cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Safeguarding Taiwan's globally significant biodiversity: Strengthening the domestic legal framework and participating in the global biodiversity governance system as an ecological entity
Creators: name: Cheng, Chin-Che
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Taiwan is facing a biodiversity crisis with global impacts. For such a small region, Taiwan hosts 1.5 percent of the world's species, and one-tenth of the total marine species on earth. But Taiwan is on the edge of a full-scale biodiversity collapse. Habitat loss, overexploitation of natural resources, pollution, and invasive species are all shattering its fragile ecosystems. This dissertation explores how the impacts from Taiwan's limited participation in the global biodiversity governance system, and how Taiwan's ill-equipped domestic legal framework, impair Taiwan's ability to conserve its biodiversity. As discussed in Chapter 1, the interdependent nature of Taiwan's biodiversity makes it a matter of "common concern" under international law. Weak protection of Taiwan's biodiversity has global repercussions. For instance, Taiwan is an important, but unprotected, stop for birds migrating through the East Asia Pacific region. Chapter 2 reviews the major efforts within the global biodiversity governance system to resolve the biodiversity crisis. The effectiveness of the biodiversity governance system depends on strong treaties, international conservation organizations, and domestic conservation laws. However, Taiwan currently has a unique international legal status, where it is allowed to participate neither in international environmental treaties nor international conservation organizations. Chapter 3 discusses how Taiwan's unique legal status harms global conservation efforts. Furthermore, Taiwan's domestic legal framework is ill-equipped to address the biodiversity crisis. Chapter 4 examines the impacts of Taiwan's inadequate domestic conservation framework. In Chapter 5, this dissertation recommends practical approaches to overcome the challenges of protecting Taiwan's biodiversity. First, Taiwan must strengthen its domestic legal framework, particularly the Wildlife Conservation Law. Second, Taiwan should take steps to join the global biodiversity governance system. The concept of "ecological entity" could be a politically comfortable way to sidestep the unique status of Taiwan under international law. Although Taiwan lacks widespread international legal recognition, the fact that Taiwan is a global conservation priority region harboring globally significant biodiversity is undeniable. As part of a globally interdependent and interconnected ecosystem, Taiwan must be included in the global biodiversity governance system to ensure the future of Taiwan's biodiversity.
Reinforcement Learning for Molecular Design Guided by Quantum Mechanics
Creators: name: Simm, Gregor N. C.
name: Pinsler, Robert
name: Hernández-Lobato, José Miguel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Automating molecular design using deep reinforcement learning (RL) holds the promise of accelerating the discovery of new chemical compounds. Existing approaches work with molecular graphs and thus ignore the location of atoms in space, which restricts them to 1) generating single organic molecules and 2) heuristic reward functions. To address this, we present a novel RL formulation for molecular design in Cartesian coordinates, thereby extending the class of molecules that can be built. Our reward function is directly based on fundamental physical properties such as the energy, which we approximate via fast quantum-chemical methods. To enable progress towards de-novo molecular design, we introduce MolGym, an RL environment comprising several challenging molecular design tasks along with baselines. In our experiments, we show that our agent can efficiently learn to solve these tasks from scratch by working in a translation and rotation invariant state-action space.
Securitizing the HIV/AIDS pandemic in U.S. foreign policy
Creators: name: Sheehan, Carrie C.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The post-Cold War era in U.S. foreign policy abounds with claims that so-called new or nontraditional issues represent threats to security, but how can one know when an issue has reached the point where it can he considered a security issue. This dissertation sought to understand under what conditions and to what extent the security label can lead an issue not traditionally categorized in the realm of security to become transformed into a security issue in U.S. foreign policy. In order to address these issues the dissertation specifically analyzed the securitization process of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in U.S. foreign policy asking to what extent HIV/AIDS was securitized and what, if any, were the impacts of securitization on U.S. policy. Furthermore, the dissertation was an attempt to validate and refine the criteria provided by Buzau, Waever and de Wilde in their securitization framework by applying the criteria empirically using HIV/AIDS in U.S. foreign policy as a case study. Through a method of interpretive policy analysis, the dissertation analyzed the language and policies in the U.S. regarding the HIV/AIDS pandemic from 1986 through the beginning of 2004. First, analyzing the framing of HIV/AIDS as a global issue in the U.S., the dissertation found that HIV/AIDS was framed as a health, development and security issue over the period of study. Second, through an application of the securitization framework the dissertation found that HIV/AIDS was partially securitized since the full sequence of securitizing moves, emergency actions and changes in inter-unit relations while present was weak. There were many attempts to securitize HIV/AIDS (securitizing moves) through the use of security language. However, there were fewer emergency actions and effects on inter-unit relations. Furthermore, the consequences of securitizing HIV/AIDS were modest. The dissertation validated the criteria of the securitization framework, but also suggested some refinements to the framework in the context of the U.S. policy process.
Additional file 1 of Downregulation of circulating miR-320a and target gene prediction in patients with diabetic retinopathy
Creators: name: Prado, Marcelle SanJuan Ganem
name: Mirthz Lemos De Jesus
name: Thaline Cunha De Goes
name: Mendonça, Lucilla Silva Oliveira
name: Kaneto, Carla Martins
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Clinical characteristics of the patients.
Securitizing the HIV/AIDS pandemic in U.S. foreign policy
Creators: name: Sheehan, Carrie C.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4408
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: The post-Cold War era in U.S. foreign policy abounds with claims that so-called new or nontraditional issues represent threats to security, but how can one know when an issue has reached the point where it can he considered a security issue. This dissertation sought to understand under what conditions and to what extent the security label can lead an issue not traditionally categorized in the realm of security to become transformed into a security issue in U.S. foreign policy. In order to address these issues the dissertation specifically analyzed the securitization process of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in U.S. foreign policy asking to what extent HIV/AIDS was securitized and what, if any, were the impacts of securitization on U.S. policy. Furthermore, the dissertation was an attempt to validate and refine the criteria provided by Buzau, Waever and de Wilde in their securitization framework by applying the criteria empirically using HIV/AIDS in U.S. foreign policy as a case study. Through a method of interpretive policy analysis, the dissertation analyzed the language and policies in the U.S. regarding the HIV/AIDS pandemic from 1986 through the beginning of 2004. First, analyzing the framing of HIV/AIDS as a global issue in the U.S., the dissertation found that HIV/AIDS was framed as a health, development and security issue over the period of study. Second, through an application of the securitization framework the dissertation found that HIV/AIDS was partially securitized since the full sequence of securitizing moves, emergency actions and changes in inter-unit relations while present was weak. There were many attempts to securitize HIV/AIDS (securitizing moves) through the use of security language. However, there were fewer emergency actions and effects on inter-unit relations. Furthermore, the consequences of securitizing HIV/AIDS were modest. The dissertation validated the criteria of the securitization framework, but also suggested some refinements to the framework in the context of the U.S. policy process.
Lasioglossum (Dialictus) deludens Gardner & Gibbs 2023
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Lasioglossum (Dialictus) deludens Gardner & Gibbs, 2023 *
[Holotype: PCYU; ♀ 30 km east Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico; April 20, 2005]
Lasioglossum deludens represents a new record for the BCP. This species inhabits the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Mojave Deserts (Gardner & Gibbs 2023). In April 2023, the BBPT collected one female in the Lower Colorado Desert in Carretera Mexicali-San Felipe, 35. km N La Ventana (MABC). See fig. 174.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
An exploratory study of the factors influencing Japanese female students to attend a two -year college
Creators: name: Anzai, Shinobu
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Japanese society as a whole used to discourage women from pursing their education at four-year colleges, which have traditionally been the preserve and means of social advancement for men. Women have been encouraged to attend two-year colleges, traditionally regarded as institutions preparing young women for marriage and homemaking. In the 1990's, when four-year colleges became much more accessible to college applicants due to the decrease in size of the college-age population, Japanese women began to leave their traditionally designated educational path to pursue their educational opportunities at four-year colleges. Yet, two-year college still remains the woman's track in higher education. Two-year colleges, predominantly populated by women, today absorb about one-third of female entrants to postsecondary education. This study, employing both quantitative (a survey questionnaire) and qualitative methods (focus and individual interviews), inquires into why Japanese women still find their educational opportunities in two-year colleges. Three theoretical lenses were used for this study: the Hossler and Gallagher college choice mode, habitus, and opportunity worth wanting. The findings of this study indicate the following: (1) Japanese female students' choice of a two-year college was influenced by a number of factors, beginning with the formation of aspirations for post high school education and extending through enrollment in a particular college. (2) Their decision to attend a two-year college was not a manifestation of their free will. It was largely imposed upon them by their family and high school environment. The findings of this study can provide insight into the college choice process for Japanese female students attending two-year colleges, and, hopefully, better enable colleges, parents, educators, and policy makers to effectively assist these women as they navigate their way along what can be a difficult path. It is also hoped that these findings will help Japanese female students become more aware and knowledgeable in choosing a college.
Additional file 1 of Efficacy of direct-to-operating room trauma resuscitation: a systematic review
Creators: name: Seo, Dongmin
name: Heo, Inhae
name: Choi, Donghwan
name: Jung, Kyoungwon
name: Jung, Hohyung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 1. The complete search strategy.
An exploratory study of the factors influencing Japanese female students to attend a two -year college
Creators: name: Anzai, Shinobu
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3903
subject: Education systems
classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education

description: Japanese society as a whole used to discourage women from pursing their education at four-year colleges, which have traditionally been the preserve and means of social advancement for men. Women have been encouraged to attend two-year colleges, traditionally regarded as institutions preparing young women for marriage and homemaking. In the 1990's, when four-year colleges became much more accessible to college applicants due to the decrease in size of the college-age population, Japanese women began to leave their traditionally designated educational path to pursue their educational opportunities at four-year colleges. Yet, two-year college still remains the woman's track in higher education. Two-year colleges, predominantly populated by women, today absorb about one-third of female entrants to postsecondary education. This study, employing both quantitative (a survey questionnaire) and qualitative methods (focus and individual interviews), inquires into why Japanese women still find their educational opportunities in two-year colleges. Three theoretical lenses were used for this study: the Hossler and Gallagher college choice mode, habitus, and opportunity worth wanting. The findings of this study indicate the following: (1) Japanese female students' choice of a two-year college was influenced by a number of factors, beginning with the formation of aspirations for post high school education and extending through enrollment in a particular college. (2) Their decision to attend a two-year college was not a manifestation of their free will. It was largely imposed upon them by their family and high school environment. The findings of this study can provide insight into the college choice process for Japanese female students attending two-year colleges, and, hopefully, better enable colleges, parents, educators, and policy makers to effectively assist these women as they navigate their way along what can be a difficult path. It is also hoped that these findings will help Japanese female students become more aware and knowledgeable in choosing a college.
Using Optical and Near-IR Photometry to Test MACHO Lens Candidates
Creators: name: von Hippel, Ted
name: Sarajedini, Ata
name: Ruiz, Maria Teresa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtained new VLT/ISAAC H-band observations for five MACHO LMC source stars and adjacent LMC field regions. After combining our near-IR photometry with HST/PC BVRI optical photometry, we compared the MACHO objects to the adjacent field stars in a variety of color-magnitude and color-color diagrams. These diagnostic diagrams were chosen to be sensitive to our hypothesis that at least some of the MACHO lenses were foreground Galactic disk or thick disk M dwarfs. For the five lensed objects we studied, our hypothesis could be ruled out for main sequence lens masses >= 0.1 Mo for distances out to 4 kpc. On the other hand, the fact that LMC-MACHO-5, an object not in our study, has been recently found to have just such a foreground lens, highlights that the remainder of the LMC MACHO objects should be searched for the signature of their lenses using our photometric technique, or via near-IR spectroscopy. We also constructed diagnostic color-color diagrams sensitive to determining reddening for the individual MACHO source stars and found that these five objects did not show evidence for significant additional reddening. At least these five MACHO objects are thus also inconsistent with the LMC self-lensing hypothesis.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures, ApJ, accepted for Oct 1 issue
Additional file 1 of Application of normalisation process theory in understanding implementation processes in primary care settings in the UK: a systematic review
Creators: name: Huddlestone, Lisa
name: Turner, Jessica
name: Eborall, Helen
name: Hudson, Nicky
name: Davies, Melanie
name: Martin, Graham
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Quality checklist results for the assessment of risk of bias.
Thirty Years of Heteroskedasticity-Robust Inference
Creators: name: MacKinnon, James G.
name: MacKinnon, James G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2011
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: White (1980) marked the beginning of a new era for inference in econometrics. It introduced the revolutionary idea of inference that is robust to heteroskedasticity of unknown form, an idea that was very soon extended to other forms of robust inference and also led to many new estimation methods. This paper discusses the development of heteroskedasticity-robust inference since 1980. There have been two principal lines of investigation. One approach has been to modify White’s original estimator to improve its finite-sample properties, and the other has been to use bootstrap methods. The relation between these two approaches, and some ways in which they may be combined, are discussed. Finally, a simulation experiment compares various methods and shows how far heteroskedasticity-robust inference has come in just over thirty years.
Photonic tensor cores for machine learning
Creators: name: Miscuglio, Mario
name: Sorger, Volker J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: With an ongoing trend in computing hardware towards increased heterogeneity, domain-specific co-processors are emerging as alternatives to centralized paradigms. The tensor core unit (TPU) has shown to outperform graphic process units by almost 3-orders of magnitude enabled by higher signal throughout and energy efficiency. In this context, photons bear a number of synergistic physical properties while phase-change materials allow for local nonvolatile mnemonic functionality in these emerging distributed non van-Neumann architectures. While several photonic neural network designs have been explored, a photonic TPU to perform matrix vector multiplication and summation is yet outstanding. Here we introduced an integrated photonics-based TPU by strategically utilizing a) photonic parallelism via wavelength division multiplexing, b) high 2 Peta-operations-per second throughputs enabled by 10s of picosecond-short delays from optoelectronics and compact photonic integrated circuitry, and c) zero power-consuming novel photonic multi-state memories based on phase-change materials featuring vanishing losses in the amorphous state. Combining these physical synergies of material, function, and system, we show that the performance of this 8-bit photonic TPU can be 2-3 orders higher compared to an electrical TPU whilst featuring similar chip areas. This work shows that photonic specialized processors have the potential to augment electronic systems and may perform exceptionally well in network-edge devices in the looming 5G networks and beyond.
200 Mpc Sized Structure in the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey
Creators: name: Miller, L.
name: Croom, S. M.
name: Boyle, B. J.
name: Loaring, N. S.
name: Smith, R. J.
name: Shanks, T.
name: Outram, P. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The completed 2dF QSO Redshift (2QZ) Survey has been used to search for extreme large-scale cosmological structure (around 200 Mpc) over the redshift range 0100Mpc are in the linear or only weakly non-linear regime and do not represent collapsed non-linear structures. We compare the measurements with the expectation of a standard LCDM model by measuring the variance of counts in cells and find that, provided the distribution of QSOs on large scales exhibits a mild bias with respect to the distribution of dark matter, the observed fluctuations are found to be in good agreement with the model. There is no evidence on such scales for any extreme structures that might require, for example, departures from the assumption of Gaussian initial perturbations. Thus the power-spectrum derived from the 2QZ Survey appears to provide a complete description of the distribution of QSOs. The amount of bias and its redshift dependence that is required is consistent with that found from studying the clustering of 2QZ QSOs on 10 Mpc scales, and may be adequately described by an approximately redshift-invariant power spectrum with normalisation sigma_8=1.0 corresponding to a bias at z=0 of b=1.1 rising to b=2 at the survey's mean redshift z=1.5.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures. Version accepted by MNRAS
Distributional Gains of Near Higher Earners
Creators: name: Beach, Charles M.
name: Beach, Charles M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: This paper looks at changes in employment and relative wages of near-higher earnings (NHE) workers between middle-class (MC) and higher earners (HE) in Canada over 2000-2015. An approach is also forwarded for evaluating these changes in terms of underlying demand and supply factors. It is found that the NHE behaves as a transition group between quite different patterns of change of the MC and HE groups, and that these changes have been recently attenuating. The MC group experienced a downward shift in employment demand, the HE group an upward shift in demand, and the NHE group an upward shift in supply of workers.
School structural characteristics and social capital: The impact of the school environment on criminal and non -criminal incidents in U.S. public schools
Creators: name: Bauer, Lynn
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This study examines the relationship between school and neighborhood structural characteristics and criminal and non-criminal incidents in U.S. public schools. In particular, it seeks to determine how school size and other exogenous school- and neighborhood-level variables relate to crime and disorder at school. Additional consideration is given to the relationship between these structural characteristics and disciplinary policies that schools adopt in response to delinquent behavior. Also explored is whether the presence of elements of social capital in schools decreases the rate of criminal and non-criminal incidents that occur at school. This theoretical framework is considered in light of exogenous school- and neighborhood-level variables. Complexities in operationalizing social capital are discussed. I use the 2006 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), a principal-based survey of U.S. public schools, to examine the aforementioned relationships. The use of SSOCS to demonstrate these phenomena contributes to the existing body of literature a unique conceptualization of how school and neighborhood characteristics and social capital can influence school crime and disorder and the use of disciplinary actions by schools. These relationships are observed using linear regression. The results of this analysis indicate that school size is negatively associated with many of the dependent variables, and that other school and neighborhood structural characteristics are significant in several of the models. It also reveals that specific elements of social capital in schools are consistently related to the occurrence of criminal and non-criminal incidents, as well as to disciplinary actions.
Lasioglossum (Dialictus) diversopunctatum
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Lasioglossum (Dialictus) diversopunctatum (Ellis, 1914) **
[Holotype: USNM; ♀ California, USA]
This species represents a new record for the BCP and Mexico. The BBPT collected three females in June 2020 in the Coastal Sage Matorral (MABC). See fig. 174.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
A relaxationless demonstration of the Quantum Zeno Paradox on an individual atom
Creators: name: Balzer, Chr.
name: Hannemann, Th.
name: Reiß, D.
name: Wunderlich, Chr.
name: Neuhauser, W.
name: Toschek, P. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The driven evolution of the spin of an individual atomic ion on the ground-state hyperfine resonance is impeded by the observation of the ion in one of the pertaining eigenstates. Detection of resonantly scattered light identifies the ion in its upper ``bright'' state. The lower ``dark'' ion state is free of relaxation and correlated with the detector by a null signal. Null events represent the straightforward demonstration of the quantum Zeno paradox. Also, high probability of survival was demonstrated when the ion, driven by a fractionated $π$ pulse, was probed {\em and monitored} during the intermissions of the drive, such that the ion's evolution is completely documented.
description: 7 pages
School structural characteristics and social capital: The impact of the school environment on criminal and non -criminal incidents in U.S. public schools
Creators: name: Bauer, Lynn
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4402
subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law

description: This study examines the relationship between school and neighborhood structural characteristics and criminal and non-criminal incidents in U.S. public schools. In particular, it seeks to determine how school size and other exogenous school- and neighborhood-level variables relate to crime and disorder at school. Additional consideration is given to the relationship between these structural characteristics and disciplinary policies that schools adopt in response to delinquent behavior. Also explored is whether the presence of elements of social capital in schools decreases the rate of criminal and non-criminal incidents that occur at school. This theoretical framework is considered in light of exogenous school- and neighborhood-level variables. Complexities in operationalizing social capital are discussed. I use the 2006 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), a principal-based survey of U.S. public schools, to examine the aforementioned relationships. The use of SSOCS to demonstrate these phenomena contributes to the existing body of literature a unique conceptualization of how school and neighborhood characteristics and social capital can influence school crime and disorder and the use of disciplinary actions by schools. These relationships are observed using linear regression. The results of this analysis indicate that school size is negatively associated with many of the dependent variables, and that other school and neighborhood structural characteristics are significant in several of the models. It also reveals that specific elements of social capital in schools are consistently related to the occurrence of criminal and non-criminal incidents, as well as to disciplinary actions.
Spectropolarimetry of the borderline Seyfert 1 galaxy ESO 323-G077
Creators: name: Schmid, H. M.
name: Appenzeller, I.
name: Burch, U.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the detection of high linear polarization in the bright Seyfert 1 galaxy ESO 323-G077. Based on optical spectropolarimetry with FORS1 at the VLT we find a continuum polarization which ranges from 2.2 % at 8300A to 7.5 % at 3600A. Similar amounts of linear polarization are found for the broad emission lines, while the narrow lines are not polarized. The position angle of the polarization is independent of the wavelength and found to be perpendicular to the orientation of the extended [OIII] emission cone of this galaxy. Within the standard model of Seyfert nuclei the observations can be well understood assuming that this AGN is observed at an inclination angle where the nucleus is partially obscured and seen mainly indirectly in the light scattered by dust clouds within or above the torus and the illuminated inner edge of the dust torus itself. Hence we conclude that ESO 323-G077 is a borderline Seyfert 1 galaxy which can provide important information on the geometric properties of active nuclei.
Additional file 1 of Endotoxin clustering with allergens in house dust and asthma outcomes in a U.S. national study
Creators: name: Mendy, Angelico
name: Wilkerson, Jesse
name: Pӓivi M. Salo
name: Zeldin, Darryl C.
name: Thorne, Peter S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1 : Table S1. Effect modification P-values by sensitization to specific inhalant allergens on association between clusters and asthma outcomes, NHANES 2005–2006. Table S2. Association between clusters with high endotoxin and asthma outcomes by sensitization to dust mites, NHANES 2005–2006.
Statistics of planar graphs viewed from a vertex: A study via labeled trees
Creators: name: Bouttier, J.
name: Di Francesco, P.
name: Guitter, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the statistics of edges and vertices in the vicinity of a reference vertex (origin) within random planar quadrangulations and Eulerian triangulations. Exact generating functions are obtained for theses graphs with fixed numbers of edges and vertices at given geodesic distances from the origin. Our analysis relies on bijections with labeled trees, in which the labels encode the information on the geodesic distance from the origin. In the case of infinitely large graphs, we give in particular explicit formulas for the probabilities that the origin have given numbers of neighboring edges and/or vertices, as well as explicit values for the corresponding moments.
description: 36 pages, 15 figures, tex, harvmac, epsf
Wilson Action for the $O(N)$ Model
Creators: name: Dutta, Semanti
name: Sathiapalan, B.
name: Sonoda, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper the fixed-point Wilson action for the critical $O(N)$ model in $D=4-\eps$ dimensions is written down in the $\eps$ expansion to order $\eps^2$. It is obtained by solving the fixed-point Polchinski Exact Renormalization Group equation (with anomalous dimension) in powers of $\eps$. This is an example of a theory that has scale and conformal invariance despite having a finite UV cutoff. The energy-momentum tensor for this theory is also constructed (at zero momentum) to order $\eps^2$. This is done by solving the Ward-Takahashi identity for the fixed point action. It is verified that the trace of the energy-momentum tensor is proportional to the violation of scale invariance as given by the exact RG, i.e., the $β$ function. The vanishing of the trace at the fixed point ensures conformal invariance. Some examples of calculations of correlation functions are also given.
description: 38 pages, 2 figures
Asymptotic Theory and Wild Bootstrap Inference with Clustered Errors
Creators: name: Djogbenou, Antoine A.
name: MacKinnon, James G.
name: Orregaard Nielsen, Morten
name: Djogbenou, Antoine A.
name: MacKinnon, James G.
name: Orregaard Nielsen, Morten
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: Clustered data
subject: cluster-robust variance estimator
subject: CRVE
subject: Edgeworth expansion
subject: inference
subject: wild bootstrap
subject: wild cluster bootstrap

description: We study asymptotic inference based on cluster-robust variance estimators for regression models with clustered errors, focusing on the wild cluster bootstrap and the ordinary wild bootstrap. We state conditions under which both asymptotic and bootstrap tests and confidence intervals will be asymptotically valid. These conditions put limits on the rates at which the cluster sizes can increase as the number of clusters tends to infinity. To include power in the analysis, we allow the data to be generated under sequences of local alternatives. Under a somewhat stronger set of conditions, we also derive formal Edgeworth expansions for the asymptotic and bootstrap test statistics. Simulation experiments illustrate the theoretical results, and the Edgeworth expansions explain the overrejection of the asymptotic test and shed light on the choice of auxiliary distribution for the wild bootstrap.
Additional file 1 of Diagnostic and prognostic significance of tissue lncRNA HOTAIR and hexokinase 2 mRNA expression in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Creators: name: Salah, Ghada
name: Obada, Manar
name: Sweed, Dina
name: Salama, Ibrahim Abdelkader
name: Khalil, Ashraf
name: Abdelsattar, Shimaa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table S1. Descriptive statistics for biochemical, and hematological parameters in pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients. Supplementary Table S2. Correlation of HOTAIR and HK2 Expression Levels with Biochemical and Hematological Parameters in Tumorous Pancreatic Tissue. Supplementary Figure S1. PCR Amplification curves depicting the real-time amplification profiles for lncRNA HOTAIR, HK2, and β-actin genes. The vertical axis displays delta Rn values, representing fluorescence signal normalized to the baseline. These delta Rn values offer insight into amplification dynamics, enabling precise quantification of target gene expression levels.
"Reverse Bayesianism": A clarification and generalization
Creators: name: Karni, Edi
name: Valenzuela-Stookey, Quiteze
name: Viero, Marie-Louise
name: Karni, Edi
name: Valenzuela-Stookey, Quiteze
name: Viero, Marie-Louise
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Growing awareness
subject: reverse Bayesianism
subject: falsification

description: In this note we clarify and generalize the main result in Karni and Viero (2013) by allowing the discovery of new consequences to nulllify some states that were non-null before the discovery.
The genealogy of the AD /HD subject: The culture of self -control
Creators: name: Comstock, Edward J.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Critical scholarship on AD/HD has largely ignored the recent and massive increase in AD/HD diagnosis and treatment, preferring instead to focus on its control effects at the level of the individual child. Where this subject is addressed in critical literature, it is usually cast in the terms of "over-prescription," or otherwise reduced to the power elite's supposed interest in drugging more and more children as a control technique. In contrast to these critical theories, this work means to explore a complicated relationship between subjectivication and the positivities upon which knowledge of subjects is founded, in order to explain the recent proliferation of the AD/HD-type as emerging from radically new positivities of the subject and new techniques of (self) control. Power, in the case of AD/HD, does not come from the "top-down," but works through complicated relations of care, knowledge, medicine, and identity. Specifically, this work locates the AD/HD phenomenon as rooted in emergent positivities of the developmental child---positivities that reflect the discourse on homo economicus as opposed to homo criminalis and the discourse on "deviancy"---along side techniques and possibilities of self identification. The adoption of the AD/HD identity is a ritualized process by which one becomes the kind of person that positively constructs the self in alignment with the truths and norms implied by homo economicus . One adopts the AD/HD identity not just to accrue institutional benefits, but to become the kind of person that does things to accrue benefits.
The genealogy of the AD /HD subject: The culture of self -control
Creators: name: Comstock, Edward J.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3902
subject: Education policy, sociology and philosophy

description: Critical scholarship on AD/HD has largely ignored the recent and massive increase in AD/HD diagnosis and treatment, preferring instead to focus on its control effects at the level of the individual child. Where this subject is addressed in critical literature, it is usually cast in the terms of "over-prescription," or otherwise reduced to the power elite's supposed interest in drugging more and more children as a control technique. In contrast to these critical theories, this work means to explore a complicated relationship between subjectivication and the positivities upon which knowledge of subjects is founded, in order to explain the recent proliferation of the AD/HD-type as emerging from radically new positivities of the subject and new techniques of (self) control. Power, in the case of AD/HD, does not come from the "top-down," but works through complicated relations of care, knowledge, medicine, and identity. Specifically, this work locates the AD/HD phenomenon as rooted in emergent positivities of the developmental child---positivities that reflect the discourse on homo economicus as opposed to homo criminalis and the discourse on "deviancy"---along side techniques and possibilities of self identification. The adoption of the AD/HD identity is a ritualized process by which one becomes the kind of person that positively constructs the self in alignment with the truths and norms implied by homo economicus . One adopts the AD/HD identity not just to accrue institutional benefits, but to become the kind of person that does things to accrue benefits.
The Silicon Sensors for the High Granularity Calorimeter of CMS
Creators: name: Paulitsch, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The installation of the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) presents unprecedented challenges to experiments like the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) in terms of event rate, integrated luminosity and therefore radiation exposures. To cope with this new environment, new detectors will be installed during the CMS Phase 2 Upgrade, including the replacement of the calorimeter endcaps with the "High Granularity Calorimeter" (HGCAL), which contains silicon sensors and scintillators as active elements. The silicon sensors will be produced in an 8" wafer process, which is new for high-energy physics, so it demands extensive quality verification. A first batch of prototype sensors underwent electrical tests at the institutes of the CMS Collaboration. Testing revealed major problems with the mechanical stability of the thin backside protective layer, that were not seen in earlier 6" prototypes produced by a different backside processing method. Following these results, the HGCAL group introduced the concept of "frontside biasing", allowing testing of the sensors without exposing its backside, verified the applicability, and adapted the prototype design to apply this method in series production.
description: 6 pages, 11 figures, proceedings of the "HSTD12: 12th International "Hiroshima" Symposium on the Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors (HSTD12)", 14-18 Dec 2019, Hiroshima (Japan), to be submitted to Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Evidence from an investigation into collusion and corruption in Quebec
Creators: name: Clark, Robert
name: Coviello, Decio
name: Gauthier, Jean-Francois
name: Shneyerov, Art
name: Clark, Robert
name: Coviello, Decio
name: Gauthier, Jean-Francois
name: Shneyerov, Art
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Political Economy
subject: Collusion
subject: Corruption
subject: Bid rigging
subject: Entry deterrence

description: We study the impact of an investigation into collusion and corruption to learn about the organization of cartels in public procurement auctions. Our focus is on Montreal’s asphalt industry, where there have been allegations of bid rigging, market segmentation, complementary bidding and bribes to bureaucrats, and where, in 2009, a police investigation was launched. We collect procurement data and use a difference-in-difference approach to compare outcomes before and after the investigation in Montreal and in Quebec City, where there have been no allegations of collusion or corruption. We find that entry and participation increased, and that the price of procurement decreased. We then decompose the price decrease to quantify the importance of two aspects of cartel organization, coordination and entry deterrence, for collusive pricing. We find that the latter explains only a small part of the decrease.
Additional file 1 of Discovery of a small molecule that inhibits Bcl-3-mediated cyclin D1 expression in melanoma cells
Creators: name: Saamarthy, Karunakar
name: Ahlqvist, Kristofer
name: Daams, Renée
name: Balagunaseelan, Navisraj
name: Rinaldo-Matthis, Agnes
name: Kazi, Julhash U.
name: Sime, Wondossen
name: Massoumi, Ramin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure 1.
Lasioglossum (Dialictus) grinnelli
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Lasioglossum (Dialictus) grinnelli (Cockerell, 1916)
[Holotype: USNM; ♀ South Island, Coronado Islands, Baja California, August 21, 1915]
Lasioglossum (Dialictus) daggetti (Cockerell, 1916): [Holotype: USNM (23329); ♂ South Island, Coronado Islands, L. California, August 21, 1915 (T. and W. Cockerell)] New synonymy
This species was described based on five females collected on South Island, Coronado Islands off the Pacific Coast of the BCP in 1915, along with L. daggetti, which was described from three males collected in the same event (Cockerell 1916). Both L. grinnelli and L. daggetti are frequently collected together and share several distinct morphological characters, most obviously the punctation of the metasomal terga, which fill the depressed apical rims completely. The only morphologically similar species that occurs sympatrically (an undescribed species) is easily distinguished by having only two submarginal cells in the forewing. DNA barcodes for L. grinnelli and L. daggetti are also very similar with a maximum intraspecific divergence of 0.72% (BOLD process IDs: DLII1377- 08, DLII1399-08, DLII1434-08, DLII1459-08, DLII1675-09, NCBEE462-21). Based on these morphological, genetic, and occurrence data, we synonymize L. daggetti under L. grinnelli. As both were described in the same publication with specimens collected during the same event, we choose to retain Lasioglossum grinnelli as the valid name according to Article 24.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature 1999).
This species is abundant in southern California in the San Diego area. Within the BCP, it was collected from the South Island of the Coronado Islands by T. D. A. Cockerell in 1915. Hurd (1979) also reported L. grinnelli near the border with the USA. The BBPT collected 10 specimens in the Coastal Sage Matorral in June 2020 (2 ♀, 1 ♂), September 2020 (1 ♀), October 2020 (2 ♀), and May 2022 (4 ♀). Voucher specimens are in MABC. See fig. 175.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on pages 256-257, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532