cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An Instrumental Variable Estimator for Mixed Indicators: Analytic Derivatives and Alternative Parameterizations
Creators: name: Fisher, Zachary F.
name: Bollen, Kenneth A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Methodological development of the Model-implied Instrumental Variable (MIIV) estimation framework has proved fruitful over the last three decades. Major milestones include Bollen's (1996) original development of the MIIV estimator and its robustness properties for continuous endogenous variable SEMs, the extension of the MIIV estimator to ordered categorical endogenous variables (Bollen \& Maydeu-Olivares, 2007), and the introduction of a Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator (Bollen, Kolenikov \& Bauldry, 2014). This paper furthers these developments by making several unique contributions not present in the prior literature: (1) we use matrix calculus to derive the analytic derivatives of the PIV estimator, (2) we extend the PIV estimator to apply to any mixture of binary, ordinal, and continuous variables, (3) we generalize the PIV model to include intercepts and means, (4) we devise a method to input known threshold values for ordinal observed variables, and (5) we enable a general parameterization that permits the estimation of means, variances, and covariances of the underlying variables to use as input into a SEM analysis with PIV. An empirical example illustrates a mixture of continuous variables and ordinal variables with fixed thresholds. We also include a simulation study to compare the performance of this novel estimator to WLSMV.
MOESM1 of The impact of cardiovascular co-morbidities and duration of diabetes on the association between microvascular function and glycaemic control
Creators: name: F. Casanova
name: D. Adingupu
name: F. Adams
name: K. Gooding
name: H. Looker
name: K. Aizawa
name: F. Dove
name: S. Elyas
name: J. Belch
name: P. Gates
name: R. Littleford
name: M. Gilchrist
name: H. Colhoun
name: A. Shore
name: F. Khan
name: W. Strain
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1: Figure S1. Schematic representations of the protocols used to deliver Acetylcholine (ACh) and Sodium Nitroprusside (SNP). Each 20 s scan is represented by a section on the horizontal line, section with an arrow represent scan during which the drugs were delivered. Figure S2. Reactive Hyperaemic Index (RHI) performed in a subgroup of the total cohort stratified by recruitment group. As multiple comparisons have been made, a p
Type-B Anomaly Matching and the 6D (2,0) Theory
Creators: name: Niarchos, Vasilis
name: Papageorgakis, Constantinos
name: Pomoni, Elli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study type-B conformal anomalies associated with $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS Coulomb-branch operators in 4D $\mathcal N=2$ superconformal field theories. When the vacuum preserves the conformal symmetry these anomalies coincide with the two-point function coefficients in the Coulomb-branch chiral ring. They are non-trivial functions of exactly-marginal couplings that can be determined from the $S^4$ partition function. In this paper, we examine the fate of these anomalies in vacua of the Higgs-branch moduli space, where conformal symmetry is spontaneously broken. We argue non-perturbatively that these anomalies are covariantly constant on conformal manifolds. In some cases, this can be used to show that they match in the broken and unbroken phases. Thus, we uncover a new class of data on the Higgs branch of 4D $\mathcal N=2$ conformal field theories that are exactly computable. An interesting application of this matching occurs in $\mathcal N=2$ circular quivers that deconstruct the 6D (2,0) theory on a torus. In that context, we argue that 4D supersymmetric localisation can be used to calculate non-trivial data involving $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS operators of the 6D theory as exact functions of the complex structure of the torus.
description: 59 pages; v2: typos corrected and references added; v3: a previously incomplete argument regarding the covariant constancy of the anomaly has been confirmed by more recent results, references added and typos corrected; v4: error in the perturbative calculation of the N=2 quiver case amended
MOESM3 of Timing rather than user traits mediates mood sampling on smartphones
Creators: name: NoĂŤ, Beryl
name: Turner, Liam
name: Linden, David
name: Allen, Stuart
name: Maio, Gregory
name: Whitaker, Roger
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 3. Classification example. Additional figure.
Additional file 1: of Assessment of consent models as an ethical consideration in the conduct of prehospital ambulance randomised controlled clinical trials: a systematic review
Creators: name: Armstrong, Stephanie
name: Langlois, Adele
name: Laparidou, Despina
name: Dixon, Mark
name: Appleton, Jason
name: Bath, Philip
name: Snooks, Helen
name: A. Siriwardena
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Full reference list and basic summary of data collected from the papers reviewed. (DOCX 36Â kb)
Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) sternae
Creators: name: Ošlejšková, Lucie
name: Krištofík, Ján
name: Trnka, Alfréd
name: Sychra, Oldřich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Saemundssonia
Saemundssonia sternae

description: Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) sternae (Linnaeus, 1758)
Host: Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758.
Ref.: Balát (1956, 1977).
Location: Senné, 21 May 1951 (Balát 1956).
description: Published as part of Ošlejšková, Lucie, Krištofík, Ján, Trnka, Alfréd & Sychra, Oldřich, 2021, An annotated checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from Slovakia, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5069 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5069.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5712523
STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING QUALITY IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS
Creators: name: Elov, Olimdjon
name: Bobojonov, Dilshodbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: This article analyzes strategies for improving quality in the educational process. Enhancing the quality of education plays a crucial role in ensuring the efficiency of the education system, improving students' knowledge and skills, and supporting their personal development. The article examines aspects such as strategies aimed at improving quality in the educational process, modern methodologies, innovations in education, professional development of teachers, assessment systems, and individualization of the learning process.
Agrilus subauratus Gebler 1833
Creators: name: Alekseev, Vitalii I.
name: Drotikova, Anna M.
name: Rozhina, Viktoria I.
name: Bukejs, Andris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus subauratus

description: 8. Agrilus subauratus Gebler, 1833
Local references: Bercio & Folwaczny 1979 (reported from Ludwigsort [Ladushkin in Bagrationovsk district], Königsberg [Kaliningrad], Dammhof [Divnoe Lake in Gru’evsk district], Löwenhagen [Komsomol’sk in Gvardeysk district]).
Material: Slavsk district, 2 km E Gastellovo, 55.01°N, 21.52°E, 16.06.2015, 1 ex. [KIVL].
Comments: The species is poorly known; it is the first actual report for Kaliningrad region.
description: Published as part of Alekseev, Vitalii I., Drotikova, Anna M., Rozhina, Viktoria I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2021, Addenda To The Knowledge Of Beetles (Insecta: Сoleoptera) Of Kaliningrad Region (Western Russia): New Faunistic Records, pp. 13-31 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 21 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10602099
Alpheus nuttingi
Creators: name: Anker, Sammy De Grave and Arthur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Alpheidae
Alpheus
Alpheus nuttingi

description: Alpheus nuttingi (Schmitt, 1924)
Previous records. Birkeland et al., 1976: 136 [Galeta reef]; Cubit and Williams, 1983: 24 [Galeta Point]; Knowlton and Mills, 1992: 2 [Caribbean Panama]; Knowlton et al., 1993: 1630 [Caribbean Panama]; Knowlton and Weigt, 1998: 2258[Caribbean Panama]; Williams et al., 2001: 377 [Caribbean Panama]; Anker et al., 2007b: 44 [Bocas del Toro; Colón]; Hurt et al., 2009: 516 [Caribbean Panama].
Material examined. Bocas del Toro. 2 spec., Isla Colón, between STRI and Playa Bluff, sand flat with rubble, 0.3–1 m, leg. A. Anker et al., 26.04.2015, MZUSP 34036. Isla Grande. 1 spec., western point, leg. A. Anker et al., 23.04.2006, OUMNH. ZC.2010- 01-020. Portobelo. 2 spec., coral rubble, leg. A. Anker and A. Baeza, 04.08.2007, OUMNH. ZC.2009-18-044.
Remarks. Common western Atlantic species, widely distributed from Florida southwards to Santa Catarina, Brazil, including much of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico (Soledade and Almeida, 2013); typically on sandy bottoms under rocks and rubble or in crevices of dead corals, 0– 5 m.
description: Published as part of Anker, Sammy De Grave and Arthur, 2017, An annotated checklist of marine caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Malacostraca: Decapoda) of the Caribbean coast of Panama, pp. 1-40 in Nauplius (e 2017015) (e 2017015) 25 on page 7, DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e2017015, http://zenodo.org/record/14666108
Latent Theme Dictionary Model for Finding Co-occurrent Patterns in Process Data
Creators: name: Fang, Guanhua
name: Ying, Zhiliang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Process data, temporally ordered categorical observations, are of recent interest due to its increasing abundance and the desire to extract useful information. A process is a collection of time-stamped events of different types, recording how an individual behaves in a given time period. The process data are too complex in terms of size and irregularity for the classical psychometric models to be applicable, at least directly, and, consequently, it is desirable to develop new ways for modeling and analysis. We introduce herein a latent theme dictionary model (LTDM) for processes that identifies co-occurrent event patterns and individuals with similar behavioral patterns. Theoretical properties are established under certain regularity conditions for the likelihood based estimation and inference. A non-parametric Bayes LTDM algorithm using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method is proposed for computation. Simulation studies show that the proposed approach performs well in a range of situations. The proposed method is applied to an item in the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment with interpretable findings.
description: 65 pages
A Continuous-Time Dynamic Choice Measurement Model for Problem-Solving Process Data
Creators: name: Chen, Yunxiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Problem solving has been recognized as a central skill that today's students need to thrive and shape their world. As a result, the measurement of problem-solving competency has received much attention in education in recent years. A popular tool for the measurement of problem solving is simulated interactive tasks, which require students to uncover some of the information needed to solve the problem through interactions with a computer-simulated environment. A computer log file records a student's problem-solving process in details, including his/her actions and the time stamps of these actions. It thus provides rich information for the measurement of students' problem-solving competency. On the other hand, extracting useful information from log files is a challenging task, due to its complex data structure. In this paper, we show how log file process data can be viewed as a marked point process, based on which we propose a continuous-time dynamic choice model. The proposed model can serve as a measurement model for scaling students along the latent traits of problem-solving competency and action speed, based on data from one or multiple tasks. A real data example is given based on data from Program for International Student Assessment 2012.
A Deep Learning Algorithm for High-Dimensional Exploratory Item Factor Analysis
Creators: name: Urban, Christopher J.
name: Bauer, Daniel J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Marginal maximum likelihood (MML) estimation is the preferred approach to fitting item response theory models in psychometrics due to the MML estimator's consistency, normality, and efficiency as the sample size tends to infinity. However, state-of-the-art MML estimation procedures such as the Metropolis-Hastings Robbins-Monro (MH-RM) algorithm as well as approximate MML estimation procedures such as variational inference (VI) are computationally time-consuming when the sample size and the number of latent factors are very large. In this work, we investigate a deep learning-based VI algorithm for exploratory item factor analysis (IFA) that is computationally fast even in large data sets with many latent factors. The proposed approach applies a deep artificial neural network model called an importance-weighted autoencoder (IWAE) for exploratory IFA. The IWAE approximates the MML estimator using an importance sampling technique wherein increasing the number of importance-weighted (IW) samples drawn during fitting improves the approximation, typically at the cost of decreased computational efficiency. We provide a real data application that recovers results aligning with psychological theory across random starts. Via simulation studies, we show that the IWAE yields more accurate estimates as either the sample size or the number of IW samples increases (although factor correlation and intercepts estimates exhibit some bias) and obtains similar results to MH-RM in less time. Our simulations also suggest that the proposed approach performs similarly to and is potentially faster than constrained joint maximum likelihood estimation, a fast procedure that is consistent when the sample size and the number of items simultaneously tend to infinity.
description: 30 pages; 12 figures; accepted for publication in Psychometrika
Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) tringae
Creators: name: Ošlejšková, Lucie
name: Krištofík, Ján
name: Trnka, Alfréd
name: Sychra, Oldřich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Saemundssonia
Saemundssonia tringae

description: Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) tringae (O. Fabricius, 1780)
Host: Calidris pugnax (Linnaeus, 1758).
Ref.: this paper.
Location: Štrba, 21 Mar. 1936 (Pfleger Coll., SNMB).
Note: This is the first record of Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) tringae from Slovakia.
description: Published as part of Ošlejšková, Lucie, Krištofík, Ján, Trnka, Alfréd & Sychra, Oldřich, 2021, An annotated checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from Slovakia, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5069 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5069.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5712523
MOESM4 of A longitudinal study of serological responses to Coxiella burnetii and shedding at kidding among intensively-managed goats supports early use of vaccines
Creators: name: Muleme, Michael
name: Campbell, Angus
name: Stenos, John
name: Devlin, Joanne
name: Vincent, Gemma
name: Cameron, Alexander
name: Graves, Stephen
name: Wilks, Colin
name: Firestone, Simon
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 4. Comparison of the rate of occurrence of antibody responses within and outside the kidding season in intensively managed goats.
Buprestis haemorrhoidalis Herbst 1780
Creators: name: Alekseev, Vitalii I.
name: Drotikova, Anna M.
name: Rozhina, Viktoria I.
name: Bukejs, Andris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Buprestis
Buprestis haemorrhoidalis

description: 10. Buprestis haemorrhoidalis Herbst, 1780
Local references: Bercio & Folwaczny 1979 (reported from Königsberg [Kaliningrad]).
Material: Neman district, Dolzhanskoe environs, 55.04°N, 22.36°E, 14.06.2018, 2 exx [KIVL], on Picea abies log.
Comments: This species is poorly known; it is the first actual report for Kaliningrad region.
description: Published as part of Alekseev, Vitalii I., Drotikova, Anna M., Rozhina, Viktoria I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2021, Addenda To The Knowledge Of Beetles (Insecta: Сoleoptera) Of Kaliningrad Region (Western Russia): New Faunistic Records, pp. 13-31 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 21 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10602099
Helly groups
Creators: name: Chalopin, Jérémie
name: Chepoi, Victor
name: Genevois, Anthony
name: Hirai, Hiroshi
name: Osajda, Damian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Helly graphs are graphs in which every family of pairwise intersecting balls has a non-empty intersection. This is a classical and widely studied class of graphs. In this article we focus on groups acting geometrically on Helly graphs -- Helly groups. We provide numerous examples of such groups: all (Gromov) hyperbolic, CAT(0) cubical, finitely presented graphical C(4)$-$T(4) small cancellation groups, and type-preserving uniform lattices in Euclidean buildings of type $C_n$ are Helly; free products of Helly groups with amalgamation over finite subgroups, graph products of Helly groups, some diagram products of Helly groups, some right-angled graphs of Helly groups, and quotients of Helly groups by finite normal subgroups are Helly. We show many properties of Helly groups: biautomaticity, existence of finite dimensional models for classifying spaces for proper actions, contractibility of asymptotic cones, existence of EZ-boundaries, satisfiability of the Farrell-Jones conjecture and of the coarse Baum-Connes conjecture. This leads to new results for some classical families of groups (e.g. for FC-type Artin groups) and to a unified approach to results obtained earlier.
A censored mixture model for modeling risk taking
Creators: name: Dijkstra, Nienke F. S.
name: Tiemeier, Henning
name: Figner, Bernd C.
name: Groenen, Patrick J. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Risk behavior can have substantial consequences for health, well-being, and functioning. Previous studies have shown an association between real-world risk behavior and risk behavior on experimental tasks, such as the Columbia Card Task, but their modeling is challenging for several reasons. First, many of the experimental risk tasks may end prematurely leading to censored observations. Second, certain outcome values can be more attractive than others. Third, a priori unknown groups of participants can react differently to certain risk-levels. Here, we propose the Censored Mixture Model (CMM), which models risk taking while handling censoring, experimental conditions, and attractiveness to certain outcomes.
description: 29 pages, 9 figures
Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia)
Creators: name: Ošlejšková, Lucie
name: Krištofík, Ján
name: Trnka, Alfréd
name: Sychra, Oldřich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Saemundssonia

description: Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) sp.
Host: Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763.
Ref.: Straka (1987).
Location: Sučany, 14 Nov. 1979 (Straka Coll., AKMM).
Notes: According to Price et al. (2003: 234), Larus argentatus is parasitised by Saemundssonia (Saemundssonia) lari (O. Fabricius, 1780) but, as we have not been able to check Straka’s specimens, we leave this record at the genus level. The host of this record may be Larus cachinnans (see Discsussion, below)
description: Published as part of Ošlejšková, Lucie, Krištofík, Ján, Trnka, Alfréd & Sychra, Oldřich, 2021, An annotated checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from Slovakia, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5069 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5069.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5712523
Campanula sibirica L.
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Campanulaceae
Campanula
Campanula sibirica

description: Campanula sibirica L.
Art ISFS: 77300 Checklist: 1008660 Campanulaceae Campanula Campanula sibirica L.
ZusammenfassungKEINE ANGABE
Ökologie
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
KEINE ANGABE
Ökologische Zeigerwerte nach Landolt & al. (2010)
BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl F--Lichtzahl L--Salzzeichen--Reaktionszahl R--Temperaturzahl T--Nährstoffzahl N--Kontinentalitätszahl K--
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Campanula sibiricaL.
Volksname
Deutscher Name: -- Nom français: -- Nome italiano: --
Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
RelationNomReferenzwerkeNo=Campanula sibirica L.Checklist 201777300=Campanula sibirica L.Index synonymique 199677300=Campanula sibirica L.Landolt 19772915=Campanula sibirica L.SISF/ISFS 277300
= Taxon stimmt mit akzeptiertem Taxon überein (Checklist 2017)  Taxon enthält (neben anderen) auch das akzeptierte Taxon (Checklist 2017)
Status Indigenat: -
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein
description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
Alpheus peasei
Creators: name: Anker, Sammy De Grave and Arthur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Alpheidae
Alpheus
Alpheus peasei

description: Alpheus peasei (Armstrong, 1940)
Previous records. Abele, 1976: 273 [around Colón]; Birkeland et al., 1976: 136 [Galeta reef]; Cubit and Williams, 1983: 24 [Galeta Point]; Williams et al., 2001: 377 [Caribbean Panama].
Material examined. Bocas del Toro. 1 spec., Isla Colón, Puss Head Point, 09°21.802’N 082°14.333’W, in coral rubble, 1–2 m, leg. S. De Grave and A. Anker, 09.08.2008, OUMNH. ZC.2008-14-090; 1 spec., same collection data, OUMNH. ZC.2008-14-086; 2 spec., Isla Colón, between Big Creek and Playa Bluff, leg. A. Anker et al., 18.10.2005, OUMNH. ZC.2011-03- 156; 1 spec., Isla Colón, Boca del Drago, 09°24.924’N 082°19.824’W, in coral rubble among sea grass, leg. S. De Grave, 10.08.2008, OUMNH. ZC.2008-14-114.
Remarks. Widely distributed from Bermuda southwards to Bahia and Trindade and Martin Vaz Archipelago, Brazil, including most of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico (Soledade and Almeida, 2013); occurs in a variety of hard-bottom habitats, typically on coral reefs and in coralline algae, 1–30 m, but most common in very shallow water (less than 5 m).
description: Published as part of Anker, Sammy De Grave and Arthur, 2017, An annotated checklist of marine caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Malacostraca: Decapoda) of the Caribbean coast of Panama, pp. 1-40 in Nauplius (e 2017015) (e 2017015) 25 on page 8, DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e2017015, http://zenodo.org/record/14666108
The stable Adams operations on Hermitian K-theory
Creators: name: Fasel, Jean
name: Haution, Olivier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: K-Theory and Homology (math.KT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that exterior powers of (skew-)symmetric bundles induce a $λ$-ring structure on the ring $GW^0(X) \oplus GW^2(X)$, when $X$ is a scheme where $2$ is invertible. Using this structure, we define stable Adams operations on Hermitian $K$-theory. As a byproduct of our methods, we also compute the ternary laws associated to Hermitian $K$-theory.
Bridging Parametric and Nonparametric Methods in Cognitive Diagnosis
Creators: name: Ma, Chenchen
name: de la Torre, Jimmy
name: Xu, Gongjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A number of parametric and nonparametric methods for estimating cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) have been developed and applied in a wide range of contexts. However, in the literature, a wide chasm exists between these two families of methods, and their relationship to each other is not well understood. In this paper, we propose a unified estimation framework to bridge the divide between parametric and nonparametric methods in cognitive diagnosis to better understand their relationship. We also develop iterative joint estimation algorithms and establish consistency properties within the proposed framework. Lastly, we present comprehensive simulation results to compare different methods, and provide practical recommendations on the appropriate use of the proposed framework in various CDM contexts.
Strigiphilus barbatus
Creators: name: Ošlejšková, Lucie
name: Krištofík, Ján
name: Trnka, Alfréd
name: Sychra, Oldřich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Strigiphilus
Strigiphilus barbatus

description: Strigiphilus barbatus (Osborn, 1902)
Host: Asio otus (Linnaeus, 1758).
Ref.: Balát (1956) as Strigiphilus asionis (Eichler, 1949); Balát (1977); Straka (1987) as Strigiphilus asionis); this paper.
Locations: Komárno, 23 Apr. 1954; Podunajské Biskupice, 26 Oct. 1955 (Balát 1956); Lipovec, 2 Feb. 1977 (Straka Coll., AKMM); Dunajská Streda, 6 Dec. 1998; Dolný Štál, 16 Jun. 1999 (Krištofík Coll., VETUNI).
description: Published as part of Ošlejšková, Lucie, Krištofík, Ján, Trnka, Alfréd & Sychra, Oldřich, 2021, An annotated checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from Slovakia, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5069 (1) on page 69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5069.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5712523
title: Orthopädische Trennverfahren unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Strahlschneidens
title: Water-jet-cutting in orthopedic surgery
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Honl, Matthias
Publisher: name: TUHH Universitätsbibliothek
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Orthopädie
subject: Endoprothese
subject: Wasserstrahl
subject: Bandscheibe
subject: orthopedic surgery
subject: joint replacement, water jet
subject: model, spinal disc
classificationCode: 610
subject: Medical sciences Medicine
classificationCode: 44.09
subject: Medizintechnik
subject: Orthopädie
subject: Endoprothese
subject: Wasserstrahl
subject: Bandscheibe

description: Bei verschiedenen orthopädischen Operationen,finden sich Probleme, die den Trennprozess betreffen: bei der mikroinvasiven Nukleotomie wird der Nukleus pulposus durch einen kleinen Arbeitskanal abgetragen. Mechanische Werkzeuge oder ein LASER erlauben keinen gewebeselektiven Materialabtrag, und bergen die Gefahr andere Gewebe, wie z.B. den Anulus fibrosus zu schädigen. Bei der Endoprothesenrevision muss gesunder Knochen geopfert werden, weil bisher bekannte Trennverfahren für den Materialabtrag im Spalt zwischen Knochen und Prothese ungeeignet sind. Bei der Endoprothesenimplantation oder der Osteotomie fehlt bisher ein athermisches Trennverfahren mit hoher geometrischer Genauigkeit. Das Trennen mit Hochdruckflüssigkeitsstrahlen hat sich u.a. beim Bearbeiten von thermosensiblen Verbundwerkstoffen bewährt. Der entscheidende Vorteil einer medizinischen DWS-Anwendung liegt in der Möglichkeit des selektiven Materialabtrags und im athermischen Trennprozess. Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war es, die Eignung der DWS-Technik für operative Trennprozesse in der Orthopädie zu hinterfragen und den Materialabtragsprozess im Gewebe zu untersuchen.
Robust Inference for Mediated Effects in Partially Linear Models
Creators: name: Hines, Oliver
name: Vansteelandt, Stijn
name: Diaz-Ordaz, Karla
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider mediated effects of an exposure, X on an outcome, Y, via a mediator, M, under no unmeasured confounding assumptions in the setting where models for the conditional expectation of the mediator and outcome are partially linear. We propose G-estimators for the direct and indirect effect and demonstrate consistent asymptotic normality for indirect effects when models for the conditional means of M, or X and Y are correctly specified, and for direct effects, when models for the conditional means of Y, or X and M are correct. This marks an improvement, in this particular setting, over previous `triple' robust methods, which do not assume partially linear mean models. Testing of the no-mediation hypothesis is inherently problematic due to the composite nature of the test (either X has no effect on M or M no effect on Y), leading to low power when both effect sizes are small. We use Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) results to construct a new score testing framework, which includes as special cases the no-mediation and the no-direct-effect hypotheses. The proposed tests rely on an orthogonal estimation strategy for estimating nuisance parameters. Simulations show that the GMM based tests perform better in terms of power and small sample performance compared with traditional tests in the partially linear setting, with drastic improvement under model misspecification. New methods are illustrated in a mediation analysis of data from the COPERS trial, a randomized trial investigating the effect of a non-pharmacological intervention of patients suffering from chronic pain. An accompanying R package implementing these methods can be found at github.com/ohines/plmed.
Lamprodila decipiens
Creators: name: Alekseev, Vitalii I.
name: Drotikova, Anna M.
name: Rozhina, Viktoria I.
name: Bukejs, Andris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Lamprodila
Lamprodila decipiens

description: 11. Lamprodila decipiens (Gebler, 1847)
Local references: Bercio & Folwaczny 1979; Alekseev 2020.
Material: Polessk district, Zelenoe environs, 54.83°N, 21.12°E, 28.08.2020, 1 ex. [KIVL].
Comments: This species is poorly known in Kaliningrad region, with few recent records.
description: Published as part of Alekseev, Vitalii I., Drotikova, Anna M., Rozhina, Viktoria I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2021, Addenda To The Knowledge Of Beetles (Insecta: Сoleoptera) Of Kaliningrad Region (Western Russia): New Faunistic Records, pp. 13-31 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 21 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10602099
title: Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte: Die hermeneutischen Potenziale der Begriffshistorie
Creators: name: Dutt, Carsten
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2025

description: Ausgehend von notwendigen Differenzierungen im Begriff der Geistesgeschichte, der sich nicht auf die Erkenntnisprogrammatik und die Verfahrensweisen der gleichnamigen Schulrichtung der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts reduzieren lässt, erinnert der Beitrag an Daueraufgaben unseres Fachs. Welche Rolle begriffsgeschichtliche Erkenntnismittel in ihrer Erfüllung spielen, wird beispielbezogen und in normativer Orientierung am hermeneutischen Zielbegriff des Verstehens erörtert.
Alpheus platycheirus Boone 1927
Creators: name: Anker, Sammy De Grave and Arthur
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Decapoda
Alpheidae
Alpheus
Alpheus platycheirus

description: Alpheus platycheirus Boone, 1927
Material examined. Bocas del Toro. 1 spec., Isla Bastimentos, near Bastimentos village, shallow muddy flat, suction pump, 0.2–1 m, leg. A. Anker et al., 18.11.2006, OUMNH. ZC.2011-03-157; 1 spec., same collection data, OUMNH. ZC. 2010-01-004; same collection data, OUMNH. ZC.2012-07-001; 1 spec., same collection data, OUMNH. ZC.2010-01-007; 1 spec., same collection data, OUMNH. ZC.2010-01- 005; 1 spec., Isla Colón, Boca del Drago, 0.2–1.5 m, 02.05.2015, MZUSP 34283.
Remarks. Sparsely recorded from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean as well as Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (Chace, 1972), now Panama; on muddy bottoms, usually between 12–122 m, although the present specimens were from much shallower water.
description: Published as part of Anker, Sammy De Grave and Arthur, 2017, An annotated checklist of marine caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Malacostraca: Decapoda) of the Caribbean coast of Panama, pp. 1-40 in Nauplius (e 2017015) (e 2017015) 25 on page 8, DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e2017015, http://zenodo.org/record/14666108
Strigiphilus celebrachys
Creators: name: Ošlejšková, Lucie
name: Krištofík, Ján
name: Trnka, Alfréd
name: Sychra, Oldřich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Strigiphilus
Strigiphilus celebrachys

description: Strigiphilus celebrachys (Denny, 1842)
Host: Bubo scandiacus (Linnaeus, 1758) —captive bird.
Ref.: this paper.
Location: Zoo Bojnice, 10 Nov. 1963 (Balát Coll., MMBC slide numbers 1405).
description: Published as part of Ošlejšková, Lucie, Krištofík, Ján, Trnka, Alfréd & Sychra, Oldřich, 2021, An annotated checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from Slovakia, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5069 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5069.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5712523
Within-Person Variability Score-Based Causal Inference: A Two-Step Estimation for Joint Effects of Time-Varying Treatments
Creators: name: Usami, Satoshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Behavioral science researchers have shown strong interest in disaggregating within-person relations from between-person differences (stable traits) using longitudinal data. In this paper, we propose a method of within-person variability score-based causal inference for estimating joint effects of time-varying continuous treatments by effectively controlling for stable traits. After explaining the assumed data-generating process and providing formal definitions of stable trait factors, within-person variability scores, and joint effects of time-varying treatments at the within-person level, we introduce the proposed method, which consists of a two-step analysis. Within-person variability scores for each person, which are disaggregated from stable traits of that person, are first calculated using weights based on a best linear correlation preserving predictor through structural equation modeling (SEM). Causal parameters are then estimated via a potential outcome approach, either marginal structural models (MSMs) or structural nested mean models (SNMMs), using calculated within-person variability scores. Unlike the approach that relies entirely on SEM, the present method does not assume linearity for observed time-varying confounders at the within-person level. We emphasize the use of SNMMs with G-estimation because of its property of being doubly robust to model misspecifications in how observed time-varying confounders are functionally related with treatments/predictors and outcomes at the within-person level. Through simulation, we show that the proposed method can recover causal parameters well and that causal estimates might be severely biased if one does not properly account for stable traits. An empirical application using data regarding sleep habits and mental health status from the Tokyo Teen Cohort study is also provided.
description: Supplemental materials are available upon request. Or, access http://usami-lab.com/Arxiv_20220104_ALL.pdf
Strigiphilus cursitans
Creators: name: Ošlejšková, Lucie
name: Krištofík, Ján
name: Trnka, Alfréd
name: Sychra, Oldřich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Strigiphilus
Strigiphilus cursitans

description: Strigiphilus cursitans (Nitzsch [in Giebel], 1861)
Host: Athene noctua (Scopoli, 1769).
Ref.: Balát (1953) as Neodocophorus athene (Mjöberg, 1910); Balát (1956, 1977); Straka (1987); this paper.
Locations: Plavecký Mikuláš, 14 Jan. 1951 (Balát Coll., MMBC slide number 583); Horný Kalník, 7 Feb. 1978 (Straka Coll., AKMM); Miloslavov, 16 May 2006 (Krištofík Coll., VETUNI).
Note: Straka (1987) recorded the location as “Horné Jaseno”, but it is most likely an error, because in Straka’s note on label of an available slide the location is given as “Horný Kalník”.
description: Published as part of Ošlejšková, Lucie, Krištofík, Ján, Trnka, Alfréd & Sychra, Oldřich, 2021, An annotated checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from Slovakia, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5069 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5069.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5712523
Strigiphilus cursor
Creators: name: Ošlejšková, Lucie
name: Krištofík, Ján
name: Trnka, Alfréd
name: Sychra, Oldřich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Strigiphilus
Strigiphilus cursor

description: Strigiphilus cursor (Burmeister, 1838)
Host: Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763).
Ref.: Balát (1956, 1977).
Locations: Cífer, 12 Oct. 1951, 18 Oct. 1951; Šaľa, 17 Sep. 1951; Vištuk, 7 Oct. 1951 (Balát Coll., MMBC slide numbers 626, 630); Voderady, 16 Sep. 1951; Slovenský Grob, 28 Oct. 1951; Rusovce, 18 Nov. 1951 (Balát 1956).
description: Published as part of Ošlejšková, Lucie, Krištofík, Ján, Trnka, Alfréd & Sychra, Oldřich, 2021, An annotated checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from Slovakia, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5069 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5069.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5712523
Penalized Estimation and Forecasting of Multiple Subject Intensive Longitudinal Data
Creators: name: Fisher, Zachary F.
name: Kim, Younghoon
name: Fredrickson, Barbara
name: Pipiras, Vladas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Intensive Longitudinal Data (ILD) is increasingly available to social and behavioral scientists. With this increased availability come new opportunities for modeling and predicting complex biological, behavioral, and physiological phenomena. Despite these new opportunities psychological researchers have not taken full advantage of promising opportunities inherent to this data, the potential to forecast psychological processes at the individual level. To address this gap in the literature we present a novel modeling framework that addresses a number of topical challenges and open questions in the psychological literature on modeling dynamic processes. First, how can we model and forecast ILD when the length of individual time series and the number of variables collected are roughly equivalent, or when time series lengths are shorter than what is typically required for time series analyses? Second, how can we best take advantage of the cross-sectional (between-person) information inherent to most ILD scenarios while acknowledging individuals differ both quantitatively (e.g. in parameter magnitude) and qualitatively (e.g. in structural dynamics)? Despite the acknowledged between-person heterogeneity in many psychological processes is it possible to leverage group-level information to support improved forecasting at the individual level? In the remainder of the manuscript, we attempt to address these and other pressing questions relevant to the forecasting of multiple-subject ILD.
Agrilus suvorovi Obenberger 1935
Creators: name: Alekseev, Vitalii I.
name: Drotikova, Anna M.
name: Rozhina, Viktoria I.
name: Bukejs, Andris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Agrilus
Agrilus suvorovi

description: *9. Agrilus suvorovi Obenberger, 1935
Local references: Not reported earlier.
Material: Gvardeysk district, 4 km S Ozerki, 54.58°N, 20.87°E, 18.06.2019, 2 exx, on Populus tremulae log.
Comments: First report of the species in Kaliningrad region. It is known in Latvia (Telnov 2004) and Poland (Tamutis et al. 2011). The species is overlooked, earlier confused with related A. viridis (Linnaeus, 1758), and probably is native and widely distributed in the region species associated with Populus tremulae.
description: Published as part of Alekseev, Vitalii I., Drotikova, Anna M., Rozhina, Viktoria I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2021, Addenda To The Knowledge Of Beetles (Insecta: Сoleoptera) Of Kaliningrad Region (Western Russia): New Faunistic Records, pp. 13-31 in Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 21 (1) on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10602099
Additive and geometric transversality of fractal sets in the integers
Creators: name: Glasscock, Daniel
name: Moreira, Joel
name: Richter, Florian K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11A63, 37C45, 28A80, 11K55

description: By juxtaposing ideas from fractal geometry and dynamical systems, Furstenberg proposed a series of conjectures in the late 1960's that explore the relationship between digit expansions with respect to multiplicatively independent bases. In this work, we introduce and study - in the discrete context of the integers - analogues of some of the notions and results surrounding Furstenberg's work. In particular, we define a new class of fractal sets of integers that parallels the notion of $\times r$-invariant sets on the 1-torus and investigate the additive and geometric independence between two such fractal sets when they are structured with respect to multiplicatively independent bases. Our main results in this direction parallel the works of Furstenberg, Hochman-Shmerkin, Shmerkin, Wu, and Lindenstrauss-Meiri-Peres and include:
 -a classification of all subsets of the positive integers that are simultaneously $\times r$- and $\times s$-invariant;
 -integer analogues of two of Furstenberg's transversality conjectures pertaining to the dimensions of the intersection $A\cap B$ and the sumset $A+B$ of $\times r$- and $\times s$-invariant sets $A$ and $B$ when $r$ and $s$ are multiplicatively independent; and
 -a description of the dimension of iterated sumsets $A+A+\cdots+A$ for any $\times r$-invariant set $A$.
 We achieve these results by combining ideas from fractal geometry and ergodic theory to build a bridge between the continuous and discrete regimes. For the transversality results, we rely heavily on quantitative bounds on the $L^q$-dimensions of projections of restricted digit Cantor measures obtained recently by Shmerkin. We end by outlining a number of open questions and directions regarding fractal subsets of the integers.
description: 51 pages
Campanula thyrsoides subsp. thyrsoides
Creators: name: Info Flora
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Asterales
Campanulaceae
Campanula
Campanula thyrsoides
Campanula thyrsoides l. subsp. thyrsoides

description: Campanula thyrsoides L. subsp. thyrsoides
Unterart ISFS: 77550 Checklist: 1008685 Campanulaceae Campanula Campanula thyrsoides L. Campanula thyrsoides L. subsp. thyrsoides
ZusammenfassungKEINE ANGABE
Status Nationale Priorität: --
Internationale Verantwortung: --
Ökologie
Lebensraum Lebensraumnach Delarze & al. 2015
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BodenfaktorenKlimafaktorenSalztoleranzFeuchtezahl F--Lichtzahl L--Salzzeichen--Reaktionszahl R--Temperaturzahl T--Nährstoffzahl N--Kontinentalitätszahl K--
Nomenklatur
Gültiger Name (Checklist 2017):Campanula thyrsoidesL. subsp.thyrsoides
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Übereinstimmung mit anderen Referenzwerken
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Kommentare aus der Checklist 2017 Neue Unterart: Die Art wurde bisher (SISF-2) nicht in Unterarten aufgeteilt oder die Unterteilung wurde bisher nicht akzeptiert. Im Gebiet der Checklist 2017 kommt nur diese Unterart vor. Sie ist der Unterart C. t. subsp. carniolica (Sünd.) Podlech aus den Ostalpen und von der Balkanhalbinsel gegenübergestellt. Die Zuordnung zur Unterart sollte nur erfolgen, wenn ihre Bestimmung als solche sichergestellt ist. Checklist
Status Indigenat: Indigen
Liste der gefährdeten Pflanzen IUCN(nach Walter & Gillett 1997): Nein Status Rote Liste national
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description: Published as part of Info Flora, 2021,
Strigiphilus heterocerus
Creators: name: Ošlejšková, Lucie
name: Krištofík, Ján
name: Trnka, Alfréd
name: Sychra, Oldřich
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Philopteridae
Strigiphilus
Strigiphilus heterocerus

description: Strigiphilus heterocerus (Grube, 1851)
Host: Strix uralensis Pallas, 1771.
Ref.: Balát (1953) as Neodocophorus uralensis Eichler, 1949; Balát (1956, 1977).
Locations: Košice, 2 Dec. 1952; Kuzmice—okres Trebišov, 11 Nov. 1948; Snina, 16 Dec. 1948 (Balát Coll., MMBC slide numbers 212, 371, 790); Košice, 1 Dec. 1952; Medzilaborce, 11 Feb. 1956 (Balát 1956).
description: Published as part of Ošlejšková, Lucie, Krištofík, Ján, Trnka, Alfréd & Sychra, Oldřich, 2021, An annotated checklist of chewing lice (Phthiraptera: Amblycera, Ischnocera) from Slovakia, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5069 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5069.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5712523
MPEC 2025-A148 : 2025 AD3
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2025 AD3

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.