cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Physiologic Blood Flow is Turbulent: Revisiting the Principles of Vascular Hemodynamics
Creators: name: Saqr, Khalid M.
name: Tupin, Simon
name: Rashad, Sherif
name: Endo, Toshiki
name: Niizuma, Kuniyasu
name: Tominaga, Teiji
name: Ohta, Makoto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Medical Physics (physics.med-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Contemporary paradigm of vascular hemodynamics considers normal blood flow to be pulsatile laminar flow. Transition to turbulence can cause diseases such as atherosclerosis or brain aneurysms. Recently, we demonstrated the existence of turbulence in experimental models of brain aneurysm; in the aneurysm sac as well as in the main artery. Thus, we were intrigued to explore if such a long-standing assumption of the laminarity of blood flow could be challenged. We have used methods and tools from chaos theory, hydrodynamic stability theory and turbulence physics to explore the existence of turbulence in normal vascular blood flow. We used Womersley exact solution of the Navier-Stokes equation with the HaeMed database of physiologic blood flow measurements, to offer reproducible evidence for our findings, as well as evidence from Doppler ultrasound measurements from healthy volunteers. The tools we used to investigate the properties of blood turbulence are well established in the fields of chaos theory, hydrodynamic stability and turbulence dynamics. We show, evidently, that blood flow is inherently chaotic and turbulent and not laminar. We propose a paradigm shift in the theory of vascular hemodynamics which requires rethinking the hemodynamic-biologic links governing physiologic and pathologic processes.
description: 22 pages, 5 figures and 4 supplementary figures
Virtual drug screening (VDS) stream : Can new drugs be identified from virtual libraries of drug-like molecules?
Creators: name: Greene, Devin
Publisher: name: University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 32
subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences

description: Enzymatic proteins are at the heart of many disease processes. The ability to effectively target and inhibit their molecular function provides an opportunity to mitigate the deleterious outcomes of disease states in humans. However, identifying new drug leads using traditional methods is an expensive and time consuming process. This research stream uses computers to sift through libraries of chemical structures and predict which ones may bind most effectively to a protein that is a potential drug target. Through this work students are introduced to fundamental features of protein structures and of protein-ligand interactions. Virtual drug screening software is used and the results are then visualized and interpreted with a molecular graphics program. Several of the best candidate molecules can then be tested in the wet lab to determine their efficacy in comparison to the computational predictions.
Virtual drug screening (VDS) stream : Can new drugs be identified from virtual libraries of drug-like molecules?
Creators: name: Greene, Devin
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Enzymatic proteins are at the heart of many disease processes. The ability to effectively target and inhibit their molecular function provides an opportunity to mitigate the deleterious outcomes of disease states in humans. However, identifying new drug leads using traditional methods is an expensive and time consuming process. This research stream uses computers to sift through libraries of chemical structures and predict which ones may bind most effectively to a protein that is a potential drug target. Through this work students are introduced to fundamental features of protein structures and of protein-ligand interactions. Virtual drug screening software is used and the results are then visualized and interpreted with a molecular graphics program. Several of the best candidate molecules can then be tested in the wet lab to determine their efficacy in comparison to the computational predictions.
The search for Costus juruanus: Determining the correct name for the plants currently accepted as Costus productus
Creators: name: Skinner, Dave
name: Liesenfeld, Marcus Vinicius Athaydes
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Botany

description: The search for Costus juruanus: Determining the correct name for the plants currently accepted as Costus productus
Educational fantasy
Creators: name: Grace, Lindsay
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: I was reading Chris Crawford's book, Art of Computer Game Design, and I came to his point about games and fantasy. In short, he reminds us that part of the appeal in games is their relationship to fantasy. It is not so much that every game needs to involve some mystical orb or sacred sword, but that games appeal to us when they release us from the ordinary experiences of everyday life. That is not to say that a game that involves aspects of ordinary life can't be engaging. Much as in the acclaimed television show The Sopranos, the intersection of ordinary life with some fantastic scenario can be very interesting. This is probably one of the greatest single challenges facing educational game design. How can the practical matters of education intersect the enveloping fantasy we expect from games? If you think about some gut reactions to educational games, the problem becomes clear. To some people, it's a little bit like sugar free candy. What's the point? But, like sugar free candy, there are a bunch of people from education, medicine and other wellintentioned disciplines expounding their merits. There are even people who are so enamored with the idea that they themselves find the sugar free educational games engaging, because they are thinking about all the good it's doing for them. But really, it's not about whether it is or isn't an educational game. It's about what you learn. No game is without education. Since the first directions were imprinted onto an arcade machine, digital games have offered some degree of education. What's that verb we use with games? Oh, yes, we learn to play games. So the question remains, why is it so difficult to get educational games consumed? Which games have hit that perfect recipe and how did they do it? Consider these case studies and their relationship to the winning formula for any game.
Variational principles in quantum Monte Carlo: the troubled story of variance minimization
Creators: name: Cuzzocrea, Alice
name: Scemama, Anthony
name: Briels, Wim J.
name: Moroni, Saverio
name: Filippi, Claudia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the use of different variational principles in quantum Monte Carlo, namely energy and variance minimization, prompted by the interest in the robust and accurate estimate of electronic excited states. For two prototypical, challenging molecules, we readily reach the accuracy of the best available reference excitation energies using energy minimization in a state-specific or state-average fashion for states of different or equal symmetry, respectively. On the other hand, in variance minimization, where the use of suitable functionals is expected to target specific states regardless of the symmetry, we encounter severe problems for a variety of wave functions: as the variance converges, the energy drifts away from that of the selected state. This unexpected behavior is sometimes observed even when the target is the ground state, and generally prevents the robust estimate of total and excitation energies. We analyze this problem using a very simple wave function and infer that the optimization finds little or no barrier to escape from a local minimum or local plateau, eventually converging to the unique lowest-variance state instead of the target state. While the loss of the state of interest can be delayed and possibly avoided by reducing the statistical error of the gradient, for the full optimization of realistic wave functions, variance minimization with current functionals appears to be an impractical route.
KOMPARACIA EKOLOGIKEJ POL'NOHOSPODARSKEJ VYROBY NA SLOVENSKU A V EU
COMPARISON OF ECOLOGICAL AG RI CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN SLOVAKIA AND IN THE EU
Creators: name: SAVOV, Radovan
name: LANCARIC, Drahoslav
name: PASKA, L'ubomir
name: KOZAKOVA, Jana
name: SAVOV, Radovan
name: LANCARIC, Drahoslav
name: PASKA, L'ubomir
name: KOZAKOVA, Jana
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: organic farming
subject: agricultural area
subject: correlation
subject: income
subject: consumption

description: The aim of the paper is to compare the level of organic farming development (selected indicators - ecological land area, number of organic farmers, average area of organic farm, bioproducts consumption) in Slovakia and in the EU. Identification of problems in organic farming development is also a part of the paper. Slovakia reached level of 140 thousand hectares of ecological land area in 2008 (about 8% of agricultural land area - 15th place in the EU). Since 2011 we predict the decrease of the ecological land area to the level of 95 thousand hectares. The number of organic farmers is another important indicator of organic farming development (Slovakia takes 23rd place in the EU). A comparison by average area of organic farm and by percentage share of organic land is also very interesting. Slovakia represents the extreme because of a relatively high percentage share of organic land, but average area of a farm is more than 320 hectares (the aim of the EU is no more than 250 hectares). Slovakia does not reach good results in bioproducts consumption. There exists strong dependence of average income on level of bioproducts consumption in countries of the EU. It is a reason why countries with higher average income (Denmark, Austria, Luxembourg, Germany, and Sweden) are on the top in this ranking.
Collapse of Uniformly Rotating Stars to Black Holes and the Formation of Disks
Creators: name: Shapiro, Stuart L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Simulations in general relativity show that the outcome of collapse of a marginally unstable, uniformly rotating star spinning at the mass-shedding limit depends critically on the equation of state. For a very stiff equation of state, which is likely to characterize a neutron star, essentially all of the mass and angular momentum of the progenitor are swallowed by the Kerr black hole formed during the collapse, leaving nearly no residual gas to form a disk. For a soft equation of state with an adiabatic index Γ- 4/3 << 1, which characterizes a very massive or supermassive star supported predominantly by thermal radiation pressure, as much as 10% of the mass of the progenitor avoids capture and goes into a disk about the central hole. We present a semi-analytic calculation that corroborates these numerical findings and shows how the final outcome of such a collapse may be determined from simple physical considerations. In particular, we employ a simple energy variational principle with an approximate, post-Newtonian energy functional to determine the structure of a uniformly rotating, polytropic star at the onset of collapse as a function of polytropic index n, where Γ= 1+1/n. We then use this data to calculate the mass and spin of the final black hole and ambient disk. We show that the fraction of the total mass that remains in the disk falls off sharply as 3-n (equivalently, Γ- 4/3) increases.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, AASTeX; accepted to appear in The Astrophysical Journal
Profiles of the broken string in two-flavor QCD below and above the finite temperature transition
Creators: name: Bornyakov, V. G.
name: Chernodub, M. N.
name: Ichie, H.
name: Koma, Y.
name: Mori, Y.
name: Polikarpov, M. I.
name: Schierholz, G.
name: Stüben, H.
name: Suzuki, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Abelian flux tube profile of mesonic and the baryonic configurations of static quarks below and above the finite-temperature transition in $N_f=2$ full QCD. To reduce effects of ultra-violet fluctuations we measure Abelian distributions of the action density, the color-electric field and the monopole current after fixing to the maximally Abelian gauge. Changing the distance $R$ between quarks for fixed $T/T_c<1$, one can see a clear signal of string breaking for large $R$. The electric field becomes Coulomb-like and the circulating monopole current disappears. We study also the temperature dependence of the flux profile for fixed $R \approx 0.7$ fm. The disappearance of the squeezed flux is observed clearly above $T_c$. Similar behaviors are observed both in the mesonic and the baryonic systems.
description: 17 pages, 13 figures, Latex
Reporting Practice of Accounting Disclosure on Changes in Listed Companies of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Ahmed, Alim Al Ayub
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150102 Auditing and Accountability
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150103 Financial Accounting

description: Consistency in accounting policy is one of the basic accounting assumptions for preparing and disclosing financial position. The presentation and classification of items in the financial statements should be retained from one period to the next period. User can use annual report to analyze their financial position for one accounting period. Financial statement can provide information about financial position, performance and cash flows of an enterprise that is useful to wide range of users in making economic decisions. Therefore, an enterprise will use the same accounting policy in the annual report for one accounting period. A change in accounting policy should be made only if required by statute, or if the change will result in a more appropriate presentation of events or transactions in the financial statements of the enterprise. This study discusses the disclosure or reporting practices of accounting changes in the annual report of finance companies listed on the main board of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) for the period of ten years from the year 2000 to 2008. Simple Random sampling technique was used in this study and companies are selected randomly by using random number table. 37 companies were selected from various industries. A number of 365 annual reports were scrutinized and used to analyze the practice of the DSE listed companies. This study examined the practice of DSE listed companies on accounting item changes in Bangladesh, and the accounting changes flow for the period of ten years beginning from the year 1999 to 2008. This study also discusses the relationship between reporting accounting changes and earnings per share, firm size and audit firm. Lastly, the research finding shows that accounting changes were done every year and the most obvious changes were evident from the year 2001 to 2003. Only at 2004, there was a significant relationship between reporting accounting changes and audit firm.
Near-Infrared search for C IV absorption counterparts along the line-of-sights to pair quasars
Creators: name: Misawa, Toru
name: Kashikawa, Nobunari
name: Ohyama, Youichi
name: Hashimoto, Tetsuya
name: Iye, Masanori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carried out a Subaru and UKIRT near infrared imaging survey for H-alpha emitting galaxies around two pair quasar systems (Q0301-005/Q0302-003 and Q2343+125/Q2344+125), and a triple quasar system (KP76/KP77/KP78). Narrow band near infrared filters covering the H-alpha emission expected for galaxies at the confirmed C IV absorption redshift toward the quasar systems were used for this survey. These quasar pairs or triplet are separated at most by 17 arcmins (~5 h^-1 Mpc in proper distance) from each other on the sky, and have common C IV absorption lines at almost identical redshifts at z=2.24-2.43, which suggests there could be a Mpc-scale absorbing systems such as a cluster, or a group, of galaxies that cover all the line-of-sights to the pair/triple quasars. Using narrow-band deep images, we detected five candidates for H-alpha emitting galaxies around two of the six fields, Q2343+125 and Q2344+125, whose apparent star formation rates are, extremely high, 20-466 M_solar/year. However, all or most of them are not likely to be galaxies at the absorption redshift but galaxies at lower redshift, because of their extreme brightness. In the fields of the other quasars, we detected no star-forming galaxies, nor did we find any number excess of galaxy counts around them. This no-detection results could be because the luminosities and star formation rates of galaxies are lower than the detection limits of our observations (K' > 21 and SFR < 1.8-240 h^-2 M_solar/year). They could be located outside of the observed fields by chance. Otherwise, most C IV absorption lines could be ascribed not to cluster of galaxies, but to isolated star forming pockets far from bright galaxies and could be analogous objects to weak Mg II absorbers.
description: 9 pages, including 5 figures; accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal
The Hoyle Family: The search for alpha-condensate states in light nuclei
Creators: name: Smith, R.
name: Bishop, J.
name: Hirst, J.
name: Kokalova, Tz.
name: Wheldon, C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our present understanding of the structure of the Hoyle state in $^{12}$C and other near-threshold states in $α$-conjugate nuclei is reviewed in the framework of the $α$-condensate model. The $^{12}$C Hoyle state, in particular, is a candidate for $α$-condensation, due to its large radius and $α$-cluster structure. The predicted features of nuclear $α$-particle condensates are reviewed along with a discussion of their experimental indicators, with a focus on precision break-up measurements. Two experiments are discussed in detail, firstly concerning the break-up of $^{12}$C and then the decays of heavier nuclei. With more theoretical input, and increasingly complex detector setups, precision break-up measurements can, in principle, provide insight into the structures of states in $α$-conjugate nuclei. However, the commonly-held belief that the decay of a condensate state will result in $N$ $α$-particles is challenged. We further conclude that unambiguously characterising excited states built on $α$-condensates is difficult, despite improvements in detector technology.
description: Submitted to Few-Body Systems on 9th November 2019
RHESSI Observations of a Simple Large X-ray Flare on 11-03-2003
Creators: name: Liu, Wei
name: Jiang, Yan Wei
name: Liu, Siming
name: Petrosian, Vahe'
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present data analysis and interpretation of a simple X-class flare observed with RHESSI on November 3, 2003. In contrast to other X-class flares observed previously, this flare shows a very simple morphology with well defined looptop (LT) and footpoint (FP) sources. The almost monotonic upward motion of the LT source and increase in separation of the two FP sources are consistent with magnetic reconnection models proposed for solar flares. In addition, we find that the source motions are relatively slower during the more active phases of hard X-ray emission; the emission centroid of the LT source shifts toward higher altitudes with the increase of energy; the separation between the LT emission centroids at two different photon energies is anti-correlated with the FP flux. Non-uniformity of the reconnecting magnetic fields could be a possible explanation of these features.
description: To appear in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (12 pages, 4 figures)
Oribatula (Oribatula) tibialis subsp. tibialis Nicolet 1855
Creators: name: Gol, Tahereh Taghipour
name: Bagheri, Mohammad
name: Ahaniazad, Mansoureh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Oribatulidae
Oribatula
Oribatula tibialis
Oribatula (oribatula) tibialis tibialis* nicolet, 1855

description: Oribatula (Oribatula) tibialis tibialis* Nicolet, 1855
 Material examined – Table 2 (25, 30, 39, 50).
 Distribution – Holarctic and India (Sikkim) (Subías 2004, updated 2016).
 Iranian localities – Tehran, Firoozabad, Many places in Mazandaran province, Shabestar, Shendabad, Shiraz, Estahban, Heyran & Arasbaran, and Zanjan (Akrami 2015); Dasht-e Arjan and Parishan (Iranpoor and Akrami 2016).
description: Published as part of Gol, Tahereh Taghipour, Bagheri, Mohammad & Ahaniazad, Mansoureh, 2017, Oribatid mites of Oripodoidea (Acari: Oribatida) from northwest of Iran with additional description of Scheloribates (Scheloribates) labyrinthicus, pp. 81-93 in Persian Journal of Acarology 6 (2) on page 86, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v6i2.28227, http://zenodo.org/record/4634075
Educational fantasy
Creators: name: Grace, Lindsay
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3904
subject: Specialist studies in education
classificationCode: 4607
subject: Graphics, augmented reality and games

description: I was reading Chris Crawford's book, Art of Computer Game Design, and I came to his point about games and fantasy. In short, he reminds us that part of the appeal in games is their relationship to fantasy. It is not so much that every game needs to involve some mystical orb or sacred sword, but that games appeal to us when they release us from the ordinary experiences of everyday life. That is not to say that a game that involves aspects of ordinary life can't be engaging. Much as in the acclaimed television show The Sopranos, the intersection of ordinary life with some fantastic scenario can be very interesting. This is probably one of the greatest single challenges facing educational game design. How can the practical matters of education intersect the enveloping fantasy we expect from games? If you think about some gut reactions to educational games, the problem becomes clear. To some people, it's a little bit like sugar free candy. What's the point? But, like sugar free candy, there are a bunch of people from education, medicine and other wellintentioned disciplines expounding their merits. There are even people who are so enamored with the idea that they themselves find the sugar free educational games engaging, because they are thinking about all the good it's doing for them. But really, it's not about whether it is or isn't an educational game. It's about what you learn. No game is without education. Since the first directions were imprinted onto an arcade machine, digital games have offered some degree of education. What's that verb we use with games? Oh, yes, we learn to play games. So the question remains, why is it so difficult to get educational games consumed? Which games have hit that perfect recipe and how did they do it? Consider these case studies and their relationship to the winning formula for any game.
Disclosure of Financial Reporting and Firm Structure as a Determinant: A Study on the Listed Companies of DSE
Creators: name: Ahmed, Alim Al Ayub
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150199 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150103 Financial Accounting

description: The paper examines effect of firms’ structure on the financial reporting quality of Bangladesh quoted manufacturing firms using assets, leverage and share dispersion and residuals of modified EBO model as proxies of firm’s structure and financial reporting quality respectively. The data is extracted from 12 sample firms representing the all quoted manufacturing companies in Bangladesh as the population of the study. Multiple regressions are used as a tool of analysis for the study. The result reveals a positive strong relationship between firm structure and financial reporting quality of quoted manufacturing firms in Bangladesh. It is therefore, recommended among others that the regulators should enforce more on the financial statements disclosure and transparency among companies quoted on the DSE as to ensure a higher quality of financial reporting.
EFFICIENT PARTNERSHIP FORMATION IN NETWORKS
Creators: name: Bloch, Francis
name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: Manea, Mihai
name: Bloch, Francis
name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: Manea, Mihai
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: networks
subject: partnerships
subject: matchings
subject: efficiency
subject: decentralized markets
subject: favor exchange
subject: completely elementary networks
subject: locally balanced networks

description: We analyze the formation of partnerships in social networks. Players need favors at random times and ask their neighbors in the network to form exclusive long-term partnerships that guarantee reciprocal favor exchange. Refusing to provide a favor results in the automatic removal of the underlying link. When favors are costly, players agree to provide the first favor in a partnership only if they otherwise face the risk of eventual solitude. In equilibrium, the players essential for realizing every maximum matching can avoid this risk and enjoy higher payoffs than inessential players. Although the search for partners is decentralized and reflects local incentives, the strength of essential players drives efficient partnership formation in every network. When favors are costless, players enter partnerships at any opportunity and every maximal matching can emerge in equilibrium. In this case, efficiency is limited to special linking patterns: complete and complete bipartite networks, locally balanced bipartite networks with positive surplus, and factor-critical networks.
Identification of 3XMM J000511.8+634018 as a new polar at P(orb)=133.5 min -- is it inside or outside the period gap?
Creators: name: Schwope, A. D.
name: Worpel, H.
name: Webb, N. A.
name: Koliopanos, F.
name: Guillot, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aimed to identify the variable X-ray source 3XMM J000511.8+634018, which was serendipitously discovered through routine inspections while the 3XMM catalogue was compiled. We analysed the archival XMM-Newton observation of the source, obtained BUSCA photometry in three colours, and performed optical spectroscopy with the LBT. These data were supplemented by archival observations from the Zwicky Transient Facility. Based on its optical and X-ray properties, 3XMM J000511.8+634018 is classified as a magnetic cataclysmic variable, or polar. The flux is modulated with a period of 2.22 hr (8009.1 +- 0.2 s), which we identify with the orbital period. The bright phases are highly variable in X-ray luminosity from one cycle to the next. The source shows a thermal plasma spectrum typical of polars without evidence of a luminous soft blackbody-like component. It is non-eclipsing and displays one-pole accretion. The X-ray and BUSCA light curves show a stream absorption dip, which suggests an inclination 50degr < i < 75degr. The phasing of this feature, which occurs at the end of the bright phase, requires a somewhat special accretion geometry with a stream running far around the white dwarf before it is magnetically channelled. The period of this polar falls within the period gap of the cataclysmic variables (2.15-3.18 h), but appears to fall just below the minimum period when only polars are considered.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Condensation in ideal Fermi gases
Creators: name: Anghel, Dragoş-Victor
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I investigate the possibility of condensation in ideal Fermi systems of general single particle density of states. For this I calculate the probability $w_{N_0}$ of having exactly $N_0$ particles in the condensate and analyze its maxima. The existence of such maxima at macroscopic values of $N_0$ indicates a condensate. An interesting situation occurs for example in 1D systems, where $w_{N_0}$ may have two maxima. One is at $N_0=0$ and another one may exist at finite $N_0$ (for temperatures bellow a certain condensation temperature). This suggests the existence of a first order phase transition. % The calculation of $w_{N_0}$ allows for the exploration of ensemble equivalence of Fermi systems from a new perspective.
description: 8 pages with 1 figure. Will appear in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. Changes (minor): I updated Ref. [9] and its citation in the text. I introduced citation for figure 1 in the text
A linguistic analysis of mobile games : Verbs and nouns for content estimation
Creators: name: Grace, Lindsay D.
Publisher: name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4607
subject: Graphics, augmented reality and games

description: This paper outlines a linguistic approach to understanding the content of games. Understanding game verbs as the fundamental unit of interaction within game environments it provides perspective on popular play experiences. The benefits of such analysis include a scalable view of the self reported content of games and the ways in which problems are being solved in games. The content of games is contrasted with the content of books for comparison. The findings indicate games are relatively limited in the diversity of verbs they use. The results also demonstrate greater emphasis on gender, and life or death in popular books than in popular mobile games. The occurrence of violent language like war and kill occur significantly more often in best-selling book descriptions than in best-selling mobile games. The most common game verbs from this research are use, touch, get, have, take, like, earn, try, create and make.
Is Envy Harmful to a Society’s Psychological Health and Wellbeing? A Longitudinal Study of 18,000 Adults
Creators: name: Mujcic, Redzo
name: Oswald, Andrew J.
name: Mujcic, Redzo
name: Oswald, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Envy
subject: age
subject: SF-36
subject: mental health
subject: well-being
subject: longitudinal data

description: Nearly 100 years ago, the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell warned of the social dangers of widespread envy. One view of modern society is that it is systematically developing a set of institutions -- such as social media and new forms of advertising -- that make people feel inadequate and envious of others. If so, how might that be influencing the psychological health of our citizens? This paper reports the first large-scale longitudinal research into envy and its possible repercussions. The paper studies 18,000 randomly selected individuals over the years 2005, 2009, and 2013. Using measures of SF-36 mental health and psychological well-being, four main conclusions emerge. First, the young are especially susceptible. Levels of envy fall as people grow older. This longitudinal finding is consistent with a cross-sectional pattern noted recently by Nicole E. Henniger and Christine R. Harris, and with the theory of socioemotional regulation suggested by scholars such as Laura L. Carstensen. Second, using fixed-effects equations and prospective analysis, the analysis reveals that envy today is a powerful predictor of worse SF-36 mental health and well-being in the future. A change from the lowest to the highest level of envy, for example, is associated with a worsening of SF-36 mental health by approximately half a standard deviation (p <0.001). Third, no evidence is found for the idea that envy acts as a useful motivator. Greater envy is associated with slower -- not higher -- growth of psychological well-being in the future. Nor is envy a predictor of later economic success. Fourth, the longitudinal decline of envy leaves unaltered a U-shaped age pattern of well-being from age 20 to age 70. These results are consistent with the idea that society should be concerned about institutions that stimulate large-scale envy.
Oribatula (Zygoribatula) exarata Berlese 1916
Creators: name: Gol, Tahereh Taghipour
name: Bagheri, Mohammad
name: Ahaniazad, Mansoureh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Oribatulidae
Oribatula
Oribatula exarata

description: Oribatula (Z.) exarata Berlese, 1916
 Material examined – Table 2 (24).
 Distribution – Southern Palearctic, Iran (Subías 2004, updated 2016).
 Iranian localities – West Azerbaijan province (Hashemi Khabir et. al. 2014); Babol, Amol-Tehran road (35 Km. after Amol), Rasht and Mashhad (Akrami 2015).
description: Published as part of Gol, Tahereh Taghipour, Bagheri, Mohammad & Ahaniazad, Mansoureh, 2017, Oribatid mites of Oripodoidea (Acari: Oribatida) from northwest of Iran with additional description of Scheloribates (Scheloribates) labyrinthicus, pp. 81-93 in Persian Journal of Acarology 6 (2) on page 87, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v6i2.28227, http://zenodo.org/record/4634075
Unhappiness and Pain in Modern America: A Review Essay, and Further Evidence, on Carol Graham’s Happiness for All?
Creators: name: Blanchflower, David G.
name: Oswald, Andrew J.
name: Blanchflower, David G.
name: Oswald, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Happieness
subject: well-being
subject: GHQ
subject: mental-health
subject: depression
subject: life-course

description: In Happiness for All?, Carol Graham raises disquieting ideas about today’s United States. The challenge she puts forward is an important one. Here we review the intellectual case and offer additional evidence. We conclude broadly on the author’s side. Strikingly, Americans appear to be in greater pain than citizens of other countries, and most subgroups of citizens have downwardly trended happiness levels. There is, however, one bright side to an otherwise dark story. The happiness of black Americans has risen strongly since the 1970s. It is now almost equal to that of white Americans.
The social value of information in economies with mandatory savings
Creators: name: Beker, Pablo F.
name: Cuevas, Conrado
name: Beker, Pablo F.
name: Cuevas, Conrado
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: We study the value of public information in a stochastic exchange economy where agents trade assets to reallocate risk and mandatory (retirement) savings imposes a lower bound on the market value of some agents’ holdings of a financial asset. Since equilibrium prices depend on the agents’ beliefs about the states of nature, the arrival of information shifts the agents’ mandatory savings constraints. We show that the arrival of public information can generate an ex-ante Pareto improvement relative to an uninformative equilibrium even when ex-post improvements are not possible.
Octapod-shaped CdSe nanocrystals hosting Pt with high-mass activity for the hydrogen evolution reaction
Creators: name: Najafi, Leyla
name: Bellani, Sebastiano
name: Castelli, Andrea
name: Arciniegas, Milena P.
name: Brescia, Rosaria
name: Oropesa-Nuñez, Reinier
name: Martín-García, Beatriz
name: Serri, Michele
name: Drago, Filippo
name: Manna, Liberato
name: Bonaccorso, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The design of efficient electrocatalysts for electrochemical water splitting with minimal amount of precious metal is crucial to attain renewable and sustainable energy conversion. Here, we report the use of a network of CdSe branched colloidal nanocrystals, made of a CdSe core and eight CdSe pods (so-called octapods), able to host on their pods Pt particles, and thus catalyzing water splitting reactions. Thanks to the octapod shape, the resulting Pt-hosting network is mechanically trapped onto carbon nanotube buckypaper, providing mechanically flexible and binder-free electrodes. We found that such hierarchical configuration maximizes the mass activity and the utilization efficiency of Pt for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). At a potential of -0.15 V vs. reversible hydrogen electrode, the Pt/octapod network-based electrodes display a Pt mass activity on the HER of 166 A mg-1 and 42 A mg-1 in acidic and alkaline media, respectively. These values correspond to turnover frequencies of 168 s-1 and 42 s-1, respectively, which are in that order 14 and 21 times higher compared to commercially available Pt/C benchmarks. The strong chemical and mechanical interactions between the Pt and the octapod surface, along with pod-aided adhesion of the Pt/octapod network to the buckypaper, result in a long-term durability (>20 h) of the HER-activity in both media. These results experimentally prove that the exploitation of our network of branched nanocrystals hosting Pt particles can circumvent the durability issues of the catalysts while adopting either ultralow Pt loadings or benchmarking carbon-supported Pt nanocrystals. Our work opens up prospects for using porous networks made by branched nanocrystals as catalysts with ultralow amount of noble metals and controlled catalytic properties.
The measurement of welfare change
Creators: name: Bossert, Walter
name: Dutta, Bhaskar
name: Bossert, Walter
name: Dutta, Bhaskar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Income inequality
subject: welfare change
subject: dominance criteria
subject: generalized Ginis

description: We propose and characterize a class of measures of welfare change that are based on the generalized Gini social welfare functions. In addition, we analyze these measures in the context of a second-order dominance property that is akin to generalized Lorenz dominance as introduced by Shorrocks (1983) and Kakwani (1984). Because we consider welfare differences rather than welfare levels, the requisite equivalence result involves linear welfare functions (that is, those associated with the generalized Ginis) only, as opposed to the entire class of strictly increasing and S-concave welfare indicators.
Additional file 1 of Impact of perinatal environmental health education intervention on exposure to endocrine disruptors during pregnancy—PREVED study: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Ouazzani, Houria El.
name: Rouillon, Steeve
name: Venisse, Nicolas
name: Sifer-Rivière, Lynda
name: Dupuis, Antoine
name: Cambien, Guillaume
name: Ayraud-Thevenot, Sarah
name: Gourgues, Anne-Sophie
name: Pierre-Eugène, Pascale
name: Pierre, Fabrice
name: Rabouan, Sylvie
name: Migeot, Virginie
name: Albouy-Llaty, Marion
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. World Health Organization - Trial Registration Data Set
The Araucaria Project
Creators: name: Pietrzynski, G.
name: Gieren, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: {Results from a long-term observational project called the Araucaria Project are presented. Based on Wide Field optical monitoring of 8 nearby galaxies, covering a large range of metallicities, more than 500 Cepheids and a few hundred Blue Supergiant candidates were identified. From the analysis of Cepheid P-L relations of outstanding quality derived from our data we conclude that the slope of these relations in the I band and Wesenheit index are not dependent on metallicity. Comparing the I-band magnitudes of Cepheids of a period of ten days, as computed from our P-L relations, to the I-band magnitudes of the tip of the RGB, which is widely believed to be independent of population effects, we cannot see any obvious dependence of the zero point of the I-band P-L relation on metallicity. A preliminary analysis of IR follow-up observations of sub-samples of the identified Cepheids in various galaxies of the project show that the distances obtained from these data are systematically shorter by about of 0.1 mag than those derived from the optical photometry. It is likely that this effect can be attributed to the internal reddening in the program galaxies.
description: 6 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the "Stellar Pulsation and Evolution" conference, Monte Porzio Catone, June 2005
A linguistic analysis of mobile games : Verbs and nouns for content estimation
Creators: name: Grace, Lindsay D.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This paper outlines a linguistic approach to understanding the content of games. Understanding game verbs as the fundamental unit of interaction within game environments it provides perspective on popular play experiences. The benefits of such analysis include a scalable view of the self reported content of games and the ways in which problems are being solved in games. The content of games is contrasted with the content of books for comparison. The findings indicate games are relatively limited in the diversity of verbs they use. The results also demonstrate greater emphasis on gender, and life or death in popular books than in popular mobile games. The occurrence of violent language like war and kill occur significantly more often in best-selling book descriptions than in best-selling mobile games. The most common game verbs from this research are use, touch, get, have, take, like, earn, try, create and make.
When Good Advice is Ignored: The Role of Envy and Stubbornness
Creators: name: Ronayne, David
name: Sgroi, Daniel
name: Ronayne, David
name: Sgroi, Daniel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: advice
subject: skill
subject: remuneration
subject: envy
subject: sunk cost fallacy

description: We present results from an experiment involving 1,500 participants on whether, when and why good advice is ignored, focusing on envy and stubbornness. Participants performance in skill-based and luck-based tasks generated a probability of winning a bonus. About a quarter ignored advice that would have increased their chance of winning. Good advice was followed less often when the adviser was relatively highly remunerated or the task was skill-based. More envious advisees took good advice more often in the skill-based task, but higher adviser remuneration significantly reduced this effect. Susceptibility to the sunk cost fallacy reduced the uptake of good advice.
Hyperspectral Infrared Microscopy With Visible Light
Creators: name: Paterova, Anna V.
name: Maniam, Sivakumar M.
name: Yang, Hongzhi
name: Grenci, Gianluca
name: Krivitsky, Leonid A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hyperspectral microscopy is an imaging technique that provides spectroscopic information with high spatial resolution. When applied in the relevant wavelength region, such as in the infrared (IR), it can reveal a rich spectral fingerprint across different regions of a sample. Challenges associated with low efficiency and high cost of IR light sources and detector arrays have limited its broad adoption. We introduce a new approach to IR hyperspectral microscopy, where the IR spectral map of the sample is obtained with off-the-shelf components built for visible light. The technique is based on the nonlinear interference of correlated photons generated via parametric down-conversion. We demonstrate chemical mapping of a patterned sample, in which different areas have distinctive IR spectroscopic fingerprints. The technique provides a wide field of view, fast readout, and negligible heat delivered to the sample, which makes it highly relevant to material and biological applications.
description: Submitted for publication
Additional file 2 of Impact of perinatal environmental health education intervention on exposure to endocrine disruptors during pregnancy—PREVED study: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Ouazzani, Houria El.
name: Rouillon, Steeve
name: Venisse, Nicolas
name: Sifer-Rivière, Lynda
name: Dupuis, Antoine
name: Cambien, Guillaume
name: Ayraud-Thevenot, Sarah
name: Gourgues, Anne-Sophie
name: Pierre-Eugène, Pascale
name: Pierre, Fabrice
name: Rabouan, Sylvie
name: Migeot, Virginie
name: Albouy-Llaty, Marion
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. SPIRIT checklist PREVED Study
Equal opportunity affection games, critical design in stolen kisses
Creators: name: Grace, Lindsay D.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This brief paper outlines the design and development challenges of a critical design affection game. Affection games require players to flirt, kiss, hug or make love to meet their goals. The game described, named Stolen Kisses, allows players to kiss a wider variety of individuals. The game is played by placing your lips on a mobile device and balancing long kisses with short kisses across one of eight gender and racially diverse characters.
Quantified Reflection Calculus with one modality
Creators: name: Borges, Ana de Almeida
name: Joosten, Joost J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper presents the logic QRC$_1$, which is a strictly positive fragment of quantified modal logic. The intended reading of the diamond modality is that of consistency of a formal theory. Predicate symbols are interpreted as parametrized axiomatizations. We prove arithmetical soundness of the logic QRC$_1$ with respect to this arithmetical interpretation. Quantified provability logic is known to be undecidable. However, the undecidability proof cannot be performed in our signature and arithmetical reading. We conjecture the logic QRC$_1$ to be arithmetically complete. This paper takes the first steps towards arithmetical completeness by providing relational semantics for QRC$_1$ with a corresponding completeness proof. We also show the finite model property, which implies decidability.
description: Submitted to Advances in Modal Logic 2020
Oribatula (Oribatula) tibialis subsp. allifera Subias 2000
Creators: name: Gol, Tahereh Taghipour
name: Bagheri, Mohammad
name: Ahaniazad, Mansoureh
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Oribatulidae
Oribatula
Oribatula tibialis
Oribatula (o.) tibialis allifera subias, 2000

description: Oribatula (O.) tibialis allifera Subias, 2000
 Material examined – Table 2 (19).
 Distribution – Holarctic (Mediterranean and Northern Nearctic) (Subías 2004, updated 2016).
 Iranian localities – West Azerbaijan Province (Hashemi Khabir et. al. 2014); Nashtarood, Noor, Nowshahr, Shabestar, Shendabad, Rasht, Heyran & Arasbaran (Akrami 2015); Marand (Lotfollahi et. al. 2016).
description: Published as part of Gol, Tahereh Taghipour, Bagheri, Mohammad & Ahaniazad, Mansoureh, 2017, Oribatid mites of Oripodoidea (Acari: Oribatida) from northwest of Iran with additional description of Scheloribates (Scheloribates) labyrinthicus, pp. 81-93 in Persian Journal of Acarology 6 (2) on pages 86-87, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v6i2.28227, http://zenodo.org/record/4634075