cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Is High BMI in Children Aged 6-17 Years Associated with Poor Poverty Status?
Creators: name: Basnet, Resham
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Objectives: The prevalence of childhood obesity and overweight has been increasing over the past two decades in the US, with 17.2% of children having high Body Mass Index (BMI) defined as 85% or higher in 2014. This paper assesses the association between poverty status and BMI in children aged 6-17 years.Methods: The 2014 full year consolidated data from Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) was analyzed to determine the association between poverty status and BMI using logistic regression while controlling for age, gender, and race/ethnicity variables. The analysis incorporated both sample weights and survey design adjustments.Results: After holding all other variables in the model constant, children living below 100 percent poverty threshold had 1.9 times the odds of high BMI compared to children living at or above 400 percent poverty threshold. This association was statistically significant at p<0.01 95% CI: 1.5, 2.2.Conclusion: The results from logistic regression support the hypothesis that high BMI is prevalent among children with poor poverty status. This finding suggests that further research is needed to understand vulnerable populations while promoting healthy eating and physical activity.
Andrena minutula
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena minutula

description: Andrena minutula (Kirby, 1802)
6.V.2003, 1♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
The Solar System as an Exoplanetary System
Creators: name: Martin, Rebecca G.
name: Livio, Mario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: With the availability of considerably more data, we revisit the question of how special our Solar System is, compared to observed exoplanetary systems. To this goal, we employ a mathematical transformation that allows for a meaningful, statistical comparison. We find that the masses and densities of the giant planets in our Solar System are very typical, as is the age of the Solar System. While the orbital location of Jupiter is somewhat of an outlier, this is most likely due to strong selection effects towards short-period planets. The eccentricities of the planets in our Solar System are relatively small compared to those in observed exosolar systems, but still consistent with the expectations for an 8-planet system (and could, in addition, reflect a selection bias towards high-eccentricity planets). The two characteristics of the Solar System that we find to be most special are the lack of super-Earths with orbital periods of days to months and the general lack of planets inside of the orbital radius of Mercury. Overall, we conclude that in terms of its broad characteristics our Solar System is not expected to be extremely rare, allowing for a level of optimism in the search for extrasolar life.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ
Real estate investment and urban density: exploring the polycentric urban region using a topological lens
Creators: name: Pain, Kathy
name: Shi, Shuai
name: Black, Daniel
name: Blower, Jon
name: Grimmond, Sue
name: Hunt, Alistair
name: Milcheva, Stanimira
name: Crawford, Ben
name: Dale, Nick
name: Doolin, Sam
name: Manna, Senjuti
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Cancer

description: Focusing on commercial office real estate as both a manifestation of and a conduit of cross-border capital ﬂows, this paper refers to the concepts of topology and topography in a theoretical and empirical exploration of contemporary ‘network economy’ spatial implications for the ‘polycentric urban region’ (PUR). A body of research has cast doubt on the normative European representation of the multi-centre PUR as a balanced, sustainable spatial development model. Yet, the model has continued to be propagated in European territorial strategy and has been influential internationally. Academic perspectives and qualitative evidence reviewed in the paper shed a light on mutual dependencies and recursive relations between network economy global structural processes, international office real estate investment practices mediated by city governments, and the spatial configuration of density. Commercial investment and city planning actor practices chime with urban agglomeration, spatial concentration and density. Quantitative evidence of associations between urban density and office real estate investment returns and capital flows is found. It is concluded that network economy topology, politics and the city are in a dialectical relationship with the PUR territorial governance agenda for spatially balanced regional development.
Andrena nigroaenea
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena nigroaenea

description: Andrena nigroaenea (Kirby, 1802)
4.IV.2003, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Andrena subopaca Nylander 1848
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Andrenidae
Andrena
Andrena subopaca

description: Andrena subopaca Nylander, 1848
4.IV.2003, 2J; 6.V.2003, 6J, 8♀; 4.VI.2003, 4J, 2♀; 3.VII.2003, 2♀.
 HALICTIDAE
 Lasioglossum fulvicorne (Kirby, 1802)
6.V.2003, 1♀; 11.VIII.2003, 1♀; 3.IX.2003, 1J.
 APIDAE
 Bombus hypnorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
4.IV.2003, 2♀, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Learning to be authentic. Religious Practices of German and Dutch Muslims following the Salafiyya in forums and chat rooms
Creators: name: Becker, Carmen
Publisher: name: Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: salafism
subject: the Netherlands
subject: Germany
subject: computer-mediated environments
subject: religious practices
subject: Salafi activism
subject: digital ethnography
subject: Digital Religion
subject: practice theory
subject: Salafismus
subject: Niederlande
subject: Deutschland
subject: computer-vermittelte Umgebungen
subject: religiöse Praktiken
subject: Salafi Aktivismus
subject: digitale Ethnographie
subject: Digitale Religion
subject: Praxistheorie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::200 | Religion, Religionsphilosophie

description: In the last decades the Salafiyya as one current within a long history within Islam has come to Europe and become increasingly popular among young Muslims looking for an “authentic” Islam. It is therefore not surprising, that they have taken their interest in religion to the internet and, more specifically, to the computer-mediated environments of social media like chat rooms and online forums. This leads to a series of central questions for the dynamics within the Salafiyya: How do Salafi Muslims approach and use the religious sources (Quran and hadith) in these environments? What kind of religious practices occur in these spaces and how do they relate to offline practices? How are Muslim identities within the Salafiyya formed and maintained in computer-mediated environments? What does this mean for the subjectivity of the individual believer? And how is the religious authority within the Salafiyya affected by these developments? This study answers these questions by employing an innovative methodological approach grounded in practice theory and online ethnography. The data was collected online and offline during extensive and intensive fieldwork in Germany, the Netherlands, and in computer-mediated environement of Muslims inspired by the Salafiya from 2008 until 2011. The study shows how technical and socio-cultural affordances as well as practices reproduce Islam as understood by Salafi Muslims in the specific settings of computer-mediated environments.
High energy signatures of quasi-spherical accretion onto rotating, magnetized neutron star in the ejector-accretor intermediate state
Creators: name: Bednarek, W.
name: Banasinski, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a simple scenario for the accretion of matter onto a neutron star in order to understand processes in the inner pulsar magnetosphere during the transition stage between different accretion modes. A simple quasi-spherical accretion process onto rotating, magnetized compact object is analyzed in order to search for the radiative signatures which could appear during transition between ejecting and accreting modes. It is argued that different accretion modes can be present in a single neutron star along different magnetic field lines for specific range of parameters characterising the pulsar (rotational period, surface magnetic field strength) and the density of surrounding medium. The radiation processes characteristic for the ejecting pulsar, i.e. curvature and synchrotron radiation produced by primary electrons in the pulsar outer gap, are expected to be modified by the presence of additional thermal radiation from the neutron star surface. We predict that during the transition from the pure ejector to the pure accretor mode (or vice versa) an intermediate accretion state can be distinguished which is characterized by the $γ$-ray spectra of pulsars truncated below ~1 GeV due to the absorption of synchro-curvature spectrum produced in the pulsar gaps.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures, accepted to Journal of High Energy Astrophysics
Down East Partnership for Children: A Systems Approach to Improving Community Health
Creators: name: Martin, Brittney
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Improving community health is a highly complex endeavor that requires extensive analysis of and effective response to a wide array of factors. Utilizing a systems approach to improve community health is the most effective way to respond to these factors and lays a strong foundation for sustaining community health improvement. The Down East Partnership for Children (DEPC) in Rocky Mount, NC provides a model for delivering an assets-driven, evidence-based and community-centered systems approach to addressing health challenges faced by children and their families. This report provides an overview of the systems approach, an analysis of DEPC’s systems based approach to community health improvement, an analysis of why this model has proven successful, and recommendations for moving forward.
Bombus pascuorum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Bombus
Bombus pascuorum

description: Bombus pascuorum (Scopoli, 1793)
6.V.2003, 3♀; 4.VI.2003, 3♀, 19; 3.VII.2003, 1♀, 59; 11.VIII.2003, 69; 3.IX.2003, 59, 1J; 30.X.2003, 39; 31.X.2003, 29.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Nomada fabriciana Linnaeus 1767
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada fabriciana

description: Nomada fabriciana (Linnaeus, 1767)
6.V.2003, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Agglomeration is in the eye of the beholder: the changing governance of polycentrism
Creators: name: Waite, David
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: With a focus on evolving governance configurations, this paper traces attempts at promoting polycentrism. The paper steers attention to the policy approaches that seek to develop and promote a polycentric urban region (PUR), whether that polycentric economic system is actual now or something only faintly sketched out now but aspired to in the future. Tracking policy shifts concerning a perceived Glasgow–Edinburgh economy over a period of two decades, the paper explores why different projects, strategies and initiatives have come and gone. In doing this, the paper operationalizes the territory, place, scale, network (TPSN) framework, showing how polycentrism inserts through structuring principles to try to shape existing fields of socio-spatial relations and organization (notably concerns for city-regionalism). In this framing, agglomeration is presented as a malleable and seductive notion that helps to secure views on why certain forms of subnational development should take priority.
Spin structure of harmonically trapped one-dimensional atoms with spin-orbit coupling
Creators: name: Guan, Q.
name: Blume, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a theoretical approach to determine the spin structure of harmonically trapped atoms with two-body zero-range interactions subject to an equal mixture of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling created through Raman coupling of atomic hyperfine states. The spin structure of bosonic and fermionic two-particle systems with finite and infinite two-body interaction strength $g$ is calculated. Taking advantage of the fact that the $N$-boson and $N$-fermion systems with infinitely large coupling strength $g$ are analytically solvable for vanishing spin-orbit coupling strength $k_{so}$ and vanishing Raman coupling strength $Ω$, we develop an effective spin model that is accurate to second-order in $Ω$ for any $k_{so}$ and infinite $g$. The three- and four-particle systems are considered explicitly. It is shown that the effective spin Hamiltonian, which contains a Heisenberg exchange term and an anisotropic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya exchange term, describes the transitions that these systems undergo with the change of $k_{so}$ as a competition between independent spin dynamics and nearest-neighbor spin interactions.
description: 23 pages, 10 figures
Nomada ferruginata
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada ferruginata

description: Nomada ferruginata (Linnaeus, 1767)
6.V.2003, 5J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Il valore delle licenze d'uso delle risorse naturali
Creators: name: Moretto, Michele
name: Rosato, Paolo
Publisher: name: Aestimum
Year: 2009

description: Gli strumenti di gestione delle risorse naturali pubbliche sono un tema di grande interesse teorico ed operativo e, fra tutti, il più utilizzato è sicuramente la licenza o permesso d'uso. L'implementazione di un sistema di licenze per regolare l'uso di una risorsa naturale è tutt'altro che semplice in quanto presuppone la definizione di numerose questioni. In questo lavoro è preso in considerazione il punto di vista dell'acquirente e, in particolare, ci si propone di modellarne il comportamento quando prende in considerazione l'acquisto di una licenza che lo autorizza a fruire, con determinate modalità, di una risorsa naturale rinnovabile. Il modello è stato costruito ipotizzando che tale comportamento possa essere assimilato a quello adottato da un investitore di fronte ad una Cull option, owero al diritto di effettuare in ogni momento un investimento in una certa realtà finanziaria ad un prezzo prefissato. Infatti, al pari di un'opzione finanziaria, la possibilità di dilazionare l'acquisto dela licenza riveste un valore per il consumatore, valore che aumenta ail'aumentare dell'incertezza sui benefici futuri della risorsa. I1 modello è stato utilizzato per testare l'effetto sul comportamento del consumatore di alcuni fattori come l'incertezza dei benefici e l'irreversibilità dell'acquisto. Le simulazioni effettuate hanno evidenziato che l'incertezza dei benefici e l'irreversibilità delie spese generano un costo opportunità, legato al valore d'opzione della licenza, rispetto ai quale il consumatore può assumere comportamenti assai diversi da quelli attesi considerando solo il valore attuale che deriva dal flusso atteso dei benefici
description: Aestimum, Aestimum 39 (2000)
Parental Factors and Transition to First Sex among Urban Poor Adolescents in Kenya
Creators: name: Okigbo, Chinelo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Objectives: To study the influence of parental factors on adolescents’ sexual behaviors by examining the effects of parental monitoring, parent-child communication, and/or parental discipline on likelihood of adolescents’ transition to first sexual intercourse. Methodology: Longitudinal quantitative data (waves 1 and 2) from two slums in Nairobi, collected by African Population and Health Research Center, were analyzed. The sample (N=1,992) was restricted to unmarried adolescents aged 12–19 years at baseline. Results: In multivariate analyses, female adolescents reporting high parental monitoring were less likely to transition to first sex within the study period compared to those who reported low parental monitoring [OR: 0.45; p<0.05]. Also, adolescents who reported parental discipline (spanking) were approximately 70% less likely to transition to first sex compared to those who did not; these results did not remain significant when demographic controls were included. Parental communication did not influence adolescents’ transition to first sex. School enrollment was found to be a protective factor for sexual behaviors among male respondents. Conclusion: This study provides evidence that parental monitoring, parental discipline, and school enrollment delay early sexual activity among adolescents especially in resource-poor settings. This evidence should inform and effect adolescent reproductive programmatic interventions/policies.
Cyclozyga Knight 1930
Creators: name: Yoo, E. K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Pleurotomariida
Pseudozygopleuridae
Cyclozyga

description: Cyclozyga Knight, 1930 [table omitted] Australian Carboniferous species. Cyclozyga sinusigera Yoo, 1988, from 'Marohn'; Cyclozyga sp. (in this study), from 'Kyndalyn' (PI. 19 figs 5-8).
description: Published as part of Yoo, E. K., 1994, Early Carboniferous Gastropoda from the Tamworth Belt, New South Wales, Australia, pp. 63-120 in Records of the Australian Museum 46 (1) on page 86, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.18, http://zenodo.org/record/4654599
description: {"references": ["Knight, J. B., 1930 a. The gastropods of the St. Louis, Missouri, Pennsylvanian outlier: the Pseudozygopleurinae. Journal of Paleontology 4, Supplement 1, 88 pp.", "Yoo, E. K., 1988. Early Carboniferous Mollusca from Gundy, Upper Hunter, New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 40 (4): 233 - 264."]}
Nomada flava Panzer 1798
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada flava

description: Nomada flava Panzer, 1798
6.V.2003, 1J, 2♀; 4.VI.2003, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Exact moduli of continuity for operator-scaling Gaussian random fields
Creators: name: Li, Yuqiang
name: Wang, Wensheng
name: Xiao, Yimin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $X=\{X(t),t\in\mathrm{R}^N\}$ be a centered real-valued operator-scaling Gaussian random field with stationary increments, introduced by Biermé, Meerschaert and Scheffler (Stochastic Process. Appl. 117 (2007) 312-332). We prove that $X$ satisfies a form of strong local nondeterminism and establish its exact uniform and local moduli of continuity. The main results are expressed in terms of the quasi-metric $τ_E$ associated with the scaling exponent of $X$. Examples are provided to illustrate the subtle changes of the regularity properties.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/13-BEJ593 in the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
A quantum framework for likelihood ratios
Creators: name: Bond, Rachael L.
name: He, Yang-Hui
name: Ormerod, Thomas C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The ability to calculate precise likelihood ratios is fundamental to many STEM areas, such as decision-making theory, biomedical science, and engineering. However, there is no assumption-free statistical methodology to achieve this. For instance, in the absence of data relating to covariate overlap, the widely used Bayes' theorem either defaults to the marginal probability driven "naive Bayes' classifier", or requires the use of compensatory expectation-maximization techniques. Equally, the use of alternative statistical approaches, such as multivariate logistic regression, may be confounded by other axiomatic conditions, e.g., low levels of co-linearity. This article takes an information-theoretic approach in developing a new statistical formula for the calculation of likelihood ratios based on the principles of quantum entanglement. In doing so, it is argued that this quantum approach demonstrates: that the likelihood ratio is a real quality of statistical systems; that the naive Bayes' classifier is a special case of a more general quantum mechanical expression; and that only a quantum mechanical approach can overcome the axiomatic limitations of classical statistics.
Nomada flavoguttata
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada flavoguttata

description: Nomada flavoguttata (Kirby, 1802)
6.V.2003, RAW2, 9J, 2♀; 4.VI.2003, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
The Predictors of Youth Employment in Rural South Africa: The Poverty Alleviation Pilot Study
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Andra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Objectives: Explore predictors of employment among 18-24 year olds in Mpumalanga, South Africa to inform intervention development. Method: The Poverty Alleviation Pilot collected quantitative data from 18-24 year olds randomly sampled from the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance site in rural South Africa. Logistic regression models were estimated to identify demographic, qualification, and psychosocial predictors of youth employment. Results: Youth with working skills were significantly more likely to report employment and youth reporting greater life dissatisfaction also had slightly greater odds of employment. Having training was also significantly positively associated with employment, but for males only. Conclusions: To decrease youth unemployment, rural youth need access to training and entrepreneurship development programs and employers need incentives to hire youth.
title: compos(t)ing…
Creators: name: Chao, Gwenyth
Publisher: name: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Compost
subject: Interdisciplinary research
subject: Sculpture
subject: Installations (Art)

description: This writing is a window into my mind and the meandering thoughts behind a series of sculptural experiments and installations I have made from compostable materials. The work explores the porosity of bodies as entities and the symbiosis that becomes possible with permeability. Thinking through a critical discourse of ecologies, I (re)imagine and “propose near futures, possible futures, and implausible but real nows” through a materially emergent and ecological, situated practice (Haraway 2016, 136). I work with the embedded ideas by moving between 3 different lenses. I begin with Introweaving, my research as a network of pathways that a worm might meander through in a compost pile, opening the various spaces and materials that I use throughout my experiments. Bodies as microworlds probes notions of the body and its porous boundaries; ingesting and regurgitating become critical and generative metaphors for processing ingestible biomaterials made from food refuse. In/Between embraces the active process of borrowing and mutating processes and methodologies from distinct spaces and bodies of knowledge. (Un)Becoming zooms outwards to the cyclical aspects of life and time – exploring animacy, decay and regeneration as expressive processes. Complementing the initial Introweaving is a final section Interleaving, where I pause and gesture towards future experiments. I view this project and thinking as a become-with (ref. symbiosis/ the more-than-human/ land) is an ongoing process. These ideas are need to continuously percolating… my writing and my project are eternally compos(t)ing…
The broad-band radio spectrum of LSI+61303 in outburst
Creators: name: Zimmermann, L.
name: Fuhrmann, L.
name: Massi, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Aims: Our aim is to explore the broad-band radio continuum spectrum of LSI+61303 during its outbursts by employing the available set of secondary focus receivers of the Effelsberg 100 m telescope. Methods: The clear periodicity of the system LSI+61303 allowed observations to be scheduled covering the large radio outburst in March-April 2012. We observed LSI+61303 on 14 consecutive days at 2.6, 4.85, 8.35, 10.45, 14.3, 23, and 32 GHz with a cadence of about 12 hours followed by two additional observations several days later. Based on these observations we obtained a total of 24 quasi-simultaneous broad-band radio spectra. Results: During onset, the main flare shows an almost flat broad-band spectrum, most prominently seen on March 27, 2012, where - for the first time - a flat spectrum (alpha=0.00+/-0.07, S nu^alpha) is observed up to 32 GHz (9 mm wavelength). The flare decay phase shows superimposed 'sub-flares' with the spectral index oscillating between -0.4 and -0.1 in a quasi-regular fashion. Finally, the spectral index steepens during the decay phase, showing optically thin emission with values alpha $\sim$ -0.5 to -0.7. Conclusions: The radio characteristics of LSI+61303 compare well with those of the microquasars XTE J1752-223 and Cygnus X-3. In these systems the flaring phase is actually also composed of a sequence of outbursts with clearly different spectral characteristics: a first outburst with a flat/inverted spectrum followed by a bursting phase of optically thin emission.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Effects of a coach-guided videoconferencing acceptance and commitment therapy intervention combined with psychoeducation on distressed individuals living with spinal cord injury: a preliminary mixed-methods study
Creators: name: Han, Areum
name: Wilroy, Jereme D.
name: Jenkins, Jeremy
name: Yuen, Hon K.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Science Policy
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This study examined effects of coach-guided videoconferencing acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) accompanied by psychoeducation on distressed individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) and explored participants’ experiences in the intervention. Ten people with SCI participated in 8 individual videoconferencing sessions delivered by trained coaches. Data using self-reported questionnaires and individual interviews was collected at pretest and posttest and analyzing using Wilcoxon signed-rank tests and interpretative phenomenological analysis (ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT04670406). Statistically significant improvements were found in depression, anxiety, stress, grief, engagement in meaningful activities, and self-compassion with medium to large effect sizes. There was no significant change in quality of life, resilience, and ACT processes. Participants gained a new way of thinking by: being aware of thoughts and emotions; exploring perceptions of others; and focusing on the present. Also, the intervention equipped participants to deal with challenges by: improving coping with SCI-related conditions; practicing self-compassion, acceptance, and meditation; and acquiring skills of value-based decision making and committed action. Findings contribute to the limited evidence as the first study that measured effects of videoconferencing ACT on people with SCI. Future randomized controlled trials are needed to measure efficacy of internet-delivered ACT for people with SCI.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONGuided videoconferencing ACT may reduce depressive symptoms, anxiety, stress, and grief and increase engagement in meaningful activities and self-compassion in people with SCI.Professionals may consider ACT as a supportive or adjunct service for people with SCI who experience psychological distress. Guided videoconferencing ACT may reduce depressive symptoms, anxiety, stress, and grief and increase engagement in meaningful activities and self-compassion in people with SCI. Professionals may consider ACT as a supportive or adjunct service for people with SCI who experience psychological distress.
Work distribution function for a Brownian particle driven by a nonconservative force
Creators: name: Saha, Bappa
name: Mukherji, Sutapa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the distribution function of work performed by a harmonic force acting on a uniformly dragged Brownian particle subjected to a rotational torque. Following the Onsager and Machlup's functional integral approach, we obtain the transition probability of finding the Brownian particle at a particular position at time $t$ given that it started the journey from a specific location at an earlier time. The difference between the forward and the time-reversed form of the generalized Onsager-Machlup's Lagrangian is identified as the rate of medium entropy production which further helps us develop the stochastic thermodynamics formalism for our model. The probability distribution for the work done by the harmonic trap is evaluated for an equilibrium initial condition. Although this distribution has a Gaussian form, it is found that the distribution does not satisfy the conventional work fluctuation theorem.
description: 11 pages, 2 EPS figures
Development of the Italian version of the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) measure: translation, internal reliability, and construct validity in patients undergoing rehabilitation after total hip and knee arthroplasty
Creators: name: Natali, Fabrizio
name: Corradini, Laura
name: Sconza, Cristiano
name: Taylor, Patricia
name: Furlan, Raffaello
name: Mercer, Stewart W.
name: Gatti, Roberto
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
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: Hematology

description: To translate and cross-culturally adapt the Consultation and Relational Empathy (CARE) measure into Italian, examine its internal reliability, and construct validity in a rehabilitation setting. The translation process consisted of two forward translations, a pre-final version, a back-translation, and a final version, in accordance with available guidelines. We administered the Italian version of the CARE measure to 101 patients hospitalised for rehabilitation after total hip or total knee arthroplasty (THA and TKA). We assessed face validity, internal reliability, and construct validity. Face validity was high. Patients answered all questions and the “does not apply” option was never selected. Internal reliability (Cronbach’s α = 0.962) resulted in line with the original version. The exploratory factor analysis confirmed the unidimensional structure of the CARE measure with 74.82% of variance explained by the first factor. The Italian version of the CARE measure showed high face validity. Internal reliability and construct validity were in line with the original version in patients undergoing rehabilitation after THA and TKA.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONInternal reliability and construct validity of the Italian version of the CARE measure are in line with those of the original version of the CARE measure.The Italian CARE measure can be used to assess patient’s perceived therapist’s empathy in patients undergoing physical therapy after THA and TKA.Physiotherapists should use the CARE measure with more caution in other rehabilitative contexts. Internal reliability and construct validity of the Italian version of the CARE measure are in line with those of the original version of the CARE measure. The Italian CARE measure can be used to assess patient’s perceived therapist’s empathy in patients undergoing physical therapy after THA and TKA. Physiotherapists should use the CARE measure with more caution in other rehabilitative contexts.
Nomada panzeri Lepeletier 1841
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Apidae
Nomada
Nomada panzeri

description: Nomada panzeri Lepeletier, 1841
6.V.2003, 16J, 7♀.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 113, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631
Adolescents’ Presence in Brazil: A Review of Demographic, Sexual and Reproductive Health Trends to Guide Recommendations for the Future
Creators: name: Nelligan, Caitlin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Brazil’s decline in fertility has had a significant impact on its rapidly changing population, creating a demographic dividend that lends to the potential for accelerated economic growth. With adolescents comprising 17% of Brazil’s total population, they make up an exceptionally large age group that requires ongoing support to guarantee their positive contributions to society as they age. Observations of adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH) trends demonstrate areas of progress, as well as improvement. Although adolescents are having sexual intercourse at earlier ages, contraceptive method use, particularly the condom, has increased considerably over a 10-year period from 23.8% in 1996 to 67.4% in 2006. Overall, Brazilians are having fewer children; however, they are also having them earlier. The share of total fertility has increased among adolescents, signaling a pattern of rejuvenation that is cause for concern. In addition, the incidence rate of AIDS cases among young people peaked in 1995 and dramatically declined in 1996, and has since remained stable at 9.5 per 100,000 people. Nevertheless, young adults represent one of the highest prevalence groups of HIV/AIDS, denoting a vulnerability among adolescents aging into this group due to the possibility of undiagnosed disease or a failure to create positive habits of using protection when they begin having sexual intercourse in adolescence. Since the mid-1980’s, the Brazilian government has taken steps to invest in women and adolescents’ SRH through the creation of rights-centric policies, as well as programs to promote access to contraceptive methods and SRH education in the schools. Despite these initiatives, disparities across programs remain. Utilizing Implementation Science as a framework for addressing several programmatic gaps identified, recommendations are made through the application of the Implementation Stages Framework to improve contraceptive supply and the Improvement Cycle Framework to strengthen implementation of the Health and Prevention in the Schools Program.
Mass distributions of star clusters for different star formation histories in a galaxy cluster environment
Creators: name: Schulz, Christine
name: Pflamm-Altenburg, Jan
name: Kroupa, Pavel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Clusters of galaxies usually contain rich populations of globular clusters (GCs). We investigate how different star formation histories (SFHs) shape the final mass distribution of star clusters. We assume that every star cluster population forms during a formation epoch of length dt at a constant star-formation rate (SFR). The mass distribution of such a population is described by the embedded cluster mass function (ECMF), which is a pure power law extending to an upper limit M_max. Since the SFR determines M_max, the ECMF implicitly depends on the SFR. Starting with different SFHs, each SFH is divided into formation epochs of length dt at different SFRs. The requested mass function arises from the superposition of the star clusters of all formation epochs. An improved optimal sampling technique is introduced that allows generating number and mass distributions, both of which accurately agree with the ECMF. Moreover, for each SFH the distribution function of all involved SFRs, F(SFR), is computed. For monotonically decreasing SFHs, F(SFR) always follows a power law. With F(SFR), we develope the theory of the integrated galactic embedded cluster mass function (IGECMF). It describes the distribution function of birth stellar masses of star clusters that accumulated over a formation episode much longer than dt. The IGECMF indeed reproduces the mass distribution of star clusters created according to the superposition principle. Interestingly, all considered SFHs lead to a turn-down with increasing star cluster mass in their respective IGECMFs. In the past, a turn-down at the high-mass end has been observed for GC systems in different galaxy clusters and in the cluster initial mass function. This behavior can be explained naturally if the observed star cluster ensembles are superpositions of several individual star cluster populations that formed at different times at different SFRs.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A
Electrical tuning of radiative cooling at ambient conditions
Creators: name: Banerjee, Debashree
name: Hallberg, Tomas
name: Chen, Shangzhi
name: Kuang, Chaoyang
name: Liao, Mingna
name: Kariis, Hans
name: Jonsson, Magnus P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Matlab scripts for device cooling power and sky simulator performance calculations.

MATLAB scripts to calculate the following:

1. Thermal radiation and back reflection from components of the sky simulator as compared to the night sky with the atmosphere as a partially transparent medium.

2. Net cooling power of the devices in different oxidation states.
Reaction times of monitoring schemes for ARMA time series
Creators: name: Aue, Alexander
name: Dienes, Christopher
name: Fremdt, Stefan
name: Steinebach, Josef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper is concerned with deriving the limit distributions of stopping times devised to sequentially uncover structural breaks in the parameters of an autoregressive moving average, ARMA, time series. The stopping rules are defined as the first time lag for which detectors, based on CUSUMs and Page's CUSUMs for residuals, exceed the value of a prescribed threshold function. It is shown that the limit distributions crucially depend on a drift term induced by the underlying ARMA parameters. The precise form of the asymptotic is determined by an interplay between the location of the break point and the size of the change implied by the drift. The theoretical results are accompanied by a simulation study and applications to electroencephalography, EEG, and IBM data. The empirical results indicate a satisfactory behavior in finite samples.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.3150/14-BEJ604 in the Bernoulli (http://isi.cbs.nl/bernoulli/) by the International Statistical Institute/Bernoulli Society (http://isi.cbs.nl/BS/bshome.htm)
Toward Understanding The B[e] Phenomenon: V. Nature and Spectral Variations of the MWC 728 Binary System
Creators: name: Miroshnichenko, A. S.
name: Zharikov, S. V.
name: Danford, S.
name: Manset, N.
name: Korčáková, D.
name: Kříček, R.
name: Šlechta, M.
name: Omarov, Ch. T.
name: Kusakin, A. V.
name: Kuratov, K. S.
name: Grankin, K. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of a long-term spectroscopic monitoring of the FS\,CMa type object MWC\,728. We found that it is a binary system with a B5 Ve (T$_{\rm eff}$ = 14000$\pm$1000 K) primary and a G8 III type (T$_{\rm eff} \sim$ 5000 K) secondary. Absorption line positions of the secondary vary with a semi-amplitude of $\sim$20 km/s and a period of 27.5 days. The system's mass function is 2.3$\times10^{-2}$ M$_\odot$, and its orbital plane is $13^{\circ}-15^{\circ}$ tilted from the plane of the sky. The primary's $v \sin i \sim$110 km/s combined with this tilt implies that it rotates at a nearly breakup velocity. We detected strong variations of the Balmer and He I emission-line profiles on timescales from days to years. This points to a variable stellar wind of the primary in addition to the presence of a circum-primary gaseous disk. The strength of the absorption-line spectrum along with the optical and near-IR continuum suggest that the primary contributes $\sim$60% of the $V$--band flux, the disk contributes $\sim$30%, and the secondary $\sim$10%. The system parameters, along with the interstellar extinction, suggest a distance of $\sim$1 kpc, that the secondary does not fill its Roche lobe, and that the companions' mass ratio is $q \sim$0.5. Overall, the observed spectral variability and the presence of a strong IR-excess are in agreement with a model of a close binary system that has undergone a non-conservative mass-transfer.
description: 13 pages, 16 figures, 5 tables, accepted in The Astrophysical Journal
Using Monte Carlo method for searching partitionings of hard variants of Boolean satisfiability problem
Creators: name: Semenov, Alexander
name: Zaikin, Oleg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we propose the approach for constructing partitionings of hard variants of the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). Such partitionings can be used for solving corresponding SAT instances in parallel. For the same SAT instance one can construct different partitionings, each of them is a set of simplified versions of the original SAT instance. The effectiveness of an arbitrary partitioning is determined by the total time of solving of all SAT instances from it. We suggest the approach, based on the Monte Carlo method, for estimating time of processing of an arbitrary partitioning. With each partitioning we associate a point in the special finite search space. The estimation of effectiveness of the particular partitioning is the value of predictive function in the corresponding point of this space. The problem of search for an effective partitioning can be formulated as a problem of optimization of the predictive function. We use metaheuristic algorithms (simulated annealing and tabu search) to move from point to point in the search space. In our computational experiments we found partitionings for SAT instances encoding problems of inversion of some cryptographic functions. Several of these SAT instances with realistic predicted solving time were successfully solved on a computing cluster and in the volunteer computing project SAT@home. The solving time agrees well with estimations obtained by the proposed method.
description: The reduced version of this paper was accepted for publication in proceedings of the PaCT 2015 conference (LNCS Vol. 9251). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1411.5433
Axes of Subordination of Biracial Individuals: Biracial identities and stereotypic dimensions of foreignness and superiority – Study 4
Creators: name: Garay, Maria
name: Remedios, Jessica
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: OSF pre-registration for Study 4 of Axes of Subordination of Biracial Individuals: Biracial identities and stereotypic dimensions of foreignness and superiority
Seladonia tumulorum
Creators: name: Pauly, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Halictidae
Seladonia
Seladonia tumulorum

description: Seladonia tumulorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
 22.VIII.2000, prairie bord étang, Angelica sylvestris, 1J.
description: Published as part of Pauly, Alain, 2019, Contribution à l'inventaire des abeilles sauvages de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Forêt de Soignes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), pp. 1-160 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 79 on page 117, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13692631