cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Simulation of non-Gaussian CMB maps
Creators: name: Rocha, Graca
name: Hobson, M. P.
name: Smith, Sarah
name: Ferreira, Pedro
name: Challinor, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A simple method is presented for the rapid simulation of statistically-isotropic non-Gaussian maps of CMB temperature fluctuations with a given power spectrum and analytically-calculable bispectrum and higher-order polyspectra. The $n$th-order correlators of the pixel values may also be calculated analytically. The cumulants of the simulated map may be used to obtain an expression for the probability density function of the pixel temperatures. The statistical properties of the simulated map are determined by the univariate non-Gaussian distribution from which pixel values are drawn independently in the first stage of the simulation process. We illustrate the method using a non-Gaussian distribution derived from the wavefunctions of the harmonic oscillator. The basic simulation method is easily extended to produce non-Gaussian maps with a given power spectrum and diagonal bispectrum.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures (3 coloured), replaced with version accepted by MNRAS. Figure 3 is not included but a complete version of the paper with high resolution figures can be downloaded from (http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~graca/Ngsims/)
Pycnomerus arcuatus Broun 1914
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Pycnomerus
Pycnomerus arcuatus

description: Pycnomerus arcuatus Broun, 1914
(Figs. 346–347)
 Pycnomerus arcuatus Broun, 1914a: 98. Broun 1914b: 180. Hudson 1923: 370. Hetschko 1930: 61. Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Broken River, Canterbury.
 Broun number: 3408.
 Remarks: Broun based this species on a single specimen.
 Type material examined: Holotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “Type [round label with red border] // 3408 [in Broun’s hand] // Broken River —[in Broun’s hand] // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922- 482. // Pycnomerus —arcuatus. [in Broun’s hand]”.
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
DigitalHub - a living record of scholarly output
Creators: name: Ilik, Violeta
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Repository
subject: RDF
subject: OWL
subject: Information Storage and Retrieval
subject: Digital libraries--United States
subject: RDF (Document markup language)
subject: Ontologies (Information retrieval)

description: Presentation given at the Fedora Users Group meeting in Chicago, IL on October 22, 2015.
FIELD STUDY OF NUTRIENT CONTROL IN A MULTICELL LAGOON
Creators: name: Engel, Jr., William Thomas
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Lagoons are well known as acceptable methods of treating both municipal and industrial wastes. Their ability to meet the secondary treatment standards promulgated by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments is in question. These standards have caused the system to be re-evaluated in terms of efficiency. Modifications to existing lagoon facilities appear feasible. This study concentrated on nutrient removal in a serially arranged, multicell aerated, facultative lagoon system over a three-year period. The hypothesis of the study was that nitrogen and phosphorus would be controlled by selective alum addition and nitrification. A six-cell lagoon system located in the St. Charles Communities at Waldorf, Maryland was chosen as the research site. Using the St. Charles system, this researcher, employed by the Charles County Community College, La Plata, Maryland, under the sponsorship of the Environmental Protection Agency, conducted the three-year study. The lagoon system was modified in order to have two independent three-cell systems, one of which was the control and the other the test. Each system contained an aerated first cell. Alum addition to the third cell of the test system proved to be more efficient than alum addition to the first cell in removing total phosphorus, biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and suspended solids. A plastic-media, trickling filter tower was installed at the effluent station of the third cell of the test system. Consistent nitrification was established; however, seasonal effects caused the system to be less efficient during the winter months. Lagoons that have been modified to implement these forms of nutrient control should be considered as viable, economic means of meeting current secondary standards.
Interplay between fractional quantum Hall liquid and crystal phases at low filling
Creators: name: Zuo, Zheng-Wei
name: Balram, Ajit C.
name: Pu, Songyang
name: Zhao, Jianyun
name: Jolicoeur, Thierry
name: Wójs, A.
name: Jain, J. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The nature of the state at low Landau-level filling factors has been a longstanding puzzle in the field of the fractional quantum Hall effect. While theoretical calculations suggest that a crystal is favored at filling factors $ν\lesssim 1/6$, experiments show, at somewhat elevated temperatures, minima in the longitudinal resistance that are associated with fractional quantum Hall effect at $ν=$ 1/7, 2/11, 2/13, 3/17, 3/19, 1/9, 2/15 and 2/17, which belong to the standard sequences $ν=n/(6n\pm 1)$ and $ν=n/(8n\pm 1)$. To address this paradox, we investigate the nature of some of the low-$ν$ states, specifically $ν=1/7$, $2/13$, and $1/9$, by variational Monte Carlo, density matrix renormalization group, and exact diagonalization methods. We conclude that in the thermodynamic limit, these are likely to be incompressible fractional quantum Hall liquids, albeit with strong short-range crystalline correlations. This suggests a natural explanation for the experimentally observed behavior and a rich phase diagram that admits, in the low-disorder limit, a multitude of crystal-FQHE liquid transitions as the filling factor is reduced.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures, published version
Temptation-Driven Preferences
Creators: name: Dekel, Eddie
name: Lipman, Barton L.
name: Rustichini, Aldo
name: Dekel, Eddie
name: Lipman, Barton L.
name: Rustichini, Aldo
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Financial Economics

description: “My own behavior baffles me. For I find myself not doing what I really want to do but doing what I really loathe.” Saint Paul What behavior can be explained using the hypothesis that the agent faces temptation but is otherwise a “standard rational agent”? In earlier work, Gul–Pesendorfer [2001] use a set betweenness axiom to restrict the set of preferences considered by Dekel, Lipman, and Rustichini [2001] to those explainable via temptation. We argue that set betweenness rules out plausible and interesting forms of temptation including some which may be important in applications. We propose a pair of alternative axioms called DFC, desire for commitment, and AIC, approximate improvements are chosen. DFC characterizes temptation as situations where given any set of alternatives, the agent prefers committing herself to some particular item from the set rather than leaving herself the flexibility of choosing later. AIC is based on the idea that if adding an option to a menu improves the menu, it is because that option is chosen under some circumstances. From this interpretation, the axiom concludes that if an improvement is worse (as a commitment) than some commitment from the menu, then the best commitment from the menu is strictly preferred to facing the menu. We show that these axioms characterize a natural generalization of the Gul–Pesendorfer representation.
title: History of Northwestern University's Medical School Departments: Bibliography
title: Bibliography: Northwestern University medical school department histories
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Kubilius, Ramune Karolina
Publisher: name: DigitalHub. Galter Health Sciences Library & Learning Center
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medical School Departments
subject: Northwestern University
subject: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
subject: Schools, Medical
subject: Bibliography
subject: Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Medical School
subject: Feinberg School of Medicine
subject: Chicago (Ill.)
subject: Schools, Medical/history

description: Bibliography of sources (articles, websites, books) that describe or overview Northwestern University's medical school (now: Feinberg School of Medicine) departments, institutes, and centers, including their history, evolution, accomplishments. (Last updated August 2021.)
The Foreign Economic Policies of Brazil since 1939
Creators: name: Pincus, Joseph
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Brazil's economy is a house a-building. The foundation is coffee, the principal source of dollar income; the walls, now under construction, are improving health, increasing food production, developing electric power, and widening and integrating the transportation system. The roof is to consist of heavy and light industries, designed to effect greater self-sufficiency and stability in the Brazilian economy.
Separation of Powers and the Budget Process
Creators: name: Helpman, Elhanan
name: Grossman, Gene M.
name: Helpman, Elhanan
name: Grossman, Gene M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Political Economy
subject: government spending
subject: fiscal policy
subject: pork-barrel politics
subject: comparative political economics

description: We study budget formation in a model featuring separation of powers. In our model, the legislature designs a budget bill that can include a cap on total spending and ear- marked allocations to designated public projects. Each project provides random benfits to one of many interest groups. The legislature can delegate spending decisions to the executive, who can observe the productivity of all projects before choosing which to fund. However, the ruling coalition in the legislature and the executive serve different constituencies, so their interests are not perfectly aligned. We consider settings that differ in terms of the breadth and overlap in the constituencies of the two branches, and associate these with the political systems and circumstances under which they most naturally arise. Earmarks are more likely to occur when the executive serves broad interests, while a binding budget cap arises when the executive's constituency is more narrow than that of the powerful legislators.
Trade, FDI, and the Organization of Firms
Creators: name: Helpman, Elhanan
name: Helpman, Elhanan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: international trade
subject: foreign direct investment
subject: comparative advantage
subject: heterogeneity
subject: incomplete contracts
subject: organization of production

description: New developments in the world economy have triggered research designed to better understand the changes in trade and investment patterns, and the reorganization of production across national borders. Although traditional trade theory has much to offer in explaining parts of this puzzle, other parts required new approaches. Particularly acute has been the need to model alternative forms of involvement of business firms in foreign activities, because organizational change has been central in the transformation of the world economy. This paper reviews the literature that has emerged from these efforts. The theoretical refinements have focused on the individual firm, studying its choices in response to its own characteristics, the nature of the industry in which it operates, and the opportunities afforded by foreign trade and investment. Important among these choices are organizational features, such as sourcing strategies. But the theory has gone beyond the individual firm, studying the implications of firm behavior for the structure of industries. It provides new explanations for trade structure and patterns of FDI, both within and across industries, and has identified new sources of comparative advantage.
Innovation Policy for Development: an Overview
Creators: name: Trajtenberg, Manuel
name: Trajtenberg, Manuel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Innovation
subject: Development
subject: Policy
subject: Spillovers

description: This paper provides a framework for thinking about innovation policies for development; it does so by flashing up the key issues which arise in this context, and by examining in detail the case of innovation policy in Israel. A few premises guide the analysis: First, innovation for development should be construed as a broad notion that includes widely distributed innovations of all stripes, both in products and in processes, generated by rank and file workers as much as by R&D labs. Second, the economic rationale for government support of R&D needs to be adapted to the economic environment of developing countries; the notion of spillovers should be reexamined in view of globalization, and the same goes for the working of “General Purpose Technologies” (GPTs). The Israeli economy offers a fascinating illustration of extraordinary success in innovation, particularly in ICT, yet the benefits from the High Tech sector eluded the rest of the economy, giving rise to a “dual economy” and slow growth for the economy as a whole. Understanding this outcome provides valuable insights for the design of growth-promoting innovation policies. Lastly, the paper discusses the policy corollaries that emerge from the analysis, and in particular the main levers which innovation policies for development should act upon: skills formation, provision of incentives, access to information, and availability of finance.
Additional file 2 of Machine learning prediction of oncology drug targets based on protein and network properties
Creators: name: Dezső, Zoltán
name: Ceccarelli, Michele
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 2: Figure S2. The protein feature correlation matrix plot.
Additional file 3 of Machine learning prediction of oncology drug targets based on protein and network properties
Creators: name: Dezső, Zoltán
name: Ceccarelli, Michele
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 3: Figure S3. The drug target druggability score distributions for approved, clinical, withdrawn drugs and non-drug targets.
The Foreign Economic Policies of Brazil since 1939
Creators: name: Pincus, Joseph
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics
classificationCode: 4407
subject: Policy and administration

description: Brazil's economy is a house a-building. The foundation is coffee, the principal source of dollar income; the walls, now under construction, are improving health, increasing food production, developing electric power, and widening and integrating the transportation system. The roof is to consist of heavy and light industries, designed to effect greater self-sufficiency and stability in the Brazilian economy.
Detecting and removing sample contamination in phylogenomic data: An example and its implications for Cicadidae phylogeny (Insecta: Hemiptera)
Creators: name: Owen, Christopher
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Contamination of a genetic sample with DNA from one or more non-target species is a continuing concern of molecular phylogenetic studies, both Sanger sequencing studies and Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) studies. We developed an automated pipeline for identifying and excluding likely cross-contaminated loci based on detection of bimodal distributions of patristic distances across gene trees. When the contamination occurs between samples within a dataset, comparisons between a contaminated sample and its contaminant taxon will yield bimodal distributions with one peak close to zero patristic distance. Here we present an automated pipeline for identifying and excluding likely cross-contaminated loci based on detection of these bimodal distributions of patristic distances between taxa across gene trees. This new method does not rely on a priori knowledge of taxon relatedness nor does it determine the process(es) that caused the contamination. Exclusion of putatively contaminated loci from a dataset generated for the insect family Cicadidae showed that these sequences were affecting some topological patterns and branch supports, although the effects were sometimes subtle, with some contamination-influenced relationships exhibiting strong bootstrap support. Long tip branches and outlier values for one anchored phylogenomic pipeline statistic (AvgNHomologs) were correlated with the presence of contamination. While the AHE markers used here, which target hemipteroid taxa, proved effective in resolving deep and shallow level Cicadidae relationships in aggregate, individual markers contained inadequate phylogenetic signal, in part probably due to short length. The cleaned dataset, consisting of 90 genera representing 44 of 56 current Cicadidae tribes, and 429 loci, supported three of the four sampled Cicadidae subfamilies in concatenated-matrix (IQ-TREE ML) and multispecies coalescent-based (ASTRAL-III) species tree analyses, with the fourth subfamily weakly supported in the ML trees. No well-supported patterns from previous family-level Sanger sequencing studies of Cicadidae phylogeny were contradicted. One taxon (Aragualna plenalinea) did not fall with its current subfamily in the genetic tree, and this genus and its tribe Aragualnini is reclassified to Tibicininae following morphological re-examination. Only subtle differences were observed in trees after removal of loci for which divergent base frequencies were detected. Greater success may be achieved by increased taxon sampling and developing a probe set targeting a more recent common ancestor and longer loci. Searches for contamination are an essential step in phylogenomic analyses of all kinds and our pipeline is an effective solution.
A study of some of the effects of four recognized professional organizations upon the development of secondary school curriculum in American public schools
Creators: name: Chavis, Grace L.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education
classificationCode: 3901
subject: Curriculum and pedagogy

description: The endeavors of professional organizations to improve secondary education have often met with opposition by some segments of the public. At the present times such opposition has achieved notable proportions. Nevertheless the work of such organizations has been of immeasurable value to the secondary school, and there is nothing in the present which indicates that such contributions will not be as great or greater in the future. This study attempts, therefore, to indicate to what extent the professional groups included herein have been able through the years to exert influence upon the secondary school curriculum.
A Variable Ultraluminous Supersoft X-ray Source in "The Antennae": Stellar-Mass Black Hole or White Dwarf?
Creators: name: Fabbiano, G.
name: King, A. R.
name: Zezas, A.
name: Ponman, T. J.
name: Rots, A.
name: Schweizer, Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The chandra monitoring observations of The Antennae (NGC 4038/39) have led to the discovery of a variable, luminous, supersoft source (SSS). This source is only detected at energies below 2 keV and, in 2002 May, reached count rates comparable to those of the nine ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) detected in these galaxies. Spectral fits of the SSS data give acceptable results only for a $\sim$100--90 eV blackbody spectrum with an intrinsic absorption column of $N_{\rm H} \sim 2-3 \times 10^{21} \rm cm^{-2}$. For a distance of 19 Mpc, the best-fit observed luminosity increases from 1.7$\times 10^{38}$\ergs in 1999 December to 8.0$\times 10^{38}$\ergs in 2002 May. The intrinsic, absorption-corrected best-fit luminosity reaches 1.4$\times 10^{40}$ \ergs in 2002 May. The assumption of unbeamed emission would suggest a black hole of $\ga$100\msun. However, if the emission is blackbody at all times, as suggested by the steep soft spectrum, the radiating area would have to vary by a factor of $\sim10^3$, inconsistent with gravitational energy release from within a few Schwarzschild radii of a black hole. Viable explanations for the observed properties of the SSS are provided by anisotropic emission from either an accreting nuclear-burning white dwarf or an accreting stellar-mass black hole.
description: ApJ in press
title: Regulatory elements controlling CisFrp1/5 expression in Ciona intestinalis during embryogenesis
Creators: name: D'Ambrosio, Palmira
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2006

description: In the ascidian, endodermal progenitor cells have the capacity to differentiate autonomously from the earliest stages of embryogenesis. Their fate is restricted at the 64/110 cell stage when, after 5-6 cell divisions, the progeny of five pairs of vegetal blastomeres give rise to all endodermal cells (almost 500). The endodermal cells in the larval stage are present in the antero-ventral region of the trunk and in a strand lying on the ventral side of the tail. Ci-titfl, a gene homologous to mammalian Titifl, is a marker for early endoderm specification, during Ciona intestinalis embryogenesis, and for endostyle differentiation during metamorphosis.
Several studies are currently focused on markers for early specification of organs of endodermal lineage, such as liver, pancreas, pharynx and digestive tube, given their physiological importance.
My project has focused on the identification of putative Ci-titfldownstream genes that could represent useful markers for early regionalization of endodermal tissues in Ciona intestinalis embryogenesis. For this purpose, through a subtractive hybridization screen between Ci-titfl overexpressing embryos and control embryos, I isolated and characterized a cDNA clone that, by sequence similarity analysis, appears to code for a factor belonging to the secreted frizzled related protein family (sFRp) and that has been called CisFrpl/5. sFRp proteins are modulators of the Wnt pathway, a genetic cascade that influences such diverse biological processes as developmental fate, cell polarity, adhesion, tumorigenesis and apoptosis. The expression data of CisFrpl/5, in the anterior region of the embryo (included the endoderm) from the neurula stage, indicate a putative involvement of this gene in late endoderm differentiation. In order to analyse the regulatory elements controlling CisFrpl/5 tissue specific expression during development, I used the electroporation technique to introduce reporter constructs, containing progressively deleted fragments of CisFrpl/5 5’ promoter region fused to the LacZ reporter gene into fertilised Ciona eggs.
This strategy led to the identification of a key fragment in the promoter sequence of the gene, essential for CisFrpl/5 activation in the areas where it is expressed. I gradually narrowed the extent of my investigation up to the identification of a 130 bp (130bp CisFrpl/5) element necessary for CisFrpl/5 endoderm activation. In addition, Cititfloverexpression and underexpression experiments indicated that Cititfl could influence the transactivation of the reporter gene downstream from 13 Op CisFrp 1/5, suggesting a correlation between Cititfl and the expression of CisFrpl/5.
Pycnomerus basalis Broun 1882
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Pycnomerus
Pycnomerus basalis

description: Pycnomerus basalis Broun, 1882
(Figs. 348–349)
 Pycnomerus basalis Broun, 1882: 295. Broun 1886: 766 (reprinted from Broun 1882). Hutton 1904: 171. Hudson 1923: 370. Hetschko 1930: 61. Maddison 2010: 426.
 Type locality: Parua Bay [near Whangarei Harbour].
 Broun number: 1359.
 Remarks: Broun did not mention the number of specimens examined. We located one specimen in the BMNH Broun collection matching the type locality. In order to stabilize this name, a lectotype is here designated from the material of Pycnomerus basalis.
 Type material examined: Lectotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “Type [round label with red border] // 1359. [in Broun’s hand] // Parua // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Pycnomerus basalis - [in Broun’s hand]”.
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Inflation Targeting in Dollarized Economies
Creators: name: Leiderman, Leonardo
name: Maino, Rodolfo
name: Parrado, Eric
name: Leiderman, Leonardo
name: Maino, Rodolfo
name: Parrado, Eric
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Financial Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Monetary policy
subject: inflation targeting
subject: dollarization

description: The shift to inflation targeting has contributed to the relatively low inflation observed in some emerging market economies although, as noted by many economists, the preconditions required for a successful implementation were not in place. The existence of managed exchange rate regimes, a narrow base of domestic nominal financial assets, the lack of market instruments to hedge exchange rate risks, together with fear of floating and dollarization, have been stressed as factors that might weaken the efficacy of monetary policy. By examining various aspects of monetary transmission and policy formulation in two highly dollarized economies (Peru an Bolivia) vis-à-vis two economies with low levels of dollarization (Chile and Colombia), we found that while dollarization imposes differences in both the transmission capacity of monetary policy and its impact on real and financial sectors, it does not preclude the use of inflation targeting as a policy regime.
A study of some of the effects of four recognized professional organizations upon the development of secondary school curriculum in American public schools
Creators: name: Chavis, Grace L.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: The endeavors of professional organizations to improve secondary education have often met with opposition by some segments of the public. At the present times such opposition has achieved notable proportions. Nevertheless the work of such organizations has been of immeasurable value to the secondary school, and there is nothing in the present which indicates that such contributions will not be as great or greater in the future. This study attempts, therefore, to indicate to what extent the professional groups included herein have been able through the years to exert influence upon the secondary school curriculum.
History as a Coordination Device
Creators: name: Gilboa, Itzhak
name: Argenziano, Rossella
name: Gilboa, Itzhak
name: Argenziano, Rossella
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2006
Subjects: Financial Economics
Public Economics

description: Coordination games often have multiple equilibria. The selection of equilibrium raises the question of belief formation: how do players generate beliefs about the behavior of other players? This paper takes the view that the answer lies in history, that is, in the outcomes of similar coordination games played in the past, possibly by other players. We analyze a simple model in which a large population has to make a simultaneous decision regarding participation in a coup attempt. We assume a dynamic process that faces different populations with such games for randomly selected values of a parameter. We show that history serves as a coordination device, and determines for which values of the parameter a revolution would succeed. We also show that, for certain values of the parameter in question, the limit behavior depends on the way history unfolds, and cannot be determined from a-priori considerations.
The Role of Printing in Contemporary Communication Media
Creators: name: Hamilton, West Alexander
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Mass Communication is usually considered to begin with the beginning of printing from cast metal type in Western Europe in the Fifteenth Century, but the roots are much earlier and the flowering much later. In fact one can maintain with equal force that mass communication is a social outgrowth of the Nineteenth Century and its industrial revolution, or that it is a logical product of forces set into motion when groups of man-like animals first huddled together against the cold and danger of primitive times.
MITNS: Multiple-Ion Transport Numerical Solver for Magnetized Plasmas
Creators: name: Kolmes, E. J.
name: Ochs, I. E.
name: Fisch, N. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: MITNS (Multiple-Ion Transport Numerical Solver) is a new numerical tool designed to perform 1D simulations of classical cross-field transport in magnetized plasmas. Its detailed treatment of multi-species effects makes it a unique tool in the field. We describe the physical model it simulates, as well as its numerical implementation and performance.
description: 25 pages, 10 figures
title: Characterization of the macromolecular interactions of the key NHEJ components
Creators: name: Costantini, Silvia Elvira
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2007

description: Non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) is a major mechanism for repairing DNA double strand breaks in mammalian cells. Six ‘core’ NHEJ components have been identified to date: Ku70, Ku80, the DNA dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit DNA-PKcs, DNA ligase IV, XRCC4, and XLF-Cemunnos. In this thesis, the DNA binding properties of the Ku70/80 heterodimer are characterised by means of fluorescence anisotropy and electrophoretic mobility shift assays. Studies with duplexes holding 1, 2 or 3 heterodimers allowed to develop a binding model that can be applied to analyse the interactions of Ku with duplexes of any length. In addition, salt dependent studies indicate that electrostatic interactions play a major role in the binding of Ku to nucleic acids. The interaction of the Ku heterodimer with the DNA ligase IV/XRCC4 (LX) complex and the role of DNA-PKcs in regulating the NHEJ complex assembly are investigated. Protein-protein interaction experiments show that Ku interacts with DNA ligase IV via its tandem BRCT domain and this interaction is enhanced by the presence of XRCC4 and DNA. In particular, mutagenesis studies indicate that residues 643-748 encompassing the first BRCT domain of DNA ligase IV are necessary for binding. Moreover, Ku needs to be in its heterodimeric form to bind LX and the C-terminal of Ku80 is dispensable for this interaction. The presence of DNA-PKcs favours the interaction between Ku and LX, although its kinase activity induces the disassembly of the complex. Finally, the interaction of Ku with other factors potentially involved in NHEJ such as the replication protein A, PARP-1, and the WRN helicase is investigated. Collectively, these findings provide novel information on the macromolecular interactions that regulate the NHEJ pathway.
Use of indegenous plant products and byproduct as low cost methods in management of rice pests during storage
Creators: name: Das, K. R.
name: Ahmed, K. S.
name: Haque, M. A.
name: Ahmad, M.
name: Das, K. R.
name: Ahmed, K. S.
name: Haque, M. A.
name: Ahmad, M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Plant products
subject: Byproduct
subject: Storage pest management

description: An investigation was carried out in the laboratory to study the efficacy of leaf dust of neem (Azadirachta indica), biskatali (Polygonum hydropiper) and a byproduct eg. ash @ 5g/500g grain for the control of stored grain pests of rice. The efficacy were assessed on the basis of insect pest abundance, insect infestation, seed weight loss and germination capacity of the treated seeds. The results revealed that all the treatments were effective against stored grain pests regarding insect abundance and insect pest infestation. In case of seed weight loss neem dust showed best result followed by ash and biskatali. The dust form of neem leaf, biskatali leaf and ash did not show any adverse effect on germination capacity of seeds even after 6 months of storage. It is concluded that leaf dusts of neem and biskatali and the byproduct ash can be used as safe and low cost methods for management of rice pests in storage.
Bounds on the mass of the b' quark, revisited
Creators: name: Oliveira, S. M.
name: Santos, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent results from the DELPHI collaboration led us to review the present bounds on the b' quark mass. We use all available experimental data for m_b' > 96 GeV to constrain the b' quark mass as a function of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa elements in a sequential four generations model. We find that there is still room for a b' with a mass larger than 96 GeV.
description: 9 pages and 7 figures. REVTEX4
Extreme value distributions of observation recurrences
Creators: name: Caby, Théophile
name: Faranda, Davide
name: Vaienti, Sandro
name: Yiou, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study analytically and numerically the extreme value distribution of observables defined along the temporal evolution of a dynamical system. The convergence to the Gumbel law of observable recurrences gives information on the fractal structure of the image of the invariant measure by the observable. We provide illustrations on idealized and physical systems.
description: 54 pages, to appear in Nonlinearity
Effect of water and fertilizer management on the yield and yield components of Boro rice under SRI method
Creators: name: Sarkar, M. A. R.
name: Hossain, M. Z.
name: Islam, A. K. M. M.
name: Sarkar, M. A. R.
name: Hossain, M. Z.
name: Islam, A. K. M. M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: SRI
subject: Water and fertilizer management
subject: Yield
subject: Boro rice

description: The experiment was conducted at the Agronomy Field Laboratory, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh to delineate proper management of water and fertilizer to obtain maximum yield of Boro rice. Two levels of water management viz. (i) SRI water management (moist soil, water at field capacity) and (ii) BRRI water management (5-6cm standing water), and five fertilizer management practices viz. (i) BRRI fertilizer managements (120, 60, 40, 10, 5 kg N, P205, K20, S and Zn kg had, respectively), (ii) cowdung @ 10 t had, (iii) poultry manure @ 5 t had, (iv) 50% of BRRI recommended fertilizer + 50% of the cowdung, (v) 50% BRRI recommended fertilizer + 50% poultry manure were arranged in split-plot design with three replications. The results showed that SRI water management produced higher grain and straw yields than that of BRRI water management. Number of total tillers hill-1, bearing tillers hill-1, total spikelets panicle-1 and sterile spikelets panicle-1 gave similar trends to that of grain and straw yields. BRRI recommended fertilizer management produced the highest grain yield and the second highest grain yield was obtained in 50% of the BRRI recommended fertilizer + 50% of the poultry manure. The lowest grain yield was obtained in cowdung @ 10 t had. In terms of interaction, SRI water management in combination with BRRI fertilizer management produced the highest grain yield and the second highest grain yield was obtained in BRRI water management x BRRI fertilizer management and in SRI water management x 50% BRRI fertilizer management + 50% of the poultry manure. The lowest grain yield was found in BRRI water management x cowdung @ 10 t had.
The Role of Printing in Contemporary Communication Media
Creators: name: Hamilton, West Alexander
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4701
subject: Communication and media studies

description: Mass Communication is usually considered to begin with the beginning of printing from cast metal type in Western Europe in the Fifteenth Century, but the roots are much earlier and the flowering much later. In fact one can maintain with equal force that mass communication is a social outgrowth of the Nineteenth Century and its industrial revolution, or that it is a logical product of forces set into motion when groups of man-like animals first huddled together against the cold and danger of primitive times.
Pycnomerus caecus Broun 1886
Creators: name: Lord, Nathan P.
name: Leschen, Richard A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Pycnomerus
Pycnomerus caecus

description: Pycnomerus caecus Broun, 1886
(Figs. 350–351)
 Pycnomerus caecus Broun, 1886: 896. Broun 1886: 951. Hutton 1904: 171. Hudson 1923: 370. Maddison 2010: 426. Pycnomerus coecus: Hetschko 1930: 61. Incorrect subsequent spelling, not available.
 Type locality: Dunedin [Otago Region]. Broun number: 1599.
 Remarks: Broun based this species on a single specimen. Type material examined: Holotype (BMNH): card-mounted, “Type [round label with red border] // 1599. [in
Broun’s hand] // Otago // New Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Pycnomerus caecus. [in
Broun’s hand]”.
description: Published as part of Lord, Nathan P. & Leschen, Richard A. B., 2014, Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 1-127 in Zootaxa 3809 (1) on pages 65-66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4918362
Angular dependent vortex pinning mechanisms in YBCO coated conductors and thin films
Creators: name: Civale, L.
name: Maiorov, B.
name: Serquis, A.
name: Willis, J. O.
name: Coulter, J. Y.
name: Wang, H.
name: Jia, Q. X.
name: Arendt, P. N.
name: MacManus-Driscoll, J. L.
name: Maley, M. P.
name: Foltyn, S. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a comparative study of the angular dependent critical current density in YBa2Cu3O7 films deposited on IBAD MgO and on single crystal MgO and SrTiO3 substrates. We identify three angular regimes where pinning is dominated by different types of correlated and uncorrelated defects. We show that those regimes are present in all cases, indicating that the pinning mechanisms are the same, but their extension and characteristics are sample dependent, reflecting the quantitative differences in texture and defect density. In particular, the more defective nature of the films on IBAD turns into an advantage as it results in stronger vortex pinning, demonstrating that the critical current density of the films on single crystals is not an upper limit for the performance of the IBAD coated conductors.
description: 14 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to APL
The Economic Role of Air Express in Commercial Air Cargo Transport
Creators: name: Fishe, Stephen S.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 3509
subject: Transportation, logistics and supply chains
classificationCode: 38
subject: Economics

description: Before the advent of the air cargo transport, railway express constituted the fastest and most complete transport service available. This elite cargo service, handled in conjunction with passenger rail carriage, was available to the shipper at substantial premiums over that of other transport agencies. In 1953 approximately 1.7 billion ton-miles of surface express, representing less than one-quarter of one percent of total inter-city rail and motor carrier freight traffic in the United States, was handled through the Railway Express Agency, Incorporated.
Discovering transition phenomena from data of stochastic dynamical systems with Lévy noise
Creators: name: Lu, Yubin
name: Duan, Jinqiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: It is a challenging issue to analyze complex dynamics from observed and simulated data. An advantage of extracting dynamic behaviors from data is that this approach enables the investigation of nonlinear phenomena whose mathematical models are unavailable. The purpose of this present work is to extract information about transition phenomena (e.g., mean exit time and escape probability), from data of stochastic differential equations with non-Gaussian Lévy noise. As a tool in describing dynamical systems, the Koopman semigroup transforms a nonlinear system into a linear system, but at the cost of elevating a finite dimensional problem into an infinite dimensional one. In spite of this, using the relation between the stochastic Koopman semigroup and the infinitesimal generator of a stochastic differential equation, we learn the mean exit time and escape probability from data. Specifically, we first obtain a finite dimensional approximation of the infinitesimal generator by an extended dynamic mode decomposition algorithm. Then we identify the drift coefficient, diffusion coefficient and anomalous diffusion coefficient for the stochastic differential equation. Finally, we compute the mean exit time and escape probability by finite difference discretization of the associated nonlocal partial differential equations. This approach is applicable in extracting transition information from data of stochastic differential equations with either (Gaussian) Brownian motion or (non-Gaussian) Lévy motion. We present one - and two-dimensional examples to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
description: 27 pages, 12 figures
The Economic Role of Air Express in Commercial Air Cargo Transport
Creators: name: Fishe, Stephen S.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Before the advent of the air cargo transport, railway express constituted the fastest and most complete transport service available. This elite cargo service, handled in conjunction with passenger rail carriage, was available to the shipper at substantial premiums over that of other transport agencies. In 1953 approximately 1.7 billion ton-miles of surface express, representing less than one-quarter of one percent of total inter-city rail and motor carrier freight traffic in the United States, was handled through the Railway Express Agency, Incorporated.
Additional file 1 of From novice to expert: a qualitative study of implementation facilitation skills
Creators: name: Ritchie, Mona J.
name: Parker, Louise E.
name: Kirchner, JoAnn E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Skills code list development: source literature and materials. This file describes the source literature and publicly available training materials that informed the development of the qualitative code list applied in the study.
Effect of growth regulators and genotypes on in vitro regeneration of garlic (Allium sativum L.)
Creators: name: Parvin, L.
name: Haque, M. S.
name: Al Munsur, M. A. Z.
name: Rosemila, U.
name: Parvin, L.
name: Haque, M. S.
name: Al Munsur, M. A. Z.
name: Rosemila, U.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: In vitro regeneration
subject: Garlic
subject: Growth regulators
subject: Genotypes

description: The present research was conducted to assess the interaction of growth regulators and genotypes on in vitro regeneration from root tips explants of local and exotic cultivars of garlic. Root tips were cultured on MS medium supplemented with different combinations of NAA and BAP. Among those combinations 1.0 mgl-1 NNA and 4.0 mg1-1 BAP was found to be the best hormonal supplement for the highest percentage of shoot regeneration (67.33%) in Chinese genotype. Chinese genotype had higher number (5.50) of longer shoots than the local genotypes. Rooting performance was also better in Chinese genotype.
Efficacy of chemical and mechanical control approaches in managing mango hopper, Amritodus atkinsoni
Creators: name: Khan, M. K.
name: Islam, K. S.
name: Jahan, M.
name: Ullah, M. S.
name: Khan, M. K.
name: Islam, K. S.
name: Jahan, M.
name: Ullah, M. S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Susceptibility
subject: Management
subject: Amritodus atkinsoni
subject: Pollinator
subject: Fruit set

description: Experiment on the management of mango hopper, Amritodus atkinsoni Leth. (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) was conducted in the laboratory and field Department of Entomology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh during January to May 2007. Three botanical pesticides namely Neem oil, Mahogoni oil and Karanja oil and a chemical pesticide, cythrin 10 EC and a net barrier as a mechanical control were evaluated in controlling mango hopper. Cythrin 0.2% was found to be most effective in controlling mango hopper but percentage of fruit set was relatively lower than cythrin 0.10% and 0.15%. Among the botanicals, Neem oil (3%) showed higher efficacy while Mahogoni oil (1%) was least effective. Observation on extent of hopper damage during flowering and fruit setting period of mango showed that 80-90% fruit damage. Net barrier protected the inflorescence from the attack of mango hopper but failed to produce fruits. The effect of different control approaches in the control of mango hopper and activities of pollinators are discussed.