cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Privatizing Education with the Public's Purse: An Analysis of the 2012 Georgia Constitutional Amendment on Charter Schools
Creators: name: La Plant, Kristina
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: Charter schools have recently become a hot topic of debate in the United States. For parents who cannot afford private schooling or moving to another school district, charter schools seem to be an attractive option. These schools, which are often argued to outperform traditional schools, offer an alternative path to public education which allows teachers more flexibility to employ innovative strategies in the classroom. In order to expedite the creation of such schools, Republicans in the Georgia General Assembly called for the amending of the Georgia Constitution which would allow the state to approve charters by circumventing the publicly elected local school board. This study analyzes the more recent political history of the Commission, the debate surrounding the amendment, and ultimately the vote itself for Amendment 1.
Decoding Hate: Exploring Language Models' Reactions to Hate Speech
Creators: name: Piot, Paloma
name: Parapar, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hate speech is a harmful form of online expression, often manifesting as derogatory posts. It is a significant risk in digital environments. With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), there is concern about their potential to replicate hate speech patterns, given their training on vast amounts of unmoderated internet data. Understanding how LLMs respond to hate speech is crucial for their responsible deployment. However, the behaviour of LLMs towards hate speech has been limited compared. This paper investigates the reactions of seven state-of-the-art LLMs (LLaMA 2, Vicuna, LLaMA 3, Mistral, GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Gemini Pro) to hate speech. Through qualitative analysis, we aim to reveal the spectrum of responses these models produce, highlighting their capacity to handle hate speech inputs. We also discuss strategies to mitigate hate speech generation by LLMs, particularly through fine-tuning and guideline guardrailing. Finally, we explore the models' responses to hate speech framed in politically correct language.
Who Cares About Small Arms Anyway? An evaluation of research and policy
Creators: name: Raffety, Joel
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2014

description: This research explores the various security and post-conflict complications that are in part a result of the global proliferation of small arms ? including organized crime, rebellion, civil war, and fractionalization of the state. The paper 1) defines the issue, 2) contextualizes why the issue matters, and 3) evaluates the effectiveness of policies at the international level. I define the actors in the debate, defines the solutions at regional and international levels, and draw conclusions about the effectiveness of weapons collection, destruction, disarmament, tracing, import and export control, and associated legislation. I find that serious violence-reducing measures should include: increasing the role of local law enforcement organizations capable of carrying out meaningful and region-specific legislation, tightening border controls, uniform implementation of the International Tracing Instrument, and effectively disarming and integrating former opposition groups in post-conflict societies.
Lophocampa arpi
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Lophocampa
Lophocampa arpi

description: Lophocampa arpi (Dognin, 1923)
Elysius arpi Dognin, 1923a: 5.
Halisidota problematica Reich, 1934b: 402. — Type locality: [Brazil], [Santa Catarina], Neu Bremen, Rio Laeiss, Joinville. — Type specimens: Described from 1 male and 1 female syntypes (TAU).
TYPE LOCALITY. — Brazil, [Santa Catarina], Joinville.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male no. 30 386 (USNM).
REMARKS
One female syntype of Halisidota problematica from Joinville is labeled PARATYPUS in ZMHN. One female specimen from Jaraguá is labeled Paratypus in TAU and “ not a syntype ” by A. Watson (1967, unpublished).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 324, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Defeating Authoritarian State Structures in Semi-Democratic Countries: Lessons from Turkey's Justice and Development Party
Creators: name: Saglam, Gulcan
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2012

description: Political success in semi-democratic countries has two aspects: shifting the balance of power in one?s favor and maintaining it. This thesis seeks to examine how the AKP has succeeded in shifting the balance of power in its favor while its predecessor the Welfare Party did not. Focusing on electoral success, existing research primarily lists center-periphery conflict, moderation, class struggle, party organization, and failures of others as the main determinants. Yet the significance of reining in the power of the Kemalist state structure has been mostly disregarded. Therefore, with a comparison of the AKP (2002-2007) and the Welfare Party (1996-1997) governments, this study tests one assertion using most-similar systems research design that in semi-democratic political settings with strong authoritarian actors, political parties that build broad coalitions via group specific policy promises will be more likely to shift the balance of power in favor of themselves than actors that lack such connections.
Barriers to Democracy in the Arab World
Creators: name: Huweih, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: With the exception of Tunisia, there are no democracies in the Arab world. This paper attempts to the address why that is the case. The paper focuses on some possible answers. Islam, oil, and Western intervention are seen as obstacles to democracy. I argue that another factor is being overlooked. These variables may answer the question, but secular elites are the most serous obstacle to democracy in the Arab world.
I focus on Algeria and Palestine briefly, showing the secular parties response to electoral defeat and the intervention of the West. I also explore Egypt and Tunisia and the secular elites response to Islamist winning elections.
I find that secular elites are an important obstacle to democracy hindrance, but not in all cases.
A precise measurement of the Z-boson double-differential transverse momentum and rapidity distributions in the full phase space of the decay leptons with the ATLAS experiment at √s = 8 TeV
Creators: name: ATLAS Collaboration
Publisher: name: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents for the first time a precise measurement of the production properties of the Z boson in the full phase space of the decay leptons. This is in contrast to the many previous precise unfolded measurements performed in the fiducial phase space of the decay leptons. The measurement is obtained from proton–proton collision data collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2012 at √s = 8 TeV at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb−1. The results, based on a total of 15.3 million Zboson decays to electron and muon pairs, extend and improve a previous measurement of the full set of angular coefficients describing Z-boson decay. The double-differential crosssection distributions in Z-boson transverse momentum pT and rapidity y are measured in the pole region, defined as 80 < m < 100 GeV, over the range |y| < 3.6. The total uncertainty of the normalised cross-section measurements in the peak region of the pT distribution is dominated by statistical uncertainties over the full range and increases as a function of rapidity from 0.5–1.0% for |y| < 2.0 to 2 − 7% at higher rapidities. The results for the rapidity-dependent transverse momentum distributions are compared to stateof-the-art QCD predictions, which combine in the best cases approximate N4LL resummation with N3LO fixed-order perturbative calculations. The differential rapidity distributions integrated over pT are even more precise, with accuracies from 0.2–0.3% for |y| < 2.0 to 0.4–0.9% at higher rapidities, and are compared to fixed-order QCD predictions using the most recent parton distribution functions. The agreement between data and predictions is quite good in most cases.
What is the Likelihood of Being Heard? An Examination of the Relationship Between Decentralization, Strength in Indigenous Movements, and Meaningful Consultation with Indigenous Groups in Latin America
Creators: name: Bromfield, Brittany
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: There is a gap in the literature that does not explain the circumstances under which Latin American governments allow MNCs to expand and violate indigenous protection laws. I examine how the capacities of indigenous groups, economic autonomy, and pro-indigenous policies impact government decisions in regards to indigenous land rights. In recent years, indigenous rights are increasingly recognized in Latin America, but with the pressure for economic development to compete internationally, Latin American governments sometimes violate indigenous rights in order to attract multinational corporations. I hypothesize that high economic autonomy, pro-indigenous policies, and strong indigenous groups lead to a higher likelihood that governments will hold meaningful consultations. I compare case studies in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Brazil. The results demonstrate that there is a positive, causal relationship with economic autonomy and meaningful consultations. Research of this phenomenon is imperative to furthering our understanding about the conflict between economic development and indigenous rights.
Lophocampa andensis Schaus 1896
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Lophocampa
Lophocampa andensis

description: Lophocampa andensis Schaus, 1896
Lophocampa andensis Schaus, 1896b: 138.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Colombia.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype male no. 11 079 designated by Watson (1973: 7) (USNM).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 324, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
The catalogue of $δ$ Sct pulsators in binary systems in 2024
Creators: name: Liakos, Alexios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The updated catalogue of $δ$ Sct stars in binary systems as well as their statistical properties are presented. Thanks to the Kepler, K2 and TESS space missions, this version of the catalogue contains more than 1000 $δ$ Sct pulsators in binaries. The sample is divided according to the Roche Geometry of the binary systems in order to check for any systematic differences in the pulsators' evolution due to the proximity of the companion star. Statistics, demographics, and distributions of these pulsating stars within the H-R and mass-radius diagrams are provided. We notice that the absolute parameters have been accurately determined for only approximately 10% of the whole sample. Additionally, updated correlations between pulsation and orbital periods and evolutionary status are presented. This work aims to motivate the researchers for systematic analyses of such objects in order to increase the sample of systems with well known physical properties.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables. Proceedings of the international conference "Binary and Multiple Stars in the Era of Big Sky Surveys", 9-13 Sep. 2024, Czech Rep
Supplementary document for Forward volume scattering function (0.03°–60°) measured using an oblique-incidence particle sizer - 5671919.pdf
Creators: name: chaofan, wu
name: Tao, BangYi
name: pan, yaorui
name: huang, haiqing
name: Mao, Zhihua
name: PAN, delu
name: fan, jilai
name: ZHANG, Jiming
name: Chen, Shizhe
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
Shedding Light on Hadronization by Quarkonium Energy Correlator
Creators: name: Chen, An-Ping
name: Liu, Xiaohui
name: Ma, Yan-Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose to measure the energy correlator in quarkonium production, which tracks the energy deposited in the calorimeter $χ$-angular distance away from the identified quarkonium. The observable eliminates the need for jets while sustaining the perturbative predictive power. Analyzing the power correction to the energy correlator, we demonstrate the novel observable supplies a unique gateway to probing the hadronization, especially when $\cosχ\gtrsim 0$ in the quarkonium rest frame where the perturbative emissions are depleted due to the dead-cone effects. We expect the quarkonium energy correlator to add a new dimension to quarkonium studies.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures + supplemental materials (3 pages), V3: Version published in Physical Review Letters
Durable state rivals: Hezbollah and Lebanon
Creators: name: Charif, Hend
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: This research identifies the conditions that contribute to the rise of durable state rivals that persist over time and do not attempt to overthrow the state. I use a case study of Hezbollah in Lebanon and find that a weak state, foreign state sponsorship, and local support contribute to the rise of durable state rivals. The same conditions that enable the rise of a durable state rival make it more difficult for a durable state rival to overthrow the state. Durable state rivals exist within state borders, possess a high level of social control over a community within the state, and challenge the authority and legitimacy of the state, but they do not attempt to overthrow the state.
High-order regularization dealing with ill-conditioned robot localization problems
Creators: name: Liu, Xinghua
name: Cao, Ming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this work, we propose a high-order regularization method to solve the ill-conditioned problems in robot localization. Numerical solutions to robot localization problems are often unstable when the problems are ill-conditioned. A typical way to solve ill-conditioned problems is regularization, and a classical regularization method is the Tikhonov regularization. It is shown that the Tikhonov regularization is a low-order case of our method. We find that the proposed method is superior to the Tikhonov regularization in approximating some ill-conditioned inverse problems, such as some basic robot localization problems. The proposed method overcomes the over-smoothing problem in the Tikhonov regularization as it uses more than one term in the approximation of the matrix inverse, and an explanation for the over-smoothing of the Tikhonov regularization is given. Moreover, one a priori criterion, which improves the numerical stability of the ill-conditioned problem, is proposed to obtain an optimal regularization matrix. As most of the regularization solutions are biased, we also provide two bias-correction techniques for the proposed high-order regularization. The simulation and experimental results using an Ultra-Wideband sensor network in a 3D environment are discussed, demonstrating the performance of the proposed method.
description: This paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics and the final version is available on IEEE Xplore
Lophocampa ingens
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Lophocampa
Lophocampa ingens

description: Lophocampa ingens (Edwards, 1881)
Halesidota ingens Edwards, 1881b: 39.
Halesidota scapularis Stretch, 1885: 106. — Type locality: [USA], New Mexico. — Type specimens: Undisclosed number of syntypes (?).
Lophocampa cibriani Beutelspacher, 1986: 940. — Type locality: [Mexico], Chihuahua, Bocoyna. — Type specimen: Holotype male (UNAM).
Lophocampa donahuei Beutelspacher, 1992: 91. — Type locality: Mexico, Michoacan, Angangueo. — Type specimen: Holotype male (UNAM).
TYPE LOCALITY. — [USA], Arizona, Prescott.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype female no. 7966 (AMNH).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 324, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Running as Women Online: Partisanship, Competitiveness, and Gendered Communication Strategies in Congressional Campaign Websites
Creators: name: Felker, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2015

description: Many studies have noted that the conflict between gender and party stereotypes may disadvantage Republican female candidates among some voters. On the other hand, gender and party attachment may also prove advantageous for Republican women in competitive races where moderate and independent voters play an important role. In this paper, the author examines how partisanship and race competitiveness impact how, and if, female candidates choose to emphasize their gendered identity, highlight women?s interests, and pursue a feminine trait strategy on their campaign websites. The author gives special attention to Republican female candidates running in competitive races, and argues that these candidates may have an extra incentive and ability to connect with voters by emphasizing gender. This study uses data collected through a content analysis of the campaign websites of 162 female candidates in the 2014 Congressional midterm election.
Max Weber and Pentecostals in Latin America:  The Protestant Ethic, Social Capital and Spiritual Capital
Creators: name: Smith, Keith
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: Many scholars claim that Pentecostalism is the fastest growing religious phenomenon in human history.  Using two important essays of Max Weber as a foundation, this thesis examines whether growth of Pentecostalism in Latin America is promoting the Protestant Ethic described by Weber as well as Social Capital and Spiritual Capital.  Analyzing data from the World Values Survey, this thesis argues that growth of Pentecostalism in Latin America is not creating a new Protestant Ethic among its followers, nor is Pentecostalism creating any greater Social Capital or Spiritual Capital among its followers when compared to other religious groups in the region.  This thesis argues that the strong emotional character of Pentecostalism weighs against the creation or Social Capital and Spiritual Capital and that the tendency of Pentecostals to find assurance of their salvation in emotional experience does not promote the frugality or rationalization of work necessary for the Protestant Ethic.
Microbial Diversity Impacts Non-Protein Amino Acid Production in Cyanobacterial Bloom Cultures Collected from Lake Winnipeg
Creators: name: Bishop, Stephanie L.
name: Solonenka, Julia T.
name: Giebelhaus, Ryland T.
name: Bakker, David T. R.
name: Li, Isaac T. S.
name: Murch, S. J. (Susan J.)
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada is heavily impacted by harmful algal blooms that contain non-protein amino acids (NPAAs) produced by cyanobacteria: N-(2-aminoethyl)glycine (AEG), β-aminomethyl-L-alanine (BAMA), β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA), and 2,4-diaminobutyric acid (DAB). Our objective was to investigate the impact of microbial diversity on NPAA production by cyanobacteria using semi-purified crude cyanobacterial cultures established from field samples collected by the Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium between 2016 and 2021. NPAAs were detected and quantified by ultra-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) using validated analytical methods, while Shannon and Simpson alpha diversity scores were determined from 16S rRNA metagenomic sequences. Alpha diversity in isolate cultures was significantly decreased compared to crude cyanobacterial cultures (p < 0.001), indicating successful semi-purification. BMAA and AEG concentrations were higher in crude compared to isolate cultures (p < 0.0001), and AEG concentrations were correlated to the alpha diversity in cultures (r = 0.554; p < 0.0001). BAMA concentrations were increased in isolate cultures (p < 0.05), while DAB concentrations were similar in crude and isolate cultures. These results demonstrate that microbial community complexity impacts NPAA production by cyanobacteria and related organisms.
Parametric approximation as open quantum systems problem
Creators: name: Karasev, A. Yu.
name: Teretenkov, A. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we develop an open quantum system view of the parametric approximation, which allows us to obtain systematic perturbative corrections to it. We consider the Jaynes-Cummings model with dissipation, assuming that the field is in the regime close to the parametric approximation with depletion. We obtain non-unitary corrections to the parametric approximation and additional dynamical Lamb-shift contributions to it. For high detuning, these non-unitary corrections appear to be non-Markovian before depletion. And we show that even after depletion, initial non-Markovian behaviour contributes to the dynamics via laser-induced polishing of the density matrix.
Lophocampa argentata subsp. argentata French 1890
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Lophocampa
Lophocampa argentata
Lophocampa argentata argentata (packard, 1864)

description: Lophocampa argentata argentata
(Packard, 1864)
Halesidota argentata Packard, 1864: 129.
TYPE LOCALITY. — [USA], Cal[ifornia]; [Canada], [British Colombia], Gulf of Georgia.
TYPE SPECIMENS. — Undisclosed number of syntypes (MCZ; one syntype no. 1604).
REMARK
Reported from Mexico by Turrent Díaz (1996: 78) and Ferguson et al. (2000). Lophocampa sobrina (Stretch, 1872), described from California, is reported from Mexico by Beutelspacher (1995: 401). It’s probably a misidentification of L. argentata argentata.
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 324, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Water Accessibility: Tapping into the Governance of Water and Sanitation
Creators: name: Boyer, Ashley
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2016

description: In this study I investigate sub-national governments to determine whether the accountability derived from local elections improves the delivery of a vital resource ? potable water ? to the population and, additionally, consider accessibility to improved sanitation. I utilize a cross-national differenced random effects model of 156 countries from 1990-2007 and examine the complex relationship between water, sanitation, and local government. This analysis finds that States with locally elected municipal government have a higher percentage of people with access to improved water and sanitation facilities as opposed to States without locally elected municipal government.
Monarchy and Effective Governance: The Success of Middle Eastern Monarchies and the Arab Spring
Creators: name: Westberg, Michael
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: The purpose of this thesis is to examine the outcomes of the 2011 Arab Spring from the perspective of regime types within the Middle East and North Africa. The intense year of protest that spread throughout the Arab world had disparate effects between countries which this paper investigates. Utilizing an institutional approach, I separate the Arab world into monarchic and republican systems relying on data provided by the Arab Barometer II and III. Theoretically, I suggest, and find evidence to support, that monarchies were more resistant to the Arab protests because desires for change were not as strong within these countries because of the historical arrangements within these countries.
Tutorial on running median subtraction filter with application to searches for exotic field transients in multi-messenger astronomy
Creators: name: Sen, Arko P.
name: Sarantsev, Andrey
name: Blewitt, Geoffrey
name: Derevianko, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Running Median Subtraction Filter (RMSF) is a robust statistical tool for removing slowly varying baselines in data streams containing transients (short-duration signals) of interest. In this work, we explore the RMSF performance and properties using simulated time series and analytical methods. We study the RMSF fidelity in preserving the signal of interest in the data using (i) a Gaussian pulse and (ii) a transient oscillatory signal. Such signals may be generated by hypothetical exotic low-mass fields (ELFs) associated with intense astrophysical events like binary black hole or neutron star mergers. We consider and assess RMSF as a candidate method to extract transient ELF signals. RMSF operates by sliding a window across the data and subtracting the median value within each window from the data points. With a suitable choice of running window size, RMSF effectively filters out baseline variations without compromising the integrity of transients. The RMSF window width is a critical parameter: it must be wide enough to encompass a short transient but narrow enough to remove the slowly varying baseline. We show that the RMSF removes the mean of a normally distributed white noise while preserving its variance and higher order moments in the limit of large windows. In addition, RMSF does not color the white noise stream, i.e., it does not induce any significant correlation in the filtered data. Ideally, a filter would preserve both the signal of interest and the statistical characteristics of the stochastic component of the data, while removing the background clutter and outliers. We find the RMSF to satisfy these practical criteria for data pre-processing. While we rigorously prove several RMSF properties, the paper is organized as a tutorial with multiple illustrations of RMSF applications.
Immigration, Crime, And Punishment: Minorities' Perception Of Immigrants And Attitudes Towards Punitive Policies
Creators: name: Lattimore, Lillie
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2017

description: This project focuses on the perception of immigrants as criminals, but more importantly, how this negative perception of immigrants can influence the population?s support for strict punitive policies. The question I seek to answer: will common negative perceptions of immigrants affect public support for more stringent punitive policies? The literature on what makes people punitive mostly focuses on the role of race and hostile feelings that lead to punitive feelings towards an immigrant. In this project, minorities and their attitudes in contrast to past studies that focus on White Americans will be central to the analysis. Analysis of both the 2012 National Election Survey and 2001 Los Angeles Social Survey data is used to explain how the relationship between economic threat and negative perceptions of immigrants lead to respondents becoming more punitive. Although respondents who feel economic threat are more punitive, there is a difference in significance between Whites and Blacks.
Lophocampa propinqua
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Lophocampa
Lophocampa propinqua

description: Lophocampa propinqua (Edwards, 1884)
Halisidota propinqua Edwards, 1884c: 76.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Mexico, [Veracruz], Jalapa.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male (AMNH).
REMARK
The holotype has been erroneously labeled Lectotype by A. Watson (1967, unpublished).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 325, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Cosmology in energy-momentum squared symmetric teleparallel gravity
Creators: name: Bhat, Aaqid
name: Sahoo, P. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this letter, we explore the $f(Q,T_{μν}T^{μν})$ gravity theory, building upon the foundations laid by the $f(Q)$ and $f(Q,T)$ gravity theories. Here, $Q$ represents non-metricity and $T_{μν}$ stands for the energy-momentum tensor. The proposed action encompasses an arbitrary function of both non-metricity $Q$ and the square of the energy-momentum tensor, specifically $T^2=T_{μν}T^{μν}$. We find the analytical solution for the barotropic fluid case $p=ωρ$ for the model $f(Q, T_{μν}T^{μν}) = Q + η(T_{μν}T^{μν}) $. We constrain parameters of the solution $H(z)$ utilizing CC, BAO, and latest Pantheon+SH0ES samples with the help of Monte Carlo Markov Chain sampling technique along with Bayesian statistical analysis. Further, from the Om diagnostic test, we find that the assumed cosmological model favors the quintessence regime.
description: Physics Letters B published version (Typo corrected)
Militarized Patriotism: Constructing Norms Of Patriotic Behavior Through The Image Of The Soldier In Film
Creators: name: Morley, Matthew
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: Janet Cramer's concept of militarized patriotism is an important contribution to the study of social militarization. This essay attempts to expand our understanding of militarized patriotism by interrogating the ways patriotic norms of behavior are established within American culture and altered during moments of crisis. I argue that changes in the cinematic reproduction of the image of the soldier during the 1970s established ?honoring the soldier? as a new form of enforced patriotic behavior. In particular, I argue that the attempt to portray the ?real? events of Vietnam constructed an image of the wounded soldier that allowed audiences to empathize with American veterans. As the image of the wounded soldier was consolidated in American culture during the 1980s and 1990s, honoring the soldier became a repressive mechanism that now works to legitimize a permanent state of war.
Supplementary document for Forward volume scattering function (0.03°–60°) measured using an oblique-incidence particle sizer - 5671919.pdf
Creators: name: chaofan, wu
name: Tao, BangYi
name: pan, yaorui
name: huang, haiqing
name: Mao, Zhihua
name: PAN, delu
name: fan, jilai
name: ZHANG, Jiming
name: Chen, Shizhe
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplemental Document
How Do We Understand International Law and Peace?
Creators: name: Sims, Rebecca
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: This review essay provides a comprehensive roadmap of the international law of peace, which has not been so presented in the International Law-International Relations literature before.   In Part 1 we review peace law as such, that is, where it is simply and directly mandated in international law.  In the second of the two parts, we depict international law that does not mandate peace, but requires behavior that indirectly results in peace. In both parts the three sources of international law, treaty, custom or principles are identified, along with soft law, which is incipient, but non-binding.  Laws of peace per se include all the United Nations Charter provisions (treaty and customary) related to peace and peaceful conditions, jus ad bellum (custom) and the law against aggression (treaty), the 1970 Declaration on Friendly Relations Among States (custom and principle) and the Human Right to Peace (custom, soft law).  Indirect effects of international laws and conditions on peace include the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (treaty), all international treaty regimes (treaty), expanding authority of international actors and institutions in creating and interpreting international law (custom), humanitarian and human rights law (treaty), and the Responsibility to Protect norm (soft law).  The review takes a legal approach.  Development of peace law is placed in the history of international law and within the progressive development of international law today. All peace law per se in Part 1 is found to be legalized and binding except the Human Right to Peace which is legalized but non-binding so far. The review identifies how peace is the ultimate purpose of all international law.
radarODE-MTL: A Multi-Task Learning Framework with Eccentric Gradient Alignment for Robust Radar-Based ECG Reconstruction
Creators: name: Zhang, Yuanyuan
name: Yang, Rui
name: Yue, Yutao
name: Lim, Eng Gee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Millimeter-wave radar is promising to provide robust and accurate vital sign monitoring in an unobtrusive manner. However, the radar signal might be distorted in propagation by ambient noise or random body movement, ruining the subtle cardiac activities and destroying the vital sign recovery. In particular, the recovery of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal heavily relies on the deep-learning model and is sensitive to noise. Therefore, this work creatively deconstructs the radar-based ECG recovery into three individual tasks and proposes a multi-task learning (MTL) framework, radarODE-MTL, to increase the robustness against consistent and abrupt noises. In addition, to alleviate the potential conflicts in optimizing individual tasks, a novel multi-task optimization strategy, eccentric gradient alignment (EGA), is proposed to dynamically trim the task-specific gradients based on task difficulties in orthogonal space. The proposed radarODE-MTL with EGA is evaluated on the public dataset with prominent improvements in accuracy, and the performance remains consistent under noises. The experimental results indicate that radarODE-MTL could reconstruct accurate ECG signals robustly from radar signals and imply the application prospect in real-life situations. The code is available at: http://github.com/ZYY0844/radarODE-MTL.
title: The Learning CART Module: Community Outreach
Creators: name: Habana-Hafner, Sally
name: Licht, Ellen
name: Heroldt Murangi, V.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Education

description: Today's leaders must understand their role as enablers who help people to change their lives and communities. They must recognize that people are responsible for their own development and rely on non-directive guidance to facilitate community action. Enabling leaders are concerned with coordinated efforts and productive performance by the group they work with and have traits and skills which integrate individual needs into collective goals. Perhaps most importantly, enabling leaders have the ability to develop leadership potential in people. This module seeks to sensitize participants to the complexities of doing effective outreach and to provide them with and understanding of the issues and skills important to initiating community work. The first part of the module gives a broad overview of reaching out to the community. Participants map their own communities and examine issues such as respect and trust in different cultures and their roles as insiders and outsiders in doing outreach. The focus of the second part is more specific and introduces Participatory Action Research (PAR) as a method for implementing community development programs. Community outreach techniques are discussed, and a force field analysis activity highlights the resources and constraints that influence achieving goals.
Lophocampa lineata Vincent 2011
Creators: name: Vincent, Benoît
name: Laguerre, Michel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Lophocampa
Lophocampa lineata

description: Lophocampa lineata Vincent, 2011
Lophocampa lineata Vincent, 2011a: 71.
TYPE LOCALITY. — Dominican Republic, Monseñor Nouel, Ebano Verde Scientific Reserve.
TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male (MNHN).
description: Published as part of Vincent, Benoît & Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), pp. 137-533 in Zoosystema 36 (2) on page 325, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n2a1, http://zenodo.org/record/5395344
Adaptation Attitudes Are Guided by “Lived Experience” Rather than Electoral Interests: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Eisenstadt, Todd A.
name: Haque, Sk Tawfique M.
name: Toman, Michael A.
name: Wright, Matthew (Assistant Professor Of Political Science)
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2024

description: After decades of presuming that climate adaptation is a private good benefitting only those receiving resources to reduce individual climate risks, respondents in a survey experiment among the climate-vulnerable in Bangladesh chose less-particularistic adaptation projects than “electoral connection” disaster relief theories predict and more “short-sighted” projects than international diplomats anticipate. This article reports on the experiment, which asked a representative national sample of Bangladeshis whether they favor spending funds on short-term particularistic solutions (disaster relief stockpiles), medium-term inclusionary and non-excludable solutions (ocean embankments), or long-term, public goods solutions (the development of flood-resistant rice seeds). More respondents chose “middle ground” embankment spending, and a statistically significant change in respondent propensities was tied to their lived experience with climate vulnerability rather than electoral incentives. The logic of their choices contradicts existing explanations, implying that a reconsideration of vulnerable community preferences, and how to address them, may be needed.
The weak form method for acoustoelastic simulation with arbitrary prestress
Creators: name: Maoyu, Xu
name: Liu, Changsheng
name: Zhan, Yu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Acoustoelastic theory has been widely used to evaluate the residual stress (or prestress). However, most of the research remains focused on plate under simple tensile stress condition. In this paper, we propose a new approach: using weak form PDE modeling for acoustoelastic simulation. In the theory part, the weak form of acoustoelastic theory and semi-analytical finite element (SAFE) method is derived. In the numerical simulation part, two cases: the propagation direction is perpendicular to the prestress and parallel to the prestress are presented. The results are compared with the superposition of partial bulk wave (SPBW) method and the previously commonly used Effective Elastic Constants (EEC) method. The results show that the method proposed in this paper is highly accurate. Compared to the EEC method, this approach has no theoretical flaws and aligns more closely with the theoretical solution, especially in the low frequency range where the EEC method's results are almost incorrect. This study provides an accurate method for the simulation of acoustoelasticity.
description: 16 pages, 15 figures
What Difference do the Government Institutions of Haiti and the Government Institutions of the Dominican Republic Make for Tourism Growth?
Creators: name: Anglade, Ludmilla
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2018

description: This comparative case study examines the actions that the Haitian and Dominican governments, respectively, have taken to develop and sustain tourism within their borders. My premise is that governments, through state institutions and policies, can implement branding strategies that impact and change existing country image perceptions. Expanding on the determinants of tourism demand literature, I present a theoretical framework for how government institutions collaborate to create a favorable country brand by investing in the development of functional benefits {public safety and infrastructure quality}. The functional benefits are then supplied to the mass tourist market, who demands them in order to visit, lodge and spend money in the country. The findings of this study confirm that a causal relationship exists between a country?s level of stability and tourism arrivals and receipts, further establishing this study?s theory that high levels of investment in infrastructure quality and nation branding can positively influence country image perception to generate arrivals and receipts. Surprise outcomes regarding crime?s impact on arrivals and receipts present future opportunities to advance the literature.
Activation functions enabling the addition of neurons and layers without altering outcomes
Creators: name: López-Ureña, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this work, we propose activation functions for neuronal networks that are refinable and sum the identity. This new class of activation functions allows the insertion of new layers between existing ones and/or the increase of neurons in a layer, both without altering the network outputs.
 Our approach is grounded in subdivision theory. The proposed activation functions are constructed from basic limit functions of convergent subdivision schemes. As a showcase of our results, we introduce a family of spline activation functions and provide comprehensive details for their practical implementation.
Tunable Giant Anomalous Hall in a Kondo Lattice Ferromagnet UBiTe
Creators: name: Xu, Qiaozhi
name: Siddiquee, Hasan
name: Gould, Shannon
name: Zhu, Jiahui Althena
name: Martinez, David Alonso
name: Broyles, Christopher
name: Kong, Tai
name: Ran, Sheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Kondo lattice systems are recognized for potentially hosting a variety of rich topological phases. Several pioneering studies have demonstrated significant anomalous Hall and anomalous Nernst effects in these systems, attributed to the Berry curvature of the hybridization bands. In this study, we investigate UBiTe, a ferromagnetic Kondo lattice system. Our findings reveal that the intrinsic contribution to the anomalous Hall conductivity is closely tied to the Kondo coherence temperature. Moreover, we demonstrate that slight shifts in the Fermi level across three different samples significantly influence this intrinsic contribution, in alignment with the Berry curvature localized within the narrow hybridization bands. This provides a stark contrast to the less pronounced sensitivity observed in weakly correlated Weyl semimetals, underscoring the distinctive electronic properties of Kondo lattice systems. The anomalous Hall conductivity of one samples ranks among the highest reported for topological magnetic materials.
Testing the Effects of US Airstrikes on Insurgent Initiated Violence in Yemen
Creators: name: Allen, Joshua
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2019

description: Are U.S. airstrikes on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula effective at reducing al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula initiated attacks? Airstrikes have been a popular counterterrorism tool in the Obama and Trump administrations. However, the effectiveness of airstrikes has been contentious. Using ACLED data from 2016-2019 I estimate a series of negative binomial regressions. I first assess the effect of airstrikes generally and find that airstrikes are effective at reducing AQAP attacks. I then disaggregate my airstrike variable to examine the effects of militant casualties, leadership casualties, and civilian casualties independently. I find that civilian casualties and leadership casualties have no effect on AQAP attacks while militant casualties have reduced AQAP attacks.
Teaching Our Violent History: Shifting Opinions on Peace and War through Information and Media Frames
Creators: name: Lees, Sam
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2020

description: I expand the current research on how graphic images in accounts of historical violence impact students? views on war, peace, violence, and the role of the international community. By first manipulating the amount of violent detail and images in an article on the Rape of Nanking, I measure the shifts in opinions on 1) the inevitability of war, 2) the violence of human nature, 3) the level of conflict in the world today, and 4) the role of the international community in punishing war crimes. I also measure shifts in 5) the level of importance placed on teaching historical violence and ask 6) if students shown graphic images support their use in education settings. Surprisingly, I find that students shown violent images were less likely to report that humans are inherently violent. Students were also less likely to support using violent images in educational settings.
Efficient Learned Wavelet Image and Video Coding
Creators: name: Meyer, Anna
name: Prativadibhayankaram, Srivatsa
name: Kaup, André
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Learned wavelet image and video coding approaches provide an explainable framework with a latent space corresponding to a wavelet decomposition. The wavelet image coder iWave++ achieves state-of-the-art performance and has been employed for various compression tasks, including lossy as well as lossless image, video, and medical data compression. However, the approaches suffer from slow decoding speed due to the autoregressive context model used in iWave++. In this paper, we show how a parallelized context model can be integrated into the iWave++ framework. Our experimental results demonstrate a speedup factor of over 350 and 240 for image and video compression, respectively. At the same time, the rate-distortion performance in terms of Bjøntegaard delta bitrate is slightly worse by 1.5\% for image coding and 1\% for video coding. In addition, we analyze the learned wavelet decomposition by visualizing its subband impulse responses.
description: 7 pages, 11 figures, ICIP2024