cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Auplopus Spinola 1841
Creators: name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Rodriguez, Juanita
name: Von Dohlen, Carol D.
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Auplopus

description: Key to females of the species of Auplopus Spinola of the Caribbean Islands
1 Body uniform in color, clypeus or legs not concolorous with body in color....................................... 2
- Body not uniform in color, clypeus or legs differing from body in color.......................................... 4
2 Body black without bluish reflections..................................................................... 3
 - Body and legs strongly metallic bluish; pygidium polished and shiny; clypeus with silvery pubescence; Caribbean … A. bellus (Cresson)
 3 Pygidium shiny, impunctate; wings darkened; Bermuda.................................. A. bermudensis Dreisbach
 - Pygidium roughened, mat; wings hyaline; Puerto Rico................................... A. taino Snelling & Torres
4 Femur of at least fore and middle legs orange.............................................................. 5
 - Only femur of hind leg orange; Trinidad, Costa Rica, Brazil, and Guyana....................... A. comparatus (Smith)
5 Wings hyaline or subhyaline........................................................................... 6
 - Wings with dark bands; Cuba............................................................. A. montanus Alayo
6 Body black with greenish or purplish reflections............................................................ 7
 - Body black without purplish reflections; Cuba................................................. A. nabori Alayo
 7. Hind tibia, coxae, and trochanter dark brown, coxae and trochanters with purplish relections; wings hyaline with greenish reflections; head dull greenish contrasting with blackish mesosoma and metasoma having purplish relections; Cuba.......................................................................................... A. aquilus (Dreisbach)
 - Hind tibia, coxae, and trochanter orange, except for fore coxa blackish with purplish relections; wings darkened with purplish reflections; head mesosoma and metasoma blackish with purplish relections; Dominican Republic............................................................................................. A. charlesi Waichert & Pitts, sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Waichert, Cecilia, Rodriguez, Juanita, Von Dohlen, Carol D. & Pitts, James P., 2012, Spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of the Dominican Republic, pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 3353 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5251730
Buddhist Architecture in the Western Himalayas_Dimensioned plan drawings of Wanla
Creators: name: Auer, Carmen
Publisher: name: Graz University of Technology
Year: 2024

description: For more than two decades and within the framework of various field research projects, an extensive collection of research material on Buddhist architecture in the Western Himalayas has been compiled at Graz University of Technology. The material documents individual temples, temple complexes and votive buildings associated with the second wave of the spread of Buddhism in Tibet from the 10th century onwards. 

These preserved buildings are the most significant source for architectural research as well as other fields of research and scholarship, such as Art History and Tibetology. The research results are intended to elucidate the contextual relationships and particularities of Buddhist architecture in Nepal, northern India and western Tibet. They contribute to creating a comprehensive typology of early Buddhist architecture in the Western Himalayas.

In addition to the material provided on our website, we provide dimensioned plan drawings of selected examples, hence making the architectural documentation more accessible to a broader audience.

Also see: www.archresearch.tugraz.at/results/wanla/
Inequality and voting among deprived ethnic groups: evidence from India
Creators: name: H. Zeynep Bulutgil
name: Prasad, Neeraj
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: What are the conditions that determine the electoral success of parties that champion deprived ethnic groups? What is the impact of within-group inequality on this outcome? Existing arguments focus on the role of institutions or the relationship between ethnicity and other social cleavages. This paper contributes to the second approach by studying the impact of within-group as well as between-group inequality on ethnic voting. We use elections to state legislatures within India to control for institutional and historical factors that may influence ethnic voting. Using data from the National Sample Survey, we calculate inequality in consumption expenditure. We show that high within-group economic inequality among deprived ethnic groups hinders the electoral success of parties that champion these groups, whereas high between-group economic inequality has the opposite effect. Our findings also identify a potential causal mechanism (preference heterogeneity) that might link within-group inequality to ethnic voting.
A Collisional Family in the Classical Kuiper Belt
Creators: name: Chiang, E. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamical evolution of Classical Kuiper Belt Objects (CKBOs) divides into two parts, according to the secular theory of test particle orbits. The first part is a forced oscillation driven by the planets, while the second part is a free oscillation whose amplitude is determined by the initial orbit of the test particle. We extract the free orbital inclinations and free orbital eccentricities from the osculating elements of 125 known CKBOs. The free inclinations of 32 CKBOs strongly cluster about 2 degrees at orbital semi-major axes between 44 and 45 AU. We propose that these objects comprise a collisional family, the first so identified in the Kuiper Belt. Members of this family are plausibly the fragments of an ancient parent body having a minimum diameter of \~800 km. This body was disrupted upon colliding with a comparably sized object, and generated ejecta having similar free inclinations. Our candidate family is dynamically akin to a sub-family of Koronis asteroids located at semi-major axes less than 2.91 AU; both families exhibit a wider range in free eccentricity than in free inclination, implying that the relative velocity between parent and projectile prior to impact lay mostly in the invariable plane of the solar system. We urge more discoveries of new CKBOs to test the reality of our candidate family and physical studies of candidate family members to probe the heretofore unseen interior of a massive, primitive planetesimal.
description: final revised version, accepted to ApJ Letters, includes minor caveat regarding Koronis asteroid family
Buddhist Architecture in the Western Himalayas_Dimensioned plan drawings of Tabo
Creators: name: Auer, Carmen
Publisher: name: Graz University of Technology
Year: 2024

description: For more than two decades and within the framework of various field research projects, an extensive collection of research material on Buddhist architecture in the Western Himalayas has been compiled at Graz University of Technology. The material documents individual temples, temple complexes and votive buildings associated with the second wave of the spread of Buddhism in Tibet from the 10th century onwards. 

These preserved buildings are the most significant source for architectural research as well as other fields of research and scholarship, such as Art History and Tibetology. The research results are intended to elucidate the contextual relationships and particularities of Buddhist architecture in Nepal, northern India and western Tibet. They contribute to creating a comprehensive typology of early Buddhist architecture in the Western Himalayas.

In addition to the material provided on our website, we provide dimensioned plan drawings of selected examples, hence making the architectural documentation more accessible to a broader audience.

Also see: www.archresearch.tugraz.at/results/tabo/
Standard Model of Particle Physics Violating Crypto-Nonlocal Realism
Creators: name: Shi, Yu
name: Yang, Ji-Chong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been well established that quantum mechanics (QM) violates Bell inequalities (BI), which are consequences of local realism (LR). Remarkably QM also violates Leggett inequalities (LI), which are consequences of a class of nonlocal realism called crypto-nonlocal realism (CNR). Both LR and CNR assume that measurement outcomes are determined by preexisting objective properties, as well as hidden variables (HV) not considered in QM. We extend CNR and LI to include the case that the measurement settings are not externally fixed, but determined by hidden variables (HV). We derive a new version of LI, which is then shown to be violated by entangled $B_d$ mesons, if charge-conjugation-parity (CP) symmetry is indirectly violated, as indeed established. The experimental result is quantitatively estimated by using the indirect CP violation parameter, and the maximum of a suitably defined relative violation is about $2.7\%$. Our work implies that standard model (SM) of particle physics violates CNR. Our LI can also be tested in other systems such as photon polarizations.
description: 28 pages
ERS Typology Revised and Updated
Creators: name: Cook, Peggy J.
name: Mizer, Karen L.
name: Cook, Peggy J.
name: Mizer, Karen L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: A revised and expanded version of the Economic Research Service's county classification system, commonly called the ERS typology, is now available. The earlier, 1979 and 1986, typologies have been widely used as a vehicle to reflect the extremely diverse economic and social structure of rural America. The new typology, like the older ones, is based on the assumption that knowledge and understanding of different types of rural economies and their distinctive economic and sociodemographic profiles can aid rural policymaking. Compared with ERS' earlier typologies, this new typology is based on conditions in more recent years, includes Alaska and Hawaii, redefines persistent poverty, includes more county types, makes economic types nonoverlapping, and classifies counties designated as nonmetro in 1993.
Slowing down of cosmic growth of supermassive black holes: Theoretical prediction of the Eddington ratio distribution
Creators: name: Shirakata, Hikari
name: Kawaguchi, Toshihiro
name: Oogi, Taira
name: Okamoto, Takashi
name: Nagashima, Masahiro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show the Eddington ratio distributions of supermassive black holes at a wide redshift range (0 < z < 8) obtained with a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation. The distribution is broadly consistent with observational estimates at low redshift. We find that the growth rate of black holes at higher redshift is more likely to exceed the Eddington limit because the typical gas fraction of the host galaxies is higher at higher redshift. We also find that the super- Eddington growth is more common for less massive supermassive black holes, supporting an idea that supermassive black holes have been formed via super-Eddington accretion. These results indicate the "slowing down" of cosmic growth of supermassive black holes: the growth of supermassive black holes with a higher Eddington ratio peaks at higher redshift. We also show the effect of the sample selection on the shape of the Eddington ratio distribution functions and find that shallower observations will miss active galactic nuclei with not only the smaller but also higher Eddington ratios.
description: 11 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Dipogon Fox 1897
Creators: name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Rodriguez, Juanita
name: Von Dohlen, Carol D.
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Fabales
Fabaceae
Dipogon

description: Key to females of the species of Dipogon Fox of the Caribbean Islands
 1 Head black with mandible and apical margin of clypeus reddish brown; mesosoma and metasoma black; Dominica............................................................................................. D. spangleri Evans
 - Head dark reddish brown with clypeus orange; mesosoma and metasoma dark reddish brown; Dominican Republic............................................................................... D. marlowei Waichert & Pitts, sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Waichert, Cecilia, Rodriguez, Juanita, Von Dohlen, Carol D. & Pitts, James P., 2012, Spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of the Dominican Republic, pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 3353 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5251730
Prehistoric Landscapes under the Bog: Tracing Cultural Responses to Environmental Change
Creators: name: Behrens, Anja
name: Smyth, Jessica
name: Mennenga, Moritz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Climate Change
Bog archaeology
Cultural changes
Prehistoric societies
Field methods

description: Abstract of the accepted Session #217 for the 27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (Kiel 2021)
MOESM1 of Neuromas at the castration site in geldings
Creators: name: Bengtsdotter, Emma
name: Ekman, Stina
name: Andersen, Pia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Protocol for immunohistochemistry of nerve specific enolase (NSE).
A shorter, simpler, stronger proof of the Meshalkin-Hochberg-Hirsch bounds on componentwise antichains
Creators: name: Beck, Matthias
name: Zaslavsky, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05D05, 06A07

description: Meshalkin's theorem states that a class of ordered p-partitions of an n-set has at most $\max \binom{n}{a_1,...,a_p}$ members if for each k the k'th parts form an antichain. We give a new proof of this and the corresponding LYM inequality due to Hochberg and Hirsch, which is simpler and more general than previous proofs. It extends to a common generalization of Meshalkin's theorem and Erdos's theorem about r-chain-free set families.
description: Added journal reference
Transport in the sine-Gordon field theory: from generalized hydrodynamics to semiclassics
Creators: name: Bertini, Bruno
name: Piroli, Lorenzo
name: Kormos, Márton
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The semiclassical approach introduced by Sachdev and collaborators proved to be extremely successful in the study of quantum quenches in massive field theories, both in homogeneous and inhomogeneous settings. While conceptually very simple, this method allows one to obtain analytic predictions for several observables when the density of excitations produced by the quench is small. At the same time, a novel generalized hydrodynamic (GHD) approach, which captures exactly many asymptotic features of the integrable dynamics, has recently been introduced. Interestingly, also this theory has a natural interpretation in terms of semiclassical particles and it is then natural to compare the two approaches. This is the objective of this work: we carry out a systematic comparison between the two methods in the prototypical example of the sine-Gordon field theory. In particular, we study the "bipartitioning protocol" where the two halves of a system initially prepared at different temperatures are joined together and then left to evolve unitarily with the same Hamiltonian. We identify two different limits in which the semiclassical predictions are analytically recovered from GHD: a particular non-relativistic limit and the low temperature regime. Interestingly, the transport of topological charge becomes sub-ballistic in these cases. Away from these limits we find that the semiclassical predictions are only approximate and, in contrast to the latter, the transport is always ballistic. This statement seems to hold true even for the so-called "hybrid" semiclassical approach, where finite time DMRG simulations are used to describe the evolution in the internal space.
description: 30 pages, 6 figures
MOESM4 of Comparative risk evaluation for cardiovascular events associated with dapagliflozin vs. empagliflozin in real-world type 2 diabetes patients: a multi-institutional cohort study
Creators: name: Shih-Chieh Shao
name: Chang, Kai-Cheng
name: Ming-Jui Hung
name: Ning-I Yang
name: Yuk-Ying Chan
name: Chen, Hui-Yu
name: Yea-Huei Kao Yang
name: Lai, Edward
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4. Table S4. Falsification analysis presenting hazard ratios for incident atrial fibrillation between SGLT2 inhibitors.
Construction of sacrificial network in styrene-ethylene/butadiene-styrene triblock copolymer composites and their mechanical behaviors
Creators: name: Liao, Tingting
name: Wu, Jianyu
name: Tang, Zilun
name: Su, Qiuping
name: Huang, Zhiyi
name: Gu, Yuxin
name: Li, Yong
name: Xie, Jing
name: Lin, Xiaofeng
name: Yi, Guobin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Hematology

description: Herein, benefiting from effective energy-dissipation mechanism, the high-performance thermoplastic elastomers (ZASM/SEBS composites) with excellent mechanical strength-toughness combination were prepared by blending 3-Amino-1,2,4-triazole (ATA), maleic anhydride grafted styrene-ethylene/butadiene-styrene triblock copolymer (SEBS-g-MA), zinc acetate and styrene-ethylene/butadiene-styrene triblock copolymer (SEBS) successively. The Zn2+-carboxyl coordination and hydrogen bonding dual-dynamic network of composites was proved by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The mechanical performance of ZASM/SEBS composites was investigated by tensile test. With the decreasing mass ratio of ZASM in ZASM/SEBS composites, the tensile strength and elongation at break increased firstly and then decreased. When the mass ratio of ZASM in composites was 30%, the tensile strength reached 32.1 MPa along with the elongation at break of 1383%, attaining the best mechanical strength-toughness combination. It is demonstrated that the ZASM/SEBS composites could be a promising substitute for traditional vulcanized rubber.
An Analytical Approach to Inhomogeneous Structure Formation
Creators: name: Scannapieco, Evan
name: Barkana, Rennan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop an analytical formalism that is suitable for studying inhomogeneous structure formation, by studying the joint statistics of dark matter halos forming at two points. Extending the Bond et al. (1991) derivation of the mass function of virialized halos, based on excursion sets, we derive an approximate analytical expression for the ``bivariate'' mass function of halos forming at two redshifts and separated by a fixed comoving Lagrangian distance. Our approach also leads to a self-consistent expression for the nonlinear biasing and correlation function of halos, generalizing a number of previous results including those by Kaiser (1984) and Mo & White (1996). We compare our approximate solutions to exact numerical results within the excursion-set framework and find them to be consistent to within 2% over a wide range of parameters. Our formalism can be used to study various feedback effects during galaxy formation analytically, as well as to simply construct observable quantities dependent on the spatial distribution of objects. A code that implements our method is publicly available at http://www.arcetri.astro.it/~evan/Gemini
description: 41 Pages, 11 figures, published in ApJ, 571, 585. Reference added, Figure 2 axis relabeled
Early Fertility and Labor Market Segmentation: Evidence from Madagascar
Creators: name: Herrera, Catalina
name: Sahn, David
name: Villa, Kira
name: Herrera, Catalina
name: Sahn, David
name: Villa, Kira
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: International Development
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Fertility
subject: informal sector
subject: adolescence
subject: female labor force participation
subject: Madagascar

description: Women represent the majority of informal sector workers in developing countries. This is especially true in Sub-Saharan Africa where early childbearing rates are still high. However, to date, there is little empirical evidence on the role of early fertility in female labor force participation in the informal sector. We analyze the effect of young women’s timing of first birth on her entry into the labor market and selection into different types of employment. Using a panel survey in Madagascar, designed to capture the transition from adolescence to adulthood, and a multinomial approach, we estimate the effect of early childbearing on selection into four employment categories: non-participation, informal, formal, and student. Our results suggest that young mothers are more likely to work than young women without children. However, women whose first birth occurred during adolescence largely select into low-quality informal jobs. This effect is partially, but not entirely, mediated by the effect of adolescent pregnancy on schooling.
Additional file 5: of Adherence to antihypertensive medication in Russia: a scoping review of studies on levels, determinants and intervention strategies published between 2000 and 2017
Creators: name: Bochkareva, Elena
name: Butina, Ekaterina
name: Kim, Irina
name: Kontsevaya, Anna
name: Drapkina, Oxana
name: Leon, David
name: McKee, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Effectiveness of interventions aimed at increasing adherence in adult population with hypertension in Russia from 2000 to 2017. (DOCX 23 kb)
17O NMR Study of the Local Charge State in the Hole Doped Cu2O3 Two-Leg Spin-Ladder A14Cu24O41 (A=La6Ca8, Sr14, Sr11Ca3, Sr6Ca8)
Creators: name: Thurber, K. R.
name: Shen, K. M.
name: Hunt, A. W.
name: Imai, T.
name: Chou, F. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NMR measurements of the ^{17}O nuclear quadrupole interactions, ^{17}ν_{Q}, show that the charge environment of the S=1/2 Cu_{2}O_{3} two-leg spin-ladder layer of hole-doped A_{14}Cu_{24}O_{41} changes dramatically above a certain temperature, T*. This temperature, T*, decreases with additional doping and is correlated with the magnetic crossover from the spin gap regime to the paramagnetic regime. We demonstrate that these changes in ^{17}ν_{Q} are consistent with an increase in the effective hole concentration in the Cu_{2}O_{3} two-leg ladder above T*. The effective hole concentration increases primarily in the oxygen 2pσorbitals.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
A 3D Dust Map Based on Gaia, Pan-STARRS 1 and 2MASS
Creators: name: Green, Gregory M.
name: Schlafly, Edward F.
name: Zucker, Catherine
name: Speagle, Joshua S.
name: Finkbeiner, Douglas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new three-dimensional map of dust reddening, based on Gaia parallaxes and stellar photometry from Pan-STARRS 1 and 2MASS. This map covers the sky north of a declination of -30 degrees, out to a distance of several kiloparsecs. This new map contains three major improvements over our previous work. First, the inclusion of Gaia parallaxes dramatically improves distance estimates to nearby stars. Second, we incorporate a spatial prior that correlates the dust density across nearby sightlines. This produces a smoother map, with more isotropic clouds and smaller distance uncertainties, particularly to clouds within the nearest kiloparsec. Third, we infer the dust density with a distance resolution that is four times finer than in our previous work, to accommodate the improvements in signal-to-noise enabled by the other improvements. As part of this work, we infer the distances, reddenings and types of 799 million stars. We obtain typical reddening uncertainties that are ~30% smaller than those reported in the Gaia DR2 catalog, reflecting the greater number of photometric passbands that enter into our analysis. Our 3D dust map can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2EJ9TX or through the Python package "dustmaps," and can be queried interactively at http://argonaut.skymaps.info. Our catalog of stellar parameters can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AV9GXO.
description: 43 pages, 19 figures
Floquet Scattering and Classical-Quantum correspondence in strong time periodic fields
Creators: name: Emmanouilidou, Agapi
name: Reichl, L. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the scattering of an electron from a one dimensional inverted Gaussian atomic potential in the presence of strong time periodic electric fields. Using Floquet theory, we construct the Floquet Scattering matrix in the Kramers-Henneberger frame. We compute the transmission coefficients as a function of electron incident energy and find that they display asymmetric Fano resonances due to the electron interaction with the driving field. We find that the Fano resonances are associated with zero-pole pairs of the Floquet Scattering matrix in the complex energy plane. Another way we "probe" the complex spectrum of the system is by computing the Wigner-Smith delay times. Finally we find that the eigenphases of the Floquet Scattering matrix undergo a number of "avoided crossings" as a function of electron Floquet energy that increases with increasing strength of the driving field. These "avoided crossings" appear to be quantum manifestations of the destruction of the constants of motion and the onset of chaos in classical phase space.
description: 31 pages, 17 figures, 3 tables added references, changed context of Wigner-Smith delay times
A Meshalkin theorem for projective geometries
Creators: name: Beck, Matthias
name: Zaslavsky, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05D05, 51E20; 06A07

description: Let M be a family of sequences (a_1,...,a_p) where each a_k is a flat in a projective geometry of rank n (dimension n-1) and order q, and the sum of ranks, r(a_1) + ... + r(a_p), equals the rank of the join a_1 v ... v a_p. We prove upper bounds on |M| and corresponding LYM inequalities assuming that (i) all joins are the whole geometry and for each k
description: 8 pages, added journal reference
Can Crop Productivity Indices Improve Crop Insurance Rates?
Creators: name: Li, Xiaofei
name: Tack, Jesse B.
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Barnett, Barry J.
name: Li, Xiaofei
name: Tack, Jesse B.
name: Coble, Keith H.
name: Barnett, Barry J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Production Economics
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Crop insurance
subject: loss cost
subject: base premium rate
subject: soil productivity index (NCCPI)
subject: risk

description: This study explores whether the soil information contributes additional explanatory power beyond the base premium rate to crop insurance loss. By examining a panel of 697 counties from the Corn Belt states in the U.S. over the period of 2005—2015, we find the loss costs are systematically associated with the National Commodity Crop Productivity Index (NCCPI) conditioning on the county base premium rates, weather conditions, and year fixed effects. The loss cost rises first with NCCPI in lower NCCPI quartiles and then decreases in higher NCCPI quartile. In general, counties with medium NCCPI values are expected to have higher relative loss cost comparing with low and high NCCPI counties. The pattern of NCCPI’s effects is robust to different model specifications, heteroskedasticity and spatial correlation of data, as well as subsamples by insured acreage thresholds. The finding of this study presents empirical evidence that there is additional information embodied in soil and spatial variables not captured by the current base premium rates that is correlated with loss experiences. It suggests the potential to incorporate soil and spatial information to improve the crop insurance ratemaking.
Buddhist Architecture in the Western Himalayas_Dimensioned plan drawings of Tholing
Creators: name: Auer, Carmen
Publisher: name: Graz University of Technology
Year: 2024

description: For more than two decades and within the framework of various field research projects, an extensive collection of research material on Buddhist architecture in the Western Himalayas has been compiled at Graz University of Technology. The material documents individual temples, temple complexes and votive buildings associated with the second wave of the spread of Buddhism in Tibet from the 10th century onwards.

These preserved buildings are the most significant source for architectural research as well as other fields of research and scholarship, such as Art History and Tibetology. The research results are intended to elucidate the contextual relationships and particularities of Buddhist architecture in Nepal, northern India and western Tibet. They contribute to creating a comprehensive typology of early Buddhist architecture in the Western Himalayas.

In addition to the material provided on our website, we provide dimensioned plan drawings of selected examples, hence making the architectural documentation more accessible to a broader audience.

Also see:  www.archresearch.tugraz.at/results/tholing/
Single-parameter scaling in the magnetoresistance of optimally doped La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_4$
Creators: name: Boyd, Christian
name: Phillips, Philip W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the recent magnetoresistance data on thin-film La$_{2-x}$Sr$_{x}$CuO$_4$ (LSCO) in strong magnetic fields ($B$) obeys a single-parameter scaling of the form MR$(B,T)=f(μ_H(T)B)$, where $μ_H^{-1}(T)\sim T^α$ ($1\leα\le2$), from $T=180$K until $T\sim20$K, at which point the single-parameter scaling breaks down. The functional form of the MR is distinct from the simple quadratic-to-linear quadrature combination of temperature and magnetic field found in the optimally doped iron superconductor BaFe${}_2$(As${}_{1-x}$P${}_x$)${}_2$. Further, low-temperature departure of the MR in LSCO from its high-temperature scaling law leads us to conclude that the MR curve collapse is not the result of quantum critical scaling. We examine the classical effective medium theory (EMT) previously used to obtain the quadrature resistivity dependence on field and temperature for metals with a $T$-linear zero-field resistivity. It appears that this scaling form results only for a binary, random distribution of metallic components. More generally, we find a low-temperature, high-field region where the resistivity is simultaneously $T$ and $B$ linear when multiple metallic components are present. Our findings indicate that if mesoscopic disorder is relevant to the magnetoresistance in strange metal materials, the binary-distribution model which seems to be relevant to the iron pnictides is distinct from the more broad-continuous distributions relevant to the cuprates. Using the latter, we examine the applicability of classical effective medium theory to the MR in LSCO and compare calculated MR curves with the experimental data.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures
Irrigation, Risk Aversion, and Water Rights under Water Supply Uncertainty
Creators: name: Li, Man
name: Xu, Wenchao
name: Rosegrant, Mark W.
name: Li, Man
name: Xu, Wenchao
name: Rosegrant, Mark W.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Water rights
subject: skewness risk
subject: water supply uncertainty
subject: irrigated land allocation

description: This article presents an economic model to examine optimal irrigated land allocation, water rights, and probability distribution of system risk in irrigation water supply. Results indicate that the allocative priority of water rights affects farmers’ irrigation decisions and the skewness of the distribution of the system risk is the key parameter to determine this impact. The optimal acreage of irrigated land increases with the level of the allocative priority when the system risk features a negatively skewed distribution. A higher degree of negative skewness increases divergence in farm income between senior and junior water users and consequently increases the shadow value of the allocative priority.
Large Surveys in Cosmology: The Changing Sociology
Creators: name: Lahav, Ofer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2001
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galaxy redshift surveys and Cosmic Microwave Background experiments are undertaken with larger and larger teams, in a fashion reminiscent of particle physics experiments and the human genome projects. We discuss the role of young researchers, the issue of multiple authorship, and ways to communicate effectively in teams of tens to hundreds of collaborators.
description: Invited article for "Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy II", ed. A. Heck, Kluwer Acad. Publ., in press (7 pages, no figures)
Auplopus bellus
Creators: name: Waichert, Cecilia
name: Rodriguez, Juanita
name: Von Dohlen, Carol D.
name: Pitts, James P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pompilidae
Auplopus
Auplopus bellus

description: Auplopus bellus (Cresson, 1865)
(Figs 2B, 5A–B)
 Pompilus bellus Cresson, 1865, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, vol. 1, p. 124–125 [Holotype: ♀, CUBA (ANSP)].
 Diagnosis. This species can be recognized by the following unique combination of characters: the integument has bluish-green reflections; the antenna is brown; the pubescence on the body is long, silver, and abundant on propodeum (Fig. 2B); the first metasomal segment is not carinate; the dorsal face of hind tibia is not spinose; and the fore and hind wings are darkened with slight purple reflections. Additionally, the female has strong bluishgreen metallic integument (Fig. 5B), convex clypeus with the apical margin rounded, and pygidium well defined and bare. The male has black integument with bluish-green reflections (Fig. 5A), clypeus trapezoidal with invaginate apical margin, and wings less darkened than in the female.
 Material examined. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Distrito Nacional, Haina, W. J. Pulawski cllr, 8.XI.1986, 1 ♂, (CAS).
 Distribution. Cuba to Puerto Rico (Snelling & Torres 2004), Jamaica, Dominican Republic.
 Host. Unknown.
 Remarks. This species has been reported as building mud nests under stones (Cresson 1865 apud Snelling & Torres 2004), bark (Alayo 1969), and leaves (Wolcott 1936 apud Snelling & Torres 2004). Alayo (1969) described nests as approximately 10 mm long and clustered in a group of five to six nests. Auplopus bellus were also collected in trap nests (7–10 mm internal diameter bamboo canes) in Jamaica by Jaysingh and Freeman (1980). The host(s), however, remains unknown. This species was recorded from Haiti by Banks (1928), but this is the first record for A. bellus in the Dominican Republic.
description: Published as part of Waichert, Cecilia, Rodriguez, Juanita, Von Dohlen, Carol D. & Pitts, James P., 2012, Spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) of the Dominican Republic, pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 3353 (1) on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3353.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5251730
Retoka China 1935
Creators: name: Kondorosy, Előd
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Rhyparochromidae
Retoka

description: Retoka China, 1935
 Retoka China, 1935: 301. Type species: Retoka minuta China, 1935 (by monotypy).
 Retoka: SLATER (1964): 950 (catalogue).
 Neoentisberus Scudder, 1968: 585. Type species: Entisberus esakii Slater & Hidaka, 1958 (by original designation).
 Neoentisberus: SLATER & O’DONNELL (1995): 120 (catalogue).
description: Published as part of Kondorosy, Előd, 2008, A revision of the Entisberus group (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae), pp. 591-610 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (2) on page 598, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5341747
Settlements and houses between Elbe and Ems – The Funnel Beaker Culture in North-Western Germany
Creators: name: Mennenga, Moritz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: Over an extended period of time, the research focus of investigations on the TRB West Group was placed on megalithic graves and some singular house plans. Within the PhD study summarized in this contribution, the results of old and new excavations have been reviewed to compare the structures of the houses and the settlements from different situations. Within the new excavations of Lavenstedt, it was possible to investigate a cultural layer containing finds from the TRB West Group for the first time. These finds could be used to identify activity areas in the settlement. Through the combination of the ceramic finds of the sites and the results of radiocarbon dating, it was possible to revise the absolute dates of Brindley’s chronology and correct the time spans of her horizons. In addition to the identification of internal structures of houses and settlements, another result of the investigation concerned the comparison of house forms, finds, settlements and cultural relations within the European context.
MOESM3 of Comparative risk evaluation for cardiovascular events associated with dapagliflozin vs. empagliflozin in real-world type 2 diabetes patients: a multi-institutional cohort study
Creators: name: Shih-Chieh Shao
name: Chang, Kai-Cheng
name: Ming-Jui Hung
name: Ning-I Yang
name: Yuk-Ying Chan
name: Chen, Hui-Yu
name: Yea-Huei Kao Yang
name: Lai, Edward
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 3. Table S3. Baseline patient characteristics before and after propensity score methods.
Using Bayesian Spatial Smoothing and Extreme Value Theory to Develop Area-Yield Crop Insurance Rating
Creators: name: Park, Eunchun
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Harri, Ardian
name: Park, Eunchun
name: Brorsen, B. Wade
name: Harri, Ardian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Rating crop insurance contract
subject: Bayesian spatial smoothing
subject: Spatial correlation
subject: Bayesian hierarchical model
subject: Extreme value theory

description: Rating of insurance premiums depends on the probability of events in the tail of the distribution. Extreme value theory provides a promising way to assess tail risk. We assume that crop yield follows a Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD), which is a family of extreme value distributions that has advantages for modeling rare events. GPD parameters are fitted using county-level historical winter wheat yield (1970-2014). Spatial smoothing with Kriging parameters is used within a Bayesian hierarchical framework that helps overcome a lack of data due to the rarity of extreme events. We assume that the spatial correlation of crop yield is embedded in the parameters of the GPD. To obtain the posterior distribution, we use Metropolis-Hastings (MH) steps within a Gibbs sampler. Maximum likelihood estimates of the GPD parameters are used for candidate density in the MH step. In the process, MCMC chains are run for 100,000 iterations and burn-in for the first 20,000 observations. We use Deviance Information Criterion (DIC) and out of sample performance to evaluate the quality of the model. From the estimated results, we verify spatial correlation in crop yield, which substantially affects estimates of posterior distributions of GPD parameters. We further simulate spatial random effect based on posterior values of Kriging parameters (range and sill) to visualize and verify the form of spatial correlation. Estimated premiums from an existing method from which current premiums are based, tend to underestimate premium rates compared to our new proposed method.
Does taste trump health? Effects of nutritional characteristics on brand-level demand for chips in the U.S.
Creators: name: Staudigel, Matthias
name: Anders, Sven
name: Staudigel, Matthias
name: Anders, Sven
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Health Economics and Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: Brand-level demand
subject: differentiated products
subject: health-taste trade-off
subject: retail scanner data
subject: product formulation
subject: random-coefficients logit.

description: Recent controversial policy proposals have aimed at creating a healthier food supply by means of taxation, minimum quality standards or nutritional labeling. Yet the outcomes of such policies strongly depend on the competitive structures and thus substitution processes of individual products within categories, which are not well understood. The objective of this paper is to quantify the source and impact of differentiation in ingredient formulation and especially product health attributes on the competitive positioning of brands under heterogeneous consumer preferences. We employ Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes’ (1995) random-coefficient logit framework to estimate product-level demand for highly differentiated potato and tortilla chips in the U.S. We are specifically interested in the extent to which heterogeneous consumers respond to changes in product formulation, pricing and brand attributes. Our results support the unhealthy-tasty intuition hypothesis only to a certain degree with consumers’ utility increasing in sodium and saturated fat levels but decreasing in energy and total fat content. Results further suggest strong impacts of price, brand, and flavor effects on band-level market shares. Our analysis underlines the trade-offs involved in food manufacturers’ decisions to reformulate products in order to comply with policy and public demands for healthier products options that do not sacrifice taste.
Principal registered archaeological finds from the surface in South-Limburg (NL) and adjacent areas. FLINT & NATURAL STONE Part 2a: Lithic cores
Creators: name: Groen, Jimmy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Flint cores, Flint technology, Stone tool, production

description: About 50 flint cores mainly from the Dutch South Limburg region are presented in this overview. With color images and technical data.
Ascertaining the Role of Socio-Economic-Demographic and Government Food Policy Related Factors on the Per Capita Intake of Dietary Fiber Derived from Consumption of Various Foods in the United States
Creators: name: Mark, Senia
name: Senarath, Dharmasena
name: Mark, Senia
name: Senarath, Dharmasena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Dietary fiber
subject: fiber consumption
subject: Nielsen Homescan Panel
subject: USDA Dietary Guidelines
subject: Panel Tobit

description: The 2010 USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommended that individuals consume around 25 grams of dietary fiber per person per day. Yet despite these recommendations, consumers do not purchase enough foods high in dietary fiber. To investigate the factors behind this behavior, we use the Nielsen Homescan data to create a quarterly panel from 2004 through 2014 of 9,896 households from across the United States. This research contributes to the literature by simultaneously investigating per capita purchases of products containing fiber: (1) bread (2) pasta, (3) tortilla, (4) fresh fruit, (5) fresh vegetables and beans, (6) frozen fruit, (7) frozen vegetables and beans, (8) canned fruit, (9) canned vegetables and beans. We perform the estimation using a random effects panel Tobit model in order to account for the censored nature of the available data. Preliminary results suggest that those with a higher income or education report more consumption of fiber from fresh and frozen vegetables and less from pasta. Those living below 130 percent and 185 percent of the poverty level do not seem to purchase significantly less fiber per capita relative to those above these poverty levels. A test of the effectiveness of fiber consumption promotion in the 2010 Dietary Guidelines seems to show mixed results
A Distant Stellar Companion in the Upsilon Andromedae System
Creators: name: Lowrance, Patrick J.
name: Kirkpatrick, J. Davy
name: Beichman, Charles A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Upsilon Andromedae is an F8V star known to have an extrasolar system of at least 3 planets in orbit around it. Here we report the discovery of a low-mass stellar companion to this system. The companion shares common proper motion, lies at a projected separation of ~750 AU, and has a spectral type of M4.5V. The effect of this star on the radial velocity of the brighter primary is negligible, but this system provides an interesting testbed for stellar planetary formation theory and understanding dynamical stability since it is the first multiple planetary system known in a multiple stellar system.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, to be published in June ApJ Letters