cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Munidopsis WHITEAVES 1874
Creators: name: Martin, Joel W.
name: Haney, Todd A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Galatheidae
Munidopsis

description: MUNIDOPSIS SONNE BABA, 1995 Type locality: south-western Pacific Ocean, North Fiji Basin; 16°59.49′S, 173°54,83′E; 1992 m. Known range: Known only from the type locality (Baba, 1995; Chevaldonné & Olu, 1996). Material: Known from 2 specimens, the whereabouts of which are not known to us. MUNIDOPSIS STARMER BABA & DE SAINT LAURENT, 1992 Type locality: south-western Pacific Ocean, North Fiji Basin, active chimney ‘ White Lady’; 18°50′S, 173°29′W; 2750 m. Known range: Known only from the type locality. Material: type locality; Nautile dive 18; 2750 m; 13 July 1989; MNHN Ga 1926 (holotype female), MNHN Ga 2362 [paratypes, 1 male, 4 females (3 ovigerous)], NSMT Cr 11267 (1 male). –same site; Nautile dive 19. MNHN Ga 2357 (paratype, 1 female). –same site; Nautile dive 20; MNHN Ga 2358 (paratypes, 2 females) (Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1992; Chevaldonné & Olu, 1996). Remarks: Munidopsis starmer occurs in the same general area in the North Fiji Basin where M. lauensis, M. sonne, and the chirostylids Uroptychus bicavus and U. thermalis are found (Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1992; Chevaldonné & Olu, 1996).
description: Published as part of Martin, Joel W. & Haney, Todd A., 2005, Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005, pp. 445-522 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (4) on page 480, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00178.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5434828
description: {"references": ["Baba K. 1995. A new squat lobster (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae) from an active thermal vent area in the North Fiji Basin, SW Pacific. Crustacean Research 24: 188 - 193.", "Chevaldonne P, Olu K. 1996. Occurrence of anomuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) in hydrothermal vent and cold-seep communities: a review. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 109 (2): 286 - 298.", "Baba K, de Saint Laurent M. 1992. Chirostylid and galatheid crustaceans (Decapoda: Anomura) from active thermal vent areas in the southwest Pacific. Scientia Marina 56: 321 - 332."]}
Introduction to Framing contract law : an economic perspective
Creators: name: Goldberg, Victor P.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Contracts--Economic aspects
Negotiation in business
Commercial law

description: This paper consists of the Table of Contents and Introductory chapter of a new book, Framing Contract Law: An Economic Perspective. The central theme of the book is that an economic framework--incorporating such concepts as information asymmetry, moral hazard, and adaptation to changed circumstances--is appropriate for contract interpretation, analyzing contract disputes, and developing contract doctrine. The value of the approach is demonstrated through the close analysis of major contract cases. In many of the cases, had the court (and the litigators) understood the economic context, the analysis and results would have been very different. Topics and some representative cases include consideration (Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon), interpretation (Bloor v. Falstaff and Columbia Nitrogen v. Royster), remedies (Campbell v. Wentz, Tongish v. Thomas, and Parker v. Twentieth Century Fox), and excuse (Alcoa v. Essex).
Interference-assisted squeezing in fluorescence radiation
Creators: name: Arun, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The squeezing spectrum of the resonance fluorescence is studied for a coherently driven four-level atom in the Y-type configuration. It is found that the squeezing properties of the fluorescence radiation are modified significantly when quantum interference of the spontaneous decays channels is included. We show a considerable enhancement of steady-state squeezing in spectral components for strong and off-resonant driving fields. The squeezing may be increased in both the inner and outer sidebands of the spectrum depending upon the choice of parameters. We also show that the interference can degrade the spectral squeezing by increasing the decay rates of atomic transitions. An analytical description using dressed states is provided to explain the numerical results.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, minor changes in text, results unchanged, published version
Early fungicide treatment reduces blackleg on canola but yield benefit is realized only on susceptible cultivars under high disease pressure
Creators: name: Peng, Gary
name: Liu, Chang
name: Fernando, Dilantha W.G.
name: Lang, Ralph
name: Mclaren, Debra L.
name: Johnson, Eric N.
name: Kutcher, H. Randy
name: Singh, Gursahib
name: Turkington, T. Kelly
name: Yu, Fengqun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: Blackleg [Leptosphaeria maculans (Desm.) Ces. & de Not.] is the most widespread disease of canola (Brassica napus L.) on the Canadian prairies. It has a noticeably increased incidence in recent years possibly due to shifts in the pathogen population and erosion in cultivar resistance. This study was conducted to assess foliar-applied fungicides for mitigating the risk of blackleg. Field trials were conducted at five locations in the Black or Dark-Brown Soil Zones for four years using the susceptible canola ‘Westar’. The fungicides pyraclostrobin (Headline®), azoxystrobin (Quadris®), propiconazole (Tilt®), and azoxystrobin + propiconazole (Quilt®) were applied at the 2–4 leaf stage against early infection. For comparisons, pyraclostrobin was also applied at bolting of ‘Westar’ and at the 2–4 leaf stage of two resistant cultivars (‘43E01’, ‘45H29’). These early treatments, except propiconazole, significantly reduced the mean disease incidence (MDI) and disease severity index (DSI) on ‘Westar’, relative to untreated control, reducing the impact of disease on yield by 16.5–26.9%. Late application of pyraclostrobin at bolting was ineffective. Two-application treatments, with pyraclostrobin at the 2–4 leaf stage and propiconazole at the bolting stage, or vice versa, provided no further efficacy or yield benefit relative to the early application of pyraclostrobin alone. None of the treatments showed substantial disease reduction or yield benefit in two low-disease station years (MDI <30%). On the resistant cultivars, pyraclostrobin reduced MDI and DSI, but showed no yield benefit. As resistant canola cultivars are used commonly on the prairies, a routine application of foliar fungicide is not recommended.
Conflicts of interest, information provision, and competition in the financial services industry
Creators: name: Bolton, Patrick
name: Freixas, Xavier
name: Shapiro, Joel
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2005
Subjects: Conflict of interests
Banks and banking
Financial services industry

description: In some markets sellers have better information than buyers over which products best serve a buyer's needs. Depending on the market structure, this may lead to conflicts of interest in the provision of information by sellers. This paper studies this issue in the market for financial services. The analysis presents a new model of competition between banks, where price competition influences the ensuing incentives for truthful information revelation. We also compare conflicts of interest in two different firm structures, specialized banking and one-stop banking.
Uroptychus edisonicus Baba & Williams 1998
Creators: name: Martin, Joel W.
name: Haney, Todd A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Chirostylidae
Uroptychus
Uroptychus edisonicus

description: UROPTYCHUS EDISONICUS BABA & WILLIAMS, 1998 Type locality: Western Pacific Ocean, Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Edison Seamount, near Lihir Island; 03°19.07′S, 152°34.92′E; 1492 m. Known range: Known only from the type locality. Material: Type locality, R / V Sonne, EDISON cruise, Sbb-1535; 29 March 1994; holotype female, USNM 251479. Remarks: Baba & Williams (1998) noted that this species was morphologically more similar to other (non-vent) species of Uroptychus in the Banda Sea and central North Pacific Ocean than it is to the other two vent-associated species. The description of this species, named for the Edison Seamount, was based on the single specimen collected there.
description: Published as part of Martin, Joel W. & Haney, Todd A., 2005, Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005, pp. 445-522 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (4) on page 482, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00178.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5434828
description: {"references": ["Baba K, Williams AB. 1998. New Galatheoidea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) from hydrothermal systems in the West Pacific Ocean: Bismarck Archipelago and Okinawa Trough. Zoosystema 20 (2): 143 - 156."]}
Characterization of Protocadherin-21 in photoreceptor disk synthesis
Creators: name: Yang, Lee Ling
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2013

description: Protocadherin-21 (pcdh-21) is a transmembrane protein concentrated at nascent disks in mouse photoreceptors and thought to regulate disk synthesis. PCDH-21 mutations are associated with retinal degenerative diseases. Pcdh-21 undergoes proteolytic cleavage that may be essential for disk synthesis. In mice, Pcdh-21 interacts with prominin-1 (prom-1) and their interaction may be required for their localization and function in disk synthesis. To compare pcdh-21 localization across species, we performed immunofluorescence microscopy using an antibody raised against the N-terminus of X.laevis pcdh-21 (xpcdh-21). In rods and cones of all species, pcdh-21 was localized to nascent disks at the base of the outer segment, suggesting a conserved role in disk assembly. However, in contrast with the idea that pcdh-21 localizes only to the basal outer segment, pcdh-21 was localized to other outer segment regions, and this localization was different across cell types and species, suggesting that pcdh-21 has cell type- and species- specific structural roles. Pcdh-21 was restricted to open disk rims in X.laevis cones. Prom-1, an interacting partner of pcdh-21 in mice, shows identical labeling at the open disk rims. Pcdh-21 and prom-1 may therefore interact to maintain open disk structure. Immunoblots showed that proteolytic cleavage of pcdh-21 may be unique to mice. In X.laevis rods, pcdh-21 labeling in the nascent disks did not vary with disk synthesis rate. We attempted to inhibit pcdh-21 function using a dominant negative approach. Full length pcdh-21 (FL) and deletion constructs consists of mouse (mpcdh-21) and xpcdh-21 were overexpressed in X.laevis rods. Retinal degeneration and disk defects were only observed in retinas overexpressing mpcdh-21 FL. Mpcdh-21 FL was retained in the ER, caused abnormal ER structure, and was not cleaved in X. laevis retinas. Xpcdh-21 variants were correctly localized and did not cause retinal degeneration. This study illustrated that pcdh-21 localization, processing and properties may not be conserved across species. Differences in pcdh-21 localization may reflect differences in disk synthesis mechanisms or disk ultrastructure. However, the conserved association of pcdh-21 and prom-1 with open disk rims and nascent disks suggests that they may form a complex involved in regulating disk synthesis and/ or in maintaining disk structure.
title: Roles of European and national institutions under the Common Fisheries Policy CFP and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive MSF Dregarding fisheries management, scientific assessment and monitoring ofstocks
Creators: name: Rätz, Hans-Joachim
name: Dörner, Hendrik
name: Scott, Robert
name: Barbas, Thomas
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session R
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Exploited fish and shellfish stocks in European marine waters underlie the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The next round of reform of the CFP is due for completion in 2012. The exploitation at Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) may be confirmed as the environmental objective for good environment status (GES) of exploited fish and shellfish stocks of the reformed CFP and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). In this case, the foreseen time horizon to achieve or maintain GES by 2020 appears inconsistent with the World Summit on Sustainable Development UN agreement in 2002, which stipulates that maintenance or restoring of stocks to produce MSY be realized by 2015. The MSFD requires instead that by 2015 the national programmes of measures be designed in order to become operational the following year (2016).
Possible optical counterpart of PSR J1357-6429
Creators: name: Danilenko, A.
name: Kirichenko, A.
name: Mennickent, R. E.
name: Pavlov, G.
name: Shibanov, Yu.
name: Zharikov, S.
name: Zyuzin, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) PSR J1357-6429 is a Vela-like radio pulsar that has been recently detected in X-rays and gamma-rays. It powers a compact tail-like X-ray pulsar wind nebula and X-ray-radio plerion associated with an extended TeV source HESS J1356-645. We present our deep optical observations with the Very Large Telescope to search for an optical counterpart of the pulsar and its nebula. We detect a point-like source in V, R, and I bands whose position is within the 1-sigma error circle of the X-ray position of the pulsar, and whose colours are distinct from those of ordinary stars. We consider it as a candidate optical counterpart of the pulsar. If it is indeed the counterpart, its 5-sigma offset from the radio pulsar position, measured about 9 yr earlier, implies that the transverse velocity of the pulsar is in the range of 1600--2000 km s^{-1} at the distance of 2--2.5 kpc, making it the fastest moving pulsar known. The direction of the estimated proper motion coincides with the extension of the pulsar's X-ray tail, suggesting that this is a jet. The tentative optical luminosity and efficiency of the pulsar are similar to those of the Vela pulsar, which also supports the optical identification. However, the candidate undergoes an unusually steep dereddened flux increase towards the infrared with a spectral index of about 5, that is not typical of optical pulsars. It implies a strong double-knee spectral break in the pulsar emission between the optical and X-rays. The reasons for the spectral steepness are unclear. It may be caused by a nebula knot projected onto the jet and strongly overlapping with the pulsar, as observed for the Crab, where the knot has a significantly steeper spectrum than the pulsar. We find no other signs of the pulsar nebula in the optical. Alternatively, the detected source may be a faint AGN, that has not yet been seen at other wavelengths.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables
The role of lockups in takeover contests
Creators: name: Che, Yeon-Koo
name: Lewis, Tracy R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Tender offers (securities)
Consolidation and merger of corporations

description: This paper examines breakup fees and stock lockups as devices for prospective target firms to encourage bidder participation in takeover contest. We show that, unless bidding costs for the first bidder are too high, breakup fees provide for the socially desirable degree of competition and ensure the efficient allocation of the target to the highest valued buyer in a takeover auction. In contrast, stock lockups permit the target firm to subsidize entry of a new bidder at the expense of an incumbent bidder. Stock lockups induce too much competition when offered to a second bidder and too little competition when offered to a first bidder. Despite their socially wasteful properties, target management would favor stock lockups as they induce takeover competition at least cost to the target.
Two-photon decays and photoproduction on electrons of $η(550)$, $η'(958)$, $η(1295)$, and $η(1475)$ mesons
Creators: name: Arbuzov, A. B.
name: Volkov, M. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electromagnetic interactions of the ground and first radial excited states of $η$ and $η'$ mesons in the framework of the extended $U(3)\times U(3)$ NJL model are considered. The radial excitations are described with the help of polynomial form factor of the second order over the inner quark momentum. The solution of the $U_A(1)$ problem by means of 't Hooft interaction is taken into account. For diagonalization of the free Lagrangian the $4\times4$ mixing matrix is used. Two-photon decay widths of the ground $η$ and $η'$ meson are found to be in a satisfactory agreement with the experiment. Predictions for the two-photon decay widths of $η(1295)$ and $η(1475)$ are given. The probabilities of eta meson production by two-photon mechanism in $e^+e^-$ collisions and of their photoproduction on electrons are calculated.
description: 4 pages, discussion of results is extended
Austinograea alayseae GUINOT 1990
Creators: name: Martin, Joel W.
name: Haney, Todd A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Bythograeidae
Austinograea
Austinograea alayseae

description: AUSTINOGRAEA ALAYSEAE GUINOT, 1990 Type locality: south-western Pacific Ocean, Tonga archipelago, Lau Basin, Vaï-Lili hydrothermal vent site; 22°13′S, 176°38′W; 1900 m. Known range: Western Pacific, from the Lau Back-Arc Basin, Valu-Fa Ridge, at 1750 m, and from the Manus Back-Arc Basin at 2190–2630 m (Guinot, 1997: 208, in Desbruyères & Segonzac, 1997). Material: type locality; BIOLAU 1989, Nautile dive 09; 21 May 1989; MNHN-B 24021 (holotype male), MNHN-B 24022 (allotype female) (Guinot, 1990). – Manus Basin, PACMANUS site; Shinkai 2000; 2K#1071; depth not provided; December 1998; nontypes, number of specimens not noted (Tsuchida & Hashimoto, 2002). Remarks: Guinot (1997, in Desbruyères & Segonzac, 1997) describes this species as actively moving in the vicinity of ‘mollusk beds’ (possibly a mixture of mussels and the large gastropods common at these sites).
description: Published as part of Martin, Joel W. & Haney, Todd A., 2005, Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005, pp. 445-522 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (4) on page 487, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00178.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5434828
description: {"references": ["Guinot D. 1990. Austinograea alayseae sp. nov., crabe hydrothermal decouvert dans le bassin de Lau, Pacifique sudoccidental (Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura). Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, serie IV 11: 879 - 903.", "Desbruyeres D, Segonzac M, eds. 1997. Handbook of deepsea hydrothermal vent fauna. Brest: IFREMER.", "Tsuchida S, Hashimoto J. 2002. A new species of bythograeid crab, Austinograea rodriguezensis (Decapoda, brachyura), associated with active hydrothermal vents from the Indian Ocean. Journal of Crustacean Biology 22 (3): 642 - 650."]}
«PATRIMONIO GENÉTICO» Y DERECHOS FUNDAMENTALES
Creators: name: Roberto, Cippitani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: informaciones genéticas, recursos genéticos, privacidad, propiedad, soberanía, derechos fundamentales

description: El Derecho actual disciplina algunos aspectos del uso de las informaciones genéticas humanas y no humanas, es decir de las plantas y de los animales.

Las fuentes jurídicas (internacionales, supranacionales, nacionales) se ocupa del tema para tutelar algunos importantes intereses como la dignidad de la persona, en el caso de las informaciones genéticas humanas, o la protección del medioambiente.

Las fuentes jurídicas, que se ocupan del tema, utilizan un «paradigma propietario», con el objetivo de poner la información genética bajo el exclusivo control del titular de las informaciones, que es, según el marco jurídico de referencia, la persona o el Estado.

El paradigma propietario se manifiesta principalmente a través del consentimiento por la personas para utilizo de sus informaciones genéticas y, por otro lado, mediante la noción de soberanía del Estado sobre los recursos genéticos del medioambiente.

Sin embargo, el paradigma propietario, aunque sirve para evitar prejudicios a las personas y para impedir la depredación de los recursos naturales, no es adecuado para solucionar todos los problemas jurídicos concernientes las informaciones genéticas.

En particular el paradigma propietario no tiene en cuenta los derechos de terceros sujetos o de comunidades. Además este enfoque no considera de manera correcta intereses generales como lo de llevar a cabo actividades de investigación científica sobre los datos genéticos.

Por tanto, es necesario elaborar nuevos instrumentos jurídicos para solucionar eficazmente los problemas concernientes las informaciones genéticas, buscando un equilibrio entre los intereses distintos.
Drug patent settlements between rivals: a survey
Creators: name: Hemphill, C. Scott
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Intellectual property

description: This survey provides a detailed account of patent settlements reached between brand-name drug companies and their generic rivals over the past fourteen years, and the antitrust suits and investigations initiated in response. Thirty settlements of patent litigation involving twenty drugs fall within the scope of the study. Three patterns emerge from the data. First, antitrust activity in this area has continued to expand, including more than a dozen pending antitrust suits and agency investigations. Second, repeat players have emerged. Third, settlements have grown more sophisticated, particularly through the emergence of a second wave of settlements that avoids the mistakes of the first wave.
title: Stakeholders' participation in the decision-making process: Scottish inshore fishers' perceptions of involvement
Creators: name: Pita, C.
name: Pierce, G. J.
name: Theodossiou, I.
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session R
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Public participation is a key ingredient of good governance and there are many advantages of involving stakeholders in the decision-making process. The involvement of the fishing industry in decision-making results, among others things, in an enhancement of the legitimacy of management policies, and an increased acceptance of management arrangements. The European Commission identified the lack of stakeholder involvement as one of the major weaknesses of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). As such, the 2002 Reform of the CFP aimed at improving its system of governance by increasing the involvement of stakeholder in decisionmaking. Over the last decade, Scottish inshore waters have seen an increase in management measures focused on involving fishers, delegating responsibilities and decentralizing management. The present document aimed at gauging inshore commercial fishers’ perceptions of participation in management and the acceptance of a new regional management measure, implemented in 2008, which will cover all inshore waters – the Inshore Fisheries Groups (IFGs) – and is aimed at improving the management of inshore fisheries and to give commercial inshore fishers a strong voice in wider marine management developments. A survey was conducted, through face-to-face interviews, and the reasons that influence fishers’ perceptions identified. The present analysis concluded that, five years subsequent to the reform of the CFP, the majority of fishers perceive not to be consulted or involved in the decision-making process. Nonetheless, most fishers have a positive attitude towards the new IFGs, being of the opinion it will improve fisheries management in their local area.
MPEC 2023-H176 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2023 April 25)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
title: Great Britain Ministry of Information - Daily Press Notices and Bulletins (1944-03-19)
Creators: name: Great Britain. Ministry Of Information.
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1944
Subjects: subject: World War, 1939-1945 – Social aspects
subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- History
subject: World War II
subject: Second World War
subject: World War Two
subject: Great Britain

description: From the UK National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/inf3.htm “Formed on September 4th 1939, the day after Britain’s declaration of war, the Ministry of Information (MOI) was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda in the Second World War. The initial functions of the MOI were threefold: news and press censorship; home publicity; and oversees publicity in Allied and neutral countries”. This collection contains Press Notices and Bulletins published by the MOI between 1939-1945. The Press Notices and Bulletins are among many publications and films issued by the agency during the war.
Predictions for Drell-Yan ϕ* and Q_T observables at the LHC
Creators: name: Banfi, Andrea
name: Dasgupta, Mrinal
name: Marzani, Simone
name: Tomlinson, Lee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We make theoretical predictions for the recently introduced variable ϕ* corresponding to the azimuthal angle between leptons produced in the Drell-Yan process at the LHC. As a consequence of this work we are also able to generate results for the more commonly studied transverse momentum Q_T of the lepton pair. Comparisons of these purely perturbative estimates for the Q_T case yield good agreement with ATLAS and CMS data, as we demonstrate. We anticipate that this work will help stimulate measurements of ϕ* at the LHC.
description: 9 pages, 4 plots
Corporations, Democracy, and the Historian
Creators: name: John, Richard R.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: History
Corporations
Corporations--Government policy
Corporation law
Democracy

description: What is the relationship between the corporation and American democracy? This provocative and timely question informs the ten essays that Naomi R. Lamoreaux and William J. Novak have assembled in a tightly edited volume that has attracted a good deal of attention from specialists in the history of U.S. public policy. In an age in which the political influence of big business has once again thrust itself onto the political agenda, this collection should also prove to be of great interest to the many historians, legal scholars, and jurists who are trying to understand the long and complex relationship between business, law, and the state. This is a review of Corporations and American Democracy. Edited by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and William J. Novak. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. viii + 517 pp. Maps, figures, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-97228-5.
Prevention of vertical HIV transmission and the HIV response for women in Latin America
Creators: name: Kendall, Tamil R.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: This study uses mixed methods to explore the barriers to implementation of prevention of vertical (mother-to-child) HIV transmission in Latin America generally, and Mexico specifically. In 2001, at the United Nations General Assembly on HIV and AIDS, States made a commitment to achieve 80% coverage of this highly effective medical intervention among pregnant women by 2010. Yet, in 2009, just slightly over half of pregnant women with HIV globally could access medications to prevent transmission of the virus to their child, and in Mexico less than ten per cent of pregnant women with HIV had this opportunity. I identify the regional and national political context and institutional practices as contributors to sluggish scale-up; however, these are undergirded by cultural constructs of who is at risk of HIV infection and gendered sexual norms and discrimination which increase women’s vulnerability to HIV. My qualitative and quantitative analysis both identify that women are primarily exposed to HIV within stable relationships. The failure to recognize HIV and AIDS as a significant public health issue for women in the region and to provide women with an opportune HIV diagnosis results in mortality and morbidity among women and their family members. To improve the HIV response for women in the region, the following actions must be taken: greater meaningful participation of women with HIV in both the women’s reproductive health and HIV movements; universal offer of HIV-testing during prenatal care; conceptual and functional integration of HIV with reproductive health and gender-violence services; adaptation of evidence-based HIV prevention interventions for women in stable relationships; and the implementation of existing legislation which protects women’s rights and institutionalization of gender transformative programs that can contribute to reducing women’s vulnerability to HIV.
Magnetic-field switchable metal-insulator transitions in a quasi-helical conductor
Creators: name: Braunecker, Bernd
name: Ström, Anders
name: Japaridze, G. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study Anderson localization in disordered helical conductors that are obtained from one-dimensional conductors with spin-orbit interaction and a magnetic field, or from equivalent systems. We call such conductors "quasi-helical" because the spins of the counterpropagating modes are not perfectly antiparallel and have a small spin-wavefunction overlap that is tunable by the magnetic field. Due to the overlap, disorder backscattering is possible and allows a localization transition. A conductor can pass through two localization transitions with increasing field, one from the conventionally localized system to the quasi-helical conductor (with localization length exceeding the system length), and one at a higher field again to a localized state, due now, however, to backscattering below the magnetic field induced pseudo-gap. We investigate these transitions using a unified two-step renormalization group approach.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures; published version
title: Assessing impacts of commercial fishing on selected ecosystem services in European waters - results of a scoping study
Creators: name: Pedersen, Søren Anker
name: Frost, Hans
name: Lassen, Hans
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session R
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Assessing impacts of commercial fishing on selected ecosystem services in European waters - results of a scoping study.
The Equation of State of the Unitary Fermi Gas: An Update on Lattice Calculations
Creators: name: Drut, Joaquín E.
name: Lähde, Timo A.
name: Wlazłowski, Gabriel
name: Magierski, Piotr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The thermodynamic properties of the unitary Fermi gas (UFG) have recently been measured to unprecedented accuracy at the MIT. In particular, these measurements provide an improved understanding of the regime below T/eF ~ 0.20, where a transition into a superfluid phase occurs. In light of this development, we present an overview of state-of-the-art auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) results for the UFG at finite temperature and compare them with the MIT data for the energy, chemical potential, and density. These AFQMC results have been obtained using methods based on the hybrid Monte Carlo (HMC) algorithm, which was first introduced within the context of lattice QCD.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Social Media and the Ethics of Scholarship: A Call for the Assessment and Communication of Rights Information, Provenance, and Context
Creators: name: Pantalony, Rina E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Information literacy
Copyright
Library science
Social media
Learning and scholarship--Moral and ethical aspects

description: This chapter of Copyright Conversations: Rights Literacy in the Digital World, edited by Sara Benson, Copyright Librarian, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, examines the role that libraries can play to promote information literacy for both the scholarly community and, where materials are made available in the public online environment, to the public at large. This chapter documents two exercises undertaken by Columbia University Libraries in an ever-growing environment of skepticism about the integrity and authenticity of information found on the internet and, in particular, on social media sites. Within this context, Columbia University Libraries undertook both a purposeful examination of the creation and development of a rights metadata system associated with distinct collections at Columbia University Libraries and a review of scholarly and strategic priorities. In this chapter, copyright literacy is defined as having and using the knowledge, understanding, and practice skills that enable the ethical creation and use of copyright-protected materials. As part of Columbia University Libraries’ review, copyright and, in particular, copyright literacy was identified, assessed and prioritized as a facet of the ethics of scholarship.
Speech enhancement during BiPAP use for persons living with ALS
Creators: name: Chua, Samuel D.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: Speech from behind a face mask while on Bilevel Positive Air Pressure (BiPAP) ventilation is extremely difficult for persons living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The inability to verbally communicate while on ventilation causes frustration and feelings of isolation from loved ones and decreases quality of life. A system that integrates with face masks, captures speech, removes ventilator wind noise and outputs and recognizes de-noised speech is proposed, implemented and tested. The system is tested with a dataset consisting of digitally added noise as well as a single patient with ALS. Automated machine recognition of the words is then performed and results analyzed. A subjective listening test is conducted with individuals listening to the noisy and filtered speech samples and the results are also analyzed. Although intelligibility does not seem to improve for human listeners, there appears to be some improvement in machine recognition scores. In addition, feedback from the ALS community reports an improvement in the quality of life simply because patients are able to use their own voice and be heard by loved ones.
Argyres-Douglas Loci, Singularity Structures and Wall-Crossings in Pure N=2 Gauge Theories with Classical Gauge Groups
Creators: name: Seo, Jihye
name: Dasgupta, Keshav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: N=2 Seiberg-Witten theories allow an interesting interplay between the Argyres-Douglas loci, singularity structures and wall-crossing formulae. In this paper we investigate this connection by first studying the singularity structures of hyper-elliptic Seiberg-Witten curves for pure N=2 gauge theories with SU(r+1) and Sp(2r) gauge groups, and propose new methods to locate the Argyres-Douglas loci in the moduli space, where multiple mutually non-local BPS states become massless. In a region of the moduli space, we compute dyon charges for all 2r+2 and 2r+1 massless dyons for SU(r+1) and Sp(2r) gauge groups respectively for rank r>1. From here we elucidate the connection to the wall-crossing phenomena for pure Sp(4) Seiberg-Witten theory near the Argyres-Douglas loci, despite our emphasis being only at the massless sector of the BPS spectra. We also present 2r-1 candidates for the maximal Argyres-Douglas points for pure SO(2r+1) Seiberg-Witten theory.
description: 81 pages, 41 figures, LaTeX; v2: Minor cosmetic changes and correction of a typographical error in acknowledgement. Final version to appear in JHEP
The rise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in international development in historical perspective
Creators: name: Eyal, Gil
name: De Souza Leão, Luciana
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Development economics
subject: Economic policy--Evaluation
subject: Group-randomized trials
subject: Expertise

description: This article brings a historical perspective to explain the recent dissemination of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) as the new "gold standard" method to assess international development projects. Although the buzz around RCT evaluations dates from the 2000s, we show that what we are witnessing now is a second wave of RCTs, while a first wave began in the 1960s and ended by the early 1980s. Drawing on content analysis of 123 RCTs, participant observation, and secondary sources, we compare the two waves in terms of the participants in the network of expertise required to carry out field experiments and the characteristics of the projects evaluated. The comparison demonstrates that researchers in the second wave were better positioned to navigate the political difficulties caused by randomization. We explain the differences in the expertise network and in the type of projects as the result of concurrent transformations in the fields of development aid and the economics profession. We draw on Andrew Abbott’s concept of "hinges," as well as on Bourdieu’s concept of "homology" between fields, to argue that the similar positions and parallel struggles conducted by two groups of actors in the two fields served as the basis for a cross-field alliance, in which RCTs could function as a "hinge" linking together the two fields.
title: Developing a Management Plan for the Anchovy Fishery in the Bay of Biscay
Creators: name: Uriarte, A.
name: Abaunza, P.
name: Guyader, O.
name: Ibaibarriaga, L.
name: Sanchez, S.
name: Pawlowski, L.
name: Prellezo, R.
name: Roel, B.
name: del Valle, I.
name: Vermard, Y.
name: Villamo, B.
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session R
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Objectives (Ec non paper - Dec. 2007) – to ensure the exploitation of the stock at high yields consistent with maximum sustainable yield; – to guarantee the stability of the fishery, as far as possible, and with a low risk of stock collapse
Downstream and Upstream Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Proper Scope of NEPA Review
Creators: name: Burger, Michael
name: Wentz, Jessica A.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Greenhouse gases
Environmental impact analysis
Fossil fuels--Environmental aspects

description: Recently, legal controversies have arisen regarding the scope of greenhouse gas emissions that should be considered in environmental reviews of fossil fuel extraction and transportation proposals under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The key question is whether and how agencies should account for emissions from activities that occur “downstream” from the proposed action, such the combustion of fossil fuels, and emissions from activities that occur “upstream” of the proposed action, such the extraction of fossil fuels. This Article argues that such emissions do typically fall within the scope of indirect and cumulative impacts that must be evaluated under NEPA, and provides recommendations on how agencies should evaluate such emissions in environmental review documents.
Shunosaurus lii Dong, Zhou & Zhang 1983
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Sankar
name: Zheng, Zhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2002
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Saurischia
Cetiosauridae
Shunosaurus
Shunosaurus lii

description: SHUNOSAURUS LII DONG ET AL., 1983 Horizon. Lower Shaximiao Formation, Middle Jurassic (Fig. 3). Holotype. V9065-1 - 23, partial vertebrae and pelvis, in the collection of IVPP, Beijing, China. Referred specimens. ZG65430, a nearly complete skull including an intact braincase and lower jaw (Fig. 4); T 5401, a complete skeleton including skull, lower jaw, most of the vertebrae, pelvic girdle, sacrum, left humerus, right femur and a claw; T 5403, a complete skeleton; T 5404, a complete postcranial skeleton. Type locality. Dashanpu, near Zigong city 10 km north-east (lat. 29°5′N; long. 104°50′E) of Sichuan Province, China (Fig. 2). Specific diagnosis. Same as for genus. Institutional abbreviations IVPP The Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, Academic Sinica, Beijing, China. T The Chongqing Natural History Museum, Chongqing, China. ZG Zigong Dinosaur Museum, Zigong, China. DNM Dinosaur National Monument, Utah. TTU Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. ISI Geology Museum of Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India.
description: Published as part of Chatterjee, Sankar & Zheng, Zhong, 2002, Cranial anatomy of Shunosaurus, a basal sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of China, pp. 145-169 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136 (1) on page 151, DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00037.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5436845
Taking a Byte Out of Corruption: A Data Analytic Framework for Cities to Fight Fraud, Cut Costs, and Promote Integrity
Creators: name: Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Municipal government
Political corruption--Prevention
Fraud--Prevention
Municipal government--Data processing
Local government--Data processing--Management

description: In recent years, the emerging science of data analytics has equipped law enforcement agencies and urban policymakers with game-changing tools. Many leaders and thinkers in the public integrity community believe such innovations could prove equally transformational for the fight against public corruption. However, corruption control presents unique challenges that must be addressed before city watchdog agencies can harness the power of big data. City governments need to improve data collection and management practices and develop new models to leverage available data to better monitor corruption risks.
To bridge this gap and pave the way for a potential data breakthrough in anti-corruption oversight, the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (CAPI), with the support of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, convened an expert working group of leading practitioners, scholars, engineers, and civil society members to identify key issues, obstacles, and knowledge gaps, and map a path forward in this promising area. CAPI supplemented the deliberations of this working group with further research and more than forty field interviews in New York and Chicago.
Optimal Disturbance Accommodation with Limited Model Information
Creators: name: Farokhi, F.
name: Langbort, C.
name: Johansson, K. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The design of optimal dynamic disturbance accommodation controller with limited model information is considered. We adapt the family of limited model information control design strategies, defined earlier by the authors, to handle dynamic controllers. This family of limited model information design strategies construct subcontrollers distributively by accessing only local plant model information. The closed-loop performance of the dynamic controllers that they can produce are studied using a performance metric called the competitive ratio which is the worst case ratio of the cost a control design strategy to the cost of the optimal control design with full model information.
description: Fixed Typos, Updated Introduction and References. This manuscript is an early version of the results presented in arXiv:1112.5032 prepared for the presentation at the American Control Conference 2012
title: Shifting to the MSY: only a first stepfor changing the UE common fisheries policy and for implementing the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries
Creators: name: Gascuel, Didier
Publisher: name: ASC 2009 - Theme session R
Year: 2024
Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture
Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management

description: No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Since 1998, the European procedure for the production of scientific advice is largely based on the (so called) “precautionary approach”, using single-species assessment models. Such an approach is supposed to ensure long term sustainability of exploited stocks and marine ecosystems and it is the basis for the adoption by politicians of annual Total Acceptable Catches (TACs) for the main targeted stocks. Undoubtedly, it has had positive effects for some severely depleted stocks, usually leading to more restrictive access to allow stock recovery. Nevertheless, the overall state of European fishes stocks remains grim with the situation deteriorating for some species. And more generally, the current procedure should be considered inappropriate in an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) perspective.
A Philanthropic Approach to Supporting Emergent Disaster Response and Recovery
Creators: name: Schlegelmilch, Jeffrey
name: Sury, Jonathan
name: Brooks, Jeremy
name: Chandler, Thomas E.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2019
Subjects: Emergency management
Disaster relief--Finance
Charities
Hurricane Harvey (2017)

description: In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey struck the US Gulf Coast and caused more than US $125 billion in damages in Texas. The loss of lives and the economic damages resulted in an outpouring of support for the recovery efforts in the form of federal assistance and private donations. The latter has supported more creative approaches to recovery. Organizations that normally would not receive funding were able to obtain resources to use in novel manners. Using the framework of Dynes typology to identify groups and their respective structures and tasks, this report from the field analyzes Hurricane Harvey and the financial support mechanisms used to support recovery efforts in Texas, what organizations were funded to do, and where they fit into Dynes typology. The authors close by noting the importance of these emerging organizations and the need to support diversity in funding disaster response and recovery efforts beyond large nonprofit organizations.