention. We find that language models do not have relative position awareness of the context but can be directed by promoting instruction with an exact document index. Our analysis contributes to a deeper understanding of position bias in LLMs and provides a pathway to mitigate this bias by instruction, thus benefiting LLMs in locating and utilizing relevant information from retrieved documents in RAG applications. The code and data in our study have been made publicly available.
Hadronic Radiation Patterns in Vector Boson Fusion Higgs Production
Creators: name: Khoze, V. A.
name: Stirling, W. J.
name: Williams, P. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the hadronic radiation patterns for the generic process of bb + 2 forward jet production at the LHC, where the (centrally produced) bb originate either from a Higgs, a Z or from standard QCD production processes. A numerical technique for evaluating the radiation patterns for non-trivial final states is introduced and shown to agree with the standard analytic results for more simple processes. Significant differences between the radiation patterns for the Higgs signal and the background processes are observed and quantified. This suggests that hadronic radiation patterns could be used as an additional diagnostic tool in Higgs searches in this channel at the LHC.
description: 20 pages, 22 figures
Nonlinear localized excitations in a topological ferromagnetic honeycomb lattice
Creators: name: Feng, Wenhui
name: Tang, Bing
name: Wu, Lanjun
name: Kong, Peng
name: Yang, Chao
name: Wang, Lei
name: Deng, Ke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We theoretically investigate nonlinear localized excitations in a Heisenberg honeycomb ferromagnet with a second neighbour Dzialozinskii-Moriya interaction, which has been proved to possess the topological band structure. Using the time-dependent variational principle, we obtain the equation of motion for the system in the Glauber coherent-state representation. By means of the semidiscrete multiple-scale method, different types of nonlinear localized excitations are gotten.Our results show that both two-dimensional discrete breathers and bulk gap solitons may occur in the Heisenberg honeycomb ferromagnet.
description: This paper has been published in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Farm Food for All
Creators: name: Alba, Cody
name: Currie, Jeanne
name: Lee, Christopher
name: Napoleon, Julian
name: Woo, Justin
name: Zandieh, Sahar
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The UBC Farm is a 24 hectare research, teaching and community engagement organization located on the campus of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. Through interdisciplinary academic, community and production programs, it aims to explore and exemplify healthy and sustainable food systems. The Farm is determined to increase student access to farm fresh food on campus. Increased access will strengthen both the Farm and our local food system. However, student access is limited for several reasons, most importantly, high farm food prices for student budgets and lack of awareness and cooking skills. The goal of this project is to examine business models which could increase student access to healthy, sustainable, farm fresh food on campus, to evaluate price differences between grocery store and UBC Farm and, homemade and cafeteria prices. Based on our findings, we provide recommendations on how the UBC farm can overcome barriers to student access. UBC Farm prices for selected vegetables were comparable to March 2016 grocery stores’ organic prices but on average 75 and 97% more expensive than non-organic or conventional prices in March 2016 and September 2015 prices in grocery stores. When labor and time were taken into account, quesadillas were slightly less expensive to buy from a UBC cafeteria than to make at home while tomato soup was cheaper to make at home. Both dishes were cheaper homemade if labor costs were not taken into account. Current models for educating students and increasing access to locally grown food. However no models address the financial barrier preventing students from affording such food. We recommend that the UBC Farm look into the creation of a student discount to address this barrier. This discount could be subsidized by a small annual fee created through an AMS referendum proposal and/or by the creation of a specific option for a student-oriented market in the farm’s current practicum program. We also suggest various activities to be done in collaboration with UBC student groups in land and food systems and/or in commerce to increase awareness and cooking skills. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Teleporting quantum information encoded in fermionic modes
Creators: name: Debarba, Tiago
name: Iemini, Fernando
name: Giedke, Geza
name: Friis, Nicolai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum teleportation is considered a basic primitive in many quantum information processing tasks and has been experimentally confirmed in various photonic and matter-based setups. Here, we consider teleportation of quantum information encoded in modes of a fermionic field. In fermionic systems, superselection rules lead to a more differentiated picture of entanglement and teleportation. In particular, one is forced to distinguish between single-mode entanglement swapping, and qubit teleportation with or without authentication via Bell inequality violation, as we discuss here in detail. We focus on systems subject to parity superselection where the particle number is not fixed, and contrast them with systems constrained by particle number superselection which are relevant for possible practical implementations. Finally, we analyze the consequences for the operational interpretation of fermionic mode entanglement and examine the usefulness of so-called mixed maximally entangled states for teleportation.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables; see also the related work by Olofsson et al.: arXiv:2002.08134
The modals of possibility and permission in Standard English varieties of England, Scotland, and the United States: A study in dialectal variation
Creators: name: Beiler, Ingrid Rodrick
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Variation in modal usage among Standard English varieties has been found in corpus studies of British English (BrE), American English (AmE), and Australian English (AusE) (Coates & Leech, 1980; Ljung, 1996; Collins, 2007, 2009). In addition, elicitation and case studies of Standard Scottish English (St ScE) (Brown & Miller, 1975; Brown & Millar, 1980; Miller & Brown, 1982) have documented divergence between St ScE and the Standard English of England (St EngE), including the near absence of may from St ScE. The current study investigated variation in the use and connotations of the modals of permission and possibility ( may, might, can, and could ) in St EngE, St AmE, and St ScE through interviews and written questionnaires administered to 14 American, 11 English, and 15 Scottish students at universities in Washington, DC, Leeds, and Edinburgh. The study found dialectal differences in the use of may and non-modal expressions, and will emerged as an additional modal of possibility for some Scottish and English respondents. In all dialects, the modals of possibility were not found to differ by degree of likelihood, while the modals of permission were strongly marked for style.
Chaos in the Quantum Field Theory $S$-matrix
Creators: name: Rosenhaus, Vladimir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A number of studies have shown that chaos occurs in scattering: the outgoing deflection angle is seen to be an erratic function of the impact parameter. We propose to extend this to quantum field theory, and to use erratic behavior of the many-particle $S$-matrix as a probe of chaos.
description: v2 - minor changes, 5 pages
Perdita (Epimacrotera) williamsi Timberlake 1962
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
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita williamsi

description: Perdita (Epimacrotera) williamsi Timberlake, 1962
Endemic
[Holotype: CASC; ♀ 16.09 km east of Bahia San Quintin, Baja California, Mexico; 10 September 1955]
Perdita williamsi has few occurrences widely distributed in the BCP, meaning it is widespread but likely locally rare. It has been collected in the Succulent Coastal Matorral in the CFP in BC and in the Gulf Coast in La Paz, BCS (Timberlake 1962). We reviewed six specimens at CASC including the allotype (♂), and one paratype collected 10 mi. E. of Bahia San Quintin, BC, and two paratypes (♀) collected in La Paz, BCS. See fig. 38.
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 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
The modals of possibility and permission in Standard English varieties of England, Scotland, and the United States: A study in dialectal variation
Creators: name: Beiler, Ingrid Rodrick
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4704
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Variation in modal usage among Standard English varieties has been found in corpus studies of British English (BrE), American English (AmE), and Australian English (AusE) (Coates & Leech, 1980; Ljung, 1996; Collins, 2007, 2009). In addition, elicitation and case studies of Standard Scottish English (St ScE) (Brown & Miller, 1975; Brown & Millar, 1980; Miller & Brown, 1982) have documented divergence between St ScE and the Standard English of England (St EngE), including the near absence of may from St ScE. The current study investigated variation in the use and connotations of the modals of permission and possibility ( may, might, can, and could ) in St EngE, St AmE, and St ScE through interviews and written questionnaires administered to 14 American, 11 English, and 15 Scottish students at universities in Washington, DC, Leeds, and Edinburgh. The study found dialectal differences in the use of may and non-modal expressions, and will emerged as an additional modal of possibility for some Scottish and English respondents. In all dialects, the modals of possibility were not found to differ by degree of likelihood, while the modals of permission were strongly marked for style.
Additional file 1 of Prevalence of SARS-Cov-2 antibodies and living conditions: the French national random population-based EPICOV cohort
Creators: name: Warszawski, Josiane
name: Beaumont, Anne-Lise
name: Seng, Rémonie
name: de Lamballerie, Xavier
name: Rahib, Delphine
name: Lydié, Nathalie
name: Slama, Rémy
name: Durrleman, Sylvain
name: Raynaud, Philippe
name: Sillard, Patrick
name: Beck, François
name: Meyer, Laurence
name: Bajos, Nathalie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Geographic prevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-21 in people living in France2 at the end of the first lockdown: the national EpiCov cohort, round 1—May 2020. Table S2. Relationship between population density and household composition and seroprevalence ELISA-S+ (ratio ≥ 1.11), in people living in France2 at the end of the first lockdown: national EpiCov cohort, round 1—May 2020. Table S3. SARS-Cov2 prevalence of neutralizing antibodies (SN ≥ 401) according living conditions, and individual socio-economic factors in people living in France2: the national EpiCov cohort, round 1—May 2020. Table S4. Factors associated with detection of neutralizing antibodies (SN+ ≥ 40 IU1) in people living in France2 at the end of the first lockdown: the national EpiCov cohort, round 1—May 2020. Table S5a. Distribution of Elisa-S ratio and virus neutralization titer (VNT) among people with Elisa-S ratio ≥ 1.11—the national EpiCov cohort2, round 1—May 2020. Table S5b. Distribution of Elisa-S ratio and virus neutralization titer (VNT) among people with Elisa-S ratio ≥ 0.71—the national EpiCov cohort2, round 1—May 2020.
Kosovo: Dilemmas of statehood
Creators: name: Prifti, Keida Kostreci
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This thesis seeks to assess the political position of Kosovo in the world stage two years after it declared independence, analyze the role of the international community in determining this position, and explore the significance of recognition in terms of political legitimacy. It also ponders how Kosovo's case can inform similar situations in the world. I argue that Kosovo's case has challenged the concepts of state-formation and political legitimacy, and that these concepts are constantly shifting. I also argue that there are circumstances that make Kosovo's case unique. However whether it becomes a precedent or not will depend on the will of those forces that by lending or denying their support, determined Kosovo's situation today. And finally, I argue that national, regional and international contexts make it difficult to predict when and how the situation will change in terms of future recognition and clarity about political status.
The ^3He^4He_2$ trimer within the hard-core Faddeev approach
Creators: name: Kolganova, E. A.
name: Ho, Y. K.
name: Motovilov, A. K.
name: Sandhas, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply a hard-core version of the Faddeev differential equations to the ^3He^4He_2 three-atomic system. Employing the TTY interatomic potential by Tang, Toennies and Yiu we calculate the binding energy of the ^3He^4He_2 trimer and the scattering length of a ^3He atom off a ^4He dimer.
Perdita (Hesperoperdita) trisignata Cockerell 1896
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
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita trisignata

description: Perdita (Hesperoperdita) trisignata Cockerell, 1896
[Holotype: USNM; ♀ California, US]
This species specializes on pollen from plants in the family Fabaceae, specifically the genera Lotus L. and Acmispon Raf. (Fowler 2020). There are records of this species from the Coastal Sage Matorral in BC (Timberlake 1954). There are no more recent records of it in the BCP, but it has been recently detected in San Diego County in California, USA (Hung et al., 2015). See fig. 39.
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 88, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Collective modes of trapped gases at the BEC-BCS crossover
Creators: name: Heiselberg, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The collective mode frequencies in isotropic and deformed traps are calculated for general polytropic equation of states, $P\propto n^{γ+1}$, and expressed in terms of $γ$ and the trap geometry. For molecular and standard Bose-Einstein condensates and Fermi gases near Feshbach resonances, the effective power $γ\simeq0.5-1.3$ is calculated from Jastrow type wave-function ansätze, and from the crossover model of Leggett. The resulting mode frequencies are calculated for these phases around the BCS-BEC crossover.
description: Revised version to be published in PRL
Supplement_Human white-fat thermogenesis: experimental and meta-analytic findings
Creators: name: Dinas, Petros
name: Krase, Argyro
name: Nintou, Eleni
name: Georgakopoulos, Alexandros
name: Granzotto, Marnie
name: Metaxas, Marinos
name: Karachaliou, Elena
name: Rossato, Marco
name: Vettor, Roberto
name: Georgoulias, Panagiotis
name: Mayor, Tiago S.
name: Koutsikos, John
name: Athanasiou, Konstantinos
name: Ioannou, Leonidas G.
name: Gkiata, Paraskevi
name: Carrillo, Andres E.
name: Yiannis Koutedakis
name: Metsios, George S.
name: Jamurtas, Athanasios Z.
name: Chatziioannou, Sofia
name: Flouris, Andreas D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplement to the original contribution "Human white-fat thermogenesis: experimental and meta-analytic findings"
Additional file 1 of The disposable bandage soft contact lenses therapy and anterior segment optical coherence tomography for management of ocular graft-versus-host disease
Creators: name: Sun, Yi-Chen
name: Inamoto, Yoshihiro
name: Wang, Ruikang K.
name: Lee, Stephanie J.
name: Hung, Kai-Feng
name: Shen, Tueng T.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Spectral properties of a short-range impurity in a quantum dot
Creators: name: Bruening, J.
name: Geyler, V.
name: Lobanov, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The spectral properties of the quantum mechanical system consisting of a quantum dot with a short-range attractive impurity inside the dot are investigated in the zero-range limit. The Green function of the system is obtained in an explicit form. In the case of a spherically symmetric quantum dot, the dependence of the spectrum on the impurity position and the strength of the impurity potential is analyzed in detail. It is proven that the confinement potential of the dot can be recovered from the spectroscopy data. The consequences of the hidden symmetry breaking by the impurity are considered. The effect of the positional disorder is studied.
description: 30 pages, 6 figures, Latex
Weak-Coupling, Strong-Coupling and Large-Order Parametrization of the Hypergeometric-Meijer Approximants
Creators: name: Shalaby, Abouzeid M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Without Borel or Pad$\acute{e}$ techniques, we show that for a divergent series with $n!$ large-order growth factor, the set of Hypergeometric series $_{k+1}F_{k-1}$ represents suitable approximants for which there exist no free parameters. The divergent $_{k+1}F_{k-1}$ series are then resummed via their representation in terms of the Meijer-G function. The choice of $_{k+1}F_{k-1}$ accelerates the convergence even with only weak-coupling information as input. For more acceleration of the convergence, we employ the strong-coupling and large-order information. We obtained a new constraint that relates the difference of numerator and denominator parameters in the Hypergeometric approximant to one of the large-order parameters. To test the validity of that constraint, we employed it to obtain the exact partition function of the zero-dimensional $ϕ^4$ scalar field theory. The algorithm is also applied for the resummation of the ground state energies of $ϕ_{0+1}^{4}$ and $iϕ_{0+1}^{3}$ scalar field theories. We get accurate results for the whole coupling space and the precision is improved systematically in using higher orders. Precise results for the critical exponents of the $O(4)$-symmetric field model in three dimensions have been obtained from resummation of the recent six-loops order of the corresponding perturbation series. The recent seven-loops order for the $β$-function of the $ϕ^{4}_{3+1}$ field theory has been resummed which shows non-existence of fixed points. The first resummation result of the seven-loop series representing the fractal dimension of the two-dimensional self-avoiding polymer is presented here where we get a very accurate value of $d_f=1.3307$ compared to its exact value ($4/3\approx1.3333$).
Kosovo: Dilemmas of statehood
Creators: name: Prifti, Keida Kostreci
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: This thesis seeks to assess the political position of Kosovo in the world stage two years after it declared independence, analyze the role of the international community in determining this position, and explore the significance of recognition in terms of political legitimacy. It also ponders how Kosovo's case can inform similar situations in the world. I argue that Kosovo's case has challenged the concepts of state-formation and political legitimacy, and that these concepts are constantly shifting. I also argue that there are circumstances that make Kosovo's case unique. However whether it becomes a precedent or not will depend on the will of those forces that by lending or denying their support, determined Kosovo's situation today. And finally, I argue that national, regional and international contexts make it difficult to predict when and how the situation will change in terms of future recognition and clarity about political status.
Janitizer: Rethinking Binary Tools for Practical and Comprehensive Security
Creators: name: Arif, M
name: Ainsworth, S
name: Jones, TM
Publisher: name: ACM
Year: 2025
Subjects: 4606 Distributed Computing and Systems Software
46 Information and Computing Sciences
4604 Cybersecurity and Privacy

description: Comprehensive application security can only be ensured if all code that it is going to execute is protected: any unprotected code, either from libraries or the application, becomes a potential attack surface. Compilers contain extensive suites of tools to aid in this, but require source availability that is often infeasible. Existing static and dynamic binary rewriting techniques that retrofit for security either lack in code coverage or soundness, or incur very high performance overhead. We present a case for adopting hybrid static-dynamic mechanisms to ensure comprehensive security for binaries, providing sound and practical solutions. We highlight the limitations of existing hybrid tools in their use for security purposes, and provide insights to re-architect them. We provide a framework, Janitizer, that enables sound and comprehensive code coverage for entire applications, presenting hybrid binary implementations for two important classes of security schemes; a memory sanitizer and a control flow integrity scheme. These achieve the coverage and correctness of high-overhead dynamic techniques, while maintaining performance levels of low-coverage static techniques.
Pop-diplomacy: Anime and manga as vehicles of cultural context, identity formation, and hybridity
Creators: name: Burkett, Morgan Elizabeth
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The purpose of this thesis is to critically examine how a community, or "fandom," of American consumers is interacting with certain aspects of Japanese popular culture and to explore these interactions as sites of cultural negotiation. Specifically, the purpose is to explore the rise in popularity of Japanese manga and anime, as well as the associated subcultures, in the US within a theoretical framework of hybridization and ask: How is the community framing discussions of cultural context and identity formation and are its members engaging in the hybridization of culture? In the case studies, fieldwork conducted at anime conventions and through analysis of public discussion on community web forums highlight two sites of cultural negotiation: conventions and cosplay and fansubs.