cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Life-time of minimal tubes and coefficients of univalent functions in a circular ring
Creators: name: Tkachev, Vladimir G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53A10; 31B15

description: We obtain various estimates of the life-time of two-dimensional minimal tubes in R^3 by potential theory methods.
Sinai model in presence of dilute absorbers
Creators: name: Doussal, Pierre Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Sinai model for the diffusion of a particle in a one dimension random potential in presence of a small concentration $ρ$ of perfect absorbers using the asymptotically exact real space renormalization method. We compute the survival probability, the averaged diffusion front and return probability, the two particle meeting probability, the distribution of total distance traveled before absorption and the averaged Green's function of the associated Schrodinger operator. Our work confirms some recent results of Texier and Hagendorf obtained by Dyson-Schmidt methods, and extends them to other observables and in presence of a drift. In particular the power law density of states is found to hold in all cases. Irrespective of the drift, the asymptotic rescaled diffusion front of surviving particles is found to be a symmetric step distribution, uniform for $|x| < {1/2} ξ(t)$, where $ξ(t)$ is a new, survival length scale ($ξ(t)=T \ln t/\sqrtρ$ in the absence of drift). Survival outside this sharp region is found to decay with a larger exponent, continuously varying with the rescaled distance $x/ξ(t)$. A simple physical picture based on a saddle point is given, and universality is discussed.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures
Seismic response of circular concrete columns reinforced with CSA G30.18 500W steel
Creators: name: Tadele, Sisay
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Bridge structures are essential components of infrastructure that play a pivotal role in connecting areas with difficult geography, such as across a river. Apart from ensuring ultimate life safety and serviceability limit state performance, their performance during seismic events determines the safety of the user and economic growth of the region. With advancements in technology, new construction materials are being produced. One of the commonly promoted types of new materials in construction is high-strength steel (HSS). The use of HSS for instance has a wide range of applications in construction, from reducing bar congestion and reducing labor as well as construction costs. Nonetheless, the use of HSS has been restricted, or no guidelines are available in many cases for the design of seismic-resistant members. In this study, the performance of CSA G30.18 500W is evaluated to study its suitability for the seismic design of reinforced concrete bridges. This study involves extensive experimental research work involving material tests of the HSS reinforcing steel and large-scale reinforced concrete bridge pier tests to assess the performance of the material. The examinations of low-cycle fatigue were conducted with various bar sizes, unsupported lengths, and strain amplitudes. Notably, the CSA G30.18 500W exhibited satisfactory low-cycle fatigue performance, wherein the effect of bar unsupported length and strain amplitude were more pronounced. Additionally, two large-scale bridge piers were tested under seismic loads to study the performance of the reinforced bridge columns, which are the location of plastic hinges in bridges and undergo large inelastic deformation. The test results of the columns indicated that the bridge piers achieved comparable drift levels and energy dissipation capacities with columns reinforced with regular steel ASTM A706 Grade 420. Moreover, the strain limits for performance-based design (PBD) of bridges utilizing CSA G30.18 500W were derived from the measured material strain limits. Lastly, a comparative study of the seismic performance of bridge piers containing ASTM A1035 Grade 690, CSA G30.18 400W, and CSA G30.18 500W was conducted through fragility curve analysis.
Book Review: The Imaginary Domain, by Drucilla Cornell
Creators: name: Dougherty, Terence
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1996

description: In an overall sense, feminist legal theory can be seen as being comprised of two theoretical models that are seemingly irreconcilable. In their appeal to equality through legal reform, many legal feminists passionately identify with either formal or substantive equality. Initially, the feminist appeal to equality involved the claim that men and women are essentially the same. This is known as formal equality. This appeal to likeness between men and women as the basis for a feminist model for equality is primarily due to two things: 1) to a commitment to the idea that men and women have similar potentialities, and 2) to the nature of progressive legal reform in this country that attempts to equalize members of society as each deserving of the same set of rights. All people in a democratic society are created equal and thus all can expect the law to ensure that they be equal. For discrimination on the basis of gender to have legal meaning within this model, a woman claiming gender discrimination must define that characteristic of her gender that is being affected by the discrmination via a comparison with men. And in order for there to be a basis for this comparison with men, the characteristic must be universal to women. Otherwise, the comparison would only be made within the class of women-an intraclass claim.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 6 No. 1 (1996)
GENERATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT REVENUES AND THEIR USE FOR HEALTHCARE IN ENUGU STATE
Creators: name: Chime, Onyenye Hope, Ph.D
name: Mbah, Paulinus Chigozie, Ph.D.
name: Chime, Joseph Chukwudi
Publisher: name: ZAP journals
Year: 2024
Subjects: Generation
Local government
Revenues
Use
Healthcare

description: The study examined the generation of local government revenues and their use for healthcare in Enugu state: A survey of selected local government areas. The specific objectives were to: Determine the effect of local government revenue generation on the care teams in medical areas in Enugu State and to assess the effect of local government revenue generation on the medical monitory system in Enugu State. The actual population was Nine thousand, three hundred and thirteen staff (906). The population of the study was drawn from the entire members of the local government staff and, executives of the town union leaders and selected individuals. The sample size of 537 was drawn using Freund and William’s formula at 3 percent error margin. A survey design was adopted for the study. Instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire and interviews. A total of five hundred and thirty-seven (537) copies of questionnaire were distributed while four hundred and seventy-three (473) copies of questionnaire were returned. Z – test was used to test the hypotheses and determine the nature, and strength of the research variables. The findings indicated that Local government revenue generation had positive significant effect on the care teams in medical areas in Enugu State Z(95, n = 473) = .252 < .361, p < 0.03. Local government revenue generation had positive significant effect on the medical monitory system in Enugu State Z (95, n = 473) = .297 < .362, p < 0.03.  The study concluded that Local government revenue generation had positive influence on care teams in medical areas and positive influence on medical monitory system in Enugu State.  The study recommended that among other things that government should improve on the manpower by equipping and employing more hands-on health workers to enhance the adequate coverage of the various areas and state and more effort should be in place towards tackling the health challenges facing the frontline LGAs
Mechanical properties of cubic boron nitride and diamond at dynamical pressure and temperature
Creators: name: Kastuar, Srihari M.
name: Liu, Zhong-Li
name: Najmaei, Sina
name: Ekuma, Chinedu E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the mechanical properties of cubic boron nitride (c-BN) and diamond under the combined impact of dynamical pressure and temperature, calculated using ab initio molecular dynamics. Our study revealed a pronounced sensitivity of the mechanical properties of c-BN to applied pressure. Notably, c-BN undergoes a brittle-to-ductile transition at ~220 GPa, consistent across various dynamical temperatures, while diamond exhibits no such transition. Furthermore, the Vickers hardness profile for c-BN closely mirrors that of diamond across a spectrum of temperature-pressure conditions, highlighting c-BN's significant mechanical robustness. These results underscore the superior resilience and adaptability of c-BN compared to diamond, suggesting its potential as an ideal candidate for applications in extreme environments.
description: 4 figures, 2 tables
Three-dimensional bound states of cylindrical quantum heterostructures with position-dependent mass carriers
Creators: name: Christiansen, H. R.
name: Lima, R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive spectral analysis of cylindrical quantum heterostructures by considering effective electronic carriers with position-dependent mass for five different kinetic-operator orderings. We obtain the bound energy eigenstates of particles in a three-dimensional cylindrical nanowire under a confining hyperbolic potential with both open and closed boundary conditions in the radial and the axial directions. In the present model we consider carriers with continuous mass distributions within the dot with abrupt mass discontinuities at the barriers, moving in a quantum dot that connects different substances. Continuity of mass and potential at the interfaces with the external layers result as a particular case. Our approach is mostly analytical and allows a precise comparison among von Roos ordering classes.
description: 33pp, 20 figs
Classification of retail products: From probabilistic ranking to neural networks
Creators: name: Hafez, Manar Mohamed
name: Redondo, Rebeca P. Díaz
name: Fernández-Vilas, Ana
name: Pazó, Héctor Olivera
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Food retailing is now on an accelerated path to a success penetration into the digital market by new ways of value creation at all stages of the consumer decision process. One of the most important imperatives in this path is the availability of quality data to feed all the process in digital transformation. But the quality of data is not so obvious if we consider the variety of products and suppliers in the grocery market. Within this context of digital transformation of grocery industry, \textit{Midiadia} is Spanish data provider company that works on converting data from the retailers' products into knowledge with attributes and insights from the product labels, that is, maintaining quality data in a dynamic market with a high dispersion of products. Currently, they manually categorize products (groceries) according to the information extracted directly (text processing) from the product labelling and packaging. This paper introduces a solution to automatically categorize the constantly changing product catalogue into a 3-level food taxonomy. Our proposal studies three different approaches: a score-based ranking method, traditional machine learning algorithms, and deep neural networks. Thus, we provide four different classifiers that support a more efficient and less error-prone maintenance of groceries catalogues, the main asset of the company. Finally, we have compared the performance of these three alternatives, concluding that traditional machine learning algorithms perform better, but closely followed by the score-based approach.
description: 17 pages, 8 figures, journal
Austrian EOSC Mandated Organisation founded: A milestone for Open Science in Austria
Creators: name: Flicker, Katharina
name: Giroletti, Juliana
name: Saurugger, Bernd
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: On 13 October 2021, the Austrian EOSC Mandated Organisation was officially founded. This upload contains materials related to the 1st General Assembly such as a press release (in German), key takeaway messages and presentations held that day.
Study of phase stability of MnCr using the augmented space recursion based orbital peeling technique
Creators: name: Banerjee, Rudra
name: Mookerjee, Abhijit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In an earlier communication we have developed a recursion based approach to the study of phase stability and transition of binary alloys. We had combined the recursion method introduced by Haydock, Heine and Kelly and the our augmented space approach with the orbital peeling technique proposed by Burke to determine the small energy differences involved in the discussion of phase stability. We extend that methodology for the study of MnCr alloys.
description: 11 pages
Voices/Voces in the Borderlands: A Colloquy on Re/constructing Identities in Re/constructed Legal Spaces
Creators: name: Harrison, Melissa
name: Montoya, Margaret E.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1996

description: While derided as the bane of the Western intellectual tradition and a threat to the most noble of human achievements, multiculturalism (or postmodernism dressed in grunge) has settled with a shrug into the pages of the Spiegel catalog. Listen, as we are cajoled that: [I]n a perfect world, it would be out to tell anyone what’s in. In the meantime, a few ideas seemed important to us. Diversity. A home should be as surprising as its owner. Integrity. There’s a reason some things are called classics. Efficiency. If it isn’t smart, it’s stupid. Other than that, our advice is to do what you want. Be who you are. Make yourself at home.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 6 No. 1 (1996)
A Systematic Quantitative Review of Divergent Thinking Assessments
Creators: name: Forthmann, Boris
name: Benedek, Mathias
name: Saretzki, Janika
Publisher: name: OSF
Year: 2023

description: Divergent thinking (DT) tasks are among the most established approaches to assess an individual's creative potential. Although DT assessments are still widely used, relevant studies sometimes report inconsistent findings. These issues seem to be partly due to the heterogeneity of how DT tasks are administered and scored. This systematic review takes stock of the experimenter degrees of freedom and variability when implementing DT assessments. It will determine the prevalence of various DT assessment conditions to identify the most common approaches as well as recent trends in the field.
International and EU Regulation of Countering the Hostile Misuse of CBRN Materials and Knowledge
Creators: name: Novossiolova, Tatyana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: CBRN security, regulation, EU, WMD non-proliferation,

description: The present report titled International and EU Regulation of Countering the Hostile Misuse of CBRN Materials and Knowledge provides an overview of the international and EU regulatory context of countering the deliberate misuse of CBRN materials and knowledge. The report argues that upholding the international norms against WMD non-proliferation enshrined in the existing international and EU regulations and arrangements in the area of WMD arms control and disarmament, relevant export and import control, and counter-terrorism is an essential requirement for preventing the hostile misuse of CBRN materials and knowledge.
description: This document was developed within the framework of the EU-funded initiative MASC-CBRN: Methodology for Assessing States' Capacity for Countering the Hostile Misuse of Chemical, Biological, Radiological or Nuclear (CBRN) Materials and Knowledge.
Speed limit on Neptune migration imposed by Saturn tilting
Creators: name: Boué, Gwenaël
name: Laskar, Jacques
name: Kuchynka, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this Letter, we give new constraints on planet migration. They were obtained under the assumption that Saturn's current obliquity is due to a capture in resonance with Neptune's ascending node. If planet migration is too fast, then Saturn crosses the resonance without being captured and it keeps a small obliquity. This scenario thus gives a lower limit on the migration time scale tau. We found that this boundary depends strongly on Neptune's initial inclination. For two different migration types, we found that tau should be at least greater than 7 Myr. This limit increases rapidly as Neptune's initial inclination decreases from 10 to 1 degree. We also give an algorithm to know if Saturn can be tilted for any migration law.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, published in ApJL
A Chromatic Treatment of Linear Polarization in the Solar Corona at the 2023 Total Solar Eclipse
Creators: name: Patel, Ritesh
name: Seaton, Daniel B.
name: Caspi, Amir
name: Kovac, Sarah A.
name: Davis, Sarah J.
name: Carini, John P.
name: Gardner, Charles H.
name: Gosain, Sanjay
name: Klein, Viliam
name: Laatsch, Shawn A.
name: Reiff, Patricia H.
name: Saini, Nikita
name: Weir, Rachael
name: Zietlow, Daniel W.
name: Elmore, David F.
name: Ursache, Andrei E.
name: DeForest, Craig E.
name: West, Matthew J.
name: Bruenjes, Fred
name: Winter, Jen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The broadband solar K-corona is linearly polarized due to Thomson scattering. Various strategies have been used to represent coronal polarization. Here, we present a new way to visualize the polarized corona, using observations from the 2023 April 20 total solar eclipse in Australia in support of the Citizen CATE 2024 project. We convert observations in the common four-polarizer orthogonal basis (0°, 45°, 90°, & 135°) to -60°, 0°, and +60° (MZP) polarization, which is homologous to R, G, B color channels. The unique image generated provides some sense of how humans might visualize polarization if we could perceive it in the same way we perceive color.
description: 4 pages, 1 figure; accepted for publication in Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society (RNAAS)
Supplementary Material from The complex landscape of haematopoietic lineage commitments is encoded in the coarse-grained endogenous network
Creators: name: Wang, Mengyao
name: Wang, Junqiang
name: Zhang, Xingxing
name: YUAN, Ruoshi
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Haematopoietic lineage commitments are presented by a canonical roadmap in which haematopoietic stem cells or multipotent progenitors (MPPs) bifurcate into progenitors of more restricted lineages and ultimately mature to terminally differentiated cells. Although transcription factors playing significant roles in cell-fate commitments have been extensively studied, integrating such knowledge into the dynamic models to understand the underlying biological mechanism remains challenging. The hypothesis and modelling approach of the endogenous network has been developed previously and tested in various biological processes and is used in the present study of haematopoietic lineage commitments. The endogenous network is constructed based on the key transcription factors and their interactions that determine haematopoietic cell-fate decisions at each lineage branchpoint. We demonstrate that the process of haematopoietic lineage commitments can be reproduced from the landscape which orchestrates robust states of network dynamics and their transitions. Furthermore, some non-trivial characteristics are unveiled in the dynamical model. Our model also predicted previously underrepresented regulatory interactions and heterogeneous MPPs by which distinct differentiation routes are intermediated. Moreover, network perturbations resulting in state transitions indicate the effects of ectopic gene expression on cellular reprogrammes. This study provides a predictive model to integrate experimental data and uncover the possible regulatory mechanism of haematopoietic lineage commitments.
title: Participation and organization in local politics : A comparative study of class and clientage in two small towns
Creators: name: Ayata, A. G
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: A study of two branches of Republican Peoples Party based on field work carried out in two counties. In the two branches studied diverse forms of participation co-exist: patronage, brokerage, party directed patronage, class based corporate politics, ethnic politics, interest groups. Specific emphasis is given to the analysis of the relationships between the different forms of participation that coexist in these two towns. Recent research on political participation in Third World indicates the significance of vertical forms of participation in politics. A fundamental argument in this is that an adequate understanding in local politics requires the construction of theoretical frameworks which take into account the analysis of diversification within political participation. An attempt is made to examine local politics in Turkey from this perspective. Some approaches see two forms of participation vertical and horizontal incompatible with each other. However, the data from two branches, Kaleli and Taslik indicate that they can co-exist and some vertical forms of participation, are made use of by specific classes. The nature of the vertical forms of participation used by specific ~~ classes vary according to their own sociological characteristics the social context in which they are used, the expectation of different individuals and groups from politics. In this sense it is argued vertical forms of participation can be manifestation of class politics.
High Energy Cosmic Rays from Decaying Supersymmetric Dark Matter
Creators: name: Ishiwata, Koji
name: Matsumoto, Shigeki
name: Moroi, Takeo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the recent PAMELA and ATIC results, we calculate the electron and positron fluxes from the decay of lightest-superparticle (LSP) dark matter. We assume that the LSP is the dominant component of dark matter, and consider the case that the R-parity is very weakly violated so that the lifetime of the LSP becomes of the order of 10^26 sec. We will see that, with such a choice of the lifetime, the cosmic-ray electron and positron from the decay can be the source of the anomalous electron and positron fluxes observed by PAMELA and ATIC. We consider the possibilities that the LSP is the gravitino, the lightest neutralino, and scalar neutrino, and discuss how the resultant fluxes depend on the dark-matter model. We also discuss the fluxes of gamma-ray and anti-proton, and show that those fluxes can be consistent with the observed value in the parameter region where the PAMELA and ATIC anomalies are explained.
description: 34 pages, 20 figures, published version
Scripting Reality in the Legal Workplace: Women Lawyers, Litigation Prevention Measures, and the Limits of Anti-Discriminatiion Law
Creators: name: Bisom-Rapp, Susan
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1996

description: During my third year of legal practice, a single spoken sentence led me to consider at length the position of women attorneys in Wall Street law firms. Commenting on my recent announcement that I was pregnant, a male partner assured me, “In this department you will be treated as an attorney, not as a pregnant woman.” I puzzled over this dichotomy, wondering about the choice the partner had imposed on himself. Although I was pregnant and an attorney, he preferred not to see me as a pregnant attorney. This required a linguistic move, a kind of figurative bifurcation, that would appear positively bizarre if executed in reference to my male counterparts. My professional status was severed from my sex and physical condition. The partner’s choice of words was undoubtedly influenced by the dichotomous analytic framework of employment discrimination law, the area in which he practices. The prototypical discrimination case, the so-called single motive case, assumes that there is one “true” reason for an adverse employment action such as a discharge or failure to promote: either a good legitimate reason or a bad, discriminatory one. While effective in rooting out blatantly discriminatory actions, this model cannot accommodate decisions resulting from a complex mix of reasons that defy disaggregation. Yet it is routinely employed in just this sort of case.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 6 No. 1 (1996)
Supplementary document for High energy and low noise soliton fiber laser comb based on nonlinear merging of Kelly sidebands - 5879212.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Chun
name: Chang, Bing
name: Tan, Teng
name: Qin, Chenye
name: Zhaohui, Wu
name: Yan, Guofeng
name: Fu, Bo
name: Wu, Yu
name: Rao, Yun-Jiang
name: Xia, Handing
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Information
Characterization of the Bose-glass phase in low-dimensional lattices
Creators: name: Carrasquilla, Juan
name: Becca, Federico
name: Trombettoni, Andrea
name: Fabrizio, Michele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study by numerical simulation a disordered Bose-Hubbard model in low-dimensional lattices. We show that a proper characterization of the phase diagram on finite disordered clusters requires the knowledge of probability distributions of physical quantities rather than their averages. This holds in particular for determining the stability region of the Bose-glass phase, the compressible but not superfluid phase that exists whenever disorder is present. This result suggests that a similar statistical analysis should be performed also to interpret experiments on cold gases trapped in disordered lattices, limited as they are to finite sizes.
description: 4+ epsilon pages and 4 figures
Metabolomic evolution of the postpartum dairy cow uterus
Creators: name: Aranciaga, Nicolas
name: Ross, Alastair
name: Morton, James
name: McDonald, Robin
name: Gathercole, Jess
name: Berg, Debbie
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 30
subject: Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences

description: High rates of early pregnancy loss are a critical issue in dairy herds, particularly in seasonal, grazing systems. Components of the uterine luminal fluid (ULF), on which the early embryo depends for sustenance and growth, partly determine early pregnancy losses. Here, changes in ULF from early to mid-postpartum in crossbred dairy cows were explored, linking them with divergent embryo development. For this, the uteri of 87 cows at Day 7 of pregnancy at first and third estrus postpartum were flushed to collect ULF. Eighteen metabolites (chiefly organic acids and sugars) significantly varied in abundance across postpartum, indicating a molecular signature of physiological recovery consistent of the upregulation of pyrimidine metabolism and glycerophospholipid metabolism, and downregulation of pentose phosphate and taurine metabolism pathways. Joint pathway analysis of metabolomics data and a previously generated proteomics data set on the same ULF samples suggests key links between postpartum recovery and subsequent successful embryo development. These include upregulation of VEGFA and downregulation of metabolism, NRF2, T-cell receptor, which appear to improve the ULF's capacity of sustaining normal embryo development, and a putative osmo-protectant role of beta-alanine. These relationships should be further investigated to develop tools to detect and reduce early pregnancy loss in dairy cows.
Additional file 1 of CRISP method with flipped classroom approach in ECG teaching of arrhythmia for trainee nurses: a randomized controlled study
Creators: name: Wen, Heling
name: Hong, Min
name: Chen, Fuli
name: Jiang, Xiaoyan
name: Zhang, Rui
name: Zeng, Jianhui
name: Peng, Lei
name: Chen, Yu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Additional file 1.
Cannabis under the influence of yoga : the impact of mindful movement on well-being outcomes after cannabis use
Creators: name: Daniels, Sarah Elizabeth Ann
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The prevalence of cannabis use in Canada is high, and there is increasing discussion around the therapeutic use of cannabis to enhance well-being and address mental health concerns. Clinical research and anecdotal reports are equivocal and inconsistent, with both positive and negative impacts on mental health reported. In studies of other psychoactive drugs used therapeutically (i.e., psychedelics) there is considerable attendance to extra-pharmacological factors during the drug experience, as it is well-known that such contextual factors can significantly impact clinical outcomes. In this study, 47 participants self-administered cannabis via the Naturalistic Cannabis Administration Protocol (NCAP) under two conditions that took place one week apart. After consuming cannabis, participants completed a 45-minute yoga practice, and in the control condition participated in activities as usual for 45 minutes (e.g., what they would normally do when high). Within-subjects assessment of well-being outcomes indicated significant improvements in mysticality of experience (F(1,46) = 19.82, p <.001, ηₚ = .30) and state mindfulness (F(1,46) = 34.08, p <.001, ηₚ= .43) following the yoga condition, and no difference in state affect. Results demonstrated that contextual factors can impact well-being outcomes following cannabis administration. These findings suggest that paying attention to contextual factors and providing guidelines for therapeutic cannabis users may improve clinical outcomes when using cannabis to support mental health and well-being.
Disarming Nicaraguan Women: The Other Counterrevolution
Creators: name: Figueroa, Evelyn
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1996

description: Women became involved in the Nicaraguan Revolution primarily due to traditional maternal concerns. Yet, in the process of involving themselves in politics for the sake of others, they became conscious of the need to launch their own revolution and make demands for themselves as women. In part, the courage to make demands came from the sense of accomplishment and entitlement they derived from their invaluable contribution to their country. Swept away by Sandinista declarations of the right to human dignity and work, the women’s revolution was an attempt to redefine the role of Nicaraguan women, both as mothers and as women. As mothers, women wanted the same rights and privileges which men enjoyed with respect to their children, employment opportunities, and political participation. As women, they wanted the right to bear arms, to defend their country, and to exercise control over their bodies, including the right to contraceptives and abortion. During the Sandinista Revolution, women armed themselves with both physical and ideological weapons and participated at all levels. Through the Association of Nicaraguan Women Confronting the Nation’s Problems (AMPRONAC) and the Luisa Amanda Espinosa Nicaraguan Women’s Association (AMNLAE), they became politically active, undertaking consciousness-raising and educational campaigns designed to mobilize other women. Younger women became active primarily through student political and Christian organizations. Many of these women opted to participate through armed combat and joined the National Sandinista Liberation Front (FSLN).
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 6 No. 1 (1996)
On bi-hamiltonian geometry of some integrable systems on the sphere with cubic integral of motion
Creators: name: Vershilov, A V
name: Tsiganov, A V
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain bi-Hamiltonian structure for a family of integrable systems on the sphere S with an additional integral of third order in momenta. These results are applied to the Goryachev system and Goryachev-Chaplygin top for which we give an explicit procedure to find the separated coordinates and the separated relations.
description: 11 pages, LaTeX with AMS fonts, corrected typos
title: One-dimensional inversion of airborne time-domain electromagnetic data from Taylor Brook, western Newfoundland, and 3D finite-element time-domain forward modeling using unstructured grids
Creators: name: Kilic, Cevdet Anil
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2020

description: In this thesis, geophysical inversion and numerical modeling are carried out on a dataset collected using the Airborne Time-Domain Electromagnetic (ATEM) survey method over an area called Taylor Brook, western Newfoundland, which potentially hosts massive sulfide mineralization. ATEM profiles are interpreted using a 1D inversion code (EM1DTM). The inversion results indicate that the majority of the dataset collected in the part of the area which does not show any anomaly is highly noise-contaminated. In contrast, several observation points near the sulfide mineralization have reasonable anomalies. For a better understanding of the sulfide-bearing zone’s dip, thickness and depth in the survey area, 2D cross-sections along each profile are created by combining 1D models for each observation point. Also, 3D forward modeling is applied to several Earth models that are created using the information of boreholes and the results of 1D inversions. For 3D modeling of time-domain EM problems, the finite-element time-domain (FETD) method using unstructured tetrahedral meshes is used. The dataset for two different survey profiles that have boreholes nearby were chosen to guide the building of the 3D models. A trial-and-error method, in which the physical properties and thicknesses of the geological structures were varied, resulted in a reasonable match between the vertical component (z-component) of the calculated responses from the FETD forward modeling and the measured data. This reasonable match would mean that the final Earth model is reasonable representation of the subsurface in the survey area.
Defining how intestinal mucus and mucus-degrading commensal bacteria promote Citrobacter rodentium pathogenesis
Creators: name: Liang, Qiaochu
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The intestinal mucus layer is an essential structure that is well recognized, not only as a key physiochemical barrier that limits direct contact between noxious agents within the intestinal lumen and the underlying epithelium, but also as an important interface between the resident gut microbiota and the host. Mucus is primarily comprised of the mucin (Muc)-2 protein, that is heavily O-glycosylated by five major sugar monomers, including sialic acid. To establish infections, enteric pathogens must evolve strategies to adapt to the intestinal environment, overcome the mucus barrier and microbiota-mediated colonization resistance to successfully infect their hosts. I investigated the interactions between the pathogen and mucus, as well as the mucus-degrading commensals during Citrobacter rodentium infection. C. rodentium is an attaching and effacing pathogen that must cross the colonic mucus layer to infect intestinal epithelial cells (IEC). I demonstrated that upon entering the host, C. rodentium localized to the colonic mucus layer and required mucin-derived sialic acid to fuel its growth and virulence. A C. rodentium strain deficient in sialic acid uptake (ΔnanT) was dramatically impaired in infecting mice. Sensing of sialic acid also enabled the pathogen to migrate towards mucus and promoted C. rodentium’s virulence by inducing the secretion of two key virulence factors, which enhanced the translocation across the mucus layer and increased adhesion to the epithelium. Mucus-degrading commensal bacteria mediated C. rodentium’s access to sialic acid by releasing sialic acid from mucin glycans. Correspondingly, the intestines of germ-free (GF) mice contained very low levels of free sialic acid and in line with this, C. rodentium displayed impaired virulence when infecting them. However, mice mono-colonized with the commensal bacterium Bacteroides thetaotaomicron that can readily degrade mucin glycans displayed increased susceptibility to C. rodentium colonic infection. Overall, my research contributes to a better understanding of how enteric bacterial pathogens interact with mucin glycans, and further emphasizes the crucial role played by mucin-degrading microbiota in enabling these interactions.
A Comparison of American and Jewish Legal Views on Rape
Creators: name: Miller, Beth C.
Publisher: name: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
Year: 1996

description: Historically, American law has regarded the cry of rape with a high degree of suspicion. These misgivings on the part of jurists have led to unfair treatment of rape victims. Recently, feminist critics have been instrumental in highlighting problems with the way that rape law treats female victims. Examples of these problems include the evidentiary requirement of more than subjective non-consent, the extreme skepticism of rape victims’ testimony, the refusal to recognize marital rape, and the lack of an affirmative duty for bystander intervention. Although the law has changed somewhat in response to these criticisms, some critics still see room for improving the legal definition of rape and ameliorating its effect on victims. In seeking suggestions for improving American rape law, we can look to Jewish law because of its detailed treatment of rape. The following comparison of American and Jewish rape law will show that in some respects, Jewish law provides a more sympathetic and protective legal system for rape victims than American law does, both historically and currently.
description: Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Vol. 5 No. 2 (1996)
Off-shell construction of some trilinear higher spin gauge field interactions
Creators: name: Manvelyan, Ruben
name: Mkrtchyan, Karapet
name: Ruehl, Werner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several trilinear interactions of higher spin fields involving two equal ($s=s_{1}=s_{2}$) and one higher even ($s_{3}\geq 2s$) spin are presented. Interactions are constructed on the Lagrangian level using Noether's procedure together with the corresponding next to free level fields of the gauge transformations. In certain cases when the number of derivatives in the transformation is $2s-1$ the interactions lead to the currents constructed from the generalization of the gravitational Bell-Robinson tensors. In other cases when the number of derivatives in the transformation is more than $2s-1$ we obtain the finite tower of interactions with smaller even spins less than $s_{3}$ in full agreement with our previous results for the interaction of the higher even spins field with a conformal scalar [1,2].
description: 21 pages, latex, v.2, minor corrections, ref. added, v.3 accepted in Nucl. Phys. B
Calamaria coronella Schlegel 1837
Creators: name: Müller, F
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1885
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Squamata
Ophidia
Colubridae
Calamaria
Calamaria coronella

description: Coronella laevis Laur.
Langwies v. H. Dr. Th. Schneider (forma septentr.) [3]
description: Published as part of Müller, F, 1885, Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalogder herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums, pp. 668-717 in Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel. 7 (3) on page 679, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.2388, http://zenodo.org/record/15183591
Observational constraints of a power spectrum from super-inflation in Loop Quantum Cosmology
Creators: name: Shimano, Masahiro
name: Harada, Tomohiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In loop quantum cosmology there may be a super-inflation phase in the very early universe, in which a single scalar field with a negative power-law potential $V= -M^4(ϕ/M)^β$ plays important roles. Since the effective horizon $\sqrt{SD}/H$ controls the behavior of quantum fluctuation instead of the usual Hubble horizon, we assume the following inflation scenario; the super-inflation starts when the quantum state of the scalar field emerges into the classical regime,and ends when the effective horizon becomes the Hubble horizon, and the effective horizon scale never gets shorter than the Planck length. From consistency with the WMAP 5-year data, we place a constraint on the parameters of the potential ($β$ and $M$) and the energy density at the end of the super-inflation, depending on the volume correction parameter $n$.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for Physical Review D
Plant phylogeny determines host selection and acceptance of the oligophagous leaf beetle Cassida rubiginosa
Creators: name: Hettiarachchi, Dilani
name: Rostás, Michael
name: Sullivan, Jon
name: Jackman, Sarah
name: van Koten, Chikako
name: Cripps, Mike
Publisher: name: AgResearch
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 410302
subject: Biological control

description: BACKGROUND: Predicting the host range of biocontrol agents is important for the safe and effective implementation of biocontrol of weeds. In this study, we examined the phylogenetic pattern of host selection and acceptance by the biocontrol beetle, Cassida rubiginosa. The beetle was released in New Zealand for control of Cirsium arvense, its primary host plant, but has potential to attack many Cardueae (thistles and knapweeds) species. We conducted a series of no-choice and choice experiments and modelled the responses of Cassida rubiginosa in relation to phylogenetic distance from Cirsium arvense.RESULTS: The olfactory recognition (single odour) and preference (two odours) of the beetle showed a significant phylogenetic relationship. These relationships showed a high degree of correlation with 66.9% of the variation in olfactory recognition and 82.8% of the variation in olfactory preference explained by phylogeny. Where the beetle could contact plants, under no-choice conditions there was no phylogenetic pattern to host plant acceptance. However, under choice conditions, phylogenetic distance was a strong predictor of feeding and oviposition preference. These relationships showed a high degree of correlation, with 63.4% of the variation in feeding preference, and 89.0% of the variation in oviposition preference, explained by phylogeny.CONCLUSIONS: As far as we are aware, this is the first demonstration of an herbivorous insect that exhibits a phylogenetic pattern to olfactory host plant selection. Host plant utilisation by Cassida rubiginosa in New Zealand will be mostly restricted to Cirsium and Carduus species, with minimal potential for impact on other Cardueae weeds.
Anomaly Constraints on Monopoles and Dyons
Creators: name: Csaki, Csaba
name: Terning, John
name: Shirman, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fermions with magnetic charges can contribute to anomalies. We derive the axial anomaly and gauge anomalies for monopoles and dyons, and find eight new gauge anomaly cancelation conditions in a general theory with both electric and magnetic charges. As a byproduct we also extend the Zwanziger two-potential formalism to include the theta parameter, and elaborate on the condition for CP invariance in theories with fermionic dyons.
description: 14 pages, 1 fig
Development a hyaluronic acid ion-pairing liposomal nanoparticle for enhancing anti-glioma efficacy by modulating glioma microenvironment
Creators: name: Yang, Liuqing
name: Song, Xu
name: Gong, Ting
name: Jiang, Kejun
name: Hou, Yingying
name: Chen, Tijia
name: Sun, Xun
name: Zhang, Zhirong
name: Gong, Tao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Glioma, one of the most common brain tumors, remains a challenge worldwide. Due to the specific biological barriers such as blood–brain barrier (BBB), cancer stem cells (CSCs), tumor associated macrophages (TAMs), and vasculogenic mimicry channels (VMs), a novel versatile targeting delivery for anti-glioma is in urgent need. Here, we designed a hyaluronic acid (HA) ion-pairing nanoparticle. Then, these nanoparticles were encapsulated in liposomes, termed as DOX-HA-LPs, which showed near-spherical morphology with an average size of 155.8 nm and uniform distribution (PDI = 0.155). HA was proven to specifically bind to CD44 receptor, which is over-expressed on the surface of tumor cells, other associated cells (such as CSCs and TAMs) and VMs. We systematically investigated anti-glioma efficacy and mechanisms in vivo and in vitro. The strong anti-glioma efficacy could attribute to the accumulation in glioma site and the regulation of tumor microenvironment with depletion of TAMs, inhibition of VMs, and elimination of CSCs.
Insulator-metal transition in biased finite polyyne systems
Creators: name: La Magna, A.
name: Deretzis, I.
name: Privitera, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method for the study of the electronic transport in strongly coupled electron-phonon systems is formalized and applied to a model of polyyne chains biased through metallic Au leads. We derive a stationary non equilibrium polaronic theory in the general framework of a variational formulation. The numerical procedure we propose can be readily applied if the electron-phonon interaction in the device hamiltonian can be approximated as an effective single particle electron hamiltonian. Using this approach, we predict that finite polyyne chains should manifest an insulator-metal transition driven by the non-equilibrium charging which inhibits the Peierls instability characterizing the equilibrium state.
description: to appear at EPJB