cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Adapting Interteaching to a Hybrid Format: A Framework for Implementation
Creators: name: Farrell, Carmen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: Access the online Pressbooks version of this article here.
In the world of higher education, expectations of college-level instructors have shifted significantly in the last few years due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Instructors were required to be more flexible than ever before, oftentimes across different modalities. This essay models an evidence-based teaching method, interteaching (IT), that was originally created for use in a traditional face-to-face classroom and suggests an adaptation of that method for a hybrid classroom. The theoretical framework of IT is explained and an adaptation of IT for hybrid classrooms is provided with a specific college-level course example of implementation. The advantages and challenges of this approach are also discussed in hopes that faculty will build off this idea and empirically test it as higher education continues to require more flexibility from its faculty members.
Five simple feedback strategies for surgical supervisors
Creators: name: Bearman, Margaret
name: Ajjawi, Rola
name: Castanelli, Damian
name: Crawford, Nicole
name: Indermaur Denniston, Charlotte
name: Hilder, Joanne
name: Mahoney, Paige
name: Woodward‐Kron, Robyn
name: Watling, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 390110
subject: Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 390402
subject: Education assessment and evaluation

description: Feedback often challenges surgical supervisors and trainees. These five simple strategies for supervisors are based on a four-year research project to understand surgery-specific concerns. They are suggestions that other supervisors have found yield considerable benefit for modest effort.
Connection Formulae for Asymptotics of Solutions of the Degenerate Third Painleve' Equation: II
Creators: name: Kitaev, A. V.
name: Vartanian, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The degenerate third Painleve' equation, $u"(t)=(u'(t))^2/u(t)-u'(t)/t+1/t(-8c u^2(t)+2ab)+b^2/u(t)$, where $c=+/-1$, $b>0$, and $a$ is a complex parameter, is studied via the Isomonodromy Deformation Method. Asymptotics of general regular and singular solutions $u(t)$ as $t -> +/-\infty$ and $t -> +/-i\infty$ are derived and parametrized in terms of the monodromy data of the associated 2X2 linear auxiliary problem introduced in the first part of this work [1]. Using these results, three-real-parameter families of solutions that have infinite sequences of zeroes and poles that are asymptotically located along the real and imaginary axes are distinguished: asymptotics of these zeroes and poles are also obtained.
description: 50 pages
Influence of tetragonal distortion on the magnetic and electronic properties of the Heusler compound Co2TiSn from first principles
Creators: name: Meinert, Markus
name: Schmalhorst, Jan-Michael
name: Reiss, Günter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the full potential linearized augmented plane wave plus local orbitals method we determine ab-initio the lattice parameters of tetragonally distorted Co2TiSn in the L21 structure. The tetragonal lattice parameter c is determined as a function of the lattice parameter a by energy minimization. The change in total energy is found to be only a few $k_B T$ with respect to room temperature. The spin polarizations as well as the magnetizations are stable against small lattice distortions. It is shown, that the volume is not constant upon distortion and that the volume change is related with significant changes in the magnetization and the gap energy.
description: 3 pages, 4 figures
Bhaphidopmus filifer Ridley et Dendy.
Creators: name: Topsent, Émile
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1896
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bhaphidopmus
Bhaphidopmus filifer

description: BhaphidopMus filifer Ridley et Dendy. PI. XX. fig. 22. Plusieurs spécimens desséchés, de forme rameuse, à rameaux longs, noueux et tortueux, épais de 6 à 7 mm. Ils ne diffèrent du spécimen unique recueilli par le Challenger aux îles Philippines que par leurs acanthostyles. Ces spicules ont été décrits par Ridley et Dendy « small, straight, entirely spined styli measuring about 0,1 by; 01 mm., echinating the skeleton fibre ». Je les trouve constamment formés d'une tête un peu renflée, couverte d'épines incurvées, et d'une tige, lisse sur la première moitié de sa longueur, armée sur l'autre moitié d'épines récurvées; au lieu de s'effiler en pointe, ils se terminent par un bout arrondi hérissé de nombreuses petites épines.
description: Published as part of Topsent, Émile, 1896, Spongiaires de la baie d'Amboine. (Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l'archipel Malais.), pp. 421-487 in Revue Suisse de Zoologie 4 (3) on page 447, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.35507
title: "Looking at it From Their Perspective": Understanding the Experiences of Black Adolescent Boys in Youth Sport
Creators: name: Hardiman, Amand L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2024

description: Youth sport is a ubiquitous extracurricular activity in the United States (Dorsch et al., 2022). Participation rates among Black adolescent boys are relatively high compared to other minoritized groups. However, few studies have examined their experiences in youth sport. Therefore, this dissertation explored the experiences, behaviors, and processes of Black adolescent boys in youth sport using a multimethod approach. Study 1 included interviews with 10 Black adolescent boys from a Midwest school district. Meanwhile, Study 2 gathered insights from six parents, three coaches, and four school administrators, highlighting the experiences of Black adolescent boys through key social agents. Collectively, the results highlight that sport can serve as an environment that helps Black boys escape their realities, buffer against negative stressors commonly associated with adolescence, and validate their need to belong. However, sport can also exacerbate racialized stressors and reinforce stereotypes about sport as a means of upward mobility. Key social agents are necessary to facilitate earnest conversations about the role of sport. These findings underscore the importance of understanding the marginalized voices of Black adolescent boys in youth sport, offering scholars and practitioners insights to create a more conscious, supportive environment that fosters belonging and promotes their potential to thrive.
Cross-sections of large-angle hadron production in proton- and pion-nucleus interactions VII: tin nuclei and beam momenta from \pm3 GeV/c to \pm15 GeV/c
Creators: name: CDP Group
name: Bolshakova, A.
name: Boyko, I.
name: Chelkov, G.
name: Dedovitch, D.
name: Elagin, A.
name: Emelyanov, D.
name: Gostkin, M.
name: Guskov, A.
name: Kroumchtein, Z.
name: Nefedov, Y.
name: Nikolaev, K.
name: Zhemchugov, A.
name: Dydak, F.
name: Wotschack, J.
name: De Min, A.
name: Ammosov, V.
name: Gapienko, V.
name: Koreshev, V.
name: Semak, A.
name: Sviridov, Y.
name: Usenko, E.
name: Zaets, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on double-differential inclusive cross-sections of the production of secondary protons, charged pions, and deuterons, in the interactions with a 5% nuclear interaction length thick stationary tin target, of proton and pion beams with momentum from \pm3 GeV/c to \pm15 GeV/c. Results are given for secondary particles with production angles between 20 and 125 degrees. Cross-sections on tin nuclei are compared with cross-sections on beryllium, carbon, copper, tantalum and lead nuclei.
description: 68 pages, 13 figures
Three advanced feedback strategies for intensive care medicine supervisors
Creators: name: Bearman, Margaret
name: Ajjawi, Rola
name: Castanelli, Damian
name: Crawford, Nicole
name: Indermaur Denniston, Charlotte
name: Hilder, Joanne
name: Mahoney, Paige
name: Woodward‐Kron, Robyn
name: Watling, Christopher J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 390110
subject: Medicine, nursing and health curriculum and pedagogy
classificationCode: 390402
subject: Education assessment and evaluation

description: In our conversations and observations with ICU consultants, we noticed that some supervisors have more extensive educational training and expertise. These three advanced strategies are drawn from a four-year research project to understand feedback in intensive care medicine. They offer suggestions for those who have developed a grasp of educational principles, have good feedback rapport with their trainees, and wish to advance their practice.
UNREAL REALITY in our dreams is consistent with Motor-mouth theory with DMT as the hallucinogen - Saccades play a role
Creators: name: Arenson, Ken
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2023

description: In our dreams, during REM-state-sleep (RSS), we hallucinate a reality of being out and about. I call this the Prime Hallucination (Prime-H). This essay contends that we do this using DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine), a well-known hallucinogen with the common name, “Ayahuasca”. DMT is endogenous to humans and other creatures, such as rats. It can be made by our retinas. In an earlier essay (Arenson, 2022) the Motor-mouth theory was proposed to account for RSS. It is contended that RSS was adapted by our brainstem and added to Non-REM Sleep (NREM) some 200 million years ago to add a motor maintenance function for ancestral chordates, which were then beginning to flourish and which depended on motor activity for their survival when awake. Dreams were not needed until words appeared, perhaps some 2 million years ago. Then, in order to provide motor maintenance for the articulation of words or meaningful calls, dreams were adapted into the RSS system. This, most common type of dream, is described by its name, “holophrastic linguistic dreams” (HLD-type). Words with a consistent phonology were so useful, every Homo species since then taught each generation of offspring to use them, and all needed a motor maintenance mechanism to align articulation among the members of each group, and so the HLD-type dream persisted. Assessing articulation in dreams takes advantage of the augmentations of reality that occurs because of the hallucinogen. Remarkably, the dreamer is usually blind to the augmented reality. Bizarreness during the dream experience is usually accepted as reality in dream sleep. Moreover, saccades, the eye movement of REMs by their generic name, may be triggers to onset RSS. Saccades come up frequently in the present essay. Others have observed that we hallucinate being out and about in our dreams and consider it normal while we dream, but few have considered this in depth, as is attempted here. Research on the biology of endogenous DMT in rats and humans is discussed. That the augmentation of reality by DMT convinces us, while in the dream, of an unreal reality, calls into question the central assumption of certain dream theories, particularly Content Analysis, which claims that the narrative report of a dream is in continuity with the dreamer’s reality while awake in un-augmented reality. This continuity claim seems unlikely because waking reality is obviously different than dreaming reality, due to DMT.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 16, No 1 (April 2023)
Colouring the Square of the Cartesian Product of Trees
Creators: name: Wood, David R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C15

description: We prove upper and lower bounds on the chromatic number of the square of the cartesian product of trees. The bounds are equal if each tree has even maximum degree.
New resonance-polariton Bose-quasiparticles enhances optical transmission into nanoholes in metal films
Creators: name: Minasyan, V. N.
name: Samoilov, V. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue the existence of fundamental particles in nature, neutral Light-Particles with spin 1, and rest mass $m=1.8\cdot 10^{-4} m_e$, in addition to electrons, neutrons and protons. We call these particles Light Bosons because they create the electromagnetic field which represents Planck's gas of massless photons together with a gas of Light Particles in the condensate. In this respect, the condensed Light Particles, having no magnetic field, represent the constant electric field. In this context, we predict a existence of plasmon-polariton and resonance-polariton Bose-quasiparticles with effective masses $m_l\approx 10^{-6} m_e$ and $m_r=0.5m_e$, which are induced by interaction of the plasmon field and the resonance Fr$\ddot o$lich- Schafroth charged bosons with electromagnetic wave in metal. Also, we prove that the enhancement optical transmission into nanoholes in metal films and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy are provided by a new resonance-polariton Bose-quasiparticles but not model of surface plasmon-polariton. In this letter, the quantization Fresnel's equations is presented which confirms that Light Particles in the condensate are concentrated near on the wall of grooves in metallic grating and, in turn, represent as the constant electric field which provides the launching of the surface Frölich- Schafroth bosons on the surface metal holes.
description: 38 pages
Lucid dreaming for creative writing: Interviews with 26 writers
Creators: name: Roklicer, Laura
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2023

description: Many creatives throughout history used their dreams (e.g. Stephen King, William Blake, Paul McCartney, Salvador Dali) to inspire their works of art. It is hypothesised that becoming lucid in those dream states can further enhance and direct creative works, and in particular, short-form fiction writing. Lucid dreams (LD) are those in which the dreamer becomes aware that they are dreaming (La Berge & Rheingold, 1990). A previous report on the use of dreams by 26 writers was analysed, after which 26 different writers were interviewed in order to identify the specific benefit of lucid dreams over non-lucid dreams for the development of literary works. Results from this study indicate that inducing LD can benefit creative writing processes by providing a starting point for a new literary piece and by helping with a current project, from problem-solving to idea generation, plot and character development, offering first-hand experience in one’s own fiction, helping with the reviewing process, as well as resolving ambivalence around creative projects or one’s writing practice. The objective of the future experimental study will be to test LD as a tool that can assist with different components of fiction writing. Suggestions are made here for how these components are placed in Flower and Hayes’ (1980) Cognitive Process Theory of Writing.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 16, No 1 (April 2023)
ABCF1 is a novel E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme that controls Toll-like receptor-mediated innate immune responses and cytokine storm during sepsis
Creators: name: Arora, Hitesh
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2021

description: Immune responses are tightly controlled mechanisms that serve as the primary means by which invading pathogens are eradicated. These mechanisms are governed by the action of several proteins that, when activated, regulate a cascade of downstream effectors in immune cells that help control and, often eliminate the infection. We have discovered a protein, ABCF1, which regulates this immune response cascade through Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling and helps maintain cellular homeostasis. ABCF1 is the only known member of the ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) superfamily that lacks a trans-membrane domain and thus doesn’t function as a transporter. Previous studies on ABCF1 indicate a role for this protein in DNA sensing mechanisms and in the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmune pancreatitis. We have discovered that ABCF1 is the sole member of the ABC superfamily possessing E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme activity and exclusively regulates TLR4 endocytosis in murine macrophages. In our studies, ABCF1 was found to target Spleen Tyrosine Kinase (SYK) and TNF Receptor Associated Factor (TRAF3) proteins for K63-linked polyubiquitination, thereby regulating the shift from MyD88-dependent to TRIF-dependent signaling. We also observed that ABCF1 negatively regulates MyD88-dependent pro-inflammatory cytokine production in TLR2 and TLR9 signaling, thereby controlling macrophage polarization to the M2 phenotype. ABCF1 was also found to control viral immune responses by regulating OAS1a enzyme activity and negatively regulating ABCE1 thereby modulating RNase L activation. ABCF1 also seemed to control FcγR II-mediated phagocytosis through phosphorylation of SRC Family Kinases (SFKs). Our data also revealed that ABCF1 negatively regulates cytokine storm during the inflammatory phase of sepsis. It associates with TRAF3 and targets TRAF3 for K63-linked poly ubiquitination, thereby controlling the shift from inflammatory phase to immune compromised phase during sepsis. ABCF1 haploinsufficiency was found to trigger lethal renal circulatory dysfunction, which drastically reduced survival rates during the inflammatory phase of sepsis. We herein report the discovery of a novel E2 enzyme, ABCF1, whose E2 ubiquitin-conjugating activity controls TLR-mediated inflammation and cytokine storm during sepsis in murine macrophages.
ENHANCING SPEAKING FLUENCY IN YOUNG LEARNERS
Creators: name: Abduvalixojayeva, Muxlisa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Enhancing speaking fluency in young learners is crucial for developing their communication skills and confidence in language use. This study explores effective strategies and methodologies to improve speaking fluency among young learners, focusing on age-appropriate activities that encourage active participation and natural language use. Techniques such as interactive storytelling, role-play, games, and peer collaboration are shown to foster an engaging environment that promotes fluency by reducing anxiety and building conversational skills. Additionally, incorporating feedback mechanisms and a supportive atmosphere helps learners overcome hesitation and self-doubt, leading to improved fluency over time. This research highlights the importance of creating a learner-centered, communicative approach in teaching speaking skills, aiming to lay a strong foundation for young learners' future language proficiency.
Electromagnetically superconducting phase of QCD vacuum induced by strong magnetic field
Creators: name: Chernodub, M. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk we discuss our recent suggestion that the QCD vacuum in a sufficiently strong magnetic field (stronger than 10^{16} Tesla) may undergo a spontaneous transition to an electromagnetically superconducting state. The possible superconducting state is anisotropic (the vacuum exhibits superconductivity only along the axis of the uniform magnetic field) and inhomogeneous (in the transverse directions the vacuum structure shares similarity with the Abrikosov lattice of an ordinary type-II superconductor). The electromagnetic superconductivity of the QCD vacuum is suggested to occur due to emergence of specific quark-antiquark condensates which carry quantum numbers of electrically charged rho mesons. A Lorentz-covariant generalization of the London transport equations for the magnetic-field-induced superconductivity is given.
description: 3 pages, talk at the conference "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IX", 30 Aug - 3 Sep 2010, Madrid, Spain
Ophutasjjongia australiensis var. mucronata Topsent 1896, n. var.
Creators: name: Topsent, Émile
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1896
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Ophutasjjongia
Ophutasjjongia australiensis
Ophutasjjongia australiensis ridley var. mucronata

description: OphUtasjJongia australiensis Ridley var. mucronata n. var. Deux spécimens, l'un dans l'alcool, l'autre desséché. Il existe une ressemblance évidente entre ces Eponges et le spécimen unique de Ophlttaspongia australiensis Ridley (19, p. 442). De part et d'autre, les caractères extérieurs, la structure de la charpente, les dimensions et le type sinon la forme des mégasclères sont les mêmes. Seulement, l'identité ne s'étend pas aux détails de la spiculation. Les styles lisses qui, épars, hérissent les fibres, ne diffèrent pas de ceux de 0. australiensis; ils mesurent, en effet, 130 p de longueur sur 10^ d'épaisseur et sont sensiblement droits, trapus, avec une pointe effilée graduellement et une base plutôt un peu plus mince que la portion moyenne de la tige. Quant aux autres mégasclères, qui s'alignent dans l'intérieur des fibres et s'enchevêtrent dans la chair et dans l'ectosome, ce ne sont plus ici de purs strongyles, mais des tornostrongyles, car un de leurs bouts s'attéuue constamment en une pointe conique à une distance de l'extrémité égale environ à une fois le diamètre du spicule. Ces tornostrongyles, droits, minces et lisses, ont, à cela près, l'aspect des strongyles de 0. australiensis; ils mesurent la même longueur, 190 à 200 p, et la même épaisseur, 4 y.. C'est comme si l'on avait affaire à des véritables 0. australiensis dont tous les mégasclères principaux du squelette auraient subi une déformation, et le fait paraît d'autant plus vraisemblable que la pointe des tornostrongyles se montre fréquemment mal constituée, noueuse, ou légèrement étranglée, avec, en ce cas, l'apparence d'un mucron. Ce qui, en revanche, me porte à supposer qu'il y a autre chose qu'une variation individuelle, c'est que les microsclères du type seraient en plus frappés d'atrophie; je n'ai pas, en effet, observé ici les toxes de 0. australiensis. Peut-être serait-il exagéré de créer une espèce d'après ces deux différences? Il s'agit, pour tout le moins d'une variété, jusqu'à ce qu'on sache mieux de quelles variations 0. australiensis est capable.
description: Published as part of Topsent, Émile, 1896, Spongiaires de la baie d'Amboine. (Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l'archipel Malais.), pp. 421-487 in Revue Suisse de Zoologie 4 (3) on pages 449-450, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.35507
The symmetric Radon-Nikodým property for tensor norms
Creators: name: Carando, Daniel
name: Galicer, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47L22, 46M05, 46B22

description: We introduce the symmetric-Radon-Nikodým property (sRN property) for finitely generated s-tensor norms $β$ of order $n$ and prove a Lewis type theorem for s-tensor norms with this property. As a consequence, if $β$ is a projective s-tensor norm with the sRN property, then for every Asplund space $E$, the canonical map $\widetilde{\otimes}_β^{n,s} E' \to \Big(\widetilde{\otimes}_{β'}^{n,s} E \Big)'$ is a metric surjection. This can be rephrased as the isometric isomorphism $\mathcal{Q}^{min}(E) = \mathcal{Q}(E)$ for certain polynomial ideal $\Q$. We also relate the sRN property of an s-tensor norm with the Asplund or Radon-Nikodým properties of different tensor products. Similar results for full tensor products are also given. As an application, results concerning the ideal of $n$-homogeneous extendible polynomials are obtained, as well as a new proof of the well known isometric isomorphism between nuclear and integral polynomials on Asplund spaces.
description: 17 pages
COVID-19 pandemic, sleep quality, and emotional tone of dreams: A model to look into how psychological stress affects sleep quality, dream and emotionality
Creators: name: Kumar, Gulshan
name: Yadav, Pranay S
name: Sasidharan, Arun
name: Yadav, Ravi
name: Nagendra, Ravindra P
name: Govindaraj, Ramajayam
name: Kutty, Bindu M.
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2023

description: The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has impacted the health and welfare of people globally. As sleep plays a major role in health and wellbeing, the impact of COVID-19 on sleep quality, dream content and emotionality has not been studied among Indian population. The present online survey was carried out to understand whether such stressful life style during the COVID-19 pandemic affect sleep quality, dream contents and the relation between sleep quality and emotionality. We used Mannheim Dream questionnaire (MADRE), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). The study signifies that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the sleep quality and emotional stability as the dream content were more of emotionally intense pandemic related suffering and trauma with increased occurrence of nightmares, negative dreams and emotions. The study found reduced sleep quality, and altered sleep durations with day time dysfunctions. Both positive affect and negative affect are significantly correlated with sleep quality. While positive affect showed a negative correlation in the PSQI score, negative affect showed a positive correlation. The subjects who suffered from COVID-19 showed no significant difference in sleep parameters and affective changes when compared to subjects whose neighbours or immediate family members were suffering from COVID-19. Our study highlights the impact of psychological stress on human sleep, and emotionality. Such models would help in developing effective measures towards reinstating the sleep quality and affective behaviours in conditions of psychological stress.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 16, No 1 (April 2023)
Dreams of finding money: Four German surveys from 1956 to 2000
Creators: name: Schredl, Michael
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2023

description: Money plays an important role in our everyday life; thus, the question arises how often money play a role in our dreams. So far, only the topic of finding money in dreams have been studied systematically. In four representative surveys from 1956 to 2000 carried out in Germany, about 16% of the participants (overall N = 4,613) reported having had “finding money” dreams in the last few months. In line with previous research, this dream topic was more often reported by men compared to women. Adding the findings that the percentage of “finding money” dreams increased from 1956 to 2000 and that more younger persons reported these dreams compared to older persons, the findings support the idea that – according to the continuity hypothesis of dreaming – dreams of finding money reflect the importance of financial issues in the dreamer’s waking life. However, more detailed studies are needed to corroborate the findings and underlying theories.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 16, No 1 (April 2023)
The Embodied Cognition Theory of Dreaming: A proposal for how dreams prepare individuals for waking life
Creators: name: Wagener, Alwin E.
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2023

description: The Embodied Cognition Theory of Dreaming (ECTD) is a novel proposal describing the function of dreaming, which is to prepare individuals for waking life. ECTD builds on the theories of embodied cognition and embodied metaphor, applying them to the mental experience of dreaming. From that foundation, ECTD proposes three reasons for dreaming. The first is to organize schemas congruent with individuals’ affective and sensorimotor understandings of self-in-context. The second is to prepare individuals to react to schemas, and the third is to prepare individuals to use sensorimotor processes likely to be needed in waking experience. ECTD posits that dreaming exists to prepare individuals to react to the types of experiences that were affectively significant in waking.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 16, No 1 (April 2023)
Renormalized One-loop Theory of Correlations in Disordered Diblock Copolymers
Creators: name: Qin, Jian
name: Grzywacz, Piotr
name: Morse, David C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A renormalized one-loop theory (ROL) is used to calculate corrections to the random phase approximation (RPA) for the structure factor $\Sc(q)$ in disordered diblock copolymer melts. Predictions are given for the peak intensity $S(q^{\star})$, peak position $q^{\star}$, and single-chain statistics for symmetric and asymmetric copolymers as functions of $χN$, where $χ$ is the Flory-Huggins interaction parameter and $N$ is the degree of polymerization. The ROL and Fredrickson-Helfand (FH) theories are found to yield asymptotically equivalent results for the dependence of the peak intensity $S(q^{\star})$ upon $χN$ for symmetric diblock copolymers in the limit of strong scattering, or large $χN$, but yield qualitatively different predictions for symmetric copolymers far from the ODT and for asymmetric copolymers. The ROL theory predicts a suppression of $S(q^\star)$ and a decrease of $q^{\star}$ for large values of $χN$, relative to the RPA predictions, but an enhancement of $S(q^{\star})$ and an increase in $q^{\star}$ for small $χN$ ($χN < 5$). By separating intra- and inter-molecular contributions to $S^{-1}(q)$, we show that the decrease in $q^{\star}$ near the ODT is caused by the $q$ dependence of the intermolecular direct correlation function, and is unrelated to any change in single-chain statistics, but that the increase in $q^{\star}$ at small values of $χN$ is a result of non-Gaussian single-chain statistics.
description: 16 pages, 13 figures, submitted to J. Chem. Phys
Perichaena quadrata T. Macbr., N. Amer.
Creators: name: Treviño-Zevallos, Italo
name: García-Cunchillos, Iván
name: Basanta, Diana Wrigley De
name: Lado, Carlos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Protozoa
Mycetozoa
Myxomycetes
Trichiales
Arcyriaceae
Perichaena
Perichaena quadrata

description: 108. Perichaena quadrata T. Macbr., N. Amer. Slime-moulds, ed. 1, 184 (1899)
 Specimens examined. PERU. Arequipa: Arequipa, Yura, route PE-34A, km 69,800, 3015 m, 16º12′14”S, 71º39′11”W, 12 Apr 2016, Puya densiflora litter, (mc, 6 Dec 2017, pH 6.9), dwb 3837. Cajamarca: Cajamarca, The baths of the Inca, route PE-08B, km 191, at the junction to Marcobamba and Llacanora, 3120 m, 7º09′23.0”S, 78º25′11.7”W, 14 Apr 2013, leaves of Agave sp., Lado 22560b (MA-Fungi 94904). Huancavelica: Tayacaja, Huando, 4 km southeast of Izcuchaca, 3035 m, 12°30′35” S, 74°58′43” W, 24 Sep 2012, Puya sp. leaf base, (mc, 18 Oct 2013, pH 7.83), dwb 3633. Junin: Huancayo, Cullhuas, route PE-3A, km 142, 3450 m, 12°11′60” S, 75°10′38” W, 24 Sep 2012, Cylindropuntia pachypus epidermis, (mc, 09 Nov 2013, pH 7.1), dwb 3634, dwb 3635; (mc, 18 Nov 2013, pH 7.4), dwb 3643. Moquegua: Mariscal Nieto, Torata, Pontón Cuellar, route PE-34D, km 69, 3815 m, 16º59′54.8”S, 70º41′54.7”W, 7 Oct 2012, twigs and leaf litter of Baccharis glutinosa, Lado 22168b (MA-Fungi 94713), Lado 22169b (MA-Fungi 94715, USM), Lado 22170b (MA-Fungi 94718, USM), Lado 22171c (MA-Fungi 94721), Lado 22173a (MA-Fungi 94726).
description: Published as part of Treviño-Zevallos, Italo, García-Cunchillos, Iván, Basanta, Diana Wrigley De & Lado, Carlos, 2023, Diversity of Myxomycetes from Peru Part III: The high Andes and the altiplano, pp. 1-92 in Phytotaxa 624 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.624.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10150721
On information plus noise kernel random matrices
Creators: name: Karoui, Noureddine El
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Kernel random matrices have attracted a lot of interest in recent years, from both practical and theoretical standpoints. Most of the theoretical work so far has focused on the case were the data is sampled from a low-dimensional structure. Very recently, the first results concerning kernel random matrices with high-dimensional input data were obtained, in a setting where the data was sampled from a genuinely high-dimensional structure---similar to standard assumptions in random matrix theory. In this paper, we consider the case where the data is of the type "information${}+{}$noise." In other words, each observation is the sum of two independent elements: one sampled from a "low-dimensional" structure, the signal part of the data, the other being high-dimensional noise, normalized to not overwhelm but still affect the signal. We consider two types of noise, spherical and elliptical. In the spherical setting, we show that the spectral properties of kernel random matrices can be understood from a new kernel matrix, computed only from the signal part of the data, but using (in general) a slightly different kernel. The Gaussian kernel has some special properties in this setting. The elliptical setting, which is important from a robustness standpoint, is less prone to easy interpretation.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOS801 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Alexithymia and emotionality of dreams
Creators: name: Lyvers, Michael
name: Goldberg, Oscar
name: Thorberg, Fred Arne
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2023

description: Findings have been mixed regarding aspects of dreaming in alexithymia. The present study explored the relationship of alexithymia and its facets to frequency and emotional intensity of remembered dreams in a young adult sample. A sample of 109 men and women aged 18-30 years was recruited from two universities and the general Australian community. Participants completed an online survey assessing frequency of dream recall and nightmares, as well as typical emotional intensity of dreams. Validated measures assessed alexithymia, alcohol use, and negative moods. Multivariate alexithymia X gender analysis of covariance controlling for alcohol use and negative moods indicated that the alexithymia group (n = 47) scored significantly higher on typical emotional intensity of dreams compared to controls (n = 62), with no other group differences. Further, the core difficulty identifying feelings (DIF) facet of alexithymia was significantly positively correlated with typical emotional intensity of dreams, and was the only significant predictor of dream emotionality in a regression model that accounted for potential confounding variables. Results appear to be consistent with the psychoanalytic notion that suppressed or repressed emotions are likely to emerge in dreams, given that alexithymia has been linked to emotional suppression.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 16, No 1 (April 2023)
Search for diffuse cosmic gamma-ray flux using Fractal and Wavelet analysis from Galactic region using single imaging Cerenkov telescopes
Creators: name: Bhat, C. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show from a simulations-based study of the TACTIC telescope that fractal and wavelet analysis of Cerenkov images, recorded in a single imaging Cerenkov telescope, enables almost complete segregation of isotropic gamma-ray initiated events from the overwhelming background of cosmic-ray hadron-initiated events. This presents a new method for measuring galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray background above 1 TeV energy. Preliminary results based on this method are reported here. Primary aim is to explore the possibility of using data recorded by a single imaging atmospheric Cerenkov telescope(IACT) for making accurate measurements of diffuse galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray flux above ~1 TeV energy. Using simulated data of atmospheric Cerenkov images recorded in an IACT, initiated both by cosmic ray protons and diffuse gamma-rays with energies above 4 TeV and 2 TeV respectively, we identify the most efficient fractal /wavelet parameters of the recorded images for primary identification. The method is based on the pattern recognition technique and employs fractal and wavelet analysis of the recorded Cerenkov images for gamma-hadron segregation. We show that the value of wavelet dimension parameter B6 can segregate Cerenkov images of hadronic origin from those of diffuse gamma-ray origin with almost 100% accuracy. We use the results to get a preliminary upper limit estimate of the diffuse galactic gamma-ray flux within galactic range of |b|\leq -50 and |l|\leq 2000 above 2TeV from a 36h data set recorded by the TACTIC telescope.
description: 12 pages,6 figures
Reinforcement sensitivity driven biobehavioural traits predict the intensity of dreams
Creators: name: R. Du Rocher, Andrew
name: Anees, Malaika
name: Baluni, Geetika
name: Falade, Omotayo
name: Nwuba, Ogechi
name: R. S. Peter, Divya
name: Rana, Lizanne
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2023

description: Sentinel function theory suggests that dreaming relates to the fight-or-flight response, protoconsciousness theory suggests that dreams prepare a person for behaviour upon waking, and threat simulation theory suggests that dreams prepare a person to deal with threat upon waking. Revised reinforcement sensitivity theory (rRST) includes three bio-behavioural systems. A behavioural approach system (BAS) is active when reward is anticipated, received, or pursued. A fight-flight-freeze system (FFFS) is active when avoidance of threat, and/or responses to threat, are required. A behavioural inhibition system (BIS) detects risk, and is implicated in the experience of anxiety. Participants (N = 279; mean age 36.5) completed an online survey that measured self-reported reinforcement sensitivity and four self-reported dream intensity constructs. Elevated BIS sensitivity was related to increases in self-reported dream quantity, dream vividness, diffusion, and altered dream episodes in zero-order and multiple regression analyses. There were no zero-order relationships between FFFS sensitivity and the four dream intensity constructs. Thus, FFFS and BIS sensitivity were differentiable within an analysis of dream intensity. BAS sensitivity was positively related to dream vividness, diffusion, and altered dream episodes in the zero-order analysis, and to diffusion, altered dream episodes (and less reliably to dream vividness) in the multiple regression analyses. There is considerable overlap between the neurobiology described in rRST and the neurobiology implicated in dream genesis. Our data suggests that rRST might be an interesting way to examine how personality is related to the intensity of dreams.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 16, No 1 (April 2023)
When dreams come true: The relation of salient dreams to the future satisfaction of waking needs
Creators: name: Coutts, Richard
Publisher: name: International Journal of Dream Research
Year: 2023

description: The relation of salient dream content to the satisfaction of needs in the future was explored for 1,106 visitors to a dating website. The online participants completed a survey that included a recent dream report, demographics, measures of waking activities, and information about whether their dream incorporated romantic or sexual attraction. Follow-up surveys collected their relationship status at 3 and 12 months. Findings included participants who were single at study outset and dreamed of romantic or sexual attraction to former partners were 83% more likely to report themselves to be partnered 3 or 12 months later. Participants who were partnered at study outset and who dreamed of attraction to current or former partners were more likely to report as partnered in both follow-up surveys, while those who dreamed of attractive non-partners, including acquaintances, famous people, or strangers, were more likely to break up. Single women were more likely to subsequently partner if they dreamed of attraction than were men, and younger participants were more likely to partner after dreaming of attraction than were older participants. Measures of dating activities and waking concern for being in a partner relationship did not confound results. Findings are discussed in the context of functional hypotheses of dreaming.
description: International Journal of Dream Research, Vol 16, No 1 (April 2023)
Universal Conductance Fluctuations in Mesoscopic Systems with Superconducting Leads: Beyond the Andreev Approximation
Creators: name: Xing, Yanxia
name: Wang, Jian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report our investigation of the sample to sample fluctuation in transport properties of phase coherent normal metal-superconductor hybrid systems. Extensive numerical simulations were carried out for quasi-one dimensional and two dimensional systems in both square lattice (Fermi electron) as well as honeycomb lattice (Dirac electron). Our results show that when the Fermi energy is within the superconducting energy gap $Δ$, the Andreev conductance fluctuation exhibits a universal value (UCF) which is approximately two times larger than that in the normal systems. According to the random matrix theory, the electron-hole degeneracy (ehD) in the Andreev reflections (AR) plays an important role in classifying UCF. Our results confirm this. We found that in the diffusive regime there are two UCF plateaus, one corresponds to the complete electron-hole symmetry (with ehD) class and the other to conventional electron-hole conversion (ehD broken). In addition, we have studied the Andreev conductance distribution and found that for the fixed average conductance $,G>$ the Andreev conductance distribution is a universal function that depends only on the ehD. In the localized regime, our results show that ehD continues to serve as an indicator for different universal classes. Finally, if normal transport is present, i.e., Fermi energy is beyond energy gap $Δ$, the AR is suppressed drastically in the localized regime by the disorder and the ehD becomes irrelevant. As a result, the conductance distribution is that same as that of normal systems.
Hymerapliia clavata Bowerbank.
Creators: name: Topsent, Émile
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1896
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Hymerapliia
Hymerapliia clavata

description: Hymerapliia clavata Bowerbank. Un spécimen encroûtant, hispide, gris jaunâtre, sur un Poly- pier. Épines des acanthostyles un peu plus fortes que dans le type. Distribution. Mers d'Europe; Amboine.
description: Published as part of Topsent, Émile, 1896, Spongiaires de la baie d'Amboine. (Voyage de MM. M. Bedot et C. Pictet dans l'archipel Malais.), pp. 421-487 in Revue Suisse de Zoologie 4 (3) on page 451, DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.35507
Structural and magnetic properties of Co-Mn-Sb thin films
Creators: name: Meinert, Markus
name: Schmalhorst, Jan-Michael
name: Ebke, Daniel
name: Liu, Ning-Ning
name: Thomas, Andy
name: Reiss, Günter
name: Kanak, Jaroslaw
name: Stobiecki, Tomasz
name: Arenholz, Elke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thin Co-Mn-Sb films of different compositions were investigated and utilized as electrodes in alumina based magnetic tunnel junctions with CoFe counter electrode. The preparation conditions were optimized with respect to magnetic and structural properties. The Co-Mn-Sb/Al-O interface was analyzed by X-ray absorption spectroscopy and magnetic circular dichroism with particular focus on the element-specific magnetic moments. Co-Mn-Sb crystallizes in different complex cubic structures depending on its composition. The magnetic moments of Co and Mn are ferromagnetically coupled in all cases. A tunnel magneto resistance ratio of up to 24 % at 13K was found and indicates that Co-Mn-Sb is not a ferromagnetic half-metal. These results are compared to recent works on the structure and predictions of the electronic properties.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures
Apsidal Motion of the Massive, Benchmark Eclipsing Binary V578 Mon
Creators: name: Garcia, E. V.
name: Stassun, Keivan G.
name: Hebb, L.
name: Chew, Y. Gómez Maqueo
name: Heiser, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: V578 Mon is a system of two early B-type stars in the Rosette Nebula star-forming region (NGC 2244), and is one of only nine eclipsing binaries with component masses greater than 10 M\odot whose physical parameters have been determined with an accuracy of better than 3%. It is therefore a benchmark system for evolutionary and stellar structure models of newly formed massive stars. Combining our multi-band light curves spanning 40 yr with previous light curve data from the literature, we fit a model light curve that for the first time includes the effects of apsidal motion of the system. We measure an apsidal period of 33.48+0.10-0.06 yr. As a consequence of incorporating the apsidal motion into the modeling of the system's orbital parameters, we determine an updated eccentricity of e = 0.07755+0.00022-0.00027, which differs significantly from the value previously reported in the literature. Evidently, the inclusion of apsidal motion in the light curve modeling significantly affects the eccentricity determination. Incorporating these key parameters into a comprehensive model of the system's physical parameters-including internal structure constraints- will bring V578 Mon to the next level of benchmark precision and utility.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, to appear in the Astronomical Journal
Art and Interpretation; A Qualitative Theory of Art
Creators: name: Prokkola, Tapio Uolevi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Art
Aesthetics
Beauty
Theory of art
Work of art
Aesthetic experience
Aesthetic sense
Art and craft
Intention
Interpretation
Conceptual art

description: This article analyzes the possibility of finding a definition of art and the work of art, especially the so called modern art, concentrating on visual art and specifically on painting. First, I briefly analyze some previous attempts and suggest a novel approach that would make it possible to define art as a special form of brainwork. To be able to do this, terms like beauty, aesthetic, and art and their mutual relations are first redefined, concentrating especially on the nature of aesthetic experience as the fundamental aspect of all life in general. Next, I suggest a distinction between craft and art and, based on this distinction, provide a definition of art in the traditional sense of the word, such as art was seen from prehistoric times to 19th century Europe. Thereafter, I suggest a definition of a work art as the realized intention of the artist in non-conceptual form. Finally, I analyze the possibility of interpretation of art according to this theory, concluding that while it is possible to interpret works of art, it is not possible to interpret art because art is the quality of the artwork, and that can only be experienced, not conceptually understood.
Inclusive Forest Conservation Practices and Promotion of Environmental Sustainability in Central Senatorial Zone, Cross River State, Nigeria-.pdf
Creators: name: Onnoghen, Usang  Nkanu
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 160102 Biological (Physical) Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 160802 Environmental Sociology

description: Inclusive environmental sustainability is the main thrust of this paper. This was effected through the forest conservation practices among adult inhabitant of Central Senatorial zone of Cross River State...