cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Going with the flow? Diversification of gastropods reflects drainage evolution in Africa
Creators: name: Mahulu, Anna
name: Stelbrink, Björn
name: Bocxlaer, Bert Van
name: Riedel, Frank
name: Albrecht, Christian
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ampullariidae
subject: biogeography
subject: dispersal
subject: East African Rift System
subject: fossil record
subject: molluscs
subject: radiation
subject: river basin
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie

description: Aim The roles of geodynamics, climatic variability and landscape evolution in shaping aquatic biodiversity patterns on the African continent remain poorly understood. We studied the geographical origin and phylogenetic relationships of an Afrotropical freshwater snail genus to examine the role of drainage evolution on diversification and range evolution. The relevance of fish provinces in bio‐regionalization of invertebrates was explored, as well as the evolution of habitat specificity. Location Africa including Madagascar. Taxon Lanistes (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae). Methods Based on a sampling covering the entire geographical range, we reconstructed a fossil‐calibrated multi‐locus molecular phylogeny using maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference approaches. After applying species delimitation methods, we estimated ancestral areas and habitats and examined rates of diversification through time using lineage through time plots. Results RAxML and MrBayes analyses resulted in highly congruent topologies and a strongly supported phylogeny. Our BEAST analysis indicate that Lanistes probably originated in the Eocene about 50 Ma and the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all 23 Lanistes OTUs in our study may have inhabited an area including the Central African and adjacent Lower Guinean biogeographical regions. A steeper increase in species accumulation from the middle Miocene (c. 15 to 10 Ma), followed by a decrease towards the present was found. Sympatry and jump dispersal were the common cladogenetic events and only a single anagenetic dispersal event was detected. The biogeographical analyses further suggest that Madagascar was colonized from East Africa and that the Zambezi River was colonized at least twice independently. Seven species are confined to rivers and three live exclusively in lakes. The estimation of ancestral habitats suggested that the MRCA of all Lanistes probably evolved in a riverine habitat. Main conclusions The diversification of Lanistes started in the Eocene and occurred at a constant pace apart from a possible climate‐related increase in the Miocene. This study highlights the significance of temporal geographical isolation of river systems and subsequent reconnection in clade diversification and of jump dispersal in range evolution. More comparative analyses across various taxa are needed to obtain a better understanding of African freshwater biodiversity.
title: Is Timing Everything? Parental Unemployment and Children's Educational Attainment
Creators: name: Arbeit, Caren
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2013

description: Drawing from research on parental unemployment, sibling differences and life course theories, I consider whether (and how) the timing of a parent’s job loss moderates the impact of the event on children’s educational attainment in adulthood. Life course and child development theories lead to a hypothesis that the timing of family events in each child’s life may lead to long-term differences in educational attainment. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I examine the educational attainment at age 25 of siblings born where the parent experienced a job loss. Using fixed effects models to control for family contexts at the time of parental unemployment, I find little difference in siblings’ educational attainment at age 25 based on children’s age when the parent lost his or her job. I discuss two possible ways to understand these counter-theoretical results.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: A study of the folk songs of the Merathi dialect.
Creators: name: Gaur, Ganesh D.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1959

description: The present thesis contains the text, along with an English translation of a collection of folk songs that are current in the Merath district of Uttar Pradesh. This is preceded by an introductory study of these same songs. The Collection, the first one from this area, represents about two fifths of larger number collected by the writer during a total of ten months spent in the field. The selection was made in such a way as to ensure that all types of songs are adequately represented. All the songs were obtained at first hand. The introductory section begins with an account of the Merathi language area, its inhabitants, their religious beliefs and practices, their superstitions and the important social events of village life, particular reference being made to birth and marriage ceremonies. In this, way the background to the songs is established and the significance of the numerous allusions to the life of the district becomes clear. There follows a classification of folk literature, so that the place of the songs; in this wider corpus can be seen. The next chapter gives a study of the subject matter of the songs of the collection, especially as regards the way in which it reflects the married life of the people. There follows a discussion of the form of the songs and the technique of composition which may claim to represent a new departure in the study of the folk poetry of northern India. The nature of Merathi folk poetry having been thus described, it is then shown how it influenced Hindi literature to a considerable extent. Here a number of correspondences between the two are noted for the first time. The introductory section concludes with an examination of the main grammatical features of the dialect, stress being laid on the points of difference from Standard Hindi.
title: Comparisons of At-Home and Breadwinner Parents' Time Use: What matters most, gender or jobs?
Creators: name: Chesley, Noelle
name: Flood, Sarah
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2013

description: Explanations for gender difference often focus on relative differences in time and money connected to employment within couples and cultural (e.g. doing gender) arguments to pinpoint the mechanisms that lead to gender-based inequality. However, previous research indicates clear differences in how heterosexual couples allocate time to childcare, housework, and leisure, suggesting that time/money tradeoffs and cultural pressures may operate in different ways across different areas of time use. Further, research points to couples with atypical work/family allocations, like those with a stay-at-home father or breadwinner mother, as drivers of gender similarity or difference in some areas, finding that families with a breadwinner mother and at-home father are the most equal when it comes to childcare time, but the least equal when it comes to housework allocations. However, a rigorous examination of time use in these atypical families has not been conducted drawing on a population sample. We use integrated American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data and seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) analyses to extend previous research focused on pinpointing the mechanisms that underlie gender difference and investigate whether time in childcare, housework, leisure, exercise, and sleep differ among a nationally representative sample of at-home and breadwinner parents to better understand how very unequal employment and care obligations (primary parenting vs. breadwinning) and gender shape these time allocations. Overall, we find that mothers and fathers across employment conditions are more alike than different, suggesting that gender, not jobs, has a stronger influence on time use, even in couples with very unequal paid work commitments.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
EdEqual_SOE_Supplement_clean – Supplemental material for Great Equalizer or Great Selector? Reconsidering Education as a Moderator of Intergenerational Transmissions
Creators: name: Fiel, Jeremy E.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Education
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: Supplemental material, EdEqual_SOE_Supplement_clean for Great Equalizer or Great Selector? Reconsidering Education as a Moderator of Intergenerational Transmissions by Jeremy E. Fiel in Sociology of Education
title: Time for Each Other: Work and Family Constraints among Couples
Creators: name: Flood, Sarah
name: Genadek, Katie
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2013

description: Spousal interaction is an important component of marital quality, but researchers know little about couples’ shared time. We investigate: 1) relationships between single vs. dual-earner status and time with one’s spouse, 2) family life stage differences in time with a spouse, and 3) individual well-being when with one’s spouse. We use data from the American Time Use Survey (2003-2010), including the 2010 Well-Being Module. We find that men in dual-earner arrangements spend less time with their wives than those in single-earner arrangements and that on work days, men and women spend substantially less time with a spouse than on nonworkdays. Parents spend less time together than non-parents, and parents of children under one spend more time alone together than parents whose youngest children are school age, but substantially less exclusive spousal time. Significantly, men and women report being happier when spending time with their spouse, regardless of the activity.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: The Temporal Dynamics and Stability of Black Migration to the South, 1970-2000: New Insights on Old Trends
Creators: name: DeWaard, Jack
name: Curtis, Katherine J.
name: Fuguitt, Glenn V.
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2014

description: The “New Great Migration” of blacks to the South was and continues to be one of the most important demographic shifts in recent U.S. history, and refers to a black net-migration reversal in the South from negative to positive in the 1970s for the first time since before the Great Migration of blacks out of the region in the early and middle parts of the twentieth century. While prior research has told the story of the New Great Migration with respect to the size dimension of migration flows to the South, in this paper, we take a different approach and apply a temporal lens to consider whether more migration to the South resulted in more permanent migration with respect to the amount of time that blacks could ultimately be expected to live in the region. Motivated by conceptual and substantive debates on the inherently temporal nature of migration, we summarize the temporal dynamics and stability of black migration to the South by exploiting age patterns of region-to-region migration within and across four censuses from 1970 to 2000. We document a pronounced increase in the amount of time that blacks could be expected to live in the South beginning in the 1980s, one decade after the heralded turn-around of black net-migration, due to heightened in-migration at younger ages marking entry into the labor force. This increase was particularly pronounced for persons born in the South, a finding consistent with previous research on the importance of ties to “home” during the New Great Migration.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Emergency powers in the states of Southern Asia.
Creators: name: Minattur, Joseph
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1959

description: After examining how far Rule of Law applied in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent in the Moghul Period, the thesis traces the history of the exercise of emergency powers from the early days of the East India Company, when martial law was proclaimed in the event of war or insurrection. After 1861 the ordinance-making power of the Governor-General, which could be used to enact legislation specially directed to meet the difficulties created by most kinds of crisis, resulted in a large volume of emergency legislation during the second quarter of the present century. The thesis also deals with the power of certification of Bills conferred by the Government of India Act, 1919 and continued by the Constitution Act of 1935. Emergency legislation during the two world wars is analysed with a view to estimating how far it affected civil liberties. Public security measures during the dominion period in India and Pakistan are also dealt with. While setting out the emergency provisions in the Constitution of India, their inherent weaknesses which may tend to create a dictatorship are mentioned. The Indian provisions are compared with the emergency provisions in the Pakistan Constitution of 1956. The events and conditions which led to the abrogation of the latter Constitution and the establishment of a military dictatorship set out. The history of emergency powers in Ceylon is traced from the days of the British conquest of the island, passing in review the proclamation of martial law on various occasions. The Public Security Ordinance, 1947, and its several amendments culminating in the amending Act of 1959, it is pointed out, may eclipse democratic freedoms for the minorities in the island. The concluding chapter deals in the main with some suggestions which might help to stabilise the democratic institutions set up in the South Asian states.
title: Marriage, Family Systems, and Economic Opportunity in the United States Since 1850
Creators: name: Ruggles, Steven
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2014

description: The decline of marriage over the past half century ranks among the most profound demographic transformations in American demographic history. This paper puts recent change into historical context by providing new estimates of long-run trends in marriage. I then describe change in the family economy and explore the impact of economic changes on marriage behavior. I conclude with a discussion of cultural and structural explanations for change and their implications for the future.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
Supplement – Supplemental material for Comparative measurement properties of constant work rate cycling and the endurance shuttle walking test in COPD: the TORRACTO® clinical trial
Creators: name: Maltais, François
name: O’Donnell, Denis E.
name: Hamilton, Alan
name: Yihua Zhao
name: Casaburi, Richard
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111702 Aged Health Care
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111599 Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 110203 Respiratory Diseases

description: Supplemental material, Supplement for Comparative measurement properties of constant work rate cycling and the endurance shuttle walking test in COPD: the TORRACTO® clinical trial by François Maltais, Denis E. O’Donnell, Alan Hamilton, Yihua Zhao and Richard Casaburi in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease
title: The doctrine of partes orationis in the speculative grammars of the Modistae: With special reference to the works of Siger de Courtrai and Thomas of Erfurt.
Creators: name: Bursill-Hall, Geoffrey Leslie
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1959

description: This thesis contains a preface, an introduction, and a table of contents; it also contains six chapters and concludes with six appendices, the last of which is the bibliography, and a brief chronology. The first two chapters are introductory; the first chapter describes the history of grammatical writing in Europe from the ancient Greeks up to the Middle Ages; the second chapter describes briefly the mediaeval background to the Modistae, writers of speculative grammars in the later Middle Ages. Chapter three describes their grammatical theories against the metaphysical theories of reality on which they constructed their theories; the second part of this chapter contains an analysis of their technical vocabulary. The fourth chapter analyses the descriptive procedure of the Modistae; it is divided into two parts. The first part elements describes the creation of a pars orationis beginning with the expression (vox) and culminating in the pars, orationis the second section, 'categories', describes the process beginning with the thing to be signified and its properties (modus essendi) and ending with its grammatical signification (modus significandi). Chapter five is an analysis of Modistic descriptions of the partes orationis, and is divided into two parts; the first part contains the description of the eight partes orationis; the second part discusses Modistic syntactic theory. The sixth chapter attempts to evaluate the grammatical theories of the Modistae with reference to modem linguistic theories. The thesis concludes with six appendices. The first contains a brief comparison of Siger de Courtrai and Thomas of Erfurt, the principal members of our corpus: the second contains definitions of the modes used to describe the partes orationis; the third and fourth are diagrammatic expositions of their descriptions of the partes orationis and their syntax; the fifth contains a glossary of technical terms; the final appendix contains the bibliography.
title: The Sensitivity of the Intrinsic Estimator to Coding Schemes: A Comment on Yang, Schulhofer-Wohl, Fu, and Land
Creators: name: Luo, Liying
name: Hodges, James
name: Winship, Christopher
name: Powers, Daniel
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2014

description: The Intrinsic Estimator (IE) has been proposed to address the age-period-cohort problem and is believed by many to yield robust and reliable estimates. We, however, show that IE estimates are highly sensitive to one’s choice of coding scheme or model parameterization. We reanalyze data from published articles to demonstrate that estimation results using one coding scheme (e.g., the zero-to-sum coding) can be dramatically different from those obtained using a different coding scheme (e.g., reference group coding). The results are so different that a researcher would sometimes reach opposite conclusions about the effects of age, period, and/or cohort depending on the seemingly innocuous choice of coding scheme. We provide a nontechnical explanation for this sensitivity; an appendix provides a mathematical proof.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: Stage Migration within and through Migration Systems: Implications for Population Recovery in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Creators: name: DeWaard, Jack
name: Curtis, Katherine J.
name: Fussell, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2014
Subjects: Migration
Migration systems
Natural Disasters
Population
New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina

description: In this paper, we apply a migration systems perspective to understand how places affected by natural disasters recover their populations through in-migration when in-migration is delayed on account of post-disaster impediments (e.g., housing and property damage) in disaster-affected areas. Specifically, we consider and test the idea that post-disaster impediments spawn innovation in migration systems in the form of indirect, or "stage," migration flows toward and, over time, to disaster-affected areas through intermediary destinations. Taking as our case Orleans Parish over a five-year period after Hurricane Katrina, we show that stage migration played a potentially significant role in the ability of Orleans Parish to recover its population after Hurricane Katrina. We close by discussing the implications, limitations, and extensions of our work.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: British and French administration of peoples on the southern borderlands of Cameroon: The case of the Anglo-French inter-Cameroons boundary 1916-1961.
Creators: name: Nzume, Anastasia N.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2004

description: The subject of this thesis is the history of British and French imposition of the Anglo-French inter-Cameroons boundary and the effects on the divided people from 1916 to 1961. The focus is on border administration and the response of the separated border groups notably the Balong, Bakossi, Duala, Balondo, Bakweri and the Mbo. The work opens with post-war Anglo-French negotiations and the partition of the territory. These negotiations resulted to an unequal division of Cameroon between the British (1/5) and the French (4/5). After the partition on paper, the actual work of survey and demarcation began in 1937 from the coast and proceeded inland. The work came to a halt with the outbreak of the Second World War. Establishing and settling their administration on an old German base was not an easy task for either administration, especially in a territory where there was a Germanophone educated group reluctant to sever links with the former colonial power. More complicated was the administration of separated ethnic groups who seized every opportunity to send an avalanche of petitions and complaints to first the League of Nations and later to the United Nations in protest of the boundary. While border people resisted the boundary, others who were smarter saw the boundary as a zone of limitless opportunities, which they did not hesitate to exploit. It was in the early 1960s that following the plebiscite results in Southern Cameroons, the Trusteeship regime ended and the territory achieved independence on October 1, 1961 by reuniting with an independent French Cameroon. Reunification changed the status of the boundary from an international to an interstate boundary yet the ghost of the defunct boundary has ever since continued to haunt Cameroon.
LogiKEy workbench: Deontic logics, logic combinations and expressive ethical and legal reasoning (Isabelle/HOL dataset)
Creators: name: Benzmüller, Christoph
name: Farjami, Ali
name: Fuenmayor, David
name: Meder, Paul
name: Parent, Xavier
name: Steen, Alexander
name: Torre, Leendert Van Der
name: Zahoransky, Valeria
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Trustworthy and responsible AI
subject: Knowledge representation and reasoning
subject: Automated theorem proving
subject: Model finding
subject: Normative reasoning
subject: Normative systems
subject: Semantical embedding
subject: Higher-order logic
subject: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke

description: The LogiKEy workbench and dataset for ethical and legal reasoning is presented. This workbench simultaneously supports development, experimentation, assessment and deployment of formal logics and ethical and legal theories at different conceptual layers. More concretely, it comprises, in form of a dataset (Isabelle/HOL theory files), formal encodings of multiple deontic logics, logic combinations, deontic paradoxes and normative theories in the higher-order proof assistant system Isabelle/HOL. The data were acquired through application of the LogiKEy methodology, which supports experimentation with different normative theories, in different application scenarios, and which is not tied to specific logics or logic combinations. Our workbench consolidates related research contributions of the authors and it may serve as a starting point for further studies and experiments in flexible and expressive ethical and legal reasoning. It may also support hands-on teaching of non-trivial logic formalisms in lecture courses and tutorials. The LogiKEy methodology and framework is discussed in more detail in the companion research article titled “Designing Normative Theories for Ethical and Legal Reasoning: LogiKEy Framework, Methodology, and Tool Support”
Supplemental Material, Gross_Online_Appendix - Rule Following Mitigates Collaborative Cheating and Facilitates the Spreading of Honesty Within Groups
Creators: name: Gross, Jörg
name: Dreu, Carsten K. W. De
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Supplemental Material, Gross_Online_Appendix for Rule Following Mitigates Collaborative Cheating and Facilitates the Spreading of Honesty Within Groups by Jörg Gross and Carsten K. W. De Dreu in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
title: The transmission and performance of Khyal compositions in the Gwalior gharãnã of Indian vocal music.
Creators: name: Morris, Anthony D.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 2004

description: Traditional accounts of the transmission of compositions in Indian classical vocal music picture them being passed virtually unchanged from generation to generation. Comparison of the renditions of recent Gwalior gharana artists, however, shows that in reality extensive transformations can occur. In this study the transmission and performance of khyal compositions are examined with reference to the Gwalior tradition, taking into account both the views of gharana members and the evidence of recorded performances and notated compositions. Part 1 deals with the historical and theoretical background. It introduces the oral and written modes of transmission and explores Gwalior singers' attitudes to change. Such attitudes are illustrated with reference to V.N. Bhatkhande's celebrated Kramik pustak-malika collection and the controversy surrounding the 'authenticity' of its notations. In Part 2 the processes of transformation are examined in depth. The discussion centres on two comparative analyses. The first compares 24 versions of a single composition, 16 transcribed from performances, and 8 more derived from notated collections. Spanning the period from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century, these examples enable successive versions of the composition to be traced through various lines of transmission for up to three generations of Gwalior artists. The second analysis compares selected features of a large sample of notated compositions found in various published collections. Each of the main performance parameters - texts, rhythm and structure, and melody - is discussed in turn. A concluding chapter draws together the findings of the previous analyses.
title: Empty categories and Korean phonology.
Creators: name: Heo, Yong
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1994

description: This thesis discusses the behaviour of empty nuclei in Korean. The theory of Charm and Government is the framework on which my analysis is based. GP claims that a nucleus which dominates a vowel that regularly undergoes elision in specific contexts is underlyingly empty. Whether or not an empty nucleus is realised phonetically is not a question of representation, but is a question of interpretation. In the first chapter, I present the relevant facts involving word (or domain)-internal empty nuclei. [i]-zero alternation in verbal suffixation is also shown in this chapter. In the second chapter, I discuss the syllable structure of Korean. I propose that the rhyme does not branch in this language. Following this, an apparent consonant cluster is in fact separated by an empty nucleus. This is followed by the third and fourth chapters with the consideration of domain-internal and final empty nuclei in Korean. I show that the domain-final empty nucleus in Korean is licensed. A domain-internal empty nucleus may or may not be phonetically interpreted depending on proper government and inter-onset government. The properties of domain-final empty nuclei in Korean are discussed in the fifth chapter. We will see that domain-final empty nuclei in Korean do not have government-licensing properties. As for the apparent exceptional cases where [i] is pronounced in domain-final position, I account for these with evidence that they are morphologically complex. In the final chapter, I discuss [i]-zero alternation in verbal and nominal suffixations. In the case of nominal suffixation, [i]-zero alternation between the stem and suffix is exactly the same as in morphologically simplex words, thus, is accounted for by proper government and interonset government. On the other hand, [i]-zero alternation in verbal suffixation is somewhat different from that in morphologically simplex words.
Validation of an Alternative Feather Sampling Method to Measure Corticosterone
Creators: name: Voit, Marielu
name: Merle, Roswitha
name: Baumgartner, Katrin
name: Fersen, Lorenzo Von
name: Reese, Lukas
name: Ladwig-Wiegard, Mechthild
name: Will, Hermann
name: Tallo-Parra, Oriol
name: Carbajal, Annaïs
name: Lopez-Bejar, Manel
name: Thöne-Reineke, Christa
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: feather corticosterone
subject: comparative study
subject: plucked feathers
subject: cut feathers
subject: Domestic Goose
subject: Mulard Duck
subject: animal welfare
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::630 Landwirtschaft::636 Viehwirtschaft

description: The most common feather sampling method for feather corticosterone measurement is by plucking the feathers from the bird’s skin. This procedure performed on living, restrained birds is qualified as an animal experiment according to German/European legislation, which has to be applied for from the competent authorities. The Directive 2010/63/EU requires the full implementation of the 3-R Principle of Russel and Burch in animal experiments, which means not only to replace the use of animals, but also to reduce the number of animals used and to refine procedures whenever possible. In response to this issue, the aim of this study was to validate an alternative, less invasive sampling method by cutting feathers close to the skin in comparison to the gold standard of plucking them. For this proof-of-principle study, a conventional poultry husbandry with trial groups of geese (Anser anser domesticus) and ducks (Anas sterilis) was selected. All birds were kept under the same living conditions to standardize the influencing factors regarding husbandry, and thus, their stress levels. Feather samples were collected between the shoulders from 46 geese and 51 ducks, both by cutting as well as by plucking, directly after slaughter for meat production. Feather corticosterone levels were measured with Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA). Results were compared using Bland–Altman plots and concordance correlation coefficients (CCC). It could be seen that concordance between corticosterone levels in cut and plucked feathers was rather poor: 0.38 for Anser, and 0.57 for Anas. However, comparing the mean corticosterone values in pg/mm of each species with their respective standard deviations, the differences between the methods were negligible. As the results showed that the differences between the individuals were markedly greater than the differences between the methods, the determination of corticosterone levels in cut feathers is valid compared to using plucked feathers. The validation tests of ELISA showed only acceptable repeatability and reliability. Hence, the results should be verified in further studies. In conclusion, it is recommended for future research to use cut instead of plucked feathers for corticosterone measurement.
title: Within-Occupation and Industry Sex, Race, and Educational Differences in Exposures to Workplace Hazards
Creators: name: Drew, Julia A. Rivera
name: Henning-Smith, Carrie
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2014
Subjects: health disparities
occupational exposures
race/ethnicity
sex
education

description: Background Potentially harmful workplace conditions have been linked to occupationally-related illness and injury, costing billions of dollars in health care and lost wages. This study compares workers in the same jobs to see whether demographic differences in exposures persist. Methods Data were from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey. Descriptive analyses and logistic regression models controlling for job assessed differences in three exposures: 1) skin contact with chemicals, 2) vapors, gas, dust, and fumes, and 3) second-hand smoke among non-smokers. Results Comparing workers in the same jobs, women and college graduates experienced a lower risk of exposure. White workers experienced the highest risks of exposure, except for the heightened risk of second-hand smoke exposure faced by black non-smokers. Conclusion Disparities in exposure to chemicals, vapors, and second-hand smoke persist by sex, race/ethnicity, and educational attainment, even within the same jobs. Workplace policies should ensure safety equally for all employees.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
attach_and_touch_supplemental_material_r2 - Security-Based Differences in Touch Behavior and Its Relational Benefits
Creators: name: Carmichael, Cheryl L.
name: Goldberg, Matthew H.
name: Coyle, Maureen A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: attach_and_touch_supplemental_material_r2 for Security-Based Differences in Touch Behavior and Its Relational Benefits by Cheryl L. Carmichael, Matthew H. Goldberg and Maureen A. Coyle in Social Psychological and Personality Science
Analysis of Synthetic Monodisperse Polysaccharides by Wide Mass Range Ultrahigh-Resolution MALDI Mass Spectrometry
Creators: name: Nicolardi, Simone
name: Joseph, A. Abragam
name: Zhu, Qian
name: Shen, Zhengnan
name: Pardo-Vargas, Alonso
name: Chiodo, Fabrizio
name: Molinaro, Antonio
name: Silipo, Alba
name: Burgt, Yuri E. M. Van Der
name: Seeberger, Peter H.
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Fragmentation
subject: Mass spectrometry
subject: Carbohydrates
subject: Oligosaccharides
subject: Ions
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::540 Chemie::540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Carbohydrates, such as oligo- and polysaccharides, are highly abundant biopolymers that are involved in numerous processes. The study of their structure and functions is commonly based on a material that is isolated from complex natural sources. However, a more precise analysis requires pure compounds with well-defined structures that can be obtained from chemical or enzymatic syntheses. Novel synthetic strategies have increased the accessibility of larger monodisperse polysaccharides, posing a challenge to the analytical methods used for their molecular characterization. Here, we present wide mass range ultrahigh-resolution matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry (MS) as a powerful platform for the analysis of synthetic oligo- and polysaccharides. Synthetic carbohydrates 16-, 64-, 100-, and 151-mers were mass analyzed and characterized by MALDI in-source decay FT-ICR MS. Detection of fragment ions generated from glycosidic bond cleavage (or cross-ring cleavage) provided information of the monosaccharide content and the linkage type, allowing for the corroboration of the carbohydrate compositions and structures.
title: The Impact of Divorce Legislation on Daily Time Allocation
Creators: name: Genadek, Katie R.
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2014
Subjects: Divorce law
Time allocation
Marriage

description: Using time diary data from the mid-1970s, the relationship between unilateral divorce and couple-level time allocation is estimated. Married women in states with unilateral divorce are found to be spending less time in household production and core housework than those in states without unilateral divorce, and married men are found to be doing a greater share of housework within families. This paper also uses cross state and time variation in divorce law by including data from the early 1990s to estimate the effect of the adoption of unilateral divorce on daily time use. The analysis confirms the findings for women in the 1970s, as unilateral divorce is found to significantly decrease time in housework for women.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
Additional_file_1 – Supplemental material for A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of Febuxostat Therapy on Adipokines and Markers of Kidney Fibrosis in Asymptomatic Hyperuricemic Patients With Diabetic Nephropathy
Creators: name: Beddhu, Srinivasan
name: Filipowicz, Rebecca
name: Wang, Bin
name: Wei, Guo
name: Chen, Xiaorui
name: Roy, Abinash C.
name: DuVall, Scott L.
name: Farrukh, Hanadi
name: Habib, Arsalan N.
name: Bjordahl, Terrence
name: Simmons, Debra L.
name: Munger, Mark
name: Stoddard, Greg
name: Kohan, Donald E.
name: Greene, Tom
name: Huang, Yufeng
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine

description: Supplemental material, Additional_file_1 for A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of Febuxostat Therapy on Adipokines and Markers of Kidney Fibrosis in Asymptomatic Hyperuricemic Patients With Diabetic Nephropathy by Srinivasan Beddhu, Rebecca Filipowicz, Bin Wang, Guo Wei, Xiaorui Chen, Abinash C. Roy, Scott L. DuVall, Hanadi Farrukh, Arsalan N. Habib, Terrence Bjordahl, Debra L. Simmons, Mark Munger, Greg Stoddard, Donald E. Kohan, Tom Greene and Yufeng Huang in Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease
Supplemental Material, MigrFinSwe-2020-3-17-supplement - Regional concentration of university graduates: The role of high school grades and parental background
Creators: name: Eliasson, Kent
name: Haapanen, Mika
name: Westerlund, Olle
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental Material, MigrFinSwe-2020-3-17-supplement for Regional concentration of university graduates: The role of high school grades and parental background by Kent Eliasson, Mika Haapanen and Olle Westerlund in European Urban and Regional Studies
Assessing long-term effects of artificial light at night on insects: what is missing and how to get there
Creators: name: Kalinkat, Gregor
name: Grubisic, Maja
name: Jechow, Andreas
name: Grunsven, Roy H. A. Van
name: Schroer, Sibylle
name: Hölker, Franz
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial light at night
subject: insect declines
subject: light pollution
subject: population trends
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::590 Tiere (Zoologie)::595 Arthropoden (Gliederfüßer)

description: Widespread and significant declines of insect population abundances and biomass are currently one of the most pressing issues in entomology, ecology and conservation biology. It has been suggested that artificial light at night is one major driver behind this trend. Recent advances in the gathering and analysis of long-term data sets of insect population and biomass trends, however, have mostly focused on the effects of climate change and agricultural intensification. We posit here that adequate assessment of artificial night at light that would be required to evaluate its role as a driver of insect declines is far from trivial. Currently its implementation into entomological monitoring programmes and long-running ecological experiments is hampered by several challenges that arise due to (i) its relatively late appearance as a biodiversity threat on the research agenda and (ii) the interdisciplinary nature of the research field where biologists, physicists and engineers still need to develop a set of standardised assessment methods that are both biologically meaningful and easy to implement. As more studies that address these challenges are urgently needed, this article aims to provide a short overview of the few existing studies that have attempted to investigate longer-term effects of artificial light at night on insect populations. To improve the quality and relevance of studies addressing artificial light at night and its effect on insects, we present a set of best practise recommendations where this field needs to be heading in the coming years and how to achieve it.
title: Physical Well-Being and Ethnic Inequality in New Zealand Prisons, 1840-1975
Creators: name: Inwood, Kris
name: Oxley, Les
name: Roberts, Evan
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2014
Subjects: Height
Obesity
BMI
New Zealand
Maori
Anthropometric history
Biological standard of living

description: The British colonization of New Zealand after 1840 was marked by an unusual concern for incorporating the indigenous Maori population into the new society. But despite a continuing political rhetoric of protection and sovereignty Maori have historically had lower living standards and, since the 1920s, higher rates of incarceration than European-descended New Zealanders (Pakeha). In this paper we examine differences between Maori and Pakeha over 130 years using prison records. Aggregate data from the Ministry of Justice show long-term change and differences in incarceration rates. Using a dataset of all extant registers of men entering New Zealand prisons we show change over time in convictions, height, weight, and body mass index. The adult statures of Maori and Pakeha were similar for men born before 1900 but marked differences emerged among cohorts born during the twentieth century. We are able to trace the divergence among adults to different patterns of adolescent growth. By World War II the gap in adult stature widened to around 3 cm, before narrowing for men born after World War II. Periods of divergence in stature are paralleled by divergence in fertility and indicators of family size, suggesting the economic situation of Maori families was stressed by increasing fertility. By contrast, the average body mass index of Maori men admitted to prisons has been consistently higher than for Pakeha. The prison data suggest a gradual increase in obesity and overweight for both ethnic groups beginning around 1970. Viewed together the information from prisons suggests that inequalities in nutrition between Maori and Pakeha are long-standing but not unchanging, indeed they increased for cohorts born into the early 20th century.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series
title: The paintings of Mei Qing (1624-1697).
Creators: name: Lee, Shwu-Ching
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1994

description: Mei Qing (1624-1697), one of the most original painters in seventeenth-century China, created a unique style of depicting the topography of the Chinese landscape, especially that of Mt. Huang. He has been recognized as one of the three greatest masters of the Mt. Huang school, along with Hongren (1610-1664) and Shitao (1642 - 1707). Also he once was praised as the leader of painting of actual landscape in the Ming and Qing dynasties. But, hitherto no extensive and critical studies on his paintings have been undertaken. The present study is divided into six chapters. In the first chapter, Mei Qing's background, poet-painter career and those of many of his painter friends are discussed, laying the historical groundwork for further study of his paintings. On the basis of poems and paintings by Mei Qing and by Shitao, the relationship between these two artists is explored in detail. In the second chapter, we learn that Mei Qing's paintings are derived from various sources; contemporary Anhui paintings, ancient masters, topographical paintings and prints, and particularly nature itself Through an analysis of Mei Qing's dated paintings, three stages of stylistic development are suggested in the third chapter, so providing a framework for dating nine undated works and for judging sixteen forgeries in the fourth chapter. After an exploration of the formation of the Mt. Huang school, a clearer and more precise definition of the school is proposed in chapter five. Through a comparison between Mei Qing's renditions of Mt. Huang and those by the other masters of the school, Mei Qing's poetic-fantastic imagination is completely revealed. In the final chapter, four important followers of Mei Qing are discussed to manifest the influence of his paintings. The significance of Mei Qing's role as a leader of painting of actual landscape in later Chinese landscape painting is further argued in the conclusion.
Pons Rodríguez, Lola (2016). Una lengua muy larga. Cien historias curiosas sobre el español. Barcelona: Arpa, pp. 251
Creators: name: Del Barrio De La Rosa, Florencio
Publisher: name: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia
Year: 2016

description:

description: Rassegna iberistica
USJ925374_Supplemental_material – Supplemental material for Neighbourhoods, networks and unemployment: The role of neighbourhood disadvantage and local networks in taking up work
Creators: name: Vandecasteele, Leen
name: Fasang, Anette Eva
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160299 Criminology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Economics
subject: Geography
subject: 160607 International Relations
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 120599 Urban and Regional Planning not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: Supplemental material, USJ925374_Supplemental_material for Neighbourhoods, networks and unemployment: The role of neighbourhood disadvantage and local networks in taking up work by Leen Vandecasteele and Anette Eva Fasang in Urban Studies
title: Water, Walls and Bicycles: Wealth Index Composition Using Census Microdata
Creators: name: Lovaton Davila, Rodrigo
name: McCarthy, Aine Seitz
name: Gondwe, Dorothy
name: Kirdruang, Phatta
name: Sharma, Uttam
Publisher: name: Minneapolis, MN: Minnesota Population Center
Year: 2014

description: This research aims to develop a valid and consistent measure for socioeconomic status at the household level using census microdata from developing countries available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series - International (IPUMS-I), the world's largest census database. We use principal components analysis to compute a wealth index based on asset ownership, utilities, and dwelling characteristics. The validation strategies include comparing our proposed index with the widely used Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) wealth indices and verifying socioeconomic gradients on school enrollment and educational attainment. Graphical analysis of kernel distributions suggests that our measure is valid. Results also show a consistently positive effect of the wealth index on education outcomes. Furthermore, using a stepwise elimination procedure, we identify conditions to produce an internally consistent asset index given that the availability of indicators varies considerably for census microdata. As an important practical implication of results, the proposed methodology suggests which assets are more important in determining household socioeconomic status.
description: Minnesota Population Center Working Paper Series