cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
VegasFlow: accelerating Monte Carlo simulation across multiple hardware platforms
Creators: name: Carrazza, Stefano
name: Cruz-Martinez, Juan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present VegasFlow, a new software for fast evaluation of high dimensional integrals based on Monte Carlo integration techniques designed for platforms with hardware accelerators. The growing complexity of calculations and simulations in many areas of science have been accompanied by advances in the computational tools which have helped their developments. VegasFlow enables developers to delegate all complicated aspects of hardware or platform implementation to the library so they can focus on the problem at hand. This software is inspired on the Vegas algorithm, ubiquitous in the particle physics community as the driver of cross section integration, and based on Google's powerful TensorFlow library. We benchmark the performance of this library on many different consumer and professional grade GPUs and CPUs.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, final version published in CPC
Additional file 1 of Growth patterns of infants with in- utero HIV and ARV exposure in Cape Town, South Africa and Lusaka, Zambia
Creators: name: Nyemba, Dorothy C.
name: Kalk, Emma
name: Vinikoor, Michael J.
name: Madlala, Hlengiwe P.
name: Mubiana-Mbewe, Mwangelwa
name: Mzumara, Maureen
name: Moore, Carolyn Bolton
name: Slogrove, Amy L.
name: Boulle, Andrew
name: Davies, Mary-Ann
name: Myer, Landon
name: Powis, Kathleen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary material
Deep learning for intensity mapping observations: Component extraction
Creators: name: Moriwaki, Kana
name: Filippova, Nina
name: Shirasaki, Masato
name: Yoshida, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Line intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging observational method to study the large-scale structure of the Universe and its evolution. LIM does not resolve individual sources but probes the fluctuations of integrated line emissions. A serious limitation with LIM is that contributions of different emission lines from sources at different redshifts are all confused at an observed wavelength. We propose a deep learning application to solve this problem. We use conditional generative adversarial networks to extract designated information from LIM. We consider a simple case with two populations of emission line galaxies; H$\rmα$ emitting galaxies at $z = 1.3$ are confused with [OIII] emitters at $z = 2.0$ in a single observed waveband at 1.5 $\rmμ$m. Our networks trained with 30,000 mock observation maps are able to extract the total intensity and the spatial distribution of H$\rmα$ emitting galaxies at $z = 1.3$. The intensity peaks are successfully located with 74% precision. The precision increases to 91% when we combine the results of 5 networks. The mean intensity and the power spectrum are reconstructed with an accuracy of $\sim$10%. The extracted galaxy distributions at a wider range of redshift can be used for studies on cosmology and on galaxy formation and evolution.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letter
The nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the hyperbolic space
Creators: name: Banica, Valeria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this article we study some aspects of dispersive and concentration phenomena for the Schrödinger equation posed on hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^n$, in order to see if the negative curvature of the manifold gets the dynamics more stable than in the Euclidean case. It is indeed the case for the dispersive properties : we prove that the dispersion inequality is valid, in a stronger form than the one on $\mathbb{R}^n$. However, the geometry does not have enough of an effect to avoid the concentration phenomena and the picture is actually worse than expected. The critical nonlinearity power for blow-up turns out to be the same as in the euclidean case, and we prove that there are more explosive solutions for critical and supercritical nonlinearities.
description: 32 pages, final preprint version
AN ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING PARTICIPATION OF SMALLHOLDER FARMERS IN RED BEAN MARKET IN HALABA SPECIAL DISTRICT, ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: Kabeto, Agete Jerena
name: Kabeto, Agete Jerena
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Agricultural Finance
Crop Production/Industries

description: THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI. Advisors: Dr. Rose Nyikal, Dr. Patrick Irungu
DETERMINANTS OF RICE SUPPLY IN TANZANIA
Creators: name: Antony, Nyerere
name: Antony, Nyerere
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Production Economics

description: A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS OF SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE. MOROGORO, TANZANIA. Advisor: Dr. Damas Philip
Additional file 2 of Lrig1 expression prospectively identifies stem cells in the ventricular-subventricular zone that are neurogenic throughout adult life
Creators: name: Nam, Hyung-Song
name: Capecchi, Mario R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2 Antibody validations in whole mount immunofluorescence. a-a”’ Anti-Ascl1 and anti-Dcx antibodies were validated against GFP from Cdk6T2A-td-sfGFP allele. All GFP+ cells were either Ascl1+ or Dcx+. Scale bar, 100 μm. b-b”’ Anti-Dcx and anti-Ki-67 antibodies were validated against proliferating cells’ nuclei labeled by 7 days administration of thymidine analog EdU. All Ki-67+ cells were labeled by the immunofluorescence procedure. In addition, the EdU dose only minimally affected neurogenic cells, as evidenced by the low number of pyknotic cells in the lateral wall (arrows). Scale bar, 100 μm. c-c”’ Antibody against Mcm2 [58] was validated against anti-Ki-67 antibody staining (that was validated above). The immunostaining with the two antibodies were virtually identical. Note that Ki-67+ Mcm2+ RFP+ cells were only rarely observed at this early time point after tamoxifen induction. Scale bar, 100 μm.
Frustrated antiferromagnets at high fields: the Bose-Einstein condensation in degenerate spectra
Creators: name: Jackeli, G.
name: Zhitomirsky, M. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum phase transition at the saturation field is studied for a class of frustrated quantum antiferromagnets. The considered models include (i) the $J_1$-$J_2$ frustrated square-lattice antiferromagnet with $J_2={1/2}J_1$ and (ii) the nearest-neighbor Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a face centered cubic lattice. In the fully saturated phase the magnon spectra for the two models have lines of degenerate minima. Transition into partially magnetized state is treated via a mapping to a dilute gas of hard core bosons and by complementary spin-wave calculations. Momentum dependence of the exact four-point boson vertex removes the degeneracy of the single-particle excitation spectra and selects the ordering wave-vectors at $(π,π)$ and $(π,0,0)$ for the two models. The asymptotic behavior of the magnetization curve differs significantly from that of conventional antiferromagnet in $d$-spatial dimensions. We predict a unique form for the magnetization curve $ΔM=S-M\simeq μ^{(d-1)/2}(\logμ)^{(d-1)}$, where $μ$ is a distance from the quantum critical point.
description: minor changes; to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
Additional file 2 of European Headache Federation recommendations for neurologists managing giant cell arteritis
Creators: name: Mollan, S. P.
name: K. Paemeleire
name: J. Versijpt
name: R. Luqmani
name: Sinclair, A. J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Case Vignette 1. the overlap of LV-GCA, cranial GCA and PMR. Case Vignette 2: Utility of FDG PET imaging to diagnose GCA.
Oscillation of high-energy neutrinos from choked jets in stellar and merger ejecta
Creators: name: Carpio, Jose
name: Murase, Kohta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comprehensive study on oscillation of high-energy neutrinos from two different environments: blue supergiant progenitors that may harbor low-power gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets and neutron star merger ejecta that would be associated with short gamma-ray bursts. We incorporate the radiation constraint that gives a necessary condition for nonthermal neutrino production, and account for the time evolution of the jet, which allows us to treat neutrino oscillation in matter more accurately. For massive star progenitors, neutrino injection inside the star can lead to nonadiabatic oscillation patterns in the 1 TeV - 10 TeV and is also visible in the flavor ratio. For neutron star merger ejecta, we find a similar behavior in the 100 GeV - 10 TeV region and the oscillation may result in a $ν_e$ excess around 1 TeV. These features, which enable us to probe the progenitors of long and short GRBs, could be seen by future neutrino detectors with precise flavor ratio measurements. We also discuss potential contributions to the diffuse neutrino flux measured by IceCube, and find parameter sets allowing choked low-power GRB jets to account for the neutrino flux in the 10 TeV - 100 TeV range without violating the existing constraints.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in PRD
All the Way Down in Murdering Town, Ohio
Creators: name: Santa, Sean
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture
classificationCode: 4705
subject: Literary studies

description: This is a book in two parts. Part A is a collection of connected short stories that follows one family from its inception before the Revolutionary War to the death of one of its descents in Iraq. These stories are linear, although at times the family in question is not the complete focus of each piece. Part B is a collection of poetry entitled Before Concrete and has nothing to do with Part A. These poems primarily explore the phenomena of death; themes of family history and in particular, the father figure, take charge in this section. These books appear side by side because I could not afford to pay for two separate thesis.
Additional file 1 of Lrig1 expression prospectively identifies stem cells in the ventricular-subventricular zone that are neurogenic throughout adult life
Creators: name: Nam, Hyung-Song
name: Capecchi, Mario R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1 Identification of a candidate gene Lrig1 from the Id1high neural stem cells. a Id1-Venus knock-in allele design from [15]. b The Id1-Venus fluorescence responds to changes in exogenous factors such as FGF-2, EGF, and BMP4. c Expression of neurogenic marker gene Ascl1 and oligodendrogliogenic marker gene Olig2 in different cell fractions from these cells. d Diagram of the cells FACS sorted for transcript analysis. e-e”Lrig1 was more highly expressed in the Id1high cell fraction. Mean ± standard deviation.
Design of pseudo-mechanisms and multistable units for mechanical metamaterials
Creators: name: Singh, Nitin
name: van Hecke, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mechanism - collections of rigid elements coupled by perfect hinges which exhibit a zero-energy motion -- motivate the design of a variety of mechanical metamaterials. We significantly enlarge this design space by considering pseudo-mechanisms, collections of elastically coupled elements that exhibit motions with very low energy costs. We show that their geometric design generally is distinct from those of true mechanisms, thus opening up a large and virtually unexplored design space. We further extend this space by designing building blocks with bistable and tristable energy landscapes, realize these by 3D printing, and show how these form unit cells for multistable metamaterials.
Branch prediction with wrong-path based data
Creators: name: Tran, Steve Q.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: This research explores an idea of how to improve branch prediction with wrong-path analysis. The usefulness of data collected on the wrong-path branches are explored, and analyzed, and a new technique of how to use this data to train a branch predictor is proposed. Mis-predicted branches are often assumed to be useless and detrimental because they consume computer resources, so they are normally discarded upon detection. When blindly thrown out, useful information could be lost that may have been useful later on the correct path. Related papers offer suggestions to use longer history lengths, anti-aliasing schemes, instruction pre-fetching, or larger hardware caches to improve performance. By incorporating what is learned on the wrong-path, a hybrid branch predictor can make more-accurate branch predictions when using both paths as training data. The experiment results do show that a simple hybrid predictor can make more accurate predictions, but requires additional resources.
Additional file 1 of The CombinADO study to assess the impact of a combination intervention strategy on viral suppression, antiretroviral therapy adherence, and retention in HIV care among adolescents and young people living with HIV: protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Mogoba, Phepo
name: Lesosky, Maia
name: Zerbe, Allison
name: Falcao, Joana
name: Mellins, Claude Ann
name: Desmond, Christopher
name: Arnaldo, Carlos
name: Kapogiannis, Bill
name: Myer, Landon
name: Abrams, Elaine J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT checklist
Branch prediction with wrong-path based data
Creators: name: Tran, Steve Q.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: This research explores an idea of how to improve branch prediction with wrong-path analysis. The usefulness of data collected on the wrong-path branches are explored, and analyzed, and a new technique of how to use this data to train a branch predictor is proposed. Mis-predicted branches are often assumed to be useless and detrimental because they consume computer resources, so they are normally discarded upon detection. When blindly thrown out, useful information could be lost that may have been useful later on the correct path. Related papers offer suggestions to use longer history lengths, anti-aliasing schemes, instruction pre-fetching, or larger hardware caches to improve performance. By incorporating what is learned on the wrong-path, a hybrid branch predictor can make more-accurate branch predictions when using both paths as training data. The experiment results do show that a simple hybrid predictor can make more accurate predictions, but requires additional resources.
EFFECT OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES ON FOOD SECURITY OF SMALL SCALE FARMERS IN TESO NORTH SUB-COUNTY, KENYA
Creators: name: Wekesa, Bright Masakha
name: Wekesa, Bright Masakha
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: Food Security and Poverty
Productivity Analysis

description: A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment for the Requirements of the Award of Master of Science Degree in Agricultural and Applied Economics of Egerton University. Advisors: Dr. Oscar Ingasia Ayuya, Prof. Job Kibiwot Lagat
Perdita (Perdita) bicuspidariae Timberlake 1962
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita bicuspidariae

description: Perdita (Perdita) bicuspidariae Timberlake, 1962
[Holotype: USNM; ♂ Salt Creek, Orocopia Mts., Riverside Co., California, USA; March 19–20, 1927]
This species inhabits California, USA and the BCP, Mexico and specializes on pollen from the genus Mentzelia L. (Fowler 2020). There are eight specimen records from the Lower Colorado Desert vouchered at the BBSL (GBIF 2023). We reviewed one male collected in the Lower Colorado Desert, 50 mi. N. San Felipe, BC (CASC). See fig. 45.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
3D propagation of relativistic solar protons through interplanetary space
Creators: name: Dalla, S.
name: De Nolfo, G.
name: Bruno, A.
name: Giacalone, J.
name: Laitinen, T.
name: Thomas, S.
name: Battarbee, M.
name: Marsh, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs) with energy in the GeV range can propagate to Earth from their acceleration region near the Sun and produce Ground Level Enhancements (GLEs). The traditional approach to interpreting and modelling GLE observations assumes particle propagation only parallel to the magnetic field lines of interplanetary space, i.e. it is spatially 1D. Recent measurements by PAMELA have characterised SEP properties at 1 AU for the ~100 MeV-1 GeV range at high spectral resolution. Aims. We model the transport of GLE-energy solar protons through the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) using a 3D approach, to assess the effect of the Heliospheric Current Sheet (HCS) and drifts associated to the gradient and curvature of the Parker spiral. The latter are influenced by the IMF polarity. We derive 1 AU observables and compare the simulation results with data from PAMELA. Methods. We use a 3D test particle model including a HCS. Monoenergetic populations are studied first to obtain a qualitative picture of propagation patterns and numbers of crossings of the 1 AU sphere. Simulations for power law injection are used to derive intensity profiles and fluence spectra at 1 AU. A simulation for a specific event, GLE 71, is used to compare with PAMELA data. Results. Spatial patterns of 1 AU crossings and the average number of crossings are strongly influenced by 3D effects, with significant differences between periods of A+ and A- polarities. The decay time constant of 1 AU intensity profiles varies depending on the polarity and position of the observer, and it is not a simple function of the mean free path as in 1D models. Energy dependent leakage from the injection flux tube is particularly important for GLE energy particles, in many cases resulting in a roll-over in the fluence spectrum.
description: Accepted by A&A (revised version, 9 pages, 6 figures)
Additional file 1 of Effects of autism on 30-year outcome of anorexia nervosa
Creators: name: Nielsen, Søren
name: Dobrescu, Sandra Rydberg
name: Dinkler, Lisa
name: Gillberg, Carina
name: Gillberg, Christopher
name: Råstam, Maria
name: Wentz, Elisabet
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Data structure and Statistical analyses.
Dynamical Model for Chemically Driven Running Droplets
Creators: name: Thiele, Uwe
name: John, Karin
name: Bär, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose coupled evolution equations for the thickness of a liquid film and the density of an adsorbate layer on a partially wetting solid substrate. Therein, running droplets are studied assuming a chemical reaction underneath the droplets that induces a wettability gradient on the substrate and provides the driving force for droplet motion. Two different regimes for moving droplets -- reaction-limited and saturated regime -- are described. They correspond to increasing and decreasing velocities with increasing reaction rates and droplet sizes, respectively. The existence of the two regimes offers a natural explanation of prior experimental observations.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Do Resources Matter? The Effects of a Classroom Library Project on Student Independent Reading Habits in Primary Schools in Rural China
Creators: name: Yi, H.
name: Mo, D.
name: Wang, H.
name: Gao, Q.
name: Shi, Y.
name: Wu, P.
name: Abbey, C.
name: Rozelle, S.
name: Yi, H.
name: Mo, D.
name: Wang, H.
name: Gao, Q.
name: Shi, Y.
name: Wu, P.
name: Abbey, C.
name: Rozelle, S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Labor and Human Capital

description: It is commonly believed that reading challenges should be addressed early to reduce the likelihood that developmental delays will impact students over the long term. However, students in developing countries often have limited access to reading resources. This study uses a randomized controlled trial to examine the causal effect of a classroom library program on student reading outcomes and academic achievement in schools with poor reading resources over an eight-month period. We find that the program significantly improved student reading habits (borrowing books, reading time, communication with friends on readings), and the degree to which students like reading. Furthermore, the heterogeneous analysis suggests that disadvantaged (male, low-income, low-performing at baseline) students benefited more in terms of reading time, communication with friends on reading, and affinity towards reading. However, we did not find any overall effect of the program on other variables such as student confidence in reading, reading achievement, creativity, or performance in math or Chinese class. The heterogeneous analysis shows that while students, in general, did not benefit, male students did benefit in terms of confidence in reading and performance in math. A follow-up evaluation of the program is suggested to examine whether the program improves student reading achievement or not in the longer run. Acknowledgement : This work was supported by the Xinhe Foundation. We are grateful for the encouragement and support from Xin Liu and Song Wu. Shoulder Action has provided invaluable support for our field work. The authors are supported by the 111 Project (Grant number B16031).
Covering Katrina: "The Washington Post," "The New York Times," and the sociology of disaster
Creators: name: Baynard, Carimanda
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The impact of Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005 was particularly devastating to New Orleans, Louisiana. Catastrophic damage threatened the lives of many unable to evacuate due to limited financial resources. The print media coverage of Hurricane Katrina exposed a long history of social inequality in New Orleans based on race, social class, and gender. These social demographics have emerged as useful in the sociological analysis of other catastrophes in recent history. I selected news articles published from August 2005 to December 2009, in two national newspapers, The Washington Post and The New York Times, and I used qualitative content analysis to consider emerging themes and patterns in this coverage of the immediate aftermath of the hurricane and the next four years of recovery. The intent of this thesis is to explore the extent to which reporting in these two national newspapers contains material useful to the sociological analysis of disaster informed by intersectionality. I employ Duane Gill's "Sociology on Disaster Framework" to address the basics of disasters and to provide a critical perspective on the importance of social demographics in understanding catastrophes, and I link literature on disasters to Patricia Hill Collins' conceptualization of "intersectionality." The analysis revealed important themes: the role politicians, the presentation of the black/white binary, the rich/poor extreme, and the language or terminology used to describe the surrounding Gulf Coast region and residents. The conclusions suggest how using the lens of the sociology of disaster informed by intersectionality furthers the discipline's contribution to understanding social inequalities and catastrophes.
How did technical change affect land use in Brazilian agriculture?
Creators: name: Queiroz, P.
name: Silva, F.D.F.
name: Fulginiti, L.
name: Queiroz, P.
name: Silva, F.D.F.
name: Fulginiti, L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Land Economics/Use

description: How did technical change affect land use in Brazilian agriculture? We use data from the last two Agricultural Censuses of 1995/1996 and 2006 to answer this question for five different regions. We focus on the estimation of the Hicksian bias induced by technical change over this period and found that technical change was, in general, land-using. In the Southeast region, we found labor-saving behavior. Both results can be interpreted in light of the induced innovation hypothesis under Acemoglu s approach that allows testing when prices are not available. Acknowledgement :
Initial Vocational Training Dominated by the Academic Convention: How Do Trainers Fare?
Creators: name: David, Pauline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: vocational preparation
training conditions
VET in schools
work based learning

description: Two ideological-based perspectives structure the French vocational path since the 19th century: training in school or in firm. The process of schooling of the initial vocational education and training (IVET) tips the scale in favour of the school training. Three models of training shows how this tension takes places in context of teaching and training: vocational high school, apprenticeship training centre, and production school. Through 8 monographs of schools, the study analyses the educative and training environment of teachers and their students by using the theory of conventions. The analysis of the actors' logics shows that arbitration between the framework of the academic convention that dominates French IVET and the vocational convention varies according to the training models, and to characteristics of the training situation (context, trade, type of public, trainer's background).
An analytic formula for Macdonald polynomials
Creators: name: Lassalle, Michel
name: Schlosser, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33D52

description: We give the explicit analytic development of any Jack or Macdonald polynomial in terms of elementary (resp. modified complete) symmetric functions. These two developments are obtained by inverting the Pieri formula.
description: 8 pages; research announcement submitted to Comptes Rendus Math. Acad. Sci. Paris for publication
A revised approach to assess adjusted dairy production costs considering water availability.
Creators: name: Fernandez, E.
name: Silva Carrazzone, M.E.
name: Ferraro, B.
name: Fernandez, E.
name: Silva Carrazzone, M.E.
name: Ferraro, B.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: This paper introduces an alternative approach to quantify and value natural resources involved in production process. To develop this methodology, we present the case of freshwater consumption in dairy production in Uruguay and an international comparison among selected countries. Based on already existing techniques, we suggest the development of a cost function that incorporates operating costs of production, water footprint, a valorization of freshwater through residual imputation method and a factor of adjustment through Water Stress Index (WSI). The inclusion of WSI allows to build an opportunity or reserve cost according to availability or scarcity of the resource in a certain watershed or region; resulting not only from natural provision of it but also from the consumption or pressure that different users make on the resource. This study is a first approximation to the matter of the inclusion of the services provided by certain natural resources in the calculation of production costs given their regional availability, other alternative uses and their variability or replacement rate. Based on reviewed bibliography we suggest further applications and development that could be of great significance in the framework of sustainable development. Acknowledgement : To Francisco Manazza
Covering Katrina: "The Washington Post," "The New York Times," and the sociology of disaster
Creators: name: Baynard, Carimanda
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society
classificationCode: 4410
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
classificationCode: 47
subject: Language, communication and culture

description: The impact of Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005 was particularly devastating to New Orleans, Louisiana. Catastrophic damage threatened the lives of many unable to evacuate due to limited financial resources. The print media coverage of Hurricane Katrina exposed a long history of social inequality in New Orleans based on race, social class, and gender. These social demographics have emerged as useful in the sociological analysis of other catastrophes in recent history. I selected news articles published from August 2005 to December 2009, in two national newspapers, The Washington Post and The New York Times, and I used qualitative content analysis to consider emerging themes and patterns in this coverage of the immediate aftermath of the hurricane and the next four years of recovery. The intent of this thesis is to explore the extent to which reporting in these two national newspapers contains material useful to the sociological analysis of disaster informed by intersectionality. I employ Duane Gill's "Sociology on Disaster Framework" to address the basics of disasters and to provide a critical perspective on the importance of social demographics in understanding catastrophes, and I link literature on disasters to Patricia Hill Collins' conceptualization of "intersectionality." The analysis revealed important themes: the role politicians, the presentation of the black/white binary, the rich/poor extreme, and the language or terminology used to describe the surrounding Gulf Coast region and residents. The conclusions suggest how using the lens of the sociology of disaster informed by intersectionality furthers the discipline's contribution to understanding social inequalities and catastrophes.
Consumer Willingness to Pay Price Premium for Credence Attributes of Livestock Products A Meta-Analysis method
Creators: name: Yang, W.
name: Renwich, A.
name: Yang, W.
name: Renwich, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Consumer/Household Economics

description: Livestock production is increasingly being regarded as resource-intensive and is attracting concerns about animal welfare and environmental sustainability. As a result, consumer awareness of these issues has led to an increasing demand for products with high quality attributes that cannot be directly experienced or identified, namely credence attributes (CAs). To our knowledge, so far no study has systematically identified the value of price premium associated with credence attributes of livestock products. In an effort to understand this issue this study conducted a meta-analysis to examine consumers WTP for different credence attributes of livestock products based on a systematic review of relevant studies. Meta-regression models are used to control for the heterogeneity of WTP estimates and investigate factors that affect the estimation of WTP. There were 555 estimates derived from 94 papers reporting WTP. Meta-regression results established the presence of systematic WTP variation associated with types of products, CAs, and locations, yet also indicated that WTP is subject to systematic variation associated with study methodology. While results are promising with regard to the ability of research to provide insight regarding WTP for CAs, they also suggest that researchers should consider the potential for methodological effects when conducting empirical WTP analysis Acknowledgement :
The Federal Music Project: Implications for today
Creators: name: Taylor, Wynsor Rebekah
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: As one of the work relief programs established as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, The Federal Music Project employed musicians throughout the United States. During its eight year tenure, the Federal Music Project employed more individuals than any of the other Federal One Projects while avoiding much of the sharp criticism facing art projects of the day. This historical study traces the development and history of the Federal Music Project in order to draw lessons from this successful program to apply to future federally funded arts programs.
Perdita (Perdita) ashmeadi Cockerell 1899
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita ashmeadi

description: Perdita (Perdita) ashmeadi Cockerell, 1899
[Holotype: USNM; ♀ San José de Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico; April 10, 1898]
Perdita ashmeadi specializes on pollen from the genus Prosopis L. (Fowler 2020). We reviewed 11 specimens, five males collected in the Lower Colorado Desert, BC in April 1939, and six (3 ♀, 3 ♂) in the Gulf Coast, BCS in March 1953 (CASC). See fig. 44.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Error Correction with Systematic RLNC in Multi-Channel THz Communication Systems
Creators: name: Phung, Cao Vien
name: Engelmann, Anna
name: Jukan, Admela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The terahertz (THz) frequency band (0.3-10THz) has the advantage of large available bandwidth and is a candidate to satisfy the ever increasing mobile traffic in wireless communications. However, the THz channels are often absorbed by molecules in the atmosphere, which can decrease the signal quality resulting in high bit error rate of received data. In this paper, we study the usage of systematic random linear network coding (sRLNC) for error correction in generic THz systems with with 2N parallel channels, whereby N main high-bitrate channels are used in parallel with N auxiliary channels with lower bit rate. The idea behind this approach is to use coded low-bit rate channels to carry redundant information from high-bit rate channels, and thus compensate for errors in THz transmission. The analytical results evaluate and compare the different scenarios of the THz system in term of the amount of coding redundancy, a code rate, transmission rate of auxiliary channels, the number of THz channels, the modulation format and transmission distance as required system configurations for a fault tolerant THz transmission.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Can an invisible Higgs boson be seen via diffraction at the LHC?
Creators: name: Belotsky, K.
name: Khoze, V. A.
name: Martin, A. D.
name: Ryskin, M. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the possibility of observing an `invisible' Higgs boson in central exclusive diffractive production at the LHC. We evaluate the cross section using, as a simple example, the Standard Model with a heavy fourth generation, where the invisible decay mode $H \to ν_4 \barν_4$ dominates, with the heavy neutrino mass $M(ν_4) \simeq 50$ GeV. We discuss the possible requirements on trigger conditions and the background processes.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
The role of maize varietal development on yields in Kenya
Creators: name: Naseem, A.
name: Nagarajan, L.
name: Pray, C.
name: Naseem, A.
name: Nagarajan, L.
name: Pray, C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Since the start of seed and other market reforms in the 1990s, the annual number of improved varietal releases for maize in Kenya has increased substantially. Reforms have resulted in not only private firms entering the market and releasing improved varieties, but also an increase in varietal releases by the public sector. This paper reviews some of the key policy reforms related to maize in Kenya, their impacts on varietal development and yields.We present a yield model to relate national maize yields with a number of exogenous factors, that have policy oriented effects associated with significant impact on yields. We use a number of policy variables such as public R&D, the number of Plant Breeder s Rights issued, and the years since private varieties have been introduced as instrument variables that influence new varietal releases directly, and yields indirectly. We find that the number of improved maize varieties released and the share of area under improved varieties have no impact on maize yields. We argue that this is because farmers continue to use older improved varieties, and that newer improved varieties may not have the assumed yield advantage and/or are not as widely adopted to have the desired yield impact. Acknowledgement :
Additional file 1 of Whose responsibility? Part 2 of 2: views of patients, families, and clinicians about responsibilities for addressing the needs of persons with mental health problems in Chennai, India and Montreal, Canada
Creators: name: Iyer, Srividya N.
name: Malla, Ashok
name: Pope, Megan
name: Mustafa, Sally
name: Mohan, Greeshma
name: Rangaswamy, Thara
name: Schmitz, Norbert
name: Joober, Ridha
name: Shah, Jai
name: Margolese, Howard C.
name: Ramachandran, Padmavati
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Comparisons of responsibility assigned to stakeholder pairs by type of support.
Exports and Productivity in Canadian Food Manufacturing
Creators: name: Piedrahita, N.
name: Hailu, G.
name: Piedrahita, N.
name: Hailu, G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: International Relations/Trade

description: This paper examines the relationship between productivity and export market participation of Canadian food processing plants using a plant-level panel dataset. We find that exporters are more productive than non-exporters, and have higher productivity growth prior to entering export markets. However, we find that plants do not experience higher productivity growth after entering export markets. The results have implications for policies targeted at enhancing R&D and innovation policy and lessening border restrictions, and the role of international trade openness. Acknowledgement :
Perdita (Perdita) concors Timberlake 1958
Creators: name: Pedro, Diego De
name: Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara
name: Sagot, Philippe
name: López-Reyes, Eulogio
name: Mullins, Jessica L.
name: Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A.
name: Falcon-Brindis, Armando
name: Griswold, Terry
name: Ascher, John S.
name: Gardner, Joel
name: Ayala, Ricardo
name: Vides-Borrell, Eric
name: Vandame, Rémy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Perdita
Perdita concors

description: Perdita (Perdita) concors Timberlake, 1958
Endemic
[Holotype: CASC; ♂ Hamliton Ranch, Baja California, Mexico; August 2, 1938]
Perdita concors is endemic to the Succulent Coastal Matorral of BC. Preserved specimens are vouchered at CASC and UCRC (Timberlake 1958). We reviewed three additional males collected in the same sampling event as the holotype. See fig. 46.
description: Published as part of Pedro, Diego De, Ceccarelli, Fadia Sara, Sagot, Philippe, López-Reyes, Eulogio, Mullins, Jessica L., Mérida-Rivas, Jorge A., Falcon-Brindis, Armando, Griswold, Terry, Ascher, John S., Gardner, Joel, Ayala, Ricardo, Vides-Borrell, Eric & Vandame, Rémy, 2024, Revealing the Baja California Peninsula's Hidden Treasures: An Annotated checklist of the native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila), pp. 1-391 in Zootaxa 5522 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5522.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13920532
Returns to Managerial Ability and Technical Efficiency in Argentina Dairy Farms
Creators: name: Gallacher, M.
name: Lema, D.
name: Gallacher, M.
name: Lema, D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2018
Subjects: Livestock Production/Industries

description: This paper explores the returns to managerial ability and his role in determining efficiency in Argentina dairy farms. Using an unbalanced panel data from 2003 through 2009 we estimate production frontiers and technical efficiency effects. Most studies analyzing the impact of human capital in agriculture use the measure of years of schooling of the producer as a proxy for decision-making skills. An alternative measure is used in this paper. The measure was derived by grading decision-making and execution skills of the farmers. Grades were assigned by farm advisors knowledgeable of each farm and producer characteristics. Assigned grades were then used in the production frontiers as inputs to estimate the impact of management skills on firm-level results. A very significant impact of these skills on firm results and on technical efficiency and was found. Acknowledgement :
The Federal Music Project: Implications for today
Creators: name: Taylor, Wynsor Rebekah
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 36
subject: Creative arts and writing
classificationCode: 3603
subject: Music

description: As one of the work relief programs established as part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, The Federal Music Project employed musicians throughout the United States. During its eight year tenure, the Federal Music Project employed more individuals than any of the other Federal One Projects while avoiding much of the sharp criticism facing art projects of the day. This historical study traces the development and history of the Federal Music Project in order to draw lessons from this successful program to apply to future federally funded arts programs.
Multi-task Learning for Joint Re-identification, Team Affiliation, and Role Classification for Sports Visual Tracking
Creators: name: Mansourian, Amir M.
name: Somers, Vladimir
name: De Vleeschouwer, Christophe
name: Kasaei, Shohreh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Effective tracking and re-identification of players is essential for analyzing soccer videos. But, it is a challenging task due to the non-linear motion of players, the similarity in appearance of players from the same team, and frequent occlusions. Therefore, the ability to extract meaningful embeddings to represent players is crucial in developing an effective tracking and re-identification system. In this paper, a multi-purpose part-based person representation method, called PRTreID, is proposed that performs three tasks of role classification, team affiliation, and re-identification, simultaneously. In contrast to available literature, a single network is trained with multi-task supervision to solve all three tasks, jointly. The proposed joint method is computationally efficient due to the shared backbone. Also, the multi-task learning leads to richer and more discriminative representations, as demonstrated by both quantitative and qualitative results. To demonstrate the effectiveness of PRTreID, it is integrated with a state-of-the-art tracking method, using a part-based post-processing module to handle long-term tracking. The proposed tracking method outperforms all existing tracking methods on the challenging SoccerNet tracking dataset.